Think Aboutit – UFOs

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

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 […] 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 […] 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 […] 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 […] 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, […] 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 […] 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 […] 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 […] 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 […] 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 […] 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, […] 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 […] Read More