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November 4UFO Plunges Sicilian Town Into Darkness All News WebSeveral witnesses reported a UFO over Montserrat, Sicily in September that shut down power to parts of the village as it passed overhead. The UFO slowly made its way across the night sky but witnesses were able to get a clear view of the silvery grey craft before it took off at a high rate of speed. According to a retired local police officer who saw the unknown object, electricity to the town was restored upon its departure. Elsewhere, Bright Orb UFO Travels Ahead of Moving Vehicle - Palmas, Tocantis, Brazil.Playing With Fire: Part Two Intangible MaterialityThis post examines the first aircraft to utilize stealth technology, the Reich's HO-229, that was delivered to the U.S in 1946 and was possibly sighted by Kenneth Arnold during a test flight one year later. It also examines the USAF development of stealth technology as well as plasma propulsion and its use in EMP warfare, as it relates to the possible hidden history of UFOs, all of which, if true, dooms the disclosure movement as well as making it a Quixotic quest. Elsewhere, Spanish researcher Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos has produced an general overview of the state of UFO "disclosure" activities worldwide: State-of-the-Art in UFO Disclosure Worldwide & the Australian Experience.Eerie Screams Spook Villagers The StarIn the village of Kampung, Malaysia, a recent murder and discovery of human skeletal remains in a well, coupled with reports of chilling screams heard in the night, have residents on edge. In early October, a man was accused of killing his mother in their home and placed her remains in a bag under the sink. After the arrest, he led police to the skeletal remains; that's when locals began hearing screams in the middle of the night. Police are still trying to identify the body. The suspect is now under psychiatric evaluation in a nearby hospital.Who Owns www.2012.com ? 2012 RisingWant to visit a website that ranks high in Google but has no content or even a welcome page? Then welcome to 2012.com, the website that seemingly doesn't exist. Most web marketers know that SEO campaigns (search engine optimization) are the best way to get a decent page result from a search engine but it typically involves a heavy inclusion of relative links and content on the page to get ranked. So how does a website, one with more that a passing curiosity considering the hype and inevitable countdown panic that will ensue, rank so high with nothing on it? Stranger is that the website has been held, without possibility of sale, for fourteen years and has never appeared to have any content--ever. Maybe the mysterious Jacoby Group, the apparent owners of the site, among others, will tell us soon enough. Most likely within two years.Nature and Supernature Michael Prescott's BlogMichael Prescott is impressed by Lyall Watson's 1987 book Beyond Supernature: A New Natural History of the Supernatural, a serious overview of parapsychology, enlivened by accounts of his personal encounters with anomalous events, including a destructive poltergeist in Indonesia. Key quote by Watson: "The fact is that unusual things do sometimes happen. I have seen them happening often enough now to be certain of that. And, as a scientist myself, I admit that they present us with a problem. But it is not insoluble and it does not require any desperate mental gymnastics. I see it, in truth, as more of a paradox than a problem. An apparent contradiction produced by poor definition rather than faulty procedure." Elsewhere, Part Two of a primer on parapsychological research and perspectives: Types of Apparitions, and Part Two of Michael Swords on Eileen Garrett: Would The U.S. Intelligence Agencies Try To Turn A Nice Irish Girl Into A Weapon?Gnomes - A Sustainable Population? The Heavy StuffAre gnomes temporal beings? In an article comparing the evidence, and lack thereof, of gnome populations to that of possible Bigfoot populations, the theory that both these beings are temporal entities, visible here for only a short time to the witness, is a compelling one. There is no solid evidence of the existence of either gnomes or Bigfoot. Years of research into the Bigfoot phenomenon have never yielded solid proof, say like a captured specimen, or remains of a deceased creature, and as the argument of the theory goes, it never will be found due to the beings ability to shift in and out of our realm, either due to multidimensional manipulation or another factor of their abilities not even comprehensible to us.Cousin: Japanese Captured Amelia Earhart Nevada AppealWally Earhart, fourth cousin to Amelia Earhart, is claiming a cover-up by our government over the real fate of doomed flight that ended over the Pacific more than 70 years ago. As he explains it, Amelia did crash into the water but instead of dying on impact she and her co-pilot Fred Noonan, were hauled out of the sea, along with their plane, by a passing Japanese fishing boat and were taken to the island of Saipan. OKay. So why cover it up? Wally believes that a secret order from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a family friend to the Earhart's, combined with botched rescue efforts by the US Navy at the time, may have been a major factor.The Alien: Adults Only ForgetomoriEach and every day of this month, the Forgetomori site will post an extraordinary alien photo--along with their ordinary investigations. This is the one that fooled the editor of Penthouse Magazine. Two more have appeared to date: The Container Alien and The New Mexico Alien--with a zipper.