In the last couple of weeks, if you weren’t ducking UFWs (Unidentified Flying Words), perhaps you were wishing you could be transported to Roswell, New Mexico, or Nevada’s infamous Area 51 where the strangest thing you might run into would be well-preserved, if spindly, alien bodies of a sort seen too regularly in the movies and on old episodes of The X-Files to hold any surprises for you. On the other hand, the rest of our world seemed an odd combination of a comedy of errors and alien terrors. Let me then just offer 9 recent strange sightings from our bizarro world.

1. The harmonics of civilization (foreign front): On August 8th, according to the BBC, “speaking to reporters in Najaf…, a heavily-guarded Mr. Allawi said there would be no negotiations with ‘any militia that bears arms against Iraq and the I

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