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September 1, 2010 - Earth's High Atmospheric Layer
Recently Shrunk to Historic Low.

“It is now clear that the record low temperature and density
were primarily caused by unusually low levels of solar radiation at the
extreme-ultraviolet level. If it is indeed similar to certain patterns in the past,
then we expect to have low solar cycles for the next 10 to 30 years.”

- Thomas Woods, Ph.D., University of Colorado

 

The Sun's energy output declined to unusually low levels from 2007 to 2009,
during the recent prolonged solar minimum of scarcely a sunspot. At the same time,
Earth's thermosphere (55 to 300 miles altitude) shrank more than at any time in the
43-years of space exploration. The results showed the thermosphere cooling in
2008 by 41 kelvin (about 74° Fahrenheit) compared to 1996, with just 2 K attributable
to the carbon dioxide increase. The results also showed the thermosphere's density
decreasing by 31 percent, with just 3 percent attributable to carbon dioxide.
Upper atmosphere image by NASA.

 

 

Update at 11:30 PM EST   September 1, 2010 - Hurricane Earl
Strengthens to 140 mph Sustained Winds,

National Hurricane Center has a hurricane warning from Bogue Inlet, N. C., to the North Carolina/Virginia border.

“Hurricane Earl is gathering some serious strength.
It is incredible what a difference a day makes when you're dealing
with this force of nature. Please keep a watchful eye on this one.”

- ISS Astronaut Douglas H. Wheelock, August 31, 2010

 

Hurricane Earl is up to 140 mph sustained winds and could do damage to coastlines
from North Carolina to Virginia. This photograph was taken August 31, 2010,
by Astronaut Douglas Wheelock aboard the International Space Station.
He was amazed at how fast and large the spinning storm grew over 24 hours.
Earl is projected to curve northward up the Eastern seaboard by Thursday,
September 3. Image by ISS Astronaut Douglas H. Wheelock.
To track Hurricane Earl:  National Hurricane Center.

 

 

August 31, 2010 - Zoos Returning Rare Kihansi
Spray Toads to Original Tanzania Home.

 

Kihansi spray toads were not discovered before 1996
living on only five acres in the waterfall sprays of the Kihansi Gorge
in Tanzania. 1999 construction of a hydroelectric dam stopped the waterfall
mist and the toads dried out, became ill and many died. Then like Noah's Ark,
before all the Kihansi toads were gone, scientists gathered a colony of 500
and shipped them to zoos such as the Bronx and Toledo zoos in the United States.
Finally after a decade, artificial sprinklers have been installed in Kihansi Gorge
and 100 of the toads were airlifted in August 2010 back to their newly misted
home ground. The hope is that the beautiful Kihansi spray toads will no
longer be “extinct in the wild.” Image by Wildlife Conservation Society.

 

August 30, 2010 - Giant Ultraviolet Rings Found in Resurrected Galaxies.

“We haven't seen anything quite like these rings before.
These beautiful and very unusual objects might be telling us something
very important about the evolution of galaxies.”

- Michael Rich, Ph.D., Astronomer, UCLA

 

Astronomers have found mysterious rings and arcs of ultraviolet light around
“resurrected” galaxies, four of which are shown here as viewed by NASA's
and the European Space Agency's Hubble Space Telescope.
Image credit: NASA/ESA /JPL-Caltech/STScI/UCLA
NASA JPL:  “Astronomers have found puzzling, giant loops of ultraviolet light in aged, massive galaxies that seem to have a second lease on life. Somehow these older galaxies have been infused with fresh gas to form new stars that power the truly gargantuan blue rings, some rippling out as far as 250,000 light-years. The discovery of these rings implies that bloated galaxies presumed ‘dead’ and devoid of star-making can be mysteriously re-ignited with star births. In these Hubble images, ultraviolet light has been rendered in blue, while green and red light from the galaxies are shown in their natural colors. See:  NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Image Credit: NASA/ESA /JPL-Caltech/STScI /UCLA.

 

 

August 27, 2010 - Dead Seals with “Corkscrew” Cuts
in Scotland and England.    Click for report.

“In terms of mechanical devices on the seabed that could
make these corkscrew cuts in the seals - no, we are not aware of anything at all.”

- Dave Thompson, Ph.D., SMRU, Scotland

 

One of 52 seals since July 2008, that have washed up
on Norfolk, England, and St. Andrews Bay, Scotland, beaches mysteriously
sliced with a “corkscrew” cut beginning from head (right). Similar cuts
have been reported on Canadian seals. A smooth-edged slice corkscrews around
the seal body - sometimes stopping midway or continuing around to hind
flippers (above). Image © Universal News and Sport Scotland.

- Where Did Our Moon Come From?   Click for report.

- Little Brown Bats in U. S. Headed for Extinction
If White-Nose Fungus Can't Be Stopped.   Click for report.

- Part 1 - Did NASA Try to Stop Spielberg's
“Close Encounters of the Third Kind” Movie?  Click for report.

“When they [NASA] read the [Encounters] script they got very angry
and felt that it was a film that would be dangerous.”

 

Steven Spielberg, 1978 Cinema Papers
interview about his 1977 movie Encounters of the Third Kind.

- Part 2 - Hollywood Hit Squad?  Click for report.

 

 

August 25, 2010 - Bacteria Have Survived 553 Days in Space.

 

Physorg.com reports that Gloeocapsa bacteria
collected from rocks taken from the cliffs at the tiny English
fishing village of Beer in Devon, have survived on the outside surface
of the International Space Station for 553 days without oxygen.
The bacteria, known as OU-20, resemble cyanobacteria called Gloeocapsa.
Phase contrast optics image by Connecticut College.

Professor Charles Cockwell of Britain's Open University (OU) Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute, which ran the experiment, said part of the reason the OU-20 microbes survived so long without oxygen on the outside of the International Space Station could be that “they form a multi-celled colony that would protect the cells in the center. They also have a thick cell wall that could help them survive.” The species is related to bacteria on Earth that survive in Antarctica and deserts, so its DNA-repair processes must work well. Bacteria that can survive the harsh conditions of outer space might help future moon and Mars bases as “bio-miners” that can extract minerals from rocks. This research also shows how bacterial seeds of life could have come to Earth aboard meteorites and comets. See Open University.

 

 

August 23, 2010 - Mysterious 3D Wheat Grid and Aerial Light
in Wiltshire, U. K.  Click for report and video.

“When I walked into the Whitefield Hill formation the morning
of August 4, 2010, everywhere I could see most of the seed heads
in the flattened crop were straight relative to the heavily curled seed
heads in the standing crop. … That seemed to be physically impossible.”
- Charles Mallett, Silent Circle Information Center, Yatesbury, Wiltshire, U.K.

 

Created on a slanted hillside, the large, 250-foot-diameter
Whitefield Hill “3-dimensional” wheat formation near Woodsend about six miles
north of Marlboro, Wiltshire, England, was reported August 3, 2010.
Aerial image © 2010 by Olivier Morel. See more images
and information:   Cropcircleconnector.com.

 

Update August 21, 2010 - Earthfiles Reprint of RAF Bentwaters Reports.
Click for 14 reports.

Sequence of fourteen 2009-2010 RAF Bentwaters
reports from Earthfiles Archive.

 

Lt. Col. Charles I. Halt described a mysterious aerial light above
Rendlesham Forest that emitted a thin beam down to the ground right in front
of him and Staff Sergeant Monroe Nevels in the early morning hours of December 28, 1980.
Illustration by Jan Roth at www.rendlesham-incident.co.uk used with permission.

 

 

August 19, 2010 - Two Horses “Burned” and Mutilated
in Rush, Colorado.  Report upcoming.

A 1-year old filly and 4-year-old male horse were found August 11, 2010, on Rush, Colorado, pasture laying 200 feet apart on powder dry dust with same odd excisions that included a “hard platic edge” on some cuts “as if hit by a laser,” say owners.

 

Red arrow marks Rush, Colordo, east of Colorado Springs,
Black Forest, Cripple Creek and Elizabeth where hundreds of bloodless,
trackless animal mutlations have been reported since the early 1970s.

 

 

August 17, 2010 - Marine Scientists Report Toxic Oil Hurting
Small Sea Organisms on the Gulf Floor.

“This whole concept of submerged oil and the application of dispersants
in the subsurface and what are the impacts that it could have,
have changed the paradigm of what an oil spill is from a 2-dimensional
surface disaster to a 3-dimensional catastrophe.”
- David Hollander, Ph.D., Chemical Oceanography, Univ. of So. Florida

 

Gulf oil droplets below surface. University of Southern Florida
marine scientists have discovered “micro-droplets of oil scattered
across the Gulf floor” and in DeSoto Canyon, a channel that brings
water into the recreational shores of Florida's Gulf Coast.

 

 

August 17, 2010 - Part 2:  Aztec, New Mexico - Was Disc Taken to
Building 828 in Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio?   Click on Real X-File.

“This disc is not one of our machines. Whatever it is,
we did not make it. I have no idea what would drive this thing
because there is no apparent means of propulsion on the disc.”

- Alexander Lippisch, German Aircraft Designer, Wright-Patterson AFB

 

 

August 16, 2010 - Mysterious Layered Hills in Northern Mars.

 

Arabia Terra, on the northern uplands of Mars, is presumed
to be one of the most ancient red planet regions. For reasons unknown,
several hills there are neatly layered shelves of dark sands on light rock,
says NASA, “wide enough to drive a truck around. The above image, showing
an area about 3 kilometers across, was taken in October 2003 by the now
defunct Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft.” Image Credit: MSSS, JPL, NASA.
See original at Malin Space Science Systems.

 

 

August 14, 2010 - Part 1:  Aztec, New Mexico - Was Disc Taken to
Building 828 in Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio?    Click for Real X-File.

“They saw a translucent vehicle  – at least 30 to 50 feet in diameter –
sitting on a train flatcar. The tarpaulin that had apparently been
over it had broken loose at the top, exposing the craft.”

- John Smith, Technical Illustrator, Rochester, New York

 

 

Updated August 18, 2010 - 52 Dead Seals “Corkscrew-Cut”
Have Washed Up in Scotland and England.   Report upcoming.

“The seals have all suffered terrible injuries,
but at the moment we have no idea what caused them.
It is not a natural occurring phenomenon and we would like
to hear from anyone who can come up with an explanation.”

- Insp. Mike Brown, Fakenham Police Station, Norfolk, U. K.

 

Over a ten day period in the first half of August 2010, a dozen gray and common seals
such as the pup above were found dead and "corkscrew-sliced" on the sands of Blakeney Point
on the North Norfolk coast of England north of Norwich, bringing the count up to 38 since
December 2009. The same corkscrew-slicing has been found on fourteen seals in St. Andrew's
Bay, Scotland, between 2008 and summer 2010. Investigators iin Scotland and from the National
Trust who own Blakeney Point, along with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), the National Wildlife Crime unit, the Norfolk Wildlife Trust and the Norfolk Police are
asking anyone with information regarding the incidents to contact Inspector Brown
at Fakenham Police Station: 0845 456 4567. Also see:  Norfolk Constabulary.

 

 

Update August 12, 2010 - Now New Jersey Has Massive Fish Kill.

Huge Fish Kills in Massachusetts and Mississippi.

“It looked like a foam coming in. It's scary! We were swimming
in this since last week and it was wonderful. Nice and clean.”
- Christine Cummings, Highs Beach, Delaware Bay, New Jersey

“It's really creepy. It's a small island (Fairhaven, Mass.).
The whole beach is coated. It's nasty.”

- Eric Borgeson, father of four, Fairhaven, MA

 

Wednesday morning, August 11, 2010, millions of dead
peanut bunker fish washed up at Highs Beach on the Delaware Bay
in Middle Township, New Jersey. The N.J. Department of Environmental
Protection says initial water tests show no sign of toxic phytoplankton
such as red tide. The low level oxygen explanation given in Massachusetts and
Mississippi has not been confirmed in the New Jersey waters.
Image © 2010 by NBC Philadelphia.

 

  Left:  On Monday, August 9, 2010, Massachusetts marine biologists said an apparent
lack of oxygen killed thousands of Menhaden fish that washed up on shore in Fairhaven southeast of Boston on the Atlantic Ocean. Vacationer Eric Borgeson said there were no fish anywhere
on Sunday, but he awoke at 4:30 a.m. Monday and “noticed the smell” first thing and is
concerned about his children playing in the same water. Image © 2010 by WCVB-TV.  
Right:  On August 5, 2010, thousands of dead fish washed up along the Biloxi,
Mississippi shoreline. Witnesses said the smell was terrible. Again, authorities said lack of oxygen
in the warm water was responsible for the massive fish kill. Image © 2010 by WLOX-TV.

 

 

Updated with EXIF Data - August 11, 2010 - “Invisible” Disc
In Phoenix Skyline Photo.  Click for report.

“I snapped the two pictures only a second apart
and one is clear and the next one has the disc in it.”     

- John Nano, Owner, Altavilla Pizza, Sun City West, Arizona

 

July 18, 2010, at 4:49:23 PM Pacific [ EDIF data], second of
two I-Phone digital images taken about 1 second apart. First image
clear sky; second image above. I-phone digital image © 2010 by John Nano.

 

 

August 11, 2010 - Unidentified Aerial Lights Change Patterns
Over East St. Paul, Minnesota.
Click for August 10, KSTP-TV Raw Video.

 

KSTP-TV.com in St. Paul, Minnesota, has posted videotape
of unidentified aerial lights moving in patterns over the east side
of St. Paul on Monday night, August 9, into early Tuesday morning,
August 10. The video shows five lights moving from a line pattern to
triangle pattern, blinking in odd and unpredictable ways. There seems to be
a sixth smaller orb that moves around and about the middle one at first
and later is moving toward the top of the lights. Source: KSTP-TV.com.

 

August 9, 2010 - 500-Foot Wheat Circle Below U. K. Pewsey White Horse.

 

Russ Holcombe reported on August 8, 2010, from the Pewsey White Horse
near Pewsey, Wiltshire, England: “It appears to be a large formation
(approx. 500 feet across), with a ring of 25 to 35 flattened circles that diminish
in size going around in both directions from the largest, southern most circle of about
80 feet diameter. Each of these circles was adorned with a small 10-foot circle on
the inside and outside of the ring. In the middle were two crescent arcs encapsulating
a sister pair of standing and flattened circles connected by a narrow pathway with
small laid circles on either side of the pathway.” By noon, the Pewsey farm manager
had started cutting the new wheat formation down. Early morning
aerial image © 2010 by Matthew Williams.
For more images and information: Cropcircleconnector.com.

 

 

August 7, 2010 - Ice Four Times Larger Than Manhattan
Breaks Off Greenland Glacier.

“The freshwater stored in this ice island could keep the Delaware
or Hudson rivers flowing for more than two years. It could also
keep all U.S. public tap water flowing for 120 days.”

- Andreas Muenchow, Ph.D., Ocean Science and Engineering, Univ. of Delaware

 

Early morning on August 5, 2010, the ice island above, that's
four times the size of Manhattan, broke off the Petermann Glacier in Greenland.
The last time the Arctic lost such a huge chunk of ice was in 1962. Petermann
is one of the two largest remaining glaciers in Greenland that end in floating ice shelves
that connect the huge Greenland ice sheet directly to the ocean.
Graphic by Prof. Andreas Muenchow, Univ. of Delaware.

 

 

Updated:  August 7, 2010 - Aerial Disc Beam Interacted with
Nuclear Weapons Bunkers At Whiteman AFB.   Click for report.

 

Click for podcast. 

“I had climbed up on the nuclear weapons igloo looking at this
bluish-red light that was coming straight down. Then the light started
to do a grid pattern! And I was like, ‘This is not happening!’ Just like a grid,
it went to one corner and then started going about every three inches back
and forth doing a grid. And when it got to me, the light actually stopped
because I put my hand into it.”    

- Dale Hogan, Former USAF Airman 1st Class

 

 

August 6, 2010 - WWII UFO and RAF Plane Encounter Covered Up
by Churchill and Eisenhower, MoD Documents Reveal. Click report.

“This (UFO) event should be immediately classified
since it would create mass panic amongst the general population
and destroy one's belief in the church.”

- Churchill bodyguard, quoting Churchill as told to grandson, a U. K. scientist

 

American General Dwight D. Eisenhower with U. K.'s
Prime Minister Winston Churchill during World War II in 1943.

 

 

August 4, 2010 - Two Large U. K. Wheat Formations of Circles on Grids.
Click for report.

 

Two large rings surrounding grid patterns dotted by small circles
photographed on July 30, 2010, north (bottom circle)
and south (top circle) of the M4 motorway near Wickham Green in
Hungerford, Berkshire, England, east of Marlborough and the ancient
stone circles of Avebury. Aerial image © 2010 by Madelien Scholten.

 

 

Update Podcast August 3, 2010 - Parts 1-2:  1980 RAF Bentwaters Disaster Preparedness S/Sgt. Monroe Nevels Describes “Top Secret” Investigation. 
Click for reports.   Click for podcast. 

“Lt. Englund told me that one of the airmen had been taken aboard
the spacecraft (in Rendlesham Forest).”

- Monroe Nevels, S/Sgt. (Ret.), 1980 RAF Bentwaters
Disaster Preparedness  

 

 

July 30, 2010 - Bee Expert Says Cell Phones Are Not
the Cause of Honey Bee Collapse.
Click for report.
- Mysterious Orange Aerial Lights Near Warwickshire, U. K. Wheat Formation.
Click for report.

 

     
Left: A wheat formation of two, 6-pointed stars, one of dark standing crop and the second
star in the middle defined by flattened wheat angles, were reported July 10, 2010,
near the Guy's Cliffe house in Old Milverton, Warwickshire, England. Right: Three orange
lights moving near Guy's Cliffe, Warwickshire, U.K., wheat formation on July 12, 2010, caught on low-light shutter speed. Aerial image © 2010 by Lucy Pringle. Lights © 2010 by Andrew Pyrka.
See more images and information: Cropcircleconnector.com.

 

 

July 28, 2010 - Total Solar Eclipse in Patagonia.

 

Near sunset on July 11, after a long trek eastward across the southern Pacific Ocean,
the moon's shadow covered the sun in a total eclipse that reached the southern tip
of South America above the Andes mountains in El Calafate,
Patagonia, Argentina. Image © 2010 by Janne Pyykkö.

 

 

July 20, 2010 - New Hangzhou UFO Photo
and Xiaoshan Airport Staff Interview.  Click for report.

“There was an unknown object seen in the skies over the airport.
So, according to our regulations, we had to close the airspace. Aircraft
movements were suspended from 8:45 PM to 9:45 PM (on July 7, 2010).”

- Ruan Zhouchang, Spokesperson, Xiaoshan Airport, Hangzhou, China

 

Image submitted to Earthfiles.com from an American-Chinese businessman with
contacts in Hangzhou, China, who has asked to remain anonymous [ see large image
in Earthfiles report.] “The photo is real per my trusted employee. Taken between
8 PM and 9:30 PM on July 7, 2010, within 25 kilometers of Xiaoshan Airport
in Hangzhou. The buildings match the area. The lights out so early in evening
is very common as power costs more in China than USA. Please do not use my name.”

July 20, 2010 - U.K. Wheat “Interference Pattern”
Across River from Nuclear Power Station.

Overlapping circles like interference patterns
were reported on July 18, 2010, at Woolaston Grange near
Clap-Y-Ares north of Bristol, in Gloucestershire, England. Crop circle photographer,
Olivier Morel, reports that this wheat formation is on the River Severn
opposite the aging Olbury Nuclear Power Station. Aerial image © 2010 by Olivier Morel.
For more information and images:  Cropcircleconnector.com.

Updated:  July 18, 2010 - American-Chinese Businessman's Feedback
About Hangzhou, China Images. Only One Released Legitimate.
Click for 07/19/10 Updated Hangzhou report and Krygyzstan video.

Photo taken by a Hangzhou resident shows an unidentified flying object
hovering over Hangzhou, capital of East China's Zhejiang province, around 9 PM,
Wednesday, July 7, 2010. Note the three-sphere lightning rod used only in
Hangzhou, China, rising from lower right roof. See People's Daily Online.

July 16, 2010 -  Part 2:  “A-Bomb Men.”   Click for Real X-File.

“There was an incident at the Los Alamos facility where a
bright silver disc appeared in the sky directly overhead and it was
witnessed by a number of the working staff there .”

- Christopher Ross's Great Uncle who worked in Manhattan Project

New life forms being introduced to this planet?
Illustration © 2010 by Christopher Ross.

July 15, 2010 - BP's New Cap Test Today Shuts Off
Gulf Oil Disaster for First Time Since April Blow-out.

“It's a great sight, but it's far from the finish line.”

- Doug Suttles, Senior BP Manager of Gulf Macondo Well Disaster

BP Plc (formerly British Petroleum) conducted pressure tests today
on its blown-out Macondo oil well a mile down on the Gulf sea floor.
For the test, BP closed valves and vents on a tight-sealing containment
cap placed on the ruptured well earlier this week. So far, the cap is completely
containing the oil flow for the first time since the April 20, 2010, explosion, human
deaths and uncontrolled crude oil eruption containing 40% methane. Petroleum
engineers caution that until the seismic tests are done this coming weekend,
the new cap's full reliability is unknown. The pressure gauge test could last
between 6 to 48 hours and extends 2.5 miles under the seabed. If hurricanes come,
it will be vital for the cap to be able to safely shut off the oil flow
if the surface rig must disconnect. Image courtesy BP.

July 14, 2010 - More U. K. Circles in Hampshire.

Crop circle researcher, photographer and author, Lucy Pringle,
reports today that she tracked down and confirmed a July 12, 2010,
rumor that there were barley circles at Sandy Lane near Stockbridge, Hampshire,
south of Andover. “It had been raining. It was a short, poor wheat crop
with poorly developed seed heads. There are 4 circles in total. Three in a line
and the 4th slightly out of line. Largest approx. 50 foot diameter.
The other 3 approx. 20 foot diameter.” Image © 2010 by Lucy Pringle.

July 12, 2010 - Part 1:  “A-Bomb Men.”  Click for Real X-File.

“The creation and use of nuclear weaponry opened a channel
into this reality through which something has been entering.”

- Christopher Ross, IT System Administrator and UFO Experiencer

Angled path a bright light took above apartment building in
Oak Park, Illinois, in 1965. Illustration © 2010 by Christopher Ross.

July 12, 2010 - Mysterious Asteroid Lutetia Photographed
Close-up by ESA's Rosetta Spacecraft.

Asteroid Lutetia has been a mystery for many years
because some ground telescope images have suggested either
an M-type iron meteorite or a C-type primitive body left over from
the formation of the Solar System. Yesterday's Rosetta flyby shows a
heavily cratered body. The M versus C argument won't be settled until
after flyby data sent to Earth is analyzed. Rosetta will now continue to a
rendezvous with the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko in November 2014,
when the spacecraft will release its robitic Philae to land on the comet nucleus.
For more information see: European Space Agency.

July 9, 2010 - High Strangeness Letters from Viewers.  Click for report.

“I found myself standing in the center of the road in a shaft of light 
about 5 feet wide, about 6.5 to 7 feet high and it was square-shaped.
The light was clear and pure, the most pure light I have ever seen.”

- Idaho Dairy Truck Driver

July 7, 2010 - Barley Crop Formation in Germany.

Reported June 30, 2010, in Gross Schneen in the North Rhine-Westphalia
region of Germany northeast of Kassel, delicate weaving defines standing
barley oval and crescents. Three of the four small circles outside the main pattern
are embedded in standing barley with no trails leading to them.
Image © 2010 by www.goeflug.de. Also see:  Crop Circle Archive.

July 5, 2010 - “Let There Be Light.”

“The main goal of the Planck mission is to track down the
Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the primordial radiation emitted
during the very early stages of the Universe, and its tiny temperature
fluctuations, reflecting the seeds from which cosmic structures
would later form and subsequently evolve.”

- European Space Agency's Planck Observatory

Released today for first time, ESA's Planck observatory surveys
the entire sky in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum, covering
the frequency range 30 to 857 GHz. Image courtesy ESA, HFI and LFI Consortium.

Right after the Big Bang that created our universe, the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation began to spread. The European Space Agency's Plank Observatory has produced this first all-sky microwave image of the “cosmic egg” we live in. Earth is in a solar system of the Milky Way Galaxy that is the bright horizontal line running through the middle of this Earth-based study of the universe's most ancient light. ESA reports: “The relic radiation coming from the very early Universe is, to a large extent, masked by intervening astronomical sources, in particular by our own Galaxy's diffuse emission. Thanks to Planck's nine frequency channels, and to sophisticated image analysis techniques, it is possible to separate these two contributions into distinct scientific products that are of immense value for cosmologists and astrophysicists.”

July 3, 2010 - Part 5:  High Strangeness - Cattle Mutilation
in Locked Corral, Las Vegas, Nevada.  Click for Real X-File.

“The x-ray of the mutilated steer's skull, where a ‘biopsy plug’
of bone had been removed, revealed no metal filings and the
mode of excision remains unknown.”

X-ray of Las Vegas, Nevada, steer's skull. Arrow shows
dark area where skull bone had been mysteriously excised.
X-ray by Garth Lamb, D.V.M.

June 30, 2010 - 2-Billion-Year-Old Fossils Oldest Multicellular
Organisms Ever Found.

“We have these macrofossils turning up in a world that
was purely microbial. That’s a big deal because when you finally
get big organisms, it changes the way the biosphere works,
as they interact with microbes and each other.”

- Stefan Bengtson, Ph.D., Palaeozoologist,
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm

A new Nature study identifies fossils from Gabon, Africa,
that date back 2.1 billion years. The organic material is gone. The Cambrian explosion was only
500 million years ago that made multiple-celled life widespread on Earth. See Nature.

June 28, 2010 - CERN's Large Hadron Collider Doubles
Previous Particle Collision Rate.

LHC is now generating around 10,000 particle collisions per second.

“Protons are complicated particles, they've got quarks,
[and other small particles], and colliding them is like colliding two
garbage cans and watching carrots come out. The more collisions we get,
the closer we get to supersymmetry, dark matter, the Higgs boson
and other types of new physics.”

- John Ellis, Ph.D., CERN LHC Theroetical Physicist

Particle physics exhibit at CERN/LHC, Geneva, Switzerland.

June 28, 2010 - 205 Circles West of Stonehenge
Near Mere, Wiltshire, U. K.

Reported June 25, 2010, in wheat at White Sheet Hill near Mere,
Wiltshire, England, southwest of ancient Stonehenge. 7 large circles;
30 medium circles; 168 small circles totaling 205 circles.
Aerial image © 2010 by Lucy Pringle.
Also see more images and information: Cropcircleconnector.com.

Ancient Stonehenge is far right red circle and Mere in Wiltshire County
south of Warminster is lower left circle.

June 24, 2010 - USAF's First Robotic Space Plane, X-37B,
and Update On Rocket Launch Spirals.  Click for report.

On April 23, 2010, the USAF launched its first robotic space plane,
the X-37B, amid speculation that it is a new space weapon, perhaps even
a satellite “killer,” and will fill in for ISS smaller cargo transports after the shuttles
end. But its prime mission will probably be surveillance. Image by Boeing

June 24, 2010 - Snakes Are Declining Around the World, But Why?

Click for report.
 

Caspian Whipsnake in Colubrid family.
New data shows increasing declines in many snake
populations around the world. Image WWF.

June 21, 2010 - Part 4:  High Strangeness - Cattle Mutilations
and Grass Rings in La Veta, Colorado.  Click for Real X-File.

“After the third mutilated cow was found in the creek,
five rings were found on October 27, 1994, pressed down
in the pasture grass between the creek and bushes where
the second mutilated cow was found.”    

One of five rings found October 27, 1994,
pressed into pasture grass between creek and the bushes
after four mutilated cows were found in La Veta, Colorado.
Photo © 1994 by Linda Moulton Howe.

June 13, 2010 - Part 3:  High Strangeness -
Buffalo Mutilation in Colorado.   Click for Real X-File.

“The buffalo's penis and penile tissue had been removed
from inside the buffalo's abdomen with no signs of blood
or struggle inside a locked, metal corral.”    

Male buffalo, 3 1/2-years-old, inside locked
corral in Kiowa, Colorado, on October 19, 1994.
Photo by Elbert County Sheriff's Dept.

June 13, 2010 - 40,000 River Valleys On Mars.
Ancient Ocean Covered One-Third of Red Planet.

“The abundance of these river valleys required
a significant amount of precipitation.”

- Brian Hynek, Ph.D., Univ. of Colorado

North pole ice cap on Mars by NASA orbiter.

A University of Colorado study released today in Nature Geoscience reports 52 river-delta deposits across Mars at about the same elevation, probably marking the boundary of a once-massive ocean that took up 36% of the Martian surface 3.5 billion years ago. Brian Hynek, Ph.D., Asst. Professor, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), also discovered in a related study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research (Planets), that there are 40,000 river valleys on Mars. What no one can yet answer is where did all the ancient water go?  See:  Nature Geoscience.

June 10, 2010 - Part 2:  High Strangeness in Chacon, New Mexico.
Click for Real X-File.

“Who, or what, could overwhelm a 1500-pound cow,
transport her from the pasture for the various tissue removals,
and then return her to a grove of trees without nearby
residents hearing or seeing something?”

Rancher John Romero's mutilated cow
in Mora, New Mexico, the night of September 27, 1994,
in truck headlights. Photograph © 1994 by Linda Moulton Howe.

June 8, 2010 - Circles in Somerset, U. K. Bean Field. 

Stony Littleton Long Barrow near Wellow, Somerset, England,
reported June 7, 2010. Left pole shot © 2010 by Stuart Dike.
Right diagram of whole pattern © 2010 by Tommy Borms.
Also information and images: Cropcircleconnector.com.

June 7, 2010 - Part 1:  High Strangeness in Chacon, New Mexico.
Click for Real X-File.

“That cow was being dragged sideways somehow with its legs
touching the ground. The cow's back was moving toward the weird,
loud sound and the cow could not move its legs to get up.”

- Larry Gardea, Carpenter, Chacon, New Mexico

Chacon, New Mexico carpenter, Larry Gardea,
points at the wide ditch that he watched a cow “float over”
toward a loud “arc welder torch” sound in trees beyond the ditch.
Photograph ©1994 by Linda Moulton Howe.

June 4, 2010 - Update on Liddington Castle Barley Formation -
Linked to Upcoming June 26th Partial Lunar Eclipse? Click for report.

Liddington Castle near Swindon, Wiltshire, England,
reported June 2, 2010. Aerial image © 2010 by Lucy Pringle.
Also information and images: Cropcircleconnector.com.

June 3, 2010 - Part 2:  “Greatest Equation Ever” in Binary Code
in Wiltshire Oilseed Rape.  Click for report.

“I have tried to stand on a mature oilseed rape stem
and that plant will crack, will snap, at the base. ...There were
lots of stems in the Wilton Windmill formation flattened close to the
ground without any breakage.”

- Andrew Pyrka, Cropcircle Investigator

One of many curved, crisp, oilseed rape stems flattened
without breaking on the ground in the Euler's Identity pattern
put down in binary code at the Wilton Windmill,
Wiltshire, England. Image © 2010 by Andrew Pyrka.
Images and information by:  Cropcircleconnector.com

June 1, 2010 -  Part 1:  “Greatest Equation Ever” in Binary Code
in Wiltshire Oilseed Rape.  Click for report.

300-foot-diameter formation in 5-foot-tall
oilseed rape near the Wilton Windmill in Wiltshire, England,
first reported around noon on Saturday, May 22, 2010.
Aerial photograph © 2010 by Lucy Pringle.
Images and information by:  Cropcircleconnector.com

June 1, 2010 - Barley Geometry Near Silbury Hill
and Ancient Avebury in Wiltshire, England.

6-fold geometry in young barley reported May 31, 2010,
near Silbury Hill and the ancient double stone circles of Avebury.
Aerial image © 2010 by Monique Klinkenberg.
Images and information by:  Cropcircleconnector.

May 30, 2010 - Earthfiles Viewer Letters
About High Strangeness.  Click for Report.

“The moving aerial object struck my attention because it was slightly
darker blue than the sky and triangular-shaped.”

- Ohio traveler

May 28, 2010 - New Fungus Strain Killing People
and Animals in Northwest.  Click for report. 

Cryptococcus gattii fungus, native to Papua New Guinea,
Australia and parts of South America, is now spreading airborne in Oregon
and has killed six of twenty-one infected people, or about 25%. Currently,
there is no vaccination or other preventative measure available
for this new lethal fungus. Symptoms of severe cough and shortness
of breath do not develop until months after exposure. The fungus has
also infected domestic and wild animals. See:  PLoS Pathogens.

May 28, 2010 - Recent Cattle Mutilations in Montana.  
Click for Real X-File.

“There was a beam of light come down and it got
that calf and that calf went up in that beam of light
and was gone!”  - Montana Rancher

7-year-old Black Angus pregnant cow
found dead and mutilated in the morning of
April 9, 2010, on remote northeastern Montana ranch.

May 28, 2010 - Strange Aerial Lights and Triangle
Over Weslaco, Texas.  Click for report.

Unidentified, color-and-shape-changing aerial light
over the southwestern Texas town of Weslaco on February 1
to March 3, 2010. Photograph © 2010 by Jose Gonzalez.

May 28, 2010 - M82 Galaxy's Mysterious Radio Waves. 
Click for report.

“The new object, which appeared in May 2009,
has left us scratching our heads — we've never seen anything
quite like this before.”  - Tom Muxlow, Ph.D.,
U. K. Jodrell Centre for Astrophysics

M82 is a “starburst” galaxy 10 million light-years
from our Milky Way galaxy. The mysterious radio wavelengths
appeared very suddenly, have persisted and have never been seen
before in our galaxy. Image by NASA/ESA/STScI/AURA.

May 20, 2010 - Fungus in White-Nose Bat Deaths Has Spread
Rapidly to Missouri and Oklahoma.  Click for report.
“This Woodward County bat infected with white-nose fungus is the
first known record of Geomyces destructans in Oklahoma's Region 2.”  
- Richard Stark, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Oklahoma

Little Brown Bat hibernating in West Virginia cave
has white ring around its nose of deadly fungus, Geomyces destructans.
Image © 2009 by Craig W. Stihler, Ph.D., W. Va. DNR.

May 17, 2010 - First 2010 German Crop Formation in Oilseed Rape.

Triangle within ring of standing crop, reported May 14, 2010,
in yellow, flowering oilseed rape near Zierenberg in the Hessen
region of Germany. See:  Crop CircleArchive.

New Podcast:   May 13, 2010 – Huge V-Shaped UFO Emitted Beam
On C-5 At Vandenberg AFB.  Click for report.   Click for podcast.

“The big V-shaped craft was in its silent hover position
and it turned on a beam of light ... and directed it like a laser
beam onto the C-5, like it was aiming the beam right towards the cargo
bay area.”  - “Steve”, former USAF Airman, So. California

V-shaped aerial craft, completely silent, at least 800
to 900 feet in length vertically and about 300 to 400 feet in width
emitted greenish-blue beam onto C-5 Galaxy in late 1969.
Illustration © 2010 by “Steve.”

April 27, 2010 - Part 4:  Update - Bentwaters 1980,
Telepathic Lights?   Click for report.

“I knew that craft was not from any form of government -
I mean, no air force on Earth. It was beyond our (human) capability.”

- Former Staff Sgt. Jim Penniston, RAF Bentwaters

April 16, 2010 - Part 1:  Update - Bentwaters 1980, Telepathic Lights?
Click for report.

“The lights were red and blue, the red one above the blue one
and they were flashing on and off. Because I never saw anything like that
coming from the woods before, we  decided to drive down and see what it was.” 

- January 2, 1981, Statement, Airman 1st Class John Burroughs,
81st Security Police Squadron, Bentwaters AFB, U. K.

Computer illustration of sketch by John Burroughs of lights
in Rendlesham Forest, 3 AM, December 26, 1980.

October 2, 2009 - Former RAF Bentwaters S/Sgt. James Penniston Describes Craft, Symbols and Missing Time.   

“They are time travelers. They are us. ... and they are using us like Band-Aids.” 

- USAF Staff Sergeant James W. Penniston (Ret.),
Dec. 1980 RAF Bentwaters, from 1994 hypnosis session

      
  Click for reports.     Click for Earthfiles Podcast.  

January 8, 2007 - U. S. Navy Yeoman Sees Extraterrestrial Photos.

              
Click on Google or YouTube for links to Earthfile's video excerpt.

For more about Navy Yeoman, drawings of non-humans and documents:
Click on Earthfiles reports:
• 03/17/2006 -- Part 1: U.S. Navy Chief Yeoman Describes "Extraterrestrial Biological Entities" in TOP SECRET/MAJIC Photographs.

• 03/23/2006 -- Part 2: U.S. Navy Chief Yeoman Describes "Extraterrestrial Biological Entities" in TOP SECRET/MAJIC Photographs.