From: Joe McNally <fortean3@easynet.co.uk> Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 20:06:45 +0100 Fwd Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 02:55:46 -0400 Subject: Re: Huge UFO Over Ireland - an eyewitness speaks >Delivered-To: fortean3@easynet.co.uk >From: Joe Harte <joeharte@iol.ie> >Subject: Re: FWD: UFO UpDate: Huge UFO Over Ireland >OK folks, as the man on the spot, I suppose I should give a comment on this >little piece of nonsense. >>>Three gigantic craft were see approching Sligo Bay in the middle of the >>>afternoon by dozens of hill climbers near the summet of Mount Ben >>>Bulben. The came in across the bay and alongside the mountain. >I assume this would have been last Tuesday (20th May). I was sitting here at >my desk all afternoon, with its picturesque view out into Sligo Bay. I >believe I would have noticed these big buggers approaching. >>>The hitchikers, and people who live on the side of the mountain were >>>able to look down on the craft from above. Everybody said the triangle >>>craft had no featers or markings on the top on them. >If the people who live on the side of the mountain could look down on the >craft, the craft had to be flying at around fifty feet from the ground, >since Ben Bulben becomes almost vertical at around 100 feet. >>>At one point they passed directly over the grave of the poet W. B. >>>Yeats in Drumcliff churchyard. Cars were stopping by the side of the >>>road as drivers got out to look at the three craft. >Yeah Yeah, the one place in Sligo that would be recognised world wide. >>>My mother said that all at once the craft dissapered. Within an hour >>>Irish Police and Army helicopters were all over the place. The major >>>Irish newsmedia did not report ths story only the small local papers. >Neither of the local papers reported anything, and the only army I've seen >in Sligo in the last ten years were escorting money from the banks (our more >patriotic brethern have some antisocial fundraising habits). >OK? Have I dealt with this one? >Joe. >(who isn't going to get any work done next week 'cos he'll be staring out at >the bay... waiting) >_______________________________________________________ > Joe Harte >Barroe, Phone 071 46885 >Sligo, Mobile 088 517926 >Ireland. e-mail joeharte@iol.ie >_______________________________________________________ ----- Nothing in this post is necessarily the opinion of John Brown Publishing or Fortean Times. On a bad day, it might not even be mine. ----- "I knew then who had brought me to the Greys. The voice said, 'These are the beings whom you want to help.' It was the voice of my Aunt Elsie." - Courtney Brown, "Cosmic Voyage"
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