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One of the key elements som etimes present in UFO rases are physical traces l e f t by the

object. This ca n take many forms, such as soil changes, indentations, or e f f e c t s on vegetation. In

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An interim report

Physical traces associated

with unidentified flying objects

Ted Phi lips

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By Ted R. Phillips

Center for Physical Trace Research

[email protected]

Introduction^ • jhis report presents a statisti-

I cal analysis of data presented-JL in 3,130 reports involving ob-

s e r v a t i o n s ofa n o m a l o u s p h e -nomena or objectson or n e a r theground resulting inp h y s i c a l e f f e c t sgenera ted by theobserved phenom-e n a or o b j e c t s .These observationstook place in 91

countries between1490 and 2004.

There are hundreds of additionalpossible trace sites which do not involvethe observation of a U FO . All but themost significant of these events havebeen removed from this rep ort; they arelocated in ano ther catalog.

T he data in this report are based onevents available in February, 2005.

T he analysis perm its certain regu lari-ties of these phenom ena to be broughtout, as the data indicates there is a cer-tain type of phenomenon which showsstable statistical properties.

This research began in 1968, and af-ter 36 years it is yet premature to con-

- sider th e nature of these phenomena onthe basis of the data presented to date.

The development of methods of ob-taining more reliable data, an d expan-

sion of the initial information, wiU re-sult in a database of wha t I considerth e most important piece of the UFOpuzzle—physical evidence.. .

General characteristics

This report is not based on lights inthe night sky or objects seen at greatdistance, but on unusual objects on orquite near th e ground.

Many of these events involve mul-tiple witnesses, observing ob jects undergood viewing conditions, at close range,

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details visible for extended periods oft ime, and/or objec t res t ing on theground with known reference points be-hind an d around them.

Small humanoids and resulting foot-prints have been reported in a substan-tial num ber of cases.

In t e rms of size, reports indicatesmall objects ranging from less than onemeter to 3 meters in diameter, and anintermediate group of objects from 4mto 10m are often observed. Large ob -jects over 1 Om in diameter are seen at areduced percentage of the total.

There are many instances of animaland human effects, some quite severe,ranging from "sunburn" effects to seri-ous heat exposure.

Animals, especially dogs, h ave a vio-lent reaction not only to the observedobject bu t also to the resulting groundeffects left behind .

Most landing events involve obser-vations with th e unaided eye, tew withan y optical aids, and very few photo-graphs of landed or nearly landed ob-jects have been presented.

Circumstances of observationT he majority of cases involve wit-

nesses going about their daily business,often a farmer, alerted by his dogs or byelectromagnetic effects. In the highstrangeness events, on e finds the wit-nesses were skeptics prior to their ob -servation.

. These witnesses usually wan t no pub-licity, and the investigator spends a greatdeal of time just locating them. Whenthe witnesses are located, they will giveup the information, bu t usu ally only on

th e conditions that their names and thelocation will not be revealed.

Farmers an d ranchers represent th emajority of witnesses, as the observedobjects seem to prefer isolated locations.

This report will provide statistics re-lating to distribu tion of events by year,month, time, object an d site details, an dother relevant characteristics.

Suggested future research

Toobtain more definite conclusions,more reliable an d detailed data m ust be

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About the author

Ted Phillips isconsidered the topresearcher in the world on UFOtraces/effects. He worked closelywith Dr. J. Allen Hynek for a num-ber of years, and it was Dr. Hynekwho suggested to Phillips that hespecialize in landing traces.

Ted has personally investigatedmore than 500reports, an d has com-piled a research file of more than3,000 such cases.

He is the found er and director ofthe Physical T race Research Project,a former staff member of Skylook(forerunner of the M U F O N U F O

Journal), has presented seven papersat MUFON symposiums', and hasworked closely with APR Q, NICAP,

andCUFOS.His recent work includes a spe-

cial pro jec t in Slovakia's well asongoing cases in Missouri, .where hean d wife Ginger make their home.

T ed will be a regular columnist forthe M U F O N UF©/<w/:with the Ju ne issue:-.

acquired. These events must be weldocumented, and the resulting effectsampled fo r lab orato ry analysis.

There needs to be a central repository for physical evidence cases. Currently, the data is scattered amon g manyinvestigators an d groups in many countries.

A central repository should produceinterim reports available to the genera

public and serious researchers. This wilproduce new data and a much morcomplete database.

Classification: types of objectsT he data indicates five major type

of UFOswhich land, or nearly land, andgenerate physical effects on their immediate surroundings.

TYPE ONESmall objects, less than one meter in

diameter. These represent 28% of thecases which include object dimensions

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CASE EXAMPLE

Missouri, 1978-isolated farm in SWMO ; six adult witnesses observed a one-meter object resting on the ground from0700 to 0900.

Sunrise was at 0720, scattered thinclouds at 10,000 ft , light winds from thesouth. The field was illuminated by fullsu n from 0720 through 0900.

Until 0850 the witnesses periodicallyobserved the elliptical white object fromth e front window an d front porch ofthe house, thinking it was a piece of

metal that had blown into the field over-night. There was no apparent move-ment, an d cattle stood in the area lessthan 10 0 feet from the object.

At 0850 th e farm owner and his sonwalked to a large barn located 10 0 feetfrom the house to get a tractor to pullth e "metal" from the field. With fourmembers of the family watching from

th e front porch, the two men started th etractor.As they did so, those on the porch

began yelling as the small object startedto ascend. At that point the men at the

barn couldn't see the object, which w as12 0 feet from the opposite side of thestructure.

The object ascended slowly towardthe north on a rather lo w angle trajec-tory, and the two men at_the barn ranbeyond the building and watched theascent from the east side of its flight

path.As all six watched, they could see thatit w as rotating, showing a dark sectionat about two-second intervals. As the

object silendy increased its rate of climbit made a turn to the right, followed bya sharp turn to the left, flying across th ewind.

There were no visible wings or en-gines, and no sound w as heard as itpassed within 16 5 feet of the witnesseson the porch: As they watched it climb,they noticed a much larger cylindrical

object higher in the sky. T he smallerobject finally joined with the cylinder,which moved rapidly north.

Where the object rested in the fieldthey found a 1.5m slighdy oval areawhich was dehydrated. The grass was

crushed and discolored, and inside thatarea were tw o small circular craters.

Dust had been blowh from these cra-ters onto large-leafed plants, which werewilted, trapping th e dust in the foldedplants.

Delphos, KS, circular trace.

TYPE TWO

Objects with an estimated diameterof 2m to 4m, these objects rarely makeground contact, generally hovering oneto five feet above ground level. These

objects make up 26% of the cases withestimated object dimensions.

CASE EXAMPLE

Canada, 1974—farmer of high cred-ibility swathing his rape seed crop at

1000, weather was overcast, low cloudceiling with light showers.

As he approached a slough whichw ascovered with high, thick grass he notedwhat looked like a metal duck blind inthe high grass. He stopped his swather

some 50 feet from th e slough andwalked to the edge to investigate.

As he stepped up to the edge of thegrass he saw a metal domed objectwhich was spinning at a high rate of

speed. He could see dark "grooves" onthe surface and a wide "belt" aroundthe lower section.

T he object was five feet thick an deleven feet wide at the belt.At this pointhe became frightened an d backed awayfrom th e spinning object.

When he reached the swather heclimbed up on to the seat,and from this

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higher angle he could now see four moreobjects of the same size an d shape, al lspinning, and he noted thegrass beneaththe five objects was moving violendy.The five objects were arranged in a

semi-circle around the slough.The second object from him had two

rod-like "probes" which extended fromthe base of the object into the grass.These rods were rotating and swirlingthe grass around them. He would laterfind two long disturbed areas extendingfrom ring two.

. As he watched, the five objects sud-denly ascended in a set formation yerti-'cally.

There was no sound, andunderneatheach of the five he could see two pipe-

like extensions from which a burst of"exhaust" was seen. The wind fromthese blew off his cap.

When they reached the cloud basethey stopped, formed a perfect line, an dwent into the .clouds.

At the site he found five rings, eachswirled in a clockwise pattern with the

central areas undisturbed. The ringsmeasured 3.3, 3.1, 2.4, 3.0, 3.24m indiameter.

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to t e l l anyone about the

event. His mother, seeing hew as disturbed about some-thing, finally pushed him intotelling his story.

He then took his father to

see the rings. His wife toldhe r sister, sh e told he r hus -band, he told his brother, and

the brother called the RCMP.There was a detailed inves-tigation by the RCMP, and thelead investigator, ConstableR on Morier, told me: "Yes, Ibelieve that he saw some-thing, and I don't see why hewould exaggera te what hesaw. There is no way this is ahoax."

He adds, "It was in, the

slough grounds, the grass wasgreen an d long, and it w as un-d i s t u r b e d e x c e p t f o r t h ecircles-and whatever was inthere, it came out of the air .and departed the same way."

One of the most signifi-cant UFO events, Delphos,KS, involved an object verys i m i l a r to the C a n a d i a nUFOs. It too was domed atthe top and flat at the bot-tom.

It was six feet thick, andeight to ten feet in diameterwith a belt or lip at the base.

The circular trace measured2.4m in diameter with thecentral area undisturbed.

TYPE THREE

19% of the cases in whichestimated dimensions weregiven are in this group. These

* s objects were estimated to be'• 3m to 6m in length, g enerally

- described as oval or egg-shaped w ith landing legs vis-ible.

T he objects often involved

smal l humanoids , and leftbehind burnt or dehydratedtraces and four imprints fromthe landing legs.

CASE EXAMPLEN ew Mexico , 1964—the

well known Socorro event inwhich police officer Zamorawitnessed the descent of abright f lame below a shinyobject.

He arrived at the site to see

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an oval object on four legs.He observed two small hu-manoids about 450 feet awayin daylight.

T he ob je c t qu ick ly a s -cended with a roar and

f lames, became silent, andflew away on a horizontal tra-j ec to ry . At the s i t e were

burned bushes an d four im -prints.Less than tw o days later an

identical object w as observedat close range at La Madera,NM. I t left behind a scorchedsite and four imprints w hichw e r e a l m o s t i d e n t i c a l to

Socorro.See also Valensole, France.TYPE FOUR

16% of the reports de-scribe a typical flying saucer,estimated diameter of 7m to10m. Usua l ly descr ibed ashaving a metallic su rface, sur-face deta i ls , and exte rna llights.

Landing legs are seen, us u-ally numbering three. Theseobjects make ground contact,an d humanoids ar e often re -ported.

CASE EXAMPLEAus t ra l i a , 1966-a well-

known case w i th w i tnessGeorge Pedley observing an

object at close range at 0900 .He saw a light gray non-re-flecting dull o bjec t, estimatedto be 25 feet long and 8 feetthick, rising vertically frommarshland.

It then climbed at a 45-degree angle from a height of

about 30 feet above the sur-face. T he obj ect ascended ata point 75 feet from the wit-ness.

He could hear a hissing

sound as the object climbed.He described it as two sau-cers, edge to edge.

A near circular depressionremained in the sw amp grass,th e area measuring 32 feetlong and 25 feet wide. Thegrass was flatte ned clockwiseto the surface of the water,and reeds had been u prootedfrom the mud below.

TYPE FIVE

O b j e c t s desc r ibed a slarger than 10m in diameterrepresent the smallest per-centage at 11%.

Again, these objects aredescribed as classic saucersor as cylinder or cigar shape d.They are the largest objectsobserved generating traces.

CASE EXAMPLEUzbekistan, 1984—techni-

cian Shamil Yu aihmetov andfour other workers saw a ci-gar-shaped object at 2345slowly descending at a 45-degree angle.

They estimated the lengthto be more than 80 metersand the diameter at 25 to 30meters. The object flew overthe men and descended be-hind a hill.

It emitted a slight hissingsound and appeared to bemetallic. The next day an areawas found in a vineyard withthree rounded imprin ts or

holes about 0.5m deep.They w ere in an equilateral

triangle pattern, their shapeindicating globe-like landingpads. An area of the vineyard30m x 80m was destroyed.

T he event was investigatedby S.P. Kuzionov, PhD, amember of the Geographical

Society from Leningrad. Theevent was quite close to theKatta-Kurgan tac t ica l n u -clear missile base. The mili-tary paid su bstantial attentionto the incident.

Distribution by year

1490 1 1938 1

1520 1 1939 1

1662 1 1941 2

1663 1 1943 2

1767 1 1944 2

1790 1 1945 2

1812 1 1946 5

1814 1 1947 6

1823 1 1948 7

1842 1 1949 3

1845 1 1950 12

1849 1 1951 5

1866 1 1952 22

1872 1 1953 15

1877 1 1954 106

1880 3 1955 19

1883 1 1956 14

1884 1 1957 45

1893 1 1958 12

1896 1 1959 16

1897 4 1960 15

1908 1 1961 14

1909 2 1962 18

1914 1 1963 17

1916 1 1964 30

1919 2 1965 58

1920 1 1966 65

1922 1 1967 91

1923 1 1968 94

1925 1 1969 131

1927 3 1970 61

1929 1 1971 79

1930 2 1972 98

1932 1 1973 1801933 1 1974 136

1934 1 1975'162

1976 134

1 9 7 7 141

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1978 104

1979 94

1980 83

1981 44

1982 36

1983 44 '

1984 36

1985 37

1986 32

1987 36

1988 42

1989 62

1990 48

1991 47

1992 45

1993 41

1994 37

1995 40

1996 71

1997 47

1998 47

1999 45

2000 44

2001 29

2002 30

2003 26

2004 16

(Totals as of 2/2/05)

Distribution by countryAlgeria 2Argentina 122Australia 20 6Austria 8Bahamas 2Barbados 1Belarus 1Belgium 21Belize 2Bolivia 14Brazil 199Bulgaria 6Burundi 1Canada 214Canary Islands 3Chad 2Chile 26China 5

Colombia 22Congo 7Costa Rica 4Croatia 3Cuba 3Cuyo Islands 1Denmark 16Dominican Republic 3Ecuador 9 .Ethiopia 2Finland 13

France 245Gabon 1Gambia 2Germany 6Greece 5Guatemala 2Holland 6Hungary 3India 3

Iran 1Ireland 5Israel 8Italy 184Japan 5Kazakstan 2Kenya 2Korea 3Libya 1Lithuania 3Madagascar 2Malasia 1Mexico 5Morocco 2Mozambique 2Nambia 1Netherlands 3New Caledonia 2New Zealand 153Norway 11Peru 28Philippines 5Poland 14Portugal 7Puerto Rico 4Rhodesia 5Romania 11

Russia 39Saudi Arabia 1Scotland 10Senegal 4Slovakia 2Slovenia 6Soloman Islands 5Somalia 1South Africa 10Spain 31Sri Lanka 2Sweden 16Switzerland 7Turkey 6Uganda 1U kraine 9United Kingdom 168United States 97 9Uruguay 39Uzbekistan 3Venezuela 93Wales 15West Africa 2Yemen 1Yugoslavia 17

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Zimbabwe 13130 total as of 2/2/05

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Distribution by month

201

192

217

168

219

231•285

330322421

343

123

*N o month indicated in report: 78(2.5%)

Peak time distribution2300 262 cases2000 257 cases

2100 255 cases2200 250 cases0200 162 cases2400 149 cases1900 146 cases0400 139 cases1700 129 cases1800 121 cases

Distribution by stateMissouri 49 casesIowa 42 casesIllinois 38 casesCalifornia 37 casesIndiana 35 cases

Multiple witness: 42.9% (1,301cases)

Humanoids: 24.4% (739 cases)More than one humanoid seen:

65.6% (480 cases) /Humanoid described as small: 59.1%/

(436 cases)

Object color

Metallic: 48.2% Orange: 3.6%

Multi-colored: 11.6% Yellow: 3.4%White: 11.1% Blue-White: 2.7Red: 11.0% Green: 2.2%Red-Orange: 5.4% Gold: 0.8%

Sound related to object(9.8% of total cases)Whistling: 31.1%Humming: 22.6%Hissing: 11.3%Buzzing: 11.1%

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Beeping: 10.0%"Electronic": 9.8%Roaring: 4.1%

Duration of observation

Less than one minute: 5%One to two minutes: 13%Two to five minutes: 29%Five to ten minutes: 18%

Ten to twenty minutes: 16%Twenty to thirty minutes: 10%Thirty minutes to one hour: 7%

One hour +: 2%(Data from 1,623 cases indicating

length of observation.)

Distance witness to UFO

1 -5 meters 18%5-10 meters 17%

10-15metersl3%15-20 meters 3%20-25 meters 12%

25 - 30 meters 5%30-35 meters 11%35 - 40 meters 6%40 - 50 meters 9%50-100 meters 4%100 meters+ 11%(Data from 2,008 cases indicating dis-

tance to ob ject observed.)

Primary trace configuration

Circular: 78.7%Oval: 15.2%Irregular: 6.1%

Primary trace condition

Burnt: 47.7%Depressed: 40.0%Dehydrated: 12.3%Dimensions of primary trace1 - 3 meters: 24 %3 - 6 meters: 28%6 - 9 m eters: 22%9-12 meters: 14%

* 12-15 meters: 4%15 meters +: 8%

Secondary tracesTree damage 284Angel hair 278

Fragments 253Footprints 241Electromagnetic effects 237Vehicle damage 20 3Human effects 166White residue 119Animal effects 88Liquid residue 63Radiation 53Structure damage 38

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Brazil ha s experienced ma ny types of UFO sightings and encounters, including debr

reportedly dropped from a UF O. This photo shows w h a t observers described as a "sauc

nest" over a small pond in Gnarat ingueta, Sao Paulo, in December, 1996. UFOs ha

been reported hovering over th e area tiro days before th e "nest" was discovered. Th e Bra^i

ian Air Force reportedly videotaped th e area fo r eight days.

Brazilian doctor says she was

told to cover up UFO injuriesBy Carlos Mendes

Translated by Paulo Santos,

Brazilian UFO M agazine www.ufo.com.br

"I've been compelled by the Brazil-ian Air Force to convince the locals thatthe lights attacking them were ma ss hal-lucinations, an d that what they saw hasnever happened."

This is the statement by Dr. W ellaideCecim Carvalhothe, M.D. in publ ichealth and psych iatry, in discussing herrole in the so-called "suck-suck" phe-nomenon, a weird episode that terrifiedmany communities at Colares, Vigia,Santo Antonio do Taua, Mosqueiro e

Baia do Sol, Brazil, at the end of 1977and beginning of 1978.

The victims called the encounters"suck-suck" bec ause the lights seemedto suck blood f rom their bodies.

Dr. Wellaide w as responsible for ahealth care unit at Colares at that time,and treated abou t 80 victims of the mys-terious lights.

"I was the first one to make contactwith the victims of the suck-su ck phe-nomena," she says. "In spite of being


22 years old at that time and being completely skeptical , I started to notic

changes the medicine failed to explainSh e notes, "The burns on the victim

skin w ere almost always on the neck anthe breast, with two small and paralleholes, as if it was a little bite, but wasn't."

Dr. W ellaide Cecim says that after 6days of daily records covering more tha120 cases, she started to report thescases to her superiors. But she wasnprepared fo r their reaction: She was fobidden to admit something strange w ahappening.

"But, being faithful to what I see, noto what I hear, I kept on speaking," shexplains. "Even under th e risk of beinfired." Following is the interview shgave to me, a journalist from O Liberapublished by the Brazilian U FO Mag% i n e and added to its campaign UFOFreedom of Information Now, whicis d e s c r ib e d a t : w w w . u f o .c o m. bsecrecy.php.

InterviewQuestion — The authorities didn

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seethe phenomena, but even seeing they

wouldn't believe...

Wellaide—They didn't even pay me

a visit. I had to discover that the vic-

tims lost erythrocytes all by myself. I've

always tried to do my best in my job. I

noticed because of the research I made

to find out why these people had giddi-

ness, sluggishness, could hardly walk,

and had lost blood. I sent several re-ports to the health secretary.

Question — And who was the

health secretary?

Wellaide — Dr. Manoel Ayres. My

immediate superior was Dr. Luiz Flavio

Figueiredo. He forbade me to talk, make

suggestions, or even agree with the lo-

cals. But you don't need medical knowl-

edge to know. Necrosis occurs only 96

hours after a burn. The victims' burns

had necrosis immediately, j u s t five min-

utes af ter the attack.

Question — What's the explanation

fo r this?

Wellaide — That's when it all be-

gins: they (the f lying objects pilots)

couldn't be Russians because it doesn't

match their technology at that time, and

nobody could make burns in that way.

Question — As a psychiatrist, do

you believe these people could be vic-

tims of a mass hysteria?

Wellaide — This is what the Air

Force always askedme to say. Therewas

not any kind of mass hysteria or visual

hallucinations. The psychiatry proves it

didn't happen. It may happen whenpeople commit mass suicide. But no-

body can have the same delirium, the

same visual, sonic, and synesthetic hal-

lucination at the same time and in dif-

ferent places.

Question — Who asked the Air

Force to investigate the case?

Wellaide — Once nobody helped,

much the opposite, and they told me to

shut up; the Colares mayor at that time,

Mr. Alfredo Ribeiro Bastos, called the

Brazilian Air Force. And from Parana

came the president of the ufology soci-ety of that state, the philosopher,

ufologist, and biomedical Daniel

Rebisso Giese.

We wrote the first book on this sub-

ject: Vampires a n d extraterrestrials in

Amazonia. The priest of C9lares and

also a doctor, Alfredo de la 6, now de-

ceased, also called for help.

Question — What hurt you most?

Wellaide — It was the fac t that, 22

years old and responsible for a health

care unit, I had a lot of people needing

research to find out why they were im-

mobilized. Why they couldn't walk ortalk. And when I looked at the hemo-

gram to compare the last records, I've

learned theyhad very low ratesof eryth-

rocytes and hemoglobin.

The fac t is, no object can bring out

skin necrosis after a burn so fast. A third

factor is the alopecia, the fall of hairfrom the skin, in a way it will never grow

again. The victims have never had hair

on the burned skin again.

Question — And when did the Air

Force appear?

Wellaide — 90 days af ter our re-

quests. When Colares was empty and

scared, they came. Because of the dic-

tatorship we were under, they used to

call me every day to ask me to speak to

the people, to try to convince them they

were having mass hallucination, but I

always refused.Question — Under all this pressure

from the military, what did you do?

Wellaide — I always told them I

wouldn't obey. I disagreed with them

when they said I was afraid of being

considered a fool. I really don't mind. I

gave interviews to several TVs from

Brazil, EUA, and Europe, even under

the risk of being fired. Besides being a

skeptic, I'm totally sure of what I saw.I

don't know what it is, but I know it's

real.

Question — Did you, as did the cap-

tain Uyrange Hollanda, the investigationcommander, see beings from space?

Wellaide — Yes I did. It was 5 PM

in the afternoon at Colares. There was

a ship at 50 meters of altitude, above

the city's main street. Inside of this ship

there was a being, 1.20 or 1.30 meter

high.

This happened when I was drivingto help a child with a broken clavicle. I

wasgoing to immobilize her. They were

flying so low that I was completely un-

able to react. I could see the UFO's

bright metal, and it wasn't a dish-likeobject, but much more like a cone or a

cylinder. Its course was elliptical.

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon your

eyes can't play tricks on you. You may

havevisions, hallucinate, but besidesme,

many others would have to.

Question — Did someone die afterbeing sucked by the lights?

Wellaide — Two persons I took to

the hospital in the capital, Belem, died.

I took them in my car. And when they

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One of the Colares victims.

gave me the death certificate, I could

read "unknown reason." The victims

had the burns, the tiny holes, die ex-

amination. I mean, it's very easy to hide

things in this country.

Some amazing cases

Operation Saucer collected reportsfrom the people who saw the lights.

Fishermen, rural workers, simple and

ordinary people hit by the lights were

interviewed by the Brazilian Air Force's

personnel between November of 1977

and the beginning of 1978.What they told is written in a report

called Operation Saucer. The Air Force's

document was signed by Capt. Uyrange

Hollanda and obtained by the newspa-

per 0 Liberal.

More than 230 pages of the Opera-

tion Saucer main report were fu l l y

scanned and are published at the websiteof the Brazilian UFO Magazine.

They can be downloaded freely at

www.ufo.com.br/documentop.php.

More documents about the BrazilianAir

Force's secret procedures of UFO re-

search can also be downloaded freely at

www.ufo.com.br/docPrincipal2.php.

Both are courtesy of the Braz i l ian UFO/

Ma ga z ine .J

Case 1 — Adelaide Pereira da Silva,

37 years old, illiterate. Place: Colares,

Oct. 16,1977,21:00 hours. She noticed

a reddish glow lighting her room and allthe interior of the house. All the doors

and windows were closed.

Then she opened a window to see a

bright object with a bluish light moving

slightly above the trees (about 30meters). She fe l t a strong pain in the

eyes, and her body became numb. She

carried these symptoms for severaldays.

Case 2 — Maria Celeste Pereira da

Silva, 20 years old, educated. Her UFO

sighting happened on Oct. 18,1977, at

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22:00 hours. At the same time that hermother, Adelaide, noticed a strange lightcoming inside he r house, she felt a greatpain all over her body, as if she werebeing heavily compressed.

Also a numb feeling started to risethrough her body, coming from the feet,an d a strong heat appeared, spreadingfrom the right shoulder to the head. She

thinks she had been hit on the right sideof the body by a beam of reddish light.

Case 3 — Maria Francisca Fu rtado,30 years old, prim ary school educationonly. She told what happened in thenight of Oct. 18,1977, about 21:30.Shelives close to a village called Vila Novado Ubintuba.

As the attacks were becoming morecommon, she and her husband used tocome every night to Mr. M ig u e lArcangelo Scares' house in order tosleep together with several families. On

that day, she was hit by the light beamand got half-paralyzed.She felt a kind of electric shock. First,

her feet became hot and a shiver tookover he r body, from the feet to the head.She felt the right part of her body be-came num b, and this sensation endu redfo r on e hour.

Then came the headache and fever.Se did not go outdoors, so she couldn'tsee the "ship." Men and women had thesame symptoms after seeing the object.

Case 4 - • — A farmer cal led Abel

Soares Trindade, 28 years old, was in-side his house l istening to the radiowhen something hap pened. It w as abouthalf past nine on the night of Sept. 14,1977, when he noticed a bluish lightcoming from th e roof.

He became half-paralyzed, and had\ _ a feeling as if his head was growing big-\ ger. He struggled to cry for help, forhe\ could hardly speak. For several days af-

" • ter the attack he had headaches andhoarseness. His wife, America SilvaSoares, 23 years old, had the sam e symp-toms.

Case 5—Another report came fromRaimundo Nonato Barbosa, 48 yearsold. He said that when he was comingback home through the woods, as hepassed by a friend's house, he suddenlyfelt as if he lost his strength. T he shoeshe was carrying in his hand fell to theground. He picked them up and keptwalking.

The shoes fell to the ground again.W hen he lowered to pick them u p againhe could see a bright object , w ith a

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round shape like a sea-ray, jus t abovehis shoulder.

It was about 1.5 meters and moved.at very lo w altitude, about five or tenmeters over the ground. T he object w asemitting a light beam, as a flash lamp,very strong an d bluish colored, towardshim.

Very scared, Raimundo gathered his

strength and ran to his friend's house,crying for help . Looking back, hewatched the object rise in the sky, be-tween the trees, leaving bright an d mu l-ticolored sparks behind.

He complained of shivering, head-ache, and numb ness in the region of thebody hit by the light beam. He did notreport s y m p t o m s of b u r n i n g . Heshowed what the object looked like bydrawing on the ground.

He represented the bright sparks us-ing three vertical lines with ab out 20 de-

grees between them. He drew smal lcircles connecte d to these lines and saidthey were lights in several colors. Hecouldn't repeat the drawing on paper.

Case 6 — Five men told themilitarythey could see two beings inside the ship.An enc ounter o f the first kind with fivemen of Colares and a ship with extra-ter res t r ia l beings inside would havetaken place on Oct. 12 , 1977, at 23:30.

In the report th e farmer, ManoelEspirito Santo, 20 years old, primaryschool education, told the military that

he was in front of his house with hisfriends, Julio, Paulo, Deca, and Carlito,w hen he noticed a yellow light movingin the sun set direction.

It slowed down, almost stopping bythem, about 20 meters away. Manoelsaid he could see the light had two "pi-lots." They seemed to be human. The"man" was at the left side, and the"woman" at the right side.

Both were wearing something simi-lar to glasses on their eyes, and had com-munication equipment. The man on theleft raised his "glasses," as if staring atthe witnesses, and at this ve ry mom entthe other pilot, using a lateral pipe, senta red light beam to-them.

The mom ent he w as hit by the l ight,Manoel felt a strong shock, as if it wasan electric shock. The sensation startedon the feet and rose to his head. Thenhe got his legs and arm s paralyzed andalmost lost consciousness.

The ship went away slowly, thenspeeded up. Manoel could move again,but felt numbness fo r several minutes.


From far away, the ship looked likered and yellow-colored star.

It changed its color from bright ylow to red and, when it was closer, could see a bluish light on the fronupper part.

It was cylinder-shaped, like a barrand had a frontal smaller pipe, reddicolored, and a thinner one on its sid

45 degrees apart, where the bluish ligw as coming from. It was about 1.201.40 meters, seemed transpa rent on tbluish par t and had a division betwethe pilots.

Louisiana sighting

appears to involve

Air Force cover-up

By Guy R. McDonald

Submitted by Scott Arnett,

MUFON Section Director, Louisian

The following UFO incident hapened a long time ago. Some details afuzzy, but I'll try to be as clear as I ca

I am a 71-year-old retired male. this point, I am in sound mind and

relatively good heath. In July, 1948enlisted with the U.S. Army and servtw o tours of duty in Europe as an artlery gunnery instructor and horizon

control specialist.After my discharge in August, 19I worked in the insurance an d musicdustries and in journalism.

The incident

At about 5:30 AM, a b omid-August, 1959, one Ross Vasqu(now deceased) and I prepared to launmy boat for a day of fishing at tFriendly F isherman in Plaquemines Pish, LA.

The marina is about 7 miles westHighway 23 south on the Myrtle Gro

Canal. Conditions, as I recall, werewind, temp erature about 80 degrees, hmidity very high, a few scattered clouthere was a moon, but I cannot rem eber its stage. At the launch was owner, M r. A.C. (Buddy) Faulkner ahis teenage son.

As I prepared to launch the boat,m

attention w as drawn to a point to tsoutheast, on the horizon of the marMr. Vasquez, Mr. Faulkner, his son, aI observed a bright, round, shimmeri

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Part 2

The twentyall-time best

cases fromCaliforniaBy Preston Dennett

ELEVEN: The contactees

While some U FO researchers wouldprefer to forget this strange chapter ofU FO history, there is no denying its pro-found influence on the U FO movement.

T he contactee movement began insouthern California in the early 1950s

w h e n a m a t e u r a s t r o n o m e r GeorgeAdamski claimed to have seen, photo-graphed, an d been taken onboard a f ly-ing saucer piloted by friendly human-looking extraterrestrials.

H is story touch ed a nerve, and elec-trified the public. Adam ski became aninstan t celeb rity, w riting books , givinglectures, and attracting w ide audiences.

Before long, many other contacteesconverged on so uthern California, allwith similar claims. California becamethe place to be if you were interested inU FO s. Daniel Fry, Orpheo Angelucci,George Van Tassel, Frank Stranges, andothers al l claimed to have made contactwith ETs.

They also all wrote books and lec-tured widely. Each of the stories ha dthe same theme—warnings from the ex-traterrestrials that humans are too war-like, that nuclear weapons are danger-ous, that w e m us t no t pol lute.our envi-ronment, an d other philosophical m es-sages—all of which today remains aprominent theme in modern abductionaccounts.

The ETs were usually described ashuman-looking, attractive, an d originat-ing from various planets in our solarsystem. Of ten th e stories seemed tocontain information that is believed bymainstream science to be false (for ex -ample: life existing on the moon an dother planets in our solar system.)

And yet, the cases also have consid-erable corroborating evidence, includ-ing photos or mu ltiple eyew itness testi-monies.

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Number Ten: Topanga Canyon .

This seriesThese 20 bes t cases have been

compiled by Dennet, a MUFON In-vestigator, from his latest book, UFOs

Over California, Schiffer PublishingLtd, 4880 Lower Valley R oad, Atglen,PA 19310, [email protected],6 x 9 , soft cover, 22 4 pgs, $14.95 p lus$3.95 shipping. Cases 20 through 12appeared in the April issue.

O ne e x a m p l e is the case of SidPadrick of Watsonville, who reportedlyexperienced a contact with friendly hu -man-like ETs on Jan. 30,1965. Padricksaid he was taken inside a craft an d toldthat the ETs had a U topian-like societywith no illness or crime.

While Padrick's claims were incred-ible, he was well known in his com mu -nity. Also, at the time of his experiencethe m a y o r of Mo n t e r e y , George

Clemens, and num erous park rangers inthe area rep orted UFOs.

Padrick was eventually contacted bythe Air Force, w ho interviewed him andreportedly asked him to not talk pub-licly about his encounter. Says Padrick,"There w ere certain details they askedme not to talk abou t publicly, but I think

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in telling it tha t everything shoul d be dis-closed."

While the contactee enigma is con-troversial a nd has divided inv estigators,the movement was extremely popularand is responsible for introducing count-less people to the subject of U F O s .

T he annual Giant Rock conferenceheld annually throughou t the 1950s and1960s in the southern California desertstill holds the record for the largest gath-ering of UFO enthusiasts, attracting atone point more than 5,000 people.

Whi le many people consider thecontactee movem ent to be a product of,/the 1950s, it continues today. A good'example is Los Angeles reporter PhilipKrap f , who has writ ten tw o recentbooks about his own experiences with

friendly ETs.

TEN: The Topanga Canyon waveOn J un e 14,1992, the small commu -

nity of Topanga Canyon experienced anenormous wave of UFO activity involv-in g h u n d r e d s o f objec t s . O n t h a tevening, at least 17 independent adultwitnesses reported incredible encoun-ters throughout the canyon.

Ten witnesses in five different ve-hicles driving along th e boulevard that

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evening were all"buzzed" or "tail-gated

from above" by large glowing objects.One driver pulled over and observed

dozens of objects coming out of a larger

mother ship. Another one of the ve-

hicles w as picked up inside a beam oflight, causing a period of missing time.

The witnesses called the police andreported their encounters. As the driver

said, "I'm telling you, I've never beenmore frightened in my life."

Other witnesses were inside their

homes where they observed bright

beams of light coming from above, or

oval-shaped glowing objects darting

back and forth across the sky.

One couple was awakened from a

sound sleep when an object hovered low

over their home and lit up the entire

interior. Another couple living high in

the canyon observed more than 200

objects over a period of three hours.

This particular wave was one of thestrongest to ever hit California, and itremained strong for at least two more

years, producing more than 50 addi-

tional reports of all kinds, including

sightings, landings, UFO-car chases,UFO-helicopter chases, face-to-face

encounters, missing time abductions,

onboard experiences, possible animal

mutilations, cryptozoological creatures,

and more. •

While the main wave was from 1992-

1994, the area has a long history of en-

counters, starting in 1942. From that

point, the cases increased quickly, withtwo casesin the 1950s, two in the 1960s,

15 in the 1970s, 14 in the 1980s, and at

least 47 in the 1990s. A June 14, 1992,

encounter waslisted in Timothy Good'sbook Alien Update as one of the best

reports for the year.

Today the area continues to be one

\ of California's few m a j o r UFO"hotspots, with sightings as recent as

2004.

NINE: California airships

In late 1896, northern California ex-perienced its first recorded UFO wave.In fact, as researcher Richard Dolanwrites, it "represented the first UFO

wave—though it would be 55 years be-fore anyone used the term."

From October to December, 1896,

thousands of residents of the cities ofSan Francisco, Sacramento, Stockton,

and Oakland observed one or more

zeppelin-like objects that glided at lowelevations over the city, sending down

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powerfu l beams of lights. Several of

the witnesses reported seeing human-

looking figures on board. Others heard

distinct voices.

As one witness, Charles Ellis, said,

"It hovered effortlessly and looked like

a strange bird with four rotor wings,traveling about 20 miles an hour...I

didn't want to believe it .was an airship.

I had always regarded such reports as a

joke. But now I have no choice but tobelieve them."

The airship mystery is important be-

cause people had never been confronted

with the idea of extraterrestrials. As

Dolan writes, "The idea of spaceships

from another world wasn't popularly

considered, and would not be until the

late 1940s...Most thought they were

merely seeing a man-made object."While the sightings originated in Cali-

fornia, they soon spread across the

United States. The strange objects be-

came front-page news and caused a

media sensation. Interestingly, zeppe-lins were invented only a few years later.

These initial reports, however, remaina mystery. While they have many simi-

larities to modern reports, many inves-

tigators are baffled by the dirigible-like

appearance of the objects.

Some researchers (ie: Jacques Vallee,

Jerome Clark) have pointed to the air-ship wave as evidence that UFOs"track" cultures, and have an explana-

tion other than extraterrestrial. What-

ever the case, the sightings marked thebeginning of California's involvement

with the UFO phenomenon.

EIGHT: R ex Heflin photosOn Aug. 3,1965, some of the world's

most famous and best-verified UFOphotographs were taken by Los Ange-

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les County Highway Investigator Re

Heflin. At that time, the entire Unite

States wasexperiencing an intense coun

trywide wave of UFO activity.

While driving outside of Santa An

Hef l in observed a silent hat-shape

UFO approaching his truck. He rad

oed his supervisor , but then the rad

went dead (a fact later confirmed by h

supervisor.)As part of his job, Heflin carried

Polaroid camera. He quickly snapped

series of four photos before the obje

moved away. While he sought no pub

licity, reporters from United Press I

ternational heard about the photos anpersuaded Heflin to turn them over,an

UPI photo experts conducted an exte

sive analysis, even returning to the si

of the incident and attempting to restag

the event.

They declared the photos genuin

and the pictures were published in thSanta Ana Register. The photos electrfied the public, and Heflin's case becam

an instant classic. Not surprisingly, th

Air Force declared the case a hoax.Heflin, however, later received a vis

f rom two men claiming to be fro

NORAD. The men demanded the pho

tographs, and Heflin turned them ove

The story gets more complicated frothis point.

However, numerous other studies o

the photos have since been conducte

NICAP photographic analyst Ralp

.Rankow and a team of other specialisstudied the photos in detail and declare

them genuine.

Journalist Frank Edwards calls th

photos "the best UFO photographs

civilian hands." The photos arestill co

sidered genuine, and among the mo

widely-published of all UFO photographs.

SEVEN: UFO destroys missileOn Sept. 15, 1964, a crew of 12

military personnel at Vandenburg AF

prepared for the launch of an Adas missile. The launch took place as sche

uled, but at about 60 miles of altitud

the missile mysteriously malfunctioneand plunged into the Pacific Ocean.

Dr. Robert Jacobs (then a lieutenan

was in charge of filming the missi

launch with a telescopic camera hooke

to a radar display that k e p t - th

viewfinder locked on the missile.

The next day, his superiors called

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Jacobs to view the film. To his shock,he observed "a round object" hoveringnext to the missile. Says Jacobs, "I t flewright up to our missile an d emitted avivid flash of light.

'Then it altered course an d hoveredbriefly over our missile.. .and then therecame a second vivid flash of light. Thenthe UFO f lew around th e missile twice

and set off two more vivid flashes fromdifferent angles, and then it vanished.A few seconds later, our missile w asmalfunctioning an d tumbling out ofcontrol."

Jacobs was ordered to remain silentabout what he saw. He dutifully keptsilent for 17 years before he finally wentpublic with his story. Despite his ster-ling reputation, he was immediately at-tacked by arch skeptics/debunkers PhilKlass and James Oberg.

He also received numerous death

threats, lost his employment, and hismailbox w as destroyed with skyrocketsfollowing another threat. Investigators,however, located Jacobs' superior, Ma-jor Mansmann, who, on multiple occa-sions, confirmed the details of Jacobsaccount.

This account is one of several inwhich UFOs have shown their capabil-ity to affect even our most advancedtechnology. It also shows evidence ofthe UFO cover-up.

SIX: Cororiado mass encounter

This case w as originally uncoveredan d inves'tigated by UFO researcherYv onne Smith. In mid-March, 1994, theTRIAD UFO conference was held inCoronado, featuring several leaders inUFO research.

A fe w hundred people were in atten-dance. Seven of the attendees w ere stay-

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ing at the nearby Village Inn in threeadjacent rooms.

As UFO researchers know, it is veryunusual to uncover an abduction caseinvolving more than one or two people.

However, in the middle of the night ofMarch 15, these seven witnesses simul-taneously experienced a visitation byseveral gray-type ETs who came intotheir hotel room and abducted at leasttwo of the witnesses.

What makes this case unique is notonly the large number of independentw itnesses (all of w hom have providedextensive interviews), but the medicalevidence.

All of the witnesses have a lifelong

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history of UFO encounters, and eachof them has experienced a wide varietyof physical symptoms, including p unc-ture wounds, cuts, bruises, scratches,flu-like symptoms, high-blood p ressureattacks, multiple infections, scoop-likescars, and more.

One of the witnesses ha s undergonean operation by Dr. Roger Leir, DPM,

to have an apparent implant removed.T he im plant was placed in her leg du r-ing the ir Coronado encounter . Ananalysis of the object has shown it tocontain m any unu sual properties.

Two of the other witnesses, LaurieAngelone an d Mike Evans, have gonepublic with their experiences. Evans hasundergone extensive medical examina-tions, including X-rays and MRIs, whichshow evidence of several foreign bod-ies in his head and legs.

Says Evans, "I have one [foreign

body] around my left ear. One aroundthe pituitary, sitting on top of the lim-bic system. And the other one is in theoccipital.. .I've ha d doctors an d radiolo-gists tell me that they don't know wha tit is.. .1 have things in my head— thingswhich nobody seems to be able to

explain.. .which I can't get rid of with-ou t major brain surgery. Where doesthat leave me?"

Dr. Leir has examined Evans andverified hi s post-abduction symptoms.Says Leir, "I have known Mike for manyyears now and can personally attest to

the physical finding.s such as bruises andscratches on his skin."

W hile this case has not yet been pu b-lished, it has accumu lated an impressiveamount of evidence. Says Dr Leir, "Thenumber of mass abductions are sparsein the literature, and this case will beranked high on the scale of importance."

T he case is also the subject of a full-length book by Mike Evans and me,soon to be released by Galde Press.FIVE: Tujunga Canyon abductions

Among the first abduction cases to

be professionally researched and writ-ten about are the 1953 Tujunga Can-yon contacts.

T he case involved tw o southern Cali-fornia ladies, Sara Shaw and Jan Whit-ley, w ho experienced a missing timeepisode while staying in their remotecabin in Tu junga Canyon.

They later located sou thern Califor-nia investigator Ann Druffel , who, alongwith D. Scott Rogo, Dr Bill McCall, andothers, conducted an extensive investi-

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gation into the case. Today, most of thedetails of the case are commonly re-ported, such as the medical examina-tion, star maps, highly technologicale q u i p m e n t , t e l e p a t h i c h a i r l e s sentities...and so on.

At the time, however, UFO abduc-tions were considered to be extremelyrare events, with only a few recorded

cases. Investigators were impressed bythe m any details that corresponded withother cases that had not been published,such as that of Betty Andreasson.

So m e of these deta i ls inc lude astrange stillness preceding the encoun-ter, levitation of entities, movementthrough solid objects, telepathic com-munication, the medical examination,the appearance of the ETs, and manyother details.

As Druffe l and Rogo write, "Thesimilarities are even m ore striking whe n

one realizes that these two abductionsoccurred so far apart in time and locale."Ano ther detail that was first revealed

in the T ujunga Canyon case is the factthat encounters can be contagious.

As Druffe l and Rogo wrote in 1980,"We know of no other case in the ar-chives of ufology typified by the odd'contagion' phenomenon that seems tohave spread from Sara and Jan to Emily,and then to Lori and Jo. This fact tendsto make the vastly complicated Shaw-Whitley case even more important toour eventual understanding of the UFO

mystery."Today, the m any details first revealed

in the Tu junga Canyon case and the fewothers that preceded it have been con-firmed numerous times in the hundredsof cases that followed.

FOUR: Red Bluff encounter

On Aug. 13, 1960, and for the next'five days, California experienced one ofthe most intense U FO waves ever re -corded.

The wave was centered over the

northern California town of Red Bluff,bu t actually encompassed W illow Creek,Concord, Corning, Eureka, PleasantHill, Healdsburg, Santa R osa, R oseville,Mineral , Dunsmuir , Honeydew, andRedlands.

It all began at 10:05 PM on Aug. 13when Deputy Sheriff Clarence Fry ofR ed Bluf f observed a large glowing ob -ject over the Red Bluff prison. T w ohours later, two other patrol officersobserved a large glowing object hover-

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now-famous photograph of

the object on its front page.The military attemp ted to

enact a cover-up, stating thatno objects were seen. Theythen said that balloons wereresponsible. The incident,however, was witnessed bys e v e r a l t h o u s a n d p e o p l e ,

making it the most widelyviewed UFO sighting in Cali-fornia history.

It eventually caused thefirst congressional investiga-t i o n into the s u b j e c t ofUFOs. A later de-classified

A T , ~, „ , r T * , memorandum from GeneralNumber Three: Battle of Los Angeles GeofgeMarshalltQpresident

ing 200 feet above their vehicle. The Roosevelt says, in part, ".. .unidentifiedairplanes, other tha n Am erican A rmy orNavy planes, were probably over LA,and were fired on by the elements ofthe 37 th CA Brigade between 3:12 an d4:15 am."

While the "planes" were suspected to

officers alerted neighboring sheriff's sta-tions and took off chasing th e object .

Meanwhile, law enforcement officers

in numerous other cities also observedthe same or different objects. At thesame time, hundreds of calls poured in

from citizens.Researcher Paris Flammonde calls

this wave, "One of the most impres-sive multiple sightings."

R esearcher Jam es Harder, Ph.D, was

so impressed by the case that on July29, 1968, he delivered an official paperin support of the case to the Commit-teeon Science and Astronautics, Houseof Representatives, United States Con-gress.

Incredibly, Air Force Blue Book of-ficials labeled the case as "atmosphericinversion" without any investigation.Still, this case remains one of the mostintense waves in California history.

THREE: Battle of Los Angeles

In February of 1942, only a fewmonths after thebombingof Pearl Har-bor, Los Angeles experienced a visita-tion by dozens of unknown objects, onelarge one which hovered over the cityfor a period of at least six hours.

The incident caused an enforced to-tal blackou t, and the military was calledin to fire upon the strange object. Byo r d e r of Genera l Mars ha l l , 1 ,430rounds of amm unition were fired at theobject, which apparently sustained nodamage.

Numerous searchlights were trainedon the craft, which was also photo-graphed. Six people died of heart at-tacks, car-accidents, or falling debris.The next day, the LA Times printed a

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beJapanese, no evidence of this has everturned up. Nor do the descriptionsgiven by witnesses corroborate w ith thistheory. T o this day, the case remainsunsolved.

TWO: Implant removal surgeries

On Aug. 19, 1995, one of the mostimportant events in UFO history tookplace in a d octor's office in Ventura, CA.At 5 PM on that day, Dr Roger Leir,

DPM, perform ed three surgeries to re-move alleged "alien implants" from the

bodies of three abductees.The surgeries were successful, and

the three "implants" were recovered andsent off for scientific analysis.

This, however, was only the begin-ning. Further successful surgeries fo l-lowed. By 2003, Leir and his team hadperf orm ed nearly a dozen surgeries. Ineach case, the procedures were success-ful and the implants were recovered.

Here's where the story gets incred-ibly interesting. The studies of the im-

plants are showing rem arkable featuresthat may eventually provide conclusiveproof of extraterrestrial intervention.

Some of the unusual features includea similar or identical appearance of im-plant from patient to patient, the pres-ence of an electromagnetic field com-ing from the implants, strong magneticproperties, fluorescen ce, a com positionthat is elementally similar to meteorites,a lack of inflammatory or foreign body


response in surrounding hum an tissues,an d more.

The complete s tory is told in Leir'sgroundbreaking book, The Aliens and The

Scalpel, though the research is still on-going.

The surgeries have rocked the UFOcommunity. Bu dd Hopkins w rites, "Dr.Roger Leir ha s finally an d dramatically

laid his cards on the table. His carefullydocum ented surgical removal of pos-sible alien implants can no longer be

ignored. It may well turn out to be of

extraordinary importance."R aymond Fowler writes, "Dr. Leir is

to be praised for his pioneering researchinto the removal and analysis of sus-pected alien implants. Only peer reviewand acceptance separate his findingsfrom the proverbial 'smoking gun' ofphysical evidence for the abduction phe-nomenon."

Whitley Strieber writes, "Sometimesthe whole world knows w hen a historyfigure makes his history...Dr. RogerLeir is such a historical figure. The timewill comewhen the extraordinary break-through that he has made is noted ine v e r y textbook...the e v i d e n c e is

here... so overwhelmingly pow erful thata sane person cannot easily deny that itis real."

Dr. Leir himself writes, "If these sci-en t i f i ca l l y der ived r es u l t s are notdisproven by subseq uent analysis, thenwe can safely conclude that some indi-

viduals w ith abduction h istories have ar-tificially manufactured objects in theirbodies of a demonstrably extraterres-trial origin. In short, we now have the'smoking gun' of ufology— the hardphysical evidence of a continuing alienpresence on Earth!"

ONE: Edwards AFB visitations

Many C alifornia m ilitary bases havebeen associated with UFOs, includingGeorge, Hamilton, Norton, Miramar,Castle, Alameda, and others. Of all of

them, however, EdwardsAir Force Base(formerly Muroc) tops the list.Located in the vast Mojave Desert,

this area has attracted an incredibleamount and variety of UFO activityfrom 1947 to the present day. In fact,the events at Edw ards AFB are of sucha magnitude that they may rival even theRoswell incident.

The story begins onJu ly 7,1947. Onthat day, the base experienced a seriesof seven fly-overs by UFOs as wit-

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nessed by dozens of military officersand pilots. Listed as Bl ue Bo ok casenumber 50 (unidentified), this encoun-ter changed the way the Air Forcehandled UFOs.

As researcher Michael David Hallwri tes , "Those disc s ight ings overMuroc on the seventh and eight reallyshook up the Pentagon, [and] were th e

pivotal event which sprung the UnitedStates military into serious action on thesaucer mystery. . . the incident led theU nited States Arm y Air Force to issueclassified orders requiring reports of any'saucer-like' objects to be given to theTechnical Intelligence Division of theAir Materiel Command."

Researcher Richard Dolan writes,"The Mu roc incident continues to pro-vide evidence fo r military knowledge,interest, and secrecy regarding UFOs."

This, however, was only the firstsighting. O ver the next 50 years the basewould be visited again and again byUFOs, including in 1952, 1954, 1958,1965, 1967, 1978, 1995, 1998, andmore.

Several of these sightings w ere madeby extremely repu table witnesses, in -cluding Air Force base officers, and onone occasion, astronaut Gordon Coo-per. In 1958, Cooper was at the basewhen a U FO landed on the dry lake bed.

Base personnel filmed the incident,and Cooper viewed the developed film.A s he says, "Good c lose-up shots .

Nothing like I had ever seen...doubleinverted saucer shape. It didn't have anywings on it or anything.. .There was nodoubt in my mind that it was madesomeplace other than Earth."

Another noteworthy inc ident oc-curred on Oct. 7, 1965, during whichseveral jets were scrambled to interceptUFOs which were hovering over thebase.

As researcher Steven Greer writes,'This extreme ly imp ortant case involvesa seasoned Air Force traffic controller,

an official TJFO officer,' four separateradar stations, lock-on from onboardradar on a jet interceptor, many hours,an d many objects over several hours.

"The debunkers and those whowould ridicule the UFO matter need tobe able to explain away all of these ele-ments—and the voice tape of the actualevent."

While the sightings, UFO-airplanechases, and landings are enough to place

Edwards at the top of this list, the storydoesn't en d there. At this point, thingsbecome very controversial.

According to a growing number ofsources, on Feb. 20 , 1954, PresidentEisenhower v is i ted Edwards AFB,where he and other high-ranking offi-cials had an alleged face-to-face diplo-matic meeting with extraterrestrials.

Numerous researchers have lookedinto the story. At this point, however,th e whole truth remains obscured.

Beyond that (if that isn't enough)there are also claims of crashed UFOs,reverse engineering of UFO hardware,and even actual live aliens working atthe base along with humans. W hile

these stories remain.on the fringe ofUFO research, the stories continue to

circulate.A few conclusions

As with any list, there are other en-counters/events that could jus t as eas-ily have included, and another investi-gator would probably come up witii adifferent and equally valid list.

All of the above cases, an d m a n ymore, are presented in my book in de-tail. Although I've been investigatingUFOs fo r years, I am still shocked byhow many cases there are.

My other big surprise w as just ho wmuch evidence there is in support ofU FO s .

Minnesota women encounter

strange entities on highwayBy William I. McNeff

Minnesota State Director

Location: near Duluth, MNDate: Aug. 7, 1979Witnesses: tw oT he primary witness w as referred to

me by her cousin, a form er missionary,who is a friend of mine arid of my wife.O ur friend vouched for the honesty ofthe witness.

O ur friend and her husband told methat the details of her account nevervaried over the years. I can confirm theconsistency between my interview ofthe witness and her journal account of1979. The witness is now retired.

At the time of the encounter, the wit-ness ("Liz") w as about 50 years old andemployed by a well-known company. Agroup of her co-workers were planningto hold an evening bridal, shower foranother co-worker at their manager'shom e at Caribou Lake.

The w itness' house ha d needed paint-ing, so she and her husb and had taken a

week of vacation time to work on theproject. The w eather during the day was."perfect," and after hours of work shepicked up a co-worker, "Ruth," and theydrove to the shower at Caribou Lake.

Liz recorded the details in a journalthe next day.

Liz and R u t h left th e party at about9:10 PM. She repor ts , "It was darkenough by this time that I drove withthe lights on from the lake to the black-

topped Munger Shaw road, an d stoppedat the crossroad by the Caribou Lakeschool.

"We both noticed three f i gu re szig-zagging over the center line straightahead—in my judgement maybe 11/2mile. Ruth said, What in the world isgoing on down there?' I said, 'It lookslike three little ones on bikes, bu t they'dbetter move, cause here I come.'

"Stepping on the gas, I switched thelo w to high beam s, an d they did not getof f the road. As we came upon them,one [and then ap parently the other] jus tzoomed [did not walk] off to the left,across th e ditch, and as I switched tothe low beam I had one dead center withth e right front headlight.

"We both kep t saying, 'My God wha tis it?' A hu ge head, no hair, no ears, hug eeyes set in deep hollows, wrinkles orfolds, but no protruding nose, a smallslit for a mouth."

W hen interviewed, the w itness said,"They looked so odd, almost a luminous

grey. I could not see clothes. They ha darms; I didn't notice the fingers. Thearms w ere in proportion to the rest ofthe body. He had a huge head at least18 to 20 inches across, with hu ge eyes 21/2 to 3 inches.

'The dash lights w ent out as soon asI stopped, and with no street lights (be-ing out in the country) ou r eyes wereglued on the colorlessclay-looking crea-ture with black-like eyes larger than a

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chicken egg.-Ruth w as scrambling to findthe door lock in the dark, with both ofus babbling in fear.

"We knew we could not hit the "be-ing,' and the thought of backing upnever occurred to us. After about 8 to10 minutes, I decided to put the car ingear and cramp th e wheels to the leftand see if the movement would alert

'it' into moving."This was to no avail. All I couldthink of was hope fu l ly another carwould come from either direction. Noluck. At this point I told my friend w eshould very slowly move ahead and tryto clear it.

"She said, 'Yes, lets get out of here!'W e managed to bypass it, but in doingso, it naturally stood closer to her sideof the car, and wh en it got alongside ofthe right lower windshield, shecouldn'tstand it. She yelled and quickly moved

almost on top of me."When I was sure we had it cleared,I took off fast, and being so upset, Itook a wrong turn dow n the old road intotal darkness. I knew immediately themistake, as we could see the cars goingby on the m ain highway.

"In haste I ground a few gears to findreverse and got to the stop sign by thehighway. Now a car had approached thestop, coming from the same area we hadleft, an d took off (to their right).

"We looked at them carefully, hop-ing it was some of our friends from the

shower. But they were not, and thereare no other known Minnesota reportsfo r that night."

The two women continued on theirway hom e, discussing the encounter "fu-riously." They could not come up withan answer as to what this being was, butdecided it was not a human, not an ani-mal, not a trick or ma sked being.

They thought of the possibility of"an ou ter space being," but agreed theydidn't know anything about them and

had dou bted their existence. R uth was

very happy to see her home, saying, "I'lltalk to you at work," and hurriedly en-tering the house. Liz found out later thatRuth's husband ridiculed her story.

Liz also was most anxious to gethome, and scrambled fearfully into thehouse. There sh e found that after a longhot day of painting, her husband hadshowered and gone to bed.

She writes, "My niece had droppedin to visit and needed a ride home (ap-proximately 3miles). I couldn't convince

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UFO coin

After half a century of re-

search, the numismatic community

still don't know fo r certain wha

kind of o b j e c t is depicted in the skyon this 17th century French coin

( j e t o n ) , but it sure looks like a

UFO beneath the c l o u d s .

The "tail's side" of the mys-

terious "UFO coin" made in the

1680s in France depicts rainfall-

ing. P h o t o c r e d i t : K e n n e t h E. B r e s s e t t

my husband to get up and go with m e,so I agreed to take her.

"I couldn't think of anything exceptthis horribl e exp erience, and related thewhole thing to Jean [her niece], and inturn she was almost afraid to get out ofthe car and go to her apartment.

"When I came home to a quiet houseand prepared for bed, I fell apart. I criedand begged my husband to wake up andlisten to me. I had to tell him, and it

couldn't wait till tomorrow as he re-quested.

"He did listen, bu t could offer nocomforting solution as to what we hadseen. He did say Why didn't you hit itan d throw it in the trunk and it could

have been analyzed?'She told he r children die next da y

abou t the encounter. Also, she and Ru thboth told theoffice crew,who suggestedthey report it to the authorities. They,however, did not. They had a fear ofreporting it more widely an d possiblybeing laughed at or considered mentallyill.

Liz writes, "It was the most terrify-ing experience either one of us had gonethrough."

When on occasion .she meets her

co-witness, they mention the event, butdo not discuss it. Her co-witness doesnot want to drink about th e event an drefused my request for an interview. Sh edid not rule this ou t completely fo r sometime in the future, however.

T he dash lights, which had gone offwhen they stopped for the creature, re -mained inoperative. Liz' husband is amechanic, but he couldn't make the dashlights work again.

They took it to another mechanic's


garage (Johnson's Auto Electric), andthey couldn't fix the lights either.

W hy only the dash lights failed, andnone of the rest of the electrical sys-tem, is an interesting question. No craftwhich might have contained mecha-nisms to cause the dash light failure w asobserved.

T he fact of the irreparable dash lightsadds to the women's credibility. The

detail of the creatu res "floating," "zig-zagging," and "zooming" rather thanwalking or running, while seeming fan-tastic to persons unfamiliar with ac-counts of ETs, is a fairly common oc-currence in accounts of the beings as-sociated w ith UFOs.

This investigator can construct nonull hypotheses that can account for thefacts, other than that of simultaneoushallucinations and coincidental failureof the dash lights. The probability ofthis is obviously infinitesimal.

T he prime witness, although she hadgone semi-public at the time of theevent, understandabl y does not w ant anyadditional publicity at this time. She isin her 70s and experiencing medicalproblems.

Both women were—and are—married

and had responsible jobs. They reportedtheir experience in spite of perceivedrisks to their reputations to coworkersan d relatives. T he prime witness mustbe rated high in credibility and in accu-racy of recollection.

The beings she reported seeing m us tbe considered to be definitely unidenti-fied. This experience was the apparentbeginning of a wave of UFO reportsthat continued for the rest of 1979.

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Louisiana case...(Continued from Page 9)

light that slowly rose from the marsh at

about 20 degrees elevation.

When first observed, it appeared asbig as my fist held at arm's length, or

about as big as the moon. The light con-

tinued to ascend into the morning sky,

appearing to get bigger as it came ourway. It took at least 15minutes to move

from the 20-degree elevation to a point

directly overhead

Now overhead, it remained motion-

less and soundless, but seemed to

wobble slightly at times. There were no

discernable appendages.Mr. Faulkner said he thought it might

have been a weather balloon that had

been launched from Alvin Calendar Air

Force Base some 30 miles to the north.

Mr. Vasquez offered that it was "very

strange looking." Mr. Faulkner's son saidit could have been "one of those UFO

things." I reserved judgment.

After about 30minutes observing the

"ball of light" Mr. Vasquez and I de-cided to launch the boat. As the sun

rose, I noticed that the object started to

reflect light off its surface, which ap-

peared metallic.

At that point, I told Mr. Vasquez to

stop the boat so I could get a better view.The object now looked like the barrage

balloons that were used in World War

II. Light still reflected off its surface. It

then split into two of the barrage bal-loon shapes.

Clouds then started to roll in and

obscure the objects. We didn't feel like

fishing, and returned to the launch.

When I got home, I told my wifeabout the incident. She laughed and

asked if I had been drinking. I had only

black coffee that morning. I tried to takea nap. Sleep did not come, so I decided

to report the incident to Air Force In-

telligence, located in New Orleans.

An Air Force major , I cannot recall

his name, took my statement andthanked me for calling. He called backthree more times that afternoon seek-

ing more information. On the last call,

he asked if I could come into his officeon Monday morning, to which I agreed.

The major was courteous and again

took another statement. He producedan official looking government form. If

memory serves me, it was an AFFR 64

or 65, or something close to that. I corn-

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MUFON ForumA lack of consistency?

Although originally published else-

where, I commend the journal for re-printing the excellent two-part pieceby

Deardorff, Haisch, Maccabee, and

Puthoff. They have cogently summa-

rized a rationale for serious mainstream

study of the UFO phenomenon.

All members of MUFON should

share it with their scientific and aca-

demic colleagues cowered by the fearof peer censure or public ridicule. Re-

spected as professionals in their own

disciplines, their case should cause any-

one interested in the search for truth to

stand up and take notice.Given their courage to take such astand, I wonder why they, too, felt it

necessary to make two statements that

are inconsistent with their own logic.One is "...the fact that not...in past

millennia, have we been colonized, con-

quered, or exterminated, nor has soci-

ety been traumatized by any ETs..."To make such a declaration of "fact"

goes against literally thousands of wit-

ness reports and artifacts to the effectthat beings more advanced than humans

have intervened in human society, be-

ginning from at least the end of the Pa-leolithicEra up till, and perhaps beyond,the fall of the Roman Republic.

Accounts as detailed and as credible

as those quoted in their article can befound in Hebrew, Sumerian, Vedic,

Egyptian, and other texts, as well as in

the oral traditions on every continent.

Second, they write "...it appears all

too evident that ETs have not inter-

vened in world affairs in any benevo-lent manner that would have forestalled

human warfare, famine, and disease."

Once again, such a declaration of"evidence" is contravened by the sto-ries and drawings of credible witnesses(they had no reason to make up their

stories, and nothing to gain by showing

their inferiority to more advanced be-ings).

The most well-known to most West-

erners is the account of Noah's receiptof foreknowledge of the coming Flood

and blueprints to build a craft. After the

cataclysm, the biblical account of tech-

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nical assistance to the human survivors

contravenes the authors' assertion.

Many analyses have been written onthis topic, including my own Gods, Genes

< & ° Consciousness. T o ignore them is tocommit errors of logic and reveal a se-

lective scientific perspective, the same

fault the article seeks to correct in oth-

ers. It's time to look at all the evidence

-Paul Von Ward

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UFO missile shutdownReviewed by Dwight Connelly

Faded Giantby Robert Salas & JamesKl o t z , F o re w a rd b y R a y m o n d E .Fowler , 2005, BookSurge , LLC,www.booksurge.com,866-308-6235,[email protected], 8 1/2 x 11,soft cover, 142 pages, $17.99.

This book isprimarily about *?" -5Lthe 1967 shut-d o w n of 20M i n u t e m e n

miss i l es a tMalmstrom AirForce Base nearGre at Falls, MT,b y h o v e r in gU F O s .

One of theauthors , Salas ,was a mis s i l e l a u n c h o f f i c e r a tMalmstrom when the event occurred,thus providing a firsthand view of theincident. T he other au thor, Klotz, hasused his expertise in gathering FOIA(Freedom of Information Act) docu-

ments to back up and expand Salas'personal experience and research.

Salas is a graduate of the Air ForceAcademy, served on active duty fo rseven years, and holds a Masters degreein aerospace engineering from the AirForce Institute of Technoogy. He alsohas a Masters degree in education fromthe U niversity of W ashington.

In addition, he worked briefly as anengineer for Martin-M arietta Aerosp aceand Rockwell International before serv-ing 22 years in the Federal Aviation

Administration (FAA) until his retire-ment in 1995.Klotz has had an interest in UFOs

since 1957, and with partner DaleGoudie founded the Computer U FONetwork (CUFON) . Klotz has filedmore than 1,000 FOIA requests.

Thus both authors have excel lentbackgrounds for dealing with the mis-sile incident at Malmstrom.

In addition, veteran U FO investiga-to r R aymond Fowler, who was con-

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nected with the Minuteman missiles

through his work with Sylvania, providessignificant correlating evidence in theForeward.

Sylvania was under contract to de-velop an d build the Ground ElectricalSystem fo r command and control of theMinuteman II Intercontinental BallisticMissile.

At the time of the incident, Fowler,w as thu s directly connected to the Stra-tegic Air Comm and Bases (SAC) whereMinuteman I I was deployed, with ac -cess to individuals who informed him

of the UFO incident at Malmstrom.Some of these key individuals saidthat lab testing indicated that electro-magnetic effects from the U F O s had af-fected strategic electrical e quip me nt.

Utilizing hard evidence, this bookshows that UFO s did, in fact, shut downup to 20 M i n u t e m a n m i s s i l e s a tMalmstrom, an d thus do qualify as amilitary/security threat, despite govern-ment statements to the contrary.

In addition to a detailed account ofthe Malmstrom shutdown, other inci-dents related to UFO encounters with

missiles are also recounted.Am ong these is w hat could have been

a world-wide disaster involving whatappears to have been the activation ofSoviet missiles by a U F O .

For a very tense period of time forthe Soviets, the unintended activationseemed to be leading to a l aunch ofthose missiles toward the U.S. Fortu-nately, the programm ed launch was ter-minated, apparently by the UFO .

T he first half of the book is devotedto detailing the missile shutd ow n, related

incidents, and discussion of the govern-ment coverup, while the second half iscomposed of appendexes detailing theMinutem an missile system, acronyms,and FOIA documents. There is exten-sive footnoting, but no index.

Those looking for excellent evidenceof the reality of U FO s and their poten-tial military threat, as well as equallyclear evidence of government coverup,will find it in this book.

Highly recommended.


Realistic fiction

Reviewed by Dwight C onnellyAlien Log by R obert Farrell, 200 4, R.E

FARRELLBOOKS, LLC, P.O. Box 6507Peor ia , . A Z 85385-6507www.refarrellbooks.com, 51/2x81/2softcover, 263 pages, $13.95.

This book, thoug h fictional, has beenwell researched by the author. In addition to telling a good story, Farrell is in

terested in makingreaders aware othe UFO p h enomenon.

H e and w i f eLinda, along withdaughter Wendy(who is serving asPR person for thebook), are traveling from city to cityin a large motohome, promoting

the book and a planned sequ el.Noted U FO researcher Stan Friedman

says of the book: "I don't usually enjoyworks of fiction dealing with UFO s, bu

Alienljog is very mu ch the exception. Lotof solid inf o and an interesting story.can't wait for the next volume. R oberFarrell has done his homew ork."

T he story revolves around three individuals, Dr. Wendy Ahearn, a worldrenowed linguist; Dr. Corey Newton, aleading expert on quantu m gravity; andCol. Pete Mitchell, who directs their abovtop secret project involving a crashed saucer and entities.

The three m ain characters are well developed, and the plot keeps the readeturning pages. As noted, a "sequel" isplanned, and this is needed, since the bookjust stops, rather than concluding.

T he flow does drag a bit during alengthy discussion of "the Big Bangtheory, and explanations of the U FO phenomenon may bore the already informe dSome readers may be turned off by thediscussion of ET motives.

But it is a good read, especially fothose unfamiliar with ufology.

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FILEft'd fDirector, MUFON Eastern Region

Note: These reports are presented in or-

der to keep readers informed of some of the

vast number of sightings being reported.

However, these cases have not been officially

investigated.

Sightings increase after program

I talked to Peter Davenport, directorof the National U FO Reporting Center( U F O R C ) , an d Peter w a s beingswamped by 1,400 sighting reportsshordy after th e Peter Jennings broad-cast of "UFOs: Seeing is Believing!"

NUFORC traditionally receives be-tween 250 and 500 reports per month,bu t the number has tripled this month.

Peter was excited about a report of aDecember, 1925, sighting he had justreceived from Illinois. It was submittedin handwritten form , and the report in-cluded a note from the witness' daugh-ter.

"Peter,"Enclosed is my Dad's written rep ort

of his 1925 sighting. (I have the origi-nal.) I hav e not edited it in any way. Nor

did I discuss it with him to tell him w hatto put in it. This is his unadulteratedversion, in other words.

"H e still won't agree to be inter-viewed by anyone, and w ants to remainanonymous. So if you have questions, Iguess I'm your source. You can ask me,and I'll ask him. Sorry, that'll have todo.

"This occurred in Henry County, Il -linois. It might help your understandingthat, as Dad has previously told m e, hewas standing on a ditch bank that was

higher than the field th e 'craft' wentacross when it left."I t seemed to be low over the field

and had to go up to clear the hill and aneighbor's barn that was on the hill onth e other side of the field. In otherwords, it didn't streak across the sky.

'The barn it cleared w hen it left w ason the neighbor's farm, not the barnwhere Dad was. He previously men-tioned an 'odd' sound of a low hum, orbuzz ."

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The handwritten report submitted bythe witness, who was born in 1914, fol-lows:

"The event that I describe herein hap -pened in 1925, between Christmas andNew Years (Christmas vacation). Threepeople were present: U ncle #1, Uncle#2, and me.

"Uncle #2 was in the cow section ofth e b a r n , a n dUncle #1 was inthe horse b a rn .(We w ere l a te rthan us ua l withthe duties of do-ing the f a r mchores.)

Uncle #1 sug-gested that I takea bucket that w asnearby and go tothe corn crib for

corn for the horses. I exited the barnand started for the corn crib. T he corncrib was at a lower elevation than thebarn, so as I started to descend to that

level."I stopped to admire the scenery be-

cause it was such a picture-postcardwinter scene—about 15 degrees F, freshsnowfall, clear sky, wind was calm, so Istopped to look around. T he stars werebeginning to come out.

"In viewing the stars, looking to myleft, I noticed two stars, brighter thanthe others. This caught my attention, soI studied them a little. It occurred tome that one of them w as moving awayfrom the other.

"As I w atched this going on, all of asudden, an object is above me, and thewhole area becomes as light as day. Ilooked up and looked all around. Icould see the neighbor's building as clearas day.

'The object above me, the source ofthe light, was not like a searchlight, m orelike daylight, so I could look up at thisobject, just a short distance above me.How ever, all I could see was a dark (notblack) space about 10-feet in diameter,

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enveloped in sort of an aura a tmo-sphere.

"I t remained there for a short time.T he light dimmed, then it glided overthe field at about the sam e level that itwas above me, about 25 feet in the air.

"I t w ent directly toward the buildingson ranch #2. It had to ascend in orderto clear the cow barn (a huge barn), andsailed off to the northwest, and it fadedfrom view.

"I returned with the corn. U ncle #1and Uncle #2 were emerging from thebarn. Someone said, 'What w as that?'Also, someo ne said, W e will read abou tit in th e newspaper when we returnhome.'

"When we go t home, Grandpa (namedeleted), w ho always read th e paperthoroughly, said he saw nothing in thepaper of such an occurrence, so that wasthe end of the event.

"Place: (name deleted) Ranch, abou tsix miles no rth of Atkinson. No longerin existence, as such . It was in a rem otearea, about V z mile from the public road.

"I was not frightened. I think the ob-ject was either tinted glass, or some kindof fabric."

Peter states, "Given that there prob-ably are MANY people alive today w howitnessed UFOs prior to 1947, w ewould like to encourage anyone w howitnessed such an event, or who knowsa friend or family member w ho wit-nessed such an event, to subm it the re-port of the incident.

"It is helpful if the witness uses theOnline Report Formon our website, bu twe will gladly accep t su ch rep orts in anyform that is convenient for the witness!Thank you!!

"Approximately 1,400 new reports,and other interesting material, will beposted soon. Thank you for your pa-tience!" Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director, ww w.U FO center.com.

Turkey UFO and alien Being

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reports, "While scientists and UFO re-searchers argue about the existence of

' ex t r a t e r r es t r i a l l ife, ' at An ta lya 45people claimed they saw a UFO.

"The Santral dist rict inhabi tantsclaimed that they witnessed UFOs land-ing in the backyard of the Fatma Pri-mary School, and saw an alien being get-ting out of the unusual craft.

"In the principal's office, crying,Murat Esici (age 11), one of the wit-nesses who had a very close observa-tion, says, 'He w as emitting re d raysfrom his eyes. His hands an d feet wereiron. He had a very big head, and hewas 1.80 meters long.'

"It is said that he temporarily lost his

voice immediately after his sighting."Students Zeynep C'p'nar and Nalan

D'nmez also claimed they saw an un-

usual craft and an alien beside it. 'Hiseyes an d hands were red, and a red light

w as emitting from his eyes.'"After bulletins were broadcast on thenational television channels' prime time

news and articles appeared in nationalnewspapers such as Milliyet, A.ksam an dPosta, ou r president, Haktan Akdogan,had a phone conversation with AntalyaGovernor Ertugrul Dokuzoglu and de-cided to go to the area to investigate the

incident more closely."

California bright blue fireball

MODESTO - The primary witnesswas driving home at 3:10 PM on Feb.23, 2005, on a country road, and as he

drove over some railroad tracks a brightblue fireball came from his left an d jet-ted in front of his windshield an d flewup into th e sky.

He states, "As I was driving to get onthe freeway, this object stayed in frontof me and almost seemed to be watch-ing me.

"When I got on the freeway headingnorth I then sa w three objects as in aformation. They were very high in thesky, and I then thought maybeI was see-

ing stars. I watched them for thirty min-utes and it was a very strange experi-ence."

New York egg-shaped objectHICKSVTLLE, LONG ISLAND -

The witness reports, "I was drivinghome from work in a snow storm whenal l of a sudden I saw this egg-shapedoval hovering over the Duffy Avenuehorse farm on Feb. 20 , 2005, at 2:15

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AM . It had very bright lights that wentaround the egg. It moved much fasterin any direction than anything I haveever seen.

"There were many lights that seemedto be split in half, shining al l differentdirections from this huge craft. It wasabou t the size of a baseball stadium, an dmade no noise at all. My car radio went

crazy when I got close to the farm, andchanged channels on its own very fast.

"I wish I had a camera or video, sinceit w as only a couple of hundred feetaway. This has been my third experienceseeing a craft of this nature over a spanof thirty years.

"The lights were much brighter thanthe brightest fluorescent light I have everseen, and it changed itself from a sta-dium-looking craft to almost like a bigmetallic battleship with different heightsand levels. The duration was 12 min-

utes."I hope one day to see it again. It'sweird because basically Duffy Avenueis a busy road, but no vehicles were ou tlast night. "Thanks to Peter Davenport.

Peru crashed craft recovery?Marine Corps Lance Corporal John

Weygandt, who was trained as an airdefense gunner on the surface to air

Alpha Stinger missile, is part of the

Disclosure Project.W eygandt was sent to Peru in March,

1997, to provide perimeter security fo ra radar installation that he was toldtracked drug traffic aircraft in Peru an dBolivia.

He reports, "About midnight, whileI was on guard duty, Sergeant Allen an dSergeant Atkinson told me an aircraftcrashed, and they needed us to go and

secure the crash site. Early that morn-ing we drove six Hummers to a posi-tion close to the crash site, jus t when itstarted to get light.

"We walked towards the crash siteand saw a huge gash in the land where

something had crashed. Everything wasburned, and it was like something ha dalmost cu t warm butter with a knife. Itw as like something on fire or had somekind of energy like a laser had cut it. Itwas really strange.

"Anyway, I was in the front with Sgt.

Allen and Sgt. Atkinson. And we wereten or twenty meters ahead of every-one else. Wewere the first ones.to see

this thing. It had gone up the hill and

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then off in the side of the ravine andridge.

"A huge craft w as buried at a 45-degree angle in the side of the cliff thereat the ridge. It w as straight up and down

T he craft w as dripping a greenishpurple syrup-like liquid. The liquid wa

everywhere and fluctuated like it waalive and changing. The liquid got on

my clothes and ate holes in them andburned of f some hair on my arms.

'The craft was humming like a bassguitar and had a slowly turning lightMost of the craft seemed buried intothe cliff, but vents, like a fish gill, wereon the back.

'There were three holes in the shipthat m ay have been hatches that werenot f lush with the main body of the

craft. Therew as another hatch the samewidth and diameter of the top hatchan d it was kind of crooked to the side

and it was half open."I didn't see any lights or anythingcoming out of it, but I felt this presence. It is real strange. I think the creatures calmed me. It was weird, and Ithink they were trying to communicatewith me, like, I guess, telepathically.

'The corporal estimated the craft wasten meters in width an d about 20 metersin length an d shaped like something he rtween an egg and a teardrop. The skinof the craft had bumps an d notches an dappendages on it.

'The skin was made of metal, bu

there was no reflection on it. The sunw as shining on it, and I could see thedifferent shades of the craft, and it didn'reflect anything. It was not from EarthI knew that when I looked at it.

"After we climbed back up, the De

partment of Energy people were thereThey knew about it, so I don't knoww hy w e went there still to this day. B uanyway, I was arrested.

"M y friend had all his gear taken bymen in black uniforms w ho threatenedan d later arrested him.

"I wondered if those facilities werebuilt for the purpose of tracking UFOsor other objects, and their cover was tot rack drug aircraf t . They had laserangefinders and all kinds of high techstuff that I had never seen before. They[the laser rangefinders] looked like bigtelescopes."

Weygandt believes that this U F O w a sshot down by a HAWK missile. At the

crash site there were about thirty o

those guys wearing hazard suits.

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PERCEFBy Stanton T. Friedman

More MJ-12 questions

New questions have been raisedabout th e MJ-12 documents from anunexpected source, namely PaulKimball, a lawyer w ho started and op-erates Redstar Films in Halifax, Nova

Scotia, and who has made three UFO

documentaries.The first was "Stanton T. Friedman

is Real," which 'was broadcast in 2002on the Canadian Space Channel. It was

a 48-minute biographical documentaryfilmed in Roswell; at the Irvine, CA,

MUFON Symposium; in Cedar Rapids,IA; in my office in Fredericton, NewBrunswick, etc. There were critics in-

cluded, as well as friends.The second was "Do You Believe in

Majic?" This w as primarily a point-counterpoint between myself an d KarlPflock, with others commenting as wellabout the MJ-12 documents.

It ended with Paul—who was the di-rector, producer, and narrator-indicat-ing that, on balance of probabilities, theMJ-12 documents were probably genu-ine. This also ran 48 minutes, and was

broadcast on Canadian TV in 2004.Both are available f rom UFORI,

POB 958, Houlton, ME 04730-0958(|15each).

The third was"Aztec," which seemedto conclude that there w as probably asaucer crash near Aztec, NM, in 1948,

based on the outstanding research ef -fort made by Scott Ramsey.

Paul is also working on a documen-tary on cattle mutilations, leaning heavilyon the work of Canadian researcherFern Belzil.

However, Paul has now changed histune about both MJ-12 and Aztec. Heintends to re-edit DYBIM, reflecting his

new conclusion that the documentsprobably aren't genuine.

His first claim isbased on the notionthat since Vannevar Bush an d PresidentTruman were not on very good termsin the post-war period, Truman wouldnot have appointed Bush, despite his

outstanding background as a scientist

engineer during W W 2 with the Office

of Scientific Research and Develop-ment , to such a position.

According to the Truman-Forrestalmemo of Sept. 24, 1947, Truman au-

thorized Forrestal (not Bush) to proceedwith Operation Majestic 12,but didsay,

"It continuesto be my feel-ing that any fu-ture consider-ations relativeto the ultimatedisposition of

this mattershould restsolely with theO f f ice of thePresident fol-lowing appro-priate discus-

„ _, . . sions . withStanYmdman yourself) Dr.

Bus h , and the Director of Central .In-telligence."

Paul takes care of Wilbert Smith's,Nov. 21, 1950, comment about flyingsaucers ("Their Modus Operandi is un-

known, bu t concentrated effort is be-ing made by a small group headed byDr. Vannevar Bush") by claiming thatDr. Robert Sarbacher, source of Smith'sinfo in a classified discussion arrangedby Canada's military attache, intention-ally misled Smith with the expectationthat th e information, though classified,would eventually, by some mysteriousmeans, make its way up the Canadiansecurity chain and be passed on to the

Russians to convince them that the UShad access to alien technology.

No evidence has been presented thatthis happened or was the intention of

Sarbacher. Furthermore, he attempts to

discredit Smith with character assassi-nation andbringing damning commentsmade by Dr. Omond Solandt in lettersto various UFO researchers in the 1980slong after Smith's death. .

Solandt w as sort of the CanadianVannevar Bush, guiding the effor ts ofthe Defense Research Board. On Sept.

24 , 1947, Bush had been named head

of the US Research and DevelopmentBoard, a successor to the Joint Researchand Development Board, which had

succeeded the OSRD.

This was the date of the infamousTruman-Forrestal memo establishing

MJ-12, and the only date in a period ofseveral months when Bush, Truman,and Secretary Forrestal were al l togetherat th e White House.

Obviously Truman did NOT appointBush to head MJ-12. Truman said toForrestal, "You are hereby autho-

rized...."Furthermore, in Bush's notes on themeetingwe find this statement: "...cer-tainly in the new post, I would be ratherfrequently in contact an d that if therewas an impression [in the scientific com-munity] that I did not have his confi-dence he felt that that impression wouldsoon be corrected by future relations."

If Truman had no faith in Bush,w hywould he have named himhead of the

R & DB? His MJ-12 activities would bein total secrecy and not a matter forpublic debate.

In a TOP SECRET memo of 16December, 1947, Forrestal's special as -sistant,John Ohly, sent a memo to Bushnoting that he had been appointed byThe War Council as chairman of a spe-cial committee to deal with "Prepara-tions against a sneak attack," an d loadsof resources were available to him. (Noindication of whether this attack wouldbe from Russia or aliens or...)

General Hoyt Vandenberg, also anMJ-12 member and USAF Chief ofStaff, was a member of this committee.

TOP SECRET minutes of a laterW ar Council meeting note that al l mem-bers had received a copy of a TOP SE-

CRET item from Bush, an d should beprepared to discuss it. There is no clueas to what it was about.

This committee and MJ-12 were notpublic groups wherein political consid-erations might have been very impor-tant, bu t were highly classified BlackBudget groups. It seems to me that

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Bush's advice and knowledge would

have been sought because of his long

history of massive contribution to the

military ef for t via his earlier chairman-

ship of the NACA, and his heading of

theOSRDandJRDB.

Nobody was more knowledgeable

concerning who had what capabilities

at which installation for top-notch,

highly-classified research— such as tryingto determine Modus Operandi of fly-

ing saucers.

Truman certainly had strong views

about how research grants might be dis-

tributed, etc, and zealously guarded con-

trol. Bush had been allowed much lee-

way by Roosevelt.

A book strongly contributing to

Paul's feelings about Bush vs. Truman

is G. Pascal Zachary's Endless Frontier:

I 'annevar Bush, Engineer of the American

Century (The Free Press, 1997). I note

with dismay that Vandenberg and WarCouncil are not even listed in the index.

I had a conversation with Zachary, a

Wall Street Journal reporter, years ago,

and at that time fel t he was not very fa-

miliar with Bush's classified activities.

Solandt admitted that he and Bush

had indeed discussed UFOs, but wea-

sel-worded j u s t what was said and why,

and implied that he knew of no big se-

cret US effort-though if it was account-

able to the President, he probably

wouldn't know about it.

None of his letters were sent topeople with a need to know, in contrast

to. the Sarbacher-Smith exchange.

I had located Sarbacher many years

ago because of a memo from Canadian

Arthur Bray. I met with him on hisyacht

in Palm Beach, and also met later with

Solandt in Ontario.

My own feeling was that Sarbacher

was being very straightforward about a

small event in a very busy life.I fel t that Solandt wasbeing very care-

fu l in the manner I have found com-

mon with people who have classifiedinformation they cannot divulge to oth-

ers not having a clearance and need to

know— trying to avoid direct lying, but

not giving out much information either.

Solandt could denigrate Smith when

nobody was around to defend him. But

when Smith was awarded posthumously

the Canadian Engineering Award (not

awarded every year), the citation noted

"...the Award was made in recognition

of a lifetime of dedicated and distin-

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guished service to the advancement of

technical knowledge in the Canadian

broadcasting industry, the improvement

of its techniques, the protection of its

interests, of an exampleof diligence and

integrity and in consideration of the

universal respect and regard that

Wilbert's efforts had earned throughout

the broadcasting industry, in the gov-

ernment of Canada, and in other areas."I think all of us would greatly appre-

ciate such praise from our professional

colleagues. Yes, Wilbert had many in-

terests, some of which might displease

some people. So what?

Kimball also raised two other points:

Why was Forrestal not replaced on

Majestic 12 until 01 August, 1950, even

though he left office as Secretaryof De-

fense in January of 1949 and died on

M ay 22,1949? Was it MJ-11 for awhile?

Obviously, I am not psychic. How-

ever, let us notice that the EisenhowerBriefing Document (EBD) states that

Forrestal's "death created a vacancy

which remained unfilled until01 August,

1950, upon which date Gen. Walter B.

Smith was designated as permanent re-

placement."

We have no way of knowing whether

he may have been a temporary mem-

ber, and then was made permanent

when Truman named him the new Di-

rector of Central Intelligence. The first

three DCIs were already MJ-12 mem-

bers.Finally, Paul asked why I had not in-

vestigated the crash noted on page 5 of

the EBD on 06 December, 1950, in the

El Indio-Guerrero area of the Texas-

Mexican border.

The reasons are simple: I live a long

way from there and had nothing to work

with, neither names of people nor a

specific location. The EBD says "what

remained of the objecthad been almost

totally incinerated. Such material as

could be recovered was transported to

the A.E.G. facility at Sandia, NewMexico."

I have been to Sandia. The chance

of getting any information from this

high security nuclear weapons labwould

be nil.

Furthermore, I was well aware that

some investigation was being done by

two Texans, Dennis Stacey and Tom

Deuley, of MUFON.

' They had some leads which didn't

pan out. I do know that there had been


a National Red alert called on that date

because of something flying towards the

Southwest as noted by Dr. Bruce

Maccabee in his book about The FBI

and UFOs.

I had my hands and budget ful l with

my Roswell Investigation, where there

was a lot to work with.

In short then, I can find no reason in

the face of these challenges to changemy mind about MJ-12, the documents

or the group. Real as described!

Stan Friedman, [email protected]

www.stantonfriedman.com.

Louisiana case...(Continued from Page 16)

pleted the form as requested with rough

drawings, and asked the major whatwas

his opinion on the sighting.

Without answering, he excused him

self and came back with a clipped, undated newspaper article from the Time

Picayune newspaper. Basically the article

said that an aircraft had gone down in

the vicinity of my sighting.

Of course I told him that this ball o

light rose from the marsh and ascended

above us and didn't go down. He of

fered no explanation or opinion.

Feeling that my intelligence had been

insulted, I left his office more perplexed

than ever, and decided to check out hisstory. My first contact was with Navy

Chief MauriceGerhardt (now deceased

stationed at Alvin Calendar Field inPlaquemines Parish.

Chief Gerhardt was a meteorologis

at the base and a neighbor of mine.

asked if an aircraft had gone down in

the marsh on the day of my sighting

and whether any weather balloons were

launched within my sighting time frame

After a day or two he got back with

me and reported negative on both ques

tions.Subsequently, I went to the Jefferson

Parish Library and went through every

issue of the previous week's newspapers, searching for the article the majo

had shown me. There was no such ar

ticle.Obviously, someone was trying to

discredit my sighting bydisinformation

I stand by every word I've reported, and

have no reason to fabricate such a story

I believe if the major followed pro

tocol, that signed form I completed in

1959 might still be found, perhap

somewhere in the National Archives.

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Director's Message(Continued from Page 2)

They were credited with producing a

weekly documentaryTV program called

"UFO Reality," which received huge

public interest. She is one of the three

founders of the International UFO

Museum in 2002 in Istanbul.She will make it clear that UFOs are

as important and interesting in Turkey

as they are in the United States or any-

where else.

New contest being planned

MUFON isconsidering sponsorship

of a "Best UFO Evidence Paper" con-

test. The idea is to stimulate a series of

technical papers documenting what the

authors believe is their best evidence.

The papers must be based on actual

people, places, events, and evidence.W e won't be looking for stories, theo-

ries, or opinions for this contest. The

papers m u s t be strictly evidence-based.

Prizes, rules, restrictions, etc. will be

defined in the near future . I hope man yof youwill consider this opportunity to

participate in exposing your evidence to

a potentially large audience. .

Position Announcements

Mark Easter of Sun Valley, NV, has

accepted the position of State Director

for Nevada. Mark replaces Alan &Sandy Gudiatis, who retired af te rmany years of active service for

MUFON in Nevada. Please visit Mark

ori the Nevada website at

www.nevadamufon.org.

Kim Shaffer, State Director for

Eastern Tennessee, has appointed

Reannza Ward of Elizabethton, TN,to the position of State Section Direc-

tor for the counties of Carter and

Johnson.

James Bouck, State Director for

New York, has appointed Dr. Philip

Hasely of Niagara Falls, NY, to the

position of State Section Director for

Niagara and Erie counties. We are

pleased that Jim is recovering nicely

from a recent heart operation.

William Weeks, State Director for

Alabama, has appointed Roy

Patterson, Jr. of Pell City, AL, to the

position of Assistant State Director.William Olinger, State Director for

Wisconsin, has appointed Victoria

Jahnke of Appleton, WI, to the posi-

tion of Assistant State Director for

northeastern Wisconsin.

Brian White of Little Rock, AR, has

accepted the position of Research Spe-

cialist in Molecular Biology. He is also

a translator of the Mandarin language.

New Field Investigators

Kathleen Marden, Director of

Field Investigator Training, has an-

nounced that joe G. Branneri of

Huffman, TX; Lee Dines of the

United Kingdom; Rev. Bill McCowan

of Springville, AL; Lonnie T. Moore

of Mt. Ulla, NC; Yen Chin Ong of

Singapore; Roy Patterson of Pell City,AL; and William Weeks of Hueytown,

AL, have passed the MUFON Field

Investigator's Exam and are nowMUFON Field Investigators.

All Field Investigator Trainees are

urged to self-study the MUFON Field

Investigator's M an u a l an d take th e exam.

State Directors and State Chief Inves-

tigators are good resources for help.The manual is available from

MUFON Headquarters for $25.00 plus$3.50 p&h in the US. Total price for

delivery outside of the U.S. is $32.50.

It mayalso bepurchased via the Internetat www.mufon.com 'using PayPal.

New media by MUFON members

William Jones, State Director for

Ohio, published a booklet entitled

UFOs, Serious Business? Absolutely! for useby MUFON of Ohio investigators andpromoters as a resource that they can

leave with selected people when they go

out into the field to investigate reported

UFO events, and to promote the orga-nization and the s u b j e c t of UFOs

among the movers and shakers of the

general public.

A lot of the material in the booklet

was provided by Francis Ridge of the

National Investigations Committee on

Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), and may

be found on the excellent NICAPwebsite. Bill says the book is not for

sale.

Director David Sereda is working

on a'DVD featuring MUFON Holly-

wood Consultant Dan Aykroyd en-

tided Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs.

David just notified MUFON Headquar-

ters the segments featuring Kenneth

Storch of Colorado MUFON, the late

Astronaut Gordon Cooper, and John

Schuessler have been added to the

DVD. We are looking forward to the

DVD release this summer.

Mark Easter, State Director forNevada, has been nominated to receive

an award at the 38th

Annual

WORLDFEST-Houston International

Independent Film & Video Festival,

April 22 through May 1, in Houston,TX.

WORLDFEST is one of the oldest

film festivals in the world, founded in

1961 as a film society. Now in 2005,

WORLDFEST has nominated Mark

Easter and his film "Roswell: The Na-

ked Truth Revealed" for "Best Docu-

mentary."

Little Green Men Festival

planned at Kelly, KY

On Aug. 19-21, 2005, the CVB of

Hopkinsville-Christian County,KY, will

host the Kelly Little Green Men Festi-

val to commemorate the 50 thanniver-

sary of the incident of Aug. 21-22,1955

at a fa rm located between Kelly and

Hopkinsville. [The entities were notgreen.]

The three-day festival will include a

parade, costume parties for adults andchildren, an astronomy update, a sym-

posium with UFO experts and others

who were either witness to or somehow

close to the event, and many other ex-

citing offerings.

Details are to be announced later.

CALENDAR

July 22-24-36th annual MUFONUFO Symposium, Marriott Tech Cen-

ter Hotel, Denver, CO, featuring Phyllis

Budinger, Richard Dolan, Elaine.

Douglass, Stanton Friedman, Paola

Harris, Alan C. Holt, Esen Sekerkarar,

Dr. Roger Leir, Dr. Edgar Mitchell,

Scott Ramsey, Dr. R. Leo Sprinkle, Dr.Claude Swanson, and Tracie Austin-Pe-

ters (MC). 303-932-7709,

www.mufon.com.

Aug. 19-21-Little Green Men Festi-

val, 50th anniversary celebration, Kelly,

KY. Details to be announced. .

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TheNghBy Gavin A. J. McLeod

June 2005

Moon PhasesNew M oon June 6First Qu arter Ju ne 15Full Moon Jun e 22Last Quarter Ju ne 28

Bright Planets (Evening Sky)Mercury: Moving f rom Taurus

through Gemini to Cancer. M ercu ry willemerge in the west-northwest eveningtwilight sky in the second half of themonth for both northern hemisphereand southern hemisphere observers.

Venus: Moving from Aries to Tau-rus. For northern hemisphere observ-ers Venus w ill improve in visibility thismonth, but by month's end will still bee m b e d d e d i n t h e w e s t - n o r t h w e s tevening twilight and will set about 1.5hours after th e Sun.

For southern hemisphere observersVenus will set nearly 2 hours after theSun.

Jupiter: In Virgo. Fo r northern hemi-'sphere observers Ju piter will stand abou t25 degrees high in the w est-southw estat the end of evening twilight and will

set in the west near 1 AM.Southern hem isphere observers will

find Jupiter more than 60 degrees highin the north-northeast at the end ofevening twilight and will set in the westnear 1 AM.

Saturn: Moving from Gemini toCancer. For northern hemisphere ob-servers Saturn will be visible low in thew est-north-west du ring evening twilightearly in the month, bu t will become lostin the glare of the Sun by the end of themonth.

For southern hemisphere observersSaturn will be about 10 degrees high inth e w e s t - n o r t h w e s t at the end ofevening twilight at midmonth.

Bright Planets (Morning Sky)Mars: Moving from Aquarius to Pi-

sces. Fo r northern hemisphere observ-ers Mars will improv e in visibility slightlythis month as it rises about 3.5 hoursbefore the Sun in the east, and will be

Conjunction of Mercury Venus an d Saturn

east at the beginning of morning twi-light.

Fo r southern hemisphere observersMars will rise soon after midnight in theeast and will stand abou t 60 degrees highin the north-northeast after the begin-ning of morning twilight.

Other Celestial Phenomena

June 21 (a Monday) wil l mark theSummer Solstice.

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