- NEW JERSEY
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- PERTH AMBOY: On Sunday, August 30, 1998,
Jeff B., 51, and his lady friend, Gabrielle, were driving through Perth
Amboy on their way to New York City's Staten Island borough when they spotted
something gleaming in the daylight sky. "I was approaching Staten
Island on Highway 278," Jeff reported, "I was about ten minutes
from the toll booths for the Outer Bridge. I looked out at about 30 degrees
to the horizon to the west and the object appeared to me to be a flattened
oval. It was about the size of a child's aspirin held on edge at arm's
length and was silver and completely motionless. There was a blue sky
and a few cumulous clouds." "I said to my lady friend, Gabrielle,
'What is that?'" Jeff then commented that the object "did not
look like any aircraft known to me--no wings, no tail, nothing in the way
of a distinguishing profile." "It diminished in size very rapidly.
It appeared to be moving at a high rate of speed straight away from us
at an angle of ascent of about 10 degrees above my original line of sight.
Its color changed to gray once it began to move. It was gone in three
seconds." "Gabrielle's eyesight is better than mine. She felt
its shape was roughly that of a flattened oval, was actually trapezoidal.
She could discern edges and the object appeared to be five-sided."
"Ten minutes later, as we approached the Outer Bridge. Gabrielle
looked south and saw another UFO of the same relative size. She thought,
'What a big bird,' when the object moved straight down very smoothly and
with great uniformity of motion and disappeared." Jeff added. "I've
always approved of Carl Sagan's statement that extraordinary claims require
extraordinary proof. I've never saw a UFO until last Sunday." Thanks
to Paul Williams of WBAI in New York City and UFO Roundup Vol. 3 #36 editor
Joe Trainor 9/9/98.
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- GEORGIA
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- CHATSWORTH: Georgia State Director,
Tom Sheets reports on new activity. "I received information from
Terry Kimbrell, MUFON/ISUR, that they have been receiving UFO reports
in the mountain areas of North Carolina to include Sylvia, Clyde, Asheville-Mars
Hill, which is not far from the Georgia line. These have included recent
sightings all the way up toward the Virginia line at Dobson and Mt. Airy,
also in the Morganton and Lenoir areas. On September 3, 1998, we have
other info that there may have been additional events reported to FM radio
US 101 in Chattanooga about a Chattanooga UFO. The first call was followed
immediately by a call-in from a Dade County, Georgia resident about a UFO
over Dade. All of this combines with heavy UFO reports from Fyffe, and
Sand Moutain, Alabama in the last few years. What Terry Kimbrell is speculating
on, is a UFO corridor similar to the one in Western Georgia. Drawing a
line west to east from Sand Mountain through Chatsworth, and then sort
of jinking northeast into North Carolina. The route follows the higher
mountains and surrounding rural terrain. This could be a continuation
of the Western Georgia corridor that points into the valley where Highway
411 runs towards Chatsworth. Maybe we have some sort of 'Blue Ridge UFO
Corridor' but we really can't say that until we receive as many reports
as those that made the Western Georgia (THC) famous. The mountain folk
are very closed mouth about reporting UFOs. Thanks to Tom Sheets. Editors
Note: UFOs have been reported over the Appalachian Mountain chain for
many years. There are numerous military training routes, and slow speed
low altitude training routes in this general area.
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- NORTH CAROLINA
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- Two college students, a girl and her
boyfriend, went camping last week in Pinnacle, North Carolina, in the state
park between Mount Airy and Pilot Mountain, about 125 miles northwest of
Raleigh, and had a UFO encounter. "We were at a campground off Route
52 North, exit 129, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Winston-Salem,"
she reported. Around 11:00 PM, the dogs began barking. As her boyfriend
opened the opened the tent to get a better look around, he saw an object
quickly fly away. Too quick to be an airplane. He woke me up, but it was
too late, it had flown away. Then, at 1:00 AM, it was back. A ball of
light, getting bigger, then smaller as it moved back and forth. "We
were a bit shaken." "After 30 seconds, we thought, 'let's shine
a light on it to see what it does.' It became agitated and moved around
more vigorously. It seemed as if it mimicked the patterns in which we
were shining the light. Now we were really scared." Shortly thereafter,
the couple walked to another campsite and pointed out the weird light to
the other campers. One man also saw it moving. He said, "He had seen
something similar a few nights before, and there are no air/military bases
nearby." "At 1:00 AM, we noticed a second smaller craft at
8 o'clock position. The last thing we both remember before succumbing to
sleep was two red flashes of light spreading across the sky. I woke up
suddenly and startled around 3:00 AM, I woke my boyfriend up. He also was
shaken. This time the first craft (light) was at 4 o'clock position. We
decided to leave, so we threw the dogs in the car and headed back to the
campus." She added, "The size of the object at its brightest
was about three stars put together." Thanks to Rev. Billy Dee/UFOSSI
and UFO Roundup Vol. 3 #36 editor Joe Trainor 9/9/98
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- FLORIDA
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- TAMPA: We are all set for a rash of "sightings"
as B-2 bombers will deploy to MacDill Air Force Base starting on September
13, 1998. This information is according to Captain Bruce Sprecher, the
spokesman for the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman. Thanks to Mark & MM
Zimmer, MM maz1@winnet.net
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- GULF BREEZE SHORELINE PARK SOUTH: On
August 22, 1998, from 11:00 PM until 2:15 AM a strange phenomena was observed
by Ray and Elise Pollock, Beverly Pilcher, and Celena Salyars in the waters
of Santa Rosa Sound. They described the odd behavior of sound and light
reflections on the waters. The area involved also included both sides
of the pier looking toward Bob Sikes Bridge. Beverly Pilcher was standing
near the pier when she experienced a powerful wave of ringing in her ears.
She described it as being so strong that her ears hurt -- like being jabbed
with a swab or something. A helicopter was observed coming low over the
Deer Point area and moving out over the Island making no sound. It was
fairly well lit with steady white lights and blinking red lights. It was
also projecting a steady searchlight type beam on the waters as if searching
for something. It made a circle around the area, extending out into the
Gulf but strangely we heard no sound whatsoever. Normally aircraft and
boats would be heard at this distance. We then noted a number of power
boats traveling the waterway from the Bob Sikes bridge and realized no
sound from them could be detected. Earlier in the evening boats traversing
the waterway could be clearly heard.
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- We then noticed that there was a dense
black area in the waters that did not reflect the light from the lights
on the beach. The water was unusually smooth. There were short reflections
of the lights in the waters immediately adjacent to the shoreline at our
observation point in the Park - beyond the "black" water area.
This area also had a complete absence of sound from boats. We then noticed
that while there were some reflections on the East side of the pier from
the lights on the Bob Sikes Bridge, they were very dim. Additionally, there
were no traffic sounds coming from the bridge, despite the fact that there
was plenty of observed traffic on the bridge. Beverly Pilcher and Celena
Salyars went out to the end of the pier at Shoreline Park and could observe
this "black" water. They also curiously observed that their
voice echoed sharply from the pier facing this black water. Ray and Elise
still on the shore could clearly hear Beverly and Celena on the end of
the pier and vice/versa. Remember the "black water" was slightly
beyond the pier. A boat coming up the waterway from the Deer Point/Pensacola
Bay direction was observed to be making no sound, both from the Shoreline
Beach and from the end of the pier. It did not become audible until it
crossed the area of black water making an approach to the launching ramps
at Shoreline Park. At that point it suddenly became audible and included
conversations being carried on aboard the boat. Once it became obvious
that something unusual was going on, we made it a point to make repeated
observations of everything around us. Boats moving up the waterway from
the Bob Sikes Bridge shortly became rather extraordinarily audible and
remained audible, but varying in intensity or loudness along the waterway
until a point slightly before a point that could be reached by an extension
of the pier at Shoreline Park. At this point they became inaudible and
remained that way until they were out of sight at Deer Point. This was
observed repeatedly. After approximately and hour and a half of these
observations, the water gradually began to show reflections again in the
area where they previously did not show. Also, boats traversing the water
way became audible but muffled for a longer stretch of the waterway directly
in front of Shoreline Park. After these events, Ray and Elise Pollock
and Beverly Pilcher experienced sleep disturbances and weird dreams for
the next few hours. Celena Salyars also reported weird dreams. Phil Gerbig
remembers reading an article where the Coast Guard was chasing a UFO under
water in Pascagoula, Mississippi. They seemed to have experienced a similar
phenomenon to our observations and it was called a Dead Zone. Thanks to
Ray Pollock.
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- WASHINGTON
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- LYNNWOOD: Michael Shaun Sanders reports
seeing a UFO outside bedroom window at 10:00 PM on June 15, 1998. He reports
that a round shaped like saucer shot a blue light into my eyes, that made
me unmovable for ten minutes. We have called his phone number: (425) 774-6258
to verify his report. We left a message to return our call on his tape
recorder. His Address: 20923 44th Pl. W, Lynnwood, Washington. 98036. E-mail:
msanders69@.com
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- CANADA
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- The Prince George Citizen reports that
Mystery crop circles were found at Vanderhoof on September 1, 1998, according
to Citizen staff writer Gordon Hoekstra. "An unexplained phenomena
-- dubbed crop circles around the world -- has been discovered in the
forestry and farming community of Vanderhoof, 100 kilometers west of here.
Vanderhoof airport owner Brent Miskuski and pilot Larry Frey discovered
10 precise circles of varying sizes between 10 to 100 feet wide (three
to 30 meters) in a ripe oat field just beyond the approach to the runway
this weekend. "This is bizarre, I'll tell you," said Miskuski.
"It's one out of the twilight zone." One of the local farmers
said his dogs were barking out of control unexplainably Friday night,
said Miskuski, adding there was no wind that night either. Mifuskuski
-- who took pictures from the air -- describes the oats as being bent
over symmetrically and lying down very flat. There are no signs of trampling
or disturbance, and there were no paths to the circles or between them,
he said. Vanderhoof resident Jay Bangs also viewed the circles from the
air when he was flying with his father Sunday morning. He came back after
the flight to get a closer look. He thought there were maybe a half
dozen "perfectly round" circles of varying sizes up to 50 feet
(15 meters) wide. Bangs described the oats as being all neatly bent
over, with the oats intact on the stalks. "It was very precise."
It's creating quite a bit of talk in the community, said Bangs, who
also took pictures of the circles. Crop circles first appeared in modern
times in England in 1972, according to The Crop Circular Internet site.
Since then, there have been about 9,000 reported and documented circles
-- about 90% in England but also in B.C. About 40% of the documented
circles have been determined to be hoaxes, says Internet author Freddy
Silva, where the grass is broken, trampled, bruised or crushed. In the
authentic, unexplained formations the stems are bent, normally about an
inch off the ground, says Silva." Thanks to Michael Strainic, Canadian
National Director MUFON: (604) 683-6168 e-mail: ufocan@renaissoft.com;
www.renaissoft.com/ufocanada
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- NORWAY
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- HESSDALEN: John Thompson has notified
us about Project Hessdalen, an automatic field tracking station operation,
designed to monitor the sky for unusual phenomenon. The project started
on August 7, 1998, and includes a computer system that is used for storing
readings. A magnetometer measures the magnetic field in three directions:
X, which is south-north, Y, which is east- west and Z, which is up-down.
The main purpose of this measurement is to see if there is any change
in the magnetic field. A black-and-white solid state camera, with a wide
angle lens, is connected to a Silicon Graphics Indy computer, which analyze
the picture every second. When "something" is discovered, a
video-recorder starts to record it. As long as this "something"
is moving in the picture, the video-recorder is recording. If this "something"
stops or disappears, the video-recorder will run for 15 more seconds.
The picture that started the video-recorder, will be sent to the web page
immediately. It is possible to adjust the trigger level, which starts
the recorder and sent the picture. At least one picture is taken every
hour. Anything unusual will cause a picture to be captured is sent immediately
for analysis. Interesting alarm pictures are placed in the computer for
all of us to view. Your browser needs Java to be able to see the magnetometer
measurements. Netscape 4.05 is preferable. Martin R. Thorsen and Erling.P.Strand
operate the site that includes hourly photos and magnometer readings at-
http://www.hiof.no/crulp/prosjekter/hessdalen/html/privat/privindex.html.
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- MUFON investigator John Thompson comments:
We would like to set up a similar system at my house, atop a high hill,
in Troup County, Georgia. I would like to have, perhaps, four or five
wide-angle cameras and several magnetometers to cover 360 degrees and above.
Unlike Hessdalen, Norway I feel confident we would get some real UFOs
that are not of only natural origin. I'm convinced from all the photos
I've seen taken at Hessdalen, that they are only dealing with piezoelectric
UFOs that are sometimes incorrectly called, "earth lights".
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- TURKEY
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- ANTALYA: Travel agent, Hakan Mr. Soyler
reports we saw two lights coming from the Olympos Valley on August 22,
1998. We were in a very silent place lying on the sandy beach at 12:20
AM on the Southwest coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The UFOs were very
close to each other and very fast. The closest UFO to us was very bright.
We did not see any colored lights on their wings or hear any sounds.
When they gained altitude we were able to see a third UFO. They moved very
fast creating a delta shape, and in a very short time they became like
stars and disappeared. For these reasons we do not think they were military
jets. We could not see any stars for a while in the area where they disappeared
even though the weather was very clear. Three of us observed them, My
wife and my brother's wife and myself agree that they were UFOs. Because
we never seen this close and this fast flying objects before. Their Phone
Number: 0090 242 2424574 Their Address: Ataturk Cad. 37/1 07100 Antalya/Turkey
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- DR. ROGER LEIR REMOVES IMPLANT
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- Robert Collins reports that on August
17, 1998, the removal of an unknown object from the upper portion of a
man's thumb was accomplished. He'd had a few suggestive experiences, including
an extensive sighting of three UFOs with another witness. But he doesn't
remember any abductions, and his object was discovered by accident. In
the past, I have been concerned that the chain of evidence might not be
rock-solid to an outsider if objects were left in unsealed containers and
so forth. This time, all sealing and unsealing has been done before four
witnesses on videotape, and the object has been contained using security
tape that cannot be removed without evidence being left behind. So there
can be no question that what is going to be placed under study is what
came out of the volunteer's hand. It was an amazing, deeply satisfying
thing to actually see it come out. The first surgeries I saw in 1996 moved
me so profoundly that I cried. I am deeply concerned that they have been
placed in our bodies without our consent. I don't believe for a moment
that they can be explained away. In fact, I think that even trying to
dismiss them is the height of irresponsibility. To introduce something
into somebody's body like this is assault, pure and simple. And it doesn't
matter if it was done by aliens or humans, the ethical situation is the
same. Understand, I don't have any really strong evidence that the close
encounter situation is harmful or dangerous, but the manner in which it
manifests itself suggests otherwise. The situation keeps us passive.
Government secrecy and visitor secrecy might as well be two aspects of
the same policy. And every time a newspaper publishes some ill-informed
story debunking this material, it is playing right into the hands of whoever
doesn't want us to take action on our own behalf. The same is true for
science: when scientists grudgingly admit that there might be hard UFO
evidence and then in the same breath say that there is no "credible
evidence" of abductions. They are insuring that contact will continue
as it has, with the visitors holding all the cards. If they treated us
with the kind of respect that suggests that they value us at least somewhat
as individuals, I wouldn't object to them being in control of the contact
process. But they aren't doing that. This is an intrusion, an invasion,
and we are victims. All I know is this: "they" are very secretive,
and they are putting unknown objects into our bodies. If There is only
one sane response: whenever possible, take the implants out. Thanks to
Robert Collins
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