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- NEW JERSEY DISC CAUGHT ON DIGITAL CAMERA
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- WILLINGBORO -- Jerry Kirk sent me a disc of several shots
of a UFO sighting that occurred on January 5, 2000, at 4:43 PM. The two
original digital views were shot with a Polaroid PDC digital camera without
the benefit of magnification on Sussex Drive just east of Philadelphia.
There was another aircraft flying in the same direction, east by northeast.
The disc shots show a cylindrical UFO without wings or tail assembly.
Although trees are visible in the bottom of the photographs it is difficult
to estimate the UFOs altitude. The craft appeared to head towards the
Atlantic Ocean at 25,000 to 35,000 feet or 5 to 10,000 feet above the regular
air traffic. Additional magnification applied to these images, does not
bring out any wings or tail structure. Thanks to Jerry Kirk. The images
can be viewed at www.filersfiles.com. This type of UFO is being observed
on a regular basis and has been involved with near misses with our commercial
aircraft. Similar craft were observed five hours earlier in Pennsylvania.
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- PENNSYLVANIA THREE CYLINDER SHAPED UFOs
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- EXTON -- The National Reporting Center reports three
cylinder shaped objects were viewed moving east to west, at 9:50 AM on
January 5, 1999. The witness was walking his dog and looked up to see an
unidentified flying cylinder without wings. He checked his dog and looked
up again to see two more cylinder shaped objects. The witness said, "They
looked like white cans with two rings in black on each craft with no wings
or tail section visible." The first and smaller craft did not fly
as straight as the other two. The last two were about the same size but
larger than the first. Thanks to Peter Davenport and NUFORC. Editor's
Note: Editors Note: The photos in New Jersey and the Pennsylvania description
appear to be similar objects. Craft were observed on the same day both
East and West of Philadelphia about 50 miles a part.
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- ALABAMA UFO
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- MADISON -- Aaron Crossley says that on January 7, 2000,
I saw an unidentified flying object on my way to the bowling alley with
my friends Tyler, Daniel, David and Jessica. It was about 8:45 PM, when
a bright blue light caught my eye. "It was extremely bright like
a blue fireball, and it streaked across the sky from south to north horizon
in a second." It was moving incredibly fast. If I had blinked I would
miss it. After I asked my friends if they had seen it, which sadly they
had not, Tyler told me that he had seen exactly the same thing last year
while delivering Pizzas, except there were three of them when he saw them,
and they appeared to be flying in V formation. I have to wonder if Alabama
is part of some secret projects flight plan. And what better place given
the reputation of its native residents. I hear numerous UFO stories around
here now that I've come out with mine. Thanks to Aaron Crossley raverkid@earthlink.net.
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- MICHIGAN GREEN FIREBALL
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- THREE RIVERS -- Alan Otterson reports that on January
7, 1999, I was watching TV with my wife with our inside lights on. Alans
says, "I was surprised to see streaking by our window a very bright
lime green fireball heading toward the north." I jumped up and dashed
to the door and saw it vanish. Shortly after I saw another bright light
goldfish in color just above the treetops across the field from us. This
light slowly and I mean very slowly moved southeast toward Three Rivers,
Michigan. There wasn't any noise. Thanks to Alan D. Otterson alancath@gte.net
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- ILLINOIS FLYING ARROWHEAD SEEN BY POLICE
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- SAINT CLAIR COUNTY -- In the early hours of January 5,
2000, police dispatchers started receiving numerous reports of a huge slow
moving craft that resembled an arrowhead just east of St. Louis. It had
an unusual sprinkling of lights defined as a starfield camouflage with
three bright lights on the tail. Milstadt police officers responded to
complaints and at least four policemen claim to have observed the huge
craft. The object was similar to a flying wing or flying triangle with
small twinkling lights that appeared to be designed to camouflage the craft
from observers on the ground. Lebanon, Shiloh, Highland and Dupo police
officers reportedly sighted the large flying object. Scott Air Force Base
is near by but the tower was closed at that time of night. The craft had
three brighter lights on its tail, and flew from the northeast-to-southwest
across the Metro East area about 4:00 AM. The craft was described as two
stories high and about three times as long. The police searched various
web sites to attempt to find likeness of the craft. The only craft that
appeared similar was the photo of a "Stealth Blimp" on the Popular
Mechanics Web site. Thanks to Mark Scott and Ken Young who has a likeness
of the photo at http://home.fuse.net/ufo/camouflage1.html & http://millstadtpolice.homepage.com/aircraft.html
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- MISSOURI UFO SPOTTED BY AIRLINE CREW
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- SPRINGFIELD -- While flying a B757 a commercial flight
at 33,000 feet from LAX to CLT on December 26, 1999, the two pilots and
two flight attendants were observing an earth satellite-passing overhead
from the cockpit. It was well past sunset at about 7:00 PM CST. The earth
satellite apparently flew into the terminator and disappeared while high
overhead. The witness stated, "Within a moment or so, a white-lighted
object overtook and passed us in fairly close proximity making at least
200 knots more than we were." Our airspeed was .80 Mach and our ground
speed was 483 knots or 550mph. The object was first noted south of our
west to east course at a distance estimated to be from about 2 to 5 miles.
It appeared to be at nearly the same or a slightly higher altitude. The
object showed only a bright white light that appeared to be slightly disturbed
by turbulence, or very slightly pulsating. Its course appeared constant,
as did its altitude. It passed us and faded rather quickly from sight in
about forty seconds.
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- A query was made to Memphis Center ARRTC as to any possible
traffic. The controller said he had nothing on his scope that could be
what we saw. We saw nothing on our TCAS, set to observe other transponders
within 4,000 feet of our altitude and within 20 miles of horizontal distance.
No red (left wing) position light and no fuselage red rotating beacons
were sighted by any of the witnesses. No magnetic or electrical disturbances
on our aircraft occurred. At least one passenger noted the object pass
by our craft from the passenger cabin. Thanks to Peter Davenport at the
National UFO Reporting Center, www.ufocenter.com Editor's Note: Generally,
radar operators are told not to confirm UFOs and to keep other traffic
away.
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- MEXICO VIDEO
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- MONTERREY -- Gary Carson wrote, "Recently, on or
about the January 4, 2000, the TV Azteca 3 o'clock News filmed a UFO,
motionless near Monterrey." It was visible for about 10 minutes,
then took off. This was my closest encounter ever, and I was thrilled.
The anchorwoman was Rosa Maria De Castro and the footage was pretty clear.
It was sort of hat-shaped object and dark in color in the clear blue sky.
I enjoy your site and respect your integrity. Thanks to Gary Carson gcferrone@hotmail.com
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- NEW ZEALAND SIGHTINGS
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- AUCKLAND -- UFO Researcher Karen Lyster writes, I thought
I'd pass along a few UFO sightings. A witness reports, that on December
29, my step son and his fiancee, who live with us, were awakened in the
middle of the night by strange noises. Two nights later on January 1, 2000,
I was awakened by a noise and a red glow outside with an intermittent white
flash. I thought new years fireworks, but it was 3:00 AM. I tried to
get up to investigate but found I could not move, I tried to wake my partner
but could not, my next recall was that it was daylight some three hours
later.
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- AUCKLAND -- Peter writes: "My 17 year old son rang
me at 12:30 AM on January 1, 2000, not to wish me a Happy New Year, but
to tell me of his experience with UFO's!" He was standing on the roof
of a five story carpark in downtown Auckland with a hundred other people,
overlooking the Viaduct Basin where the band Split Enz were conducting
a New Year's Eve concert. The band counts down to 2000 ...3, 2, 1! Suddenly,
two red discs appear high up in the sky above and behind the stage. People
seemed frightened by the discs. The UFOs moved left and then descended
at an acute angle. The crowd on the roof top moves back in fear. By then,
the fireworks have started, and while thousands if not millions of people
focus on the big bangs and pyrotechnics, the disks disappear from view
behind a tall building. The discs were 'big' and remain the same distance
apart as they moved. Some of the frightened crowd on the rooftop start
running towards the lift. A natural instinct fueled by fear. The discs
were in view for about 8 seconds. During the fireworks display more red
discs appear in the sky and hover for a few moments before disappearing.
Part of the display involves red flares but these were distinguishable
from the discs by their telltale smoke trails and their descent to the
ground. One of the discs appears to land on a Naval ship anchored in Auckland
harbor. The total sightings lasted for about seven minutes.
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- BEACHLANDS -- Peter writes: "I was driving back
to Maraetai to deliver a paper to a subscriber who missed out and saw a
horizontal flying cylinder at 7:25 AM on January 10, 2000. It had three
segments of white with one segment at each end and one in the middle.
It was high above Waiheke Island and traveling slowly toward Auckland.
What struck me immediately, was the three segments of this 'plane.' They
were silvery white rectangles, one at each end and one in the middle. It
was about an inch and a half long from my perspective and relatively thin.
I stopped the car to have a decent look but it may have gone behind the
gorgeous clouds this morning. Thanks to Peter and Researcher Karen Lyster
at http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Congress/2301/Directory.html
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- "A UFO BOOM DOES'T WORRY CHINA'S RULERS
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- That was the headline on a front page article in the
January 11, 2000, New York Times. The Times is the nation's leading newspaper,
and long ago decided UFOs were not a topic that fits their masthead motto:
"All the news that's fit to print." In recent years they have
carried only two UFO-related stories. One was a sarcastic dismissal of
UFO sightings in Russia, which they attributed to a resurgence of pre-Communist
mysticism. The other was a long report on the Air Force "investigation"
of the Roswell Incident, unquestioningly repeating the assertion that the
1947 fuss was caused by a Mogul balloon. Oddly, the China story is treated
"straight," without the usual demeaning language. According
to the Times, there have been a large number of UFO sightings in China,
and these are studied by several research organizations that are very "mainstream"
in their scientific approach. Apparently the government is supportive of
this research and interest, as distinguished from the official condemnation
of various semi-religious movements.
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- "Indeed, a large portion of China's UFO enthusiasts
are scientists and engineers, not the sci-fi buffs or apocalyptic stargazers
who are the stereotype in the United States. Many of China's UFO research
societies require a college degree and published research for membership.
The Chinese Air Force attends important UFO meetings." And quoting
a leader of Chinese UFO research, "In the US, scholars investigating
this are under pressure and have been derided. But in China the academic
discussion is quite free, so in this area American academics are quite
jealous of us." The article ends with another quote that should be
taken to heart by American UFO researchers. "We're very careful and
cautious to present things scientifically and to filter out things that
head in a superstitious direction, since there's a great deal of fakery
in the UFO field as well as real occurrence." Thanks to researcher
Bob Durant.
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- INVESTIGATION OF SEPTEMBER FLORIDA SIGHTINGS
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- TAMPA - MUFON State Section Director Lorraine Gerber
writes, people all over Florida were reporting fast moving, some slow moving
and even hovering objects on September 7, 1999. These objects were observed
in some cases for up to ten minutes from Navarre in north Florida to Miami
in the south. NASA and NORAD said the UFO reports were caused by the reentry
of a spent SL 12 Russian booster rocket body moving from the Northwest
to Southeast across the US at about 5:00 a.m. The primary MUFON investigators
were Phil Bayly, Bob and Jimmy Kruse, Polly Bryan and myself. Phil Bayly,
former Air Force officer and lead investigator calculated the 17,000 mph
reentry speed to have placed the object over Florida for only one and a
half minutes. Investigator's reports showed that witnesses had observed
objects going west to south, east to west, south to east to north for extended
periods. With the help of the UFO Reporting Center, Malcolm Hawthorn, and
Art Bell witnesses were located who gave detailed accounts of their sightings.
Some of the sightings reported by UFORC included: Cigar shaped object over
St. Petersburg at 5:10 a.m., "Something strange in the sky."
At Tavares at 5:04 a.m. a Cigar shaped object with three lights. Orlando,
3:00 a.m. a fireball. South Miami, 5:03 a.m., three blue-green spheres,
(two separate reports). Poinciana, Lake Wales, Lake Helen, Kissimmee, 5:05
a.m., saw what appeared to be a meteor breaking up. Changed shape to 13
balls of light with and without tails, red, yellow, green, blue. Ocoee
at 5:05 a.m. saw five upright disks traveling south at low altitude and
medium speed with light beams directly between each disk.
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- Ruling out some of the fast moving objects that traveled
from a north to a south direction, Bayly profiled some of the more questionable
cases that were investigated by our MUFON group as well as two that Ann
Lieberman, SSD from Venice investigated. He found that they did not fit
into the Russian debris reentry profile. The following are some of those
cases: In Tampa, a witness, Dr. Lynn Sayne, was bringing his newspaper
in at 5:00 a.m. when he saw an object going from the south to north then
east, moving in an irregular pattern as it changed directions. He said
that the object was not streaking. He also said that there were six F-16s
in flight and three had experienced the loss of their electronics. Sayne
said, "In a period of five to eight seconds their aircraft systems
completely shut down." He was aware of the fact that Tampa emergency
vehicles were also alerted. At 5:00 a.m., two witnesses in Seminole reported
seeing an object just above the tree line only 300 to 400 feet away. After
changing shapes three times, it was last seen as a saucer shaped object
75 feet wide forming a cloud around it in a cloudless sky, and going straight
up until it disappeared from view. This sighting also lasted several minutes.
In St. Petersburg, Isle Del Sol, a witness was awakened at 3:08 a.m. with
a silvery white light illuminating her bedroom. She looked out her window
and saw two huge balloon-shaped spheres gliding northeast over Boca Ciega
Bay that were six times the size of the moon.
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- Three witnesses reported seeing a cigar like object in
the west that hovered and moved slightly. One witness coming from Port
Charlotte to Sarasota from 4:45 to 5:00 a.m., observed an object for five
minutes at 1000 yards away, about 800 to 850 feet altitude. The object
had windows in º of its left section and was 225 feet wide. It had
a white strobe-like light at the nose and a blue one at the rear bottom.
As a retired fire fighter, he thought it was a jetliner crashing and that
he should stop to see if he could pinpoint the crash site. It hovered
and moved slightly towards the south while he watched for five minutes.
He also saw emergency vehicles circling the area. Another witness driving
west from Myakka State Park saw a similar object for several minutes.
A third witness driving west from Arcadia saw a comparable object in the
west. A significant sighting was reported from Lutz at 5:15 AM, when an
illuminated object moved west and five airborne objects moved toward it
as if to intersect. The first object got smaller until it finally was
seen bursting out and then imploding as it disappeared. The witness saw
a total of 15 aircraft in the area some for ten minutes. A witness at
5:00 a.m. in Englewood saw what he described as "six jumbo jets flying
together in unison," illuminating each other, "but they were
not aircraft." They were fast moving objects going from north to south
over the gulf, but not an object reentering our atmosphere. Bayly acquired
video footage shot by a John Vye and shown September 7th on Channels 9
and 13 (FOX TV). MUFON is trying to contact Mr. Vye. In a frame by frame
analysis, Bayly asserts that the object is doing a barrel roll, first one
way and then in the opposite direction. Reentering debris would not make
this kind of maneuver. After careful analysis Bayly ruled out the possibility
that these sightings were the result of a reentering booster rocket body.
Bayly concluded that his findings on some of the cases do not support
NASA's or NORAD's explanation. Thanks to Lorraine Gerber.
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- NASA DIDN'T TELL LOCKHEED ABOUT CANYON
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- D E N V E R - The Associated Press reports, The vanished
Mars Polar Lander probably broke apart in a canyon, The Denver Post reported
January 6, citing scientists who suggested the landing site was the reason
for NASA's latest failure. The $165 million lander was supposed to touch
down Dec. 3 for a 90-day mission to analyze the planet's atmosphere and
search for frozen water beneath its south pole. It has not been heard from
since it started its descent after an 11-month cruise, and NASA has not
offered a reason for the disappearance. Members of the Lockheed Martin
team who maneuvered the craft to Mars believe a canyon nearly a mile deep
and 6 miles wide in some places was the landing site, the Post reported,
citing an unidentified source at the aeronautics company who was on the
mission team. Orbiter Burned Up The source relied on "probable"
landing coordinates posted online by NASA and its Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Lab officials acknowledged that they knew the canyon was in the area.
"We believe we landed in a region that was in the vicinity (of the
canyon), but we have no way of knowing whether it hit those slopes,"
said Daniel McCleese, the Mars Surveyor Program scientist at JPL. The loss
of the lander came less than three months after bungled communications
between Lockheed and JPL caused the Mars Climate Orbiter to burn up in
the Martian atmosphere. Lockheed scientists were reportedly surprised
to learn that the canyon was inside the lander's projected landing zone.
During the mission, Lockheed scientists steered the craft under JPL direction.
"No one on our side knew that canyon was there," the Lockheed
source told the Post. "All of the sudden, two weeks later, we got
this MOLA data" - topographical maps and images - "and it was
like, 'Look at that hole!'" Thanks to Jan 6, Denver Post.
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- Editor's Note: Hundreds of Millions of dollars have been
lost because of NASA's apparent unwillingness to share data with Lockheed.
The Lockheed scientists would also be surprised to learn that this area
on Mars has features that appear to be artificially formed assuming they
are not a combination of pixilization and transmission errors. They have
been given descriptive names by NASA such as Nod and Inca City. The Inca
City area located at 81.8S - 59.1W, has many rectangular walled areas each
about 4 miles across similar to the ancient cities in Peru. Interestingly,
the Inca's believe they were visited by spacemen and celebrate with spinning
wheels that look like UFOs. The site at Nod appears to be an ancient cultural
site with structures. Nod appears to have been used for growing plants
and producing oxygen since the site is on the edge of snow and ice fields
composed of carbon dioxide at 83S 43W. NASA's name for Nod is the location
Cain was sent to wander by God in Genesis 4. My speculation is that NASA
has found evidence of ancient intelligent life on Mars, but can not make
an announcement until its probes are successful.
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- Researcher Carl Feindt has a new web site based on UFO's
seen near water at www.waterufo.net. The site was built by Chuck Warren
and is well worth viewing.
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- IS IT TIME TO MAKE UFOs A POLITICAL ISSUE?
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- On Tuesday, I was called by Heather Anne Harder, Ph.D.,
who is running as a candidate for the President of the United States.
She was a genuinely nice person, but most important to Ufologists she feels
that research and openness in government is needed concerning UFOs. She
says, "She knows UFO's exist." She had her own personal sighting
of strange lights that were observed by 24 people. This was followed by
an unexplained experience of missing time. She is well aware that former
Governor Jimmy Carter also had a UFO sighting and made election promises
to find out what was going on, but after his election no answers were given.
Even today, former President Carter refuses to answer MUFON queries about
his own personal sighting. She vows to get some answers if she is elected.
Although, MUFON does not endorse any candidates for public office, Dr.
Heather Anne Harder is refreshing in that she understands the UFO phenomenon.
It is delightful to talk to a person who comprehends and acknowledges
the American citizen's frustration with the situation. She promises that
if she is elected, she will demand some tough answers. She will not accept
the usual sly remarks about UFOs from government employees that work for
us. Dr. Harder feels we are being visited and contacted on a regular basis
by an alien presence and further research is desperately needed.
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- Dr. Harder indicated that if the UFO community wants
to be heard, the presidential primaries provide the ideal forum. Each candidate
is fighting hard to get a small percentage of the votes. In states like
New Hampshire and Iowa, one voice is worth thousands perhaps tens of thousands
of votes. Once one of these candidates is elected, we would have little
chance of ever talking to the new the President. But each individual voter
in the primary takes on unique importance since so few participate in the
primaries. Dr. Harder suggested that people interested in UFOs, should
show up at a caucus and the various meetings and ask questions about UFOs
from each candidate. Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell stated, research into
UFOs might be the most important endeavor of mankind. Yet most candidates
appear to know little about the subject. Ufology needs a presidential
candidate who will demand answers, and get the government interested.
Most of you reading these files know that UFOs are in our skies, and in
some cases creating a safety hazard. NASA has spent some 20 billion dollars
searching for life on Mars, but refuses to admit the failure of 23 out
of 31 probes could have anything to do with UFOs. They tell me they are
not interested in looking at the Soviet Phobus 2 film that shows a UFO
intercepting the probe near Mars. I suggest we want some answers, not
condescending we know what is best for the millions of UFO enthusiasts.
It seems most of the candidates say the same thing. Perhaps its time to
listen to someone like Dr. Harder who will support our cares and needs.
These files are sent to all the presidential candidates and she is the
first one to contact me. So naturally I'm flattered. She feels the campaign
needs citizen participation rather than lobbyists deciding what's best
for you. Dr. Harder wants to have honest and healthy mechanisms for citizen
participation to reclaim the government and reestablish it as being for
the People. She wants to empower the American people to become the ultimate
stabilizing force as the fourth branch of democratic government. Although,
MUFON does not support any candidate for public office, Dr. Heather Harder
is interested in UFOs and how this relates to the average citizen.
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- US GOVERNMENT UFO PROOF RELEASED: Audio tapes of a genuine
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to the public. Sam Sherman's audio documentary tape called EDWARDS AIR
FORCE BASE ENCOUNTER on the night of October 7, 1965, uses the actual voice
recordings provided by the Air Force. During this event 12 high tech luminous
UFOs invade secure air space and came down low over the runways at Edwards
AFB. Tower operator Sgt. Chuck Sorrels spotted them and notified the Air
Defense Command. Sgt. Sorrels is heard on the original tapes and in a
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