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From: George Filer <Majorstar@AOL.COM>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 13:37:26 -0400
Fwd Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 10:16:19 -0400
Subject: CURRENT-ENCOUNTERS - Filer's Files #36

Filer's Files #36  MUFON Skywatch Investigations
From George A. Filer:  MUFON Eastern Director  11 September 1997
Majorstar@aol.com (609) 654-0020

After July slowdown for pilot's vacation, UFO reports have increased for
August/September

FLORIDA:

Ray Pollock -from the  Gulf Breeze Research Team writes. " Seems that we may
have a flap going here in Gulf Breeze.  It started with sightings (some
spectacular) on Sunday night (9/7/97) followed by sightings last night
(Monday 9/8/97) and then there were significant sightings again tonight
(Tuesday 9/9/97).  Checks with the Air Force and Navy show there were no
flare drops either Sunday or Monday night.  We have not checked on Tuesday
night as yet, though all that witnessed say they bear no resemblance to flare
drops we are familiar with."
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There were also  several sightings south of Pensacola at Fort Pickens on
August 7, 1997
After all of you left the shoreline Sunday night, Elise and I and Beverly
Pilcher and her daughter Lisa and friends, Mark and Anthony, Pat Gerbig, Judy
Francour and her daughter Vicki and another unknown couple had very strange
experience.
Elise and I and Beverly and Lisa and friend Mark were sitting at the table
where we were when you left and we heard an owl over in the woods close to
10:00 p.m.
, maybe a little before, which called repeatedly.  We felt like something was
up and about that time, Pat yelled from their vantage point on the boardwalk
that there was a red light near Fort Pickens.  It was gone before we got to
see it, but we ran up on the boardwalk with the others and missed a 2nd
sighting on the way, but were witness to five more at very short intervals
after we got there.  There were a total of seven sightings in all.  Of those
we witnessed, one was a reddish orange pulsing light low over the Island near
the parking lot at entrance to Fort Pickens.  Pulsing occurred several times,
with movement in between each time. Another red light over Fort Pickens Area.
A brief amber light near San Souci apartments.  All of the preceding were low
on the horizon - maybe 2-4 degrees.
Two other sightings just beyond the entrance to Fort Pickens - to the West -
that were about 15 degrees up and were huge by comparison with the others.
 These were massive saucer shaped lights of reddish amber and yellowish color
fairly evenly distributed throughout the lighted area of the sighting.  From
our vantage point on the boardwalk, these covered a diameter of a 50 cent
piece at arms length with the 2nd of these being somewhat wider in diameter
than the first.  Thanks to Ray UFOPOLLGB and ANDROID2U

GEORGIA
--
State Director John Thompson reports. "Thought I would tell you that I did
complete 8/30/97 disc-light case. Since then I have heard first-hand of two
others seeing strange lights in the sky. One lady driving on West Point west
of LaGrange on 8/28/97 saw a big whitish-yellow light that swoop and
fluttered through the cloudless night sky. It was not a searchlight she said.
Another on 8/30/97 in LaGrange at the "Callaway Clock Tower" said she saw
something similar hovering and it was not the moon. Another said her daughter
near Wadley, Alabama in Chambers County saw strange lights that their dogs
barked out. She also said cows had been  getting out of their pens from these
strange lights. (The woman at the clock-tower said birds acted  crazy flying
everywhere at night to such a point that they wondered if the birds were
going to attack them.) Finally, another man said he had two separate groups
of people talking about seeing  strange lights near LaGrange.
  Calls to the Troup Sheriffs Dept, the LaGrange Daily News, Randolph County
Sheriffs Dept., and  Wadley Police Dept. all prove to be negative regarding
people making similar reports. The Wadley Police Dept did say helicopters had
been spraying for unknown reasons in the daytime. The lady from Chambers
County (just south of Randolph, where Wadley is in) said unusual military
activity was occurring. She said jets were flying everyday low and that her
husband said the "jets were armed." Randolph Sheriffs Dept. said they were
from Maxwell Air Force base and they said normal. The women in Chambers said
the frequency was not normal. Much, much higher than normal.   The lady in
Alabama says her daughter will do a report with us.

I  also will be sending you a photographic case soon.. The case involves a
witness of the highest character along with wife and daughter. I have been
given the negative and have made copies for Jeff Sainio to analyze.  I will
also send you two copies with report.

I've gotten reports from several people now of seeing strange lights over and
near LaGrange during last week. Did 8/30/97 report on luminous disc. Still
checking search-light possibility. Also now have confirmation from the GROUND
of others seeing strange perfect circles in the sky near LaGrange in June a
that pilot talked about in 7/20/97 UFO Roundup. The witness said him and
about 10 others  saw two perfect circles through dark clouds with light
shining down near dusk. They watched holes and lights for about ten minutes
before losing interest. Witness said he had never seen anything like this
before. They were on east side of LaGrange and the holes he said seemed to be
over LaGrange.

Georgia not only has numerous UFO reports, but John Thompson the MUFON State
Director asks? "What did you think of my Big Bird reports. I can tell you
nobody raised these babies. Also all the witnesses--including my son--are
country folk who have had long experience with eagles, hawks, buzzards, and
turkeys. All of them remain adamant after seeing these birds many times since
their BB reports that the "birds" they saw were double the size of any of
these creatures.   I just talked to another man in my office that says where
the old Beryl mines are (south Troup county) that before the mines closed
 they had the Sheriff out there all the time with reports of spooks and
strange creatures. He said that doors would be found tore off trucks out
there and long 4 inch strands of black hair would  be found after these
attacks. It go so bad that the people that oversaw the mine wouldn't live
there anymore! A brand new 8 room house rotted because no one would live
there. He says this probably still goes on now but the whole thing has been
abandoned for 20 years or more. The police, by-the-way, always thought bears
or vandalism. He says not so. He gave me names of some still living that
might know more.

I'm sure you know that  Ellen Crystal says Pine Bush, NY has visits because
of beryl there. Beryl is the  mineral for beryllium which is used to make
metals more resistant to heat; as in heat shields for entering and reentering
our atmosphere from space. Also used in nuclear  warheads." Thanks to John
Thompson ISUR and MUFON State Director.


NEW JERSEY

Karin reports: "I just came back from vacation at Beach Haven, where I had a
sighting along with two other witnesses.(my father and husband.)  We were
renting a house right on the ocean, it was Saturday the 23rd of August. At
about 10:30 p.m. we were sitting on the deck facing the ocean(a clear night)
when my dad and my husband both spotted something at the same time. Something
came flying in from the east at a fast speed and it was driving like a drunk
driver, going back and forth from left to right then made a quick turn north
 and was gone . The object looked to be  of a circular shape with dim sort of
yellowish lights, no noise was heard but whether this was because the object
made no noise or because the ocean drowned it out we don't know, the sighting
lasted only a matter of seconds. My dad who is retired military said he never
saw anything like it, and my husband who is skeptical about UFOs, sat outside
for another two hours that night hoping to see it again. Thanks to Karin
 Guan.

NEW YORK

We have a report of a triangular shaped object seen on 7/31/97  at 9:00 p.m.
by a witness traveling east on Hempstead Turnpike on Long Island. The witness
spotted the triangle with approximately eight steady white lights, 3 on each
side, one in the middle and one at the point or apex of the triangle.  The
 object appeared to hover as seen from the car window.  It looked slightly
larger than a small plane and moved away slowly to the north or northwest..
Thanks to SAL (SALGMARS)

CONNECTICUT

Mark Cashman has sent the following letter to Annastasia Wietrzychowska MUFON
State Director. I have essentially completed my investigation into my
sighting on August 19, 1997. I have been very reluctantly forced to declare
it a possible unknown. I have been unable to identify any civilian or
military aircraft either in the area or with the necessary characteristics.
Ultralight pilots I have consulted indicate that the flight would have been
suicidal, and in any event, no such formation would have been flown by
ultralights, and they would not have been able to maintain it. I was able to
perform triangulation and to lay out a flight path on the map. These results
indicate a dimension on the order of 20', a speed of 25 mph and an altitude
of 1200 - 1300 feet. At this point, I am out of leads.)
Under normal circumstances, I believe that an investigator should not
investigate his own sighting. If I had not been so convinced this had a
conventional solution, I probably would not have gone so far on my own. At
this point, I would have no problem with having another MUFON investigator
check my work, and do whatever might be appropriate. Of course, this sighting
is of no major evidentiary value, so it may not be a good place to deploy
resources. Thanks to Mark Cashman at mcashman@ix.netcom.com and
Annastasia(mufonct@aol.com

NEW HAMPSHIRE
Astronaut Gordon Cooper, will speak at the New Hampshire MUFON State
Conference in Portsmouth on Sunday on 14 September.  Please contact NH State
Director Peter Geremia, 603 436-9283 for details.

SPACE MANEUVER VEHICLE

LOS ANGELES: AP - It's made of the same stuff as golf clubs, shaped like a
cigar, and reusable. It's the Space Maneuver Vehicle - the future of Air
Force reconnaissance. The pilotless vehicle could stay in orbit for a year
and land on its own. It's one of a number of programs that will define the
way the Air Force operates in the next century. said Mike Matthews, a
spokesman for Boeing's Space and Missile Systems Sector in Seal Beach, Calif.
THE AIR FORCE and the Boeing Co. designed the craft to perform
 reconnaissance and put small satellites into orbit. The military says it
will give it more flexibility in gathering intelligence.  The prototype
unveiled Wednesday was developed under a $5.3 million contract by Boeing and
the Air Force's Phillips Laboratory in Albuquerque, N.M. The cigar-shaped
craft with stubby wings is made of graphite, epoxy and aluminum. It is 22
feet long and weighs 2,500  pounds. The final version of the vehicle will be
slightly larger and could be launched into orbit into orbit from a  by rocket
or a space shuttle, carrying a 1,200-pound payload. "These would essentially
be  flyable satellites," said Rich Garcia, a spokesman for Phillips
Laboratory. Initial flight tests were scheduled to begin in November at
Holliman Air Force Base in New Mexico. The craft will be dropped from a
helicopter at 10,000 feet, perform gliding maneuvers and land under its own
power. Planned test flights in space and tests of military applications have
not been funded. The project is related to the military space plane program,
which involves the development of a larger craft that would take off and fly
into orbit without the assistance of a booster rocket. Last week, the Air
Force awarded contracts to Lockheed Martin and Boeing to submit concept
designs for the plane, which could be used to deploy the Space Maneuver
Vehicle. c 1997 Associated Press. All rights reserved. Thanks to: Jim Hickman
<jhickman@itlnet.net and Skywatch International>

F-22A
Last week, the Lockheed Martin Company announced the first successful test
flight of its F-22A aircraft from its plant at Marietta, Georgia. (Dobbins
ARB)  The air craft does not appear to be a radical new design, but rather a
logical modernization of the F-15. It will be the new air-superiority fighter
for the Air Force for well into the next century. It will also have provision
for ground attack capability. The aircraft is powered by two Pratt & Whitney
F119-PW turbofans each in the 35,000lb. thrust class.  Dimensions are wing
span of  44 feet 6 inches, length 62 feet and a height of 16 feet  7 inches.
 Its performance is listed as 900+mph, with a ceiling above 50,000 feet.  It
has two vertical stabilizers that protrude out from the fuselage at a roughly
45 degree angle.  Two prototype YF-22s have been flying since 1990. The swept
wings and twin tails should prevent it from being confused with triangular or
disc UFOs

MARS
On Thursday evening, September 11, 1997,-NASA's Mars Surveyor, went into
orbit around the Red Planet - NASA announced that images would not be
available until March. Mars Pathfinder -images were available within a few
hours after landing on the planet.  I wonder why it take months to handle
these images?