tiEWSCLIPPitiG SERVICE March 2001 Number 380 EDITOR/PUBLISHER: LUCIUS FARISH MUFON chief says Justice and Administration Cen ter's auditorium. Howard, who is' also a geolo-: UFO investigators gist for the federal government, ~ 'tl suggested at the meeting Saturday ~ :v that they must use the plodding uc ~0 need to cooperate Scientific method of compiling Cl) ::1: enough evidence to make UFOs ~ a: seem obvious to most everyone. -('I_I a: By Laura Ingram ''We may [be able to] solve this with · science," Howard said. ~ u Staff Writer ''We've tried ~erytbing else .." 0 Though MUFON investigators Q.C > g L\W RENCEVILLE - UFO investigators need and others in other organizations -~' iN dtoia slhoagruee t hife itrh eevyi daeren ctoe mgaoirne aacncde pentagnacgee i.sJc;ttioe ntthi~s tssc iin hnaovt e bfeo uenxdp mlaianneyd ,c amseasn tyh atp ceooupllde believe UFOs ~ no more than ~ ..: entific community, according to. the chief ~ence test aircraft, celestial bodies UJ g. advisor of the .Mutual UFO Network f!f ~rgia .v iewed under unusual atmospher z en ''Evidence ts what we do have; this IS what we :ic conditions, a few weather bal ~ don't have," the advisor, Ralph Howard Jr., told his loons, satellites, meteors and ~ fellow members Saturday as be pointed to the _word returning space junk. unusual nat "proof' and its definition on the screen of Gwmnett Stan Pboto: AnthMy Stllalp ural phenomena or hoaxes. Michael Hitt, a field investigator for MUFON, shows examples Georgia MUFON officials of UFOs that have been reported in Georgia. partly credit those who exagger ate or lie about sightings and the govemmeo.t for not sharing infor ; UFO expert.t alks on the mation for die deaial of Cbe exis tence of UFOs. Many people, even state offi cials, who report such ~gs .ca,s infamous Roswell crash bfeeacra usere Clebae sninewg s ~their danmamagees their reputations •.A dmitting ~ ing a ghost or expmencing &QQth er paranonna.l c:q!ISience is more JANE WIGGINS minum-like pieces were scatteredt. of a mile accepted that seeiDg a object in RECORD STAFF WRITER by several 100 feet wide, Balthaser said. His the sky tbat is not idadifiable. sheep refused go Qlrough it and went around "I think we cao apce 1bat we "If we had to prove our case about the it. have a culturally oontw1jnatrd 0 w'Riotsnweeslsl tIensctiidmenotn,·y b Ia sbeedli eovne twhee cwroeduilbdi lwityin o."f somWehtiQtei nSga (nind st hrea daarre at)r adcukreidn gt ht~h ef lsigtohrtm o.f climHoatwe,a"r dH eoxwpalanilf tesadi dth. at tbc PJI> a: said Dennis Balthaser as he spoke t.o a Security representatJves told Balthaser lic does not scoff u much• pam 0fr l ptiaocnkael dU FcrOo wMdu Sseautumr daanyd nRigesheta artc hth Cee Innteter.r na sppeer ehdosu rw. ere regtstere,d as fast as 3,500 mtles innovnenstaigl atobres caarues e0 101pea srcainaloCrmifiac.l a>: in"BesatlitShaatsaer.rJ,r eseoarnceh ers.o-fp resmenatQedv his UseFcO 50B9yth J Buloym 8b, atrhdem Ienntte gllrioguenpc aet otfhfeic eR .oosfw thelel tHoers s ufgoglleoswte d tMbeU' FaOdvNi cieJM osftj gaan ~0 iRofniecsdae tamiorconhns: tW hS.ithtyah r ltiehncegt uPthrueeb laFictr. u"t shtera mtiounsse uanmd ·"G UrFaOt- Aflyrimngy sAaiurc Ferie. ld feP<;lFted the possession of a iann chMioeUlnetF, OC8tbNqin) eidnsivgeeg spitnrigogav."te orrbs, a"Wbahdeyn Brazel brought ~amples of the metal to are directed to approach each Of 'the more than 120 people attend~ng, Sheriff George Wtleax·and was interviewed by sighting \fitb. skeptiCism .. bow smuabnsye qreumenetm sbtearteedm reenpto brtys tohfe t hUe. Sc.r agsohv earnnd sKaGuFcLe rr aadpiop.e Aasre qdu )ict kwlya sa sd tehnet esdo -bcayl ltehde f lUyi.nSg. itnot efrivnidew p whyitsnicesasl ese vtoid denectme nainnde wmeeantth ethr baat llt.opo.en .f lying saucer was actually a Army. credibility. Howard wants them to Balthaser explained the many different A statement to the ~aily R~cord was made ~ DOe like 1fl9se in Cbe by the Army July 9. "Ail examination revealed SClentific community. angles involved in being a UFO researcher. the objects found on a lonely New Mexico Li.kt those in the paranonnal such as why Ufology is researched and inves tigated and the positive and negative sides of ranch were a harmless htgll-altitude weather field, UFO inm1tigata:s need to balloon - not a grounded flying disk" was create an umbrella oqapizatioo the Freedom of Information Act requests. He urged contiimed interest in research about their explanation. that h~lps its group membCrs act The first ever Associated Press wire was in concert, sharing information the incident. dispatched from Roswell telling of the wreck and evidence. In sharing his information with the public, Balthaser said he would be "brutally honest." age, only to be met with a threat from the This organization could pll> Federal Communications Commtssion threat lish periodically one case with "There are some parts of the incident I ening to remove their license if the media did merit and plenty of evidence to believe and some that I don't believe at all," not go along with the government examina create more awareness among the he said. tion. public and more dialogue with Some of the testimony of the witnesses ts in question, he said, because of attempts to Balthaser shared his frustrations with the scientists. panrodt epcots ositbhleer mpeeomp~oer.y fleoasrs oofv tehre t hcoe nyseeaqrus.e nces iFnrge etod opmro voef Iwniftonremssa tsitoante rmeqenutess.t s in attempt woHrkoiwnga rwd itha lfsroie nsdusg agnesdt eindd ivniedt "I deflnitely believe there was a cover up by He said the government still refuses to uals in academics, the military, dothrtheas egtri ocbv eaeifrntngemrs ae(fonfute,t~" t tshh eeirf esw)a.ei dIwt.' se" rTtehh eteo rgledo wvtheoerunrlemd aebrneet iitninovvneeessdtti igignaat Roteros s awhraemvllee a dpt hsthoeenr vet iimtcaeeps.s Hpaeen rdssa ohindanv aeel ll m UsotFanO lnaiwz''aW teionenf ocsr atcnoe mrsaheisonewt a awtnhdaer meont hetehssra. t o rygoau way of control. Maybe they can't do anything itors on their e-mail. idno nth'ti sh. aTveh atot' sb ew ah kato oI kt rtyo btoe lideov,e" about it. Our future depends on what hap Balthaser said buildings in Roswell that Howard said. pened at Area 51. had some connection with witnesses and The 60 memben of Georgia's · "The odds·are too great to think we're events after the crash are disappearing. He MUFON chaptez-include retired alone," he added. "1bere are 200 bill1on stars lamented .the loss of Saint Mary's Hospital, and active members of law or planets in our atmosphere!" he said. the office and liVing quarters of Shertff Wilcox enforcement, an aerospace engi "If the government says this (life on other and Hangar 84, where the supposed bodies neer and other respected fields. planets) doesn't exist why are they spending and debris were kept. For more information, contact ·millions in active research?" he asked. He said there are plans to lease, renovate State :birect9r W~t~r. ''Tom" .· Mac Brazel. a rancher living 30 mtles and remodel the hangar. leaving only photos Sheets at 770-917-4419 or southeast of Corona heard what sounded like to connect the investigation to the past. It mufonga@webtv.nc;t.. } crash during a thunderstorm the night of seems impossible to keep things "the way Vuly 4, 1947. The next day while herding his they were." he said. sheep to water-he d15covered what appeared BalthaseNI: e-ma-tl---is--trutftskr@roswell.net. ·to be the wreckage of a flying saucer. Alu- His website is www. truthseekeratroswell.com. i Down in a Colo. valley, c: LA. 1hen and Now Cll 1 Cecilia Rasmussen (,) enthusiasm is always up E ~ 'S uC.ll for supernatural sights. Cll ·L.A. 'Battle' ci Along this ~ a: 0 .! watchtower, ilauncheda 0 0 0c- .. UFO lovers Q ..; ci GoklenAge ~ u flying high CP Q ofUFOs < ~ 0.. By Judith Kohler ci ASSOCIATED PRESS ,..: :c HOOPER, Colo.-Green, glow-in- - Saucer&, bathtubS, hubcap&, stars; a. the-dark cutouts of bu.g-eyed extra u Ru.uian .,ace shiJn, men from G) terrestr.ials line a dusty road off a CD Mars? ~ two-lane highway in soutl)ern Colo 0 Bana1'UU, headlights, rilver :C rado. c8p0011.8 ; o.. Travelers stop· in· a makeshift < · HaUucl?WNMM weather· wa:- rpaanrckhin,·g g elto to uot,n aJnudd yw aMndeesrs oilnitnoe 'as (r.)i ba_llocmf?' a: small, domed building with shelves CP 5 stocked with "aljen dust," posters, '& lose edcotinters of the 0 sh~y extraterrestrial dolls and pyr: c: strangeet kind are, of ~ amtd candles. c( coune, a fact of life in Los . Outside, steps lead to a iO-foot: "' An&elea. So, it comes as : .. . .·., , . lM"JJIeeet'l'lmel $h2i,g ~p elolFpOle- wcaantc hsicnagn ptlhaet foskrmie.s Ffoorr _3 :i=~~~e t~et~~:~ 'rtmes 'reporter:·Oewey ·~z inspects faux UFO.;·that tt,rheci.up-ln· tbe'.Hol~ Hills In 1957. bright, .. darting lights· and s'tr.ange, 0 century's genuinely eccentric pre-· . . · hovering crafts, the likes of which ~ occupation&: unidentified flying ' like lhape, moving about D> mph . -----~-------..., have been reported for .decades by ~ objects. . . at ~y 8,000 feet."'·More reside~ts and visitors:.in the San In fact, t.:few.d aJt 'after-t'he re- offlcerl pthered. u a third Object Luis Valley .. gion en~ oM of lt$ most m,YI- came into light. A tell ptJot had re "I didn't realize I could work 11 terious wartime traumaa-the so- ported aeeing a rotmdish ob]ect at h9urs a day, seven days a week, and called "Battle of Los Angeles"- about 12,000 feet the day before. g1ggle the whole time,'~.~aid Messo UFO enthusiasts were suggesting The base's initial news release line, wpo, with·.her:·partner, Stan that extraterrestrial tourists, said, "The many rumors regarding Becker, opened the UFO watchtow-. rather than Japanese aviaton, the fiytng diacs became a reality er on Memorial Day·weekend~ · had flown across the basin's sky today." An hour later, Brig. Gen. The i~ea might, sound like .a jQke, early on the dar.t morning of Feb. Roger Ramey told a different but tales of .supernatur.al phenome 25, 1942. story about the objects being "of na abound in this naturally spectac Memories of Pearl Harbor were some sort of tinfoil." ulaz: 50-mile-wide, 125-mile-lon~t val . fresh, and just two days after a A magazine article poiilted out, ley, which is 7,600 feet .in altitude Japanese lltlbmarine surfaced and "Muroc is the Air Force's most and ringed by the San Juan and San shot 16 sbeHB at'an oil field 12 miles hush-hush sanctum, where the gre· de Cristo mountai.J)s. west of Santa Barbara, radar sta- Air Force and Navy test their se 'People talk and it gets out' tions picked up an tmidentified ob- cret supersonic models, so It's not ject aver Santa Monica Bay at 2:25 a place where you would expect The UFO Computer.Network In· a.m. The region's antiaircraft bat- personnel to get unduly excited ternet site ranks Saguache County, teries-the largest at Ft. MacAr- by strange things in the sky." home of. the watchtower, as,No. 1 thur-went fwfy into action, Although the Air Force att.rib nationwide in reports of otherworld blindly firing nearly 1,500 rotmds uted 96% of all UFO sightings to ly sightings per capita - . 131 this into the suddenly searchlighted the high-altitude U-2 and SR-71 year 'in· the 4,619-person: area. skies. super-secret U.S. spy planes, it Neighboring Alamosa County is No. As The Times wrote the next took care not to reveal that to the 3. day: "At 5 a.tn. the police reported public. Concern during the Cold Saguache County Undersheriff that an airplane had been shot War that the Soviets might try to Mike Norris said his office did not down near 185th Street and Ver- use UFO sightings to touch off get frequent reports about mysteri~ mont Av enue. Details were not mass hysteria and panic in the ous lights or, crafts, ~·but people talk available ...." Five persons died U.S. prompted the Air Force and and it gets out." in the "air raid," three in car other agencies to downplay the is The book The Mysterious Valley, crashes and two from heart at- sue and concoct cover stories for by Chri.s~opl'ler O'Brien, examiJ1es tacks. unexplained sightings, according reports through the years of cattlt~ To this day the real story of the to a 1997 CIA journal. mutilations, . mysterious helicop "Battle of Los Angeles" remains On March 12, 1950, amateur ters, and oddly shaped aircrafthov unknown. The Japanese deny that photographer and medical assist eriilg oyer .the v.alley .. their warplanes ever flew over Los ant Bette Malles snapped a photo Messoline got the idea to build Angeles; official U.S. wartime re- of "something shining" flying the watchtower after putting up cords are inconclusive. Although over a Hawthorne field. An artist's with ET enthusiasts camping on her some residents later claimed that drawing printed in The Times and property. She also needed to make they had indeed seen a globular or taken from the unretouched nega some money because. cattle ranch triangular craft in the sky, mili- tive showed that the center part of ing, which .drew .·her to the .valley tary officials blamed the whole the object was "composed of a lu five years ago, was. foundering. thing on jittery nerves and a way- minous oblong doughnut." A big fan of The. X-File~. a TV ward meteorological balloon. No Other unpublished 1950 sight- show about UFO-hunting FBI bombs were dropped or shots fired ings, reported in Johnson's thesis, A 1956 UFO photo taken by Michael Savage of San Bernardino. agents,· she acknowledged that she from the air. included one by Frank E. Taylor, had seen strange lights in the sky. And there was more to come: a producer for Metro-Goldwyn- added its own inimitable touch to After a careful inspection, Times As for believing in .uFOs, Messo Throughout the late 1940s and Mayer, who was driving home the UFO craze. aviation writer Dewey Linz not line said, "It .would take one land 1950s, Los Angeles was a hotbed of with his wife from Pasadena when In January 1957, actress Gloria only found that the "spacecraft" ing, so I could take a look." UFO sightings. In fact, former they said they witnessed three re Swanson and a group of friends was lacking an engine and controls, Restaurant· owner· Tim Edwards, Times editor DeWayne B. "Doc" volving disks traveling at great heard that a spaceship had landed but-after interviewing neigh who lives north. of' the valley, is a Johnson, now retired, was a UCLA speed. The next day, a group at in the Hollywood Hills. So, off bors-learned that it was a prop believer. He made national news in student at the time, writing his un- Caltech reported seeing the same they trekked through mud and that had been discarded after a 1995, when TV stations broadcast published 1950 thesis: "Flying objects; Johnson himself later wit dark of night to an area off Lake documentary was filmed on the his home videotape of what he be Saucers: Fact or Fiction?" which nessed, along with a friend, a UFO ridge Road. (History does not re site. lieved was a UFO hovering near the chronicled who saw what, where over the Arroyo Seco during day cord what they had been consum Today, the Mutual UFO Net~ sun. and when from 1947 to 1950. light hours that he said defied the ing before they set out.) In a shal work, one of several private or "It was quite a spiritual experi Johnson's work is a treasure laws of physics.· low hole at the end of their hike, ganizations that keep track of ence. I basically kind of went into trove of period detail, linking local In ,1956, 15-year-old Michael they found a 12-foot-diameter such information, receives more an emotional trauma," Edwards UFO sightings to others around Savage, son of a San Bernardino disk, which purportedly had than 300 reports a year of UFO said. the world. surgeon, took a picture of a mys- knocked down a lamppost upon sightings nationwide that cannot He called Messoline's watchtow On July 8, 1947, for example, Lt. terious flying object that he said landing. The cockpit seats were be explained. er "a publicity stunt." Joseph C. McHenry, two sergeants hovered near his house for 30 sec upholstered in coral Leatherette, UFOs have survived jokes, sci "YQu can drive up to about 12,000 and a stenographer at Muroc Dry onds; those photos, too, made the and two electrical cords dangled entific ridicule and bad movies, feet here and see for a hundred Lake, now Edwards Air Force paper. to the wooden flooring. and continue to maintain a firm miles. You could just sit by your Base, reported seeing "two silver Just as the phenomenon was Amazed by their find, they grip on the imagination of skep car: and not pay," he said. objects of either spherical or disk- beginning to die out, Hollywood called The Times. tics and believers alike. Roswell part of tourist circuit Dozens of people who have heard about the watchtower have visited the ranch near Hooper; a town of 120 people about 220 miles south west of Denver ing the area's strange occurrences. and regard Messoline's watchtower not feel comfortable talking to most For some, it has been a stop on a The reports stretch back centu with some cynical unease, O'Brien people about them. circuit that includes Roswell, N.M., ries, with American Indians talking said. O'Brien has heard the same thing the scene of what true believers about flying seed-podlike objects, . "However, nobody is going out of from many people since writing in say was a UFO crash in 1947 and O'Brien said. Area newspapers in their way to really slag her· about a local newspaper about a wave of the site of the annual UFO Encoun· the late 1800s and early 1900s ran it," he said. reported sightings in 1993. ter, which draws tens of thousands stories· about strange crafts and Instead, Messoline said she had "I've found myself acting like a 2 of people. lights. taped hours of conversations With paranormal counselor~ ·he said. O'Brien, who lives in the valley, People in the farming and ranch residents who say they have had has made an avocation of document- ing area tend to be set in their ways otherworldly experiences but do BY JOHN BAR1DSEK cafe in a trailer with rooms for rent PALM BEACH POST Atop the hill on the right and a comer of souvenirs. Holly AREA 51, Nevada - When you is a white Jeep wood loves the place: A large tire of the flashing lights in Las Ve plaque from the cast of Ind£pen gas, it's time to get out of town - Cherokee. I can't see dence Day sits out front, along with a way out 10-foot-tall lighted flying-saucer Head for Area 51: the crosshairs past the window tint, prop from the movie Galaxy Quest. between wide-eyed X-Fiks enthusi and nobody steps out, Pat and Joe Travis run the inn. asts and stone-faced military boys. It's been crazy, Pat says, since the It's really out there. And, creepi but these are the "camo . Internet release in April of the first range, I see a cloud of dust coming ly, they know when you're coming. satellite photos of Area 51 -Comes now the splash, then disappeared beneath True said it learned that "a "Flying Ice Cream Cone." the. water. rocket authority stationed at ,.· State police at. Horseheads, According to James L. Kraker, retired Navy Wright Field, 0., has told •• , N. Y., said they would ... look into lieutenant, he and three other Navy men saw an ice (Air Force) personnel flatly that the matter." the saucers are interplanetary cream-cone-shaped object whizJ:ing through the skies, and that no other conclusion 10,000 feet above Alameda, Cal. i~ possible." Kraker said he has told naval intelligence all -Those mysterious Square Flying Saucer one official.) flying objects have shown up over Upper Sandusky. HOLDENVILLE, Okla., Aug. Basing its conclusions on an 13-C. A. Holland, assistant Richard Widman and James Shafer, of Upper eight· month i~vestigation by Hughes .County attorney,· re· Donald E. Keyhoe, a former Sandusky reported seeing an object they said ap ported today he saw an :uniden· peared to be eliptical in shape. It was moving at high tified object "moving at tremen· PRESSj Dec. 27, 1949 altitude, giving off a constant and brilliant light but . dous speed" through the sky. He no.noise. said the object was square~ ! FleryCone_, Greeri Mist JUlyS; 1952 . por.t 'Saucer· and his companions saw early to- Re day was a "perfectly round disc, Southern Ohio Sky . A· tom Plant white in color and almost trans- ~in 0 Ver parent with small vapor trails off . it like the tentacles of an octopus." DENVER, Col., July 5-(UP) He ·said he was flying at about Remains Deep Mystery -Four Florida pilots, three of 9,000 feet and saw the object "just them World War II. veterans, told below a deck of wispy clouds today of seeing a "flying saucer" about 10,000 to 15,000 feet directly hovering over the Hanford atomic above us. plant at Richlands, Wash. All of us have been flying a WILMI~GTON, 0., Jan. 8-{JP)-A phenomenon of the Capt. . John Baldwin of Coral number of years and we've seen skies, a flaming red c~ne trailing a gaseous green mist, appeared Gables, Fla., an air force pilot in all kinds of clouds •nd. formations, the Pacific during World War II, but none of us had ever seen any near the Clinton County army airbase last night and today it who has 7,000 hours of air line thing like this before," Baldwin continued to provide a mystery for the thousands of peoP,le pilot experience, aaid the object he said. who saw it. The army airbase late today is- the clouds from some movement .sued a formal statement on the mat- on the earth. ter, but, a' spokesman said, o~ficials · The fact that the cone moved ' there still had no idea what it rapidly at intervals would indicate was or what it might mean. that the phenomenon was probably ''The. sky phenomenon, described not of · astronomical origin, Dr. by observers at the Clinton County Nassau said. Heavenly bodies, even NEW~ March 7, 1950 aa irfblaamsei nags hraevdi ncgo nteh et raapiplienagr aan cge aos-f sthpoeeudgsh, tahreey saoc tfuaarl lyaw ma:y> veth aatt gthreeairt Flying Saucers Appear have been variously described u eous green mist, appeared .jn the movement does not seem to be the afterma,_th of . A·bomb ex~ In North African Skies southwest skies of Wilmington rapid, he remarked. plosions, space ships from Marl Wednesday night between 7:20 a.111d . Moreover, a purely astronomical TUNIS (INS)-Flying saucers, hav- and the product of mass hypotism, 7:55 p. m. , hardware flytng discs. shiny disc, Murciano said, and a salesman and former marine, said about. six reddish lights around it . The· Air Force position, he s-aid,. large group of persons watched lie was .,blasted by a ball of fire" when ~ t neared the groun.d." .still-is that reports o:t unidenti• the saucer !rom the ground. .· . . . P.aVId Rowan, . another Scout, from the str~ge ~bJeCt ~hen he satd · that soon . after Desvergers !,1~: flying objects results !rom BURSA, TurkeY, Mar. 18- mlslnterpre~tion ot v a rio. us (UP) _ Priests chanting the attempted to mvestigate flashes of entered . the woods; Something light. near a country road. "went off and showered · sparks .coventional obj_eets, a mild form :morning prayer call atop min· o! mass hysteria .or hoaxes." arets · o!. this ancient city re- Shaped Llk .._ • • Ball all over the ·area like k ·ronian e ~ candle." The A~r . Force reached this ported· today they had seen fly· The .scoutmaster described the · Area Seorchect conclusion last December after a ing sau·cers. object to ai:r: force officers as Deputy Sheriff Partin related special group of civilian scien· shaped '1ike half a rubber. ball," that when he went into the woods tists and Air Force technical of· .ficers·had investigated 375 "fly·--------------.... about three feet thick at the edges the grass "seemed:, to be scorched ing saucer" inci(ients over a two· and hjgh enough at the center for or blistered" in the small cleating year period. · Juty 23, 1852 men to stand erect inSide. where the scoutmaster claimed he ·Since then, preliminary inves· SAUCER SAUCE Desvergers reported he was tak- met. the object. - . . ing three Scoots home Tuesday . No trace of the object has beeri tigation of such reports has been · night when he stopped to inves- found. Investigators theorized that left to Air Force technical and ln telligence officers at field Sl{y Watc.h tigate the lights in near-by woods~ it either exploded or disappeared He said when he flashed his light rapidly. ·· . · bases. So far, no reports has had on the object.. he .w as blasted by . Desvergers claimed the object enough credibility to be :tor· Spots a-Dot the ball of fire and overcome. housed be~ngs "who were as afraid warded here. Deputy Sheriff Mott N. Partin, of me as I was of them." That, he summoned by the Scouts, said the said, was why they projected a FARMINGTON, N; M., Mar. 18 Over Lal{e hair was singed off Desvergers' "ball of fire directly at my head." -w UFO encounters. They kept Scunthorpe UFO used it to build up our extensive files. Research Society at defences. In May 1993, an RAF Hercules Grange Farm Hobbies "lt is really hard to pin on a training mission crashed near centre," he said. down, but it is unlikely the village of Blair Atholl. Nigel, who lived on the Germans would have Even after an official inquiry the Angerstein Road, done that." cause of the accident remained a Ashby, helped run the And the answer? There mystery. But the evidence of one society for most of the isn't one, says Nigel witness was never heard. 1970s. "We collected AUTHOR: Nigel Watson. yet. If it had, it might have raised quite a few cases," he "I suppose I'm a unsettling questions. Questions saTidh.e year 1971 was a big year for sbyemliepvaet,h beutitc .s c"e ptic. I want to BBEuLrnIEeVttE, RSSim: oTnh eP eHaal,n Dgaarv e1 8Ja gcrkosuopn Ianncdlu Bderusc (ele Wft iltsoo nri.g ht) Raymond the authorities would not want. 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Or remembers a case in the 1950s when was it simply a chance encounter two lads leaving a pub claimed to "of no defence significance." have seen a 'bottle-shaped' UFO in WEST LANCASHIRE EVENING GAZETTE, England - Nov. 2, 2000 In the 1970s, Joyce Byars the sky. The case was covered in the Jenny views claimed she had logged over 100 Telegraph, and no explanation ever UFO sightings over Moffat. found. She reported that an enormous "Twenty years later I was there spaceship, which she christened when one of those lads confessed it 'Big Bertha,' was using the hills was a hoax," says Nigel. "I suppose it was obvious -they'd just left a pub around the town as a landing site. and saw a bottle in the sky. A lot of She was convinced it was a threat. hoaxers leave a clue around." The UFO seemed to be carrying He admits to being stumped only out some kind of experiment. once, when he believes he saw a UFO the mystery Dropping objects from the sky and himself. then picking them up again. But "I was once was in back garden in someone in authority seemed to Ashby and saw a little ball of light I know what was going on. thought was an aeroplane," he says. Once a plane appeared as Big "But it shot away IOeally fast and was Bertha was in the sky and seemed like a meteor going upwards. I don't to be monitoring its activities. have an explanation for that." The UFO responded by flying Nigel is now a technical author directly at the aircraft which may living in Portsmouth, and his lights show have been destroyed. It certainly continuing fascination with the vanished from sight. There's no doubt that in the 1970s small aircraft crashed in the .area in mysterious circumstances. In July lMS, several people died when a privately-owm!d Piper Aztec ploughed into a hillside north of Moffat. This was less than a year after four met their death in TALES of mysterious By JACQUEUNE MORLEY lives in Glossop, was driving an unexplained plane crash close lights in the Blackpool Chief Feature Writer through the valley with her to Dalmellington village. sky filled 11-year-old daughter when balls of light ap Then there was the mysterious Jenny Randles with awe. peared inside her car. disappearance of pilot Jane of modern science. The claim is "I won't go back into the val Whyl am last heard of flying Staying in a town centre made during an investigation ley now. I'm too frightened. My towards the town of Hawick. hotel, she listened to other by Close Up North on BBC2 at daughter and I were terrified. guests discussing bizarre 7.30pm tonight called The The lights moved around the lights and buzzing noises. Haunted Valleys. car and then as suddenly as It was a life transforming mo The Longdendale Valley from they had come they vanished." ment for Jenny, of Fleetwood, Glossop to Barnsley is dubbed Jenny said: "We're dealing now one of the world's foremost the "most haunted place in with an energy phenomena researchers of the paranormal. Britain" for its strange lights. here which originates in ways While Blackpool's version of Driving that science doesn't understand the northern lights of 1953 was Art teacher Sean Wood, who yet." never explained, Jenny has lives opposite one of the key She is joined by science au since written almost 50 books sites; Shining Clough, recalls: thor Paul Devereux, who has about UFOs and other phenom "It was as though somebody had studied the lights for years. He ena-using her training as a sci driven an articulated wagon up believes he has the answer to RIDICULE: How early UFO reports ence teacher. the road and pointed the lights the mystery in the programme were greeted - a cartoon from 1 gog. Tonight Jenny joins fellow re on full directly into the front and concludes we are not alone. 7 searchers from The Project Pen room so much so that it was Local expert Jenny will also nine Group, who reckon some coming through the corridor be available for a live web chat thing is happening on the Pen and lighting the kitchen." following tonight's programme: nine Moors beyond the realms Mrs Laverne Marshall, who www.bbc.co.uklmanchester. 000 ~ Mince "' ID• UFO ~pie til ::s > c author ~ "c0 sought ~ II Q c ~ A former Dudley L&J w author who wrote about c c "The Mince pie Martian 0 Case" is being sought by "c0 g the members of a UFO ~0 ~ p~~~~C:t~~son from the f ~ Flying Saucer Review (FSR) Until his interests shifted to outer space, joe Firmage was doing come knocking. He believes that many of today's technologies ._ said he and his colleagues ~ fine on Earth. A multimillionaire computer tycoon since his early were found in the wreckage of crashed UFOs. Aliens have had the ~ M~:r~~\~ t~~~::Vt!~e~ e, twenties, Firmage had a splendid house, a pepper-red roadster and Earth under surveillance for thousands of years, apparently, and 30: JReoawnl eHyi ngRleeyg iasb ouhto tuhsee wcaifsee ~ a spread of landscaped offices. Then he discovered 'the Truth'. governments have conspired to keep this fact from us. The key in 1979. ci The case, dubbed in the ~ One morning Firmage woke to find an apparition at the foot of date is 194 7, when an alien spaceship is rumoured to have crashed < press The Mince pie Martian > his bed, which explained certain things about space, time and in the New Mexico desert - the celebrated 'Roswell Incident'. 1- Case, took place in the run Cf) up to Christmas. ~z ehnee grgoyt , otuhte no fs ebnetd a, Fbiorlmt oagf eb lrienadliinsegd l ihgihs t tiynct0oo hnisin bgo ddayy. sB wy ethree otivmere. 'fWorimtheidn, tshixe Nmaotinotnhasl Soefc uRriotsyw Aecllt, 'w saasy ps asFsierdm, athgee , M'tahjees tiCcI TAw ewlvaes C~/) shaufsdbt atsn~dee otfif~ :tod w~ro:rkv ~a~tn 7~a:m~ ~ His mission was to discover the secrets of worlds beyond ours, and operation was launched and the air force separated from the army. C/) when she saw a light in the the beings that might inhabit them. Now, at 29, he believes his And then all these technological advances started spilling out of aW: gaArd esnp.a cecraft landed and task is to prepare humanity for imminent alien contact. To this the military-industrial complex - semiconductors, microwaves, CL three creatures flew into her >< living room and examined end, he has published The Truth, a 600-page manifesto. lasers, fibre optics. Is that all coincidence?' W the Christmas tree. Like all truths, Firmage's comes with consequences. One of Just up the road from Firmage's office is the headquarters of the Shocked these is that many of those who thought he was going to be the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, a private agency that takes offTehreed sthheomck esdo mree swidaetenrt next Bill Gates now regard 'UFO Joe' as a clear case of circuit over a sceptical view of UFOs. Its director, Professor Frank Drake, says: and mince pies, but the aliens declined. load. He has been removed from the top job at US Web, the com 'We are interested in all new information on this subject, and When Mrs Hingley then pany he founded four years ago. 'Joe is a marquee name in the that's the problem with Joe's stuff; it's not new. I wish him well, but showed them how to light a cigarette, they fled in terror industry,' says Gary Rieschel, one of the directors. 'He has done a he needs to move on.' -each taking a mince pie. wonderful job here. The problem is that some of our competitors There are UFO bores everywhere, especially in California, where be~ :v~~n~~~ts~r~h~~~i~ were going around saying we were run by a crackpot.' eight per cent of the population claims to have been abducted in had lived in Dudley during the late 1970s. Gaunt and earnest, Firmage looks and sounds nothing like . one. Is Firmage any different? He is dressed in beetroot cords and He said: "We have tried all most of the buffed and sleek young executives who crowd Silicon a smoke-blue shirt with the word kairos (Greek for 'truth') written the local UFO groups, but to no avail, it ahpears that a lot Valley's boom towns. In the space of 20 years, the computer indus on it. An ill-nourished beard writhes around the point of his chin. ~~o~~~h~ecas!ve forgotten try has turned this strip of coastal farmland into the richest place He doesn't look like a corporate whizz-kid, but he doesn't look like "We know Mrs Morris in America, and the world's most powerful magnet for talent. Joe a fruitcake either. wrote a book and produced some drawings, but unfortu was one of those who felt the pull early. 'Look out there,' he says, nodding towards the darkening sky. nately we do not know much A direct descendant of Brigham Young, the first disciple of the 'The whole of 20th-century physics is built around the idea of more about her, not even her first name." Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who led the Mormons space as pure nothingness. Let's suppose that idea is wrong, that Mr Hanson, a former to Utah, Firmage was born in Salt Lake City. His father, Edwin, is space is not a void but a boundless sea of staggeringly potent ha~C:n~:rtr~ d~!.fM~~ a distinguished lawyer and former advisor to President Lyndon energy. And that it is possible to harness that energy. What then?' !!!:It:! h:s~J~:;;e~ed~e Johnson. At 17 Joe won a scholarship to the University of Utah. He Thankfully, Firmage answers this question himself. 'Then,' he Anyone who knows the set his heart on becoming an astrophysicist, then discovered how says, 'you can begin to form an understanding of the science that whereabouts of Mrs Morris, or anything about the case badly paid it was. 'A career that might bring in $30,000 to $40,000 makes the UFO concept plausible. You are over the feasibility can contact Mr Hanson on a year,' he winces. 'It was a pretty depressing measure of worth.' hurdle.' What he means is that the flight characteristics of UFOs, 07870 359210. Computers offered the same excitement but more money. as described by those who claim to have seen them, breach the Firmage realised that the people who could benefit most from laws of physics. It simply is not possible for a craft, flying at thou new technology were those least likely to understand it. Before his sands of miles an hour, to stop dead without imploding under the 20th birthday he founded Sirius, a company designing software to forces of deceleration and turning its occupants into salsa. simplify the business of programming. In 1993 he sold Sirius for But suppose - a favourite Firmage word - that UFOs are not $24 million, and used the money to found US Web, which helps bound by the laws of physics. Then they could do what they are businesses to make sense of the internet; when it was floated on said to do. Firmage declares that it is now possible not only to the stock exchange last year it was valued at nearly $3 billion. understand how UFOs work, but also to emulate the technology. Firmage is currently estimated to be worth at least $100 million, Stripped of technicalities, his theory is that a UFO produces a kind and a good slice of that is riding on his hunch that ET will soon of synthetic gravity field through which it 'falls', swiftly but gently, to its destination. Once we adopt this technology, he of Firmage, she contacted him with a proposal. Sagan, 'chuckled: "Why should you have that opportunity?" I says, we will graduate to the fraternity of higher intelli who died in 1996, was fascinated by the possibilities heard myself saying,"Because I am prepared to die for it." gences. Then the aliens, who have barely intruded into of extraterrestrial life. His other passion was broad 'He became very still and out of him came this blue, our lives until now, will make themselves known. casting. So Druyan asked Firmage if he would be inter shining sphere of energy, about the size of a basketball. We are sitting in Firmage's small office in Santa Clara, a ested in a joint venture; this autumn a Firmage-Sagan It floated down and passed into my body. I was over bustling Valley town north of San Jose. 'It's a lot easier to entertainment company will be launched in Los come by this amazing feeling of ecstasy, a pleasure trivialise issues like UFOs and extraterrestrial life,' he says, Angeles. It will, says Joe, 'transform our understanding thousands of times beyond orgasm.' 'than it is to consider that we've been engineering energy of cosmic phenomena'. I ask Firmage if he might have been dreaming, and he for only around 100 years in a multibillion-year planetary 'Our agreement allows me to walk away from this shakes his head. Doesn't he, by telling this story, risk history. People say: "Well, if there really are flying saucers venture if it leads to anything we feel reflects badly on undermining those strands of his thinking that have out there, why do they visit cornfields in Kansas? Why my husband's reputation,' Ms Druyan tells me. 'Carl a chance of being taken seriously? 'Maybe,' he sighs. 'I don't they land on the White House lawn?" worked with many people whose views he did not nec don't offer an explanation. I'm just saying it happened.' 'The answer can be found in the history of our planet. essarily share. We are not in business to promote Joe's Firmage has spent $5 million to set up an institute to Every time an advanced society has come into contact with a primitive one, the result has been the decimation 'If there really are flying saucers out there, why do they visit cornfields, of the weaker society. This has happened even where in Kansas? Why don't they land on the White House lawn?' there was no hostile intent. The primitive society loses its coherence and ultimately disintegrates. There is an opti mum time for such contact to take place, and it is clearly ideas about aliens or anything else. I will run the research space sciences. His website (www.firmage.org) the moment when the lesser society advances to the production company, making movies and television displays hundreds of pages of what is claimed to be point where it can deal with the implications of higher specials and publishing books. He will have charge of previously ungublished material, including US govern technology. That time, I believe, is very, very close.' the huge website devoted to emerging scientific topics.' ment files. 'We have our own Deep Throat in cyber As he advances these propositions, Firmage is com space,' grins Firmage. This includes a 1947 memo from posed and polite. But there is a slight, faintly unnerving 'The Truth' dawned on joe Firmage at 6am on a winter's President Truman ordering a classified operation, code glaze in his eyes. Deep private anxiety? Or simply the morning in 1997 at his house in the bijou town of Los named 'Majestic Twelve', to investigate UFOs, and sub effort of explaining? Since he seems happy to discuss his Gatos. (He lives alone, and says he doesn't have 'the sequent high-level letters that appear to acknowledge sanity, I ask if he has sought a professional opinion, and bandwidth' to handle a steady relationship.) 'The alarm a series of UFO crashes, including Roswell. hi~ eyes do a spooky roll. He says he is confident about clock had gone off, I'd hit the snooze button and was All this has been a Hollywood staple for years, and it is both his balance and his intellect. 'There are people dozing. Somehow, I was aware of this light in the room, appropriate that Firmage has set up shop there. But, for I trust who would tell me if they thought I needed help, and there was a figure hovering above my feet. It was him, aliens are fact, not fiction. He's there to give all he but no one has done that.' a human form, an elderly man, glowing and looking has - his tremendous conviction, his remarkable intel 8 One of these people is Ann Druyan, the widow and down at me.' The vision wanted to know why it had been lect, his vast financial resources - to prepare the way for former business partner of the astronomer Carl Sagan. disturbed. Firmage replied: 'Because I want to travel 'the greatest event in all of human history'. To regard Disgusted by what she called the 'corporate persecution' through space and time.' The vision, says Firmage. this as a tragedy you have to believe he is wrong. • s e c r e t life a s a ;M y '"c0: c o m p u t e r hacl. Q) c0: Cii :I " CJ) ~ Forget GT Online - hacker Matt Bevan broke a: c. into the top secret computer systems of NATO, ~ NASA and the United States Airforce. z w Magnus Buchanan caught up with him on his > w visit to Guernsey for an E-security conference, and asked what motivates a hacker M ANY of us are Commodore Amiga before fascinated by the reaching the PCs that now possibility that dominate the home computer UFOs might exist. market. Few are quite as It was not until his 14th birthday determined as Matt that he received the gift that Bevan, or his alter ego Kuji, in truly transformed his life - a our search to discover the modem. answer. After an initially shocking phone Bevan faced charges in 1994 for bill, Bevan's parents were his access to the computer delighted that their son appeared networks at the Griffiths and to have ceased making calls. But Patterson airforce bases as well he had not - instead he was as at the Lockheed Martin Space learning the secrets of telephone and Missile Company. phreaking. American officials had become Making a connection to a long so concerned at Kuji's ability to distance free phone number, the ghost in and out of their most young hacker sent tones down classified systems that the the line that indicated he had hacker's activity was discussed hung up. In fact. he still in the Senate. remained on the network at an Many officials were convinced undetectable level, • LOVE AT ARST BYTE: Matt Bevan got hooked on hacking from the age of 14. (Picture by Chns George, 3803119/00) that he was a Russian spy. eavesdropping and making calls However, after his capture by the at his leisure. tried to search the systems for and, yes, I do value my freedom,' The myth of hackers operating FBI and lengthy legal Bevan spent much of his time in things that might be connected.' he says, tightening his lip. from their bedrooms is also a proceedings, no evidence was an illegal Internet community He was unable to fmd conclusive Bevan's biography bears a truly refreshingly true one. offered against Bevan. called Sin City, becoming evidence in the sites but drew uncanny resemblance to the plot 'The power of the computer is A free man, he walked out of the involved in PHATE (Phreaking his own conclusions from some of Wargames. not that important in hacking. courtrooms and into the land of Hacking And Terrorism of the classified material that he It is tempting to believe that, It's really the quality of the hacking folklore. Enterprises magazine) viewed. just as in the film, programmers programming code that matters In person, 25-year old Cardiff 'It's a bit embarrassing now,' he 'There were some very might actually leave 'backdoors' most.' born Bevan does not fit the admitted. interesting things relating to in their systems to help them Since his acquittal, Bevan has profile of the stereotypical But after playing pranks for engine technology. I don't know bypass security. enjoyed status as a minor computer whizzkid. several years, Bevan discovered of any engine capable of Mach 'It really does happen. celebrity with no difficulty in He is tall, pony-tailed and holds his true mission - to uncover the 15 that was available in 1994,' 'They're told not to do it but gaining employment, working as his stature with an air of truth about UFOs. He also discovered many they just keep on.' an Internet security auditor and confidence. Nevertheless, he says Bevan is unapologetic about his references to a mysterious Bevan proceeds to outline a lecturing at conferences. that his life with computers did protracted trespasses into Hangar 18, which he believes to recent case in which a well National newspapers reporting result largely from his American military installations be connected to the Roswell known Internet shopping his case have referred to him as unhappiness as a teenager. and their effect on the incident - when a UFO is said to channel was breached because a spy and criminal while also 'I was basically bullied almost government there. have crashed and alien life forms the Microsoft engineer left a saluting him as a lone genius every day of my life at school. 'I basically wanted to find more were claimed to have been found derogatory remark about rivals and a prodigy. For me, it was great to escape about UFOs. I'd read and on board. Netscape as an access-to-all-areas If Bevan is aware of the way in into a world where people were researched a lot of stories and I 'There were many things there password. which the media has distorted fbreiceonmdley rtaot emde a asn idm Ip coorutaldn te.' ven ~Bevan's parents \t-'ere delighted he Etevcehnn isqou, eth tehraet ihs ancok eprasr tuisceu. lar ehnimjo ytso tihtse onwonto erinedtsy, thhea ct etrhteayin ly Bevan did not receive his first 'It really does come down to the have brought him. computer until he was 12 years had ceased Inaking phone calls. But individual site or server. There Most of all, he is perhaps a old, and along with many other are so many different living example of the rewards of children of his generation, it was he had not - instead he "'as learning applications on the Internet - breaking the rules. a ZX81. music, bulletins, business, which 'I still keep my hand in. I stijl Through his teenage years, he the secrets of telephone p/Jreaking' means that there are many love to hack,' he says. graduated through a BBC, a different functionalities to be 'Legally of course.' he quickly Commodore 64 and a abused.' adds. 0 0 0c- . rl 0 't'l c: aaJ c: into UFOs ~Probe Laverne Marshall, of Glossop, tells the programme: "I A UFO croup Ia ~! and hauntings dwaoung'ht egro S tbaacceky ainn dt hItht ewhha eeTdev hr acPecelao r ltrmoeep yjrreaero ,inc ngftdtior he awPdetmh.ye. emn TIvnn'heam,ie nnal iolesstioo gh Gkosheus dtr sdfo.a r"dmuit eg ponth.hvl tyeese d enwa tea sodru or.tp khuM entooydyf "LIJ I around Its edge and Close Up North is to examine what have become over the years than any other area, LIJ "c0 down the cen.tre. 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CANNOCK CHASE POST, Wolverhampton, England - Aug. 10, 2000 ~~~~~~~~~ THEBE A f i l i i CllrEB-1/PP ··~.! FBI agents Mulder and Scully merely fictional charaalen. in . m~ paranormal and para noid prowramme, we have found time and again that life has an uncanny knack of imitating art. Or is it the other. way around? During our inv~stigations into the X-Files of Staffordabire, we have found ourselves following many of the UFO aad CQnspira.cy related paths already trod by our TV coUJiterputs. Far ezample, wnat was surely one of the weirdest C Files that we investigated tOok. us back in time to the Cannock Chase of the 1960s and plunged ua into a bizarre mystery involving the retrieval by the military of a strange aircraft that had crashed on the Chase, the silencing of a key witness. rumours of alien bodies found the uicredible nature of this account, we locat- in hand, stealt1rily headed through the trees to see what in the wreckage of the vehicle and the deep involvement who was intimately involved. ~~~~~-~~~ of the Ministry Of Defen:eet · · been driving-through the ·Chase on that fateful .& .soon .fo\md out. It began when Leonard Strinllfield,.a .US Air Ff"orce offi 1964 and had come across a cordon manned by th$ei tftuisnsg w oans- tahbeo-utrta. iler of a military tran&porter was a cer, revealed thai in 1964 a tJli'O piloted by three alien rpersonnel. small triangular-shaped object that looked like nothing creatures crashed on the edge of the Cannock Cliase and Ordered to turn his vehicle around, he drove several op,Earth... · was recovered by elite forces from NATO: lrundred yards up the road, pulled over and, with camera The wit;nef!s told us that his camera was confiscat ed and he was asked about his wreaass omnsa fdoer bcelienagr into t hhel mar etah. aItt IEit:~~~~~ speaking out publicly would not be in his best interests. IJ-:::=:r~==:~ But that was not all. On the day we went to interview him, he told ...... ..tl.fl.la.. ... dct. us that he had received ..,y a strange telephone call from HERALD, Pentlcton, B.C., Canada - 27, 2000 CR: G. qonway the MoD that had unnerved i:'mte group UFO believers have opportunity him considerably. org•nl.aea We looked at each other and MOIIIhly lectulea' en UFOs wllich *::~~n: h~~~ our ~ds: f:t.,.. -'R!~ Were we in the~'~iddle of an n...r.. Rugeley. to hear latest on favourite subject investigation worthy of an ~..-. entire episode of the X-Files? ........ groups And was our witness really meedlip .h•ve being kept under apparent sur included Crop veillance more than 30 years Circle imre.tlg•· on? . tor l•nd 8inger By BOB MUNDAY Anderson, says he witnessed a UFO We asked if we could dial wttb The- Penticton Herald ninogr tihn othf Le oms oAunngtealienss i nab 1o9v9e6 , :wPahsialed ehniak.· 1471 to see if he was being TPr1e's.l.e-y) , Rare.cgr Are they out there? You better believe He thought it was one or more planes ~M~o~De~. ~W~~e: wb\e:ren ~p~uath tihtrao ;u~g~h ftoh !a MDeinfeisntcrey UFoOf thAeyli eanres.. that is. This according to an in" Ia etxripaencgteudl athr ef osromuantdi ofnro.m the plane, amlliyli ttarrayc eodp tehrea tcoarl la tnod t heev eMnotuD lPnovpees.t ig8tor Nc.k expert on extra-terrestrials as well as or these planes, to reach me at any mo· Guards Service at Whittington CJH•ve you wit· Ok~nagan resirlents who insist they ment, but I heard nothing. I stopped Ahorwmeyv eBr,a trhrea coknsly. rFersopmon steh weraes, Sneesesne ad gha osUt?F OO?r have witnessed sightings. walking and looked again at the lights. a deafening silence. maybe you've UFO believers will have an opportu There was still no sound," he said. To this day, the origin of the hltd a close nSiattyu rtod ahye aar t thOe klaatneasgt aonn tUhen isvuebrsjeitcyt faSileedv etroa le xcaplllasi nto t hae n huampbpeern ionfg a,g aenndc ihees Cumnhykasntseoerw ionu.t sn obje1c9t 6f4o undr eomna ithnes tephnaecn otehuluensrt ievre bwtlhaictahkt College. realized he had seen a UFO. prowls the Guest speaker is Graham Conway, "Every possibility had been checked wWas aist pite rah acprsa as hperdo tUotFyOpe? aOir r Cat• nningohctk? Chase prCesoindwenayt ohf aUsF fOo-cBuCse. d on the abduc· ociuatl,s" thoeld s haiidm, atod dstianyg sUil.eSn. tm ainldit anroyt otafflik. cMraofDt thwaits htehde mtoi liktaereyp a nudn dtheer Iwf oyuolud h•livkee antod 2ti5o ny-ecaorsn.t adcutreien ge xwpheircihe ntcime ef ohre thhaes pmaestt to" tAhned p sroe sIs .k ept it quiet, until now," he worna tph~i?s cAats eth ries msta~mges tohpee nC. -File cIroenntea ctt oN icrke paonrdt i and spoken to at least 20 claimants. said. wDaso? y oWue rken oywo uw hpaat rtth eo ofb jtehcet tphheo ndee otauirls t,w toel Ce- J One of the Okanagan residents who -Kelowna resident Gordon de Roos retrieval team? If so, give us a Files investiga is a flrm believer in aliens and UFO's also has come forward with his account call. tors on: 01922 is 44-year-old Corina Saebels, of · of a UFO sighting. It was May 5, 1998, 869641. Summerland. when he and two friends witnessed a Saebels had her.frrst UFO experience strange object in the sky. as a 10-year-old living in Quebec and BOB MUNDAYI Penticton Herald Their experience lasted about two says the experiences have followed her Digit, which is how an alien appears, minutes as the vessel flew east over throughout her life. ahcacnodr tdoin ggr etoe.tC thoorlsnea aStateenbdeilnsg, w ai llle bcetu orne Knox Mountain, then followed the ca:i Is it a UFO "Absolutely, l'rij a flrm believer, with on UFOs Saturday at Okanagan perimeter of Okanagan Lake. c( out a doubt. I've seen ships myself. My University College. UFOs are becoming an increasingly cz 0 or not? brother and I, when I was living in studied subject by a number of credi ·- -<.. 00 Quebec, were playing in the backyard evening in July when all of a sudden ble people, such as former astronaut 1- "' ofwef"he olWeiunne rg a lhbli nooostufhis da eel so iuoondku dterhe dsen t o uwmmpei, a"df cde.shlltae. ia do h fSu tmaheemb deinal's yg, ntwho"ae Tsyl ih gahe hab trdsoe oaaams nsodtenr ra waintnh ggwee-nas fs hew aseeopl i elnfodrgio g sk-hhe"tidepn n.ou i pns got huwenardes, SGdNeciofcherkodn oocPlen o. p preCo, fofeoosprsmeorre, rD BHr.ra iJrtoivshahnr dm M inMaicsketd eaircn aodlf 1CUaw/J:-) 0<~- > AUsini FggAUhO tF rciRenOlasge ii smdogeevrsaone rutrc o phDtf o oialsvdan e ndirtn chPvoueaeu nrsrEuatti.nssg suoaeartx--l "and other people were pofuting up, at the size of the ship; like the size of a Those who have witnessed UFOs or (z.!) mal Group they saw a light a saucer the shape of a ship about 150 football field. My friend was so scared have had alien contact are urged to z I speeding out to sea on Tues- feet right above us. he ran inside,. but I stayed outside and contact Okanagan UFO Research at z 'cU day, September 26, which "It was my flrst sighting of a ship and watched it. It made me feel like I could (250) 494·3242 or UFO-BC at (604) 878- c( «< had white lights around its since then I've seen many." said n't breathe," said Saebels. 6511 or on the web at www.contac ~ 0c , edfe and down the centre. Saebels. That incident occurred seven years tus@ufobc.or. a!S w he witness said the athsHe eyare asmrisga,hj iotnircn lguesdv iehnnagtv wew hcahoti nlseht ien ludiveeisdnc groi bveeinsr asogitghohe atrinsn.d g,U . aFIptOp w·aBraCesn fatilleyslo,d wehdae sr3 2wf icirtasntle lssc sooenfd tt abhcyet alenTcdth ucer oetna trliokno ugmeest.s t Aou nq1d0u:e1er5s twpio.amny-. aainnt d 6t-h:a3en0 sOpwU.meCr: :03z: :: Qe>cnn<) dirneis Acfaitnvpayepn oegonarue rsl eaidxwr -osistevhhce aorpmn tdehosder. e h ooibnnJzfoeocrn-t 10 Aldergrove in 1993. with Conway and UFO-BC. period is also planned. Cost is $10 with a: LLJ mation should call Michael She and a friend were having tea one Another Summerland resident, Tom limited seating available. <:z:: Joyce on 01255 821121.

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