Noumenal News

MIAMI - Professor Stephen Haggerty retrieves a 730-carat black diamond,
the size of an apple, from his desk. It’s nearly impossible to cut,
potentially billions of years old and, he believes, a product of outer
space.
Haggerty, 68, is a man driven by diamonds to far and dangerous places:
Siberia, where he met his wife; Ivory Coast; Sierra Leone; Liberia. […]

Have you ever seen an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO)? A trick
question, isn’t it? If you respond with a ‘yes’, chances are people
will say you’re bonkers.
It’s safer, then, to assume that any
suspicious looking thing moving in the sky is some exotic military
aircraft and pay no serious attention to it. But hold on, there is a gentleman
out […]

LANCASTER, Calif., Feb. 17 (UPI) — A solemn ceremony was held at a
California jail supposedly haunted by the spirit of a British airman
who was killed in a freak accident during World War II.
About 200 people attended Friday’s “funeral” of Royal Air Force
Cadet Meyer Himelstaub, who was killed at War Eagle Field when he
walked into […]

Dan Brown has a lot to answer for. As the creator of what has been dubbed ‘the gnostic thriller’, he has started a flood that shows no sign of abating. The huge success of The Da Vinci Code sent publishers scurrying in search of similar religious suspense novels.
The mini-avalanche of books that immediately followed ranged […]

BRIDGEWATER —
Before Charles Darwin championed evolution, William Dembski says, an
intelligent cause must have acted to create Darwin and the Galapagos
Islands he studied.
Before intelligent design entered the scene
with a controversial challenge to Darwin’s synthesis, Michael Shermer
says, natural selection was and remains the only reliable explanation
for the diversity of life Darwin discovered.
The center of
their conflict rests on […]

Riga - A hole in a frozen pond in northern Latvia achieved unexpected
notoriety on Wednesday as rumours began circulating that it was created
by an object falling from outer space.
“We’ve been collecting information on the story all day, and we’ll
definitely report it in the morning,” Inguna Plume, editor of local
newspaper Ziemellatvija, told reporters.
The “unusually large hole” […]

The BBC’s promotional material for its upcoming documentary on the 9/11
truth movement, widely expected to be a sophisticated hit piece,
attempts to dismiss serious questions about 9/11 by implying that
anyone who distrusts the official version has a borderline
psychological illness and is a member of a mythological cult.
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A draft UN treaty to determine what would have to
be done if a giant asteroid was on a collision course with Earth is to
be drawn up this year.

The document would set out global policies including who should be in charge of plans to deflect any object.

It is the brainchild of the Association of Space Explorers, […]

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — To an Arizona middle school, Batman! Three
schools in the north Phoenix suburb of Cave Creek were on lockdown for
about 45 minutes Wednesday morning after a student at Desert Arroyo
Middle School reported seeing a person dressed as Batman run across
campus, jump a fence and disappear into the desert, Scottsdale police
Sgt. Mark Clark said.
The […]

WASHINGTON - An orbiting spacecraft has sent back new evidence for the
presence of water on Mars. Scientists long have debated whether water
flowed on the red planet, with evidence increasing in recent years. The
presence of water would raise the possibility of at least primitive
life forms existing there.Full Article