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The 12 Christian days of Christmas began on 25 December. The 12th Night occurs on the night of 5 January (Eve of Epiphany). For the superstitious, the 12th Night is viewed as the correct date to take down Christmas decorations and avoid bad luck for the rest of the year. It’s traditional to eat a Simnel Cake on Epiphany which is tomorrow. You can use a fruit cake as a substitute.


Epiphany 2025


January 5, 1941: Record-breaking British pilot Amy Johnson’s plane went off course in foggy weather over the Thames Estuary. She bailed out before the plane crashed and she was presumed dead, but her corpse was never recovered from the river. She was only 37. Amelia Earhart was declared dead January 5, 1939. Her body, that of her co-pilot, and her plane were all never found.




January 5, 1925: Nellie Tayloe Ross was sworn in as the Governor of Wyoming, thereby becoming the 1st woman to govern a US state and the only woman to date to govern Wyoming. The New York Times noted that she defied precedent by wearing hat and gloves while remaining what she said was "ever feminine, never a feminist." She was also the 28th and first female director of the United States Mint from 1933 to 1953.


Her great-granddaughter Nellie Tayloe Sanders is the current Oklahoma Secretary of Education since January 24, 2024.



January 5, 1919: The German Workers’ Party (DAP), led by Anton Drexler (13 June 1884 – 24 February 1942), was founded in Munich, Germany. Its chief aim was to win over the masses from socialism by stressing nationalism. It was this party that became the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in February 1920.




January 5, 1950: Mikel Conrad’s science-fiction film The Flying Saucer is released to US theaters. It is the first feature film to deal with UFOs, although it turns out that the saucers are the invention of an American scientist.



Here's the classic Flying Saucer movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUtbvrmMO6w



January 5, 2009: Morristown UFO hoax. Starting at 8:15–9:00 pm Mysterious floating red lights in the sky are reported near Morristown, New Jersey. The red lights are also observed on January 26, January 29, February 7, and February 17. The events are later revealed as a hoax perpetrated by Joe Rudy and Chris Russo, who are conducting a social experiment to expose ufology as a pseudoscience and raise consciousness around the unreliability of eyewitness claims.

They release five flare lights attached to helium balloons. Reports are concentrated in the towns of Hanover Township, Morristown, Morris Plains, Madison, and Florham Park. On April 7, Russo and Rudy plead guilty to charges of disorderly conduct and are sentenced to fines of $250 and 50 hours of community service.


How We Staged the Morristown UFO Hoax

YOUTUBE::

How We Staged the Morristown UFO Hoax, Part 1: The Setup

How We Staged the Morristown UFO Hoax, Part 2: The Launches

How We Staged the Morristown UFO Hoax, Part 3: The Reactions


LOL! Sure, just another 50 more years...


Robert C. Carr on The Saucers That Time Forgot


Jan 5, 2000: Today in IC History - Special Access Programs (SAP). Bill Sweetman writes in Jane’s International Defense Review that there are approximately 150 "special access programs" within the Pentagon at the close of 1999, many of which are unacknowledged. They often have completely independent systems of classification, with total control exercised by the program manager. He concludes that most are dominated not by Defense personnel but by private contractors. He has no idea how they are funded. How about that MISSING 2.3 Trillion on Sept 10, 2001.


"In search of the Pentagon's billion dollar hidden budgets - how the US keeps its R&D; spending under wraps" By Bill Sweetman.



SAS Rogue hero just might get a VC...


Ex-defence chiefs lead calls for SAS legend Paddy Mayne to be posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross

I been watching Season 2 of SAS Rogue Heroes past few nights. Paddy Mayne was a super badass like no other.


Nothing to see here, move along. We're getting close to that special date.


NorthCom Commander has directed ALL military installations to immediately implement heightened security measures due to New Orleans and Las Vegas terror attacks.

CODE RED Base is closed due to, yep you guessed it...WEATHER.


Flying Saucer Blues...