Extraordinary claims. Ordinary investigations.

Five friends go camping, but only one comes back alive. All due to evil Grey aliens. But if those nasty creatures weren’t enough, the sole survivor also has to deal with flying balls and government agents who want to convince him it is all due to his imagination. Oh, those government agents, always too skeptic.

Click on the image to watch the preview, and check also the official website for the Canadian movie. Produced with limited resources, the visual effects are what you would see on a cheap TV series.

I have not seen the movie, but beyond the slightly kitsch, there may be some cult, at the very least for those who love UFOs. The scary scenes with the aliens we see in the preview portray scenes and even drawings that are all too familiar, seen countless times on magazines and bulletins. And compared to that, this is a blockbuster.

Ufology is abuzz again with a tabloid news item, as Jeff Peckman — who also sells a credit card that will save your life — showed the video of a “real living breathing alien” looking through a bedroom window to a selected audience in Denver.

The detail is that the video has not been actually released publicly, and the one above is a recreation by the Rocky Mountain Paranormal Society. They also created some other videos with the same alien doll, which is in fact a very common prop, with units being auctioned on eBay and even appearing in NSFW shoots. Those blinking eyes were created in post-production, I guess, as the original doll doesn’t have that.

The Rocky Mountain Paranormal Society probably didn’t spend dozens of thousand of dollars in that recreation, and yet their alien is, according to someone who watched both, looks “slightly more animated”.

Peckman’s video is certainly a fake, as we all know aliens are camera shy. [via BAblog]

“EBE 2: Bob explains the procedure to wash the body before placement on a sealed coffin for transportation“.

It’s the fifth installment of “Relato de um MIB” (A MIB Story), the fictional series by Brazilian artist Philipe Kling David. Click for more images, including their alien egg-shaped vehicle. All examined in Brazil! Yes, we have our Area 51 too.

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“Giant space vegetables ‘could feed the world’“, says the Telegraph, according to which “it is thought the near zero gravity conditions in space result in super-sized fruit and vegetables with a higher vitamin content. … Struggling for space in giant hothouses at the Guandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences are 21lb (9.5kg) tomatoes and enormous watermelons.”

That’s interesting, but some skepticism may be appropriated. They do mention a more down-to-earth value of “harvests which are ten to 20 per cent higher than normal”, a big difference from the “ten times their normal size and weighing more than an average man” vegetables claimed in the same news item. What’s actually going on here? Are giant space vegetables really our salvation?

Well, actually giant vegetables are nothing alien, though this is a perfect excuse to tell the story of a famous Mexican case of the 1970s. It all happened in Valle de Santiago, where a simple peasant, José Carmen García Martínez, managed to harvest giant vegetables, from lettuce to onions, of a truly gigantic size.

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