France - the first country who opens the UFO files

        Thursday, 19th of March, 2009, the french national space agency unveiled a website documenting more than 1,600 sightings spanning five decades. (The site: http://www.cnes-geipan.fr )

        The online archives contain catalogues with detail cases that continue to perplex even the most skeptic scientists.

        "It is a world's first," said Jacques Patenet, the aeronautical engineer who heads the office for the study of "non-identified aerospatial phenomena."

        UFOs (OVNIs in French) always managed to generate intense interest and also conspiracy theories about government cover-ups of findings to avoid world's panic.

        "Cases such as the lady who reported seeing an object that looked like a flying roll of toilet paper" are clearly not worth investigating, said Patenet.

        Many other cases involving multiple sightings - in at least one case involving thousands of people across France - and evidence such as burn marks and radar trackings showing flight patterns or accelerations that defy the laws of physics are taken very seriously.

1,600 cases were registered since 1954 and nearly 25 percent are classified as "type D", meaning that "despite good or very good data and credible witnesses, we are confronted with something we can't explain," Patenet said.

Can Radon gas leakes accurately predict earthquakes?

        The researcher Giampaolo Giuliani (Italy's Gran Sasso laboratory) alerted authorities in the region of Abruzzo that a quake was imminent – and was accused for raising a false alarm. Mr. Giuliani refused any interview. He claimed that he based his warning on radon emissions that instruments at his lab were picking up.

        Radon, a naturally occurring radioactive gas, has been listed as one of several possible indicators of an impending temblor. Increased levels of Radon gas (222Rn) in wells is a precursor of earthquakes recognized by the IASPEI (International Association of Seismology and Physics of The Earth's Interior). Although Radon has a relatively short half life (t1/2=98hrs), and is therefore unlikely to seep to the surface through rocks from the depths at which seismic activity occurs. However, Radon is very soluble in water, and can routinely be monitored in wells and springs. Often, Radon levels at such springs show reaction to seismic events and, worldwide, many are monitored for earthquake predictions.
        March, 23rd, 2009, Giuliani said during a March 23rd video interview posted on a local Abruzzo website, "Our instrument ... allows us to see continuously the seismic precursors within this element (Radon), which manifests itself between six and 24 hours ahead of a quake." He also emphasized the need to create a network that would allow scientists to monitor carefully radon activity.

Ancient Europeans

A Natufian tomb, Israel, 10,000 BC. A man and a puppy are buried together. The human's hand is lying on the little dog. This is a possible indication of an existing affectionate bond.

        In Kana, Hungary archaeologists found a medieval cemetery from 10th-13th centuries. Interesting is that the cemetery is divided in two: one part for burying humans ant the other for dogs.
        Prof. Marta Daroczi-Szabo (University of Budapest), said that the residents of Kana were practicing more than just one religion. The Hungarians were converted to Catholicism in the year 1000 and they were not allowed to practice pagan sacrifices. But people continued to worship dogs as holy animals. Daroczi-Szabo said that the adult canines were buried in special graves. Four puppies were put to rest in clay pots. The dog cemetery was placed next to the human burial ground.
        Ancient Europeans living there worshipped dogs and believed that they protected people against the powers of evil. The Hungarians also believed that dogs symbolized faithfulness and helped overcome envy.

Radio waves mysteries

        Many mysteries are associated with radio frequencies  in our atmosphere. During the Vietnam War pilots occasionally picked up strange radio messages between other pilots. They didn’t make much sense and the pilots never responded.  A supposition whas that they were inter plane chatter between pilots in the Korean War almost 20 years before they were being overheard during Vietnam. One explanation for these strange facts would be that the radio signals got "stuck" in the atmosphere somewhere and were later released and rebroadcast decades after they were sent.
        It is known that the atmosphere is capable of  weird aberrations. On August 10, 1979, George Quig was trying to call his wife on their CB radio in the White Mountain area of New Hampshire when he picked up a desperate SOS from a vessel. By the clarity of the message received he thought it was nearby. But the voice said they were off the coast of Venezuela. You may think that was just a hoax, but Quig contacted the Coast Guard. They in turn relayed the message to the nearest Coast Guard station and they sent cutters and an airplane. Believe it or not, here was a boat in distress just like the voice had claimed. The Coast Guard rescued 5 people from a 42 foot trawler 3 hours later. It was, in fact, 2,000 miles away from New Hampshire off the coast of South America,  just where the man had claimed to be.
        This was attributed to an "atmospheric quirk". A quirk is something that is unknown and that can only be judged by its effect. Whatever happened in the atmosphere that day, it allowed radio signals to be transmitted 2,000 miles away. If a quirk can misplace a radio signal, can it misplace objects or persons?