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Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 20:39:05 +0000
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Subject: {87} part 3 - United Kingdom UFO Network
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Source: UFO Roundup - http://www.digiserve.com/ufoinfo/
From: "David Watanabe" <davew@exosci.com>
Date: 17th November 1997
Jetliners encounter over New Jersey
On Monday night, November 17, 1997, ham radio operator John N.
Gonzalez, N2IXW, picked up a UFO report while listening to radio
traffic on the air. According to a MUFON report, Gonzalez heard the
conversation between the tower at Newark, N.J. airport and Flight
262 on 118.300 MHz. Two other unidentified air crews also joined in
the conversation.
Here is a transcript:
JET #2: "Watch out! The two (UFOs) are coming up to you."
FLIGHT 262: "Well, Captain, the two up here are coming down to meet
with you."
TOWER: "Flight 262, what is your status?"
FLIGHT 262: "We have 236 souls onboard and fifty thousand (pounds)
of fuel. I think these damn things are going to hit us. We are over
Morristown just in case there is a collision with them. (pause) They
have taken off towards the northeast. And, by the way, towards the
northeast, it also looks like a meteor or space debris is coming
down."
(Editor's Note: Monday night, November 17, was the tail end of the
annual Leonid meteor shower.)
TOWER: "Do you wish to report a UFO sighting?"
FLIGHT 262: (Pause) No, we have nothing to report."
JET #2: "We heard you. I am making sure the passengers are all
right. And, no, I have nothing to report, either."
JET#3: "You guys have seen more than your share of UFOs. I know I
have."
TOWER: "Who are you? Please identify yourself." (There was no
response) "Flight 262, go to the emergency frequency. We will meet
with the both of you there."
[W 3]******
Source: United Press International
From: bernhard.nahrgang@ob.kamp.net (Bernhard Nahrgang)
Date: Wednesday 3rd December 1997
Fireball in sky being called UFO
UFO investigators from around the country are trying to determine
what was a mysterious fireball that streaked across the sky over
Chicago's southern suburbs.
The phenomenon was reported Sunday evening. Pilot Tim Janecyk says
he doesn't know what he saw as he drove near Interstate 80. He
described it as a "brilliant fireball" that descended "from the
clouds straight down." He said it was about the size of a full moon
and lit up the clouds.
Janecyk said the object was trailing smoke but was moving too slowly
to be a meteor.
Similar citings were reported near Kansas City, Mo.
[W 4]******
Source: Nasa Press Release
Date: Tuesday 2nd December 1997
NASA Looks Toward Visionary Interstellar Travel
Many people wonder when we will be able to travel to distant solar
systems as easily as envisioned in science fiction. Discover NASA's
perspective on the prospects that exist today for achieving such
far-future visions via a new World Wide Web site called, "Warp Drive,
When?" Explore the site at:
http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/PAO/warp.htm
This web site explains the challenges of interstellar travel, the
prospects and limitations of existing propulsion ideas, and the
prospects emerging from science that may one day provide the
breakthroughs needed to enable practical interstellar voyages.
Analogies to familiar science fiction are used to simplify concepts
such as "warp drive."
For a look at what NASA is doing to achieve such breakthroughs,
another web site is available about the new NASA Breakthrough
Propulsion Physics program:
http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/bpp/
This modest program is taking a step-by-step approach toward
discovering the ultimate breakthroughs needed to revolutionize space
travel and enable human journeys to other star systems - credible
progress toward incredible possibilities. This program represents
the combined efforts of individuals from various NASA centers, other
government labs, universities and industry.
[W 5]******
Source: Nasa Press Release
Date: Wednesday 26th November 1997
Tailless Fighter Flight Tests Complete
(edited for length)
The NASA/Boeing X-36 Tailless Fighter Agility Research Aircraft
successfully completed its flight research program -- demonstrating
the feasibility of future tailless fighters achieving agility levels
superior to today's best military fighter aircraft.
The project goals are to develop and demonstrate enhanced
technologies to improve the maneuverability and survivability of
future fighter aircraft. "All of our project goals were met or
exceeded," said Mark Sumich, X-36 project manager at NASA's Ames
Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.
The 28-percent-scale X-36, built by the Boeing Phantom Works in St.
Louis, MO, is designed to fly without the traditional tail surfaces
common on most aircraft. The X-36 is 18 feet long with a 10 foot
wingspan; three feet high; and weighs 1,270 pounds. The aircraft is
powered by a Williams Research F112 turbofan engine that provides 700
pounds of thrust. The aircraft is remotely controlled by a pilot in
a ground station cockpit, complete with a head-up display. The
pilot-in-the-loop approach eliminates the need for expensive and
complex autonomous flight control systems.
[W 6]******
Source: CNN
Date: 2nd December 1997
Hawaiian estate offered for Heaven's Gate suicide site
A prospective buyer offered to swap a Hawaiian estate for the
mansion where 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult committed suicide
last spring.
The offer for an "even swap" of an Oahu estate for the
9,000-square-foot, seven- bedroom house where the UFO cultists
killed themselves, is one of at least three under consideration this
week, real estate agent Burt Sveine said.
The cult house, owned by Sam Koutchesfahani and rented to the
followers of guru Marshall Applewhite, has been valued at $1.6
million.
The mansion was refurbished after cult members, believing a
spaceship following the Hale-Bopp comet would deliver them to a
better world, poisoned themselves last March in their bunks.
Sealed bids were accepted last month. Besides the Oahu home, there
are offers from a Texan who specializes in problem properties and
from a local buyer. Prospective buyers requested anonymity.
Sveine said he and Koutchesfahani will discuss the offers this week.
Koutchesfahani may decide to keep the Mediterranean-style mansion if
the bids aren't acceptable.
[W 7]******
Source: Sightings On The Radio
URL: http://www.sightings.com/
American Computer Company Makes A Remarkable Discovery! by Joyce
Kelly
First submitted to UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL 19th December 1997
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.
What started out as a short, interesting news item on the American
Computer Company INTERNET Web Site, has turned into a remarkable
story, one that is a major headache this morning for certain US
Department of Defense Top Brass...
In July 1997, American Computer Company posted a slightly humorous,
interesting story about allegations that in 1947, the Army Air Force
may have transferred a captured Alien Space Craft to Bell Labs for
commercialization, resulting in the Transistor and other major
engineering discoveries.
Now, after six months, after receipt of tens of thousands of pages
of documents, and after pursuing thousands upon thousands of leads,
ACC has found it has a bigger problem: The Army has apparently
admitted that the documents describing a downed UFO in Roswell, NM in
1947, were deliberately misdirected during the subsequent months,
along with "crash materials", as the Army spun off the US Air Force
(which was formed in November of 1947). As a result, lost in the
cracks of a postwar Military Bureaucracy, a secret initiative to
evaluate Alien Technology for military and commercial advances sprung
forth from the same spring as had been evaluating German V-2 Rockets
captured by the Army, and personnel assigned to the Manhattan Project
(which had created the Atom Bomb during World War II).
A meeting between ACC and the US Army Legislative Liaison has ACC
personnel scratching their heads in amazement: "Its a revelation.
The Army has admitted that 'certain documents and things' relating to
the Roswell and Corona crash and landing of what was probably TWO
Alien Space Craft manned by a 'neutral' group of observers trying to
determine the threat potential of the evaluation by the Army of the
mating of the Atom Bomb and the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile,
may actually HAVE been covered up, hushed up, and remains, to this
date, a fully funded project spinning off decade after decade of
engineering projects aimed at developing a defensive capability not
just geared towards human warfare, but towards the defense of our
Planet from 'invaders from another world'."
"It appears to all onlookers, that the Army is taking the possibility
of a need to be able to militarily defend the US from alien marauders
quite seriously, and has assessed the time it might take for a large
'invasion fleet' to reach earth. As a result, a very long term, super
secret project aimed at equipping the Earth to defend itself against
invasions from other worlds, has been underway, while the Army and
Air Force have spoken 'laughingly' about 'Martians' and 'Little Green
Men'."
"A super secret initiative exists to notify the Commander-in-Chief
in the event of Alien Onslaught. The justification for the enormously
profitable commercialization projects, which have been quietly
interspersed with more human advanced research efforts, is what has
been labeled 'The greatest threat to National Security that has ever
been discovered' -- ETs!! -- secretly in some Brass Hat circles
since the late 40's!!"
A spokesperson for ACC further commented: "And the Army and Air Force
would have us believe that ET Investigators, people like Phillip
Corso, Stanton Friedman, Glen Campbell, Larry Bryant, and radio
personalities who cover them, like Art Bell, Jeff Rense, and Mike
Jarmus, are unbelievable !!"
ACC has decided to quietly retrace its steps to continue its efforts
to recreate from drawings in the public sector, technologies that
may have been the object of Army and Air Force 'space defense'
interest. These recently included drawings of a unique device
recreated by ACC and a local University Physicist, which has
characteristics previously unseen in the semiconductor field. Among
the drawings from a 1947 technical artist, are pictures of a
'coherent light source' - a laser beam drawn at a time 10 years or
more before the Laser was officially invented.
[W 8]******
Source: Sightings On The Radio
URL: http://www.sightings.com/
Jack Shulman Exposes Hidden Ultra-Secret ET Military Organization
Stunning Development Revealed on Jeff's Friday Show 20th December
1997
In an EXCLUSIVE breaking story, Jack Shulman, the President of the
American Computer Company, announced on Jeff Rense's Sightings On
the Radio program, Friday, 12-19-97, that he and his associates have
discovered a heretofore ultra secret, UNKNOWN, apparent Black
Budget, deeply buried, military organization which deals with, and
may direct and operate, our UFO/ET policy.
Jeff broke into his regular program at 9:06 pm Pacific to get the
story from Shulman, who is deeply involved with what is, so far,
perhaps the biggest UFO/ET story since the landmark Roswell event(s)
50 years ago. (see "Jack Shulman And ACC Make It To CNN" and other
ACC stories).
On the show, Shulman related an amazing string of events which
culminated when he and other ACC personnel, along with
Investigator/Journalist Bob Wolf, had what amounted to a
confrontation with Air Force personnel at the Pentagon. During the
course of what was described as a rather heated encounter, Air Force
personnel are said to have disclosed accidentally, or otherwise, the
existence of this invisible military organization within the
Department of Defense THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD OF BEFORE.
Shulman said it is called the Extraterrestrial Space Command
Directorate, or simply "E2SCD." As stated, this military group,
branch, or operational unit, officially DOES NOT EXIST in any readily
locatable government or military archive or database. Jack stated the
unit is probably referred to simply as "E2" by those in it or those
who have a need to know of its existence.
Further, Jack explained to Jeff how when he and his associates were
first going through the now famous 'laboratory notebook', which
apparently reveals the true origin of the transistor (recovered ET
technology), they observed several "E2" notations in the text. Not
having any idea what "E2" stood for at the time, Jack and his team
of scientists assumed "E2" to be some type of engineering symbol or
code. Today's revelation may have solved that mystery and could
confirm the existence of this ultra secret elite military UFO
organization far at least as long as 50 years ago.
Shulman said a thorough search of the Library of Congress and all
immediately available government data bases revealed NO DATA on the
"Extraterrestrial Electronics Space Directorate", or "E2SCD."
In a related issue, Shulman said it now appears the orginal top
secret fax that American Computer myteriously received several
months ago is now believed by Jack Shulman, at least, to have
originated from a satellite which may well belong to, and be operated
by, the secret E2 organization.
The discovery of such an ultra secret organization lends credence to
many years of suspicion and assertions by a number of researchers
such as Stanton Friedman that an organization of scientists and key
players commonly called "MJ-12" exists, and that it directs the
military's deep cover, ultra secret ET program.
This story is just beginning. Updates as available.
[W 9]******
Source: CNN
Date: 16th December 1997
More gray matter for little green men?
Most Americans think there's life on other planets
Most Americans believe there is life on other planets, and most of
those who think that way say life out there probably is more
intelligent than anything down here on Earth.
Scientists promoting the effort to detect signals from outer space
were quick to cheer these is-there-intelligent-life-elsewhere
findings from a survey by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion.
"I'm happy to hear that the mainstream and I have similar views,"
said Paul Horowitz, a professor of physics at Harvard who directs a
project that operates a 250-million-channel receiver listening for
signals from space.
"It could be that the American people are taking two and two and
coming up with four," said Brian Welch, a spokesman for the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The telephone survey of 935 adults asked, "Do you think there is
intelligent life on other planets?"
Sixty percent of the respondents said yes; 40 percent said no.
Marist researchers then asked those who said yes if they thought
life on other planets was "more, less, or about as intelligent as
human life on Earth." The aliens came out ahead, with 47 percent of
those who believe in life on other plants saying they thought
extraterrestrial life was more intelligent, 13 percent said less
intelligent and 40 percent said it was about the same. By a margin
of 86 to 14, people said they thought galactic neighbors are friendly
rather than hostile.
Despite the positive expectation of otherworldly life, the survey
found Americans divided on spending for the space program.
Forty-seven percent said the government was spending too much, 43
percent said funding was about right and 10 percent said it was too
low. Asked if they thought the space program was a good investment,
45 percent said yes and 55 percent said the money would be better
spent on other programs.
The survey was conducted October 5-7, and the results had a margin
of error of 3.5 percentage points.
Broken down by age, people from 18 through 60 were strongly
supportive of the idea of life on other planets. But people older
than 60 rejected the idea by a margin of 67 to 33.
"The subject has moved a lot in just the last couple of years, said
Louis Friedman, executive director of the Planetary Society, whose
100,000 members are strong advocates of continuing research into the
possibility of life in outer space.
Horowitz said researchers are "riding along on this wave of
technological innovation." He said that his project listens on 250
million channels simultaneously. The first serious search for
signals from space was in 1960 and had just one channel, he said.
[W 10]******
Source: San Francisco Examiner
Publish Date: Monday 11th August 1997
NASA flouts Einstein, explores feasibility of interstellar journeys
Key to star treks may be found in science fiction
by
Keay Davidson - Examiner Science Writer
In a development straight out of "Star Trek," NASA is looking
seriously at the feasibility of flight to the stars.
Way-out schemes for traveling to the nearest stars are being
assessed by scientists and engineers as part of a low-profile,
micro-budget NASA program, dubbed Breakthrough Propulsion Physics.
Wormholes, warp drives and other means for interstellar flight -
long staples of science fiction - may become science fact, if the
researchers get their way.
Tuesday through Thursday, more than 80 employees of the space agency
and space-related industries will gather at NASA's Lewis Research
Center in Cleveland to hear 14 scientists and engineers discuss ways
to achieve interstellar flight.
Possibilities include the generation of so-called wormholes,
something akin to rips in the fabric of space and time. Some
physicists have speculated that a spaceship passing through a rip
might emerge in a distant part of the cosmos.
"We don't even know if these things are physically possible," said
the program's chief and sole full-time employee, aerospace engineer
Marc Millis of NASA-Lewis.
But, Millis added hopefully: "Progress is not made by conceding
defeat."
Why go to the stars? Among other things, to find habitable planets
for humanity, Millis said.
"Imagine if we could give citizens access to a whole nother planet
Earth," said Millis, 37. "Imagine if there were an uninhabited
planet suitable enough to live on."
The main barrier to interstellar flight remains Albert Einstein's
theory of relativity, which forbids travel at speeds faster than
light - 186,000 miles per second.
The nearest stars, other than the sun, are four light-years away. A
light-year is 6 trillion miles, the distance that light travels in a
year. Because of the Einsteinian limit, a spaceship would need at
least four years to reach the closest stars, Proxima Centauri and
Alpha Centauri.
Two scheduled speakers come from the Bay Area - Raymond Chiao of the
UC-Berkeley physics department and astrophysicist Bernhard Haisch of
Lockheed Missiles & Space Co.'s office in Palo Alto.
Haisch is expected to discuss the possibility of space propulsion
using something called "the momentum of the quantum vacuum." Chiao
plans to discuss how laboratory experiments suggest that under
certain circumstances, photons - particles of light - appear to
travel "at an effective speed of 1.7 times the speed of light."
The program has official liaisons at a number of NASA centers around
the nation - for example, Larry Lemke at NASA's Ames Research Center
in Mountain View.
The proposed technologies "are extremely long shots," cautions one
enthusiast, John Cole. He is manager of space transportation
research at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, which
funds the program at Lewis.
"Theories of this type have cropped up perpetually from time to
time," Cole said, "and usually wind up not leading anywhere. . . .
But if we don't look, we certainly will never find anything."
And the time may be right.
"People, particularly young people, are sort of rejecting the
claustrophobic position that we are locked in this solar system
without any chance at all of going to others," said Whitt Brantley,
chief of the advanced concepts office at NASA's Marshall Space
Flight Center in Alabama.
But not everyone at NASA is pleased by talk about star ships.
Within the space agency, "the reactions completely cover the entire
spectrum," Cole said. "There are those that believe we are about to
get NASA embarrassed with some ideas that can't possibly be
achieved.
"And there are others that are just delighted that NASA is finally
open-minded enough, and (has) enough courage - and encouragement
from the administrator (Daniel Goldin) - to pursue these things,"
Cole added.
Brantley interjected: "If you look back in history before great
discoveries were made, there were great minds trying to show they
were impossible."
How did an agency packed with conservative engineers get interested
in interstellar flight?
For one thing, NASA Administrator Goldin made the once-taboo topic
acceptable by publicly speculating about it.
Also, recent research published "in credible, peer-reviewed
(scientific) literature" has made interstellar flight seem more
feasible than it did decades ago, Millis said.
For example, the warp drive plan is based on an idea proposed by
Miguel Alcubierre, an astrophysicist from the University of Wales.
He published the method in 1994 in a little-known scientific journal
called "Classical and Quantum Gravity."
According to one theory of warp drive, one could get around
Einstein's speed limit for matter by moving the space around the
matter. The space, being non-material, could exceed the speed of
light - or so the theory implies.
Larry Diehl, director of NASA-Lewis' research and technology
directorate, acknowledged with a chuckle that on the Internet, there
has been chatter about whether "we are looking to violate the laws
of physics. The answer, of course, is "no.'
"We haven't made any large-scale commitment to funding work in this
area. . . . (Still) if we don't continue to reach out and explore, I
don't feel that we make progress," said Diehl, an aerospace engineer
who has worked for the agency for three decades.
The program's current one-year budget is $50,000 - pennies by NASA's
usual gold-plated standards.
[W 11]******
Source: CNN
Date: Tuesday 6th January 1998
Lunar Prospector blasts off
Cape Canaveral, Florida - The unmanned Lunar Prospector blasted off
on a 240,000-mile journey into space Tuesday night, beginning NASA's
first moon mission since men last set foot on the lunar surface 25
years ago.
A sleek, white Lockheed Martin Athena 2 rocket carrying the probe
lifted off at 9:28 p.m., successfully negotiating a short,
four-minute "launch window," which was all that the Earth-moon
alignment allowed.
The rocket's three stages dropped away, one after the other, in the
first six minutes after the launch, leaving the Lunar Prospector
propelled by a thrust module expected to lift it into orbit around
the moon after a 4 1/2-day flight.
"After 25 years of having not been to the moon by NASA, it certainly
feels good to be going back," said program scientist Joseph Boyce.
"I couldn't be more excited, more happy, more pleased."
The launch was to have taken place Monday night, but a
malfunctioning U.S. Air Force radar dish forced a day's delay while
technicians spent five hours fixing the problem.
The radar is one of three on the Florida coast needed to track the
rocket for safety reasons.
The launch was rescheduled for Tuesday, but with only the brief
launch window. The shifting positions of the Earth and moon meant
NASA had only four minutes in which to launch the probe and take
advantage of the most fuel-efficient trajectory.
Had there been technical or weather difficulties, NASA would have
had to wait until February 3 for the Earth and the moon to be in
favorable positions again for another try.
Searching for water
The 4-foot, 650-pound Prospector is to orbit 63 miles above the
lunar surface while it searches for ice, gas and minerals.
It is expected to focus, in particular, on the moon's south pole,
where scientists believe frozen water may have collected from the
impact of icy comets. The south pole is the only part of the moon
that remains in total darkness.
Some scientists believe there could be as much as 1 billion tons of
water ice on the moon, a theory bolstered by the findings of the
Department of Defense's Clementine spacecraft in 1994.
Radar readings taken by the craft appeared to confirm the presence
of ice, but some scientists believe that what the probe detected was
not ice at all, but simply rough patches on the steep sides of a
crater.
At $65 million, the Lunar Prospector mission is a bargain-basement
special compared to NASA's multi-billion-dollar Apollo project that
put 12 men on the moon between 1969 and 1972.
Orbiting begins Sunday
The craft is equipped with five instruments, including an electronic
divining rod that will enable it to detect the hydrogen atoms in
water. If there is water on the moon, future pioneers could break it
down and separate it into hydrogen and oxygen and make their own
rocket fuel.
The Prospector could learn within a month whether there is ice on
the surface. It will also measure the composition of the surface,
detect magnetic fields and map gravitational anomalies in the moon's
outer crust. When it runs out of fuel, which should be in about a
year, the craft will crash on the moon's surface.
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