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Subject: Issue 104 pt 1 - United Kingdom UFO Network
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Editorial
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Back issues of uk.ufo.nw and other e-zines.
United Kingdom News
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[UK 1] Near collision cith UFO baffles aviation expert.
[UK 2] Somerset sighting by Police Officer and wife.
[UK 3] How on earth do you lure little green tourists?
[UK 4] UFO in Glasgow airspace
World News
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[W 1] X-Files version of history is backed by CIA report.
[W 2] Lawyer to sue for release of 'real X-Files'.
[W 3] When aliens come abducting, ask for a warm probe.
[W 4] Take a Virtual Tour of the Pentagon
[W 5] Moon Mystery
[W 6] Furry puppet turns up in ET search
[W 7] Multinational spy system ...
[W 8] Apollo Astronaut Was Murdered, Son Charges
[W 9] uk.ufo.nw takes a look at SETI@home web information
[W 10] New Mexico UFO Sighting Caught On Video
Letters
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Lights over Dorset???
Jerry Hartsell's book
Serialisation
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Foo Fighters, Fireballs and "Project Saucer."
Copyright: Jim Morris. 1996/97/98
Jim Morris <dx394@clara.net
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United Kingdom News
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[UK 1]******
Source: BBC News
Publish Date: Wednesday 15th September 1999
From: doug@greenmen.demon.co.uk
Near Collision With UFO Baffles Aviation Expert
A UFO that narrowly avoided colliding with a passenger jet
flying from London's Heathrow Airport has baffled aviation
experts.
The metallic grey-coloured object was spotted by the pilots
of an Oslo-bound McDonnell Douglas MD81 plane on 12 June
1998, and passed just 20-50 metres from them.
The captain said the object was the size of a small aircraft,
while the co-pilot described it as a "bright light, very
close".
Reporting to an air traffic controller, the captain said "a
flare or something passed 20 feet from our aircraft", but
nothing had been recorded on the radar screen.
Radar blank
The pilot later filed a near-miss report, known as an
airprox, in which he said the object looked similar to a
fighter.
But a report by the Civil Aviation Authority found no
explanation for the incident, which has also confounded local
military experts and local police.
"Air traffic controllers were certain that even a very small
aircraft would have been detected, particularly on Heathrow
radar," said the report.
Although the evidence of the unnamed airline's crew is
considered to be reliable, the report notes that they only
caught a brief glimpse of the object.
Fewer near-misses
The incident was included in a Civil Aviation Authority
report, which found that dangerous aircraft near-misses fell
to an all-time low last year.
It is the first report to include airprox incidents filed by
both pilots and air traffic controllers.
The number of near-misses involving public transport flights
per 100,000 flying hours in 1998 was 1.20, compared with 2.37
in 1997 and 2.87 in 1996.
Three-quarters of those misses were judged as having no
actual risk of collision.
"The figures speak for themselves and show that more flying
does not automatically mean more risk as a consequence," said
Gordon McRobbie, director of the UK Airprox Board.
Chance miss
But he warned against complacency. "This report is aimed
squarely at all pilots and air traffic controllers and I
would encourage them to read about the incidents.
One of the most serious incidents listed involved two
passenger jets, which avoided collision only by chance after
a mistake by an overworked air traffic controller.
The incident happened near London's Stansted Airport on 14
August 1998, and involved a Stansted-to-Cork Ryanair Boeing
737 and a Dublin-to-Stansted Aer Lingus BAe 146.
Even when a collision alert flashed up, the controller was
unsure what was happening and gave no instructions to the
planes to take avoiding action.
---=== a further newspaper report on this ===---
Source: Daily Express newspaper
Publish Date: 16th September 1999
From: johnniem@dial.pipex.com
A UFO came within 50 metres of a passenger plane flying from
Heathrow, according to two pilots. The mystery object did not show
up on radar and has baffled investigators, a near-miss report
revealed yesterday. It passed within 50 metres of an Oslo-bound
McDonnell Douglas MD81 in June last year. The captain reported it as
being the size of a small aircraft, while the co-pilot described it
as a "bright light, very close."
The UK Airprox Board's report said: "Air traffic controllers were
certain that even a very small aircraft would have been detected."
[UK 2]******
Source: Name and address suppied.
Dear sir/madam
My wife and I witnessed a sighting of a bright light, much larger
than a star and moving at a very high speed from about 120 degrees
from north to about 85 degrees from north. We were looking in an
easterly direction from our home in Weston Zoyland, Somerset at about
0500 hours on Friday 10th September 1999.
This object suddenly became stationary for about 15 minutes during
which time I viewed it through my telescope. It appeared to have a
spherical underside but the top was not spherical. One side had a
faint red glow. After this period of time it moved in a direct line
away from us at great speed and eventually disappeared.
It has taken great courage to write this to you as neither of us have
ever seen anything like this before and as a Police officer I am
quite sceptical about these things.
uk.ufo.nw says: Further enquiries are being made regarding this
sighting. However if any reader has further information please mail
us.
[UK 3]******
Source: BBC Online
Publish Date: Monday 15th November 1999
How on earth do you lure little green tourists?
Expecting visitors? Better do some dusting, comb your hair, mow the
launchpad. A former mining town in the north-east of England is
taking the brave step of pitching for visitors from Mars.
Bedlington in Northumberland, whose residents some people class as
Geordies, is branching out to advertise itself to the red planet
thanks to Nasa.
Traders - including mechanics Tyred and Exhausted, burger shop Best
Byte and funeral directors AJ Gascoigne & Son - are expected to get
together to offer the aliens special deals.
The town's chamber of trade organised the move by replying to a Nasa
advert for material to be included on the Mars 2001 Lander
expedition.
Chairman Malcolm Robinson said: "We'll offer any alien visitors a
range of discounts, with pensioner rates for haircuts, and discounts
on food and clothing.
"They won't get a warmer welcome anywhere in England."
But he added: "God knows if they'll understand our accents."
Local trader Margaret Millen was in little doubt that, if the message
is picked up on Mars, Bedlington would get a good reaction.
"It's a lovely little town, very friendly. It's really a country
town, even though it's only 12 miles from Newcastle and fairly close
to the industry," she said.
One notable chapter from the town's history was the production of
iron rails by Michael Longridge. A friend of George Stevenson, the
rails were used for the world's first passenger railway.
Although the town is treating the Nasa venture light-heartedly, it is
not a publicity shy place.
The chamber of trade's website directs potential customers to local
businesses, and makes the most of a worldwide - particularly US -
interest in Bedlington Terriers.
The site's webmaster writes: "Bedlington.co.uk was rather trying to
minimise this, but there is simply no getting away from the fact that
Bedlington is famous for its 'World Class' breed of dogs. If you
search the Internet it is almost as if that is all it's famous for.
Not so!"
The news of the Nasa CD comes 25 years after the first deliberate
radio message sent from Earth to the stars. In 1974, a three-minute
message about the human race was sent from the Arecibo radio
telescope in Puerto Rico.
Although the message has been travelling for a quarter of a century,
it's still only one-thousandth of its way to its target stars, 147
trillion miles away.
In 1973, Nasa sent a plaque on its Pioneer 10 craft with simple
greetings from humans, showing male and female form, and where earth
is in relation to the Sun.
It is still waiting for an answer.
ukufonw says: The BBC then asks it's readers to fill an online form
in asking the question..
How would you lure Martian tourists to your home town?
[UK 4]******
From: Paul Jones - UK.UFO.NW investigator
Source: scanner newsgroup
Date: 23rd December 1999
uk.ufo.nw are making further enquiries with John and it's British
Airways contacts.
UFO in Glasgow airspace
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999 22:15:14 -0000, in alt.radio.scanner.uk "John
Johnstone" <rangers@ibrox9.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
I was listening to the tower at Glasgow airport the other day and the
BA [British Airways] pilot came across the speaker and said that
there was something 12 miles above him and it wasn't showing on his
radar! In reply the tower guy said it was actually six miles above
and that he could see it although he said that when trying to contact
him the signal was broken and advised him to land as it was following
him. 118.800 is the frequency. This is not a joke or Hoax.
World News
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[W 1]******
Source: Daily Telegraph
Publish Date: Tuesday 17th August 1999
X-Files version of history is backed by CIA report
By Michael Smith
THE CIA has released a secret history of its investigations into UFO
sightings, revealing that there was more truth in the popular
television series The X-Files than is often believed.
The highly critical report describes often bitter debates between
real-life X-Files investigators who believed that "the truth is out
there" and their sceptical bosses. It records tales of bumbling
undercover agents whose activities fuelled a widespread belief that
the government was covering up what the agency described as
"extra-terrestrial visitations by intelligent beings".
The problem was eventually passed to the agency's physics and
electronics division where in true X-Files style just one analyst
investigated UFO phenomena. But the Fifties equivalent of Fox Mulder
was constantly undermined by his boss, described by the CIA history
as "a non-believer in UFOs", who tried but failed to declare the
project "inactive".
While the CIA investigations eventually concluded that all the
sightings could be explained, the report concludes that "misguided"
attempts to keep them secret led to widespread belief of a government
cover-up.
The report, written by Gerald K Haines, the official CIA historian,
was commissioned by the then CIA director James Woolsey in 1993 in
the wake of renewed claims of a CIA-led cover-up. It calls for the
first time on documents that the agency hid from UFO enthusiasts who
obtained thousands of more mundane files under the Freedom of
Information Act. The report, completed in 1997, has been released at
the request of the British academic journal Intelligence and National
Security and is published in its summer issue this month.
US intelligence began investigating UFO sightings in 1947 when a
pilot claimed to have seen nine discs travelling at more than 1,000
mph in Washington state. The claim was backed up by additional
sightings including reports from military and civilian pilots and air
traffic controllers.
The first investigation, Operation Saucer, was carried out by US air
intelligence which initially feared that the objects might be Soviet
bombers. But some officers became convinced that UFOs existed and in
a top-secret report concluded many of the sightings were
"interplanetary". Air force chiefs had the report rewritten to
conclude that "although visits from outer space are deemed possible,
they are believed to be very unlikely".
The CIA initially dismissed the investigations as "midsummer
madness". But an agency committee decided they could be used by
Moscow either to create mass hysteria or to overload the air warning
system, making it unable to distinguish between UFOs and Soviet
bombers.
In 1955, claims by two elderly sisters to have had contact with UFOs
attracted widespread publicity. A CIA agent describing himself as an
air force officer spoke to them and reported that he appeared to have
stumbled upon a scene from Arsenic and Old Lace. Analysis of a "code"
which the women believed aliens were using to make contact with them
while they listened to their favourite radio programme was morse code
from a US radio station.
But when UFO enthusiasts heard of the "air force" officer's visit
they became immediately suspicious that he was a member of the CIA
trying to cover up the affair. One enthusiast pursued the CIA
conspiracy theory and was visited by another CIA officer, who claimed
to be in the air force and even wore an air force uniform. The ruse
failed, making the conspiracy theorists even more suspicious.
The refusal to release 57 documents on the investigation in the
Seventies, to protect sources, also fuelled the cover-up theory,
Haines concluded.
[W 2]******
Source: Daily Telegraph
Publish Date: Sunday 22nd August 1999
Lawyer to sue for release of 'real X-Files'
By James Langton
THE truth is out there, and Peter Gersten believes that he knows
where to find it. As director of the Citizens Against UFO Secrecy he
will launch a lawsuit this week against the United States government,
claiming that its refusal to hand over secret documents on the
existence of flying saucers is a violation of his constitutional
rights.
While the authorities, including the Department of Defence and the
CIA, continue to insist that they are not concealing details about
alien incursions, their denials are undermined by growing evidence of
real-life X-Files.
The British academic journal Intelligence and National Security last
week published an official CIA report that documented attempts by the
agency to uncover the truth behind UFO sightings over half a century.
It revealed that the CIA operated its own team of UFO investigators
and that, like the television series The X-Files in which secret
agents probe extra-terrestrial activity, the agency was plagued by
sometimes bitter divisions between sceptics and those who believed in
flying saucers.
Mr Gersten and his organisation hope that their latest lawsuit will
force the authorities to reveal what they know about a large number
of well-documented sightings of large triangular craft seen over
Arizona and New Mexico in recent years.
The objects, some many times larger than a jumbo jet, have been
observed by tens of thousands of people. One was filmed over Phoenix
two years ago but later interpreted by the air force as a series of
flares dropped in a training mission - an explanation few accepted.
"People have a right to the truth," says Mr Gersten, a lawyer from
Scottsdale, Arizona, who believes that extra-terrestrials are trying
to contact us through crop circles. "I believe that the authorities
have evidence and that I can prove it in a court of law."
While such extreme opinions are only shared by a tiny minority, most
Americans believe that their government knows more than it will say.
Opinion polls show that more than half now believe in UFOs. And after
years of denial, almost all branches of the American military now
admit that they carried out their own secret investigations into
flying saucers, particularly in the 1950s when UFO fever peaked.
The CIA report, by its official historian Gerald Haynes, says that
the agency eventually concluded that most reports could be explained
and that there were no little green men. While some CIA agents
believed that there was evidence of genuine UFO activity, the
official version attributes at least half the sightings to secret US
Air Force reconnaissance aircraft such as the U2 and Blackbird.
Dr Bruce Maccabee, one of America's leading UFO experts who regularly
met CIA agents from 1979, believes that the "real X-Files" are in the
vaults of the air force and FBI. The air force also maintained
Project Blue Book in which it documented nearly 13,000 sightings
between 1951 to 1969, all but 700 of which it was able to explain as
conventional aircraft or natural phenomenon.
The air force has also attempted - with very limited success - to end
speculation that it recovered the remains of a spacecraft which
crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947 and several alien bodies.
It has released previously classified files which claim that the
"saucer" was actually a weather balloon used to monitor nuclear tests
and that the "aliens" were crash test dummies for parachute
prototypes. Among UFO diehards, however, such "explanations" are
seen only as evidence of a further cover-up.
[W 3]******
Source: The Toronto Star
Publish Date: 24th August 1999
When aliens come abducting, ask for warm probe
IF YOU GET abducted by space aliens, you're going to get probed. You
might as well face it. That's why they abduct you. Not that you can
do anything about getting abducted. If they want to abduct you,
they'll abduct you, right?
Right?
At a cocktail party not long ago, a very nice cocktail party - nobody
in the room had ever watched Jerry Springer, nobody snuck up behind
you and made farting noises in their armpits - in an apartment at a
very classy Bloor St. W. address, I met a psychiatrist who, when I
asked what his specialty was, said most of his practice was people
who believe they've been abducted by space aliens.
I made sympathetic noises. Tsk, tsk. It must be difficult getting
them to realize they are delusional.
``No,'' he said. The difficulty was getting them to understand that
nobody was going to believe they had been abducted, and they were
going to have a hard time, either forced to keep it to themselves, or
enduring the reaction - that they were goofballs. Nobody was going to
believe them, that is, but him.
I was so astonished that all I could think to say was, ``Does OHIP
cover this?''
``If it's a referral,'' he said.
Right now an interesting dance is going on around the question of
UFOs. Call it the Catch-22 Two-step. The U.S. government has always
denied that all those bizarre sightings were UFOs. Because of this,
people naturally believed they were UFOs. Nobody believes the
government. Had the government said, ``Yikes! UFOs are everywhere!
We've been invaded!'' people would've said, ``The government is
cuckoo, as usual.''
So, just what is it you thought they probed? Your ears? ``Xgfyy!
Kngrg dm! Frgq!'' (``Hey! Lookit this! Wax!'')
Not as I understand it.
I understand a thing or two about it because I myself have been
abducted, although in my case I am one of the very few who was
probed, I guess you might say, abnormally. I didn't mention getting
abducted to that psychiatrist because I hadn't mentioned it to my GP,
and without OHIP coverage can you imagine what he'd have charged me
for our conversation at that cocktail party? He probably would've
been able to dash out and buy a second Mercedes. Put down cash. In
my case, I was abducted by aliens from a planet of intergalactic
dentists. ``Hjfft!'' (``Bleeding gums!'') ``Kkfgzzz!''
(``Abscesses!'') ``Pn!'' (``He should quit smoking!'') ``Glm mv mv!''
(``Plaque!'') ``Fzplat!'' (``Spit!'')
I came to under a bridge in Oshawa, bare-naked, clutching a floss
dispenser. Nobody who's been abducted and probed in this manner ever
talks about it. People think you're a goofball.
You can recognize people who have been subjected to the normal
probing by the way they walk. That's my theory.
It makes sense, when you think about it. David Jacobs of Temple
University in Philadelphia has written a book that explains why.
``If it's a very busy ship - let's say there are 20 tables and
they've abducted 40 people,'' the aliens are what you could describe
as overbooked. As a result they are brusque and clinical. ``I would
use the word task-oriented.''
Get the point? They don't have time to warm up the, what do you call
them, instruments. Like in M*A*S*H* where they're always so rushed
they don't even rinse the scalpel between operations. Wheel in
another one. Open him up.
Even if the probers had the inclination, and maybe it has never
occurred to them. According to Jacobs, they have cold, rubbery skin.
If you lived on a planet of cold rubbery beings and somebody probed
you with a warm whatever, you'd go, ``Bgnn! Fgrnng rq urgf! Nv tdt p
hkkw bn tdtp kqlqmb rbzx?'' (``Ooh! That feels awful! Have you no
respect for your patient's comfort?'') You'd want them to use
something that just came out of the fridge.
Anyway, as a result of all this, if you watch the way people walk you
can pretty well tell for sure. And often the way they sit. TV
anchors, for example. You notice how a lot of them stay standing
during newscasts these days? I think there's been a run on TV news
anchors lately. And when they do sit, they kind of lean over to one
side?
Unless they've been probed by dental aliens, but I'm not going to go
into that. We don't. We keep our mouths shut.
[W 4]******
Take a Virtual Tour of the Pentagon
Now is your chance to take a tour around the Pentagon from the
comfort of your own chair and computer monitor.
Point your browser at:
www.defenselink.mil
The full tour which uses Real Player takes 24 minutes or it can be
split into it's 14 subsections...
Introduction
DoD Organization
Secretary of Defense Corridor
Army Executive Corridor
Air Force Executive Corridor
Marine Corps Executive Corridor
Navy Executive Corridor
Hall of Heroes
MacArthur Corridor
Military Women's Corridor
African American Corridor
Hispanic Heroes Exhibit
Navajo Code Talkers Exhibit
Closing/Tour Information
[W 5]******
Source: exoscience
http://www.exosci.com/
New Scientist
Publish Date: Wednesday 20th October 1999
Moon Mystery
Reports of curious flashes and fleeting clouds on the Moon may not be
figments of wild imaginations, astronomers say. A new look at
observations by the American satellite Clementine show that a small
area on the Moon's surface darkened and reddened in April 1994. Why
this happened remains a mystery.
For hundreds of years, people have reported seeing flashes,
short-lived clouds and other brief changes on the Moon's surface. But
astronomers have never been able to confirm the sightings. "The
events were observed on many occasions, but most astronomers don't
believe in them," says Bonnie Buratti of NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
On 23 April 1994, around a hundred amateur astronomers reported
seeing a possible darkening of the Moon, lasting 40 minutes, near the
edge of the bright lunar crater Aristarchus. At the same time, the US
Department of Defense's Clementine satellite was mapping the lunar
surface.
Intrigued by the amateur reports, Buratti's team has taken a close
look at the Clementine data to see if the satellite also recorded the
event. Sure enough, they found that the crater looked different
before and after the amateur reports. "After the event, it looks
redder," says Buratti, who announced the findings at a meeting of the
American Astronomical Society in Padua, Italy, last week.
Winifred Cameron, a retired astronomer who worked at the Lowell
Observatory in Arizona, thinks that brief colour changes might be
caused by small gas eruptions throwing dust around. We know that
there are pockets of gas in the lunar soil, and the gas may
occasionally escape. "I'm pretty sure that some of these changes are
due to emanations of gas that are more dense than usual," says
Cameron. "The Aristarchus region is the source of about a third of
all of these.
Charles Seife
[W 6]******
Source: BBC News Online
Publish Date: Monday 5th July 1999
From: doug@greenmen.demon.co.uk
Furry puppet turns up in ET search
Greetings to the people of planet Earth
By BBC News Online Science Editor Dr David Whitehouse
The SETI@home Website, a project that processes data collected by
radio telescopes in a Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
project has been hacked. For about five hours on Sunday [during
July], the home page was replaced with a single word - "WANTED" - and
an image of ALF, an extraterrestrial from a US TV sitcom of the same
name. Those who have not previously encountered this interstellar
ambassador may like to know that he crash-landed in a garage in Los
Angeles in 1986. He was named ALF, or Alien Life Form, by the humans
who were involved in first contact with him. The title of the Seti
Website was replaced with the words "attention people of Earth..."
Good looks Officials have dismissed it as an annoying prank, pointing
out that the hackers are wide of the mark when it comes to their
choice of an extraterrestrial. The problem with the hairy ALF is that
he is just too human-looking. Experts believe that alien life, if it
exists, is probably not like us. Indeed, they believe that if
evolution was re-run on Earth, it is very unlikely that anything
resembling humans - let alone ALF - would emerge a second time. Not
that many Seti scientists would be disappointed in finding something
like ALF - they just do not expect it to happen. Project officials
said that while they are satisfied with the security of their other
servers, they are checking them to be certain. The SETI@home project,
which opened to the public in mid-May, harnesses the downtime
computer power of subscribers to sift through data obtained by a
radio telescope to look for signals from space. More than 600,000
people have signed up since the project began.
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