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- RESEARCHERS CLOSE IN ON ARGENTINE CRASH SITE
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- Researchers have pinpointed the suspected crash site
of the huge mysterious "fireball" that crashed on Tuesday, January
25, 2000 in northern Argentina. And strange reports continue to come out
of the area. "At a ranch around 70 kilometers (42 miles) away from
Charata, on the border between Chaco and Santiago (del Estero) provinces,
there exists eyewitness evidence of the location where the alleged unidentified
object fell last week, enveloped in flames." "The radius covering
the locales of Tintina, Otumpa, Sachayoj and Chaco could be the probable
location of the resting place of the object that crashed." The Argentinian
newspaper Diario Norte discovered that the rural area is owned by a farming
business called La Mensa. There is also a Mennonite farm colony nearby.
Diario Norte "obtained eyewitness accounts from local residents giving
their own version of the event, thus making it largely credible given the
down-to- earth nature of these local residents." One witness, Juan
Carlos Leguizamon, said many residents "set off to find the object
but were unsuccessful in locating it." Leguizamon told the newspaper
of strange military activity in the area around Chacara. "'However,
when the situation occurred,' Leguizamon said, 'a sound like a jet airplane
was heard, and explosions like a burst of machine gun fire. But all we
saw was the smoke a few kilometers away from us.'" "On our tour
of La Mensa and the Mennonite colony," the newspaper reported, "there
was no visible trace of the object's fall. But during each interview,
every utterance by the locals always contains the possibility of the presence
of the strange 'fireball' that altered their easygoing lifestyle."
"The locals further indicated that the Santiago del Estero (provincial)
police were also in the vicinity but without confirming the reason for
their presence there." Scientific teams have also scoured the rugged
canyons and subtropical rain forest of this region, also known as La Esperanza,
for the past week with no success. The situation "indicates a certain
silence among the owners of the field as well as the authorities responsible
for searching the area." "The area has proved to be a great hardship
to the baqueanos (hunting guides--J.T.) since it is densely forested with
large canyons and vegetation that provide a barrier to movement."
(See the Argentinian newspaper Diario Norte for Tuesday, February 1, 2000.
Muchas gracias a Scott Corrales, autor del libro Chupacabras and Other
Mysteries, and Gloria H. Coluchi para esa historia.) (Editor's Comment:
This is beginning to look more and more like another Varginha case. Note
the report of military jets and automatic weapons fire. The role of the
Policia Provincial appears to have been to keep the civilian population
away from the area. Did a NATO strike team dash into Argentina for a hasty
retrieval? Was it a saucer crash? Were live aliens captured? Stay tuned.
But I suspect that they've added another Quonset hut and a few more Army
cots to the facilities at Camp Condon.)
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- SPHERICAL UFO FLASHES A BEAM AT A CITY ON BALI
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- On Thursday, February 3, 2000, at 10:20 p.m., German
businessman David W. stepped onto the upper-floor balcony of his hotel
room on the island of Bali in Indonesia. From the balcony, he had a good
view of the night sky and the city of Denpasar and the tropical beach lining
the calm waters of Selat Bali (bay). "I was waiting at the balcony
of my hotel room," David reported, "and suddenly I saw a very
strange light reflection in the northern sky. Of blues, greens, silvers
and a lot more." "After a few seconds, a rotating spheroid flew
with an enormous speed in my direction. It stopped its rotation and flight
route a few miles in front of me, directly over the city of Denpasar."
"From the center of the object, a golden yellow blinding lightbeam
connected the city and the sphere for about one minute. After that, the
UFO started to rotate again and flew off towards the city." "After
a few seconds, the object was gone. It stopped at 100 meters (330 feet)
above the city and was very fast." Denpasar is on the south side of
Bali island and is about 880 kilometers (550 miles) east of Jakarta, the
capital of Indonesia. (Email Form Report) (Editor's Comment: Remember
the reports from Ohio and Chile? Witnesses reported seeing "circles
of light" appear on their bedroom walls, followed by the emergence
of an alien. We've also seen several reports of these "light stabs"
from hovering UFOs. Maybe the yellow beam is some kind of alien transporter
like on Star Trek That wasn't the only "light stab" last week,
either. Keep reading.)
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- HOVERING UFO FLASHES A BEAM IN LINCOLNSHIRE
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- On Sunday, January 23, 2000, at 9 p.m., a married couple
"saw a bright light glide over their house and travel some three miles
(5 kilometers) from Holbeach towards Kings Lynne" in Lincolnshire,
UK. "The object was travelling slowly with a flashing light much like
a navigation light on a plane." "Suddenly, a large white light
appeared in the centre of the object with flickering intermittent lights
around the object." The witnesses estimated that the UFO was three
miles away and hovering at an estimated altitude of 15,000 feet (4,545
meters) "The object hovered for approximately ten minutes, at which
point the object then dipped to the right slowly, then shot up away into
the sky" at an estimated 5,000 miles per hour (8,000 kilometers per
hour.) "As my Mum put it, 'It flew into space!'" "I basically
need to know if anyone else saw the object," the witnesses' child
reported, "My parents are not taken to flights of fancy, and my father
is a trained ex-RAF observer of 25 years standing." The ex-RAF witness
also operated a radar set while in the service. Holbeach and Kings Lynne
are about 12 miles (200 kilometers) north-northeast of London. (Many thanks
to Todd Lemire for this report.)
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- TWO MEN SPOT A UFO IN GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN
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- On Tuesday, February 1, 2000, at 5:15 p.m., Croydon K.
and his partner were sitting in their office overlooking Fish Creek in
Green Bay, Wisconsin (population 96,466) when they saw unusual lights beyond
their office window. "All of a sudden, large green and red lights
began flashing like flash bulbs in the sky above the water. The lights
just appeared out of thin air." "These lights hovered in the
sky for about 60 seconds or so and then just stopped, as if they were turned
off by a switch. In the process of their hover, they would move horizontal
to the water (of Green Bay, which itself is an arm of Lake Michigan--J.T.)
and then reversed direction instantly and moved up and down vertically
very quickly." "This action repeated itself over and over. I
also noticed something in the corner of my eye in our office like a mist
just before the light show started." He estimated that the UFO was
100 feet (30 meters) above the water. Green Bay is on Wisconsin Highways
41 and 141 approximately 117 miles (187 kilometers) north of Milwaukee.
(Email Form Report) (Editor's Note: Green Bay is a notorious UFO hotspot
and has seen several other events linked to the Lake Michigan Triangle.)
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- WOMAN SEES A UFO IN NEW BEDFORD, MASS.
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- On Thursday, February 3, 2000, at 10:15 p.m., eyewitness
Michele N. glanced through a window of her home in New Bedford, Massachusetts
(population 100,000) and spotted a UFO passing slowly over the neighborhood.
"It was a circular object with a red flashing light," she reported,
"I had it in sight for several minutes." According to the witness,
the large disc-shaped UFO came from the south over Mount Hope Bay. Crossing
the shoreline, it flew northward over Brooktown Park and Tarkiln Hill,
moving roughly parallel to Ashley Boulevard, before it went out of sight.
New Bedford, a prominent whaling port in the early Nineteenth Century,
is located on Interstate Highway I-195 about 58 miles (93 kilometers) south
of Boston. (Email Form Report) (Editor's Note: New Bedford played host
to UFOs during the L'affaire Tillinghast, also known as "the great
airship invasion of 1909." See the Fall River, Mass. Herald for December
26, 1909, page 1.)
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- ROUNDUP MYSTERY VAN SIGHTED IN ARIZONA
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- On Thursday evening, February 3, 2000, a dentist, Dr.
Bruce C., was at Park Mall in Tucson, Arizona (population 405,390) when
he spotted an unusual white van with Georgia license plates in the mall's
parking lot. Yes, it was the UFO Roundup mystery van, which first appeared
in Warsaw, Indiana (population 10,968) in July 1999. Three months later,
in October 1999, the van was seen again at a casino in Lake Charles, Louisiana
(population 70,500). It is not known who is the operator of the late-model
white van with its array of high-gain dish antennae. On the van's rear
are the words UFO FIELD INTERCEPT TEAM and beneath it the website address:
http://ufoinfo.com/roundup. However, the van is not the property of either
UFO Roundup editor Joseph Trainor or UFO INFO webmaster John Hayes. The
purpose of the van's mysterious trip across the USA is unknown. "I
saw a white van with various antennae on it (and) Georgia license plates,"
Dr. C. reported. "I saw it in a shopping center parking lot early
this evening. It had your Web address on the back, which led me to discover
your very comprehensive and well-done site." For more information
about the van's first appearance in Indiana, see UFO Roundup, volume 4,
number 16. For more information on the van's presence in Louisiana, see
UFO Roundup, volume 4, number 27.
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- BIGFOOT ON THE PROWL IN FORT HALL, IDAHO
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- An Idaho State University biology professor is focusing
his Bigfoot efforts in the Pocatello, Idaho area following persistent reports
of the presence of Bigfoot and perhaps a whole tribe of similar hominids
in the area. For the past ten years, most of the sightings have occurred
around Fort Hall, Idaho (population 900) and Chubbuck, Idaho (population
7,700), two towns located just north of Pocatello. "For the past two
years," Prof. Jeff Meldrum "has been on a Bigfoot hunt, tracking
footprints and looking for signs of the legendary hairy ape." "'My
work is to shift the emphasis from tabloid stories to scientific inquiry,'Meldrum
says, 'My data is in the form of footprints.'" "Although Meldrum
says his obsession began in fifth grade after viewing a documentary film
on Bigfoot, he wasn't a believer until he saw fresh tracks for himself
outside of Walla Walla, Wash. a few years ago." "Meldrum describes
about 35 tracks on a muddy stretch beside a road. Although he was skeptical,
he says the hair on the back of his neck stood up From then on, he was
hooked." "Pictures of apes cover the walls of Meldrum's office
and casts of huge footprints line his lab tables. Some feet measure 16
to 17 inches long and show what Meldrum terms anatomical features."
Recent Bigfoot sightings north of Pocatello include the following: "A
recent report in Fort Hall is still under investigation. Some parties
say they saw footprints, and some blame the sighting in stray cattle."
"A Chubbuck woman reported several years ago she saw a big, hulking
hairy ape. Later she saw three sets of 16 to 17-inch-long footprints in
the snow, and her juniper tree was stripped of berries up to 10 feet (3
meters) off the ground." "Eight or nine years ago, south of the
Portneuf Gap, a rancher had a disturbance in his outbuildings and found
fresh Sasquatch-sized footprints." "Several sightings over the
past ten years have been reported in the river bottoms near Mount Putnam."
"Mountainous terrain and thick tree canopies provide a perfect cover
for what he describes as fairly solitary animal small in numbers."
"'A lot of people have this misconception that it's this lone wretched
animal wandering the face of the earth,' he says, 'We have examples of
multiple animals--males, females and young.'" (See the Idaho State
Journal of Pocatello, Idaho for November 20, 1999, "ISU professor
following Bigfoot's footprints" by Emily Simnitt. Many thanks to
Lou Farrish of UFO Newsclipping Service for forwarding this newspaper article.)
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