TUESDAY DECEMBER 19 2017 NEWS ROUNDUP

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Not in the Christmas Spirit? ‘Rudolph’s Rage Room’ Allows People to Smash Away Holiday Stress! People in London are paying $25 to swing a baseball bat at a Christmas tree, proving that the holiday spirit may not be alive and well inside everyone. For just three minutes, people who loathe the holiday season can don a red jumpsuit, wear protective goggles and beat up a fully decorated Christmas tree for $25 unleash their rage against the season. A creative events group came up with the idea to help people relax and release their frustrations inside “Rudolph’s Rage Room.”
‘I Don’t Know Where It’s From’: Former UFO Program Head On Navy Jet Footage .. Elizondo tells Morning Edition’s Steve Inskeep that Pentagon staff didn’t always understand what they saw. Among the mysteries was recently-released footage recorded from the cockpit of a U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet. In it the pilots can be heard marveling at an object, astonished at its speed and how it seems to rotate, inexplicably, in the air..
Ex-Navy pilot describes an eerie encounter with UFO.. MORE: “It was a real object, it exists and I saw it,” he told the Washington Post. “Something not from the Earth.” Fravor spotted the flying object on Nov. 14, 2004, after a break in a routine training mission about 60 to 100 miles off the coast between San Diego and Ensenada, Mexico, the newspaper reported. He was searching for some flying objects that officials had been tracking, when he spotted one hovering above the ocean’s surface. It looked like a “white Tic Tac, about the same size as a Hornet, 40 feet long with no wings,” Fravor said. “Just hanging close to the water.”