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From: Masinaigan@aol.com
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 12:41:05 -0500 (EST)
Fwd Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 05:43:33 -0500
Subject: UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 2, Number 7


     UFO ROUNDUP
Volume 2, Number 7
February 16, 1997
Editor: Joseph Trainor

UFOs SIGHTED ALL OVER
THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST

     The states of Oregon and Washington were hit by
a major UFO flap last weekend.

     In Inglewood, Washington (population 4,000), a
suburb of Seattle, Jim Waylons was returning to his
apartment house around 10:30 p.m. when he spotted
"a bright yellow light" hovering over the neighborhood.
The unknown object reportedly "hovered over the town
for at least 45 minutes," and its presence set off
"alarms and security lights" in the building.  "They
apparently had trouble turning them off until the light
in the sky had left."  The incident took place on
Friday, February 7, 1997.

     Also on February 7, two Wallowa County Sheriff's
Department deputies encountered a UFO while on
patrol in Joseph, Oregon (population 1,000).  The
deputies saw "a perfectly round blue 'fireball' descend
vertically in the southern sky right in front" of their
cruiser.  They "watched the object for two or three
seconds, during which it traversed 20 to 40 degrees of
arc viewed from the ground."  They estimated the UFO
to be "1/4 to 1/2 the diameter of the full moon."  The
object disappeared behind the Wallowa Mountains
south of Joseph.

     The same evening, several persons in Richland,
Oregon, 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Joseph,
reported a similar "fireball" low on the horizon.  Both
towns are in the northeast corner of Oregon, near the
Snake River and the Idaho state line.

     On Saturday, February 8, 1997, at 8 p.m., Shirley
Jenkins, who lives at Beacon Hill just north of the twin
cities of Kelso (population 11,200) and Longview
(population 32,000), Washington, spotted a UFO while
heading south on the West Side Highway, along the
Cowlitz River.  "I watched an unknown light suddenly
come into view above downtown Kelso and within
seconds dropped to the southwest.  It was greenish in
color, not round but sort of oval in appearance.  The
whole experience may have lasted 7 to 10 seconds."

     Shirley and her passenger "were both in awe and
trying to explain what it could've been, and both
decided it was not an airplane or anything neither of
us had seen before.  It was stationary when it first
showed up and then shot to the southwest and
disappeared."  Shirley said she grew up in Kansas and
"knows what shooting stars and satellites look like."

     Meanwhile, 40 miles (64 kilometers) to the south,
in the night sky over Salem, Oregon, a private pilot from
Bend, Oregon was flying a heading of 108 degrees
(magnetic) at an altitude of 7,000 feet.  At just about
8 p.m., he "saw a 'green fireball' go streaking from left
to right in front of my aircraft at a very high velocity."
The pilot radioed Seattle Center, and they responded
that they had nothing on radar except a United Airlines
jetliner at 10,000 feet.  Looking out the window, the
pilot saw the jetliner overhead.  He added that the
fireball "simply disappeared in the blink of an eye.
It just seemed suddenly to wink out."

     The incident was reported Sunday, February 9,
in broadcasts on KGW-TV Channel 8 in Portland
and on KING-TV Channel 5 in Seattle.

     On Saturday, February 8, at 11:58 p.m., two
men in Oroville, California (population 8,700) saw
a ring of "seven to ten very dim reddish points of
light, perhaps discoid in shape, streaking in the
western sky from north to south."

     On Tuesday, February 4, 1997, at 6:15 p.m.,
a private pilot flying south of Diamond Lake
Junction, Oregon (population 150), east of
Crater Lake National Park, saw "three discs"
speeding across the dark sky, pursued by
"several jet interceptors."

     A witness in Medford, Oregon reported that
he felt the "mystery boom" of February 4.  "It
was like nothing that recalled a typical sonic
boom.  It was more like a shock wave."
(Many thanks to Peter B. Davenport of the
National UFO Reporting Center and to Shirley
Jenkins and Rick Coimbra for providing the
information for this story.)


GREEN FIREBALLS LIGHT
UP SKIES IN FRANCE

     Tuesday evening, February 4, 1997, what
was described by Agence France-Presse as a
"luminous phenomenon" was seen by dozens
of people on the south side of Toulouse, a city
in the Haute-Garonne region of southern France.
The luminous object appeared at dusk over
the Pyrennees-Atlantique region and headed
northwest into the Haute-Garonne.  According
to Agence France-Presse, "The color went from
brilliant white to red in passing and ended by
turning green."

     Jean-Jacques Velasco of SEPRA, a unit of
France's CNES space agency, said, "Orientation of
the phenomenon, its duration and the rate of
disintegration present have focused the investigation
on it being a satellite."

     Three hours later, at 9 p.m., a similar "phenomenon
of green light" flashed through the skies of Montauban,
40 kilometers (24 miles) north of Toulouse.  This time
the orb spit out fiery sparks "like a disintegrating meteor"
and was in view for ten seconds.

     At 6:30 p.m., a "large green sphere" was seen by a
bus driver on L'autoroute (Highway) Perpignan-Nimes
while passing through the city of Narbonne, located on
the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.

     At 8:50 p.m., three UFOs were sighted over
Belleville-sur-Saone, 30 kilometers (18 miles) north of
Lyon.  All three were spherical, two were green, and
the final one in the procession was red.  Witnesses
watched them for five minutes.

     France's UFO flap continued the following night,
Wednesday, February 5, 1997, with another UFO,
described as "a ball of green fire disintegrating"
over Valence d'Agen, near Lyon.

     A green fireball was seen in D'Auvillar, at the
border of the Lot-et-Garonne region.  Gendarmes
searched the area but found no trace of a meteor.

     On Thursday night, February 6, 1997, at
7:45 p.m., the squadron of three UFOs--two green,
one red--appeared again, this time in Plasnes.
The luminous objects appeared in the west and
flew toward the east at a high rate of speed.
(Merci beaucoup au Thierry Garnier et Franck
Marie de Banque OVNI pour les particuliers)


UFOs STARTLE CROWDS
IN SANTIAGO DE CHILE

     On Sunday, February 9, 1997, at 10:30 p.m.,
a glowing UFO appeared over the Lo Cana
section of Santiago de Chile.  The object hovered
for several minutes over the dry hills of the
Cordillera de los Andes, east of the capital.

     According to eyewitnesses, "The UFO
descended slowly and then split into two objects.
One of the UFOs left, heading south (towards
San Bernardo), and the other remained there.
The second UFO started to descend, and then
eight balls of light came out of it.  They were
moving slowly, up, down and sideways."

     The objects were reportedly tracked on
radar by the Grupo de Comunicaciones
Electronicas 32 (GCE-32) of the Fuerzas Aereas
de Chile (Chilean Air Force) at Tobalba airport
near Santiago.  Second Air Brigade of the
FACh is responsible for defense of the national
capital.  FACh tracked the UFOs until 1:30 a.m.

     The sighting was the latest in a series of UFO
incidents in this South American country.

     Two days earlier, on Friday, February 7, an
electrical engineer driving to his home in the
Penalolen section of Santiago after nightfall
"saw this small ball of orange light over a radio
tower flying in circles.  Suddenly, the ball
descended to ground level and headed towards
his car."  The engineer instantly stepped down hard
on the brakes, but "the ball of light" kept on coming
"in a spinning motion."  The small orange UFO
"passed through the windshield and landed in the
back seat."  After a few minutes, the ball "turned
into a jelly and then into a hard round ball, like an
eggshell."

     Puzzled, the engineer drove home and turned
the strange object over to the Agrupacion de
Investigaciones Ovniologicas (AION), a Chilean
UFO study group headed by Rodrigo Fuenzalida.
AION is currently having the material analyzed at
a lab in Santiago de Chile.

(Editor's Note: Senor Fuenzalida can be reached
at this telephone number (56 2) 555-4011.)

     A "metallic sphere" was seen recently hovering
over the town of Pedehue, where NASA has a
satellite tracking facility.

     In December 1996, people in Puerto Williams,
a seaport town on Isla Navarino, an island just
south of Tierra del Fuego, at the southernmost tip
of South America, saw a fleet of metallic saucers
passing to the north.  One observer counted 200
objects.

     Two months earlier, in October 1996, two
daylight discs were seen by several people living
in Portenir, a city on the Strait of Magellan, 240
kilometers (150 miles) northwest of Puerto
Williams.

(Muchas gracias a Luis Sanchez Perry para
 las noticias de Chile.)


TWO SIGHTINGS IN THE
DETROIT AREA

     On Friday, February 7, 1997, at 8 p.m., a man
in South Lyon, Michigan, 15 miles (24 kilometers)
west of downtown Detroit spotted a UFO passing
overhead.

     On January 21, 1997, a young man living in
Grosse Pointe, Michigan, 12 miles (20 kilometers)
north of Detroit, saw "a red light over Lake St. Clair."
He said the UFO "came ashore at Grosse Pointe
Woods (state park), moving across the sky at a
moderate speed."  The object landed behind a grove
of evergreen trees, and he saw no more of it.

(Email Interview)


UFO OVER PUTNAM VALLEY

     A woman from Mahopac, New York reported a
sighting there on Sunday, February 9, 1997, at
8 p.m.  "My two children and I saw a strange light
coming towards us, which turned into a flying
vehicle of some kind.  It passed over the tree nearest
us."  There was "no sign of turbulence as the object
passed over.  It vanished into the sky afterward.
None of us were ever believers before.  We weren't
frightened, but now we're wondering what happened."

(Email Interview)


UFO AND RAF TORNADO SEEN
TOGETHER OVER NORTH SEA

     On Wednesday, February 12, 1997, at 2:55 p.m.,
a man walking near the seashore in Mablethorpe,
Lincolnshire, England saw something unusual.  What
he described as "a small triangular craft" was flying
low over the North Sea, escorted by an RAF Tornado
jet interceptor.

     According to Timothy Matthews of the
Lancashire UFO Society, the UFO "had no visible
means of propulsion and was 'operating independently'
of the Tornado.

     At first LUFOS believed that the UFO had taken
off from RAF Coningsby, but, Matthews added,
"On reflection it is quite possible that the (mystery)
aircraft flew from Warton across the country out to
ACMI, the British Aerospace test site in the North
Sea."  (Many thanks to Tim Matthews for this
news story.)

(Editor's Note: Mablethorpe is 25 miles (40 kilometers)
north of Skegness, the site of the big UFO flap of
November 1996.)


ORANGE UFOs SEEN IN FLORIDA

     Tanya Kimbrough, 30, of Dunnellon, Florida
reports, "We have seen some very strange objects
in the sky, some bright star-like objects that
suddenly move from a stationary position and then
land in the woods.  We have seen objects that are
orange and travelling at very great speed."

     Dunnellon (population 1,490) is located on
Florida Highway 41, about midway between the
city of Ocala and the Gulf of Mexico.

(Email Interview)


FUN UFO WEBSITES

     Warning!  One of the sites we mentioned last
week no longer exists.  It's

http://www.schmitzware.com/iufog/iufog-healincs.shmtl

But there are plenty more for you to visit.

     Such as Vickie's NESUFOIG page located at

http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/8143/

     Waldemar Urminsky has a great site over there
in Bratislava, Slovakia, headquarters of the group
Asociacia UFO Badatelov (UFOBADAT).  If you
can read Slovakian, drop in at this address--

http://zero.rainside.sk/~wuma/ufobadat.htm

     Ronald Vanschoren has a great site with
article on strange lunar phenomena and Roswell.
The articles are in Dutch and you'll find them at

http://www.tornado.be/~r.vanschoren

     English-speaking readers, don't miss our
parent site, UFO INFO, with its up-to-the-minute
news and features.  You'll find it at this address-

http://www.ftech.net/~ufoinfo/index.htm

     And, for back issues of UFO ROUNDUP,
check out our site at

http://ftech.net/~ufoinfo/roundup.hts

Looks like we had a full plate this week.  Happy
reading from "the paper that covers the saucers--
UFO ROUNDUP."

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