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In September, Scott Stevens resigned after nine years as chief weather forecaster for KPVI TV in Pocatello, Idaho, so he could devote more time to researching and exposing what he says is the manipulation of U.S. weather by hostile foreign organizations. On his Web site Stevens asserts that Hurricane Katrina was caused by a Russian-made electromagnetic generator wielded by the yakuza in retaliation for the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; suspicious cloud patterns in recent years are, he says, only part of the “unmistakable” evidence that “our weather has been stolen from us.” Station manager Bill Fouch said he’d miss Stevens and praised the accuracy of his forecasts.
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According to an August report in London’s Guardian, British UFO sightings have fallen dramatically in the last few years. Prominent extraterrestrial watchers in Cumbria County, in northwest England, said there had been a drop from 40 local sightings in 2004 to none in the first seven months of 2005. Possible explanations included a post-9/11 shift in focus to terrestrial threats, as well as the demise of the TV series The X-Files. Also in August, British bookmakers told Independent Television News that betting action on whether Elvis Presley is alive has almost completely disappeared. Said bookie Rupert Adams, “It is perhaps the end of an era.”
