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As he leaves Phoenix's blistering sun, AP's climate news director reflects on desert life

For four years, The Associated Press' global climate and environment news director, Peter Prengaman, has lived in Phoenix PHOENIX -- I blink, and the edges of my eyelids feel like they are being singed. My cheeks burn as if they are being pressed with a hot iron ready to tackle a pile of wrinkled shirts. It is 4 p.m. I look at my 12-year-old son, whose face is flushed. He lets out a groan and puts his hand on his forehead to shield his eyes from the blistering sun. It is 117 degrees Fahrenheit (47 degrees Celsius). My family knows being in temperatures like this is dangerous. We've lived here for four years. This time, though, we are outside for only a few minutes to conduct an important experiment: How long will it take to cook a quesadilla on the sidewalk? Such is life these days in Phoenix, one of the hottest cities in the world. But for us, this summer is our last here; this weekend, I’m moving with my family to New York for my job as — wait for it — The Associated Press’...

Close-up of an unidentified giant flying saucer that landed in the desert of Saudi Arabia with aliens

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Recently, an incredibly curious video went viral all over the globe, minutes after it was posted to YouTube. This video has given way to a flood of opinions in the field of ufology. It is a mystery recording of a suspected UFO that supposedly landed in Saudi Arabia. The video has a fairly decent quality, and it’s not too distorted or moving. In the film, you can see very plainly how an unseen flying object lands in the desert . Shortly after arrival, something like a ramp opens up from the UFO. And you can see several silhouettes of unidentified entities moving down from the UFO. Soon the monsters can easily crawl into the UFO and take flight at an impossible pace for the current technologies on our world. Bizarre the fact only one of these creatures is left on Earth. At the end of the film, you will see how this alien continues to investigate the surroundings. We really don’t know whether this video is a true one or just a joke. ...

Mystery over ancient tribe ‘mummified by the desert’ 4,000 years ago solved

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THE MYSTERIOUS origins of an ancient tribe whose bodies were found perfectly preserved in a desert in China have finally been identified. DNA analysis of Bronze Age mummies discovered in tombs in the Tarim Basin reveal they belonged to indigenous folk descended from ancient Eurasians. The finding flies in the face of previous research on the corpses, which had suggested that they belonged to western travellers. The groups’ Western features and unusual dress and diet had led experts to conclude that they were migrants from southern Russia. The new research, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, puts to bed once and for all a debate that has raged for decades. In the 1990s, roughly 300 mummies dating from between 2,000 B.C. to 200 A.D. were discovered in the Taklamakan Desert in China’s Xinjiang region. The area’s dry, arid conditions and freezing cold nights naturally mummified the remains of locals, who were buried in boat-like tom...

Alien mummies discovered in the Atacama desert have confused scientists

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After an alien’s mummified body was found in 2003, there was a lot of discussion among specialists. It has been classified as a mutant creature by Professor Harry Nolan. An infant mummy was reportedly found, according to Ramon Navia, a member of the Institute for Exobiological Studies. After an alien’s mummified body was found in 2003, there was a lot of discussion among specialists. It has been classified as a mutant creature by Professor Harry Nolan. An infant mummy was reportedly found, according to Ramon Navia, a member of the Institute for Exobiological Studies. Recently, a long skull that resembled Ata’s head was found in a cave in the Atacama Desert. The skull was studied by Brian Fester, a talented scientist who frequently comes across human or extraterrestrial remains. He asserted that the skull was unaffected by the weather since it was covered with gray flesh. Even though it first looks to be the remains of a human from anot...