If you live on the East Coast, go outside and look up at the night sky on Saturday night, and you’ll see an astounding event: the Leonid meteor shower.

Joe Rao writes in space.com that the Leonids are made up of the dusty debris from a comet that orbits the sun every 33 years. This dust produces spectacular meteor displays and “shooting stars.” The expected time of peak activity is around midnight EST.

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If you subscribe to our newsletter, you recently read this report: “Ray Santilli has offered some detail about his alleged re-creation of footage from the crash of a UFO in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. He is now claiming that the material broadcast on Fox TV was not the original footage, but an exact re-creation of it. He has not explained why the footage needed to be re-created. “On the ‘Eamonn Investigates’ TV show in Britain, Santilli described in detail how he and his colleagues created the footage. He said that a set was constructed in the living room of a flat in London, that Santilli claims was a mirror-image of the autopsy room in the original footage.read more

A prominent UFO investigator is claiming that open contact willsoon take place between humans and extraterrestrials. Suchclaims have been made regularly since the 1950s, but neverwith any actual results, and never before by an investigatorwith a reputation for accurate research. Jan Val Ellam, aBrazilian UFOinvestigator claims that the open appearance of UFOsworldwide should take place any time between November 16,2006 and April 30, 2007. Today is the first day of thecontact period, and there is a high level of interest withinthe Brazilian UFO community, with many members in a virtualcountdown waiting for the event.
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Three years ago, a college student in Arizona found a rare fossil because he happened to look down while walking on the sidewalk. Now, at another university?this time in Canada?a new faculty member found a cache of valuable fossils?stuffed under a ping pong table.

One of these is a pregnant fossil of an ancient dolphin-like creature called an ichthyosaur. In LiveScience.com, Andrea Thompson quotes newly-hired University of Alberta professor Michael Caldwell as saying, “It was pretty amazing to realize this valuable discovery had sat under a pingpong table for 25 years, but I suppose that after 100 million years in the dirt, it’s all relative.”
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