Yes, it's true. Despite many premature exclamations by some UFO buffs who heralded a surge in UFO reports for 2009, when the numbers were actually tallied, UFO reports in Canada are down. Way down. How many? First of all, the arm-waving. Why are reports down? It might be, as some have suggested, that Brian Vike “retired' from ufology mid-way through [...]

Nasa's Kepler Space Telescope has detected its first five exoplanets, or planets beyond our Solar System. The observatory, which was launched last year to find other Earths, made the discoveries in its first few weeks of science operations. Although the new worlds are all bigger than our Neptune, the US space agency says the haul shows the telescope is working [...]

Today on the Google home page, an animated apple is falling, over and over, with a satisfying plunk-a 367th birthday tribute to Sir Isaac Newton. The English scientist was born especially tiny but grew into a massive intellect and still looms large, thanks to his findings on gravity, light, motion, mathematics, and more.Legend has it that Isaac Newton formulated gravitational [...]

This post will try to, inadequately, capture some of Catherine Crowe's wisdom and evidence for hauntings–it's a tough task and I recommend that people who are really interested in this read the whole Nightside of Nature. It would also be nice if someone published a biography of this significant woman. This probably wouldn't be too hard, as a gentleman [now [...]

A Texas couple stopped their vehicle along Route I-20 north of Stephensville on January 2 as a triangle-shaped UFO moved overhead between 200 and 300 feet, according to witness testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database. The witnesses were eastbound on I-20 at 7:40 p.m. when they noticed a bright object to their south. The pulsating object was producing [...]

That they processed aboard the enormous floating wildlife collection two-by-two is well known. Less familiar, however, is the possibility that the animals Noah shepherded on to his ark then went round and round inside. According to newly translated instructions inscribed in ancient Babylonian on a clay tablet telling the story of the ark, the vessel that saved one virtuous man, [...]

Neurologist and University of Toledo Neuroscience Researcher, Dr. John Greenfield considers the EEG data from patients with near death experience (NDE). eeg-book21For near death experience skeptics, medical evidence of a flat EEG during an out of body experience has always been a stumbling block. After all, a brain dead patient can’t hallucinate. But, does a flat EEG really mean no [...]

A social networking site for 'beautiful people' has axed 5,000 members for piling on the pounds over Christmas. The site, which has a ban on 'ugly people', said it had been forced to throw them out for putting on weight. According to BeautifulPeople.com, 'vigilant members' called for drastic action after users posted photos of themselves celebrating Christmas and the New [...]

A comet has been captured by NASA being 'eaten' as it flies too close to the sun. The space agency's solar-focused agency – Solar and Helioscopic Observatory (SOHO) – captured footage of the Kreutz Sungrazer as it made its fateful approach. The footage has proven popular on YouTube and scientific and astronomical websites and blogs. Kreutz Sungrazers are characterised by [...]