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By Richard M. Dolancopyright ?2001 all rights reserved

Note: this article is adapted and expanded from Richard Dolan?s UFOs and the National Security State, Keyhole Publishing, 2000. It appears in the December 2001/January 2002 issue of UFO Magazine.

At around 2 a.m. on the morning of May 22, 1949, America?s first Secretary of Defense, James Vincent Forrestal, fell to his death from a small window of the 16th floor of the Bethesda Naval Hospital.

The decline and death of Forrestal is an unresolved problem of history. There is no question that he suffered from a spectacular mental breakdown during 1948 and 1949. Exactly why he did so is less certain, but the answer may have relevance to American national security ? and the pesky topic of UFOs.read more

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Maureen Clemmons, an aeronautics professor at the California Institute of Technology, thinks the ancient Egyptians may have used kites to build the Pyramids. No one has ever figured out how the Egyptians, who did not have the wheel, were able to move huge stones large distances and hoist them into place. The Egyptians left no pictures showing the pyramids under construction, leading to speculation among some researchers that they were actually built by an earlier civilization.
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One less thing to worry about: astronomers have decided that we are much less likely to get wiped out by a big asteroid than previously thought. The odds are only about 1 in 5,000 that an asteroid big enough to wipe out civilization will hit the Earth in the next 100 years, a team at Princeton University reported, which is far lower than previous estimates of 1 in 1,500.

Research on asteroids that have hit the Earth in the past, like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, shows that a collision with a large asteroid at least half a mile in diameter could kill a quarter of the world?s population. The same research has shown that these large asteroids strike the planet regularly, every 100 million years or so.
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Four pro-Taliban, anti-U.S. demonstrators who were blocking a railway line have been shot dead by police in Pakistan. The group blocked the railway line with rocks, preventing a train from leaving. They also took three policemen as hostages, but later released them.

The police first used tear gas against them, and when the protesters responded by throwing stones, they opened fire. At least six other people were injured. In another town, police fired teargas at a crowd of protesters and elsewhere they rounded up demonstrators who were trying to block a main road.
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