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Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 12:53:31 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 2, Number 21
UFO ROUNDUP
Volume 2, Number 21
May 25, 1997
Editor: Joseph Trainor
FLYING TRIANGLE SPOTTED
IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA
On Sunday, May 18, 1997, at about 6:30 p.m.,
a handful of people standing in the church parking lot
at the intersection of Pennsylvania Route 443 and
Appleby Road, near Linglestown, Pennsylvania (Pa.)
were startled by the appearance of a "flying triangle."
Ten-year-old Adam Wentworth described the UFO
as "a perfect triangle with lights on each side. Five
lights per side (and) an end light on both sides. Twelve
lights in all." At that distance, the object appeared to
be "one inch long" and "moved much faster than any
plane."
Jane Wentworth, Adam's mother, said the UFO was
"to the north directly over Route 81. We soon realized
it was not a plane and observed a triangle appearing to
be six inches across."
Mrs. Wentworth was "uncertain" as to how high
the UFO flew. But it "was real low" and "moved slowly
to the west."
Gwen Hastings, Adam's aunt, was also in the church
parking lot. Ms. Hastings said, "The triangle flew overhead,
moving in a west-northwest direction. The lights gave the
appearance of protruding from the actual craft."
The group lost sight of the UFO when it dropped
toward forest-covered Second Mountain. The sighting
took place in a rural section of Linglestown, about seven
miles (11 kilometers) north of Harrisburg, the state capital
of Pennsylvania. (Email Interview)
TRIANGULAR UFOs TURN UP IN
RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA
On Thursday, May 15, 1997, at 12:07 a.m., Robert
Haines stepped outside of his home in Richmond,
California (population 74,676). His home is on a
hillside a few hundred yards from Interstate Highway 80.
Haines, an amateur astronomer, noticed that the
sky was "clear and illuminated by the first quarter moon."
But as he looked towards San Francisco, he noticed
something strange.
"I saw a black equilateral trianglar object about the
size of a half-dollar held at arm's length, moving swiftly
to the east-northeast about five degrees north of directly
overhead," Haines reported. "It had three lights, one at
each of the vertices. These were orange-yellow and
appeared as bright as fourth magnitude stars. Each light
appeared to be divided into two hemispheres along the
axis of motion. The object was moving in the direction of
one of the vertices at a high rate of speed. The duration
of my sighting was about four seconds."
"As it passed overhead," he added, "I leaped to my
feet to continue observing, but was unable to pick it up
because of its general dimness and the proximity of a very
bright street lamp. It produced no noise except perhaps
the faint sound of rushing air. However, the nearness of
the (Interstate 80) freeway makes that impression
unreliable."
Twenty hours later, Haines was again in the backyard,
ready to make observations. He wasn't disappointed,
because at approximately 10:43 p.m., he made visual
contact with a UFO.
"I saw a group of lights, perhaps eight or nine
clustered near the front edge of a black triangular object
with angles of about 120 degrees, 35 degrees and 25
degrees," Haines reported. "The object was traveling
northeast at a high speed with the largest angle in the
front and the smallest angle to the northwest. Also, it
was about as large as a half-dollar held at arm's length."
"It passed directly overhead and made no noise,"
he added. "I observed this object for about six or seven
seconds. Its lights were also about fourth magnitude
and looked like eyes--almond-shaped with a dark center.
I may have been mistaken about this because of the
dimness of the lights and the high speed of the object...
It should be mentioned (that) the first object was moving
along a flight path out of SFO (San Francisco International
Airport) used by passenger craft at high altitude."
(Email Interview)
BLACK HELICOPTERS PATROL
SKIES IN FRESNO, CALIFORNIA
On Tuesday, May 20, 1997, viewers in Fresno,
California (population 218,202) were startled when
Channel 30, the city's ABC-TV affiliate, aired a 15-minute
segment on UFOs.
Highlighting the segment was a brief tape, alleged
to have been shot in Fresno, showing "a round glowing
object."
Prior to the Channel 30 presentation, city residents
had been puzzled by reports of black helicopters on
patrol over McKinley, Belmont and Olive Avenues,
just north of Chandler Airport.
Eyewitness Jeff Heuer, who lives near McKinley
Avenue, said he saw one black helicopter flying over
the neighborhood on May 10 at about 9 p.m. The black
chopper was flying low, about 100 feet (30 meters)
above the ground, at an estimated speed of 160 mph.
One week later, on Saturday, May 17, 1997, at
10 p.m., Heuer spotted two more black helicopters.
"There were two of them in close formation," he
reported, "No sound, no exhaust, and no flashing
lights--just a steady white light. They flew very close
to the ground, from the southeast to the northwest.
(Kings Canyon Road to Herndon Avenue-J.T.) Definitely
looked like helicopters--but very Stealth-like."
Questioned about the helicopters' appearance,
Heuer said they had a "wide fuselage, no visible (tail)
rotor, could not see underbelly--no visible landing gear.
No noise of any type. No exhaust. Both were in tight
formation, with one just in front of the other. The one
in the rear seemed to be on the right-hand side of the
one in the lead." (Email Interview)
(Editor's Comment: From Jeff's description, the
aircraft sound like the new Eurocopter NH-90. But,
according to Aviation Week and Space Technology
for May 27, 1997, there are only a few prototypes
of the NH-90, and all are in Europe. The first NH-90s
won't be out of production until 2002.)
WISCONSIN FAMILY CONFIRMS
NEW BRIGHTON UFO SIGHTING
A Wisconsin family claims to have sighted three
UFOs on April 25, 1997, the night over 30 UFOs were
seen over New Brighton, Minnesota, just north of the
"Twin Cities" of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
The family lives in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin
(population 9,909), located 40 miles (64 kilometers)
west of Milwaukee.
"We are avid sky watchers and go 'sky fishing' on
clear nights, one or two nights a week," Mr. P.H. said.
"For months, we have observed extremely high moving
objects which traverse the sky in a few minutes. Under
the increased power of my binoculars, they appear solid,
self-illuminated and round. These objects, which we
named 'High Movers'...are moving in a north-to-south or
south-to-north direction, with slight east and west
variations. This is not consistent with satellites."
Also, P.H. pointed out that his family is seeing these
"High Movers" at nighttime hours when convential orbital
satellites are cloaked in Earth's umbra (shadow).
"That night (April 25, 1997), my wife and I and our
13-year-old daughter had gone out about 9:30 p.m. to
our favorite viewing spot outside of town (Oconomowoc),"
he reported. "It is a remote, rural area, and the sky was
crystal clear. That night we saw a total of seven High
Movers."
"Now, here is what is interesting," he added, "all but
two were moving to the northwest, towards Minnesota!
I followed one moving to the northwest about 9:45 p.m.
with my binoculars and just as it was about to drop
below the horizon, I saw another moving near it, more to
the east. I was totally amazed to have two in my field
of vision at the same time, since viewing through
binoculars greatly restricts your field of vision. A third
High Mover (UFO) streaked past both of them. Wow!
I've never seen three in the sky at once...much less in
the same binocular field of view."
"I believe I was witnessing the comings and goings
of some of the objects witnessed in Minnesota," he
added, "The date was the same, the time was
approximately the same, and the compass direction
(northwest) appears to be the same, as well."
(Many thanks to Steve Wilson for this news story.)
CATTLE MUTILATIONS ON THE
RISE IN SOUTHWEST USA
Since late April, the number of cattle mutilations
has increased sharply in the USA, with several new
cases reported in Colorado and New Mexico.
On April 29, a 7-year-old Hereford cow was found
dead in Colorado's San Luis Valley, just north of the
New Mexico state line. The animal was missing flesh
from its left mandible and a substantial portion of its
tongue. The left eye had been "carved out of its
socket." Sheriff's deputies searched 1/4-acres around
the carcass but found "no unusual tracks, prints or
evidence was found." (See the Colorado newspaper
The Valley Courier for May 15 and May 16, 1997.)
On the morning of May 1, a rancher found his
11-month-old Hereford-Charolais bull dead in a 4-acre
pasture near Arroyo Seco, New Mexico (population
500), located 46 miles (73 kilometers) north of
Santa Fe. The case was investigated by the National
Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS).
According to the NIDS report, which was posted
by IUFO, the 400-lb bull "was lying on its left side
facing north at the corner of the 4-acre pasture near
the fence. The tongue was missing--it had been cut out
by the root...The right eye was missing, and a quarter-
sized hole on the right side of the neck was seen,
which appeared by visible inspection to contain smooth
edges. The penis and the testicles were removed through
the rear of the animal and the scrotum was intact. The
anus was missing, but appeared to have been damaged
by predators."
According to the NIDS report, the group's field
investigation team also found "that some type of heavy
mechanical object had made indentations 150 feet south
of where the bull was found." The report noted that
similar ground marks were found near a cattle mutilation
in Dulce, New Mexico on April 24, 1978.
On Tuesday, May 13, 1997, a rancher in Huerfano
County, Colorado, just east of La Veta Pass, found two
mutilated cows on his property. Missing from both cows
were the eyes, mandible, tongue and rectum. The case
was investigated by Officer Lonnie Brown of the
Colorado Division of Wildlife.
According to investigator Christopher O'Brien, author
of THE MYSTERIOUS VALLEY (St. Martin's Press,
1996), this Huerfano County rancher "has lost quite a
number of animals in the past, including four in 1994,"
a case investigated by Linda Moulton Howe and David
Perkins.
UFOs have also been reported in the same area
of the San Luis Valley as the mutilations.
A couple from La Veta, Colorado (population 611)
told O'Brien that "they watched an unusual bright
orange-red light that previous Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday (May 12 through May 14, 1997)."
Six additional witnesses from La Veta told David
Perkins that they saw a UFO in the area during the
first week of May.
According to the NIDS report released by IUFO,
witnesses in Arroyo Seco, N.M. "testified that they
had seen a green light flying in the area on the night
of the bull's death," i.e. April 30, 1997. (Many thanks
to Chris O'Brien and Yechiel A. Mann for these news
stories.)
COLORADO PILOT MYSTIFIED
BY STRANGE RADIO CALL
On Monday night, May 12, 1997, a Colorado pilot
was flying near Walsenburg (population 3,945) when
he picked up a strange call on his radio.
"I was flying in clear VUCU sky (VUCU stands for
"visibility unlimited, ceiling unlimited") when I picked
up a weak communication on VoiceCom 121.5," the
pilot reported. "This is the common-use emergency
channel, and it is always monitored by commercial and
most large private aircraft with more than one
communications radio."
"As well as I could, I was able to make out someone
at Flight Level One-Two-Three-Five Hundred (123,500 feet
or 37,424 meters--J.T.) requesting 'immediate traffic in
area,.' There was obvious anxiousness in his voice, and
he was talking to Air Traffic Control," he added, "The only
thing I know that can travel at this altitude is the SR-71
Blackbird. Now it is not uncommon to see high-flying
aircraft in this (San Luis) valley, but this guy is calling,
in what must have surely seemed like some desperation,
on the unsecured 121.5 emergency channel."
"I have two wonderings--was the SR-71 on recon?
For what? And why was he so concerned with traffic
at an altitude that few pilots have ever been at?"
(Many thanks to Chris O'Brien for this story.)
(Editor's Comment: The pilot might use the civilian
emergency channel if the military frequencies were
being jammed. Then again, it might be some joker
playing with a shortwave radio. Makes you wonder,
doesn't it?)
SKY BOOM REPORTED IN
MISSOURI ON MAY 15
Two hours before a "mysterious explosion"
rocked southern Ohio and northern Kentucky on
Thursday, May 15, 1997, a similar blast was
experienced in the city of St. Joseph, Missouri
(population 76,691), located 54 miles (87 kilometers)
north of Kansas City.
Sally Freis, a spokeswoman for Offutt Air Force
Base in Nebraska, said the blast was "probably a
sonic boom caused by an aircraft breaking the sound
barrier."
Ms. Freis told the media that the boom might have
been caused by an SR-71 flying from Beale Air Force
Base in California to Andrews Air Force Base in
Maryland.
Another spokesman, Lt. Chris Karns USAF, said
"the aircraft would have been in northwestern Missouri
about 2:30 or 3 p.m. on that afternoon."
Officer Archie Auxier of the St. Joseph Police
Department "said the boom felt like someone had hit
his house, then things began to shake."
Police dispatcher Beverly Dunn "was on her way to
work at 2:30 p.m. when she heard what she thought was
a blast. 'I heard an explosion, and I felt it in the South
End,' she said, 'When I got here, they were getting calls
from every place.'" (See the Springfield, Missouri
News-Leader for May 17, 1997. Many thanks to Sam
Uptegrove and Jerry Nieman of the Heartland Research
Project for this news story.)
MASS HORSE PANIC HAS DUTCH
SCIENTISTS BAFFLED
On Monday, May 5, 1997, at 1 p.m., a herd of about
a dozen horses grazing near Udenhout in the Netherlands
suddenly panicked and stampeded for no apparent
cause.
According to the Dutch newspaper Brabants Dagblad
for May 7, 1997, "A group of ten horses were shocked
enormously Monday afternoon by something in the (sand)
dunes near Udenhout. The horses ran off and left the
children, who had been riding them, behind and on foot."
"At the same time, between Riel and Goirie, a horse
hitched to a wagon ran away."
"And in Hilvarenbeek, the citizens tell of seeing a
horse running through the street."
"We have not seen anything like this in years," said
veterinarians J. Silkman and A. Aarts. "There must have
been something in the air."
However, the Koniklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch
Instituut (KNMI) reported no unusual weather conditions.
Meteorologist H. Haak said, "On Monday, between 1 p.m.
and 1:15 p.m., we cannot see any weird readings."
(Many thanks to Jeroen Wierda of Picard UFO Research
International for this news story.)
ROUNDUP CORRIGENDA:
Last week your editor inadvertently mixed apples
with oranges while reconstructing a UFO report from
Uruguay. Here's how it should have read:
On April 5, 1997, a group of eight people were
hiking in the Sierra de las Animas, north of Maldonado,
a city 90 kilometers (54 miles) east of Montevideo, the
capital of Uruguay. Included in the group was Dr.
Ricardo D. Arca. The group spotted four oval-shaped
UFOs in the night sky near the constellation Southern
Cross. The four UFOs moved about very quickly, and
the group had them in view for 20 minutes.
No video was shot during this encounter. However,
Dr. Arca is in possession of a still color photo of a
luminous oval-shaped UFO that was taken near a
railroad track near Salto, a city 476 kilometers
(285 miles) northeast of Montevideo, close to the
Brazilian border. The photo was taken on
September 15, 1996, and Dr. Arca has it availble
for downloading. You can reach him at this email
address: rdarca@adinet.com.uy.
MORE OVERSEAS UFO VIDEO
German ufologist Werner Walter has built up a
video clearinghouse for Europe. He's looking for
"video exchange opportunities" with UFO buffs
across the globe. Werner has great videos, both
of UFO sightings over Germany and TV programs
devoted to UFOs from central Europe. Interested
readers can contact him at this email address:
105156.3630@CompuServe.COM
from the UFO Files...
1947: JUST BEFORE ROSWELL
The Roswell incident of fifty years ago came at the
high point of a UFO flap that began earlier in the
spring of 1947. Here are a few of the incidents
that took place back then.
May 5, 1947 - "A silvery object was reported to
have fallen out of the sky and disintegrated over
Washington state (USA)."
May 18, 1947 - "Several observers in Richmond,
Virginia, saw a flat, white, cigar-shaped object speed
across the sky at sunset, heading north-west."
May 19, 1947 - "Between 12:15 and 1:15 p.m., a
silvery object was seen approaching from the north-
west toward Manitou Springs, Colorado. It halted,
remained motionless for some minutes, and then
started 'dancing' - performing complex aerobautics.
Finally it rose and flew out of sight, against the wind."
June 10, 1947 - "At 11 p.m., at Douglas,
Arizona, Mrs. Coral (E.) Lorenzen watched a light
rise from across the Mexican border, assume a
spherical shape and disappear among the stars.
The sighting lasted 10 seconds." Mrs. Lorenzen
and her husband, Jim, subsequently founded the
Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO).
(All quotes were taken from Peter Brookesmith's
excellent book, UFO - THE COMPLETE SIGHTINGS,
Barnes & Noble Books, New York, N.Y. 1995.,
page 37. This is the book that should be in every
ufologist's library. They're still on sale at your local
Barnes & Noble bookstore, so check it out.)
FUN UFO WEBSITES
For more info on the black helicopters sighted in
Fresno last week, visit Jeff Heuer's Website at
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Zone/6210/
For a glance at the UFO scene in Eire, try
Daev's Website at http://www.nua.ie/blather
Our parent site, UFOINFO, has a new address:
http://www.digiserve.com/ufoinfo/
And so do we! Now, let's see if I can get it
right this week...
http://www.digiserve.com/ufoinfo/roundup/
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That's it for this week. To our readers in the USA,
enjoy the Memorial Day holiday. We'll be back next
Sunday with more saucer news from "the paper that
goes home--UFO ROUNDUP." See you then!
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