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From: Masinaigan@aol.com
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:18:36 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 2, Number 28


     UFO ROUNDUP
Volume 2, Number 28
July 13, 1997
Editor: Joseph Trainor

DEPUTY SEES DAYLIGHT UFO
IN SOUTHERN COLORADO

     On June 26, 1997, at 10:23 a.m., Colorado
undersheriff Brian Norton was driving on Highway 160
between Alamosa (population 6,830) and Monte Vista
(population 3,902) when he spotted a "bright silver
reflection" in the eastern sky, near the Great Sand
Dunes National Monument.

     Norton described the UFO as a silver cylinder
"just like that craft that was filmed over Salida (in
September 1995-J.T.) by Tim Edwards."  As soon as
he saw the silvery gleam, "I reached for my field glasses,
and, when I looked up, it was gone."

     "It either just flat disappeared," Norton said, "Or it
took off real fast."

     Norton's sighting took place the same day as the
UFO sightings north of Las Vegas, Nevada and at the
Indian ruins at Mesa Verde in southern Colorado.

     According to UFO investigator Christopher O'Brien,
author of THE MYSTERIOUS VALLEY (St. Martin's
Press, 1996), Colorado police received "several calls"
concerning anomalous lights hovering over Greenie
Mountain, 12 miles (20 kilometers) south of Monte
Vista during the last week of June.

     Mysterious lights were also seen just south of
the area in Summitville, Colorado and Dulce, New
Mexico.

     Summitville was the site of a cattle mutilation
during the autumn of 1996, O'Brien reported.  A dead
cow, missing its udder, rectum and both eyes, was
found "in the center of a 30-foot-wide (10 meter) circle
of knocked-down grass."  The animal was covered with
a fine residue "like baby powder."  (Many thanks to
Chris O'Brien for this news story.)


MORE UFO SIGHTINGS IN
CALIFORNIA

     California saw two UFO sightings last week, one
north of Los Angeles, the other in the Sierra Nevada
mountain range just east of the Nevada state line.

     On Friday, July 4, 1997, at 10 p.m., several
residents of Chino, California spotted "a crescent-
shaped UFO" hovering over the desert community.
According to ufologist Jerry Glass, "the UFO
maintained a stationary position for ten minutes,
then headed east.  When viewed through binoculars,
the witnesses stated the UFO was made up of five
balls of light with golden tails."

     Chino (population 40,165) is in Riverside County
just south of Highway 60, about 28 miles (45
kilometers) east of Los Angeles.  This case is
being investigated by MUFON Inland Empire.  (Many
thanks to Jerry Glass for this report.)

     On Tuesday, June 24, 1997, a woman driving on
Highway 70, heading west from Reno, Nevada,
spotted a strange object parked in a pasture near
Vinton, California (population 150).

     The witness described the object as "a big round
thing that was a soft light pomegranate color...kinda
peachy-red.  It was too far away to judge actual size,"
but she thought it was "the size of a barn."

     Vinton is located on Highway 70 in Plumas County,
10 miles (16 kilometers) west of the Nevada state
line.  (Many thanks to Skywatch International for this
report.)


UFO SEEN FLYING OVER
MONMOUTH, OREGON

     On Monday evening, July 7, the McDonnall family
was in the backyard of their home in Monmouth,
Oregon (population 5,594) when they spotted a gray
UFO passing overhead.

     "My son and his visiting cousin were taking turns
jumping on the backyard trampoline," Jim McDonnall
reported, "when both he and his cousin noticed an
object traveling in the sky from north to south, at a
position nearly directly overhead."

     "Both described the object as about an inch in
length when measured from the index finger and thumb
at arm's length.  The object was traveling near the normal
flight path that planes travel when going to and from
Portland, Oregon and the San Francisco Bay area."

     The UFO "made no noise," McDonnall reported,
"Nor did it create a vapor trail, as did the jets during the
same evening.  Yet it was about as high as the jets
travel when taking off from Portland; between 15 and
20 thousand feet  (4,545 to 6,060 meters--J.T.)  We
estimated the altitude of the object by the fact that it
was traveling through thin, high altocumulus clouds
that are normally seen at about that altitude."

     "The object, as described by my 14-year-old son
and his 13-year-old cousin, was metallic gray in
color, shaped like a medicine capsule, and had a dark
line that appeared as a band around the midsection of
the object.  The object, according to the two, had no
wings and was traveling quite fast--about twice as fast
as jets travel through the same portion of sky.  They
tried to call me outside to view the object as well,
but it vanished from view before I could reach their
vantage point."

     Monmouth is on Oregon Highway 99W, about
61 miles (97 kilometers) south of Portland.
(Email Interview)


MYSTERIOUS TREMORS FELT
IN SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA

     A mysterious subterranean rumbling, similar to
the "Taos Hum," occurred last week in Sunnyvale,
California.  The city (population 106,618) is located
at the southern end of San Francisco Bay, about
9 miles (14 kilometers) northwest of San Jose.

     On Monday night, July 7, 1997, at 11:34 p.m.,
Arnold Veness, 35, a database developer and
consultant, was jolted out of a sound sleep "by a
very deep, very low, earth rumbling sound.  The
vibration was not a train, not a sonic boom."

     This was the second time in two months that
Veness was awakened by the rumbling.  He said
he "goes to bed usually at 10 p.m. so I can get up
to go to work at 4:30 a.m."

     "The vibrations were more heard than actually
felt--a long deep rumbling sound," he said, that had
a duration of five to ten seconds, the same as the
previous incident.

     The first time he heard the "rumbling sound," he
added, "I was strongly motivated to get up and look
out the window."  He was able to fix the exact moment
of the second incident because "an electronic clock is
located beside the bed."

     Veness checked the U.S. Geological Survey's
website the morning of July 8, but no tremors had been
detected in the Sunnyvale area.  (Email Interview)


RED-ORANGE UFOs SEEN IN
BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA

     On Tuesday, July 8, 1997, at 11:10 p.m., UFO
researcher Lynn Taylor and his wife "were outside
with a friend when I observed an orange-red object
moving at a moderate speed northward, above the
trees east of my house.  This was a very brief
sighting and the first in five weeks."

     The following afternoon, Wednesday, July 9,
1997, at 2:15 p.m., Taylor received a phone call
from his fellow ufologist and colleague, John Tosti.
"I told him about last night's sighting, and he
indicated that one of the large red ones had shown
up near his house recently."

     Tosti also reportedly mentioned receiving several
harassment "hang-up" phone calls during the first
half of June, following his close-up view of a hovering
saucer in the woods near Bloomington back in May.
(Many thanks for Lynn Taylor and Skywatch
International for this report.)


BLACK HELICOPTERS SEEN
IN OHIO AND CONNECTICUT

     On Sunday night, July 6, 1997, at 9 p.m., Mrs.
Julie P. "was traveling northbound on Interstate
(Highway) 71, and from a vantage point overlooking
Kenwood Mall (near Cincinnati, Ohio-J.T.), I was
able to view a helicopter that was hovering above a
neighborhood that may have been near Blue Ash."

     Blue Ash, Ohio (population 5,506) is a suburb
of Cincinnati located 14 miles (22 kilometers)
northeast of City Hall.

     "This was 45 minutes beforehand, and probably
too far away to be seen from Delhi (population 8,000)
but neverthless the helicopter could have traveled in
that direction and presumably hovered above that
neighborhood somewhere.  It was dusk (8:45 p.m.)
and I couldn't make out what color or any physical
details."

     "Again on Monday afternoon, July 7, about
5:45 p.m., I was traveling north-bound on (Interstate)
I-75 and also noticed another hovering helicopter,"
Julie reported.  "Not sure if the same.  It was steadfast
above some neighborhood in Reading (population
12,879).  I was able to see this helicopter better, and
it was a flat-black color with a larger-than-average
tail-fin.  It had two strobing white lights."  (Many thanks
to Kenneth Young of T.A.S.K. for this report.)

     On Saturday, July 12, 1997, at 9:30 a.m., a man
weeding his garden in the Summit section of Coventry,
Rhode Island (population 31,000) heard the sound of a
helicopter engine.  Looking west, he spied a black
helicopter flying north at a low altitude.  "It looked as
if it crossed Route 117 near the Connecticut state
line," he reported.

     The same day, at 1:30 p.m., James W. and several
other people parked at a Route 14 roadside rest stop in
the Oweco section of Sterling, Connecticut were
startled when a black helicopter suddenly flew over
a neighboring pasture at treetop level.

     "It was a black Huey," reported Jim, a Vietnam
veteran.  "Skids, turbo engine, one strobing red light
on top of the engine.  Just the one chopper.  It
came from the east, flew past us over the pasture,
and then made a 90-degree southward, heading for
Voluntown.  When it reached the southern horizon,
it hung another 90-degree turn (east) and took off
in that direction."

     Seven minutes later, the black UH-1 helicopter
returned and performed the exact same maneuver,
as the onlookers watched.  (Email Interview)
(Editor's Note: Oweco is eight miles (12 kilometers)
west of Summit, R.I.)


DAYLIGHT DISC SIGHTED NEAR
WIMBLEDON, SURREY

     On Saturday, July 5, 1997, Alex Maddern and his wife
glanced out the kitchen window of their fourth-floor
apartment in Tibbets Corner, near Wimbledon, Surrey
and spotted a daylight disc in the bright, cloudless sky.

     The sighting occurred at around 12:15 p.m.  Maddern
called it "a very strange object moving across the sky."

     According to Gordon Millington, chairman of the
Surrey Investigation Group on Aerial Phenomena
(SIGAP), "It was travelling so fast that they only had it
in view for about half a minute, until it disappeared in
the direction of Kingston, Surrey.  The Madderns, living
as they do in the flight path of London's Heathrow
airport, are very familiar with ordinary air traffic but
claim that this distinctive object was outside the usual
flight path and at a much lower altitude."

     "They described the UFO as 'a metallic disk' with
'a highly reflective surface' like aluminum, and 'clam-
shaped,' which would suggest that the disk had a raised
conical central section."

     "Enquiries by a SIGAP member who is also an Air
Traffic Controller at Heathrow indicated that no air
traffic was logged in the area at that time, and a UFO
outside the normal flight paths would not have
registered on the ATC equipment.  It was possible that
it might have been recorded on the radar tapes, but
these would not be accessible."  (Many thanks to
Gordon Millington of SIGAP for this report.)


RING-SHAPED UFO HORNS IN
ON ANOTHER CHILEAN
AIR SHOW

     On Saturday, June 21, 1997, the crack aerobatic
team "Los Halcones" (The Falcons) of the Fuerzas
Aereas de Chile (Chilean Air Force) performed in an
air show at Poso el Monte, near Iquique, a city in
northern Chile.

     Midway through the air show, viewers on the
ground spotted "a ring-shaped UFO" in the clear
blue sky above the Pacific Ocean.  The UFO came
closer as the Halcones pilots flew in formation.

     According to Rodrigo Fuenzalida, president of
Agrupacion Investigaciones Ovniologicas (AION), the
well-known Chilean UFO research group, the ring-shaped
UFO was captured on video by one of the onlookers.

     "According to the witnesses, it looks like the same
type of UFO seen in Pucon (at a similar airshow in
February 1997) this summer, and it appeared when the
exhibition started and left when it ended, heading north
(towards Peru--J.T.)," Chilean ufologist Luis Sanchez
Perry reported.

     In related business, a high-ranking FACH officer
told Dr. Mario Dusseul, AION vice president, that
FACH pilots are under "strict orders not to report any
type of sightings" and "if any (FACH) military plane
observes UFO activity, they have to return to their
base immediately."  (Muchas gracias a Luis Sanchez
Perry para esas noticias.)


SEARCHERS FAIL TO FIND ANY
TRACE OF MISSING LEAR JET

     Over 40 volunteers scoured the woods around
West Topsham, Vermont (population 150) on two
consecutive weekends but failed to find any trace
of the Lear jet that vanished over the upper
Connecticut River valley on December 24, 1996.

     Volunteers showed up the morning of Saturday,
June 28, 1997 at the West Topsham general store
and community hall.  "The initial search was
conducted by foot, but there were plans to call in
a helicopter and private planes."  The search effort
was "led by the families of the missing pilot and
his passenger."

     Pilots Johann Schwartz, 31, and Patrick Hayes,
30, missed a final approach into the municipal airport
in Lebanon, New Hampshire (population 11,134) at
10 a.m. on December 24, 1996.  They were told to
"go around" once more by the Lebanon tower, and,
as they made the circle, their Lear jet suddenly
vanished from the radar screen.  A thorough air-and-
ground search of the region last January failed to
find either the pilots or their aircraft.

    "West Topsham became a focus of interest
after reports that at least nine people in the area
said they saw or heard the plane the morning it
presumably went down."

     The volunteers wrapped up their first search
on Sunday, June 29, 1997.  They gathered again
in West Topsham on Friday, July 4, 1997 and
continued the search until Sunday evening,
July 6, 1997.

     As of today, Sunday, July 13, 1997, Schwartz,
Hayes and the Lear jet remain missing.  (See the
Providence, R.I. Journal-Bulletin for June 30, 1997.)


FALL OF "ANGEL HAIR"
REPORTED IN OKLAHOMA

     On March 27, 1997, Mark L. was walking his
German shepherd dog in Billings, Oklahoma
(population 632) at 6:45 p.m.

     "I saw a diamond-shaped object that hovered
over my neighbor's house for several minutes,"
Mark reported.  "I couldn't do anything but stare.
I was stunned.  The object was about the size of a
standard suburban home."

     "I noticed that my dog, a German shepherd, was
whimpering and then frantically trying to get away.
And then my dog collapsed to the ground.  Then the
UFO shot into the sky at an astonishing speed,
leaving behind a trail of odd strands of material.  I
tried to touch some, but when I did, it evaporated."

     "I brought my dog to a vet, and, as it turned out,
my dog had (had) an epileptic siezure (which she'd
never had before).  Ever since that incident, I've
tried to find out more about UFOs and extraterrestrials."

     Billings in on Highway 15, about 85 miles
(136 kilometers) north of Oklahoma City.  (Email
Interview)

(Editor's Comment:  Billings is also 20 miles east
of Enid, Okla., a city notorious for its Fortean and
paranormal events.)


ROUNDUP CORRIGENDA:

     In a recent story on Mamlambo, the South
African river monster, your editor said the beast might
be Elasmosaurus, a member of the pleisosaur family,
which became extinct "50 million years ago."  Well,
ROUNDUP reader William Pierce called me on that
one.  Elasmosaurus, he rightly pointed out, existed
in the late Jurassic/early Cretaceous Period and
actually died out 100 million years ago.  Good job,
William!  As for me, I'm off to summer school for a
refresher course in paleontology.

from the UFO Files:

1947: AIRLINER CREW SEES
          FIVE FLYING SAUCERS

     Concluding our celebration of the Great UFO Flap
of 1947, here's another actual news story from the
period, featuring a first-person account by Captain
E.J. Smith of United Airlines Flight 105, whose
plane encountered five flying discs over Emmett,
Idaho on July 4, 1947.  Enjoy!

     Seattle, July 5--(INS)--I didn't believe the stories
about flying disks myself when I first heard about
them.  Now I don't know what to believe.

     We were on our regular run from Salt Lake City
to Seattle, just eight minutes out of Boise, when my
co-pilot, First Officer Ralph Stevens, who was flying
at the time, blinked our landing lights.

     I asked him what he was doing, and he replied,
"There's a plane approaching off our bow."

     But a few seconds later we both decided the
object was not a plane, it was a flying disk.

     We saw only one of them at first, but soon four
more appeared to the left of our plane, in a
northwesterly direction.

     We couldn't tell what their exact shape was
except to notice that they were definitely larger
than our plane (a Douglas DC-3--J.T.), fairly flat,
smooth on the bottom and rough on top.

     Just to check, I called our stewardess,
(Martine) Marty Morrow to the cockpit, and simply
asked her: "Do you see anything in the sky
around us?"

     Immediately she pointed at the disks and said,
"Yes, what are those?"

     That's what we wanted to know, so I contacted
our ground radio station at nearby Ontario, Ore.
(Oregon) and gave them our estimated direction
and altitude, and asked if they could see them.
They couldn't.

     Shortly thereafter, the disks disappeared for a
few minutes, then reappeared again.  This time
they were in our view for 15 minutes.

     None of our eight passengers saw the disks
because they were off our bow, and we didn't
think to turn the plane, so intense was our
interest.

     It was impossible to estimate their speed
or if they were moving at all.  All I know is that
when they did disappear, they vanished suddenly.

     In all the time Ralph and I were flying during
the war (World War II--J.T.), and in my 14 years
with United Airlines, I've never seen anything like it.

     Up until last night, we all had discounted 90
percent of the reports we'd read in the papers or
heard over the radio, but now--

     Frankly, I'm baffled.

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     That's it for this week.  Today might be a good
day to avoid the bathtub, readers.  Because it was
on July 13, 1793 that Dr. Jean-Paul Marat, the
French revolutionist, was stabbed to death in his
tin tub by Marie-Anne Charlotte Corday d'Arlmont,
better known as Charlotte Corday.

     For ten bonus points, here's a question--What
were the last words heard by Dr. Marat?

     Answer: "Is that a baby porpoise, or are you
just happy to see me?"***

     (***Just kidding, readers.  Thanks, and a tip of
the saucer to stage and film actress Mae West.)

     Drop by next Sunday for more saucer news from
"the paper that goes home--UFO ROUNDUP."

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