Residents of a Texas community found themselves stunned by a celestial scene involving what many believe was a UFO. Eyewitness accounts told of a large, silent, object with flashing lights, with residents insisting that it was lower to the ground than an airplane.

It's now official: there is no truth to the rumor that space travelers engage in sex. "We do not have such experiments in our country," said Valery Bogomolov, deputy head of the Institute of Bio-Medial Problems, commenting on a widely circulated document on the internet about an alleged 1996 sex experiment made by NASA on 10 sexual positions. "There is no proof. . . that on any mission cosmonauts had sex," he told a news conference in Moscow on Wednesday, Interfax reported. "Cosmonauts, too, are regular people, but. . . I have not heard about any sex in orbit. "

Google said Thursday it will give $30 million to the first company that can land a rover on the moon and transmit a gigabyte of data. The contest is a joint offer of the Internet giant and the X Prize Foundation. The contest has a 2014 deadline. To earn at least $20 million, a company must meet contest requirements by 2012. Google also provides a $5 million prize for second place and $5 million for the team the goes beyond what is expected of them.

India's government has backed off asking female civil servants questions that the women said were too nosy and had nothing to do with job performance. At issue was a new form requiring female government employees to disclose all details about their monthly menstrual cycles as well as when they had last requested maternity leave. There was no comparable survey form for male civil servants. Almost 10 percent of India's 4,000 civil servants are women and many of them had vocally objected to a gender-specific appraisal form.

A Broward County judge, who ruled over a paternity trial last month involving Anna Nicole Smith, was caught smoking a joint in a Hollywood park Sunday. Judge Lawrence Korda, who has served on the bench since the 1970s, was caught smoking marijuana under a tree near Interstate 95. Police said the smell of cannabis, lead them to Korda.