Beth Quinn writes in the Middletown (N.Y.) Times Herald-Record that UFO activity has not slowed down in Pine Bush, New York. The cabin where Whitley Strieber had the “Communion experience” is less than twenty miles away. After 911, a National Guard reservist who was helping with the clean up at the World Trade Center took some photographs. When he got them developed, he noticed dozens of round, blue, semi-opaque spots in the pictures. He showed the photos to his friend Jim Smith, who explained that they were Tesla globes, which can’t be seen with the naked eye but can be captured on film, and are associated with UFO activity. Smith says, “My friend figured there was something wrong with the film, but I knew what they were right away.”
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Cropcirclenews.com has a detailed report about the Mayville, Wisconsin crop circles from the research team of Jeffrey Wilson, Charles Lietzau, Gary Kahlimer and Roger Sugden. They took samples from the circles, and proved that they were not manmade. Now they report that the Wisconsin circles have been investigated by a “Special Crop Circle Investigative Unit in the U.S. Air Force.”

Jeffrey Wilson writes, “We were surprised by the appearance of a military helicopter circling the formation very low to the ground?After about 40-45 minutes, I noticed that we were also under surveillance on the ground?I noticed a man in a camouflage uniform watching us with binoculars.
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On July 17, we wrote a story about a ghostly message in a bottle that parents received from their long dead son. Now a bottle with a message from a refugee fleeing the Nazis during World War II has been found on a Swedish beach.

The note is dated 1943, written in English, and asks if the war is over yet. It’s signed by a woman called Maja Westerman who fled from Nazi-occupied Estonia to a Swedish island 92 miles from where the bottle was found.

The bottle was found by Swiss tourist Thorsten Schwarz, who wants to trace Westerman to find out if she’s still alive. The note reads: “Dear friend, we live on an island. We came here a year ago…the lighthouse keeper’s family is very kind…is the war finished…we wait for peace and friendship.”
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Lakshmi Sandhana writes in bbcnews.com about an Australian robot arm that draws pictures and is powered by the brain of a rat, which is sitting in a petri dish in the U.S.

The arm holds three colored markers above a white sheet of paper, and makes drawings that resemble those of a three-year-old child. The brain and arm communicate with each other through the internet.

“We are looking at future scenarios where geography won’t matter,” says Guy Ben-Ary, whose lab in Australia contains the robot arm. “The brain of the semi-living could be anywhere in the world, while the body will interface and be fed off it.”
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