Art Bell Falls For Obvious NORAD Hoax [AUFORA]

From: Ken MacGray 
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 07:41:25 -0800
Subject: Art Bell Falls For Obvious NORAD Hoax [AUFORA]


Subject:     AUFORA: Art Bell falls for obvious hoax
Sent:        4/22/97 11:47 AM
Received:    4/23/97 7:08 AM
From:        David Watanabe, davew@aufora.org
To:          aufora@spots.ab.ca

AUFORA News Update
Tuesday, April 22, 1997     http://www.aufora.org/
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INTERNET MESSAGE CITING NORAD AT DEFCON 4 A HOAX
     from Rob McConnell - misterx@x-chronicles.com

Internet users in Canada and the United States receieved the following
e-mail message:

"It is almost 1:30 am and I am listening to ART BELL and several of
his guests...if you're not listening, it is possible that history is
being made tonight. For those of you not listening NORAD at Cheyenne
Mountain, Colorado, is on a full alert and is at DEFCON 4. Also there
has been a full military alert tonight...."

"...There is also the possibility that we are entering into a very
serious deadly situation of a military nature. National Security.
Whatever the reason for this alert it is serious fro DEFCON 4 to be
issued for any reason."

Within minutes of this e-mail arriving at THE 'X' CHRONICLES Newsroom,
we received a number of telephone calls from within the Province of
Ontario - from within the Greater Toronto Area, Golden Horseshoe  -
from Windsor to Ottawa.

Captain Dubuc, Media Liaison Officer for Department of National
Defence Headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada stated that the
Defence Condition at NORAD was definitely not at DEFCON 4 - which is
one step down from nuclear war. According to Dubuc there has been no
unidentified traffic over the skies of Canada and this was echoed by
the Media Liaison Officer at Canadian Armed Forces - Air and Sea
Search and Rescue Operation headquarters at CFB Trenton, Ontario.

The Media Liaison officer at the Pentagon was unavailable for comment.

A report issued earlier today by the National UFO Reporting Center in
the United States claims a federal employee contacted them stating a
huge anomalous object was photographed by the GOES-9 weather satellite
at 15:30 hours Zulu (8:30 am Pacific) and it was allegely reported on
CNN that NORAD had heightened it's alert status. Jim Hedges of CNN
News Center in Atlantoa told THE 'X' CHRONICLES that he was not aware
of this story. Hedges said that he had just finished speaking to their
Pentagon Liaison contact within the hour and there was no report of
any strange, unusual or military problem.

The US Weather Bureau and contacts at NASA said that this was the
first that they had heard any of this.

Rob McConnell,
THE 'X' CHORNICLES, NEWSROOM.
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Tel: (905) 799-3569
Fax: (905) 799-2753
Email: misterx@x-chronicles.com


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