UFO Newsclipping Service 2009 03 no 476

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NEWSCLIPPING
SERVICE
March 2009- Number 476
Editor: David Marler
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VVednesday,Feb. 11, 2009
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Reported By
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BY ANGELlA JOINER about 20 seconds. Then it would Residents, Others
SPECIAL TO THE RECORD go off and reappear a little to the
WALNUT SPRINGS--Slightly right or left of where it was."
more than a year after the first Matt said the Dallas/Fort
report of unknown objects in the Worth International Airport air
night skies, now known as traffic route is near his home so
Stephenville Lights, more wit he is accustomed to commercial
nesses are surging forth. and private aircraft.
Speculation abounds as to why Matt said the object appeared
the mysterious objects continue about 25 to 30 degrees off the ho
to fly over Erath County. rizon in the northwest sky to
Bosque County and Walnut wards Stephenville. He said he
Springs resident Matt Collins and could definitely see a dark mass
his mother. Sharla, and sister, between the sets of lights.
Ashlee, hew<; all said they have "I'm not sure how close or far
witnessed bright lights in the sky away it was," Matt said. "It could
that defy explanation. . . have been over Chalk Mountain.
On .Jan. 29, Matt said he and h1s But, it was definitely in the direc
sister were returning to their tion of Stephenville."
home on ~:;'M 203 shortly after 7 Matt shoots photos and video
p.m. He said t.'"ley had just b~en regularly so he grabbed his cam
talking about the Stephenville era and began shooting only to
sightings when his sister pointed later find a completely black
and said, "'Look at that,"' Collin~ screen. In the excitement he had
said. "I thought she was kidding ff)rgotten to take the lens filters
at first because we had just been off he had been using the previ
talking about the Stephenville ous day for shooting into the sun.
s!ghtings." Matt and his sister. went out the
bu't~; -~-ii~~-:~i~~;' Itj~~~f~~ft~:~;~ next night pr:~p<li'<~d '~lith settings
curn~ct on the t:ar:'.·,:·:a but noth-
the;:e v.-as Gnlv one. The lights ing appeared. . .
would ~-:m:~: :)l'. &.ncl stay or!. for Then on J:::~n. 31, 1t was back.
'Thi.::: time it ·,:;as about 9:30 p.m.
shortly after Matt appeared on
·----------.. - VVB 33 (KliAF!fV) news speaking UFO STUDY-·· Matt Collins, and his mother, Sharla Collins, of Wal
about the sighting he had wit nut Springs have been working on the study of UFOs after recently
nessed two nights before. Now he .seeing unexpl<iined lights in tl1e sky between their home and
had the right camera settings, he ;stephenville. -Photo By Angelia Joiner
said.
"I ran in the house and got my ur; onr else saw it I thought r:ny corner of his eye and began tell
sizter and woke up my mom,., ~~yes ;;1ight have been playing ing his uncle to look out the back
Matt said. trit.:ks on me.,. Sharla said. window. Carrie pulled over be
Sharla said she was amazed. The family said the object was side the Stephenville Funeral
"I always thought people that 'isible for about 15 minutes and Home as they tried to decide
said they saw UF'Os were crazy,'' k1d a red center but the outside what the tmusual sight was in the
Sharla said. She said she had al of the light changed from red to sky. Waiting for traffic to clear
ways been skeptical of the stories. yellow, to white and bright or they make a U turn and parked
"Now, I think there is definitely ange. in the Allsup's' parking lot.
something out there that we don't CNN news called Matt Monday "I made a point to step out of
know about," Sharla said. and made arrangements to show the car because I thought some
She said at one point she tl1e film in a future broadcast. thing that large we should have
thought she saw three lights but And, on the same night, Cudy been able to hear it," Clover said.
nobody else in the group did. and Carrie Tedford and their "But, we couldn't hear anything."
"It looked like three lights for m1cle Dwa\Tte Clover were tun~­ Clover said his five-year-old
just a couple of seconds, but since ing right off uf Loop ::,-n Somh m niece riding in the back seat with
Stephenville to State H>vy 108 rc· him could also see the object and
ti1rning to their home in made comments like, "Wow!
Victoria Advocate Hamilton. Look at that.''
As they were turning Cody said They agreed the object was
Victoria, TX 2-1-2009
he caught something out of the fairly low in the skies but esti-
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"I freaked out and just thought, 'What in the
world is that?"' he said.
Gardner described the flying object as a large
white circle with a ball on the top and a white
light shining onto the ground. At first, jets could
be seen flying across the sky before the object
appeared, but Gardner quickly realized what he
Man claims he saw strange object in was looking at was no jet.
sky above LP mill
"A jet leaves a white streak in the sky, and this
By STEYEN .-\LFORO wasn't like that," he said. "It was traveling real
The Lufkin Daily News slow, like it was looking for something, then it
turned around and took off across the sky very
Thursday, February 19, 2009 fast."
A strange object in the sky Wednesday afternoon When asked if the object could have been a
over a wood debris storage area on Old Mill UFO, or a flying saucer, Gardner said he
Road caused a Lufkin man and his wife to call wouldn't count that out as a possibility.
local authorities asking for answers.
"I don't know what it was but if I had to guess,
"It didn't look like no plane," said Jerome I'd say a spacecraft," Gardner said. "It was
Gardner, who lives across the street. "It was strange enough for me to climb onto my roof for
amazing, I've never seen anything like it." the first time to get a better look."
Officials at the Angelina County Sheriffs Office
and the Lufkin Police Department said that
neither office had received calls about the object
Wednesday afternoon. A security guard working
at the site said he had not seen anything strange
in the sky.
Officials at the Angelina County Airport were
not immediately available for comment at press
time.
Gardner isn't alone. Tnere have been severai
sightings recently of unknown objects in the
Texas sky. A fireball seen over the weekend
across the state has been described by authorities
as most likely a meteor, and not space debris
from two colliding satellites, as previously
suspected .
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fireball appeared to be a natural phenomenon,
and a University of North Texas astronomer said
that it was probably a pickup truck-sized meteor
Gardner said he was skeptical at first when his with the consistency of concrete, according to a
wife, Yolanda, told him about the large, round recent article in the Houston Chronicle.
object hovering over the field at the former site
of the Louisiana-Pacific paper mill.
The object was visible Sunday morning from
Austin to Dallas and into East Texas. In Central
But after looking at the object in the sky, Texas, the Williamson County Sheriffs Office
Gardner quickly found himself climbing onto his received so many emergency calls that it serit -a
roof to get a closer look. helicopter out to look for debris from a possible
plane crash, according to the article.
Preston Starr, the observatory manager at the
University ofNorth Texas, said objects bombard
the planet on a daily basis and those as large as
the one spotted over the weekend enter the
atmosphere about eight or 10 times a year, the
article stated.
Whatever the cause of Wednesday's sighting,
YOUR CLIPPINGS of newspaper items are very
Gardner said he would keep watching the field at
welcome. We apologise here for being generally un
the old paper mill, looking for another glimpse
able to acknowledge these items as the pressure of
work on our tiny staff and on our postage resources is of something "out of this world."
too great. However, please do not be deterred by this
seeming lack of courtesy. We really do appreciate
anything you care to send. "I wish I'd grabbed my camera because I've
never seen anything like that before," he said. "It
was amazing, man."
ALL NEWS WEB The witness took a few photos on her cell phone.
2-23-2009 Another witness, a retired businessman from
Tucson, also noticed the craft when he stopped
The Tucson Mountains UFO flap continues, his car on the side of the road to fix a tyre on the
new sightings. evening of the 21st ofFe bruary. 'I looked up and
saw the UFOs in the vicinity of the airport. The
Michael Cohen things looked pretty hi-tech. I doubt they were
kites; the way they flew and looked they were
Around two weeks ago All News Web reported
either spaceships or secret Airforce projects. I
on a number of witnesses who saw a rather
have never seen anything quite like it'. He noted.
impressive UFO in the Tucson Mountains area
of Arizona. It appears as if whatever it was in Many ufologists argue that there seems
sky then has stayed on in the area or returned for something odd and inherently contradictory
another visit, even bringing some friends along about the official story the government rolls out
this time, prompting many locals to ask what is whenever these sightings occur.
going on in the skies above them.
'On one hand we are assured that the military
Theories abound and the most popular one
would not do anything in populated areas that
suggests that the craft are the work secret
would confuse or frighten locals and on the other
military projects. Another suggestion based on
we are assured that the government has no
the conclusions of the investigations by South
knowledge on the topic of UFOs. Yet the
American Ufologist, Andrea Perez Simondini,
sightings are occurring and unless they are the
regarding the recent Rosario sighting in
work of truly world class hoaxers with almost
Argentina where a 'UFO' was seen shooting a
supernatural abilities at keeping their identities
beam to earth, is that the craft are kites fitted
secret they are probably either alien craft or
with lighting, flown at night by hobbyists. Of
secret military operations' one UFO
course if neither of these explanations fit we
expert commented.
need to consider the possibility that these craft
belong to visitors from other planets.
The most recent sightings in the Tucson area
occurred on the night ofthe 21st February. One
HERALD~-~!~-BANNER
witness, a 63 year old local woman who
describes herself as 'too old for games', was at
her daughter's house in the desert north east of UFO visits Hunt County -
Tucson when she and her family saw the UFOs. mysterious object seen by resident,
This occurred Last week and again on the above deputies
mentioned date. The frrst time they were to the
south-east of her daughter's home and the second By BRAD KELLAR 3-2-09
time they were to the west in the vicinity of flt'l'>llti-B:wner \taft'
penal County Airport.
GREENVILLE-No one is sure exactly what it
'The main light was a large, whitish light and was which reportedly hovered through the Hunt
County skies this past weekend, but several
had several orangey red lights that came from it
people said they saw something.
and circled the area. There also were two other
white lights in the same area. On two occasions
At least one civilian and three uniformed law
light came out of the main one towards the enforcement officers reported seeing an
ground. The white light on the main one would unidentified flying object north of Greenville
go from a yellowish white to a bright white then Saturday night.
back again. It also appeared to change shapes
from round to oblong (horizontally) and back. It Similar sightings were also reported near The
also had a green and blue along with red lights Colony in Denton County, according to Hunt
County Sheriff Randy Meeks.
especially on the bottom' the witness noted in a
rather graphic description. 'It was real' she
Meeks said his office received the first call about
concluded.
the object at around 9:20 p.m. Saturday, from a
woman who lives along Farm-To-Market Road
2358 near Webb Hill Country Club.
"She said it was hovering above her house,"
Meeks said. "It was real bright, then it went dim,
then it went bright again. Then it moved away. It
was moving from that area toward Dallas."
The witness said the object did not sound like an
aircraft or a helicopter and noted one of her
relatives in The Colony also reported seeing a
similar phenomenon later that night. And, they
were not alone.
"Three of my officers also saw a bright light,"
Meeks said, including the deputy who first
responded to the sighting. "The officer who got
the call was pretty close to Campbell."
Meeks said he personally checked with L-3
Communications Integrated Systems, the local
defense contractor who operates out of Majors
Field Municipal Airport in Greenville.
"They said they did not have anything in the air
that night,'' Meeks said.
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grees from the horizon and then a steady glow at the bottom."
(I) I More mysterious objects reported made a slow descent to about 25 Clover said he likes to watch
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oN degrees. airplanes and he works at a place
in the skies near Steph~nville · ''At first it appeared to be just where helicopters take off and
(I)>< JOin. sitting there hovering," Clover land often so he was sure it was
0:: .... By AnJella said. "But, that might have been not one of those types of aircraft.
(I) (I) Speciai to the Reporter-News · because it was moving towards "I don't know what it was. We
c c to us and we couldn't tell that." weren't frightened," Clover said.
:~c:~c S~culation abounds as why unlmoWil objects continue Cody said he thought it was "We were just watching it trying
· to fly in the skies over E~atlf County. · . over:t he courthouse and moving to figure out what it was and it didn't
<(<( · Slightly more than a year after the fttst rep<:>rt ofmys towards the City Limits bar on fit for anything I lmew. It was a clear
U.S. Hwy 377 . descent and moving slowly and close
. terious objects, now kl).o\Vn as Stephenville Lights, more
"We thought it was landing," enough to the ground to make you
.· witnesses are coming forth. Walnut Springs resident Matt
Clovnr said. think it was landing."
Collins and bis inother, 'Sharla, and sister Ashlee have all
All said they saw a double row Cody said the group drove on
·said they have witnessed bright lights in the sky that defy
of horizontal lights. in the direction of U.S. Hwy 377
explanation. · · . · . "It was big. I estimate the di but couldn't find the object again.
. On Thursday Matt said he and his sister were re~ . men$ions this way," Clover said. A reporter from WB 33 said the
to their home on FM 203 shortly after 7 p.m. He smd:they "Th~ bottom row of lights was six Bosque county Sheriff's office
~d just been talkirig about the Stephenville sightings.when - to eight times larger than the dis dispatcher received four calls re
·· his sister pointed and said,·' "Look at that,'" C~J.lin:s said. "I tanc~ between the horizontal porting something unusual.
thought she was kidding at fllSt because we had just been rows of lights. A reliable source reported a
talking about the Stephenville sightings.'~ · "I am not an alarmist - I don't Dublin police officer caught an
· . "My sister saw three light sets but by the·t im~ I located go looking for these things," Clo unidentified flying object on cam
_-then:Hb.~r.e. was.9MJ>__D_e.. . J.heli.&:hts wouldco~Qn and_s_Qy:_ ver said. "The top row appeared era on the evening of Jan. 29.
to have the color red and green '1\vo people in the Abilene area
on for about 20 seconds. Then it would go off and reappear
a or blue. The bottom appeared to also reported sightings to the Mu
little to the right or left of where it was." . .
be white like light coming out of tual UFO Network web site.
Matt said thea ii traffic route for Dallas/Fort Worth Inter-.
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national Airport is near his home he is accustomed ~0 the
. presence of commercial and private aircraft. .
Matt said the object appeared about 25 to 30 d¢gt'ees·o ff
'65 Kecksburg mystery
the .horizon in the northwest sky toWard Stephenville. He ·
a
said ·he could qefuiitely see dark mass between the s~ts on ~UEO. Hunters' show
oflights. . .··
"I'm notsure how close or far away it was," Matt said. "It
. could have been over Chalk Mountain. But, it was defmitely Nobody knows exactly what came down
in the direction of Stephenville." · . . ·. from the sky on Dec. 9, 1965, in Westmore
land County, landing ln a secluded wooded
. ·Then on Saturday it was back. This time it Was ab~ut 9'.30 · section of Kecksburg in Mt. Pleasant Town
p.m., shQrtlyafter ¥att appeel!'ed on: the WB.33 (~AF,-TV.
ship.
of Dallas/Fort Worth) news disCU$Smg the s1ghting he had
Theories have suggested a weather
·witnessed tw9 nightS before. · . .
___ E~~on, a m~teor..!.a Jl!lssll~-~~ ~rha~s it_ ____
"Iran in the house and got my sister and woke up my
· · wa-s somethinglrom anotlier worlift at
moin," Matt said. He also took video .'footage of the inci
touched down on that cold, winter night.
dent, he said. · ·. The History Channel's .. UFO Hunters"
·-Sharh said she was an,uzed. . vlslted the site in September, spending
"I always thought people that said they s.aw UFOs were three days interviewing local witnesses
crazy," Sharla·said.··"Now, I think there is defmitely some- and those who have studied the incident.
thing out there that we don'~ kwnaosw about." · . . · The program, hosted by William J.
.·The family said, the objeCt visible for. about fJ.ft~n Birnes, Pat Uskert and Dr. Ted Acworth,
minutes and had a red center but that the outs1de of the light will air at 10 p.m. Wednesday.
changed from red !O yellow, to white and bright o~e •
. CNN called Matt·on Monday and made arrangements to
a
. show the filin he'tookin futUre broadcast. .
History Channel hovers over Kecksburg
Wednesdays episode of w.ant to k~ow "w?,at happened that change directions a series of
mght back m 1965? times finally landing in the
"UEf2Hunters" explores
The History Channel sh.ow 1s not the wood~ near Kecksburg.
the 196.5 mystery. only one that ~as delved mto the inci- "Witnesses said that it didn't
~ent. The subJect. h~~~~~n .trea~ ?n come crashing down but it
BY MARJL YN FORBES UnsolvedMysteries, Sightings, DIS· came down slowly like a con·
covery Channel" and "Sci-Fi" station. trolled landing" Gordon said.
TRIBUHE·AMEW NEWS SERVICE
"The intere~ting !hing about the "It landed, and then there was a
What object came down ftom the sky, Kecksburg incident IS -there were so puff of blue smoke that dissi
landing in a sech~ded wooded section of ~any ~ople involved," Gordon said. pated quickly."
Kecksburg in Mt. Pleasant Township The History Channel contacted me The show will focus on what
more than 40 years ago remains a mys afld interviewed me people witnessed and their feel·
tery. t>?thathomeandatthe ings about what happened that
Theories have suggested a weather ..lte,. and there were night.
balloon, a meteor, a missile, or perhaps also many oth~rs who "People want answers," Gor· Cont.
it was something from another world they talked to. don said. "More and more peo-
that touched down on that cold winter, On Dec. 9, 1965, an ple are finally admitting that
night. object was spotted in something did happen, and I j'There are also accounts -or -
The History Channel's "UFO the ~arkenlng sk.ies, think they want to know once
someone having photographs of
Hunters" visited the site in September movmg over ?Itts· and for a11 what that object
2008. They spent three days interview burgh and heading to , the object, Gordon said. The
rumor has been circulating for
ing local witnesses and others such as the Greensburg area. waws. . t t 11 of an acorn
"There were so 1 nesses e · years that there are black and
radio personality Stan Wall, who was
many witnesses who shaped object, partially embed· white photographs out there,
manning the air waves that night at
saw something in the ded in the ground, with what and if they would come for
radio station WHJB, and Stan Gordon,
sky. that night," Gor- appeared to be strange hiero ward, it would solve the mys·
recognized by many to be the foremost
authority on the UFO incident. donsaid. "Hundredsofpeoplesaw.what glyphic lettering. It is docu tery once and for all."
"I've been interested in the Kecks manythoughtwasaplaneonf"ll'e m the men ted that witnesses saw The History Channel's "UFO
burg incident since the night that it sky:• masses of military personnel in Hunters," hosted by William J.
happened, and I've been researching it The object, unlike a natural occur- the area and a large, flatbed Birnes, Pat Uskert and Dr. Ted
ever since," Gordon said. "Now the case rencesuchasameteor, was reported to truck leave the area with an Acworth, will air at 10 p.m.
has drawn not only national but inter item covered in a tarp. Wednesday.
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Anch<rrage
Daily News distorts things, so I opened the window
to get a clear look.
"Have you called Hertz?" I asked
Joanne, watching the thing twirl. "He
Mysteries in the sky has seen a UFO, so he'd know."
intrigue us "Really? I didn't know that," she said,
and decided to call the science teacher.
"Fontenot will know," she said.
HEATHER LENDE
I asked her to share what she learned.
Published: March 4th, 2009 04:58PM
My husband and daughter weren't
interested in the UFO. He said it was
HAINES--My friend Joanne called Saturday
probably a satellite. She was busy
night to ask if I saw what she saw in the sky. I
ironing the squares of paper she had cut
was at the table, just fmishing a moose stew
out of old grocery bags, crumpled,
dinner with the family and listening to the play
soaked in water and then hung to dry
by-play on KHNS of the girls' high school
on two lines tied across our living
basketball game down in Craig, on Prince of
room. She is student teaching in the
Wales Island. I hadn't been outside since an
first grade and the bags, she explained,
afternoon ski along the beach around Jones Point
would become covers for the children's
to the set tracks on the golf course and back.
make-believe, but educational, African
Then, the sun had been shining on white snow
adventure journals.
and it felt like spring, especially with the wind at
my back. Now, I took the phone out on the back
Joanne called back after talking to Fontenot.
porch and looked up. That's what we call Mark; some people have last
names for first names in Haines. Hertz does too;
"See it?" Joanne said. his name is Irwin, but everyone, even the priest
at his church, calls him Hertz. He is also an
"No," I replied. electrician, which figures. With a name like
Hertz what else would he be? Certainly not a
"You've got to, it's the brightest thing dentist.
out there," she said. Then I went back
in and got a coat and my glasses and Back to the light in the sky. Joanne said
binoculars. With the phone in one hand that Fontenot said it might be the
and the binocs in the other, I had International Space Station. "It was just
Joanne direct me south down the inlet, a guess, though." He was finishing up a
toward Sullivan Island and low on the late supper too.
horizon, across from Rainbow Glacier.
Sure enough, there among all the other All the extra daylight and the sunshine
stars was an extra-bright orb with that has come with it have kept a lot of
flashing red, green and blue lights. It us outside longer. Last Sunday, my
was low enough that my view was husband and I went all the way up the
partially blocked by the neighbor's Chilkat River to Turtle Rock and back
spruce trees. on snowmachines. The weather and
snow conditions were so nice that our
With Joanne still on the line, explaining party ran into half a dozen friends along
that she had been walking her cocker the remote route, all of them smiling
spaniel Harry when she saw whatever it broadly and exclaiming about the great
was, I took the stairs up to the top of day.
our house two at a time and focused the
binoculars on the strange object in
outer space from my bedroom window.
InCident report of a weird craft flying Village f:.Pennbrook apan
near the Newtown in tercbange ments. ~~.
of I-95. ''A gl~w came from it, a
over Falls Some 120 sightings were beam was coming down like h
reported in the last 12 months was che~lcing out something,"
over the'. county. That is the she saidf
Denise most in the nation, and double She tbok pictures, but
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creatures to a rap~· standing-room~only craft. It hovered about 500 feet
that have stared blankly from audience, some who came over a tree in the yard. She
the covers of supermarket tabs from Alaska and Tennessee to said she stood transfixed for
for decades. hear he~ story, and the stories about 20 minutes.
At least she didri't believe of otherS who eyewitnessed ''All of a sudden, all this
in that stuff until April, when what is now called the "Bucks white snow came out and went
she saw .a "bizarre" craft that County flap." into one tree, then into anoth
zigzagged across the night sky, "This was not an airplane," er tree. I wasn't afraid. I had a
hovered near her home in Muner told me this week. "I calmness come over me. It was
Falls, and dropped stunningly grew up· in the airline busi
beautiful "sparkly stuff" ness. i\1y father worked for -'"'"' Mill I ANI=. P"~" B2
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before silently vanishing i:1 a T\~' A, n1y mother for Boeing.
blink. I used to spend weekends at almost magical. Sparkly stuff.
"I don't even like science the airport. I am very familiar Like diamonds. It lit up both
fiction. I haven't even watched with all kinds of aircraft." trees. It looked like snow, but
'Star Wars.' I'm not one of She ~id she first spotted also like lightning bugs. Almost
those people. I saw what I saw, the craft. in April, after her like Christmastime. Like fairy
and that's all I can say," she dog, a Yorkie that never dust. Something magical. Non
said'. ~ · growls, woke her up with per stop twinkling -like in a
Murier's story has caused a sistent growling. She checked Disney movie. I shut my eyes,
sensation among Ufologists - her condo for intruders. then opened them again, and I
thost: who study unidentified Finding.none, she went out thought, 'This is so weird.'"
flying objects. There has been side, where she saw the bright After a few minutes, the
an inexplicable spike in the object in the sky. She sum· sparkles, which had settled on
number ofll.EQ. sightings over maned her husband, who the trees, were drawn back into
Bucks County since last · agreed it was weird. the craft, which vanished into
spring, including one by a "I have never seen any the sky, she said.
police officer who su~fl!it_ted a thing like it in my life. We She was unable to get a peace
watched it for 40 minutes. It ful night's rest that summer.
\vas skipping and hopping. "People can laugh, but I saw
Printing imperfections
Beautiful :blue and gre.etno .. what I saw. I'm 49 years old and
present at scanning.
lights. There appeared he. I never before even thought
tiny wir{Qows on it. There was about UFOs. Never had an
absolutely no noise," she said. interest," she said.
It reappeared in May. She Now, she constantly looks
KYW NEWSRADlO phoned per daughter and
into the night sky, observing
woke a deighbor. The object
the heavens for strange lights,
Philadelphia, PA
hovered~ver a portion of the searching, watching, wondering.
Delawa~ Canal near the
March 8, 2009 Mullane'a column appear~
Sunday, Tuesday and Thur1day.
Bucks County UFO Sightings Are on The Rise
by KYW's Pat Loeb
Bucks County is the focus of world wide interest in unidentified flying object sightings. That's according to
local UFO enthusiasts who meet monthly in Philadelphia's Fishtown section.
Bob Gardner is state section director of the Mutual UFO Network-- or MUFON. He's an expert on the
Bucks County UFO sightings and a regular attendee of the UFO discussion group at the Germ bookshop on
Frankford A venue.
David Williams is the Germ's owner:
"It is a free torm, open torum discussion. People can bring up any aspect they'd like to. There's always been
a policy of don't laugh at anybody."
The discussion at the February meeting was freewheeling, indeed, touching on topics such as unidentified
submer?ed _obje~ts, Operation Blue Beam -- a secret government project to create a holographic simulation
of an allen mvaswn -- and the Bucks County sightings.
Gardner suggested that Bucks County sightings may be up in part because reporting them is losing its
stigma. At least, it feels that way at Germ Books.
UFO sightings reported in Pa. in 2008
Strange incidents
reported jron1 50
counties in the state.
years there have be.en hundreds of
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sightings of huge hair-covered
a-c:>-o~ Feb. 18. ·
man-like or sometimes more ape
Encounters with strange crea When Gordon first began inves
like creatures reported statewide. A
tures and sightings of mysterious tigating UFO sightings and other
objects in the sk-y were reported strange reports, he found that while very active area is along the
from many locations from through many sightings reported seemed Chestnut Ridge in Westmoreland,
out the Keystone State last year, initially odd, many were deter- Fayette, and l(ldiana counties.
according to Greensburg researcher ·mined to be natural or man-made In While such sightings are reportedly
Stan Gordon, who has been investi origin. Many UFO sightings, for yearly, the number of such reports
gating and logging such reports for example, can be explained as bright has dropped in recent years.
nearly 50 years. planets and stars, meteors and The Pennsylvania Bigfoot
During 2008, reports of unusual searchlight beams. Some Bigfoot Society (PBS) received a report
incidents originated from 50 coun observations were determined to be from Warren County in May, that a
ties in the Keystone State. That is large dogs or bear. In recent. woman had seen such a creature
an increase over 2007, when such months, many UFO reports that climb up her lattice and onto her
reports were received from 37 Gordon received of a very bright back deck. She watched it from her
counties. Some of the strange inci light low in the southwestern sky patio door as it climbed over the
dents reported included sightings was determined to be the planet railing and departed. Gordon
of Unidentified Flying Objects, Venus. But not all mysterious received a report that a man and _his
Bigfoot, giant birds, mountain sightings can be explained away so son in August, also in rural Warren
lions, strange sounds and mysteri easilv. County. observed a seven-foot-tall,
ous footprints. S~:n~ of the more interesting hair-cover~J creature with very
Gordon, who began his interest 2008 mysterious events from long swinging arms, cross a road
into mysterious happenings at age Pennsylvania include: way with very long steps and enter
I0 in 1959, began conducting on • Giant bird sighlings. There a wooded area.
scene investigations of such mat has been a history from Gordon also received reports of
ters after the Kecksburg UFO inci Pennsylvania and other states of strange screaming sounds coming
dent in 1965. sightings of giant birds with enor from along the Chestnut Ridge near
In 1969 he started taking phone mous wingspans that are occasion Latrobe. An experienced woods
calls from th'e public, from those ally reported, and are commonly man came across 18-inch-long,
wanting to report alleged UFO referred to as "thunderbirds." In five-toed footprints, unlike any
sightings. In 1970, he founded the recent years the reports of these thing he had ever seen before,
first of three volunteer scientifical huge flying creatures have while hiking in the Forbes State
ly orient~u r~s~arch groups that increased. Forest above Rector on Aug. 22.
remained active for many years Researcher Jim Brown investi • UFO sightings. While a lot of
which investigated UFO sightings gated an incident which occurred UFO activity was reported from the
and Bigfoot encounters, as well as on the afternoon of May 20, on a eastern portions of the state, many
other strange events around the major · roadway in Washington UFO sightings were reported in
state. County. Motorists reportedly western Pennsylvania and else
Gordon continues to investigate pulled off the road to watch as a where. While spherical and disc
and document such matters as an huge dark-colored flying creature shaped objects were reported as
independent researcher. Gordon is that looked more like a giant bat well as fonnations of luminous
also the primary investigator of the than a bird, circled low, and passed objects, there were numerous trian
1965 UFO crash incident near over some cars. One witness gular-shaped objects sighted as
Kecksburg. The researcher contin noticed that the wingspan extended well.
ues to investigate that UFO inci heyond the edges 'of the two-lane On July 2, near Connellsville,
dent which has gained international highway. Additional such reports witnesses observed a triangular
interest. He will he appearing on an originated From Harrisburg to shaped object with a curved bottom
upcoming History Channel, "UFO northern sections of the state. and numerous lights. The silent
• Bigfoot sightings. Over the
Cont.
object passed overhead and moved after a few minutes. Soon after, a of the being gave the impression
toward the Yough River. During the second object, shaped like a glow- that it was gliding.
early morning hours of Aug. 12, in ing footbaJJ, moved rather fast On that same date in nearby
a rural area between. Greensburg across the sky, then suddenly Tioga County, witnesses observed
and Youngwood, a witness stopped, then dropped lower a silent bright solid cigar-shaped
observed what was described as toward the ground. With binocu- object approaching from the north,
"two huge double headlights" side . Iars, the object appeared round, and suddenly fade out and vanish
by side, and slightly yellow in with evenly spaced lights. as it moved overhead.
color, hovering low just above the It was during the early morning Gordon continues to receive
hours of Oct. 4 that two hunters in sighting reports from the public via
road. The silent lights rose up from Elk County encountered something his-UFO Hotline at 724-838-7768.
-------~-g~9._~nd an_Q_~~-y~d_ _ ?ff over~~ ..... .unusual...As._!P~Y~~<r~~ed into-~·- He also receivese-mai.l reports _at
trees. wooded·a rea,' they first noticed two ---]iaufoCWcom~astner.~Hls ·web 'Site- -
There were several independent baseball-sized glowing lights about is www.stangordonufo.com. The
llEQ sightings ·reported from 15 feet above the ground. Soon, Greensburg researcher also
Westmoreland and Allegheny they, noticed multiple beams of receives. inf~rmatio~ from contacts
counties on Sept. 5. About 12:30 light which seem to originate from he mamtams wtth numerous
a.m., a glowing round white object about 10 feet from above the researchers and organizations in
with various colored lights was ground. Their attention, however, the state, and from throughout the
observed hovering in the western was drawn to a glowing human-like country as well.
slcy from New Stanton. The object form, which was estimated to be
. suddenly. disappeared from sight about three feet tall. The movement
The Daily Record- Morris County, There had been widespread reports of
New Jersey, USA the lights on Jan. 7 and
Jan. 30, along with a smattering of
February 18, 2009 reports to police and to the
Daily Record on at least two other
occasions before Tuesday
Prosecutor Investigates Red Lights, night's sightings.
Citing Possible Danger To
Aircraft Morristown Police previously said the
lights appeared to be a
By Abbott Koloff hoax, road flares attached to helium
The Daily Record balloons. The lights were
swaying, police said, and observers at
The Morris County Prosecutor's Office Morristown Airport saw
is investigating the red what appeared to be balloons.
lights that have been spotted flying over
Morris County on Paul said "numerous" 911 calls were
several occasions during the past month, received on Tuesday night in
most recently on Tuesday Morris Plains, Morristown, Morris
night, with officials saying they may Township, Hanover, Denville,
present a hazard to Parsippany, Montville and the Morris
airplanes. County Communications
Dispatch center.
Capt. Jeff Paul, a spokesman for Morris
County Prosecutor Robert The lights appeared to be traveling north
A. Bianchi, said on Wednesday that with the wind, he said,
federal authorities have and air traffic controllers at Morristown
expressed concern that the objects Airport reported that
which could be flares they appeared to be at an altitude of
attached to balloons - might be a threat about 2,500 feet.
to flights on their
fmal approach to Newark Liberty Peter Davenport, who runs a Web site
International Airport. called the National UFO
Reporting Center in Washington state,
"The Federal Aviation Administration said he received about a
advised us that they would half dozen reports from the Morris
issue an advisory to aircraft in the area," County area on Tuesday night,
Paul said in a with one person telling him that drivers
prepared statement. pulled to the side of a
highway to watch the lights.
FAA spokesman Jim Peters said a
manager at a regional radar Dorian Vicente, 46, of Parsippany, said
facility had expressed concerns to the the lights caused traffic
prosecutor's office. to slow on Route 80 East in Denville at
8:40p.m. Tuesday as
they find "large bags" on their property.
New Jersey
The red lights have been seen on several
occasions, starting on Jan. 7, and on
UFO probe: Call
Tuesday police received numerous calls
about the1n with witnesses..saying they
police if you find
saw up to nine lights.
'large bags'
Bianchi said the lights were seen over
Morris Plains and appeared to be
traveling from the area of Greystone
BY ABBOTT KOLOFF • DAILY
Park Psychiatric Hospital toward Route
RECORD • Feb. 19. 2009
10 and Route 202, where "the fires
Witnesses to Tuesday night's flyover, burned out."
vvhen nine red lights appeared in the sky
"It really is a public safety issue,"
over the eastern part of the county,
Bianchi said. "What is a prank one
described what appeared to be "a festival
minute can be a tragedy the next."
decoration that floats in the air," Morris
County Prosecutor ·Robert Bianchi said
Bianchi said he was concerned about the
in a statement issued Thursday.
"convergence of airspace" in the area,
with planes heading to Newark Liberty
Bianchi wouldn't be more specific,
International Airport, Morristown
citing concerns that people would go out
Airport, and helicopters flying into
and purchase the items. On Wednesday,
Morristown Memorial Hospital. The
the prosecutor's office announced it was
lights appeared to be about 2,500 feet in
investigating the red lights because of a
the air, the prosecutor's office has said.
potential danger to aircraft.
The Federal Aviation Administration has
The Daily Record reported weeks ago
expressed concerns about the lights
that the lights appeared to be something
interfering with air traffic and has issued
called sky lanterns- inexpensive
a warning to aircraft heading into
balloons powered by lighting wax
Newark, officials said.
infused cloth, capable of reaching an
elevation of about one mile and traveling
Bianchi asked anyone with information
for up to 10 miles.
about the lights to contact local police,
the Morris County Prosecutor's Office
Todd Schlosser, owner of a sky lantern
Homeland Security Unit at (973) 285-
distributorship in the Midwest, said at
2900 or the Morris County Sheriff's
the time that the Morris lights looked
Office Crime Stopper Program at (973)
like sky lanterns in videos he'd seen.
COP-CALL or [phone].
Sky lanterns commonly are used to
celebrate weddings, church festivals and
other events, he said.
While Bianchi wouldn't say what he
believes the lights to be, he asked Morris
County residents near the intersection of
Routes 10 and 202 to call authorities if
Strange Lights Raise
Questions About UFO's
WBBH-TV MSNBC
Bryan Rupp
Fri., March. 13, 2009
Feb 22, 2009 KMBT TV Beaumont, TX
Cow abducted by UFO?
ANIMAS CO~TY: A rancher in Las Animas County, Colorado Something strange was seen in the sky over the Phoenix,
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made a shockihg and gruesome discovery over the weekend. He ·
Arizona valley on Saturday, February 21,2009. Scottsdale
found a mutilated cow by the Purgatoire River.
residents reported seeing a light hovering over the city that
The mutilated cow was discovered near the town of Weston,
could not be identified.
which is about 20 miles west of Trinidad. "First reaction, she's
One local astronomer said the most likely culprit is the
been mutilated," said Mike Duran.
comet Lulin which can be seen from earth right now. However,
Duran's cow was found dead with her udders and reproductive
that comet is supposed to seen in the eastern sky. Saturday's
organs missing. "No tracks at all," said Duran. "No blood,
object was seen in the west.
no predators," he added.