A group of tourists are believed to have drawn red Stars of David on the walls of the Seti I ruins in the Abydos area of Sohag Governorate. Temple officials said the defacements were new but Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Zahi Hawass said they have been there for three decades. Read more
A Michigan man (Duane P. Snyder) claiming to possess an ice meteorite rich in extraterrestrial organisms will announce in a news conference Tuesday that alien life, at long last, has been found. The announcement will take place at a Ramada Inn in South Haven, Mich. Source
Ice Meteorite Found with Extraterrestrial Life-Form
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 Centre, 1555 Phoenix Road, South Haven, MI 49090. Read more
The environmental group Friends of the Irish Environment have written to the Minister for the Environment calling for prosecutions to follow the recent complete levelling of two listed ringforts by a farmer in County Cork. The ringforts were located in the townland of Knockacareagh, near Killmurray in north Cork. The farm was auctioned on 24 June, 2010. The new owner obliterated the ring forts, which were marked on maps and included in a photograph on the auctioneer's website, within a week of taking possession.
In the letter to the Minister, the group says it has confirmed with the Heritage Service of Cork County Council the complete levelling of two listed ringforts by the farmer. Read more
Unidentified flying objects (UFO) may appear in 2011 or 2012, a Chinese astronomer has predicted. Wang Sichao, an astronomy and minor planet scholar, made the forecast under recently-heated speculations about UFOs, as some unidentified flying objects have been spotted in several Chinese regions of Zhejiang, Hunan, Chongqing and Xinjiang since last month, the China Daily reported. Read more
The phone company TELE2 was responsible for the badly made meteorite impact hoax, that enraged the local population and authorities. The bungled hoax eventually lost them thousands of pounds and customers.
Ed ~ Update on Jim McCormick, director of Somerset-based ATSC.
Police raids expand bomb detector probe
Police investigating the sale of suspected fake bomb detectors to countries including Iraq have searched premises linked to three businesses. Sites raided were linked to Global Tech, of Kent, Grosvenor Scientific, in Devon, and Scandec, of Nottingham. Cash and hundreds of the devices have been seized, and a number of people are due to be interviewed under caution on suspicion of fraud. The boss of another firm that sold detectors remains on police bail. Read more
Daniel Shenton should be the most irrational man in the world. As the new president of the Flat Earth Society, you'd imagine he would also think that evolution is a scam and global warming a myth. He should argue that smoking does not cause cancer and HIV does not lead to Aids. Read more
Jim McCormick, director of Somerset-based ATSC, who sold £52m ($85m) worth of fake bomb detectors to the Iraqi Interior ministry. The ADE-651 detector contained nothing but a type of anti-theft tag used to prevent stealing in high street stores, and allowed suicide truck bombs to pass through checkpoints leading to hundreds of deaths.