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Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 11:23:01 EST
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Subject: UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 2, Number 46
UFO ROUNDUP
Volume 2, Number 46
November 30, 1997
Editor: Joseph Trainor
CIGAR-SHAPED UFO SEEN
IN NORTH CAROLINA
Two UFO sightings were reported this week in
western North Carolina, about 275 miles
(440 kilometers) west of Raleigh.
The first sighting took place on Monday,
November 24, 1997, in Lake Junaluska, North
Carolina, N.C. (population 1,200). Two UFOs
hovered over the Lambuth Inn, located about three
miles from Highway 40 on the Junaluska Methodist
Assembly property, local resident M.B. reported.
"The ships were cigar-shaped and very shiny--
silver-colored. They hovered in the sky in the area
above the old hotel, and then disappear in the
blink of an eye," M.B. reported. "At least three
other folks have seen these UFOs. The objects
merely hovered, not moving at all, and vanished as
quickly as you can blink your eye."
On Wednesday night, November 27, 1997, four
people in nearby Clyde, N.C. (population 1,008),
four miles south of Lake Junaluska, spotted a UFO
"with red, blue and green lights" hovering near the
summit of Chambers Mountain. M.B. said this
sighting took place at 10 p.m., adding that there are
several TV transmission towers on top of the
mountain, located about 25 miles south of the
Tennessee state line. (Email Interview)
JETLINERS ENCOUNTER UFOs
OVER NEW JERSEY
On Monday night, November 17, 1997, ham radio
operator John N. Gonzalez, N2IXW, picked up a UFO
report while listening to radio traffic on the air.
According to a MUFON report, Gonzalez heard the
conversation between the tower at Newark, N.J.
airport and Flight 262 on 118.300 MHz. Two
other unidentified air crews also joined in the
conversation.
Here is a transcript:
JET #2: "Watch out! The two (UFOs) are coming
up to you."
FLIGHT 262: "Well, Captain, the two up here are
coming down to meet with you."
TOWER: "Flight 262, what is your status?"
FLIGHT 262: "We have 236 souls onboard and
fifty thousand (pounds) of fuel.
I think these damn things are going
to hit us. We are over Morristown
just in case there is a collision with
them. (pause) They have taken off
towards the northeast. And, by the
way, towards the northeast, it also
looks like a meteor or space debris
is coming down."
(Editor's Note: Monday night, November 17, was the tail
end of the annual Leonid meteor shower.)
TOWER: "Do you wish to report a UFO sighting?"
FLIGHT 262: (Pause) No, we have nothing to report."
JET #2: "We heard you. I am making sure the
passengers are all right. And, no, I have
nothing to report, either."
JET#3: "You guys have seen more than your share
of UFOs. I know I have."
TOWER: "Who are you? Please identify yourself."
(There was no response)
"Flight 262, go to the emergency
frequency. We will meet with the both
of you there."
(See MUFON Skywatch Investigations #47. Many thanks
to George A. Filer of MUFON for letting UFO ROUNDUP
quote from his report.)
ANOTHER UFO SIGHTED IN
NORTHERN NEW JERSEY
On Monday, November 17, 1997, around 9:45 p.m.,
Heidi Coombs was driving on Highway 513 on
Bearfoot Mountain, near West Milford, New Jersey
(population 1,606).
On a stretch of road overlooking the Monksville
Reservoir, Ms. Coombs reported, "I was driving home
from work, and a green light lit up my dashboard, the
trees and nearly the whole reservoir...I looked up a
little bit in the sky, and there was a bright green oblong
'thing' that just 'shot' up into the mountain. At first it
appeared to hover, and then it was all over in a matter
of seconds. Its altitude was too low to be a plane.
The television news showed a meteor shower that
went by, claiming that this is what caused the UFO
reports. But the UFO (over the reservoir) looked
nothing like those on TV." (See MUFON Skywatch
Investigations #47. Many thanks to George A. Filer
of MUFON for this report.)
UFOs SIGHTED TWICE OVER
BLUFF DALE, TEXAS
On Tuesday night, November 18, 1997, residents
of Bluff Dale, Texas (population 200), located on
Highway 377 about 40 miles (64 kilometers)
southwest of Fort Worth, spotted two unusual
UFOs flying and hovering over the Paluxy River
valley.
Two objects appeared over the farm owned
by Billy and Marionell Frizzell and were seen by
their farmhand.
"I think he saw something," Billy Frizzell told
the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "When we got home,
he was really excited."
"Yeah, and he is not the kind that would make
up a story about this kind of thing. You can bet on
what he tells you," Marionell Frizzell said.
According to the Star-Telegram, the farmhand
"told Billy that he looked north and two of the
objects the size of round hay bales were right out
at the edge of the field. Then one zipped down the
fence row to a railroad bridge, followed the railroad
along to the Paluxy River, (and) which looked like
a dried brown bolt of lightning."
"'He said one kind of hovered, and the other
went around the field and over the hill and then came
back. Then they both just disappeared in a flash,'
Billy said, 'He said it scared his dog so bad that
he put up a howl the rest of the night. I told Ray
Baber about it, and he said he saw them, too.'"
The Star-Telegram then interviewed Baber,
"a retired truck driver, a lean, cowboy-looking man"
who lives in a trailer near the center of Bluff Dale.
"'I was in the trailer, and I know Dateline had come
on when I saw the light outside,'" Baber told the
Star-Telegram. "'At first I thought it must be the
8:30 Southern Orient (express train--J.T.) that comes
by any time from 7:30 to 8:30. But I didn't hear a
whistle or any noise, so I thought I'd go inspect and
see what it was,' he said."
"'Well, I saw the light coming again, and I thought
it might be somebody headlighting (poaching--J.T.)
deer in that pasture. Then it just leaped up and
was gone,' Baber said, 'I wasn't going to tell anybody
about it until Billy told me about what he had heard.'"
(See the Fort Worth Star-Telegram for November 22,
1997, "Is UFO Tale the Biggest Bluff in Bluff Dale?"
Many thanks to Mark Harman for this report.)
WOMAN SPIES HOVERING
UFO IN HAMMOND, INDIANA
On Wednesday, November 12, 1997, at 11:30
p.m., Valerie V. was "laying in bed" at her home in
Hammond, Indiana (population 93,714), a city on
the Illinois state line 17 miles (27 kilometers)
southeast of Chicago.
"Looking up through my mini-blinds," she
reported, "a moon-shaped object caught my eye.
It was bright like the moon, sort of oval-shaped but
more round. It was ten times or more bigger than
any star. It was moving slowly like a plane in the
western sky. It was very bright, and I said to
myself, 'What the heck is that!?'"
"When I did, it boomeranged back in the
direction it had been traveling, but down just a
little. It did that so fast that it left a streak of light
behind it. I thought it was a plane going to crash."
"There was no crash. I had never seen anything
like that before. I wrote on my calendar that night--
'Saw UFO, 11:35 p.m.' I sort of felt like it was spying
on the world until it realized that someone (me) saw
it, then it zipped super-fast backwards out of my
view." (See MUFON Skywatch Investigations #47.
Many thanks to George A. Filer of MUFON for this
report.)
TRIANGULAR-SHAPED UFO
SEEN IN SOUTHERN OREGON
On Thursday, November 13, 1997, at 1 a.m.,
Katie Caleb was driving on Oregon Highway 66
through Hayden Mountain Pass, heading for
Klamath Falls (population 17,737) 20 miles
(32 kilometers) to the east when she saw an
unusual object in the sky.
"I was driving along, and I stopped for a moment
to look up at the stars," Ms. Caleb reported. "I saw
an object with three bright lights. The object was
shaped somewhat like a boomerang. It hovered
over me for a minute, and then, all of a sudden, it
shot off (to the north) towards Portland and was
gone." (See MUFON Skywatch Investigations #47.
Many thanks to George A. Filer of MUFON for this
report.)
(Editor's Comment: This is the second UFO sighting
in Klamath Falls, Oregon in less than a month. On
November 14, 1997, the same night as the "Seattle
Lights" incident, Klamath Falls residents reported
seeing "a broad streak of light" in the night sky.)
UFOs ACTIVE IN ITALY
On Thursday night, November 13, 1997, witnesses
in Abruzzo reported seeing "a flying object that emitted
a strong violet light." The UFO changed direction
overhead and flew out to sea. (See the newspaper
Il Centro for November 16, 1997.)
Twenty hours earlier, at 1 a.m. on November 13,
an alert was issued in the port city of Teramo when
people heard "a sound similar to that of an airplane or
a ship in difficulty." The Carabineri (Italian police--J.T.),
the Captain of the Port, and the local Rescue Service
were mobilized, and a diligent search was launched.
But the source of the aerial disturbance was not found.
(See the newspaper Il Messagero for November 15,
1997.)
On Monday, November 24, 1997, at 11 p.m.,
three motorists driving on a highway near Siena saw
"the apparition of a strong light in the sky, emitting
a blue luminous glow, before it disappeared." (See
the newspaper La Nazione, Siena edition, for
November November 26, 1997. Grazie a Edoardo
Russo, Marco Bianchini, Panfilo Pagliaro, e Frabrizio
Degni di CISU per questi rapporti.)
MYSTERY BOOM SHAKES UP
IMMINGHAM, ENGLAND
On Tuesday, November 25, 1997, at 10:35 p.m.,
a very loud mystery boom or "skyquake" sounded
east of Immingham on the river Humber in northern
England.
Dozens of residents reported the same event--
a loud BANG accompanied by a vivid "flash of
white, possibly bluish-white light in the east," over
the North Sea.
"People in homes facing west only heard the
bang," resident Paul H. reported. "While those who,
like us, were in a house facing the North Sea, also
saw the flash of light." He estimated that the source
was "probably in an area over the North Sea itself."
(Email Interview)
MYSTERIOUS SUBTERRANEAN
BOOMS STARTLE RESIDENTS
IN CRANSTON, RHODE ISLAND
Mysterious recurring subterranean booming
sounds are alarming residents of the Glen Woods
section of Cranston, Rhode Island (population
76,060), a city eight miles (12 kilometers) south
of the state capital, Providence.
"The noise, which residents say sounds like a
thudding underground explosion, seems to be
concentrated in a two-to-three block area affecting
houses on Summit Drive and West Blue Ridge
and Park Forest Roads."
"It occurs day and night with an eerie
irregularity that they say thwarts attempts to find
a pattern. It may happen only once, or more than
dozen times, during a 24-hour period, they say."
"Finding out exactly what is causing the sound
became a top priority for city officials after (Ed)
Conway and Summit Drive resident Barbara
Mendelsohn called the police early last week."
"Last Monday (Patrol Captain William) Burroughs
notified city officials, as well as the U.S. Geological
Survey, the Rhode Island Emergency Management
Agency and the Providence Water Supply Board."
(See the Providence Journal-Bulletin for November
24, 1997, page B-3, "Mystifying 'booms' bedevil
neighbors.")
By week's end, Rhode Island authorities said
they had the answer to the subterranean booming.
"After 10 days of sleuthing, engineers say they
think they have found the culprit in the eerie audio
occurrence that for months has haunted residents
of the (Glen Woods) hilltop neighborhood overlooking
(the) Garden City (shopping center). Before the
city stepped in, Glen Woods homeowners were
stymied by the thudding, shuddering sound which
seemed to be emanating from their basements--
or below."
"Now Public Works Director Peter Alviti
says he believes the noise is coming from a
24-inch sewer line that makes some sharp twists
and turns."
"More testing still has to be done, but Alviti
said he thinks the boom is caused when sewage--
which is pushed uphill through the pipe from a
pumping station on Sherman Avenue--hits some
of the 90-degree turns in the snaking sewer line
beneath the streets and backyards of Glen Woods."
(See the Providence Journal-Bulletin for
November 28, 1997, page A-1, "The thing that goes
boom in Glen Woods may be rumbling sewer line.")
No sooner had Alviti made his statement than
another sewer line in Cranston began erupting like
a volcano.
"A main sewer off Route 10 (in Cranston) near
Spectacle Pond became partially blocked yesterday,
sending hundreds of gallons of raw sewage bubbling
up through a manhole cover."
"The system overflowed into an undeveloped
area for perhaps several hours before a police officer
spotted it from Route 10. Most of the overflow was
absorbed into a drainage ditch but an estimated
400 gallons flowed into Spectacle Pond." (See the
Providence Journal-Bulletin for November 29, 1997,
page A-3, "Raw sewage spews into Spectacle Pond."
(Editor's Note: A triangular-shaped UFO was seen
hovering over Route 10 in Cranston, R.I. in early
October.)
CHUPACABRA RETURNS TO
CENTRAL PUERTO RICO
Mysterious attacks on domestic farm animals
around the town of Utuado, Puerto Rico, 40 miles
(64 kilometers) southwest of San Juan, have
triggered rumors of renewed predation by the
Chupacabra or legendary "goat sucker."
Forty-two large white rabbits, some chickens
and a duck were found dead on a farm in Utuado
on Thursday, November 20, 1997. The dead
animals had twin perforations mostly in the
stomach region and on their feet. Most of the
perforations were triangular.
According to researcher Scott Corrales, "One
rabbit had its stomach split, an incision so precise
as to only have been made by a surgical instrument
or by an expert surgeon. No trace of blood remained
in any of the dead animals." (Many thanks to Scott
Corrales for this report.)
PERUVIAN GIRL DEVELOPS
SUPERMAN'S HEAT VISION
On Saturday, October 25, 1997, Fire Brigade #26
of Chiclayo, capital of the department (state) of
Lambayeque, 760 kilometers (456 miles) north of
Lima, Peru, was called out at 8:30 a.m. to battle a
house fire in the nearby town of Pajaten.
Pajaten is 9 kilometers (5 miles) southeast
of Chiclayo. By 8:45 a.m., the firefighters had
"controlled and extinguished the blaze," after
rescuing a three-year-old girl from her burning
bedroom.
Fire officials conducted an investigation
but finally ruled that the blaze was "a fire of
unknown origin."
On Monday, October 27, 1997, at 3 a.m.,
Fire Brigade #26 was again called to Pajaten
to battle a house fire. This fire took place less
than 100 meters (330 feet) from the location of
Saturday's fire.
According to Jorge Pereira, owner of the
property, the fire began in the bedroom where
Giuliana Gutierrez Peralta, age 13, was having
a sleep-over with her friend.
Pereira told fire officials that he "entered the
bedroom and turned on the lights. This caused
the girl to wake up, with obvious irritation, and
she opened her eyes, which seemed to shine in
a variety of colors before turning glaring red. It
was at this moment she looked at the curtains,
which caught fire instantly."
Investigating police did not believe Pereira's
story and required him to take "a blood-alcohol
test, the results of which proved negative."
Peruvian newspapers ran feature stories on
the incident. Giuliana soon became known as
'la nina del fuego" (the fire girl) and "la hija del
diablo" (the Devil's daughter).
Neighbors in Pajaten reportedly harassed
the family, and, as a result, "the girl and her family
went to the village of Uycampa," on the eastern
side of the Cordillera Central, at the edge of
Peru's rain forest, "where they are now living."
(Muchas gracias a Raul Rios Centeno of Lima
y tambien Scott Corrales para esas noticias.)
(Editor's Comment: Cases of young teenagers
developing heat vision or 'firestarter" powers are
rare but not unknown. Here in North America
we've had William Brough, age 12, of Turlock,
California in October 1886; Jennie Bramwell,
age 14, of Beaverton, Ontario in 1891; and
Wanet Willey of Macomb, Illinois in August
1948. For more information on these cases,
see MYSTERIOUS FIRES AND LIGHTS by
Vincent H. Gaddis, Dell Books, New York, NY
1968, pages 166 through 170. Interestingly,
Mama Ocllo Huallpa, wife of Manco Capac,
the first Inca, is also said to have had these
powers. As Garcilaso de la Vega remarked
in his COMENTARIOS REALES DE LOS INCAS,
"She was a witch, but she helped the poor.")
from the UFO Files...
1733: DAYLIGHT DISC FLIES
OVER DORSET
On December 8, 1733, James Cracker of Fleet,
a small town in Dorset, England, saw a silvery disc
fly overhead in broad daylight. Here is his
eyewitness account:
"Something in the sky which appeared in the
north but vanished from my sight, as it was
intercepted by trees, from my vision. I was standing
in a valley. The weather was warm, the sun shone
brightly. On a sudden it re-appeared, darting in and
out of my sight with an amazing coruscation. The
colour of this phenomenon was like burnished, or
new-washed silver. It shot with speed like a star
falling in the night. But it had a body much larger
and a train longer than any shooting star I have seen."
"Next day Mr. Edgecombe informed me that he
and another gentleman had seen this strange
phenomenon at the same time as I had. It was
about 15 miles from where I saw it, and steering
a course from east to north." (See MYSTERIES
OF THE UNEXPLAINED, Reader's Digest
Association, February 1985, page 210.)
FUN UFO WEBSITES:
Fresh from his recent interview on Romanian
TV, Manoliu Valentin of Bucharest has a new webpage
devoted to UFOs. Entitled TERRA UFO TOURISM,
it's available now in English and in a few weeks will
be ready in French and Romanian. To check out the
UFO scene in the Balkans, log in at this URL:
http://cinor.starnets.ro/ufo/
And don't forget our parent site, UFO INFO, which
has many features available at the click of a mouse.
Drop by and visit at:
http://www.digiserve.com/ufoinfo/
For back issues of UFO ROUNDUP, visit our page
at http://www.digiserve.com/ufoinfo/roundup/
Today's a day for celebration in Hannibal, Missouri
and in Hartford, Connecticut. It's the birthday of
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, the American author
better known as Mark Twain. Old Sam was born in
Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835, right in
the middle of a visitation by Halley's Comet. He died
in 1910 at his mansion in Hartford when the comet
made its return. One of his last short stories,
"Captain Stormfield's Trip to Heaven," has eerie
overtones that appeared to predict the coming of
last year's Hale-Bopp Comet and the bizarre deaths
of the Heaven's Gate sect in San Diego.
We'll be back next weekend with more saucer
news from "the paper that goes home--UFO ROUNDUP.
See you then!
UFO ROUNDUP: Copyright 1997 by Masinaigan
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