Hundreds of Lufthansa flights have been cancelled. There are reports that flight attendants' union has and company executives have agreed to preliminary talks this weekend to discuss issues including wages and working conditions. Michael Probst/AP hide caption
Germany's largest airline Lufthansa has grounded 1,300 flights as the carrier attempts to weather internal turbulence caused by thousands its flight attendants on strike. The walkout, expected to last two days, is impacting travel hubs throughout Europe.
Quite a lot has been going on:
Jim Sullivan, a Rock 'n' Roll Mystery That Remains Stubbornly Unsolved - The New York Times
Jim Sullivan was the kind of California character who seemed to have stepped straight out of a Pynchon or DeLillo novel — a 6-foot-2 singer and songwriter known as Sully with a magnetic personality and a handlebar mustache. His dramatic psych-folk songs were spacious, cinematic and edged with mystic, lonesome brooding. His social circle included actors and Hollywood hangers-on, and he'd had brushes with fame, including an uncredited part in "Easy Rider" with his friend Dennis Hopper.
Bright objects reported over Ballantyne and Lake Norman | Charlotte Observer
Startled residents reported seeing bright, silent mysterious objects hovering over Ballantyne and Lake Norman on the same recent night.
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A self-described pilot and “keen observer of the skies” who “does not believe in UFOs” saw more than 100 flying objects “of bright light” above Ballantyne in south Charlotte for 20 minutes late on July 19, according to the person’s report on the National UFO Reporting Center website, www.nuforc.org. The person was not identified.
Aliens, flying discs and sightings -- oh my! A short history of UFOs in America
The UAPs are just a fraction of the incursions Navy training ranges see, Navy spokesperson Joe Gradisher told CNN. Which, of course, begs the question: Are we actually alone?
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In that time, Air Force personnel looked at 12,618 reported UFO sightings and said that 701 remain "unidentified."
"Since Project Blue Book was closed, nothing has happened to indicate that the Air Force ought to resume investigating UFOs," the archives said.
In case you are keeping track:
UFOs exist and everyone needs to adjust to that fact - The Washington Post
In recent years, however, there has been a subtle shift that poses some interesting questions for their argument. For one thing, discussion of actual UFOs has been the topic of some serious mainstream media coverage. There was the December 2017 New York Times story by Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean about the Defense Department's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which was tasked with cataloguing UFOs recorded by military pilots.
Then, there were the reports last November about Oumuamua, "a mysterious, cigar-shaped interstellar object [that] fell through our solar system at an extraordinary speed," according to New York's Eric Levits . Oumuamua's shape and trajectory were unusual enough for some genuine astrophysicists to publish a paper suggesting the possibility that it was an artificial construction relying on a solar sail.
Area 51: A deep dive into aliens, UFOs, and conspiracy
The term "UFO" was coined in 1953 by the United States Air Force. Over the years it's come to include many things people have seen in the sky.
For decades, "Area 51" in the deserts of Nevada has been shrouded in mystery with rumors that alien secrets are held inside.
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"It wasn't acknowledged until 2013 that Area 51 truly existed," Barry Lewis Roth with the Colorado Mutual UFO Network said.
Viral video of unidentified lights off NC's Outer Banks has people questioning — aliens or
Video of a mysterious group of lights in the sky captured off North Carolina's Outer Banks by a man visiting the area has gone viral on Youtube, sparking the classic debate: Was it aliens, or the military?
The video entitled “real UFO sighting,” was originally posted to the Youtube account of Williams Guy on Sept. 28 and shows what appears to be 14 glowing lights hovering motionless above the water.
U.F.O. Over the Statue of Liberty? 'The Banksy of Monuments' Strikes Again - The New York Times
Eduardo Vargas was walking in Battery Park recently when he noticed a small memorial overlooking New York Harbor.
Mr. Vargas, in town from San Diego, squinted at a figure of a tugboat crewman depicted in weathered bronze on a stately pedestal situated at the southern tip of Manhattan. A plaque on the statue claimed it was erected in 1982 by Mayor Edward I. Koch and the longshoreman's Local 333, to memorialize a little-known harbor tragedy from 1977.
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