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      UFO ROUNDUP
Volume 7, Number 50
December 10, 2002
Editor: Joseph Trainor

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


UFO FLOTILLA HOVERS
OVER BUENOS AIRES

       On Thursday, November 28, 2002, "an intense UFO wave
rolled over" the city of Buenos Aires, the capital of
Argentina.  UFOs were seen and videotaped by witnesses on
the ground in the large South American city.
       The main witnesses were Ricardo E. D'Angelo and a
companion.  "Using a camera described as 'broken and out-
of-date,'" D'Angelo "was able to photograph a fleet of
three objects descending over the northeastern section of
Buenos Aires."
       The UFOs flew over the Santa Fe section of the city,
north of the Avenida Nueve de Julio.  "No apparent
electrical anomalies were reported in the witnesses'
area."
       "Minutes earlier, another object flashed for several
minutes over the vicinity of Chacarith and Belgrano," two
sections of Buenos Aires, "at an altitude of 1,500 meters
(5,000 feet)."
       "'Arturo and I saw the entire phenomenon,'" D'Angelo
said.  He "employed a SONY 360 Nightshot" videocamera to
shoot the footage.  "'What can be seen in the video
sequence is 15 frames of one UFO, hitherto unseen, which
crossed the sky from north to south seconds before the
first one was observed.  But upon reaching a point
equidistant from the other two (not seen until this
moment--R.D.) it stopped completely for only brief
seconds."  (Muchas gracias a Scott Corrales y Lucy Guzman
para eso informe.)
(Editor's Comment:  And welcome to South America Under
Siege Week here at UFO Roundup.  For the third week in a
row, South America has been having an intensive UFO flap.
And Buenos Aires is not the only South American capital
being overflown by UFOs.  Keep reading...)


SAUCERS HOVER OVER
BOGOTA, COLOMBIA

       On Thursday, November 28, 2002, the same day UFOs
were seen in Buenos Aires, at 3:45 p.m., several silver
disc-shaped objects were spotted in Bogota, the capital
of Colombia.
       The objects, described by witnesses as "various
flattened spheres," were spotted hovering over the Cerro
Monserrate (hill) in Bogota.  Telephones were ringing off
the hook at the Bogota office of Contacto OVNI de
Colombia, a UFO research group, according to William
Chavez Ariza, the group's spokesman.
       Contacto OVNI investigator Juan Arana drove out to
Cerro Monserrate with his videocamera.  He arrived just
in time to "film several UFOs performing irregular and
unusual maneuvers over the hill and surrounding
neighborhoods before flying away suddenly from the area."
(See NotiOVNI for December 1, 2002.  Muchas gracias a
Daniel Munoz y William Chavez Ariza de Contacto OVNI de
Colombia para eso informe.)


LUMINOUS UFO FLIES OVER
CARACAS, VENEZUELA

       On Sunday, December 1, 2002, "a brilliant sphere of
white light similar to a fireworks display" flew over the
city of Caracas, the capital of Venezuela.
       According to Venezuelan ufologist Martha Rosenthal,
six eyewitnesses "watched the glowing sphere pass
overhead."
       One of the eyewitnesses, "a man named Cortez,"
reported the UFO overflight to Sra. Rosenthal.  (See
NotiOVNI for December 1, 2002.  Muchas gracias a Scott
Corrales y Martha Rosenthal para eso informe.)


"NAZI UFO" PIX STARTLE
UFOLOGISTS IN BRAZIL

       On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, persons unknown
emailed two mysterious photographs to over a hundred
ufologists in Brazil.  The photos claim to be "proof of
an extraterrestrial presence in Hitler's Third Reich"
during the 1940s.
       The first photo shows the blueprints for a
futuristic "space plane."  The second photo shows the
streamlined "flying wing" at an airfield in Germany,
ready for its pre-flight walk-around check, and painted
in wartime Luftwaffe livery.
       Ufologist Gilberto Santos Mayo said the object
"looked like one of the craft in a Star Wars movie."
        Juarez Prata de Almeida stated, "This photograph,
credited to the North American secret service (the
wartime Office of Strategic Services or OSS, the
forerunner of the CIA--J.T.), in truth was obtained in
Hitler's Germany in 1942, and historical researchers have
recently released it to the public.  The photo proves
that Extraterrestrials visited the Third Reich and
communicated with high officials of the Nazi regime."
       However, Wilton Monteiro Sobrinho pointed out that
this photograph has been published before in UFO
magazines.  He cited its presence in "UFO number 38, page
11; and published again in UFO number 13, page 27, with
an article by Robert Pinotti; and in UFO number 24, page
17 with an article by Javier Serra entitled, 'Majestic-
12: UFO conspiracy or a true Cosmic Watergate?'"
       The photos can be found on the Web at
http://members.cox.net/rebid/Farnborough_05.html
       John Hayes, webmaster at UFOINFO, identified the
mystery craft as a Horten H-IX, a jet fighter-bomber
developed by Nazi Germany late in World War II.
       "The H-IX was a single-seat fighter-bomber with a
wingspan of 16 meters (53 feet) and two jet engines,
being a further development of the (Horten) H-V and H-VII
designs."
       "Four aircraft of the H-IX type were started,
designated V.1 to V.4.  The V.1 and V.2 were built at
Gottingen, designed to carry two BMW 003 jet engines.
The V.2 was built with two Juno 004 (jet) engines and had
two hours flying before crashing during a single-engine
landing.  The test pilot, Ziller, apparently landed short
after misjudging his approach," Hayes explained.
       "V.3 was built by Gotha at Friedrichsrodal as a
prototype of the senior production version."
       "V.4 was designed to be a two-man night fighter,"
with a stretched nose in the fuselage to accomodate the
second crewman.
       "In shape the H-IX was a pure wing with increased
chord at the center to give sufficient thickness to have
the pilot and the jet engines, which were placed close
together on either side."
       Hayes discounted the possibility of the craft being
a true UFO, adding, "It looks as if there has been a lot
of 'artistic interpretation' in the actual shape of the
craft."  (Muito obrigado a John Hayes, Juarez Prata de
Almeida, Wilton Monteiro Sobrinho e otros a Ufologia
Brasileira por esas informacoes.)


FOUR OVAL UFOs SIGHTED
OVER ALICE SPRINGS, N.T.

       On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, three witnesses in
Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia "observed
four silver oval craft high in the daytime sky.  They saw
the UFOs emerge from a cloudbank.  The craft were
travelling in a diamond formation."
       While the witnesses were viewing the UFOs, "they
heard a 'snap' noise, and a white triangular object with
rounded corners and dark ovoid highlights on its top
surface seemed to appear out of nowhere.  The craft was
suspended under a large parachute.  It drifted out of
sight of the witnesses.  The four silver craft appeared
to trail it for a few seconds and faded from sight."
       "The witness, who is in the aeronautics industry,
estimated that the white triangle was roughly the size of
a (Boeing) 747 jumbo jet in length."  (See Filer's Files
Number 49 for December 4, 2002.  Many thanks to
Australian ufologist Conway Costigan and to George A.
Filer of MUFON for allowing UFO Roundup to republish
their report.)
(Editor's Comment:  Since UFOs don't need a parachute, it
looks as if somebody is testing a space-plane in
Australia's Outback, and the saucers popped in for a
quick recon of the new vehicle.)


MYSTERIOUS LIGHT FLASHES
SEEN IN THE CENTRAL USA

       On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 5:10 a.m., Gary
Smith was driving to work in his hometown of Sellersburg,
Indiana (population 6,071) when he heard a strange report
on his car radio.
       "As I was driving to work at about 5:10 a.m., people
started calling in to the Louisville, Kentucky radio
station WHAS," 94 on the FM dial, "about lights changing
colors and shooting across the sky from the southwest to
the northeast.  I myself did not observe these
(particular) lights.  They were spotted as far away as
Columbus, Indiana."
       "Apparently, the lights were changing colors from
red to green to blue, according to descriptions, and were
about cloud level, which were very high and thin.  (An
estimated 22,000 feet of 6,600 meters--J.T.)"
       Then Gary saw "a strange, very bright light.  It was
very white.  Almost star-like but much, much brighter.  I
thought it may have been the planet Venus, but after some
Internet research, it was too early (for Venus) to be
seen and too far south."
       "This object was also observed by a radio call-in
who happens to live in the same town, Sellersburg,
Indiana, where I work.  I myself observed this object
from my workplace parking lot.  A co-worker also saw it."
(Email Form Report)


AIRMEN SPOT FLASHES AT
LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE

       On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 3:45 a.m., a U.S.
Air Force security guard we'll call Scott reported,
"While I was on duty with Security Forces at Langley Air
Force Base," just north of Newport News, Virginia
(population 180,150), "myself and another airman
witnessed four flashes light up the night sky.  It was a
type of flash you would associate with a lightning storm.
They were very noticeable and lit up the whole area."
       "It was raining and hailing, and the weather was
very poor."
       "The first flash gave off a bluish glow.  The second
flash gave off a reddish glow.  The third flash exhibited
a yellow-orangeish glow, and the final flash was blue-
greenish.  These lit up the entire sky and blacked out
the power on two city blocks" in Newport News, Va.
       "We patrolled the area thinking it might have been
repercussions from a fallen tree or downed wire.  We
couldn't find any debris.  We notified the Fire
Department and the power company," he added, "The airman
and myself believe it to have been a UFO.  After the
third flash, we thought we saw an 'illuminated' triangle
flashing around in the sky.  It was very brief, though."
(Many thanks to Louise A. Lowry for forwarding this
report.)


UFOs APPEAR IN MEXICO

       On Sunday, November 17, 2002, "a spherical UFO of a
metallic appearance was seen by dozens of witnesses at
the La Campana 2002 auto rally at the Autodromo de los
Hermanos Rodriguez (stadium)" near Mexico City.
       According to Mexican ufologists Ana Luisa Cid and
Alfonso Salazar, "the UFO made motions to both the left
and the right above the crowd.  It was also detected by
air traffic controllers at the Mexico City International
Airport."
       "According to Salazar, the UFO was challenged at (an
altitude of) 1,500 meters (5,000 feet) by a Bell 206
helicopter, which caught images of the object on its
automatic camera.  Witnesses saw the UFO moving around in
the sky north of the stadium for up to ten minutes.
Finally, at 3 p.m., it flew away at a great velocity,
losing itself in the horizon."
       On Friday night, November 22, 2002, "a strange
incandescent object hovered over a hilly area near the
small town of Agua de Correa, near the city of
Zihuatanejo in the Mexican state of Guerrero.  The
object, 'which covered the sky with great splendor,'
caused traffic jams on the main roads" leading out of
Zihuatanejo."
       According to Mexican ufologist Alberto Gomez, "the
UFO was also seen by people in Los Vecinos de Petatlan
and Jose Azueta and by a few people on the outskirts of
Zihuatanejo.  A short while later, troops of the Mexican
Army rolled into Zihuatanejo aboard a convoy of heavy-
duty military trucks."  (See NotiOVNI for December 1,
2002.  Muchas gracias a Daniel Munoz para esos imformes.)


A MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION
IN DEEP SPACE

       "It came with no warning."
       "At 8:06 a.m. EDT on Friday, October 4th (2002),
NASA's High Energy Transient Explorer satellite (HETE-2)
detected a strong gamma-ray burst in (the constellation)
Pisces.  For years astronomers have been trying to pin
down the sources of these tremendous explosions, but that
means acting fast."
       "Within 11 seconds the HETE satellite sent out an
alert to astronomers worldwide on the Gamma-ray-burst
Coordinates Network (GCN).  Just 38 seconds later, while
the burst was still in progress, HETE narrowed down its
position to within 10 arcminutes and sent out a second
alert containing this crucial information."
       "Astronomers around the globe sprang into action.
In California, Derek W. Fox of Caltech (California
Institute of Technology--J.T.) awoke to an automatic page
and, following a prearranged protocol, used a laptop
(computer) in his home to sieze remote control of the 48-
inch (118-centimeter) Oschin Schmidt Telescope on Palomar
Mountain, which was conducting as asteroid hunt.  The
telescope wheeled around to the burst's position and
grabbed its first image just nine minutes after the burst
began.  This image...captured the burst's fading visible-
light afterglow at magnitude 15.5.  It was the second
brightest afterglow ever snared."
       "Other optical and radio observatories followed
suit.  Astronomers at Japan's Kyoto Observatory began
tracking the fading afterglow 37 minutes after the
burst."
       "Amateurs in Finland recorded it fading from
magnitude 17.9 to 18.8 from the 8th to the 13th hour
after the burst."
       "Meanwhile, Australian astronomers obtained a
spectrum and a preliminary redshift of 1.60" and later
determined "that the burster itself has a redshift of
2.33.  This implies a distance of about 10.5 billion
light-years, or 80 percent of the way across the
observable universe."
       "Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic and
violent events in the cosmos.  A typical one briefly
outshines its entire galaxy by millions of times.  Yet a
GRB's short duration (the gamma radiation last from a
fraction of a second to a few minutes) means that the
energy source must be incredibly small in size.  Most
astronomers believe that GRBs result from jets of matter
expelled extremely close to the speed of light by the
small dense core of a massive star collapsing and
spiralling into a newborn, spinning black hole."
       "GRB 021004, named for the date it occurred, quickly
became the best-observed gamma-ray burst in the 32 years
since the first ones were discovered.  Within a week
results had come in from more than 100 telescopes
worldwide."  (See Sky & Telescope for January 2003, "The
Best-Observed Gamma-Ray Burst," page 22.)


EARLIEST PRECOLUMBIAN
WRITING FOUND IN MEXICO

       "Symbols carved on stones 2,600 years ago in Mexico
suggest that the Olmecs, an early North American
(indigenous) people, invented the first writing system in
the Americas and that the symbols were adopted by later
native cultures such as the Mayans."
       "The symbols were found on chips from a stone plaque
and on a cylinder stone used for printing that were
unearthed in an archaeological dig at the site of an
ancient Olmec city near La Venta," in the Mexican state
of Tabasco, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) east-
southeast of Mexico City.
       "'These symbols have a very close resemblance to
symbols that were found from a later era among Mayan
artifacts,' said Kevin Pope, a co-author of the study in
the journal Science.  'We think the writing was developed
by the Olmecs and then adopted later by the Mayans.'"
       "Age-dating of the artifacts suggests they were
deposited on the site in about 650 B.C., about 350 years
before the date of specimens previously thought to be the
earliest examples of Mesoamerican writing."  (See USA
Today for December 9, 2002, "Symbols pre-date Mayan
writing," page 11D.)


A SECRET UNDERGROUND
BUNKER FOR DICK CHENEY?

       Some strange explosions were reported last week on
upper Massachusetts Avenue N.W. in Washington, D.C.
People living between Massachusetts and Wisconsin Avenues
called the Metropolitan Police to report "repeated
strange explosions" on the grounds of the Naval
Observatory, which is the official capital residence of
Vice President Dick Cheney.
      "Explosions being heard are part of a yearlong
security upgrade of the vice president's residence on the
observatory grounds, officials said."
       "Details are classified."
       "Navy spokeswoman Cate Mueller described the work as
'an infrastructure improvement, a utility upgrade.'"
       The Naval Observatory, in the western end of the
diamond-shaped District of Columbia, "was established in
1893, and the site became the vice president's residence
in 1974."  (See USA Today for December 9, 2002, "Security
upgrades underway at VP's home," page 7A.)
(Editor's Comment:  Sounds like some heavy-duty
construction is going on.  They could be building an
underground bunker beneath the observatory.  Or maybe
they're trying to link up with the existing prehistoric--
some say "Atlantean"--tunnel system that runs under
Washington, D.C.)


READER FEEDBACK:

STRANGE SECRETS OF
THE NEBULAS

       Jacqueline Brook writes, "I saw the same thing the
couple from Rodney, Ontario saw, from Putney, Vermont
(population 1,150).  And I know three other people in
Putney who saw the same thing also."  (See UFO Roundup,
volume 7, number 38 for September 17, 2002   "Couple
spots a UFO in Rodney, Ontario," page 5.)
       "My recollection is that I was looking straight up
at the zenith.  The 'black triangle UFO' traveled around
in a semi-circle, from a 10 o'clock position to a 2
o'clock position, just as they said."
       "Last night (December 7, 2002) I pulled up the
rather unsophisticated astronomy software that I have on
my computer, to see what was near the zenith on that
date: the short end of the Northern Cross, Cygnus."
       "This jogged a memory for me.  I knew I'd made a
note in my calendar of another odd sighting near the
Northern Cross.  I flipped through my calendar to find
that it was just two days later (after the Ontario
sighting--J.T.), on the (September) 9th (2002)."
       "Here's my note: 'Watched a light blink on and off
twice again--certain that I saw it--8:45 p.m., just
northeast of the Northern Cross.'"
       "Guess what's in this region of the sky?  The North
American Nebula!"
       "My take on 9/11 (i.e. the attack on the World Trade
Center in New York City on September 11, 2001--J.T.) from
the get-go, based on the content of some strange emails
that began coming to me on September 9, 2001, is that the
events were an inside job: we were at war with ourselves
that day--and still are."
       "Is it possible that ETs have been trying to point
out the same thing?"
       "Look at what's right next to the North American
Nebula--the Pelican Nebula.  The pelican is a symbol of
self-sacrifice, and a Masonic symbol of resurrection!"
       "And if this isn't an interesting omen, I don't know
what is--(the comet) Hale-Bopp streaking squarely across
the North American Nebula on October 9, 1977!"
(Editor's Comment:  That's an intriguing coincidence,
Jackie.  As I recall, five years ago, Hale Bopp was known
as "the Death comet."  And then it really earned that
nickname by precipitating the mass deaths of Marshall H.
Applewhite's Heavens Gate sect in San Diego in 1997.)


  From the UFO Files...

CHRISTMAS DOUBLE FEATURE

       To celebrate the holidays, UFO Roundup presents not
one but two Fortean cases from yesteryear.  Enjoy...and
have a Merry Christmas!


1954: ANOMALOUS STORM
            THREATENS LONDON

       On December 2, 1954, "a strange thunderstorm over
London flooded the West End and Trafalgar Square."  Heavy
flooding was also reported in Camden Town, Kingston and
Epsom, as well.
       What's strange about this storm was the appearance
of dark cumulous clouds at altitudes of 50,000 feet
(15,000 meters), too high for such cloud formation to
take place.
       "Mrs. Jeanne Macdonald-Gregory," who had served as
an RAF airwoman in World War II, "who watched it,
wrote...'The sky did not contain the normal heavy
electric thunderclouds but moving (cloud) layers, black
in parts.  Two falls of hail as large as marbles.  The
one thing that will certainly interest you is that during
the whole of this gale-period, the RAF had jet fighters
up!  Why?"
       Mrs. Macdonald-Gregory contacted old friends in the
RAF, but to no avail.  She added, "'I ran into a blank
wall of silence.'"
       "'I watched no fewer than five jets climbing like
mad to their maximum height (altitude in the USA--J.T.),
the cloudbase, at that period being around 50,000 feet.
I saw two of the fighter jets break away and dart off at
right angles, as if they had suddenly seen something else
in a different quarter.'"
       "'No Air Force would send up planes in that sort of
weather, if they had not been at panic stations.  Was the
phenomenon induced by the sixty-three atomic explosions
(in the nine years since 1945--J.T.), or by those
watching us from outer space?  That electric storm made
me wonder.'"  (See the book Flying Saucers Uncensored by
Harold T. Wilkins, The Citadel Press, New York, N.Y.,
1955, page 255.)


1980: DISCO INFERNO

       If you feel in the mood for dancing come New Year's
Eve, there's a dancehall you might want to skip.  It's in
the city of Darlington, in County Durham, UK.
       "Vicky Gilmour, 19, was in the girls' room of a
disco in Darlington, County Durham, when she burst into
flames."
       "The burns almost killed her, as friends tried to
beat out the flames."  The girl survived but needed skin
grafts for her face and body.
       "In the belief that a cigarette ignited her light
Indian cotton dress, a consumer organization tried
setting alight pieces of Vicky's dress and other similar
dresses with cigarettes--they just smoldered."
       "In some respects this is similar to the story of
Phyllis Newcombe, who in 1938 burst into flames while
leaving a ballroom floor, only Phyllis died in hospital
later."
       "In this case, too, the dress was tested by flicking
cigarette butts at it, to no effect."
       Both the Vicky Gilmour and Phyllis Newcombe cases
have entered the puzzling annals of the phenomenon called
spontaneous human combustion or SHC.  (See the book The
World's Most Incredible Stories, edited by Paul Sieveking
and Bob Rickard, Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1998, page 57.)

       Well, that's it for this week.  Join us in seven
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that goes home--UFO Roundup."  See you next time!

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