News Briefs 11-06-2012

The perfect soundtrack for last week's Venus transit…

• Another 'spiral UFO sighting, this time in the Middle East, linked to Russian missile test. See previous Norwegian spiral UFO for context.
• British UFO pundit Nick Pope says we should look up for UFOs during the Olympic Games. Hopefully Nick's been misquoted in the bizarre section about an alien invasion.
• 'Dead' boy wakes up at funeral, asks for a glass of water, then lies back down dead.
• Actress Shirley MacLaine says Downton Abbey is haunted.
• Fabled lost city found in the Honduras?
• Before Prometheus: The Dogon people and The Sirius Mystery.
• Stone Age long barrows housed the living as well as the dead.
• Scientists "95% sure" that Bigfoot lives in Russian tundra.
• 'Baltic Sea UFO' relocated.
• Old item, but cool to revisit: Saturn has a UFO moon.
• The Large Hadron Collider is so sensitive that the full Moon affects its instruments.
• Alzheimer's vaccine trial a success.
• So plants can either hear each other, or they have some sort of extra-sensory perception...
• "Depraved" penguin sex shocked polar explorer, and was censored by academia.
• Image of the Day: Lost: Wormhole.
• Bonus Image(s) of the Day: Venus sizzles in this amazing image from last week's transit. And the Hubble Space Telescope totally photobombs Venus's special moment.

Quote of the Day:

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away.

Robert Heinlein