Subj: UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 1, Number 23
Date: 96-07-21 15:05:31 EDT
From: Masinaigan@aol.com
UFO ROUNDUP
Volume 1, Number 23 July 21, 1996
Editor: Masinaigan FREE
TWA FLIGHT 800 - THE UFO CONNECTION
Several disturbing facts have come to light since the crash
Wednesday, July 17, of TWA Flight 800 off the shores of Long
Island, New York.
According to the Boston, Mass. Herald of July 17, 1995
(page 2), "Some eyewitness accounts, including that of a New
York Air National Guard pilot flying nearby, described a bright
object moving toward the plane in the seconds before the craft
blew up."
"'I saw what appeared to be the sort of course and trajectory
you see when a shooting star enters the atmosphere,' Major
Fred Meyer told reporters at a (Thursday) afternoon briefing.
'Almost immediately thereafter I saw in rapid succession a small
explosion and then a large explosion.'"
"At the same time, air traffic controllers manning radar spotted
a circular 'blip' in the vicinity of Flight 800, though CBS News later
reported the Pentagon said it does not believe the radar irregularity
is related to the crash."
According to the AP report, Major Meyer "was flying a C-130
(transport plane) off Long Island on a training mission at the time
of the crash." He told reporters that "he saw an arc of light moving
toward the plane." The same story mentions "witness reports of a
'streak of light' hitting the airplane just before it exploded."
"Paul Angelides, who lives in Westhampton Beach, said he was
standing on a deck of a beachfront house when he saw what he
described as a 'red meteor with a smoke tail' that followed the course
like like the outline of 'a parabola.' He said he first saw 'the meteor' and
then 'the fireball erupts at that other location, then the whole fireball
falls to earth.'" (Providence, RI Journal-Bulletin, page A-10)
According to the New York Daily News of July 20, 1996 (page 3),
"Several Long Island residents had reported seeing a flarelike object
streak toward the jet, fueling speculation of a missile."
The Boeing 747 took off from John F. Kennedy International
Airport on Long Island at 8:20 p.m. on Wednesday, July 17. When
the jetliner cleared 800 feet, the Kennedy tower passed control to
New York Terminal Radar Control (TRACON), located in Westbury,
N.Y.
At 8:25 p.m., TRACON handed control of TWA Flight 800 to
Logan Airport in Boston, Mass. Six minutes later, at 8:31 p.m., the
jetliner, then flying at 13,700 feet, disappeared from both Logan and
TRACON radars.
On the radar screen, the jetliner appeared as a lime-green lozenge.
Because it was equipped with a transponder, the tiny letters TWA 800
appeared onscreen beneath the blip. During this six-minute interval,
the "non-transponding blip" approached the aircraft, apparently the
"red meteor" seen by Major Meyer and eyewitnesses on the ground.
According to the July 19 issue of USA Today (page 3A), the
"witnesses say the plane exploded in a large orange fireball. As the
plane fell, it broke into two big balls of flame. New York Air National
Guard crews say the wreckage twisted as it came down, leaving a
corkscrew trail of smoke. As the aircraft fell, the smoke blackened.
It appeared as though sparks were flying from the plane. When the
wreckage neared the water, witnesses heard at least two more
explosions."
The wreckage hit the ocean about 20 miles south of Islip, N.Y.
Yesterday and today (July 20-21) FBI agents walked the beach
at Smith Point Park on Long Island, searching for eyewitnesses to
the plane's explosion.
Two searchers, Jim Cullen, 53, of East Moriches, N.Y. and a
friend named O'Reilly made a strange discovery Thursday. While
retrieving wreckage from the sea aboard O'Reilly's 27-foot Boston
whaler boat, the men pulled in two dead women and began, in
Cullen's words, to "weird out."
"The ladies we found were naked," Cullen reported. "But it was
not like their clothes were burned off. I just don't get that, how that
could have happened." (USA Today, July 19, 1996, page 3A)
The Boeing 747 itself also has an interesting connection to a
UFO incident 20 years ago.
The airplane was the 153rd Boeing 747 manufactured. It was
originally sold to now-defunct Eastern Airlines in the early 1970s,
but Eastern resold it to TWA. In 1975, TWA sold the airplane to
the Royal Iranian Air Force. The jetliner was at Mehrabad International
Airport near Tehran on the night of September 19, 1976, when two
Iranian F-4 Phantom jets engaged a large UFO in aerial combat.
Shortly after the UFO incident, TWA offered to buy back the
Boeing 747 from the Shah's air force.
Finally, four days before the crash, a woman in Atlantic
Highlands, New Jersey reported seeing a UFO just south of Long
Island. "Ms. Patterson," her mother and another woman saw their
UFO at 8:15 p.m. on Saturday, July 13. She reports, "My friend and
my mother saw a light in the sky. It looked like a streak that a
skywriting plane might make. It was stationary in the sky for at least
15 minutes. We watched it move west toward the setting sun, and
suddenly another blinking one of the same type of light followed it.
It finally moved down and back of a dark cloud, but the three of us
observed it for over half an hour."
Atlantic Highlands is in northern New Jersey, on the southern shore
of Sandy Hook Bay, about 20 miles southwest of the crash site.
TENNESSEE FAMILY REPORTS ENCOUNTER WITH AN ALIEN
Saturday, July 13, 1996, was a typical summer's night for
"Mike Dawson" and his family. The Dawsons own a trailer in rural
northeast Robertson County, not far from Orlinda, Tennessee. During
the early morning hours of Sunday, July 14, Dawson, his wife and his
two sons, age 12 and 10, were awakened by weird noises coming from
their trailer's backyard deck.
Grabbing a flashlight, Dawson went to investigate. Sliding open
the door, he sent the beam along the deck's wooden railing. He heard
a noise that sounded like "something running across the deck,
bumping into things." The noise startled him. Neither of his two dogs,
J.R. and Sid, had barked at the intruder.
Swiveling his flashlight toward the railing, Dawson saw "something
rear up and stare at him between the rails. He described it as a kind
of rubbery or pulpy object five feet in diameter. It extended a tentacle
or appendage through the railing and onto the deck floor. Dawson
estimated that the appendage was "18 to 24 inches long...like an
elephant's trunk."
To be sure that he wasn't seeing things, Dawson went to wake the
two boys. The whole family then watched the creature from the
trailer's dining room window. Then Mrs. Dawson noticed "bright
lights some distance away" in a nearby clearing.
According to paranormal investigator Ed Kimbel, every time the
Dawsons aimed their flashlight beam at the creature, "it acted like
they were shooting at it. It kept moving real fast over the yard, under
cars, back under the deck...every time he aimed the flashlight at it,
it changed into a glowing disk."
At 4 a.m., Dawson left the trailer to see what had become of the
dogs. He found them lying in the yard, very subdued. J.R. had a
wound on his hind leg, just inside the thigh, and limped as if in great
pain. Meanwhile, the UFO still hovered over the clearing, "shooting
off rays." Dawson was struck on the elbow and the neck. Afterward,
police reportedly found a small burn mark on the back of his neck.
Dawson and his sons trailed the weird creature out to the family's
parked cars. Kimbel reports, "The windows of both vehicles were
covered with some kind of fog or ice. And the car had some kind of
electrical hum about it, and the antenna was shaking."
Figuring that they'd chased it away, they returned to the house.
After sunup at 5:10 a.m., Mrs. Dawson saw the creature in a ditch
nearby and phoned the Robertson County Sheriff's Department.
Two officers reportedly responded to the call.
(Note: Is this a UFO encounter? Or an old-fashioned Tennessee
"ha'nt?" As more information becomes available, you'll read it right
here in UFO ROUNDUP.)
"SILENT RUNNING" UFO SEEN IN COLORADO
At 11 p.m. on Thursday, July 11, 1996, backpacker Dave Sorensen
was ready to call it a night. Following a day of hiking, Sorensen had
set up camp north of Quagmire Creek on Stoney Face Mountain,
15 miles east of Salida, Colorado.
"I was watching satellites through my binoculars about 11 p.m.,"
Sorensen reported. "I was following one from the southeast to the
northwest when a cigar-shaped object crossed my (field of) view,
going from west to east. It was large and barely visible through my
binoculars. I don't think you could have seen it with the naked eye.
As it passed by stars, (the) stars would go out, so I know it was a
solid object. Imagine a matchstick stuck to the ceiling, and you're
on your back looking at it."
Sorensen says he "followed it for 40 to 50 seconds, and then it
went behind clouds. That thing had to be larger than a football
field."
From his description, it appears that this blacked-out UFO
was 300 feet (99 meters) long and traveling at an estimated speed
of 220 miles per hour.
One hour earlier, according to Christopher O'Brien, paranormal
researcher and author of THE MYSTERIOUS VALLEY, just after
10 p.m. on July 11, a couple in their twenties spied a UFO just
east of Crestone, Colorado, 39 miles southeast of Salida.
O'Brien interviewed the couple last week. The woman woke up
around 10 p.m., peered out the bedroom window and saw "a very
large UFO" hovering behind the back fence. The man then awoke
and also saw it. As he got out of bed, the UFO shot straight up
into the sky. The couple described the UFO as "like a long plate,
kind of rectangular" with eight "bumps" or solid blisters on the
underside.
On Sunday, July 14, another "long rectangular pie plate" UFO
was seen near Duchesne, Utah (population 1,700). This object also
had "eight big circles" or protuberances on the belly, stretching 30
feet from the craft's center to its stern. Witnesses also reported
"brightness" near the stern.
The rancher and his wife spied the UFO at 2 a.m. as it hovered
"about a half-mile from the house." The vehicle, which they described
as 40 feet long, emitted a probe, "a triangular object with blue lights."
The probe flew over their feedlot, "and the cows just about went
plumb crazy." The wife ran back inside the farmhouse and grabbed
their videocam. According to O'Brien, she managed to shoot 25
seconds of flim, showing the probe flying over the couple's corral,
circling the horses.
"He's been visited before," O'Brien said of the man he interviewed.
"He had seven cattle mutilations during 1995. He says he'd had
enough. He's ready to sell."
(Comment: If anybody has $200,000 and wants to buy a nice ranch
in Utah's Uintah Basin, there's one available. Trouble is, it also
moonlights as a spaceport for UFOs.)
That's it for this week. If you have a recent UFO encounter to report,
email us at Masinaigan@aol.com. More flying saucer news next
Sunday from "the paper that goes home."
7/25/96