- ALIENS SAID ENCOUNTERED AT
EL YUNQUE, PUERTO RICO
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- On Saturday, November 7, 1998, a party
of 15 members of UFOSICPR, led by Frederico Alvarez, and including Sra.
Alvarez, eight regular members, two new members and four guests, drove
out to the El Yunque National Forest for a skywatch.
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- The group waited on Monte Brito between
the peak and the television towers. Suddenly, Nestor, the group's treasurer,
"began to show extreme nervousness. He began trembling and speaking
in a faltering manner."
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- Alvarez split the group in half and sent
one team, including Nestor, back to the highway further down the slopes
of Monte Brito.
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- No sooner had they reached the road than
Alvarez received a call on his cell phone.
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- "They're here!" Alvarez was
told. "They're right here in front of us."
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- "What's going on?" Alvarez
asked.
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- By way of reply, all he heard were strange
sounds coming from the telephone. Later, he reported, "No one could
speak. Everyone down there was crying."
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- When Alvarez and his team rejoined the
seven members, they told him that they had seen aliens on the road's edge.
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- "The creatures stopped and then
said telepathically, 'Don't come any closer!'"
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- The seven Puerto Ricans "remained
there, instantly paralyzed by an unknown force. For three minutes, they
were frozen in place, and then the creatures went into a nearby field and
disappeared from view."
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- Although carrying cameras and video equipment,
the UFOSICPR team was unable to obtain any pictures. "One member had
a pair of binoculars, and these refused to function." (Muchas gracias
a Lucy Guzman para eso piso.)
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- ORANGE UFO SEEN SOUTH OF SINGAPORE
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- On Saturday, November 7, 1998, a group
of men went fishing in the strait between city of Singapore and Pulau Batam
Island. The island has a number of oil refineries and petrochemical complexes.
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- "We first saw a band of orange light
at about 7:20 p.m.," the witness reported, "At first we thought
it was a light from a large building but, if it was, it was a tremendously
huge sort of building, as the light was hovering above the ground about
three times the height of the tallest (industrial) chimneys, and at that
distance it had to be the length of three oil tankers."
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- The fishermen watched "as it appeared
to grow larger for about a minute. When he sought my opinion and pointed
me toward the light, it was already at its longest length. A few seconds
after this, the light seemed to grow smaller and smaller and eventually
disappeared. I could not explain the phenomenon, and he can't either."
(Many thanks to Ross Dowe of Australasian UFO Hotline for this news story.)
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- A BUSY WEEK FOR UFOs ALL OVER
AUSTRALIA
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- Last week saw multiple UFO sightings
down under, with incidents in South Australia, Western Australia and New
South Wales.
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- On Tuesday, November 10, 1998, witnesses
spotted "a slow-moving bright orange fireball" in Newcastle,
N.S.W., located 192 kilometers (120 miles) north of Sydney.
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- The fireball "was in the southern
sky travelling eastward for about four minutes. The illumination was extremely
bright, and it appeared to be about 3 or 4 kilometers away and about 200
to 300 meters (660 to 990 feet) in altitude." At times the UFO appeared
"to drop a bit, only to speed up. The illumination seemed to be heading
out to sea with no sound."
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- The same night, at Golden Bay in Perth,
W.A., at 8:55 p.m., residents "reported sighting two bright orange
fireballs, arcing from the southeast, heading east, and then changing back
to the north. The illuminations passed directly over the BP (British Petroleum)
Kwiwana oil refinery...They looked a bit like arc-welding emissions but
without the sparks. They were four times bigger than Jupiter. As they approached
the area, they changed from following each other to pair up next one another.
The sky was clear, no moon, no clouds. They travelled faster than a twin
propellor light airplane."
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- On Thursday, November 12, 1998, at 1:30
a.m., residents in Arthurton, a town on the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia,
located about 150 kilometers (90 miles) west of Adelaide, "reported
seeing a large bright white light one kilometer away to the northeast,
slowly moving downward. It was so bright it cast shadows from the buildings.
It descended below the treeline, and still the glow from its light cast
shadows." The UFO remained in the area for ten minutes before flying
away. (Thanks to Ross Dowe of Australasian UFO Hotline for these news stories.)
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- UFO SEEN BY HUNDREDS IN CENTRAL
ARGENTINA
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- The evening of Thursday, November 5,
1998, an objeto volador no identificado (OVNI) appeared over three cities
in south central Argentina.
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- The OVNI (Spanish acronym for UFO--J.T.)
"crossed the sky in the provinces of Neuquen and Rio Negro on Thursday
night, according to the testimony of numerous witnesses in the Patagonian
cities."
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- "The object could be seen by the
residents of Neuquen, Cipolletti and General Roca, in the Alto Valle, in
Rio Colorado and Viedma, as well as in the neighboring city of Carmen de
Patagones," traveling from northeast to southeast.
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- Neuquen and Cipolletti, its sister city
across the Rio Neuquen, are located 520 kilometers (312 miles) southwest
of Buenos Aires, the national capital. General Roca is 50 kilometers (30
miles) east of Neuquen.
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- "Jose Luis Mazzone, an official
in the town of Villa Chocsin, said he saw the phenomenon hover above (lake)
Lago Ramos Mexia and described it as 'a ball of fire with a tail that hovered
for several minutes above the horizon.'"
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- "In Rio Negro are many, many police
officers who saw it along the highway. On the bridge over the Rio Homenimi,
at the entrance to Viedma, they said the OVNI 'was a very intense light,
color blue, and that it developed other colors in shades of blue and yellow.'"
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- "From testimonies received, it appears
that the OVNI was seen between 9:15 and 9:30 p.m." (See Diario Popular
of Buenos Aires for November 7, 1998. Muchas gracias a Carlos Iurchuk para
esas noticias.)
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- NEW UFO SIGHTING IN NORTHUMBERLAND,
UK
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- On Friday, November 6, 1998, Derrick
G. Carvell "was out with my wife Anne for a walk with our dog"
in Seghill, Northumberland, UK, about 250 miles (400 kilometers) north
of London.
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- "As we approached out parked van
at 6 p.m.," Carvell reported, "I happened to look upward. Travelling
in a northerly direction, I was amazed to see 12 white lights moving in
a perfect line, one behind the other, almost like a train in the sky with
white windows."
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- "At arm's length, the row of lights
appeared approximately three feet (0.9 meters) long. As they were more
or less straight above us, their powerful lights flashed beams down to
the ground, one after the other. They did this only once. The beams appeared
angled and silvery in colour. Almost instantly, all of the lights dimmed
but could still be made out as they moved off into the distance-- before
fading completely from view."
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- "The area of the sighting is only
6 miles from Norwich International Airport," he added, "I noticed
that there were two more aircraft moving in toward the airport. Also, another
aircraft was lining up to follow it in. The lights travelled across the
area of sky near the two aircraft but at a much higher altitude. My brother
tells me that the altitude of the aircraft on the path of approach to the
airport would have been about 1,500 feet. The objects were at a much higher
altitude. It is very difficult to be exact, but I would say in excess of
5,000 feet, taking into account the beams of light that reached ground
level." (Many thanks to Dave Ledger of UFO Scotland and John Hayes
for this report.)
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- GREEN FIREBALL SEEN IN PLYMOUTH,
MINNESOTA
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- On Friday, November 4, 1998, at approximately
8:30 p.m., Ryan S. Eagan was at the intersection of County Road 9 and Plymouth
Boulevard in Plymouth, Minnesota (population 50,889), located 12 miles
(18 kilometers) west of Minneapolis, when he spotted a UFO.
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- "I was waiting in a parking lot
in Plymouth when I watched a large green fireball streak overhead, heading
towards the northwest and descending towards the Earth. The object left
a long green tail much like a comet. It seemed very low in altitude because
it was below the overcast ceiling, and it was bright enough that I could
see it descend behind some apartment houses, even though the flourescent
lights of a nearby gas station were between me and the object. This sighting
lasted between one and two seconds." (Many thanks to Ryan S. Eagan
and Joel Henry of Minnesota MUFON for this news story.)
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- (Editor's Comment: Two seconds to the
horizon is much too fast for a conventional meteor, especially one flying
below 12,000 feet, the cloud ceiling.)
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- UFOs APPEAR TWICE IN SOUTHERN
COLORADO
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- More UFO action was reported last week
in Colorado's San Luis Valley, about 280 miles (448 kilometers) southwest
of Denver.
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- On Thursday, November 12, 1998, at about
6:15 p.m., author/researcher Christopher O'Brien and his brother, Brendan,
"were driving north in the Baca Grande (housing) development, and
suddenly in front of us, framed in the windshield, we watched an extremely
bright steady light rise quickly from behind the mountain in the Salida/Howard
area."
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- Salida (population 4,737) and Howard
are on Colorado Highway 50, just west of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
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- "The light, which was brighter and
slightly larger than Venus and visible for about two minutes, shot upward,
southwest to northeast, at a 25-degree angle. It rose upward, its speed,
which at first appeared the same as a conventional jetliner, reached 1,000
to 1,200 miles per hour. As it climbed higher, it became smaller and smaller
and disappeared in the southeast."
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- Three hours later, at 9:45 p.m., two
witnesses in Mesita, Colorado "were returning home when they spotted
two bright, unblinking lights about 100 miles (160 kilometers) away to
the northwest. The lights moved in tandem about one degree apart and appeared
to be a single object. One witness observed the 30-second sighting with
binoculars. The lights appeared to head southeast at an altitude of 3,500
to 4,000 feet" before heading for the San Luis Hills.
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- "At its closest point" to the
witnesses, "the object blacked out the background stars between its
lights. Witness estimated that the distance between the lights was 'about
600 feet,' and he described the sighting as 'by far the most spectacular
night sighting' he has witnessed." (Many thanks to Christopher O'Brien,
author of THE MYSTERIOUS VALLEY, for these news stories.)
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- LARGE TRIANGULAR UFO SEEN
AGAIN IN MONTANA
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- On Tuesday, November 10, 1998, at 1:27
a.m., a very large UFO, dull gray in color and triangular in shape, was
seen hovering above the Mission Mountains just east of St. Ignatius, Montana
(population 778).
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- According to former NASA contractor Robert
A.M. Stephenson, the UFO was identical to the object seen hovering near
Polson and Ronan, Montana between October 16 and October 30.
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- "Cloud cover broke for the night,
and the UFO was there as it had been only lower in altitude and slightly
further south near the town of St. Ignatius," Stephenson reported.
"Roughly ten miles south of Ronan and along the edge of the Mission
Valley."
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- The UFO was in view between 1:27 a.m.
and 3:34 a.m. "During the time of clearing, the sky was exceptionally
clear, stars in abundance, temperature in the 5 degree Fahrenheit range.
No moon as it had set over the horizon to the west."
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- Stephenson estimated that "the craft
was eight nautical miles from my viewing locale at the manufacturing facility"
in Ronan, Montana "and at an altitude of approximately 14,000 feet
and four miles further south than the previous sightings."
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- St. Ignatius is on Montana Highway 93
approximately 44 miles (70 kilometers) north of Missoula. (Many thanks
to Robert A.M. Stephenson for this news story.)
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- BLACK HELICOPTERS SEEN IN
NORTH CAROLINA AND ARIZONA
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- On Friday, November 13, 1998, at around
10 a.m., motorists driving past the airport in Murphy, North Carolina (population
1,575) were startled to see a black helicopter hovering right over the
field in daylight.
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- Unable to name the model helicopter,
the witnesses described it as having a "narrow body" and "a
sharp nose." Two Cherokee County women reportedly shot a videotape
of the hovering chopper.
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- According to local author Jon C. Ryter,
there have been many black helicopter sightings in the towns of Andrews,
Murphy and Topton, and the Nantahala National Forest, since October 10,
1998.
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- The helicopters' presence is believed
to be related to the ongoing federal effort to apprehend bombing suspect
Eric Rudolph. Rudolph, 32, is wanted in connection with the bombing of
an abortion clinic in Atlanta, Georgia.
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- On Thursday, November 12, 1998, FBI agents
spent the day "looking for the culprit who fired several shots into
their command post," a warehouse in Andrews, N.C. (population 2,551).
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- "The shots were fired Wednesday
(November 11) about 8 p.m. One bullet penetrated an office wall, 'brushed
the hair' of one agent and just missed hitting another, authorities said.
Neither agent was injured."
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- "Investigators recovered a handful
of shell casings from a soccer field about 300 yards from the building,
but they have not yet determined what prompted the shooting." (See
USA Today for November 13, 1998, "Bullets fly into camp of agents
on manhunt," page 19A)
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- According to Ryter, residents of Andrews
have been awakened nightly by low-flying black helicopters aiming high-intensity
"Nightsun" spotlights through their windows.
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- Ryter also reported that witnesses had
seen two U.S. Army tank transporters stop at the intersection of a Nantahala
Forest road and Highway 129 and offload two M1 Abrams tanks.
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- On Thursday, November 12, 1998, an eyewitness,
Robert C., reported, "Definite increase of military activity north
of the San Francisco Peaks" west of Highway 89, about 15 miles (25
kilometers) north of Flagstaff, Arizona. He described a convoy of heavy
cargo trucks guarded by black helicopters and an anti-aircraft vehicle
"up near Deadmans Pass. What is going on?" (Many thanks to UFO
Sky Searchers International for forwarding these reports.)
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- MILLENIUM CEREMONY PLANNED
FOR THE GREAT PYRAMID
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- Last week, Dr. Zahi Hawass, Egypt's director
of antiquities, announced plans to place a golden cap on top of the Great
Pyramid as part of a ceremony celebrating the new millenium.
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- "The pyramid has lost 30 feet of
height, and the missing stones at the top give it a craggy appearance like
the opening of a small volcano."
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- "Now Egypt plans to make the Phraonic
structure whole again by affixing a gold-encased capstone--if only for
one night--to celebrate the advent of the third millenium on Dec. 31, 1999,
the pyramid's custodian, Zahi Hawass, says."
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- "At the same time, he proposed closing
entry into the Pyramid forever to prevent it from being damaged beyond
repair by the salty breath and curious fingers of 4,000 visitors a day."
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- "'Why do you want to visit a tomb?'
he asked. 'The magic is from the outside. Not from the inside.'"
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- "Hawass said the millenium ceremony
will be telecast live to a world audience, will mirror the pomp and revelry
that must have accompanied the installation of the capstone by the Pyramid's
builder, Pharoah Cheops, in a nationwide celebration some 4,600 years ago."
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- "'You know it was built in the third
millenium B.C. We are celebrating the third millenium A.D. Therefore, we
should have something important to mark the occasion,' Hawass said."
(See the Boston, Mass. Herald for November 14, 1998, "Egypt caps off
plans for millenium pyramid party," page 14)
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- (Editor's Comment: Why do we want to
visit a tomb? Well, for one thing, I'd like to see the extent of the damage
done to the interior by the "Hawass School of Jackhammer Archaeology."
It would be nice if they reopened the Pyramid after the Illuminati have
finished looting the Hall of Records. But don't bet your mortgage payment
on that.)
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- From the UFO Files...
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- 1661: BELGIAN JESUIT SEES
A UFO IN TIBET
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- In November 1661, Father Albert d'Orville
S.J., a Jesuit missionary from Belgium, visited the Buddhist monastery
of Chaldan in Tibet and had a most surprising encounter.
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- Here it is in Father d'Orville's own
words:
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- "November, 1661. My attention was
first drawn to something moving in the heavens. At first, I thought it
might be a species of bird, unknown to me, that lived in these regions.
Then the object came nearer, taking on the form of a Chinese double hat
and all the while rotating silently as if it were being conveyed through
the air on invisible wings. This visitation was definitely a thing of wonder--or
a magic trick. The object winged its way above the city exactly as if it
wished to be admired. It circled twice and then was suddenly enshrouded
in fog, and as much as I strained my eyes, I could no longer see it."
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- "I wondered if the altitude at which
I was could have been playing tricks on my eyes. Then I noticed a lama
standing nearby. I asked him if he, too, had seen the object."
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- "He answered by nodding his head
and replying, 'My son, what you witnessed just now was not magic, because
beings from other worlds travel across the oceans of space, and it was
they who breathed the spirit into the first people who lived on this earth.'"
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- "'These beings condemn all violence.
They counsel mankind to love one another. Their teaching are like reeds,
but if those seeds are sown on rocky ground, they cannot germinate.'"
(Editor's Comment: The lama knows his New Testament, I see.)
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- "'These beings, who are light-skinned,
are always received by us in friendship, and they often come to Earth near
our monasteries. They have continued to instruct us, revealing truths that
were lost in the centuries of cataclysm which have changed the face of
the Earth.'" (See THE CHINESE ROSWELL by Hartwig Hausdorf, New Paradigm
Books, Boca Raton, Florida, 1998, pages 88-89.)
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- NEW TWISTS AND TURNS IN EQ
PEGASI 'CONTACT' CASE
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- Controversy over the alleged alien radio
signals from the star system EQ Pegasi continued this week, with many surprising
twists and turns.
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- On October 22, 1998, a UK man calling
himself "Paul Dore" claimed that he had picked up a radio signal
from EQ Pegasi, a binary star system 22 light years from Earth. Since then,
the alleged contact has been the subject of much debate.
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- On Tuesday, November 10, 1998, Richard
C. Hoagland interviewed the "real" Paul Dore. Hoagland reported,
"In summary, he (Dore) denied being the 'other' Paul Dore, denied
meeting with NSA, denied printing anything or having any connection to
the website. He has no idea why he was chosen, didn't know about SETI until
the incident but is a real X-Files fan."
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- The following day, Wednesday, November
11, computer operator David Dubowski announced that he "had evidence
to show that (the real) Paul Dore is most likely the original" author
of the EQ Pegasi message."
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- The "smoking gun" was "a
posting by Paul Dore on 11-7-98 (November 7, 1998) showing his email address
and 'seticontact' name on the email."
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- Dore, however, has consistently denied
that he is the author of the "seticontact" messages and website.
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- Meanwhile, strange coincidences involving
EQ Pegasi popped up all last week.
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- In the November 15, 1998 issue of CyberSpace
Orbit, editor Kent Steadman reported that a new comet had been spotted
in the constellation Pegasus.
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- According to the Orbit, "On November
12, Timo Karhula," an astronomer "in Virsbo, Sweden" reported
that Comet C/1998 U-5 was now "two magnitudes brighter than a week
ago." (See the International Astronomical Union Circular #7045 for
November 12, 1998.)
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- In an interview, Steadman asked, "What
constellation is the comet in now?"
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- The astronomer replied, "Heading
for Cassiopeia."
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- "Was it ever in Pegasus?" Steadman
asked.
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- "Just left it. It's moving so fast.
Reminds me of Comet Hyakutake."
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- Karhula reportedly said the comet has
shown "spectacular" outgassing and may be visible on Earth just
before Christmas.
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- On Friday, November 6, 1998, David Oates,
a guest on Jeff Rense's Sightings on the Radio show, played tape recordings
of USA Defense Department news conferences. "In one, 'December's 7'
can be heard, in the other 'Samson.'"
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- This led a few ufologists to speculate
that a UFO would land in the desert north of Phoenix, Arizona on December
7, 1998 as part of a military activity known as Project Samson.
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- On Saturday, November 7, 1998, a caller
on Laura Lee's show pointed out that the "star map" drawn by
UFO contactee Betty Hill in 1964 shows the region of space where EQ Pegasi
is located. A map of Pegasus was included in John G. Fuller's 1965 book
on the Hill case, THE INTERRUPTED JOURNEY.
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- Curiously enough, in 1965, Russian astronomer
Dr. A.G. Sholomitsky said that an interstellar radio source, CTA-102, "may
be sending out intelligent radio signals."
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- The caller said, "If CTA-102, appearing
near the 'globes' in her (Mrs. Hill's) map is in reality an artificial
radio source, this would give the EQ Pegasi signal much additional credibility."
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- However, astronomers dispute Sholomitsky's
theory, insisting that CTA-102 is just another quasar, not some sort of
interstellar "space buoy."
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- Another strange coincidence surfaced
later in the week when an item appeared, pointing out that "on October
22, 1995, Swiss astronomers Didier Queloz and Michael Mayor discovered
a star that was a twin of our own sun," with a giant planet orbiting
it. "The star was 51 Pegasus."
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- The planet around 51 Pegasus was subsequently
confirmed by astronomers Geoffrey March and Paul Butler of San Francisco
State University.
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- EQ Pegasi has even had an impact on religion.
One researcher found this item in the Bible. It's from Revelation 19:11--"And
I saw heaven opened, and I beheld a white horse," and added, "The
only white horse in the sky is the constellation Pegasus." (Many thanks
to Stig Agermose, Peter A. Gersten, Errol Bruce-Knapp and others for the
reports on the EQ Pegasi controversy.)
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