This frame grab shows what appears to be a convincing UFO shot from a small plane over Japan. The video, however, has been made private on YouTube. Link to source for larger image.
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This video is MUFON’s selection for the best UFO video of 2012. It’s pretty impressive, but the images available suggest that it is just possible that it could be a group of balloons tied to a central platform to which small flashing LEDs have been affixed. But the MUFON’s new Science Review Board headed by Robert Powell is an impressive group, and if they think enough of this video to give it high marks, then I agree. Like Alejandro Rojas of Open Minds, I’ll be eager to see their final report.
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Only 4% of the universe is made of known material. Stars and gas in galaxies move so fast that astronomers have speculated that the gravity from a hypothetical invisible halo of dark matter is needed to keep galaxies together. However, a solid understanding of dark matter as well as direct evidence of its existence has remained elusive.
A research team made up of astronomers from around the world believes that the interactions between dark and ordinary matter could be more important and more complex than previously thought, and even speculate that dark matter might not exist and that the anomalous motions of stars in galaxies are due to a modification of gravity on extragalactic scales.
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A pair of startlingly unique viruses twice the size of the largest known viruses have been discovered by a group of French scientists. They have a shape similar to a container, and a completely novel set of genes inside, which made their discoverers associate them with a Pandora’s Box. Most of their genes are novel, and contain code that does unknown things. There is some scientific speculation that these viruses are so unusual that they should be thought of as a new life form entirely.
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