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From alt.paranet.ufo Thu Nov 23 12:00:04 1995 Subject: Ufology and the media- plus fresh sightings in UK! Date: 22 Nov 1995 17:01:13 GMT Dear fellow believers, I am a phd student in the United Kingdom working in a journalism department at Sheffield University. I am hoping to study the way the media cover ufo incidents, and I would be glad of any opinionsthat you may have. I would particularly like any newspaper clippings of any ufo-related events. My hypothesis is that the media have played a crucial role in marginalising ufology as sensational rubbish, completely failing in most cases to treat incidents with objectivity and sensibility. On a more informative note, are visitors to this page (whatever planet you are from) aware of the recent (November 1995) sightings in the eastern side of the United Kingdom? Several witnesses saw a bright, moving disc which appeared to have two small cuts in the top and bottom. One observer described it as being like the bat-signal. Several national newspapers in the UK covered the story and included a photograph taken by one witness. A close up of the photo does indeed show a bright yellow disc , a bit like those seen in Kaikura, new Zealand in 1978, but with small semi-circular indents at the top and bottom. No clear explanation was given as to what it could have been-any views? From alt.paranet.ufo Mon Nov 27 09:48:39 1995 Subject: Triangular craft spotted over Phoenix and Colorado Spring, please help On november 11, 1995 I looked up in the sky and saw a object almost hovering in the sky at 11:45. I took a look at the object with a 60x spotting scope. I only looked for a couple of seconds because I immediately saw a couple of strange lights and alot of green color on this object. I knew this was some kind of strange object and show get some video before it disappears. I along with two other witness watched this object until 12:30 p.m when it passed over the roof of my house and went of a viewing range. It was atleast 3,000 ft in altitude and would hover as it revolved in strange patterns, sometimes it would stop and hover for a couple of minutes and then it would take off moving in various directions. The object had 3 white lights and a green color in the center of the object. Or you could say a green object with 3 white lights at the corners. I shot video on a SVHS camcorder with a ultraviolet filter and switched to a polorizer and used a 30x optic zoom. I got around 20 minutes of video of this object, we got bord with this sightings as it appeared to be a weather ball. Kind of like three balloon tied together. I called the FAA and the national weather service and Village Labs and was basically told that we don't use weather balloons anymore and use satellites for that. Can anyone verify that statement or know anymore about weatherballoons. Later I captured some frames from this strange video and you can see its a triangular shape with three white lights on it. It either a UFO, balloon, or a military craft. The reason Iam releasing these pictures before they are positively verified is for public cyber help. 1. Has anyone seen a object simular to this? 2. Can anyone provide simular pictures of weather balloons? 3. Does anyone live in Colorado Springs have any video tape of a object like this? I heard this from a source I consider reliable, does anybody know more about this or can you debunk it. I heard that last week in Colorado Springs during an airshow which they were waiting for the Blue Angels to take off there was a massive sightings. A triangular craft showed up and hovered in the sky while 33,000 witnesses watched it. It was captured on multiple videocameras and should be one the most documented sightings to ever take place. From alt.paranet.ufo Mon Dec 4 09:05:48 1995 From: cgoldman@omnifest.uwm.edu (Charles Goldman) Subject: TRIANGULAR UFOS SEEN IN WISCONSIN Date: 29 Nov 1995 09:28:22 -0600 The following article is my own, and so was the reasearch which went into it. It is copyrighted and cannot be quoted beyond the usual word count without my permission. Nor can it be reposted without my permission. I would appreciate anyone reading it who has downloaded the pictures of trianular craft to e mail me the JPegs or giffs or whatever they are. I can't seem to download them from Usenet! I would love to see the ones that were posted in the last week. Your cooperation would be gratefully appreaciated. Here's the article:- TRIANGULAR UFOS AND NOCTURNAL LIGHTS IN SE WISCONSIN During the recent UFO flap in South Eastern Wisconsin six videos were taken of n octurnal lights. Many reports came into the news-desks of the local networks. It was through them that I was able to make contact with some area residents who saw strange objects in the evening sky, or video taped them in the night sky. At fir st everyone was saying how these lights and objects must be the planet Venus. Ven us was the most prominent light in the evening during February when most of the r eports came in. Due to its prominence it is pretty easy to see why Investigators would want desp erately to rule out Venus from possible UFO sightings. This was pretty easy to do because Venus was always to be found in only one specific quadrant of the night sky and quite obviously a star-like light. However, many of the nocturnal lights witnessed were either not in the position of any known bright star or planet, nor did they behave like stars and planets do. The lights and objects seen in Wisconsin moved by changing positions, strobed in strange sequences, shined down beams of light, had higher luminescence than star s or were revealed on video tape to be objects and not stars or planets at all. Also, eye-witness accounts of sightings strongly suggest that several differentl y shaped craft were operating in SE Wisconsin starting in late December. Videos w ere shot of moving or hovering unidentified lit-objects in Beaver Dam, Hustisford , N. Milwaukee, and Ft. Atkinson, WI. Sightings came in from all over SE Wisconsi n. A triangular object was observed crossing a high-way near Ft. Atkinson, WI., and video-taped. The triangular craft (or crafts?) is the one type being reported which, in the following cases, rules out Venus as a solution to what is being se en. A report of a black triangular craft with lights on it came from two W aukesha Patrol Officers. It is unclear what went on during the investigation of t he Waukesha sightings. There was more than this one, but the officers felt rebuff ed by the investigative team, as was learned from Lt. Marks of the Waukesha Poli ce. The two officers described what they had observed. Part of their call-in was also aired on Channel 12 news, which is where I heard it. What they saw was ident ical to a Cedarburg craft. Waukesha is about 15 miles West of Milwaukee. The first report about a triangular craft to surface in our area invol ved a young man returning home to the suburban community of Cedarburg around 9 PM . Hovering just above a Cedarburg water-tank off Wawatosa and Sherman Av; the yo ung man, who did not give his name to the police, described a large, black UFO wi th bright lights at each point . It had a bank of brilliant white lights on one s ide, nine in all. His phone call was recorded by the Cedarburg Police Department and part of it was aired on the evening news on 2/4/93. I spoke at length with Po lice Chief George Rees about the February 1st sighting. His department was very c oncerned over the sighting. Two of his officers witnessed bright beams of light f rom the vicinity of the sighting, but made nothing of it until learning of the yo ung man's report. This object was seen by him from several directions. From the E ast looking West, from the North looking South, in his rear-view mirror, and from over his shoulder out of his rear window. The sighting lasted the length of his ride through Cedarburg, due to the placement of the water tower on the side of a high hill. In Beaver Dam a young man, out searching for UFOs, was hit by a beam of bright white light from a 'V' shaped object. This was February 4, 1993. This report is just now being investigated. The fourth sighting of a triangular object took place on Highway 12 and Star Sch ool Road between the towns of Whitewater and Ft. Atkinson, WI. This is the most d etailed report of a sighting I was able to get. This investigation is on-going, s ince sightings in their area continue unabated. One of the interesting features of the sightings has been repeatability. There i s a tendency for percipients to obsess on UFOs once they have had a sighting. Alm ost every person I interviewed in regard to their initial sighting has had others . In the case of the Ft. Atkinson sighting, there has been five additional sighti ngs of oddly behaving nocturnal lights. Kevin Crump and his Grandmother Betty Barnick own an antique dealership in the t own of Delevan, WI. They travel home by Hywy 12 most often between the hours of 5 :00 and 7:30 PM on a daily basis. On February 4th 1993, Kevin and Betty were retu rning home to FT. Atkinson via Route 12 at 5:35 PM. Kevin carries with him in his car an RCA Camcorder. With it he likes to tape anything that is newsworthy, plus he makes short, creative videos with his friends. On the way home at about 5:30 they spotted a fire-engine and decided to look for whatever was on fire. Both Be tty and Kevin were carefully watching for lights or the fire when Kevin spotted s omething in the sky, from the driver's side window. "We thought at first that it was a low flying plane. Then all of a sudden it shot out a blue glowing ball from the tail-end of the craft. It looked like a flame ball from a Roman candle. It s hot out about two inches, in ground to sky distance, with a trail of twinkling li ghts. The blue ball just hung in the sky over the old school to our left." They p ulled off the road to get a better look. Kevin then got out his video camera and opened the door while Betty decided to s tay in the car. Kevin said, "I looked up and saw the ship just about directly ov erhead. I could see a faint outline of the ship because the moon was above it. Th e moonlight reflected off the black metallic surface. It was the shape of an oblo ng triangle with a light at each point. A red and a blue light at the front and a white light at the back. " An unusual feature of this craft is that it traveled with the base forward, instead of the point first as with most conventional craft . Kevin then tried to "film" the UFO but realized that he hadn't attached the ba ttery pack to the camera. He ran to the back of the car where it was stored, retr ieved it, attached it and aimed to where the object had been, but it had moved of f to a considerable distance. "It was heading toward Whitewater. I aimed the camera towards the ship and start ed taping. I filmed the triangular craft first. Then I took a close-up of the blu e ball that the ship shot out." Kevin and Betty then started to drive off when Be tty yelled, "Pull over, it's turning around!" Kevin quickly turned onto Star Sch ool Road and headed East a short distance. He went passed a farm and over a hill to a clearing on a curve. He pulled off the road. "There it was in the sky, and i t was not alone. There was another bright light below it above the trees. It was a tremendous bright light, brighter than any star or planet in the sky. There was a flashing light way up high. At first I thought it was a plane, there were plan es in the area at this time. But I realized that it might be the blue ball that s hot out of the ship." Kevin and Betty then left this location at Betty's insisten ce and drove into Ft. Atkinson. There, Betty needed to buy groceries and the two stopped at the local Sentry. Betty went into the store while Kevin waited in the car. He noticed that the light was still there, so taped it again. Jeffery Sainio , MUFON Staff Photoanalyst, felt that the strobing of the light captured by Kevin on video was of an unusual nature. He ruled out the possibility of it being fire crackers, airplane, and considered it unconventional. He now feels that there isn 't enough on the video to either eliminate it or to say unequivically that it sho ws a UFO. I feel that due to the unusual circumstances of the sighting that it is likely that Kevin Crump and Betty Barnick witnessed a UFO and then attempted to video-tape it somewhat successfully. Beyond the original tape Kevin made, there have been multiple witnesses of UFOs in the Ft. Atkinson area, and strange creature sightings have occurred near there as well. Kevin has taken much more footage of nocturnal lights, some of it clear ly showing a triangular light display. We are being kept informed of all that is happening there. The last report of a triangular UFO just came. It involves a seven year old boy who saw a black triangular craft with lights on each of the points, it was perhap s 100 feet in length. It projected a white beam of light and vanished in an insta nt. This happened in the city of Milwaukee during early February (?) and was inve stigated by Don Schmitt, who has the details. This sighting has left the boy badl y shaken and has affected his relationship with other, more skeptical children. Why people in SE Wisconsin began witnessing UFOs from December until the present remains unknown. Perhaps we were watching the sky more, because Venu s was so prominent. The fact is that objects, not just lights were observed. Ther e may be natural explanations for these events, or not. Known abductees in our ar ea reported increased abductions in January, February, March and April 1993. In J anuary a farmer and his grandson saw what he described as "three machines" hoveri ng next to a fence across the road from his property. The took off, flew in an ar c between his barn, silo and some trees. Hallucination? The planet Venus? An unkn own aspect of human psychological make-up? A spiritual phenomena? Actual crafts f rom other worlds? Nobody has a clear picture of what these reports mean to humani ty. One thing is clear, however, UFOs are being reported and must be accepted by researchers as real experiences. UFO events demand scientific analysis and not sk eptical derision. Events which leave both physical and mental scarring on humans and other species must be taken seriously and not treated in a tongue in cheek manner. c Charles Goldman From alt.paranet.ufo Mon Dec 4 09:06:40 1995 From: pleadian@aol.com (Pleadian) Subject: NEW COLORADO SIGHTING ? I would appreciate any information anyone might have on this. I understand that a Triangular shaped UFO was sighted at a football game during halftime at a Military installation in Colorado. The Blue Angel jet squadron was supposed to perform, but instead the crowd was treated to something quite different. The triangular shaped craft was in the stadium for about 2 minutes and hovered about 200 feet off the ground. If this is true the implications are staggering in lew of the fact that I understand that there is a potential for quite a bit of GOOD video out of this sighting. I haerd this froma friend who was traveling through Colorado around the time this event supposedlt happened. However, I also understand that there has been no media coverage of this event. But, since it purportedly happened at a militaru sight that may be the reason. From alt.paranet.ufo Mon Dec 4 09:07:30 1995 From: hollisth@34ccs.tinker.af.mil (Howard D. Hollister) Subject: UFO Sighting in Somalia At this time I am stationed at Tinker AFB, Oklahoma, and have been overseas some 8 plus years in the Air Force. The report below is a little old and since Somalia has been devastated due to the civil war it will be imposible to contact anyone in that country with knowledge on the sighting of February 1982. During the time I have been stationed here at Tinker I have submitted my UFO reports to CUFO and MUFON through Mr. John Timmerman and Raymond Fowler. Two original text messages follow February 23, 1986 NICAP 3535 University Blvd W. Suite 23, Kensigton Md, 20795 UFO Sighting in Somalia Gentlemen While attending tech school at Keesler AFB MS in the fall of 1985 I met the acquaintance of a Major Farah Warsame of the Somalian Army. At the time he was undergoing retraining on radar theory and practice involving american equipment. He was worked with radar many years, but was trained up until recently on Russian equipment, and having lived in the U.S.S.R. for three years, has become familiar with various types of aircraft. It is due to his prior Airforce background and radar experience, which I believe lends great credibility to Major Warsame as a rational observer of aerial phenomena. Enclosed you will find his report of UFO's he and several officers sighted on february 15, 1982. A map provided in the base library helped greatly in ascertaining accurate latitude and longitude of the sighting. To comment briefly on the character of Major Warsame, he is married and has a family, is of high moral mettle and integrity, and would have nothing to gain publicity wise in releasing such a report. In fact the only report and interview of this account a cirvis in nature have only been by his government and myself. Fortunately Somalia does not share the paranoia surrounding UFO's unlike the U.S./U.S.S.R., and subsequently there exist no JANAP 146 to violate in the release of such data. Perhaps the most significant aspect in the report is further evidence of alien mother ships. I have written Major Warsame recently of my intention of mailing a copy of the report to NICAP, and that your agency might request a formal interview. I have just received a letter from him with his consent to an interview. By the end of March he will be completing tech school, so I would encourage NICAP to reach him as soon as possible. His add: PSC-2 box 11633 KAFB, MS 39534, base phone 435-3413. In conclusion I hope this information proves helpful to your research, my best wishes to NICAP and look forward to hearing from your office soon. Sincerely yours Howard D. Hollister, USAF Enclosure CIRVIS UFO REPORT FOLLOWS: On February 15 1982 at 2000 hr three members of the Somalian Army while towing Radar equipment en route to capital from Galkayo at 7 deg North lat 47 deg East long did spot a long shaped UFO traveling in a Northeastern direction from the Southwest. It appeared very long like a train flying in the sky. Light could be seen out of windows on the UFO, but could not be counted. Captain Mohamed Farah Warsame estimates its length to be 500 meters. While the three soldiers observed the UFO approaching Galkayo some 30 kil away the UFO split apart into three vessels. One went to the North, the Northeast and the third Southeast, at a speed in excess of Mach 1 or 1000 kil per hour. That same evening other officers from Lugh Ganane 3 deg North lat 43 deg East long reported same sighting. Dated December 9, l985 End of report, nothing follows From alt.ufo.reports Tue Dec 5 09:30:50 1995 From: chryse@mail.telepac.pt (chryse) Subject: UFO in Portugal I'm posting to say that in 20th November I watched 3 strange objects in the sky. The bigger one had a Triangular shape, and it had a body, It wasn't only light. The other 2 were similar but smaller or were farther away, I don't know. This happened at 22:30 in Vale de Milhaτos, Near Lisbon, In Portugal. Two more people watched this. The objects passed very quickly across the sky from NE to SW. When I lost it from my sight, it got a lot more luminous, about mag -4, kind of. It was pretty odd, before they appeared my light bulb from the street got off, and adter it disappeared it came back. There were more light bulbs in the street but this dind't happened to them. Propably an amazing coincidence. From alt.ufo.reports Wed Dec 6 14:48:46 1995 From: jmestes@newsletter.pdial.interpath.net (Jonathan M. Estes) Subject: 10 years ago in Bolivia Has anyone experienced or heard of recent sightings (within the last 10 years) in Andean Regions of Bolivia? While hiking high on the Altiplano in Bolivia 10 years ago this January, I witnessed a dazzling display of bright, laser-like lights shooting up at the sky behind a bluff nearly two miles away late at night with a group of Quechua-speaking indigenous farmers. When I asked them what it was they smiled and refused to tell me. After insisting for them to tell me what I was seeing they explained it came from up there, pointing at the night sky. "Military?" I asked, knowing that the U.S. were present in Bolivia. The Bolivians shook their heads and pointed to the sky again. I nervously followed my companions back to our sleeping quarters--a half hour hike down the bluff we were standing on in the pitch dark of night. The name of the bluff is Misquipampa, outside of Cochabamba, Bolivia. From randy@aifp.com Fri Dec 8 16:03:56 1995 Subject: News Flash From UFOIA Int'l ***********************HOT News Flash***************************** (Unidentified Flying Objects Investigation Agency. International) Subj: UFO Sighting in Oshkosh, Wisconsin SIT Report Here are the sighting details. I interviewed two Wisconsin users two weeks ago right there in the Sightings chat room. The UFO was seen Wednesday night, November 2, 1995, about five miles west of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The object was airborne, cigar-shaped with a bright white light in the front and a fainter white light at the rear. Two guys driving west on Highway 21 saw the UFO. They said it was flying north at a slow rate of speed, heading for Lake Butte des Morts. As it passed in front of their car, the UFO showed small flashing gold, green and red lights on the bottom. The witnesses pulled off the highway and telephoned the Oshkosh P.D. However, two homeowners living in that area had just phoned the police department minutes before, reporting the UFO's overflight. The sighting was written up in the local Oshkosh daily newspaper on Thursday, November 3, 1995. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Randolph B Warneke Director of Operations UFOIA International From alt.ufo.reports Sat Dec 16 14:38:02 1995 From: Twan van Gestel <dsntvge@dsnsun.ericsson.se> Subject: UFO? over Holland Date: 15 Dec 1995 09:16:11 GMT Although there is a lot of junk on the group I couldn't find any better. Last night about 02:30 I heared a loud noise flying over my house. It sounded as large object cutting through the air with high speed. When it approched I didn't hear any engine sound. When it flew away from me I could hear a weak humming sound. This all took about 3 seconds. It must have been very fast because after 3 seconds I couldn't hear it while the sound was as loud as a storm (only the high tones) when it was at it loudest. This all happend in GOIRLE, THE NETHERALNDS, close to the Belgium border. Anyone had the same experiance? Any reports like mine? Regards, Twan. PS. This is serious!!! From alt.ufo.reports Mon Dec 18 13:23:52 1995 From: ksdzn@aol.com (KS DZN) Subject: Anomalous Object Seen-San Francisco Peninsula 10/30/95 Date: 16 Dec 1995 22:29:21 -0500 This is a report of something I saw on 10/30/95. Please reply if you have seen a similar event. It was August 30th, and I was hiking in the hills above Los Altos. I was at the summit of a hill (approx. 1000ft.) The time was about 8 p.m., and it was starting to grow dark. At the summit, I looked north towards the hills near Page Mill & 280, and saw what seemed to be the lights of three light aircraft converging on a point west of the radio telescope. They were at a distance of about three miles from this point of convergence at speeds that seemed normal for small aircraft. Their headings were approx 315, 120, and 240 degrees. I saw these craft as diffuse, yellow lights, and I distinctly remember there were no other colored or flashing lights accompanying these objects. I thought it was odd for these three planes to follow a somewhat risky course, so I decided to keep my eye on them. I looked again about 30 seconds later and noticed that their distance was closing. Their bearings seemed the same, and their distance from each other was halved. I took note of this and decided to look that way again. Another 30 seconds passed, and I looked northward to see approximately 6 or 7 lights flying near the point of convergence in what appeared to be circular paths independent of the others. My first impression is that it was a "swarming" motion, although each object appeared to hold their altitude. In my judgement, the speed of this swarming motion varied from private-plane speeds to those I normally associate with fighter aircraft. These 6 or 7 lights were reddish, slightly smaller than the initial three, and judging from their position relative to the nearby hills, I would guess their altitude was around 1000-1500 feet. From alt.ufo.reports Sat Dec 30 15:41:08 1995 From: podd001@pn.itnet.it (mario podda) Subject: ufo sight in la spezia italy On thursday 15 dec. 1995 an ufo has been sighten in LA SPEZIA north ITALY. Around 10.30 pm. CET something like a big building with light all around has been seen from three guys travelling along the road. One of this guys declare that this flying thing was doing something like manouvering for landing when suddenly dissapear westbound. After all a bright trail is remain in the sky for almost an hour. The electric power has gone off in the same hour around the area for about 30 miles. For more particular the sunday 17 dec. issue of IL SECOLO XIX report the complete event. From alt.paranet.ufo Tue Jan 2 09:16:05 1996 From: Brian Zeiler <bdzeiler@students.wisc.edu> Subject: Huge UFO incident in South Korea Date: 2 Jan 1996 02:06:19 GMT Agence France Presse December 31, 1995 05:04 Eastern Time SECTION: International news LENGTH: 187 words HEADLINE: Flying saucer detected glowing in sky over SKorean city DATELINE: SEOUL, Dec 31 BODY: A doughnut-shaped "flying saucer" glowed for an hour over a provincial city park Saturday night, attracting a crowd of awed onlookers and cameramen, news reports said Sunday. The strange object emitted a wave of luminous red light from its center and moved slowly and soundlessly over a hilly park in the southern city of Taegu, Yonhap news agency said. Television and radio stations were swamped with telephone calls by witnesses who claimed it was an unidentified flying object (UFO, Yonhap said. An air force surveillance team in the city also saw the glowing saucer through binoculars but failed to detect it on a radar screen, it said. Many people in the city were reported to have photographed the saucer. From alt.paranet.ufo Thu Jan 4 08:50:42 1996 From: Brian Zeiler <bdzeiler@students.wisc.edu> Subject: UFO incident in China over past weekend Scottish Daily Record & Sunday Mail Ltd. Sunday Mail December 31, 1995, Sunday SECTION: Page 3 LENGTH: 147 words HEADLINE: UFO CLAIMS BY PILOTS; Pilots of four aircraft report UFO sightings over North East China BODY: The pilots of four aircraft reported UFO sightings over North East China, it was revealed yesterday. The captain of an internal flight to Beijing on December 4 radioed that he could see "a white oval object travelling at about 550mph." He later reported that it "turned green and followed the aeroplane's flight path." Within minutes,the captain of another airliner reported seeing the same thing, and two others spotted red or yellow UFOs. From alt.ufo.reports Mon Jan 8 09:14:07 1996 From: dl63832@ltec.net (No Quarter) Subject: UFO Sighting? Hello all. This is my first post this group. I just wanted to relay a possible UFO sighting I had in the spring of 1995. Before I tell my story I just want to make it clear that I ain't one of them people whose heads are in the clouds always looking for something odd. I'm your average small town Joe who works at a factory for a living. I don't smoke, drink, take drugs or nothing like that. The following incident was witnessed by my brother who was with me at the time. Also there is an airport in this town of 13,000 people and Offut AFB lays 100 miles north of me in Omaha, NE. I was on the edge of town town towards dusk. It was about 7:30, the sun had already set and things were getting dark fast. I was 2 miles due south of the runway when I spotted a bright light, much like the bright light you see on the front of a small airplane which pilots use to be able to see at night. Anyway, as this light approached from the south, I stopped my Suburban and got out to watch. I just figured it was an airplane so my brother and I wanted to watch it as it flew overhead. But as it got closer, I never heard any prop noise or nothing. All I heard was the same noise you hear when a passenger jet flies over at night at high altitude. It is kind of the distant low hollow hissing noise you hear. But the light was VERY bright as if it was a Cessna or small craft approaching the strip at about 700 ft up. As it proceeded to fly north and fly overhead of me and my brother, I couldn't believe what I was seeing and got a chill down my spine. I tried to reason or rationalize what it could possibly be and to this day I don't know what it could have been. In describing this object to others I have been told that it could have been a refueler fueling up or simply a jet at low altitude. In a minute I will describe this object and attempt to draw an ASCII picture of it. But what spooked me is that the total surface area of this diamond shaped object was HUGE. The sound did not match it size. For example, if it was flying as high as a passenger jet (as the sound of it indicated), it's total surface area would have covered the same amount of space as 5 or 6 passenger jets AT THAT ALTITUDE. However, it seemed to me that it was much lower and as it flew overhead it just seemed so close...like only 1500 feet above the ground or even lower. But at that low of an altitude, I should have heard a definite jet engine roar that was loud. I simply did not. The object had a diamond shape and weird lights of which I have never seen on any craft. As this thing flew overhead, the stars were out and used them to get a fix on the shape of the craft. I thought maybe at first I was seeing an airplane so I tried to see if stars would show through areas where there wasn't part of the craft. All be danged if time and time again, it was definitely diamond shape and my brother noticed this too. Here is my drawing of it as viewed from the ground. ++ /\ / \ N / \ E W / \ S / \ / \ / \ / \ / B \ o/ \o \_ | | | | | | | _/ \_ _/ \_ B _/ \_ _/ \__/ .. As viewed here, this would be the bottom of the craft as it flew north. The vertical lines appeared like they were actual slits cut into the craft and were lighted from within by a pretty iridescent blue...much like the color of an indiglo watch. I also remember that the lights on the sides (where you see the "o"'s) were not in standard aircraft lighting with the green on the right and red on the left. They were both white steady lights. The light on the rear (..) was a steady red light and the light on front (++) was a steady white light. Unfortunately, I can't remember where the flashing beacon light was. It was in either one of the locales marked with the letter "B". As it passed overhead it was moving at the same speed a passenger jet would apparently be moving as viewed from the ground while at cruising altitude. Like I stated before, if it was actually that high up, it would have had to have been a LARGE craft - enough to eat up the surface area of 5 or 6 passenger jets. But it seemed to me that it was at lower altitudes. Maybe even as low as 1,000 feet but it was very quiet. Things just didn't add up when I saw it. After it passed us by, we jumped in the Suburban and drove about a mile north at about 60 MPH, but by the time we ran out of road, it looked as though it had already sped up and I would approximate it had covered about 5 to 9 miles on us based upon the comparison of the lights I can see from a small town about 9 miles north and to the east of where I was at. After this incident, I retraced the path it flew in the sky and it had made a big graceful curve like this (barring ascii limitations): Direction of travel ----> W Dead end _______________ ___ _About_2_miles| ________/ __ | | / \___ | | ____/ \___ | | _/ Path of \___ | | _/ the craft \___ ___________| |______/______ \_ ___________ ____/_______ _______ S \________________| |__/ | N | | |_______ | *-I was here | | Runway | | | | E It almost seemed to me that it lined up with the runway just so I could "see" it and then went on its merry way. This is a terrible picture and is not to scale but it helps you to visualize what happened. As an addendum to the story, my other brother showed me an article in the December 1991 Popular Mechanics and on page 35 is almost an exact representation of what I saw except note what differences there are between this Top Secret craft and my descrips. There are still some discrepancies. The craft did appear to be black, much like the SR-71 but it could have been any shade of a dark color. It sure wasn't white - I'm positive on that. I know I'll get called a nut but my story is consistant everytime I tell it. I know what I saw and I will never forget it. From alt.paranet.abduct Tue Jan 9 09:06:42 1996 From: franki <franki@music-network.com> Subject: Re: UFO over Korean city on 31st Dec wsawers@ihug.co.nz wrote: > HEADLINE: Flying saucer detected glowing in sky over SKorean city > DATELINE: SEOUL, Dec 31 > A doughnut-shaped "flying saucer" glowed for an hour over a > provincial > city park Saturday night, attracting a crowd of awed onlookers and > cameramen, Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 10:39:00 -0800 From: David Schmitz <schmitz@BEST.COM> To: Multiple recipients of list IUFOG-L <IUFOG-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM> Subject: I saw 2 U.F.O.'s (fwd) On September 25, 1995, on northbound 395, at about 8:30 in the morning about 15 miles south of a desert town called Johanesberg (spelling it not right). Me and a friend were going to Yosemite from San Diego. The weather was clear with low clouds (kind of streaky with some billow on top) blue sky. I was traveling in an area with no where to turn off, the shoulder was very narrow and we were on a slight incline. I was going about 80 mph when my friend pointed up to the sky on the left. I leaned forward and looked out the windshield and saw two luminescent disks in the sky. I could not believe it. There was a car about 20 car lengths ahead and we wondered if they saw the U.F.O.'s too. Apparently not. I slowed by speed to 15 mph so I could watch glimpsing in the rear view mirror worried I would be rearended, but nobody is there as far as I can see. We watch the U.F.O.'s...The one on top in the formation darts to the right at an incredible speed and stops, instantly. The other one mirrors the move from the underneath position, like a game of tag. The top U.F.O. now darts down at an angle to the point of a triangle and again, its friend follows. The lead U.F.O. then darts at an angle like a V completing the triangle and again the other follows. The lead U.F.O. darts again and incredible speed to the right again on a path parallel to the earth. It's funny when the objects are still in a hover position they appear to be disks. But when they move the elongate and take on a more triangular shape. The lead U.F.O. hovers under the clouds, it appears to change shape from a disk to a sphere...then it shoots up into the clouds. I could see vapor wafting off the craft as the clouds part as the U.F.O. accelerates. Its friend followed without the hover maneuver. I know what I saw was not an hallucintation, my friend saw the U.F.O.'s too. If fact she saw them first. We know these objects were not planes or jets or hellicopters or balloons or anything we had ever seen. It bothers me that I do not know what they were. Edwards Air Force Base is out there as is China Lake and some other military facilities. But it is hard for me to believe that our military has the technology to make an object in the sky move like these objects. If they do, they should be sharing the information we the public. I really wish I knew. -- From alt.paranet.ufo Thu Jan 11 09:19:45 1996 From: Brian Zeiler <bdzeiler@students.wisc.edu> Subject: Colorado Springs newspaper article on UFO sightings in area I got this on a mailing list and thought it was interesting enough to post. The sighting by the two women is particularly interesting. This article ran in a Colorado Springs newspaper on January 7. Bizarre occurrences part of area's folklore By D'Arcy Fallon/Gazette Telegraph Brandy Edwards, 6, was playing In her yard, looking to the sky for rain, last August 27 when she told her father to look up. Tim Edwards then took videos of an object hovering overhead. Life as he knew It changed for Tim Edwards after seeing and videotaping what many believe is a UFO. Since then, the cafe owner from Salida has been nervous and jumpy, looking at the heavens for other sightings. "There are so many weird things up here," he says. On Sept. 23, Jeanne Shaw and her sister Loni Smith saw what they call a "mothership," the size of a football field going by a window at Shaw's home near La Veta. Shaw's children also saw the UFO, as did others in the area. SAN LUIS VALLEY -- Tim Edwards is a jumpy man these days. Some might say he's an ordinary guy reacting to an extraordinary experience. Others might say he's seen too many "Twilight Zone" reruns. Puffing nervously on a Marlboro, Edwards, binoculars around his neck, paces back and forth on the front lawn of his Salida home and gestures to the mountains above him. Up there. He gazes at the sky with palpable longing. "There are so many weird things up here," says Edwards, 42, a quiet man who runs a popular family care with his wife and father. Edwards swears he saw a UFO in August from his back yard, and he's still shaken up about it. "I don't look outside no more. I don't get no sleep." He's probably not alone. Over the years, several people in the San Luis Valley claim they've seen Bigfoot, cattle mutilations, glowing fireballs, and yes, oddly shaped UFOs and "mother ships" that twist and dart across the night sky. Residents of this sweeping, semiarid expanse of pinon and rabbitbrush say this is a mysterious place of sacred mountains and bubbling hot springs, of oddly-placed sand dunes, lush meadows and some of the richest soil in the country. At an average elevation of 7,600 feet -- more than a mile and a half above sea level -- the San Luis Valley is the highest and largest alpine valley in the world. Three times the size of Delaware and flanked by the Sangre de Cristo and San Juan mountains, the valley is home to a diverse group: yuppie stargazers, hardscrabble alfalfa farmers, sheep ranchers, folk artists, Guatemalan refugees and descendants of original settlers of the Sangre de Cristo land grant, who came from Mexico. Steeped in history and folklore. the San Luis Valley has long been a UFO hotbed. As long ago as 1917, the residents of Salida told of mysterious "vehicles of the air" flying about the night sky, according to a 78-year-old edition of The Salida Record. The valley "is one of the most sacred areas in North America to the indigenous people," said UFO expert Christopher O'Brien, who lives in the tiny, New Age hamlet of Crestone and tracks the valley's UFO activity in a bi-monthly newsletter, "The Mysterious Valley Report." (He also is the author of "The Mysterious Valley," due out this summer from St. Martin's Press.) Many American Indians considered the valley's Mount Blanca to be the Sacred Mountain of the East -- a door- way for the emergence of the Star People, often described as "arriving aboard flying seedpods," according to an article in Spirit magazine, which is New Age oriented. But Tim Edwards says he didn't see a flying seedpod on Aug. 27. He describes it as a silver cigar-shaped spacecraft. Like Richard Dreyfuss in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," Edwards exudes an aura of nervous intensity as he talks about the sighting. It happened on a Sunday morning when Edwards was working outside on his house with his daughter, Brandy, 6, at his side. Brandy, worried that it might rain, looked upward and said, "Daddy, there's something up there in the sky," Edwards recounted last week. He brushed off his daughter's comments, but when she kept insisting he look up, Edwards said he realized she was right. There was something in the sky. The Wasson High School graduate grabbed his video camera and for more than a hour shot footage of the disc shaped or cigar-shaped object. It had oscillating lights that appeared to rotate from left to right, and it darted back and forth just above the morning sun. During subsequent sightings, Edwards shot videotapes showing small, white spheres emerging from the object. Edwards' first tape was shown in November on "Sightings," a TV show about UFOs and other strange phenomenon, and was analyzed by Village Labs, a digital video technology company in Tempe, Ariz. Village Labs president Jim Dilettoso said the tape wasn't a hoax or an optic aberration. He said it appeared to contain legitimate footage of a very large, solid, possibly three-dimensional object flying at high altitude. Whether one believes Edwards saw a UFO or simply an odd-looking plane, he swears he's a changed man. "They put some feelings in me I've never had before," he said. "When I was looking at the main craft, I got, like, an electrical impulse through my body. It was very important for the world to know the truth. Now I'm convinced we're not alone." The UFOs are buzzing the Earth because they're concerned about its inhabitants, much like humans are curious about whales and dolphins, said Edwards. And how should earthlings respond? With "brotherhood, universal love, and get rid of the nuclear stuff," Edwards said. "Not since Jesus was here has something so major come down," he added. "Most people are terrified that something could be out there." Or fascinated. On the eastern edge of the huge valley, on a windswept hillside near La Veta, two sisters, Jeanne Shaw, 49, and Loni Smith, 53, talked about their cosmic encounter. Before launching into her side of the story, Shaw explained she had always seen herself as "a bit of a skeptic" when it came to the paranormal. "Just because I see a little light in the sky, doesn't mean it's a UFO," she said. Shaw's sister, a property manager in La Veta, is the same way. In fact, neither of the sisters -- who grew up in Colorado Springs -- seemed quick to jump on the UFO bandwagon. And yet both are unshakeable in their explanation about what they saw one night this past fall. It wasn't a Black Hawk helicopter, as the Walsenburg police suggested to them when they phoned in alarm. Not a plane. Not a dream or an hallucination. It was a UFO. Here's their story: On Sept. 23, about 8:15 p.m., as Shaw, her two children and Smith sat at the kitchen table after dinner, they heard a strange humming outside their mobile home in the Navajo Ranch Resorts subdivision, located between La Veta and Walsenburg. "I heard, no, felt this humming noise," said Shaw, who moved to the La Veta area last spring after she got tired of life in Denver. "I felt something huge coming up the back of my lot." Smith: "It was a vibration, although the windows weren't rattling." They looked out the window and say they saw a slow-moving, rectangular-shaped spacecraft skimming the tops of the pinon trees. It had yellow and white oscillating lights in front and two red lights in the back, like a Cadillac's. They estimated it was as wide and long as a football field. Shaw: "It was huge." Smith: "It was monstrous. It was the mother ship." The sisters' words leapfrogged over each other as they attempt to explain their reactions to the sighting. Tumbling out of the mobile home, they stared, incredulous at the thing. Smith: "Our mouths were open to our navels. I felt like I was looking up at the bottom of a barge." Shaw: "My knees buckled. I screamed. It was in our face." As the object slowly moved away from them, Smith waved her arms after it, yelling, "Here we are! Here we are!" Shaw, petrified, slugged her sister on the arm. "Shut up!" she said. "They'll beam us up!" Shaw's son, Robert, 27, ran behind the spacecraft as it flew down the arroyo, trying to catch up with it. Shaw estimates it took about 20 minutes before it disappeared. Two miles away in the subdivision, another resident, Joan Newland, was getting ready for bed. She, too, heard a low humming noise and figured it was a helicopter. But the sound persisted, and her dogs were going wild. She looked out the window and gasped. Like Shaw, her knees buckled. "It was huge. I saw it going over the trees. It was a shock to see something that big. I thought, holy..., what is that?" Shaken and frightened, Newland decided to keep her observation to herself. Then she got a call from Shaw, asking if she'd seen something strange out her window. The women compared notes and decided it must have been a UFO. "What else could it have been'?" asked Newland plaintively. "There's nothing that could fly that low without making any draft or wind." Since that night, neither Newland nor Shaw has seen the spacecraft. Not that they've stopped looking. Newland: "We keep our eyes to the sky now." Shaw: "Only about 20 times a night." From alt.paranet.ufo Wed Jan 31 08:53:49 1996 From: webcreat@internorth.com (Darkseid) Subject: Can anyone identify this? from "ELDER SEES MYSTER LIGHTS" - UFO sightings abound across Western NWT by P.J. Harston Deh Cho Drum (Fort Simpson) - January 11, 1996 On Nov.13, just after 5 p.m., he and an eight-year old boy were driving out of Fort Simpson toward the Wild Rose Acres, subdivision when they both spotted what he first thought was the red light of a radio tower. "But we could see the radio tower lights and this one wasn't part of it," Norwegian said. The light hovered in one spot over the Mackenzie River and began to change color: red, then blue, then a bright white, flashing green and then red again. After about a minute and a half, the light sped away faster than any aircraft he had ever seen before - so fast, it left a trail of brilliant light behind it. "At first, I thought it might be a plane or helicopter, but then I knew it couldn't be because it went away so fast and because the colours of lights changed," Norwegian said. Anyone have any idea what this could be? From alt.paranet.ufo Tue Feb 6 09:58:19 1996 From: mrbungl111@aol.com (MrBungl111) Subject: Re: UFOs Blamed For Blasts- Reuter Report In article: <4epdo5$ah4@central.co.nz> Geoff Blackmore writes: > UFOs Blamed For Blasts > Reuter Hargeisa, Somalia > Doug Roberts <doug@nolimits.demon.co.uk> >Any date for this report? >Doug. "a frightening thunder-like noise" was heard in the Sanaag, Berbera and Sol regions at 7 a.m. on December 5 and 7 p.m. on December 7. From alt.ufo.reports Tue Feb 6 10:00:56 1996 From: lboros@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Laszlo G. Boros) Subject: Summer in Ithaca New York! I am writing this not because I am a UFO believer but because you might be able to help me with my "sigthing" over Ithaca, New York, this Summer. My girlfriend (she believes in OFUs I am not) and I went to swim in one of the reservoires around Ithaca this Summer. (I just found this group, so I will try to post this.) After swimming, we were sitting in the dark (around 9:30 PM) and I saw something flying? jumping? on the sky not too far, about a half a mile away over the mountains. It took about 10 jumps and this thing got behind a bigger mountain. No noise, just orange light and circle shape on the bottom (I did not see the top). I am pretty sure this was not an airplane and it did not use air for its support in moving. I studied physics and I know how airplanes fly, they need continuous speed and airflow over their wings to produce power (pressure difference, Bernoulli law) over the wings. No when this thing stopped between jumps I do not think such a power existed to support its weight. If it was a helicopter, there should have been acceleration and slow down between jumps, now in this case, it was more like a frog jumping right forward (not upward and forward) in the air. The most suprising thing I've seen in my life. Did you guys see anyhting similar to this? I am not a UFO maniac and I was not on the crave to see one. Actually I had a happy life without them. Thanks, Laszlo Boros From alt.ufo.reports Tue Feb 6 10:01:25 1996 From: mdavies@mail.bogo.co.uk (Mark Kevin Davies) Subject: UFO sighted over Manchester Airport Did anyone else see the report on the front page of the Times (Friday 2nd February 1996)concerning the two pilots of a British Airway's 737 who reported seeing a wedge shape craft covered in white lights with a black stripe down the side.This craft came so close to their plane that the first officer ducked thinking it was going to collide with them.This event occurred last January (1995) the C.A.A investigated and could not find any logical explanation.The pilots reported the sighting at the time but air traffic control did not see anything on the radar. This is the fourth such incident in recent years.Credit to the pilots for coming forward and relating their story. From alt.paranet.ufo Fri Feb 9 09:14:29 1996 From: mc9021@mclink.it (Paris Cristiano) Subject: Strange Flying Object in Rome Hi everyone, this is my first posting on this group... I want to tell you about something happened to me... Some months ago, I was walking with my girlfriend and her brother on a famous road of Rome : via Appia Antica. There is a military airport close to that road. Suddenly, my attention was caught from a deep-blue sphere moving in the sky... I thought it was a meterological baloon... anyway it stopped in the sky, and, after ten seconds, it began moving on the left quickly... very quickly ! After a couple of seconds, I've seen a pair of military helicopters going inthe same way ! Keep in mind the the sphere was totally dull, and I've seen no external mechanisms... in addition, keep in mind that my girlfriend and her brother saw the same things... I've never believed to things like humanoid aliens or UFO and so on (even if I like X-FILES series very much)... I've always believed that the first alien form of life we will encounter will be a simple organism, such like a cell or a virus... But what I've seen is stunning ! The question is : is that a UFO or a new military air unit ? From: watanabe@acs.ucalgary.ca (AUFORA News Update) Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,alt.paranet.ufo,alt.paranet.abduct,alt.ufo.research,alt.ufo.reports,sci.astro Subject: AUFORA Update 02.10.96 Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 19:02:42 -0700 *Somaliland Officials Frightened by UFO, request help UFOs PUZZLING AND FRIGHTENING SOMALILAND OFFICIALS Government officials in the self-declared republic of Somaliland have appealed for help from the international community in solving an incident on December 5 and 7, 1995, in which two UFOs were seen to explode over the Gulf of Aden. Soon after the sightings, many of the local inhabitants came down with medical ailments such as coughing, diarrhea, respiratory difficulties, and headaches. Children were reportedly the worst affected, with a number dying of their ailments. Animals were seen running out of control shortly after the sightings. As of yet, no debris from the exploded objects has been found. From alt.paranet.ufo Tue Feb 13 09:46:04 1996 From: mrbungl111@aol.com (MrBungl111) Subject: Newest Australian sightings!! Date: 11 Feb 1996 04:55:39 -0500 Latest near bottom: Peacemaker Project National UFO Report and sightings Hotline PO Box 1249 Narre Warren 3805 Australia. Ross Dowe PH 190 2243529 Sightings of interest. 30th December 1995 02.15 Am Local time Melrose South Australia. Respondent caller reports sighting of a large white light object travelling from East to West over Melrose district - South Australia at 2.15 am. The object crossed at 45 deg. in the northern sky and it appeared to "jump up and down", moved in a fashion which would be difficult for an conventional aircraft. The object was first sighted in the Eastern sky and was watched for about 20 min. until it disappeared over the North-west horizon. Respondent states, "there were no multi-colours, no sound just a huge bright white light, It was close enough to cast a shadow behind me. It was not a plane and there again we would have heard its engine". This service has received 1000's similar reports over the past year. A number of similar sightings have occurred on the line between Adelaide to Darwin. It is also interesting to see the recent reports from Timor, Japan, Korea and Eastern China when correlated with these local reports. 31st December 1995. Mulden Northern Territory 11.45 PM Respondent callers report sightings of "Four Orange light objects" travelling slowly over the Mulden area in the Northern Territory. The first sighting took place at (23:30) or 11.30 to 11.45 PM 31/12/95 then again some two hours latter at 1.45 AM 01/01/96 . Respondents report that these objects were "intense bright orange light objects" which travelled slowly, conducting various aerial formations then finally settling upon a triangular or diamond shape formation before moving out of sight. Sunday 7th Jan. 1996 8.20 PM local time. Central East Northern Territory A cattle station hand sighted in daylight a "battleship grey object "reportedly to be 100 ft W by 40 ft H with a box shape underneath - 25 ft W by 6 ft H, while holding an altitude of about 130 feet. The top of the object seemed to be spinning exceedingly fast while the bottom was not moving, it emitted vapour and a smell like "steam off hot metal and there was a whirl wind or vortex underneath near wild livestock". The station hand an Ex Marine and UN force member, reported that he had taking photo's and noted that "the cattle and wild horses were transfixed to the object", thus quickly evacuated the area not before photographing the object. ( NT. Photos and soil samples received) 8th to 15th Jan 1996 calls from most parts of Australia. Tuesday 16th Jan. 1996 approx. 11:30 PM local time. Cairns, Queensland. Reports of an object about 2 Klm high emitting a shaft of light from its underside, the object appeared to "expel a gas or vapour from its sides and seemed to be about 2-300 meters in width, the beam emitted was about 150-250 meters wide". Reportedly the object moved up and down the white shaft of light in the East over the sea. Thursday 18th Jan 1996. approx. 10.30 local time Redland Bay, Queensland. HOTSPOT AREA. Over the past 18 Mths. Callers report sighting a "large green object" emitting a beam of white light downward in a "A- shape ". The object appeared to be "about 2-300 meters" across with the beam of light about 100 meters across to the East. Friday 19th Jan. 1996. 2:30 AM local time. Millnmeran, Queensland. Respondents caller witnessed a large object about 1-2 Klm away. South East East. The respondents report witnessing a 200mtr plus size -multi coloured object that emitted a beam of light about 1-200 mtrs wide, over a large creek in the area. The object appeared to be about 800 meters up.. A respondent claimed to be former UFO sceptics but now has changed their mind about the issues. Saturday 3rd Feb. 1996 approx. 10.45 PM local time Townsville Qld. (EST. 23:45) Callers report sighting two spinning orange fire lights in the south west sky of Townsville and watched for some 20 minutes before the objects headed to the north east of Townsville before shooting off in to the west. The objects looked like spinning flying fire in the sky. Saturday 3rd Feb. 1996 approx. 10.20 PM local time. Northern Territory (Est. 23:50) Two car loads of people unknown to each other, reported seeing a fast moving Orange soundless fireball light that came out of the northern of the sky. The fireball light suddenly stopped and remained still for sometime, it was low in the horizon when another similar fireball meet up with the first. They then both proceeded to head south slowly together. Saturday 3rd Feb. 1996 approx. 11.58 Emerald-Cockatoo Area Vic. (EST 23:58) A amateur astronomer reports to have sighted two fireballs appear to arise over the Telecom tower at Mt. Burnett near Cockatoo. The witness apparently was viewing the moon with a telescope, when a startling fizzing sound was heard. The loud sound was like an "unsealing bottle of lemonade". We turned to look and "Oh, that's when we saw two large round fire balls. They just appeared from nowhere, they were balled shape with an almost transparent appearance, the colours were what seemed like a fiery glaze, orange was the predominant colour or light source. The witness said "that they have never seen anything like this in 26 year of sky watching" and have no idea what they were. The witnesses went on to say that they will be there tomorrow night just in case the phenomenon reappears. Sunday 4th Feb. 1996 approx. 12.20 AM local time. Ferntree Gully Vic. (EST. 00:20) Callers report sighting two bright orange lights heading in unison towards the Melbourne city area. The witnesses claim that the objects seemed to be swirling around in a controlled fashion. One respondent claimed seeing a similar thing last Thursday over the Ferntree Gully area. Monday 5th Feb. 1996 Approx.: 10:40 PM Endeavour Hills, Melbourne. (EST.22:40) Witness reports sighting a Bright Amber light travelling on a North East heading over Melbourne eastern suburbs. The object was very bright and was thought to be at a high altitude, no sound heard. Monday 5th Feb. 1996 Approx: 10:50 PM local time Ringwood, Melbourne. (EST.22:50) Witnesses report sighting two Orange lights travelling over the Ringwood district . The objects were low in height, travelling about 50-80 knots on a West West North heading arising out of the southern Dandenongs district. As reported, one object stopped over the Orchard Park area whilst the other object continued, a short time later, the stopped object then moved off as if to catch up to other. No sound heard. Melbourne (Tul). Weather as @ 11:30, Slight Southerly (South to North) 12 Knot winds up to 3000 feet. Tuesday 6th Feb. 1996 Whiteside Brisbane Qld. Details yet unknown. Wednesday 7th Feb.1996 Approx: 9:30PM Turramurra Sydney. NSW (EST 21:30) A satellite size light was sighted tonight heading in a Southerly direction over Sydney. The object apparently stopped repeatedly and moved in a Zig- Zig fashion several times. The objects sudden change of directions were reported to be greater than 70 degrees, it was last seen heading South. Friday 9th Feb. 1996 Approx: 12.37 AM Local time Milton, Brisbane, Qld. (EST 0037) Respondent reports seeing a Large Cigar shaped - white light with a golden tail crossing the southern sky from west to east. The respondent at first thought it was an aeroplane on fire or in trouble. The object reportedly was about 10-15 Klm away, as large as 20 commercial aircraft or bigger, it was about 35 degrees up from the horizon and travelled far too slow and was seen too long a time to be a meteorite.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alt.ufo.reports Wed Feb 28 16:30:53 1996 From: mcgyver@crow.cybercomm.net (McGyver) Subject: Red//Green Lights in N. NJ Last winter my husband and I were driving my son to see his father and we stopped off at a shopping center which had a McDonald's, for a soda. We went in. When we were getting our kids in the car, a light in the sky caught my eye. It was a red ball of light. It was moving over the treetops, from what I could tell, silently. It arched up and left. Right before it disappeared over (behind?) the trees - it turned green. I couldn't believe what I had just seen. The whole thing last all of about six seconds. It was incredible! I only told a couple of people, but I couldn't stop thinking about it. After a while I started to doubt what I had seen with my own eyes. Three days later there was a report on Ch. 4 news about red and green lights in the sky in upstate NY. It blew my mind. Unfortunately Ch.4 had no explanation of this phenom. Having doubted what I myself had witnessed, it's no wonder the general public thinks sighters are cracked. Has anyone seen these lights too. I'm aching for insight. To this day, one year later, I can't be a passenger in a car without spending the trip watching the night sky.