This story from 1974 is a reminder of just how long black triangles have been sighted, and Missouri has been a hotbed of these reports for three decades.
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This spectacular image is most likely a jet contrail illuminated by the sunset, but witness reports state that it was moving very quickly.
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If you plan on asking Santa for a new cell phone, but aren’t sure you’ll get one, turn your old phone into an iphone instead! Input Dynamics has developed software which can tell you where to tap on a cell phone screen tell exactly to tap on it to activate its various functions. In BBC News, Dave Lee quotes researcher Simon Godshill as saying, "We’re trying to replace touchscreen capability on a mobile phone with something that’s a much cheaper option. Many people are restricted in their use of internet and apps because they don’t have touchscreen phones, but our technology can make touchscreen functionality available to all feature phones. We are also very excited about the opportunity to make whole handsets touch sensitive.read more
During the STS-80 mission, which was launched on November 19, 1996, the Space Shuttle Columbia took a crew of five astronauts on an 18 day trip around the Earth, the longest flight in the history of the shuttle. During the flight, astronaut Story Musgrave looked out the shuttle windows and saw a large, disc-shaped object. After years of silence, he’s finally started talking about it. The UFO was large–between 50 and 150 feet in diameter–and the outer rim was rotating in a counter-clockwise direction. During the incident, Musgrave said, "I don’t know what it is. Whether it’s a washer, debris, ice particles, I don’t know. But it’s characteristic of the thousands of things which I’ve seen. What is not so characteristic is it appears to come from nowhere.read more