- TEN LUMINOUS UFOs HOVER OVER
GLASGOW
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- On Friday, January 16, 1998, at 7:45
a.m., Gordon MacAndrews and his wife Fiona were waiting for sunrise in
Glasgow, Scotland when they spotted mysterious lights in the southern sky.
"I viewed the lights from the top of a hill in the north of Glasgow,"
MacAndrews reported, "which overlooks the city, as the lights were
some way off. As I mentioned in my post, my wife also saw the lights and
was as mystified as I am." He described the UFOs as "whitish-yellow"
and "smaller than a small coin" held at arm's length. "They
did not approach; they stayed in the same area," over the southern
suburb of Busby. From their observation point near Springburn Road, the
couple "watched the lights for 20 minutes...As the sun rose, we were
unable to see them any longer." "As I saw them from the other
side of the city, I was sure someone else would have seen the display but
apparently not," he added. Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, is about
55 miles (88 kilometers) west of the capital, Edinburgh. (Email Interview)
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- FAST FLYBY IN QUEENSLAND
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- On Wednesday, January 21, 1998, Steve
Burrows and his two children were outdoors at their home in Brisbane, in
Australia's Queensland state when they spied a fast-moving UFO crossing
the sky. The trio "watched a fast-moving single white light travel
from directly overhead to 45 degrees (above the horizon) in the east and
was then covered by low cloud." Burrows described the condition of
the sky as clear, adding "stars were clearly visible before the low
cloud cover swept in from the south." They had the object in view
for "no more than 30 seconds." (Many thanks to Steve Burrows
and Errol Bruce-Knapp for this report.)
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- UFOs LINKED TO MUTILATED SWINE
IN COLORADO
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- Three large pigs were found dead and
mutilated Monday, January 5, on a ranch near Highway 159 in Costilla County,
Colorado. The area is located just west of the Sangre de Cristo mountain
range, about 230 miles (418 kilometers) south of Denver. Two ranchers found
two of the swine that morning, then located the third a little later. According
to Christopher O'Brien, investigator and author of THE MYSTERIOUS VALLEY
(St. Martin's Press, 1996), the dead swine weighed "about 100 to 150
pounds, white in color and each with a cored-out rectum and other round
holes in the abdomen." Photographs of the crime scene were taken by
Bob Green of the La Sierra News. On January 8, O'Brien learned that a local
teenage girl had told her mother that she and a friend "while coming
home from basketball practice" had seen "two lights emanating
from the sky in the approximate location where the carcasses of the three
pigs were discovered." The girl reportedly told this story before
news of the mutilation made the rounds in Costilla County. UFOs were also
seen in neighboring Huerfano County, as well. On Wednesday, January 7,
1998, UFOs were sighted over the La Veta Military Operations Area (MOA)
in the large San Luis Valley. Witnesses in Farisita and Gardner, two small
towns on Colorado Highway 169 approximately 155 miles (248 kilometers)
south of Denver, spotted "extensive aerial activity by dozens of unknown
objects, for hours, that did not appear to be conventional aircraft."
According to local investigator David Perkins, the UFOs were described
by the witnesses as "large 'disco-balls' " and "small red
lights/crafts which appeared to crisscross the Huerfano." On Thursday,
January 8, 1998, two witnesses driving north on Colorado Highway 17 about
25 miles (40 kilometers) west of Farisita and Gardner saw "a 150-foot
(45-meter) diameter disk (flying) at between 1,500 to 2,000 feet in altitude"
traveling "down the center of the San Luis Valley over the Baca Ranch
two miles east of Highway 17 at Mile Marker 93. One of the witnesses,
ex-military, estimated the disk's speed at between 500 and 600 miles per
hour." On Tuesday, January 20, 1998, a witness in Hooper, Colorado
reported "seeing a 'big star doing big twists'" south of the
Great Sand Dunes National Monument at about 6 p.m. He described the UFO
as "flashing red-green and blue lights" and estimated its position
at "five or so miles just south of Sand Dunes Oasis." "At
around 6:15 p.m., I witnessed low-flying jets headed from the east, over
the Sangre de Cristos," the witness told O'Brien. The jets "were
flying 3,000 feet from the Valley floor." He added that the UFO was
not the star Sirius rising in the east but was "two times brighter
than the brightest planet" and located "some 5 degrees south
of Sirius." (Many thanks to Chris O'Brien for letting UFO ROUNDUP
quote from his Winter SLV Update. Don't miss Chris's new book, INSIDE
THE MYSTERIOUS VALLEY, on sale in May 1998.)
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- MORE UFOs SIGHTED IN CASA
GRANDE, ARIZONA
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- Arizona's new UFO flap swept into its
second week with hundreds of sightings reported in and around Phoenix and
the city of Casa Grande (population 19,082), located on Highway 387 51
miles (82 kilometers) to the southeast. On Wednesday, January 14, 1998,
Village Labs in Phoenix received "hundreds of calls" from local
residents who sighted "orange lights" and "spherical red-orange
UFOs" over the Estrella Mountains. The laboratory received seven amateur
videotapes of the UFOs for analysis. At 7 p.m., "two large orange
lights" were viewed for 11 minutes over the mountain range. Other
witnesses described "a formation of orange lights" and a "giant
triangle" of lights. The Michigan Air National Guard issued a statement
that their planes had dropped "military flares" over the area.
On Thursday night, January 15, 1998, Tom King, director of Arizona Skywatch,
staked out the area. He reported, "I took a position halfway between
Phoenix and Casa Grande. We sighted some of the orange lights fifteen
to twenty miles west of our position (i.e. near the western border of the
Gila River Indian Reservation--J.T.) We took photographs and two separate
videotapes, including the ultra-high- speed Super camera. These objects
appeared under 1,000 feet and did not have any sign of smoke," as
flares normally do. On Sunday, January 18, 1998, investigator Robert M.
Collins "first observed" a UFO "while I was driving up past
Casa Grande. I pulled off (Interstate Highway I-10) onto Route 387 north
of Casa Grande. At that time I counted 9 to 11 orange globes all the way
from west to east north of my position, over Phoenix." "I had
Bushnell binoculars and thought I could make out some sort of 'disc' structure
on one or two of them. But because the light appeared to be so cohesive
and (due to Phoenix's air) pollution, I was getting a lot of atmospheric
diffraction effects from the lights." Collins observed the UFOs from
7:25 to 7:55 p.m. "Two orbs were still visible" when he left
the area. (Many thanks to Tom King and Robert M. Collins for these reports.)
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- UFO FLAP ERUPTS NEAR ATLANTA,
GEORGIA
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- MUFON Georgia is investigating a number
of UFO sightings around Atlanta during the past two weeks. On Thursday,
January 8, 1998, around 7:30 p.m., a couple driving down North Greenwood
Street in LaGrange, Georgia (population 25,597), a city near the Alabama
state line approximately 64 miles (102 kilometers) southwest of Atlanta,
when they suddenly saw "a strange intense beam of light" coming
from the clouds "down to the ground." LaGrange was the site of
intermittent UFO sightings throughout 1997. On Saturday, January 17, 1998,
at 7:30 p.m., a 38-year-old women and her parents "were driving south
on (Interstate Highway) I-75. About 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of
Macon (population 106,612), they saw a circle of blue-white lights hovering
just off the interstate. The lights formed a continuous circle and one
solid (mass), like a piece of 'Swiss cheese.' The craft was the size of
a small jet airliner. The lights were hovering over some nearby trees."
Other motorists also saw the lights "and slowed down" for a
better look. At 8:45 p.m., as the family "was driving on (Interstate)
I-16, twenty miles (32 kilometers) southeast of Macon, she saw a strange
beam of light go to the ground. Then they saw a very bright light shooting
across the sky in a 'strand' of flashes. Only one light was involved,
but it darted across the sky going from north to south." On Sunday,
January 18, 1998, an elderly lady of LaGrange, Georgia phoned John C. Thompson,
state director of Georgia MUFON, and reported seeing "a real shiny
dot moving extremely fast" and zipping across the sky about a half-mile
north of North Greenwood Street, site of the January 8 incident. "The
perfectly round ball had sunlight reflecting off it and was moving from
north to south," she reported. "But at a high rate of speed at
least twice the speed of a commercial airliner (meaning the UFO's airspeed
was between 900 and 1,000 miles per hour--J.T.) It made no noise and disappeared
in clear open air as I watched." At 6:06 p.m. on January 18, about
three hours afterward, a man reported seeing two UFOs over Conyers, Georgia
(population 7,380), approximately 27 miles (43 kilometers) southeast of
Atlanta. He described the UFOs as "two black circular objects flying
west to east with no lights. The second pulled up and slowly disappeared.
The first UFO kept going straight and disappeared." (See Filer's
Files #3 for 1998. Many thanks to George A. Filer, John C. Thompson and
Todd Ganas for these reports.)
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- MYSTERIOUS LIGHT FLASHES SEEN
BY
MOTORIST NEAR CHESHIRE, CONNECTICUT
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- On Friday, January 16, 1998, at around
6 p.m., Robert D. was driving home from work on Interstate Highway I-691
west of Meriden, Connecticut (population 59,479), about 25 miles (40 kilometers)
southwest of Hartford, the state capital. "I saw a very strange, very
bright blue light off to the southern horizon," Bob reported. "It
was after an ice storm" and the area "was without power."
He estimated that the light was 11 miles to his south, in a wooded area
just beyond the town of Cheshire (population 5,759), near Sleeping Giant
State Park and the Broad Brook reservoir. "It was an unbelievably
bright blue light. Hundreds of times more bright than lightning. It was
so bright it left shadows of the trees to my right. It lasted for two
seconds, then a 15-second pause, then another two second flash," he
said. "I'm an electrical engineer with a fascination for lightning,
and this was definitely not lightning," he added. "Nor was it
a transformer exploding, etc. High voltage lines would not show this intensity.
What's strange is that where they were located there are no towns or people,
just woods." (Email Interview) (Editor's Note: Similar mysterious
blue flashes were seen in Los Alamos, New Mexico last October.)
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- from the UFO Files...
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- 1988: ATTEMPTED ABDUCTION
IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA
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- Ten years ago, on January 21, 1988, the
Knowles family had a very harrowing experience while driving on the Eyre
Highway across the desolate Nullarbor Plain in southern Australia. The
Nullarbor Plain is an arid, flat desert 330 miles wide overlapping the
states of South Australia (S.A.) and Western Australia (W.A.) The rainfall
is so sparse that no trees can grow there, only saltbush and bluebush.
On January 21, 1988, Faye Knowles and her three sons, Sean, Wayne and Patrick
were driving home to Perth, W.A. following a visit with relatives in Melbourne.
Their car was a light blue four-door 1984 Ford Telstar. "Before daylight,
after the family had left the Madura roadhouse (near Mundrabilla--J.T.),
as they were driving on the Eyre Highway, they noticed a bright white light
ahead of them on their side of the highway. As they got nearer, they could
see it was a large glowing object hovering just above the road. Sean,
who was driving, had to swerve into the other lane to avoid colliding with
the unknown object." "Soon after the near collision, they passed
another car that had a bright object following overhead. This time Sean's
curiosity got the best of him and he made a U-turn and sped back toward
the west to see what the light was." "After following for a few
minutes, the light changed course and started back toward the Knowles car.
Sean again turned around and drove east." "The object quickly
overtook the car, which at this point was doing over 100 miles per hour
in an attempt to elude the strange light. Suddenly, the object landed
on top" of the car's roof "with a loud thud." "'We
were going silly, something was going into our heads,' explained Faye Knowles.
'It felt like we were dying, and our voices were distorted, as if we were
talking in slow motion.'" "Two dogs in the car became very agitated,
and one of the sons, Patrick, said he felt as though his brains were pulled
from his head." Wayne yelled, "Get off the road!" "I
can't!" Sean replied, realizing to his horror that the Ford's steering
wheel was locked or frozen by some irresistible force. Just then, they
saw the highway's centerline falling away from the Ford's headlight glow.
"Faye rolled down her window and looked out at the object, which she
described as a bright white light with a yellow center 'like an egg in
a cup.' Faye then reached overhead and touched the bottom of the object.
'It felt like a warm sponge.'" Suddenly, the UFO released the Knowles'
car. The Ford plummeted ten feet and hit the asphalt on its right rear
quarter. The tire exploded on impact. Instantly the car went into a shrieking
skid. The steering wheel loosened in Sean's hands, and he turned in the
direction of the skid. The Ford fishtailed all over the road, with Sean
applying the brakes, and then screeched to a halt. "The family jumped
out and hid in the bushes along the side of the highway until the UFO was
gone...The family changed the tyre and drove on to Mundrabilla where they
discussed the experience with truck drivers." The case was investigated
by Paul Norman of the Victoria UFO Research Society. He found that the
Ford's radio "was now operating perfectly even though it had been
malfunctioning during the encounter. On the roof of the car they found
an indentation matching the description given by the family. Of the tyre,
it was in good condition and should not have blown but in fact was ripped
all the way around its edge." Laboratory analysis of the dust found
on the car "revealed oxygen, carbon, calcium, silicon, potassium and
a possible trace of astatine, which is a radioactive chemical that can
only be produced synthetically." (See UFO Universe, Winter 1998 issue,
"In Australia, Strange Things Are Happening" by Tim Swartz, page
33. Also, WORLD ATLAS OF UFOs by John Spencer, Smithmark Publishers Inc.,
New York, NY 1992, page 174.)
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