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ISCNI*Flash 1.17 - November 15, 1995




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ISCNI'S IRC CHAT RESUMES SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25
After a three week hiatus that began on November 2, ISCNI will resume weekly live chat via IRC (Internet Relay Chat), in channel #ISCNI, starting Saturday, November 25 at 3pm EST (noon Pacific). All readers of the Flash are encouraged to participate in ISCNI's next round of live chats, which will take place on four consecutive Saturdays, November 25 and December 2, 9 and 16. Further chat sessions will be announced in future editions of the Flash.

Unlike some IRC channels, #ISCNI employs simple chat protocols to ensure orderly discussion. If you wish to participate, please follow this simple procedure during the chat: If you wish to speak, first type ! and wait for the moderator to call on you. Please address your questions or comments to the moderator and/or the group as a whole. Please do not carry on side conversations unless using the individual messaging feature. If you are the current speaker, please indicate with ! if you wish to make an immediate followup comment or question; but if others are waiting to speak, please do not engage in extended debate with the moderator. These simple protocols, developed for ISCNI's public chats at America Online, ensure that our IRC chats will be orderly and enjoyable for all participants.

All ISCNI chats take place in channel #ISCNI and, unless otherwise announced, will be hosted by ISCNI president Michael Lindemann. On some occasions, the chat will feature one or more guest presenters as well. Each chat will focus on current issues in CNI research. The topic for Saturday, November 25 will be, "UFOs and the Millennium -- Predictions of Things to Come." Please plan to be there.


UFOS STAR ON ARGENTINE TV, PROMPT ALERT IN CHILE
by Roy S. Carson
American Reporter Correspondent
Caracas, Venezuela

[ISCNI*Flash thanks Rebecca Schatte for forwarding this story from the online newspaper American Reporter, dated October 15. Parts of this story were previously reported in ISCNI*Flash #11 of August 21.]

BUENOS AIRES -- A huge saucer-shaped UFO, variously colored violet, red and green, has been filmed by a professional television cameraman at La Puerta in the central state of Cordova, according to reports by the Argentine state news agency Telam.

Filming minutes before midnight Thursday, October 5, local cable TV station cameraman Gerardo Ferrero shot 15 minutes of high-quality video footage before the UFO flew away. Ferrero had been alerted to the phenomenon by a neighbor who first observed the "saucer-like object" hovering in the sky.

The Argentine air force has spent the last week examining the footage after also finding "jelly-like substances" and scorched earth marks at the San Carlos de Bariloche airport, 1,260 miles southeast of Buenos Aires. Their verdict on the video is that it cannot be explained, but it's being included in the investigation into another UFO sighting in the area last July.

The Argentine government has tried to discourage news reporting of the sighting because of a routine Latin American summit conference to be held in Bariloche October 16-17, with Latin America's heads of state, King Juan Carlos of Spain and the president of Portugal expected to be in attendance.

The video photographer told Telam news agency he lost five minutes setting up his camera before he could start shooting the UFO at a distance of 2-3 miles in a southeasterly direction from where he lives.

"The UFO pulses violet, green and red as it turned on an axis," Ferrero told the Telam state news agency. "Through my telephoto lens, I could see small windows in its circumference as it spun and moved up and down. I had difficulty keeping it in focus until I ran out of tape about 15 minutes into recording."

"When I digitally enhanced the image in the technical studio, it was easy to see that it had the form of a plate or saucer and how it changed from place to place as though it was spinning."

Nestor Etcharte, who saw a similar UFO touch down in Bariloche in July, said he'd found three-foot-deep circular "footprints" on the flight path into Bariloche airport, and Air Force investigators who were called immediately to the scene by helicopter had found samples of "gelatine-like substances."

Etcharte said the samples solidified to rock within hours and have since defied all attempts to cut or analyse them.

That July UFO experience was also witnessed by the passengers and crew of a commercial airliner, and a ground-crew had watched the UFO fly parallel to the aircraft as it aborted a landing to avoid a collision.

In parallel with Argentina's "close encounter," neighboring Chile has been put on a UFO alert after a spate of sightings close to the capital, Santiago. Chile's armed forces (FACH), which issued the security alert, is apparently taking the UFO "invasion" seriously.

"The most recent sightings were last Saturday in the vicinity of Rancagua, 70 miles south of Santiago. Thousands of people witnessed the unidentified flying objects in the night sky," otherwise unnamed military investigation sources told the local daily newspaper, La Cuarta.

The newspaper received an official notice of security alert from the FACH's 2nd Brigade Aerial Operations headquarters, and then interviewed witnesses who described the UFOs as "large shining objects, mostly red on top and perhaps 10 feet in diameter, with an elongated oval shape and tail from which multi-colored sparks flew as the objects moved away."

[The American Reporter, Copyright 1995 Joe Shea, All Rights Reserved. http://www.newshare.com/Reporter/today.html Archives: http://www.newshare.com/Reporter/archives/ ]


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VIDEO ANALYSTS SAY HUGE COLORADO UFOS ARE REAL
[The following is excerpted from an October 27 press release from Village Labs of Tempe, Arizona. For further information, contact Michael Tanner at (602) 439-1024.]

PHOENIX, October 27, 1995 -- The Village Labs of Tempe, Arizona, has just begun the review of... extraordinary UFO video footage recently recorded by Tim Edwards [in] Colorado. The more than six hours of 8mm videotape is now being logged to isolate the most unusual frames for followup analysis of the intense, high-altitude UFO activity taped by Edwards from September 25 to October 2, 1995. Still photographs of the phenomena taken by Mr. Edward's father during this period will be analyzed parallel to the videotape for possible corroboration and additional data. The same aerial phenomena was seen over a very wide area by other witnesses including those in Lamar, Colorado, 200 miles east, as well as an aircraft mechanic in Las Vegas, Nevada, vacationers in Baja Mexico, and lab personnel using binoculars outside the Village Labs facility itself, all several hundred miles from Salida [Colorado].

Tim Edwards, a restaurant operator in Salida, gained national notoriety in late August of this year following the daylight taping of a very large UFO hovering in the upper atmosphere over his home. That videotape continues to be the subject of in-depth study at the Village Labs after it was concluded that the brilliant-white, apparently cylindrical object recorded by Edwards was estimated to be at least a mile in length, flying at an altitude of more than 60,000 feet, and displaying unprecedented movements and flashing colored light, even for a UFO. A Village Labs staff member, formerly with the National Security Agency (NSA) as a top-secret intelligence operative who was in a position to know, has classified the Edwards UFO as an "Alien Visitation Craft," or AVC, a NSA term to designate a vehicle that is "definitely not one of ours."

For more than an hour and within a triangular area near the mid-morning sun, the obviously enormous UFO exhibited rapid, darting and "dancing" movements, estimated to be in excess of 10,000 miles per hour by Village Labs head, Jim Dilettoso. The Edwards video of the huge object is to be featured in an upcoming segment of "Sightings," the internationally syndicated television show on the paranormal. This first Edwards footage represents images as significant as anything ever recorded in the entire annals of the UFO history which includes tens of thousands of reports, according to Eric Gardner, the "Sightings" field director who interviewed Tim Edwards at the scene in Salida.

Controversy has already begun to swirl around Edwards' latest video footage, being written-off by skeptics as purely natural phenomena of some kind including flying insects, spider webs, cottonwood spores or other types of seasonal, airborne debris. Eyewitnesses to this new phenomena, on the other hand, have taken an entirely different view, as the activity is described as occurring obviously at very high altitude and definitely not at low levels where organic material is commonplace at times and easily identified as such.

Tim Edwards is anxiously awaiting the results of the experts' analysis as he firmly believes that the world needs to be convinced of the reality of what he himself has now experienced first-hand. "The first experience was truly awesome... I truly felt at the time that I was witnessing something of great scientific and historic importance for the world... I believe that the August 27th craft was sending a message to the world and wanted to be photographed... that its appearance was somehow just the beginning of more to come... and that I was really blessed to be a part of it."

An ongoing investigation by Michael Curta, Colorado State Director of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), so far has revealed that an "identical" UFO was seen earlier that same Sunday morning of August 27th by two witnesses in Grand Junction, Colorado, some 200 miles west of Salida. The witnesses, local radio disc jockeys, [said] that two small objects shot down from the large craft and streaked into a nearby mountain, resulting in bright flashes, but with no audible sound. Mr. Curta is also still seeking seven witnesses who called in reports on that same date to the Astronomy Department of the University of Colorado at Boulder to come forward once again as their reports were "lost." The media is being asked to announce such and request that those individuals (or any other witnesses) to contact MUFON directly at (303) 451-5992.

Interestingly, the National UFO Reporting Center has disclosed that an unusual rash of UFO sightings with great variety continues to occur nationally, the current "flap" having begun in July just prior to Tim Edwards' first video encounter of the huge object in the Colorado skies two months ago today. Since then, Peter Davenport, head of the Seattle, Washington-based operation has recounted reports involving the sightings of "thousands of UFOs at a time," from the East Coast to West Coast and many locations in between. In view of this heightened UFO activity and the recent release of the purported alien autopsy from the Roswell, New Mexico saucer crash incident and other such "leaks," many experts in the UFO field are now predicting that the U.S. government will finally acknowledge officially in the months to come, after a lengthy "conditioning process," the reality of beings and their spacecraft from other worlds visiting our planet.

As is the case with the August videotape, testing of the latest Edwards UFO footage at the Village Labs will include in-depth thermal and motion studies, image enhancement and enlargement as well as computer graphics simulations of the UFO events based on a spectrum of data collected and the results of analysis. Dr. Bruce Maccabee of MUFON and other qualified experts such as former NASA scientist Dr. Jack Kasher of the University of Nebraska in Omaha, are being provided with first-generation copies of the Edwards video footage and being invited to join in the scientific evaluation of his unique UFO video and photographic evidence.

The Village Labs is an advanced digital video technology design and engineering company... Village Labs founder and president, Jim Dilettoso, is a computer scientist and recognized authority on film and video image analysis technologies and their applications to purported UFO evidence, and has appeared as an expert on numerous radio talk shows and television programs including "Sightings," "Encounters" and "Unsolved Mysteries" as well as "UFO Encounter" on the Disney Channel and the Discovery Channel's upcoming series, "Mysteries, Magic, and Miracles."


UFO LINK TO COW CARCASS HORROR IN IRELAND
[ISCNI*Flash thanks Terry Colvin for the following story. Terry notes that this story appeared in the UK paper "Sunday Life" on October 29. He states further: "What is remarkable is that such a story appeared in such a newspaper. The Sunday Life is a paper which, though being tabloid sized, shys away from the traditional Sunday tabloid diet of sexy stories and outrageous shocks. Last year or the year before it was named UK Regional Newspaper of the Year. The fact that such a story appears in such a mainstream paper I think is part of a more general trend towards interest in unusual phenomena in mainstream society."]

A grisly animal mutilation at a County Down [Ireland] farm is being connected with UFO sightings in the area.

Several people in South Armagh and Omeath have reported seeing a large circular ball of light in the evening sky. At the same time the UFO research group QUEST was contacted by a farmer in Carnlough who reported the mutilation of one of his cows. Miles Johnston from Quest said: "The cow carcass had been drained of blood, the flesh had been removed from its head and its vital organs were gone.

"The organs were sucked out through a clean incision made by some hi-tech laser device."

"This is the first case of its kind in Northern Ireland but it has happened to thousands of animals in the US and Britain."


AFOSI'S RICHARD DOTY SPEAKS -- BUT IS HE TRUTHFUL?
[ISCNI*Flash thanks Paul Burrell for forwarding the following, which first appeared in ORTK Forum vol 3 # 3 (spring/summer 1995). CNI News finds the reported words of AFOSI Agent Richard Doty to be at variance with previously reported information from researcher Linda Howe -- who says, for example, that Doty did indeed show her a secret memorandum in his office at Kirtland AFB in 1983, though he denies this allegation below. In general, ISCNI*Flash cautions readers that Doty may have engaged in dissemination of disinformation during his time with AFOSI, and the following information is therefore questionable.]

by Dan Pinchas
ORTK Forum

The following is excerpted from an e-mail interview I conducted with controversial former Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) Special Agent Richard Doty over a two-week period in the Spring [1995]. Readers may recall that Special Agent Doty was heavily involved in the so-called Bennewitz Affair, was (is) an alleged member of the "aviary," and had an extraordinary meeting regarding UFOs with researcher Linda Howe at Kirtland AFB in 1983, discussed in more detail below. Doty graciously agreed to answer questions I put to him regarding his knowledge of Roswell, the Holloman AFB landing, and other topics. He has given permission for his remarks to be printed in the Forum.

On meeting Linda Howe in 1983:

Doty: Yes, Linda and I met in April 1983 at the OSI Office, KAFB, but, no, I didn't show her any Carter Briefing Documents. She showed me a document. I listened to Linda and then advised her of the official USAF statement on UFOs. I maintained contact with Linda for about two years, but I did not show her any official classified government documents. [Note: ISCNI*Flash regards this last statement as not true. Also, ISCNI*Flash has information that Doty contacted Linda Howe within the past year.]

On the Roswell crash:

Doty: First of all, there were six aliens in the craft that crashed in Roswell in 1947. Five died and one lived for three years. That is fact! I've read the official report and that's stated in the report. An alien spacecraft crashed in the New Mexican desert in July 1947. An alien was recovered and lived for three years. Five alien bodies were recovered. The same aliens returned in 1964 and all alien bodies were returned. To the best of my knowledge, these aliens have not returned.

Whitley [Strieber] also interviewed my uncle, a retired USAF Colonel, who was involved in the investigation of UFOs [Project Blue Book]. I told Whitley exactly the same information. I also told him that the government has thoroughly investigated abductions and determined they were not real. I respect your opinions and others; however, you don't know what I know! I have had the access during my OSI career. I've seen the evidence and have actually collected the evidence.

On the Holloman AFB landing:

Doty: Regarding the landing of a UFO at Holloman AFB, NM on April 25, 1964, yes, it did happen. The only exchange that occurred was us giving back the six alien bodies. In an exchange of good will, the aliens provided us with several "items" of advanced technology. No further comment on that. Yes, I have information that Mr. [Robert] Emenegger [author of "UFOs Past, Present and Future"] was given access to the film, but I'm not sure why the government backed off on their offer to assist [Emenegger was promised official government film to be used in a film version of "UFOs Past, Present and Future." Though Emenegger was permitted to view the film, he was subsequently not allowed to use it. Emenegger has stated that he does believe a landing occurred at Holloman.]

On the Kecksburg, PA crash:

Doty: The Kecksburg 1965 incident was a crash of a then Soviet Satellite. That information is readily available at the National Archives. I know of no other alien crash known about by the U.S. government. There is more evidence that the Kecksburg incident was not a UFO incident. Interviews of state troopers recently revealed the troopers observed the writings on the object, which one stated was "Russian" writing. Russian writing could easily be confused with hieroglyphic.

On the Aztec and Kingman crashes:

Doty: The Aztec incident in '48 was a hoax. There was no crash nor was there any creditable evidence to support a crash. I know of no crash or alleged crash in or near Kingman in 1953.

On the UFO cover-up:

Doty: Regarding the alleged cover-up, I don't know the government's reason. I am no longer employed by the government nor am I a spokesman for the government. I really don't know. As far as the government's alleged effort to hide information, there was a disinformation operation, but that is all I can say.


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