Volume II, Issue I January 1, 2011 Monthly Newsletter for Members of Missouri MUFON Dedicated to the Scientific Investigation of UFOs Three UFO Lights Reported From Two States By Roger Marsh, www.ufotrafficreport.com Witnesses in Kansas and Mis- It looked like a triangle, that's Both reports were filed with MU- FON on December 23, 2010. No souri seem to be describing the what I thought. I actually pulled video or No images were included same object - or objects - when off the road, got out of my car w i t h e i t h e r r e p o r t . three lights were reported in both Please keep in mind that most cases that occurred on December UFO reports can be explained as 21, 2010, according to testimony something natural or manmade. from the Mutual UFO Network If Missouri or Kansas MUFON (MUFON) witness reporting data- investigates and reports back on base. . these cases, I will release an up- An Overland Park, Kansas, wit- date. Please report UFO activity ness is curious about three lights seen while driving east on I to MUFON.com. -435 at Highway 69 on December 21, 2010, in MUFON Case # From the editor: Stan Seba from Kan- 27078. . sas, and Margie Kay from Missouri "Two of them were together, are continuing to work on this case The Kansas City witness said the craft then after 15 seconds or so, the and will report any new findings on was “fuzzy without defined lines.” other joined the two and they all the Missouri Mufon Chat List. The continued flying east out of our locations of each sighting are within and watched this thing fly, liter- sight," the witness stated. several miles of each other. ally, over my head slowly and Stan is currently checking for other "Probably had sight of them for a very low, maybe several hundred sighting reports from other states on total of 2-3 minutes. Couldn't feet up, over the road. It made a the same night that are similar to this hear them, but they all had 1 or 2 noise like a flying craft of some one. The investigators think it is pos- blinking lights on them and s o r t . " . sible that three separate craft merged couldn't make out shapes. The The object seemed to be triangle into one. only reason I write this is because in shape and dark grey. I don't see three aircraft like that Inside this issue: "There were three lights on each flying together over the city to- point, so to me it really seemed g e t h e r l i k e t h a t . " UFO Traffic Report 2 triangular. It was really strange, it A Kansas City, Missouri, wit- was completely grayed out, mean- St. Louis Area News 2 ness was driving along Red ing that you couldn't see any real Bridge Road at 7 p.m. on Decem- shape. Last night was cloudy, but Missouri MUFON Chat List 3 ber 21, and reports "three bright not black. This thing was just a lights" in MUFON Case # 27077. Calendar of Events 3 little darker shade grey that barely "Object looked quite big," the could be made out." Book Review: The Art of Close 4 witness stated. "As it flew closer, Encounters Missouri MUFON St. Louis Area News Missouri Mutual UFO Network By Debbie Ziegelmeyer, State Director www.missourimufon.org On December 15th St. Louis MU- Point Presentations by Margie Kay Newsletter Editor: Margie Kay FON celebrated Christmas at our or me. Richard, Margie, Bruce Copyright 2011 by Missouri MUFON monthly meeting at Culpepper’s and I have assumed the cost for all and Margie Kay with an exchange of fun UFO/ of this with never a complaint. Paranormal related gifts. We also Guest speakers are paid at the very State Director had several attendees bring Christ- least their meal, but those who Debbie Ziegelmeyer mas cookies and treats for us travel are given hotel and gas Imperial, MO MUFON Dive Team Founder to enjoy. money as well. The video’s Star Team Investigator I gave a Power Point Pres- we show cost us $20.00- [email protected] entation outlining the re- $25.00 and the Power Point ported sightings in Missouri Presentations take several Assistant State Director in 2010 followed by some hours of our time to prepare. Margie Kay pictures I took of the Coral In 2010 MUFON Interna- Kansas City, MO Castle in Homestead, Florida on tional began assessing each state Star Team Investigator my visit in August. Our meeting dues by total membership. Mis- [email protected] was cut short by an ice storm and souri owed $250.00 which Margie Emergencies: 816-833-1602 the need to get on the road. and I paid. Missouri MUFON also has a $12.00 per month bank ac- Kansas City Section Director Richard Hayde Missouri MUFON CMS count fee and yearly web-site do- Kansas City, MO (Case Management System) main fees, which . [email protected] reported sightings in the year 2010 Kansas City MUFON has ac- were as follows: cepted donations for years to help Columbia Section Director Total sightings to date: 141 defer their costs. In the St. Louis Barb Becker Unknown: 88 IFO: 23 area we are lucky enough to get Columbia, MO HOAX: 30 our meeting room for the price of Field Investigator Disc/Sphere/circle/fireball: 65 buying a meal, but I do tip our [email protected] Triangle: 27 waitress an additional $20.00 each Star Like: 24 month to assure our good status St. Charles Section Director Cylinder: 9 with Culpepper’s. Bruce Widamen St. Charles, MO Cigar: 6 Many states charge an admission Field Investigator Rectangle: 4 fee for meetings with a discount [email protected] Tear Drop: 2 going to MUFON members and I Other: 4 have been advised to do so as well. Times are tough for all of us right 2011 brings some new issues in- now so in the St. Louis area I volving MUFON and our local WILL NOT charge admission to We need content for the newsletter! meetings. Margie Kay, Jim John- our meetings. However, I will be- Please send UFO or paranormal son, and Richard Hayde in Kansas gin to ask for voluntary donations related photos, drawings, articles, City, and Bruce Widaman and I in of $1.00 per meeting per person and events to Margie Kay at St. Louis have done our best to from only those of you who can [email protected]. Don’t worry about writing perfectly, the bring our attendees quality infor- afford it. editor will take care of that! mative meetings for several years. Donations collected will go to Some of our meetings feature MUFON for the yearly dues first, guest speakers, some video presen- and any extra donations collected tations, and others include Power (Continued on page 3) by Page 2 Volume II, Issue I 2011 Calendar of Events January 10: Kansas City MUFON meeting, 6:30 PM—9:00 Missouri MUFON PM, Westport Flea Market, 817 Westport Rd., Kansas City, MO 64111. Order Chat List and Photo dinner off the menu. Contact Richard Hayde at [email protected]. Meets every second Monday of the month. Archive January 19: St. Louis MUFON meeting, 6:30—9:30 PM., Culpeppers Res- taurant, Hwy 270/Olive Blvd., Creve Coeur, MO 63141. Order dinner off the The Missouri MUFON Yahoo Chat menu. Contact Debbie Ziegelmeyer at [email protected]. Meets List is open to anyone interested in every third Wednesday of the month. Missouri MUFON events, sightings, January 25: KC ET Experiencers Group, 7:00 PM—8:30 PM. Contact and discussions. You do not need to Megan Monroe for more information: [email protected]. Meets on the be a member of MUFON to join the Fourth Tuesday of the month in Kansas City. list— we actually have members from February 23-27: International UFO Congress 2011, Fort McDowell Resort all over the United States and Europe. & Casino, Fountain Hills, AZ. Visit ufocongress.com for more information. Members of the chat list may post March 11-13: EPPICCON 2011, Cavalier Hotel, Virginia Beach, VA. Call photos, drawings, articles, files, and Visit www.epiccon.com for more info. share event infor on on the calendar. March 18-20: Wycliffe Well UFO Conference, Wycliffe Well Caravan Park To join, just go to Northern Territory, Australia. www.wyclliffe.com/au/ www.tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ April 8-10, 2011: Ozark UFO Conference, Best Western Inn, Eureka momufon and request to join. Be sure Springs, Arkansas. Visit www.ozarkufo.com for more information. to tell me who you are so I’ll know July 1-3, 2011: ROSWELL UFO Festival, Roswell, New Mexico. Guy you are a live person and not a com- Malone, Dennis Balthaser, Ken Storch, Donald Burleson. Visit www.ufofestivalroswell.com. puter! July 29-31: International MUFON Symposium, Hyatt Regency, Irvine, CA. Visit www.mufon.com to register. Please send UFO related events informa- REMEMBER... tion or corrections to [email protected]. the St. Louis and Kansas City area Olive Blvd. We meet from groups will be used for bank fees, 6:30pm-9:00pm with this month’s All Missouri web-site domain fees and other topic being a video of a presenta- MUFON members expenses with a full financial re- tion by Karyn Dolan entitled port of expenses given at the last “UFOs and Media Desensitization are welcome to meeting each year at both the St. of Children”. Louis and Kansas City meetings. I Karyn Dolan is the wife of Rich- attend all monthly will also be happy to show any ard Dolan and has her own weekly meetings held in UFO related videos of speaker radio show. She is also the mother presentations that you have pur- of two teenagers which she home St. Louis and chased and believe will be of inter- schools, an author and teacher. est to our group. This will help You’ll be surprised at how the Kansas City! keep my costs down. children in this country have been influenced and desensitized to Our first St. Louis area meeting UFO sightings for generations. in 2011 will be held on the 3rd You don’t want to miss this. Wednesday of the month as usual falling on Jan. 19th at Culpepper’s Hope to see you there, Restaurant located at Hwy 270 and Debbie Ziegelmeyer Page 3 UFO Traffic Report Radio Show If you want to keep up on the lat- mie Havican is the producer. available for est and most interesting UFO UFO witnesses and investiga- l i s t e n i n g sightings listen to the live UFO tors are presented, then guests who through the Traffic Report Wednesdays at 8 discuss paranormal and UFO phe- website any- p.m. CST at ufotrafficreport.com. nomena speak during the second time if you miss a live broadcast. Roger Marsh, Director of Com- half of the show. Listeners can Note: Megan Monroe was on the munications for the Mutual UFO join the live chat on the website if show on December the 8th along Network and Pennsylvania MU- they wish to interact with the hosts with Rich and Lori Carter from FON, and Michael Rambacher, a n d o t h e r s d u r i n g Butler, Missouri, who are the cou- paranormal investigator and film t h e p r o g r a m . ple that Margie Kay has been producer, co-host the show. Ja- The shows are archived and are working with. Book Review: The Art of Close Encounters by Richard Hayde, stories, the authenticity and range tions regarding ET as their interest Section Director, Kansas City of the encounters, and the beauty peaked. The multicolored graphic MUFON and diversity of the art makes this layout, heavyweight paper and se- new book the closest we will have cure binding indicate that this was Yesterday, December 27, 2010, I to a reference guide to this ex- an expensive book to print. I or- received my copy of The Art of traordinary phenomenon. A re- dered it from Close Encounters Close Encounters by Kim Carls- markable achievement.” Publishing. The book is $34.95. berg. I had originally ordered this Leo Sprinkle,PhD (Contact re- With shipping and sales tax the book in early November. After searcher, University of Wyoming) total was $42.29. two printing delays, I finally re- remarks regarding The Art of ceived it. Was I disappointed ? Close Encounters “Visually stun- The Art of Close Encounters is Not in the least. ning, intellectually compelling and currently available through the fol- Kim Carlsberg is an accom- spiritually illuminating.” lowing web sites: plished photographer and artist Stephen Bassett (Executive Dir. www.closeencounterspublishing.com/ who has worked in the entertain- Paradigm Research Group) re- ment and music industry. Her fine views “Who will speak for those www.facebook.com/pages/The-Art-Of- Close-Encounters/254882858789 -art images have been used in who cannot yet speak for them- books, magazines, television, print selves? In this one of a kind book, extraordinaryintelligence.com/2590/the- ads, major motion pictures, as well Kim Carlsberg has reached out to unexplained/the-art-of-close-encounters- as being featured in solo gallery bridge the silence with art, letting kim-carlsberg/ exhibitions in Los Angeles, CA, the universal language bring to- Santa Fe, NM and Aspen, CO. She gether those caught between two www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/ thread622937/pg1 is also an extraterrestrial experi- worlds.” encer and contactee. She has both I have shown this book to some I'll bring my copy to our next Kan- the life experiences and graphic friends and family members who sas City MUFON meeting on skills to put together a fine volume are not as interested in the UFO January 10, 2011. I want to share it such as this. phenomenon as I am. Generally, with some of my fellow MUFON George Noory (Coast to Coast) they quickly became fascinated members but, please, no greasy has stated “The sheer volume of with the artwork and asked ques- fingers. Page 4