Live bacteria have been found inside a meteorite and the scientists who cultured it say that the bacteria is not from the earth. If true, this would help prove the theory that life was brought to earth via meteorites.

Bruno D’Argenio, a geologist working for the Italian National Research Council, and Giuseppe Geraci, of Naples University, brought back to life microorganisms lodged inside 4.5 million year old meteorites kept at Naples’ mineralogical museum. The bacteria remained dormant for billions of years and survived extreme conditions, an indication, according to the researchers, that ?life can exist everywhere in the solar system, though in a quiescent state.
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A lost city may have been found beneath 2,300 feet of water off the coast of Cuba, in an area just recently opened to exploration by the Cuban government.

Several foreign companies have joined together with the Cuban government to begin a systematic search of the area. ?It?s a new frontier,? says Paulina Zelitsky, of the Canadian company Advanced Digital Communications. ?We are discovering the influence of currents on global climate, volcanoes, the history of formation of Caribbean islands, numerous historic wrecks and even possibly a sunken city built in the pre-classic period and populated by an advanced civilization similar to the early Teotihuacan culture of Yucatan.?
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Japanese Scientists Say Yonaguni Pyramid Manmade

Tonight (Saturday, May 19th) on Dreamland, Ancient American Magazine editor Frank Joseph reports on a conference he recently attended in Japan at which Japanese geologists and archaeologists argued that the sunken pyramid off the island of Yonaguni near Okinawa has been found to be manmade.

The structure was found by dive tour operator Kihachiro Aratake in 1985 and has been a source of controversy ever since. It appears to be a construction made of wide terraces, ramps and large steps. However, American geologists have contented that the structure is not manmade, but a natural formation.
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LESLIE KEAN, SAN FRANCISCO

Note: Leslie Kean?s story has been picked up by 7 other newspapers across the country. She will talk with us on Dreamland May 19 about how hard it has been to get this story, and her story last May about the French COMETA report on UFO’s that was published in the Boston Globe, placed in mainstream media. Terry Hansen, author of ?The Missing Times,? talked about this problem with us on Dreamland May 12.
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