From: Masinaigan@aol.com
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:36:58 EST
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Subject: UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 3, Number 5
UFO ROUNDUP
Volume 3, Number 5
February 1, 1998
Editor: Joseph Trainor
FIREBALL UFOs DOMINATE
COLORADO SKIES
Colorado's UFO flap roared into its second
week with multiple sightings in the central and
southern portions of the state.
On Friday, January 23, 1998, Jim Roberts spotted
"an orange or salmon-colored globe" hovering above
his ranch in Cotopaxi (population 75), a small town
on Colorado Highway 50 about 148 miles
(248 kilometers) south of Denver. He reported,
"The object was hovering, dimming and brightening,
over the western horizon."
Four days later, on Tuesday, January 27, 1998,
Marshal Steve Ford was driving in his cruiser near the
intersection of Blue River Road and Colorado Highway 9
in Breckenridge (population 1,285) when he spotted
"a large fiery object trailed by a plume of smoke."
Breckenridge is in central Colorado approximately
83 miles (133 kilometers) west of Denver.
"It was a fairly large object that was on fire with
smoke that was spiraling off the back of it," Ford told
the Denver Post. "My first thought was that it was
a meteor."
"Ford said the object plummeted more than
1,000 feet. He lost sight of it at tree level."
"'It was a vertical shot toward the ground, and
I'm sure it impacted the ground,' Ford said."
"Leigh Pezzicara, a spokeswoman for Breckenridge
Ski Resort, and several guests reported seeing a flare
in the area of Peaks 5 and 6. 'However, we really can't
confirm what it was,' she said."
Rancher "John Fisher was in Breckenridge when
he spotted the object. According to Fisher, it created
a visible trail that covered a quarter of the sky."
Fisher spotted the object just past noontime as
he was driving north on Highway 9, near the
Breckenridge Building Center. "Although no one saw
where the object landed, Fisher believes it hit near
Good Pasture Tarn, just west of Breckenridge."
(See the Denver Post for January 28, 1998, "Several
Report Seeing Its Blazing Path.")
Eight hours later, "hours after a 'daytime fireball'
was spotted streaking earthward near Breckenridge...
several people reported seeing another blazing object
south of town that night."
"Breckenridge resident John Sperber was driving
south on Main Street at about 10:45 p.m. when he
and a friend saw a bluish-green fireball streak east
to west across the sky."
"'It looked like an egg and was so bright we
could see some smoke behind it,' Sperber said."
"The object was so close, Sperber said, it must
have landed up on Peak 9, near Beaver Run Resort.
'It turned out to be not as close as we thought it was,'
he said."
"Mike Tukewicz was also driving south into
Breckenridge on Colorado (Highway) 9 when he and
his wife spotted the fireball. His description of the
fiery object was similar to Sperber's, except the
Tukewiczes witnessed it at 8:45 p.m." about two
hours earlier.
"'It was blue and gleaming, with a hint of orange
at the rear heading from east to west,' Tukewicz said.
'I must have seen it for three seconds before it either
disappeared or headed west.'"
"John and Monique Derwyn also viewed the
fireball around 9 p.m. from their home in Summit
Cove."
"'I thought it might've been an airplane going down,
but my husband said, no, it's a meteorite,' Monique
Derwyn said."
"All of those who say they witnessed the fiery
object were facing almost due south and saw the
fireball cross the sky from east to west. Sightings
of the fireball began about 8 hours after several
witnesses said they saw a fiery object plummet
from the sky near Breckenridge around noon Tuesday."
(See the Denver Post for January 30, 1998, "Fireball
Lights Mountain Skies.")
Meanwhile, in Salida, Colorado (population 4,737),
125 miles (210 kilometers) south of Denver, Laray
Edwards, 17, was sitting in the family's computer room
at about 9 p.m. "when she viewed a moon-sized ball
of green light for a couple of seconds racing at top
speed and disappearing to the southwest."
At the same time, Mrs. Kathy Ralter and her four
children were driving into Salida when they saw the
green UFO "down the road a half-mile to the south...
No tail was observed by any of the witnesses. They
were extremely excited and some were scared."
(Many thanks to Tim Edwards and Christopher O'Brien,
author of THE MYSTERIOUS VALLEY, for forwarding
these reports.)
DAYLIGHT FIREBALL CRASHES
IN SOUTHERN WYOMING
On Tuesday, January 27, 1998, shortly after
noontime, local ranchers saw a "brilliant fireball"
touch down on the prairie in Hanna, Wyoming,
near Rawlins (population 9,830).
Rawlins is a small city on Interstate Highway 80
approximately 156 miles (249 kilometers) west of
Cheyenne, the state capital. The area is also
about 200 miles (320 kilometers) northwest of
Breckenridge, Colorado.
"Carbon County investigators have been unable
to find any debris associated with a 'ball of fire' that
reportedly crashed to the ground near Hanna."
"The ball of fire was reported after noon Tuesday
by the pilot of a passing airliner."
"'He said he had seen a ball of fire, which he
believed may have been a meteorite or space junk,'
said Tim Patton of the Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA). 'He reported he had gotten some (air)
turbulence from the object." (See the Rocky Mountain
News for January 28, 1998, "No Debris Found from
'Fire Ball.'")
TRIANGULAR UFO SEEN NEAR
ZANESVILLE, OHIO
On Thursday, January 29, 1998, at 7:07 p.m.,
a Bellville, Ohio woman was driving east on a two-lane
road east of Zanesville, Ohio (population 26,788)
when she saw "a V-shaped object which had a bright
light at the front and center. The rear of the object
could not be seen due to the brightness of the
twin lights. The witness also observed a 'reddish
glow' across a portion of the rear which could have
been the edge. The object hovered at a high altitude
for 25 minutes."
Zanesville is located on Interstate Highway 70
approximately 55 miles (88 kilometers) east of
Columbus, the state capital.
At 7:30 p.m., the woman telephoned a nearby
friend, who said she "had also been watching the object
'for a period of time' using binoculars. Through the
binoculars, she described smaller objects 'maneuvering'
near the large object, seemingly to merge with it."
"A third witness...was also contacted and also
described the object. Its size was said to be one mile
(1.6 kilometers) across (wide) near the edge of the
'craft' and said to be an estimated six to seven
thousand feet (altitude). The soundless object
disappeared from sight as clouds moved into the
area, hiding it from view."
The case is being investigated by local
researcher Jim Donohue, publisher of Equinox
newsletter. (Many thanks to Kenneth Young, public
information director of Tri-state Advocates for
Scientific Knowledge (T.A.S.K.) for this report.)
(Editor's Comment: Zanesville, Ohio was the site
of a big UFO flap in March 1967.)
SPHERICAL RED UFO SEEN
IN VENICE BEACH, FLORIDA
On Friday, January 23, 1998, just after 11:15 p.m.,
a woman living in Venice Beach, Florida, on the Gulf
of Mexico approximately 65 miles (104 kilometers)
south of Tampa, spotted a strange spherical red UFO
just outside her house.
At first the witness thought it "might be an airplane
crashing. She quickly changed her mind when, after
falling straight down, the object stopped just above
treetop height and hovered. As it came down out of
the sky, it left a flame trail behind it. Once it started
to hover, the trail disappeared, and 'it also appeared to
get wider.' It changed into an elliptical shape."
"It hovered for approximately one minute and then
sped off to the south-southwest," over the Gulf of Mexico.
The woman then went to bed. Two hours later, she
awoke suddenly and, feeling a little anxious, went
outside to check the sky. "The object appeared again
and did exactly the same thing it did the first time...
Sky condition at the time was very clear." The witness
"heard no noise while witnessing the object." (See
Filer's Files #4 for 1998. Many thanks to Nancy Dunning
and George A. Filer of MUFON for this report.)
CHUPACABRA BLAMED FOR
PUERTO RICO CAT MUTILATIONS
On Monday, January 26, 1998, three cats were found
dead and mutilated at the home of Melvin Rosado in
La Parguera, Puerto Rico. A fourth cat "vanished
mysteriously."
Parguera is in the southwest corner of the island,
on Highway 119, approximately 55 miles (88 kilometers)
southwest of San Juan, P.R.
Police believe the killings occurred during the early
morning hours of January 26. "One of the cats had its
skin separated by a precise, bloodless incision. Sr.
Rosado noticed that the three slain felines had identical
incisions on their heads and backs. No one in the
Rosado household heard any unusual sounds during
the night."
"'The cats weren't attacked by dogs,' Rosado stated,
'because our house has gates, and no dog would be able
to reach the cats where they were."
Many people in Puerto Rico believe the Chupacabra
(Goatsucker) was responsible for the bizarre slaying.
(See the newspaper El Vocero of San Juan, P.R. for
January 27, 1998, "El Chupacabra Ahora Chupa Gatos."
Many thanks to Scott Corrales, author of CHUPACABRAS
AND OTHER MYSTERIES, and Lucy Pla of the Puerto
Rican UFO Research Group for this report.)
WEIRD FLASHES LIGHT UP THE
SKY OVER IRONWOOD, MICHIGAN
On Thursday, January 15, 1998, at 6:50 p.m., Brian M.
was walking home from work in Ironwood, Michigan
(population 6,700). "Upon reaching my driveway, I stopped
and checked the mailbox. When I looked up again, it
seemed that a number of stars had decided to start
blinking on and off."
"The blinking appeared random, unsequenced, and
each time the objects lit, they moved to a new location
and seemed to wander erratically," Brian reported.
"Because of the on-off sequence, and large trees near
the horizon, I am unable to give an exact count, but I
would estimate that there had to have been six UFOs
scattered across the southern sky, below 45 degrees
and as bright as any other celestial objects in the sky."
He estimated that the UFOs were "tens of miles"
to the south, past neighboring Hurley, Wisconsin and
the Gile Flowage (lake).
"I walked down the drive to the south side of my
house, where it was darkest. The objects continued
their flashing and motion. Each time one 'lit,' it was in
a slightly new position. At last one worked its way
towards the southwest. The rest grouped together
within 15 degrees (of arc) and headed into the
horizon" near where "Orion was rising in the southeast."
Brian said the flashing "lasted ten minutes," and
the UFOs "were as bright as Sirius--magnitude one...
as bright as a flashbulb popping. I am an expert
skywatcher and this incident was unlike anything I have
ever witnessed."
Ironwood is Michigan's westernmost city, located
in the Upper Peninsula (U.P.) on U.S. Route 2,
approximately 605 miles (968 kilometers) northwest
of Detroit. (Email Interview)
PURPLE SKY FLASH CAUSES
BLACKOUT IN KENTUCKY
On Tuesday, January 27, 1998, at 6:40 p.m.,
two young men driving in a pickup truck on
Nicholasville Road in Lexington, Kentucky
(population 225,336) saw a strange "purple flash"
light up the sky.
For five minutes, electricity in Fayette Mall
and in homes near the Jessamine County line
between Highway 27 and Clay Mills Road "was
flashing on and off and finally went off" completely
after the mysterious flash.
A power outage was also reported at the
Southpoint subdivision, located between Fayette
Mall and Nicholasville.
The young men "were coming home about
6:40 p.m. when a purple flash above the clouds
happened. His friend's truck lost its power, and
a 'neon thing' he has on his gearshift. It didn't glow
any more during the flash. After the flash went
away, he tried to get power back, and the
electricity came back on."
Lexington is in north central Kentucky on
Highways 27 and 68 approximately 79 miles
(126 kilometers) of Louisville. (Many thanks to
Steve Wilson Sr. for this report.)
(Editor's Comment: Those aliens had better not
mess with the beer cooler or the jukebox at my
favorite roadhouse, the Original Dew Drop Inn
on Highway 22 in Brooksville, Kentucky. Or
there's going to be hell to pay!)
BROWN GOOP FALLS ON
PENNSYLVANIA HOME
On Sunday afternoon, January 18, 1998,
hundreds of gallons of a weird brown wax-like
substance fell on the home of the Snell family
in Paradise Township, not far from York,
Pennsylvania (population 42,192)
"A mysterious brown substance fell from
the sky...It splattered the house, the roof, the
windows, the barn, the stone driveway."
"Police can't figure out what it is. Neither
can anyone else. It's the color of mud but it's
not grainy. An insurance adjuster has ordered
tests on the substance."
Rose Snell discovered the weird substance
when she returned home at 7:30 p.m.
"'It's mystifying,' Snell kept saying as she
walked around her house." She said "she noticed
the brown splash on her door as she entered the
house."
"Great, she thought, I bet those boys were
having a mud battle."
"Her 18-year-old son, Marc, had been hanging
out with several of his friends during the day. She
was prepared to have a few words with him as he
walked in the door."
(Editor's Comment: Isn't it strange how the
teenagers get blamed every time a weird event
occurs?)
"But his comment took her by surprise.
'What's going on here?' Marc asked."
"Marc said he returned home about 6 p.m.
He, too, noticed the brown splashes on the door."
Marc Snell also found brown splashes on
his car. "He tried to wash them off his windshield
with cleaning fluid. They were hard to remove."
"He said, 'Mom, it's like paste or wax on there.'"
The Snells called the Northern York County
Regional Police, who dispatched a cruiser to the
scene. When the trooper switched on his heavy-
duty flashlight, "that's when they realized that the
brown splashes covered everything on her property."
"'It's everywhere,' Snell said."
"'It appears as though it came from the sky,'
Northern Regional Police Lt. Mark Bentzel said."
(See the York, Pennsylvania Daily Record for
January 21, 1998, "What's My Slime?" Many thanks
to Rudy Alfano and Errol Bruce-Knapp for this news
story.)
(Editor's Comment: Charles Fort would have had a
field day with this case.)
UFO HOVERS OFFSHORE
NEAR MADEIRA ISLAND
On New Year's Eve, December 31, 1997,
reporter Cristina Marto de Pimental and her
husband were at a seaside party in Funchal,
a port city on the south shore of Madeira
island, a Portuguese territory in the Atlantic
Ocean 912 kilometers (570 miles) east of
Morocco.
"We were watching the New Year's
festivities, all the fireworks in the sky," she
reported. Then several people at the party
called her attention to "a red and motionless
light above Funchal."
"The OVNI (Portuguese acronym for UFO)
suddenly made a very tight circle, returned to
its initial position, and, a few seconds later, it
accelerated at great speed in a vertical direction."
She added that a British couple at the
festival videotaped the UFO as it hovered.
Sra. Marto de Pimental telephoned the
Fuerzas Aereas Portugueses (FAP) headquarters
in Lisboa the next day. The Portuguese air force
told her that they'd had no flights, neither planes
nor helicopters, over Madeira that night. (See
Jornal do Madeira for January 2, 1998. Muito
obrigado a Bruni Barros para eso caso.)
BLACK HELICOPTER SPIES
ON DUTCH UFOLOGISTS
Dutch ufologist Geert van Haalem announced
his resignation from UFOIA recently, claiming that
he'd been under surveillance lately by unidentified
government agents and a black helicopter.
Van Haalem conducted an investigation into
repeated UFO sightings in and around Gorinchem,
a town in the Netherlands 77 kilometers (48 miles)
south of Amsterdam.
Following the most recent UFO sighting in late
December 1997, van Haalem reported, "I have been
the subect of overt harassment and mind-control
techniques."
"One day, as I was leaving home (on van
Beethovenstraat in Gorinchem--J.T.), I saw two
people...standing on a little bridge with a clear view
of my street. It was a man and a woman. The man
was fishing with a brand-new fishing rod, and the
woman was accompanying him. It was clearly not
a good day to fish because it was rather cold. The
woman was very large and muscular, and the man
was small and thin."
Van Haalem told a fellow researcher about the
couple and was asked if he had ever seen a black
helicopter. His answer was no.
"The next day, I was in town (Gorinchem) and
a black helicopter flew right overhead," he reported,
adding that it might have been a SIGINT (Signals
Intelligence) chopper. "This is how we believe
they've been tapping our phones."
At any rate, van Haalem reportedly told UFOIA
associates that he is through with the UFO business.
(Many thanks to Danielle Seijmonsbergen for this
report.)
JAPANESE PORT INVADED
BY WILD MONKEYS
On Sunday morning, January 28, 1998, "a pack
of wild monkeys swooped down and attacked
passersby" in the seaside town of Ito, Shizuoka
prefecture, in Japan.
Six monkeys injured 26 people during the
morning attack. "The monkeys appeared in
gardens and streets, biting people in the back
and legs."
"Local authorities using loudspeakers warned
residents to beware of the monkeys as the town
organized a hunt for them. 'The people here are
scared to death,' an official said."
"The injuries were slight, and the victims
received injections for rabies after the waves of
attacks by six monkeys between Sunday morning
and Monday evening (January 26, 1998)."
"'This is the first time this has ever happened,
and we're not sure why it happened,' the official
said. 'We've had a lot of snow in the mountains
(just west of Ito--J.T.) the past couple of weeks, so
maybe the monkeys were looking for food below.'"
Ito is located on the western shore of Sagami
Bay approximately 120 kilometers (75 miles)
southwest of Tokyo.
(See the New York Daily News for January 28, 1998,
"Wild Monkeys Go Ape in Japan," page 26.)
A strange week, eh? And not only for President
William Jefferson Clinton of the USA. Our regular
features, from the UFO Files and Fun UFO Websites
will be back next week. I figured that you readers
wanted ALL the dish on this week's uncanny sightings
and events.
So join us next Sunday for more saucer news
from "the paper that goes home--UFO ROUNDUP."
See you then!
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