"hronicle & Echo readers have been recounting the times they spotted a UFO in the sky above Northamptonshire after the Ministry of Defence revealed there have been dozens of sightings in the county in the past decade. One reader said he saw UFOs on two occasions in the late 1970s and early 1980s. A keen angler, he was fishing at Weston Favell Mill one evening when he noticed a large bright light, travelling erratically in his direction...."

"Two hominid fossils discovered in Kenya are challenging a long-held view of human evolution. The broken upper jaw-bone and intact skull from humanlike creatures, or hominids, are described in Nature. Previously, the hominid Homo habilis was thought to have evolved into the more advanced Homo erectus, which evolved into us. Now, habilis and erectus are thought to be sister species that overlapped in time...."

"Conspiracy theorists jammed the message board of the Evening Post website after we revealed the Ministry of Defence has recorded ten UFO sightings in Notts since 1999. However, the story is perhaps even more sinister than the Post's suspicious online correspondents were aware. Details of these 'encounters of the third kind' were released under the Freedom of Information Act. They included bright and coloured lights, often in odd geometric formations. Interestingly, one of the objects was reported to..."

"If the history of life on Earth could be rewound and replayed, many of the same innovations would reappear, although at different times and in slightly different forms. This is the conclusion of Geerat Vermeij, a paleontologist at the University of California, Davis...."

"The National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP), based in Vallejo, California, has investigated that November 7 incident allegedly involving an unidentified aerial object that violated controlled airspace at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. As viewed by airline and airport employees at O’Hare, the object was round and revolving, gray in color and metallic. It hovered at an altitude less than 1,900 feet above ground level...."

"Until 60 years ago, nobody had heard of flying saucers. Now, one in three of us believes they have already brought aliens to Earth. The growth of what might be called humanity's most recent religion is traced in Flying Saucerers, by David Clarke, a former Yorkshire Post reporter, now lecturing on journalism at Sheffield Hallam, and Andy Roberts, an ex-Brighouse veteran of investigations into the odd, now living in North Wales...."

"Mass suicide in San Diego has rekindled interest in UFOs, but people should not look to the Pentagon for answers. The military no longer serves as the nation's UFO-busters. Thirty-nine Heaven's Gate cult members reportedly believed they were leaving their earthly bodies to reawaken aboard a UFO traveling in the Hale-Bopp comet's wake. In the past, investigating UFOs was up to the U.S. Air Force.From 1947 to 1969, Project Blue Book at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, investigated 12,618 sightings. All but 7..."