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2007-10-28 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Spaced out, or switched on? Aliens blew up our fridge
A GOVERNMENT investigation into a series of unexplained fires in fridges, televisions and mobile phones in an Italian village has concluded that the responsibility lies with "aliens testing secret weapons".

In scenes similar to the drama series The X-Files, Canneto di Caronia on Sicily was the centre of world attention three years ago after residents reported everyday household objects - electrical appliances, a pile of wedding presents and furniture - bursting into flames.

Dozens of experts including scientists, electrical engineers and military experts, arrived in the village, in the north of the island, to investigate. One amazed scientist reported seeing an unplugged electrical cable burst into flames. Arson was ruled out while locals blamed supernatural forces and the Vatican's chief exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth suggested it was Satan's work.

The report, by the Civil Protection Department, was ordered by the Italian government and brought together dozens of experts including a NASA scientist who asked to help with the £1 million investigation.

According to leaked copies, the fires were "caused by high -power electromagnetic emissions which were not man-made and reached a power of between 12 and 15 gigawatts".
So they can power a flux capacitor ...
The report also details an incident of a possible UFO landing close to Caronia - 60 miles east of Palermo - after "burnt im-prints which have not been explained were found in a field".

Yesterday Francesco Mantegna Venerando, Sicily's Civil Protection chief who co-ordinated the report, said: "We are not saying little green men from Mars started the fires, but that unnatural forces capable of creating a large amount of electromagnetic energy were responsible. This is just one possibility. We are also looking at another one which involves the testing of top-secret weapons by an unknown power which are also capable of producing an enormous amount of energy."

This contrasts with Father Amorth's explanation. "I've seen things like this before," he said. "Demons occupy a house and appear in electrical goods. Let's not forget Satan and his followers have immense powers."
But enough about al Qaeda ...
But the conclusion that aliens had been responsible was backed up by numerous interviews with residents who claimed to have seen UFOs overhead at the time of the fires.

Pietro Imbrodino, owner of Hotel Ze Maria, in Caronia, said he had "always suspected something supernatural". He added: "I haven't seen any little green men but I know some people have seen UFOs."

Among other suggested explanations is a theory that mag-ma spreading along underground passages from Mount Etna produces flammable gas, which seeps up and ignites.
Posted by anonymous5089 2007-10-28 07:33|| || Front Page|| [11 views ]  Top

#1 Aliens, demons, magma, global warming -- it's all Bush's fault.

/cease eye rolling
Posted by Darrell 2007-10-28 11:13||   2007-10-28 11:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Or it could be a very isolated concentration of solar particles that were able to breach the Van Allen to overload a lot of electrical circuitry. Geordi down in engineering could probably explain it better than Father Amorth. Nothing as serious as a warp core breach. That would have ruined everyone's day if it had happened. :)
Posted by Procopius2k 2007-10-28 11:47||   2007-10-28 11:47|| Front Page Top

#3 I warned you, Richardson...I warned you!
Posted by D. Kucinich 2007-10-28 11:51||   2007-10-28 11:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Actually, there is something to be said for the magma theory, generating enormous electrical potentials. It would be dependent on several things, such as a crystalline surface geology acting as a Leyden jar, dry soil conditions and a lack of atmospheric disturbances. If a storm came up they might have one heck of a lightning show.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-10-28 13:26||   2007-10-28 13:26|| Front Page Top

#5 We are not saying little green men from Mars started the fires

Because that would be, like, RACIST. LOL
Posted by lotp 2007-10-28 13:47||   2007-10-28 13:47|| Front Page Top

#6 1.21 gigawatts?
Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-10-28 14:27||   2007-10-28 14:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Smallish, handheld battery operated gizmo's exempt are they?
Posted by Besoeker 2007-10-28 14:42||   2007-10-28 14:42|| Front Page Top

#8 slide down to the DMEMPR X-Band kits or maybe something using the hpemp kit.

case closed.

Posted by 3dc 2007-10-28 14:53||   2007-10-28 14:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Of course somebody could be messing around with exploding toroidal transformers in series with klystron tube so synchronize the explosions.... If the do it right it could set the suns magnetosphere to ringing... like happened in the late 70s with those experimental rail guns powered that way in the Australian desert. (Voyager noticed the ringing...)
Posted by 3dc 2007-10-28 15:02||   2007-10-28 15:02|| Front Page Top

#10 It's neutrinos. Or maybe they just let the Blue Smoke out.
Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues  2007-10-28 17:15||   2007-10-28 17:15|| Front Page Top

#11 Damn little green kids! The Martian equivalent of leaving a burning bag of poop on the doorstep.
Posted by ed 2007-10-28 17:46||   2007-10-28 17:46|| Front Page Top

#12 "Unnatural forces capable of generating/creating a large amount of electromagnetic energy" MAGNETO, or THE SUN, OR BOTH??? COMET HUGHES > has lit up by a factor of a Milyuuhn, and may yet get brighter still up to the SIZE OF THE MOON, ala SPACE.COM/NEWVINE/DIGG.com.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-10-28 21:05||   2007-10-28 21:05|| Front Page Top

#13 Explains my check engine light...
Posted by Crazyhorse 2007-10-28 21:48||   2007-10-28 21:48|| Front Page Top

#14 If the do it right it could set the suns magnetosphere to ringing... like happened in the late 70s with those experimental rail guns powered that way in the Australian desert. (Voyager noticed the ringing...)

Seriously, 3dc? That would explain global warming in the utterly coolest possible way!
Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife  2007-10-28 22:20||   2007-10-28 22:20|| Front Page Top

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