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Date 01-24-03 Issue #34
Editor, B. J. Booth, email, ufocasebook@aol.com
Contributors, Billie Brinkley
Staff, Louise, Merlin
Featured Articles
UFOs Return to Scene of Landmark Sighting
To read the full account of the Papua sighting, go here:
B J
"Local police have received constant reports by
tribesmen of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and
unidentified submerged objects (USOs) in the southwestern
province of the island nation" of Papua New Guinea, just
north of Australia across the Arafura Sea. The reports are coming
from the Fly River region, located 600 kilometers (360 miles)
west-northwest of Port Moresby, the national capital. The UFOs
seen in daylight have been described as silver spheres and discs.
Those seen at night are reported to be "luminous" and
"glowing."
The USOs sighted by fishermen at the mouth of the
Fly River south of Balimo are described as "fast-moving
submarines without conning towers."
"The report stated that Police Commander John Marru
declared that he had received numerous reports,
principally from the Fly River area, without even
obtaining a satisfactory answer despite intensive on-site
investigations of each and every case."
"Marru said he had passed on all of the reports to
the Australian Federal Police and to (Australia's)
National Intelligence Organization and Defense
Intelligence Organization without receiving any reply
from these agencies."
Post-Courier, Port Moresby, 01-07-03
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Fiery Contrail from Disc-shaped UFO
I received on the 17th of this month, another email from my friend
Martin H. who lives in Lancashire County, Great Britain. He had
sent me some videos before of unknown objects, and some good
ones at that. I have worked his case for a time, and it will be soon
investigated by a ground investigator from the UK. Also, a UK
magazine is interviewing him for a possible article on his sightings.
Martin, by his own admission, is a sky watcher, but certainly not a
UFO nut. He is ex-military, and is interested in watching the skies
for military jets or anything of interest as a possible target for his trusty
Sony video camera. On the 17th of this month, he sent me a video
labeled "whatthe?". I thought, " I wonder what he taped this time?"
I downloaded the file, and began watching it. I saw a distant object
with a fiery, smokey trail behind it rising at an angle of about 30 degrees
into the sky. I then thought, "What a great shot!" I honestly believed that
I was looking at a jet of some kind, or maybe he had filmed some type
of top-secret British plane that would soon be in use over Baghdad.
After about 20 seconds of this, suddenly the contrail vanished, and the
object began to flutter in the air. It was not a jet, or any type of plane I
nor Martin had ever seen. I immediately got out all the graphics
software I have, (which is bountiful) and went to work on the film.
Luckily, I was dealing with a high-quality Windows media file directly
dubbed from the digital original.
After zooming in 5X, and raising the contrast, and enhancing the
edges, there is was! A perfect disc-shaped object. This brought up
as many questions as answers, but hey, here was something very
much out of the ordinary.
According to renowned UFO investigator, Dr. J. Allen Hynek,
one of the most well-documented "close encounters of the third kind"
occurred in the Anglican mission village at Boianai, Papua, New Guinea,
which was, at the time of the incident, still a territory of Australia.
The Australian Anglican Church was very involved in missionary work,
and ardent in sending its heralds to the island nation. One of these
was the Father William Booth Gill. Gill was highly thought of by
his co-hearts, and all who knew him.
As far as the possibility of
extraordinary events was concerned, Gill was skeptical, to say the least,
especially being a devoted Church worker.
The first hint of the strange events to come was on April 5, 1959, when
Gill saw a light on the uninhabited Mount Pudi. This light, Gill stated,
moved faster than anything he had ever seen. A month or so later, his
assistant, Stephen Moi, saw an "inverted saucer-shaped object" in the
sky above the mission. At first, Gill dismissed these sightings as some sort of
electrical or atmospheric phenomena. Little did he know that these
events, whatever they were, had drawn their attention to the sky above
them,. Soon William Gill would have a series of UFO sightings which would involve
alien contact, and be corroborated by an entire group of witnesses.
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PHOTOS STUDIED AT MEXICAN CONFERENCE
On Wednesday and Thursday, January 15 and 16, 2003,
Mexican ufologists held a conference at the Teatro de
Segura Social in Monterrey, capital of Mexico's
northeastern state of Nuevo Leon. Ufologist and
television journalist Jaime Maussan presented UFO photos
to the audience.
"One of the most recent items of evidence is an
unknown object seen [Monday) December 23 (2002) over
Mexico City."
'It was apparently a meteorite, but it was
videotaped for over five minutes, making it impossible
that it could indeed be a meteorite. It was something
unexplained, and it fell to Earth,'" Maussan said.
'If I had seen it coming down, I would have
believed (I had seen) the end of the world. It is said
that it measured about 50 meters (165 feet), but it could
have been well over a hundred meters (330 feet) and it
was 100 kilometers (60 miles) away and progressed at a
rate of 600 kilometers (360 miles) per second. A
meteorite (only) travels at 70 kilometers (42 miles) a
second.'"
Maussan also presented "a photograph taken at El
Alamo by Sr. Ivan Geraldo."
"'The photo shows a very small, strange figure of a
being that looks at the people who have the camera.
'Some say this is a hoax and can prove it; others say it
is real and can prove it. Javier Niebla, who is perhaps
the best video analyst in Mexico, says it's fake, while
Dan Airia (sic), an expert in the U.S., says it is
real,'" Maussan said.
Maussan "explained that the person who took the
photo never saw the being that appears in the print since
they were using their camera to scare away a skunk."
(See the Mexican newspaper El Norte for January 12, 2003,
"Maussan's new extraterrestrial." Muchas gracias a Scott
Corrales para eso articulo de diario.)
1-20-03
I woke up at 7 this morning. We have windows in our house that are very large and everywhere. I got something to drink and sat on my couch. Peering out of my window I witnessed 3 large teardrop like crafts floating about a few feet higher than the top of my house. There was a glare surrounding the outside of them. One was higher than the two and in the middle ... and the others were lower and on opposite sides of the middle one. I could tell they were spinning. All three of them were spinning towards the right of me. I stayed opened my back door and I heard a sound. It sounded like a loud humming sound. I was shocked because this was the second siting I've seen within two years. The same thing came to my attention though. They were white and had a glow look to them. After I gawked at it for about 4 minutes they started to get a little higher and took off at what seemed to be the speed of light up into the air. It left a trail of a reddish white streak of light that faded away within seconds. NUFORC
Large UFO in La Jolla, California
1-18-03
I was driving on the CA-5 interstate highway and I was on my way to dinner in Los Angeles. At that point on my drive, I was in La Jolla, California. I looked up in the sky, and hovering above the hill to the right of me was a U.F.O. It was enormous. There was no loud sound, because I opened my window to see. But because of the traffic I had to keep moving with the traffic. I thought at first that the large object was a blimp and that I was mistaken or perhaps that it was even a plane. But the object was extremely low to the ground and hovered over a local neighborhood. It was almost a circular shape, but hard to tell because I was trying to look up and out of my windshield in my car. The U.F.O. had 3 blue light that were placed on the edges of the object and one small red light in the center. This object was way too low to be a plane and was moving very slow in a forward motion, but going south in San Diego, while I was going north. I was only able to see the object for about 1.5 to 2 minutes since I had to pass it in the car. I was stunned.
SPHERICAL UFO IN SOUTHERN BRAZIL
01-18-03
On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at about 10 p.m.,
observers in the city of Curitiba, capital of the state
of Parana in southern Brazil, spotted a spherical, self-luminous
UFO over their neighborhoods.
According to eyewitness Arthur Domingues Quieroz,
"At 10:05 p.m., I was watching TV" at his home in the
bairro O Centro (neighborhood) "when a strange object in
the sky caught my attention. I observed for ten minutes
a spherical object glowing in a color ranging from yellow
to yellow-green. During this time, the object made
several movements from a high altitude to a low altitude.
Also, it made sudden side movements to the right and then
descended to a lower altitude at an oblique angle."
Elsewhere in the city, eyewitness Sergio Valdemar
reported, "I was in the bairro Portao (neighborhood) when
I saw the same movements, which were made by a self-luminous
object that crossed the sky at a rapid speed."
Curitiba is located about 400 kilometers (250 miles)
southwest of Sao Paulo, which is the largest city in
South America.
THREE RED-ORANGE UFOs OVER SYDNEY
01-13-03
On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 11:10 p.m., two
people spotted a trio of red-orange UFOs over Sydney, the
largest city in Australia.
Paul Van Komen, who lives in the suburbs west of
Sydney's Central Business District, reported, "Dominika
went outside to move the garden sprinkler. Walking back,
she looked up to absorb a clear view of the Moon and
Orion's Belt in a gap in the clouds when she noticed
three spheres below the clouds to the east of us and
called out to me."
"I joined her outside," Paul added, "it was
immediately apparent that this was not normal air
traffic. They glowed orange-red, made no sound and
traveled slowly in a westerly direction."
"The first sphere was larger and maintained a steady
speed and luminosity. The other two stopped occasionally
and dimmed and brightened. They took a couple of minutes
to get about 10 kilometers [6 miles) west of us, then
faded and disappeared. They were several times larger
than airplanes. Normal air traffic was absent for
another half-hour after."
Paul estimated the UFOs' speed as "about 100
kilometers per hour" (60 miles per hour--J.T.) (Email
Form Report)
HOVERING UFO IN BUFFALO, NEW YORK
01-13-03
On Monday, January 13, 2003, "late at night," Robert
J. reported, "There was a light in the sky approaching
from the northwest" in his home city of Buffalo, NY
(population 292,648). I thought it was an airplane, but
then it stopped in mid-air. I turned on my flashlight
(torch in UK and Australia--J.T.) and observed an upside-
down-bowl-like flying thing. It had a long rounded tower
at the top, and what appeared to be a 'gun' of some kind
at the bottom. It was pretty close. Then I dove into my
truck and saw it head south" toward Lackawanna, NY
"I was really scared," Robert noted, adding that the
UFO was "gray color, bowl-shaped, 'gun'-like object at
the bottom, also a tower on top. I think it had windows,
too. It was 750 feet off the ground" and traveling at
"400 miles (640 kilometers) per hour when departing."
(Email Form Report)
LUMINOUS UFO IN NORTHERN IRELAND
01-16-03
On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 6:20 p.m., the
witness was outdoors in Portadown, a city in County
Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK "when something approached
from east to west. It was a solitary 'light bulb'
traveling very fast and absolutely silent. It was below
cloud level, perhaps 600 feet (180 meters) up, and had an
estimated speed of between 1,000 and 1,400 miles (1,600
to 2,240 kilometers) per hour." (Email Form Report)
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The UFO Sightings and Updates on this page come from a wide
variety of sources. Among them are:
NUFORC, MUFON database, Filer's Files, UFO Round-up,
About.com, and the UFO Casebook.
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