UFO Newsclipping Service 2003 05 no 406

20 Pages·2003·18 MB·English

MORNING NEWS, Springdale, AR - April 4, 2003 CR: R. Seifried
"Whether it's going to sites that would have required in so scheduled are:
tense heat, above 3000 degrees • Linda Moulton Howe, author
turn out to be something Centigrade, to form - and yet of "Mysterious Lights and Crop
naturally occurring that the plants were not incinerated. Circles," award-wirming produc
"Now we're wondering if there er and radio science reporter.
science has overlooked
could be plasma exposure so brie£ • Tunothy Good, author of sev·
or something produced, so intense, that it doesn't have era! books on UFOs, including his
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lanches. He's now patented a ma tem might be responsible. manipulated, I don't completely unknown to science," Air Force lieutenant colonel and
chine to sell to the agricultural "Plasmas,)' she explains, "are
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to he something naturally occur speak on UFO incidents in her
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who believe in UFOs form group
~People
ing a purported alien implant
Monthly meetings will
from an arm.
provide information ~nd Dressed in a bright South
western shirt with happy
- offer discussions, aliens stitched on the pockets,
testimonials and Timm was fidgety, excited
about the meeting. He hopes
M support. ._., it will be the first of many
,&; monthly meetings for infor
~ ByKA111Lmi6maAND mation, discussions, testi
:I of the Union-Bulletin monials and support.
PENDLETON - In the People often have a hard
; booths at Shari's Restaurant, time when they believe with
people going; about their nor absolute seriousness and cer
!i. mal •e veryd•y lives. ordered tainty something that others
'ii dinner and pondered the pie do not.
3: menu. "What would you do if you
.! They appeared oblivious to went through .an experience
'ii the meeting in the back room. Ray Arland, left, listens as Jewel Berns describes her experiences like this and couldn't tell any
3: Irs unfortunate so many during a meeting for UFO abductees and people who have had one? That's what I'm trying to
z open up," Timm said. He gave
people resist the truth, said sightlngs. The Pendleton meeting was the first of monthly meetings
i= retired farmer Roy Timm as being organized by author Roy Timm, right. Roughly a quarter of the crowd a list of phone
~5 his helpers set up for a meet- those who attended were from Walla Walla or Milton-Freewater. wnuem'rbe ehresr. e" tIof hyeolpu ynoeue.d" help,
ing of UFO believers. understand," he said. "They lection of articles about alien The. Northwest has long
CD "It's far deeper than most don't want it to be true." sightings and crop circles. been an area of UFO activity,
0z epxeiosptelen cuen odfe rfslytainngd . saJuucset rst hies Against the far wall, large The DVD was loaded with a but getting the wo.~d out is
z beyond what most people cardboard sheets held a col- short clip of a doctor remov-
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difficult and frustrating, he
said.
The effort to do so has de Organizers will hold the next
UFO informational meeting
voured his life's savings. He
April9at7p.m.atSharl's
spent nearly everything he Restaurant in Pendleton. Call
had writing and self RoyTimm at541-276-2756for
publishing a book, more information. To learn
"Northwest History of more about his book and other
Saucers, ETs, Abductions and information he has compiled,
More," and funding an visit nwhistoryofsaucers.com.
Internet broadcast. The
broadcast ended a few weeks left arm. Timm suspects a
ago when it became too ex
third is in a lump amid his
pensive for him to continue. close-cropped gray hair.
Among the information handed out at the meeting in Pendleton was this description of some of the He welcomed a curious visi
"The truth needs to be out " basic alien types. tor's request to feel them. He
he insisted.
believes th.e._tiny_ im}:llants
He believes the air like that;-'' he -said,
-serve to track and guide the
the- govern-. making a motion like shallow
people who have them.
ment is cover ocean waves.
"I'm being guided by the
ing up the
existence of The sight stayed with him aliens to do what I do," he
aliens. long after he went blind from said.
a genetic disorder. It sent him If people think he's crazy to
Twenty-two on a lifelong quest that has believe, to spend every dime
TIMM P eo p 1e at- intensified in his retirement on this quest, that's their
tended the years. problem, the 68-year-old said.
meeting, roughly a quarter Later, he added, "Those of us
from Walla Walla and Milton A psychic told hun his ex who search put together bits
Freewater. Some had stories perience with extraterrestrials and pieces. Those who don't,
of their own. actually predates all of his tum their heads and look
memories, and early in his away."
"I've seen lots of them, childhood he was implanted
coming from the north to the with two tiny devices - one Kathleen Obenland can be reached
south," said Ralph Arland of behind his left ear and in his caat lklionbge 5n2la5-n3d3@00u, benxett c28o5m. or by
Walla Walla. He pulled out a (Above) This picture from. Roy
few photos taken by his Timm's Web site was taken over All eyes on the skies:
girlfriend up Mill Creek, Weston Mountain. (At left) This ~
apologizing for their hazy artist's rendition is based on
quality. wTihmemn 'hse m weams o8r yy eoaf rasn o eldn.c ounter UFO watchers to -4
He wasn't there when the meet · ~
pictures were taken. But he
relayed some of his own ex general population may have
periences, such as seeing seen UFOs, even if they didn't By ERIN SMITH will appear more than six times g~
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sky in 1949. · Timm's first memory of HOOPER - Judy Messoline ~e~d n
Carol Biddle of Pendleton, a seeing an alien was in 1943, is signing up speakers for . her After UFO Watch 2003, there 0
long-time acquaintance of· when he was 8 on the family UFO Watch 2003 to be held will be a Perseids meteor shower ,
Timm's, reported seeing a farm near lone. An artist's Aug. 9-10 at the UFO Watch party Aug. 11-13. 3:
silver-and-gray-striped craft rendition of the green crea Tower north of here. Several years ago, Messoline mn
along the Columbia River ture he described hovering in Messoline said confirmed - tired of people camping on
Gorge just a few weeks ago the doorway of his bedroom is speakers are nuclear physicist her property for free to look for ::
during the daytime. now on the cover of his book. Stanton T. Friedman; UFO paranormal activity in the area ~
"I could not believe my "When are these creatures Timm said he had another investigator Jim Hickman; hyp - decided to erect the watch
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microphone, but roughly half The aliens' experience with telephone wire. cosmology and calendar world.
Tickets for the UFO Watch
raised their hands when human beings has made them "He said, 'Here comes researcher John Major Jenkins; 2003 are $45 if purchased before
Biddle asked how many had cautious, Timm said. Still, he something funny.' I saw three independent researcher Dennis June 1 and $60 afterward. Tick
seen UFOs. believes perhaps half of the ships. They flopped through Balthaser; Roswell archaeologi ets are good for the entire week
cal dig team members Chuck end. No daily passes will be sold.
Zukowski and Debbie Ziegelm The Perseids meteor show party
eyer; artist/poet Rick Smith; and is free.
Salida UFO videographer Tim On-site camping is an addi
Edwards. tional $10 per night per campsite
The main "guest" for the for each event.
event will be the planet Mars. Tickets can be purchased
The Red Planet will be closer to online at SeekUFOs.com or by
the Earth than it has been in calling the UFO Watch Tower at
more than 73,000 years, Messo [phone]. 2
line said. The UFO Watch Tower is 22 .
"The reddish point of light in miles north of Alamosa on the
the night sky that we usually see west side of Colorado 17.
l\fisiting artist depicts UFO/alien themes in his work
a: ,BY Kathryn·L ucarlello ture, aiid in her case, a char Jason Startup of Topeka, "She told me of finding me standing ·stones based·-on
· CCN:staff writer coal drawing - after encoun Kan., is a real-life artist who outside in the morning or in a Stonehenge.
~ .In the Steven Spielberg ters with and sightings of TeeTScompe-lled to actualize room that was locked from the Interestingly enough, Start
() movie Close Encounters of the Unidentified Flying Objects the UFO phenomenon in h,is outside," he said. up describes himself as a born
gM ,RT hoiyr dN Keianrdy , (Rleiacdhianrgd cDhraeryafcutessrs) (UTFhOesi)r. renderings turn out to woSrtka.r tup was one of the ven meHmeo sriaeisd hthe eh ams oasrte coofn ssceieoinugs . cagoanifnl iCcth ristbieantw weehno seeUs FnOo
N and Jjllian Guiler (Melinda be of Devil's .Tower, where dors at the annual UFO Con a figure peering at him with accounts and the biblical
u; Dillon)· compulsively create aliens decide to make contact ference this weekend at Inn of large black eyes that looked a impending end of the world.
·art-in his with the human race. the Ozarks. His sculptures, little like "Kilroy," th~ World "I believe there are many
lamps, and paintings all reflect War II graffiti figure, and of different types of intelligences
UFO and alien themes. seeing a little girl. Other than here because these are the end
"I've had paranormal expe that, he can't remember. : days," he said. "Satan has con
riences all my life, and I have One painting depicts a glow trol of demonic minions, who
an interest in this field," he ing object Startup said he saw control reptilians, greys,
said. "My art reflects that." between Lee Summit and ~umans and Nordics" (aliens
The 33-year-old artist said Grandview in Kansas City. who are tall and thin, with fair
he used to do surrealist art but "The light looked like it was hair and blue eyes).
started doing UFO-themed underwater," he said. "It's all about control of
work in 1999. His work consists of many human evolution .and control
He can't say he's actually 'recycled materials such as coat of the soul,"· he said. "It's
been abducted. His first recol hangers, hardware, and Qther Lucifer's effort•to thwart God
lections go back to age 10, but items. He makes lamps and and i~stall his'preative force as
he said he has "very few con statues out of constru.ction opposed to God's."
sci"oI uws ams epmaorarileysz.e"d , and I saw foaOmn.e lamp design is ef a onS '~Jaerstuusp cbaenli ebvee sa1 tphraot tceacltliionng
entities," he said. -"1 have a UFO with a strange-looking against apduction an~ other
few memories of crafts and plant in the dome. On'ly the unwanted alien encounters.
also of being in caverns." UFO shape is from his experi "Most of these entiti'es are of
Unlike many people who ence. The plant is from his lower vibration," he said.
believe they have been abduct imagination. · "Any ·prayer or a·.call for pro
ebde arnedg rtehsesne dg oi nt oa nh yaptnteomtisptts ttoo upS atabrotuutp t hhea sp laa nstt.o ry he made tecHtieo ns eceasn hwisa radr tt haesm a o wffa."y of
recall their experiences, Start "The species has evolved raising awareness.
up has avoided that. telekinetic powers and absorbs "Art gives me a form to
"l 'm a little frightened to do the minerals it needs to form ·bring this into people's con
that because the few memories the UFO shell around it," he sciousness," he said. "My mis
sion is to share my own per
I have are real enough, and said.
why would I want to?" Other sculpture includes sonal truth with people."
Startup said he does not "cornucopia aliens," and a For more information on
believe any of his family "Neptunian Ice Slug on an R- Startup's art, he can be con
members have had UFO expe 13 Unit" box. tacted at
riences, and they "frown" on Startup's paintings include goosekd @yahoo.com.
him on this subject, although images of crop circles and
his mother has seen ghosts and
is supportive of him.
BULLETIN, Latrobe, PA - March 3, 2003
From the top Two groups probe
down: Jason Start
up with one of his Kecksburg UFO Incident
"alien plant" lamps.
"Cattle Mutilation"
is also a lamp. Lending their voices for a tified aerial phenomena,
Behind it is Start federal investigation irito the believes the ·government may
1965 crash of an object in be withholding tnformation
up's "Neptunian Ice Ke~sburg, representatives of about UFO activity. . "On the
Slug on an R-13 SC1 FI Channel and the Coali one hand, goYemment agel)cies
Unit" box. tion for Freedom of Informa state that ® .JtgJ\tiQ£S a_re not
tion (CFI) today began a three a threat to national security, but
"Intelligent Plant day visit to the Kecksburg area nearly in the same breath they
Species" draws and announced their support say that they cannot reveal
minerals from the for a local petition drive spear information on national securi
headed by long-time investiga ty grounds. They can't have it
soil to create a UFO tor Stan Gordon of Greensburg. both ways," said Landsman.
structure around it. "By signing a petition, citi The initiative has the sup
zens here and elsewhere in the port of John Podesta, President
" Cornucopia
state can help put public pres Clinton's former chief of staff.
Aliens" tote space sure on their congressional del "I think it's time to open the
weapons. egation to request an investiga books on questions that have
tion by the U.S. General remained in the dark, on. the
A painting depicts
Accounting Office," said Larry question of government ·inves
a sighting of a Landsman, Director, Special tigations of UFOs," Podesta
strange, glowing Projects, SCI PI Channel. said at a news conference in
Something was seen in the Washington last October,
object Startup saw
sky and landed in the woods launching the CFI Freedom of
in Kansas City. near Kecksburg on December Information effort.
9. 1965. Since then the U.S. Both Landsman and Kean
government denies that. any say that the Pennsylvania peti
thing fell - despite testimony tion asks the right q.uestions:
from citl~n!> who saw the par~ -- What l~nded hear
tially buried object in the Kecksburg, PA on December 9,
woods and statements from 1965?
firefighters, reporters. dozens - Where did the orders
of witnesses, and l)ewspaper come from for Army, Air
accounts confirming the mili Force, and NASA personnel to
tary response to the area. be dispatched to the scene?
Noting that "Kecksburg is - Why did military per
one of those historic, unex sonnel brandish weapons at
plained incidents that requires lo~al citizens to prevent the
a· ful! public accounting," object from being observed?
Leslie Kean, an independent - What was the impor
journalist and research director tance of the object that caused
of CFI, said that she has recent the military to rapidly respond
ly filed Freedom of Informa to the Kecksburg area?
tion Act requests ·to numerous ".Getting answers to these
federal agencies and military questions should be at the core
services seeking records from of any investigation. But to get
'their involvement. such an invesligation requires
"This case is more than 37 the public to demand it," said
years old," said Kean. "It's Stan Gordon, who will -be dis
high time for our government tributing and collecting peti
- whether it's the U.S. Air tions through his office in
Force or NASA or any other Greensburg.
agency -to come clean and tell For more background, see
the public what they know." www.freedomofinfo.org
3
SCI FI Channel, which is Please see
supporting public , advocacy www.signpetition.com for a
efforts to gain release of secret copy of the petition and infor
government records on uniden- mation about the petition drive.
STAR, Ka~~as City, MO - March 6, 2003 CR: J. Johnson
FO R REAL
·Cult may be alien to some,
The Associated Press
but it's down to earth for Raytown man At UFO Land, the Raelians' headquarters outside Montreal, visitors can
view models of a spaceship and DNA. The spaceship Is a replica of the
one founder Claude Vorilhon says he boarded In France In the 1970s.
·Although the movement bas been around volcano in south central France. '70s and '80s thought it likely. Polls
· By LISA GUTIERREZ since the 1970s-and claims to have 60,000 Vorilhon, who recently asked in the '90s Sliggested believers had
The Jeanne City Star members in 84 oountrles-it had made lew members to address him as "His deaeased.'to one-third of the popu
He lives in a tidy gray ranch house headUnes; Then in DeceJD,ber, Oonaid, the Holiness," told of a flying saucer de lation~ .
on a quiet street in Raytown, just Raelian-founded company, announced it scending from the sky that misty UFO-based. religions have been
had cloned the world's first human baby. Eve. morning. around since the first unidentified
blocks away from his daughter.
and three grandcbi1dren. they called her. From the craft alighted an ex flying object.sightings 8fterWorld
· . He's 67, a retired electrician born The claim stoked an already heated tratei:Testrial-4 feet tall with long War 11.1'ypically formed around a
wina tc·shmeasl hl-isto swalnt inMtakises,o mureid itwatheos clalsotn winege kd ewbhaeten, tahne aHroguusme epnats sthead ta O bamre ds uuappn bshlaacpke dh eayire s,a wndea rsilniggh at lgyr eaelnm, oonnde l~anety apte tohoen h, etihgehyt p oefa tkheed N ine pwo Apuge
and keeps two cats around for oompany. ported by the Bush administration to ban piece suit with a bubblelike halo of movement in the 1980s.
And George Roehr just happens to~ human cloning. The debate now moves to shimmery air surrounding his head The Raelian movement is thought
that·ematenestrials aeatedlile on Bartb. .. dii;Senate. ' . "I was not afraid but rather filled to be among the last of a dozen or
He'"S ~ bad~ p.obleml' believbt«in 'elfttds.e oiittetimed Oonaaidn'ds. aansn ounce with joy to be living through such a so left. "What they've done is meld
God, so this-~~a)Q&~to me," mmt ...s cientific hokum, yet, the great moment," Vorilhon has writ ed together what is probably the
~0:.:7ot'~ole urJ::! :!.C mcbiaall nso,t oEfvfee'rse dfa pmroiloyf .w Aaasm afdrlanigd toof tberno.u "gI hbti mtteyr lcya mreegrrae twteitdh n moet .h" aving msinygthleo-lboegsyt in tkhneo Wwne sterrne pwgoiroluds,
doesn't make se:nae:' . losing the baby in legal wrangling over the Vorilhon, renamed "Rael" by the which is Christianity, with UFOs,"
What mates Seme·to him u, the Raellan re controversy and decided not to provide a aliens, tells of several meetings with said Douglas Cowan, a religious
Ugloo.'Roebr joined tbe Canadian-based sect DNA sample. The movement has since an the alien, who translated parts of studies professor at the University
about eight~ ago, drawn by its teachlngs nounced that two mont cloned babies have the Bible and took him to their of Missouri-Kansas City.
tEhaartth h, tuhmata anns l ifaer eh enrote i~n daiegaetneodu ~s to­. this beUennd beotrenr roeudts bidye tchreit iUcsn,i tReda Seltiaatens .f ounder pexlatrnaetetr troes vtriisailts. Rthaee Elilaonhsi mca, ltlh teh Hesee The cellul~r plan
olent ematau~strials, and that the will Oaude Vorllhon told CNN, "'t's a good step, brew word for gods. · The melding was irresistible for a
return, which is why followers want to bulld but my ultimate goal is to give humanity Americans have been conflicted man who grew ilp with no religion.
an embassy in Jerusalem by the year 2005. eternal life through cloning." over whether life exists on other Born in West Plains, Mo., near the
Raelians .(say it "rye-EI.L-ians") also believe 1b that end, Raelian members agree to let a planets. Polls in the 1960s showed Arkansas border, George Roehr
that cloning is the key to eternal life. Immor that ~ third of •11.mcricans believed it moved to Kansas City with his
tality through science. possible; nearly 50 percent in the mother and brother in 1952. They
son and daughter, lasted only a
handful of years.
mortician cut out a piece of bone in to people about this and they don't Returning to Kansas City in the
their forehead when they die to be believe it, we don't try to convince early '60s, he trained as an electri
frozen and stored for future them," he said. cian and retired 35 years later.
To be a Raelian means to practice
cloning. · His first indoctrination into a
George Roehr has arranged with a meditation and visualization tech faith came as an adult when two
local funeral home to do just that niques. There are no services to at Mormon elders knocked on his
when he dies. tend, no God to worship. Members door in St. Louis one day. "I had a
worldwide keep in touch over the
He said he is one of only two little better time believing in a mod
Internet and by visiting UFO Land,
Raelians in Missouri and knows of em-day prophet, Joseph Smith,
none in Kansas. (California has the the movement's headquarters out than the ages-old Bible," he said.
most in America.) He joined side Montreal. Roehr was a Mormon for 15 years
through his son, Ricky Roehr, Around his neck, George Rqehr but became disillusioned when he
Rusldn High class of 1976, who Vo wears a silver medallion of the and church officials began to dis
rilhon appointed president of the Raelian symbol ___:_ a modified Star agree over interpretations of their
U.S. Raelian movement six years of David representing the infinity of teachings.
time and space. ·
ago. Ricky Roehr, who grew up around
"My mission is the same as every He is astonished that in the years his father's Mormon inclination and
other Raelian, just spread this mes he's worn it, no grocery store clerks JIM BARCUS/Thc Kansas City Star the Lutheran faith of his mother and
sage, a message of hope, a message have ever asked about it, though a UMKC professor Douglas Cowan, stepfather, phoned his dad eight
of love, of truth, of understanding," woman he met recently while who studies religion, has visited the years ago to tell him he'd met a
Ricky Roehr, 44, said in a telephone shopping for a recliner tried to save Raelian headquarters. "The people Raelian.
interview from his home in Las Ve- his soul for Jesus. were very gracious, very nice, very "I knew they believed aliens cre
"I don't believe in fairy tales. I
~G eorge Roehr is largel y pn.v ate don't believe in abracadabra," he shaaipdp. "yT toh ehya dvied uns't tthreyr teo," r Cecorwuiatn u s." patoeodh aeldl l iitf,e" osani Ed aRritchk, yI Revoeenh rp, owohho
about his membership in the con said. "I believe in science." makes his living as a guitarist play
troversial sect, declining to be pho It came down lived poor, his mom working as a ing mostly rock 'n' roll. "Almost
tographed for this story. But mem barmaid and sewing-factory work against my better judgment I
bers elsewhere offer lectures or ap from the heavens er, and Roehr, in a warehouse. bought Rael's book. I thought, 'This
pear in public wearing signs testify He joined the Air Force in the is probably $15 into the tank of his
ing to their belief. Claude Vorilhon, Frenchman and mid-1950s, where he worked on a Rolls-Ro_yce. He's probably a cult
However committed they are to former race car driver and racing new radar system for planes, leader.' " -- - - ·
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St. Louis. He also got married. but
the marriage, which prorlucC'd a (continued on page 5)
(continued from pa(J~ 4 - fiT~~ MO - March 6a,- lit2tl0e0 3)
t>ecause I was skeptical. You story," Cowan said. "You have J~
hear things in the media about cults as obviously an icon of the mYth
and this and that .. .I wasn't really a that they are reinterpreting.· the
churchgoer, but I also believed that spaceship, the vehicle for the din-
UFOs existed." . terpretation, and DNA, ~·' tul
About six years ago Ricky Roehr goods, the realjnterpretatioir' .
baptized his father into the move Raelians are also knOwn for their
ment in Las Vegas. In a ceremony annual "sensual meditation" ~rk­
called "transmission of the cellular shops, held at UFO Land. The two
plan," he moistened his hands and week camp·includes fasting; medi
put.o ne hand on his father's fore tating and the freedom to chOdse
head and the other behirid his head. sexual~
Raelians believe that at that in Participants wear colored ~ist­
tstant, aliens hovering above the bands to signal their availability
Earth read and record the ONA of and preterentes-already hav~ a
the faithful. p~er1 would like a partrier; lto
Alien.w ays? mosexuifi, heterosexual. Ra~s
believe that enlarging their capBcity
In November of 1998, Douglas to experi~rite·plea8ure strengthens
Cowan from UMKC and a group of their'ilrimWie · ahd telqiath-
academicians visited UFO Land, ic abilities.:' ,.,".system · \ ·· ·
the Raelian compound outside And while it may npt make~
Montreal. to nonbelievers, cloning doveti&Qs
"The people were very gracious, perfectly With the Rae~ .s tat}',
very nice, very happy to have us Cowan said.
there," Cowan said. "They didn't try "I think it's their mission,~ he said.
to recruit us." "Why do ~urches do ~·theyilo?
The group gathered first in a They do What they do.t o participate
small antechamber with hazard in what they believe is the.sacred
tape and lights that made Cowan story and the mission of :their
think of Area 51 in Nevada, the.s e .founder.
cret military facility associated with "In that sense they're .not doing
UFTOw os tgoiraienst. doors opened to reveal a~nnyst.h iTnhge dyi jfufestr ehnatw th aa dn.'ifo fethreemr:tSetloi -
a life-size model of the spaceship ry." ' .
Vorilhon said he saw that fateful day The Raelian moveQleilt'sWeb ~te
in France. To one side hung a pic is www.rael.olg. · . . '
ture ofJesus. On the other side was a 1b reach lisa Gutierrez, features re
tall, free-standing model of DNA.. porter, call [phone] or serfil
"What you have there are ·the e-mail to lgutien'[email protected]:·
three components of their sacred
Otherwortdly holiday
SANTA FE, N.M. -Believers in
space aliens, rejoice!
New Mexicans
can now celebrate
the second 1\J.es
day in February as
Extraterrestrial
Culture Day after
a Roswell law
maker's proposal won approval in
the state House of Representatives.
The proposal's sponsor, ~p. Daniel
Foley, said that life on other planets
-ify ou believe in it-surely has its
own set of cultural beliefs.
New Mexico has been associated
with little green men for more than
half a centwy, staring in 1947 with a
pmported UFO crash that came to
be known as the Roswell incident
Qaude Vorllhon, who founded the Raellan sect In the 1970s, claims humans were cloned from aliens anctnidr
scientists have cloned a girl. Raelians wear a modified Star of David representing the lnfinlty of time and space.
Former ISU professor lectures on UFOs
~
c:;
.s:. )OSE MANUEL CAsnllANOS positions," Charlebois said.
~ Daily Vidette Staff Charlebois went on to say that
sightings in Bloomington are nor
:E A lecture on the existence of · mal.
• unidentified flying objects and She said one woman she inter
::! extraterrestrial beings took place in viewed claimed that a UFO had
..: the Normal Public Library been. seen hovering above Lake
EtV Wednesday. Bloomington many times.
The lecturer was Vic Connor, a According to Connor, there are
o former ISU applied computer sci perhaps 57 different species of
z ence professor and Mutual UFO extraterrestrials that are visiting our
u.r
Network section director. planet. Some of the more popular
.,_ According to Connor, MUFON species are "greys." These arc the
~ was established in 1969 :md has slim bug-eyed aliens with large
>0 4,000 members worldwide. He also heads that have become very popu
said MUFON has the largest amount lar as of late. Another visiting
> of investigators of UFOs. As a sec species are praying mantis-looking
<..J tion director. Connor investigates creatures.
sightings and documents his find- Greys are the least advanced of
0 mgs. all the extraterrestrials that have
"Most sightings are true. Usually been visiting the earth, according to
we have the person draw what they Connor.
have seen. We have sightings all He added there are three types of
over including here in Nonnal,'' said these species.
MUFON state section director Paul The small ones that are drone
Russell. like do all the work during abduc
Cindy Charlebois, Vic Connor's tions of humans.
wife, shares her husband's beliefs Then there are the taller ones Sonnet Treptow I Daily Videtle Staff
and enthusiasm. who do more technical things. Vic Connor, section director of the Mutual UFO Network and a former ISU professor, lectures about the
"I believe extraterrestrials visit Finally there are even taller greys existence of UFOs in the Community Room of the Normal Public Library Wednesday night.
the planet I had a sighting this last that are more personable and will 5
June in Bloomington. I was outside even answer questions during to be more advanced than most of these extraterrestrials are visiting friendly, but there are many different
sitting when I saw many glowing abductions, Connor said. the others," Connor added. earth. species so that may not apply to all
objects in the sky. They began 'There are also Insectoid praying Connor and the attendees of the 'They have visited us more than of them. I think they are just observ
putting themselves in geometric mantis-type creatures. These seem lecture have a few theories as to why once so I believe they are mostly ing us," Connor said.
ADVISER, Youngwood, PA - Feb. 13, 2003 TRIBUNE-REVIEW, Greens~~~· PA -_"!_arch 3, 2~~
Petition seeks to unravel
·· 2002 an active year for UFO sightings
..a nd strange encounters across the state Kecksburg UFO mystery
2002 wasa very .active year for observed a fiery object moving creatures have been on the
alleged~ of Unidentified across the sky over a widespread increase around the state in "I think this is a significant
.Flying Objects ~and var area. The object is said to have recent years. By Ann Saul Dudurlch opportunity to add credibility tq
ious other mysterious events, as fallen slowly from the sky into a July 24, 2002, North TRIBUNE-REVIEW this issue," he said. "And I'm hop
reported by residents from wooded area near Kecksburg. Huntingdon Township ing the powerful sources we have
. across Pennsylvania. The military arrived on the (Westmoreland County) - At · The quest for answers in the behind us will help get accom·
Reports of strange incidents scene, and reportedly removed about 10 p.m., three people baffling 37·year-old Kecksburg plished what' I co1,1ldn't accom·
·originating from 45 counties in the object from the crash site. standing in a shopping complex UFO case continues. plish on my own."
the commonwealth came to the Despite numerous eyewitness parking lot observed a round and Representatives of the Sci Fi Kean, who met with Gordon in
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·the last year. Close observations day, and nothing was recovered. them at a distance of about 10 expected to arrive in western er public advocacy campaign. "
of strange flying objects, report Gordon's investigation of the feet, and traveling on a straight Pennsylvania today in support of "Once we have enough signa·· ;ZJ
ed encounters with mysterious Kecksburg incident continues. path. The odd sphere, which was a local petition drive aimed at tures collected, we'll ask the Penn· (J)
unlocking the mystery behind sylvania representatives . to c
creatures such as Bigfoot and The case is once again creating only about 6 feet off the ground,
what landed in the woods on Dec. request a GAO investigation on :::
giant birds, strange footPrints national interest since the kept moving down the road until i
9, 1965. behalf of their constituents," said
and sounds, and odd ground Coalition for Freedom of it was out of sight. "By signing a petition, citizens the California-based journalist. ""
markings, were some of the odd Information (CFI) backed by the September 2002, Derry Twp. here and elsewhere in the state "And if certain agencies of the
ities reported. Sci-Pi channel, is now conduct (Westmoreland County) can help put public pressure on U.S. government deny our appeals
Gordon has been researching ing a detailed investigation of the Members of a family report their congressional delegation to under FOIA (the federal Freedom
myslerious encounters since occurrence as well. observing a Bigfoot creature on request an investigation by the oflnformation Act), we have a law
1959. During the years since Some of the interesting strange, two different occasions in a U.S. General Accounting Office," firm ready to ta)te the iss·ue to
then, he has been involved with events reported in Pennsylvania heavily wooded area. The most said Larry Landsman, director of. · court."
the investigation of thousands of include: interesting event occurred on the special projects for the Sci F1
mysterious incidents from across February 2002, Waynesboro afternoon of Sept. 27 as the driv Channel. Copies of the petition are avail
the Keystone State. The (Adams County)- Rick Fisher er was traveling along a back Landsman and the coalition's . able at www.signpetition.com. For
researcher has been taking calls of the Pennsylvania Bigfoot road. After hearing a noise from Leslie Kean will tour the Kecks more information, call Gordon at
from the public-coOceming such Society (PBS), investigates a the woods, the driver then burg site during their three·day 724-838-7768. .
· matters since 1969. series of large, odd-shaped foot stopped the vehicle, thinking visit.
The petition was drafted by long Ann Saul Dud urich can be
Gordon continues to actively prints which were about 16 inch that some deer were approach
time investigator Stan Gordon, reached at
investigate current events, and he es long, and eight inches wide, ing. At a distance of about 145
who is spearheading the petition [email protected] or 724·
D'laintains contact with many and covered an area of about feet, the witness observed a tall drive from his Greensburg home. 837-4378.
resources that keep him updated 1, 000 feet around a reservoir. man-like creature covered with
on the latest ongoing events. April 15, 2002, Clarksburg long brown hair and arms that
Gordon also maintains a high (Indiana County)-Two people hung down to the knees. The
tech electronics communications traveling on Rt. 286 observe an creature was estimated to be
center which keeps him elongated object about the size about eight feet tall, and took
informed on a daily basis about of passenger bus hovering at tree long steps as it crossed a field.
mysterious JJ,appenings from top level. The silent object's The driver watched as the crea
around the world. body appeared to be extremely ture crossed over a barbed wire
During the 43 years that wide, and it had a very bright fence with no hesitation or break TIMES, New York, NY - March 20, 2003
, Gordon has been researching light at the front. in stride. Gordon measured the
SOUTHWEST
. various phenomena, it is his con June 26, 2002, rural area of top of the fence as 44 inches off
. elusion that most UFO sightings Wyoming County - A witness the ground. NEW MEXICO: RED CARPET FOR LITTLE GREEN MEN
-and many other mysterious observed two huge dark birds If you want to report a UFO or State Representative Dan Foley, Republican of
:~ents, when properly investigat land at the top of a tree. The Bigfoot sighting or any strange Roswell, has introduced a blll to make the second
,ed, are determined to be natural branches looked as though they encounter, or have information Tuesday in February Extraterrestrial Culture
.:or manmade in origin, and are were going to break from the about the Kecksburg incident, Day in the state. "The day should be observed to
indeed explainable. Some UFO weight. The wingspan of the you can contact Stan Gordon at: celebrate and honor all past, present and future
:•1dceatseersm iinnveeds ttiog abteed b riing h2t0 m02e tweoerrse, b1i2r dfse ewt ebraes eeds toimn attheed saizt e aorofu tnhde P1.5O6.0 1B. oxP h9o3n6e, Gtrheee nsPbAu rgU, FPOA etixotnrsahtieprsr easmtroianlg v iaslilt othrse inc iwtizaeynss t oo fe nthhea nccoes mreolas ,
,automated searchlight displays, branches. Historically, this area Hotline [phone]) 24 known and unknown," the bill says. Mr. Foley's
:,and even the northern lights. of the state has reported numer hours. E-mail Gordon at: hometown, where some people insist that an alien
·' There remain, however, many ous sightings of giant birds with [email protected]. You can also spaceship crash-landed in 1947, has become a
,UFO observations and other huge wingspans that have check out Stan Gordon's UFO tourist destination, and he said the state could
.,strange incidents which , have become known as Thunderbirds. Anomalies website at www. west gain by encouraging visitors, from whatever the
.been reported over the years Sightings of these huge flying ol.com/-paufo. source. Mindy Sink (NYT)
.: from various locations in the
'state that appear to remain unex
.J>lained.
While Gordon has an interest
in all types of mysterious
encounters, his primary focus
concerns the. UFO phenomena NORTHWEST HERALD, __C rystal Lake, IL - March 4, 2003
and crypt~zoology, which is the
study of hidden or unknown ani 'Somebody's wagging a finger at us,' Robert Hastings warns
mals. Pennsylvania has a long UFO expert stirs MCC crowd's thinking
history of observations of
.strange animals including
Bigfoot, the thunderbird (a giant
.bird), the eastern cougar, and the By ERIC R. OLSON "Decades ago, the public should have script of the North American Aerospace
.black panther. Alleged sightings The Northwest Herald begun to be prepared for the reality of Defense Command's regional director's log
~f huge hair-covered, generally this," Hastings said. ''This is not Holly from Nov. 7 to Nov. 9, 1975. It detailed nu
man-like creatures continue to CRYSTAL lAKE - Mike Harris does not wood, this is not the funny papers. This is merous sightings of UFOs above nuclear
be reported in the state. know how to explain what he saw on his real." missile silos.
Gordon is probably best known way to Wonder Lake on Christmas Eve 1987. Hastings lectures at universities around Soldiers guarding the silos reported see
for his years of investigation into Harris was near the intersection of the country. sharing what he and colleagues ing many disk-shaped objects over their po
the Dec. 9, 1965, UFO crash Mason Hill Road and Crystal Lake Avenue have learned from declassified documents sitions. Hastings said several retired Air
incident which reportedly took when he saw the strange, symmetrical lights obtained from U.S. intelligence agencies Force officers have told him that when UFOs
place near the rural village of moving slowly above the tree line that night. through the Freedom of Information Act. appear over the silos, the warheads o'elaw
Kecksburg. That event involved "I was standing on the hood of my car, "My honest and sincere opinion is, the are rendered inoperable. Their guidance
multitudes of witnesses who trying to get a good look, and they seemed public has a right to know the facts as and control systems malfunction, Hastings
awful close and awful big, and my heart they're now emerging," Hastings said. ''I'm said.
started beating fast, and I got out of there," not a missionary seeking to convert skep "The majority opinion of these individ
Harris said. "It triggered the fight-or-flight tics into believers. It's a futile effort. I'm too uals is that they witnessed a demonstra
reflex in me." old, I'm too tired." tion," he said. "These individuals are of the
Harris was one of many people with The truth about UFOs has been a se opinion somebody's wagging a finger at us."
UFO stories in the audience as UFO re cret for almost 60 years because leaders Hastings also cites a 1950 memo to
searcher Robert Hastings spoke Monday fear that mass hysteria would result if the then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover about
at McHenry County College on Monday. public learned the truth, Hastings said. an aircraft that crashed in Roswell, N.M .. in
Hastings said that since the late 1940s, Government intelligence agencies also 1947. The memo said soldiers recovered
the U.S. government has explained away are alarmed by the saucers' particular in three beings "of human shape, but only 3
incidents similar to what Harris said he terest in the country's top-secret nuclear feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very
had seen, citing causes from flattened hail sites, Hastings said. The strange, hovering fine texture."
stones to swamp gas. objects have been sighted many times Hastings said he does believe that the
But as officials publicly denied that the around U.S. nuclear installations since the government recovered alien remains at
UFO phenomenon was anything but natu public first began seeing them en masse in Roswell or in other cases. Eventually, the
raJ, Hastings said records show that intelli 1947, Hastings said. public will know for sure what the govern
gence agencies have been vigorously in "It is no coincidence that what we call ment already knows.
vestigating the phenomenon. UFOs strongly and directly asserted them "It's just a question of time. It may be
As time has passed, the government has selves at the pr~cise time we invented and tomorrow, it may be another 50 years, but
been forced to release information docu began to test and develop nuclear mis at some point in the future, this will be out 6
menting sightings of aircraft capable of ma siles," he said. in the open, this will be front-page news,"
neuvers no earthly vehicles can duplicate, One document Hastings projected onto Hastings said. "I think we're in for a very in
while emitting strange, glowing lights. a screen for the audience to read was a tran- teresting future."
FOREIGN NEWS
[All British clippings courtesy of Timothy Good, unless otherwise credited.]
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.c bear. A. flying saucer might reports from across the includes reports that were. last year.
~ muke a more tilting symbol country. with one-third, or later found to be known Sightings in 2002 peaked
~ fo1\T~~~~~:· £76, originating in objects, such as stars, plan during the months otJuly
out Terrace is Canada's westernmost ets, meteors, or aircraft. and August, but ,also in
IV B.C.'s UFO capital - and province. The researchers believe February, according t9 the
"CJ one of the top spots in the Contrast that with just six it's important to verify that report, a· pattern that held
t~J country for sightings - UFO sightings reported in eyewitnesses who report true in the northwest.
according to a national sur- Saskatchewan last year. UFOs have indeed seen The typical UFO sighting
vey released last week. · Joining Terrace in the top something - rather than is witnessed by two people,
In fact, a record number four is Houston, B.C., imagined it. suggesting the witnesses
of ·sightings here helped ·home of Brian Yike, the The survey suggests most are actually seefng ·some
c push Terrace into the 2002 northwest's resident UFO UFOs are actually conven thing real, the survey says.
o Canadian UFO Survey's researcher. EYEWITNESSES captured footage of three objects tional aircraft or an. astro-. The report assigns a
~ tok~~:~~a~l~.t~:~:~~:·is Vike, who investigates hovering above Francois Lake one night last year. nomical object. "strangeness" rating
in 'reports of UFOs and other On average, about 13 per between one and nine to
HBCC-UFO Photo
>::t: third place - behind such unexplained phenomena, cent of sightings are unex each sighting, with nine
urban heavyweights ·as including crop circles, says had blinking lights. · researchers from across plained. Last year, 87 cases being the strangest.
<g Toronto and Vancouver. his phone has been ringing Unlike stars or airplanes, Canada that are compiled were unknown out of 483. The 2002 survey's aver
The survey counted 25 . off the hook since the sur they moved oddly over into one database. "As with previous stud age strangeness rating is
.,_ eyewitness reports from vey was released last week. such familiar locales as The survey is headed up ies, the 2002 Canadian 3.6 - which is not very
here in 2002.· Terrace residents have Braun's Island, Jackpine by Geoff Dittman and Chris UFO Survey does not offer strange at all, the report
Calgary and Hamilton been seeing some curious Flats and the southwest Rutkowski of Ufology any positive proof that says.
also appeared.in the top 10 objects in the sky over the skies towards Prince Research of Manitoba UFOs are either alien "Hollywood-style flying
for the first .time. Other past year, according to Rupert. (UFO ROM), a prairie spacecraft or a specific saucers are, in reality, rela
urban areas reporting a sig Vike's HBCC-UFO Vike is just one of the based group that has been natural phenomenon," the tively uncommon in UFO
nificant number of sight website. contributors who assist in compiling UFO reports report says. reports."
ings were Winnipeg, Some flying objects were compiling the survey, since 1989. Most sightings, about
Edmonton, Ottawa and barrel-shaped, while others which consists of reports The survey defines UFOs four out of five, occur at
Whitehorse. looked more like cigars or from regionally-based UFO as any unknown flying night, but reports of "da-
TV crew tapes UFO interview in Houston
By JENNIFER LANG will also feature crop cir reported sightings in the That included a large [email protected] .. The Canadian residents. can
NORTHWEST B.C.'S cles. The crew planned to country. number here in the Terrace · website address is call a new toll-free UFO
resident UFO researcher head to Florida and But the biggest surprise is are11 - the undisputed hot www.geocities.com/hbccuf hotline at 1-866-262-1989.
Brian Vike will be featured England next. that two northwest; B.C. spot of the region for UFO o/home.html
in an upcoming TV show Vike was joined by Chris towns', Terrace and sightings in 2002.
on Canada's Life Network. Rutkowski, a Manitoba Houston, accounted for Vike says CBC TV is
Yike, field researcher and based UFO researcher who more sightings than almost also planning to send a
president of HBCC-UFO, compiles the annual anywhere else in Canada, team to interview him in
said a four-man television Canadian UFO survey. according to the latest Houston in the near future.
crew from the channel The crew taped 17 hours survey. Contact HBCC-UFO
interviewed him at his of footage for an upcoming Vike says he received Research or Vike's maga
home base of Houston, show. more than 100 different zine, Canadian
B.C., last week. Last year British eyewitness reports from Communicator, by phone
The show, called Columbia once again had people in communities all or fax at 1-250-845-2189.
Magnificent Obsession, the highest number of along Highway 16 last year. His email address is
More sightings over the past week
By C. MCGARRIGLE figure out what people are Houston noticed three .
Have you ever spotted seeing," says Vike. bright, hazy blue/white
stnmge lights in the sky? Even in the last week lights in the shape of a rec
What about a fast moving there have been many tangle fly past him quickly
object that defies the laws sightings reported in the at a very low altitude.
of gravity? If you haven't, northwest region. Other witnesses have
your chances of seeing a One 'large disk shaped come forward in Houston Object witnessed near Houston Forest Products on
UFO in Northern B.C. is object' was spotted on since the sighting was February 3, 2003.
greater than any other February 22 over a one released to inform Vike that
region of Canada. hour period by observers in they had witnessed the
The communities of three different areas in B.C. same object 12 hours The witnesses says that of them that remain unex
Terrace and Houston have The object was described before the Canfor a bright flash of light was plain-eci. but people-are
just recently been named in as very large, slow moving, employee. suddenly emitted from the seeing things all t!)e time."
the top I 0 list of UFO with bright lights on the The Lakes District has object. They say a 'ray of says Yike.
sightings across Canada. underside and completely also had its fair share of light' began to sweep the A film crew from the
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hundreds of sightings in Vike is hoping that other
the northwest, many have people will come forward
been explained by military to report any strange oc
exercises or cosmic activ currences, phenomenon, or
ity, such as planets or generally, things that go
shooting stars. bump in the night.
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Ill Irene Currie, 39, claim they . unemployed mechanic. 0 was a dull metallic brown,
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~ window of Mrs Currie's Mr Ingram stressed that c( I couldn't see the top of
Kincorth flat. · he and Mrs Currie were l: the object, it filled the space
Mr Ingram, of Gardrier both "stone cold sober" at. CJ above me, I was atunned. I
Road, said: "I thought I was the time. ~ told my husband, I couldn't
going mad until I saw the It seemed to be about a g stop talking about it!
article in the Evening mile away, but could have The following evening an
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We previously reported between 200 and 300ft up. c( er and daughter had seen
how a Portlethen couple "It moved only fraction CJ the object·twice on the aame
reported being chased ally until it just disap STRANGE GOINGS ONi Irene Currie, 39, and Martin Ingram, 28, on Hetherwick Road, evening•aa myaelf. (I think
along the A90 in their car peared. Kincorth, claim they saw an orange ball light. they were from Willenhall)
by a hovering red light. "I wasn't worried at all. It and deacribed · the aame
The Kincorth incident was all just very strange.': housewife. "It didn't Express. A police spokes A spokesman for air traf object. · . .
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llpm. Mr Ingram was vis was so bright I thought it Neither spoke about phenomena that night. record in their log of air seox aI cktlnyo awa tIh heyav sea wde istc rtoib. ed,
iting Mrs Currie at her was a shooting star-but it what they had seen until The RAF were not avail craft movements during Name & addreaa
Hetherwick Road flat, didn't move," said the contacting the Evening able for comment. that time.
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probed by the Phenomena Research Association,
!!2 ;'~light show - and sparked a UFO which has members worldwide.
~·alert over Ilkeston. Derby group leader Omar Fowler said a sing!~ Has Alf spotted
Ill Computer operator Jason Stevenson white light had been reported several months ago
~ watched them follow each other in a large cir· over Ilkeston.
<· cleO. ne then began to make an S shape in' the This turned out Sto UbeR aVnE aiYrc raft carrying out a a UFO in Astley?
sky and other light tagged along behind. nlght·time survey seeking heat sources in Not
· Jason (30) saw the heavenly display as he tingham.
·nhoipmpee dfo irn at oc igthaer egttaer. den of his Orchard Street andB uJat snoon nboeil:i;e(!v easc ctohem lpigahntise dc atmhee alast ecslot ssei gahs t3in0g0 ALF Shacklady loves to keep abreast of the latest technology
· later, he went indoors to have a coffee and· yards. but he got a surprise when he tried out his latest digital
returned to find them still moving around. Mr Fowler said: MIIlc.eston was a hotspot for caTmhee rPar. inces Avenue, Blackmoor man was surprised to see an
'STRANGE UFO activity about three years ago and this report object in the sky when he downloaded images he'd taken around
Is very Interesting." 4pm on March I of a police helicopter hovering near Astley St
;,1 thought it was a bit strange, something I It may tie in with recent sightings of a single Stephen's Church, pictured above.
have never seen before. unidentified white light seen repeatedly around "Was it a UFO? I don't know what it was, but I'd be interested to
"I think it was probably a UFO. I don't drink AI port Heights near Matlock. know if anyone else saw it that Saturday afternoon," said Mr Shack
ahneldic Io pdtoern,"'t sdaoid dJarusogns.. This was no plane or arencgMelnerst l.yF" otowolke rp,a ratn i ne xa pUeSr tp ohonn em-iyns otenr y"f loybinjegc ttrsi , lPaoTdlyhic.e e hhealviceo npot erre choardd sb eoef na UcaFlOle ds iginh ttion gh.e lp with a local search but
... The sighting began at about 11.30 p.m. on A Greater Manchester Police spokesman said: "There are no
This was broadcast globally on the internet.
Thursday and ended at 12.45 a.m. on Friday. records which indicate the helicopter was called out to a maior
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cetllurics. "II w:1s a hright white, glowong. rounded :~nd at that son of p;!Ce I would h;~ve expected -i5 He visited the spot where the UFO had been
But for on~ Linsl:Hk man. lh~ issU<' has object. nat hut spherical. some noisl'. ~ seen by workers at 02 In !'reston Brook. Review-
tah·n on n~w p.:rson:tl signilic:tnc.:e from what ·.It came: nvc.:r my head from bchonJ me. "I have ncwr s..:cn anything like it in my ing film footage he took of the area. Eric noticed
he thought h~ saw in lh<· skie~ ahovc Bid..:fnr<l from the direction of Luton. about 500 feet up life." <J) a strange shape in the sky.
Green while out walk in~ his dog last Wednc~­ in the air - much lower than a com~t would Professor Russell Stannard. local <Jstronomy ;:: He said: 'There were twu discs. which appcur
Jav nicht. haw t>cen. expert and former Head of Physics at the UJ to be touching each other, hovering over Out·
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He said: "I was walking the dog as I always home and phoned' Bcdfordshire Po lie~ to re- crop circles •
;:: UFO activity to cull him on 0H>06 330567.
TODMORDEN NEWS & ADVERTISER, West Yorkshire, England - March 14, 2003
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Visitor's request proves a winner for info staff
OVER the years patient staff at By David Pitts her in the d!recrion of me moors at sbameyford,
Todmorden Information .Centre :'e~~~e UFO s are mostly reported to have been
have fielded lots of queries.about lines by the Englisl To~ Council as part of its "There is no doubt it was a serious inquiry· ao4
bus and . train times .b l!t were nationwide "Only in BritaJn. Only in 2002'" cam- when she asked if it would be alright if they took a
paign designed to pve visi\ors a warm welcome. picnic I nearly collapsed," added Carolyn. .
floored when the well dressed It was part of die UK tourism industry's cam- "I have been here 14 years but without doubt this
visitor asked: "What time do the paign to bring an cxura oqe million visitors to the was the most unusual request we have ever had. 1
· UK last year with lhC: •aim of makins them feel wei- think she must have read about Alan Godfrey's
UFO's fly?'~ . come. · . experiences and other people seeing flying saucers
N ow th e qw· r.1 ...s .. query from the woman and her treAs st hpraorut gohfo thuits tahem cPcn,matlyi w~eirset i3nSfkoerdm taoti osenn cde nin- in "thI ish oanreeast.l y believe she thought she c· ould sit OD
family has won the· centre a national prize. . unusual visitor conunen~, iequ..:sts. or regional the bank of the moors and ·see them flying about.
Staff thought they had heard them all until the phrases. She even asked me where she could park her car.
woman and her family stepped into the centre in The English Tourism Coundl said it had The woman, who would be in her 30's and was well
Burnley Road and in all serio'usoeaa liked: •What received dozens d. tlle cpmmcnts, requests and dressed, did not look to be the type of penon who
time do the UFO's Oy, where can we sit and watch phrases but after wci!Wing:them all up had decided would go out looking for UFO's," said Carolyn.
them and would it be alright to take i picnic?.,. Todmorden had toirte out tops for the n:quest Along with the request for UFO's, the centre also
At first centre manager Carolyn Hall thoUaht the about the UFO's. submitted other bizarre questions like the one from
woman was tryin& to "wind me.~· but on taking This week Carolyn said: "I really thought the a woman who became indignant because statT did
a closer look at her and her family realised the woman was windmg me up but when I Joolted at not know the bus fare from John O'Groats to Skirza
request was deadly serious. her again I realised st1e was being deadly serious in Scotland. ' A mystery object hovers in the sky
. Now the bizarre query has led to the ~ntre being and once I reali~..:d she was being serious I pointed "This is the information centre, I thought you
~warded a bottle of champagn..: and a box uf choco- would know all the bus fares!"
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Northwest B.C ..I eads in UFO sightings
Have you ever spotted Shortly after, a husband and Photo
strange lights in the sky or a wife stopped their vehicle submitted
fast moving object that between Terrace and Prince
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C'll northern B.C. are greater northwest, many have been unexplained
ci than in any other region in explained by military
objects
Canada. exercises or cosmic activity, hovering
Terrace and Houston have such as planets or shooting a b o v e
recently made it on the top- stars. Francois
ca 10 list of UFO sightings "There are still so many Lake last
"ccCa: across Canada. Brian Vlke tpheaotp rleem aarien sueneeinxgp lathininegds a naldl year.
(c.a) "There are still 22 over a one-hour period by the Ati mfeil,m" sacidre Vwi kefr. om the
c.) so many that observers in three different Canadian Life Network
ai areas in B.C. arrived in the area recently to
,; remain The object was described start shooting a new series
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eli seeing things The first witness spotted years, Vike was asked to be a C'll
the object in Mill Bay, part of the documentary, (')
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eyewitness reports from NEWS AND JOURNAL, Stroud, England - March 18, 2003 .~
around the country in 2002.
One-third of all sightings Resident spots UFO covered in lights .rC:l.) iInNtVo EaS bTiIzGaArrTe IUOFNOS shiagvheti nsgta ortveedr
were reported in B.C. ~ the Clyde.
Brian Vike is a ufologist Alien landing? c~ A rod-shaped object with lights
based out of Houston, B.C., on the side was seen on the Argyll
and is the founder of a UFO aQ:) coast at. Ardentinny.
UFO researchers say there is a
Web site. He has been an ::i chance that people on the
investigator of strange a.. Inverclyde coast may have seen
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INTERIOR NEWS, Smithers, B.C., Canada - Aug. 14, 2002 EVENING EXPRESS, Aberdeen, Scqtland - Dec. 27, 2002
UFO chased .N E
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Terrifying close encounter claim
A NORTH-EAST by Marc Horne he certainly does now,'
couple have had a said the woman.
close encounter of the The pair then drove "The dual carriagewa)
along the A90 - with the was really busy-so. I can'1
terrifying kind. object in pursuit. believe we were the onl)
The Portlethen residents They were able to get a ones to have seen it."
say they were chased along closer view· of the object The sighting was made ir
the A90 by a hovering red from the top of the New the heart of North-east·~
light. tonhlll flyover. UFO capital.
The couple said the mys "It was like a big red light The sleepy village ol
tery object blasted their -but it didn't seem to have Muehalls has become one
_ _ '-I . News pt-.cito bY NiCole Fitzgerald car with a dazzling light. any edges," she said. "It of the country's flyinE
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the pubiic~!ion .of his···un~~plai6~6.t~~·ph~nQnf!.~Pn $1ghting: _··At _te~st the gine." said the woman who The drama continued as recorded over the years.
neighbours ai't{jokfn'Q about It,• he·smlled, }O~ing, -v-Ie need something to put did not want to be named. the couple approached Meanwhile an Aberdeen
"We drove down to Portlethen. pensioner rel?orted -see in~
Smithers on the map. • l'vluchalls and saw a red "It came towards the car a glowing obJect hoverin~
light in the sky behind a and suddenly blasted this over a city beauty spot.
tree." massive bright white light The woman saw the object
UFOs: to be or .not to believe They thought it was part towards us," she said. in the sky over the Gramp~
of a static TV mast until it "We were both terrified from her home In Balnagask
started hovering eerily. but the light didn't seem to Road at around 6.30am.
The woman added: "We have any effect on us." "I may be a pensioner but
were intrigued as to what it They said the object then there is nothing wrong
By Nicole Fitzgerald evening of July 29. Some of the differences was, so my husband "shot orr· vertically into with my eyes-and that was
The Interior News After reading the paper, between· the two incidents fta"sIth ethue tnh es hcoatr luipg hitnst oa tt hite. tinhge fsrkoym bseigfohrt.e disappear eno Hplaavnee y ooru hsee\e\nc oap ~UrF.O" ?
Quick teacher Dina Hanson was that Dina's light shape sky and I started to get "My husband didn't be Let us know by ringing
After an article on UFO called Stewart to share the was iln elongated circle frightened." lieve in UFOs before -but [phone] ext 3500.
sightings ·in Telkwa ·and details of her sighting, opposed to Stewart's round
Houston was published in which she recorded in her ()ne. -pina also noted a
last week's edition of The journal the day after her !light downward trajectory
Interior News, reports on experience. Her son civic to .her · object, unlike
UFO sightings are flying in engineer Ryan Hanson also ~tewart' s parallel flight
and the credibility of the saw the object, which pattern.
sightings are gaining partially matched Stewart's However, Ryan introduced
momentum. description. that because the object was MEDWAY MESSENGER, Kent, England - Jan. 3, 2003
"I can't keep up with all The Hansons' sighting moving away from his
that is going on," said an also took place-July 29, fiye mother a-nd himself, the CLOSE
excited and exhausted minutes earlier than obJect may have just ENCOUNTER:
Houston UFO researcher Stewart's sighting, appeared to be dropping Alisha Bullock
Brian Vike. travelling in a south :because of their perspective. points to
A flurry of phone calls, westerly direction from Dina originally attributed where she
on-site interviews and Quick towards Telkwa. her experience to a meteorite saw a UFO at
investigative research has Both observations sighting, but after a phone Gillingham's
left Vike with little sleep. commented on the awe call to a professor at the Great Lines
Since the papers hit the striking brightness and size University. of Northern B.C. in 2001
~tands, five witnesses came of the light; the white and revealed that meteorites
Have you
forward, claiming they saw yellow hues and soundless produce sound, Dina is
the white ball of light travel at a speed, which uncertain.
Telkwa resident Gordon exceeded the propulsion of a
Stewart glimpsed on the man-made object.
"I am pretty cynical about as a flying saucer," correct after a serifls of seen any
things like UFOs," she said. Derbyshire noted of the phone calls attributc:a the
"But because there was no craft, which reminded him sighting to a military
sound, I think it is remotely of a metallic 40-gallon reconnaissance drone.
possible it was something barrel, heading towards Although if this
else." Houston at an estimated 300 assessment is correct, many
A Smithers family of late kilometres per hour. more questions arise about alien life?
night hot tubbers comprised He stated he is a UFO what is going on for Vike.
of both adults and children believer, but dismissed his "A secret military exercise?''
also contacted Stewart, incident as an American Vike questioned. "Who
sharing a similar story, flight exercise in one breath knows."
adding that the light engaged while pondering over why Vike' s suspicions are
in Sam seitrhieesr so f rloeospidse. nt Dan ahneo th.heera. rd no sound in trfi~soi~ncgks aasr ere pdoertetsc toefd mairloituanrdy by Janine Nolan UFO database
Derbyshire was also added to Houston and the Telkwa KM News Journalist of the Year is a real X-file
the list in an unrelated His experience neither fits High Road.
sighting. However, he H.G. Wells' War of the Vike and his wife also SIGHTINGS of spaceships Strange circular patches of burnt
wanted to support those Worlds where aliens employ saw and heard the hum of and little green men in gfirraesfsig whteerres dwisecroe vuerneadb laen dto Mexepdwlaainy
stumbling upon these mass destruction in tea cup large turbo propellers of Medway are being recorded the weird phenomenon.
unexplainable and-saucer-shaped crafts nor military air crafts flying on a new UFO database. The sightings were attributed to
phenomenons. did it fit with the over Houston Aug. 8. UFOTREK, Britain's newest UFO secret army training experiments
characteristics of a man "Something is going on," information news line, provides the or a possible galatic visit from fly
"Sometime people feel made air craft. Vike alleged. latest news in the world of u!ology, ing saucers by the residents who
It is updated every week and gives saw them.
they are the only ones [that Reality and rationale Despite the couple both details of the latest sightings and Previous to the incident, there
are seeing unusual sights]," collided as he attempted to seeing and hearing the two events. had been reports in Gillingham of
Derbyshire said. "But, I interpret what he saw. military crafts, the Smithers The database has been up and round, bronze objects slowly sailing
thought I'd let them know, Unlike a plane, there wer«. ilir tower told Vike there running for a couple of weeks but across the horizon. although not
they aren't alone." no wings on 'the ribbed was no air activity in the residents in Medway are being since 1998.
urged to record any unusual activi· Crop circle enthusiasts said the
Like many other UFO object and its flight was Houston vicinity. ty and sightings of unidentified fly. visitation was due to the strong
reports, the edges of reality soundless, Derbyshire noted. Stewart is heartened by ing, standing or sitting objects. magnetic ley lines that run between
expand with the number of Unlike man-; UFO the additional reports Particularly around this time of Canterbury and Rochester along
incidents reported i1S viewers sightings, the object did not coming in. year, sightings are not uncommon Pilgrim's Way.
which is why people are being You can report any weird and
digest science fiction's emanate a white glowing "[People] can't say I've asked to keep their eyes peeled. wonderful sightings on the 24-hour
fanciful imagination with light nor assume the regular lost my marbles," Stewart Last year, Chatham residents UFOTREK hotline. Telephone 0870
tangible physical saucer form, he added. laughed. "There are too were whipp~d into hysteria after an 046 2270.
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