THIS is TRUE #713: 10 February

post from This is True on 15 February 2008 11:41:24 PM. © This is True

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New Materials Can Isolate and Capture CO2 More
Efficiently with Five Times More Density than Current State of the Art

post from The Energy Blog on 15 February 2008 10:29:00 PM. © The Energy Blog

UCLA scientists have demonstrated that they can successfully isolate and capture carbon dioxide, which contributes to global warming, rising sea levels and the increased acidity of oceans. Their findings could lead to power plants efficiently capturing carbon dioxide without using toxic materials....

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China to the US: Take Our Women

post from Offbeat News on 15 February 2008 08:59:41 PM. © Offbeat News

An interesting piece of history was discovered in a document that the State Department's historical office released.

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New Bigfoot Cryptocinema

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What can I say? Video.

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Stephenville, Texas UFO - Mufon CMS Submission
(Images)

post from UFO Blog on 15 February 2008 02:58:00 PM. © UFO Blog

Mufon CMS Submission (12th Feb 2008)

If you visit the Mufon Case Management System (CMS) and search for Texas UFO sightings, you will see that since January 1 st (2008) there's over 40 reports submitted. Here's just one of them, the UFO was spotted on the 12 th February 2008 by two witnesses who both submitted their accounts along with images.

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Long Description of Sighting Report (2-12-08)

(Configuration of lights that split into two separate groups).

Witness 1:

It was approximately 9:00 pm and my boyfriend and I were driving north, about 1 ½ miles west-southwest of town. He saw a group of lights and pointed them out to me. They were moving slowly and low in the sky. I knew right away these were not planes. There were two groups of four bright white lights, in a straight line, one larger group above the other smaller group, similar to the shape of the ship on Star Trek. The entire group slowly turned to the right, then split into two separate groups, each a group of four bright white lights with a red light underneath. The two groups slowly passed over us and continued on toward the southeast until out of sight. There was no noise at all, completely silent. I am sure that it was not airplanes or a blimp. I tried to take photographs, but wasn't sure if I was getting anything because it was so dark. When we looked at our pictures later, I was shocked to find not only the two groups I was focusing on, but three more groups of different colors in the photo as well. In the photo they appear zig-zagging, but they did not look like this by plain eyesight. I was amazed, excited, and nervous. I could not believe what I was seeing. Also, I circled three lights in the lower right hand corner of each photograph. I don't know what these are, but they are the same in each photo. They are not zig zagged like the others. The photos were taken less than a minute apart.

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Witness 2:

It was around 9:00 pm, and my girlfriend and I were on the way to my house from the high school baseball game. We were driving north down the road and I noticed some strange lights in the sky to my left. I told her to look and she was surprised too. There were four white lights and a red light. The four white lights blinked in a rolling sequence and the red light did not blink at all. I am sure they could not have been planes because they were too close together and were moving very slowly and I could not hear anything. They were low enough that I should have been able to hear something. As they moved along, it seems that the red light was moving ahead of the white lights. I have never seen anything like this.

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Here are a couple of crops of the images with the brightness/contrast adjusted for clarity.

Stephenville, Texas UFO Photograpgh (Mufon Submission)

Source: Mufon CMS

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Tiny bodybuilder in Guinness Book

post from Offbeat News on 15 February 2008 01:50:29 PM. © Offbeat News

See pics and world's hairiest man

Aditya "Romeo" Dev of Phagwara, India, is less than 3 feet tall, but he's also deemed as the World's Smallest Bodybuilder on the planet by the Guinness Book of World Records.

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Woman applying for new ID says she's 120

post from Offbeat News on 15 February 2008 01:40:21 PM. © Offbeat News

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Mariam Amash filled in the routine form with anything but routine information. Amash, who recently applied for a new Israeli identity card, said she was born 120 years ago - a claim, if confirmed, that would ...

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Children. You're giving me a headache

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- A Swedish preschool has been criticized for banning its children from wearing striped and spotted clothing since the patterns give one of its teachers severe migraine attacks.

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Underwear on the face didn't fool anyone

WELCH, W.Va. (AP) -- A robbery suspect tried to hide his face with a pair of underwear but the disguise didn't fool witnesses.

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Ex-mayor: Didn't steal Puddles the pooch

ALICE, Texas (AP) -- The former mayor of Alice who resigned because of a custody dispute over a Shih Tzu name Puddles insists she didn't steal her neighbor's pooch.

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