Dan writes: Recently I watched the video clip of the “Oregon UFO” and I noted that you requested to contact you if anyone had seen a similar UFO. I remember seeing a one over downtown Portland, Oregon thirty-six years ago. I was reading something at the dining room table of our apartment and I kept getting distracted by the sound of an airplane. It was not the steady drone of a passing airplane but sounded like the sound track of a movie scene featuring aerial combat. After hearing this for a couple of minutes, I got up and went to my daughter’s bedroom where I had the best view of the downtown airspace where the noise seemed to be coming from.
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As part of our series of newCommunionLetters, we hear from Dan, whowrites: “I remember seeing [a UFO] over downtown Portland,Oregon thirty-six years ago?[A] pilot was trying to getclose to an unusual object that was over the downtown area.The main feature of this object were several bright lightsof three colors: white, red, and green. The exact placementof these lights would be hard to describe, as the objectmoved with a complex tumbling motion like the UFO in yourvideo clip.”

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If you think someone is watching you, it may not beparanoia. Researcher Stefan Schmidt believes he’s provedthat our sixth sense is real. In one experiment, a volunteerin a sealed room watched a second volunteer in another roomon close circuit TV. The second volunteer was hooked up toelectrodes which recorded the electrical activity of theskin, and showed that he felt a “prickle” at times when he was being watched.

Anil Dawar writes in the Daily Telegraph that in a secondexperiment, the first volunteer concentrated onmaking the second person feel uncomfortable or relaxed.Again, they were in separate sealed rooms. Schmidt says that”for both data sets there is a small but significant effect.”
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We always knew that spinach would save us somehow, and now it looks like it may be able to combat global warming. Solar cells give us hope that we may be able to avoid fossil fuels in the future, and drastically cut greenhouse gases. Theproblem is, they’re not very efficient. But that’s wherespinach comes in?
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