An article on June 2 about sympathy for the bombing suspect Eric R. Rudolph among residents of western North Carolina misstated the place of his last reported sighting before his capture on May 31.
A Royal New Zealand Air Force RNZAFF) P3 Orion aircraft with specialist electro-optic observation equipment was diverted to the location, arriving after the first aircraft left but only reported sighting clumps of seaweed.
Nor did biologists find any eastern hognose snakes, once common along the South Shore and barrier islands, although a park service employee reported sighting one on Fire Island last May.
Facebook Twitter Pinterest 2.21pm GMT Reuters report that the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said one of its aircraft reported sighting a number of "small objects" with the naked eye, including a wooden pallet, in the search area.
"During Saturday's search activities a civil aircraft tasked by Amsa reported sighting a number of small objects with the naked eye, including a wooden pallet, within a radius of five kilometres," the statement said.
A wildlife tour group reported sighting 19 basking sharks up to 25 feet in length last weekend as the eight-tonne travellers begin to arrive off the south west coast.
Their use in civilian areas could be a war crime.Sweden's navy launched a hunt for a possible Russian submarine after people reported sighting suspicious objects in waters near Stockholm.
Officials later reported sighting five large pieces of wreckage on the sea floor.
While unexplained celestial happenings have been witnessed throughout history, UFO-spotting as a popular phenomenon took off after US airman Kenneth Arnold reported sighting nine disc-shaped objects while airborne in 1947.
After operations ended for the day, Australia's Maritime Safety Authority (Amsa) said an aircraft had reported sighting a number of small objects with the naked eye within a radius of five kilometres, including a wooden pallet.
It reported sighting "two heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, and one unknown type".
