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Subject: UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 2, Number 19
UFO ROUNDUP
Volume 2, Number 19
May 11, 1997
Editor: Joseph Trainor
LARGE UFO SPOTTED IN TEXAS
On Monday night, April 5, 1997, a large UFO bearing
five lights was seen near the cities of Austin and Dallas
in Texas.
According to Peter B. Davenport, director of the
National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, his group
received three calls from Texas that evening, reporting
the overflights.
The first call came from a man in Round Rock, Texas
(population 11,812), located 40 miles (64 kilometers)
north of Austin, the state capital. The eyewitness came
out of his house at 8:45 p.m. on April 5 and saw "a very
peculiar cluster of lights directly overhead."
"The lights were of varying size...and oriented in a
straight line from the caller's vantage point," the center
reported. "It appeared to be at least five lights, perhaps
more, and the two lights on the 'nose' and the 'tail' of the
cluster were very bright, and the three lights between
the two were smaller..." The witness had the UFO in view
for about 10 seconds, and reported that the object passed
"directly overhead, heading in a northwesterly direction."
The next call came from Flower Mound, a suburb of
Dallas. "Two young women were out walking, deeply
engrossed in conversation, when the attention of one of the
two was drawn to a strange cluster of lights overhead" at
8:50 p.m.
"They reported seeing a very large cluster of five to
seven individual lights overhead," the center reported.
"Arranged in a slightly curving line like a gigantic pencil,
tipped up at an angle." The women said the size of the
cluster was "huge" and "it moved across the sky at a
steady precision. Suddenly, the lights got very much
brighter, then dimmed, and they then simply disappered
from view...They were walking, they believe, due north,
and the object was directly ahead of them while they
were watching it for one to two minutes."
The third call came from a man in Lancaster
(population 14,807), another suburb of Dallas. "He
reported that he was standing outside, when his
attention was drawn to eight lights in the sky, which
were oriented in an almost straight line. He said it
appeared to be the shape 'of a big wing' and the
formation he estimated to be 'huge.' He said he thought
the formation (was) as long as 'ten airplanes lined up
(nose to tail), bigger than two football fields,' i.e.
600 feet (220 meters). (Many thanks to Peter B.
Davenport and the National UFO Reporting Center
for posting these reports at their Website.)
UFOs, BLACK HELICOPTERS
SEEN IN CORONA, CALIFORNIA
The city of Corona, California (population 37,791),
located 40 miles (64 kilometers) east of Los Angeles,
had a very strange week.
The flap began April 26 when several people,
including two policemen, reported seeing "a fireball
in the sky." Riverside County police helicopters
searched the suburbs for the supposed "burning
plane," but nothing was found. (See the local paper,
the Daily Bulletin for April 27, 1997, page 1)
On Tuesday, April 29, Oliver Dale, a Corona
resident, was driving on Highway 91, north of Sixth
Street, when he "saw two helicopters flying along
the freeway. No markings were seen. There is no
armed forces base that I know of in the area. And
those birds made about four passes back and forth
in a two-hour time period." (Email Interview)
On Thursday night, May 1, 1997, at 11:15 p.m.,
Charles Ostend said he "saw something in the sky
over Riverside County, in the city of Corona. It was
a bright white light, which appeared over my car and
shot across the sky to a point about two miles away,
in the span of two to three seconds!"
"I've seen many meteors, and they are reddish,"
Charles added, "and it was too low and horizontal
in its flight, anyway. As big as it was, if it had been
a meteor, it would have hit." (Email Interview)
A Riverside woman also reported seeing the same
object. "On May 1, I saw a bright, white craft shoot
across the sky, from a point two miles above my car
to a point about two miles away. The craft, or whatever
it was, then vanished completely...It has been suggested
to me that I saw a meteor or a chunk of satellite entering
the atmosphere, but what I saw was too big and too low.
There was also no reddish glow to indicate something
burning in re-entry. This seemed to have a very
craft-like form of movement."
ANOTHER UFO SIGHTED IN
PARADISE VALLEY
On Sunday, May 4, 1997, at about 10:15 p.m.,
William and Pamela Hamilton went out in the backyard
of their home in Paradise Valley, Arizona, a suburb
northeast of Phoenix, to watch the Eta-Aquarid meteor
shower. Bill Hamilton is the director of Arizona's
chapter of Skywatch International.
"At 10:30 I had my chair turned to the northwest
to look for meteors," Bill reported, "when I spotted
something eerie at about 75 degrees elevation, 270
degrees azimuth west of Mars; a row of six softly-
glowing objects traveling at about jet speed on a
vector from south to north, without sound."
"This row of lights was about three times the
length of an airliner at intermediate altitudes
(5,000 to 10,000 feet) (1,515 to 3,030 meters--J.T.)
traveling silently without strobes or running lights,"
he added, "That makes the two about 350 to 400
feet (100 to 125 meters) in length. This row pivoted
like a compass needle and proceeded on a northwest
trajectory before leaving our sight. The duration of the
sighting was about three to seven seconds. Pamela
saw the same sight as I pointed and yelled. The skies
are still active over Arizona!" (Many thanks to Bill
Hamilton for this news story.)
LUMINOUS GREEN UFO SEEN
IN SOUTHERN NEVADA
On Monday, May 5, 1997, at 8:30 p.m., Scott
Finley, 40, and two neighbors were standing outside
a home in North Las Vegas, Nevada (population
42,739) when they saw "a bright green light dropping
from the sky."
"I had just walked up and was listening to their
conversation," Finley told the Las Vegas Review-
Journal. "A few of us were looking out across the
street, and we saw it. It came in at about a 60-
degree angle. It was moving, but it was big. It had to
be big because it looked like it was beyond Sunrise
Mountain."
From the group's vantage point on Monte Alban
Drive, near Lone Mountain Road and Camino Al Norte,
the UFO looked "about the size of a basketball above
the two-story house across the street," Finley told the
Review-Journal. "The ball appeared to a split-second
and then dropped out of sight."
"I'm not saying I saw a flying saucer or that I saw
a UFO," Finley said, "But I saw something just big
and green."
According to the Review-Journal story, "The North
Las Vegas Police Department had no reports of a green
ball. Nellis Air Force Base officials could not be reached
for comment." (See the Las Vegas Review-Journal for
May 7, 1997, "Green Light in Sky Mystifies Residents."
Many thanks for Glenn Campbell and the Groom Lake
Desert Rat for posting this story.)
UFO SEEN OVER POITIERS
IN FRANCE
On Friday, May 2, 1997, at 11:30 p.m., Albert
Grosseliers was walking his dog along the river
Clain in the city of Poitiers, Vienne department, in
west central France when he sighted a UFO.
"I saw an aerial engine that looked like a
rectangular block," Albert reported. "It flew very
slowly and in a rectilinear trajectory. In only one
minute, it covered the expanse of the sky. My
surprise was total. I saw blinking white lights on the
OVNI (French acronym for UFO). Several seconds
later, a small red ball appeared very close to the
object."
The UFO "flew very low, near the roofs of the
houses," he added. (Merci a Thierry Garnier pour
cette historie.)
BRITISH COLUMBIA REPORTS
MONTH-LONG UFO FLAP
Since April 2, Canada's Pacific Coast province of
British Columbia has been visited repeatedly by UFOs,
with most of the sightings in the notorious "Surrey
Corridor."
On April 2, 1997, at 9 p.m., Mr. V. of Surrey, B.C.
"saw three bright lights move away from the left side
of the moon" and fly southward. He called his wife's
attention to the display. Together they watched as
"the lights were in a triangular formation and moved
together" until the UFOs passed behind a building to
the south.
On April 4, 1997, at 8:55 p.m., a man riding the
Georgia Strait ferry from Horseshoe Bay, B.C. to
Nanaimo on Vancouver Island went topside to see
the Hale-Bopp comet. While at the railing, he saw a
meteor fall in the west. Then, "he saw passing
overhead from behind him a bright object with a short
bright tail. The object was moving from east to west
on a path slightly south" of the ferry. He had the UFO
in view for "approximately five seconds. The object
seemed to be surrounded by a fuzzy halo. Object and
halo were white in color." The UFO passed directly
over the observer's head, flying west toward Vancouver
Island.
On April 6, 1997, at 10:15 p.m., a woman living in
Port Coquitlam, B.C. (population 23,926) "looked out
her window and saw a bright blue flash. She then
observed a bright pulsating blue, red and white. Looking
at it with binoculars, she saw a disc with red, blue and
white lights. The object tilted up, revealing a white light
on its bottom, then went straight up out of sight.)
On the same night, April 6, at 10:15 p.m., a man in
Richmond, B.C. (population 80,034) was looking to the
southwest, over the Georgia Strait, when he "saw a very
bright light, 'twice as bright as any other star,' pulsating
with red, blue and white lights."
The following night, April 7, 1997, at 10:15 p.m., a
young man in New Westminster, B.C. (population
38,393) out looking for Hale-Bopp "noticed an even
brighter object in the southern sky...After about 30
seconds, it started to change color from blue to red
to white, then all three colors together. It repeated the
exact (same) sequence twice, then the object slipped
20 degrees to the left. At its new location, it again
repeated the color change sequence before zipping
straight up."
On April 15, 1997, at 1 p.m., a man in Burnaby,
B.C. (population 131,595) spotted "a small bright
red object in the sky over Burnaby Lake." At first he
thought it was a "balloon," but then it began moving
against a stiff wind. After a short while, "it came to a
halt, wobbled about for a few moments, and slowly
climbed vertically into the sky, finally disappearing
into a low cloud base."
On April 18, 1997, the scene of UFO action
shifted back to Surrey, B.C. That evening, Ted K.,
his wife, and two friends "observed in the southern sky
a very bright orange light, described as smaller than a
dime at arm's length, moving slowly north. The object
then stopped, and a very slight up-and-down, and side-
to-side motion was observed. While looking at the
orange UFO, suddenly a very bright white light shot
straight out of the bottom at 'incredible speed,' and
then made an abrupt change of direction to the right."
The quartet watched the display from the area of
96th Avenue and 128th Street in Surrey and were
looking towards Newton at the time.
On April 21, 1997, at 10 p.m., a man standing on
his balcony near 96th Avenue and King George
Highway in Surrey "looked up to see an orange sphere
in the eastern sky. The object was 1/4 inch in diameter
at arm's length, estimated to be 3,000 feet away and
500 feet above ground. It continued in an easterly
direction, stopped, then dropped down before stopping
again. It then curved in an arc, rising to about 700 feet
before 'winking out.' " He told UFO*BC that the UFO
"was like nothing we had ever seen before."
Ten minutes later, at 10:10 p.m. on April 21, in a
suburban neighborhood of Surrey, a young father "came
out of the baby's room and happened to look out the
front window. He saw a triangular object with a round
white light on each corner and a rectangular white light
in the center. The object seemed close and moved past
the window quite quickly." The witness put his ear to
the door but heard no sound. Since he was the only
adult in the house, and the baby was sleeping, he did
not venture outside. (Sensible fellow--J.T.)
(Many thanks to Bill, Dave, Graham, Garvis, Tracy and
Steve of UFO*BC for these news stories.)
BLACK HELICOPTER FLIES
OVER HELSINKI, FINLAND
On Saturday, May 10, 1997, at 12:02 p.m.,
lunchtime strollers in downtown Helsinki, the capital
of Finland, were startled by the sight of a black
helicopter flying at rooftop level on an unknown
mission.
According to eyewitness Carl Johannsen,
"The black helicopter flew straight over my house,
heading north-northwest. It was a kind of bulky,
military transport model, not high above the
treetops."
Finnish armed forces use the Russian
MIL Mi-8T helicopter, while the Helsinki
metropolitan police use Hughes 500C and D
model choppers. The unknown helicopter
did not resemble either model. (Many thanks to
Carl Johannsen for posting this story in Usenet.)
MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION
ROCKS NEWTOWN, OHIO
On Friday, May 9, 1997, at 12:08 a.m., a strange
explosion rattled homes near Main Street and Debolt
Street in Newtown, Ohio (population 1,817). The town
is located 11 miles east of Cincinnati.
Radio station WLW 700 AM aired the report on
its 2 a.m. broadcast. First to investigate the case was
Charles Stuart of Tri-States Advocates for Scientific
Knowledge (T.A.S.K.)
According to T.A.S.K., Sgt. Foster at the Hamilton
County Police and Fire Dispatch Center said, "This was
no bomb, it was something big. It was no random
fireworks. It sounded like a propane bomb."
T.A.S.K. spokesman Kenneth Young said the
sergeant described the blast "as a 'deep explosion'
which lasted nearly four or five seconds."
A clerk at the United Dairy Farmer convenience
store at the corner of Route 32 and Church Road in
Newtown told T.A.S.K. that "I thought a truck had hit
the back of the store. The first thing I did was look
outside, and there was a patrol cruiser that just
happened to be stopped at the traffic light out front.
It looked like the officer was hunkered down in his
seat, crouched under the steering wheel. He sat there
a few minutes, and then after awhile his siren started
flashing, and within three minutes, there were cops
everywhere, and the sirens on top of the volunteer fire
department started going off."
At 8:20 a.m. Friday morning, T.A.S.K. phoned
Dennis Klepper at the Cincinnati Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) office. According to Kenneth
Young, Mr. Klepper reportedly said, "I heard the news
report on the radio this morning, and I can't put my
finger on any airplane coming out of this airport which
could cause such a racket. A sonic boom would have
to be a military aircraft. But if it was a sonic boom, it
would have been heard beyond Newtown."
On April 17, a similar "mystery boom" was heard
about seven miles (10 kilometers) north of Newtown
at Thielmans Mobile Home Park on Ohio Route 28
near the Interstate Highway 275 exit. A "flash of light"
was also seen at the time of the "explosion."
Investigations by T.A.S.K. are continuing.
(Many thanks to Kenneth Young of T.A.S.K. for these
news stories.)
from the UFO Files...
1958: UFO APPEARS OVER URUGUAY
On May 5, 1958, Carlos Alejo Rodriguez was flying
his Piper Cub over Capitan Curbelo Naval Air Base in
Uruguay. The base is located outside Pan de Azucar,
a town 96 kilometers (60 miles) east of the capital city
of Montevideo.
As Rodriguez banked southward, heading out over
the Atlantic Ocean, he noticed "a brilliant top-like
(symmetrical above and below) object" at exactly
3:40 p.m. The OVNI (Spanish acronym for UFO)
"suddenly approached his plane head-on." The
OVNI "about 15 to 20 meters (50 to 66 feet) in
diameter, stopped about 2,000 meters (2,200 yards)
away and...'rocked twice in a balancing motion.'"
"Rodriguez felt strong heat, so he removed his
jacket and opened the aircraft windows. The UFO
took off abruptly (south) toward the sea '...at a
fantastic speed,' leaving a thin vapor trail."
(See the book UNINVITED GUESTS by Richard Hall
Aurora Press, Santa Fe, N.M. 1988, page 246;
also THE UFO EVIDENCE (NICAP, 1964) page 120)
FUN UFO WEBSITES
Ufologist Dave Norris is busy these days covering
sightings in Gaston and Lincoln counties in North
Carolina. For an update on his findings, check out
his Website at http://www.concordnc.com/dnorris/
For an in-depth look at British Columbia's UFO
scene, try Bill Oliver's UFO*BC Website. They're at
http://www.ufobc.org
Chryse has a site devoted to a UFO photographed
over Arganil, Portugal in July 1995. Is it a genuine
saucer or a flaw in the film? You be the judge. You'll
find the photo at
http://www.terravista.pt/guincho/1139/ovni.html
Normally I'd list the URLs for UFOINFO and UFO
ROUNDUP at this point. But John Hayes tells me
we're about to become Gypsies. More on that next
issue. Right now I have to put on my headband and
start practicing the violin. (Or maybe I'll just stick
with the tambourine instead--it's easier, and your
editor is really tone deaf.)
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