- UFOs HAUNT VILLAGES IN EASTERN
FRANCE
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- On Tuesday, September 8, 1998, at 12:20
a.m., French ufologist Picot Sylvain and his friend Cyril were staked out
on a skywatch in Villeret, a village near Chavanges, in the department
of Aube, in eastern France. "At 12:20 we heard a surprising noise
that we thought was a helicopter losing engine power," Picot reported.
"Immediately we localized the source. It was coming from the northeast,
from Courcelles-sur- Voire." Scanning the sky, the pair "marked
the presence of an orange/yellow light that remained stationary at 500
to 600 meters above the ground over Labraux, a village situated three to
four kilometers to the east-northeast." "It (the UFO) was hovering
in the clouds, which were numerous, and it became visible only when the
clouds parted. The wind was coming from the west-southwest. But the object
was moving slowly against the wind towards either the south or the south-southwest.
The noise resembled the hum of a THT line (That's THT as in Tres Haute
Tension--French for Very High Tension-- power line--J.T.) or again something
like a refrigerator. The total time of our observation was one hour. Then
it disappeared." Three nights later, on Thursday, September 10, 1998,
Picot returned to the area, which is located near Brienne-le-Chateau, about
150 kilometers (90 miles) east of Paris. At 11:30 p.m., he spotted "a
bright red light in the west-southwest sky near Jasseines" and stopped
his car. "In Jasseines, near the church, I was looking towards the
field," he reported. "Seeing the two red lights that were hovering
there, I turned off my car's headlights. The two red lights were pulsating--two
brief flashes per second." Picot estimated that the lights were one
kilometer (0.6 miles) away "over a plowed field. The distance that
separated them was perhaps a little more than two fingers at arm's lengths,
or about 62 meters at a distance of one kilometer. I stopped and watched
for several minutes, then turned on my headlights again." "Suddenly,
I saw both lights rise very quickly--together-- simultaneously--to an altitude
of 10 degrees above the horizon. I was persuaded that the lights were part
of a vast black object, which could not be clearly seen because of the
darkness of the night. Evidently the UFO was between the villages of Labraux
and Jasseines, just off Chaussee (Road) D.396," the highway between
Brienne-le-Chateau and Vitry-le-Francois. Unknown to Picot, an hour earlier,
a witness in the town of Pantin also saw a UFO. At 10:25 p.m., he "was
walking his dog on the Rue Arago" and "his attention was attracted
by the sudden startling illumination of the street. He then observed the
passage of a luminous white object of rectangular form...over the village
at an angle of 45 degrees to the horizon." The UFO also had an observable
tail. "The witness followed the object with his gaze for four or five
seconds. Then it dislodged or fragmented into five or six precise geometric
forms, going to the northeast but giving the impression of climbing through
the night sky and disappearing one second later." Thirty seconds afterward,
the witness "spied a second UFO, describing it as a round luminous
form with a shadow in the center." (Merci beaucoup au Franck Marie
de Banque OVNI pour ces nouvelles.)
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- NEW ALIEN SIGHTING NEAR PERUGIA
IN ITALY
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- On Friday, August 21, 1998, residents
of Citta di Castello, a suburb of Perugia, a city in Italy's Umbria province,
about 145 kilometers (87 miles) north of Rome, claimed to have seen a "flying
humanoid alien." The encounter took place in a field on the outskirts
of Citta di Castello. Witnesses spotted a "small alien" in the
field, "crouched like an old woman gathering herbs." When the
figure failed to respond to shouts from the onlookers, the people began
a cautious approach. "When they got within 200 meters, a thing like
a silver cylinder appeared." The UFO hovered "about two meters
above the ground." The humanoid reportedly levitated into the hovering
object, and "with that, it accelerated quickly in a vertical direction,
disappearing in a couple of seconds." (See the Italian newspaper Corriere
dell'Umbria for August 28, 1998. Grazie a Edoardo Russo e Simone Cumbo
di Centro Italiano di Studi Ufologici, CISU, per questo rapporto.)
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- GLOWING UFOs SIGHTED NEAR
BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET, UK
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- On Sunday, September 13, 1998, at 7:50
p.m., Michael S. "was in my garden, collecting tools that I had left
out earlier. It was a good clear night with a vast array of lower magnitude
stars visible. I paused in my collecting duties to see if I remembered
any of the astronomy I had learned as a boy, and also to spot any satellites."
"My attention was drawn to the southwest, where a meteor appeared
above the trees in my garden (50 degrees above ground level). As I followed
the red/orange shooting star, I saw that two others were following it in
a delta V formation. I still believed them to be meteorites, but then the
two following objects zigzagged behind the leader." "The leader
maintained a straight course toward the northwest, heading towards Bournemouth/Hurn
Airport (CAA Air Traffic Control Center). As they left my field of view,
the two followers rejoined their leader. The altitude that these objects
were at was very high, possibly 100,000 feet (30,000 meters), though without
any idea of size, it would be hard to estimate. The speed that they were
flying was about the same as fast jets at a much lower altitude, perhaps
10,000 feet. I am sure that I have seen three UFOs." Bournemouth is
on Britain's south coast, about 110 miles (176 kilometers) southwest of
London. (Email Interview)
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- UFO SQUADRON SEEN OVER REDCLIFFE,
QUEENSLAND
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- UFO sightings in Australia's Queensland
state continued last week, with a new incident reported in Redcliffe, a
city 32 kilometers (20 miles) north of Brisbane. Four witnesses in Redcliffe
"said the event occurred at 11:20 p.m." on Wednesday, September
16, 1998. They "looked up into the sky and saw a bright light. Colour
was red, blue (and) green and was followed by approximately seven other
smaller lights that looked like stars." A witness "Mr D. went
back inside at 11:25 p.m. and rang a friend and asked her to go outside
to see if she could see them from her place." "Mrs. Clark went
outside at 11:30 p.m. and saw the seven objects. She then saw the lights
start to do a number of formations (maneuvers--J.T.)." (1) a straight
line, then a V formation. (2) a circle with a tail (3) a wide V (4) a V
with a line through the middle. The UFOs "remained in view for 15
to 20 minutes and then disappeared." (Many thanks to Diane Harrison
of UFO Network Australasia for this news story.)
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- TWO BLACK HELICOPTERS FLY
OVER A SYDNEY SUBURB
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- In late August 1998, Steven L. was "delivering
a digital piano for the music store that I work for" when he had an
unusual experience in St. Ives, a suburb of Sydney, Australia's largest
city. "I had missed a turn off and had to turn around in a side street,"
Steve reported. "As I made the turn, I glanced through the windshield
of my car to see two helicopters flying in Wing Man formation." "As
I am an avid flyer myself, with 10 hours in a glider, I am particularly
interested in all aircraft and am familiar with the port and starboard
lights required by international law." "The thing which struck
me as strange was the fact that these two choppers were not displaying
any lights. A red tail rotor light and underside strobe were not visible.
They were black in colour and flew from the east to the west, towards Parramatta
(in New South Wales, just west of Sydney--J.T.). The helicopters were flying
at a low altitude, as best I could judge in the clear night sky, at or
below 500 feet." (Email Interview)
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- STRANGE GLOW PUZZLES SOUTH
AFRICAN TRAINMEN
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- On Tuesday, September 15, 1998, at 3:32
a.m., railroad engineer J.L. de Villiers "was reducing speed as my
train" reached Schalkrust station. "This is near Lydenburg in
South Africa. Next to the station is a flat field about three square kilometers
(wide)." "A strange orange/yellowish light was moving upward
and downward in the middle of the field at a very fast speed," de
Villiers reported. ""It could not have been a very large object,
say, about the size of a soccer ball or a little bigger. It moved upwards
at great speed, say, 60 feet or so and then returned to ground level and
then go up again. After about a minute, it just vanished." Leon Bouwer,
UFO Roundup's correspondent in South Africa, reported that Lydenburg is
in Mpumulanga province, formerly the East Transvaal, approximately 280
kilometers (168 miles) northeast of Johannesburg. "The East Transvaal
is full of coal fields and is dotted with electrical power generating stations,
and has a lot of railway lines as a result." He added that there are
several abandoned coal mines burning with underground fires in the region
and that the train crew may have seen a burning "gas geyser"
near Schalkrust station. (Many thanks to Stig Agermose and Errol Bruce-Knapp
for this news story. And thanks also to Leon Bouwer for the background
information.)
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- TRIANGULAR UFO SIGHTED IN
LONDONDERRY, NEW HAMPSHIRE
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- On Thursday, September 10, 1998, at 11:30
p.m., Dan H. was driving on Mammoth Road in Londonderry, New Hampshire
(population 970) when he "spotted a triangular- shaped formation of
three bright white lights over the trees ahead of my car." At first,
Dan thought the lights belonged to an aircraft attempting to land in nearby
Manchester, N.H., but he "then realized that it was too low and in
the wrong direction for the local (airport) landing pattern." "He
described the lights as consisting of two high lights and one single light
down lower, giving the object the impression of tilting down in the 'front.'
The object suddenly 'jumped' over to the left without turning and stopped
again. The witness described the motion with a quick sweep of his hand,
implying that it was nearly instantaneous. After this he lost sight of
the object behind some trees." (Many thanks to Greg St. Pierre and
Errol Bruce-Knapp for forwarding this report.)
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- TRIANGULAR UFO SEEN IN NORTHERN
OHIO
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- On Friday, September 4, 1998, a witness
was driving on Route 252 in West Medina, Ohio when he spotted "three
individual lights" in the sky, arrayed in a triangular shape. "Upon
close approach, the witness observed that the lights were connected to
one very large triangular or black object...The object was reportedly moving
very slowly and not making any sound, as the witness drove around the top
of a hill and found two other cars also watching the object, which was
150 yards overhead and slowly drifting to the east." The witness described
the other cars as "a purple-colored Saturn and the other drove a red
Honda. The gentleman who had the Saturn was actually standing outside of
his car, looking at the object. I pulled over next to the Honda and asked
the guy if he knew what it was. He did not." "At this point"
the UFO "flashed a bright blue flash of light, similar to the flash
of a camera," and the witnesses hastily beat a retreat. When the witness
reached his home on Wolff Road, he "ran into his house and called
his wife outside to view the object, but it was no longer there."
On Monday, September 7, 1998, at 11:30 p.m., the witness had a second sighting
of the triangular UFO, "but it was not as close" as the previous
sighting. Medina is on Ohio Routes 3 and 42 about 26 miles (41 kilometers)
southwest of Cleveland. The case is being investigated by Larry Clark of
New York MUFON. (Many thanks to Kenneth Young of Tri-States Advocates for
Scientific Knowledge, T.A.S.K., for forwarding this news story.)
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- MORE UFO ACTIVITY REPORTED
IN NORTHERN GEORGIA
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- On Saturday, September 5, 1998, a man
spotted a white UFO in LaGrange, Georgia (population 25,957), a town 64
miles (102 kilometers) southwest of Atlanta. The witness reported, "The
craft was seen for only a few seconds but was extremely bright white and
shaped like a boomerang. It made no sound. The craft was only 60 yards
away and about the size of a minivan. There was no fuselage, just the wing."
On Sunday, September 13, 1998, at 8 p.m., Elaine Belisha and her 14-year-old
daughter, Marilyn Chen, had a UFO encounter in Norcross, Georgia (population
5,947), a town on Highway 23 about 21 miles (33 kilometers) northeast of
Atlanta. Marilyn told her mother that she had just seen "a translucent,
boomerang-shaped aircraft." Elaine reported, "I asked her to
draw a picture, thinking it might have been a Stealth bomber, but it had
a very large wingspan relative to its size than the Stealth." Later
the same evening, at 10:56 p.m., witnesses in Heard County, about 10 miles
(16 kilometers) north of LaGrange, observed "a large red pulsating
light. The UFO was moving east-northeast, just 'bobbing' along at 1,000
feet (300 meters) altitude. The large red light dimmed and grew brighter
but never went off completely. The light was an estimated two or three
miles away, and had an apparent size of four times that of the planet Venus.
There was also a bluish-white light that seemed steady and seemed diffused.
The witness did not understand how a pilot could fly with so much light
coming out of the craft. The bright light was apparently underneath, because
the large light obscured" the craft. (See Filer's Files #37 for 1998.
Many thanks to George A. Filer of MUFON and John C. Thompson of ISUR for
these reports.)
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- EX-DEFENSE CHIEF CLAIMS THAT
RAF FELTWELL IS BRITAIN'S AREA 51
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- In an interview with the UK newspaper
Sunday People, Lord Hill-Norton, chief of the UK defence staff during the
1970s, claimed that the air base RAF Feltwell in Suffolk is the site where
NATO forces track unidentified saucers coming in from space. Based at RAF
Feltwell is the 5th Space Surveillance Squadron, U.S. Air Force. Lord Hill-Norton
told the newspaper that the squadron "is tracking UFOs that may threaten
Earth." Lord Hill-Norton said he was "puzzled" by the USAF
squadron's presence at the base, adding, "I have asked a number of
questions about it and never get a satisfactory answer." "The
(UK) Ministry of Defence did admit that RAF Feltwell has a special U.S.
unit 'tracking man-made objects in deep space.'" "But it refused
to answer Hill-Norton's questions about how many objects 'remain unidentified
and how many of these were transmitting a signal,' citing the need for
secrecy." "An MoD spokesman said, ' We are entitled to refuse
certain information on topics which we consider to be sensitive.'"
"But he did admit UFOs will be tracked if they are spotted."
"'They need to catalogue everything up in space,' he added."
Lord Hill-Norton remains skeptical, however. He responded, "For a
start, there are no man-made objects in interstellar space. So I want to
know what they are really doing. And I want to know what the Government
is doing about the UFO problem. There are things flying about in our atmosphere,
and we don't know what they are, who directs them or what their purpose
might be. We ought to know." "Hill-Norton believes that UFOs
are the products of 'extra-terrestrial intelligences.'" (See the newspaper
Sunday People for September 13, 1998. Many thanks to John Hayes for forwarding
the newspaper article.)
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- From the UFO Files...
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- 1978: UFO LEVITATES A RACE
CAR IN ARGENTINA
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- Twenty years ago, on September 25, 1978,
Argentinian business man Carlos Acevedo, 38, and his mechanic, Miguel Angel
Moya, 28, were completing the final lap of a cross-country endurance race
in Buenos Aires province, Argentina. Because of "mechanical problems,"
their car had to withdraw from formal competition in the 1,000- kilometer
(600-mile) road race, and they were on their way back to the city of Buenos
Aires. "Acevedo was driving at about 100 km per hour (60 miles per
hour). A bright yellow light approached from the rear at high speed, illuminated
the interior of the car and blinded them." "He lost control of
the car and then saw that they were about two meters (6.6 feet) above the
ground. The car continued to float, and their vision was restricted by
the brilliant light. They lost all sense of time." "Finally they
felt a bump and noticed that their car was back on the road, a considerable
distance away from the point where the encounter began. They saw a yellowish
object retreating in the distance." "When they analyzed the circumstances,
they found that it had taken 2 hours and 20 minutes to travel a distance
that should have taken only 1 hour and 15 minutes. They also found that
their reserve gas (petrol) tank, recently filled, was now empty. They stopped
at the nearest police department, in Pedro Luro, and reported the incident.
(See the Argentinian newspaper Cronica for September 24 and 25, 1978. See
also MUFON UFO Journal #140 for October 1979 and the book UNINVITED GUESTS
by Richard Hall, Aurora Press, Santa Fe, N.M., 1988, pages 297 and 298.)
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