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New UFO / Alien Sightings - Ghana, Moscow and South Dakota
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Photo: Bownessie May Be Just An Old Car Tire

New UFO / Alien Sightings - Ghana, Moscow and South Dakota

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 09:25 AM PST

UFO Sighting Over Ghana - 3/5/2011

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Statement with video: This is a latest update of this object seen at 23:30 on 5 March 2011, could be Sirius or one of the other stars.
Ufo - Star - Asteroid - Planet X - Hercolubus - Nibiru - Tyche - 5 March 2011
Over Ghana, West Africa. but how far away the object is i am not sure, it seems close to the Earth but the size of it?

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MUFON CMS - South Dakota - 3/5/2011 - unedited: I am reporting this for my husband as he had to go to work. He works at [Employer removed/cms/tg] for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe as a security officer. When he came home last night he said, "it touched me!" and he was visibly shaken. It took awhile for me to get his story out, but I typed it out as he told me. Below is his words. It should be noted that the usual drive from the casino back home takes 90 minutes driving normally. He said this started happening around 11:15 Pm but he didn't get home until almost 2 am march 6. He wasn't even aware that this had taken longer than normally and when talking to him he wasn't even aware that there was missing time. here are his words, "Sunday March 6 2011

Witness , [name deleted/cms/tg] security guard [employer removed/cms/tg] Driving home in car alone after work at about the red lights started about 11:40 PM might have been later than that. The red lights are like softballs, hundreds of them, real light and spinning around the car south of highway 20 and was on highway 63 about 5 miles travelling south to Eagle Butte. The red balls spun around the car for what seemed like a long time, it was real neat. The Red lights about 100-200 of these red lights and kept going around the car for a couple of miles. They never got super close like 2 car lengths away from me but all around me

After a couple of miles the car was slowing down. I was doing about 60MPH but it slowed down to 40MPH and wouldnt go any faster. Then the red lights just disappeared. They didnt fly off or anything they just disappeared. The car then went back up to 60 MPH like I normally drive it. I just thought it was kind of weird but kind of neat.

Then I got to where a gravel road meets 63 one of the wind block experiment station.. soil erosion experiment (thats about 15-20 miles south of Timber Lake on 63) then I got a feeling of goosebumps all over me. It was tingly cold feeling all over me. Then I saw this thing on the side of the road where the gravel road meets the road and before I knew it it was on the car. It reached in and touched my head through the windshield and ran its hand down my back. My back got real hot.

Description of alien:
It had an oblong head, really thin body, thin arms and legs, it was translucent it was glowing like a real dim light bulb cause you can see through it. Eyes were size of human, really long nose long in length. It has a really big mouth. Its arms were like sticks they were parallel through each other the two sticks looked like it was glowing. It was around 4 foot tall but its arms stretched.

The other one, on the left hand side of the road had a face like a beast horrifying, ugly, looked wrinkly walked like a squat about the size of a goat. It was glowing too reddish brown.It was wide and narrow.

And almost as fast as I saw it it was gone (the one on the side of the road)

The one that was on the car it seemed like it was there for awhile because tingly feeling didnï¿½t go away it felt like it was still there. The tingly feeling lasted about 10 minutes.

The one on the car it got to the point where I couldnt feel or see it anymore, I didnï¿½t feel like anything was completely gone until I got to the bison farm (15 miles from Eagle Butte)

Once I reached there was more farm houses everything was gone.

The car used a lot more gas than it usually does. It was over tank when started and used over a tank to get that far on 63.

I know sky was clear but couldnt see any stars.

Checked [name removed/cms/tg] for marks found none. His head was hot and demeanor was aggitated upon returning home.

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Most Recent Video From Moscow - 3/6/2011

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Fortean / Alternative News: M6 Paranormal Crash Video, Another NC Bigfoot Described and China's Human Organs Mystery

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 08:01 AM PST

Mystery video - Is this from the M6 paranormal crash?

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I received a link to this video and the following statement in an email:

My mates have been nagging me to put this footage out we recorded at that weird crash on the M6 that everyone's been talking about. Dino

NOTE: What do you think? Here is the most recent post on the case as well as links to previous related posts...Lon

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Source of Organs for Transplants a Mystery in China

theepochtimes - Each year 1.5 million people in China need an organ transplant, but no one wants to donate. This was shown in a recent study reported by the Yangtse Evening Post. After one year, a pilot organ donation program in Nanjing City found zero volunteers.

The Feb. 24 piece in the Post said Nanjing was one of the ten cities chosen for the 2010 pilot because of its rapidly expanding population of 6.3 million. Not only were there no takers last year, but over the past 20 years there were only three voluntary donations, the article said.

Beijing Evening News also reported in August 2009: "According to incomplete statistics, since the first organ donations in 2003, there were only 131 organ donations from those who passed away between 2003 and May, 2009."

Major Obstacle

The Yangtse Evening Post listed several examples to indicate that the major obstacles to organ donations are caused by traditional Chinese customs and mentality.

One example is a male migrant worker who died last October of a cerebral hemorrhage. The man's organs were in good condition, but he had not consented to donate them, and the family was unavailable to give consent in time.

Red Cross experts in Jiangsu Province told Yangzi Evening News that with the American model, when applying for a driver's license one can indicate one's willingness to donate the body in case of sudden death. But long-held cultural mores make Chinese are unwilling to donate any part of their bodies. Car accidents are particularly taboo: asking questions about death and organ donation before getting a driver's license is considered unlucky.

Another example raised in the report was a woman from the Yangzhou countryside who became sick and was willing to donate her organs. But her parents firmly opposed it and brought her body back to her hometown.

Source of Organs

According to Chen Shi, director of the Society of Transplantation of China Medical Association, by the end of 2005 China had conducted over 74,000 kidney transplants, over 10,000 liver transplants, and over 4,000 heart transplants.

But there are higher numbers floating around, too. Zheng Shusen, president of First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine and member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said in September 2008 at a conference that, "There have been 140,000 liver transplant recipients that are able to continue with their lives because of receiving liver transplantation, with an increase of 10,000 more transplants done each year."

Chinese authorities have told different stories about where the organs come from, too. As early as 30 years ago Chinese doctors testified at the United Nations that regime authorities stole the organs of executed prisoners. The Chinese Foreign Ministry denied this.

In July 2005, China's Vice Minister of Ministry of Health Huang Jiefu admitted for the first time at the World Liver Transplant conference that most transplanted organs in China come from executed prisoners.

According to Amnesty International at least 1,718 people were executed in China in 2008, a number far less than the number of organ transplants.

More grisly explanations have come forth. In mid-2006 an investigation by former Canadian parliamentarian David Kilgour and human rights lawyer David Matas concluded that the bulk of organ transplants in China were due to the harvesting of organs from Falun Gong prisoners of conscience. If true, the allegations would be "a form of evil we have yet to see on this planet," they said.

In their investigation they note that the source of organs for 41,500 transplants for the six year period 2000 to 2005 is unexplained by official data, and that the only possible explanation is that the organs were harvested from Falun Gong practitioners.

The UN has asked the Chinese authorities to respond to the allegations, but no substantive response has been forthcoming.

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"The missing link is out here in these hills..."

journalnow - Rick Lunsford didn't want to take his vision of Bigfoot to the grave without sharing it, and that's why he arranged an outing in Wilkes County Saturday to try to find the big guy.

"I had a serious gallbladder infection a year ago, and the doctor gave me three to five days to live," said Lunsford, 52. He had an operation and recuperated, but the near-death experience convinced him that he had to come out with it — that he had seen Bigfoot in rural Wilkes County when he was 20.

"I've got five grandyoung'uns, and I wanted them to know about Bigfoot before I go. The missing link is out here in these hills," Lunsford said Saturday afternoon, surrounded by about 30 other Bigfoot adventurers who came out on a gray, rainy day to seek the creature.

Lunsford described Bigfoot as between 6 and 8 feet tall, as broad as a refrigerator, with an oval head and dark eyes, and a hand similar to a human's, with a thumb and four fingers.

The group met at the Millers Creek Food Lion parking lot at noon Saturday, in a drizzling rain.

"I honestly don't believe, but I could always be made a believer," said Matthew Billings of Hayes, a turkey hunter.

Bobby Lee of North Wilkesboro said if Bigfoot is out there, "he's smart, because he's avoiding bear traps that can easily take a man's leg off."

Logan Baker of Hayes said he wanted to come see what all the fuss was about. "We'd like to believe it; we'd like to find proof," said Baker, who is a deer hunter.

Gary Pilkenton of Millers Creek said he is 75 percent sure that Bigfoot exists. "I believe that all these witnesses who have seen him, all these years, can't be lying. They come up with the same descriptions, by and large."

Bigfoot is a species of animal that hasn't yet been recognized officially, Pilkenton said.

"He's a mammal, a primate of some kind."

The group would look for footprints or broken limbs — anything that would show that a big creature had been there.

About 12:30, the group got into their vehicles, and a caravan of trucks and cars headed toward the Roten Creek area, about 12 miles away. Vehicles slowly drove on a winding, misty mountainous road beside a wide creek, past Christmas tree farms, wood and brick bungalow houses, cows and churches, including Poplar Cove Baptist and New Light Baptist. The Blue Ridge Holiness Campground had a sign that read, "Jesus is coming soon! Wake up America!"

As the vehicles were parking near the site, a driving rain began. When a couple of the all-terrain vehicles began spinning their wheels, trying to make it up a steep muddy hill to get to the site, Lunsford called off the hunt.

"I don't want anyone to get hurt," he said, adding that he would reschedule for a day with better weather and no rain.

Hobert Hart, who lived nearby, came outside to find out what all the hubbub was about. When told that people were trying to find Bigfoot, he said he has lived in the area since 1949 and had never seen it.

"The biggest thing I have ever seen was a bear," Hart said, adding that he did not believe in Bigfoot.

"Maybe these people are getting a bit of exercise, but that's about all they're getting," he said.

Brad Boyer of Mooresville and his two sons Robbie and Ryan came to the hills of Millers Creek wearing T-shirts that said, "Bigfoot stepped on me in Willow Creek, California."

"Bigfoot is a cottage industry in Willow Creek," he said, adding he couldn't pass up the chance to go on an expedition so close to home.

"All the Bigfoot folklore, TV programs and websites out there influence people, and leads them to put things together in their minds," Boyer said. "I don't believe in it personally, but I don't believe these people are lying."

Lunsford said that when people tell him what he saw was probably a bear, he answers that "a bear has a neck, and this thing I saw, his head rested right on his shoulders."

Lunsford said after he saw Bigfoot, he didn't tell many people, only his wife. He said he waited 20 years to tell his mother, so as not to upset her.

After various media reported on the upcoming expedition, Lunsford said he was teased in the chat rooms of gowilkes.com, a popular website for Wilkes County residents.

One person wrote that Lunsford was trying to find the tooth fairy, and another one wrote: "Dear Ricky: Leave him alone, you dummy!"

"People can believe whatever they want to believe," he said, adding that he was pleased with the turnout, especially given the rain. "This was worth it all, and these people showing up means a lot. Now, people know that Bigfoot was here."

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11th human foot washes up on B.C. coast

ctvbc - Mounties say a running shoe containing what appears to be human remains has washed up on the shore near Powell River, B.C.

It was discovered by a woman walking on the beach Saturday afternoon, Cpl. Annie Linteau told ctvbc.ca.

The BC Coroner's Service will examine the remains later this week to determine if they are human. If so, the discovery will mark the 11th human foot to wash up in the coastal region from B.C. to northwestern Washington since August 2007.

The most recent discovery was made on Dec. 5, 2010 in the city of Tacoma, south of Seattle. It was found inside a boy's size 6 OzArk Trail brand hiking boot.

The first foot to appear matched the DNA of a man who was depressed and likely took his own life.

Two feet found separately in New Balance running shoes in Richmond belong to the same woman, but she remains unidentified.

A matching pair of men's Nikes also remains unidentified, as well as a right male foot found in summer 2007.

There is no evidence of foul play in any of those cases.

Photo: Bownessie May Be Just An Old Car Tire

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 07:15 AM PST

mirror - The mystery of the "Lake Ness" Monster may have been solved – with the discovery of an old tyre.

Two canoeists claimed to have recently snapped an English version of Nessie in Windermere. But Bowness tourist John Phillips, 36, of Solihull, West Mids, reckons the split tyre he found nearby could hold a clue.

He said: "I don't want to spoil anyone's fun, but when we threw it in the water it looked very similar."

NOTE: Here's an earlier link as well as the recent sighting update posted below. Thanks to Billy Green for the heads up...Lon

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Bownessie Rears It's Ugly Humps Again

The image of 'Bownessie' taken by IT worker Tom Pickles on Lake Windermere

dailymail - The legend of 'Bownessie' is echoing across the waters of Lake Windermere once again after what is being called the best ever sighting of the mythical sea creature.

Emerging from the mist with oily black skin and three eerie humps, this picture reveals a mystical looking beast gliding through the lake.

The snap was taken on a camera-phone by terrified IT graduate Tom Pickles, 24, who said an animal the size of three cars sped across the lake in front him last Friday.

'It was petrifying and we paddled back to the shore straight away,' he said.

'At first I thought it was a dog and then saw it was much bigger and moving really quickly at about 10 mph. Each hump was moving in a rippling motion and it was swimming fast.'

This is believed to be the eighth sighting of a long hump-backed creature - affectionately known by locals as Bownessie - in the past last five years.

Mr Pickles, who said he watched the creature for 20 seconds, added: 'I could tell it was much bigger underneath from the huge shadow around it.

'Its skin was like a seal's but its shape was completely abnormal - it's not like any animal I've ever seen before.'

Mr Pickles's companion Sarah Harrington, 23, said: 'It was like an enormous snake.

'It freaked us all out but it wasn't until we saw the picture that we thought we'd seen something out of this world.

'I only saw it for a few seconds but all I could think about was that I had to get off the lake.'

The pair - who both work for Shrewsbery based IT company CapGemini - were on the last day of a team building residential training course at Fallbarrow Hall, Bowness, Cumbria.

They had kayaked 300m out into the lake near Belle Isle when they spotted the monster to the south.

Mr Pickles's picture perfectly matches the description of an earlier sighting from the shores of Wray Castle in 2006 by journalism lecturer Steve Burnip.

He said: 'I'm really pleased that someone has finally got a really good picture of it.

'I know what I saw and it shocked me, it had three humps and it's uncanny the likeness between this and what I saw five years ago.'

Monster hunter Thomas Noblett and TV psychic Dean Maynard said this new sighting has fired up their enthusiasm for another search.

The pair have twice scoured the lake with sonar equipment looking for Bownessie, but to no avail.

'We're convinced there's something down there and were going to get straight back out on the water,' said Mr Maynard.

Photo expert David Farnell of Farnell's photographic laboratory in Lancaster, said he couldn't rule out a hoax but this is the best quality image of Bownessie he'd seen.

He said: 'It does look like a real photo but because its been taken on a phone the file size is too small to really tell whether it has been altered on Photoshop or not.'

Sceptics remain unconvinced that something that size could exist in the 11 mile long lake.

Nigel Wilkinson, director of Windermere Lake Cruises, said his boat crew had over 100 years experience out on the water in all conditions and hadn't spotted anything unusual.

He said: 'We carry 1.3 million passengers - that's is 2.6 million eyeballs - and none of them have ever brought Bownessie to our attention.

Dr Ian Winfield, a lake ecologist at the University of Lancaster, said it was highly unlikely that an animal as large as three car lengths could survive in Windermere.

'It's possible that it's a catfish from Eastern Europe and people are misjudging the size but there is no known fish as large as the descriptions were hearing that could be living in Windermere.'

'We run echo sounding surveys every month and have never found anything.'

The mysterious aquatic beast is starting to draw parallels with the infamous Loch Ness monster for drawing even more tourists to the Lake District hot-spot.

Ellis Butcher from Cumbria Tourism said: 'The truth is Windermere and Bowness are incredibly popular destinations and don't need gimmicks to get people to visit.

'Nonetheless at the start of the tourism year, it doesn't do the industry any harm to have this kind of profile across the media.'

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Windermere Hotelier Milking Every Bit of 'Bownessie' Hoopla

newsandstar - The hotelier had thought he and colleague Andrew Tighe were alone on the lake when, out of the blue, he suddenly realised something powerful was going past him.

Early morning conditions couldn't have been calmer – with waters mirror-like – as the managing director of Windermere's Langdale Chase Hotel continued his training for an English Channel swim, accompanied by Mr Tighe in a rowing boat.

"We were going across the deeps, the deepest part of the lake," he recalls.

"It was really calm. Then, all of a sudden, I felt something go past the back of my legs. It felt like a cruiser had gone past.

"Suddenly, this wave then lifted me up. I stopped and asked 'what the hell was that? Get me out of here'."

Mr Tighe, the Langdale's general manager, feared for his friend as the follow-up 'bow wave' rose.

He said: "Looking back at that morning it is all a bit surreal. I was most concerned about Thomas. I didn't know what it was."

The whole experience, between 6.45am and 7am on July 29, 2009, lasted about 30 seconds.

After the drama unfolded, the lake went back to being completely flat – with the men confused as to what had just happened.

At first, Mr Noblett, 48, thought a submarine had passed him – with the Ministry of Defence perhaps doing some kind of secret testing. He described the feeling as "awful".

It was only after another colleague at the hotel overheard them talking afterwards, that the realisation that it could be something else struck.

"We didn't know what it could be. We were chatting about it in the kitchen and our chef said there was a report of something being sighted in the lake," said Mr Tighe, 35.

Their experience, along with other sightings, have left the pair convinced there is something in the waters.

"One hundred per cent. There is something in there," Mr Tighe said.

His colleague added: "We were non-believers beforehand. We didn't give it a thought before. I was more concerned that a pike would bite me."

Speculation as to whether Cumbria could have its own Loch Ness monster-type creature in Windermere has grown in the past week after a photograph emerged of what looks to be a four-humped creature in the water.

It was spotted by Tom Pickles and Sarah Harrington, who were kayaking across the water. They captured the image on a camera phone.

Theirs is thought to be the eighth report of so-called Bownessie being seen in the past five years.

Mr Noblett, who has swam in Windermere hundreds of times, believes this latest sighting adds weight to what he and his colleague have been saying since 2009, adding: "We're quite pleased about it. It shows we were not using this as self-publicity for the hotel, area or the lake."

Sporadic sightings of the creature have been made since the 1950s.

Various descriptions have seen its size range from anywhere between 25ft and 70ft and of being snake-like in appearance.

Although there is the old Nessie theory of the creature being something prehistoric that has somehow survived in the lake, both Mr Noblett and Mr Tighe believe the creature is most likely to be a giant eel.

Other theories are that the "monster" could be a giant catfish or a large pike with the creature feeding off char

Since their experience, the hotel bosses have worked with north east-based psychic Dean "Midas" Maynard on trying to unearth evidence about what is lurking in the waters.

Today they will join him on a boat conducting a sonar search of the lake to see if they can spot Bownessie or any more clues about its existence, using 3D imaging equipment.

Another boat search with more passengers joining them will be carried out tomorrow.

But, with Windermere 10.5 miles long, one mile wide and plunging to 220ft at its deepest point, with various caves and shelves, Mr Noblett, who has been at the Langdale 20 years after working in Bermuda, Dubai and London, admits the search is the proverbial needle in a haystack.

Whatever they do or don't discover, however, his view about whether there is a creature in the water will not change.

And the businessman has information that there are others who have has possible sightings, but haven't wanted to speak out about them.

He added: "Some have said they are glad we have brought it up. One sailor has said it was like a side of meat turning over and going underneath. He didn't want to tell anybody in case he was ridiculed.

"You're always going to get two camps in whatever you do in life. The ones who don't believe will boo-hoo everything. If they haven't experienced it themselves, they will say it is an old wives' tale."

Many of those who are believers or have spotted something suspicious and believe there is something in the water are people who are completely serious about the lake.

"That has made our experience a little more concrete," Mr Noblett said.

Dan Nield, 30, an operations supervisor with Windermere Lake Cruises, will be among those on the boat searching the lake tomorrow.

He admits the speculation about what may be in the lake is interesting, but is a sceptical of whether there is a "monster" in there.

"Everyone loves a mystery. It would be nice if there was something out there, but I'm a sceptic," said Mr Nield, who spends his working day on the lake.

"Some have said there are big catfish in there. They can grow as big as a couple of metres in length. Others have said it could be a string of otters. It's interesting. The picture that came out last week surprised me. Lots of people have been asking about it, but whether it brings more tourists to the area, I don't know. I wouldn't think it would do tourism any harm."

There's no doubting that the intrigue surrounding what may lurk beneath the waters of Windermere could be lucrative.

A whole industry has spawned from the mystery at Loch Ness, with a visitor centre, souvenir shops, television documentaries and even a Hollywood film staring Ted Danson.

Cumbria Tourism bosses, whose headquarters are on the shores of the lake, say they are as keen as anyone to establish "whether the Bownessie phenomenon is fact or fiction".

A spokesman added: "The truth is Windermere and Bowness are incredibly popular destinations and don't need gimmicks to get people to visit.

"Nonetheless, at the start of the tourism year, it doesn't do the industry any harm to have this kind of profile around the world."

Mr Noblett believes Bownessie could become a visitor attraction.

"It will attract a different type of visitor. You are going to get people who say we don't need any more tourist attractions here. They are the non-believers," he said.

"But it can only help the businesses and the infrastructure of Cumbria. This is a happy story versus the catastrophes of the last couple of years in west Cumbria.

"People think Cumbria is an island. When the bridge went down in Workington they thought they couldn't get in. It's just the British way of thinking."

Mr Tighe, the Langdale's general manager for the past four-and-a-half years, also believes interest in what may be in the lake his high and added: "Most of our guests are interested."

Executives at Windermere Lake Cruises, whose boats ferry people to stops up and down the lake, are not convinced Bownessie exists, but believe passengers will enjoy trying to spot it. They are offering a golden ticket prize of a year's free cruises for anyone who captures a picture of the beast from one of their boats.

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