June 14, 2001
MY FATHER WAS A BIT STRANGE, TOO
So you'll probably be taking
your dad out for brunch or something on
Sunday, eh? Ho-hum... If you really want to melt his brain, take
him to celebrate the Raelian's "Space
Father's Day", where they'll honour the aliens who put us all here
on this rock in the first place.
Get all the info at www.rael.org .
WHICH WAY TO AREA 51?
If you're really lucky maybe you'll be
abducted and dropped off in Roswell, New
Mexico for the Roswell UFO Encounter Festival, June 30-July 7.
This is a celebration of that infamous
day in 1947 when a UFO crashed on Hub Corn's ranch and launched
probably the entire UFO/Military
Coverup genre. This festival is, by far, the largest gathering
of UFOlogists, abductees, conspiracy
theorists, believers and skeptics there is, with up to 30,000
attendees. Join the fun which includes
an Alien Parade, a Flying Saucer Pancake Eating Contest, the Alien
Costume Contest and the Alien Chase
10K. And don't forget to stop by the UFO Trade Show and pick me up
a tacky souvenir. Please...
UFO DAY!
A slightly less festive celebration of UFO culture comes
on June 24, which has been dubbed
Worldwide International UFO Research Day, a day to recognize the
efforts of those who have tried to
turn the study of UFOs into a serious and disciplined scientific
field of study. In conjunction with
this event, everyone is asked to look to the skies between 10 p.m.
and 2 a.m. on June 24th, when
people worldwide will simultaneously scan the skies for unusual
phenomena. (www.ovni.net)
BETTING ON ALIENS
British bookie William Hill has halved the odds
on bets that the Prime Minister
will make an official confirmation that aliens exist, after two
Scottish photographers caught pictures
of remarkably similar UFOs over Glasgow, three weeks apart. Graham
Sharpe, a spokesperson for the
bookie, told the Daily Record "we have taken several bets at our
usual odds of 100-1 and decided to
halVe the odds to 50-1 in case these pictures herald a UFO
breakthrough.
MORE UNIDENTIFIED FLYING SPOOKINESS
A woman in the U.K. named
Sharon Rowlands has sold a video of a
UFO to NASA for about $40,000, which shows a large craft that
emits red, yellow, orange and blue
lights and hovers in the sky, emits pulses of light, then flips
over and disappears in a red flash.
NASA reportedly wants to examine the footage because they believe
that it shows a craft similar to one
caught by NASA cameras during a space shuttle mission. (BBC)
LITTLE YELLOW MEN
And one last alien tidbit, since it's turned
into a bit of a theme this week.
Police in Narli, Turkey have sealed off a field and are
investigating the area after farmer Fevzi Cam
and two other witnesses spotted a two foot tall alien in a shiny,
yellow suit flying through his
field. (Ananova)
MAYBE IGNORANCE IS BLISS
Here's yet another story from the world
of wacky litigation: Lynn Howarth of
London, England won US$9000 in her lawsuit against a hypnotist
who, she says, turned her into a
"zombie" and drove her to attempt suicide. Howarth claimed that
after letting herself be hypnotized at
a stage show in a London club, the "age-regression skit"
reawakened memories of sexual abuse by an
uncle when she was eight-years-old, and she went from being a
"normal, happy, healthy, energetic
woman" to a "zombie... who suffered from panic attacks and
depression." (AP)
OLD NEWS
The world's oldest citizen died last week. Marie
Bremont, of France, died on June 6 at the
over-ripe old age of 115. Meanwhile, the Guinness Book of World
Records is in the process of
validating a claim from a woman in Dominica, who claims to be
126-years-old. (www.interrestalert.com)
SPEND YOUR EARTH DOLLARS
If you can't make it all the way to Roswell, New Mexico, for the
UFO Encounter Festival, you can still
pick up your tacky alien souvenir online at www.ufomall.com .
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Copyright 2001 by Andreas Ohrt
(604) 603-4699
Email:aohrt@hotmail.com
Website:www.curioustimes.com
