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As part of our series of newCommunionLetters, we hear from Dan, whowrites: “I remember seeing [a UFO] over downtown Portland,Oregon thirty-six years ago?[A] pilot was trying to getclose to an unusual object that was over the downtown area.The main feature of this object were several bright lightsof three colors: white, red, and green. The exact placementof these lights would be hard to describe, as the objectmoved with a complex tumbling motion like the UFO in yourvideo clip.”

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If you think someone is watching you, it may not beparanoia. Researcher Stefan Schmidt believes he’s provedthat our sixth sense is real. In one experiment, a volunteerin a sealed room watched a second volunteer in another roomon close circuit TV. The second volunteer was hooked up toelectrodes which recorded the electrical activity of theskin, and showed that he felt a “prickle” at times when he was being watched.

Anil Dawar writes in the Daily Telegraph that in a secondexperiment, the first volunteer concentrated onmaking the second person feel uncomfortable or relaxed.Again, they were in separate sealed rooms. Schmidt says that”for both data sets there is a small but significant effect.”
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We always knew that spinach would save us somehow, and now it looks like it may be able to combat global warming. Solar cells give us hope that we may be able to avoid fossil fuels in the future, and drastically cut greenhouse gases. Theproblem is, they’re not very efficient. But that’s wherespinach comes in?
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Scientists hope that thesolar windwill form a barrier that will protect us from solarradiation during the upcoming pole shift here on Earth. Whenthe poles reverse on Earth, which has happened many timesbefore, the magnetic shield that protects us from solarradiation is temporarily weakened. Mars wasn’t so lucky.

Astronomers report that Mars had extensive oceans (andprobably life) until 3.5 billion years ago, huge solarstorms of the kind that flared up in the fall of 2003 hitMars repeatedlly and sucked up all its water, leaving it adead planet.
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