In the video below, an alleged UFO is depicted, having been filmed recently over King’s Dominion, a theme park in Virginia. Spokespeople with the theme park told Denna Smith, who made the film, that the odd ring-like object is smoke from a volcano-themed ride they feature… could this indeed be the cause of the odd phenomenon?
Though I state that the clip above was filmed recently, this video has in fact been circulating for a while already, with initial reports appearing by early-to-mid June. However, it is still of interest at present, especially after having provided time for two other incidents to come to light from decades past, which also resulted in photographs of a ring-like object appearing in the sky. The first of the two other known incidents occurred in Florida in 1999, the other near Fort Belvoir–incidentally, also in Virginia–in the 1950s (see photo below). The latter of these was described in official reports as “A black ring that became obscured by an opaque white cloud, reportedly witnessed by about 15 persons and photographed by the principle witness is identified as the by-product of an ‘atom bomb simulation’ on the army base.” One must admit that the visual similarities between these objects, filmed several decades apart, are striking.
On opening day of the new film Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, my brother Caleb and I eagerly attended an early showing to see the film before the evening after-work-rush began. An entertaining flick by all means, it nonetheless seemed to lack a bit of the spark (or perhaps in this case, a bit of the all-spark) of its predecessor, though I was still glad to see it maintained a variety of anomalous references in the film. These included an apparent near-death-experience by Shia LeBeouf’s character Sam near the film’s climax; also, what may have been a reference to various locales where fossilized dinosaur footprints allegedly appear alongside early human tracks is shown during the film’s opening sequence, as explained by the arrival of “the Fallen” to prehistoric Earth eons ago.
The largest, and perhaps most famous of the macropod family (that is, creatures with large feet) are Australia’s iconic hopping delight, the Kangaroo. Used as a national symbol appearing on the Australian coat of arms, some of its currency, and a variety of other places, this unique saltatating (jumping) creature has become a mainstay of Australian culture.
Whether we live in the depths of the darkest jungles or on the most crowded streets in large urban epicenters, each day we take for granted the plant life which surrounds us. Several years ago, I recall an instance where a friend of mine who had recently been diagnosed with a kind of hyper-sensitivity had been sitting in my driveway with me one evening, when he thought he overheard voices coming from nearby. “Do you hear that?” he asked. I admitted that I hadn’t heard anything in particular. After a brief silence, he laughed to himself. “That’s funny… I could have sworn I had heard voices. Must have been the trees talking to one another.”