ONE farmer up in the north put in a real jet-setting day last week. He hopped on board with a local aviation star and headed interstate delivering a plane. “Had breakfast at the Birdsville Hotel, lunch in the pub at William Creek and back home for dinner,” came the report.
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SHAME he wasn’t flying in the Concorde. Might have squeezed in the morning tea spread that adorned the tables at Newbridge Hall for a grant announcement last week. You knew the locals arriving ... those ones with a plate of fantastic country fare in the hand ready visitors to later devour.
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WHILE we’re up in the sky, new UFO files released by Uncle Sam last week describe spinning discs, glowing orbs and one object shaped like a potato. One was a rotating disc that sent out beams of light. Another was a shining red orb of a hue the observer had never seen before. Then there was the one compared to a potato, and also a bean, but with a coat of shimmering, fish-like scales. Those were some of the UFOs described in documents released by the Pentagon, the third release since President Donald Trump directed his administration to give the public full disclosure around what it knows about alien life and mysterious objects in the sky.
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AND a Rubik’s cube enthusiast solved two of the puzzles in mid-air during his first-ever day of skydiving to break a Guinness World Record. Ishaan Hadkar, 24, who has been solving puzzle cubes since he was 10 years old, went skydiving for the first time in California to attempt he Guinness World Record for the most rotating puzzle cubes solved in a single skydive. First attempt failed but on the second Hadker managed to solve two cubes before landing on the ground from 13,000 feet.
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