UPDATE: UFO landing in Australia? – UPDATE: First, it was a UFO that remained on the ground for 30 hours in an isolated area of southern Mexico. Then, a series of mysterious object crashes, including most recently an event in Needles, California that Unknowncountry continues to investigate. Now two readers report that they observed a falling object in the mountainous area where they live south of Brisbane, in Australia’s Queensland State.
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Father Gabriel Funes, the Pope’s chief astronomer, says that life on Mars could exist and that intelligent beings could exist in other solar systems and that the search for extraterrestrial life does not contradict belief in God. Funes directs the Vatican Observatory near Rome. Few people realize that the Vatican funds several telescopes, including one right here in the US, in Arizona.

In BBC News, David Willey reports that, writing in the Vatican newspaper, Funes also addressed the subject of “the Catholic Church’s condemnation four centuries ago of the Italian inventor of the telescope, Galileo.” According to Willey, “Father Funes diplomatically says mistakes were made, but it is time to turn the page and look towards the future.”
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The latest round of UFO denial blames small orange candle lanterns and/or road flares attached to helium balloons for UFO sightings, but the real UFO wave continues worldwide.

There are two recent sightings that cannot be attributed to flares, candle lanterns, swamp gas or the moonlight reflecting off the wings of passing geese. The first one, in Australia, occurred as some miners were starting the night shift at a mine on an island off the remote Northern Territory.
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?and a UFO crash in Alabama? – Fake UFO video is so easy to create that there is a temptation to dismiss all of it, however this video from Holland has the appearance of authenticity. There is no indication of any tampering with the image, and it is time consuming, although not difficult, to create a graphic with the shaking movement that is revealed in this video. This may be a real video. If so, it is among the best made in the past few years. Unknowncountry.com no longer takes a position regarding UFO videos, because of the ease with which hoaxes can be created and the near impossibility of detecting them. We do publish videos that may possibly be authentic, such as this one. To view the video and learn more, click here.
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