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We reported that several people were hit by falling meteors during the recent leonids shower on November 18. Now we?ve learned that some skywatchers not only saw the leonids, they heard them too.

?I am sure I could hear several of the meteors,? says Karen Newcombe from San Francisco. ?Several times when a Leonid with a persistent debris train flew directly overhead, I heard a faint fizzing noise.? She reports that there was delay between the sight and the sound and wonders, ?How is that possible when the meteor was so many miles above my head??
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The first film of Scotland?s Loch Ness Monster was shown 65 years ago. Since then, the short newsreel clip of the 30 foot long creature has been missing.

Now the footage has been found and will be screened again. Janet McBain, curator of the Scottish Screen Archive, found the 16mm film dumped in an old rusty can among hundreds of film cans passed on to the organization by the former Scottish Film Council.

The film shows grainy black and white images of a dark blob moving slowly across gray water, looking ?almost black in color and very shiny.? When it was first shown as part of a newsreel in British movie theaters in 1936, it was hailed as final proof of the Loch Ness monster?s existence.
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