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GREEN FIREBALL SHAKES UP THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST On Tuesday, December 17, 1996, at 6:15 a.m., people living in the Pacific Northwest were startled to see “a glowing green fireball” approaching from the western horizon. An early morning commuter in Maple Valley, Washington, east of Seattle, reported that the unusual fireball “came to within 500 feet” of his car before shooting off in an easterly direction towards Wenatchee. People living in King and Snohomish counties reported seeing the fireball “go down near Richmond Beach” on Puget Sound. The King County Sheriff’s Department told the Seattle Times that they’d received many calls about the fireball from residents of Issaquah (population 5,536) and Bellevue (population 74,000). Bellevue is located across Lake Washington from Seattle, on the eastern […] Read More

SAUDI JETLINER SEES UFO IN TWA 800 CRASH ZONE A Saudi Airlines jetliner encountered “a bright greenish object” while flying at 12,000 feet early Thursday morning, December 12, 1996. The encounter took place over the ocean about ten miles south of East Moriches, Long Island, New York. According to the USA Radio News broadcast on Friday, the Saudi jetliner was coming into John F. Kennedy International Airport at 6 a.m. when the flight crew spotted “a greenish-white object with a long tail.” The object was traveling from east to west, the same bearing as the Boeing 747, but at a higher altitude. According to the CNN report of the incident, the mysterious object was picked up on the Boeing 747’s cockpit radar set. “At […] Read More

This week, California takes center stage. Read on… UFOs STALK NEIGHBORHOOD IN CAMARILLO Beginning on Friday, November 29, 1996, a UFO appeared and hovered over a neighborhood in Camarillo, California (population 37,732). For five consecutive days, the UFO appeared in the same area sometime between 4:30 p.m. and 5:15 p.m. It was seen by one family, whom we’ll call the Vandeveres, and a friend. On Monday, December 2, the Vandeveres contacted MUFON investigator Mary Helen Corrado of Newbury Park, California. The following afternoon, Tuesday, December 3, Ms. Corrado drove to Ventura County, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) northeast of Los Angeles. At 4 p.m., the Vandeveres and Ms. Corrado took up a position on some high ground near the Los Posas Road exit off […] Read More

MORE HALE-BOPP MYSTERIES SURFACE On Friday, November 29, 1996, Sky and Telescope News in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA revealed that the Comet Hale-Bopp was emitting “radio noise.” This report aired later that day on the Art Bell Show. According to S&T News, “in mid-November, radio observatories showed that each second the comet’s nucleus was pumping out 30 tons of water into space and another 6 (tons) of carbon monoxide. That helps explain why the comet is already magnitude 4.5.” On Saturday, November 30, 1996, at 3 p.m. Eastern time, Dr. Courtney Brown of the Farsight Institute released a color photo of Comet Hale-Bopp on the Internet. Dr. Brown said the photo was taken on April 20 at the National Astronomical Observatory in Japan by H. […] Read More

UFO SEEN BY TWO JETLINERS OFF LONG ISLAND Two jetliners outbound from New York’s Kennedy International Airport encountered a UFO at 16,000 feet, not far from where TWA Flight 800 exploded and crashed last July. The encounter took place on Saturday night, November 16, 1996, at approximately 10:10 p.m. Twenty minutes earlier, a Boeing 747 belonging to Pakistan International Airlines took off from JFK Airport, bound for Frankfort, Germany, the first leg of its long flight back to Karachi. Pakistan International Airlines Flight 712 was flown by Capt. Whaid Shah and First Officer Nasir Aziz. As the jumbo jet approached the crash site 10 miles south of East Moriches, Long Island, N.Y., “my co-pilot saw a streak of light coming from the left-hand side […] Read More

ANOMALOUS OBJECT SPOTTED IN DEEP SPACE On Thursday, November 14, 1996, at 6 p.m., Chuck Shramek, an amateur astronomer from Houston, Texas was observing the Comet Hale-Bopp in his backyard telescope when he spied an anomalous object seemingly near the comet. Shramek described the object as “Saturn-shaped, self- luminous” and “four-and-a-half times larger than the Earth.” He immediately photographed that area of space and obtained a clear image of Hale-Bopp with the highly-luminous UFO at a two o’clock position relative to the comet. Shramek’s photo can be seen at the following URL– http://paradise.dpl.net.com/shram/comet.htm. On Friday, November 15, Shramek appeared as a guest on the Art Bell Show and described the strange object he had seen. Art Bell’s broadcast ignited an immediate debate among scientists. […] Read More

This week’s UFO hot spot in Canada, which has not one but two major flaps underway. On Tuesday, November 5, 1996, at 5:30 p.m., several people in Gypsumville, Manitoba spotted “a hexagon-shaped object” flying overhead. The UFO hovered for several minutes 300 feet (95 meters) from the witnesses and then took off in an easterly direction, heading for Lake Winnipeg. Gypsumville (population 65) is a small town in the “Interlake Region” of central Manitoba, located on Highway 513, approximately four miles (6.4 kilometers) east of Route 6. The current flap began at 2 p.m. on Friday, October 25, 1996, when a family living on the north shore of Lake St. Martin, located five miles (7 kilometers) southeast of Gypsumville, “saw an unusual object with […] Read More

UFO SIGHTINGS CONTINUE IN THE OHIO VALLEY On Tuesday evening, October 23, 1996, a man in Sciotodale, Ohio (population 600) stepped out into his backyard at 10:45 p.m. and saw “a bright yellow-orange sphere with a vaporous trail” in the sky. He described the condition of the sky as partly cloudy with a three-quarter moon. “The object was flying below the cloud cover at a very high speed,” he said, “The direction of the object was from east to west.” He had his last glimpse of the UFO as it flew into a patch of clouds. He watched the clouds for another 15 minutes, but the UFO did not re-emerge. “One final note–there was a slight zigzag pattern during its flight.” UFOs were also […] Read More

Many UFO sightings have taken place in the midwestern United States during the past week. But the big flap is in Brazil! CROWD PANICS IN PARAIBA On Wednesday night, October 16, 1996, a gigantic rectangular UFO appeared over the city of Joao Pessoa (population 498,000) in northern Brazil, causing over 300 residents to flee in panic. Joao Pessoa is the capital of Paraiba, a small state in the Sertao (Northeast) on Brazil’s South Atlantic coast. The OVNI (Portuguese acronym for UFO) flew at an estimated altitude of 3,000 meters (11,000 feet). Witnesses described it as an object “as long as a twenty-story building (72 meters or 240 feet).” Late-night diners on the Avenida Rui Carneiro and the Rua Almeida Barretto had a clear view […] Read More

THE GUARDUNHA MYSTERY DEEPENS The story that began with the reported abduction of backpacker Ricardo Machado Oliveira in Portugal nearly a month ago has taken some surprising new twists. During the last week of September, Machado was hiking in the Serra da Guardunha mountain range in eastern Portugal when he decided to visit a cave on Cabeca da Penha mountain. The cave was famous for a “miraculous” incident in the 14th Century. Upon entering the cave, Machado passed out. When he came to, he found himself in an underground UFO hangar, confronted by three distinct species of extraterrestrials. The aliens told him that the Serra da Guardunha was one of their four “observation bases” on Earth. Machado then passed out again and, when he […] Read More

First, let your editor apologize for being late with this issue. Expo, the newsletter computer, was laid up at PC Warehouse for a few days. I was supposed to have it back on Saturday–I got it back on Tuesday. Enough of abject apologies. You people want to read the news. So let’s start with Britain’s big UFO flap. RAF TRACKS TWO UFOs ON RADAR At 3:14 a.m. on Saturday, October 5, 1996, the radar station at the Royal Air Force base, RAF Neatishead, near Wroxham, England picked up a mysterious blip hovering over Wash, a large bay on the coast of Lincolnshire. The British coast guard station at Great Yarmouth also reported radar contact, as did the airbase RAF Kinloss in Scotland. A short […] Read More

Shortly before 9 p.m., on Thursday, October 3, 1996, a mysterious yellowish-green flash lit up the skies from New Mexico to southern California, startling hundreds of onlookers. NORAD in Colorado Springs, Colorado said the object “was most likely a meteor or other natural phenomenon.” Ignacio Tantajos, an employee of Griffith Park in Los Angeles, said, “We thought it was a skyrocket. It lit up and came down, and that was it.” Patricia Dobbins, another eyewitness in Griffith Park, said the mystery object “just blossomed out…something like a flare. It seemed to have little sparkles coming from it.” In Belen, New Mexico (population 5,617), a town on Interstate Highway 25 about 40 miles (64 kilometers) south of Albuquerque, a woman named Christine Church saw a […] Read More

BLUE ALIEN SIGHTED IN PENNSYLVANIA CORNFIELD On Tuesday, September 24, 1996, two children–a girl and a boy, age 9–spotted a weird-looking entity in a cornfield “about a hundred yards” from their school in the mountains of western Pennsylvania. According to Mrs. Beverly C., the girl’s grandmother, the kids saw the creature at 1 p.m. The alien was moving through a clearing in the cornfield near their elementary school, located north of Georgeville, Marchand, and Smithport in Indiana County, 75 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. The creature “was striding across the clearing, moving its arms back and forth as a soldier marching would,” Mrs. C. said. Her granddaughter described the creature as “four feet tall, and his arms were long on his body” and had “three […] Read More

Our newsletter hits “the Big Three-Oh” this week with big news from the Middle East and South America. ISRAELI MAN SHANGHAIED INTO SPACE Monday evening, September 16, 1996, Uri Sakhov, 62, of Nazareth left his apartment house to mail a letter at the local post office. Suddenly, he heard a whizzing sound and felt hands grabbing his hair and shoulders. Instantly he was pulled into what he described as “an egg-shaped UFO.” Soon Uri found himself in “a crystal chamber” surrounded by small aliens. He described the occupants as “50 to 100 centimeters ( 2 to 3 feet) tall” with “heads like light bulbs and skinny limbs” who “made unintelligible noises.” Leading the smaller occupants was a green-colored alien in flowing robes, “nearly as […] Read More