Pennsylvania Hotbed Of The Paranormal

It isn’t just Bigfoot who’s been spotted in Pennsylvania. Now NASA has agreed to search for files related to a “fireball” that crashed near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, in 1965.

On Dec. 9 of that year, people in North America saw a fireball cross the sky. It crashed near a town about 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, and the Air Force showed up and hauled a Volkswagen-sized object away from the site and told everybody not to worry about it, everything was under control.

As you might have guessed, such secrecy by the government only leads to more conspiracy theories and speculation that it’s aliens or thetans or whatever. NASA complements this nicely by losing all the records related to the crash and claiming it was a Russian satellite, changing the story from years earlier.

NASA will now search for those lost records and tell us that it was actually a cow dropped from a helicopter or something.

NASA Will Re-Open Kecksburg UFO Files [Wired Science]
Kecksburg UFO Incident [Wikipedia]
Yesterday: Bigfoot Enthusiast Says Photo Is Bigfoot

Comcast Wiretap Rates Only Slightly More Expensive Than Basic Cable

We all know the government spies on us. They probably know when you’ve commented on this very blog, even though the political discourse here never really raises above “Give me those photos of George Bush in a bikini!” Well, apparently the government spies on us so much, Comcast has a special rate for wiretapping!

For the low, low price of $1,000, Comcast will let the government put a wiretap on your phone and perhaps the other parts of the “triple play” package. A blog called Secrecy News obtained a copy of Comcast’s manual, which does make it seem like the cable behemoth does comply with the law.

With your $1,000 fee, you get the first month of “intercept service” for free! No, really, you do. That sounds like a joke but the handbook actually says that. It’s $750 for each additional month of spying, so basically it actually only costs $250 to get the wiretap. Oh, and an FBI agent has to hand-deliver the National Security Letters to Comcast HQ in Philadelphia, so the black vans with guys in suits really are following you around town.

Comcast Cable Law Enforcement Handbook [Secrecy News]
Implementing Domestic Intelligence Surveillance [Secrecy News]