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    Lee Speigel

    Lee Speigel

    Writer, Editor, HuffPost

  • London Police Called To Site Of Reported UFO Crash

    Police: "When they arrived on scene, they couldn't believe their eyes!"

  • 'Finding Bigfoot' Team Still Can't Find Bigfoot

    Maybe they should just admit that Bigfoot doesn't exist. After decades of debate, speculation, anecdotes, eyewitness testimony, photographs, films and videos, the hunt continues and true believers haven't given up hope. After six seasons investigating Bigfoot/Sasquatch reports in 40 states and six countries on Animal Planet's"Finding Bigfoot," a team of four hunters -- believers and skeptic -- is still looking for the hairy legend.

  • WATCH: Cloud-Like UFO Glides Through Philadelphia (Not New York)

    Garcia told WTXF FOX 29 News that he went outside on July 5, looked up and noticed the odd object, so he caught it on his cell phone. "As soon as I started recording, it starts to move and come down," Garcia said. One question comes to mind: Why didn't Garcia immediately take his camera and try to find the location where this object hit the ground after it disappeared behind some nearby buildings?

  • Roswell's Unanswered UFO Questions

    Something crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, 68 years ago. The first military authorized press release stated, "RAAF (Roswell Army Air Field) Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch In Roswell Region." That's right, the military was the first to indicate it was a flying saucer. It was just a weather balloon.

  • Mystery Of Loch Ness UFO Photo Deepens

    When Alan Betts and his wife, Anna, first looked at their holiday pictures after returning to their York, UK, home, they noticed something odd in the following image that had been taken by Anna's mother. When the Betts zoomed in on the picture and saw something weird in the sky above the water, they released it to the media, hoping someone would determine the true identity of this possible UFO. Become a founding member of HuffPost Plus today.

  • AMAZING PHOTOS: UFOs Spotted Above Loch Ness

    Forget the fabled Loch Ness Monster. Move over, Nessie, UFOs seem to take a liking to your backyard. Back on April 29, Alan Betts was vacationing in the Scottish Highlands with his wife, Anna, and her parents.

  • Think Finding Bigfoot Is Hard? Try Finding Love

    Become a founding member of HuffPost Plus today. Society is at a point now where you don't want to meet people in a bar," said George Noory, co-founder of ParanormalDate.com, and the popular host of "Coast to Coast AM," with nearly 600 stations, the biggest nightly radio talk program in North America. The "Coast to Coast AM" audience is captivated by all things paranormal, extraterrestrial and conspiratorial, and Noory wants to help a lot of these people get together.

  • Ghost? UFO? Or Dust? Mysterious Orb Spotted At Florida Space Walk Of Fame

    The object in the picture above resembles a typical circular unidentified flying object as reported by so many people around the world. Become a founding member of HuffPost Plus today. Mars said that the lights and air conditioning system were turned off when the video was recorded, which leads him to conclude the lit orb isn't a glare or dust ball.

  • UFO Spotted At PGA Tournament

    Did a UFO share the field of view of a flying golf ball during a PGA tournament in Florida? It was during the Players Championship part of the PGA tour, held at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, on May 9. A viewer was watching the tournament on TV and "noticed a weird object in the sky," according to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).

  • Did A UFO 'Not Made By Man' Hover Over Chile?

    There's a story going around that Chile supposedly revealed remarkable UFO photographs of an aerial object so advanced that government experts are claiming that humans could not have manufactured it. According to several news accounts, that allegation comes from a renowned Chilean government-funded UFO research group. The story unfolds in April 2013 when two photos emerge of an unusual disc-shaped object (seen below with close-up insert) over the Collahuasi copper mine in northern Chile.

  • Morgan Freeman Wants To Travel To The Future ... To See If Humans Will Still Exist

    It's the upcoming episode of the Science Channel series "Through The Wormhole With Morgan Freeman." "Through The Wormhole" presents leading experts, thinkers and scientists who offer new theories about subjects that, on the surface, might seem too far-fetched for reality and more in keeping with science fiction. On his website, futurist and theoretical physicist Michio Kaku writes about the physics of time travel: Physicists have always scoffed at the idea of time travel, considering it to be the realm of cranks, mystics, and charlatans, and with good reason.

  • TV Station Refuses To Comment On UFO Over San Diego

    When several callers phoned into San Diego's NBC News affiliate April 28, the station captured this unusual colorful grouping of aerial lights over San Ysidro, close to the U.S.-Mexico border. Some who saw them say the lights didn't seem to move, like those on a plane or a drone," NBC 7 San Diego reported. Become a founding member of HuffPost Plus today.

  • Morgan Freeman: I'm A Bigot -- And So Are You

    Freeman, who serves as the host and executive producer of the show, takes on the role of race and presents scientific data to better understand how implicit bias affects the daily decisions we make. Freeman addresses these questions, and many others, by featuring the thoughts and opinions of scientists who are working to unlock those subconscious links within all of us that determine our decision-making processes.

  • UFO-Alien Abduction Still Haunts Travis Walton

    Travis Walton's terrifying account is the stuff movies are made from, and he joins us on the HuffPost Weird News podcast to talk about that day 40 years ago, when the then 22-year-old logger says he was knocked unconscious, and woke up to find he was surrounded by ETs aboard their ship. "It was a metallic, glowing disc, making some very strange sounds," Walton told us.

  • UFOs Show Up During War, Says Ex-Air Force Intelligence Officer

    The public rarely hears about interactions between military personnel and unexplained aircraft -- especially during wartime. As time goes on, however, UFO stories stuck behind red tape begin to see the light of day. The Vietnam War saw its share of UFO activity in the 1960s.

  • If You're Looking For UFOs, This Map Might Drive You Crazy

    UFOs have been reported in every corner of the country. "We downloaded UFO sightings from the  National UFO Reporting Center and took all of the locations and tried to standardize them," said Lane Allison, product manager of  FindTheBest, a California-based technology company that collects and interprets data. The FindTheBest map, seen above, is an attempt to show one version of how UFO sightings -- those that are reported -- might look on a map.

  • WATCH: Massive Lights Turn Russian Night Into Day

    What in the world is up with Russia? The image above shows, at left, the most recent of these bizarre occurrences, which took place a little after midnight on March 17 in the sky above the southern Russian city of Stavropol. There wasn't a storm," Natalya Kimenko, an analyst at the Stavropol Meteorological Center, told ABC News.

  • WATCH: UFO Over Oklahoma City Caught On Tape During Live TV News Broadcast

    A UFO was spotted March 12 during a live morning newscast in Oklahoma City. Shortly after the brightly lit, fast moving object was noticed on screen, KOCO 5 News posted the video on YouTube and asked viewers to offer their opinions of the strange phenomenon. The KOCO news camera that caught the unexplained light was situated on the roof of the Grand Casino in Shawnee, east of Oklahoma City.

  • This Is What President Obama Had To Say About UFOs

    On his show Thursday, late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel asked President Barack Obama to come clean about UFOs. Last year, Kimmel broached the subject with former President Bill Clinton. "If I was president... I'd demand to see all the classified files on the UFOs, because I want to know, I'd want to know what has been going on.

  • Lost Dutchman Gold Mine: Does 'X' Mark The Spot?

    You don't have to be a pirate to feel the lure of hunting for buried treasure. As these legends go, the path to finding hidden riches generally depends on deciphering information contained in mysterious treasure maps. All of these elements can be found in the search for the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine, reportedly well hidden in Arizona's mysterious-looking (and aptly named) Superstition Mountains (pictured above).