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With Mars coming so close to the Earth, local media are reporting UFOs sightings all over the country, but it’s not widely known that these are happening, since no national media have picked up the story. Below are a couple of recent examples.

Time Stephens writesin the Ohio Herald-Dispatch That witnesses in Rome Township, Proctorville and Chesapeake reported seeing odd lights in the sky last weekend. Two lights appeared to circle one another as if they were chasing one each other. Occasional blips or flashes appeared at random. “They were just kind of circling around,” says witness Roger Lambert, of Rome Township. “I’d just like to know what they are.”
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The ossuary that was found with the words “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus” on it has been declared a fake. But a tomb that has been known for centuries has now been identified as the burial place of Jesus’ brother James.

Megan Goldin writes that the tomb was assumed to be the traditional burial place of King David’s villainous son Absalom, who actually died 1,000 years before it was built, in the first century AD. But now an inscription has been found on the tomb that indicates it may belong to John the Baptist’s father Zacharias instead, and maybe even to James, the brother of Jesus. “It could be the most exciting discovery in absolutely decades,” says archeologist James Strange.
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A new version of the SoBig computer worm is expected any day, and this one will lead to a massive increase in spam (as if we’re not overwhelmed by it already). The SoBig.F worm was designed to make computers all over the world send out a flood of spam. Some experts say that over half the spam you are receiving right now is a result of the virus.

Will Knight writes in New Scientist that there have been six different versions of SoBig so far, one of them released right after another. Each one enables an infected computer to be used by spammers to reroute junk email, evading efforts to block it.
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NASA’s Richard Hoover collects extraterrestrial microbes right here on Earth. He searches the most bizarre environments on Earth?areas that mimic the harsh conditions on other planets in our Solar System?for “extremophiles.” He thinks some of these may have arrived on meteorites from outer space.

David Perlman writes in the San Francisco Chronicle about Hoove’s expeditions to the boiling hot springs of Yellowstone, the ice layers et beneath Antarctica, and the deepest mines of Asia.
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