Our post yesterday on the Vatican’s astronomer who says its OK to believe in Space Aliens brought us double the normal readership for this little blog.

It also brought us one somewhat cryptic comment.

After following the writer’s advice, I’m taking the unusual step of doing a follow-up to yesterday’s post that may end up having me veer off into space…

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Hammers4567 wrote to say:

This is not the first time the Catholic Church has opened the door to extraterrestrial contact. You need to research Monsignor Corrado Balducci. There’s plenty of stuff about him out there. Even more, if you speak Italian.

It didn’t take but one Google search using the Monsignor’s name to indeed come up with reams of articles, and video of him.

It seems that Monsignor Balducci is a regular fixture on Italian TV where he spouts his E.T. views…

The now retired priest has occupied some very high and important positions in the Vatican—and as you can read here, says extraterrestrial contact is very real.

As Hammers4567, suggested, there is a LOT of material about his pronouncements out there—including a number of video clips—but most of them are in Italian.

However—I did run across one clip—which is a trailer for a DVD about space alien contact.

I’ve included it here because it leads off with a portion of a translated interview with the Monsignor.

Considering how conservative the Catholic Church hierarchy—and the Pope are about things—you’ve got to wonder why they’ve allowed the Monsignor to go on making his claims for what appears to be years…

If he wasn’t telling the truth—or was saying something contrary to what Catholic Hierarchy believed—-there’s no doubt they would have muzzled Monsignor Balducci a long time ago….

So what’s up with this?

Well, as they used to say in the X-Files—the truth is out there.

The question now is, what ELSE is out there?

—Steve

Link to the video and story Steve covered today on NBC-17

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D.B Cooper—the man who jumped into history books back in 1971 as the only person to get away with hijacking an airplane for ransom—may soon find history books about the case being rewritten…

That’s because a couple of kids in Washington state MAY have found be a key piece of evidence—Cooper’s parachute.

Back in January, we told you in this post how the FBI decided to reopen the case after 36 years hoping new evidence would surface…

And surface it did—quite literally in Amboy, Washington where a man was grading a road…

His kids found some cloth sticking up at the site—and they began digging to unearth it…

Eventually, they revealed a full parachute…

Now, as you can see here—the FBI is trying to figure out if it was the same kind of Military chute given to Cooper as part of his demands during the skyjacking…

The FBI’s had the now retired military rigger who packed Cooper’s chute examine the remains—but they’re not allowing him to talk about what he found during his analysis…

Investigators hint they MAY have more to say about the case later this week…

One more thing to keep in mind.

After he jumped Cooper left behind his necktie…

In 2007, The FBI was able to lift DNA from that tie.

That DNA may ultimately figure into this case.

—Steve

Link to video & story Steve covered today on NBC-17

His name was D.B. Cooper—or at least that’s what he called himself when he purchased an airline ticket to Seattle aboard Northwest Airlines on Thanksgiving Eve 1971..

By the time the flight was over—Cooper disappeared with $200,000 dollars he’d demanded as part of his hijacking scheme.

36 years later—Cooper, and MOST of the money—remain missing.

Now—as you can read in this link to the FBI’s website—the bureau is renewing its efforts to find him…

It was one of the biggest news stories of the time.

A man claiming to have a briefcase full of dynamite demands almost a quarter of a million in cash—and 4 parachutes….

He lets the plane land in Seattle, allows everyone but the crew to leave—and demands the aircraft fly to Mexico City after he’s given the cash and parachutes..

He orders the rear door be opened—and the plane to fly low and slow…

Somewhere over Nevada he jumps from rear stairs of the Boeing 727 aircraft disappearing into the night—and becoming the stuff of folk lore in the process…

In 1980, a young boy finds about $5800 in twenty dollars bills in a stream..The money is part of Cooper’s loot..

In the intervening years—a number of folks have either claimed to be Cooper—or said they know who Cooper was…

Nothing has ever panned out.

Now the FBI would like to get their man—and they’re asking for the public’s help.

Who knows—in today’s Internet based society—maybe someone will know who D.B. Cooper is..

Or maybe—he’s reading THIS—right now !

—Steve