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Real-Life UFOs Real-Life UFOs, From Flying Flapjacks to Mystery Missiles Continued from Page 36 Introduced in the 1950s, the U-2 is loaded with sensors and cameras to snap pictures and scarf up enemy signals from 70,000 feet in the air. It took the photos of Russian missiles in Cuba that nearly touched off a nuclear war in 1962, and it's still in use over Afghanistan today. It's so synonymous with secrets that it was developed at what = 47( (.(%4$6,10 would come to be known as Area 51 in Nevada. In fact, no U-2, no Area 51: The facility opened because in 1955 Lockheed's secret-plane builders of wanted somewhere to experiment on their U-2 away from prying eyes. Eternal Love Had they chosen somewhere outside the Nevada desert, a cultural touchstone might never have developed. One of Area 51's founders was Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, a On March 6, 2004, Thomas Pierce, his wife, JoAnn, and his Lockheed honcho who built the facility near Groom Lake, Nevada, at the daughter Lisa were on the water taxi that overturned in CIA's behest. Ironically, Johnson was no UFO skeptic. He's quoted as Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. He lost both of them that day. saying in 1948: "I should state that for at least five years, I have definitely believed in the possibility that flying saucers exist — this in spite of a Pierce’s account of the accident and the letter to Lisa by one of the good deal of kidding from my technical associates." By giving the U-2 a reservists that rescued her give the reader a grim understanding of home, he made believers out of millions more. what that day was like. But this is not a book about the accident - this book is about the power of love. Love as we know it and understand it, and love that goes beyond our understanding. This is a book Pierce never intended to write but he felt compelled to share the things that carried him through this tragedy and all the signs that helped him move on with his life. It is truly a celebration of two lives that will go on forever. Once you have read this book you will find yourself passing it on to friends and family, so that they too can share the experience of the power of love. www.thelastrose.com Chinese Mystery Anti-Ballistic Missile On its own, China's test of an anti-ballistic missile in January probably wouldn't have caused a stir, if not for two additional factors. First, it came right after the U.S. sold Patriot air-defense missiles to Taiwan, so Washington took it as payback. Second, no one knows exactly what kind of missile the Chinese launched. State news agency Xinhua released the above photo, but that didn't help. Our friend Jeffrey Lewis thought China's mystery missile was a cousin of Russia's S-300 air-defense system at first, but he ended up unsure. An Inspiring True first missile-defense test, looked for a less earthly explanation. After Some Chinese citizens, perhaps unaccustomed to their nation's Story seeing a "white circular structure about the size of dozens of moons" on the day of the launch, a worker at the Jiuquan space center in Gansu conclued, "it may be an alien voyager from another planet." His was one of several claimed UFO sightings in China during the This is the Amazing but true story of Lori Dawn Cartagena, a test, a testament to the imagination's ability to fill a vacuum in explainable glamorous young Australian Entertainer who traveled to America phenomena. Then again, Beijing never actually denied that its obscure after spending over twelve months from 1968 to 1969, missile is based on alien technology. entertaining American and Australian troops in Vietnam during the war. After surviving numerous ambushes and mortar attacks, Lori eventually flees war torn Asia and arrives in Canada. After a brief affair with a handsome, charming Toronto businessman, she moves to Florida to join a stage show where she finds herself in another desperate situation. Lori discovers she is pregnant and eventually has to make the most heartbreaking decision of her young life. as soon as her newborn son was taken away from her, Lori vowed she would one day find him again. She tried several times , but to no avail. However, 34 years later-he found her. The reunion was the most wonderful event both mother and son could only have dreamed of over those long, agonising years. www.loridcartagena.com 11-,0* 14 = (',$ :21574( Visit The Media Pool www.themediapool.net