UFO Religions and Boko Haram (Cult Watch)

BY GREG ODOGWU (All Africa)

[Nigeria] I would not have written this piece but for an extraordinary occurrence in Lanza village, Darazo Local Government Area of Bauchi State, recently.

The event was reminiscent of the extra-terrestrial phenomenon witnessed mostly in the Western world and depicted in many Hollywood movies like Independence Day; Battle: Los Angeles; War of the Worlds, etc. The villagers of Lanza reported seeing a huge and wide reflective metallic object (described by many of them to be like a giant TV screen) appear in the sky around 4pm, and began to float across the village, at very low altitudes that it slid past trees without been brushed - for it seemed to fly right through obstacles. Needless to say, there was pandemonium among the villages who witnessed it.

45 Foot Long Paper Airplane Flies in Arizona

TUCSON, Ariz. –  A 45-foot-long (14-meter-long) paper airplane successfully flew across the desert skies of Arizona -- albeit briefly.


The model, which has a 24-foot wingspan, could be the world's largest paper plane, according to the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Ariz., which was responsible for the project.

Dubbed Arturo's Desert Eagle after the inspiration behind the design -- 12-year-old Arturo Valderamo -- the 800-pound (363-kilogram) aircraft flew at 98 mph (158 kph) at an altitude of 2,703 feet (824 meters) after being towed into the sky by a helicopter Wednesday and then released.

The project began in January after the museum launched a contest for six- to 14-year-olds to see who could fold a paper plane and get it to fly the furthest.

Arturo's design won the competition and -- spurred on by the kids' enthusiasm -- engineers at the museum decided to see whether they could fly their own (slightly larger) aircraft made from Falconboard paper.

Pima Air & Space Museum executive director Yvonne Morris said, "The arresting visual of the paper airplane in flight rekindled the childhood creativity in all of us."

Arturo's Desert Eagle will go on display at the museum later this spring.

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Space Station Threatened by Space Junk

A near miss with a piece of space junk unleashed high drama for the six astronauts manning the International Space Station more than 200 miles above the Earth’s surface.

The crew members were scrambled into escape capsules ready to fire off for an emergency return to Earth after Nasa officials spotted a piece of space junk hurtling towards the path of the ISS.

The remnants of a discarded Russian satellite were picked up too late to manoeuvre the space station into a safer orbit.

Instead, the three Russian, two American and Dutch astronaut were ordered by ground control to take shelter in the emergency Soyuz spacecraft early today.

Obscene 'Borat' anthem mistakenly played for Kazakhstan athlete

"Borat" does it again, but this time it was organizers of a sports event in Kuwait and not Sacha Baron Cohen who slipped up.

The obscene anthem from the 2006 satirical film rather than the country's true national anthem was played Thursday at an awards ceremony for a Kazakhstan athlete who had won a gold medal for shooting at the 10th Arab Shooting Championship, according to media reports.

Maria Dmitrienko remains calm in a video posted on YouTube (see above) while listening to lyrics from the made-up song that insults other countries and touts the country's "clean prostitutes." Toward the end of the ceremony, she leaves the stage smiling, possibly realizing what had happened.

Kazakhstan's shooting team has demanded an apology. The Guardian reports organizers apparently downloaded the wrong song -- and also got the Serbian anthem wrong too.

This isn't the first time Kazakhstan's national anthem was messed up. At a ski event in northern Kazakhstan earlier this month, a bit of "Livin' La Vida Loca" by Ricky Martin was played briefly in error before the true anthem played, the Guardian story says.