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From: Masinaigan@aol.com
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 16:00:26 -0500
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Subject: UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 1, Number 44


                                        UFO ROUNDUP


Volume 1, Number 44                                       December 29, 1996
Editor: Masinaigan                                            FREE


REPUTED ALIEN CAPTURED IN NORTHERN ISRAEL

     On Saturday night, December 21, 1996, residents of Ahyud,
a village just outside the city of Akko in northern Israel called the
police to report "luminescent blue disks" flying over their farms.

     At 11 p.m., Mrs. Zyona Damti, 34, looked out a window and
saw "an alien" standing in front of her father-in-law's barn.  She
described the entity as 20 centimeters tall and "humanoid: head,
trunk, two arms, small hands, two large black eyes.  The color
was greenish--the umbilicus was clearly visible."  Mrs. Damti told
her father-in-law what she had seen, but he replied that "it was
nothing."

     At 8 a.m. the following morning, December 22, Mrs. Damti
went outside and found the entity lying on the ground in a large
pool of "green liquid."  She called the police.  Responding to the
call were Officer Asher Ben Ezra and his partner.  Shortly after
the officers confirmed the claim, over 50 Israeli journalists
converged on the scene.

     Barry Chamish, who covered the incident for Israel's
Magazin 2000, interviewed Yisrael Damti, Zyona's husband, who
said, "You'd better hurry.  The body is disintegrating quickly.
Most of the head has melted away."

     The Damtis put the body in their freezer to halt decomposition.
By that time, the remains had shrunk from 20 to 5 centimeters.
At 2 p.m., the remains were taken to Technion University in
Haifa.

     Also on the scene was reknowned psychic Uri Geller, who
reportedly suggested that the Damtis call in NASA.  Despite
many requests from the media, Yisrael Damti allegedly refused
to permit the entity to be photographed before the autopsy began
at the university.

     Not everyone believes the remains to be those of an
extraterrestrial.  Dr. Fischman told Barry Chamish, "What you
have here is a lizard which hatched too early.  It is covered in a
multi-layered gelatinous sac.  When it shed the sac, it left
amniotic fluid" all over the ground.

     Doron Rotem, who investigated the case for the Israeli
Association for UFO Studies, said he believed the remains to
be the embryo of "a chameleon or a salamander."

     The case received a big play in the Israeli media, with TV
coverage on Channels 1 and 2 and hourly broadcasts on the
Galey Zahal (Israeli Armed Forces Radio).  As a result, more
people came forward with UFO stories.

     A farmer in Ahyud said aliens had stolen 18 of his sheep
the night of December 21.

     In the nearby Arab town of Tamra, an Arab shepherd
reported that his sheep had been stolen, too.

(See the following Israeli newspapers for December 24, 1996:
Maariv, the Jerusalem Post and Yediot Achronoyt.  Many
thanks to Dr. Leon Liebrecht and Barry Chamish for this story.)


LEAR JET VANISHES OVER NEW ENGLAND

     On Tuesday, December 24, 1994, a Lear jet operated by
Aircraft Charter Group of Bridgeport, Connecticut contacted the
local airport in Lebanon, New Hampshire and requested
permission to land.  Aboard the aircraft were two men, Johan
Schwartz and Pat Hayes, both from Connecticut.

     According to airport manager Timothy J. Edwards, the
plan was on IFR (Instrument Flight Rules) due to the light rain
and severe fog covering the upper Connecticut River valley.
The twin-engined jet attempted to land at 9:45 a.m. but
missed its approach and went around once more.

     As the plane reached a point six miles northwest of the
airport, approaching White River Junction, Vermont, the town
across the river from Lebanon, it vanished from the radar
screen.

     "Jay Fitzgerald, a maintenance supervisor at the airport,
said he became concerned after hearing 'non-standard
tower communications.'  'The tower was talking to the aircraft
and then he wasn't so (the controller) asked another aircraft
to hail (the pilot), and that's non-standard,' Fitzgerald said."

     "He said rescuers were focusing their search on Moose
Mountain, a 2,341-foot mountain that towers over a surrounding
1,200-foot ridge not far from the tiny airport."

     "Rebecca Morgan, an airport employee, said the jet's
disappearance had everyone mystified."

     "'There's been no sign of a crash,' Morgan said.  'We've
gotten no calls from people about any loud noises or fires.
At this point it's pretty much a mystery.'" (See the Boston,
Mass. Herald for December 25, 1996)

     A two-day search of the area between White River
Junction, Norwich and West Hartford failed to find a single
piece of wreckage.

     On Thursday, December 26, a helicopter equipped with
infrared heat-seeking equipment from the New York Air
National Guard joined the search.

     As of this moment, Sunday, December 29 at 10:30 a.m.,
both Schwartz and Hayes and their aircraft are still missing.

(Editor's Note: White River Junction is a notorious UFO
hotspot, with sightings dating back to September 1908.)


CHINESE JET REPORTS AERIAL COLLISION WITH UFO

     On Thursday, December 19, 1996, a Boeing 757-200
operated by China's Southern Airlines took off from Beijing
on a routine flight south to Wuhan, the capital of Hubei
province.  As the jetliner reached an altitude of 9,600 meters
(31,500 feet), the copilot spotted a bright flash in the sky
just ahead of them.  A silver-gray metallic UFO struck the
top of the 757's cockpit, cracking the outer windshield.  The
pilot immediately declared an in-flight emergency and
radioed Beijing's Capital International Airport, requesting
permission to land.  The plane landed safely ten minutes
later.  The incident was briefly reported in the Yangcheng
Evening News, picked up by Reuters and included in their
report for December 26, 1996.  (Thanks to Errol Bruce-Knapp
of UFO Updates for this story.)


UFO SPOTTED IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

     On Saturday, December 21, 1996, at 10:30 p.m., a man
and woman living near Bullard, Georgia (population 275) saw
a UFO hovering near the southern perimeter of Robins Air
Force Base.

     "The sky was clear and visibility excellent," reported
Brenda Hughes.  "We went outside to take a look at the
weather.  I noticed Paul looking at something in the sky.  He
said, 'There is something up there, and it's not a plane.'  He
works at Robins AFB and knows every plane that flies.  I
joined him, and we watched it hover just south of the base.
We watched it for almost three minutes.  It would appear and
then disappear.  It had lights that went all around it.  And a
red light with the white lights.  It was my husband's first
sighting."  (Email Interview)


UFO VISITS ARIZONA POW-WOW

     On Sunday afternoon, December 15, 1996, at 2:29 p.m.,
UFO researcher Bill Hamilton was watching a Native American
dance at the Indian Market at South Mountain Park in
Phoenix, Arizona when he sighted a UFO.

     "I gazed up at the crescent moon and saw a round, silvery
object moving south at about 5 degrees below the moon.  It
made no sound and had no wings or appendages.  Just below
it, seemingly separated from the object, was a blinking green
light (not like an aircraft light).  It seemed to be signalling or
just blinking.  The object moved slowly to a dead stop and
hovered.  Then it just vanished from sight.  Sighting time--
approximately 10 to 15 seconds."  (Email Interview)


SIGHTINGS CONTINUE IN THE CAMARILLO AREA

     On Tuesday, December 24, 1996, the bright white UFO
seen earlier this month returned to its haunts in Camarillo,
California (population 37,732).  The UFO appeared at
4:45 p.m.

     On Wednesday, December 19, at 5:53 p.m., a similar
object was sighted by a couple in the nearby city of Santa
Barbara (population 74,542).  According to an eyewitness,
"My wife and I observed a very bright white light at about
60 degrees south.  Through binoculars we could not make
out a defined sharp edge--it looked fuzzy at the edges.  The
object was drifting slowly and linearly in an easterly direction.
Height could have been anywhere from 30,000 to 60,000 feet
(9,999 to 19,998 meters) but luminosity was very high.
Conditions were clear and excellent visibility due to low
humidity.  About 10 or 15 minutes after sunset, the intensity
instantaneously diminished to where it was barely visible as
a dot in the clear but darkening sky."

     In related news, MUFON investigator Mary Helen
Corrado's December 3rd videotape of the Camarillo UFO was
pronounced genuine by SVG Digital Systems, Inc.  In their
December 21 letter, the firm stated, "Analysis of the above
video indicates object is of a solid nature.  Its trajectory and
climb ascent indicate it is not a conventional aircraft...
Considering the frame movement (30 frames per second) its
speed is in the 4,000 to 6,000 mile-per-hour range."
(Many thanks for Mary Helen Corrado for this story.)


BLACK HELICOPTERS SEEN IN SOUTHERN BRAZIL

     On Friday, December 20, 1996, a mutilated cow was
found in an orange grove outside Angatuba, a rural town in
Brazil's Sao Paulo state.  The Policia Militar sealed off
the roads.  Less than 30 minutes later, people in the nearby
city of Itapetininga (population 110,000) saw three black
helicopters hovering over the city's Brazilian Navy base.
A few minutes later, two gray helicopters lifted off from the
base, and all five took off in the direction of Angatuba.

     "In Itapetininga," our informant reported, "it is most
unusual to see five helicopters in the air at the same time."

     Itapetininga is 24 kilometers (15 miles) west of
Sorocaba, where a UFO was seen on October 5.
(Editor's Comment: Looks as if Delta Team is maintaining
a long-term presence in Brazil.)


MORE UFO SIGHTINGS IN BRITAIN

     On Thursday, December 26, 1996, two police officers
pursued a UFO in their cruiser near Britain's North Sea
coast.  Sgt. Steve King and PC Andy Collier of the Norfolk
police were on routine patrol along the shore when they
spotted "strange lights in the sky."  The officers chased the
object for ten miles until it "accelerated and flew away over
the North Sea" at Holt, Norfolk.

     The Norfolk police phoned the airport at Norwich and
learned that "no flights were in the vicinity."

     Police at Fakenham, Norfolk received 30 calls that
night from people claiming to have seen the UFO.

     Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) dismissed the
officers' report, claiming that the UFO was merely "a
combination of the 200-foot Boston Stump (cathedral)
and an electrical storm."  (See the Daily Mirror for
December 26, 1996)

     On Thursday, December 12, a man reported "bright
orange lights" over Shaftsbury.  The lights "grew in size"
and then "disappeared suddenly as they dipped down
towards the town."

     On November 21, at 10 p.m., a motorist returning
from Birmingham on Highway M54 "saw a bright green
star descend vertically on the horizon in the direction of
Shrewsbury."  As he drove onto the A5, he encountered
a roadblock and was diverted down A455 East.  While on
this road, he saw mysterious "extremely bright blue-white
flashes" on the horizon at Shrewsbury.


STRANGE DOINGS IN THE SAN LUIS VALLEY

     On Saturday, December 7, at 7:15 p.m., Douglas Hawk
left his home in Alamosa County, Colorado, just north of the
New Mexico state line, and "observed a solid, unblinking
orange light" traveling through the sky "from south to north."
The unblinking light did not resemble the standard FAA
warning lights on conventional aircraft.

     On Wednesday, November 20, at 7:12 p.m., the central
and southern San Luis Valley was rocked by a mysterious
sky boom.  The explosion was heard by Sherry Maxwell,
Brendan O'Brien, Monti Collins and Isadora and Brisa
Storey.

     On Monday night, November 18, Amy Syke spotted
"a triangle of white lights" flying over Saguache County,
heading west.  As they approached the mountain range,
the "lights broke apart and descended diagonally toward
the ground."

     Four days earlier, on November 14, at 7:12 p.m., UFO
witness Pat Richmond spotted 12 white vans with bright
red lights parked in Alamosa, Colorado (population 6,830).
The vehicles "looked suspicious," Ms. Richmond said.

(Many thanks to Christopher O'Brien, author of THE
MYSTERIOUS VALLEY, Bantam Books, 1996, for this
news update.)

(Editor's Note: White vans belonging to NASA were seen
in Republic, Washington on September 14, 1995 right
after a flurry of UFO reports from the Tonasket area.)


ROUNDUP CORRIGENDA:  In Issue #43, your editor
mistakenly credited the wrong person with ownership of
that excellent UFO Website at http:www.linex.com/ufo.
Let's set the record straight right here.  The Website is
owned and operated by Steve Wingate, and the cited
article is only one of many available at this site.  Be sure
to stop by and browse them all.

MORE UFO WEBSITES

     For readers interested in the Comet Hale Bopp and its
alleged companion object, which some wag dubbed "the
Hale Mary," astronomer Chuck Shramek has photos and
commentary available at his new Website.  You'll find it
at

http://www.neosoft.com/~cshramek/

     UFO sightings in New York's Hudson River valley hold
top billing on Brian's Website.  Check it out at this URL:

http://members.aol.com/Brian3882.

     British ufologist Ian Read has started a new newsgroup.
For more info, check his site at

http://people.netcom.co.uk/i.read/

     And don't miss UFO ONLINE by Italian ufologist
Mauricio Verga.  This newly upgraded site offers up-to-date
information on Italian ufology and lets you look at documents
and review case histories and much more.  You'll find it at

http://www.oasi.asti.it/homes/CISU/english/ufo1.htm


RINGING DOWN THE CURTAIN ON 1996

     Well, this ends Volume 1 of UFO ROUNDUP.  It's
sometimes hard to believe how much the newsletter has
grown since February.  From its humble beginnings in the
Sightings chat room, UFO ROUNDUP has blossomed and
attracted readers from all over the world.  Outside the USA,
UFO ROUNDUP has subscribers in Britain, Canada, South
Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Israel, Italy, Malta,
Argentina, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, France, India and
Malaysia.

     I would like to thank all of you who made it possible.
The "Majestic Ten" from the Sightings chat room, who first
encouraged me to launch the newsletter.  John C. Hayes,
who so generously allowed the newsletter to maintain an
archive at his Website, UFO INFO.  The 29,118 visitors to
the archive.  And, of course, all of you readers who send on
UFO stories and information.  You're the people who have
turned the Internet into a vital newsgathering tool.  You've
helped me cover the stories that Big Media refuses to
touch, the continuing drama of the Unidentified Flying
Object, which is often the story of ordinary people caught
up in extraordinary events.  Thank you all.

     Join us next week as we open 1997 with more
coverage of the UFO phenomenon.  Here's wishing all of
our readers a HAPPY NEW YEAR from "the paper that
goes home...UFO ROUNDUP."