It was like a grisly scene from a horror film.

On Sunday night, over a quiet Somerset house, scores of swooping starlings tumbled out of the sky and fell, dead, into a single front garden.

Covering an area 12ft across, more than 100 birds carpeted the garden, each with blood oozing from its beak and curled up claws.

Most had died, although some flapped lamely, clearly in pain until the RSPCA put them out of their misery.

Householder Julie Knight, 53, returned to her home in the quiet village of Coxley at 4.15pm to find the macabre scene, which has mystified experts.

An RSPCA expert said the cause of the deaths was ‘a mystery’, adding that the only plausible explanation was that the flock were being chased by a bird of prey and hit the ground as they changed direction

Julie, a nurse, said: ‘It was like something out of an horror film – like Hitchcock’s The Birds – it was absolutely terrifying.

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Daily Mail: Grisly mystery after scores of starlings fall out of the sky and lie dying… in a SINGLE front garden

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Maybe the aliens took a wrong turn or maybe they just love a bit of history.

But this UFO curious green light was seen hovering over a 19th century windmill in Norfolk.

The curious green light was spotted by photographer Peter Rye who wanted to take night-time images of Denver mill in Downham Market.

The landmark, which was built in 1835, is lit up at night and so Mr Rye set up his camera on a tripod to take long exposure pictures of the mill.While he was there he didn’t hear or see anything unusual and it is only when he got home to King’s Lynn that he realised there was something odd about the images he’d taken.

The green light was on some images but not others indicating it was not a smudge on his lens and it appeared to have moved from right to left.

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Daily Mail: Close encounters of a Norfolk kind: Glowing green UFO spotted hovering over windmill

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A renowned exorcist in Rome recently released a book of memoirs in which he declares to know of the existence of Satanic sects in the Vatican where participation reaches all the way to the College of Cardinals. A second demonologist, also residing in Rome, entered the debate this week, clarifying the origins of the information and defending the Vatican’s clergy as an “edifying and virtuous” collection of prelates.

In a book of memoirs released in February, the noted Italian exorcist Fr. Gabriele Amorth affirmed that “Yes, also in the Vatican there are members of Satanic sects.” When asked if members of the clergy are involved or if this is within the lay community, he responded, “There are priests, monsignors and also cardinals!”

The book, “Father Amorth. Memoirs of an Exorcist. My life fighting against Satan.” was written by Marco Tosatti, who compiled it from interviews with the priest.

Fr. Amorth was asked by Tosatti how he knows Vatican clergy are involved. He answered, “I know from those who have been able to relate it to me because they had a way of knowing directly. And it’s something ‘confessed’ most times by the very demon under obedience during the exorcisms.”

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Catholic Online: Spanish Exorcist Addresses Claims of Satanic Influence in Vatican

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I am nervous about meeting Jill Tarter.

This is not just another interview.

In another world we were lovers. I was Palmer Joss, she was Ellie Arroway.

Tarter has the air of a priestess. She wears a large elaborate satin jacket and some very chunky bling. Perhaps I am overwrought, but behind her desk, she seems to hover. She knows nothing of our other life together. I feel a pang of loss. You see, years ago, I dodged into a West End cinema to see Contact, starring Jodie Foster. And there I was, her lover.

Foster played a scientist, Arroway (aka Tarter), seeking signs of alien life. Matthew McConaughey (aka Joss, aka me) plays a spiritual type who derides her faith in science. The arguments he used were used in a book I’d written. Since the film was written by the astronomer Carl Sagan, who had just spent three pages of his book Pale Blue Dot attacking my book — very respectfully — I was pretty sure that was me up there.

What is definitely true is that Ellie Arroway was based on Jill Tarter, astronomer and director of the Center for Seti (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Research. Here she is, the world’s leading alien hunter, in an anonymous office suite in Mountain View, California.

“If you sit and listen to me for an hour,” she is saying, “and you take the concept seriously that there might be independently evolved intelligence out there, then you’ve got to change your perspective, open up your mind and see that the differences among humans are trivial.”

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Times Online: Is there anybody out there?

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