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The Portuguese press has announced that the airforce is on alert since dozens of people saw a UFO on Tuesday. The newspaper Correio da Manha reports that “Military radar surveillance has been increased and F16 planes are ready for take-off.” Meanwhile, the UFO sighted in South Devon in the U.K. interests the media, but not the military.

The Portuguese UFO is described as a silent, luminous object, giving off white smoke. Paulo Lagarto, of the national air traffic control authority, Navegacao Aerea de Portugal (NAV), says, “The control tower in Oporto (north) detected a flying object which had been observed 25 minutes earlier in Montijo and Beja (south).” Geologist Jos
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In her new diary, Anne Strieber tells what it was like to attend the movie premiere of The Day After Tomorrow. Only Hollywood could have made it snow on the Museum of Natural History in May. She writes, “[The film] has taken a long journey, all the way from a hotel room in Toronto to movie theaters all over the world. It’s amazing, when you think about it.”

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How about never having to iron another shirt again? A German company has invented a heated, inflatable dummy that “irons” shirts for you. “This will be a complement to the lawn mowing and vacuum cleaning robots that already exist,” says economist Jan Karlsson. Since most of us are still doing those chores ourselves, we don’t expect to have our shirts ironed automatically anytime soon.

Celeste Biever writes in New Scientist that the Dressman was invented after an international survey showed that ironing?especially ironing shirts?is the chore that most people dislike the most. “Ironing is so boring,” says Karlsson. “I really think people will use this.”
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