After crop circles appeared in a wheat field in Solano County, California, in June, four teenage boys confessed to making them. Now, after a 5 month study, researchers have concluded that they couldn’t have done it?the “hoax was a hoax.”

The Bay City News reports that Steve Moreno of Psi Applications, says, “We’ve concluded that it’s highly unlikely that four teenage boys could have made the large, complex crop circle that appeared on June 28 in Larry Balestra’s field. The scientific data, and our ongoing investigation, tend to point towards some other, perhaps anomalous, unknown source?The physical changes in the wheat stalks can’t be duplicated.”
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Tiffany Roberts, an American woman who had a stroke, now has a British accent, despite the fact that she’s never been to the U.K. The “foreign accent syndrome” is rare but not unknown.

Once she began speaking again after her stroke in 1999, Roberts says, “When people first started asking me where in England I was from, and a family member asked why am I talking that way, that is when I became very conscious that a part of me had died during the stroke.”
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Every year the world uses four times as much oil as it finds. The major discoveries are in the past?the future depends on finding small deposits and finding new ways to exploit the old ones. When oil stocks get low, it takes almost as much energy to extract them from an oil well as the well produces. In the U.K., they’ve just found the biggest deposit in adecade?and it only contains enough oil to last the world 5 days.
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Midwestern UFO researcher Kenny Young has investigated a bizarre case from Morehead, Kentucky that includes a detailed sighting by 3 witnesses and reports of a woman screaming in the immediate area during the time of the sighting. Subscribers: Don’t miss Whitley’s interview with him this week! Keep reading for details.

A local college professor was driving toward his home on Friday, November 21 between 9 and 10:00 p.m. with his 2 teenaged sons, when they all spotted a soundless aerial object hovering over a nearby open field that they described as an oval-shaped, white-colored light source as big as a pea held at arms length which moved “like a hummingbird would move.”
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