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- CHINA HAS THE FIRST UFO OF THE NEW MILLENIUM
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- UFOs kicked off the New Millenium with the surprise appearance
of a daylight disc on New Year's Day. At about 6:30 a.m. Beijing time on
Saturday, January 1, 2000, a silver-gray UFO appeared over the Great Wall
of China. As it hovered, it was captured by Cable News network (CNN) TV
cameras and broadcasted live in the USA. Eyewitness M. Lamb was watching
the CNN coverage "when CNN showed a shot of the Great Wall of China
at sunrise...When they cut to the shot, there was a gray orb floating over
the wall. Then it floated to the right, then up. Then they (CNN) cut
away from the shot without any explanation of the floating object. It
was silver and appeared to float or glide without any means of propulsion."
(Email Interview) "In Pusalu, a patch of struggling corn and bean
farms 30 miles (48 kilometers) from Beijing, villagers believe cosmic forces
were at play on December 11 (1999)." "As they tell it, an object
the size of a person shimmering with golden light moved slowly up into
the sky from the surrounding mountains." "'It was so beautiful,
sort of yellow,' villager Wang Cunqiao said. 'It was like someone flying
up to heaven.'" Mrs. Wang told the Chinese media that the mysterious
yellow object rose above the red roof of Pusalu's one-story village hall.
The Journal of UFO Research is China's "bimonthly magazine--circulation
400,000--devoted to UFO research. The conservative, state-run media report
UFO sightings. UFO buffs claim support from eminent scientists and liaisons
with the secretive military, giving their work a scientific sheen of responsibility."
"'Some of these sightings are real, some are fake, and with others
it's unclear,'said Shen Shituan, a real rocket scientist, president of
Beijing Aerospace and honorary director of the China UFO Research Association.
'All these phenomena are worth researching.'" "Research into
UFOs will help spur new forms of high-speed travel, unlimited sources of
energy and faster-growing crops, claims Sun Shili, president of the government-approved
UFO Research Association (membership 50,000)." (See the Duluth, Minn.
News-Tribune for January 3, 2000, "Aliens or Illusions?" page
5A.)
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- CIGAR-SHAPED UFO SEEN BY THREE IN VITEBSK, BELARUS
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- A cigar-shaped UFO appeared the day before Christmas
in the eastern European nation of Belarus. On Friday, December 24, 1999,
at 8:44 a.m., Oleg V. Kirillov, 29, and two other men saw the UFO in Yurievka
Gorka, a suburb of Vitebsk. Kirillov described the UFO as "a cigar-shaped
object, color blue-red, the color of a cloud at sunset. bright like a cloud
but without any rays or a trail. Its size was about three meters (10 feet)
by five meters (17 feet). The front portion was rounded and symmetrical.
The rear portion seemed blurred." "There was not any noise at
any time. After three or four seconds, the object suddenly vanished. There
was no impression of a real solid object.. It was more like an image, maybe
semi-transparent." Vitebsk is a large city in Belarus approximately
320 kilometers (200 miles) north of Minsk. (Many thanks to Errol Bruce-Knapp
for forwarding this report.)
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- UFO FLAP BREAKS OUT IN NEW ZEALAND
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- "UFO fever is threatening to break out after a rash
of calls to police about fast-moving, coloured lights in the sky north
of the city," i.e. Auckland, located on the North Island. "Police
received six calls over two hours from several different areas north of
Auckland on Saturday night (December 25, 1999) but have been unable to
explain the lights." "One caller said the lights moved 400 metres
(1,320 feet) in less than two seconds whilst two others said they moved
up and down in the sky very fast." "Inspector Barry Smalley of
the Police North Communications Centre said there was something in the
sky, but no one knows quite what." "'There's something there.
Because of the path it was travelling, it may have been something coming
through the atmosphere.'" "'It's another mystery. We'll have
to get Mulder and Scully (fictional heroes of the TV show X-Files) on it.'"
"The first call to police was at 9:30 p.m., twenty minutes after the
first sighting from Raglan of what appeared to be a green flare when looking
in the direction of Auckland. The flare died before it hit the sea."
"Further reports had the lights moving north." "The last
sighting was about 11:36 p.m. from Tinopai, in Northland, where a resident
reported 'huge lights' over the hills due north. The lights were reported
to have moved about 400 metres in two seconds." "Two more strange
lights were reported 'going straight up and down sky, intensely bright
and intensely red,' looking across Kaipara Harbour. The lights were reported
to be darting about in the sky." (See The Press of Auckland, N.Z.
for December 29, 1999, "Night Lights Mystery," page 2. Many
thanks to Steve Wilson Sr. for forwarding this newspaper article.)
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- UFOs RING IN THE NEW YEAR IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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- On Wednesday, December 29, 1999, at 2:40 p.m., Bryan
C., 42, "had returned from the grocery store" and had just arrived
at his home near La Jolla Hermosa Avenue in La Jolla, California, he reported,
"When I heard a helicopter to the north." "As I always do
when I see or hear a plane or helicopter, I looked as it approached and
noticed a white object sitting off to its eastern side. At first I thought
it was a reflection of the sun. Then I thought it might be a bird. But
whatever it was, it matched speed and altitude as it paralleled the helicopter."
"After it went overhead, I continued to watch the two (craft) and
stared intently at the object. The object stayed the same until ten seconds,
when it veered towards the east and away from the helicopter." "The
helicopter made a steep turn towards the west as the object made a curving
motion and disappeared into the horizon's brightness." "The object
was about 2.5 to 3 feet in length. It was a milky white orb, and some of
the edges were slightly translucent. It was shaped like a star with dozens
of spikes or points in a spherical pattern. It also looked like a white
rose with many pointed petals. It was not illuminated from within but
seemed to have a constant luminosity." Bryan added that he had an
impression that the helicopter was in pursuit of the object. This, he
added, was unusual because it was not a police or a military helicopter
but had a civilian livery or color scheme. (Email Form Report) On January
2, 2000, at 9:32 p.m., Michael R. and two other witnesses spotted three
silent but unusual bright UFOs over Lancaster, California (population 97,291),
a city 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Los Angeles. Mike was "about
one mile west of Route 14 and Avenue J" in Lancaster when the UFOs
"suddenly appeared on a relatively flat trajectory from the north,
heading south." He described them as "three very brilliant flourescent
green dots" which "followed the same trajectory until turning
into tails, then turning yellow in color before disappearing almost simultaneously."
Mike said he and the other two witnesses saw the overflight from three
separate locations "within a block of each other. It was so bright
as to call our attention to the side of our field of view. No sound, no
explosion at the change of color or the disappearance. Clear skies. No
discernible wind." (Email Form Report)
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- MOTORIST SEES A UFO NORTH OF BANGOR, MAINE
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- On Wednesday, December 29, 1999, around 6:30 p.m., a
man was driving on Interstate Highway 1-95 in Maine, from Millinocket to
Belfast, when he spotted a bright UFO hovering in the sky in Old Town,
just north of Bangor (population 33,181). The witness was driving along
"when something caught his attention in the nighttime sky." "He
said it was a very bright light," the witness's wife reported. "He
didn't think much of it since the Bangor International Airport was only
10 miles away. That is, until he saw it move ever so slowly, then it shot
across the sky and out of sight at a much faster rate of speed than any
aircraft could fly. Then it was gone." "When he walked through
the door and told me this story, he was upset because he was alone in the
car and wished I could have been there to see it." Bangor is on I-95
approximately 132 miles (211 kilometers) northeast of Portland. (Email
Form Report)
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- ROUNDUP CORRIGENDA: Australian ufologist Bill Chalker,
author of The Oz files--The Australian UFO Story, had some corrections
for last week's article, "A Century of UFOs" in UFO Roundup,
volume 4, number 36. "1900 - Hanging Rock! Let's keep this affair
where it belongs--an enduring and haunting piece of fiction. Unlcess there's
information I don't know about, this story never happened. It is fiction,
exquisite fiction penned by Joan Lindsay in her wonderful novel Picnic
at Hanging Rock (Penguin Books, 1967) and then it was a great film (1980)
directed by Peter Weir." (Editor's Comment: Janet Bord mentions the
Miranda McKay/Irma Leopold/Hanging Rock case in one of her recent UFO books.
But I think Bill Chalker is right on this one. There is no mention of
any "missing girls" case in the Melbourne Argus for February
1900.) "The only cross-shaped mystery I recollect Lismore (N.S.W.)
being associated with was of a glowing "cross" that titillated
locals around 1978." (Editor's Comment: Again Bill is right. The
date 1918 is Unsolved Mysteries of the Twentieth Century is probably a
typo.) Also, Frederick Valentich's middle name is Paul, not Michael. And
the Knowles family had their harrowing UFO experience of January 1988 in
the state of Western Australia, not South Australia.
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- Now that Y2K is over, we can kick back and relax and
watch that hilarious new situation comedy on CNN--The New Hampshire Primary.
But don't return your Spam and beans to the supermarket just yet. The
next Apocalypse is due in May. Edgar Cayce (1874-1945), the prominent
New Age psychic, forecast that Earth's axis would shift during the year
2000. Fllorida would end up where Greenland is now and vice versa. Some
people think the massive destruction will occur on May 5 or May 17, 2000
when the sun, the moon and five planets will be in perfect alignment with
Earth for the first time since 1962. We shall see. In the meantime, we'll
be back next week with more UFO and paranormal news from around the planet,
brought to you by "the paper that goes home--UFO Roundup." Enjoy
the New Millenium!
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