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29Apr/100

Man claims to have had no food or drink for 70 years

Indian military scientists are studying an 82-year-old who claims he has not had any food or drink for 70 years.

By Dean Nelson in New Delhi
Published: 11:02PM BST 28 Apr 2010

Indian military scientists are studying an 82-year-old who claims  he has not had any food or drink for 70 years.

Indian patient Prahlad Jani (Mataji), who claims he has survived without food and water for more than seven decades Photo: AFP

Prahlad Jani is being held in isolation in a hospital in Ahmedabad, Gurjarat, where he is being closely monitored by India's defence research organization, who believe he may have a genuine quality which could help save lives.

He has now spent six days without food or water under strict observation and doctors say his body has not yet shown any adverse effects from hunger or dehydration.

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Mr Jani, who claims to have left home aged seven and lived as a wandering sadhu or holy man in Rajasthan, is regarded as a 'breatharian' who can live on a 'spiritual life-force' alone. He believes he is sustained by a goddess who pours an 'elixir' through a hole in his palate. His claims have been supported by an Indian doctor who specializes in studies of people who claim supernatural abilities, but he has also been dismissed by others as a "village fraud."

India's Defence Research Development Organisation, whose scientists develop drone aircraft, intercontinental ballistic missiles and new types of bombs. They believe Mr Prahlad could teach them to help soldiers survive longer without food, or disaster victims to hang on until help arrives.

"If his claims are verified, it will be a breakthrough in medical science," said Dr G Ilavazhagan, director of the Defence Institute of Physiology & Allied Sciences.

"We will be able to help save human lives during natural disasters, high altitude, sea journeys and other natural and human extremities. We can educate people about the survival techniques in adverse conditions with little food and water or nothing at all."

So far, Mr Prahlad appears to be standing up to scrutiny. He has not eaten or drunk any fluids in six days, and similarly has not passed urine or a stool in that time. He remains fit and healthy and shows no sign of lethargy. Doctors will continue observing him for 15 days in which time they would expect to see some muscle wastage, serious dehydration, weight loss,and fatigue followed by organ failure.

It is common in India for Jains and Hindus to fast, sometimes for up to eight days, without any adverse affects, as part of their religious worship. Most humans cannot survive without food for 50 days. The longest hunger strike recorded is 74 days.

According to Dr Sudhir Shah, who examined him in 2003, he went without food or water for ten days in which urine appeared to be reabsorbed by his body after forming in his bladder. Doubts were expressed about his claim after his weight fell slightly at the end of the trial

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25Apr/100

Arizona witness reports night of possible alien visitation

An Arizona witness reports being awakened in the early morning hours of April 16, 2010, to a beeping sound that ignited a search of the home and feelings of aliens attempting an abduction, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database.

"I could feel that someone was in my house," the witness stated. "Then I thought it was little grey aliens, for some reason it really scared me. I wanted to get up to investigate, but was frozen from fear."

The witness reports that the sky outside looked darker than normal, as though something was blocking the sky.

"I remember looking outside my window at one point at the sky and it was a lot darker than normal as if there was a craft blocking the city lights. I do not recall seeing a space ship. I do recall that there was no other noise and it was eerily quite outside except for the noises coming from inside from my treadmill, about 3-4 minutes passed with my treadmill beeping. I had a bad feeling and my adrenaline was pumping hard. "

The following is the unedited and as yet uninvestigated report filed with MUFON. Please keep in mind that most UFO reports can be explained as something natural or manmade. If Arizona MUFON State Director Christine Dickey investigates and reports back on this case, I will release an update.

AZ, April 16, 2010 - Visit from 3 Greys in home Teleporting. MUFON Case # 22954.

That night at 317 am on 16 April 2010 I was woken up hearing a beeping sound, was not sure what the sound was. Then I realized it kept beeping and it was not the smoke detector beeping.

I sat up quickly facing my bedroom door opening. It was pitch black and could not see past my bead room door, it sounded exactly like my treadmill when it is turned on and buttons are pushed to change the settings. I could not figure out why someone would be messing with my treadmill in the middle of the night.

I could feel that someone was in my house. Then I thought it was little grey aliens, for some reason it really scared me. I wanted to get up to investigate, but was frozen from fear.

I had a baseball bat that I wanted to grab in the corner of my room. I was also thinking of calling the cops. My treadmill was just around the corner of my room in the living room. I can’t remember if I am envisioning this or I saw them but I keep seeing these small bluish grey aliens, 2 or 3. Not clearly lit up like I was shining a light on them and they were standing at my bedroom door way.

I remember looking outside my window at one point at the sky and it was a lot darker than normal as if there was a craft blocking the city lights. I do not recall seeing a space ship. I do recall that there was no other noise and it was eerily quite outside except for the noises coming from inside from my treadmill, about 3-4 minutes passed with my treadmill beeping. I had a bad feeling and my adrenaline was pumping hard.

The next thing I see is a bright white type of light like lightning with a bluish color, it looked like electrical light. Much brighter than a light bulb and the light had a glow to it almost as bright as observing someone welding. It was shining on my wall at a strange angle it did not completely light up the entire wall, the light was coming from my formal living room where my treadmill was.

When I saw this I knew that I had to investigate the light. Then a very strange sound stated, I could hear an electrical sound building up and a surge of power, then a loud sound like something left and shot off and something electrical blew up all close the same time. The light lasted about 3-4 seconds before the loud bang from the electrical sound, then the light vanished.

Out of the corner of my eye my blinds were open to my window facing north, I never saw any light coming from outside. When the light went out I immediately looked outside and up to the sky. It still appeared eerie dark and could not see any stars or the glow from the city lights.

My first feeling was that something teleported out of my living room and then a ship shot off. Second thought sounded like something electrical blew up. Not sure if something flashed by or left, I grabbed my cell phone and baseball bat. I used the phones light to see me way to turn on the first light. Not sure if it was the bathroom or hallway light that I turned on first.

I remember banging my baseball bat on the tile floor to make some noise as I went through the house. Before I go the light turned on I had a strong feeling that I was going to see the small grey aliens. I grabbed my flashlight out of the laundry room and then immediately looked in the formal room and saw nothing.

Another note I smelled nothing out of the ordinary, electrical burnt or from lightning. I inspected the whole house turned on all the lights. Was thinking about looking outside had a bad feeling not to go outside. I kept hearing something up in my attic or on the roof almost like footsteps. It was really freaking me out. I was hoping to find a window or door open, everything was locked and closed. I would have herd if a person had left my house.

When I was going around the house I kept hearing scurrying noises inside and on the roof or attic. The whole time I was searching the house the aliens kept coming into my mind. I could sense something was still there, wanted to look on the roof and in the attic, decided that it was not a good idea. I could sense or feel a presence and that I was being watched. I did also notice that my refrigerator was showing that the power was off for 4 minutes from 3:06 Am to 3:10 (corrected).

So while I was asleep my power went off just before this event. Around 4:20 am when I finally got back in bed with all the lights off, the city glow was back, so it appears that a ship was hovering over my backyard blocking out the cities glow from the lights.

My thoughts for some reason when I started searching my house I was looking for grey aliens about 3.5 feet tall. They keep coming into my mind. I have always wanted to meet aliens, but for some reason I was extremely scarred, not sure why. The light and sounds from the electrical noise cannot be explained. The source of the light and the angle that it casted on my wall emanated about 2.5 – 3 feet off the ground in the middle of my formal living room. I have no sources of electrical items plugged in that could have emanated the light and sound. If my treadmill had started glowing it was in the wrong location. My treadmill works fine and I have not found anything that has signs of the electrical activity going on in my living room.

I do not feel that they abducted me but, I keep having strange thoughts of seeing them and that I knew what I was looking for. I felt that they just came in my home and left. Does not make any sense, I am starting to think that I am being abducted and have been the first night I saw the light, because of how out of nowhere I have a strong sense of fear for no apparent reason, like my subconscious is reacting to what has been going on to me.

At various times at night about the time I go to bed I have a sudden sense of fear the hairs stand up on my neck and my back starts to tense up, like I am being watched and I have a strong feeling that I do not want them to take me. The entire night that I am trying to sleep I am almost paralized from fear. I am now scarred when I go to bed, like they are waiting for me to fall asleep, to come and get me this has been going on the following nights from 4-16- 2010 to 4-21-2010. The fear is so bad at night, I do not even want to get up at night to go the bathroom 10 feet away.

I would love to meet aliens, but not in this manner.

April 25, 11:50 AMUFO ExaminerRoger Marsh
20Apr/107

UFO picks up Laconia, NH car with teens and drops 180 feet away


Windshield cracked and air bag deployed. MUFON image.

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Two New Hampshire teenagers sitting in a parked car were approached by a black-colored UFO in Laconia on March 20, 2010, lifted into the air and then dropped back onto pavement 180 feet away, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database.

MUFON New England State Director Steve Firmani confirmed his investigation of the case today by telephone and said witness interviews had been completed.

The 18-year-old girl and 16-year-old boy both offer testimony about their encounter.

The two used the girl's mother's car and went to a Laconia destination that has not been released.

"We were just sitting there and I looked up at the moon," the female witness stated. "I saw this weird black-shaped object. And then, I said to my boyfriend, 'What was that?'”

Both accounts describe the same events. They saw an object coming toward them from the sky and began to panic. When they attempted to drive away, the car they were operating was lifted up off the ground. Both describe an odd smell during the incident.

When the car hit the pavement 180 feet away, the windshield cracked and the air bags deployed.

Photo: Asphalt impact area. MUFON image.

Firmani said there was no damage to the body of the car, but that there was about $5,000 damage to the underside of the car.

The male witness descibed the UFO.

"I don’t know how to explain this but it turns into a ball when it wants to slow down and move around quickly and when it wants to go fast, straight, it turns into a flat plate with maze box-shaped lined lights. These were on all the time."

He describes attempting to drive away.

"The front end got picked up and the car could not move. We steered left and right but the car just kept on going up into the air."

When the car hit the ground, they drove quickly away to the girl's home where her mother called the police.

Firmani said there were three-inch divets in the curbing at the impact point where the car hit the ground. He said further study would be made to the under carriage body parts, which MUFON has retained from the body shop.

Laconia is a city in Belknap County, New Hampshire, population 16,411,

This case was originally reported to Peter Davenport at the National UFO Reporting Center. Davenport referred the case to Firmani. The following is the witness testimony from this case.

NH, March 20, 2010 - 2 Witness Accounts (Credit: Peter Davenport - NUFORC). MUFON Case # 22880.

“My name is E and I’m eighteen years old. I live in Laconia. Last Saturday night, my boyfriend D came up to see me and we went out. When we got to (edited), in Laconia, we parked in the back in the separate parking lot. We turned off the car and it was totally silent.

Photo: Asphalt impact area and tire marks in the grass. MUFON image.

We were just sitting there and I looked up at the moon. I saw this weird black-shaped object. And then, I said to my boyfriend, “What was that?”

He looked up at it and he said, ”If it gets any closer, we need to leave.”

I kept staring at the moon to see if it was just a plane or something. It moved back across the moon. It was huge and it looked like it was zig-zagging or changing shape. I couldn’t tell.

He said, “I think it’s coming closer.” It flew so fast over the trees getting closer to where we were. It felt like it was zeroing in on us. It blocked the moon. And then, we started panicking and driving away.

I thought were were going to hit the Bingo building. We turned left but it felt like we went off of a jump – you know that feeling? like we were on a rollercoaster? And we were in the air. I was trying to pay attention to everything that was going on but it felt like I couldn’t. When I looked up, everything was black. The smell was not nice but it was like something you could stand. It was an odor I’ve never smelled before. I heard absolutely nothing – it was silent. I felt immobilized like I had no control over what I was doing or over my body. I could see nothing. It was like opening your eyes in a pitch black room.

I felt really nervous and scared. I don’t remember crying or screaming. I held on to the center console because I felt like I was lifted. I was holding on so tight that my thumbprint is imprinted on the center console.

And then, when I finally realized what was happening, I was so close to the windshield that my body was going forward with my arms behind me. Everything was black. I heard a loud noise like a horn. Once. And then, the car just dropped.

I hit my eye on the dashboard and the airbags came out. I couldn’t believe what had just happened. I held my face and I looked over at my boyfriend. I saw that his left arm had blood. I said, “Are you OK?” I looked at the windshield and it was cracked, totally, but only on the passenger side.

I could see D but I couldn’t see anything outside. The only thing that made the car drop was the sound of the loud horn. When the car dropped, there was a loud boom. After that, we just drove so fast out of there. The smell went away after we drove away. And I started crying. And I said, “What the h—l just happened?” My boyfriend said, “I don’t know, I don’t know.” I didn’t feel like they were following us.

When we got home, my Mom said that she could hear me from the outside while I was freaking out. I couldn’t stop crying. My Mom said, “Calm down and tell me what happened.” I said, “You’re never going to believe me.” “Is it my car?” she asked.

And I said, “Let me explain,” because I felt that if I didn’t explain it fast enough, it was just going to go away from my mind.

At about 12:15 am, a cop arrived. I told him what had happened while I was sitting down at the dinner table. My boyfriend was sitting next to me – it was then that I noticed that there was no more blood on his arm or his clothing. The cop didn’t believe me at first until he finished looking at the car. He told my Mom that there was no reason for the air bags to come out because nothing else on the car was damaged. He didn’t check underneath the car but we found out later that the underside was totaled. The cop said that he was going to the place where we had been.

I just felt thankful that we’d gotten out of there. But I couldn’t stop crying for more than 2 hours afterwards. My Mom said, “You should go take a shower and get the airbag dust off of you.” But I didn’t want to be alone at all. I felt lucky. And there were no scratches or anything anywhere on my body.

The first night, my dream was that I was a little girl, maybe 6 or 7 years old, in an Elementary School classroom. I was looking at myself as a little girl. And then it was like the teacher called me up and I couldn’t talk or say anything - but everybody else seemed to say something for me. Like everything I wanted to say, everybody else was saying it except for me. They were saying exactly what I wanted say. I have never had a dream like this before – where I am a little girl and see anything about the past. I did not feel right at all.

I am better now. I still worry about seeing this thing again and I pay attention to the sky at night. I really don’t go out at night, anymore, because I’m scared. “

2nd Witness Account:

My name is D. I am sixteen years old and I live in New Hampshire. Last Saturday night I went out with my girlfriend, who lives in Laconia, when we had the following experience:

I was with her around 11. We wanted to take her Mom’s car because it was nicer and we wanted to go look at the stars. We went to (edited) at the back parking lot in Laconia. There were 8 cars already there when we arrived. Little by little, the cars started leaving one by one. We were the last car in the parking lot. Then the lights of the parking lot and the lights of the houses around us and the lights of the houses down the street started to go out one by one.

Then my girlfriend noticed something blocking the moon and asked, "What was that?" I knew it wasn’t a cloud because it moved back against the wind and blocked the moon again. I don’t know how to explain this but it turns into a ball when it wants to slow down and move around quickly and when it wants to go fast, straight, it turns into a flat plate with maze box-shaped lined lights. These were on all the time.

The colors were dim yellowish white and did not change. I cannot tell whether these were part of the bottom or not. It flipped a lot. I did not know which side was right or up on it. It was doing this over the trees across the street from the parking lot. It suddenly crossed the street towards our car. Its size was as big as 14 houses. It was really quiet. That’s when we had to leave. But I did not have time to turn on the headlights.

We put the clutch in to start the car and jammed it into 1st and floored it. The front end got picked up and the car could not move. We steered left and right but the car just kept on going up into the air. My girlfriend was scared and she had boogers coming out of her nose while I was cursing. The car was going up and the back wheels were off of the ground. Then I looked out of my window and saw that the parking lot park lines started getting smaller. Both our windows were down this whole time. The front windshield started to crack and shake and the cracks spread from the passenger side to the driver’s side. It popped outwards like it was pulled out.

Something yanked my wrist. Not aggressively. And the whole time in my head something was telling me “Don’t panic,” or “Don’t be scared.” And it wasn’t in English in my head but I got the meaning. It wasn’t a language – I don’t know how to explain it. And on my girlfriend’s side, it had her half-way out of the window. Her butt was off of her seat, maybe one-and-a-half or two feet? and the car was pointed almost completely straight up at the stars – yet I saw no stars.

Every time I tried looking at it, in front, a white film went over my eyes. It was kind of like staring at the sun with your eyelids closed. I could not hear her screaming but I know that she was screaming. My ears felt like they kept on popping from the altitude. I couldn’t hear. The smell was like unbearable, like you want to close your nose. It was spicy, like pepper-sprayish, and clean at the same time – it was a smell that you could stand but you would close your nostrils because it still smells bad.

When I tried to fight and get my wrist back in the car, that’s when the grip got stronger. It was pulling my left arm up out of the window – there was no pain but it was strong – …. I was trying to fight off the grip on my wrist. My tongue was numb. The horn beeped by accident and the grip got a little loose. It beeped again in the struggle and my arm flopped down in the car. My girlfriend also fell back in her seat and we realized we were still up in the air. !

It took 2 seconds for the car to drop. When we dropped, the air bags came out. We floored it as fast as we could through the town. It was almost a straightaway to go to my girlfriend’s house with very few turns to take. During this time, both of us couldn’t stop crying. We arrived at her house and her Mom asked, “What happened?” All this took place from 11pm to 12:30 am. It seemed like we were in the air for 10 minutes and it felt like it was forever. Her Mom called the police, and a policeman came.

The policeman did not believe us when we first told him what had happened until he looked at the vehicle. There were no scratches or dents or anything. He said that there was no reason for this to have happened to the car when there are no dents or scratches and no reason for the windshield to shatter and pop out the way it did. He had no explanation for why the windshield popped outwards. Also, when I went to open my cell phone in front of the policemen, I got shocked by it.

On Monday, I went to my doctor to get a whole physical to make sure I was OK. My wrist had a puncture wound while my forearm has a cut that is semi-circular and there’s blood on it. I do remember that when I first looked at my arm after I got it back in the car, it was red with blood. But by the time we got to my girlfriend’s house, there was no blood anywhere. On the center consul of the car, there is an imprint of her hand. I don’t quite understand what the policeman said but it was something about the skin of her hand leaving an impression.

Now, I don’t like to feel bumps in the car, or feel anything that trembles like a boombox. I don’t want to be out in dark areas at night. I also don’t like to walk out to my Mom’s car, anymore, outside. “

April 18, 7:08 PMUFO ExaminerRoger Marsh

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14Apr/101

Obama Wants To Know What 21st Century Technological Challenges You’d Like Tackled First

The White House via WhiteHouse.gov

This year, the White House is asking you to send more than just your taxes to the government on April 15th. They also want you to send your ideas on which grand, unsolved scientific challenge of the 21st century you think the US should tackle first. They're thinking big here. Landing-on-Mars, cure-for-HIV, cold-fusion big. And Uncle Sam wants you to help them direct the research.

The call first went out in February, with the Office of Science and Technology Policy identifying eight key challenges that help exemplify the kind of suggestions they're looking for. The eight OSTP challenges were: finishing a complete DNA sequencing of every cancer, producing solar cells as cheap as paint, developing a lightweight bulletproof vest that can stop an armor-piercing round, designing education software as effective as a teacher and as engaging as a video game, inventing a prosthesis so advanced that a someone who lost their hands could play the piano, assembling a computer that can process a million trillion calculations per second, and building an automatic, real-time translator for the world's major languages. Notably absent from that list is any kind of advance in space exploration, viral medicine, fusion energy, or artificial intelligence.

OSTP is using the moonshot as its guide star, singling out President Kennedy's challenge to go to the moon as the inspiration it looks to replicate. Popsci asked a similar question of its readers last summer, so we know you readers have good ideas about what feats of engineering and science could inspire the world as profoundly as landing on the moon. To share with Obama the same requests you shared with us last year, send your emails to challenge@ostp.gov, or tweet at him by replying to @whitehouse and including the #whgc hashtag.

Thus far, respondents have asked for better AI, a stable mobile OS, and medical marijuana. Based on your responses to our request, we know you can do better. So tweet at the White House with your ideas, but please, let's keep the requests for sexbots to a minimum.

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12Apr/101

TWO fighter jets are filmed whizzing over the M5 – apparently in pursuit of a UFO.

A mystery cameraman took footage of the military aircraft chasing the shiny orb.

The 30-second clip is believed to have been taken from a West Midlands service station car park.

Expert Nick Pope, who probed UFO sightings for the MoD, said: "This is one of the best videos I've seen. It could be a new drone - that might explain the military jets.

"But you don't normally test-fly secret projects in daylight. Alternatively, this could be the real thing - a UFO in our airspace and military aircraft scrambled to intercept, probably due to it being tracked on radar."

The MoD refused to comment on the alleged sighting, but confirmed it would scramble jets to meet an air threat.

West Midlands Police said: "We are not aware of any reports of unidentified aircraft near the M5."

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8Apr/107

‘No US troop survives if Iran is attacked’

Major General Hassan Firouzabadi says if the United States attacks Iran, none of the American troops in the region will go back home alive.

Iran's Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major General Hassan Firouzabadi has warned the US against making any military moves on the Islamic Republic.
Firouzabadi said that if the United States attacks Iran, none of the American troops in the region will go back home alive.
"If the US seriously threatens Iran and takes an action against Iran, none of the US soldiers in the region will return to America alive," Fars news agency quoted him as saying on Thursday.
Firouzabadi made the remarks in reaction to US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who said on Tuesday that Washington was keeping “all options” on the table for dealing with Iran and North Korea.
"If there is a message for Iran and North Korea here, it is that if you're going to play by the rules, if you're going to join the international community, then we will undertake certain obligations to you," AFP quoted Gates as saying.
Firouzabadi also said if the US takes action against Iran, the threats it would face increase exponentially and its economic problems skyrocket.
"If the US seriously threatens Iran and takes an action against Iran, the threats against it will become a thousand times more, its economic problems will increase and it will lose more markets," he said.
Firouzabadi's speech comes a day after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad condemned Washington's latest nuclear policy.
The policy authorizes the use of nuclear arms against nations which violate the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and Obama's mention of Iran is despite the fact that there is no credible evidence indicating Iran is violating the NPT.
In response to the new nuclear strategy, Ahmadinejad lambasted the plan and advised his US counterpart not to repeat the "past mistakes" of the previous US governments.
"I advise Mr Obama to be careful. If he tries to follow in the footsteps of Mr [George W.] Bush, the response of the [Iranian] nation will be the same crushing response they gave to Bush," President Ahmadinejad said in a speech in the northwestern city of Orumiyeh.
The 50-page "Nuclear Posture Review" (NPR) issued by the US administration was released on Tuesday. It purportedly restricts the use of US nuclear arms against some non-nuclear countries.
The new NPR by the Obama Administration restricts the use of US nuclear arms against some non-nuclear countries. Countries that “from the US perspective” do not comply with the NPT will be at risk of a possible nuclear attack.
The US has repeatedly accused Iran of failing to meet its obligations defined in the NPT — an allegation categorically denied by Tehran.
Iran was among the original countries that signed the NPT, a global pact aimed at curbing the spread of nuclear weapons across the globe.
Tehran says its nuclear work is monitored by the UN nuclear watchdog and is conducted in accordance with the NPT.
DB/SAR/AKM

5Apr/101

Unexplained sheep attacks ’caused by aliens in UFOs’, farmers claim

A series of bizarre incidents involving sheep in Shropshire have led to farmers’ claims that aliens are attacking their livestock.

A farmer with a sheep: Unexplained sheep attacks 'caused by aliens  in UFOs', farmers claim

Farmers claim the unexplained attacks on their sheep were caused by aliens. Picture posed by a model.
UFO: Unexplained sheep attacks 'caused by aliens in UFOs', farmers  claim

They have linked the unexplained incidents, where sheeps brains and eyes were removed, to the mysterious orange lights in the sky like this one. Photo: PA

Farmers near Shrewsbury claim to have witnessed sheep being “lasered” by unidentified light from UFOs.

They have linked the unexplained incidents, where sheep’s brains and eyes were removed, to the mysterious orange lights in the sky.

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They have found sheep with “neat holes” while their brains and other internal organs were removed. Other animals have lost eyes or had their flesh “carefully stripped away”, usually on the left side.

Phil Hoyle, 53, who has spent almost a decade investigating how the livestock have died, said the UFOs were found to have roamed a 50-mile "corridor" between Shrewsbury and Powys.

Mr Hoyle and 15 members of the Animal Pathology Field Unit, claimed they witnessed UFOs at work last month while working during the night at a Welsh hill farm near Radnor Forest.

“The technology involved in these attacks is frightening,” he told The Sun.

“These lights and spheres are clearly not ours.

“They are built by technology and intelligence that's not from here.”

He added: “For a short while it looked more like a Star Wars battle.”

Next day he interviewed farmers and "all but one had some type of unusual disappearance of animals or deaths with strange injuries", he told the paper.

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2Apr/102

Somali Pirate Attacks Increasing

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April 02, 2010

Stars and Stripes|by Sandra Jontz

NAPLES, Italy — Military warships have seen swarms of pirates taking to the seas from Somalia in recent weeks, causing a dramatic increase in the number of attacks off the coasts, a European naval official said.

"The monsoon season ended about a month ago, and there has been a great deal of activity since," said British Cmdr. John Harbour, spokesman for the EU Naval Force Somalia. "Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen swarms of pirates leaving the beaches for this part of the seas, and the number of attacks are at least double the number of this time last year."

In the last week alone, nearly a dozen dhows and fishing boats either have been hijacked or "disappeared," he said. For instance, Somali pirates hijacked a small Indian trade boat as it left Mogadishu port on Wednesday, the Washington Post reported.

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The uptick in attacks is likely a result of the EU Naval Force’s new tactic of sinking the pirates’ "mother ships," forcing the pirates to commandeer another vessel to replace their own. In early March, the coalition decided to go after the pirates, sinking their larger supply ships and skiffs rather than just escorting cargo and commercial ships transiting through the area.

Since March 1, EU Naval Forces — consisting of the French, Spanish, German and Dutch warships and aircraft from Sweden and Luxemburg — have interdicted 17 pirate groups and detained more than 130 suspected pirates, Harbour said.

Of the 130, roughly half were released because of a lack of evidence, he said. That evidence could include weapons such as rocket-propelled grenade launchers or AK-47s, or lack of proof linking pirates to a hijacking.

Those who are taken into custody usually are turned over to the governments of Kenya or the Seychelles for prosecution, Harbour said.

All captured pirates are identified, photographed and entered into a database. Because the information is "sensitive," Harbour declined to say how often forces pick up repeat offenders.

The number of pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean increased from 122 attacks in 2008 to 198 attacks in 2009, according to the U.S. State Department. However, of those attacks the number of successful boardings remained relatively equal, with 42 in 2008 and 50 in 2009.

1Apr/101

Evidence Mounts for Water on the Moon

Explanation: In 2009, space missions revealed tantalizing signs of water on or near the lunar surface, once thought of as a dry and desolate environment. But researchers are now offering this archival picture as further evidence that humans might one day be able to use the Moon's newly discovered resource to directly quench their thirst. Found in a pile of old Apollo lunar surface photographs, the picture reveals an object at the far left of the frame that appears to be a drinking fountain, surprisingly close to one of the Lunar Module landing struts. When asked why no mention of the object was in their reports, the astronauts replied that they discovered their spacesuit gloves were too bulky to allow them to activate the fountain, so they had simply ignored it during their stay on the lunar surface. Perhaps not coincidentally, this picture was taken exactly 40 years ago, on April Fools Day ...