- UFOs SWEEP ACROSS MAINE
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- UFOs visited several towns in Maine,
the largest state in the USA's northeastern region, on Tuesday, January
27, 1998, in an astounding one-night flap. A UFO visited Deer Island in
Penobscot Bay, on Maine's Atlantic Ocean coast, illuminating several homes.
Janet Stanley of Stonington, Me. (population 700), a port town on the southern
tip of the island, had just turned on her TV set to watch President Clinton's
State of the Union speech. As she entered the bathroom, she "was
startled by an immensely bright blue light that came through the miniblinds
on her west-facing window." Opening the blinds, "she saw the
western sky filled with a deep bright blue (glow) with yellow vertical
streaks resembling lightning strikes." Nine miles to the north, in
Little Deer Isle, Me., "Seth Harkness was watching the speech...at
ten minutes after nine (9:10 p.m.) when a blinding white light came through
the east-facing windows of his living room." In St. Agatha, Me., Pam
Pelletier was taking her dog for a walk when she "began hearing a
series of huge sky explosions, maybe 7 or 8 of them." The incident
took place at 7:30 p.m. At 9:10 p.m., Grace Ouellette was at her home near
Long Lake in Madawaska, Me. (population 3,653), a town on the Canadian
border approximately 215 miles (344 kilometers) north of Bangor when she
spotted "a large orange ball with white flashing lights." At
first she thought it was a small plane about to crash at the airport in
nearby Frenchville (population 475). Across the St. Johns River, in St.
Francois de Madawaska, New Brunswick, Canada, Roger Bard "reported
that he had seen a ball of fire go down on the American side of the river.
'It did not look like a falling star,' he said." St. Francois de
Madawaska is 213 miles (341 kilometers) northwest of Fredericton, capital
of New Brunswick province. In Millinocket, Me. (population 6,922), a small
city 69 miles (110 kilometers) north of Bangor, Ellen Cousins "said
she saw a bright orange streak as she looked north at 7:30 p.m." Evelyn
Robinson was driving on Interstate Highway 95 from Houlton (population
5,627) to Island Falls (population 650) at 9:30 p.m. when she "spotted
a huge blue-green light streaking from east to west and leaving sparks
behind." "Robinson said, 'It was very fast, falling to the ground
at a 45 degree angle. It was very startling and unnerved me a bit.'"
In Oakland, Me. (population 3,510), located on Maine Highway 11 about 60
miles (100 kilometers) north of Bangor, local police Officer Rick Stubbert
"received a report of something falling from the sky into McGrath
Pond...and planned to send divers out on Friday." Elsewhere in Oakland,
Kelly Sirois and her father, Ron Sirois, "heard loud explosions at
8:30 and at 10:30 p.m. that caused both to think that something had impacted
with their house." UFO phenomena were also reported in Deer Isle,
six miles (10 kilometers) north of Stonington, and in Lincoln, Me. (population
3,399), a town on Highway 6 approximately 49 miles (78 kilometers) north
of Bangor. (See the Bangor Daily News for January 30, 1998, "Witnesses
see fireball in sky near Madawaska" and "More witnesses report
seeing bright-colored county fireball." Many thanks to Gordon J.
Gianninoto for these news stories.) (Editor's Comment: Well, I guess we
know what Stephen King's next novel is going to be about.)
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- MORE UFO SIGHTINGS NEAR PENSACOLA,
FLORIDA
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- A spherical silver UFO appeared repeatedly
over the Florida panhandle and southern Alabama and was seen by dozens
of eyewitnesses. In Gulf Breeze, Fla. (population 5,530), a resort town
seven miles (11 kilometers) south of Pensacola, columnist Carole Baker
of the Pensacola Beach Islander was driving on Shoreline Road at 6:35 p.m.
on January 31, 1998 when she saw "not one but two bright red objects
low on the horizon to the east." Ms. Baker kept the objects in view
for 90 seconds, adding, "The two red objects had a distinctive shape.
Each central, large, ruby red light had adjacent to it on either side one
smaller red light...This was suggestive to me of a ring-shaped configuration
which we have witnessed in this area many times before." On Thursday,
February 5, 1998, Vicki Lyons of Pensacola, Fla. (population 58,165) experienced
a strange compulsion at 2:30 p.m. "I suddenly without any real reason
began to think that I should leave earlier." Getting in her car, Ms.
Lyons drove west on Interstate Highway 10 into Alabama. As she neared
Elsanore, Ala. 16 miles (26 kilometers) west of Pensacola, "All of
a sudden, I watched streaking across my windshield to the southwest a perfectly
round silver ball, so silver it looked like a sterling silver perfect 'marble'
in the sky." Ms. Lyons told CNI News that the UFO "looked like
an aspirin held at arm's length" and was about one mile away "It
contrasted sharply against the cloudless blue sky. As I was looking at
it and pondering pulling off the interstate (highway), it suddenly took
off at tremendously fast speed and crossed in front of me, over the interstate
and off to the north. The speed of the object was indescribable! It was
so spectacular that I screamed in excitement when it flashed across in
front of me." On Saturday, February 7, 1998, Christie Edwards of Robertsdale,
Ala., a town on Highway 90 about 27 miles (43 kilometers) southeast of
Mobile, videotaped the silver sphere as it hovered above her house. Two
days later, on Monday, February 9, 1998, the UFO returned to Robertsdale.
Ms. Edwards said, "It looks just like a bright light, but it's real
big. And it looks like nothing I've ever seen before...a small, circular-looking
silver object against a blue sky." Fox Channel 10 TV aired the Edwards
video during their evening broadcast on February 9. On Wednesday, February
11, 1998, Pat Crumbley and her husband Buddy were driving on Interstate
Highway 10 in Milton, Fla. (population 7,216) about 16 miles (26 kilometers)
northeast of Pensacola when she spotted the silvery UFO. "About 15
degrees off the horizon I saw a silver ball-shaped object," Mrs. Crumbley
reported. "About one-half inch (one centimeter) in diameter at arm's
length." She was so startled that "it took a couple of seconds
to say, 'Buddy, look!' As he turned to look, it just disappeared."
(See CNI News, Volume 3, Number 24, Part 1. Many thanks to Mike Lindemann
of CNI News for letting UFO ROUNDUP quote from his news story. See also
Filer's Files #6 for 1998. Many thanks to George A. Filer of MUFON for
the information.)
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- TRUCKER VIDEOTAPES UFO IN
SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO
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- On Saturday, February 14, 1998, truck
driver Bill Sauter of San Diego, California was driving his rig on Interstate
Highway 10 near Deming, New Mexico (population 10,970) about 100 miles
(160 kilometers) west of El Paso, Texas. As he was listening to his CB
radio, "he heard talk about a strange object in the sky." Since
he always carries a video camcorder with him, Sauter pulled off the highway
and stepped down from the cab. Spying the UFO over the desert, he lifted
his camcorder and began shooting footage. "It just picked up speed
and--woosh--it was gone," Sauter told Channel 10 TV news in San Diego."
He reportedly described it as "something out there that was not a
missile and wasn't a blimp. It looked like a (Boeing) 747 but without
wings." Pictures of the UFO may be found at the San Diego UFO Information
homepage at this URL: http://www.arroweb.com/n6rpf/sauter.html. (Many
thanks to Paul Cook for this news story.)
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- BLACK TRIANGULAR UFO SPOTTED
IN MICHIGAN
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- On Thursday, February 5, 1998, at 7:45
p.m., high school senior Greg Parkins, 18, was driving through Howell,
Michigan (population 8,184), located 57 miles (91 kilometers) west of Detroit,
when he spotted a strange object in the sky. He described the UFO as "a
black triangular object...heading west and paralleling Mason Road and at
an elevation of 55 to 60 degrees. Noted that the object had three real
white blinking lights at the three points (corners) of the triangle."
Greg "pulled over to the side of the road to get a better look"
and estimated that "the object was the size of a quarter held at arm's
length...Although he made a point of looking for them, no navigational
strobes--red, green or white--were seen at any time. He estimated the speed
of the object to be 60 miles per hour." (See Filer's Files #6 for
1998. Many thanks to George A. Filer of MUFON and Dave Parrish, Michigan
director of Skywatch International, for this report.)
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- NEW UFO FLAP RATTLES FOUR
STATES IN AUSTRALIA
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- February was an active month for UFOs
in the southern hemisphere, as well, with a new flap in Australia. On Monday,
February 9, 1998, at 9:50 p.m., "a dark triangular-shaped object with
three orange illuminations" appeared in the sky over Geelong, Victoria
(Vic.), a city 40 miles (64 kilometers) west of Melbourne. Witnesses reported
that "it traveled very slowly, slower than an aircraft would fly"
toward the Yan Yang Mountains northwest of Geelong. Also, at 9:50 p.m.
that night, in Blackwood, South Australia (S.A.), witnesses reported seeing
"a very bright ball of white light. It appeared to pass across the
sky at about 20 to 25 degrees above the northern horizon, heading west
or northwest of Adelaide. Illumination flew straight and level."
On Wednesday, February 11, 1998, at 10:05 p.m., people in Toodyay, Western
Australia (W.A.) near Perth saw "an object or illumination" come
from the east and move to a stationary position near the moon. "It
came to a holding (hovering) position just under the moon and changed colours.
It then moved southward and changed direction. It crossed right overhead
to the southwest of Perth in only seconds." Minutes later, the UFO
returned from the southwest, again flew over Toodyay and headed east.
"It also traveled extremely fast. As the object traveled overhead
the first time, it appeared to stop at one point--rise sharply up, then
drop." Smaller lights appeared to revolve around the UFO. A rumbling
sound was heard following it. One witness reported, "Animals in the
area--cockatoos, gallah sheep and dogs--were going crazy." On Friday,
February 13, 1998, at 9:22 p.m., witnesses at Stones Corner in Brisbane,
Queensland (Qnld.) "spotted a bright point of light in the northern
sky." As they watched, the UFO "exploded" into a bright
circle of light that remained for several seconds. "The exploded
illumination appeared to be the size of an orange at arm's length. It
also did appear to have an orange-red glow" that "was very bright
in the center." The same Friday night, at 9:35 p.m., witnesses in
Elstenwick, Vic., a suburb of Melbourne "sighted a navy blue or black
disc-shaped object hovering to the northwest...The object looked like a
Second World War British battle helmet and it moved from side to side"
as it flew. Witnesses had the UFO in view for five or six minutes. On
Saturday, February 14, 1998, the black disc appeared again, this time over
Queensland's Gold Coast. The UFO, which "appeared to be a solid functioning
object, flew over at about 1,000 to 1,500 feet (altitude.) This disc-shaped
object heading due north and flew on a straight and level course, its speed
was slower than a commercial airliner and was only sighted for one to two
minutes before disappearing." On Sunday, February 15, 1998, at 9:45
p.m., witnesses in the St. Mary's section of Sydney, New South Wales (N.S.W.),
Australia's largest city, "saw two very bight orange fireball illuminations
crossing the sky underneath cloud" at about 3,600 feet altitude.
The UFOs came from the direction of the RAAF Richmond air base "and
they were heading towards Liverpool or the (Australian) Army's Hollsworthy
base." (Many thanks to Ross Dowe of the Australia-New Zealand National
UFO Hotline for these reports.)
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- SAUCERS CONVERGE ON NORTHERN
BRAZIL
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- Disc-shaped UFOs overflew Fortaleza,
the largest city in Brazil's Ceara state, and its suburbs three times on
Monday, February 16, 1998. Fortaleza is 1,760 kilometers (1,100 miles)
north of Rio de Janeiro. At 7:30 a.m., Neil Oliveiras Chagas spotted "a
white object in the form of two inverted trapezoids with rounded edges
and two blue lights." Oliveiras Chagas, an electrician by trade,
grabbed his video camcorder and shot footage of the UFO. At 5:20 p.m.,
Reginaldo Athayde, director-general of Centro de Pesquisas Ufologicas do
Ceara (CPU-CE), a Brazilian UFO study group, while investigating the morning's
sighting, witnessed another UFO overflight in Centro, Fortaleza's downtown
district. According to Sr. Athayde, he "saw another object in the
sky of Centro, crossing the Rua Barrio de Rio Branco and the Rua Pedro
Pereira. The object was very big, with a spherical form," moving
first to the south and then heading east. It was last seen flying east
over the South Atlantic. A disc-shaped OVNI (Portuguese acronym for UFO)
also appeared over the suburb of Cambeba, where it was videotaped by a
TV crew from Verdes Mares. At 6:30 p.m., "a luminous white point"
was seen overhead in Varjota, another suburb of Fortaleza. Saucers were
also reported in Papicu, Messejana, Parangaba and Barru de Ceara, all districts
of Fortaleza. Later in the evening, "an object of discoidal form"
was seen flying towards the South Atlantic from the beach at Praia do Futuro.
Sr. Athayde said, "We are going to analyze all of the material collected."
(See the Brazilian newspaper Jornal do Povo for February 17, 1998, "Objeto
Nao Identificado Sao Vistos Sobrevando Fortaleza." Muito obrigado
a Pedro Cunha por eso caso.)
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- CHILE TV NETWORK AIRS VILLARICA
UFO VIDEO
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- On Saturday, February 14, 1998, Television
Nacional de Chile (TVN) aired an amateur video of a UFO encounter that
took place last November. On November 24, 1997, Vicente Constant, 26, and
his family were driving to the Andes on vacation. They planned to visit
Villarica volcano, a tourist attraction 688 kilometers (430 miles) south
of Santiago de Chile, the national capital. As they neared the volcano,
Vicente took out his camcorder and began shooting footage of the Chilean
countryside. Although they were in the Andes at a relatively high altitude--1,600
meters (5,280 feet, same as Denver, Colorado--J.T.), he reported, "Suddenly
we began feeling a heavy pressure in the air." "While moving
the camera around (from the windshield to the right front window), just
above the volcano appeared a cigar-shaped object that went from the upper
right of the (view) screen to the left part. Then the object suddenly
made a turn and took off, heading toward the upper left part of the screen.
The scene seemed like a UFO entering Earth's atmosphere and then flying
off. This object left no trail." The videotape is being examined by
Dr. Rafael Vera Mege of the University of Concepcion. A request to view
and examine the tape has been made by Agrupacion de Investigaciones Ovniologicas
(AION), Chile's famous UFO study group. (Muchas gracias a Luis Sanchez
Perry para esas noticias.)
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