UFO Newsclipping Service 2007 02 no 451

2007·18.2 MB·English

NEWSCLIPPING
SERVICE
February 2007
Number 451
EDITOR/PUBLISHER: Lucius Farish #2 Caney Valley Drive Plumerville, AR 72127-8725 USA
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Alleged alien space craft have been photographed for decades. Above and below are a few examples of UFOs from around the world.
MONTANA
State a UFO hotspot READER
dating back to 1950s
STORIES
By STACY HASLEM
Tribune Staff Writer
The story goes something Folks have been reporting
like this: UFO sightings from all around
The date was March 16, the Big Sky State since the
1967. Missile maintenance early 1950s.
crews from Malmstrom Air Here's a look at some of the
Force Base were camped out at more recent sightings, which
a missile site about 30 miles were submitted by Tribune
north of Lewistown. readers:
Suddenly an alarm hom
Not an aircraft
sounded.
A Minuteman missile had
What I saw wasn't much,
gone off alert and become inop
but it stuck with me in a big
erable. Upset and believing that
way. I didn't even share it with
the maintenance personnel had
my father until 1995, and we
failed to tell him they were
have both been following
doing work that would create
sightings and cattle phenome
this "off-alert" warning, a first
na for years.
lieutenant called the missile
My parents' home is on
site.
Clark Avenue in Great Falls
He didn't get the response
and their kitchen window used
he was expecting.
to have a wonderful view of
An on-site security guard
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the missile that morn were down. SEE RAY objects and quickly scrambled but at the time I was more con
ing. A UFO hovering About 20 miles southeast at to record the incident on the cerned with burying what I
over the site was a the Oscar flight, a topside air 16-mm camera he kept in his saw deep in my mind.
more likely culprit, man reported to his below KELLY'S glove box. The "Montana I was up early one fall Sun
ground crew commander that Movie," as it came to be day morning during the early
he said.
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going off-line The commander didn't take More recently, a series of boy for the early mass at
the report seriously and told the mysterious cow mutilations has Saints Peter and Paul quite
as well.
Within sec airman to call back if anything It's short but sweet. locals baffled and questioning regularly, I often found myself
onds, the more significant happened. www.greatfallstribune.com/Ufo whether space aliens have per making a quick breakfast -
After a few minutes, the air haps paid us another visit. Cream of Wheat that morning.
other
man called again, clearly fright It was cooking on the stove as
nine ened and shouting: "Sir, there's INSIDE UFOs are for real I stood in front of the window
mis
siles- one hovering outside the front and admired the stack.
gate!" It's a fact: UFOs are out What I saw didn't last more
"One what?" there. Astronomers, scientists, than three or four seconds.
"A UFO. It's just sitting there. More reader stories and government officials and ufolo The objects appeared about
We're all looking at it. What do other alleged Montana gists all agree on that. The dis the size of a slightly elongated
you want us to do?" encounters are on 2-3L pute is whether little green or pencil lead. One of them came
Moments later, several other gray or purple men are piloting in from the east and the other,
Oscar missiles were down as these aircraft, if that's even from the west. They passed
well. what the objects are. each other almost due north of
way back," said Jeff Goodrich, Ray Kelly, owner of Kelly the stack, and traveled on until
This report and others state director of the Montana Signs, always has been a it appeared they circled back
like.it have made north chapter of the Mutual UFO believer and even has a few toward one another. They
central Montana a UFO Network (MUFON). sightings to boot. passed one another again, and
hot spot dating back A video recording of two "I've always felt this universe once again it appeared they
to the 1950s. bright, silvery objects zipping is just too vast for us to be the circled back toward each
· "It's been a pret- around the sky on Aug. 15, only people or living crea other. This last time, however,
ty active area, and 1950, brought national atten tures," he said. they didn't pass each other.
there are a Jot of tion to the Electric City. Kelly's first sighting came in They stopped right next to
world-docu Nick Mariana, general man the 1990s. As he pulled into his each other, as I could see a
mented sight ager of the Great Falls Electrics
ings going baseball team, noticed the (continued on psge 2j _ See READERS.
(continued on psge 3)
include weather balloons, plan
ets, meteors, iridescent goose
wings, and lenticular clouds,
which actually resemble flying
saucers.
He added that hallucinations
and optical illusions also play
tricks on the brain.
"Our brain works in a linear
fashion," he said, adding he
-teaches his UGF students to
·think in a nonlinear fashion and
manages to change most of their
minds regarding flying saucers
by the end of the semester.
Though Alt doesn't believe
space aliens are visiting the
Earth, he believes they exist.
"I'm absolutely convinced
there is intelligent life in the uni
verse outside the Earth," he said.
However, Alt theorizes that
the amount of energy, time and
food it would take to visit the
Earth would not be worth it to
any species. He said the nearest
star system is about 4 Vz light
years away, which would mean a
10-years roundtrip for a vehicle
traveling at the speed of light.
And for what purpose? Ten
years is a lot of time just to satis
fy curiosity, he said.
Alt added there's no good rea
_son why aliens would collect
TRIBUNE PHOTO/ STUART S. WHITE samples of unintelligent animals
Ray Keily has captured images of unidentified flying objects on video. See the video at www.greatfallstribune.com/ufo. like cows, noting the missing
cow pieces wouldn't provide
much information about repro
ducing the animal. He believes
people, perhaps cult members,
"The va5t majority of them are are responsible.
misidentified known objects,
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up. works for a civilian contractor at Kelly doesn't have a theory on
Some years later, Kelly took MAFB. "I think a small number the cattle mutilations, but he
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activity in the outer rim, the the Montana sightings. But with a passing behind limbs of a tree
ory suggests. dwindling statewide membership and then eventually getting lost
"These objects are kind of (currently eight members), in the garble. .
invisible to the naked eye until Goodrich said it's impossible to "I got pretty excited about it,"
they fly into the corona," Kelly investigate every report. Kelly said. "I showed my wife
said. "The ones that are more wor right away."
Sure enough, Kelly captured thy of investigation are daylight He reported the incident to
glowing objects of all shapes and sightings of metallic objects," he MUFON and the "Coast to
sizes moving at different speeds said. "They are much fewer in Coast" radio program, but it did
and directions in and out of the number." . n't amount to anything. He did
corona. He also recorded what Goodrich said that when folks o 't pursue the effort further
he believes to pe two UFOs trav see a UFO they either should fill becaOse he was satisfied enough.
eling across the sky. One moves out the sighting report form "I finally saw one," he said.
on a straight west-to-east plane. online at www.mufon.org or call "I'm happy."
The other flies the same direc the National UFO Reporting Kelly believes humans are
tion but instantly changes direc Center (NUFORq tele being observed by other life
tions at two different intervals. phone hotline, 206-722- forms from other planets or even
3000, in Davenport, dimensions.
UFO mania Wash. "A lot of these could be gov
Goodrich said local ernment secret propulsion pro
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and public relations offi And he doesn't believe UFOs
and pilot named Kenneth Arnold and had a flashing light on one Chouteau, Teton and Pondera
reported nine mysterious objects end. Later that month a Sidney counties. cers at Malmstrom usu pose any threat to himself, his
flying around Mount Rainier in resident reported a white ball of The most recent reported muti- ally direct UFO-related family or mankind in general.
Washington. He described them fire with towering red columns lation occurred on Oct. 9 of this calls to MUFON or "I'm not afraid .... as long as
as flying close together, saying rising up and green lights pro- year on a ranch in Valier. There NUFORC. The NUFORC hotline I'm not a cow," he said ..
their movement reminded him of jecting from the base moving are·similarities to the mutilations is staffed 24n, so it may be the Reach Tribune Staff Writer Stacy
a rock or saucer skipping across slowly across the sky. of three decades ago. better route, he said. Haslem at "791-1490, 800-438-6600
the top of water. He is credited Several UFO reports have What's left behind has raised· And while Great Falls has a or at [email protected].
for coining the term "flying come from MAFB and its missile doubt that the killings were reputation for some of the more
saucers." sites. caused by humans or credible UFO reports, Goodrich
Following Arnold's sighting The investigation that followed predators. said folks aren't going to get
and the alleged crash at RoSwell, the 1967 missile incidents turned Often the tongue, an much attention without a photo
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alien occupants were recovered number of airmen as well as the with a portion of the really go very far as far as reach
in July 1947, flying saucer mania deputy launch controller from udder, the genitals and ing a firm scientific conclusion,"
began. The interest and curiosity that day have come forward to the anus. Facial skin is he said.
in UFOs paired with the looming credit UFOs. However, the Air scraped off with great
threat of nuclear attack by the Force reportedly maintains that precision, and the Hogwash!
Soviet Union had people nation no UFO incident ever has affect- exposed bones are squeaky-
wide and across Montana looking ed national security. . clean. Many of the animals are Arthur Alt, the author. of the .
toward the heavens. P ublic affairs officials at drained of blood. There is no Tribune's:daily Skywatcli col
\Vhiie the government opened Mah'nstrom say the base doesn't mess, no footprints and no one umn-who has a doctorate in sci
an official investigation of UFOs, have any records related to hear5 a sound. ence education and nine other
more reports trickled in from all UFOs. What's even more bizarre, hun- degrees, doesn't believe aliens
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two Great Falls men reportedly UFOs come in all shapes, sizes The early cases from around inhabitants an-dflying away with
saw a silvery mass over the east and colors and travel at various the nation prompted a federally cow teat souvenirs.
em horizon near Geyser. They ·speeds. Some are desctibe_d as funded investigation that resulted "Everybody on this planet sees
said the large, oblong object had balls of light that explode m the in a 300-page report concluding UFOs - unidentified flying
a long tail and flew extremely sky. Others resemble flying ca':5. the cows were killed by natural objects," said Alt, a science pro
high. It vanished over the west- Of course, there also are cun- predators. Even still, ideas swarm fessor at the University of Great
em horizon in about ous reports of what '"visitors" about the mysteries, some point- Falls. "That does not translate
eight seconds. The ~al­ leave behind. ing fingers at satanic cults, gov into little green men flying
lowing week two Air ernment or military conspiracies spaceships. There is not one sin
Force veterans report Alien forensics? gle solid thread of evidence that
and, of course, space aliens.
ed six amber-colored they exist."
objects flying over Great The first Montana report of a Local UFO group Alt doesn't think the people
Falls, passing each other at mutilated cow came from the who report UFOs are gullible or 2
alternate intervals. Sand Coulee area in August 1974. Various groups have formed ate telling tall tales. Rather they
1n November 1957, a Great In the few years that followed, over the years to investigate just have a hard time identifying
Falls woman reported seeing an sheriffs deputies investigated UFO sightings, of which a major what they see. Some of the
oblong, illuminated object that more than 65 mutilation reports ity are re-classified as IFOs, or explanations he offered for the
was twice as large as the moon from Cascade, Judith Basin, identified flying objects. misidentified objects in the sky
again surveyed our surroundings, 50nm circular flight pattern, we
NUFORC we noticed the three stars from could see discs trailing the trian
disappeared. There was no sound the week previous in the exact gle, all moving independently. We
throughout the incident. same place. Only this time they were now using our 1O x50 Zeiss
Second incident: I went back were a different color (orange) binoculars and could see that the
outside to look at the sky again, and seemed to be moving slightly discs were definitely metallic in
this time with my son who is 10 in conjunction with each other. nature. The most impressive
years old. At 22:25 my son and I Reiilly interested now, we object however was a gigantic
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lier -just a solid light that coming in roughly our direction approximate 500-foot angle
looked like the other stars in the (west). We then realized that we around a 10 00 yards dis
Center lists hundreds of sky. It made no noise. As my son were in a bad situation and start tance over a field.
and I watched this object go ed for the truck at a fast Peter, I swear to you on
overhead again I noticed walk. Keeping an eye on my father's grave that
alleged Mo.ntana reports another object again that ... the object, we observed it along each side of this thing
looked identical. This time ~ change to a more norther- were "windows" in which it
both objects were parallel , ly direction and fly into a seemed like there was movement!
to each other. As we . low cloud formation. By It was around two football fields
The Washington-based show off. It sat for maybe three · watched these objects, we this point we could tell that in length, approximately 700-
National UFO Reporting Center or four seconds and faded into noticed that one of the lights this was no ordinary aircraft 1,000 feet in diameter, and bright
is dedicated to the collection the stars. got extremely bright for less than (as a student pilot with 10 years silver in color. The front end
and dissemination of objective - Greut Falls, 10/5!05 five seconds, then went back to in aviation, I'm familiar with near glowed blue, intensifying the far
UFO data. The NUFORC Web its normal setting. The objects ly all known ale). ther one got from the center, and
site, www.nuforc.org, has an Soundless objects were observed for another minute The object was close enough the rear end glowed red in the
extensive database that files then again disappeared. for us to see a structured triangu same manner. What drew your
sigbtings according to state, First incident: At 21:55 I was -Great Falls, 9/10105 lar fuselage, dark in color. It eye though was the yellow and
event date, shape of UFO and outside and noticed a light in the made absolutely no sound. Upon orange strobe exactly centered on
date posted. sky moving. It looked just like a Triangular fuselage the object entering the cloud, the bottom. We watched this
The site includes about 235 star. There were no flashing there was a flash of light similar object in pure horror for about an
sightings from Montana, each strobe lights on it, just a solid This is actually a case of two to lightning but fluorescent green hour until it ascended straight up
listed with an event date, city, light. I watched the object move separate incidents exactly one in color. This was immediately and out of sight. It did not disap
L'FO shape and a brief summa toward my location. I then went week apart. A family friend is a followed by the object emerging pear in a split second but rose
ry. In most cases, the dates are and got my wife to come out and landowner in central Montana from the cloud in roughly a 10 - rapidly taking less than a minute
approximated. NUFORC adds look at it. My wife and I near Harlowton. As such, he degree bank. As the object made to completely vanish.
comments at the bottom of observed this object go directly invited my family up to his place it's way clear of. the cloud, we Well, back to the other objects,
some listings, noting incidents above our location. Once it start (great fishing and hunting) any observed the "cloud" literally which were by now in the
that may have been a twinkle ed passing by I noticed another time our hearts desired. Over the change shape until it company of several F-15's.
star or other celestial body. object that looked identical. The years my brothers and I became appeared like a tornado It was very easy to differ
Here's a sampling of reports new object was going towards intimately familiar with every but horizontal to the earth, y· entiate between the jets
from Big Sky Country: the other object. It looked like canyon and creek on the ranch. not vertical, with the "foot" ~ and the other objects. The
they were about to collide We also began to realize that a of the funnel pointing F-15's flew around for
Boomerang shapes because the new object appeare4 lot more seemed to be going on toward the object. At this about a half hour, then
to pass righ~ in front of tl)e there than at first met the eye point we broke into a sprint for headed northwest in a tight
I was stuck outside of the other. . The ~bjects continued and everything culminated in the the truck. As we ran, the object formation and the triangle fol
house waiting for my girlfriend their course for events I will describe. literally DRAGGED this "tornado" lowed close behind, all disappear
and her family to come back another On this particular evening, my to the west. We could see that the ing over some hills. We never saw
home; We live in a residential minute, and brother and I had just exited a · whole eastern horizon was black them again. The discs continued
area near the airport, and then both thick patch of trees after a long now. Just as we reached the truck to maneuver throughout the area.
Malmstrom Air Force Base is day of deer hunting. It was nearly we were hit by huge gusts of wind We had pretty much resigned our
about 10 or so miles away. dark, the first stars were out and and debris from the east and visi selves to our fate by this point and
Around 9:30 p.m., I saw two we had about a mile walk back to bility was around two feet. Con now felt the worst was over. It all
shapes outlined under the our truck. Being aware of anom cerned now, we piled into the became rather entertaining by
clouds - pitch black, · alies in the area, we were always truck to find that this reliable midnight. We spent a cold night in
boomerang shape, no lights, onthelookoutfor~UNG vehicle 'was completely dead (it the truck, falling asleep eventually
not a sound. At an arm's dis out of the ordinary. was just like in the movies!). With watching these discs and their
tance they would be about the Upon looking to the eastern the nearest help miles away, we erratic flight.
size of my hand. One was sky, we both saw three "stars" readied our rifles (made us feel -Harlowton, 11/24/93
slightly sm·aller, or further that seemed brighter than the better) and waited. Total elapsed
away. I have no idea how rest. These lights were stationary time so far was approximately six Unnerved animals
high the clouds were that night, and seemed to be regular stars minutes.
but I felt they were close. out in space. We then continued The dust storm and confusion I was up late reading, had just
I didn't think much of the on our hike to the truck and went lasted about 10 minutes, and then let my dog inside, when she want
sighting at first. There were lots home - nothing unusual. This is the wind stopped and the dust ed to go out very badly. I opened
of large birds fly- where it starts getting strange. settled. As visibility improved and the door, and she indicated that I
ing south and I One week later almost to the things became quiet again, we follow her. Once outside, I heard
had seen them minute, my brother and I could see objects - lots of them. the horses in our pasture, and the
in the emerged from the same patch of Besides the original triangle ale, cattle across the road just going
daytime trees after hunting all day. As we which was now making a 40- nuts with fear, and all of the out-
flying in
similar
forma side neighborhood dogs barking. Seven saucers
tion. But My dog was looking straight up,
I kept my eye in the snarling, and had her fangs On the outskirts of Malmstrom
sky. bared. I looked up and saw a sin Air Force Base, my parents, two
About five minutes later, gle green light. I watched it for sisters and two guests of my par
a few more went nearly over just a few seconds, then I looked ents, my girlfriend and myself
head - no sound, same shape. down and said to my dog, "I cer were on a cookout when seven
But these were not birds or crazy tainly hope you are seeing what I saucer-shaped crafts flying in for
hang-gliders. They seemed to be am seeing." When I looked back mation cruised across the sky. My
going too slow to stay in the sky. up, the light was gone, the horses father was a 22-year weather
After that I saw something and dogs in the area were observer and guessed their alti
that made me scream ... and quiet. tude at 12,000 to 15,000 feet and
cuss just a bit. A triangle shape, At that time, this was a their speed around 2,000 to 6,000
with two rows of lights on all f very rural area. The next miles an hour. No alert from SAC
sides came just over a neighbor's 1 day, I questioned a cou at Malmstrom? They were travel
house, about 200 feet down the ple of neighbors, and none ing from southwest to northeast.
road. Silent. Then it stopped of them had heard any- -Great Falls, 6/12!60
completely and stood up as to thing. I was unable to determine
how close this light was, there Baseball disruption
were no reference points and
there was absolutely no sound but From June 1956 to August 1959,
for the animals. we were stationed at Malmstrom
(continued from page 1 - ("Readers') - TRIBUNE, Great Falls, MT - Dec. 28, 2006) - LOio, 3/15/78 Air Force Base. I don't recall
could see a small space between all ran outside and saw big lights Because of its speed we started which year it was, but in the sum
them, and with speed that I can - red, blue and white ... or was to think it was moving too fast 'Flying car' mer during a baseball game, three
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Being around aircraft all o'f my moved right next to.Joe Bear's the sky, out by Old Agency. Butte Civic Center, eyewitnesses then suddenly took off. It was wit
life I know what they can do, · house. They just sat there for Twice in one ye·ar ... yeah, I do reported seeing an object nessed by hundreds of fans and it
and what I saw was no conven about five minutes turning and think little green men are taking described as "flying car" in the was big news at the time. They
tional aircraft. turning in circles, then took off over our big blue sky. air. After awhile it appeared to said it was ball lightning but it
- Erik Schabel, Riverbank,· really fast. There were three of - Lisa Mae Little Dog, Brown explode as if it was a fireworks didn't go over with the locals who
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Flashing lights then watched them go into Bad · Hovering cigar
ger Canyon.
This summer, July or August, The cops on the scanner when It was a warm summer night
my boyfriend C.J. Aimsback and we got home said they were in 1976. My husband and I had seeing. Before we could get there it sud
I took six of my little cousins planes. But, what do they know? just left the local movie theater We stepped right in the middle denly zoomed up into the atmos
swimming. We went to my uncle They weren't as close as we in Cut Bank. It was still light out of the street and got out of our phere and out of sight.
Joe Bear and auntie Sarah's were. at 9 p.m. as we drove up Rail car to get a better look. I noticed At that time, there were min
house, one mile north, past - Lisa Mae Little Dog, Brown road Street to the Point Drive-In the people in the car behind us utemen missiles being put into
Twins Lake, and asked (Sarah) if .ing for an ice cream cone. did the same. All of a sudden, the ground 50 miles away near
she wanted to come down to the As we neared our destination the strange craft zoomed toward Conrad. We had heard stories of
river. Twice in one year we could see something huge, the airport at a tremendous strange aircraft and cattle muti
After swimming for hours, long and cigar-shaped hovering speed and hovered there. lations in the area.
Sarah said to come up and eat. It I went grocery shopping with over Tank Hill. In those days our We jumped back in our car I don't know what I saw. It
must have been 5:30 or 6 p.m. my mother-in-law and father-in craft just did not hover. There and headed through town could have been an experimental
when we went inside to eat, and law in Cut Bank. We left Cut were colored lights on the bot toward the airport to see what aircraft from government
then we sat around visiting. By Bank around 7:30p.m. and saw tom of this craft that sort of the ominous-looki'ng UFO was sources or a real UFO. For 1976, 3
this time, night had fallen. As we this blinking red light that glowed off and on. It seemed like doing. It had moved so fast that it was truly an amazing sight to
were getting ready to leave, I . looked like a Mercy Flight at the there were windows also, but I our eyes could barely make out see.
told C.J. to go start the truck and height a helicopter would be. could not exactly tell what I was that it went toward the airport. - Nadine Akkerman, Havre
he yelled, "Lisa, come here." We
TRIBUNE, Chicago, IL - Jan. 1, 2007 CR: CUFOS
flights" near the airport, Haines
amma.t•l.t.l] Witnesses tell of eerie sighting at O'Hare said.
All the witnesses to the
On N~v. 7, United Airl~nes employees reported seeing a spinl")ing disc-shaped object O'Hare event, who included at
hoverrng above Term mal 1 at O'Hare International Airport. least several pilots, said they
WITH JON HILKEVITCH
are certain based on the disc's
WHERE THE ALLEGED SIGHTINGS TOOK PLACE appearance and flight charac
A: teristics that it was not an air
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International @,_ man.
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hanging out for several minutes
in the restricted airspace, but
; ; they are upset that no one in
power has taken the matter seri
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port. She said United officials do
was reportedly located not recall discussion of any
over Gate C-17. such incident.
I ' ~-----------------1 "There's nothing· in the duty
manager log, which is used to
I
FO~tER A~E: report unusual incidents," said
United spokeswoman Megan
; .. McCarthy. "I checked around.
There's no record of anything."
En route from Terminal 5 The pilots of the United plane
What WAS to hangar, taxi mechanic being directed back from Gate
saw the object. Cl7 also were notified by United
! __ personnel of the sighting, and
that thing LI Bensll.ie.V.ntf.v¥. _i lal e!' <4R~_ _. R ·o,· . ·@ oonpee neodf ath ew ipnidlostcsr eerenp oirnt edthlye
cockpit to get a better view of the
Sources: Trtbune reports, repon filed With the NatiOnal UFO Reponong eente,:·--. - object estimated to be hovering
in the sky 1,500 feet above the ground.
worker provided to the National and what a lot of other people navigational equipment on The object was seen to sud
UFO Reporting Center. saw stood out very clearly, and it board planes. deruy accelerate straight up
at O'Hare? The sighting occurred during definitely was not an [Earth] Whether any of the UFO inci through 'the . solid overcast
daylight, about 4:30 p.m.,just be aircraft," the mechanic said. dents are real or merely there skies, which the FAA reported
fore sunset. One United employee ap- sult of individual perceptions, had 1,900-foot cloud ceilings at
All the witnesses said the ob '. peared emotionally shaken by some experts say the events the time.
It sounds like a tired joke ject was dark gray and well de the sighting and "experienced pose a potential safety risk to pi "It was like somebody
binusti as tg trhoeuyp oafr ea irilni neea ernmepslto, yaeneds tsianiedd t ihne t chrea oftv, eersctaismt askteieds b. yT hdeify osonme ec or-ewliogrikoeurs s aisidsu. es" over it, lot"sT ahnedr et hheaivr ep abseseenng deo1·csu. ment pounne cUhneidte ad h eomlep liony tehee. sky," said
they are upset that neither their ferent accounts to be 6 feet to 24 A United manager said he ran ed cases where safety appears to Witnesses said they bad a
tbaokAses etsfhl eynmionr gs t ehrsieoa guuosclevyre.l ri.nkme enotb wjeicltl faeneSyto limni egd hisa~am. ide tietr l,o doikde ndo lti kdeis ap lraoy tBohu ae~f isteidgre hh hteiiansrg io nofgfni c tahen ei nrine Cpteoorrnntc aaolbu aorisure t pahnoavdine mt booefer veni e wiwme tpahlriaceta wcteoed ma,r iaenn gcd. le tmoa litonhrgee odhebanjr.eSdce tt icamlso eiut dV ssti.sr u~aalkleyd t trharcokuinggh tthhee
hovered low over O'Hare Inter tating Frisbee, while others line radio frequency. with an intelligent phenom It left behind an open hole of
national Airport for several said it did not appear to be spin "1 stood outside in the gate enon," said Richard Haines, sci clear air in the cloud layer, the
minutes before bolting through ning. All agreed the object made area not knowing what to think, ence director at the National witnesses said, adding that the
ethniecrkg yc ltohuadts i tw lietfht asnu cehe riinet ehnoslee no noise and it was at a flxed po just trying to figure out what it Aviation Reporting Center on hole disap~ared within a few
sition in the sky, just below the was," he said. "I knew no one Anomalous Phenomena, a pri
in overcast skies, said some
1,900-foot cloud deck, until would make a false call like that. vate agency.
United Airlines employees who 'I tend tQ be scientific
shooting off into the clouds. But ifs omebody was bouncing a "We must be proactive before
observed the phenomenon.
Was it an alien spaceship? A Witnesses shaken by sighting ewlseea tohveerr Oba'Hlloaoren, wore hsoadm teot hsitonpg aHna inaeirsc, raa ftf ogrmoeesr dcohwienf, "o f stahide by nature, and I don't
weather balloon lost in the air "I tend to be scientific by na it because it was in very close Space Human Factors Office at understand why aliens
space over the world's second
busiest airport? A top-secret twuhrey , aalinedn s Iw dooulnd' t houvnedre rosvtearn da patriooxnism."i ty to our flight oper NAHSaAin'se sA mise si nRveessetaigrcahti nCge nttheer. would hover over a
military craft? Or simply are
flection from lights that played a busy airport," said a United me Some joke, others research O'Hare incident. He said he bas busy airport.'
trick on the eyes? chanic who was in the cockpit of determined that no weather bal
Officials at United professed a Boeing 777 that he was taxiing The databases of various loons were launched in the vi -United mechanic who says he saw
no knowledge of the Nov. 7 to a maintenance hangar when UFO-watching groups are full of cinity of O'Hare on Nov. 7. object while In cockpit of Boeing m
event-which was reported to he observed the metallic-look accounts ftled by pilots about "It's absurd that the military
the airline by as many as a doz ing object above Gate C17. sightings of unknown aircraft would be conducting a~rial test
en of its own workers-when "But I know that what I saw and anomalies that affected minutes.
the Tribune started asking The United employees inter
questions recently. But the Fed- viewed by the Tribune spoke on
eral Aviation Administration condition of anonymity.
saidi~airtrafficcontroltower ,.. ........................................................................................................................................................................... ., Some said they were inter
at O'Hare did receive a call from viewed by United officials and
a United supervisor asking if instructed to write reports and
controllers had spotted a myste ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE, Little ~~_ck, AR - Ja!'_:_ 14, 2007 draw pictures of what they ob
rious elliptical-shaped craft sit Greetings from Planet Earth served, and that they were ad
ting motionless over Concourse vised by United officials to re
C of the United terminal. frain from speaking about what
No controllers saw the object, they saw.
adnadr fao upnrde lnimotihnianrgy o cuhte ocfk t hoef orar I t's not surprisiCnHgI CtAhaGtO t ThReI BreUpNoEr ted UFO sighting nnaor ayi rc htreacffki co fc roandtraor lfloeursn sda nwo tthhien ogb ojeuctt o, fa tnhde a o prdrienliamryi. Federal agency backtracks
dinary, FAA spoke~woman Eliz over O'Hare International Airport has captured (Meanwhile, in a top-secret military hangar on the Like United, the FAA origi
abeth Isham Cory said. the imaginations of many around the world Who shadowy outskirts of O'Hare, a team of elite scientists nally told the Tribune that it
fuTrthhee rF AAin ivse nstoigt actoionnd,u ctiCnogr 'ya can resist a good UFO story? And this one's better than gathers to examine the silvery craft from another lheagde dn Uo FiOn fsoirgmhtaitnigo.n B ount tthhee f eadl
said. The theory is the sighting most. Generally, UFO sightings tend to happen in plac planet-oh, sorry, we let our imagination romp a little. eral agency quickly reversed its
was caused by a "weather phe es like the Big Bend country of Texas, where there's Really.) position after the newspaper
nomenon," she said. lots of sky, plenty of dirt and not too many people. "Our theory on this is that it was a weather phe filed a Freedom of Information
The UFO report has sparked But this one happened over O'Hare. nomenon," Cory says. "'Ibat night was a perfect atmo Act request.
some chuckles among control To recap, on Nov. 7, a dark gray flying saucer-like spheric condition in terms oflow (cloud) ceiling and a An internal FAA review of
lers in O'Hare tower. object-some said it was spinning, some not-hov lot of airport lights. When the lights shine up into the air-traffic com.niunications
"To fly 7 million light years to ered over the airport for several minutes before shoot clouds, sometimes you can see funny things." tapes,-a step toward complying
O'Hare and then have to turn ing through thick clouds with such speed that it left an Theory? With the Tribune request, turn
around and go home because eerie hole in the overcast sky. 1bat was the account How about the FAA releases radar data and the air ed up the call by the United su
your gate was occupied is sim gleaned by Tribune transportation reporter Jon Hilkev traffic communications voice tapes soon so we can see pervisor to an FAA ID.imager in
Ccpolryna itugrno Ballcuecrrze ypactnahbd. l eu,"n sioanid Oof'fHicairael ait cphil forto man sdo am me Uecnhitaendi Ac-iwrlihnoes s eamidp tlhoeyye eosb-isnecrvlue<dl ltnhge andY hese,a wr ew'rhea ht arevainllgy ah baipt poefn fuend h-iefr ean. ything. theC aoirryp soaritd to-twheer ;w Ceoatrhy esra imd.i ght
have factored into what the wit
Some of the witnesses, inter phenomenon. We're of the opinion that if aliens do exist, and they
nesses thought they saw.
viewed by the Tribune, said After decades of UFO suspicions, Area 51. The did come to Earth, they'd probably want to do more
.· "Our theory on this is that it
they are upset that neither the X-Files and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, you than hover ominously over the world's second-busiest was a weather phenomenon,"
government nor the airline is can almost write the rest of this script-er, news ac- airport. The comedian Dennis Miller was quoted as she said. "That night was a per
probing the incident. count- yourself. · saying, "Only man is a narcissistic enough species to fect atmospheric condition in
Whatever the object was, it The powers that be get snarky: Officials at United think that a highly evolved alien life force would travel terms oflow [cloud] ceiling and
could have interfered with
at flrst profess no knowledge of the incident. Strange, across billions and billions of light-years" just to snatch a lot of airport lights. When the
O'Hare's radar and other equip
ment, and even created a colli because it was reported to the airline by as many as a few Wlfortunates for an intrusive medical exam. lights shine up into the clouds,
sion risk, they said. a dozen of i~ own workers, Hilkevitch reports. Then Let the officials deny UFOs exist. They always do. sometimes you can see funny
The Unidentified Aerial Phe the Federal Aviation Administration says its air traf But the more they blame some vague weather pl>e things. That's our take on it"
nomena (the term that extrater fic control tower at O'Hare did receive a call from a nomenon, the more the O'Hare sighting will blaze in Contact Getting Arou'nd at
re!;trial-watchers nowadays United supervisor asking if controllers had 3potted a the fmnament of ufology. We don't know what hap [email protected] or c/o
prefer over Unidentified F1ying mysterious, elliptical-shaped craft sitting motionless pened at O'Hare, but the thought that we're not alone the Chicago Tribune, 435 N.
Object) was fu-st seen by a Unit over Concourse C of the United temllnal. in the universe, that aliens are traveling great distances Michigan Ave., Chicago, lL
eindg r abmacpk wa oUrkneitre wd hpol awnaes a dt iGreactte But FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory says to visit, is strangely comforting. c6a0g6oll.t rRibeuardr ree.ccoemnt/ cg oeltutimngnas raotu chnid
Cl7, according to an account the 4
"On the morning of January
31, 1996 my husband was unable
to get back to sleep and left home
shortly after I a.m. He arrived
at his preferred hunting spot in
By Wayne Ruple I just couldn't understand why the Oak Level area of Cleburne
a man would be this far back Co. . .. He planned to sleep in
Cleburne News Editor in the woods without shoes Cleburne County the truck until daybreak. When
Alabama and Cleburne on. And over the years there is parked at the top of the moun
County have not been known one thing I have thought about tain and facing west the glow of
for "hotbeds" of strange activ a bigfoot would have to grow *Hollis Crossroads - Tri lights from the cities of Anniston
ity including UFO and Bigfoot up, so maybe it was a young angle - a few seconds - Low (S.W.), Jacksonville (due west)
sightings -despite the fact that Bigfoot." flying angular object " Jan. 28 and Piedmont (N.W.) are vis
National Forests seem to be a The man had another sto 2006. ible on a clear night which this
big factor in appearances of ry which he relates, "I once *Talladega National Forest, Sweetwater Lake -Sphere - was. Shortly after arriving he
the latter. worked with a man in-Alabama 30 minutes ~Huge ball of light seen on the ground- 12/16/05 reclined the seat to nap but no
However, some quick In that after we became friends, *Trickum Valley -Large hovering light -f~w minutes -fol ticed a bright light over the city
ternet searches tum up some told me he and his whole fam lowed deputies and fouled auto electronics -Summer 2003. of Jacksonville. This he passed
strange activity over the years ily were picking huckleberries *Trickum Valley - UFO -few minutes -lot of wind in its' off as a bright star or the planet
right here in Cleburne County at Sweetwater Lake, the huck wake. Summer 2002 Venus. That is until the "star"
including several sightings of leberries grow wild ail over *Trickum Valley - Odd shape - bubble shaped cockpit - started to move. He passed this
strange lights and one reported the area. Surnmer2001 off as a helicopter training flight
incident of large fQPtprints in He and his wife ·and two *Cheaha Mountain -Triangle -40 min. -"I saw it hovering from Ft. McClellan which lay
the Talladega National Forest. children were in the air and it chased me down a field, eye just to the south of Jacksonville
The "bigfoot" reports comes picking away level to my driver side window. The field was in .the Annistqn _glow of lights.
from the Bigfoot Field Re when they all right next to the road".- 12116/99 . His assumption of a training
searchers Organization at heard some *Talladega National Forest at Oak Level - flight was suddenly ·changed
www. bfro. net thing in the Light-2-3 hrs-"Parked at hunting spot appx 2 when this light darted at a hu
Dated September, 1994 at trees. They all a.m. with vehicle facing west. saw bright light manly impossible speed to the
Sweetwater Lake in the Talla turned around moving north to south at speeds not humanly north <oward Piedmont. In less
dega National Forest, the re to see a hairy possible" -4/26/99 than a second the light hovered
port states, "About seven years man standing *Ranburne -Unusual aircraft -few minutes in the glow of Piedmont's lights
ago my wife and I were at a there. He said on a regular basis-"a massive wide-screen tele having covered a distance of
lake in the middle of the Tal it was a little vision in the middle of the underside -1997. about 15 miles almost instanta
ladega National Forest in Ala taller than a *Hollis Crossroads- Sphere - Jess than 30 neously. After a few minutes the
bama. The lake was Sweet wa man and as minutes -followed a church bus from Wedow craft darted back so that it was
ter Lake. We were fishing in a soon as it saw ee-1995. again over Jacksonville. This
small boat at the end of a slew them it ran off *Talladega National Forest, Sweetwater time he witnessed a beam flash
early in the morning, we were into the woods. Lake - "And right there across the dried mud downward .... He obserVed the
the only ones at the lake, I think It scared them in the fire brake is a set of foot prints dried into movements of this light for quite
it was on a Wednesday and we so bad that the mud. They were not huge they were about some time and in fact. became
were all alone. We heard some they left." the size of a full grown man but they did look human",-Sep bored and eventually drifted off
thing scream, it started 'OUt as The National UFO Report tember 1994 to sleep. After dozing for and an
a howl and turned into a long ing Center at www.nuforc.org hour or so he awoke to the same
high pitched scream and it was has this report of a church van them. This harrowing account distant to the north.) activity in the skies to the west
so loud it echoed through the being followed by a sphere of was held .confidential by these "As the van approached the This soon after changed when
mountains. It made the hair light as it passed through the witnesses for about two years, vicinity of Wedowee Alabama the light was approached by a
stand up on the back of our Hollis Crossroads area in the only being discussed among on Hwy 431, the witnesses larger and brighter one which
necks. But that is not all. About fall of 1995. their small group of friends ... decided to roll up all of. the came from the west. The smaller
a year before that my stepfa The report states, "The mul . PW (one witness) stated that windows because of the poul began moving around it in a way
ther and I were hiking around tiple witnesses were all Geor on the night in question, she try plant located just off the that is most easily compared to
the same lake, we liked to fish gia residents of that area, and and her church friends were highway (Braswell's Farms). insects flitting around a light.
at a spillway way on the back attended the same church. The riding up to nearby Anniston PW indicated that the odor of This seemed to have served to
side of the lake, and about l/2 occasion leading to the event Alabama to play bingo. They the production there was pretty convey some type of message
mile into the hike we crossed a was a church trip to Anniston were seated to the rear of their strong, and this was something because at that point the smaller
fire brake about 20 feet wide, Alabama by this small group friend, the van driver, and as they normally did enroute to light headed straight in my hus
now keep in mind that we are of church ladies. They were usual talking and having a nice Anniston. band's direction. The larger light
a pretty good way back in the being driven in a large van by a ride, enjoying the nice clear "As the van approached faded backward! in the direction
woods, we have crossed rocks male member of the congrega weather. and passed the plant, PW and from which it had come (that
thorns and briars and all kinds tion who was a prominent local "(Note. ..... the driving route some others noticed what they of Sand Mtn. approx. 40 miles
of rough ground. And 'right businessman, and also known was determined as follows; thought was a large new light WNW of Jacksonville.) As the
there across the dried mud in as a trusted community lead west out of Lagrange and over the top of the building craft continued in his direction
the fire brake is a set of foot er in that African-American across the adjacent state line (which is located on a rise). my husband chambered a shell
prints dried into the mud. neighborhood. Accounts vary, into Alabama, then turning It was large enough that they into his deer rifle. This done
They were not huge, they were but there may have been 10+ north on Alabama Hwy 431 commented on it being newly the light almost instantly began
about the size of a full grown total witnesses on this trip, this which carries them to 1-20 backing away in the same direc
man but they did look human, investigator interviewing six of which is about 35-40 miles tion taken by the .larger as if it
sensed danger."
And another report from NU
FORC files concerning a huge
installed. One witness stated that During this ride up to I-20, the MUFON of Georgia's report. ward, rising, banking and flying ball of light observed for half an
it was not a light, but some "fly PW at one time saw what she I This reporter has discovered off toward a nearby mountain. hour near Sweetwater Lake in
ing thing". described as a shape within the that in the summer of 2003 two When the odd shaped object the TNF.
"Another witness commenting lig11t, a shape very similar to a Cleburne County Sheriffs depu- moved from behind the trees the "The exact location of the
that no, it was just a new light. "human embryo", which she ties were out shortly after mid- first time, the officer saw wha~ sighting was across from a dirt
Then the other witness replying indicated in her sketch. Further night along Alabama 46 in the appeare_!:! ~<?. be a man s~t~~Tl_:' boat ramp on Sweetwater Lake,
something to effect of "Well if that it seemed to be "moving . Trickum Valley area when their side a bubble-type "cockpit". which our hiking trail passed by.
that's so, here it comes"!· The around" within the light. At an patrol car was suddenly bathed I later interviewed a resident As we broke into the field that
light flew d<;Jwn from over the other point, she recalled some 1 in bright light a~ if they were of the area who said there has runs along the lake and water
plant and approached the mov thing like a beam projecting out parked inside a well-lit football been a lot of large "cargo-type" shed, the fog was very thick.
ing van andthen began to pace that hurt her eyes. an'd those of stadium. planes which regularly fly This is when we first noticed
it as it drove north. The light her friend. Adding that they both The officer driving attempted through the area at almost tree flashing that we assumed to be
was described as being round later developed watery and sore to outrun the light but it con- top level (you can see the'pilots heat lighting or something sil:ni-_.
like a globe, about the size of eyes. Another witness did not tinued to hover over them and in them he said). He said there -Jar. By the time we reached the
a "dishpan" in diameter (bigger describe a beam, but told of a finally they pulled off the road had always been reports of "un boat ramp, we were away from
than a basketball). The light was "sparkling effect. Another wit to get a better look. After a few usual lights" and visible sight the field and completely out of
described as being "yellowish", ness described a "bad glare" that minutes the UFO departed but ings of a lot of helicopters sus the fog.
with the brightness of a lightbulb beamed through the window ..... all of the electronics in the car pected of "hunting dope". The flashes were coming from
or street light. It continued to just suddenly clicking on. were fouled. Another Ranburne resident three points. Two points were
pace the van, with descriptions "This activity <:=~ntinued as the The vehicle would crank said an uimsual aircraft began far away enough that the source
of the light varying it's distance van moved northwards closer to and run but the lights and other flying over their home in 1997 could not be seen. The 3rd flash
and altitude to as low as·a bout 12 1-20, passing through the small electrical equipment would not and continued for many. months ing was across the lake and only
feet and then back up to l 00 feet Alabama "hill country". At one work. In the process of leaving -always at the same time. She a short distance inland (I guessed
or treetop level; .......s ometimes point, the vehicle drove through the scene the two officers ran said she assumed the aircraft around I 00 yards at the most).
over the van, sometimes beside an underpass, finding the globe upon some teenagers who were was involved in drug interdic The light was flashing at various
it, but always pacing it. This of light waiting on the other out camping and they also saw tion work or practicing·low level intensity, length, and time. Rang
episode began near ~edowee side. the mysterious.light. flying. She said the craft was ing from a very small fraction
on Hwy 431 ... During this wild "This light also demonstrated The previous year, around the very unusual looking with what of a second to nearly a second.
ride, the ladies became fright terrain avoidance maneuvers same time period, on of the of- appeared to be a massive wide The intensity also ranged from:
ened, trying to get down belo·w and continuously adjusted it's ficer and his son saw some type screen television in the middle just enough of a flash to see the
the window level and still taking speed to that of the van. of object fly over them leaving of its underside. She said the low level clouds light up with a
an occasional peek. The driver "As this group finally reached a lot of wind in it's wake but no craft made an extremely loud white ambient light, to a bizarre
stated that he was trying to drive the area of the intersection of sound. ' noise - far louder than any jet, ball of light that peaked over the
and look at the same time which Hwy 431 and 1-20, the light flew A year prior. all in the Tric- I bomber or cargo plane. tree line by many feet. When the 5
he found difficult. He verified off over a field, then acceler kum area, the officer had seen The National UFO Reporting ball of light was large enough,
that the light appeared to be ated steeply upwards, leaving a a strange looking object move Center has this report of a sight it resembled plasma. The colors
about I 00 feet over the poultry streak, then became the size of slowly from behind some trees, ing in the Talladega National were red, yellow, white, purple,
plant before it swooped down a star and vanished." Thus ends stop, back up as if trying to hide Forest near Oak Level which
and began following them ... . Toms Sheets, State Director and then swiftly moving for- lasted about three hours. (continued on psge 6)
(continued from page 5 - CLEBURNE TRIBUNE, Chicago, IL - Jan. 8, 2007 CR: CUFOS
spheric anomalies, secret gov
NEWS, Heflin, AL - Jan. 11, 2007) UFO report stirs ernment aircraft or outright
etc. The ball also appeared to hallucinations; your ongoing at
move around, by maybe 30 tempt to get to the bottom of
yards to the left or right. what hovered that day over Gate
"l should also note that the believers, skeptics Cl7 is extremely refreshing."
"ball of light" as l'xe called -C. Scott Littleton, pr(J/essor
ofa nthropology emeritus at Occi
_il,__J¥_as only 30Q_vard_s away at
dental College in Los Angeles.
most, and completely silent. We
watched the three flashes fm ;,I have a different take on
about 30 minutes until they be The story last week about an --~l.t.f;ii·ill,_!l actual UFO sighting, or much what happened at O'Hare. It's
came quite infrequent. unscheduled flight over ado about nothing. But read the obvious side-effect of the
O'Hare International Airport -WITH JON HILKEVITCH ers don't seem to mind offer two-joint coffee break."
And a third NUFORC report generated a universe of opin ing their opinions. ~Mike Maday, Spring Hill,
from Hollis concerning a trian ions from near and very far was happening at "O'Hara." Here's a sample from the Tenn.
out A man named Montana said more than 400 e-mails Getting
gle shaped object. "Me and three A man in Aurora said he be bad encounters with extra Around bas received: · "Hmm. Looks like we're being
friends were on our way to An came home from work on the terrestrials in Romania and in "For those of us researchers visited by advanced craft from
niston 'in two seperate vehicles. same day as the O'Hare sight Wichita, Kan. He expressed who are convinced that UFO other worlds, and not only is the
It was around 6 and it was dusk. ing, looked skyward in his amazement that neither inci sightings reported by witness U.S. government keen to cover
There was still light in the sky back yard and spied a shiny dent made the news. es of the caliber of those at up the details, so are many pri
and we could see an outline ol round object hovering be It may never be known O'Hare are not triggered by er vate corporations ·whose exist
the object we saw soon after. We tween two masses of clouds. whether the phenomenon at rant weather balloons, swamp ence would be threatened by the
had just turned at Hollis Cross And then it disappeared. - O'Hare on Nov. 7-which was gas, the planet Venus, atmo- free-energy technology that
roads and were driving down the wrAo te wtoo masakne d fwrohmat thIere hlaenckd rAeiprolirnteesd beym npulmoyeereosu-sw Uansi taend po-w-:'e-Arsn dthreewse vJeohhincsloesn.," United
road when we saw what was ei
Kingdom
ther a very low flying object, OJ
an enormous object at a highe1
altitude. It was trianglular with
a flashing green light on it. It the
moved slowly. or slower than "While not directly admitting "I. sat on a plane at Port Co
that E.T. had indeed phoned lum,bus, Ohio, ,arrport for at
a plane would, across our field home, you appeared at least least an hour on the afternoon of
of vision. which was the wind open to that possibility. It was a Nov. 7. This flight was scheduled
shield since it was almost di ))ice departure from the norm to to arrive at O'Hare at 4:30 p.m.
rectly above us. We called ou1 s·ee the witnesses treated as re (the same time as the UFO sight
friends in the other vehicle tc spectable observers rather than ing) The flight was further de
ask them if they saw it, and they being portrayed as nuts or ine layed for about .another hour
said they had and described it briated liars. Aliens may not and circled the airport waiting
like we did." have yet landed on the front to land. The pilot was not able to
lawn of the White House, but provide us with a reason for the
they appear to be toying with delays. My daughter said when
the surface of
the idea ift he O'Hare izlcident is she arrived at the airport to pick
~ On any indication." me , up around 4:30 that there
-John Oathout, Broken Ar were very many· military per
row; Okla. sonnel at the airport."
-Dennis (;pethe, Durand; Ill.
c
.., it, UFOs could lurk
«< 'l~~s the obvious "It should be clear to everyone
that the U.s: government bas
side-effect of the · been lying about.UFOs since the
<( first reports. They have been
() two-joint cojJee break.' here before Earth's civilization
£ -Mike Maday, Spring Hill, Tehn. began, and they'll be here after
u For nearly 60 years, rumors The mother of all sightings we've trashed our planet to
~ have circulated of strange flying probably occurred on the night death."
Ill objects emerging from . t~e of Feb. 24-25, 1942, in what -Eli Pine
a ocean off our coast and disap became known as the "Battle of ''I wish that people would be
g pearing in a fantastic flash of Los Angeles." lieve what we know we saw. I'm
afraid to go outside, and I can't
..J speed and light. Jittery from the recent attack sleep. I've purchased a large cal
:i Sailors, fishermen, dockwork on Pearl Harbor, military per iber pistol and have installed a 'It should be clear to
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w eerie otherworldly ships emerg ready for action when reports celed my family's camping trip government has been
uj ing from ·and submerging into spread of"unidentified aircraft" to Indiana Dunes." lying about .UFOs since
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en UFOs, it seems, have estab 0' Hare International Airport. I spotted above Santa Monica "l would have laughed at this
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sighting of a flying triangle off No enemy plane was ever too. had to give myself a reality area for 65 of those years. I be
Despite a tendency to scoff at the coast. found. check-' bt1! it bappe!_l~ •. and I lieve in UFOs because I've seen
sduoc ha colinttslep iriancvieess,t igI adtiencgi.d edY otou LBMPyD .n ext inquiry was to the lowMeadn y inm oret hei ncisduecnctse edfionlg w~__ _o:_nT hmomya fsi fFthu lcleurpto onf coffee." mtwhayes md aob-glo oounnt gt1h4 e tyi Smeoaeru st ahog lSodi,,d wew oahlfke Cnihn igI
know, just to be sure. They had nothing recent to decades, though thankfully cago. It was two side-by-side ci
To learn more, l contacted report, but there's always the none involved heavy weapons. gar-shaped lights in the eastern
UFO researcher Preston Ben famous images captured by On Aug. 8, 1954, a Japanese sky. I remember that sight as
anpetpte aroefd oLno sth e Arnecgeenlet sH, iswtohroy 2L5B, P2D0 0h4~.l icopter pilots on Dec. ostfefa mth-es hicpo,a sAt liokif, Lwoansg f loBaetaincgh m[cRleoiamcrhleaynr atd s J 1I. ]r beDemaaelremdy b theharad tth aeM heaxeyaaocrrtt
Channel special "Deep Sea when several crew members
UFOs." At around II :30 p.m. that observed an underwater UFO, attack and. . that Kennedy had
night, the chopper's videocam been shot."
Bennett reports more than 40 era recorded a strange glowing 2B0e0n6n eatrt tircelpeo trittelded i n" Ias TFehberrue aarny -Dorothy P. Schmidt
dSoocCu am I'e s ntecdo ast· sigshinticneg s 194o 7f,f oLbojnegc t Bfelaocahti ngs kyt. hrTohuegyh ftohre USonudtehrewrna teCra lUifFoOrn iBa aCseo aOstf?f" the N.FMin.,a wllyh,e trhee i mt wayaosr r oefp Roortsewde illn,
including several in and around warded the tape to local military
Lo"nIgn Btehaecshe- Satynp ePse droof. cases, owfofiuclidalns',t -whoid ecnotiufyld nit.' t - or sfiargAeebs a fltrlho emm i ontvtheeer cisenhp iatpen ddr e raoadudsti, o o "mfS seaeswa 1rse9a4ci7do tvhehareet da nto ahnliin eakn s ns petaahcrebe cyr sarafautn cwceahrs ,
UFOs are seen moving into and A copy of the tape was even without being doused. Left shaped craft at O'Hare must
out of the water, floating on the given to KABC and broadcast wake of white smoke; course have taken a wrong nrrn.
surface and also traveling around the world, but nobody erratic; vanished from sight." "I'm hoping. they were on
beneath the surface," Bennett could figure out what it was. their way to Roswell to help us
This was all getting a bit too celebrate our biggest UFO festi
said via e-mail. "Many of these Maybe there was something weird. val to date,'~ Mayor Sam La
cases are well-verified, with wit to this UFO stuff after all? Grone .said of the event sched
nliefessgeusa rindcs,l udminilgi tpaoryli cep eorfsfoicnenresl, My next inquiry was at Long offTichees Phirgehss -aTbeolveeg radmow'sn tonwewn ule"dE vfoern J iufl yth 5e tghartoeusg aht 8 O. 'Hare
and other professionals." Beach Airport. Long Beach provide a perfect were full, we have plenty of
Airport Spokeswoman view of the port, harbor and landing space here in Roswell
Intngued, I contacted Lt. Sharon Diggs-Jackson said that beyond to Catalina Island. and we welcome any alien vis:
Chuck Engbring of the U.S. in December, a resident Despite my deep skepticism itors to drop in and celebrate the
Coast Guard. reported seeing unusual lights during research into· this col 60th anniversary with us," La
Engbring wasn't familiar moving erratically across the umn, I found myself staring out Grone said.
with any recent UFO sightings night sky. the window across the bay, hop Contact Getting Around at
[email protected] or c/o
at his agency, but recalled an Airport officials couldn't ing to catch a glimpse of some the Chicago Tribune, 435 N.
incident not long ago where pas explain it. thing strange emerging from Michigan Ave., .. Chicago, IL
sengers on a commercial flight beneath. 60611. Read recent ·columns at
As I learned during my
departing LAX reported seeing I'll let you know if anything www:chicagotribune.com/g et
research, such sightings date
an unfamiliar object ascend pops into view. tingaround
back to World War II, when
from the sea to the sky off Point 6
reports ofUFOs and USOs (uni
Vicente in Rancho Palos Ver- Krlstopher Hanson can be
dentified submarine objects)
des. · reached at kristopher.hanson
began surfacing around the @presstelegram.com or (562)
That incident sounded area. 499-1466.
ROCKY MO':J~_!~_!~_~_OLLEGIAN, F~!:i-Col~ins, CO_-~an._ 24, 2007
MUFON turns UFO
skeptics to believers
By VALERIE HISAM "We basically
Rocky Mountain Collegian
.listen to people's
For 22-year-old Kristen
Cennington, seeing a UFO was stories that other
strange enough once, but see
ing one a second time turned . officials don't
her into a believer.
Cennington works with the want to listen to."
Mutual UFO Network, an in
ternational organization that
has recently landed its head
quarters north of Fort Collins. James Carrion
MUFON, as it's better known director of MUFON
to its members, aims to edu
cate skeptics that UFOs do ex
ist and field calls around the plain and at first try to explain
globe. it, that then is when they call
· James Carrion, 41, is the us." ·
newest director of MUFON Cennington, MUFON's lo
and has taken the organization cal business manager, admits
to Bellevue .. some callers could be poten
"We basically listen to tially mentally ill.
peoples' stories that other of "We get a lot of weird
ficials don't want to listen to," people and a lot that could SAM HERRIN I COLLEGIAN
Carrion said. "What we find, be clinically crazy," Cenning James Carrion, the International Director of the Mutual UFO
is that truth is much stranger ton said. "But I've realized it's Network or MUFON, sits among his collection of extra terrestrial
than fiction." not safe anywhere; it's all over paraphernalia in his home in Bellvue Thursday evening.
Carrion has been interest the world. I didn't use to think
ed in UFOs since he was boy about how an alien co.uld come at the claims and reports to see definitely changed my percep
where he naturally ended up take you away." if there are other explanations tions of UFOs," Cennington
doing field investigations after Although Cennington has that should be touched upon." said. "It has changed my per
10 years with the organization, only worked with Carrion and But for .Karr, it isn't a mat spective of what's really going
which has been around since MUFON for a few months, ter as to if people are actually on and what possibly is most
1969. she is already a believer in the seeing UFOs, it is more a mat definitely going on. There are
Not long ·after Cennington paranormal, while Carrion ter of the evidence that says the possibilities that you never
moved to Colorado in April, calls himself a skeptic believer that there is extraterrestrial life really thought about before."
she noticed an unusual object - meaning that although he out there. Karr said that there "There's thousands upon
in the sky while sitting on her has never seen a UFO, "there ·is "no question that people are thousands of people seeing the
porch one afternoon. The UFO is something to this phenom'e seeing things," but he just can't same things, so there· has to
appeared to be floating and non but I just don't know what accept that they all have to do be something going on," Car
when the shiny object shot it is. with aliens. rion said. "This isn't fiction, it
straight up in the air and dis "There is one of two things So are aliens really visiting is truly life imitating art where
appeared, there was no doubt going on: One, either we have a Earth? the truth is stranger than fic
in her mind that is was a flying higher intelligence controlling "I think it would be great tion, and some of things in our
saucer. things and we don't know how if we did have evidence of life case files are way stranger than
A few months later, Cen extraterrestrials exhibit tech visiting us, but right now, we folks can imagine."
nington saw another strange nology greater than ours. Or haven't got enough evidence Staff writer Valerie Hisam
object floating in the sky and two, the government has ex that there is something visiting can be reached at news@colle
this time she thought, "It's otic technology that we would us from other planets," Karr gian.com.
coming to get me." like to be shared, but they are said.
But Cennington's sightings secretly maintaining it from For Carrion and Cenning
have not been the only ones the public." ton, other life out there is 100
in the state, and in fact there But not all groups that percent possible, and they are MUTUAL UFO NETWORK
are tens of thousands of UFO study UFOs believe in the ex just waiting for the phone calls INFORMATION:
sightings all around the world tra terrestrial life or the gov and emails so that they can go
each year. With the help of or ernment-control theory. Ac and investigate another sight
ganizations like MUFON peo con;ling to the Committee. for ing. 221-1836
ple are able to report any odd the Skeptical Inquiry, not all "(Working at MUFON) has www.mufon.com
behavior and have an investi answers are aliens or the gov [email protected]
gation take place. ernment.
"We have a mission," Car "We try to provide the alter
rion said. "It is a myth that only native point of view," said Bar
crazy people see the weird; ry Karr, 41, the executive direc
most are competent observ tor for CSI. "With all of the 1V
ers that when they are seeing shows today about aliens visit
something that they can't ex- ing the planet, in this particu
lar category of UFOs, we look
LINCOLN TIMES-NE~S, Lincolnton, NC-Jan._~, 2007 CR: G. Fawcett
Readers' Forum
Ford's UFO legacy
As the months passed, Ford comment, that during his pub tion to such [UFO] matters, we
The year was 1966 and (then) said he would prefer a congres lic years in congress, as vice will also herald lesser known
Congressman Ford, being a dili sional investigation with wit president and president, he contributions he made in the ef
gent politician, and in response nesses to include reliable people made various requests for in fort to unravel the UFO enigma.
to constituents, wrote concern from ~ong those who said they formation on UFOs, only to GEORGE D. FAWCETT
ing a well-known UFO swamp had ever seen UFOs, but it never have official.a uthorities deny Lincolnton
gas mysteiy at Dexter, Mich. that came to pass. UFO allegations.
urged the Air Force to establish Perhaps to no one's surprise,. As the nation mourns former (Mr. Fawcett is the founder
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credibility regarding UFOs, and after Ford became president, it President Gerald Ford.and re of MUFON-NC Inc., an asso
to produce the greatest enlight seemed his interest in UFOs members his many contributions, ciation that researches UFO
enment on this subject. waned. Years iater he would for those of us who pay atten- and related data.)
Pittsfield
!
Expert explores UFO .legend
,==;
By Jessica WiUis showing segments from a SciFi
'ii
Berkshire Eagle Staff 'I'm not going to give you any off-the-wall Channel special about an archaeo
~
E PITISFIELD - What was it, logical dig that took place at the
experiences and thoughts .. But it is no secret
~ exactly, that crash-landed in the Roswell crash site in 2002 - which
...J desert near Roswell, N.M. in July to me that there is life beyond us: proved that something had, indeed,
~ 1947? struck the ground some years ago.
w A'weather balloon? A test air- - Local astronomer and archaeologist Woody Printz "Was it the saucer bouncing off?
~ craft? AUFO? We don't know,'' he said.
~ Local astronomer and archaeol which included a slideshow of pho later bury-the flying saucer story, Despite the inconclusiveness of
~ ogist Woody Printz explored those tographs Printz took in 2000 when and Glenn Dennis, the mortician the findings, John Kusmech of
w questions in a lecture at the he visited Roswell and the nearby on the base who was ordered to Sandisfield said he appreciated
en EPOCH As&isted Living Center White' Sands Missile Test Range. leave the scene immediately after Printz's level-headed approach to
last night. he commented on the crash debris a decidedly flighty issue.
':.\t the time, I wasn't a believer Suspicious over plaque he saw in a military ambulance. "I liked that he had a critical
[in UFOs]," said Printz, who was At the White Sands museum, he "I was no longer the total skep mind, and he wasn't nutty about
studying archaeology at New saw . a primitive-looking, mush tic," Printz said. "I believed some it,'' he said.
Mexico Highlands ·University room-shaped . spacecraft that thing crashed there. Was it one of His 11-year-old daughter Evange
when the incident happened. "But look~d like it h&d been built by a our own? I believe there was a line - alSo an alien buff-agreed.
for every long-standing ·myth ·or ~'boileimaker," ai:ldwhen he noted cover-up." . . .· . . "We all know it wasn't a weather
legend, there is a grain ·of truth that· its plaque stated the contrap He concluded the· lecture by balloon,'' she added.
somewhere." tion was part of the Voyager nils-
During his talk, "The Roswell sion to Mars, he became suspicious.
Incident: Fact or Fiction?," the "[The plaque] ~aid it had a top
Richmond resident sought to speed of 1,100 miles an hour," he
focus on facts, steering away from told the group. "Hovering would objects they track. Each day, an estimated 4 bil
the· sort of Ieitch that inevitably is have been a major feat for that OK So ... alien object? lion meteors burn up in Earth's
ass·ociated. with anything alien- thing." Bingo. But not the E.T. variety. atmosphere. Most are the size of
and conspiracy-related. . PrintZ, who has his commercial "A frreball," says Daniel Caton, sand grains, but rocks tumble in,
'That's the question' ·· · pilot's license and worked as a observatory director and astron too. NASA estiniates that the
"human factors engineer" on omy. professor at· Appalachian Earth packs on several tons a day
"I'm not going to give you any off- · NAS.Ns Gemini space program in
State University in Boone. in meteors.
the-wall experiences and thoughts," the mid-'60s, thought "it mas:le
Based on the reports, Caton Some witnesses who con
Printz told the 25 people in the absolutely no sense."
audience. "But it is no secret to me He recalled cringing in embar believes it. was an unusually tacted the Observer on Thursday
that there is life beyond us. But is it rassment as he went inside Inter bright meteor that burned up wondered whether it could be
visiting us? That's the question." national UFO. . Museum in about 30 miles high in the atmo debris from the recent anti-satel
Printz began by summarizing the Roswell, which · feattired a flying sphere somewhere above Char lite test by china.
facts behind the case: the "Flying saucer sculpture plastered against lotte. Sightings came from more Probably not -but maybe, says
Saucer" report issued to the press the side of the building.. · thanlOO miles away. Michael Kucharek, spokesman
by Army brass; the way that report "I thought, 'oh, .this is dippy,' " Many witnesses say the light for the North American Aero
.was quickly replaced by stories he said. · appeared to fizzle·a t the end and space Defense Command near
about a downed weather balloon; His embarrassment disappeared. break into pieces, making it a Colorado Springs, Colo., which
and Roswell's relatiyely close when. he was introduced to two key special kind of fireball called a tracks satellites and space junk -
proximity to atomic bomb and Roswell players: Lt. Walter Haut,
bolidf!. In the universe of mete everything from lost screwdriv
missile test sites. the information officer on the base
ors, they're A-List entertainers, ers to astronaut gloves. He says
He then presented his. fmdings, · who was told to release - and
known for their splashy fmales. he's been getting an unusually
high number of calls this week
about things spotted in the sky. ·
BY MARK WASHBURN China's satellite'"'zapping exer
[email protected] cise' has probably increased
Earthlings, you've had ari otherworldly ex- space litter by about a million
perience, a cosmic encounter. . . . pieces, making it nearly as untidy
About 8 p.tn. Wednesday, som~thing I?ecu-. a5 Interstate 77 in Charlotte.
liar flashed in the sky - something twinkly, "It's anybody's guess," Kucha
something colorful, something eye-catching. rek says, "what direction this
Something strange. And blue. Or green. Or stuffh as gone."
blue-green. · . . . tail ,
"Bright blue-green ball With a white . , ·
says Jim Neal of Shelby,. who. ~I?otted it just lllr.... ON WWW.CHARLOTTE.COM/news
~ west of Blacksburg, S.C., after dinner at Kel- "t Readers tell what they saw
c
.., ly's Steak House. . ·. ,
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"A greenish-like light low m the sky, s~ys
I
(z.) Julie 13igharil, driving home from church With
af her kids near Matthews. ''We thought a small Cosmic,M oment Shared by Many
fi . . PHOTO COURT~SY OF CHARLES MILLER plane or helicopter was going to crash." . .
Readers reported seeing a blue-green
~ Charles Miller.of Kings Mountain submitted ·. . A slow-moving bluish glow," says DaVId
light in the sky Wednesday night from
~ this photo he snapped outsi.de his house Whitesides who works in Polkton and who
these locations.*
w Wednesday night. watched it while soaking in his hot tub.
>
cc "Large, bright ·green ball," says Brett L~y, :· .: P.. Mw:.\ .. F~~s
W· WHAT who was headed to\ Chick-fil-A in Gastorua
(0m/) with his wife and four children after church. . •··.• '·'. ::' ·.M . il·.E ..S : ~· ·
... "Had a haze about it." . .
WAS THAT ''Almost looked like a fl~e," reports Amy
Bromberg, who was on Interstate 485. "Kind
of creepy." . . · . . .
UF?
Venus, perhaps? It's often ~ ~u~pec~ m
LIGHT IN sightings, particularly when 1t s as bnght as 1t
is right now. . :
Not Venus. It vanished beneath the honzon
THE.SKY?
. about 7 p.m. "i
Stricken plane? Boone; Durham; ... ;.' · '
Spartanburg; Blacksburg, S.C.; .
. . . Nop~. All aircraft accounted Greer, S.C.; Lexington, Ky., also ·
received reports of slghtlngs.
Unknown Freaky Orb drew for.' · . . ? 'Other witnesses didn't specify location. STAFF MAP
.S pace junk? Errant satellite. ·
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eyes, imaginations across area· Negative, says NORAD. No re
entries of the sizable man-made
FOREIGN NEWS
[All British clippings courtesy of Timothy Good, unless otherwise credited.]
!Watch out for aliens
Red lights
~ . . . . in the sky
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'ctl ANOTHI'm. amazing Luton encounter
.! involved the now famow dream detective
Cl Chris Robinson. ·
c Chris bas gone on to become a well- ··
w knawn psychic who bas appeared on TV
c and successfully helped police with
0 investigations. · .
5 · But 35 yean ago this month he was a
..J · 20-year-old TV engineer and yet to make
his mark in the wprld.
ct) As reported in The Luton lllews' now
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FORGET conspiracy theories above the ground and at least shaped object with green and ted flashing
- a good old dose of public 40 feet across," he said. lights over Caddington. "I saw it just after
humiliation will.w ork wonders "There was a haze-round it, 9pm and thought it was an aeroplane, but
for forcing people to keep their like a halo round the the moon. then I realised it waa goin(i too fast for a.
"wacky" experiences very · · As soon as I came within 20 plane ail.d cut across the flight paths, which
much to themselves. yards of it, the speed of my car · no plane would ever have done," be said.
And it's the reason that a dropped right down to about· "Then it started moving left and right
number of Lutonians reading 20mph. I changed-into second t. · and up a:Dd down. A lot of people came out.
our summer stories about UFO and put my foot flat on the · to watch it and at one stage it looked so
sightings were happy to tell accelerator. Nothing hap- SKYWATCH:· near that the kids started running around
The Luton News they had seen and ·mouting with fear. In fact, some of the
something extraordinary, but pe~~ a motor' mechanic and I Bill Dillon •.• adults were frightened as well." ·
they just didn't really want to know there was nothing wrong w=tt:r.:...: t,o the Chris said the object's lights changed
go in the paper with it. With that engine," he said. "I mc1 ·frOm biittbt red to bright green arid be
Bill Dillon's openesswas the got a better look at the thing. It • .atch of the defended what everyone bad seen against
exception that paved the way was oval;sbaped and white · my8teriou8 the possible resporise .of sceptics. ·
for some of the fown's more with black marks at regular ~(Move). "I know people like Patrick Moore will
mysterious stories to come to · intervals round it. · Right. 1be · say it was just an optical pbenemonon," be
light when he agreed to tell "They could have been port-. Luton ,._,. sal(L ·"But r.ou don't get 60 people watching
readers about his childhood holes. Then it moved off Nport CJf'Chrts an optical illwion. I know there was
encouter at Ramridge Junior towards Aylesbury at a terrific AobiMOn•a something there." · ·
school in 1957. speed, gradually getting :1:9:7W1 e-xp:.e ri- Chris, who still lives in the area and has
The story reminded people travelled all over the world as the dream
of a number of other infamous ~!~~~~ !~d~~ power came detective, spoke to The Luton News again
sightings in the Luton area Mr Wildman said he fol• Luton ,._,. . after readin~ our original Ramridge UFO
from im era when encounters lowed the mysterious object report of the story and s31d he was still convinced by
with UFOs seemed as common for a few seconds but couldn't 1982 lvlnghoe what be saw in the 1970s and bas learnt
as modern-day terror al!_!rts. . about the subject since.
One of the best remembered knieteeply u spo laidn dbe ·scaaiuds eit i wt barsu sdheeftd- Ra.d Incident~~~::~::===~~;;;;;;;::::_..:;;.~~==!!!!!!~ "There is so much evidence, nobody is
mysteries was an incident on particles of -frost from the tree ever going to convince me that there's
February 9, 1962, when 35-year tops onto his windscreen. nothing out there," he said.
old Ronald Wildman lost the · After the incident, the driver
power in his car on a deserted stopped the first policeman be
Ivingboe Road at 3.30am. Mr saw and later told his story at .
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tic. It was something I never later ended up in Project Blue ,... Haven, Pembrokeshlre In WTn figure in a spacesuit ttamed in their
e:xpE!Cted to see." . Book archives, the US govern-· .... Whet do the children who were at 'litting room window.
The vehicle collection driver ment-led ·investigation into ..: Broad Haven Prlmaty School then Investigators were impressed by
from St Margaret's Avenue was UFOs. The Luton News tried to u think abOut them now? the couple's genuine terror. The
taking a car to a customer in find out.i f Mr Wildman was 0 'l'HE West Wales ~ap• of 1977 is policeman who responded to their
Swansea when ·the phe still in the town but were • second only to the Warminster 999 call said. in 1996, that in all his
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UJ congressional hearings. find other witnesses to the Ramridge of the UK. Boon the main topic of or a certain lady, who later called the
There have been many well · evenhmd are on the lookout for anyone conversation In the principality police, I bad to dive into a hedge
...~ documented encounters over tht! who may have been at the school at the was flying saueers. because she appeared to be aiming
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N and are created in seconds. ridge.Junior School in 1957 or ~ember Coombs, his wife Pauline and their ll!e.' The Welsh Triangle may hold
c( Some 80% of these appear in.a either the Ivinghoe Road or Caddington t!.ve children told of several close its secrets for some years to come.
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1- ·This was also the AGM, and those onpage2. burned out cars and TV sets, and Shef!Leld HaUam U11tversit11
Z wishing to stand for dffice were voted
:::1 in unanimously. Sue Mackay, president
0 for the past four years, is standing EXPRESS & ECHO, Exeter, England - Dec. 7, 2006
U down and Lesley Topps will take over. reports eerie UFO sighting
Gill Marshall read the treasurer's
report and Anne Chadwick. secretary,
gave the annual report.
Sue was presented with .a beautiful
trug planted with hyaciliths and A WOMAN out walking al'peared over the l<'ox Budleigh Salterton, three and closer and I thought it
thanked by Mary Rowboth;om, vice her dog has reported see holes lll'm at the easte~;n miles to .the east of Ex~ was going to land on the.
president before refreshments were ing a strange unexplained end . of the seafront It mouth. Polire said that rea Maet: I said tQ. my daugh
provided by Barbara Hawlcesworth and light in the sky which sud seemed to grow brighter port probably related to ter, 1can'thearanynoise.'.
Lynda Flitton. denly disappeared. and move towards· them, military aircraft. She said 'Look at all the
At the next meeting on December 19 The worrui.n and her and had a plume of grey The mother4-three, grey and . black smoke
Sue will show members how to make a 11-year-old daughter were smoke at the rem: But then who asked not to be coming out behind it' I
falnodra la tfaebsltiev de e'pcoadradtlieo'.n for Christmas ohnin tdh e EMxamero uotphe n saeraefar oben t alifgthert daibsoauptp 3e0a rseedc.o nds the bnarimghedt ,l isgahidt: i"nW teh es aswky t.h ..i sI wsmaos keju, stht elno oitk vinagn isahte dth."e 9
New members are always welcome when they saw the bright . The sighting ·follows a presumed it ·was. some A Coastguard spokes
on the third Tuesday of every month at light at about 4pm yester report on Monday after kind of helicopter with an man said he was unaware
7. 30pm in .COmbe Florey village hall. da}: noon of a UFO leaving a extra-bright searchlight of any incident at that
She said the eerie light trail of smoke over "It was getting closer time.
_EVENI~C!_ POST, Yorkshire, England - Sept. 20, 2006
Secrets of the greatest alien· mystery to be;revealed at conference
BY HOWARD
w.~-~~~~9.-~. ........................
STILL the debate goes on
about Roswell - the most
famous incident in UFO
history.
Is there anything more to be
said about the alleged recovery
in 1947 of a crashed space craft
and occupantsln New Mexico?
Well, yes,. there is-and a
Leeds audience will be the ones
to hear it
An Italian researcher called
Maurizio Baiata will reveal
secrets to the Great British UFO
Show in Headingley next
month.
He is one of nine speakers
brought together by UFO DATA
magazine, published from an
office in Kippax, east Leeds.
Editor Russell Callaghan, a
deputy Post Office manager in
his other life, said: "Something
happened at Roswell and it bas
been very well cleansed over the
years. . .
"The US military has
changed its story three times as
people have come forwani.With
new information.
"I think people are going to be
surprised by Maurizio's lecture
MIUTARY COVER-UP: Russell Callaghan believes there are still m~y interesting stories to come out of Roswell.P ICTURE: MARK BICKE~DIKE
UFO hunter makes
ET HAS LANDED? Model of an
alien at RosweWs UFO centre contact ... with. ·.h ost
and his new information about
Col Philip J Corso who wrote a
book in 1996 called The Day
After RoswelL .
"In this he· claimed that . .
inventions like integrated cir· of expert speakers
cuits and fibre optics were devel
oped from what wa5 found after
the crash at Roswell
"Maurizio was the first man
to interview him before the pub
lication of his book and he wrote
notes in his diaries. He is bring- ·
ing them with him and will .
share them with.the people of ers" - mysterious craft which gest they were UFOs than that at the Leeds Rugby League Sup dead," said Russell.
Lise o"euTdtsh i. en tbhige' ostpuefnf baubto suotm Reo 6swrthelel bcWuraazfrzt.e ddu broitnhg A tlhliee dS eacnodn ·Ad xWiso arilrd TthoeAnyym w Coenorepg Np oiantzh oie cfr rS asefpltbe"ya kwehros haares 2pfo2o.r r Tttweircosk dCeatlsyu sba raoenn d£ O1 t5hc eator edb aeayrr e 2o 1ar a f£en2wd5 oCnh"a tB.nhureuz !Mzl Adoolodcnru,i mns,ae tinhdte ai snrey ca to hHnisdis mytoearanyr
smaller stuff is interesting as
"His conclusion is ·that the video footage of. UFO encoun left that all three astronauts on
well" origin of the foo fighters is ters; and Odd-Gunnar Roed Visitors are coming from all board Apollo 11 observed a UFO
A well-known UFO sceptic, unknown," said Russell. "There from Norway who will discuss over the world. shadowing their mission."
Andy Roberts, l:ijas been lined is no evidence that they were the UFO experie·nce in Scan "The show will demonstrate Further information: Leeds
up to talk about his investiga
secret German weapons. In fact, danavia. that UFOs are still here and that 286 5566 or 07957 223 358.
tions into so-called "foo fight- there is more evidence to. sug- The UFO Show will be staged research-into them is far from [email protected]
~Y.ENING_ __!9ST, Bristol, England - Sep~--~ 3,_ _~ '!06
ECHO, Loughborough, England
Soapbox: Strange lights in the sky Sept. 22, 2006
More
"It was about 11.30pm
I AM a retired police officer · I'm hoping that someone out on Saturday. I just
with the West . Midlands ltihcearne ims asyo ·ktnhoawt I wmhaeyre hMavre Mthile lights cthoouulgdhnt' t' wbhealti eovne eaitr.t hI
police who has spent the · opportunity to speak to him about Is going on'?
last · 11 , years researching the incident. in sky "I even opened the
various reports of strange ,Perhaps some readers have their window and I thought I
own strange stories they wish to was seeing things."
phenomena which have been bring to my attention. I can be Myra Hur, of Hathern,
seen in and around the skies of contacted on 0121 445 0340 or by MORE reports of said: "I saw the same
the UK,· going back to the writing to the address below. strange prange lights In thing a lew months ago
f1i9v4SBe 0orvs iofs.a ltruo, mlI 'eivtses.e clof mwpaisl e"dh e.o nmo\e]."g ht of oar · 31 RWeJdoo ALrhclinveo senHtc eSahrntusrshreoclenhrte.,, · sttwhhtreeeae nskkEg'ysec h htoars vitaeosn ricgnyouc mleae or flI fanostroat wqfloruoionmikdt eout whpce.l eaIban ahrdca. kptI ph bteehenydoe riuw:olgoe htrmoet
series of strange reports of "zig B487LG. mation spotted above 'surely they are not
zagging" lights over the Hartcliffe Quorn. planes'. The lights were
area some years ago, which has e WE were looking out of the win Karl Stones says he very high and in a for
never been explained away, al dow last Friday night at about. and his wife, Patricia, mation. One veered off
though reports involving identical 10.30pm and saw about 30 bright saw the bright lights on towards Shepshed."
phenomena have been reported lights travelling across the sky Saturday, September 9,
over such locations as Newton Hill, from the direction of the airport and he was hoping that
Harston Hill, Cambridgeshire, and towards Wales. someone had seen the
Birmingham in 1974. On looking through binoculars, same thing.
I've been in contact with Peter it looked like it wa.S ·a burning A woman In Chapman
Tate, now is his early 70s; who is a ~- . Street, Loughborough,
veteran UFO researcher from the We phoned the airport the next who did not wish to be
Bristol area, and he has shared his morning and were told that it was a nained, said: "I saw
extensive library of UFO docu laser light show from Newport. · these lights .In
ments collected over the years. This is not very likely as you Loughborough.
I recently spoke to Peter about would have seen the beam of light "I couldn't get over it.
an · incident that took place in from Wales. I had drawn the blinds
Arnos Park on April 27, 1968. I have been on the internet and and I saw these three
The Reverend Anthony Milican cannot fmd a laser show adver big orange triangular
was out walking with his wife tised. If it w~ in fact a laser show, lights. I got In bed and
when they came across a glowing, then how can it be allowed to take then got out again to 10
dome-shaped object hovering place acr:oss the flight path of a
above the ground. The sighting major airport? see if they were still
wmnoaatsdh eirn egap owsreatsea drfc ohtuo n odtf.h eth ep oalirceea, , wbhuot NoGrtahr SetohmY Maetritsloeenst,,. Mysterious: Unidentified flying objects are the subjects of two tthhienrkein gb eabcoauuts teh eIm k. ept
readers' letters