From: Masinaigan@aol.com
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 12:54:07 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 2, Number 32


     UFO ROUNDUP
Volume 2, Number 32
August 10, 1997
Editor: Joseph Trainor

UFOs SWEEP CANADA

     During the past couple of weeks, UFOs have been
sighted in three provinces of Canada--Ontario, Manitoba
and British Columbia.

     The flap began July 15, 1997 in Parry Sound
(population 5,501), Ontario (Ont.), a port on Lake Huron
approximately 155 miles (248 kilometers) north of
Toronto.

     At about 9:30 p.m. on July 15, two Parry Sound
residents "observed a 'long, pencil-thin' object floating over
an island across the bay.  It moved slowly for 30 seconds,
then 'turned jet-black' and floated out into the sky until it
was lost in the clouds."

     On Thursday, July 31, 1997, at 10:10 p.m., a man in
Barrie, Ont. (population 34,381), a city on the western end
of Lake Simcoe 66 miles (105 kilometers) northwest of
Toronto, "was out setting up my telescope for an evening
of observation" when "a brilliant meteor with a brilliant green
trail and a trail of sparks like commercial fireworks came
from magnetic south and traveled toward magnetic north,
right over my house.  It disappeared behind some houses
and trees to the north.  Total time observed--about four
seconds."

     "Now for the strange part," he reported, "It made a noise
as it passed overhead.  Not a whistle, not a whine, (but) a
rushing noise, and a series of pop-pop-pop noises, like an
out-of-tune car engine backfiring.  As an amateur astronomer,
I know meteors are usually silent unless they are bolides
and explode in the atmosphere or on impact.  I have seen
lots of meteors before, and all were silent."

     In British Columbia, a UFO was observed in Vancouver
on Saturday, July 26, 1997.  At 12:40 a.m., a resident living
near the intersection of Boundary and Grandview Highway
was "outside my house with a friend, looking to the north at
the Big Dipper, talking about the (Hale-Bopp) comet and
satellites."  It was a "clear night, lots of stars.  Saw a large
dark orange object flying east to west.  No sound, no lights,
not an airplane, helicopter, falling star, etc.  I noticed it at
the one o'clock position (and it moved) to the ten o'clock
position.  Took about nine seconds, then blocked by trees."

     Two nights later, on Monday, July 28, 1997, at 12:05
a.m., a woman standing at the corner of 68th Street and the
King George Highway in Surrey, B.C. "saw a brilliant white
light hovering in the southeast sky.  The woman believed the
object was hovering over Cloverdale.  The object pulsed and
faded at times, getting extremely bright (and) at other times,
the size of a small star.  Several unconventional movements
were also observed during the 30-minute viewing."

     On Thursday, July 31, 1997, at 11:15 p.m., Heather M.
and her husband were on the deck of their home in
Richmond, B.C. (population 80,034).  "Looking up, she
observed an extremely bright orange-white object shaped
like a boomerang moving from the northwest to the
southeast.  She lost sight of it after about 10 seconds
due to large trees in the area.  Her dog during the sighting
continued to whimper and act strangely.  Other dogs in the
neighborhood could be heard barking."

     In Manitoba, on Monday July 28, 1997, at 1:00 a.m.,
a man standing near the corner of Sturgeon Road and
Saskatchewan Avenue in Winnipeg (population 560,874)
"observed a bright, star-like object 'due north.'  It 'flashed
red and green' as it 'sat for about 20 minutes' near the
horizon before it descended out of sight."

     On Monday, August 4, 1997, a woman in the area
of Bishop Grandin Boulevard in Winnipeg "observed an
object in the southeast.  Initially, it was stationary, but
then it moved 'back and forth' while staying in the same
general area of the sky.  The object, which appeared like
a bright star 'with little stars near it,' did not make any
other movement and was seen for at least an hour."
The sighting took place at 10:15 p.m.

     Two hours later, at 12:45 a.m. on August 5, a man
parked in his vehicle near Archibald Street in Winnipeg,
looking south, saw "a bright light source approaching
from the southeast, heading northwest."

     "As he watched, the starlike object suddenly seemed
to grow into a 'headlight' as it changed its course slightly,
first to the right, then to the left.  Several other smaller
lights seemed to be traveling with the main light, arranged
in a triangular pattern.  No sound was audible, and the
witness doubted it was an aircraft because of this fact.
After about five minutes, the object was lost to sight low
on the horizon behind some trees and buildings."

(Many thanks to Canadian ufologists David Edward,
Bill Oliver and Chris Rutkowski for these news stories.)


ROUNDUP READERS JOIN HUNT
FOR MISSING MARS PHOTOS

     The Pathfinder photo mystery continued last week
as UFO ROUNDUP readers reported more anomalies
in the surface photos from the planet Mars.

     Desiree Holloway first discovered the fact that
the original high-resolution photo #81977 had been
replaced at the JPL website and mirror sites with a
grainy, low-resolution photo.

     On Monday, August 4, 1997, Edward F. "found
something interesting" at JPL's online newsletter
for the Mars Pathfinder mission (see Fun UFO Websites
below--J.T.)  Edward reported, "You will notice the
pictures jump from #81991 to #81963.  In fact, a whole
wack of them are missing."

(Editor's Comment: Reminds me of the Zapruder film!)
Kiko Gajse theorized that the missing Pathfinder
photos "may still" be in "their browser's cache.  Internet
Explorer and Netscape keep all downloaded files in a
cache for faster showing the next time you go to the site.
Internet Explorer keeps those files in a C:\Windows\
Temporary Internet Files directory.  I do not know the
exact directory name for Netscape."

     However, K. McLellan warns that the Pathfinder UFO
photo may be a forgery.  "As a graphic designer, I use
computers for image manipulation every day," McLellan
wrote.  "Using a Macintosh computer and an Adobe
photoshop...it would take about fifteen minutes to create
an extremely realistic looking UFO on any one of the
(Pathfinder) images sent back from Mars.  It would be
laughably easy."

     "Then you would need to break into the Sun/NASA/
JPL/whoever site and replace the original Mars photo
with the 'new and improved' UFO version, which wouldn't
be extremely difficult, if you have the right background/
knowledge.  Replace the photo, and presto!  The official
photo of a UFO now exists on the official Mars server
for anyone to download--at least until the sysadmin finds
the bogus image and replaces it with the original 'fuzzy'
image."

     Your editor visited the website at 6:45 a.m. on
Wednesday, August 6, 1997.  I was unable to find the
alleged 28 "missing photos" (#81963 through #81991).
However, I did find something odd in Pathfinder photo
#82358.

     The photo's caption reads, "Shows North Twin Peak
in super/resolution b & w (black and white--J.T.)"  The
photo shows a bright white spot at the 11 o'clock position
on North Twin Peak, just to the left of the mountain's
summit.  The "spot" appears to be in front of the peak.
Also, there is a dark band of shadow beneath the "spot,"
which suggests an anomalous object flying between
North Twin Peak and the Patherfinder's camera.  Just
below the "spot," on the mountain's face, is a clearly
visible avalanche slide.

     The Pathfinder photo at Mako's website shows
an anomalous shadow falling across the lander.

     Jeroen Wierda of Picard UFO Research International
(PUFORI) pointed out a "bright object" in Pathfinder
photo #81976, which NASA subsequently claimed was
"part of Pathfinder's cone-shaped shell."

(Many thanks to all the UFO ROUNDUP readers who
sent in news tips on the Pathfinder mystery this week.)


THREE TRIANGULAR UFOs
SEEN OVER WISCONSIN

     On Friday night, August 1, 1997, Fred P. was
"driving west on Highway 10 from Manitowoc,
Wisconsin (population 32,547) to Brillion, Wisconsin
(population 2,907) when I saw something quite
unusual."

     "It was almost like a mini-airshow using unusual
aircraft," he reported.  "There were three of them.
It was quite dark, and all I could see was their light
pattern, illustrated below."

                          X

                       ******

     "Each individual craft had the above light pattern,
where the X is a flashing white light, and the * are
solid yellow lights...the three of them were moving
quite slowly, but they did some interesting precision
maneuvers."  (Many thanks to Steve Wilson Sr. for
this news story.)


UFO FLIES OVER CITY IN
EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA

     On Sunday, July 27, 1997, at 11:05 p.m., a man in
Valley City, North Dakota (population 7,774) spotted
"an object...straight overhead, traveling from the
southeast to the northwest in a relatively straight line.
The object first appeared to be a beacon or white light
flashing like a rotating lighthouse at intervals, about
two times every second, very bright, not a strobe but a
very gradual burst of light."

     "I have seen many satellites and aircraft in my years
that did not look like this at all."  The UFO, as it passed
overhead, "changed its cadence of light every three or
four seconds between 'bursts,'" repeating these changes
"for nine seconds before it vanished" among the stars of
the constellation Cassiopeia.  (USENET report)


STRANGE LIGHTS SEEN OVER
WASHINGTON STATE

     On Thursday, July 31, 1997, in Wenatchee, Washington
(population 17,257), a small city located 147 miles
(236 kilometers) east of Seattle, Krista R. "saw six or
seven weird lights over a ridge...They were all grouped
together in a mass for about 10 seconds, then two of them
split off and zipped around the sky at incredible speed.
They were much faster and stranger than any aircraft I
have ever seen."

     Krista "lost sight of those two, but the others continued
to hover until, one by one, they descended behind the ridge.
They had an odd light that came down and almost
illuminated the ground below them like a spotlight."

     The last light to disappear "moved back and forth,"
Krista reported.  "I looked at it through binoculars, but it
was very jumpy.  It seemed to leave a red trail that
appeared every few seconds.  I went inside for a bit, and
when I came out, it had moved to above" an aircraft
warning tower.  (Many thanks to Tim Hagermeister of
NACOMM for this report.)


UFO SEEN IN NEW ZEALAND

     On Monday night, August 4, 1997, two men coming
out of a building in an industrialized neighborhood of
Gisborne, New Zealand saw a UFO "moving slowly
through the sky."  The witnesses described the object
as looking "like a star.  It was round and two or three
blinding colours."

     The UFO first appeared in the southern sky and
came towards the men, "but not in a straight line and...
appeared to be moving too fast to be a satellite."  As
the object passed directly overhead, "it was then lost
in cloud cover."  (See the Gisborne, N.Z. Herald for
August 5, 1997.  Many thanks to Norman Weiss for
this news story.)


HOVERING LIGHT SETS OFF
AIRPORT ALERT IN ROMANIA

     On Monday, August 4, 1997, at 2 p.m., air traffic
controllers at Otopeni Airport in Bucharest, the capital
of Romania spied "a light phenomenon" hovering near
the runways.

     Immediately Airport Security forces and troops from
a nearby Romanian Army anti-aircraft battalion went on
full alert.  "A strong light was observed from the tower
from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.  The phenomenon was recorded
on a supervisory videocamera mounted on the tower's
rooftop."

    Tower staff estimated that the mysterious light
hovered 250 meters (825 feet) above the ground.

     The radar sets in the Otopeni tower showed no
trace of any object in that part of the sky.  This was
Romania's second UFO incident in a week, following
the recent incident at Nevelea.  (Email Interview)


UFOs ACTIVE IN FRANCE

     On July 22, 1907, at 4 p.m., Jean W. was relaxing
on a chaise lounge in his backyard in the seaside village
of Sainte Croix sur Mer, near Courseuilles "au bord de
La Manche (the English Channel--J.T.) in Normandy.

     Suddenly, looking to the south, he saw an unusual
object "very brilliant with a wing much larger than normal"
passing over a nearby tree.  "For the most part, it is very
rare to see an airplane perform maneuvers here.  Also, it
(the UFO) appeared to have vertical wings."

     Jean watched the UFO for several seconds until
"the object suddenly became invisible.  I was very attentive
at that point to what followed, namely, a metallic sphere
which elongated and dissipated in the atmosphere, leaving
behind a gaseous residue."  The objects "remained
perfectly silent" during the entire incident.

     On Monday, August 8, 1997, at 2:20 a.m., M. Didier
reached for his 7/50 binoculars, intent on doing some
skywatching at his home in Lorraine.  As he scanned
the stars, he spotted "a strange object...the object
resembled a straight line placed in front of something
with very large wings."

     The UFO was "quite luminous" and moved from
west to east, taking 12 seconds to cross my
binoculars' field of view.  I observed it for 25 seconds
and then it disappeared.  The object was not visible to
the naked eye.  It traveled from the southwest to the
east, at an angle 45 degrees above the horizon.
The satellites Astra, Eutelsat and Telecom are only
32 degrees above the horizon," so it could not have
been a satellite.

     Interestingly, M. Didier adds, the following day,
August 5, the skies over his hometown were filled
with Mirage III-C jet interceptors from "L'Armee de
l'Air" or French Air Force.  (Merci beaucoup a
Thierry Garnier pour ces nouvelles.)


UFO HALTS BUS IN CHILE

     On July 24, 1997, at 12:20 a.m., a bus carrying
42 passengers rumbled southward on the Panamerican
Highway in northern Chile.  The bus belonged to
Buses Fenix Pullman Norte Ltda. and had left Arica
at 9:30 p.m. bound for the capital, Santiago de Chile.

     As the bus neared Cerro Moreno mountain in
Antofagasta, a city 880 kilometers (550 miles) north
of Santiago, the vehicle suddenly lost all electrical
power.

     "At first we thought the bus's battery had gone dead,"
Victor Hugo Lizama, a passenger, told local newspaper
La Cuarta.  "The bus was totally dead.  The driver just
couldn't get it started.  We started looking up in the sky,
and we saw four lights, three round ones, and the fourth
one was a long cigar shape.  All four were changing
colors from violet to orange to intense silver-white."

     "The cigar-shaped object moved, making an L
trajectory," Lizama added, "while the three round objects
stayed still.  A few passengers went to a military base
that's in Cerro Moreno and asked about the lights.  The
guards said they were just weather balloons."

     A short while later, the lights abruptly disappeared.
The driver turned the ignition key again.  This time the
engine kicked over, and the bus resumed its all-night
journey to Santiago.  (See the Chilean newspaper
La Cuarta for July 25, 1997.  Muchas gracias a Luis
Sanchez Perry para esas noticias.)


BIZARRE ISRAELI SLAYING
LINKED TO "ALIENS"

     Israeli police in the Negev Desert city of Beersheva
are investigating a bizarre murder that took place
there on July 27, 1997.

     At 3:30 a.m. that morning, Said Karumi, a Bedouin
Arab from Ofakim, a desert town 32 kilometers (20 miles)
west of Beersheva, walked into the city's central police
station with his infant son in his arms.

     Pointing to the night sky, Karumi told the officers,
"Aliens are after me!"

     According to Israeli journalist Barry Chamish, Karumi
"then exited the police station and walked to a nearby
service station where he bought five shekels worth of
fuel in a bottle.  He continued in to an empty lot, doused
himself and his son with the fuel, and ignited both."

     "Said survived the flames, but his son did not.  When
police arrived and asked why he had incinerated his son,
he just pointed to the sky."

      According to police, Karumi had never been treated
for a psychiatric disorder "nor was he considered mentally
unwell by the Ofakim Social Services office."

     The Negev desert was the site of two "alien encounters"
back in October 1996.  (Copyright 1997 by Barry Chamish.
Many thanks, Barry, for letting UFO ROUNDUP quote
from your news story.)


PENNSYLVANIA BIGFOOT TRIES
TO EVADE SEARCHERS

     Two men hiking along a mountain creek one miles
south of the Susquehanna River in the small town of
Nisbet, Pennsylvania (population 125) spotted a
Bigfoot on Sunday, August 3, 1997, at 3:30 p.m.

     Nisbet is on Highway 654 about 105 miles
(168 kilometers) northwest of Harrisburg, the state
capital.

     The witnesses described the creature as having
"a sort of manlike head but with a full brown-haired
body like a gorilla.  The air had a foul, rotten-like
smell to it.  It (the creature) must have been 7 feet
(2.1 meters) tall with long arms."

     "We were just coming around a bend in the creek
(Beaver Dam Creek) when we saw something move
behind a fallen pine tree," one witness said.  "We then
proceeded to get a better view as to what we thought
was a bear or a deer...It seemed to be kneeling down
near the base of the fallen tree.  It must have heard
our approach because it stood up and turned towards
the thick brush up the mountain 20 yards (17 meters)
ahead of us and ran in an amount of only 10 or so
steps into the brush.  The only time we good look at
the creature was when it turned around to run."  (Many
thanks to Scott McNabb for this report.)


from the UFO Files...

1909: AIRSHIP RETURNS TO
          BALCLUTHA, N.Z.

     (Continuing our look back at the 1909 "airship
invasion" of New Zealand, we present another actual
news story from the period.  Again, many thanks to
New Zealand ufologist Murray Bott for these items.)

     On Tuesday (July 27, 1909) about 10 a.m., Mr.
Allan Mitchell, son of J.R. Mitchell, of Lambourne,
and Mr. Alex Riach, while working at Lambourne near
the mouth of the Pomehaka River, saw high in the air
apparently over Messrs. Begg Bros. at Pukepeto a
large boat-shaped structure floating in the air.  It
appeared to be coming straight toward them, and they
expected it to come over their heads in the direction
of the Blue Mountains.  It dipped up and down in the
air with an easy motion, and they could see it easily
and had a good view of it, the distance being about
two and one half miles and pretty high in the air.

     Their first impressions as to its shape were confirmed.
It was distinctly boat-shaped and they could see on the
top of it what appeared to be a long pole.  It continued
with a dipping and ascending motion towards them for
some time and then swerved to the left and recrossed
the river and headed across by Whitelea and disappeared.
(See the Clutha Leader of Balclutha, South Island, N.Z.
for July 30, 1909.)


FUN UFO WEBSITES

     For a look at the anomalous object at North Twin
Peak, go to

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/marsnews/img/july22.html

Look for Photo #82358.

     Pathfinder's anomalous shadow can be seen at
http://www.soltec.net/~mako.

     PUFORI's copy of Pathfinder photo #81976 can
be found at

http://www.pufori.org/missions/mpf/images/81976_full.jpg.

     Don't miss our parent site, UFOINFO.  It's
chock-full of articles, reviews, images and data.
Log in at http://www.digiserve.com/ufoinfo/

     Back issues of UFO ROUNDUP can be read
and downloaded at

http://www.digiserve.com/ufoinfo/roundup/

     If you're in Amman, the capital of Jordan, tomorrow,
join the celebration.  King Hussein will be celebrating
the 45th anniversary of his accession to the throne.
Have fun!

     We'll be back next Sunday with more saucer news.
Here's wishing all our readers a safe, happy and
productive week from "the paper that goes home--
UFO ROUNDUP."

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