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From: "Christopher O'Brien" <tmv@pop.amigo.net>
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 11:51:24 -7
Fwd Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 17:40:34 -0500
Subject: Mysterious Valley Report Dec-Jan

More anomalous events have surfaced from December and January in The
San Luis Valley CO/NM.  I have elected to forward you this report--
even though some of the information was contained in my last "Winter
Update"

Volume Five,  The Mysterious Valley Report   Number One
December 1997----January 1998
Compiled by Christopher O'Brien  c 1998

Here We Go Again!
1997 in The San Luis Valley ended with a unusual animal death bang,
and 1998 began with numerous reports of anomalous object sightings.
Several reports from Huerfano County are still under investigation as
reports of fantastic aerial activity were fielded by Huerfano
investigator David Perkins.  Coincedental reports of massive military
activity followed these unbelievable reports of huge "disco-ball"
craft, which reportedly shot out smaller red lights that criss-crossed
the Huerfano Valley for hours, over the course of three nights.  What
are the military flyboys with toys up to anyway? Levengood To Publish
Findings In the next issue of The Mysterious Valley Report, I will
present Dr. W.C. Levengood's soil and plant analysis results from
Redox Testing of Crop-circle and "Bovine Excision Sites" from
1993-1997.  Nancy Talbot, coordinator for Levengood will be presenting
these results at the National MUFON Conference in Denver this coming
June.  Preliminary analysis has been highly intriguing.  Abnormal
levels of magnetite and depressed redox-levels in plant mitichondria
will be mentioned extensively.  Levengood's work in the bio-physical
field brings an air of legitimacy to our proto-science of UFOlogy.
Hopefully, more scientists will climb aboard and verify Levengood's
findings.

A Flurry of Sightings Reported
Saturday December 13, 1997 7:30 p.m., Thomas Paye and a friend were
driving north on State Highway 285, two miles north of La Jara, CO.
They witnessed two unusual lights/objects, the first at 7:05 p.m.,
while traveling north, and the second sighting at 10 p.m., while
headed south on 285.  Both objects were seen while looking toward the
east  Ist object was an orange globe, the second, a blue one.
Sighting locations are two and twelve miles from gelding death
location. Sun December 14, 1997, from 1:15 to 1:40 a.m at 12S road
near Mesita, SLV CO [50 miles north of 3:00 am sighting]   A large
object was seen by two witnesses slowly crossing the SLV, east to
west, from the Questa, NM, area north of Toas, NM, toward Chama, NM.
They estimated that it took 25 minutes to traverse approximately 50
miles.

The Musical Big Triangle
A little over an hour after the large slow-moving craft was observed,
that same Sun December 14, 1997, at 3:00 am., a witness about 2 miles
north of Center, CO. reported the following event in a letter I
received a couple of weeks later. I had not published the other
December 14 reports and the timing between the two events is uncanny.
Could the following be the large "light" that was seen crossing the
Valley at the CO/NM border?  The witness wrote: "I saw out my back
door one of those triangular UFO's hovering over the south field [of
the witnesses' ranch]. When I went outside to see it, it moved slowly
and hovered by the roof of the house and over by the silos. Then it
came back over  the house and a beam of white-blue light came out of
the middle and something was taken up in the beam. I couldn't see
what, but its shape was smallish. I was so scared I couldn't talk. It
played some kind of musical rhythm when the lights around the edge
flashed off and on. Let me know if anyone else saw anything." I called
her and told her of Paye's sighting and thanked her for her letter.

Another Alamosa River "Mute"
On Wednesday December 17, 1997, at 10:30 a.m., rancher Ron Gardiner
discovered a dead gelding 5 miles SW of Alamosa, CO, in the SLV.  The
animal was and was found lying on it's right side at the bottom of a
dry, 7 foot deep irrigation canal-channel. There was evidence of a
struggle i.e., broken chimisa bushes and thrashing marks, but besides
the unfortunate gelding's tracks, there were no other tracks present.
The carcass was still warm and the rancher estimated the animal was
killed and mutilated sometime around dawn.  This investigator made
an on-site visit Thursday the 18th after being contacted by the
rancher.  Three sets of incisional samples were obtained for
forensic testing and videotape and photos of the site were taken.
The horse was missing it's penis and an 8 inch circular patch of
hide behind the sheath-- which was intact.  The rear-end was neatly
cored out in a slightly elongated circle to a depth of 8 to 9
inches.  Eyes and tongue were intact.  No apparent scavenger interest
noted and two horses in the small herd seemed curious and unafraid of
the carcass.  The carcass did not bloat.  No downside incisions or
additional evidence noted by   the rancher, this investigator, or the
Sheriff's investigator, but a 5 inch shallow gash in the hide was
present on the neck.  Several drops, which appeared to be blood, were
found in snow about 60 feet away over the fence and across the road.
 Weather was very cold and windless and the temperature was just
below zero at approximate time of death. Again, as with the
November 30, 1997 Hooper case, dense fog was reported in the area the
evening the horse was evidently killed.

Big Bad Wolf Visits San Luis
Monday January 5, 1998, Three pigs were discovered, in a mutilated
condition, by two San Luis, CO ranchers. A local San Luis, CO., man
named Arnie contacted me with the following report: "I wanted to
follow up on our conversation regarding the pig mutilations. Upon
speaking the the man who discovered the carcass' it turns out there
were three mutilated pigs each about 100 to 150 pounds, white in
color and each with a cored out rectum and other round holes in the
abdomen.  Apparently they had been discovered three days before I saw
them. There were only two when I saw the on Thursday. Bob Green from
La Sierra Newspaper went out to take some photos with a digital
camera. You might check with him for prints. I think he will run a
story in his paper . . ."

A Couple of Points To Ponder
Like five other cases from the southern Alamosa County area since
1994, the horse was found on, or very near, the Alamosa River.  (NOTE:
The only measurable pollution near the SLV is located 23 miles up the
Alamosa River at the Summittville Mine Superfund Site.) This latest
"mutilation" report and the recent November 30, '97 calf death case
seem unusual.  The vast majority of San Luis Valley unusual animal
deaths (UADs) occur from last-frost to first-frost, during the warmer
months and rarely are hese deaths reported during cold sub-zero
nights.  This may be a new wrinkle. . .  Results of forensic testing
will be posted as soon as it's made available. Wednesday January 7,
1998, 5:45 pm to 3:00 am Farasita, CO  La Veta MOA Massive aerial
activity reported by fiver witnesses.  "Disco balls" shooting off
multi-colored light and smaller red lights.  Craft appeared to
criss-cross the Heurfano in a "grid-like pattern."  This activity
reportedly went on for several hours.  One witness told Dave Perkins
later, that he thought ". . .it was the end of the world!"  These
Huerfano sightings are being investigated by David Perkins.
SAME DAY
Thursday January 8, 1998 between 10 and 11am Huerfano County, La Veta
MOA Witness reported "20 to 30" jets criss-crosing the Huerfano in a
grid pattern, 25-year resident witness claimed this aerial manuevering
was "highly unusual," even in over the MOA. Six and a half hours
later, Thursday January 8, 1998, 5:20 pm, over the Baca Ranch, 2 miles
east of mile marker 93 on State Highway 17, two witnesses driving
north on 17 noticed a brightly blinking small light two miles to the
east of their location. They then observed a "150 foot diameter disc"
with a small, low cupola, light was on underside. Object was plainly
visible in dusk lighting. Appeared to be at "between 1500 to 2000 feet
" in altitude and traveling down the center of the SLV south by
southwest. One of the witnesses estimated the speed at between "500
and 600 mph." Two other cars on 17 may have also witnessed object.
Duration of sighting about "30 seconds."

The next day, Friday January 9, 1998, 5:20 pm, in Costilla County,
SLV CO., a witness e-mailed the following report Jan 10: "Just last
night my daughter and her friend and parent were coming home from
basketball practice and mentioned that on. . .". . .Thursday [Jan 8
'98] night [in Costilla County SLV CO] they noticed two lights
emanating from the sky in the approximate location where the
carcasses [of three pigs] were discovered. She mentioned this before
I told here about the discovery of the pigs." Sunday January 10,
1998, Huerfano County La Veta MOA.  More reports of unusual light
activity which are under investigation.

Here Come Those Sky Katchinas
Those pesky fireballs that have been reported here in the SLV for
decades inexplicably made a couple of dramatic appearances in January.
 I have a hunch these objects are somehow connected to subsequent
military activity reported in our area.

January 11, 1998, 12:15 am Front Range of Colorado
By Jim Hughes [Denver Post staff writer] Jan.-12 - 1998.  "A
mysterious object lit up the night sky up and down the Front Range
early Sunday then startled witnesses with a deafening explosion.
There was no official explanation about the object Sunday. Military
spokesmen denied the object was a military aircraft. Local scientists
speculated it could have been a meteor or an illegal firework . . ."
How interesting the January 11th Colorado object's glow, as it passed
over, was again a captured by the same security camera that caught
last year's "meteor" at the same location. And how interesting last
October's huge New Mexico/West Texas "meteor" occurred on the same
flight path--almost a year to-the-day-- from a similar object seen on
the same flight path last year.  Later in January, more fireballs
were reported.

Saturday January 11, 1998, at dusk Huerfano County, La
Veta MOA.  Again, reports of unusual light/craft activity. Tuesday
January 20, 1998, 6:00 pm -south of the Great Sand Dunes, a Hooper,
CO, resident reports to a friend watching a "big star doing some big
twists" over his friend's house.  The friend then called me at 7:30
and I contacted the witness and learned that the object/light was
flashing "red-green and blue." The nonchalant witness described the
multi-colored light as hovering for five or so minutes just south of
the Sand Dunes Oasis, where his friend lived. Both witnesses claimed
the object was not Sirius rising in the east. One claimed the
"object" was two times larger than the brightest planets, and was 5
degrees north of Sirius the heaven's brightest star, which he was
able to identify.  At around 6:15 pm, I happened to witness two low
flying jets headed from the east, over the Sangre de Cristos, south
toward the location where the light was observed. Jets were flying
under 3000 feet above the Valley floor. They were in close formation.

There Go Those Sky Katchinas
Odd parallels between recent Australian and Colorado Fireball events
seems to be developing.  Consider the following article written by
Harry Mason (who wrote a multi-part article called Bright Skies, for
Nexus Magazine).  This excerpt is re-printed w/ permission from "THE
STRANGE" February 16, 1998, a weekly Newsletter distributed by; Louise
A. Lowry  Taak46b@prodigy.com Weird Australian Fireball Events

"There have been many other post-May 1993 Australian reports (in
excess of 1000 often multiple events) concerning aerial fireballs and
associated light energy emission. These involve exotic diesel freight
train noise making spherical fireballs, and some noiseless variants,
flying long trajectories over different parts of Australia.  These
fireballs have been observed in all our states (as recently as the
4th. of February 1997), and in many cases have exhibited variations
on and combinations of the following actions: very low altitude "nap
of earth" trajectories, small to non-existent tails, no fragment drop
off, apparent velocity less than that of sound, no associated sonic
booms, considerable sudden change in course, speed up, stop dead,
reverse course, fly vertically upwards into space, create intense
vibration of ground and housing as they pass over, or explode in
massive blue-white arcing light displays with major explosive sound
events - or silent intense light flashes, create power generation
over-voltage outages and other electrical effects. The Banjawarn case
demonstrates a cause-effect relationship with a 3.9 Richter scale
earthquake and other fireballs have possibly been related on at least
two occasions to 3.0-4.0 richter scale earthquakes in eastern
Australia. If meteors are the source of these observations then
lately we appear to be continually encountering a very odd species of
meteor that exhibits a previously undocumented very exotic behaviour
and a very high statistical rate of arrival in Australia."'

Why would there be such an upsurge in fireball-type sightings in two
such divergent locations?  I have heard speculation that the Earth is
travelling through remnants of the Hale-Bopp comet tail, but I have
not seen conclusive proof of this theory mentioned anywhere analyzed

Colorado Fireball Questions
Tim Edwards, from Salida, sent me the following reports and article
re-print from the Denver Post.  Why are these fireballs continually
appearing in Australia and Colorado? "The following are the Salida
Colo. reports, and an article from the Denver post on the Jan. 27
events. As you can see objects were reported at numerous different
times at multiple location ranging about 250 miles away and from noon
Tues. and then at various times that night. How can meteors or debris
keep hitting the same general area over a 10-hour time-frame? A
question I'm going to ask The  Museum of Natural History in Denver
when I make a report. These are a frequent event in Colorado Getting
a little escalation lately of reports and increased military
activity. My 17 year old daughter Laray was sitting in the computer
room January 27, 1998 at 9:00, when she viewed a moon sized ball of
green light out of the south window [lights were on in the room] for
a couple of seconds moving at high speed and disappearing to the
southwest. At the same time my wife's sister [Kathy Rauter] and her 4
kids were driving to our house and viewed it down the road a half
mile to the south of our home. They also reported the same
description and said other people had to see it. No tail was observed
by any of the witnesses. They were extremely excited and some were
scared. I could tell by the reactions it was a major sighting. They
said it did not appear to be that far away. I just had got off the
computer and was upstairs reading a book so I missed the action
again. Laray also had viewed a green globe hovering and then shooting
down behind a ridge south of town this summer as well as multiple
reports by locals of orbs hovering and moving at high speed in the
area."

Several Report Seeing Its Blazing Path
By Stephanie Sylvester  The Denver Post-1-28-98 BRECKENRIDGE-
Several people saw a large fiery object trailed by a plume of smoke
crash to the ground near here about noon Tuesday.  "It was a fairly
large object that was on fire with smoke that was spiraling off the
back of it," said Blue River Marshal Steve Ford, who saw it from his
car near Blue River Road and Highway 9.  "My first thought was that it
was a meteor." Fork watched the object plummet more than a thousand
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 the Breckenridge Ski Resort, said
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.    The
Summit County sheriff's office received two calls about the possible
meteor. James Rickman, a spokesman at the Los Alamos National
Laboratory, said the scientific term for an object like the one
described by Breckenridge eyewitnesses is "daytime fireball." Alma
resident 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 from his vantage point as he drove north on Highway 9 near
the Breckenridge Building Center. Although no one saw where the object
landed, Ford believes it hit near Good Pasture Tarn, just south of
Breckenridge.  So far, no agencies have launched a search for the
object. Bill Steigerwald, spokesman for NASA's Goddard Space Flight
Center in Maryland, said the center has received a unusually high
number of reported meteor sightings this year. Steigerwald said if the
Breckenridge sighting wasn't a meteor, it could have been  "an
airplane, a piece of space junk or some kind of rocket test that went
astray." But most space junk burns up in the atmosphere, he said.

Hmmmmmmm



Christopher O'Brien
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