Flu epidemics have long been known to recur in a pattern. Solar magnetic activity (sunspots) has a similar pattern, recurring in an 11-year cycle. This coincidence prompted three Canadian researchers?an astrophysicist, an epidemiologist, and a physician? to look for a correlation between periods of peak sunspot activity and influenza epidemics.
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While on a routine training flight off the Turkish Aegean coastal town of Candarli, two Turkish air force trainee pilots saw a bright object that approached their plane at high speed and reportedly gyrated around them for about a half hour.
The Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported this call: “Object approaching the wings. Now it’s behind the plane … now it’s in front of us.”
They told their controller and the regional war alert center of the Turkish army that the UFO had an unusual shape that looked like a cross between a cone and a disc.
Turkish air force sources say they are investigating. So are the neighboring Greeks. The Turks are planning to report the encounter to international organizations, including NASA.
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Teachers are more likely to die from an autoimmune disease than other professionals, according to US researchers. They hope the finding will help to unravel the causes of multiple sclerosis and other disorders in which the immune system turns against the body?s own cells.
Stephen Walsh and Laurie DeChello, at Connecticut University, analyzed the death certificates of more than 860,000 ?professional? Americans. Overall, teachers were 13 per cent more likely to die from multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and other autoimmune disorders. But secondary school teachers aged between 35 and 44 were 143 per cent more likely to have an autoimmune disease listed on their death certificate. ?That?s a pretty substantial figure,? says Walsh.
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Dennis Anderson, Director of the Wagner College Planetarium and a member of the Center for UFO Studies, dug up more information about the mysterious light formation that was seen in Carteret, New Jersey in July. He began his own investigation of the lights after hearing about them on a new cast July 16.
His initial thoughts were that the witnesses were probably not familiar with the night sky. The planet Mars and the bright star Antares are currently in close proximity, and are the same orange-red color, which matched the color description that was reported. He decided to call his local paper, the Staten Island Advance, to see if they had received any UFO reports, but they hadn?t heard about the sightings.
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