While the planet Venus is now gaining in prominence low in western evening sky and Mars continues to slowly fade as it recedes from Earth, another bright naked eye planet, Saturn, is now enjoying its finest month in 2010.

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The Vatican has announced a commission to investigate claims that the Virgin Mary appears on a daily basis in a town in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Six children first reported the apparition in the town of Medjugorje in June 1981.

But, the sightings have not yet received official recognition from the Catholic Church.

The 20-strong commission will report to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the top doctrinal body.

For nearly 30 years, the Virgin Mary has been said to appear daily in Medjugorje, dressed sometimes in a grey dress and veil and sometimes in gold, crowned with stars and floating on a cloud.

It is said she speaks in Croatian, uttering the words: “I’ve come because there are many right believers here. I wish to be with you to convert and reconcile the whole world.”

It is also said that three flashes of light precede her apparitions, during which the voices of the visionaries can no longer be heard.

But the Catholic Church has long debated the credibility of the sightings.

There was a recent visit by a cardinal from Vienna, Christoph Schoenberg.

But the bishop of neighbouring Mostar has frequently criticised unquestioning belief in the claims.

Until the commission reports back to the Church’s top doctrinal body, believers are likely to continue to flock to this small Bosnian town.

Around 30 million are estimated to have visited since the first sighting of what they call “Our Lady”.

[via: news.bbc.co.uk]

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Welcome to another session of UFO sighting reports. This week we head up to New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia for our reports.

In New York, a 15-year-ancient girl was awakened by a light outside her bedroom window. She soon learned it was a disc-shaped UFO with purple lights. In Pennsylvania, a man reported power outages with numerous bright lights of different colors in his neighborhood.

In Virginia, a man and his wife witness several unknown, yellow lights moving to their east. And in Staunton, VA, a man witnessed four extremely bright lights through his binoculars.

Check out all the details at UFO Sighting Reports, 03-18-10, and don’t forget to keep your eyes on the skies.

UFO Sighting Reports originally appeared on About.com UFOs / Aliens on Thursday, March 18th, 2010 at 05:12:50.

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A dog has recovered after needing emergency surgery – because it had swallowed a whole toy football.

Bracken the labrador finished up with the deflated ball stuck next to his heart after munching it while out of sight of his owner John Grant and would have died without surgery.

Mr Grant realised the two-year-ancient dog needed medical attention when he started coughing incessantly.

When Bracken was X-rayed at the University of Glasgow Small Animal Hospital, vets noticed an unexpected dark shape near the labrador’s heart.

Further tests revealed a congenital abnormality – a hole in the diaphragm between the dog’s chest and abdomen which meant part of his stomach could go into the space.

When surgical specialist Kathryn Pratschke operated, helped by vet Damian Chase, they were stunned to learn that the foreign object was a deflated toy football about 12cm (5 inches) long.

Mr Chase said: ‘Bracken had been fine and his stomach had been gradually moving in and out from this area in his chest, but because he had eaten this toy football it got stuck up there. Part of the stomach went and was sitting next to his heart with the football in it.

‘We were surprised because when we did the X-ray and scan we couldn’t tell what it was. He is a very lucky dog. He would have died without the operation.’

Mr Chase said the abnormality, called peritoneo-pericardial diaphragmatic hernia, can have catastrophic consequences, though many dogs with the same problem lead normal lives with the flaw going unnoticed.

Bracken needed two operations to right the problem, one last spring and one in January. He is now living life to the full at the Grant home in Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire – though where he found the football remains a mystery.

Mr Grant, 70, said: ‘I don’t know where he picked it up, though it may have been in the park in the long grass. “He is quite inquisitive and noisy and boisterous. He eats anything – plastic bottles, golf balls, stones and sticks.’

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/817700-the-dog-who-swallowed-a-football

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Some fascinating links I’ve found this week:

• Where Have All The Werewolves Gone? — From the late 19th century on, anomal­ous primates like the Yeti, Sasquatch and Bigfoot nudged aside the wolfmen of ancient and stepped forward to occupy the niche of this fearsome man-like monster. What accounts for this curious transformation?
• The Tortuguero Prophecy Unravelled — Author Geoff Stray examines a Mayan inscription on Monument 6 from a small-known site called Tortuguero, in the state of Tabasco in Mexico, and the insights it might have into the meaning and reality of 2012 prophecy.
• Bigfoot, Chupacabras and Other Weird Creatures — For more than a century, there has been a legend in the ever-enigmatic mountains of the American Northwest. The legend is based on tales about enormous hairy creatures that walk upwards in the same way that apes do.
• All New Links

THE LATEST LINKS: Werewolves, Maya and 2012, Bigfoot and Chupacabras originally appeared on About.com Paranormal Phenomena on Thursday, March 18th, 2010 at 16:35:13.

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Terrible cloaked UFO or Brown Saucer Cloud?…

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Captured in the middle of the night in a remote part of Scandinavia, this footage has so far defied explanation. ….

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