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- ASTRONAUTS SAW UFOs IN 1960s
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- Astronaut's Ed White and James McDivitt
were passing over Hawaii in a Gemini spacecraft in June 1965, when they
saw a weird-looking metallic object. The UFO had long arms sticking out
of it. McDivitt took pictures with a cine-camera. Those pictures have
never been released. In December 1965, Gemini astronauts James Lovell
and Frank Borman also saw a UFO during their second orbit of their record-breaking
14 day flight. Borman reported that he saw an unidentified spacecraft
some distance from their capsule. Gemini Control, at Cape Kennedy told
him that he was seeing the final stage of their Titan booster rocket.
Borman confirmed that he could see the booster rocket all right, but that
he could also see something completely different. During James Lovell's
flight on Gemini 7: Lovell: "BOGEY AT 10 O'CLOCK HIGH." Capcom:
This is Houston, "Say again 7." Lovell: "SAID WE HAVE
A BOGEY AT 10 O'CLOCK HIGH." Capcom: Gemini 7, "Is that the
booster or is that an actual sighting?" Lovell: "WE HAVE SEVERAL...ACTUAL
SIGHTING." Capcom: ..."Estimated distance or size?"
Lovell: "WE ALSO HAVE THE BOOSTER IN SIGHT !" Thanks to steve@linex.com
(Steve Wingate)
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- MASSACHUSETTS
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- CAPE COD -- On April 7, 1999, Stacy S.
"was looking through the second-story window of my home at 10:58 PM,"
in East Falmouth when "I watched through the sheers strange double
white lights resembling car headlights, across the sky through the maple
trees." "The craft came from the west, approximately at a 35
degree angle. Unfortunately, I had it in view only five seconds."
"As it approached my house, I could see that this aircraft was not
making a sound. It was only slightly above the maple trees in my front
yard, moving with absolutely no noise. It had a triangular shape with
a large spotlight thing on each end of it with pulsating red lights underneath
it." "My mind was thinking that it's just an airplane, but its
silence and fluid motion told me this was not so. As it rose above the
treeline, it shifted slightly to the right and flew over our house until
I could see it no longer." "I am now convinced there are UFOs
in the sky!" Thanks to UFO Roundup Vol. 4 #14, 4/11/99, Joe Trainor
editor.
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- CONNECTICUT
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- HARTFORD -- Dean Burgess writes that
on April 8, 1999, while driving north on Route 91 at 5:30 AM, I saw a round
flying object about the size of a large car. The object was intensely
bright and made no sound. At first I thought it was a news chopper, but
as I got under it I could see the craft very clearly. I took the Jennings
Road exit and got out of my car. There was a very low cloud cover, and
the sun was just rising. The object had no blinking lights, there was
just one intense light. It hovered for a few minutes and went up and down
in and out of the ground cover as if hiding. When it flew higher the light
from the object reflected on the clouds, and I was able to see that it
was more a ball shape than a disk. Thanks to Dean Burgess, djburgess@snet.net
and Larry Clark, www.nymufon.org, lclark@ibm.net
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- NEW YORK
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- WEST HAMPTON -- CAUS reports that Shirley
stated, "I live near West Hampton Air Force Base on Long Island.
On April 8, 1999, there were three triangular aircraft that flew over my
home. I got a few pictures of the third object. This was low and I hope
the pictures come out since, I have never taken pictures at night before.
This was a true triangular shaped aircraft. My daughter and her boyfriend
also saw one of these on the way home from picking up my son at work also
at about 9:30 PM, last night. He said it was no stealth fighter. We have
seen them before. The craft had lights all around the outside edge and
a red light in the bottom center. It made a great deal of noise. I went
through all Air Force pictures on the computer and found nothing that even
looks like it. Thanks to James A. Peters (James_Peters@compuserve.com)
and Peter A. Gersten Director of CAUS.
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- PENNSYLVANIA
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- LATROBE On April 10, 1999, the witness
who is a law enforcement officer for a state agency, had taken a walk outside
and at about 7:40 P.M. He noticed a brilliant star-like object very high
up in the sky that looked similar to Venus. He is used to seeing Venus
later in the evening, but towards the west. The sun had just set, and
the witness thought that it was still too early to see many stars. He
lined up the bright object with the corner of a building, and confirmed
that the object was indeed moving very slowly. He ran inside and got his
10 x 50 binoculars. The object was moving slowly and steadily from northwest
to southeast. In the binoculars the actual shape of the object itself
couldn't be determined, since the sun was reflecting off the body and it
was extremely bright. What was most interesting, was that hanging from
the bottom of the brilliant object was a long appendage that "looked
like a very long poll?" The pole must been very large to see so clearly.
This straight device gave the impression of a silver pendulum rotating
under the object counter clockwise. At times the pole would remain straight
down and stop. There may have been some bumps or irregularities along
the appendage. The object was observed for about 20 minutes. Thanks to
Stan Gordon researcher PA UFO Hotline (724-838-7768) Website: www.westol.com/~paufo
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- OHIO
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- CLYDE -- The Fremont News-Messenger article
stated: "A month after several unidentified flying object sightings
near Clyde, two 18 year old teens reported seeing a strange object in the
sky on April 11, 1999. Timothy R. Twice and Shawn Robinson, told Freemont
police they were driving at 9:42 PM, Sunday in the area of Atkinson Elementary
School and saw a UFO in the sky. They described it as saucer shaped, bright
white with green lights in the front and back. Twiss said as they were
watching, it suddenly "took off like a bolt of lightning!" Thanks
to News-Messenger 4/13/99. Ken Young comments: "This is yet another
mysterious sightings reported from Sandusky County in the last few weeks.
For details see the detailed reports at: http://home.fuse.net/ufo/Fremont99.htm
Thanks to Ken Young at UFO Research
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- VIRGINIA
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- HOPEWELL -- Frank writes, "Recently
I took part in a MUFON investigation of members of a Hopewell, family whose
close encounter resulted in numerous physical affects including wounds
to at least two family members. I also talked with others who also saw
unidentified craft in the same area, between Colonial Heights and Hopewell
in early February 1999. The Central Virginia area is a very active UFO
area where "MUM" has been the word about strange craft for a
long time. Are there any WEB pages that keep current and historic data
bases on sightings and unusual events? mrmoe@erols.com. Editors Note: I
have not received any sighting reports from Virginia in recent months.
Congratulations, it looks like your finding out what is going on in your
area, which is the most important job of a field investigator. You are
in effect the expert detective in your area. There is a mistaken idea
that headquarters knows the movements of UFOs in a local area and will
report them to you. When UFOs are reported to me, I put them in Filer's
Files. I feel that in any location an investigator starts a search for
UFO sightings, he can find them. Witnesses seldom come to you. The National
Reporting Center at http://www.nwlink.com/~ufocntr/webreports.html has
many reports. A search engine index to my files is at: http://ufoinfo.com/filer/search.html
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- NEW MEXICO
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- ALBUQUERQUE -- IamLeona writes that on
April 2, 1999, my wife and I observed a very bright luminous object traveling
east just south of our home 10:03 PM. We are located at 8,000 feet up in
a mountainous area 20 miles SE of Albuquerque. The object was a bright
luminous amber sphere slightly smaller than the moon would appear and traveled
just above tree top level. The distance from us was difficult to judge
because the size is unknown but we both estimated it to be between 50 and
300 yards away. The object was definitely not anything like the air traffic
we normally see and made no sound. We observed the object for 15 - 20
seconds until it disappeared behind trees. Thanks to IamLeona
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- WASHINGTON ELK ABDUCTION UPDATE
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- MOUNT ST. HELENS On February 25th, fourteen
witnesses observed an elk was being abducted by a UFO. Robert A. Fairfax
WA MUFON Director of Investigation reports an official at the Washington
Department of Game told him that more than 100 dead elk were reported in
the St. Helen's region. Because of the long winter and dearth of new spring
growth and nutrient providing new growth in general, many animals have
used up their energy reserves. The elk have migrated to lower elevations
in search of food; many animals have met new energy depleting situations
such as being run by dog packs or avoiding people on horseback outings.
The deer in the area are suffering from a nutritional hair loss disease.
What this all boils down to, is that the elk we found without any obvious
mutilation markings is not likely to have been actually abducted by a UFO.
Apparently, some of these elk can appear to be well fed because they are
eating large quantities of bulk food, but the problem is with the nutrient
value of that forage. With so many carcasses around, the carrion feeders
may feel no need to descend on any one particular body shortly after it
succumbs. That may be the reason the elk we examined was not scavenged
for 3 weeks after it was discovered. I suggested to Bob that these craft
may not be manned and are sent to pick up food and elks for experimentation.
The meat, blood and other fluids in a large animals body could be used
as food. Fairfax said: "Certainly one would like to think that animals
were at least not being wasted, however, as in all the animal abductions
that I am aware, the meat is not harvested. Perhaps the blood is used
for substance but there would be better methods of procurement -- (like
the vampire bat), there would be seemingly little problem of the high tech
draining of some blood from several critters such that no permanent damage
ensued. If they are using the animals for nutritional needs, they are
not very high-minded in their concern for animal welfare. Add to that
the taking of pets such as dogs and cats and horses, along with many other
species and you have to wonder about this scenario." Thanks to Bob
Fairfax.
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- MEXICO RESORT A GETAWAY FOR
EXTRATERRESTRIALS?
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- TEPOZTLAN -- Seattle Times by Ricardo
Sandoval. When Carlos Diaz came down from his first mountainside encounter
with a UFO 20 years ago, he was worried people in this popular resort town
would shun him as a nut case. But what stunned Diaz was his inability
to get anyone here excited. To residents of Tepoztlan - and many of its
countless weekend visitors -- his account of getting close to a glowing
object pulsing with yellow, orange and red streaks was no big deal. In
this sun-drenched haven for residents of nearby Mexico City, believers
are as common as the healing crystals and Indian sweathouses that help
make Tepoztlan a popular getaway in a country steeped in superstition.
The commonplace nature of UFO sightings here, against a surreal backdrop
of jagged peaks and an Aztec pyramid halfway up a 1,000 foot cliff, also
make Tepoztlan ideal for the UFO information center Diaz plans to open
this month. "I found people in their 90s who have had so many sightings
that they now take them for granted," said Diaz, who says he has witnessed
dozens of visits here by spacecraft. "They simply refer to them now
as sunspots in the night sky." Diaz says he wants to help others
find the truth through a nonprofit clearinghouse about extraterrestrials
and their love of visiting Mexico and Tepoztlan. In the past decade alone,
hundreds of sightings throughout Mexico have been reported to UFO experts,
often above Mexico City and it's surrounding volcanic mountains. Video
recorders have captured odd shapes over the capital's upscale neighborhoods.
During Pope John Paul II's recent visit, many people -- including radio
and TV reporters -- talked quite earnestly of seeing strange lights in
the sky during one of his Masses. That pales beside Tepoztlan's record
for ethereal sightings. Some longtime residents report soberly that 60
percent of the people here have seen UFOs. Many say it's because the copper-laden
mountains, which bedevil cell phones, televisions and radios, also act
as beacons for extraterrestrials. Others say it's the "seven bands
of energy" -- electromagnetic waves -- streaming through the valley
around Tepoztlan. It's probably mass hysteria and a desire to be part
of the hip crowd in very hip Tepoztlan, countered Mario Torres Lujan, a
physicist who edits the magazine Contacto OVNI. OVNI is the equivalent
acronym in Spanish to "UFO." Torres Lujan says he believes visitors
come calling from elsewhere in the universe, but insists he tries to bring
science into his investigations. He says he gets as excited about uncovering
hoaxes as by establishing legitimate claims. He says many of the Tepoztlan
sightings are real and even predate the Spanish conquest in the 1520s.
Copyright © 1999 Seattle Times Company April 9, 1999
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- CUERNAVACA -- While repairing the roof
of my house March 15, around a 11:00 AM, I spotted a large shiny object
in the western sky upon taking a closer look through binoculars I managed
to spot several smaller objects surrounding the large object. I managed
to count at least forty smaller objects. I invited my sister to witness
the event as a backup eyewitness. As we passed the binoculars back and
forth to each other we suddenly realized that the smaller objects were
entering the large object one by one very slowly. It took about half an
hour for the smaller objects to enter the large one. Another large object
of the same size joined the first object side by side and they both proceeded
to move south slowly at first and then disappeared outwards into space.
Thanks to Dave Ledger dledger@cableinet.co.uk
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- PULSE WEAPONS
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- Bill Rose writes, EMG weapons have been
a reality for some time and are designed to disable electronic systems.
A new device was recently introduced for the Tomahawk cruise missile which
is called the Explosive Magnetocumulative Generator Warhead. It consists
of a coil surrounded by explosives, which are configured to implode. A
fraction of a second before detonation, a current is passed through the
coil which generates a small magnetic field. When the implosion occurs,
the coil is squeezed to generate a massive electromagnetic pulse which
equals that produced by a tactical nuke. Developed at Los Alamos, this
particular device adds to the many warheads now available for cruise missiles
which include nuclear/non nuclear, submunition dispensing, carbon fiber
strand (to take out power lines) and probably chemical agent delivery.
There have been calls to use these "non lethal" warheads against
Serbian radar and installations reliant on electronics. Many other types
of EMG weapons are already in NATO and Russian service from aircraft delivered
devices to some the size of small demolition charges, designed for special
forces use. Thanks to Bill Rose.
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