- The purpose of these files is to report the UFO eyewitness
and photo/video evidence that occurs on a daily basis around the world
and in space. This week's files investigate a series of Orbiting Astronaut
Sees Mystery Lights, Biggest Solar X-ray Flare Classified As X28, NORAD
- Investigates Vapor Trail Reports, and the Leonid Meteor Showers Are Coming.
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- UFO reports: Maine -- Cylinder UFO Seen Near Base, Vermont
- Silver Metallic Disk, Massachusetts - Unknown Objects During Lunar Eclipse,
New Jersey - Transient Lunar Phenomenon Seen During Lunar Eclipse, Pennsylvania
- Huge Flying Triangle, Rhode Island - Large Hovering Flying Triangle on
Halloween, Virginia - Cigar With Two Lights, North Carolina - Triangle
Shaped Object With 3 Round Lights, Georgia - Hovering Tarnished Bronze
Sphere, Florida - Black Cloud Vortex Appears and Witness Loses Ten Minutes,
Mississippi - It Was a Disk Larger Than Our House, Indiana - Bright Orange
Light, Illinois - Green UFO Spotted, Missouri - Flying Triangle Sightings
Continue, Kansas - I Was Driving And Saw A Silver Disc, Arizona - Several
Bright Triangular Objects, California - Video Of UFO Shot by R. David Anderson,
Washington - Saucer Plus Strange Black Cloud, Canada - Large Craft And
Disk Seen On Halloween Venezuela - More UFOs Sighted, Greece - The Light
Was Too Fast For A Plane, India - UFOs Sighted In Valley, and South Korea
- Disk Found Among Photos.
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- Significantly less UFO sightings in October (367) than
September (426) or August (454) possibly due to solar flares. Thanks to
Peter Davenport Director <http://www.ufocenter.com/>UFOcenter.
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- Lights, Smoke Observed On The Moon
- Transient Lunar Phenomenon
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- During the last week a series of moving lights, smoke
trials, and strange objects have been seen on our Moon. This is not a new
phenomenon. In 1869, after a series of bright points of light in geometric
patterns had been seen, the Royal Astronomical Society assigned to scores
of astronomers the task of observing and recording this amazing phenomenon.
In a two-year period, they recorded more than a hundred such light patterns,
rectangles, straight lines, triangles - many of them around Mare Crisium.
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- Our moon is the only moon in the solar system that has
a stationary, virtually perfect circular orbit. The moon's center of mass
is about 6000 feet closer to the Earth than its geometric center which
should cause wobbling. However, the moon's bulge is on the far side of
the moon, where many strange structures have been spotted. Someone or something"
had to put the moon in orbit with its precise altitude, course, and speed.
How do we explain the "coincidence" that the moon is the right
diameter and the right distance to completely cover the sun during an eclipse?
There is no astronomical reason why the moon and the sun should fit so
well unless of course it was placed in its position according to plan.
Only our Moon among all the moons in the Solar System is set apart in this
way.
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- France - Smoke Trail Over the Moon During Eclipse
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- METZ - The evening of November 7, 2003, the photographer
while traveling 17h13 autoroute Longway? (49 20 34- 06 03 03) saw a smoke
trail over the Moon for less one minute. By chance, he had his camera and
made two photographs on silver film. He reported the anomalie on the astronomy
newsgroups in the US, UK, France, and to Harvard University PM.
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- Data: Apparent geocentric position right rise 1h 25m
52s Declination 6° 18' 48" outdistance 402,517 km Constellation
fish Appearance Diameter 29.69' Illumination 96% Libration in longitude
4.051° Libration in latitude 3.260° He developed the film with
the microphen into 800 ASA not to have the overexposed lunar disc, such
an amount of worse for the other photographs. The Moon made 1mm on the
negative one, while waiting for the silver images, here are reconstitutions
lunar formation, the trainée black one seemed behaves like it was
projected on the top of the lunar disc and falling down. Thanks to Thierry
Speth
- E-mail was in French and data may be lost in translation.
See photos at: <http://membres.lycos.fr/aalenia/ltp071103.htm>http://membres.lycos.fr/aalenia/ltp071103.htm:
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- NORAD - Investigates Vapor Trail
- COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (CNN) -- Fighter jets scrambled
in an unsuccessful attempt to investigate a contrail of unknown origin
first seen over the Caribbean and later reported over the Midwestern United
States, the Department of Defense said Thursday. The North American Aerospace
Defense Command scrambled the jets soon after unverified reports were received
around 4 p.m. Wednesday, November 5, 2003, that the contrail, seen near
the Turks and Caicos Islands, was headed northwest toward the US, said
Lt. Commander Curtis Jenkins, a spokesman for NORAD. A contrail is a white
trail of condensed water vapor that sometimes forms in the wake of an aircraft.
The jets were scrambled from more than one base and more than one location.
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- Commercial airline pilots later reported the contrail
over Florida and then over Indiana, he said. The jets attempted to intercept
and identify the source of the contrail, but no visual or confirmed radar
contact was made, he added. "I don't know that anybody was predisposed
to think it might be something or the other," he said. "We don't
even know that it was a thing. It was just simply reports of contrails.
We don't even know that it was the same one. We had reports from different
places and NORAD did its job and tried to find out."
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- Leonid Meteor Showers
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- The morning of November 13, and 19 there will be two
periods of possible good meteor falls. The first date is during the daylight,
but there will be possible fireballs at 12:25 AM- and peaking of meteors
at 2:28 AM on the 19th. Thanks to Tom Sheets
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- Maine -- Cylinder UFO Seen Near Base
- NAVAL BASE KITTERY - The witness saw a set of five white
lights, with very bright beams on November 6, 2003, at 9:09 PM, a mile
from the Navy base. The beams were at a 34 to 45 degree angle and hovered
through the cloud cover. The witness states, "I watched it come closer
through the clouds for about five minutes when part of the object broke
through the cloud cover exposing two of its five lights. There was a crescent
or cylinder shape behind the lights that was darker in appearance than
the sky. It hovered for minutes, slowly retreating into the cloud cover.
I watched the five lights for ten more minutes. The width of each light
was twice as large as any airplane I've ever seen. Finally I watched the
lights disappear, remaining in circular shapes and all moving simultaneously
until completely disappearing from sight. Thanks to Peter Davenport
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- Vermont - Silver Metallic Disk
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- BURLINGTON -- On November 5, 2003 at 12:20 PM, the Father
was called outside by his 12-year old son who was pointing up in the sky
"What is it?" My wife who was in our yard with our dog was looking
up in the sky, too, said "It's a UFO". First I thought they were
joking until I looked up and to my amazement saw a flying silver metallic
disk navigating in and out of the clouds, it was turning upside down then
right side up. I said "that's a flying saucer." We had a visual
on it for no longer than 1 minute at which time it disappeared in the clouds
headed east over Colchester. Too bad I didn't have enough time to get my
camcorder. Thanks to Peter Davenport
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- Massachusetts - Unknown Objects During Lunar Eclipse
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- West Chatham - Two observers were watching the lunar
eclipse on November 8, 2003. One is a 63 year old floor covering salesman
who noticed four white to "reddish" lights move into the area
of the sky close to the eclipsed moon at 8:50 PM. The lights would move
quickly then stop, then move quickly again. They were generally together
but obviously moved independently of one another. One light then moved
quickly in a northerly direction while the other three moved quickly in
a southerly direction and out of sight. The entire episode lasted about
30 seconds. The lights were not pinpoints, but rather had some small area
to their origin. It was clear and cold at the time of the sighting. Thanks
to UFO Casebook on-line reporting <mailto:Ufocasebook>Ufocasebook@aol.com
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- Rhode Island - Large Hovering Flying Triangle On Halloween
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- WAKEFIELD -- At 10 PM, two witnesses were driving on
Route 1 south on October 31, 2003, when they noticed a large object with
four large white circle lights kind of hovering over them. They both saw
lights and about five seconds later, the four white lights went off and
one of them turned green. All the lights disappeared and then the four
white lights came on again. At first, it looked like a rectangle from the
side, but when it started moving at a very fast rate, it looked like a
triangle. It started to go over some trees then just completely disappeared.
Thanks to Peter Davenport <http://www.ufocenter.com/>UFOcenter
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- New Jersey - Transient Lunar Phenomenon
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- SICKLERVILLE - The witness who just completed his grad
diploma in astronomy reports photographing an object moving across the
Moon on November 9, 2003, during the Lunar Eclipse using his Sony digital
camera. I happened to notice that in the series of photos, I had captured
a small red star-like dot which first appears on the lunar horizon, and
then moved several degrees across the face of the moon and slightly north.
A blow up of the object from several shots reveals the same structure.
Something like two red donuts stuck together. I suppose some people may
say its an artifact caused by the camera, but I doubt an artifact would
look like donuts. I should add, I am somewhat familiar with the subject
of Transient Lunar Phenomenon. Thanks to WUFOD and Bruce Cornet
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- Delaware- Pictures Of Unknowns During Eclipse
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- GUMBORO - The photographer reports, "I captured
a series of images on digital camera-which I could not see with my naked
eye-but it looked like a pattern of lights in the camera." I have
clear pictures of these objects and lights. The pictures were taken looking
at the eclipse. While trying to capture an image on my digital, I noticed
a pattern of flashing lights in my display mode, so I snapped a few shots
and downloaded them to my computer for a closer look by zooming in. Thanks
to B J Booth UFO Casebook <http://www.ufocasebook.com/login.html>UFOcasebook
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- Pennsylvania - Huge Flying Triangle
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- DUNMORE -- Frank Scassellati, reports, "I sighted
a huge triangular-shaped UFO on November 3, 2003, with fiancé."
It was 6:30 PM, and we were traveling to a local Sunoco gas Station. We
were near the Dunmore Cemetery, when we noticed a huge, triangular-shaped
UFO in the evening's sky. It was black, or dark in color, with three huge,
glowing lights on each edge of the triangle. The object was approximately
500 feet in length, and about 300 feet above the ground. The object did
not move. It remained motionless in the clear sky. My fiancé also
saw the UFO and we gazed in amazement at this wondrous vehicle. My fiance
exclaimed, "What's that? It doesn't look like an airplane. It's not
moving. Maybe it's a UFO?" I agreed with her. I believed it to be
a UFO. As we entered the Sunoco gas station, I rolled down my window and
put my head outside to get a better view, but the UFO. had vanished, it
was nowhere to be seen. Thanks to: Frank Scassellati and <http://www.ufowisconsin.com/>UFO
Wisconsin.com/
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- Virginia - Cigar With Two Lights
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- STAUNTON - The observer noticed an object in sky southwest
of Staunton, at about 11 PM on October 26, 2003. He watched for over an
hour as the object moved in every direction in short bursts, but stayed
in the same general area. The observer states, "It looked like two
long slender lights parallel to the ground, like this - -. The object was
quicker and more agile in the air than I can explain. It would take off
real quick in a straight line, then seem to turn 90 degrees, then up and
down and left and right. There were no blinking lights on the craft. I
don't know what this thing was, but it was pulling off maneuvers that I
think are beyond human technology at this time. I viewed the object in
sky until I fell asleep around 12:30 AM." Thanks to Peter Davenport
<http://www.ufocenter.com/>UFOcenter
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- North Carolina - Triangle Shaped Object With 3 Round
Lights
- CHARLOTTE - The viewer was star gazing around 9 PM on
the back deck of my home on November 3, 2003. I looked straight up and
saw 3 round lights moving in unison from the West to the East horizon.
The circles of gray light were located at each end of the triangle shape,
and I estimate this triangle was about 100 feet across. I looked away from
the lights several times to make sure I was really seeing what I saw. I
was able to locate this moving object over and over again. It took about
30 seconds for this object to move to the Eastern horizon. This was no
illusion! I went to bed and dreamed of UFO's darting in and out of the
clouds and across the sky. These UFO's in my dream were both triangle shaped
and rod shaped. Thanks to Peter Davenport <http://www.ufocenter.com/>UFOcenter
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- Georgia - Hovering Tarnished Bronze Sphere
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- ALPHARETTA - The observer was traveling on the Old Alabama
Connector Road on October 29, 2003. I was stopped at that intersection
and was looking over the North Point Mall at 5:45 PM, and saw a cell tower
to the left and a radio tower just north of it. I noticed what I thought
was a globe on one of the guide wires, similar to the globes that are sometimes
placed on high tension wires to prevent them from touching each other during
high wind conditions. I paused because this seemed unusual, but the light
changed and I had to continue driving. Later I realized that the size was
completely off, and that the sphere was actually about three times the
width of the radio tower. The tarnished bronze or brown sphere was about
half way up the tower. I went back later to verify that my perception was
correct but the sphere was no longer there. I am certain that the sphere
was not a tethered balloon of some type. Thanks to Peter Davenport <http://www.ufocenter.com/>UFOcenter
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- Florida - Black Cloud Vortex and Witness Loses Ten Minutes
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- MILTON -- On Friday, the eyewitness was driving to Pensacola
to visit my parents on October 31, 2003, at 3:15 PM, when he saw a strange
black cloud in the beautiful sunshiny sky. The witness states, "The
cloud seemed to be moving like a vortex and I could not take my eyes off
of it, so the next thing I remember is crossing the bridge on the interstate
going into Pensacola...I lost TEN minutes." I do not even remember
driving those ten minutes. My daughter was with me, but she was asleep
during all of this. Could this be an abduction? Thanks to Peter Davenport
<http://www.ufocenter.com/>UFOcenter
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- Mississippi - It Was A Round Disk Larger Than Our House
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- PASS CHRISTIAN - On November 5, 2003, at 5 PM, a couple
observed a strange disk in the sky that had bright lights on the bottom
so they decided to follow. The object continued to move easterly directly
along side of the interstate for several miles, so they followed speeding
along the highway at 85 mph, as darkness began to fall.
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- I would never have believed what I saw, but I saw it
and now I think other people should know. I am just an every day Joe, so
these things really are out there. What they are or where they come from
who knows. I am just an everyday mom and go to work at city hall. North
of the interstate I noticed a line of flashing red lights all in a row
too close to be planes or helicopters but as I got closer I starting yelling
to my husband in the passengers seat, do you see that? What is it? He said
I can't believe it speeds up, let's follow it so I continued north but
the object remained still directly above the tree line right below the
clouds almost hovering. I would say. I stopped the car and we got out.
The object seemed close enough to touch but it was still atop the trees
where it remained. It was bigger than a house and it seemed as if it were
spinning but it wasn't moving it. Thanks to Peter Davenport <http://www.ufocenter.com/>UFOcenter
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- INDIANA - Bright Orange Light
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- MICHIGAN CITY -- My sister, niece, nephew and I were
coming home from the Humane Society on October 30, 2003, and talking about
the solar flare that had just occurred when my 11-year-old niece said,
"What's that orange thing?" The other three of us looked straight
ahead to the horizon at 4:45 PM, (the object looked to be in the midst
of some wispy clouds in a southwest direction.) I automatically said "It's
one of those planes that leave streaks in the sky" until I realized
it wasn't moving at all, it was just a bright orange oval shape hovering
in the sky. We stopped the car to get a better look, but then continued
down the road to the house. My niece and I grabbed the binoculars and hopped
on our bikes, but once we got back down the road where there were no trees
obstructing our view, the object was totally gone. Thanks to Peter Davenport
<http://www.ufocenter.com/>UFOcenter
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- Illinois - Green UFO Spotted
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- O'FALLON -- I am now a believer in UFO's because of my
experience with a Green object last night. Last night while I was waiting
for my girlfriend to get home from work on October 27, 2003, I looked up
to see the stars, but noticed an object that looked green with a glow at
12: 20 PM. I realized after further observation that it was not an aircraft
and it was like something I remember seeing when I was about 10 years old
at my grandparents' house in Ozark, Alabama. I was so full of excitement,
but was realistically observing around 3 to 5 minutes. The craft flashed
an orange-red color and then disappeared. Thanks to Peter Davenport <http://www.ufocenter.com/>UFOcenter
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- Missouri - Flying Triangle (Kite-Like) Sightings Continue
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- TROY - The observer on October 30, 2003, went outside
at 10 PM, to walk his dogs and looked up to try to see the Aurora lights.
There were no lights but coming out of the NW, was a strange looking triangular
object. It was like an upside down kite in shape. There were four lights
that were visible in the front, one in the back, and one on each side.
They were also yellow lights that were not blinking as in most commercial
aircraft. The witness says, "It went over my home, and moved like
it was gliding, but it was quick and was flying at 750 feet." If I
held my fist up in the air, it appeared to cover it. There has been a series
of sightings over West Central Missouri during the fall with many reporting
a strange row of bright lights hovering over fields and flying triangles.
These sightings are not far from Whiteman Air Force Base, the home of the
B-2 bomber. On November 4th, two more UFOs having a straight row of 3 to
6 very bright amber lights were seen over Elisnore and Greenville. On November
5, a UFO was seen over St. Joe. Thanks to Peter Davenport <http://www.ufocenter.com/>UFOcenter
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- Kansas - I Was Driving And Saw A Silver Disc
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- TOPEKA - The witness was driving north at 7 PM, when
he noticed a large military plane in the northern sky on October 30, 2003,
but higher up he saw a silver disk east of the plane. The military plane
was moving away, but the silver disk was not moving. The witness said,
"I drove to a place where I could park my car and watch the disk."
It started to move slowly to the west. I got back in the car and drove
the 4 blocks to my house. When I got there, the disk was gone. Thanks to
Peter Davenport <http://www.ufocenter.com/>UFOcenter
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- ARIZONA - Several Bright Triangular Objects
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- TUCSON - The observer was walking his dogs at 11 PM,
and observed two triangular objects in the west and two in the east on
October 31, 2003. Using binoculars he saw them change colors from red,
to white, to blue. Often they emit beams of light. He stated, "One
night I saw little crafts going off what appeared to be the mother craft
that are generally in the same area." Davis Monthan Air Force Base
is in Tucson. Thanks to Peter Davenport <http://www.ufocenter.com/>UFOcenter
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- California - Video Of UFO Shot
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- MODESTO -- R. David Anderson reports, I was working outside
the building on October 19, 2003, on a sunroom addition onto our house.
As I looked up to see if the upper frame was level I saw a UFO coming from
the north. It was bright, star like, and it made a loop around the house
and hovered above me for about five minutes. I went into the house and
got binoculars and went back outside and looked at it using the binoculars.
In the binoculars the UFO appeared to be changing shapes, from a sphere
to an elongated form. My daughter came out of the house and I showed her
the UFO. She was surprised to see a bright star in the middle of the day.
I gave her the binoculars and she also commented that it was changing shapes.
I observed the UFO dividing into two spheres, and another long shaped craft
appeared between the two spheres. There was suddenly a lot of wispy "steam"
where the long UFO was, and then my daughter yells " Look, there's
a jet." I looked down to where she was pointing, and there was a long
object, moving at an angle towards us. Without sound. I saw a bright luminous
elongated shape moving against the sky, that changed to a tan color and
I could then see it in detail. It was shaped like a cigar with a triangle
on the front of it. On the sides were many rectangular features.
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- After lunch, I got the video camera and spotted three
UFO's coming from the north and recorded the UFO's as they traveled above
the house. These UFO's were spherical in shape, bright and closer, and
are the ones in the video. They traveled in unison. About 40 minutes later,
I also got another shot of a UFO moving above the tree. Thanks to R. David
Anderson
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- Washington - Saucer Plus Strange Black Cloud
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- SPANAWAY -- I was walking home from school and saw one
saucer shaped craft heading East towards Mt. Rainier. It was silver, with
a visible shadow on the bottom where the sun didn't hit on October 30,
2003. It wasn't going incredibly fast, but it was steady. It zigzagged
a couple of times and then finally disappeared behind the clouds. Thanks
to Peter Davenport
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- INDIANOLA -- Dr. Annamarie K Johnstone reports, "I
was taking photographs with my 35 mm camera over Highway 82 and noticed
a dark shadow or silhouette to the right of a chemtrail curve." Clouds
are pushed in front of a dark shadow, perhaps indicating its movement forward.
Much fainter behind the lead shadow, forming a rough triangle with the
lead are two more suspects. The second photo shows that the dark shadow
clouds have moved, but maintain their shape. Similar shadows are occurring
in Fostoria, Ohio and photographed by George Ritter. Thanks to A. K. Johnstone
Ph.D.
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- Canada - Large Craft And Disk Seen On Halloween
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- HAMILTON, ONTARIO -- On October 31, 2003, I saw a large
craft, from about four miles away on Halloween night at 7 PM, with a white/blue
aura over its length. The craft was lighted all along its length unlike
an airplane, with some blue, red, and white lights flashing, within the
overall white/blue light of the craft. I attempted to get to a better vantage
point quickly, but had to proceed with caution since the streets were filled
with thousands. When I got there, the object was gone. Our airplanes do
not have blue lights and our airplanes do not light up so you can see them
at night. Only their navigation lights and headlamps are visible.
- VANCOUVER - The observer reports seeing a disk that appeared
like the original craft from "Lost in Space" at 3 PM, on October
31, 2003. It had rotating multi-colored lights on the bottom and side of
red, orange, green, blue, yellow, and white. It flew silent, low, and hovered.
There were many more lights than any conventional airplane with rotating
lights under and around the side. It didn't seem real, like Christmas tree
lights rotating. It was eerily silent, and moved in more of a hover, with
almost a slight wobble from too low a speed. It was enormous in size and
would have been visible to anyone who was outside at 3 AM, near English
Bay.
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- STONER, BC -- On October 26, 2003, at 5 PM, while traveling
along Highway 97 just south of Stoner a couple saw what looked like an
aircraft coming in for a landing with its landing lights on, just over
the top of the trees. The light was extremely bright and too big to be
a normal aircraft due to its size, brightness and how low it was flying.
The couple was driving at 100 kilometers an hour (60 MPH) and catching
up to the flying object. It hovered, then started moving again. Occasionally
they lost sight of it due to the trees but when they got to the crest of
the hill, they spotted it again flying slowly just underneath the 8,000
feet cloud cover. It was traveling straight across from them when the light
disappeared, reappeared and then finally vanished. Others on the highway
probably saw it. Thanks to: Brian Vike, Director, Hotline 1 866 262 <http://www.geocities.com/hbccufo/home.html>CANADA
HBCC
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- Venezuela - More UFOs Sighted
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- CARACAS -- Luminous UFOs were seen again last week near
Cerro El Avila, a mountain on the outskirts of the capital. On October
21, 2003, Sra. Ligia Peralta reported sighting of a strong luminous object
of extremely large dimensions at 7:30 p.m. The object flew over the barrio
Ola Juliano and then darted away and disappeared behind the peak of Cerro
El Avila. At one point, the object descended to within eight meters (26
feet) of a house located on the hillside. She described the object, as
generating a very resplendent white light, which spread across the residential
zone for several minutes before the UFO retreated behind the mountain.
On Saturday, October 25, 2003, at 2 p.m., five witnesses watched the aerial
maneuvers of a circular black object, which moved dizzily over the highly-populated
area at the foot of Cerro El Avila. The witnesses stated the object appeared
repeatedly and flew over the greater Caracas, before shooting off toward
the horizon.
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- Another witness, Srta. Raquel Rivero, spotted another
UFO later the same day at 6 PM, over the Urbanizacion Mario Porezo. The
young lady spotted an intense bluish-white light that was stationary for
ten minutes, as its luminosity gradually diminished. Thanks to Arturo Escalante
para estos informes and UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 8 #42, Joseph <mailto:Trainor@aol.com>Trainor
editor
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- Greece - The Light Was Too Fast For A Plane!
- CORFU -- While fishing from a dock for squid on October
27, 2003, I looked up and saw a light moving (star size) at 8 PM. At the
beginning, I thought it was a plane but the speed was what made me follow
the movement. No, it wasn't a falling star. The speed was slower, yet faster,
than that of an airplane then it made a turn and vanished behind some clouds,
before I had a chance to tell my two friends standing a few feet away.
Thanks to Peter Davenport <http://www.ufocenter.com/>UFOcenter
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- India - UFOs Sighted In Valley
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- MALSHEJ GHAT - The witness who is 38 years old took his
family on a short holiday to a resort on October 28, 2003. At about 4 AM,
we were awakened because we had lost electricity and it was very hot inside
the hotel room. We opened the balcony door and sat there a while. Soon
my daughter noticed the valley was lit up by a pale white light. It was
like a dull white florescent glow. Soon it faded out and we were confused.
Then, we noticed that a 'star' was moving overhead. It was fast but not
as fast as a shooting star. Then we noticed another big star moving left
to right slowly. Again, this was hard to believe but then we noticed that
as compared to other stars in that area this was the only one moving. Soon
this bright star lost its light and faded away. After a lot of thought,
I am convinced that this was a sighting of two UFOs. Thanks to Peter Davenport
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- South Korea - Disk Among Pictures
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- SEOUL -- I took a picture of my daughter on November
2, 2003, at 1:19 PM. Among 3 pictures taken for 1 second in a row (automatically),
the UFO (believed so) showed only in the middle one. It was shown over
the mountain and looked like a dish which had about a 45 degree slope.
Thanks to Peter Davenport <http://www.ufocenter.com/>UFOcenter
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- Orbiting Astronaut Sees Mystery Lights
- October 30, 2003 <http://www.guardian.co.uk/>The
Guardian Astronaut Ed Lu returned on Monday from a six-month tour as science
officer on the international space station with loads of memories and at
least one nagging puzzle: what caused the mysterious flashes of light he
saw while studying the Earth's aurora from orbit? Lu, who was a research
astrophysicist before becoming an astronaut in 1994, estimates that he
spent 100 hours watching the northern and southern lights during half a
year in space. The aurora light show, which takes place well below the
station's 380 km altitude, shimmers and pulses depending on natural variations
in incoming solar particles trapped by the Earth's magnetic field.
- On three occasions - July 11, September 24 and October
12 - Lu saw something markedly different: flashes as bright as the brightest
stars, which lasted only a second then blinked off again. In one instance,
he called crewmate Yuri Malenchenko over to the window to see the bursts.
Lu says they appeared very different from the random but harmless retinal
flashes that many astronauts experience when heavy cosmic rays hit their
eyeballs. The flashes weren't like sun glint from dust particles outside
the station, which rotate and last longer than a second. Nor were they
meteors, which look like linear streaks. Viewing conditions were wrong
for a satellite or other artificial object. They only appeared in the direction
of the aurora. And Lu checked weather maps, which showed no lightning storms
below at the time of his observations. All of which leads him to the tentative
conclusion that he saw some previously unreported phenomenon associated
with the aurora. http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,9865,1073527,00.html
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- Biggest Solar X-ray Flare Classified As X28
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- The massive solar X-ray flare which occurred on 4 November
was, at best estimate, an X28. There is still a small chance this will
be revised by a small amount, but it is now official: We have a new number
1 X-ray flare for the record books, the most powerful in recorded observational
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- Comment
From Nick Balaskas
Nikolaos@YorkU.CA
11-14-3
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- Hi Guys!
-
- I thought I would share my reply to Dan Bright regarding
his "lunar image anomaly" with you too.
-
- Nick
-
-
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:38:12 -0500 (Eastern Standard
Time) From: Nick Balaskas <Nikolaos@YorkU.CA> To: UFO UpDates - Toronto
<ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net> Organization: York University Subject:
Re: Lunar Image Anomaly - Balaskas
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- From: Dan Bright <ufo@zaziork.com> To: UFO UpDates
<ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:03:33
-0000 Subject: Lunar Image Anomaly
-
- <snip>
-
- I am currently in the process of soliciting analysis
and comment from several astronomers and astronomical institutions of an
image that shows an object passing over the lunar disk, as photographed
from the West Midlands (UK). The image also appears to show an associated
shadow cast on the lunar surface.
-
- If anyone on List knows of any astronomers who may be
willing to take a look, may I request that you point me (or them) in the
right direction?
-
- I'd also like to call upon the wealth of experience represented
on this List, and ask if anyone here has observed anything similar.
-
- The case file can be viewed here:
-
- http://zaziork.com/theunexplained/case_files/case_008/main.htm
-
- <snip>
-
-
- Hi Dan!
-
- If these two identical looking darks spots are not something
such as camera/image artifacts or defects (which I suspect they are), then
they must be very small objects in the Earth's atmosphere and close to
the observer for the following reasons:
-
- 1) The two spots are as dark as the black background
night sky. If these two objects were in space, the sunlight reflecting
off their surfaces would make them at least as bright as the dark mara
or "seas" of the Moon seen in the background. If these two objects
were instead in the Earth's atmosphere, then they would be black since
being in Earth's nightside they would not be illuminated by direct sunlight
at all.
-
- 2) One of these two spots cannot be the shadow of the
other on the surface of the Moon (the lunar phase is just after full) since
the object would be much brighter than its shadow. There are many such
examples of this in photos taken by amateur astronomers of the bright Galilean
satellites and their darker shadows on the upper cloud layers of Jupiter.
Also, because the Sun is not a point light source but an extended round
luminious object, the shadow would show some evidence of an umbra and penumbra
and look very different from the object. It doesn't.
-
- 3) If these two spots were temporarily in lunar orbit,
they would be present long enough for many more pictures to have been taken
with the digital camera used. Do these other images exist, and if not,
why not? If these two spots were satellites in Earth orbit, distance aircraft
or even bats or bugs flying in formation, they would have crossed the face
of the Moon so quickly that it seems very unlikely that the witness (the
son) would have had enough time to position his hand held digital camera
and taken a quick picture of these (or some other object?) he claims to
have seen moving across the Moon.
-
- For the above reasons, I think we can rule out the large
UFO or meteoroid in space as the explanation for these two spots that appear
in this single picture.
-
- That said, there are other more compelling images of
a massive(?) UFO in the vicinity of the Moon taken during the flight of
Apollo 16. These images along with the full details can be seen in the
paper by Hiroshi Nakamura published in the lastest issue (Fall, 2003 -
Volume 17, Number 3) of the 'Journal of Scientific Exploration'. I still
think this UFO is a window reflection of something from inside of the Command
Module...
-
-
- Nick Balaskas Physics and Astronomy York University
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