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THE AUSTRALIAN • BULLETIN Victorian U.F.O. V.U.F.O.R.S. Research Society OFFICE BEARERS PRESIDENT P.O. Box 1043, Moorabbin, Vic. 3189, Australia JUDITH MAGEE INCORPORATED 1988 VICE-PRESIDENT & TREASURER CLIVEY ATES Comem ntasr wee lcomaed,d reesmsa itol vu [email protected] SECRETARY VUFORS Webp agaet ht tp:ww//w.ozemail.eom.au/-vufors TONY COOK WfLCOMf Print Post Approved PUBLIC RELATIONS & DECEMBER 2002 TheS ociweetlyc omreesp oorftu sn usupahle nomena. INVESTIGATIONS PP338968/0023 Thesaere ev aluoantt ehdeow inr m eriatnsid rf e quested PAUL NORMAN arkee pitnt hset riccotnefsitd ence. MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY ThSeo cieextcyh anignefso rmwaittsihio mni Aluasrt ralian GARY WING andove rseaosr ganisaastw ieolanlsss c,i enatnidds itss, Contents semintaott hepesu bilnifco rmoanlt oicoiannl t,e rasntda te RESEARCH OFFICER overseadse velopmienni ttqssu artpeurbllyi catthieo n, JAMES OWEN "AustrUa.lFi.aBOnu. l lewthiinc'ih:s p ostteoda ll ARTICLE PAGE members. SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR Alclo mmunicasthiooubnlesda ddrespseterhd re e turn BERNARD WILSON addrsehsowsn o nt hree aofrt hbiusl letin. AVIATION CONSULTANT Editorial - President Judith Magee ...........................................2 ..... & COORDINATOR On The UFO Trail- Paul Norman ...............................................3. . ©COPYRIGHT RICW ILSON UFO Seen Hovering Over Area ..................................................4. .. Those Brown Mountain Lights ...................................................... 5 EDITORIAL STAFF Nop arotft hpiusb licmaayt biero enp rodwuictehdto huet Crop Circles ...................................................................................8. JUDITHM AGEE writctoenns oefnV t. U.F.O.R.S. Prol:>e Call On UFO. ...............................................................1..0. .. .. PAUL NORMAN International Sighting Reports ................................................... 1.1 TONY COOK ALL RIGHTS RfSfRVfD ET Calls On Lily dale ...................................................................1 7. Contribpuutbiloindssohn eondte cessraerfiltlehpyceo t l i REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES The Early Years .........................................................................1..8. . cyo ft hVe. U.F.O.R.S. NORTH EAST JAME S OWEN Victorian Sighting Reports ..........................................................1 9. MARY-LOUO WEN Western Australian Sighting Reports ......................................2.3. . GIPPSLAND WENDY WOLFE MfMBfRSHIP RfNfWAL UFO Encountered .......................................................................30 . . SOUTH GIPPSLAND Did You Know? .......................................................... .'. ................3 1 JOHN THOMPSON Frodetailmseomfbyoeurrshiprenteowtmaholen,trhe/f er Discussion Evening - Dates - Directions ............................ 32. ...... SOUTH EAST DAN HAYLOCK yearc odionntg haed drIebeas sIo fy oulra tbeusltl etin. MID-WEST YVONNE CHURCH Thiisn dictahtleea bssu tl lfeotwrih ni ycohau r fei nancial SUNRAYSIA AUAN WILSON we woulda pprecyioaurtree n ebywa lt hdea tseh own. OUTER MELB. TANYA SMITH AUSTRAUAN UFO BULLETIN 1 EDITORIAL December 2002 ON THE UFO TRAIL Paul Norman © 2002 W e have once again bene informed that the Royal Society is now ·undergoing the antici pated alterations. We are not holding our breath since we were infonned of this prior to the last meeting three months ago, but we suggest you check the entrance at the Victoria There has been a change in the pattern of UFO ing or signalling each other as well as manoeu activity in the Grampians. The large white vring around in the valley. They also appear to Street side of the building. lighted object has not been seen for four weeks be inspecting each other, far more advanced as of 15th October. than only being aware of each other. We have a new committee member, Mr Bernard Wilson, who has generously taken over much of the production of the VUFORS Bulletin. I expect you have noticed the improvement in the last several The pale yellow coloured object, which dis I recall a similar case, which occurred several publications -the presentation of the Sightings Reports in the words of the witnesses where it is pos played the 3 5 or more small, equally spaced red years ago, when Astronomers at two observato sible. The layout has also been improved. We hope you see and like these efforts. lights within its circle, on 7th May (see Septem ries in South America were watching the Echo ber Edition, Page 4 ), and at a later date dis Two satellite cross the sky, and observed a UFO We have removed the "Social News" from the back pages and added a new item in the form of"Did played many small black dots for three or four make three passes at it. Each time, it circled You Knowr' We will endeavour to give you 'brain teasers' every now and again, and hope that seconds (see following diagram), has not bene Echo Two as if inspecting it. To do this, the some members might come up with one or two -respectable ones of course! seen since 17th August, although the number of UFO had to be travelling three times faster than This time we have a large number of reports from the VUFORS Web Site. It is very gratifying to small active luminous objects has progressively Echo Two, which was at that time, the fastest increased to between 3 5 and 40. man-made object in the sky. note that people are 'tuning-in' to our web pages and reporting their sightings in that manner. We also have a number of sightings from people, who sent in Report Forms, but unfortunately, both time When I first heard of the Grampians activity, I and space did not permit all the reports received to be published in this Bulletin, but we thank those thought that perhaps the unusual lights were who sent them; the reports will be included in the next publication of the Bulletin. earthlights, but after viewing them for a few Pale Yellow Light nights, I changed my mind because earthlights We wish to welcome our new members, some from long distances away, who have joined for a num do not display any indication of intelligence or ber of years in some cases. We also wish to thank those who have recently made donations-we are awareness of their environment, such as re very grateful. It is pleasing to learn that there is considerable interest in the country areas, possibly sponding to spotlight flashes. because on many ocsca ions it is.country people or those travelling through the country, who see 'un usual lights in the sky' and hope that someone can identify the lights for them. When they learn they There is another location and example of similar are not the only ones in the world who view these objects, I believe they feel a little more comfort activity in the Chianti Mountains near the small able. township of Marfa, North Carolina. The scep tics have tried to debunk these UFOs by claim The editors of this publication wish to apologise for the delay in printing and distributing this edi ing that they are car lights, but this activity has tion. First, we had difficulties with the main computer and then the second one decided to join the With Small Black Dots bene going on for over l 00 years. There were fun and the monitor suddenly had a "burn-out" and it took time to find another compatible monitor. very few cars 100 years ago, besides, the Marfa What fun these brutes are, especially when they give up the ghost in the middle of what we consider lights were observed moving rapidly upward. to be serious business! The Committee wishes all our members the Compliments of the Season and hope you have a Safe During years of activity in the Hessdalen Valley Witnesses have bene at the viewing location of Central Norway, these outstanding lights have and Very Happy Christmas, and a Prosperous year to follow. each night during that time. The smaller objects bene checked out by UFO researchers, and have been observed operating in groups since scientists from the Norwegian Defence establish 17th August, as many as twenty at one time, ap ment, equipped with the latest scientific instru pearing in various formations and movements. ments. They were unable to identify and explain The nature of their activity has included blink- the sources of these active lights. 2 AUSTRALIAN UFO BULLETIN AUSTRAIJAN UFO BULLETIN .3 On The UFO Trail Those Brown Mountain Lights th On Wednesday 6 November, VUFORS re to be more details available that superficial ob- ceived an email from Dr. Erling Stran� Chief servation would be unlikely to reveal. By George D. Fawcett . _ Scientist for Project Hesasd len, confirming that sightings of small lights within larger objects are During activity in the Grampians, on moonlight Those Brown Mountain Lights ... what are they? Another person, who had watched the lights for being reported, similar to those appearing in the nights and at twilight, circular outlines can be They are among the largest tourist attractions in over forty years, believes they contain some ra Grampians, as well as small lights operating in seen when objects are not glowing, indicating North Carolina, and would you believe it; many dioactive or magnetic characteristics. concert with large objects, as in Australia. He that objects with normally unseen structure are Tar Heels have yet to see them, sort of like liv also indicated that this level of detail is usually involved. More and finer detail can be observed ing near the Niagara Falls, in New York and The Brown Mountain Lights have quite a history observed through binoculars. through binoculars than is recorded by a video Canada, and never taking the time to view them. to them. The Cherokee Indian tribes were aware camera operating in infrared mode. There are of them as far back as 1100 or 1200 A.D. They, One angle that appears not to have been consid usually a number of objects displaying in differ The lights resemble glowing balls of fire and are acdcor ing to legends, believe the lights were ered is that some UFO intelligences might cam ent locations simultaneously. coloured at times r� orange, yellow, white and spirits of Indian maidens who were searching ouflage themselves, by blending in with, and blue. Sometimes one or two are sene and some through the centuries for their husbands and appearing as, other phenomena, much as our A second group of lights in North Carolina are times hundreds. sweethearts killed in battle. The discovery of soldiers camouflage themselves with herbage the Brown Mountain Lights near Morganton. I several Indian graves in the area gives credence from the countryside in order to blend in with have a friend and colleague whom I have visited They move across the mountains, bob up and to this tale. their surroundings. over the years. He is George Fawcett whom I down, hover like a hummingbird, fade out and have requested to give us some firsthand details. disappear only to reappear again. Occasionally, The earliest study was made by Professor D. B. UFOs can have the luminosity of stars, or earth He is MUFON Director for North Carolina and a one will shoot high into the air and burst in a Sterret of the U.S. Geological Survey in 1913, lights and other phenomena, to disguise them former director of the YMCA in that state. His soundless explosion. and Sterret claimed the phenomenon was caused selves. These so-called earthlights should be article, ''Those Brown Mountain Lights" fol by locomotive headlights. observed much more closely as there are likely lows. I made a trip from Tennessee with a friend one weekend in 1971 to see them, but was unsuc The lights were first noted (on paper) by white cessful. My friend returned a week later and men, however in 1771 when the German engi UFO Seen Hovering Over Area saw them. neer, Geraud William de Brahm visited the area. This was six years before Burke was cut off from One man grabbed one of the "floating mysteries" Rowan and formed into a county. Evening Telegraph, Derby, England, April30, 2002 once and was knocked backwards several feet with an "electric shock." The world fiunous Brown Mountain Lights were A Ripley man believes he saw an unidentified from Jacksondale to Ironville. He said: "A blind investigated over the years by the U.S. Geologi flying object circling Ambergate last week. Ivan friend asked me to go out there with him. He In 1972 a group of men constructed a 60 foot cal Survey, by North Carolina University and Roulston (56) saw six double rows or white sensed there was something weird there." tower on top of the mountain to get a better view Cornell University scientists, by various military lights appear over the village while driving of them. A dozen men watched the lights come representatives, by the U.S. Meteorological So along Heage Road. Omar Fowler, of the Derby-based Phenomenon out of what they assumed might have been caves ciety, by the Smithsonian Institute and other Research Association said a similar UFO was or crevices at night. They formed circles about organizations as well. The lights, which appeared at 05: 15 a.m. on spotted over Allenton in March. three feet in diameter. Thursday, vanished after six seconds. Mr Roul The U.S. Geological Survey in 1922 received the ston, of Highfield Lane, said: "At first I thought "The light patterns do not conform to Civil One of the lights came to rest on the tower and most widespread publicity of all the scientific it was a helicopter, but it stood still." Aviation Authority regulations. We think they produced a "static-like effect" and caused the studies that were made, but their explanations could be alien aircraft," said Mr Fowler. men to become dizzy. They were unable to satisfied very few. In summary the survey said Sixteen years ago, the hosiery trimmer saw a stand up when they climbed to the ground. Of that the Brown Mountain Lights were clearly not similar configuration of lights while travelling the dozen men present, eleven were affected. of unusual nature or origin. 4 AUSTRALIAN UFO BULLETIN AllSTRALIAN 11FO 811LLETIN 5 Those Brown Mountain Lights Those Brown Mountain Lights About 4 7 per cent of the lights that the writer then returned to earth after the "Light People" is part of the Blue Ridge Mountain chain in through August, in the dark of the Moon. While was able to study instrumentally were due to imparted to him messages concerning the future western North Carolina and is located on the the average duration is from 15 to 60 seconds, automobile headlights, 33 per cent to locomotive .. of our planet. dividing line of Burke and Caldwell counties, they have bene sene stationary over the Brown headlights, 10 per cent to stationary lights, and -near the town of Morganton in the Catawba Val Mountain's level ridge for 10 and even 20 min I 0 per cent to brush fires. Even though the author does not endorse Lael's ley. utes before extinguishment. claims, it's important for the reader to keep in Other studies explained the ''mystery lights" as mind the fact that many UFO sightings and These mountains are said to be the oldest in the Visitors to Linville and Blowing Rock find it a mirages caused by temperature inversions, re landings have been reported in mountain loca world, once towering at great heights until ero fascinating experience to watch, at evening, the flections of starlight, reflections of ground tions near Brown Mountain, and elsewhere sion over a million-year span wore them down. spectacle of lights mysteriously popip ng out and lights, fires from liquor stills, brushfires, radi� throughout North Carolina and the rest of the Grandfather Mountain is the tallest peak in the as mysteriously disappearing, in the Catawba activity, foxfire, St. Elmo's fire, chemical reac world, over the past three decades and more. range. Brown Mountain itself is about 12 miles Valley. tions between hydrogen sulphide and lead oxy east of Highway 181 near Jonas Ridge. gen, atmospheric refractions and atmospheric Regardless, the Brown Mountain Lights con A large number of the Brown Mountain Lights distortions, "swamp fire", ''will-o-the-wisps" tinue to be sene by thousands and for various The lights have been sene from Blowing Rock, were once photographed and published as a sci and similar other phenomena. reasons; all theories to explain them over the Morganton, Linville, and elsewhere, but the two entific expose in Argosy Magazine several years years have come to naught to date. best vantage points for viewing the lights are ago. The most sensational solution to date was one Beacon Heights just off the Blue Ridge Parkway offered by sixty four year old Ralph I. Lael, who The true devotees of the Brown Mountain Lights near Grandfather Mountain, and the former site A recent theory that the BML are an electrical for years was the owner of his emporium, called reject the scientific theories and the legends, and of Cold Spring Lodge on N.C. 181 near Jonas phenomenon like the Andes Lights in South "Outer Space Rock Shop Museum," where for just insist that the Lights are there. And the Ridge, North Carolina. America has bene discounted, because Brown years he sold supplies and knickknacks to travel devotees come from many lands. Mountain lacks the height and conditions to lers, and peddled copies of his book he wrote To various witnesses they appear to say that they reproduce this phenomenon. about his experiences with the Brown Mountain Some romantic legends are associated with the resemble starlight, electric floodlights, fire, and Lights in 1962. lights. It's a classic "courting custom" of the a volcanic inferno. Others describe them as Blue Ridge Country to drive your girl friend out looking "like globular, glowing red, like toy fire Explanations come and go - but the Brown Mountain Lights remain, flickering away as they On that occasion he followed the lights until to "see the Brown Mountain Lights" or persuade balloons," or "a pale, white light with a faint have for hundreds of years, and the mystery lin they led him to rock through a door, which sud your suitor to take you out to see them, if you're halo around it," or "not unlike the 'star' from a denly appeared and then vanished after he went a woman in love. If you see the lights, the leg bursting skyrocket." gerson. inside. While inside he claimed he saw sights end implies, you'll be lucky in love. If not, your and heard voices, which told him that ''they'' courtship will come to nothing. They appear with fairly dependable regularity If you haven't taken a trip down to see them were not earthbound beings that eat and drink, and at all seasons, especially on dark nights. you should. I'm planning to make a return visit but rather that ''they'' lived on Pethine gas, Nationwide publicity was increased through the The best period for viewing is from June myself someday soon. which was prevalent in the whole underside of 1962 release of Sonny James' RCA Victor re Brown Mountain, where it's honeycombed with cording of ''The Legend of Brown Mountain a crystal clear substance filled with a glowing Light," ballad by Scotty Wiseman. gas. Where can the Brown Mountain Lights be seen The ''voices" from the "lights" told Lael that from and when is the best time to go looking for they came from Venus and would perish in our them? And for some of those who have seen atmosphere or sunlight. Lael was then taken on them -what do they look like? an ''underground tour" of rooms and passages under Brown Mountain and later a trip to Venus Brown Mountain is a continuos formation 2,600 in a closed crystal compartment space ship and feet high, 20 miles long and 2.5 miles wide. It 6 AUSTRALIAN UFO BULLETIN AUSTRAUAN UFO BULLETIN " 7 Crop Circles Crop Circles 2. Vegetation is bent because the nodes are ex This would be consistent with a beam directed at ''Signs'' From Above .Or Human Artefacts ploded. The stalks are not broken and in the field from a hovering dirigible, painting a deed the plants are often reported to start figure very much in the same way as an electron growing again. beam ''paints" a digital image on a computer By Jacques F. Vallee screen. From conversations I have had with the 3. All the significant formations were observed investigators involved, the beam would be Some personal speculations on a fractal theme. in an area in close proximity to major re unlikely to be a simple infrared beam. Instead a search facilities of the British defence estab combination of laser and microwave transmitters The key to investigating anomalies often lies in UFO investigators (who came from a back lishment, often in controlled airspace. may be involved, 9r a form of maser. Perhaps asking the right questions rather than pondering ground of soil and trace studies, related to the the increasingly sophisticated tests are designed, a long list of assumed answers and fighting over familiar imprints often left behind after sight So much for Aliens and Druids. These studies precisely, to discover optimal combinations. hypotheses. The crop circles that have adorned ings such as Delphos or Trans-en-Provence), point to the crop formations as the result of so English fields in the last couple of decades are a began to take notice. Rather than jumping to phisticated electronic warfare experiments con This leaves several issues pending: Why don't good example of this principle. conclusions about the origin and purpose of the ducted by defence contractors. witnesses see the supposed hovering platforms if formations they drew up a list of fundamental they simply fly over the countryside? What The answer to question (1) provides the first Many well-intentioned ''paranormal" investiga questions that went like this: about the "confessions" of the two retired men tors and New Age enthusiasts have immediately clue: If you are trying to calibrate a beam, draw who claimed they made the circles with a two ing a pattern on a wheat field can yield precision posited that the circles must be caused by Aliens, l. Is there a change in the nature of the forma by-four and a piece of string? And why do the information within the diameter of one stalk while the general opinion of journalists and aca tions over time? experiments continue at a point where the tech over hundreds of feet, an ideal test situation. demics tended to state they were the product of nology seems to have reached a high level of hoaxes. Indeed two retired men were featured in 2. What is it, exactly, that happens to the vege perfection? I only have tentative answers to this The answer to question (2) narrows down the the world media as the confessed authors of tation inside the affected areas? new set of questions: type of energy that can be responsible, because many circles. the amount of heat radiation that needs to be 3. Is there anything special about the location • Many years ago I gave a lecture on UFO re coupled into one node of a stalk of wheat to va Over the years several interested researchers - of the phenomenon? search at Oxford University. One of the peo porise the water content is a known quantity, as including this author - have met with and inter ple attending, a physics faculty member, told laboratory tests in France and in the United viewed self-described "artists" who had gener To seek information on these topics they estab States soon established. me of an interesting personal experience. ated some complex crop formations as a new lished a protocol to gather vegetation samples His hobby was to fly gliders over the English type of display where the landscape is used as a and sent them to a number of laboratories for The answer to question (3) points to the likely countryside. On one ocsca ion, on a bright canvas to shock popular consciousness and microscopic studies. The results, which have authors of the tests. afternoon, he was astonished to see his plane stimulate reaction. There is no question that at been discussed at meetings of the Society for reflected in a surface that appeared to be mo least some of the formations - including some Scientific Exploration and other public events, It is tempting to jump to the conclusion that tionless in the atmosphere. He actually flew remarkably complex ones -are their handiwork. have never seedem of sufficient interest fur the some sort of space-based weapon is being devel armmd the object and determined it was a oped. I am reluctant to assume this because of perfectly reflecting cylinder. It is obvious media (or, indeed, the urological mainstream) to This leaves most of the formations unexplained, take notice, perhaps because they conflicted with the cost involved. Even if satellites represent the that such a device would have "low especially those that have appeared in a very the sensational nature of other hypotheses. ultimate platform for such a weapon, which does observable" characteristics - a visual stealth short time or under conditions of very high not seem obvious to me, the calibration tests can platform. mathematical accuracy. Drawing a bicycle or a The answers are as follows: be carried out far more cheaply from a conven spider in a wheat field is one thing, the Mandel tional aircraft. In those cases, when witnesses • What is suspicious about the two older men's brot set of fractal geometry is quite another. 1. The early formations were simple circles, on the ground have seen formations in the proc "confession" is that it appeared simultane ess of being created, they have described a red ously on the front pages of international pa then circles with satellites. In later years dish glow at ground level, with the vegetation pers and on CNN the same day. Any pub When sophisticated formations started appearing more and more sophisticated and precisely bent over in a matter of minutes. lished author familiar with the difficulty of in the English countryside, several teams of drawn geometric figures appeared. 8 AUSTRALIAN UFO BULLETIN AUSTRALIAN UFO BULLETIN 9 Crop Circles International Sighting Reports getting media attention will know that it and that the real nature of the crop forma takes a very powerful public relations firm to tions can thus be hidden from serious atten get a story to the front page of the Wall tion for a very long time. Selected extracts from Filer's Files #45-2002 MUFON Skywatch Investigations Street Journal and the New York Times, Le George A. Filer, Director, Mutual UFO Network Eastern Figaro and many other papers the same day. Why would one need to develop such a beam? ww.wfi lersfiles-ufo.com -ww.wcewarren.com Where did the two pensioners get the kind of Destruction of incoming missiles (or simple con Webmaster Chuck Warren clout that would spin their claim around the fusion of their electronics) would be an obvious planet? The result was instantaneous: The purpose, but several projects are already under Sightings Continue Worldwide him, and he expressed concern that no one was press and, more importantly, most scientists way to produce such weapons, notably at Boeing actively pursuing the issue. He stated that he lost all interest in the story for 10 years. and other defence contractors. But we may be New York UFO video, Connecticut white flying found it upsetting that objects like those in the wrong in assuming that the beam itself is a triangle, Pennsylvania UFO emits beam, Florida FOX video might be flying in the skies above • Why do the tests continue? I admit I have no weapon; it might be used simply to guide a UFO videotaped, Ohio disk, Wisconsin 26 our heads, and no one is telling pilots about it. good answer to this. It sesem tarfetched to much larger amount of energy (contained lights, Illinois V -shaped formation of lights, assume that they have become more socio plasma, or the fireball created by a nuclear ex California submarine shaped UFO, Canadian He also expressed his sense of disbelief that logical than technological in natw'e, yet this plosion, for example) to its ultimate destination. UFO photos, Scotland cigar, England green FOX is not pursuing the issue more aggres could provide an explanation. Sooner or lights, Spain investigates underwater noises, sively. He suggested that it seems inappropriate later the truth will be known, and it can be The type of threat that is present in today's Ukraine circular hovering disk. that a news agency would have such dramatic used to discredit the community of paranor world includes targets that one may not want to video, and would not be playing the tape, and mal researchers who have rushed to decipher blow up, but rather· to fuse inside a fireball. bringing the story to the American People in a New York Missile or UFO alien scripts in the formations, or have hy Such a target might be a biological laboratory, more aggressive fashion than FOX has demon pothesized a return of the Druids, earth or a chemical filctory, where dispersion of a strated in this case. Albany - Brandon Mowry, videographer from lights or messages from Gaia without first pathogen is undesirable. Is that what the inno WXXA-TV, Fox 23, was shooting a weather testing the basic physics of the situation. It cent designs in English fields are really telling Some high quality video cameras can take the story at the Albany International Airport on Oc may also be that such hypotheses have been us to get ready for? If so, their mesgsa e may be flight of a bird or fast moving object and elon tober 29, 2002, of aircraft taking off and clouds, coldly planted among the New Age milieu as tar mOr-e ominous than any communication from gate the scene in such a way as to distort the around 12 noon. When he reviewed his tapes he part of a psychological wartare experiment, ETs, friendly or not. video. The two pairs of fins could actually be first noticed the missile like object in his film wings and the picture is stretched to appear as a flying at an estimated 4,000 feet. missile. Probe Call On UFO The sighting was reported to the National UFO Tests could be conducted with the camera to Reporting Centre and the FBI. Brandon Mowry determine if the camera's internal way of scan was interviewed by the FBI, who were appar Kelly Ryan ning the picture can cause the distortion. Al ently concerned the object could be a surface to though this is a possibility, it is unlikely with Herald Sun, Tuesday, September 29, 1998 air missile fired to down a commercial aircraft. new high quality video cameras. See the images at: http://ww.w filersfiles-ufo.com A silent orange flying saucer is terrorising King "It is like an orange fireball that glows and The missile like object had fins on the front and Island residents. They want an immediate in sheds shards of bright light as it either darts the rear similar to several types of ground-to-air, vestigation to identify the UFO half the island's around ofhovers in silence," King Island Tour and air-to-air missiles that could have been fired Connecticut Triangle Flying Low 1400 residents claim to have seen over four con ism Asisocation president Jill Munaro said. from the ground or a passing aircraft. Missiles secutive nights. of this type were used in Afghanistan. Manchester- On October 24, 2002, the wit The reports coincide with the 20th aninversary ness was standing on his deck and heard what They say the object is not a plane and flies too of the disappearance of pilot Frederick Valen A commercial aircraft pilot phoned Peter Dav sounded like a low flying prop plane. He stated, fast to be a helium balloon. tich. enport expressing his apprehension. The pilot "I looked up and saw a low flying triangular stated that the Albany video looked authentic to shaped craft. The colour being white." 10 AUSTRALIAN UFO BULLE11N AUSTRALIAN UFO BULLETIN 11 --1 International Sighting Reports International Sighting Reports I called for my Daughter to come out and wit similar to the brightness of a normal aircraft businessman, had a UFO sighting above the air Tony is a MUFON Field Investigator. The ob ness this strange craft. I did not believe this to light when first observed but suddenly stopped. port." jects in the video drift in and out of the base of be an ultralight craft as it was too large and too 4,000 feet clouds. See video at Mary Margaret loud. There were no apparent windows, cockpit, It began to pulsate and brighten and then dim. Tony says, "I was in my backyard about 01:15 Zimmer's Website: http://www.skyscan.org landing gear or propellers. It left no contrail. There was a faint haze orange-red in colour that · p.m., on October 22, 2002, getting a sun tan and encircled the object. The pulsation pattern of The sky was bright blue with few high thin the light began to increase and flicker very rap looking up squinting on a beautiful bright sunny Ohio Disk day. I saw a sparkle up in the sky, way, way, up clouds, none of which were above the said craft. idly. Suddenly a thin beam of very bright blue The craft was moving fairly slow coming from white light was emitted from the bottom of the high. I saw it was like a stick, so I figured it St. Clainville - The witness reports seeing a was a satellite, or a space station or something the west and heading east object to the ground. craft hovering above a mall at Exit 2 1 80 on . way up above in space. Highway 1-70. The object had bright headlights The witness stated, "This was no searchlight flashing different colours at 08:15 p.m. on Octo Less than one minute after the craft passed over that did not defuse with distance, but was a "I saw it move, or twist, or curve and that drew ber 22, 2002. The centre of what appeared to be my house a military helicopter followed the bright beam from top to bottom." The man tried my attention to several other little objects that a disk-shaped object had lights on either side of same exact flight path but was moving fast. I to describe the appearance of the beam with the were around it. I thought, maybe it's a bunch of a panel of coloured lights. thought this might have been some sort of mili following statement. "Imagine a piece of dental loose kites or something strange. And as I kept tary drone but have yet to find any examples that floss held at arms length, and you'll have a good looking I noticed it was way too high to be kites The witness states, "We saw lights with orange fit the exact shape of the craft we saw. idea ofthe beam's apparent width from my loca and they were more or less stationary with gold beams that shone from the left and right tion." clouds moving underneath them and through edges of the craft. The craft appeared to remain Thanks to Peter Davenport-NUFORC. them. stationary for about 9 minutes, before it began to The pulsating effect suddenly stopped, and the rise and move in a southwest direction. In a Pennsylvania UFOs With Light Beams beam went out. The object was oval and orange "I jumped into my house and I grabbed my video brief time, it had climbed so high we could no red. It stopped moving and began pulsating. camera, but could not find the object with my longer see it." NUFORC Narberth The witness was on his back porch The witness ran I 00 yards to his vehicle to get naked eye, and used the viewfinder to locate the - talking to a friend on October 8, 2002, and they his Olympus digital camera and took one photo objects. I saw a triangle shape and some objects Wisconsin 26 UFOs Pass By were looking at the night sky on a clear night, graph as the object hovered, and a second just as moving around. Others were morphing. I saw like they often do. Then it happened, for about the object began to move. As he tried to take a the candy cane turn into a 'T' then into a 'J', Trego UFO Wisconsin Reports that on Octo two to three seconds a fireball streaked across third picture, the object shot straight up at fan then into a weird 'S'. ber 5, 2-002, the witness was getting ready for tastic speed and disappeared. the sky, from east to west, and disappeared. bed a little after midnight and saw a lighted ob "I saw one of the objects underneath turn into a ject in the distance. I closed my eyes and turned The witness did not detect any sound, or odd The witnesses reported, "I continued to gaze up delta configuration by itself and they disap my head sideways with my head down in my smells. The light was a l/4 mile away at about when I saw what appeared to be a dim star peared. Five minutes later, I looked up and saw pillow but then I thought to myself "Hmmm, it I ,000 feet in altitude. The sighting lasted for slowly moving." It suddenly got brighter and the sparkle and started taping. The UFOs flew wasn't moving anywhere and was way too high five minutes near a large microwave relay tower brighter until it was a bright star. It then turned over the flight path of incoming jets to Miami up to be a stationary helicopter" so I looked back at the top of the mountain. west and dimmed, as though it was thundering International Airport." and it was still stationary. I focused my vision back into space. The witness said, ��I have seen even more and I saw a white and red light illu Thanks to Stan Gordon's UFO/Fortean Hotline: many UFO's, just keep looking up!" · Tony notified Mary and she drove over to Tony minating it. 724-838-7768, [email protected] Moreno's place ofbusiness, a music store called http://www.westol.com/-paufo Tyrone -Researcher Stan Gordon reports: The "The Cave" which he owns and manages. She My eyes must have been focused on the object recorded Tony's statement, viewed the video, for at least 25 minutes, trying to figure out what witness was hiking in the woods on Ice Moun Florida UFO Videotaped and checked with the local airports and exactly it could be. I momentarily went to get tain on October 20, 2002, about 07:30 p.m., meteorologists, but they had not sent up any another blanket and looked out the window when he noticed a bright light south of his loca Miami Mary Margaret Zimmer, Director of - objects. again and it was gone. tion, moving towards him. The light appeared Miami MUFON reports that: "Tony Moreno, a 12 AUS1RALIAN UFO BULLETIN AUSlRALIAN UFO BULLETIN .13 International Sighting Reports International Sighting Reports Mary B. states, ''Both my son and I observed the "When I left the stoplight at Centreville, I pulled ing from one area to another with great speed. Jean-de-Matha, got an alarm on their computer. objects and we were cognizant - not to confuse off Highway 15 and continued to view the ob We drove around the area for two hours but Jean grabbed his camera and ran outside and stars with the passing clouds and counted 26 �' for about ten more minutes. Suddenly, failed to see anything else. took a photo of a UFO. They saw a white UFOs pass by." They looked like round, white without hesitation, they broke ranks, with a sphere, reddish on the bottom, which passed lights bigger than stars. large group heading southeast in a V- shaped This is the weirdest and possibly the most terri over his house heading northeast. formation. A smaller group headed west, about fying/exciting event of my life. The strange thing was that they were in the for 15 to 20 of them. I was trying to watch both The sky was clear and the moon was visible be mation of the little dipper and its surrounding groups, and what they were doing. South Pasadena - The witness saw a very hind it. When the object was above the moun stars - yet it was too early for these stars to be large blue crescent-shape at 05:45 p.m., on Oc tains, it changed direction. The observation overhead. Furthermore, they moved from over "Approximately 30 seconds later, two F-15 tober 26, 2002. At first, it looked like an es lasted between 3 and 4 minutes. About 5 min the tree line in front of our house, over our fighter jets appeared out of the north, flying to caped balloon, but it was too far away and much utes later, Jean and his wife Lina observed six house and then disappeared over the tree line ward the objects. At that very moment, the two too large. It was shaped like one of those dol military aircraft heading in the same direction. behind our house. This all happened in a matter groups of UFOs just disappeared." Jim, de phin balloons, which gave me my first clue. It of around 35 minutes. scribed the UFOs as "metallic, sun reflecting off was wobbling from side to side, and heading The camera used is a Praktica, Aperture: 2.8. objects, round in nature. They were very high, east. Time exposure: 1160 second, Film used: ISO My son grabbed a video camera he had for his made sequential movements, and were very pre video class at high school and recorded some of cise." After a little bit, it disappeared behind some 400. trees. Even after we repositioned ourselves, it it. He brought the film in and showed it to his science teacher. She said that she did not know Thanks to UFO Roundup Vol.7, # 43, 10/22/02, was out of sight. It just disappeared. Peter Dav Victoria, British Columbia - On Novem what it was, but it definitely wasn't stars. Editor: Joseph Trainor. enport spoke with this witness, and found him ber 1, 2002, the witness was outside and heard quite credible. the purring of a small plane and turned to see it travelling south at around 4500 feet at 03:35 They seme ed to be above the earth's atmosphere, California Huge Submarine-Like UFO San Jose- Two witnesses were sitting in the p.m. It was clear day and a small Cessna air but lower than stars. Also, the star formation parking lot on October 28, 2002, after work at craft with bright yellow sides and a red tail sec they were mimicking came into view at our Temecula - On October 20, 2002, the witness 01: 10 p.m. talking when one looked up and said, tion that were plainly visible. house about an hour later. was driving north on Ynez Road at around "What ther' They both saw what looked like a 09:30 p.m. when two lights appeared. As it got very large distinct spherical brightly lit object Thanks to Mary B. closer the object looked like a giant submarine, flying across the entire span of the sky. It flew Suddenly my eyes caught a glimpse of another aircraft flying in the same direction to the west and turned north. My friend and I followed it from the south in a northern direction, directly of the other, but much closer to me. This second Illinois V- Shaped Formation of Lights north filled with curiosity about this object and it over our heads. object was a much larger craft than the Cessna; turned right over a commercial area. It flew silently, lower and faster than any air in fact the nose of it extended much farther for East St. Louis - On October 15, 2002, at Eventually the object was directly above us. plane normally would, and slower and longer ward of the small swept-back wings than the 03 :30 p.m., motorist James A. was driving on Other cars were also driving slowly and the oc than any shooting star I've ever witnessed. It Cessna. It resembled a DC-9 in basic shape but Missouri Avenue when the lights at the railroad cupants were gazing on up at the sky. The ob was bright white in colour with a slight blue tint, the wings were very short. crossing began to flash and the gate came down. ject got closer and flew above us and it was giant and a tail behind it, maybe 4 times its own di probably around 300 yards long. Fear set in and ameter. This craft was pure white and did not appear to "While waiting at the train crossing," Jim re I made a U-turn while the object continued have windows or markings of any kind. Its ported, "I noticed what I first thought to be a north. Thanks to Peter Davenport -NUFORC wings were kind of indistinct and shadowy. large object in the sky moving up and down in a Strangely the Cessna, one of the slowest aircraft 'spiral motion', each time taking a different During this whole event I heard a deep low fre Canadian Photos Of UFO in the sky, was travelling at a much higher rate shape. It then became obvious that I was not quency rumbling noise. The next day, my friend of speed than this object. This object continued watching one object but many. I would estimate and I decided to go out and look for it again, a Quebec - On August 20, 2002, at 21 :08 hours very slowly on its southerly course until it was 100 to 200 lights, all moving in sequence. little later, and saw lights off in the west shoot- our member Jean L. and his wife Lina in Saint- out of sight. 14 AUS11lALIAN UFO BULLETIN AUSTRALIAN UFO BULLETIN ,15 International Sighting Reports International Sighting Reports I have never seen such a large aircraft fly so 24, 2002, two strange green lights were seen trip driving his Lada vagon car, in the Belogorsk and horizontal sectors, marked by slightly visi slowly. In fact, it seme ed impossible for a fixed chasing each other. The lights resembled laser District of the Crimean Autonomous Republic ble lines. The colour of the entire object was wing aircraft to do that at all. lights sighted about ten miles away above the between 03:00 to 05:00 p.m. Suddenly, he no- dull-grey metallic. Cotswold Hills. . ticed a big circular object no less than 50 meters Kitwanga, British Columbia - Brian in diameter, hovering stationary for more than "Many local residents saw the UFO, but there Vike reports four witnesses watched a UFO one hour over the forest-covered mountains five are frequent sightings so many do not pay much Spanish Scientists Investigate Noises while on their way home from their work at kilometres southwest of the village of Zemly attention to the regularly observed UFOs. The 06:30 p.m. on November l, 2002. They were on anichnoye. local press also often refuses to publish UFO Mallorca - For months, strange noises have ) the mitt-in-main forestry road, when they saw a reports, since they are so common. I personally troubled the tranquillity of the waters north of bright, yellowish/white light with a "beam" ''The circular UFO had flat cone-shaped upper interrogated the witness in the most detailed way the Island of Mallor ca that has a history of plen coming from the botomt of it. The beam oflight part (something like a Vietnamese or Chinese and a picture of the craft was drawn." tiful UFO reports. The presence of underwater was like a flashlight shinning in a fog. hat), with a small cone on top, and a short verti flying saucer bases is one of the hypotheses to be cal antenna. The lower part was like a big deep Thanks to Anton A. Anfalov, Ukrainian UFO confirmed or dispelled by a team from the So The witness said they saw it for three seconds saucer, with the upper part wider than the lower. Research Association (UKUFA S) ciedad Espaiiola de Investigaciones Parapsi before it disappeared. The light did not move, It had segmented structure like several vertical [email protected] col6gicas (SEIP-Spanish Society for Parapsy but stayed in the one position and then just dis chological Research) on its way to Mallorca. appeared. Considering the distance from the object, the light was small in size. "All possibilities are· open, ranging from the Thanks to Brian Vike, HBCC UFO Research presence of UFO bases to the existence of an ET Calls On Lilydale Editor: Canadian Communicator. underwater volcanic area or tectonic-plate dis [email protected] placement," said Jose Castro, SEIP's coordinator - along with Javier Rodriguez, of the expedition, By Russell Gould which will study the noises. Herald Sun, Sunday November 17, 2002 Scotland Cigar - Since Friday afternoon, researchers have worked Dundee Whilst at work I looked out of the Lights in the Lilydale skies have Wayne Winter He and his friend are not Star Trek groupies or in the area located between the island of main door on October 27, 2002, and saw what and Adin Monks convinced we are not alone. UFO hunters, but after the encounter, they could Dragonera and Cape Formentor, where experts looked like a cloud in the shape of a cigar, Late on Friday night, the teenagers saw a group be converted. "It was just a joke to begin with in undersea fishing claimed having heard noises which was white in colour. The object was at of yellow lights above Chirnside Park Hill and when we saw the lights and said, 'Yeah, UFO', of unknown origin which are apparently audible first stationery at 05:00 p.m., and then began to are now questioning whether or not stargazer but then it became too real," he said. from the surface on calm days, and whose move from south heading north quite slowly for theories are just science-fiction fodder. strength and intensity vary as a function of about 30 seconds then stopped. Then a few sec "We weren't out there stargazing or anything, onds later, it moved again, in the same direction depth. ) "The lights were bigger than normal stars, they we just saw it by coincidence. We don't know as mentioned above. were moving, and in a perfect triangle," Actin, what it was and there's no explanation for it." Thanks to Diario de Mallorca and Ultima Hora l 15, said. "We followed them for a while and The object stopped again then appeared to move (newspapers) 10/27/2002. Translation (C) 2002, then they all disappeared." They tracked them Lilydale is a long way from Area 51, the root of Scott Corrales. off to the west and eventually faded away. The for 20 minutes, first on foot, then in a car, before all alien conspiracy theories, but Mr Winter says above-mentioned object was around ten miles the lights vanished. that means nothing, because these little green away from where I was standing. Ukraine Circular Hovering Disk guys can go anywhere they want. Wayne, 19, said planes often flew over the area, England Two Green Lights Crimean Peninsula - Anton A. Anfalov but the lights they saw were too closely grouped And so with "evidence" at hand, the question writes, "I would like to report new remarkable to be aircraft, and were moving in the wrong has to be asked: "Is the truth out there, in Lily Cheltenham - Glos (Gloucestershire) Echo UFO observation on October 7, 2002. My old direction. dale?" Newspaper reports that at 09:00 p.m., October friend, Mr. Victor A. Zdorov, was on a business 1 6 AUS'IRALIAN UFO BULLETIN AUS'IRALIAN UFO BULLETIN 17