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Engineers are completing repairs to a hole that appeared 2 years ago on the top of Silbury Hill in the midst of crop circle country, and hope to unlock some of its mysteries. English Heritage, which oversees the site, says the ancient man-made hill in Wiltshire has some kind of religious significance and is part of a group of ceremonial monuments that cluster around the village of Avebury. It is the largest artificial prehistoric mound in Western Europe, and measures 112 feet high and 550 feet wide, tapering to 92 feet wide at the summit.

Radiocarbon dating indicates it was built in several phases between 2800 and 2000 BC. The giant mound would have taken 700 men 10 years to complete, using antler picks and shovels made from the shoulder bones of animals.
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Earth was struck by an unexpected proton storm from the sun on Thursday, August 16. The proton count around our planet rose to 1000 times normal. Scientists were taken by surprise, both by the storm itself and by the speed with which it reached earth.

Normally, proton storms that reach earth come from the side of the sun facing our planet, and are the result of explosions from sunspots. However, no such explosion took place this time. It is believed that a sunspot on the far side of the sun must have exploded, but holographic imagery showing the far side of the sun was insufficient to record the explosion.
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For the last several years, the National Institute for Discovery Science(NIDS) in Las Vegas has been collecting historical and eyewitness accountsof sightings of triangular UFOs. “Calls regarding low-flying triangularobjects have been coming in pretty steady for the last 18 months,” says ColmKelleher, deputy administrator for NIDS. “People are describing essentiallysimilar objects in different areas of the country.”

Kelleher said that NIDS has compared its research with triangular UFOsightings recorded by the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and those ofinvestigator Larry Hatch, who currently manages one of the largest UFOdatabases in the world. By putting these 3 sets of UFO data together, NIDSwas able to plot the locations of the sighting on a map of the U.S.
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The foreboding threat of world disaster from explosive population growthcould turn out to be overly alarmist, according the authors of a newdemographic study. Their forecast shows there’s a high chance that the world’s population will stop growing before the end of the 21st century. Itsuggests that the total number of people may peak in 70 years or so at about9 billion people, compared with 6.1 billion today.

The scientists say their prediction is more reliable than other populationforecasts because they employed non-traditional but more rigorous methods ofanalysis. The study was conducted by the International Institute for AppliedSystems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria.
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