Three top-secret satellites launched by Russia between 2013 and 2015 have recently been reactivated, and appear to be carrying out missions to rendezvous with other man-made objects in orbit, performing comparatively dramatic maneuvers to make their intercepts. Despite assurances from the Russian government that these vehicles are benign, there is speculation that these satellites might be anti-satellite weapons, designed to maneuver close to another satellite and destroy it with an onboard weapon.
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The Officials in charge of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault have reported that water from melting permafrost and heavy rain, brought about by record-high temperatures in the Arctic over the past winter, has leaked into the entrance tunnel leading to the underground stronghold. The water subsequently froze on the floor of the tunnel, prompting the vault’s caretakers to chip the ice away from the tunnel floor.
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Back in the 1930s, there were a number of unusual events, as I reported in Solving the Communion Enigma, that perplexed the few people in the world who noticed them. One was the “ghost bomber” phenomenon that occurred over Scandinavia and concerned the Norwegian government enough for it to send out an expedition to search for what it seemed must have been a crashed plane. The expedition never returned. In the US, there were a number of incidents of descending lights, which were also thought to be crashing aircraft, but no debris was ever found.

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