Score one more for Einstein. A new study has confirmed his theory of general relativity works on extremely large scales.

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An elderly Chinese woman has stunned her family and fellow villagers by growing from her forehead a horn than resembles a goat’s.

Grandmother Zhang Ruifang, 101, of Linlou village, Henan province, started developing the mysterious protrusion last year.

Since then it has grown 2.4in in length and another now appears to emerging on the other side of the mother of seven’s forehead.

The condition has left her family baffled and worried.

Her youngest of six sons, Zhang Guozheng, 60, said when a patch of rough skin formed on her forehead last year ‘we didn’t pay too much attention to it’.

‘But as time went on a horn grew out of her head and it is now 6cm long,’ added Mr Zhang, whose eldest brother and sibling is 82 years ancient.

‘Now something is also growing on the right side of her forehead. It’s quite possible that it’s another horn.’

Although, it is unknown what the protrusion is on Mrs Zhang’s head, it resembles a cutaneous horn.

This is a funnel-shaped growth and although most are only a few millimetres in length, some can extend a number of inches from the skin.

Cutaneous horns are made up of compacted keratin, which is the same protein we have in our hair and nails, and forms horns, wool and feathers in animals.

They usually develop in honest-skinned elderly adults who have a history of significant sun exposure but it is extremely unusual to see it form protrusions of this size.

The growths are most common in elderly people, aged between 60 and the mid-70s. They can sometimes be cancerous but more than half of cases are benign.

Common underlying causes of cutaneous horns are common warts, skin cancer and actinic keratoses, patches of scaly skin that develop on skin exposed to the sun, such as your face, scalp or forearms.

Cutaneous horns can be removed surgically but this does not treat the underlying cause.

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extracted from italktoyoudotcom (description) UFO has left scientists puzzled; it is NOT a comet streaking through space. It was first spotted early January 2010 so astronomers turned the Hubble telescope on it to get these close up images. The object

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This past week, I saw an unusually large number of sightings from California. I have selected four of them for your review this week. Our first one is from a man who saw a weird light formation through his binoculars. Our second report comes from two witnesses who saw something weird while watching planes take off from an airport.

Our next report is from a woman who was startled when she saw a bright light come from the sky outside her window. A motorist files our last report. He saw a small, silver object while crossing the Richmond / San Rafael bridge.

See all of the details of these reports at UFO Sighting Reports, 03-11-10, and comment as you wish. Don’t forget to keep your eyes on the skies.

UFO Sighting Reports originally appeared on About.com UFOs / Aliens on Thursday, March 11th, 2010 at 03:44:51.

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It is flowing through the internet the controversy that on the Far side of the Moon is located an ancient alien spaceship of unknown age. It is also mysterious for how long has been lying on the surface – probably billions of years.
William Rutledge or retiredafb (you tube profile) had place several videos online on You Tube, trigging this controversy – Not only the videos are pointing to the localization of the object, but they also allege that what it is shown is the alien spaceship itself

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A very disturbing image was caught by Google Sky near of Virgo constellation. Absolutely huge objects aligned in formation as nothing seen before

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The user YeeePale called my attention to some anomaly in the coordinates -12.793210°, 48.469789° . After check it, I got nuts ´cos I’ve seen lots of weird images from space, many anomalies but that’s the most bizarre, so far. A colossal green object settled within Virgo Constellation, something that seems to be camouflaged in a natural phenomena. It´s something that deserves a deep and sharp investigation.

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There have been more than 100 sightings of exotic and unidentified animals in England since 2005, according to a dossier compiled by Natural England.

By Jasper Copping
Published: 9:00PM GMT 06 Mar 2010

They are the stuff of rural legend – but for decades, alleged sightings of huge cats stalking the British countryside have been dismissed as hoax or fantasy.

Yet now the head of a Government agency responsible for investigating such incidents has declared that he believes these mysterious creatures do indeed exist.

His comments follow the release of a dossier by Natural England which lists more than 100 sightings of exotic, non-native and unidentified animals in England since 2005.

Of these, 38 were “huge cats”. In some cases, members of the public claimed to have seen the creature itself; on other occasions, they reported finding farm or wild animals which had been attacked or killed.

The documents – Britain’s “huge cats X Files” – show the extent to which Natural England takes the reports seriously.

The agency has launched several investigations, involving site visits by officials and the drafting in of specialist vets to examine injuries.

Huge cat sightings have been reported all over England. In some areas they have spawned legends, such as the so-called Beast of Bodmin in the south west.

The investigations have yet to find conclusive proof of the presence of the mysterious creatures but, questioned about their existence, Charlie Wilson, who coordinates reports for the Government agency, said: “The evidence is there that there are the odd, escaped, released dumped animals occurring in the wild every now and then.

“We know that. I am quite prepared to believe that. I don’t reckon there are any breeding populations, but.

“If they are there, the numbers are so small that any risk of people encountering them is pretty small and any risks they present are somewhere approaching zero.”

He added: “All reports are logged in our system. If there is only a sighting, then there is not usually much more than can be done to follow it up.

“But we are able to do so if there is something a bit more tangible that we could look at, like the carcases of other animals, or tracks. There are reports that turn out to be plausible.”

One theory is that several large species, such as panthers, leopards and lynx, were deliberately released into the wild by their owners in the 1970s after the introduction of the Perilous Wild Animals Act, which placed restrictions on the keeping of certain species.

In one “huge cat” investigation, a carcase from an ostrich farm in Cambridgeshire was examined and the site was monitored.

In another, in Surrey, a roe deer was dragged over two fences, had its carcase eviscerated and was left with puncture marks. Natural England was informed by police and its officials studied photographs.

In Lincolnshire, a farmer found several of his sheep killed and eaten. On some of the carcases only the skull and spine were left. The farmer said the attack was down to a huge cat and officials visited the site. Photos of the carcases were taken.

In another case, an injured horse was found in a field in Warwickshire, with claw marks scratched in it. In a further report, officials studied photographs of dead foxes, believed to have been scavenged by a huge cat in Suffolk.

One huge cat, spotted by a roadside between the villages of Mark and Burtle, in Somerset, was said to be as tall as a car. In another sighting in the same county, a motorist on the M5 reported seeing a huge cat in an adjacent field.

While many of the investigations have been “inconclusive”, others have been resolved. A supposed huge cat seen in Norfolk, for instance, turned out to be a badger.

Danny Bamping, from the British Huge Cats Society, said the real number of sightings would be even higher.

“Believing in huge cats is not like believing in the Loch Ness monster,” he said. “There is absolutely no doubt that they are out there.

“The most credible reports are from farmers, and those guys know their stuff. We have also had policemen reporting sightings to us. For every report, there are going to be others who don’t bother to report it.”

As well as the huge cats, the Natural England dossier details other investigations which, in some cases, have found evidence of the presence of exotic species at large.

For instance, raccoon dogs – native to Asia and Russia – were confirmed as living in Oxfordshire and West Berkshire, while Siberian chipmunks, which can carry fatal diseases, have also been confirmed in Berkshire, Wiltshire and Cheshire.

Dead raccoons have been found in Kent and Hampshire, while there has also been a credible – though inconclusive – report of a living one in Surrey.

A snapping turtle, two feet long and 10 to 12 inches wide, was also learned in Kent. The dossier states that the species “can be perilous” and says that the animal needed trapping and destroying.

Fourteen coypus were also reported. The large South American rodent was brought to the UK by fur farmers in the 1930s, but some escaped and established wild populations.

These were thought to have been eradicated following a large-scale trapping exercise.

The new sightings could suggest that some remain at large, although none were proved conclusively.

A sighting of a wallaroo – an Australian animal which is smaller than a kangaroo but larger than a wallaby – living in Cornwall was taken as being credible, although not proven.

Other unconfirmed sightings include more raccoons and raccoon dogs, a wolf in Surrey, and a prairie dog in Buckinghamshire.

Twenty-eight of the sightings involved wild boar, which have escaped from farms and become established in some parts of the country in recent years. Sightings in other areas are still closely monitored.

The information was told in response to a Freedom of Information request by The Sunday Telegraph.

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