Think Aboutit – UFOs

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

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 […] 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 […] Read More

DAYLIGHT DISC FILMED IN NEW BRAUNFELS, TEXAS On Thursday morning, September 12, 1996, Bert Linartz and his wife were at home in New Braunfels, Texas (population 23,000) when they saw a light in the sky “as bright as a star.” At first, Mr. Linartz “thought it was a hot-air balloon.” As it approached, however, he described it as “a white-colored light that appeared saucer-shaped. Not the thin, long saucer […] Read More

The UFO situation in the southern hemisphere is REALLY heating up. During the past two weeks, while your editor was on vacation, UFOs hovered over two capital cities of the southern hemisphere. We’ll be getting to that in a minute. First, however, a word of explanation for those readers who wrote in and asked about attribution. Wherever possible, UFO ROUNDUP lists the name and the date of the newspaper […] Read More

On Saturday, August 10, 1996, we had a UFO “doubleheader” in the southern hemisphere. Read on… LARGE SAUCER APPEARS OVER GUARABIRA The Brazilian “Sertao” or Northeast is again the site of a UFO flap. During the early afternoon of Saturday, August 10, 1996, a large metallic saucer, about 50 meters (165 feet) in diameter, startled two women on the outskirts of Guarabira, a town in the state of Paraiba. […] Read More

UFO GROUP INVESTIGATES QUEBEC ABDUCTION CASE The UFO research group CEIPI of Hull, Quebec, Canada has completed its six-month investigation into the UFO flap in the Ottawa River Valley last winter. On February 6, 1996, at 7:18 p.m., an unidentified boy age 12 spotted a UFO hovering over the city of Buckingham, Quebec. The boy described the object as “a large triangular vessel.” That same night, at 7:30 p.m., […] Read More

UFOs APPEAR ALL OVER OHIO On Saturday night, July 20, 1996, at about 11 p.m., a West Virginia family watching the movie “Independence Day” at a drive-in in Dayton, Ohio saw a strange formation of colored lights shoot across the sky. “I saw approximately 7 or 8 teal-colored lights without any specific shape,” Mr. W. said. “They were flying at approximately 40 degrees above the horizon. Their appearance would […] Read More

UFOs REPORTED ON DAY OF TWA 800 CRASH An unidentified flying object was seen by a couple in Johnston, Rhode Island 45 minutes before the explosion that downed TWA Flight 800. At 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 17, 1996, Richard and Fran Shea of Manville, R.I. was driving north on Interstate Route 295 when they saw the UFO. They reported their sighting in a letter to the editor. (Providence, […] Read More

TWA FLIGHT 800 – THE UFO CONNECTION Several disturbing facts have come to light since the crash Wednesday, July 17, of TWA Flight 800 off the shores of Long Island, New York. According to the Boston, Mass. Herald of July 17, 1995 (page 2), “Some eyewitness accounts, including that of a New York Air National Guard pilot flying nearby, described a bright object moving toward the plane in the […] Read More

Most of us have seen that great new movie “Independence Day.” However, in some cities on Earth, you don’t need to buy a movie ticket. You can stand on a street corner and watch it live! TRIANGULAR UFO LANDS IN AUSTRIA A bulletin issued last week by the Alberta UFO Research Association (AUFORA) reported a UFO landing at Drosendorf, in lower Austria. According to AUFORA, the UFO was seen […] Read More

CUBA DECLASSIFIES REPORTS ON 1995 UFO FLAP Spanish-language listeners were shocked Thursday, July 4, 1996, when a Cuban radio station began broadcasting newly-released information about a UFO landing on the island last October. According to Dr. Virgilio Sanchez Ocejo at the Miami UFO Center, Radio Rebelde in Havana ran a special program in Spanish on the UFO sightings. On October 15, 1995, at 9:30 a.m., a UFO landed in […] Read More

NEW UFO SIGHTING IN VARGINHA On Friday, June 28, 1996, the Varginha case exploded onto Page One of the Wall Street Journal. The story by WSJ staff reporter Matt Moffett (Aliens Land in Brazil in Desperate Need of a Good Shower) provided the latest news on the continuing controversy over the alleged saucer crash and live alien retrieval in Varginha on January 20 – 22. According to Moffatt, “An […] Read More

Things are really heating up south of the equator, readers. VARGINHA CASE BLOWS WIDE OPEN The reported capture of aliens at Varginha, in the state of Minas Gerais, on Saturday, January 20, 1996 continues to make headlines in Brazil. The July 1996 issue of UFO Magazine, published in the capital city of Brasilia, contains more detailed information on the saucer crash and subsequent capture of its alien occupants. According […] Read More