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UFO Roundup: Volume 1 Number 2: February 26, 1996

Editor: Joseph Trainor NEW INFORMATION IN THE 1948 MANTELL CASE Last week’s “Sightings” had an interview with former Army sergeant Quinton A. Blackwell, who was in the tower at Godman Field, Fort Knox, Kentucky the afternoon of January 7, 1948, when Captain Thomas F. Mantell had his fatal encounter with a UFO. During his meeting with Capt. Mantell’s two sons and sister, Blackwell made a startling statement. He said that once Capt. Mantell had the large metallic saucer in sight, the pilot remarked, “We’re going to need hot guns.” “Hot guns” is Air Force slang for aircraft weaponry loaded with live ammunition. The five F-51 Mustang fighter planes were on a routine ferry flight from Georgia to Godman Field that day and were not […] Read More

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UFO Roundup: Volume 1 Number 3: March 4, 1996

Editor: Joseph Trainor Hi, folks! There’s plenty of UFO news this week, so let’s go to press. UFO CONFRONTS POLICE IN RENO At 5:45 p.m. on February 12, 1996, a black or dark gray spheroid UFO flew west out of the desert and passed over Sparks, Nevada. The UFO was described as about 60 feet in diameter with a bright white light in the bottom hemisphere. The beam from the light, however, was not bright enough to reach the ground. Crossing into the city of Reno, the UFO flew over Paradise Park and headed west along Oddie Boulevard until it reached the Livestock Events Center, just north of Interstate 80 and a mile or so north of downtown Reno and city hall. A Reno […] Read More

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UFO Roundup: Volume 1 Number 4: March 11, 1996

Editor: Joseph Trainor Not for nothing is this called “the paper that goes home.” There’s a lot of UFO news out there this week, and we’re bringing it right into your living room. UFOs RENDEZVOUS IN DALLAS SUBURB At about 9:15 p.m. on Sunday, March 3, 1996, two teenaged boys in Cedar Hill, Texas looked out an upstairs window and saw a triangular UFO hovering above the prairie a mile away. Cedar Hill is a suburb of Dallas, located southwest of the city, just south of Duncanville. The UFO was seen northwest of Cedar Hill, well beyond the intersection of Love Freeway (Highway 67) and Belt Line Road (Highway 1382). Just beyond the site lies a man-made reservoir called Joe Pool Lake. According to […] Read More

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UFO Roundup: Volume 1 Number 5: March 18, 1996

Editor: Joseph Trainor Greetings, gang! You’d better put on some asbestos gloves before touching the keyboard. This week’s news is sizzling hot! MORE UFOs SIGHTED IN CANADA’S NORTHWEST TERRITORIES A major UFO flap has erupted around the Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Between March 3 and March 17, residents of Hay River, a town of 3,268 people on the south shore of the frozen lake, have been seeing UFOs every night. The objects are described as bright lights colored red, white, yellow and blue or as “two wash basins, one inverted on top of another, colored gray, with a blinking red or blue light.” When they appear, the UFOs are seen about one to one-and-a-half miles out on the lake. […] Read More

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UFO Roundup: Volume 1 Number 6: March 25, 1996

Editor: Joseph Trainor The UFO flap in Canada is really heating up. Here’s the latest on the UFO sightings north of the border… UFO SEEN NEAR CANADIAN FORCES BASE Tuesday evening, March 19, 1996, a dazzling “star-shaped” or “diamond-shaped” UFO crossed the Ottawa River into Quebec and startled nine workmen at a brickmaking plant. The sighting took place in Waltham Station, Quebec, a small town on Highway 148 just across the river from Pembroke, Ontario. According to the Pembroke Observer, the UFO was spotted by Hector Brochu and eight other workmen at the Waltham Dry Kilns Co. just west of town. Mr. Brochu described the UFO as “a smooth star-shaped object about 45 centimeters in diameter.” Other workmen described the object as “diamond-shaped” with […] Read More

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UFO Roundup: Volume 1 Number 7: April 1, 1996

Editor: Joseph Trainor Yeah, I know this was supposed to go out last night. Unfortunately, my carrier wouldn’t let me onto AOL. No April Fool in this issue, gang. Just the straight skinny on last week’s UFOs. Enjoy. FREAKY FIREBALL STARTLES CALIFORNIANS At 10:40 p.m. Pacific time, on March 16, 1996, a father and daughter were standing on a hilltop near Midpines, California, 60 miles north of Fresno. They were using a pair of binoculars to scan the sky for Comet Hyakutake. All at once, they spotted a bizarre fireball passing south of Pinoche Peak. The object, which they first took for a meteor, blazed across the sky, now and then flaring brightly. Then, according to the father, “the sucker dived and flew directly […] Read More

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UFO ROUNDUP: VOLUME 1 NUMBER 9: April 14, 1996

Editor: Joseph Trainor UFO SURPRISES AMATEUR ASTRONOMER On Wednesday, April 10, 1996, at 8:30 p.m. Central time, a mother and daughter out stargazing near Huntsville, Alabama spotted a UFO making its approach. The sky was clear, and the temperature a comfortable 50 degrees Fahrenheit, as the Huntsville woman and her six-year-old daughter arrived at their observation sight. Looking into the sky directly overhead, they spied “a fuzzy white light…like the Comet Hyakutake” descending in an arc toward the horizon and moving very rapidly. The UFO halted its plunge just above the treeline, and the woman kept it in view for 15 minutes with her telescope. At first she thought it was a meteor, but the UFO “did not decrease in its intensity” and was […] Read More

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UFO ROUNDUP: VOLUME 1 NUMBER 10: April 21, 1996

Editor: Joseph Trainor GREEN FIREBALL SIGHTED IN SOUTH CAROLINA Last night, Saturday, April 20, 1996, at around 10 p.m., a UFO described as a “green fireball” rocketed over the town of North Augusta, S.C. The object was moving at a high speed and travelling at a very high altitude. The eyewitness was a South Carolina teenaged boy. He added that, immediately after the flyover, about seven jet interceptors travelled over the town, heading in the same direction as the UFO. Note: North Augusta, a community of 34,000, is situated three miles north of the Savannah River, which forms the South Carolina state line. Eight miles southwest of the town, in Georgia, is Fort Gordon, a U.S. Army base. BRAZILIAN MOTORIST MAY HAVE BEEN ABDUCTED […] Read More

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UFO ROUNDUP: VOLUME 1 NUMBER 11: April 28, 1996

Editor: Joseph Trainor We’ve got some late-breaking news from the California desert this week, so let’s go to press… UFO STARTLES SEVEN PEOPLE ON BACKYARD PATIO Friday evening, April 26, 1996, at 9:17 p.m. PDT, seven people were relaxing on a back patio in Victorville, California, in the desert not far from Edwards Air Force Base, when they spotted what they thought was a meteor hurtling into Earth’s atmosphere. According to the homeowner, a certified pilot instructor, the event was witnessed by his wife, himself and five other guests. He said, “I noticed what looked like a shooting star except brighter and without a tail streak.” The UFO was speeding “across the southern sky in a northward direction.” He described the UFO as “bright […] Read More

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UFO ROUNDUP: VOLUME 1 NUMBER 12: May 5, 1996

Editor: Joseph Trainor We’ve had a record-breaking week for UFO sightings. Let’s start off with a case that’s still going down. This one’s hot off the phone, readers, and it’s happening (where else!?) in Colorado’s San Luis Valley. WEEK-LONG UFO FLAP ON BLANCA PEAK From Friday night, April 26, to Friday night, May 3, 1996, a solitary UFO appeared over the eastern side of Blanca Peak, a 14,345-foot mountain in Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo range. The object was visible each night between 8:30 and 11:30 p.m. The UFO was first seen April 26 by Mrs. Helen W., who owns a ranch two miles east of the mountain, just off Colorado Highway 160. Mrs. W and her husband, an Air Force officer, described the object […] Read More

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UFO ROUNDUP: VOLUME 1 NUMBER 13: May 12, 1996

Editor: Joseph Trainor SAUCER HOVERS OVER NEW JERSEY TOWN Sunday night, May 5, 1996, at approximately 10:12 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, a party of amateur astronomers set up their telescope on a hillside in Wayne, New Jersey. The group hoped to obtain good views of the planet Venus, then prominent on the western horizon. As the first astronomer peered through the telescope’s eyepiece, he saw “a bright flash near Venus.” She said, “At first I thought it was some sort of meteor exploding in the upper atmosphere.” Another member of the group, who’d set up their telescope on Brandon Avenue near Route 23, said the sky explosion was “a whitish green color.” The first astronomer looked again and saw a gray saucer with “two […] Read More

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UFO ROUNDUP: VOLUME 1 NUMBER 14: May 19, 1996

Editor: Joseph Trainor TRIANGULAR UFO SIGHTED NEAR CARLISLE, PENNSYLVANIA Sunday night, May 12, at 10:30 p.m. Eastern time, a 19-year-old male driver heading east on Route 76, the Pennsylvania Turnpike, spotted a UFO just north of the highway. He said, “I looked up and saw a huge black triangle. It was not moving. It had a bright light at each tip.” At the time of the sighting, the witness was heading home after a visit to his girl friend’s house in Pittsburgh. There were no other cars on the road. The UFO was seen hovering above the Conodoguinet River, about two miles west of Carlisle, near the Army base. At the time he spotted the UFO, the witness was listening to a cassette. He […] Read More

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UFO ROUNDUP: VOLUME 1 NUMBER 15: May 26, 1996

Editor: Joseph Trainor This week we’ve got two UFO landing stories, both from South America, but first let’s see what’s happening in the USA. LARGE, SLOW-MOVING FIREBALL SEEN IN UPSTATE NEW YORK On Saturday, May 25, 1996, at 10:45 p.m., a couple parked on the outskirts of Lyons Falls, New York spotted a “large fireball” in the sky. “It was pretty impressive,” the male witness said. “It took about 25 seconds to cross the sky, moving from east to west. It was kind of a dull yellowish-white.” Lyons Falls is on Route 12, just west of the Adirondack Mountains, approximately 36 miles northwest of Utica. Note: Conventional meteors are visible for only 5 to 10 seconds. The Lyons Falls “fireball” was visible for twice […] Read More

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UFO ROUNDUP: VOLUME 1 NUMBER 16: June 2, 1996

BRAZILIAN MAGAZINE BLOWS WHISTLE ON ALIEN RETRIEVAL The June 1996 issue of ISTOE, a Brazilian magazine, blew the lid off the hottest UFO story this year. According to ISTOE, Brazil’s Policia Militar captured two live aliens on January 20, 1996 in Varginha, a city in the southern part of Minas Gerais state. A dead alien was also retrieved. The incident began at about 1:30 a.m. on Saturday, January 20, 1996, when an elderly farm couple, Eurico and Oralina Augusta Rodrigues, were awakened by a commotion in the barnyard. The Rodrigueses manage a farm in the coffee-growing country just south of Varginha. Looking out the bedroom window, they saw their cows “totally disoriented and running around the house.” Eurico Rodrigues said, “We looked at the […] Read More