The Curse of the Pharaoh: Ancient Statue in UK Museum Spins 180° - June 23, 2013

The curse of the Pharaoh.

A 4,000-year-old Ancient Egyptian statue has puzzled curators at Manchester museum after the relic started to mysteriously spin 180 degrees on its own.

The 10-inch tall relic, which dates back to 1800 BC, was found in a mummy's tomb and has spent 80 years at the Manchester Museum.

The statue, named Neb-Senu is an offering to the Egyptian God Osiris, God of the dead.

The Egyptian God Osiris

However, in recent weeks, curators were spooked after they kept finding the statue facing the wrong way. Experts decided to monitor the room on time-lapse video and were astonished to see it clearly show the statuette spinning 180 degrees - with nobody going near it

The statue is seen to remain still at night but slowly rotate round during the day, 'Manchester Evening News' reported.

Scientists who explored the Egyptian tombs in the 1920s were popularly believed to be struck by a 'curse of the Pharaohs'.

Campbell Price, a curator at the museum on Oxford Road, believes there may be a spiritual explanation to the spinning statue.

"I noticed one day that it had turned around. I thought it was strange because it is in a case and I am the only one who has a key. I put it back but then the next day it had moved again” said Price.

In Ancient Egypt they believed that if the mummy is destroyed then the statuette can act as an alternative vessel for the spirit. indiatimes

 

Chupacabra Caught On Tape? 2013

Legend says that chupacabras are doglike animals with long snouts that suck the blood of goats and other livestock. Sightings of these evil-looking creatures have been reported from Latin America to the southern U.S.

While some say the chupacabra is nothing but a legend, a family has video they say might suggest otherwise.

Margaux Huckabay says her brother spotted the legendary chupacabra. Her brother quickly grabbed his phone and started recording the animal.

"It definitely looks weird," she said. "It has a really long nose and a really long tail."

Huckabay couldn't believe it and still wonders whether this is really the goat blood sucker everyone talks about.

"I actually Google-imaged chupacabra, and it looks just like the other images. It's kind of freaky," she said.X

After spotting it, the next night Huckabay and her brother drove back to the area. It was nowhere to be seen.

They did, however, post it on Facebook, and people are chiming in with their thoughts.

"People were saying it's probably like a coyote with mange, but then someone wrote back that doesn't look like a coyote. It has a long tail," she said.

Either way, whatever it was, it may still be lurking around the city.

"But it would be cool if we saw it again," Huckabay said.

Many scientists believe that the animals purported to be chupacabra are coyotes with a severe infection of the animal version of scabies.

 

Supermoon on June 23, 2013: Don't Fear the Supermoon, NASA Says!

Don't fear the 'Supermoon". There is no reason for anybody to dread the largest full moon of 2013, known as the "supermoon," a NASA scientist says.

On Sunday (June 23), the moon will reach perigee — the closest point to Earth in the rocky satellite's orbit around the planet. Although some people have suggested that the "supermoon"  phenomenon may be associated with increased risk of events such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, cause natural disasters and wreak havoc on the tides, but there is scant evidence in support of those claims, NASA assures.

NASA planetary geologist Noah Petro said that while the tides might be slightly higher because of the moon's close approach, it won't make a noticeable difference for the average observer.

 

Certain prognosticators have moved the goalposts to within 1 or 2 weeks of a "supermoon" to suggest a causal relationship with specific natural disasters.

"Supermoons" that have "Coincided" with Natural Disasters

Devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Indonesia on Dec. 26, 2004 occurred about two weeks prior to a "supermoon" on Jan. 10, 2005.

"Supermoon" occurred on Jan. 30, 2010, about two weeks after the catastrophic earthquake that hit Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010.

Catastrophic earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011 occurred about one week prior to the "supermoon" on March 19, 2011

"Supermoon" occurred on Feb. 21, 2011 just before the devastating earthquake that hit Christchurch, New Zealand on Feb. 22, 2011.

Additional information 'Weather forecast' channels:

Skywatcher88: Solar Activity Update - AR-1777 Unleashes an M2.9-Flare/CME

SuspiciousObservers: Destabilization Signals, Flooding, M2 Solar Flare and Weather Extremes, Fast Solar Wind and Proton Flux

Perexusrex: Will this Sunday’s supermoon bring another damaging quake? Due to another CME and other solar activity upon the sun, when combined with Sunday’s "supermoon", an earthquake watch of 7.0 or greater magnitude is in effect from now until June 25th, 2013.

 

The moon does obviously have an influence on the Earth. space.com , astropro.com

Strange Flames on the International Space Station - June 21, 2013

Fire, it is often said, is mankind's oldest chemistry experiment.

For thousands of years, people have been mixing the oxygen-rich air of Earth with an almost endless variety of fuels to produce hot luminous flame.

Flames are hard to understand because they are complicated. In an ordinary candle flame, thousands of chemical reactions take place.

The familiar teardrop shape of the flame is an effect caused by gravity. Hot air rises and draws fresh cool air behind it. This is called buoyancy and is what makes the flame shoot up and flicker.

But what happens when you light a candle, say, on the International Space Station (ISS)?

In microgravity, flames burn differently—they form little spheres.

Recently, Williams and colleagues were doing an ISS experiment called "FLEX" to learn how to put out fires in microgravity when they came across something odd. Small droplets of heptane were burning inside the FLEX combustion chamber. As planned, the flames went out, but unexpectedly the droplets of fuel continued burning. They seemed to be burning without flames.

Ordinary, visible fire burns at a high temperature between 1500K and 2000K. Heptane flame balls on the ISS started out in this "hot fire" regime. But as the flame balls cooled and began to go out, a different kind of burning took over.

Cool flames burn at the relatively low temperature of 500K to 800K and their chemistry is completely different. Normal flames produce soot, CO2 and water. Cool flames produce carbon monoxide and formaldehyde.

It is possible that some unidentified flying orbs/spheres are related to ‘cool flame’ processes? sciencenasagov

 

New UFO Files Released by Britain's Ministry of Defense - June 21, 2013

The mystery behind the closure of the Ministry of Defence's UFO desk and hotline in 2009 has been solved with the release of declassified files.

On June 21, 2013, Britain's Ministry of Defense disclosed a new batch of UFO files for sightings which occurred between 2007-2009, so this will be the final release of such files from Britain.

The Government shut down its UFO operations because they served "no defence purpose" and were taking staff away from "more valuable defence-related activities", according to 25 files from the National Archives.

Documents reveal 643 sightings were reported in 2009, treble the previous year and the second highest recorded since 1978 when 750 sightings were logged.

They include accounts of alleged abductions, contact with aliens - including a person who claimed they'd been living with an alien - and UFO sightings near UK landmarks like the Houses of Parliament.

Despite these, in a briefing for then defence minister Bob Ainsworth in November 2009, Carl Mantell, of the RAF's Air Command, said in more than 50 years, "no UFO sighting reported to (MoD) has ever revealed anything to suggest an extra-terrestrial presence or military threat to the UK".

The memo said there was "no defence benefit" in the recording, collating, analysis or investigation of the sightings, adding: "The level of resources diverted to this task is increasing in response to a recent upsurge in reported sightings, diverting staff from more valuable defence-related activities."

Officials predicted a backlash from "ufologists" to the decision to close the UFO desk, and also noted that they had "deliberately avoided formal approaches to other governments on the issue" amid fears of "international collaboration and conspiracy".

The files also revealed campaigns by ufologists for the Government to investigate sightings more thoroughly, with letters sent to senior ministers, former prime minister Gordon Brown and even the Queen, calling for more action.

After the closure, air traffic control centres and local police forces were advised to no longer refer UFO sightings to the MoD.

An official MoD statement said: "The Ministry of Defence has no opinion on the existence or otherwise of extra-terrestrial life.

 

Highlights from the final release of files from the Ministry of Defence.

 

A serious threat claims author.

thenationalarchivesuk , alienpeace1 , adguknews

Latest Curiosity Photograph Shows Another "Mars Rat"? - June 21, 2013

The Curiosity Mars rat that drew a lot of attention following commentaries by social media users will remain a mystery to many.

A lot of people saying that this rodent, lizard, guinea pig or squirrel was part of a NASA experiment to test how long it would live on the surface of Mars. It’s certainly plausible that NASA would engage in such experiments

NASA explains that despite its appearance, the infamous Mars rat is most likely a rock.

NASA: “Clearly, it results from a lot of things like wind erosion and mechanical abrasion and breakdown chemical weathering of the rocks, as to why they get these weird shapes.”

"Pareidolia"

The psychological phenomenon “pareidolia” is the tendency to find faces, or facial features in inanimate objects (often an image or sound). Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds. Humans sometimes see things where they are not.

"Pareidolia" effect or another Mars rat?

Curiosity photograph (SOL 0310) shows another Mars Rat.
Rear Hazcam:
Date: June 20, 2013
Time: 13:55:06 UTC

Is it a Rock or is it a Rat?

Original Image (Link to original image)

Mars Rat?

The same photograph shows a fossilized alien skull.

Please decide for yourself.

Incredible Flying Saucer Materializes Next To The Sun - June 20, 2013

Incredible object caught by Soho, which clearly shows a flying saucer materializes next to the Sun.

Object is very well defined and clearly has rings or a protection shield around its exterior.

The right side of the object seems to be reflecting the sun rays.

 There are also five black dots around the sun. Maybe smaller craft?

 Video: Large Flying Saucer

Video: Five Small Flying Saucers