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- VERMONT -- UNIDENTIFIED STRING OF BALL LIGHTS
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- SHAFTSBURY -- The witness was walking her dog in Shaftsbury
Valley near Route 7A, when she saw lights in a string across the sky on
January 20, 2002. The string of ball lights were heading south towards
Bennington about 6:00 PM. The witness states, " I thought a plane
was flying low that had lights strung across the front of the plane and
wings and was ready to crash." There was absolutely no sound from
the object." I then supposed I saw a searchlight going across the
mountains, but it did not really make sense since I heard no sound of either
a helicopter or plane. It appeared to be a string of beaded lights in a
horizontal pattern. I ran inside and got my daughter and son to come out
and look at the strange object, since I had no clue what it might be. The
other witness reports, "My Mom brought my brother and me outside to
see some sort of object over the mountains with about fifty lights -- ones
you might see on a passing airplane. None of the lights were flashing as
it moved about halfway down the mountain. It moved slowly across the mountain
in a horizontal fashion, with a few lights disappearing from the left,
and then reappearing on the right. The sighting of this object frightened
me. It was moving south towards Bennington. The only thing that makes sense
was a UFO. Thanks to Peter Davenport National Reporting Center, www. nuforc.com
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- NEW JERSEY SIGHTINGS
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- OLD BRIDGE -- Sam Sherman writes , "My wife and
I were driving home from dinner on Cottrell Road coming to the intersection
of Ticetown Road in the Old Bridge area on February 15, 2002, about 9:05
PM and noted a large whitish/yellow Planet-like object. I always check
the sky for unusual phenomena. Suddenly another lighted object emerged
from this one and was flashing various lights and heading in a southwest
direction. I pointed this out to my wife who felt it was a plane. I was
about to dismiss it too -- when this object quickly looped around from
the direction it was headed in, to a circular arc -- heading east. Then
it stopped dead in its tracks and appeared like a star or planet frozen
in its place. Gradually, it may have been rising up, as it quickly became
lost in the clouds and was obscured. Thanks to Sam Sherman flexaret2@aol.com
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- MORRISTOWN -- MUFON reports they received a sighting
from two 30 year old witnesses who saw a red light that changes to white
with rings on February 12, 2002, at 8:10 PM for few minutes. The object
was flying between 500 to 1000 feet in the northeast. It was blimp like,
50 feet in size with a glowing surface. The object was blue-white with
exterior white lights that brightened and faded in and out. A dog was very
curious about the sighting. Thanks to WUFOD www.mufon.com
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- FLORIDA SIGHTINGS OF FIVE STATIONARY OBJECTS
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- HOLLYWOOD BEACH -- On January 20, 2002, the witness reports,
"We were on the beach on a warm summer afternoon, and had watched
a plane take off over the water and it crossed in front of the moon. Then
my wife saw a light which looked like a bright star about ten degrees from
the moon. This was a clear day with bright sun at 2:20 PM. About 5 degrees
from the first object, another appeared. After about ten minutes, three
less visible (about 1/4 as bright) objects appeared, in a straight line,
two degrees below the lower object and lined upward at about a 45 degree
angle to the horizon. Because these were less visible the two witnesses
could not see them. All three of us saw the first 2 objects. All objects
seem to be stationary. With the bright sun and clear skies I feel that
what we saw was indeed 5 objects that were stationary and the sun was hitting
them at an angle to reflect light towards earth. Thanks to Peter Davenport
NUFORC www.ufocenter.com
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- OHIO FLAP DEVELOPS ON RADIO SHOW
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- CINCINNATI -- Some sort of UFO outbreak apparently occurred
on February 18, 2002, as per Newsradio 700 WLW in Cincinnati according
to Louise A. Lowry. Callers to the station reported something near Blanchester,
and other callers said that something was seen over Zanesville, Ohio. I
took an excited phone call from Bill Jones of Ohio MUFON informing me of
the action tonight, he said that at some place in Ohio that Interstate
75 was "closed" due to traffic stopping to observe a UFO. Jones
informed that 2 people with OHIO MUFON had also observed something that
they couldn't explain. Sightings also were reported from Atlanta. It could
have been some sort of mass-sighting of a fireball meteor. But the reports
and times seem varied and from what I've heard this is describing a hovering
object with multicolored lights. BILL BOSHEARS of the SCI-ZONE, took calls
from a witness near Fairfield, Ohio (Butler County) who reported seeing
a UFO to the east of his location at around 10:30 p.m. He said the object
was visible for 30-minutes before it moved due east towards Dayton. The
caller speculated Wright Patterson AFB involvement as per the object heading
toward Dayton. Motorist heading east on 125 near Amelia, Ohio around 10:00
p.m. observed colored lights in a straight line, describing its sequence
as blue, red, blue, red, blue, etc. This caller also saw something else
around 10:12 p.m. traveling near Eastgate (Clermont County). Bill Boshears
and his co-host, from their vantage point in Mt. Adams (near Downtown,
Cincinnati), said that they stepped to the window and saw an object with
3-lights rapidly fly through the sky. Both carried on over this object
and suggested it was a UFO.
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- Don Weatherby, database coordinator for MUFON website
(WUFOD), called in to the station around 11:20 p.m. to ask the listeners
to submit reports to their online database. One caller claimed to have
taken 15-pictures and Boshears said he would post them on his website www.scizone.com.
Another caller said that he was on Interstate 70 headed eastbound through
Richmond, Indiana when he saw an object close to the ground. The caller
said, "The object went straight-up then straight back down and made
a 'left turn." He said there was a green and red object toward Dayton,
and a third one with red and blue lights. There were two more following
'vertical' to each other. Boshears asked if it hovered? The caller said
they were moving fast and made a hard left turn. Tim from Dayton said that
he saw something with blue and red heading south, and that it could not
have been a helicopter. He said it made a sharp angular turn and made the
sound of a 'broken-down aircraft.'
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- Boshears added that the object he saw over downtown Cincinnati
made a sharp, angular turn. and the object was 'not a jet aircraft.' Another
caller said that at 10:55 p.m. he saw lights coming out of the south from
his vantage point near Mason, Ohio, near Interstate 75. This caller said
that he saw an object with two white lights and one red light that flashed
like a strobe. He also said that there were six objects separately heading
north-northwest that seemed to approach Hamilton, Ohio (Butler County).
This man claims to be in the army and said he would know a helicopter or
plane if that was what this was. He said another object came out of the
west and attempted to intercept the first object, which he said was visible
for the past 40-minutes. The last object was moving at a high-rate of speed.
Mike in Oakley called Boshears and said, he stepped on his porch after
hearing the radio program and saw one object head south and then saw a
few more seeming to fly around the Oakley area heading east. This caller
said the object looked like a standard swept-wing military aircraft. Boshears
complained that his 'chatroom' was flooded with people from all over the
country reporting UFOs. Boshears has returned after a commercial break,
very winded, claiming now to see three objects to the west of Cincinnati
that have appeared in perfect alignment, one after another. He is saying
this is 'unbelievable' and his co-host also agrees that these are not airplanes.
I should inform that from his vantage point in Mt. Adams, air traffic to
the Greater Cincinnati Airport will come in from that direction, over Delhi
and into northern Kentucky. When I stepped outside moments ago I did not
see any air traffic, but for a Sunday night that's not out of the ordinary.
(P.S., I notified a contact in Clermont County who advised around 11:15
p.m. of seeing six-planes lined up in that area, routine Airborne Express
traffic to Wilmington Airport.
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- Larry, south of Lexington, Kentucky, called in to report
that at the I-75/I-64 split in Lexington he saw an object with a puzzling
light pattern that strobed like an ambulance, and two objects heading south.
Dave on a cellphone called, said he was headed eastbound on 70 at mile
marker 46 says a huge diamond-shaped white light shooting intermittent
strobe lights down at the ground. The caller said it was standing still
about 300-yards away from him. He said it was stopping traffic on the interstate.
Boshears said that truckers across the Midwest are talking about this on
CB radios. Boshears had said that WPAFB had told "him" that they
had nothing going on. I presume that since he said this, he had called
WPAFB or someone in the newsroom had called WPAFB. Thanks to Louise A.
Lowry. SHnSASSY1@aol.com, http://www.ufoxfiles.com/WorldOfTheStrange/default.asp
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- TEXAS SPHERE SIGHTED BY SEPARATE WITNESSES
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- FORT WORTH -- On Thursday, January 31, 2002, the following
three sightings occurred about 9:55 PM. The witness reports, "We where
traveling east in N. RICHLAND HILLS when we saw a glowing bluish/green
object soar through the sky many times faster than any man made craft."
At first it was a bluish color then as it got farther away, it turned more
greenish. The whole time it had a bright white light behind it.
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- HELOTES --- The witness and his wife were watching the
moon just rising in the eastern sky, when they saw a large bluish white
sphere looking light traveling at high rate of speed along the eastern
sky. It was moving north to south parallel to the curvature of the horizon.
It traveled for approximately 30 seconds at a tremendously high rate of
speed. As it disappeared into the southeastern sky it almost looked like
afterburners of a fighter jet.
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- DALLAS -- The witness who is a commercial pilot and his
wife spotted a rocket like object with a bright bluish-white afterburner
like streak of light traveling north to south over NE Dallas heading toward
Houston at about 10:00 PM. The witness stated, "The approximate altitude
was 10,000 to 20,000 feet with a speed over 500 mph with a trajectory like
that of a rocket." No sound or structure was heard nor seen. Sky condition:
CAVU and called Air Traffic Control (Fort Worth Center), they had a number
of calls concerning the object. They have no idea what it was other than
possibly a satellite returning to earth. Thanks to Peter Davenport NUFORC
www.nuforc.com
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- CALIFORNIA FLYING CHEVRON
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- BANNING -- A government employee reports seeing a structure
of lights, resembling the Phoenix Lights, in front of the mountains on
January 23, 2002, at 7:10 PM. The witness reports, "I live up the
hill on Bluff Street and driving down the hill, my wife pointed out a pattern
of lights that resembled the Phoenix Lights. There were 6 to 7 lights in
that similar pattern, with the pattern tilted about 5 degrees from level
at a very low altitude of about 1,500 feet. The object looked about one
mile across, perhaps, even bigger in size. It was enormous. After watching
the object for some minutes, I decided to get a better look. The object
was initially near the Morongo Indian Casino off the 10 freeway... In 10
to-15 seconds, we saw it move and now appeared to be over the Palm Springs
International Airport. They had to see whatever the hell this thing was...absolutely
no mistake about it. We lost sight of it after ten minutes. The lights
were of a goldish, coppery color...very distinct...could not miss this
object. The sky conditions were absolutely clear...unlimited visibility.
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- HAWAII SIGHTINGS TWO MORNINGS
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- KAHANA BEACH -- Early in the morning, before dawn at
3:50 AM, the witness retired attorney and marine naturalist and his wife
saw a round, or spherical object which was bluish green moving north at
a high rate of speed just above the surface of the ocean on both January
22, and again on January 26, 2002. The witness reports, "I started
to reach for my binoculars, but the object flew out of sight before I could
zero in on it." Four mornings later, at about the same time, I saw
an identical object moving in precisely the same way over the same stretch
of ocean. They live in a studio apartment directly on the ocean and had
a clear view of the object. They are both good observers who have never
before seen a UFO. He said, "During the second sighting, I saw the
object for a somewhat longer period of time, since I leapt from my bed
and went onto our waterfront deck, where I could observe it a bit longer
and watched it grow faint and disappear at a high rate of speed."
Thanks to NUFORC.
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- MONITORING ABDUCTIONS SCIENTIFICALLY
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- Mark Rodeghier writes, Are UFO abductions physically
real events? When an abduction occurs, are there measurable changes in
the environment that will confirm that an abduction occurred and, perhaps,
help us understand the forces behind these events? We each have our beliefs
about what is causing people to report abduction experiences, ranging from
aliens, extra-dimensional beings, to odd psychological conditions or sleep
paralysis, but it has been very difficult to get definitive evidence for
any particular theory. Some investigators over the years have attempted
to use a video camera in the bedrooms of abductees to obtain physical proof
of an abduction event. These efforts, though, have met with little documented
success. If abductions are, at least in some instances, physically real,
then we would expect that those beings doing the abductions would leave
some trace in the environment. Even if super-aliens have the ability to
transfer a person through a bedroom wall to a waiting UFO, that doesn't
imply that the environment in the bedroom would be unaffected while the
transfer was occurring. Based on this assumption, the UFO Research Coalition
(composed of MUFON, the Fund for UFO Research, and the Center for UFO Studies)
decided several years ago to initiate a research project to monitor the
potential physical changes associated with an abduction event. Our working
hypothesis is that some physical changes must occur during a real abduction
event (although we are uncertain as to exactly what these might be).
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- The official name of the project is the Ambient Monitoring
Project, or AMP for short. Specifically, we have constructed a device that
is placed in the home of an abductee and left there for about 4-6 months.
The device is small and attractive, about as big as a woman's makeup case,
designed to blend into the home. It records various physical parameters
and stores the information, which is then downloaded to the computer of
our project engineer (Tom Deuley, a longtime MUFON official) every day.
While the device is in her home, the abductee keeps a daily journal of
experiences related to the abduction phenomenon. Then, when the data collection
period is over, the journal will be matched up to the physical data to
see what was recorded at those times when a person thinks that she may
have been abducted, or something similarly odd occurred. The project officially
began in the spring of 1998. Those most involved with the project include
Rob Swiatek from the Fund, myself from CUFOS, and Tom Deuley. AMP started
with the development of two prototype devices, used in three pilot cases.
From this experience, we constructed the final monitoring device, which
was used for the first case in the summer of 2000. As of this writing,
we consider the project a success: we have successfully collected data
from several abductees with few technical problems. This project would
not have been possible without the assistance of some very supportive abduction
investigators and, most important, some generous and cooperative abductees
and their spouses and family. We thank them profusely. The identities of
those involved will be protected and kept confidential, per normal scientific
ethics that mandate how to deal with human subjects. We are following standard
research protocols in this project in every possible respect. This includes
the recording and analysis of the data. Our project engineer, who collects
the data, has no idea what is recorded in the journal by the abductees.
And the abductees and UFO investigators are not told what the device has
recorded. The data will be archived and later, when the project has ended,
be compared and correlated to determine what can be learned.
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- We follow this protocol-which means that there are no
results yet to report in this article-because it is crucial in the study
of anomalies to design rigorous research that removes any chance to alter
the data to fit some preconceived notion. As we know, there are skeptics
and debunkers who are only too happy to find deficiencies, real or imagined,
in any serious research project. The results of AMP, whether positive or
not, will potentially be quite important for Ufology. Obtaining physical
confirmation of an abduction event would be an important advance in our
study of UFOs. Finding no physical evidence of abduction events would be
open to several interpretations, but it would be just as important a finding.
We are always searching for additional abductees willing to volunteer for
this project, and that is where you can help. We need investigators who
know of abductees who might want to participate, and we need abductees
who are willing to be a part of this study. There are no costs involved,
as our research grant is sufficient to cover such things as a second phone
line, which is necessary in some homes. If you are interested in volunteering
to participate or help with this research, please let us know as soon as
you can. After you contact us, and we decide whether you meet the selection
criteria, we will send you additional information to explain your tasks
and answer all your questions. You can contact Tom Deuley, the project
engineer, by e-mail at tdeuley@ieee.org, by phone at 210-804-0552, or by
mail at 2827 Sir Phillip Drive, San Antonio, TX. 78209.
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- Editor's Note: I have participated in abduction research
and we were able to capture strange moving lights on the video camera late
at night. A pet cat watched the light as it floated about the room, although
the abductee was not aware of the light. We can speculate the light was
a reconnaissance vehicle prior to an abduction, or the light represents
an electrical-magnetic anomaly strong enough to cause the abductee to fantasize.
But the light is visible for all to see and represents a fantastic potential
for lights without an electrical power source and wires. Capturing and
understanding this light represents potential for a new billion dollar
industry.
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- GENERAL GEORGE S. BROWN -"THEY WEREN'T
CALLED UFOs"
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- In 1968, I briefed General Brown the USAF Chief of Staff
most mornings on the intelligence situation in Vietnam. Later, at a press
conference on October 16, 1973, he stated:
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- "I don't know whether this story has ever been told
or not. They weren't called UFOs They were called enemy helicopters. And
they were only seen at night and they were only seen in certain places.
They were seen up around the DMZ (demilitarized zone) in the early summer
of 68. And this resulted in quite a little battle. And in the course of
this, an Australian destroyer took a hit and we never found any enemy,
we only found ourselves when this had all been sorted out. And this caused
some shooting there, and was no enemy at all involved but we always reacted.
Always after dark. The same thing happened up at Pleiku at the Highlands
in 69. Department of Defense Transcript of press conference in Illinois.
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reports subscribe to the MUFON JOURNAL that costs only $35 per year by
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