People celebrating the achievement of landing a probe on a comet are blind to the real purpose of the mission – to investigate a nest of aliens.
That is according to reports circulating among UFO watchers who are convinced the truth behind the European Space Agency’s £1 billion Rosetta mission is “out there”.
One e-mail from an anonymous ‘whistle-blower’ within ESA claims intelligent-sounding signals were received from comet 67PChuryumov-Gerasimenko 20 years ago and it is an alien ship in disguise.
Bath Blue is the big cheese
A West Country cheese has been named the world’s tastiest, beating competition from more than 2,700 global varieties.
Bath Blue was declared this year’s champion during the BBC Good Food Show at the Olympia in Kensington, west London.
The winner is described by its maker, the Bath Soft Cheese company, as a “classic blue-veined cheese” made from the milk of its own organic cows. It is ripened in a traditional stone-built room for eight to 10 weeks to give it a creamy taste.
Robin Hood hideout is top tree
A tree said to have been the hideout of Robin Hood and his Merry Men has been voted England’s tree of the year, the Woodland Trust announced.
The Major Oak in Sherwood Forest Country Park, Nottinghamshire, won almost a fifth (18 per cent) of nearly 13,000 votes cast in the public poll run by the conservation charity.
The vast, spreading oak, thought to be between 800 and 1,000 years old, beat the ancient oak Old Knobbley in Essex and the Ickwell Oak in Bedfordshire to be crowned English tree of the year.
‘Dead man’ tries to vote in US
A man ran into a problem while trying to vote in Michigan: he was told he was dead.
An election worker even told Dale Hopfinger that local records listed the date of his demise as September 25. After some persuasion, Mr Hopfinger said officials finally allowed him to cast a ballot.
Mr Hopfinger said he has been trying to figure out what happened, and that the Social Security Administration told him it was likely to have been a clerical error.
Mother and daughter give birth
A woman and her daughter gave birth at the same hospital in Florida on the same day.
Heather Penticoff and her daughter, Destinee Martin, each found out they were pregnant on the same day. They had the same due dates and, for separate medical reasons, doctors at Lee Memorial Hospital in Fort Myers decided to induce both of them on the same day.
Mrs Penticoff’s daughter Madeline was born first and Destinee’s son Damien was born almost three hours later, making Mrs Penticoff’s grandson roughly the same age as her newborn daughter. Mrs Penticoff said the births are “like having twins without carrying twins”.
Thief hid chainsaw in trousers
A Florida man stole a chainsaw by sticking it down his trousers, police said. Surveillance video from a store in Port St Lucie showed the man putting the tool worth more than $600 down his trousers. Employees chased the man, who ditched the tool in a wooded area.