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Kecksburg Crash

This Friday, October 24, 2003, the Sci-Fi Channel will air its special on the Kecksburg UFO crash of December 9, 1965, titled "The New Roswell: Kecksburg Exposed." This case has long been overlooked, and now is finally getting the attention it deserves. To accompany this airing, we will run B J's article on the case...

The Kecksburg Crash

What exactly soared through the late afternoon skies of Canada, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania on December 5, 1965? Eye witnesses described the unknown object as a "fireball," but it seemed to be under some type of intelligent control, as it veered somewhat in Ohio toward the Quaker State. One of the first official reports of that day came from Frances Kalp, who phoned in her experience to radio station WHJB in Greensburg at 6:30 P.M. She related seeing a fiery object crash into a wooded area near her home in Westmoreland County. Kalp and her children had approached the site within a half-mile, and there they saw an odd object resembling a "four-pointed star." Radio station employee John Murphy immediately phoned in the report to the Pennsylvania State Police Department. The Police phoned Kalp and arranged to meet her in Kecksburg.

Murphy also raced to the site of the alleged crash. He interviewed Kalp and her children for his report, while the State Police searched the woods for the crashed object. Murphy eagerly awaited the return of the searchers. When they finally completed their search, Murphy was unable to get any clear information from either Carl Metz or Paul Shipco, who headed the search. They only stated that they were calling in the Military to handle the case. Undaunted, Murphy made phone contact with Captain Dussia at State Police Headquarters in Greensburg. Murphy was instructed to visit the office to receive an official statement on the search party results. Upon arriving at headquarters, Murphy noticed that the Military had already arrived in force. Murphy was startled when he received the "official" statement;

"The Pennsylvania State Police have made a thorough search of the woods. We are convinced that there is nothing whatsoever in the woods."

By this time, Murphy was convinced that there was a cover-up of some kind. If there was nothing in the woods, why would the Military be in force at Pennsylvania's Police headquarters? After turning in his report to the radio station, Murphy overheard one of the policemen involved in the search describing a "pulsating blue light" in the forest. Murphy was told that Officer Metz and the Military were going back to the woods, and to his surprise he was given permission to join the second search. Murphy's excitement soon turned to disappointment when after accompanying the party to the outskirts of the woods, he was kept from going any farther. Murphy was an eye witness to the Military sealing off the area, and banning all civilians from the scene and its immediate surroundings. The story of the crash soon made newspapers and television, and the area was quickly overflowing with people wanting to get first hand information on what could possibly be a historic event. What had actually crashed into the woods? Was it just a fragment of a comet? Or space debris reentering the Earth's atmosphere? If the explanation was so simple, however, why had the Military cordoned off the area? Could it have been a secret Military craft? Or something far more mysterious?

It soon became common knowledge that some eager, interested civilians had made a trip into the woods before the Military gained control of the area. These few individuals were interviewed by Stan Gordon, and told an amazing story. They stated that they saw a copper-bronze colored, saucer-shaped object crashed in the woods. This craft was anywhere from 9-12 feet in length, and bore a gold band around its bottom. Some of the witnesses described writing on the craft which resembled Egyptian hieroglyphics. These few witnesses were quickly whisked away when discovered by Military personnel. Later that night, witnesses claimed that they observed a flatbed truck toting a large object, covered by a tarpaulin. Shortly after the departure of the flatbed, many of the Military personnel vacated the search area. Could this have been a craft from another world being taken down our highways?

An extremely intense day of activity was followed by a quiet morning, and it seemed that what had occurred was just a dream. The Air Force concluded their investigation with the "official" statement that a meteorite was responsible for the report of a glowing craft, and subsequent crash in the woods. The media as a whole accepted this explanation, and the matter seemed for all intent and purposes, closed. Had it not been for a 1990 television program, the Kecksburg crash would have been just another fancied report by a few overly excited witnesses.

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The area of Kecksburg would again become a beehive of controversy after a dramatization of the events on "Unsolved Mysteries" in 1990. The citizens of the area seemed to be equally divided on the value of airing the segment, with some accepting the "official" explanation, and others claiming "cover-up." Even before the segment aired, some protesters promoted a petition to stop the network from airing the Kecksburg story.

The actual witnesses of the event prevailed, stating that the petitioner's list did not include any eye witnesses to the original event. Opposite sides were also taken by those officially investigating the facts of Kecksburg.

After the television show ran, two new witnesses came forward. One was a USAF officer at Lockbourne AFB (near Columbus, Ohio). In the early hours of December 10, a truck arrived by the little used back gate of the base and he was ordered to patrol it. It was a flat-bed with a large tarpaulin on the surface covering a conical object. He was told to shoot anyone who tried to get too close. He was advised the truck was bound for Wright Patterson AFB, which is the reputed home of other crashed saucers.

The other witness was a building contractor who was asked two days later to take a load of 6,500 special bricks to a hangar inside Wright Patterson. When he sneaked a look inside the hangar he saw a bell-shaped device, some 12 feet high sitting there. Several men wearing white anti-radiation style suits were inspecting the object. After he had been escorted out he was told that he had just seen an object that would become common knowledge in 20 years time.

Investigator Robert Young, for one, became an advocate of the Military's official explanation. Stan Gordon, on the other hand, believed the eye witness accounts, and the cover-up theory. Gordon took his findings to the next level, producing a 92 minute documentary video of his findings, titled "Kecksburg: The Untold Story."

As to be expected, alternative theories were put forward by skeptics and debunkers, such as the reentering of the Russian VENUS probe, but this scenario was rejected by the American and Russian governments. One interesting footnote to this haunting tale came from the widow of John Murphy, who shortly after his death, publicly stated that her husband had been one of the first on the scene, and had actually photographed the strange craft. Supposedly, these valuable snapshots were confiscated by Military officers, and Murphy was instructed not to discuss what he knew, unless he wanted to suffer severe consequences.

In January 1980 UFO investigator Clark McClelland interviewed the assistant fire chief of Kecksburg, James Mayes, and Melvin Reese, another fireman. They reported that their team had come within sixty meters of the object. They had seen an object on the ground that had smashed its way through the trees. Mayes explained how the military had cordoned off the woods and had established a temporary base, complete with telecom link. Fire chief Robert Bitner would later confirm this story. He also said he had seen an object that was about 6 feet high, 6 feet wide, and some 15 feet long, clearly not an aircraft. It was resting at an angle on the ground as if it had impacted nearly horizontally. Another fire officer, 'Pete', stated he had seen a ring of bumpers around it into which were described some pictorial symbols.

Stan Gordon

In 1990, researcher Stan Gordon from the Pennsylvania Association for the Study of the Unexplained, traced an apparent first-hand witness, James Romansky. He recalled seeing the object on the ground some 25 years previously, when he was an 18 year old fire fighter. He had been called to duty that night following concerns that an airplane had crashed.

He described the object as bronze coloured and shaped like an acorn-some 12 feet long and 25 feet in diameter; it had slightly raised "blunt" end and strange markings.

"It had writing on it, not like your average writing, but more like ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. It had sort of a bumper on it, like a ribbon about six to 10 inches wide, and it stood out. It was elliptical the whole way around and the writing was on this bumper.It's nothing like I've ever seen, and I'm an avid reader. I read a lot of books on Egypt, the Incas, Peruvians, Russians and I've never to this day come across anything that looked like that."

The Kecksburg crash, in many ways similar to the Roswell case, remains an extremely interesting one, and is still considered an "unsolved" case. (B J Booth)

Sci-Fi Channel Announces Possible Kecksberg Lawsuit

The Sci-Fi Channel announces possible lawsuit in relation to the Kecksberg incident

A press conference was held this morning at the National Press Club in Washington, and announced that a legal suit was quite likely in their effort to obtain information from the Government related to the Kecksberg crash. Prior to the planned press briefing, the Sci-Fi Channel was interviewed by a Reuters reporter, and the story is already being carried by the wire services:

Reuters Article

SCI FI Channel May Sue Government for UFO Documents Tue October 21, 2003 12:05 AM ET By Michael Learmonth NEW YORK (Reuters) - The truth is out there, and the SCI FI Channel is determined to find it, even if that means suing NASA, the Department of Defense, the U.S. Army and Air Force for documents related to unidentified flying objects.

SCI FI, a cable channel that airs fictional programming such as Battlestar Galactica, as well as documentaries that explore the line between fact and science fiction, is part of a group pressuring the federal government to de-classify UFO information.

Last year SCI FI joined forces with an investigative journalist, a Washington, DC law firm, and former President Clinton chief of staff John Podesta, to gain release of documents relating to an incident it calls "the new Roswell," a UFO sighting in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania in 1965.

"Now, one year later, despite serious effort to uncover the facts, NASA and the Department of Defense are still maintaining their wall of silence," said SCI FI Channel president Bonnie Hammer. "Whether or not this has anything to do with UFOs the public has the right to know."

Now the SCI Fi Channel is supporting what could turn into a series of lawsuits, first against NASA and then against the Department of Defense, the Army and Air Force, to get classified documents released to the public.

The group said it expects to file the suit against NASA within a week. Representatives from NASA and the Department of Defense were not immediately available for comment.

NASA was chosen as the first agency to be sued because SCI FI and the groups' attorney, Lee Helfrich of the Washington, DC- based firm, Lobel, Novins and Lamont, believe that they've fully exhausted their administrative options with the agency, a prerequisite for a judge to agree to hear the case.

While news organizations routinely pursue Freedom of Information Act requests with the government, it's relatively rare for a cable channel, especially one focused on fantasy, not the gathering of news, to pursue such a course of action.

But Hammer sees a great deal of programming potential in pursuing government documents related to UFO sightings, part of the channel's effort to "find the line between science fiction and science fact."

"As we grow the channel, this will become more and more important," Hammer said.

In December 1965, residents of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania watched a fireball descend into a heavily-forested area 40 miles from Pittsburgh. That night the area was cordoned off by the military, trucks and helicopters came and went, and the town was briefly placed under martial law.

The next day, headlines in the Greensburg, Pennsylvania Tribune- Review read "Unidentified Flying Object Falls Near Kecksburg" and "Army Ropes Off Area," but residents of Kecksburg were never told why the military cordoned off the area and what, if anything, was found.

The results of SCI FI's new investigation into the incident will air Friday in a documentary hosted by Bryant Gumbel called "The New Roswell: Kecksburg Exposed."

In Kecksburg it hired a forestry expert from West Virginia University who discovered growth patterns and core damage to trees there that support a "traumatic event" in 1965.

SCI FI, a unit of Vivendi Universal, is among the assets recently sold to General Electric Co.'s NBC. Hammer sees the integration with a network news operation as a potential boon for SCI FI's newsgathering efforts.

"If it's something that seems credible, absolutely," said Hammer on the potential of working with NBC journalists. "But we're not going to do it just to create buzz."

==end Reuters report==

During the press briefing, it was stated that an analysis of the data eliminates the possibility that the Kecksberg object was American or Soviet space debris, as has been widely speculated. I'm sure that much of this will be covered in the Sci-Fi Channel's Kecksberg documentary on Friday.

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X-Conference

1st Annual Exopolitics Expo - April 16-18, 2004

Hilton Washington, DC North/Gaithersburg

Perhaps the most important conference you will ever attend.

Speakers (as of 10/7/03) include: Stephen Bassett, Dr. William Birnes, Grant Cameron (Canada), Philip Corso, Jr., Paul Davids, Richard Dolan, Stanton Friedman (Canada), Timothy Good (United Kingdom), Dr. Steven Greer, Terry Hansen, Paola Harris (Italy), Richard Hoagland, Dr. C.B. Scott Jones, Jim Marrs, Dr. Bruce Maccabee, Linda Moulton Howe, Nick Pope (United Kingdom), Dr. Michael Salla (Australia), .......... topping out at approximately 20 speakers.

Topics (among others) include: U.S. government posture and actions with respect to extraterrestrial related phenomena, the government imposed truth embargo - the cover-up, the role (complicity?) of the media in the truth embargo, the role of the film industry, NASA, foreign government's posture and actions, MJ-12 Documents, Corso's legacy, the Rockefeller Initiative, the Jimmy Carter studies, the politics of disclosure, the post-disclosure world.

Respectfully,

Stephen Bassett

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Coyne

UFO still puzzles 30 years later; Coyne Helicopter / UFO Incident

Soldiers encountered something strange in 'Coyne Incident'

By Russ Kent

News Journal

Incident named after pilot

The following article appeared in the Nov. 4, 1973, edition of the Mansfield News Journal. It was written by a United Press International reporter.

CLEVELAND -- Army Reserve helicopter pilot Capt. Lawrence Coyne is a military commander who doesn't believe in unidentified flying objects (UFOs) or little green spacemen. But after a near miss two weeks ago between his helicopter and a "big, gray, metallic-looking" object in the sky over Mansfield, he doesn't know what to think.

"I had to file an official report in detail to the Army on this thing," he said.

"Coyne is a member of the 316th Medical Detachment stationed at Cleveland Hopkins Airport. He was returning from Columbus at 11:10 p.m., Oct. 18, when the UFO showed up near where the Air National Guard has a squadron of jet fighters based.

He said a check turned up that none of the unit's F-100 Super Saber Jets were in the air when the UFO appeared. Coyne said when he first encountered the UFO, his helicopter was cruising at 2,500 feet. He had the controls set for a 20-degree dive, but the craft climbed to 3,500 feet with no power.

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"I had made no attempt to pull up," he said. "There was no noise or turbulence, either."

Coyne said a red light appeared on the eastern horizon, and was first spotted by his crew chief, Sgt. Robert Yanacsek.

"The light was traveling in excess of 600 knots," Coyne said. "It came from the horizon to our aircraft in about 10 seconds. We were on a collision course."

The pilot said he put his helicopter into a dive.

"At 1,700 feet I braced myself for the impact with the other craft," he said. "It was coming from our right side. I was scared. There had been so little time to respond. The thing was terrifically fast."

There was no crash.

"We looked up and saw it stopped right over us," Coyne said. "It had a big, gray metallic-looking hull about 60 feet long." "It was shaped like an airfoil or a streamlined fat cigar. There was a red light on the front. The leading edge glowed red a short distance back from the nose. There was a center dome. A green light at the rear reflected on the hull."

Coyne said the green light swiveled like a spotlight and beamed through the canopy of his craft, bathing the cabin in green light. He said as he and members of the crew stared at the craft his helicopter began to climb without his guidance.

"I had made no attempt to pull up," he said. "All controls were set for a 20-degree dive. Yet we had climbed from 1,700 to 3,500 feet with no power in a couple of seconds with no g-forces or other noticeable strains."

Coyne said the UFO finally moved off to the west and was gone.

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October 18, 2003

MANSFIELD -- Thirty years ago tonight, strange things were happening in the skies over north central Ohio. A close encounter in Mansfield, that has since become known as "The Coyne Incident," is still raising eyebrows among believers and UFO investigators. That evening, in a soybean field on the west side of Galion, Rene Boucher and her brother Brad encountered a bright light in the sky that has lured her from Florida for another sojourn into that field.

It was about 11 p.m. on Oct. 18, 1973, when an Army Reserve helicopter came perilously close to colliding with an unidentified flying object. Arrigo "Rick" Jezzi, 56, who now lives in Cincinnati, was flying the Huey helicopter that night. Three decades later, he is still not sure what happened. Jezzi was one of four members of an Army Reserve unit based at Hopkins Airport in Cleveland on board. The crew was en route to Cleveland from Columbus.

"Capt. Larry Coyne was the pilot," Jezzi said. "I was in the left seat, actually flying the Huey at the time. We were near Mansfield flying at 2,500 to 3,000 feet."

John Healey and Robert Yanacsek were in the back of the Huey, near a cargo door with a Plexiglas window.

"One of the guys in the back reported a red light. He said it looked like an aircraft light on the right horizon," Jezzi said. "I couldn't see it."

Jezzi was flying from the left seat. On the other side of the Huey there was a 12-foot section of fuselage between the side window and the cargo doors. He figures the red light was in his blind spot.

"Then I heard 'I think its coming toward us'," Jezzi said. "The next thing I knew Larry took control of the throttle. We went into a maneuver, a controlled free fall. We dropped about 2,000 feet."

Jezzi said if Coyne had not made the drastic maneuver there would have been a collision.

"It took just a couple of seconds," Jezzi said. "I remember looking up through the ceiling and I saw a white light moving over top of us. I followed it to the left horizon where it disappeared."

Jezzi isn't sure what he saw. It was like no aircraft he'd ever seen. He guessed it was traveling at least 500 knots, twice the speed of his Huey.

"Red navigational lights aren't located in the front of an aircraft," he said. "That's what was moving toward us. I don't know what it was."

The incident was documented by witnesses on the ground. In UFO lore the "Coyne Incident" is regarded as one of the most reliable UFO sightings of all time.

"It caused a lot of hullabaloo," Jezzi said. "The first thing I thought was those Commie bastards. What are they up to."

The next morning two of the other crew members, while being questioned about the incident, sketched drawings of the cigar-shaped craft they observed.

"They both came up with similar drawings," Jezzi said.

The magnetic compass in the Huey never worked right after the incident and had to be replaced. Rene Bouchard doesn't know what she saw in Galion about 60 minutes earlier that same evening.

"I was in high school. My brother was in junior high," she said. "There had been a lot of sightings in the days and weeks before that. Even the governor reported seeing something. We thought we'd give it a try."

She and her brother walked out in the field behind their home and started watching the sky.

"We saw a bunch of stuff that looked like it was maybe 30,000 feet in the air," she said. "But it wasn't anything spectacular. Then I think we both put our heads down for some reason. That's when we saw this brilliant white light. It was as bright as the sun. I don't know what it was but it scared us. We ran for two blocks until we got home."

Rene has since moved to Florida. Her brother is in California. She's back in Galion today and plans to go out in that same bean field to spend part of her evening.

"We really saw something that night," she said. "I don't know what it was. But I'll be back there (tonight). I called my brother and asked him to fly here so he could go with me. He said no. I'm not expecting to see anything. But I'm going to be there."

rkent@nncogannett.com

(419) 521-7274

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Black Disc

UFO VIDEO OUT OF THIS WORLD

ROB BURMAN

12:30 - 16 October 2003

The suspected UFO sighting in Grimsby has been the source of speculation across the globe. Earlier this month we printed the strange account of Steve Musson and his wife Caron, who spotted a "black shiny disc" above their home in Bodiam Way, Grimsby. Mr Musson filmed the obscure object with his video camera. The footage, which lasted for little more than a minute, showed a black object coming in and out of view. The video was digitally enhanced but identification of the disc remained a mystery.

After printing the original article, the Telegraph was flooded with responses from flying saucer spotters in locations across the globe, including America, India and Milan. Some gave accounts of their own peculiar encounters, while others drew parallels with UFO sightings in other countries. One response was from UFO expert Dianne Goodman who published a book called Door to Atlantis. She has had numerous paranormal encounters and had now added the UFO sighting in Grimsby to her extraterrestrial files.

Bruce Maccabee has been studying a similar account of a UFO encounter in Tennessee, America, back in August. He, too, gave a description of a black disk in the sky. The article even caught the attention of a self-proclaimed paranormal investigator. Chris Augustin, who runs www.aliensthetruth.com, a site dedicated to the study of aliens and paranormal sightings, contacted the Telegraph to obtain a copy of Mr Musson's video.

Mr Augustin said: "I have been studying the phenomenon for more than seven years. "I found the Steven Musson sighting to be very interesting, to say the least."

Another response came from a 16-year-old student from India. She saw a strange object in the sky while on a school trip to Bangalore.

She said: "It emitted some weird, very bright coloured lights. It was flying pretty slowly for a few minutes and then I do not know where it went."

rob.burman@grimsbytelegraph.co.uk

http://www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/

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Sightings

Breaking UFO Reports, (last update, 10-22-03)

MASSACHUSETTS – FIVE HOVERING LIGHTS

NEW BEDFORD HARBOR -- While traveling at 8:40 PM on October 3, 2003, the witness noticed five white lights flying over Route 18 in an odd way. At first, they appeared to be airplanes, but after watching more closely, there were no red lights. They moved across the night sky towards transmission towers that were flashing red warning lights. The five white lights hovered next to the tower’s red lights, making me think they were helicopters searching for something. The witness states, “I turned my vehicle around to follow the lights, and as I did, I noticed that the hovering continued until I was probably a mile away from the transmission lights, when suddenly all five lights went out simultaneously.” They did not land anywhere, when the lights went out. The sighting lasted almost ten minutes. The lights appeared in a well-lit area overlooking New Bedford Harbor. Thanks to Peter Davenport UFOcenter

CONNECTICUT --WE SAW TWO DISCS

WATERBURY – Two brothers and a friend were returning from a fishing trip on the Farmington River on Route 8 and as they came over a rise above a power station they spotted two saucer shaped objects at 11 PM, on October 13, 2003. They were hovering above the station, and one was closer to the observers than the other by a 1/4 mile. The witnesses stated, “We had the radio on and all of a sudden we saw the closest object veer off like a shooting star and combine with the distant object and instantly disappear.” I was driving and checking the radio static and trying to pull over we all saw this happening in about five seconds. I was amazed to say the least and we got off the first southbound exit and turned back on Northbound Route 8 to see if we could see more. We pulled over for 20 minutes and scanned the skyline to no avail. It was not from this world, as I know it. I am going back their tonight after dark. Thanks to Peter DavenportUFOcenter

NEW YORK – UFO MOVES NORTH AND UP

BINGHAMTON – A father and son were getting into their car at a downtown business at 11:30 PM, on October 14, 2003, when the son asked, If a bright object was Mars? I said, no because this light was moving towards the north. We watched the object about 70 degrees above the horizon fly in a straight line north. Then, it made a curve towards the northeast at 45 degrees above the horizon and faded out like it was going higher into the atmosphere. This was not a satellite since it started at a dead stop. It was not a plane, since it had no wing blinking lights, and the object was too far up for that. The object was a pure white and was a sphere that dimmed in intensity as it curved and flew to higher altitudes until it was a tiny point, and kept going until buildings obscured the view. This sight was only three miles form Johnson City where another report was recently made. Is the southern tier of NY becoming UFO central? Thanks to Peter Davenport UFOcenter

MARYLAND – SEEMED TO BE PRACTICING FORMATIONS

BALTIMORE – Bill Bean reports that a witness saw maneuvering lights in the early morning sky, twice in October. On October 7, 2003, he saw the lights in the sky early that morning. Thanks for being there with some info on something most people don't want to talk about. Thanks to Bill Bean

KENNEDYVILLE -- It started out as three equally spaced orange lights in a diagonal formation at about 7:30 PM, on October 9, 2003. The three lights blinked out at the same time, then a large ball of orange light appeared and two lights broke off into a horizontal formation. They faded out again. This went on for almost an hour. Sometimes the ball would break off into a vertical formation while at other times they flew in a horizontal or diagonal formation. It would only stay visible for five seconds at a time. The last ten minutes were the most active. They broke off into a formation of four that were all perfectly spaced. Then when it reappeared it broke off into a formation of five lights, and finally into a vertical formation of six equally spaced lights. The main light never moved once it appeared. Once each ball of light went to it's place in the formation, the formation stayed still for five seconds and then would fade out all at the same time. My wife went next door to tell our neighbors. When the neighbors came out to see, the craft(s) never revealed themselves again. The lights seemed to be no more than 1,000 feet from the ground. Thanks to Peter Davenport UFOcenter

OHIO -- STRANGE "PASSENGER JETS" AND NEW DIRIGIBLES

TRENTON - One night last week -- and again, on October 13, 2003, the observer saw low flying "mystery planes" passing over his town in an area surrounded by small, modest, municipal airports since it is the birthplace of aviation. The nearest airport is in Middletown, and services a private airline composed of smaller DC-3 aircraft. The low flying planes are the size of a large passenger jet liner such as a Boeing 727, with weird characteristics:

#1 - No sound of a discernible jet engine, even though they were low enough for engine noise to be heard.

#2 - They appeared to be flying so low as to be coming in on a relatively close landing approach, yet the two airports nearest me that are large enough to land a passenger jet of THAT size are in Cincinnati and Dayton - which are quite a ways away from Trenton. The airfields are too small to handle these large planes.

#3 - The plane had it's wing tip lights TOO FAR BACK, as if it's fuselage tapered into a "Delta" wing configuration similar to a British Dehavilland Vampire fighter jet, or the Concord. I know of no planes that fly around here with wings of that type. Thanks to Peter Davenport UFOcenter

AKRON -- Not far away in Akron, the city where dirigible airships were first built in 1924 and where lighter-than-air ships were made during World War II could be the birthplace of a new generation of super-sleuth blimps. The new generation of blimps designed at the Lockheed Martin Airdock will not look like Super Bowl blimps but will be 25 times larger and look like dirigibles. They will fly at twelve miles above the Earth and carry radar systems used to detect missile launches, ships at sea or for telecommunications. The Missile Defense Agency agreed to pay $40 million for the company to design the new airship and prove the technology can work indicating prototypes may already be flying. I suspect some UFO reports of exceptionally large, low flying triangles may be a prototype already flying.

MICHIGAN – LIGHT CIRCLES ANOTHER

FRASER – The witness pulled into the parking lot located ten miles from Selfridge Air Base and noticed a family loading groceries on October 17, 2003, at 4:17 PM. All five of them were staring into the sky, they were at a stand still. I parked two spaces over from them, and when I got out, they asked me what that was in the sky. "Its been there for a few minutes, the small light keeps moving around the big one." What I was looking at was a large light shining in our direction that was about a mile north of me, and about a half mile up. There was a smaller light hanging out down and to the left of it. Moving a bit. Both lights were very slowly moving towards us but very slowly. After about a minute, they turned and flew away. Thanks to Peter Davenport UFOcenter

INDIANA - SAUCER SHAPED CRAFT WITH KALEIDOSCOPE LIGHTS

BLOOMINGTON -- A 53-year-old mother of four who considers herself to be a sensible person and faith believing saw a disc on a cold evening on October 10, 2003, at 10:30 PM. This object was about 70 to 80 feet across with lights on the bottom. The lights were moving from the outer edge toward the center of the disc in rectangular shapes. The disc appeared to have louvers toward the center. When the light reached the center it would radiate back out toward the outer edge. It appeared as if you were looking in a kaleidoscope. The lights were a brilliant white. The lady watched for three minutes as it moved from the northeast to a southwest direction. She went into the house to get her husband, but when they came out, it was gone. Thanks to Peter Davenport UFOcenter

ILLINOIS - FOUR LIGHTS ROTATING IN A CIRCULAR MOTION

POPLAR GROVE – The witness was heading east on Route 173 on September 30, 2003, when he reached Caledonia at 10:34 PM, he witnessed two craft that appeared to be planes with their landing lights. The lights were not coming in his direction, but when he reached Poplar Grove, he realized he was closing in on the craft, as they appeared larger and much brighter. Continuing east the craft was fairly large and bright and appeared to be hovering. I shut the headlights off and got out and saw two planes flying, but suddenly the two other hovering objects shot straight up to the sky, and within five seconds became distant stars themselves. They were very faint lights but visible. The distance traveled in time was incredible. It appeared that the craft flew 200-250 miles upward in a matter of 5 seconds. These craft that I saw did not have blue or red lights and did not appear to be planes at all. As I said, there were two other planes flying in the vicinity, which circled around and flew southwest toward Rockford Airport direction. I would find it hard to believe that the pilots did not witness this also. Thanks to Peter Davenport UFOcenter

LA MOILLE – On October 4, 2003, a truck driver, his teacher wife and a 12 years old son observed four lights rotating around the outside of a craft in a circular motion at 9:30 PM. Then the four white lights would go back to the center and then do it all over again. There seemed to be very faint light beams coming down from each one of the four lights. As we observed the lights the whole formation moved a great distance over a 45-minute period. We live with vast amounts of cornfields around us. My wife used to be a skeptic, now she doesn’t know what to say, but that it was the most amazing thing she’s ever seen. Thanks to Peter Davenport UFOcenter

MISSOURI - THE TEARDROP FLEW FASTER THAN ANY PLANE

KANSAS CITY -- I looked in the sky as I was driving down a semi-lit street at 10:53 PM, on October 6, 2003, and saw a bright light flash from one side of a flying object to the other. The light bent on the object as if it were curved or raindrop shape, and as if the object was spinning or turning. When the light got from one side to the other, the backside of the object was facing me and as it did, the object dimmed and shot at LEAST 20 miles across the sky and disappeared... It was a crystal clear night, so it didn't disappear into any clouds.... I instantly called my house to tell my fiancé what I saw, as soon as I began to say hello, the weirdest noise shot through my cell, she told me she heard it on her phone too. I was only 1 mile from home. The noise sounded like radio frequency, but was only a second long. Conditions were clear, with no clouds. Thanks to Peter Davenport UFOcenter

ARIZONA – HUGE GOLD SAUCER SIGHTING

KINGMAN – The witness was outside October 5, 2003, about 9:14 PM, having a smoke, and talking to his best friend when they saw a huge saucer floating over the neighbor’s house. The witness states, “I mean this thing was HUGE and had Gold flashing lights and reminded me of gold and diamonds that were so bright and so glamour like.” It was kind of rotating back and forth in small motions. I started to yell into the phone and told my friend to get her outside. I looked back up, just in time to see the saucer take off. I ran over to my Mom's house to tell her and she said she was so jealous, because I always catch this kind of stuff. We all went outside, and about two minutes later about 40 planes filled the sky. They all met over the Cerbat Mountains and then separated. We have never seen more than five planes in the sky on any given night. After the planes left a huge bolt of green light flew out of the sky and landed in the little mountains by my house. My Dad came running out and the sky was filled with 40 planes again. Then another huge Gold glowing light was hanging over by the Kingman Airport. We looked at it in the telescope and it looked like two gold cat eyes. Then all these planes returned again but within five minutes they were all gone. This was very real and very freaky! Thought I would share my experience! Thanks to Peter Davenport, UFOcenter

CALIFORNIA – DISC, ORANGE OVAL DROPPING FLARES

SAN DIEGO -- Looking from our house in Spring Valley on hill we noticed high up 5,000+ feet an on orange light moving slowly southwest on October 7, 2003, at 9:35 PM. The orange dotlike light began to drop flare type flame fireballs almost dipping several times until the light moved out of vision due to overcast conditions. This sighting only lasted about 45 seconds. Thanks to Brian Vike, Director, HBCC UFO Research

WINTON -- In a clear sky at approximately 6:30 PM, on October 13, 2003, my daughters and I observed a white shaped disc object in front of the setting sun moving north to south. We took two photos of the object. The disc was large and white and flew in the area for about a half hour. Thanks to Peter Davenport UFOcenter

CANADA – FLAT SILVER UFO

SMITHERS, BC -- Four witnesses who were near the Driftwood fossil beds watched a strange looking object for ten minutes around 2:35 PM, on October 9, 2003. The object was described as being very flat (almost looking like a wing of an aircraft), silver in color and very long. It appears the sun was reflecting off it, as it was shinning very brightly. One of the witnesses described the tips of the object as being like a jet's wing tips, slightly bent upwards. The object generally stayed stationary in one spot, but from time to time it did move from side to side. There was a line of red lights running along the object. The lights moved from the tips of it into the center of the object then disappeared. The red lights continued the same pattern over and over again while it hovered. As the object was leaving the area, it grew smaller and smaller as it moved into the distance. But before they lost sight of it, they noticed that it started growing in size, and all the witnesses said it grew some 3 to 4 times larger then just vanished.

VONDA, SASKATCHEWAN -- Two friends were lying on the roof of a shed star gazing when they both observed a lot of lights fly really fast flashing across the sky in a circle on October 7, 2003, at 6 PM. It was yellow with a tint of green in the shape of a circle. There were blinking lights with all different colors. It was seen for ten seconds and then disappeared. It was pretty scary because we had no idea what it was since it was too colorful to be a plane and we never have balloons around Vonda. Thanks to Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research Canadian Toll Free UFO Hotline 1 866 262 1989, hbccufo@telus.net CANADA HBCC

UK/ENGLAND - TWO BRIGHT LIGHTS HOVERING 100 YARDS HIGH

BICKERTON -- At 11 PM, the witness took one of his dogs out on a clear night with a full moon on October 10, 2003, and noticed clear lights but fuzzy not more than 100 yards in the sky. The two lights were phosphorus like in a large circle chasing each other. After a while they met together for a while then parted and the pattern started over again. Above the lights was a small, funny gray cloud. After about half an hour they suddenly shot off in a northerly direction and disappeared. I went inside and came out again with the other dog, when suddenly they came back to the same spot. They continued for another 10 to 15 minutes and then just shot off again in the same direction. I have not seen them since. Thanks to Peter Davenport UFOcenter

SWEDEN - TWO FLYING OBJECTS FLYING AT INCREDIBLE SPEED

KISTA – Two friends where outside Stockholm at 2:15 AM, on October 9, 2003, when one said, “What if a UFO would come from those clouds?” Just as he said that, his friend shouted "LOOK A UFO!" They both saw a circle shaped flying object just where he was pointing. It was flying with great speed with a bright aura white light that later turned red. The craft then slowed and then just vanished in the clear sky. We where shocked and started to figure out every possible explanation to what we had just witnessed, we told each other that it could have been a meteoroid. The witness stated, “I clearly felt that they where listening to our conversation since they showed up just as we where talking about them.” I said, "If you really heard what we said and wanted to show us that you exist, then please show yourselves one more time so that we can be sure". We kept looking at the stars a couple of minutes as another one appeared in the sky above us flying with great speed leaving a yellow trail after itself and then disappearing as well. As soon as it appeared I yelled "LOOK ANOTHER ONE" and my friends said "YES I SEE IT, I SEE IT!" They appeared in different locations in the sky and different heights. We are 100% certain that they where not airplanes or anything natural, they where flying objects and they seemed to communicate with us just by showing themselves in the sky as we talked about them and with them.

1979 SIGHTING, TWINSBURG, OHIO

In September 1979, my sister and I where driving home early one clear, warn evening, travelling on Liberty Road going north out of Twinsburg. We came to a dip in the road (near intersection of Liberty & Glenwood). An extremely bright light came from the north and hovered right over our car. It was enormous. I was 19 and my sister was 17 at time. We stopped the car and turned it off. When I opened the door, I could hear a very low humming sound. We could not make out anything about the light, as it was almost blinding. At the time, I didn't know anything about the term "lost time", but in retrospect, I don't know how long we watched it, before it moved off to the east (as if it were floating or skimming across the sky).

For the longest time, my sister (a well respected scientist) wouldn't speak of the incident. Recently I asked her about it and she at least says "Yes, I remember it." It seems to bother her more than it does me. What was chilling is that when we saw this, we recalled all the stories we heard about UFOs and Twinsburg in the early 60s. In fact, our aunt and uncle had seen craft hovering over their power lines at the other end of Liberty (during the 60s) Do you have any sources that I can look at about historical reports in Twinsburg?

Laurie S. / Connie S.

GREEN TINTED CLOUDS HIDE POSSIBLE UFO

Date: August 1999 10:30, Location: Lake Delton/Baraboo

My husband and I were sitting on the back deck, as we often do, sipping wine and gazing at the stars. This particular night the sky was exceptionally beautiful in that it was so clear above, with big puffy clouds on the northwestern horizon. We were identifying satellites and counting shooting stars (I lost count at 17). We watched the clouds as they slowly moved from West to East over our house and property. We live near the borderline of Baraboo and Lake Delton, in the country.

It was my husband who first noticed the strange light behind the clouds. The cloud itself appeared to have a green tint. It was barely visible at first but as the surrounding clouds moved so did the green light. It became brighter as it passed just above our home at approximately 200 yards in the sky. It blinked in a pattern, like a beacon. The light was eminating from the sky, and faded outward. I wanted to go inside and call our children out to witness it, but I was mesmerized by the sighting. It slowly disappeared toward the west as it followed the clouds.

A few minutes later, two low flying airplanes flew by overhead. My husband (an ex-Air Force Security Specialist) said, "Those are search planes. See how they're flying low, side by side, and from West to east? Two more will follow from the other direction." Sure enough, as soon as the first set of planes passed, a second pair appeared from the other direction.

It was then that I went inside and called my children out. They stood staring at the night sky as my husband and I described what we had seen. We started counting shooting stars again, but they were coming so fast from all directions. Then we witnessed a lighted streak across the sky. It seemed to have a "tail" like a comet. There were lights/stars (?) that shot back and forth. It seemed like a war that was taking place in deep space. Really strange. We watched the news to see if anyone reported anything, but there was no mention of it, that I know of.

UFO Wisconsin Report by Loralei M.

OBJECT EMITS BRIGHT LIGHT

Date: December 2, 1995 2:30AM I was coming home from Minoqua on my snowmobile heading South on the Snowmobile trail that goes in between Minoqua and Hazelhurst. It was about 2:15 in the morning. It takes about 25 minutes to get from where I was to home. The sky was clear. I had stopped at Blue Lake Road to have a cigarette. I stopped at the intersection, shut off the snowmobile, removed my helmet, and began to smoke. Just then a bright light appeared above me and shined down straight on me. At first I thought it was a helicopter looking for a possible snowmobile accident. I was not frightened at first.

The light was bluish white, and just above the trees, but there was no wind or sound. I finished my cigarette put my helmet on, started up the snowmobile and proceeded down the snowmobile trail. The light stayed on me as I was moving. It did not vary any direction at all. I floored the sled, now realizing this was not a helicopter and I started to panic. I had the sled floored all the way back home, sliding around corners and intersections. the light stayed with me.

Now terrified, I began to panic hysterically, wondering who this was, and why are they following me. I made it to Lower Kaubashine Road and proceeded to my house, which was a mile down the road. The light stayed with me all the way till I got next to Lower Kaubashine Lake. I headed across the frozen lake to save time and to avoid possibly hitting a tree because I was moving so fast. The light then veered off to the East as soon as I got on the lake. I proceeded to my house, opened the garage, put my sled away, and ran into the house.

My girlfriend asked me what was wrong, because I was pale white, and had looked like I had seen a ghost. I explained what happened. She then asked me where I had been because it was now 3:30-3:45 am. I told her I left Minoqua at 2:15 am. I then realized I had 1 hour missing time. I cannot recall anything else. To this day, I still think about what happened, and it still scares me.

Source: UFO Wisconsin Report - Witness requested to remain anonymous

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