Test could lead to time travel - The Florida International University physics professor plans to take time to task at 10 a.m. Wednesday, when he presents an experiment that involves using acceleration to speed up a digital clock by four seconds.

Argentina - UFO Over The River Plate - An unidentified flying object that "shone and swirled" hovered for a few minutes on the early hours of Monday morning over the waters of the River Plate (Rio de la Plata) not far from this city, according to the Argentinean Air Force (AAF) based on several accounts from eyewitnesses who phoned in their reports.

Strieber: How Aliens Speak - Maggie McKee writes in New Scientist that NASA has developed a computer program that can read the words in our heads before we actually speak them by analyzing the nerve signals in our mouths and throats with button-sized sensors attached to the chin and Adam's apple. In the future, they may learn how to do this without the outer apparatus.

Interview with Jordan Maxwell: Godfather of Secret Societies - preeminent researcher and scholar in the field of occult/religious philosophy since 1959.

Government UFO Investigator Dies - Roy F. Craig, an investigator who worked on the country's largest, most systematic investigation of flying saucers, died Thursday, March 18, 2004, at his La Boca Ranch, south of Ignacio. He died after a struggle with cancer. He was 79.

Argentina's 'Springheel Jack' - The Monte Maiz Phantom Case - A silhouette of a man who walks on rooftops, drags heavy chains and makes strange noises turned into a disquieting "phantom" that has made residents of Monte Maíz restless.

Microsoft's Allen Funds Extraterrestrial Search - The California-based SETI Institute, which is dedicated to the search for life beyond Earth, said the donation from Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates, would be used to create a radio telescope array of more than 200 satellite dishes that will measure signals from space.

Sasquach in the Road? No says Judge  - A judge cut short a line of questioning Thursday that suggested a bigfoot might have caused a fatal crash on Route 7 last summer.

Is Earth a Colony of Mars? - "Mars has life and for some reason JPL seems to have a closed mind on the subject." Why is the NASA scientific community blatantly ignoring the crucial scientific data to support Mars life? It may be the result of a Brookings Institute report that the discovery of intelligent life could cause a world wide crisis.

Fresh Fascination Focuses on the Fayette Factor - Many Masonic locations have been linked beyond the easily recognized Lafayette name to a broader Freemasonry focus to mystic events and violent happenings. Some are very subtle.

What The Hell Was That Thing? - These things appear to be alive. Organic. Creatures of some sort. And many are seemingly quite enormous.

Did Noah Really Build An Ark? - What we know of the culture of what is now Iraq gives the first glimpse of the real-life historical figure behind the myth.

More Spy Powers For The FBI? Bad Move - On Mar. 12, the Justice Dept., FBI, and Drug Enforcement Administration delivered an 83-page petition to the Federal Communications Commission demanding dramatic new surveillance powers. If they're approved, the FBI would have the right to require Internet service providers (ISPs), voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) companies, and others that rely on broadband access to the Net to redesign their networks to support standards designed by law enforcement for wiretapping and tracing.

UFOs Over British Columbia - "It still freaks me out. I could see it flying behind the trees and on top of the shorter trees," says the 34-year-old, recalling the incident from the living room of her new house.

Darpa's Far-Out Dreams on Display - Darpa, the Pentagon's far-out research arm, may have publicly abandoned its creepiest programs, like Total Information Awareness. But the agency, as shown at its DarpaTech conference, still has a project to make you run full-speed into your bunker.

Mars spacecraft wallows in water - The latest data returned from Europe's Mars Express orbiter confirms there are substantial quantities of water-ice held at the Red Planet's south pole.

Early human marks are 'symbols' - A series of parallel lines engraved in an animal bone between 1.4 and 1.2 million years ago may be the earliest example of human symbolic behavior.

'Dr. X' no more: Physician open about mystery lights - One month after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, Kitei said she began to meditate, trying to communicate with whatever was creating the orbs near the Estrella and South mountains. "Have you forgotten about us? Do you know what happened down here?" she asked quietly. It had been awhile since the orbs appeared. But a few minutes later, she looked out her picture window, and there they were. ... "And it did give me comfort," she said. "For whatever reason, it did."

Sun's massive explosion upgraded - They tell Geophysical Research Letters the X45 class event was more than twice as big as the previous record flare. ... Fortunately, the Earth did not take a direct hit from this immense blast of radiation and matter. ...
Had it done so, several orbiting satellites would almost certainly have been damaged and there could have been considerable disruption of radio communications and power grids on the planet's surface.

Distant Sedna Raises Possibility of Another Earth-Sized Planet in Our Solar System - Brown said an Earth-sized planet is indeed a possibility. But his team's calculations put it at about 70 AU. ...
"We think it's unlikely, because we think we would have found it by now," Brown said in a telephone interview.

Ancient map at core of new debate - "1421: The Year China Discovered America," British author Gavin Menzies cites the chart as evidence that Chinese explorers reached the Americas 70 years before Columbus and circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. The book claims that fleets of Chinese junks commanded by the eunuch admirals of Emperor Zhu Di explored and mapped the globe decades before their European counterparts.

Pushing the Buy - The roots of neuromarketing go back to neuroscientist Antonio Damasio's assertion a decade ago that humans use the emotional part of the brain when making decisions, not just the rational part. That's precisely what marketers wanted to hear.

Boriska-boy from Mars - Boriska told us about his previous life on Mars, about the fact that the planet was in fact inhabited, but as a result of the most powerful and destructive catastrophe had lost its atmosphere and that nowadays all its inhabitants have to live in underground cities.

Northern sea baffles archaeologists - first cataclysms began affecting Atlantis about 800 000 years ago. Some scientists assume that this event has been portrayed in the Biblical story of the Great Flood. Other major shifts took place nearly 200 000 years ago, leaving only miserable fragments of the mighty kingdom of its inhabitants. The civilization has been almost totally destructed about 80 000 years ago. Ancient Greek philosopher Plato describes the fall of Atlantis as the collapse of the legendary island of Poseidonis, which had been consumed by waters in 9564 BC, when volcano eruptions along with powerful earthquakes had destroyed the last stronghold of the island.

Whitley Strieber's Journal - I felt much larger, as if my awareness had expanded to any size I wished. The next morning, I could hear people thinking. This has happened to me before and I don’t like it. It’s a side effect and an intrusion on the soul privacy of others. In this state, you not only hear their verbalized thoughts, you see the secret of their essence and in an instant, just at a glance, gain the most intimate knowledge of them. The grays live like this all the time. Their huge eyes are organs unlike ours. They see across the reefs of dimensions, they see the soul as the body and the body as an outgrowth of it, like roots hanging down from a lotus floating on a pond.

Witnesses & Abductees Come Forward - Stephen Foster writes in the Rochdale (U.K.) Observer about a group of children who saw a UFO. They say it hovered slowly at rooftop level for several minutes, then suddenly shot away. They've made drawings of what they saw, and all of them show a similar craft.

Tales from the Dark Side - There are charlatans in every business from mutual funds to mufflers, but in my psychic dabble I had seen no curses, no illicit bilkings. Instead, each one of the "intuitives" had given me untrammeled attention, had been engrossed by my emotional warts. An accredited therapist would have done no less. But would a therapist have assured me I was the center of the solar system?... You get what you pay for.

Challenge to CSICOP - The moving (Paterson Bigfoot) footage reveals the movement of massive muscles in the back, and the shoulders and the limbs. These proportions and dynamics, among other things, cannot be simulated by a man in simple padded costume.

UK Study To Examine Near-Death Experiences - One in ten cardiac-arrest patients report 'near-death experiences'. Now a large-scale study aims to find out what's going on.

An Anomalous SETI Signal - No one knows for sure what caused this signal. There is a slight possibility that it just might originate from an extraterrestrial intelligence.

Sightings From Around The World - It appears on tape to be three objects close together. Too close together off the sides moving irregularly, and one in center more classic, disc shaped, spinning as my wife said "Like a top".

X-Ray Diffraction Study Of Clay Minerals In Crop Circle Soils - The results are startling. Specific clay minerals (illite/smectites) are shown to exhibit a subtle, but statistically significant, increase in degree of crystallization....a change heretofore seen only in sedimentary rock, which has been exposed to the massive pressure (called "geologic" pressure) of tons of overlying rock and to heat from the earth's core over hundreds, or thousands of years. To our knowledge this increase in degree of crystallization has never been reported previously in surface soils (as is the case here).

Bigfoot Sightings - "She said all the kids were playing outside in the trailer court and they were the ones that first saw it. They (the children) all started screaming so she came outside but by the time she got outside, they had scared it. She said it was walking away. She said it was huge. She said, 'I don't know how big it was but it just pushed through those trees like you're going through bushes' and it was moving fast." The resident said she was still shaken days after the incident occurred, Embry said.

Japanese conference states robots' rules of order - Six decades after science-fiction author Isaac Asimov formulated his Three Laws of Robotics, the World Robot Conference has issued its own three-part list of "expectations for next-generation robots."

Tuscan Mystery to be Unearthed - Known as the "sword in the stone," the Tuscan "Excalibur" is said to have been plunged into a rock in 1180 by Galgano Guidotti, a medieval knight who renounced war and worldly goods to become a hermit.

End Of The World As We Know It - Pentagon Style - Frozen countries, massive famine, shattered economies -- even nuclear war -- as a result of climate change. More doom and gloom from eco-radicals? Nope, this is the Pentagon speaking.

Interview: Pentagon's Catastrophic Climate Change - Wally Broeker, Ph.D., Professor of Geochemistry and Earth Sciences, Columbia University... I would think that certainly the Pentagon ought to think about this! Because a lot of aspects, the whole world is closely tied together that anything that happens climate-wise can have ­ like if China were to have continuing droughts so that it couldn't produce enough grain to feed itself, it would start buying grain. We supply half of the world's grain or something, so we would be selling the Chinese grain that would raise our food prices and so forth. The whole situation is really complex. It's good that the Pentagon is thinking about it.

Climate Change From A Meteor Impact - It may be that the climate change predicted by the pentagon will come about- but not for the reasons they state. The truth about it, may be far worse than what they want to admit. There will probably be statements below on subjects you already know about, so please keep reading. It may give you a different perspective on the matter.

UFO Witness Intimidation - Debunkers Basic Weapon - After decades of dealing with debunkers' attacks upon anyone reporting UFO abductions, I am still amazed at the ill-informed and often cruel nature of these published assaults. I am not referring here to diatribes against investigators like myself, because, as Harry Truman pointed out, to be in the kitchen involves a certain amount of heat. Instead, I mean attacks against the abductees themselves, the innocent men, women and children who have dared to report their suspicions of ongoing UFO experiences.

An American werewolf, and it's in . . . Elkhorn? - "At first I didn't believe there was a man changing into a wolf on Bray Road," Godfrey said this week during an interview at her home, which is tucked along a rural stretch of old farmland eight miles outside Elkhorn. "Now I'm more open."

Time Can be Turned Back - Famous Russian scientist Nikolay Kozyrev conducted an experiment to prove that moving from the future to the past was possible. He substantiated his views with the hypotheses on instant information spreading through physical characteristics of time. Nikolay Kozyrev even supposed that "time could execute the work and produce energy." An American physics theorist has arrived at a conclusion that time is what existed before existence of the world.

Film Producer Takes Picture Of Ghost - Several security guards say they saw the same ghost and video operator Marco Rinaldi moved out of his room to the Lord Milner Hotel after "feeling" that somebody was watching him.

Dwarves in Iloilo school - "The dwarf apparition occurred around 9:15 a.m. yesterday inside the grounds of the said school. Carol, one of the first students to see the dwarves, said the creatures wore yellow and blue clothes. Dwarves were no more than an inch in height. She also claimed talking to two of the creatures whose names were Wendy and Wenden. Carol said the dwarves were just trying to help them clean the school and wanted to befriend them.

Vampires of New England - As a defensive measure, much like inoculation - where a little of a disease is injected into the body so the body can build resistance - families would dig up the dead, burn the heart and feed the ashes to family members in an attempt to ward off the disease. If the heart contained liquid, it was used to treat the disease.

Traces of aliens on the Earth - Scientists saw unusual phenomena in Odessa catacombs. They found bones of fossilized ostriches, camels and hyenas in the burrow which was a cave in ancient times. The bones were processed one million year ago with some metal tools.

Haiti an Insurrection in the Making by groups financed/armed by the Bush Admin - The gangs are directly linked to two groups financed by the Bush Administration: the right-wing Convergence for Democracy and the pro-business Group of 184.

Antarctica mesmerizes scientists - According to scientists, Antarctica's polar blanket contains certain biologically active organic substances which are capable of transforming modern-day medicine. First of all, this concerns incurable illnesses, reports Arab newspaper "Al-Hayat".

Rioting: The new campus craze - Have a few beers. Watch the big game. Get loaded. Go out and burn stuff.

Rage against off-shoring is very real - Most of America's unemployed seem to think their situation is due to off-shoring. I was disturbed to see a barely concealed racism embedded in some angry replies, directed at Indian workers in particular. And it's clear that the widespread corruption recently revealed in corporate executive suites and on Wall Street is taking its toll -- people are getting fed up with business. In the letters I sense the rumblings of an incipient anti-corporate revolt.

Astronaut: We've had visitors -  "A few insiders know the truth . . . and are studying the bodies that have been discovered," said Mitchell, who was the sixth man to walk on the moon.

Real 'Smart Chip' Developed, Scientists Say - Researchers at the University of Calgary have found that nerve cells grown on a microchip can learn and memorize information which can be communicated to the brain.

NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program  - This web site describes the methods and activities of the Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project.

The Legends of Mount Shasta - Towering in isolation above the surrounding landscape, Mount Shasta is a mountain shrouded in mystery and the unexplained. To many, the area around Mount Shasta is one of the most mystical in all the world and people come from far away to live in the mountain’s shadow. With stories of underground cities, flying saucers, unexplained lights and encounters with unusual beings, it would be hard to envision a place with more mystique than Mount Shasta.

Earth almost put on impact alert - Some scientists believed on 13 January that a 30m object, later designated 2004 AS1, had a one-in-four chance of hitting the planet within 36 hours.

Valley has keyless encounters of the weird kind - Was it the storm clouds, sun spots or Area 51?

Lego Frankenstein - Like many nanotech researchers, Montemagno is fascinated by the possibilities of mimicking life to create hybrid devices that combine living tissue with inanimate components.

Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us - Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters..

Prof sees light at end of death's tunnel - "When you look at the totality of the data, the simplest and most parsimonious explanation that accounts for the largest amount of data is the survival of consciousness hypothesis," he said.

Extraterrestrial visitor in Russian province - Huge eyes were staring at her out of the closest grave mound. The pensioner approached the grave and saw a strange creature about 25 centimeters in height. This was not a human being.

Scientists Seek Atlantis off Tiawan - The UAI hit the headlines in July 2002, when it stumbled across a 100m-long wall-like structure 28m beneath the murky waters of the Penghu archipelago's Hsichi (西吉島) and Tungchi (東吉島) islets. Hoping to follow on from this success, UAI divers will be taking to Taiwan's waters again this year in search for more clues surrounding lost civilizations and the legendary continent, Mudalu (姆大陸).

Robot secretary gossips, dishes advice, even gets testy  - "We wanted to give her an underdog character, struggling to make it in a world of humans," said Kevin Snipes, 26, a graduate student in drama writing, one of four writers who came up with Valerie's fictional character. "After a while on the job, she gets testy. But she can be charming too."

Doctors, Priests Form Exorcism Commission - One of the church's leading exorcists praised the initiative, saying medical experts are needed to rule out mental problems before spiritual work can begin.

'Touched' by Aliens - "There might be 100 people who have a psychological explanation; there might be 12 people who have a neurological explanation; there might be hundreds of people who have sleep paralysis--but that still," she says, her voice rising slightly, "doesn't explain all the rest of the people who have experienced this."

Ex-astronaut's curiosity continues - His crewmates and NASA superiors didn't know that Mitchell had made secret arrangements to conduct space experiments on extrasensory perception, the ability to send and receive thoughts. "I was well aware as far as science was concerned this was not mainstream," he said.

The Witch Fires of Sicili - Fires have broken out in part of a Sicilian village, and no one can figure out what's causing them. It can't be electricity, since the power has been cut off. Despite this, washing machines, dishwashers, refrigerators, electricity meters and cables have been spontaneously bursting into flames. A fire even started in a water pipe. There's no evidence of arson.

When UFOs Arrive - With the discovery of each new planet beyond Earth's solar system--there are now more than 100--the odds of encountering intelligent alien life increase. Governments and international organizations around the world have taken notice of the changing odds. No governmental official has gone on record claiming that UFOs are real, let alone a threat. Yet with little public fanfare, they have begun preparing for the single most important event in human history: first contact.

Scientists Explain Red Sea Parting and Other Miracles - The research follows a long line of efforts by science scholars to prove religious miracles from claims of sighting the ruins of Noah's Ark to attributing the biblical "trumpet blast" from Mt. Sinai as volcanic activity. Some argue such explanations diminish the concept of miracles while others say they reinforce their power.

Pharaoh's chariots found in Red Sea? - "I am 99.9 percent sure I picked up a chariot wheel," Peter Elmer tells WorldNetDaily after two diving trips to the Gulf of Aqaba branch of the sea. "It was covered in coral."

Billboards Target Christian Porn Addicts - Almost 18 percent of people who called themselves born-again Christians admitted visiting Internet porn sites, according to a 2000 survey of 1,031 adults by the evangelical group Focus on the Family. In a 2002 Pastors.com survey, more than 50 percent of responding pastors reported viewing pornography in the previous year.

Mystery as dead birds rain down - Farmers and other witnesses in Sangongdian village in Taizhou city saw flocks of bramble finch suddenly fall from the sky on Tuesday, the Beijing Youth Daily said.

Major Media Gets It! - After years of writing about how sudden climate change could be triggered by a change in the Gulf Stream on this website, and in The Coming Global Superstorm—and being totally ignored by the major media—the big news organizations are finally starting to "get it." This week, Fortune Magazine and The New York Times both wrote about upcoming weather changes, due to global warming.

'Kangaroo-Legged' Creature Reported In Chile - "I had never seen anything like it. It had something like a dog bleeding in its muzzle and it lost itself in the bushes in a single leap," he told a co-worker minutes later. He was believed, just from the expression of indescribably panic on his face. That day he was jumpier than ever. After his second round trip, he was intercepted by another driver, Juan Maulén, who took him aside and asked him to describe the monster. After a few minutes, Maulén confessed: "Yes, it's the same one."

UFOs: Filers Files - "As we watched, another light shot from the bottom of the main object (like a shooting star) straight towards the ground at high speed until it dissipated to nothing." This shooting object was the same color as the main object. I went and got a video camera and by that time the main object was moving away from us and I shot footage of it going away from us until it also disappeared. I am a Detective for a Southern California Police Agency and have never seen anything before like this. We had several witnesses present and the landscape was peppered with RV'ers that must have seen the same thing.

Science and spirituality collide in debate on healing powers of prayer - Research attributing health benefits to faith has sparked the attention of people such as Bunch as well as the public. It’s also sparked criticism from scientists and theologians.

Planetary Rhythms and Human Health - Lewis B. Hainsworth of Western Australia seems to be the first researcher to recognize the relationship of brain-wave frequencies to the naturally circulating rhythmic signals, known as Schumann's resonances (SR), in the space between the surface of the Earth and the ionosphere. Hainsworth imparted this awareness to Dr Robert O. Becker, noted electromagnetics pollution expert, and to Harvard neurologists as early as 1975.

Creative Machine - What Thaler has created is essentially "Thomas Edison in a box," said Rusty Miller, a government contractor at General Dynamics and one of Thaler's chief cheerleaders.

Indiana Roadside 'Entity' Sighting - "I had no idea what it was," he said. "It had protruding joints and moved very strangely."

X-Ray Girl - Russian Natasha Demkina, 17, has stunned doctors in her home country with her ability to see medical conditions inside people.

Derek Dolittle - As the camera crew began filming, Derek astounded Rachel by accurately describing injuries Zeus had suffered, as well as revealing how the giant pooch was anxious about her plans to buy another dog.

Tales of Tahoe Lake Monster Just Story? - The difficulty in verifying the existence of lake monsters, Goldman said, "is that you can prove something is there, but you can't prove something is not there."

Companies race to put genes on a chip - The lofty goal of “personalized medicine” is one step closer to reality, with two companies announcing that they have successfully placed vital bits of humankind’s estimated 35,000 genes on a small glass chip.

Net attacks more frequent, lethal - Attacks by automated programs that spread like viruses and worms to exploit software flaws rose 20 percent in the first half of 2003 compared with the previous six-month period.

Aquaria 'risk to tropical fish' - Some of the most colorful and attractive fish to swim the tropical seas may be threatened by the aquarium trade, the United Nations believes.

In zoos, roaming carnivores suffer most - Captive carnivores such as lions, polar bears, tigers and cheetahs have difficulty adapting to life in zoos because they miss the variety of the wide ranges they roamed in the wild, scientists said.

Lonely whale set for family reunion - A scientific panel recommended intervention last month after reports emerged that L98 had been injured by collisions with float planes and by humans upset by his interfering with watercraft.

Earth Simulator delights scientists - A new era in the accuracy of climate prediction has come closer with the presentation of the first results from the largest supercomputer in the world.

Researchers say whaling altered the food chain - The killing of whales caused a collapse in the food chain, the scientists believe. As a half-million whales were wiped out by Japanese and Russian whaling fleets after World War II, killer whales that once preyed on the larger "great" whales had to look for other food to eat.

Oceans becoming more acidic - "This level of acidity will get much more extreme in the future if we continue releasing CO2 into the atmosphere," said Dr Caldeira. ... "And we predicted amounts of future acidity that exceed anything we saw over the last several hundred million years, apart from perhaps after rare catastrophic events such as asteroid impacts."

Eco-Friendly Cars On Display - Automakers say fuel cells could reach the market within a decade and eliminate today's internal-combustion engine as a source of air pollution.

Mouse cloned to cure Parkinson's - Cells taken from cloned mouse embryos have been used to successfully treat a condition similar to Parkinson's disease in humans.

New Era for Computers - Before now 64-bit computing has been reserved for servers that work with very large databases and that need the performance boost this way of working gives them

China's Astronaut trip may be in October - China's first manned spacecraft could be launched "as early as next month" from a pad in the country's remote northwest and will probably contain one crew member, the official Communist Party newspaper reported.

Europe’s first moon mission blasts off - Equipped with ion thrusters — which are not very powerful but can be fired for days at a time to provide constant acceleration for a spaceship — SMART-1 will take about 16 months to reach the moon, when it will then begin its six-month science mission.

Cherokee tribe tries to save dying language - By immersing the youngsters in the language of their ancestors, tribal leaders are hoping to save one of the many endangered American Indian tongues.

Brain waves drive man's bionic arm - A man who lost both of his arms in an accident is getting some high-tech help with an innovative artificial limb that controls movements by thought.

Arctic ice shelf breakup reported - The largest ice shelf in the Arctic, a solid feature for 3,000 years, has broken up, scientists in the United States and Canada said Monday. They said the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, on the north coast of Ellesmere Island in Canada’s Nunavut territory, broke into two main parts, themselves cut through with fissures. A freshwater lake drained into the sea, the researchers reported.

China drops hints about space secrets - After four unmanned trial flights, China’s first-ever piloted spacecraft, the Shenzhou 5 is set to soar. When it does, and if triumphant, China will be propelled into an exclusive country-club status: the third nation capable of independently rocketing humans into Earth orbit.

Stem cells grown into sperm cells - Researchers have grown stem cells into many other types of cells, including egg cells, but this is the first time a sperm cell has been developed, the scientists said.

Making a video screen out of thin air - "This is something that people have been dreaming about for a long time," said Chad Dyner, 29, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and inventor of Heliodisplay, one of the prototype display systems. "Ever since the movie 'Star Wars' came out and there was a distress call from Princess Leia," -- generated in thin air by the robot R2D2 -- "people all over the world have been wanting one of these."

Looming Water Crisis as World Glaciers Melt - Temperature changes and lack of snow are causing 90% of the world's glaciers to retreat and some to disappear completely, with potentially catastrophic consequences for communities that rely on the meltwater for irrigation, hydroelectric schemes and drinking, glaciologists agreed yesterday.

The Atom Project - Japanese researchers in robot technology are advocating a grand project, under which the government would spend 50 billion yen a year over three decades to develop a humanoid robot with the mental, physical and emotional capacity of a 5-year-old human.

Human-Rabbit Hybreds - Scientists in China have, for the first time, used cloning techniques to create hybrid embryos that contain a mix of DNA from both humans and rabbits, according to a report in a scientific journal that has reignited the smoldering ethics debate over cloning research.

Alien Pathogens - As we look toward exploring other worlds, and perhaps even bringing samples back to Earth for testing, astrobiologists have to wonder: could there be alien pathogens in those samples that will wreak havoc on our world?

DNA Computers - Molecular automatons might one day find medical uses. Injected into the blood, they could recognize molecules on cancerous or healthy cells to deliver a drug accurately.

A Third Human Eye - In his book Experimental Bio-introscopy Anatoly Rodionov provided evidence proving that animated objects have biomagnetic fields; under some definite conditions these fields can be caught with "the third eye".

Big Brother "Spy" Car - The chip will automatically report a wide range of offences including speeding, road tax evasion and illegal parking, according to The Sunday Times newspaper.

Sunken Sub Danger  - Another Chernobyl off the coasts of Norway (Bear Islands), the Nowaja Semlja Islands, and the coasts of France and Africa should occur at any time now. Russian experts have been warning Western leaders from Europe, the USA, and Africa for months.

Science Warns Farmers - Temperature changes caused by global warming are likely to transform agriculture on both sides of the Atlantic.

Mood Ring Measured in Megahertz - Using tiny sensors, transmitters and some software, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have turned personal computers into advanced polygraph machines that they say are capable of monitoring people's emotions and abilities.

Parrot's oratory stuns scientists - The bird, a captive African grey called N'kisi, has a vocabulary of 950 words, and shows signs of a sense of humor.

Show me heaven - Recent studies have shown that one in 10 people who have had a cardiac arrest report an near-death experience (NDE). These experiences are reported across many cultures and religions. Some believe they offer a glimpse of an afterlife while others see them as the result of a dying brain.

Soviet Army fought UFOs - .. Antiaircraft guns of Transcaucasian Military District fired on the flying cigar-shaped object which came from the side of the Turkish border. The object's flying altitude was below 4,000 meters, and the guns were capable of reaching a target at the altitudes up to 12,000 meters, but that time the fire made no harm to the "cigar". Then the cigar increased its speed and flew away over the mountains.

Extraterrestrial edge helps the balance sheet - A galactic mystery hovers over the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland: How many of the 2,280 global leaders, including 31 heads of state, gathered in this Alpine resort conduct business with extraterrestrials?

Interstellar Espionage - Have aliens sent mechanical emissaries to our solar system -- robotic probes on a snoopy mission to reconnoiter Earth?

UFO over Australia - The official website of the city of Whittlesea in Australia posted this photograph, which was taken by a traffic engineer at a railroad crossing, using a digital camera. As so often happens, he didn't notice the UFO until he downloaded the photo onto his computer.

Strieber: Shedding Light on the Dark Side - There is a complex process of contact taking place now in three areas: the British Midlands, the east central United States and British Columbia. It may be unfolding elsewhere as well, but these are the three areas from which extensive reports are coming and good cases being documented.

Soviet Army Fought UFOs - Soviet military encountered many UFOs, maybe for this reason in the end of the 60s a secret laboratory of researching "flying objects" was created in the USSR.

Telepathy debate hits London - Scientists tend to steer clear of public debates with advocates of the paranormal. And judging from the response of a London audience to a rare example of such a head-to-head conflict last week, they are wise to do so.

Bigfoot strikes In Derry Township - When Gordon says huge, he's not whistling in the dark. The creature's head, according to the witness, was scraping a branch that was later measured at 96 inches--eight feet--off the ground. Gordon searched the area and found some older footprints, about 15 inches long, in the area

UFO-The True Story - would it possible to assume that the entire science of ufology is nothing but a mere secretive component of the real story of flying objects? Of the ones that are currently being "created anew" by Russians and sold to Americans?

Loch Ness Monster Has a Relative in Russian Province - Numerous witnesses say that they saw a head of a big beast above water that looked like a dinosaur or a dragon head and a long thin tail. The people said that the creature was covered with scales like a reptile and was about five meters long.

Gravity Anomalies - There is a stretch of road in Ayrshire where motorists will find special warning signs and meet cars apparently coasting uphill backwards as baffled drivers are confused by their senses.

Mysterious Object Caught On Video Over KC Sky - A security camera from a downtown energy corporation captured a bizarre sight in the eastern sky over Kansas City last week, KMBC's Martin Augustine reported.

Capture Bigfoot - It’s a master plan that includes global positioning, aerial surveillance and ground patrol...The unlikely mission is to smoke out an elusive beast whose mythology traces back to the nation’s beginnings — Sasquatch.

10,000 Year Story Rock - The Cherokee myth surrounding the rock holds that Judaculla was a giant hunter who owned all the game. He could step across mountains. His voice was like thunder, and his arrows were bolts of lightning.

The Biblical Forecast - In his research, Ripson concludes that the upcoming year of 2006 will be the most dangerous in terms of terrorist attacks. Eastern countries will suffer a crisis as a result of nuclear arms tests. Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv and New York are among the first cities to be attacked. "The danger will most likely arise from Bin Laden's surroundings or Bin Laden himself," stated Michael Drosnin.

Japan invents the gadget of your dreams - The machine uses the voice recording, along with lights, music and smells, to help them direct their own dreams during periods of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, Takara Co said.

Mexico and UFOs - The UFO cognoscenti will roll their eyes at yet another mention of the historic sighting of over a hundred unidentified flying objects made by a Mexican astronomer in the late 19th century. The story of Professor José A.Y. Bonilla’s startling find and subsequent photographs has become the stuff of myth, and many have jokingly suggested that he should be made the “patron saint” of Latin American ufology (a thought that would have disgusted the good prof no end).

Yeti from Russia's Vyatka - Members of the Kosmopoisk association have returned from an expedition to Russia's Kirov Region where they searched for a bigfoot that allegedly lived in that region.

World's Top Sperm Donors Live in Denmark - Danes are spreading their genes around the world faster than ever aided by exports from local firm Cryos International, the world's biggest sperm bank.

We believe in angels - A recent survey reported that more than 75 per cent of Americans believed in angels and tapping into that belief is the most talked about show on US television this year. More than 4.5 million viewers sat down to enjoy a spectacular six-hour Mike Nichols television version of Tony Kushner’s play Angels in America on HBO. A key scene features a frumpy Mormon woman comforting an AIDS victim who says he is visited by angels.

Stan Romanek's Mystery Equations - The equations everyone is viewing really did come from whoever or whatever is involved with my encounters/abductions, as crazy as that sounds. It is very frustrating for me, because I don't understand any of this stuff. I just am repeating the images they have burned into my memory. For whatever reason, I am led to believe - either by coincidence or design - that these equations are incomplete and someone out there has been given the other parts.

City wants to muffle 'Kokomo hum' - Despite efforts to silence it, Julie Smith still hears the sound occasionally.

OBE Helmit - Swiss neurologist Olaf Blanke says out-of-body experiences are caused when a part of the brain called the angular gyrus, which controls our perception of the body, misfires under stress, causing the sensation of floating outside the body. He discovered this while mapping the brain of an epileptic patient. However, Blanke admits, "We do not fully understand the neurological mechanism that causes OBEs."

Cave Wall Spirit Journeys - Boyd, regarded by many as a leading expert on rock art, saw the unusual figures on the rock and came up with a different interpretation — a sacred journey for users of the hallucinogenic peyote cactus. That view, once controversial, is now largely accepted.

UFO testing in Burnett? - “It went right alongside the highway all the way from Highway 48 down to the Bible Camp. Then it crossed over the highway in front of us and lowered down toward the field and hovered there about 50 or a hundred feet above the ground.”

The Next 100 Years of Flight - Terry Weisshaar, manager of DARPA's morphing aircraft structures programme at the Pentagon explains how telescoping and folding wings will help future planes to tailor their wing shape and size for each part of a mission.

Palace 'ghost' caught on camera - Closed-circuit security cameras at Hampton Court Palace, the huge Tudor castle outside London, seem to have snagged an ethereal visitor. Could it be a ghost?

Time Trip - According to Professor Paul Davies "Scientists have no doubt whatever that it is possible to build a time machine to visit the future". Since the publication of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity in 1905, few, if any, scientists would dispute that time travel to the future is perfectly possible.

Caution over 'computerised world' - In their report, the Swiss team talk about a future where computer chips, remote sensors or radio transponders are scaled down to microscopic size and built into just about anything.

Betty Hill at 84 - Betty Hill sits in her living room, an inquisitive, highly engaging woman of 84. Surrounded by the mementos and clutter of a lifetime that is waning as the cancer afflicting her progresses, she is serene, even as she reflects on her role in one of the strangest events of the 1960s, one that helped spawn a mass cult phenomenon.

Paranormal or just nuts? Cats see things we don't - Have you ever seen your cat staring across the room, deeply intent on watching something when you know that there is nothing there?

UFO Special on Sci Fi - "UFO" has become synonymous with "alien spacecraft" in many people's minds, but it merely means "unidentified flying object."

'Lucid' dreamers say they can learn skills, cure ills - Lucid dreaming occurs when the dreamer knows that she is dreaming. It's among the most controversial areas of dream research, partly because of misperceptions over how much individuals can influence dreams -- or more importantly, whether they should.

The new weapon in crimefighting... prayer - Policing crackles with buzzwords nowadays, from zero tolerance to on-the-spot fines. The power of prayer is an unlikely addition to that list - but could it be an effective weapon in the battle against crime?

Foreseeing the Future - Some historical documents surprise historians so much that they claim these documents are forged.

Umasking Vega - One of the closest and brightest stars in the sky appears to harbor a very familiar looking solar system, a young echo of our own complete with similar planets and an outer belt of colliding comets.

Using Imagination to Cure Psychological Complexes - some physicists, like David Bohm and Karl Pribram, starting to think that the entire universe might be like a hologram where the mind and imagination play a key role in what happens.

UFO over Brunswick - "I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me at first," he said. "But it wasn't a trick. It was a normal night sky. We looked at some of them through Ron's telescope. One was boomerang shaped and another was a round, sphere shape. And they were moving."

Sci Fi Channel-backed researcher sues NASA over UFO files - A researcher backed by cable television's Sci Fi Channel plans to sue NASA for records she contends the agency has of a UFO that reportedly crash landed and was recovered by government workers in southwestern Pennsylvania in 1965.

Lonely Planets - Planetary scientist, Dr. David Grinspoon, discusses his new book, 'Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life', in this multi-part interview on topics ranging from which planets are best candidates for harboring life to speculative topics about levels of advancement a civilization must pass through to manage its biosphere. The introduction addresses the scope of building a science capable of asking the right questions about life elsewhere.

Study Suggests Energy, Not Teens, Made Crop Circles A five-month study has concluded that the mysterious crop circles that appeared in a Solano County wheat field in June were not the work of four teenage boys who claimed they made them as a hoax.

Secret Energy Haunts Coral Castle -  There are many rumors but no concrete details on how Leedskalnin managed to build his bizarre and beautiful masterpiece. He worked only after the sun had gone down, refusing to allow anyone to ever see how he shaped, moved and placed the enormous blocks.

'Crying' Dog Saves Master - His dog, which always followed the doctor on his calls, ran to a neighbor's house and pawed at the door and barked until someone came to the door. .. The neighbor said that, when he opened the door, the dog had tears in his eyes. The dog then led him to where his master was lying, the newspaper said.

Guerrilla News Network  (Content Warning! Extra Sensitive Issue. Be Cautious Here. - Cryptodesk)- Prescott Bush “should have been tried for treason, because they continued to support Hitler after the U.S. entered the war. Loftus, who describes himself as “a former prosecutor with the U.S. Justice Department’s Nazi-hunting unit,” has added the reassurance that he “could have made the case.”

The Bible’s Lost Stories - Fueling faith and igniting debate, a new generation of scholars is altering our beliefs about the role of women in the scriptures

Shadowy realms of mind control and paranoia, all in the hands of the FBI - Most of the folders in the FBI archives contain the details of closed homicide cases and long-solved bank robberies, rarely seen as they await judgment day or the office shredder. But the Zero Files, each marked with a case number containing the digit "0" in its heart, are different -- very different.

Alien Child - In 1982, my legally-blind daughter, attending a junior college in Sacramento, CA, acquired a strange roommate, the "adopted daughter" of an Air Force colonel assigned to a black project much higher than Blue Book. He'd just transferred to Mather AFB from Four Corners in southern Nevada, a highly classified installation that didn’t officially exist. On several occasions I met and spoke with the roommate, listened to her mechanical speech patterns, and noted her odd, greenish complexions, wispy reddish hair and the unusual set of her eyes. I also saw the only food that she was allowed to eat, which looked like gray/green chopped spinach that came in little white boxes, and her special drinking water than came in five-gallon glass jugs, both of these items delivered to the apartment door just as she was about to run out, the delivery person never seen.

Vinland Map - ... a drawing of Iceland, Greenland and the northeastern coast of North America that has been dated to the mid-15th century—unless it's a forgery. If it's real, it means that Norse explorers visited North America long before Columbus. The map, which is worth $20 million, was discovered in the 1950s and is kept at Yale University. "Many scholars have agreed that if the Vinland Map is authentic, it is the only existing cartographic representation of North America prior to Columbus," says scholar Jacqueline Olin. Recent discoveries show it may be authentic.

Some UK Police Report UFOs - Most Keep Quiet - More than 200 police officers have come forward to say they have seen UFOs flying over the British countryside, a detective revealed yesterday.

Space rock caused 'great dying'  - Scientists have found new evidence that the greatest extinction in the Earth's history was triggered by an asteroid.

Discovering secrets of near-death - Some near-death witnesses may be reunited with a loved one, Holden says, recalling the story of an anesthesiologist she met at a professional counseling conference in the early '80s. "He was reunited with his deceased father during his NDE," Holden said. "He told us his story as we sat at a closing banquet, and several of us were in tears."

Cylinder With Lights Near Navy Base - "I watched it come closer through the clouds for about five minutes when part of the object broke through the cloud cover exposing two of its five lights. There was a crescent or cylinder shape behind the lights that was darker in appearance than the sky. It hovered for minutes, slowly retreating into the cloud cover. I watched the five lights for ten more minutes. The width of each light was twice as large as any airplane I've ever seen. Finally I watched the lights disappear, remaining in circular shapes and all moving simultaneously until completely disappearing from sight.

Sudden Climate Change - From a plant in Peru that was flash frozen 5,000 years ago, we have evidence that past climate change happened in hours. Another reason we know there was sudden climate change 5,200 years ago is from the prehistoric man called Otzi, who was frozen in the Alps around that time and only discovered a few years ago, since the Alps are melting. "We know that the Ice Man, a preserved Neolithic hunter exposed by a retreating glacier in the European Alps, was trapped by the ice around 5,200 years ago," says geologist Lonnie Thompson. "If it happened in the past, it might happen again, and that type of abrupt event in today's world would mean worldwide chaos, both economically and socially."

Beast or bunk: researchers chase mysterious creature - There have been numerous sightings of a mysterious beast in the mountains of southeast Oklahoma. Now, a scientific team claims they have proof of the ape-like primate.

Unexplained images appear in local man’s wildlife photos -  “We looked at the prints quickly on the way to a picnic,” said Mrs. Franklin, an English teacher at Mason County in Kentucky, “and at first were disappointed because there were no deer in sight. But then we realized that the shapes in the sky were not normal.”

Did Noah Go Through Flood in Wooden Submarine? - Within the past years, results of aero and space photography have proved that there is some wooden construction in the glacier on the top of the Ararat mountain.

Ghost hunter finds success- For more than a decade, Joshua P. Warren has been staking out haunted houses, chasing apparitions, gathering evidence of the paranormal. The man has been working the supernatural beat.

Explorers on the trail of Lost City of Atlantis - The team will search a location about 20 miles south west of Tarifa, Spain, and 12 miles north west of Tangier. Using a submersible capable of reaching depths of 3,200ft, the expedition, backed by private investors and corporate sponsors, will look for signs of temples, buildings and prehistoric artifacts, such as tools and weapons.

NASA to release UFO Docs - NASA has agreed to turn over documents relating to the alleged crash of a UFO in Kecksburg, Pa., in 1965, the SCI FI Channel announced. The news comes a day after SCI FI said it would pursue legal action against the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to release its records on the incident.

Strange UFO seen in Colorado - There's a new kind of UFO being seen in Colorado.

NSA UFO Documents Index -  The documents listed on this page were located in response to the numerous requests received by NSA on the subject of Unidentified Flying Objects.

Forensic Expert Says Bigfoot Is Real - "Given the scientific evidence that I have examined, I'm convinced there's a creature out there that is yet to be identified," said Jeff Meldrum, a professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University in Pocatello.

Whitley Strieber's Journal - Ever since I realized that something strange had happened to me on December 26, 1985, I have held the question open of what that might have been. In Communion, I was careful to preserve this question throughout the book, and I have always stayed loyal to this question, no matter how much pressure I have been under to resolve it in one way or another.

Tools Found, 2.3 Million Years Old - Michael Rogers was scaling a slope in Ethiopia when he spotted the earliest evidence that tools were used to butcher animals 2.3 million years before the first modern humans appeared on earth.

Heebie gee-gees - Global geophysical events, such as huge tidal waves or volcanic super-eruptions, could devastate the planet - so why doesn't anybody care?

New Bigfoot Sightings - according to a compilation of "legitimate" sightings reported to the Bigfoot Field Research Organization (BFRO), Del Norte County has more reported Bigfoot encounters per square mile than anywhere else in the world.

Goat Suckers - A new attack by the mythic predator took place yesterday in Pan de Azucar, this time on the property of Carlos Errazuriz of Hacienda Venus. Increasing the fear that is already felt by local residents since the first deaths occurred on October 15, the fact is that the landowner was faced with the death of 15 of his canaries through exsanguination. The birds were not eaten.

Sci Fi Channel may sue U.S. for UFO documents - The truth is out there, and the Sci Fi Channel is determined to find it, even if that means suing NASA, the Department of Defense, the U.S. Army and Air Force for documents related to unidentified flying objects.

Could methane bubbles sink ships? - Methane bubbles from the sea floor could, in theory, sink ships and may explain the odd disappearances of some vessels, Australian researchers reported Tuesday.

'Brain-Computer Interface' For Paralyzed Man - Austrian technicians are using a system of thought transference to enable a paralyzed man to lift his hand and drink from a glass, achieving a medical first.

Long Long Long Life - Longevity is evolvable. The common precursor to worms, flies, mice and humans was a very simple, short-lived animal. And to get from a worm to a human you have increased lifespan a thousandfold. This happened by changes in genes, which tells you that every time there is a change in DNA that increases lifespan, there doesn't have to be some horrible trade-off - because it's been happening throughout evolution. This whole idea that there is always a trade-off is nonsense.

Atlantis: Bimini update - On the surface of one of the large blocks we could clearly see a square indentation 'bored' into the stone. The square indentation was about 5 by 5 inches. It was at least 4-5 inches deep, but had sand in it. Thus, we do not know how deep the square hole actually goes. It looked about the size of a square post hole. We also noted less impressive marks on a few stones but a few of these looked like cut marks.

100 Billion Planets In Milky Way - Week's UFO Sightings - "It could be the case that close to 100 percent of stars have planets. This means that there are at least 100 billion stars with planets in our galaxy."

Belch ends the world -  - In the dinosaurs' most famous death scene, the killer likely came from outer space. But science has many mass extinctions to explain, and in at least one instance, ANNE McILROY reports, the cause of it all could be found under the sea

Ghosts ride the river - Stories of the supernatural in river valleys are as old as riverboats themselves. While Americans have grown less superstitious over time, you still can find plenty of river people who swear they have encountered a ghost - and people who believe them.

More Believe In God Than Heaven - More Americans believe in God than in angels, miracles, and even heaven. And while half attend worship services on a regular basis, a majority thinks religion plays too small a role in people’s lives today.

MSN begins closing its chatrooms - Concern has risen over court revelations in the United Kingdom that pedophiles use chatrooms to "groom" youngsters and build up sexual profiles of young girls.

Psychic Vampires - A later study funded by the Parapsychology Foundation of New York not only confirmed the findings of our earlier research, it showed that certain persons were highly skilled at deliberately tapping into and directly feeding upon the aura of others.

Siberia find revives yeti legends - "It looks very human," Yuriy Malofeyev, vice-president of the Russian association of veterinary anatomists, told the TV after examining the X-rays.

Florida Area Has Plenty Of Strangeness - For generations, New Smyrna Beach residents have swapped stories about seeing the vision of a well-known city benefactor who still walks in front of the old library he donated to the city in the late 1800s. Others say they've witnessed apparitions in old homes, including a phantom toddler who speaks to other children in the 100-year-old Flagler Tavern restaurant on Flagler Avenue.

Description Of Chupacabras Becoming More Clear - Seen sideways, its face resembles that of a large feline, but seen face-on, [it resembles] a fusion between wolf, feline, pig and mandrill. It further presents a slight protuberance in the upper rear part of its skull.

In Yellowstone, a Subterranean Volcano Exerts Its Influence - In light of the new activity, safety is a growing concern, and officials are writing a hazard plan in case the region grows more active. The ground warming could mean that heat is increasing water pressure, a possible cause of eruptions.

Star '37 Gem' called most likely home to aliens - Astrobiologist Maggie Turnbull, of the University of Arizona in Tucson, has compiled a shortlist of 30 possibly habitable planets and stars and one called 37 Gem is her top choice.

Bloodstream Robots - A tiny motor is in development for robots that could travel your bloodstream to repair damaged cells, tissues and DNA... The motor will use biological molecules from virus-based proteins to perform a linear opening and closing motion... It will be so small that 50,000 will line up across a human hair.

Atlantis - After nearly a decade of rummaging through libraries, studying maps, reading ancient works and anglicizing oceanographic data, an American researcher believes he has discovered the site of the lost civilization on the sea floor between Cyprus and Syria, not far from Greece and Egypt, from where the legend of Atlantis originated.

Could we ever be Time Lords? - It is easy to write off time travel as Dr Who-style science fiction. But at least one detailed model for a time machine has forced physicists such as Hawking to try and find some "chronology protection conjecture" that would ban time travel into the past. As the laws of physics permit cause-and-effect mix ups such as the grandmother paradox, there is something about our understanding of the universe that is lacking.

Bear Lake monster - In summer 2002, a veteran local navigator had a hair-raising encounter with the creature. It is essential to "let people know to be on the lookout for the Bear Lake Monster," he says, "because it is still alive and lurking."

Traveling in Time Becomes Possible - Moscow State University professor Dmitry Goltsov has recently announced about the sensational possibility to travel in time. Cosmologists discovered a new dimension that prejudiced Einstein's theory of relativity.

'All you've heard is wrong' - Kennedy planned and developed a coup d'état that resulted in the political murders of Ngo Dinh Diem, the Catholic president of South Vietnam, and his two brothers just 22 days before his death. The U.S. State Department suppressed this information for more than 30 years.

Bigfoot Spotted - "The first thing I thought was this is a gorilla costume. I thought it was a joke," he said. "Then, I put two and two together."

Worst Mass Extinction - A devastating burst of gamma rays may have caused one of Earth's worst mass extinctions, 443 million years ago.

Beyond UFO Abductions - The UFO phenomenon is extraordinarily complex, however the main focus is undeniably face-to-face encounters or the onboard UFO experience. Still, when people think of these types of close encounters, they often assume that the experience is a terrifying event during which the unwilling victim is laid out on a table and examined by emotionless gray-type ETs. While I believe these types of encounters do happen, this is only a small part of the UFO experience.

Close Encounters in China - In a country that bans "evil cults" and monitors faith in anything but the Communist Party, a belief in extraterrestrial life is one of the few fringe convictions that's been allowed to grow into an organized movement.

Was Hitler Hypnotized? - Forensic psychiatrist David Post thinks hypnosis may have been responsible for Hitler's dreadful deeds.

'Bigfoot' believers converge in California - "Our goal was to turn the corner on this thing, to change it from the freak show it is now to the academic dialogue it deserves to be," symposium sponsor Rudy Breuning told the Chronicle. "We have to get beyond the stigma and look at the solid scientific evidence that exists."

Ghost buster - instead of re-decorating (the house) to make it a comfortable family home, he will turn it into the world's first scientifically created haunted house.

Near Death Study - Scientists probing the paranormal said on Wednesday they hoped to set up a major experiment in Britain trying to find out once and for all whether the mind can step outside the body at the brink of death.

Abducted by Greys - Pat describes the creatures as being roughly four feet tall, dark gray shoulders and coming towards the women. Pat said "I was so scared I could hardly talk and could hardly breathe". She yelled to her friend Linda, "get in the car, get in the car". Pat said they both scrambled to get