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22,000 Reportedly Dead, 41,000 Missing After Catastrophic Myanmar Cyclone
May 6, 2008 - A massive cyclone that hit Myanmar (formerly Burma) last week-end has left over 22,000 people dead and more than 41,000 missing.
- The U.N. World Food Program, which is preparing to fly in food supplies, offered a grim assessment of the destruction: up to a million people possibly homeless, some villages almost totally destroyed and vast rice-growing areas wiped out.
- Source: Fox
- UN officials: Myanmar cyclone a 'major, major disaster' - AP
'Death Star' Gamma-Ray Gun Pointed Straight at Earth
Mar. 6, 2008 - An unstable stellar system, WR104 , which is 8000 light years away is headed for a supernova explosion, and the Earth could be blasted by gamma rays that would damage our ozone layer.Sydney University astronomer Peter Tuthill discovered the system.
- "We probably have hundreds of thousands of years before it blows, so we have plenty of time to come up with some answers," he said.
- Source: Fox
Out of 600,000 bits of space debris, we're about to be hit by one the size of a bus
Jan. 28, 2008 - A 10-ton U.S. spy satellite is out of control and will crash to the ground at some unknown place in the next few weeks. Professor John Brown, Astronomer Royal for Scotland, says
- "If it hit land it could be like a small plane crash, but nobody has ever been killed by a falling space object. Anything that's not designed for re-entry would probably break up. The more catastrophic thing would be an asteroid hitting the earth."
The odds of a human being hit by the satellite are least 20 billion to one.
- Source: The Scotsman
More UFO Sightings Reported Over Texas
Jan. 23, 2008 - Multiple sighting of UFOs took place over Texas for three days, Jan. 8, 9 and 10. Viewers saw them over Stephenville, San Antonio, and Corpus Christi.
- It appears that lights in the sky over Texas ran rampant for three nights in a row following the mass near-hysteria attention the Stephenville, TX UFO sightings.
- Source: Axcessnews.com
- UFO seekers flock to mystery lights in Texas - Telegraph - UK
- Mutual UFO Network (MUFON)
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