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Scores of wildfires are burning across the Western Canadian wilderness, with more than 2 million hectares of woodland currently burning. 1,400 soldiers have been called into Saskatchewan alone, to relieve the 600 exhausted firefighters that have been battling the province-wide blazes. While fatalities are rare in instances such as this, one firefighter in British Columbia has been killed.

The resulting community evacuations are on a historic scale: the Red Cross in Saskatchewan hasn’t seen an evacuation of this scale in their history, of which has involved over 10,000 people in 50 communities. The refugees have been scattered across Saskatchewan and Alberta, now housed in community and recreation centers across the two provinces.
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What a difference a pope makes! Benedict was a clothes horse. He used so much ermine in his regalia that there was an ermine shortage while he was enjoying his papacy. He dusted off thousand year old vestments and tiaras. Meanwhile, he insisted that he hadn’t done anything significant in the Hitler Youth, even though they were the most fanatical Nazis next to the SS. Did he worry about the poor? He seemed to think that the important thing was to awe them with his clothes!
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A man gets out of his car, notices a cloud with flickering lights in it, pulls out his phone and starts recording. At first, the cloud just sits there flickering, but then it begins to move, and does it ever move! Was it camera shy? What was going on here? There is a possibility that this is a graphic effect, but to build the intricately shaded, flowing object as it passed behind the telephone pole and wires would be a major challenge.

So the question is, what is this, something alive, a technological object, a weird, weird cloud? The lack of answers identifies it clearly: it is an unknown flying object. Graded A–Probably True.
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As part of the planned release of a new batch of declassified UFO documents by the British Ministry of Defense next March, eighteen files referring to the Rendlesham Forest incident in 1980 are expected to be included. UFO investigators are hoping that these papers will be the evidence needed to prove that contact between aliens and USAF personnel from the nearby Bentwaters AFB occurred during that incident.

These files have been the focus of a campaign by UFO researchers, headed by Lord Black of Brentwood, to have them declassified and released to the National Archives. They were slated to have been released in 2013, but the MoD delayed them, citing the need for further "additional processing requirements."
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