Richard Dolan is doing a series of videos on the Flatwoods Monster. If you haven't heard about this, I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

Quote:This is PART ONE of a three-part series of interviews with Frank Feschino on the Richard Dolan Show. Feschino provides extensive detail regarding the legendary “Flatwoods Monster” UFO incident of September 12, 1952. This part discusses the astonishing “Shoot Them Down” background to the story. Feschino demonstrates that the Flatwoods event was one of four major incursions of U.S. airspace by unidentified flying objects. These craft were fired upon by the U.S. Air Force.

Quote:PART THREE (available only at richarddolanmembers.com) covers the extensive background to Frank Feschino’s 25-year investigation of this extraordinary event.

James Burke's 'Connections' A Seventies Look on What We Still Take For Granted.

It's a fantastic collection of mature episodes that -to those who appreciate how complex the
world is and how we rely on mechanisms we rarely fathom, will show how poorly we have
become in appreciating our surroundings and rational-thinking.

This is a report from The International Business Times and I just don't know...
Is it a true report or a sick troll?

Quote:This Zambian nurse swapped 5,000 babies in 12 years just for fun.



Elizabeth Bwalya Mwewa disclosed this as she is suffering from terminal cancer and doesn't want
to rot in hell in the afterlife.

'A nurse's shocking confession has revealed that she had swapped nearly 5,000 babies just for fun while
working at University Teaching Hospital in Zambia.

Elizabeth Bwalya Mwewa, a former nurse at the UTH, had this odious revelation that she had swapped over 5,000
babies between 1983 and 1995. She disclosed this as she is suffering from terminal cancer and doesn't want to
rot in hell in the afterlife. The news has created quite an uproar in social media after it went viral.

"I have terminal cancer and I know I will be dying soon. I wish to confess my sins before God and before all the affected
people especially those who were giving birth at UTH during my service. I have found God. I'm now born again.
I have nothing to hide, in the 12 years I worked in the maternity ward at UTH, I swapped close to 5,000 babies," Elizabeth
said.

Elizabeth added that if anyone's born between 1983 and 1995, the chances are that their parents might not be their true
biological parents as she had developed a habit of swapping babies just for fun.
"So, take a good look at your siblings, if for example everyone is light and you are darkie... you are that child and I am really
sorry for that", she said.

She further said that she has sinned against God and was the reason behind the divorce of many faithful couples after going
for DNA tests. She said that she was being used by a demon for doing such heinous crime.
"I have caused many mothers to breastfeed children who are not theirs biologically.
I don't want to go to Hell for that, I'm really sorry I have sinned a lot. Please forgive me," she added.

However, the initial investigation revealed that there is no midwife by her name under the General Nursing Council of Zambia
and no nurse by that name had ever existed or worked at UTH...'

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I'm a fairly old guy. As Fairly Old Guys are wont to do, I've been pondering.

In the last 60 years or so, I have observed the Earth going crazy. It's not the same Earth I was born on, and society has upended itself to the point that it is now upside down from what it was when I got used to it all those years ago. Furthermore, the crazy has been accelerating, and I wonder why. That's something I ponder.

Another thing that I've observed is that my planet is getting crowded. When I was born, the world population was around 3,000,000,000 souls. Now, it is at 7,695,749,479, and climbing. In just my lifetime, the world population has increased by 257%! That's something else I've pondered.

Then, in the quiet of one dark night, those two ponders bumped into one another. There were bruises. I'm curious now whether the two may be connected.

Lemmings

Quote:Behavior
Like many other rodents, lemmings have periodic population booms and then disperse in all directions, seeking the food and shelter their natural habitats cannot provide. The Norway lemming and brown lemming are two of the few vertebrates which reproduce so quickly that their population fluctuations are chaotic,[4][5] rather than following linear growth to a carrying capacity or regular oscillations. Why lemming populations fluctuate with such great variance roughly every four years, before numbers drop to near extinction, is not known.[6] Lemming behaviour and appearance are markedly different from those of other rodents, which are inconspicuously coloured and try to conceal themselves from their predators. Lemmings, by contrast, are conspicuously coloured and behave aggressively towards predators and even human observers. The lemming defence system is thought to be based on aposematism (warning display).[7] Fluctuations in the lemming population affect the behaviour of predators, and may fuel irruptions of birds of prey such as snowy owls to areas further south.[8]

For many years, the population of lemmings was believed to change with the population cycle, but now some evidence suggests their predators' populations, particularly those of the stoat, may be more closely involved in changing the lemming population.[citation needed]

Misconceptions
Misconceptions about lemmings go back many centuries. In the 1530s, geographer Zeigler of Strasbourg proposed the theory that the creatures fell out of the sky during stormy weather[9] and then died suddenly when the grass grew in spring.[10] This description was contradicted by natural historian Ole Worm, who accepted that lemmings could fall out of the sky, but claimed that they had been brought over by the wind rather than created by spontaneous generation. Worm first published dissections of a lemming, which showed that they are anatomically similar to most other rodents such as voles and hamsters, and the work of Carl Linnaeus proved that they had a natural origin.

Lemmings have become the subject of a widely popular misconception that they are driven to commit mass suicide when they migrate by jumping off cliffs. It is not a deliberate mass suicide where the animal voluntarily chooses to die, but rather a result of their migratory behavior. Driven by strong biological urges, some species of lemmings may migrate in large groups when population density becomes too great. They can swim and may choose to cross a body of water in search of a new habitat. In such cases, many drown if the chosen body of water happens to be the Atlantic Ocean, or is in any case so wide as to exceed their physical capabilities. This, the unexplained fluctuations in the population of Norwegian lemmings, and perhaps a small amount of semantic confusion (suicide not being limited to voluntary deliberation, but also the result of foolishness), gave rise to the myth.[citation needed]

Does anyone know of the Aurora,Ex. UFO crash?
I understand this happened in 1897, WoW, that is before Roswell. 

It is reported that they actually found the body and the local Military Buried the Alien in the local cemetery. 

Quote:Ned – The Aurora Alien

Quote:There were several sightings of a “great airship” around Texas, in the spring of 1897. At least one of these flying crafts was reported to have crashed in Aurora, on April 17, 1897. The tall tale reports a “airship” crashing into Judge Proctor’s windmill and bursting into flames. Among the wreckage, Aurora residents found the disfigured remains of an alien creature. The alien, we now call “Ned,” was given “a proper christian burial” in the local Aurora Cemetery.


A newspaper article of the event still exists. Please refer to the front page of the original Dallas Morning News (below) for the article written by S. E. Haydon, a reporter for the newspaper.Dallas Morning News. Excerpts from the article include the following information:
“About 6 o’clock this morning the early risers of Aurora were astonished at the sudden appearance of the airship which has been sailing around the country. It was traveling due north and much nearer the earth than before.”

“Evidently some of the machinery was out of order, for it was making a speed of only ten or twelve miles an hour, and gradually settling toward the earth. It sailed over the public square and when it reached the north part of town it collided with the tower of Judge Proctor’s windmill and went into pieces with a terrific explosion, scattering debris over several acres of ground, wrecking the windmill and water tank and destroying the judge’s flower garden.”
“The pilot of the ship is supposed to have been the only one aboard and, while his remains were badly disfigured, enough of the original has been picked up to show that he was not an inhabitant of this world.”

The original front page of the Dallas Morning News, April 19, 1897. This was provided to us by “Alien Agenda” author, Jim Marrs. Mr. Marrs pointed out, there are multiple stories associated with “flying object sightings” covering the front page.
Source

Quote:Haydon said the townspeople watched in amazement as the slow-moving airship drifted over the town square and then moved north toward the property of Judge J. S. Proctor. Next, the UFO collided with a windmill on the judge’s land and “went into pieces with a terrific explosion, scattering debris over several acres of ground.” The crash destroyed the windmill, the adjacent water tank and the judge’s flower garden.
[img=415x0]http://roswellbooks.com/museum/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/image0021.jpg[/img]Cigar-shaped UFO Strikes Windmill (Neil Riebe)
It seems likely that the explosion and crash drew many spectators to Judge Proctor’s land. Among the wreckage, the townspeople found the dead body of the ship’s pilot. Then the story got really weird. Witnesses said that the pilot was not a human being.
Haydon said that, although the pilot’s body was damaged severely in the crash, it was clear that “he was not an inhabitant of this world.” The pilot may have been from Mars, said another witness, Mr. T. J. Weems, an officer in the U.S. Signal Service and an “authority on astronomy.”


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The article is not talking about birds or chickens but the real live big stuff that roamed the earth way back when

Quote:Dinosaurs ‘would’ve lived on’ as experts reveal ‘they were thriving’ before asteroid wiped them out




(20th Century Fox)
Dinosaurs were "thriving" before an asteroid strike wiped them off the face of the Earth, a new study reveals.
It shatters the myth that dinosaurs were already declining when a cataclysmic "mass extinction" event struck 66 million years ago.
Recent research found that dinosaurs were killed off thanks to the combination of a major asteroid collision with Earth and intense volcanic activity.
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But scientists have long suspected that dinosaurs were on the way out anyway, after struggling to adapt to climate change.
However, a new study by UK scientists revealed that dinosaurs were "flourishing" at the end of the Cretaceous period, just before their sudden demise.
It goes against previous mathematical predictions that suggested the number of dinosaurs had fallen before the asteroid impact.
Sadly, it's impossible to say whether the now-extinct dinosaur species would've lived on into modern times.
"As we can't really predict the course of evolution of life, we can't say if they would have died out, survived, or been outcompeted by other animals around after the Cretaceous," said lead researcher Alessandro Chiarenza, a Ph.D. student at Imperial College London, speaking to The Sun.
"66 million years is a lot of time and we know that species turnover is way more rapid than that.
But he added: "We do have dinosaurs around today, as we've got the chickens! Birds are indeed dinosaurs: just not the ones with nasty teeth and claws have gone extinct!"
The new analysis by Imperial College London, University College London and the University of Bristol created wide-ranging models that mapped the changing environment and dinosaur species distribution across North America.
It found that dinosaurs were likely not in decline before the meteorite impact.
"Dinosaurs were likely not doomed to extinction until the end of the Cretaceous, when the asteroid hit, declaring the end of their reign and leaving the planet to animals like mammals, lizards and a minor group of surviving dinosaurs: birds,"
"The results of our study suggest that dinosaurs as a whole were adaptable animals, capable of coping with the environmental changes and climatic fluctuations that happened during the last few million years of the Late Cretaceous," Alessandro explained.
"Climate change over prolonged time scales did not cause a long-term decline of dinosaurs through the last stages of this period."
The study, published in Nature Communications, reveals how changing conditions for fossilization of dinosaur remains has confused scientists.
It explains that the mismatch meant that previous studies underestimated the number of dinosaur species alive at the end of the Cretaceous.
"Most of what we know about Late Cretaceous North American dinosaurs comes from an area smaller than one-third of the present-day continent, and yet we know that dinosaurs roamed all across North America, from Alaska to New Jersey and down to Mexico," said co-author Dr. Philip Mannion, of the University College London.
Researchers modeled the environmental conditions – like temperature or rainfall – that species needed to survive.
The team then mapped where these conditions would have occurred across the continent and over time.
This let them create a detailed picture of where groups of dinosaur species could've survived as climate conditions changed – rather than just where their fossils were found.
Habitats that could support a range of dinosaur groups were more widespread at the end of the Cretaceous, according to scientists.
However, these areas were in areas that are deemed "less likely to preserve fossils."
Most dinosaur fossils in North America are found in the western half of the continent, which was once split off from the eastern half by an inland sea millions of years ago.
In the west, there was a "steady supply of sediment" from the Rocky Mountains, which created perfect conditions for fossilizing dinosaurs.
But conditions in the eastern half of North America were not as good for fossilizing dinosaur remains.
This means that not many fossils have been found in the eastern half, which lays the groundwork for scientific confusion.
That's because the new study suggests that climate conditions in the eastern half of the continent were fine for dinosaur survival, suggesting they would've "thrived."
[i]This story originally appeared in The Sun.[/i]

The Lunacy continues,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

HISTORY ON THE VIETNAM WALL ...

A little history most people will never know.  Interesting
Veterans Statistics off the Vietnam Memorial Wall.
There are 58,267 names now listed on that polished black wall,
including those added in 2010.

The names are arranged in the order in which they were taken from us
by date and within each date the names are alphabetized.  It is hard
to believe it is 63 years since the first casualty.

The first known casualty was Richard B. Fitzgibbon, of North Weymouth
, Mass. Listed by the U.S. Department of Defense as having been killed
on June 8, 1956.  His name is listed on the Wall with that of his son,
Marine Corps LCpl Richard B. Fitzgibbon III, who was killed on Sept.
7, 1965.

There are three sets of fathers and sons on the Wall.

39,996 on the Wall were just 22 or younger.

8,283 were just 19 years old.

The largest age group, 33,103 were 18 years old.

12 soldiers on the Wall were 17 years old.

5 soldiers on the Wall were 16 years old.

One soldier, PFC Dan Bullock was 15 years old.

997 soldiers were killed on their first day in Vietnam .

1,448 soldiers were killed on their last day in Vietnam .

31 sets of brothers are on the Wall.

Thirty one sets of parents lost two of their sons.

54 soldiers attended Thomas Edison High School in Philadelphia .  I
wonder why so many from one school

8 Women are on the Wall, Nursing the wounded.

244 soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War;
153 of them are on the Wall

Beallsville , Ohio with a population of 475 lost 6 of her sons.

West Virginia had the highest casualty rate per capita in the nation.
There are 711 West Virginians on the Wall.

The Marines of Morenci - They led some of the scrappiest high school
football and basketball teams that the little Arizona copper town of
Morenci (pop 5,058) had ever known and cheered.  They enjoyed roaring
beer busts.  In quieter moments, they rode horses along the Coronado
Trail, stalked deer in the Apache National Forest .  And in the
patriotic camaraderie typical of Morenci's mining families, the nine
graduates of Morenci High enlisted as a group in the Marine Corps.
Their service began on Independence Day,
1966. Only 3 returned home.

The Buddies of Midvale - LeRoy Tafoya, Jimmy Martinez, Tom Gonzales
were all boyhood friends and lived on three consecutive streets in
Midvale, Utah on Fifth, Sixth and Seventh avenues.  They lived only a
few yards apart.  They played ball at the adjacent sandlot ball field
And they all went to Vietnam .  In a span of 16 dark days in late
1967, all three would be killed.  LeRoy was killed on Wednesday, Nov.
22, the fourth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination.  Jimmy
died less than 24 hours later on Thanksgiving Day.  Tom was shot dead
assaulting the enemy on Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.

The most casualty deaths for a single day was on January 31, 1968 ~ 245 deaths.

The most casualty deaths for a single month was May 1968 - 2,415
casualties were incurred.

For most Americans who read this they will only see the numbers that
the Vietnam War created.  To those  who survived the war, and to
the families of those who did not, we see the faces, we feel the pain
that these numbers created  We are, until we too pass away, haunted
with these numbers, because they were our friends, fathers, Husbands,
wives, sons and daughters  There are no noble wars, just noble
warriors.

Please pass this on to those who served during this time, and those who DO Care.

I've also sent this to those that I KNOW do care very much, and I
thank you for caring as you do.

This really is and interesting perspective on the USA, China, and Canada.. It is a long video but IMO worth a listen when you have a couple of hours to kill over the next few days.