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UFO ROUNDUP
Volume 5, Number 24
June 15, 2000
Editor: Joseph Trainor
CHUPACABRAS GO ON
THE RAMPAGE IN CHILE
Less than three weeks after the reported capture of
three Chupacabras at the Radomiro Tomic mine nea
Calama, a new wave of Chupacabra incidents swept
Chile.
On Sunday, June 4, 2000, during the early morning
hours, a Chupacabra slaughtered 14 chickens in a back
yard in Talcahuano, a port city 8 kilometers (5 miles)
north of Concepcion, which was the site of many
Chupacabra incidents during May.
On Wednesday, June 7, 2000, at 4 a.m., another
Chupacabra attack took place in the barrio Villa
Nonguen, in the city of Concepcion, which is located
300 kilometers (180 miles) south of Santiago de Chile, the
national capital.
According to the newspaper Diario El Sur, "the
strange case took place yesterday (June 7) around 4 a.m.
while Julio Reyes and his wife, Carmen Andrade, were
still asleep. They suddenly heard a loud noise coming
from their home's back yard, a kind of small farm in
which they have a henhouse" and a garden containing
tomato, potato, chocla and pepper plants.
"'The light outside the henhouse was on. I saw the
monster flapping his wings fiercely while the hens were
crowing--something they never do at this time. That's
when I saw the white one running toward the back. At this
time, Bobby (the family's terrier watchdog)--J.T.) came
out to take a look, but when he saw the back gate,
through which the hens had fled, he refused to follow and
remained standing still. He then ran toward the street
gate and began barking,' explained Carmen, who did not
witness the events herself out of fear that the intruder
might be a burglar."
"'Bobby became sort of dopey and turned back. He
didn't dare go forward,' Julio said."
"Around 7 a.m., the couple discovered what had
transpired. In the very rear of the backyard--which can
only be reached by crossing two gates--their three hens
and one rooster were found dead, completely torn to shreds,
as if they had been ripped open at the chest cavity and
scattered in a 10-meter (33-foot) radius. It is worth noting
that the house's entrance is a gate covered with chicken
wire."
As with the other recent cases, the Carabineros
(Chile's national police--J.T.) attributed the animal deaths
to a roving pack of wild dogs. But Julio Reyes doesn't buy
that explanation.
"However, based on several paw prints found on the
site, twice the size of Bobby's, the owner was not
satisfied with the explanation, given the difficulty a dog
would have had in getting into the area."
"'No, this is completely abnormal. You see, last year
there was a dog who'd appear during the day and steal
chickens that would stray into the street. But that's
what he did. He stole them and ate them one by one.
The very same thing happened in the fields. Every time a
dog made off with a chicken, it would take them one by
one,' stated Julio Reyes, who added that nothing similar
had ever occurred in his house, and he has been raising
poultry for 25 years."
"There were also large prints in the surrounding
area--the soil is soft and moist--which appeared to be
those of a dog differing in that they were unrelated to
each other and did not follow the sequence of footprints."
On Friday, June 9, 2000, at 11:45 a.m., Chile's Radio
Pudahuel, 90.5 FM received a phone call from Antofagasta,
a large city 500 kilometers (300 miles) north of Santiago
de Chile. The caller wanted to speak with Pablo Aguilera,
the popular talk-show host, whose broadcast was then on
the air. The caller reported a recent Chupacabra attack in
the city of Antofagasta.
According to the caller, the witness "says he was
asleep in his bedroom, and the cat started making noises,
waking him up. That's when they saw the alleged
Chupacabra. He says that when it saw them, the creature
took off at high speed. He says it destroyed their car. It
Killed it. It killed the cat."
Afterward, the witness reportedly found deep scratches,
"made by its claws," in the doors and fenders of his car
"It used some sort of claws to scratch the vehicle."
"They were told that they must remain quiet about the
situation, if they want to get a new car in exchange for the
destroyed one," the caller said, "If they speak to the press,
they won't be given a new car. They'll be stuck with the one
they have."
On Monday, June 12, 2000, a coalition of Chilean UFO
groups went to the Ministry of Defence in Santiago "to
investigate the alleged responsibility of NASA, the USA
space agency, in the manifestations of the so-called
'Chupacabras which has caused the deaths of hundreds
of domestic animals in the country."
"''Many people agree that they have seen a kind of ape
or mandrill with humanoid features and with very large eyes
which moves very quickly and in a zigzagging manner,' said
Cristian Riffo, director of the Ovalvision group."
At a news conference on Sunday, June 11, 2000, Riffo
cited the persistent reports of the capture of the three
Chupacabras in the desert near Calama. ""For this
reason, Riffo stated that they will go to the Ministry of
Defence to demand a clarification of these events. They will
also ask the (Chilean) Army if the accounts of the
death of a soldier during the capture of one of the creatures
is indeed true." (See the newspapers Cronica for June 5,
2000 and Diario El Sur for June 8 and June 11, 2000.
Muchas gracias a Scott Corrales, auto de los libros,
Chupacabras and Other Mysteries y Forbidden Mexico
y tambien Gloria Coluchi, Lucy Guzman y Patricia
Borlone Rojas para esas historias.)
GERMAN POLICE HUNT FOR
A LANDED UFO
Fifty German police officers were called out after
a UFO was seen landing on the outskirts of
Munchengladbach the night of Friday, May 5, 2000.
Munchengladbach is a city in the Hardt region
about 10 kilometers (6 miles) west of Dusseldorf and
320 kilometers (192 miles) southwest of Berlin.
According to the Rheinishce Post, "Telephones
manned by the German police were ringing off the hook,
and a UFO researcher had already contacted
Munchengladbacher Airport to enquire about the
mysterious lighted object seen flying low on the
night of Friday, May 5, near the Hardt region's
Autobahn (Highway) A-52."
"One witness, Karl W., called to report that a
slow-moving aircraft displaying red and white
flashing lights seemed to have crashed shortly after
10 p.m. after dropping behind trees."
"When an expert identified the light pattern as
the possible landing lights of a small sport airplane,
immediate search measures were initiated. Some 50
police officers, 12 fire fighters and 22 German Red Cross
aides with search dogs combed the area between the
A-52 and the city limits."
"In the morning, a helicopter was dispatched to again
search the entire locality, but it failed to find anything."
"Other witnesses had also observed the craft, including
a policeman who reported the flashing lights as being
extremely bright to the point of affecting his eyes. He said
that real landings lights by comparison were very much
weaker."
"The police were thorough in their attempts to explain
the event but had to exclude the presence of a hot-air balloon
as well as aircraft. They even conducted experiments
afterward to determine if car headlights from the A-52
interchange (roundabout in UK--J.T.) might have been
responsible but had to rule this out."
"The fact that the object was seen travelling so slowly,
as well as soundlessly, at treetop height for some period
of time but did not appear on radar, either, and also
apparently crashed or landed, has left them with a large
puzzle."
The case took a strange turn ten days later when a
German "radio amateur" (ham operator in the USA--J.T.)
claimed to have picked up radio transmissions from the
search teams. The ham operator said he overheard the
German policemen talking about green male humanoids,
who were passing through our solar system as part of
their long voyage through space.
"On May 18, the Rheinishce Post reported, "In a
further report on the incident two weeks ago, officials
admitted that they were still baffled by the event of this
night. However, a strange report has been offered by
a radio amateur living in the area who had been tuning
into frequencies. He claims to have listened to
the end of transmission, that included the following
fragments of conversation, 'green males' and 'odyssey
through the universe.'" (See the Rheinishce Post for
May 8 and may 18, 2000. Many thanks to Gerry
Lovell for forwarding the German newspaper article.)
SECURITY GUARD SIGHTS A
HUGE DISC-SHAPED UFO
IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE
"Star-gazing security guard Jim Brace is convinced
he saw an enormous UFO and will not change his mind
even if people make fun of him."
"The 29-year-old was on patrol at the Uniport depot
in South Littleton, near Evesham, just before midnight on
Monday, June 5 (2000) when he saw a large object in the
sky. He then watched it for the best part of an hour."
Evesham, Gloucestershire, is located about 90 miles
(146 kilometers) Northwest of London.
"Mr. Brace, who did not believe in UFOs until this
incident, said, 'It was partly cloudy and partly clear. The
thing just gradually appeared. It looked like a plate with
small domes dotted all over it.'"
"'Apart from ringing the police and my firm about it,
I watched it the whole time.'"
"PC (Police Constable--J.T.) Tom Iddon said Evesham
police would look into the matter. He said, 'We will keep an
open mind, but it may have been an advertising air balloon
which I believe was in the area at the time.'"
"Mr. Brace said he was sure it was nothing like a balloon
lights from a laser show or a plane. He said, 'I've never seen
anything like it and probably never will again. They could put
me in a strait-jacket, but I know what I saw, and I won't
change my mind for anything. It was massive and
impossible to put a size on it. There was also no noise
coming from it.'" (See This Is Gloucestershire for
June 6, 2000. Many thanks to Gerry Lovell for sending
this article.)
CROP CIRCLE DISCOVERED
SOUTH OF MILAN, ITALY
On Thursday, May 18, 2000, at 1 a.m., a
solitary crop circle was discovered in a field of wheat
beside the railroad tracks in Villa Raverio, a small
town in northern Italy.
Villa Raverio is located 30 kilometers (18 miles)
south of Milano (Milan). The circle was
discovered beside the tracks of the Ferroviario
Milano-Pavia (railroad).
"The witness spied a strange light in the sky that
night, heading south on a bearing of 210 degrees,"
reported Giuseppe Monticelli of Italy's Centro
Ufologico Nazionale (CUN). "The UFO was a light
grey colour. It left behind a circle, not perfect, with
trampled grain, all stalks lying in a uniform direction--
some lying in one direction, others in the opposite
direction.. The stalks were primarily green with a few
yellowing ones and some others which showed signs of
charring."
CUN investigators conducted tests at the site,
Mnticelli added, and found "ionization that was a little
above the area's background radiation--0.02 millirems.
The temperature within the circle was 18.1 degrees
Centigrade. No electromagnetic anomalies were
detected within the circle. The circle was oval-
shaped and measured 5 meters long and 4 meters wide.'
(16 feet long and 13 feet wide.)" (Gtazie a Alfredo
Lissoni e Giuseppe Monticelli per questo rapporto.)
DISC-SHAPED UFO KILLS A
CAR'S ENGINE IN WISCONSIN
On Saturday, May 14, 2000, the witness was driving
on U.S. Route 12 in Millston, a small town near Eau
Claire, Wisconsin when "my car engine suddenly died,
and I had to coast to a stop."
"I got out to lift up the hood," he added, "I heard a sound
coming down the road from the east. I looked, and it was a
disk-shaped object that looked like a huge top spinning on
the road. I ran inside my car and looked at it, and it
suddenly began moving. It shot straight up. It did that
about 25 yards from my car."
"It scared the living hell out of me. I did not tell
anyone because they would not believe me. I will never
travel that road again. I had to report this to someone,
and I thought this was the right place. It also made a
humming sound as it travelled over the road."
Eau Claire is also on Wisconsin Highway 12,
located 241 miles (385 kilometers) Northwest of
Milwaukee. (Many thanks to Peter Davenport of
the national UFO Reporting Center for this report.)
HOVERING BLUE SPHERE
SEEN IN AUBURN, NEW YORK
On Sunday, April 23, 2000, at 1:10 a.m., David P.
reported, "I was driving home from work" in the Throop
village section of Auburn, New York (population 32,000)
"I saw this ball on the road. It was hovering at about
10 feet (3 meters). As I was getting closer to the ball
to see what was going on, it kept on going away from
me. All of a sudden, I got close up to it. The blue
ball got brighter and shot off to the right of me, and it
was gone. It lasted for about five minutes." (
Email Form Report)
(Editor's Note: A nearly identical case occurred in
January 1967 when a couple travelling north on
Route 117 in Leominster, Massachusetts, USA
spotted a hovering blue ball in a roadside cemetery.)
BLACK HELICOPTERS AND
GIANT DAYLIGHT DISC SEEN
IN DALLAS, TEXAS
On Wednesday, May 24, 2000, at 3:15 p.m., the
witness was on a bus "coming back from a (corporate)
team-building retreat," travelling on Interstate Highway I-35,
when he spotted "two large black helicopters with two
propellers front and back flying south at about 500
feet (150 meters) altitude."
(Editor's Note: Both the Boeing Vertol CH-47D
Chinook and the Boeing Vertol CH-46D Sea Knight
have front and rear rotors.)
Turning to the person sitting beside him, the
witness said, "'Look at the military helicopters.'
He was on his cell phone. Most of the others were
asleep around. At this point, I noticed a large silver
disk-shaped object, metallic in nature, brilliantly
reflecting sunlight at about 10,000 feet (3,000 meters)
above Dallas's Love Field (airport). The copters were
flying directly toward it."
His companion "then looked at the copters. I said,
'What is that above them?' He said, 'Something is flying
above.' I said, 'I think it is a UFO.'"
"At this point, we both stared out the bus window,
transfixed. I was determined not to take my eyes off it.
I know the object was extremely large because
eventually the helicopters were directly under it in the
same formation, and the diameter of the disk was larger
than the tail of the trailing helicopter to the front of the
leading one. This was actual, not apparent, and the
copters were at least 8,500 to 9,500 feet below."
"About 30 seconds after the copters were directly
under it, it disappeared. I was not blinking, let alone
turning away, and it simply disappeared. The copters
were out of sight a few minutes after." (Many thanks to
Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center
for this report.)
VERY BRIGHT UFO SIGHTED
IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA
On Saturday, June 3, 2000, at 10:30 p.m., the
witness "was out on my back deck, facing due
north" in Cranberry Township, a suburb of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, when he sighted an
unusual bright light in the sky.
"At this time, I noticed a very bright white light
speed into the area at a relatively low altitude,
travelling roughly east to west from my vantage point,"
he reported. "The light sped into view from behind a
row of trees at a fairly good clip, intensified slightly
in brightness and" and continued on "at an angle due
north from me, and then its flight curved to the right
during the last second of the event, and quickly faded
from view."
""The light itself was a steady bright white circular-
shaped light and was slightly bigger than a pencil eraser
held at arm's length. The light travelled at about 10 to
15 degrees above the horizon...I figure it was at a fairly
low altitude--3,000 to 5,000 feet (900 to 1,500 meters)
The UFO "was travelling faster the commercial jet
aircraft that usually fly over my area into Pittsburgh
International Airport." (Many thanks to Peter
Davenport of the national UFO Reporting Center
for this report.)
MYSTERIOUS CAVE WRITINGS
DISCOVERED IN EGYPT
In late May 2000, pilot and amateur geologist
"George Cunningham was in the desert 25 miles
(40 kilometers) southeast of Cairo looking for
fossilized sea urchins, shells and plants--
a favorite hobby when he spotted 'an interesting
looking wall.'"
On Wednesday, June 7, 2000, "Cunningham
led Egyptian scholars to the site to investigate the
find, which resembles a cave in a limestone hill."
"'We were astounded that this wall was there
and that we had never seen it,' said Cunningham of
Algona, Iowa. He has worked in Cairo for two-and-a-
half years as a helicopter pilot trainer for an oil
company and is a frequent visitor to the area where
he made the discovery."
"The cave drawings appear to be from three
eras, according to experts on Egypt. The
earliest, which could date to 7,000 to 6,500 B.C.,
are hunting scenes: men and women carrying bows
alongside what appear to be dogs or wolves."
"A later drawing appears to be religious: two gods
or goddesses in an arch alongside three women,
probably goddesses as well. (the Three Fates of
Greek mythology?--J.T.) It could date to the early
Pharonic dynastic period, around 3,000 to 2,500
B.C., the experts say."
"From another era comes writing with hieroglyphic
elements. Specialists say it could represent a transition
between languages, before or after hieroglyphics."
"Cunningham shared photos of his find with several
friends, including a diplomat at the U.S. Embassy
in Cairo. The diplomat sent them to Gaballah
Ali Gaballah, secretary-general of the Supreme Council
of Antiquities in Cairo."
"That led to the visit Wednesday by 15 archaeologists
who fanned out around the cave and pointed out the
different symbols. Exclamations of 'Fascinating!'
(Shades of Mr. Spock--J.T.) and 'It must be excavated"
punctuated their talk, as did 'This is all speculation.'"
"Mohammed el-Saghir, head of the Pharonic and
Greco-Roman section of the Supreme Council of
Antiquities, says he is certain the find is of value. He
did not accompany the team but saw the photos
earlier."
""Archaeologists have found similar drawings in
caves in southern Egypt. But, el-Saghir says, this
might be the first time such etchings have been
found in northern Egypt. If anything, the discovery
could help mark the route that Stone Age nomads
took from southern Egypt to the Nile Valley to
settle in what is now Ma'adi, a posh suburb of
Cairo." (See USA Today for June 5, 2000, "Pilot
discovers ancient cave drawings in Egypt," page 16A.)
MORE CHEMTRAILS SIGHTED
IN SOUTH DAKOTA
On Thursday afternoon, June 8, 2000. curved
chemtrails were seen in the blue sky over Kadoka,
South Dakota (population 800) a small town just
off Interstate Highway I-90 approximately 78 miles
(125 kilometers) east of Rapid City.
"The chemtrails first appeared west of town," the female
witness reported. "They first appeared to be thin streamers
and then got thicker. They crossed the sky from north
to south, bending eastward. They drifted east with the
the high-altitude winds."
In a related matter, one engineer suspects that the
chemtrails may have something to do with the northern
hemisphere's ozone hole.
""I've been searching for information on barium
titanatee, the reputed component of chemtrail sprays
reported in UFO Roundup," engineer Theodore T. wrote,
"It has some interesting electrical and photo refractive
properties that make it very useful. It changes its
refractive index when light hits it. The particular
wavelengths of light that affect it can be changed by
doping it with compounds. Doping it with rhodium
makes it sensitive to infrared light."
He added, "I'm now suspicious that chemtrail sprays
are indeed real and are being done with a doped barium
titanate compound that reflects ultraviolet light, the idea
being that with enough of this in the atmosphere,
UV light that gets through the ozone hole might be
scattered enough to become harmless." (Email
Interview)
from the UFO Files...
1893: STRANGE CRUISE OF
THE MINNIE H.
Devil's Lake in northeastern North Dakota is one
of the most surprising features in the USA's Upper Midwest.
The lake "spreads like a great inland sea across nearly
thirty miles, although its irregular shape makes the distance
from corner to corner, by water, more than sixty miles.
It's known to the Lakota, the indigenous people of
the prairie (also known as the Sioux Indians) as
Minnewaukan (Lakotiya for Magic Lake--J.T.), mainly
because of its startling changes in water level.
Geological uplifts in the area have created a
terrain in which all rainwater drains directly into
Devil's Lake instead of the main Mississippi River
region watershed. When I visited Devil's Lake, N.D.
(population 7,800) in August 1996, rising waters
were threatening to turn the city into the Venice
of the Midwest.
"One of the earliest tales connected with
Devil's Lake comes down from the Sioux (Lakota)
and the Ojibwa (true name: Anishinabe), enemies
in earlier centuries but later abiding by an agreement
that made the lake neutral ground. The reason for the
truce was a tribal legend common to both peoples.
Two large war parties, one Ojibwa and the other Sioux,
were engaged in a fierce battle on Devil's lake when an
immense storm blew up and all of the warriors were
drowned."
(Editor's Note: This is not as far-fetched as it sounds.
In July 1942, a tremendous thunderstorm dropped
eight inches of rain on Bayfield, Wisconsin, causing
flooding all along Lake Superior's south shore. A
similar storm could have flooded the Devil's lake
basin in North Dakota.)
But Devil's lake does have its magical side.
Consider what happened to a little steamboat called
the Minnie H.
The Minnie H. was built and launched in 1883.
The boat used to ferry passengers from the old
Chautaqua grounds on the north shore to Fort
Totten, N.D. on the south shore.
On July 17, 1893, the Minnie H. set out from
her dock, bound for Fort Totten. Standing at the
rail, enjoying the lake breeze, was J. Morley Wyard.
"'Along the shore, the trees in summer beauty
reproduced upon the crystal surface,' he wrote in the
Park River Gazette Witness."
"When the Minnie H. was in the center of the lake,
Wyard said there appeared near the northern shore,
west of Fort Totten, what looked like the hull of a large
vessel, without mast or spar or sail, the color of new
timber. The great ship was motionless, about a
dozen miles away from Wyard's vantage point. An
outcropping of shore called the Point of Rocks
eventually cut off Wyard's view."
Note that this USO (Unidentified Submerged
Object) was large enough to be seen by Wyard's
naked eye on a clear sunny day at a distance of
over 10 miles (16 kilometers). It could not have
been a local ship. Fort Totten and Devil's Lake, N.D.
are the only places where a ship that large could
have been built. And such a project would have had
people talking all the way from Bismarck to Fargo.
""Wyard's return trip across the lake a few hours
later provided an even more amazing sight."
"'Far down the strait,' he wrote in the Gazette
Witness, 'there appeared the glint of a sail, that,
emerging from the distant outlet, came more
clearly into sight. Though the air was breathless,
(no wind--J.T.) the fairy craft swept along with
wonderful rapidity until it might have covered ten
miles in about as many minutes. Its rapid flight
could be definitely measured. Upon the shore the taller
trees were outlined against the sky, and the mystic
yacht sped past them close under the hand, until it,
too, like the sail-less and motionless hu;; of the
earlier trip, disappeared at the boulder point near
Fort Totten.'"
"An 1893 sailboat moving at sixty miles per hour?
(100 kilometers per hour) It hardly seems possible,
yet Wyard was quite definite in his account."
That's North Dakota's Devil's Lake for you. A
body of water, located thousands of miles from any
ocean, and yet it boasts not one but two "mysteries
of the sea"--a USO and a ghost ship. (See the books
Historic Haunted America by Michael Norman and
Beth Scott, Tor Books, New York, N.Y. 1995,
pages 386 and 387 and North Dakota: A Guide to the
Northern Prairie State, Knight Printing Co., Bismarck,
N.D., 1938.)
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