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- TWO CROP CIRCLES APPEAR IN
NORTHERN UTAH
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- On Wednesday, July 22, 1998, a large
crop circle measuring 102 feet (30 meters) in diameter was found in a wheat
field in College Ward, near the town of Providence, Utah (population 3,344).
The formation consisted of a circle, rings and pathways. This was the
second crop circle for Providence, where one appeared in August 1996. On
Thursday, July 24, 1998, another crop circle was found in Cove, near Garden
City and the Idaho state line. This circle also consisted of an outer circle,
rings and pathways. The Cove crop circle was discovered by cerealogist
Ryan Layton of Davis County. According to the Deseret News, "Layton
had rented a small plane along with researchers Con Olsen and Tres Nixon
to get a better look at the College Ward formation." Layton, who has
worked with Dr. W.C. Levengood on crop circle studies, "said the Cove
formation is particularly intriguing because there are no visible tracks
leading to it. He said Thursday he hopes to gain permission from the landowner
to enter the field and study the Cove formation." The College Ward
formation was described as a "flattened ring 102 feet in diameter,
and a second ring measuring 46 feet, that is encompassed by two half- circles.
Layton said the Cove formation had a large central ring surrounded by
two more flattened rings and two circles, he said." "The Cache
County Sheriff's Department took a look at the crop circle found two years
ago in Providence, suspecting pranksters were to blame, but made no arrests."
The department also "speculated that" the crop circles "could
be the work of hungry gophers." (See the Deseret News of Salt Lake
City, Utah for July 24, 1998, "Baffling crop formations appear in
Cache for third year in a row" by Zack Van Eyck.)
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- BRAZILIAN UFOLOGISTS INVESTIGATE
REPORTS OF UNDERGROUND CITIES
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- Brazil's Sociedade de Estudos Extraterrestres
(SOCEX) is currently investigating a flurry of reports of strange tunnels
in the mountains of Santa Catarina and Parana states. The "tunnel
sightings" are concentrated around the city of Joinvile in Santa Catarina
state, about 304 kilometers (190 miles) southwest of Sao Paulo. According
to Eustaquio Andrea Patounas of SOCEX, "Recently two explorers entered
a tunnel near Ponta Grossa (a city in Parana state 400 kilometers or 250
miles southwest of Sao Paulo--J.T.), and they spent five days in a subterranean
city of more or less 50 inhabitants." During their "tour,"
the unnamed Brazilians were provided with fruits grown hydroponically underground
"by the city's chief, who said they took two years to produce."
The two men also claimed to have "entered a tunnel in Rincano,"
in the Serra da Paranapiacaba mountains "in the state of Parana and
discovered a staircase underground" leading to four different levels.
In another case, a man identified as "J.D., a guide for Montanha Misterioso
in Joinvile, S.C.said that many times luminous flying saucers have been
seen around the opening of the tunnel, and that he had heard a chorus of
men and women singing underground" near the site. "He said that
the discs are so bright that they converted darkest night to the luminosity
of day. On this occasion, he encountered a group of strange subterraneans
who were near the tunnel. They were white, of red beard and long hair,
very muscular. When he approached them, they fled. Other times he has
seen strange lights in this area which are probably related to the flying
saucers." An elderly man in Joinvile also claims to have seen subterraneans
dressed like the barbarians on Xena, Warrior Princess. "He stated
that he visited a strange tunnel near Conceiacao in the state of Sao Paulo
and saw at a distance a marvelous underground city." "An explorer
named N.C. said he had visited a tunnel in Rio Castor and encountered a
beautiful young woman who did not appear more than 20 years old. She spoke
to him in Portuguese and said she was 2,500 years old. He also said he
had met with those barbarous subterranean men." "Another explorer
named D.O. encountered a similar tunnel in Gaspar, S.C.," in the Serra
do Mar mountains, "and sampled a mysterious fruit from an orchid."
He also claimed to have seen subterraneans "talking to each other
in high-pitched voices in an unknown language." (Muito obrigado a
Eustaquio Andrea Patounas por eses casos.) (Editor's Note: Stories of weird
subterranean cities date back centuries in Brazil. See the Colonel Fawcett
story in this week's column of "from the UFO Files...")
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- GERMAN COUPLE SEES A LARGE
ROTATING UFO
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- During the evening of April 3, 1998,
Michael M. and his wife were driving on Highway B241, the Moringen-Lutterbeck
road, in Fredelsloh, a small village in Germany about 100 kilometers (60
miles) south of Hannover. Suddenly, Frau M. spotted something unusual
in the sky. "When my wife looked at the sky through the passenger
window," Michael reported, "she saw something dark cover the
sky over our car. One minute later, a big rotating object flew over our
car and crossed the road. We only saw its lights, which were in two concentric
circles." He estimated that there "were about ten lights in the
outer (circle), seven in the inner. The distance was about 50 meters (165
feet). There were no colored lights. All the lights were white and as
bright as the headlights on a car The (object's) rotation speed was about
1.5 rotations per second. The diameter of the lights was about 0.5 meters.
The object flew at a height (altitude) of 10 to 20 meters (33 to 67 feet)
above the car. Turned by changing its inclination, like an airplane or
a helicopter." "Two minutes later, it turned and flew over our
car (again). This (maneuver) was repeated five or six times on our way.
There was no sound or noise. There was no smoke. The radio was turned
off." Michael added that the encounter lasted just under 12 minutes.
(Email Interview)
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- SKYWATCH TEAM SPIES A UFO
IN SEDONA, ARIZONA
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- On July 11, 1998, Arizona ufologist Tom
King, his brother Rob King, a daughter and Rhonda set up camp just outside
Sedona (population 7,720). According to Tom King, "Around 2:30 a.m.,
Rob King went outside to smoke a cigarette." King then noticed "a
very bright orange/white ball of light in the sky. He said it was four
times brighter than any other star in the sky." King noticed the UFO
because "the strange object hovered just over the mountain ridge."
Then "it moved (from) side to side...moved upward towards the moon,
and hovered for about two more hours." "This sighting was consistent
with the UFO" seen "by Rob Meyers and friends a month earlier,"
Tom King reported. He added that an Arizona Skywatch team will be in Sedona
on August 1 with videocameras and night vision equipment to search for
UFOs. Sedona is on Highway 89A approximately 24 miles (38 kilometers) south
of Flagstaff. (Many thanks to Steve Wilson Sr. for this news story.)
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- BLACK TRIANGULAR UFO SEEN
IN ELMWOOD, OKLAHOMA
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- On Sunday, June 21, 1998, at 11:30 p.m.,
Cliff C. was working on a farm in Elmwood, Oklahoma (population 150) with
his father-in-law and brother-in- law when they spotted a huge black triangular
UFO fly overhead. Returning to the farmhouse, Cliff "decided to stay
out a few minutes and do a little stargazing." Since the sky was
clear, he pointed out a satellite passing high overhead to his father-in-law.
At 11:45 p.m., Cliff's brother-in-law pointed out a strange object in the
southern sky. "I instantly turned and saw what looked like a small
black rectangle above the horizon," Cliff reported. "The object
was quickly heading towards us, moving from south to north." "The
'black triangle' continued to come straight at us" at a speed "that
seemed about 94 miles per hour, until it was only two miles away, then
it slowed to 40 or 50 miles per hour. As it came closer...I noticed that
it was not rectangular but was in fact triangular with one tip (edge point)
facing us." "As the triangle approached (to within) one mile
of our location, I estimated its dimensions as best I could ...the triangle
was one and one-half miles (2.8 kilometers) from tip to tip., its altitude
was around 1,000 to 1,500 feet, its height 200 to 300 feet, and 400 to
500 feet in length. There were no lights of any kind on the object and
no surface details were visible." At about a mile from the farm, the
UFO "suddenly started moving westward...The right angle (90 degree)
change in direction was instantaneous. The triangle continued for one
to two miles, then returned to a north-northwesterly course." As the
triangular UFO departed, Cliff reported seeing "faint lights floating
above the triangle. The strange thing was that they would make a faint
J shape above the left and right edges of the triangle." He noticed
this phenomenon "about three times" during his observation of
the UFO. Elmwood is on Highway 270 in the "Oklahoma Panhandle"
about 210 miles (336 kilometers) west of Oklahoma City.
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- THREE DIFFERENT UFOs SEEN
IN JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA
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- On Wednesday, July 29, 1998, at 10 p.m.,
a couple traveling east on Interstate Highway 10 in Jacksonville, Florida
(population 635,232) spotted a saucer in the night sky. The couple described
the object as "saucer-shaped craft that was glowing and flying south
at 700 feet. The vehicle was the size of a blimp and half a mile (0.8 kilometers)
in front of us as we traveled east at 70 miles per hour." Two minutes
later, they saw a second UFO "hovering above us. It was a silvery
chrome metallic saucer with arches on the left and right side. The top
and bottom were (respectively) convex and concave. It looked as though
another saucer could fit on top. The craft flew at over 70 miles per hour,"
keeping pace with the couple's car. "My wife said, 'It's beginning
to move!' And it flew 20 miles in five seconds. When the vehicle went
above the clouds, you could see (its) glowing light shine through the clouds."
"The third vehicle was the shape of a diamond standing on its point.
The diamond was lit up with a yellowish incandescent light with a skirt
of flourescent lights beaming down from it. The lights were about one-half
the length of the ship. When the diamond moved, the beam stopped glowing.
I think the vehicle was creating a magnetic field that ionized the clouds,
causing them to glow. We could see the last UFO to our right and the moon
to our left." Jacksonville is a large seaport city in northeastern
Florida approximately 341 miles (545 kilometers) north of Miami. (See
Filer's Files #30 for 1998. Many thanks to George A. Filer, MUFON Eastern
director, for this news story.)
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- UFO SEEN BY BOAT CREW ON LAKE
HURON
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- On Tuesday, July 14, 1998, at 2:30 a.m.,
Ed Lepps was running his sailboat north on Lake Huron, taking part in the
annual Port Huron to Mackinac Island race. "At 2:30 a.m., we were
about 2.5 nautical miles north of Presque Isle (Michigan) when I looked
up and saw a bright white sphere racing east across the sky," Ed reported.
"It was moving very slowly and quite erratically from side to side.
This lasted for about a minute, then it moved very rapidly at a 45-degrees
angle into the sky and disappeared. Three other people were on the deck
at the same time and saw the same thing." Presque Isle is just off
Michigan Highway 23, approximately 273 miles (437 kilometers) north of
Detroit. (See Filer's Files #30 for 1998. Many thanks to George A. Filer
for this news story.)
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- BLACK HELICOPTERS SEEN IN
IDAHO AND TEXAS
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- On Wednesday, July 22, 1998, at 2:30
p.m., Dr. T.B., a specialist physician, was driving near Parma, Idaho (population
1,597), five miles northwest of Interstate Highway 84, when he spotted
a black helicopter. "The helicopter was flying due west towards Oregon,"
the doctor reported. "It was about 10 degrees above the horizon while
I had it in view." He described the helicopter as having four rotor
blades, a narrow black fuselage, skids instead of wheels, a long tail boom
and a shrouded tail rotor. The sighting "lasted for about a minute
and a half," he said. (Email Interview) Parma is on Idaho Highway
95 about 31 miles (49 kilometers) west of Boise, the state capital. On
Tuesday, July 28, 1998, at 6:30 p.m., Brian E. was "driving home from
the mall" and "saw a helicopter. But then, as it got closer,
I saw that it wasn't a Channel 13 news chopper or something similar. But
it was black and it had no markings on it, no numbers at all. I pulled
over to the side to watch." Brian said he was on Cedar Bayou Lynchburg
Road in Baytown, Texas (population 63,850) a port city approximately 22
miles (35 kilometers) east of Houston. "It appeared to be 45 degrees
above the horizon. It was flying westwardly. It was relatively close.
I suspect its altitude was about 1,500 feet. I had it in view for about
one minute." "There appeared to be two (rotor) blades from what
I could see," Brian reported. "Its fuselage was narrow, long
tail. It appeared to have round objects near the wheels and an open back
rotor." (Email Interview)
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- NASA RADAR LOCATES THE SILENCED
SOHO SATELLITE
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- On Monday, July 27, 1998, NASA engineers
announced that they had pinpointed the position of the Solar and Heliospheric
Observatory (SOHO), which has been silent for the past month. NASA's Goddard
Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland lost contact with the sun- observing
satellite on June 24. "SOHO was located by beaming (radio) signals
from the 990-foot radio telescope at" the National Astronomy and Ionosphere
Center (NAIC) in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. "The signals apparently bounced
off the satellite, which is about one million miles from Earth" and
were picked up by NASA's Deep Space Network 85-foot (26-meter) antennae
at Goldstone, California. SOHO is still floating at the L-1 Lagrangian
point, a region of space where the gravitational fields of Earth and its
neighbors cancel each other out. "Don Savage, a NASA spokesman, said
engineers believe SOHO is spinning with its solar panels edge-on toward
the sun. In this position, the panels do not generate the power needed
to recharge SOHO's batteries." "However, as the Earth moves about
the sun, the angle of the solar panels will change, allowing them to capture
more and more sunlight. Savage said it is hoped that within 90 days the
solar panels will be able to generate enough power to recharge the batteries,
permitting the satellite to respond to signals from the Earth." (See
the Nando Times Health and Science Page for July 28, 1998. Many thanks
to M.J. Clooney for forwarding this story.) (Editor's Comment: M.J. pointed
out a strange discrepancy in the NASA news releases for July 27 and July
28. The first one read, "Radio contact with SOHO was interrupted
on June 24 due to a programming error on the ground." But the next
day's release reads, "What caused the sudden loss of radio signals
still is unknown but is being investigated by a band of NASA and European
Space Agency engineers." A most interesting discrepancy, indeed.)
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- From the UFO Files...
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- 1925: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF
COLONEL FAWCETT
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- Seventy-three years ago, on August 1,
1925, Colonel Percy Fawcett, his son Jack Fawcett and their friend, Raleigh
Rimmel, mysteriously disappeared while on an expedition into the remote
jungles of the Serra do Roncador, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.
Following a successful career in the British Army, Col. Fawcett became
an explorer and led several expeditions into the largely-unexplored interior
of Brazil. Col. Fawcett was fascinated by recurring stories of unknown
cities among the Indians of the selva. On one occasion, he himself saw
strange bright lights hovering at night over the jungle. Just prior to
his last expedition, he wrote, "I have heard from Indians about 'collections
of stone' and clothed Indians who worship the sun and guard the approaches
to their cities with savage determination. Records in the archives of
missions and governments also talk of clothed white Indians occasionally
sighted but never contacted, of lost cities in the Brazilian forests on
a scale greater still than those of the Inca empire. My own investigations
lead me to believe that two of the ancient city sites I propse to investigate
are inhabited by the remnants of the same race that built them... I expect
the ruins to be monolithic in character, more ancient than the oldest Egyptian
discoveries...There are rumours, too, of a source of light in the buildings,
a phenomenon that filled with terror the Indians who claim to have seen
it." When contact with the Fawcett party was lost, the Brazilian government
sent in search parties, but no trace of the three men was ever found. In
1952, the colonel's surviving son, Brian Fawcett, received a letter from
a German settler living in Brazil. The man wrote, "Your father and
brother were advanced souls who were actually worshipped by the Indians
and were alive in the subterranean cities of Matalir and Araracauga in
the Roncador section of Mato Grosso... from these secret places issued
Flying Saucers to make global reconnaissance flights." In 1956, Dr.
Henrique de Souza, president of the Sociedade de Teosofica Brasileira,
claimed to have received a letter at his home in Sao Lourenco in Minas
Gerais state, Brazil, stating that Col. Fawcett was still alive and "living
in a subterranean city in the Serra do Roncador in Mato Grosso, whose presence
could not be revealed to outsiders." (See RUINS IN THE SKY by Brian
Fawcett, Hutchinson Ltd., London, 1957.)
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