UFO Newsclipping Service 2005 09 no 434

2005·18.8 MB·English

NEWSCLIPPING
SERVICE
September 2005
Number 434
EDITOR/PUBLISHER: Lucius Farish • #2 Caney Valley Drive • Plumerville, AR 72127-8725 USA
Special to the IJ/Erln Lubin
MAKING BELIEVERS: Documentary filmmaker James Fox of Bolinas stands in front of a clip from his most recent film, 'Out of the Blue,' at 142 Throckmorton in Mill Valley.
Into the realm of ridicule
Marin filmmaker takes UFOs seriously, even if nobody else does
By Rick Polito
J,J reporter
JAMES FOX has heard all the jokes, seen all the
smirks. He can sense the disbelieflong before the
eyes start rolling.
The Bolinas filmmaker doesn't blame anybody for
any of it.
He rolls his eyes, too.
"I would say 95 percent of it is absolute hogwash," he
says of UFO logy and the cottage industry of conven
tions, books, movies, tapes and trinkets orbiting a
widespread belief that extraterrestrial spacecraft are
cruising earthly airspace.
But that didn't dissuade Fox from throwing his
name into the debate. The
boyish 37 -year-old who says
MARIN he "was never known for
being the quiet child" has
produced not one but two
UFO documentaries. He just
looked at the other 5 percent.
"This is the 5 percent we
¥' ." focus on," Fox says.
That 5 percent keeps him Provided by James Fox
right in the middle of eye SOMETHING OUT THERE: Filmmaker James Fox crouches on a runway near Area 51 in Nevada, an airfield used for the secret
PRORLES rolling territory. development and testing of military aircraft.
On Friday, the eyes roll
NAME: JAMES FOX right into Mill Valley. "Out of IF YOU GO a half trying to turn me around," Fox recalls, remem
~>AGE: 37 the Blue," the second of Fox's bering the patriarch's "deep sense of paternal obliga
two UFO documentaries, . "Out of the Blue"will be screened Friday at 7:30p.m. at tion."
~>HOMETOWN:
Bolinas screens at the 142 Throck the 142 Throckmorton Theater in Miil Valley. James Fox and But he made the documentary anyway.
1> OCCUPATION: morton theater. Next month, co~producer Boris Zubov will attend the event, which will A "sighting" Fox experienced in the desert 120 miles
Rim maker a "director's cut" airs on the raise money for Fox's next project, Energy Next. Tickets are northwest of Las Vegas was all the proof he needed
Sci-Fi Channel. · '$1 o.C all38'3-9600. that the proverbial "something" was out there. He was
At this point, Fox doesn't driving with friends at nightfall when they saw a
know which is harder to believe, that aliens are visit "saucer-shaped object" flying, darting, stopping, hov
ing Earth on a regular basis or that a guy who grew up all of them. ering, doing all the things that UFOs are supposed to
in Bolinas and majored in French at San Francisco "There's an awful lot of garbage out there," Fried do.
State is making documentaries about flying saucers. man says. He even videotaped it. It's a bad videotape. The real
And being taken seriously. That's the sort of thing Fox heard when he started ones always are, he maintains. "If it were too good it
At least by some. his research. When he told his family nearly 10 years
would have to be fake," Fox says.
Fox's Web site quotes a positive review from Skeptic ago that he was going to make a documentary about
Magazine, and Stanton Friedman, a certified non UFOs, the reaction was not entirely supportive. And when he told people about it and showed them
skeptic who has been on the flying-saucer lecture cir "They basically laughed at me," he recalls. the tape, he got the same response he might have given
cuit for nearly 40 years, calls the latest film "one of the His father, journalist and author Charles Fox, took anybody who made such a claim. "The:v 11ll said, 'What
half-dozen best" UFO documentaries. And he's seen it especially hard "He probably spent a good year and (continued on page 2)
(continued from page 1 - MARIN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL, Novato, CA · Aug. 21, 2005) CAPITAL-JOURNAL,
drugs were you on?'" off their feet," he says. son was surrendering all hope of Energy Next, a nonprofit Fox Topeka, KS - Aug. 4, 2005
Fox wasn't on drugs. He was The second film simply grew credibility. "I said, 'Don't go founded to produce a new docu-
Former
on a mission. out ofthe first. He became a part there. Nobody goes there,'" mentary, this time on "alterna-
"1 wanted to see what this was of the UFO community, a person Charles Fox recalls. "That's tive energy."
all about," he says. to call. He recalls hearing there- Looney Tunes." Fox says he wants to rip the
reporter
He started by looking at what frain "This is the film we've all But the son who "always "alternative" label off the subject
had already been done. "I got all been waiting for." danced to his own tune" made and take the idea of green living
the UFO films I could possibly None of it has been easy. The the films anyway. Charles Fox out of the "hairy armpits and
recounts
get my hands on, and I thought step through what Friedman says his son "pulled it off." The raisinette date cake" demo-
they were awful," he says. Using calls "the laughter curtain" pever films "work in that they inject a graphic.
that as a guide, Fox limited the is. bubble of doubt into your head." But he's stepping into the con-
UFO tale
interviews to what he calls "Fear of ridicule" is what keeps Fox brought his son along on spiracy theory landscape again.
"trained observers," mostly as- a lot of UFO believers quiet, many magazine assignments and And he knows it. Fox talks about
tronauts and military officers. Friedman says. The UFO lectur- believes that some of the ques- an all-powerful international oil
And he threw out any ac- er and late-night radio guest says tioning mentality may have been industry quashing energy-saving By Matt Moline
counts that he "didn't add up." Fox had the same motivation passed down. innovation. He's ready to bring TilE ('AI'ITAI.·.IOURNAI.
He also stopped telling people many in the field have to march "I think that got into his up whispered stories about car- ABILENE - As the summer of
he was from Bolinas. "I just said through a gauntlet of skeptical blood," Fox says, but he doesn't buretors that gave V-8s 65 mpg. 1965 moved into early August,
'Marin.'" derision. know where his son got that urge He's ready to look for patents on Abilene Reflector-Chronicle
What he was left with was · "Ma ny o f us w h o h ave spent a t o c halle nge th e accept e d Wl·S - world-changing technologies reporter Ed Corwin's attention had
what he thought were credible' great deal of time on this subject dom from such extreme angles. turned to the upcoming high
stories. "When you get to the are convinced we're dealing with The younger Fox isn't sure that were deliberately derailed by school football season.
15th or 20th high ranging mili- the biggest story of the millenni- why he does it, either. Fox calcu- the energy concerns. . During the school year, the 26-
tary officer you sort of have to urn," Friedman says. lates he made $7 or $8 an hour" "The whole word 'alternative year-old Corwin was the paper's
ask, 'How much longer can I dis- When Fox contacted him, producing "Out of the Blue." He energy,'" he says. "Is almost like one-person sports department,
miss this evidence?'" Fox says. Friedman says his advice was just has a need to question saying 'flying saucer.'" and it was his local sports coverage
When the first documentary, simple. "If you're going to do things, to sort it out. He's ready for the eye rolling that usually brought him the most
"UFOs: 50 Years of Denial," got this, you'd better have the facts "I like to try to make a differ- again. feedback from readers.
picked up by the Discovery in hand." ence," he says. But before another football sea
Channel, Fox felt vindicated, Fox's father had some of the Now the filmmaker is stepping Rick Polito can be reached at son would begin, Cmwin became
perhaps not by the skeptics but same worries. When his son told into a different fray but with fa- rpolito(g!.marinij.com the talk of Dickinson County for
by his family. himJbe.s uJ>ject of his documen- miliar landmarks. Friday's another story - one he wrote for
"The entire family was swept tary, the elder Fox was afraid his screening will be a benefit for the Aug. 4, 1965, evening edition.
The story detailed a commercial
truck driver's repmt of a spectacu
lar, middle-of-the night encOtmter
with an wlidentified flying object
while driving north on K-15 high
way, about 25 miles south of
Abilene.
HERALD, Circleville, OH - Aug. 16, 2005 CR: J. Fry Corwin duly repmted 41-year
Hidden history: The battle of L.A. old Nebraska trucker Don Ten
nopir's account of being "buzzed"
by a luminous orange flying saucer
Recently, the Circleville details of an airplane, just are received during meteor shooting off red rays "that carne
Herald has been doing very lights high in the sky. He just showers. It is as if the ufos use from behind my truck, over the top
well deserved articles on our took it for granted that they the meteor showers as a cam of the cab and then hovered over
combat veterans from different were Japanese planes. An oullage. Is this what happened the road in front of me.''
contlicts. It proves there are important note is that Harold over Los Angeles in February. After the 14-foot, saucer-shaped
many heroes in our midst. I did not know that the objects 1942 when the Japanese threat object forced Tennopir to bting his
have always looked up to these were seen over Los Angeles was real? In appearance and peanut-loaded lig to a halt, the
veterans. earlier and were fired upon. bchavi,)r the "unidentified air glowing object hovered about 100
One of these articles caught He just knew what had hap craft" were, as would become feet ahead on the roadway for
my attention in regards to my pened in his area. Then every apparent a few years later, about 30 seconds before taking off
research on the ufo phenome thing was hushed up because classic ufos. to the west, "with a sizzling, or
non. I have had coincidental of the wartime blackout. In Harold's defense for wind-like blowing sound," Ten
erevgeanrtds so ctcou rm oyv err etsheea ryceha rsa nind Tl'ehlee HHcarraclicnlg. <:r is a rq!ulnr conscrihutor 10 TimAefst erh eatdhlei neLs osa ndA nag efleews pthoisnskibinleg Jathpeasnee seo hpjleacntess twheerree no"p1 irk tnooldw C tmhiws isno.u nds silly, but it
looked like a big plate with a cup in
investigations. The following days of following stories have been similar incidents.
the middle. It really did," Tennopir
is one of them. On the morning about it, there was nothing Bob Quince!, another long
of June 20th of this year I Fehruary 24, 1942 is dis else in the newspapers. I can time Circleville resident, spot told Corwin.
received a hook at the post cussed. We showed Harold the understand that in wartime ted a strange saucer shaped Tennopir anived in Abilene at
office titled. "UFOs Ovl!r famous picture from the front news like this should be cen craft swooping down low over about 2 a.m. and promptly filed a
report with Abilene police officer
California" by Preston page of the Los Angeles Times sored. However, after all these the Army Depot, now DSCS in
Dennett. I hrietly glanced at of February 25, 1942. It years there should he an open Columbus, Ohio in 1952 while Quenton Kessler, who got Cotwin
out of bed to interview the trucker.
the hook. hut I did notice the depicts at least eight spotlights investigation and to check to working there. He told a cou
Forty years after the incident,
reference to the Battle of Los shining on an unknown object rule out any possibility of ple of his co-workers who also
Angeles or the Los Angeles hovering over Los Angeles. In Japanese aircraft. There is no saw it that it must be one of Cmwin, who is now 66 and living
in Pensacola, Fla., says he can still
Air Raid. According to the the hook, "UFOs Over question on whether the Battle ours because it was a daytime
recall sitting down over coffee at
book it marked the tirst record California", the story line fol of Los Angeles happened. It sighting and was so low over a the police station to hear Ten
ed occasion in which the lows. At 2 a.m. air raid sirens did because there were acci populated area. Only years nopir's incredible story.
United States military opened sounded throughout Los dental deaths involveu anu later after realizing our gov "He told me how his lights went
lire upon a ufo. The date was Angeles that warned of a pos property was destroyed. ernment never has come out on <md off, just like out of Steven
February 24, 1942. I had sible Japanese attack. Several However, one item docs stand with that type of craft and lis Spielberg's film 'Close
known about this event before unknown objects moved over out. There were no bombs tening to my ufo research did Encounters,' " Corwin said. "I
from my research. I knew the head, followed by a huge disk dropped or hostility shown hy he realize he had seen a gen remember to this day that the stmy
skeptics or debunkers had shaped object that hovered the unknown aircraft If they uine ufo. His story is con seemed to be true. It has made me
explained this as trigger-happy over part of Los Angeles. The were Japanese how did they tained in the book titled "Ohio a believer in UFOs."
anti-aircraft gunners with war mysterious object or objects get over Los Angeles? Were UFOs" by fellow researcher Corwin's readers also accepted
nerves who never really saw stayed in place for several they from Japanese aircraft Irena Scott. who is a former the sto1y without much quest.ion
anything. About three hours hours. The military converged carriers? If the Japanese or Ohio State University profes ing or gnnnbling.
later the Circleville Herald was underneath, training numerous U.S. governments know the sor. I was with Irena when she "I can. remember getting a little
on my porch. On the front searchlights upon the main answer, they sure haven't told interviewed Boh. Another ufo grief, but tllis was a different era, so
page was the story about my object. 1430 rounds of ammu the public. story connected at the Army what you wrote was generally
friend Harold Hoffman. He nition were tired at the craft. The last two groups of Depot occurred the same time accepted," he said. "For tl1e most
and my father-in-law, Bob Unreal. it suffered no visible interested people I have talked period as Boh's and is also part, people seemed to feel it was
Quincel, arc good friends and damage. However, six people to about ufos, a very small written in the book. alltme."
fought in the South Pacific were killed from falling debris percentage had ever heard In summary, how many
during World War II. In the and heart attacks. Damage to about the Battle of Los other ufo sightings are out
news article Harold talks about buildings totaled thousands of Angeles. That is why I have there that are similar? I
the night of February 24. 1942. dollars. The objects were wit called this part of our "hidden believe many.
He states, "while on patrol at nessed by several thousand history." I know some people are
the airport, anti-aircraft fire people and were last seen over The movie " 1941 " pro scared of this subject. Because
suddenly came up as three Long Beach. duced by Steven Speilbcrg is the u fo phenomenon has been
Japanese Zeros flew right over Harold Hoffman was stand loosely based on the factual around for so many years, I
him as he stood guard. Only 24 ing guard at the Long Beach battle over Los Angeles. am more curious about it.
hours earlier, a Japanese sub Municipal Airport. He told us Speilbcrg is known to be inter Someone once noted, "any
marine had shelled oil tields at that he saw at least three ested in the ufo phenomenon. panic that might take place
Santa Barbara, California to objects in a V formation over Some of his movies are "Close because of ufo disclosure is
try and disrupt oil production. head. They were too high for Encounters of The Third Kind, because of the lack of knowl
In late June Jon fry and I the anti-aircraft fire to reach · "ET", and the recently edge."
went and interviewed Harold them. In thinking back he released "War of The Worlds." If you have questions about
at his home. He showed us the remembered he thought it was In studying the ufo phe the ufo phenomena please me
40th Infantry Division unit odd for them to be going so nomenon I have seen where at 477-6252 or e-mail him at 2
book in which the incident of slow and he could not see the some interesting ufo reports [email protected].
!Crownpoint
returned. Reports of UFOs ciln be trilced
To make sure she wasn't halluci back thousands nf years, even to iln
n<~ting, Jeff said she called her broth cient civilizations likt• Egypt iind
er, Tony, in D.1lton Pass and asked Babylon.
him to lnnk outsidt•.
!couple spots "He said he saw two lights fly Jeff said her husband didn't
ing ilbout," Jeff said. want her to tell ;~nyone about the
Crownpoint Police Capt. Steve unidentified lights. "I bet il lot of
Nelson s.1id no unidentified objects people see things, but are afriiid to
hilvc been reported to the police. He tillk about it," Jeff said. "It's kind of
!UFO twice could not remember ever hearing of cool, though. It's exciting. We'll def
.1 loc<~l UFO ~;igl1ting, Nt·lson said. initely be watching (Friday night) to
But Jeff knows she Silw somethng. see if they come bi1ck ;~gain."
"It Wilsn't a still', because it just
came' right out of the sky. It rotated,
...: and was very bright when it was
ffi By John Christian Hopkins "ft was kind ot scary at fir!;t.'' pointed ilt us," Jdf said. "And we
know what an airplane looks like,
0ff i DineC BRuOreaWu NPOINT - It was Wil st;h~iind gJ dlfik, ew thhoa th abse fnoereve."~T lsweeyn wanerye lwigeh ktsn oonw a t hpe!i ldnief.f"c n·nce between the
a. hilm Shahspeare, the erstwhile bright lights, kind of rotating." Rl·portings of unidentified flying
UJ Bard of Avon, who first wondered Tlw reddish-orange light,: first object:; are not uncommon. Some
~ "Wh;lt light thrc>ugh yondt'r win appeared from the west on Wednes UFOs have been reported by promi
- dow break~?" d<~y, she s;~id. After about a h<1lf nent schol.1rs. In 1949, Or. Clyde
The same question has come hour they vanished. Tt)mbaugh, the discoverer of the
once ilgain to New Mt•xico, ilnd no, "I reported it to tht• Air Force,"
f'tl.:tnct Pluto, reported seeing a UFO
not Shakespeare, N.M. Jeff s;~id. The following night, she
On Wednesday and Thursday s;~id, thcrt' were more ·planes than nver L.:ts Cruces; four Air Force offi
nights - both between 9:25 and 10 usual flying overhead. But about tTrs rt'pnrted an unidentified flying
p.m. - Stcphilnie Jeff of Crown 9:30 p.m. the strange lights again object over Tilns in 1.952; and several
point reported seeing bright rotat emerged from the western sky. mot<,rists reported seeing a brightly
ing lights appear suddenly in the When a plane came too close, Jeff lit sp<~ce craft land in a field near
sky and vanish ju!;t i'IS mysteriously. said, the li~hts went out and never Springer in 1996.
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JENNIFER P. BROWN I KENTUCKY NEW ERA
Kelly, a tiny town about five miles north of Hopkinsville, WiiS made famous by the Aug. 21, 1955, report of an alien invasion.
Lifeh asn't been easy since Limited edition spaceship
the aliens came calling among festival features
BVTONVA S. GRACE MORE COVERAGE PAGE 4,>'::~
BY JENNIFERP . BROWN. NEW ERA STAFF WRITER . - . f . ., '
NEW ERA SENIOR STAFF WRITER Paul Latham says he doesn't List of weekend festival
If Lonnie Lankford had been a little old necessarily believe in UFOs or actiyities and speakers.
er, his mother might not have pushed him aliens himself,·b ut he does hope
w1der the bed that night she thought she that people who see his spaceship
saw an alien outside her bedroom win believe it's real. ing of the movie "Plan 9 from Out
dow.· A 2005 graduate of Christian er Space" at 6 p.m. Thursday at
It was the evening of Aug. 21, 1955, and County High School, Latham de Hopkinsville Community Col
Glennie Lankford was trying to protect signed the 4 '/1-foot tall spaceship lege, and activities will continue
the children in the little farmhouse off for the upcoming Little Green through Sunday afternoon, when
Old Madisonville Road at Kelly. So, Lon Men Festival, and it will be used an "Out of this World" karoake
nie, who was 12 years old, was scrunched during the event as a backdrop for contest and bus tours to Kelly are
under the mattress with his brother, pictures. slated.
Charlton, 10, and sister, Mary, 5. Visitors to the festival may have Kelly, a rural community about
He never saw the little creatures that their picture taken with the ship five miles north of Hopkinsville,
frightened his mother and sent his older for $5, said Cheryl Cook, execu is the site of the legendary Aug.
half-brother, Elmer "Lucky" Sutton, run tive director of the Hopkinsville 21, 1955, invasion of the little
ning for a shotgun. Christian County Convention green men, where members of
But Lonnie Lankford heard plenty, both and Visitors Bureau. the Elmer "Lucky" Sutton family
. that night and in the days and weeks that The spaceship will be on display said battled 12 little men who
wfohllaotw deidd, a nadn dd idh en orte hmapaipnesn ecdl ethara ta nbioguhtt Lonnie Lankford, sittJiEnNgN IwFEiRt hP. BhRisO WdoN gJ K, EHNToUnCeKyY, N taEWlk EsR A aCto utnhtey CHoonpfekriennscvei lalen-dC Chorinsvtieann ' laAndt etdh ein t aim spea, ctheesh Sipu.t ton family 3
50 years ago. about the alien invasion his family reported 50 tion Center during the festival. said the 12little men were dressed
(continued on page 4) years ago this summer. The event kicks off with the show- (continued on page 4)
'Festival
(continued from psge 3 - KENTUCKY NEW ERA, Hopkinsville, KY - Aug. 13, 2005)
"He was one of the biggest liars in eluding Glennie, the three chil
dren, "Lucky" and his brother, activities
His mother·s aw a space crea J.C . Sutton, and Billy Ray, loaded
Hopkinsville, but he didn't lie about· that."
ture outside her window, not a up in a couple of vehicles and
cat or a monkey or a bird. There headed for Hopkinsville. The Little Green Men
were more in the yard and on the At the Hopkinsville Police De Festival debuts next week
roof. Lonnlt Lankford partment, they asked Police with the following events:
The creatures were sliver, not Said ofhls brother, Elmer~luckt Chief Russell Greenwell for
green. They were small, about 3 help. Thursday
feet tall, and had webbed hands Police officers, Kentucky state • Showing of the clas
and feet, and big round eyes,.
troopers and soldiers from Fort sic science fiction movie
Shots were fired at the crea Ad ifferent time Former Gov. A.B. "Happy" Campbell converged at the "Plan 9 from Outer
tures, but there was no raging Chandler campaigned· ·at the
gun battle that went on for In the summer of 1955, air con courthouse for another term in Lankford place that night and Space" at. 6 p.m. at the
hours. ditioning was rare in Christian office. His opponent, Bert searched for a spaceship and Hopkinsville Communi·
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in the Kentucky New Era, the · 4, 5 and 8, all out of Nashville, There was an outhouse in 'the had not crawled under the bed relative.
cwoomrlmd buenaitty a apbaotuht t o5 mKeillleys, an otirnthy Tniegnhnts. ,A t t7h eoy'c lowcka tocnh eSda tu"rTdahye banac oku. tWdoaoterr w healdl. to be toted from af"teI rw hiissh m I hoathde sre secnr eoanme oedf .t hem, ly• a lieEnx hinibciitdse onnt tahned K reel
of Hopkinsville. Lawrence Welk Show." Billy Ray Taylor, a visitor from but I didn't and I'm not going to lated topics will be on dis
The New York Daily News re ~ix movie theaters, including Pennsylvania and friend of lie about it," he said. play at the Hopkinsville
ported on its front page, "Space three drive-ins, were showing "Lucky" Sutton, was going to the It's hard to tell, Lonnie said, Christian County Confer
men Take Kentucky." Aheadline · westerns, romance stories, mon outhouse when he saw a light how many people have. made ence and Convention
in the Los Angeles Times read, ster movies and science fiction. . streak through the sky, said Lon money off the Kelly Green Men Center.
"Kentucky Gains New Fame." The Alhambra ·had "Rainbow nie, who related the story Friday since that night in 1955. It seems • Judging for a Kids'
Someone-maybe a headline Over . Texas," starring Roy at his home off U.S. 68 near the like everybody but hi!\ family Alien Costume Contest
writer - couldn't resist the Rogers, Dale Evans and Trigger. eastern edge of the Hopkinsville made something off the sto·ry. will take place at the con
word play on Kelly and Green, The Family Drive-In was show city limits. "Here I sit. broke and poor, and vention center at 6:30p.m.
and the little men changed col ing "Daltons Ride Again," and Taylor saw a spaceship land in I ain't made nothing off it," said Sponsored by the Hop
ors, from silver to green. (A the Skyway Drive-In had "Re a field of sagebrush, but he did Lonnie, who is disabled after kinsville Optimist Club,
French journalist, Yann Mege, venge of the Creature" and "Fly n't tell anybody what he saw years of manual labor. the contest will offer
who traveled to Hopkinsville in ing Saucers." when he returned to the house. He worked so many different prizes furnished by area
2000 to research the story, has the The Shrine Circus came to Then Lonnie's mother jobs, it's hard to list them all ... merchants for winners in
orized that the phrase "little town, featuring clowns, dancing screamed. She had seen a space roofer, gas· station attendant, categories for ages 3 t.o 5, 6
green men" originated from the dogs, elephants and ponies. Hop creature through the bedroom truck driver, saw mill hand. to 8, 9 to 11 and 12 to 14.
Kelly story.) · kinsville resident · Margaret window. "Lucky" ran for his But Lonnie still has a sense of • An intergalactic
The family, embarrassed by re Rash played the organ for the cir: double-barrel shotgun and fired humor about his family's brush trade show featuring
ports that they were drunk or cus. at the creature. It retreated, but -yvith fame. Three years ago, he "out-of-this world" para
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legend that grew over time. It apply for jobs at the.new Moe "Lucky" backed into the yard Next weel<:end, for the Little must be complete by 4 Fri
remains a classic chapter in Light Plant of Thomas Indus and saw four or five aliens on the Green Men Festival's Alien Ball, day. Folks may take down
the U.S. Air Force's "Project tries. roof. He frred a few shots. Again, he'd like to go as an alien. their booths no earlier
Blue Book," a catalogue of At Buddies restaurant next to the creatures seemed to retreat than 4 p.m~ Aug. 21. Cost
more than 12,000 UFO sight the fire station on East Ninth . but were not hurt. JENNIFER P. BROWN Gin be reached byt elephone at for booth space is $100 for
ings in the United States be Street, people paid 10 cents for a Later, according to the family's 887 · 3236 or by e-m.11l at · a 10x10 area, and an elec·
tween 1952 and 1969. hamburger. story, everybody in the house, in- [email protected]. trical connection is $10.
For more information,
call Betsy Bond or Cheryl
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Cook at 1-800-842-9959 or
FESTIVAL: Limited edition spaceship among features visit www.kellygreen
men.com.
• Dr. John McCubbin
(continued from page 3) ty, but I think a lot of our local County businessman who and a trade show featuring para will present "What is Am·
people are curious as well." talked to one of the farmhouse phernalia, gifts, trinkets, food ateur Astronomy in the
in silver suits, although the de Cook said the festivities will · occupants not long after the en and keepsakes. 21st Century?" at 8 p.m.
scription has evolved over time include a symposium featuring counter. Cook noted that organizers Friday at the convention
to become the little green men visiting speakers Dr. Joe Nick Hopkinsville-Christian Coun· may have similar events in the center. McCubbin is web·
commonly referred to today. ell, a paranormal investigator ty historian William T. Turner future if this weekend's event is master for the Halfmom1
Cook said plans for the festival from the University of Ken also has been invited to be a part successful. Observatory website
honoring the local legend began tucky; George Fawcett, a UFO of the panel, and Turner, a re The festival already has cap· www.ccctastrophotogra
about five years ago when a investigator and lecturer; and tired history professor at Hop turect the interest of numerous phy.com. Additionally,
newspaper ar.ticle was pub Peter Davenport, who is execu kinsville Community College, folks who have been visiting In Ross Workman will give a
lished mentioning the little tive director of the National will be available during the ternet Web·sites to get informa presentation on "Ama·
green men and the soth anniver. UFO Reporting Center. weekend as well to tell the story tion about it, and Cook said or teur Telescopes." Work
sary of the spaceship la,nding. A panel discussion also will of the Kelly incident during ganizers have tried to link to man previously operated
"I kind of sat straight up in highlight the events of the Kelly Sunday's bus tours. esivteer ayv paoilsasbilbel.e UFO and festival the planetarium at the
bed and said, 'We've got to have a incident, with local folks who Both the panel discussion and Latham said he believes the Land Between the Lal<es
festival."' Cook said as she re were either at the site in 1955 or symposium will take place on Sat festival is a good idea for some recreational area.
called her reaction to the article involved in some other aspect of urday at the convention center. folks. • Local amateur as
written by former Kentucky the incident slated to be on hand Other events will include an "I don't necessarily believe tronomers will have tele
New Era staff writer and man to discuss their memories of ·~wm Abductions" event host· there are UFOs or aliens out scopes set up at 9 p.m. so
aging editor Rob Dollar. that time. ed by the Kentucky Circuit there," said Latham, who bnilt that interested partici·
Cook said news of the upcom Among those who have been Court Clerk's Trust for Life the festival spaceship together pants can see stars and
ing festival has generated a huge invited as panel guests are Charity to raise funds for organ with his father, Danny Latham. planets. the moon and
response, although she isn't Geraldine Stith and Elmer Sut and tissue donor awareness, an "But i.t will be something for the other deep sky objects.
sure how many people will at ton Jr., children of Lucky Sutton alien costume contest for chil· community to do, and it will
tend the event. who were at the Suttori .home dren hosted by the Hopkinsville bring people together." Aug. 20
"We don't know what to ex that night, Lonnie Lankford; a Optimist Club, a "Space Jam" 1ti Intergalactic trade
pect," she said. "We think it's go Christian County man who also alien ball that will feature music TONYA S. GRACE Cr1nh e ~e~ched by telephone ,11 show from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
ing to be larger than life. We'll was at the home on that night from the 1960s and '70s, a pres 887-3238'o r by r-111,111 at at the convention center.
have a lot of the UFO communi- and Philip Mullins, a Christian entation on amateur astronomy tgrr1Ce(q)kemuckyneww.com. • The panel discussion
and question-ai1d-answer
session "What Really 4
Happened in Kelly?" is
slated for 9 a.m. tn 110on nt
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Hopkinsville, KY - Aug. 13, 2005)
the convention center. will offer an "Out of This Aug. 21
Among the guests who World Evening of Music" • The intergalactic
h::.ve been invited as pan- begim1ing at 7:30p.m. on trade show continues
elists are Geraldine Stith the campus of University from noon to 4 p.m. at the
and Elmer Sutton Jr.. who Heights · Academy at convention center.
were among the 11 people North Drive. "Grass • Registration for an
at the farmhouse on the Roots" tickets are $8 each "Out of This World"
night of the encounter for those who want to Karaoke Contest begins
and several local resi- bring lawn chairs, blan- at noon at the convention
dents who were there that kets or quilts, while tables center. The contest starts
night or who have ac- of eight are $120 each for at 1 p.m. and offers prizes
quired extensive knowl- folks who want to deco- for ages 13 to 17 and ages
edge of the legend. rate tables and serve their 18 and older ($150 for first
• An afternoon sympo- own food. For tickets or place and $50 for second
sium at the convention tables, call887-4295 or vis- place in each category).
center will feature Dr. Joe it the Pennyroyal Arts The event will be present-
Nickell, a paranormal in- Council office at the L&N ed by the House Party
vestigator at the Univer- Depot downtown. The Karaoke and DJ Service
sity of Kentucky; speak- event will take place at and is sponsored by the
ing at noon, George Faw- the HCC auditorium on Hopkinsville Newcomers
cett, a UFO lecturer and North Drive if it rains. Club.
investigator, at 1:30 p.m., • The Cruisers from • Bus tours to Kelly
and Peter Davenport, the Louisville will be the fea- sponsored by .Jeff New-
executive director of the tured band for a "Space ton and Genesis.Tours be-
National UFO Reporting Jam" Alien Ball slated for ginning at 12:30 p.m. Four
Center, at 2:30p.m. 9 a.m. Saturday until 1 1'1.-hour tours will be of-
• "Monsters of the a.m. Sunday at the con- fered, featuring historian
UFO," a documentary vention center. Tickets William T. Turner talking
that features the Kelly in- can be purchased at the about the Kelly UFO en-
cident. will be shown at 4 door at a rate of $25 per counte1~ To purchase tick-
p.m. at the convention couple or $15 for singles. ets, call 1-800-842-9959 or
center. Refreshments . will be stop by the Hopkinsville-
• The musical event available. The event is be- Christian County Com-
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"Picnic With the Pops," ing sponsored by the Oak merce Center at 2800 Fort
featuring the Owensboro Grove Tourism Commis- Campbell Blvd.
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A Penny Altendorf walks through the crop circles made near the Northwood (N.D.)
Municipal Airport on Friday. The wheat near the circles has been harvested this week
but the farmer left a border around the crop circles.
Northwood abuzz
about crop circles
Crop circles? I bet you thing," he said.
never thought you'd see those Grady Thorsgard, another
words appear in one of my Northwood area farmer, also
columns. Or, maybe you did. doesn't want to believe that it
Either way, crop circles in was aliens that created the
a grain field just south of the crop circles.
Northwood Municipal Airport He's leaning more towards
have caused a lot of commo humans or Mother Nature, in
tion in the Northwood, N.D., the form of some kind of
area. twister.
The question that's on ev ''People say that nature
eryone's mind is, are the crop Rona K. couldn't do it, but I think that
eire les the work of aliens or God's got a sense of humor
hooligans? Or, was it the work Johnson too," he said.
of Mother Nature? Penny Altendorf like every
Gary Butz, a retiree and body else, has no idea how
the crop circles were formed,
airplane pilot, took to the sky
but she's just as curious as
in his Cherokee 140 when he
the next person.
heard about the crop circles
Altendorf, whose husband
to get a better look. He
brought a friend along to take Doesn't owns Northwood Aero-Spray
at the airport, did the same
pictures of the phenomenon. make sense
thing that I did when I heard
He believes the crop cir
Brian Erickson who rents about the crop circles
cles showed up Sunday morn
the field where the circles ap jumped on the Internet.
ing, but others say the crop
peared, doesn't understand, if And after reading several
circles appeared as early as
the circles were created by articles on crop circles, nei
Friday of last week.
aliens, why did they land in ther one of us feels we are ex
"I'm not saying this is le
his field? perts in the field.
git," he said. "I'm not saying it
"If I was an alien, I "Everyone has their own
isn't."
wouldn't have landed in a theory," she said. "It's just
But curiosity got the best {)f
wheat field, I would have there, whether it happened
him and he went out to the landed on the airport run on its own or someone did it."
field to measure the circles. way," he said. Butz doesn't care how the
He paced the largest circle Erickson, who harvested crop circles were formed, but
and determined it was 66 feet the field but left a buffer zone as a member of the airport
in diameter. around the crop circles, isn't board, he's just happy to see
"Being a disbeliever Cin saying that it was aliens who all the attention the crop cir
aliens, that is), I was looking made the circles, but he's per cles have attracted.
for a stake mark in the mid plexed. "I'm on the airport board
dle of the circle," Butz said. "They are perfectly round, and I want more people to
But he didn't find anything just like if you took out a tape come out here and fly," he
that looked like a stake had measure," he said. "How do said. "Uh, oh, now it sounds
been pounded in the ground. you flatten it to keep it from like I did it. But if you knew
Because the circles are per popping back up?" me you'd know that I'm too
fectly round, Butz figured Erickson said he and his lazy to do that."
whoever, or whatever, cre hired hand joked that they Johnson reports on local
ated them would have needed should look over their shoul news and writes a weekly col 6
to stake out the center and ders for aliens as they har umn. Reach her at (701)
use something that was about vested the field. 780-1229; [phone], ext.
33 feet long to smash down "But we didn't see any- 229; or Jjohnson@gfhe
the grain. rald.com.
HERALD, Portsmouth, NH • July 31, 2005
Navy veteran knows what he saw: a UFO
'Odds are there's silver-cigar shaped object in the in the sky. He was preparing his Exeter in Louisburg Circle, a
day's sky on July 20. lawnmower, and after tilting his wooded development with about
intelligent life For those who don't believe the head back to take a sip from a 20 houses surrounding a cui de
20-plus year Navy veteran, who glass of water, he saw the object in sac.· The incident occurred at
outside of Earth' wished to be identified as "David," the sky that he could only about 3:15 p.m., and David said
his response during an interview describe as a UFO - an unidenti after the object disappeared, he
on Thursday was, ''I'm a pragmatic fied flying object. looked to see if any other neigh
By Adam Dolqe individual. If you were there with But David is alone with his bors were outside and witnessed
adolqelilseacoastonllne.com me in the yard, you would have account, and so far, no one else what he saw, but no one was
EXETER -TI1ere's been a flurry seen it." has come forward saying they around.
of responses to the Exeter man who It was a hot and humid after saw the same object in the sky.
witnessed what he described as a noon when David saw the object He lives on the west side of
The Exeter Police
Department has not received
any calls regarding the incident.
Also, the Federal Aviation
Administration did not see any
thing out of the ordinary on
radar that day.
But David still has no doubt
what he saw. An artist's rendi
tion depicts what he saw that
day in the sky.
David said the object was as
large as two aircraft carriers. It
was long and silver, with win
dows equally spaced around its
center. After what felt like sever
al minutes, he said the object
started changing colors to an
orange-red and similar-colored
flames billowed from under
neath. But there was no smoke
or noise. TI1e object eventually
stretched to double its size and
disappeared.
After the incident, he realized
a neighbor's dog had been bark
ing and the glass of water he
was drinking was on the
ground. At one point, he
thought to run in the house to
grab a camera, but hesitated
because he was stunned to see
something like that in the sky.
He reported what he saw to
Peter Davenport, director of the
National UFO Reporting Center lmaqe courtesy of Anqela Gram
in Seattle. Davenport took his An artist's rendition depicts what "David" saw in the sky on Wednesday, July 20. from his Exeter home. The picture shows a large object shaped like a
account very seriously because "silver cigar," as David says it appeared just before the object vanished - twice the size at which he first viewed it. with flames billowing underneath.
of David's military history and
the details of his account. one of the spy planes he flew in, Exeter first made in Kensington. Their worker and his social worker
Davenport said he was a little and a photo of that plane signed accounts of the sighting were wife. TI1ey appeared on
disappvinted no others have by his colleagues when he alien radar screen documented in a book titled, national television. John
come forward with similar retired in March 1997. His com 'The Incident at Exeter." Fuller documented their
accounts since the object was so puter is full of photographs of with reports Years before that sighting, experience in his book,
large. He was also concerned different jets, and he can easily Barney and Betty Hill, a cou "Interrupted Journey." 1l1e
because David could not be con be desctibed as a flight enthusi in the 1960s ple from Portsmouth, claimed former Look magazine pub
tacted for days afterward. He ast. they were abducted by aliens lished a two-part excerpt of
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trying to get media attention. officers and a hitchhiker They both gave identical refer to the Hills' encounter
"It could have been phony, and named Norman Muscarello, accounts while they were as the door that opened a
I haven't heard anything yet that who was with them at the hypnotized. national debate on abduc
has changed my mind," he said. time. claimed to have seen a The adventure brought tjons.
Besides the report David filed UFO hovering over Route 101 media attention to the postal -Adam Dolge
with the National UFO
Reporting Center, Geremia said
he would have liked to interview
him as well and file a formal TIMES-COURIER, Charleston, IL • Aug. 25, 2005 CR: J. Scarpellini
report with his organization's
headquarters in Morrison, DON'T SEE THIS EVERY DAY
Colo.
Geremia said he takes sever
al accounts of sightings each Pictured Is dam
year. Once he gets in touch age to crops In an
with the witness, he inter area cornfield. A
views him or her and reviews a Coles County
topographical map of where farmer reported a
the witness saw the reported recent Incident of
vandalism to his
UFO. He then takes a Polaroid
picture of where the witness fields Involving
saw the object and has the wit two circles of flat
ness draw what the object tened corn stalks,
looked like on the photo. Then one large and the
the witness fills out a two-page other smaller. The
UFO sighting form. Geremia vandalism was
then files the report to reported Wednes
Colorado. day morning to
Some of Davenport's and the Coles County
Geremia's initial skepticism Sheriff's Depart
regarded David's military back ment after It was
ground. David said he has about discoVered earlier
10,000 hours of flight experi In the week. A
ence. He joined the Navy at the deputy at the
age of 18 in 1975. As a former scene said he Is
flight engineer, the retired Navy not aware of the
chief petty officer said he's seen department
just about everything that can encountering van
fly. dalism of this
At the interview Thursday at kind before dur
his home, he showed his numer Ing the past 30
ous medals and awards, his old years. 7
flight suit, his user manual for
KtNin Kllhoffer/
Staff Photographer
INDEPENDENT, Gallup, NM -Aug. 23, 2005
planation .of wh~t he saw in the pho
tos was a spaceship that was having
some problems and had to make a NEW5-LETTER, Exeter, NH -Aug. 2, 2005
forced landing. .
On Monday, he called Lyle Jeff
and quizzed him on what he saw
and went and got directions to his
house so he could make a detailed
investigation of the area to see if
something did in fact land in the
fields· near the Navajo community.
There have been other landings
of alien spacecraft reported in UFO
circles over the year and he said he
knew what to look for - scorched
earth in the form of a circle, show
ing where the spacecraft landed and
then took off. And signs of radiation
that . had been emitted from the
spacecraft as it landed.
"Maybe it never did take off," he
said. "Maybe it's possible that the
craft is still there on the ground."
No matter what people saw and
think they saw, Allen said the sight
ings deserved to be thoroughly in
vestigated to try to determine its
origins, not only for the sake of the
people who looked up into the night
sky last week and saw something
strange, but because of the millions
of people who will be hearing of this
over the next week.
A Los Angeles radio station has
already talked to Allen after hearing
of these reports, and he said he will
be interviewed on the station for an
hour today on what was seen and
how it may be greeted by UFO ex
perts and fans in corning weeks,
months and years.
But Allen said that if it was ob
served over several nights last
week, it still may be around or oth
ers like it.
And to see them, all one has to
do is something that Allen has been
doing for years - watch the night
skies.
8
··FOREIGN- NEWS
(All British clippings courtesy of Timothy Good, unless otherwise credited.]
DAILY NEWS, Prince Rupert, B.C., Canada-Aug. 16, 2005 CR: G. Conway
OPINION
Has anyone else
seen these ·uFOs'?
To the editor,
I have now seen UFOs over Prince
Rupert three times and I'm wondering if
others have had similar experiences.
My first sighting was on June 20, 1996.
At 12:12 p.m. when I took four photos and
half a minute of video of the UFO from my
living room window, I reported it to
UFOBC and other places.
The second one was on Oct. 25, 2004.
At 9:30 a.m. l was just leaving my
driveway when I saw the oval shaped silver
object toward the southeast just above
Mount Hays, about 15 degrees up. The
object was very shiny and it was traveling
slowly toward the southeast. I observed the
object for seven or eight seconds before it
was gone over and behind Mount Hays.
The third one was on July 23, 2005 at 7
p.m. From my driveway, I saw this red
object in the sky toward the southeast at 15
degrees up over Mount Hays. The object
was travelling slowly to the northeast
toward Mount Oldfield.
I asked my cousin Jerry who was sitting looked like it was slowly rocking back and the picture, this other UFO was about 12
in my truck at the time, to keep track of the forth. Then I went back to my truck to grab degrees above and further North of the one
object while I was going back and forth to my digital video Camcorder. That's when I snapped a picture of. The other two photos
the truck for my cameras and my 7x50 mm we both lost sight of the UFO. showed just the one UFO in them.
binoculars. I know I made a mistake by grabbing my The weather was cloudy over Mount
First I took two pictures of this red UFO binoculars instead of my camcorder, at least Hays that day. The object was two thousand
with my Sony Cyber-Shot 3.2 Mega Pixel I could have zoomed it in with my yards· away from us and we had it in view
digital camera, then I went back and got camcorder while it was rocking back and for about seventy-five seconds.
my old Minolta camera with a 70 to 210 forth and to' see where this thing went to. If anyone has similar experiences I
Zoom lens and I took three more pictures Anyway, when I got my three photos would love to hear from them at
of the craft. Then I went back and got my developed from my old Minolta camera, I alien@ ci tytel. net.
7x50 mm binoculars. When I looked could see that there where two UFOs in the People can also report sightings at
through my binoculars I could see that the first photo I took. www.ufobc.ca.
object stopped for a few seconds and it I did not see this other UFO when I took Frank Robinson
TIMES, Irvine, Scotland -April29, 2005
No\N is this really a UFO?
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PROSPECTIVE Labour candidate Brian Donohoe broke off his 1.------------------------i
election campaign at the weekend ... to chase a UFO. :
Irvine man and Central Ayrshire contender Brian was in his motor 1 EH-X FILE:
when he spotted the mysterious blue object hovering overhead. Brian's picture
Bnan. who is the only Scottish member of the Commons' taken on the
transport committee. immediately grabbed his camera and took snaps road from
of the unidentified flying object before it vanished.
Kilwinning.to
The 56-year-old father of two was on his way from Kilwinning to
Irvine (SP)
Irvine when the UFO appeared over the Warrix Interchange.
Brian said: "Other drivers ahead of me saw it too and swerved to
h<1vc a look -there was quite a traffic jam. Then it disappeared.
··1 drove <1round a bit but the thing vanished. /\t first I thought it
was just a plane. it could have been a kite. but I've never seen
anything like it."
Expert Ron Halliday said the sighting was quite close to Britain's
UFO hotspot. West Kilbride.
He said: "There has been quite a lot of activity there. These
p1cturcs are quite clear and they are definitely worth further
mvestigation ...
eAre you the Unidentified Flying Object. C~tllus on either 01294
Z7 J411 or 464J11 and ask for the editorial desk.
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PROVINCE, Vancouver, B.C., Canada - March 6, 2005 CR: G. Conway
The light on the disk In Hannah Roberts' photo suggests a sun position behind the camera, which Is consistent with the picture's overall light pattern. HANNAH MCROBERTS -FOR THE PROVINCE
B.C. UFO picture 'best in the world'
or Vancouver Island woman's photo remains a mysterious treasure
TEST TIME:
BY CARRIE WEST oped photo, she says, she contact
SPECIAL TO THE PROVINCE ed the Canadian Forces 13ase in
Comox, where they rook her name
More than two decades ago, Han and number.
nah McRoberts, a young wife and "I never heard from them again,"
mother, snapped a picture of a says McRoberts.
mountain near Kelsey Bay on Van McRoberts waited eight months
couver Island. before showing the picture to
A small puff of cloud made it look experts at the MacMillan Planetar
like the mountain was spewing ium in Vancouver.
steam. She thought it looked inter An American UFO researcher,
esting. When she developed her Richard Haines, spent two days
film, it looked really interesting. It with McRoberts and her family in
looked as though a flying saucer 1983. He considered possible expla
had appeared in the photograph. nations, including double exposures
And today, this image, taken on · and scratches on the fLim. l-Ie con
Oct. 8,1901, remains British Colum ducted experiments around the
bia's most famous Unidentified Fly possibility that the object was a f-ris
ing Object photo. bee, but concluded this was high
McRoberts figures it's been repro ly unlikely.
duced in books, magazines, televi Also, the photos snapped imme
sion shows and websites close to diately before and after the one with
100 times worldwide-from the strange flying disk were taken
Microwft and BBC websites, to chil in different locations, meaning that
dren's books and strange-but-true if the picture was a hoax, there was
television programs. only one attempt to capture it on
"It's been published in Time-Life that roll of ftlm.
books," says McRoberts. "That kind
of authenticates it, too, for them to
publish it." "In my humble opinion, the
The Province published her pho Hannah McRoberts photo is
to and story amid a flurry of inter the best credible UFO
est at the time, says McRoberts, but
photo in the world."
now she only gets a phone call from
a journalist or interested party every -Gavin McLeod, president of
couple of years. UFO British Columbia
"My name will always be in print
with that picture," says McRoberts.
"I3ut I'm certainly not wealthy or Haines also considered the cred
famous or anything for ic." ibility of McRoberts and her fami
McRoberts, who still lives in ly (McRoberts says he grilled every
Campbell River, says she hasn't had one when he visited in 19!:13).
any other close encounters. And she At the time, her husband worked
maintains to this day that her pecu in a lumber mill in Campbell Riv
liar photo wasn't a hoax. er. Haines described the McRoberts
'/\bsolutely not," says McRoberts, family as "middl~-class, hard-work
without hesitation. ing people" and McRoberts herself
McRoberts' presumably acciden as a "mature adult with high cred
tal photo has become internation ibility." He also credited the family
ally famous in UFO circles, accord with not trying to instantly capital
ing to Gavin McLeod, president of ize on the photo, which heightened
UFO British Columbia, a 10-year her believability.
old non-profit organization. Today, MCRoberts charges for the
Most other photographs or videos use of her photo through a service
of UFOs can be explained, he says. in England. The Province paid $90
Many are out-of-focus airplanes, for the two pictures above.
stars or bright planets like Venus. McRoberts currently works in an
Hoaxsters use pot lids or Frisbees adult daycare facility. She says she's
to convince the gullible. Hannah McRoberts displays her picture In the most farr1ous publication to use It, a Time-Life book called Allen shy about the UFO photo, but her
But because experts examined the Encounters. JERITT BOOMER I STRATHCONA PHOTOGRAPHY-FOR rHE PROVINCE husband "kind of brags about it."
McRoberts photo and the image of "It happened so long ago," says
the apparent tlying saucer appears credible UFO photo In the world," McRoberts' own credibility. At the northern tip of Vancouver Island. McRoberts. "lt's not that important
relatively clear, McLeod says it's says McLeod. time, she was 26 years old, snap McRoberts says she never saw any to me anymore. Life goes on. and
well-known internationally. Whether or not McRoberts' pho . ping pictures with her husband and flying object in the sky that day. It things go on."
"In my humble opinion, the Han tograph is the best, it is considered 18-month-old daughter on her way only appeared after her film was On the web: www.ufobc.ca/
nah McRoberts photo is the best believable in part because of to visit her sister in Holberg. on the developed. After seeing the devel- History/ 1980/kelsey.htm
UFO boffin baffled at
RAF base sightings
By Oliver Cartwright
incident that occurred in the of the five per cent of cases
A real-life Fox Mulder who spent years looking into mystery UFO ~~~ hours of March 31, where logical explanations
sightings across Britain has revealed one of the most sensational cases had been ruled out.
heN eivcekr Pinovpee,s twighaote wd awsa as iUnF SOh rdoepsskh iorfef.i cer for the Ministry .of Defence cUuf"lOmTh inesiaregtih hntaigdn ~ mbse ettnhh aae t w danivirgee hcottf recEeaivches yeharu ndtrheed s MOoDf
from 1991 to 1994 has said an incidentatRAF Shawburywh1ch sparked overflight_ of two milita~J~ ~~~~!~~~ ~i~~-tings con·
a wave of sigh tin~ was one of the most important of his career. bases, RAF Cosford and RAF During his time with Sec
The Freedom of Infor Shawbury." retariat 2a Mr Pope had to
mation Act, which came Jumbo see if there was evidence of n
into force on January 1, He said the UFO was threat to the UK.
STAR, Shropshire, England - Feb. 17, 2005 has paved the way for described to him by one of On his website he said
secret MOD files to be the military witnesses as ~o~h~ig~~~~:~tific~~i~~t ~f
Smhaadwe bauvrayi lafbillee haansd jtuhset scbmreuianfltgl e ·ra t oh"navlnya as tJ,u mmtraibraogn jigenuta"ll.al yr eonrd ai.n ary objects or phenom·
been uncovered. Mr Pope said: "It flew The conunon culprits mis·
On Mr Pope's website slowly over the base at n taken for UFOs were air·
www.Tiickpope.rul he Rpeaks height of around 200ft, fir craft lights, satellites,
of his time with Secretariat ing a narrow beam of light at meteors and airships.
(Air Staffi 2a where he was the ground before flying ofT 10
responsible for researching ot high speed."
and investigating extra ter He said he had been a
restrial phenomenon. complete sceptic before
He says: "One of the most starting the job, but the
sensational ca~es I ever Shawbury incident was one
investigated related to an