WEIRD WORLD MAGAZINE

WEIRD WORLD MAGAZINE
ISSUE NO. 6. ..... Jan 2001

UFO Shuts Down Russian Airport
. MOSCOW, Jan 27, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse)

An airport in southern Siberia was shut down for an hour and a half on Friday when an unidentified flying object (UFO) was detected hovering above its runway, the Interfax news agency reported.

The crew of an Il-76 cargo aircraft refused to take off, claiming they saw a luminescent object hovering above the runway of the Siberia's Barnaul airport, local aviation

company director Ivan Komarov was quoted as saying.
The crew of another cargo plane, refusing to use the runway for the same reason, landed their jet at another airport, Komarov said.

The UFO took off and vanished from the airport 90 minutes later, according to the report.

Better Late Than Never!
01/25/01 NATCHEZ, Miss. (Reuters) -

Missing for 15years, Calvin Wislon was finally found. The 27, was found on Friday by masons working on a buildiing in the historic part of Natchez, Mississippi.

The fully-clothed remains were found in a chimney of an old building that use to be a gift shop around 1985. The police believe that Calvin had tried to break into the store via the chimney and got stuck. Police believe that the bungling burglar got stuck and died. They also believe that breezes from a nearby river may have kept anyone from noticing signs of a body decomposing in the chimney.

NEAR Spacecraft Set for Valentine Landing on Eros
January 31, 2001

The Near Spacecrast is just in time for a Valentine's Day landing on Eros. This will be the spacecraft's final resting place. The robotic craft which left Earth five years asgo and spent the last year orbiting the asteroid is scheduled for a controlled descent two days before Valentine's Day.

They hope it will land gently at the edge of a saddle-shaped feature called Himeros. The calculate its' descent speed at about seven miles per hour. Even at this speed, the craft could be wrecked but it won't matter since it accomplished the mission it set out to do. NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous ) spacecraft was the first craft to ever orbit and asteroid. It tool about 160.000 images of Eros. The final images sent to Earth when NEAR sort of crash lands will have a detailed resolution of about two inches. Also, scientists believe that if NEAR survives the landing, its' beacon would still send signals to Earth for months to come.

Five-legged lamb alive and kicking
Feb 2, 2001

A lamb has been born in Gloucestershire with five legs. Ian Slatter's new-born lamb has three front limbs, and Ian has named him Jake the Peg because of his extra leg.Vets, who say the phenomenon is extremely rare, will not amputate the extra leg because Jake is growing so fast, and the extra leg does not hinder him.

Father jailed for keeping daughter in kennel , Feb 2, 2001

A father has been jailed for 30 days after he forced his seven-year-old daughter to sleep in a kennel outside his Virginian home.

Christian Williams, 33, was also ordered to pay a £350 fine and take a parenting class after he pleaded guilty to abuse and neglect charges at a Chesapeake court.

When police found the girl in the plywood kennel, she had not bathed or been fed in two days. She was covered in mosquito bites and soaked from rain that leaked through the roof.

Williams told a judge he kept the child outside for least two nights because less severe punishments had not deterred her bad behaviour.

Williams and the girl's stepmother, Jennifer Williams, were arrested on August 13 after a neighbour told police she heard the girl scream, "Please, Daddy, let me in."

The stepmother pleaded guilty to the same charges and is to be sentenced later.

Williams obtained custody of the girl and her 10-year-old sister after authorities allegedly found them living in a rubbish-strewn, rodent-infested home with their mother in California. The girls now live with their maternal grandmother in California.

Human thumb piece found in school cafeteria sandwich
January 30, 2001

A US student found a piece of a human thumb when she bit into a sandwich in her school cafeteria. It belonged to a cafeteria worker who had cut off the top of her thumb in a vegetable slicer.

Luckily the student spat out the piece of thumb while eating her lunch at the Massachussetts school. Understandably, She has asked not to be identified.

The slicing machine has been cleansed, and all nearby food thrown out.

Sombrero Galaxy
January 30, 2001

A dramatic new image of the Sombrero galaxy has been obtained by the third large telescope to be commissioned at the Paranal Observatory in the Andes.
Astronomers call the galaxy the Sombrero because of its resemblance to a Mexican hat and have a special affection for it - it is often seen adorning the walls of observatories and universities all over the world. The image was recorded on 30th. January. The Sombrero galaxy has an unusually large and extended central bulge of stars, as well as dark prominent dust lanes that can be see silhouetted against the starsAt the heart of the galaxy is an intense source of radiation at almost all wavelengths. This is believed to be a super-massive black hole. The Sombrero galaxy is located in the constellation Virgo, at a distance of about 50 million light-years. Silence