IT'S not a bird, it's not a plane, and it's certainly not one of those errant weather balloons so often blamed for UFO sightings.

According to Sydney UFO investigator Doug Moffett, a bizarre shining orb filmed hovering near Batemans Bay on the New South Wales south coast late last month is a genuine unidentified flying object.

Eurobodalla resident Ben Roberts filmed more than eight minutes of footage early on June 21 tracking the bright sphere of light flashing and moving above the horizon.

He said he was "amazed" by how bright the UFO appeared.

"It was not a plane," he said.

"There were no flashes and it was way too slow. Same for a helicopter - no flashes and too slow."

That doesn't necessarily mean it was a spacecraft full of alien lifeforms paying south coast residents an early morning visit.

But Mr Moffett, an investigator from UFO Research NSW, said it meant there was no reasonable explanation.

"It doesn't fit any of the usual suspects, such as Venus, planes, weather balloons or military flares," he said.

"I really don't see it being a remote controlled aircraft with LEDs because if someone was doing that they're probably not going to do it at night. It's what I would call a genuine UFO."

Mr Moffett said the planet Venus, which often shines brightly in the night sky, was often mistaken for a UFO because as its light penetrated the atmosphere it sometimes twinkled and appeared to move - a phenomenon known as scintillation.

However, the light captured on Mr Roberts' footage did not fit that scenario.

The south coast sighting is just one of dozens of UFOs reported above Australia every year.

Mr Moffett said another UFO, reportedly shaped like a half-dome with tentacle-like protrusions beneath, was spotted over the Central Coast last month.

Mr Moffett said the number of local sightings appeared to be on the rise.

"Certainly in world terms it has been a very busy year," he said.

Ghost tour finds spirits - and beer
BY MATT CARR
03 Jul, 2012 04:00 AM

A GHOST with a love of beer is among the paranormal happenings covered in a new ghost tour of Raymond Terrace.

Apparitions Ghost Tours operator and paranormal investigator Murray Byfield said the tours, which began last weekend, had booked out in their first week.

He said the tours covered ‘‘history, ghost stories and not-quite-so-happy’’ tales of the town.

‘‘I’ve still got a lot of people who are inquiring about it,’’ Mr Byfield said.

‘‘My first tour was supposed to go for an hour and a half and ran for more than two hours.’’

Mr Byfield, who has searched areas including the former BHP site for the paranormal, said Raymond Terrace’s history as a river port was key to his tours.

But the Masonic Centre on King Street was among the town’s most notable sites, he said, with reports of a woman apparition on the verandah.

In another story, a figure who appeared to Rotary members quenched his thirst.

‘‘People would hear footsteps up the stairway and saw a figure go into the kitchen,’’ Mr Byfield said.

‘‘[A man in the kitchen] said ‘I know you’re here’ and poured a beer, then went downstairs.

‘‘He came back and the beer was gone.’’

The Raymond Terrace tours cost $30 and run on Friday nights.

More information is available at apparitionsghosttours.com.au. apparitionsghosttours.com.au.

UNCOVERING Raymond Terrace's rich history and telling stories of ghosts, murders and tragic accidents will all be part of a new ghost tour to take place in the town.

Murray Byfield from the Apparitions store in the Terrace is hosting the tours and said it was almost three years culmination of research and hard work.

The Port Stephens born and bred tour guide said Raymond Terrace had a history as rich as Newcastle, Maitland and Morpeth which should be shared and promoted.

"In the 1800s it was a very busy place, the river was the highway, it was a hive of activity," he said,

"The thing we [Raymond Terrace]have to offer is history and it is often swept under the rug.

"It really needs talking about."

The tour will be a walking street tour focusing on history and ghost stories of the town and those taking part will have the chance to have a play with some paranormal investigation equipment.

Starting in King Street, which Mr Byfield said was the original CBD of Raymond Terrace until the devastating 1955 flood, the tour will then venture up the river and along Hunter Street taking in some of the area's old homes, churches and other historic buildings including the old St Johns rectory.

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A classic, saucer-shaped UFO was filmed from the window of an airplane flying over Seoul, South Korea. What is it?

As the passenger uses a video camera to catch the view of the city out the window, a saucer-shaped, white-colored unidentified flying object whizzes by, erratically flying in a crazy path. It dips upward for a second before it disappears from view.

The witness is clearly surprised, speaking a dialect which sounds eastern European. In any language, it's clear he is trying to call someone else's attention, but by then it's too late.

There has been a rash of new UFO sightings lately from airplane windows, but this one also has a segment of the video in which the object is magnified and enhanced. It doesn't help identify the object. It appears to be bowl-shaped and looks like no known aircraft.

So what is it?

A young mother has been evicted from her home after telling neighbours a poltergeist was to blame for throwing all-night parties.

Leanne Fennell, 20, told neighbours that a ghost had been playing loud music and throwing empty beer cans into the garden of her home in Hull, East Yorks, when they complained about the noise.

Fennel has now been evicted from her council house after Hull City Council took her to court after ignoring a noise abatement order.
Council officers also seized four televisions, four DVD players and a CD player, which will now be destroyed, from the property in Wexford Road.

Furious neighbours had to put up with night after night of loud parties at Fennell's home - which regularly ran on until the early hours of the morning.
One neighbour, who did not wish to be named, said: "She told us a poltergeist would keep switching the music on really loud when she was in bed."

"Some of the neighbours had a terrible time.
"There was always bottles and bottles of wine and cider just chucked in the garden.
"She had at least four huge bonfires to burn some of the rubbish that was in there.
"Some people complained and then she was warned by the council, but she didn't listen.
"Eventually, it went too far and we'd had enough."
Another neighbour said: "She was playing loud music at all hours. We reported her loads of times.
"It is nice to have some peace and quiet around here now she has gone."

On her Facebook page, Fennell says: "First and most of all I'm a proud mam to a beautiful little girl. I'm not fussy ... but a girl should try look her best 24/7.

"I also sin but I'm not the devil, so with me what you see is what you get. I love to party with my mates, well, the ones who can keep up with me that is."

Hull Magistrates' Court heard that loud music was heard coming from Fennell's home on January 13, 16, 18 and 19, after the noise abatement notice had been served by council nuisance officers.

She also ignored warnings to clear rubbish from outside the property.

Fennell was found guilty in her absence of four breaches of the abatement notice banning loud music and raised voices and another requiring her to remove rubbish from the garden.

Hull magistrates ordered her to pay fines of £370 and costs of £500 to Hull City Council.

A psychologist has created an iPhone application to help people manipulate their dreams by playing pleasant 'soundscapes' during slumber.

Professor Richard Wiseman, who claims to be the most followed psychologist on Twitter, hopes to sweeten people's dreams using their smartphones.
The self-described "psychologist, author and magician" hopes to attract thousands of people to take part in the dream manipulation experiment.
Participants will download a specially designed app that turns their Apple device into a 'dream factory'.
After placing the phone on the bed it can detect when a sleeper is not moving - signifying the onset of dreaming.

The device then plays a customised 'soundscape' designed to evoke pleasant scenes such as walking in woods, lying on a beach or being in a peaceful garden.

The University of Hertfordshire's professor hopes the sound will influence dreaming, causing dreamers to conjure up situations and experiences inspired by what they are hearing.

A member of the inner Magic Circle, Prof Wiseman said: "Getting a good night's sleep and having pleasant dreams boosts people's productivity, and is essential for their psychological and physical wellbeing.
"Despite this, we know very little about how to influence dreams. This experiment aims to change that," Prof Wiseman said.
Launched at the Edinburgh International Science Festival, it is hoped as many as 10,000 people will take part in the mass-participation study.
Prof Wiseman teamed up with app developers Yuza, which created the Dream:ON software, and participants will be encouraged to share their dreams via Facebook and Twitter.

The programme can be downloaded for free from iTunes or via the Dream:ON app project site.

A national survey conducted for the experiment found that 21% of respondents had trouble sleeping and 15% suffered from unpleasant dreams.
There is, however, a downside to participation in the experiment - the app will not give participants a full night's sleep.

The study requires the app to wake up the sleeper post-dream, who then must submit a brief description of it to a 'dream diary' database.

Do you believe in ghosts? Apparently there’s a nun haunting the Long Walk in Galway. We don’t know about you, but if we were ghosts we’d probably haunt somewhere a bit cooler than an industrial estate, in fairness.

The Galway Independent has unleashed pictures of the spectre that were taken by a local photographer. Jonathan Curran was taking photographs of the area when he caught the nun on camera. She was just hanging around, looking creepy. The usual.

The paper reports that one of the images clearly shows a female figure that has the appearance of a 19th century Claddagh nun – we’re just grateful that they happened to have a ghost-nun expert on hand to identify the mysterious blob.

How did Mr Curran react to the discovery? He was “freaked” as apparently the 12 other pictures that he taken didn’t have the ghost nun in them. That means she appeared in the 13th picture…this is almost TOO good…

“The image was not visible either before or after the photograph was taken and was not captured in any of the other photographs, either going or coming. She just seemed to appear for a moment and then disappear. There were other people on the Long Walk that day, but they seemed oblivious to her presence,” he said.

The picture is causing a major stir in Galway as people try to distinguish whether the nun is actually a ghost or if she’s just an optical illusion. We love a good ghost story, but we find it hard to believe that a 19th Century nun was just roaming around an area that looks like an industrial estate. Wouldn’t she have better things to be doing? Here's a closer look at the above picture so you can examine it yourself:

William Henry, a Galway historian said that there were lots of hauntings around the Claddagh, Wolfe Tone Bridge and Long Walk over the years and that stories of the ‘Lady in White’ were told on a regular basis.

Clearly people in Galway have too much time on their hands. Or they’re actually starting to believe the tales told by drunken students who have seen “strange” things on the way home after a night out, only to realise that their “ghost” was in fact a post box.

Mr Henry said that the image of the nun was striking and “certainly stands out of place in a modern context.”

“She appears to be looking directly at the camera indicating an awareness of her surroundings,” he added.

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While technically a UFO refers to any unidentified flying object, in modern popular culture the term UFO has generally become synonymous with alien spacecraft.

Proponents argue that because these objects appear to be technological and not natural phenomenon, and are alleged to display flight characteristics or have shapes seemingly unknown to conventional technology, the conclusion is then that t...hey must not be from Earth.

Though UFO sightings have occurred throughout recorded history, modern interest in them dates from World War II (see foo fighter), further fueled in the late 1940s by Kenneth Arnold's coining of the term flying saucer and the Roswell UFO Incident.

Since then governments have investigated UFO reports, often from a military perspective- and UFO researchers have investigated, written about, and created organizations devoted to the subject. One such investigation, The UK's Project Condign report, notes that Russian, Former Soviet Republics, and Chinese authorities have made a co-ordinated effort to understand the UFO topic and that State military organizations, particularly in Russia, have done "considerably more work (than is evident from open sources)" on military applications which have stemmed from their UFO research. The report also noted that "several aircraft have been destroyed and at least four pilots have been killed 'chasing UFOs'.

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BUSH fugitive Malcolm Naden may have been as far east as Mount George in August 2009 when two women saw what they believed was a "yowie" on Nowendoc Road.

The Manning River Times reported at the time that the two women were approaching Connelly's Creek Gap "just the other side of Mt George" at 7.30pm and saw "a big hairy animal thing" illuminated in their headlights on the side of the winding road.

Faye Burke and Alana Garnett from Wingham said the hairy thing stood perfectly still "like it was at attention" and had dark "chocolate brown hair which was all matted."

Though the women maintained it was not a man dressed up but was in fact a yowie or big foot-like creature, by their description it could well have been Naden, whose computer-enhanced image recently released by police does have dark curly hair. He is also described as 177cm tall - five foot 10 in the old scale.

Described as an expert bushman, Naden has survived alone in the bush since June 2005 when he disappeared from his grandparents' house in west Dubbo. He is wanted on warrants for the murder of a 24-year-old woman in Dubbo in June 2005 and an aggravated indecent assault against a 15-year-old girl.

Police confirmed yesterday that the campsite raided last Wednesday was Naden's as his fingerprints were found there. A police officer was shot during the raid.

Naden has also been linked to a number of burglaries in the Barrington Tops area over the past few years. In January 2009 his fingerprints were found at break-ins at Bellbrook, west of Kempsey. In June 2010 he was as far south as Mount Mooney near Gloucester, where his prints were found again.

The "yowie" sighting occurred between these two points and dates.

Detectives from the Homicide Squad have been investigating the whereabouts of Naden under Strike Force Durkin. Enquries led them to bushland near Nowendoc. Sixty officers are now involved in the search.

A reward of $250,000 is now in place for information leading to the capture of Naden.

The mystery as to the identity of the large fish which jumped out of Lake Burley Griffin near the Canberra Yacht Club and ate a seagull skimming across the surface of the water (Burley Monster, November 19) may have been solved.

''The Burley Monster is most likely to be a Murray cod, of which there are many large ones living in the lake,'' claims Nick Rusanov, of Isabella Plains.

''Not only do large cod eat yabbies, smaller fish and insects but they also they love feasting on birds.''

Nick, a seasoned fishermen of local waterways, cites a recent fishing trip to Yarrawonga on the Murray River as further evidence in support of his theory.

''All the other guys in the group were using yabbies and worms and didn't catch anything, apart from the odd carp or two, but my mate, Mick, who used a small dead bird he'd found as bait, reeled in a 40kg, 1.2m-long monster cod.''

In fact, the prized catch was so big that Mick didn't want to lift it up ''as he was worried he'd get covered in fish slime'', so he had to rely upon another mate, Ivan, to pose for the photo.

By Tim the Yowie Man

According to Nick, it seems that in the past, some local fishermen have taken advantage of the Murray cod's taste for birds, to try to reel in record catches. Nick remembers holiday fishing trips to Burrinjuck Dam (near Yass) with his family in the 1980s.

''I recall going into a number of local pubs on the main street of Yass and saw some really old black and white photos pinned upon the pub walls showing huge Murray cod - some were the length of a man, and probably weighed many hundreds of pounds,'' Nick says.

''Some old locals told us that the preferred bait for these monster fish were parrots - the more brightly coloured the bird, the better.''

While I certainly hope that the practice of using live birds as bait are long gone (and it's illegal), does anyone know the whereabouts of the monster cod photos that were once on display in a Yass pub?

DID YOU KNOW?

In the year 2000 there were a number of sightings of the ''Burley Beast'', including one by Emma Hodge and her mother Mary who were walking their dog, Remul, around the lake early one morning.

They say they saw an eel-like creature gliding on the surface. It was about 2m long. This led some to speculate that the lake could be home to our very own Loch Ness monster.