The complex disc, which measures 300ft across, appeared to the east of Wilton Windmill near Marlborough in a blazing yellow rape seed field.

It appeared on Saturday just 25miles from another circle that popped up a fortnight ago by the Iron Age hill fort of Old Sarum

Lucy Pringle, a renowned crop circle researcher was puzzled by what appears to be a hidden code based on complex numbers within the shape.

She said: ‘I believe it contains binary, a numeral system, or base-2 number system that represents numeric values using two symbols, 0 and 1.

‘Working from the centre outwards, people are suggesting it has a connection to Leonhard Euler’s theorem e^(i)pi+1=0 which is thought to be one of the most beautiful theorems in mathematics.’

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Richard Henne and family of Colorado will always go down in history as the folks who made the world believe that their son had floated away in a homemade balloon. The little boy was dubbed ‘Balloon Boy’. Henne and his wife were both charged and sentenced to short jail terms. Word is now, that the balloon has been returned to the family.

The UFO shaped balloon was an experimental balloon that the Henne Family had made as part of their family amateur weather experiments. It was in October of 2009, when a mysterious balloon looking craft was floating vicariously over the outskirts of Denver, Colorado and first word was that there was a child inside. Come to find out, the child had been hiding in the garage the whole time and the parents were charged with public endangerment.

Now the Henne Family have gotten their infamous balloon back. There were stipulations though. Richard Henne was forced to pay $36,000 in restitution for public services rendered in the chase of the balloon, committing to working 10 weekends with various non profits, and completing their 90 day jail sentences. Richard Henne has apparently done that and now the balloon that put them on the map is back home safe and sound.

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Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the leader of the southern region of Kalmykia, made his claim in a television interview.

MP Andre Lebedev is not just asking whether Mr Ilyumzhinov is fit to govern.

He is also concerned that, if he was abducted, he may have revealed details about his job and state secrets.

The MP has written a letter to Mr Medvedev raising a list of his concerns.

In his letter he says that – assuming the whole thing was not just a bad joke – it was an historic event and should have been reported to the Kremlin.

He also asks if there are official guidelines for what government officials should do if contacted by aliens, especially if those officials have access to state secrets.

Mr Ilyumzhinov said in an interview on primetime television that he had been taken on board an alien spaceship which had come to planet Earth to take samples – and claims to have several witnesses.

He has been president of Kalmykia, a small Buddhist region of Russia which lies on the shores of the Caspian Sea, for 17 years.

The millionaire former businessman has a reputation as an eccentric character.

As president of the World Chess Federation, he has spent tens of millions of dollars turning the impoverished republic into a mecca for chess players – building an entire village to host international tournaments.

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The Reuters Ipsos poll of 23,000 adults in 22 countries showed that more than 40 percent of people from India and China believe that aliens walk among us disguised as humans, while those least likely to believe in this are from Belgium, Sweden and the Netherlands (8 percent each).

However, the majority of people polled, or 80 percent, don’t believe aliens in our midst.

“It would appear that that there’s a modest correlation between the most populated countries and those more likely to indicate there may be aliens disguised amongst them compared with those countries with the smaller populations,” said John Wright, Senior Vice President of market research firm Ipsos.

“Maybe the it’s a simple case that in a less populated country you are more likely to know your next door neighbor better,” he said.

More men than women — 22 percent vs 17 percent — believe that alien beings are on earth.

Most of those believers are under the age of 35, and across all income classes, the survey showed. Of those who do not believe, most are women.

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Panic: Graphic of the 1938 War of the Worlds, which also sparked mass hysteria

The Al Ghad newspaper published a front-page article claiming a UFO landing near the desert town of Jafr.

The report said the aliens lit up the whole town, interrupted communications and sent fearful residents streaming into the streets.

Jafr’s mayor, Mohammed Mleihan, was fooled by the paper’s prank and sent security authorities in search of the aliens.

“Students didn’t go to school, their parents were frightened and I almost evacuated the town’s 13,000 residents,” he said. “People were scared that aliens would attack them.”

A Jordanian security official, speaking on condition of anonymity in order to discuss security issues, said an emergency plan was almost enacted in Jafr.

Mleihan said he may sue the daily for its “big lie,” but added that the paper had called to apologise for the inconvenience caused by the joke.

Al Ghad’s managing editor, Moussa Barhoumeh, tried to defuse the situation, saying the report has been “blown out of proportion.”

“We meant to entertain, not scare people,” he said.

The prank was reminiscent of the 1938 radio broadcast of War of the Worlds which provoked panic in America.

A UFO video taken by some students in China

The video, taken above the Wan Li university in Ningbo, China, has not yet been confirmed or denied at this stage. And while the footage of the UFO itself looks very realistic, the reaction this sighting causes in the students (who appear more interested in the camera than the supposed alien ship in the sky) screams fake.

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Muckaty Station manager Ray Aylett said he saw UFOs hovering over a part of his station north of Tennant Creek last Wednesday.

He said he spotted strange lights between the two sites on the property under consideration for the dump.

“I keep getting out the torch, I wanna get them down to have a beer or a steak but they won’t come down,” he said.

He said one of the two sites was attracting most of the attention from the sky.

“At one of the sites, two UFOs followed me – I was going to Helen’s Springs and two followed me along the road,” he said.

“I thought ‘bugger you, if you wanna go past, I’ll pull over’ I pulled over and they went.

“Later, when I got to the Helen Springs turnoff, two came in front of me – in the same night.”

But the latest sighting was slightly to the west of the homestead, placing it in an almost perfect equal geographic distance from the two sites.

“I went out to turn the lamp off and there was one out there in the west, he was there for a fair while,” he said. “He was just above the horizon – was there for a while and then went.

“It was like an orangey-coloured light – an orangey-coloured star.

“He was just sitting there. I’ve seen some good ones moving.”

The Barkly Shire councillor said most people think he’s mad over his UFO sightings, which have made him a Territory celebrity.

“They’ve been coming ever since I’ve been at Muckaty, for 13 years,” he said.

“They’re funny things, I reckon there are people on Earth, so there have got to be people out there.

“Everybody reckons I’m mad, but you’ve gotta be hunting them.”

[via: ntnews.com by Daniel Bourchier]

While the movie version of 2012 my not have been the blockbuster extravaganza it could have been, many Hollywood a-listers have taken the message to heart.

Aykroyd, of Ghostbusters fame, as a lifetime benefactor to MUFON has long been a believer in the paranormal. When questioned by Doug Elfman about his ideas on the topic, he explains: “the UFO phenomenon is going to figure greatly” in a 2012 “revelation,” when “the end of the world will come.”

“It won’t be the end of the world physically as we know it, as depicted in the movie. But it will be the end of consciousness and the end of perception as we know it.”

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The curious green light was spotted by photographer Peter Rye who wanted to take night-time images of Denver mill in Downham Market.

The landmark, which was built in 1835, is lit up at night and so Mr Rye set up his camera on a tripod to take long exposure pictures of the mill.

While he was there he didn’t hear or see anything unusual and it is only when he got home to King’s Lynn that he realised there was something odd about the images he’d taken.

The green light was on some images but not others indicating it was not a smudge on his lens and it appeared to have moved from right to left.

Plane? Helicopter? Gyrocopter? The theories abound in and around the villages close to the windmill, which is 30 miles from an RAF base, about what went on that February night.

Lindsay Abel, manager of the windmill, told Mail Online: ‘It is very strange it has to be said.’

She said the building was an aerial landmark for pilots and had even been used as a navigational tool during World War II.

‘The Germans used it in the war when they headed up to the Midlands to bomb,’ she said.

‘Maybe the UFO looking down saw these strange sails and wondered what the hell it was!’

Malcolm Robinson, founder of Strange Phenomena Investigations, said he thought the photograph showed a Chinese lantern.

He said: ‘[Chinese lanterns] can be from 2 to 6 feet across and a candle can be lit inside them whereupon the individual then releases them into the sky.

‘Chinese lanterns have given rise to many a false UFO report here in the UK.

‘What I think has happened here is that the paper which makes up the Chinese Lantern could have been made of green paper and the candle would shine through the green paper turning the image/light to green.

‘When photographed, the cold night air would intensify around the light making it blur for the camera.’

The 19th century windmill stopped working in 1941 when its sails were struck by lightning but has since been restored and is the last working windmill in Norfolk.

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Mono Lake has a bizarre, extraterrestrial beauty. Just east of Yosemite National Park in California, the ancient lake covers about 65 square miles. Above its surface rise the twisted shapes of tufa, formed when freshwater springs bubble up through the alkaline waters.

Felisa Wolfe-Simon, a geobiologist, is interested in the lake not for its scenery but because it may be harbouring alien life forms, or “weird life”. Mono Lake, a basin with no outlet, has built up over many millennia one of the highest natural concentrations of arsenic on Earth. Dr Wolfe-Simon is investigating whether, in the mud around the lake or in the water, there exist microbes whose biological make-up is so fundamentally different from that of any known life on Earth that it may provide proof of a shadow biosphere, a second genesis for life on this planet.

Arsenic is chemically close to phosphorus. While phosphorus is a primary building block of life on Earth — an essential component of DNA and ATP, the energy molecule — arsenic is a deadly poison. In Mono Lake there are micro-organisms that live with arsenic. But they don’t incorporate it into their biology.

Dr Wolfe-Simon has theorised that there may be life that chose an “evolutionary pathway” to utilise arsenic. If such microbes existed, it could suggest that life started on our planet not once but at least twice. In turn this would help to support the idea that life is much more likely to have started elsewhere in the galaxy.

“There is life ‘as we know it’ and there is life ‘as we don’t know it’. What would that look like? I am trying to give us a framework to work with to help us look for what ‘we don’t know’, the particular framework of arsenic,” she says.

Dr Wolfe-Simon has taken samples from the mud and the waters of the lake and is performing a series of multiple dilutions — hugely increasing the levels of arsenic and reducing residual phosphorous to zero. She adds sugar, vitamins and other nutrients to encourage organisms to grow and tests the results.

Her experiments are not yet over but she is quietly pleased with the progress she is making. “We have some very exciting data,” she says. The results should be published by the end of this year.

She points out that Mono Lake arsenic life, if found, may only go as far as proving the extreme adaptability of life on Earth billions of years ago. It is generally agreed that on early Earth the chemical soup was very different because of the material being thrown out of the planet’s depths by volcanoes and hydrothermal vents and the lack of biologically derived oxygen. If arsenic was around in far greater concentrations then, perhaps “arsenolife”, as she calls it, in Mono Lake is evidence of that ancestral life, a finding that would deepen our understanding of how life on Earth got started.

But she hopes that her research may help scientists to reconsider what alien or “weird” life might look like: “It may prove that there are other possibilities that are beyond our imagination. It opens the door for us to think about biology in ways we have never thought. We are going to look for life on other planets and we only know to look for that which we know. This may help us to develop tools to look for something we have never seen.”

Her work is funded by the Nasa Astrobiology Institute and she is based at the laboratories of Professor Ron Oremland, of the US Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California. Does she believe that there are alien life forms out there? “I don’t know how there could not be extraterrestrial life,” she replies.

[via: timesonline.co.uk]