Winston Churchill was accused of ordering a cover-up of a Second World War encounter between a UFO and a RAF bomber because he feared public "panic" and loss of faith in religion, newly released secret files disclose.
The former Prime Minister allegedly banned reporting of the “bizarre” incident, off the east coast of England, for half a century amid fears disclosures about unidentified flying objects would create public hysteria.
He is said to have made the orders during a secret war meeting with US General Dwight Eisenhower, the then commander of the Allied Forces, at an undisclosed location in America during the latter part of the conflict.
The claims are contained in thousands of pages of declassified files on UFOs, released on Thursday online by the National Archives.
The 18 files, which cover from 1995 to 2003, are made up of more than 5,000 pages of reports, letters, and drawings drawn from correspondence with the public and questions raised in parliament.
GWEN IFILL: For those stations not taking a pledge break, the NEWSHOUR continues now with a story from a project we call Newshour Connect.
That's where we showcase the best of public broadcasting from around the country. Tonight, how one state is dealing with a surge in heroin-related crimes. Frederica Freyberg of Wisconsin Public Television reports.
FEMALE: If it can save one person's life, I guess that's my goal. Heroin is overlooked. People say it can't happen to them, and I believe I am a person who always thought that.
Official investigation launched after officers pursue 70-year-old stopped for not wearing a seatbelt and drag him from his car
A police video shows officers chasing the car and smashing a window with a baton Link to this video
A 70-year-old stopped because he was not wearing a seatbelt ended up co-starring in a scene worthy of the cop drama parody Hot Fuzz, with police in a quiet country lane forcibly stopping his Range Rover after a 30mph chase, leaping on to the bonnet and smashing a window before dragging him from the driver's seat.
The police video shows the chase, with sirens blaring as police and suspect drive neatly along pretty country roads, keeping well in to the correct side of the road and within the speed limit. At one point a police voice is heard calmly saying: "No change, no change, four zero or 30 miles an hour, still on the right side of the road, quite happy to continue."
The scene changes dramatically when the Range Rover is stopped, apparently by a stinger device laid across the road by police from another unit, who also flag down the car on foot.
Immediately, one policeman leaps from the following car, runs to the Range Rover and tries to smash the window with a baton, while a man from the other unit leaps on to the bonnet and a voice from inside the car can faintly be heard repeating: "Get off, get off!" A passing motorist stops to see what is happening but is ordered back into his car by the police. Eventually the pensioner is dragged by the arm out of his car.
Seven-year-old Julie Murphy was just trying her hand at the old summer past-time of running a lemonade stand—until she got served with papers from the Portland health department shutting her down because she didn't have a $120 food safety permit.
On July 24, Congressman Pete Stark (D-Cali) held a town hall meeting in Hayward, California where he responded to questions concerning ObamaCare and the limits of federal government power. According to Stark, the federal government has the power to do basically anything it wants,
I think that there are very few constitutional limits that would prevent the federal government from rules that could effect your private life...The federal government, yes, can do most anything in this country.
Fortunately, the audience in the 13th district in California have read the Constitution and know better. Please watch the video below to hear how the audience responds to Starks' assertion that federal government power is limitless.
It was the internet video that sparked a media outcry: grainy footage that seemed to show four masked men drugging a fox and later beating it to death with cricket bats in a London park that was posted on YouTube and Facebook earlier this week.
But the Guardian can reveal that the new sport of "urban foxhunting" was an elaborate hoax. The film-makers, Chris Atkins and Johnny Howorth, said no real foxes were harmed in the film, which was intended as a satirical swipe at "media hysteria" over the danger of urban foxes.
Animal rights campaigners had expressed fury over the "bloodthirsty" huntsmen, eliciting the support of MPs on Twitter and prompting an inquiry by the Metropolitan police's wildlife crime unit.
YouTube and Facebook removed the footage and the controversy was covered in news outlets including the Guardian, the Times, the Daily Mirror and the Daily Mail. The BBC was also duped, sending a reporter to Victoria Park, Hackney – the supposed scene of the crime. Amid a growing furore, the animal welfare group League Against Cruel Sports launched a campaign against urban foxhunting, while the RSPCA said it was investigating.
Directed by Tony Scott starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pine and Rosario DawsonA rail company frantically works to prevent an unmanned, half-mile-long freight train carrying combustible liquids and poisonous gas from wiping out a city.
Pentagon Spokesman Geoff Morrell conducted a daily briefing at the Defense Department. He called on the website WikiLeaks to return all of the classified war documents in their possession and delete them from the website.
Imagine your own PC watching your every click and reporting back every song you listen to, every movie you watch, or every book you read.
That may sound like a nightmare scenario to some, but that is exactly the reality that HP Labs director Prith Banerjee is preparing for.
In an interview Thursday, Banerjee told CNET that gathering that information--with a device owner's consent--has the potential to tailor devices to be much more useful.
"When you think about it, HP sells 75 million PCs per year," he said. "That is an incredible place through which we can monitor all kinds of things. If you look at Google, if you look at Amazon, they are only able to look at what a consumer is doing on their Web page."
That's a huge shift for HP or any PC maker. Today it's common for Web sites to track user behavior, and some mobile devices and consumer electronics also track user's behavior. But even that has drawn outcry, including a Wall Street Journal report this week looking at the tracking technology already in use. There was also the recent case in which a Pennsylvania school district was found to be spying on its students.
Colorado's Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes has accused his likely opponent, Democratic Mayor John Hickenlooper, of "converting Denver into a United Nations community" by promoting bike riding and other sustainability issues.
According to Maes, who is a Tea Party favorite, Hickenlooper's bike plans are "all very well-disguised, but [they] will be exposed."
Specifically, the plans that Maes is raising the alarm over include the city's B-Cycle program which makes a network of about 400 red bikes available for rent at locations throughout the city. B-Cycle's website touts that, "bike sharing makes it economical and convenient to use bikes for trips that are too far to walk but too short to drive.... With your magic red bike, you don’t have to look for a parking space or bring your own bike with you everywhere you go. Plus, riding a B-cycle is good for you and good for the environment. It’s the newest and best way to get around town."
