From: George A. Filer <Majorstar@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 17:50:53 -0400 (EDT)
Fwd Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 18:43:14 -0400
Subject: UpDate: Filer's Files #26 -- 2000

Filer's Files #26, Salute to the UFO Patriots

Filer's Files #26 -- 2000,  MUFON Skywatch Investigations
George A. Filer,  Director,  Mutual UFO Network Eastern
July 3, 2000,  Majorstar@aol.com, Sponsored by Electronic Arts
Web Site at: http://www.filersfiles.com.-Chuck Warren Webmaster.

ON JULY 4TH, WE SALUTE THOSE AMERICANS AND OUR ALLIES who have
given their lives, their fortunes, to support democracy in the
US and other nations.  Many of us are convinced that our Earth
is being visited by alien craft.  These aliens may be our
friends or a deadly enemy, but to ignore them is foolishness.
We encourage the news media to consider that we receive
thousands of reports each year from witnesses who see,
photograph and video UFOs.  One eyewitness in a court of law can
convict and put to death a murderer.  Why are multiple witnesses
ridiculed and ignored if they see a UFO?  Just look at NASA
shuttle tapes with an open mind.  There are UFOs all over the
place.  I'm convinced it is our patriotic duty to find the
answer to what is in our skies.  Ignoring a threat does not make
it go away.  I have numerous friends who have served our country
gallantly who have chased or seen UFOs, I wish to thank the
patriots who had the courage to report UFOs despite the
ridicule.  In some ways this is harder than going into battle.
Have a great summer.

THE EARTH WILL REACH ITS GREATEST DISTANCE FROM THE SUN this
year on the 4th of July, but don't expect a break from the heat
of northern summer.  The Earth has a slightly elliptical orbit
around the sun.  The sun is in an eleven year solar storm cycle
that appears to effect UFO activity.  Low solar storm activity
and high number of reports. Now with high solar storm activty,
reports in June are about half the number of last year's.  Low
UFO activity may reflect the high cost of aviation fuel this
year?  But since 1947, when high UFO activity was first reported
there appears to a reverse relationship between solar storm
activity and UFO reports.  Air Force Blue Book files reveal over
a thousand reports for 1952, 1957, and 1966 years with
relatively low solar activity.

TEN PERCENT OF UFO REPORTS REMAIN UNEXPLAINED

Royal Air Force Director of Intelligence, R. V. Jones, states in
the Condon Report that, "Over the period from January 1959 to
September 1967, the British Ministry of Defence received 6254
UFO reports.  Seventy remain unexplained after investigation.
For comparison, the American figures, given by the Staff of
Project Bluebook are 6817 alleged sightings in the years 1953 to
1965, of these, 1248 were reported too vaguely to allow an
attempt at explanation.  Of the remaining 5569, there were 237
for which explanations could not be found.  Summarizing the
British and American experience, it appears perhaps 10% of the
sightings cannot be explained.  In this residue, it is probable
that the majority of witnesses have made substantial errors in
their descriptions.  A point of dispute is whether after such
errors have been allowed for, there is enough left that is
unexplained to make us think that there is a gap in our
knowledge either of natural phenomena or of an extraterrestrial
invasion of our atmosphere, perhaps by intelligently controlled
spacecraft."  The Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying
Objects, Dr. Edward Condon Director, pages 929-930

HINTS OF LIFE ON MARS -- The crust of the planet Mars may hold
two to three times more water than scientists had previously
believed.  Additionally, new photos show obvious areas of water
erosion apparently caused by flowing water.  Water is the
universal solvent that life must have to exist.  Scientists
appear a little perplexed since the temperatures are thought to
average only -50 Centigrade and water on Earth freezes at O
Centigrade.  Apparently the water on Mars is not the same as our
water, it is probably much heavier.  This finding is based on a
study by Dr. Laurie A. Leshin of Arizona State University, whose
report will be published in Geophysical Research Letters on July
15.  She compared the amount of deuterium, an isotope of
hydrogen, found in the Martian atmosphere.  Deuterium, a heavier
form of hydrogen, combines with oxygen to make "heavy" water.
In today's thin Martian atmosphere, water has a
deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio five times higher than is found in
water on Earth.  The heavy water compound mixed with other
chemicals found in sea water may have a much lower freezing
temperature than water here on Earth.  Comets probably carried
water rich in deuterium to Mars since they have the same ratio
of deuterium as Martian interior water.  The core of Mars may
generate heat thawing the water of the planets anciet ocean.
There have been reports of geysers and infrared indications that
heat exists.  Our ancestors may have been Martian since some
hardy Martian organisms may have survived a journey through
space and colonized Earth. As you read this, flash floods may be
carving new channels on Mars as photography shows clear evidence
of erosion caused by floods.  These new findings point to the
likelihood of life on Mars, since almost every where on Earth
where water has been found life exists.  Life flourishes in even
the most unlikeliest places such as 10,000 feet below the
surface in Antarctica.  Scientists claim its just too cold on
Mars for life but ethylene glycol or methyl alcohol retard
freezing and melt ice.  We use them everyday in our autos to
keep them from freezing.  We may have unknown chemicals,
minerals, or unknown heat sources that occur on Mars that create
flowing water.

"Obviously Mars looks dry from photographs, but it is quite
possible that a layer of permafrost exists beneath the planet's
surface evaporating into the atmosphere at a very slow rate.
There is even the possibility that, in some regions, sufficient
water is collected to form subsurface oceans."  These are not my
ideas, but they are contained in the Air Force's Environmental
Space Science's Book taught at the Air Force Academy 1972.

Every few years tremendous windstorms occur on Mars with 200 mph
winds that raise voluminous dust clouds and obscure the surface.
When these winds subside, there is a noticeable greening of the
planet.  This greening according to scientists is actually
greenish ferrites making it appear the planet has vegetation or
micro organisms similar to lichen.  This is called false
foliage, but perhaps there really is a form of life?  Up until a
few weeks ago, we were told there was little or no water and no
life on Mars based on findings from the Viking Lander.  I
suggest  inaccurate testing was accomplished by the Viking
Lander.

NEW YORK CITY BLACK DISC

MANHATTAN -- On Tuesday, June 27, 2000, five witnesses observed
a partial black ring which they described as a flattened "U"
shape slowly movng overhead across the sky towards the northeast
at 8:00 PM.  The sky was light in the early summer evening when
five witnesses saw a donut or "U" shaped craft.  It was
different from the sky and was likely a light colored material
which was blocking our view of the rest of the dark ring,
thereby creating  the initial impression of the flattened "U"
shape.  All I can say is, the way it looked and the way it moved
it was not tumbling or changing orientation.  It was a black
partial ring with a light sky-colored or perhaps shiny
reflective material transmitting the color of the sky.  It
filled the interior and seemingly blocked our view of the rest
of the black ring, giving a black flattened "U" shape moving
slowly, steadily, and solidly across the sky.  It was an unusual
ring flew out of site due to extreme distance.  I have seen nor
heard of no other which quite fits the same description,
although I have been studying this field for several decades.
It is hard to determine the size, but I would guess it was a bit
smaller than a 747 aircraft at 3 or 4000 feet up.  There were
five of us watching the object as it flew over
lower-mid-Manhattan heading east-northeast.  The consensus was
we saw a UFO.  Thanks to Larry Clark www.nymufon.org. and Steve
Jones  gargoyle@echonyc.com

NEW JERSEY ELLIPTICAL BLACK UFO SEEN

MONTCLAIR -- On Saturday, June 18, 2000, at approximately 7:00
PM, Max Gebhardt sighted a strange dark object high in the sky.
Max reported, "The UFO approached from the northwest and
departed to the west.  It was a very small black object,
possibly a U-2 or a low-orbit satellite, very near the air
traffic corridors."  Montclair is only 13 miles west of New York
City.  "I lost sight of it after 15 minutes due to its size.  It
was tiny, black, elliptical, possibly very far away, maybe 20 to
30 miles flying at 30,000 feet at about 550 miles per hour."
Thanks to UFO Roundup Vol. 5  # 26  June 29, 2000 Editor: Joseph
Trainor

GEORGIA GREEN BEAM" AND "SHOOTING STAR

TROUP COUNTY -- Researcher John Thompson reports a father, his
fourteen-year-old son and friend saw a strange "green beam" in
the sky on Saturday, June 17, 2000."  Standing outside on Old
Chipley Road at 1:30 AM the two boys saw the beam while looking
southeast towards Pine Mountain.  Turning around one boy said,
"Do you see that?"  The other, looking up, replied "Yea."  At
about a half-a-mile way, perhaps in extreme north Harris County,
the boys saw a laser-like "ocean-green beam" standing between a
low-hanging cloud and the ground.  The beam was perpendicular to
the ground and had an equal diameter its entire length.  The
somewhat dark green beam did not expand or retract; it was just
there when they saw it.  Watching the beam for "four seconds"
one boy said it "totally went away."  It did not fade; recede or
contract but simply vanished while the boys had their eyes on
it.  Ten to fifteen seconds later, the boys saw a strange bright
white shooting star fly south where the beam had just been seen.
This seemed a rather odd coincidence.  To this investigator it
brought to mind a stranger incident in south Troup County that
seemed to have a "cause and effect" relationship involving a
"shooting-star" like object.  On October 10, 1996, a TV producer
was driving northwest on the Big Springs-Stovall Road at around
10:00 PM when he noticed a bright, white, star-like light above
a hill to his north.  On the nearby hill, he noticed some kind
of dim light or reflection.  As he continued to drive, a
standing "circle of red lights" on edge shot across the Stovall
Road only fifty feet in front of him towards the illuminated
"target" on the hill.  After the 8 to 10 feet wide revolving
circle of red lights hit the "target," the bright "star" shot
away out of sight.  The producer was entirely unnerved by the
incident and initially thought someone had shot tracers at him,
but could not explain the cause and effect relationship he had
witnessed.  He had not heard any gunshots.

Strongly illuminated beams were seen in South Troup County in
August of 1995, on the Willie Hodnet Road.  A married couple saw
a square box over a pasture casting a white beam straight down.
The beam they saw retracted and expanded but, like the latest
incident, did not widen at any point.  A third person saw this
same UFO from a different vantage point.  On January 8, 1998,
just north of LaGrange on Highway 219, another married couple
saw an intense beam start in mid-air and go down to the ground a
hundred feet below.  This wide beam was so intense they said
that it could not be seen through.  At no time during all of
these beam sightings was any sound heard or aircraft/search
lights found to be responsible.  The normal cast of characters
was contacted to find, perhaps, a mundane explanation for the
Old Chipley Road sighting.  Calls to Callaway Gardens and its
nearby airport showed that there were no lights of any kind
displayed.  Mr. Brad Castleberry, a civilian public affairs
officer at Ft. Benning, said none of their fixed or rotary wing
aircraft were in the Troup-Harris County area or had the
capability to display a green beam.  An earlier call to another
source at Ft. Benning revealed that any craft based there
capable of casting light only have a "night-sun" light
capability.  A "night-sun" light mounted on an aircraft
illuminates an area beneath it much like daylight, but does not
project a narrow beam.  Calls to Troup County 911 and the Pine
Mountain police brought forth no other reports.  The ocean-green
beam remains unexplained.  The shooting star may have only been
a coincidence.  Weather on the night of the sighting was
scattered cloud cover with light wind and a temperature of
around 70 degrees F.  Ceiling was unlimited, visibility
excellent and a near full moon out.  The witnesses, despite
their relative young age, are judged reliable.  Thanks to John
C. Thompson Copyright, 2000.  All rights reserved.
gingerjohn@peoplepc.com

MICHIGAN THREE BLACK SPHERE'S CAUGHT ON CAMERA

SAULT SAINT MARIE -- I had gone out in front of my house with a
digital camera on June 15, 2000, to take a series of
photographs, and to try out a new panoramic photo construction
program for my computer.  I took a total of eleven photo's of
three black sphere's, in a 360 degree circle from the ground to
the sky using a tripod, at about 5:30 PM-EST.  I then went back
in the house, copied the jpg. photo's from the disk in the
camera onto my hard drive, and constructed the panorama.  As I
was scrolling around in a circle, I could see a small black dot
in the sky to the west.  The program allows you to zoom in, so
when I did this, the dot appears to be a black sphere.  I zoomed
out and scrolled to the north, and there were two more black
spheres'. In the photo, they almost appear to be in a large
triangle formation.  I would estimate the size of them in the
photo to be about the size of a pencil eraser held at arm's
length.  I have the photo at 768x1024 pixels.  Thanks to Peter
Davenport NUFORC www.ufocenter.com.


ILLINOIS BLACK TRIANGULAR CRAFT

GREENFIELD -- On June 14, 2000, the witness reports, "I walked
outside and looked west at a 2 o'clock position in the sky.  I
noticed nine brightly flashing lights in a V shape and moving in
perfect formation and in unison at 9:30 PM.  I immediately
called a friend to look and we were on the phone as we both
watched the black triangular craft. The lights were not quite as
big as Venus appears, but they were blinking randomly.  The open
part of the V was at least 5 to 6 full moons across.  Commercial
aircraft would not have been in such a formation, and military
aircraft at that distance would have been heard.  There was no
sound as they moved east to west across the sky at about the
same speed as commercial jet aircraft.  If these were multiple
aircraft the formation was perfect.  I watched them until they
passed behind some trees.  My friends who were still on the
phone with me reported it moved west for at least another five
minutes.  They reported seeing an obviously recognizable
airplane in the vicinity of the black triangle.

CAHOKIA MOUNDS -- We were driving past the mounds on an old road
near Route 111 on June 16, 2000, when we saw a strange light but
just figured it to be an airplane.  At 9:45 PM, as we got closer
we could tell it was no airplane.  It had four lights with blue
and green colors.  The craft was black in color but almost gray.
It was only a 1,000 feet above the ground.  It was a perfect
triangular shape, with no curves at all.  It was obvious that it
was no airplane.  It flew very slowly without sound and the
lights from the craft were just so bright it lit up the area
around the craft.  The weather was a light rain, but we had
clear sight of it.

ST. LOUIS -- A couple hours later at 11:30 PM, a caller to the
National Reporting Center stated, "My mom and a friend were
returning home, crossing the McKinley Bridge over the
Mississippi River into Illinois.  As they began to cross the
bridge, they saw a large object hovering in the sky.  The object
was above the bridge near the CAHOKIA MOUNDS.  They stopped and
watched it for a minute or so.  They said it was perfectly
still, at a height where a very low flying plane would be.  Both
witnesses claimed it was difficult to make out an exact shape -
but drew me a picture and verbally described it.  They saw two
large glowing circular white lights on the side, that were
attached to a long cigar shaped fuselage.  They had difficulty
describing what attached the lights to the body.  I asked what
made them think it was not a helicopter?  They said, "It was WAY
too large for a helicopter and remained perfectly still without
any sound."  They decided to keep moving and the passenger was
looking out the rear window at the object.  She lost track of
the object briefly but saw it just in time to watch it streak
across the sky at incredible speed.  She said, "It then stopped
instantly over the Mississippi at a point south of their current
position."  They continued home.  Thanks to Peter Davenport
Director NUFORC www.ufocenter.com.

TEXAS FUTURISTIC PLANES

DALLAS -- Jonathan Miller writes, "I'm 17 years old and on June
23, 2000, for the first time I actually saw real life proof of
something going on."  I went outside at about 10:27 PM, to play
basketball and was waiting my friends sitting on a swing.  I am
looking up at the sky, which had no stars and saw two bluish
almost futuristic type planes soar by faster than any planes can
go.  They flew by quickly but I was able to see them in the
dark.  What I saw gave me chills.  They passed by in not even in
a second.  They left blue lines in the dark sky that was visible
for a couple of seconds.  They appeared to be breaking the sound
barrier over our neighborhood and I expected a boom.  But they
were totally silent.  The lines disappeared and I yelled to my
friend to come out fast.  Thanks to Jonathan Miller
gizmo0081@yahoo.com and Larry Clark Lclark@ibm.net.

OREGON UFOs FILMED

HOOD RIVER -- James A. Gilliland reports that on June 24, 2000,
there was a wonderful display of UFO activity.  One very large
craft flew directly over the Bridgehouse.  It morphed from one
light disk into three and four then returned to one again.  Yes,
it is on film.  We have footage of ships rising on both sides of
Mt Adams now.  One in particular was immense.  It rose up, went
behind the mountain then moved right towards us.  An aviation
expert was present and had no doubt he had seen a UFO.  It later
ascended and hovered for the rest of the evening next to a
triangular star pattern. Several were filmed last night, with
one crossing the sky at a very high altitude and speed.  Thanks
to James Gilliland Self-Mastery Earth Institute
<james@cazekiel.org., www.cazekiel.org

NEW MEXICO NIDS COW ANIMAL MUTILATION SURVIVES

      On May 20, 2000, NIDS was alerted to a two year old
Charolais cow which had been mutilated near Cuba, New Mexico,
three days previously but the animal had survived. The animal
was recovering at a nearby veterinary clinic. On May 22, 2000,
the NIDS veterinarian plus two NIDS investigators arrived to
examine it. The animal's left ear had been removed completely,
its right ear was substantially removed and the animal's lips
appeared to have been injured or degraded. A search for needle
marks was negative. Both veterinarians concurred that there was
no evidence whatsoever that the animal had been attacked by
predators or scavengers. Rather, they concurred that a sharp
instrument had likely been used to remove the ears. Multiple
blood samples, a small tissue biopsy and fecal samples were
taken and analyzed.  See "http://www.nidsci.org"

UK STRANGE DAZE MAGAZINE

Strange Daze is an English publication that contains serious
articles and papers by leading authors and researchers in the
fields of Ufology, the paranormal and cutting edge science.
There are no hard and fast rules governing submissions to the
magazine, apart from an insistence on quality, integrity, and a
realistic approach to the subject.  So far, Strange Daze has
been primarily aimed at a semi-academic readership and the
magazine's detailed technical features often reflect this.  The
quality of writing is high and for this reason, much of the
material showcased in Strange Daze has eventually finds its way
into the wider world of publishing.  Editor Gloria H. Dixon and
the editorial team have a bold vision for the magazine's future,
focusing on the profound issues of consciousness and our hopes,
fears and expectations in this brave new world.  The current
edition (Issue 20) of Strange Daze contains a major feature by
aviation writer Bill Rose on secret "Cold War" space projects,
including the Pentagon's plans to build a military fortress on
the Moon.  In his lengthy article "The Scare in the Air,"
journalist DR David Clarke traces UFO sightings back to the
beginning of the last century and takes a close look at Zeppelin
activity during World War One.  Kate Taylor, who is now regarded
as an important authority on modern American political history,
examines the possibility that Ted Kennedy was framed at
Chappaquiddick.  Ufologist Michael Lewis looks back at
Millennium madness, while Dave Newton, Fellow of the Royal
Astronomical Society discusses the latest astronomy and space
exploration developments.  Last is Gloria Dixon's fascinating
account of paranormal events at one of Britain's most mysterious
locations, Windwhistle Hill.  Strange Daze costs £10 for four
issues per year in the UK and £15 for other subscribers.
Website at: www.strangedaze.ic.24.net.  HEATHERD77@aol.com

Editor's Note: Bill Rose's article revealed the US planned to
build a military fortress on the Moon were stopped apparently
due to the high cost, but I wonder if there were other reasons?
Dr. David Clarke's Clark's article concerning Zeppelin Dirigible
activity during World War I was particularly interesting to me
since I flew over England for four years.  During World War I
hardly a night would go by without numerous reports of German
Zeppelin activity over England, but the Germans only had one
Naval Zeppelin and five Army airships in service when war was
declared.  Within a few months most had been destroyed or
wrecked.  German records reveal Zeppelin activity was very
limited any where near England, yet sightings of airships was
frequent and may have been UFOs.  Captain Stansfield of the
trawler SS Ape and many of his crew on December 15, 1914,
reported sighting a black airship.  After the war airship
records were read and all German airships were in their hangars
due to bad weather.  On September 6, 1914, Flight Commander
C.E.H. Rathborne of the Felixstowe Naval Air Station, Suffolk
returned from an early morning patrol in his RNAS seaplane to
make perhaps the first report of a UFO by a military officer.
"At 5:35 AM. whilst on patrol. I sighted an airship steering
south-southeast, with a silver colored envelope on the horizon
while flying at 1,300 feet, 27 miles south of Orfordness." A
military intelligence report estimated the total number of
reports of "enemy signaling" to be as high as 2,000 from the
Scottish Command alone during the first year of the war.  By
January 31, 1916, nine Naval Zeppelins had been built and were
ordered to bomb central England.  The Zeppelin scares and rumors
generated thousands of reports of phantom airships that based on
their records seldom ever flew near England.  It appears many of
the reports may have been UFOs since records reveal no known
aircraft or airships were flying.  Were these British
eyewitnesses lying, mistaken, or had they really seen UFOs in
their skies?

CANADA FIRST CROP CIRCLES OF 2000

SASKATCHEWAN -- The first crop circles for 2000 were reported to
CPR-Canada on June 19, 2000, near Willmar, south of Regina.
Field assistant Beatta van Berkom and local reporter Dawn-Marie
Barker report five rings were found in pasture grass, each
averaging about 26 feet in diameter, and two feet wide.  At
least three of the rings have a cut in the ring, making them
more like a horseshoe.

RUSSIAN CROP CIRCLES MYSTIFY FARMERS

YUZHNOYE -- The overnight appearance of crop circles in a field
in Southern Russia June 24, 2000, has puzzled farmers who claim
aliens landed there.  Russian Public TV reported that a farmer
from the village of Yuzhnoye, Stavropol Territory called in
local officials "to record an act of vandalism" after finding
that his field of ripe barley had been ruined.  Closer
examination revealed four distinct circles -- one 20 meters in
diameter in the center and three outer ones 6 meters in diameter
each.  The barley had been smoothed down "as if by hand" in a
clockwise direction.  Representatives of the Stavropol Security
Council found no traces of radiation or chemicals, and human
intervention was ruled out.  Eyewitnesses in a neighboring
village said they had seen a UFO landing in the field.  Vasily
Belchenko, Security Council Deputy Secretary, was inclined to
believe them.  "Aliens" took crop samples from the field.
"There is no doubt that it was not man-made," he said.  A
20-cm-deep cylindrical hole with polished walls was found right
in the center of the large circle suggesting the aliens were
taking soil samples.  Thanks to the BBC monitoring at Caversham
and Steven L. Wilson, Ndunlks@aol.com

PRESIDENT  JOHN F. KENNEDY AND UFOs

Robert Collins writes...Besides all the other possible scenarios
as to why JFK might of been assassinated UFOs have come up as
perhaps another reason: Did JFK really intend to make an
announcement on Roswell and an assassin's bullet got in the way?
Was JFK's willingness to be open about many things including
UFOs within the government earn him the permanent wrath of
people like Dulles, Colby and Hoover? Please see:
http://home.earthlink.net/~rcollins633/reports/kennedy_assassins_.htm

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