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NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE October 2004 Number 423 EDITOR/PUBLISHER: Lucius Farish • #2 Caney Valley Drive • Plumerville, AR 72127-8725 USA TIMES, Los Angeles, CA • Aug. 8, 2004 CR: D. Perkins Things Are Looking Up With UFO WatchTower Judy Messoline had the the newfound popularity . by holding a conference at the site space after her cattle next weekend with UFO ex ranch went bust, and perts trom around the country. . And she~ writing a boqk about her modest platform her experiences· here titled· now lures visitors from "That Crazy Lady Down the Road." all sorts of wild places. There is certainly enough · material. By DAVID KELLY "I had.a guy come in and ask Times Stc.JJ'Wrlter if I had a place to sign In," she 'recalled. "I told him yes and he HOOPER, Colo. - Shortly said, 'No, do you have a place to after her cattle business went sign in ror U3?' and I said, bust, Judy Messoline looked w 'Where are you from?' and he the heavens for.s alvation. said, 'Pluto.' " She · had never thought A woman claiming to chan much or flying saucers but nel the thoughts or extraterres~ Photographs by J 11 y J I\I<NY.R Colorndo Spring• Oaztlt• knew that her San Luis Valley trials rebuked Messollne be ouT THERE: Judy Messolinc admits opening hc1 Hooper, Colo .. UFO W~t~hTower as "a touris~ trap," but .she doesn't charg~ ranch sat In a region renowned cause the aliens deph;:ted In her admission to the self-described alien abductees, p.~yclr ics, charmclers and VISitors from Pluto, Jupzter and pomts beyond who vzsit. for bizarre, unexplained phe shop all looked alike. She said out. It's strange." nomena; So Messoline erected the real space folkso tw ere an Mysterious animal mutila what she believes Is the world's noyed that just one their 157 tions have a long history In the first UFO watchtower. races was represented. The valley, starting with Snippy, a "I opened it as a toUrist channeler lett atter buying a horse famously eviscerated in trap," she acknowledged. rubber allen head for her car 1967. Some believe aliens are But It became. bigger than antenna. doing it: others say govern that. Over the last four years Then there was the trucker ment agents testing for radia she has seen self-described who said he saw a bright Ught tion are behind it. Pollee offer a alien abductees, psychics, above the highway and later more prosaic e)(planatlon: channelers and visitors !rom cowdn't account . ror three earthly an1maJ predators. Pluto, Jupiter and points be hours of his life. As daylight waned over the yond come through her door. "I told him to see a hypno-· t.owcr, putTy clouds sailed past The straight-talking ranch: therapist," Messollne said. - white at first, then orange er has learned to bite her At an ethereal 7,600 feet and Onally blood red with the tongue during these above sea level, the glow of the setting sun. Distant close encounters, san· LUis Valley has occasionally of the · always been a land · lighAtn innegw i llgurmoiunpa tegda tthheer ~ekdy . t.o third kind. or mystery, a place mountains. watch the heavens. "Who ·am I· to where the WUd West Since then, she's seen 19 "I love clouds; clouds are so doubt?" she asked. meets· the Weird more. cool." gushed Susie Noble, a The last year has West. · Early Native "You will see dots moving Denver clerk who camps here been her busiesty et. Americans claimed real fast. Then one w1ll stop and every year, hoping to catch a Thousands have "ant: people" .lived the other will catch up," said ·glimpse of the unknown. pulled otl' Highway. underground here; Messollne. "I have talked to . Noble. 50, showed otl' a. 17 near tiny Hooper ,. other tribes talked· military men and they say no in south-central L_:··r.f.;~l,l about "star people"; planes can do that." model UFO she had built. 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"ch aavmee UheFrOe stretches into northern New Buddhist prayer nags snap in . bases in Colorado Springs. she recalled. "I think this valley Is strange stories and each one Is treated Mexico. the windy foothills ot the San-! "But that doesn't explain To her own amazement, she In any case," he said. "It feels uncritically. exaTchtley UtoFwOe rWinagt. chItT'so wa emr iestna'lt gre"sT. he San Luis Valley was wsihmeinla wr es ldgihdtinn'tg sh ·a5v0e ytheaarts kaigndo . ag·r Aeetdte. r.· • ·giggling· ·her · .w ·. a. y likeB tiombe L haansc satsoteprp, e6d0, hoefr Peu."e blo the"yP aeroep lrere ceo tmoe t ehlel rwe hbaetc athuesye platform in the middle or the the nrst. area colonized by the of technology" she Said. "'This · through the permit Process. meandered around with his saw or what happened without desert standing. about 14 ·feet. Spanish ln Colorado, and! it's. is one of the biggest hotspots In · Messoline· had the tower b\illt granddaughter. fear of being laughed at," Mes above a spaceship-shaped gift just been sitting there for 400 . the country for unconventional down the road !rom her house. "There could be something soline said. shop. years simmering in its own flying objects " She advertised with metal to this stutr" he said. "There Is "Who knows if there are lit "I don't know why more peo broth," ·said David Perkins, .a The vall~y's history was "aliens" along the highway. nothing to disprove it. I had a tle green men? Some days I ple are corritng," said Messo journalist ·who has written relatively unlmown to Messo- Soon atter, she said, she saw friend who had one of his cows firmly believe, other days I have line, who doesn't charge admis about t~e •r egion for nearly a.o line when she anived from Ool- her firs~ UFO-a narrow, glow- dissected. They drained all the my doubts. My conclusion Is, sionS hbeu'ts atcackeipntgs daodnvaatinOtlafSg.e of yrienagres.d byI tms ousnot aIisnosl aatnedd .t heIrtes d en i n 1995 to start a new life at- ing obJect saUing over the blood; his tongue wa.S taken athbeoruet i tsh sios mpleatchei.n" g very special MIAMISBURG/WEST CARROLLT ON NEWS, Miamisburg, OH • Sept. 2, 2004 Are aliens visiting Miami Township? 'Crop Circles' appear in Fox Farm com field by Klmm Mote prints, no obvious evidence of The News chemical use, and no evidence of [email protected] mechanical invasion. All of the Could aliens be checking out the downed com crop lies in a clock neighborhood at Fox Farm in wise direction and all of the crops Miami Township for their next are bent at the root. The widest high school? point of the pattern was stepped We'll leave that conclusion to off at 50 paces. you, but the accompanying picture Crop circles have mised interest shows something going on in the ing and controversial discussions corn field. Taken by Miami around the world for several Township Police Department decades. M;yor John DiPietro-last week Many crop circles have eventual while flying in the Channel 7 heli ly been declared man-made hoax copter, the pattern formation lies es. Many, howe-Ver, remain a mys in the middle of the com field on tery. the property which is owned by We may never know the answer Miamisburg City Schools · and . to this com field mystery, but it farmed by the ~vo family. sure is fun to speculate and think An investigative walk to the pat about what just might be out there tern revealed no human foot- beyond the stars. This photo, taken by John DiPietro depicts the crop circles in the Fox Farm com field. LIFE & LEISURE, Edmond, OK -July 29, 2004 CR: D. Farris The Roswell Odyssey Editor's note: This is the first in a idea exactly what to expect. two-part story on Edmond resident A short jog west of Farwell puts David Farris' trip to Roswell, N.M. you on Highway 70 South out of The final part will publish in next Clovis, N.M. Only 110 miles left to week's issue. go on the last leg of our journey. At I kept telling my recently married this point, t.he natural beauty of the bride, "This isn't our honeymoon. New Mexican dessert was spread We'll go on a real one later. This is a around us as far as the eye could see. business trip." I couldn't help thinking about Billy Driving west on the Kid traveling this same country Interstate 40 in a on horseback, so much of it rented Cadillac, I unchanged since his days. was amazed how Many people don't know this, but soon the scenery there is a connection between Billy changed, then the Kid and the Roswell saucer crash. changed for the Wayne Brazil was charged with killing worst after Highway Patrick F. Garrett, the former lawman 60 between who killed the Kid. Thirty-eight years PHOTO PROVIDED Pictured above is artwork displayed In the UFO Museum. Amarillo, Texas, and later, something strange crashed on Farwell, N.M. David Farris land owned by Matt Brazil - I had never seen Wayne's grandson. this part of the After eight hours on the road the Crop country before. I thought to myself, sleepy town of Roswell was a wel "Now I know why this land sold for comed sight. circle so little after statehood. A tumble We arrived at our hotel in time to weed could blow east through here witness a picture-perfect sunset. The until it smacks some Okie in the town has laws limiting "light pollu pops up face." tion" resulting in a clear night sky. We were on our way to Roswell, Exhausted, but too excited to sleep, N.M. I had been invited by the we familiarized ourselves with the International UFO Museum to be a town, not much bigger than Edmond. 'The most. part of its UFO Festival, July 1-4. The The festival events were concen impressive. .. Pv:e museum was hosting a book signing trated along Main Street between the. ever seen' for authors featured in its gift shop, UFO Museum and the Civic Center. which as of November 2003, includ Restaurants and hotels everywhere ed myself. displayed signs proclaiming, "Aliens Bv JAMES CUMMJN:GS The annual festival began in 1997, Welcomed." Caricatures of spindly, [email protected] . . . · JEFFREY WILSON/FOR THE DAYTON DAILY NEWS to celebrate the 50th anniversary of big-eyed aliens, the type alleged CROP ~IRCLES are seen in a field owned by the Miamisburg School MIAMI TWP., Montgomery the crash of something in a rancher's found at the crash site, adorned County-Fall often brings sight District. field outside of town. I had seen many store fronts. ings of mysterious crop circles in footage of past UFO festivals. Long In fact it was hard to find any Ohio, and this season the Miami Crop circle investigator Jeffrey there was some interweaving." Valley has one of its own. Wilson called the design found in Wilson, who lives in Williams- before Roswell was known for any where void of an alien presence. The Maj. John DiPietro of the Mi- the field off Linden Avenue just burg east of Cincinnati, is the di thing else but the 509th Army Air so-called "Greys" have completely ami 1\vp. police department spot- east of the Miamisburg line "the rector of a volunteer group called Force Base or the local cheese replaced Kachina Dolls, Kokopelli and ted the pattern of interlocking most impressive com crop forma- the Independent Crop Circle Re factory. the garden gnome. Even the bulbs of circles pressed. into the cornfield. ' tiol\I'~~~~ever seen," and_he's see~ searchers Association;. He said he Starting in the spring of 1954, street lamps in the festival area were about" two weeks ago, according"· r,lozens. . . , . . became intrigued with crop cir~ to Jay Phares .. Miami 1\vp.'s com- . <He said he's seen larger,· more · cles in 1989 and has been visiting thousands of people met at a giant affixed with large, black, wrap-around munity resource ·officer. · elaborate designs pressed into ·sites to examine the formations rock in California's Mojave Desert eyes to appear more alienesque. DiPietro was riding in a WHIO crops like wheat or soybeans, but scientifically since 1996. which marked the annual Giant Rock After a junk food dinner it was television news helicopter scout- he said he's heard of only one crop Miami 1\vp. Service Adminis· Space Conventions. Old black-and time to hit the hay. Tomorrow was ing sites for DUI checkpoints circle in a cornfield that was larg- tmtor Jim Woolf said several peo when he saw the circles and er than the one in Miami 1\vp. ple, apparently tipped to the loca white newsreels captured these going to be a big day. snappe<;l a photograph. "It's impressive not just be· tion via the Internet, showed up events, featuring people who them (David Farris is a University of The photo appeared on the cov- cause of its size, but because of Tuesday to see the circles. selves appeared out of this world - Central Oklahoma graduate with a er of the Miamisburg-West Car- the exactness of the geometry," "We had license plates from an old man wearing the head dress bachelor's degree in communications. rollton News last Thursday and Wilson said. "I've seen lots of northern Ohio, illinois, all over," of an Indian Chief describing "space He is the author of "Mysterious began spreading via the Internet. crop circles that were obviously Woolf said. "I don't think any of The crop circles are in a field hoaxes, but this one didn't have my guys have been out in the field brothers." Oklahoma," "More Mysterious owned by the Miamisburg School the signs of mechanical damage to see it, though. We had peo Then there was the little old lady Oklahoma" and is currently finishing District, right next door to a Mi- to the plants you sometimes see ple coming from Illinois, but we selling books about her trip to Venus, a second edition of his book, ami Twp. fire station and service in obvious fakes. The corn stalks didn't feel it was worth going next courtesy of extraterrestrials. I had no "Oklahoma Outlaw Tales." 'i' garage. were laid flat but not broken and door for." 2 DAILY NEWS, Dayton, OH • Sept. 10, 2004 still out on origin ~Jury i~ I of farmer's crop circles c_, e~x: w :X: => c~ PHOTOS BY BUTCH MCCARTNEY/WAUSAU DAILY HERALD Terry Fisk makes a rough sketch Saturday of the crop cirlces on Scott Worden's farm. Investigators look for signs that formations were a hoax BvAMv~ms "Obviously, since this has explainable WIYJS/>JJ DAILY HERALD On the Web been cut, we c.:m"t do that." hoaxes, can . ' [email protected] The circles' proximity to be formed For more on paranor the road - about 50 feet - with a rope, a TOWN OF WAUSAU mal investigations and could indicate a hoax. board and a Scott Worden won't say for investigators Chad ''Maybe someone wants it couple of peo sure whether he believes in Lewis and Terry Fisk, to be noticed, plus, it's easy ple. the paranormal, but he does log on to access," said Fisk, who, along You attach n't dismiss the idea either. chadlewis.com. Log on with Lewis, hosts a radio the rope to Scott That's why Worden, .a to weird-wi.com for program called "The Unex the board, Worden longtime· dairy , farmer, information on ghosts, plained" that airs weekly in step on the agreed to have two paranor aliens, UFOs, oddities, the Eau Claire area. board and mal investigators inspect six Even the lack of activity move in a cir the occult and more. crop circles Saturday that found on the investigators' cle, Fisk said. were found by a farmhand TriField meter could indi-· It usually Monday in Worden's barley ''You usually can tell how cate a sham. But the duo takes two field. won't dismiss the phenome people, with the crops have been laid "Everybody thinks I'm down and if there is damage non as such at this point. one person nuts, but I just want to know to the crops," said Fisk, 49, The waves the meter standing on Terry what caused it. I know rows who in July investigated detects could have dissipated the end of the Fisk more than I know circles," between the time the crop board at the crop circles found in Chippe said Worden, 37, through a wa Falls. Usually, plants are .circles formed and today, center of the sheepish grin. Worden runs Lewis said. circle. . bent, not broken in crop cir the farm with his brother, cles whose causes are diffi Town chairman Jim The crop Tim, and father, Darrell. cult to. explain. In obviously Riehle, who was looking at circle investi · Paranormal investigator hoaxed circles, the grains are the crop circles Saturday gation won't Terry Fisk ofEau Claire said morning, is convinced the stop with broken. he would first and foremost crop circles are the real deal. Saturday's The two arrived at the site · be looking for evidence that around 9 a.m. Saturday ''I used to listen to Art Bell probe, which showed the formations were on the radio all the time," is considered Chad morning with cameras and a hoax. Riehle said. "I don't think preliminary Lewis tape measures. They also brought a Geiger counter, this is a hoax. I'm a grain work by the which 'measures radioactivi farmer. When you walk paranormal investigators. ty, and a TriField meter, an through a field like this, you They say they'll also instrument that measures leave footprints, and you can check with Wisconsin Pub magnetic, electrical and still see them three days lic Service for reports of radio waves, as well as later. There aren't any foot power outages in the area microwaves. prints around here, no around the same time the They were disappointed to tracks to show where people crop circles were formed. find that the field had been would have come in." They'll also ask airport offi Bell hosted a nationally cials whether pilots have harvested with a combine after the circleS were creat syndicated all-night radio reported other circles in the ed. It also appeared that show called "Coast to Coast area and find out if police AM" in the 1990s and from received word of any UFO many people had walked time to time from 2001 to sightings. through the field. "We like to compare the 2003. The show, which is still Later, they'll send in soil crop inside the circles to the on the air with a different and crop samples to BLT crop outside the circles;' said host, deals with tales of the Crop Circle Investigations in 3 paranormal investigator supernatural, the paranor Cambridge, Mass., for test Investigators measure a set Chad Lewis of Eau Claire, mal and weird. ing. Results from the lab of crop circles found Satur who has been investigating Crop circles, most of which work will not be available day at Scott Worden's farm. crop circles for 10 years. are found to be easily until spring 2005. INVESTIGATOR SCIENTIST' ~-'MR. ~N > :; ~ Steve M~reno, founder of the Fal~eld research firm; Psi Applications, lnvest!.gates paranormal activities In Solano County. Pilot to the paranormal Fairfield resident lives to explain the unexplained By Warren lutz· depression began taking root. Maybe it He also believes in UFOs, extrater DAILY REPUBLIC was all in his head. restrials and a satellite-government. Iri Minutes later, as he drove toward a fact, he doesn't just believe in such FAIRFIELD - Thirty years . ago, local pool hall, Moreno's Dodge Road things. He has proof they exist, he said. Steve Moreno stood near the gates . of runner struck the center of the road and In the nearly 30 years since his near Travis Air Force Base, tryi11g to come to started to· flip, end over end. Stuck death experience, Moreno has become grips with his psychic experiences. upside down inside his vehicle, Moreno Solano County's leading expert on all For the first 21 years of his life, found himsdf pleading for his life. things paranormal and supernatural. strange things happened to Moreno. He . "I said, 'Look, I'll never be depressed Only now, he uses only science, not psy ·saw things other people couldn't. Odd again,' " he recalled. "Just let me walk chic ability, to explain such things as weather patterns sometimes followed away from everything." crop circles and straying spirits. him. And he couldn't control any of it. Since his accident, "I was no longer "It was pretty strange, because I had From psychic to science the out-of-control psychic," Moreno said. nothing I could really ground with it, or "I became Mr. Investigator Scientist ... relate it to," he said. "So I felt quite dif Now 4·9, Moreno has a successful con and I had the best of both worlds going ferent, to say the least." tracting business, keeps a tidy home on for me because I already knew what Moreno had met people who had sim the edge of the military base, and has a being a psychic was all about."· ilar experiences. But that night, as he wife and two kids. He laughs easily and watched the jets cut through the sky, listens well. · His years of research carrie in handy "Steve has gone out of his way to has seen supernatural occurrences first power in the world is not going to make a when the largest crop circle formation in archive just about every paranormal thing hand. · darn bit of difference." North American history appeared in a that has ever hit the media," said,W ilson, Several years ago, before a guest spot If .People find Moreno's research and Rockville wheat field last year. • · who holds a masters degree in general sci on the supernatural radio program "Coast outlook strange, few share it with him. Through Psi Applications, the nonprofit ence from Eastern Michigan University. to Coast AM," "this craft came over the After the Rockville circles appeared, paranormal research firm he. runs from "Si:D.ce the crop circles came down in his house and started doing all these gyra Moreno was a guest on the Sacramentq his home, Moreno collected chaffs of county last year, he has sought out expert tions," he said. "I went up on the roof with radio talk show "Armstrong and Getty." wheat·and networked with more experi advice from people who have been study my camcorder and that spot beam right "They were trying to poke fun at me a enced· crop .circle researchers to explain ing crpp circles for a long time," Wilson there and flashed at it. little bit," he said. who or what was behind the phenomenon. added.' "He had really gone out of his way 'The thing stopped in midair and start They asked Moreno if he was "a nut.'' "He is very dedicated investigator," said to learn as much as he could." , · · · ed doing all these mutations and every "I didn't respond," he said. "I just let Ruben Uriarte, the Northern California But"Wftli-sU.Ch work comes frustration. thing." them sit there for a minute. Then I said, director oj the Mutual UFO Network who Hoaxes and claimslofhoaxes often provide Moreno's tools -· some of them )land 'Well, no, I don't think so. I think I'm a studied the circles with Moreno. fuel for skeptics. I . made - include temperature gauges, regular person and I'm just trying to bring "When phenomena occurs in his back Two weeks after the Rockville crop cir Polaroid cameras (for· tamper-proof some information forward.' " yard, Steve becomes a very key individ cles were found, four teens claimed they images), and infrared motion detectors Moreno· often spends more than 40 ual." made them out of boredom. Although they covered with black boxes to detect items hours a week running Psi Applications. He set a precedent, too, by setting up a could offer little proot: many people - and that don't move in front of the devices, but Although it's a nonprofit, he is looking for live Internet telecast from the wheat field, some ·of the media -bought their story. through them. seed money or a grant so he can work full allowing researchers and interested par "People are afraid of what they don't Psi Application's Web site, www.psiap time on paranormal investigations. ties from around the world to see the phe- know," Moreno said. "But if it's presented plications. com, is stacked with findings, In fact, expanding people's Views of the nomenon, Uriarte said. . . to them in the right manner, I think peo Moreno's and others. . supernatural was · part of the deal Jle "That really opened the doors," Uriarte ple are more than· ready to understand "Ali I -am is just the messenger," he made with the "source" he spoke to in t1\e said. "Now other people can witness (such there are other things that are beyond our said. "I'm not creating any of this, it moments after his car accident. events) live." current paradigms of science ·and theolo already exists: I've just brought all this And when he made that deal, he said, Battling closed minds gy." documentation together and brought to· his car door opened, and Moreno w.aa one point." pulled out ofthe wreck on his back. Recording the abnormal While mariy of the researchers he Where we're headed MoAresn hoe f owuonudl ds tmarainngy amt othree nskigyh. ts ahe~ works with have academic credentials and Crop circles are only part of Moreno's "The stars," he. said, "never looked so scientific backgrounds, Moreno is first to work with the supernatural. After years of research, Moreno has dis. . beautiful in my entire life." admit he doesn't have either. For years, Moreno has investigated covered common threads in his findings. He rather likes it that way. UFO sightings and "presences" rumored He also believes the Earth's resources Reach 'Warren Lutz at 427-6955 or "Right now ... I don't really· pose any to exist in some of Solano County's oldest are quickly running out - . but that [email protected]. real threat to people that are involved in building& . . . humans could be saved by a benevolent the intelligence co~munity because they Several years ago, for example, Moreno intelligence from beyond. · look at me and say, he's just a contractor staked out the Vallejo Naval and Histori '~1 roads point to 2012 being the poipt and he's not going to go anywhere with it." cal Museum after a employee caught of no return," he said. But what Moreno doesn't know, he something strange on camera. Enhanced "We~ll still survive, it's not going to be 4 learns from others, said crop circle frames of the shots show two illuminated like, 'lights out.' It's going to be a slow researcher Jeffery Wilson, who describes faces looking downward. burn in hell. All the money and all tho Moreno as a meticulous researcher. On more than one occasion, Moreno REGISTER, Sandusky, OH - Aug. 27, 2004 CR: W. Jones Rotary quiet about UFO sightings By BRANDl BARHITE brandibarhite<ikanduskyreglst.er.com SANDUSKY IfSanduskyRotarianshaveseenan UFO or alien. they aren't talking about it But that's to be expected. tJ 1-0 investigator John Tlmmennan said that a wife won't even tell her husband because he might think she's "not put together right." However, "There is other life in the uni verse," Timmerman assured Rotarians during their weekly lunch meeting. "We · aren't alone." Timmerman. Lakeview, Ohio, a retired businessman with a degree in soclolo{o/ from Cornell University. wasThursdays guest speaker. In 1980, Timmerman became the chairman and treasurer of the Center for UFO Studies, Chicago, and created the traveling UFO photo exhibit research pro ject. He retired as chairman in 1985, but still serves as the public relations vice presi dent, treasurer of the center and manager of the photo exhibit project "I have never had a UFO experience," Tunmerman said. but he said he has talked to thousands of people who have. Register pl1oto/ JASON WERLING Timmerman told Rotarians they can talk John Timmerman of the J._AIIen Hynek Center for UFO Studies addresses the Sandusky Rotary at their luncheon Thursday afternoon at to him about their unexplainable experi the lAB Club. ences. He also offered to lend them a two hour video about having experiences they "I didn't know what they were," she said. not have seen it. Rotary guest Norm Winkel hasn't had a can't explain. "I couldn't explain it" "Theoneswhoaremcant to see it, will.~ UFO experience, but isn't ashamed to say "This should be looked at seriously and Another Sandusky woman had her first she said. he is interested in the topic. not as a joke," he said. experience when she was in ninth grade. Timmerman said nine local people "I have always been fascinated by it," One woman at the meeting didn't want She came to the luncheon specifically to contacted him by letter or phone before Winkel said. to give her name to the Register because talk with Tunmerman. Thursday to talk about their UFO experi To con tact Timmerman, call937 -843- people might think she's crazy, but said she Although one of the sightings was on ences. He hasn't had time to research 3834 orwritchimat P.O. Box 1621 Lima. has had three UFOsightings. Qeveland Road. she said some people may them yet. OH45H02. c0 Flying saucers in New Mexico? ·c ~ :l ..; Governor rekindles .Roswell iC (,.) • 0e "' By Keay Davidson Gov. Bill .u..; CHRONICLE SCIENCE WRITER Richardson said the cj, Ten years after the U.S. Air mystery of ~ Force closed its books on Roswell 44has the claim that a UFO never been ' crashed in Roswell, N.M., in adequately ~ 1947, a top' Democratic Party fig- explained." 8~ ure wants to reopen the investigation into the cosmic legend. g0 Despite denials by federal offi promoters. After more than a cials, many UFO buffs cherish . third of a century of research, I ca the notion that iii early summer have found no credible evidence .t of 1947, a flying saucer crashed in of extraterrestrial visitors." c rural Roswell, scattering alien Andrew Fraknoi, a noted as ~ bodies and saucer debris across tronomy popularizer and critic of the terrain. pseudoscience who ' teaches at ui Now Gov. Bill Richardson of Foothill College in Los Altos cj New Mexico, who chaired there- Hills, called Richardson's fore i cent Democratic convention in word unbelievable. 0 Boston, says in his foreword to a 41'his continues to confirm ~ new book that "the mystery sur that election or appointment to CJ rounding this crash has never high office does not guarantee been adeqtiately explained ...,. not wisdom in all areas of human by independent investigators, and thought," he said. not by the U.S. government ... But in .a show of extraterrestri There are as many theories .as al bipartisanship, the executive there are official explanations. director of the New Mexico Re "Cl~arly, it would help every~ publican Party is taking Richard one if. the U.S. government dis son's side. Greg Graves, a native closed everything it !mows," says · of Roswell who suspects the Richardson, who served as· Ener crashed object was "something gy secretary under President Bill U.S. AIR FoRCE/ Undated more than a weather balloon," Clinton. 4'I'he American people · Tap: A.man walks past obelisks marking the site where some claim wants to know what really hap can handle the truth - no matter a UFO crashed in Roswell. Above: An old· Air Force photo shows a pened in the Southwestern desert how bizarre or mundane. . ... bag containing a test dummy; some claim it held alien victims. two years before his birth. With full disclosure and our best Still, Graves hopes the truth scientific investigation, we should case, Sparks said. . drew scorn from .veteran UFO in isn't disillusioning. That's be be able to find out what hap To the Air Force, though, vestigators and science populariz cause the saucer legend is so pened on that fateful day in July there is no mystery - and there ers. good for the local economy: 1947." hasn't been for a long time. In ''We're kind of disappointed in 44Thousands of people come to The passage appears in a pa 1994, the Air Force published Richardson for perpetuating the Roswell every year to visit the site perback titled 4'I'he Roswell Dig 44Roswell Report: Case Closed," mythology of that thing," said and go to the museum. It's an Diaries," published in collabora which asserted that so-called sau Dave Thomas, president of. New incredible boon to the Roswell tion with 1V's SciFi Channel by cer debris was, in fact, the ruins Mexicans for Science and Rea economy. Just think about 'X Pocket Books, a division of Simon of an unusual type of military re son, a skeptics group in Albu Files' and 1V shows about Ros & Schwter. The "dig" of the title search balloon, which contained querque. well. refers to an archaeological dig·a t hypersensitive acoustic sensors The grand old man of skepti ·~en I go around the coun the supposed crash site. designed to detect the rumble of cal UFO investigators, Philip J. try and tell people I was born in A Richardson aide, Billy any ~oviet A-bomb tests. A sub Klass, who has written for Avia Roswell," he adds, ••people ask: 5 Sparks, confirmed the governor's sequent investigation by the U.S. tion Week & Space Techriology l})o I think something crashed remarks. RichardSon "is interest General Accounting Office was . since 1952, said: '4Gov. Richard there?'" ed in either debunking the story unable to locate any unreleased ~on - whom I previowly ad or (encouraging) full discl~e" .r ecords on the case. mired - is wrong about Roswell E-mail Keay Davidson at of any unreleased records on the Hence, Richardson's foreword and too . trusting of 1V network. [email protected]~ LIFE & LEISURE, Edmond, OK - Aug. 5, 2004 CR: D. Farris Odyssey to Roswell DAILV TRIBUNE, Wlaconaln Rapid a, WI • Oct. 1, 2004 Odd lights seen Part 2 Editor's note: This Is the last In a aliens. Her husband, who was sched two-part story on Edmond resident uled to attend but couldn't make it, is over Marshfield David Fa"is' trip to Roswell, N.M. Marc Davenport, an author and UFO I had to be at the Civic Center by researcher for more than 25 years. 10 a.m. I stepped.from the parking lot Next to make an appearance was into a large room where the book Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar By MATT CONN nied by what looked lil{e a signings and most lectures were sched Mitchell, who was speaking later that For the Daily Tribune fighter jet, h~ said. uled. Along the west wall was the evening. Gwynyth Walsh and Barbara MARSHFIELD - So it's · Dan Young of the town of speaker's podium fac Searle, who play the buxom Duras unidentified, and it flies, and Cary, chief photographer at ing about 100 chairs. Sisters on "Star Trek: The Next it's an object-that simply the Marshfield News-Her Along the east Generation," were also on hand to means it's inexplicable, not ald, 'said ·Thursday that he wall were a series of great attendees. that it's a UFO filled with lit· had seen similar lights on smaller rooms for However, I had yet to meet ~he one tie green women. several occasions, as recent- workshops. Between person I wanted to have my picture In the past two weeks, ly as Tuesday. Marshfield-area residents The lights moved close this area and the taken with more than anyone. Then have reported unusual lights together, then went away, he remaining wall space suddenly, without fanfare, he modest and objects in the night sky, said. were many.2 x6 foot ly entered the room and began setting some accompanied by what . "Tuesday . night, the tables for the 20 up his table. Stanton Friedman is a looked like fighter jets. white lights came close authors in atten- David Farris nuclear physicist and the world's pre On the night of Sept. 23, together, and I could see air dance, and to accom- eminent authority on UFOs and the Eric Dickmann sat at a bon· craft lights, kind of like modate a few di$plays. Roswell crash. He has been featured in fire with friends and family warning lights," he said. "I Sandy James; the museum gift almost every UFO documentary I've at his home in the town of· thought this was probably shop manager and festival Civic ever seen. I have hours of his inter Day. Three lights in a trian· something that most likely Center organizer, was there to greet views at home on video and audio gle burned bright in the sky could be easily explained me. She showed me around, then led tape. for about four seconds and after the second · time. It me to my table. I was so excited Within the UFO community he then they disappeared, he looked like, my guess is, heli about being part of the festival I had enjoys rock star status. I introduced · said last week. · copters that came together n't the heart to tell her my name on myself to him, mentioning we have a Ten minutes later, the in the sky and went their the table was misspelled (Ferris). few friends In common. bright lights reappeared and separate ways." That's OK, it was spelled right in the Then, like a tourist at Disneyland, I moved the same way, Dick- . About 95 percent of all program and on my books. In just asked If he'd pose with me while my mann said. He said that Americans have heard or moments, I would be rubbing elbows wife took a picture. He happily oblig what the eight people at the read . something about un with UFO Royalty. ed, leading me to believe he's dealt bonfire saw that night was identified flying objects, and It is important to keep in mind that with star-struck fans in the past. Later the same as what his son saw 57 percent believe alien craft many of the participants' claims must that day, he lectured for an hour to a the Thursday before, while are real, according to a Cen be taken at face value. In keeping standing-room only crowd. driving south from Spencer. tral Intelligence · Agency That sighting was accompa- report in 1997. with the spirit of the festival I will Despite suffering from laryngitis and· reserve judgment for one reason, I a sound system on the fritz, the room wasn't there when any alleged events became silent as the audience strained took place. to hear his every word. The first person I recognized from Things began to break up around 5 her many television and documentary p.m. Between yesterday's drive and appearances was Leah Haley. A CPA dealing with the crowds all day I was with a master's degree who became needing a nap - but it would have to involved with the UFO phenomenon be a quick one. Sandy had given us after her abduction experiences with tickets to this evening's concer:t featuring the Drifters, the Platters and the including the gift shop in less than an Temptations. The show took place hour. under the stars at the soccer complex This, however does not Include the that was formerly an airplane field. research library. I could have spent It was here at sunset, I noticed days exploring classic UFO literature something unus\,Jal in the sky, just and documentaries from the 1950s above the eastern horizon. At first I and '60s. It "Vas during this period thought it was the orange glow of a when the U.S. Air Force was in the fireworks display - then I thought, business of investigating UFOs. maybe a neon decoration. Suddenly I Whether or not you believe in realized, "Holy cowl It's the moon!" extraterrestrial visitation, the official It was the biggest, most beautiful investigations were quite real. full moon I had ever seen. What a In Roswell, for some reason, they perfect accent to the weekend festi have their parades at night. One of val. It was a wonderful show, despite the floats featured was from the UFO being a "beer-free" event (as opposed museum, and any author who wanted to a "free beer" event). I was forced could ride it and wave a glow stick. to placate myself with barbecue pork Now regularly, I'm not a "ride on the ribs. float" kind of guy, however this was There was also a concert Saturday Roswell. When else would I have such night at the fairgrounds featuring an opportunity. Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. Anna and I pulled up at the last However, it wasn't sponsored by the minute to board the somewhat rickety museum, so Sandy didn't have tickets. contraption. As long as I didn't lean PHOTO PROVIDED She was working on another event for back on the cardboard aliens and David Farris, left, had the opportunity to meet Stanton Friedman, a nuclear tomorrow evening. braced my feet along the bottom rail, physicist and the world's preeminent authority on UFOs and the Roswell crash, at the festival. The following morning, we finally I was pretty sure I wouldn't fall off. were able to visit the museum. The sidewalks along Main Street were Festival-goers mingled as a local band nified. It seems that the UFO mystery Formerly a ·movie theater, it has been packed with spectators as the parade played in the background. Vendors in America has come of age. transformed into a shrine for all things pulled forward. had set up tent cities, selling food However, I don't want things to UFO. The first display deals with the Down the 13-block route, the glow and souvenirs. We saw as much as become too serious. "Roswell Incident" and the ensuing ing float emerged through plumes of we could, then we headed back to After all, what is the point of a fes timeline of events. smoke creating an eerie effect. At the the hotel and packed. Tomorrow, tival if you cari't have fun. In addition are a series of displays same time, at least seven planes criss after my lecture, it was time to head (David Farris is a University of featuring earlier, famous UFO photos, crossed the sky overhead, flying in home. Central Oklahoma graduate with a crop circles, and even statements close proximity to simulate an inva For us, the festival was over. bachelor's degree in communications. made about UFOs by past American sion. Everything came together to cre I'm glad to report there were no He is the author of "Mysterious presidents. The walls of the museum ate quite a spectacle. comparisons between Roswell and Oklahoma," "More Mysterious 6 are adorned with artwork depicting After the parade, it was time to the Giant Rock gatherings from Oklahoma" and is currently finishing spaceships and their pilots. It is possi enjoy our last night in town. Along decades earlier. The lectures and a second edition of his book, ble to take in the whole museum, Main there were people everywhere. workshops were professional and dig- "Oklahoma Outlaw Tales." '@' FOREIGN .N EWS. · · · [All British clippings courtesy of Tiiilothy Good, unless otherwise credited.] over fireball burns on UFO ~Mystery c( -2 A MYSTERY fireball dubbed suggests the truth is. still out drove back from to Inkpen confirm that he clearly II the Hungerford UFO has there. · from Hungerford via remembered it." ~ continued ·to baffle The NWN first reported th.€ Kintbury." Mrs Panting said that she w residents. mystery fireball on July. 22 He added: "As we drove out and her husband had spotted ~ And the strange visitor to when our web designer ChriS ·of Kintbury, over the hill the object around six weeks I the West Berkshire skies may Day photographed . a fiery before you get to what was ago on the A339 as they headed have been ·spotted more than 40 object as it traversed the Christchurch School, we saw home to Kingsclere. years ago. · Hungerford skies. the tlreball. The astonished couple :Z: Former Inkpen Common Police launched a search · .. We stopped the car, got out watched it traverse the sky and ~ resident · Mike . Bridgewater helicopter and · firefighters and stood watching· it make appear to go down behind the w read our account of . the scoured the scene where what can only be described as a village.Mrs Panting said: "We z sightings on 'the Internet from residents fea:red the object controlled descent." were just Waiting for an ~ his new home in Edinburgh, must have crashed. No debris Mr Bridgewater went on: explosion but nothing ~ ~cotland. or impact site was found. "We .were facing Hungerford, happened. w He told the Newbury Weekly. Since then, callers have ox: to the north of the town,·a nd "We first saw it above Pithall 3: News of an incident that has reported many more sightlngs, watched it for what seemed Farm, about two or three miles puzzled him and his friends with some reporting a solid like seveial minutes." out of Kingsclere, and then since 1960. structure with the glow. The three friends were so over Sandford Springs Golf Another caller, ·who asked Mr Bridgewater said:· 14My alarmed by.w hat they had seen Club. It went right across the not to be named, .'suggested the wife, who was then Marian they telephoned the police. A339, about quarter of a mile fireball could. have been a Jordan~ and our friend John Mr Bndgewater said: ·~ far 1n front of our car." boating flare since some young Bance, all lived on Inkpen as we were concerned, that was Mrs Panting said· there people were heard threatening Common 1n 1960. the end of it. This was more appeared to be a solid to ignite one. at around the time "John worked for Peter thap 40 years ago,· yet all three structure and that it was of one incident. Stirling Motorcycles in· of us remember it very clearly.· travelling too fast for it to have But the latest reported Hungerford and had been. "When I read your article on been a hot air balloon. sighting, by Mrs· Valerie working late, so Marian and I the net I sent it to John Bance, She added: "It appeared it be Panting of Kingsclere, picked him up from work and who immedia.tely responded to the size of a light aircraft. .. " ECHO, Loughborough, England ·June 26, 2004 HERALD EXPRESS, Torquay, England· May 28, 2004 'Devil in road' Was 'UFO' just a man helped by happy coupl e? Echo readers IT ALlAN Pasqualino Cassella, the Loughborough man at TWO life-size blow go for · a laugh. We "All I do know is that the epicentre of the spiritual storm concerning alleged up dolls used at a By PAUL JAMES thought they would it was an object I could strange happenings on the 8676 road near Prestwold, this ·wedding in Torquay end up at Land's End or not identify. If.i t was a week said: "Thanks to the Echo I know I'm not alone." may have been the sky over the Bay. Some beyond," he said. balloon it would not be The happy couple, moving in the way this vheardMs yrb eCbeyan st setelallkilnae gnb ~thugepa nEi ncthhtoeo cthhoiens trcaoai rr Uare FsOostrsit r w ohanic crhoT sucsae usdsthaeyde hit.a Bdu pt incotwur eEsd dtoi. e p·rreocvke lwtahhueon cchehiaeldid n b~m.e e wnth eher uemg dgouirnnlyg · ctwoiag asa .r b-Iest h awa bpaleso dwf a-ru pto odobo jblelic,g"t and he had seen a 'devil-like' evening. ons he can rule out ing and flew off he said. creature when travelling along Eddie Lee-Danby, Martians and weather towards Paignton Herald reader Dou the road and asked whether any who works at the balloons as the likely before a change in glas Day said: "There is other local people had experi Grosvenor Hotel in Bel explanations for the wind direction brought absolutely no doubt enced anything strange there. grave Road, admitted apparition. them back over this. was not an illu Since then ·we have published today: "It might have He is confident . the Torquay. sion. My wife and I def a story concerning been us." helium-filled "wedding He says the woman initely saw this over Loughborough man Lez Cope He revealed that he guests" - a suitably was silver-coloured Torquay at around Newman, whose car was written and his colleagues attired man and while her chap was 6pm. I went into the off in mysterious circumstances, could well have been woman - were the brown. house to get my binoc and near-neighbour Robert guilty of sparking the fly-away culprits. They All witnesses said ulars. It seemed to stay Fielding,· who has also encoun flying saucer frenzy were leftovers from a the object they saw was in one place for about tered spiritual trouble on the which the Herald wedding at the hotel on dark and long, but none 10 minutes then moved same stretch of road. Express reported yes Saturday. could guess how large on to stay in another Mr Cassella said: "I do feel terday. "They are used as they were because they place for one or two better because I'm not the only Readers rang . in decorations at recep_ were confused by the minutes and then dis one, but I still can't explain excitedly to declare tions. They were still distances involved. appeared.:'· what happened to me." they had seen a mys around on Tuesday, so One said the end of Alison Cutts said she terious object in the we decided to let them his UFO had a tinge of saw the same shaped _yellow, which Eddie object last year. conflrmed was the hair "It seemed to stay colour of the inflated motionless in the sky gentleman. for about 20 minutes The dome shape in and then it just disap I the middle of the cylin peared. I live just out ·~i drical-shaped figure side Ipplepen and I WEEKLY NEWS, Newbury, England· July 29, 2004 seen by another may would imagine it was have been flapping in the distance above ~ ews in brief ·. . · . . limbs, Eddie sug Newton or Kingsker .~, gested. swell," she recalled. ::J "The dolls were She added: "I remem 1I More sightings of 'fireball' bought from a shop in ber it very well and Lucius Street. They even called my hus :r SPECULATION .contiilues over the were used for a wed band and father-in-law strange nighttime slgllts in the skies ding on Saturday. They out to have a look at it. over HWlgerfor.d aftef .la8t week's were about 6-7ft tall," "We wondered if it ~ report in the ·Newbury.W eekly News explained Eddie. was some sort of bal • TillS is the Crop circle at Burham · about the mystery fireball. One witness esti loon but it did not seem i.2 hWltewrsh.i cThh eis c pom~pligcat secdi ednetsiisgtns ,a dnidv iUdeFdO oeAmft teahrbego etunotc w1yn0 's.~e3 r0rvepisJciledlslea nssattsy M icono1gn;1 ttdahacye,ty es de vtherea l mtlOh,aeOt OseiOdzf eth oiasfn aUd JF uOpm rowbboaa sjb elaty.t ftioet w wm aposev joeup salett gaaolbln oeau.n tId it ott hlbdeu nat ~ into six shapes and made up of 31 circles, thought they had seen a burning No one saw the object they just thought I was was spotted in the field between Maidstone moving at any great mad so I didn't think aircraft, but after a comprehensive . ~ and Chatham, last week. speed. And no one any more about it till I ~ It is in roughly the same place where two saenadr cuhp otof tthhee aMr4e,a f airreo lellnlgdi Hneusn agnedrf ao rd trheepmor.t ed seeing two of sstaowry t.h"e .H erald Express :~r: cwrhoop sctiorcolde sin a pthpee amrieddd ilne oJuf ltyh e2 0la0r3g. Pere oopf lteh e panoylltehei nhge~lic. op.t er were.UJUlble' to imd livAesd ami n NeSsbtaitr, piwttheon "thOinneg " thweoarsy aisn th"e8 0 two created last year, which looked like a Since then, many.p eople claim to have Grove, Watcombe, metre solar airship" ~ Star of St David, said they felt giddy. seen the same thing·in'·.the sky several insists that what he sold in shops for under ~ Last week Kent on Sunday investigated weeks' before. · saw was not a balloon, £13. the crop circle phenomenon after the Possibilities for the object range from and definitely not in The mystery contin· National Farmers' Union claimed most of aircraft, illicit night .time· hot air bal human form. ues. 7 the shapes were man-made hoaxes. loomrto meteorites·a nd UFOs. NATIONAL POST, Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Sept. 18, 2004 CR: G. Duplantler Are there· mysterious signs of extraterrestrial life in England? Or some guys with surveyor's tape and a stomping board? A walk on t he weird side sons. Its weirdness certainly as they follow the outline. BY EDWARD WILKINSON· adds an element of allure, but so Meanwhile, Ross is studying the LATHAM does the many neolithic monu paper printout of the design they. ments and the gorgeous ram plotted on a self-made computer F .or the last two hours bling countryside, perfect for program. The tapes are adjusted I've been in the com hiking and bike riding. The town and rods are inserted into the pany of three wanted of Salisbury, a hub for the region, Earth at the radial points of the men. We're driving in boasts historic architecture and a circle. I look at the design on the a hurry, southwest vibrant culture that happily sheet, still keeping one eye and from London. We pass a sign: blends the rural and the urbane. one ear on the surrounding dark "Welcome to W'utshire." It just so happens that each ness, as Ross whispers something There are some that would con year's bounty of crop circles ap about six-fold geometry and har sider my travel companions pear from May to September, monic universal proportions. I heretics, others who might call when travel is at its peak. Locals don't understand a thing. them outlaws. Matt, Luke and can take guided tours and heli I watch Matt and Luke as they Ross (not their real names), each copter rides over the glyphs. sweep the crop aside and twist have a price on their head and By the time we arrive at our cho the boards across it to create half various local police, bounty sen site, we're behind schedule. swirls rather thim merely flat hunters and farmers have tried to As we squat behind a hedgerow, I tened wheat. One of the things ensnare them. They are not study the tools of a crop circle that cause crappies to believe the members of organized crime nor artist. The simplicity of the kit is circles are of non-human origin is occultists out to rustle a sheep for astounding: surveyor's tape, tent the fact that they actually do min an evening's bloodletting. They poles, string and a luminous imal damage to a farmer's field; are Plankers, better known as watch with hands to plot degrees. the wheat stalks are folded down Crop Circle Hoaxers. And, of course, a four-foot plank so they are still able .to grow. Under the cover of darkness, with a rope looped through two Watching the boys at it, there these arable artists have been holes at each end - a simple looks to be considerable skill making crop circle patterns in thing at the heart of so much involved. fields, or Crop Glyphs, for more intrigue. I take hold of one of the tapes as than 10 years, leading many to Rather than crushing the crop Ross makes a number of outlines speculate that extraterrestrial to gain entry to the field, and thus and arcs around me at various craft do in fact visit the green leave a footprint, we follow Luke lengths and points from the first fields of southern England. circle, using string as a marker. While Wtltshire has been a lead Matt and Luke soon undertake ing hub of crop circle activity and The crop circles similar tasks on other plotted UFO sightings for the past 30 points. As we work I notice the years, its rich lineage of unex a moonlight illuminates a good have become plained phenomena and neolith portion of the field. IIUlTY TAYLOK I OUTI'DS1' ic sites makes it especially ripe for The stomping is more arduous 'Wiltshil'e, Englund, hu.s been u leading hub of UFO slghtlngs for 30 years. But its mysterious past dates the hoaxers. Weirdness abounds draw for tourists than I had thought. I try to emu bucl• to the neolithic nl(c. with stories of witches, large late what the others are doing, re wild cats, ghosts, lights in the sky peating the same body move and mystical energy fields. ment, pressing down and moving Remnants of the recent and very to the end of the field where the the plank aside slightly to spiral LEADER, Drogheda, Ireland - May 26, 2004 distant past dot the county. Some tram lines turn and loop back and the wheat stalks. Taking smaller Local women claim to have date as far back as the Copper we can jump in without a trace. steps and adjusting my stance, I Age. Local tumuli (stone burial Usually 18 metres apart, these fall into a hypnotic dance, repeat seen UFO over Drogheda mounds) and menhirs Oarge, sin tram lines allow the circle makers edly stepping the right foot in gle upright standing stones) are to reliably plot the design in ad front of the left, occasionally likely related to the ceremonial vance according to the number of looking up at the night sky won 1WO local women claim to beina tailed by a sttan~e ftashina lights," she said. stone circles at Ave bury Henge, these lines in a field. dering if anything, anyone is have seen an Unidentified shaped .object with ftashmg "It was the black smoke once the heart of megalithic Once we reach the middle of the watching. Flying Object following a lights. that drew our attention, and Britain. Stonehenge stands only field we unpack the kit. The Over the next two hours of cre commercial aeroplane in lhe "It was a bright object, the plane appeared to be mov· 32 kilometres away, directly con mother circle will border these ative geometry and precision skies over Drogheda last which looked to be a silvery ing very slowly, almost as if it fnuelc lteeyd ltion Ae v-ebpuartyh asl oonfg u an kpnowowern coefn at ralol lninge ss.u Mrvaetyto grr'sa btsa opnee aenndd slyto ampppienagr,. t hSem cairlcleler bceigrcinles st ot afukle wweiseThkh . et o wboem enna,m wedh o pduibdl icnloyt, cwliolialtocn/uemrs,s a wusavitiehd .cl ioglhotus rt,"h atth we eerye ea· oiwtb, ajasen cdt hwyoaovsue f'rdliyn nigne.gv evrTe srhyeec c lsoootm~h eeto r energy current that run through strides into the fresh wheat until minutes, while a secondary larger contacted the Drogheda She was walkina up the thin& so close to an aeroplane the Earth in straight lines, inex Ross gives a sharp tug on the tape circle is flattened in 15 minutes as Leader. after they read last Chord Road when she saw the like that." plicably linking many sacred sites telling him to stop. Nine metres. we form a two-tiered stomping week's exclusive story about incident, which occurred on Another woman whO wit· around the world. From his rucksack, Ross pro method. As Matt; Luke and Ross close encounters which are Monday night of last week nessed an incident similar to Then there's Boscombe Down, a duces an aluminum rod and put the finishing touches to the supposed to have occWTCd some time between 9:30 and this early last week also con· over the Boyne Valley in JOpm. tacted the Drogheda Leader secret military facility in the area presses it' into the soil~ Attaching design; I put down my plank and recent months. "This object was near the after reading about the alleged for the development and testing of the tape al'ld holding the peg taut, walk within the formation, ad One of the women back of the plane and came incident in which an Aer aircraft, weapons and avionics. Matt then makes the first arc of miring its proportions and the described in detail how she out under i~ The saange thing Linaus Boeing 737 was said Not surprisingly, it's been suggest the circle, side-stepping to form flow from arcs to crescents, every watcb.cq arz aeroplane ~ch .wu the aecoplanc looked to. 1o ·bave. been damaged il9 an ed that experimental technology is . an outline around us. Where circle flattened with the same or was emittina black smoke be black and didn't have any encounter. with a UFO; the source oft he strange lights and Ross stands will be the centre of ganized spiral pattern. flying objects in the skies. the first circle and the place I feel a little guilty about the The believers, conspiracy theo where gear is stored. It is also farmer's crop but know that some rists, investigators and the mere where we'll meet at the first sign can earn considerable pocket BEXLEY & ELT HAM EXPRESS, England • Aprll 21, 2004 ly curious are not the only ones oft rouble. change from charging an en to sup from this alchemy of the Matt and Luke each take a "stalk trance fee to curious crappies. Close encounters outlandish - the hoaxers do, too. stomper," or plank, grabbing the I Excerpted from the Novem And so, too, do tourists. Wilt ropes like reins. With one foot in ber/December issue of Outpost, shire is becoming a popular trav the middle of the board, the crop on newsstands on Oct. 8. of the UFO kind el destination for a variety of rea- is flattened with every step Outpost BEXLEYHEATH has been and it was getting louder. My identified as one of the top spots house was shaking a little and I for seeing UFOs. thought it could be a low-flying The town ranks numb¢r:eight in plane. a top 20 list of hotspots for UFO "I went outside and saw to my activity in the country, with left a white triangle. It wasn't Bonnybridge in Scotland in first very high up, maybe-as low as a place. plane coming into land or a tall The research comes as no sur· building. . prise to one teenager who, while 'The triangle looked like it was babysitting his sister two years falling from the sky, but slowly, ago, witnessed what he believed like the ashes of a firework that to be an alien ship hovering ncar had just exploded. his home. 'Then the telephone rang in my Conor Sherwood. now 15, of house, so I ran in to answer it Mnlvcrn Avenue. Bexleyhcath. and when l returned, which was said: "[ was sitting in my living nlmost straight away, it wns room and I heard a strdnge vi gone. The sound had gone as brating noise. I thought it was well." Conor bclio.:vc~ what ho.: 8 interference on the television. so saw wns a UFO. I got up and turned the TV Bexlcyhcath :tppcars on u list !DWARD WILJtiNSON·LATHAM I OUTPOST BUSTY TAYLOR I OUTPOST down. compii.:J hy UFO .:xpcrt Nkk With their simple tools, Crop Circle Hoaxers make intricate designs in farmer's fields. Or do they? "But the noi~c was still then.: Pope fm Gmlsch l><:.:r. ! THEORY: CLOSE ENCOUNTER 'COULD HAVE BEEN TO BLAME' i ~------~~ :&! I 1 ! I !I > a: ::::;) (a.:) w 2 CANVASSING SUPPORT: P~ofessor Colin Pillinger giving a lecture and an~wering questions at the Royal Society in London yesterday II own I . Scientists have come up with a Ur Sims said: "We're in forensic BY CHRISSY.HARRIS mode at the moment. We're lpoking ; new theory that the missing at all the possibilities. It's like look· Beagle 2 probe may have had a "We don't know what it is or what ing at a crime scene. but we don't i I close encounter with a UFO. it means. know what crime has been commit· "It could be a feature of the optics ted. We may never know what hap· of the camera or bits ofs pacecraft. It pened, but everything we learn is a I Miss ion con trollers are studying a could be nothing but it could be lesson for the future." mysterious blot on an image taken everything. It's a case of wait and Professor Colin Pillinger, the lead moments after the robot spun off see. It is. very much a work in pro· scientist on the expedition, met the from mothership Mars Express to gress at the moment ... DOOMED: Beagle 2 detatching · public during a webcast last night at start its descent to the red planet. Contact was lost' with Beagle 2 on from the Mars Express mothership the Royal Societyin London to an· Experts are trying to work out if ·Christmas Day, when it was due to swer questions about what went the dot is down to a camera fault, or separate from the European Space meeting that they were also consid· wrong with the £45 million space if Beagle 2 was brought down by Agency's Mars Express orbiter be ering the possibility that Beagle 2 probe. ~me kind ofs trange object. fore landing on the planet. simply crashed on the surface of Speaking before the event, Mr Pill Scientists admit it is a long shot, · Scientists have since tried re Mars because the atmosphere on inger said he was delighted to have and are exploring many other op peatedly to contact the lander, the planet was less dense than ex sparked a passion for space explora· tions, but as the mystery surround without success. pected. tion among what is now being ing the missing robot deepens. Dr Siins said the. team was going Scientists said they were examin dubbed the Beagle Generation. nothing seems too extraordinary. over all ofits data again to try to find ing photographs of the landing site He is already canvassing for more Dr Mark Sims. Beagle 2 mission out what caused the probe to van that show four bright spots, dubbed funds and sponsorship for another I manager. said: "There is a little dot ish. the "string of pearls". that might be mission sending probes to Mars as within the image. Mission controllers told a London Beagle 2's remains. early as 2007. 1 Paranormal film sales are out of this world Copies of a documentary film studying paranormal activity on Cannock Chase have proved to be a bestseller. EXPRESS & STAR, Blnningham, England-Aug. 10, 2004 Dozens ofDVDs and videos investigating unidentified flying objects at the beauty spot have been sold by Staffordshire UFO group. The 45- minute pro~am.me, the culmination of a two-year project, was unveiled in Ap~ and has b~en.very pop~ar. Report by Bridget Ballance A senes of strange s1ghtmgs aro depleted on the documentary although its main focus The documentary, available on DYD and is a high profiJe incident on May 16, 1988, video, costs £10. Th~ group, which has been when two triangular shaped objects were going for around eight years and has 30-40 seen over th& beau·ty spot. members, needs to sell 500 to claw back the "They came down from a great height and £5,000 it spent making the programme. hovered 1,000 ft above Cannock Chase then It meets monthly and will next get headed towards Stafford," said ~ordinator together on August 19 at St Leonard's Graham Allen. Sports and Social Club in Stafford. Police and Birmingham airport were For more information or to buy the docu- alerted to the incident and the then Stafford mentary, phone Mr Allen on 01889 585149 MP Bill Cash brought it up in parliament. or log onto the website www.sufog.co.uk. 9 EVENING ECHO, Southend, England-June 17, 2004 • It was like this -William Downing claims to have seen a UFO in the sky from his garden, as this photographic impression shows Picture: RON POULTER Weird sight in sky puzzles great grandad William WILLIAM Downing is keeping his metalllc round-shaped object 84, said: .. It must've been a UFO. I times that. It made no sound and eyes peeled after spotting what he flying from the north east to the don't think there is anything else it didn't leave a vapour trail believes was a UFO. south west while he was in the it could have been. behind. I've never seen anything Mtrarv Delolwedn i..n tgen s atiidm ethse f acsrtaefrt" than a agbaorduet n1 1a.t4 hSiasm T hyuensdteerrdsaleyy home "It went right across the sky in like it.'' normal plane. morning. ptwlaon oe rd toherse aeb soeucto n3d50s. mAi lneos nanna l Ihfa avney soeneen etlhsee mthyisntkesr itohuesy ombjaeyc t, The retired electrician saw the Great grandfather Mr Downing, hour. hut this must have been ten contact the Jo;cho on 01268 469389. EXPRESS & STAR, Birmingham, England-May 31, 2004 UFO case reope e by ex-police officer By Dave Lawley A retired policeman is appealing for help in solving a Black Country UFO mystery from 25 years ago. Tenants' leader Jean Ringley claimed she ·had experienced an encounter with aliens at her home in Blue Stone Walk in Rowley Regis. She said she spoke to them then gave them mince pies before they con tinued with the jou~er into spac:e. The ~tory made he~dlines in _news papers and local teleV1S1on at the time and ended up turmng Mrs Hmgley, NATIONAL POST, Toronto, Ontario, Canada-Aug. 12, 2004 who is now dead, into a local celebrity. Now 25 years later, retired police man John Hanson has launched an investigation into the mystery. Scientists find rock i11 He said:"& a fresh faced He said: "I actually came police officer back in 1979, if acro~Js a family who con anyone had brought this tacted the wlice in York Siberia; alien craft, too cause to m~ a~tention I shire·a few hours later when would have dism.i.sSed them they.s aw a huge UFO on the a5 being cranka or lunatics. grounda·of a local sChool." "But I was to learn the Mr Hanson, wh<> lives in error of such ways many Alvechurch in Worcester~ The cause of the blast remains yreesaerasr claht epre rwiohde no f dsuormineg 1· 0a sthhairte t,h aidsd wedas: a"·I v aemry sgaetnisufiinede Russian scientists claim to have officially unexplained. A mete years I waa to come across all case involving the landing of discovered the wreckage of an m·ite was ruled out because manner of strange phenom· a UFO which left marks in alien craft at the site of a massive there was no impact crater, but seennoino rr epRoAr-Fte do fbfyic enrost; obnulyt the snow. explosion in Siberia almost 100 in recent years scientists have members of the public who "Unfortunately for Mrs years ago. said the explosion was caused by Hingley not only was she had nothing to gain by caught in ,t he force field of The Interfax news agency re an asteroid that completely dis ·reporting such bizarre encounters." this object which led to her ported yesterday the scientists integrated before reaching the Genuine suffering a number of found the craft and a 50-kilogram surface of the Earth. medical conditions, but a Mr Hanson said the Jean number of electrical items in rock near the Thnguska River in The Russians making the extra Hingley case· had always the house wer~ also the remote northeastern region terrestrial claim work for a pub attracted his attention, affected," he added. of Russia. licly funded organization that is especially after he discov · Mr Hanson appealed for ered that Mrs Hinfley, the . help in tracing anyone who On June 30, 1908, an explosion studying the Tunguska phenome head of a tenanta group, ·knew the couple, or who that was felt hundreds of kilome non~ The 50-kg rock is undergo was not the only person to ! remembers the incident. tres away wiped out some 2,000 ing analysis, the scientists said. Wspaoltk. U dFuOrisn go veearr lByl uJea nSutoanrye im"pTohritsa nist opnoes to fw thaer minocsi t square kilometres off orest. Agence F?·ance-Presse 1979. dents to have taken place in 10 the UK. added Mr Hanson. CR: G. Duplantier