Noumenal News

NOT every parent will give up their child on demand. Not even a Tibetan master whose firstborn has been identified as the spiritual head of a lineage.
Bairo Rinpoche, a reincarnate lama, and his wife, could not bear to be apart from their only son, who, at two years old, was recognised as a reincarnation […]

REGINA — The foremost expert on flying saucers paid a visit to the province that posted an all-time record for UFO sightings last year.
Nuclear physicist and renowned UFO researcher Stanton Friedman brought his lecture Flying Saucers ARE Real to Moose Jaw and Regina on the weekend.
Friedman is not interested in all UFO sightings — simple […]

Unidentified flying discs. Secret military missions. Government cover-ups.
The story Philip Lipson and Charlette LeFevre have been researching for years has almost all the elements of a made-for-TV movie.
As the story goes, a government employee swore he saw flying saucers three days after a Tacoma man said similar UFOs spewed metal and lava onto his boat. […]

CAIRO, April 23 — Egypt said it aimed to retrieve a 3,400-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti from Germany for the opening of a history museum near the Great Pyramids in 2012, despite Berlin’s resistance.
The director of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, told German newsweekly Der Spiegel in an issue to be published Monday […]

INDIANAPOLIS April 24 (UPI) — An Indiana man and the American Civil Liberties Union are suing over a free state license plate that says “In God We Trust.”
Mark Studler told the Indianapolis Star he isn’t opposed to the plates but he thinks they should cost $15 like other specialty plates. Studler paid $40 for […]

Archaeologists are uncovering a huge prehistoric “lost country” hidden below the North Sea.
This lost landscape, where hunter-gatherer communities once lived, was swallowed by rising water levels at the end of the last ice age.
University of Birmingham researchers are heralding “stunning” findings as they map the “best-preserved prehistoric landscape in Europe”.
This large plain disappeared below the […]

Facing lawsuits by veterans and their families, the Bush administration relented yesterday and agreed to allow the Wiccan pentacle - a five-pointed star inside a circle - on tombstones at Arlington National Cemetery and other U.S. military burial grounds.
The Department of Veterans Affairs previously had given veterans a choice of 38 religious symbols, including numerous […]

The discovery of a vast fossil forest hundreds of metres underground has provided an extraordinary picture of some of Earth’s earliest plants.
The exquisitely preserved remains were unearthed in a US coalmine in Illinois, and date back to 300 million years ago.
Writing in the journal Geology, a UK-US team said a diverse array of now extinct […]

Prototaxites has generated controversy for more than a century. Originally classified as a conifer, scientists later argued that it was instead a lichen, various types of algae or a fungus. Whatever it was, it stood in tree-like trunks more than 20 feet tall, making it the largest-known organism on land in its day.
“No matter what […]

Kryptonite is no longer just the stuff of fiction feared by caped superheroes.
A new mineral matching its unique chemistry - as described in the film Superman Returns - has been identified in a mine in Serbia.
According to movie and comic-book storylines, kryptonite is supposed to sap Superman’s powers whenever he is exposed to its large […]