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Contents of the two most recent editions of CNI News:
Vol. 3, No. 20, December 20, 1997
Latest Edition: Vol. 3, No. 21, January 4, 1998
- BRAZIL UFO FORUM HIGHLIGHTS GLOBAL UFO SITUATION
Organizers Ask Brazilian Government To Open Files- SNAPSHOTS FROM BRAZIL... UFO STORIES IN BRIEF
- "MOTHER SHIP" VIEWED AT CLOSE RANGE BY PILOT
Sensational Daylight Encounter Between Plane and UFO- AMERICAN COMPUTER'S SHULMAN UPS ANTE AGAIN
Says His "Transcap" May Be of Alien Origin; Announces
Discovery of Ultra-Secret Government/ET Project- NASA PLEDGES CYDONIA IMAGES "AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY"
Breakthrough Announced: High Resolution Photos Assured- MORE PLANETS REPORTED AROUND FOUR NEARBY STARS
Makes "Existence of Intelligent Life More Probable"- TOP MEXICAN NEWSMAN DETAILS AUG 6 UFO VIDEO SAGA
Shooter Might Fear Identification Due to Illegal Status- GIANT METEORS IN COLOMBIA, GREENLAND, U.S. MIDWEST
Blamed For Deaths in Colombia; Huge Flash In Greenland- CLOSEST LOOK AT EUROPA; NEW EVIDENCE OF OCEAN
- NEW SURVEY: MOST AMERICANS BELIEVE IN ALIENS
Majority Expects ET to Be Smart and Friendly, Poll Finds
- 1997 IN HEADLINES: THE YEAR IN REVIEW
Roswell and Mars Are Lead Stories In a Year of Progress
Special Three Part Review of 125 Top Stories of 1997- UFOs VIDEOTAPED, SEEN ON RADAR OVER COSTA RICA
- TV NETWORK TO SHOW ALLEGED ALIEN ABDUCTION VIDEO
- NEW CULT SPARKS FEARS OF "HEAVEN'S GATE" REPEAT
- DID BIBLICAL GIANTS BUILD THE CIRCLE OF THE REFAIM?
- LUNAR PROSPECTOR WILL LOOK FOR WATER ON MOON
Launch Set for January 5; Prelude to Manned Moon Base- PRUDENCE CALABRESE LEAVES FARSIGHT INSTITUTE
- SEATTLE COMPANY RESERVING SEATS FOR SPACE SHOT
Competition Heats Up in Bid to Launch Space Tourism
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Special Announcements
- JAN 4 SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES 1997 IN REVIEW
For the most comprehensive overview of real news on global UFO phenomena and progress in space science toward discovering extraterrestrial life, see the current Special New Year edition of CNI News, featuring a review of 125 of the year's top stories.
- HOLIDAY DELIVERY SCHEDULE
The first edition of 1998 will be delivered on January 4. Thereafter, delivery will resume its normal schedule on the 1st and 16th of every month.
Feature Stories of the Week
- UFOs REPORTED, VIDEOTAPED OVER COSTA RICA
[The following story is based partly on a December 26 Itar-Tass newswire report, forwarded to CNI News by Jared Anderson. Additional information was provided by Costa Rican ufologist Carlos Vilchez, speaking on "Sightings on the Radio" with Jeff Rense on December 30.]
The biggest wave of sightings seen in Costa Rica in at least 22 years began on November 22, 1997, when thousands of residents of the capital city of San Jose watched at least 11 UFOs make various geometric formations in the sky for over 90 minutes, starting at about 1pm. The sky was perfectly clear and blue, and the UFOs appeared white. Two videotapes were made of the sightings.
Further sightings were reported on December 16, although no known videos or photos were taken.
On December 22, from about 12:30 to 3:30pm, thousands of people again watched a dozen or more UFOs make zigzag maneuvers in the sky south of San Jose. Cameramen from two local television channels captured three UFOs, two black and one white, on video, according to Costa Rican ufologist Carlos Vilchez.
Vilchez said he received a phone call from flight controllers of the International Juan Santamaria Airport at 8:30pm that night, telling him that UFOs were showing on radar. He went to the control tower and saw traces of "at least 40" high-flying objects on the screen during a three hour period. Vilchez said there were also conventional aircraft showing on the radar, but at much lower altitude.
According to Itar-Tass, the Costa Rican mass media reported that unidentified flying objects were spotted again on December 24 in the air space over Golfito district, which is 330 kilometres to the south of San Jose.
Carlos Vilchez said more sightings occurred on the afternoon of December 26. He also said that he received a phone call from a television station on the evening of December 30, telling him that the station had received yet another UFO videotape.
Vilchez told radio host Jeff Rense that UFO activity has also been reported around several volcanos in Costa Rica, and UFOs have also been observed going in and out of a lake.
Vilchez said the government of Costa Rica, which has no military, has so far done nothing about the UFO sightings and does not interfere with civilian investigators. There are only about five recognized UFO researchers in Costa Rica, a nation of some 3.5 million people, Vilchez said.
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- BREAKTHROUGH: NASA PROMISES TO IMAGE CYDONIA
In a long-sought breakthrough that many thought would never come, NASA officials publicly promised on November 24 that the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft would take high resolution photos of the controversial landforms in the Cydonia region of Mars "at every opportunity."
If the promise is fulfilled, it would mean that the question of possible artifical structures on Mars will almost surely be settled, one way or another, within approximately two years.
Dr. Mark Carlotto, one of the top experts on the Cydonia landforms, announced the breakthrough at the recent World UFO Forum in Brazil. Carlotto was one of six scientists representing the Society for Planetary SETI Research (SPSR) who met with two top NASA officials on November 24 in Washington, D.C. to discuss the new agreement. Carlotto said he left the meeting feeling entirely satisfied that NASA's promise was genuine.
Dr. Carlotto's statement at the Brazil UFO Forum follows:
"A group of us met with NASA [officials] at their headquarters in Washington, D.C. They included myself, Professor Stanley McDaniel, Dr. Horace Crater, [Vincent] DiPietro, who is one of the early investigators, Dr. John Brandenburg, who has come up with some radical theories about Mars' atmosphere and the evolution of life on Mars, and Dr. David Webb, a former advisor to President Reagan on space policy.
"We briefed NASA management on our work, and it was clear that they had not seen it [before]. It was clear that all they had seen were the Parade Magazine articles by Carl Sagan [arguing against anomalous structures on Mars], the sensational articles in the grocery checkout line -- 'Voice of Elvis Presley coming out of Face on Mars' -- and nonsense like that. They had not seen our work.
"And they seemed impressed.
"The whole purpose of the meeting was to not only brief them but also to get a commitment from them to image these objects at the highest possible resolution at every opportunity, because their promises in the past have been very murky.
"The first thing they did was to say that they will unequivocally, on every attempt over Cydonia, image these objects at the highest possible resolution, and they will make the data available.
"Moreover, they said that they are in fact very interested in these objects, for two reasons. There are two groups in NASA. One group believes that [UFO researchers] are all wrong, and they want to prove it. So they want to take these pictures to prove that you're wrong, so you'll go away. The other group -- and our sense is that it's a small but growing group within NASA -- believes that we have some interesting data, and they want to take a closer look at it.
"So, either way, hopefully we'll get the pictures, and perhaps in the next year we'll find out."
Dr. Carlotto told CNI News editor Michael Lindemann during a private conversation that he regards the odds of finding artifical structures on Mars as somewhere between "1000 to 1 and 100,000 to 1" in favor of the structures. Obviously, if Carlotto's optimism proves out and NASA admits such a finding, the question of intelligent life on other worlds will be settled in one stroke. Thus, the stakes in this new NASA commitment are very high.
For further details on this historic development, see the current edition of CNI News.
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