UFO Newsclipping Service 1998 03 no 344

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March 1998
Number 344
12 CANEY VALLEY DRIVE • PLUMERVILLE, ARKANSAS 72127 USA EDITOR/PUBLISHER: LUCIUS FARISH
ARIZONA REPUBLIC, Phoenix, AZ • Jan. 14, 1998 CR: F. Kron
'I don 't know what is out there. . . . Whatever it
is, I want to know, and I want a re-enactment.'
UFOs invade Barwood rnce
By Michael Murphy conferences of the election season, Bar road less traveled. In fact, this campaign is
The Arizona Republic wood appeared with a group of UFO going to be the road never traveled," he
Frances Emma Barwood is going where researchers from across the country to said.
no politician has gone before, even in announce her bid for secretary of state. Bassett has been trying to tell Congress
Arizona. She initially sought to downplay her about alien spacecraft that h~ve visited
In a state already known for its oftbeat promise to unearth answers about extrater Earth over the years, but most members
politics, the former Phoenix vice mayor restrials by saying, "That is not my only have treated him like he just beamed in
emerged Tuesday as an international poster platform." from Mars.
girl for the UFO crowd by vowing to But Barwood's national campaign man But now the Bethesda, Md., consultant
become the first candidate ever to push the ager, Stephen Bassett, a Washington lobby has found a candidate willing to press the
issue that the government is concealing ist for UFOlogists, promised that Barwood issue, and he's promising an aggressive
evidence that alien beings have arrived on quickly will become an international figure campaign that will gamer national attention Mona Reeder/The Arizona Republic
Earth. because of her campaign to force the - and campaign contributions. Secretary of State hopeful Frances Emma
"I've been called worse," Barwood said. government to discuss the possibility of an "You can't imagine the amount of Barwood as seen through the eyepiece of a
''It doesn't scare me." intelligent extraterrestrial presence on Earth. TV camera at a Tuesday news conference.
In one of the most unusual news "This campaign is going to truly be the
support she is going to get," with Art Bell," a live overnight hoax or something unknown. What right to run for public office. We
Bassett said. "We anticipate global call-in program that airs locally on ever it is, I want to know, and I can't control that." ARIZONA CENTRAL
interest in this campaign." KFYI-AM (910) at II .m. want a re-enactment." While the Secretary of State's
Bassett last year assisted Bar Barwood doesn't have any first Barwood is a Republican, but the Office ordinarily deals with more Go to Arizona Central to listen
wood in pressing the government hand experience with extraterrestri state's GOP establishment is likely mundane issues like tracking c'am to audio from Tuesday's
for answers about mysterious lights als, but that isn't stopping her from to treat her as if she just arrived paign contributions and registering announcement and for archived
that appeared over Phoenix in championing the cause of those from Neptune. lobbyists, Barwood wants to use stories about the UFO incident
March. who believe alien ships have visited State GOP chairman Mike Hel the office as a bully pulpit. last year. Point your Web
Her harping about the bizarre Earth and carted off a few humans lon, when told of Barwood's UFO Barwood, 54, outlined other browser to www.azcentral.com.
light show got her plenty of on their way out. platform, quipped, "Sounds like a platforms that ranged from weeding
snickers from fellow City Council "I unfortunately have never seen major issue for the secretary of out non-citizens from voter regis
members, but her effort also gave anything," she explained. "What state to me." tration rolls to allowing law-abiding
her national exposure that contin can I say? ... I don't know what is Hellon is supporting appointed citizens to "carry any weapon, in
ued Tuesday as she appeared on out there. I've narrowed it down to Secretary of State Betsey Bayless any way, in any place, at any
the radio show "Coast to Coast three things. It's either military, a but said, "Every Republican has a time." LINCOLN TIMES-NEWS,
Lincolnton, NC - March 5,
1998 CR: G. Fawcett
Fawcett featured
BUCKS CO. TIMES, Levittown, PA - Jan. 13, 1998
Serious about sightings in UFO Files interview
The current Premiere Issue of
UFO Files Magazine features a
12 page article based on an
interview with veteran UFO
Tom Carey, a senior financial analyst, heads the southeastern conduct research on a continuing
Pennsylvania branch of the Mutual UFO Network, and fol mission to find out more. oinfv estigator George D. Fawcett
"I can still be persuaded either Lincolnlon.
lows up on every UFO sighting reported to his organization. way," about the existence of alien Fawcett. a Mount Airy native,
life. "We just don't know," he said. was interviewed for the article
By Beth Long He has a 24-hour hot line Carey and network members
Couner Times people can call for more infor from the surrounding five coun "UFOs From World War ll To
news@ calkinsnewspapers.com mation about the organ.i&ation ties meet monthly at the William The New Millennium," by maga
Are we alone in the universe? and to report any sightings in Jeanes Library in Lafayette Hill. zine editor Tim Beckley.
Is there any way to tell for the area. On Saturday morning, a group In the illustrated article,
sure? "Ninety-nine percent of the of about a dozen met for brunch at Fawcett said his interest in UFOs
calls are serious," Carey said. the General Lafayette Inn to dis
Does anyone really care? Most sighting reports are of cuss current happenings and new was triggered at the age of 15 by a
Indeed, many in our area the "light in the sky"-type, but he findings. behind the scenes who are afraid Boy Scout World War ll scrap
have joined thousands the world
over who not only care about follows through on each call, espe The speaker was Doug Moench to make public statements," said book, which told ofb omber pilots
solving the mysteries of the uni cially those he termed "good of Upper Bucks County, author of Moench. describing "silver balls floating
cases." several books on UFOs and other "Most people," Carey said, "call
verse but have made it a lifelong "A good case would be of a close unexplained phenomena. to report something they don't in the air," both individually and
pursuit. visual encounter, if there were "Back in the '50s," said recognize." in clusters, during 1944-1945
They say they're not wild-eyed multiple witnesses to the sight Moench, "there was much more "Mainstream network news forays over the German Third
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reported by a credible witness," he goes back to early days," said erage comes in the form of docu
thirst for knowledge and uncover said. Carey. "It has taken this long for mentaries, books and magazine tial experience in 1951 at
ing the truth. Last year, Carey fielded 100 the subject to gain some credibili articles, the Internet and- yes Lynchburg College in Virginia.
Tom Carey of Lower Moreland reports of UFO sightings. ty." tabloids. in which be viewed a large,
is the southeastern Pennsylvania Most people in our area report With the recent popularity of Carey said you don't have to be orange-colored, half-globe
section director for the Mutual sightings to local police stations, "The X-Files" TV series and a member of the network (annual
UFO Network. the Fels planetarium in movies like last summer's block dues are $30) to join in the object hover in the sky in broad
He has been a senior financial Philadelphia or the Willow Grove buster, "Contact," the subject has monthly information exchange daylight
analyst for Cigna Corp. in Naval Air Station Joint Reserve grown more respectable, Moench meetings. George bas gone on to investi
Philadelphia for 19 years. Carey Base, he said. said. On Saturday, the group dis gate 1,200 UFO sigbtings over
is married with two children. The police and Fels report the "You still get your goofballs," he cussed the famous reputed crash the past five decades. UFO Files
He said he has been interested calls to Carey who then sets out said, "but the vast majority of the of an alien spacecraft in Roswell,
in UFOs since he was a young boy. on a follow-up. research is conducted by open N.M., and new findings about pos Magazine touched on a number
"I like a mystery," Carey said. How does he find the time for minded, serious people." sible alien technology. of Fawcett's findings as both a
"It's exciting." investigations with his 9-to-5 "The more popular the subject Carey called Roswell his "curious George of UFOland"
He decided he wanted to do schedule? becomes," Carey added, "the "favorite subject" when it comes to and a field investigator for the
something "pro-active" with his "I make the time," he said. gr~ater the risk of opportunists the UFO controversy. He has trav international Mutual UFO
interest and has been section He does not pretend to know and charlatans getting involved." eled six times to the site. Network, Inc. with headquarters
director for the international all the answers. The lack of "There are a lot of deeply con Tom Carey's hot line number is 947-
organization since 1986. answers has prompted him to cerned people doing research 4740. in Seguin, Texas.
By KRISTIN LOIACONO
SpeciaiJo The Journal
Individually they are men of science, men of
letters, holders of advanced degrees. Among
them, there's a physicist, a writer, a theologian, a
biologist and a retired U.S. Navy lieutenant
commander. They come from seemingly dispa
rate worlds, but together they form the 14-mem
ber board of the Washington-based Fund for
UFO Research and are united by a simde ~:
solving the mystery surrounding uniaentified
flying objects. The group is part of a 2-year-old
consortium called the UFO Research Coalition,
which also includes the Mutual UFO Network
and the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies.
Just don't call them believers.
"We don't like the term 'believer.' We don't
accept everything that is out there. We are s~ep­
tical in the pure sense of the word. Our mmds
aren't closed but they remain open enough to ask
questions and examine the evidence," explains
FUFOR board member Rob Swiatek of Fairfax, Courtesy Rob Swiatek
Va One •abductee• had a 2 1/2 inch
In fact, board members have a certain disdain scar on his thigh.
for those who accept information about unidenti
fied flying objects without critically and scientifi In 1947 , when Berliner was 17, he heard of the
cally dissecting all the reasons attributed to aer first large wave of UFO sightings in the United
ial phenomena.
. For nearly 20 years, they haVe attempted to States. What struck him the most
counter claims of fringe UFO hobby groups about the reports was that no one
through public education and scientific analysis seemed to be able to identify the
of sightings, media accounts and government re crafts, he says. a board member of the
ports. But they are also looking for breakthrough "'twas a mystery and it intrigu3d Washington-based Fund for UFO Research.
research that will quiet decades of ridicule of the me," Berliner says.
subject ofUFOs and convince scientists and Con n 1947 - the year most ufologists
gress that the subject deserves time and money. consider as ushering in the modem FUFOR's telephone number. abduction," Swiatek says. He also
"The subject is extremely serious and should UFO era- there were thousands of When FUFOR received its first says that some people just aren't ra
be viewed as such," says Craig Phillips of Silver sightings worldwide, Berliner says. reports from people who claimed tional, like the report of a woman
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bit of ore. There is so much extraneous informa technology. ~th psychologists and psychia tain times during the abduction.
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which was designed to detect radio signals from that are still a secret; it's amazing. If "Undoubtedly, we have been "There is a certain consistency in
other planets. A year later, SET! was abandoned we had these machines 50 years fooled on occasion. But we try to ob objects seen and experiences had,"
and its replacement was the privately-funded ago, we wouldn't have spent hun s_erve people over many years," Ber Swiatek says. "The reports tend to
Project Phoenix, which was conducted by theSE dreds of billions of dollars building hnersays. follow certain patterns. Certain
T! Institute in California. inferior aircraft over the past four Yet, there is, he says, no standard things do happen and certain things
Meanwhile, after the NASA SET! project, the decades," he says. length of time of case review. don't happen. But we don't necessa
government stopped funding investigations into Berliner says he likes to think "There is no point at which you rily know why. It just seems that
the possibility of alien life. And NASA does not that he's considered all the altema say, 'this is an absolute case.' You're the type of events that happen are
really want to be affiliated with groups that are tive explanations. "Either they're not looking for physical proof. It's limited, and the type of beings [peo
investigating or researching the UFO phenom alien or they're something else that more a matter of possibilities." ple see] have a finite range of de
enon. no one has suggested yet," he says. Sometimes, FUFOR members scriptions."
"We have nothing to do with UFO research and Complicating matters for a group ~onsult with S. Peter Resta, an ad Berliner says leading experts in
we are not looking for intelligent life in the uni trying to scatter the clouds of ridi JUJ?-Ct professor of psychology at the field have a checks and balance
verse," said NASA spokesman Don_S avage. cule that shadow the field of UFO Prince George's Community Col system that includes keeping secret
-NASA does, however, have an o~ingp -ro: research is the abduction phenom lege, to work with so-called abduct some of the experiences revealed by
gram in Uihidt ita seientw. s.-t. ...,cterst.Mt enon. ees. people who've claimed they've been
the origin and distribution oflife in the universe. Forty-nine year old Ron Blevins "In my opi.riion, in most cases, abducted.
For example, by examining how life on Earth be of Manassas, Va., says his first "ex something has happened to these
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cause I don't have actual proof, even though hind and observing him. When he Swiatek says there are impostors mistic about the future of UFO re
there is expert testimony and radar evidence," tumed around, he saw movement in - people who fabricate an abduc search, they conclude that public of
said FUFOR's chairman Don Berliner, who is an the trees. He said he had "a deep tion experience- but they are rare. ficials, and the general public, must
aviation science writer by profession. seated dread that whatever was in FUFOR is working with two UFO change their attitude about UFOs.
The problem is that there is conflicting testi the trees was not ordinary." investigatory organizations to build "Is it all a hoax? It certainly is
mony and disputed evidence. The July 1947 That afternoon, Blevins says he an instrument that would detect if something all researchers have to
crash of an object near Roswell, N.M., is one of saw a "tall, nonhuman being." They abductions are physical events, confront," Swiatek says. "Are ideas
those cases in which the group's research differs stared at each another. The next Swiatek says. Another project is un being transferred to people through
from official government reports. And while FU thing Blevins remembers is stand derway at a lab in New Mexico, the media? I cannot believe thou
FOR does not have an official position on what ing facing the pond again, he says. where scientists are researching a sands of people have been systemat
happened in Roswell, members wonder why "There was a gap in time, missing pentagonal chunk of"unknown ma ically lying for 50 years."
there isn't more cooperation on the part of the time. I could tell by the sun that terial." The material was allegedly Then the skeptic's voice chimes
government to explain the discrepancies. For ex about two hours had gone by." given to an abductee by the occu in. "I get suspicious of people who
ample, according to FUFOR, the U.S. Air Force Blevins continued to have similar pants of a UFO. As FUFOR waits say they have all the answers," he
claims it retrieved the pieces of a weather balloon experiences throughout his adult for actual physical proof of abduc says.
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air bases and an airplane factory. He says that as he says. He had no contact with any vealed, we begin to wonder why the revelation during his lifetime. "Just
a young boy, he and a friend prided themselves investigative UFO group until person wasn't able to tell us those knowing I was headed in the right
on their ability to identify various airplanes as 1995, when he looked in the Yellow details when [he] first reported the direction will be enough."
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And there isn't a steaming rock in .....
anyone·s backyard. 0
That we know of.
But a fireball did apparently ~
streak \Yednesday night across the
Tri-City sky, disappeam•g as fast ;:s U)
it flew and leaving behind more Uco)
questions than an;,-thing.
Except for scores of eyewitness C')
accounts. no one could find anyevi :0
dence Thursday of the spectacuiBir
visitor. ~
Was it a meteor'1 Was it a piece en
from an airplm:e or space junk:
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"I really don't know what it was," !!
said Peter Davenport, director of
the National UFO Reporting Cen-
1Erin Seattle ... But my suspicion is
tite individuals are reportlnga<:.cu
rately what they saw."
What they saw varies depending
on whom you talk to·. Herak!JPaul T. Erickson
wJoumdayn wShmo inleoyt.i cead itK aetn 9n:5e5w iPc km Ju dy S m1· ley o f Kennew.·c k sta_nds Th. u rsd ay along th e C ~ 1u mb1· a ~J·V e, just upstream from the blue bridge. S avera1 p eop1 e across th . estate
while driving home from a Mary Kay near where she reported seecng a fireball splasn down mto the nver. reported seeing objects streaking across Washington skies.
make';IP party, is cert~in s.he sa~ It Tim Irvin, ajuven11e detention offi- Because no one reported hearing a day night in the Tri-cities. Seattle scrambled to talk to wit-
land m the Columbia ~1ver, JUSt cer in the Tri-Cities, was driving sonic boom, Pugh said it's iiJ2possible "If it causel the ground to shake. nesses.
upstream from the blue bndge. home from work whenlle saw it. the fireball made it to Earth even we'd be able to pick it up from far, far Judy S~~tiley started getting calls
"I saw it splash," said Smiley, who "It was headed toward the· blue though it looked like it did. ' away," said Gerick Bergsma, a -seis- early Thursday morning and the
was the first to alertthe news media bridge," Irvin said. "It kind ofpassed "Fireballs come down all the mology laboratory assistant. phone rang all day long. A camera
of the fireball; "It was ~ goo_d s~~e in front of me, but I couldn't say it time," he e?Cplained, but only about But there was no sign ofit, he said. crew from Seattle came to the Tri-
splash. It wasn t any ~sh J~mpmg. landed in the river. Ijustsaw it really one in 500 results in a meteor making No one in the Tri-Cities could find Cities to talk with her.
Others rei?ort s~emg 1t headed well for a few seconds. It was really it to Earth. any evidence of it, either, including
to;~var~ ~~ a1rport m ~asco. . neat. SurreaL Kind of like aAima- "They burn out at 12 or 15 miles the police. Pasco police looked into '·I couldn't believe they were there
plaMn~y omn1. ft1irael ttrhy~muggh'tto I~Sa tnhda att 1 tth wea a~1 ra- t. io~ni.m" ation, perhaps. But not imag- aimboJ>vrei ntetdh eo n Ethaert rhe, tinbau ts o ptheeoyp'rlee ath pel amnaet theard enn'ot curgahs htoe dde itnetorm thine eri tvheart, swaiitdh thSem iclaeym,e· raa s haonmd eemvearkyetrh inagn,d"
port, S~ld Rog~r Mc~t~ker, who sa~ matton. think they came all the way down," and then let it drop, said Capt. Doug mother of two. "I didn't know this
the O~Ject whll~ dnvmg near his Enough people saw the object for he said. ·~You'd swear it hit the Chambers. . . would cause all this attJtntion," she
h~.use m north Rtchland. . Dick Pugh, a meteorite scientist from ground." The news media wasn't as wtlhng said. "I just called the paper because
All of a su~den, here !~ came.- Port~and, to believe something really A alledt with the tmiversity of to let it go. I thought maybe somebody else saw
~ap - fro~ ng?t to le~, he sat d. was m the sky. Washington's seismology laboratory, The ..e no~o~ domi~ated ~he it."
But I realized 1t was,iotng way too Based on what he was told about it. which records earth movement air wav6es on Tri-City rad1o stat10n
fasttobeanairplane. though, Pu'h was skeptical about throughoutthestate,revealedthere KONAC lOAM.lduringthemorning, ~~~:S:~H=~~~=:
reports it crashed into the river. was no significant impact Wednes-· and reporters from as far away as
"I'm not ready to buy that," he said. cltyher.tcf.com
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Nine Mile Road in Pensacola, we had seen, it was incredible and
approaching the junction with I know a lot of other people saw it
~ KYWATCH ~IARY Chemstrand Road. "I saw three too. We were all kind of spooked
large lights in the sky in the shape by it. When I got home I called
of a triangle. They disappeared my Mom and told her all about it
and then came back and that's and she told me I should call
when the others saw them. They you." Well, I was very glad that
were re~ bright and yellow col- Kim did call me and I am hoping
ored. They disappeared again and that if anyone else who saw this
By Carole Baker almost nothing. Through binocu something uruaentified in the sky then came back on. My husband fireball in the sky on Monday
lars, I was then able to see three just about anywhere. was watching them and he said, night is reading this, that they will
Rrtuming to the Gulf Coast red lights revolving around a cen Visitors to Shoreline Park this "What the hell is that?" They dis- also contact me so that we can
was very difficult after a tral dark spot. It appeared as week are Cheryl and Chuck from appeared again. We are used to gather additional viewpoints
ong weekend in the though there was an object out Santa Rosa, California. On a busi how planes look and these were infonnation. This is a very inter
Smoky Mountains. I keep looking there that was round, and slightly ness/pleasure trip across the definitely not like planes, the esting sighting.
for the purple-hazed high ridges tilted towards our position, mak southern United States, Cheryl lights were big and the whole tri- Some of those who attended
as I drive along now, but of ing its whole circumference visi and Chuck stopped by Shoreline angle shape was big." Kim and the Project Awareness Tampa
course, they are not there. The ble, around which these three red Park due to Chuck's interest in her husband and their friends con- UFO Conference recently told me
Smoky Mountain region of North lights were rotating. It travelled UFOs. They were so taken with tinued on their way home, dis- that the m.ost popular· speakers
·Carolina as well as the mountains extremely slowly away to the the place and enjoyed skywatch cussing what they had seen. They there were Dolores Cannon,
of north Georgia are a truly spe southwest. Our friends were not ing and talking with the skywatch crossed the bridges over the Robert Ghost Wolf and David
cial place, and we enjoyed a glori swprised we had a sighting while group so much, they decided to Escambia River on Hwy. 90 going Adair. The event attracted fewer
ous weekend amid peak fall color there, they have kept a log of sev extend their stay several days east towards Pace, Florida. attendees than usual apparently,
and warm frien~hip. We also had eral events occurring during the longer than they had originally "Suddenly_o ver to our ri_ght, over possibly due to bad weather on
a UFO sighting! While skywatch month or so that they have lived planned. Chuck's sense of humor Avalon Beach, there was a 1Nge Friday.
ing on Sunday evening at around in this particular cabin. 1be events sure has livened up skywatching fireball in the sky. It came out of Remember to mark your calen
8:30 p.m. in clear crisp weather range from small red/blue/yellow these last few nights! nowhere! We thought a 747 had dar for the Pensacola/Gulf Breeze
we noticed a yellow-white light "flashers" in the sky, moving When I got back from. the exploded or something, except MUFON Monthly Meeting on
appear suddenly in the southeast erratically, to large orange balls of mountains, I had a call from Kim that the frreb~l kept moving. It November 16. For more informa
em sky, low to the horizon. It trav light appearing close to the ridge in Pace, Florida. She had previ was huge, way larger than a quar- tion you can call the hotline ~
elled approximately twenty tops. One event involved two "big ously reported a sighting on ter at arm's length. It just kept ber shown below.
degrees across the sky from east yellow headlights" appearing out September 7th and now had moving and it looked just like a If you have a sighting or
to west following a straight of nowhere in a clear sky directly another experience to report. She huge fireball in the sky. All of us encounter to report, or wish to
course. Through binoculars, it south of the observer's position said that she was glad that this saw it and so did some other peo- contact the local Experiencer
appeared as a round yellow-white and at about a fifteen degree ele time her husband and some pie because they were pulling Support Group, I can be contacted
light that was extremely bright, vation. So, Gulf Breeze is not the frien~ all got to see it too, so they over and stopping on the side of by e-mail at Cbakerswd(l}aol.com
brighter than Jupiter, which was only place ~u can o~rve lifO~· would know that she really is not the road. It was 9:20p.m. A lot of or at P.O. Box 17152,,Pensacola, 3
the brightest star visible in the sky As I liave often said, I ftrmly crazy! people saw it, then it just blin,ked FL 325 ll-7l52 or you can call the
at that time. The yellow-white believe that if you get out there At approximately 9:10 p.m. off! It just disappeared - no fad- hotline at [phone]. Keep
light then slowly dimined down to and too~. you are likely to see Kim, her husband and ·three ing, no falling down or anything, Looking Up!
just gone. My husband and my
! arrive on a flying saucer to save pie's gulllblllty.
Taipei Journal them." From Dallas, the believers "This so-called religious problem
wtll be whi!ked to Mars neat year in is a social problem,'' said Chen Shul
; For Heaven's Sake, Don'tFly a UF.O. flyin& saucen. Uvfng a year in a fly-. blan, Taipei's Mayor, in an interview
ing saucer, sbe said, "would be like in his spartan office. "In Taiwan so
10 years on earth." , ciety many people do not have faith
a: Interplanetary travel. however, in themselves. They feel they can't
(,) ByEDWARDA.GARGAN appears to come with a price tag. place their faith in ordinary things,
!2 TAIPEI, Taiwan-Ho Hsien-jung hTahvee p caormenptlsa oinf esde vtoe rtahle s peocltl eme etmhabte rs Including science and technology, so
5 cradled a bloated aluminum saucer their children gave Mr. Chen huge they put It into these religions."
_ on his lap and looked worried. sums of money for the privilege of a "These religions,'' he continued,
• "We are scientists," he fumed. saucer ride. "are not real religions. They are just
~ carefully placing the shining saucer In Texas, the authonties are re another form of deception. People
t. alongside others on a shelf in his nar portedly worried that he intends to get deeply involved. It's not a ques
row living room. "Our research into orchestrate a mass suicide in the tion of education because a lot of pro
IL U.F .0. 'sis scientific. All these other fasliion of Heaven's Gate, an Ameri fessors, Ph.D.'s, they can believe in
, people are cheats. They're cheating can sect in which dozens of members these type of things.''
> people." committed collective suicide in San Mrs. Tal, who gave all her money
Z As chairman of the Chinese Flying Diego last year. to the Sky and Earth sect, reluctantly
• Saucer Research Association, Mr. In artiCles with blaring headlines agreed with her Mayor when asked
~ Ho has good reason to be concerned: here, Mr. Chen has repeatedly as why she turned to Mr. Wu's group.
:, a growing number of people in Tai sured the people of Taiwan that he Sighing deeply, she explained: "The
I wan are reporting sightings of Dying has no ~tentlon of committing sui pressure on our life is very heavy.
z sMauorceeorvs earn, dth hees eh asisg nhetivnegrs s heaevne o bneee. n coird seo; fIonldloewede.r hs ew searied ,j uhes ta "nwd ahiitsin 1g0 0to bWeeli eavlle sde eink h sipmir.i Htuea lh sauds pteicntaunrcees.. IH e
f3• used by a growing number of reli- ride a flyin& saucer Into heaven," a showed them to us. Everyone said it
gious prophets who promise every trip that would start on March 31, was true, it was real.''
:t=1 tlyhpinsge ftroo imns ata fnats wt-aepapltrho, aaclharinmgi nagp oacua- 199W9,h ailte p Mrerc. iCsehleyn 1 w0 aPs. Msc. uttling off to waSnhte t oa dtrdaevde:l " tHhies sraoiadd t,h yaotu I fc ayonu't
thorities at a spreading pattern of re Texas for his promised encounter of take belongings from this world. No
bltihegeMeiosneua O nsc yeua elnptcd eleoe dfpai nodlefae nthrhcsee,ir awielr hslfiorafa eyau srtdhae.ev pyirn ehgyasiv nbegy ctiEnhhnteuol nti hghgihi srht deoa nwskm inbn eedsene. ncta tA c,m otshrasroena c Slnilakaintmyigo ae nnmd,d beW Eymu aab rTset arhsl pthoiSssos fe uosnrsceieoa.ns"sy . aOrnel yth teh eTna icwanan y oauu trheoarci h
on a society that has gone through tu suring them that he arrived from ties about the spread of these cults
multuous political and economic outer space to save them from plane that prosecutors have begun crimi
transformations in the last decade: tary Armageddon. Brandishing pho nal investigations into whether ad
from dictatorship to democracy, Ed'tranl A. Garpn/The New Yorlt Times tographs taken in Taiwan's central herents have been defrauded.
from developing country to one of the mountain district, Mr. Wu told his Liao Cheng-hao, the Minister of
strongest economies in Asia. growing number of followers that the Justice, said in an interview that the
''From ancient times to the Qing dots of sun glare marring the pic reasons for the spread of the cults ·
dynasty,'' which ended in 1911, tures were in fact "points of inner en was "very, very easy to under
"there are historical records show ergy'' from outer space; merging stand," adding: "People feel empty
ing more than 1,000 U.F.O. slght with those dots would, Mr. Wu de- and are searching for a kind of civi
ings," insisted Mr. Ho,leafing .c lared. allow believers to soar into lized society. They are all looking for
through a detailed listing of hlstori outer space on a flying saucer. the true religion. But these flying
cal texts describing mysterious ob Like the rides offered by' Mr. Chen, saucer cults are a relatively strange
jects and lights in the sky. "But in the ticket to salvation by saucer Is no phenomenon."
Taiwan," he continued. "you can't bargain. For Mr. Ho, for whom flying sau
realty see U..F.O.'s. They 416ft't .;ome "We believed, we completely be cers are a serious business, there is
to Taiwan very often. Taiwan Is just lieved." said Tal Chiu-fen, a 38-year no mystery about them. "If there's a
osafalaro uuossUrttmmth en ynroa a dTesrlmliapea titrayeise wcdbl,ra ea uraCn.e snf"ddhio 'lse .yrb nTmp ya hrH seseesur-eye ecn mmcmhga e-baimndnlsi'iesitncn nesaggrtel t dsesipao eprIuvnote cofsfnre ettoes rm e s ogcchaacleaadhuvtr esmb erSe eeto optamtt anhheyidrear .h rv wsW uoehef soem bws pweae.e vn"deredWriecne hit envoaa leengdd roda tyhtn ho ecIdewn ud shvnerieoide oh lrnwvue o'eastof dd u aa lbn ded. smciUnae.gaiFDrd ss.l.Oes,i n."sM .pkAI itisnrlt. lh e w tHt ahhtishoeteh eas s o abk sstipyehhdi,rae n eyhprgaoseesd u ,aw o aorcnae !af s foncc ldur yhsmelieetntsae,eg t Irc ismtstl., aah"'iiu'a n mh see d
iFnltyoi nhgis S saeucct,e trh Ae sGsoocdi Sataivoens. the Earth deScihdee adn tdo htreyr ihtu."s bt.nd gave Wu Tal tsoe asorcldhi eIsr socni ewnittihf ihci,s'' wheo rska.i d".O "uHro rwe
Perhaps because Taiwan is so chung the equivalent of about could we be affected by these cults?
otsrhamf enh agiwslel o.sf orM odllfsro T.ow Cefe hxarea sfns ot olhwl oathhwse etera ewrk, tieWhdneeu y ao C bpwoheiuunllnt , 1in0 0 Tushei sin f lmyionvgi essa.u Mceorr cea dnu bbeio iudse notnifeies dh apvoes ibtieveenly u: siet dw bays breuliilgt iionu sC AsarwncllailvndedPaIl Iefooerosrs w$e3ye1A lr2ees,f0 ttc0.hh 0Wee, fsaelht yseeipnd seg oan fsit Ida Itut "a acWllell.,re" o c hura lrtvaSet shnpeorr em, awoden, ooHnuo"lswyR, ' 'emc Mloiaugrkli.d eoH snt oh iI tist ssma ehilodufr. r ie"st A aovtudetrrdr ayirnce mgtpi uvyUtes.atF.et Bi.rOoiu n.t' ?sif "
sheng, "be meeting God, who would in Taiwan, to the .distress of Ho Hsien-jung, top, an expert on U.F.O.'s. national authorities and offldals in you're using U.F.O.'s in your reli
Taipei, a city of six million, are be gion, your religion has got real prob
coming increasingly alarmed at peo- lems.''
.....
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predicts that moving objects ought They saw a bright light approach
-or ~ K Y WATCH ~ IARV to generate a force in addition to ing the ship which then paced the
gravity. Also. that this force can vessel for a few minutes before
> "drag" space around. which flying away. Apparently the
z0 Austrian physicists Josef Lense British Ministry of Defense has
_, s and Hans Thining predicted in confirmed that HMS Shetland
1918. NASA states that the true was off the coast of Lancashire at
IL test of Einstein's Theory and of the time the sightings were report
~ kywatching is generally a clear nights also make it easier to including the family dog, a part the Lense-Thirring effect will ed. Other people reported seeing
: quiet and peaceful punuit, see shooting stars, and on Sunday Husky, part-German Shepherd come early in the next century spinning discs and anomalous
CD these cool clear evenings at night we saw three spectacular who is usually not afraid of any when NASA will launch an exper- lights over the towns of Burnley,
• Shoreline Park. The can of the ones streak across the sky. thing! The witness describes iment known as the Gravity Probe Blackpool. Crosby, Southport, and
o skywatchers are usually the only Visitors to Shoreline Park this lights in their house coming on B. A satellite will carry four Bamber Bridge, Lancashire. If l
~ ones in the parking lot. Even the week include Cameron and his when the switch was turned off. extremely sensitive gyroscopes receive any further information
~ straggling fishermen haul their wife Sheila, who had made a pre The television set and VCR com into orbit around the earth. If from contacts in the UK regarding
:_ boats out early in the evening and vious visit early last summer. ing on spontaneously when no Einstein's theory is correct, the these sightings I will include that
head home. Often the only com- Eager and excited, Cameron set one has been near them, and top-like instruments will wobble information in a future Skywatch
up his camera on a tripod atop the things being moved around in the in slightly different ways from Diary.
~ ~:ln~ei:~: ~al::sew'!"rs ~
boardwalk in the hope of catching house. Needless to say, these each other, thus proving the The tenth anniversary of the
~ the sound "gigging" for flounder. a UFO on film. He was disap events have unnerved the witness Lense-Thirring effect. The "w~ day that Ed Walters first pho
...1 This process involves shining pointed, I am afraid. Cameron and his family. These type of ble" effect will show that space tographed the now famous ''Gulf
~ bright lights down into the water told us a story about a sighting a occurrences have been reported can be changed or rnanipularcd by Breeze UFO" occurred on
and most of them have a floating friend of his father had while fly by others following UFO sights. naturally occurring luge objects. November 11th. The only cover
rig, so that the eerie lights appear ing an A-4 some years ago. He It is interesting to speculate what It is not too far a stretch to imag- age afforded that event by our
to be surfacing from the depths. It noticed something flying next to may be causing such phenomena, ine that such an effect can be local media was a very brief, two
had faked out quite a few visitors his plane that appeared to be a and whether it is related to the recmded on a smaller scale which minute segment which showed
who think that some submersible "giant steel ballbearing." This family's recent UFO sighting or could address the question of dis- some historical UFO pictures and
UFO is about to break the surface reminded us of the stories of just coincidental poltergeist phe tance travelled by extta-terresttial interviewed Hank Guess, of the
and shoot off into the sky! So, "Foofighters" from World War II. nomena. If the latter is the case, it visitors to our Solar System. Kanga Kab Company. Hank runs
generally, by around 8 p.m., .o we spent a little while talking is still interesting to note that no I have also heard of some a Gulf Breeze UFO Bus Tour and
except for the occasional drive lbout that. Cameron said that he such activity had occurred around sightings recently in the United commented that "the UFO sight
through visitor, those at the Park had not had a sighting personally, these people before their UFO Kingdom. 1bese are being inves- ings bring a lot of tourists into this
are usually there for one purpose. but was always hopeful for one. sighting. ligated by British researchers nm area." Apparently none of the wit
to scan the skies to see what can He also told us that his mother There was an interesting article Matthew, Gloria Dixon and Eric nesses or investigators of this now
be seen. had travelled to Mount Shasta in in our local Sunday newspaper, Morris. They occurred on famous case were available for
Of course, the familiar winter California, and to Sedona, which I am sure was covered in October 1Oth, 1997 and a local comment.
sky is in evidence now. 1be win Arizona and had seen some the Science and Technology sec British radio station, Red Rose If you wish to contact me,
ter constellations of Orion and unusual things in both places. tion of many other newspapers Radio--999 MW received over please e-mail me at
C~peia, and the Pleiades are As an update to the recent also. It concerns the effect that thirty calls from listeners who had [email protected] or write to
soon above us in the eastern sky, sighting report from Alberta, rapidly spinning black holes and seen UFOs flying over the me at P.O. Box 17152, Pensacola,
while Venus makes her way Canada, I have been contacted neutron stars appear to have on Lancashire area of England. 1\vo Florida, 32522-7152. Thank you,
toward the western horizon in all again by the witness who is now the space around them, which calls that came in were from and remember-Keep Looking
her brilliance early in the evening, dealing with strange occurrences would apparently prove Einstein's sailors on HMS Shetland out in Up!
followed not too far behind by around his home. These phenom hypothesis regarding the theory of the Irish Sea, west of Lancashire. 4
Jupiter on its westering path. The ena are affecting all of this family, gen~ral relativity. This theory
"We're trying to get across the One of the best-known sight
fact that UFOs are a real phe ings of a UFO occurred in Val
nomenon," said Tom Sheets, a ley, Ala., when an object was
retired police chief of College photographed hovering over a
Park who now is state director of pasture.
MUFON of Georgia. "We don't MUFON members say they
understand the phenomenon, but often are ridiculed but continue
u0:: what we try to do is investigate seeking answers for the unex
sightings, learn more about plainable.
what's out there, and emphasize Mark Ausmus, a computer
that you're not crazy if you have programmer from Lawrence
a sighting." ville, has been interested in
(C'DII Sheets, who lives in Fayette UFOs since hearing his father
ville, first was drawn to UFO talk about seeing a black ball fly
.c
Q) research when he saw a strange over a cornfield.
1.1.. set of lights flying over College "When other people report
Park in the mid-1960s. He said it sightings, you could say they're
is not unusual for people living probably lying," Ausmus said.
south of Atlanta to see strange "When it's your father, there
objects in the sky. must be something to it."
The area around LaGrange, The MUFON meeting begins
including Troup and Heard at 4 p.m. at the Holiday Inn
z counties, is known among UFO Express in Fayetteville. For
watchers as the Troup-Heard more information, call 770-917-
i0= Corridor and has been the scene 4419.
:::;) of numerous sightings.
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~ Photos by MARLENE KARAS I Staff
~ At horne with strange phenomena, Mutual UFO Network Georgia director Tom Sheets'
u mission is to investigate and put the public at ease with sightings of unidentified flying objects.
BEE, Sacramento, CA - Feb. 16, 1998
The UFOs at Area 51
UFO investigator group Re ''No laughing matter," editorial, Jan. 31:
Groom Dry Lake Air Force Station, popularly
known as Area 51, indeed exists as an above-top
secret exotic-technology research and development
drawn by unexplainable facility, operated by the Department of Naval
Intelligence. The Bee correctly criticized the 9th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for uppolding an
executive order exempting Area 51 from environ·
mental laws.
But The Bee's characterization of reports of
Network's chapter UFOs and extraterrestrials at Area 51 as "ridicu
lous rumors" is absolutely false. As a published
in Georgia thrives researcher-into extraterrestrial matters, I can
assure you that ample evidence exists. At my sug
gestion ABC television news of Las Vegas went to
By Rick Minter the entrance to Area 51 in December 1992 and
filmed a UFO flying out from the base. That
STAFF WRITER
footage was shown on the then-ABC affiliate sta
Life's looking up for a group tion in Sacramento, KOVR. And I have personally
gathering today in Fayetteville. witnessed antigravity craft flown at Area 51.
Furthermore, Michael Wolf, M.D., Ph.D., of the
People who investigate
National Security Council's classified MJ-12 sub
strange things in the sky will
committee has described in his book, "Catchers of
meet to compare notes and share
Heaven," working at Area 51 side by side with an
lmowledge with the public. extraterrestrial.
MUFON, the Mutual UFO The Bee itself owes it to its readers to stop mis
Network, a 29-year-old OI'ganiza labeling documented facts about UFOs and ETs at
tion that claims 5,000 members Area 51 as "ridiculous." As repeated public opinion
}vorldwide, 60 of them in Geor polls show, it is the government's UFO cover-up
gia, is holding the meeting, Tools: Above are the investigator's manual and field investiga that is ridiculous.
which is free and open to the tion kit used by MUFON, meeting in Fayetteville today. Richard Boylan, Ph.D.
public. Sacramento
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-Q) Shenandoah, lA - Jan. 20, 1998
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1.1.. Dear. Editor:
atmospheric testing at Eglin Air Escambia County. He said that he I am sending you some information, it is
~ A ~~ ~~k ~~~.:dt~: ~~!ey=. Force Base, or weather research bal was released unharmed, then drove about the true story of a UFO sighting aboard a
~ ..t"\..1 wish everyone peace in their lRooonsa f lCoaotiunngt ylo wne ianr nJoaryth. eBrnu St atnhtea tnoo tPifeiends accitoyl ap owlihceer.e P hatet eirmsomn ebdeicaatemlye U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier. This takes place in
hearts, health and happiness. . alleged abduction could not. very emotional and starteq crying. the year 1958. We were on a shakedown cruise
8as To continue our look at historical Clarence Ray Patterson, 2106 W. He told me that I thought he was when there was a small light that was following
sightings in the Gulf Breeze area, the Godfrey Street, told Police Sgt. sbme kind of nut and that he refused our ship. Then this ligh\ came right at us; it
as following are reports of sightings Lucien Mitchell that he was returniAg to tell this story again to anyone. I came in close enough to us so you could see the
~ taken from past issues of the to Pensacola from Mobile on might add, when Patterson was relat .shape of the object and also see that there were
acG.li NPeenwTshsa icsJo olsauh roNnreta wlr seo pJnoo ruNtr naopavlpe.e marbeedr i2n6 tthhe, tsIhnwetoe Lrosoptaxetdlee yu1 p0e x hliati.ms tP naatnitgdehr tsh oiwsn h,t eraunnc kae l, eUncFteraOi r oinnefgr tv htoheui ssi naitnnecdriv dsieeaniwdt tftohro ammt e nt ohh eeo bnweega swin ovnueinrlydg gfiogtu Wreas: li-tnhsaidt eth oofs eit .f Aiglusroe,s t hwee rime nproets hsuiomna tnh at I
LIJ 1957: "Flying Objects Reportedly cian, told Mitchell that the creatures believe him," Mitchell said. Mitchell ~ings ..
C Seen Near Hurlburt-EGLIN AFB, examined him for about 30 minutes and other officers said that Patterson The object at that time turned a bright red
Z Nov. 25-Crewman of a B66 jet before releasing him on State Road was not under the influence of any o~n'Se color and took off fast. Our ship's .
~ bomber reportedly saw three uniden 297 just outside Pensacola. type drugs or alcohol. The report was t)taneuvers stopped suddenly for some unknown
~ tified objects in the Gulf of Mexico According to the police report filled made by Sgt. Mitchell after the reasbn. They kept the incident quiet. A bunch o.f
south of Hurlburt Field Monday out on the incident, the first known police department and the sheriff's men,were transferred off the ship.
onreibgpjheotc.r ttsCe adap btto.h uWat t. L1t0. h Sef!h .mecpr. peuawprd o snoa fwr eE tgutlhrinne suwingrihidtttieennngt sir,f eiPepadot trestr psfaoiclnee dsfi hrhsitpe r"ne o htoiocnve edUr i"FnaOgn omabffioigcuhett ruaencdieddie vntehtdiaf itne udI m dfeliyrdoinnugs't cosobemjee pcaltasni.yn ",t"sI ~.~.i Yf Q~art& 'la otethr earf.t UerF IO w saigs hotuint gosf fthroem N tahvayt, sIa fmoeu nd
from a training mtssion to Atlanta. over his pickup truck. "He continued Mitchell said. But other area law ship. Some of the witnesses had to sign papers
Sheppard cautioned that they might to say -that thts object hovered over enforcement officers apparently <ijd. to keep silent for 20 years and the other UFO
have been stars. However the objects his pickup truck and then pulled the Between 3:40 and 5 a.m. today, at ~gbtitt~ were .frotn the 1950s and that same
reportedly were seen on Eglin radar." vehicle inside the spaceship," least seven Escambia deputies report shift. 'Tiie>&hi.p deck logs do not show anything
The following account of a man Mitchell said. 'The descnption given ed seeing UFOs hovering south of .about any of the sightings.
and his truck being taken up by a of the creatures was vague, however, Pensacola Beach, according to a resi A11d, the Freedom of Information Act requests
N"UPeFwiOcsk Juaoppup rneb.aaylr eondU OiFncO tot hbeeRr eP1p8eotnhrs,t ae1cd9o7-lA3a. taitws woth aefsi sMshieimsrsmiilsaesrni p topw ie oirtnehc eipdru erlneletp dow rhitnse,sr iesd uetch hea dcraoednniftoi rw.m Ihet odc oimfu otlhdne istnoeo rtse idgb heat i inpmgomsl~ icdcoieua-lbtdae nlbyde dtoi dt hneo Nt parroyd Duceep aarntym iennfto,r tmhea tCioInA. Wanhdy t halel NofS A
Pensacola businessman says he and spaceship," Mitchell said. "The accounted for by testing at Eglin Air these UFO sightings from one Navy ship? The
his truck were swooped up by an inhabitants were described as short, Force Base, between Pensacola and USS F.D.R. was the first Navy aircraft carrier
unidentified flying obJect (UFO) on with claw-like arms. Patterson said Fort Walton Beach. that was allowed to carry nuclear weapons and
Interstate 10 last night, heading the during the examination the inhabi If you wish to contact me, please this was including the H-Bomb.
list of hundreds of UFO sightings in tants seemed to be Teading his mind. e-mail me at [email protected] or Sincerely,
Northwest Florida-South Alabama, He said they kept him inside the ship write to me at P.O. Box 17152. Chester C. Grusinski, 5
atordeaay l.a Mwa neyn foofr ctheem reenpto ortfefdic siiaglsh tsinagids dfourr inapg ptrhoaxt imtimatee lhye 3w0a sm tiankuetne sf raonmd Pyoeun.s Aacnodl rae, mFeLm b3e2r5-k2e2e-p7 1lo5o2k.i nthg aunpk' USS Franklin D. Roosevelt CVA-42
could be cleared up, however, by Loxley to State Road 297 in 1958-60,
helicopter maneuvers in Mobile, Clinton Township, Mkh.
ISLANDER, Pensacola Beach, FL-Dec. 3, 1997
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publicized Ed Walters case. The actually an identifiable aircraft.
M any people who come to photographs that Mr. Walters took The historical perspective also
Gulf Breeze area to look
are now recognized worldwide, raises an interesting question in
into the UFO phenomena
and to some have become a this regard. If the sightings that
here, and particularly those who
benchmark in the phenomena. . were reported back in the early
come out to skywatch at Sho~ne However, Mr. Walters' experience 1950s or before are describing
Park often have questions about
is not unique to the area, there.a re · light configurations and craft that
the history of UFO sightings in
other witnesses who have taken look exactly the same as those we
the area.
photographs and video of what see today, how can they be mili
Much research in past issues of
they have seen in the sky here. No tary craft? We had barely begun to
local newspapers has so far yield
other photographic evidence has fly jet aircraft in the early 1950s
ed this report from the Pensacola been offered, however, that is as and look where that technology is
News Journal dated July 27, 1952. numerous or of such quality as the now. Surely if our government
We will continue to search for
Walters photographs, and the pub were working on saucer-shaped
even earlier reported sightings, but
licity that surrounded the case is craft, etc., they would have devel
so far this is the earliest one we
what makes most people think oped enough to appear differently
have found. This particular report
"Ed Walters" when they think over the course of over forty
states that "One Warrington Navy
about Gulf Breeze. years. If that was the technology
man reported that he saw three
On talking to many of the 'fish then, it would not still be at the
ember-red lighted objects in the
ermen who frequent the Bob same stage today. Surely if our
sky in his neighborhood." He said
Sykes Bridge, and in conversa government had tested these
they "travelled real· fast, then
tions with fishermen and long super-maneuverable, silent craft
seemed to stop abruptly." He
time residents in the area, there with the ability to disappear and
reported that he was familiar with
are many stories of quite amazing reappear randomly in the 1950s
all types of aircraft, but that he
sightings that predate the Ed we would see them as a known
had seen "nothing like these" ever
Walters case, including the "Jane" part of our military hardware
before. The article goes on to state
photographs from 1986, and even today. The government war
" ... An East Pensacola woman
this report from 1952. People talk machine being what it is, I doubt
said she had seen disc-shaped
about the stories their grandfather they would have hidden these
objects flying overhead, and that
told them of the "weird lights" advantageous craft in light of con
they had an orange glow to them.
they used to see while fishing in flicts such as Vietnam and the
Residents of the Eglin Air Force
local waters. I also know of one Gulf War. Of course, it could still
Base area reported that two
woman whose grandmother used be argued that they are used in
orange-colored discs hovered to
to take her and her sisters out at covert operations, but really, by
the south-southeast for three or
night to the north shore of Gulf now some retired pilot or mechan
four minutes before vanishing.
Breeze in the Naval Live Oaks ic who worked on such a craft
These persons too reported that
area "to watch the lights." So, the would have come forward to tell
they were familiar with conven
events that continue to occur in his story if that were the case.
tional aircraft and their character
the Gulf Breeze area, whether Skywatching has been a hit or
istics and that the discs fitted no
they are sightings of anomalous miss prospect this week, and
conventional crafts' description."
lights or strange, unidentifiable Saturday night saw totally unfit
The article goes on to discuss var
silver-metallic craft hovering over conditions, with rain and fog pre
ious other sightings around the
Shoreline Park in the daylight, vailing. We set out for Shoreline
country in the same time frame
have a long and intriguing history. even so, in the hope of running
including those which showed up
One purpose that I feel these into J. Michael and Donna Ling
on radar in the Washington, D.C.
historical sightings serve is to from Laurel, Mississippi, who had
area. Eyewitness reports of
address the issue of military e-mailed stating their intention to
"orange glowing balls" flying
involvement, which is often pro skywatch on this particular night.
across the sky in River Edge, New
ferred as an explanation to the They did arrive and so did a cou
Jersey and Cleveland,. Ohio are
"Gulf Breeze sightings." ple of our regular group despite
also included. The article con
Obviously, those who are even the the bad weather. It drizzled on and
cludes with a report from Key
tiniest bit skeptical quickly latch off through the evening, and the
West, Florida of "an orange-yel
on to the fact that Gulf Breeze, ceiling was very low. Nothing
low ball of fire (that) streaked
and Shoreline Park itself is sur unusual showed up in the sky, but
across the sky."
rounded by military establish we spent an evening of pleasant
We have other sighting reports
ments and is adjacent to a busy conversation with our visitors. By
from local newspapers citing
public airport. Of course, those of around 10 p.m., we were all damp
events occurring between 1952
us who skywatch regularly are enough and decided to call it a
and 1986 which we will include
only too familiar with the com night and return to our respective
from time to time and we will
mercial, military and private air hearths to dry out!
continue to research the history of
craft that we see so often. Their If you wish to contact me,
sightings in this area prior to
lighting patterns are distinctive please e-mail me at
1952.
and we have witnessed them fly [email protected] or write to
Of course, most people became
ing in all kinds of conditions. me at P.O. Box 17152, Pensacola,
aware that any kind of anomalous
Therefore, when we see some FL 32522-7152. Thank you-And
phenomena exists in Gulf Breeze
thing anomalous, we can quickly remember -Keep Looking Up!
in the late 1980s with the much
determine whether or not it is
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have one really clear night though,
Acouple of weeks ago we
just before the full moon. The sky
were contacted by a Gulf
altogether. While Mr. Pollock's was clear and beautiful and the full
Breeze resident who we had
analysis of the video allowed us all moon in the eastern sky was shin
visited about two years ago after he
to view the object more clearly, and ing lightly.
had taken some video of what
while it appears not to be anything Two visitors from Miami arrived
appeared to be an anomalous phe
conventional, it is still difficult to at Shoreline Park while we were
nomena in the sky over Gulf
make a final determination. The skywatching. It was rather chilly,
Breeze. Mr. Ubaldi has continued
stills captured from the video show and they had been out the previous
to skywatch over the last two years
a brightly lit object with an approx evening for a short while, so had
and has amassed quite a lot of
imately rectangular shape. In these come prepared this time with tow
video footage of apparently anom
still captures, some of the pixels els to sit on the sweatshirts, etc.
alous objects/lights in the day and
around the top right and top left of Susan and Karen are health care
night sky over his home. One par
the object show some shadowing workers in the Miami area and
ticular piece of video that he was
which is a result of electronic Susan is considering moving to the
excited about was shot on
smear as a result of camera move Gulf Coast. She has a deep interest
December 30th at about 4:30 p.m.
ment and does not appear on all in UFOs and was really hoping for
He brought this video to us to look
frames. No structure is visible sur a sighting while she was here.
at and we passed it on to Ray
rounding the white lighted object as Unfortunately, nothing showed up,
Pollock of the Gulf Breeze
would be expected in the case of a but she got very excited each time
Research Team who analyzed it to
conventional aircraft, helicopter, one of us picked up our binoculars
the best of his ability using the
etc. There is no evidence of wings, to check out a passing plane, etc.
Apple TV/Video System installed
a tail, or of rotor blades. In the Susan plans to return to the Gulf
on his Macintosh PowerPC Model
video. the object appears to be Breeze area in March and do some
6320CD and an Admiral 4-head
lower in the atmosphere than a star· more skywatching. We enjoyed
VCR from a second generation
would appear and its most signifi talking with these two ladies very
copy of the video.
cant aspect is its method of leaving. much and look forward to another
The video itself shows a very
The object begins to fade slightly opportunity to spend an entertain
brightly lit object, which appears
by frame # 10 of the video and con ing evening together again in the
silver/white in the western sky. We
tinues to fade, disappearing com near future. ·
questioned the witness as to
pletely by frame 21 or 0.37 sec For more information about the
whether or not he could identify
onds. Total disappearance occurs Project Awareness Gulf Breeze
Venus in the sky at that time. He
between frame 20 and frame 21 , or UFO Conference to be held March
said he could not, since at that time
in 1/30 second. Also of note is the 20th, 21st. and 22nd on Pensacola
of evening the sky was still too
fact that the object is brightly lit on Beach you can hit their website at:
light for Venus to appear. We
its eastern side, i.e. facing away http://www.projectawareness.com,
observed the sky personally at the
from the setting sun and therefore write to Project Awareness, P. 0.
same time of day just a few days
the light generated from the object Box 730, Gulf Breeze, FL 32561,
later on December 3rd and 4th, and
is possibly not light reflected from telephone them at (850) 432-888 or
indeed Venus was not apparent,
the sun. Although there may be e-mail: vickilyonsOI @sprynet.com.
although it was possible to faintly
some reflective light associated For more informati.on on the
see the moon approaching its first
with the object, there are some self annual Ozark UFO Conference to
·qua-rter. Also, the shape of the
luminous spots scattered with the be held April I 0-12, 1998 in
image, its rather sudden disappear
field when it is expanded to an Eureka Springs, Arkansas contact:
ance and the fact that Venus would
individual pixel level. Mr. Ubaldi Ozark UFO Conference, 2 Caney
continue to glow brighter in the
has previously forwarded some of Valley Drive. Plumville, AR
darkening evening sky seemed to
his footage to Strange Universe and 72121-8725, telephone: (501) 354-
rule out this video being of a plan
to Dr. Bruce Maccabbee. 2558.
et, such as Venus. Therefore it was
We had the opportunity to sky If you wish to contact me, please
determined that the very bright
watch only once this past week, on e-mail me at [email protected]
object which Mr. Ubaldi had video
Sunday night. We would ha've liked or write. to me at P.O. Box 17152,
taped was not Venus. The object
to have had other opportunities, but Pensacola FL 32522-7152, thank
appears on the video for approxi
unfortunately the weather has again you. And remember-Keep look
mately thirty seconds before fading
been a determining factor. We did ing up!
out very rapidly and disappearing
OREGONIAN, Portland, OR -Jan. 20,1998 CR: J. Brown-Jacobs
Fireball piques scientists' curiosity
• A Trt-Citles woman gets calls Smiley's Kennewick home since she She said she watched the object are hoping anyone who saw the fire
from afar aft• she reports seeing told reporters of her experience. fall for about a minute ·before it ball will call them to talk about it.
a possible meteor plunge Into the She's heard from scientists at splashed into the river. Such infonnation could help solve
Columbli River New Mexico's Sandia Natibnal Lab Pasco police said one officer re- · centuries-old mysteries, they say.
oratory, a talk-radio host in Seattle ported seeing a meteor shower The scientists are investigating
and a man from New York who about the same time, though the of- apparently natural phenomena that
The Associated Press thinks a meteor took down TWA fleer did not see anything fall to the they cannot explain. ·
Flight800. ground. The Federal Aviation Ad- They say evidence of the phenom
KENNEWICK, Wash. - Juqy Smi Almost without exception, the ministration has said a 'United Air- ena is frequently seen on equipment
ley apparently i~'t through answer callers have been stunned by the no lines pilot reported seeing two or at the Sandia lab used to detect nu
ing questions about the fireball she tion that no one in Kennewick has three meteors in the sky near the clear activ1ty wherever ifbappens
reported seeing streaking over the gone bobbing in the river with a Tri-Cities area that night. in the world.
Tri-Cities nearly two weeks ago. · face mask and a metal detector. Police said a local airport reported Sometimes, Beck said, the equip-
The object - possibly a meteor '~y're really surprised no seeing nothing wtusual on its radar. ment detects somethblg other than a
that might have ended up OJ'\. the body's looking for it," Smiley said. Finding whatever the object was nuclear bomb detonating. Often the
bottom of the Columbia River~ cre "They say they'll get back to me be or even .charting its path could help non-nuclear readings can be attrib
ated oDiy a brief ripple of local inter cause they might come out here." · explain a previously unknown phe- uted to lightning. .
est after sjgbtings were- reported nomenon, say two . scientists who Sometimes, the readings can't be
Smiley said she was driving home
Jan.7. at night when she saw a ball trailing contacted Smlley. explained. Beck and Spaid~ want
But phone calls from outside the orange and red flames in the eastern Richard $palding and Paul Beck 1 to find out if the. Tri:.Clties fire7ba ll
area have continued coming in to sky. of the Sandia National Laboratory may be such 8 cue.-
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~ ight~ng reports continue to be Bill's report. One call was from a
~ received concerning the ni~ht of about five degrees elevation over an man living in the Montclair subdivi
:_ January 31, 1998. As mentioned area kno~n as Garco~ Point, I saw
sion in Pensacola· which is neat the
~ last week, there was a sighting from two red h.ght UFOs. ~hey were in junction of Michigan Avenue and
~~ Pbye nasnaoctohlear B weiatnches ·tsh iant Pweanss accoonlfair mBeildl cabloosuet ohnoen :IZnocnh taalp aprrt oaxti maninty's, lbeenigntgh h'~gWh"t Swtares ectso.m Hineg n fortoicme dt hae bcreignhtet r.r eodf
!Q Ford, . Pensacola/Gulf Br~eze and it has been speculated that there
an object that was bigger than a star
MUFO~'s Chi~f Investigator also may have been lights on one object, but smaller than the moon or about
shared mformat10n with me from a rather tha!l tw~ separate objects.
like a traffic light down to the road
call received by another man in Each configuratl"l)n comprised of a
ahead. It (the light) shifted position
Pensacola who; alo~g ~ith his neigh central larger light, appearing at from the horizon to the east, to the
bor ~ad also had a sighting that night, arm's length to be the size of the southeast, to northwest, to east for
possibly of the. sa~e object. Also, I eraser ~t tpe end of a pencil. Each of ab~ut a f~f.teen minute period. Its
myself had a sighting that evening. these l.Ight~ had a smaller light· on
matn posttlon .was almost directly
Here are the details of what occurred each side,· IA very close proximity
ov.erhead, and it seemed to put out
on the evening of Saturday, January and I would judge these Jights to be
31, 1998. .a bout .half the size of the larger one. sp~kes of ~ig~t at times as if growing
bnghter In Intensity. The witness
I planned on arriving at Shoreline The nght hand configuration, the
called a friend who went outside 'and
Park early, at around 6 p.m. to see if southernmost one, also had a second
observed the object and made the
there was ·a repeat of the sighting small light on ~he right hand side,
second hot line phone call. This sec
from th~ pr~vi?uS evening. I was that ap~eared slightly higher, giving ~nd-witness states that upon receiv
delayed m leavmg and was still at me the Impression of it being on the
Ing the call from his friend, he went
home at 6:28 p.m. when Vicki Lyons edge of a circle, or ring. I slowed
out and observed the object from the
called me on her cellular phone from down immediately to around ten or
same general area, but apparently got
Pensacola Beach. She and a group fifteen miles per hour to observe
a closer look since he was able to
composed of Art and Mary Hufford these UFOs. I watched them for
provide a more detailed description.
Topper and Marianne Jones, Pat and approximately one-and a half minutes
Buddy Crumbley, Bruce and Anne (the clock in my car read 6:35 when I He s~o~t~d the bri~ht red: light m the
east mlttally, and It travelled to the
Mo:r:ison and Whitley and Anne first saw the configurations and 6:37
southwest, directly in front of and
Stre~ber had gathered at the public af~er they blinked out) until they above him. He states that it made no
parking lot east of Tristan Towers on blinked out. Immediately, I tried to
noise ar:td had an oblong shape with
the ~ul~ side, and were having anoth call the skywatchers at the Beach but four tnangle shapes attached or
e~ stghtmg! They were witnessing a Yield had turned off her cell~lar imposed on it, two on the front and
smgle, steady red light to the north of phone so I drove out to the Beach to
two on the back. He could only see
their position, at about seven degrees report my·s ighting.
the shapes when it was red and the
above the horizon, back over towards As I was pulling into the parking
triangles also gave off their own red
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twhearte wpearss~m mg otvheer 1.stk. yIt wthaast eestviemnaitnegd hpihso nheo mcael li nf rcoemn tRraaly P Penosllaoccokl af.r oHme di~tinguish the shape due to the
bnghtness. When it was red, it would
that it was between six and ten miles ?nd_ his wife, Elise, had just come
change from a bright cherry red to a
dis_tant fro.m their position. At one I~std.e their home after having a
deeper dark red. It continued to move
po1nt Whitley Strieber said that sighting over his house that lasted
to the .northeast, ~ut not smoothly.
through bin?culars ~e thought he from 6:~2 P·!ll· for approximately The Witness descnbed that it would
could determme that It was in fact a twenty stx mmutes-the same time ··scoot and drift off in different direc
ring of lights, rather than a single frame as the sighting the observers at
tions while making its way along a
light. The light appeared to travel t~e Beach had witnessed. I will quote
general path, jogging· back and
slowly towards their position and to directl~ from Ray's report: "It was
the east, on a south-easterly course. the typical Gulf Breeze red light-it forth." ~is witness called his parents
and a neighbor and the neighbor's
Th~ sighting lasted from 6:22 p.m. appeared approximately halfway son out to look at it with him. The
u~t1l 6:48 p.m., a total of twenty-six between the horizon and the moon at witness' mother may have been able
mmutes before the light faded out that time of the evening and ~radual­
to take: a couple of photographs of
The wind was from the south at ly mov~d north and rising until it was
the object and the witness w-ill let
about 5 m.p.h. approximately the same elevation in
Bill Ford know if anything shows up
Immediately gathering up binocu the sky as the moon from our vantage
lars, jacket and cellular phone, I left point. It moved from 240 to 270 on t~e prints .. If we are able to gather
any InformatiOn from these witnesses
my house and drove quickly to the d~gre.es to the north then changed
concerning this sighting, we will
three mile bridge between Pensacola directiOn to an east, southeast move
relay it at a later date. .
and Gulf Breeze. My house is only ment until it was around five degrees
about a half mile from the north end shy of being directly overhead-and ~11 in all. . this was an extremely
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Gulf Breeze and much of Pensacola remamed vanous intensities of red.
to the north, east and west from the There was no sound associated with W~ are all hoping that the events of
this last weekend in January herald
bridge so I hoped to be able.t o con the sighting-the object could be
the beginning of yet another Gulf
firm the sighting the skywatchers clearlx observed passing stars all
Breeze flap. I' II keep you posted and
were having from the Beach. I was along Its path until it disappeared.
remember y' all better keep looking
driving slowl_y, at about twenty to T~ere is little doubt that Ray and
up!
twenty-five miles per hour searching Elise Pol.lock were observing the
If .you wish to contact me, please
the s~ies to my right, the west, for same object as the witnesses on e-mall me at [email protected]·or
anything anomalous. I did not see Pensacola Beach.
write to me at P.O. B.ox 17152
anything at all in that direction. . I received the following inforrna~
Pensacola,. FL 32522-7 1·52. thank
However, something, I don't know t10n from Bill Ford via e-mail. 1\vo
you. And remember-Keep Looking
what, caused me to look to my left, calls were made to the
Up! . 8
the east, and low to the horizon at Pensacola/Gulf Breeze MUFON
stunned, it took a couple of sec.onds have often had skyquakes in associa
Well, the excitement contin
to say "Buddy look! Buddy look!" tion with sightings in the past. The
ues this week with sighting
By the time she had said that, and Mobile Press Register ran an article
reports coming in on a regu
Buddy had turned to look, the object in their Friday, February 6 issue. The
lar basis and local media expressing
has disappeared. Pat also states that headline "Explosion likely was sonic
an interest. Everyone's interest is
soon after the disappearance of the boom" was followed up by, ''But
piqued, apparently, and we have n~H silver ball-shaped object, an airplane none of officials asked can be cer
had this much activity in this area m flew through the same area of sky tain." Just after noon on Thursday,
quite a while.
and she could clearly discern that this February 8, a "rattle. and boom" that
I received a cellular phone call on
was an airplane, since she was able shook downtown Mobile and the
.the afternoon of Wednesday,
to see the wings on it. Theodore, Alabama area caused 911
February 4 from Vicki Lyons. She
In the midst of all these reports phone lines to become busy. This
was driving west on I-1 0 toward
coming in, on Monday night, was a "double boom" event, with the
Mobile. It was 3:55 p.m. on an
February I 0, I99&, our local FOX first timed at approximately 12:05
absolutely clear, cloudless winter
Television affiliate station out of p.m. and the second at about 12:20
afternoon. Winds were out of the
Mobile, Alabama, WALA-Channel p.m., emergency phone lines in
northwest at about fifteen miles ~er I 0 aired ~1 video of a UFO that had Mobile received a dozen or so calls
hour~ Driving through an area of Pme been taken by a Robertsdale, as did the Sheriff's Departments in
Forest, with virtually no landmarks,
Alabama couple, Christie and Scott an area from Grand Bay in southern
she was passing the vicinity of mile
Edwards. The video shown was shot Mobile County to· Citronelle in the
marker 61, when·s he saw a perfectly
by the Robertsdale couple on north. There were many reports of
round silver ball-shaped object in the
February 7, I998 at 7:06 a~m. The walls shaking and merchandise
southwestern sky. It was clearly visi
w-itnesses reported also seeing the crashing from shelves in local busi
ble and ·contrasted against the clear,
same UFO as is shown on the video nesses. Meteorologists with the
brilliant blue sky. "It looked like a
on February I 0, the day the story National Weather Service in Mobile
sterling silver marble hanging in the
aired. Christie Edwards is quoted as stated that the booms were not
sky," Vicki told me. Spe estimated
saying "Looks like just a bright light, caused by thunder or any other
that the object was approximately
but it is real big and it is nothing I've weather-related phenomena. A
one mile away from her at an approx
ever seen before." The National spokesperson for the U.S. Geological
imate fifteen degree angle from the
Weather Service in Mobile states that Survey in Go1den, Colorado stated
horizon (she actually describes the
the object could be a weather balloon that the booms were not related to an
elevation as being approximately
or a planet. The Robertsdale Police earthquake. The U.S. Geological
twice that of the height of the nearby
Department has urged anyone who is Survey have installed several seiz
treeline). She describes the size as
concerned about this sighting to give mological instruments in th~ ~ea fol
being comparable to an aspirin at
them a call. The video shows a very lowing the earthquake act1v1ty last
arm's length. As she observed this·
bright, silver metallic spheric.al year. Some people speculated that
object, su~denly and with no precur object with a dark bottom. It was dif there were "sonic" booms generated
sor it took off toward the north at
ficult to tell from the video if the by aircraft flying in the area. .B ates
tremendous speed, crossing I-10 and
object was moving in the sky, or if Field in Mobile r.e~<?rted n~ aucraft
disappearing almost instantly. "It
off the apparent movement was due to with such capabihttes flying from
. took at a tremendously fast speed
camera movement, and this issue was there, and the Naval Air Station
... the ·speed of the object was inde
not addressed in the television report. Pensacola Operations Office stated
scribable!!~ My eyes could hardly The object shown on this video that while they have been flying a lot
follow it-just too fast for human
closely resembles the object that was of training missions, they had only
eyes. It looked like a blur and then
captured on video by Tony James, an been at subsonic speeds. The same is
was gone," Vicki told me. Shortly
English researcher, during his visit to true for the Air Force out of Keesler
afterward, she saw a commercial air
Gulf Breeze in 1995 as well as that AFB, in Biloxi, Mississippi. A publ.ic
plane flying in the same area of sky
on Dennis Ubaldi 's December I997 affairs officer for Eglin AFB In
and because of the clearness of the
video which was discussed in a Florida also stated that there were no
.day, -states that she could "easily and
recent Skywatch Diary. Other com missions in the area at that time, and
clearly identify it as a plane, wings,
parisons have been made to the that there had been no supersonic
and tail clearly outlined against the
objects shown on videos coming out flights in the area for somettme. The
sky."
of Mexico in recent years. only way they could have been sonic
Interestingly, just a few days later,
As a result of this video and all of booms, was if they were generated
Pat Crumbley, .also a co-director of
the recent local activity, Whitley by aircraft flying at high altitude
Project Awareness, as is Vicki Lyons,
Strieber and Vicki Lyons were fea between bases in Florida and Texas.
had a similar daylight sighting. Pat
tured on the Art Bell show on The weather conditions were appar
was driving east on I-1 0 on the after
February 10, 1998 discussing the ently generated by aircraft flying .at
noon of February 11, 1998 on her
video and recent sightings in the area high altitude between bases 1 n
way to Niceville, FL from her home
and the Art Bell website has a still Florida and Texas. The weather con
in Spanish Fort, Alabama. Her hus
photograph from the video as well as ditions were apparently conducive to
band Buddy was driving and they
real time audio of the show on which the amplification of a sonic boom.
had just passed the Milton, Florida
Whitley and Vicki were featured. However, none of these explanations
exist. Pat states, "I was talking to
You can access the Art Bell website are conclusive.
Buddy, facing him when something
at: http://www.artbell.com. If you wish to contact me, please
caught my ·eye and I looked up."
As a footnote to al1 this local e-mail me at [email protected] or
About fifteen degrees above the hori
activity, there have been reports of write to me at P~O. Box 17152,.
zon Pat observed a silver ball-shaped
skyquakes in the area again. As many Pensacola, FL 32522-7152, thank
object ab.ou.t one half inch in diame
of you who keep up with Gulf Coast you. And remember - Keep Looking
ter at arm's length. She states, "I was
UFO sightings will remember. we Up!
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Westchester Valley UFO Sightings," by Dr. J. Allen people who cxpelienced this connection
Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno .and Bob later had an abcWrtion experience."
Pratt. Mr. Imbrogno, also of Greenwich,
Boo111erang, Fantasy from the minds of sci-fi has been studying tho: UFO phenome
scribes? Or a reasoned analysis of non for the past two decades. He has
unexplained phenomenon from provided research for such shows as
years later researchers daring to step forward "Unsolved Mysteries.~ "Sightings" and
where others have feared to tread? "Encounters." His articles have been
"Night Siege," originally published published in Omni, UFO Universe
Authors say UFOs in almost 10 years ago, is due to be reis and Scientific American.
sued in May of this year. It follows on And he and his co-author, Marianne
Bedford's skies have the heels of another book by Mr. Horrigan - who has written for
yet to be explained Imbrogno. "Cont:lct of the 5th Kind,~ FATE Magazine and UFO Universe -
written with Greenwich, Conn., believe the UFO sightings in the
author Marianne Hnrrigan and pub northern Westchester of the 1980s
BY R.J. MARX lished by Llewellyn Publications. have never been adequately explained.
The book hypothesizes not only the The 'Westchester Boomerang'
"Something truly extraordinary hap
pened not long ago in the Hudson River appearance and stghtings of UFOs The alleged sightings began in late
Valley just a Jew miles north of New throughout the nurthem \Vestchester March of 1983, when hundreds of
Yurh City. Hundreds. and probably area, but multiple incidents of "con area residents reported an object
thousands of astonished people looked tact" between residents and aliens. resembling a "boomerang," with
up in the sky and saw something they incidents of "high strangeness·· and multi-colored lights. It was said to
had ne\'t:r seen before. abductions - all on such familiar hover, and did not produce an engine
It was enonnous, awesome and spec th<'roughfares as Interstate 684, Route hum. Witnesses said traffic came to a
tacular. 116 and other nearby locales. stop on the Saw Mill River Parkway,
It was seen not just once, but many · "f'.-,•plc ~>hu nn·a bdtcwd in llFOs Interstate 684 and the Taconic
times over a ecriod (lf more than three saw this undcrcarriag~ of dark material, Parkway as eyewitnesses marveled. In
years. beams of !i'ghts shoot down, sometimes Mount Kisco, police officers and citi-
No one knew what it was. No one yet cngulfin~ the people. Some of the people
knows." said dtry felt some kind of connection
So opens ''Night Siege: The Hudson between them and rhc UFO. Some of the
, .·:Th~;.se c,hambers sit on areas''qf.
extreme magnetic anomalies,"· Mr.
zens reported a UFO travding down
Imbrogno said, "as if they were not
Main Street, some calling it "larger
built randomly."
than two football fields." In
He said the chambers were of
Yorktown, Mr. Imbrogno wrote, the
Celtic origin. and had been the scene
police department was so deluged
with reports that callers were unable of many close encounters in the area
to get through. and reports of "strange creatures."
In "Contact of the 5th Kind," Mr. (Others. such as Susan Allport,
Imbrogno estimates that more than author of "Sermons iQ Stone: The
1,000 people saw what he and others Stone Walls of New England and
continue to describe as a UFO as it New York," say that the chambers
hovered over the major highways of were to store food for 19th century
Putnam and Westchester counties. farmers and their livestock).
From a sparsely furnished Ms. Horrigan said there are
Greenwich apartment, Mr. Imbrogno approximately 200 such chambers in
and Ms. Horrigan take the matter the area. These chambers start near
very seriously. Route 116 in Lewisboro (ncar the
"It's like all UFO sightings, it's "Balanced Rock") and proceed
very controversial," said Mr. northward, with a particular concen
Imbrogno. "You'll get mixed opin tration in Kent Cliffs and Putnam
ions. Some people saw something R.J. MARX PHOTO Valley. They are not seen further
Authors Philip Imbrogno and Marianne Horrigan believe this area has been visit
that could be explained, and other north than Fishkill.
ed by extraterrestrial beings.
people saw something that could "If the UFO is representing some
not." other intelligence.~ said Mr.
He said official explanations of "If the UFO is Imbrogno, "they could use these
the sightings included Cessna air electromagnetic anomalies areas as
craft, the stealth bomber, and most representing some some· sort of bridgeway to their par
commonly, ultralight aircraft from allel reality."
Stewart Airport flying in formation. other intelligence Mr. Imbrogno said sightings were
(Members of the Bedford Police continuing, and there were increas
Department said they did receive they could use these ing repurts of contact with extrater
UFO reports at the time but said restrials.
they were definitely attributable to electromagnetic "We've had 256 reports, from
ultralight aircraft in the region). New Jersey, southern
Mr. Imbrogno said he doesn't buy anomalies areas as Massachusetts, New York and
the ultralight theory as an explana
tion for all the sightings. He said he some sort of Connecticut," he said. "They come
from a combination of people who
has spoken to the pilots of the ultra
bridgeway to their have seen creatures coming in the
lights, who were "very elusive."
roads, and people who have been
He said there were nights when
parallel reality." driving along :md a UFO landed
the UFOs were spotted and the
and they were taken aboard and had
pilots were not flying. He also said
that the UFOs were spotted with PHILIP htBROGNO this scenario under hypnosis.
winds gusting to 30 mph - weath "These people are relaying an
er clearly not suited for ultralight experience they believe is the truth.
aircraft. had cncountns. including Ute-ch4t..f canh where these dimensions inter Very few people come across as
Mr. Imbrogno brought a 1984 of pohce. Tht:re arc poltce aH1o.:..1f::.. twine. causmg this phenomenon to hoaxes or having flights of fancy.
videotape of the UFO to be analyzed setrntists, who to thi~ Jav. ·indt,.ttr take place," Mr. Imbrogno said. Many people believe this experience
at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in that what tht:v saw 1~ tnt,allv lill<''\- "Maybe in the Hudson Valley we're has actually happened."
Pasadena, Calif. plainablc." , ' dealing with an area where portals of The authors believe they may be
ImAb rloagbnoor athtoe ryob ajencat lyrespt retsoelndt eMd ra. If UFOs arWe hoyu th earneJ? ahuut. ,,.h,· sthpiasc peh aenndo mtiemnoe no tpoe anp puepa.r a" llowing wpahrat t oMf rt.h eI mebarrolyg ngor ocualnlds w"tohrek sfcoi r
single solid object, and not individ have they <.:ho::.t:n northnn In "Contact of the 5th 1-:ind, .. the ence of the 21st. 22nd and 23rd
ual objects such as airplanes in for 'Neste hester) authors state that the sightings are centuries
wmeaMurero. nI. mseberno gnion saiMd asismsailcahr uosbejetctsts, hImav"htG:r ooagortnd:ao s. qm"tI nnt ·l~tUlt· ifv-u0.n,/ nri' tJt n:t,.h<t..t«rtdt l llta!, a1t"\':t"1r'"k ' ccarxocpn ctrmnt:cupniocnrcgtsm awgn udah hm dt:aXunutyria natcnrre raoc srrt encsaoild nletifanect. st ghree"ra\eVt ectrh' rdaeet tdaheiala vlaienn dgto s wtbuietdh il eopdo,h"ke esndaoi mda teM nirna.
Pennsylvania. and in Belgium. "The out from time to time wtth L H) "This is nm going away." said Mr Imbrogno. "There's a new genera
Belgian UFO sightings were identical sightings. These aoe called ·O.t(h. ... Imbrogno. "This is increasing. Not tion ofscientists that's going to pick
to the Hudson Valley sightings in the He satd the late Dr. Hynek - en only people who claim abduction this up and finally give us some
mode of operation, the time and author of "Night Stege" anJ f,1rmn reports, people who report mental answers. We won't have the state
dates. People who were investigating scientific consultant to the U.". :\tr contact with alien intelligence." ments of people who are daydream
wrote a letter to me saying, 'Aii we Force's ProJrll lllue llo,lk - h.td Stone chambers hold key? ers. but we'll have h;)rd scientific
had to do was change the location hypothestzed that the L)fOs rcprr,.:m Mr. Imbrogno and Ms. Horrigan evidence that we should pay more
and I could have the Hudson Valley "some kind of alien intclltgcnu: ... arc at work on a new book, "Lost in attention to."
sightings right here.' Are these "He indicated to me that the Time," that examines the relation Mr. Imbrogno and Ms. Horrigan
objects flying all over the world?" UFO phenomenon is perh.J)h more ship between the UFO sightings and have invited those with sighting
Mr. Imbrogno spoke of the "qual complex and more exotic dun we a series of stone chambers through · information to contact them at PO
ity" of the individuals who had realize." out northern Westchester and Box 4218, Greenwich CT 06831.
sightings. "Even to this day, they
Mr. Imbrogno explained Dr. Putnam counties, which, they theo They say they are especially interest
indicate that they saw something
Hynek's theory of "multiple rize, may serve as an "electromagnet ed in phowgraphs, tape recordings,
that they could not explain," he
dimensions." ic anomaly" with some connection or videos of UFOs or other forms of
said. "In Danbury, 12 police officers
"There are certain areas on the to the extraterrestrial craft. paranormal phenomena.
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