Join Uri Geller, the world's most celebrated paranormalist, as he counts down to the Year 2000 - proving that the world is getting weirder every day.

Day 337 - Friday January 29:

Britain's Jodrell Bank radio telescope is to conduct the most sophisticated-ever search for alien intelligence, homing in on an electronic 'watering hole' - a band of inter-stellar signals beaming between the frequencies of hydrogen and oxygen. The Cheshire scientists are tuning in with colleagues at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, where Hurricane George has held up work on the Californian-based SETI project - the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence.

Day 336 - Saturday January 30:

Political journalist Paul Johnson, author of the best-selling histories of Christianity and Judaism, predicts the psychological significance of the Year 2000 could provoke international hysteria. He warns: "Because the world we live in is so material, so Godless and so unsatisfying, men and women are looking for emotional miracles - or pseudo-miracles." He predicts a wave of holy visions and cures in the Balkans, with cults springing up in Africa and Latin America.

Day 335 - Sunday January 31:

This happens only once in a blue moon ... there are two blue moons this year, and the first is tonight. Astronomers term the moon 'blue' when it is full for the second time in a month. The moon was full on January 2, and it will be again on March 2 and March 31 - a phenomenon that has not occured since 1915.

Day 334 - Monday February 1:

Incredible images of a mid-air UFO crash have been captured on video, claims Israeli journalist Barry Chamish. The pictures were taken by sky-watcher Spasso Maximovitch in Israel and show a silver orb hovering before a white oval streaks out of the western sky and impacts in a ball of flame. Hoax, military test or paranormal? We cannot ask Maximovitch - he vanished last year.

Day 333 - Tuesday February 2:

Hatches are being battened down. Residents in St John's Wood, London, have formed a Millennium Community Council, led by the Rev John Papworth, to organise stockpiles of food and fuel. In Islington a "community preparedness group" has been set up. Across the Atlantic, in Dallas, Texas, 50 middle-class families have laid up 35 tons of food - all in readiness for Millennium chaos.

Day 332 - Wednesday February 3:

Paralysis victims are learning to write with thought-power at the University of Tbingen, Germany. Researcher Niels Birbaumer has developed electrodes the size of contact lens which are placed on the head close to the motor cortex. Brain activity once used to move muscles is harnessed by the sensors and moves a computer cursor across a screen of letters. Each character takes about 80 seconds - a short sentence takes 30 minutes.

Day 331 - Thursday February 4:

Della Harris of Diamond Heights Boulevard, San Francisco, took a snapshot of her living room - and caught a ghost. A white light flares across half the picture, like an eerie burst of energy, yet Della saw nothing. "I was just taking a picture for insurance purposes," she says. "Seems I caught a very angry spirit unawares."

Uri Geller's novel Ella is published by Headline Feature at £5.99, his Little Book Of MindPower by Robson Books at £2.50, and Jonathan Margolis's Uri Geller, Magician or Mystic? by Orion Books at £17.99

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