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 |  | Tabloid Wrap: Week of October 5
posted: 01:29 pm ET
28 September 1999
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Tabloid Wrap: Week of October 5
Of the five major supermarket tabloids -- the National Enquirer, the National Examiner, the Sun, the Globe and the Weekly World News -- only the News found fresh fodder in the extraterrestrial realm this week, and even that coverage was relatively restrained.
In an article entitled "UFO Beams Up Car in Buenos Aires," News reporter Mike Foster told the chilling story of a 1989 Chevrolet captured by a UFO over the Argentine capital on August 6. The car and its passengers have not been recovered, which could mean trouble for other motorists if an expert's prediction of a rash of "copycat" automotive abductions comes true.
Otherwise, however, the News reserved the bulk of its double-sized issue cover-dated October 5 for a week-by-week summary of predictions for the year 2000. Sources cited in the special report ranged from the apparently monolithic body of "Hindu prophecy," Nostradamus and the Reverend Billy Graham.
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Of particular interest to those watching the skies was the forecast for the fifth week of 2000 -- the first few days of February -- in which, according to "Mayan prophecies," at least two and possibly three types of alien will announce themselves to the public of Earth. The news will break on global television, the News said, and may throw "hundreds of millions of people into spiritual crisis."
Later in the year, in the last week of April, the News warned that a "small but powerful 'Doomsday Meteor'" will destroy Miami. A scant month thereafter, a rogue comet is scheduled to destroy "a full third of the moon," an event that the supermarket weekly understatedly noted would cause human behavior to become "less stable when the moon's gravitational pull is reduced."
The rest of the tabloids were silent on these important matters this week, although the Sun's science columnist Franklin Ruehl got around to summarizing the facts on the NGC 3516 black hole, the first such super-massive dead star astronomers have observed actually devouring matter.
Ruehl, best known as a Los Angeles "phenomenologist" and occasional TV commentator on the paranormal, offered his readers comfort in the fact that the Earth is unlikely to fall into a black hole for billions of years.
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