- THERE IS A SHARP INCREASE IN SIGHTINGS
WORLDWIDE IN !999. Sightings of UFOs were sharply down between December
20, 1998, and January 6, 1999. Although some fire balls and lights were
observed, structured UFOs were last seen heading south along the Australia
coast presumed to be headed for Antarctica in late December. It's now
summer in the Southern Hemisphere. During January, the sightings seemed
to pick up in Australia and spread north. Numerous sightings have been
reported in February.
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- CONNECTICUT
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- NEW HAVEN -- Ryan John Devlin reports
that on February 13, 1999, at 9:34 PM I was with my family at a park called
West Rock. I was walking and looking up at the stars and saw lights in
the sky that looked weird. The park is on a little mountain. I told everybody
to lookup and we saw some very strange lights, that made some strange patterns
in the sky. 203-932-3528, 100 Tuthill St. West Haven CT. Thanks to ISUR
and John Thompson.
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- NEW YORK
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- SHERBURNE -- Two witnesses, a teenage
boy and his mother, witnessed an unusual object on January 23, 1999, at
8:00 PM. A short distance from our house, my mother and I witnessed an
oval/diamond shaped object surrounded by a misty pink light that 'flashed.'
It was hovering about 40 feet above Knapp Road. We watched it continue
in that direction until it disappeared. My grandparents who live next
door told us that they heard a sound as if someone was blowing into a bottle.
Our family has also witnessed two other sightings during October in the
past two years. Both sightings were three yellow, oval/diamond shaped
objects in the eastern sky around 9:30 PM. The high speed objects moved
separately and sporadically for three hours. Thanks to: lclark@ibm.net
"Larry Clark, www.nymufon.org
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- NEW JERSEY
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- RUNNEMEDE MUFON field investigator Evelyn
Gaulson reports that on February 15, 1999, at about 8:45 PM, Mary Ann spotted
a strange object in the sky. Mary Ann noticed a large object about 60 feet
above the ground. It had iridescent lighting like a prism would display.
She could see pink, mauve and yellow and other colors in the light. It
was a long tube that would move sideways and then forward. The tube would
hover for a while and then more sideways again making a very high-pitched
hum. Her daughter came outside and Mary Ann asked her what she saw? The
daughter said it looked like a long cigar. They watched for 5 minutes
before it flew off sideways and suddenly disappeared. After the tube left
they noticed a funny odor that smelled very sweet almost like vanilla.
Thanks to Evelyn Galson.
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- VIRGINIA
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- PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY -- Rick Atristain,
MUFON State Director reports that five UFOs were sighted on February 10,
1999, at around 7:15 PM. The witnesses stated: "My two teenage children
and myself were driving on a two-lane back road that goes past the Federal
Reformatory." Approximately 20 feet above the tree line, we sighted
a lighted object hovering above the trees. It was encircled in white pulsing,
rotating lights, with a single larger light on the bottom. Suddenly, four
other smaller lighted objects lined up in a line beside the larger one.
As we turned a curve and our car beams shone in that direction, the smaller
objects suddenly disappeared one by one. Then the larger object moved
about 1/2 mile distance in about three seconds. First, it was above the
trees, then momentarily it was on the other side of the reformatory. We
watched for four minutes. They made no noise. The areas that surround
the prison are flat lands (Ft. Lee Military Base). On one side is the
Appomattox River and on the other is Route 295. We often observe military
planes, including experimental aircraft. However these did not look similar.
Thanks to Rick Atristain.
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- GEORGIA
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- This month, Venus and Jupiter have been
approaching one another in the sky and will seem to almost merge on 23
February. Being low on the horizon, and depending on the weather, a lens
like effect can take place, making them seem to do all sorts of tricks.
ACKWORTH -- On February 22, 1999, at about 8:00 PM witnesses saw two lights
on the western horizon, one over the other, but separated. He indicated
that they changed colors from green to yellow to white, and would alternate
in going from the size of a pearl held at arm's length to the size of a
quarter. They also changed in magnitude. He watched for about 10 minutes
and said they appeared to be hovering, but he noticed the lights of about
5 aircraft flying nearby. Investigators this may be a classic case of
celestial objects being mistaken for a UFO. It may be that the approaching
cloud front containing ice crystals and possibly temperature inversions
could have influenced the appearance of these celestial bodies. I say
this MAY be the planets, but the case needs further investigation. Thanks
to Tom Sheets.
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- FLORIDA
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- MIAMI State Section Director Mary Margaret
Zimmer reports that the witness Dr. H. noticed a round platinum-like object
flying at 7:30 PM on February 3, 1999. The UFO was flying just above the
houses at approximately 30 mph. It had a dome with a bright flashing light
on top. A rim extended from the body and above the rim. There were smaller
lights and the object was flat on the bottom. It flew with the front part
tilted slightly higher that the back. The closest the object came to the
witness was about 200 feet based on the width of the road. She felt the
height of the abject was 90 feet or less based on the height of the tower
at the Falls Shopping center, and the height of a red balloon tethered
to an apartment complex. Dr. H. followed the object heading north in her
car for about ten minutes. Although, her window was down she could hear
no sound. The object appeared larger than a car. Upon returning home
she summoned her son. From their upstairs window they saw a bright light
moving slowly toward the north. Margaret Zimmer made an excellent drawing
of the craft. It appears to be similar to the type photographed over Gulf
Breeze, Florida. Dr. H felt awe and elation at seeing the craft. She
contacted the FAA, police, Channel 10 and 23 in Miami. The FAA suggested
she call the National UFO Reporting Center and Good Year Blimp in Pompano.
No blimps were flying that night. Thanks to Peter Davenport's National
UFO Reporting Center for his notification and to Margaret Zimmer. Editors
Note: The witnesses seem of high quality and took responsible action to
find an explanation for their sighting.
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- OHIO
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- A letter from Anna who believes she was
abducted aboard a UFO. The outside of the craft had a spring to it like
rubber and the door was a foot square and appeared black. No matter how
big you were you were able to get through the door and floated to the bottom.
There was a cylinder or tank about a foot by 10 feet filled with something
that looked like clouds. There were two tall objects beside them that
looked like a workshop grinder on the top. When moving the craft seemed
to be held up on its outer circumference. Also there was no air currents
such as bumps from gusts of wind. The upper part or the dome was covered
in colored {red, blue, etc.} chips. Below at one section were molded seats
that one's knee would not fit into. In the center was a chair shaped like
a question mark. The one arm rest had control panels that looked like
pastel colored push pins, but were flat. When the panel was touched the
colored dome emitted something and then the dome lost its color and turned
to white and gray. The chips looked like crystals. Electricity was produced.
In the outer circumference of the craft there were seats with small pads.
I heard metal like a hatch opening and then the craft became unbearably
cold. Thanks to Donna Trumbull Co. Ohio.
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- MUFON WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY
CONFERENCE
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- On April 24, Bowling Green, Kentucky
MUFON presents the Giants in UFOLOGY: Speakers are John Carpenter on abduction
research, Stanton Friedman on Roswell, Ted Phillips on physical trace cases,
and Dr. Roger Scott the Director of the Hardin Planetarium and Professor
of Physics and Astronomy at Western Kentucky University. For more information
contact Kentucky MUFON at ufoarch@gte.net or 502 769-6458 Thanks to Scott
Voight .
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- COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO
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- SAN LUIS VALLEY -- UFO activity has increased
dramatically. - On Jan 26, 1999 at 8:15 to 8:32 PM, seven witnesses"
saw a large UFO near La Veta. Two witnesses claim they were less than
a 1/4 mile from the "600 foot" craft that was "hovering"
over small lake located on a golf course. The first witness, a woman,
had walked outside as she and her husband were closing up shop and were
startled to see what she initially thought was "a 747 landing."
Immediately she realized it was not moving. The unconventional-looking
craft appeared to have wings and bright lights in the front. It was described
as translucent- looking and was accompanied by a low humming sound. Initially
structure was not visible. Then, after summoning her husband, they both
observed "orange- colored portholes" appear on the side. They
watched as the object shot a probe-like beam or tube downward toward the
lake. TAOS COUNTY -- On January 22, 1999, at 10:45 PM motorists traveling
north on NM 522 in separate cars, 9 miles south of the Colorado and New
Mexico border, had separate unusual experiences. Brad Sleep, a UNM college
student was following his girlfriend, Sarah Fisher when he witnessed what
appeared to be a large meteor descending straight down toward the ground.
The object was white colored and had a short tail. After descending
quickly for a couple of seconds, the object abruptly stopped, changed
color to a reddish white and hovered for almost a minute at about 37,000
feet. Sleep pulled over to the side of the highway. Sarah, who did not
observe the UFO continued on. He climbed out of his pickup truck as the
object began a series of 14 lateral figure-eight's that took about 3 seconds
to complete. Then the object headed to the SE toward Taos. The craft
had a roar similar to a jet plane but had a reverberating hum that was
different. Sarah, proceeded "about a mile" up the road from
where Brad stopped, when she saw a strange car that was all lit up on the
sides by light that wasn't supposed to be there." When the lit-up
car passed several small objects rained down on the driver side of her
windshield. SAN ANTONIO MOUNTAIN On February 4, 1999, the KRZA transmitter
goes down for five days. At 9:45 PM in Saguache County two witnesses driving
south on Highway 17 saw a brilliant orb of white light hovering around
200 feet above the ground. During the 40 second sighting a retired career
Air Force officer noted the object shot a beam of light at the ground.
SAN LUIS VALLEY -- On February 9, 1999, Chris and another witness observed
a fast moving unblinking dull-orange orb travel southeast at 9:55 PM.
The object was below 5,000 feet in altitude and was 3 times the size of
Venus. It covered a 100 miles in 3 minutes. SAGUACHE COUNTY -- February
13, 1999, at 3:05 PM two witnesses observed an erratically moving silver
reflection three times--each time for several seconds. The object seemed
to be below 2,000 feet and made sharp twisting turns. It looked like "a
fishing lure in the sky." The second witness was able to focus a
pair of binoculars on the object and described it as being "kind of
rectangular-looking, but with no wings." Twelve minutes later, four
fighters buzzed this area headed north. WESTCLIFFE --On February 21, 1999,
a pilot and another witness report two jet fighters flying east at 50,000
feet in altitude at 10:15 AM. Pacing the second jet was an object that
seemed about 10,000 feet below the jets. This object was rounded and was
reflecting a goldish color. The jets left contrails the third object did
not. The pilot was puzzled by how fast all three craft were traveling.
"They were definitely flying faster than the speed of sound."
Thanks to Christopher O'Brien tmv@pop.amigo.net Christopher reports his
new book Enter The Valley (St. Martin's Paperbacks ISBN 0-312- 96835-3
has been published. JULESBURG -- On February 13, 1999, Scott Luft reported
he had a UFO sighting at 4:15 AM. I am a security guard for a local hog
farm operation in N.E. Colorado. I was coming up a county road going north
to check one of our barns. I was about eight miles southeast of Julesburg.
There are allot of tower beacons flashing in our area, but this did not
flash. I noticed a very bright star in the North sky among a large amount
of stars visible. When I saw the light I did not remember seeing a star
there 20 seconds ago. I stopped and got out my binoculars. As I watched
the object the light started to glow brighter and brighter. Then the object
proceeded to "take off" going north. It made a dip towards
the ground and then made an upward arch and was gone at tremendous speed.
--Thanks to Jerry Clark and Scott Luft www.nymufon.org 970-474-2107 12
West 4th Street Julesburg 80737 scottl@henge.com -
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- CALIFORNIA
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- MOJAVE -- Peter Davenport reported numerous
sightings on February 22, 1999, on the Art Bell radio show. Witnesses
reported citing a glowing green fireball going southwest at 8:30 PM. As
the object slowed the color changed and a triangular shaped craft was observed.
Editors Note: We have reports that a new X-60 triangle shaped craft that
has VTOL capabilities may be flying in this area. The craft is the size
of 737 commercial aircraft and still in its test phase. The craft may
be hypersonic reaching speeds above mach 5.
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- ASTEROIDS GETTING TOO CLOSE
FOR COMFORT
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- WASHINGTON -- A dangerous asteroid whizzed
by Earth on February 24, 1999. Similar near misses are expected March 2,
18, 26 and April 1. Astronomers are discovering potential killer asteroids
at a record pace. The public's flirtation last year with fear of menacing
space rocks -- fueled by two fictionalized movies and one widely reported
threat -- has faded. But astronomers scanning the sky with new technology
are finding more asteroids than ever. There are almost weekly additions
to science's official list of potentially hazardous asteroids. In 1998,
scientists found 55 of the would-be killers -- more than in the previous
six years combined. Now the all-time list is at 163 and growing. None
of these rocks is expected to hit Earth directly. But they are dangerously
close. `This afternoon, a half-mile-wide asteroid discovered in January
will whiz by Earth at a distance of 3.4 million miles. On Feb. 4, a 30-foot-wide
rock came incredibly close to Earth. It was only 632,000 miles away.
The biggest reason that astronomers are finding more of these near-miss
asteroids is the redirection of Air Force technology from tracking killer
satellites to spotting killer rocks. Massachusetts Institute of Technology's
Lincoln Laboratory, a federally funded national security research center
outside Boston, changed the asteroid tracking world last March when it
began using Air Force technology to scan the sky with a telescope based
in New Mexico. The lab's program, called LINEAR, has found 38 of the last
59 asteroids. `We have it down to a point where we're in a groove,'' LINEAR
chief Grant Stokes said. But even as new threats are being found much
more frequently than before, "We're way behind,'' said Don Yeomans,
manager of NASA's Near Earth Object program. That's because last year,
NASA set a goal of finding most potential asteroid threats within 10 years.
Asteroids are considered a threat if they are bigger than half a mile
wide and are going to come within five million miles of Earth. Astronomers
guess there are 2,000 such asteroids out there, and so far they have found
about 8 percent of them. "If you were going to find every object that's
going to threaten the Earth, you're talking millions, not thousands,''
said researcher Jeff Larsen of the University of Arizona's Spacewatch
tracking program. Thanks to Seth Borenstein Herald Washington Bureau 02/24/99
Mitch Battros http://www.earthchangesTV.com
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- ITALY
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- Skywatch reports the editor of the monthly
magazine of Italian UFO research states: The outburst of sightings, which
occurred February 23, around 7:00 PM were noticed simultaneously in Bologna,
Turin, San Giovanni Valdarno, Cuneo, Turin, Venice, Genoa, Ravenna, Novara,
Pescara, Gualdo Tadino, Lucca and Rome. They came to a halt just before
9 PM. It has been a significant and long lasting phenomenon. Most of
the eye witnesses saw two very bright lights in the sky, at varying altitudes
and different in size, stationary or slowly passing by, at times coupled
together and intermittently lit up. Others, described them as geometric
formations totally different from planets hovering at low altitude. Switchboards
of the police stations were jammed by thousands of alarmed phone calls,
several astronomical observations explained the phenomenon as an unusual
conjunction between Jupiter and Venus. Among the sightings reported to
"Notiziario UFO," contradicting the planet explanations was Mr.
Filippo Bigazzi's, from San Giovanni Valdarno, who video filmed two stationary
lights that intermittently appeared and disappeared. Meanwhile at 7:20
PM in Ravenna, Mr. Stefano Matteucci, observed by telescope a three light
formation on top a darker square shaped object. Another video was shot
in Venice by Mr. Federico Provoleri who caught a bright moving object.
Interestingly, military bases of Istrana and Tessera, Veneto, were kept
on the alert. A UFO flap occurred in October '98 and started again in
January and continues. Thanks to: Bill Hamilton Skywatch Director.
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- MALAYSIA
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- KUALA ROMPIN: reports that on February
16, 1999, at 10:30 PM there was a very large craft in the sky. (Its a
very big aeroplant): Thanks to Haffiez at haffiez_81@usa,net
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- AUSTRALIA
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- BURLEY HEADS BEACH -- Shane Thorpe reports
that at 10:30 PM there were two sightings of UFOs. First, a UFO came around
twice, I thought I was day dreaming but I saw it again in the same spot.
When it moved it was as if it moved in right angles as if it was dodging
things and it moved very fast. Then it just hovered in mid air about 800
meters high. It was half red and half bluish white. This happened about
3 weeks ago. I've been looking every where to report it. 23 Villa St. Annerley,
Queensland, Jon_aa@hotmail.com
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- COMMENTS ON CONFIRMATION NBC TV SHOW
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- JESSIE MARCEL JR.-- Numerous Trumbull
County police appeared on the TV show claiming to witness a UFO. Dr. Marcel
writes: "The fact that the gentleman who identified himself as an
astronomer really had to jump through so many hoops to explain the event
really stretches the imagination. To say that all the 911 calls from twinkling
stars, a fireball and the stalling of the officers cruiser with its radios
was just a coincidence has about as much credibility as "swamp gas".
It would be interesting to keep a diary of all the convoluted explanations
that the debunkers put forth to explain the unexplainable. Sometimes the
simplest explanation is the most fantastic explanation. Thanks to Dr.
Jess Marcell Jr.
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- SAM SHERMAN comments on the STS 48 video
taken from the Space Shuttle. I have had the privilege to see digital
clones of NASA's master tapes to STS-48 images in a high tech video studio.
Further, on the STS-48 Mission there were more similar events than the
famous flash-right angle turn and lots more luminous anomalous objects
flying around. Since I was looking at digital clones of the originals
(showing no quality loss) I asked the technician to enlarge one of the
larger objects to the limits of the system's resolution and the object
took on a disk like shape with a dome protrusion on what might be the top
of of the craft. During researching my docudrama film BEYOND THIS EARTH
I have seen numerous similar NASA images that lead me to conclude that
some of the information I have researched about ET craft over Planet Earth
is true. Furthermore, during the course of this production we sent up
a surveillance plane over Northern California, with the aid of space scientists
and filmed similar anomalous luminous objects over the good old USA. I
had sighted one of these myself in the1960s. Viewing it through binoculars,
with 3 other witnesses, I must conclude that ET craft are visiting this
world and that we have not been able to stop whatever they are doing, which
DOD must conclude is a security threat until it is proven otherwise. In
short, I have no trouble concluding that the ET Hypothesis is fully real,
verifiable, far advanced beyond our technology and a true problem for our
Space, Defense and Intelligence agencies. I just hope we don't cut the
military, space and intelligence budgets before that time, we will probably
need them. Thanks to Sam Sherman flexaret2@aol.com
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