ISRAELI UFO FLAP ENTERS SECOND WEEK

96-08-11
Source: UFO ROUNDUP
For the second week in a row, UFOs have been making late- night overflights over Israel. On Sunday, August 4, the police station in Eilat, Israel's seaport on the Red Sea, received a phone call at 1:30 a.m. The caller reported "a glittering orb of light and flashes of light."

Hundreds of Eilat residents watched the glowing ball of light as it emitted "periodic flashes of alternating colors." A few of the witnesses reported seeing three spheres of light--"one large and two small, which emitted scintillating flashes of light." The residents watched the aerial display until 2 a.m., using binoculars and home telescopes to get a better glimpse of the UFO.

On Thursday, August 1, residents of Moshav Tomar, in the Jordan River Valley, spotted a "round reflective object" at 4 a.m. A photo of the UFO appeared in the Israeli newspaper Maariv later the same morning.

On Monday, July 29, residents of Yad Eliyahu, a suburb of Tel Aviv reported seeing "bright lights in the skies" at 8:30 p.m. The light-spheres proceeded to emit smaller lights colored red, green and blue. According to witnesses, "The colored lights seemed to emerge from the primary lights and continued to fly around independently." The smaller lights were reportedly "the size of ping pong balls.

Israeli police called to the scene reported seeing the large bright light in the sky, which lingered until 4:45 a.m. However, the Zahal (Israeli Defense Forces) said they detected no radar returns from the aerial lights.

(Note: Thanks, and a tip of the saucer, to Mike Lindemann and his CNI News, Volume 21.2, of August 9, 1996 for the updated Israeli UFO sightings.)

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