New Crop Circle in Yatesbury, nearr Calne, Wiltshire, UK. Reported 21st June 2013.
Images: Jim Peyton Copyright 2013
The Farmer has requested that no one can access this crop circle on his land. The Crop Is Barley.
Report courtesy cropcircleconnector.com
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Australia, in purple. Acrylic on canvas board.
Continental Drift ©1990
I had just been introduced to the music of the band Noiseworks by a couple of their fellow countrymen visiting the USA. I did a series of Aussie themed paintings in this time period.
TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2013
Breaking: Possible Bigfoot Shot and Killed In Pennsylvania
Courtesy of bigfootevidence.blogspot.com
This is unconfirmed at the moment and we’re still trying to figure out what exactly transpired here. According to our source, PBS is looking into a possible shooting of Bigfoot somewhere in Pennsylvania. “It has been all over the police scanner in the area,” our source tells us, but he will not confirm the exact location.
To say that Pennsylvania is squatchy is an understatement. This state is home to the BFRO Jacobs creature taken in the Allegheny National Forest, and also home to the Pennsylvania white Bigfoot. Last month, a surge of Bigfoot sightings In Clearfield PA prompted police to put up traffic signs in an area where they were alerted to “increased animal activity”. The report stated:
Lawrence Township Police continue to receive unconfirmed reports regarding “Bigfoot” sightings in the River Road/Kerr Addition area. Police have yet to secure evidence to validate these encounters, but caution motorists traveling on River Road to be alert for increased animal activity. Increased animal activity is believed to be the result of improving weather conditions. As a precaution, signs have been erected in these “crossing areas.”
http://bigfootevidence.blogspot.com/2013/05/breaking-possible-bigfoot-shot-and.html#comment-form
I found the Chupacabra to be fascinating long before, but now when I hear the word I immediately think of Daryl and The Walking Dead…
Chupacabra sighting? http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/21292011/chupacabra
By Dan Marries | Posted: Feb 20, 2013 9:36 PM EST | Updated: Feb 27, 2013 11:02 PM EST
DEER CREEK, OK – An Oklahoma man believes he’s snapped pictures of a mythical creature known as a “Chupacabra. ”
Chupacabra is a Spanish word and it translates literally to “goat sucker.” Legends of this sickly, scary, wild dog-like animal, have been circulating for years with spottings in several states including Texas and Arizona.
Craig Martin says the legendary cryptid has been prowling in a field and feeding off the dead carcass of an animal.
Martin told a reporter at KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City that as he took the pictures he thought it looks like a chupacabra, “that’s immediately what we thought and it looks exactly the same,” he said, “there’s not much difference at all.”
Martin says it’s different from a coyote but Michael Bergen, with the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife, also told KFOR-TV that the picture is something less mythical, “what we’re dealing with here is just a coyote with a bad case of mange. I’m not saying it’s not part coyote but I think it could be a hybrid.” Bergin continued, “I think it’s probably mixed with another species of dog, but it’s definitely not just a regular coyote. They can say what they want.”
Meanwhile, the debate and mystique of the Chupacabra will no doubt continue with these new pictures only adding to the folkloric legend.
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An Old Nessie Clipping with a Strange Subplot
Here’s an old clipping found by Will, who is a regular reader of this blog as well as a Fortean researcher in his own right. It is taken from the Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Journal of May 7th 1937.
Loch Ness Monster Has a Wife and Children, Abbot Told Pope
EDINBURGH Scotland -The Loch Ness monster is married and has quite a family, Sir David Hunter-Blair, abbot of a monastery on the shores of Scotland’s famous lake, says.
Sir David, who claims to have seen the monster several times and to have made a report to the Pope about it, differed with persons who believe the creature is the last survivor of his line.
The abbot, who is 83 but extremely alert. told of sitting on the monastery’s boathouse and watching the monster play around in the lake—for 35 minutes.
“With my own eyes.” Sir David said, “I saw two shiny black humps and a thick, pointed tail. I did not see the head because the monster evidently was feeding. Those who have seen the head describe it as snakelike, perched on a long and extraordinarily flexible neck.
Why He Appeared
“Finally the monster started for the centre of the lake where he lives at a depth of 75 feet. He travelled fast, churning foam, not unlike a propeller. His tail obviously is used for propulsion, attaining a speed of 15 to 20 miles an hour. You ask why he first appeared in 1933? That year thousands of pounds of dynamite were exploded during the construction of roads.
You can picture the monster, his wife, children and relations becoming most disturbed when tons of granite began crashing into their home at the depth of the lake. He probably said : ‘My dear, I can’t stand it any longer: I can’t rest; I am going up and see what it’s all about.’ His wife. womanlike, replied: ‘Don’t go, dear: you’ve never been up, you don’t know what it’s like and you may never come back: think of our children.’ Continue reading
Someday I might tell the story of how this zebra came to be. All the stories are in my head. I should share more. I love him, truly.
This zebra design available on mugs, cards, shirts and more at the art of vikki zazzle store.
Seems to be a lot of UFO activity this March and we are only halfway through the month. Japan in particular seems to be the current hot spot with at least two sightings so far.
Both reports courtesy of http://www.latest-ufos.com
UFO hovering over Sakurajima, Japan on 15th March 2013
UFO sightings 2013 – This UFO was recorded by Steetcap1 on his live cam on 15th March 2013. When he rechecked the video the object was not there anymore. This cam had recorded other UFO sightings in the last few years.
video of 03-15-13 UFO over Japan
UFO sightings – Interesting bright undefined flying objects flying above Japan on 11th March 2013.
UFO lights over Japan on 11th March 2013
Mars could be at risk of comet strike in 2014
By Ian Steadman 27 February 2013
Astronomers have realised that a comet discovered last month appears to be on course for a close flyby of Mars next year — and uncertainty in its projected path means that it could hit the Red Planet.
C/2013 A1, discovered by Robert McNaught at Siding Spring Observatory in Australia, was spotted on 3 January out between the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn. After digging into data from other observatories, astronomers were able to reconstruct its orbit going back 74 days. Projecting that forward, it became clear that it would fly pretty close to Mars sometime on 19 October 2014 — which means there is a slight chance of it impacting the planet, according to astronomer Ian Musgrave. Now, further observations have increased that chance (though it’s still not very likely, before anyone starts panicking about the fate of the Curiosity rover). Continue reading
Within the moon’s distance from the Earth, approximately 21,000 miles from us and closer than the orbits of geosynchronous sattellites, but it won’t hit us. But what if it hits one of those sattellites?
Hope everyone had a nice Valentine’s Day, just in case…
Asteroid 2012 DA14 to sweep close on February 15, 2013
EARTHSKY // BLOGS // SPACE Deborah Byrd FEB 12, 2013
It’ll pass within the moon’s distance from Earth – closer than the orbits of geosynchronous satellites. But it won’t strike us in 2013.
A near-Earth asteroid – called 2012 DA14 by astronomers – will pass very close to Earth on February 15, 2013. Astronomers estimate that, when it’s closest to us, it’ll be within the orbit of the moon (which averages about a quarter million miles away), and closer than some high-orbiting communications satellites. 2012 DA14 will be about 17,200 miles (27,680 kilometers) away. It will not strike Earth in 2013. Astronomers’ calculations of asteroid orbits can be trusted. After all, even decades ago, they knew enough about calculating orbits to send people to the moon and bring them safely back, and today we are able place our space vehicles in orbit around objects as small as asteroids.
The asteroid won’t be visible to the eye, but you can watch the February 15 asteroid flyby online, in real-time.
So, no, 2012 DA14 won’t strike us in 2013. There was a remote possibility it might strike us in 2020, but that possibility has been ruled out also.
What will happen when Asteroid 2012 DA14 passes closely in 2013?
What will happen when it passes us? The short answer is … nothing. On the day it passes, most of us won’t see it or be aware of its passage, in any way. The asteroid won’t alter the tides. It won’t cause volcanoes. It’ll just sweep closely past us – as millions of asteroids have done throughout Earth’s four-and-a-half-billion-year history – some in your own lifetime.
The asteroid will be within range for small telescopes and solidly mounted binoculars, used by experienced observers who have access to appropriate stars charts. Here’s what NASA says about its visibility:
On [February 15, 2013], the asteroid will travel rapidly from the southern evening sky into the northern morning sky with its closest Earth approach occurring about 19:26 UTC when it will achieve a magnitude of less than seven, which is somewhat fainter than naked eye visibility. About 4 minutes after its Earth close approach, there is a good chance it will pass into the Earth’s shadow for about 18 minutes or so before reappearing from the eclipse. When traveling rapidly into the northern morning sky, 2012 DA14 will quickly fade in brightness.
Full Story at earthsky.org
Are Crop Circles More Than Just Modern Pranks?
By Yue Wang | Feb. 02, 2013 | Newsfeed.Time.Com
A Tasmanian historian used Google Earth images to argue that crop circles, which are often dismissed as jokes taken too far, are not simply a modern hoax, according to the Huffington Post.
Many were persuaded that the intriguing circles were nothing more than pranks when two British men, David Chorley and Doug Bower, revealed in 1991 that they, under the cover of darkness and armed with wooden planks and barrels, had been creating circles across the wheat fields of southern England since 1978.
The two “ jovial con men in their 60s,” as described by a local newspaper at the time of the revelation, demonstrated in front of groups of journalists how they trampled out the patterns that were often attributed to aliens, reported the New York Times.
But historian Greg Jefferys, who has a degree in archaeology, says he has new evidence that not all crop circles have a human origin.
After spending more than 300 hours examining aerial photographs from Google Earth’s new 1945 overlay, Jefferys concludes that a number of crop circles has been appearing consistently each summer for at least 33 years before Chorley and Bower began their work. Continue reading