Searching for the TRUTH on UFOs
In October of 1988, I had an experience with some creatures I called “blue robots.” They were living, sentient beings, wearing blue overalls even, but their movements were robotic in nature, and I was under the impression they were acting under orders, doing what they had been told by someone else. I went along with what they wished, knowing what was expected of me without the use of speech. […] Read More
ARIZONA REPORTS KEEP POURING IN Researchers have been flooded with reports in the wake of last week’s big UFO flap in Arizona. People claiming to have seen glowing orange spheres and triangular UFOs over Phoenix, Tempe, Prescott, Glendale and Tucson the evening of March 13, 1997 number in the thousands. On Monday, March 17, 1997, Channel 10 in Phoenix aired a videotape of a large cylindrical UFO with 8 […] Read More
MAJOR UFO FLAP GRIPS PHOENIX, ARIZONA On Tuesday, March 10, 1997, at 9:15 p.m., Steve Blandings and his wife were at their home in Ahwatukee, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix near Sky Harbor Airport, about 3 miles (5 kilometers) west of Interstate Highway 10 and just south of Chandler Boulevard. The southward-facing balcony offers a panoramic view of the South Mountains and the Gila River Indian Reservation. “I noticed […] Read More
MAJOR UFO FLAP GOING ON IN NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND Since January 22, 1997, a major UFO flap has been going on in the three New England states of New Hampshire (N.H.), Vermont (Vt.) and Maine (Me.), with 17 sightings and one encounter reported. On January 23, Beverly Higgins was driving home from work. “It was ten to seven,” she recalled, “I was on Route 3 coming home from Littleton […] Read More
DAYLIGHT DISC SEEN IN NORTHERN MINNESOTA A silver-gray saucer was seen in broad daylight in Hermantown, Minnesota at 1:40 p.m. on Monday, February 24, 1997. The UFO appeared over Minnesota Highway 53 in Hermantown, just west of the Lakes 8 Cinema and Wal-Mart. Hermantown (population 6759) is a suburb of the port city of Duluth, located at the western end of Lake Superior. The UFO was witnessed by over […] Read More
UFOs HAUNT NIGHT SKIES ALL OVER AUSTRALIA For the past two weeks, Australia has been repeatedly visited by UFOs. Over 50 encounters have been reported since February 1, including two landings in the suburbs of Melbourne. The flap began Saturday, February 1, 1997, with an incident in Tasmania, the island off Australia’s southern coast. A Glengarry family reported finding traces of a weird “bright yellow jelly slime” in their […] Read More
UFOs SIGHTED ALL OVER THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST The states of Oregon and Washington were hit by a major UFO flap last weekend. In Inglewood, Washington (population 4,000), a suburb of Seattle, Jim Waylons was returning to his apartment house around 10:30 p.m. when he spotted “a bright yellow light” hovering over the neighborhood. The unknown object reportedly “hovered over the town for at least 45 minutes,” and its presence […] Read More
FIVE UFOs OVER GULF COAST On Wednesday, February 5, 1997, at 11:30 p.m., motorists driving north on Texas Highway 36 from Brazoria (population 3,025) spotted a formation of five circular red lights in the sky. One of the motorists was the husband of Nancy Marcum, South Texas regional director of Skywatch, International. Mrs. Marcum has provided a detailed summary of her husband’s sighting. “He said from this distance they […] Read More
TELSTAR 401 DISAPPEARS IN FLIGHT An AT&T television relay satellite has disappeared from its geostationary orbit, and nobody knows quite what happened to it. Telstar 401, a $200 million satellite built by Lockheed Martin, was launched in December 1993 and placed in orbit over the Earth at longitude 97 degrees West. The spacecraft functioned perfectly well for three years and then disaster struck. On January 6, 1997, the sun […] Read More
UFO FLAP SWEEPS MEDITERRANEAN The recent “green fireball” sighting over Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci Airport was just the kickoff for a UFO flap that has swept Italy, Sardinia, and Corsica during the past two weeks. Eight major sightings are now being investigated by the Centro Italiano di Studi Ufologici (CISU), according to their newsletter, the CISU Flash for January 25, 1997. On December 11, 1996, at about 8 a.m., […] Read More
AIRPLANE VANISHES OVER LONG ISLAND SOUND People in Westbrook, Connecticut were amazed Wednesday morning, January 15, 1997, when they heard that a single-engine plane dive toward the waters of Long Island Sound…and then vanish. According to the newspaper The Day, “the Coast Guard, state Department of Environmental Protection, two rescue helicopters, fire departments from Westbrook, Old Saybrook, Madison and Clinton, and some marine patrols and private boats searched 100 […] Read More
GREEN FIREBALL SEEN IN CENTRAL ITALY At about 6:15 p.m. on Monday, January 6, 1997, a dazzling green fireball crossed Italy’s Adriatic coast north of Foggia, heading west. The glowing object crossed the Apennine Mountains, passing north of Campobasso and Isernia, and flew over Rome at approximately 6:22 p.m. The fireball lit up the sky. Thousands saw it, including the air traffic controllers at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci International […] Read More
Editor: Joseph Trainor New year, new volume, new layout, new editor. It looks like some changes here at UFO ROUNDUP. Actually, it’s the same editor, using his birth name instead of a screen name. Readers, let us know how you like our new look. One thing hasn’t changed, though, and that’s the number of UFO sightings. We have a bumper crop to kick off the new year, so read […] Read More
REPUTED ALIEN CAPTURED IN NORTHERN ISRAEL On Saturday night, December 21, 1996, residents of Ahyud, a village just outside the city of Akko in northern Israel called the police to report “luminescent blue disks” flying over their farms. At 11 p.m., Mrs. Zyona Damti, 34, looked out a window and saw “an alien” standing in front of her father-in-law’s barn. She described the entity as 20 centimeters tall and […] Read More