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- CALIFORNIA - MARINE F-18 HAS
NEAR MISS WITH UFO
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- SAN DIEGO - The International Society
for UFO Research (ISUR) has received intriguing information from a former
Air Wing Marine once stationed at Miramar Air Station. In November of
1995, a pilot in his squadron, VMFA-212 (F/A-18Cs) had a near-collision
with a slender cigar-shaped UFO. Interestingly, the UFO was recorded on
the plane's "Heads-Up Display video" according to this former
enlisted Marine who viewed the tape. Excerpts, with names, addresses and
phone numbers deleted, from several e-mail exchanges between ISUR and the
ex-Marine follow. Ex-Marine's initial description of a "12:00 noon,"
November 1995, incident: I was in the Marine Corps. Two of our pilots
had just gotten back from a flight. One of them called for intelligence
and me (flight scheduling rep). He showed us the Heads Up Display video
from the flight. He was engaging the other pilot in a dogfighting exercise
when a "cigar-shaped" object zipped past the F-18. We slowed
it down to a crawl, but it was traveling so fast initially that it was
a blur even at the speed we viewed. The object came so close to the jet,
the pilot thought it would hit him. Later in the video, the F-18 in front
is preparing to bank right. Just before he does a glare on the video banks
quickly to the left about 2 seconds before either jet made a move. I personally
acquired the flight clearance the day before and there should not have
been any activity even in the area. However, it was never explained and
shortly declassified. Everyone discarded the situation as either a mistake
by someone on the ground or a natural phenomenon. According to what the
pilot, and the rest of us saw on the video, the object was approximately
12 feet in length and 3 feet wide. The name of the squadron was VMFA-212
(F/A-18Cs). The video has probably been copied over, deleted or discarded.
On February 22 and 23, 1999 several UFOs were reported in the Miramar
Air Station area. Thanks to ISUR and board member John Thompson.
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- GEORGIA - F-4 ACCIDENT AND
UFO
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- investigator John Thompson reports that
on March 6, 1994, an Alabama Air National Guard F-4 exploded in mid-flight
over Heard County, Georgia. A Heard County fireman, Bill Thompson who
is not related to John said, "Two minutes before the explosion and
crash of the F-4, he saw the F-4 chasing a missile- like or cigar-shaped
UFO." Bill's description was that the gray or silver colored UFO
was about "a third to half the size of the F-4" chasing it.
This, of course, suggests a UFO of the same type and size that the California
VMFA-212 pilot almost collided with in 1995. Relating to the ANG explosion,
in which the pilot died, the Air Force said the mishap was caused by bad
welds. These inadequate welds, according to the Air Force's official crash
report, originated with the plane's number one engine (GEOO420459). The
failure of the welds, according to the USAF was the sole reason for the
upper combustion case failure that subsequently caused the F-4 to explode
in mid- flight. A General Electric engineer who subsequently investigated
the crash, because of a law suit against General Electric, the manufacturer
of the plane's engines, said that he thought the pilot had over-stressed
the F-4, causing it to tear apart and explode. Of course, if the F-4 was
chasing or suddenly encountered a small thin cigar-shaped UFO, as Fireman
Bill Thompson claims, its pilot might over-stress his plane in his excitement.
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- There is also a precedent for something
exactly like this happening. In the Paris Air Show of 1972, the Soviets
introduced their new TU-144 supersonic plane. According to a PBS Nova
special that aired last year, the French now admit that they had a Mirage
jet "shadowing" the Soviet aircraft and that the Soviet pilot
on avoiding the Mirage, which before had been unseen, pulled the TU-144
apart. In the video of the plane's tragic crash, which was aired on Nova,
the TU-144 can be seen disintegrating and exploding in midair. Despite
what the Air Force and the retired colonel said, the F-4's explosion could
have come about from over-stress as General Electric's investigator said
happened. These "missile" like UFOs have been seen repeatedly
in the Long Island Sound area by commercial airliners. It can be speculated
that one of these UFOs caused the TWA 800 disaster that to many, still
remains unsolved. The ex-Marine's testimony lends credibility to Fireman
Thompson's claims that a UFO may have indirectly caused the ANG F-4 to
explode. The full investigation of the 3/4/94 incident can be seen at:
http://www.isur.com/cases/case_fil.cgi?file=100113. Thanks to John Thompson.
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- CALIFORNIA - UFOs SUBMERGE
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- SAN DIEGO - Melvin Podell reports that
unidentified submerged objects (USOs) have been entering and leaving the
Pacific Ocean off the coast at Point Loma. Melvin states, "I have
details of a case in which a number of observers watched as two submerged
objects a few hundred feet offshore emerged from the water and took off
rapidly into the sky." Bill Hamilton of Skywatch comments that USOs
have also been seen off the Palos Verdes peninsula for several years.
These glowing objects sometimes emerge from the water. Underwater they
travel swiftly. Thanks to Mel Podell. mpodell@juno.com The San Diego UFO
Info Homepage at http://n6rpf.com-us.net and Bill Hamilton skywatch@ltlb.com
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- SWISSAIR NEAR MISS UPDATE
BY CANADIAN PRESS
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- Stephen Thorn of The Canadian Press (CP)has
learned. Swissair Flight 127 was cruising at 23,000 feet on Aug. 9, 1997,
when the pilot interrupted an address to passengers to report the near
miss by a round white object, says a report by the U.S. National Transportation
Safety Board. "Sir, I don't know what it was, but it just flew like
a couple of hundred feet above us," he radioed Boston air traffic
control. "I don't know if it was a rocket or whatever, but incredibly
fast, opposite direction." "In the opposite direction?"
asked the controller. "Yes sir, and the time was 2107 (Greenwich
mean time). It was too fast to be an airplane." The controller asked
another aircraft if its crew saw anything like a missile in the area?
The reply was negative. He then asked the Swissair pilot again how far
above the plane it was? "It was right over us, right above, opposite
direction, and, and I don't know, two, three, four hundred feet above.
All that I can tell, 127, is that (we) saw a light object, it was white,
and very fast." FBI, FAA and Safety Board Investigators interviewed
the captain and first officer on Aug. 10, 1997. The report, filed under
NYC97SA193, said the flight was opposite John F. Kennedy Airport at 5:07
PM Eastern time - near the area where TWA Flight 800 went down July 17,
1996, after taking off from JFK; 230 persons died. Some believe a missile
caused the midair explosion of the TWA 747 off Long Island. The Transportation
Safety Board report said the Swissair captain saw the cylindrical object
for less than a second. He did not see any wings and was not sure it was
an aircraft. "He had never been so close to other traffic before,"
said the report. "It passed over the cockpit, slightly right of centerline.
If it had been any lower, it would have hit the aircraft. "As the
object passed by, there was no noise, no wake turbulence, and no disruption
or anomalies with any of the flight or engine instruments." The plane
was flying in clear weather to Boston from Philadelphia. He did not have
time to take evasive action. "There was no exhaust or smoke, and
he could not accurately discern its size. The captain reported his total
time as 15,000 plus flight hours. He had never seen a missile in flight."
The first officer, whose flight time was 7,500 hours, said he was bent
over, when he looked up and saw the object pass overhead "very quickly.
"It was close enough that he ducked his head because he thought it
would hit them. He thought it passed about 100 to 200 feet above the airplane
and between the right side of the fuselage and the No. 3 engine."
The first officer said no markings were visible and the object appeared
to be the size of a thumbnail held at arm's length. He said he had previously
encountered a weather balloon over Italy, and the object did not look like
the balloon. He had previously witnessed missile launches from the ground.
The report said the nearest weather balloons are launched from Upton,
NY, 45 miles northeast of JFK twice daily, at 3:00 AM and 7:00 PM Eastern
time and usually take 25 to 28 minutes to reach 23,000 feet. Balloons
are light tan or brownish, or black and red, adding the wind was blowing
from the north, almost at right angles to the aircraft. The Canadian Press,
1999, Dunn, Steven J. News: UFOSEEK. http://www.ufoseek.org Editors Note:
MUFON investigator Bob Durant and the Fund For UFO Research have produced
a study of this case.
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- NEW YORK
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- LAURENS - Kenneth Pirone reports he had
a sighting on March 9, 1999. "I was getting ready for bed, and happened
to look out my rear bedroom window when I noticed a large low flickering
star. "As I looked the object moved left then right and came back
to the original spot." I noticed it had a green, blue, orange, and
pinkish tint light that flickered continuously. I grabbed my binoculars
and could see all kinds of flashing lights and that it was a round shape
hovering about 200 yards above the tree. I woke my wife up and she also
saw it. I also called a friend down in the valley but he was unable to
see it. I am a Vietnam Veteran who has seen many types of aircraft. None
compares with the UFO we saw for 20 minutes. My son-in-law a State Trooper
is coming over with his camcorder and we're going up into the hills to
get a better look at that UFO. 607-432-0438 Cty. Hwy. 11, Laurens, 13810
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- ALABAMA
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- WADLEY - Jimmy S. writes that since February
10, 1999, I have had a growing group of people in east central Alabama
are telling me about strange things they have been seeing. I have 4 reports
of strange lights, and 1 report of a craft in this area. All on different
dates but, all within two counties. Something weird is going on down here.
I am trying to keep track of everything. I have two reports of strange
lights that have multiple witnesses whom I know personally and I believe
them. Thanks to John Thompson" <gin@mindspring.com
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- FLORIDA
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- RIVIERA BEACH - A witness writes: "I
was unpacking my car trunk on January 28, 1999, at 5:50 AM when I looked
up and saw coming right at me very slowly was a pair of white car headlights
at about 300 feet in the air. I stood and watched for a few seconds.
I heard no sound even though the ship was upwind. I whirled around to fetch
my camera from the house and a few seconds later I was back outside. I
could now see the UFO. No white 'headlights' now! Instead, a complete
V-shaped golden ship. It continued moving west over me, then changed course
to SSW at about 65-70 mph. You can see the ship and trees. Thanks to
Mark & Mary M. Zimmer. Their web page is http://home.gzinc.com/mmz/skyscan.htm
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- COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO
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- DEL NORTE AIRFIELD - Rio Grande County
a couple called to report watching "a large straw-colored light hovering
over Jeep Hill," 1/4 mile away to the SW of their house on March 4,
1999, at 11:00 PM. They estimated the size of the light to be "15
feet in diameter." The craft or object then turned on a spotlight
that illuminated the area below it. BLACK LAKE, NM -- Mar 8, 1999 at 8:30
PM, a bright white light appeared to rise from behind the mountains, to
the altitude of a passing jet. The light paced the plane and headed south
toward Las Vegas, NM. Thanks to Christopher O'Brien tmv@amigo.net
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- WASHINGTON
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- Tom Sheets reports that March 11, 1999,
Art Bell show featured Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center
and a senior Washington State MUFON Field Investigator Robert Fairfax.
Fairfax related that he is investigating a case now where 14 witnesses
allege that they witnessed a rather small UFO abduct an elk from a rural
area. The disc like object was described by Fairfax as being about the
same size as the elk, and witnesses told him that it seemed to have a problem
getting it up, up and away i.e. the UFO seemed to change shape as it lifted
it up. Former NASA scientist Paul Hill indicates that UFOs have a plasma
field surrounding the craft. This can change shape depending on the movement
or conduct of the UFO, as described in Paul Hill's 'Unconventional Flying
Objects' book as recommended at our recent MUFON meetings.) Apparently
the elk was 'sucked' up and was suspended beneath the craft by some unknown
mechanism. It is unknown if the witnesses were all together as a group
(which sometimes MAY indicate a hoax is afoot in bizarre cases) or if they
were separate and unknown to one another (which is great and I hope they
were as it will indicate the witnesses are for real). Thanks to MUFON
GA State Director Tom Sheets and Art Bell.
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- MEXICO
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- MONTERREY - There has been a large increase
sightings over the last week. On February 28, 1999, Channel 12 in the
city of Monterrey in Mexico aired home video of six UFOs flying over the
La Husteca section of the city, heading for Las Pampas Mountain. The video
showed six luminous triangular objects flying westward in formation. Monterrey
is 575 miles north of Mexico City and 95 miles from the Texas border.
Thanks to: UFO Roundup Vol.4 #10, 3/7/99, Joe Trainor Editor.
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- CANADA
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- KINGSTON, ONTARIO -- Ray Gavel reports
that on March 2, 1999, "My son came in the house and said he saw
something unusual in the sky." The object appeared as bright as a
star or even brighter, with no blinking lights around 6:00 PM. It was going
away from us at an upward angle at a high rate of speed. The brightness
of it diminished as it passed behind a vapor trail left by a passing jet.
I couldn't tell how high the object was, just that it passed behind the
vapor trail. My wife lost sight of it and when I took my eyes from it,
I could not relocate the object. The object traveled in a straight line
overhead then vanished. The object was bright and easily visible. Thanks
to: Ray Gavel rgavel@cgocable.net
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- VENUS AND JUPITER FAIL TO
GENERATE UFO REPORTS
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- For the first time in 25 years, the planets
Venus and Jupiter passed within one-tenth of a degree from each other in
the evening sky on February 23, 1999. While their closest approach is over,
the two will remain fairly close together early in the evening in the west-southwest
sky as they drift apart over the next several weeks. Apparently, millions
around the world saw the brilliant display, but few if any UFO reports
were generated by their near conjunction. Based on my review of hundreds
of UFO reports very few seem to be caused by stars or planets. The Air
Force claimed, "Astronomical sightings were responsible for only 2.79%
of KNOWN Blue Book sightings." Several recent reports mentioned the
reason they looked at the sky was the brightness of the two planets and
then noticed MOVING UFOs. The next three stories discuss possible UFO
near misses or accidents with our aircraft.
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- ANTIGRAVITY
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- UFO buffs, take note: NASA has awarded
$600,000 to an Ohio company to try to reproduce an antigravity experiment
reported several years ago in Physica, a Russian physics journal. In that
article, a scientist reported that he had managed to get a spinning, superconducting
disc to lose as much as 2 percent of its weight. He hypothesized that
if this result were due to some gravity- shielding effect, when expanded
and controlled it might allow a craft to float into space without being
launched. The first NASA-funded attempt to reproduce the experiment failed,
but the company, Superconductive Components, will try again. Some physicists
think NASA is chasing a will-o'-the-wisp and wasting a lot of money, but
the agency appears to be hedging its bets: Overcoming gravity would be
a weighty accomplishment. Compiled by Jim Dawson Copyright 2/24/99 Star
Tribune. http://www2.startribune.com/cgi-Thanks to Stig Agermose.
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- LIFE ON MARS
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- BBC News Online Science Editor DR David
Whitehouse reports: "Sensational new claims about life on Mars are
about to be made by US scientists. Some of the researchers who claimed
in 1996 to have found evidence for past life in a Martian meteorite now
say they have further evidence to support their theories. They will reveal
their findings at a forthcoming conference. The announcement will once
again arouse great controversy in the scientific community, which was far
from convinced by the 1996 evidence. Then it was claimed that unusual
structures in a meteorite called AL 84001 looked like fossilized bacteria.
The new evidence comes from a study of the so-called Nakhla meteorite
that fell at Nakhla, Egypt, in 1911. Years later, a detailed analysis
of the rock revealed it to be one of only 13 known meteorites from the
planet Mars. It is estimated to be about 1.37 billion years old and was
thrown into space when a giant asteroid slammed into Mars hundreds of millions
of years ago. After millions of years in space, it fell to Earth in 1911.
Examination of the Nakhla meteorite, using an optical and a more powerful
scanning electron microscope (SEM), by a team from NASA's Johnson Space
Center led by DR David McKay, has revealed rounded particles of a limited
size range. The researchers suggest that these structures are the mineralized
remnants of bacteria that once lived on Mars. They say that their size
is similar to bacteria found on Earth. Looking closely at the alleged
fossilized bacterial colonies, the scientists say they are reminded of
microbes undergoing the process of division. One of the structures may
even have an extension like a fibril sometimes seen in Earth bacteria.
They even go onto to say that they believe the Nakhla meteorite may have
been colonized by two generations of bacteria. They add that another of
the meteorites from Mars, a rock called Shergotty, may also contain the
bacterial fossils. For most scientists, though, curious and minute shapes
in meteorites are not enough to make them believe that bacteria once lived
on Mars. For photos, please visit: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_289000/289214.stm
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