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UFO Reports #3
#: 13 S0/EasyPlex
21-Jan-88 16:31 MST
Sb: APn 01/21 1536 Australia-UFO
Fm: Executive News Svc. [76374,303]
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Police said Thursday they received two
reports of unidentified flying objects, one of which looked like a huge
egg cup, and that they were treating the matter seriously.
Four members of a family said the object shaped like an egg cup
pursued their car along a remote stretch of outback highway Wednesday
morning, plucked it from the ground and covered it in ash, police
reported.
Faye Knowles told police her speech and that of her sons changed
during the encounter on the highway.
Crewmen of a tuna boat 50 miles away said a UFO buzzed their vessel a
few minutes later and their voices become unintelligible.
"We were a little bit skeptical at first, but after investigating we
are treating the reports very seriously," said Jim Furnell, a police
sergeant in South Australia state.
He said forensic scientists would examine the black powdery ash found
inside and outside Mrs. Knowles' car. She told police she was driving on
the Nullabor Plain from Perth in Western Australia when she first saw a
glowing object in her rear window at 2:45 a.m. Wednesday.
"It apparently picked the car up off the road, shook it quite
violently and forced the car back with such pressure that one of the
tires was blown," Furnell said. "While this was happening the family
said their voices were distorted and it was as if they were talking in
slow motion."
He said the crewmen of the tuna boat could not have known about Mrs.
Knowles' experience when they reported a UFO sighting in the Great
Australia Bight.
Keith Basterfield of UFO Research Inc., an international organization
that records such sightings, said "it will certainly be the most
physical of encounters ever recorded in Australia" if the reports are
confirmed.
A spokesman at the Royal Australian Air Force base in Edinburgh,
South Australia, said he was not aware of any military aircraft in the
area at the time.
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INSIDE UFOLOGY
January 20th, 1988
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ABDUCTION BREAKTHROUGH?
ParaNet Alpha 01/20 -- You know what I hate? I hate when somebody
tells me something really juicy on the QT, and says, don't tell ANYBODY,
its a SEEEE-CRET! and so I keep quiet, only to find it blabbed all
over the world in the next MUFON Journal. Case in point: rumor has
had it for some time that David Jacobs was on to something in his
continuing abduction research. He has reportedly found some kind of
matter, which he calls "biological matter", crusted on the skin of
a large percentage of his abductee clients. Its been described as a
moldy, brown substance which stains the skin of the victim. It was
reported that he was trying to raise funds for a comprehensive analysis
of the substance. According to the latest MUFON Journal, "Dr. Jacobs has
had some of them analyzed, but the only type of analysis he can afford
is not very informative." He has taken his samples to Dr. Bruce Maccabee's
Fund for UFO Research in Washington, which has offered to try to raise
funds for further study. The Fund has another drive in progress, to try
to raise money to have the MJ-12 documents analyzed, and they have made
the following offer to contributors: Any contributor of $50 or more to
each cause will receive copies of the analysis report(s) before it is
released publicly. Write to: The Fund for UFO Research, PO Box 277, Mt.
Ranier, MD 20712.
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MIXED REACTIONS
Dan Gordon, the radio newsman-turned-UFO buff, seems to be losing the
support of MUFON. Gordon, the news director of WYVE in Wytheville, VA,
attracted the attention of Ufologists nationwide by holding a news
conference on the station when that area was besieged by UFOs back in
October. He later held a symposium at the local high school, at which he
presented evidence and testimony of witnesses to a huge, brightly lit
nighttime object that had reportedly been buzzing the locals. Soon
afterwards, when the hoopla started dying down, Gordon apparently had
become enamored of the attention, and began claiming more and more far-out
incidents, including patrols by NASA vans, crashed saucers, and abductions.
paraNet's Ron Jennings reports that Gordon's only photos are of red and
green lights on a dark background, which, he says, COULD be nothing more
than airplanes. Undaunted, Gordon is now reportedly claiming some animal
mutilations in the area. Says MUFON's Walt Andrus, however, apparently the
whole flap is over some National Guard mid-air refueling operations
involving KC-135s -- which is what some of the more credible witnesses
agreed on the first place.
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AND FINALLY...
OK, I ain't gonna let it happen again. I was told to keep this a secret,
but its bound to be in the next Journal anyway, so here goes. Budd Hopkins
has been working with a famous TV star who strongly believes he is an
abductee. His name is....is...is....shoot, I can't do it. <sigh> Maybe
I should resign MUFON, instead of trying to be both a journalist and a
Ufologist -- they just don't mix!
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Marge Christensen is the National Public Relations Director of the
Mutual UFO Network. A very important post, the PR Director is charged with
"getting the word out" about UFOs, and for the past several years, Ms.
Christensen has been doing that through her MUFON Newsletter. The last
issue took on a rather dour tone, as she lamented the current state of af-
fairs in Ufology, and seriously considered resigning her post. This arti-
cle from the latest issue, however, sets a new, upbeat tone for the new
year, the 41st of the UFO era.
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A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE DOLDRUMS
by Marge Christenson
The reader will no doubt note a strong contrast between the tone of
the last newsletter and the tone of this one. That is because "a funny
thing happened on the way to the doldrums!"
Over the past several months, Ufology had become pretty discouraging
from my vantage point. Media coverage popularized the UFO subject as a
type of folklore; abduction hysteria was rampant; bookstore shelves pre-
viously devoid of UFO books were suddenly copiously stocked, including re-
prints of some of the least credible books on the subject; respected UFO
researchers engaged in bitter battles over the authenticity of the MJ-12
documents, with egos and personalities often taking priority over facts
and objectivity. None of this spoke well for Ufology as a profession.
Concurrently, inactivity and apathy appeared to dominate many of the
persons in leadership positions in Ufology, namely our MUFON State Direct-
ors. Coordinating any type of programs or projects nationally was virtual-
ly impossible.
Several Ufologists urged me to disassociate myself from MUFON, which,
they felt, is not a scientific, credible organization, and would thus e-
rode my own credibility if I remained involved. I was depressed and was
seriously considering resigning as MUFON's PR Director.
One day, I decided to clean out my files. In browsing through the
data contained in those files, I realized that the UFO subject remains one
of the most significant enigmas of the 20th Century, regardless of the cur-
rent state of affairs in Ufology. I also realized that there are still
some very impressive, top caliber persons involved with the field, and
with MUFON, in spite of the fact that some good people have recently re-
signed.
The intent of this commentary is not to be melodramatic, but rather
to caution those of you who may begin to feel discouraged with the subject
or feel that you are getting "burned out" to first sit back and try to
take a look at the larger scope of things, rather than to give in too
quickly to your frustrations. Chances are that you will come to the same
conclusions I did, and will decide to hang in there and give it another
shot.
The UFO phenomenon is one of the most important enigmas of our time,
and if we don't continue to gather data related to it, and to research the
subject, no one else will do so, and mankind will be oblivious to a sub-
ject that is someday going to have an impact on just about every aspect of
life as we know it on this planet.
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#: 91 S0/EasyPlex
18-Dec-87 18:53 MST
Sb: APky 12/14 0155 Strange Lights
Fm: Executive News Svc. [72135,424]
By The Associated Press
People from Montana to Mississippi reported vivid streaks of light in the
night sky when a disintegrating rocket used to launch a Soviet satellite
burned up in the atmosphere, putting on a fireworks show with "spectacular,
beautiful colors."
Scores of startled people called police, the news media and air traffic
controllers to report the phenomenon late Saturday.
We weren't really scared. If it had landed, it would have been a different
story," said Joe Beverly, a policeman at Marion, Ky., who saw reddish-orange
lights while driving with his family.
The light show was caused by the re-entry of a Soviet rocket body that had
been used to launch the Raduga 21 communications satellite on Thursday, said
Maj. Alex Mondragon of the U.S. Space Command in Colorado Springs, Colo.
"Something re-entering like that can be mistaken for a missile coming in"
but the space command knew it wasn't because it had tracked the object since
launch, Mondragon said. The agency uses a network of radar, telescopes and
sensors to track about 7,000 man-made objects in orbit, he said.
trackers spotted the falling rocket over the coast of western Canada and
followed its southeastward course across the United States past the Florida
Gulf Coast, Mondragon said.
"There were some initial indications that debris may have landed, but nobody
has found anything," Mondragon said Sunday. "Realistically, we would have
received a report by now if anything had hit the Earth."
He said the likelihood of finding any debris is "fairly remote. Only 5
percent or less of a space object typically survives re-entry."
"I've never seen anything like it. It was spectacular, beautiful colors,"
said Paul Kellenbarger of Pea Ridge, Ark., who ran outside with his wife to
watch. "It looked like a helicopter, with red and green lights."
Some callers to WPSD-TV in Paducah, Ky., reported blue lights while others
reported reddish-orange hues and white lights. Sam Burrage, executive
producer and anchorman at WPSD, said the station received 25 to 35 calls
about the lights from viewers in western Kentucky, southeastern Missouri
and northern Tennessee.
Some callers reported seeing more than one object flaming across the sky.
They say it was two main lights, a reddish orange color," said Bart Ryan of
KBLT radio near Galena, Kan.
I've had about 30 calls up here about it," said Todd Glaese, an air traffic
controller at the Fayetteville, Ark., airport. "It was something to see,
and I had a good view."
"They had tails of fire, traveling from west to east they lit up part of
the ground," said Steve Matt, an Arkansas Game and Fish Commission officer.
Tom DeMont of Siloam Springs, Ark., said he saw two sets of lights, "maybe
100 feet long, twin sets of light."
We had about 30 people out Christmas caroling and we saw these lights going
across the sky. I thought they were three jet planes flying in formation
with their lights on but there was no sound," said Lincoln-Lancaster County
(Neb.) Planning director Garner Stoll.
Mark Brockeveldt was working at the Lincoln, Neb., airport when he saw four
immense lights approach. He said the lights were elongated and bathed in a
white and gold light with reddish-gold tails like comets. As the objects
crossed the airport, one dropped below the other three and its light went
out, he said.
"I've worked out here for nine years and have never seen anything like it,"
said crew chief Mark Shoemaker at the Lincoln airport. "It was freaky."
The National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle got calls from "almost every
state east of the Rocky Mountains" to Indiana and Mississippi, said spokesman
Robert Gribble.
In October, a display of lights over the West was attributed to a Soviet
rocket re-entering the atmosphere and pieces fell to earth in California.
Weld County, Colo., sheriff's dispatchers were deluged with calls by people
who thought they had seen a plane going down in flames.
In Paducah, Burrage said a woman from Charleston, Mo., reported seeing
objects that seemed to be 100 to 200 feet above her.
She was in her car and just sat there dumbfounded," Burrage said. "She said
the lights were unlike anything she'd seen before. She said it had an oval
shape to it and there were lights beaming from it.
"She said she just sat there and froze."
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SPECIAL RELEASE: PARANET
MEMBER DEBUNKS VATICAN STORY
ParaNet Alpha 12/05 -- Contrary to a published story, there is no
evidence that the Vatican has any plans to send missionaries into space to
convert extraterrestrials to Catholicism, says a respected UFO researcher.
The story, which originally appeared in the London _Evening News_ in
July, claimed that a Fr. Pierre Thorel of the Vatican University had set
up a program to train missionaries to preach the Gospel to any aliens that
may be encountered in space ventures. The story was later sent to the UFO
Newsclipping Service by British Ufologist Timothy Good.
But John Andrews, Vice President of Testors Corporation and a Para-
Net member in San Diego, says the story is bogus. "I contacted the editor
of a regional Catholic Magazine," says Andrews, "who contacted the Cathol-
ic Media Office in New York."
"They had heard of the story. Apparently there is no Fr. Pierre
Thorel, there is no new Chair at the Alfonsian Academy in Rome, and there
is no effort to develop 'missionaries in space.'"
Andrews, a pro-UFO researcher whose stated goal is to market the
first authorized plastic model of a genuine flying saucer, says the story
had him fooled as much as anyone. "I, too, was taken in...but only for a
little while.
"It proves the reason to verify whatever we hear."
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California UFO VOL. 2 No. 4 (Via Cleveland Freenet)
WYTHEVILLE UFO UPDATE --
HUGE UFOS EQUIPPED WITH STROBES CONTINUE TO FLY OVER WYTHE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA, WHERE MORE THAN 1,000 SIGHTINGS HAVE BEEN
REPORTED SINCE THE FIRST WEEK IN OCTOBER, ACCORDING TO BROAD-
CAST NEWS DIRECTOR DANNY GORDON OF WYVE RADIO IN WYTHEVILLE.
ALTHOUGH BOTH THE PENTAGON AND THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT HAVE
REPEATEDLY DENIED ANY KNOWLEDGE OR INVOLVMENT IN THE RAFT OF
UFOS, GORDON, WITH TWO OTHER RESEARCHERS, SUSPECTS A MILI-
TARY EXPLANATION MAY BE FORTHCOMING. "WE THINK IT MAY
BE A MILITARY CRAFT OF A HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL NATURE," GORDON
SPECULATES, "OR SOMETHING THEY DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT'S
NOT THEIRS! (WYTHE COUNTY) IS A TESTING AREA FOR DAYTIME
FLIGHTS BY THE ARMY, NAVY AND AIR FORCE."
SENATOR PAUL TRIBLE (R-VIRGINIA) IS OFFICIALLY CONTACTING THE
MILITARY REGARDING THE UFOS, ACCORDING TO HIS WASHINGTON,
D.C. PRESS SECRETARY JOHN MILLER. SUBSEQUENT ACTION
WILL DEPEND ON THE MILITARY'S RESPONSE MILLER SAYS.
REPORTS HAVE DEPICTED V-SHAPED CRAFT, ROUND AND DOME-TOPPED
OBJECTS AND FAST-MOVING COLORED LIGHTS. WITNESSES HAVE DES-
CRIBED SEEING THE CRAFT MANAGE 90-DEGREE TURNS AND SPEEDS
FASTER THAN KNOWN AIRCRAFT, ALONG WITH INCIDENTS OF THE
UFOS DOGGING AUTOMOBILES. ONE WITNESS CLAIMS HE SAW SOMETHING
ON NOV 2 WHICH RESEMBLED A SHIP FROM STAR WARS.
DAYTIME MILITARY ACTIVITY PROVES INCONCLUSIVE AS A POSSIBLE
EXPLANATION. THE SILENT UFOS ARE MOST OFTEN SEEN AFTER DARK,
AND AT ALTITUDES APPARENTLY INCONSISTENT WITH POSSIBLE TEST
FLIGHTS OR REFUELING OPERATIONS.
GORDON FIRST BROKE THE NEWS TO WIRE SERVICES AFTER LOCAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS REPORTED UFOS ON OCT. 2, SEEN IN THE
NORTHERN SECTION OF THE COUNTY OVER INTERSTATE 77. "LESS
THAN A WEEK LATER, THE SHERIFF'S DEPATMENT REPORTED THAT A
FAMILY VISITING FROM OHIO - WHO WERE NOT AWARE OF ANY UFO
SIGHTINGS BEFOREHAND - HAD BEEN FOLLOWED BY A ROUND OBJECT,"
SAYS GORDON.
"IT CAME AT THEM AT A LOW ALTITUDE WHILE THEY WERE ON A
SECONDARY TWO-LANE ROAD."
REPORTS OF SIMILAR OBJECTS - DOME-SHAPED CRAFT OUTFITTED
WITH BRIGHT LIGHTS AND OFTEN FOLLOWED BY A SMALLER, RED-
LIGHTED OBJECTS, POURED INTO GORDON AT WYVE. AS INTEREST
IN THE SIGHTINGS MOUNTED, HE DECIDED TO HOST A CALL-IN
PROGRAM WHERE PEOPLE COULD ANONYMOUSLY REPORT WHAT THEY
HAD SEEN IN THE AREA. "I HAD ABOUT 25 CALLS IN THE FIRST
HOUR," HE SAYS.
MILITARY MANEUVERS IN THE WYTHE COUNTY AREA ARE NOT UNCOMMON.
GORDON, WHO'S HAD ONE DAYLIGHT AND FOUR NOCTURNAL SIGHTINGS
HIMSELF, IS CONDUCTING AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION INTO
THE WYTHE COUNTY UFOS. WITH FASHION PHOTOGRAPHER JOHN
STEMBER AND MILITARY DECEPTION SPECIALIST ANDREW CONVERY, WHO
BOTH OFFERED THEIR ASSISTANCE AS NEWS OF THE "FLAP" WENT
NATIONAL, GORDON MADE SEVERAL VISITS TO LOCAL SIGHTING
VICINITIES. THEY OBSEVED A LARGER UFO ("HUMUNGOUS CRAFT
ABOUT 900 FEET LONG - BIGGER THAN A 747") LINKING WITH A
SMALLER CRAFT IN WHAT APPEARED TO BE A DOCKING MANUEVER.
SEVERAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND POOR-QUALITY VIDEOTAPE WERE
TAKEN.
OFFICIALS AT THE TENNESSEE AIR NATIONAL GUARD, WHO SPOKE WITH
GORDON SHORTLY AFTER SOME OF THE FIRST SIGHTINGS, SUGGESTED
THAT THE UFOS WERE CONVENTIONAL AIRCRAFT CONDUCTING REFUELING
OPERATIONS. THE PENTAGON DENIES THAT, GORDON SAYS. "PEOPLE
LOCALLY ARE MAD - THEY'RE LIKE ME; THEY'VE SEEN SOMETHING AND
THEY KNOW IT WASN'T REFUELING."
ON OCT. 23, GORDON ANDHIS COLLEAGUES HELD A PRESS CON-
FERENCE AT WYVE STUDIOS IN WYTHEVILLE. THE PANEL DES-
CLARED THEIR BELIEF THAT SOME SORT OF CRASH TOOK PLACE IN
THE AREA - BUT DECLINED TO ELABORATE.
a REPORTER RECENTLY QUESTIONED GORDON ON THE UFOS FEASIBLY
BEING EXTRATERRESTRIAL. "BECAUSE I'M A REPORTER, i
HAVE TO DEAL IN FACTS AND LOGIC," GORDON RESPONDED.
"THERE'S NO PROOF THAT THE UFOS COME FROM ANYWHERE BUT THE
UNITED STATES. IF SO, THEY'RE DOING A VERY GOOD JOB OF
SNEAKING IN AND OUT OF OUR COUNTRY. AND IF IT'S A STEALTH
EXPERIMENT, IT'S A ROUND ONE.
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