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From: Masinaigan <Masinaigan@aol.com> [Joseph Trainor]
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 14:19:17 EDT
Fwd Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 15:44:11 -0400
Subject: UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 3, Number 14


     UFO ROUNDUP
Volume 3, Number 14
April 5, 1998
Editor: Joseph Trainor

TRIANGULAR UFOs SIGHTED
IN SOUTHERN INDIANA

     Numerous V-shaped or triangular UFOs were
sighted last week in southern Indiana around
Evansville (population 126,272).
     On Sunday, March 22, 1998, at 10 p.m.,
ufologist Lynn Taylor and his wife Linda were
driving home to Bloomington on Highway 37.  As
they neared Martinsville (population 11,677), about
25 miles (40 kilometers) south of Indianapolis,
the couple "got a glimpse of a giant, round, dimly-lit
object, perhaps 50 feet above a hill, off to our right,"
i.e. to the west.  Taylor reported, "This is only the
fourth time I have witnessed this type of object."
     On Monday, March 23, 1998, Cal Washburn, an
Indiana TV producer, spotted a UFO in the sky over
Spurgeon, Ind. (population 250), while traveling on
Highway Highway 61 about 19 miles (30 kilometers)
south of Petersburg.
     As he reached a hilltop, Washburn "could see
through (the branches of) a tree, some lights that were
'enormous.'"  He counted "four to six red-colored lights
that were in a 'perfect row.'"  He reported that "another
four or five lights went off and on intermittently...They
moved in a perfect formation.  It was as if they were
attached to something."
     On Friday evening, March 27, 1998, three residents of
Evansville called WTVW Channel 7 and reported seeing
"a light twice as bright as Venus."  Looking closer, they
spied a triangular UFO with "yellow, white and blue bright
lights...with a brilliant white light on the leading edge."
     In Princeton, Ind. (population 8,127), located on
Highway 64 about 27 miles (43 kilometers) north of
Evansville, residents reported "a large ring of UFOs seen
at the rear of the Toyota manufacturing plant" on the
outskirts of town.
     In Petersburg, Ind. (population 2,449), located on
Highway 57 about 14 miles (23 kilometers) north of
Princeton, people reported seeing "a large grey triangle
with five lights on one side."
     A "giant flying triangle" was also reported that
evening in Otwell, Ind. (population 500), located on
Highway 257 about eight miles (11 kilometers) southeast
of Petersburg.
     At 11:02 p.m., Jana Taylor, 14, daughter of Lynn and
Linda Taylor of Bloomington, was riding in a car with her
friend Karen and Karen's mother, Kate, on old Highway 37
just south of Dolan, Ind. when she spotted something
strange in the sky.
     Jana said she "spotted a triangle-shaped craft hovering
motionless, about 15 feet above the trees on a hillside off
to our right."
     "You could make out the shape because of light
pollution from (nearby) Bloomington," Jana reported,
"The object had a large, bright bluish-white light at each of
the three corners.  You know what it would look like if you
had a blue lens, then put a white lightbulb behind it that's
too bright, how the white will overpower the blue, but you
could still see some blue?"
     Jana pointed it out to Karen and her mother.  Kate
pulled onto a side road.  Here they saw more lights on
the craft, which Jana described as "four non-blinking red
lights that could be seen in the middle area."  The UFO
then "turned southwest towards Bloomington and dropped
behind the hills nearby."  (Many thanks to Lynn Taylor,
Steve Wilson Sr., Jerry Stevers of MUFON and Kenneth
Young of Tri-States Advocates for Scientific Knowledge,
T.A.S.K., for these reports.)

TWO UFO SIGHTINGS REPORTED
IN WESTERN KENTUCKY

     On Saturday evening, March 28, 1998, witnesses in
Hawesville, Kentucky (population 1,150), a town on the
south shore of the Ohio River 40 miles (64 kilometers)
east of Evansville, Indiana, reported sighting "a very bright
light in the eastern sky, moving slowly to the south."
     On Tuesday, March 31, 1998, Mortimer V. Sloane
spotted a "blinking red light on my farm coming from the
southwest.  I didn't see any structure, just the flashing
lights.  I have to tell you, this cannot be seen without
binoculars--there's something about the red.  It's hard
to pick out.  They stayed in view for two to five minutes.
They were about 45 degrees (above the horizon), maybe
a little higher.  There was no other glow except for the
blinking red light."
     He described the UFO as looking like this   *   in
the binoculars' field of view.
     The Sloane farm is near Wakefield, Kentucky, on
Highway 85 about 36 miles (58 kilometers) southeast
of Louisville.  (Email Interview)

TWO NEW SIGHTINGS ON
FLORIDA'S EAST COAST

     On Sunday, March 29, 1998, at 5:30 p.m., Kathy D.
woke up at her home in North Palm Beach, Florida
(population 11,343) on Route 1 about 70 miles
(112 kilometers) north of Miami.  "I rose early at 5:30
a.m. to get my cat, who was out on the patio, and
looked up in the east-southeast sky to see a light,
and I do mean a huge, bright white light.  It was about
one-third the size of a full moon.  Unbelievable!"
     "My first thought is that it was a UFO, but then I
tried to rationalize it.  I thought perhaps it was an
airplane headlight...it was so big and bright, heading
directly towards me.  It was approaching West Palm
Beach from the (Atlantic) ocean at about 3,000 to
5,000 feet.  But it didn't change course or move at all.
The clouds obscured it, and minutes later, it was gone."
     Thinking no more of it, Kathy went back to bed.
Later on Sunday, however, she received a phone call
from some friends living in Hobe Sound, Fla. (population
11,507) on Route 1 about 20 miles (32 kilometers)
north of North Palm Beach.  "And they had seen the
same thing--a large bright light in the sky which they
viewed for a half hour, from 5 a.m. to 5:30 a.m."
(Email Interview)

GLOWING UFO SIGHTED IN
FORT WORTH, TEXAS

     On Saturday, March 28, 1998, at 11 p.m., Mike H.,
a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force, and his son,
Charlie, 17 "were driving on Texas Highway 287 south
and approaching (Interstate Highway) I-30 out of downtown
Fort Worth (population 447,619) when we watched an
unusual object over the Trinity River area."
     "At first we thought it was just an airplane," Mike
reported.  "But then we noticed that the object had several
very intense rapidly-strobing green, red and white lights,
all three strobing at the same time, almost the way it
looks when a police car pulls someone over."
     "We noticed that there were no other lights visible
on the object during the strobing effect.  Then, suddenly,
the light turned to an all-green light, then all white.  This
lasted only about a second, then back to the strobing
effect again.  We did notice the object darting back and
forth rapidly.  Sometimes it appeared to jump from side
to side, causing the light to strobe here, then suddenly a
few feet (away) in another direction."
     "It also darted off about a half mile in one direction,
then suddenly dart up 1,000 feet (300 meters), then back
in the opposite direction.  Then it changed course, moving
at an incredible speed in an easterly direction...Then it
suddenly turned and went in the opposite direction."
     With Mike driving east on I-30, son Charlie kept the
object in view "for another five minutes" until they "lost
sight of it."  (Email Interview)

UFO SEEN APPROACHING A
JETLINER IN OKLAHOMA

     On Saturday, March 28, 1998, at 8:30 p.m., Hal A.
was outdoors near his home in McAlester, Oklahoma
(population 16,370), on Highway 270 about 128 miles
(205 kilometers) south of Oklahoma City, when he
spotted an unusual light in the sky.
     "I spotted a solid color orange-yellow light traveling
northeast," Hal reported.  "I watched it for about two
minutes.  I first thought it was a satellite, but at the same
time a commercial jet--it had (standard FAA) blinking red
and white strobe lights--was traveling southwest on the
same flight path."
     "The yellow object passed underneath the jet, and
was so close it lit up the bottom of the plane!"
     "I thought they were going to collide up to that
point.  The object traveled for another five minutes and
then blinked out.  Just disappeared."  (Many thanks to
Jim Hickman, vice president of Skywatch International,
for this report.)

SAUCER TOUCHES DOWN NEAR
SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA

     On Thursday, April 2, 1998, at 12:30 a.m., editor
Stefan Duncan of American UFO Newsletter (AUFON)
was staked out on the shore of High Rock Lake ten
miles (16 kilometers) east of Salisbury, North Carolina
(population 23,087).  Using a pair of 7X10 binoculars,
he scanned the night sky.
     Salisbury is on Highway 29 about 115 miles
(184 kilometers) west of Raleigh.
     Stefan then spotted "a light in the sky, not blinking,
of white, yellow, red...At times it appeared like it had
a line of light running across, like looking at Saturn
straight on with its rings."  (That is, a sphere with an
illuminated raised rim--J.T.)
     The Saturn-shaped UFO "rose vertically, hovered
and remained stationary for five minutes.  Then the
object began to descend straight down until it
disappeared behind the trees" two miles away.
     At 1 a.m., Stefan reported, "The object rose
vertically from the same position of the treeline about
two inches high (in the field of view) and remained
stationary.  It was the Saturn shape again.  It brightened
for about ten seconds, then resumed its regular shine."
     At 1:25 a.m., a smaller object "with the same
brightness" detached itself from the UFO.  "It flashed
brightly twice."  He described the scene as resembling
this:
                        o     0

     "They stayed in this position for about thirty seconds,
and then reformed into one object.  Then the object took
on the Saturn shape.  The light blacked out."  (For the
full story see, American UFO Newsletter #5 for 1998.
Many thanks to Stefan Duncan for this report.)

UFO FLYBY WITNESSED IN
VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA

     On Wednesday, March 11, 1998, at 12:25 p.m.,
MUFON member Dennis Hawley was standing in a parking
lot in Virginia Beach, Virginia (population 393,069) when
he spotted a UFO.
     "The UFO was flying very high and fast before
disappearing into the haze." Dennis reported, adding that
he "originally thought the object was a balloon, but realized
it was flying too fast and straight.  The UFO was first
observed to the southeast flying in from the Atlantic Ocean
about three miles away.  The object flew on a straight
course to the northwest."
     He described the UFO as a "metallic disc, glowing and
extremely fast" and estimated it to be "about the real size
of an airliner."
     Virginia Beach is on Highway 58 about 110 miles
(176 kilometers) southeast of Richmond, the state capital.
(See Filer's Files #13 for 1998.  Many thanks to Dennis
Hawley, George A. Filer and Rick Atristain, Virginia
state MUFON director, for this report.)

COUPLE SIGHTS TRIANGULAR
UFO IN CENTRAL MICHIGAN

     On Thursday, March 26, 1998, at 9:15 p.m., Kenneth
and Katarina M. "were enjoying the clear evening" at
their home in Brighton, Michigan (population 5,686).
a town on Interstate Highway I-23 about 30 miles
(48 kilometers) west of Detroit.
     "Suddenly, we noticed something unusual coming
from the north," Katarina reported.  "An object passed
over our heads in a straight-line direction.  The object
had a V-shape with real bright white-yellowish lights
underneath.  We watched it for about four seconds
until it passed behind our house.  The object made no
sound at all."  (Many thanks to Tim Hagemeister of
NACOMM for this report.)

UFOs SEEN FREQUENTLY IN
EAST KILBRIDE, SCOTLAND

     East Kilbride is fast becoming the Gulf Breeze
of Scotland.  UFOs have been reported daily there
during the past two weeks.
     According to the East Kilbride News, "Dozens
of residents have reported strange objects, including
a pancake-shaped flying saucer, hovering above the
town."
     "David Cornes, 59, of Murray spotted three military
jets chasing a flashing UFO the evening of January 25,"
1998.
     On Thursday, March 26, 1998, driving instructor
Brenda Hughie, 39, of Greenhills was giving a road
lesson to Tricia McLean, 46, on Strathaven Road.
when "a flashing object crossed the sky."
     "The dazzling light" startled Brenda, and she "got out
of her grey Vauxhall Corsa for a better look."
     "'I don't believe in UFOs, but afterwards I felt dizzy
and weak,'" she reported, "'When I got home, the whole
room was spinning.  Everyone thinks I am crazy.  They
don't believe me!'"
     Whitehills resident Tricia McLean reported, "I saw
six flashing lights in the sky.  Two were brighter and
went in different directions.  Brenda watched it out the
windscreen (windshield) first, and then I stopped the car."
     East Kilbride is 30 miles (48 kilometers) southeast
of Glasgow, Scotland's largest city.
(See the East Kilbride News for March 27, 1998,
"It's An L of a UFO" by Susie Kelly.  Many thanks to
Dave Ledger for this report.)

UFO VIDEOTAPED HOVERING
OVER A BEACH IN BRAZIL

     On Saturday, March 28, 1998, hundreds of people
relaxing on the beach at Praia do Jose Menino in
the seaport city of Santos were startled when an OVNI
(Portuguese acronym for UFO) suddenly appeared
offshore.
     Santos is in southern Brazil, about 120 kilometers
(72 miles) southeast of Sao Paulo.
     As the UFO hovered over Ilha da Urubuquecaba, an
offshore island, Valentim do Nascimento Junior picked
up his videocam and began shooting footage.  The UFO
was described as "a disc-shaped object covered with a
luminosity in the colors yellow, green and blue."
     Nascimento videotaped the UFO for 40 minutes as
the beachgoers watched it hover.  Then, "the light
flickering strangely," the UFO zipped away over the
horizon.
     Wallacy Albino, director-general of Grupo de
Estudos Ufologicos do Guaruja, a Brazilian UFO group,
has studied the Nascimento video.  He said that at
one point "a smaller light left the OVNI, circulated in
the sky and then returned to the object."  (See the
Brazilian newspaper Gazeta de Limeira for March 30,
1998, "OVNI e Filmado por 40 Minutos na Praia
de Jose Menino."  Muito obrigado a Pedro Cunha
por eso caso.)

CIGAR-SHAPED UFO SEEN NEAR
CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND

     Three people witnessed a cigar-shaped UFO in the
sky over Bexley, just north of Christchurch, South Island,
in New Zealand on Monday, March 30, 1998.
     At 8:30 p.m., Edith Perkins saw what she called
"a capsule or cigar-shaped object at first...silver-whitish
body, darker grey forked tail."
     "At the time I was doing some chores in our backyard,"
she reported, "We live by the coastal line of New Brighton.
NaturallyI looked up and I observed, still overhead, the
silver-whitish object coming.  I was facing west.  The
rounded edges, front and back, of the object called my
attention.  Its size appeared to be about 10 centimeters
(five inches) long (if held at arm's length--J.T.)."  She
estimated its altitude to be 30,000 feet but "was puzzled
that there was no trail behind it."
     Edith went to fetch a pair of 7X35 binoculars.  She
was soon joined by her husband and a home-care nurse.
As they watched, "suddenly a very bright light covered
the object.  It did not happen as a flash of light.  It had a
beginning" and at the end of the light burst, "I was seeing
a different rear on the craft, a forked end to it, the colour
of it was dark grey."
     Another burst of light occurred, "and the object
presented a rim, all around the craft, with either
intermittent colour lights on the rim or a rotating rim."
She described the lights as "reddish-orange tones."
The UFO flew out over Pegasus Bay, heading northeast.
(Many thanks to Ross Dowe and the Australia/
New Zealand 24-Hour UFO Hotline for this report.)

TWO NEW UFO SIGHTINGS
IN SOUTHEAST AUSTRALIA

     Two UFOs were reported Friday night, March 27,
1998, in southeastern Australia.
     At 7:30 p.m., people at Lake Corangamite in
Victoria state, 192 kilometers (120 miles) west of
Melbourne, reported "sighting a large and bright
orange fireball cross the whole sky."  They described
it as "a large meteor with a long tail."
     At 8:10 p.m., in Batemans Bay, New South Wales,
a shore town 256 kilometers (160 miles) south of Sydney,
witnesses saw "two orange lights with odd square or
rectangular tails follow each other.  They headed
southeast south from the northeast.  The illuminations
were traveling too slow to be satellites and appeared to
be in the atmosphere."  (Many thanks to Ross Dowe and
the Australia/New Zealand 24-Hour UFO Hotline for
these reports.)

THREE SILVER SPHERE UFOs
SPOTTED IN ONTARIO

     On Saturday, March 28, 1998, at 7:09 p.m., Amy
Hill was driving on Route 401 near Oshawa, Ontario,
Canada (population 129,344) when she spotted
three spherical, silvery UFOs in the night sky.
     "My husband and I were driving westward on the 401,"
Amy reported, "We watched three circular objects.
They were almost clear-looking whitish balls.  They moved
in a circular pattern and would come and join in the center,
then move out, go around in a circle, and then repeat the
same"  maneuver.  "We pulled over to watch."
     Oshawa is 30 miles (50 kilometers) northeast
of Toronto.  (Many thanks to Kenneth Young of T.A.S.K.
for this report.)

from the UFO Files...

1485: CICERO'S DAUGHTER

    or "Who Left the Light On?"

     In April 1485, workmen quarrying for marble near
the old Appian Way in Rome, Italy made a strange
discovery.  They broke into an underground chamber
with "walls of smooth stone" that was "illuminated by
a bright lampada (lamp) cool to the touch."
     They also discovered the body of a black-haired
teenaged girl in unfamiliar clothing.
     Among those who visited the mysterious crypt was
Bartolomeo Fonte, a Renaissance artist from Firenze
(Florence).  He described the find in a letter to his
friend, Francesco Sassetti.
     "They discovered there a marble sarcophagus.
On opening it they found a body on its back covered
by a substance two inches thick, greasy and perfumed.
The oforous crust was removed beginning at the head,
there appeared to them a face of such limpid paleness
it seemed as if the young lady had been buried that
day.  Her long black hair still hung from her skull,
parted and knotted to suit a young girl and fastened
in a little net of silk and gold."
     Some people thought she was Tullia, daughter of
the Roman writer/statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero.
Tullia married Cornelius Dolabella in 47 B.C. and dropped
out of the history books.
    Others were not so sure, however.  Ponte wrote,
"Tiny ears, low forehead, black eyelashes, finally
eyes of singular shape, under whose eyelids the cornea
still appeared.  Even the nostrils were still intact and so
soft as to vibrate at the simple touch of a finger.  Her red
lips half-closed, small and white teeth, her scarlet tongue
near the palate.  Her cheeks, tongue, neck seemed to
palpitate.  Her arms hung down intact from her shoulders
so that you wished you could have moved them.  Her
nails still adhered firmly to her long, outstretched hands,
also if you had tried, you would not have succeeded in
detaching them.  Her breasts, stomach and womb were,
on the contrary, compressed at one side and, after the
removal of the aromatic crust, they decomposed.  Her
back, sides and buttocks instead had conserved their
contours and marvelous shapes, just like her thighs
and legs, which in life had presented even greater
prizes than her face."
     "In short, this must have concerned the most
beautiful young woman of noble family during the period
when Rome was at its greatest splendor.  However,
the majestic monument under the crypt had been
destroyed many centuries or so ago, without there
remaining even an inscription.  Also the sarcophagus
did not bear any sign.  We know neither the name of
the young woman nor her origin nor her age."
     The discovery also upset a lot of people, notably
Pope Innocent VIII.  He was troubled by the implications
of the "aromatic crust," some sort of ancient preservative
that completely stymied decomposition.  Even worse
was the mysterious lamp "cool to the touch" that had
been burning for at least 1,400 years.
     The pope ordered the Capitoline Hill crypt sealed
and had "Tullia" quietly reburied in an Italian convent.
     As a result, today all that remains of "Tullia" is the
charcoal sketch of her Bartolomeo Fonte drew in that
mysterious vault five hundred years ago.  (See the
article "Il Franciulla e La Lampada" in Il Giornale del
Misteri, Number 7, Autumn 1971, by Mara Calabri,
Corrado Tedeschi Editore, Firenze, Italy.  Reprinted
in GODS AND SPACEMEN IN GREECE AND ROME
by W. Raymond Drake, Signet Books, New American
Library, New York, N.Y. 1976, page 174.)
(Editor's Comment: I sometimes wonder if "Tullia"
might be a dead princess from the lost civilization of
Saturnia.  The mysterious crypt was found on the
Capitoline Hill in Rome.  Roman author Marcus
Terrentius Varro, in his book DE LINGUA LATINA,
writes, "This hill was previously called the Saturnian
Hill, we are informed by the writers, and from this
Latium has been called the Saturnian Land...It is
recorded that on this hill was an old town named
Saturnia.  Even now (That is, in 50 B.C., when the
real Tullia was still a schoolgirl--J.T.) there remain
evidences of it; that there is a temple of Saturn by
the passage leading to the hill; that there is a
Saturnian gate, which Junius writes of as there,
which they now call Pondana, that behind the temple
of Saturn in the lawns for the buildings of private
persons, the back walls are mentioned as the
Saturnian Wells.")

     Today is the birthday of Judith Ann Resnick,
one of the seven astronauts who died in the explosion
of the space shuttle Challenger January 28, 1986.
Judy was born on April 5, 1949.

     We'll be back next week with more saucer news
from "the paper that goes home--UFO ROUNDUP."
See you then.

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