- LARGE DAYLIGHT UFO SEEN OVER
DOWNTOWN TORONTO
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- On Wednesday, February 3, 1999, at 10:15
a.m., aircraft engineer Garfield Bowser was at the corner of St. George
and Bloor Streets in Toronto, the largest city in Canada, when he spied
a very large UFO crossing the sky.
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- Bowser reported that he "saw a wingless,
noiseless, three-hundred-foot-long, fifty-foot-high object with a 'nubin'
on top. It was over St. Clair Avenue West a little beyond Casa Loma."
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- He "estimated that the object was
traveling at about 400 miles per hour. No tail fin. Elevation 15 degrees
from horizontal. Altitude 10,000 feet, descending to 8 degrees from horizontal
two-and-a-falk miles to the north. It was very silvery, with pointy-rounded
ends and a black horizontal band around it, against a very clear blue sky."
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- "Having been in the aircraft industry
for five years and having an eye and ear for engines, this object is unlike
any craft I have observed heretofore," Bowser stated.
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- The case is being investigated by ufologist
Larry Fenwick of the Canadian UFO Research Network. A call to Toronto's
Pearson International Airport revealed that there were "no aircraft
in that airspace at the time." (Many thanks to Errol Bruce-Knapp for
this news story.)
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- ANOTHER UFO VIDEOTAPED IN
NORTHERN IRELAND
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- On Wednesday, January 20, 1999, at 4:50
p.m., Kenneth Mundell stepped out of his home in Inver, a suburb of Larne,
Country Antrim, Northern Ireland, and spotted something strange in the
eastern sky. Quickly he grabbed his camcorder.
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- "I noticed the triangular UFO coming
from the east just about 1,000 feet high in the sky," Mundell reported.
"It was travelling slowly, perhaps 30 to 40 miles per hour. There
was no sound coming from the craft."
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- As the UFO approached his house, Mundell
began recording its image on 8 millimeter XTR (Extra Resolution) videotape.
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- "When the UFO was directly over
my house, it changed direction, shifting to a more northerly one,"
he reported, adding that the UFO seemed to "'skid' across the sky,
an impossible task for any known aircraft."
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- Larne is a city in County Antrim located
about 42 miles (70 kilometers) north of Belfast. (Many thanks to Kenneth
Mundell for this report.)
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- TRIANGULAR UFOs FLY OVER
BLOEMFONTEIN, SOUTH AFRICA
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- On Friday, February 5, 1999, eight people
in Bloemfontein, a large city in the Oranje Vrystaat region of South Africa,
watched as several metallic UFO's flew overhead for eight minutes.
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- Witnesses described the UFOs as "triangular-shaped,
greyish-coloured objects with brightly-coloured lights at the corners."
One witness reportedly captured "a couple of minutes" of the
overflight "on videotape."
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- "A couple of small UFOs were seen
both motionless and zigzagging back and forth."
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- A local newspaper reported on Sunday,
February 7, 1999, that a UFO had flown over the town of Graaff- Reinette
back in December 1998.
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- The same newspaper also reported that
"a farmer who came upon a UFO that had landed on a gravel road near
his farm" in a rural district near Bloemfontein. "The engine
of his truck just cut out, and he was 'frozen' in the act of getting out
of the truck. A farm worker who was standing against the fence also could
not move. After the UFO left, everything returned to normal. The farmer
drove to the nearest police station, and the police investigated the site."
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- Bloemfontein is located 500 kilometers
(300 miles) southwest of Johannesburg. (Many thanks to Leenta Scott for
sending this news story.)
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- UFOs SIGHTED IN THREE STATES
OF AUSTRALIA
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- The level of UFO activity in Australia
has remained high for the past few weeks.
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- On Wednesday, January 13, 1999, astronomer
Matthew Pearce, 23, spotted a UFO with his telescope while skywatching
in his hometown of Yulara, Northern Territory, about 400 kilometers (240
miles) southwest of Alice Springs.
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- Pearce reported, "I observed an
object due south, around 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Yulara. The object
resembled a star, silvery-blue in colour. I heard no noise. Height around
15 degrees, southeast of Yulara, near Uluru. Visibility clear. It looked
like a planet where there shouldn't be one. I watched it for around two
minutes, then the object blinked out." (Editor's Note: Uluru, also
known as Ayer's Rock, is a site in central Australia held sacred by the
indigenous aboriginal people. It's similar to Bear Butte near Sturgis,
South Dakota, USA, which is revered by the Lakota (Sioux), Zizitzah (Cheyenne)
and Absaroka (Crow) people.)
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- On Saturday, January 23, 1999, two boys,
ages 8 and 7, were looking out their bedroom window at 9:15 p.m. when they
spotted a brightly-lit UFO hovering in the sky. The incident occurred at
Burpengary, Queensland, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Deception Bay.
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- The boys' mother told ufologist Diane
Harrison that "the boys told me last night they saw a UFO. I said,
"Yes, right. Kids, stop making up stories.' They said, 'Mum, we really
did see a UFO. I'll draw it.' The boys said they watched it from their
bedroom window for some time. They said it looked like a Christmas tree
just floating in the sky," with red, green, blue, white and orange
lights.
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- On Thursday, February 11, 1999, residents
of New Norcia, Western Australia, in the "wheatbelt region" 132
kilometers (79 miles) from Perth, W.A., spotted a disc-shaped UFO hovering
overhead.
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- According to the Australian Broadcasting
Corp., "The National UFO Reporting Centre, in Melbourne, says they
have received a number of reports of a flying-saucer-shaped craft hovering
in the sky for a few seconds near New Norcia...(Australian ufologist) Ross
Dowe says it is the first time there has been such a sighting over the
district. 'This particular object had some five or six illuminations' and
'was seen for approximately five to ten seconds and then shot up into the
sky,'" Australian Broadcasting Corp. quoted Ross Dowe as saying. (Many
thanks to Keith Douglass and Diane Harrison for these reports.)
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- DANISH MOTORISTS TRAILED BY
TWO MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS
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- On Friday, January 1, 1999, at 3:45 a.m.,
Henrik H. and a companion left Hjarup in the Soenderjylland region of southern
Denmark, planning to drive to Skodborg. As they passed through Varndrup,
they noticed something strange in the sky.
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- "The sky was between clear and a
little misty," Henrik reported. "The UFOs approached from the
south. Their shape was round. Their lights were milky, not very intense
but intense enough to cast a reflective glow on the zinc roof of a barn.
They circled our car but not in the same level or pattern of flight."
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- "No sound was heard. They went sort
of in a straight line. They did not fly together but each bt itself,"
he reported, adding that they kept the objects in view until they reached
Skodborg at 5 a.m.
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- Henrik said SUFOI, the Scandinavian ufology
group, "told us it was some spotlight, located at a discotechque near
Roedding. But how is it possible for a spotlight to follow a car for over
25 kilometers?" (Email Interview)
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- DAZZLING UFO HOVERS OVER TELFORD,
PENNSYLVANIA
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- On Friday, February 5, 1999, at 6:30
p.m., a dazzling UFO appeared in the sky over Telford, Pennsylvania (population
4,238), a small town on Highway 9 about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north-
northwest of Philadelphia.
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- Eyewitness Mark Isganitis reported, "My
family and I observed a very unusual light in the evening sky in Telford.
It was about 30 degrees above the southeastern horizon. We observed it
through binoculars and with a small telescope."
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- "It was a very bright sparkling
object which repeatedly blinked in all colors," Mark reported. "It
was smaller in size than either Jupiter or Venus, but unusually brighter
than either, which were both observable in the southwest last evening."
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- "My telescope is powerful enough
to show the disc of Jupiter with its cloud banks and moons clearly visible.
But when trained on this object, all that we could see was a bright sparkling
point of light shooting off colored sparks or spikes." (Many thanks
to Errol Bruce-Knapp for forwarding this report.)
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- (Editor's Comment: Telford, Pa. was the
site of a week-long black helicopter flap in April 1998.)
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- UFOs SEEN FLYING NEAR WEST
ELKTON, OHIO
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- On Monday, January 25, 1999, at 8:22
p.m., a 26-year-old man was driving to Middletown, Ohio. As he stopped
at the Madison Food Market on Route 122, he spotted "four odd lights
in the sky."
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- He put through a phone call to his mother,
"Mrs. Smith," in West Elkton, Ohio (population 117), a small
town on Route 503 about 48 miles (71 kilometers) north of Cincinnati, and
asked her if the lights were visible from there.
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- "After taking the phone call, Mrs.
Smith was curious to have a look," so she "drove a short distance
to the vicinity of Wayne Trace and West Elkton Road before returning home,
not having seen anything."
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- But when she arrived home, Mrs. Smith
saw "the light appear to the south of her location, and it became
brighter." She described it as "a star-like light that approached
over our barn."
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- "The object hovered for about ten
minutes, and blinking red and green lights could be seen. She added that
'two other lights could be seen with the bright lights.' The two smaller
UFOs "would 'dive' back and forth, as well as disappear and reappear...
During the event, a fast, low-pitched humming or droning could be heard."
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- Mrs. Smith observed the UFO from the
walkway behind her kitchen porch. "The (main) object hovered at a
low elevation above her five-acre field. The main object, she said, was
closer, and the two smaller objects more distant." (Many thanks to
Kenneth Young for Cincinnati UFO Research for this report.)
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- DUTCH MOTORIST SAYS UFO DISABLED
HIS OPEL CAR
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- One night in August 1998, at 1 a.m.,
Joost van F. decided to let his dog go for a moonlight run in T. Wiske
nature park, near Zaandam, a suburb 10 kilometers (6 miles) north of Amsterdam,
capital of the Netherlands.
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- "I was driving an Opel Kadett with
a 1600 centimeter engine, a sports model," Joost reported. "The
park is closed to traffic, but residents of the neighborhood sometimes
drive in there to let their dogs have some exercise."
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- "After letting out my dog, and as
the (Opel's) motor was running, it stopped--all at once--just shut down.
In reflex, I braked. I had been rolling along at about 5 kilometers per
hour, and my car came to a full stop."
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- "Did I run through a puddle? No,
the way was 'dry' for at least ten meters back. I stepped out of the car,
flashlight in my hand. I opened the motor compartment (hood in the USA,
bonnet in the UK-- J.T.)."
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- "As I was checking the engine block
and the electric wires, suddenly I felt a presence behind me. Strangely
my dog did not bark or show any signs of upset. Turning, I saw two bright
lights shooting up into the sky, almost vertical and at a speed much higher
than an aircraft or a helicopter might use. No noise, no venting gases
(exhaust--J.T.), nothing. They were about eye-height above the trees and
out of sight within two seconds. They were over Zaandam and Purmerend,
about one kilometer away."
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- When he tried the Opel's engine again
a few minutes later, it started right up and ran without missing a beat.
(Email Interview)
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- 1954: UFO LANDS NEAR THE LANCASHIRE
LAKES
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- A UFO landed in the Lake District of
Lancashire on February 15, 1954. Here's a summary of that unusual encounter.
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- "Two boys, Stephen Darbishire, and
his cousin, Adrian Myer, saw a circular domed object hovering above Coniston
Old Main in the Lake District of Lancashire," UK.
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- "The object was described as being
metallic and manufactured in appearance, and possessing an upper turret
with what were alleged to be 'portholes.' Two snapshots were taken with
a simple camera, one of the hovering object, another of the device as it
sped away past the witnesses."
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- "The somewhat diffuse images on
the film seem to confirm that something was present which was strikingly
similar to the object in the first Adamski photographs. (Note: The domed
UFO that George Adamski photographed in California in November 1952) In
fact, one researcher (ufologist Leonard G. Cramp) has demonstrated by means
of orthographic projections that the Darbishire and Adamski photographs
could be of identical objects." (See the book THE HUMANOIDS, edited
by Charles Bowen, Henry Regnery Co., Chicago, Ill., 1969. page 14. See
also the Lancashire Daily Post for February 19, 1954.)
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