A. J. Gevaerd, Brazilian MUFON Director, offers this response to Linda Moulton Howe and her defense of the Urandir Oliveira case in Brazil, and U.S. researcher Richard Dolan’s defense of Ms. Howe.

The Brazilian Bedsheet Abduction Case, by A.J. Gaevard

I have worked for years on this case, and my belief is that it is a total hoax. Please observe that it goes much, much deeper than most people can figure out.
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Once again wired.com brings us a wonderful animation: The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing by the group who call themselves Sutoresu. Can you be married to one type of female, yet be attracted by another? Watch the animated answer.

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A stone box that may be the oldest evidence of the life of Jesus has been declared a fake by archaeologists. The ossuary is the kind that was used by Jewish families to bury the bones of relatives in the first century AD. An inscription on the side of the box, written in Aramaic, reads: “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus.”

According to archaeologists at Israel’s Antiquities Authority, “The inscription appears new, written in modernity by someone attempting to reproduce ancient written characters. The inscriptions, possibly inscribed in two separate stages, are not authentic.”
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The White House has removed references to problems caused by global warming from next week’s Environmental Protection Agency report on the state of the environment. The report was commissioned in 2001 by EPA head Christie Whitman, who is leaving her federal job this month. The original climate information, along with the changes ordered by the White House, were slipped to the New York Times by a former EPA official. Two other agency officials say the documents are authentic.
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