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Huge 'UFO Fragment' Discovered In Siberia
March 23, 2012 - A metal object the size of a Volkswagen Beetle has been discovered near a remote village in Siberia. Local residents presumed it recently fell to Earth from space, but officials from Russia's space agency examined the object and said it "is not related to space technology."
... kinda looks like the back of an old 50's bread truck, the kind like Uncle Ferd got to haul his fat g/f's around in.
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Japanese ghost ship lost in tsunami drifts to B.C. coast
Sun March 24, 2012 -- After being flushed out to sea by last year’s massive tsunami and earthquake, a Japanese squid-fishing boat has drifted across the Pacific Ocean and was about 120 nautical miles off British Columbia’s north coast Friday evening.
Huge 'UFO Fragment' Discovered In Siberia
March 23, 2012 - A metal object the size of a Volkswagen Beetle has been discovered near a remote village in Siberia. Local residents presumed it recently fell to Earth from space, but officials from Russia's space agency examined the object and said it "is not related to space technology."
Locals discovered the roughly 200-kilogram (440 pounds) object, which is cylindrical and capped on one end by a ridged dome, March 18 in the forest near the village of Otradnesnky. They attached the "UFO fragment" (as media outlets have called it) to a trailer and dragged it through the snow to their village. They then alerted Moscow authorities, according to a report in Britain's The Telegraph, and the object was confiscated for inspection.
Following the initial examination, an official for Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, reportedly said: "The object found is not related to space technology. A final conclusion can be made after a detailed study of the object by experts." Part of the fragment is made of titanium, according to district officials. Additional tests showed it was not radioactive. Nick Johnson, head of NASA's orbital debris office, said there isn't sufficient information about the object for him to make a full assessment, but it doesn't appear to be part of a spacecraft.
"The object almost certainly is not related to a spacecraft," Johnson told Life's Little Mysteries. "It also does not look like part of a launch vehicle which has fallen from orbit. However, we cannot be definitive in our judgment without better photos and other data. For example, the date the object fell is vitally important, but I did not see reference to it." It is also unclear whether the object really did fall from space or got lost in the woods by some other route.
Read more: UFO in Russia? Huge 'UFO fragment' discovered in Siberia | Fox News
... kinda looks like the back of an old 50's bread truck, the kind like Uncle Ferd got to haul his fat g/f's around in.
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Japanese ghost ship lost in tsunami drifts to B.C. coast
Sun March 24, 2012 -- After being flushed out to sea by last year’s massive tsunami and earthquake, a Japanese squid-fishing boat has drifted across the Pacific Ocean and was about 120 nautical miles off British Columbia’s north coast Friday evening.
The 150-foot ship was found drifting right-side-up about 140 nautical miles (260 km) from the closest town, Cape Saint James on the southern tip of Haida Gwaii. “It’s been drifting across the Pacific for a year, so it’s pretty beat up,” said marine search coordinator Jeff Olsson of Victoria’s Joint Rescue Coordination Centre.
A plane on a routine surveillance patrol for the fisheries and defence departments found the ship on the afternoon of March 20. The Canadian Coast Guard has issued a notice to all vessels that the ship is an obstruction to navigation. Transport Canada was still monitoring the boat Friday evening for marine pollution and interference with passing ships. The government body would not say whether the ship would be towed in or left to drift to shore on its own.
A boat that size would most likely be towed into Haida Gwaii, and could even be brought in by a commercial fishing ship said towing expert Paul Gray. “The ghost ship is probably going to be pretty much worthless — nobody’s going to want to have anything to do with it because of the huge costs that are going to be incurred [towing it to shore],” said Gray, senior captain with the Vessel Assist towing company. “All that garbage, it’s going to hit Alaska, it’s going to hit B.C. and it’s going to hit Washington. “That’s pretty much predicted and to be expected because of the currents.”
The vessel’s hull numbers were traced to the ship’s owner in Japan, who confirmed that nobody was believed to be on the ship when it was dragged out to sea, Olsson said. The boat — the first large piece of post-tsunami debris to hit North America — was confirmed lost by Japanese officials. Attempts to hail the ship brought no response and Olsson told The Sun “we know nobody’s in danger.”
Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Ja...drifts+coast/6351683/story.html#ixzz1q42X7S7C
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