THIS is TRUE #753: 16 November

SINCE 1994 and reaching more than 108,000 subscribers in over 200   countries, this is the 753rd weekly issue of...THIS is TRUE: 16 November 2008        Copyright http://www.thisistrue.com-------------------------------------------------------------------------IF ONLY THEY GOT THIS ON CAMERA: A security officer at a Wal-Mart store   in Madison Township, Ohio, noticed two men who were acting

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Meet The Readers And Share: Who Are You

Hey, can we reach 300 by the weekend?! It is time for you to share, today, full-blown researchers, open-minded readers, debunking skeptics, true believers, the merely curious..all are welcome.

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East London Bigfoot

"It was hunched over and I could see it had a really hairy back. I think it must have heard me and scampered off into the bushes after a couple of seconds," said the eyewitness.

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Colorado State Patrol Officer Encountered UFO and
“Human” Stranger

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Video of UFO shooting beams at the ground

A SHINING beam blasts earthwards from what looks like a hovering UFO, in another astounding sighting.

A clip handed to The Sun shows the white dot hanging motionless in the air before a shot of white light emits from the orb, hitting the earth.

Just a few seconds later a red beam comes firing from the object before the silent orb disappears.

Zoe Salthouse, 20, captured this incredible footage a couple of weeks ago while sitting in a friend?s back garden.

The student nurse from New Moston, Manchester, was sitting with friends in nearby Alcrington when she saw the light.

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When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy
dead...

For anyone who hasn't seen this very bizarre and compelling instance of paredolic posturing, you really must take a look at the photo I've written about in my latest Medusa's Ladder column. It was originally sent to my husband for inclusion on his site,[...]

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Florida teen broadcast suicide on Internet

Authorities say a South Florida teen committed suicide in front of a live online webcam audience after blogging about his plan to kill himself.

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Woman sues after flaming bar stunt goes wrong

A Manhattan woman is suing the bar where she was burned during a trick performed by the bartender while the jukebox played "Great Balls of Fire."

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UFO photographed over Filton

An unidentified flying object has been photographed over Filton.

Taxi driver Paul Matthews spotted the object in the air near the Royal Mail depot on 2pm on Friday afternoon soon after he had driven into the Airbus site.

He quickly pulled over his car and watched as what he described as a disc-shaped object hovered in the air before disappearing as swiftly as it had appeared.

Now the Bristol Evening Post is calling on readers who believe they know what the object is to get in touch.

Mr Matthews said that at first he thought it was an aeroplane, microlite or parachute, but it wasn't behaving like anything he had seen before.

"It was very weird. It was so strange. I have been a lorry driver in my time and seen some strange things, but this is something else," said Mr Matthews, 45, from Patchway.

"I had never ever seen something like this before. I was really surprised how other people had not noticed it. I thought they would be stopping in their droves, but that was not the case at all."

Did you see the mysterious object in the sky over Filton on Friday ? or do you think you know what it was? Contact the newsdesk on 0117 934 3333 or e-mail us.

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New UFO sightings investigated in Erath County

Reports of UFOs sighted over North Central Texas last week are the latest in an apparent sequel to the Stephenville sightings in January, which made headlines nationwide.

Dozens of residents in and around Erath County reported seeing strange lights in the sky the evening of Oct. 23, according to the Stephenville Empire-Tribune, which also reported that the military has confirmed the presence of F-16s in the area at that time.

"I think more people are willing to come forward now that more people are talking about this," said Whitney White-Ashley, a reporter for the paper.

CNN reported last week?s sightings, interviewing Dublin resident Andy Monroe, who caught a 30-second video of a line of red lights he says encircled an oval shape floating in the sky.

Most of the descriptions are of an oval shape with lights around the outside, said Alejandro Rojas with the Mutual UFO Network, a nationwide organization created in 1969 to scientifically study UFO sightings. A MUFON investigator is interviewing witnesses, and the group has already sent requests for radar data from the F-16s.

"These are descriptions that were sent into our Web site the night of the sighting, so they could not have been something just copied from media coverage," Rojas said.

January sightings

In or around Jan. 8, dozens of people around Dublin and Stephenville ? about 70 miles southwest of Fort Worth ? reported seeing something that did not move like conventional aircraft.

Descriptions varied. Some told of objects up to a mile long and hundreds of yards high. Others reported seeing two to eight lights that flew in formation, changed color and shone with intensity greater than a welding flame. Some witnesses said the objects were accompanied or followed by military jets.

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