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       UFO ROUNDUP
Volume 10, Number 5
February 1, 2005
Editor: Joseph Trainor

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Website: http://www.ufoinfo.com/roundup/


UFOs AGAIN REPORTED IN
THE INDIAN OCEAN AREA

       "People are again reporting having UFO sightings in
the Nicobar Islands, the Andaman Islands, India, the
Maldive Islands and in the central area of Sri Lanka."
       "The animals in these areas are again showing strange
behavior.  Tribesmen around the Andamans are again taking
the signs seriously and are refusing to move back into the
area" that was devastated by an earthquake measuring 9.0
on the Richter scale and a subsequent catastrophic
tsunami.
       "The tribal people of the Nicobar and Andaman Islands
have again moved to high ground.  The sea birds are also
showing strange signs."
       On Monday, January 25, 2005, "powerful earthquakes
sparked panic in two countries Monday, nearly a month
after a quake triggered a deadly wall of water that killed
more than 160,000 people."
       "The two quakes, both magnitude 6.3" on the Richter
scale "jangled nerves across the Indian Ocean region hit
by the December 26 (2004) tsunami."
       "Panic briefly spread through the Indian coastal city
of Madras after residents felt an earthquake centered in
the Bay of Bengal, about 1,548 kilometers (930 miles)
away, near the Nicobar and Andaman Islands."
       "Samuel Cherian, the senior police officer in
Campbell Bay on the southernmost island in the Andaman
archipelago, said he was sitting in his office
when he felt 'a sudden jolt.'"
       "The aftershock was felt in Banda Aceh province on
the northern tip of Sumatra," the largest island in
Indonesia, "but such tremors have been common in the last
month and residents have largely come to ignore them."
       "Seismologists said the quake near the Andamans was
clearly an aftershock of the 9.0 magnitude quake that
struck off the coast of Sumatra a month ago.  The two lie
on the same fault line, said John Bellini, a geophysicist
at the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colorado."
       "But a predawn temblor earlier Monday on the
Indonesian island of Sulawesi--nearly 3,200 kilometers
(2,000 miles) to the east--was not triggered by the Dec.
26 quake because they lie on different faults, Bellini
said."
       "Still, the Sulawesi quake, centered about 40
kilometers (25 miles) southwest of the city of Palu, sent
thousands of panicked residents running to higher ground."
       "'They were shouting, 'Water!  Water!' because they
feared waves,' said Dr. Riri Lamadjido, at the city's
Undata Hospital, which received no injured patients as a
result of the temblor."
       "About 30 wooden houses and some shops were damaged,
Palu police said."
       Tremors continued Wednesday, January 26, 2005 in the
Nicobar Islands with three more, one of which was about
6.0 on the Richter scale.  On Thursday, January 27, 2005,
thirteen tremors, measuring about 4.5 to 5.5 on the
Richter scale, again rattled the Nicobar Islands.  Two
more were reported in the same island chain on Friday,
January 28, 2005.
       According to the newspaper India Daily, "The UFO
sightings happen at night with strange lights.  Ships
travelling between India and the Nicobar and Andaman
Islands, as well as commercial fishermen on the Indian
Ocean, have reported receiving strange signals on their
radios as they pass over the area," suggesting that the
UFOs "are affecting the maritime radio frequencies."
       "According to some experts, these are signs of
possible experimentation with tectonic plates by some
entity."
       "People in the Nicobar Islands claim that something
is going on under the ocean--deep underground--a few
kilometers beneath the watery surface."
       "The timing of the aftershocks is also strange.
After one large aftershock, there is a considerable length
of time before the next one.  It means someone is
controlling the aftershocks and are making sure the
(tectonic) plates are not overstressed."
       "Since the big earthquake on Dec. 26, the Andaman and
Nicobar Islands have experienced 121 aftershocks, all
ranging between 5.0 and 6.0 on the Richter scale."
       "A sailor with the Shipping Authority of India, Ltd.,
who has sailed on trans-Atlantic routes, says this part of
the Indian Ocean now resembles the Bermuda Triangle
region."  (See India Daily for January 24, 2005, "UFO
sightings and strange signals again reported in the Indian
Ocean."  Also the Duluth, Minn. News-Tribune for January
25, 2005, "Earthquakes rattle nerves in tsunami region."
Many thanks to Krishnari Bai Dharapurnanda for the Indian
newspaper article.)


STRANGE SERIES OF QUAKES
JOLTS COAST OF ECUADOR

       Last week Ecuador was rattled by an incredible 12
earthquakes in a period of just five days.
       The small country on the west coast of South America
had its first quake on Thursday, January 20, 2005.  It was
the first of 12 "earthquakes of considerable magnitude
along the Ecuadorian coast, keeping local residents in a
state of fear."
       "Faced with a series of earthquakes, the locals have
shown clear signs of concern."
       "Ecuadorian authorities have called for calm, stating
that these are normal events, and fears that they may
cause a tsunami have been dismissed."
       "The Geologic Institute pointed out that 'the cause
of these events is understood in nature and therefore is
unable to generate a tsunami.'"
       "Most of the quakes had their epicenter in the
(Pacific Ocean) facing the shores of Manta, 260 kilometers
(156 miles) southwest of Quito," the national capital.
       "The other four occurred early Sunday morning,"
January 23, 2005, "the first at an intensity of 4.5 and
the final one at 5.0" on the Richter scale.
       "While most of the quakes occurred offshore from
Manta, others were recorded in the vicinity of Esmeraldas,
180 kilometers (112 miles) northwest of Quito.
       On Monday, January 24, 2005, at 6:23 p.m., a quake
measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale shook the ocean floor
45 kilometers (28 miles) southwest of Portoviejo, a
fishing town located 275 kilometers (170 miles) west-
southwest of Quito.  (See the newspapers Las Ultimas
Noticias of Chile for January 24, 2005, "Ecuador: 11
earthquakes in four days," and El Comercio of Peru for
January 26, 2005, "Another temblor in Ecuador."  Muchas
gracias a Scott Corrales, Liliana Nunez Orellana y Monica
Gaetano de Silva por estes articulos de diario.)


MYSTERIOUS LIGHT BEAM
SWEEPS SHROPSHIRE

       "Astronomical experts have joined forces with puzzled
Shropshire residents in a bid to identify the mysterious
beam of light spotted in the county's skies."
       "People across the county stopped in their tracks as
a massive beam of light lit up the early morning skies on
Tuesday," January 18, 2005.  "But no one could explain
what caused the eerie light, which disappeared three
seconds later."
       "Now county residents and top boffins (UK slang for
scientists--J.T.) have drawn up a list of possible
explanations, including an iridium flare, a burning
meteor, a bright searchlight, aircraft landing lights or
even a UFO."
       "Sue Oliver, 37, of Briarwood, Brookside, Telford,"
Shropshire, UK "saw the beam of light at 6:40 a.m. while
walking her dog at nearby Nedge Hill."
       "She said that although she doesn't usually believe
in 'weird happenings,' after seeing the light, she thought
it could have been a UFO."
       "Montgomeryshire MP (Member of Parliament) Lembit
Opik, who has campaigned to raise awareness of the idea of
a meteorite or comet hitting the earth, claimed the light
was most likely an iridium flare, which can illuminate
hundreds of square miles and would look like a bright
light."
       "But Kev Wildgoose, from the Shropshire Astronomical
Soceity, disagreed and said 40 years of experience has led
him not to believe it was an astronomical sighting."
       "'I'd be more inclined to identify it as an aircraft,
perhaps a bright search light,' he said."
       "People in Lancashire also reported something strange
in the sky on Tuesday," January 18, 2005.  (See the
Shropshire Star for January 21, 2005, "Experts join debate
on mystery light."  Many thanks to Robert Fischer for this
newspaper article.)


ANOTHER UFO REPORTED
IN NEW ZEALAND

       On Wednesday, January 26, 2005, at 4 a.m., Mark and
Fran Hirst were sound asleep at their home in Wainuiomata,
near Lower Hutt on New Zealand's North Island when
something unusual happened.
       "I was woken just before 4 a.m. by a loud wooshing
sound like a small tornado," Fran reported, "It became
louder and louder, and it certainly didn't sound anything
like a plane or a chopper (helicopter--J.T.).  A UFO is
all I could think of right then."
       "Then I saw a row of bright white strobe lights all
moving in a circling motion through the (window) curtain.
It lit the whole room even though the curtain were thick
and were pulled.  It passed overhead at a fairly slow
speed."
       "Then the noise and the lights disappeared, and I
summoned the courage to look out the window.  But it was
nowhere to be seen.  Nothing--just a still, quiet night.
I did not see the actual craft.  It was quite low but
above roof height.  A quick approach and an even quicker
departure, an instantaneous departure."
       Lower Hutt is on New Zealand's North Island, located
about 100 kilometers (60 miles) east of Wellington.
(Email Form Report)


CYLINDRICAL UFO SEEN IN
LEHIGHTON, PENNSYLVANIA

       On Tuesday, January 25, 2005, at 6:15 p.m., Dan F.
was driving through East Penn Township near Lehighton,
Pennsylvania (population 5,537) when he saw a cyclindrical
UFO coming from the west.
       "I was driving home on Route 895, looking west and
saw a  flat, bar-shaped structure of white lights heading
towards me," Dan reported, "I at first thought it was a
plane but then realized it was very large and very low.
It veered south toward the valley along the Blue Mountains
and was probably 100 to 200 feet (30 to 60 meters) above
the ground."
       "It made a steep turn and headed back towards the
highway, as I slowed down to almost a stop to get a better
look at it.  There is nothing (in the township--J.T.) but
old abandoned (stone) quarries, some farmland and
woodlands along the stretch, and this would be nowhere
near large enough to hold whatever it was."
       "As soon as I slowed down enough and was within a
quarter-mile (0.4 kilometers) of the object, it made a
showy right turn towards the mountains and promptly
vanished.  I turned off my radio and opened my window and
heard no sounds at all.  The skies were relatively clear.
(The UFOs) speed variable, sometimes very fast, at other
times almost floating."
       Lehighton, Pa. is on Highways 476 and 209,
approximately 18 miles (30 kilometers) north of Allentown.
(Email Form Report)


THREE UFOs SIGHTED NEAR
ROXBURY, VIRGINIA

       On Friday, January 14, 2005, Kenneth Seay was
outdoors in Charles City County, Virginia, southeast of
Roxbury (population 500) when he spotted an unusual
glimmer in the southwestern sky.
       "They were just above the horizon," Ken reported,
"Pulsating with red, green, yellow and blue lights.  The
three of them stayed still for several moments.  Then they
moved directly west.  They were closer and I could barely
see lights in them.  They stayed for about 15 minutes,
then the closest one faded, vanished.  There were still
colored lights around.  Their height was just above the
horizon, and their speed was very slow."
       Roxbury, Va. is on Route 106 about 20 miles (32
kilometers) east of Richmond, the state capital.  (Many
thanks to Tracy and Amy Helvey for this report.)


MYSTERY METEOR CRASHES
IN NORTHWEST CAMBODIA

       "A 4.5-kilogram (10-pound) suspected meteorite landed
in a rice field in northwestern Cambodia, narrowly missing
a nearby village, police said."
       "'The rock fell on a harvested rice field from the
sky on Monday morning (January 24, 2005),' said Sok
Sareth, police chief of Banteay Meanchey province, which
borders Thailand."
       "'According to villagers who live nearby, it came
very quickly from the sky and made a noise like a bomb
exploding.  It dug about 40 centimeters (16 inches) into
the ground,' he said."
       "'The rock was a little bit black and was hot and
looks strange compared to other rocks.  It was lucky that
it did not land in the village, or people could have been
killed,' he said, adding that experts should examine the
rock."
       "Pictures of the rock were splashed across the front
pages of local newspapers" in Cambodia on Wednesday,
January 26, 2005.
       "Sok Sareth said villagers reportedly wanted to turn
it into a shrine."
       "'Nobody has asked for it yet, but I have been told
that some villagers said they want to put it on a shrine
and pray to it.  But we won't allow them to do that.  It's
undignified,' he said."  (See the Agence France Presse
report for January 26, 2005, "Suspected meteor lands in
Cambodia."  Many thanks to Jim Hickman, executive director
of Skywatch International, for this news story.)


CHILEAN POULTRY SLAIN BY
CHUPACABRAS

       "Two families of the commune of Victoria" in southern
Chile "were shocked after finding almost all of their farm
birds dead inside their henhouses."
       "The first occurred on a property located a few
blocks from the city's main plaza during the early morning
hours of Sunday," January 23, 2005.  "It was still
possible to see the feathers of the dead birds scattered
throughout the sector."
       "People who were in the sector at the time of the
attack stated that they had gone to bed around 4 a.m.
without hearing any strange sounds.  The first dead
specimens were locked in a double-gated cage that was kept
shut at night to keep the poultry safe from mice and cats.
But the creature opened the gates to the cage, killing ten
chickens."
       "Afterwards, the strange animal toured the two
henhouses in the area, killing everything in its way,
leaving feathers in its path."
       "The next case occurred in a house located three
blocks from the municipal buildings in the downtown area
of Victoria.  This time, the birds showed clear wounds--
puncture marks in their extremities and under their wings,
leaving the birds completely purple, without a trace of
blood on their plumage."
       "Luis Gonzalez, owner of the property, revealed that
there was no need for guard dogs since his rooster played
that role.  The rooster kept strangers from approaching
the enclosure, and its aggressiveness was such that the
owner" allowed it to patrol the farmyard.  "But the
rooster's natural violence did not keep it from being
killed by the 'animal' together with six hens."
       "There are other strange cases that had alarmed the
residents of La Araucania, this time in the vicinity of
Angol.  One such case occurred while the city's jail was
being built in 2000.  A night watchman was doing his
rounds when he saw a strange animal land on the hook
holding the streetlight, bending it.  The watchman managed
to see 'something' with wings, measuring one meter (3
feet, 3 inches), red eyes and completely covered in fur."
(Editor's Note:  Angol is a notorious UFO hotspot.  A
couple had an alien encounter there in 2000.  See UFO
Roundup, volume 6, number 10 for March 8, 2001, "Chilean
couple's first date turns into an encounter with aliens,"
page 2.)
       "According to Erasmo Mela, president of IFOV (Spanish
acronym for Victoria UFO Phenemena Research--J.T.), 'We
have had at least five cases attributable to the
Chupacabras, and the same incisions were found on the
wings.  Other characteristics of these attacks are the
absence of spilled blood.  If you see an animal killing
another, the killer shakes it, spilling blood everywhere.
There were no traces of blood on the floor,' he stressed."
       "What is strange about the events in Victoria and
neighboring communities is that the animal, which
allegedly attacks rural areas, is now active in densely-
populated areas, including backyards 400 meters from the
central area of any city, such as its Plaza Mayor."  (See
the Chilean newspaper El Austral for January 24, 2005,
"Chupacabras behind avian deaths?"  Muchas gracias a Scott
Corrales y Liliana Nunez Orellana por esto articulo de
diario.)


WEIRD MALADY DEVASTATES
TASMANIAN DEVILS

       "A disease that has devastated the Tasmanian devil
population is probably being spread by the animal's
boisterous sex life, Australian scientists believe."
       The small animal, indigenous to Australia's island-
state of Tasmania, "has been wiped out in many parts of
the island over the past three years.  The numbers of
'Nature's janitor,' as the (Tasmanian) devil is nicknamed,
has fallen from about 150,000 to less than half of that,
with four out of five dying in some areas."
       "Researchers believe that the animals' habit of
fighting over decaying carrion and engaging in robust
sexual foreplay take credit for the speed at which the
disease has spread.  The illness, first noticed about five
years ago, causes the development of facial tumors that
leave the animal unable to see or eat."  (See The
Independent of UK for January 27, 2005, "Violent sex is
'killing the Tasmanian devil.'"  Many thanks to Mary Lou
Jones-Drown for this newspaper article.)
(Editor's Comment: Spread by a "boisterous sex life," eh?
Better hope some agent of Al-Qaeda doesn't show up in
Hollywood for Oscar Night with one of these ailing
critters on a leash.)


THE RAIN ON TITAN'S PLAIN
IS MAINLY METHANE

       "Black-and-white photos from the Huygens probe show a
rugged terrain of ridges, peaks, dark vein-like channels
and apparently dry lakebeds" on Saturn's largest moon,
Titan.
       "On Earth, methane is a flammable gas.  On Titan, it
is a liquid because of the intense pressure and cold--274
degrees below zero" on the Fahrenheit scale.
       "'There is liquid that is flowing on the surface of
Titan.  It is not water--it is much too cold--it's liquid
methane, and this methane really plays the same big role
on Titan as water does on Earth,' said mission manager
Jean-Pierre Lebreton.  'There are truly remarkable
processes at work on Titan's surface and in the atmosphere
of Titan which are very, very similar to those occurring
on Earth.'"
       "A sensor about the size of a police officer's
nightstick on the front of Huygens probed beneath the
moon's crust and found a material with the consistency of
loose sand."
       "Channels on the (Titanian) surface are evidence of
methane rain.  There are also what appear to be river
systems and deltas, frozen protrusions riddled by
channels, apparent dried-out pools where liquid has
perhaps drained away, and stones--probably (methane) ice
pebbles--that seem to have been rounded by erosion."
       "'Does it rain only once a year?  Is there a wet
season once a year?  Does it rain more frequently?  We
don't know,' said another member of the team, Martin
Tomasko of the University of Arizona.  'The feeling is
that in the place we landed, it must rain fairly
frequently, but we can't be more precise than that.'"
       "The area is 'more like Arizona, or someplace like
that, where the river beds are dry most of the time,' he
added.  'Right after the rain, you might have open flowing
liquids, then there are pools, the pools gradually dry
out, and the liquid sinks down into the surface. Perhaps
it's very seasonal.'"
       "The river beds are darkened by what appears to be
particles of smog that fall out of Titan's atmosphere,
coating the terrain.  The dirt apparently gets washed off
the ridges by the methane rain to collect in the river
channels."
       "It did not appear to be raining when Huygens
descended throught Titan's (orange) haze on parachutes,
'but it has been raining not long ago,' Lebreton said."
       "Scientists believe the dark smog particles are
formed by Titan's methane, breaking up in the atmosphere.
That raised another question: where does the methane come
from?"
       "'There must be some source of methane inside Titan
which is releasing the gas into the atmosphere.  It has to
be continually renewed, otherwise it would have all
disappeared,' Owen said."
       "Lebreton, the mission manager, said a next possible
step in Titan exploration would be to send mobile probes,
perhaps balloons to float around before landing."
       "The Mars Rover team has already contacted him to say
that 'they really now are dreaming of sending their rovers
on the surface of Titan,' he added.  'This is highly
possible--that we can now dream seriously of sending
rovers on the surface of Titan.  We just need the money.'"
       "The probe was named after Titan's discoverer, the
Seventeenth Century Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens."
       "Huygens was spun off from the Cassini mother ship on
(Friday) December 24 (2004).  The $3.3 billion Cassini-
Huygens mission to explore Saturn and its moons was
launched in 1997 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, a joint
effort between NASA, the European Space Agency and the
Italian Space Agency.  Titan is the first moon other than
Earth's to be explored."  (See the Duluth, Minn. News-
Tribune for January 23, 2005, "Titan: Scientists unsure
how often methane rains down on the moon's surface," page
7A.)


MORE SNOW BLANKETS
MASSACHUSETTS

       Just a few days after "the Blizzard of 2005," more
snow fell on the USA's six New England states, with very
heavy accumulation on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, which
still hasn't dug out from the previous storm.
       "Hard on the heels of last weekend's Northeast
blizzard, another snowstorm on Wednesday," January 26,
2005, "gave Boston its snowiest month ever and sent a
chill down South that could coat the region in ice."
       "Boston, which had 42.2 inches (105.5 centimeters)
blew past the mark for its snowiest January (39.8 inches
or 99.5 centimeters in January 1966--J.T.) and beat its
record for a single month, set in February 2003 with 41.6
inches (104 centimeters)."
       "Providence (Rhode Island), with 34.5 inches (86.2
centimeters) through Tuesday," January 25, 2005, "flirted
with its snowiest January, also in 1966, of 37.4 inches
(93.5 centimeters)."
       "Cape Cod and Nantucket (island) were the hardest hit
last week, getting two to three feet of snow.  The
National Weather Service said the two spots could get the
most" on Wednesday, as well, "with up to 9 inches (22.5
centimeters) forecast."
       "Massachusetts Gov. Milt Romney asked President Bush
to declare a federal emergency for 10 counties still
hurting from the blizzard."
       In the Taunton-Attleboro region of Massachusetts,
"the followup punch to the weekend Blizzard of 2005 turned
out to be a feather tap Wednesday, delivering far less
snow than expected.  Up to 8 inches (20 centimeters) of
snow had been forecast, but the Attleboro Water Department
had recorded 6.5 inches (16 centimeters) of snow from the
storm, pushing the record-breaking monthly total to 51.25
inches (127 centimeters), the most that the city has ever
received in any month."
       Near-record accumulations of snow have also been
reported in Duluth, Minnesota (population 86,918) and the
communities along the north shore of Lake Superior.
       According to the Duluth, Minn. News-Tribune, "Along
the hills that define Minnesota's North Shore of Lake
Superior, the snow already is so deep this winter that..."
       (1) "Snowmobiles are getting stuck if they venture
off groomed trails."
       (2) "Homeowners are having to shovel in front of
their ground-level windows just to let some light into the
house."
       (3) "There's too much snow for snowshoeing at least
off packed trails."
       (4) "People are spending hours moving snow piles...to
make room for more snow piles."
       Larry Schanno, owner of Our Place tavern and
restaurant in Finland, Minn., 75 miles (120 kilometers)
northeast of Duluth, said, "I've never seen a winter where
we had 100 inches (250 centimeters) of snow, and January
isn't even over yet."
       "Actually, it's more like 111 inches (277
centimeters), recorded right across the street at the
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources office in
Finland.  There's about 40 inches (100 centimeters) still
on the ground, thanks to a stunning four-day snowfall
total--between January 19 and January 22--of 45.5 inches
(113.75 centimeters)."
       "The Finland area has become the region's snow
capital this winter, surpassing even Wisconsin's South
Shore snowbelt.  Earlier this week, there were 57 inches
(132.5 centimeters)...It was the most snow ever on the
ground at Wolf Ridge, Minnesota's snowiest place, and the
most in Minnesota anyone can recall in 45 years."
       "'You have to be careful where you step or you go up
to your armpits,' said Adam Barnett, a Wolf Ridge
naturalist who takes his turn at 7 a.m. each morning to
record the daily snowfall and snow depth totals."
       The snow depth at Wolf Ridge, on the outskirts of
Finland, Minn. was "just a couple of feet shy of the all-
time state snow-on-the-ground record of 75 inches (187.5
centimeters) set in 1950" at Pigeon River, Minn. "on the
Ontario border."
       "And there's still two months of winter."
       "'That's what's so unusual.  That we have so much
snow on the ground, and we aren't even into February,'
said Sam Stanfield, climate expert with the National
Weather Service in Duluth."
       "'Duluth has more snow on the ground than Marquette,
Michigan, and that's unheard of.  We're approaching usual
seasonal totals already and we have a lot of snow to
come.'"
(Editor's Comment:  That's for sure!  Marquette is in the
heart of what they call "the Big Snow Country" at the
western end of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.)
       According to the North Shore Journal, tiny towns such
as Silver Bay, Beaver Bay, Tofte, Schroeder, Lutsen, Lax
Lake and French River, Minn. have received incredible
amounts of snow.  "No matter how you say, it's still SNOW.
With 79.5 inches (198 centimeters) fallen this season, and
51.75 inches (129.4 centimeters) of those just this month,
we've had more than our share!  Our coldest real
temperature was minus 27 degrees Fahrenheit...Some areas
of town (Silver Bay, Minn.) were covered in snow a little
more than others, but we all got plenty--for sure...Though
a lot of us are tired of shoveling and snowblowing every
other day, the resorts, restaurants, hotels and local
establishments are sure to be singing choruses of 'Let It
Snow, Let It Snow' well into April (2005)."
       Other cities with heavy snowfall in the region
include Babbitt, Minnesota with 71.3 inches (178.25
centimeters); Hurley, Wisconsin with 98 inches (272
centimeters) and Ironwood, Michigan with 101 inches (279
centimeters)."
       Down South, "more than 300,000 homes in Georgia were
without power Sunday," January 30, 2005, "after a rare ice
storm virtually paralyzed metropolitan Atlanta."
       "Hundreds of churches canceled services, and icy
roads contributed to at least two drivers' deaths in
Georgia and one in South Carolina."
       "'The goal is to get the majority back on by Monday
evening,' Georgia Power spokeswoman Konswello Munroe
said."
       "At Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, thousands
of stranded passengers lined up to re-book one day after
hundreds of flights were canceled.  About 300 passengers
spent Saturday night," January 29, 2005, "at the airport.
Most flights were operating on schedule by mid-(Sunday)
morning." (See USA Today for January 27, 2005, "Boston
sets snow record," page 3A; the Attleboro, Mass. Sun-
Chronicle for January 27, 2005, "Area dodges the worst;"
the Duluth, Minn. News-Tribune for January 27, 2005,
"North Shore's in deep," pages 1A and 4A; the North Shore
Journal of January 29, 2005; and USA Today for January 31,
2005, "300,000 in the dark following Ga. storm," page 3A.
Many thanks to Mary-Lou Jones Drown, Carolyn Rzepecki and
Dan Dunphy for these newspaper articles.)


WEIRD WEATHER REPORTED
AROUND THE WORLD

       With "the Big Freeze" blanketing the USA's New
England states for the second week in a row, weird weather
popped up in other parts of the world, as well.
       In Iraq, heavy snowfalls smothered the northern
provinces of Dahuk, Irbil and Sulaymaniyah.  On Tuesday,
January 25, 2005, "15 centimeters (6 inches) of snow fell
in Dahuk and Al-Aqra," north of Mosul, reported Ayesha al-
Khatabi, UFO Roundup's Middle East correspondent.  "It was
very wet snow.  Car wheels were spinning, and the roads
were all blocked by stuck vehicles.  Even more snow fell
in the mountains around Raniyah and Rawanduz.  Snow
flurries were reported in Taqtaq, at the desert's edge."
       On Wednesday, January 26, 2005, beachgoers on the
Mediterranean Sea island of Mallorca were stunned to see
powdery snow falling from the sky.
       "This was the first snow on Mallorca in several
decades," UFO Roundup correspondent Diego Carrasco
reported.  "It covered the fronds of the palm trees and
the lemon, tangerine and olive trees.  Cars were skidding
off the highway between Parma and Manacor.  Icicles were
hanging from roof tiles in San Pablo.  Since there were no
(snow) plows on the island, the (Spanish) government had
to ship them from Valencia."
       Mallorca is the largest of Spain's Balearic Islands,
located in the Mediterranean Sea midway between Barcelona
and Bejaia, Algeria.
       In the southern hemisphere, which is experiencing its
summer, a storm front dropped a devastating load of hail
on the Adelaide region in South Australia.
       According to the Australian Broadcasting Corp., on
Wednesday, January 19, 2005, "Adelaide Hills residents say
hailstones as large as apples fell" during the "big storm
over the city."
       "The weather bureau said 27 millimeters (2.7
centimeters or 1.3 inches) of rainfall was recorded" in
the Gulf St. Vincent area.
       "Woodside resident Sarah Brayshaw says her (rain)
gauge shows 60 millimeters (6 centimeters or 2.2 inches)
fell in just a few hours."
       "She says her roof was pounded by hailstones the size
of golf balls."
       "'We have a tin roof on our farmhouse and it was big
and the sound was just deafening,' Mrs. Brayshaw said."
       "'We couldn't go outside because it would've hurt if
it had fallen on us.  It lasted for about three or four
minutes."
       Readers Len and Becky Darroch told UFO Roundup, "It
wasn't just Adelaide that was hammered by hailstones.
Hail fell from Gawler to Willunga, and the noise of it
hitting the roof drowned out all conversation."  (See the
Iraqi newspaper Al-Siyada for January 26, 2005; Agence
France Presse for January 27, 2005; and the Australian
Broadcasting Corp. report for January 20, 2005.  Many
thanks to Ayesha al-Khatabi and Zuhur al-Azmat, Diego
Carrasco and Len and Becky Darroch for these weather
stories.)


From the UFO Files...

1945: FLIGHT OF THE OSTARA

       "On the gray morning of January 8, 1945, a flock of
reporters, pencils and notepads at the ready, hovered
around Admiral Jonas Ingram, commander of the Eastern Sea
Frontier, in his wardroom aboard a warship in New York
harbor.  The scribes had come for what Ingram's public-
relations staff had promised would be 'a historic press
conference.'"
       "Ingram, a heavyset, flat-nosed old salt who had
gained national recognition as football coach at the
(U.S.) Naval Academy (in Annapolis, Maryland), was one of
the Navy's colorful characters--and most outspoken.
Seated behind a long table, Ingram said, 'Gentlemen, I
have reason to assume that the Nazis are getting ready to
launch a strategic attack on New York and Washington by
robot bombs.'"
       "There was a gasp of astonishment from the
reporters."
       "'I am here to tell you that these attacks are not
only possible, but probable as well, and that the (USA's)
East Coast is likely to be buzzbombed within the next
thirty or sixty days.'"
       "Ingram eyed his listeners, then added grimly, 'But
we're ready for them.  The thing to do is not to get
excited about it.  (The buzzbombs) might knock out a high
building or two, might create a fire hazard, and most
certainly would cause casualties.  But (the buzzbombs)
cannot seriously affect the progress of the war.'"
       "The hard-nosed Ingram added that 'it may be only ten
or twelve buzzbombs, but they may come before we can stop
them.'"
       "'At any rate,' the admiral concluded, 'I'm springing
the cat from the bag to let the Huns know that we are
ready for them!'"
       Coach Ingram's announcement triggered a media
sensation.  The following day, January 9, 1945, the New
York Times ran the story with the headline ROBOT BOMB
ATTACKS HERE HELD POSSIBLE.  But the war in Europe ended
on May 8, 1945, and no Nazi rocket came plummeting out of
orbit to crash in Manhattan.
       Was Coach Ingram given to flights of fancy?  Not at
all.  Allied intelligence knew that the Germans were
working on a "New York Rocket."  At least twenty of these
large rockets were built at the SS underground base at
Nordhausen.  What happened to them is one of the enduring
mysteries of World War II.
       In his 1952 book, V2--Der Schuss ins Weltall, Major
General Walter Dornberger,  commander of the Peenemunde
Rocket Research Institute, described the "New York Rocket"
in detail.  He wrote, "Thus the A-9 came into being...the
missile was planned to reach at a height of about 20
kilometers (12 miles), a maximum speed of 4,400 kilometers
per hour (2,800 miles per hour) and then go into a shallow
curving glide with a peak of nearly 30 kilometers (18
miles).  On arrival over the target at a height of 5
kilometers (3 miles), it was planned to dive vertically,
like the" V-1, a primitive rocket-powered cruise missile,
best known in World War II as "the buzz bomb."
       "A better plan, however, and one which greatly
improved range, was to construct the A-10, weighing 87
tons and with a total propellant capacity of 62 tons, as
the first step of the combined A-9/A-10.  The A-9 was
placed on top of the A-10.  The latter had a thrust of 200
tons for 50 to 60 seconds and gave the rocket a speed of
4,400 kilometers per hour.  After the exhaustion of the
first step (stage or A-10--J.T.), the A-9 would be ignited
and lift out of the A-10."
       "Once we reached this stage (in the blueprints), the
horses fairly bolted with us," Dornberger wrote, "With our
big rocket motors and step (multi-stage) rockets, we could
build space ships which would circle the earth like moons
at a height of 500 kilometers (300 miles) and at speeds of
30,000 kilometers per hour (18,000 miles per hour).  Space
stations and glass spheres containing the embalmed bodies
of the pioneers of rocket development and space travel
could be put into permanent orbits around the earth.  An
expedition to the moon was a popular topic, too.  Then we
dreamed of atomic energy, which would at last give us the
necessary drive for flight into the infinity of space, to
the very stars."
       Amazingly, the gang at Peenemunde drew up these
blueprints during 1942 and 1943.  In his book, Gen.
Dornberger, a child of the Nineteenth Century, admits to
being a little "disconcerted" by these off-duty bull
sessions, in which Werner von Braun, Willy Ley, Klaus
Reidel and even Hitler's favorite aviatrix, Hannah Reisch,
"chatted with such easy familiarity about outer space, the
moon, the planets and what forms extraterrestrial life
might take."
       The question remains: did the A-9/A-10 combo ever
make it into space?
       There are a handful of clues that it did.  In 1968,
Ballantine published a photo on the back cover of their
paperback book on German secret weapons of World War II.
It shows a swept-winged A-9 on top of a cluster of rocket
boosters.  Flames pour out of five nozzles on the array.
It has the hazy appearance of being shot with a long
telephoto lens.
       When your editor first saw this photo, I was struck
by the similarity to the Soviet rockets then being
launched from Baikonur.  Unfortunately, with nothing in
the photo's background to offer a size comparison, there
is no telling whether the "customized" Nazi rocket is
full-sized or merely a much smaller test model.
       On the other hand, on November 19, 1954, Hermann
Klein, a former scientist at Peenemunde then living in
exile in Zurich, said he had worked on a Flugeschiebe
(German for flying disc--J.T.) project at Peenemunde in
1942.  The Nazi saucers were built by a team of three
scientists--Schriever, Miethe and Belonzo--and the vehicle
was given the code name V-7.
       On October 10, 1952, the Swedish newspaper
Aftonbladet reported that a space rocket had been launched
from an SS facility near Prague (now the capital of the
Czech Republic--J.T.) in February 1945.  The vehicle
sounds suspiciously like an A-9/A-10.  And the launch came
about a month after Admiral Ingram's press conference in
New York City.
       During the summer of 1943, the Peenemunde research
center was siezed by Reichsfuehrer-SS Heinrich Himmler.
German rocketry became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the
SS.  During a trip to Berlin on September 6, 1943, Gen.
Dornberger met his new boss, 42-year-old SS-Brigadefuehrer
Hans Kammler.
       "He had the slim figure of a cavalryman, neither tall
nor short," Dornberger wrote, "In his early forties,
broad-shouldered and narrow in the hips, with bronzed,
clear-cut features, and a high forehead under dark hair
slightly streaked with gray and brushed straight back, Dr.
Kammler had piercing and restless brown eyes, a lean
curved beak of a nose, and a strong mouth, the underlip
thrust forward as though in defiance.  That mouth
indicated brutality, derision, disdain and overweening
pride.  The chin was well-molded and prominent."
       "One's first impression was of a virile, handsome and
captivating personality.  He looked like some hero of the
Renaissance, a condotierre of the period of the civil wars
in northern Italy."
       Kammler was Himmler's most trusted aide.  He had a
reputation of being the man who could get things done.  In
1942, for example, Kammler, an architect by trade, had
personally designed and supervised the construction of the
giant Vernichtungenslager (German for destruction camp--
J.T.) called Auschwitz II, with its capacity for 200,000
prisoners, at Birkenau in southern Poland.
       Now Himmler had new work for him.  The Reichsfuehrer-
SS wanted an underground factory "completely impervious to
Allied bombs" that would build all of the contraptions in
the Peenemunde gang's "blue sky" blueprints.  It is not
known if Hitler approved of this or not--it's part of what
Colonel-General Erich von Manstein once called "the
hermetically-sealed SS-Reich"--but Himmler was determined
to build a workable spacecraft.
       Himmler "urged Pohl to build factories for the
production of war materials in natural caves and
underground tunnels immune to enemy bombing and instructed
him to hollow out workshop and factory space in all SS
stone quarries, suggesting that by the summer of 1944 they
should have the 'new cavemen' installed in the greatest
number of 'uniquely bomb-proof work
sites'...Brigadefuehrer Hans Kammler succeeded in creating
underground workshops and living quarters from a cave
system in the Hartz mountains in central Germany in what
(Albert) Speer, writing to congratulate him, called 'an
almost impossibly short period of two months' a feat, he
continued, 'unsurpassable even by American standards.'"
       With Kammler at the helm, production of V-1 and V-2
weapons went into high gear.  In his book V-1, V-2:
Hitler's Vengeance on London, David Johnson noted that
"During the (V-1) Flying Bomb assault, from mid-June to
early September 1944, 2,419 of the pilotless aircraft
crash-dived into London.  Rail and transportation networks
were seriously disrupted.  War production fell off."
       "Between 8th September 1944 and 27th March 1945, 517
V-2 rockets struck London, with another 378 falling short
of their target and impacting in Essex.  Throughout

southern England, a grand total of 1,054 came down.  In
London alone over 2,700 civilians were dead from the
rockets."
       On March 27, 1945, "the last V-2 to hit Britain came
down on Orpington, Kent, about 20 miles (32 kilometers)
south-east of London."
       "On the night of 17 December (1944) a V-2 crashed
into the Rex cinema in Antwerp (Belgium) during a crowded
show.  When Hitler was informed that 1,100 people,
including 700 (Allied) soldiers had been killed, by a
characteristic irony he was reluctant to credit the
report.  'That would finally be the first successful
launch,' he observed sarcastically, 'But it is so
fairytale that my scepticism keeps me from believing it.
Who is the informer?  Is he paid by the launch crew?'"
       But if Hitler had little faith in the V-2, the same
cannot be said of Himmler and Kammler.  Himmler gave his
aide everything he needed to keep the rocket program
going.
       "Kammler still believed that he alone, with his Army
Corps and the weapons over which he had absolute
authority, could prevent the imminent collapse, postpone a
decision and even turn the scales.  The (V-2) transports
still moved without respite to the operational area" in
the Netherlands, Dornberger wrote.  "Convoys of motor
vehicles bridged the gaps in the railrways.  Kammler's
supply columns, equipped with infrared devices that
enabled them to see in the dark, rumbled along the Dutch
highways."
       Himmler's interest in spaceflight grew out of his
personal commitment to the occult.  When he had been
appointed leader of the Schutzstaffel (German for
Protection Squad--J.T.) in 1929, the group had been a
small unit within the larger Sturmabteilung or Brownshirt
militia, a kind of Secret Service devoted to the
protection of Hitler and the Nazi leadership.  By 1945,
however, Himmler had transformed the SS into "a state
within a state."  Under his direction, the SS had become
the Schwarze Sonne (German for Black Sun--J.T.), an order
of mystics that numbered in the low millions.
       In his book Hitler's Flying Saucers, author Henry
Stevens pointed out, "The Black Sun to these initiated
individuals was a physical body like our visible sun
except that the Black Sun was not visible to the naked
eye...The Black Sun is sometimes represented symbolically
as a black sphere out of which eight arms extend.  Such is
its most famous rendition on the mosaic floor at
Wewelsburg Castle which served as the spiritual home of
the SS."
       Himmler's "scientists were influenced by some ideas
originating in Asia.  Tibet and India are the suspects in
question.  UFOs have been reported over Mongolia, Tibet
and India for centuries.  The ancient Indians even claimed
to have constructed aircraft which resembled flying
saucers.  These saucers are called Vimanas."
       Since his days in the mystical group Artamen in the
early 1920s, Himmler had been fascinated with the
scriptures of ancient India.  As a reader of the Rig-Veda
and the Mahabharata, he would have been familiar with the
tales of rishis (Hindu wizards--J.T.) visiting other
worlds in outer space.  So perhaps it's no surprise that
he sent "the German SS-Ahnenerbe, an organization whose
purpose was associated with researching German ancestry,
out (on) expeditions to the East with the express purpose
of acquiring ancient, hidden knowledge."
       Kammler transferred Gen. Dornberger and Werner von
Braun into the Wasserfall anti-aircraft rocket program in

late 1944.  Meanwhile, work continued on the Schriever-
Meithe V-7 flying disc.  With help from another mystical
group, the Thule Gesellschaft, the project developed a
craft called the Haunebu-1.  This saucer "had a 25-meter
diameter, a speed of 4,800 kilometers per hour (3,000
miles per hour) and carried a crew of nine men."
       In November 1943, a second saucer, the Haunebu-2, was
built, "slightly larger and could travel 6,000 kilometers
per hour (3,600 miles per hour) for fifty-five hours."
       A year later, in early December 1944, Gruppe Kammler
unveiled its showpiece, the Haunebu-3, which "had a
diameter of 71 meters (234 feet), and could reach a speed
of 40,000 kilometers per hour (25,000 miles per hour)" and
remain in space "for up to eight weeks, carrying a crew of
32 men."
       Unaware of the progress of the Schriever-Miethe team,
Gen. Dornberger proposed to suspend work on the A-9/A-10
"New York Rocket."  The order was immediately
countermanded.  "But now, at the end of 1944, Kammler
demanded its resumption," the general wrote, "I had no
idea why."
       In retrospect, it appears that either Himmler or
Kammler--it is not at all clear who--planned to use the A-
9/A-10 as a booster to get the Haunebu-3, now referred to
as the Ostara (ancient German goddess of the dawn--J.T.),
into orbit rather than have the big saucer make the trip
under its own power.
       "On January 8, 1945, the first version of the A-
9...took off.  The control failed about 30 meters (100
feet) above the firing table (launch pad)," Dornberger
wrote, "A few days later, we were unable to launch another
missile because the alcohol tank had developed a leak.  At
last, on January 24 (1945), we had our first success.  The
rocket, climbing vertically, reached a peak height of
nearly 80 kilometers (50 miles) at a maximum speed of
4,300 kilometers per hour (2,700 miles per hour)."
(Editor's Comment:  I think this may have been the rocket
in the wartime photo that appeared on the back cover of
Ballantine's book.)
       All that needed to be done now was to strap two or
three A-9/A-10 boosters together, with the Ostara as
payload, and launch from Himmler's new SS base near
Prague.
       The same day the A-9/A-10 had its successful launch,
January 24, 1945, Soviet troops of Marshal Ivan Konev's
First Ukrainian Front (army group--J.T.) entered
Auschwitz.  Russian soldiers saw for themselves the
results of Kammler's earlier "big project."
       "On April 3, 1945, I had orders from Kammler to
evacuate my staff of four hundred and fifty old Peenemunde
hands to the Lower Alps near Oberammergau.  We moved on
April 6, as the American tanks advanced through
Bleicherode toward Bad Sachsa," Dornberger wrote, "I
parted from Kammler and spent the last month of the war at
Oberjoch near Hindelang with my staff and Professor von
Braun, who had been injured in an automobile accident."
       So, on April 7, 1945, Hans Kammler, the architect of
Auschwitz-Birkenau, pulled a disappearing act worthy of
Houdini.  "There are five different versions of his
death," Henry Stevens wrote, "And they all read like pulp
fiction."
       Did Kammler head for outer space aboard the Ostara?
Or did he leave on an even larger spacecraft, the
Andromeda?  Only one person knows the answer to that
question, and he committed suicide with a cyanide pill on
May 23, 1945--Heinrich Himmler.
       But if anybody had a really, really pressing need to
leave Earth in April 1945 it was SS-Brigadefuehrer Hans
Kammler.  (See the books V2--Der Schuss ins Weltall by
Walter Dornberger, Bechtle Vertag, Esslingen, Germany,
1952, pages 128, 129, 130, 131, 176, 177, 219 and 235;
Hitler's Undercover War by William Breuer, St. Martin's
Press, New York, N.Y., 1989, pages 317, 318 and 319; V-1,
V-2, Hitler's Vengeance on London by David Johnson, Stein
& Day Publishers, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., 1981, pages 193,
194 and 195; Flying Saucers Uncensored by Harold T.
Wilkins, The Citadel Press, New York, N.Y., 1955, pages
252 and 253; Himmler by Peter Padfield, MJF Books, New
York, N.Y., 1990, pages 389, 464, 481, 482 and 611;
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945 by Max
Hastings, Alfred A. Knopf, 2004, pages 171, 172, 248 and
492; Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the
Politics of Identity by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, New York
University Press, New York, N.Y., 2002, pages 166, 167 and
168; and Hitler's Flying Saucers by Henry Stevens,
Adventures Unlimited Press, Kempton, Illinois, 2003, pages
86, 87, 89, 90, 95, 158, 160, 161, 225, 264 and 265.)

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In a message dated 2/1/2005 8:49:08 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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First things first, though.  Charles J Hall will be appearing along with
many other select speakers at the 2nd Annual Paradigm X-Conference from
April 22-24, 2005 at the Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C.
North/Gaithersburg.

PARADIGM RESEARCH GROUP X-CONFERENCE 2005 Press Release – Tuesday,
February 1, 2005

The conference Web site is:

www.x-conference.com/

www.paradigmclock.com/X-Conference/X-Conference.htm

The X-Conference is a unique event which focuses on the


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In a message dated 2/2/2005 2:04:37 PM Pacific Standard Time,
thehickmanreport@... writes:





From: Majorstar@... [mailto:Majorstar@...]
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 3:12 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Filer’s Files #6 – More UFO Photos



Filer’s Files #6 – 2005,
Skywatch Investigations
George A. Filer, Director MUFON Eastern
Vice President of Skywatch International
February 2, 2005, Web: www.georgefiler.com
  Webmaster: C E Warren www.cewarren.com

More UFO Photos
"I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible."
  Astronomer Fred Hoyle

The purpose of these files is to report weekly the UFO eyewitness and
photo/video evidence that occurs on a daily basis around the world and in space.
Many
people claim it is impossible for UFOs to visit Earth, I ask you only to keep
an open mind and watch the evidence we accumulate each week. These Files make
the assumption that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my
hypothesis is that of the over one hundred UFOs reported each week many
represent a factual UFO sighting. Bright Anomaly Seen During ISS Space-Walk"


UFOs were seen over Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware,
Florida, Indiana, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, and
Wisconsin.  Sightings were also reported in Brazil, Canada, China, Finland,
Kenya, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.  Successful Iraqi elections a
Springboard to democracy.

Bright Anomaly Seen During ISS Space-Walk



Jeff Challender reports, “On Wednesday, 26 January 2005, the hardy crew of
ISS Expedition 10 set out on the first EVA (Extra-Vehicular Activity or
space-walk) of their
(http://www.spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp10/index.html)
increment aboard the station. (NASA report HERE
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/spacenews/reports/issreports/2005/iss05-4.html)
Commander and Science Officer
Leroy Chiao (http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/chiao.html), and Flight
Engineer - Soyuz Commander Salizhan Sharipov
(http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/sharipov.html), donned the Orlan
spacesuits
(http://www.myspacemuseum.com/orlan.htm), and exited the hatch of the PIRS
module
(http://www.russianspaceweb.com/iss_dc.html ) at 1:43AM CST. The mission to
install several new experiments
on the outside hull of the Zvezda Service Module (Living Quarters & Life
Support) (http://www.astronautix.com/craft/issvezda.htm), and inspect the
exterior
vents relating to the Electron oxygen generating
(http://www.explore-physics.com/physics/E/Elektron.html) and Vozdukh
(http://www.explore-spacetravel.com/space_travel/V/Vozdukh.html )CO2 scrubbing
systems, went very well. The vents
proved to have some interesting deposits around them. There was some suspicion
that clogging of these vents might have contributed to several system failures
over the last few months. Photographs were snapped of the residue, for later
analysis on the ground. Only one minor glitch occurred; a power connection to
the new robotic arm experiment (ROKVISS
(http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=291) was not
working correctly. This problem was
quickly rectified with a little extra elbow grease on the part of the crewmen.
The
men stayed ahead of their timeline throughout the operation, and returned to
the airlock, resealing the hatch about 30 minutes ahead of schedule. The
spacesuits performed flawlessly, and all of the mission goals were met
satisfactorily.

Approximately 40 minutes into this EVA, the first of 28 possible anomalies
appeared. It emerged from behind the Progress-16 freighter, and rapidly exited
from the field of view (http://www.russianspaceweb.com/progress.html) cargo to
left screen. This still frame depicts the trajectory and motion of the object.
It emerged from BEHIND the Progress-16 cargo ship. This means that it did NOT
come from the station itself, which, unlike Shuttles, doesn't shed much in
the way of ice or debris. In fact, ISS is almost completely devoid of such th
ings. Thanks to Ó2005 Jeff Challender. More detail is available at:
http://www.projectprove.com/Articles%20Storage/EVA-10a-1/EVA-10a-1.php
Iraq – Successful Elections a Major Victory
BAGHDAD – Millions of Iraqis risked their lives and defied suicide bombings,
sharp shooters and mortars to cast ballots in Iraq's first free election in a
half-century on January 30. 2005.  Brave Iraqis voted in large numbers showing
their courage, willingness to defy terrorists and to start a democracy in a
new nation.
Voting was thought to be greater percentage than voted in the recent US
presidential election. Women in black abayas whispered prayers at the sound of a
nearby explosion as they waited to vote at one Baghdad polling station. But the
mood for many was upbeat: Civilians and policemen danced with joy at one of
the five polling stations where photographers were allowed, and some streets
were packed with voters walking shoulder-to-shoulder to vote defied violence.
The
significance of the success of the elections should not be over looked. The
US long-term goal to promote democracy across the Middle East made progress in
an area where family dynasties and authoritarian rulers control most of the
area. I have been to the Middle East dozens of times and a major change occurred
for freedom and democracy in the region particularly for women.
In the past women were oppressed, unable to attend school, drive cars, or
work outside the home or even to show their face in public. This is a major step
for setting people and particularly women free. A strong turnout and results
that the world views as legitimate will likely also speed the departure of
American troops. One third of those running for office were women. The future of
the Middle East is being changed dramatically.  Once women feel the freedom of
voting, holding office, and being accepted in a man’s world, the Middle East
will be changed forever.
  I salute the bravery of the Iraqi people who stood in line to vote despite
threat of death. The newly trained 128,000 Iraqi army should be ready to take
on the terrorists in the months ahead. The terrorists were not an effective
fighting force and were only able to conduct nine suicide bombings on the
polling
stations. The inability for the insurgents to launch effective attacks show
they are localized.  Count on the media to find a cloud in the silver lining,
but count on our troops and the Iraqi people to serve as a launching pad for
democracy throughout the region.
Prayer Request - from Sgt. RICHARD C. DOTY NM State Police writes, "When you
receive this, please stop for a moment and say this prayer for our troops
around the world." Our soldiers need your prayers. "Lord, hold our troops in
your
loving hands. Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families
for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need. I ask this in
the name of Jesus, our Lord and Savior. Amen."

Just send this to all the people in your address book. Do not let it stop
with you, please. Of all the gifts you could give a US Soldier, Sailor, Airman,
Marines who are fighting to keep the terrorists from attacking us on America
soil again. Prayer is the very best one.

Alabama Cigar Shaped Craft

AXIS -- One year ago in January of 2004 a coworker and I saw a cigar shaped
craft four miles away flying north at about 600 MPH and 5000 feet at 9:20 AM. A
week later, a security guard and I saw a similar cigar moving due west. The
first cigar had a dark spot mid-ship, while the second object had four dark
spots evenly spaced in brushed aluminum.


On January 13, 2005, I observed the same type of plane approaching from the
north headed due south at low altitude again 9:15 AM.  I pointed it out to a
coworker and said watch this plane it looks like the disappearing plane I saw
last year. Shortly after it passed the 2 o'clock position it disappeared with
the sound, suddenly ending a second later. As it passed overhead it appeared to
have an Air Force emblem on the wing in a light gray color. Both planes
sighted where all white with no other identifying markings visible. Both planes
had
two engines attached to the rear fuselage like old DC-9's. The skies were
clear on all four occasions. I wonder if we have a daylight Stealth aircraft!
Thanks to Brian Vike http://www.hbccufo.com/ .
Alabama - Another White Object Filmed
SATSUMA – The witness noticed a flash in the sky at 10:28 AM, on January 23,
2005, next to a small cloud. Having my digital camera with me I decided to put
it in movie mode and shoot a little video.  Upon downloading the clip and
watching it I found a fast moving object in several frames. The total clip
length
is 16 seconds and objects are spotted in several frames. This is the first
frame that the object appears in at 5.34 seconds into the video. The object is
at the top of the frame to the right of center. The object appears again in
this frame at 6.43 seconds at the top of the frame right of center again.  To
view photos: http://www.hbccufo.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2328
   Thanks to Brian Vike www.hbccufo.com

Arizona - Rainbow Light in Sky above Phoenix

PHOENIX -- My fiancé was walking the dog and called me outside to look at
very bright multicolored sparkling light in the sky on January 16, 2005 at 4
AM..
After taking a look, I ran and grabbed the binoculars and we both looked at
it and it seemed to be emitting a rainbow of constant clear true colors of red,
green, blue, white and yellow. The lights seemed to be coming from a diagonal
line off one side of the craft, but the shape of the craft was hard to see,
since it was small in the southwest sky.

(Peter Davenport Director of NUFORC spoke at length  and found her to be
quite serious-minded and credible. We explored whether the witnesses might be
observing the star, Sirius, which is quite prominent in the southern sky during
the winter months. She looked again on the following night, and asserted that
the object was not visible on that date, seemingly ruling out a star. PD))
Thanks to Peter Davenport Director www.ufocenter.com


California -- Four Shiny Disc Shaped Objects


CUCAMONGA – The witness was looking north towards the San Gabriel Mountains
and saw four disc shaped objects heading east on January 22, 2005, at 7 PM...
They were shiny and reflective, not unlike polished Aluminum. A small propeller
aircraft just south of the mountains started to approach, and the four
objects disappeared immediately as the aircraft came into view.

MODESTO – R David Anderson writes, “I received an e-mail from a local man
who saw a boomerang type UFO on January 11, 2005 at 9:10 PM. He wrote me about
his sighting. He said " I was a skeptic until something unexplainable crossed
my field of view. Facing due south in the spa a boomerang shaped, translucent
object entered my field of vision (from behind and to the right) moving from NW
to SE. Lack of visual reference cues makes this thing impossible to size, but
it moved like a big object and the reflection of the street and city lights
glowed dimly off the curved bottom surface at a seemingly moderate height, well
below the airliner traffic. I've never seen anything like this before and
never want to see it again. All I want is some kind of rational explanation for
this stuff.


I responded to his e-mail and told him that I have seen these types of UFOs
also. I had my sightings of several boomerang types of UFOs back in November. I
am including a picture that I took back in October of 2003 that shows the UFO
that I reported at that time. This UFO changed shape rapidly, but this still
frame shows it with a boomerang form. I also have many other pictures of the
UFOs that I have taken at my web site Boomerang shaped object in central
California. Thanks to R. David Anderson

Connecticut - Cartoon Flying Saucer and Rectangle

NEWTOWN -- The object was hovering at 45 degrees above the woods behind my
house on January 24, 2005 at 7 PM. The witness reports the trees are about 30
feet high. And  the craft was about two inches across at arm’s length. The
craft
was shaped like a classic cartoon flying saucer -- round with colored lights
all around it and a bubble shape on top. It appeared silver. It was silent and
still for several seconds while its orange, red, yellow, and green
square-shaped lights circled around it. It is unclear if the craft itself was
spinning.
I looked away and it was gone. Thanks to Peter Davenport


OXFORD -- We were driving along a winding, suburban Connecticut road when we
saw what we thought was a jetliner on January 20, 2005 at 11 PM. The craft
turned around and was heading towards us, shining a bright light towards the
ground. “I turned to look at everyone else’s speechless faces, as it moved
within
100 yards from us above the treetops hovering near large colonial homes going
down beyond the treetops.� It looked like a large minivan without wheels or
wings, with an ambulance-like door on the back of the object. The door was
lit-up, or glowing. This was absolutely not a helicopter or an airplane, because
we heard no noise. This was a lit up object moving slowly, then jumping quickly
and hovering above the woods and homes.  Thanks to Peter Davenport Director
www.ufocenter.com


Delaware - Chevron Formation
LEWES – The witness was heading south towards Lewes, when he saw four solid
red lights in a chevron formation on January 19, 2005 at 7 PM. They were
hovering and remained stationary for 45 seconds, before they faded away, as if
turning down a dimmer switch. A few seconds later, the same formation appeared
in
the opposite quadrant of the sky, remained lit for about 45 seconds, and again
dimmed. The distance between the two points would have been far too great to
have been traversed by a conventional craft. Shortly after the second
appearance, a formation of 8 US fighter jets approached the area where the
lights had
appeared. Thanks to Peter Davenport Director,
www.ufocenter.com

Florida - We Saw Disc-Like Object

LAKE WALES -- We were on Highway 60 near River Ranch when we noticed big
lights on an object that was a disk with lots of lights (window like) which was
moving at 8:10 PM, January 24, 2005. At this same time, I saw bright lights like
a half-dozen flares that sparked and then were gone. In addition there were
little lights flashing all over that area. We pulled off the highway in a safe
place, and  got out the binoculars and by the time he got them adjusted, the
disk-like object was gone. However, I still saw the bright lights (a second
time), and the little lights dancing were all over the sky. It looked like the
top of a very wide oil refinery tank with lights mounted around the top edge of
the tank. Thanks to Peter Davenport Director www.ufocenter.com



Indiana - Hovering Red/Orange Orb

  BLOOMINGTON – On January 27, 2005, three witnesses, Alice and John and I
spotted a bright object low in the western sky at 9:30 PM. The witness states,
“I
ran over to the door and saw a red/orange orb hovering in the tree tops. I
thought maybe it was a star, but from experience I know to not second guess it.
Anyhow, I grabbed my binoculars, and watched it and it barely moved. Then it
started flying north and grew in brightness. It began to move fast, I called
for Alice, my wife, and she came to the door and looked, and said "which one?"
I was like "huh?� Low and behold there was a second one lower in the trees
moving north as well and just as bright as the other and fading from red to
orange. The objects went out of site, and John said he was taking off. About
five
minutes later John called me and said he had seen 5 objects hovering over
Bloomington, and one moving west. Thanks to Brian Vike www.hbccufo.com

Nevada – Photos of UFOs

LAS VEGAS – Joe Held writes, “A man who prefers to remain anonymous has
taken a series of photos.�
Pic 1: This photo was taken March 12, 2004 in Las Vegas.

At the intersection of Cheyenne Rd. and Lamb Blvd. Looking directly at Nellis
AFB when this photo was taken.   Pic 2: This photo was taken on November 1,
2004. This is a daytime photo of what looks like an orb shaped object.  The ob
ject was flying from the southwest to the northeast towards Nellis AFB. It was
at the intersection of I-215 and Hualapai on the far northwest side of Las
Vegas.

This craft was flying at an altitude of approx. 20,000 feet. This photo was
captured on a camera sitting on a tripod with a timer. +2 EV and Speed at 400
Thanks to Joe Held who will be posting more photos at
http://www.informantnews.com

New York – Photo

Rick writes, This looks like this object in the photo I took from my living
room window late one night 5 years ago.  I was compelled to get out of bed one
night and go to a window. Upon doing so, I saw this object about 20 feet away
from the house.




I grabbed a camera and just lifted it up and snapped this picture without
even looking through the viewfinder. Thanks, Rick in NY

North Carolina - Pulsing Multicolored Lights

SURF CITY -- Driving home from work, an object was initially sighted near
Topsail Island on January 21, 2005 at 11 PM. At first, we thought it was a
military Osprey craft, a  VTOL aircraft, because the lighting was unfamiliar and
quite peculiar. I stopped along the road and it was silent and in my estimation
within 300 feet of the ground.  I proceeded home a couple miles and it was
sitting over the ocean in front of our home. I immediately retrieved my 4.0 mega
pixel digital camera and took a number of pictures as it moved away. I noted
pulsing of  very bright red, white, yellow, (green?) and occasionally blue
lights.

It was moving to the northwest at what I would estimate to be 35 knots. It
was one to two hundred feet across. Within a minute or two, it disappeared
behind (below) the island's northern horizon of trees and houses about a mile
distant. The most interesting aspect of this sighting was that the recorded
images
had a characteristic luminous multi-directional, sinuous, plasma-like blurred
trail which we did not visualize. Also, blue objects appeared and disappeared
in what seemed to be random intervals in proximity to the object, at variable
distance and position. Thanks to Peter Davenport Director www.ufocenter.com



Ohio - Star-Shaped Object with a Series of Lights

ASHTABULA -- My father was watching TV in the living room, and all of a
sudden he shouted out for me to come quickly on January 21, 2005 at 7 PM. We saw
a
star-like object about 5000 feet up. The object was coming in from the
northeast and heading southwest with a series of lights in the center of it's
star
shaped feature. Again no noise! My father and I do not believe it to be the
space station because it was too low to the ground, and my father said that he
never has seen lights like that on conventional aircraft. Thanks to Peter
Davenport Director www.ufocenter.com

FOSTORIA -- VHS image of high speed craft taking off
from a farmer's field. Estimated speed of over 2000 mph.
This is a reverse color image from George Ritter's RCA
VHS video camera. Note object appears to be behind the tree
and approximately 30 feet in diameter.




  Oregon – Huge Craft

PORTLAND – The witness was looking at a mysterious white light in the sky on
January 19, 2005.  There were several aircraft on approach for PDX
international airport with their landing lights on. The sky was clear to the
south, a 1/2
moon was in the west lighting up the 3:30 AM sky. He noticed a large object
several miles south at a very high elevation approaching very fast. It was
faster and higher than the incoming jets. The first thing I noticed was the
speed
and size of the object, then, I realized there were no lights or strobes. It
was grey in color as illuminated from the moon. I called my friend, and he
said, “Why are there no lights? It was a huge unmarked grey flat bottom solid
shape, at very high altitude, extremely fast flying and totally silent straight
line flying object. It flew north in a straight line that if it remained on this
path it would fly directly over PDX.  The tower must have seen this craft.

Peter Davenport spoke with this witness, and he sounded both sincere and
credible to us. Thanks to Peter Davenport Director www.ufocenter.com


  Tennessee – Silver Disc

BRISTOL -- Kim Shaffer MUFON SD reports, “A couple and his wife had just
arrived home at about 5 PM, on January 17, 2005, when he saw a large silver disc
with a flat bottom at about 70 degrees to his east. He described the object as
being highly polished with a smaller dome shape upon the main body.  The
relative size to the witness was that of a basketball at arm’s length. He
immediately alerted his wife who exited the car to also see the same object
moving
away eastward and ascending. The entire sighting lasted no longer than 20
seconds. Thanks to Kim Shaffer MUFON (eastern) SD  www.mufontennessee.org

  Washington - Lights In a Pyramid Pattern


PORT TOWNSEND - On January 18, 2005, the witnesses  were about to cross the
Hood Canal Bridge near Bangor Military Base when they saw two airplanes flying
directly above one another-about 100 feet apart. They each had three white
lights in a pyramid pattern. They swooped around in a way that planes can't and
then disappeared into the water? we couldn't tell).  Thanks to Peter Davenport
Director www.ufocenter.com


  Australia - A Bright Light Flying Very Fast

CABOOLTURE – The witness was out side having a smoke looking up at the stars
when he saw a bright light flying very fast across the sky.  His mates ask
what I was looking at and I showed them the light on January 15, 2005 at 11 PM.
It was too high to be a normal jet plane or a jumbo jet and too fast to be a
satellite. As it flew across the sky it suddenly disappeared. The color of the
light was a bright yellow color like a star there was only 1 of these objects
and it was like a star flying across the night sky very fast. Thanks to Peter
Davenport Director www.ufocenter.com


Brazilian Air Force Admits Investigation on UFOs

Carlos Mendes of the Brazilian UFO Magazine reports 27 years later, the UFO
phenomenon is still taboo to the Brazilian military.

  In the months of October, November and December of 1977, and during the
first half of 1978, the Brazilian state of Pará was invaded by UFOs flying at
few
meters above the trees and firing strong light beams at the people in the
Marajó Bay region. Many people were harmed by the phenomenon. The bright
objects
were called: “vampire lights�, “bugs�, “the thing� and mainly
“chupa-chupa�
  (the sucker). Witnesses claimed the UFO pilots were beings with the height
of 1.20 or 1.30 meter.  The people called it chupa-chupa because of the weird
scars the victims bore on their body. The light beam used to leave tiny holes
on the skin. Women had scars  on their breasts. They seemed to lose blood
during the attack. Men and women complained of giddiness, body numbing and
headache
after the attacks. The inhabitants of the cities of Colares, Santo Antonio do
Tauá, Mosqueiro and Baía do Sol panicked on these days of bitter remembrance.
The panic took over even the state's capital, Belém, with a sequence of
strange lights report and chupa-chupa attacks in several quarters of the city,
astonishing the authorities.

In the end of the 70s, scientists from all over the world came to Pará,
Brazil, but they all failed to explain the phenomenon. Twenty-seven years later,
documents from the Brazilian Air Force's secret service reveal that these lights
from space were something much more unsettling than we can imagine. It is
still a big mystery and a huge challenge to the science and to the Air Force's
experts. Ufologists, scientists and researchers from Brazilian universities are
collecting signatures to a petition that will be delivered to the Brazilian
president Lula da Silva. It requires the Air Force to reveal the conclusions of
the investigation on the chupa-chupa case. The petition already has thousands
of signatures: physicists, biologists, journalists, officers and politicians
among them. The campaign is called UFOs: Freedom of Information Now
[www.ufo.com.br/secrecy.php].  The military report, called Operation Saucer, has
2,000
pages, 500 photographs and some 16 hours of films.   Part of this report came to
the public, through an interview with a brave Air Force officer, Captain
Uyrangê Hollanda  who gave it to Brazilian UFO Magazine’s editor A. J.
Gevaerd.

The Captain was the operation commander, sent by the government to this
secret operation to investigate. One farmer called Claudomira Paixão was a
victim.
She lived in Baía do Sol and told that, in the night of October 18th, 1977,
she woke up when a strong light appeared through her house's window. “The air
got warmer. At first, the light was green, touched my head and crossed my face.
I woke up completely and the light became red. I could see a creature, like a
man, wearing something like a diver's clothe. It had a device like a pistol.
It aimed at me and the object blinked three times, as if shooting at my breast,
almost always on the same place. It was hot and hurt me. I felt like there
were needles piercing me. I think they collected my blood. I was terrified. I
couldn't even move my legs. I was shocked.�

What she said to the military was very important because, for the first time,
someone mentioned a being leaving the flying object to extract blood. Almost
all stories talk about lights causing giddiness, weakness and “body
shivering�
. The only exception is a case, also in Baía do Sol, and talking about the
appearance of a space couple that shot at a fisherman with a light-beam pistol,
leaving him fainted for several minutes.

Captain Uyrangê Hollanda wrote up an Operation Saucer report concerning the
alien aircraft flying over the region causing panic among the locals and drove
some people to despair. They used fireworks to warn the neighborhood when
chupa-chupa was coming. They often shot, with their hunting rifles, at the UFOs,
said the captain to the Brazilian UFO Magazine [www.ufo.com.br]. “We always
told them: don't shoot, don't shoot. One time a strong light was aimed at a
carpenter. The 55 year old man took his rifle and shot at the flying saucer. The
light surrounded him and he fell to the ground, almost paralyzed. For 15 days
the carpenter could hardly move. In the first day the man didn't move at all. He
could see, hear and speak but it was very difficult for him to move.� Said
the captain in an interview to the Brazilian UFO Magazine, the only magazine
interested in hearing his impressive story.  Air Force's officer, Captain
Uyrangê
Hollanda snip

Thanks to A. J. Gevaerd, editor of the Brazilian UFO Magazine, can be
contacted at: gevaerd@.... Operation Saucer official secret documents can
be
downloaded at: www.ufo.com.br/documentop.php. www.ufo.com.br  To
watch-International, http://www.skywatch-international.org/

Canada - UFOs over

Airborne Eastern Canada -- On December 2, 2004, the witness took a West Jet
Boeing 767 from Vancouver to Toronto, then to Moncton, NB. About an hour into
the flight I asked the flight attended, if I could take some video out the
window, she said sure, ''No problem''. I could see the sun setting in the
background, a beautiful dark orange.  I got as much video as I could before it
went
totally dark. Later in reviewing the tape “I noticed something black, on the
top
right hand corner of the screen and spotted a visible, black object, hovering
around. It comes closer to the plane, and sticks out beside the window. To me
it looks like a hockey puck, or cigar shaped object. You can also notice a
small plane, going down in the clouds.


Photos and footage © 2005 Mark-Murph2 Video clip: UFO Filmed Over Canada from
A Boeing 767 - Video 846 kbs.
http://www.hbccufo.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2349

Southern Scarborough, Ontario -- On Thursday, January 27, 2005, I was facing
south, cutting off the sun's direct rays with part of the building's top dock
door, making it just right to view the rich blue sky. I noticed a single white
object moving from north to south heading towards Lake Ontario, five miles
away.  The first one went by at 100+ mph. The objects moved in intervals, one at
a time, about every 30-60 seconds. All were moving in a straight south flight
path, about 1000-1500 feet high. You only had a window about 6-10 seconds to
view each one passing, due to the direct sun's rays to the south. I feel
photographic evidence is better than a thousand witnesses now.

Many objects viewed in the photographs were not seen with the naked eye, I
saw one prominent object at a time, maybe two, not dozens. The good news is, I'm
going video next week, and we'll see how that pans out!
Photos can be viewed at: Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO
http://www.hbccufo.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2346


Article About Brian Vike and Terrestrial Tourism:

Because of an injury that took him away from his job at a sawmill, Mr. Vike
started compiling UFO sightings in the ‘80s as a way to keep busy. It was only
in 2000 that the 52-year-old grandfather started his online project.  “Like so
many thousands out there, I put up a couple of pictures and started this
little UFO site,� said the former planetarium volunteer.  “And a couple of
people
started sending me the odd report and I thought, ‘Hey, this is pretty awesome.
’ And if people are good enough to send in reports, I should do stuff about
it.�  Over the years, inside his home, in Houston, B.C., a community of only
2,600 souls, Mr. Vikes kept track of UFO sightings by sticking pins into a large
map.  And despite thousands of reports, and hundreds of pins, he himself has
been witness to only two or three events, where the objects he saw could not
be explained away.  One pattern that proved obvious is that there are more
reports of strange objects where there are more people to see it, he said.

Additionally, by recording where something was spotted, as well as when,
people can more readily see other patterns in UFO activity.  Soon, his project
to
study Canadian UFO sightings began taking off, even faster than he expected,
blossoming into not only a comprehensive Web site, but also regular guest
appearances on radio and a starring role in a Canadian documentary. His site now
receives about two to three million hits a month and he expects to post about
300 Canadian sightings for 2004, including the four he received from this
province. While his online clearing house of UFO stories started out as a hobby,
and
still is, it now has a strange life of its own, so much so that guests to his
town credit Mr. Vike’s work as to why they visited.

Apparently, the more UFO and UFO-related stories he posts, the more stories,
more attention and more visitors he gets.  He said the other reason that
people visit is because of the increasing number of sightings there, putting his
region in competition with UFO-friendly Roswell, N.M. and Vulcan, Alta.
Although after seeing the wild lands of northern B.C., tourists, many of them
Americans, now come to see the landscape, he said. When asked if UFO sightings
can be
good for tourism, Mr. Vike said that he was already asked by Houston’s mayor
to submit materials for a tourism package.
http://beacon.optipresspublishing.com/articles/beafeat.htm

Editor's Note: Brian needs your support and donations. .

India -- Red Blinking light

BANGALORE -- It was January 14, 2005 at 11 PM, when I spotted  Saturn (that
was brightest during that time); I saw this red blinking light that was
traveling at a good speed from East to West. I couldn’t see anything else even
against the dark background except for this red blinking light. It made
absolutely
no sound. I called my wife and 6yr old daughter who both saw this for about 1
minute when it went out of sight.

  It covered the entire area from east to west in just around a minute and
made no sound even at that speed. Just for the records I am an electronics
engineer and am working as a Project Manager in an IT MNC. I am also an amateur
astronomer and a currently building my own 6" Newtonian reflector telescope.
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/01-29d-05.asp

  Mexico - Photo

COZUMEL -- While on a cruise with the NCL Spirit we saw the sun trying to
break through the clouds on January 18, 2005 at 9 PM. I took a picture with the
sun’s rays coming down. When arriving home I put the digital disc in the
computer to see my pictures and I noticed a mushroom like spot in the center of
the
picture. My camera is DXG 328 3.0 Mega Pixels. When I enhanced the picture I
could see a large mushroom shape. A strange light to the far left and a tiny
dark spot to the right. It sure looks like a UFO.

Planeta UFO reports an important sighting was recorded by professional
cameramen from Televisa in Mexico City on January 9, 2005, as a UFO flew over
the
Plaza Mexico bullring between 5:45 and 6:00 pm. On that same day, Mexican
researcher Pedro Avila Rubio obtained impressive video evidence of apparently
the
very same unidentified flying object at an altitude of 4000 meters over the
municipality of Tlalnepantla two hours earlier.

  The witness described it as a sphere with protuberances in its lower
side--making the analogy of a pea with corrugated edges.  The strange flying
object
flew slowly south in a clear sky.  Avila heads the "Los Ojos de la Ciudad"
group, which is an organization specializing in UFO studies and well-known for
the
quality of its investigations. See    Thanks to  Scott Corrales, Institute of
Hispanic Ufology.

UK/ENGLAND – Four Red Lights in Line
CROWBOROUGH, EAST SUSSEX – The witness says, “Not quite sure what I saw but
at 4.45 AM on morning of 21st January my wife and I were woken to the usual
sound of foxes in my back garden.� Looking up in the clear sky we both noticed
4
red lights in a perfect straight line moving across the sky, going north to
south, followed behind to the right at the same height and speed two other red
lights, none of the lights were flashing. There was no noise as I would expect
from planes.
http://www.ufocenter.com/

Kenny Young Dies from Leukemia

Kenny Young, Reporter and Editor of UFO Research.com died yesterday at
Anderson Mercy Hospital in Cincinnati. He was 38-years-old. Kenny  independently
investigated UFO incidents in which he obtained 911 audiotapes of police/UFO
incidents and UFO video recordings held by the Department of Energy. He was very
thorough in his investigations. Our prayers are with Kenny.




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--- In ufos-unbound@yahoogroups.com, david adams <da2da2@y...> wrote:

DA: {interesting acronym} Thats, BS. If your friend wrote it, they
need to re-check their head, as do you for posting such rhetoric.

V: No, my friend did not write it {and she isn't schizophrenic so no
need to use 'they'} and she doesn't necessarily believe everything in
it. I didn't say I did, either. All I did was to ask what people
thought of it. {Remember, I did use the word 'humdinger'.}

And no, I don't need to re-check my head at all, but thanks for your
concern for my intellectual welfare.

DA: "The government cannot stop anything the ET's do".

V: I didn't say they could - but it is certainly within the realms of
possibility that something we have not yet thought of COULD actually
help us if any of this IS true - just speaking hypothetically of
course {as I have no idea which parts of what I posted, if any, are
true}.

How about telling us more about your perceptions of the alien
phenomenon, UFOs, your abduction experiences {if any} and what you
think is going on. I happily admit to being open minded.

http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/impossible.html

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mm_regulus_star_050131.html

In a message dated 2/2/2005 1:56:05 PM Pacific Standard Time,
BLACKSHEEPMUSE@... writes:
From the ABC February Sweep Highlights Release...
>
>
> PETER JENNINGS REPORTING: UFO's: LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE - THURSDAY,
> FEBRUARY 24 (8:00-10:00 p.m., ET) -- Each year there are thousands
> of reports of unidentified flying objects, but the U.S. government
> doesn't investgate any of them. This special program will seriously
> examine the unexplained phenomena around the world that so many
> people believe is proof of the existence of UFOs.
>
>
> Mark your calendars.

Dean


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In a message dated 2/3/2005 2:47:33 PM Pacific Standard Time,
universal_heartbeat2012@... writes:
Dear Friends,

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=607253

Love and Light.

David

The truth is out there: declassified reports of UFO sightings reveal 88
sightings last year
By Robert Verkaik, Legal Affairs Correspondent
03 February 2005
Details of Britain's most recent UFO sightings are revealed in previously
secret documents disclosed to The Independent .
The files, released under the Freedom of Information Act, show that, last
year, the Ministry of Defence's UFO unit received 88 reports from military staff
and members of the public worried about unexplained objects in our skies.
The classified files help to complete a picture of the scale of UFO sightings
first revealed by this paper last month. These updated "X-files" show the
most recent observations were made on 15 January this year following two
separate
reports from Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, and Whitstable, Kent. The reports
refer to "strange lights seen in the sky".
Other sightings give more detail. A report from Devizes in Wiltshire on 24
September last year records an object that: "Looked liked a big ball of fire
coming down from the sky with a tail and sparks coming off the end of it."
Another, from Somerset the week before, states: "The object looked like a great
bright light and was really intense, like a ball of fire coming down from the
sky,
rapidly moving towards the ground."
Although such reports might be discounted as meteor showers or other
astronomical phenomena, other sightings are not so easy to dismiss. A report
from
Surrey on 20 May last year describes a UFO as having "grooves and windows" but
no
room for humans. Even the MoD inspector notes that the "witness had seen the
object so clearly".
Many of the other sightings refer to UFO's changing colour, speed and shape.
The most common colours are yellow, orange or black.
A report from Goole, East Yorkshire, recorded in April last year, noted: "The
object looked like a boomerang and was stationary over a power station. An
aircraft was circling the object."
In the same month, a UFO observer from Seaforth, Merseyside, noted: "I saw a
UFO with a cluster of four bright lights in a ring shape on it. Three beams of
white light shone upwards and disappeared."
These latest files to be declassified by the MoD are not as complete as
reports from mid-1976 and 1977 released last month. Hundreds of documents
previously kept secret by the Ministry of Defence's special UFO department,
known as
S4F, detail many reports of a possible visit by extraterrestrial life-forms. One
is made by an RAF pilot and two NCOs at RAF Boulmer, Northumberland.
In July 1977 Flt-Lt A M Wood reported "bright objects hanging over the sea''.
The MoD document adds that the RAF officer said the closest object was
"luminous, round and four to five times larger than a Whirlwind helicopter". The
UFOs were reported to be three miles out to sea at a height of about 5,000ft.
The officer, whose report is supported by Cpl Torrington and Sgt Graham,
said: "The objects separated. Then one went west of the other, as it manoeuvred
it
changed shape to become body-shaped with projections like arms and legs." The
report describes Flt-Lt Wood as "reliable and sober".
That account was deemed so sensitive to the national interest that the MoD
had delayed its release for an extra three years. But under the Freedom of
Information Act, which came into force on 1 January, the file has been
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The UFO Phenomenon -- Seeing Is Believing

Two-Hour Primetime Special Airs Thursday, Feb. 24 at 8 p.m.

Feb. 4, 2005 -- Almost 50 percent of Americans, according to recent polls,
and millions of people elsewhere in the world believe that UFOs are real. For
many it is a deeply held belief.

For decades there have been sightings of UFOs by millions and millions of
people. It is a mystery that only science can solve, and yet the phenomenon
remains largely unexamined. Most of the reporting on this subject by the
mainstream
media holds those who claim to have seen UFOs up to ridicule.

On Feb. 24, "Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs — Seeing Is Believing" takes a
fresh look at the UFO phenomenon. "As a journalist," says Jennings, "I began
this project with a healthy dose of skepticism and as open a mind as possible.
After almost 150 interviews with scientists, investigators, and with many of
those who claim to have witnessed unidentified flying objects, there are
important questions that have not been completely answered — and a great deal
not
fully explained."

"Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs — Seeing Is Believing" airs Thursday, Feb.
24 from 8-10 p.m. ET on ABC. The program will be broadcast in High Definition.

This two-hour primetime special reports on the entire scope of the UFO
experience — from the first famous sighting by Kenneth Arnold in 1947 to the
present
day. The program draws on interviews with police officers, pilots, military
personnel, scientists and ordinary citizens who give extraordinary accounts of
enc! ounters with the unexplained. Also included are the voices of professional
skeptics about UFOs, including scientists who are leading the search for life
forms beyond earth elsewhere in the universe.

The program explores the facts behind the enduring mystery of the incident at
Roswell, N.M., and looks into the strange stories of alien abductions. Among
the UFO cases presented:

Minot Air Force Base, N.D., October 1968 — Sixteen airmen on the ground and
the crew of an airborne B-52 witness a massive unidentified object hovering
near the base.

Phoenix, Ariz., March 1997 — Hundreds witness a huge triangular craft moving
slowly over the city.

St. Clair County, Ill., January 2000 — Police officers in five adjoining
towns all independently report witnessing a giant craft with multiple bright
lights moving silently across the sky at a very low altitude.

Today if you report a UFO to the U.S. government you will be ! informed that
the Air Force conducted a 22-year investigation which ended in 1969 and
concluded that UFOs are not a threat to national security and are of no
scientific
interest. But as one of the world's leading theoretical physicists says in the
program, "You simply cannot dismiss the possibility that some of these UFO
sightings are actually sightings from some object created by … a civilization
perhaps millions of years ahead of us in technology."

"Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs — Seeing Is Believing" is produced by PJ
Productions and Springs Media for ABC News. Mark Obenhaus and Tom Yellin are the
executive producers.

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In a message dated 2/6/2005 7:08:04 PM Pacific Standard Time,
wdestiny44@... writes:


> Subj:   [UFOFacts] Star Kid high school homework
> Date:   1/27/2005 4:04:05 PM Eastern Standard Time
> From:   drboylan@...
> Reply-to:   UFOFacts@yahoogroups.com
> To: DrRichBoylanReports@yahoogroups.com, UFOFacts@yahoogroups.com,
> starkidshangout@yahoogroups.com
> Sent from the Internet (Details)
>
> Dr. Boylan,
>
> I contacted you a while ago asking for you help.  All I need is an answer to
>
> these twenty questions.  Please help me fufill this requirement for
> graduation.
> Just e-mail me back by February 1, 2005.  Thank you.
>
> Matthew J.
> Class of 2005
>
> Dear Matthew:
>
> Below are my replies.
>
> 1. What do you believe really happened in Roswell?
>
>     On or about July 4, 1947 an extraterrestrial
> elliptical-shaped scout craft was destabilized by human
> military high-intensity microwave testing in the New Mexico
> region, and lost control and embedded into the ground
> northwest of Roswell, New Mexico.
>
>     Of the crew most died or were dying by the time an
> inspection team arrived from Roswell Army Air Field. A
> surviving Star Visitor was taken captive by the Army squad
> and taken away to Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM for
> study and attempted interrogation.
>
>     The spacecraft remains were secretly removed to
> Wright-Patterson Air Field, OH for study, and later
> transferred to Sandia National Laboratories, NM for storage
> and additional analysis.
>
> 2. Do you believe our government is hiding something from
> us? Why?
>
>     Yes. The government is doing what its masters want. An
> elite geoplutocratic Cabal control governments, and are
> making trillions off of captured extraterrestrial technology
> back-engineered into new "inventions" and advancements in
> science and engineering.
>
>
> 3. What is our government most likely hiding?
>
>     The Star Visitors' presence and contact. But the
> government is keeping it secret because the international
> Cabal pressures governments to do so. See:
> http://www.drboylan.com/shadgovt2.html
>
> 4. How does the government account for so many similar
> elements in an abducted person's testimony?
>
>     The government does not acknowledge the reality of close
> encounters with Star Visitors; therefore, it does not
> comment on analyses of witnesses' testimony.
>
> 5. Why do you think the aliens encourage the abducted
> women to play with the alien kids?
>
>     Because in many instances the woman brought on board a
> craft is invited to interact with children who are the
> product of conception using her ovum with Star Visitor genes
> spliced in. The Star Visitors (especially Zetas) feel that
> the hybrid child will benefit from interaction with their
> human mother, and because humans have a very rich emotional
> response range, which is nourishing to a developing child.
>
>
> 6. In your opinion how can the government ignore some of
> the physical injuries suffered from those who said they
> were abducted?
>
>     Tales of real injuries during encounters are false
> propaganda and disinformation spread by Cabal UFO Cover-Up
> operatives.
>
>     Some experiencers have minor skin markings following
> medical and scientific procedures or exams, but these are
> negligible and soon disappear.
>
>     The government is good at ignoring anything it does not
> want to have to deal with.
>
> See: http://www.drboylan.com/realets2.html
>
> 7. How can the government ignore some of the animals who
> died very oddly?
>
>     If you are referring to bovine tissue sampling, the Star
> Visitors do a little of it to monitor how much pollution is
> entering mammalian lifeforms on Earth. Cows are a close
> equivalent to humans. The Star Visitors also use some bovine
> mucous tissue for aiding in artificial gestation of hybrid
> children.
>
>     Most "cattle mutilations" are done by covert Special
> Operations teams of military-intelligence personnel equipped
> with antigravity stealth helicopters, antigravity traction
> beams, and hand-held lasers. Such is done to create many
> cases, which can then be blamed on the Star Visitors and
> build public sentiment against them.
>
>
> 8. Who do you think makes crop circles? Why?
>
>     Many crop circles are fashioned by the Star Visitors as
> a form of universal symbolic communication.
>
>     Some crop circles are created by covert military-intelligence
> Special Operations teams to muddy up the picture.
>
>      Yet other crop circles, the clumsy ones, are constructed
> by human copy-cats.
>
> 9. How do you think the crops are heated from the inside?
>
>     I do not know. My surmise is that plasma physics is
> employed, and some use of microwave energy.
>
> 10. Have you ever been apart of a sighting of any kind?
> What happened?
>
>     Yes, In April of 1992. See:
>
> http://www.drboylan.com/rbacct2.html
>
> 11. How do you think the government needs to treat alien
> related cases?
>
>     The government needs to come clean about the reality of
> Star Visitor presence, and about various Star Visitor
> contacts with officials and with ordinary citizens. The
> government needs to assist behavioral science professionals
> working with experiencers of close encounters. The
> government needs to inform the public about everything it
> knows.
>
> 12. How is Rockefeller involved in the UFO matter?
>
>     The Rockefeller Company is one of the major "defense
> contractors" involved in working with advanced
> extraterrestrial technology, and making billions off of it.
> David Rockefeller is almost certainly a member of the Cabal.
> His proxy, Henry Kissinger, is chair of the government's
> National Security Council's Special Studies Group which
> controls information about UFO and Star Visitor matters.
>
> 13. Why does the CIA restrict the information that the
> President knows about UFO's.
>
>     The CIA is another tool of the Cabal, and assists in the
> UFO Cover-Up. The CIA and NSA take direction from the Cabal,
> who decides what a given President is "fit to know".
>
> 14. If there are aliens, where do they come here from?
>
>     There are about a hundred civlizations in contact with
> Earth. I do not know where they all come from. The Star
> Visitors have stated that some are from the Zeta Reticuli
> system, the Pleiades system, the Orion system, the Sirius
> system, the Altair system, near the Arcturus system, and
> perhaps from the Barnard's star system, as well as many
> other locations in this and other galaxies. Further, some
> come from other dimensions.
> See: http://www.drboylan.com/etraces.html
>
> 15. Why do they come here?
>
>     They are the galactic equivalent of a Peace Corps
> operation to a troubled planet, Earth.
>
>
> 16. Why do you think New Mexico is such a hot spot for
> alien related incidents?
>
>     The government has major advanced technology laboratory
> complexes at Los Alamos, NM and Albuquerque, NM, which
> specialize in working with extraterrestrial technology and
> have hosted volunteer Star Visitor scientist-consultants.
>
>
> 17. Where did the typical alien of today originate from?
> (What movie, show, etc.)
>
>     There is no "typical alien". They come in many shapes
> and sizes. See:
>
> http://www.drboylan.com/StarVisitorPictures/VisitorPhotos.html
>
>     If you are referring to the most common human depiction
> of a Star Visitor, the Zeta Reticulan or so-called "Grey",
> the Zetas are the most frequent Visitors to Earth and
> interactors with humans. So naturally more people report
> that their Visitor looked like a Zeta. (Many popular
> portrayals of Zetas have modified heir appearance in
> cartoonish ways.)
>
> 18. What do you think happened to the Betty Hill and her
> husband?
>
>     They had a rather standard Close Encounter of the Fourth
> Kind, involving being aken by Zetas aboard a scout craft,
> examined, and communicated with and dialogued with about
> aspects of Zeta civilization.
>
> 19. Where did the term extra-terrestrial originate from?
>
>     "Extra" is Latin for "outside". "Terrestrialis" is Latin
> for "of Earth" Thus extraterrestrial means a person or thing
> which comes from outside of Earth, an off-worlder.
>
> 20. Why do you think aliens have so much better technology
> then us?
>
>     Most visiting Star Nations have civilizations many
> hundreds of thousands, if not milliions of years older than
> our relatively young human culture. They have had plenty of
> time to become highly developed. Also, they learn things
> during inter-cultural exchanges with other civilizations
> during their travels across the cosmos.
>
> In the light,
>
> Richard Boylan, Ph.D.
>
> Richard Boylan, Ph.D., LLC
>
> Behavioral scientist, exo-anthropologist, hypnotherapist,
> educator
>
> President, Star Kids Project, Ltd., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
> organization
>
> P.O. Box 22310
>
> Sacramento, CA 95822 , USA
>
> (916) 422-7400
>
> E-mail: drboylan@...
>
> Website: www.drboylan.com
>



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As a civilian experiencer with lifelong contact, it is evident that there are
personality and agenda differences among beings from the stars across all
species--just like people.  Fortunately, most of our visitor friends are
peaceful and a peaceful coalition of worlds in fact wants to help man and the
earth environment.  Those few beings who have demonstrated malevolence might be
able to terrorize a few but they will be unable to achieve conquest.

Taking into consideration the media and religious hype that paints all visitors
as monsters and demons, it is no wonder so many are terrified (and discouraged
from contact) before knowing all the facts.  On the flip side, to say that are
all angelic is also wrong but this kind of overcompensation is not a bad idea
and I would sway toward it.  Since we are dealing with a majority peaceful
presence, shouldn't we extend an olive branch rather than spit and spears? 
Isolationism was never a good idea and it would apply to open contact and social
integration with the universe as well.

So here's the bottom line:  The facts remain that we have wars, corruption,
greed, poverty, disease, violence while proudly wielding bulky and poisonous
technology designed for profit and not a bright and restful future for all life.
Where are fuel-less energy and transportation; medical cures; long lasting
materials; advanced de-institutionalized individualized education; affordable
energy and environment savvy homes?  Where is the time to spend with family and
community and not on an assembly line, police duty and grocery store in order to
live with dignity?  Where is the Conservation Exchange pact among all military
forces globally working together in Forest Recovery and Crops to End World
Hunger; and trillions of monetary units otherwise used for weapons and weapons
platforms can then go into the technological conversion for the future and our
children?

I guarantee you, if you do this and then extend an olive branch and put away
your defensiveness and insults, you will have made a lasting friendship and bond
with the universe.  And you will have opened a door to a life beyond imagination
for all.  Oceans and gravity have not stopped us, neither should the illusion of
the vast unknowns of space.  Make peace by example first and embrace second. 
God be with you all in your choice today.

Respectfully submitted,

Jeffrey Morgan Foss
liastar@...
http://members.iinet.net.au/~starline/Articles/Jeffrey_Morgan_Foss_Story.html
http://www.cosmictribune.com/ct/Extraterrestrial/Arch/2003/Hal/mck_7_9.htm


   ----- Original Message -----
   From: Kagan Baykal
   To: ufos-unbound@yahoogroups.com
   Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 9:47 AM
   Subject: Re: [ufos-unbound] 20 UFO/ET Questions Answered by Dr. Boylan for
High School...


   yea right dr boylan, the source of all evil are the human elites. our 'star
   visitors' from zeta reticuli, orion, sirius b, draco etc are all here for
   peace and the ultimate good of mankind.. does anyone actually believe the
   &%+* this man is saying? just curious..


   ----- Original Message -----
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   To: <ufos-unbound@yahoogroups.com>; <aufon@yahoogroups.com>
   Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 4:16 PM
   Subject: [ufos-unbound] 20 UFO/ET Questions Answered by Dr. Boylan for High
   School...


   >
   > In a message dated 2/6/2005 7:08:04 PM Pacific Standard Time,
   > wdestiny44@... writes:
   >
   >
   > > Subj:   [UFOFacts] Star Kid high school homework
   > > Date:   1/27/2005 4:04:05 PM Eastern Standard Time
   > > From:   drboylan@...
   > > Reply-to:   UFOFacts@yahoogroups.com
   > > To: DrRichBoylanReports@yahoogroups.com, UFOFacts@yahoogroups.com,
   > > starkidshangout@yahoogroups.com
   > > Sent from the Internet (Details)
   > >
   > > Dr. Boylan,
   > >
   > > I contacted you a while ago asking for you help.  All I need is an
   answer to
   > >
   > > these twenty questions.  Please help me fufill this requirement for
   > > graduation.
   > > Just e-mail me back by February 1, 2005.  Thank you.
   > >
   > > Matthew J.
   > > Class of 2005
   > >
   > > Dear Matthew:
   > >
   > > Below are my replies.
   > >
   > > 1. What do you believe really happened in Roswell?
   > >
   > >     On or about July 4, 1947 an extraterrestrial
   > > elliptical-shaped scout craft was destabilized by human
   > > military high-intensity microwave testing in the New Mexico
   > > region, and lost control and embedded into the ground
   > > northwest of Roswell, New Mexico.
   > >
   > >     Of the crew most died or were dying by the time an
   > > inspection team arrived from Roswell Army Air Field. A
   > > surviving Star Visitor was taken captive by the Army squad
   > > and taken away to Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM for
   > > study and attempted interrogation.
   > >
   > >     The spacecraft remains were secretly removed to
   > > Wright-Patterson Air Field, OH for study, and later
   > > transferred to Sandia National Laboratories, NM for storage
   > > and additional analysis.
   > >
   > > 2. Do you believe our government is hiding something from
   > > us? Why?
   > >
   > >     Yes. The government is doing what its masters want. An
   > > elite geoplutocratic Cabal control governments, and are
   > > making trillions off of captured extraterrestrial technology
   > > back-engineered into new "inventions" and advancements in
   > > science and engineering.
   > >
   > >
   > > 3. What is our government most likely hiding?
   > >
   > >     The Star Visitors' presence and contact. But the
   > > government is keeping it secret because the international
   > > Cabal pressures governments to do so. See:
   > > http://www.drboylan.com/shadgovt2.html
   > >
   > > 4. How does the government account for so many similar
   > > elements in an abducted person's testimony?
   > >
   > >     The government does not acknowledge the reality of close
   > > encounters with Star Visitors; therefore, it does not
   > > comment on analyses of witnesses' testimony.
   > >
   > > 5. Why do you think the aliens encourage the abducted
   > > women to play with the alien kids?
   > >
   > >     Because in many instances the woman brought on board a
   > > craft is invited to interact with children who are the
   > > product of conception using her ovum with Star Visitor genes
   > > spliced in. The Star Visitors (especially Zetas) feel that
   > > the hybrid child will benefit from interaction with their
   > > human mother, and because humans have a very rich emotional
   > > response range, which is nourishing to a developing child.
   > >
   > >
   > > 6. In your opinion how can the government ignore some of
   > > the physical injuries suffered from those who said they
   > > were abducted?
   > >
   > >     Tales of real injuries during encounters are false
   > > propaganda and disinformation spread by Cabal UFO Cover-Up
   > > operatives.
   > >
   > >     Some experiencers have minor skin markings following
   > > medical and scientific procedures or exams, but these are
   > > negligible and soon disappear.
   > >
   > >     The government is good at ignoring anything it does not
   > > want to have to deal with.
   > >
   > > See: http://www.drboylan.com/realets2.html
   > >
   > > 7. How can the government ignore some of the animals who
   > > died very oddly?
   > >
   > >     If you are referring to bovine tissue sampling, the Star
   > > Visitors do a little of it to monitor how much pollution is
   > > entering mammalian lifeforms on Earth. Cows are a close
   > > equivalent to humans. The Star Visitors also use some bovine
   > > mucous tissue for aiding in artificial gestation of hybrid
   > > children.
   > >
   > >     Most "cattle mutilations" are done by covert Special
   > > Operations teams of military-intelligence personnel equipped
   > > with antigravity stealth helicopters, antigravity traction
   > > beams, and hand-held lasers. Such is done to create many
   > > cases, which can then be blamed on the Star Visitors and
   > > build public sentiment against them.
   > >
   > >
   > > 8. Who do you think makes crop circles? Why?
   > >
   > >     Many crop circles are fashioned by the Star Visitors as
   > > a form of universal symbolic communication.
   > >
   > >     Some crop circles are created by covert military-intelligence
   > > Special Operations teams to muddy up the picture.
   > >
   > >      Yet other crop circles, the clumsy ones, are constructed
   > > by human copy-cats.
   > >
   > > 9. How do you think the crops are heated from the inside?
   > >
   > >     I do not know. My surmise is that plasma physics is
   > > employed, and some use of microwave energy.
   > >
   > > 10. Have you ever been apart of a sighting of any kind?
   > > What happened?
   > >
   > >     Yes, In April of 1992. See:
   > >
   > > http://www.drboylan.com/rbacct2.html
   > >
   > > 11. How do you think the government needs to treat alien
   > > related cases?
   > >
   > >     The government needs to come clean about the reality of
   > > Star Visitor presence, and about various Star Visitor
   > > contacts with officials and with ordinary citizens. The
   > > government needs to assist behavioral science professionals
   > > working with experiencers of close encounters. The
   > > government needs to inform the public about everything it
   > > knows.
   > >
   > > 12. How is Rockefeller involved in the UFO matter?
   > >
   > >     The Rockefeller Company is one of the major "defense
   > > contractors" involved in working with advanced
   > > extraterrestrial technology, and making billions off of it.
   > > David Rockefeller is almost certainly a member of the Cabal.
   > > His proxy, Henry Kissinger, is chair of the government's
   > > National Security Council's Special Studies Group which
   > > controls information about UFO and Star Visitor matters.
   > >
   > > 13. Why does the CIA restrict the information that the
   > > President knows about UFO's.
   > >
   > >     The CIA is another tool of the Cabal, and assists in the
   > > UFO Cover-Up. The CIA and NSA take direction from the Cabal,
   > > who decides what a given President is "fit to know".
   > >
   > > 14. If there are aliens, where do they come here from?
   > >
   > >     There are about a hundred civlizations in contact with
   > > Earth. I do not know where they all come from. The Star
   > > Visitors have stated that some are from the Zeta Reticuli
   > > system, the Pleiades system, the Orion system, the Sirius
   > > system, the Altair system, near the Arcturus system, and
   > > perhaps from the Barnard's star system, as well as many
   > > other locations in this and other galaxies. Further, some
   > > come from other dimensions.
   > > See: http://www.drboylan.com/etraces.html
   > >
   > > 15. Why do they come here?
   > >
   > >     They are the galactic equivalent of a Peace Corps
   > > operation to a troubled planet, Earth.
   > >
   > >
   > > 16. Why do you think New Mexico is such a hot spot for
   > > alien related incidents?
   > >
   > >     The government has major advanced technology laboratory
   > > complexes at Los Alamos, NM and Albuquerque, NM, which
   > > specialize in working with extraterrestrial technology and
   > > have hosted volunteer Star Visitor scientist-consultants.
   > >
   > >
   > > 17. Where did the typical alien of today originate from?
   > > (What movie, show, etc.)
   > >
   > >     There is no "typical alien". They come in many shapes
   > > and sizes. See:
   > >
   > > http://www.drboylan.com/StarVisitorPictures/VisitorPhotos.html
   > >
   > >     If you are referring to the most common human depiction
   > > of a Star Visitor, the Zeta Reticulan or so-called "Grey",
   > > the Zetas are the most frequent Visitors to Earth and
   > > interactors with humans. So naturally more people report
   > > that their Visitor looked like a Zeta. (Many popular
   > > portrayals of Zetas have modified heir appearance in
   > > cartoonish ways.)
   > >
   > > 18. What do you think happened to the Betty Hill and her
   > > husband?
   > >
   > >     They had a rather standard Close Encounter of the Fourth
   > > Kind, involving being aken by Zetas aboard a scout craft,
   > > examined, and communicated with and dialogued with about
   > > aspects of Zeta civilization.
   > >
   > > 19. Where did the term extra-terrestrial originate from?
   > >
   > >     "Extra" is Latin for "outside". "Terrestrialis" is Latin
   > > for "of Earth" Thus extraterrestrial means a person or thing
   > > which comes from outside of Earth, an off-worlder.
   > >
   > > 20. Why do you think aliens have so much better technology
   > > then us?
   > >
   > >     Most visiting Star Nations have civilizations many
   > > hundreds of thousands, if not milliions of years older than
   > > our relatively young human culture. They have had plenty of
   > > time to become highly developed. Also, they learn things
   > > during inter-cultural exchanges with other civilizations
   > > during their travels across the cosmos.
   > >
   > > In the light,
   > >
   > > Richard Boylan, Ph.D.
   > >
   > > Richard Boylan, Ph.D., LLC
   > >
   > > Behavioral scientist, exo-anthropologist, hypnotherapist,
   > > educator
   > >
   > > President, Star Kids Project, Ltd., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
   > > organization
   > >
   > > P.O. Box 22310
   > >
   > > Sacramento, CA 95822 , USA
   > >
   > > (916) 422-7400
   > >
   > > E-mail: drboylan@...
   > >
   > > Website: www.drboylan.com
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Paul Spera has informed me over the telephone that Sant Michenner, the expert
from the Christa McAuliffe Planetarium, apologized for the media's mistreatment
of his statements and assured him that they showed him only the one video and
that was the only video he was referring to. He also said they did not show him
the whole clip. He did not see any of the rest of them though he is highly
interested in the subject.
He asked to visit to see the footage and make a statement. Sant has a plane and
has offered to take Paul UFO Hunting and will also visit his home to skywatch
with him. Will this man take a strong stand with Paul?  Well shall soon see.

Paul thanks you all for your support as do I.  We still have miles to go but we
are within reach of our destination.

Here is a very interesting and supportive commentary in the Concord Monitor
submitted by Bill Cain:
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050207/REPOSITORY/502\
070309/1029/OPINION03

God bless,

Jeff

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In a message dated 2/8/2005 4:53:33 AM Pacific Standard Time,
OrbservingHuman@... writes:
Don't Get Me Started: X Philes: The Truth Is Not There

By Scott Wilkinson



Most of the content on this Web site concerns how to get the most out of
watching movies in a home theater. However, I readily admit that I spend most of
my tube time watching television programming, both HD and SD. Now, don't get me
wrong--I love watching a fine film from a high-quality DVD on a big screen
with surround sound in cozy comfort. But I also love to watch TV, and a quality
home theater system enhances this pastime as well.

For me, one of the most fascinating aspects of broadcast television is the
way in which it both reflects and impacts our society. Among the most
significant examples of this inter-relationship is the growing appearance of
pseudoscience (UFOs, ghosts, Bigfoot, etc.) in series such as Unexplained
Mysteries as
well as various TV movies and specials.

These programs offer intriguing premises and dramatic re-creations of alleged
paranormal incidents without the hard evidence to qualify them as credible
news sources. In addition, undeniably fictional shows that focus on these themes
are gaining in popularity by leaps and bounds. Yet increasing numbers of
viewers unquestioningly accept these shows as fact, finding them as believable
as
CNN.

If you think this is preposterous, think again. Wayne Anderson, a physics
professor at Sacramento City College in California, asked his students to write
a
paper on whether or not they believed that the U.S. government is engaged in
a UFO cover-up and to cite evidence in support of their position. He was
shocked to find that most of the "evidence" cited to support a cover-up came
from
television programs such as The Roswell Incident, Alien Autopsy, and even The X
Files.

What's wrong with this picture? Why did college students think it reasonable
to use television-entertainment programming as scientific evidence? One
important reason might be the apparent decline of scientific competence among
American students.

This was demonstrated a few years ago in a test administered to 120,000
primary and secondary students around the country as part of the National
Assessment of Educational Progress. Shockingly, over 40 percent of high-school
seniors
and 33 percent of fourth and eighth graders did not meet the minimum academic
requirements established for the test.

These anecdotes seem to indicate that basic education in this country simply
does not prepare people to think critically about scientific issues. As a
result, they have no reason to doubt unsubstantiated pseudoscience, which thus
flourishes and becomes even more pervasive.  People might want the truth, but
without a decent education that includes a conceptual grasp of the scientific
method and logical thought, they tend to accept any answer that's fed to them
between commercials for Burger King and McDonald's.

Even worse, seeing is no longer believing, despite what some promos for The X
Files have proclaimed. The technology of digital image manipulation is now so
advanced that it's difficult or impossible for most people to distinguish
between genuine photographic images and computer-contrived counterfeits.
(Forrest
Gump was both hailed and reviled for its innovative use of computer-based
historical revision.)

This technology can easily be used to conjure "evidence" to support any
cockamamie contention, not to mention more ominous applications such as
electronic
avatars of political leaders that can be manipulated by those who hold the
real power (whoever they may be).

This frightening notion was explored in the final episode of the fourth
season of sci-fi saga Babylon 5, one of the best series ever to grace the
television landscape and now available on DVD. This episode includes several
segments
that "flash forward" to various points in the far future of the show's primary
story (which is set about 250 years into our future).

During the segment set in the year 2762, an EarthGov propagandist is
programming holographic simulations of people from the show's main story to
create a
false historical record of the plotlines viewers have already seen. As this
character reports to his superiors at PolitDivision, "The purpose of this
simulation is to provide reverse correct infospeak as support for changes in
Earth
policy...Intent is to deconstruct historical figures revered by polsector,
thereby legitimizing current government policies."

In this chilling segment, the propagandist also refers to "realfacts," which
reflect actual reality, and "goodfacts," which the government generates and
disseminates to the general public to further its own goals. This episode is
fictional, of course, but writer J. Michael Straczynski offers a prophetic
vision
of what could happen if we abandon our skeptical scrutiny of television shows
that promote pseudoscience and other questionable agendas.

On the other hand, maybe the shows about government conspiracies are right.
After all, I've seen plenty of reports about dwindling government funding for
public education--"no child left behind" can't possibly work if there's no
money to pay for it. Maybe this is a deliberate plan to reduce the educational
level of the population so that we will accept whatever we see on TV, which,
like
the government, is obviously controlled by the corporate/media elite (or
aliens, which could be the same thing). Maybe Mulder and Scully should look into
it... (Cue whistle theme; fade to black.)


02 06 2005
2005 Primedia Magazines, Inc.
http://www.guidetohometheater.com/scottwilkinson/205sw/


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Extraterrestrial Intelligence

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February 2005

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been plugging away
since 1960 with no success. I predict that that is about to change. It won’t
be
quite what they expect. But they will get very excited; they will think they
have discovered intelligent life in outer space but then they will realize the
sounds are from inner space. A bit like Carl Sagan’s film Contact that starred
Jodi Foster.


Carl Sagan
The story of Carl Sagan and his film is interesting. He was a brilliant
astronomer. He was one of the first to suggest that the red shift method of
measuring distances in space is in error and that distant galaxies are much
closer
than originally thought. He will be proved right in time. But beyond his
brilliance, he was an evil man. He sold his soul for prestige and money. He
would
regularly get up on TV and lie through his teeth to support whatever theory the
authorities wanted people to believe.

In the early 80s I worked in an office in Maryland, next-door was a small
company that specialized in graphics and art for major magazines. They were
commissioned to do a series of paintings and line drawings for a major Carl
Sagan
article that said that we faced an imminent, global, nuclear ice age. The
paintings were really dramatic and cataclysmic, it article was real fear
mongering.
The story was serialized in major American magazines over many weeks. It was
complete rubbish, a political concoction.


The Real Dr. Strangelove, Edward Teller
Sagan was a great supporter of Edward Teller, the man who gave us the
hydrogen bomb. Nice one Ed! Spew-dom. Teller was a man of copiously, vomitoso
qualities; tragically he lived to a ripe old age. Our sweet, vulnerable planet
didn’t
need Edward Teller. He was a bit of rotten karma for us to deal with. When
after the cold war hydrogen bombs fell out of favor, Teller came up with a
concocted horror story saying the planet was under threat from asteroids and
that
we needed nuclear bombs in space to get shot of any pesky rocks headed our way.
The idea was the government would give shonky Ed a few billion so we could
have his ghoulish invention hovering over us for decades to come. Carl Sagan got
behind Teller and he backed the bombs-in-space idea. Sagan wasn’t stupid, so
you’d reckon a few quid changed hands for him to support the nutty professor.
Certainly we are at a very slight risk of getting hit by something from outer
space but hundreds of bombs in space is not a safe or realistic way of
tackling the problem.

Sagan was very much the “grand liar� especially for NASA whenever there were
any awkward questions to be answered. He provided the quivering, rubber-lip,
hired to spout the party line. He was also virulent about the non-existence of
UFOs. He’d regularly give us the official, “expert� opinion, poo-pooing
the
idea as ridiculous. UFOs are etheric beings; they are real and deadly. They
are here in their millions. Their dimension is cold and dark and they are
extremely intrusive, sneaky and intelligent; they like to operate under a cloud
of
confusion and secrecy. Having their man regularly tell the world they didn’t
exist was perfect for them. I reckon Sagan was one of them, in the sense he was
one of those humans abducted by evil without ever knowing it—a reptile in
human skin.

Sagan’s Contact starred Jodi Foster. In the film, she picks up a SETI signal
and then she is supposed to travel through a wormhole in space where the
signal came from. The experiment fails and instead she goes through to a
celestial
dimension where she meets her father who had died early in her character’s
life. I think Sagan had a change of heart. He realized as his death approached
he
had lied and misled people all of his life, and so he was desperately trying
to make it right, injecting a spiritual connotation, hoping to make good. I don
’t think it would have helped him much as he was as deeply demonic and
possessed as anyone could ever be. The ghouls would have been waiting for
‘ice-age
Carl’ a long time before he died. It’s a pity really.

But I reckon the film was a forerunner of what will happen next, a clue. I
reckon SETI will find a signal and they will wonder if it is from a planet
orbiting a distant star, and gradually they will realize it comes from inner
space
not outer space. It will still be a very important discovery and it will help
with people’s perception of dimensions and the nature of the universe.

The reason why I am fairly sure about this SETI breakthrough is because of
two sounds that come from inner space via the Morph. One is a high-pitched
whine; it has a ripple-wave configuration like when you throw a pebble into a
pond,
with one important difference. The wave pattern of the whine does not go out
in all directions in a circle as you might expect, it only goes out in a half
circle from the source not a complete circle.





The Wave Form of the Formatting Sound

That is because the missing half of the wave pattern is beyond the
singularity between here in 3-D and over there in 10-D, so half the wave pattern
is not
visible to us. In the Morph you can see sound waves while on earth you need an
audio version of an oscilloscope to see sound waves as you would in a
recording studio.

Next, there is a tick-tick formatting sound that also comes from those inner
worlds. The sound is caused by a short, red, pulse that is beamed down a
protective cone. It travels inside the cone close to its right-hand side, which
is
our left from where we watch it.
I call it the formatting sound, as it is exactly like how old computer disks
clicked when you had to format them before use. It is the red pulse that emits
the slightly mechanical, tick-tick sound; it operates at about four clicks a
second. The SETI people are currently fixed on broadcasting signals into space
associated with the mathematics of the hydrogen atom, and they are looking
for radio signals in space in the same format, but they have recently realized
that that might be futile.

The reason is that even radio and TV signals from earth are changing. In the
past, our TV signals went directly out into space at the speed of light, but
as technology has progressed we now have broadcast signals that don’t go out
into space at all, cable TV for example, and satellite systems where the signal
is being beamed back to earth not outwards. So a technological advanced
society in outer space might also have no detectable radio/TV emissions,
depending
on how sophisticated their broadcast systems are.

The formatting sound from the Morph rises and falls in pitch and intensity,
and while it normally pulses as said, at about four cycles a second, from
time-to-time it hiccups, missing a couple of beats and then it continues on. The
sound seems intelligently driven to me, I don’t think it’s random at all. It
also slows down and speeds up periodically. I reckon it’s a form of download
to
take us to a higher level of awareness. Like everything in the Morph it’s
available to everyone. There’s no fancy spiritual country club you have to
join.
You just have to listen for the whine or the formatting. The whine comes
usually comes first by a couple of years. It is very loud; you can’t miss it.
When
you first hear it you may notice one of your eyes twitching for a few days. The
formatting pulse is very much quieter than the whine.

The SETI people are going to find the whine and the formatting sound and then
it will take them a short while to figure they are from inner space not outer
space. Once they turn their resources upon these mysterious sounds we’ll know
a lot more about them. It’s all very exciting in my view. There may well be
planets in outer space with intelligent life but the closest intelligent life
is near at hand, just past a gap in reality, in a dimension we can’t normally
see, just a few feet away at 90° from us.

My prediction is that the celestial beings in there will allow SETI to find
them. It is probably only a matter of tuning or panning the SETI system
slightly. Once people get that there are other highly advanced beings in another
world and if that is proven to science’s satisfaction it will help humanity
enormously. People will go through a bit of a shock at first but after that they
will become more humble, less dogmatic and more spiritual. Once people ‘get’
that they are being watched, many will shift from being predators to becoming
helpers of others.

Of course, there will always be those who will ridicule the idea of a
transdimensional world even if it is proven, but once the beings I speak of walk
through their kitchen wall they may well change their mind. It might be a bit
too
late by then, it’s not for me to say. SETI’s breakthrough is coming soon.
It’
s good news for humanity. It will be an inspiring moment in our comprehension
and development.
© Stuart Wilde 2005
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       UFO ROUNDUP
Volume 10, Number 6
February 9, 2005
Editor: Joseph Trainor

E-mail: Masinaigan@...
Website: http://www.ufoinfo.com/roundup/


STRANGE EARTH TREMOR
RATTLES MELBOURNE

       An earth tremor measuring an estimated 1.3 on the
Richter scale rattled the west end of Melbourne, one of
Australia's largest cities, during the early morning hours
of Tuesday, February 1, 2005.  But the shock wasn't
recorded on any seismographs.
       "A lightning bolt may be behind reports of an earth
tremor in Melbourne early this morning."
       "The earth may have moved for residents, but experts
say they did not feel a thing."
       "Geoscience Australia, the national body which
measures earthquakes, said there was no evidence of an
earth tremor in Melbourne, despite radio reports of one
this morning."
       "A spokesman for electrical supplier Powercor said
the company's theory is that the rumblings, reported to
have happened about 3:08 a.m., might have something to do
with a lightning bolt that struck a power pole in Melton,
in Melbourne's" west end.
       "The lightning blew the 6-meter (20-foot) pole and an
attached transformer to bits, leaving nothing more than a
stump, the spokesman said."
       "'If the nature of what's left of our power pole is
anything to go by--it's stuffed, it's just a stump--then
it could've been that.'"
       "Asked how the impact could have travelled so far
across Melbourne, the spokesman said, 'I'm fascinated by
that!'"
       "Geoscience Australia said it was possible a sonic
boom caused the shock."
       "Given the large number of residents who reported
feeling a rumbling shortly after 3 a.m., a Geoscience
Australia spokesman said it appeared something had
occurred but no one was sure what."
       "'There's no doubt something happened,' he said."
       "He said a small localised tremor may have occurred,
affecting about 20 kilometers (12 miles) and measuring
1.3" on the Richter scale "in magnitude."
       "The shaking also could have been caused by a sonic
boom from a low-flying, high-speed aircraft."
       However, an Australian "Defence Department spokesman
said he was unaware if any planes were flying over
Melbourne last night but would investigate."
       "Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Terry Ryan
said there was no sound of thunder or lightning in
Melbourne last night."
       "Residents have been calling Melbourne radio stations
ABC and 3AW, saying they felt a tremor in the middle of
the night."
       "A 3AW spokesman said the station had received
'overwhelming' numbers of calls from right across
Melbourne," the largest city in Australia's Victoria
state, "to as far southwest as Geelong, Vic."  (See the
Australian newspaper Herald-Sun for February 2, 2005,
"Bolt may have triggered tremor."  Many thanks to Nathan
Lockhart for this newspaper article.)
(Editor's Note:  The weird tremor was just the beginning
of Melbourne's problems.  Keep reading...)


SUMMER STORM DEVASTATES
SOUTHEASTERN AUSTRALIA

       A gigantic summer storm packing hurricane-force
winds, torrential rains and bizarre snowfalls devastated
southeastern Australia on Wednesday, February 2, 2005.
       The storm appeared without warning.  On Tuesday,
February 1, 2005, at 1:40 p.m., "it was 36 degrees Celsius
(100 degrees Fahrenheit)," a UFO Roundup reader in
Melbourne reported, "You could stand in the sun and feel
your skin sizzling..  Within one-and-a-half hours, it had
fallen to 23 degrees Celsius (69 degrees Fahrenheit).  By
9 p.m. that night, it was down to 13 degrees Celsius (33
degrees Fahrenheit.  By the end of Wednesday (February 2,
2005), we had 31 continuous hours of rain, and the
temperature never topped 13 degrees Celsius."
       According to The Age newspaper, "Melbourne has never
seen the like of it.  A city notorious for its mercurial
meteorology was brought to a standstill Wednesday by a
history-making, record-breaking storm."
       "The biggest downpour since records began in 1856
closed airports and roads, played havoc with public
transport, cut power to 120,000 homes, dumped summer snow
on ski resorts."
       "A summer storm low-pressure system dumped something
like three months' worth of rain on the city in 31 hours.
The weather bureau reported that the 24-hour rain total at
9 a.m. yesterday (Wednesday, February 2, 2005) was a
record 120.2 millimeters (12.0 centimeters or 5 inches--
J.T.).  But it had been raining for seven hours before
that, drowning the city in almost a quarter--23 percent--
of its annual rainfall."
       "Police and State Emergency Services (SES) crews
spent the day searching the swollen Skeleton Creek near
Hoppers Crossing after reports that a teenaged boy might
have been swept away.  Residents reported hearing a scream
and seeing a boy clinging to a bridge at Tarneit."
       "'It all happened pretty quickly, there was not much
that we could do,' said resident Kate Payne, 'One minute
he was there, and the next he wasn't...that was the last
we saw of him.'"
       "A 10-year-old girl and a motorist were in hospital
last night after being seriously injured by falling
trees."
       "Healesville girl Stephanie Chamorro is lucky to be
alive after a 15-meter (50-foot) gum tree crashed through
the roof of her bedroom, breaking her leg and pinning her
to the bed.  It took SES and County Fire Authority workers
and hour to free her."
       "At Russ Creek, near Ballarat," 200 kilometers (120
miles) west of Melbourne in Australia's Victoria state, "a
man was critically injured when high winds brought a tree
crashing down on his moving car at about 7 a.m.  A Rural
Ambulance Service (RAS) spokesman said the man was taken
to Ballarat Base Hospital with critical injuries to his
head, pelvis and leg."
       "A police helicopter rescued a man and a woman
trapped by floodwaters at Arthurs Creek, northeast of
Melbourne.  Another person was plucked from a tree amid
floodwaters at Wattle Creek."
       "The storm also caused transport chaos across
Melbourne.  Police issued an unusual plea for people not
to come into the city unless it was necessary.  Every one
of the city's 15 train lines was affected by the freak
conditions.  Two lines, Frankston and Sandringham, were
still experiencing major difficulties on Wednesday night."
       "Both Melbourne and Avalon airports were closed
because of flooded access roads.  The outbound lane of
Tullamarine Freeway near the airport was turned into a
long traffic jam.  Hundreds of would-be travellers sat in
their cars as their flights took off without them."
       Mountainous seas were reported in the Bass Strait
between Melbourne and Australia's island-state of
Tasmania.  "Massive seas about 4 a.m. in the Bass Strait
force the 194-meter (640-foot carferry) Spirit of Tasmania
I to turn back to Melbourne halfway through its voyage to
Devonport" in northern Tasmania.
       The ferry "had to turn back after a great wave blew
out a window on the ship's bridge.  The wave was 12 meters
(40 feet) above the water's surface."
       In addition, "a 71-year-old sailor was rescued from
his dismasted yacht in Bass Strait."
       "More than 200,000 Victorians lost electricity as
winds of more than 100 kilometers per hour (60 miles per
hour) brought trees down on power lines, said Energy
Minister Theo Theopharous."
       "The storm also cut a swath through Melbourne's
beaches, tearing yachts from their moorings and throwing
them onto beaches.  The Kerferd Road pier at Middle Park
was badly damaged by waves.  Port Phillip Council staff
reported that Middle Park Beach was almost totally washed
away--several thousand cubic meters of sand disappeared,
leaving almost none above the high tide mark."
       "The storm also brought February snow to alpine areas
just days after the resorts were warned about possible
brushfires."
       "Heavy snowfalls were reported at Mount Buller, Mount
Hotham and Falls Creek.  Mount Buller had at least 15
centimeters (6 inches) of snow, Falls Creek reported about
12 centimeters (4.5 centimeters) Wednesday morning."
(Editor's Note:  Right now, it's summer in Australia.  The
snowfall at Mount Buller is like getting 6 inches of snow
in Des Moines, Iowa on August 2.)
       "'It's mid-winter conditions here at the moment,'
said spokeswoman Debbie Harris, 'It got to 36 degrees (100
degrees Fahrenheit) in the valley earlier this week and
overnight it got to minus 1.6 (degrees Celsius or 29
degrees Fahrenheit--J.T.)  It's absolutely freezing!'"
       "About 16,000 homes in southeastern Queensland were
without power at the height of the storm.  The storms were
followed by a massive dust storm."
       At their cattle station near Nindigully, Qlnd.,
readers Kristin and Todd Rogan reported, "First it was a
khaki haze on the horizon.  Then, a bit later, it looked
like a wall of dust moving across the (Darlington) Downs--
a wall 2,000 meters (6,600 feet) high.  Dingoes (wild
dogs--J.T.) were running away from it."
       "Snow fell at the Brindabella (mountain) ranges and
at Thredbo and Perisher skie resorts in New South Wales,
with winds up to 133 kilometers per hour (80 miles per
hour).  About 100,000 New South Wales homes and businesses
were without power.  Three people were rescued from cars
trapped in floodwaters."
       In New South Wales, "photos appeared in newspapers
Wednesday of large hailstones beside a ruler that looked
like three-dimensional asterixes.  The hailstones were 4
centimeters (1.7 inches) and 9 centimeters (3.7 inches) in
diameter."
       In Victoria state, the Maribyrnong River spilled over
its banks and flooded the Farmington Racecourse.
       In Tasmania, "a tree fell on a train at Lilydale,"
120 kilometers (75 miles) east of Devonport, and "120
kilometer per hour winds tore the roof off the Launceston
Church Grammar School."  (See The Age of Melbourne for
February 3, 2005.  Many thanks to Jocelyn Ronaldson for
this newspaper article.  Thanks also to Todd and Kristin
Rogan and other Australian readers for their additional
reports.)


RUSSIAN JET ANSWERS
UFO ALERT ON BORDER

       "Combat aircraft of Russia's Baltic Sea fleet were
rushed to the border with Lithuania on Wednesday," January
22, 2005, "to repel a possible violation by what turned
out to be an unnaturally thick and fast-moving cloud, the
RIA-Novosti News Agency reported, citing the Baltic
Fleet's press service."
       "The press release said a Sukhoi Su-27 was vectored
into the area near Russia's Baltic Sea enclave of
Kaliningrad," located about 400 kilometers (250 miles)
north of Warsaw, Poland after radar spotted a large object
entering Russian airspace from Lithuania.  However, the
(Russian) plane found nothing after reaching the border
area."
       "The Baltic Fleet's Air Defense Command contacted
military officials in Lithuania and Poland later,
revealing that the intruder was actually a thick cloud
that was being driven by a strong wind."
       "'Our fighter approached the trespasser to make it
land or else leave Russian airspace,' the press release
said, 'A closer examination showed that it was a cloud
instead of a light plane, and it was coming from the
territory of Lithuania,' the Baltic Fleet spokesman said."
       "Lithuanian military spokesman Ricardas Uzelka said
Wednesday that Lithuanian authorities had no knowledge of
any incident on the border."
       "'No Russian planes entered Lithuanian territory, nor
did any Lithuanian plane enter Kaliningrad airspace,'
Uzelka said."  (See Moscow News for January 27, 2005,
"Russian combat jet signalled to repel trespasser cloud."
Many thanks to Robert Fischer for this newspaper article.)


TOURISTS SAY A UFO WENT
DOWN IN THE HIMALAYAS

       "In the Dharbanga district of" India's Bihar state,
"which borders Nepal, tourists returning from Nepal are
talking about a possible UFO crash in Nepal."
       "The rumour is also rampant in Kathmandu, the capital
of Nepal, and in other Nepali cities" such as Lalitpur,
Bhaktapur and Nawakot.
       "According to the rumours, the (UFO) crash site may
be close to Mount Everest and is totally inaccessible from
either side.  The rumour world is also speculating that
the Chinese military is actively working to reach the
crash site."
       "It is also rumoured that the extraterrestrials are
not allowing anyone to go near the site."
       "Unusual activities and strange tremors were felt all
over the Himalayan region last week from the India/Nepal
(south) side.  The number of UFO activities has gone up
very heavily in recent days in this area" near Mount
Everest.  "And no one really knows what is happening."
       "It's possible that the crash was nothing but a
Chinese spacecraft.  China has a number of secret military
projects in this area."
       "According to UFO scientists, it's possible that the
underground UFO bases were damaged by the earth tremor
last week and some slight aftershocks or the big
earthquake in Sumatra, Indonesia" on December 26, 2004 and
which measured 9.0 on the Richter scale, causing
catastrophic tsunamis all around the Indian Ocean.  (See
India Daily for January 31, 2005, "Rumour of a UFO crash
on Nepal/China border."  Many thanks to Krishnari Bai
Dharapurnanda for this newspaper article.)


MYSTERY METEOR LIGHTS UP
NIGHT SKIES OVER MADRID

       "A spectacular 'fireball' meteor was seen falling in
the neighborhood of" two major airports in the vicinity of
Madrid, Spain's capital.
       "Reports were received of a falling object near
Barajas international airport, about 4 kilometers (3
miles) from the large Torreon air base."
       "Luis Serrano, spokesman for the emergency telephone
service in Madrid, said, 'We had three calls and referred
other calls reporting a large fireball before midnight on
Thursday," January 27, 2005.
       "A Spanish news agency also received calls reporting
the falling object."
       "Witness Jose Antonio said, 'An enormous,
incandescent and very red ball gave a tremendous flash and
then went out in a few seconds.'"
       Spanish Air Force "officers at Torreon, which was
once a U.S. Air Force base, have refused to comment."
(See the Agence France Presse report for January 30, 2005.
Many thanks to Jim Hickman, executive director of Skywatch
International, for this news report.)


LUMINOUS UFOs SEEN NEAR
SCARBOROUGH, UK

       "A series of moving bright lights was spotted in the
sky off Scarborough," North Yorkshire, "cementing claims
that the (UK's) East Coast is the UFO capital of Europe."
       "Pat Glenwright of Grange Avenue saw the lights dart
around the sky at 4:40 p.m. yesterday (Monday, January 31,
2005)."
       "She said, 'There were about 14, so it definitely
wasn't an aeroplane.  They were flying in a group, and it
looked from here they were the size of light bulbs.'"
       "A friend added, 'They were bright and very high up.
It was very noticeable.'"
       "'They were moving from right to left and looked as
though they were heading (north) towards Whitby.'"
       "In December (2004), Chris Parr of the British UFO
Hunters Group said the coastal area between Filey and
Scarborough was the hotspot for British UFO incidents."
       "Filey UFO researcher Russ Kellett said there were
more recorded sightings of UFOs in Filey and along the
East Coast than anywhere in the country."  (See the
British newspaper Scarborough Today for February 1, 2005,
"Bright lights spotted in sky."  Many thanks to Robert
Fischer for this newspaper article.)


AMBER UFO SIGHTED OVER
SANTA ROSA, ARGENTINA

       On Thursday, February 3, 2005, at 9:45 p.m.,
eyewitnesses in Santa Rosa, the capital of Argentina's La
Pampa province, "saw a UFO crossing the skies of the
pampas (prairie in the USA--J.T.).  The UFO was yellowish-
brass in color and moved from southeast to northeast some
30 degrees over the horizon."
       "The object was recorded during part of its transit
by CIUFOS La Pampa," a local UFO research group.
       "Subsequently, another object was detected some 35
degrees over the horizon toward the west, following a
north-south trajectory.  After moving along at a constant
luminosity, the object unexpectedly increased its size for
30 seconds, as in the earlier case, before vanishing
completely."
       Santa Rosa is located 400 kilometers (250 miles)
west-southwest of Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina.
(Muchas gracias a Scott Corrales y Raul Oscar Chavez del
grupo Planeta UFO para estas noticias.)


FLASHING RED-AND-WHITE
UFO HOVERS OVER OTTAWA

       On Sunday, January 30, 2005, at 5:30 p.m., eyewitness
J.E. reported, "As I was preparing supper, I noticed a
bright, red-and-white flashing light in the sky outside my
kitchen window.  I called my husband to come and see.  So
we went outside, and my neighbour was walking by.  I
called her over and asked her to look at it.  She was
like, 'Oh, my God!  What is that!?'"
       "My husband kept saying it was an airplane, but
airplanes don't sit in one spot like that."
       "It was very bright, white-and-red flashing lights,"
she added, "It sat in one spot over Ottawa (Canada's
capital--J.T.) for three minutes.  It was as high as an
airplane  but every silent.  The evening was dark, and the
skies were clear that night."
       The UFO "was a hundred times brighter than any star.
Then, as we watched, it started moving toward the
northwest slowly, then it was gone.  It was nowhere in
sight, just the stars."
       "We started stating again it was a helicopter or an
airplane, since we live close to the (MacDonald-Cartier
International) airport, and incoming/outgoing air traffic
flies right over our house.  It was very unfamiliar and
nothing like what would be coming from the Ottawa
airport."
       "It was bright red and white, the shape looking to be
oval, as well.  The lights kept going very fast around it.
The red was brighter than the white and sparkled in the
clear sky.  The speed as I watched it was about 30
kilometers per hour (18 miles per hour), and then it was
gone."  (Email Form Report)


AMBER UFO SIGHTED IN
HILLSBOROUGH, N.J.

       On Wednesday, February 2, 2005, at 10:58 p.m., Stu P.
was outdoors at his home in Hillsborough, New Jersey when
he noticed something strange in the sky, approaching from
the northeast.
       "It was a small moving amber light which I saw from
the highest point of my view, southwest across the sky,
for about four seconds, hovered for about one-tenth of a
second, and then changed direction about 30 to 45 degrees
to the south."
       "Amber color, shape too far away to be easy to see.
It just looked like a dot.  The only thing that could go
that fast and then stop to change direction could be
falling space junk that would burn up at first, and then
change shape, this would change the air-flow over the
object, making it change direction.  But I'm pretty sure
it was a UFO.  I was looking up at the sky at a 45-degree
angle, and it went through my whole view of the sky (about
half the sky--S.P.) in about two seconds."  (Email Form
Report)


FAMILY SPOTS A UFO OVER
KELSEYVILLE, CALIFORNIA

       On Tuesday, February 1, 2005, at 8:30 p.m., Leslie
Roberts reported, "My husband was out on our deck, smoking
a cigarette" in Kelseyville, California (population 2,928)
"He was facing Mount Konocti, which we were at the eastern
side of.  He noticed a very bright light hovering over the
south side of the mountain.  He yelled for me to come see.
I, who do not believe in UFOs, did not want to go out
there to see what I figured was a plane or a satellite.
He was excited and insisted that I come.  So I went
outside to see what it was."
       "At first I thought it had to be a very bright star,
but, as I stood there, it began to rise in altitude.  I
was amazed to say the least.  By this instant, our 17-
year-old daughter, her boyfriend and our 12-year-old son
also came watching too."
       "I noticed that it was moving, which frightened my
12-year-old.  He ran, tripping on the entrance to our
house.  We stood and watched as the light changed from a
bright white to flashing blue and red lights and turned
towards us, coming right over our house.  It was so close
that we could make out the shape of the vehicle."
       "It was sort of shaped like a diamond at the front
but also long and cylindrical.  It made absolutely no
noise.  It passed over our heads and headed in an eastern
direction.  We watched as it went farther away, and then
it just disappeared."
       "My son...was so frightened.  I had to assure him
that they were not coming back to hurt him."  The UFO was
"about 500 feet (150 meters) above us.  Cannot estimate
speed but can say it moved slowly enough for us to see it
clearly.  When it headed away, though, at some point it
all at once moved so fast it just disappeared.  I reported
it to the police department."
       Kelseyville, Cal. is just south of Clear Lake on
Highway 175, located about 70 miles (112 kilometers) north
of San Francisco.  (Email Form Report)


ICE CHUNK FALLS FROM SKY
IN LEOMINSTER, MASS.

       "A chunk of ice, believed to be frozen waste from an
airplane's lavatory, smacked into the top of a
Massachusetts woman's car."
       "Nina Gambone of Leominster, Mass. (population
41,303) said the incident happened last week."
       "Gambone said the Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA) confirmed the source of the ice chunk.  However, the
FAA couldn't trace it to any particular airline."
       "No one was injured, but it looks like Gambone will
be stuck with the repair bill."
       Leominster is on Routes 2 and 13, approximately 5
miles (8 kilometers) south of Fitchburg, which has long
been "the UFO Capital of Massachusetts."  (See the WJAR-TV
Channel 10 news broadcast for February 1, 2005, "Frozen
waste from plane smashes car."  Many thanks to Mary Lou
Jones-Drown for this news report.)
(Editor's Comment:  Like its neighbor Fitchburg,
Leominster has been plagued by UFO sightings and Fortean
phenomena for ages.  Blocks of ice have been falling out
of the sky in that area since the days of the Pilgrims.)


LOST "HYBORIAN AGE" CITY
DISCOVERED IN IRAN

       "Iranian archaeologists have unearthed over 600,000
intact earthenware pottery and other artifacts in a newly-
discovered 6,000-year-old habitation near the Halil-Rud
River cultural area, where the ancient site of Jiroft is
located, the director of the archaeological team working
in the area announced on Sunday," January 30, 2005.
       "'Our team has discovered a great number of intact
pottery and a large amount of shards, the volume of which
reaches one meter (3 feet, 3 inches) in height in some
areas,' David Abyan said."
       "The team recently discovered a 6,000-year-old
habitation with more than 800 cells (rooms) in the Barez
Mountains east of the Halil-Rud River in southern Kerman
province."
       "'Glazed in crimson and tan, the pottery was created
in various shapes, some with spouts, and a special
technique was employed in making the vases,' Abyan said."
       "'The great amount of earthware indicates that
pottery-making was the main occupation of the people
living in the region, and they exported their products to
other areas,' he said."
       "The nearby prehistoric village is located at a
height of 250 meters (825 feet) with 2-to-4-square meter
cells.  The habitation is Iran's most ancient rock
residence ever discovered."
       "The Jiroft region was one of the first places in
Iran where civilization and urbanization were established
about 5,000 years ago."
       "Many Iranian and foreign experts see the findings
near Jiroft as signs of a civilization as great as Sumer."
       "Iranian archaeologist Yusef Majidzadeh believes that
Jiroft was the ancient city of Aratta, which was described
as a great civilization in ancient Sumerian cuneiform
inscriptions."
       Texas author Robert E. Howard (1906-1936), in his
Conan of Cimmeria stories published in Weird Tales,
described "the lost empire of Turan," whose major cities
were located close to some of Iran's most productive
archaeological sites.  According to Howard, Turan
flourished during "the Hyborian Age," the period
immediately following the last Pleistocene glaciation,
reaching its pinnacle of power between 8,500 and 7,000
B.C.
       The Jiroft region is about 600 kilometers (360 miles)
southeast of Tehran, the capital of Iran.  (See the
Iranian newspaper Al-Mehr for January 31, 2005, "6,000-
year-old site in southeastern Iran yields a large cache of
earthware."  Many thanks to Ayesha al-Khatabi and Kufa
Yildaz for this newspaper article.)


UFOLOGIST KENNY YOUNG
DEAD IN OHIO

       Kenny Young, 38, producer/director of the Cincinnati,
Ohio cable TV show UFO Updates Live and a long-time
contributor to UFO Roundup, died on Monday, January 31,
2005 following a long illness.
       "Kenneth Harold Young, a graphics designer and
producer for the Telecommunications Board of North
Kentucky died Monday of complications of leukemia at Mercy
Anderson Hospital.  He was 38."
       "'Scarcely a person could watch TV without seeing
some of Kenny's graphics work,' said John Stephenson of
Fort Mitchell, Ky., former superintendent of public
instruction for northern Kentucky and former director of
the Telecommunications Board Community Program Center."
       "Born in Cincinnati (Ohio) on December 28, 1966, Mr.
Young graduated in 1984 from Howard High School, where he
was active with the video center.  He worked for the
Community Program Center, which produces religion, public-
access and government programs for Kenton, Campbell,
Boone, Grant, Gallatin, Owen and Pendleton counties."
       "He had a passion for UFOs and produced several
programs recreating sightings.  He also played the piano
at nursing homes.  And he loved his dog, Boo.  'Everywhere
he went, he took that dog with him,' Stephenson said."
       Kenny is survived by "his mother, Carol Waller Young
Boettger, of Anderson; a brother, Gary McCarty, of Laurel,
Miss., and a sister, Cindy Porter, of Florence, Ky."
       The funeral was held Thursday, February 3, 2005 at 2
p.m. at the Charles and Grubbs Funeral Home in Florence,
Ky.  Interment was in Walker Cemetery."
       Kenny's colleagues in the field of ufology reminisced
about his outstanding career.
       "During 21 years of his sterling commitment to
ufology, Kenny was always as good as they get," radio host
Jeff Rense said, "His reports were rock-solid and
outstanding in their collection of data, he jumped to no
conclusions, and he always conducted himself with absolute
integrity--and a special kindness--which everyone could do
well to emulate."
       "I met Kenny back in 1994, after I got back into
research after a two-year sabbatical," Roy Schaeffer said,
"I didn't even have to introduce myself to him.  He knew
who I was and offered me a warm welcome back into the
field at the local cable-access show out of Cincinnati.  A
small group of us who were affiliated with the show worked
with another Ohio group.  It was headed by the late Pat
Packard and called Advocates for Scientific Knowledge.
After Pat's untimely death, we changed the name to Tri-
States Advocates for Scientific Knowledge (T.A.S.K.)
Kenny was named our public relations director.  One of the
most celebrated cases of T.A.S.K. was the 1996-1997 UFO
flap in southern Ohio."
       Southern Ohio section director of MUFON, Donnie
Blessing, remarked, "Back in 1999, when I first contacted
Kenny, I had no idea what an impact the group was going to
have on my life.  I had Kenny's Website and contacted him.
My thoughts were then that he would not give me a minute
of his time.  Instead, he told me he could use some help
with his research.  I happily accepted and, for the next
five years, I was taken on the journey of my life.  We
used to kid each other when we had a hot UFO case by
saying, 'Keep your seat belt on, we are in for a ride.'"
       One of Kenny's most famous cases "was the Screaming
Woman case of Morehead, Kentucky in November of 2003,"
Blessing added, "He never ceased to amaze me how he could
take the raw footage we had taped and turn it into a high-
quality video production.  The world has lost a true hero
in the UFO field, and I shall never forget the fun and
hard work we had to help make him that hero."
(Editor's Note:  For more on the Morehead case, see UFO
Roundup, volume 8, number 47 for December 10, 2003,
"Kentucky UFO sighting may have included an abduction,"
page 1.)
       "Kenny first began contributing reports to us back in
1996, the glory days of T.A.S.K.," UFO Roundup editor
Joseph Trainor recalled, "For nearly ten years, Kenny was
a mainstay of the newsletter.  I relied on him for
coverage of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and southern Illinois,
and he never disappointed.  He always turned in good,
crisp, readable, detailed copy on the many UFO sightings
in his area.  Not only has ufology lost one of its best
investigators, but I think American journalism has lost
one of its great unrecognized reporters.  Kenny will be
sorely missed by all of us here at the Roundup."  (See the
Cincinnati Enquirer for February 3, 2005, "Kenneth Young,
38, TV graphics designer."  Many thanks to Jim Danvers for
this newspaper article.)


SHIRLEY FICKETT, MAINE'S
"FIRST LADY OF UFOLOGY"
DEAD AT AGE 82

       "Shirley Cardin Fickett, 82, a local artist, passed
away on Wednesday, February 2, 2005, after a long
illness."
       "She attended Portland (Maine) schools and married
the late Richard E. Fickett.  They resided in the North
Deering area of Portland."
       "She and her husband owned and operated the Driftwood
Art Gallery and Gift Shop before retiring with her husband
to Ellsworth, Maine.  The Gallery was a place where local
artists, both young and old, were welcome to display their
work and receive positive and enthusiastic support from
Shirley."
       "Shirley was also very active in psychic phenomena
and UFO research.  She liked to have gatherings at the Art
Gallery, where topics of the unexplained would be heard
and discussed.  People were drawn to her knowledge of this
unusual subject matter.  She was a freelance writer and
had many articles published in magazines and newspapers."
       "She is survived by four children: Sharon Cleaves of
Windham, Richard Flickett of Windham, Randall Flickett of
Auburn and Leanne Brainerd of Cumberland, nine
grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.  Also
surviving are two sisters, Pat Dunbar of Sullivan and
Donna Jean Diphilippo of Windham, and two brothers,
Courtney Campbell of Ellsworth and Mike Harris of
Richmond."
       Fortean investigator Loren Coleman said, "Shirley was
the Dean of Ufology in the Pine Tree State, Maine's answer
to Betty Hill.  Mrs. Fickett wrote a widely-shared
document, 'The Maine UFO Encounter: Investigating Under
Hypnosis," about an expert physician/hypnotist who
explores the lost-time experience after a UFO's beam of
light hits his car.  The Dr. Herbert Hopkins/David
Stephens case included Men in Black (MIB) and lost-time,
and it became the case most people associated with
(Shirley) Fickett's name.  Fickett investigated others of
the state's UFO encounters as an associate of the
International UFO Bureau."  (See the Portland, Me. Press-
Herald for February 3, 2005, "Shirley Cardin Fickett, 82."
Many thanks to Loren Coleman for this newspaper article.)


BLACK HELICOPTERS SEEN
IN SOUTHEASTERN MASS.

       On Saturday, February 5, 2005, at 9:10 p.m., the male
eyewitness was putting out overnight feed for the animals
on his farm in Rehoboth, Massachusetts when he heard "the
noise of a whole squadron of helicopters."
       Going out in the farmyard, he saw "a formation of
black military-style helicopters heading southeast toward
Mount Hope Bay.  There were six or seven of them.  They
looked like (UH-60) Blackhawks.  One of them came from
Providence (Rhode Island, i.e. the southwest--J.T.) and
flew right over the farmhouse.  Real low.  Very low and
very loud.  This helicopter joined the others, and they
flew over Bad Luck Pond on their way to the bay."
      The black helicopters "were still circling at the
southern horizon at 9:45 p.m.  They were right over
Somerset.  They looked like they were on patrol or
maneuvers or something.  They were still circling at ten
o'clock.  This is the first time we've seen the black
helicopters here in a while.  Something must be up.  When
the FBI was looking for terrorists in Boston" four weeks
ago, "there were jets flying over all evening."
       Earlier that afternoon, a North Seekonk woman saw
"two black helicopters flying very low over Beckwith
School and the Palmer River area just north of Route 118.
They were military...(UH-60) Blackhawks, I think, and they
were flying side by side towards Attleboro.  This was late
afternoon, about 4 p.m.  A half hour later, I saw a single
black helicopter flying a bit higher.  It was heading
northeast but not on a normal flight path.  I think maybe
it was heading for Devens."
(Editor's Note:  Located in Ayer, Mass., Fort Devens was
closed in 1992, but has since become a regional facility
for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).  A
"federal reserve prison," sometimes called "Camp Hillary,"
is located on the grounds of the former military post.)
       On Sunday, February 6, 2005, at 7:10 a.m., the same
male Rehoboth witness was outside, feeding the farm
animals, when he again "heard a tremendous noise.  It
sounded like dozens of helicopters just over the (western)
horizon.  I listened to this for ten minutes or so.  Then
I went to fetch my 12 X 50 millimeter binoculars and got
up in the hayloft.  I looked west towards Providence, R.I.
and I saw two of them.  Definitely military, black as the
ace of spades.  They looked like they were flying up to
Worcester (Massachusetts)."
       UFO Roundup correspondent Mary Lou Jones-Drown
reported, "People who have seen these helicopters think
they may be protecting the electrical generating plant at
Brayton's Point in Fall River, Mass.  This is an important
link in the country's power grid.  Another possibility is
the big (oil) tank farms on the Narragansett Bay shore in
Riverside (a section of East Providence, R.I.--J.T.)."
(Many thanks to Mary Lou Jones-Drown for these reports.)
(Editor's Note:  Rehoboth was the site of numerous black
helicopter overflights during the summer months of 2003
and 2004.)


DEAD GEESE FALL FROM THE
SKY IN KEIZER, OREGON

       "Geese are literally falling from the sky in and
around Keizer," Oregon (population 32,204), "and wildlife
experts don't know why."
       "About 150 Canada geese were found dead Friday,"
January 28, 2005, "at a private pond off Wheatland Road
owned by Morse Brothers Rock Products in rural Marion
County.  Thirty or so other dead birds were discovered
three months ago near Staats Lake, a private lake in
Keizer."
       "State wildife officials visited both sites to
investigate.  The officials suspect that the birds may
have died from something they ate, but it doesn't appear
that anything found in the ponds or the lake killed the
birds."
       "'Reports of one bird here or one over there is not
cause for alarm,' said Will High, wildlife biologist for
the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.  'But when you
have 10 or 20 or 30 or 100 of them all of a sudden die in
one day, well, that's just not normal.'"
       "Only cackling Canada geese, a small subspecies of
the larger Canada goose, were affected, High said.  Other
varieties of birds, including ducks, gulls and three other
species of geese, were alive and well in both bodies of
water."
       "The dead birds were found floating in the water.
They appeared to swim with their heads under water, High
said.  Others were found on dry ground lying on their
stomachs with their wings flared out."
       "The goose carcasses have been sent to the National
Wildife Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin to be tested.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the federal agency
that regulates migratory birds, also was notified."
       "Five years ago, large numbers of dead geese were
discovered in Staats Lake.  The Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife investigated the problem but couldn't track
down the cause.  Tests showed that the birds weren't dying
of infection or disease; the results were inconclusive but
hinted the birds died from something they ate."
       "Wildlife officials said that in recent weeks, large
numbers of dead geese also have been found in Monmouth
(population 7,741) and McMinnville (population 26,500).
They don't know if the incidents are related."
       Keizer is on River Road 3 miles (5 kilometers) north
of Salem.  McMinnville was the site of a famous UFO
sighting in 1950.  (See the Salem, Ore. Statesman-Journal
for February 2, 2005, "Geese die in droves in Keizer--
Experts baffled."  Many thanks to Steve Wilson Sr. for
this newspaper article.)


TENNESSEE WEREWOLF
GOES ON THE PROWL

       "I live in the eastern mountain region of Tennessee
and work second shift at a factory in Dayton (population
6,180), a town about 25 miles (40 kilometers) away, with a
mountain (Walden's Ridge--J.T.) in between," Patricia Law
of Pikeville, Tenn. (population 1,781) told the British
magazine Fortean Times.  "I usually don't start for home
until at least 12:30 a.m.  We don't all get out at the
same time, so sometimes I'm the only one on the highway
(Route 30--J.T.) coming over the mountain."
       While driving home to Pikeville one January night,
around 1 a.m., Patricia wrote, "I was coming across the
mountain."  As she passed through the four-mile (6-
kilometer) stretch between Cumberland Springs and Morgan
Springs, "there are quite a few houses along the way, and
a lot of them have outside lights on all night long, so
it's not pitch black."
       "Anyway, I was coming down a straight stretch of
highway when I saw a man on the side of the road on my
left walking toward me.  He was wearing a light-colored
shirt with dark pants.  As I got closer to him, he
suddenly turned his back toward me and bent over.  I
slowed down quite a bit and went toward the center of the
highway as I was about to pass him."
       "When I got close to him, I saw that this person was
now a huge dog, and he peered around to look at me as I
passed.  This 'thing' had a long snout and large teeth
like a dog or wolf and was sort of grinning at me."
       "I passed it and tried to look at it in my rear-view
mirror but couldn't see anything.  I was flabbergasted and
I've gone over and over in my mind ever since, trying to
figure out what I actually saw."
       The Dayton area has a long history of involvement
with the paranormal.
       "Dayton is most famous as the site of the infamous
'Monkey Trial' of 1925," UFO Roundup editor Joseph Trainor
explained.  "On March 21, 1925, the state of Tennessee
passed a law, making it a crime to teach evolution in the
schools.  Dr. George Rappelyea persuaded high school
science teacher John T. Scopes to test the new law in
court.  Scopes admitted to teaching evolution in his
general science class.  He was arrested by the Rhea County
sheriff.  The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sent
its legal counsel, Arthur Garfield Hays, to defend Scopes.
When former Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan
offered to prosecute the case for Rhea County, two famous
American lawyers, Clarence Darrow and Dudley Field Malone,
volunteered to assist Hays in the defense.  It was THE
trial of the 1920s.  But, in the end, Scopes was found
guilty and fined $100.  It became illegal to teach
evolution in Tennessee."
       "Ironically, nearby Cumberland Springs is one of the
richest fossil sites in the state, with everything from
trilobites of the Cambrian Period to giant dragonflies of
the Pennsylvanian Period preserved in its limestones."
       "Morgan Springs, seven miles (11 kilometers)
northwest of Dayton, was a sacred site to the Ani-Yupuya,
also known as the Cherokee Indians.  According to the
legend, the waters used to arch skyward in a single column
at midnight--a sign of the healing spirit within the
spring."
       "Two miles (3.2 kilometers) from Dayton, on Blythe
Ferry Road, is Hiwassee Island.  The state guide informs
us that 'it was once the home of Oo-loo-te-ka, the
Cherokee who adopted young Sam Houston (first president of
the Republic of Texas from 1837 to 1841--J.T.) as his son.
Oo-loo-te-ka (Ani-Yupuya for Puts Away the War Drum--J.T.)
was chief of a band of about 300, and his island village
was large...Young Houston, tiring of farm life, first ran
off to the Cherokee village in 1809, when he was about
sixteen.  Altogether he spent three years with the
Cherokee, hunting with them, learning their language,
playing their games...The Indians named him Co-lon-nah
(Ani-Yupuya for Raven --J.T.)...Later he made numerous
trips to Washington on behalf of the Cherokee.'"
       "On Hiwassee Island are several very ancient pre-
Columbian mounds.  They weren't erected by the Ani-Yupuya.
Oolooteka told Sam Houston that they were the work of the
Ot-ne-yarheh, The Old People Who Left, a mysterious
prehuman race.  In 1937, a few mounds were excavated by
the Works Progress Administration (WPA).  'Beneath were
remains of a prehistoric Indian culture,' including
artifacts, pottery and skeletal remains.  Strangest of the
finds was the stone carving of a raven."  (See Fortean
Times No. 193 for March 2005, "Tennessee dog-man," page
75.  Also the book Tennessee: A Guide to the State, The
Viking Press, New York, N.Y., 1939, pages 362 to 365.)


From the UFO Files...

1946: NAZIS IN SPACE

       On an evening in late November 1924, a knock sounded
on the door of a cramped apartment in Munich.  Graduate
student Rudolf Hess went to answer it.  As he opened the
door, he saw a couple standing there--a white-haired
elderly lady and a man in a dark trenchcoat, scarf and
slouch hat.  The man lifted his head slightly, letting the
hallway lamp spill beneath the hatbrim and illuminate his
features.
       Hess let out a gasp of astonishment.  "Grandmaster!"
       The stranger smiled.  Yes, it was the Grandmaster
himself--Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorff (birth name: Adam
Rudolf Glauer--J.T.), the founder of the mystical Thule
Gesellschaft (Thule Society), back in Germany for the
first time in five years.  He had been forced to flee to
Switzerland in February 1919 after one of his
acquaintances, Count Anton von Arco-Valley, assassinated
the governor of Bavaria.  (For more on Anton, see UFO
Roundup, volume 9, number 5 for February 4, 2004, "1919:
Dance of the Assassin," page 12.)
       The self-styled Baron von Sebottendorff was Germany's
foremost mystic.  Born in 1875, the son of a railroad
engineer from Hoyerswerda, Sebottendorff was an
enthusiastic disciple of Madame Blavatsky (birth name:
Elena Petrovna von Hahn).  For many years he had traveled
in the Middle East, studying Sufi wisdom with the Bektashi
dervishes and joining the Masonic Order of Constantine.
Returning to Germany in 1912, he had helped found the
mystic Germanen Orden and, a few years later, his own
group, the Thule Gesellschaft.
       "It's good to see you again, Rudolf," the baron said,
ushering his companion into the dimly-lit apartment.  "I
don't believe you know Madame Orsic."
       "Only by reputation," Hess replied, barely able to
contain his excitement.  Maria Orsic was the most famous
medium in the Balkans.  Surely tonight's magickal working
would be one to remember.
       One year earlier, Dietrich Eckart (1868-1923) had
died.  Eckart, the brilliant but erratic author who had
translated Ibsen's plays into German and had published the
magazine Auf gut Deutsch (Translated: In Good German), had
served as Thule's "minister of information."  It was
Eckart who had introduced Sebottendorff to the Austrian
orator who was rapidly becoming the rising star of the
volkisch movement--Adolf Hitler.
       On his deathbed, Eckart had told a small circle of
Thule disciples, "Hitler will dance, but it is I who plays
the tune.  Do not mourn for me, for I will have influenced
history more than any other German."
       Tonight Sebottendorff wanted to make contact with his
deceased friend.  To accomplish this, he had returned to
Munich under a fake passport and with Maria Ostric in tow.
In no time at all, Sebottendorff, Hess, Dr. Ernst Schulte-
Strathaus and the other Thulists were joining hands around
the black-draped table, while Maria summoned her envoys
from "the spirit world."
       Hess found it a bit unnerving to watch Maria Ostric's
eyeballs roll back, showing only whites, and to see her
slumping backward in her chair, mouth agape.  But
Sebottendorff had seen spookier shit than this during his
sojourn in the Middle East, and he smiled in satisfaction
as the familiar baritone voice of Dietrich Eckart emerged
from the medium's open mouth.
       Midway through the reading, "Eckart" announced that
he was obliged to give way to "someone with an important
message."  Then a weird melodious voice came through,
identifying itself as "the Sumi, dwellers of a distant
world, which orbits the star Aldebaran in the
constellation you call Taurus the Bull."
       Hess and Dr.Schulte-Strathaus blinked at each other.
Aliens from space!?
       "The Sumi" explained that they were a humanoid race
who had briefly colonized Earth 500 million years ago.
The ruins of ancient Larsa, Shurrupak and Nippur in Iraq
had been built by them.  Sumi surviving "the great flood
of Ut-napishtim" (the Deluge of Noah's Ark--J.T.) had
become the ancestors of "the Aryan race."
       Sebottendorff was skeptical.  He asked for proof.
Still in a trance, Maria scribbled several lines of queer-
looking marks.  "These proved to be written in Sumerian,
the language of the founders of the oldest Babylonian
culture."
       Flash forward to February 1945.
       Hess, once deputy Fuehrer of Adolf Hitler's Third
Reich, is now Churchill's prisoner in UK.  Baron
Sebottendorff, now 70 and supposedly "retired," is back at
his old haunts in Istanbul.  What's left of the Thule
Gesellschaft now works for a new "Lord of Atlantis," the
SS-Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler.
       At an SS base near Prague (now capital of the Czech
Republic--J.T.), a strange-looking rocket rises on five
pillars of flame from its concrete launch pad.  If the
Battle of the Bulge was Hitler's last throw of the dice,
then the launch of the Ostara was Himmler's.
       The Ostara (named for the ancient German goddess of
the dawn--J.T.) was the brainchild of Himmler's most
trusted aide, SS-Brigadefuehrer Hans Kammler, the
Schriever-Miethe rocket design team from Peenemunde, the
Thule Gesellschaft and the equally-mystical Vril Society.
This Haunebu-3 saucer "had a diameter of 71 meters and
could reach a speed of 40,000 kilometers per hour (25,000
miles per hour) with a range of eight weeks and carried a
crew of nine men."
       Hurling this big vehicle into space was no small
feat.  To do it, Kammler had his SS Department E-4 cobble
together a Rube Goldberg-style vehicle.  Propelling the
saucer were two bolted-together A-9 rockets, with five A-
10 boosters behind them.
Indeed, the entire contraption never would've gotten off
the ground at all, if not for a revolutionary device
invented in the 1920s.
       This was the Schumann Levitator.  "A leading member
of the Vril (Society), Dr. W.O. Schumann pioneered the
development of electromagnetic fields through rotating
discs, and a prototype was constructed near Munich in
1922.  Over the following decade, this research and
development led to an entire range of German flying
saucers based on the principle of anti-gravitational
levitation."
       During World War II, "the Schumann group produced two
smaller saucers, the Vril-1 and 2, as fighters" while
Gruppe Kammler, or SS E-4, worked on its Haunebu
Flugeschiebe (Translated: Flying Disc) project.
       By the beginning of 1945, though the Third Reich was
crumbling, SS E-4 saw that "seven craft of the Haunebu-2
type, one each of the other Haunebu types and 17 Vril-1
craft.  In late 1944, the SS E-4 also designed the
Andromeda vessel," a cylindrical spacecraft "139 meters
(458 feet) in length and 30 meters (100 feet) high.
Powered by four 'Thule-Tachyonators' and four 'Schumann
Levitators,' this long-distance spaceship could transport
a Haunebu-2 and two Vril-1 saucers in its internal
hangars.  This huge cigar-shaped mother ship and its
accompanying saucers were supposed to be responsible for
George Adamski's famous sighting in California in
(November) 1952."
       Operating at low power, the Schumann Levitator "cut
the throw-weight" of the Ostara, allowing the A/9-A/10
array to hurl the saucer into Earth orbit at an altitude
of 500 kilometers (300 miles).  Once in orbit, the
Ostara's crew dropped the twin A-9s and used their
Schumann device, powered by small nuclear batteries, to
push the saucer away from Earth.
       While the Ostara had her shakedown cruise in space,
back on Earth, Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery
launched Operation Varsity, the crossing of the Rhine,
while Marshal Zhukov's Soviet (Russian) armies overran
East Prussia.  With the Reich's lifespan reduced to weeks,
if not days, why had Himmler taken such an insane gamble?
       Although never a member of Thule or Vril, Himmler was
a devoted occultist who, in 1923, joined Dr. Willibald
Hentschell's Artamen.  This group "expressed an attitude
which saw cities as sinks of decadence and the land as the
real strength of a people."
       In the Artamen, Himmler was exposed for the first
time to the scriptures of ancient India.  He read the
Vedas and the Mahabharata and was particularly fond of the
Bhagavad Gita.  During the drive to Auschwitz in July
1942, Himmler amused himself by reading a German
translation of the Gita, which he usually kept in his desk
at the office.
       In his 1940 book, The Flight of Hanuman to Lanka,
Indian author C.N. Mehta discusses the vimanas, the UFOs
of ancient India.  Mention of them is sprinkled throughout
the Vedas.  "In his essay on the Rig-Veda, Professor H.L.
Hariyappa of Mysore University writes that in a distant
epoch 'gods came to the earth sometimes, and that it was
the privilege of some men to visit the immortals in
heaven.'"
       "Another book from India--the Samaranagana
Sutradhara--contains a fantastic paragraph about the
distant past when men traveled in the air in skyships and
heavenly beings came down from the sky."  Himmler was
fascinated with these tales of rishis (Hindu wizards--
J.T.) visiting Chandra (Earth's moon), Karktikeya (Mars)
and the small worlds circling Brahaspati (Jupiter) and
Sani (Saturn).
       From SS aides who had been members of Thule, Himmler
had heard about the purported "alien contact" in 1924.  So
the Ostara's mission seems clear enough--find these aliens
and persuade them to help the Reich against its enemies.
       When a flyby of the moon turned up no trace of any
aliens, the Ostara continued on into space.  According to
German author Norbert Juergen-Ratthofer, "after an eight-
and-a-half month voyage, the Haunebu III lands on Mars in
January 1946, only to find the deserted pyramid city and
'Face' (Cydonia--J.T.), signs of a bygone higher
civilization.  'What disappointment must these men have
felt, when they realized that all was in vain.'"
       Returning to Earth in October 1946, the nine-man crew
of the Ostara found a world transformed.  Germany was
divided and occupied.  Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering and
other Nazi leaders were on trial in Nuremberg.  Himmler
was dead--a suicide.  He had been captured by British
troops on May 23, 1945 and had swallowed a capsule of
potassium chloride before he could be interrogated.  He
had made certain that the deepest secrets of the SS died
with him.
       The Ostara landed at Station 211 in Antarctica, in a
region of the Hoffman-Muhlig Mountains.  The area was
called Neuschwabenland (German for New Swabia--J.T.), and
all during the war Himmler had been sending U-boats full
of German and Ukrainian settlers there.
       But now the Nazi sanctuary was in danger.  On
December 30, 1946, a U.S. Navy Martin Mariner seaplane
crashed in Antarctica.  This tipped off the "Antarctic
Reich" to the threat of Operation High Jump, an Allied
task force commanded by Admiral Richard E. Byrd of the
U.S. Navy.
       So the SS refugees undertook their last gamble.  They
decided the launch the Andromeda, the large cylindrical
spacecraft built by Gruppe Kammler and Thule.  According
to Juergen-Ratthofer, aboard the spaceship was an untested
device that would put the ship into a "trans-dimensional
canal," enabling it to achieve interstellar flight.
(Editor's Note: Kammler himself was last seen in
Oberammergau, Germany on April 6, 1945.  It is not known
for certain if he died during the last days of the war in
Europe or if he somehow got to Antarctica.)
       Thirty-two volunteers, all veterans of Himmler's
Waffen-SS, were selected for the flight.  There was no
guarantee that the "Magnetapparat" star-drive would even
work.  The Andromeda could easily get 5,000 kilometers
(3,000 miles) away from Earth.  But what would happen when
they threw the switch?  The cylindrical ship might
instantly explode, creating a momentary bright flash
visible from Earth's night side.
       Even worse, it was strictly a one-way trip.  The
Nazis were going to point the Andromeda at the star
Aldebaran, hit the switch and hope for the best.  Even if
they made it across 68 light-years of space, there was no
way they'd be able to return.  They'd never be able to
find Earth's sun among the myriads of stars.
       What happened next is a mystery.
       Three years later, a cylindrical UFO similar to the
Andromeda began to be seen.  Ufologist Harold T. Wilkins,
in his book Flying Saucers Uncensored, wrote, "There is a
vast spindle-shaped or cigar-shaped, cylindrical space
ship of unknown origin, which was photographed over a
blast furnace in Hamilton, Ohio in 1950.  It was also
'snapped' by a young woman taking pictures of ordinary
terrestrial objects at Hawthorne, California when it was
seen in the act of releasing satellite discs.  It was seen
over Denham, in England, and, twelve hours later over
Sweden, in 1949, again releasing discs, which, at high
speed, flew off in opposite directions."
       According to Henry Stevens, author of Hitler's Flying
Saucers, a U.S. Air Force fighter jet captured "gun-camera
film footage from Victorville, California taken on
February 2, 1953.  It apparently shows a cylindrical
'Mothership' in flight."
       Also in the early 1950s, "a classic cigar-shaped UFO"
was seen and photographed by Joe Ferriere in Woonsocket,
Rhode Island.
(Editor's Note:  At the time of the Ferriere sighting,
your editor was a two-year-old living in Taunton,
Massachusetts, 14 miles (20 kilometers) southeast of
Woonsocket, R.I.)
       Had the Andromeda returned to Earth?  Or were alien
vessels disguising themselves as the Nazi ship while they
scouted out our planet?
       In 1967, a German psychic again heard from the
mysterious Sumi.  They assured the attendees at the seance
that the Andromeda had indeed made it to Aldebaran.  The
crewmen were well-treated while "the Aldebaran regime then
dispatched an enormous interstellar armada consisting of
280 battle cruisers of various classes ranging from 1.5 to
6 kilometers (1 to 4 miles) in length and capable of
carrying between four and 810 flying saucers apiece.
Depending on its speed after emerging from the 'trans-
dimensional canal' (hyperspace) in the asteroid belt, this
armada is to arrive on Earth sometime between 1992 and
2005 to resume the Second World War."
       Off-and-on channelled contacts with the Sumi has
provided us with a rough idea of how an Aldebarani star
fleet is organized--similar to a U.S. Navy task force.
The table below gives the alien ship classes and their USN
equivalents:


             ALDEBARANI               EQUIVALENT
             Nupqukyuk                Carrier
             Qaspiluk                 Heavy Cruiser
             Akuqnuk                  Light Cruiser
             Nakyu                    Destroyer


       We have only the Sumi's word for it that the
Andromeda's crewmen were treated as guests upon their
arrival in the Aldebaran system.  For all we know, the
ship was destroyed by vigilant Sumi spacecraft two minutes
after it emerged from hyperspace.  Or the Earth ship might
have been boarded and its crew captured.
       If that's the case, what might have happened to Hans
Kammler if he'd been on board?  Kammler, the architect who
began his SS career designing the Nazi camp at Auschwitz-
Birkenau in southern Poland.  Did he congratulate himself
on a successful escape from Earth, only to wind up an
exhibit in some alien zoo, crouched in a corner of the
cage--cold, naked, always hungry--gaped at by terrible
three-lobed eyes?
       As bad as it sounds, it's still a kinder fate than
any deportee from Drancy or Westerbork met at that camp he
designed.
       Are the Sumi really coming to Earth?  And what
happens when they get here?  Most days I just don't want
to think about it.  (See the books Hitler's Flying Saucers
by Henry Stevens, Adventures Unlimited Press, Kempton,
Illinois, 2003, pages 86, 87, 88, 99, 100, 101, 161 and
225; Das Vril Projekt by Norbert Juergen-Ratthofer, Dr.
Michael Daemboeck Verlag, Ardagger, Austria, 1993; Black
Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of
Identity by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, New York University
Press, New York, N.Y., 2002, pages 167 to 170; Himmler by
Peter Padfield, MJF Books, New York, N.Y., 1990, pages 37,
68, 85 and 90; Unholy Alliance by Peter Levenda, Continuum
International Publishing Group, New York, N.Y., 2003,
pages 92 to 95; Flying Saucers Uncensored by Harold T.
Wilkins, The Citadel Press, New York, N.Y., 1955, page 17;
The Flight of Hanuman to Lanka by C.N. Mehta, Narayan
Niketan, Mumbai, India, 1940; and On the Shores of Endless
Worlds by Andrew Tomas, Bantam Books, New York, N.Y.,
1976, pages 53, 68 and 124.)


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Friends, beware of this one.  Claresa, the casting producer below, just called
and informed me that we were perfect for the ABC show about families and the
paranormal which is solicited below.  However, what you don't see written below
is how they want these families to wife swap as part of a wife swapping show
they air.  This would very much insult and discredit experiencers and the
subject of visitors and their technology.

Will this be my only chance to be heard by 15 million people while I try to
convey real experiences backed by evidence and witnesses?  But I cannot do it
this way while some billionaire smirks saying see how far they'll go to get
recognition.  I'm sorry, but I must decline!...

I am so disgusted with myself that I placed my soul in her hands and sent her my
story.

Jeffrey Morgan Foss
liastar@...

----- Original Message -----
From: cjmandola
To: Skyopen@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 2:45 PM
Subject: [SO] hit ABC reality show looking for families!




Hi, I'm a casting producer at ABC Television.  We're always looking
to meet energetic, unique families.  We thought it might be
interesting to feature a family interested in all things paranormal.
If you or anyone you know is in a two-parent household with kids (at
least one over the age of five), please contact me for more
information.

Email - claresa.mandola@...

Thanks!









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Cherie just came home from shopping.  She is the sweetest and most supportive
person ever made.  She is utterly appalled as is my son with ABC television.

Jeff

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Dear friends,

Here are the words written by a close friend and major university professor
retired--before he learned of my family's response:

Jeff....good for you!!!!......you do not need to degrade yourself for those
jerks...more later....Your Friend....XXXXX

Love and strength to you all,

Jeff

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http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=4415

Two-Hour Primetime Special Airs Thursday, Feb. 24 at 8 p.m.

Feb. 4, 2005 -- Almost 50 percent of Americans, according to recent
polls, and millions of people elsewhere in the world believe that
UFOs are real. For many it is a deeply held belief.

For decades there have been sightings of UFOs by millions and
millions of people. It is a mystery that only science can solve, and
yet the phenomenon remains largely unexamined. Most of the reporting
on this subject by the mainstream media holds those who claim to have
seen UFOs up to ridicule.

On Feb. 24, "Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs -Seeing Is Believing"
takes a fresh look at the UFO phenomenon. "As a journalist," says
Jennings, "I began this project with a healthy dose of skepticism and
as open a mind as possible.

After almost 150 interviews with scientists, investigators, and with
many of those who claim to have witnessed unidentified flying
objects, there are important questions that have not been completely
answered and a great deal not fully explained."

"Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs - Seeing Is Believing" airs
Thursday, Feb. 24 from 8-10 p.m. ET on ABC. The program will be
broadcast in High Definition.

This two-hour primetime special reports on the entire scope of the UFO
experience from the first famous sighting by Kenneth Arnold in 1947
to the present day. The program draws on interviews with police
officers, pilots, military personnel, scientists and ordinary
citizens who give extraordinary accounts of encounters with the
unexplained.

Also included are the voices of professional skeptics about UFOs,
including scientists who are leading the search for life forms beyond
earth elsewhere in the universe.

The program explores the facts behind the enduring mystery of the
incident at Roswell, N.M., and looks into the strange stories of
alien abductions. Among the UFO cases presented:

Minot Air Force Base, N.D., October 1968 - Sixteen airmen on the
ground and the crew of an airborne B-52 witness a massive
unidentified object hovering near the base.

Phoenix, Ariz., March 1997 - Hundreds witness a huge triangular craft
moving slowly over the city.

St. Clair County, Ill., January 2000 - Police officers in five
adjoining towns all independently report witnessing a giant craft
with multiple bright lights moving silently across the sky at a very
low altitude.

Today if you report a UFO to the U.S. government you will be informed
that the Air Force conducted a 22-year investigation which ended in
1969 and concluded that UFOs are not a threat to national security
and are of no scientific interest.

But as one of the world's leading theoretical physicists says in the
program, "You simply cannot dismiss the possibility that some of
these UFO sightings are actually sightings from some object created
by a civilization perhaps millions of years ahead of us in
technology."

"Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs - Seeing Is Believing" is produced by
PJ Productions and Springs Media for ABC News. Mark Obenhaus and Tom
Yellin are the executive producers.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Primetime/story?id=468496

Jeff Foss

E-mail to ABC News 8-31-02

This morning, you criticized and debased UFO researchers and
experiencers across the world based on a 1% hoax factor concerning Crop Circles.
That was not good science.  Further, it was a stated opinion of ABC and not
news.

But beyond the right to opinion, the are farther reaching consequences to
such doubt.  The people are sick and tired of working three jobs only to
purchase
that which wears out, creates poverty due to higher and higher costs and
pollutes
and destroys our very environment.  And we are still making war.
What kind of a place are we offering visitors to come and exchange ideas and
technologies?
And if our eyes can only see fuel based technologies, medical treatments--not
cures--
and war as a way to economic freedom, how do you expect
real progress--socially, environmentally and technologically--
to ever manifest?  Let us make friends with those who come.

Is ABC living in the dark ages?

Jeffrey M. Foss

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http://www.exopolitics.org/Report-ET-Motivations.htm   sorry, very little
info here. i find the whole article useful though. micheal salla is an
honest researcher who has no difficulty understanding and showing 'both'
sides of the coin regarding ET reality.

According to Dr. Wolf, several confederations of extraterrestrial
civilizations are visiting us in loosely-coordinated fashion. These are: the
Alliance (of human-looking ETs from the Altair Aquila system), the Corporate
(of Greys from the Zeta Reticuli system), the Federation of Worlds (of
unspecified races from many star systems), and the United Races of Orion
(cultures from those star systems). Further, the Alliance is in affiliation
with the Corporate and with the Federation of Worlds. The United Races of
Orion are in affiliation with the Corporate, and, through them, with the
Alliance and the Federation of Worlds. [8]



----- Original Message -----
From: "T.B." <lioah04arcturian@...>
To: <ufos-unbound@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 2:40 PM
Subject: [ufos-unbound] altair


>
> Does anyone has got information about the starsystem
> Altair and the races living there?
> Last time after the mails about 20 questions to
> R.Boylan I contacted him because the picture on his
> website from Prince Anon Sa Ra. He wrote back saying
> Anon Sa Ra is an Altair male who worked with Michael
> Wolf and I have to try to get a second hand copy of
> the book "Cathers of heaven". Pitty enough I don't
> have a credit card and in Holland certainly I can't
> find/get it. Alex Collier once spoke about the fact
> the humanoid colony Altair surrendered itself to a
> bunch of reptiles/grey's and I believe even to a bunch
> of Germans (Nazi's who travelled
> inter-dimensional.They created a timeline at the end
> of the war.). Anna Hayes speaks in her books about the
> Treaty of Altair. It would be nice if someone in the
> group can give some more information to me. I just
> know a humanoid race came to Altair after leaving Lyra
> and Vega. That's all. It would be nice tot get some
> more info.
> By the way I have read the book of P. Schlemmer " The
> Forbidden Planet". In which is spoken  of Altea.
> Greetings Ted from Holland.
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In a message dated 2/12/2005 4:41:13 AM Pacific Standard Time,
lioah04arcturian@... writes:


> He wrote back saying
> Anon Sa Ra is an Altair male who worked with Michael
> Wolf and I have to try to get a second hand copy of
> the book "Cathers of heaven".

Ted,  Amazon.com or ebay might have it but it sounds rare -- so probably not.
  Some of the Universities in the United States have started scanning all
their books from their libraries into the internet -- so maybe in a few years
you
would be able to get any rare book that way.  Sheila


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Hi,  I was thinking about the alien autopsy because of a dream that someone
had taken the fornt of my refrigerator and I didn't even think of it as a
"door" in the dream --but as  a "panel".  The refrigerator was full of motors
and
other parts like inside a computer CPU -- a lot of space, not like inside a car
engine.  I didn't open the freezer at the top of the refrigerator but I
realized when I woke up that there was no room for FOOD in the refrigerator and
might be saying that Aliens don't eat and maybe they're even robots.  So then I
was thinking about the Alien Autopsy and wondering if they did an X'RAY before
cutting into the alien.  Would make more sense.  They used to x-ray  your feet
at shoestores in those days in the early 1950s so x-rays were widely
available.

The reason I thought it was an alien talking to me on the refrigerator is
because I'd dreamed that I time traveled like a disaster tourist to ride in
those
United/Delta planes in the 1980s that had metal fatigue and the skins would
peel off in flight -- remember those, there were 3-4 of them before the last
one where the whole top peeled off the plane like a car/convertible and the
National Enquirer had a photo of the passengers' hair streaming out behind them
as
the pilot landed, like a top-down convertible.   Then I went back to sleep
and woke up in my real kitchen in the dream and there was a handwritten note on
my refrigerator saying thanks for the nice time in the ride in the car and the
next sentence was blacked out like freedom of information act - -and then
something about needing money [ghosts say to "send money"] .  The left side of
the refrigerator had two hearts, one above the other, like the logo on a
Papermate pen.  The right side had three hearts in a triangle.  There was also a
doodle of a car in blue ink and some writing in red ink and the hearts were red.

So there was someone in the dream world that knew what happened it the first
dream and carried it on.   I was always going to the "restroom" on the UFO in
other dreams but started peeing the bed and was hoping to see a different
restroom -- where you really REST or something.  Then I went back to the old
time
dreams of that dirty swimming pool for awhile, then my real kitchen but when I
look around it's not really my kitchen.  I just read in Bullfinch and Edith
Hamilton Greek Mythology that Pluto, the God of the underworld has a big palace
somewhere in the vast wastelands there but the Greek poets couldn't be
bothered to describe it -- but it has a lot of guests -- just like my kitchen
has
developed since this change in my dreams.  Also, when I have gone outdoors to
look around the UFOs - which look like houses -- there is a big wasteland
usually, no streets and hard going to walk.  Sometimes there are streets but
they're
twilight and not many people and I usually turn back and go back inside.

Sheila


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This is interesting because I once had a dream that told me that I am from
there.
Maybe a past life?  Fascinating to think about.

Dee

In a message dated 2/12/2005 6:53:50 AM Pacific Standard Time,
kaizb@... writes:
http://www.exopolitics.org/Report-ET-Motivations.htm   sorry, very little
info here. i find the whole article useful though. micheal salla is an
honest researcher who has no difficulty understanding and showing 'both'
sides of the coin regarding ET reality.

According to Dr. Wolf, several confederations of extraterrestrial
civilizations are visiting us in loosely-coordinated fashion. These are: the
Alliance (of human-looking ETs from the Altair Aquila system), the Corporate
(of Greys from the Zeta Reticuli system), the Federation of Worlds (of
unspecified races from many star systems), and the United Races of Orion
(cultures from those star systems). Further, the Alliance is in affiliation
with the Corporate and with the Federation of Worlds. The United Races of
Orion are in affiliation with the Corporate, and, through them, with the
Alliance and the Federation of Worlds. [8]


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In a message dated 2/12/2005 3:03:15 PM Pacific Standard Time,
lioah04arcturian@... writes:
Dee, you didn't put this dream on the website?
Here are some files I've put up on it:

DEES DREAMS AND VISIONS - NOV. 2001 ... d -. I then saw 'Astronaut Harold
Walker' and his number 358 - (8582). The name Altair came into my head. NOTE ...
them. NOTE: ALTAIR: Star ...
www.greatdreams.com/nov2001.htm - 85k - Cached - Similar pages

ET EARTH BASE; SECRET SPACE STATION ... He said, "The Semitics and Nordics
[ETs] come from Altair 4 and 5 and from the Pleiades [star systems]." Wolf also
disclosed that in 1954 the US had four ...
www.greatdreams.com/etsecret.htm - 15k - Cached - Similar pages

49 - THE LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS ... somewhere. It started with the letter
'A' and now that I think about it I think it was Altair, but if not, it was
something like that. ...
www.greatdreams.com/MIND/49levels.htm - 44k - Cached - Similar pages

HAARP VS THE SUN ... because I have been made aware that on September 12,
2000 the Anunnaki legions not only defected from the peace agreements of the
Treaty of Altair, but they ...
www.greatdreams.com/haarp-sun.htm


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yes, i think it could be a reference to a past life. in my dreams (and some
other paranormal events) i have been made to believe that i have had a past
life on the island of crete, and we might as well have had past incarnations
on other planets so it wouldn't sound absurd to me.

ted, your welcome. i think ET related info about altair is a bit scarce, but
i'll post here if i find something else.
greetings from turkey..




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> This is interesting because I once had a dream that told me that I am from
> there.
> Maybe a past life?  Fascinating to think about.
>
> Dee
>
> In a message dated 2/12/2005 6:53:50 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> kaizb@... writes:
> http://www.exopolitics.org/Report-ET-Motivations.htm   sorry, very little
> info here. i find the whole article useful though. micheal salla is an
> honest researcher who has no difficulty understanding and showing 'both'
> sides of the coin regarding ET reality.
>
> According to Dr. Wolf, several confederations of extraterrestrial
> civilizations are visiting us in loosely-coordinated fashion. These are:
the
> Alliance (of human-looking ETs from the Altair Aquila system), the
Corporate
> (of Greys from the Zeta Reticuli system), the Federation of Worlds (of
> unspecified races from many star systems), and the United Races of Orion
> (cultures from those star systems). Further, the Alliance is in
affiliation
> with the Corporate and with the Federation of Worlds. The United Races of
> Orion are in affiliation with the Corporate, and, through them, with the
> Alliance and the Federation of Worlds. [8]
>
>
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