Current events: Jan 2007

Iranian Prophecies, A new UFO scare and a clear and present danger (Part one: The stories)

Well, I had envisioned doing a piece on the enigmatic nephilim this week, but current events have been so intense it would be irresponsible to ignore them.

CIA Realises It's been Using Black Highlighters All These Years : The Onion (satire)
November 30, 2005

LANGLEY, VA-A report released Tuesday by the CIA's Office of the Inspector General revealed that the CIA has mistakenly obscured hundreds of thousands of pages of critical intellegence information with black highlighters. http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43014/print/

France to publish UFO archive online
(Reuters)
29 December 2006
Paris - The French Space agency said it will publish its archive of UFO sightings and other phenomena online, but will keep the names of those who reported them off the site to protect them from pestering by space fanatics.

It consists of around 6,000 reports, many relating to the same incident, filed by the public airline professionals. Their names will not be published to protect their privacy,
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16392923/

UFO seen burning up the sky
(Shropshire Star United Kingdom)

Retired policeman Mike Lindop was disturbed during an evening of television watching at his hom in Telford - by a UFO.

Mr Lindrop was watching TV at his home at Moorhouse Close, Wellington, when he looked out of the window and saw a strange tubular object in the sky.
http://www.shropshirestar.co.uk/2007/01/ufo-seen-burning-up-in-sky/

Bob Lazar- Selling Polonium 210 on E Bay
(Associated Press)

Albuquerque, N.M. - Bob Lazar the self proclaimed former employee of Area 51 has a new business. At his website www.unitednuclear.com, Lazar sells various and odd science bits for hobbyists and science enthusiasts.

In a note on the site, Lazar says, "it's not a practical poison: You'd need 15,000 orders from me, more than $1 million worth, to potentially harm anyone, and each order is electroplated on the inside of the eye of a needle."
http:foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,233959,00.html

Russian Rocket Re-enters Atmosphere Over Colorado, Wyoming
January 04, 2007
(Associated Press)

Peterson Air Force Base, CO - A spent Russian rocket booster re-entered the atmosphere Thursday over Colorado and Wyoming, the North American Aeorspace Defense Command said.

(This was a very dramatic re-entry of space debris, good training for us amatuer UFOlogists as well! )

http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,241566,00.html

Possible Meteorite Smashes Into New Jersey House
January 04, 2007
(Associated Press)

Freehold Township, N.J. - A metal, rock like object about the size of a golf ball and weighing as much as a can of soup crashed through the roof of a Monmouth County home, and authorities on Wednesday were trying to figure out what it was.
The object was heavier than a usual metal object of that size, said Brightman, who added that no radioactivity was detected.

http://foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,241421,00.html

UFO crashes in South Africa
January 02, 2007
(24 News.com)

Pretoria - A UFO was sighted at Lephalale, where it was described as a strange object "on a orange cloud, singing like a million turbines" - hitting the Earth with a bang at 04:33 on Saturday.

http://www.24.com/news/?p=pts&i=376703

RANDOM ERUPTIONS: Man Bat tale tops 2006 for weirdness
January 04, 2007
(Coulee News)

Man-bat creature sighted in Wisconsin. Very Fortean, see the links on the page to get more and better data. Interesting animal mutilation also. - Jess

http://couleenews.com/articles/2007/01/04/opinion/00manbat.prt

Dramatic UFO sighting at Chicago O'Hare
January 01, 2007 (reported) November 07, 2006 (event)
(associated press)

A group of workers, including Pilots, told the Chicago Tribune on condition of anonymity in remarks published Monday that they saw a dark gray, flying saucer-like object hover motionless in the sky above the United terminal around 4:30 p.m. that day.

The FAA denied reports until Frank Warren of NICAP.org filed a freedom of information complaint whereupon he obtained the FAA accounts (sans a majority of the information)

Anderson Cooper of CNN's 360 did an appalling interview where he was completely disrespectful of the United Employee who wished to not be identifyed.

Official reports from the FAA and Homeland Security state that the effect was "weather phenomenon" United issued a press statement denying the UFO report.

O'Hare controller and Union official Craig Burzych was quoted as saying "To fly 7 million light years to O'Hare and then to turn around and go home because your gate was occupied is simply unacceptable."

While some joke others investigate. Richard Haines for NARCAP is investigating. "We must be proactive before an aircraft goes down," said Haines, a former chief of the Space Human Factors Office at NASA's Ames Research Center.

A man claiming to be a former Area 51 engineer claimed that the UFO was the U.S.S Transparent an X-plane from the Groom Lake, NV facility. Giving the whole event the three ring circus feel. (of course the Air Force never gives aircraft a U.S.S. designation)

Obviously this will be one of the more sensational sightings of this decade.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/illinois/chi-ap-il-ohare-sighting,1,6733390.story
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0701010141jan01,1,3957154.column?
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/rnr/256682133.html

Iran says 2007 Could Bring Islamic Messiah, Possibly This Spring
Joel Rosenberg, 2 Jan 07

The New Year may not be so happy if Iranian leaders have their way. The Islamic Messiah known as the “Twelfth Imam” or the “Mahdi” may come to earth in 2007 and could be revealed to the world as early as the Spring Equinox, reports an official Iranian government news Web site.
The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) Web site says the world is now in its “last days.” It claims that the Mahdi will first appear in Mecca, and then Medina. He will conquer all of Arabia, Syria, Iraq, destroy Israel, and then set up a “global government” based in Iraq, interestingly enough, not Iran. Such Islamic eschatology (end-time theology) is driving the Iranian regime and helps explains why Iran has no interest in helping the United States and European Union create peace in Iraq or the region, much less in ending its bid for nuclear weapons, the “Iraq Study Group Report” notwithstanding.
A television series on IRIB called “The World toward Illumination” has been running since last November to help answer the many questions Iranians have about the end of the world as we know it. The series explains the signs of the last days and what to expect when the Islamic Messiah arrives.
The program also says that Jesus is coming back to earth soon as a Shiite Muslim leader and it denounces “born-again Christians” for supporting “the illegal Zionist state of Israel.” An Israeli news site was the first to pick up the story and its significance to Israeli national security, noting that the Mahdi will soon “form an army to defeat Islam’s enemies in a series of apocalyptic battles” and “will overcome his arch villain in Jerusalem.”
Iran’s calendar year ends on March 20, the usual date of the Spring Equinox. Is Ahmadinejad signaling that Iran will have nuclear weapons by then? Is he suggesting that an apocalyptic war to annihilate Jews and Christians in Israel and the US could come in 2007, perhaps as early as this spring or summer? It is not yet clear, though Ahmadinejad today vowed to “humiliate” the US and continues to vow that Israel will “vanish” soon.
The IRIB series is important in that it offers some intriguing clues as to how Iranian Shiites believe their prophecies will play out. [Go to Rosenberg’s blog site to read details about their beliefs.]
Too many Western analysts are missing the central importance of Shiite eschatology in Iranian foreign policy. They mistakenly believe that Iran’s current leadership can be somehow cajoled into making peace with the West. Nothing could be further from the truth.

(Excerpts from an article by Joel Rosenberg, 2 Jan 07)