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From: Larry Hatch <larryhat@jps.net> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 02:55:46 -0800 Fwd Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 23:11:24 -0500 Subject: Re: Huge Object Over Papua New Guinea >To: updates@globalserve.net >From: Bill Chalker <bill_c@bigpond.com> >Subject: Huge Object Over Papua New Guinea >Date: Tue, 16 Nov 99 22:32:04 PST >Source: PNG Post Courier Web site >[Please include Urls in future --ebk] >11/11/99, 12/11/99, 15/11/99 >New Britain, Papua New Guinea stirred up by huge object on >Tursday, Nov. 4 1999 >Thousands in the New Britain region, the Gazelle Peninsula, the >remote Bainingo ranges, the Duke of York Islands, the Baining >area, Vavu Beach, North coast of Rabual, and Pilapila community >have apparently witnessed a a large slow moving object described >variously as a craft "which had huge lumps on the sides with >light flickering aound it" (people of the remote Bainingo >ranges), apparently about 200 metres long, 50 metres wide & "lit >up like a city in the sky", moving slowly across the sky "making >a quite puffing noise" - an airship perhaps? >But other descriptions challenge that possibility.People living >on the insland in the Duke of York group closest to New Ireland >province reported seeing a huge craft hovering just metres above >the sea off St. Georges Channel, and travelling very slowly. >They also reported other smaller craft with bright lights >circling the larger one "in a playful manner". >John Berenti, & family of Namatanai, New Ireland, saw "ahuge >craft appear just above the top of the mango trees" he estimated >200 metres to 300 metres long & 50 metres wide. Others tried to >chase the object. >Raymond Theodore a Ploice officer at about 8.30 pm, on Vuvu >Beach, North Rabaul coast, saw "a huge craft travelling just >metres above the seas... we saw it travel over Waton Island. It >had very bright lights at the back as it moved along." >Alex Jame & 4 other boys returning from Pilapila Community >School about 7 pm and others saw bright lights approaching. As >the UFO approached, Alex claimed "the street lights dimmed like >when the batteries in a torch are flat." He thought it was >noiseless, oblong in shape, bright lights around the edges, with >a top like a pyramid with som lights around it. All white >lights. The boys said it took 30 minutes to pass them. Alex >said when the object hovered over them the place around them >light up & they could see people near them as if it was >daylight. It eventually disappeared over the moutains near >Vuvu. >Another local, John Mcleod, manager of the Malangan Beach >resort, New Ireland province, said he watched it and thought it >was a satellite re-entery. He seems to be describing something >else entirely. >If it was an airship or blimp it was a spectacular one?? >----- >Thanks also to Paul Cropper. Dear Paul and Bill: I find it interesting that just 12 days later, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck the very same region. 7.0 is on the "surface intensity" scale, often preferred for larger quakes. The into just came off the newswire, and on an earthquake site that I monitor. According to the map on that site, the quake struck at 0327 hrs GMT, at roughly 137E - 6S; on the SW coast of New Britain Island, PNG .. between Saurent and Waku villages there. An ABC newswire puts it on the NW coast, possibly in error. Has there been any further word or identification of the " mystery blimp " with all the lights? Best wishes - Larry Hatch
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