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From: Stan Gordon <paufo@westol.com> Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 19:41:06 -0400 Fwd Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 08:29:57 -0400 Subject: UFO Sighting & Mag Detector Activity? Report of UFO Sighting With Possible Activation of Magnetic Detector in Pennsylvania From Stan Gordon. Report UFO sightings and other phenomena in PA (24 hours a day) 724-838-7768 Stan's UFO Anomalies Zone Website: www.westol.com/~paufo The following report is from UFO researcher Jim Brown of Smithfield, Pa. Jim has been an associate of mine for many years, and with his extensive electronics background has built an elaborate magnetic anomaly detector (besides many other devices) in his home. For more information on Jim's UFO research and his other projects, check out his website at: http://www.hhs.net/jbrown/ Magnetic Anomaly Detector Activation Report --J. Brown The Magnetic Anomaly Detector (MAD) alarm at my residence was activated at 0108 hrs. 27 April, 1999. On activation, I first checked realtime readings on the unit and confirmed they were outside baseline, indicating a valid anomalous condition. Within 30 seconds of the alarm activation, I went outside and began observations. Conditions were high altitude broken clouds and haze. Temperature 45 degrees F. Winds were calm. The moon was high in the sky, but was somewhat obscured by the haze. Mars and only a few of the brightest stars were visible. I was not able to see or hear anything out of the ordinary. I continued to observe for about 20 minutes without results. (2 aircraft were seen at high altitude over this span of time, these likely were commercial aviation. This is not uncommon at this location.) I went back inside and saved the data from the MAD. By this time, the system had established its new baseline level. I cleared the circular buffer, saved data to disk, reset the alarm, and the system was back in its scan mode. As I write this report, (0830 hrs. 27 April), there have been no additional alarms reported. ------------------------------------- Additional Report of Object Sighted by Witnesses (This report was received 18 May regarding the above sighting along the power line which runs 800 feet behind my residence. The sighting ocurred about 3 miles east of my location on Chestnut Ridge, 27 April at about 0100 hrs, or approx 8 minutes prior to the activation of the MAD. Data indicates the two events may be related. What follows is an excerpt of the narrative portion of the report currently under investigation. Names are withheld at the request of witnesses.) ... Me and ( ) were parked along Skyline Drive under the power line by Pondfield. About 1 (o'clock), I saw what looked like a star over toward Elliotsville. There wasn't one there a minute before. We watched it and it looked like it was moving slowly toward us. We thought this was strange, but it was probably just a plane. We didn't pay much attention to it for a couple minutes. Next time I looked out I could see it was no plane. I could see it was a bright circle of light sort of like a doughnut. Where the hole was it was glowing a blue color. It was over the power line coming toward us from the east. It looked like a doughnut glowing white with the blue glow in the center. As it went over the car, i heard a humming sound that sort of went through the car. ( ) said she could hear a whistle, but I didn't hear that. At the time I felt like I was falling. I lost my sense of direction and felt dizzy. ( ) said she just felt something evil was in the car but I didn't. This lasted a couple minutes or so. The light passed over the car and kept going down the mountain toward Uniontown. It disappeared behind the trees. We just sat there and talked about this for a half hour, then I took ( ) home. We wanted to report this, but didn't know who to call. ... (The narrative continues with personal info.) ---------------------------------------------------- 6 June, 1999 Sound duplicated under Test Conditions. A test setup using 3 audio generators, gating control, and a mixer was configured to allow each witness to attempt to duplicate the sound they heard. I interviewed each separately, and was present to provide advise on the use of the equipment, not the settings themselves. The witnesses had control over parameters and adjusted the setup as they felt was the the most accurate representation of the sounds heard. In summary, there were slight discrepancies in the setup, but only to the extent one would expect. One set up was 92 hertz, the other 112. Both added a pulsating sound to the signal, and both said it varied slightly in pulse rate, one said from 8 - 12 pps, the other from 9 - 16. One witness also added a high frequency component, (the whistle reported previously) at 13 khz. The witness who does not report hearing the whistle does say he has a hearing impairment, and a simple test I performed here using one of the generators confirms he cannot hear above 4.5 khz in one ear and 6 khz in the other. A point of note, the pulse rate superimposed on the magnetic wave from the MAD unit falls within the range both witnesses reported. When the original magnetic source signal is converted to a bit mapped graphic and displayed, the signal contains an 88 to 94 hertz component pulsating at between 8 to 14 pps. The absence of the high frequency component reported cannot be used conclusively since, due to the sample rate of the MAD, this is well above the ability of the instrument to record. Sample rate is approx. 350 to 400 per second. In conclusion, the similarities between the sound generated by the test and the actual magnetic field recorded by the MAD appear to more than coincidence, however the source of the magnetic disturbance is still under investigation. To date, no conclusive evidence has been uncovered. -------------------------------------------- 25 June, 1999 Follow up contact of both witnesses. Neither report any subsequent contacts or any new recollections about their original sighting. Both are sticking with the report as they presented it originally. There has been no additional activation of the MAD system as of this date.
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