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Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 05:58:49 -0500
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Subject: UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 2, Number 1
UFO ROUNDUP
Volume 2, Number 1
January 5, 1997
Editor: Joseph Trainor
New year, new volume, new layout, new editor. Looks
like some changes here at UFO ROUNDUP. Actually,
it's the same editor, using his birth name instead of a
screen name. Readers, let us know how you like our
new look. One thing hasn't changed, though, and that's
the number of UFO sightings. We have a bumper crop
to kick off the new year, so read on...
UFO HOVERS OVER CINCINNATI MALL
On Tuesday, December 24, 1996, at 8 p.m., four
people were driving down Moneycreek Road in Cincinnati,
Ohio. They were "out looking at the Christmas lights,"
but the lights they saw hovering over the Western Hills
Plaza shopping center had nothing to do with the
holiday.
The quartet observed "a huge, phoenix-shaped object
with headlights" hovering above the shopping center, which
had closed at 6 p.m. The UFO hovered 100 feet above the
mall. "The headlights were described as large and white,
situated in a triangular arrangement on each corner, with
a large red light in the center. There was no flight or
departure path noted, as the object suddenly vanished
from view," according to Kenneth Young, public relations
director of the Tri-State Advocates for Scientific Knowledge
(T.A.S.K.) which is investigating the sighting.
This is the third UFO sighting near the Western Hills
Plaza in the past 18 months. On July 28, 1996, at 7 p.m.,
two oblong, silvery disc-shaped objects were seen over
Hamilton Avenue, not far from the mall. And in July 1995,
a resident of Schwartze Avenue, off Moneycreek Road,
reported seeing "a black, chevron-shaped object floating
in and out of the clouds above Western Hills Plaza."
During 1996, T.A.S.K. recorded a total of 41 UFO
encounters in southern Ohio. Ken Young said, "UFO
reports from the area have not been generated in such
numbers since the legendary wave in 1973."
(Many thanks to Ken Young and T.A.S.K. for this
report.)
TWO UFO ENCOUNTERS IN CENTRAL FLORIDA
On Saturday, December 21, 1996, at about 11 p.m.,
Robert J. and his friend, Matthew M., were driving on
Highway 44 in Eustis, Florida (population 9,500), north
of Orlando when they spotted three UFOs in the sky.
Robert said the UFOs were "round" and "carried
red and blue lights" which "blinked every three or four
minutes. We watched for five minutes or so, and then an
airplane approached the crafts, and they vanished." He
estimated that the UFOs were 2,000 feet above ground.
Three days later, on Tuesday, December 24, at
11:47 p.m., Kathy E., a friend of the boys, spotted two
UFOs hovering over Forest Drive in Eustis, not far from
Highway 44. She reported that one UFO approached
from the east and one from the west. Like the objects
seen on December 21, these UFOs carried slow-blinking
red and blue lights. (Email Interview)
LEAR JET AND PILOTS ARE STILL MISSING
U.S. Air Force, Army National Guard and over 200
volunteer searchers have been unable to locate the
Lear jet which vanished over the upper Connecticut
River valley at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, December 24.
Missing are Johan Schwartz, 31, of Westport,
Connecticut and Pat Hayes, 30, of Clinton, Conn.
The men took off in a Lear jet from Sikorsky Aiport
in Bridgeport, Conn. to pick up four passengers in
Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Because of persistent rain and fog, Schwartz and
Hayes aborted their first approach into Lebanon and
circled the field for a second try. As they began to
circle, the Lebanon tower first lost voice contact and
then radar contact with the Lear jet.
Ground searchers climbed nearby Moose Mountain
but found no trace of the missing plane.
Aerial search has been hampered by persistent
fog and rain in the Upper Valley.
On Friday, December 27, two low-flying U.S. Air
Force jets retraced the flight's route from Bridgeport,
Conn. to Lebanon, N.H. but found nothing.
On Saturday, December 28, divers checked a
lake near Salisbury, N.H. but found no traces of the
missing jet.
On Sunday, December 29, Major James Finkle
grounded the New York Air National Guard search
helicopter when falling temperatures threatened to
ice over the aircraft's rotor blades.
Dr. Paul Schwartz, father of one of the pilots,
has asked Governor Howard Dean of Vermont to
conduct a comprehensive search of the area north
of White River Junction.
On Wednesday, January 1, 1997, about 150
volunteer searchers, including two dozen friends
and family members of the missing men, took
to the woods. Governor Steve Merrill of New
Hampshire pledged that the search would continue
through the weekend.
Three helicopters are now engaged in the
air search. Vermont State Police and emergency
management officials plan to coordinate their
efforts with New Hampshire's. (See the Boston,
Mass. Herald for December 30, 1996, January 2,
1997 and January 4, 1997)
COLOMBIAN AIRMAN VIDEOTAPES SIX UFOs
TV viewers in Bogota, the capital of Colombia,
were stunned Sunday evening, December 22, 1996,
when station NTC broadcast a video showing six
glowing discoidal UFOs in flight over the city.
The "objetos voladores" were filmed on Friday
morning, December 13, by Corporal Juan Carlos
Morales of the Fuerza Aerea Colombiana (FAC).
Corporal Morales was aboard a Transport Command
multi-engined plane, flying over the Cordillera Central,
when he happened to glance out the window.
Looking toward Mount Monserrate (2,500 feet or
810 meters), Corporal Morales spotted six silvery
self-luminous discs emerging from a cloud. The discs
were flying in two separate rows, heading for Bogota.
Grabbing his videocam, he began shooting footage.
The UFOs passed over the Avenida Jimenez de
Quesada and the Plaza de Toros de Santa Maria,
heading in a northeasterly direction.
Major Gonzalo Cardenas, chief of the FAC
Tranport Command, told NTC that the UFOs were not
captured on radar by the air force traffic control
center at El Dorado International Airport. (See the
newspaper Correo de Povo of Porto Alegre, Brazil for
December 23, 1996.)
(Muchas gracias to our friend Castagni for this story.)
NEW SIGHTING IN SAO PAULO STATE
About ten days after the Bogota overflight, there
was another UFO sighting in the state of Sao Paulo,
in southeastern Brazil.
The sighting took place on or about Monday,
December 23, 1996 in the city of Santo Andre
(population 1.1 million), which is 30 kilometers
(19 miles) southeast of Sao Paulo. Santo Andre,
together with Sao Caetano do Sul and Sao
Bernardo, forms the heart of Brazil's automotive
industry.
Jacinta Fagundes de Mello, who lives in a high-
rise apartment building in Santo Andre, stepped onto
her balcony and saw "a strange balloon with bright
blinking lights underneath, like small fireworks."
At first Jacinta thought it was a balloon sent aloft
by a neighborhood "festa." Grabbing a pair of Zeiss
binoculars, she looked again and "saw a huge shadowy
shape above the lights. I realized that it was not a
balloon at all."
She went to get her boyfriend, urging him to look
through the binoculars. He did and let out a shout.
Immediately afterward, the UFO "increased its speed
from about motionless to an overwhelming velocity. At
the same time, we saw a falling star on the horizon, and
another, very close, the size of a plane that came over
the neighboring apartment building and disappeared
behind the residential complex."
(Muito obrigado to Brazilian ufologist Sergio Graciotti
for this story.)
UFOs SIGHTED OVER THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO
On Saturday, December 28, 1996, at 3 p.m., residents
of Thunder Bay, Ontario (population 120,000) saw a
silvery object in the southwestern sky, seemingly hovering
over the Sibley Peninsula, a wilderness park jutting out
into Lake Superior.
The Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal received calls from
dozens of eyewitnesses, as did Ivan Sherlock, director of
the Thunder Bay chapter of MUFON. The object was
visible from Hillcrest Park, Victoria Avenue, the Intercity
Shopping Centre on Fort William Road and the Port
Arthur waterfront section of the city.
Captain George Paterson of the city's Salvation Army
chapter told reporter Gail Cohen of the Chronicle-Journal,
"We saw something over the harbour Saturday," adding
that he was originally "not a believer and thought it was a
helicopter or a balloon, but the object left the area very
quickly. It was definitely there, and it was interesting
enough to get my attention."
Three days earlier, on December 21, Lori Eaton and
her husband were driving down John Street when they saw
"a white light" to the southwest near the city's landfill site.
"We looked up, and the white light was gone, and there
were blue and green lights," she said. "I've never seen
anything like it." As they drew closer, she added, the
object hovered right over their car before zooming off.
In November, solitary UFOs were seen in Sudbury,
Ont. and Ardbeg, Ont., just east of Lake Huron.
(See the Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal for January 1,
1997 "Thunder Bay Sightings Continue")
(Thanks to Errol Bruce-Knapp of UFO UpDates for this
story.)
DEAD ALIEN STIRS CONTROVERSY IN ISRAEL
The reported "dead alien" found at Kibbutz Achihod
near Ahyud on December 22, 1996 continues to make
headlines in Israel.
On Monday, December 30, the Biological Facility
of Haifa's Technion Institute announced the results of its
analysis of the 5-centimeter-tall humanoid cadaver found
by Mrs. Zyona Damti, 34, beside her father-in-law's barn.
According to the newspaper Yediot Ahronot, spokesmen
for the institute said "they were not given enough material
for the team to conduct proper tests" but announced
anyway that the material was "cow manure."
In appearances on Israeli television Channels One and
Two, ufologists Debby Segal and Uriah Shai, who are
representing the Damti family, disputed the findings.
Shai was asked why he had reportedly refused to give all
of the material to the Technion Institute, retaining two
millimeters for the Damti family.
The following day, Tuesday, December 31, in an
interview with Maariv, distinguished scientist Dr. Noah
Brosch reportedly dismissed the "humanoid"--and all of
ufology--as "a hoax."
This did not halt the UFO furor in Israel. By Saturday
night, January 4, 1997, talk show lines were buzzing with
the latest rumor. A prediction, attributed by some to
Israeli psychic Uri Geller, claimed that giant saucers
would appear over Tel Aviv and two other locations in
Israel after sunset on January 5.
(Many thanks to Israel journalist Barry Chamish for
this story.)
(Editor's Comment: Very wise, Mr. Shai, holding onto
those two millimeters of the evidence. Lock them up
in a safe place. Concerning this case, I will only point
out one thing--I have yet to meet the dairy farmer who
did not know the difference between a small green
humanoid, a lizard embryo and a "cow pie.")
HALE-BOPP IS ACTING UP AGAIN
According to Sky & Telescope, Comet Hale-Bopp
is set to enter the inner solar system January 8. At
this point, the comet's "distance from the Sun falls
below 1.66 astronomical units," (15,438,000,000
miles or 24,708,000,000 kilometers), about the orbit
of Mars.
According to an article in Newsday, "Astronomer
Zdenek Sekanina of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in
Pasadena, California, said comet Hale-Bopp 'is doing
pretty well lately, as far as activity is concerned.' He
added that the rate at which the comet's brightness
was increasing slowed for a while 'but very recently it
apparently picked up again.'"
"At present, Sekanina said, 'there have been
reports of seven jets emanating from the nucleus'
of the comet. And analysis of the jets suggests the
comet's icy body may be rotating slowly, perhaps
once every six to eight days."
There have been no further sightings of the
Hale-Mary, the anomalous object reported flying in
formation with Hale-Bopp during November.
Hale-Bopp is now very low on the horizon. The
best viewing is in Canada and northern Europe.
But Sky & Telescope has kindly provided the
coordinates for this week, if any of our readers care
to aim their telescopes or satellite dishes at it.
Date Right Ascension Declination
January 6 18h 50.15m +6 02.2
January 8 18h 53.35m +6 35.0
January 10 18h 56.64m +7 09.3
MORE FUN UFO WEBSITES
Want to find out how the Beyond Boundaries
crew made out on their trip to Mexico? Find out
at Joyce Murphy's site. It's at this URL:
http://rampages.onramp.net
The UFO Information Centre in the Netherlands
is currently updating their site. It'll be ready in a
week or so. New features include crop circles, a
News page and a newsletter in Dutch and English.
Try http://www.telebyte.nl/~deano/UFOIC/
Frelon Cyberspace has one of the best Link
systems around. It's like a Stargate linking all of
the best sites in the UFO community. Try them
at http://www.clinet.fi/~frelon/ufo.html
Come and celebrate the new year at our parent
site, UFO INFO! You can find it at this URL...
http://www.ftech.net/~ufoinfo/index.htm
THE ROUNDUP PLEDGE
As we start the news year, once more we'd like
to reiterate the Roundup Pledge. That is, our promise
to you, the readers, to deliver the complete and
comprehensive UFO news as quickly as possible.
Let the philosophers grope for "the truth." You
readers want the facts about UFOs--who saw them,
where were they seen, what did they look like--and
it's our job to deliver those facts.
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Our philosophy? The same as 18th Century
American newspaper editor, Isaiah Thomas, namely,
"Print the news and raise hell."
We're off on another great year. We look forward
to having you with us as we tackle UFO sightings
throughout 1997.
Best wishes from "the paper that goes home--
UFO ROUNDUP."
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