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Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 15:22:39 +0000
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Subject: UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 4, Number 28
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UFO ROUNDUP
Volume 4, Number 28
November 4, 1999
Editor: Joseph Trainor
UFO EXPLODES OVER
NORTHERN BRAZIL
On Saturday, October 9, 1999, at 4 p.m.,
a large luminous UFO flew over the town of
Sao Felix do Xingu in Para state, Brazil
and then exploded in mid-air over the rain
forest about 40 kilometers (25 miles) to
the west.
The story was aired on Monday, October 25,
1999, on the Brazilian TV network Bandeirantes.
According to the report, "hundreds of people,"
including "four tribes" of the forest-dwelling
Kaiyapo people, "spotted a bright object flying
over the city, leaving a smoke trail behind it."
Eyewitness Gildemar de Sousa reported,
"It was something like a big explosion, like a
bomb, that trembled the ground."
Following the explosion, two geologists,
Romulo Angelica and Melio Rezende left the
rivefront town of Maria Preta by motorboat
and traveled up the Rio Xingu to the crash site.
There they took photos and samples and
interviewed Kaiyapo people who had witnessed
the explosion.
The blast site was in the foothills of the
Serra do Cachimbo, near the border of Para
and Mato Grosso states. The Kaiyapo are
an indigenous Native American people of
the region.
Kruakruque, a Kaiyapo chief, said,
"That thing was very, very big. The ground
shook up."
According to Brazilian ufologist Vittorio
Pacaccini, "With the help of two other Kaiyapo
Indians, the exploration team finally got to the
crash site where parts of the woods were still
on fire 16 days after the incident. What they
found there was unexpected--hundreds of trees
completely uprooted and still burning or smoking
but no residue or trace of any aircraft" was found
at the site.
Romulo Angelica said, "We found this very
strange because we at least should have a crater
here. But there is no crater anywhere around.
We honestly don't know what happened."
No trace of nuclear radiation was detected
at the crash site.
"There was a weird and unrecognizable smell
in the air," Bandeirantes correspondent Renaldo
Vilhena reported, "It was not the smell of burned
wood or gunpowder. Not even burned fuel."
Sao Felix is on the Rio Xingu about 650
kilometers (390 miles) north of Brasilia, the
national capital. (Muito obrigado a Vittorio
Pacaccini e Thiago Luiz Tichetti por eso caso.)
(Editor's Noe: This isn't the only strange incident
in the state of Para. Sir Richard F. Burton, a
famous British traveler of the Victorian Age,
wrote, "The people here have stories of
estrondos (sudden loud noises like claps
of thunder--J.T.) and superhumanities which
await on them indications of buried treasure.
At Breja, there is an olho de agua (cavern)
where the clashing of steels rods (heavy
machinery?) can be heard." See Burton's
1869 book Travels in the Brazilian Highlands.
There have long been rumors of an
underground alien base in Para.)
CHUPACABRA STRIKES
AGAIN NEAR SAO PAULO
Chupacabra attacked two fazendas (farms)
in the state of Sao Paulo in southern Brazil
on Saturday, October 23, 1999, killing a total
of eight goats and three sheep.
The attacks took place in a rural area
outside the large city of Sorocaba, which is
176 kilometers (110 miles) west of Sao Paulo
city.
The first attack took place Saturday morning,
October 23, at a fazenda called Nova Esperanca
(Portuguese for New Hope--J.T.), and three goats
"were found dead and drained of blood. On each
animal there was only a single nick near the
throat."
The second attack took place a short while
later on a fazenda near Cesario Lange, S.P.
The owner, Marco Antonio de Souza, said five
goats and three sheep were found dead, with
the bodies drained of blood.
"The attacks were attributed to the
Chupacabra, a mysterious predator which
attacked farms in the region two years ago."
(See the newspaper Correio Brasiliense of
Brasilia for October 26, 1999, "Chupa-cabras
mata animais." Muito obrigado a Pedro Cunha
por eso caso.)
HOVERING UFO SEEN BY
HUNDREDS IN SICILY
On Saturday, October 23, 1999, around
noontime, a luminous hovering UFO was
sighted above the summit of Mount Etna
in Sicily and remained there, performing
small maneuvers, for ten minutes.
The oval-shaped UFO was seen by
hundreds of people in the city of Adrano,
southwest of the volcano, and in the smaller
towns of Belpaso and Viagrande.
The UFO was described as "a white
circular object with a dark central mass that
appeared scorched...The object changed its
position vertically, horizontally and frontally
and also its shape."
"In Adrano, a movie house owner and a
TV newsman videotaped the object for several
minutes and described it as a disco volante.
(Italian for flying saucer--J.T.)" (See the Italian
newspapers La Sicilia for October 24, 1999
and Il Messagero for October 25, 1999. Grazie
a Edoardo Russo, Davide Ferrara, Roberto
Labanti, Gildo Persone, Goffredo Pierpaoli e
Antonio Rampulla di Centro Italiano di Studi
Ufologici (CISU) per questo rapporto.)
LIGHT-STUDDED UFO SEEN
NEAR LHASA, TIBET
On August 18, 1999, at 4 a.m., the witness
was riding in a taxicab just west of Lhasa, the
capital of Tibet, when he spotted an unusual
light in the dark night sky.
"The oval-shaped UFO had bright lights like
a Las Vegas sign," the witness reported, and
compared the object's luminosity to the brightness
of a car's headlights "several blocks away...It
hovered overhead for about 40 minutes."
"I was driving in a taxi to the airport, which
is about two-and-a-half hours away from Lhasa,"
he said, "And the driver pointed out an object
in the sky and said, 'UFO!'"
The taxi driver "indicated that he had seen
five (UFOs). He also came to something alongside
the road and pointed to it to show us something.
But it was dark and I missed it. He indicated that
a UFO had landed there. I watched the object in
the sky with the blinking lights on it, and I didn't
recognize it as anything I had ever seen. I believe
it was a UFO, and it hovered over us for about
40 minutes." (Many thanks to Jeroen Wierda of
Picard UFO Research International for this report.
You can read more at PUFORI's website at
http://www.pufori.org.)
(Editor's Comment: If any UFO Roundup readers
have information about one or more UFO landings
in Tibet during the past year, please send me
an email. Thanks!)
PHOTOG CATCHES UFOs
ON FILM IN JAPAN
On Sunday, October 24, 1999, at 10 a.m., the
eyewitness, a 28-year-old female commercial
photographer from Point Pleasant, New Jersey, was
on vacation in Japan and driving through open
countryside in Yamanashi prefecture, just
southeast of Kofu city.
Pulling over to the side of the highway, she had
a panoramic view of the stratovolcano Fujiyama
against a clear blue sky.
"Mount Fuji had a powerful effect on me,"
she reported, so she got out her camera and
begin snapping pictures with its 100-300 Macro
lens. She snapped 11 photos of the mountain
and then proceeded on her way.
When the roll of film was developed, however,
she found images of "two UFOs, at one time
traveling side-by-side. The photos show a
transparent magenta light that leaves a trail
behind it. In one photo, there appears to be a
powerful light source that emits a strange
magenta/green energy. Also, at some points,
they appear to hover over Mount Fuji. I am a
portrait/freelance photographer. I have over
and over again tried to find a rational explanation
for these unusual photos." (Many thanks to
Jeroen Wierda of PUFORI for this report.)
GIANT FIREBALL APPEARS
OVER NEW BRUNSWICK
"A spectacular fireball passed over the
Maritimes Wednesday (October 27, 1999)
rattling houses, lighting up the night sky and
sparking a deluge of phone calls to emergency
centres."
"There are unconfirmed reports that pieces
of meteorite that struck the Oyster Pond area of
the Eastern Shore, and northern New Brunswick,
where a fire was reported near St.-Quentin."
"Fire crews could not be reached, but
nobody in the New Brunswick town's all-night
gas station had heard or seen anything."
"The light show, described as comet-like
and accompanied by sonic booms, had police
and Rescue Coordination Centre officials after
calls started flooding in at about 9:30 p.m."
"Callers heard an airplane was on fire or a
satellite might be disintegrating were the ones
but their concerns were generally discounted."
"Air traffic controllers at Moncton reported
that two planes in the area saw 'a fireball of
some sort lasting for about 12 seconds,' said
military spokesman Lt.-Cmdr. Glenn Chamberlain."
"But no aircraft had reported trouble, and
the North American Air Defence Command
(NORAD) had not tracked any fallen man-made
debris such as satellites, he said."
"The first report was a 911 call from Liverpool
shortly after 9:30 p.m., and calls were soon
coming from Yarmouth to Cape Breton and as
far west as Quebec."
"Maureen Elm of Stewiacke said the fireball
appeared to pass indirectly overhead and her
daughter heard a boom to the west a few seconds
later."
"'It sounded like it hit, and it rattled our
windows here at home,' she said."
"Dave Dawe, duty manager at Halifax
International Airport, said he saw the flash and
thought it was a flare. 'It was bizarre--everything
lit up.'"
"Parrsboro resident Donald Lake saw 'a bright
yellow ball and a long trail' streak across the sky."
"Astronomer David Lane," a university professor,
"said witnesses probably felt the shock wave of
explosions when the meteor began fragmenting,
rather than the rattle of impact." (See the Halifax,
N.B. Herald for October 28, 1999, "'Bizarre' fireball
lights up sky, emergency lines,' by Barry Dorey.
Copyright 1999 by the Halifax Herald Ltd., all
rights reserved. Many thanks to John Hayes for
forwarding the newspaper article.)
(Editor's Comment: First South Africa, then Brazil,
now Canada's New Brunswick province. If these
are Leonid meteors, they are three weeks early.
And if they are meteors, we could be in for a wild
Leonid meteor shower this month.)
TWO CROP CIRCLES FOUND
IN SASKATCHEWAN
Two crop circles were found at the end of
September by two farmers combining a wheat
field in Viscount, Saskatchewan, Canada
(population 60). The formation was reported
Thursday, October 28, 1999 to Circles
Phenomenon Research (CPR)-Canada.
The circles were found by farmers Leon
Viols and Debra McRae. "Two circles in wheat,
One is about 30 feet diametre (9 meters), the
other about 20 to 25 feet (6 to 7 meters). Both
flattened right down to the ground in neat
swirled lay patterns. Circles are spaced just
a few feet apart."
"The circles and extra field have (since)
been combined, but the circles themselves are
still there, being flattened hard to the ground
and therefore not cut."
Viscount is on Provincial Highway 16 about
50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of
Saskatoon. (Many thanks to Paul Anderson of
CPR-Canada for this report.)
NEW WITNESS COMES
FORWARD IN DANDRIDGE
A new witness has come forward in the
Dandridge, Tennessee UFO case.
Kristen P. 17, now living in Sevierville,
Tennessee (population 7,178) contacted
UFO Roundup and said she saw a UFO in
Dandridge on July 4, 1999.
Kristen reported, "On July 4th this year,
my boyfriend and I were having a late night
picnic" at Lake Douglas in Dandridge.
"My father lives very close to the lake.
We had finished (having supper) and laid
down to look at the stars. There were four
(UFOs) this time, and I knew exactly what
they were. Only one was much larger than
the other three and had a reddish light on
the top of it. They were traveling so fast, my
boyfriend didn't really get a good look at
them. He didn't believe me when I told them
what they were. Typical."
Dandridge, Tenn. (population 1,540) is
23 miles (36 kilometers) east of Knoxville.
(Email Interview)
UFO SPOTTED NEAR NEW
SAN DIEGO STADIUM
On Sunday, October 31, 1999, at 12:10 a.m.,
William F. spotted a green UFO "moving from
east to west" about "ten feet above the trees
from my point of view on Golden Hill" is San
Diego, California.
The UFO "was going toward the bay over
the southern half of San Diego. I would estimate
over the Commercial Street area, now the new
stadium district. It was descending on a
downward angle. About a five-degree slope."
"Moving much faster than your average
airplane or helicopter, very quietly, slowing down
to a dead stop over the bay. Then it turned red
and made a sharp right-angle (90-degree) turn
to the south. I last saw it heading east about
a mile and a half south of where I had originally
spotted it."
"I've seen missiles go that fast," he added,
"but never one stop dead and then make a
right-angle turn."
San Diego (population 1,110,600) is
located 124 miles (198 kilometers) south
of Los Angeles. (Email Form Report)
Y2K: PHONE COMPANIES
WARN OF NEW YEAR'S
DAY SHUTDOWN
"Major phone companies are sending an
unusual New Year's plea to their customers:
Don't pick up that phone!"
"They fear millions of people will check
for a dial tone just after midnight on Jan. 1 to
see whether their phone service survived the
Y2K bug."
"Add them to all the folks who ring in the
New Year by calling family, and there's a
potential for a telecommunications traffic jam.
Some callers who pick up their handsets might
hear nothing or get a fast busy signal."
"But that won't necessarily indicate that
Year 2000 problems have wrecked the network,
say companies."
"'Just becuse you pick up the telephone at
or around midnight Dec. 31st and get a busy
signal doesn't mean you've been bitten by the
Y2K bug,' said Bill Kula of GTE."
"The big phone companies say they've already
solved their Year 2000 computer problems after
spending more than $3.8 billion to upgrade their
networks and supporting systems. Yet they are
shelling out extra cash to urge consumers not
to flood the system at midnight. They are using
inserts in phone bills, grassroots information
sessions and advertising to spread the word."
"'I think some folks will be disappointed
because they will try to call other countries
and some of those calls might not go through,'
said AT&T spokesman Dave Johnson."
"Phone companies, bracing for congestion,
are urging consumers not to pick up their phone
just to see if the line is working and are hoping
they will space out their calls."
"'Don't even test it' is the advice of Bell
Atlantic spokesman Jim Smith. 'It's going to
work. Don't make yourself nervous by running
into a backed-up network.'"
"Several companies anticipate some
phone system blockages--particularly in the
hours right after midnight and in the morning
when people are calling relatives."
"Estimates vary. But one high-end figure
predicts the number of people picking up their
phones then will be 11 times that of Mother's
Day, one of the year's busiest calling times,
said Dave Bolger of the U.S. Telephone
Association, which represents phone
companies."
"Consumers can clog the system without
even dialing because just taking the phone off
the hook engages the system. Once the
system reaches a certain threshold, machines
monitoring the traffic might block dial tones
or send fast busy signals." (See the Duluth,
Minn. News-Tribune for October 30, 1999,
"Y2K phone advice: Don't check dial tone,"
pages 1A and 6A.)
(Editor's Comment: This doesn't make me
nervous. What makes me nervous is the fact
that back in January 1999, while planning
for Operation COMEX/MOBEX 99, the big
National Guard call-up, one of the exercise
scenarios was "a simulated comm-out."
See UFO Roundup, Volume 4, Number 3
for details. Now we have the big phone
companies warning about just such a
'comm-out." Coincidence?)
from the UFO Files:
1870: STRANGE EVENTS AT
NEWBURYPORT
A strange series of ghostly phenomena took
place at the old schoolhouse on School Street
in Newburyport, Massachusetts, located about
40 miles (64 kilometers) north of Boston.
The phenomena began in September 1870
when 'every day a mysterious yellow glow spread
over the classroom, windows and blackboards.
It usually started near the hall door and spread
silently over the room. After about two minutes,
it faded away."
"It did no harm while it cast its light over
the room, but afterwards the students and the
teacher, Miss Lucy A. Perkins, felt weak
and ill."
"The yellow radiance was not the only
unusual occurrence. There was also a breeze
of cold air that swept through the room, even
when the doors and windows were tightly shut.
The chill breeze rattled the papers and faded
map hanging on the wall and shook the hanging
lamp. This too made the teacher and children
slightly ill, but they kept on with their studies
day after day, bravely trying to ignore these
strange events."
"A high-pitched laugh began to be heard
occasionally. The eerie sound echoed in the
tiny attic, the small coal cellar and the
vestibule."
"The climax came on November 1 (1870).
During a geography lesson, Miss Lucy called
upon a student to recite. In the midst of a
sentence, he suddenly stopped and pointed
to the vestibule. There stood a boy with his
arm upraised."
"The boy stood silently, his arm and his face
and jaw bound in a white cloth as though he had
an injured jaw or a toothache. Then, as they all
watched, he slowly vanished. From that time on,
the schoolhouse was plagued no more."
"Three local boys with a reputation for mischief
were questioned in an attempt to solve the
mystery, but the authorities decided they had
no part in the events. To this day, the yellow glow,
the cold breeze and the boy with the upraised arm
and bandaged jaw have never been explained."
What's interesting about this case is the part
the old Newburyport school, built in the 1700s,
played in the lives of two of the USA's most
notorious Illuminati.
The first was Timothy Dexter, a leather goods
merchant who became a wealthy currency speculator.
Born in Malden, Mass. on January 22, 1747, the
son of Nathan and Esther (Brintnall) Dexter, he
arrived in Newburyport in 1769 and married
Elizabeth Lord the following year.
In 1792, Dexter purchased the mansion at
201 High Street, Newburyport, with is distinctive
golden eagle on the roof, and contributed much
money to the construction of the school.
But Dexter's Illuminati ties didn't sit well
with the Newburyport Presbyterians. Dexter
held a mock funeral for himself and then "beat
his wife for not giving vent to sufficient grief."
So he moved his family to Chester, New
Hampshire, where he caused a lot of comment
when he "kept a coffin on the front porch." On
the coffin was an intriguing slogan--Death is an
eternal sleep. It meant nothing to the New
Hampshire farmers, but then again none of them
had ever been to the Loge des Neufs Soeurs
(Lodge of the Nine Sisters) in Paris, then world
headquarters of the Illuminati. The same motto
appeared in the lodge's council room.
Returning to Newburyport, Dexter busied
himself with his occult activities and in 1802
published a strange book, Pickles for the
Knowing Ones." The last chapter of the book,
entitled "Salt and Pepper to Taste" contained
page after page of commas and periods.
(Obviously a coded mesage from Europe--J.T.)
Dexter died in Newburyport on October 23,
1806. What his long-suffering wife said or did
at his real funeral was not recorded.
But the old Newburyport school has an
even more prominent Illuminatus in its history.
In 1824, the teacher there was none other
than Albert Pike. (See Strangely Enough! by
Carroll B. Colby, Sterling Publishing Co., New
York, N.Y., 1959, pages 145 and 146. Also
Life of Timothy Dexter by S.l. Knapp,
Newburyport, Mass., 1838.)
We'll be back in seven days with more UFO
and paranormal news from around the planet,
brought to you by "the paper that goes home--
UFO Roundup." See you then.
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