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A recent spate of strange bird deaths have increased worries about the possible pandemic of bird flu. On January 8, police in Austin Texas shut down a central area of the city after dozens of birds were found dead in the streets. The dead birds were pigeons, sparrows and grackles, which all are birds known to be affected by the bird flu virus, although there is no sign that this is what caused the bird deaths. No dangerous gas leaks or poisons were detected.
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We recently wrote about mysterious orange orbs that were spotted in the UK. Back in the 1940s, a long series of green fireball events took place over the western United States, accompanied by some of history’s most significant UFO sightings, including the Kenneth Arnold Sighting that gave the world the phrase “flying saucer,” and the Roswell incident. There have been a series of green fireball events recently, the most recent one in Singapore.

The bright light took only a few seconds to streak across the sky above the city. On the Channel NewsAsia web site, Valarie Tan quotes one of the observers, Ismail Yussof, as saying, “I thought it was a comet. I was stunned, staring at the sky. A lot of people were watching it.”
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A little over a year ago, NASA said there was no life on Mars. Now it turns out that we may have discovered life on Mars over 30 years ago, from soil samples taken during the Viking landings. We just didn’t analyze them correctly.
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This is the only poem we have ever published as an Unknowncountry.com Insight. The reason we are publishing it is that it captures the essential ambiguity and complexity of the close encounter experience in just a few well-chosen words.

Aliens and Angels by Marsha Carter.

Angels and aliens appearing in the mist of an ancient forest or the edge of sleep, an ancestral memory tatoo-ed in our DNA.

Dark blue patterns scar the skin of shamans. The thoughts of God expressed and “His gaze was terrible.”

The tiniest quantum particle changes when it’s observed. Our eyes, magnified, see that shining energy with no awareness that we too are terrifying.
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