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A beautiful change of pace for Unknowncountry.com subscribers.

This week in Whitley’s Room, Whitley Strieber reads poems that have been his favorites over the course of his life, and tells why each one affected him and became a favorite because of his close encounters and other powerful life experiences. He includes two poems he wrote himself when he was young–one in the year before he had his major childhood encounters, and the next in the year after. The difference between these two poems, first published in his high school literary anthology, will shock you.
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Linda Moulton Howe has been waiting almost her entire career to be able to tell this incredible story.

A firsthand witness from Ellsberg Air Force Base finally speaks out, revealing that long-heard rumors are true: UFOs used to regularly shut down missile bases, as often as six or seven times a year from the 1960s. He also recounts the chilling and extraordinary story of a security guard who was abducted, then on his reappearance quickly transferred from the base and, within a year, discharged from the Air Force.
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Jeff Masters, founder of Weather Underground has announced that Super Typhoon Haiyan has made landfall in the Philippines as the most powerful storm in recorded history. It contains sustained winds of 196 miles per hour, far more than the 145 miles per hour expected at landfall. On his blog, Masters said, "this makes Haiyan the strongest tropical cyclone on record to make landfall in world history. The previous record was held by the Atlantic’s Hurricane Camille of 1969, which made landfall in Mississippi with 190 mph winds."
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Can criminals really be convicted of crimes that they ‘might’ commit, but haven’t actually perpetrated? This sounds like a scenario snatched straight from science-fiction; certainly when Philip K. Dick wrote "The Minority Report" back in 1956 the concept seemed fanciful, but advances in technology and data analysis are turning this fictional idea into fact.
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