UFO ROUNDUP, VOLUME 1, NUMBER 40
Sun, 1 Dec 1996 20:06:19 -0500
Source: Ndunlks
Volume 1, Number 40 December 1, 1996
Editor: Masinaigan FREE
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 helps explain why the comet is already magnitude 4.5."
On Saturday, November 30, 1996, at 3 p.m. Eastern time,
Dr. Courtney Brown of the Farsight Institute released a color photo
of Comet Hale-Bopp on the Internet. Dr. Brown said the photo was
taken on April 20 at the National Astronomical Observatory in Japan
by H. Fukushima and N. Yamamoto. The two men used a 50-
centimeter reflector telescope mounted with a charged coupling
device (CCD).
The Fukushima/Yamamoto photo shows an anomalous white
object, egg-shaped, much larger than the nearby stars at a three
o'clock position relative to the comet. Readers wanting to view the
photo can find it at http://www.serve.com/Impacto/hb.html
The anomalous object photographed two weeks ago by Chuck
Shramek of Houston, Texas was at a one o'clock position relative
to the comet.
Readers wanting to check out Hale-Bopp themselves with
their own or local college telescopes can find the comet at these
coordinates:
COMET HALE-BOPP Right Ascension Declination
Monday, December 2 18h 5.2m -0.29
Wednesday, December 4 18h 7.2m -0.14
Friday, December 6 18h 9.4m +0.2
UFO FLAP STIRS ALICE SPRINGS, AUSTRALIA
On Monday night, November 25, 1996, outlying residents of
Alice Springs in central Australia reported seeing "strange
orange lights" hovering over the stony ridge south of the city,
about 15 miles (25 kilometers) west of the Stuart Highway.
The following night, Tuesday, November 26, the UFOs
returned. Several flew over the city, heading northeast toward
Mount Blassey (3,990 feet or 1,216 meters high).
On Wednesday night, November 27, Australia's ASC Radio
reported "six orange lights moved very slowly over Alice Springs"
before shooting away to the southeast. UFOs were also reported
in nearby Santa Teresa. Witnesses saw the objects speeding
over the mulga and spinifex-covered plain, heading for the
Simpson Desert.
Alice Springs is located near the center of the Australian
continent, just north of the boundary line between the Northern
Territory and South Australia. Not far away is the sacred
aboriginal site of Uluru, also known as Ayer's Rock.
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GREEN SPHEROID HOVERS OVER DOWNTOWN SEOUL
Promptly at 7:20 a.m. on Friday, November 22, 1996, police
stations in Seoul, the capital of South Korea, were inundated by
phone calls from frantic residents, who reported a UFO hovering
over the city.
The object, described as "a yellowish-green globe with a
golden slit in the lower hemisphere," appeared over downtown
Seoul and floated in a westerly direction for ten minutes,
passing over the Han-gang (river). As it reached the port city
of Inchon, the UFO "flew away at high speed." (See the Pacific
edition of the newspaper Stars and Stripes for November 25,
1996 and the Korea Times for November 23, 1996.)
A cameraman for South Korean cable TV News Channel
YTN videotaped the UFO as it flew over. A YTN spokesman said,
"We may try to bring in foreign experts to hear their opinions
about the frequent sightings of spacecraft from other worlds here
in Korea."
The Yonhap News Agency said the spheroid's "flight pattern
was identical to the UFOs spotted here last year."
On September 7, 1995, seven UFO's, resembling silvery-
white teardrops, flew over Seoul heading north.
The Seoul UFO is on view at the Korea Times Web page
at http://www.korealink.co.kr/times/14_1/kba3.hfm
(Many thanks to Snake Daddy for this story.)
MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION IN THE FRENCH ALPS
On Thursday, November 21, 1996, at 1 p.m., a "very loud
explosion" rocked the city of Annecy and the neighboring
small town of Thones in the Haute Savoie region of France.
The explosion also created "a wild electromagnetic pulse
(EMP) that interfered with the radars at Nice airport for a couple
of seconds."
The French government immediately instituted their
INCERFA emergency procedure. A squadron of French Air
Force Mirage III-Cs were diverted to fly a combat air patrol over
the Alpes-Jura north of Chamonix and east of Annecy. By
3 p.m., over 200 firemen and gendarmes (police). Queries were
sent all over Europe to see if any aircraft were missing.
At 6 p.m., the INCERFA alert was lifted, and the units left
the area. Although residents of Thones and Annecy had reported
seeing "a bright flash" in the sky, which made them think a small
private plane had exploded in mid-air, a government spokesman
said, "Nothing was found. We do not expect such a site to be
located."
Annecy borders the lake of the same name in Haute Savoie,
a mountainous region of eastern France. The lake is located
40 miles (64 kilometers) south of Geneva, Switzerland.
(Many thanks to Thierry Garnier and the Cercle Ufologique de
Haute Normandie in Gaillon, France for this report.)
STRANGE SERIES OF JET ENGINE FAILURES
This week saw an unprecedented series of jet engine
failures in the USA, beginning off California's Cape Mendocino
on Friday night, November 22, 1996.
Earlier that evening, a CH-130 four-engined Hercules
aircraft belonging to the 304th Rescue Squadron, U.S. Air
Force Reserve, took off from Portland, Oregon. The plane was
headed south to San Diego, California on a routine training
mission. The Hercules has a wingspan of 130 feet and four
turboprop engines.
As the plane reached a point west of Cape Mendocino,
which is 200 miles (320 kilometers) north of San Francisco,
"the crew reported one of four propellor engines had shut down,
and they were having trouble with another...After that, the crew
reported complete electrical failure. Radio contact was lost
about 7:30 p.m. and wreckage was found 90 minutes later."
Ten crewmen were killed when the plane plunged into the
frigid, shark-infested waters. The sole survivor was Tech. Sgt.
Robert Vogel, 31, of Albany, Oregon, who remains in fair
condition at the Mad River Community Hospital in Arcata,
California.
"There was some confusion over which direction the plane
was headed because it apparently tried to turn back before
it crashed, the Coast Guard explained." (See The Oregonian
of Portland, Oregon for November 23, 1996.)
On Sunday, November 24, all aircraft of the USAF
Reserve 939th Rescue Wing "were grounded as officials try
to discover why a CH-130 rescue plane lost power and
crashed Friday, killing 10." (See USA Today for November
25, 1996, page 3.)
The same day, in San Francisco, another mysterious
engine failure took place. "A United Airlines flight bound for
Seoul, South Korea lost power in one of its engines moments
after takeoff yesterday (Sunday) and returned to make an
emergency landing. There were no injuries."
"After pilots on (United) Flight 807 reported the problem
in one of the jet's four engines, the plane dumped its fuel and
returned safely to San Francisco International Airport, said
airport duty manager Mike McCarron." None of the 287
people aboard the Boeing 747 were injured. (See the
Norwich, Connecticut Bulletin for November 25, 1996.)
On Saturday, November 23, there were two instances of
jetliner mid-air difficulties..
"TWA Flight 519 from St. Louis to Oklahoma City
diverted to Tulsa (Oklahoma) because of an electrical problem
with the DC-9."
"Continental Airlines Flight 699 to Columbia, S.C. (South
Carolina) returned to Charleston (S.C.) shortly after takeoff
because of engine trouble in the Boeing 737." (See the
newspaper USA Today for November 25, 1996.)
Finally, on Monday, November 25, 1996, Continental
Airlines Flight 1233 left Newark, New Jersey bound for
Cincinnati, Ohio. The jetliner diverted and "landed in
Columbus, Ohio after one of the Boeing 737's engines lost
power." (See USA Today for November 26, 1996.)
(Editor's Comment: Continental Flight 1233 lost its engine
while passing over Geauga County, scene of last week's
UFO sighting. Coincidence?)
FROM THE UFO FILES: THE CROTSENBURG CASE
One of the earliest documented UFO sightings in the
United States took place in northern Missouri way back
in July 1896. Since this is the centennial year, let's take
a look back at this important encounter.
On August 22 and September 6, 1898, a railway
postal clerk named C.N. Crotsenburg wrote two letters to
the editor of the magazine Monthly Weather Review,
describing an incident he couldn't get out of his mind.
Both letters were published in the August 1898 issue of
the Monthly Weather Review on page 358.
"I will relate an experience which befell me in the
summer of 1896," Crotsenburg wrote. "I was then
employed as a railway postal clerk on the line of the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway, between
Davenport, Iowa and Leavenworth, Kansas."
On or about July 8, 1896, the big McQueen 4-6-2
steam locomotive pulled out of the station at Trenton,
Missouri, pulling Crotsenburg's mail car north to
Lineville, Iowa.
"Just before reaching Princeton, in Mercer County
(Missouri), a heavy rain began falling, which necessitated
the closing of the doors on the east side of the mail car.
Soon after leaving that station, at 10:35 p.m., my
companion (Mr. R.C. Corbin) lay down for a short sleep.
The work being very light that night, I sat in a chair,
looking out of the (mail) car door to the west. The
darkness was intense; not a ray of light was visible from
any point, except from the train. When a few miles out
from Princeton, and while traveling almost due north, I
observed a peculiar light low down on the western
horizon. It appeared to be perfectly round and about a
foot (0.33 meters) in diameter, of a dull rose color, or,
possibly, like a piece of live coal."
"When first observed, it appeared to be floating
within a hundred feet (33 meters) of the earth; but soon
rose to a height midway between the horizon and the
zenith. For a time it floated very steadily but soon began
to oscillate up and down, at times even dropping out of
sight behind hills. The wind was quite strong from the
east, but the light traveled in an almost true north
course. Its speed varied, sometimes seeming to outrun
the train considerably, and at others it would fall behind,
but never far enough to be lost from sight. Most of the
time it appeared to be nearly abreast of the train and
apparently from half a mile (0.8 kilometers) to a mile
(1.6 kilometers) distant. Soon after it was observed by
me, my companion (Corbin) rose, and we both watched
it closely until the town of Lineville, Iowa was reached.
There it passed out of sight behind the depot, and we
saw it no more."
In his September 6, 1896 letter, Crotsenburg added,
"We thought of distant electric light but found that none
existed within the range of our vision on that portion of
the (rail) road...I remember that we remarked that if it
had occurred a few nights earlier, we should have felt
certain that it was the light from a balloon sent up from
some Fourth of July celebration, so probably it was
within a week of July 4, 1896."
"It was so very strange that I should have never
mentioned it, not even to my friends, had it not been
corroborated by a reliable witness...The fact that it was
observed by both of us at the same time, and had the
same appearance to his eyes as it had to mine before he
saw it is good evidence that it was a reality and not an
hallucination. He observed it as he was passing the open
door and before I had spoken to him. In fact, the thing
was so unreal that I hesitated to speak of it, fearing that
it was some freak of my imagination, but when he too saw
it the same, I could no longer doubt its existence as a
reality, and we both observed it closely while the train was
running at least 15 miles (24 kilometers). When it
disappeared it was at least a mile from us, as the buildings
of the town (Lineville, Iowa) were plainly visible and it was
some distance farther west than any of them."
(Editor's Note: The Crotsenburg/Corbin sighting predates the
October 10, 1896 "airship" sighting in Oakland, California by
just over three months.)
FUN UFO WEBSITES FOR YOU TO VISIT
Don't miss our parent site, UFO INFO. It's chock-full of
features, essays, reports and commentary, all devoted to
unidentified flying objects. You'll find UFO INFO at
http://www.ftech.net/~ufoinfo/index.htm
The Tri-County UFO Website is now up and running. You
can reach them at http://www.cannet.com/~oliver.
Sky Searchers looks at the abduction phenomenon, using
an evangelical Christian point of view. Their site is located at
http://www.itol.com/~decaob/
The British UFO Research Association (BUFORA) has a
new Website at http://www.burfora.org.uk
Germany's newest UFO site has been put online by Arne
Hoffman. Try http://itzehoe.netsurf.de/~arne.hoffman/
ufo.html
One Website with lots of information is UFO Folklore.
Check them out at http://www.qtm.net/~geibdan/
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