- UFOs VIDEOTAPED IN THE SKIES
OF PERU
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- On Tuesday night, February 9, 1999, just
before midnight, pescadores from the port of Pisco, 300 kilometers (180
miles) south of Lima, the capital of Peru, watched a large anomalous light
emerge from the Pacific Ocean. The UFO, described by witnesses as a nave
nodriza (Spanish for "supply ship" or mothership--J.T.) rose
into the air, banked sharply to the right and flew away in an easterly
direction, heading for the shore. The following evening, Wednesday, February
10, 1999, residents of Chorrillos, a suburb of Lima about 16 kilometers
(10 miles) south of the capital, reported seeing luminous discs "flying
at a low altitude." In Jesus Maria, another Lima suburb, residents
poured into the plaza to watch the overflight. One man videotaped it with
his camera. Within the hour, another squadron of luminous UFOs flew over
the seaport city of Callao, 13 kilometers (8 miles) west of Lima. By now,
the word had spread, and a crowd of about 2,000 people witnessed the overflight
of Callao. "Neighbors in the zone went outside of their homes in
the hope of seeing the OVNIs (Spanish acronym for UFOs) again." At
11 p.m. that evening, Canal 5 (Channel 5) Television Panamericana stunned
all two million residents of Lima with a special 40-minute broadcast on
the UFO flap. The show aired home video footage of the objects flying over
Jesus Maria and Callao. Canal 2 in Lima also aired the UFO videos. In the
city of Ica, 400 kilometers (240 miles) south of Lima and 100 kilometers
(60 miles) south of Pisco, residents saw two luminous UFOs flying eastward
towards the Andes. On Thursday, February 11, people in the cafes around
Pisco's central plaza were talking nonstop about the second UFO display
the previous night. Rumors spread about the presence of an undersea base
a dozen kilometers offshore. Some said it was an alien base; others claimed
that it was "an OTAN (Spanish acronym for NATO) secret base."
According to UFO Roundup correspondent Pilar Valencia, Lima's "tabloid
press went wild on Days 1 and 2 of the flap," printing the Pisco undersea
base story and speculating that the UFOs were in Peru to observe "the
end of the world." Friday, February 12, 1999, saw UFO reports coming
from the desert northeast of Jorge Chavez International Airport, 16 kilometers
(10 miles) north of Lima In Lince, a Lima suburb 5 kilometers (3 miles)
south of the Plaza de San Martin, residents rushed into the Avenida Garcilaso
de la Vega to watch the UFOs pass overhead. (Editor's Comment: This is
getting too close for comfort. In 1978, I lived on the Avenida Petit Thouars
in Lince.) Beachgoers in La Herradura, a seaside resort 11 kilometers (7
miles) from Lima, reported seeing anomalous lights in the sky after sunset.
(Editor's Note: It's late summer right now in Peru and the other countries
of the southern hemisphere.) According to Dr. Virgilio Sanchez Ocedo of
UFO Miami, on Saturday, February 13, 1999, "Another UFO was filmed
in daytime and shown on Canal 5 Television Panamericana" that night.
The startling videotape shows the saucer skimming low over the rooftops
of stucco houses and palm trees in Callao. The same day, however, the Lima
newspapers El Comercio and El Expresso dismissed the flap, stating that
the nocturnal lights had been caused by "a news magazine's advertising
campaign--a helicopter with lights cruising the nighttime skies."
(See the newspapers El Comercio and El Expresso for February 13, 1999.
Muchas gracias a Pilar Valencia, Guillermo Alarcon, Henry Farias, Rose
Marie Paz y Dr. Virgilio Sanchez Ocedo para esas informaciones sobre los
OVNIs en Peru.)
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- GIANT CYLINDRICAL UFO SEEN
OVER GLOUCESTERSHIRE
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- On Monday, February 8, 1999, businessman
Miles J. was relaxing in his seat aboard a British Midlands A310 Airbus
jetliner when he spotted something odd outside his window. He was flying
home from Belfast, Northern Ireland, and the plane "had just begun
its descent into London's Heathrow Airport. I was seated on the right
side of the Airbus, and I first saw it as a kind of after-image."
Looking again, Miles "saw a large, cigar-shaped UFO, at very high
altitude. The very large, distinct, big cylindrical object was above the
highest cloud layer. It seemed, relative to the aircraft, to be stationary.
It was about 15 degrees deviation from the aircraft's flight path."
"As the Airbus began to descend, the object remained fixed in altitude,"
he added, "It was finally obscured by scudding high cloud. It will
appear to have been stationary, and in the last minutes of observation,
I placed it at an altitude of approximately 45,000 to 50,000 feet approximately
50 miles from the aircraft. The object was white, long, and cylindrical,
with no obvious features. It was pencil thin, with rounded ends, also
white." Miles stated that he believes his plane was "a bit south
of Birmingham" when he spotted the UFO. "There was complete
cloud cover below, so no recognisable city could be seen. It would have
been 25 minutes before landing. It was still in view up to the final descent,
which would have been 10 minutes before landing. So that the total time
in view was 15 minutes." If Miles's estimate of 50 miles is accurate,
the giant UFO would have been hovering over Gloucestershire, perhaps near
Cheltenham, Winchcomb or Northleach. (Email Interview)
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- SECOND BLUE FIREBALL SIZZLES
OVER CALIFORNIA
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- On Thursday night, February 11, 1999,
at about 7 p.m., another "blue fireball" lit up the night sky
of northern California...and this one had tail fins! "People from
San Francisco to Sacramento (California's state capital--J.T.) reported
seeing the bright light about 7 p.m." "One Sacramento resident
said the object 'was flying higher than the tops of trees' and appeared
to have 'rocket fins above the tail.'" "One astronomer who did
not see the light said it was most likely a fireball or meteor. Officials
at nearby (U.S.) Air Force bases said the military launched no missiles
in the area last night." (See the Modesto, Cal. Bee for February 12,
1999. Many thanks to Ian Darlington and Errol Bruce-Knapp for forwarding
this news story.)
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- BLUE UFO SIGHTED BY MANY IN
SOUTHWESTERN OHIO
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- On Sunday, February 14, 1999, at 11:15
p.m., hundreds of witnesses between the cities of Dayton and Cincinnati
in southwestern Ohio sighted a "blue-colored object with a wispy,
luminous trail." Five people called radio station WLW 700 AM in Cincinnati
and talked about the UFO on the talk show Sci-Zone. "One caller was
a retired cop from Dayton, Ohio (population 185,000) who spotted the object
to the northwest of his location." "Another caller was from Milford,
Ohio and also reported the object to the north. The object, he said, accompanied
a 'flash' before its disappearance behind a tree here." Charles Stuart,
a UFO researcher who lives in the Cincinnati area, witnessed the object
while driving his car. He reported, "At around 11:15 p.m. Sunday
night, February 14, 1999, I observed a bluish-white object descending vertically,
disappearing behind a tree-line to the north...This mystery object did
not jump up or down before before disappearing on the horizon. In fact,
it gave the impression that it landed or impacted only a mile away. My
best bet at this time is that the light was probably a large meteor or
bolide passing through Earth's atmosphere at high altitude. The light
appeared to be the apparent size of a dime at arm's length." (Many
thanks to Kenneth Young of Cincinnati UFO Research for this report.)
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- NEW UFO SIGHTING AT NEW JERSEY'S
WANAQUE LAKE
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- On Tuesday, February 9, 1999, two boys,
Mike and Ryan, hiked up to Wanaque Reservoir in northern New Jersey "to
look for UFOs." "We saw two objects over the hill on the horizon,"
Mike reported, "One was pulsating from a bronze light color to red
and at one point was increasing in intensity. They just sat still as we
watched and left. We only stayed for ten minutes as it was very cold outdoors.
We'll return when it's warmer." New Jersey's Wanaque Reservoir has
had a history of UFO activity dating back to its first big flap in 1966.
The reservoir is located in Passaic County about 30 miles (48 kilometers)
west of New York City. (See Filer's Files #7 for 1999. Many thanks to
George A. Filer, Eastern director of MUFON, for letting UFO Roundup quote
from his newsletter.)
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- ORANGE SPHERE UFOs BACK IN
ACTION IN AUSTRALIA
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- Friday night, February 19, 1999, saw
orange-sphere UFOs in the skies of two Australian states. In Exford, Vic.,
at 9:20 p.m., residents reported "bright orange lights seen in the
sky for three minutes. They went off and then on again." At 9:33 p.m.,
residents in Melbourne, capital of Victoria state, reported an overflight
of orange lights. At 9:41 p.m., a man in Burn Hill, Vic. telephoned the
Australian UFO Research Network Hotline and reported "an orange light
in the sky. The UFO was visible for three minutes." In Western Australia,
at 9:31 p.m., four people in the town of Hydleburg "said they observed
orange balls of light where they were." And in Perth, capital of Western
Australia, a caller reported a "strange light in the sky" at
9:32 p.m. that night. (Many thanks to Diane Harrison of Australian UFO
Research Network Hotline for these reports.)
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- ECUFOR REQUESTS TIMEOUT IN
BLOEMFONTEIN CASE
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- South Africa's Evaluation Centre of UFO
Reports (ECUFOR) issued a statement over the weekend, bringing "the
attention of all readers and publishing institutions, including the Internet,
that the details surrounding an alleged UFO sighting on 5 February 1999
are incorrect." ECUFOR stated that a UFO was sighted in the Bloemfontein
area, and that they are presently investigating the case in depth. "ECUFOR
is currently investigating the sighting, including the video taken at the
time, and will issue a public release once all relevant witness testimonies
have been documented and verified...all the video material authenticated.
A further public release will be issued once analysis of the video material
is complete." (Many thanks to Errol Bruce-Knapp for the ECUFOR press
release.)
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- MEXICAN PYRAMID MUCH OLDER
THAN EXPECTED
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- Proceedings of the Fourth International
Maya Congress in Antigua, Guatemala produced some surprises about the Mayan
pyramid of Comalcalco. The small city of Comalcalco is located in Mexico's
Tabasco state about 410 kilometers (246 miles) east of Mexico City. "The
papers presented" at the conference "discussed an excavation
which Gordo Eckholm began at Comalcalco's Temple 2 site. At the top of
the temple, into its floor, Eckholm dug a trench, which revealed thirty-eight
previous flooring levels. These levels, of course, imply a very long occupation.
Floorings can be estimated to last twenty to thirty years; therefore it
could be supposed that the levels would suggest eight or nine hundred years
of occupation at the site." "Since most researchers agrees that
Comalcalco terminated its building period between 1000 and 1200 A.D., estimates
date the first flooring back to 100 or 200 A.D." "Eckholm's drawings
are quite specific. Under the last or lowest floor, they show the stucco
covering of a clay mound, which was the base of the temple itself. This
mound dated much earlier than Maya times." (See Ancient American
volume 4, number 26, Winter 1999, "Mexico's pyramidal Comalcalco--a
thousand years older than suspected," by Neil Steede, page 16) (Editor's
Comment: This suggests that the original Comalcalco mound pyramid--like
the one at Cahokia, Illinois, USA--was a sacred site for hundreds of years
before the rise of the Mayan civilization.)
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- From the UFO Files...
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- 1954: ALIEN LANDS AT LOSSIEMOUTH
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- A strange encounter between a human and
a reputed alien took place at Lossiemouth, in northeastern Scotland, on
February 18, 1954. "Writer, amateur astronomer and ornithologist Cedric
Allingham claimed that he saw a flying saucer land near Lossiemouth, on
the north- eastern cost of Scotland." "A 'man' some six feet
tall emerged from the craft and approached Allingham. This being was said
to be human-like in most respects, and appeared to differ only in that
he had a very high forehead. He wore a one-piece garb with footwear incorporated,
but no helmet. He also had tiny tubes running up into his nostrils, and
the witness considered these to be part of a breathing aid." "According
to the witness in his published account, he and the 'man' contrived to
converse by signs, and it is claimed that the visitor indicated that he
came from Mars. Photographs of both the saucer and the 'Martian' were
taken and published in support of this claim." (See THE HUMANOIDS,
edited by Charles Bowen, Henry Regnery Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1969, pages
14 and 15. See also FLYING SAUCER FROM MARS by Cedric Allingham, Frederick
Muller Books, London, 1956.)
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- That's it for this week. We'll be back
next week with more saucer news from around the planet, brought to you
by "the paper that goes home--UFO Roundup." See you then.
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