UFO Newsclipping Service 2007 03 no 452

2007·16.6 MB·English

NEWSCLIPPING
SERVICE
March 2007
Number 452
EDITOR/PUBLISHER: Lucius Farish • #2 Caney Valley Drive • Plumerville, AR 72127-8725 USA
TRIBUNE, Chicago, IL - Jan. 7, 2007
A purported UFO sighting at O'Hare gives flight to hopes that we're not alone Not surprisingly, they gave
Newt back.
Covering UFOs seemed to be
By Jon Hilkevitch and confused about why we ex offer an exclusive Chicago an uine UFO from some other part stretching the definition of my
ist, and giving us a chance to gle on what might be the big of our galaxy or our universe." job, transportation reporting. I
It's rare for a newspaper sto hope, to dream. gest story of all humankind-a We've all read similar re looked at the clock on the news
ry to emerge from the vast and Admittedly, those big visit by an alien spaceship. ports-and then put them back room wall and decided to give
dark unknown and hit at a pri thoughts were not on my mind No, ET had not phoned home. on the shelf-while waiting in Mr. Davenport two minutes.
inallevel, tapping into the fact when the director of a UFO But, said Peter Davenport of the supennarket checkout But he was onto something.
that many of us feel so alone watching group first called to the National UFO Reporting line. I recall one tabloid front The UFO story, published
Center, this was "an excetlent, page announcing that aliens Monday, became the most-read
Jon lfilkevitch is the Tribune's transportation reporter: stunning case involving a gen- had abducted Newt Gingrich. piece to appear on chicagotri-
bune.com. It was the top story The fact that officials at Unit vat ion, that beings from anoth· the cosmic family photo al·
on the Tribune Web site for ed Airlines and the Federal er world will be able to help us bum?
four straight days, garnering Aviation Administration ini· solve the mess we've made on The answer, along with an
more than 1 million page views tially denied any knowledge of this planet," said Callimano explanation about how the uni
from people around the world. the incident-despite evidence pulos, a board member of the verse works, remains a mys
The reaction is proof that we I had tha.t they were well aware John E. Mack Institute, found- tery. We earthlings possess in
live in a curious world. Maybe of it-made the story even quisitive minds, but we are, af
a curious universe too. more appealing. ter all, only human.
It turns conventional no Little did any of us know. 'If we were to find our
·tions about what people want News organizations from a [email protected]
to read and hear about on their low-watt radio station in Dela cosmic friends, we would
head. And it lays bare the real ware to a TV station in Austra have a real family,
ity that huge numbers of peo lia phoned me to request inter
ple explicitly mistrust the gov views. Jay Leno cracked jokes finally.'
ernment, the military estab on the ''Tonight Show" about
lishment and the aerospace in inebriated workers at O'Hare. DAILY NEWS-MINER, Fairbanks,
-Dominique Callimanopulos, a board
dustry when it comes to UFO Ufologists contacted me in AK - Nov. 22, 2006
sightings and research. droves with thanks for treating member of the John E. Mack Institute UFO sigh--ting-
In our first of many phone the subject in a serious manner
conversations, Davenport as and congratulated the Trib . ed in honor of the Pulitzer Nov. 16, 2006
sured me that highly credible une, as a leading member of the Prize-winning physician. To the editor:
individuals spotted a flying mainstream media, for pub "Everyone at some deep level On around Jan. 13, 2005, a
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site on my Tribune beat: T-he reaction is perplexing religions in the world and con· was seen hovering. iioove' the
O'Hare International Airport. and somewhat discouraging. tlicting belief systems," she Fairbanks area for about 45 min
So I interviewed the witness But clearly it speaks to the per said. "If we were to find our utes betw~en 8-9 p.m. So far we
es and tracked down some ad sistent fascination .with the cosmic friends, we would have k:pow two people Witnessed the
ditional observers-pilots, possibility that we're not alone a real family, finally." object. ·
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ed Airlines. to be unraveled. tiate the claims made at researchers have begun to study
They were all dead serious Dominique Callimanopulos O'Hare on Nov. 7. Airport sur SJ]d evaluate the ·object. The data
about what they saw, and the understands why the UFO sto veillance cameras are trained we . hav~ collected· so far; how
accounts-whether made from ry is so seductive. on the airfield, not the heav-· ever, is not enough to determine
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were consistent. ings hit most people in a very How is it that someone smug
The unidentified aerial phe child-wonder place," Callirna gled a camera cell phone into a . We . invite others who have
nomenon was dark gray and nopulos said. She assisted the Baghdad execution chamber to observed this object to assist us
shaped like a disc, it hovered in late Dr. John Mack, who be chronicle the hanging of for in oaut r 'endeavor. You.m ay contact
a fixed position above Con came infamous at Harvard mer Iraqi dictator Saddam us 456·3805 or 322-0514.
course C of the United Airlines Medical School for research Hussein last month, but no one Klinton Chace
terminal, and it vanished with ing UFO and alien encounters. ~ong the thousands of air Researcher
a burst of energy that cut a hole "People think this visit will port workers and travelers at Fairbf1.Ilks
in the overcast skies. be some sort of answer or sal- ~'Hare snapped a picture for
UFOs? Who knows, but keep·a n eye to the skies said. Rodeghier encourages
anyone who thinks he's seen a
UFO to report it to his group at.
www.cufos.org or (773) 271-
..... 3611.
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While the Chicago center's
BY JAMIE SOTONOFF Alien spacecraft, some would reports locally, but the numbers of weather anomaly and some
latest reports weren't available,
Daily Herald Staff Writer have us believe, aren't only mon surged again around the time of one should be talking to a mete here's a sampling of recent
itoring our big airport. They're a ''significant" sighting in Tinley orologist," FAA spokesman Tony
ones from the National UFO
Are they watching us? scoping out Route 53, Wrigley Park in 2004 -when hundreds Molinaro said.
Reporting Center:
The UFO, or whatever it was, Field and backyards from St. of people reported seeing·a \tri Rodeghier admits many sight
• West Dundee, 6:20 p.m.
spotted at O'Hare International Charles to Wheeling. angle with lights, Rodeghier said. ings end up being people mis
Dec. 2: A string of six equally
Airport Nov. 7 was just one of a Rodeghier can't explain why It was even captured on video. perceiving what they see in the
dozen reported UFO sightings in there's been an increase in UFO In November, a group of Unjt sky. _')'' spaced lights spotted less than
the Chicago area during the past sightings here. ed Airlines employees, including .,A single witness who 1,000 feet above a residential
three months. .,It's not anything related to some pilots, reported seeing a sees a light at night backyard.
It was also part of a growing human behavior," he said . .,It's dark gray Frisbee-shaped thing can be many, many ( • Chicago, 7:30p.m. Nov. 19:
number of sightings by multiple not 'The X Files' thing. It's not hovering in the sky. things," he says. 1l A large boomerang-shaped
witnesses in the Chicago area in . the media. People aren't looking The FAA dismisses the idea, But there contin- object with faint yellow lights
the past few years, says Dr. Mark at the sky any differently. It's saying no one in the control ue to be plenty of credi and a V-shape on the bottom c
Rodeghier, scientific director of something else, but we don't tower saw anything, and nothing ble, unexplained sightings, he ERIC SF.MF:I.ROTH/ reported near Wrigley Field. ~
the Chicago-based Center for know what that is." showed up on radar. cscmclrolh(nl • Palatine, 9 a.m. Nov. 9: A !<
daily herald .coni
UFO Studies. The 1990s saw a .drop-off in .,Our guess is it was some type large black rectangle hanging ffi
in the sky in clear daylight, ~
Good morning ahout one mile west of Route b
53. Fades out of sight and ):.
reappears in white 45 seconds :;
Internet needs less Sadtlam arul Britney, more UFOs .
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• Aurora, 5 p.m. Nov. 7: Shiny
silver, round object appears in ::r:
the sky in a residential area. ~-
• Chicago, 4:30 p.m. Nov. 7: A ~
circular object hovers over the ~
Saddam Hussein can't drop clip of the UFO Mary Kerfoot, a longtime liFO mesmerized, they don't want to atmospheric reflection. But he ment to open their records."
C terminal at O'Hare, leaving a ':'"
dead without a cell phone reported hover activist from Schaumburg, who take their eyes off it for one promises that if he ever sees Davenport says photos of the
hole in the clouds when it dis- ;
camera recording his demise ing Nov. . 7 wishes we all could sec the oth second," says Maranto, who something like that again, ''I'll O'Hare event do exist, and
and a post-mortem sequel for above O'Hare erworldly crafts and beings that includes himself in that take a picture." (along with all the other UFO appears. ?
distribution on the Internet. International she says she has seen. ''Security munber. '~ything that is gen One definitive picture of work he does every day), • Wheeling, 9:20 p.m. Nov. 6: ~
Britney Spears can't totter Airport, and cameras must not be pointing uine is emitting a frequency, something out of this world he's trying to get them made A string of orange lights seen ~
through one rught as a trollop you come up at the sky." and it looks more like a distor would make a world of differ public. · in a 'residential area. ~
without photographic evidence empty. Scour popular UfO Web sites tion. So you are never going to ence to a cynical public. The National UFO Reporting • Downers Grove, 9:15 p.m.
popping up the Internet. The story, such as mufon.com, paradigm get a perfect picture. If you have ''I'm not in the mood to take Center has data, "which I, and Oct. 17: A chevron-shaped
YouThbe.com has video of a Burt Constable reported Jan. l researchgroup.org or nuforc.org one that is a perfect picture, criticism," growls Peter B. Dav many others, consider to be object with lights on the top
costumed Tigger appearing to by Jon Hilke and prepare to be less than daz you have to wonder if it is a enport, director of the National very powerful evidence regard and bottom floats around a
punch a teen in the face at Walt vitch of the zled. Bright lights, shaky video hoax." UFO Reporting Center in the ing that phenomenon," notes
residential area.
Disney World. Chicago Tribune and appearing and fast-moving specks in the Besides, Maranto argues, state ofWashington. Davenport, who criticizes me
• St. Charles, 11 p.m. Oct. 5:
Little kids can't drink from in international media outlets sky just don't impress a genera Americans believe in plenty of A month after he posted the and other reporters for not
A deep red light hovers over a
hoses, fat people can't sit in from CNN to late-night comics, tion accustomed to the movie things - from the existence of O'Hare sighting on his Web site attending any of his hundreds
spindly chairs, old ladies can't said about a dozen people UFOs of "War of the Worlds," angels to the likelihood of a (www.nuforc.org), an exasper of presentations. rural area for 20 minutes.
get off poorly docked boats, and reported seeing "a flying saucer "Independence Day" or even 2007 Cubs World Series - with ated Davenport finally tipped "The problem is there does Something resembling sparks
dads holding pinatas can't get like object hovered low over the 30-yeat-old footage from far less physical evidence. off the Tribune's Hilkevitch, seem to be physical proof, but drops out of it. Eventually it
hit in the crotch without cam O'Hare International Airport for "Close Encounters of the Third Kerfoot's son, Bob, says he who says it took him a while to this ridicule factor is so promi shoots up into a heavy cloud
eras capturing the hilarity for several minutes before bolting Kind." was a "total skeptic" when he win the confidence of witness nent," Mary Kerfoot says. She cover area and disappears.
lV's "America's funniest Home through thick clouds with such "You'd think it would be easy. was "freaked out" by a strange, es, find additional sources and says society won't believe in
Videos." intense energy that it left an Just reach up and take a pic dark, diamond-like shape hov get the goods for his story. UFOs until the president of the
jsotorwff'@dailyherald.com
You can't even go to work eerie hole in overcast skies." ture," says .Sam Maranto, a ering in the sky Aug. 12 and "It's frustrating for me, too," United States actually says he
without a camera recording you And yet, not a single O'Hare fmancial planner from Orland zooming up and down above says Davenport, who doesn't has "credible evidence."
filling up with gas, buying UFO image from a cell phone, Park who is director of the Illi Woodfield Shopping Center in have the resources or power of "Of course," Kerfoot says after
I'Oile·e·, ntnning a yt'llow light, security monitor, TV crew or nois Mutual UFO Network. Schaumburg. A computer sci the mainstream media. "I can a thoughtful reflection on the
zipping through a toll hootlt or camera-toting tourist has But it generally doesn't work entist, he isn't ready to do nothing about your disap state of credibility today, "that
c·ntc•r ing ymu offin•. appeared to the masses. out that way. conclude it was a UFO, a mili pointment. Give us a budget, wouldn't be the current admin
N 1\111 sc·arl'lt the· httc·nH'I fen a "Yup, it's frustrating," says "I think most people are so tary craft or strange give us a staff. Tell the govern- istration."
=-en Leupp residents report another UFO sighting in nighttime sky
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For residents in Leupp, the wait ended with the most recent "I was corning home from my son's basketball game in
;g;! ~::§3e~n§5s aa. .~~ ~-.~ incident of a UFO visiting the area reportedly took place at Dilkon. When I came inside the house my husband said, 'Daisy
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z home from flagstaff toward Leupp when Deanna spotted a Fredericks and Daisy Scott-Dover then met in the center
m curious looking object above their Honda Accord. of Leupp near the gas station and watched the events with
if~i~~f~[i;f:~~~!J~j~i~~!o~i!~j~ "I saw a bright light and told my brother to watch it," Deanna, approximately 30 other stargazers.
20, said. 'Then it disappeared, then reappeared. I didn't see it as "There were two other planes and another aircraft that it
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"We were about 10 miles out of Leupp and my sister said she "It was flying straight and then it turned. It went toward Bird
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.~ and had only one dim light," Sean remembered. The UFO circled the area 15 times. Daisy Scott-Dover points to the sky as she explains where :!!
a,g-g-< 1\) The pair drove through Leupp and rushed home to tell their On the last turn, the craft lights went dark, then suddenly and she saw a UFO the previous evening. 0
~~Pf!:;i ~ parents what they'd experienced. rapidly illuminated. Finally, the UFO headed southeast toward m
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Sean explained his confidence in the identification of the a UFO because of my family's history. I've seen [UFO'S] too 11 years ago. · N
object as a UFO and not any other type of aircraft. many times to remember," Sean said. "Leupp is a hot spot for I1. "We get so excited about these things," Fredericks said.
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Chicago, IL - Jan. 6, 2007) HERALD, Circleville, OH -..F.e. b. 23, 2007 CR: J. Fry
The object was seen in broad daylight at 4:30 pm juS't before
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sunset. lr was a large grey saucer-like object that some witnesses
Editorials
say resembled a rotating Frisbee, and performed incredible aeri
al maneuvers our of the technical range of known human air
craft:. UFOs and psychology
The denial of the reports of credible witnesses by the airlines is
not a new story. It brings to mind the situation in rhe 1940s
Psychology is an important part of
when Kenneth Arnold, a pilot, reported a UFO. Though he the UFO phenomenon.
Pete
was a trained professional, officiaJ accounts said that he had UFO sighting reports have been
been chasing "the planer Venus." Other reports of sighrin.gs by kept to a minimum because many of Hartinger
the witnesses are reluctant to report
credible witnesses have been attributed to "swamp gas," and
them. Hciwever, this is slowly changing Roundtown
other such nonsensical phenomena. And the granddaddy of as more people are accepting this sub UFO Society
cover-ups is the Roswell New Mexico incident, wherein it is ject as a reality.
said that actual alien bodies from a crashed UFO were retrieved Many UFO witnesses have eome
by the U.S. government. According to UFO buffs, it is clear forward in recent years and they have infonned me abouttheir dramatic
sightings. I feel they are relieved that they have someone with whom they
that the government is hiding something.
can confide in. I can see this change as I have studied this UFO subject
Many people question the motive of such a notion. If there since 1958.
are UFOs, why don't they make themselves known? The an Over _the years they have been subjected to ridicule, harassment, and
swer is that thousands and thousands of witnesses worldwide disbelief. 1bis is because the skeptics have never seen a real UFO; talked
have reported sightings. Can they all be wrong? Are they all tnoe vcerer driebsleea rpcehoepdl et hwe hsou bhjaevcet isneteenn ttlhye mwi;t ho ra mll othree eivm{idKe)rntcaen a~yv atihleayb leh atvoe s ee.
delusional?
To a lot of people when you mention UFOs they form a mental block.
One very strange story that has been around for years is that The fear of the unknown causes ~y to disregard this subject As a great
the U.S. government has entered into a partnership with a cer President once said, "You have nothing to fear, but fear itself."
tain group of extraterrestrials and, in return for certain favors, Some can be psychologically disturbOO ii they find out that UFOs exist
and sinee they would be technically advanced of us; some could accept this
have had access to advanced technologies. Allegedly, the mi
and others could not ·
crochip and stealth technology are examples of this trade.
I have always enjoyed studying history, which of course, is of past
The universe is incredibly vast, and it would be poor biologi events. Ufology, the study of the UFO phenomenon, represents the past,
cal economy if humankind on Earth was· all alone. And if it is present, and the future. There are niany UFOs still being seen, and who
knows what the future holds?
true that we are not alone, and .that there is a cover-up, there
On Nov. 7, 2006, a saucer shaped craft waas seen hovering over
would be a good reason for keeping the secret. According to
Chicago's O'Hare Airport. It was a daylight sighting that la.Sted several min
some, the news of other intelligent life stealthily visiting us utes and the object left by creating a hole in the cloud cover above it This
would throw sociery into a panic and would cause a societal event was witnessed by several United Airline personnel and it included
breakdown~ Whatever the case, there is enough evidence to do pilots. It even .made the CNN news. Since this occurred, many of the per
sonnel have been tOld to keep quiet about this sighting. Who would want to
honest investigations without treating the public as though
talk and lose their jobs? This has happened many times over the years with
they are na"ive, delusional children. People deserve more than
other UFO sightings. However, after many years when they retire or in
this. failing health, some of these witnesses have come forward and told about
their personal experiences.
I know of a similar UFU.Sighting that occurred over Cleve\and Hopkins
EXAMINER, lndepend~nce, MO - Dec. 20, 2006 Airport. Several years ago two witnesses, employees at the nearby NASA
Seeing UFOs can happen Lewis Center, saw a disc-shaped craft hover some 50 feet above them. The
one witness described it to me in detail, as it was also a daylight sighting.
I recently had a person tell me that he prides himself on being a scien
tific skeptic. But with the different television programs about UFOs, like
the History Channel, shows he has begun to wonder. I would welcome a
more than once in a lifetime
debate with anyone on this subject I try to stick with facts and only the
facts. It is very easy to speculate.
Some witnesses to a UFO sighting will shrug their shoulders and say so
what, because they can't do anything about it Others, like myself, try to
find out more about the mysterious phenomenon. Some have inquiring
Gary was a Kansas City FROM THE SHADOWS craft. On rare occasions, a case minds.
Police officer in 1960. He and his will include contact, or telepath· I have found repressed memories in many cases. Until someone is asked
partner Richard were working AMAZING TALES OF TilE PARANORMAL ic communication. if they have ever seen a UFO, sometimes they will.s ay they have, and are
ttho e8 "ad.mog. ownaet cSha"t ufrrodmay m wihdennig ht yea"rIs wolads. aI bwoaust sfiotutirn-agn odn-a t-hhea lf amazed at why they never recall it until asked. I have had many people teU
they saw something strange in front steps to my house," Fred of me that they had forgotten about their own UFO sighting or experience
the sk:¥ JASON Kansas City wrote in his MUFON until I mentioned the subject to them For instance, a cmouapglaez ionfe y ears ago a
·~bout 2 a.m., we drove to St. report "I saw, suddenly from the witness didn't recall his sighting until I showed him a article relat
John and Hardesty and were sit· OFFUTT east, a UFO come into view. ... I ing to the same time period and location he was at that described many
ting at the northeast corner of kept mentally asking for a ride. I UFO sightings.'Ibis occurred in Texas in AugUst of 1965. You can try this
Budd Park," he said. While they suddenly got a reply, 'no. Not now. yourself by using the one on one approach. Just ask the person if they have
were filling out reports, a bright Not yet.' Being a kid I got angry ever seen a UFO. Ask them when no one else is around. I have found out
laibgohvt ea pthpeeiarr ceadr .a nd hovered 'well, I guess that depends on how acanpds s ahto itt .t hAr efeew r omllisn ouft essin lgaltee-rs, hito t that you get a better response. Some people feel embarrassed or apprehen
"There was no engine noise much you like psychiatrists."' flew back east." sive when with a group of people if you ask this question.
at all," be said. "Just as sudden They had seen a :UfO. And, This was in 1950. If you have any questions or concerns about this subject, please contact me
ly as it appeared, it shot away no, they didn't report it. Most reports don't include at 477-6252, [email protected] or Roundtown UFO Society, PO Box
into the western sky from a Twenty-one M.is&ouri UFO contact. Jim Johnson, director 52, Circleville, OH 43113 or visit our Web site at
dead stop to gone in the count of cases were reported this year to of the Kansas City chapter of www.roundtownufosociety.com
three. the Mutual UFO Network. an MUFON, said the group's objec
"Dick and I just sat there and international investigation tive is to apply scientific meth·
stared at each other and then I group. The cases range from wit· ods to the investigation of UFOs.
said, 'Should we put this in our nesses reporting glowing But simply seeing a strange
log report?' His response was, spheres to seeing unidentified light or reporting mental con-
tact isn't enough to attract ment, and coffee. can I expect those who have not
MUFON's attention. The group They stopped in Cole Camp seen to believe?"
needs physical proof, or at least to use the outdoor restroom at a Got a scary story? Ever played NEWS-SENTINEL, Lodi, CA - Nov. 20, 2006
corroboration in order to make closed gas station. with a Ouija board, heard voices, LODI UFOS?: Around 9 p.m. on elec
the "iInfvse hsatirgdaltyi ocnr ewdiobrlteh wifh oilnel.y wer"eW ehnevnel wopee wd ailnk leidg hotu,"t shidee we yseoeun cao uglhdons'tt, iUtkFnOti foYr? a L cert rJoatsuorne tion night, a Lodi woman called in to the
one person saw it," he said. said. "We looked up and just like know about it: Jason Offutt c/o News-Sentinel office to report strange
But, one-person reports make the first time, hovering right The Examiner, 410 S. Liberty,
up the majority of UFO sight· above us was a UFO." ITU:Uperuumce, Mo. 64050, or lights hovering over southern Lodi near
ings, so the Kansas City area The three of them rushed [email protected].
only has "one or two·· LTO cases into the car and the UFO "left in Include your name, address and the intersection of Harney and West
a year MUFON considers wor· a blink." They continued to Ben· t£lephone number. Your story
thy of an investigation. nett Spring, but didn't sleep might make czn upcoming install· lanes.
Gary's second encounter in much that night. ment of "From the Shadows. "
1979 might fit into that category. "I occasionally see a show on Jason Offutt is a syndicated She described at least three white,
PauGl,a dryec aidnedd a anto 1t1h epr.m o.f ftioc edr,r ive tshigeh Htiinsgtosr ayn Cdh famndn eml yasbeoluf tt hUiFnOk· cthoilnugmsn Jisibt,r taeaunth. oHri sa nbdo ofakn o fo gf haolls t bright lights arranged in a straight line
to Bennett Spring for trout fish ing how incredible some of stories, "Haunted Missouri, " will that hung motionless in the night sky.
ing. Gary stopped at his house to those stories are," Gary said. "If soon be available at wwwJasonof 4
pick up his son, fishing equip- I fmd them hard to believe, how jutt.com and all major bookstores.
POST, Denver, CO-Feb.12, 2007 CR: P. Noonan
"I think they know I'm looking for them."
James Carrion, the international director of the Mutual UFO Network, one of the largest groups in the world
dedicated to examining sightings of unidentified flying objects and otherworldly phenomena
Brian Brainerd I The Denver Post
James Carrion's office has plenty of.alien-inspired memorabilia, such as this model of a classic alien being. The
office for the Mutuat UFO Network headquarters .bas moved from Littleton to Carrion's home near Bellvue.
He is not alone
·Larimer County man directs a global team of4 00
investigators whQ.look into reports of UFOs
By Monte Whaley, Denver Post Staff Writer The nonprofit's world headquarters .
recently moved from a storefront in
Bellvue-James Carrion will often look up at the stars shining over his Littleton into Carrion's spacious
hilltop home near this Larimer Co1mcy com.inunicy and wonder who or what home. He directs 400 field investiga
tors- all certified by MUFON- to
is watching. interview witnesses, examine possi
"I think they know I'm looking for them," said the 41-year-old former Army ble landing sites and review weather
intelligence officer. . and astronomical data to determine
Carrion is international director ~f the Mutual UFO Network, one of the whether a sighting was a balloon, at
mospheric blip or something unex
largest groups in the world ;dedicated to examining sightings of unidentified
plainable.
flying objects and otherwoddly.phenomena. Most can be explained, Carrion
said. But about 10 percent to 15 per
cent of the 2.400 cases·the group takes
on each year turn out to be something
that escapes human logic, he said.
'.'And the people who make these re
ports are reliable and down-to-earth
who saw something that can't be ex-
plained," he said. ·
MUFON is one of the more "reason
ably objective" UFO groups operating
out there, said Roger Culver, a·Colo
rado State University astronomy pro
fessor.
Still, no individual or organization
has been able to produce dead-on, irre
futable proof that alien beings some
times visit us, Culver said.
He also fmds it puzzling that no
UFO or alien has slipped out from un
der the blanket of secrecy the govern-
This Egyptian-style depiction of alie~s was donated to MUFON, which
5
has records of more than 13,000 reported UFO or alien sightings. (continued on page 6)
(continued from page 5-POST, Denver, CO-Feb. 12, 2007)
Christmas tree."
Carrion said his wife doesn't seem to mind
ment has supposedly thrown over UFOs. his hobby.
"Our government can't keep a secret," Culver "She tolerates it," he said, adding that his
said. "Just once, in the public eye, I want to see 3-year-old son "doesn't know what Daddy
side panels of a spacecraft with serial numbers does." ·
on it on an alloy not found on Earth." Carrion has never seen a UFO and is wary of
Carrion - who owns a computer training those who quickly dismiss any reasonable ex
company - electronically catalogs reports of planation of a sightirig.
UFOs and oth~r phenomena dating back to "To them, this is.like a religion, and they cling
World War II and beyorid. to that no matter what," he said.
In all, a long concrete storehouse at Carri But he also believes there are segments of the
on's home contains more than 13,000 reported government working on aircraft and technolo
cases of UFO sightings or alien contacts. They gy that occasionally crisscross our skies. Carri
are among rows of metal and paper flles as well on is convinced the government is hiding infor
as photo negatives of supposed UFO encoun mation about scrapes people have with aircraft
ters. and entities that are not of this world.
Carrion also has on hand a green, bug-eyed "I have a passion for the truth," Carrion said.
alien lawn ornament and an alien "fetus" float "Some people want to perpetuate this mys~ery,
ing in a jar of water. but I want to see a conclusion to this."
"Oh, that," said Carrion, pointing to a bulging
garbage bag leaning up against the storeroom's Staff writer Monte Whaley can be reached at
wall. "That's not an alien baby. Just an old 720-929-0907 or [email protected].
Photos by Brian Brainerd I The Denver Post
James Carrion, director of the Mutual UFO Network. opens a bag containing investigative
6
tools at his Larimer County home. Carrion said he ~as.never see~ a UFO.
LINCOLN TIME5-NEWS, lincolnton, NC -Feb. 2, 2007 CR: G. Fawcett
Of the 'UFO' sighting: Anomalies,
irol1ies and loOse threadS'-
Life is full of strange little · . On FAMILY fore? Surely, no. Was the press · .. transform the human story.
ironies. Sometimes, you pull at finally becoming seriously in In a world where we are
a loose thread and it improves terested in UFOs? I dared not daily reminded of our struggl~
your appearance. Other times, ask, but I did acquiesce to his to get along with each other,
your sweater unravels. Over Granville request for an interview. we are on the threshold of dis
the past week, I pulled at a I thought of it as a reprieve covering company among the
Angell
thread and strange things be wh(m he didn't call until the stars. As humanity on this
gan to happen. Guest Columnist first of this week. Maybe he planet reaches critical mass in
It began last Wednesday discovered evidence supporting its awareness of this reality,
night, as I was counseling a the meteor theory. I'm off the there will be no words beyond
couple in my country office. that was over. hook I thought, but the CNN "awesome" sufficient-enough
Bright movement suddenly The next day, CNN called. producer called again. Darn. to describe the impact this ex
caught my eye through the They had acquired the intelli I suggested maybe the story perience will have on us. For
pitch blac1rness beyond the gence gathered by WCNC was getting too old to be of in many years, apparently well
sliding glass door on the north News 6, complete with website terest. Not at all, he assured meaning governments have
side of the building. A spot of data. They were flying down me, adding there had been a acted on the belief that com
blue-white light had appeared, to interview sighting witnesses number of anomalous sightings mon humanity is not up to this
then rapidly expanded to form and would I consider doing an around the country recently formidable task. Many of us
an oval, which then grew a interview? and they were investigating feel differently.
comet.!like tail as it traveled "Your fifteen minutes is not these. _ __ _ So come the interview, I ex
from a westerly to easterly di up," the CNN repre~entative He mentioned the recent sig pect to talk about the UFO that
rection. quipped. I, however, thought to nificant sighting of a UFO at wasn't - to talk about the ap
I exclaimed in horror as I ran myself, "Well, since you put it Chicago's O'Hare Airport - parent.b olide entering the
to the glass door to get a better .that way ... " I was supposed probably of the real alien type, Earth's atmosphere in a spec
look, as I initially thought it was to say. since it had been described as tacular display before it burned
a jet going down. It became It was beginning to feel like a metallic, disc-shaped object, itself out. Most UFO sightings
brighter and larger, arcing I was losing the sleeve off my hovering over Gate C 17 before are explainable as natural
across the sky in a shallow de sweater. I wonder if glue would . it punched a hole in the clouds events, but many are not.
scent from about 30 degrees help? when it shot straight up. If we are serious aqout
1
above the horizon, finally dis I stalled a little, letting him So, maybe you would like to knowing the truth, we have to
appearing behind distant trees. give me more details to the concentrate on these I ven call things as we see them. You
The swirling colors ofblues and growing story. It seems there tUred, and leave the probable can't make a silk purse out of
whites were spectacular and were a number of witnesses. I meteor sighting alone. Not at a sow's ear and you can't
the object appeared more like ventured that I thought it might all. He explained he especiiilly make a flying saucer out of a
something entering the atmo be a meteor - possibly, a·c op wanted to interview me be falling bolide. Trust me: the real
sphere than a falling jet, but I per-carrying bolide, although cause of my scientific back deal is spectacular enough to
decided to play it safe and call the colors weren't right, since ground. I was flattered, I gu~ss. convince anyone with eyes to
911. I didn't see any green .. He And about to "outed." see and an open mind.
The next day, WCNC-News asked if it might be a real UFO. As I prepare to be inter We can't always know,
6 called and visited me after I assumed he meant the ones viewed (as of this moment), it when we pull the loose threads
hearing my 911 report. Others the aliens ride in. is a mystery as to where this in our lives, whether our lives
had also called in the incident "I think it was probably a CNN story will take us. For me will become neater or become
and by that evening, it was on meteor of some type," I as it is ironic, because I have main unraveled. But sometimes, we
the news-complete with Twi sured him, thinking the story tained a rather low public pro just have to pull that thread.
light Zone sound effects. The . might go away. The weight of file with regard to my MUFON Granville Angell© 01/2007
station's website streamed our activities, in spite of a lifetime
the irony was becoming over-
911 caall s back to back and . whelming for me. of experience investigating the Granville Angell, EdS,
posted photo somebody took. Although he was interested UFO phenomenon. It is ironic LPC, NCC, is the local au
Do you know that feeling in my story because of my because I am now about to in thor of The God-Shaped
when you pull a loose thread aviation and psychology back terviewed about what I pres Hole -A Story of Comfort for
on your sweater and it keeps grounds, I just had to tell him ently perceive as a natural The Child in All of Us. Email
coming out ·as you feel that that I am ·also a research spe event by a pr~ss that seems to him: angel/@transitions
subtle sliding feeling in the area cialist with the Mutual UFO be UFO hunting. It is also grati- counseling.com, call his pri
fYing. .
around it? You wish you could Network. I was hoping my vate practice, TRANSITIONS
push it. back in, but you can't. opinion of the sighting might . After many years of tongue at 7.04-276-1164; visit his
When they aired the seg gain more credibility. (Our own in-cheek humor at best and web site: www.transitions
ment, of course it was nothing George Fawcett, ofLincolnton, ridicule, at worst, the press and counseling. com, where you
like I imagined it would be. Yes, the media are beginning to take can read prior articles.
founded the NC chapter of this
it's a little disorienting to hear a serious look at the UFO phe
international research organiza
your 911 call being voiced over nomenon. More and more of
tion:)
a scene of the trees in your us are coming to realize that we
I suggested that he might in
backyard. The segment ended are not alone in this universe.
terview an atmospheric scien
while I was trying to figure out Short of our spiritual quests,
tist preferably not government
how I was voiced over the old which we will come to learn
connected. His chuckle in re
coot shown sitting in my office. involves embr~cing the above,
sponse to that was familiar.
Whew! Who knew? At least nothing has more P_Otential to
Where had I heard that be-
TRIBUNE, Chicago, ll-Jan. 21, 2007
ARMOUR & CO.
Dan Aykroyd (right) is almost as passionate about UF~s as he is about the blues. So he has taken
particular interest in recent reports that a group of United Airlines employees spotted an unknown
object hovering at O'Hare Airport. Aykroyd, whose 90-minut~ DVD "D~n Ay~ro~d Un~lugged o~ UFOs" 7
explores unexplained sightings, tells us he's hot on the tra1l ofthe 0 Hare 1nc1dent. I am heann~ now
:'el
from my researchers that there are photos and videotapes of it,• .Ay~oyd tol~ Armour & Co. I
Terry Armour come skepticism because that's how we will sort out whether th1s thang at 0 Hare was a hoax.
FOREIGN NEWS
[All British clippings courtesy of Timothy Good, unless otherwise credited.j
g UFO sightings
: over cou ntv
('I
. RE: UFO spotted at Swan
D. wick, Opinion, September
~ 23) - I too have seen this
particular UFO on two oc-
' casi6ns. Thankfully, I have·
"0 seen many UFOs in the
; last 10 years and pay par
e, ticular attention to log~
c: ging them for my own re
UJ cords in iny diary.
~ The flrst sighting of this
~ orange cirCular disc· was
... on Friday,. July 7, at
~ 7:30pm. It was true north
of Derby and at an elev
£ ation of about 45 degrees
o. in the distance. My part
< ner and I were waiting at a
a: bus stop . in Chadaesden
e, when I noticed it moving
~ very slowly west to east,
UJ then it would immediately
~ disappear, and reappear
e, much closer in tl}e dis·
zz .tance, and would then
move south to north. The
UJ speed involved in this
> manoeuvre would have
UJ been impossible by any
·aircraft. Even with my
limited scientific know
ledge I knew this. A fellow
waiting passenger noticed
it from start to fmish.
The second occasion
that I saw this orange disc
was on Sunday, July 23. I
was returning from
Manchester on the
Transpeak coach. The
weather was glorious with
not a cloud in the sky, so I
was enjoying the marvel
lous Derbyshire coun
tryside.
As we wereheadl.ng into
Milford I noticed a large
orange disc suddenly ma
terialise in the west. It
seemed very large and was ANYBODY see a very low perhaps it was the light that was I THINK I saw it:.. it was bright and ship capable of travelling millions
arobtoautitn 3g0, sIe coobnsedrsv aendd i tth feonr shooting star over Co\ten~ry _ guiding the three wise men? there one minute and gone the of light years waste most of their
it suddenly disappeared. around 10pm on Monday night? Perhaps-the 2nd coming will be next, also it was fast and in the little green alien lives travelling to
The time was about Too quick to be a plane, too low in Coventry? · sky. whizz about over Earlsdon for a
7.55-Spm. . to be a star, couldn't work it out? Would bring some much needed I thought nothing of it at the few minutes?
Many of you may be Small ball of white light. · tourism to the city as lady Godiva . timeo-but as others have seen it I'm Da Vinci's is good but not that
Is chepavtiec asl,e beun.t II khnaovwe wahlsaot · Lozingei' is a bit outdated now. · sWuAreS· iats UwFaOs . a UFO - no in fact it good ... Pablo
seen many UFOs that have ... THAT'S interesting. Makes you Killer87 . Bob8o"es
bscwuoehnceivhnco hary sef l peotohwfre tl oeobvdlraer icwre kmos trer·lodi anawnn igtddhl eeae, wmIo ocnreedrt etahri.na lny ubse · l"iheevree t"h. aIt t hthinekre w'se I'D love to be abducted byB arliieannsn! a I SAY 2nd coming. Fast_E ddie waITr aeMs t Uah SrgeTue ih dwaivnisege bsmteaeernn I aidn o UCuFobOvt. etInhf terityr e.
Ml, a couple ofyeari; ago. I would be very shallow to think I SAW it too, over Earlsdon way! NOT likely. Ozzycris
also saw the flying cross that we are th~ only beings in the · And some of you mock lozinger, I BobBones · IT'S a sign ... Judgement day is
hovering over llkeston universe. Why should we be? didn't know what it was and was
many. years ago. Too many sightings of UFOs etc about to create a post of my own! ALIENS, pah-1 Why would a race coming
Naine and address sophisticated enough to build a BarryChuckle
supplied. have been reported to allow us to It was very strange, it was flying
think otherwise. across sky one minute and then
Minx just went! ·
BEING as it is near Christmas time, Srtrock
.
II DID you see the mysterious UFO
Strat:'Jge
~ shooting across the Coventry Space station
skyline7. Give us your opinions by .
sighting_ visiting V!lww.iccoventry.co.uklforums or
c.;
write to the Letters Page, Coventry suggestion for
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puzzles Telegraph, Corporation Str. .t . Coventry,
~
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sightings
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s:. trhoea dl eaftt 1 h2a.1n0da msi doen Soaf ttuhre UJ Heath who believes that one bright light
CJ) Clay. The ~ who live in IRELAND ON SUNDAY, Dublin, Ireland • Aug. 27, 2006 C) caught on camera could be the International
c<i sthhoaouvwteh" db Mlete a·ntnh acehn e sashnteaimrp,e aa ltc. ofiurlsdt Give me photos and I'll.b elieve ,c3:~ SarpoOaucnne tdSh tteah tvilsi~ dtmie m-o ett hhoaef try ece aaIsnr ~ f boeo tsaegeen o of. ct.wcaos lloignahltlsy,
1CJ-) waTsh aebyo suati d1:f t" wTihdies 1s?h' a3~ft a: one Is stationary and the other Is moving.
ogJcilurei rddl4geedefdts ,au rlpooo vnutehgnre.d t ahIs itewd eitqdo woep fc t rkate.nhleyde. · tIrarre leIlSa o nnfdo a ww ma 2so1 v gyirneipgap rsset adiJt ibuneyc etIhn e aeIrcxectlraoanuodnr d-tsins oaofrm ialyelg chotnlnvgJsn cInln ·g . · ~ia=: ellAOlnlngae na rtte htshilndek essnp 'ttah coifes Bsctooauntilsodan llb. Se tar esept aaclesosh siapw r etfhue-.
Balllnsplttle. Thousands It Is clear from the many UJ light around 1O pm on Sunday night.
we~'f~~r~a!h:''!.~= flocked In summer 1985 stories that the UFO ~ She said It looked like It was moving over
fox becauai,-of the shape and firmly believed thallt phenomenon Ia as real In < the Tesco store and to the Breaston area.
and size. but the move was moving. I .Ven recall Ireland as It Ia abroad. · She said: "My son and I were In the car
mofef ntth wea sg rtooou nf&dB ta, intd c atmheti hbaerrdaetinnegd t hjoeu dronuablitsetsrs . thTinhge oabnolyu dt.itshceo bnocoekrt iIna gth e when we saw it. I pulled over and he got out
movement was not ani So why are we so . _ absence of photos. Surely to look.
mal-like." They added: ·sceptical when It co.mea to ln. this age of camera "There was no sound but what we saw defi-
"The shape was also a UFOs? This Ia the question phones and digital nitely was an orange light, about 30 feet
sdooerlf tiiadni alwsb hloeir t fewe imantagussrse." s w oifth l engoe absokoekd b Iyn taw foa sDcuinballtninergs nwehwo -cleaamset roanse, tphreinreta mbleu sImt baeg aet - ab"oIvt ew tahse mhoouvsinesg. quite fast In one direction S
Shropshire UFO expert have spent the past 20 of a UFO? and It was going In a definite direction."
Phil Hoyle eaid today over years studying UFOs In • Conspiracy Of Silence:. The footage has now been sent to a UFO
the years there had been a . lre~Jsnd and the rest of the UFO• In Ireland, by Dermot specialist and results will be published In a
number of unusual sight A UFO landing In world. It has over 250 Butler and Carl Nally
ing& on the Ai. Steven Spielberg's "ET pages of eye-witness (Mercier Press, 1€ 2.99). future edition.
lis it a bird, is it a
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a. ARE wP- alone? A Handforth
~ man may have the answer
after capturing a photograph
of what he believes to be an
Unidentified Flying Object.
Eugene Keher, 52, shot this
picture of a strange metallic
brown coloured object hovering
200 feet above Cleve Hill in
Cheltenham on his camera earlier
this year.
· A mature student, Eugene, of
Spath· Lane, spotted the shape
which looks uncannily like a fly.
ing saucer, hovering in the sky
when he went down to
Cheltenham for the races.
He went for a wander after the
days racing to take snaps of the
scenery when he hit the jackpot
bY, spotting the object and got
click mg.
"I was by myself at the time
and I got really excited, I wanted
to tell somebody, but then I
thought don't stand there
analysing it · get a photograph of
it", he said.
UFO enthusiast Eugene had
not taken a snap all day as he was
told not to take pictures of the EUGENE with the photograph.and, inset, a close-up of the object.
horses during the day as it stress at last that alien life forms do and I don't know what else it
es them out before· they race. enter our planet. could be."
So he had a full roll of fllm at He said: "It has quite clearly Eugene now plans to submit
his disposal when he saw the got a dome shape ·and the bottom his pictures to UFO fanzines,
saucer, which is just visible in the looks like landing gear, it is not a where enthusiasts are building up
sky high above Cheltenham, close shape you would think could fly. It a flle of alien sightings and mys-
to GCHQ. is defmitely not a weather balloon tery hot spots across the globe.
He thinks this could be proof
EVENING TELEGRAPH, Grlmsby, England-Dec. 5, 2006
Similar sightings reported of _UFO between Grimsby and Louth
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THE truth is out there ... By PETER CRAIG anHd et hsea siadm: "eW orh deitfhfeerr etnhte rye maraein osn toe ,Latest U.FO theory
somewhere. peler .craigOgrimsbytelegraph .co.uk be seen. There have also been thou
More fuel has been added to the A Grain thorpe woman also claims. sands of reportings in the Brighton TOP secret jets could be_being
area recently, of red globes appear
space debate over the sigbting of a she saw the UFO. tested over the North Sea. ·
ing below the cloud line then dis
UFO between Grirnsby and Louth. And Steven Flello, of Ladysmith appearing. Are all the sightings met That's the. latest.t heory from ·
Grirnsby Telegraph readers have Rthoea dsk, yG, rbimuts bdyis smaiisds hede stahwe lsiigghhttsi ning eors as we are lead to believe? Who JGaryim Nsabvya. s,· .o f Odl.i n Court,
reported similar encounters to the · ~nows?"
sighting by Jay Navas as he drove awsi da emlye treeopro srhtoewd eorn, wthheic sho huatvhe cboeaesnt Mr Fello added: "If it was a 'n. 'T Rhoes leesa tdr isbiuntgee rb awnidth s aa iGd \h.mes·
north along the Al6. Thursday night as Mr Navas sug
of England. also had received contacts from
gested then maybe the aliens have
The sight of a streaking light with "Having read the Telegraph heard that late-night shopping has Telegraph readers. _
a trail-like a shooting star and a report, I wonder just what it was," begun in the town. Or if could have He said' there were reP<>rts of~
orangey-colour after glow forced he said. ~n Father Christmas doing a prac new proto-type of plane. ·· ·
Jay to stop his car, get out and have a "I only saw it for a couple of tice run." . The craft is powered by a
closer look. seconds when it disappeared from Another Telegraph reader said: "I pulse-detonation wave engine
NoHret hs aSieda iat nledv heallde da offlTa sthoiwngar sdtsr othbee Gvierwan, t bTuhto riot lwd aPsa rmk oavreinag." over the wwahse nc Io msaiwng aonu ot bojefc tm tyra vbealclikndgo oart · pfsuareiodlpl:ee "dlI atw chioythup leldirq stuhoeindoi crme ateiitrchcaarlanlyfet . Jay 9
alicgrhots s wthhei chho riczoonnt aint uae pdh etnoo mmeonvael repMorr tsF ilne lAlou shtarasl iare daeds cnriebwinsgp asipmer sthpaeet di.t wwiaths aa strhaoiol.t iIn ga lssota rth bouutg hitt tinow exarcdess sM oa0c8h0 ,1000 a0t faenet a.'l' titude
speed. ilar events. seemed too low to be this."
SANDIACRE & STAPLEFORD NEWS, England-Aug. 31,2006
UFO SPECIAL INVESTIGATION+ UFO SPECIAL INVESTIGATION
Sei.lrt;hing for
truth• •••
the~
I.,· • :•
AFTE,R last y,~eelc'sA~ieponed · .: description it did not sound like th~
· the mysteriOus llg#Jts In ·tiHi·s ky' around ' .· Cblne#ie· ~terns. . · ..
Grasmete Road In Long Eaton, we had. However, one of the UFOs capturing the
many calla and_ decided to Investigate ·:: . imagination of scores of people in Long , ·
_furtiHK.as to-whatthey_~uldbe• • ~ : · • · Eaton crash landed in a garden ti'ee. ·
· · · · · · Ken Gilmour spotted the 'lights' travel~·
ARE UFOs yisiting Long Eaton? ~ that . . ling overhead the night before the greyish
is the question that the Advel'tiser and white· 3ft :high and 18ins dlametre object
News posed last week after seeing impaled itself on his .tree on ·Tbursday·
footage of mysterious lights in the m~:~t air balloon type con~aptio~ was'
sky. . . made of tissue paper covering a;metal rim,
·We asked local astronomer and weather- sounding suspiciously like ·a type of
man Alan Heath what he thought of the Chinese Lantern a number·o f residents
footage. .. . '. · called the newsdesk about. · ·. . .
He has been an astronomer for 54 years The lanterns .are inade from: mulberry· ·
and is. an observer for the British paper and a natural bamboo rim; They can
Astronomer Association. · be lit from home and they are said to float
At first he thought' the Ug}lt could be . gracefully in the sky. ' · .
Arcturus - a. bright star that appear.s_ Once .the. wick has burned out the
orange in· colour and ·_at tNs time of .year Js · lanterns (loat to the grounc;l. . · Ken Gilmour and the Chinese Lantern •UFO' which landed In
·cUll'ently in the North West position. ·· his garden.·IMG-9071 '
He said: "From what I've seen Arcturus · ·
is a likely culprit and it will be ciJ:9und for Calls flood ·in_··f rom publ_ic
some time, until November."
However, he went on to say-that if they .
are moving then of course it could not be a · THE phone has .rung white hot to tile·tfdvertiser imd News all week
star. Mr Heath said that when he had dealt .· as numerous ·people called to.·S AY 'they had.s potted the·m ysteri
with .U FO·s ightings in the past· people did ous objects h~vering in the qig_tt~ ~~ above Long ·Eaton.
not hmd to want .a 'real' explanation of But even a$ ·s ightljlg$ ofl{ie-:p{igttt sparks were rationalised
what it coUld be. · · .. away by various callers cl,cl,iJJilJ).g'.Ul~y. were 'Chin~e Lanterns',
He added: "I need a lot more information some townsfQlk reinatn sceptical. · · . . . ·
to find out exactly what tlley are." . One woman ·claims to. hav~ see~ strange lights every yea(for
Last week we spok~ to Roy Lake ·the the· past (ew years, ·but norJiiaU}iaround O.ctober. And '-l~st
chairman of London UFO Studjes. He did Thursday she beUeves she s.awa·inilitary jet. · ·.
not see the footage but-said from the . The 'UFO'In qu~n. CNF - She said: "They were definitely or~ge this time. 1 saw th~ jet in
the same space:of tinle. . ·. · . · · · · ·
History ofsightings in the town . "Normally they're not ~range~coloured, normally they're white.
. "The white ones have flashed as though someone is switching a
light on and off and t:Jum it varush.est
_ She described the ·orange lights as moving quite slowly before
WNG Eaton Ia not bm;Dune to _poulble a weather·b alloon. Later on In the same varush1ng. .
UFO ·ldghtings aa· aatronomer Alan Heath year, on December 21, another two lights Another witness in Long Eaton was so concerned they dialled
.lmowa too well. . .*a p>p'·e are~ c. loae together In th. e evening 999, while others watched the 'eerie', 'beautiful' orange and red
. Slghtlngs of a bright light appeared . glow.
over the town In Augut ·1968 and were · · The smaller light In the picture Ia In Another woman dismissed the 'Chil)ese Lantern' explanation,
reported bJ the Long Eaton AdDertUer• .· fact Apollo 8 on the way to Ule moon and saying the lights moved 'with. ptirpose' travelling up into outer
· He dlacovered that this light .wu In fad lts-cn.ct&arge of Uquld oxygen. . . . space and 'returning with a· friend' moments later. . . ..
And one man confessed he had seen an unexplainable light hov-
ering above the railway tr~ck elos~,to: the canal-han~ near Trent
Lock when he was a chl,ld. ,He watchedJt.be(ore it lifted. upwards,
making no sound. . ·
ECH_9, Liverpool, England -Oct. 3, 2006
Left: The mist8rious light that tumed to .• . 1 AM in the process of
the weathfir balloon. CNF . . completing my first volume
Above: ApollO 8 on til~ way to ,. moon.
CNF . of UFO reports. and experiences
thafhave taken place in and
around-the UK going back to the
e~_rly 1940s, H~unted· Skie~. .
, i wanttotrace Robert H1rst,
.· who:wa.s 13 and living with his
·mother, Mrs Margaret
OSWESTRY & BORDER COUNTIES ADVERTIZER, England-Nov. 22, 2006
MyStttflous orange lights McCutcheon:,. in Mottram Close,·.
Kirkby. · .
• · .they saw a-peculiar object, with
two aerlais making a buztinq
A MYS.TERIOUS 'formation of orange lights Deputy Editor of the Advertizer, Peter
noi~e. showing a red light': ' ..
in the sky above Qswestrx on Friday . . Danby, who Is just one of the witnesses to the
evening which hJ!S left residents spooKed, weird -happening which.occurred at around hovering just o.verth~ garden of
is likely_t.o be_. _the ..· curse ot1h_i Chinese_ · . 7pm, described t11e moment as a~out a their house on the ev_ening of ~ay
dozen orange glows in the sky on a really
lantern. · · · . · clear night . · 7,1966, before taldng off ·over the
Russ Kellett, the heaq of investigation for •The lights were: moving slowly' smoothly
rooftops of nearby houses.
flying saucers-in North England, told the and quietly across the sky, at about 3,000
Advertizer how people ·are ·inflatinQ Chinese feet In the air: It was obvious that it was not Can anyone fill in the missing
lanterns (similar to plastic bags) w1_th a an aer· oplane as y.o. _ u cou. ld see those also piece of this. UFO jigsaw and put
small amount of heat from something such
·d· h d" th thou passing by,~ he said. · . me in touch with Robert so I may
as fire lighter an t en sen 1ng em - Investigations have confirmed that no heh-
sanqs offeetup_in the air tQ fool peo&le copters were flying from.the R~F base In speak to him. ·
into thihking they have spotted a UF . · Shawbury and thE!r.e is no record of anything John Hanson, retired pollc.e
soMmTeh ecsae sheosa Xpeelo?p aiErie a ar ew doorriyn gt oI t udse lainbedr amte ly · · being reported to 1he po 11 ce. · · · · · officer, 31 RedLioo St, 10
to run :rings around us researchers. f:os the If you wltneaaeet this strange sight and "AiveC.hurch, _B48 7LG,
former Minlstej: of Defence official, N1ck Pope, know what It was and/or have •ny pictures Worcestershire
recentlv said, we are wide open to alien or footage call Richard Jones at The ·
AttAr.kl' · Advertizer on 01691 655321.