'Montauk Monster' Mystery May Have Been Solved

Has the Montauk Monster mystery finally been solved?

FOXNews.com readers will remember the story that gripped the nation last summer — a stinking, hairless carcass washed up on the beach in Montauk, N.Y., part of the Hamptons vacation area.

Some speculated it was an escaped mutant from a government lab. Others thought it was an alien. A few suggested it might be a dog or raccoon.

Now one man has come forward, or at least his friend has, to claim it was all the work of him and his buddies.

"I was one of those guys behind that Montauk monster thing last summer," the unnamed individual told blogger Drew Grant over lunch Wednesday.

He then related a tale of finding a dead raccoon in the sand on nearby Shelter Island in late June 2008.
Being young men on vacation, they put the animal on an inflatable child's swim duck, along with a lot of other debris. Then they set it on fire and pushed it out to sea.

Houston lawyer seeks to inventory moon particles

BUFFALO, Texas - A former NASA investigator is on a quest to identify and perhaps recover rare treasure brought to Earth and then lost: tiny portions of moon rocks.

“We’re educating the states and countries of the world about how much they’re worth on the black market, and we need to increase the security in museums and put them back on display,’’ Joe Gutheinz said.

The rock samples were collected by the dozen American astronauts who walked on the moon between 1969-1972. US states, territories, the UN, and foreign governments received them as gifts. The samples, which also were lent to museums and given to scientists for research, range in size from dust particles to pebbles.

“A lot of them are in storage. We need to put them in an inventory control system; that’s what’s really lacking,’’ said Gutheinz, a Houston lawyer who also teaches college classes in investigative techniques.

NASA, which keeps its collection of rocks at Johnson Space Center in Houston and a facility in New Mexico, has confirmed the lack of oversight and has promised to tighten controls, concurring with a report from its Office of Inspector General, where Gutheinz worked until 2000.

[Boston Globe]

Killing Bigfoot OK in Texas – if he's Texan

Texas has no position on the existence of Bigfoot -- but go on, hunt it anyway.

John Lloyd Scharf, a Bigfoot fan from Oregon, emailed the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department last week about hunting unknown creatures.

Chief of staff Lt. David. Sinclair told FoxNews.com he responded with a straight description of the law -- which hinges not on whether the mythical beast exists, but on precisely how the government would label it.

“The statute that you cite (Section 61.021) refers only to game birds, game animals, fish, marine animals or other aquatic life. Generally speaking, other nongame wildlife is listed in Chapter 67 (nongame and threatened species) and Chapter 68 (nongame endangered species),” Sinclair wrote back to Scharf.

“An exotic animal is an animal that is non-indigenous to Texas. Unless the exotic is an endangered species, then exotics may be hunted on private property with landowner consent.”

The law boils down to provenance, Scharf decided. If Bigfoot is indigenous to Texas, it can be killed. But Sinclair told FoxNews.com his response has been taken wildly out of context.

Radioactive man? Milford resident pulled over by state police

Mike Apatow was minding his own business Wednesday, driving to an appointment for work in Washington Depot when a state police car appeared suddenly and signaled for the Milford resident to pull over.

Apatow, 42, was entering Interstate 84 in Newtown when the cruiser appeared, and he had no idea what he'd done to merit police attention. It turns out he didn't do anything.

But earlier that day, Apatow, who'd experienced a recent spike in his blood pressure, had a nuclear stress test at Cardiology Associates of Fairfield County in Trumbull. In the test, a small amount of a radioactive material is injected into the veins and used to help track blood flow to the heart.

Though the amount of radioactive material used in the test is relatively low -- equal to a few X-rays or a diagnostic CT scan -- it was enough to set off a radioactivity detector in the state police car. The detectors are used to help identify potential terror threats.

"I asked the officer `What seems to be the problem?' " Apatow said. "He said `You've been flagged as a radioactive car.' "

Yuma Ghost Hunters Investigate House Haunted by Ghost Child

“Who are you? Why haven't you crossed over?” the four-person crew of the North Orange County Paranormal Society (NOPS) asked as they sat in a dark bedroom in the Pump House Friday night.

The well-respected ghost hunters from Southern California were in the room to investigate reports of an apparition that residents and guests at the Yuma home claimed to have encountered over the years.

One of the residents, who had resided in the room as a child, reported being shaken awake in the dead of night to find no one else in the room. On a different occasion, she had seen all of the toys that were on the top shelf above the closet doors fly off on their own accord.

Drawn by these intriguing tales, the NOPS team brought high-end equipment to the Pump House in hopes of capturing evidence of an apparition.

However, it is the group's intention to prove the absence of ghosts rather than their presence, said Jim Van Eeckhoutte, NOPS co-founder and lead investigator.

Astronomers report five UFOs on Moon, suggest intelligent alien life

Paul Davies and Robert Wagner report seeing five UFOs on moon in mid April 2012 according to testimony supplied from M24digital.com. These astronomers are affiliated with Arizona State University. M24digital.com released this discovery on 12 May 2012.

Astronomers Paul Davies and Robert Wagner had proposed a search for alien evidence on the surface of the moon in 2011. These astronomers had believed that a detailed study of thousands of photographs taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter might reveal such evidence.

“If it costs little to scan data for signs of intelligent manipulation, little is lost in doing so, even though the probability of detecting alien technology at work may be exceedingly low,” they said.

It appears that these astronomers might have gotten an unexpected breakthrough which they had sought out to obtain. M24digital.com reported that in mid April 2012, these astronomers captured five UFOs flying over the moon disappearing into its dark side. These astronomers now say that: “the search for life beyond Earth should focus on the Moon.”

[The Canadian]

‘Rogue Planets’ May Invalidate the Dark Matter Theory

Free-floating extrasolar planets, those that are not gravitationally bound to anything, may be present in much larger numbers than originally thought. This explains the ‘missing mass’ of galaxies, and makes the dark matter theory unnecessary.

These rogue planets orbit the galaxy directly, and in large enough numbers could explain the discrepancy of the gravitational effects of ‘large astronomical objects’, and the estimates of their mass, made from their ‘luminous matter’, the stars, gas, and dust they contain.

In a new study from the University of Buckingham’s Centre for Astrobiology, the researchers argue that these rogue planets are present in large enough quantities that they do explain all of the ‘missing mass’ of galaxies.

Recent studies have estimated that a few billion such planets could be in the galaxy. The authors of the new study think that the number could be up to a hundred thousand billion, of these free floating planets, in the space between stars.

The authors also suggest that these planets originated in the very early universe, soon after the ‘Big Bang’. And that they could have seeded life on Earth, and around the universe.

According to their calculations, one of these planets would cross the inner solar system on average every 25 million years, potentially allowing for the spreading of life.

[planetsave.com]