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Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 12:09:07 -0500 (EST)
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Subject: UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 2, Number 10
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UFO ROUNDUP
Volume 2, Number 10
March 9, 1997
Editor: Joseph Trainor
MAJOR UFO FLAP GOING ON
IN NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND
Since January 22, 1997, a major UFO flap has
been going on in the three New England states of
New Hampshire (N.H.), Vermont (Vt.) and Maine (Me.),
with 17 sightings and one encounter reported.
On January 23, Beverly Higgins was driving home
from work. "It was ten to seven," she recalled, "I was
on Route 3 coming home from Littleton (N.H.), just
before the Columbia trailer park when I saw this thing
across my windshield, just above my steering wheel."
Ms. Higgins watched the object cross the sky
from west to east, coming from Vermont and passing
over the Connecticut River. "It was oval--I counted six
windows and there was a green light in front of it,"
she said. "It hovered slowly, but there was no noise."
After a few minutes, the UFO "took off over the
mountains" and Ms. Higgins continued on her journey.
(See the Manchester, N.H. Union-Leader for March 3,
1997, page 1)
According to the Union-Leader story, MUFON
investigator Sandra Black of Stewartstown, N.H. has
documented 17 sightings since January.
"The best one was reported on January 23 on
Route 26 in daylight," Ms. Black told the newspaper.
"Two people were coming home from work at the
Balsams when they saw a large saucer-shaped
object standing vertical on end."
In North Stratford, N.H., she added, a witness
"reported seeing an object the size of a house.
There were pink and blue lights glowing around it."
In February, a woman and her family in
Stratford, N.H. "saw a saucer-shaped object in the
Stratford Hollow part of town. A few days later,
the woman spotted the object again."
New Hampshire sightings have also been
reported in Clarksville, Jefferson, Columbia,
Stratford, Stewartstown and Berlin.
In Vermont, UFO sightings were reported in
the "Northeast Kingdom" in and around the city of
St. Johnsbury, in Hardwick, in Danville and in
Lyndonville. In every case, the witnesses have
described domed saucers about 33 to 67 feet
(10 to 20 meters) in diameter, gunmetal gray to
silver in color, with or without square windows.
In February, a witness reported a domed
saucer hovering in a forest north of Andover, Me.
A startling encounter took place in Colebrook,
N.H. (population 1070), on the east bank of
the Connecticut River 10 miles (16 kilometers)
south of Stewartstown.
According to Peter Geremia, director of MUFON
New Hampshire, a Colebrook woman, age 73,
"claims she was visited by 12 aliens who sat at her
table, took notes and whispered among themselves,
and wouldn't leave until 3:30 a.m., despite her
polite requests."
"I just want to forget about it. It was very
disturbing,' said the 73-year-old woman, who told
her story to co-workers at a local nursing home
and to a MUFON investigator."
"Co-worker Tracy Perry said the woman is
stable and not one to make up stories. But
since the day last month (February) when she
told her tale, Perry said, 'She hasn't been
herself.'" (See the Boston, Mass. Herald for
March 6, 1997, page 7)
Leading the current investigative effort is
Raymond E. Fowler of Wenham, Mass., MUFON's
national director of investigations and the author
of THE WATCHERS and THE ANDREASSON
AFFAIR.
Fowler told the Herald, "I don't think we've had
anything like this since 1973. We've had sightings
but not sighting after sighting after sighting."
(Many thanks to Jeffrey Wilcox for this story.)
UFO FLAP IS STILL GOING
STRONG IN AUSTRALIA
On Thursday, February 20, 1997, at 5:45 a.m.,
people living in Wangandary, south of Albury,
Victoria (Vic.) spotted "four bright disc-shaped
illuminations" flying east over the Barry Mountains
toward Mount Buffalo. The UFOs were at an
estimated altitude of 30,000 feet and flying in
"a square formation."
The same morning, at 5:15 a.m., early risers
in downtown Adelaide, South Australia (S.A.)
saw "three bright lights following each other in
a line, moving from west to east in the pre-dawn
darkness." Each UFO appeared to have a red
light attached.
At 10:45 p.m. on February 20, witnesses at
Walcha, New South Wales (N.S.W.), a small town
east of Tamworth and about 320 kilometers (200
miles) northwest of Sydney, sighted "three
yellow-white lights traveling slowly across the sky,"
heading in an east-northeast direction. The UFOs
were about 45 degrees above the horizon.
On Friday, February 21, 1997, the scene of
UFO action shifted to the states of Victoria and
Queensland. At 10 p.m. Friday night, people in
Hopper Crossing, Vic. saw "a bright orange fireball"
in the southern sky "as big as the full moon."
At 9:50 p.m., people in Werribee, Vic., where a
"scorch earth mark" or crop circle had been found a
week earlier, reported "a bright red fireball," again
"as big as a full moon," in the southern sky.
Also at 10 p.m., people in Ballarat, 150 kilometers
(95 miles) northwest of Melbourne, spotted "a bright
orange fireball."
(Editor's Note: Ross Dowe, director of Australia's
National 24-Hour UFO Hotline, says these "fireball"
sightings may have been flares or explosions from
Melbourne's RAAF air show that night.)
However, three towns in Queensland reported
an unusual UFO the night of February 21, 1997.
People in Belle Park, Eumundi and Springsure,
northwest of Brisbane, saw "a strange lime-green
cigar illumination withstreaks of light emitting out
of it." The UFO first appeared in the northeast sky
and moved to the northwest.
On Saturday, February 22, 1997, witnesses in
Cronulla, N.S.W., a suburb of Sydney looked upward
at 6 a.m. and saw "an illumination" moving from the
south to the southwest, "doing odd things."
That night, at 11 p.m., in Liverpool, another
Sydney suburb, people saw "a diamond-shaped object
with bright orange-yellow plumes of light around it."
The UFO was "as big as a thumb at arm's length"
and it "jigged around for ten or so minutes."
The flap also reached Tasmania, the island-state
off Australia's southern coast. On Sunday, February 23,
1997, at 8:30 p.m., a ship cruising the Bass Strait
north of Burnie, Tasmania spotted a UFO. A ship's
officer reported, "Upon sighting the vertical cloud...
some 30 nautical miles out to the northeast from my
position, I observed the object through 12X binoculars."
The "vertical cloud" seemed luminous and surrounded
by "vaporous streamers." After a few minutes, he said,
"a bright ellipitical or saucer-shaped illumination" burned
off or caused the vapor/steam to disappear. "It held its
position for a few minutes and then it disappeared."
Three days later, on Wednesday, February 26, 1997,
witnesses in Kingston, Tasmania reported sighting "a
horizontal flaring green light in the sky."
Thursday, February 27, 1997 saw the flap focus
shift back to Queensland. At 10:05 p.m. that night,
people in Port Macquarie, 320 kilometers (200 miles)
north of Brisbane, saw "a white-yellow /\ shaped object
with flashing lights underneath. The object appeared
to be hovering over the ocean about 10 kilometers
(6 miles) out to the northeast." At 11 p.m., the same
object was seen further inland over Warhope.
The same night, at 9 p.m., a UFO was seen over
Padbury, Western Australia (W.A.), not far from Perth.
Witnesses described it as "a bright oval green
illumination coming straight down west of the city.
It appeared to have sparks or streaks coming out
of it. There was no sound."
On Friday, February 28, 1997, at 1:30 a.m., "a
large white illumination" was seen over Peak Hill,
N.S.W. 360 kilometers (225 miles) west of Sydney.
The UFO was moving from south to north at 45
degrees above the horizon and was described as
"one-tenth the size of the full moon." Witnesses
described themselves as "somewhat amazed."
Also that Friday night, at 10:10 p.m., people
in Yarra Junction, Vic., east of Melbourne, saw
"two white light illuminations following each other."
The UFOs gave off three flashes of orange light
at random sequences, a commonly reported
characteristic of Australian UFOs during the
past year and a half.
(Many thanks to Ross Dowe of the National 24-Hour
UFO Hotline for this story.)
UFOs LEAVE TWO CROP
CIRCLES IN BRAZIL
On Thursday, February 27, 1997, a UFO landed
on a farm near Sepe Tiaraju regional airport outside
Santo Angelo, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul,
Brazil. Santo Angelo is a city about 320 kilometers
(200 miles) northwest of Porto Alegre and 128
kilometers (80 miles) east of the Rio Uruguaia,
which forms the boundary with Argentina's
Misiones province.
At 9 p.m., Claudete Parazzi, a farmer's wife, was
sitting on the balcony of her farmhouse when she
heard "a strange noise" coming from the pasture.
Looking toward the coach house, Sra. Parazzi, 55,
spotted "a vivid red light."
The following morning, Friday, February 28,
she told her husband, Juvenal, and her daughter,
Liziane, about the incident. All three went to
investigate and found a crop circle 10 meters
(33 feet) in diameter in a cornfield.
"Nobody knows what this is," Liziane Parazzi
told the Brazilian newspaper Correio do Povo.
That Friday night, Arno Polanski, a security guard
at the nearby Frangomil Corp. farm, "saw an orange
fireball in the sky that disappeared in seconds."
The UFO, Polanski said, "was emitting an orange
light and was the size of a truck."
Within the cornfield, Polanski found a large crop
circle that looked like this:
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Polanski and other Frangomil employees also
found "a strange white dust" covering the corn leaves.
The material was collected and sent to a laboratory
for testing. The Frangomil corporate farm is about
1,000 meters down the road from the Parazzi farm.
The case is being investigated by the Associao
Brasileira das Pesquisas Ufologicas (ABPU), a
ufology group based in Rio Grande do Sul.
(See the newspaper Correio do Povo for March 1
and March 3, 1997)
THREE FIREBALLS LIGHT UP
SKIES OVER CROATIA
On Saturday, February 22, 1997, a party of
young men and women traveled by motorboat from
Dubrovnik, Croatia to Lokrum, an uninhabitied
offshore island in the Adriatic Sea. The island is
about 8 kilometers (5 miles) southeast of Dubrovnik.
At 10:05 p.m., eyewitness Damir Nozica spotted
three fireballs rising from the south side of the
island. Flying in formation, the fireballs made a
"six to ten degree turn toward the west and really
lit up the sky."
"It all happened really quickly," Nozica reported.
"I was looking at the stars, trying to locate Hale-Bopp
which could be seen in the eastern sky. That's when
I saw them. They were 'floating' at about 30 degrees
above the horizon, southeast over Lokrum." The
"fireballs" had no comet-like tails and "There was no
reflection on the surface of the sea, therefore I
concluded they had to be behind the clouds and
far away. How far away--I cannot tell for sure. Their
color was orange to yellow...They rocketed straight up.
I could not tell their direction because I lost them.
No track, nothing. Gone. Speed of flight, you ask?
Ha! It wasn't at the speed of light, but it was close
to it."
Damir thinks they've seen the last of UFOs
because "nothing much ever happens around here."
Don't bet the rent money on that, my friend.
(Email Interview)
DAYLIGHT DISC SPOTTED IN
TAKAPUNA, NEW ZEALAND
On Saturday, February 15, 1997, several people
living in Takapuna, a city on New Zealand's North
Island, about 16 kilometers (10 miles) north of
Auckland, saw a gray saucer passing overhead.
The sky was clear except for a few broken clouds,
and the object was perfectly visible. The sighting
took place at 10 a.m. and was reported on the
shortwave station Radio Pacific.
Described as "a large disc-shaped object,
mostly gray in color," the UFO appeared to be
rotating or spinning. Witnesses said the outer
rim of the saucer did the spinning, while "the
core or centre remained stable."
The saucer arrived from the direction of
Auckland and flew away to the northwest,
heading out over the East Coast Bays toward
Kawau Island.
(Many thanks to Ross Dowe of Australia's National
24-Hour UFO Hotline for this story.)
TWO SAUCERS SPAR OVER
CENTRAL DENMARK
On December 26, 1996, a student teacher
looked out the window of a college building in
Ebeltoft, Denmark and spied a UFO. He then
phoned three other students in the building.
"What they saw were two flying objects
having a dogfight in the sky. The UFOs were
orange-yellow. They watched this for 15
minutes until a jetliner landed at the airport
about 10 kilometers (6 miles) away. They
were surrounded by a strange light and took
off towards the south-southeast."
(Many thanks to Danish ufologist Jorgen Glud
for this story.)
FUN UFO WEBSITES
Watch for more UFO news from north of the
USA/Canada border at Jacques Poulet's site,
SOS OVNI QUEBEC. You'll find them at
http:/www.cam.org/~martinc/index.html
For a good selection of articles in UFOs,
crop circles, ESP and the paranormal, it's
hard to beat Paul Vigay's site, devoted to the
UK's Independent Research Centre for
Unexplained Phenomena (IRCUP). It's at
http://rainbow.medbury.com/enigma/index.html
Donald R. Schmitt and Kevin D. Randle
put out a slick quarterly magazine called the
Roswell Reporter, which covers the latest news
in the ongoing Roswell investigations. Check
out their new website at this address:
http://www.OrionWorks.com/roswell/
It had to happen. Those pesky black
helicopters have finally gotten their own page.
Mary Heffernan has five color photos of them
doing nothing more sinister than flying around
Pennsylvania. Drop in at Mary's new site at
http://www.interactive.net/~bridget
Don't miss our parent site, UFO INFO.
John Hayes keeps it up-to-the-minute with
the latest in UFO-related features. Check it
out at
http://www.ftech.net/~ufoinfo/index.htm
And for back issues of this newsletter, try
http://www.ftech.net/~ufoinfo/roundup.hts.
That's it for this week. To our readers in
Melbourne--I hope you had a fun-filled Koomba
celebration last week. Remember, if you have
a UFO story to report, email the details to us
at Masinaigan@aol.com.
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Here's wishing all our readers a pleasant
week from "the paper that covers the saucers,
UFO ROUNDUP."
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