Fox news reports on the wave of nightly UFO sightings over Lake Erie near Cleveland, Ohio USA. msnbc: Man claims UFO in Cleveland (10 Nights in a row)- Wave of UFO Sightings over Cleveland (March 2010)- UFO Report Live Website-

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UFOs: Deconstructing Sereda

“Some times a cigar is just a cigar” Freud

The UFO community is full of skeptics who believe UFOs are indeed something vital, but who are very rigid in their interpretations of evidence and witnesses. You know my stance on how they treat some of the excellent UFO witnesses. But honest skeptics are very vital as a balancing act for those who accept nearly any report even when it has been disproven. For me, to disprove a report you have to cover all the bases of the report. If you cherry pick data in your analysis then you are proving nothing in my eyes. If someone reports a UFO and lives near an airport, and a skeptic proves that one part of the report fits the description of a plane but then he/she leaves out those parts of the report that challenges that interpretation, you’ve become a debunker in my eyes.
But, what if a skeptic disproves, rather conclusively, a report you were emotionally attached to, a report you thought would never quite be clarified? Well for me, one measure of a person is how he responds when what he believed turns out to be probably incorrect. I was a strong supporter of the Sereda interpretation of the objects witnessed around the well-known “NASA Tether Incident”. NASA had touted, before the release of a twelve mile long tether into the atmosphere, how this experiment may herald a source of powerful energy which could be used instead of rockets to raise the orbit of the shuttle in the future. Of course, the tether broke and caused even more controversy when it was filmed. After the NASA film was analyzed (thanks to the now departed Martin Stubbs) by David Sereda, a UFO researcher, David found some striking anomalies around the drifting tether. There, on the NASA video, was what looked like a swarm of round objects moving in different directions behind the tether. The tether was so far away, the objects would have to be huge. These objects seemed to be propelled on their own, and unlike ice crystals, had a spinning pattern to them. They all had the same notch. Light seemed to be emanating from the objects, not from tumbling reflections of “ice crystals”.
Below is a clip of the tether incident and David Sereda’s theory:

As you can see there are a fantastic deal of question surrounding these objects. Sereda went on to try to build a possible new physics around the these objects’ appearance and behavior. But when I was at the 2009 International UFO Congress, Mark D’Antonio an astronomer, and chief MUFON video analyst, made a presentation of the Tether Incident and other anomalies . He had his own close encounter and I don’t reckon he is in any way an unbeliever
. “UFO Hunters” program had demonstrated how an object zoomed in on “can appear to be behind an object when in fact it is really in front of it”. Mark from MUFON’s analysis and his natural explanation, along with the UFO Hunters demostration has satisfied all of the questions I had on the tether incident so now it goes into my “clarified basket” (sorry, Stanton). What do you reckon?

Finally, I wanted to place a clip from Sereda’s investigations that show what I believe may be real UFOs.

All of us have a like/despise relationship with skeptics. But honest skeptics help us stay focused. There are many people at the conferences selling smoke and mirrors, turning off the all but the most ardent believers. This has to be countered with a touch of reality. The most vital item for me to remember is some UFOs are real craft and are not from here. I’ve not read or heard any argument that stands up to scrutiny against the overwhelming, independently verified, evidence of UFO crafts, for the last sixty years. Isn’t a person like Mark helping us say to the world (“we don’t need no stinking debunkers”) “ we have in our midst objective honest scientist which check the UFO data received and filter out was is not UFOs.”

Joseph Capp
UFO Media Matters
Non-Commercial Blog

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Posted on: Monday, 15 March 2010, 10:43 CDT

Australia’s average temperature is on the rise, providing compelling evidence of the validity of climate change, claims the country’s top group of scientists in a report released on Monday.

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), in a joint “State of the Climate” report with the Bureau of Meteorology, presented findings that the country’s mean temperature has increased by 0.7 degrees Celsius in the past 50 years, though some areas have experienced as much as a 1.5 to 2 degree hike in temperatures.

Furthermore, this past decade was the hottest in Australia’s recorded history and rainfall amounts in the southeast and southwest parts of the country are decreasing, the report found.

“We are seeing significant evidence of a changing climate,” CSIRO head Dr. Megan Clark recently told ABC public radio. “We are warming in every part of the country during every season and as each decade goes by, the records are being broken. We are also seeing fewer cold days so we are seeing some very significant long-term trends in Australia’s climate.”

According to the report, as it was quoted in a March 15, 2010 Reuters UK tale, “There is greater than 90 percent certainty that increases in greenhouse gas emissions have caused most of the global warming since the mid-20th century. Evidence of human influence has been detected in ocean warming, sea-level rise, continental-average temperatures, temperature extremes and wind patterns.”

Based on data collected over the past 100 years, the CSIRO scientists claim that they expect the average temperatures in Australia to spike by another 0.6 to 1.5 degrees Celsius in the next two decades.

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On the Net:

• Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO)
• Bureau of Meteorology
• Megan Clark

Source: RedOrbit Staff & Wire Reports

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1836372/australian_study_shows_climate_on_the_rise/index.html?source=r_science

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Science editor Alan Boyle’s Weblog: Thermal images have taken the temperature of Jupiter’s Fantastic Red Spot in unprecedented detail, revealing the mechanics of the solar system’s largest storm.

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Appalachian UFO Sightings on Coast to Coast AM Date: 01-14-10 Host: George Noory Guests: Kyle Lovern, Stanton Friedman Joined by ufologist Stanton Friedman, author Kyle Lovern discussed the history of UFO sightings over West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia. The writer of two books on sightings in the Appalachian region, Lovern said he wanted to bring attention to cases that hadn’t been previously…

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Tuesday, 9 March 2010
By Rebecca Morelle
Science reporter, BBC News

A tiny Japanese insect that could help the fight against an aggressive superweed has been given the go-ahead for a trial release in England.

Since Japanese knotweed was introduced to the UK it has rapidly spread, and the plant currently costs over £150m a year to control and clear.

But scientists say a natural predator in the weed’s native home of Japan could also help to control it here.

The insect will initially be released in a handful of sites this spring.

This is the first time that biocontrol – the use of a “natural predator” to control a pest – has been used in the EU to fight a weed.

Wildlife Minister Huw Irranca-Davies said: “These tiny insects, which naturally prey on Japanese Knotweed, will help free local authorities and industry from the huge cost of treating and killing this devastating plant.”

Alien invaders

Japanese knotweed was introduced to the UK by the Victorians as an ornamental plant, but it soon escaped from gardens and started its rampant spread throughout the UK.

It grows incredibly quickly – more than one metre a month – and rapidly swamps any other vegetation in its path.

It is so hardy that it can burst through tarmac and concrete, causing costly hurt to pavements, roads and buildings.

But removal is hard and expensive; new estimates suggest it costs the UK economy £150m a year.

But, in Japan, the plant is common but does not rage out of control like it does in the UK, thanks to the natural predators that keep it in check.

Scientists at Cabi – a not-for-profit agricultural research organisation – used this as their starting point to track down a potential knotweed solution.

They looked at the superweed’s natural predators – nearly 200 species of plant-eating insects and about 40 species of fungi – with the aim of finding one with an appetite for Japanese knotweed and small else.

After testing their candidates on 90 different UK plant species, including plants closely related to Japanese knotweed such as bindweeds and vital crops and ornamental species, they learned a psyllid called Aphalara itadori was the best control agent.

The small insect feeds on the sap of the superweed, stunting its growth.

Dr Dick Shaw, the lead researcher on the project from Cabi, told BBC News: “Safety is our top priority. We are lucky that we do have an extremely specific agent – it just eats invasive knotweeds.”

Following peer review by the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment and a public consultation, the UK government has now given the go-ahead for release of Aphalara itadori, under licence, in England.

The Welsh Assembly is expected to announce its choice on the psyllid soon.

The insects will initially be released on a handful of sites.

These will be isolated and, in addition to as having the superweed present, will also have UK species that are closely related to Japanese knotweed planted there to check that the psyllid only targets the invasive species.

Dr Shaw said: “In the early stages, a contingency plot is in place so that should, in the unlikely event, any unintended consequences be detected, we will be able to do something about it.

“Insecticide and herbicide treatment will be on standby for rapid response.”

If this phase is successful, the insect will be released at further sites, where it will undergo an intensive monitoring programme over the next five years.

Dr Shaw said: “On the localised sites, I would expect to see hurt knotweed this season.

“But, biocontrol is a long-term strategy – it could take five to 10 years to have a real impact.”

The government believes that if the plot is successful it will reduce the costs to the building and engineering industries of clearing the plant.

But, some critics say that it is impossible to be certain that the Japanese insect will only target the superweed and could attack other species once in the wild.

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“My two friends and I chose to go hiking and camping in a dense wood near my friend Josh’s house,” reports Kenna. “As we were driving on an ancient dirt lane to get to the trail, we stopped at an ancient gas station. As Josh and Jason were fueling up, I wandered into the store part to grab some munchies. An elderly woman at the counter eyed me suspiciously and questioned where we were headed. I told her there was a trail back in the woods where there were supposedly ancient-looking pyramid-type buildings made out of stone. The ancient woman narrowed her eyes at me and shook her head and her next woods chilled me to the bone: ‘There’s no reason for anyone to go back there!’….” Maybe Kenna and her friends should have listened to the ancient crone because, well… read the rest of the tale.

More reasons to dread the woods:

• Dark Entity in the Woods
• Small Man in the Woods
• The Haunting at Harvey Woods

Wailing in the Woods originally appeared on About.com Paranormal Phenomena on Monday, March 15th, 2010 at 20:06:43.

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Dropping off or picking up? And What/Whom?…

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