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Some politicians have a hard time talking, while others just LOOK terrible, but we may not notice them because they don’t get much TV coverage. Israelis are watching the upcoming US elections carefully, because a Middle East peace treaty may depend on who wins.

Researchers at the University of Haifa have found a link between the good looks of US politicians and the amount of TV coverage they receive. The possible reason: TV producers think their viewers want to see good-looking people.
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Another night, another low-flying triangular UFO. These have been seen in the US at least since the 1970s, so they are unlikely to be spy planes or drones. But what are they? In his book the Grays, Whitley Strieber has a description of a fascinating aircraft called the TR, which is a spy plane. It is actually a blimp, created and deployed back in the seventies. So, is it real? We asked him and got this response: "Fiction, but it shouldn’t be. It’s a good idea for a close-approach surveillance aircraft and it could be built, but not until battery technology produces lightweight, high power batteries that are the craft’s motive power. It’s probably 20 years out." Unless, of course, that technology exists somewhere behind the wall of secrecy.
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A passing coronal mass ejection from the sun caused an illumination response from an otherwise invisible object near Mercury that was captured both by NASA’s Heliospheric Imager 1 satellite and by the SECCHI-A spacecraft. Initially, SECCHI staff explained it as a video afterimage of the planet on the previous day, but other imagery of Mercury taken during other coronal mass ejections do not show the same effect, and the explanation has since been removed from their website. However, that doesn’t mean that it’s wrong, as a similar ‘object’ has been observed near Mars by SECCHI-B. It could well be that what is being seen is an after-image of a previous day’s run, just as NASA says.
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