UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 1, Number 41
Sun, 8 Dec 1996 23:01:22 -0500 (EST)
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UFO ROUNDUP
Volume 1, Number 41 December 8, 1996
Editor: Masinaigan FREE
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 Vandeveres contacted MUFON investigator
Mary Helen Corrado of Newbury Park, California. The following afternoon,
Tuesday, December 3, Ms. Corrado drove to Ventura County, about 50 miles
(80 kilometers) northeast of Los Angeles. At 4 p.m., the Vandeveres and
Ms. Corrado took up position on some high ground near the Los Posas Road
exit off Highway 101.
At approximately 4:55 p.m., they sighted the UFO "in the northern
sky" hovering "over an oak tree at an angle of 45 to 50 degrees in the
sky. With the naked eye, the object appeared to be a pinpoint and just
about the size of a small 'o' on this page. To the casual viewer, it could
easily be mistaken for a star. There was no twinkling effect noted with
the naked eye. It was apparent that the object was slowly moving in a
direction even higher in the sky or closer to the viewing area. The light
was pure white in color."
Taking out her 16X50 binoculars, Ms. Corrado more closely observed
the UFO. She reported, "The object did not have the appearance of a star.
It seemed to be self-illuminating. It had a splendid appearance and was
the size of a 'O' on this page... At about 5:10 p.m., we noticed that the
object appeared to change color...With the binoculars, I could see that
the object took on a ruddy peach-colored hue. I took my eyes away for a
moment, and when I looked again through the binoculars, there was a small
pinpoint object of the same color which appeared to be hiding below and to
the left of the primary object. It was about the size of a small 'o' on
this page." She watched both objects for a while, and then switched back
to the primary object when both could no longer be seen in her field of
view. Then "I watched what appeared to be small round puffs from the top
of the object. It appeared that the object was moving downward away from
the puffs. All at once, I saw another small object the size of a small
'o' separate from the main object on its left side. The two objects were
in close proximity with each other and moved in tandem upward and then
disappeared in what looked like a puff (of smoke) or mist." Ms. Corrado
added that she heard no sound associated with either object. The UFOs
vanished at 5:15 p.m. while at an angle of 70 to 75 degrees above the
horizon.
Ms. Corrado and the Vandeveres returned to the spot at 4:15 p.m. on
Wednesday, December 4, but the UFOs did not return.
Ms. Corrado returned again with a MUFON team and a video camera on
Thursday, December 5. However, intermittent rain and incoming fog
prevented any sightings.
Ms. Corrado's on-site investigation in Camarillo continues. (Email
Interview)
LARGE U-SHAPED UFO FLIES OVER SAN DIEGO
The UFO flap in the San Diego area is still going strong. On Monday
night, December 2, 1996, at approximately 8:40 p.m., a very large UFO
crossed the shoreline at Silver Strand Boulevard, crossed San Diego Bay,
passed over Chula Vista and then downtown San Diego.
According to eyewitness Tom Sanders, "My girlfriend and I were
standing outside my friend's house at approximately 8:40 p.m. We had been
glancing at the sky for a matter of seconds before we saw 6 or 7 dim white
lights in a U- or V-shaped pattern heading southeast from over the
westward Pacific Ocean. As the lights came closer to being overhead, they
tilted (banked) to their right side and began to move more southward. At
the same time, the lights veered over a small plane that was quite high
itself."
"The size of the area of the lights seemed to be at least six or
seven times the size (wingspan) of the plane," he added. "It was traveling
at over at least twice the speed of the plane, heading in the opposite
direction (south). Shortly after it passed the plane, the lights in sync
rolled completely over and back to their original sequence, without
changing direction (Editor: This maneuver is called a "barrel roll.") The
lights became clearer as they got further away and then slowly vanished.
There wasn't any sound at all. But the object was quite a distance away
and above us. This wasn't a small UFO--it was way bigger than two or
three of the planes I have ever seen or heard of put together. The area
of the lights was approximately half the size of the moon from our visual
point of view." (Email Interview) (Editor's Note: Three times the
wingspan of a Boeing 747 would be 510 feet or 155 meters.)
USAF HERCULES WENT DOWN IN A UFO HOT ZONE
At 7:30 p.m. on Friday, November 22, 1996, a U.S. Air Force Reserve
CH-130 Hercules crashed 60 miles (96 kilometers) west of the northern
California coast, killing all but one member of its 11-man crew. The
four-engined turboprop plane of the 304th Rescue Squadron was on a routine
training mission from its base in Portland, Oregon to San Diego,
California.
The Hercules went down shortly after one turboprop engine
mysteriously failed. Then a second engine shut down. Then the plane
suffered a complete electrical failure.
What went unreported in the mainstream media, however, was the
two-year-old UFO flap that has taken place in that area. According to
reporter Vanessa Blackburn, "During the last year and a half, Humboldt and
Del Norte County residents have reported multiple UFO sightings..., and
some of those reports are from more than 50 people at one time...local UFO
sightings have been reported in an area stretching from Garberville to
Fort Dick, north of Crescent City." That is, just east of the ocean area
where the CH-130 went down. (See the Eureka, California Times-Standard
for July 21, 1996, pages 10 and 11.)
Ms. Blackburn's list of Crescent City area sightings includes:
February 12, 1995 - A McKinleyville man sees two delta- shaped
"aircraft" with lights blinking in sequence within 400 yards (365 meters)
of him.
August 15, 1995 - A Crescent City woman and her daughter walking from
the garage to their house saw a bright streak pass overhead.
August 25, 1995 - About sixty eyewitnesses, including a sheriff's
deputy, saw "several peculiar objects to the west maneuvering over the
water off the coast of Crescent City."
September 19, 1995 - A U.S. Navy chief petty officer reported seeing
"a red orb under Jupiter" that moved right, then left, then zipped off at
a very fast rate.
October 2, 1995 - A Garberville man saw a bright object moving faster
than a satellite from north to south. He watched it for two or three
minutes. Then, with a bright flash, it vanished.
October 13, 1995 - A Crescent City woman went outdoors to get her
newspaper and saw "white lights that turned red and began to zigzag."
October 17, 1995 - A Crescent City man saw "a strange white
oval-shaped light being pursued by two fast aircraft." The planes were
very high and fast, but the UFO easily outdistanced them.
February 9, 1996 - A Eureka woman and her neighbor saw "a bizarre
formation of up to 10 objects overhead with white flashing lights."
July 19, 1996 - The Times-Standard reported that a young boy from
Eureka had seen "a round white object during the day shoot through the
sky, turn and then disappear. It left no trail, was large and moved
faster than an airplane." (Thanks to Lucius Farish of UFO NEWSCLIPPING
SERVICE for the reprint of the Times-Standard articles.)
SAUCER LANDS IN FIELD NEAR BETHEL, OHIO
On Monday, December 2, 1996, a hunter we'll call Bill Hampstead
telephoned the Mike McConnell Show on radio station WLW, 700 on the AM
dial, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Mike's popular talk show airs from 10 a.m. to
2 p.am. weekdays.
Bill Hampstead had an unusual tale to tell. The previous day,
Sunday, December 1, 1996, he and a friend had decided to go hunting. They
drove out to Bethel (population 2,231), a town in Hamilton County about 30
miles (48 kilometers) east of Cincinnati, with their hunting dogs. They
parked on Leonard Road, six miles (8 kilometers) south of Bethel. A set
of high- voltage electrical lines runs parallel to Leonard Road.
Hampstead and his hunting buddy turned their two dogs loose and
followed them into a harvested cornfield. As they approached the power
lines, he recalled, "The dogs got deathly quiet. That's uncommon for
coondogs, which always bark when they're on the trail of something, and
they increase the frequency of their barking when they corner or tree
their prey." But this time the dogs made no sound.
As Hampstead stepped into a clearing near the power lines, his mouth
fell open in shock. Sitting on the ground was a silvery saucer with a
transparent cupola. Standing nearby were three occupants, all dressed in
some kind of coverall uniform.
He described two of the occupants as "typical, run-of-the-mill
Grays," short with slanted black eyes. "The third being was slightly
larger and had a much bigger head." As the hunters and their dogs watched
in mute astonishment, the three aliens made a break for it. They ran to
the saucer, disappeared through an open hatch, and then the object "rose
into the air straight up and disappeared." (Thanks to John R. Lewis Jr.
for this story.) (Editor's Note: This is Bethel's second UFO incident
this year. Also, the town is 15 miles (24 kilometers) south of Owensville,
the center of southern Ohio's ongoing flap.)
FAST FLYBY IN CHICAGO SUBURBS
At 6:27 p.m., on Friday, December 6, 1996, a man in Highland, Indiana
(population 25,935) spotted a disc-shaped UFO speeding through the
overcast sky. "While looking out my northeast kitchen window," he saw "an
object slightly larger than Venus heading due east, moving erratically.
It speeded up and as it did, it grew smaller, turned golden-orange and
vanished. It was 45 degrees above the horizon and approximately one mile
(1.6 kilometers) away when first spotted."
Highland, Indiana lies about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southeast of
Chicago and 10 miles (16 kilometers) due south of Lake Michigan.
(Unsolicited Email)
LONE UFO PROWLS SKIES OF NORTHERN ONTARIO
At about 2 a.m. on Friday, November 29, 1996, a northbound Canadian
National (CN) freight train encountered a UFO similar to the one seen in
Sudbury, Ontario the previous week. The train had left the railyard in
Barrie, near Toronto, earlier that day, bound for Capreol, a mining town
just north of Sudbury.
The train had a two-man crew consisting of an engineer and a
conductor and moved along the lonely CN track through the boreal forest at
a leisurely 20 to 30 miles per hour. As the train approached Ardbeg
(population 75), which is located 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Lake
Huron's Parry Sound, the two men "saw an orange and green light come down
from the sky."
The men "first saw the light through the right (engineer's) window
(of the locomotive)" and "thought it was going to crash."
The UFO then hovered 600 yards (540 meters) from the CN train at 45
degrees above the treeline. They described the UFO as "being the size of
a street light at 600 yards." Minutes later, the object "flew off to the
west," apparently heading for Lake Huron.
Todd Fraser of MUFON Ontario is investigating this case. (Many thanks
to UFO Updates for this story.) Editor's Comment: Sounds like the Ontario
UFO is hiding by day and traveling by night. Since the big lakes are
still freezing up, it could be hiding out in either Lake Huron's Georgian
Bay or Lake Nipissing, near Sudbury.)
UFO HOVERS OVER RIVERSIDE, NEW JERSEY
On Saturday evening, November 16, 1996, Mrs. Claire Ridgeway and her
17-year-old daughter, Carolyn, were driving west on Highway 537, heading
home from the Mall in Bridgeboro. Suddenly, Claire spotted "an object
with what I thought were only green lights" careen across the night sky.
"I had to blink and rub my eyes to make sure what I had seen wasn't a
shooting star. It went so fast I just knew it wasn't a plane or a
helicopter. Then, as fast as it streaked across the sky, it came to a
dead stop. It didn't slow down at all--it just came to a dead stop.
Again I couldn't believe my eyes. I asked my daughter to keep an eye on
it, not to drop her gaze for even an instant. She sat in the car, fixed
and mesmerized, fascinated and in awe of what we were a witness to."
Arriving home, Claire told her husband, and then the three of them
grabbed a telescope and drove around the block, looking for a spot with an
unobstructed view of the object. They then stopped at the house of "Rita
and my Uncle Jake" to use their bigger telescope, only to learn that "my
uncle had taken it up to his house in the mountains for some sky-watching,
and it has been there ever since." So the Ridgeways set up their small
telescope in Uncle Jake's yard. "My mother was curious enough to look
through the little telescope, and much to her dismay, she saw it, too,"
Claire reported. "Rotating lights and all."
Driving their van to the end of the block, Claire and her family set
up the telescope again in Spring Garden Park.
"That's when we noticed all the neighbors peering at us through their
windows," she added. "Naturally, many came out to see what in God's name
we were watching through the telescope."
Soon they were joined by five people. "They too, shocked and
surprised, saw a hovering object far away, even through the telescope,
with the continuous green, blue and red lights around the perimeter. Soon
a policeman whom we had known for 25 years and who wishes to remain
anonymous, was making his usual route around town when he spotted us. He
pulled up and he was able to confirm what nine people had seen. As we
stood there watching the object, it appeared to be moving away from us,
distance-wise--in other words, it seemed to be as far away as one of the
stars."
Daughter Carolyn, who had the object in view during the drive home,
described the UFO as "shaped like a boomerang, with a sharp nose." (Email
Interview)
Riverside (population 8,591) is on the east bank of the Delaware
River about 15 miles (24 kilometers) north of Camden, New Jersey and
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Editor's Note: At 10:30 p.m. that same
night, a woman in Woodstown, New Jersey, located 36 miles (57 kilometers)
south of Riverside, saw an "egg-shaped UFO.")
CALLS FLOOD NATIONAL UFO REPORTING CENTER
The National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle received numerous
reports of saucer activity the night of November 16, 1996. A summary of
these cases appears below.
Alma, Georgia - A jetliner flying at 41,000 feet spotted "two objects
embedded in a large blue-green cloud or light" streak past at an extremely
high altitude.
Orlando, Florida - Another jetliner reported seeing the two UFOs
heading south and enveloped in a "green mist."
Frostberg, Maryland - A large dark triangular UFO with blinking
lights was seen by several residents.
Reading, Pennsylvania - A "large orange glow" was seen streaking
across the sky.
Fassett, Pennsylvania (just south of Elmira, New York) - A jetliner
sighted spherical objects "with orange lights" flying from west to east at
an extremely high altitude.
Longview, New York - Two "intensely blue flashes of light lit up huge
areas of the sky." They were much too bright to be early-arriving Leonid
meteors.
Grandview, Missouri - A dark solid UFO flew over the town, making a
loud rumbling noise. The report first aired on KSHB-TV in Kansas City.
Greenwich, Connecticut - "Orange glow" was seen racing across the
sky. (Thanks to UFO Updates for this story.) (Editor's Note: Grandview,
Missouri is the birthplace of President Harry S. Truman, who may or may
not have been at Roswell in July 1947.)
ANOTHER MYSTERY BOOM IN FRANCE
On Monday, November 25, 1996, at 12:30 p.m., residents of Ales, a
city in southern France approximately 100 kilometers (60 miles) northwest
of Marseilles were shaken by a loud explosion. "Witnesses saw fiery
debris plummet through (from) the sky, while others heard the explosion."
As with the recent incident in Annecy, French Civil Aviation declared an
INCERFA alert, and firemen, local policemen and Gendarmes sealed off the
community. The teams hunted "for four hours without finding anything."
(Many thanks to Perry Petrakis of SOS OVNI in France for this report.)
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