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| Sandy Clark examines the Unexplained |
Six calves are the latest critters to be cloned. According to a report in the magazine Science, Steve L Stice, chief scientist at Advanced Cell Technology Inc has cloned six calves in an effort to produce designer cattle. Once the donor animal has the right genes, Stice plans to make exact copies using cloning technology instead of risking his investment to messy sex and genetics. Stice sees a future where cows give milk closer to human milk, are impervious to mad cow disease, or even give human hormones in their milk.
Going Ape
A motorist on Highway 521 near Sampit, South Carolina had a close call with a bigfoot-like creature on May 13 1998. It started when he noticed the odor that was described as the smell of gangrene. At about midnight, the motorist saw a small animal dart across the road that could have been a small fox or skunk. Hot on the animal’s tail was a large hominid that could have been a bigfoot. It was covered with short reddish-brown hair that was matted in places and stood well over six feet tall. It leapt across the road in two steps and the driver had to swerve to avoid hitting it. Large hominids of this sort are commonly seen in remote areas all across North America from the Pacific Northwest to Florida.
Diamond Star
Astronomers have found a star just 17 light years from Earth that may be made of solid diamond. The star is an incredibly dense 8,000 mile in diameter sphere of crystallized carbon and oxygen. A single teaspoon of this dense star-stuff would weigh a ton. This blue-green diamond pushes back the age of the universe even further since it is estimated to be between 12 and 14 billion years old, and the carbon and oxygen that make it up needed even more time to form on top of that. Along with observations of other parts of the universe by the Hubble Space Telescope, this makes about the fourth or fifth time the age of the universe has been pushed back in recent years.
Two Ships from Amsterdam?
You’ll remember the giant UFO that was tracked by British and Dutch radar stations over the North Sea in April. The last word was that Dutch UFO researchers could find no confirmation of the report that appeared in the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail of London. The story said that radar stations and jet interceptors tracked and chased a UFO the size of a ship. The vehicle was over 900 feet long and pulled away from the jets at 24,000 miles per hour.
Now, two new witnesses have come forward to support the story and the Dutch researchers have found new wrinkles to their research as well. It turns out that an Irish couple saw the UFO in April. They are an older couple and well-respected in their hometown. The couple kept quiet assuming they would be ridiculed or laughed at if they came forward with their story of a giant ship-sized UFO. After they read the reports of the very same UFO they had seen being pursued over the North Sea, they told their story to the Tipperary Star of Tipperary, Eire.
