- UFOs HOVER OVER MOUNTAIN
CITIES IN UMBRIA, ITALY
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- On Monday, July 13, 1998, at 11 p.m.,
an "unidentified craft" flew over the small city of Gualda Tadino
in northeastern Umbria province, Italy. The UFO "circled the city
at high velocity," and then hovered for about two minutes before flying
away to the north. The UFO "flew below the clouds" and had "a
great luminosity." Minutes later, the UFO flew over the nearby city
of Gubbio, in the Appenine Mountains. Witnesses described the UFO as "resembling
a glowing soccer ball" and said "it flew from the north-northeast
to the north-northwest," and, after aerobatic maneuvers lasting "about
five minutes, and left in a northerly direction. The phenomenon was seen
by four witnesses in one location, and another seven people confirmed this
sighting." Gubbio and Gualda Tadino are east of Perugia, located about
150 kilometers (90 miles) north of Rome. (Grazie a Squadra Film Spaziale
d'Italia per questo rapporto.)
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- LUMINOUS UFO FLIES OVER CREWE
IN THE UK
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- On Saturday, July 11, 1998, at 12:30
a.m., Paul R., age 27, and his mother, Patricia R., age 54, were out walking
their dog in a west-southwesterly direction along Remer Street in Crewe,
Cheshire, UK when a sudden bright flash captured Paul's gaze. The incident
took place just two hours after the light phenomenon over Belfast, Northern
Ireland. "My eyes had already been directed skyward by seeing something
flare up," Paul reported, "I figured it was probably the sun
reflecting off some solar panel or other. About a minute later, I saw
this flickering fuzzy blob dash across the sky. The object was about the
size of a two-pence piece (held at arm's length)." "After noticing
it flare up, I pointed it out to my mother, and we watched it for about
15 to 20 seconds until it faded out." The UFO "appeared to be
at about 50 degrees above the horizon" and "was traveling in
the same flight path as the first, south to north." "I only saw
it for five to seven seconds before it disappeared out of view behind the
houses." Crewe, Cheshire is located about 130 miles (208 kilometers)
northwest of London. (Email Interview)
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- FAST UFO FLYBY OVER LELYSTAD,
NETHERLANDS
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- On Tuesday, July 7, 1998, a film crew
shooting a TV movie on the dikes at Blocq van Kuffeler in Oostelijk Flevoland,
Netherlands accidentally shot footage of a UFO speeding overhead. According
to Dutch ufologist Keet Veling, "At the upper white corner of the
frame, a white dot appears. It races through the film at great speed.
The dot disappears behind (actor) Kuno's head. You expect the dot to appear
over on the left of the frame but it does not." The UFO was flying
from Almene to Lelystad, a city 60 kilometers (36 miles) northeast of Amsterdam.
(Many thanks to Keet Veling for this news story.)
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- TRIANGULAR UFO SPOTTED IN
SELKIRK, MANITOBA
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- On Tuesday, July 14, 1998, at 4 a.m.,
Arthur P. was looking north from his home in Selkirk, Manitoba, Canada,
when he spotted three strange bluish-white lights in the sky. "What
I saw was a (triangular) shape in bluish- white lights. It came down across
the street from my house and made no sound. Of course, my heart was beating
too loudly for me to hear it. Then it went straight back up and was gone."
Arthur described the configuration of lights as looking like this: O O
O
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- "I observed the UFO for four minutes,"
he added, "It was very, very slow in descent. Very slow as well as
it ascended. I did not hear any sound as being associated with the UFO."
Asked if he observed any structural details, Arthur responded, "No,
the light was too bright, and frankly I was too frightened." He added
that there was definitely a luminous glow around the lights. Selkirk is
on Manitoba Provincial Highway 9 approximately 15 miles (24 kilometers)
north of Winnipeg. (Email Interview)
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- MYSTERIOUS CRASH PROBED IN
NORTHERN TEXAS
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- On Saturday, July 11, 1998, at 11:20
p.m., Texas ufologist Duff B. and his wife "were driving into the
Fort Worth, Tex. area. We were about eight to ten miles west of Azle (population
8,868) and saw a bright falling object. My wife noted a blue and green
'light' below the object as it was falling. I watched it and was concentrating
wholly on the large 'fireball' effect surrounding the object." Since
this "was nothing like we had ever seen before," Duff and his
wife drove into Azle, hoping for a better look. They soon found "the
road blocked at an underpass" and a large number of fire engines and
emergency vehicles. Rolling down the window, Duff asked an officer what
was going on. "Is this fire related to the flash in the sky a while
ago?" he asked. "No," the officer said bluntly. "Is
this a wreck?" Duff asked. After "pausing a few seconds, 'Yes,'
he said." "We went down the service road and tried to see across
the median to see what all the commotion was about," Duff reported,
"I saw a large number of fire trucks, care ambulances and a wrecker.
However, what I didn't see was any damaged vehicle. In fact, there was
nothing on the road but emergency personnel and vehicles." The investigation
is continuing. Azle is on Texas Highway 199 about 10 miles (16 kilometers)
northwest of Fort Worth. (Many thanks to Steve Wilson Sr. for this news
story.)
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- UFOs APPEAR TWICE IN RURAL
MICHIGAN
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- On Friday, July 3, 1998, at 3 p.m., a
14-year-old boy was practicing at the outdoor amphitheatre at Blue Lake
Fine Arts Music Camp in rural Twin Lake, Michigan (population 1,328), about
200 miles (320 kilometers) west of Detroit, when he spotted a UFO in the
sky. The witness was rehearsing with other members of the orchestra when
"he looked up" and "saw a strange object that resembled
'a metal gray flashlight (torch in UK) with a nose bigger than the back
end.' He could see no windows or lights on it." "It was flying
a 'straight horizontal line' west towards Lake Michigan. The object was
at a high altitude 'as high as a plane can go,' and at arm's length it
was as big as his index finger." "He observed it for approximately
ten seconds before 'it flew into a very large cloud that took up a lot
of the sky.' When asked if he pointed out the object to any of the others
in the orchestra, he replied, 'No, because the teacher would be mad at
me disturbing the rehearsal.'" (Editor's Comment: An experience like
this gives a whole new meaning to the expression music of the spheres.)
A week later, on Friday, July 10, 1998, at 3:49 p.m., "a woman driving
north on US (Highway) 127 near Leslie, Michigan (population 1,872)"
when he spotted "the glint of a silvery object" in the sky. "She
described the object as the size of a Cessna- type aircraft, but 'perfectly
round like a steel BB'" pellet. "She further noted 'a shiny band
around the middle' of the object." ""The object seemed to
'slide up against the edge of the cumulous cloud, rolled down so that the
top (half) reflected the shine, then rolled up so that the bottom half
reflected the shine' She noticed that the 'shiny band' stayed at the middle
of the object, which enabled her to determine" which hemisphere reflected
the shine. "She watched then as the object 'slid/flew into the edge'
of the cloud, from which it did not return." Leslie is located 29
miles (46 kilometers) south of Lansing, the state capital. (Many thanks
to Marilyn Ruben of Alien Abductions Experience and Research and Jeffrey
S. Westover of Michigan MUFON for these news stories.)
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- AMATEUR ASTRONOMER
SPIES A UFO SOUTH OF PITTSBURGH
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- On Sunday night, July 12, 1998, an amateur
astronomer doing some backyard observations spotted a UFO over Sutersville,
Pennsylvania (population 755), located 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of
Pittsburgh. The witness, "who owns a telescope and is familiar with
the planets," stated he was "watching some aircraft when I noticed
a bright, star-like source of light approximately west-southwest"
of his location "in the generally clear sky." The witness went
indoors to fetch his telescope. Soon he had it in focus and "saw what
appeared to be a solid white globe, but the center of it appeared to be
more transparent. The globe itself appeared stationary while under observation.
Just above the globe was another smaller sphere that was making a continuous
back-and-forth motion, in a somewhat circular fashion over it." According
to the witness, the smaller sphere "moved from a 10 o'clock position
to a 2 o'clock position (above the white globe) and then would reverse
the motion. This continued for over two minutes." Then both UFOs
departed. (Many thanks to Pennsylvania ufologist Stan Gordon for this
news story.)
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- MAGAZINE HAS INTRIGUING
PHOTOS FROM THE MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR
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- The August 1998 issue of Sky & Telescope
has a very interesting selection of photos from the Mars Global Surveyor,
as part of a great article by Samantha Parker entitled "The Triumphant
Turnaround of Mars Global Surveyor." After looking at the photos with
a trusty magnifying glass, and using a mirror set at 90 degrees for a 3-D
effect, your editor found some intriguing features that I'd like to pass
on to UFO Roundup readers. (1) Niagara Falls of Mars - Note the three horseshoe-shaped
"bites" out of the plain above Ophir Casma. The semi-circular
recession, the outwash debris in the chasm, and the dendritic dried-up
riverbeds leading to the edge suggest that a large waterfall, similar to
the USA's Niagara Falls or Angel Falls io Venezuela, was present in the
planet's distant past. Check the 2 o'clock position in the upper left
photo on page 44. (2) Lake Huron of Mars - The flat plain with the orderly
rows of sand dunes in Hebes Chasma is actually a dry lakebed that rivals
present-day Lake Huron in size. Note the wave-cut headlands and promontories
on the left shore. There's also evidence of shore terracing in the embayments
of the lower center photo on page 46. (3) Twin Pyramids - The region called
Medusa Fossae is full of surprises. Check out the upper left photo on
page 45. At a 5 o'clock position relative to the recent impact crater
at the top of the photo are two pyramid-shaped features. Nearby are another
10 smaller circular hills or mounds. (4) Space Baby - Medusa Fossae has
an interesting landform. Check out the upper left corner of the photo
on page 45, at an 8 o'clock position relative to the large crater with
the central peak. From space, the mountain resembles a human baby sucking
the thumb of his right hand. It reminded me of the final scene of the movie
2001: A Space Odyssey. (Don't tell me there are Stanley Kubrick fans on
Mars--J.T.)
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- NASA RELEASES GALILEO PHOTOS
OF GANYMEDE
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- "Jupiter's moon Ganymede appears
to have had an ocean fed by volcanoes that spewed lava-like water."
"Dramatic new photos from NASA's Galileo probe, taken in June 1996
and June 1997 and released Wednesday (June 15, 1998), do not reveal any
signs of life. But it is possible that life could have existed in Ganymede's
watery depths billions of years ago." "'The ingredients for life
are all there,' says James Head, a Brown University planetary scientist
and Galileo team member. 'It had the water, it had the heat and it has
organic material coming in from outer space in the form of comets.'"
The Galileo photos "show parallel rows of linear mountainlike ranges
that stretch for hundreds of miles, and a valley system of volcanoes that
replenished the ocean with water early in Ganymede's history." "The
pictures also reveal a chain of craters on Ganymede that probably were
caused by impacts from a broken comet similar to the Shoemaker-Levy comet
that smashed into Jupiter in 1994." "Earlier data from Galileo
found combinations of oxygen, carbon, sulfur, hydrogen and nitrogen trapped
in Ganymede's crust." "Galileo's images also show unusual pedestal-like
formations, icy volcanic flows, dark rings from impacts and evidence of
'moon-quakes.'" "Ganymede is thought to have formed about 4.5
billion years ago. It is the largest moon in the solar system, about the
size of Mercury or a third the size of Earth." "It is the only
moon with a magnetic field. It has a metallic core and a thin hydrogen
atmosphere." "Ganymede lies 665,000 miles (1,060,000 kilometers)
from Jupiter--more than twice as far as the Moon is from Earth." "The
images are the last closeups scientists are expecting from Ganymede. The
Galileo spacecraft, which has spent two-and-a-half years orbiting Jupiter
and its four largest moons, wrapped up its primary mission last December
(1997). Its extended mission will continue through December 1999 and includes
either flybys of Europa, four flybys of Callisto and one or two of Io."
"'This is a tantalizing last glimpse at Ganymede from Galileo,' Head
says. 'We've learned a lot and it's been amazing. In the future, we'll
need to get even closer and maybe even send a spacecraft to land there
to really see what it's like." (See USA Today for July 16, 1998,
"Photos suggest life could have existed on Jupiter's moon," by
Paul Hoversten.)
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- from the UFO Files...
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- 1947 - DAYLIGHT DISCS SWEEP
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA
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- One of the best-documented multiple repeated
sightings of UFOs during the Flap of 1947 occurred in Norman, Oklahoma,
located about 15 miles (24 kilometers) south of Oklahoma City. W.H. Carson,
who was dean of engineering at the University of Oklahoma from 1937 to
1962, was the first to see the flying discs. "The strange objects
were reported being seen flying over Norman about 6 p.m. on July 6 (1947).
Carson said he was resting in a hammock back of his home at 943 Chautauqua
Avenue when he saw a silver object at an estimated height of 15,000 to
20,000 feet." "When his wife Emma joined him, Carson mentioned
the unusual object. About that time, two more appeared and were witnessed
by Mrs. Carson and the neighbors." "'I don't know what they were,
but we saw them,' Carson told The Transcript." "Carson, who died
in 1969, said the objects were traveling from east to west into the setting
sun." "Another story that appeared in the July 7 (1947) edition
of The Transcript described 'a big noise' heard by a large number of Normanites
the same evening as Carson's sighting." "Police made an extensive
check of the west and southwestern parts of town after the sound, which
shook walls and made windows tremble." "In another local incident,
Mrs. Dewey Clawson of 321 North Flood Avenue reported seeing a falling
object that bore no resemblance to a falling star just before 'good dark'
on July 7, according to the July 9, 1947 edition of The Transcript."
"Mrs. Clawson said she was sitting on her back porch when she noticed
the object falling from the sky. It had the appearance of being approximately
6 to 8 inches in diameter and appeared to disintegrate as it fell earthward,
she said." "Mrs. Clawson said her son, Stuart, saw a similar
object on July 5. He initially believed it was a firefly but later realized
it was too large." (See the Norman, Okla. Transcript for July 9,
1997, "Norman had its own UFOs 50 years ago." See also back
issues of the Transcript for July 7, July 8 and July 9, 1947. Many thanks
to Lou Farish of UFO NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE for this story.)
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