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From: Masinaigan@aol.com
Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 13:11:37 -0400 (EDT)
Fwd Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 22:23:23 -0400
Subject: UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 2, Number 20


     UFO ROUNDUP
Volume 2, Number 20
May 18, 1997
Editor: Joseph Trainor

CHUPACABRAS SCARE
SWEEPS BRAZIL

     Stories of a strange Chupacabras-style creature
that attacks sheep have created panic among
"chacareiros" (ranchers) in Brazil's southern states
of Sao Paulo and Parana.

     Known as "O Bicho" (pronounced Beee-shoooo),
meaning "The Beast," the creature has killed over 50
sheep since January 28, 1997.  The attacks have been
concentrated in rural districts surrounding the city of
Campinas in Sao Paulo state and the small city of
Campina Grande do Sul, 30 kilometers (18 miles) from
Curitiba in Parana state.

     A woman of rural Sao Paulo state, who saw Bicho
two weeks ago, described the creature as "two meters
tall (six feet, six inches), very thin, with small forearms
and long claws, and of a dark gray color."

     On May 11, 1997, the newspaper Folha de Londrina
in Parana state published a long feature story on Bicho.
According to journalist Paulo San Martin, "The first
attacks occurred at the end of January.  But no one called
attention to them until a month later when the massacre
occurred at the ranch of Samuel Ramos Lago" near
Campina Grande do Sul.

     On February 20, 1997, Ramos Lago and his wife,
Rosimara, left their ranch on a business trip.  Staying
behind was housekeeper Jose Batista de Moraes.

     Batista de Moraes told the newspaper that "at 2 a.m.
(February 21) he "awoke apprehensively having heard
loud noises coming from outside."  Because it was
drizzling, he put on a raincoat before going into the
barnyard.

     "When I approach the corral, I heard sheep bleating
and a loud rumble, a type of growling that I'd never heard
before," Batista de Moraes said.  "I tried to enter through
the gates, but they were tightly shut.  By the time I got to
the other gate, the strange animal had escaped."

     Inside the corral, Batista de Moraes "switched on the
lights and found a scene of massacre.  Twelve sheep
lay dead, and another 11 were very much chewed up.
All of the sheep were mutilated with surgical precision.
Some of the living sheep had suffered an excruciating
blow, a violent break of the maxillary bone."

     When the Ramos couple returned home, Samuel
examined the dead sheep and "found claw scrapes
and a curious cut on each sheep's ear.  The cuts were
perfect.  They appeared to have been executed by a
surgical instrument."

     Local veterinarian Dr. Luiz Cintra was the first
to investigate the scene.  He took samples of a
"mucus-like substance" found on the wool of the dead
sheep.

     Three days later, on February 24, the Policia
Florestal and a team of veterinarians led by Dr. Ana Silvia
Passarinho of Curitiba's municipal zoo examined the
dead and wounded sheep.

     "Other predators of the region were immediately
dismissed," Folha de Londrina reported.  "Jaguars don't
attack sheep.  Also, their teeth marks are too small to
fit the incisors shown on the remains."

     Dr. Passarinho said, "Cats do not attack their prey
from behind.  Nor do they go for the ears first, as this
creature did."  She added that the scale of butchery was
out of character for felines, as well.

     Tracks left by Bicho also seemed puzzling.  Ramos
Lago said that at times the creature appeared to stand
and move on two legs, and at other times, it appeared
to be moving on four legs.  (See Folha de Londrina for
May 11, 1997.  Also, many thanks to Eduardo Castor
Borgovni for the reports from Sao Paulo state.)

(Editor's Comment:  This seems to be the week for
monster stories!  Keep reading...)


MONSTER REPORTS CAUSE
STIR IN SOUTH AFRICA

     TV viewers in South Africa were stunned Tuesday
night, May 8, 1997 by a 15-minute news broadcast
about a monster scare in the Eastern Cape region.

     The broadcast showed an interview with a Xhosa
tribal chief and one of his princesses near the town
of Umzimkulu.  The couple claimed that seven Xhosa
people have disappeared during the last month, all
victims of a creature they call Mamlambo.

     The most recent alleged victim, a Xhosa man,
washed ashore recently along the banks of the
Umzimhlava River, about 176 kilometers (110 miles)
southwest of Durban.  The body was badly lacerated,
and the victim's eyes had reportedly been gouged out.

     Mamlambo, the royal couple claim, has a head
like a horse, a long neck, and a body with scales
like a fish.  It is said to be a giant amphibian or a
reptile that came out of the river.

     However, the Umzimkulu police chief, also a
Xhosa, laughed off the reports, said there were not
six people missing, adding that the body found was
that of "a drowning victim" who was "probably eaten
by the crabs."

     The controversy reached South Africa's
Parliament when Ezra Sigwella, agriculture minister
for the Eastern Cape, asked the members to deal
with Mamlambo.  (See Earthweek for May 9, 1997.
Many thanks to Loren Coleman for posting the
original item.  And thanks to Roger Day and Leon
Bouwer of South Africa for the additional information.)

(Editor's Comment:  According to Star for May 27, 1997,
Marla Maples is looking for movie work.  I think she'd
be perfect in Mamlambo, the Creature that Ate
Johannesburg.)

THREE UFOs SIGHTED OVER
LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK

     On Sunday, May 4, 1997, MUFON investigator Andrew
Casaveno and his girlfriend observed three UFOs flying
over Nassau County, Long Island, New York.  The UFOs
"were moving southeast slowly at 30,000 to 35,000 feet
(9,090 to 10,606 meters) and changing shape as
observed through binoculars."

     "The UFOs appeared to be metallic with an orange
glow," Casaveno reported.  He then saw "two F-16
fighters intercept from the southwest.  The UFOs
disappeared when the F-16s got near."

     "Fifteen minutes later," he added, "two black
helicopters flew into the same general area and released
a large quantity of balloons.  This operation appeared very
unusual and could cause a flight hazard to aircraft
operation.  Has anyone heard of a similar balloon release?"

(Many thanks to George A. Filer, MUFON Eastern
Director for this news story.)


LIGHTSHIP UFOs SEEN IN THE
SKIES OVER BROOKLYN

     On April 26, 1997, Alex Cavallari, New York state
director of Skywatch International and two friends were
out in the backyard of Alex's home in the Sheepshead
Bay section of Brooklyn, New York, not far from
Neptune Avenue.  The trio was having a barbecure and
"doing some low-level UFO/paranormal hunting at this
location."

     "On this day there were three high-altitude lightship
type UFOs spotted," Cavallari reported.  "The lightships
were seen with the naked eye and were also observed
through 6-by-30 and 8-by-50 power binoculars.  There
were 35mm film pictures and video tape recording
equipment in use at the time.  The videorecorder was
set and filmed at a 12X lens zoon setting on manual."

      Cavallari estimated that the "lightships" were two to
five miles (3 to 8 kilometers) away from commercial air
traffic flying in and out of Kennedy International Airport
in Queens, New York.

     "The lightships were hovering and doing low/high
speed sharp 90-degree angle turns," he reported.  "They
would stop dead and then just reverse direction, all in an
instant.  Some even did loop-de-loops with abrupt stops
and starts.  At one point, they even just vanished and
reappeared in a different area of the sky...They were seen
in the southeastern skies.  The weather that day was
excellent--it was very clear with a few clouds in the sky.
The temperature was about 70 to 75 degrees Fahrenheit.
The time was between 4:30 and 5:30 p.m."

     The group viewed the UFOs "for about fifteen minutes...
Alex thinks they were at 60,000 feet (18,182 meters) or so.
They appeared to be disc to oval in shape...but they
appeared to shimmer and glow whitish in color and this
made it very difficult to determine exactly what shape
they were."  (Copyright 1997 by Alex Cavallri.  Thank you,
Alex, for allowing UFO ROUNDUP to quote from your
report.)


UFO SIGHTINGS CONTINUE
IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA

     On Friday, May 9, 1997, at 9:50 p.m., Norm
Miller and his family spotted "six to eight round
lights in the southern skies of Phoenix."

     "The lights stayed in one area of the sky,"
Miller told Skywatch International, "moving from a
small cluster, into a V formation to a straight line,
inverted V and back to a small cluster.  This went
on for approximately one minute after which they
went west at a very high rate of speed at approx.
10,000 feet (3,030 meters)."

     "They continued the various formations until
they were out of sight," Miller added, "The night
was clear, approx. 85 degrees (Fahrenheit), no
weather balloons, no swamp gas, and maneuvering
the way they did, no planes.  Anyone else see this?"

     On Wednesday night, May 14, 1997, at 9:30 p.m.
several residents of Phoenix, living near Sunnyslope
and Squaw Peak, reported seeing "a large boomerang
object" with five or six white lights.

(Many thanks to Skywatch International.)


SAUCER RAMS ELECTRICAL
TOWER IN CHILE

     On Friday, May 9, 1997, the TV news program
MegaNoticias on Channel 9 in Santiago de Chile
stated that a massive blackout eight days earlier
had been caused by a UFO.

     On the night of Thursday, May 1, 1997,
residents of Jahuel, a town in the Andes of
central Chile, told MegaNoticias that "a big
glowing disc rammed one of the high-voltage
(electrical transmission) towers, and all the
lights went out.  Then it flew straight up into the
sky until it disappeared."

     The May 1 outage killed all electrical power
in the metropolitan Santiago area all the
way north to Arica, leaving 60 percent of the
country in darkness.  The blackout lasted for
about one hour.

     The Fuerzas Aereas de Chile (FACh), the
Chilean Air Force, denied the Channel 9 story and
refused to comment on the May 1 blackout.

(Muchas gracias a Luis Sanchez Perry para esas
noticias.)


STUDENTS VIDEOTAPE UFO
OVER URUGUAY

     On April 5, 1997, a group of university students
were hiking in the farm country east of Cerro de las
Animas.  The region is just north of Maldonado,
about 100 kilometers (60 miles) east of Uruguay's
capital city of Montevideo.

     As they walked along some railroad tracks,
the students saw a gleaming white UFO hovering
in the northern sky about 1 kilometer (0.6 miles)
away.  The UFO was about 30 degrees above the
horizon in a blue sky marked by scattered clouds.
The UFO's shape was discoidal or oval.

     Grabbing a videocamera, one of the students
obtained a couple of minutes of coverage.  The
UFO then flew away at incredible speed.

(Muchas gracias a Ricardo Darca para ese.  To
obtain a photo, email Ricardo at this address--
rdarca@adinet.com.uy)


FOUR-DAY UFO FLAP ROCKS
CENTRAL BRAZIL

     Between Saturday, May 10, and Tuesday,
May 13, 1997, multicolored UFOs were seen again
and again over Vila Cortes, a barrio in the town of
Santo Antonio de Descoberto.  The town is in
Brazil's Goias state, about 50 kilometers (30 miles)
from Plano Piloto.

     On May 10, Sra. Maria de Fatima da Silva was
washing clothes when she saw the first of the
"bolinhas" or OVNIs (Portuguese acronym for UFO),
which she described as "rotating and brilliant, of
the colors blue, yellow, red and green" and flying
"in groups of three.  They were moving very rapidly
and appeared to be communicating with each other."

     On May 11, Ilza Araujo, a local teacher acquainted
with the family, went to Vila Cortes to observe the
phenomenon.  "The objects were brilliant," Srta. Araujo
told the newspaper Corrieo Braziliense.  She watched
the OVNIs with her Pentax binoculars.  "One flew very
low--it looked like a 500-liter jar of water.  I wish they
would come down and converse with me."

     Claudiane Veras, age 8, saw a UFO on May 13
and said, "It was a brilliant ball, but seemed more
like an oval."

     Not everyone in Santo Antonio de Descoberto
believes the objects are UFOs.  Raimundo Nonato
Fontenelle said, "For myself, I believe these objects are
plastic bags flying in the wind."  (See the newspapers
O Imparcial of Plano Piloto and Correio Braziliense
of Brasilia, D.F. for May 13, 1997.  Muito obrigado a
Pedro Cunha para esas historias)

(Editor's Note: Santo Antonio de Descoberto was the
site of many UFO sightings during Brazil's big flap
back in 1986.)


NEW MYSTERY EXPLOSION
HEARD IN CINCINNATI, OHIO

     On Thursday, May 15, 1997, at 1:15 p.m., an
explosive sound rolled across a wide area of
southern Ohio into northern Kentucky, mystifying
thousands of residents.

     Reports flooded in from a 104-mile area ranging
from Aurora, Indiana (population 3,816) to West
Union, Ohio (population 1,639).

     Charles Stuart, an investigator for Tri-States
Advocates for Scientific Knowledge (T.A.S.K.), heard
the explosion while in West Chester, Ohio and he
"described the blasts as six separate jolts happening
over a 10-minute duration."

     A woman in Adams County contacted T.A.S.K.
to report "a sonic boom heard around 2:00 p.m.  The
boom greatly startled her, she said, and shook her
teeth."

     Kenneth Young, T.A.S.K. public relations director,
said the Clermont County Sheriff's Department
received "calls originated at 3:45 p.m. from Tate
township, 3:52 p.m. from Monroe township, 3:55 p.m.
from Washington township, 4 p.m. from Miami township
police departments."

     Young reported that Terry Donald of the WKRC-TV
Channel 12 news department "received calls from
Aurora, Indiana, Delhi (Ohio)...and Boone County,
Kentucky.  WKRC Ch. 12 also confirmed that multiple
booms were reported, and added that a Delhi resident
called the news station to complain that 'her little glass
knick-knacks shattered,' and also received a call from
Butler, Kentucky (population 663), whose front door had
exploded from the blast."

     This is the third explosive event in the Cincinnati
region since April 19.  The T.A.S.K. investigation is
continuing.  (Many thanks to Kenneth Young of
T.A.S.K. for this news story.)

from the UFO Files...

1952: USAF PLANES TANGLE WITH
          SAUCERS OVER NORTH KOREA

     Forty-five years ago, on May 15, 1952, U.S. Air
Force planes chased UFOs over North Korea.  The
incidents appear to have taken place in the lakes
district south of Changsong-ni and north of the
Nangnim Mountains.  Here are the actual combat
reports for both UFO encounters.

     "Air Intelligence Information Report 52-79 dated
28 May 1952 describes a brief but interesting encounter
with a UFO by two 'very reliable' pilots of the 51st
Fighter-Interceptor Wing, 25th Fighter-Interceptor
Squadron.  The two planes were on Mission C/51-02
flying wing positions in Maple flight.  Lt. McCarthy was
the first pilot to see the strange object.  He had
completed 27 combat missions.  The other unnamed
pilot was the Interceptor Group Operations Officer with
56 combat missions completed.  Following is a summary
of key events:"

    "A silvery oval-shaped object larger than a MiG jet
airplane was seen at the nine o'clock position below
the two F-86E (Sabre) jet airplanes at an estimated
altitude of from 8,000 to 10,000 feet and about twenty
miles (32 kilometers) away.  The single-seat airplanes
were on a heading of 280 degrees; the object continued
on in a straight flight path and disappeared at about the
three o'clock position.  While flying at an altitude of
30,000 feet and an airspeed of 500 knots, both eye-
witnesses saw the object for only 3 to 5 seconds and
noted that the object travelled at an estimated 1,200 to
1,500 mph in a 'rolling maneuver.' (A barrel roll--J.T.)
The reported weather (at 8 p.m. on May 15, 1952) was
a medium haze with visibility of 10 to 12 miles."

     The second report was at 6:35 p.m. on May 15,
1952.  "Air Intelligence Information Report No. 52-81
describes an encounter between the pilot of an F-51
(Mustang--same model as Tommy Mantell's) propellor-
driven fighter bomber and a silver object estimated to
be about 50 feet in diameter.  The aircraft was assigned
to the 18th Fighter Bomber Group.  The pilot had flown
76 combat missions in WW2 (World War II).  He was...
flying on a heading of 180 degrees at an altitude of
9,000 feet; he first noticed the object at the one
o'clock position.  'By the time I called the object in as
a bogie, it had moved to the 3 o'clock position and
started a steep climb, which I assumed was the
beginning of a loop, but at the vertical position in the
loop, the object moved forward in its original course of
travel (360 degrees) and wavered momentarily and
then descended and disappeared into the haze which
reached an altitude of approximately 7,000 to 8,000
feet.'  While the (F-51) airplane was traveling at only
240 mph, the UFO was estimated to be moving at
1,000 mph, first to the east and then changing to the
north.  It was at approximately the same altitude as
the airplane during the 15-to-25-second-long
sighting."  (See the book ADVANCED AERIAL
DEVICES REPORTED DURING THE KOREAN WAR
by Richard F. Haines, LDA Press, Los Altos,
California, 1990, pages 39 and 40)

(Editor's Note: The MiG-15 had a wingspan of 10 meters
or 33 feet.  McCarthy's UFO was probably 12 meters
or 40 feet in diameter.)


FUN UFO WEBSITES

     Got some new Web addresses for our parent site,
UFOINFO, and UFO ROUNDUP.  We moved last
weekend.  Not to stay one step ahead of the MIBs
and the cyper-sheriff, mind you, but because the old
server was not too pleased with all the hits we were
getting.  So, to save money (and we all know how
important that is!) John Hayes found us a new home.
So here are the new URLs:

     You'll find UFOINFO at

http://www.digiserve.com/ufoinfo/index.html.

     For back issues of UFO ROUNDUP, check out
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     If you see a news story about a UFO in your local
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address: UFO ROUNDUP, Box 16, 126 Toll Gate Road,
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     And if you have a UFO sighting to report, email us
at Masinaigan@aol.com.

     That's it for this week.  To our readers in Cuba and
on "Calle Ocho" in Miami, I hope you had a pleasant
"Dia de Independencia" yesterday.  Look for more
saucer news next Sunday from "the paper that goes
home--UFO ROUNDUP."

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