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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Baltic Sea letter in a bottle found 24 years later

MOSCOW – Nearly a quarter-century after a German boy tossed a message in a bottle off a ship in the Baltic Sea, he's received an answer.

A 13-year-old Russian, Daniil Korotkikh, was walking with his parents on a beach when he saw something glittering lying in the sand.

"I saw that bottle and it looked interesting," Korotkikh told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "It looked like a German beer bottle with a ceramic plug, and there was a message inside."

His father, who knows schoolboy German, translated the letter, carefully wrapped in cellophane and sealed by a medical bandage.

It said: "My name is Frank, and I'm five years old. My dad and I are traveling on a ship to Denmark. If you find this letter, please write back to me, and I will write back to you."

The letter, dated 1987, included an address in the town of Coesfeld.

The boy in the letter, Frank Uesbeck, is now 29. His parents still live at the letter's address.

"At first I didn't believe it," Uesbeck told the AP about getting the response from Korotkikh. In fact, he barely remembered the trip at all; his father actually wrote the letter.

The Russian boy and the German man met each other earlier this month via an Internet video link.

Korotkikh showed Uesbeck the bottle where he found the message and the letter that he put in a frame.

The Russian boy said he does not believe that the bottle actually spent 24 years in the sea: "It would not have survived in the water all that time," he said.

He believes it had been hidden under the sand where he found it — on the Curonian Spit, a 100-kilometer (60-mile) stretch of sand in Lithuania and Russia.

In the web chat earlier this month, Uesbek gave Korotkikh his new address to write to and promised to write back when he receives his letter.

"He'll definitely get another letter from me," the 29-year-old said.

Uesbeck was especially thrilled that he was able to have a positive impact on a life of a young person far away from Germany.

"It's really a wonderful story," he said. "And who knows? Perhaps one day we will actually be able to arrange a meeting in person."

Monday, March 28, 2011

IRANIAN VIDEO SAYS THE "COMING IS NEAR"

New evidence has emerged that the Iranian government sees the current unrest in the Middle East as a signal that the Mahdi--or Islamic messiah--is about to appear.

CBN News has obtained a never-before-seen video produced by the Iranian regime that says all the signs are moving into place -- and that Iran will soon help usher in the end times.

While the revolutionary movements gripping the Middle East have created uncertainty throughout the region, the video shows that the Iranian regime believes the chaos is divine proof that their ultimate victory is at hand.

The propaganda footage has reportedly been approved at the highest levels of the Iranian government.

It's called The Coming is Near and it describes current events in the Middle East as a prelude to the arrival of the mythical tweflth Imam or Mahdi -- the messiah figure who Islamic scriptures say will lead the armies of Islam to victory over all non-Muslims in the last days.

"This video has been produced by a group called the Conductors of the Coming, in connection with the Basiji -- the Iranian paramilitary force, and in collaboration with the Iranian president's office," said Reza Kahlil, a former member of Iran's Revolutionary Guards who shared the video with CBN News.

Kahlili, author of the book, A Time to Betray, worked as a double agent for the CIA inside the Iranian regime.

"Just a few weeks ago, Ahmadenijad's office screened this movie with much excitement for the clerics," Kahlili told CBN News. "The target audience is Muslims in the Middle East and around the world."

More from CBN.com

UFO SIGHTING IN COLORADO,USA

Posted from ABC News. Click here for more.

The strange triangular formation of lights hovering above Lafayette, Colo., last week has many wondering if it's a sign that we're not alone.

Leroy van der Vegt and his son Nick captured the sight on camera.

"It was completely quiet. No noise at all," van der Vegt said.

The unidentified red lights did not blink but were in a triangular shape as they hovered in the sky.

Van der Vegt doesn't know what it was but he is sure that what he saw was not a satellite, helicopter or airplane.

Eventually, the triangle headed northeast and the lights faded, van der Vegt said.

Lester Valdez and all of his neighbors saw the unidentified lights.

"I have never witnessed anything like that," said Valdez.

He said they looked like tiny, bright alien ships from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."

"It was exactly something like that where you see an object and they all got into a pattern and they stood in a pattern, and they all moved in a direction and then they pretty much dropped and that was it," Valdez said.

Grant Gazvoda and two friends sat in front of a Lafayette convenience store talking about the lights. Gazvoda said he saw them Monday night as he and friends were out stargazing.

"When it flew over, there was a really weird energy. Almost like a hyper need to move. My mind started racing. My body started shaking," Gazvoda said. " I freaked out at that point."

When asked what he thought the lights could be, Gazvoda said speculation is running rampant through town.

"UFO, maybe government stuff. People are saying aliens," he said.

Skeptics like Lafayette residents Katie and Kevin Caron say there must be a reasonable explanation for the lights that doesn't involve little green men.

"There's a lot of things you can't explain but the idea of it being an alien spacecraft is pretty wacky," Kevin Caron said.

ABC News called the Federal Aviation Administration but they declined to talk.

For now, it's clear this is an unidentified flying object.

Saturday, March 26, 2011

LACSON SURFACES FINALLY

Posted From Yahoo Breaking News

Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson finally surfaces after over a year in hiding.

Philippine National Police spokesman, Senior Superintendent Agrimero Cruz confirmed that Lacson arrived in Cebu City from Hong Kong Saturday noon.

Cruz said Lacson arrived 11:42 am via a Cathay Pacific Flight from Hong Kong.

Lacson was fetched by a certain Mr. Almeda of the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation, said Cruz.

Cruz said Lacson is no longer considered a fugitive.

The Court of Appeals recently lifted the arrest warrant against Lacson, who was accused of masterminding the murders of PR man Bubby Dacer and his driver Emmanuel Corbito.

Lacson has repeatedly denied the accusations.

“Sa ngayon, we’re only monitoring his movements and we will give him area security,” Cruz told Yahoo! Southeast Asia in a phone interview.

In a separate statement, Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said they welcome Lacson’s return.

“We welcome the return of Senator Ping Lacson so that he can put closure to the accusations hurled against him,” Lacierda said.