Tabloid Wrap: October 12


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	Tabloid Wrap: October 12 posted: 10:25 am ET 05 October 1999

Tabloid Wrap: Week of October 12

The Weekly World News took a back seat to millionaire UFO researcher Robert Bigelow this week, who received profiles in two of the five major supermarket journals of the flamboyant.

In their October 12 issues, both the Sun and the National Examiner ran pieces on Las Vegas real-estate baron Bigelow's efforts to "fund real-life X-Files."

Although Bigelow says he has never seen a UFO himself, he has cultivated a deep interest in both aerospace issues and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. In addition to founding the UFO research organization National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) in 1995, he has recently earmarked $500 million -- about half of his fortune -- to build an orbital luxury hotel.

Bigelow's plans to build the hotel as part of his recently unveiled Bigelow Aerospace venture. According to an interview with Examiner writer L.A. Justice, the rocket-propelled cruise ship should be ready by 2015, at which time Bigelow expects to take a six-day trip into space.

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The Weekly World News, meanwhile, uncovered evidence of a startling alien conspiracy that has apparently infiltrated most major U.S. research institutes.

According to News writer Michael Forsyth, a former member of the Holt-Ventman Institute has come forward with an admission that two of the think tank's hand-chosen members are actually slender, big-eyed aliens from Sirius B.