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Megan Palin is an award-winning journalist and US Correspondent based in New York. She has covered stories ranging from US presidential elections and high profile trials, to the coronavirus pandemic and human trafficking. But some of her favourite assignments occurred prior to her move to the Big Apple. They include traipsing through the remote regions of Australia with a prolific UFO hunter as he searched for aliens, and spending time with a nomadic Indigenous tribe in the NT Outback.

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Space

‘Why I know aliens haven’t visited’

THE fourth person to walk on the moon doesn’t doubt for a second that we are not alone. He has a theory about why aliens haven’t yet visited Earth.

technology/environment

Did Brisbane get hit by ‘tornado’?

EXTRAORDINARY footage of what is being labelled a tornado, or even a landspout, hitting Brisbane Airport has lit up social media. But

National

Facebook picture of Tanami Nayler, from Lane Cove who was killed in a hit and run accident in Melbourne. Taylor is believed to be in Melbourne to play Pokemon Go

Drunk driver predicted his fate

A DRUNK driver who posted to Facebook that he was going to jail after he hit and killed a young Melbourne woman accurately predicted his fate.

World

Aerial view of the Whanganui River in New Zealand.

The river that is considered ‘human’

A RIVER has become the first in the world to be granted ‘human status’ which includes the same legal rights as a person.

Environment

Bogoslof Volcano - Analysis of shoreline changes at Bogoslof volcano due to eruptive activity between January 11 and 24, 2017. The base image is a Worldview-2 satellite image collected on January 24, 2017. The approximate location of the shoreline on January 11, 2017 is shown by the dashed orange line. Picture: David Schneider, U.S. Geological Survey.

Volcano that won’t stop erupting

AN ISLAND volcano under one of the world’s busiest flight paths has erupted almost 40 times this year and it doesn’t look set to stop.

World

Close-up of a poster featuring British girl Madeleine McCann pasted on a street in the southern Portuguese beach resort of Lagos on 13/05/2007. The disappearance of the little girl on 04/05/2007 prompted a worldwide publicity campaign by her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann - A year after, the couple said they remained hopeful that their daughter was still alive.

‘Maddie McCann wasn’t abducted’

THERE’S only one theory about what happened to missing child Madeleine McCann that stacks up, according to this expert.

Social

‘Facebook has crossed the line’

FACEBOOK has been slammed for making animations including a “dancing Hitler” and Nazi flags available to users on the social media site.

National

AFP agent Brad Turner is suing the organisation for $10.3 million following his deployment to PNG.

‘My career’s ruined. Pay me $10m’

A GOVERNMENT agent on worker’s compensation is suing for $10.3m for what he says they did to him after he reported a cover-up.

Environment

Bucketloads of hail coating lawns and streets in suburban Dubbo. Picture: Facebook

‘Sleet in mid-March. Seriously?’

THE ‘perfect super cell storm’ has arrived as heavy rain, hail and flash flooding makes its way across NSW and QLD.

Space

Megan Heazlewood investigates crop circles

Hidden signs in crop circles

A SCIENTIST who has dedicated his life to researching UFO crop circles says there are “puzzles” in them containing secret messages.

Original URL: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/journalists/megan-palin/page/189