UFO Newsclipping Service 2001 09 no 386

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• PLUMERVILLE, ARKANSAS 72127 USA EDITOR/PUBLISHER: LUCIUS FARISH
SENTINEL, Aurora, CO - Aug. 2, 2001
Story by Frank Bell Photo by Melody Parten
Joshua Estudillo
makes no claims
to being Aurora's
Fox Mulder, but the self
described sky watcher
said he has seen some
things in the skies that
defy explanation.
Estudillo, 23, is part of a small but
growing - and increasingly vocal -
nationwide community that beHeves
in forces and beings beyond our
knowledge that might be visiting our
planet on a regular basis. Call it the
hot rods of the gods or the grays if you
like. But Estudillo and his 26-year-old
girlfriend, Rae Gonzales, said they
saw "something" in the skies near
Buckley Air Force Base shortly before
4 a.m. July ·20. The sighting was no
chance encounter - Estudillo and
Gonzales regularly make forays to an
observation site near E-470 and East
Jewell Avenue to watch the skies for
out-of-the-ordinary occurrences.
The couple described the obje4
they saw as a glowing copper-colored
disc with a blue, iridescent, comma-
The truth is out there
• • •
That remoteness is good for sight them?" he asked. "The times have - two Air Force officers who investigat-
shaped tail that looked, as Gonzales ing such things as the orbs because the changed, too. We really have no more ed fictional accounts of UFO reports Skywatching 101
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been a weather balloon, Estudillo mat profit group's founding members In years ago. It really doesn't matter to soon be major revelations about what na, Estudillo has some tips for
ter-of-factly said, "Nab, they don't 1969. He retired three years ago. The them what people think, and a lot many uFOs actually are. When asked, those who are new to skywatching.
glow like that." group's Colorado headquarters is more people are thinking for them he agrees that UFOs don't always "Don't drink alcohol or smoke
Gonzales said she saw the same located here in Aurora and the interna selves now." mean little green men, but said there while you go," he said.
object and that she and Estudillo were tional headquarters is in Littleton. As for Estudillo's sighting, are bound to be things discovered that Alcohol impairs judgement and
amazed to find that after they separat Schuessler said his group often works Schuessler said it is intriguing, we as humans have not yet encoun smoking has been shown to affect
ed to record in their notebooks what in conjunction with the National UFO although the iridescent tail is not a tered. night vision.
they saw, their sketches and notes Reporting Center run by Peter common element. "My grandfather always used to say Dressing for the weather is a
were nearly identical. Davenport, a regular commentator on "We've got almost nothing like that 'For sure, they're out there,'" Estudillo must, but always take along at least
"I'm not into it as much as he is," national radio about such phenomena. recently, but the disc shape and copper said. Stranger still, his grandfather a light jacket-nighttime temper
Gonzales said. "But I definitely did . "At the time, when we started the color, that's fairly prevalent." spoke of someone coming for him on atures can still drop into the 40s
see something." group, my interest grew out of my When Estudillo told members of even in July or August if a cold
Estudillo is passionate about sky work in the space program," the Denver UFO Society, of which he the day he died. front is moving through.
watching. Schuessler said. "People I trust told is a member, about his sighting, sever "That day there was a UFO spot Basic equipment should
"I started as a fourth grader," me some things that were mind-bog al other Aurora mem~ told him ted," he said. include:
Estudillo said. "I'm constantly look gling. I haven't had a sighting myself, they had seen the same thing recently. As long as curiosity remains high, • A digital or film camera with
ing up, every day. When I got older, it but I deal with data -and I accept the Officials at Buckley Air Force Base Estudillo said he believes a revelation zoom capability
got stronger; it's sort of my calling." data." said they were unaware of any reports might come sooner than later. • A video recorder, with night
Estudillo and Gonzales have trav He said there are several factors that about such an object and referred "It's 2001 now," he said. "There's vision mode if possible
eled to the San Luis Valley in southern have driven the rise in UFO-con questions to Air Force spokesman gotta be a reason for all this." • Comfortable outdoor chairs
Colorado to catch a glimpse of what sciousness over the last two decades. Capt. Joe DellaVedova at the If you think you've seen something • Good binoculars with a 7 x 50
many have described as glowing red "First, you can only poo-poo some Pentagon. in the sky that defies explanation, rating or higher
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John Schuessler said is a common involved." or three times a year. Colorado MUFON chapter in Aurora partner who shares your interest
sighting. As an increasing number of military DellaVedova did speak briefly can be reached at 303-451-5992. The along as well. Find a semi-remote
"The orbs, that has been occurring veterans have come forward publicly about Project Blue Book, an Air Force National UFO Reporting Center also area and set up shop. The human
for years around the world," over the last decade with sightings investigation into UFO's that was dis takes reports at its website at visual range can pick up about a
Schuessler said. "Lately, we've had a they have had, civilians have become continued in the late 1960s. The proj www.nuforc.com. The NUFORC third of the total sky. Watch sectors
number of sightings in the San Luis more comfortable with it as well. ect spawned a brief but popular late- website also outlines formats for con of the sky on a scheduled basis and
Valley and its dam remote there." "What's somebody going to do to 1970s NBC television series about cise report submissiops. make notes of what you see.
About the same time and
on the same night, some boys
and_g irls were having a.
wiener roast afthe home of
Tommy Kerr on Caldwell
Street in Statesville.
According to Jim Lippard,
John Roueche and Tommy
Kerr, a saucer made an
appearance at 8:05, returned
at 9:05, and then returned
again at 9:23.
The young men conceded
the possibility that it could
have been just one saucer
making three appearances.
"The boys," said The
(zJ Landmark, "described the
objects as 'bigger than a .soft
ball; very bright, the first two
~
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!• All the objects were
I 9 2 reported as moving north to
0
south. They estimated the
·~ objects as being between
<~ 75 to 100 feet in diameter.
:E The boys didn't believe the
Qz liitg what sh naodt bedee, n" .a.. Airps ltahneeys , but
~ moved a trail of light seemed
.to follow."
Meanwhile, down in
I C>F Mooresville, two Cascade
Street residents, Mrs. C.A.
MSjor and Mrs. .B i1ford
Blanton, were·t akiitg in a
breath, of fresh air on the
porch of :Mrs. Blanton's home
"When whoosh-a I.ight lit
up the northern sky, grew
~rs quickly int' what Mrs.
Manor described as a "pink·
ish-purp~h ball of fire,' and
quickly disappeared toward
the south."
When the UFO phenomenon swept Iredell Co,m.ttY Within haltan hour..
another object appeared,
behaving in a similar fashion
...................................................... as the ftrst and also eventual
IIY O..C. S'IOHUIM£1 1H It is a safe bet that few Iredell foik Two days·l ater the ~r8 said ly disappearing toward the
SPECIALTOTHE'RECORD &lA NDMAAK ·.were thinkiilg about flying saucers. saucers had been spotted by an Elizabeth south.
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ed out just like other SUm Commercial pUot KennE!th Arnold June 10 and four of the things on the seen at least half a dozen sim
mers: School-let -aut, kids came claimed tn have seen nine shiny, pulsat 18th of July. He also mentioned that his ilar mysterious swift-moving
heme from .college. the weather ing objects cruising over the Cascade radio had gone on the blink when lights."
got warmer, people took t~· · Mountains of Washington state. sauSceevresn w teor 1e0 i n"u tnhied aernetaif.i ed aerial the Apr neovtiiocues h waede akp'sp eare·d in
doing more things outside. In his words, the discs "flew like a objects" were seen in the vicinity of Mooresville Tribune advising
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July. Thermometers registered 104 -· Nonetheless, the name "flying screens. turn, pass on such reports to
degrees in Columbia, S.C., on July~ and .saucers" was coined by the press, and it "This information," said the paper, the Civil Defence people. The
96 degrees in Statesville on July 23. That stu~k. Now, five years later, flying saucer "has been relayed to the proper Air next morning, Mrs. Blanton
same day, it was 99 in Myrtle Beach and sightings were reaching epidemic pro Fbrce authorities, and the Air Fbrce is did just that.
98 in Charlotte and Raleigh. portions. investigating the matter." Making a personal visit to
Very few homes then had air condi The ftrst saucers of the season Were You bet they were. Remember that the the two ladies, City Manager
tioning-something we take for granted reported in the local newspapers on July Korean War was going on at this time. Peck concluded that what the
50 years later. But most houses did have 17. Two airline pilots said that they had The Russians had the atomic bomb. two distressed damsels had
front porches then, and in the evening observed eight objects "glowing like red Unidentified aircraft, if indeed they seen had been meteorites. The
people got out of their warm houses to hot coals and traveling 1,000 miles per were some kind of aircraft, zipping Tribune concluded its cover
sit on front1>0rches to enjoy the evening hour." willy-nilly over the Heart of Democracy age of the incident with the
was a situation that the U.S. Air Fbrce following: "Meanwhile, both
air and perhaps catch a refreshing The things had zoomed past their air took very seriously: Mrs. Major and Mrs. aJanton
breeze while they perused the newspaper craft when it had been over the are not convinced that what
or snapped a mess of beans. Chesapeake Bay. they saw Monday night were
only meteorites."
With the rains of the mid
dle of August 1952 came relief
An Air Fbrce spokesman
from the sweltering heat.
commented that the number
Million-dollar rains came at
of saucer sightings were
suppertime.
already almost double the
Fall came in like the voice
number reported the
of reason. and with it things ·
previous year.
The Statesville Landmark got back to normal. School.
next told about how a mysteri buses rolled again. College
ous object had raced across kids returned to their studies.
the heavens over Cleveland, The weather began to turn ·
Ohio, on the 24th of July. It noticeably cooler. People spent
made, so said the story, " ... A more of their evenings inside,
flight of six speedy jets look and with all the.rainclouds,
like tired snails." one couldn't see that much in
The Air Force, predictably, the night sky anyway.
wrote this one off as a weath Everyone agreed that the
er balloon. autumn leaves were not as
On the night of July 27, bright, not as colorful as
lights again visited the
usual, probably because of
nation's capital. This time,
the long dry spell and unsea
they were seen from the
ground, tracked on radar and COURTESY OF CHARLTON COMICS 'OUTER SPACE' VOL 2. NCjJ I NOVEMBER 1968 sonable heat.
cl$sed by a jet interceptor. was spotted over the North On Aug. 4, the local paper near Lookout Dam, saw Thoughts of flying saucers
Fbr some reason or other, Carolina town of Goldsboro. told the citizens of Iredell to saucers that came in from the were hauled off with the dead
the jet wasn't able to get The two married couples that report any saucers they might east and then disappeared leaves.
near them. saw it didn't know what it see to the local Civil Defence toward the north. Miss Setzer
· lt was just a matter of was, but said that the object authorities. And 10 days later, remarked that they left an
ti.Jlle until one of the things definitely was not an aircraft. on Aug. 14, things began to orange "streamer" behind
made an appearance closer to The next day, the 30th of happen in Iredell. them, which she estimated to 2
home. Two nights later, on the Ju~ three speedy saucers The Daily Record recorded have been about two yards
29th of July, a "bright red were seen whizzing over cen that Patricia Setzer and long and a foot wide.
glowing cylindrical object" tral Indiana. Charles Dagenhart, who lived
Meteor lands
in San Luis lore
By Gwen Florio
Denver Post Staff Writer
SAGUACHE - It's out there.
0I Somewhere.
0 Whatever it is.
j
This IS the San Luis Valley, after all. Who knows if
the blazing object that fell (was piloted?) to Earth two
~
weeks ago was really a meteor?
~--- Whatever it ~s - and, just for the record, scientists
~
Q. have no d.ou~t It was a meteor - is the object of in
t~nse cunosity by everyone from geologists to gold
diggers.
"Those things have a lot of precious metals in
Special to The Denver Post I Chuck Bigger
them," said Eric Davey, who runs cattle south of
~nthony Cicone, 7, left, and Nicky Marlett, 5, ride their bikes in Saguache. Sight
mgs of a meteor on Aug. 17 have spurred scientific inquiry and talk of UFOs.
Saguache Cres
Saguache, the unofficial staging
cent publisher
ground for the meteorite hunt.
Dean Coombs
"Someone's going to find it, and it's
sets type on a
not going to be a scientist."
hot-lead typeset
But the scientists are trying.
"Did you see the meteor?" reads ter, an antique no
a sign .in the window of Q-Foods, longer used at
.whose half-dozen aisles constitute any other paper in
the town's sole grocery store. Colorado. The
"Denver museum scientists are San Luis Valley
seeking information." goes its own way
Jack Murphy, 'curator of geology in other matters,
for the Denver Museum of Nature too, including its
& Science, has been trying to pin ·. UFO lore.
point the meteorite's location by
talking to people who saw it, then
plotting its trajectory from their Special to~ Post
Chuck Bigger
descriptions.
. So far, those descriptions indi
Cate the meteor broke into burning
on Saguache Creek in the 1970s 18 months ago, attracting visitors
ts that showered down on an atea
that became so threatening that from as far away as Australia, Ja
somewhere between Storm King
campground, west of town, and the Army _Corps of Engineers bull pall and Russi.4 ..- .~·has been
dozed it. "That was something." ringing off the hoot e\rer siDce the
Creede.
Kay Doyle, who with her hus meteor fell, said ·M eqoline, who
. Problem is, everybody who saw ew.
band, Dick, runs La Garita Llama slept through the sty·
p~hrea ctmiceatleloyr inth hinisk sb aictk ycaarmd.e down outfitters, took up the· refrain. "Like.the· other'~,, she. said,
"I was 150 miles away," said "Well, a guy got murdered two quicld~ outlining a · luiDdful of sky
canyons down 13, 14 years ago. shenanigans · she has seen since
Dick Doyle, 51, who lives 5 miles
And there was Snippy," she said, moving to the valley just six years
from Storm King campground but referring to the Appaloosa filly ago. "I want an explanation for this.
\vas guiding a trip down the Chama
whose flaying death in 1967 was Nobody can tell you what it is."·
JUver when the meteor lit up the
the first in a string of animal muti But David Lawrence, 29, who
sky about 10:45 that Friday night.
lations in the valley that some peo lives in Crestone, put the valley's
''But it was so enormous, we
The Denver Post ple attribute to aliens. phenomena in perspective.
~bought it fell two ridges over." About those aliens . . . It's true, he said: AmaziDg things
People who saw the meteor talk
pf it in terms of wonderment usual teor and who didn't. Ruth ·Sewell, A book by valley resident Chris happen here all tbe time.
ly reserved for accounts of uniden 84, whose grandfather was the val O'Brien, "The Mysterious Valley," He gestured toward the sky,
~ified flying objects - of which ley's first doctor, didn't see the me outlines hundreds of supposed UFO where the setting sun. flamed red,
plenty have been reported in the teor, but she's seeri plenty of other and extraterrestrial sightings. lighting up the Sangre de Cristos itJ.
rtalley. things in the valley. There have been so many that Judy a way that underscored their name.
Riff Fenton of Saguache doesn't Messoline's UFO Watchtower, on "The s~lar things that hap
think what he saw that night was a "The ice floe," she said, speaking the eastern edge of the valley, has pen around here?" he said. "They're
UFO - "we knew immediately of a pileup of spring ice and snow done a brisk business since opening called sunsets."
what it was" - but called it a
once-in-a-lifetime experience. "It
lit up the night sky like a skylight,"
~aid Fenton, a potter who with his
wife, Marilyn, was driving over
Poncha Pass when the meteor THE reports she observed strange
flashed overhead. 1 WORM
lights jumping and dancing
"It was like fireworks, except it I
.r...i around the skies the evening of
was going down instead of coming ' r
Aug.l.
)Jp," he said. "You know you're
looking at a wonderful phenome it's The Wenatchee resident is
non you'll never see again." ~Maybe not the only one~ Two sober
t .
The meteor, naturally, is the talk journalists say they saw the
of the town in Saguache, a commu ,. the heat ... same thing.
bity of 584 populated by a mix of "The first thing I thought was
Jiispanic and Anglo ranchers who ; that it must be some spotlights
have been there for generations somewhere," said Berdine,
and "the aliens," as people like Don 9 OK, no use denying it. The describing the lights as white
Geddes, who runs Saguache Gal sun is beating down, tempera and round. "I was thinking,
lery & Espresso, describes relative ~ tures are flying off the chart and 'These aren't UFOs! I don't
newcomers like himself. ~ some unusual things have been believe in them.' "
Geddes was lounging in a hot
happening in the old city as The men in blue aren't buying
spring, helping a friend celebrate
August unfolds. talk of UFQs. They say no one
his 50th birthday, when the meteor to
put on its display. "The light had a Can you say "dog days of called report strange lights.
greenish look - a real deep inten summer"? Nor are they aware of any large
sity." Want proof? Read on. spotlights working the area. 3
As it would be in any small town, From above: June Berdine
everybody lmows who saw the me-
fi Was that the .G iffQrds' .android
f'li
t
that was hovering 0ver Carteret?
I
i
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i
a, BAIIRY LANK October. But they don't seem to ex- while·still playing for the New York
r
W plain much. GiantS. Kathie hee was born 5 yeats
hat . I. hate most about UFO earlier on Aug. 16, Frank GUf'ord's
sightings is that 1 don't know "I th~ this one is going to remain
birthday! Also born on Aug. 16 'were
~ what I'm supposed to do with them. 1 a mystery," Moran said. "I guess it's
- - why they _eall it 'urt1dentified.' " Eydie Gorme, Fess Parker (TV's
o. mean, somebody shines. a light in '"Daniel Boone"), Julie Newmar, Les-
> your face, and you either get probed Maybe so, I thought. But I couldn't ley.Ann Warren and Madonna.
~ or you don't ..<. sort of like a doCtor's help th!J1king about the Gltfords.
Science cannot explain any of this.
~ exam after you turn 40. What, then, So I sought research insights trn~ But science can do a few -more things
can we do about the sightings over· before we give up.· .
Carteret two weeks ago?
Peter B. Da~port, director of the
.Dozens· of people repOrted seeing W'l1en &Onji'fmted.witb the cNra:tr~·r tingCenterinSe-
yellowish-orange lights float slowly
across the skY in a V formation. Mo ineiplkllhk, most ofu s canw ~~:S~stablish ~~:
stoeryi sTtsu pi'ulllplelkde o v·tenr~_,-;a--!"1"o n~~ t<h:~'e8l N1Cle~ w-W Jieer& - ·Jtmg;,.··blif:Mt •Wiiyfi fH1J ·--.. ,~sitnifn alrtgfy~ t~o- oQthteWr sligdh -ting·s. M MtB ..-.
, __ • < - ,,_. - •
footage of it sho'Red _up.O li' MsNDC' ~ 'f!te met/.rDI#all fl.PJI'I'WICb "Cases that seemingly are indistin-
both on the air. tufd .online. And·· 1 for really wild,
II guishable .f rQm the Carteret· event
guess my· question is,·sa what? • have beert reported at our ceirter
The first people .J -asked were the ·s crewbaU conclunott. since February 2000, principally tram
publishers of .Weird New Jersey, a Rockford, ID., . and Prescott, Ariz.,"
twice-yearly magazine 'With ' flrst- Davenport said.
hand accounts .of UFOs, haunted· ·-nr. ,. ~. . ~ .now we're getting somewhere!
houses and;·:tnexplicable ·stuff that ~ew'Jersey's UFO," Pat Marcat U~tely, though, it's as far as
turna, u.ra Jn n~~._n.,n.l ~·•, 1_r, g~-pt=- . yat-,d.s ".~ ,:·,~ ·~·.· _ . ·etill-Qy, ewarhso ahalsi- bheoel«n~ Sst·umdoyntinhgl yU~F11O1Ssc tftos-r .. swaet:wref ignogin igs tthoa .. gt?et _for n~·~ .And how
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~rlt.ten . note (~ol .. ~.ted for . tab~ what the Qbjects were not · front . ! Davenport's nwtbodical· ap-
publicatidb}.from a·«UJ ftl.p rison MY· · . proach .f br a really Wild, screwball
i ·
ing_ Frank.·a nd ~thie Lee. Giff<;»rd .. We've ruled\out m~teors,'" ~use ·conclusion. And here's mine:
.were somethlng ·other tblul• ·hUJium the lights moved· too slowly, he said. Frank and Kathie Lee Giif'ord have
and were taking: (Net: ~· D*tta. 1 And they~ve ruled out balloons, be made .m.t .android version· m. Daniel
gently poin~ out thlt'@.e. (}Hlords cause b,.Jldons don't float in forma . Boone-.m·: the future. ·S trangety,·~Ma­
are taking over the ~ . .-But I ro- t101~. They didn't look like atrplarie donna Js not part of the conspiracy.
cused my questions ·Ql'l' carteret. lights or birds. And althoUgh Venlis But JQlte Newmar and Lesley Ann
Moran said ·dozens of WitneSses fn- was very brtgb.t ~ the sky that night, Warren-: are taking over,t hMemon day
deed had contacted·t he ni88Uine. it wasn1 Venus beCause there were Night Football. And oil' Of are
"The ~rts 8m almost tdenti· more than a dozen of them. controlled by the true mastermind,
Eydie Gorine. That can mean only
cal/' he said.-"No one can 8ay what it "That's all we cai1 do, is rule out one thing about the UFOs over Cart~
was, but they can agree on what they what the people saw," Marcattilio eret: ·
saw . . . little balls of flre moving said.
across the sky, falling down and fad .n ult They're weather balloons or some
sounds reasonable. But in thing.
ing."
stead of being reasonable, I would
These reports will be in issue No. like to point out that Frank Gifford Barry Lank is a columnist for the
17 of Weird New Jersey, due out in became a TV sportscaster ln 1958, Courier-Post in Cherry Hill.
WORLD-HERALD, Omaha, NE-July 12, 2001
The public, Buder said, is invited to doctorate in experimental pathology planet- l don't know. UJ.d they also
attend-debunkers, too. from the University of Southern plant the bubonic plague?" ·
That same weekend in Los Angeles, California medical school. He has Duke said he's baa difficulty getting
an international MUFON meeting will written a collection of short stories, his hyPOthesis reviewed. His main
attract hundreds. Among them will be "Tales of Evil and Good," published by professiOnal interest has been disease.
John C. "Jack" Kasher, who retired this iuniverse.com; and has self-published a Few ufologists, he said, have his
spring as a physics professor at the book that's controversial even in the background in biology.
University of Nebraska at Omaha. UFO community, "The AIDS-ET On clear summer nights, away from
city lights, it's easy to rook at the skies
Speaking at the convention will be Connection."
Dr. Steven Greer, a Virginia Duke hypothesizes that the AIDS and wonder what's out there beyond
the stars. It's happened for a long time.
emergency-room physician. He heads epidemic was caused by extraterrestri
Fifty-four years ago this month in
the Disclosure Project, an attempt to als. He says that widely documented
UFO Beliefs get the government to admit that cattle mutilations - with laserlike cuts Roswell, N.M., a military press release
said the wreckage of a crashed disk had
UFOs are real. and the blood drained from the car-
been recovered. Hours later the release
At the project's May 9 press casses-are the key.
Part Folklore conference in Washington. D.C., more Kasher said no one knows why was rescinded. saying the 509th Bomb
Group had mistakenly identified a
than 20 people. many of them former mutilations occur. "Maybe they were
weather balloon as the wreckage of a
military personnel, described their some kind of scientific study. They
flying saucer. People still talk about
The whole notion of UFOs encounters with UFOs and said they defmitely seem to be UFO-related."
"the Roswell incident."
fascinates some and infuriates others. were prepared to testify before Kasher added: "I believe in the
In 1938, Orson Welles' "War of the
Is the truth out there, as they say on Congress - if hearings are held, as the reality of UFO abductions, but the
Worlds" broadcast of a fictional
TV's "X-Files"? Disclosure Project wants. hypothesis that extraterrestrials have
Martian invasion caused panic.
Or is the idea just - far out? caused AIDS by deliberately infecting
Buder said newspaper reports in
The Mutual UFO Network, or abductees is more than I can personally
Phenomenon 1884 tell of cowboys near the
MUFON, holds meetings every other accept."
southwest Nebraska town of Max.
month in Omaha for those interested in Kasher believes we have been visited Buder, who said Duke is a friend,
They saw a strange object in the sky
unidentified flying objects, including by extraterrestrials. Buder said he likewise doesn't endorse an AIDS-ET
that crashed and set the prairie on ftre,
people who believe they have been believes in UFOs but can't say he connection.
leaving metal parts on the ground.
abducted by aliens. The next meeting is knows for sure.
Reports of fiery objects in the sky
L11i b~r.amr.y ,J u51ly1 12 1N a. t9 t0hteh AStb. rahams Public wo"rWldwheinde y,"o uB ulodoekr saati dth, e" thpeh esntoorniieesr iaorne Pl~e, Too? date to antiquity. Today, some take
.. For the most part, people are really so interesting. It's );art of folklore. It's .. Pliil is a very prolific writer,"' Buder U FOs very seriously. to the point of
obsession. Others, even those who
sincere," said John W. Buder. a retired fascinating. 13ut I ll go to my grave said. "He is not the first with this
seriously believe, realize they have to
Air Force chief master sergeant who never knowing for sure." hypothesis, but I do not subscribe to it.
calls "ufology" his hobby ...T hey're not Among those who attend the Omaha He could be right, he could be wrong. keep a sense of humor.
Said Kasher: "Everybody in the field
cuckoo clocks who see stuff in the sky meetings is Phillip S. Duke, a former If someone asked me do I believe knows that to a lot ofp eople, this is far
every day." UNO instructor who in 1966 earned a extraterres!rials _planted ~IDS on this out." 4
TIMES STAR, Alameda, CA - July 23, 2001
FLORIDA TODAY. Melbourne, FL
Aug. 8, 2001 Soap
Rush takes aim i -IQ!•1Q!-- opera
actor Jon
CJ Cypher
at UFO politics ua~s. Local quoted spoke to
nearly
ci
Judging from the brevity of the ex 1,000
change, which was recorded by CNN on a: in documental}' people
July 28, 2000, you can almost hear George (.) Sunday In
W. Bush's eyeballs clicking against the
San Fran
socket ceilings. c; about UFOs
Addressing the media horde as the Re cisco on
publican Convention in Philadelphia winds (0' II the DisclO
down, this one guy, Charles Huffer, man sure
ages to squeeze a response from the Texas ~· A Mount Airy native and Project, an
governor. What the guv doesn't know is, > Lincolnton resident, effort to
Huffer's a state regional director for the :; known for his 57 years of peel away
Mutual UFO Network in Arkansas. "7
Huffer: "Half the public believes that UFO investigations and military se
(unidentified flying objects) are real. (.) research this week crets
Would you finally tell us what the hell is z ,.,eived recognition in two about ex
going on (if elected prWes.i:d "eSnut)r?e" I will." ;o:.:: different media in Nevada traterres
Huffer (gesturing and in York. trials. The
to running mate Dick ~ A documentary , 1deo project's
Cheney): "This man i film titled "Roswell (The goal Is to
knows. He was secre unveil new
tary of defense." 0 Naked Truth Revealed") allen tech
W.: "And a good 8a: filmed by Mark Easter of nologies
one." easterfilms.com located at and bring
A few minutes later, ~ Sparks, Nev., had its World peace to
coafft checsa moneer am, oreH uBfufsehr > Premiere showing at the the globe.
Billy blurb on his audiocas ...1 International UFO Museum
sette: "It'll be the first ~ & Research Center at 'UAN
Cox thing he (Cheney) will Roswell, New Mexico. CONNIILUY
do. He'll get right on -Stllff
People it." Interviewed in the film
Yeah, sure, what- was George D. Fawcett, a
ever. The only reason ufologist from Lincolnton,
for presenting this otherwise inconse North Carolina along with
quential snippet from the margins is that
other.
recently, $120 million gasbag Rush
Limbaugh decided that no attack on the Science writer Ronald
Bush clan - not even those related to D. Story of St. Petersburg,
UFOs-should get a free pass. Limbaugh Fla., is the author of a book
cdoreuwns eal bfoera d thoen DDaisncileols uSrhee ePhraonj,e ccth, ieaf "The Encyclopedia of Project discloses secrets
group of former government, military and Extraterrestrial Encounters
corporate types who gathered in Wash (A Definitive Illustrated A
ington, D.C., on May 9 to lobby Congress Z Guide to All Things
for open hearings on the UFO phenome Alien)," which is published from beyond.t he fringe
non.
by Pcnquin Putnam, Inc. in
Sheehan and Disclosure Project direc
tor Steven Greer argued that th~ recovery New York, N.Y. The book
aton dt heex pdleovitealtoiopnm oenf tc roafs hteecdh UnoFlOogs iehsa st hleadt fheuantdurreedss coofn tUriFbOut ioinnvse sbtiy By Douglas Fiacher anttgr:avity and ~zero-poinl;" energy yet keep
can harness free energy, enough to end gators and organizations STAFF WRITER mum to avoid destabillzin;,W the American he
epceo~noolmeuym.' s hammerlock on the world globally. beiSnAg Nt oFldR:A ·NTChaISt CUOF -Os Thhaisv ei s lawnhdaetd w eo'nre tnhoist gweomuoldn yg. riWevhoeursel ya afsfpraocnet- btl~:ftes eidn tmemisastiiloe; qsayl satenmd
· But they also contended the innova Fawcett's "Repetitions" planet. intergalactic community ~-
tions were buried deep inside black bud and other articles, his biog That the propulsion systems on these ma Video proof comes thanl~ to ·the Dtsclosure
get operations to keep from destabilizing raphy, photo and position chines would forever change your trip to the Project, a crusade heade~ by an emergency
financial institutions. statement are all published grocery store. That government, in cahoots with room doctor from Virginia.
Media coverage of the witness testi in this volume. Big OU, has conspired. to keep these secrets "We are the last generation that can live in
mony w,as scant an4 yawning. Three from society. the way our ancestors did ··- in war and strife
months after the press conference, letter Oh yes, and that there's a giant alien base on and greed," said Steven ·Greer, Disclosure's
writing campaigns haven't generated the dark side of the moon. founder. "The world beglnts with new energy
many blips on political radar screens. Sen The Disclosure Project rolled into San Fran and propulsion systems, that you and I can pay
ate heavies like Orrin Hatch (R-Utab) cisco Sunday, drawing 1,000 people interested for, and that are locked in e~ black box."
bplriuessh r eoffef rcroinngs tailtlu qenutesr iwesi ttho ftohrem l-olnetgt-edr eraed in hearing more about humanity's encounters But most surprising about the afternoon was
Project Blue Book archives. Lesser-known of the close kind - and the military-industrial not the two-hour video disclosing painstakingly
rubber stamps like Sen. James Imhofe (R complex's efforts to cover them up. collected details of aliens and their capture. It
Okla.), who support pouring billions of This is a world 38 levels beyond Top Secret was the cross-section of society the audfence re
dollars into National Missile Defense, clearance. You need Cosmic Clearance. Crypto flected: housewives and college kids, button
write that "it would be irresponsible to Clearance. Need-to-Know with Zebra Stripes. downed grandparents and · pierced bleached
spend taxpayer money on hearings and Roswell started this. But there's so much blonds, male and female, Latino and black.
legislation related to such phenomena." more Uncle Sam isn't telling you. Even a Nazi scientist, kllled in 1939 and re
So, obviously, if you're just another ~And yes there were some aliens on it. And born as a woman now livlnC in Vallejo.
brick in the wall, the smart thing to do is yes, we got 'em," came one disclosure, via "A lbt of crazy, crazy p~ple are involved in
let this Disclosure Project thing die a video, from a former military officer. this," said Disclosure's m~dia liaison, Leslie
slow, natural death. But then, along It's a world where aliens come in peace, only Kean, plaintively adding: "l hope you don't ridi
comes Limbaugh - you know, the guy to find their engines Jammed by military radar cule it."
with talent on loan from God? With half and their crafts shot down by U.S. missiles.
his.b rain tied behind his back? On the cut Where military scientists, using captured pro Visit the Disclosure Project at www.dis
ting edge of societal revolution? pulsion systems, have unlocked the secrets of closureproject. com
Limbaugh makes an issue of Sheehan's
charge that President-elect Carter's at
tempts to honor a campaign pledge to de
classify UFOs were stymied by then-CIA
director George Bush in 1976. CAPITAL-JOURNAL, Topeka, KS
"So let me get this straight," Limbaugh '1'his thing has gotten so highly classi Aug. 12, 2001 CR: A. Yoho
says. '1'he Bushes .are at the heart of the
vast right-wing conspiracy to keep the oil fied . . . that it is just impossible to get Ventura says there's other life
anything on it," Goldwater wrote to one
companies rich by hiding extraterrestrial
solar panels or super-warm sweaters or constituent. To another, he added: "I have APPLE VALLEY, Minn.- UFOs? Why not?
whatever it is they showed Jimmy no idea of who controls the flow of 'need "You look at the vast array of stars up there and
tcr know,' because frankly, I was told in
Carter." we're to believe we're the only life?" Gov• ...._
such an emphatic way that it was none of
Limbaugh's bottom line: UFOs are just my· business that I've never tried to make Ventura said Friday. "I don't
another "liberals from Planet X" Bush it my business since." think so. There's got to be
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Gephart plain as day!" as a "liberal agenda" is like a hippo break an audience member during
dancing in Spandex. He draws major Ventura's live weekly radio
That's a real seam-splitter, dude.
league attention to what his fellow ideo show, broadcast from the
Too bad the godfather of Republican
conservatism, Barry Goldwater - Mr. logues would just as soon leave under a · Mirmesota Zoo.
Extremism In Defense of Liberty Is No ro:ck, and the guy winds up looking like a Ventura said the federal
Vice - isn't around to untie the other dork. government should disclose
half of Limbaugh's brain. Goldwater aired Gcw. Jesse Ventura whatever it knows about
his frustrations to no less than Larry King Billy Cox's column runs every Wednes aliens or unidentified flying
day. He can be reached at 242-3774, or
regarding his inability to access top-secret objects to the public.
Florida Today, P.O. Box 419000, Mel
UFO data when he was chairman of the "That's called national security," he said.
bourne, FL 32941-9000.
Senate Intelligence Committee. "People in government think you can't handle it,
and you need to be protected from it." 5
"Personally, I've never seen a UFO. I can't say
that I have," Ventura said. "But do they exist?
Who knows?"
FOREIGN NEWS
[All British clippings courtesy of Timothy Good, unless otherwise credited.]
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asking: is there anything -
or anyone - out there?
And if there is, how do we
talk to them? In November
1974, scientists from the Search for
Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETD
project at Nasa decided to try. The
occasion was the rededication of
SETI's great telescope at the Arecibo
Observatory in Puerto Rico after a
major upgrade.
The great and the good of astro
physics and astronomy, including
Carl Sagan, were going to be there
and Frank Drake, the director of the
observatory, thought it would add a
nice touch to transmit a radio mes
sage to M13, a cluster of stars located
25,000 light years away and first spot
ted by the 18th-century astronomer
Charles Messier.
The transmission, which became
known as the Arecibo Message, was
ingenious. It was a graphic consisting
of 1,679 ''bits" arranged in 73 rows
and 23 columns. The numbers were
no accident; 1,679 equals 73 times 23
- two prime numbers which, they
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done with
art
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and humour'
reasoned, would be recognised as
such by any recipients of the message.
The Arecibo Message used binary
code, the language of computers, as
an inter-galactic lingua franca to tell
any recipient where it came.from, who
had sent it and how they had sent it.
This week, nearly three decades
later, a new crop circle appeared in a
cornfield close to the Chilbolton
Observatory in Hampshire. The
pattern is an almost exact facsimile of
the 1974 transmission. But it is the dif
ferences which have given crop circle
enthusiasts, UFO chasers and scien
tists reason to pause. Is it the most
ingenious example of the 25-year phe
nomenon of crop circles, skilfully exe SEEDS OF DEBATE: The Chllbolton Reply and the face formations are said to be precisely placecl ..•b ut the big mystery Is, who positioned them?
cuted by hoaxers? Or has someone astronomers based in New Jersey, gen and carbon. The two swirls rep nearest planet to the Sun. The Earth mission was Dr Bernard Oliver, vice
replied to the Arecibo Message? US, and he is equally certain. "This resent the DNA helix, telling the symbol is out of line with the rest and president of engineering at Hewlett
For dedicated "crappies" such as crop shape is a delightful spoof, done recipient: this is what we're made of. slightly raised towards the stick fig Packard but also the head of the
Michael Glickman, from Wiltshire, with great art and humour, but there The bottom end of the helix meets at ure to show: this is where we come Cyclops Project, a 1971 Nasa-spon
there is no debate. "There is no doubt is no reason to believe it is proof of the head of a crude stick figure: this is from. The sizes of the other symbols sored study in the design of inter
that this formation, as with most extra-terrestrial intelligence. Sure, it what we look like. The T-shape to the in the line correspond to the sizes of stellar communications systems.
others, is an attempt by another being reveals something about the intelli right of the matchstick man is a the other planets in our solar system. "The presence of Dr Oliver is
to make contact. The universal lan gence of beings-human beings." height scale and the graphic to the The symbol at the bottom incorpo significant," says Dr Shuch. During
guage is the language of numbers and It is the intricacies of the Chilbolton left is a binary number: if you multi rating the M-shape is a radio wave Cyclops, he devised a binary message
shapes and the purest language of all formation that convince both believer ply that number by the radio wave and another binary number. If you and sent it to top scientists. He asked
is binary because it reduces and and sceptic that they are right. length of the signal. you get the multiply the number with the radio them to imagine it was a message
refines everything to 'one' or 'zero', 'on' So what did the Arecibo Message answer 1.80m - the height of an ,wavelength on which the message from an unknown source. How would
or 'off', 'yes' or 'no'. By using this sim say? The top line identifies the lan average Earthling. was transmitted (2,380 MHzl, the they interpret it? No one cracked the
plest of languages with enough com guage as binary and the 10 compo The line below the matchstick answer is 305m, which is the length of code. So how would an alien, with no
plexity, you can answer any question." nents show that the sender uses a denotes our solar system. The the Arecibo telescope. This, we are familiar points of reference, get it?"
Croppie-sceptic Dr H Paul Shuch decimal system of counting. The next biggest shape on the right is our sun. saying, is how we sent the message. So what does the Chilbolton Reply
is the executive director of SETI two lines denote the chemical compo The smaller square three places The message was composed by say? The top line is the same: a con
League, an international group of sition of Earthlings: hydrogen. nitro- away from the Sun is Earth. the third Frank Drake. but present at its trans- firmation. perhaps. that the "sender'"
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ancy comes in the chemical in America?" the field a week last Sunday. Leaguers say any manifestations
composition segment. Instead of He also points out that the M13 Some yards away is another of it must be repeat occurrences ...
hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon, cluster is 25,000 light years away rectangular formation, made up and independently verified. The UFO alert
we have hydrogen, nitrogen and - so the Arecibo Message won't of dozens of circles. Viewed from SETI heartland in Britain is Q
silicon. To Dr Shuch, this shows even be there for thousands and a distance, they look like a shad centred around Cambridge. QN
someone (and someone human) thousands of years! "We're not owy human (or humanoid) face. Crop circles are an almost readers
is having a joke. "Silicon is the talking about imposing the limits "There is a positive and pre exclusively British phenomenon ~ as
stuff of life forms in science fic of our intelligence upon a super- cise geometric relationship and have become big business as CD
tion ... It is also what computers ior being," he says. "This is about between the two formations," a tourist feature in counties such backour
are made of. Some have argued the limits of nature and it doesn't says Glickman. But why a face? as Glickman's Wiltshire. In 1991, ~
that computers are the descen matter how superior your intelli· "It could be a sort of snapshot or two artists claimed they had
dants of humans, that we're gence, you can't make radio reflection of the sender, but been making circles for 13 years snapper
evolving into silicon-based life." waves move faster than the executed in a form that won't for a laugh, using planks pulled ~c
T speed of light." alarm humans." by ropes through grainfields. .!
HE Chilbolton Reply What if the Arecibo Message Much razzmatazz surrounded g
depicts DNA but one were intercepted by travelling the Arecibo Message in 1974. But BUT despite other UFO FEVER swept'
strand is jagged rather aliens closer to earth? "Themes- by 1993, political priorities had hoaxers-going public, en Scotland yesterday In
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four and five. For Michael almost all its 120 For centuries, if anyone won > was watching meteors over the
Below that is a figure that Glickman, the employees have dered if there was anybody out ..J Campsies at 4.30am.
appears to represent a commu reasons for Dr connections with there, there was only one permit ;( He said: "What appeared to
nications satellite with solar Shuch's debunking of Chilbolton the old SETI. The 1,000ft-long ted answer: God. Even as late as 0 be a star grew to alxxlt ZS times
panels, "which looks remarkably are precisely the reasons for his Arecibo remains in place in a 1961, Carl Sagan was denied its original size.
like the satellites we have" belief that the crop formation is natural, almost spherical, crater tenure at the University of "The flash of light was
according to Dr Shuch. communication from the great (believed to be the site of a mete California at Berkeley for pub fionrc rseudreib itl yw absrni ~th atn aanedro Ip lkannoew."
There are serious reasons for beyond. "It is breathtaking arro- orite crash) in Puerto Rico licly discussing the possibility of George Young, ofMotherwell,
his scepticism. The first is the gance to presume they [aliens] where it still surveys the skies. extra-terrestrial life.
way the message was delivered. would use radio when we've been The SETI League was founded "Good science comes from
"Arecibo was transmitted by visited by crop circles already," in 1994 and has nearly 1,300 speculation," says Dr Shuch.
radio waves. They are a good, he says. Or to presume the mes- members worldwide, a $160,000- "Crop circles are fantastic pranks.
simple communications system. sage is a direct reply to Arecibo. a-year budget and two staff. Most We should look at them as high
So why not reply in the same "This is a 'to whom it may con- members are passionate ama art. But they have made it accept
way? Why send your response to cern' sort of message'." teurs working from 105 home- able for ordinary people to specu
a field thousands of miles away The modified copy of the made telescopes. While they do late about other civilisations
in Britain, when we have many Arecibo Message was not the not discount the possibility of beyond our planet or galaxy."
UFO spotted
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in night sky saw the objects as he scanned
INDEPENDENT, London, England - May 10, 2001 ~ the skies early on Saturday
morning.
Confessions of a UFO spotter: CD tow~~J:~~~i~~~ ~h~~nf s~~
~ ~~J~ir:~~ ~~:~~Yv~fg~.est what I can only describe as a
glowing beach ball in the sky.
We don't want a war in space An unidentified craft was "This was not a plane. It was
reported by two sets of witnesses an awesome stght and I
~ over Semington and Trowbridge watched it for about five min·
; between 10.20pm and 11.10pm. utes before it disappeared."
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microphone and unburdening co-ordinating the campaign, U.l "It seemed to be moving slow· alerted around the same time
themselves of their stories. The former naval comman S<tid the witnesses were people ly," he said. when his six-year-old son Ross
They then sat down to raptur· der Graham Bethune was typ in senior positions with top· 4i "At first I thought it was a plan· lbiegth:atsn i ns htohue tsiknyg, about coloured
ous applause. Confession is ical of many giving evidence at secret clearance and who had : et but it was too bright. He said: "I saw u thin streak
never easy. When you are con a press launch in Washington. nothing to gain from inventing -£ "I think the RAF may have gone of light in the direction of the
fessing to strangers that you be He said he was piloting a plane stories. The group also wants for a look because I saw a strob Campsies. It was reddish white
lieve you have witnessed UFOs, between Iceland and New Congress to hold hearings e_. ing light but when I looked back in colour and was there one
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hibit acts of war against extra Congress that everything I believe what they saw with ter, said the object in the sky was The Ministry of Defence was
terrestrial civilisations". have said is true." their own eyes." the genuine article. not available for comment.
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came down here'
~ 'Something
g But was it a UFO? There was never any official
explanation, but theories swirled,
~ Thirty years later, particularly since the event
occurred at the height of the Cold
c;. they're still talking War and near CFB Shelburne, a
top-secret submarine detection
~ about the 'dark base.
For years, that's how the inci
~ object' that landed dent was treated - an unex
'~tJ in Shag Harbour tphlaei cnoemd pmhuenniotym gelnadolny tlheta dt rmifot sint tion
IS obscurity.
(.) Many were afraid the object
By Alison Auld could come crashing down on
c.) Canadian Press their village again. They spoke lit
a:i SHAG HARBOUR, N.S. tle of it, says Smith, whose broth
• L awrence Smith stares out er still won't talk about the night
a> through a thick, milky fog of Oct. 4, 1967.
~ hanging heavily over Shag But that quiet lifted earlier this
8
Harbour's quiet bay. There year when Styles' book was
c - he points - only a kilometre released and the local post office
~ or so out from this rocky shore, released a commemorative stamp
is the spot many of the residents depicting a flying saucer hovering
u.i of this sleepy town believe holds over water with a lighthouse and
(.) a mystery that has captivated the boat beneath it.
Z world and eluded government offi In an instant, people in this
S: cials and sci-fi buffs looking for south-shore town were dealing
~ clues into what has been called with a buzz that stretched around
CL. one of the most important UFO the world.
sightings ever. TV crews from the United States
"Something came down there, and Canada showed up to inter
there's no doubt about it," Smith, view witnesses. Enthusiasts
his eyes squinting with intensi stopped by to have their picture
ty, says in a heavy south-shore taken. The National Enquirer want
drawl. -CP photo ed to do interviews. People from
"I'm not sure what it was. It's Lawrence Smith rests on the wharf In Shag Harbour,N.S.: He regrets going out on his boat. Roswell, N.M., were visiting to
made me wonder, ya'know, way compare notes about their infa
out there in space, if there's some an RCMP officer jumped in his from people along the coast, As he and the fewer than 700 mous alien crash incident.
other type of life besides us. boat, travelling at full throttle out including fishing captains, residents of Shag Harbour puzzled Now, there is talk of a compa
"Whatever that object was, it to where they thought the plane motorists and an Air Canada cap over the object, the Royal Cana ny taking tourists out to the site
come from somewhere and our had crashed. The men had laid out tain. dian Air Force moved in to inves to collect bottles of water.
authorities don't know anything lines and hooks to retrieve debris All of them said they had seen tigate and the navy dispatched a Postmaster Cindy Nickerson.
about it, so they're saying." and help survivors into the ves an unusual object that had sev team of divers to search for wreck who came up with the idea for the
Smith, now 68, was a 34-year-old sel. eral lights and looked nothing like age. stamp two years ago and has had
fisherman on Oct. 4, 1967, when But they found no debris, no a conventional aircraft. They could find nothing, 370 requests for it since May, says
the RCMP called him at around 11 survivors and nothing to indicate The Air Canada captain, flying although some fishermen said the attention has aroused a fond
p.m. to see if he could take his a plane had gone into their bay. a DC-8 over southeastern Quebec, they saw divers bringing up shiny interest in her town.
boat out in the sound. "All we found was a patch of yel reported seeing a large rectan pieces of debris, according to "So many people stop in from
There were reports, they told lowish brown foam on the water gular object, followed by a string Styles' book. all over wanting to take pictures
him, that what looked to be a of lights at about 7:20 p.m. Sec By this point, speculation was of the post office," she says from
plane might have gone down in onds later, he said there were sev growing that the orange object the small building on Shag Har
the harbour. eral huge explosions near the that some say floated noiseless bour's main street.
Smith jumped in his truck and C&ll.adie1~ object, while small lights flickered ly in the skies over the south "At the moss plant, where peo
raced to the wharf where dozens around it. shore was not an airplane. ple went that night, there's always
of people had already gathered Chris Styles witnessed the Days after the incident, the Hal people up there taking photos.
and were buzzing about a myste object from his bedroom that ifax Chronicle-Herald was embla "It's kinda neat."
m~Jsteries
rious object that glowed a dull looked out over Halifax harbour. zoned with a bold, two-inch red Neat for some, but a bother for
orange. Just 12 years old, he ran from his headline that read Could be some Smith, who,. after wondering for
Cars lined the shoreline near the home in Dartmouth, N.S., down to thing concrete in Shag Harbour years what happened, wishes he
old moss plant, their headlights - the colour looked like burnt the waterfront to figure out what UFO-RCAF. never went out on his boat that
trained on the site where they said pancakes to me, you know, when was hovering over the ocean. "By I 0:20a.m .. the Rescue Com night. Did he see the remains of
something had plunged into the they're good and brown," says "What I saw was an orange mand Centre in Halifax was refer a UFO? Or, since it was at the
water. Smith, one of the few surviving sphere that was probably 60 feet ring to the object as a UFO, hav height of the Cold War, was it a
"God, it was quite a fiery look fishermen who witnessed the in diameter, slightly above the ing eliminated the possibility that Russian spacecraft or submarine.
ing site with all those lights," says strange happenings that night. water, not making a sound, just it was a crashed airplane," Styles as some have speculated?
Smith, wearing aT-shirt with a pic "It was a strip of foam that tracing the shoreline.'' said Styles, writes of the incident that was "I wouldn't want to go out there
ture of a flying saucer and a logo looked like a runway to me, where co-author of Dark Object. a recent being called Dark Object. again," says Smith, sporting a cap
that reads, Shag Harbour-Home something come down on the ly released book about the Shag Despite that, the Canadian from the Space Channel, which
of the '67 UFO Visit. water and sunk or the lights went Harbour incident. Forces Maritime Command called interviewed him about the crash.
"It was a lovely night, no moon out and it lilted off again ... ''It just gave me a cold feeling off the official search on Oct. 9. "If I saw something today I'd just
or anything and no stars. It was Ry this point. the RCMP, a Hal inside. like this is the other, this concluding in its report there was forget it. It caused too much troti
just a dark, calm night." ifax newspaper and other agen is w.~at you're not supposed to "not a trace ... not a clue ... not ble-too many interviews.''
Smith. a couple of friends and cies were receiving a flurry of calls SP(::'. a bit of anything." - Canadian Press
o Are extraterrestrials carrying out reconnaissance mer Arlmiralty weapons re tions in the aftermath of the
N0 flights over a top-secret defence site near sbeearsrc: h 'Tbwuoil diMnge.t eEorr nijee tsr emcaemme sseigchotnidn gsw orwlde rew acro mwihnegn tahliicekn
eti Portsmouth? The government denies it, but UFO zooming over Gosport. The ob and fast - partly Cold War hys
.o investigator Ernie Sears believes the truth is out jpeecatr edtt.1 rned and just disap tienrgisa., but partly genuine sight
~ there. RICHARD HARGREAVES reports. 'It was the heart of the Cold And these sightings are be
War. Maybe it was a secret Rus coming increasingly frequent
sian aircraft. If they new things over Portsmouth. prompting
~ THE date was Saturday Official denial is part and par like that then we didn't stand a UFO watchers to regularly
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LU Pompey were beating Crewe these same objects are apparent called the airbase at Thomey ing our defences?
to stave off relegation (again). ly inspecting some of Ports Island: "You didn't see any Me 'The Portsmouth area is ex
.n Campaigners were fighting to mouth's most sensitive defence teors and you didn't see any ob ceptional for sightings.' says Er
.- save Gosport's Haslar hospital sites. ject."' nie.
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ager.t and mvesti~ator of all he was on his rounrls 111 Gos bright orange disc harl gonP hP· many TV shows. reports. and
things alien over Portsmouth port when he spotterl a shining fore it. It wasn't a satellite. the ~overnment keeps on giv·
for more than SO years object motionless over the for· Ernie took up UFO investiga- ing us the same old guff. ·
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Edmonton by several witnesses on Apr. 19 at 10:30 p.m.
very interesting anecdotal
As the object approached, Its brightness faded to reveal evidence but I'm not so sure that's indeed
at least five lights on the exterior. Eyewitnesses were what's happening. "Unlike
"absolutely certain It was not a jet, plane or airliner of any "But I would really like to lind that evidence. And what you see on TV or read·
kind." Duration of sighting: more than 10 minutes. Earlier that's why I'm doing this," said Kijek. A "frustrated books, most of the UFO reports we get are rP'""' n111tt .....
that month, on Apr. 3, between 7:45 and 8 a.m. a witness astronomy student," he recalls looking up at.the stars as a ~anal. Simp!~ lights in the sky that arc certainly more
In southeast Edmonton reported a "sliver disc" flying kid and wondering if there was life up there. Somewhere. likely to be a1rplanes or satellites and stars. That type of
below a jetliner. It maintained the same distance from the And what does he know now that he didn't as a kid? thing.
aircraft and did not leave a contrail. "T~is is a whole lot more confusing than it seemed at "Out of each year, for example, out of the 250 or so
that lime," laughed Kijek. "Every time you think you have cases, only two or three are really good or interesting.
These two recent sightings were investigated by an answer, you come up with a lot more questions." "But even saying that, it doesn't mean those arc the
Alberta UFO Study Group <AUFOSG>. Established in "The majority of cases have a simple prosaic or natural reports of flying saucers-just puzzling cases that suggest
Edmonton in 1990, AUFOSG began probing reports explanation. And that may not be evident at face value. science should study.''
of UFO sightings and related phenomenon in When you look into a lot of these cases, many of Since the beginning orthe last decade, UFO ROM has
them lead to at least a probable explanation. accumulated 3,000 Canadian UFO cases. Studied are
f~rta. It became a private research group in ~ "But the ones that intrigue us are those last details such as where a UFO was seen, the time of day, its
Founder Gord Kijek defines UFO as "an · · ..., little five per cent ofsightings that are so well colour, shape and observed behaviour. ·
unidentified flying object. It doesn't mean an . ·. ·. :, documented, so well-reported and the witnesses UFOs were reported in the late summer and early fall
e.xtraterrestrial spaceship because we. simply , . ..u.~; are so ~eliable and what they report is so more than at any other time of the year. Typical sightings
don't know if they exist at all. ,. .,.. .' !":-....,... exceedmgly strange-that a natural explanation l;1sted between five and eight minutes last year. Most
"We get a whole bunch of people reporting l A just doesn't seem to fit." · . UFOs were reported in Western and Northern Canada.
things. This year we've done three '. .. · UFOs don't quite produce the terror they first About 13% of all UFO reports are unexplained.
investigations where we've really gone out of · · · · ' stirred up 50 years ago, nor even command the "I co-ordinate the research being done across Canada,"
soiugrh wtinayg st ow ree dseoa orvcher," t hsea itde lKepijheko.n "eO, othr ebry U eF-mOa il. Erik gsoam~eg maweadyi.a attention. Nevertheless, they aren't ssiagihdt iRnugtsk ofowr s2k5i ,y weahros .h Wash by etehne ·iinnvteersetisgt?a ting UFO
We'll just simply record that as an initial Aor en Indeed, allcasllhrce million Canadians claim "I have a master's degree in astronomy. The UFO
witness report: to have seen a UFO. Last year 263 such sigh lings interest began in my undergraduate days. In the
"Nocturnal lights occur for 70% of all . were repo~led across the country-including 17 · astronomy department, calls occasionally came in from
sightings. What a nocturnal light is, is a point of light in m Alberta-accordmg to research by the Canadian people who'd seen UFOs and wanttld to talk with
the sky that moves in a way the observer thinks is Annual UFO Survey. somebody. None of the professors wanted to take the calls
unusual. But from a UFO researcher's point of view, those Chris Rutkowski co-ordinates findings for the Ufology so I started taking them. I'm called a skeptic but I have a
are probably the least interesting because there's Research of Manitoba <UFOROM> which for the last 12 very open mind-I don't dismiss anything out of hand.''
absolutely no infonnation that you can gather from that." years has compiled the annual national survey. Canada is the only country that compiles and analyses
.. Kijek is a serious, no-nonsense type who possesses a "Effectively, we are the X-Files division of Canada. We UFO sightings and makes the infonnation publicly
burning curiosity about UFOs. "I think of myself as an do get some reports from government military agencies available. "Sweden does this as well although their
open-minded skeptic. In other words, if you were to ask and we are the ones that actually investigate," said reports arclt't online. But there's no comparable group in
me ifl believe we're being visited by ETs, I'd say we have Rutkowski during a telephone interview from Winnipeg. the U.S. or Britain.
"Canada is actually at the searches for scientific evidence of Still, many people continue to believe.
forefront of UFO research." extraterrestrial intelligence. On Rutkowski cites several polls in which 10% of
What percentage of sightings contacting the agency, I was Canadians say they've seen a UFO. "If you plug
involve aliens? referred to its Web site: that number in, that's three million Canadians
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phenomena now," said Rutkowski. nearest to our own is over four a confidential UFO
What are some of the more light years. That's about 24 sighting report form.
interesting Canadian UFO cases? trillion miles away. With our Kijek, whose site uses a
"inT Shleiraeg aHrear sbeovuerr ainl, Ninocvlau dSicnogt i1a9 67 wcuorureldn tt arkoec kaerto tuencdh n3o0l0o,g0y0,0 i t tirnatcekreesrt,i snagi dto: "sIetc's wvheroy
and Falcon Lake, where a man was years to travel there. In addition some of the visitors are .
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up in the Yukon several years ago, where a number SEn Institute.• lunch-hour surfing. But
of people witnessed a very large cran flying over Ashley Pachal is the former when you take a look at all
the trees." president of the UFO Society of of those sites-the RCMP,
What do you really think? Edmonton, an organization NASA-when you see that
"As an astronomer I think there is certainly a which closed shop two years ago. volume ... There is a lot of
possibility of extraterrestrials out there zipping Why shut down? interest in this topic but it
around in spaceships but the "Lack of interest. We couldn't tends to be a quiet under
distances between the stars arc so attract any new members. UFOs the-covers type of interest
great that it would be very difficult are being spotted but peopl_e ~re _ . -at least from official
to reach here from there. not paying as much attention to them. It's old hat people."
"We just don't have the physical now. They don't get excited. A lot of sigh lings don't
proof yet. No chunk of something even get reported."
athnadt swaey c'tahnis h ios ldd eofnin tiot ealnyd f rwomav ea exPpalacihnaeld b aesl i"emveirsa mgeasn.y O UnFe Oo fs tihgeh tcionmgsm coann be (continued on page 10)
UFO.' Nobody's come back from an sightings-that a UFO followed a car or a plane-is
abduction experience with a towel pretty well a moon mirage. The moon is reflected by
from the Mars Hilton." temperature inversion in the atmosphere around 9
Searching for proof is what the you. As well, when the mirage is breaking up it can
U.S. agency SETI Institute's appear to be making a sudden 00-degree turn. And
Project Phoenix is all about. ll in a minute or so, it's gone."
(corrflnued from page 8-SUNDAY SUN, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada-June 17, 2001)
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'Build it and they will come' may have featured picture displays and expert
worked for Kevin Costner in Field of Dreams, speakers on paranormal activities such as
but for the folks of St Paul-they're still UFO sightings, crop circles and animal
waiting. mutilations.
For more than three decades, their UFO "The first one was pretty good in terms of
landing pad has remained unused by alien attendance," said Labrie. "But the second
craft Built in 1967 as a Canadian centennial one was a little bit down. We were
project, the structure was intended to draw disappointed in the turnout. We wc;>uld have
visitors. And so it has. Tourists of a liked to see more people.
terrestrial nature. "If we have another one, it'll be next
Keeping with its theme, St. Paul also _; summer. •
boasts UFO Pizza, Galaxy Motel and Mama's ··.' Labrie also mans the UFO hotline in St.
Flying Saucer Diner. They used to have a :, Paul (1-888-SEE-UFOS). Many calls? "No. It's
Polaris Arena but it changed its name two ·, · been quiet. Occasionally, maybe one or two
t!
months ago, much to the chagrin of Rhea calls come in." . .
Labrie, general manager of the St. Paul ~ Have you ever seen a UFO? ·
Chamber of Commerce and Tourist · · · "No, not myself, no. Unfortunately."
Information Centre. ~l Has anything ever landed at the UFO
"The pad has been a wonderful tourist ~ landing centre?
!-1
draw, especially in the last 10 years," said "Nothing that couldn't be identified,• she
Labrie. "When people hear there's a UFO L~ laughed.
landing pad here, they want to come and t4 "It was buttt as a symbol. They didn't
see it. There's lots of tourists who make a f.; believe UFOs would ever land there when
detour to see it." ~ they built it in 1967, I wouldn't imagine. It
St. Paul, a pleasant town of about 5,000 ~ was a symbol that we welcome everybody
people, is a two-hour drive northeast of ~ to our town. Even people from other worlds.
Edmonton. It hosted a UFO Conference in ;,~ And if they come from other worlds, we've
1998 and again in 2000. The three-day event ~-' got a place for them to land."
• -FLOREN
DAILY STAR, London, England-Aug. 30, 2001 CR: N. Oliver
• by JOHN DORAN
TOP SECRET documents could prove that
aliens have LANDED on Earth, it was
claimed last night. -
But MOD officials are still refusing to release the
papers, which UFO-hunters say may show that extra
terrestrials have actually touched down.
The documents relate to the sighting, by high-ranking
Royal Air Force officers, of a mysterious flying craft -
"metallic in appearance and triangular in shape" - which
was spotted landing in a Suffolk forest.
According to the witnesses: "The strange, glowing object
had a pulsing, red light on
top and a bank of blue lights
underneath it," and caused
local farm animals to go into
a frenzy as it passed over.
Shocked
Lieutenant Colonel
Charles Halt, Commander of
the US Air Force Bentwaters
base near Woodbridge, CLOSE ENCOUNTER: Are our intergalactic neighbours dropping In?
Suffolk, said that originally
it was thought that an aero RAF big-wig, Squadron Clarke demanded that the even got hold of a tape
plane had crash-landed, Leader Donald Moreland, papers should be released recording of Lt Col Halt dur
after "unusual lights" had also conirrmed that there immediately. ing the sighting.
been seen in the forest. had been "some mysterious Revealing On it, he can be heard
But after racing with three sightings". whispering: "No doubt about
other servicemen to the Now university researcher He said: "We had US ser it - there's some kind of
woods, Halt saw something Dr David Clarke has discov vicemen at a Nato base chas flashing, red light It's like
that looked .like a "large, ered five top secret docu ing UFOs in a forest in the the pupil of an eye looking
winking eye". ments, which could prove middle of the night." at you, winking."
And when his men went to there really WERE aliens on The sighting, which hap He said later: "I thought we
investigate the next day, they English soil. pened in December 1980, was were dealing with an extra
were shocked to fmd three But he says publishing the the subject of a book called terrestrial visitation. I can't
indentations in the ground reports was blocked by wor You Can't Tell The People, by say I saw beings-I saw out
COVER-UP: Could it be ET? and traces of radiation. An ried defence top brass. Dr Georgina Bruni. The author lines of something."
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