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From: Joseph Trainor <Masinaigan@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 20:38:17 +0000
Fwd Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 01:11:21 -0500
Subject: UFO ROUNDUP Volume 3, Number 51
UFO ROUNDUP
Volume 3, Number 51
December 22, 1998
Editor: Joseph Trainor
UFOs INTERVENE IN OPERATION DESERT FOX
Large triangular UFOs were seen in Iraq and upstate New York
before and during Operation Desert Fox.
On Thursday, December 16, 1998, at 2:31 a.m. local time, "a
triangle-shaped pattern of lights" appeared over downtown
Baghdad and was picked up by CNN's night-vision video camera.
The lights hovered in position and moved slowly to the right, as
Iraqi anti-aircraft tracer fire streaked away into the night.
The scene appeared on CNN's live broadcast, which aired in the
USA at 6:31 p.m. Eastern time, Wednesday, December 15.
According to ufologist Ignatius Graffeo, "I did see a triangular
formation of lights moving very slowly at about" 12:55 a.m.
Baghdad time that Thursday "on an NBC news report of the
bombing...The light was steady, and it was definite and very
striking." He described it as "a V-shaped formation like the one
at Phoenix," Arizona on March 13, 1997.
The UFO "was against a black night sky and very different from
the 'greenish' tracer fire moving across the sky, which did not
hold their position for any length of time."
According to the Boston Herald, Fort Drum, the U.S. Army post in
upstate New York, was a staging area for the four-day Operation
Desert Fox. The Herald reported, "Along with the additional air
assets, the Army is sending a battalion of light infantry troops
from Fort Drum, N.Y. and nuclear-biological-chemical experts
from several bases to watch for any attack by Iraq against
Kuwait and other neighbors in the region." (See the Boston,
Mass. Herald for December 17, 1998, "U.S. to pump up military
muscle," page 22.)
Three weeks ago, around November 30, 1998, MUFON New York
received reports of triangular UFO activity over Evan Mills,
N.Y. and nearby Perch Lake, just west of Fort Drum.
According to Larry Clark of MUFON New York, a woman living on
Perch Lake reported heavy UFO activity. "First there were
triangular craft that have appeared in the local sky. The woman
(witness) reported the sighting of a 'Pine Bush' triangle that
moved at treetop level and continued out over the lake before
disappearing."
"A teenager from the local Civil Air Patrol (CAP) told the woman
that they have also spotted a craft over Evan Mills...Within the
last few weeks, the woman has regularly observed a large bluish
light with a small red streak at its center." She had reportedly
seen the UFO "hovering for hours" over her property and a large
undeveloped tract of land nearby.
Evan Mills is on Highway 37 approximately 75 miles (125
kilometers) north of Syracuse, N.Y. (Many thanks to Errol
Bruce-Knapp, Ignatius Graffeo, and MUFON Eastern director George
A. Filer for the news items.)
VIRGIN MARY PREDICTED ALLIED AIR STRIKE
On Sunday, December 13, 1998, Patricia Mundorf, a Roman Catholic
seeress who lives in Phoenix, Arizona, claimed that she had just
been visited by an apparition of the Virgin Mary (also known to
Catholics as the Blessed Mother--J.T.). The apparation warned
Mundorf that an air attack against Baghdad was imminent.
According to Ms. Mundorf, Mary said, "The United States will
attack Iraq. My children, I have warned you of this conflict.
The Red countries will not back you on this, and now you will
face the greatest possibility of nuclear and bacterial war on
your land."
Strangely enough, Ms. Mundorf experienced her Marian vision
three hours before President William Jefferson Clinton ordered
the attack. According to columnist Robert Novak, the president
decided to launch Operation Desert Fox on Sunday while flying
home from the Middle East. (See the Boston, Mass. Herald for
December 22, 1998)
(Editor's Comment: I guess that means the former Miriam
bat-Joachim is not a Democrat.)
TRIANGULAR UFOs SPOTTED IN SOUTHERN SPAIN
On Sunday, December 13, 1998, at 1:40 a.m., a triangular
formation of red and white lights was seen passing over the
small town of El Marche, Andalucia province, Spain, located 55
kilometers (33 miles) east of Malaga.
According to Antonio Salinas of Socidedad de Investigaciones
Biofisicas (S.I.B.), "The formation of lights was flying very
slowly. The witnesses had them in view for ten minutes. All of
the bright lights moved in tandem, as a formation with a single
structure, which itself was invisible."
"The UFOs were flying to the northeast, on a bearing of 060
degrees. The object appeared to have come from the southwest in
a straight line, from bearing 280 degrees and the
(Mediterranean) sea."
(Editor's Comment: With this flight path, the UFO formation
would have come from Ceuta, Morocco.)
At 2:15 a.m., a second formation of lights appeared over
Frigiliana, near El Marche, where they were seen by gas station
attendant Miguel Armijo. He described the UFO as "red lights
going at a very slow velocity."
The sketch Armijo gave to S.I.B. showed this array of lights:
* * * 0 0 0
At 3:40 a.m., two triangular light formations were seen by
Spanish policemen in Torrox, a town of Andalucia about 70
kilometers (42 miles) east of Malaga. Officer Gregorio Cabello
Algan of the Guardia Civil (Spain's national police--J.T.) said
he saw "a formation of three bright red lights."
Officer Rafael Gonzalez Mora of Torrox's municipal police said
he saw "a formation of white lights. Two minutes later, a second
formation of red lights crossed the sky."
Here are sketches of the UFOs they observed. The first looks
very much like the "Lubbock Lights" of 1952.
El Marche and Torrox are located on Spain's southern coast about
300 kilometers (180 miles) south of Madrid.
The sightings were reported in local newspapers and on the TV
news program Andalucia Directo, Canal Sur (Channel South) on
Tuesday, December 15, 1998. (Muchas gracias a Antonio Salinas de
S.I.B. para esas noticias. See also the Spanish newspaper Diario
for December 15, 1998, "Vecinos de El Marche aseguran haber
avistado un OVNI sobrevolar la costa.")
UFO SIGHTINGS CONTINUE IN NORTHERN ITALY
On November 7, 1998, at about 8 p.m., a couple in Casalmaggiore,
a town near Cremona, 140 kilometers (84 miles) southeast of
Milano (Milan), "observed a white sphere, luminous, much larger
than a star, that traversed the sky... The same object, and a
similar one, appeared before two gentlemen at the Teatro Regio
in Parma, around midnight."
Parma is 125 kilometers (75 miles) southeast of Milano.
On Saturday, December 5, 1998, "a green disc measuring 20
centimeters at arm's length was sighted near Castelbuttano. The
object had a definite shape and dropped down in a power dive.
The object did not leave any trail."
On Monday, December 7, 1998, at 11:05 p.m., "a motorist who was
driving toward Pavia," a city 75 kilometers (45 miles) south of
Milano, "had noticed in the sky a blob of light that speedily
ascended in a perpendicular trajectory, covering several hundred
meters of distance. The object appeared as a luminous piece of
yellowish-orange color. In one-tenth of a second, the UFO had
described a course toward the witnesses 'with a direction almost
perpendicular and at an incredible velocity."
The witness estimated that the sudden had "generated a force of
20 G's and 'nothing living could have survived such a furious
velocity.'"
Also on December 7, "a triangular blue light was seen flying
over the Piazza de Ferraris in central Genoa," a major port city
300 kilometers (180 miles) northwest of Rome, "at about 5 p.m."
(Grazie a Michaele Loda, Maria Elena Parodi e Alfredo Lissoni di
Centro Ufologico Nazionale, CUN, per questo rapporto.)
UFOs ON THE MOVE IN NORTHERN AUSTRALIA
On Sunday, December 13, 1998, at 2 a.m., a woman living in
Katherine, Northern Territory (N.T.) Australia reported sighting
"two tennis-sized red balls illuminating the sky."
"I think there is something going on out there," ufologist Keith
Douglass of Alice Springs, N.T. said, "I got the report from a
couple of different people saying they were about two or three
kilometers up in the sky at 2 a.m."
Katherine is located 960 kilometers (600 miles) north of Alice
Springs.
On Monday, December 14, 1998, at 2:10 a.m., witness Warwick S.
reported, "I had just gone outside to have a smoke and enjoy the
beautiful night/early morning" in Rapid Creek, N.T. "I said a
prayer, looked up and around the Milky Way... I saw a shooting
star, and then to my right, a flashing light approaching. At
first I thought it was a plane, as the Airport is not far away.
It flew past me, slowly observing me and letting me observe it.
It maintained the same speed (5 kilometers/hour) and then flew
out to sea."
Warwick estimated that the UFO was "20 meters up, lights were
blue, red, yellow and orange. It was ten minutes in view,"
adding that he felt "scared, excited, overwhelmed, maybe a bit
disappointed because they didn't stay to chat." (Many thanks to
Diane Harrison of UFO Network Australasia for this news story.)
CYLINDRICAL UFO FLIES OVER LONDON
On Thursday, December 16, 1998, at 9:05 a.m., David W., his wife
and two children were driving on Manthorpe Road, heading into
Brewery Road in London when they spotted a UFO.
"The sky was clear blue, with slightly patchy cloud near the
horizon," Dave reported, describing the UFO as "a solid white
cylinder, smooth but reflective surface with rounded edges, no
visible wings, markings or other appendages."
The UFO, he added, "flew like a slow-moving missile, travelling
'a level straight line' east to west, from Abbey Wood to central
London. My first thought was that the Iraqis were bombing
London!" (Many thanks to Marc Bell and Errol Bruce-Knapp for
this news story.)
WISCONSIN MAN SEES UFO OVER LAKE MICHIGAN
On Wednesday, December 16, 1998, at about 9 p.m., Mr.
Dornberger, 90, of Algoma, Wisconsin (population 3,353) "saw
something that he had never seen in his life before"--a luminous
UFO cavorting in the night sky over Lake Michigan.
Describing the object as "a very bright light," Dornberger
"could hardly believe his eyes as the large object darted around
the sky over the lake," performing "incredible maneuvers."
"At first I thought it might be a helicopter," he added, "but
after giving some thought to it," he decided that nothing
manmade could fly at such speed or perform such maneuvers. (Many
thanks to Rev. Billy Dee of UFOSSI for forwarding this news
story.)
(Editor's Note: Algoma is on Highway 42, approximately 38 miles
(60 kilometers) north of Manitowoc, Wis., the site of last
week's "weird critter" sighting. See UFO Roundup, volume 3,
number 50 for more details.)
DIAMOND-SHAPED UFO SEEN OVER THE ARIZONA DESERT
On Tuesday, December 1, 1998, at 9:30 p.m., Judi M. and her
husband were camped out near the little town of Why, Arizona
(population 47), which is on Highway 86 about 120 miles (192
kilometers) west of Tucson, when she encountered a UFO.
"It's a campground, so no light to speak of," Judi reported, "My
husband had just gone to sleep, and I was outside alone. I often
watch the stars from there because there's an absence of city
lights."
"Anyway, I viewed a large diamond-shaped object almost directly
overhead. The craft or lights were in a diamond shape, with
large lights all over, non-blinking. I didn't hear any engine
noise, just saw the lights moving slowly toward the west. It was
hard to judge the altitude of the craft. To me, it appeared as
large as a (Boeing) 747 while flying directly overhead at about
500 feet."
"There was a bright green light underneath and in the middle of
all the other lights...I then noticed another light trailing
behind the 'craft.' Hard to judge how far behind, but a
significant range, maybe a quarter of a mile, a red light,
non-blinking...The lights turned west and, to my surprise, made
a slow wide turn and came back toward me, but a little further
south of where I stood, about a mile or two."
"As the craft or lights were getting smaller, but still in plain
sight, I heard a jet engine--two, actually. Two jets (from the
local Barry Goldwater Air Force Base, I suppose) flew across the
sky, heading straight for the 'lights.' Now it got my attention.
Why were the jets behind them in such a big hurry?"
"Interesting, too, is the fact that the 'lights' were suddenly
no longer there, or at least they turned them off." She added
that the jets continued on that flight path for five minutes,
then turned back and headed back to base. (Email Interview)
UFOs LINKED TO A POWER FAILURE IN KENTUCKY
On Sunday, December 13, 1998, at 10:35 p.m., radio host Bill
Boshears of WLW-AM Radio, 770 on your dial, received a strange
call on his show, Sci-Zone.
Boshears said a caller phoned in a report about "a blue-colored
object descending from the sky in an area near Eastlake Mall" in
Batavia, Ohio (population 1,700), a town on Route 222 about 20
miles (32 kilometers) east of Cincinnati.
Forty minutes later, at 11:15 p.m., across the Ohio River in
northern Kentucky, a woman motorist spotted "a blue-colored
object over Hopeful-Church Road" near Florence, Ky (population
18,624).
"While traveling southbound on Hopeful-Church Road," she
reported, "I spotted a large triangular object that seemed to be
hovering. The object was composed of very prominent blue lights
which flashed or traced in a vertical manner."
The woman said she "almost struck the curb while looking at the
object." With her car engine running, she was unable to hear any
sound from the object. She added that she could make out "a
triangular structure" from the "skyglow" light from the metro
Cincinnati area and from the "partial luminescence caused by the
blue lights. The object departed at a low elevation to the
southeast."
On Monday, December 14, 1998, at 6 a.m., a 14-year-old boy in
Dry Ridge, Ky. (population 58) spotted "a blue-colored object
with flames." He added that the object was "big and circular
with blue flames" and was "thought to be going down or diving."
At 11 a.m., WLW reported a power blackout in Florence, Ky.
At 4 p.m., the woman witness "saw two black-clad helicopters in
the area" along Hopeful-Church Road where she had seen the UFO
the previous night.
On Wednesday, December 16, 1998, at 11:50 p.m., a 27-year-old
male witness spotted a UFO near his home in Fort Mitchell, Ky.
He said he noticed a "star-like object in the sky. From his
vantage point, he was looking to the east and was able to view
the star-like object at a distance, seemingly at a high
elevation to the northeast of Cincinnati."
"The object would dim and come back on again," he reported, "It
would dim and rekindle as if it were a candle struggling to stay
lit...The alleged object seemed to move from left to right, up
and down, as if it were 'sliding' through the sky. Wasn't an
airplane, wasn't a helicopter."
Florence, Ky. is on Interstate Highway I-75 about 11 miles (17
kilometers) south of Cincinnati. (Many thanks to Cincinnati UFO
researcher Kenny Young for this news story.)
UFO SIGHTED OVER LAKE ERIE
On Monday, December 14, 1998, at 6:30 p.m., a woman witness was
outdoors in Avonia, Pennsylvania (population 1,366), a small
town 10 miles (16 kilometers) west of Erie, Pa, and about one
mile south of Lake Erie, when she saw a UFO.
She was "unloading some items from her car when she was startled
to see a bright white light with a tail that appeared to pass
directly over her head. The object was moving from north to
south, and no sound was apparent."
"The object continued to move to a distance of about 30 feet"
from the witness "and stopped directly above the roof of my
house. The object then appeared as a solid, real white light,
and it was motionless. It then began a pattern of blinking off,
then blinking on--at about one-second intervals. I became
frightened at that point and ran inside, and that was the last
the object was observed." (Many thanks to Stan Gordon of
Pennsylvania UFO Hotline for this report. You can reach the
hotline at this number--area code 724-number 838-7768, if you
have a UFO sighting in Pennsylvania to report.)
UFOLOGIST LEWIS SAYS METHOW VALLEY UFO IS A CAMERA FLAW
The "Methow Valley UFO" photographed by a security camera at Sun
Mountain resort lodge near Winthrop, Washington state is most
likely a flaw in the camera, Florida ufologist Courtland Lewis
said.
(See UFO Roundup Volume 3 Number 50)
"If you go to the website provided and look at the SkyCam image
for December 16, about 8:30 a.m., you'll see a glaring radiant
object in the same place on the image," Lewis stated.
"The UFO hasn't traveled far in the past month, has it?"
Lewis said the luminous spot was most likely "something on the
camera lens" and not a UFO. (Email Interview)
BRITISH Y2K EXPERT DOES SUDDEN ABOUT-FACE ON LOOMING COMPUTER
CRISIS
Gwyneth Flowers (no relation to Gennifer--J.T.), chairperson of
the UK's Taskforce 2000, did a surprising about-face last week
after warning Britons to stockpile food.
Ms. Flowers, who heads the task force set up by the Ministry of
Trade and Industry to deal with the Year 2000 computer crisis,
told newsmen on December 11, 1998 that "We are talking about
people having a judicious amount of surplus food in their
kitchen cupboards."
Two days later, according to The Observer, Ms. Flowers hastily
backtracked, issuing a second statement, claiming that the UK
media had taken her first statement out of context.
"The big thing is that they don't need to tell everyone they
don't need to take any specific action. We don't want people
hoarding." (See The Observer for December 13, 1998)
In other Millenium Bug news, recently New Zealand imposed a
one-day no-fly-zone over the islands to take effect on December
31, 1999. International flights will not be allowed to land in
New Zealand that day..
In Canada, the Ottawa Citizen stated that "the federal
government should consider engaging the Emergencies Act, the
successor to the War Measures Act, if the Millenium Bug causes"
widespread urban unrest. (See the Ottawa Citizen for December
12, 1998.)
from the UFO Files...
1909: CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS WATCH A UFO FLY OVER BOSTON
On December 23, 1909, over thirty communities in Massachusetts
reported sightings of UFOs, all of which were thought to be the
"airship" invented by Wallace J. Tillinghast, a self-proclaimed
inventor from Worcester, Mass.
But nowhere were the sightings more dramatic than in downtown
Boston, where thousands of people watched the strange display in
the sky.
Here's the actual account as it appeared in the Boston Herald:
"At first, those who saw the lights took them for some unusually
bright star, shining through the hazy atmosphere. The two strong
searchlights were distinguished from the blurred outline as they
flashed among the buildings on Beacon Street."
"Visible for a few minutes, the lights disappeared again and
shortly after were seen above the Common, crossing over the
Charles Street Mall. Many of the skaters in the Public Gardens
were attracted by the lights and left the ice to join the
throngs of Christmas shoppers who forgot their errands to watch
the strange sight."
"The lights moved so quickly that the soon outdistanced the
following crowd and served to put to rest the belief that they
might have come from a large balloon. At times, when seen from
what was taken to be the side of the machine, the lights had the
appearance of automobile headlights, casting a bright glow as
from a reflection. Then they were seen head on and the vague
outline of an aerial craft was barely discernible between the
two lights, which seemed to be on either end."
"At the height of 600 feet, which the airship maintained, the
lights looked scarcely a fathom (6 feet or 1.7 meters--J.T.)
apart, shining with a brightness greater than that of the moon."
"Long shadows were cast by the lights as they floated for a
moment and then quickly dimmed. Above the Common the lights
remained apparently stationary for somewhat less than half an
hour, in apparent contravention of the popular belief that an
aeroplane can remain in the air only when in motion..."
"Coming over the Common and proceeding in the direction of
Copley Square, the lights were again visible a little after 8:15
(p.m.) This time they passed quickly over Back Bay, followed by
a detail of patrolmen from Station #18 in case the operator
attempted a landing, and disappeared in the direction (west) of
Brookline and Chestnut Hill." (See the Boston, Mass. Herald for
December 23, 1909, page 1. See also Fortean Studies, volume 1,
"The New England Airship Invasion of 1909" by Joseph Trainor,
page 67.)
FUN UFO WEBSITES:
For more on the UFO flap in Spain, be sure to visit S.I.B.'s
website at this URL: http://www.arrakis.es/~regulus/sib.htm
The current status of Y2K preparations in New Zealand can be
read at this site: http://www.year2000.co.nz/y2kmz01.htm
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MERRY CHRISTMAS!
UFO Roundup offers Christmas greetings to the millions of men
and women in uniform around the planet, who are on active duty
and cannot be home with their families for the holiday. Whoever
you are, whatever uniform you proudly wear, whichever country
you serve--here's wishing you a Merry Christmas.
Thirty years ago, on December 21, 1968, three men really did go
"where no man has gone before," namely, to the moon. On that
day, Apollo 8 lifted off from Cape Canaveral (then Cape
Kennedy), Florida for its quarter- million-mile voyage.
Astronauts Frank Borman, James A. Lovell Jr. and William A.
Anders became the first human beings ever to completely escape
Earth's gravity and enter orbit around another world.
Join us next week for more saucer news from around the planet,
brought to you by "the paper that goes home--UFO Roundup." Enjoy
your Christmas holidays!
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