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From: John Hayes <webmaster@ufoinfo.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 11:10:39 +0100
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Subject: UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 5, Number 14


      UFO ROUNDUP
Volume 5, Number 14
April 6, 2000
Editor: Joseph Trainor

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UGANDA MASSACRE TOPS
1978 JONESTOWN CASE

      Authorities in Uganda last week said the death
toll from the Kanungu massacre had hit 924, exceeding
that of the Jonestown mass murders of 1978.
      "The death toll in the doomsday sect massacre was
raised Friday (March 31, 2000) to 924, bypassing the 1978
Jonestown tragedy in Guyana as the worst modern-day
cult-related mass killing."
      "Ugandan authorities promised to apprehend the
perpetrators of the stabbings, stranglings and burnings
but investigators showed no signs of being able to track
down sect leaders or even of being able to confirm which--
if any--survived."
      "No cult members appear to have survived, though the
police believe that some of the leaders, including Joseph
Kibweteere, 64, a school administrator, and Credonia
Mwerinde, 48, who claimed direct contact with the Virgin
Mary--may yet be alive."
      Authorities have issued warrants for the areests of
Kibweteere, Mwerinde and four members of Mwerinde's
family, who were alleged to be members of "The Twelve
Apostles," the ruling council of the Movement for the
Restoration of God's Ten Commandments.
     On Tuesday afternoon, March 28, 2000, "while workers
were counting 74 more bodies on a hilltop" in Rugazi,
a village in southwestern Uganda, Ugandan homicide
detective Terense Kinyera searched the vacant home of
a sect leader in Rugazi.
      Kinyera "found himself casting a suspicious eye on what
appeared to be recently-poured concrete in a closet of the
main house."
      "Men with heavy iron bars were summoned and they
punched a hole in the concrete.  Kinyera's suspicion was
confirmed.  The first dessicated corpse was pulled out
an hour later.  By the time the sun settled onto the
glimmering surface of nearby Lake Edward, 28 more
bodies--most of them children--had been laid on the lawn
of the home of an excommunicated Catholic priest
identified as a cult member.  Workers said they saw at
least as many waiting to be recovered."
      "Like those unearthed at other sites," many of the
dead in Rugazi "appeared to have been strangled, one
apparently by a banana leaf.  Others bore stab wounds.
A pathologist gathered tissue samples to test for
poison."
      "'We're looking at murder,' said Godfrey Bangirana,
an assistant police commissioner, pausing on the short
stroll from one pile of corpses to the other on a hilltop
thick with the smell of death.  'You cannot kill all of
these human beings alone.  This was an organized
crime, and an organized crime cannot be committed
by one person.  It has to be a group.'"
      A total of 155 dead were discovered in Rugazi.
      "At the moment, the police are working on the theory
that the cult members may have been poisoned,
becuse most of the bodies show no sign of violence.
There was also apparently little struggle, which may
indicate that some cult members did go willingly
to their deaths."
      "In Uganda, incredibly, the deaths seemed to
have involved hundreds of people and to have taken
place over weeks or perhaps months--without any
hint to the outside world."
      Meanwhile, mysteries continue to surround some
aspects of the case.  On Saturday, April 1, 2000,
Ugandan authorities revised upward the number of
victims killed at the March 17th fire at the sect's
church in Kanungu, a market town 320 kilometers
(200 miles) southwest of Kampala, the national
capital.
      The cause of the fire remains unknown.  However,
"the cult had planned a huge celebration on March 15,"
to inaugurate a new chapel built over the graves of
Mwerinde's parents, "and one priest from the cult
reportedly bought a strange kind of party favor:
50 liters of sulfuric acid, which some investigators
say may have helped fuel the fire..."
      According to Ugandan police spokesman Assuman
Mugenyi, "A vehicle usually found at the Kanungu
compound was not there after the blaze, Mugenyi said.
It was, however, spotted on the night of the (March) 17th
at the second compound near Rukungiri, when someone
tried to set its buildings alight."
      Also revealed last week was the fact that some
of the earlier reburied victims were disinterred because
the original pathologist reportedly only spent "two minutes
examining each body."
      "Even the search for more victims faltered Friday
(March 31) with investigators putting off indefinitely plans
to dig at a fifth sect compound.  Police said they would
wait until they had proper equipment for the site, located
in a remote mountain jungle populated by rebels."
      Ugandan authorities seem satisfied with the
explanation that sect leaders committed the murders.
"Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has called the
killings 'mass murder by these priests for monetary
gain.'"  (See the Duluth, Minn. News-Tribune for
March 29, 2000, "Ugandan deaths may be murder,"
page 4A; and April 2, 2000, "Money may be motive in
Ugandan deaths."  Also the Minneapolis Star-Tribune
for April 1, 2000, "Uganda cult toll hits 924, page 1A.)
(Editor's Comment:  It was mass murder, all right,
but I'm not so sure it was committed by only six people.
Nerve gas could explain the lack of injuries on the
remains.  An air-delivered or planted napalm bomb could
have destroyed the church.  Also, who owned the
second vehicle?  According to news reports, Kibweteere
was the only member who owned a car.  This looks like
the biggest coverup since the Heaven's Gate massacre
in March 1997.)

MWERINDE FOUNDED UGANDA
SECT AFTER A VISIT FROM THE
VIRGIN MARY IN AUGUST 1988

      The guiding light behind the Movement for the
Restoration of God's Ten Commandments was the
seeress Credonia Mwerinde, 48, who was born and
raised in Kanungu.
      During the early 1980s, Mwerinde moved in with
her lover, Eric Mazima, and "ran a shop in Kanungu that
sold banana beer and a fiery local liquor."
      "News accounts have referred to her as a prostitute
but residents say that, although she was promiscuous,
she was not paid for sex."
      "On August 24, 1988, Mwerinde claimed to have had
a vision of the Virgin Mary in a cave near the Ugandan
village of Ngakishenyi."
(Editor's Comment: Shades of Bernadette Soubirous
and the Marian apparition at Lourdes on February 11, 1858.)
      One week after the apparition, Mwerinde walked out
on her live-in lover.  "Mazima challenged her carefully-
cultivated image as a religious devotee, saying she
claimed her visions and turned to religion only after the
couple's joint business went bankrupt."
      During a second visitation, the Virgin Mary reportedly
told Mwerinde to go "to Nyamitanga and find a man
called 'Kibwetere.'"
      Born in 1936, Kibweteere was a minor official in
Uganda's Ministry of Education.  He had a wife, Therese,
and a son, Juvenal Mugambwa.  He was also very much
interested in Marian apparitions and read everything he
could lay hands on about the incidents at La Salette,
Lourdes and Fatima.
      "Four months after leaving her (common-law) husband,
Mwerinde met Kibweteere in Nyamitanga, where he said
he and his wife had gone to hear her testify about her
visions."
      "He took Mwerinde into his home" in Kanungu "which
served as the cult's compound for three years."  A visit
from the Virgin Mary soon followed, in which the former
Miriam bat-Joachim appointed him a bishop.  Thereafter,
Kibweteere took to calling himself "The Prophet" and
"wearing a bishop's ring and vestments.  He never
spoke to his family again."
      In 1992, the sect recruited a new leader.  He was
Dominic Kataribabo.  Born in Uganda in 1967,
Kataribabo "studied for a doctorate in theology at a
Los Angeles-area seminary in the mid-1980s."
(Editor's Comment:  Funny how all these seers sooner
or later go to L.A.)
      Kataribabo "got into trouble" in 1990 "with his
diocese in Uganda for how he used donations collected
in Los Angeles and for his interest in Mwerinde and her
talk of visions."
      "Kataribabo, 32, became a leader in the cult soon after
he was excommunicated in the early 1990s.  He taught
seminars at the church compound in Kanungu about the
cult's prophecies on righteous living and the end of the
world."
      "His family told police that Kataribabo had been digging
a pit to install a refrigerator in his house.  Police found
81 bodies and 74 more in a sugar cane field outside."
      "Police believe Kataribabo died in the church fire, citing
as evidence a clerical collar found on one of the bodies."
(Editor's Comment:  It might be a good idea to get a
DNA sample from one of the cadaver's internal organs
and compare it to DNA samples taken from Kataribabo's
relatives.  This guy might have faked his death by putting
a collar on a ringer and then blowing him away.)
(See the Duluth News-Tribune for March 31, 2000,
"Twisted visionary led cult, relatives say," page 4A.
Also the Minneapolis, Minn. Star-Tribune for April 1,
2000, "The Cult's Leaders," page A17.)
(Editor's Note: Miriam's first apparition took place
in Neocaesarea (Latin for New Ceaser City) in the
Roman Empire's Pontus province in 238 A.D., about
189 years after her disappearance from Jerusalem.)

UFO HIJACKS CAR IN ULSTER:
VICTIM REPORTS SIX HOURS
OF "MISSING TIME"

      An Ulster man claims that his car was lifted off the
ground by a UFO, and he experienced six hours of
"missing time" as a result.
      On Thursday, March 23, 2000, John H., employed
at a factory in West Belfast, County Antrim, Northern
Ireland, "was on my way home from work after a long
and tiring shift which had lasted 24 hours.  So, as you
can imagine, I wanted to go home to my wife and
children and sleep for a few hours."
      "But," John reported, "as I was on my way home,
I pulled into a petrol (gasoline in the USA--J.T.) station
to fill up the tank and noticed to my right a large light
in the sky.  At first I thought maybe it was the moon.
But on looking again, it didn't take on the shape of the
moon.  Indeed, it took on the shape of an egg."
      "I was amazed at what I was looking at.  At first
I thought to myself, Go and get someone to look at this
thing...But, as the thought crossed my mind, something
told me to get in the car and drive away from the filling
station.  Without paying for the petrol or anything!"
      "I got into the car and drove away.  The thing was
following me.  I live on the Falls Road in West Belfast,
but I was driving the road that leads down to Dublin.
I didn't want to go to Dublin!  I wanted to go home to my
wife and babies.  I couldn't understand why I was driving
down this road."
      "While I was driving, I noticed the object again.  It was
starting to scare me very much indeed.  So much, in fact,
I started to scream.  Without knowing why, I stopped the
car on a hillside road that leads to a farming area
northbound on the (motorway) M-3.  The car, it seemed,
was lifting.  I felt it.  But for some reason, I was not
sure that it was.  It was as though someone was
screwing with my brain.  Telling me what to think."
      "All I can remember after this was driving on
the Whiterock/Donegal Road and back to my house
on the Falls Road.  The funny thing about it is, on my
way home from work, it takes five minutes to get to
my home from the filling station.  But it was 2:30 a.m.
before I got home."
      "I have about six hours of my life gone, and I can't
account for it.  I want to know what is going on, and
I have to know it now."
      The case is currently being investigated by Conor
McLaughlin of the Belfast UFO Society.  (Many thanks
to the witness and to Conor McLaughlin for this report.)

MYSTERY BOOMS STARTLE
PEOPLE IN NORTHERN ITALY

      On Thursday, March 23, 2000, at 10:15 p.m., a
merchant in Val di Mara, a town in La Spezia province
in Italy "saw a strange glow in the sky and then
observed a luminous body heading towards Earth."
The object "had a small white tail, and it was
accompanied by two loud explosions."
      "A short while earlier, two young lovers saw a
faint trail in the sky" near Val di Mara "and heard
a very loud explosion."
      According to Italy's Centro Italiano di Studi
Ufologici (CISU), mystery booms were heard that
evening in Lecco, a city on Lago (Lake) Como
80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Milano (Milan);
in Trezzo sull'Adda, near Milano; in the city of
Firenze (Florence) and in several villages in the
provinces of Bologna and Savona.
      Italian astronomers said it "was 'probably' a
meteoric phenomenon."  (Grazie a Edoardo Russo,
Roberto Labanti, Michele Maroni e Frederico
Rosati per questi rapportti.)

GLOWING RED UFO SEEN
OVER SUDBURY, ONTARIO

      On Thursday, March 16, 2000, at ufologist
Michel Deschamps was in the Four Corners area
of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada (population 93,000)
when he spotted an unusually bright light in the sky.
      "At around 9:45 p.m.," Deschamps reported, "my
two friends, Brian and Earl, and I were coming back
from the Four Corners area of Sudbury when I looked
out the right rear passenger-side window and noticed
a light up in the eastern sky.  It was pinkish red in
color and pulsated at the same rate as those found on
communication towers located around the city.  But
unlike the tower lights, it would not completely go off."
      "As we went past the General Hospital, I began
looking at the sky and could no longer see the light,
which was odd as it was at a fair height (altitude--J.T.)
and could have been easily noticeable from Paris Street."
      "I later called my colleague Todd to tell him about
it," Deschamps added, "and he said he'd check for
flights of the Air Ambulance and see if there were any
communication towers in the area.  He called back a
few days later and said he couldn't find out if the
(medevac) helicopter had flown that night, but he did
say there was a tower at the far end of Lake Ramsey."
      A week later, on Thursday, March 23, 2000, he was
driving with two other friends, Eric and Ben, and "took
the opportunity to look over to the east and did notice a
tower in the distance.  But the light was very small and
very low on the horizon."
      On Sunday, March 26, 2000, at 8:30 p.m., Deschamps
and his friend Todd were standing on the sidewalk, outside
Descahmps's home, conversing, when "I happened to look
up in the sky, at approximately 90 degrees (directly
overhead--J.T.) and spotted another strange light in the
sky.  I saw what looked like a single bright flash, then
barely noticed a second one from the corner of my eye."
      "As Todd looked on, I told him I was going upstairs
to get my binoculars.  When I came down, he said he
had seen two more flashes and told me to point my
binoculars in the direction of the Big Dipper."
(Editor's Note:  Over the years, UFO Roundup has
printed several accounts of witnesses seeing UFOs
flee in the direction of the Big Dipper, also known
as the constellation Ursa Major.)
      "Todd said the flashes seemed to be heading
that way in a straight line."
      "As we both looked up, a man in a pickup truck
stopped and asked what we were looking at...Todd
didn't want to say anything, but I told him what we
saw and he stood there for a few minutes before
driving off.  Suggested we call the paper to report
this because he reads the paper a lot and would
like to read about it."
      The pair kept watch for several minutes more
but the mysterious flashes did not reappear.
      Sudbury is on Provincial Highway 17 approximately
260miles (416 kilometers) north of Toronto.  (Many
thanks to Michael Deschamps for this report.)

BRIGHT UFO SIGHTED IN
BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA

      On Tuesday, March 28, 2000, at 11:10 p.m.,
Peter S. was outside his home in Bloomington,
Indiana (population 60,700), a city on Indiana
Highway 37 approximately 50 miles (80 kilometers)
southwest of Indianapolis, when he saw a motionless
bright light in the sky.
      "It looked like a bright star in the northwest sky
low on the horizon," Peter reported, "It didn't move
until a minute or two after I saw it.  It looked like it
was going straight up for a bit and then it was apparent
that it was coming straight in my direction (i.e. to the
southeast--J.T.)  It flew straight over my head."
      "While it was straight over my head, it was the same
brightness and size as it was in the distance.  It looked
like a moving star.  There was only the one solid light,
no blinking lights, no red or green lights. I'm really sure
it wasn't a plane.  I have no idea what it was."  (Email
Form Report.)

FAST-MOVING DAYLIGHT DISC
SEEN IN UPSTATE NEW YORK

      On Tuesday, March 21, 2000, at 2:47 p.m.,
Joseph B. was outdoors in the small town of
Ballston Spa, New York (population 5,000) when he
noticed a strange silvery gleam in the sky.
      "The UFO was moving from south to north,
heading for the Lake Champlain area," he reported,
"It was a large circular flying disk.  Very shiny.
I estimate that it was about 7 meter (23 feet) high
and 14 meters (46 feet) wide.  It was really moving!"
      Ballston Spa is on Route 50 approximately
14 miles (22 kilometers) northeast of Schenectady,
New York.  (Email Form Report)

ARCHAEOLOGISTS FIND A
BURIED PYRAMID IN EGYPT

      A group of French archaeologists have discovered
the remnants of a pyramid dating all the way back to
2,000 B.C.
      The discovery was announced last week at the
Worldwide Conference on Egyptology now going on
in Cairo.
      Egyptian workers "employed by Jean Leclant, a
French Egyptologist, on Saturday, March 25, 2000,
discovered the foundations of a pyramid belonging
to the wife of Pharoah Pepi in Saqqara, near the
royal cemetery, located about 32 kilometers
(20 miles) south of Cairo."
      "Leclant's team has pinpointed the burial chamber
of Queen Ankh-sn-Pepi and also excavated a large
stone upon which are written several texts and
special prayers for the protection of the dead."
      "'Who knows what they'll find inside?' said Gabala
Ali Gabala, a director of the Supreme Council for
Egyptian Antiquities."
       The pyramid appears to be at least 4,000
years old.
      "The team continues work on the excavation,
one of the best preserved," and the project "is
expected to end in May," 2000.  (Muto obrigado
ao Visitantes Cosmias do Brasil para esa historia.
(Editor's Comment:  Maybe one of our UFO Roundup
correspondents in Egypt can send us a translation
of Queen Ankh-sn-Pepi's funeral stone.  It would be
nice to know which wizard wrote it.  Maybe there's a
mentuion of Atlantis or at least directions to the
long-lost Obelisk of Retenu.)

ELVIS RUNS FOR MAYOR
IN WISCONSIN

      Voters were surprised and amused Tuesday,
April 4, 2000 when the name of Elvis Aron Presley
turned up on the municipal ballot in Phillips,
Wisconsin.
      "If Jesse Ventura can succeed in politics, why
not an Elvis impersonator who has legally changed his
name to Elvis Aron Presley in honor of the late
rock 'n' roll king?"
      "Presley, who moved to this Price County
community," Phillips, Wisconsin (population 1,600)
two years ago from West Dundee, Illinois
(population 3,800) says he identifies with Ventura,
the former pro wrestler now serving as Minnesota's
governor."
      "'If the people of that state can put a wrestler in
office, I don't see what's wrong with the people of
Wisconsin electing an Elvis impersonator,' said
Presley, proprietor of Bloom's Tavern, a 108-tear-old
drinking establishment listed on the National Register
of Historic Places."
      "'Ventura and I have a lot in common,' Presley said,
'He's a wrestler, and I'm a performer.  We're both political
outsiders.'"
      "Voters in this community of 1,600 people will choose
between Presley and Keith Corcilius."
      "Corcilius said his opponent lacks experience in
government."
      "Presley, 50, said he wants to be taken seriously
but he admits some voters might think he's just a
rebel without a cause."  (See the Chicago-Tribune
for April 3, 2000, "Elvis alive and running  for mayor
in Wisconsin," page 4.)

from the UFO Files...

1944: UFO GOES SUPERSONIC
           OVER TARAWA

      Three years before Roswell, during April of 1944,
there was a flurry of UFO sightings in both the USA
and on different World War Ii battlefields around the
globe.
      One such battlefield was Tarawa, a small island
atoll in the central Pacific Ocean.  This lonely outpost
of Japan's Pacific empire was invaded by an Allied task
force on November 20, 1943.  After eight days of heavy
fighting, the U.S. Marine Corps took possession of
the island.
      Five months after the battle, the U,S. Navy had set up
an early warning detection system in the central Pacific.
Radar stations on Tarawa, manned by Navy personnel,
kept watch for any signs of Japanese activity.
      One day in April 1944, Navy Lieutenant (j.g.)
Matthew P. Dillingham took over as OD (Officer of the
Deck--J.T.) at the Argus 16 Combat Intelligence Center
(CIC) on Tarawa.  There were three radar sets in the
Argus 16 command center.
      As Lt. Dillingham was doing his paperwork for
the captain, he heard one of the sailors remark,
"Sir, I've got a bogey."
      Hurrying to the radar set, the lieutenant asked,
"What have you got?"
      "Single plane, sir.  Coming in from the north.
And she's coming in hot."
      As Lt. Dillingham noted in his letter to UFO
investigator Major Donald E. Keyhoe, Argus 16
"suddenly picked up a 'bogey'...the blip of an
unknown object...moving swiftly from north to
south.  The speed was calculated at approximately
700 miles per hour (1,120 kilometers per hour--J.T.)--
far greater than any aircraft then known to exist."
      Immediately Lt. Dillingham picked up the
telephone and called "the old man."  Within a
minute, the captain, his executive officer and the
intelligence officer were in the control room.  Lt.
Dillingham repeated the story of what had happened.
      Major Keyhoe wrote, "The radar sets were in
excellent condition, and the operators, Dillingham
emphasizes, were all expert plotters.  Even so, some
incredulous Navy officers first called it poor calibration."
      "But not long after this, there was a second
mysterious 'bogey,' and again Navy plotters computed
the speed at 700 miles per hour."
      "When this happened once more, Dillingham and
his group knew there was no error."
      "There seemed only two possible answers: either
this was a completely solid object under guidance.
Or, by some miracle, the Japanese had jumped far
ahead (of the USA) and and produced a supersonic
plane."
(Editor's Comment: Wouldn't you just love to read
the Estimate of the Situation the Pacific commander,
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, must have sent to General
George C. Marshall, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
about this "supersonic Japanese airplane?")
      When the war ended in 1945, U.S. Navy officers
debriefed the admirals of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
They specifically asked about the "supersonic plane"
that had overflown Tarawa in April 1944.
      The Japanese admirals had no idea what they
were talking about.
      The sound barrier was finally broken in August 1947
by an experimental rocket plane, the Bell X-1, also known
as the Glamorous Glennis, flown by Chuck Yeager.
      But the "Tarawa mystery" remained an enigma
until the big Roswell UFO flap in July 1947.  (See the
book Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective by
Gordon I.R. Lore Jr. and Harold H. Deneault Jr.,
Prentice-Hall Inc., New York, N.Y., 1968,
pages 126 and 127.)
(Editor's Note: The battle of Tarawa, which raged
from November 20 to November 28 in 1943, claimed
the lives of 980 U.S. Marines and 22 U.S. Navy sailors.
No, some of us have not forgotten.)

Today's Quote: Comes from USA Vice President
Albert Gore--"A zebra cannot change its spots."
(Editor's Comment: Boy, it's a good thing Al Gore
isn't running for president of South Africa.)

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