Rudolph the red-nosed brain-deer! Scientists find festive image in head scan
Maybe the subject of this head scan had Christmas on the brain. Or maybe the scientists who examined it did as well.
Either way, the close-up image of a blood vessel reminded researchers of Father Christmas' most-famous reindeer as they studied the inner workings of neurons in the hippocampus region of the brain.
Staff at Newcastle University decided the picture looks like a reindeer with antlers flying through the starry sky. Even its eye and tail are visible as part of the pin head-sized vessel.

Brain-deer: The Rudolph-shaped blood vessel was seen by Newcastle University scientists who were examining a brain scan
The blob for a nose happened by chance when the experts were labelling the image. They then overexposed the image to make it show up red.
Claudia Racca, of the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University, who performed the experiment with colleague David Cox, said: 'Biology can throw up things like this, but it was a nice surprise to find this image.
'We were looking at a section of the tissue and noticed this strange but familiar shape.
'It was intriguing and we noticed the similarity to a reindeer.
'We then took an overexposed picture of it and the red blob for the nose and the white antlers showed up even better.
The image was located in the Hippocampus region of the brain, responsible for spatial awareness and long-term memory
'We got distracted from the science at that point and had a bit of fun with the pictures of Rudolph instead.
'It may not be very valuable scientifically but it looks nice on the eye.'
The hippocampus region of the brain is responsible for spatial awareness and long-term memory.
New Zealand military releases UFO files

The reports, dating from 1954 to 2009, were released under freedom of information laws after the New Zealand Defence Force removed names and other identifying material.
In about 2,000 pages of documents, members of the public, military personnel and commercial pilots outline close encounters, mostly involving moving lights in the sky.
Some of the accounts include drawings of flying saucers, descriptions of aliens wearing "pharaoh masks" and alleged examples of extraterrestrial writing.
Before their release, Air Force squadron leader Kavae Tamariki said the Defence Force did not have the resources to investigate UFO sightings and would not be commenting on the files' contents.
"We've just been a collection point for the information. We don't investigate or make reports, we haven't substantiated anything in them," he told the Dominion Post.
One of the most comprehensive files concerns two sightings of strange lights off the South Island town of Kaikoura in 1978, one of which was captured by a television crew aboard a plane in the area.
The incident made international headlines at the time but a contemporary Air Force report found it could be explained by natural phenomena such as lights from boats being reflected off clouds or an unusual view of the planet Venus.
The original documents on which the reports released Wednesday were based will remain sealed in the national archive, some until 2080.
NASA Announcement Leaked: Alien Life Exists on Titan
It’s not aliens. NASA’s announcement that hasn’t officially been made has been leaked as quickly as a Black Friday sale. The announcement, which NASA said had to do with new life, and many, including us, hoped meant somewhere out in the universe and had the words “little” “green” and “men” in it. But alas, no.
But before you are too disappointed, read on.

NASA’s big announcement involves arsenic, here on Earth. NASA has discovered a completely new life form that doesn’t share the biological building blocks of ANYTHING else on planet Earth.
Wow.
So, aliens theoretically still are involved.
The bacteria has completely alien DNA from anything that we know of as existing today.
All life on Earth, from fungi to humans, is made up of these six things: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur.
This new life form uses arsenic instead of phosphorus.
So, you may still want to tune in to NASA’s press conference at 2 p.m. Eastern Time today for the details. We’ll be there!
Ice Meteorite Found with Extraterrestrial Life-Forms
Duane P. Snyder will announce the discovery of the first and only known ICE METEORITE containing EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE-FORMS on November 30, 2010 at 10:00am at the Ramada Inn Conference Center, 1555 Phoenix Road, South Haven, MI 49090.

SOUTH HAVEN, Mich., Nov. 21, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Duane P. Snyder will announce the discovery of the first and only known ICE METEORITE containing EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE-FORMS on November 30, 2010 at 10:00am at the Ramada Inn Conference Center, 1555 Phoenix Road, South Haven, MI 49090.
Also to be announced: The ICE METEORITE's particle analysis, it's gas analysis, where it likely came from and PHOTOS of EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE-FORMS found in the melt-water of the ICE METEORITE.
Dr. Albert Schnieders of Tascon USA Inc, Chestnut Ridge, New York 10977, has commented that we basically found nearly all elements up to 90u in the sample spherical particles.
snydericyrite.com is a website dedicated to releasing information on the ice meteorite found in year 2000 and the extraterrestrial life forms found in it. For further information, please contact us at duanepsnyder@snydericyrite.com
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Chinese UFO Spotted Again Near Baotou Airport

By: Rob Adams
Published: Oct 6, 2010
Witnesses report Chinese UFO near the Baotou airport and some are questioning what the sightings are about.
UFO sightings are now common for the Chinese after eight reported incidents in recent months. Another major Chinese airport was forced to shut to prevent passenger planes crashing into the UFO. However, what does all this mean?
Witnesses say they saw a bright light shining in the sky close to Baotou airport, Inner Mongolia. The light zoomed into a circle around the airport before vanishing a short time later, as captured in amateur footage uploaded to YouTube. Although the video footage is very dim and hard to see.
The airport was shut for around an hour for safety reasons, a spokesman said. Three flights to Baotou from Shanghai and Beijing were forced to circle the airport until the object disappeared.
Two other flights were diverted from Baotou. It's the eighth reported UFO sighting in China in the past four months.
In July planes were grounded and flights diverted away from Xiaoshan airport in Hangzhou City, China, after a mysterious glowing object appeared on air traffic controllers' radar systems.
UN to appoint Earth contact for aliens

Mazlan Othman, the head of the UN's little-known Office for Outer Space Affairs (Unoosa), is to describe her potential new role next week at a scientific conference at the Royal Society’s Kavli conference centre in Buckinghamshire.
She is scheduled to tell delegates that the recent discovery of hundreds of planets around other stars has made the detection of extraterrestrial life more likely than ever before - and that means the UN must be ready to coordinate humanity’s response to any “first contact”.
During a talk Othman gave recently to fellow scientists, she said: “The continued search for extraterrestrial communication, by several entities, sustains the hope that some day humankind will receive signals from extraterrestrials.
"When we do, we should have in place a coordinated response that takes into account all the sensitivities related to the subject. The UN is a ready-made mechanism for such coordination.”
Professor Richard Crowther, an expert in space law and governance at the UK Space Agency and who leads British delegations to the UN on such matters, said: “Othman is absolutely the nearest thing we have to a ‘take me to your leader’ person.”
However, he thinks humanity’s first encounter with any intelligent aliens is more likely to be via radio or light signals from a distant planet than by beings arriving on Earth. And, he suggests, even if we do encounter aliens in the flesh, they are more likely to be microbes than anything intelligent.
ANOTHER BRAZILIAN MILITARY OFFICIAL REVEALS UFO INVESTIGATION AND OBSERVATION
This is an article by A.J. Gevaerd, translated by Marcos Malvezzi.
Commander of an Army installation in the Brazilian Pantanal area determined the official investigation of spherical nocturnal objects reported to have burned vegetation. Military personnel sighted the UFO and obtained photos

Report by A. J. Gevaerd, editor of the Brazilian UFO Magazine (www.ufo.com.br)
This is the report of a new investigation and interview I just conducted with the Retired Brazilian Army Lieutenant-Coronel Leo Tércio Sperb resident in Rio dos Cedros, a small town in the state of Santa Catarina. The interview was obtained thanks to information given by former VASP Airlines commander, José Américo Medeiros, UFO Magazine contributor, and performed with UFO investigator and volunteer translator of the Brazilian UFO Magazine Luis Medeiros.
The full interview is being transcribed for complete publication on Brazilian UFO Magazine, and what can be now advanced is that the former Army military was involved in a major UFO incident in 1977, the very same year when Operation Prato occurred in the Amazon, a hot year for Brazilian Ufology. Lieutenant-Coronel Leo Tércio Sperb revealed that this new found incident took place when he held the highly important position as commander for the 2nd Frontier Battalion, in the city Cáceres, state of Mato Grosso, West of Brazil.
The former military commander reported that in mid 1977 (he was unable to remember the date precisely) he was informed by his men that a small settlement located somewhere in the middle of the Cuiabá-Cáceres Road was highly excited about sightings of a strange and recurring luminous object that appeared predominantly at night. Having always been opened to UFO issues, and seeing the reports were significant, he sent a first man to do the preliminary investigations.
Captain Abraão (full name unknown) was commissioned to go to the site, talk to witnesses and collect as much data as possible and also physical evidence of whatever was happening in the mentioned location. One piece of evidence found and retrieved was a sandal with burning marks similar to the burns caused by a welder’s torch, found in the center of a vast circular area of burnt vegetation left by the object, according to the astonished witnesses. They also reported that the UFO was regular on those nights.
Back to the 2nd Frontier Battalion, Captain Abraão reported the facts to Lieutenant-Coronel Sperb and handed over his report as well as the collected evidence, which leaded Sperb to conclude that something serious was happening in the area. The commander then gathered a troop of four men to be sent immediately to the spot: one corporal and three soldiers. They received expressed orders to keep a stake-out in specific places in the woods close to the village, according to the witnesses’ guidance, so they could have a full view of the unidentified flying object and photograph it as it moved.
At the end a week, the troop was successful in documenting the observation of spherical UFOs, brightly lit and exactly like described by the villagers. Several black-and-white pictures were taken and handed over to the commander, who concluded the troop’s mission was done. The Lieutenant-Coronel Leo Tércio Sperb wrote up a report, attached the photos and collected evidence, and forwarded them all to the Army Corps in Corumbá, state of Mato Grosso do Sul, to which his Corps was subordinate.
The former military commander reported that after the troop withdrew, the UFOs apparently did not trouble the villagers again. He added that he never got any reply to his report to the headquarters in Corumbá.
With this incident, collected by the Brazilian UFO Magazine – that goes after witnesses and evidence wherever they may be – the Brazilian UFO community now have one more UFO incident definitely involving military forces in the country, in the course of which Army men on an official mission and using official resources of that force not only witnessed but also registered the occurrence of a phenomena considered of extraordinary origin.
When asked about his personal view of the alien presence on Earth, Lieutenant-Colonel Leo Tércio Sperb demonstrated that he belongs to a lineage of Brazilian military that is quite open and prepared to face the reality of the UFO Phenomenon. He asserted that he thinks “there’s no question about the existence of other intelligences in contact with Earth’s humankind”, and that “contact between them and us is inevitable and will definitely happen in the future”.
As for the campaign “UFOs: Freedom of Information Now”, in progress since 2004 and led by Brazilian UFO Magazine through the Brazilian Committee of UFO Researchers (Comissão Brasileira de Ufólogos, CBU), Sperb said that civilian ufologists have every right and reason to request the secret documents kept by the Armed forces, and that the government should not only acknowledge the UFO Phenomenon’s reality but also disclose its files. “The truth must come out in the open”, said the reformed colonel.
P.S.: Brazilian UFO Magazine next interviewee, very soon, will be another graduate member of the military from the Brazilian Air Force, now retired and living in Florianópolis.
Translated by Marco Malvezzi Leal, member of the Brazilian UFO Magazine
Anchient Crop Circles
Hundreds of archaeological sites left buried for centuries were revealed this summer thanks to weeks of dry weather early in the season.
The weather conditions allowed experts to take aerial photos of 'cropmark sites'.
The marks are produced when crops growing over buried features develop at a different rate from those growing next to them.
A Roman camp near Bradford Abbas, Dorset, was revealed in June after three sides became visible in rain-parched fields of barley.
The lightly-built defensive enclosure would have provided basic protection for Roman soldiers while on manoeuvres in the first century AD and is one of only four discovered in the south west of England, English Heritage said.

An aerial view of a Roman fort dating back 2,000 years was found in North Yorkshire, above. 'Cropmark sites' occur when when crops growing over buried features develop at a different rate from those growing next to them

The stone walls of a Roman fort dating back 2,000 years can clearly be seen through crops in Newton Kyme in North Yorkshire. The images were taken by English Heritage from a Cessna light aircraft
'Cropmarks are always at their best in dry weather, but the last few summers have been a disappointment.
'This year we have taken full advantage of the conditions. We try to concentrate on areas that in an average year don't produce much archaeology.
'Sorties to the West Midlands and Cumbria, together with more local areas such as the Yorkshire Wolds and Vale of York, have all been very rewarding.'
Flights over the Holderness area of the East Riding proved particularly productive with around 60 new sites, mainly prehistoric, found in just one day including livestock and settlement enclosures.

A Roman camp was discovered in June near Bradford Abbas, Dorset, above, after three sides became visible in rain-parched fields of barley

Researchers hope to discover new sites after examining the photographs taken this summer. This image shows a 'lost' beach where the Romans landed 2,000 years ago to begin their invasion of Britain. Found two years ago, the remains of the shingle harbour were buried beneath 6ft of soil nearly two miles inland from the modern Kent Coast
English Heritage said some sites which have not been visible since the drought of 1976 reappeared this summer.
Damian Grady, a Swindon-based English Heritage senior investigator, said: 'Promising signs started to emerge in late May when the dry conditions had started to reveal cropmarks on well drained soils, especially river gravels and chalk in the east and south east of England.
'By June it became clear that the continuing dry conditions would produce good results across most of the country.
'We then targeted areas that do not always produce cropmarks, such as clay soils, or have seen little reconnaissance in recent years due to recent wet summers or busy airspace.
'Unfortunately July saw deterioration in the weather which reduced the amount of flying we could do and the cropmarks started to disappear just before the harvest got under way.'
Mr Grady added: 'It will take some time to take stock of all the sites we have photographed, but we expect to discover several hundred new sites across England.'
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UFO Crash Reported Live from California
Apparently something big happened last weekend in USA UFO hotspot Fresno in California. I will be following the development of this story. Supposedly there is footage of the crash site. More to come, but for now, here are two articles:

August 27, 2010 - UFO reports have been taking a dramatic turn lately with more witnesses describing events related to a sort of conflict between military forces and large black triangular craft. Such craft were seen in Canada earlier this week allegedly being fired upon by helicopters and another was spotted near Fresno California crashed into the side of a mountain with military vehicles quickly surrounding it. What uncertainty does this bear for the future?
Reported TR-3B (Triangle) Crash Sighting, Witnessed by Family
Academician: Aliens exist, but also have weaknesses
Wang Sichao, a researcher and planetary astronomer at the Purple Hills Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that he believes extraterrestrial beings do exist and their UFOs have the ability to visit our earth. However, he disagrees with British scientist Stephen Hawking, who believes an encounter with aliens would spell disaster to human beings.

Wang has done the astronomical observation work for 39 years and he publicized his opinion on a science forum held in Guangzhou today.
Wang also found that in the terrestrial space between the height of 130 kilometers and 1,500 kilometers, UFOs have appeared many times. Their flying speed is much slower than the first cosmic velocity. Some are even as slow as 0.29 kilometers per second and they can fly in the 1,460 kilometers' height for more than 25 minutes.
This means UFOs have the anti-gravity ability. Otherwise, they would fall soon. Wang came to these conclusions based on the spherical astronomy and physics method and his years of observation at Purple Hills Observatory as well as the quantitative analysis of some significant UFO events.
Many people are worried that the aliens would invade the earth and if they do exit, is could be a calamity for human beings. Hawking is one person who holds such a theory.
However, Wang said it's too early to come to this conclusion.
"If they are friendly to us, we can promote the human beings' civilization through exchange and cooperation with them. If they are not, as long as we prepared for their invasion, we can beat them back based on their weaknesses. After all, they are life entities, they would show their slips," Wang said.