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THE AUSTRALIAN Victorian U.F.O. Research Society P.O. Box 1043, Moorabbin, Vic. 3189, Australia INC ORPORAT ED 1988 Commentasr wee lcomaedd,r esesm aitlov [email protected] VUFORS Webp agea th ttpww://.w ozemail.eom.au/-vufors Print Post Approved JUNE 2002 PP338968/0023 Contents ARTICLE PAGE Editor-iParlesidJeundti tMha gee ................................................ 2 On TheU FO Tra-iPlaulN orma.n.. .............................................. 3 SpeciaVlU FORSM eeting... ........................................................... 5 UFOs' FilmeOdv'e rF ormeArr msB as.e... ................................... 6 InternatiSoingahlt iRnegp or.t...s... ............................................... 7 ClassifIinetde llig...e...n...c...e... ................................................... 16 OpeninUgF O Fil.e...s... ................................................................ 17 SpacMee ssagoer H oax.. ............................................................. 18 IMAXS pacSet atioTno ur... ......................................................... 22 TheE arlYye ar..s... ........................................................................ 23 VictorSiiagnh tiRnegp or..t...s.. .................................................... 24 Tasmanian SigRhetpionr.gt... s.. ................................................ 26 QueenslanSdi ghtiRnegp or..t..s... ............................................... 28 SocieNteyw s.. ............................................................................... 31 DiscussEivoenn in-gD ate-sD irecti...o...n...s.. ........................ 32 AUSTRALIAN UFO BULLETIN 1 EDITORIAL June 2002 ON THE UFO TRAIL In our las� Editorial, we were taken, by our Scie�ce Advi�r on a �rie� b�t most interestin? trip Paul Norman© 2002 . . through time and space. We have noticed the vtdeo of this most mtngmng subject is available from ABC shops. The drought has finally broken with regard to ley. The smaller lights have been observed fly Unidentified Flying Object activity in Victoria. ing in formation. been We now have a new playground of time and space! In country Victoria where UFO activity is keep A valuable contact has observing usually ing us - and others - busy documenting their many and exciting activities. Our investigator, Mr. daily sightings of UFOs in a Victorian valley Responses to low power laser light signalling in Paul Norman has been endeavouring to ascertain the source of their activity, but they are extremely since early June last year. Since that time the the two valleys differ. At Hessdalen an object elusive, and the people living in the area, though they see them often, treat them with ignore. activity has bene followed up by VUFORS inves responds by doubling its flash rate when a laser tigators with on-going visits to the valley. The is pointed at it, whereas the Victorian objects Videos have been taken of some of their activities and these will be available and ready for the 7th observer's identity will not be disclosed until he turn their lights off. When an aircraft flies July meeting at the Royal Victorian Aero Club. We are certain you will find the video quite fascinat wishes to go public. overhead in Victoria the UFO lights go off as if ing. they do not wish to be seen. When the aircraft is The location of the valley will also remain con no longer in view, the UFO lights return. been It appears there has been a dearth of UFO sightings around the world recently, as most research fidential until sufficient video footage has groups, world wide, seme to be reappraising many of the numerous reports of the 50's. Though this analysed by selected scientists with many years Sometimes the Victorian lights do not appear may be the case, we are very excited about the Victorian lights we have bene watching lately and experience in this field of investigation. Hope until the observer flashes a spotlight over the which appear to react to flashlight or laser. fully at least one or two scientists from overseas valley. Most times they appear soon afterwards. will visit the valley if the sightings continue. Occasionally, the objects respond with the same Welcome Back N.S.W. It is good to see your publication UFO Reporter back in circulation again. number of flashes. Infrequently, a solid object We wish you well. The pattern of activity is similar to that which can be seen when its lights are off. This hap occurred in the Hessdalen Valley of central pens at the Norwegian and Victorian sites. The main intention of this daytime meeting was to give an opportunity to members who, for various Norway, having commenced in 1981 and ceased cann reasons, ot attend the night meetings in the city; to catch up on numerous cases, to view the lat in 1983. The September 2001 issue ofthe Aus At the Norwegian site, radar can be used to de est videos and to relax in the luxurious venue of the Victorian Aero Club. The Managers of the tralian UFO Bulletin gives some of the informa tect the objects, but on some occasions they are venue have 'bent over backwards' to accommodate us and we are all very much looking forward to tion I acquired during my visit to central Nor seen and are not detected by the radar. Unfortu the event and the support of our members. way in 1986 and 1987. nately, we do not have radar facilities so can make no comparison but the observer has abun An article by Philip Mantle in the January 2002 dant video footage. edition of the MUFON Journal discloses an in terview with Odd-Gunner Roed, the Project Co Dr J. Allen Hynek, former consultant on UFOs ordinator of the Hessdalen Valley Project. That for the United States Air Force, visited the Hess activity has now returned and is increasing coin dalen Valley and described the project as a UFO Election Notice- cidentally with a similar pattern in the Victorian laboratory. He was extremely impressed by the 2002 valley. results of the project. In short the project was viewed as science verses the UFO. nd At our General Meeting to be held on 2 September 2002, a new Committee will either be declared The Victorian lights appear to be operating in or elected. concert with a large object as they go back and International interest is spreading and we hope forth to this much larger object. At times, there that at least one or two scientists from overseas Nominations must be submitted on a clean sheet of paper containing the signatures of a nominator appears to be no indication of the purpose of the will visit Australia. The Hessdalen Valley is 15 and seconder, who both must be financial members of this Society. All nominations are required to lights as they fly within or above the valley. kilometres long, about the same size as the val be in the hands of the Secretary, No Later than the 15th July, 2002 . Most of their time is spent flying within the valley in Victoria. The main puzzle is why activity 2 AUSTRALIAN UFO BULLETIN AUSTRALIAN UFO BULLETIN 3 On The UFO Trail Special VUFORS Meeting is confined to one valley. They may venture minimum as this might upset the activity. We further afield when most people are asleep,o r do want to secure as much information as possible not light up at these times. About 200 people while the sightings last,h owever,f ootage will be th live in the Hessdalen valley whereas there are shown at our public meetings. On Sunday, 7 July, VUFORS will hold an extra meeting at the Royal Victorian Aero Club only two houses in the Victorian valley,a nd the (RVAC), Moorabbin Airport, Mentone. All other meetings will remain at the Royal Society Hall in local forest obscures clear viewing from these The Victorian lights are usually white but have the city. The Moorabbin Airport meeting will run from 023: 0p.m. until 063: 0p.m. VUFORS now houses. bene observed changing to a yellowish colour, has an office at the airport, thanks to Ric Wilson, our Aviation Consultant and Coordinator. while others,a mixture of reds. I have visited the site ten times in the past six Come along and see the latest video footage of the recent exciting events taking place in the special weeks as this is being written, and have ob Victorian valley referred to in the preceding "On The UFO Trail" article, plus other surprising Several other geographical locations are known served two large objects along with up to six presentations. to attract UFOs in large numbers such as the smaller objects operating in concert with the Pennine Hills in Northern England, Marfa large ones. The location from which the UFOs Why not come at 11:00a .m. for lunch, or have dinner after 06:30p .m. Meals are served from 11:00 Texas and as it now appears,a valley in Victo are being videoed only has room for two cars a.m. to 02:30p.m. and from 06:30p.m. "to late". The menu provides a good variety at reasonable ria,A ustralia. and it is necessary to keep interference to a prices. While having a meal or drink, view light aircraft activity on runways through the comfortable bar room lounge picture windows. Joy flights are available at a discount price. If interested in learning Pilots Quizzed on Craft Flying Sideways to fly, instructors are located just across the street. There is also an air museum near by. UFO Newsclipping Service,E ditor and Publisher: Lucius Farish Please refer to Melway Map 87 G4 for the location of the RVAC. A more specific map is provided below to help you find a convenient parking spot. It is suggested that you proceed as follows: Centre Kansas City, Jan 22 - Air force officers today It began approaching us and it changed to a bril Dandenong Rd-+ Grange Rd-+ Second Av-+ Parking. It is only a short walk to the RVAC. questioned a Mid-Continent Air Lines pilot who liant white light, similar to a landing light but reported seeing a mystery plane that he said can without glare. It came within 200f eet of us. As I fly sideways and reverse its direction without it reached our left wing we could see the plane NORTHERNAV l N turning around. had a fuselage like a B-29 but about one and one (f) halftimes as large. The wings were straight and The pilot, Capt. Larry W Vinther, of Mission, there were no engine nacelles (housings). r-- ....- ..-- ... Kan., spotted the mysterious aircraft over the ... (h ... Sioux City (Ia.) airport Saturday night. His We were doing 120m iles an hour,b ut instead of i 0) a 0) story was confirmed by his co-pilot, J F Bach the plane passing us, it stopped opposite our w aD: z0 ..(I). meier,o f Kansas City,K an.,a nd an unidentified wing and then began going in our direction, 0 :E uw D:iL i ... VUFORS civilian employee of the air force of Omaha, apparently without even turning. We tried to (I) Neb.,w ho also saw the strange craft. follow it but lost sight ofthe plane." ..F..---IRSTAV FIRST AV II MEETliiG o;oiDi m Capt. Vinther told of seeing a mysterious light Co-pilot Bachmeier said," The plane had a ci west of the Sioux City Airport after taking off. gar-shaped fuselage. We saw no engine,n o tail He said the control tower asked him to investi surface,a nd no evidence of exhaust. Outlined > gate the light. He continued: "At about 8,000 against the sky,i t appeared like a giant cigar. It SECONDAV SECONDAV 00 feet we could see a red light circling the field to was unlighted as it came towards us sideways AIR z ROYAL VICTONAII MUSEUM ® :) AERO CLUB the left. The light started to blink. and there were no portholes.'' ID 4 AUSTRALIAN UFO BULLETIN AUSTRALIAN UI<'O BULLETIN 5 UFOs 'Filmed' Over Former Arms Base International Sighting Reports By Fran Walker Selected extracts from Filer's Files #17-2002 MUFON Skywatch Investigations UFO Newsclipping Service, #2 Caney Valley Drive, Plumerville, Arkansas 72127 USA George A. Filer, Director, Mutual UFO Network Eastern Editor and Publisher: Lucius Farish www.filersfiles.com - www.cewarren.com Webmaster Chuck Warren A Cumbrian UFO hunter cJaims to have video disappeared into nothing. Once the planes had footage of two unidentified flying objects she gone, the light came back and it headed off to Top UFO Sightings: Pennsylvania star UFOs Were Seen Over Air Force Nu spied over the former armaments depot at wards the Isle of Man. blinks off, North Carolina flying triangle, Geor clear Weapons Facilities Broughton Moor. gia brilliant flash, Florida moving lights, Indi I zoomed in on it with my camera and saw it ana witness photographs UFO, Wisconsin UFO The Disclosure Project reports that several mili Sharon Larkin, 28, from Harrington, has was a strange triangular formation of white follows witnesses, Colorado cylinder on video, tary and intelligence witnesses who were mem achieved min or fame though her work as the lights, with a neon blue light in the centre - and Arizona row of lights, California sightings, bers of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) and Investigations and administrations director of I know aircraft don't have blue lights on them." Canada UFO landing, Cuba has numerous sight other nuc.lear specialists have come forward with Cumbria UFO Research and investigations. ings, UK crop circle, Italy has 1 00 sightings, testimony proving that UFOs are real and appear Both sets of video footage have now been sent to Hong Kong professor wants degrees in Ufology, to be concerned about our nuclear weapons. On Thursday, March 3, Sharon was watching Germany and Derbyshire to be enhanced and Japan Research sees huge UFO in space, and the skies over Broughton Moor. analysed. The Disclosure Project reports UFOs flew over The Project has obtained the first hand testi US nucJear weapons facilities. mony of several such insiders whose documents She said: "I saw a light in the distance that I "When we see things like this we have got to be and corroborating testimony proves that UFOs thought was a star, but it started to move to careful about what we assume is a UFO and Japan Spaceguard Association Ob have monitored sensitive nuclear facilities since wards me and I realised it wasn't a star. what's just an aeroplane," said Sharon. at least the 1950s. While the UFOs were not serves UFO In Stationary Orbit hostile, it was made clear that they were very It was coming from the Cockermouth direction "I am really pleased to have caught these sight concerned about human weapons of mass de and it was totally silent. It came right over the Asahi Newspaper reports, "Mr Isobe, the direc ings on camera after years of tracking them." struction. On one occasion, UFOs over a SAC top of the car and I filmed it going about 100 ft tor of the Japan Spaceguard Association, an Nuclear launch area took more than a dozen above us." nounced on April 4th, that the scientists of Bisei intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) off Sharon is investigating six sightings in West Spaceguard Centre found a large unidentified line. Triangular Cumbria so far this year - the two cases at object in stationary orbit 36,000 kilometres or Broughton Moor, a sighting of strange discs in 22,400 miles above the equator. The object was Lt. Colonel Dwynne Arneson: US Air Force, ret. the sky at Silloth and three sightings of strange first observed on December 24, 2001, and is Sharon describes the object as being large and states, "I was the top-secret control officer at balls or light over the Solway Firth. about 50 metres or 164 feet in diameter. triangular, with a red light in the centre and two Malmstom AFB for the 20th Air Division. I white lights on either side of it. happened to see a message that came through Although UFO activity seems to be centred on Its trajectory is controlled, so it is a possible ar my communications centre. It said ... that 'A The second filmed sighting by Sharon was at the West Cumbria so far this year, Sharon Larkin tefact. It is seen like a ninth-magnitude star, UFO was seen near missile silos' ... and it was same place again, on March 20. believes that North and East Cumbria will see and may be a US intelligence satellite. The hovering. It said that the crew going on duty some activity at some point this year. Spaceguard official said that the object is still and the crew coming off duty all saw the UFO "I saw an unusually large star in the sky so I unknown. There are also artificial space objects just hovering in midair. over Europe that are 10 metres in diameter." started to film it, but then I realised it was too "We have got quite a few files on sightings in large and bright for a star," said Sharon. Carlisle, Penrith and Kendal. Cumbria is a hot It was a metallic circular object and from what I Thanks to Toshie Nakagawa Organization of bed of activity for UFOs - there are far more understand, the missiles were all shut down. UFO Research Japan: "Then I noticed two planes in the sky and they sightings in this county than anywhere else in What I mean by 'missiles going down' is that http://www.spaceguard.or.jp/index.html were travelling towards it, but then the light mainland Britain. they went dead. And something turned those http://www.our-j.com/ 6 AUSTRALIAN UFO BULLETIN AUSTRALIAN lJFO BULLETIN 7 International Sighting Reports International Sighting Reports missiles off, so they couldn't be put back in a weapon as it went toward the moon. [Appar [the bogey] went out of sight almost immedi North Carolina Flying Triangle Sight mode for launching." ently] the idea of any explosion in space by any ately." The Disclosure Project, a non-profit re ing Earth government was not acceptable to the search and public interest group, has identified Captain Robert Salas: SAC Missile Launch Of extraterrestrials, and that has been demonstrated hundreds of military, intelligence, government Cornelius - The witness reports, "I was laying ficer [ 1964-1971]: "The UFO incident happened over and over." and corporate witnesses. See: in my hammock on April 2, 2002, and staring on the morning of March 16, 1967, at Oscar http:// www.DisclosureProject.org up at the sky at 08:55 p.m., and I saw two trian Flight one of five launch control facilities as Professor Robert Jacobs: Lt. USAF 1369th Photo gles a light amber brown in colour flying almost signed to the 490th Strategic Missile Squadron. Squadron: " ... we were testing ballistic missiles Thanks to Bruce-Knapp directly over head. They looked about the aver that were to deliver nuclear weapons on target ... [email protected] age size of an airplane but seemed to fly much I received a call from my topside security guard my duty [was] to supervise the instrumentation lower. . . . and he said that he and some of the guards photography of every missile that went down in Editors Notes: I have met or talked to many of had been observing some strange lights flying that western test range ... and into the frame the witnesses who have impressive UFO knowl There was no sound and no lights on the objects. around the site and the launch control facility. I came something else. It flew into the frame and edge that they obtained while working for the I knew it was nothing I have ever seen before. said, you mean UFO? He said, well, he didn't shot a beam of light at the warhead. government. Very few UFO investigators have The sighting lasted a few seconds with several know what they were but they were lights and the first hand knowledge these witnesses pos planes flying south and west in the same direc were flying around. They were not airplanes; Now, remember, all this stuff was flying at sev sess. tion as the triangles about 5 to 1 0 seconds be they were not helicopters, they weren't making eral thousand miles an hour, so this thing fires a hind." any noise ... beam of light at the warhead, hits it, . . . The Pennsylvania Star Blinks Off warhead tumbles out of space. The object, the Thanks to NUFORC [A little later] our missiles started shutting down points of light that we saw, the warhead and so one by one. By shutting down, I mean they went forth, were travelling through subspace about Beaver Falls - The witness arrived home on http://www.ufocenter.com into a 'no-go' condition meaning they could not sixty miles straight up, and they were going April 1, 2002, after spending the Easter week be launched. These weapons were Minuteman somewhere in the neighbourhood of eleven to end with his parents and spotted a star like ob Georgia Brilliant Flash One missiles and were of course nuclear-tipped fourteen thousand miles an hour, when this ject 55 degrees above the horizon at 07:45 p.m. warhead missiles ... this incident was of extreme thing caught up to them, flew in, flew around The witness says, "Out of all those stars, I McDonough - MUFONGA State Director concern to SAC headquarters because they them, and flew back out." looked right at the one star that suddenly turned Tom Sheets contacted the witness who had taken couldn't explain it." offi It was just like a light bulb going out, it was his wife to work on April 16, 2002. Around weird. There were other stars around this one, Mr Harland Bentley: "I have been in a graduate 07:15 a.m., 20 miles SE of Atlanta, the witness Colonel Ross Dedrickson: US Air Force/Atomic program for nuclear engineering . . . and have but it was the brightest star in that small cluster. noticed a very high thin white contrail, which Energy Commission, ret. said, "After retiring been working contracts since 1963: NASA, De What are the odds of that? covered about 80 degrees in the clear sky and from the Air Force I joined the Boeing company partment of Energy, and several other electron was being deployed to the east toward the rising and was responsible for accounting for all of the ics firms in the DC area. I was at a facility in There's a small airport nearby, but I heard no sun. nuclear fleet of Minuteman missiles. In this California ... doing classified work ... which I engines. This light didn't move and it seemed to incident they actually photographed the UFO can't say too much about ... Our astronauts were be in space. Two seconds of observation isn't As he watched, a bright 'flare-up' began at the following the missile as it climbed into space doing a loop around the moon in 1967 or 1968 long enough to get detail." Peter Davenport head of the contrail. This 'flare-up' was like a and, shining a beam on it, neutralized the mis ... l heard them say they had a bogey [term used suggests this could have been the flash of an very bright star, about the size of a BB at arm's sile. to denote UFOs] ...i t was another type of ship. Iridium satellite, or a tumbling rocket booster. length, silver to reddish as it seemed to glow or burn and continued moving eastward. Duration I also learned of a number of incidents such as a There were portals that they could see into. Thanks to Peter Davenport NUFORC Director, was about 1-2 minutes, when it suddenly just couple of nuclear weapons sent into space were They could see beings of some sort. They did http://www.ufocenter.com disappeared. destroyed by the extraterrestrials. Our govern not describe these beings, they just took photo ment sent a nuclear weapon for explosion on the graphs. They just said it was a saucer shaped The contrail seemed to dissolve very quickly. moon's surface ... [And] the ETs destroyed the craft. Then they said, 'There they go,' and they No sound was heard. Nothing solid was ob- 8 AUSTRALIAN UFO BULLETIN AUSTRALIAN UFO BliLLETIN 9 International Sighting Reports International Sighting Reports served until the 'flare-up' began. Some possible Thanks to Peter Davenport Director ofNUFORC weird in the sky on April 13, 2002. I ran out UFO darting, and dancing around just to the explanations are a substantially bright meteor side and saw this light moving across the sky west and north of the corona of the sun. During burn or returning space junk. While it could Indiana Witness Photographs UFO from NE to SW. It was much larger than the the August 27, 1995, sighting the object was have bene an aircraft giving off a dramatic re stars that were out. It moved across the sky until easily seen with the naked eye so Tim grabbed flection of sunlight, the length of the actual 'flare-up' or glow might rule this out. Dunlap - Brian Vike reports the witness was it fizzled out just before the tree line. This his video camera and started filming the cigar or driving southwest on US 33, February 12, 2002, lasted about 30 seconds to a minute." tubular shaped object. The UFO had a very in tense glimmering white light that surrounded The annual Lyrids meteor shower normally be past the Concord Mall south of Elkhart Indiana gins about 19 April and ends about 23 April. at 07:00 p.m. He states, "I spotted a greenish Thanks to: the craft in a very light grey mist as viewed Similar reports have also been received in Geor light out of my drivers side wing mirror. I saw http://www.ufowisconsin.com/county/reports/r20 against the crystal blue sky. gia during the return of the space shuttle but no other cars and thought this was a train com 02 0412 sauk.htm I The craft appeared to be at least 2 to 3 times most likely explanation is an extreme reflection ing out of the Robert Young Rail Yards and off of a very high flying aircraft. heading south towards Goshen." Merrick - Jerry and Debbie C report that my higher than a jet that passed underneath flying wife and son (he's 12) were getting home late on east moments before Tim started taping. Mas Thanks to: Tom Sheets, SD MUFONGA, and It became apparent that this object was travel April 12, 2002, around 08:30 p.m. from shop sive-Laboratories estimates the craft was at least ISUR Board. ling much faster than a train and had crossed the ping. My other son (he is 9) and I were worried. 700 feet to a half-mile long. Tim personally felt tracks and was approaching the road. I pulled They just pulled in the driveway and were yell the craft was close to a mile long. The craft out my camera and snapped two pictures as it ing "look at that," nervously, "it was following made movements up to 30 degrees and came to a Florida Swiftly Moving Lights crossed over my explorer, headed towards the us." They where scared. This was no plane or complete stop almost instantaneously. The craft mall, banking and rose out of sight. These two helicopter. It was bright yellow and just above appeared to walk or step across the sky as in a Jacksonville -The witness was trying to lo pictures were taken as fast I as could work the the trees moving very slowly and hovering. It fast frame advance or projection of itself to the cate Mars in order to find the comet Ikeya button. My camera was a clever-cam digital looked like a star but off colour yellow. next image. Zhang on March 31, 2002, but a cluster of camera and I was shooting out of the front win swiftly moving lights caught his attention. The dow of a Ford Explorer. My son ran to get the camcorder but with the Tim looked through his binoculars and stated, lights numbered five or six and the intensity of lighting in town we couldn't adjust it or see it in "It had the appearance of being in its own space, their luminosity was no greater than the fainter The object travelled south and passed over me the viewfinder. We all agreed that it was a and it was like looking through fog or mist and visible stars that night. They moved north at a from the left rear to the right front. It was low UFO. It vibrated, pulsed, with little side-to-side looking into another world, very surreal. The high unchanging rate of speed in a roughly but climbing fast. I would estimate its height movements. Very weird, scary - we see a lot of craft had a double row of rectangular windows straight line. They didn't strobe but there were when it passed over me as about I 00 feet high. I weird lights around here. This is where profes with sequential and revolving very pale red and too many and the configuration was unusual. heard no noise but had a sense of immense sional equipment would capture awesome video green lights. The .craft somewhat had the ap power moving at 400 mph. The object was dark, or pictures. pearance of translucency." Twice during sight The lights reorganized into a rough arc very but seemed to be delta shaped 15 to 20 feet long. ing duration an · inner sphere surrounded by a quickly and the trailing lights increased speed See website and photo frame 333. Thanks to John Hoppe, Saturn like tubular ring was observed. slightly and took positions on the east side of the [email protected] arc as the others spread out to the west. The Thanks to Brian Vike http://ww.wufowisconsin.com/county/reports/r20 The sighting took one hour and 15 minutes from pattern was very tight which lead me to discount http://ww.wgeocities.com/ufologia_ ca nadiana/Pa 02 0408 fonddulac.htm I 09:25 to 10:40 a.m. There was no noise but military aircraft in formation. The lights re there was the sensation of a dull electrical louse.html mained in the arc formation and at roughly the charge in the air that was extremely spiritual. Colorado Video of Cylinder Probably same altitude. We can speculate the craft was aware of our Wisconsin UFO FoUows Witnesses The Best Ever presence. There were over 30 people in Colo I would be content to dismiss this formation as rado who observed the craft that weekend. Tim satellites but for two factors: Their high rate of Hollister - UFO Wisconsin witness reports, Salida -Tim Edward's reports his six year old concluded this technology way in the future with speed and the ability to reconfigure their posi "My parents came home about 08:15 p.m. and daughter Brandy saw the object and was persis very advanced types of propulsion and travel tions simultaneously. my Mom told me that my dad spotted something tent in telling Dad there was huge cigar shaped dimensional, time etc. 1 0 AUSlRALIAN UFO BULLETIN AUSTRALIAN UFO BliLLETIN 11 International Sighting Reports International Sighting Reports My belief is that we are looking at the side of a arrive." Victoria Liljenquist also says, "She we have never seen an Iridium travelling in this hundreds of planes from my balcony and this wheel in a lot of the cigar UFO sightings. Vir predicted UFOs over the Winter Olympic games direction. was not at a11 recognizable as a plane. This ob tually the same craft can be seen at the Monterey and several witnesses reported seeing an UFO at ject was literally suspended in one spot, and Mexico stills at: that time." My film, documentation has been When the light faded, there were no marker much higher in altitude than any of the planes I lights visible. It was very dim when it faded. I http:/ /ww.wqtm.net/-geibdan/framemst.htm I studied by experts, including Village Labs in witness. had printed out a list of satellites from the Heav Click on the picture to the left entitled Edward's. Phoenix, she said. Victoria has appeared on ens Above website and looked on the list for National TV, International and National Radio Thanks to [email protected] satellites of a similar brightness, time and direc Tim filmed the craft for 6 and half minutes and shows. tion. The brightness was matched for ISS, but it has put together eighty minutes of video cover Canada - Did ET Phone Alberta? was in the south. The next would have been the age of numerous TV shows and newscasts of the Thanks to Victoria Liljenquist Shenzhou III, but we saw it several minutes event. The video also includes Triangular UFO ww.w victoriaslight.com later; the altitude was much higher (59 degrees) Hutterite Colony -The Calgary Sun reports, footage over Salida on September 10, 2001, and compared to the earlier light. George Hoofer returned to his home in South a tour of ET's Landing Restaurant. Send $24.95 Phoenix -Myself, staff, and guests were out on east Alberta with a strange tale of a funnel of check or money order toT im Edward's, 8425 Ct. the patio of an upscale North Scottsdale Resort The light appeared to be at an elevation similar fire in a farmer's field. The funnel lit up the Rd. 144� Salida, Colorado, 81201-edwards when we saw objects hovering in lower South to a jet, but did not make any sound. We are night for an hour, then faded into sparkles. A @my.amigo.net for your copy. west Phoenix, near Squaw Peak on March 20, familiar with the local air traffic, satellites and month later, farmer Ken Masson found a three 2002. These objects were very bright, and meteors; this did not appear to be any of those. metre-wide circle in his field, with four indenta Arizona Daylight Filming of UFO would flicker like a candle from very bright to Weather was clear, temperature 70 degrees and tions inside. going completely out at 07:35 p.m. The objects no breeze. Phoenix - Victoria Liljenquist reports, "It was would once again appear in another area, in a Word spread quickly that an alien spacecraft had so exciting to have the UFO fly over my different pattern. Oakland - On Saturday, April 20, 2002, at landed. This week, a University of Lethbridge neighbourhood during the day at 03:30 p.m. on about 07:00 p.m. the witness was sitting on his geologist refuted the UFO theory, but replaced it March 18, 2002. Transmissions indicate that First, there were four objects lined up and evenly balcony and the sun had already begun to set, with an explanation nearly as interesting. Pano there will be more sightings for all of us to ex spaced in a horizontal pattern. Later, three ob and the sky was still blue with intervals of pass Karkanis said the crater in Masson's field near perience. As I was out feeding the birds, sud jects were in a triangle pattern. We have seen ing clouds. The witness says, "I was looking out Etzikom, 250 km southeast of Calgary, was denly I looked up and saw the craft travelling these lights for the past couple of weeks. There towards the north east when my eye caught a caused by a meteorite. Karkanis analysed the over the top of the houses. It was about a block are at least two, but sometimes more. They silver object just sitting high up in the sky." I soil in the crater and tested it for radioactivity. away from my house, at approximately 1500 seem amber in colour, and once they light up, ran inside to grab my binoculars. I was looking He found no signs of radioactive material that feet. Travelling south from Camelback Road they do not move until they fade out and then at this object and my hands began shaking and might suggest exposure to extraterrestrial tech toward Indian School Road. they reappear. They are very bright in contrast my heart was pounding, unsure of just what I nology, nor did he find anything else indicating to the air traffic. was actually looking at. a spacecraft had landed. I was able to film it for about 2 minutes. Just before it disappeared, an airplane from Sky Har Thanks to Peter Davenport NUFORC. I looked at this blurred kind of egg shaped object He dismissed the indentations as marks made by bour, which had just taken off and was gradually and I could see the sunlight bouncing off it. Just rainfall, saying the meteorite probably buried ascending, actually flew right past it. I am sure California Flying Diamond then a commercial aircraft passed through the itself a metre deep in Masson's field. But Kar the pilot saw it." She says, "I also filmed a Ci foreground of my binocular lens, and I could tell kanis' findings drew criticism. Masson himself gar-Shaped Craft which was studied at Village Farmersville -The witnesses went outside at the object was considerably higher and distant didn't buy the rainwater explanation, pointing Labs and proved identical to the Cigar-Shaped 06:45 p.m., to stargaze when they observed a compared to the plane. I looked for about 2 out the area had been dry as a bone, with farm Craft ofT im Edward's. I believeT im's appeared bright light travelling northeast on March 29, minutes before a section of clouds rolled in ob ers such as himself lamenting the absence of in July 1996, and mine in October 1996. 2002. The light was about 30 degrees above the scuring my view and I never saw it again. rainfall. horizon and travelling very fast. The light faded The Brotherhood of Light (which I call them) in and out similar to an Iridium satellite, but There were no unconventional . flying methods Others have said a meteorite wouldn't produce will indicate to me where/what time, they shall much faster and not as high in elevation. Also, displayed. Over the past three years, I have seen the effect Hofer saw, and that it would have left 12 AUSTRALIAN UFO BULLETIN AUSTRALIAN UFO BliLLETIN 13 International Sighting Reports International Sighting Reports residue in the crater. Also, the crater's perfectly page book, entitled 'Signos', and in Spanish sightings, 5 close encounters, 1 case involving are doing." He and many members of his UFO circular shape is not likely the result of a mete about the rich history of UFO activity in Cuba. I humanoids, 2 photos and 2 films, and 5 cases Club regularly meet to study UFOs. They meet orite impact. watched a 45 minute video entitled 'Ovni's in involving effects on the physical surroundings. at the UFO Station cafe where there is a library Cuba', by Octavio Cortazar." and regular discussions. Thanks to: CNEWS Space Canoe Internet, Thanks to CISU, Giorgio Abraini and Sebas http:/ /ww.wcanoe.ca/CNEWSSpaceO 106/28_ met Thanks to Mike Bird. tiano Ridolfi. Italian Centre for UFO Studies Professor Albert Sow (sp) desires to have a eor-sun.htm1 http:// ww.warpnet. it/ufo/casi020 l.htm Ufology degree awarded at the university level June 28, 200 l. United Kingdom First Crop Forma for major knowledge of the UFO phenomena. He explained, "The Chinese culture and the East tion of 2002 Hong Kong Professor Wants Ufology Courtney/Comox Valley, British Co is more open to easily believe in something su Degree Awarded lumbia-Investigator Brian Vike reports a lady pernatural." He showed drawings and docu The first formation of the year has bene reported has contacted him about on going events. This ments that claimed a Chinese emperor met a at Soberton, Hampshire, England, found April all started many years ago when this lady was a Joseph Whan is manager of a laboratory at the flying boat shaped UFO a thousand years ago. 12. A simple 60 foot circle or ring in canola, youngster and her Mother watched an object Hong Kong City University. He checks the with two small standing circles in the ring is a hovering over their field and found a large circle structural performance of buildings, but his real Thanks to Bill Hamilton. See the CNN video. humble beginning to another season. burnt into the crop. From that day on she claims interest is in UFOs. He says, "If something flies http:// premium .asia.cnn .com/pr/video/m eta/tech/ http://cropcircleconnector.com/2002/soberton20 to have seen UFOs and she now is 48 years old over there is a good reason to study what they 2002/04/ 16/kls.hk.ufo.ology.cnn.Iow.asx 02a/soberton2002a.html with a family of her own, and still has "contact." She has awakened with bruises and different Italian UFO News Flash - New "Flap" SETI@home - Benefits and Considerations kinds of markings on her body and her son who Over The Alps is now 28 years old, has the same type of mark ings. Many times they have taken their son to The Italian Centre for UFO Studies #351 News While the long-term benefits of joining the http://ww.wvnunet.com/News/1122333 the doctor's only to come away with no answers flash reports that at 10:20 p.m. on April 6, a SETI@home distributed computing system have SETI has been careful to guard their software for the condition his body is in, but it always luminous body reddish in colour, followed by a great potential long term benefits for the human source as experience has taught them that there seems to heel up. She has seen visitors that green-bluish trail, was observed and in some race, especially if contact can be achieved with are those who are prepared to change the soft completely scare her and she keeps her blinds cases photographed, for a few seconds by very extra-terrestrial intelligent life, there are also ware for their own purposes. In some cases, closed completely as night falls. No one knows many people in Northeast Italy, Czechoslovakia, much shorter term terrestrial security aspects changes were made with the best of intentions, about what has bene taking place other than her Germany and the Netherlands. that should be taken into consideration before while in others; the intentions were not so hon family members. proceeding. ourable. Pilots in flight also reported the presence of the http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Cuba Has Numerous UFOs strange luminous phenomenon. Later on the http://ww.wacm.org/crossroads/columns/onpatro same night, there were reported two other simi Fortunately, most of the security reports relate to l/september2000.html problems encountered at the SETI server end Mike Bird reports, "I've just returned from a lar albeit less sensational phenomena: over Bel If there are extra-terrestrial intelligences out rather than the distributed client end (your com week in Cuba. It was a vacation week with my gium, Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. there, which do not wish to remain invisible. puter). One serious security breach that affected wife, but on Thursday, I made the 3 hour bus These sightings appear to be from a bolide, a then I believe that SETI@home is our best those running clients was a break-in to the SETI ride into Havana, to meet with 5 Cuban UFO spectacular meteorite. chance of finding them with our current level of database server. Hackers stole around 50,000 Researchers, the oldest of which was a 70 year technology. After reviewing the security mate email addresses and then proceeded to send old retired physics professor, who had his own Italy has 100 sightings in three months. There rial, please consider whether you would like to spam and bragging email to thousands of these sighting in 1954 and the youngest maybe 30. are 44 cases gathered for March (following the let your PC, Mac or UNIX host join in the addresses. Needless to say, SETI moved very 16 for February and the 41 of January). Half of Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. quickly to plug this security hole. They have never been in contact with North the month's reports resulted from the passage of American researchers. They gave me a 300 a bolide on March 19th. There were 13 daytime 14 AUSTRALIAN UFO BULLETIN AUSTRALIAN UFO BliLLETIN 15 CLASSIFIED INTELLIGENCE Opening UFO Files Backfires On Government Compiled and Edited by Erich A. Aggen, Jr. The UFO Enigma-May 2001 By Laura Sullivan BIZARRE CROATIAN UFO STORY: The They were located on the slopes of a mountain Delve Report - October 2001 following is the exact duplication of a document, near a Korean village. Soldiers were detailed to filed to NSA in 1993, released by the State De warn the populace that the village was going to Two years ago, the National Security Agency required for the UFO requests slows down the partment in July 1997. The initial information be bombarded with artillery. With aerial artil began posting previously classified documents response time for all requests. was provided by a source, requesting its pursuit lery bursts coming in PFC Wall and other sol on its Web site to deflect the growing number of through US Government channels - which I diers noticed what appeared to be a ''jack-o requests each year for information about flying The agency hasn't kept exact numbers about (Armen Victorian Ziu�ompuserve.com) did. lantern" to the right of them coming down saucers and space aliens. But the plan back UFO requests. But Pamela Phillips, chief of across the mountain. fired. FOWPrivacy Act Services, said the increase in "The Russian Ministry of Defence publication of letters asking about UFOs has been "signifi The UFO continued on down to the village its 'UFO Dossier' made news in Zagreb Febru Rather than relieve suspicions that the agency is cant," forcing the office to hire several addi where it apparently was directly struck by some ary 23, 1993. According to press reports, the hiding information about unidentified flying tional staffmembers. of the aerial artillery bursts but remained un Soviets claimed that a special unit of 200 of objects, the result has bene more people than harmed. The UFO then approached the soldiers their soldiers stationed near Hanoi in the sum ever demanding to see UFO documents. A re Phillips said the "conspiracies" that believers are and turned into a brilliant pulsating blue-green mer of 1965 fired at a UFO, which appeared in cord 36,000 people perused the UFO page last deriving from the postings can be easily ex light. PFC Wall asked for and received permis front of their headquarters. The UFO returned month. plained. sion to fire on the UFO. He then fired on the tire with a laser-like weapon and the Russians UFO with his M-1 rifle using armour-piercing were 'completely dematerialised.' The Ministry What has piqued UFO believers' interest is not "These documents contain the term UFO, but bullets. He reported that, "It must have been of Defence also reportedly claimed that it had so much what the documents on the Web site say they are not necessarily about aliens," she said. metallic because you could hear when the pro arranged a meeting with extraterrestrials, which - often little or nothing between the blacked-out "They just contain the term which describes an jectile slammed into it. " After being struck by was to have taken place in Tashkent June 28, censored sections - but their extraordinary vol object that was flying that was unidentified" at the bullets he said the UFO "went wild, and the /991. The Russians arrived but nobody came ume: thousands of pages of unofficial reports the time. light was going on and off... it was moving er from the other side. " and antiquated radio interceptions from abroad. ratically from side to side as though it might As for the Enquirer article, Phillips says it's crash to the ground. Then, a sound - we had Copy of this transmission from the Ambassador Among the postings from the files of the nation's more likely that it was clipped for amusement heard no sound previous to this - the sound of, in the U.S. Embassy in Zagreb, was sent to: Sec most-secret spy agency is a National Enquirer and found on someone's desk after he or she like, diesel locomotives revving up. " retary of State, Washington; US Mission Ge article with the headline, "Take UFOs Seriously retired. neva; Secretary of Defence, Washington; US or be Prepared for Sneak Invasion by Space The UFO then apparently retaliated against the European Command; Commander Sixth Fleet; soldiers with "some form of a ray that was emit Aliens." "Some of these documents we collected from the CJNC US Air Force Europe - Ramstein; CINC ted in pulses, in waves that you could visually desks of former employees who found them US Air Force Heidelberg GE; CJNC US Navy see only when it was aimed directly at you. That All of this is fuelling speculation among believ amusing or who had a personal outside interest Europe, London; US Embassy, Vienna; US Mis is to say, like a searchlight sweeps around and ers who wonder why, for something that doesn't in this area," Phillips said. sion US-UN New York; White House; US Mis . . . you would see it coming at you. Now you exist, the agency has collected a ton of records. sion US-Vienna; and Joint Staff, Washington. would feel a burning, tingling sensation all over Much of the latest increase in requests is a result your body, as though something were penetrat Staff added of better technology. In the past, people inter KOREAN WAR UFO ENCOUNTER: In the ing you. " They retreated to their bunkers and ested in viewing the agency's files would have to early Spring of 1951 Army PFC Francis P. Wall observed the UFO as it hovered for a while light The NSA staff, burdened with hundreds of writ find its address and know whom to write to, then was in an area of Korea known as the "Iron Tri ing up the whole area. It then quickly shot off at ten requests under the Freedom of Information type and mail a letter. Now, people can use the (Continued on page 21) angle," near Chorwon with the Army infantry. a 45 degree angle. [Continued on page 21) Act, is not amused. 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