A town in #NewHampshire called #Exeter still gets together to celebrate this 1965 #UFO sighting. - http://clapway.com/2015/09/06/new-hampshire-ufo-sighting123/

For the past seven years, a small town in New Hampshire called Exeter has been getting together to celebrate a famous UFO sighting that happened over 50 years ago.

”THE INCIDENT AT EXETER”

In 1965, an 18-year-old man named Norman Muscarello reported a UFO sighting to police. This event, cleverly named “The Incident at Exeter,” drew so much attention from the nation that the Air Force launched an official investigation to get to the bottom of what happened that night.

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Over the past seven years, Dean Merchant, a Kiwanian and UFO enthusiast and researcher, has been the “brainchild” of a festival called the Exeter UFO Festival. It’s a weekend-long UFO celebration that brings fans out from all over to take part in charities and discussions about what happened.

So what did happen?

THE STORY BEHIND THE UFO SIGHTING

On Sept. 3, 1965, Muscarello found himself hitchhiking his way back home. At some point in the night, Muscarello began to see something strange in the woods next to him. Scared by lights, he threw himself in a ditch until they began to move back into the woods. After he saw the strange UFO, Muscarello was able to get into contact with police. One of the officers who went to investigate the incident also reported seeing a flying object that looked unfamiliar to him. Muscarello and the officer weren’t the only ones who saw something strange that night; reports came in about a UFO from all over the area.

As you might have guessed, official word from the Air Force was that it was probably just a mirage or a B-47 that happened to be in the area at the time. To this day, nothing has officially been confirmed about the incident.

THE EXETER UFO FESTIVAL

Despite the open-ended conclusion to the incident, the Exeter UFO Festival still manages to draw in a huge crowd. Huffington Post reported that the festival was expected to draw in more than 600 million UFO enthusiast.

This festival isn’t quite as big as the Roswell festival, but Bill Smith, president of the Kiwanis Club of Exeter, doesn’t believe it needs to be in order to be successful. The core of the festival is about raising money for children’s charities and having fun.

“A large percentage of the audience are true believers … They do take it seriously,” said Smith.

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Can You Solve These Ancient Riddles? - http://clapway.com/2015/07/03/can-you-solve-these-ancient-riddles987/

It’s possible that the most famous riddle in the world is the Riddle of the Sphinx. It is considered to be the oldest in the world. Chances are, even if you haven’t read Oedipus Rex, someone has at least asked you the riddle.

“What is the creature that walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three in the evening?”

If you know the answer to that, than maybe you can tackle these other ancient riddles:

Would that I had now what I had yesterday, find out what that was; mankind it mars, speech it hinders, yet speech it will inspire.

This riddle ponder…

In Nordic Sagas, Odin is often the trickster as well as the father of Thor. In the Hervarar saga, Odin tricks a king into thinking he is Gestumblindi, a man about to be imprisoned, and challenges the king to series of riddles in exchange for his freedom. Can you figure out Odin’s Riddle?

There is a house. One enters it blind, and comes out seeing. What is it?

This riddle is one of the oldest ancient riddles ever told. Writing by Sumerians, one of the earliest Mesopotamian civilizations, it actually wasn’t translated until the 1960s. Why? We are still learning about Sumer.

But this riddle isn’t too hard. I’m sure you can figure it out.

I have heard of a something-or-other, growing in its nook, swelling and rising, pushing up its covering. Upon that boneless thing a cocky-minded young woman took a grip with her hands; with her apron a lord’s daughter covered the tumescent thing.

Those Anlgo-Saxon Britains had dirty minds. So much for God fearing men, right?

This particular riddle is written in The Exeter Book, a large book of poetry written in Old English. It starts off with beautiful religious poems, and then sort of devolves into silly puns and a long list of ancient riddles. No answers were recorded in the book. But over the years, translations have given some possible answers.

What do you think?

What is it which swallows what is before it and what is behind it, as well as anyone who is watching?

You may have heard this riddle before, but it is another from Ancient Greece, found in Delphi, city of Apollo. Delphi is considered to be the center of culture, and in myths is said to be where Zeus looked for the center of the earth. Not surprising, then, that the city is associated with the arts and, interestingly, riddles. Most riddles are said to come from oracles, and therefore the gods. So of course a god would ask something as important as this…

Leave a comment with your guesses as to the answers of these ancient riddles!

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Can You Solve These Ancient Riddles?