SIGHTINGS



NY UFO Sightings -
Another Seen From Airliner
Over Arkansas
George A. Filer <Majorstar@aol.com>
Director, Mutual UFO Network Eastern
MUFON Skywatch Investigations
Filer's Files #12
3-27-00

 
NEW YORKER'S SEE FOUR UFOs
 
BUFFALO -- Researcher Kenny Young writes that LittleGoop@aol.com wrote: "We have just seen a series of four UFOs. At first we thought they were air planes but they were making no noise and flying too high to be airplanes. They had flashing lights going in a circular motion. One was a shadow of a disk shape with a lid on top. Something very small came out of it. If you can help identify these objects please email us at littlegoop@aol.com or lizz597902@aol.com. Thanks to Kenny Young LittleGoop@aol.com -- UFO Research http://home.fuse.net/ufo/
 
NEW YORK SMALL DELTA-SHAPED UFO SEEN
 
ROCHESTER -- On March 15, 2000, around 6:30 p.m., M.J.C. decided to go for a hike in the woods near his apartment complex. He lives about a half-mile from Expressway 590 "That evening I started hiking through the woods on a trail which starts at the back of my apartment complex and skirts north along the edge of the Brighton landfill. "Glancing up ahead, some movement caught my eye. Something dark up in the air. First I thought it might be a kite, then a balloon, then a bird. Finally, as it drew closer, the only possibility that I hadn't eliminated was a radio-controlled model of some sort. But then again, what kind of radio-controlled plane is absolutely silent?" "The object was totally black in color and flat on the underside. The closest thing that I could say the craft resembled was the Stealth fighter plane, but it was quite scaled down in size. Although it's difficult to estimate size against a background of clouds, the object was eventually close enough to me where I'm confident in saying it wasn't more than six feet (1.8 meters) long, and my best guess is that it was only four feet (1.3 meters) long."
 
"The object looked very much like a black arrowhead in shape, complete with an arrowhead's notch toward the rear. But it also presented a multifaceted design on top, similar to the Stealth's antiradar deflective design. However, the ends of the object appeared to have a clean edge but I noticed they were partially ragged, as in the difference between a standard pyramid and the stepped look of a South American pyramid. Although the effect was mere detail, I thought it was worth mentioning." "As the object glided directly past me, I could begin to see what clearly looked to be windows arrayed in a hexagon-shaped dome on top. Now picture a Stealth cockpit positioned directly in the middle of the craft with these same types of windows being on all sides." "The object was traveling at a constant speed and altitude, absolutely level. The degree of steadiness it showed combined with the fact that it was moving over a long distance without making a sound made it seem utterly unnatural to me. It also flew at a very low altitude, perhaps a mere 30 to 50 feet above the highest treetops at 10 miles per hour throughout the entire sighting which lasted maybe 45 seconds." Editor's Comment: This is not an aircraft as we understand the term. At such a low airspeed, any plane would stall and drop out of the sky. The UFO obviously was using some other means of "lift" than its wings.) Thanks to UFO Roundup Joe Trainor editor.
 
VIRGINIA FIREBALL
 
POWHATAN -- I operate a small business west of Richmond. Thursday night, March 9, 2000, at approximately 7:00 PM. I was on the front porch with my husband. It was dark. We were listening to music and I was just looking out towards our horse field when I saw a glowing green object swoop down onto the pasture and proceed to move horizontally but in a circular fashion to the north going up the field. It irradiated a green color and lasted about 5 to 8 seconds and just disappeared. It seemed about almost as high as our 2-story house so it was fairly low to the ground. I ruled out a child's toy or anything else and for lack of a better word, call it a UFO. I have no idea what it was.
 
GEORGIA UFO PHOTO IN LIFE MAGAZINE
 
John Thompson writes, "I bought a copy of Life magazine today (allegedly the last issue to be published)." It's front cover is devoted to UFOs. If you get it, turn to page 49 and look at photo number 8. This is almost exactly what my family and I saw for 45 minutes on 20 Feb 1994. The only difference is that there was huge non-blinking white light in the middle and at its bottom. We also saw it at just above tree top level from our high hill, giving it an almost level vantage viewing point. Hence, we saw a straight edge of Christmas tree like lights. This is the first time I have seen this photo (taken, according to Life magazine by a deputy sheriff in Western Connecticut, along with a hundred other witnesses who saw it, in May of 1988. Incredible photo!) The photo, a "circle of lights," is a most common UFO in the Troup-Heard Corridor and a truly unexplainable UFO.
 
ARKANSAS UFO SEEN FROM AIRLINER
 
NORTHEAST TIP - Peter Davenport writes that he was contacted by a Flight Attendant for a major airline who had a sighting. On March 12, 2000, I was flying from Memphis, TN to St. Louis, MO. at approx. 9:10 PM. While serving a first class passenger on the left side of the aircraft I noticed out the window that a ball of light was approaching from the rear of the aircraft at a speed faster than what we were going. (I would guess about 700 mph). The object appeared as a fuzzy ball of light pinkish in color which went out when it came parallel to our aircraft. It then began producing reflective sparks over the top of the ball shaped object of what appeared to be of a metallic nature. It then veered toward the aircraft and went under us and disappeared. When I notified the flight crew, they said that they had no reports of anything in the area and refused to talk about it any further. I asked the passenger what she thought it was and she replied that she could not make out anything that would make sense or anything she had ever seen before. I have never seen anything while flying in my 12 years with the airlines. This was worth investigating. Thanks to the National UFO Reporting Center www.nuforc.com.
 
MISSOURI BALLOT INITIATIVE
 
History continues to be made in the Show-Me State, where the Missouri secretary of state recently certified the signature-petition language for the first-ever ballot initiative to combat official government secrecy on UFO reality. "With receipt of this action," explained petition-drive committee co-chairs Bruce Widaman, "we can start gathering the requisite number of 75,000 signatures for placing the measure on the ballot during the general election this fall." After several months of navigating the complex review-and-approval process, Widaman and some of his Missouri-based colleagues in the Mutual UFO Network, Inc. now are gearing up to start circulating the signature petition. "To have any chance at all of meeting the state's deadline of May 7th, we have to round up at least 500 signature-gathering volunteers", he said. "And maybe some benefactor will step forward to fund a corps of professional circulators. But even if we fail to muster that degree of support, we already have achieved a moral victory in coming this far -- and there's always the prospect of renewal for the next general election." That moral victory can serve as a model for the other 15 direct-initiative states (as well as the seven indirect-initiative ones). And Widaman hopes that volunteers from those states will come forward early to follow the Missouri lead. In doing so, they will have added their voices to the growing call for full accountability as to what the government really knows about the origin and nature of unidentified flying objects. Widaman noted that a UFO-ballot-initiative dedicated banking account has been established at MUFON headquarters in Texas (http://www.mufon.com) to help support the project. "As in all public-interest endeavors, we need some funding from the citizenry to offset expenditures," he said, adding: "And now's the time for volunteers to start the process in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Numerous UFO researchers worldwide view this initiative as a formal means for gaining (and expressing) the sense of the electorate on a vital public issue:
 
"If indeed the Earth is being visited by alien spacecraft, then we have a right to know and the government has the duty to tell," Widaman concluded. He defined the direct-initiative process as a grassroots means for empowering the voters to legislate statutory change -- in this case as an official proclamation to urge congressional action toward ending the government cover-up of the UFO experience. Here's the full text of the proposed proclamation: "Be it enacted by the people of the state of Missouri that the year 2000 be proclaimed and observed as the Year of UFO Awareness. Because of the Federal Government's failure to be officially forthcoming about Unidentified Flying Objects, the public remains ill informed and confused on a matter of potentially great consequence. We therefore urge the U.S. Congress to expeditiously convene open, comprehensive hearings in which government personnel (military, civilian-contract, and agency employees -- active and retired) are permitted to present sworn testimony regarding their personal knowledge of any UFO-related evidence, to be given under immunity by waiver of any applicable security oath or agreement of nondisclosure. This proclamation acknowledges the following facts: (1) the weight of the cumulative evidence -- e.g., eyewitness, electronic-detection, photographic, documentary -- overwhelmingly supports the conclusion of a majority of Americans that some of the reported UFOs represent somebody else's spacecraft; (2) the Federal Government's handling of the UFO issue has contributed to the public cynicism toward, and general mistrust of, government -- a development injurious to our republic; (3) this initial year of the third millennium affords us a renewed opportunity to explore, assess, and convey every facet of UFO reality." : Thanks to Bwidaman@freewwweb.com and Bob Bletchman (860-675-6379)
 
HOUSTON NASA UFO EXHIBIT
 
Aaron Crossley writes I was very disappointed to find out that there is not an IMAX Film showing at Space Center Houston. They did however have several cars from the Roswell Parade (Including shock comedian Tom Green's 'Space Mobile'), An original newsclipping of the Roswell Newspaper that fateful day, some older photographs of UFOs (And not any good ones), and some rubber aliens (Including the one Tom Green sexually molested on national television). It was more of a kid's thing, and I was disappointed. It does however point children in the right direction. Children probably don't watch Tom Green, so children will be left with their imaginations soaring to extraterrestrial highest.. Thanks to: raverkid@earthlink.net (Aaron Crossley)
 
 
COLORADO UFO CHASES WITNESS
 
Christopher O'Brien reports eight unusual aerial sightings have been forwarded to this investigator. On St. Patrick's Day, March 17, at 3:00 p.m. Alamosa County resident "Chuck" was driving southbound on Hwy 285, just north of Antonito, when he witnessed "a metallic sphere at about 30 degrees up. It did not move in any extraordinary ways but it sure didn't look like any airplane I've seen." Montrose, CO investigator Davina Ryszka is investigating a report that occurred a few months ago in the same area."
 
On Tuesday, March 7th, 2000, 9:30 PM, near the town of Olathe, CO, a mother driving on a back road had an encounter with a low-flying aerial craft. The craft/object exhibited a "very bright white light and had a red and green lights on its sides". The woman reported to Ryszka that whatever-it-was "seemed to be confrontational". As the object approached her car head on, at first the witness thought it was a low-flying airplane. "The witness slammed on the brakes to try to avoid what seemed would be an inevitable crash" and the craft stopped right in front of her car. When she tried to move, it moved. When she attempted to turn the car around and go back the way she came, it moved in front of her car. At this point she was "really frightened especially because she had a small baby in a car seat . . ." Finally, she managed to get in front of the object and it "ended up behind her and she could see it in the rear view mirror. Then for a time it was not visible at all and she was relieved that maybe it was gone." Suddenly, a bright light came on directly above her illuminating her car and the surrounding area "and she drove quickly on to Olathe," understandably shaken by her experience. CAUS/Skywatch tmv@amigo.net http://home.amigo.net/tmv Author of The Mysterious Valley (1996) and Enter The Valley (1999 (St. Martin's Paperbacks)
 
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US GOVERNMENT UFO PROOF RELEASED: Audio tapes of a genuine UFO Alert at Edwards Air Force base and studied by the Foreign Technology Division at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, are now available for distribution 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 new segment where he verifies the event as it is heard on the archival recordings. The UFOs are described and a decision is made to launch F-106 fighter interceptors. You are there for an important part of UFO history. Hear it for yourself, it's the best UFO tape ever made. Tape cost is $14.95 each plus $2.00 for shipping -- total $16.95 -- (for overseas orders-out of US - add $6.00 shipping cost -- total -- $20.95) you can send either a personal check or money order to: Independent International Pictures Corp, Box 565, Dept. GF, Old Bridge, New Jersey 08857.
 
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