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                          UFO UpDates Mailing List
                                  Dec 2002

  Dec 1:

   Re: Jimmy Carter The Nobel Prize & ETs - Printy - Tprinty2@aol.com [16]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Gates - Robet Gates [51]
   Washington Post 'Taken' Article - Steven Kaeser [136]
   Italian UFO Newsflash No. 375 - Edoardo Russo [112]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Friedman - Stanton Friedman [233]
   Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - Friedman - Stanton Friedman [38]
   Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - Friedman - Stanton Friedman [116]
   Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - Friedman - Stanton Friedman [52]
   Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - Friedman - Stanton Friedman [206]

  Dec 2:

   Rimmer Exposed - Colin Bennett [58]
   PRG Update - 11-30-02 - Stephen Bassett [122]
   Re: Do Abductee's Families Discover Them Gone? - - Tom Bowden [26]
   Re: Abductions & Ufology - Hebert - Amy Hebert [75]
   Bolide Lights Up Morning Sky in Eastern US - Steven Kaeser [36]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Kaeser - Steven Kaeser [19]
   Archive Top 20 'Reads' - 11-02 - UFO UpDates - Toronto [67]
   Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - Clarke - David Clarke [51]
   Re: Abductions & Ufology - Sandow - Greg Sandow [48]
   Re: Abductions & Ufology - Hall - Richard Hall [114]
   Re: Abductions & Ufology - Hall - Richard Hall [60]
   Re: Rimmer Exposed - Rimmer - John Rimmer [23]
   Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - Rimmer - John Rimmer [80]
   Re: Abductions & Ufology - Sandow - Greg Sandow [19]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle - Kevin Randle [368]
   Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - Friedman - Stan Friedman [69]

  Dec 3:

   Current Cydonian Imperative Poll - Mac Tonnies [14]
   Security Classifications [was: Frank Kaufman?] - Murray Bott [60]
   Ombudsman "MOD Blocked Rendlesham File Release" - David Clarke [66]
   Washington Post Review Of TAKEN - Steven Kaeser [150]
   Re: UFO Documents on MOD Website - Clarke - David Clarke [69]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais - Gildas Bourdais [28]
   Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - McGonagle - Joe McGonagle [94]
   CNN Entertainment On 'Taken' - UFO UpDates - Toronto [115]
   'Antigravity'? Beamship - Kelly [55]
   Re: Roswell Had Victims? - Gonzalez - Luis R. Gonzalez [44]
   Re: Security Classifications - Friedman - Stan Friedman [129]
   Re: Washington Post Review Of 'Taken' - Velez - John Velez [124]

  Dec 4:

   Secrecy News -- 12/03/02 - Steven Aftergood [219]
   Defining An Abduction Case - John Velez [46]
   UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 7 Number 49 - John Hayes [448]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Friedman - Stanton Friedman [466]
   Re: Roswell Had Victims? - Anthony - Gary Anthony [56]
   Re: Security Classifications - Gates - Robert Gates [144]
   GWU Symposium Photo Gallery - John Velez [17]
   Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - Friedman - Stanton Friedman [60]
   Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Hamilton - Bill Hamilton [47]
   Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Connors - Wendy Connors [70]
   Canada's National Post On Rendlesham - Stan Friedman [13]
   Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - UFO UpDates - Toronto [56]
   Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Kochhar - Vivek Kochhar [25]
   Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - Ledger - Don Ledger [64]
   UFO 'Fleet' Reported over Buenos Aires? - Scott Corrales [28]
   Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Warren - Frank Warren [69]
   Re: Phony Credentials? [was: Re: Frank Kaufmann - Jim Speiser [50]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Houran - Jim Houran [42]
   Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Velez - John Velez [110]
   Re: Defining An Abduction Case - White - Eleanor White [33]
   GWU Symposium On SCI FI Channel Sunday - Bill Hamilton [18]
   Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Harrison - Diane Harrison [80]
   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Hall - Richard Hall [34]
   Filer's Files #49 -- 2002 - George A. Filer [516]
   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - King - Tom King [34]
   UFOs In 15th Century Paintings - UFO UpDates - Toronto [58]
   Book Follows Feds' Eye On UFOs - UFO UpDates - Toronto [65]
   UFO Sightings Are No Secret - UFO UpDates - Toronto [84]
   CSICOP's Randi Owes Him A Million? - UFO UpDates - Toronto [33]
   Strange Case Of The Suffolk Spaceship - UFO UpDates - Toronto [263]
   Billy Cox 'UFO Denials Never Die' - UFO UpDates - Toronto [87]
   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Tonnies - Mac Tonnies [18]

  Dec 5:

   Re: Security Classifications - Maccabee - Bruce Maccabee [27]
   CI: Unusual Oval Formations Resemble Enormous - Mac Tonnies [35]
   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Young - Bob Young [34]
   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Maccabee - Bruce Maccabee [41]
   Vice-Presidential UFO Letter Surfaces - Grant Cameron [13]
   Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Deardorff - Jim Deardorff [61]
   CI: Disclaimer! - Mac Tonnies [18]
   Re: Abductions & Ufology - Hebert - Amy Hebert [186]
   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Bowden - Tom Bowden [41]
   Miniature UFO Sighting - Larry Hatch [39]
   UK Government Secrecy - Joe McGonagle [26]
   Man Abducted In Brazil - Hoax! - Thiago Luiz Ticchetti [55]
   Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Houran - Jim Houran [30]
   Taken Comes To The BBC In 2003 - Philip Mantle [7]
   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - King - Tom King [55]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais - Gildas Bourdais [97]
   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Velez - John Velez [67]
   Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Velez - John Velez [61]
   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Ledger - Don Ledger [64]

  Dec 6:

   Meier Photo [was: Canada's National Post On - Jim Deardorff [40]
   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Young - Bob Young [39]
   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Young - Bob Young [37]
   Re: Abductions & Ufology - Hall - Richard Hall [217]
   Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Hall - Richard Hall [50]
   Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - Rimmer - John Rimmer [76]
   FOIA Request to FAA - 12-05-02 - Larry W. Bryant [52]
   Is Somebody Taping 'Taken'? - UFO UpDates - Toronto [8]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle - Kevin Randle [450]
   Re: Phony Credentials? - Gates - Robert Gates [29]
   Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Sandow - Greg Sandow [47]
   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Velez - John Velez [31]
   Ray L. Wallace, 1918 - 2002 - UFO UpDates - Toronto [145]
   Fife UFO Witnesses Respond To Appeal - UFO UpDates - Toronto [51]
   UK Daily Mail Rendlesham UFO Article - Dave Haith visions@ntlworld.com
   [160]
   Re: Phony Credentials? - Hall - Richard Hall [34]
   Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Hall - Richard Hall [61]
   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Maccabee - Bruce Maccabee [29]
   Re: Abductions & Ufology - Hebert - Amy Hebert [92]
   Re: Defining An Abduction Case - White - Eleanor White [59]
   Re: Meier Photo - Young - Bob Young [8]
   A (Renewed) CIA Mea Culpa - Larry W. Bryant [30]
   Re: Phony Credentials? - Young - Bob Young [22]
   Re: Abductions & Ufology - Hall - Richard Hall [40]
   Re: Meier Photo - Deardorff - Jim Deardorff [16]
   Secrecy News -- 12/06/02 - Steven Aftergood [100]
   Re: Meier Photo - Hall - Richard Hall [30]
   A Question Of The Real - Colin Bennett [35]

  Dec 7:

   Moderator Re: Billy Meier - UFO UpDates - Toronto [12]
   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Friedman - Stan Friedman [33]
   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Fleming - Lan Fleming [30]
   Re: Abductions & Ufology - Speiser - Jim Speiser [44]
   Re: Abductions & Ufology - Hebert - Amy Hebert [25]
   UFO Sightings OZ Files 07.12.02 - Diane Harrison [250]
   Houston, B.C. & Vancouver, B.C. Video Clips - Brian Vike - HBCC UFO
   Research [21]
   Re: A Question Of The Real - Clarke - David Clarke [56]
   Spielberg's TAKEN Sets Record For SciFi Channel - Steven Kaeser [30]
   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Maccabee - Bruce Maccabee [24]
   Re: Phony Credentials? - Maccabee - Bruce Maccabee [27]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais - Gildas Bourdais [19]
   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Tonnies - Mac Tonnies [24]
   Re: Phony Credentials? - Speiser - Jim Speiser [54]
   SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight - Larry Landsman [83]
   Magonia Supplement 44 - John Rimmer [29]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Hall - Richard Hall [34]

  Dec 8:

   Italian UFO Newsflash No. 376 - Edoardo Russo [115]
   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Young - Bob Young [27]
   Is Bigfoot Really Dead? - Loren Coleman [10]
   Re: Abductions & Ufology - Reason - Catherine Reason [64]
   Documentary To Revisit Kelly Little Men Legend - Loren Coleman [52]
   Italian UFO Newsflash No. 377 - Edoardo Russo [107]
   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Pope - Nick Pope [28]
   Re: A Question Of The Real - Bennett - Colin Bennett [18]

  Dec 9:

   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais - Gildas Bourdais [57]
   A Possible Roswell/RAF Connection - Colin Bennett [151]
   Re: Security Classifications - Aldrich - Jan Aldrich [292]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Gates - Robert Gates [31]
   Questions From A New Subscriber - Laurel Oplatka [24]
   European UFO Journal Press Release - Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos [70]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle - Kevin Randle [116]
   Re: A Possible Roswell/RAF Connection - Clarke - David Clarke [22]
   Re: Abductions & Ufology - Hall - Richard Hall [85]
   Re: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight - Myers - Royce J. Myers
   III - The UFO Watchdog [121]
   Another Approach - Roy Norris [75]
   Anton Anfalov? - Albert Rosales [5]
   Re: European UFO Journal Press Release - Hayes - John Hayes [18]
   Frank Edwards - Mutual Network Radio Archives? - Gord Heath [12]
   Re: Abductions & Ufology - Richard Hall [32]
   Re: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight - Hall - Richard Hall [80]
   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Friedman - Stan Friedman [41]
   Researchers Accuse ASU's THEMIS Of Fraud - UFO UpDates - Toronto [177]
   Re: Frank Edwards - Mutual Network Radio Archives? - Wendy Connors [79]
   Re: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight - - Steven Kaeser [74]
   Re: Another Approach - Kaeser - Steven Kaeser [28]
   Who Is Marching Us to War? The Unthinkable - Michael Brownlee [28]

  Dec 10:

   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Friedman - Stanton Friedman [482]
   Re: Abductions & Ufology - Hebert - Amy Hebert [141]
   Re: Mantell Case - Peer Review - Velez - John Velez [26]
   Re: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight - - Jan Aldrich [117]
   Javier Sierra? - Philip Mantle [8]
   Paul Davids' New Movie - Terry Blanton [13]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais - Gildas Bourdais [72]
   Secrecy News -- 12/10/02 - Steven Aftergood [171]
   UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 7 Number 50 - John Hayes [483]
   Please Update Your Links For AUFORN - Diane Harrison [22]
   Re: Who Is Marching Us to War? The Unthinkable - - Paul Kimball [51]
   Re: Paul Davids' New Movie - Hall - Richard Hall [22]
   Re: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight - Myers - Royce J. Myers
   III - The UFO Watchdog [91]
   Re: Another Approach - Maccabee - Bruce Maccabee [68]
   Re: Frank Edwards - Mutual Network Radio Archives? - Bruce Maccabee
   [21]

  Dec 11:

   Re: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight - - Steven Kaeser [91]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Rudiak - David Rudiak [257]
   Latest Vice-President Lyndon Johnson UFO Letter - Grant Cameron [28]
   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Rimmer - John Rimmer [17]
   Re: Abductions & Ufology - Morton - Dave Morton [138]
   Re: Abductions & Ufology - Kaeser - Steven Kaeser [48]
   Re: Another Approach - Young - Bob Young [37]
   Re: Mantell Case - Peer Review - Maccabee - Bruce Maccabee [12]
   Paul Bennewitz? - Laurel Oplatka [12]
   FILER'S FILES #50 -- 2002 - George A. Filer [513]
   Streaks On Mars Created By Flowing Water! - Nick Balaskas [28]
   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Friedman - Stanton Friedman [40]
   Re: Latest Vice-President Lyndon Johnson UFO - Richard Hall [11]
   Re: Security Classifications - Friedman - Stanton Friedman [51]
   Fred Steckling? - Ann Druffel [13]
   Re: Another Approach - Kimball - Paul Kimball [36]
   Re: Another Approach - Hall - Richard Hall [62]
   Re: Another Approach - Ledger - Don Ledger [49]

  Dec 12:

   Re: Another Approach - Speiser - Jim Speiser [24]
   Re: Abductions & Ufology - White - Eleanor White [47]
   Re: Another Approach - Young - Bob Young [28]
   Re: Another Approach - Young - Bob Young [34]
   Re: Another Approach - Young - Bob Young [20]
   Leon Davidson [was: Latest... Lyndon Johnson UFO - Stanton Friedman
   [32]
   Re: Another Approach - Friedman - Stanton Friedman [44]
   Re: Streaks On Mars Created By Flowing Water! - - Lan Fleming [126]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais - Gildas Bourdais [124]
   Grifton, NC UFO News Article - Kenny Young [67]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle - Kevin Randle [461]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle - Kevin Randle [394]
   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Clark - Jerome Clark [35]
   Secrecy News -- 12/12/02 - Steven Aftergood [131]
   Re: Abductions & Ufology - Maccabee - Bruce Maccabee [23]
   Re: Another Approach - Maccabee - Bruce Maccabee [56]
   Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Maccabee - Bruce Maccabee [157]
   Re: Another Approach - Ledger - Don Ledger [27]

  Dec 13:

   Spain: UFO Over Xativa? - Scott Corrales [46]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Young - Bob Young [20]
   Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Redfern - Nick Redfern [19]
   Re: Another Approach - Young - Bob Young [28]
   Re: Another Approach - Speiser - Jim Speiser [53]
   Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Speiser - Jim Speiser [22]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Hutchinson - Bruce Hutchinson [42]
   Re: Another Approach - Kimball - Paul Kimball [41]
   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Rimmer - John Rimmer [67]
   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Rimmer - John Rimmer [56]
   Tagish Lake Meteorite Article - Brian Straight [7]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Friedman - Stanton Friedman [38]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Printy - Tim Printy [20]
   Re: Abductions & Ufology - Velez - John Velez [127]
   Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Goldstein - Josh Goldstein [196]
   Re: Another Approach - Bowden - Tom Bowden [35]
   Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Bourdais - Gildas Bourdais [95]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais - Gildas Bourdais [58]
   Thanks From 'Beyond' - Philip Mantle [50]
   Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Richardson - Geoff Richardson [27]
   Re: Another Approach - Ledger - Don Ledger [35]
   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Clark - Jerome Clark [50]
   Getting Taken - UFO UpDates - Toronto [125]
   'Abductee' Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira A Hoaxer - A. J. Gevaerd -
   Revista UFO Brazil [43]
   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Friedman - Stanton Friedman [61]
   Re: Abductions & Ufology - Speiser - Jim Speiser [116]
   Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Redfern - Nick Redfern [37]
   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Velez - John Velez [94]
   Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Maccabee - Bruce Maccabee [59]
   Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Maccabee - Bruce Maccabee [21]
   Re: Getting Taken - Maccabee - Bruce Maccabee [26]
   Re: Getting Taken - Bassett - Steve Bassett [33]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Rudiak - David Rudiak [30]
   Re: Getting Taken - Hamilton - Bill Hamilton [33]
   Re: Getting Taken - Tonnies - Mac Tonnies [27]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Rudiak - David Rudiak [93]
   Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Gonzalez - Luis R. Gonzalez [6]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Rudiak - David Rudiak [59]
   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Rimmer - John Rimmer [22]
   Re: Another Approach - Speiser - Richard Hall [39]
   Re: Getting Taken - Bowden - Tom Bowden [15]
   Possible Precursors To Early Life On Earth - Todd Lemire [72]
   UFOs Visit Grampians - UFO UpDates - Toronto [25]
   Meteor Shower From The 'Twilight Zone' - UFO UpDates - Toronto [62]
   ETs May Be Beaming Lasers At Us - UFO UpDates - Toronto [90]
   More Signs Solar System Has 10th Planet - UFO UpDates - Toronto [53]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle - Kevin Randle [22]

  Dec 14:

   Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Hatch - Larry Hatch [37]
   Re: Getting Taken - Myers - Royce J. Myers III [92]
   Re: Getting Taken - Kaeser - Steven Kaeser [50]
   Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Maccabee - Bruce Maccabee [23]
   Re: Getting Taken - Maccabee - Bruce Maccabee [26]
   Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Bourdais - Gildas Bourdais [41]
   ETs May Be Beaming Lasers At Us - Don Ledger [49]
   Re: UFOs Visit Grampians - Hatch - Larry Hatch [37]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais - Gildas Bourdais [48]

  Dec 15:

   Re: Getting Taken - Kimball - Paul Kimball [13]
   I Made The Front Page! - Dave Haith [117]
   Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Maccabee - Bruce Maccabee [18]
   Re: More Signs Solar System Has 10th Planet - - Stanton Friedman [20]
   Re: ETs May Be Beaming Lasers At Us - Friedman - Stanton Friedman [39]
   Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Redfern - Nick Redfern [37]
   CASE MJ-12 by Kevin Randle (Review) - Mac Tonnies [23]
   Backwards In Time - Dave Haith [74]
   Re: UFOs Visit Grampians - Bowden - Tom Bowden [52]
   Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Gates - Robert Gates [28]
   Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Gates - Robert Gates [66]

  Dec 16:

   Great Moments In Debunking - Wendy Connors [31]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle - Kevin Randle [122]
   Open UFO Files To Rest Of Us Earthlings - UFO UpDates - Toronto [84]
   APRO File Services Offered Free Of Charge - Bruce Morgan [24]
   Combat Diary Number 1 - Colin Bennett [455]
   Rendlesham 2 - Eric Morris [14]
   Et Tu, ET? - UFO UpDates - Toronto [50]
   How Do You Prefer Aliens? Bark Or Bite? - UFO UpDates - Toronto [73]
   Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Bourdais - Gildas Bourdais [48]
   Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Connors - Wendy Connors [29]
   Secrecy News -- 12/16/02 - Steven Aftergood [159]
   Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Redfern - Nick Redfern [125]
   Re: Open UFO Files To Rest Of Us Earthlings - Velez - John Velez [103]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle - Kevin Randle [137]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Friedman - Stan Friedman [46]
   Re: How Do You Prefer Aliens? Bark Or Bite? - Hall - Richard Hall [22]
   Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Hall - Richard Hall [42]
   Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Young - Bob Young [39]
   Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Rimmer - John Rimmer [14]
   Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Connors - Wendy Connors [28]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle - Kevin Randle [42]
   Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Bennett - Colin Bennett [54]
   Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Oplatka - Laurel Oplatka [81]
   Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Aldrich - Jan Aldrich [145]
   Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Young - Bob Young [17]
   Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Bowden - Tom Bowden [16]
   Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Speiser - Jim Speiser [29]
   Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Lemire - Todd Lemire [83]

  Dec 17:

   Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Velez - John Velez [42]
   Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Connors - Wendy Connors [24]
   Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Bennett - Colin Bennett [25]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais - Gildas Bourdais [70]
   UFO Cover Up Witnesses? - Ed Case [19]
   Re: Backwards In Time - Maccabee - Bruce Maccabee [31]
   Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Maccabee - Bruce Maccabee [131]
   Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Maccabee - Bruce Maccabee [22]
   C.E.: Another UFO Scramble Over D.C.? - Kenny Young [53]
   Re: C.E.: Another UFO Scramble Over D.C.? - Kaeser - Steven Kaeser [64]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Hutchinson - Bruce Hutchinson [108]
   Robert Todd & Roswell - Bruce Hutchinson [17]
   Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Hutchinson - Bruce Hutchinson [52]
   UFO Universe Magazine? - Royce J. Myers III [11]
   Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Kaeser - Steven Kaeser [31]
   Was New Zealander First In Flying Machine? - UFO UpDates - Toronto
   [154]
   Deceptive Memory - Brian Straight [2]
   Re: Great Moments in Debunking - Connors - Wendy Connors [15]
   CCCRN News: Signs of Destiny Conference Photos & - Paul Anderson [70]
   UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 7 Number 51 - John Hayes [640]
   Dick Hall on Stanton T. Friedman IS Real - Paul Kimball [24]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Rudiak - David Rudiak [152]

  Dec 18:

   Re: UFO Cover Up Witnesses? - Bowden - Tom Bowden [17]
   Re: Great Moments in Debunking - Hall - Richard Hall [27]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle - Kevin Randle [31]
   Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Nick Redfern [55]
   Re: Great Moments in Debunking - Young - Bob Young [16]
   Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Young - Bob Young [22]
   Re: Another Approach - Young - Bob Young [38]
   Re: Another Approach - Young - Bob Young [15]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Gates - Robert Gates [179]
   Re: Robert Todd & Roswell - Gates - Robert Gates [34]
   Beyond Competition - Philip Mantle [7]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle - Kevin Randle [122]
   Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Gonzalez - Luis R. Gonzalez [39]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Rudiak - David Rudiak [62]
   Secrecy News -- 12/18/02 - Steven Aftergood [146]
   Putin & UFOs - Nikolay V. Subbotin [34]
   Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or Fact?' - Steven Kaeser
   [32]
   Filer's Files # 51 -- 2002 - George A. Filer [516]
   Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Rimmer - John Rimmer [129]
   [EWAR] Rendlesham File: A Triangle-Shaped Aerial - Mark Doulton [290]
   Re: Great Moments in Debunking - Connors - Wendy Connors [30]
   Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Ledger - Don Ledger [28]
   Re: Another Approach - Ledger - Don Ledger [22]

  Dec 19:

   Spielberg's Take On Taken - Steve Bassett [77]
   Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or - Bob Young [25]
   Re: Bill Moore? - Laurel Oplatka [3]
   Re: Another Approach - Kimball - Paul Kimball [42]
   Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Bennett - Colin Bennett [42]
   Re: Bill Moore? - Ballester Olmos - Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos [9]
   Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Friedman - Stanton Friedman [30]
   Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or - Steven Kaeser [17]
   Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken - Kaeser - Steven Kaeser [23]
   Re: Great Moments in Debunking - Friedman - Stan Friedman [36]
   Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Connors - Wendy Connors [20]
   Re: Another Approach - Maccabee - Bruce Maccabee [24]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Hutchinson - Bruce Hutchinson [53]
   Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Sandow - Greg Sandow [25]
   Dr. Ellen Crystall Passes - Scott C. Carr [18]
   Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Rimmer - John Rimmer [13]
   Russian Book 'Psychotronic Golgotha' - Eleanor White [34]
   Italian UFO Newsflash No. 374 - Edoardo Russo [106]
   Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Clark - Jerome Clark [23]
   Re: Great Moments in Debunking - Hall - Richard Hall [30]
   Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken - Maccabee - Bruce Maccabee [17]
   Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or - Richard Hall [40]
   Re: Another Approach - Hall - Richard Hall [38]
   Re: Dr. Ellen Crystall Passes - Hall - Richard Hall [21]

  Dec 20:

   Italian UFO Newsflash No. 378 - Edoardo Russo [81]
   Re: Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Bennett - Colin Bennett [48]
   Hynek? - Laurel Oplatka [7]
   Re: Dr. Ellen Crystall Passes - Sandow - Greg Sandow [15]
   Re: Great Moments in Debunking - Gates - Robert Gates [26]
   Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Gates - Robert c [29]
   Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken - Speiser - Jim Speiser [40]
   Re: Great Moments in Debunking - Morton - Dave Morton [56]
   Re: Hynek? - Speiser - Jim Speiser [14]
   Re: Hynek? - Friedman - Stan Friedman [36]
   Re: Hynek? - Clark - Jerome Clark [26]
   Secrecy News -- 12/20/02 - Steven Aftergood [116]
   Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken - Friedman - Stan Friedman [64]
   Re: [EWAR] Rendlesham File: A Triangle-Shaped - Nick Pope [85]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle - Kevin Randle [202]
   Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken - Hall - Richard Hall [47]

  Dec 21:

   Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken - Maccabee - Bruce Maccabee [33]
   Re: Hynek? - Oplatka - Laurel Oplatka [47]
   Re: Christenson? - Jim Speiser [6]
   Holiday Wishes - John Velez [11]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais - Gildas Bourdais [67]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle - Kevin Randle [127]
   Re: Corso [was: Re: Hynek?] - Gates - Robert Gates [21]
   Re: Hynek? - Clark - Jerome Clark [26]
   Re: Lazar [was: Re: Hynek?] - Hall - Richard Hall [23]

  Dec 22:

   Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken - Friedman - Stanton Friedman [78]
   The Feats & Pitfalls Of Archeo-Ufology - Larry W. Bryant [101]
   Re: Holiday Wishes - Maccabee - Bruce Maccabee [10]
   Re: Rendlesham File... - Easton - James Easton [105]
   Re: Holiday Wishes - McCoy - GT McCoy [11]
   Re: Corso - Gehrman - Ed Gehrman [32]
   Roswell Crash? - Alan Kerrigan [23]

  Dec 23:

   From Those That Brought Us The Reed Fraud - Royce J. Myers III - The
   Watchdog [10]
   WTC UFO - William Sawers [28]
   Abduction Question - Eleanor White [7]
   Secrecy News -- 12/23/02 - Steven Aftergood [114]
   AP Story on Jim's Ex-NASA 'Moon Hoax' Rebuttal - Jerry Cohen [48]
   Re: Hynek? - Cohen - Jerry Cohen [26]
   Gerald Anderson On The Wall of Shame - Kevin Randle [22]
   Re: Holiday Wishes - Ogbojo - Jennifer Ogbojo [4]
   Re: Roswell Crash? - Tonnies - Mac Tonnies [33]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle - Gildas Bourdais [37]
   Re: Corso - Hall - Richard Hall [38]
   Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken - Randle - Kevin Randle [19]
   Re: WTC UFO - Ledger - Don Ledger [38]
   Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken - Hall - Richard Hall [107]

  Dec 24:

   Re: Feats & Pitfalls of Archeo-Ufology - Oplatka - Laurel Oplatka [21]
   Victoria To Vancouver, B.C. Sighting From Ferry - Brian Vike - HBCC UFO
   Research [29]
   Re: Roswell Crash? - Bowden - Tom Bowden [25]
   E-Mail Addresses? - Thiago Luiz Ticchetti [12]
   Brazil's Recent 'Abductee' - Thiago Luiz Ticchetti [24]
   Re: Abduction Question - Velez - John Velez [74]
   Re: Hynek? - Cohen [Re-send] - Jerry Cohen [32]
   Re: Roswell Crash? - Bourdais - Gildas Bourdais [29]
   Secrecy News -- 12/24/02 - Steven Aftergood [108]
   Re: Roswell Crash? - Bourdais - Gildas Bourdais [75]
   Re: Brazil's Recent 'Abductee' - Moulton Howe - Linda Moulton Howe [40]
   Re: Roswell Crash? - Kaeser - Steven Kaeser [60]
   Re: Hynek? - Clark - Jerome Clark [33]
   Re: Abduction Question - White - Eleanor White [29]
   A Christmas Break - UFO UpDates - Toronto [9]

  Dec 25:

   Re: Roswell Crash? - Bourdais - Richard Hall [50]
   Re: Hynek? - Hall - Richard Hall [50]
   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Rudiak - David Rudiak [95]
   Re: Roswell Crash? - Tonnies - Mac Tonnies [16]
   Re: Brazil's Recent 'Abductee' - Ticchetti - Thiago Luiz Ticchetti [32]
   Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken - Friedman - Stanton Friedman [32]
   CI: Enigmatic Polar 'Trails' on Mars - Mac Tonnies [23]
   Re: Corso - Gates - Robert Gates [51]
   UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 7 Number 52 - John Hayes [295]

  Dec 26:

   Re: Roswell Crash? - Bourdais - Gildas Bourdais [76]
   Filer's Files #52 -- 2002 - George A. Filer [523]
   'Thing From Another World' Actor Dies - Loren Coleman [19]
   'Out Of The Blue' Hits The Market - Grant Cameron [106]
   Re: Hynek - Oplatka - Laurel Oplatka [13]
   Re: Another WTC UFO? - Yturria - Santiago Yturria [16]
   FOIA Request To NSA - 12-26-02 - Larry W. Bryant [38]

  Dec 27:

   UFO Cult Says It Has First Human Clone - Loren Coleman [23]
   New Washington D.C. Scramble: UFO Witness Surfaces - Kenny Young [7]
   Re: Roswell Crash? - Bourdais - Gildas Bourdais [30]
   Re: Corso - Gates - Ed Gehrman [55]
   Re: New Washington D.C. Scramble: UFO Witness - Richard Hall [15]

  Dec 28:

   Re: Roswell Crash? - Kerrigan - Alan Kerrigan [64]
   Re: UFOs Visit Grampians - Taylor - Barry Taylor [75]
   Re: New Washington D.C. Scramble: UFO Witness - Kenny Young [15]
   *U* UFO Database Images Plagiarized - Larry Hatch [63]
   Re: Corso - Gates - Robert Gates [151]
   Re: Brazil's Recent 'Abductee' - Gevaerd - A. J. Gevaerd [97]
   Re: New Washington D.C. Scramble: UFO Witness - Kenny Young [15]

  Dec 29:

   Re: New Washington D.C. Scramble: - Hall - Richard Hall [23]
   Is Ufology Dead Or Just Dozing? - Joe McGonagle [14]
   Re: Corso - Gehrman - Ed Gehrman [160]
   *U* Database Images Plagiarized #2 - Larry Hatch [98]
   Re: Roswell Crash? - Goldstein - Josh Goldstein [41]
   Puerto Rico: Final Resting Place for Chupacabras? - Scott Corrales [57]
   Re: Corso - Aldrich - Jan Aldrich [83]
   Re: Hynek - Cohen - Jerry Cohen [46]
   Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or - Bob Young [64]
   Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Young - Bob Young [17]
   Re: Security Classifications - Aldrich - Jan Aldrich [121]

  Dec 30:

   Rendlesham Forest - 12/1980 - Tom Bowden [35]
   'The Phenomena Show' Comes To Queensland - Diane Harrison [126]
   Re: Is Ufology Dead Or Just Dozing? - Hale - Roy Hale [28]
   Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or - Jim Speiser [35]
   Crop Circles? How About Ice Holes? - UFO UpDates - Toronto [43]
   E.T. Call Canada: One In Five Thinks Life Is Out - UFO UpDates -
   Toronto [67]
   Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or - Don Ledger [22]
   Re: Is Ufology Dead Or Just Dozing? - Redfern - Nick Redfern [66]
   Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or - Steven Kaeser [19]
   Re: Is Ufology Dead Or Just Dozing? - Kaeser - Steven Kaeser [33]
   Re: Corso - Gehrman - Ed Gehrman [121]

  Dec 31:

   Re: Corso - Young - Bob Young [11]
   Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or - Richard Hall [42]
   Re: Rendlesham Forest - 12/1980 - Kisak - Paul F. Kisak [24]
   Re: Is Ufology Dead Or Just Dozing? - Connors - Wendy Connors [37]
   FOTOCAT News - 12-2002 - Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos [75]
   Re: Rendlesham Forest - 12/1980 - Pope - Nick Pope [48]
   Re: Rendlesham Forest - 12/1980 - Speiser - Jim Speiser [30]
   Re: *U* Database Images Plagiarized #2 - Lewis - SMiles Lewis [19]
   Re: Corso - Gates - Robert Gates [115]





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               Re: Jimmy Carter The Nobel Prize & ETs - Printy

From: Tprinty2@aol.com
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 21:20:52 EST
Fwd Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 22:27:49 -0500
Subject: Re: Jimmy Carter The Nobel Prize & ETs - Printy


 >From: Don Ledger <dledger@ns.sympatico.ca>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 11:52:46 -0400
 >Subject: Re: Jimmy Carter The Nobel Prize & ETs

 >Whoa,

 >Tim. Where did you read that? That old saw was pretty much
 >discarded. Even Hynek who proposed it off the cuff realized his
 >mistake later. Navy balloon probably. Venus no.

 >Read it again.

 >Don Ledger

I am not referring to Mantell's sighting. Randle makes reference
to sightings made that evening (Incidents 30, 32, 48), which
were apparently Venus. I never stated that Mantell's event was
Venus.

See, I did read all of Randle's paper.


Tim Printy








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                     Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Gates

From: Robet Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 00:32:43 EST
Fwd Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 22:38:49 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Gates


 >From: Don Ledger <dledger@ns.sympatico.ca>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 11:31:26 -0400
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 20:23:13 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 22:37:20 -0400
 >>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufman?

 >>>>From: Josh Goldstein <clearlight@t-online.de>
 >>>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>>Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 18:17:39 +0100
 >>>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufman?

 ><snip>

 >>>>Frank had admitted on December 13, 1999, at his home with 4
 >>>>witnesses present that he had told lies about his involvement
 >>>>during an earlier interview with me, with Kevin Randle and Don
 >>>>Schmitt also present. I had noted other problems with Frank's
 >>>>story earlier to Kevin, Don, Kent Jeffrey, Bob Wood.

 >>Good Morning, Stan, List, All -

 >>>>I am confused by this paragraph because it seems to suggest
 >>>>that on December 13, 1999, I was present when Frank admitted
 >>>>to telling lies. While I have little doubt about the veracity
 >>>>of this statement, I was not present and hadn't seen Frank
 >>>>since September 1998.

 >>First let me apologize for my rather inelegant statement above.
 >>My excuse was having to get to the store very early because they
 >>were selling DVD players for $30. American (what is that in
 >>Canada now, about a thousand bucks?).

 ><snip>

 >About $45 Kevin. Geez it ain't that bad. Your prices are very
 >high. particularly your food and lumber.

 >BTW - What store was that? Walmart?

Last year, same time, the major US stores were unloading super
cheap DVD players. What was interesting is that within 2-3
months the stores got back 60 percent of them for various
reasons. I knew one of the managers whose comment was that he
would never own one, however consumers are attracted to low
prices like moths to flames.  Bottom line with the so called
cheap DVD is when you buy, make sure you have a 1 year warranty
because you may need it.

An even better story last year was when a washer died. The new
one was purchased just after November 1st and Sears had a 30 day
guarantee that if the price went lower, they would honor the low
price and refund the difference. Interestingly the price on that
washer went up by $100.00 the day after thanksgiving.


Cheers,

Robert










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                       Washington Post 'Taken' Article

From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 08:08:37 -0500
Fwd Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 22:44:41 -0500
Subject: Washington Post 'Taken' Article


Spielberg's 20 hour miniseries is being heavily promoted, and
the Science Fiction Channel has apparently put a lot of effort
in getting the public to watch:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43406-2002Nov26.html

A Tale of UFOs and Alien Abduction


By Alan James Frutkin
Special to The Washington Post
Sunday, December 1, 2002; Page Y06


First-person accounts of alien abductions are still the stuff of
supermarket tabloids. But in the hands of Steven Spielberg,
those stories become a major TV event. At least, that's what the
folks at cable's Sci Fi Channel are hoping.

Beginning on Monday at 9 p.m., the cable network premieres
"Taken," a 20-hour, 10-episode miniseries about UFO sightings,
extraterrestrials, and alien abductions. Spielberg is the
executive producer.

The miniseries follows three families over the course of 60
years. It begins during World War II, when U.S. bomber pilots
flying over France reported what may have been the first
contemporary sightings of unidentified flying objects. The
action also centers on Roswell, N.M., where, legend has it, a
UFO crashed in 1947.

In fact, "Taken's" storyline is based primarily on legends that
have emerged regarding the subject of extraterrestrials. "It's a
modern mythology," said Leslie Bohem (pronounced Bo-heem), the
executive producer who wrote the series. "If you say all of this
is true, that's amazing. If it's not true, it's even more
incredible."

More incredible, Bohem added, because "for thousands of years,
people have been telling similar versions of the same story."

Bohem said he was drawn to the project because of its subject
matter and its scale. "Taken" was four years in the making and
cost roughly $40 million. At 20 hours, it is the longest
miniseries ever to air on TV.

But with the project spanning nearly six decades, and four
generations of families, "Taken's" size also proved daunting.
Actors who figure prominently in the early episodes soon move
offscreen once their characters' descendants come into view.
Filmmaker Tobe Hooper ("Poltergeist"), who directed "Taken's"
premiere episode, said that during filming, he shot almost 300
screen tests for future roles in the series.

"It was one of those situations where if you had examined it and
asked questions before you went into it, you may have found it
overwhelming," the director added, chuckling. "So it was better
to just put the parachute on and jump. If it opens, it opens."

Size isn't "Taken's" only distinction. The Sci Fi Channel will
air the first five installments this week-- one two-hour episode
Monday through Friday at 9 p.m.--and five more installments next
week, Monday through Friday, as well. It's an unusual scheduling
move, but Sci Fi President Bonnie Hammer said it's worth the
risk.

"To dilute this as a weekly series over ten weeks would take
away some of it specialness," she added. "It's an experiment,
but we really believe that high risk equals potentially high
rewards."

Clearly, the reward Hammer is looking for is ratings--big
enough, once and for all, to put the oft-neglected cable network
on the map.

"Unfortunately, many people over the years have believed that
the Sci Fi Channel is not necessarily for them," Hammer said.
"Even if they enjoy science fiction, they don't equate
themselves with being science fiction aficionados."

Sci Fi has tasted success in the past. In 2000, the cable
network's first miniseries, "Frank Herbert's Dune," drew its
largest audience to date, averaging approximately 4.5 million
viewers.

With Spielberg's name attached to "Taken," Hammer said she hopes
the miniseries will reach an even larger audience, creating "an
awareness that we haven't had before about the bigness and the
quality of what we do."

And quality is the word most often tossed around when speaking
of "Taken." Hooper said that each installment of the special
effects-laden series looks more like a feature film than a
typical TV show. He added that the visual style of each episode
also reflects the decade in which it takes place. For example,
the first show has a sepia-toned look, the second highlights the
Technicolor style of the 1950s, and the third has more of a
1960s black-and-white TV look.

Despite all of its technical wizardry, Hooper said the strength
of the series still comes from its character-driven storylines.
Rather than have his actors mimic the cardboard-cutout style of
many sci-fi films, he said, "I wanted these people to be real,
and to be responding to the reality of their situations."

In creating realism out of what remains for many a surreal
subject, Bohem said he zeroed in on three different aspects of
the so-called mythology, represented by the show's three
families. First, there are the Keys, a typical American family
torn apart after several of its members are abducted. Young
Allie Keys, played by Dakota Fanning, is the series's narrator.
Then there are the Crawfords, a military family.

But the Clarkes, Bohem said, reflect a traditionally under-
represented subject: debunkers. "It's one of my favorite parts
of the mythology," he said. "Guys who, for complex reasons, are
dedicated to proving it was all a bunch of hooey."

Of course, the subject of alien abductions is nothing new to
television. Bohem noted that for nine seasons, Fox's "The X-
Files" covered that subject matter admirably. So when it came
time to portray the military's purported role in the coverup of
alien sightings, Bohem wanted to take a different tack than that
of "X-Files" creator Chris Carter.

Whereas Carter depicted a paranoid government afraid to let the
public know the truth even as officials cut deals in the back
room with aliens, Bohem said his portrayal of the government is
a bit more humanistic. "Even if they're vicious, ruthless and
dangerous, they're trying as hard as we are to figure out who
the aliens are," he said.

Actor Joel Gretsch ("The Emperor's Club," "Minority Report")
plays Capt. Owen Crawford, an ambitious military man, and one of
the most surprising villains. And even though Crawford is seen
only through episode four, Gretsch said his storyline
underscores the program's reliance on dramatic storytelling
rather than gimmickry.

"There is a Crawford legacy that's passed on to his children,"
he said of Crawford's villainy. "And it just goes to show you
that whatever karma you put out there will come back to bite you
in the butt."

Both Bohem and Hooper acknowledged that such intricate
storylines are the trademark of a Spielberg, whose feature
r=E9sum=E9 includes "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" and "Back to the
Future." Spielberg was unavailable for an interview for this
story, but Bohem said the filmmaker was involved with the series
every step of the way.

"If I was stuck on something, I always knew I was working with
someone who'd come up with something great," he said, adding
that the initial idea for the miniseries came from Spielberg
himself. "Steven Spielberg doesn't put his name on something if
he doesn't believe in it."

Now, Sci Fi hopes viewers believe in it. And while airing the
series consecutively for two weeks might be asking a lot of the
audience, the network also has devised several back-up plans,
among them, weekend marathons. On Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 7
and 8, Sci Fi will air the first five episodes on both days,
from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. The following weekend, it will air the
first five shows on Saturday, Dec. 14, and the second five on
Sunday, Dec. 15, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

=A9 2002 The Washington Post Company








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                        Italian UFO Newsflash No. 375

From: Edoardo Russo <edoardo.russo@tiscali.it>
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 19:42:53 +0100
Fwd Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 22:45:45 -0500
Subject: Italian UFO Newsflash No. 375


ITALIAN UFO NEWSFLASH

ISSUE NO. 375 -  14 NOVEMBER 2002

by the Italian Center for UFO Studies
(Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici, CISU)

Contents:



- Sightings In Italy: October
- "Ultimatum to Earth": The Release Of The Book
- CISU 2003 Membership Drive


SIGHTINGS IN ITALY: OCTOBER

The statistical data on UFO sighting reportedto the Italian
Center for UFO Studies (CISU) has been updated for last month.

There were 38 observations which occurred during the month of
October, thus bringing to 615 the total for the first ten months
of this year, as compared with the 778 comprehensive total for
2001. As a result, the absence of great "waves" notwithstanding,
the ongoing year is likewise proving to be as rich in reports.

Besides the cases for 2001 and 2002, this month's statistics
also include data for the Year 2000 (already updated since those
initially made known a few weeks ago): the observations of that
year totaled 327, which doesn't even take into account the
summer "peak" of the subsequent two-year period.

Major data (in particular, the monthly list of cases), tables,
and statistical graphs featuring distribution data based on
month, time, region and type, are made available on the CISU
Website (www.arpnet.it/ufo/casi2002.htm).

[Collaboration by Giorgio Abraini]


"ULTIMATUM TO EARTH": THE RELEASE OF THE BOOK

The new book by Giuseppe Stilo, "Ultimatum alla Terra", is being
shipped to all those who purchased it by advanced order.

The latest book project from Edizioni UPIAR for the Italian
Center for UFO Studies is entirely devoted to the second great
historical wave of sightings over Italy,  that occurring in 1952
and heretofore largely ignored,  the complete relevance of which
is now emerging, thanks to the archive research conducted by
Operazione Origini ("Operation Origins").

Two hundred eighteen observations of flying saucers in our
country; 1,800 news reports and articles published in Italian
newspapers; and a good 542 pages of text featuring 39
illustrations: these are the main numbers contained in this
volume. Which  like its predecessor, "Scrutate i cieli!" ("Watch
The Skies!"), dedicated to the Wave of 1950,  does not limit
itself, however, to the Italian scene, but widens the focus to
include the rest of the globe (USA excluded). This makes it
possible to place this formidable year in its proper context,
inbetween the birth of contactism, the global UFO wave, Nazi
myths, the first ufologists, and the first humanoids.

Effectively with the release of this book, the promotional
discount drive comes to an end. As a result, the present volume
is now on sale  also on the Internet at www.upiar.com  for the
full price of 27.89 Euro (20% discount for CISU members), or as
a special offer along with "Scrutate i cieli!" (for 42 Euro,
minus CISU discount if applicable).

[Communication by Gian Paolo Grassino;
www.arpnet.it/ufo/stilo52.htm]


CISU 2003 MEMBERSHIP DRIVE

The month of November marks the beginning of the "CISU 2003"
Membership Drive for new subscriptions to the Italian Center for
UFO Studies (CISU).

The annual membership fee for the new year remains unchanged at
21 Euro for "Regular Collaborators" (31 for "Supporters" and 77
for Members "In Good Standing"), and entitles one to receive
four issues of the quarterly "UFO  - Rivista di informazione
ufologica" ("UFO  Magazine of Ufological Information")  besides
access to the library, archives and services of the Center, plus
major discounts on publications published or distributed by the
CISU and Cooperativa UPIAR.

New members who pay their membership fee prior to 31 December
will additionally receive for free the issues for 2002 released
between their payment and year-end.

For more information, the Membership Form is available on the
Internet at the following Website: www.cisu.org/cisu2003.htm.


Collaborators on this edition were Giorgio Abraini and Gian
Paolo Grassino.


- - -

This is the English translation of UFOTEL, a free phone/Internet
information service on UFOs edited weekly by  Edoardo Russo for
the Italian Center for UFO Studies (Centro Italiano Studi
Ufologici), available in Italian by calling +39-011-545294, or
by e-mail subscription, or on CISU website at
http://www.arpnet.it/ufo/ultime.htm

UFOTEL is a supplement to "UFO - Rivista di
informazione ufologica", published by the Italian
Center for UFO Studies, registered at Tribunale
di Torino,  No. 3670, on 19 June 1986.
Director: Giovanni Settimo.
Publisher: Cooperativa UPIAR, Corso Vittorio
Emanuele 108, 10121 Turin, Italy

Translated from Italian to English by:
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                    Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Friedman

From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers. com>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 18:20:30 -0400
Fwd Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 22:55:32 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Friedman


 >From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol. com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net
 >Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 20:23:13 EST
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers. com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net>
 >>Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 22:37:20 -0400
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufman?

 >>>From: Josh Goldstein <clearlight@t-online. de>
 >>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net>
 >>>Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 18:17:39 +0100
 >>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufman?

 >>>>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol. com>
 >>>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net
 >>>>Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 14:25:23 EST
 >>>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufman?

 >>>>>From: Fred Clark <Ufoufo51@aol. com>
 >>>>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net
 >>>>>Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 10:16:00 EST
 >>>>>Subject: Frank Kaufman?

 ><snip>

 >>>Frank had admitted on December 13, 1999, at his home with 4
 >>>witnesses present that he had told lies about his involvement
 >>>during an earlier interview with me, with Kevin Randle and Don
 >>>Schmitt also present. I had noted other problems with Frank's
 >>>story earlier to Kevin, Don, Kent Jeffrey, Bob Wood.

 >Good Morning, Stan, List, All -

 >>>I am confused by this paragraph because it seems to suggest
 >>>that on December 13, 1999, I was present when Frank admitted
 >>>to telling lies. While I have little doubt about the veracity of this
 >>>statement, I was not present and hadn't seen Frank since
 >>>September 1998.

As I have previously noted, At Frank Kaufmann's home in Roswell
on December 13, 1999, I was present, by Frank's invitation, with
Linda Howe, Dennis Balthaser (a bit late)and Don Schmitt. I
asked Frank point blank "Did Blanchard go to the supposed crash
site with you?". His answer was "No". I asked "Did Marcel go
with you to the crash site?" His answer was no. I wrote about
this meeting in my notes shortly thereafter and within a few
months in my MUFON 2000 paper. I had also written up my
interview with Frank in my room at the Roswell Inn with Kevin
and Frank present on July 2, 1995. I was not allowed to tape
that interview. I expressed concern then at the strange claim
that Marcel and Blanchard had gone out with Kaufmann. In 1999 he
admitted his claim was a lie. I sent copies of my notes of the
1999 meeting to Dennis, Linda and Don and asked for their
corrections. There were none.

I have previously expressed concern about the lack of evidence
of Frank's supposed 1947 military background,at the notion of a
flatbed truck being able to get to the supposed crash site and
back to base in the wee hours of the morning, at the meaning of
Frank's pictures with big shots. . I noted in the MUFON 2000
paper that Frank's UFO drawing matched those of the TR3A which
appeared in Popular Mechanics (Dec. 1991) and an earlier issue
of Av. Week and Space Tech.

 >First let me apologize for my rather inelegant statement above.
 >My excuse was having to get to the store very early because they
 >were selling DVD players for $30. American (what is that in
 >Canada now, about a thousand bucks?). Anyway, what I meant was
 >that while I have little doubt that Frank Kaufmann has invented
 >his tales, I wasn't present and I seriously doubt he made any
 >sort of admission to Friedman, Schmitt or Howe.

 >Now that I've had a chance to go back and look at Stan's notes
 >in the MUFON Symposium book for 2000, I can point out that,
 >according to him, he visited Frank with Don Schmitt (not exactly
 >the epitome of credibility) and Linda Howe. My name is
 >conspicuously absent from that list. In the world of Ufology,
 >this is now a false claim. (Remember, in Ufology, there are no
 >honest mistakes, merely false claims that we use to bludgeon
 >each other. )

I didn't say you were there. I said Frank admitted in 1999 that
he had not told the truth at the meeting in 1995 at which you
were definitely present, Kevin. You may recall that after your
shouting and ranting, I told you to either be quiet or leave.
You remained. That was also the meeting after which, with just
you and me, you claimed that you could refute all the 38 items
on my list of false claims by you and Don which I had listed in
my 1995 MUFON paper "Roswell Revisited" which you had just seen.
You will recall that, at my urging, you were kind enough to read
a quote from your book "A History of UFO Crashes" four times
before finally realizing that you had falsely claimed that you
had shown there was nothing to crashed saucer claims from
Spitzbergen, Aztec, or Roswell in the 1980 Ron Story UFO
Encyclopedia. There was nothing about Roswell in that book. You
claimed that something different had been in your head than was
in the book. I noted I was not psychic.

 >There is nothing in that part of Stan's MUFON speech that
 >suggests that Frank Kaufmann told him, Schmitt or Howe that he
 >told lies about his involvement.

This is simply untrue. In the paper (bottom of p. 200 in the
Symp. Proc. ) "On December 13, 1999,Frank was most cordial at his
home to myself, Dennis Balthaser, Linda Howe, and Don Schmitt. I
explicitly asked if Blanchard had gone out with him. NO. Did
Marcel go with you? NO. "In 1995 he had claimed that he had
awakened both in the middle of the night and they had all gone
together. Perhaps Kevin has forgotten that I had also asked
wouldn't they have waited for a spotter plane before Blanchard
would leave his post without knowing what was there. Frank said
there were no spotter planes. But others have said there were. I
had also raised questions about Frank's response when asked by
Japanese researchers what the wreckage looked like and he said
just as Jesse Marcel Jr. , described it, though Jesse had NOT
been at the crash site and Frank had claimed to have been there.
I have also raised questions as to why Frank felt free to talk
openly about one of the most classified and significant events
in history ,but he couldn't tell who his contacts were. , etc ad
nauseum.

 >If true, however, the question
 >is, why would he sit on all this information for almost three
 >years?.

Kevin, the meeting was in December 1999. I wrote my MUFON 2000
paper in the spring of 2000. . a few months later. not 3 years.

 >Why didn't he publish this admission, along with the
 >audiotapes that surely one of them would have made?

It was a friendly gathering at Frank's home. No tapes were made.
They also were not made in my room with you Frank and Don and
myself present. You guys wouldn't allow it.

 >If he had an
 >admission that Kaufmann was making it up, why not tell the world
 >then? Why come forward now and say that he told me. .

I didn't say I told you. I came forward in my MUFON paper to say
he admitted that Blanchard and Marcel had NOT gone out with him
Perhaps you will recall that I have also complained about
Frank's claiming he was buddy-buddy with Major Marcel, but that
Dr. Marcel had no recollection of him though Jesse, Jr. did
recall Cavitt, Yeagher, Rickett. .

 >Instead, Stan seems to rely on the suggestion that Scanlon had
 >not been the commander of ADC, that other, higher ranking
 >generals were in fact the commanders. This is, I suppose,
 >somehow to lead us to the conclusion that Frank had invented his
 >tales. Why not just tell us simply that Frank had admitted that
 >he wasn't involved? This smacks of the recent statement that Don
 >Schmitt had never lied to Stan.

Way off base here, Kevin. I noted previously and in the 2000
paper that Scanlon's last position at ADC which ended in early
1948 was as Public Affairs man at Mitchell Field in NY and there
were no ADC radar systems in NM in 1947(with or without
Scanlon). Frank had long ago stated he knew nothing about Radar.
Scanlon as PA guy would certainly have not been ordering
somebody who knew nothing about radar to visit nonexistent
facilities at White Sands.

I did not say Schmitt had never lied to me. What I said was that
he had not told me he had degrees from anywhere. He did not lie
to me about his academic credentials. This was significant
because I have a deserved reputation for checking on credentials
(yes, I did call about yours)and would have checked if he had
given them. You will recall that when I heard that Milwaukee
Magazine had identified that Don didn't have the credentials he
had claimed to them, and that he worked for the US Post Office,
that I called the post office and asked for Don. He came to the
phone. You were excoriating those of us who accepted the story
from MM for 6 weeks before finally acknowledging that you had
been had. I gather you still haven't gotten over it.

 >Scanlon, it seems, enjoys the same sort of intelligence
 >background that Donald Menzel enjoys. If those intelligence
 >connections make a case of MJ-12, then why aren't Scanlon's
 >intelligence credentials of equal importance? He was a guy
 >tapped by Hap Arnold to help development Air Force intelligence
 >during the war. Wouldn't Arnold have thought of him immediately
 >if he needed a reliable man to fly into Roswell?

Hap Arnold was not head of the US Army Air Force in 1947 (Spaatz
was, with Vandenberg under him). Scanlon was in Public Affairs
not Intelligence after the war. It is claimed (p. 168) in your
"The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell" that Generals Ramey,
McMullen, Kenny and Scanlon were superiors to the men at
Roswell. A Public relations guy in ADC was over SAC people at
Roswell?? I find that difficult to believe.

 >And if Scanlon
 >knew Kaufmann, wouldn't he be likely to call on him to assist?
 >And if this is not logical, then why should we accept the idea
 >that Menzel's wartime service somehow qualified him for
 >membership on MJ-12?

As I noted in" TOP SECRET/MAJIC" it was primarily Menzel's post
WW 2 intelligence work that was so significant including his
1960 (the war ended in 1945) statement to JFK that he, Menzel,
had a longer connection with the NSA (founded in 1952) and its
Navy Predecessor than anybody else (30 years). He also noted his
postwar high security work with the CIA and 30 companies, and
his being Commander of Naval Reserve Communications Unit no. 1
in Cambridge post war. Obviously it didn't hurt that he was
world class in cryptography before during and after the war.
Scanlon was head of Flight Training Wings from October 1942
until at least late 1944.

Certainly Menzel's Intelligence qualifications (not noted before
I dug them out at Harvard) were far superior to Scanlon's. Try
reading the Menzel Chapter in TSM sometime to refresh your
memory.

 >And wouldn't this suggestion that Scanlon was not the commander
 >of ADC, which I never heard Frank claim, be a false assumption?
 >If Frank didn't make the claim, then what relevance does the
 >fact have? And more importantly, where did it come from?
 >Kaufmann? Schmitt?

I frankly don't know where that claim came from. Perhaps a
Lister has heard it as well?

 >The point here is that Stan didn't publish anything suggesting
 >that Kaufmann had admitted to lying. All we are told is that
 >Kaufmann met with Stan, Howe and Schmitt.

Admitting that neither Blanchard nor Marcel went out with him
when he had previously told you, Don, and me that they had, is
an admission of lying as spelled out in my paper. Read it again.
I have also referred to the McKnight letter which certainly
suggests Frank was telling tales.

 >And we know that Stan
 >doesn't like the Kaufmann tales because he has told us that
 >repeatedly, but Stan never supplied a good reason for rejecting
 >them, even when Kaufmann had apparently handed him that >reason.

Frank certainly was aware of my complaints about him as he
referenced in an August 7, 1995, letter to me, things I had said
about him in my September 26, 1994 paper " The Roswell Incident,
the USAF, and the NY Times", in a Nov. 18, 1994, letter to you,
in letters to Paul Davids on Dec. 20, 1994, and January 3, 1995,
  and to Jack Rodden on January 7, 1995 . I presume some of this
input to him came from you.

 >Now, please, understand, I am not suggesting that Frank Kaufmann
 >can be rehabilitated. As far as I'm concerned, he should become
 >a footnote to the Roswell case, just as Gerald Anderson and
 >Glenn Dennis should be footnotes. Both men were caught in a
 >changing and shifting story that as we investigated moved
 >farther from the truth. Or, Stan, do you now have the "real"
 >name of the nurse? And now that Anderson appears on the Navy
 >SEALs Wall of Shame, are you finally convinced that he can't be
 >trusted?

I think that both Glenn Dennis and Gerald Anderson made real
contributions to the story despite your great antipathy to both.

You will recall that Gerald passed a polygraph (Frank never took
one) and that a medical technician realled the nurse and
described her as Glenn did without any prompting from me. They,
(G and G), both independently described a strange combination of
a red haired officer and a black sergeant.

I happen to think much of the world is gray.

You seem to operate on a black and white basis. That is your
privilege.


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From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 18:26:38 -0400
Fwd Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 22:57:56 -0500
Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - Friedman


 >From: David  Clarke <cd292@crazydiamonds.fsnet.co.uk>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 16:25:01 -0000
 >Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43

 >>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 22:45:12 -0400
 >>Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43

 >>>>From: John Rimmer <jrimmer@magonia.demon.co.uk>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 19:10:26 +0000
 >>>Subject: Magonia Supplement 43

 >>I gather you and Roberts and Clark believe there are no black
 >>budget programs in the UK or anywhere else.

 >Stan --

 >Please cite chapter and verse where 'Roberts and Clark' [sic]
 >have said they believe there are no black budget programs in the
 >UK or anywhere else.

 >You will have a job because we have never said any such thing,
 >in fact rather the opposite.

 >To quote your own words, please don't put words in *my* mouth!

 >And yes, UK Government can and does with-hold documents and
 >information on UFOs. Our book has proved there was a cover-up in
 >this country - see Jenny Randles' review in the latest IUR. The
 >question is, a cover-up of what?

 >Best,

 >Dave Clark*e*

My apologies for the wrong spelling.

The whole tone of the book implies that there really isn't
anything that has been hidden now that you have dug out quite a
lot of material.

I wish to point out General Bolender's 1969 comment that reports
of UFOs which could effect national security were not part of
the Blue Book System.

I expect that there is compartmentalization in the UK as well as
in the USA and that the most significant military cases didn't
make it into the files you have seen. I am glad that you looked.

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From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 18:38:09 -0400
Fwd Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 23:00:19 -0500
Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - Friedman


 >From: Joe McGonagle <joe@ufology.org.uk>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 16:54:33 -0000
 >Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43

 >>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 22:45:12 -0400
 >>Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43

 >Apologies for the frequent snips, but I am homing in on some
 >aspects of the original thread which were interspersed with
 >material about which I have no comment to offer:

 ><snip>

 >>Harney seems to feel that indeed all the above data hasn't been
 >>kept secret. This from a country that just got a FOI system
 >>going. Why was it needed if everything was available?

 >>Yes, I had forgotten absence of evidence is evidence for
 >>absence.


 ><snip>

 >By the same token, I hope that you would agree that absence of
 >evidence is not proof of anything?

Of course, but I have never said it was.

 >>12,000 people worked in Secret at Bletchley Park with no public
 >>admission for more than 20 years.

 >>And secrets can't be kept?

 ><snip>

 >In the case of Bletchley park, there were easily understood
 >reasons for the requirement of secrecy. The reasoning behind any
 >witholding of information offering conclusive proof of the ETH
 >would not, in my opinion, convince people like David Shayler for
 >instance to keep quiet?

 >>I pointed out that information about UFOs is clearly being
 >>witheld unless one is foolish enough to believe that the only
 >>info about UFOs in these documents is what is not whited out and
 >>the rest is Sources and Methods. Why was it filed under UFOs?

 >>Please note that the 1996 version of the NSA Affidavit to Judge
 >>Gesell is only about 20% blacked out compared with 80% in the
 >>early version. But the UFO documents can only be 2-4% open? But
 >>nothing about UFOs is being covered up.? Not every observation
 >>of an auto involves a license plate. But the make and model and
 >>colour can be very useful.

 ><snip>

 >Just because information is withheld, it does not mean that such
 >information amounts to conclusive proof of the ETH, which seems
 >to me to be the inference which you are making- do you find it
 >difficult to accept that there could be other information which
 >the authorities would prefer to withhold, for instance, the
 >participation of the U.K. in certain enquiries/operations?

I am not inferring that any particular bit of evidence amounts
to conclusive proof of the ETH. I am saying that the blacked out
and whited out portions of CIA and NSA UFO documents mean that
the government is witholding information about UFOs. Court
decisions are based on a whole web of  info not on  a single bit
of conclusive data.

 >>I show the documents to demonstrate that UFO information is
 >>being witheld despite claims by the US government and sceptics
 >>to the contrary . That I am effective in my presentations does
 >>not detract from the fact that UFO information is being
 >>withheld. Remember that I also show the blacked out CIA UFO
 >>documents on which one can read 8 useless words. The CIA IS
 >>withholding UFO information like it or not. Effective
 >>showmanship or not.

 ><snip>

 >>Have you forgotten that during the cold war both Russia and the
 >>US witheld information from the public that each knew the other
 >>government was aware of... overflights of U-2 aircraft?.
 >>Reconnaissance aircraft of the other side were shot down when
 >>getting too close. No public discussion.
 >
 >>Remember that FOI has many restrictions including National
 >>Security. I provide a whole page in my Final Report on Operation
 >>Majestic 12.
 >
 >>Surely it is not possible that you believe that the government
 >>of the UK will not withhold any classified information?

 >>Stan Friedman
 >>in awe of the naivite

 >I have in my possession (probably in contravention of the
 >Official Secrets Act) a copy of a pamphlet which I was issued
 >with during military training. It is classified "Restricted".
 >You may think that this contains something like infantry
 >tactics, or other low-grade classified information, but it is
 >actually about electrical safety!

 >The UK military are absolutely paranoid about security
 >classifications, yet I struggle to see the need for information
 >about how to wire a domestic mains plug or how far apart earth
 >rods should be placed to be classified at all.

 >I have visited the PRO several times, and read/copied
 >declassified Secret and Top Secret documents. Also, during my
 >army career, I was frequently exposed to similarly classified
 >material. In many cases, there is an obvious reason for the
 >classification, but in others, such as the Flying Saucer Working
 >Party document, there is apparently no rhyme or reason for the
 >classification.

 >What I am getting at is that I accept the various Governments
 >are withholding information about UFOs, but much of that
 >information is bound to be of a trivial nature. Of the material
 >that is withheld but is not trivial, it most likely relates to
 >operational systems or processes which they may have good reason
 >to keep classified. There is no reason to think that they are
 >withholding absolute proof of the ETH.

What possible basis is there for the "most likely" above?? If
they have any data on recovered crashed saucers and alien
bodies, that would certainly appear to be absolute proof  of the
ETH.

 >Furthermore, if people like Shayler can blow the whistle on
 >assassination plots against Ghadaffi (qs) by MI6 because of
 >"moral issues", I think it even more likely that someone would
 >reveal secrets relating to UFOs for those same "moral issues".

 >Joe McGonagle

 >Overwhelmed by the paranoid state (of people's minds _and_
 >nations)!

I am sure many government people who do know what is going on
about UFOs feel it is perfectly justified. If they know, for
example, that UK or USAF or Soviet aircraft attacking UFOs have
been shot down they might be very reluctant to let the public
and other pilots know. I, for one, don't want technical data out
on the table.

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                    Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - Friedman

From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 18:47:58 -0400
Fwd Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 23:03:05 -0500
Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - Friedman


 >From: John Rimmer <jrimmer@magonia.demon.co.uk>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 17:55:26 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43

 >>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 22:45:12 -0400
 >>Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43

 ><snip>

 >>Harney seems to feel that indeed all the above data hasn't been
 >>kept secret. This from a country that just got a FOI system
 >>going. Why was it needed if everything was available?

 >>Yes, I had forgotten absence of evidence is evidence for
 >>absence.

 >>I gather you and Roberts and Clark believe there are no black
 >>budget programs in the UK or anywhere else.

 >>The DCI admitted 6 years ago because of a court case that his
 >>black budget that year was 26.6 $Billion.

 >>Have you read Tim Weiner's excellent book "Blank Check"?

 >>The stealth fighter was developed and 50+ built over 10 years
 >>for about 10 Billlion$ in secret. The NRL Corona Elint satellite
 >>was launched in 1960 after a dozen failures. Its existence was
 >>not admitted until 1995 when they wanted to brag about their
 >>accomplishments and of course the technology had been greatly
 >>improved.

 >>12,000 people worked in Secret at Bletchley Park with no public
 >>admission for more than 20 years.
 >
 >>And secrets can't be kept?

 >Secrets can certainly be kept where the government has total
 >control over a project as in the cases above. Unless Mr Friedman
 >has some startling new evidence, the US government does not
 >control UFOs

Please remmember Carroll Bolender's comment about reports of
UFOs which could effect National Security not being part of the
Blue Book system.

The US and the UK do control the publicicizing of sophisticated
national security  information obtained by military and
intelligence systems such as the Air Defense Commands, the NSA,
The CIA, The NRO, OSI, ONI, etc.

Think of passes down the runway at a SAC base near the nuclear
weapon storage facility.

They have also been rather effective in shaping public views and
certainly the press with their false and misleading statements.

Note my 5 page response to a USAF Colonel's totally misleading
letter to a senator in TOP SECRET/MAJIC.

Also while there have been many multiple witness sightings, the
flying saucers don't seem interested in showing up during the
world Soccer matches or other activities involving worldwide TV
coverage.

Too bad.


Stan Friedman
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                    Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - Friedman

From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 19:59:59 -0400
Fwd Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 23:07:55 -0500
Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - Friedman


 >From: John Harney <magonia@harneyj.freeserve.co.uk>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 21:28:29 -0000
 >Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43

 >>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 22:45:12 -0400
 >>Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43

 >>>From: John Rimmer <jrimmer@magonia.demon.co.uk>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 19:10:26 +0000
 >>>Subject: Magonia Supplement 43

 >>>Magonia Supplement 43 is now available on the Magonia website.
 >>>Here is John Harney's Editorial:
 >>>One of the points I made, and not for the first time, was about
 >>>the impossibility of the evidence for ET spacecraft being kept
 >>>secret. The ETH, at least as it is interpreted by many
 >>>ufologists, depends on persuading people to believe that it is
 >>>possible to keep the saucers secret. Stanton Friedman commented:

 >>>"The naivety shown by the notion that we would have access to
 >>>radar and spy satellite info, re space and airborne uncorrelated
 >>>targets produced by the Aerospace Defense Command and NRO
 >>>satellites and collected by NSA while listening to their foreign
 >>>equivalents is monumental.
 >
 >>>"Just note that more than 95% of the 156 UFO documents released
 >>>by the NSA are whited out. No way that is all sources and
 >>>methods data."
 >
 >>Harney seems to feel that indeed all the above data hasn't been
 >>kept secret. This from a country that just got a FOI system
 >>going. Why was it needed if everything was available?

 >Where did I say that everything was available?

 >>Yes, I had forgotten absence of evidence is evidence for
 >>absence.

 >Stan, "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" sounds
 >great, especially if you can say it without getting the giggles,
 >as you no doubt can, but it doesn't actually mean anything.

It actually means a lot, especially when noisy negativists
(present company excepted, of course,) say there is no evidence
when what they mean is "I have done little looking and seen even
less, so there must not be any evidence there".I discussed this
in my MUFON Journal Column recently

 >>I gather you and Roberts and Clark believe there are no black
 >>budget programs in the UK or anywhere else.

 >>The DCI admitted 6 years ago because of a court case that his
 >>black budget that year was 26.6 $Billion.

 >>Have you read Tim Weiner's excellent book "Blank Check"?

 >>The stealth fighter was developed and 50+ built over 10 years
 >>for about 10 Billlion$ in secret. The NRL Corona Elint satellite
 >>was launched in 1960 after a dozen failures. Its existence was
 >>not admitted until 1995 when they wanted to brag about their
 >>accomplishments and of course the technology had been greatly
 >>improved.

 >>12,000 people worked in Secret at Bletchley Park with no public
 >>admission for more than 20 years.

 >>And secrets can't be kept?

 >>Neither the Aerospace Defense Command nor the NRO, nor the NSA
 >>publish their findings. They literally spend billions a year and
 >>secrets can't be kept??

 >Perhaps I have not made myself clear, so I'll try again. Yes, I
 >know governments have Black Budgets and keep military projects
 >secret for many years, but I wasn't referring to them. I was
 >writing about UFOs.

 >With UFOs we have to make a distinction between the UFOs
 >themselves and investigations of them. Governments can conduct
 >secret UFO investigations, but so can anybody. If you
 >investigate a UFO report you can keep this secret or publish
 >your findings, as you wish, but you can't keep the UFO itself
 >secret, because other people may have witnessed it or conducted
 >investigations. The point is that governments can keep military
 >projects secret because thay have _control_ of the situation.
 >They have no control over UFOs, which can appear anywhere, at
 >any time; they thus have no chance of keeping them secret.
 >Convincing evidence could fall into the hands of any government,
 >organisation, or individual, but this is less likely to happen
 >with a tightly controlled military project.

Governments have control of the best means for monitoring, often
with sophisticated instrumentation, UFOs. They control the
instruments and vehicles. They have also been very successful at
keeping the media unaware of the facts. Disinformation is
rampant. The UFOs keep doing their thing.

 >>>I replied, pointing out that he hadn't told us
 >>>how UFO information gathered from radar or satellites, by
 >>>governments and private organisations, amateur or professional,
 >>>everywhere in the world is kept secret.

 >>I have seen no such reply. But the answer is obvious:

 >>Through the standard procedures involving secrity clearances,
 >>need to know, well protected communication systems, etc.

 >>There is no comparison between the government capabilities and
 >>private ones. Who competes with the NRO or ADC?

 >>Who has private or amateur fleets of very sophisiticated
 >>aircraft and satellites to monitor air and space intruding
 >>vehicles?

 >Ah, so the UFOs are specially designed to be detectable only by
 >highly sophisticated equipment carried on high-performance
 >aircraft available only to those organisations which can
 >guarantee to keep the evidence which they obtain secret?

Nonsense. The best information can most easily be obtained by
government controlled instrumentation especially when closed
communications systems can spread the word so more data can be
obtained.

 >>>I also wondered how he
 >>>knew what was in the whited out parts of the UFO documents, as
 >>>he implies that this hidden information concerns evidence for
 >>>alien spacecraft.

 >>Please don't put words in my mouth.

 >I didn't; I wrote "implies" not "states" - see above.

 >>I pointed out that information about UFOs is clearly being
 >>witheld unless one is foolish enough to believe that the only
 >>info about UFOs in these documents is what is not whited out and
 >>the rest is Sources and Methods. Why was it filed under UFOs?

 >Information about UFOs, or information about UFO
 >_investigations_?

A combination of the observations that have been made which in
turn tells them something about the UFOs, maybe accelerations,
maneuverability, electromagnetic signatures, etc.

 >>Please note that the 1996 version of the NSA Affidavit to Judge
 >>Gesell is only about 20% blacked out compared with 80% in the
 >>early version. But the UFO documents can only be 2-4% open? But
 >>nothing about UFOs is being covered up.? Not every observation
 >>of an auto involves a license plate. But the make and model and
 >>colour can be very useful.

 >>>If the sceptics indulge in "research by
 >>>proclamation" as Friedman constantly tells us, then surely he is
 >>>indulging in research by showmanship in waving whited-out
 >>>documents at UFO conferences.

 >>I show the documents to demonstrate that UFO information is
 >>being witheld despite claims by the US government and sceptics
 >>to the contrary . That I am effective in my presentations does
 >>not detract from the fact that UFO information is being
 >>withheld. Remember that I also show the blacked out CIA UFO
 >>documents on which one can read 8 useless words. The CIA IS
 >>withholding UFO information like it or not. Effective
 >>showmanship or not.

 >>The purpose of a presentation is to communicate. Perhaps that is
 >>why my Leeds talk was rated 10/10. I communicated facts and
 >>data... apparently with showmanship.
 >
 >>>Anyway, I intend to press for a plausible explanation as to how
 >>>every government in the world has managed to preserve the Secret
 >>>of the Saucers for over 50 years. I will probably have to wait a
 >>>long time.

 >>More absurdity. As explained above there are standard procedures
 >>for dealing with classified information on a need-to-know basis
 >>by people with appropriate clearances. Have you ever held a
 >>clearance?

 >Yes, but you can't classify information unless you _control_ it.
 >You can keep your UFO _investigations_ secret, but anyone can do
 >that. But you don't know what the UFOs are going to do tomorrow,
 >so you can't keep them secret.

Of course you can, and you can have contingency plans in case
the UFOs take things into their own hands. It seems clear that
after 55+ years they are not interested in doing interviews on
our TV shows.

 >>What is this nonsense about every government in the world? I
 >>certainly never said that. The number of governments with
 >>sophisticated ADCs, spy satellites, sophisticated monitoring
 >>aircraft, etc is a small number. I doubt if Bolivia or Paraquay
 >>or a whole slew of African nations have such systems.

 >So every government in the world falls neatly into one of two
 >categories with regard to obtaining and disclosing UFO evidence.
 >These are (a) countries with sophisticated surveillance systems,
 >satellites, aircraft, radar, etc., all of which are guaranteed
 >to obey the USA in its policy of keeping the saucers secret, and
 >(b) those countries which are unable or unwilling to keep such
 >secrets, but lack the amazingly sophisticated equipment
 >apparently necessary to obtain vital UFO evidence. Thus the
 >secret of the saucers is safe. How convenient.

As I have noted elsewhere all governments are interested in
maintaining their hold on power. The sophisiticated ones are
certainly interested in trying to duplicate the technology, they
are interested in making sure their enemies don't learn what
they know, they are concerned that if an announcement is made
that some UFOs are alien spacecraft, that there will be a major
push for an earthling orientation.

No government on Earth of which I am aware wants such an
orientation. Nationalism is the only game in town. No country
wants to admit to its own people and its enemies that it can't
control overflights by others without permission, that it can't
control abductions of its own people.Of course they may be able
to collect big bucks by turning over any crashed saucers or
Russian spacecraft etc to the USA or UK. I think of the Varginia
case in Brazil. Major democracies such as the USA, UK, Canada
also don't want to admit they have been lying for 55+ years

 >>Have you forgotten that during the cold war both Russia and the
 >>US witheld information from the public that each knew the other
 >>government was aware of... overflights of U-2 aircraft?.
 >>Reconnaissance aircraft of the other side were shot down when
 >>getting too close. No public discussion.

 >Yes, if the Russians knew and the US knew they knew and both
 >sides mutually decided to keep this information from the public
 >then what's the problem? They had joint _control_ of the
 >situation. They were not dealing with something unknown and
 >unpredictable.

 >>Remember that FOI has many restrictions including National
 >>Security. I provide a whole page in my Final Report on Operation
 >>Majestic 12.

 >>Surely it is not possible that you believe that the government
 >>of the UK will not withhold any classified information?

 >Of course they withhold classified information, but there is no
 >good reason to believe that they have any startling evidence
 >about UFOs.

Considering the close ties between the US and the UK, and the
tough Official Secrets act the UK has had, and a certain
commonality of interests around the world and the much greater
past resistance to  FOI in the UK,I would say there are very
good reasons.


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                               Rimmer Exposed

From: Colin Bennett <sharkley@panzerben.fsworld.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 00:59:41 -0000
Fwd Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 11:25:13 -0500
Subject: Rimmer Exposed


Hello List Savants,

I would like to reply to John Rimmers' recent attack on the work
of Dick Hall and Stanton Friedman. Rimmer, and continue the theme
of my recent posting concerning Rimmer and Magonia magazine. The
Brentford Polonius as he is known) is an imposter. There are
rumours that when he goes home from Brentford to his leafy dell
he takes off his Ealing Film English mask of silly prat-falling
amateur mundanity and becomes an intelligent and well-informed
Englishman. But whilst at work in Brentford, his sheer cheek in
attacking books that have and are changing the entire landscape
of modern history is big enough to be placed alongside the
Albert Memorial, built in a time close to his heart, a time from
which his genes have not yet made their salmon leap.

Smog-shrouded Brentford is a place surrounded by gas works and
car marts where scepticism is manufactured by Rimmer as a
completed automated continuous-process industry, just like the
manufacture of cement. Fogs, mists, and broken roads surround
this womb of scepticism, a philosophy made for the Dickensian
alleys, workhouses, savage intellectual supression of all the
instincts of the free and the brave and the true. One can still
image Rimmer's crabbed Magonia clerks crouched over ledgers
making calculations that must make the universe add up at the
end of a days accounting.

Brentford is a place where it could imagined that Jack the
Ripper still stalks alleyways, and indeed Dick Van Dyke might
pop out from a smoking chimney stack. It is one of Blake's Dark
Satanic Mills,a place known for the manufacture of windscreen
wipers, an area that sees few visitors, and is difficult to
locate on any map and manufactures items of phony depressing
Englishness to throw at all believers in the magical, the
transcendental, the romantic, the beautiful, the extraordinary,
the fantastic, and especially the believers in aliens,
abductions, and UFOs. These items, that usually take the form of
the school essays published in Magonia magazine are manufactured
just as natives in the Nile Delta produce carvings that they say
have come from catacombs under the Great Pyramid. In Rimmer's
old English consumer range there is a similar process of
artificial aging applied.

Magonia magazine celebrates the finest rationalist panics and
contains only the grief of the failed and the anger of the
terminally unpublishable. It  represents the dark, dismal, and
mundane soul of a lost England well described by D.H. Lawrence.
Most of its contributors (and certainly the Editor have the
mental level of town councillors and the sense of wonder of a
toilet for the disabled. Reading it is enough to make even the
saintly child of Nature look for the nearest tall building to
jump down from. Remember America, Rimmer's Britain is a place
where even whispered comments about any kind of modernity can
still be are looked upon as plots to slit the throat of the
Queen. The great aped ordinary is as mysterious a conspiracy as
any supposed alien activity. Magonian writing reminds us of
Fanny by Gaslight, Arsenic and Old Lace, and satin covers for
the legs of the grand parlour piano should the vicar call.

My last post to this List (just over a week ago) contains a
more detailed account of Rimmer, his strange activities, and his
even stranger magazine. List members might like to take a look
at that.


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                            PRG Update - 11-30-02

From: Stephen Bassett  <Disclosure2003@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 22:09:57 EST
Fwd Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 11:28:54 -0500
Subject: PRG Update - 11-30-02


PRG
Paradigm Research Group

Update - November 30, 2002
[Sent to combined PRG/X-PPAC/D2003 Mail Lists]

Taken
www.scifi.com/taken

Spielberg's "Taken" miniseries begins on Monday night. The
schedule is out and quite interesting. Sci Fi Channel will air
each episode three times a night PLUS the episode from the night
before. That is 78 hours of "Taken" over a period of 12 days.
They aren't just airing this miniseries - they are burning it
into the public's brain. Also, this approach with ensure that
"Taken" will likely be the most home-copied program in history.
Millions of copies of the program will be made in the first two
weeks.

It is important to be of two minds with this program. There is
no question that considerable license has been taken (pun
intended) with the known facts to produce dramatic effects that
will create ratings. Some of the viewers will be confused. This
is unavoidable. It is the trade off for the advocacy funding,
CFI, the Washington representation.

The Roswell documentary has brought key research to a much
broader audience. The "Abduction Diaries" was balanced. These
diaries can easily be expanded.

The press simply need to be told that the known facts about the
extraterrestrial presence are in partial measure not accurately
reflected in the fictional work. Period. There is nothing new
about that. It has happened many times with many issues. If they
want to understand the facts about
abductees/contactees/experiencers, the books and the research
are there for their perusal

Even if "Taken" had not strayed one iota from researched
elements of the phenomena, it would still be fiction and the
disclosure process must not be driven by fiction. There are
actually people in this country who are more comfortable with
the state of the nation because they like what they see on "West
Wing." This is madness and a trend which does not need to be
repeated with disclosure. Real policy, real truth, real
hearings, real engagement, real journalism, real governance.
Accept no substitute.

That said, having attended the SciFi / CFI original press
conference, the GWU symposium, the New York symposium and the
Washington, DC screening (which was absolutely first class),
there have not been any red flags about the Sci Fi Channel's
motives and agenda. I believe they want to make money AND serve
the public's interests. If anything happens to change my view,
you will know immediately.


IUFO Conference - Laughlin, NV - February 2-8, 2002
http://www.ufocongress.com/index1.html

Given all that has happened in the past year and all that may
happen over the next two months, I strongly encourage all to
consider being in Laughlin Nevada for the winter IUFO
conference. There will be a particular need for side meetings
between researchers and activists, as well as a need to get as
many interviews done with any media and documentarists in
attendance. The timing is just about perfect. It is still PRG's
view that Disclosure can and should happen in the first half of
2003.

I will be in Laughlin the entire week of February 2 - 8 and will
likely book additional time before and after the conference for
possible meetings in Arizona, New Mexico and California. Please
contact PRG if you want to set up a meeting or media interview
for that time period.


Photos for the PRG/D2003 Gallery

If anyone has any photos from the Bay Area UFO Expo that would
look good in the PRG photo gallery, please email or mail a high
resolution copy to PRG. Also, if anyone has any photos relating
to the D2003 campaign or from last year's IUFO conference in
Laughlin, same request. Thanks.

Some new photos are up at the PRG Gallery at:
www.paradigmclock.com/Gallery/Thumbs_Page.htm

The D2003 Gallery will go up as soon as a few more photos come
it.


Pre-disclosure Indicators

All future PRG updates will include this section in which any
items which PRG views as "pre-disclosure" indicators will be
listed with dates where applicable. A "pre-disclosure" indicator
is an event which would seem appropriate if formal disclosure is
close at hand.

A section will soon go up at the D2003 website where these
indicators will be archived and expanded upon. Feel free to
forward to PRG any items you consider as candidates.

2001
Postponement of the mini-series "Taken" until after the mid-term
elections

May 2002
James Garvin, chief scientist for the NASA Mars Exploration
Program initiates an unexpected approach to Richard Hoagland and
Peter Gersten. Invitations to future meetings and to submit
proposals to NASA are extended.

October 2002
Two separate sources confirm to PRG that Discovery
Communications has withdrawn and not excepting new pro-UFO
documentaries. This is quite unusual. Discovery Communications
is controlled by cable magnate, John Malone out of Denver,
through his interest in Liberty Media Corporation.

October 22, 2002
Former White House Chief of Staff to Clinton, John Podesta,
inserts himself into the issue.

November 2002
Berkeley physicist and proponent of "warp drive," Jack Sarfatti
receives a huge funding infusion, an invitation to a White House
dinner and a request from Senate Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, to
serve on a committee.

November 29, 2002
UK opens its own 'X-file'
www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/11/29/uk.ufo/index.html
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foi/story/0,9061,850145,00.html
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              Re: Do Abductee's Families Discover Them Gone? -

From: Tom Bowden <tomrbowden@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 20:08:59 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 11:31:05 -0500
Subject: Re: Do Abductee's Families Discover Them Gone? -


 >From: Nick Balaskas <nikolaos@YorkU.CA>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 14:15:10 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
 >Subject: Re: Do Abductee's Families Discover Them Gone?

 >>From: Eleanor White <eleanor@raven1.net>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto
 ><ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 11:59:37 -0500
 >>Subject: Do Abductee's Families Discover Them Gone?

<snip>

 >>Probably very rare, but have there been cases where a family
 >>member,roommate, or house guest actually saw the abduction
 >>and/or return take place?

<snip>

You may already know, but remember the Travis Walton case:
several co-workers sat in a truck and watched Travis as he was
struck and knocked backward by some sort of blue beam of energy
from a low-hovering saucer-shaped craft. When this happened, the
driver of the truck panicked and drove away. After coming to
their senses, the driver and other men decided to go back and
look for Travis, but he was gone. He was missing for five days.
When he returned, he eventually recalled being examined by greys
aboard a circular-shaped craft of some kind.

This case has been documented in Travis Walton's book. Some of
the details are really quite interesting.

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                      Re: Abductions & Ufology - Hebert

From: Amy Hebert <yellowrose129@attbi.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 00:31:40 -0600
Fwd Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 11:34:27 -0500
Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology - Hebert


 >From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 21:49:03 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >>From: Greg Sandow <greg@gregsandow.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 16:58:08 -0500
 >>Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

<snip>

 >Out of all the abductees I have worked with (something like 150;
 >I've lost count), two were psychological basket cases, and even
 >there it was not clear whether their condition was the cause or
 >effect of an "abduction." More to the point, a very high
 >percentage clearly were entirely sane and grounded individuals,
 >deeply upset and perplexed by their experiences.

Hi, Dick:

Just wondering... how did you determine the two were "basket
cases" and what instruments did you use to determine a "very
high percentage" were "entirely sane and grounded individuals"?

Furthermore, how did you distinguish which ones were genuine
abductees and which ones were not?

I know you, like many others, are only trying to help but what
if even ten were not genuine abductees but rather suffering from
delusions or some other types of encounters with the unknown?
What kind of 'support' will these individuals find in your
support group or as part of your research?

It may be all well and good to provide some kind of help for
those experiencing abductions but what may be happening to those
who are treated as abductees but are not? Do you have any idea
of the amount of suffering caused for those who experience
phenomena in their lives and are labeled as "abductees" when no
one really knows what's going on?

I do. I've experienced various kinds of phenomena since
childhood. When I began seeking answers 10 years ago, I was sent
to several types of support groups. In each group, I was told
the phenomena I experienced was this or that and labeled
according to whatever the group was into at the time. Of course,
when I joined an 'experiencer' support group, everyone was
certain I was an abductee although I kept insisting that I had
no memories of having ever been abducted. Their answer for this
was that I had no memories because...the memories had been
erased or 'blocked' when I was abducted. Of course.

Yep, I did the whole nine yards from hypnosis to keeping a
journal of my encounters with the unknown. Since most of my
friends at the time were fellow members of the support group,
anything I shared with them was interpreted according to the
abduction scenario. Eventually I felt pressured to conform to
the group's consensual beliefs or risk being rejected by the
group. When you feel alone in the face of the unknown, you seek
others who might understand, even if it doesn't make sense. Not
really finding the answers I sought, I soon found myself
alienated from the group (excuse the pun).

I finally left the group. Later I heard my departure was blamed
on the "aliens" controlling me and blocking me from seeking the
truth (which was usually used to explain the loss of any group
member).

Not only did I not find the answers I wanted from these various
support groups, I was left more confused and alone than before I
sought their help. Not only did the phenomena I encountered
continue, it increased. On a warm night in June, 1997, as I
watched a huge object hover behind my house, I finally
understood just how alone I really was. If I called my old
friends, they'd just say it was there to abduct me. If I called
the military, they'd just say they don't investigate UFO
reports. When I called the FAA, they laughed. And when I called
the National UFO Reporting Center I got ...the answering
machine.

Dick, I know you are only trying to help but ask yourself if you
are qualified to help when no one really knows what is going on.
If even one of the individuals in your support group and/or
research is not really an abductee, what harm might you (and
others) be doing in the long run?

People encounter many kinds of phenomena. We can help them learn
how to help themselves but we must do no harm.


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                 Bolide Lights Up Morning Sky in Eastern US

From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 09:41:56 -0500
Fwd Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 11:37:04 -0500
Subject: Bolide Lights Up Morning Sky in Eastern US


A local radio station was having a lot of fun regarding this
story today. I thought some might find it of interest.

http://www.wtopnews.com/?sid=25146&nid=25

========

Bolide Lights Up Morning Sky

Updated: Monday, Dec. 2, 2002 - 8:26 AM EST.

WASHINGTON - The bright light many people saw streaking across
the sky early morning Monday was a bolide or fireball, said
Geoff Chester, a spokesman at the U.S. Naval Observatory.

"This is basically a large meteor. We're talking about a rock
here that's on the order of size of a suitcase or something like
that. It's been orbiting the sun for billions of years," Chester
said.

"In reality, this object is entering the Earth's atmosphere. At
an altitude of between 80 to 100 miles or so it is vaporizing
and leaving a very bright trail of light behind it," Chester
said.

"In a way it's kind of similar to the Leonid meteors that we
just had a couple of weeks ago. Instead of being a little bit of
fluff that sputtered off a comet that we run into every year,
this is just a random, fairly large rock that runs into the
Earth's atmosphere," he said.

WTOP callers in Virginia and Maryland reported seeing the
natural phenomenon between 5 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. Callers
described it as a very big ball of blue-ish green with a tail
300 to 400 yards long.

"It was absolutely beautiful. It looked like it was going to hit
the ground," said one listener who called from Culpeper County,
Va.

She described it as a lot longer than the meteors seen during
the recent Leonid meteor showers.

One Waldorf, Md., caller said when people saw it, they started
pulling off the road.

Chester said the last time a bolide was seen was on July 23,
2001, between 6 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. People reported seeing it
from New York to Virginia.

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                     Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Kaeser

From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 11:08:35 -0500
Fwd Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 11:38:22 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Kaeser


 >From: Robet Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 00:32:43 EST
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

<snip>

 >Last year, same time, the major US stores were unloading super
 >cheap DVD players. What was interesting is that within 2-3
 >months the stores got back 60 percent of them for various
 >reasons. I knew one of the managers whose comment was that he
 >would never own one, however consumers are attracted to low
 >prices like moths to flames.  Bottom line with the so called
 >cheap DVD is when you buy, make sure you have a 1 year warranty
 >because you may need it.

When DIVX died there was a glut of DVD players that were DIVX
compatible that went on sale for very low prices. I don't know
if this relates to the low prices seen recently, but since VHS
is now being supplanted by DVD there's likely to be a lot of
older models going on sale.


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                       Archive Top 20 'Reads' - 11-02

From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 13:50:14 -0500
Fwd Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 13:50:14 -0500
Subject: Archive Top 20 'Reads' - 11-02

This list compiled from stats generated by Analog 5.22 website
log analyser - the [numbers] represent reads.....

   1 Bob Lazar - True or False?
     Glenn Campbell - [2239]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/jun/m22-012.shtml

   2 MOD Rendlesham File Released
     Brad Sparks - [2159]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2001/aug/m18-009.shtml

   3 Bush Says UFO Promise Still On
     Grant Cameron - [1787]
     ebk - [506]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/nov/m05-004.shtml

   4 Mysterious Dwarf Causes Concern In Argentina
     Scott Corrales [1274]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/nov/m08-031.shtml

   5 Of Flying Wings & Hover Cars
     ebk - [586]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/1998/aug/m03-008.shtml

   6 UFO Caught On Film During Roswell Dig?
     Frank Warren - [537]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/nov/m19-021.shtml

   7 Roswell Rods On NBC Show
     Stig Agermose - [497]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/1999/aug/m16-001.shtml

   8 'The Roswell Crash: Startling New Evidence'
     ebk - [451]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/nov/m16-009.shtml

   9 Re: Roswell Had Victims?
     David Rudiak - [401]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/nov/m23-008.shtml

  10 Roswell Dig On Sci-Fi Comes Up Empty
     Loren Coleman - [351]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/nov/m21-043.shtml

  11 David Rudiak's Roswell Work
     Grant Cameron - [348]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/nov/m23-003.shtml

  12 Sci-Fi on Roswell: A Review
     Richard Hall - [343]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/nov/m23-013.shtml

  13 SCI FI Sponsors Dig At Roswell Site
     Stig Agermose - [334]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/nov/m01-015.shtml

  14 Sci-Fi Channel's Roswell Program
     Dave Morton [330]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/nov/m23-006.shtml

  15 Article About Ramey Memo
     Stanton T. Friedman - [324]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/apr/m24-009.shtml

  16 'The Biggest Discovery Of All Time'
     Eric Julien - [317]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/nov/m04-008.shtml

  17 Photographer Captures More Than A Helicopter
     John Melony - [310]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/nov/m11-004.shtml

  18 Of Sociopaths & Conspiracy
     Alfred Lehmberg - [305]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2001/feb/m07-003.shtml

  19 The Roswell Show - Not Much New
     Brian Vike - [299]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/nov/m23-007.shtml

  20 Dr. Bill Doleman On Roswell Excavations
     Stig Agermose - [299]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/nov/m01-016.shtml

     ..... and this month, for good measure, interesting 'Servers & Hits'
     for November 2002:

     2747:  .mil (USA Military - All US Navy servers)
     2030:  .gov (USA Government)









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                     Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - Clarke

From: David Clarke <cd292@crazydiamonds.fsnet.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 17:51:41 -0000
Fwd Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 16:13:58 -0500
Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - Clarke


 >From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 18:26:38 -0400
 >Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43

 >>From: David Clarke <cd292@crazydiamonds.fsnet.co.uk>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 16:25:01 -0000
 >>Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43


Hi Stan,

 >The whole tone of the book implies that there really isn't
 >anything that has been hidden now that you have dug out quite a
 >lot of material.

That is a matter of interpretation - we make the point that the
MoD have destroyed, or claim to have destroyed, 99 percent of
the Air Intelligence material relating to UFOs pre-1962.

They claim that UFO files have been retained since 1967, but I
recently learned that the MoD had destroyed, as late as 1990,
two briefing files for the House of Lords UFO Debate of 1979.
These included briefings from RAF intelligence and defence
intelligence to Lord Strabolgi, who was to present the
Government's case in the Lords.

They also routinely destroy logbooks and radar recordings before
they even enter the public records system.

The question is - are they trying to hide something, or is this
just bureaucratic bungling? Knowing how the civil service works,
I'd opt for the latter. But if you are a conspiracy theorist,
you can interpret the situation in a completely different way,
and sell more books no doubt.

 >I wish to point out General Bolender's 1969 comment that reports
 >of UFOs which could effect national security were not part of
 >the Blue Book System.

 >I expect that there is compartmentalization in the UK as well
 >as in the USA and that the most significant military cases
 >didn't make it into the files you have seen. I am glad that you
 >looked.

You may be surprised to find I agree with you! We can only
comment on the material we did find, everything else is just
speculation. *But* there was evidence in the material we found
to support your assertion that some 'reports of UFOs which would
effect national security' did bypass the system that produced
the files now available at the PRO.

A classic example is the visual report by two Meteor pilots from
RAF Little Rissington in 1952 that was corroborated by radar
plots, leading to a major air defence alert involving GCHQ and
US intelligence. Yet not a single reference to this incident has
survived in the files released at the PRO!

Full details of this case will appear in UFO Magazine (UK) early
in the New Year.


Best,

Dave Clarke

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                      Re: Abductions & Ufology - Sandow

From: Greg Sandow <greg@gregsandow.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 12:52:39 -0500
Fwd Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 16:15:06 -0500
Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology - Sandow


 >From: Amy Hebert <yellowrose129@attbi.com>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 00:31:40 -0600
 >Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >It may be all well and good to provide some kind of help for
 >those experiencing abductions but what may be happening to those
 >who are treated as abductees but are not? Do you have any idea
 >of the amount of suffering caused for those who experience
 >phenomena in their lives and are labeled as "abductees" when no
 >one really knows what's going on?

 >I do. I've experienced various kinds of phenomena since
 >childhood. When I began seeking answers 10 years ago, I was sent
 >to several types of support groups. In each group, I was told
 >the phenomena I experienced was this or that and labeled
 >according to whatever the group was into at the time. Of course,
 >when I joined an 'experiencer' support group, everyone was
 >certain I was an abductee although I kept insisting that I had
 >no memories of having ever been abducted. Their answer for this
 >was that I had no memories because...the memories had been
 >erased or 'blocked' when I was abducted. Of course.

 >Yep, I did the whole nine yards from hypnosis to keeping a
 >journal of my encounters with the unknown. Since most of my
 >friends at the time were fellow members of the support group,
 >anything I shared with them was interpreted according to the
 >abduction scenario. Eventually I felt pressured to conform to
 >the group's consensual beliefs or risk being rejected by the
 >group. When you feel alone in the face of the unknown, you seek
 >others who might understand, even if it doesn't make sense. Not
 >really finding the answers I sought, I soon found myself
 >alienated from the group (excuse the pun).

Amy, it sounds like you had a horrible experience. Not everyone
in abductee support groups has such a bad time. I don't claim to
be an expert, but I know what happens in Budd Hopkins's groups,
and it's nothing like this. There's no coercion, no compulsory
beliefs.

I've been reading your posts on this subject for a while. You
say, reasonably, that we all need to be careful about who's
labelled an abductee. Very true. Though of course there's no way
to be certain, because -- to begin with -- there's as yet no way
to prove that anyone at all has been abducted.

So really what we're talking about are people who think they
might have been. Obviously that covers a lot of ground, and
includes people who aren't very sane or stable. The best we can
do, then, is to deal with people who've worked with a reputable
investigator. In my experience, that gives us a pool of people
who make sense, whatever the real cause of their experience
might be.


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                       Re: Abductions & Ufology - Hall

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 21:04:35 +0000
Fwd Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 16:34:02 -0500
Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology - Hall


 >From: Amy Hebert <yellowrose129@attbi.com>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 00:31:40 -0600
 >Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >>From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 21:49:03 +0000
 >>Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >>>From: Greg Sandow <greg@gregsandow.com>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 16:58:08 -0500
 >>>Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 ><snip>

 >>Out of all the abductees I have worked with (something like 150;
 >>I've lost count), two were psychological basket cases, and even
 >>there it was not clear whether their condition was the cause or
 >>effect of an "abduction." More to the point, a very high
 >>percentage clearly were entirely sane and grounded individuals,
 >>deeply upset and perplexed by their experiences.

Amy,

You snipped out some information that would have partially
answered your questions. I share your concerns about harmful
effects on "abductees" (real or imagined) by careless
investigators, as you would know of you had read my writings on
that subject. Primarily, I recommend to you an inexpensive paper
titled "Testing Reality" available from the Fund for UFO
Research. I will insert a few comments below.

 >Hi, Dick:

 >Just wondering... how did you determine the two were "basket
 >cases" and what instruments did you use to determine a "very
 >high percentage" were "entirely sane and grounded individuals"?

Using my observational powers and knowledge of psychology and
human behavior based on being Senior Abstracts Editor for the
American Psychological Association. It doesn't take a
professional to recognize people who are having difficulty
functioning as human beings and whose behavior and vocalizations
are bizarre. I always worked (past tense; I no longer work with
abductees except superficially with referral information)
professional psychologists, one of whom was discussed at some
length in my posting to Greg Sandow on this list. No evdience
was found of any serious psychopathology.

 >Furthermore, how did you distinguish which ones were genuine
 >abductees and which ones were not?

I never said I did. The term "genuine abductee" is not that
meaningful to me. If a person thinks or suspects they have been
abducted and it is causing them problems, I am nonjudgmental
about whether it "really" happened.

 >I know you, like many others, are only trying to help but what
 >if even ten were not genuine abductees but rather suffering from
 >delusions or some other types of encounters with the unknown?
 >What kind of 'support' will these individuals find in your
 >support group or as part of your research?

If they were suffering from delusions, probably no help at all.
But I am not unsophisticated about recognizing possibly
delusional people.

 >It may be all well and good to provide some kind of help for
 >those experiencing abductions but what may be happening to those
 >who are treated as abductees but are not? Do you have any idea
 >of the amount of suffering caused for those who experience
 >phenomena in their lives and are labeled as "abductees" when no
 >one really knows what's going on?

This is another of many false premises on your part. I never
labelled anyone anything or suggested to anyone that they had
been abducted by aliens. (Read "Testing Reality".) I always
emphasized that "no one really knows what's going on."\

 >I do. I've experienced various kinds of phenomena since
 >childhood. When I began seeking answers 10 years ago, I was sent
 >to several types of support groups. In each group, I was told
 >the phenomena I experienced was this or that and labeled
 >according to whatever the group was into at the time. Of course,
 >when I joined an 'experiencer' support group, everyone was
 >certain I was an abductee although I kept insisting that I had
 >no memories of having ever been abducted. Their answer for this
 >was that I had no memories because...the memories had been
 >erased or 'blocked' when I was abducted. Of course.

That was very bad practice on their part, something I cautioned
against in "Testing Reality."

 >Yep, I did the whole nine yards from hypnosis to keeping a
 >journal of my encounters with the unknown. Since most of my
 >friends at the time were fellow members of the support group,
 >anything I shared with them was interpreted according to the
 >abduction scenario. Eventually I felt pressured to conform to
 >the group's consensual beliefs or risk being rejected by the
 >group. When you feel alone in the face of the unknown, you seek
 >others who might understand, even if it doesn't make sense. Not
 >really finding the answers I sought, I soon found myself
 >alienated from the group (excuse the pun).

 >I finally left the group. Later I heard my departure was blamed
 >on the "aliens" controlling me and blocking me from seeking the
 >truth (which was usually used to explain the loss of any group
 >member).

I'm glad you posted this because it confirms what I have been
warning people about all along. I am aware of many exmaples of
harmful effects on people reporting abductions by opinionated,
unscientific would-be investigators.

 >Not only did I not find the answers I wanted from these various
 >support groups, I was left more confused and alone than before I
 >sought their help. Not only did the phenomena I encountered
 >continue, it increased. On a warm night in June, 1997, as I
 >watched a huge object hover behind my house, I finally
 >understood just how alone I really was. If I called my old
 >friends, they'd just say it was there to abduct me. If I called
 >the military, they'd just say they don't investigate UFO
 >reports. When I called the FAA, they laughed. And when I called
 >the National UFO Reporting Center I got ...the answering
 >machine.

 >Dick, I know you are only trying to help but ask yourself if you
 >are qualified to help when no one really knows what is going on.
 >If even one of the individuals in your support group and/or
 >research is not really an abductee, what harm might you (and
 >others) be doing in the long run?

You're repeating yourself. No group, no assumptions about the
nature of reported abductions, no planting of ideas in their
heads, no harm done.








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                       Re: Abductions & Ufology - Hall

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 21:45:09 +0000
Fwd Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 17:16:34 -0500
Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology - Hall


 >From: Greg Sandow <greg@gregsandow.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 12:52:39 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >>From: Amy Hebert <yellowrose129@attbi.com>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 00:31:40 -0600
 >>Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >>It may be all well and good to provide some kind of help for
 >>those experiencing abductions but what may be happening to those
 >>who are treated as abductees but are not? Do you have any idea
 >>of the amount of suffering caused for those who experience
 >>phenomena in their lives and are labeled as "abductees" when no
 >>one really knows what's going on?

 >>I do. I've experienced various kinds of phenomena since
 >>childhood. When I began seeking answers 10 years ago, I was sent
 >>to several types of support groups. In each group, I was told
 >>the phenomena I experienced was this or that and labeled
 >>according to whatever the group was into at the time. Of course,
 >>when I joined an 'experiencer' support group, everyone was
 >>certain I was an abductee although I kept insisting that I had
 >>no memories of having ever been abducted. Their answer for this
 >>was that I had no memories because...the memories had been
 >>erased or 'blocked' when I was abducted. Of course.

 >>Yep, I did the whole nine yards from hypnosis to keeping a
 >>journal of my encounters with the unknown. Since most of my
 >>friends at the time were fellow members of the support group,
 >>anything I shared with them was interpreted according to the
 >>abduction scenario. Eventually I felt pressured to conform to
 >>the group's consensual beliefs or risk being rejected by the
 >>group. When you feel alone in the face of the unknown, you seek
 >>others who might understand, even if it doesn't make sense. Not
 >>really finding the answers I sought, I soon found myself
 >>alienated from the group (excuse the pun).

 >Amy, it sounds like you had a horrible experience. Not everyone
 >in abductee support groups has such a bad time. I don't claim to
 >be an expert, but I know what happens in Budd Hopkins's groups,
 >and it's nothing like this. There's no coercion, no compulsory
 >beliefs.

 >I've been reading your posts on this subject for a while. You
 >say, reasonably, that we all need to be careful about who's
 >labelled an abductee. Very true. Though of course there's no way
 >to be certain, because -- to begin with -- there's as yet no way
 >to prove that anyone at all has been abducted.

 >So really what we're talking about are people who think they
 >might have been. Obviously that covers a lot of ground, and
 >includes people who aren't very sane or stable. The best we can
 >do, then, is to deal with people who've worked with a reputable
 >investigator. In my experience, that gives us a pool of people
 >who make sense, whatever the real cause of their experience
 >might be.


Greg,

I completely agree with and endorse this statement. It also
dovetails with and complements what I just independently posted
in response to Amy. Your final paragraph sums it up better than
I was able to do. - Dick

P.S. It never ceases to amaze me, and to challenge my world
view, that musicians, poets, sculptors, writers, etc. often
behave more scientifically, logically, and open-mindedly than do
most [and I do mean MOST] scientists.









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                         Re: Rimmer Exposed - Rimmer

From: John Rimmer <jrimmer@magonia.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 22:52:07 +0000
Fwd Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 18:36:30 -0500
Subject: Re: Rimmer Exposed - Rimmer


 >From: Colin Bennett <sharkley@panzerben.fsworld.co.uk>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 00:59:41 -0000
 >Subject: Rimmer Exposed

 >Hello List Savants,

 >I would like to reply to John Rimmers' recent attack on the work
 >of Dick Hall and Stanton Friedman. Rimmer, and continue the theme
 >of my recent posting concerning Rimmer and Magonia magazine. The
 >Brentford Polonius as he is known) is an imposter. There are
 >rumours that when he goes home from Brentford to his leafy dell
 >he takes off his Ealing Film English mask of silly prat-falling
 >amateur mundanity and becomes an intelligent and well-informed
 >Englishman. But whilst at work in Brentford, his sheer cheek in
 >attacking books that have and are changing the entire landscape
 >of modern history is big enough to be placed alongside the
 >Albert Memorial, built in a time close to his heart, a time from
 >which his genes have not yet made their salmon leap.

I should just like to make it clear that, contrary to rumours
currently circulating on the Internet, I do not pay Mr Bennett
to write this stuff to make me seem more interesting.

--
John Rimmer
Magonia Magazine
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                     Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - Rimmer

From: John Rimmer <jrimmer@magonia.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 23:25:58 +0000
Fwd Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 18:40:31 -0500
Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - Rimmer


 >From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 18:47:58 -0400
 >Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43

 >>From: John Rimmer <jrimmer@magonia.demon.co.uk>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 17:55:26 +0000
 >>Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43

 >>>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 22:45:12 -0400
 >>>Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43

 >><snip>

 >>>Harney seems to feel that indeed all the above data hasn't been
 >>>kept secret. This from a country that just got a FOI system
 >>>going. Why was it needed if everything was available?

 >>>Yes, I had forgotten absence of evidence is evidence for
 >>>absence.

 >>>I gather you and Roberts and Clark believe there are no black
 >>>budget programs in the UK or anywhere else.

 >>>The DCI admitted 6 years ago because of a court case that his
 >>>black budget that year was 26.6 $Billion.

 >>>Have you read Tim Weiner's excellent book "Blank Check"?

 >>>The stealth fighter was developed and 50+ built over 10 years
 >>>for about 10 Billlion$ in secret. The NRL Corona Elint satellite
 >>>was launched in 1960 after a dozen failures. Its existence was
 >>>not admitted until 1995 when they wanted to brag about their
 >>>accomplishments and of course the technology had been greatly
 >>>improved.

 >>>12,000 people worked in Secret at Bletchley Park with no public
 >>>admission for more than 20 years.

 >>>And secrets can't be kept?

 >>Secrets can certainly be kept where the government has total
 >>control over a project as in the cases above. Unless Mr Friedman
 >>has some startling new evidence, the US government does not
 >>control UFOs

 >Please remmember Carroll Bolender's comment about reports of
 >UFOs which could effect National Security not being part of the
 >Blue Book system.

 >The US and the UK do control the publicicizing of sophisticated
 >national security  information obtained by military and
 >intelligence systems such as the Air Defense Commands, the NSA,
 >The CIA, The NRO, OSI, ONI, etc.

There is no dispute that any government can restrict information
about its own activities, including any investigation of UFO
reports it receives. However, your allegations of government
cover-up go much further than this.

You claim, in effect, that governments, and in particular the
United States government, is able to cover up knowledge of the
actual existence of extraterrestrial craft visiting Earth.

For this to be effective we must assume one or more of the
following:

The craft are only visiting The USA and one or two of its more
trusted allies, e.g., the United Kingdom.

That in order to control information about the existence of
these craft, the US government is able to ensure that they will
not crash in countries, or make contact with governments, which
are hostile to the USA and its allies and might not share its
views on the advisability of publicly recognising these
visitors.

Both of these imply some form of co-operation between the
intelligences behind these craft and the US government. Is this
in fact what you are claiming?

<snip>

 >Also while there have been many multiple witness sightings, the
 >flying saucers don't seem interested in showing up during the
 >world Soccer matches or other activities involving worldwide TV
 >coverage.

Yes, I wonder why this is? In all other respects they seem quite
unconcerned about where they happen to appear. Presumably this
is because of the agreement they must have with the US
government.

However, as you will have gathered from the debate earlier this
year about Trindade Island, I am rather less sanguin than you
about these so- called 'multiple witness sightings'.

 >Too bad.

Yes, it would completely wreck the penalty shoot-outs.


--
John Rimmer
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                      Re: Abductions & Ufology - Sandow

From: Greg Sandow <greg@gregsandow.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 18:36:35 -0500
Fwd Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 19:16:22 -0500
Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology - Sandow


 >From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 21:45:09 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >Greg,

 >I completely agree with and endorse this statement. It also
 >dovetails with and complements what I just independently posted
 >in response to Amy. Your final paragraph sums it up better than
 >I was able to do. - Dick

Thanks,, Dick. Of course, I feel the same way about your posts.
I just about always agree, and admire how you put things.

 >P.S. It never ceases to amaze me, and to challenge my world
 >view, that musicians, poets, sculptors, writers, etc. often
 >behave more scientifically, logically, and open-mindedly than do
 >most [and I do mean MOST] scientists.

I guess the lesson is - avoid stereotypes! I've often thought
that many scientists think artistically, and that their research
is as creative as anything any artist does.


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                     Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle

From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol. com>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 20:16:13 EST
Fwd Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 22:11:39 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle


 >From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers. com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net>
 >Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 18:20:30 -0400
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol. com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net
 >>Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 20:23:13 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers. com>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net>
 >>>Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 22:37:20 -0400
 >>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufman?

 >>>>From: Josh Goldstein <clearlight@t-online. de>
 >>>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net>
 >>>>Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 18:17:39 +0100
 >>>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufman?

 >>>>>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol. com>
 >>>>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net
 >>>>>Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 14:25:23 EST
 >>>>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufman?

 >>>>>>From: Fred Clark <Ufoufo51@aol. com>
 >>>>>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net
 >>>>>>Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 10:16:00 EST
 >>>>>>Subject: Frank Kaufman?

 ><snip>

 >>>>Frank had admitted on December 13, 1999, at his home with 4
 >>>>witnesses present that he had told lies about his involvement
 >>>>during an earlier interview with me, with Kevin Randle and Don
 >>>>Schmitt also present. I had noted other problems with Frank's
 >>>>story earlier to Kevin, Don, Kent Jeffrey, Bob Wood.

 >>Good Morning, Stan, List, All -

 >>>>I am confused by this paragraph because it seems to suggest
 >>>>that on December 13, 1999, I was present when Frank admitted
 >>>>to telling lies. While I have little doubt about the veracity
 >>>>of this statement, I was not present and hadn't seen Frank
 >>>>since September 1998.

 >As I have previously noted, At Frank Kaufmann's home in Roswell
 >on December 13, 1999, I was present, by Frank's invitation, with
 >Linda Howe, Dennis Balthaser (a bit late)and Don Schmitt. I
 >asked Frank point blank "Did Blanchard go to the supposed crash
 >site with you?". His answer was "No". I asked "Did Marcel go
 >with you to the crash site?" His answer was no. I wrote about
 >this meeting in my notes shortly thereafter and within a few
 >months in my MUFON 2000 paper. I had also written up my
 >interview with Frank in my room at the Roswell Inn with Kevin
 >and Frank present on July 2, 1995. I was not allowed to tape
 >that interview. I expressed concern then at the strange claim
 >that Marcel and Blanchard had gone out with Kaufmann. In 1999 he
 >admitted his claim was a lie. I sent copies of my notes of the
 >1999 meeting to Dennis, Linda and Don and asked for their
 >corrections. There were none.

But how were we supposed to figure this out from what you have
written before. The MUFON paper reports that Kaufmann told you
that Marcel and Blanchard did not accompany him out to the site,
but there is nothing in that paper that suggests Frank admitted
lying to you, which is the claim now and which is a different
matter. And since I do not have copies of your notes, I have no
way of confirming this information. I'm merely suggesting that
there was nothing in the published record to suggest that Frank
ever admitted lying to you about any aspect of this.

 >I have previously expressed concern about the lack of evidence
 >of Frank's supposed 1947 military background,at the notion of a
 >flatbed truck being able to get to the supposed crash site and
 >back to base in the wee hours of the morning, at the meaning of
 >Frank's pictures with big shots. . I noted in the MUFON 2000
 >paper that Frank's UFO drawing matched those of the TR3A which
 >appeared in Popular Mechanics (Dec. 1991) and an earlier issue
 >of Av. Week and Space Tech.

Yes, and I saw the drawings before the Popular Mechanics
article, but I think Av Week might have beat him. So, if asked,
I could say, honestly, that Frank's drawings might have been
inspired by Av Week. Won't Phil Klass be thrilled?

 >>First let me apologize for my rather inelegant statement above.
 >>My excuse was having to get to the store very early because they
 >>were selling DVD players for $30. American (what is that in
 >>Canada now, about a thousand bucks?). Anyway, what I meant was
 >>that while I have little doubt that Frank Kaufmann has invented
 >>his tales, I wasn't present and I seriously doubt he made any
 >>sort of admission to Friedman, Schmitt or Howe.

 >>Now that I've had a chance to go back and look at Stan's notes
 >>in the MUFON Symposium book for 2000, I can point out that,
 >>according to him, he visited Frank with Don Schmitt (not exactly
 >>the epitome of credibility) and Linda Howe. My name is
 >>conspicuously absent from that list. In the world of Ufology,
 >>this is now a false claim. (Remember, in Ufology, there are no
 >>honest mistakes, merely false claims that we use to bludgeon
 >>each other. )

 >I didn't say you were there. I said Frank admitted in 1999 that
 >he had not told the truth at the meeting in 1995 at which you
 >were definitely present, Kevin. You may recall that after your
 >shouting and ranting, I told you to either be quiet or leave.
 >You remained. That was also the meeting after which, with just
 >you and me, you claimed that you could refute all the 38 items
 >on my list of false claims by you and Don which I had listed in
 >my 1995 MUFON paper "Roswell Revisited" which you had just seen.
 >You will recall that, at my urging, you were kind enough to read
 >a quote from your book "A History of UFO Crashes" four times
 >before finally realizing that you had falsely claimed that you
 >had shown there was nothing to crashed saucer claims from
 >Spitzbergen, Aztec, or Roswell in the 1980 Ron Story UFO
 >Encyclopedia. There was nothing about Roswell in that book. You
 >claimed that something different had been in your head than was
 >in the book. I noted I was not psychic.

No, but from reading your sentence, it wasn't clear what you
meant. It seemed to suggest that I was.

I remember the 1995 meeting, held in the Roswell Inn but I do
not remember ranting and shouting... But isn't this in the same
meeting where you made the false claim I had been an English
major in college (See, once again we are not allowed mistakes,
just false claims. And for those keeping score at home, I'm an
Army captain.).

And didn't I write an article published in the MUFON Journal in
which I challenged these 38 false claims which included such
gems as "That S.T. Friedman know all about an RS alien tissue
sample." I still don't know what this means. Or the laughable
"Testimony from anonymous caller is fully trustworthy." I don't
know where I might have ever suggested it. And what is the
relevance of this now? Didn't we go over it at the time when you
made these false claims?

And I have explained to you four times what the sentence meant
and while it might have been constructed a little better, your
interpretation is your interpretation and not mine.

 >>There is nothing in that part of Stan's MUFON speech that
 >>suggests that Frank Kaufmann told him, Schmitt or Howe that he
 >>told lies about his involvement.

 >This is simply untrue. In the paper (bottom of p. 200 in the
 >Symp. Proc. ) "On December 13, 1999,Frank was most cordial at his
 >home to myself, Dennis Balthaser, Linda Howe, and Don Schmitt. I
 >explicitly asked if Blanchard had gone out with him. NO. Did
 >Marcel go with you? NO. "In 1995 he had claimed that he had
 >awakened both in the middle of the night and they had all gone
 >together. Perhaps Kevin has forgotten that I had also asked
 >wouldn't they have waited for a spotter plane before Blanchard
 >would leave his post without knowing what was there. Frank said
 >there were no spotter planes. But others have said there were. I
 >had also raised questions about Frank's response when asked by
 >Japanese researchers what the wreckage looked like and he said
 >just as Jesse Marcel Jr. , described it, though Jesse had NOT
 >been at the crash site and Frank had claimed to have been there.
 >I have also raised questions as to why Frank felt free to talk
 >openly about one of the most classified and significant events
 >in history, but he couldn't tell who his contacts were, etc ad
 >nauseum.

What you wrote is, "On December 13, 1999,Frank was most cordial
at his home to myself, Dennis Balthaser, Linda Howe, and Don
Schmitt. I explicitly asked if Blanchard had gone out with him.
NO. Did Marcel go with you? NO. There were a number of his
excellent paintings on the wall. During the same visit Linda
Howe..."

First, has anyone ever taught you how to write a paragraph?

Second, how are we supposed to interpret from those sentences
that Kaufmann admitted lying to you? It certainly doesn't say
that to me. In fact, it doesn't say that anywhere in that
report.

And I frankly don't remember Kaufmann saying there were no
spotter planes at Roswell.


 >>If true, however, the question
 >>is, why would he sit on all this information for almost three
 >>years?.

 >Kevin, the meeting was in December 1999. I wrote my MUFON 2000
 >paper in the spring of 2000. . a few months later. not 3 years.

Yes, but you didn't say that Kaufmann admitted lying to you
until recently, which is nearly three years. Your MUFON paper
doesn't say he admitted lying to you which would have been an
important revelation at the time. Now, it's just another bit of
evidence that is no longer of importance.

 >>Why didn't he publish this admission, along with the
 >>audiotapes that surely one of them would have made?

 >It was a friendly gathering at Frank's home. No tapes were made.
 >They also were not made in my room with you Frank and Don and
 >myself present. You guys wouldn't allow it.

Such power I exert. Wouldn't allow you to tape your interview
with Kaufmann... and you made no tape of your interview in which
Kaufmann said that he lied... We are stuck with your
interpretation of Frank's words with Frank conveniently dead so
he can't refute it.

 >>If he had an
 >>admission that Kaufmann was making it up, why not tell the world
 >>then? Why come forward now and say that he told me. .

 >I didn't say I told you. I came forward in my MUFON paper to say
 >he admitted that Blanchard and Marcel had NOT gone out with him
 >Perhaps you will recall that I have also complained about
 >Frank's claiming he was buddy-buddy with Major Marcel, but that
 >Dr. Marcel had no recollection of him though Jesse, Jr. did
 >recall Cavitt, Yeagher, Rickett. .

As I pointed out, your sentence wasn't the clearest ever
written. Maybe I should just write it off as another false
claim... rather than the simple lack of clarity it is.

 >>Instead, Stan seems to rely on the suggestion that Scanlon had
 >>not been the commander of ADC, that other, higher ranking
 >>generals were in fact the commanders. This is, I suppose,
 >>somehow to lead us to the conclusion that Frank had invented his
 >>tales. Why not just tell us simply that Frank had admitted that
 >>he wasn't involved? This smacks of the recent statement that Don
 >>Schmitt had never lied to Stan.

 >Way off base here, Kevin. I noted previously and in the 2000
 >paper that Scanlon's last position at ADC which ended in early
 >1948 was as Public Affairs man at Mitchell Field in NY and there
 >were no ADC radar systems in NM in 1947(with or without
 >Scanlon). Frank had long ago stated he knew nothing about Radar.
 >Scanlon as PA guy would certainly have not been ordering
 >somebody who knew nothing about radar to visit nonexistent
 >facilities at White Sands.

There were radars at White Sands in 1947 for crying out loud.
You decided they must have been ADC radars though I don't know
why.

 >I did not say Schmitt had never lied to me. What I said was that
 >he had not told me he had degrees from anywhere. He did not lie
 >to me about his academic credentials. This was significant
 >because I have a deserved reputation for checking on credentials
 >(yes, I did call about yours)and would have checked if he had
 >given them. You will recall that when I heard that Milwaukee
 >Magazine had identified that Don didn't have the credentials he
 >had claimed to them, and that he worked for the US Post Office,
 >that I called the post office and asked for Don. He came to the
 >phone. You were excoriating those of us who accepted the story
 >from MM for 6 weeks before finally acknowledging that you had
 >been had. I gather you still haven't gotten over it.

So if he didn't lie to you about his credentials, does this mean
the lie doesn't count? That he said it in print but not to you
means that he didn't lie about it? And don't you think it
laughable that he walked around the museum in Roswell pointing
out what he believed to be the hoaxes?

Yes, I admit it. I defended my friend because it seemed he was
being unfairly attacked. I did write a letter in support of him
because I believed what he told me and didn't believe that he
would be so bold in his lies. And the minute I learned the
truth, I made sure to correct the record.

 >>Scanlon, it seems, enjoys the same sort of intelligence
 >>background that Donald Menzel enjoys. If those intelligence
 >>connections make a case of MJ-12, then why aren't Scanlon's
 >>intelligence credentials of equal importance? He was a guy
 >>tapped by Hap Arnold to help development Air Force intelligence
 >>during the war. Wouldn't Arnold have thought of him immediately
 >>if he needed a reliable man to fly into Roswell?

 >Hap Arnold was not head of the US Army Air Force in 1947 (Spaatz
 >was, with Vandenberg under him). Scanlon was in Public Affairs
 >not Intelligence after the war. It is claimed (p. 168) in your
 >"The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell" that Generals Ramey,
 >McMullen, Kenny and Scanlon were superiors to the men at
 >Roswell. A Public relations guy in ADC was over SAC people at
 >Roswell?? I find that difficult to believe.

My mistake. Spaatz was the Air Force guy... Arnold had been the
Air Force guy during the war. But my point is that Scanlon had
the sort of background you would expect for someone called in on
this. He had helped design Air Force intelligence... And he had
been to Roswell, was familiar with the area and the situation.
So even though his assignment in 1947 was to public relations,
he had a long background in intelligence. And, if we think about
it, how good was that cover? We're still arguing about it and
Scanlon has been dead for twenty years.

 >>And if Scanlon
 >>knew Kaufmann, wouldn't he be likely to call on him to assist?
 >>And if this is not logical, then why should we accept the idea
 >>that Menzel's wartime service somehow qualified him for
 >>membership on MJ-12?

 >As I noted in" TOP SECRET/MAJIC" it was primarily Menzel's post
 >WW 2 intelligence work that was so significant including his
 >1960 (the war ended in 1945) statement to JFK that he, Menzel,
 >had a longer connection with the NSA (founded in 1952) and its
 >Navy Predecessor than anybody else (30 years). He also noted his
 >postwar high security work with the CIA and 30 companies, and
 >his being Commander of Naval Reserve Communications Unit no. 1
 >in Cambridge post war. Obviously it didn't hurt that he was
 >world class in cryptography before during and after the war.
 >Scanlon was head of Flight Training Wings from October 1942
 >until at least late 1944.

 >Certainly Menzel's Intelligence qualifications (not noted before
 >I dug them out at Harvard) were far superior to Scanlon's. Try
 >reading the Menzel Chapter in TSM sometime to refresh your
 >memory.

While I'll agree that Menzel's intelligence qualifications were
different, I won't agree that they were superior.

 >>And wouldn't this suggestion that Scanlon was not the commander
 >>of ADC, which I never heard Frank claim, be a false assumption?
 >>If Frank didn't make the claim, then what relevance does the
 >>fact have? And more importantly, where did it come from?
 >>Kaufmann? Schmitt?

 >I frankly don't know where that claim came from. Perhaps a
 >Lister has heard it as well?

My point exactly. Say what you will about Kaufmann, but I never
heard this coming from him. Wouldn't this fall under the
umbrella of another false claim? Or is it a simple mistake?

 >>The point here is that Stan didn't publish anything suggesting
 >>that Kaufmann had admitted to lying. All we are told is that
 >>Kaufmann met with Stan, Howe and Schmitt.

 >Admitting that neither Blanchard nor Marcel went out with him
 >when he had previously told you, Don, and me that they had, is
 >an admission of lying as spelled out in my paper. Read it again.
 >I have also referred to the McKnight letter which certainly
 >suggests Frank was telling tales.

I simply don't remember him saying that. Maybe he said something
else and you misremember it. And, even if he did, how does this
translate into a statement that he had lied, based on what you
wrote in that paper? Maybe he made a simple mistake. Must
everything in UFOlogy be a false claim and a lie?

And the McKnight affidavit comes from a man who wasn't there in
1947, who was four years old in 1947, and suggested that he had
never heard of anything happening on the ranch owned by
relatives. Not exactly proof positive.

But once again, while you were raising questions, you were not
saying that Kaufmann was lying.

 >>And we know that Stan
 >>doesn't like the Kaufmann tales because he has told us that
 >>repeatedly, but Stan never supplied a good reason for rejecting
 >>them, even when Kaufmann had apparently handed him that
 >>reason.
 >Frank certainly was aware of my complaints about him as he
 >referenced in an August 7, 1995, letter to me, things I had said
 >about him in my September 26, 1994 paper " The Roswell Incident,
 >the USAF, and the NY Times", in a Nov. 18, 1994, letter to you,
 >in letters to Paul Davids on Dec. 20, 1994, and January 3, 1995,
 >and to Jack Rodden on January 7, 1995 . I presume some of this
 >input to him came from you.

Presume all you want, I'm confused by this. Are you suggesting
that I was Frank's ghost writer on this? Are you suggesting that
Frank was incapable of responding to your attacks?

 >>Now, please, understand, I am not suggesting that Frank Kaufmann
 >>can be rehabilitated. As far as I'm concerned, he should become
 >>a footnote to the Roswell case, just as Gerald Anderson and
 >>Glenn Dennis should be footnotes. Both men were caught in a
 >>changing and shifting story that as we investigated moved
 >>farther from the truth. Or, Stan, do you now have the "real"
 >>name of the nurse? And now that Anderson appears on the Navy
 >>SEALs Wall of Shame, are you finally convinced that he can't be
 >>trusted?

 >I think that both Glenn Dennis and Gerald Anderson made real
 >contributions to the story despite your great antipathy to both.

Yeah, just like the contribution Frank Kaufmann made...

 >You will recall that Gerald passed a polygraph (Frank never took
 >one) and that a medical technician realled the nurse and
 >described her as Glenn did without any prompting from me. They,
 >(G and G), both independently described a strange combination of
 >a red haired officer and a black sergeant.

Gee, talk about selective use of data... Anderson passed a
polygraph test but admitted to forging a telephone bill to make
me look bad... Actually,  he forged two telephone bills, and a
diary, and a letter from the family to prove he was telling the
truth. Let's see, he claimed to be a Navy SEAL when he was not.
He changed details of this sighting... milky blue eyes to
black... and which of his crash sites do you accept? The one
near the VLA? The one north of highway 60? Horse Springs? And
were three dead and one injured or was it two dead, one dying
and one relatively uninjured... Did he take the sociology class
instead of Dr. Buskirk's anthropology class? Why is it that he
will not allow for independent verification of his claims? Oh
yeah, he passed a polygraph test.

And just what was in that package of material that you sent to
Anderson before you interviewed him? And, given his track
record, what makes you think that he didn't read it before you
talked to him? And, couldn't that be the source of the
contamination with the Glenn Dennis tale?

As for this nurse, just what name is she given today? Obviously
it's not Naomi Self. And, are you one of the researchers who
wouldn't listen when Dennis told us all that he'd give us a name
but it wouldn't be her name? Are you one of the researchers who
ran off in search of Naomi Self even though Dennis had made it
clear to us that Self wasn't her name? Or, at least claims today
that he tried to make it clear... but only after we proved the
negative. There was no Army nurse names Naomi Self.

 >I happen to think much of the world is gray.

Was Kaufmann ever in this gray basket?

 >You seem to operate on a black and white basis. That is your
 >privilege.

I actually think the world is filled with color which is a much
more pleasant way of seeing it. But then I write science
fiction... coming in April, "Signals", from Ace Books.


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                    Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - Friedman

From: Stan Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 22:09:07 -0400
Fwd Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 22:15:38 -0500
Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - Friedman


 >From: John Rimmer <jrimmer@magonia.demon.co.uk>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 23:25:58 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43

 >>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 18:47:58 -0400
 >>Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43

<snip>

 >Both of these imply some form of co-operation between the
 >intelligences behind these craft and the US government. Is this
 >in fact what you are claiming?

Not at all, John. As I have said in another post on this thread,
all governments have a common interest in covering up whatever
solid knowledge they have. Major ones want to learn new
technology, to keep others from learning what hey have learned,
and to avoid admitting their air space can be violated with
impunity.

None of which I am aware want their citizens to start thinking
of themselves as Earthlings because it would reduce their power.
So far as I know the aliens haven't taken sides, they haven't
seriously attacked any governments, why should smaller nations
worry about them?If US or Soviet Space surveillance systems pick
up one crashing, then contact the country and offer a reward.

 ><snip>

 >>Also while there have been many multiple witness sightings, the
 >>flying saucers don't seem interested in showing up during the
 >>world Soccer matches or other activities involving worldwide TV
 >>coverage.

 >Yes, I wonder why this is? In all other respects they seem quite
 >unconcerned about where they happen to appear. Presumably this
 >is because of the agreement they must have with the US
 >government.

I haven't said anything about any agreement between the Aliens
and various governments.Is there one? They are here to do their
thing. I would think that primarily they want to be left alone.
I have heard of a number of instances in which military craft
attacking UFOs have been destroyed . As a former radar operator
told me after a US plane disappeared while being tracked as it
approached a UFO, the word went out: don't shoot, take pictures.

It wouldn't take much monitoring of earth to determine that we
have a primitive society whose major activity is tribal warfare.
A Russian article in an English language Russian magazine
stressed how important it was that we be able to distinguish
between a flying saucer and the other guy's missiles so as to
avoid starting a 3rd World war. I do suspect as discussed by
Hansen (The Missing Times) that there has been government
influence on the major media to avoid taking the subject very
seriously.

 >However, as you will have gathered from the debate earlier this
 >year about Trindade Island, I am rather less sanguin than you
 >about these so- called 'multiple witness sightings'.

You certainly are. That is your privilege  though I suspect you
are very much in a minority of those who have studied the facts
about the case. Espcially since no one has come forward who was
there to say the case was a hoax. When the press reports a crowd
of 47,000 at a sports event, I don't need to have a list of the
names of all attendees to accept that that is pretty close to
correct. Obviously Trindade is not the only multiple witness
case.

 >>Too bad.

 >Yes, it would completely wreck the penalty shoot-outs.
 >--
 >John Rimmer
 >Magonia Magazine
 >www.magonia.demon.co.uk/arc/00/newmag.htm


It is not a tie game, John.The ayes have it by a big
margin.Remember that ITV program?


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                      Current Cydonian Imperative Poll

From: Mac Tonnies <macbot@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 20:52:04 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 10:04:54 -0500
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               Security Classifications [was: Frank Kaufman?]

From: Murray Bott <murrayb@win.co.nz>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 18:20:15 +1300 (NZDT)
Fwd Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 10:08:15 -0500
Subject: Security Classifications [was: Frank Kaufman?]


Greetings List

On 28th Novemember Stan Friedman wrote

 >From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 22:37:20 -0400
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufman?

<snip>

 >I will have more to say about the claim I am told was made that
 >MJ-12 is a fraud once I see the program.

 >My paper noted above does point out that despite Jan Aldrich's
 >recent false claim that the GAO must have been mistaken, that
 >the GAO found examples of the use of TOP SECRET RESTRICTED on
 >documents from the same time frame as the Cutler Twining memo,
 >that they indeed had.

Stan,

I recall that Jan asked that you provide an "Independantly
Verifiable Copy" of such a Document containing "TOP SECRET
RESTRICTED" Classification.

Stan my enquiry to you (and Jan) is:

Have you provided Jan with such a document yet? - Or do you wish
to ignore this request and hope that it will go away?

Until then Stan your claim is nothing more than that - A claim
without any form of verifiable evidence

 >I also noted that not all TS documents have TS Control numbers,
 >again despite Jan's false claim to the contrary.

Again Stan:

Have you provided Jan with any "Independantly Verifiable Copy"
of such a document.

 >In Jan's defense I must note that his excellent security related
 >background seemed to relate to classified military documents not
 >to NSC, White House, Industrial classified documents, tc.

Stan:- it is obvious Jan has shown that you dont know as much
about security classifications as you often try and make out you
do (A little learning is a dangerous thing here)

You continue your barrage against Jan to imply that his background
knowledge doesnt cover "NSC, White House, Industrial classified
documents, etc."

Stan my question here is - What evidence do you have here that
your own knowledge is better (than Jan's or anyone elses) in
this area. Any attempt to claim that you have visited so many
archives etc you must come away with something to verify any
bold claims on "Security Classifications" etc.

Stan - so far I suggest "Claims - Many, Evidence - None"

You must remember that when you make such bold claims that there
are in fact other researchers out here (many on the "Updates
List") who are equally (or more) familar with "Security
Classifications" and "Archives Searches" etc.

In any "Court of Law" - Civil or Criminal the prosecuting agency
must be able to prove their case "beyond reasonable doubt"

In Ufology the sometimes quoted statement "The absence of
evidence is not the evidence of absence" is just a "slick catch
phrase" made by people who havent a scrap of evidence to support
their case.

I would certainly welcome your release (to Jan Aldrich and
others) of any "Independantly Verifiable Documents" as outlined
above.


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               Ombudsman "MOD Blocked Rendlesham File Release"

From: David  Clarke <cd292@crazydiamonds.fsnet.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 09:18:34 -0000
Fwd Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 10:12:20 -0500
Subject: Ombudsman "MOD Blocked Rendlesham File Release"


Source: BBC News Online

http://www.bbc.co.uk

3 December 2002

UFO CASE 'BLOCKED' BY MOD

Details of one of Britain's most famous UFO scares was among
information repeatedly suppressed by government defence chiefs,
according to a Westminster watchdog. Parliamentary Ombudsman Ann
Abraham said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) broke open government
rules three times in recent months over cases including the
Rendlesham Forest UFO scare.

Complaints about the MoD's refusal to list countries prioritised
for arms sales or reveal details of an armed services survey
were also up-held.

Former defence minister Peter Kilfoyle said the examples
outlined in the report on the Ombudsman's work between May and
October were symptomatic of a "culture of secrecy" in the MoD.

"It is one of those departments that have always opposed freedom
of information and are not very attuned to what is required in a
modern, open and accountable government," he said.

"Other departments and Whitehall as a whole have a problem with
openness but the MoD is on of the more incorrigible cases of
government by secrecy," he said.

Details of the alleged sighting at a Norfolk RAF base more than
20 years ago were released last week after the Ombudsman ruled
the MoD were wrongly suppressing them.

The "Rendlesham File" concerns a sighting of a "glowing"
triangular object by US Air Force police in Rendlesham Forest,
near RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk.

The documents have only previously been made available to around
20 people who used the American Freedom of Information Act to
gain access to them.

In the early hours of 27 December, 1980, a number of US Air
Force men witnessed the object hover in the darkness,
transmitting blue pulsating lights and sending nearby farm
animals into a "frenzy".

While the actual documents had not been released, the details
were widely known, the Ombudsman said in her report.

"Given their age and the fact that these documents contained no
information not already in the public domain, the Ombudsman saw
no reason why they could not be disclosed," the report said.

The Ombudsman also partially upheld complaints against the
Cabinet Office, DVLA, Driving Standards Agency and the
Department for Work and Pensions, the report revealed.

Restrictions on the MoD's "Rendlesham File" were dropped as part
of an opening-up of the inner workings of Whitehall.

Ministers are attempting to lift the official veil of secrecy by
repealing or amending a raft of legislation banning access to
information.

Government departments will now be required to release
information on the internal workings of Whitehall, including
minutes of meetings of top civil servants.

Ministers say they will repeal or amend up to 100 items of
legislation which are currently prohibited from disclosure.

*** For the full text of the Ombudsman's judgement go to:

www.ombudsman.org.uk/pca/

click 'What's New' and then 'Parliamentary Commissioner for
Administration - Access to Official Information - Investigations
Completed May-October 2002.

Ministry of Defence - Case A29/02 - Refusal to release
information relating to the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident can
be found on pgs 9-11 of the file in pdf format.

"Mr E" who made the complaint is of course Eric Morris of the
British UFO Studies Centre.

Best,

Dave Clarke

www.flyingsaucery.com








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                       Washington Post Review Of TAKEN

From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 05:15:32 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 10:15:14 -0500
Subject: Washington Post Review Of TAKEN


All

Tom Shales at the Washington Post never seems to like the same
programs that I do, which I generally find to be the case with
most "critics". However, his review of TAKEN would seem to place
it in a class by itself. Having only seen the first two
segments, I can only hope it's as powerful as he seems to
indicate.

============

Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61897-2002Dec1.html


Sci Fi's 'Taken' Grabs You and Doesn't Let Go

By Tom Shales
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, December 2, 2002; Page C01


"Taken" is mammoth, imaginative and thrilling in more than one
sense of that word. It's certainly the most ambitious sci-fi
epic ever produced for cable TV, or maybe any kind of TV -- a
20-hour miniseries that constitutes a landmark for the Sci Fi
Channel, which will air it over the next two weeks. It might
even qualify as cable's "Roots."

Be warned, however, that even though children figure prominently
in the plot -- the last six hours are dominated by a beguiling
star-child named Allie -- the miniseries includes graphic and
nightmarish violence that makes it unsuitable for little kids.

The official full-length title is "Steven Spielberg Presents
Taken." Yes, that old dreamy-eyed spacenik Spielberg is back,
but he didn't exactly produce the miniseries, nor did he direct
any of the episodes. He is one of the executive producers and he
"presents" it -- starting tonight at 9 on Sci Fi, continuing for
nine weeknights and ending Friday, Dec. 13.

Although it deals with aliens from outer space, these are by no
means the friendly neighbors who dropped by for "Close
Encounters of the Third Kind" or, by a long shot, the cuddly and
homesick sweetie of "E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial." Even so,
"Taken" has many Spielbergian traits, mixing intense suspense
with a stubbornly sentimental streak. Emblematically, the final
chapter is a riveting combination of the heart-pounding and the
tear-jerking, and there'll be a spectacular light show as well.

To buy the show, you have to buy the premise, one that is hardly
new: For years, aliens from another world have been swooping
down and scooping up Earth people, taking them to some sort of
medical laboratory in space, experimenting on them and then
depositing them back in their homes. "Taken" envisions an entire
UFO subculture consisting of multiple abductees, their families
and others who qualify as believers, and a covert part of the
military-industrial establishment that mercilessly pursues the
takers and the taken for their own nefarious schemes.

The aliens are highly advanced and yet even after 50 years of
tinkering with earthlings, they still feel the need to do more
"tests," which include inserting snarky tentacles up their
victims' noses so as to implant tiny mysterious doohickeys in
their frontal lobes -- creating a species of "test subjects" who
can be re-snatched and re-studied and even re-snarked at any
time. But then they don't just want to examine us. They want to
interbreed. And do.

A story spanning half a century and telling the sometimes
interweaving tales of three alien-involved Earth families isn't
easy to summarize. At times, "Taken" seems refreshingly
challenging and at others, simply hard to follow. But the scope
of it is awesome and the tension levels sometimes astronomical.
The aliens aren't "monsters" as in a '50s sci-fi horror film,
but they haven't come down to Earth just to say howdy and borrow
a cup of sugar, either.

The first episode, "Beyond the Skies," was directed by Tobe
Hooper ("Poltergeist") and opens high over Germany in June of
1944. American pilots fighting an aerial battle are bedeviled
not only by Nazi fighter planes but also by strange blue lights
whizzing all around them. On seeing the blue lights, one
American pilot says -- in a line of dialogue that does not ring
true -- that the good guys may as well "surrender right now"
because they have "no chance of beating that." Jeez, the lights
haven't done much but zoom about and twinkle at this point.

Returning home from the war to a typically Spielberg idealized
American town -- that is, something derivative of Norman
Rockwell and Frank Capra -- Capt. Russell Keys (Steve Burton) is
haunted by nightmares in which German doctors perform ghastly
surgery on him. Eventually he realizes those aren't Germans in
his dreams; they're spindly, prying gray aliens, and he's in
some kind of hovering hospital.

However menacing they become, the aliens never achieve the
status of pure evil represented by Col. Owen Crawford (Joel
Gretsch), a vicious and murderous Air Force officer. He takes
over the military's investigation of UFOs after a saucer is
found in Roswell, N.M. -- where many people believe a saucer
really did once land. There are five seats in the craft, but
only four dead aliens are found at the crash site.

Meanwhile, in the countryside near Lubbock, Tex., a woman named
Sally Clarke finds a beguiling stranger hiding in a shed, a man
who identifies himself only as John. Sally and John not only hit
it off, they get it on. Sally becomes pregnant. What she didn't
know but rather suspected is that John is an alien in human
form. Sally's half-alien son has the power to give people awful
migraine headaches -- and to make them see "all their memories
and all their fears" flash blindingly before them.

As is the case throughout the miniseries, the casting of Sally
and John -- two of the most pivotal characters -- is ideal,
Sally played by the angelically pretty Catherine Dent and John
played by the angelically handsome Eric Close. You'll think
you've seen the last of John by Part 2, but don't be too sure.
He'll be back. So will Sally's little farm in Lubbock.

The loathsome Col. Crawford chases aliens with a berserk
vengeance, largely because he fears their advanced technology
will fall into the hands of the Soviets. He's a Cold Warrior of
the old school, determined to capture any Americans who, like
Russell Keys, appear to have been abducted and tinkered with.
Crawford is one of the vilest villains in movie memory. I kept
watching because I wanted to see him killed, or at least die a
miserable death. Later, though, in next week's episodes, an
equally villainous figure will emerge: Heather Donahue as Mary,
a similarly obsessed and misguided scientist who doesn't mind
being described as "one cold and nasty bitch" by Gen. Beers
(James McDaniel), one of the Army's more effective alien-
pursuers.

Mary wouldn't necessarily mind shooting her own boyfriend in the
back, either.

In the third episode, "High Hopes," set in 1962 (and airing this
Thursday), Col. Crawford authorizes brain surgery on an abductee
he's managed to kidnap -- a man who becomes open-minded in a
very literal sense. This sequence may be the most terrifying
I've ever seen in a movie made for television, one that roughly
recalls the moment when madness overtook the Nazis who opened
that forbidden crate in Spielberg's "Raiders of the Lost Ark."

There are plenty of scares to come, but perhaps none to equal
this grimly chilling pip.

Along the way, real names are dropped -- Presidents Eisenhower,
Kennedy (derisively called a "pretty boy" by Col. Crawford) and
Nixon -- and past decades are evoked with loving or amusing
details, like the song "Purple People Eater" playing on the
radio, or a clip from what looks like the stone-age space-age
adventure show "Captain Video" on an old black-and-white TV set.
Sally touchingly tells her part-alien son Jacob, "Oh, I love you
-- every day and twice on Sundays," a sentiment that will echo
through the years.

Allie enters the story in the seventh episode, and she also
narrates many of the other chapters. Dakota Fanning, who plays
her, has the perfect sort of otherworldly look about her, an
enchanting young actress called upon, as is Allie, to carry a
great weight. Matt Frewer, so long ago "Max Headroom," shows up,
too, as a slightly daffy but fiercely determined scientist named
Dr. Wakeman.

Obviously the miniseries has similarities in theme and treatment
to many other works for film and TV, including "The X-Files"
(though it's not nearly that pretentious or morbid), but it also
has a sanguine spiritual appeal that makes it particularly
welcome in particularly troubled -- even, arguably, hopeless --
  times. "Taken" is a fascinating and fantastic adventure set
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                  Re: UFO Documents on MOD Website - Clarke

From: David  Clarke <cd292@crazydiamonds.fsnet.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 10:39:53 -0000
Fwd Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 10:19:01 -0500
Subject: Re: UFO Documents on MOD Website - Clarke


 >From: Nick Pope <nick@popemod.freeserve.co.uk>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 23:06:40 -0000
 >Subject: UFO Documents on MOD Website

 >Various UFO documents are now available on the Ministry of
 >Defence website. These comprise a brief policy statement on the
 >issue, a 1951 report from the so-called Flying Saucer Working
 >Party, and papers from the file on the Rendlesham Forest
 >incident (a.k.a. the Bentwaters incident).

 ><snip>

 >The release of this material has been a big story in the UK
 >today. Georgina Bruni, whose work with former Chief of the
 >Defence Staff Lord Hill-Norton led to the release of much of
 >this material, has spent much of the day recording television
 >and radio interviews.


Nick --

If it is the case that the work of Bruni and Hill-Norton "led to
the release of much of this material", then how do explain this
statement, by the Permanent Secretary of State for the MoD,
published today by the Parliamentary Ombudsman:


"...The Permanent Secretary responded on 11 April [2002] and
outlined the background to [Eric Morris'] complaint, together
with a history of the MOD's approach to information requests
relating to the Rendlesham Forest incident.

The Permanent Secretary detailed how the release of documents
contained within the 'Rendlesham file' *had first been
considered* [my emphasis] in response to a request in May 2001
from a different correspondent.

At that time five documents from the file had been with-held:
three under Exemption 2 and two under Exemption 1. The Permanent
Secretary said that the two papers with-held under Exemption 1
were subsequently released following an internal review."


My first request for the Rendlesham file, under the Code of
Practice for Access to Government Information, was made on 7
February 2001. The application was accepted and copies of the
174 documents were released to me on 11 May 2001, exactly as the
Permanent Secretary to the MoD reports to the Ombudsman.

I subsequently appealed against the decision to with-hold the
two documents with-held under Exemption 1 (National Security).
On 2 October 2001 Michael Tonnison, MOD's Director of
Information Exploitation, accepted my appeal and released the
two documents that were subsequently posted on
www.flyingsaucery.com

Eric Morris of BUFOSC then took up the case and complained to
the Ombudsman against the decision to with-hold the remaining 3
briefing papers. He won the case too, hence the decision
announced today.

There is no mention in the Ombudsman's report of Georgina Bruni
or Lord Hill-Norton. I've no doubt that their influence helped
bring these matters to a head, but it was mine and Eric's
applications under the FOIA that released this information to
the public.

As for the Flying Saucer Working Party document, you might
remember the interview you gave Andy Roberts and me in London
back in April 2001, shortly after we had engineered the release
of this historic file from the MoD Records Officer.

One of the questions we asked - on tape - was: "Do you know
anything about the intelligence study that was done in 1950-51?"

You answer was: "Not a lot, no. I certainly haven't seen it."

You quite clearly had *never even heard of* the Flying Saucer
Working Party, until we revealed its existence here on UFO
UpDates in October that year.

Is it not about time Nick that, to paraphrase Gary Anthony, you
took your head out of the clouds and acknowledged that fact?

Or has working for the MoD provided you with good training in
how to avoid answering awkward questions?

Best,

Dave Clarke

www.flyingsaucery.com







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                    Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais

From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 11:45:34 +0100
Fwd Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 10:20:29 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais


 >From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 20:23:13 EST
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 22:37:20 -0400
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufman?

<snip>

 >Now, please, understand, I am not suggesting that Frank Kaufmann
 >can be rehabilitated. As far as I'm concerned, he should become
 >a footnote to the Roswell case, just as Gerald Anderson and
 >Glenn Dennis should be footnotes. Both men were caught in a
 >changing and shifting story that as we investigated moved
 >farther from the truth. Or, Stan, do you now have the "real"
 >name of the nurse? And now that Anderson appears on the Navy
 >SEALs Wall of Shame, are you finally convinced that he can't be
 >trusted?


Kevin, Stan and List,

Regarding Glenn Dennis and the "missing nurse, I am perplexed by
the information given about Eilen Fanton, both in the "Roswell
Report. Case Closed" (pages 82-83), and by Karl Pflock in his
last book, at pages 138-139.

She seems to correspond on several point to the description made
by Glenn Dennis. Could it be that at least part of his original
story was accurate ? Or is there a solid argument against that,
apart from the false name Naomi Selff ?

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                    Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - McGonagle

From: Joe McGonagle <joe@ufology.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 12:19:34 -0000
Fwd Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 10:24:42 -0500
Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - McGonagle


 >From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 18:38:09 -0400
 >Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43

 >>From: Joe McGonagle <joe@ufology.org.uk>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 16:54:33 -0000
 >>Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43

 >>>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 22:45:12 -0400
 >>>Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43

<snip>

Thanks for the response, Stan. I see that you are corresponding
on-List in several threads at this moment, so I'll try to avoid
any lengthy discussion here.

 >>Just because information is withheld, it does not mean that such
 >>information amounts to conclusive proof of the ETH, which seems
 >>to me to be the inference which you are making- do you find it
 >>difficult to accept that there could be other information which
 >>the authorities would prefer to withhold, for instance, the
 >>participation of the U.K. in certain enquiries/operations?

 >I am not inferring that any particular bit of evidence amounts
 >to conclusive proof of the ETH. I am saying that the blacked out
 >and whited out portions of CIA and NSA UFO documents mean that
 >the government is witholding information about UFOs. Court
 >decisions are based on a whole web of info not on a single bit
 >of conclusive data.

<snip>

I am sorry, I read your comments about the obliterated
information in the context of your belief that Roswell
represents military posession of alien technology, ergo the
withheld information must relate to that premise. I see form
your comments that that is not what you meant.

 >>What I am getting at is that I accept the various Governments
 >>are withholding information about UFOs, but much of that
 >>information is bound to be of a trivial nature. Of the material
 >>that is withheld but is not trivial, it most likely relates to
 >>operational systems or processes which they may have good
reason
 >>to keep classified. There is no reason to think that they are
 >>withholding absolute proof of the ETH.

 >What possible basis is there for the "most likely" above?? If
 >they have any data on recovered crashed saucers and alien
 >bodies, that would certainly appear to be absolute proof of the
 >ETH.

This assumption is based on the fact that the military must use
their defence systems and procedures in order to evaluate the
capabilities and activities of unidentified aircraft (or indeed
natural phenomena that may mimmick intelligent control, etc).
There is very little in the released records concerning the
technology or procedures in use by the UK military in this
respect. As an example, Fylingdales and B.M.E.W.S. is mentioned
in passing as having been consulted, but nothing is disclosed
about what systems were checked within those departments, how
long it took to obtain a response from them, or how much was
determined by any traces. Another example is the involvement of
DI55 being mentioned in some documents, but hardly any
information about the systems, procedures, capabilities and role
of DI55.

It seems reasonable that any such similar information is likely
to be withheld, for possibly justifiable reasons.

The real point is that there is real evidence that Fylingdales,
DI55 and B.M.E.W.S. exist in spite of the secrecy surrounding
them, and that they are consulted in some UFO cases, but there
is no trace of any similar evidence for the posession of any
extraterrestrial artifacts. Of course, it is possible that the
US doesn't share such information with the UK, but UK military
technology is equally capable (or incapable) of establishing the
nature of UFOs.

<snip>

 >I am sure many government people who do know what is going on
 >about UFOs feel it is perfectly justified. If they know, for
 >example, that UK or USAF or Soviet aircraft attacking UFOs have
 >been shot down they might be very reluctant to let the public
 >and other pilots know. I, for one, don't want technical data out
 >on the table.


I don't disagree with what you say above, but the key to the
statement is the word "many". It is your premise that at least
one UFO (as in Alien flying machine) has been in the possession
of the military for over 50 years. During that period, many
thousands of people will have come into contact with that
information in a military or Government role. It seems
extraordinary to me that in all that time, not one Shayler-type
personality has been charged with attempting to disclose it.

There have been trials in the US and the UK of spies who passed
information relating to cryptography, the submarine sensor
network, military satellite technology, Nuclear technology, etc.,
yet none concerning captured ET technology? Not a single
whistle-blower worthy of a trial?

This seems to me to be the most damning indictment of the
crash/retrieval scenario.


Regards,

Joe McGonagle








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                        CNN Entertainment On 'Taken'

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Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 10:33:32 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 10:33:32 -0500
Subject: CNN Entertainment On 'Taken'



Source: CNN Entertainment

http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/TV/12/02/apontv.spielbergs.taken.ap/index.html

Spielberg Presents UFO Encounters
'Taken' a 10-part miniseries on alien subject

Monday, December 2, 2002 Posted: 11:36 AM EST (1636 GMT)

Taken

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- The sky's no limit for Sci Fi
Channel's "Taken," which is big by just about any measurement.

The 10-part miniseries dramatizes more than five decades of
alien-abduction and UFO mythology. It clocks in at 20 hours. Ten
directors worked on it. The budget was a reported $40 million.

And here's the clincher: Steven Spielberg, a sizable name when
it comes to movies and aliens, is the guiding hand behind the
series showing on 10 consecutive weeknights (December 2-6;
December 9-13) starting Monday.

Spielberg, whose famed otherworldly musings are "Close
Encounters of the Third Kind" and "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,"
approached Sci Fi Channel in 1998 about an epic alien project.

"With a storytelling legend behind you, you're not going to
throw it away on a four- or six-hour miniseries," said Sci Fi
President Bonnie Hammer. "We wanted to give him time to tell the
story ... and we were willing to go along for the ride."

The filmmaker's cachet is not squandered: The miniseries' full
title is "Steven Spielberg Presents: Taken."

It is in the tradition of such grand 1970s dramas as the 24-hour
"Centennial," both in length and in the compressed airing. Other
recent miniseries, such as HBO's "Band of Brothers," have been
spun out week to week.

"We wanted to create a true event as opposed to a weekly
series," Hammer said. "In a sense, it's a bit of an experiment
scheduling it this way, but there's a level of excitement
attached to it because we're breaking some rules."

A family and its contacts

"Taken" is, rather remarkably, the work of one writer, Leslie
Bohem ("Dante's Peak," "Twenty Bucks"), who also served as
executive producer along with Spielberg.

Starting in 1945, the drama follows four generations of the
Keys, Crawford and Clarke families and their part in
extraterrestrial encounters that affect both Earthlings and
aliens.

In the first episode, World War II fighter pilot Russell Keys
(Steve Burton) is in a dogfight over France when an eerie blue
light envelops his plane, saving him and his crew but with
lasting and dire effects. Also central to the tale is government
research into a spacecraft that made a crash landing near small
-- but destined for fame -- Roswell, New Mexico.

The saga is narrated by 10-year-old Allie (Dakota Fanning), a
girl with an intriguing family tree and a crucial role to play
for humanity.

Co-stars include Eric Close, Catherine Dent, Matt Frewer,
Michael Moriarty and James McDaniel -- and a spaceship-sized
load of visual effects supervised by James Lima ("Strange Days,"
"Space Jam").

The film strives for emotional depth as well as sci-fi razzle-
dazzle, said Bohem, who spent more than three years crafting
"Taken" with guidance from Spielberg.

"Our initial conversations were, 'What's intriguing about this
[the subject], how do we treat it with respect, how do we make
it seem as real as possible,' " Bohem said.

Spielberg posed his own question to Bohem: If tales of blank-
eyed, spindly alien invaders who spirit away humans aren't true,
then why are stories told by alleged abductees so similar?

"I glibly said, 'Your movies,' " Bohem recalled.

Explaining the draw

In a statement, Spielberg said he's uncertain about whether
Earth has received visitors but insists "I know there is life
off this planet."

Does Bohem believe aliens have been booking regular Club Earth
tours? Maybe, which means "God's got a bigger canvas" and our
view of the universe must change, he says.

But the writer admits favoring a negative answer.

"I find it even more compelling if it's not true. Then the
question of why we are all drawn to these stories and have been
for so long comes to the fore, and I think that is the even more
profound question."

In line with that, Bohem saw the miniseries as a means of
examining the broader concept of being taken, not just by
invaders but by "love, by lust, by power, by drugs, by alcohol."

"I believe what will keep people tuned in, hopefully, is that
the characters are very compelling and you watch these
characters evolve and age before your eyes and give birth to
special children who themselves have a purpose in our story," he
said.

While Bohem was the sole writer, each two-hour chapter of
"Taken" used a different director, among them Tobe Hooper
("Poltergeist") on Episode 1 and Jeremy Kagan ("The Journey of
Natty Gann") on Episode 7.

"They did it the opposite way it's often done," said Breck
Eisner, who directed the second episode. "They had one writer
write everything, every word. I think they thought, 'Let's try a
couple different visions from directors and get multiple points
of view.' "

Spielberg is cited by those involved as the unifying force,
offering counsel and suggestions -- among them his vision of an
alien spaceship interior that is "not quite within
comprehension, blown-out and unclear," Eisner said.

"What could be better than directing a project that Spielberg is
producing, based on alien mythology. For me, a sci-fi fan, it's
the greatest thing you can imagine," Eisner said.

For 10-year-old Sci Fi Channel, the miniseries represents a
splashy way to try and expand its audience beyond die-hard
science fiction fans, Hammer said.

There's some evidence the strategy might pay off. A November 22
feast of UFO and alien documentaries, a promotional platform for
"Taken" with Spielberg serving as host, made Sci Fi the No. 1
adult-targeted cable channel during prime time.

Bohem, however, is looking for rewards beyond ratings: the
audience's recognition of a united, self-reliant world that must
function without the expectation of help from more-evolved
aliens.

"It's important to me you come away from this comforted by the
fact that we're all in this together, but not comforted by the
fact there's somebody showing up on Thursday from Alpha Centauri
with all the answers.

"They won't be coming on Friday, either."







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                           'Antigravity'? Beamship

From: Kelly <kellymcg@attcanada.ca>
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 11:45:24 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 16:48:34 -0500
Subject: 'Antigravity'? Beamship


http://www.wdhsvideo.org/html/press.antigravity.htm

"Antigravity???" Beamship Press Release
For Immediate Release
Contact:
Russ Gibb
WDHS Student Video
Dearborn High School
19501 West Outer Drive
Dearborn, MI 48124
313.730.3104
russgibb@wdhsvideo.org

"Beam Me Up Scotty" Anti-gravity: Fact or Fiction?

Dearborn High video/computer students are the first high school
students in the world to build an "antigravity???" machine for
2002-2003 Metro-Detroit Science Fair.

Yes, you can say impossible. Yes, you can say it defies Newton's
3rd law of gravity. Yes, you can say it's done with smoke and
mirrors. Nevertheless three teenage Dearborn High students, Luke
Duncan, 16, Ethan Rein, 17, and Jim Bergren, 16, built and flew
an "antigravity???" aircraft last Sunday in the school
video/computer studio.

It has no fans, no jets, and no engines. It makes no sound, and
yet it flies. In fact the first time that the students flew the
craft it went up so fast and high that in future flights the
craft had to be tethered or it just kept going up and up. The
only power that is supplied to the beam ship is a thin
electrical conducting wire that connects to the fuselage of the
balsa wood and aluminum foil craft.

At first the students thought that it was working on a theory
called the ion wind, whereby electrons fly through the air
displacing air molecules thereby creating a small wind effect.
Yet recently a similar craft was built at Purdue University and
put in a vacuum chamber but it still flew. Oops, there goes
another theory.

The students have been working via phone and internet with
physicists and inventors all over the world to help them with
their project including the Russian physicist Dr. Podkletnov who
now lives in Finnland, The French Inventor Jean-Louis Naudin,
American inventor Russell Anderson, President of Applied
Electrogravitics, American Antigravity's Tim Ventura, their
teacher Mr. Russ Gibb, Michigan Technology Teacher of the Year
2000, as well as many other people who have been building and
working on lifters for years. Please note, that many respected
investigators of the antigravity phenomenon dispute that
beamship/lifter technology is an antigravity phenomen and say
outright that it is not antigravity. Students Luke, Jim, and
Ethan say "We don't know for sure what causes the craft to fly
and are simply investigated the different theories."

Interestingly, this year is the 100-year anniversary of the
Wright brothers first flight and also in the early 1900s, Nikola
Tesla, the electrical genius, and physicist George S. Piggot
were doing experiments on anti-gravity.

If you would like to see the craft take off and fly visit
www.wdhsvideo.org and click on the picture of the craft, or contact Mr.
Gibb at 313-730-3104.







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                     Re: Roswell Had Victims? - Gonzalez

From: Luis R. Gonzalez <lrgm@arrakis.es>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 13:36:36 +0100
Fwd Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 16:50:09 -0500
Subject: Re: Roswell Had Victims? - Gonzalez


 >From: Gary Anthony <garyant@mithrand.karoo.co.uk>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:47:45 -0000
 >Subject: Re: Roswell Had Victims?

In reference to this thear, you may be interested to know that
in the last issue of the British "The Skeptic" (Vol. 15 n=BA 3),
David Hambling proposes an intriguing answer to the Roswell's
alien corpses.

David mentions Nick Cook's book "Zero Point" where he presented
a secret 1947 memorandum by Lt General Twining, listing six
traits for the flying discs sighted in UFO encounters:

1. metallic or light reflecting
2. no trail
3. circular or elliptical
4. formation flying
5. no associated sound
6. level speed above 300 knots

Twining states that "it is within the present US knowledge... to
construct a piloted aircraft which has the general description
of the object above which would be capable of an approximate
range of 7.000 miles at subsonic speeds".

David Humbling writes:

"The (reconnaissance) balloons (sent over Russia) match the
description in the 1947 memo very closely. They were circular,
appeared metallic, flew silently leaving no trail and flew in
formation. Their level speed was not quite 300 knots, thought in
the jetstream they could shift a respectable 250 mph.

However, the biggest clue is the fact that the man in charge of
the balloon spying program was one general Nathan Twining -the
same Twining who wrote the original memo.

(...) One notably discrepancy is that the memorandum talks about
"manned craft", whereas the balloon programmes we know about
were unmanned (...) If a manned balloon lost pressure at high
altitude, the unfortunate crew would rapidly die from the lack
of oxigen. Their bodies would be freeze-dried by the effects of
extreme cold and very low pressure. How these shrunken, frozen
mummies would appear is anyone's guess (...) Any fatalities
would probably have led to the termination of a secret manned
balloon program...

Fascinating. Not for a moment do I believe this is THE
explanation for the alleged Roswell aliens (I am satisfied those
are only rumours and hoaxes) but the possibility of a high
altitude manned balloon project should be considered.

Luis R. Gonzalez Manso







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                   Re: Security Classifications - Friedman

From: Stan Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 13:38:04 -0400
Fwd Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 16:52:46 -0500
Subject: Re: Security Classifications - Friedman


 >From: Murray Bott <murrayb@win.co.nz>
 >To: Updates List <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 18:20:15 +1300 (NZDT)
 >Subject: Security Classifications [was: Frank Kaufman?]

 >Greetings List

 >On 28th Novemember Stan Friedman wrote

 >>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 22:37:20 -0400
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufman?

 ><snip>

 >>I will have more to say about the claim I am told was made that
 >>MJ-12 is a fraud once I see the program.

 >>My paper noted above does point out that despite Jan Aldrich's
 >>recent false claim that the GAO must have been mistaken, that
 >>the GAO found examples of the use of TOP SECRET RESTRICTED on
 >>documents from the same time frame as the Cutler Twining memo,
 >>that they indeed had.

 >I recall that Jan asked that you provide an "Independantly
 >Verifiable Copy" of such a Document containing "TOP SECRET
 >RESTRICTED" Classification.

Murray please refer to what I have said

1.The GAO stated on page 80 of their 456 package re their
Roswell effort ".....In several instances we noticed the
classification TOP SECRET RESTRICTED used on several documents.
This is mentioned because in past references to this
classification (Majestic 12) we were told it was not in use
during this period.".

2. I also noted that I spoke with 3GAO people who told me the
material was classified and they could not make copies of it. Is
that clear?They had clearances for just about everything.I did
not and do not.

3. Jan came up with the interesting claim that they must have
seen TOP SECRET RESTRICTED DATA, rather than TOP SECRET
RESTRICTED without providing any basis for this claim.The GAO
people certainly were aware of TSRD.

4. Furthermore we have to ask what other classification besides
TOP SECRET RESTRICTED was noted as not in use at the time with
regard to Majestic 12. I didn't put in the Majestic 12,  it is
in the GAO report. I was quite familiar with Restricted Data
tacked on to classified nuclear related documents because I
wrote and handled many such documents.No, I did not consider
trying to break into theNational Archives and force them to
release these documents to me.I stated these same points on page
203-204 of the MUFON 2000 Symposium Proceedings.

 >Stan my enquiry to you (and Jan) is:
 >
 >Have you provided Jan with such a document yet? - Or do you wish
 >to ignore this request and hope that it will go away?

I covered this point in my MUFON 2000 paper and in my posting.
The GAO people say the material in question was still
classified. They could not provide copies of it. Is there some
reason for thinking they were lying?

 >Until then Stan your claim is nothing more than that - A claim
 >without any form of verifiable evidence

Read what the GAO said. They qualify as expert witnesses who
were there with the proper clearances.

 >>I also noted that not all TS documents have TS Control numbers,
 >>again despite Jan's false claim to the contrary.

 >Again Stan:

 >Have you provided Jan with any "Independantly Verifiable Copy"
 >of such a document.

I noted that I has published 2 such documents  in my 1990
'Final Report on Operation Majestic 12', pages B-4 and B-5. Both
TOP SECRET memos were 1 page and each was from Robert Cutler and
both were found in the Twining papers at the Library of Congress
Manuscript Division. Anybody can go see them and xerox copies
there as I did. Furthermore in discussions with Archivists at
the Eisenhower Library, the Marshall Archives and theTruman
Library I was informed that often there were not TS Control
numbers onWhite House TS documents. Clearly this was
understandable if it was a one page item form General A to
General B as opposed to a 20 page report of which there were 20
copies distributed.

 >>In Jan's defense I must note that his excellent security related
 >>background seemed to relate to classified military documents not
 >>to NSC, White House, Industrial classified documents, tc.

 >Stan:- it is obvious Jan has shown that you dont know as much
 >about security classifications as you often try and make out you
 >do (A little learning is a dangerous thing here)

That is an interesting proclamation backed up by what?

 >You continue your barrage against Jan to imply that his background
 >knowledge doesnt cover "NSC, White House, Industrial classified
 >documents, etc."

What I said was that Jan's " excellent security related
background seemed to relate to classified military documents,
not to NSC etc." Which items that he mentioned relate to NSC
etc? The White House and NSC are not military groups.In other
words the background he provided doesn't allow you or me to
evaluate how familiar he was with NSC White House etc documents.
Or are you psychic?

 >Stan my question here is - What evidence do you have here that
 >your own knowledge is better (than Jan's or anyone elses) in
 >this area. Any attempt to claim that you have visited so many
 >archives etc you must come away with something to verify any
 >bold claims on "Security Classifications" etc.

Let's see now, I spoke with several archivists, I published TS
documents which did not have TS Control numbers, I quoted from
and can provide copies of the GAO page 80 and I have been to 19
different Archives. In earlier discussions on this same matter
Iy quoted from The Record Group 341 56 page Preliminary
Inventory of the Records of  HQ USAF Records Group 341 to
clearly establish that that group did NOT come even close to
containing only declassified TOP SECRET documents all with
control numbers.as had been claimed.

 >Stan - so far I suggest "Claims - Many, Evidence - None"

 >You must remember that when you make such bold claims that there
 >are in fact other researchers out here (many on the "Updates
 >List") who are equally (or more) familar with "Security
 >Classifications" and "Archives Searches" etc.

 >In any "Court of Law" - Civil or Criminal the prosecuting agency
 >must be able to prove their case "beyond reasonable doubt"

 >In Ufology the sometimes quoted statement "The absence of
 >evidence is not the evidence of absence" is just a "slick catch
 >phrase" made by people who havent a scrap of evidence to support
 >their case.

That is plain nonsense as I noted in my MUFON Journal column.

 >I would certainly welcome your release (to Jan Aldrich and
 >others) of any "Independantly Verifiable Documents" as outlined
 >above.

Go get the above referenced items. They have been noted before.
Also how about providing some evidence that the GAO was mistaken
and tell me how much time Jan has spent at those 19 government
archives. This discussion is beginning to sound as silly as Joe
Nickell's claim that the EBE is fraudulent because the data
format violates the government style Manual. In fact there are
many examples of that same format..


Stan Friedman
fsphys@rogers.com
www.v-j-enterprises.com/sfpage.html








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                Re: Washington Post Review Of 'Taken' - Velez

From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 13:11:28 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 16:54:59 -0500
Subject: Re: Washington Post Review Of 'Taken' - Velez


 >From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 05:15:32 -0500
 >Subject: Washington Post Review Of TAKEN

 >All

 >Tom Shales at the Washington Post never seems to like the same
 >programs that I do, which I generally find to be the case with
 >most "critics". However, his review of TAKEN would seem to place
 >it in a class by itself. Having only seen the first two
 >segments, I can only hope it's as powerful as he seems to
 >indicate.

 >============

 >Source: The Washington Post

 >http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61897-2002Dec1.html

Hi Steve, All,

Mr. Shales wrote:

 >Sci Fi's 'Taken' Grabs You and Doesn't Let Go
 >
 >By Tom Shales
 >Washington Post Staff Writer
 >Monday, December 2, 2002; Page C01
 >
 >
 >"Taken" is mammoth, imaginative and thrilling in more than one
 >sense of that word.

<snip>

 >"Taken" is a fascinating and fantastic adventure set
 >against a panorama of America in the second half of the 20th
 >century. It asks a lot of viewers just in terms of couch duty,
 >but once you get hooked, you may find yourself on the edge of
 >that couch much of the time.

I agree!

In the 80's Spielberg produced a short-lived television series
titled, "Ripping Yarns." If he'd had these stories then (Taken)
the old TV series would still be running. 'Taken' is just that,
a 'ripping yarn.'

The author of 'Taken' has artfully woven the details of the
history of ufology that many of us are familiar with, into an
entertaining and riveting story line. So far, I love the story,
the characters and the special effects.

Speaking of special effects... they don't batter your eyes into
near blindness with distracting non-stop flash and eye candy.
The effects were used judiciously and in a way that enhanced the
'weirdness' of a UFO encounter without the overkill of the
'Close Encounters' types of special effects UFOs.

Speaking as an 'involvee'...

A lot of the material and references hit me in the gut. I'm
certain that some abductees are going to find some of the
content deeply disturbing. Details that most viewers make note
of and move on, can catch an experiencer 'off-guard' and kick up
a dirt-storm of unexpected emotion. The nose-bleeding is only
one such detail that grabbed me by the ya-ya's and made me
recall childhood events I thought I had buried and forgotten
long ago.

For an abductee... parts of 'Taken' are genuinely disturbing.
Fore warned is fore-armed however and as long as you know to
expect a little 'jolt' here and there, no harm, no foul.

The only ones I feel sorry for are the people who will
accidentally discover their own involvement in this scary,
sh*tty mess for the first time from watching 'Taken.'

The 'ass-groove' in my Lazy-boy is about to get deeper! I'm
hooked for the duration.

Regards to all,

John Velez, 'Involvee' Taping away in New York....

From: John <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 13:11:28 -0500
Subject: Re: Washington Post Review Of TAKEN


 >From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 05:15:32 -0500
 >Subject: Washington Post Review Of TAKEN

 >All

 >Tom Shales at the Washington Post never seems to like the same
 >programs that I do, which I generally find to be the case with
 >most "critics". However, his review of TAKEN would seem to place
 >it in a class by itself. Having only seen the first two
 >segments, I can only hope it's as powerful as he seems to
 >indicate.

 >============

 >Source: The Washington Post

 >http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61897-2002Dec1.html

Hi Steve, All,

Mr. Shales wrote:

 >Sci Fi's 'Taken' Grabs You and Doesn't Let Go
 >
 >By Tom Shales
 >Washington Post Staff Writer
 >Monday, December 2, 2002; Page C01
 >
 >
 >"Taken" is mammoth, imaginative and thrilling in more than one
 >sense of that word.

<snip>

 >"Taken" is a fascinating and fantastic adventure set
 >against a panorama of America in the second half of the 20th
 >century. It asks a lot of viewers just in terms of couch duty,
 >but once you get hooked, you may find yourself on the edge of
 >that couch much of the time.

I agree!

In the 80's Spielberg produced a short-lived television series
titled, "Ripping Yarns." If he'd had these stories then (Taken)
the old TV series would still be running. 'Taken' is just that,
a 'ripping yarn.'

The author of 'Taken' has artfully woven the details of the
history of ufology that many of us are familiar with, into an
entertaining and riveting story line. So far, I love the story,
the characters and the special effects.

Speaking of special effects... they don't batter your eyes into
near blindness with distracting non-stop flash and eye candy.
The effects were used judiciously and in a way that enhanced the
'weirdness' of a UFO encounter without the overkill of the
'Close Encounters' types of special effects UFOs.

Speaking as an 'involvee'...

A lot of the material and references hit me in the gut. I'm
certain that some abductees are going to find some of the
content deeply disturbing. Details that most viewers make note
of and move on, can catch an experiencer 'off-guard' and kick up
a dirt-storm of unexpected emotion. The nose-bleeding is only
one such detail that grabbed me by the ya-ya's and made me
recall childhood events I thought I had buried and forgotten
long ago.

For an abductee... parts of 'Taken' are genuinely disturbing.
Fore warned is fore-armed however and as long as you know to
expect a little 'jolt' here and there, no harm, no foul.

The only ones I feel sorry for are the people who will
accidentally discover their own involvement in this scary,
sh*tty mess for the first time from watching 'Taken.'

The 'ass-groove' in my Lazy-boy is about to get deeper! I'm
hooked for the duration.

Regards to all,

John Velez, 'Involvee' Taping away in New York....







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                          Secrecy News -- 12/03/02

From: Steven Aftergood <saftergood@fas.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 13:20:06 -0500
Fwd Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 08:27:31 -0500
Subject: Secrecy News -- 12/03/02



SECRECY NEWS
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2002, Issue No. 119
December 3, 2002


**      NEW EXECUTIVE ORDER ON CLASSIFICATION ANTICIPATED
**      PRESIDENTIAL SIGNING STATEMENTS STRESS SECRECY
**      A GLIMPSE AT INTELLIGENCE LIAISON
**      COMMISSION WILL MONITOR DECLASSIFICATION IN CZECH REPUBLIC
**      INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT EXPLORED IN GUATEMALA, ARGENTINA
**      INTERNATIONAL FOI LAW
**      LATEST UK PRO RELEASES
**      SECRECY IN THE NEWS


NEW EXECUTIVE ORDER ON CLASSIFICATION ANTICIPATED

A long awaited Bush Administration executive order on national
security classification and declassification policy may be
completed "by the end of the year."  But contrary to the fears
of some and the hopes of others, the Bush order will not
fundamentally reject the substantial reforms of cold war secrecy
policy that were adopted in President Clinton's 1995 executive
order 12958, which yielded an avalanche of declassified
historical documents.

The pending draft order was briefly described in the minutes of
a September 23 meeting of the State Department Historical
Advisory Committee that were approved for release on December 2.

The forthcoming Bush order will be a "revision rather than a
rewrite" that will preserve the basic structure of executive
order 12958, according to remarks attributed to William Leary of
the National Security Council staff.  In particular, the new
order will retain "the 25 year rule" which dictates that most
classified documents are to be declassified as they become 25
years old.

However, historian Robert Schulzinger, chair of the State
Department Advisory Committee, warned that "The high point in
declassification has passed, and a revised executive order will
be less transparent."

The newly released minutes also provide a status report on
publication of the State Department's official "Foreign
Relations of the United States" (FRUS) series;  the ongoing re-
review of declassified documents at the National Archives that
was mandated under the 1999 Kyl/Lott amendment to search for
inadvertent disclosures of classified information;  and other
details of historical document declassification.  The minutes
confirm that one classified document was actually published in a
FRUS volume "many years ago," to the dismay of Energy Department
reviewers.

A copy of the newly released Historical Advisory Committee
minutes is posted here:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/advisory/state/hac0902.html


PRESIDENTIAL SIGNING STATEMENTS STRESS SECRECY

Efforts to defend and expand executive branch secrecy
prerogatives are a recurring feature of the Bush
Administration's interactions with the other branches of
government.

The Administration's assertive posture is particularly evident
in Presidential signing statements on new legislation, which
routinely include rebuffs of even the most innocuous
congressional mandates on disclosure of information to the
public or the Congress.

Nearly every Presidential statement on legislation involving
national security, defense, or foreign policy now seems to
include a disclaimer, warning that the Administration will
implement a new law only as it sees fit.

The latest of many examples is President Bush's statement on the
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003, which he signed
on December 2.

"A number of provisions of the Act establish new requirements
for the executive branch to furnish sensitive information to the
Congress on various subjects, including sections 221, 1043,
1065, [and several others]," President Bush's signing statement
observed.

However, the President advised, "The executive branch shall
construe such provisions in a manner consistent with the
President's constitutional authority to withhold information the
disclosure of which could impair foreign relations, the national
security, the deliberative processes of the Executive, or the
performance of the Executive's constitutional duties."  See:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/12/20021202-12.html

This does not necessarily entail any violation of law, but it
does signify a continuing consolidation of executive branch
authority at the likely expense of congressional oversight, as
well as public accountability.


A GLIMPSE AT INTELLIGENCE LIAISON

Liaison relationships between U.S. intelligence agencies and
their counterparts in other countries are typically among the
most important and the most secretive of intelligence
activities. Questioned about them in public, the CIA can hardly
be bothered to respond even with a "no comment."

But occasionally the foreign counterpart agency has reasons of
its own to shed light on its intelligence liaison with the
United States, such as a desire to advertise, for foreign or
domestic advantage, the close relationship the country
purportedly enjoys with U.S. intelligence.

Something like that may explain an unusually chatty account of
relations between CIA and Lebanese security officials that
appeared in the Beirut newspaper An-Nahar last week.

The newspaper reported the questions posed by Director of
Central Intelligence George Tenet and his staff concerning
possible al Qaeda infiltration into Lebanon, and the responses
given by Lebanese officials.

"As a result of the discussions, Tenet and his aides expressed
satisfaction with stability in Lebanon and with the cooperation
of the Lebanese security services with the CIA station in the
American Embassy in Beirut. This is a constant and accurate
cooperation in the fight against terrorism. The Lebanese
authorities deal seriously with the information they receive
from the CIA station, and they regularly supply the station with
information within the anti-terror plan."

See "Tenet Given Assurances that No al-Qa'ida Cells Infiltrated
Lebanon," by Nicholas Nasif, published in An-Nahar, November 28
(translated by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service) here:

http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2002/11/an112802.html


COMMISSION WILL MONITOR DECLASSIFICATION IN CZECH REPUBLIC

In an act of unusual bureaucratic sophistication, the Czech
Republic's Chamber of Deputies has established a new
parliamentary Commission to monitor declassification of former
communist secret police files, and to receive appeals from
members of the public whose requests that have been denied.

"Citizens who would be denied access to [secret police] files by
state bodies will be able to turn to the commission which will
rule whether the files will not be made available or whether a
citizen will be able to see them in spite of state bodies'
negative stand," according to a report from the CTK news agency.

See "Chamber sets up commission to watch StB files
declassification," November 27:

http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/view-id.php4?id021127F01259

It is probably not entirely coincidental that popular confidence
in the Chamber of Deputies has increased significantly in recent
months, with 59% of the respondents reporting that they trust
the institution.  This is the highest figure reported in eight
years, according to another CTK story.


INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT EXPLORED IN GUATEMALA, ARGENTINA

The most basic questions of national security policy are also
matters of urgent practical concern in developing democracies in
Latin America and elsewhere.

Guatemala's national security organization, policy and doctrine
are examined, from first principles to current realities, in an
interesting new book of essays entitled "Seguridad democratica
en Guatemala: desafios de la transformacion" edited by Bernardo
Arevalo de Leon, Patricia Gonzalez, and Manolo Vela.  The book
is published by the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias
Sociales (FLACSO) / Sede Guatemala (2002).  For price and
ordering information, send email to:

flacsoguate@flacso.edu.gt

Related resources on Guatemala and intelligence are available here:

http://www.fas.org/irp/world/guatemala/index.html

A comparative analysis of intelligence oversight in Europe and
South America is offered in "Control Publico de la Actividad de
Inteligencia: Europa y America Latina, una vision comparativa"
by Jose Manuel Ugarte.  A copy of the paper, which was presented
at a conference in Buenos Aires last month, is available here:

http://www.fas.org/irp/world/argentina/ugarte2.html


INTERNATIONAL FOI LAW

An impressive collection of freedom of information laws from
around the world has been compiled by Prof. Alasdair Roberts of
Syracuse University.  His online library also includes documents
reflecting the impact of NATO directives on the information
policies of new NATO member nations, as well as several hard-to-
find "security of information agreements" that govern the
exchange of classified information between countries.  See:

http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/asroberts/foi/security.html


LATEST UK PRO RELEASES

An unusually meaty release of British historical records from
World War II and the early Cold war is described in the latest
monthly announcement from the Public Record Office here:

http://www.pro.gov.uk/releases/nov2002_mi5/intro.htm


SECRECY IN THE NEWS

William M. Arkin provides some new substance to Defense
Secretary Rumsfeld's offhand remark November 18 that the Defense
Department continues to exercise the intended functions of the
aborted Office of Strategic Influence (SN, 11/27/02).

In fact, Arkin writes, the Pentagon's information policy "blurs
or even erases the boundaries between factual information and
news, on the one hand, and public relations, propaganda and
psychological warfare, on the other.  And, while the policy
ostensibly targets foreign enemies, its most likely victim will
be the American electorate."

See "The Military's New War of Words," by William M. Arkin, Los
Angeles Times, November 24 (flagged by cryptome.org), here:

http://www.latimes.com/la-op-arkin24nov24001455,0,4926254.story

"The Bush administration is developing a parallel legal system
in which terrorism suspects -- U.S. citizens and noncitizens
alike -- may be investigated, jailed, interrogated, tried and
punished without legal protections guaranteed by the ordinary
system, lawyers inside and outside the government say,"
according to the Washington Post.

See "In Terror War, 2nd Track for Suspects," by Charles Lane,
Washington Post, December 1:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58308-2002Nov30.html

The Justice Department's churlish interpretation of the
requirements of the Freedom of Information Act is critiqued in
"At Justice, Freedom Not to Release Information," by James V.
Grimaldi, Washington Post, December 2:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58419-2002Nov30.html

"A Republican Senator [Pat Roberts of Kansas] who has been
highly critical of the Congressional inquiry into the Sept. 11
attacks is in line to lead the Senate Intelligence Committee" in
the next Congress, according to the New York Times.
  Expectations for vigorous oversight are correspondingly low.

See "Shuffling at the Top is Set for Intelligence Committees" by
Carl Hulse, New York Times, December 2:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/02/politics/02PANE.html



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                         Defining An Abduction Case

From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 13:47:08 -0500
Fwd Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 08:29:22 -0500
Subject: Defining An Abduction Case


Hello All,

In hopes of starting a fruit-bearing discussion on the subject
of defining UFO abduction cases, I offer the following:

'Something' has been happening to me and to many others for all
of our lives. 'Something' involving "UFOs" and their occupants.
(Whoever or whatever they may be.) There are enough physical
components to the phenomena to justify the serious consideration
of serious, thoughtful people. There are enough of those people
on this List. Enough to help to resolve the contentious issue of
'what' defines an abduction case.

To kick things off, I'd like to suggest the details surrounding
the Betty and Barney Hill case as a starting point.

1. Two people who were awake (conscious) and on their way home
encounter an "unidentified" aerial object/phenomena.

2. The 'UFO sighting' is one where there is close proximity to
the object and the event 'seems' to be focused on the
individuals involved.

3. There is contact/interaction with the occupants of the "UFO."

If we just stop right there, _all_ of the reports that begin
with "I had a dream" would be eliminated right out of the box.
Because of the Internet, cases such as; the Walton case, the
'Allagash Four,' the Debbie Jordan-Kauble case and many others
get lost in a din of obfuscating background noise. Noise which
only serves to push back the time when a serious, multi-
disciplinary investigation into these abduction reports can
begin.

We need an investigation that will 'hopefully' provide a few
answers that can be relied on to one degree or another. As it
stands now, we know _nothing_ and we have no prospects of
learning anything new in the near future. We haven't even taken
the time to work out a set of diagnostic criteria that will help
to define an 'abduction' case.

I have started the "list" with three suggestions. The more
experienced and knowledgeable researchers on this List can
refine, redefine, add to or alter it in any way they wish. In
any way that they can 'agree' on!

Please, speaking for myself and on behalf of many 'involvees'
get the work started that will eventually lead up to a 'formal'
and independent investigation of our reports. If I have no power
to make the abductions stop, I would at the very least like to
know exactly what the hell has been happening to me and now to
my loved ones for all of my life.

I will now join the ranks of the 'lurkers.' I hope somebody
picks up the ball and runs with it.


John Velez
'UFO' Abductee







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                       UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 7 Number 49

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Subject: UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 7 Number 49


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      UFO ROUNDUP
Volume 7, Number 49
December 3, 2002
Editor: Joseph Trainor

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


NEW CATTLE MUTILATION
IN NORTHERN ARGENTINA

       "In the El Oso wilderness of the department of
Aguirre, a cow was found with mutilations of the head and
genitalia.  This event is quite similar to the discovery
made in June of this year (2002) in the Quimilioj pasture
16 kilometers (10 miles) south of Garza in the department
of Moreno," near Santiago del Estero in northern
Argentina.
       "The mutilated animal was discovered last Sunday
(November 10, 2002) in a field 32 kilometers (20 miles)
south of Malbrun and is the property of Oscar Suarez."
       "Suarez told (the newspaper) El Liberal: 'The cow
was missing the hide off its maxillaries (jawbones), the
tongue and left eye, one ear and four teats, but the
remainder (of the animal--S.C.) was quite sound even
though it had been dead for several days.'"
       "He likewise stated that no locals saw or heard
anything unusual for several kilometers around.  The
owner is startled because 'it's odd that no carrion
animals, no vultures or crows, have turned up, which they
do whenever a carcass is present.'"
       "The cow's body was inside the El Oso ranch along an
internal road that runs parallel to the barbed-wire
fence.  'On Wednesday the (November) 6th, we let the
animal out of its pen, and I found it on Sunday the
(November) 10th.  It had apparently been dead for some
two days.'"
       "Another detail that drew Suarez's attention is that
when he returned on Wednesday (November 13, 2002) to
where the animal was found, it was still intact and had
not yet decomposed in spite of the days elapsed and the
intensely hot weather."
(Editor's Note:  Right now it's early summer In Argentina
and the other countries of the southern hemisphere.)
       "'This is the first time something like it has
happened in the region,'" Suarez said.
       "He dismissed the possibility that cattle rustlers
could have been involved 'because when they are involved,
they take the meat and all of the animal's useful organs
for sale, but that didn't happen here since the cow was
whole with all of its hide.'"
       "As a casual remark, Oscar Suarez related that a
local advised him that this could be either the work of a
Martian or the Devil, 'but locals saw nothing strange.'"
(See the Argentinian newspaper El Liberal of Santiago del
Estero for November 15, 2002.  Muchas gracias a Scott
Corrales y Gloria Coluchi para eso articulo de diario.)
(Editor's Comment:  Welcome to South America--Still a
Target Week here at UFO Roundup.  As with last week,
alien activity remains at an all-time high on the big
southern continent.)


MORE UFO SIGHTINGS
REPORTED IN CHILE

       On Thursday, November 21, 2002, "at 10 p.m., Luis
Sepulveda Castro, a security guard at a corporate
warehouse" in San Vicente de Tagua Tagua in Chile "left
the building to look at the sky and was able to see a
strange object moving in a northwest to southwest
direction."
       "Using binoculars, he was able to make out the
following details: (1) the object was spherical in shape
with a red-colored base (lower hemisphere--J.T.) giving
off intermittent green flashes from its upper section
(upper hemisphere); and (2) the object moved very
slowly."
       Sepulveda's "observation had a total duration of 45
minutes."
       In the city of Angol, in southern Chile, yet another
UFO sighting was reported.  Angol has been the site of an
ongoing UFO flap for the past two years.
       On Wednesday, September 18, 2002, "Juan Carlos
Beltran Gonzalez, 37, was in the dining room at the
Alberto Larraguibel Morales Sports Facility, having lunch
with his friends, Cristian Aguilar Flores, 30, a
traveling salesman, and Miguel Albaran Poblete, 22, a
college student.  Two unnamed security guards were also
present."
       Suddenly, "the witnesses saw a luminous orange
object in the sky from whose edges there emitted a ruby
(red) light.  The witnesses calculated that the object
was flying over 1,500 meters (5,000 feet) in elevation
(altitude--J.T.) and moved in a west to east direction,"
heading for the Andes mountains.
       "The object remained suspended overhead until 2:30
p.m., when it suddenly changed course toward the south.
Then, abruptly, it changed course once more toward the
northwest, forming a triangle (path) in the sky as it
followed this route.  The object gradually disintegrated
as it vanished from sight."  (Muchas gracias a Scott
Corrales, Guillermo Aguilera y Raul Gajardo para esos
informes.)


SPHERICAL UFO SEEN IN
CARACAS, VENEZUELA

       On Friday, November 23, 2002, "multiple observers
spotted a UFO flying over Caracas," the capital of
Venezuela.
       "According to the report, the sighting, which
occurred on Friday night, November 23, 2002, involved
witnesses in different parts of the city.  They saw a
spherical UFO approximately 40 meters (133 feet) in
diameter."
       "One witness, Zuly Suju, said the UFO had rotating
lights along its equator and temporarily hovered over
their neighborhood before departing to the west."  (See
NotiOVNI for November 24, 2002.  Muchas gracias a Martha
Rosenthal y Daniel Munoz para eso informe.)


NORAD SCRAMBLES F-16s
TO INTERCEPT A UFO

       "The military command responsible for the defense of
North American airspace scrambled fighter jets in
response to unverified reports of an airborne
condensation trail, or contrail, moving from the
Caribbean (Sea) to the United States, defense officials
said Thursday," November 28, 2002.
       "Lt. Col. Michael Humm, a Pentagon spokesman, said
the incident happened Wednesday," November 27, 2002, "and
the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) in
Colorado Springs, Colo. was continuing to investigate."
       "The reported contrail stirred concern that it could
have indicated the presence of an unauthorized jet
aircraft in or approaching American airspace.  After the
September 11 (2001) attacks, the Pentagon has taken
greater precautions to monitor U.S. airspace."
       "A contrail is created by vapor from a jet engine in
the presence of cold air."
       "The jets that were scrambled to attempt to
intercept and identify the source of the contrail found
nothing, said Lt. Cmdr. Curtis Jenkins, a NORAD
spokesman.  He said NORAD had developed no new
information since the initial report at 3 p.m. Wednesday.
NORAD is reviewing data from its tracking radars in
search of evidence, he said."
       "A Pentagon statement said NORAD received unverified
reports of 'what appeared to be a contrail of unknown
origin,' originally in the vicinity of the Turks and
Caicos Islands in the Caribbean."
       "'Initially, it was reported to be heading
northwestward toward the United States,' the statement
said.  'Commercial airline pilots later reported the
contrail over Florida and later over Indiana.
Thereafter, no other sightings were reported.'"
       "The reported contrail was never verified by visual
or radar contact, the Pentagon statement said."  (See the
Duluth, Minn. News-Tribune for November 29, 2002,
"Fighter jets scrambled to intercept reported contrail,
but find nothing," page 6A.)


HOVERING UFO SIGHTED
IN THE UKRAINE

       On Monday, November 18, 2002, at about 6 a.m., "a
bright object was noticed hovering stationary over the
eastern part of the Crimean Autonomous Republic," in the
southern Ukraine.  The UFO was spotted east-southeast of
Simferopol, a large city on the Black Sea peninsula
called the Crimea.
       "The object was several times brighter than the
planet Venus and was approximately 30 degrees above the
horizon.  At 6:10 a.m., it suddenly vanished, like an
electrical lamp being switched off.  The last detail
clearly indicates that it was a UFO and not Venus just
covered by cloud--the object died out very sharply, not
gradually."
       Ukrainian ufologists believe that "alien activity
could be present here (something like 'portals' used by
UFOs detected above the Iograf Mountains north of Yalta
and near Northern Demerdzhi Mountain--A.A.), as well as
some kind of 'alien navigation beacon' very likely
serving to indicate approaches to those portals."
       An area of interest to Ukrainian ufologists is the
east slope of Mount Ayju-Dag in the Crimea, where just
such an "alien beacon" is believed to be hidden.  "I
myself saw three strange dots of light on the eastern
slope of Mount Ayju-Dag in 2001, and there are absolutely
nothing like houses, frontier guard posts, etc. in the
area," ufologist Anton A. Anfalov reported.
       Local scientists said the bright light was the star
Sirius, but Anfalov pointed out that Sirius and planets
such as Venus, Jupiter and Mars were all in other parts
of the sky when the sighting occurred.  (Many thanks to
Anton A. Anfalov of Ukrainian UFO Research Association
(UKUFAS) for this report.)


UFOs CONTINUE ACTIVITY IN
BRITISH COLUMBIA

       On Saturday, November 23, 2002, two separate
witnesses "reported seeing some strange lights on Thron
Hill mountain," just west of Terrace, British Columbia,
Canada, which has been the site of numerous UFO sightings
during 2002.
       "Five people witnessed the UFOs," ufologist Brian
Vike reported, "The weather conditions were good--clear
but rather windy.  One of the witnesses said the object
or light was approximately double the size of the planet
Venus.  White in color.  All of the witnesses watched the
light for approximately 10 to 15 seconds while it grew
smaller in size and disappeared."
       Sightings have also been reported in remote regions
outside the Telkwa River valley.  On Tuesday, October 22,
2002, at 10:25 p.m., two men were driving on a dirt road
in Topley Landing, just south of Granisle, B.C.  As they
were driving along the beach at Babine Lake, they spotted
a strange light a mile (1.6 kilometers) away, hovering
over the old Bell Copper mine.
       The witnesses "observed a large, glowing, orange-
gold, almost saucer-shaped object hovering right over the
top of the old Bell Copper mine.  At this point, they
pulled over to have a look and try to figure out what
they were seeing.  As they watched the object hover, it
would rise up very slowly and come to a complete stop,
move sideways and then stop, and drop down roughly to the
same height from the ground" where the witnesses had
first seen it.
       "At one point, the light moved out over the lake and
stopped for a few seconds, then went back over the mine
once more."
       "They estimated that the UFO 'was about the size of
the moon, maybe a hair smaller.'  They said the ground
area around the object was 'lit up for some distance.'
Also, due to the brightness of the craft, it cast a
reflection in the lake.  The men watched the event for
approximately seven minutes."  (Many thanks to Canadian
ufologist Brian Vike for these reports.)


ORANGE UFO SIGHTED IN
LEMOYNE, PENNSYLVANIA

       On Tuesday, November 19, 2002, at 7 p.m., eyewitness
J.H. saw a strange light approaching from the east in
Lemoyne, Pennsylvania (population 3,995), just west and
across the Susquehanna River from Harrisburg, the state
capital.
       "An orange light object similar to an aircraft
approach light appeared and slowly moved in a
southwesterly direction," he reported, "The object
disappeared and then reappeared within about five
seconds.  The object then moved southward, and its
altitude became lower.  I lost track of the object behind
some trees in the foreground.  It had a white light and a
blue light.  The orange object finally seemed to drop
behind the treeline and disappeared."  (Email Form
Report)


TWO SAUCERS SEEN IN
NORTH CAROLINA

       On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 7:30 p.m.,
eyewitness A.T. saw two faintly luminous saucers hovering
above her property in Smithfield, North Carolina
(population 11,510), located on Interstate Highway I-40
about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Raleigh.
       "It was in my backyard," she reported, "I had got up
off my bed because I saw some lights in the sky.  I
thought that it was a plane.  So I got up and saw two
disk-shaped objects hovering in my backyard.  They had
different colored lights that wrapped around them.  The
colors were green, yellow, red, white and pink.  Then
they stayed there for awhile.  And then they went to the
right.  They were going slow, then picked up speed.  They
were at eye level.  They were really going slow, then
slowly picked up speed."  (Email Form Report)


FAST-MOVING UFO SPOTTED
IN OMAHA, NEBRASKA

       On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 11:20 p.m.,
eyewitness A.W. and her brother were about to make a
quick trip to the video store in Omaha, Nebraska
(population 390,000) when she spotted something unusual
in the sky.
       "I went out to my brother's car so we could drop off
a movie at the video store," she reported, "And he was
only heating up the car.  So I just went to the end of
the driveway.  I just looked up and saw something moving
extremely fast across the sky.  It was very bright, like
pure white, or maybe it only seemed that white because
there are not many stars you can see from where I live."
       "It was very far away, farther away than planes, and
I only saw it for a moment.  Like, if I would have
blinked, I would've missed it.  It's hard to say how
large it was.  I didn't see anything but a bright light,
like a comet.  But it wasn't a comet because I've seen
those before, and this was much different.  It was
bigger.  It reminded me almost of a wide toothpick shape.
And then it was just gone, as if nothing was ever there
in the first place.  Like I said before, it was going a
whole lot faster than a jet would."  (Email Form Report)


FLURRY OF EARTHQUAKES
HAS CALIFORNIA NERVOUS

       "The ground started shaking last Sunday morning,"
November 24, 2002, beneath San Ramon, California
(population 44,722) "about 35 miles (56 kilometers) east
of San Francisco, but there was little concern.  The
quake measured 3.9 on the Richter scale and left barely a
picture on the wall askew.  People in California tend to
save their worry for 'the big one'--something
catastrophic, like the quake that destroyed much of San
Francisco in 1906."
       "But when another small quake struck" in San Ramon
"Sunday night (November 24), and another Monday morning
(November 25), and another and another and another--by
Friday (November 29, 2002) the United States Geological
Survey had registered what it called a 'swarm' of more
than 120 quakes--nervousness set in."
       "'Earthquakes are primal-fear things,' said
Stephanie J. Hanna, the Geological Survey's
communications chief for the Western (USA) region.  'They
don't kill as many people as you think, but when terra
firma isn't anymore, it scares people down to the deepest
level.'"
       "Technically the San Ramon earthquakes are regarded
as 'background seismicity' because they did not occur on
a main fault.  But San Ramon is not far from the
Calaveras fault, one of three major faults in the San
Francisco Bay area that scientists consider most likely
to produce a big earthquake."
       "More significantly, the San Ramon quakes have
happened on a small, previously unknown fault that
crosses the Calaveras seven miles (11 kilometers) beneath
the (Earth's) surface, potentially triggering quakes on
the Calaveras as well."
       "'I grew up in San Ramon and normally you have an
earthquake and it passes,' said Parshaw Vaziri, the
outreach director at the Pacific Earthquake Engineering
Research Center in Berkeley.  'To have it be repetitive
for so many days has people thinking.  There is a fear
that this is going to lead to something bigger.'"  (See
the Duluth, Minn. News-Tribune for December 1, 2002,
"Swarm of small quakes has California buzzing," page
16A.)
(Editor's Note: San Ramon is also the site of Mount
Diablo, which is sacred to the indigenous peoples of the
region.  It's been the site of many Fortean events during
the past two centuries.)


READER FEEDBACK:

LISA MEITNER WAS NEVER
A NAZI SCIENTIST

       David Strassler writes, "Lisa Meitner, despite her
contributions to nuclear theory, did not participate in
the production of the atom bomb, neither did she believe
her discoveries would have much use.  The creation of the
bomb took her by surprise.  After the war, she denounced
the use 'war technicians have put to our discoveries.'"
       "I wouldn't be writing you if not for your huge
error of referring to her as a Nazi scientist.  She was a
Jew and in 1938 fled Germany to Sweden because of the
antisemitic persecutions."


  From the UFO Files...

1910: UFO VISITS A RANCH IN
            CRYSTAL CITY, TEXAS

       Although the USA's "Airship Flap" of 1909-1910 has
been pretty well documented by Charles Fort, John A.
Keel, Lucius Farrish and, for New England at least, by
your UFO Roundup editor, there were a few other cases of
the period that have since turned up.  Such as the
sighting in Crystal City, Texas.
       This event is notable not for its UFO but for what
happened later on to one of its youthful witnesses.
       Today Crystal City (population 7,190) is a pleasant
bedroom community just east of Highway 83, in Zavala
County, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) south of Uvalde.
But ninety years ago, Crystal City "was a raw frontier
town in South Texas so desolate that the coyotes howled
nightly at the city limits."
       Owning a small "brush country" ranch near Crystal
City was a man named William Oscar McClung.  He was a
child of many ethnicities--Irish, German, Swedish on his
father's side and Comanche (the real name for this
indigenous people is Nermernuh--J.T.) and Osage on his
mother's side.  McClung lived on the ranch with his wife
Willie and several children.
       In December 1910, the ranch was visited by Mrs.
McClung's brother, Isaac, his wife Hester and their four-
year-old son, Bobby.  Isaac's nickname was "Uncle Cue,"
short for "Mordecue," which is how the McClung children
pronounced his middle name, Mordecai.  Cue was a frontier
doctor by trade, recently licensed by the Texas
Department of Public Health, and he often dropped by the
ranch for a visit.
       One night in mid-December 1910, Bobby was sound
asleep with his cousins in the stucco-walled bedroom
"when he was awakened by a tremendous detonation."
Wide-eyed, he "found the whole room bathed in a weird
light."  Running to the window, he saw a luminous
spherical object hovering in the air above his uncle's
corral, where horses whinnied and cattle bellowed in
terror.
       Frightened, Bobby ran into the kitchen.  Hearing
hard footsteps, he turned and saw his tall, black-haired
father rush out of the guest bedroom.  "What the hell is
going on!?" the doctor shouted.
       Then he saw his Uncle Bill stride into the kitchen,
a fearsome figure in his faded red union suit, battered
Stetson, boots and gunbelt.  Working the lever on his
Winchester, he snapped, "Grab a gun, Cue.  It's them no-
account Bruntons, and they're a-fixin' to run us off."
       The doctor grabbed a double-barreled shotgun.  "What
did they do--dynamite the house!?"
       Taking up position beside the door, Uncle Bill
pushed it open with the barrel of his Winchester.  "We'll
find out."
       Bobby watched as the door swung open, and a fading
unearthly light spilled into the kitchen.  And then it
was gone.  All that remained was the sound of frenzied
animals out in the corral.
       While the women and children remained indoors, Bill
and Cue, guns in hand, circled the house and then checked
the barn.  They found nothing amiss.
       "Hearing nothing further, they went back to bed."
       But they weren't the only ones who had seen
something strange.  People all over Zavala County had
seen the glowing object.
       "The next day, eyewitnesses reported that a
meteorite 'about the size of a barrel' had exploded and
burned itself out in the earth's atmosphere.'"
       And so the incident in Crystal City was soon
forgotten.  But not by Bobby.  Twenty-one years later, in
1931, he wrote about it to his friend and fellow fantasy
author, Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
       "Bobby" is better known by the name that appears on
his by-line...Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan the
Barbarian.  (See Dark Valley Destiny: The Life of Robert
E. Howard by L. Sprague de Camp, Catherine Crook de Camp
and Jane Whittington Griffin, Bluejay Books Inc., New
York, N.Y., 1983, pages 59 and 60.)

       That's it for this week.  Join us next time for more
UFO, Fortean and paranormal news from around the planet
Earth, brought to you by "the paper that goes home--UFO
Roundup."  See you then!

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                    Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Friedman

From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 18:40:18 -0400
Fwd Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 08:37:43 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Friedman


 >From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol. com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 20:16:13 EST
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers. com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net>
 >>Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 18:20:30 -0400
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol. com>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net
 >>>Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 20:23:13 EST
 >>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers. com>
 >>>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net>
 >>>>Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 22:37:20 -0400
 >>>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufman?

 >>>>>From: Josh Goldstein <clearlight@t-online. de>
 >>>>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net>
 >>>>>Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 18:17:39 +0100
 >>>>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufman?

 >>>>>>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol. com>
 >>>>>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net
 >>>>>>Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 14:25:23 EST
 >>>>>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufman?
 >
 >>>>>>>From: Fred Clark <Ufoufo51@aol. com>
 >>>>>>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net
 >>>>>>>Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 10:16:00 EST
 >>>>>>>Subject: Frank Kaufman?
 >
 >><snip>
 >
 >>>>>Frank had admitted on December 13, 1999, at his home with 4
 >>>>>witnesses present that he had told lies about his involvement
 >>>>>during an earlier interview with me, with Kevin Randle and Don
 >>>>>Schmitt also present. I had noted other problems with Frank's
 >>>>>story earlier to Kevin, Don, Kent Jeffrey, Bob Wood.

 >>>>>I am confused by this paragraph because it seems to suggest
 >>>>>that on December 13, 1999, I was present when Frank admitted
 >>>>>to telling lies. While I have little doubt about the veracity
 >>>>>of this statement, I was not present and hadn't seen Frank
 >>>>>since September 1998.

 >>As I have previously noted, At Frank Kaufmann's home in Roswell
 >>on December 13, 1999, I was present, by Frank's invitation, with
 >>Linda Howe, Dennis Balthaser (a bit late)and Don Schmitt. I
 >>asked Frank point blank "Did Blanchard go to the supposed crash
 >>site with you?". His answer was "No". I asked "Did Marcel go
 >>with you to the crash site?" His answer was no. I wrote about
 >>this meeting in my notes shortly thereafter and within a few
 >>months in my MUFON 2000 paper. I had also written up my
 >>interview with Frank in my room at the Roswell Inn with Kevin
 >>and Frank present on July 2, 1995. I was not allowed to tape
 >>that interview. I expressed concern then at the strange claim
 >>that Marcel and Blanchard had gone out with Kaufmann. In 1999 he
 >>admitted his claim was a lie. I sent copies of my notes of the
 >>1999 meeting to Dennis, Linda and Don and asked for their
 >>corrections. There were none.

 >But how were we supposed to figure this out from what you have
 >written before. The MUFON paper reports that Kaufmann told you
 >that Marcel and Blanchard did not accompany him out to the site,
 >but there is nothing in that paper that suggests Frank admitted
 >lying to you, which is the claim now and which is a different
 >matter. And since I do not have copies of your notes, I have no
 >way of confirming this information. I'm merely suggesting that
 >there was nothing in the published record to suggest that Frank
 >ever admitted lying to you about any aspect of this.

Just above my (p.200 MUFON 2000) quote of Frank saying (12/99)
he hadn't gone out to his supposed crash site with Marcel and
Blanchard, is my discussion of his having told you, me, and Don
that he had (July 95). His later comment is clearly a refutation
of his earlier one. The paper was published in July 2000. I say
that is equivalent to his saying he had previously lied.If it
makes you feel better, he admitted that what he had previously
said wasn't true.

 >>I have previously expressed concern about the lack of evidence
 >>of Frank's supposed 1947 military background,at the notion of a
 >>flatbed truck being able to get to the supposed crash site and
 >>back to base in the wee hours of the morning, at the meaning of
 >>Frank's pictures with big shots. . I noted in the MUFON 2000
 >>paper that Frank's UFO drawing matched those of the TR3A which
 >>appeared in Popular Mechanics (Dec. 1991) and an earlier issue
 >>of Av. Week and Space Tech.

 >Yes, and I saw the drawings before the Popular Mechanics
 >article, but I think Av Week might have beat him. So, if asked,
 >I could say, honestly, that Frank's drawings might have been
 >inspired by Av Week. Won't Phil Klass be thrilled?

Are you saying that you saw Frank's drawings before Dec. 1991?

 >>>First let me apologize for my rather inelegant statement above.
 >>>My excuse was having to get to the store very early because they
 >>>were selling DVD players for $30. American (what is that in
 >>>Canada now, about a thousand bucks?). Anyway, what I meant was
 >>>that while I have little doubt that Frank Kaufmann has invented
 >>>his tales, I wasn't present and I seriously doubt he made any
 >>>sort of admission to Friedman, Schmitt or Howe.

Don't forget Balthaser. Why do you doubt it? Four witnesses
isn't enough for you? We know Frank wasn't in good health and
knew he had cancer . He might have felt guilty for lying.

 >>>Now that I've had a chance to go back and look at Stan's notes
 >>>in the MUFON Symposium book for 2000, I can point out that,
 >>>according to him, he visited Frank with Don Schmitt (not exactly
 >>>the epitome of credibility) and Linda Howe. My name is
 >>>conspicuously absent from that list. In the world of Ufology,
 >>>this is now a false claim. (Remember, in Ufology, there are no
 >>>honest mistakes, merely false claims that we use to bludgeon
 >>>each other. )

 >>I didn't say you were there. I said Frank admitted in 1999 that
 >>he had not told the truth at the meeting in 1995 at which you
 >>were definitely present, Kevin. You may recall that after your
 >>shouting and ranting, I told you to either be quiet or leave.
 >>You remained. That was also the meeting after which, with just
 >>you and me, you claimed that you could refute all the 38 items
 >>on my list of false claims by you and Don which I had listed in
 >>my 1995 MUFON paper "Roswell Revisited" which you had just seen.
 >>You will recall that, at my urging, you were kind enough to read
 >>a quote from your book "A History of UFO Crashes" four times
 >>before finally realizing that you had falsely claimed that you
 >>had shown there was nothing to crashed saucer claims from
 >>Spitzbergen, Aztec, or Roswell in the 1980 Ron Story UFO
 >>Encyclopedia. There was nothing about Roswell in that book. You
 >>claimed that something different had been in your head than was
 >>in the book. I noted I was not psychic.

 >No, but from reading your sentence, it wasn't clear what you
 >meant. It seemed to suggest that I was.

 >I remember the 1995 meeting, held in the Roswell Inn but I do
 >not remember ranting and shouting... But isn't this in the same
 >meeting where you made the false claim I had been an English
 >major in college (See, once again we are not allowed mistakes,
 >just false claims. And for those keeping score at home, I'm an
 >Army captain.).

Why would what you majored in have come up in a meeting whose
purpose was for me to interview Frank? your article in Story's
encyclopedia says your degree was in Anthropology.

 >And didn't I write an article published in the MUFON Journal in
 >which I challenged these 38 false claims which included such
 >gems as "That S.T. Friedman know all about an RS alien tissue
 >sample." I still don't know what this means. Or the laughable
 >"Testimony from anonymous caller is fully trustworthy." I don't
 >know where I might have ever suggested it. And what is the
 >relevance of this now? Didn't we go over it at the time when you
 >made these false claims?

Matter of fact you and Don had noted testimony from an anonymous
caller and considered it reliable.

Yes, you wrote a MUFOn Journal article in response. And I wrote
an 8 page response (Nov.10,1995) refuting your refutation.

 >And I have explained to you four times what the sentence meant
 >and while it might have been constructed a little better, your
 >interpretation is your interpretation and not mine.

Let the Listers decide: The quote comes after your discussion of
the Frank Scully book..."In fact, in 1980 I provided Ron Story
with the segment on the hidden alien bodies and crashed saucers
for "The UFO Encyclopedia". In it I made it clear that none of
the reports of crashed saucers had ever withstood objective
investigation.The road was strewn with the remains of those
stories, starting with the Aztec, New Mexico, case and working
its way to the Spitzbergen report, and the events near Roswell,
New Mexico". "A History of UFO Crashes" Kevin Randle. 1995.
There was no mention of Roswell in your Encyclopedia article.

 >>>There is nothing in that part of Stan's MUFON speech that
 >>>suggests that Frank Kaufmann told him, Schmitt or Howe that he
 >>>told lies about his involvement.

 >>This is simply untrue. In the paper (bottom of p. 200 in the
 >>Symp. Proc. ) "On December 13, 1999,Frank was most cordial at his
 >>home to myself, Dennis Balthaser, Linda Howe, and Don Schmitt. I
 >>explicitly asked if Blanchard had gone out with him. NO. Did
 >>Marcel go with you? NO. "In 1995 he had claimed that he had
 >>awakened both in the middle of the night and they had all gone
 >>together. Perhaps Kevin has forgotten that I had also asked
 >>wouldn't they have waited for a spotter plane before Blanchard
 >>would leave his post without knowing what was there. Frank said
 >>there were no spotter planes. But others have said there were. I
 >>had also raised questions about Frank's response when asked by
 >>Japanese researchers what the wreckage looked like and he said
 >>just as Jesse Marcel Jr. , described it, though Jesse had NOT
 >>been at the crash site and Frank had claimed to have been there.
 >>I have also raised questions as to why Frank felt free to talk
 >>openly about one of the most classified and significant events
 >>in history, but he couldn't tell who his contacts were, etc ad
 >>nauseum.

 >What you wrote is, "On December 13, 1999,Frank was most cordial
 >at his home to myself, Dennis Balthaser, Linda Howe, and Don
 >Schmitt. I explicitly asked if Blanchard had gone out with him.
 >NO. Did Marcel go with you? NO. There were a number of his
 >excellent paintings on the wall. During the same visit Linda
 >Howe..."

 >First, has anyone ever taught you how to write a paragraph?
Nope. Though what followed was relevant to Frank's reliability.

 >Second, how are we supposed to interpret from those sentences
 >that Kaufmann admitted lying to you? It certainly doesn't say
 >that to me. In fact, it doesn't say that anywhere in that
 >report.

He said that what he had said earlier wasn't true.I think that
is very close to saying he had previously lied to us.

 >And I frankly don't remember Kaufmann saying there were no
 >spotter planes at Roswell.

I certainly do and it is in my notes as well.

 >>>If true, however, the question
 >>>is, why would he sit on all this information for almost three
 >>>years?.

 >>Kevin, the meeting was in December 1999. I wrote my MUFON 2000
 >>paper in the spring of 2000. . a few months later. not 3 years.

 >Yes, but you didn't say that Kaufmann admitted lying to you
 >until recently, which is nearly three years. Your MUFON paper
 >doesn't say he admitted lying to you which would have been an
 >important revelation at the time. Now, it's just another bit of
 >evidence that is no longer of importance.

Admitting that what he had previously told me wasn't true is not
admitting he had lied??? What would you call it?

 >>>Why didn't he publish this admission, along with the
 >>>audiotapes that surely one of them would have made?

 >>It was a friendly gathering at Frank's home. No tapes were made.
 >>They also were not made in my room with you Frank and Don and
 >>myself present. You guys wouldn't allow it.

 >Such power I exert. Wouldn't allow you to tape your interview
 >with Kaufmann... and you made no tape of your interview in which
 >Kaufmann said that he lied... We are stuck with your
 >interpretation of Frank's words with Frank conveniently dead so
 >he can't refute it.

Sorry, but there are my notes of both meetings and the fact that there were
three others present, none of whom had had corrections for that statement
when they received copies of my notes.

 >>>If he had an
 >>>admission that Kaufmann was making it up, why not tell the world
 >>>then? Why come forward now and say that he told me. .
 >
 >>I didn't say I told you. I came forward in my MUFON paper to say
 >>he admitted that Blanchard and Marcel had NOT gone out with him
 >>Perhaps you will recall that I have also complained about
 >>Frank's claiming he was buddy-buddy with Major Marcel, but that
 >>Dr. Marcel had no recollection of him though Jesse, Jr. did
 >>recall Cavitt, Yeagher, Rickett. .
 >
 >As I pointed out, your sentence wasn't the clearest ever
 >written. Maybe I should just write it off as another false
 >claim... rather than the simple lack of clarity it is.
 >
 >>>Instead, Stan seems to rely on the suggestion that Scanlon had
 >>>not been the commander of ADC, that other, higher ranking
 >>>generals were in fact the commanders. This is, I suppose,
 >>>somehow to lead us to the conclusion that Frank had invented his
 >>>tales. Why not just tell us simply that Frank had admitted that
 >>>he wasn't involved? This smacks of the recent statement that Don
 >>>Schmitt had never lied to Stan.
 >
 >>Way off base here, Kevin. I noted previously and in the 2000
 >>paper that Scanlon's last position at ADC which ended in early
 >>1948 was as Public Affairs man at Mitchell Field in NY and there
 >>were no ADC radar systems in NM in 1947(with or without
 >>Scanlon). Frank had long ago stated he knew nothing about Radar.
 >>Scanlon as PA guy would certainly have not been ordering
 >>somebody who knew nothing about radar to visit nonexistent
 >>facilities at White Sands.

 >There were radars at White Sands in 1947 for crying out loud.
 >You decided they must have been ADC radars though I don't know
 >why.

Scanlon was ADC though not apprently connected with any radars
in NM.

 >>I did not say Schmitt had never lied to me. What I said was that
 >>he had not told me he had degrees from anywhere. He did not lie
 >>to me about his academic credentials. This was significant
 >>because I have a deserved reputation for checking on credentials
 >>(yes, I did call about yours)and would have checked if he had

 >>given them. You will recall that when I heard that Milwaukee
 >>Magazine had identified that Don didn't have the credentials he
 >>had claimed to them, and that he worked for the US Post Office,
 >>that I called the post office and asked for Don. He came to the
 >>phone. You were excoriating those of us who accepted the story
 >>from MM for 6 weeks before finally acknowledging that you had
 >>been had. I gather you still haven't gotten over it.

 >So if he didn't lie to you about his credentials, does this mean
 >the lie doesn't count? That he said it in print but not to you
 >means that he didn't lie about it? And don't you think it
 >laughable that he walked around the museum in Roswell pointing
 >out what he believed to be the hoaxes?

I didn't say the lies to whomever, (you MM or whatever) didn't
count. I said he hadn't lied to me about his credentials. So I
hadn't checked because he had never claimed to me he had any
degrees.

 >Yes, I admit it. I defended my friend because it seemed he was
 >being unfairly attacked. I did write a letter in support of him
 >because I believed what he told me and didn't believe that he
 >would be so bold in his lies. And the minute I learned the
 >truth, I made sure to correct the record.

 >>>Scanlon, it seems, enjoys the same sort of intelligence
 >>>background that Donald Menzel enjoys. If those intelligence
 >>>connections make a case of MJ-12, then why aren't Scanlon's
 >>>intelligence credentials of equal importance? He was a guy
 >>>tapped by Hap Arnold to help development Air Force intelligence
 >>>during the war. Wouldn't Arnold have thought of him immediately
 >>>if he needed a reliable man to fly into Roswell?

 >>Hap Arnold was not head of the US Army Air Force in 1947 (Spaatz
 >>was, with Vandenberg under him). Scanlon was in Public Affairs
 >>not Intelligence after the war. It is claimed (p. 168) in your
 >>"The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell" that Generals Ramey,
 >>McMullen, Kenny and Scanlon were superiors to the men at
 >>Roswell. A Public relations guy in ADC was over SAC people at
 >>Roswell?? I find that difficult to believe.

 >My mistake. Spaatz was the Air Force guy... Arnold had been the
 >Air Force guy during the war. But my point is that Scanlon had
 >the sort of background you would expect for someone called in on
 >this. He had helped design Air Force intelligence... And he had
 >been to Roswell, was familiar with the area and the situation.
 >So even though his assignment in 1947 was to public relations,
 >he had a long background in intelligence. And, if we think about
 >it, how good was that cover? We're still arguing about it and
 >Scanlon has been dead for twenty years.

 >>>And if Scanlon
 >>>knew Kaufmann, wouldn't he be likely to call on him to assist?
 >>>And if this is not logical, then why should we accept the idea
 >>>that Menzel's wartime service somehow qualified him for
 >>>membership on MJ-12?

 >>As I noted in" TOP SECRET/MAJIC" it was primarily Menzel's post
 >>WW 2 intelligence work that was so significant including his
 >>1960 (the war ended in 1945) statement to JFK that he, Menzel,
 >>had a longer connection with the NSA (founded in 1952) and its
 >>Navy Predecessor than anybody else (30 years). He also noted his
 >>postwar high security work with the CIA and 30 companies, and
 >>his being Commander of Naval Reserve Communications Unit no. 1
 >>in Cambridge post war. Obviously it didn't hurt that he was
 >>world class in cryptography before during and after the war.
 >>Scanlon was head of Flight Training Wings from October 1942
 >>until at least late 1944.

 >>Certainly Menzel's Intelligence qualifications (not noted before
 >>I dug them out at Harvard) were far superior to Scanlon's. Try
 >>reading the Menzel Chapter in TSM sometime to refresh your
 >>memory.

 >While I'll agree that Menzel's intelligence qualifications were
 >different, I won't agree that they were superior.

What, if any were Scanlon's? When did Hap Arnold call on him?
Incidentally Arnold resigned in 1946 because of poor health.

 >>>And wouldn't this suggestion that Scanlon was not the commander
 >>>of ADC, which I never heard Frank claim, be a false assumption?
 >>>If Frank didn't make the claim, then what relevance does the
 >>>fact have? And more importantly, where did it come from?
 >>>Kaufmann? Schmitt?

 >>I frankly don't know where that claim came from. Perhaps a
 >>Lister has heard it as well?

 >My point exactly. Say what you will about Kaufmann, but I never
 >heard this coming from him. Wouldn't this fall under the
 >umbrella of another false claim? Or is it a simple mistake?

 >>>The point here is that Stan didn't publish anything suggesting
 >>>that Kaufmann had admitted to lying. All we are told is that
 >>>Kaufmann met with Stan, Howe and Schmitt.

 >>Admitting that neither Blanchard nor Marcel went out with him
 >>when he had previously told you, Don, and me that they had, is
 >>an admission of lying as spelled out in my paper. Read it again.
 >>I have also referred to the McKnight letter which certainly
 >>suggests Frank was telling tales.

 >I simply don't remember him saying that. Maybe he said something
 >else and you misremember it. And, even if he did, how does this
 >translate into a statement that he had lied, based on what you
 >wrote in that paper? Maybe he made a simple mistake. Must
 >everything in UFOlogy be a false claim and a lie?

How could his describing in detail his coming over the pass from
White Sands and waking both Blanchard and Marcel and their all
going to his crash site together be a simple mistake? Marcel and
Blanchard were key actors in the drama in which he placed
himself at the center.

 >And the McKnight affidavit comes from a man who wasn't there in
 >1947, who was four years old in 1947, and suggested that he had
 >never heard of anything happening on the ranch owned by
 >relatives. Not exactly proof positive.

Where is there any evidence that Scanlon was there in 1947... as
opposed to 1942? The McKnight affidavit also noted that there
was no way to get to Frank's crash site except by horseback in
1947. But Frank had some sort of army vehicle and then a big
flat bed truck dashing out and back cross country???

 >But once again, while you were raising questions, you were not
 >saying that Kaufmann was lying.

He admitted that a key part of his story was NOT true. It was a
lie is a reasonable interpretation.

 >>>And we know that Stan
 >>>doesn't like the Kaufmann tales because he has told us that
 >>>repeatedly, but Stan never supplied a good reason for rejecting
 >>>them, even when Kaufmann had apparently handed him that
 >>>reason.

 >>Frank certainly was aware of my complaints about him as he
 >>referenced in an August 7, 1995, letter to me, things I had said
 >>about him in my September 26, 1994 paper " The Roswell Incident,
 >>the USAF, and the NY Times", in a Nov. 18, 1994, letter to you,
 >>in letters to Paul Davids on Dec. 20, 1994, and January 3, 1995,
 >>and to Jack Rodden on January 7, 1995 . I presume some of this
 >>input to him came from you.

 >Presume all you want, I'm confused by this. Are you suggesting
 >that I was Frank's ghost writer on this? Are you suggesting that
 >Frank was incapable of responding to your attacks?

I am stating that you and he were aware of my concerns.
 >
 >>>Now, please, understand, I am not suggesting that Frank Kaufmann
 >>>can be rehabilitated. As far as I'm concerned, he should become
 >>>a footnote to the Roswell case, just as Gerald Anderson and
 >>>Glenn Dennis should be footnotes. Both men were caught in a
 >>>changing and shifting story that as we investigated moved
 >>>farther from the truth. Or, Stan, do you now have the "real"
 >>>name of the nurse? And now that Anderson appears on the Navy
 >>>SEALs Wall of Shame, are you finally convinced that he can't be
 >>>trusted?

 >>I think that both Glenn Dennis and Gerald Anderson made real
 >>contributions to the story despite your great antipathy to both.

 >Yeah, just like the contribution Frank Kaufmann made...

 >>You will recall that Gerald passed a polygraph (Frank never took
 >>one) and that a medical technician realled the nurse and
 >>described her as Glenn did without any prompting from me. They,
 >>(G and G), both independently described a strange combination of
 >>a red haired officer and a black sergeant.

 >Gee, talk about selective use of data... Anderson passed a
 >polygraph test but admitted to forging a telephone bill to make
 >me look bad... Actually, he forged two telephone bills, and a
 >diary, and a letter from the family to prove he was telling the
 >truth.

No evidence provide re the altter items. You will recall I
obtained the real bill from the phone company.

 >Let's see, he claimed to be a Navy SEAL when he was not.
 >He changed details of this sighting... milky blue eyes to
 >black... and which of his crash sites do you accept? The one
 >near the VLA? The one north of highway 60? Horse Springs? And
 >were three dead and one injured or was it two dead, one dying
 >and one relatively uninjured.
More fiction.

 >.. Did he take the sociology class
 >instead of Dr. Buskirk's anthropology class? Why is it that he
 >will not allow for independent verification of his claims? Oh
 >yeah, he passed a polygraph test.

5 people who were in the anthro class reviewed Gerald's picture
from the yearbook and say he wasn't in the class. Despite your
repeated claim to the contrary, one of them, Larry Henning,
never told you Gerald was in his class.

 >And just what was in that package of material that you sent to
 >Anderson before you interviewed him? And, given his track
 >record, what makes you think that he didn't read it before you
 >talked to him? And, couldn't that be the source of the
 >contamination with the Glenn Dennis tale?

Hardly, Kevin. I had heard from Dennis in his vehicle a couple
of weeks before I talked to Gerald. The material I sent Gerald
gave my background information, the response from various
colleges to my lectures and other material to establish that I
was not a tabloid writer. There was nothing in it at all about a
nasty red haired officer and a black sergeant., much as you
would like that scenario to be true. It is fiction. I hadn't
written about that at that point.Just as I hadn't told the
medical technician Naomi's description as provided by Glenn.
Despite that fact, he described her the same as Glenn had. Just
as I was very careful to ask the ERA guy who remembered Menzel
suddenly leaving one summer for a classified project what year
it was rather than asking him if it was 1947. Fortunately it
was. I submit I have published a great deal less fiction than
you have over the years and will match track records any time.

 >As for this nurse, just what name is she given today? Obviously
 >it's not Naomi Self. And, are you one of the researchers who
 >wouldn't listen when Dennis told us all that he'd give us a name
 >but it wouldn't be her name? Are you one of the researchers who
 >ran off in search of Naomi Self even though Dennis had made it
 >clear to us that Self wasn't her name? Or, at least claims today
 >that he tried to make it clear... but only after we proved the
 >negative. There was no Army nurse names Naomi Self.

Remember that I was the first to talk to Glenn and at that time
he had not said her name wasn't Naomi Self. The medical
technician recognized the name and described her.

 >>I happen to think much of the world is gray.

 >Was Kaufmann ever in this gray basket?

Of course he was, until I heard more and more claims that didn't
make sense.

 >>You seem to operate on a black and white basis. That is your
 >>privilege.

 >I actually think the world is filled with color which is a much
 >more pleasant way of seeing it. But then I write science
 >fiction... coming in April, "Signals", from Ace Books.

Congratulations. How many fiction books is that now? Surely over
80? I have always said you were good at creating scenarios.

People who want copies of my 1995 list of Kevin's false
claims, of Kevin's MUFON J. response, and my 8 page letter and
my Kaufmann meeting notes (July 1995 and December 1999), please
send a snail mail address. (off list would probably be best).


Stan Friedman
fsphys@rogers.com










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                     Re: Roswell Had Victims? - Anthony

From: Gary Anthony <garyant@mithrand.karoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 00:16:59 -0000
Fwd Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 08:40:01 -0500
Subject: Re: Roswell Had Victims? - Anthony


 >From: Luis R. Gonzalez <lrgm@arrakis.es>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 13:36:36 +0100
 >Subject: Re: Roswell Had Victims?

 >>From: Gary Anthony <garyant@mithrand.karoo.co.uk>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:47:45 -0000
 >>Subject: Re: Roswell Had Victims?

In reference to this thear, you may be interested to know that
in the last issue of the British "The Skeptic" (Vol. 15 n=BA 3),
David Hambling proposes an intriguing answer to the Roswell's
alien corpses.

David mentions Nick Cook's book "Zero Point" where he presented
a secret 1947 memorandum by Lt General Twining, listing six
traits for the flying discs sighted in UFO encounters:

1. metallic or light reflecting
2. no trail
3. circular or elliptical
4. formation flying
5. no associated sound
6. level speed above 300 knots

Twining states that "it is within the present US knowledge... to
construct a piloted aircraft which has the general description
of the object above which would be capable of an approximate
range of 7.000 miles at subsonic speeds".

David Humbling writes:

"The (reconnaissance) balloons (sent over Russia) match the
description in the 1947 memo very closely. They were circular,
appeared metallic, flew silently leaving no trail and flew in
formation. Their level speed was not quite 300 knots, thought in
the jetstream they could shift a respectable 250 mph.

However, the biggest clue is the fact that the man in charge of
the balloon spying program was one general Nathan Twining -the
same Twining who wrote the original memo.

One notably discrepancy is that the memorandum talks about
"manned craft", whereas the balloon programmes we know about
were unmanned. If a manned balloon lost pressure at high
altitude, the unfortunate crew would rapidly die from the lack
of oxigen. Their bodies would be freeze-dried by the effects of
extreme cold and very low pressure. How these shrunken, frozen
mummies would appear is anyone's guess (...) Any fatalities
would probably have led to the termination of a secret manned
balloon program...

Fascinating. Not for a moment do I believe this is THE
explanation for the alleged Roswell aliens (I am satisfied those
are only rumours and hoaxes) but the possibility of a high
altitude manned balloon project should be considered.

Luis R. Gonzalez Manso

Hi Luis, List,

In reference to your post to Updates regarding 'Roswell Had
Victims' with my header at the top of your response mail, I
cannot see anything from my mail relevant to your post. However
the article you refer to is interesting and not without some
merit, thanks for posting it.

Sincerely

Gary Anthony






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                    Re: Security Classifications - Gates

From: Robert Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 01:43:31 EST
Fwd Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 08:43:48 -0500
Subject: Re: Security Classifications - Gates


 >From: Murray Bott <murrayb@win.co.nz>
 >To: Updates List <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 18:20:15 +1300 (NZDT)
 >Subject: Security Classifications [was: Frank Kaufman?]


 >Greetings List

 >On 28th Novemember Stan Friedman wrote

 >>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 22:37:20 -0400
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufman?

 ><snip>

 >>I will have more to say about the claim I am told was made that
 >>MJ-12 is a fraud once I see the program.

 >>My paper noted above does point out that despite Jan Aldrich's
 >>recent false claim that the GAO must have been mistaken, that
 >>the GAO found examples of the use of TOP SECRET RESTRICTED on
 >>documents from the same time frame as the Cutler Twining memo,
 >>that they indeed had.

 >Stan,

 >I recall that Jan asked that you provide an "Independantly
 >Verifiable Copy" of such a Document containing "TOP SECRET
 >RESTRICTED" Classification.

 >Stan my enquiry to you (and Jan) is:

 >Have you provided Jan with such a document yet? - Or do you wish
 >to ignore this request and hope that it will go away?

 >Until then Stan your claim is nothing more than that - A claim
 >without any form of verifiable evidence

As I recall the GAO claimed in its report that they actually ran
across documents with that classification on it even though the
classification did not exist.

In the Eisenhower Presidential library I went through many boxes
of formerly highly classified documents as part of cold war
history research. I ran across documents with that were formerly
Top Secret restricted (Non Restricted Data documents) and other
such. According to my notes the documents were not necessarly
classified "by the book" but was a mix which represented what
different people in the administration did. The bottom line on
all of that is even if the document was incorrectly marked, it
still was a classified document and treated as such.

When this issue popped up awhile back I thought I may have
gotten copies of documents with the TS Restricted on it. I am
still looking as I have time through 20 or so thousand pages of
documents. I ran across documents (archives) that were formerly
TS but had _NO_ document control numbers. Before anybody unloads
the next breath about how the declassifers may have blanked them
out, etc etc, bottom line is many of these were the "original"
documents and what was in fact on the document was very plainly
visible.

Awhile back somebody was first claiming that all TS documents
had to have a control number on every page. When that was proven
wrong, the claim switched to 'well only the cover sheet..' Using
that bit of logic the MJ-12 EBD would only need to have some
kind of cover sheet to make it apple pie, a ok. There are TS
documents that do not have so called and allged cover sheets. I
have seen others were the package is marked TS but when you
remove the attached document (leaving on the cover sheet) the
classification is Secret, or whatever.

If you go to:

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB21/06-01.htm

you will find a complete copy of the TS Presidential directive
that launched the gulf war in 91'. It is marked TS but no
control numbers. When I inquired about that back afte it was
declassified I was told that was "not uncommon" in Presidential
NSC level documents.

Go to:

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB74/U2-06.pdf

You will find a 1 page TS letter from Andrew Goodpaster, with no
cover sheet and no TS control numbers, although you can see the
TS classification and, naughty, naughty, it was stamped TS twice
at the top and bottom.

Go to:

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB45/

download document 2.

This is a 2 page TS letter from President Eisenhower to SecDef
Thomas Gates. No control numbers or even a hint of somebody
blackening out a control number, or other.

Go to:

http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/dl/U2Incident/MemConfDDEonNov241954.pdf

You will find a 1 page TS document with no control numbers.

Go to:

http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/dl/U2Incident/MemofordirectorofCIAreTelenet8255
9page1.pdf

You will find a "cover sheet" for a Talent code word document
The cover sheet is marked "Top Secret" but no control numbers.
however the document itself has the control numbers on the upper
right hand side of each page.

Go to:

http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/dl/Sputnik/MemoofConferencewithPresKillianKisti
akowskyFeb61958page1.pdf

You will find a TS Memorandum of conversation with the President
but no control numbers.

Go to:

http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/dl/Sputnik/

MeetingwithBronketalOct81957.pdf
Apparently this was not classified, but Dr. Bronk apparently had
a close relationship with the President that he could call him
in and have him read a statement the President was going to
give.

In the DDay section you have a incoming msg to General Marshall
with Top Secret in the Upper left and right corners of the
document, eyes only, and a Top Secret on the center bottom

Go to:

http://www.cs.umb.edu/jfklibrary/nsam.htm

Click on number click on number 36
"Improving the Security of Nuclear Weapons In NATO" which you
will notice it is signed by McGeorge Bundy not the President AND
Top Secret only appears at the bottom of the page, not the top,
AND it is not written on White House stationary nor does it have
a control number.

Now click on number 37 "Saceur Procedures for Ordering use of
Nuclear Weapons 4/16/61" and you will notice that Top Secret
appears on both top and bottom of page, not written on White
House stationary, and NO TS control number.

Click on number 154 "U.S. Nato Alert procedures" which was
classified TS but no control numbers

Go to:

http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/document/nsdmnssm/nsdm276a.htm

in which you will find a copy of a 3 page Ford Administration
National Security decision Memorandum number 276 entitled having
to do with Nuclear weapons. Notice that the document is
classified TOP SECRET/Restricted Data, but NO TS control numbers
are on it. Also it was signed by Henry Kissenger who claimed
that he never had a Q clearance which would be required for Top
Secret/Restricted Data.

Now if you skim through some of the related nuclear NSDM's you
will find they are all correctly marked either Secret/RD or
TS/RD...that is until you get to number 300 which relates to
nuclear weapons and it is classified Top Secret/Sensitive

 >>I also noted that not all TS documents have TS Control numbers,
 >>again despite Jan's false claim to the contrary.

I don't believe Jans claim is false. What it boils down to is
based upon "his" working experience this is how the
classification world turned. This is similar to the folks in the
PR department of the Pentagon who denied for years that the
Stealth fighter did not exist. Based upon their knowledge,
understanding and what they were told it did not exist.

If somebody wants to really, independently verify what Stan and
I have said, get on a plane and go to the Presidential
library(s). Spend awhile going through thousands of pages of
formerly highly classified documents and you will find what has
been said is correct.

The bottom line is documents were not always marked apple pie,
by the book correct and folks treated them as classified
documents.

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                         GWU Symposium Photo Gallery

From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 03:47:21 -0500
Fwd Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 08:45:14 -0500
Subject: GWU Symposium Photo Gallery


Hello All,

Thanx to Leslie Kean sending me copies of several photos that
she took at the symposium, I have been able to add several new
pix to the symposium photo page I created.

http://www.virtuallystrange.net/aic/symposium.html

At the bottom of the page a link has been added to an audio file
of the report on the symposium that played on program number 214
of Strange Days... Indeed. There are several clips of the
speakers that you can listen to.

For those of you who could not attend, "If Mohammed cannot come
to the mountain, the mountain will come to Mohammed!" This
little web offering is as close as I can come to bringing the
event to _you._

Many thanx to EBK for the webspace and his expert sound editing
services.

Enjoy,

John Velez






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                    Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - Friedman

From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 08:31:57 -0400
Fwd Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 09:11:23 -0500
Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - Friedman


 >From: David Clarke <cd292@crazydiamonds.fsnet.co.uk>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 17:51:41 -0000
 >Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43

 >>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 18:26:38 -0400
 >>Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43

 >>>From: David Clarke <cd292@crazydiamonds.fsnet.co.uk>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 16:25:01 -0000
 >>>Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43

 >Hi Stan,

 >>The whole tone of the book implies that there really isn't
 >>anything that has been hidden now that you have dug out quite a
 >>lot of material.

 >That is a matter of interpretation - we make the point that the
 >MoD have destroyed, or claim to have destroyed, 99 percent of
 >the Air Intelligence material relating to UFOs pre-1962.

 >They claim that UFO files have been retained since 1967, but I
 >recently learned that the MoD had destroyed, as late as 1990,
 >two briefing files for the House of Lords UFO Debate of 1979.
 >These included briefings from RAF intelligence and defence
 >intelligence to Lord Strabolgi, who was to present the
 >Government's case in the Lords.
 >
 >They also routinely destroy logbooks and radar recordings before
 >they even enter the public records system.

 >The question is - are they trying to hide something, or is this
 >just bureaucratic bungling? Knowing how the civil service works,
 >I'd opt for the latter. But if you are a conspiracy theorist,
 >you can interpret the situation in a completely different way,
 >and sell more books no doubt.

 >>I wish to point out General Bolender's 1969 comment that reports
 >>of UFOs which could effect national security were not part of
 >>the Blue Book System.

 >>I expect that there is compartmentalization in the UK as well
 >>as in the USA and that the most significant military cases
 >>didn't make it into the files you have seen. I am glad that you
 >>looked.

 >You may be surprised to find I agree with you! We can only
 >comment on the material we did find, everything else is just
 >speculation. *But* there was evidence in the material we found
 >to support your assertion that some 'reports of UFOs which would
 >effect national security' did bypass the system that produced
 >the files now available at the PRO.

 >A classic example is the visual report by two Meteor pilots from
 >RAF Little Rissington in 1952 that was corroborated by radar
 >plots, leading to a major air defence alert involving GCHQ and
 >US intelligence. Yet not a single reference to this incident has
 >survived in the files released at the PRO!

 >Full details of this case will appear in UFO Magazine (UK) early
 >in the New Year.

I am glad to see some meeting of the minds here... especially
with a specific example. I guess time will tell. Unfortunately
for the early days we are rapidly losing our race with the
undertakers.

Papers here just featured the fact that it just came to light
that Chuchill was seriously considering using Atomic Bombs on
Hitler... back in 1944. I guess the shredders have been busy.


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                  Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Hamilton

From: Bill Hamilton <skyman22@fastmail.fm>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 06:24:21 -0800
Fwd Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 09:35:01 -0500
Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Hamilton


 >From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 13:47:08 -0500
 >Subject: Defining An Abduction Case

 >Hello All,

 >In hopes of starting a fruit-bearing discussion on the subject
 >of defining UFO abduction cases, I offer the following:

 >'Something' has been happening to me and to many others for all
 >of our lives. 'Something' involving "UFOs" and their occupants.
 >(Whoever or whatever they may be.) There are enough physical
 >components to the phenomena to justify the serious consideration
 >of serious, thoughtful people. There are enough of those people
 >on this List. Enough to help to resolve the contentious issue of
 >'what' defines an abduction case.

 >To kick things off, I'd like to suggest the details surrounding
 >the Betty and Barney Hill case as a starting point.

 >1. Two people who were awake (conscious) and on their way home
 >encounter an "unidentified" aerial object/phenomena.

 >2. The 'UFO sighting' is one where there is close proximity to
 >the object and the event 'seems' to be focused on the
 >individuals involved.

 >3. There is contact/interaction with the occupants of the "UFO."

All 3 of the above fit my experience with Pamela in March 1993
on Highway 375 in Nevada, yet to this day I am unsure of what
transpired.

John, this is what I have attempted to do to strengthen the
signal from all the noise. I think we need to start with the
cataloging of encounter cases from the CE-3 level where humanoid
occupants have been sighted in the vicinity of landed craft and
classify the details. Next, the CE-4 experiences like the 3-
point one above. Last on my list would be bedroom visits only
or recalled dreams. Then, any CE-5/CE-4/CE-3 combo where humans
have initiated an encounter event.

Also, documenting of any and all physical traces or physical
evidence.

Patterns are important as well. The astounding Brazil abduction
on Rense's sight is out-of-pattern and is now denounced as a
hoax. Reed's story was like that. Consistency of pattern is
important, but we must also recognize changes in pattern or
consistent departures from it.

Whatever we have after a solid study is the core of the evidence
which could be very convincing.

At some stage we need to go beyond some conclusion about the
reality and nature of these abductions and find out who? what?
why?


Very best to you John,

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                  Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Connors

From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 07:19:49 -0700
Fwd Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 09:39:38 -0500
Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Connors


 >From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 13:47:08 -0500
 >Subject: Defining An Abduction Case

Hello John,

<snip>

 >In hopes of starting a fruit-bearing discussion on the subject
 >of defining UFO abduction cases, I offer the following:

<snip>

 >We need an investigation that will 'hopefully' provide a few
 >answers that can be relied on to one degree or another. As it
 >stands now, we know _nothing_ and we have no prospects of
 >learning anything new in the near future. We haven't even taken
 >the time to work out a set of diagnostic criteria that will help
 >to define an 'abduction' case.

You are a very reasonable fellow and advocate for Abductees in
general. Your posts on UFO Updates and appearances on various
media programs have been educational and more than reasonable
and logical in your approach to the personal and overall
abduction phenomena research as it currently stands. You are an
excellent advocate and educator of the abduction phenomenon from
a personal viewpoint.

However, even though you are an ardent supporter of most current
abduction researchers and especially to Budd Hopkins, your
personal view has been expressed to wanting other researchers to
become involved in this area of research.

If memory serves, you have stated in the past that the current
abduction researchers are either not enough or haven't given you
what you want and, (paraphrased), "you desire new blood to
become involved in abduction research, especially among the
seasoned researchers."

Over a year ago I offered to begin a Baseline for abduction
research. I asked one question addressed to all abductees on
this List to answer it in a private email to me and that I would
correlate and make recommendations from those replies on how the
baseline should be presented and then go from there. I received
a total of 1 response from an abductee. Because of this I
decided not to involve my self or my time in abduction research.
But, I still take the abduction scenario as a serious research
avenue by those who pursue it.

It is my opinion that because of your advocacy, suggestions and
approach on this list and through media sources, that you are
more than qualified to research abduction phenomena. Just
because you are an abductee, does not mean you are unqualified
to be an abduction researcher, even though you may feel that
being an abductee disqualifies you.

It is the approach you take to research that is most important
and not that you have experienced abduction personally. Science
is rife with examples of people who have experienced something
that caused them to go on and research to fruitful conclusions.
There are many outstanding UFO researchers who have personally
observed a UFO which gave rise to their effort to research the
phenomenon.

What it boils down to in my opinion, is that you want others,
who do not have the full insight into the phenomena as you do,
to do the work you are capable of doing. I believe that you
should stop insisting that others do the work, do it yourself
and ask for assistance from other researchers as you need it.

I can't think of any researcher I know who doesn't do the work
themselves and ask for assistance from their peers they feel
comfortable with when they need it. I guess what I am saying is
this:

Stop yelling from the tree tops for somebody else to do your
work. Get your research going and bring the rest of us
enlightenment regarding the abduction phenomenon. Take what you
personally have experienced and approach it from a position 180
degrees away from the personal aspects of emotion. Don't sell
yourself short. You are just as capable of doing quality
abduction research as the "seasoned" researcher.


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                    Canada's National Post On Rendlesham

From: Stan Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 10:47:25 -0400
Fwd Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 16:23:18 -0500
Subject: Canada's National Post On Rendlesham


Cnanada's National Post for today, December 4, 2002, page A3,
contains a large serious article about the MOD having to
release the files on Rendlesham. Unfortunately one of Billy
Meier's phony  pictures is used for the visual, but I doubt if
the writer had any say in that decision. The author of the
article is given as Peter Goodspeed at:
pgoodspeed@nationalpost.com

Thanks to all the UK people, Dave Clarke, Georgina Bruni et al
who pushed the MOD, and Eric Morris for his actions as well. It
would be interesting to know who else picked up on the story.

I had a call from a Halifax radio station guy who will interview
me about the article and related matters at 12:40PM today.


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                         Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 16:34:26 -0500
Fwd Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 16:34:26 -0500
Subject: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk



Source: BBC OnLine

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2538959.stm

Tuesday, 3 December, 2002, 14:32 GMT

'Why I believe UFOs are bunk'

Government papers suggest that details of a "UFO scare" in
Suffolk in 1980 were suppressed in order to avoid public panic.
BBC News Online Science Editor Dr David Whitehouse says we
should abandon the UFO "myth".

UFOs in the sense of unexplained lights in the sky certainly
exist.

But flying saucers, that is, alien spacecraft, never have.

It really is about time we put down the whole UFO-spaceship
thing as part of the past; part of an old-fashioned view of the
mysteries of space.

At best, they were a delusion, wishful thinking by some who
didn't want to know better.

At worst they were, in some instances, a con as unscrupulous
people exploited others.

We have had UFOs for more than 50 years now. During that time,
we are supposed to have had innumerable sightings of alien craft
in our atmosphere, numerous encounters with strange beings as
well as a great many abductions.

Fuzzy logic

And what have we got to show for it? Remarkably little - a few
amazing stories told by those who claim to have been witnesses
and abductees, as well as a fuzzy photographs and videos, and of
course, lots of fakes.

Is it not strange that of all the photos and film shot of UFOs
are poor and inadequate. You might have thought that at least
one of them would be a close-up and in focus.

Indeed, the aliens can be small or tall, the spacecraft saucer
or triangular shaped but the one constant thing in all UFO
sightings and alien encounters is that nobody has any evidence
that can be looked at.

One can talk to researchers, or read their books, and be told
that they did have hard evidence, sometimes in the form of alien
artefacts.

But enquire a little more, or read on, and one always gets to
the part where the evidence vanishes for some reason or another
that sometimes involves somebody dressed in black stealing it.

Faced with this lack of evidence the alien advocates have to
rely on the last resort of a failed argument: conspiracy.

Only the gullible

There must be something in it, they say, as they unearth another
secret memo or report that in fact sheds no new light on the
reality of the phenomenon.

The fact that governments got involved is no evidence that there
was anything in the UFO phenomenon.

Nor indeed are the many books being published about UFOs.

Putting to one side that they frequently contradict each other -
  all the plethora of books show is how gullible people are.

And there we have the reason why the UFO phenomenon lingers on.

So after 50 years we have no evidence to speak of, lots of books
and a handful of extremely vocal pundits.

Couldn't someone beam them up?


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                  Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Kochhar

From: Vivek Kochhar <vimalexp@vimalexports.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 07:05:39 +0530
Fwd Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 17:03:38 -0500
Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Kochhar


 >From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
 >To: UFO UpDates <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 07:19:49 -0700
 >Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case

 >>From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 13:47:08 -0500
 >>Subject: Defining An Abduction Case


As a UFO reseacher from India... I can assure all that not much
data & material is available here to continue my research.

However, I can say that I'm evidently doing some research on the
the phenomenon called abduction.

I need some more info in this regard and would appreciate if
someone can give me the list of the websites where I can find
some interesting cases, papers & documents relating not only to
abduction but also sightings.

UFOs have been my personal interest since 19th August 1988 when
I was a witness to a sighting. But unfortunately, as I mentioned
before, no help has been available to me since, of any sorts.

The skeptics maybe right in their beliefs, but they should not
forget that a belief is just a belief till it is proven to be
right or wrong. So just wait till a few of them see what others
have and then they will realise "What were we thinking?"


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                     Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - Ledger

From: Don Ledger <dledger@ns.sympatico.ca>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 11:47:39 -0400
Fwd Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 17:09:09 -0500
Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - Ledger


 >From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 08:31:57 -0400
 >Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43

 >>From: David Clarke <cd292@crazydiamonds.fsnet.co.uk>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 17:51:41 -0000
 >>Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43

<snip>

 >>A classic example is the visual report by two Meteor pilots from
 >>RAF Little Rissington in 1952 that was corroborated by radar
 >>plots, leading to a major air defence alert involving GCHQ and
 >>US intelligence. Yet not a single reference to this incident has
 >>survived in the files released at the PRO!

 >>Full details of this case will appear in UFO Magazine (UK) early
 >>in the New Year.

 >I am glad to see some meeting of the minds here... especially
 >with a specific example. I guess time will tell. Unfortunately
 >for the early days we are rapidly losing our race with the
 >undertakers.

 >Papers here just featured the fact that it just came to light
 >that Chuchill was seriously considering using Atomic Bombs on
 >Hitler... back in 1944. I guess the shredders have been busy.


Hi Stan and David,

As you will both probably know - Stan has lived long enough in
Canada to have learned this - there is far greater opportunity
for governments under the Canadian and British parliamentry
systems to bury, hide or outrightly destroy government material
than I would suggest is the case in the American government.

Prime Ministers wield greater power in their countres than does
the President of the United States in his. Their positions are
near dictatorial.

I have no doubt that once it is decided that something should
not be made public in either the UK or Canada, then it will not
be made public. There are no penalties to be borne by the
Minister in any instance and they are pretty much shameless in
their ability to deny or blow off any criminal activity with
impunity.

If it is in the government's best interest to lie - then they
will do so, particularly when it comes to their own political
hides. You can at least impeach a president in the United
States. Here and in the UK you have to wait for the next
election and pray for damage control.

As a civil servant for the last 33 years, be it known that if
there are documents destroyed, that it is under direction of the
system from above. These people are not mindless clones and have
consciences. Mind you there are those with little imagination or
no interest in what damage they do, but it's usually under
direction.

If someone takes a hit for some inexcusable action, then it will
be at a lower level so that the minister, his/her deputies and
directors can wiggle out from under.

The members of parliamentry government answer to their own party
first, not their constituents. They pretty much vote as they are
told, along party lines and uphold usually every shady activity
their Prime Minister gets involved in - for the sake of the party.

The party comes first-always. It's not conducive to good
government and the party to have talk of situations beyond their
control. If they are beyond their control, they hide the fact
and present a controlled face to the electorate - to save the
party and their own self-interest.

The poor voter is pretty much left to hang and swing in the wind.


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                   UFO 'Fleet' Reported over Buenos Aires?

From: Scott Corrales <Lornis1" <lornis1@earthlink.net>>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 11:44:07 -0500
Fwd Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 17:13:13 -0500
Subject: UFO 'Fleet' Reported over Buenos Aires?


SOURCE: www.ovni.net
DATE: December 4, 2002

UFO 'Fleet' Reported Over Buenos Aires?

BUENOS AIRES 11/28/02, 8:30 a.m -- An intense "UFO wave" rolled
over Capital Federal. Two witnesses saw a variety of phenomena.

Using a camera described as "broken and out of date" one of them
was able to photograph a fleet of three objects descending over
the northeast section of Capital Federal.

No apparent electrical anomalies were reported in the witness's
area.

Minutes earlier, another object flashed for several minutes over
the vicinity of Chacarita and Belgrano at an altitude of 1500
meters.

"Arturo and I saw the entire phenomenon," says witness.

He employed a Sony 360 Nightshot "reduced to VHS and paused" (in
his own words) to record the images.

"The camera's date is in error, showing 11-27-2002," adds
Ricardo E. D'Angelo, the main witness.

"What can be seen in the video sequence is some 15 frames of one
UFO, hitherto unseen, which crossed the skies from South to
North on a lengthy journey, seconds before the formation was
observed. But upon reaching a point equidistant from the other
two (not seen until that moment), it stopped completely for only
brief seconds."

To see the video:

http://groups.msn.com/glaucoart/Documentos/VIDEOS-VIDEOS-VIDEOS-VIDEOS-/flo2002.
mpg


=================
Translation (C) 2002 Institute of Hispanic Ufology
Special thanks to Lucy Guzman, www.ovni.net







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                   Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Warren

From: Frank Warren <frank-warren@pacbell.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 09:27:30 -0800
Fwd Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 17:19:29 -0500
Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Warren


 >From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 13:47:08 -0500
 >Subject: Defining An Abduction Case


 >In hopes of starting a fruit-bearing discussion on the subject
 >of defining UFO abduction cases, I offer the following:

 >'Something' has been happening to me and to many others for all
 >of our lives. 'Something' involving "UFOs" and their occupants.
 >(Whoever or whatever they may be.) There are enough physical
 >components to the phenomena to justify the serious consideration
 >of serious, thoughtful people. There are enough of those people
 >on this List. Enough to help to resolve the contentious issue of
 >'what' defines an abduction case.

 >To kick things off, I'd like to suggest the details surrounding
 >the Betty and Barney Hill case as a starting point.

 >1. Two people who were awake (conscious) and on their way home
 >encounter an "unidentified" aerial object/phenomena.

 >2. The 'UFO sighting' is one where there is close proximity to
 >the object and the event 'seems' to be focused on the
 >individuals involved.

 >3. There is contact/interaction with the occupants of the "UFO."

 >If we just stop right there, _all_ of the reports that begin
 >with "I had a dream" would be eliminated right out of the box.
 >Because of the Internet, cases such as; the Walton case, the
 >'Allagash Four,' the Debbie Jordan-Kauble case and many others
 >get lost in a din of obfuscating background noise. Noise which
 >only serves to push back the time when a serious, multi-
 >disciplinary investigation into these abduction reports can
 >begin.

 >We need an investigation that will 'hopefully' provide a few
 >answers that can be relied on to one degree or another. As it
 >stands now, we know _nothing_ and we have no prospects of
 >learning anything new in the near future. We haven't even taken
 >the time to work out a set of diagnostic criteria that will help
 >to define an 'abduction' case.

 >I have started the "list" with three suggestions. The more
 >experienced and knowledgeable researchers on this List can
 >refine, redefine, add to or alter it in any way they wish. In
 >any way that they can 'agree' on!

 >Please, speaking for myself and on behalf of many 'involvees'
 >get the work started that will eventually lead up to a 'formal'
 >and independent investigation of our reports. If I have no power
 >to make the abductions stop, I would at the very least like to
 >know exactly what the hell has been happening to me and now to
 >my loved ones for all of my life.

 >I will now join the ranks of the 'lurkers.' I hope somebody
 >picks up the ball and runs with it.


Hello John, and All,

To assist with your quest in "better defining" a "UFO Abduction,
might I add a couple of points:

1. Webster's describes abducting as, "to carry off (as a person)
by force." "Recollection" of being taken by force would seem to
be 'prerequisite' in the definition.

2. Since there is evidence that 'recalling' said events (e.g.,
the Hill's case) is a problem, then perhaps 'verification of
missing time' would be in order, to help discern if the memory
has been 'affected'.

In addition, I think as people 'chime-in' on your request, it is
important to remember you are asking for "diagnostic criteria"
of a UFO abduction, and 'not evidence of'.

Although physical proof, i.e., marks on the body, evidence of
  intruders in a room etc., is supportive of an 'abduction' I
don't believe those are 'prerequisites' for the 'formal
definition' you seek. Rather, that when an abduction case is
established by the 'future agreed upon definition', then there
should be a 'separate diagnostic criteria' established for
seeking the evidence of said abduction as well.


Best Regards,

Frank








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               Re: Phony Credentials? [was: Re: Frank Kaufmann

From: Jim Speiser <jimspeiser@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 11:40:43 -0700
Fwd Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 17:25:13 -0500
Subject: Re: Phony Credentials? [was: Re: Frank Kaufmann


 >From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 16:53:26 -0400
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: Royce J. Myers III - The Watchdog <ufowatchdog@earthlink.net>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 20:18:06 -0800
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 ><snip>

 >>There have been so many instances in this field where people
 >>have flaunted false credentials and hard copies of those
 >>credentials don't materialize (i.e.: the person(s) won't supply
 >>the documents, the documents were lost, et al), the big bag
 >>gov't has come along and rounded them all up erasing them in the
 >>process, and/or the credentials are bogus. I've ran into all of
 >>the above as I'm sure many of you out there have.

 >>Let's not forget the past of some other folks using bogus
 >>documents or alleging to have doctorate degrees or other
 >>educational credentials:

 ><snip>

 >Let me add Guy Kirkwood (aka Mel Noel and Noel Bryce Cornwall)
 >who was never a jet jockey for the USAF, who never flew DC-8s
 >for United Airlines, who did not graduate from Cheshire Academy,
 >who was not threatened by Don Dornan, etc ad nauseum.

 >How about Dan Fry and Frank Stranges whose PhD's are phony as 3
 >dollar bills?

 >How about Michael Wolf Kruvant who had none of the 6 degrees he
 >claimed and whose 75 Plus employee research Institute was in his
 >head?

 >How about Bob Lazar with no degrees from MIT or CIT?

Unfortunately, to this list it now appears we may have to add
the name of William C. Levengood, who up to now has enjoyed a
fairly unblemished reputation as a plant biologist. It seems he
bolstered that reputation, and his crop circle work, by placing
the word 'Dr.' before his name, and/or not objecting when others
did so.

Acting on a tip from a well-known UFO 'Internal Affairs
Division', I asked Levengood, point-blank, if his Doctorate were
legitimate. He insisted that it was, and said it was a "Ph.D.
equivalent," handed out by the National Academy of Science.

A few quick calls to the NAS by others on this List revealed
that they do not hand out any kind of degrees nor their
equivalents, not being an academic institution.

I frankly don't know how this reflects on his crop circle
research, and perhaps he has a legitimate degree somehow, but no
one I know has ever heard of a 'Ph.D. equivalent', and everyone I
know insists "You either got-or-you-haven't-got a doctorate." I
for one will have to take Mr. Levengood's future research with a
grain of salt.


==JJS==








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                     Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Houran

From: Jim Houran <JHouran@siumed.edu>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 13:26:04 -0600
Fwd Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 17:36:05 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Houran


 >From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 18:40:18 -0400
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol. com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 20:16:13 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers. com>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net>
 >>>Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 18:20:30 -0400
 >>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol. com>
 >>>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net
 >>>>Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 20:23:13 EST
 >>>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>>>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers. com>
 >>>>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net>
 >>>>>Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 22:37:20 -0400
 >>>>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufman?


I am an established social science researcher, but largely a new
investigator to the Roswell case. I am interested only in
empirical and verifiable data. That is to say, hearsay and
speculation do not interest me, and I see these variables
essentially bastardizing the case and making it difficult to
filter out what reliable information there truly is for
'Roswell'.

The exchange between Randle and Friedman, who are both generally
respected investigators, underscores the fact that progress in
the case is stunted because the field cannot agree on what the
available evidence is.

This leads me to a request.

I would like to know, from anyone on the List, which
eyewitnesses from the Roswell case are actually deemed reliable
and whose testimony is open to scrutiny.

To make this clear, I would greatly appreciate a list of
witnesses who are identified and whose testimony is documented
clearly (and dated) and which is available publicly.

Lastly, have the tapes of the hypnosis sessions of Jesse Marcel,
Jr. which were facilitated by Kent Jeffrey been made public?


Thanks to all,

James (Jim) Houran








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                   Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Velez

From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 14:44:46 -0500
Fwd Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 17:41:35 -0500
Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Velez


 >From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
 >To: UFO UpDates <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 07:19:49 -0700
 >Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case

 >>From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 13:47:08 -0500
 >>Subject: Defining An Abduction Case

 ><snip>

 >>In hopes of starting a fruit-bearing discussion on the subject
 >>of defining UFO abduction cases, I offer the following:

 ><snip>

 >>We need an investigation that will 'hopefully' provide a few
 >>answers that can be relied on to one degree or another. As it
 >>stands now, we know _nothing_ and we have no prospects of
 >>learning anything new in the near future. We haven't even taken
 >>the time to work out a set of diagnostic criteria that will help
 >>to define an 'abduction' case.

 >You are a very reasonable fellow and advocate for Abductees in
 >general. Your posts on UFO Updates and appearances on various
 >media programs have been educational and more than reasonable
 >and logical in your approach to the personal and overall
 >abduction phenomena research as it currently stands. You are an
 >excellent advocate and educator of the abduction phenomenon from
 >a personal viewpoint.

 >However, even though you are an ardent supporter of most current
 >abduction researchers and especially to Budd Hopkins, your
 >personal view has been expressed to wanting other researchers to
 >become involved in this area of research.

 >If memory serves, you have stated in the past that the current
 >abduction researchers are either not enough or haven't given you
 >what you want and, (paraphrased), "you desire new blood to
 >become involved in abduction research, especially among the
 >seasoned researchers."

 >Over a year ago I offered to begin a Baseline for abduction
 >research. I asked one question addressed to all abductees on
 >this List to answer it in a private email to me and that I would
 >correlate and make recommendations from those replies on how the
 >baseline should be presented and then go from there. I received
 >a total of 1 response from an abductee. Because of this I
 >decided not to involve my self or my time in abduction research.
 >But, I still take the abduction scenario as a serious research
 >avenue by those who pursue it.

 >It is my opinion that because of your advocacy, suggestions and
 >approach on this List and through media sources, that you are
 >more than qualified to research abduction phenomena. Just
 >because you are an abductee, does not mean you are unqualified
 >to be an abduction researcher, even though you may feel that
 >being an abductee disqualifies you.

 >It is the approach you take to research that is most important
 >and not that you have experienced abduction personally. Science
 >is rife with examples of people who have experienced something
 >that caused them to go on and research to fruitful conclusions.
 >There are many outstanding UFO researchers who have personally
 >observed a UFO which gave rise to their effort to research the
 >phenomenon.

 >What it boils down to in my opinion, is that you want others,
 >who do not have the full insight into the phenomena as you do,
 >to do the work you are capable of doing. I believe that you
 >should stop insisting that others do the work, do it yourself
 >and ask for assistance from other researchers as you need it.
 >
 >I can't think of any researcher I know who doesn't do the work
 >themselves and ask for assistance from their peers they feel
 >comfortable with when they need it. I guess what I am saying is
 >this:

 >Stop yelling from the tree tops for somebody else to do your
 >work. Get your research going and bring the rest of us
 >enlightenment regarding the abduction phenomenon. Take what you
 >personally have experienced and approach it from a position 180
 >degrees away from the personal aspects of emotion. Don't sell
 >yourself short. You are just as capable of doing quality
 >abduction research as the "seasoned" researcher.

Hi Wendy,

Thank you so much for your very kind words. It means a lot to me
coming from someone that I like and respect. :)

Do it myself eh? Hmmm, your comment above was correct, I have
always considered that _any_ work I may do in regard to
'abduction' would end up being tinged by questions about my
objectivity. That being a 'subject' kind of automatically
excludes/ precludes me from getting involved in 'doing'
research.

The other equally important, maybe more important reason
I have not done it myself is, I have no formal academic training
in terms of conducting _any-kind_ of formal research... into
anything. I simply wouldn't know if I was 'doing it right'.

But hey, sure, I'll take it on - if I have to. I had been appealing
to, or as you so eloquently put it; "shouting from the treetops"
for _established_ and respected researchers (such as yourself
and Jan) to become involved in the abduction side of the 'UFO'
phenomenon.

I will see what I can do about presenting everyone with a set of
criteria that will help to define the elements of of a 'UFO'
abduction case. Maybe it'll help to reduce the noise level to
the point where more salient cases involving multiple witnesses
and physical evidence can be focused upon by the larger research
community. I'll keep you (and the List) posted.

As I always do when taking on any project, I will try to
surround myself with the best minds/advisors I can wrangle up. :)

BTW, I must have missed your 'abduction question' post of a year
ago or I _would_have_ responded. If you have a copy on your hard
drive somewhere, please send it to me and I promise to respond
to it asap. Sorry I missed it.

Again, thank you for your vote of confidence. Sometimes I get
punchy from the noise and harangue of the Internet and I just
want to pack my bags and split. Support from people like you
goes a long way toward helping to restore my sometimes waning
stores of energy for this kind of public work.

It ain't 'easy' for anybody involved.


Warmest regards,

John







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                   Re: Defining An Abduction Case - White

From: Eleanor White <eleanor@raven1.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 14:50:44 -0500
Fwd Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 17:46:52 -0500
Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case - White


 >From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
 >To: UFO UpDates <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 07:19:49 -0700
 >Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case

 >>From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 13:47:08 -0500
 >>Subject: Defining An Abduction Case

 >Hello John,

<snip>

 >Stop yelling from the tree tops for somebody else to do your
 >work. Get your research going and bring the rest of us
 >enlightenment regarding the abduction phenomenon. Take what you
 >personally have experienced and approach it from a position 180
 >degrees away from the personal aspects of emotion. Don't sell
 >yourself short. You are just as capable of doing quality
 >abduction research as the "seasoned" researcher.


John, if you can come up with case documentation which requires
someone to read each case and fill in a computer database from
the reads, and from which queries can be answered by way of the
database software, I volunteer.

I have a PC with plenty of disk space and horsepower, and I am
an experienced database manager and computer programmer.  It
would be a privilege to work as your data entry operator on this
important project.

I am semi-retired and could devote 2 to 3 full days per week on
this.

Once you have a substantial number of records analyzed and
entered into a computer database, it is easy to get an
incredible number of _accurate_ answers very quickly.
  Furthermore, you can get answers which were never even thought
of during the data entry phase.


Eleanor White








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                   GWU Symposium On SCI FI Channel Sunday

From: Bill Hamilton <skyman22@fastmail.fm>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 14:02:50 -0800
Fwd Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 17:48:20 -0500
Subject: GWU Symposium On SCI FI Channel Sunday


Notice...

SCI FI Channel   12/13/2002   3:00 a.m. ET/PT

SCI FI presents an original, one-hour special, a compilation of
highlights from two recent SCI FI-sponsored symposiums in New
York and Washington, DC.

On November 8, SCI FI sponsored Interstellar Travel and
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Science Fiction or Science Fact,
hosted by The George Washington University, moderated by Ray
Suarez of The News Hour with Jim Lehrer. On November 19, SCI FI
sponsored The UFO Abduction Phenomenon: A Symposium, at The
Regency Hotel in New York City, moderated by veteran news
correspondent Morton Dean.

This special will premiere on Friday, December 13 at 3:00 a.m.
and will be repeated at the following times:

Sunday, 12/22/02 at 2:00 a.m.
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                  Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Harrison

From: Diane Harrison <auforn@hypermax.net.au>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 08:06:16 +1000
Fwd Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 17:55:22 -0500
Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Harrison


 >From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 13:47:08 -0500
 >Subject: Defining An Abduction Case


Hi John

The balls rolling [smile] - List members be kind

 >In hopes of starting a fruit-bearing discussion on the subject
 >of defining UFO abduction cases, I offer the following:

 >'Something' has been happening to me and to many others for all
 >of our lives. 'Something' involving "UFOs" and their occupants.
 >(Whoever or whatever they may be.) There are enough physical
 >components to the phenomena to justify the serious consideration
 >of serious, thoughtful people. There are enough of those people
 >on this List. Enough to help to resolve the contentious issue of
 >'what' defines an abduction case.

I have to agree John it would appear we deal with a lot of cases
that start with "I had a dream.....". I'm not dismissing the
fact that a lot of cases start this way and I'm not saying they
are less important. But what I am saying is they are very hard
to investigate. Its like investigating the Twilight Zone so to
speak and there's not disrespect intended with this comment. Its
just a general observation and a comment that most investigators
say from time to time.

Its frustrating for abductees/contactees. Its like "give me some
physical evidence please give me Conformation I'm not going
crazy and this is really happening"

I think I'm safe in saying that 95% of abductees seek physical
evidence for their own confirmation and sanity.

John, you know and I know there's lots of people out there that
have conscious memory of abductions/contact and as an
investigator I find these case a lot simpler to work with - and
I say "simpler" but nevertheless I work with both. I find the
collection of evidence easier, the answering of questions put
forward seem to come more naturally.

 >To kick things off, I'd like to suggest the details surrounding
 >the Betty and Barney Hill case as a starting point.

Its very hard to change the below points with out throwing the
baby out with the bath water and yes guys I've brought up that
word that most hard-nosed nuts and bolts investigator love to
hate [ Metaphysical evidence] sorry but times are changing.

John I would like to see as an investigator a definition of
evidence into categories like:

[Physical evidence] = [Metaphysical evidence]

e.g     [conscious] = [unconscious]

[Physical evidence] body marking, ground traces and so on

[Metaphysical] aspects of an abduction which we all know can't
be answered in factual terms, but in saying this is nonetheless
important as physical evidence is. You see science may inform us
of how the Universe works, but why it exists at all is a
metaphysical question. The same may be said about the abduction
phenomena.

 >the Betty and Barney Hill case as a starting point.1
 >Physical evidence] Two people [factual and can be proven]
 >[Physical evidence] were (conscious) [factual and can be proven]
 >[Physical evidence] and on their way home [factual and can be proven]

for the other part of point 1 to fit into the physical evidence
category, more information is needed. Can you see how I'm working
this?

So List members, I ask, does the other part of point 1 fit into
a [Physical evidence category] or a [Metaphysical evidence
category]?

 >*encounter an "unidentified" aerial object/phenomena.

John, let's see what reaction there is to my comments and my
attempt to breakdown point 1.


Kind regards,

Diane Harrison

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                   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Hall

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 22:24:25 +0000
Fwd Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 17:59:01 -0500
Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Hall


 >From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >To: - UFO UpDates Subscribers -
 >Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 16:34:32 -0500
 >Subject: UFO UpDate: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >Source: BBC OnLine

 >http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2538959.stm

 >Tuesday, 3 December, 2002, 14:32 GMT

 >'Why I believe UFOs are bunk'

 >Government papers suggest that details of a "UFO scare" in
 >Suffolk in 1980 were suppressed in order to avoid public panic.
 >BBC News Online Science Editor Dr David Whitehouse says we
 >should abandon the UFO "myth".

 >UFOs in the sense of unexplained lights in the sky certainly
 >exist.

 >But flying saucers, that is, alien spacecraft, never have.

 >It really is about time we put down the whole UFO-spaceship
 >thing as part of the past; part of an old-fashioned view of the
 >mysteries of space.

 >At best, they were a delusion, wishful thinking by some who
 >didn't want to know better.

 >At worst they were, in some instances, a con as unscrupulous
 >people exploited others.

 >We have had UFOs for more than 50 years now. During that time,
 >we are supposed to have had innumerable sightings of alien craft
 >in our atmosphere, numerous encounters with strange beings as
 >well as a great many abductions.

 >Fuzzy logic

<snip>

Well, he obviously is an ill-informed, faithist debunker who
undoubtedly has never investigated a single substantial case nor
read any of the serious literature by people who have, instead
adopting the "fuzzy logic" of his kind who use "mythology" as a
convenient excuse to avoid the issues.


  - Dick









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                          Filer's Files #49 -- 2002

From: George A. Filer <Majorstar@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 17:16:18 -0500
Fwd Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 18:09:56 -0500
Subject: Filer's Files #49 -- 2002


FILER'S FILES #49 -- 2002, MUFON Skywatch Investigations
George A. Filer, Director Mutual UFO Network Eastern
December 4, 2002, Majorstar@aol.com Webmaster: Chuck
Warren -- My new website is at [ http://www.georgefiler.com
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Notify authorities if you see someone suspicious. Ufologists
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Terrorists in the spring used an SA-7 to try to shoot down a US
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An Israeli Boeing 757-300 Arkia passenger jet with 261 people
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mile from the airport. During my flights into Israel, I learned
they were working on programs to protect their airliners from
missile attacks with equipment similar to what we use on our
combat aircraft. The plane may have launched decoy flares and
was not hit, but passengers reported hearing explosions. Rafael
an Israeli arms manufacturer has developed scramblers which
throw missile-guidance systems off course. The Israeli aircraft
was likely equipped with antimissile technology, while US
commercial aircraft are not.

That's where you come in. Terrorists would likely hide within a
couple miles of the end of the runways. With a car you can
greatly increase the security of your loved ones by checking out
these areas prior to their flight. Normally the missiles are
fired just after takeoff or just before landing. If you see
anything suspicious notify the authorities. Honking your horn,
flashing of headlights, yelling and if necessary ramming a
terrorist vehicle's wheels can be effective, but dangerous. Many
people do not understand, we are at war and you can play a part.

  ALIENS ARE TOURISTS

David O'Hara writes, "Let me propose a thought I've had for
quite awhile about the UFO phenomena. If you look at the general
behavior of the craft and the "occupants" as reported by the
people of Earth, who have seen them, somewhere between the lines
is a behavior pattern that suggests an advanced society many
orders of magnitude ahead of us. But the daft operation of this
equipment that these alien folk indulge in and the use of this
advanced technology to just erratically cruise our skies,
indicates we have a bunch of tourists on a lark to the quaint
3rd rock from the sun. They may be giving their kids the keys to
the "car" so the little devils can finish up that science
project that's overdue. We are not the center of attention of
some cosmic overlords instead we are some yokel out worlders on
some third rate tour guides list of 'interesting sights" Thanks
to David O'Hara -- david_ohara@msn.com.

NORAD SCRAMBLES FIGHTERS TO INVESTIGATE CONTRAILS

On November 27, 2002, at 4 PM, (EST) North American Aerospace
Defense Command received unverified reports of a contrail of
unknown origin in the vicinity of the Turks and Caicos Islands
in the Caribbean. F-16 fighters were scrambled from several
bases to intercept the unknown that was heading northwest toward
the US. Commercial airline pilots later reported the contrail
over Florida and later over Indiana. A contrail is a white trail
of condensed water vapor that sometimes forms in the wake of an
aircraft. No visual or confirmed radar contact was made with the
actual source of the contrail. Since the September 11, 2001,
attacks, the Pentagon has taken greater precautions to monitor
U.S. airspace.

VERMONT UFO PHOTOGRAPHED

My name is Ellie Quigley and last month in October my aunt and I
were driving up to Vermont from CT. While my Aunt was driving, I
was taking pictures of the colorful foliage. In one of my
pictures, I noticed later when we got home, there are weird
streaks in view. When I took the picture I didn't even notice
it. I took the picture thru the windshield of the rental car we
were in. The is at Filer's Files UFO CENTER PHOTOS, Thanks to
Ellie Quigley

EAST AND MIDWEST BOLIDE LIGHTS UP MORNING SKY

On December 2, 2002, a bright light many people saw streaking
across the sky between 5 and 5:30 AM, early Monday morning was a
bolide or fireball, said Geoff Chester, a spokesman at the US
Naval Observatory. "This is basically a large meteor. We're
talking about a rock here that's on the order of size of a
suitcase or something like that. The object entered the Earth's
atmosphere at altitude of between 80 to 100 miles and vaporized
leaving a very bright trail of light behind it."

MARYLAND BRIGHT UNEXPLAINED CLOUD

BALTIMORE -- Bill Bean sent me a video tape of a strange cloud
he videotaped on October 6, 2002, at 6:35 PM just after the sun
set. Virtually all the clouds in the sky except one appeared
cloudy and dark. One was bright and very strange in appearance
as if electrified plasma. Thanks to Bill Bean. Photographs at:
Filer's Files UFO CENTER PHOTOS

VIRGINIA UFO IMAGED

WHITE HALL -- On November 9, 2002, I took my family to the
reservoir at Sugar Hollow just outside of Shenandoah National
Park. I was using a digital camera to take photos of the kids
and scenery at 11:51 AM and did not notice any object in sky
while on site. Later I reviewed the images on the computer and
noticed a distant object in one scenic mountain shot.

A dome-shaped triangular object appears in only one shot taken
at 11:51 AM. The other shots I took were probably spaced 30
seconds to several minutes apart, most of which were in the same
general direction as the shot with object. If this is indeed an
object and not some kind of digital noise, I estimate that its
position places it somewhere over the National Park. I think
object is slightly blurred, which would indicate very high rate
of speed given distance to object and sunny conditions. If it
were a balloon, however, I would have likely imaged it in one or
more photos I took before and after the one that recorded the
object. Thanks to Peter Davenport [ http://www.ufocenter.com/
]NUFORC

GEORGIA CHEMTRAILS CONTAIN UFOs

MACON --Annamarie Johnstone reports that daylight photos of
chemtrails taken by Mr. Heard on November 26, 2002, contain
anomalous objects. A cylinder shaped object is sighted between V
chemtrails. His photos show 3, 6, and 7 show disc shaped
objects. Thanks to Annamarie Johnstone PhD.

OHIO CYLINDER VIDEOTAPED

PORTSMOUTH -- Dave Crisp wrote, "While I was video taping
chemtrails in Southern Ohio on November 20, 2002, I was looking
up and noticed this white cylinder traveling somewhat slower
than a jet aircraft.=B4 Flying east, I did not think it was
anything. Actually, I thought it was a plane. I am near-sighted.
So, at the time I thought "Big deal, maybe it's a jet connected
with the chemtrails, I'll get it on film." After looking at it
closely, it was not anything I have seen. Taken on November
20th, 2002 at 3pm. No sound. No lights. I would guess moving 400
mph. Slow for a UFO. I do have a good video of it. Thanks to
Dave Crisp.

INDIANA HOVERING CRAFT

HAMMOND -- A craft silently hovered above normal air traffic
heading to Chicago at 8:15 PM on November 13, 2002. It was
motionless for ten+ minutes, and then it began to move silently
to the southwest, stopped, and remained motionless for an
additional 7 or 8 minutes. They moved very slowly and totally
silent toward the north until I could not see it, because it
went behind the tree line. Thanks to Peter Davenport [
http://www.ufocenter.com/ ]NUFORC

MICHIGAN FLYING TRIANGLE DOES A COMPLETE U-TURN

MILAN -- Two high school students were heading home in their
mini-van at 9:30 PM, when one saw a big triangle shaped craft
over downtown on November 15, 2002. The student reports, "It was
really low, and was flying well below the extremely low clouds.
It was triangle shaped, with alternating red, blue, and pulsing
white lights on each angle. It did this weird dead stop, and
just did a complete V turn in the opposite direction. It sped
off really fast but turned around again, like it was circling
something. I've seen things like this before, one time an object
almost exactly the same passed over my house, just above my
tree, then three others followed, but I have never seen one do a
turn like that and then speed up. Anyway, I soon went in, but as
far as I know, it's still circling down town. It may be
coincidence, but last night 3 brothers were killed in a fire
close to downtown, where they flew. [ http://www.ufocenter.com/
]NUFORC

WISCONSIN FLYING TRIANGLE

EAU CLAIRE -- Larry D. reports, "I am filing this report for my
daughter Amy, who saw a flying triangle on November 25, 2002,
directly over our house. The triangle was low on the horizon, 3
blocks southeast of the airport flying ESE lower than a normal
landing pattern. It was roughly half again as fast as most jets
that land over us and its shape was "stealthy", but an
equilateral triangle, not a pointy triangle. It made no noise
and was seen for thee seconds and gave my daughter "the chills"
seeing it. Its color was a medium gray, not black. I showed her
a photos of the F-117 and she felt this was more triangular, and
flatter on top. I drew several drawings and she chose one which
has a small soft bump in the middle of the flat wing section.
The speed and location of this plane are totally out of the
norm. This is the landing area for the airport, and there is no
cross low flying traffic allowed for safety, so my only opinion
left is a triangular UFO. Thanks to UFOWisconsin Report

MINNESOTA PILOT OBSERVES DELTA-SHAPED UFO

SAVAGE -- MUFON's Bill McNeff reports, "A pilot observed a
delta-shaped object in clear skies on October 14, 2002, flying
south at 1:22 AM". The object had three soft white lights at its
vertices which shone downward. It was about forty feet in width
flying at about 1500 feet altitude and at 150 knots. The pilot
stated, "It flew straight and level for about five seconds, then
rolled right to a 45 degree angle which caused the downward
lights to shine brighter, as they were directed more toward me -
- the object then rolled left back to a straight and level
position without making a sound." The object never appeared to
change course or altitude during this rolling activity and was
lost on the horizon. The object was observed passing in front of
the beams of light from the Mystic Lake Casino. The observer is
familiar with the air traffic around Minneapolis International
Airport, about 20 miles to the northeast. This object did not
conform to any recognizable aircraft navigational lighting or
flight patterns. The sudden rolling activity and lack of sound
is very uncharacteristic for commercial aircraft. Thanks to Bill
McNeff at w.mcneff@worldnet.att.net

NEBRASKA LIGHTS MOVING AT INCREDIBLE SPEEDS

MULLEN -- For four nights after work my boyfriend and I have
been driving home and have seen lights making loops, bouncing
and doing all sorts of strange maneuvers. On November 9, 2002,
it kept up with our car at perfect speed and got very close at
11:00 PM. I got scared but once we reached town we watched it
move around for several hours. On November 9th, we saw at least
five of these lights that seemed red, white, and blue. We looked
into the video camera and it was an assortment of all colors
changing very fast every few seconds. We watched this for
several hours again and it was still there when we left. I have
this on video showing it moving at incredible speeds and
changing colors rapidly. Thanks to Peter Davenport [
http://www.ufocenter.com/ ]NUFORC

COLORADO TWO UFOs

GRAND JUNCTION -- I was walking towards the supermarket on Rood
Avenue just minutes before sunset on November 14, 2002. It was
still very light out but there was an orangish coloration on the
mountains. There was a "starish" metallic shine in the clear sky
that faded in about ten seconds, but I could see that it was a
metallic object going away a lot slower than a jet. There were
two pods melded together at 7 to 10,000 feet altitude and
another one apparently appeared!! I looked elsewhere and saw no
other objects in the sky except a second one, that looked like
the first one except closer. I looked closely at the second
object: still that weirdness to it that didn't quite look like a
jet with apparently two pods with those two bubbly portions left
and right. Think of a shorter and fatter cigar shapes craft
hanging horizontally in the sky but with two pods for each side
bulging out. It also appeared to be subtly change shape. A
closer inspection of the object revealed a slight faint spray
exhaust coming out of the tail like a jet fuel spray. Then they
both suddenly were GONE! Thanks to Peter Davenport [
http://www.ufocenter.com/ ]NUFORC

CALIFORNIA FLYING TRIANGLE

SAN PEDRO -- The witnesses observed 7 to 10 red flashing lights
in a triangular shape moving silently and slowly due south at
7:00 PM, on November 13, 2002. Many other small planes in
relatively the same area were moving much more quickly than this
object.

HACIENDA HEIGHTS -- The boyfriend was driving his sick
girlfriend home who was laying down in the back seat on November
13, 2002. The witness reports, I looked towards Turnball Canyon
at 6:15 PM, and saw a huge round strange orange object with lots
of red and white lights around it. It was round like an upside
down charcoal gray bowl with red lights around the rim. I could
see some white lights underneath the object like it was
searching for something. There were little white lights just
enough to see very dim. I yelled "Is that a UFO?" My boyfriend
freaked as he saw it moving. This thing was huge maybe as big as
an air balloon, when you look at it while it is still on the
ground. Out of excitement, terror, or amazement I stared
tearing. Just as fast as I took that look is how fast it was
gone. Thanks to Peter Davenport [ http://www.ufocenter.com/
]NUFORC

Editor's Note: There seems to be a fleet of Flying Triangle
aircraft flying low over the US. I wonder if they belong to us?
They might be a new type of dirigible.

RUSSIAN ROCKET REENTERS ATMOSPHERE IN NORTHWEST

SEATTLE (AP) - A ball of fire streaking across the sky on
November 28, 2002, was seen throughout the Northwest. The
burning light came from a Russian rocket body re-entering the
Earth's atmosphere about 6:15 a.m. Witnesses said it had a long
tail, which seemed to break into two pieces and appeared to move
more slowly than a shooting star, but faster than a plane..

CANADA LIGHTS AND UFO DIVES IN LAKE

TERRACE, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- On November 23, 2002, Brian Vike
received a telephone call around 5:15 p.m. from two separate
witnesses explaining that they just had witnessed some strange
lights over Thron Hill Mountain. Five people watched moving
lights near some large towers. One of the witnesses said the
bright white light was double the size of the planet Venus. The
witnesses watched the light for 10 to 15 seconds until it grew
smaller and disappeared. The witnesses mentioned the sky was
clear except for a large cloud which hung over the mountain
where the lights were spotted. Since it was so stormy and windy,
the witnesses all found it weird that the cloud stayed in the
same position and did not move until all the lights were gone.
Fifteen minutes later two lights showed up over the same area,
and blinked out in less than a minute.

ONTARIO, CANADA -- The witnesses were having a party at a lake
in Northern Ontario several years ago, when an object was
observed dropping down from the night sky and straight into the
lake. He explained that all of them were amazed at what they
just saw. The next morning, "early" all of the witnessed said
they noticed military helicopters flying over and around the
area. The fellow I talked with was surprised to see nothing in
any newspaper about what they all witnessed. Thanks to Brian
Vike UFO Field Investigator, HBCC UFO Research & Canadian
Communicator

BRAZIL CIGAR-SHAPED UFO SIGHTED

RIO GRANDE DO SUL -- A silvery cigar-shaped UFO was sighted in
several cities near the border with Uruguay on November 1, 2002.
Hundreds of people saw a silver UFO flying rapidly over the
cities of Gravatai, Cachoeirinha, and Canoas. The same day, at
4:35 PM, a silver UFO was spotted in Praia do Cassino, a town on
the South Atlantic shore. Eyewitness Eduardo Enderle Oliveira
reported, "I was playing ball on the beach with my son and his
friend when the boys sighted something unusual in the sky and
saw it was a metallic fuselage in the form of a cigar. There
were no wings. I called the attention of several beachgoers to
this object, which flew at a very high altitude overhead. There
was a brilliant gleam in the sky, most likely a reflection of
the sun, and, as it departed, it resembled a brilliant sphere
which gradually diminished in size."

On November 18th, dozens saw a UFO over Casimiro de Abreu. The
object was videotaped by Sergio Chapelin. On November 22nd, at
8:50 PM, "witnesses observed the overflight of a ring-shaped
object over port city Santos with rapidly alternating yellow,
white and blue lights around the rim. The object flew southeast,
and was seen by hundreds of people. Thanks to the Brazilian
newspaper O Globo 11/19/02, Eduardo Enderle Oliveira, Rodrigo
Branco of Ufologia Brasileira, and UFO ROUNDUP Vol.7, #48,
11/26/02 Editor: Joseph Trainor http://www.ufoinfo.com/roundup/

URUGUAY REPORTS UFOs AND MUTILATIONS

LAGUNA DEL SAUCE -- On November 2, 2002, in a rural area in
Maldonado province, "a man who works in the (rain) forest claims
to have seen a V- shaped object with two white lights on it. It
was moving backwards." Two days later they found several
mutilated calves" near that location. "It seemed as if something
had extracted the flesh and the organs from the animals. There
were no brains, no tongues, no flesh, and the cowhide was
affected only in the place where the anus should be." On
November 8, 2002, a mutilation took place in Establecimento
Stella Maris. Many ranchers feel the cases are related to
extraterrestrials, while the government authorities blamed a
kind of wasp or a red mouse that could attack cows. Thanks to
Carlos Barboza of eso informe.

ARGENTINA CATTLE MUTILATIONS

CONCEPCION DE LA SIERRA -- Julio Frette a veterinarian stated
that there were four more mutilation cases" in northern Misiones
province during August. He added that they were not reported
earlier due to the ignorance of the parties who made the
discoveries. At the town of Apostoles, a rancher found a
mutilated animal and set it on fire." A zebu hybrid cow was
found dead, and strange incisions were found on its body. "The
animal suffered the mutilation of its internal organs, tongue,
jaw, ear, larynx, pharynx, rectum, large intestine, genitals,
and esophagus. The abdominal cavity was open and a calf missing.
One of the incisions was perfectly cauterized. The tissue
rapidly acquired an almost shiny black coloration. Police
officers, the owner, and the veterinarian examined the bovine.
The carcass gave off intense odor and there were no sign of a
struggle by the animal.

MALBRUN -- A mutilated animal was discovered on November 10,
2002, in a field on the property of Oscar Suarez, who said, "The
cow was missing the hide off its jawbones, one ear the tongue,
left eye, and four teats." Thanks to Scott Corrales and Liliana
Nunez, Institute of Hispanic Ufology

CHILE CATTLE MUTILATION

EL OSO WILDERNESS -- Diario "El Liberal"reports a cow was found
with a mutilated head and genitalia on November 15, 2002, in the
Aguirre Department. The mutilated animal was discovered last
Sunday in a field 33 km south of Malbr=E1n, and is the property of
Oscar Suarez. Suarez told EL LIBERAL: "The cow was missing the
hide off its maxillaries, its tongue and left eye, an ear and
four teats, but the remainder was quite sound even though it had
been dead for several days. Thanks to Guillermo Aguilera and
Raul Gajardo Leopold and Diario "El Liberal.

ENGLAND CRAFT HOVERS

COVENTRY -- The witness reports, "I was watching the stars at
1:03 AM on November 15, 2002, while walking home and saw
something shoot across the sky, that I thought was a shooting
star." Then I realized it was not a shooting star as the craft
hovered for five seconds before shooting off, at a speed that I
could hardly tell it had gone. The craft when it was stationary
seemed to glow green in color, and left a green streak as it
left from my vision. One of my friends who was with me claims to
have seen the exact same thing.

UK RELEASES RENDLESHAM FILE UFO' REPORT

Ministry of Defence's restricted "Rendlesham File, a detailed
account of a UFO near a Suffolk RAF base more than 20 years ago
was finally released by the British Government under the Freedom
of Information Act. The sighting of a glowing triangular
'strange glowing object' in Rendlesham Forest near RAF
Woodbridge in the early hours of December 27, 1980, is described
in colorful detail. US Air Force men witnessed the object hover
in the darkness, transmitting blue pulsating lights, and sending
nearby farm animals into a frenzy. In the report entitled
"Unexplained Lights," Lt. Col. Charles I Halt, Deputy Base
Commander at RAF Bentwaters, witnessed an object emitting a "red
sun-like light" moving through the trees. USAF security police
patrolmen first spotted "unusual lights".and three patrolman
investigated and saw a strange glowing triangular metallic
object in the forest. It was two to three meters across the base
and two meters high. "It illuminated the entire forest with a
white light and a pulsing red light on top with a bank of blue
lights underneath. " As the patrolmen approached the hovering
object, it maneuvered through the trees and disappeared. At this
time the animals on a nearby farm went into a frenzy."

The UFO was spotted an hour later near the back gate to the
base. Next morning Lt. Col. Halt and his men discovered three
circular depressions, seven inches in diameter, in the ground.
Radiation measuring 0.1 milliroentgens was recorded in the
depressions -- a level 10 times higher than normal. "Later in
the night a red sun-like light was seen through the trees. It
moved about and pulsed. At one point it appeared to throw off
glowing particles and then broke into five separate white
objects and then disappeared. "Immediately thereafter, three
star-like objects were noticed that moved rapidly in sharp
angular movements and displayed red, green and blue lights for
an hour. The object to the south was visible for two or three
hours and beamed down a stream of light." The UFO did not show
up on RAF radar. "No evidence was found of any threat to the
defense of the United Kingdom

ITALIAN UFO SPOTTED BY WATCHMAN

ORBASSANO --The Italian Center for UFO Studies reports, "A
clamor was raised all over Italy because of a mysterious object
sighted by a night watchman in Turin, in the early hours of
September 28, 2002. The watchman said, "The UFO phenomenon was
preceded by control monitors in the surveillance cabin failing,
and at the same time that the electronic-controlled gate opened
by itself in the truck rest-area at 4:27 a.m. The young man went
outside to investigate and felt something akin to a slight
breeze, which was accompanied by a whistling noise. He then
found himself enshrouded in a beam of light emanating from
above. He saw a luminous disc approximately 3 meters in diameter
rotating on itself, which streaked out of sight after a few
seconds, as if swallowed up by the sky. The monitor then came
back on. The frightened watchman then telephoned the Carabinieri
and appeared shaken when the patrol squad arrived.

There were 38 observations in October, for a total of 615
sightings in Italy for the first ten months of this year. Thanks
to UFOTEL, Edoardo Russo, http://www.proz.com/translator/723

AUSTRALIA FOUR SILVER OVALS AND FLYING TRIANGLE

ALICE SPRINGS -- Researcher Conway Costigan reports he received
a call from three witnesses who observed four silver oval craft
high in the daytime sky that emerged from a cloudbank on
November 27, 2002. The craft were traveling in a diamond
formation. While they were viewing this they heard a 'snap'
noise and a white triangular object with rounded corners and
dark ovoid highlights on the top surface seemed to appear from
nowhere. This 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 estimates the white
triangular craft is roughly the size of a 747 jumbo jet in
length. This was a one-shot and I can't phone this guy back. I
did verify that the call originated from Australia, although I
don't know how they got my number. They said that they were
familiar with my attempts to analyze sightings Thanks to Conway
Costigan.

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                   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - King

From: Tom King <tomking2030@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 23:03:45 +0000
Fwd Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 18:14:00 -0500
Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - King


 >From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >To: - UFO UpDates Subscribers -
 >Subject: UFO UpDate: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk
 >Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 16:34:32 -0500

 >Source: BBC OnLine

 >http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2538959.stm

 >Tuesday, 3 December, 2002, 14:32 GMT

 >'Why I believe UFOs are bunk'

 >Government papers suggest that details of a "UFO scare" in
 >Suffolk in 1980 were suppressed in order to avoid public panic.
 >BBC News Online Science Editor Dr David Whitehouse says we
 >should abandon the UFO "myth".

 >UFOs in the sense of unexplained lights in the sky certainly
 >exist.

 >But flying saucers, that is, alien spacecraft, never have.

 >It really is about time we put down the whole UFO-spaceship
 >thing as part of the past; part of an old-fashioned view of the
 >mysteries of space.

The only one hear that is delusional is this so-called
scientist. I'm sure he really did his UFO homework before he
wrote this garbage. If we need to get rid of anything it's that
cult called SETI. What a waste of money that 'science' is. I
doubt ET sends binary .bmp files inside of radio static.

While we're getting out the scientific measuring stick of
achivements from the past 50 years. How about a cure for AIDS,
Cancer, or the simple common cold? How much of our tax dollars
are thrown down the drain to these 9 to 5 scientists while us
broke tax payers are supposed to make the biggest discovery of
all time in our spare-time a few bucks?

It's the typical stuff you hear from a professional astronomer.


Tom King
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                       UFOs In 15th Century Paintings

From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 18:56:03 -0500
Fwd Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 18:56:03 -0500
Subject: UFOs In 15th Century Paintings

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,5611607%255E13762,00.html


UFOs In 15th Century Paintings
By Richard Owen
December 04, 2002

ITALY'S Old Masters were recording flying saucers and UFOs in
their paintings as far back as the 15th century, according to a
scientist in Rome.

Roberto Volterri argues that artists dating back to 1406
included evidence of "strange objects in the sky" for later
generations to see. He says that far from being the product of
the paranoid Cold War years, UFOs were documented but overlooked
because they were often extraneous to the subject of the
painting and could only be explained as "testimonials of
something seen or heard about".

Volterri, 56, an archaeologist by training, specialises in the
measurement and analysis of metallic objects. He said he had
spent his working life in a thoroughly down-to-earth environment
of cold and rational calculation and sophisticated and precise
instruments, but he was convinced science did not have all the
answers.

"I have been fascinated by the inexplicable since I was a boy,"
he said. "Scientists tend to dismiss what cannot be rationally
explained as belonging to the realm of fantasy. But it is the
job of science to examine what seems mysterious, not to dismiss
it out of hand."

He has published a book, As the Ancient Chronicles Relate, in
which he claims to show that past generations have also wondered
whether there is life beyond that on earth.

Perhaps the most striking example is The Madonna and St John,
attributed to Fra Filippo Lippi (1406-1469) and kept at the
Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. In it a man and a dog are clearly
gazing up at a UFO-type object behind the Virgin Mary's
shoulder. No less baffling is a painting by Masolino da Panicale
(1383-1447), The Miracle of the Snow, painted in 1429 and kept
at the Capodimonte Museum in Naples. "The painting shows a real
event in Rome in the second half of the fourth century AD,"
Volterri said. "But what are these strange, dark, elongated
clouds in the shape of UFOs?"

Volterri said he had compared these with photographs taken in
1955 in Namur, Belgium, which purport to show cigar-shaped UFOs.
By contrast, Glorification of the Eucharist, by Bonaventura
Salimbeni (1567-

1613), in the church of San Lorenzo in San Pietro, at Montalcino
near Siena, shows "what looks very like a satellite such as the
Russian Sputnik".

Volterri said that in La Tebaide, by Paolo Uccello (1397-1475),
objects in the sky were identical to photographs taken of
supposed UFOs in the US in the 1950s and 6Os.

But Martin Kemp, professor of the History of Art at Oxford
University, said the "Renaissance UFOs" had a perfectly rational
explanation.

"Many artists used their imaginations to represent celestial or
sacred powers," he said. "The objects in Masolino da Panicale's
painting were not UFOs at all but merely clouds schematised to
fit in with his perspective."

The Times

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Subject: Book Follows Feds' Eye On UFOs

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02:00 AM Dec. 03, 2002 PT


Book Follows Feds' Eye On UFOs

Do UFOs fly through the night sky? Do aliens walk among us? More
importantly, is the American government hiding such knowledge
from the public?

John Greenewald Jr., creator of the government conspiracy
website The Black Vault, purports to answer such questions in
his newly released book, Beyond UFO Secrecy. The self-published
book draws on formerly classified government documents the
author obtained through freedom of information requests.

Obviously, a hunger that goes beyond The X-Files exists for such
knowledge. Just released, Greenewald's book already has shown up
on Amazon's list of the top 25,000 books -- out of the 2 million
books it sells -- and it has been ordered from every U.S. state
and six countries, according to Greenewald.

The author claims his book shows that a UFO cover-up is
undeniable, and he attempts to use government documents to prove
it. The 21-year-old author has dug up UFO reports submitted to
the U.S. government, most of them dating back decades.

The first report Greenewald uncovered was that of the 1976 'Iran
Incident', in which two American fighter jets scrambled over
Tehran after spotting a UFO with pulsing strobe lights and what
appeared to be a smaller vessel with the so-called mother ship.
At one point, the Defense Intelligence Agency report details how
one of the pilots lost power and communications and initiated a
dive to escape the UFO.

Even more interesting than such reports, however, are the files
Greenewald dug up from the 1950s, in which the CIA's Scientific
Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects discusses
"debunking" programs designed to reduce public interest in
flying saucers.

Such debunking programs were to consist largely of educational
films showing first the UFO and then the explanation. The anti-
UFO propaganda sprang from the government's concern that the
emergency reporting channels would be overwhelmed with false
information, and that the public would be subject to mass
hysteria and "greater vulnerability to possible enemy
psychological warfare."

Greenewald also shows, with documents obtained through Canada's
Access to Information Act, that the North American Aerospace
Defense Command still collects information on UFOs even though
it insists it does not.

Does Greenewald prove that UFOs regularly zip around in U.S.
airspace? Yes, in a way. Beyond UFO Secrecy documents past UFO
reports and demonstrates that the government took the reports
seriously enough not only to collect them, but also to debunk
them.

But does the book prove that UFOs exist? That would be going too
far.

Most of Greenewald's book consists of government attempts to
explain what UFOs were. In one report, the CIA panel wrote: "It
was interesting to note that none of the members of the Panel
were loath to accept that this earth might be visited by
extraterrestrial intelligent beings of some sort, someday. What
they did not find was any evidence that related the objects
sighted to space travelers."

The book suffers from poor writing and weak arguments. It is
full of awkward phrasing and eccentric punctuation. Greenewald
often interprets the UFO documents clumsily, and -- perhaps
lazily -- fills the book with reproductions of the files in all
their blacked-out glory.

Overall, it's a book for those who already believe the truth is
out there.


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                         UFO Sightings Are No Secret

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http://www.fresnobee.com/lifestyle/story/5440245p-6425488c.html

[Scroll down to second story: UFO sightings around Fresno,
  including police officer Manuel Amparano's in 1978.]

UFO Sightings Are No Secret

(Published Monday, December 2, 2002, 5:55 AM)

By Rick Bentley

THE FRESNO BEE

Manuel Amparano talks about sighting an unidentified flying
object at 3:32 a.m. May 13, 1978, as if it happened only days
ago. Coming face-to-face with a UFO creates vivid memories.

Amparano's sighting is one of the most detailed of the many
accounts of UFO sightings in the Fresno area documented over the
years in The Fresno Bee and on Web sites.

The Fresno resident was working as a Kerman police officer.

"It was just a routine patrol," Amparano says of the encounter
24 years ago.

His early morning sweep took him past Kerman High School. At Del
Norte and California avenues, Amparano saw "a circular-type
thing, similar to a round fireball or a setting sun, about 100
to 150 feet off the ground."

He knew local teens had been setting palm trees on fire, and he
thought he had caught some young vandals red-handed.

"Then I realized there were no palm trees in the area. The fire
seemed to be inside of an oak or maple tree. This thing started
lifting up," Amparano says.

The officer started adjusting the spotlight on his patrol car to
get a better look at the object. But just before he turned on
the light, there was a bright blue flash. Then the object made a
sharp turn and moved away toward the southwest at a rapid speed.

Amparano had not left his car. And the windows were rolled up
because it was a cold evening. He did not hear any other noise
except for the engine of his car.

The Air National Guard, weather bureau and the Fresno Air
Terminal told Amparano nothing unusual showed up on any of their
radar screens that night. The encounter might have been
dismissed as an optical illusion, if not for the burns Amparano
suffered on his face and chest.

"It was like a sunburn when you fall asleep at the pool. There
were white blisters on the parts of my body facing that light. I
also had trouble with sunlight. It was like right after you have
your eyes checked and they are sensitive to light. That lasted
about a week," Amparano says.

Doctors at Fresno Community Hospital told Amparano the burns
appeared to be caused by microwaves.

An immediate search of the cotton field where the sphere had
been sighted revealed no evidence. But for years, nothing would
grow in a round area in the field. Today the spot is part of an
almond orchard.

Amparano went back to work a few days later. The only after-
affect of the close encounter was calls from "a lot of women who
wanted to have lunch and dinner with me." He continued to work
in local law enforcement until 1992, when he was hurt while
breaking up a bar fight.

He's had more than two decades to think about that glowing
sphere. Amparano is certain it was a UFO.

"What I am not certain about is whether it was some kind of
government project or something from out there," Amparano says.

Other newspaper and Web site accounts of local UFO sightings
include:

March 14, 1980: Two residents near the Fig Garden Village
shopping center see a bright yellow ball dripping flames. The
object is identified as a candle under a helium-filled balloon.

May 20, 1980: Mary Phillips, Caruthers, spots a disc-shaped
object with red and green lights floating northwest over Fresno.
The Lemoore Naval Air Station receives two calls about the
object.

May 29, 1997: At about 10 p.m., a Fresno woman, identified at
"Mrs. Liv S," reports that while looking at a clump of stars in
the southeast portion of the sky, one of the stars begins to
move in an odd fashion.

Sept. 22, 1998: A Fresno couple, identified as Vikki and Joseph
R., spot at 9:40 p.m. a triangular-shaped object with lights set
at regular intervals. The object appears to be a pyramid shape.
It makes no sound.

July 23, 2002: About 9:45 p.m., one member of a family camping
at Sequoia National Park points out a huge craft in the form of
a V with red lights flying slowly over. They are able to see the
object for about two minutes. It makes a humming sound. Numerous
campers see the craft.

July 23, 2002: At 10:30 p.m., four Exeter churchgoers see a huge
UFO in the shape of a triangle with red lights rimming the edge
of it. The ship flies south.

The reporter can be reached at rbentley@fresnobee.com or at 441-6355.


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                     CSICOP's Randi Owes Him A Million?

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Story filed: 09:54 Monday 2nd December 2002


Sceptic owes me a million, says Big Brother psychic

A psychic who correctly predicted the winner of Celebrity Big
Brother says a leading sceptic owes him $1 million.

American James Randi has agreed to pay the sum if anyone can
prove that psychic powers exist.

Gary Fowler claims he has done just that, after successfully
predicting Mark Owen would win Celebrity Big Brother, before the
line-up of the show was even announced.

He delivered his prediction to The Northern Echo newspaper
offices two weeks ago. The newspaper says the envelope
containing the prediction was kept in a locked safe in its
offices, until the winner was announced.

Northern Echo features editor Nick Morrison, who opened the
envelope, said: "When he gave me the envelope, he was certain it
was right. There was never any doubt in his mind.

"I am very sceptical of these things and I have to say I was
pretty surprised when he was proved correct."

Mr Fowler, who lives in Teesside, claims to have had a childhood
reminiscent of the hit film Sixth Sense, telling his mother from
an early age that he "saw dead people".

He told The Northern Echo: "At five, I used to wake up in the
middle of the night and see figures of spirits. I thought it was
normal until my mother didn't seem to know what I was talking
about. It began to frighten me."

Mr Fowler said he communicates with spirits on the other side,
who tell him about the future, which is how he predicted the Big
Brother winner.

Mr Fowler claims he knows about huge events that will unfold
within the next year, and he says he has information for world
leaders.


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                    Strange Case Of The Suffolk Spaceship

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Subject: Strange Case Of The Suffolk Spaceship

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4 December 2002 12:22 GMT

The Strange Case Of The Suffolk Spaceship

It is Britain's most celebrated UFO encounter: the sighting in
1980 of 'alien' craft in a Suffolk forest. Now, it has been
revealed that the Government tried to hush up the affair. So
what, asks Mark Lucas, really happened in the strange case of
the Rendlesham Incident?


Brenda Butler paused at the barbed-wire fence separating us from
the field where the spaceship had landed. It was 2am. In the
gloom I could just see the outline of the 60-year-old
grandmother and UFO expert as she watched her partner, Peter,
disappear into the darkness. He had gone in search of Marek,
another of our party, who had stepped over the barrier and
walked into the field a minute earlier.

Not long afterward, a lone figure loomed out of the darkness,
stumbling over the ploughed earth towards us. Peter was back.
"It's your mate," he whispered to me urgently. "He's passed
out."

Half a mile behind us, down the Forestry Commission logging-road
known as track 10, was RAF Woodbridge. This small Second World
War airfield used by the US Air Force until 1993, hidden in the
depths of Rendlesham Forest, in Suffolk, had been back in the
news recently after two decades of anonymity with the release of
the Ministry of Defence's Rendlesham Files. Now available for
public inspection, the files contain information about Britain's
most celebrated UFO sighting; their release was followed on
Monday by the parliamentary ombudsman's announcement that the
MoD had repeatedly suppressed information about what had
happened in the forest. Particular secrecy has surrounded a
"restricted file", the contents of which have been whispered
about for years.

Over three nights around Christmas 1980, it is said, several
spaceships visited the airbase after one of their number ran
into trouble and had to stop and make repairs. What makes the
Rendlesham Incident unique is the subsequently released
memorandum from the base's deputy commander, Lt Col Charles
Halt, to the Ministry of Defence. In the memo, Halt, who was
later promoted to full colonel, described how two airmen,
investigating strange lights in the forest, came across a
"metallic, glowing object", which "manoeuvred through the trees
and disappeared", whereupon the animals on a nearby farm went
"into a frenzy". Two nights later, he reported, the object
returned. Halt was out in the forest with a patrol when they saw
a "red, sun-like object". After they had followed the light
through the trees, it divided into five, and part of it "beamed
down a stream of light from time to time". Here, at last, was
the evidence that the ufologist community had been waiting for:
official endorsement of an extraterrestrial encounter.

On the third night, Halt made a tape on his micro-cassette
recorder, covering several hours on just less than 19 minutes of
tape. The greater part is taken up by Halt's patrol of four
officers assessing the site of a suspected landing, checking
radiation levels and having trouble with their electrical
equipment.

In the last few minutes of the tape, at around 2am, the men
start to see lights moving through the trees. Their initial
composure suddenly gives way to breathless panic: "It's coming
this way. It's definitely coming this way... There's something
very, very strange," says the deputy commander at one point.

At 3.15am, the light-show is still going on as Halt exclaims:
"Here he comes from the south! He's coming in towards us now!"

Right beside him, another officer says: "Shit!", and a moment
later, beams of light start hitting the ground around them.

"This is unreal," Halt gasps.

Almost 22 years have passed since the Rendlesham Incident, but
the enthusiasm of ufologists has only intensified in that time,
with one author calling the area "Black Hole Disneyland".
Several books and hundreds of websites about the events either
confirm Rendlesham's status in the international ufologist
community as being second only to Roswell in importance, or
debunk the notion that anything out of the ordinary happened at
all.

The first book to be published, entitled Skycrash, was co-
written by my guide on the expedition into the forest, Brenda
Butler, who has spent two or three nights a week out in
Rendlesham Forest since the alleged landing.

I had phoned Butler, who could hardly be described as a sceptic,
in the hope of discovering more about this tantalising chapter
in the history of UFO sightings and official secrecy. But it
soon became apparent that I would need someone to show me the
landmarks in the 3,500-acre forest, so I asked if I could
accompany her on one of her sky-watches. As their popularity had
increased, she had had to divide the group into two parties that
patrolled different areas of Rendlesham; she was happy for me to
join hers. On the night we were due to meet, I had been
fortifying myself at a party when I ran into a
hypnopsychotherapist, Marek Sinski. When the quietly intense 40-
year-old learnt of my plans, he expressed a strong desire to
come along, too.

We met Butler at midnight beside the barrier to track 10. Behind
me was the perimeter fence of the airfield; the disused runway
lights loomed into the night sky. Ahead, the logging-road
stretched away like a canyon, with its black walls of 70ft-tall
Corsican pines. By the dull glow of a car's interior light, I
could make out the small, dark woman surrounded by three
regulars on her sky-watches - Terry, Paul and Jonathan - and her
partner, Peter Parish. Her pure-white German shepherd, Mason,
galloped around us, chasing his ball.

As we set off down track 10 on foot, Butler spoke, in her soft
Suffolk accent, of some of the experiences she had had here,
seeing glowing orbs and meeting extraterrestrials. "Last year,
the yeti was down here," she said matter-of-factly, "looking
very, very sad." The yeti, she explained, had followed the group
on many occasions: "We had some people from Blackpool down here,
and they also saw him. He freaked them out, actually."

Butler indicated a drain cover to our right. "It leads to an
underground installation," she said. One day she was sitting on
top of it when she "lost" four hours, a phenomenon known as
missing time. We turned down a side-track. After a hundred
yards, Parish led the way into the undergrowth off to the side,
and we scurried through, bent over to avoid low branches, which
we politely warned one another about, and only straightening up
when we emerged into a clearing. "This", said Butler, "is
Colonel Halt's landing-place."

We sat in silence, contemplating the events that took place
there more than two decades ago: Halt and his fellow officers
had been taking radiation readings and measuring imprints in the
ground when they suddenly saw a bright light moving near by.

"What can you feel?" Butler asked.

My new friend Sinski broke the silence. "It's strong, isn't it?"
he said.

Butler's dog, Mason, began dashing around us, growling happily.
"He always goes mad where there's energy or there's been
contact," she remarked. "On several occasions he's been chased
by strange lights which engulf him." Her online journal goes
into more detail: "Mason had disappeared for several minutes",
it states, of one typical evening, "during the time when Brenda
spoke in an unknown language. He returned covered in red, green
and blue fibre-optic-type lights, and licked each person, still
in the circle, by placing his paws on their shoulders."

Leaving Col Halt's place, we returned to the small avenue,
veering right toward track 12. As we walked in single file along
the narrow pathway, I asked Butler about her life. She had been
a clairvoyant, she told me, with her own circle, and had been
involved "in a lot of things - paranormal, ghosts, poltergeists"
ever since being contacted by an alien named Ra when she was
five.

"I've been abducted on several occasions," she added. Her
kidnappers, she had learnt since undergoing regressive hypnosis,
were the "greys" - "classic" small aliens. She now worked in a
home for people with learning difficulties.

We came out into a clearing at the edge of the forest and saw
the flash of the Orfordness lighthouse on the horizon. "This is
Larry Warren's landing-place," Butler declared, indicating a
field. It was then that Sinski stepped over the barbed-wire
fence and strode purposefully into the darkness.

Larry Warren's extraordinary book Left at East Gate was
published in 1993. The former airman, a member of the security
forces at RAF Woodbridge, claimed to have witnessed the overall
commander of the twin-base complex, Squadron Leader Gordon
Williams, conversing with extraterrestrials. After that, said
Warren, a New Yorker, he was taken to an underground
installation and introduced to an alien "who had an accent I
couldn't identify". His description of the visitors had clearly
struck a chord with Butler: "Little tiny ETs dressed in white
jumpsuits!" she exclaimed. "I've seen them myself!"

"Do you ever worry that people may think you're a bit strange?"
I asked her.

She cheerfully dismissed my suggestion. "I don't care what they
think," she replied. "It's better than sitting at home drinking
coffee and watching television day in, day out." But if I was
finding things weird, Sinski was taking to it all like a duck to
water.

When Butler's partner came out of the field to tell us that the
psychotherapist had passed out, ufologists were quickly
dispatched to carry him back, but he returned with them on foot
without saying a word, and in the awkwardness of the situation,
we found ourselves moving on.

As we struggled through a dense patch of undergrowth, I recalled
the 1956 Incident - in which up to 18 objects apparently
combined to form a single radar echo, which was then clocked,
and witnessed from the air and on land, doing roughly 12,000mph
over the airbase - and wondered why UFOs were rarely seen
nowadays.

"You're joking, aren't you?" Butler asked, before telling me
about her last sighting, less than three weeks previously.
Unfortunately, her partner had turned his flashlight on the
spaceship, and it had disappeared.

"I won't be doing that again," he told me, sheepishly.

As we headed down track 12, Butler explained why she had had
contact there. "There's a portal," she said: "they come through
on interdimensional energy." On occasion, the ETs had pulled her
hair, put things in her pockets and hit Parish on the back of
the head. One night, the Dark Shadow pushed her backward, and
she fell over on to her partner, who collapsed on top of their
companion, Terry. "We have a laugh with them," she said.

At 3am, we returned to the Woodbridge runway lights at track 10.
Leaving Butler deep in conversation about UFO organisations'
finances with the second group, which had appeared from track 1,
Sinski and I walked over to our cars, discussing the night's
events. There was a hesitancy in his manner, but finally he
leant toward me: "Something very important happened here
tonight," he told me, though an explanation would have to wait
until morning.

Driving home, I pondered the various theories that had been used
to explain the incidents, mostly by people who weren't present.
Georgina Bruni, author of the most recent book about the events,
You Can't Tell the People, believes that there were three nights
of activity, with a full-blown close encounter of the third
kind. At the other end of the spectrum is Ian Ridpath, editor of
The Oxford Dictionary of Astronomy. In his view, excited airmen
were merely chasing the beam of the Orfordness lighthouse, and
the starlike objects of Halt's memo "were just that - stars."

Ridpath's scepticism is persuasive. In particular, he has shown
that it is at least possible that when Halt's patrol came out of
the forest, they, like the first night's witnesses, were
confused by the lighthouse. But another airman says: "If Charles
[Halt] says a beam of light shone down at his feet, then a beam
of light shone down at his feet. You can take that to the bank."

Halt retired from the air force in 1991 and now lives in
Virginia, in the USA. I managed to obtain an e-mail address for
him and wrote several times without response before he was
finally persuaded to answer. He was, he told me rather
pointedly, "tired of being pestered" by what he described as
"most unusual people".

Though he refused to talk about the Rendlesham Incident, we
began a tentative exchange on the neutral subject of the
airbase's history as a "crash-recovery" runway for damaged
aircraft returning from raids over occupied Europe. He told me
that "more than one young cop" swore he had seen East End
Charlie - the ghost of a Second World War airman - from the
guardhouse at East Gate, where the events of December 1980 had
begun. "On one particular Friday night, late," he recalled, "I
drove out the back gate, and the guard was trembling so badly, I
ended up having a replacement sent out." In 1983 - 32 years
after the Americans took over the airbase - they discovered that
dynamite had been buried under the runway in case it was overrun
by invading Germans. Despite the clean-up operation, Halt wrote,
"we never were completely sure that all the explosives had been
removed."

Sinski appeared after breakfast the following day, and we
settled down to talk. I asked why he had been apparently
unconscious in Larry Warren's landing-place, but he was annoyed
that I'd thought he might have been. "I had a very powerful
experience," he explained, "and I was recovering." He told me of
a message he had received while out in the field. He assured me
that, although it might not have meant much to someone like me,
there were people for whom it was of great importance. "I can
confirm that it is the greys out there, and that they are the
ones responsible for the abductions," he told me, in his quietly
compelling manner. "What they have been doing up until now has
been very, very bad. I learnt last night that they are changing
their ways."

In search of further guidance, I approached Reg Presley, lead
singer with the Sixties pop group The Troggs and now an expert
in the paranormal, and asked for his opinion of the Rendlesham
Incident. He was very interested in the case and said that they
were "all good sightings". Clearly not a man who had trouble
believing in the possibility of abductions, he even mentioned
his surgeon friend who removed pieces of alien hardware from
people's feet and hands. "You wouldn't believe what he took out
of them," he reflected, adding that the objects had "the
teeniest-weeniest little wires".

The MoD has finally made a decision on the airbase after its
nine years of neglect and has announced that two army regiments
will be moving in after a =A3100m refit. The soldiers may be
surprised at some of the visitors - alien and otherwise - they
receive outside the perimeter fence. "Once you start coming
here," Butler told me, "you can't keep away." For, although
Woodbridge's role as an airbase may have been in doubt, its
status as a UFO tourist shrine has never looked more assured.



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                      Billy Cox 'UFO Denials Never Die'

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Subject: Billy Cox 'UFO Denials Never Die'

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2002.12.03 22:09:01

UFO Denials Never Die
by
Billy Cox

Beneath the fictional guise of "Taken," the 20-hour UFO series
under way on cable's Sci-Fi Channel, is a rock-hard initiative
no one's been able to pull off in more than 30 years -- a
renewed government study of unidentified flying objects.

But a chat with Air Force veteran Bud Evans, 78, provides some
insights into the longstanding resistance to official candor.
Evans was on the front lines of the Cold War when, confronted
with state-of-the-art military hardware, the phenomenon
apparently replied with an ostentatious display of arrogance.

Now retired in Indialantic, Evans opens an old scrapbook and
turns to some aging newspaper articles with headlines such as
"P-51 Blows Up, Killing Hero Over Franklin" and "Chase for
Flying Disk Blamed in Crash Death." The only reason he saved
them, he says, is because he knew the pilot, Thomas Mantell,
when the two served briefly together in the Kentucky Air
National Guard.

Mantell's death in 1948 sparked the beginning of a controversial
Air Force inquiry into unidentified flying objects that ended
with the termination of Project Blue Book in 1969. Although
Mantell reported pursuing a metallic-looking object before he
presumably lost consciousness at 33,000 feet, the official
explanation was that he died chasing planet Venus -- in the
middle of the afternoon. When the Navy's high-altitude Skyhook
balloon project was declassified several years later, Skyhook
was substituted as the guilty culprit.

Either way, Evans never gave UFOs much thought until 1949, when
he was a flight commander with the 9th Fighter Squadron in
Misawa, Japan. Situated directly across from the Soviet Union,
the unit belonged to the 49th Fighter Group, which was replacing
its World War II-era P-51 Mustangs with brand-new F-80 jet
fighters. That's where Evans got scrambled after something that
appeared to be openly mocking American training exercises.

While vectoring toward an aerial gunnery target -- a 30-foot
long, 8-foot tall banner with bulls-eye markings, suspended by
an 800-foot cable from a P-51 tow ship -- two pilots making
separate approaches radioed, "We've got a target, but no tow
ship." Ground radar confirmed the unknown bogey and dispatched
Evans for a look-see, but the intruder disappeared before he
could reach it.

During debriefings, the pilots described the rectangular UFO as
three times the size of the gunnery target. Upon flanking this
broad, flat object no more than a few inches wide, they also
noted it resembled translucent glass, as they could see the
silhouettes of each other's planes on opposite sides. The thing
bolted forward suddenly, then "went straight up and out of
sight," Evans says.

Not long afterward at Misawa, with the band and honor guard
assembled in anticipation of the midmorning arrival of the Fifth
Air Force brass for a base inspection, a rectangular object
dropped in from the east and cruised directly above the runway.
"I knew as soon as I saw it that this is what the guys had seen
before, and it was right ahead of where the C-54 (ferrying the
headquarters team) was going to come," Evans recalls. "It was
quite large."

Although his recollections contrast somewhat with Evans, the
essential details of what Indian Harbour Beach resident Clyde
Good saw on Misawa match up. "It was coming in pretty slow, and
at first, we all thought it was a tow target, but we couldn't
see what was holding it up," says the 83-year-old, retired
lieutenant colonel.

"So I'm looking for its power source, and there were no props,
no jet engines, no visible means of propulsion, and it doesn't
make a sound. But it was definitely under the control of
somebody or something, because then it pulled straight up, like
a bat out of hell, and took off. Just disappeared."

Some time afterward, Evans and a wingman were scrambled by
ground radar to intercept an intruder flying at erratic speeds
over northern Hokkaido. Evans missed it, but his colleague, Lt.
James Harvey, reported it was a huge but thin, broad rectangle
that allowed him to get close enough for a good look before it
vanished in a blink, vertically, through the cloud cover.

What Evans and Good also agree on is the incidents were all
classified and eyewitnesses were ordered to shut up. But if
their Misawa encounters ever made it into the public domain,
neither Evans nor Good are aware of it.

"They all knew about it because they sent three, four people in
from FEAF (Far Eastern Air Forces) headquarters to interview
people and file their reports," says Good. "I'd sure like to
know more about it, because it was extraordinary, it was
something you never forget, and I'm not going to live forever.
But nobody ever talks about it. It's like everyone's in denial."

So, like, what's new?








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                  Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Tonnies

From: Mac Tonnies <macbot@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 16:26:22 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 19:28:48 -0500
Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Tonnies


 >From: Tom King <tomking2030@hotmail.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 23:03:45 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

<snip>

 >>It really is about time we put down the whole UFO-spaceship
 >>thing as part of the past; part of an old-fashioned view of the
 >>mysteries of space.

 >The only one hear that is delusional is this so-called
 >scientist. I'm sure he really did his UFO homework before he
 >wrote this garbage. If we need to get rid of anything it's that
 >cult called SETI. What a waste of money that 'science' is.

While I agree completely that this "scientist's" ideas about
UFOs are unfounded at best, I would argue that SETI and ufology
are not mutually exclusive.

=====
Mac Tonnies (macbot@yahoo.com)

Transcelestial Ontology and Postmillennial Studies
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                   Re: Security Classifications - Maccabee

From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 19:39:53 -0500
Fwd Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 08:23:53 -0500
Subject: Re: Security Classifications - Maccabee


 >From: Robert Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 01:43:31 EST
 >Subject: Re: Security Classifications

 >>From: Murray Bott <murrayb@win.co.nz>
 >>To: Updates List <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 18:20:15 +1300 (NZDT)
 >>Subject: Security Classifications [was: Frank Kaufman?]

<snip>

 >Go to:

 >http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/dl/U2Incident/MemConfDDEonNov241954.pdf

 >You will find a 1 page TS document with no control numbers.

I did look at this document. It is a memorandum of a meeting with
Eisenhower.

Amusing to find two 'familiar names' as an attendees:

Lt. General Charles Cabell
Gen. Nathan Twining

Any ufologist who doesn't recognize these names had better bone
up on his/ her history (read The UFO FBI Connection, for
example)

Also present were Allen, Dulles, General Putt, General Goodpaster)

This document indicated authorization to begin the process of
constructing the first U-2 plane.

Goodpaster wrote the memorandum... and he was a Bad Boy!

He (or someone) stamped Top Secret, at top and bottom but no
indication it was part of the military classification system (no
numbers). Hard to determine the year of declassification.







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                CI: Unusual Oval Formations Resemble Enormous

From: Mac Tonnies <macbot@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 17:45:07 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 08:25:25 -0500
Subject: CI: Unusual Oval Formations Resemble Enormous


Cydonian Imperative
12-4-02

Unusual Oval Formations Resemble Enormous "Eggs"
by Mac Tonnies

See: http://mactonnies.com/cydonia.html

The Mars Global Surveyor image below shows a number of highly
unusual formations that resemble partially buried eggs. This
image was forwarded to me as is; I've left the commentary on the
right side of the image intact.

[image]

While these formations appear quite singular in shape, their
placement is reminescent of features comprising the so- called
"Monolith Graveyard" discovered by the late Dean Wetmore (see
below). It's even possible that the new image is a close-up of
Wetmore's anomalies, in which case I'll clarify this point in a
forthcoming installment. (Unfortunately, Wetmore's website is
inactive, and I've been unable to establish whether or not these
are indeed the same features seen in far superior resolution. My
suspicion is that the photos represent two distinct regions.)

[image]

The Monolith Graveyard.

[image]

The "monoliths" reconstructed. Image courtesy John
Dyck.

It's unclear if the newly discovered features represent geology
or biology. The egg-like appearance certainly invites exotic
speculation. It's clear that these are not sand dunes in any
meaningful sense. It's conceivable that they're artificial
objects, although nothing in their arrangement points decisively
to an archaeological interpretation. (If the "eggs" were grouped
in pairs or positioned to form geometric shapes, for example,
artificial origin would be a major contending possibility.)

I hope to have more information on these novel
formations soon.

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                   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Young

From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 22:57:03 EST
Fwd Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 08:27:33 -0500
Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Young


 >From: Tom King <tomking2030@hotmail.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 23:03:45 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>To: - UFO UpDates Subscribers -
 >>Subject: UFO UpDate: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk
 >>Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 16:34:32 -0500

 >>Source: BBC OnLine

 >>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2538959.stm

<snip>

 >The only one hear that is delusional is this so-called
 >scientist. I'm sure he really did his UFO homework before he
 >wrote this garbage. If we need to get rid of anything it's that
 >cult called SETI. What a waste of money that 'science' is.

 >How much of our tax dollars
 >are thrown down the drain to these 9 to 5 scientists while us
 >broke tax payers are supposed to make the biggest discovery of
 >all time in our spare-time a few bucks?

Tom:

You should take your own advice and do your own homework before
you spout off.

According to the SETI website, at:

http://www.seti.org/

"Project Phoenix, the Earth's most comprehensive hunt for
extraterrestrial intelligence, has continued only through
private contributions".

 >It's the typical stuff you hear from a professional astronomer.

And your example is just another of the uninformed, anti-
government and anti-science rantings that we get from saucer
believers.


Clear skies,

Bob Young

"Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk" - Curley Howard, "Men in Black", 1934.







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                 Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Maccabee

From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 23:13:08 -0500
Fwd Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 08:29:09 -0500
Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Maccabee



 >Source: BBC OnLine

 >http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2538959.stm

 >Tuesday, 3 December, 2002, 14:32 GMT

 >'Why I believe UFOs are bunk'

 >Government papers suggest that details of a "UFO scare" in
 >Suffolk in 1980 were suppressed in order to avoid public panic.
 >BBC News Online Science Editor Dr David Whitehouse says we
 >should abandon the UFO "myth".

 >UFOs in the sense of unexplained lights in the sky certainly
 >exist.

 >But flying saucers, that is, alien spacecraft, never have.

 >It really is about time we put down the whole UFO-spaceship
t>hing as part of the past; part of an old-fashioned view of the
 >mysteries of space.

 >At best, they were a delusion, wishful thinking by some who
 >didn't want to know better.

 >At worst they were, in some instances, a con as unscrupulous
 >people exploited others.

 >We have had UFOs for more than 50 years now. During that time,
 >we are supposed to have had innumerable sightings of alien craft
 >in our atmosphere, numerous encounters with strange beings as
 >well as a great many abductions.

 >Fuzzy logic

 >And what have we got to show for it? Remarkably little - a few
 >amazing stories told by those who claim to have been witnesses
 >and abductees, as well as a fuzzy photographs and videos, and of
 >course, lots of fakes.

 >Is it not strange that of all the photos and film shot of UFOs
 >are poor and inadequate. You might have thought that at least
 >one of them would be a close-up and in focus.

Obviously Whitehouse knows little about the subject.  Here he is
caught in circular logic

IF there were real UFOs there would be some clear photos of
UFOs. There are clear photos of objects reported to be UFOs but,
of course, they are fakes.

Therefore there are no clear photos of UFOs.

Therefore there are no UFOs.

If ever real UFOs appear there will be some clear photos of
UFOs. (But if any such photos appear they will turn out to be
fakes..... etc.)

I believe Whitehouse's article is bunk.








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                    Vice-Presidential UFO Letter Surfaces

From: Grant Cameron <presidentialufo@presidency.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 23:41:37 -0500
Fwd Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 08:31:17 -0500
Subject: Vice-Presidential UFO Letter Surfaces


A new, Vice-President Johnson, UFO letter has surfaced. This is
one of a couple rare White House UFO letters in existence. The
September 21, 1961 letter was addressed to Canadian UFO
researcher Ronald Anstee.

Anstee, who told me years back about the letter, lent the
original to someone in Europe and never got it back. The Johnson
library provided a copy of the letter from their files.

www.presidentialufo.com/johnson_pictures.htm

One more Vice President Johnson letter may have been found and
will be posted when confirmed. It like the first letter deals
with flying saucer contactee George Adamski.


Grant Cameron

www.presidentialufo.com/news_update.htm








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                 Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Deardorff

From: Jim Deardorff <deardorj@proaxis.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 22:17:57 -0800
Fwd Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 08:33:23 -0500
Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Deardorff


 >From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 14:44:46 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case

 >>From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
 >>To: UFO UpDates <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 07:19:49 -0700
 >>Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case

 >>>From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 13:47:08 -0500
 >>>Subject: Defining An Abduction Case

 >><snip>

 >>>In hopes of starting a fruit-bearing discussion on the subject
 >>>of defining UFO abduction cases, I offer the following:

 >><snip>

 >>>We need an investigation that will 'hopefully' provide a few
 >>>answers that can be relied on to one degree or another. As it
 >>>stands now, we know _nothing_ and we have no prospects of
 >>>learning anything new in the near future. We haven't even taken
 >>>the time to work out a set of diagnostic criteria that will help
 >>>to define an 'abduction' case.

 >>Over a year ago I offered to begin a Baseline for abduction
 >>research. I asked one question addressed to all abductees on
 >>this List to answer it in a private email to me and that I would
 >>correlate and make recommendations from those replies on how the
 >>baseline should be presented and then go from there. I received
 >>a total of 1 response from an abductee. Because of this I
 >>decided not to involve my self or my time in abduction research.
 >>But, I still take the abduction scenario as a serious research
 >>avenue by those who pursue it.

 >I will see what I can do about presenting everyone with a set of
 >criteria that will help to define the elements of of a 'UFO'
 >abduction case. Maybe it'll help to reduce the noise level to
 >the point where more salient cases involving multiple witnesses
 >and physical evidence can be focused upon by the larger research
 >community. I'll keep you (and the List) posted.

Hello John,

Excuse me for chiming in, I just wish to remind you that you
needn't feel you're starting from scratch here. One "standard"
in this endeavor that you could try to beat is the one set forth
by Budd, Dave Jacobs and Ron Westrum in that 1992(?) Roper poll.
There, the 5 key characteristics they settled for as being
components of a good many abduction events are:

(1) waking up paralyzed with the sense of a strange figure or
presence in the room;

(2) experiencing a period of an hour or more of lost time;

(3) experiencing yourself moving or flying through the air
without knowing how or why;

(4) seeing unusual, unexplained lights or balls of light in a
room; and

(5) discovering puzzling scars on your body without knowing how
they were acquired.

In "science," you build on what came before, which in this
example is the _Unusual Personal Experiences_ booklet put out by
the Bigelow holding Corp in 1992. Perhaps there are better
starting points? They were going from the specific to the
general, but perhaps you'd wish to just get a satisfactory
general definition.


Regards,

Jim







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                               CI: Disclaimer!

From: Mac Tonnies <macbot@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 22:25:43 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 08:34:39 -0500
Subject: CI: Disclaimer!


Cydonian Imperative
12-5-02

http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/e01_e06/images/E03/E0300157.html


http://ida.wr.usgs.gov/html/e03001/e0300157.html

See image at: http://mactonnies.com/cydonia.html

Shortly after writing the previous piece, perusal of the MSSS
source image (see links above) revealed that the "eggs" are less
than spectacular. The anonymous image posted on the Cydonian
Imperative site may be a deliberate deception, although I doubt
it; the terrain is remarkably amenable to visual "flip-flopping"
(the same perceptual trick that can make craters appear dome-
shaped).

The "egg" image is processed in a way that strongly suggests
convex, egg-shaped features, fooling several experienced
viewers. Chalk this 'discovery' up to Mars' exotic geology,
coupled with some rather misleading image processing. My
apologies for the false alarm.

--Mac








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                      Re: Abductions & Ufology - Hebert

From: Amy Hebert <yellowrose129@attbi.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 01:34:11 -0600
Fwd Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 08:37:26 -0500
Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology - Hebert


 >From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 21:04:35 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >>From: Amy Hebert <yellowrose129@attbi.com>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 00:31:40 -0600
 >>Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >>>From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 21:49:03 +0000
 >>>Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >>>>From: Greg Sandow <greg@gregsandow.com>
 >>>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>>Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 16:58:08 -0500
 >>>>Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >>Just wondering... how did you determine the two were "basket
 >>cases" and what instruments did you use to determine a "very
 >>high percentage" were "entirely sane and grounded individuals"?

 >Using my observational powers and knowledge of psychology and
 >human behavior based on being Senior Abstracts Editor for the
 >American Psychological Association. It doesn't take a
 >professional to recognize people who are having difficulty
 >functioning as human beings and whose behavior and vocalizations
 >are bizarre.

Hi, Dick:

Let me see if I understand what you are saying. You determined
the two claimed abductees you worked with were "basket cases"
based on your observational powers and knowledge of psychology
you learned through reading abstracts for the American
Psychological Association? Further, you claim it doesn't take a
professional to recognize those who are dysfunctional? (I'm not
repeating you or myself, I'm summarizing.)

Good Lord! You mean I wasted 6 years of my life studying,
training and practicing (and learning to write not just
psychological abstracts but also the research and reports that
go with them) to become a psychotherapist for nothing?! It never
occurred to me that all I had to do to pass those exams and earn
those degrees was to read a bunch of abstracts. Sure wish
someone had told me this _before_ I did all that work. <wink>

Next time you have a pain in your neck, Dick, or severe
headaches, don't worry about seeing a professional. Just find
someone who has read a lot of medical abstracts and have them
diagnose your maladies. Why dish out all that money for a
professional? Who needs 'em?

Usually when someone tells me "it doesn't take a professional",
they don't have the necessary degrees or training in the area
they are addressing. Do you have a degree in psychology, Dick?

 >I always worked (past tense; I no longer work with
 >abductees except superficially with referral information)
 >professional psychologists, one of whom was discussed at some
 >length in my posting to Greg Sandow on this list. No evdience
 >was found of any serious psychopathology.

As I said before, lack of evidence of serious psychopathology
does not mean someone is beyond fabricating their experiences.
Well adjusted people can think they have been abducted even
though they weren't. Have you watched TV lately, Dick?

With all the programs about UFOs and abduction scenarios on TV,
at the movies, etc. I'd be surprised if people were _not_
associating various odd experiences in their past with aliens
and flying saucers. It doesn't mean they were abducted. It means
the media can and does influence some people to believe they
were abducted when they were not. If a mere Halloween radio
program can convince people to go out and shoot anything that
moves, it doesn't take much to convince some people they have
been abducted.

Even professional psychologists may find themselves at a loss
when it comes to abduction phenomena. There are no criteria for
working with claimed abductees. Most of it is being made up as
we go. There are no tests that can establish, beyond doubt, that
someone is telling the truth. There are no surveys that can
determine who is more likely to be a genuine abductee and who is
not. In the end, it all boils down to a matter of opinion,
professional and otherwise.

It takes more than just interviewing and/or hypnotizing people
who claim to have been abducted to get an idea of just how
bizarre this phenomenon really is. Sometimes it means getting up
in the middle of the night and going to be with someone who
calls you on the phone nearly hysterical because they see beings
creeping down the hall (with objects hovering nearby and burn
marks in the yard)... again. Sometimes it means touching the
scars up and down their legs where they dug implants out of
their legs with a knife to let them know you are not afraid of
their fear. And sometimes it means returning, day after day, to
listen to their stories even though you see little balls of
light darting through the walls when all you really want to do
is get the hell out of there.

It takes a lot of compassion to understand what these people
must be going through. Once you have encountered the more
physical aspects of these phenomena, you no longer focus on
hypnotic regressions or taped interviews. Once you actually see
phenomena manifest before you, writing books is the least of
your concerns. And once you encounter phenomena up close and in
person, you learn what it means to be really terrified. (Now you
know why I stopped doing abduction research. That and the lack
of support even among those of the abduction community.

There is a lack of scientific research in this area mainly
because few people are willing to put their claims to the test.
If you question or probe, you're not believing every word they
say and therefore, not doing research. Catch 22. )

 >>Furthermore, how did you distinguish which ones were genuine
 >>abductees and which ones were not?

 >I never said I did. The term "genuine abductee" is not that
 >meaningful to me. If a person thinks or suspects they have been
 >abducted and it is causing them problems, I am nonjudgmental
 >about whether it "really" happened.

It didn't matter to you whether or not they had actually had the
experiences they claimed? There is a difference between being
open minded and being nonjudgmental. You keep an open mind while
looking for evidence to indicate the truth. Somewhere along the
line you have to decide whether you think they have been
abducted or not, based on the evidence. Otherwise you might go
around claiming to have worked with dozens or hundreds of
abductees even though you never really knew who had been
abducted and who only claimed to have been abducted but were
not.

 >>I know you, like many others, are only trying to help but what
 >>if even ten were not genuine abductees but rather suffering from
 >>delusions or some other types of encounters with the unknown?
 >>What kind of 'support' will these individuals find in your
 >>support group or as part of your research?

 >If they were suffering from delusions, probably no help at all.
 >But I am not unsophisticated about recognizing possibly
 >delusional people.

That's right, you read psychological abstracts about human
behavior.

 >>It may be all well and good to provide some kind of help for
 >>those experiencing abductions but what may be happening to those
 >>who are treated as abductees but are not? Do you have any idea
 >>of the amount of suffering caused for those who experience
 >>phenomena in their lives and are labeled as "abductees" when no
 >>one really knows what's going on?
 >
 >This is another of many false premises on your part. I never
 >labelled anyone anything or suggested to anyone that they had
 >been abducted by aliens. (Read "Testing Reality".) I always
 >emphasized that "no one really knows what's going on."\

How about restating some of your contentions here? (I'd love to
read your "Testing Reality" but couldn't find it on the
internet. Is it posted someplace convenient for all to read?)

 >>I do. I've experienced various kinds of phenomena since
 >>childhood. When I began seeking answers 10 years ago, I was sent
 >>to several types of support groups. In each group, I was told
 >>the phenomena I experienced was this or that and labeled
 >>according to whatever the group was into at the time. Of course,
 >>when I joined an 'experiencer' support group, everyone was
 >>certain I was an abductee although I kept insisting that I had
 >>no memories of having ever been abducted. Their answer for this
 >>was that I had no memories because...the memories had been
 >>erased or 'blocked' when I was abducted. Of course.

 >That was very bad practice on their part, something I cautioned
 >against in "Testing Reality."

Sadly, not everyone has read your article, Dick.

 >>I finally left the group. Later I heard my departure was blamed
 >>on the "aliens" controlling me and blocking me from seeking the
 >>truth (which was usually used to explain the loss of any group
 >>member).

 >I'm glad you posted this because it confirms what I have been
 >warning people about all along. I am aware of many exmaples of
 >harmful effects on people reporting abductions by opinionated,
 >unscientific would-be investigators.

I, on the other hand, am aware of many examples of so-called
scientific, would-be investigators and researchers who have
caused great harm to various individuals who claimed to have
been abducted. I have had numerous discussions with LPC's who
have written books on their "work" with abductees and who never
distinguished between those who may have been delusional and
those who may have had genuine abduction encounters. Many times
so-called investigators, researchers and yes, even therapists,
interview people who claim to have been abducted just to gather
enough cases to write about in their next book. If you think
this is not wide-spread, think again.

 >>Dick, I know you are only trying to help but ask yourself if you
 >>are qualified to help when no one really knows what is going on.
 >>If even one of the individuals in your support group and/or
 >>research is not really an abductee, what harm might you (and
 >>others) be doing in the long run?

 >You're repeating yourself.

Yes, Dick, I do this to make a point sometimes. But no need to
worry, Mr. Editor, I do not use this psyco-literary tool when I
write abstracts and research. ;>

 >No group, no assumptions about the
 >nature of reported abductions, no planting of ideas in their
 >heads, no harm done.

You hope.

Nice talking with you, Dick.

Amy








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                  Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Bowden

From: Tom Bowden <tomrbowden@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 00:21:16 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 11:48:00 -0500
Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Bowden


 >From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 22:24:25 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>To: - UFO UpDates Subscribers -
 >>Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 16:34:32 -0500
 >>Subject: UFO UpDate: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>Source: BBC OnLine

 >http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2538959.stm

 >>Tuesday, 3 December, 2002, 14:32 GMT

 >>'Why I believe UFOs are bunk'

 >>Government papers suggest that details of a "UFO scare" in
 >>Suffolk in 1980 were suppressed in order to avoid public panic.
 >>BBC News Online Science Editor Dr David Whitehouse says we
 >>should abandon the UFO "myth".

 >>UFOs in the sense of unexplained lights in the sky certainly
 >>exist.

 >>But flying saucers, that is, alien spacecraft, never have.

 >>It really is about time we put down the whole UFO-spaceship
 >>thing as part of the past; part of an old-fashioned view of the
 >>mysteries of space.

 >>At best, they were a delusion, wishful thinking by some who
 >>didn't want to know better.

 >>At worst they were, in some instances, a con as unscrupulous
 >>people exploited others.

 >>We have had UFOs for more than 50 years now. During that time,
 >>we are supposed to have had innumerable sightings of alien craft
 >>in our atmosphere, numerous encounters with strange beings as
 >>well as a great many abductions.

 >>Fuzzy logic

 ><snip>

 >Well, he obviously is an ill-informed, faithist debunker who
 >undoubtedly has never investigated a single substantial case nor
 >read any of the serious literature by people who have, instead
 >adopting the "fuzzy logic" of his kind who use "mythology" as a
 >convenient excuse to avoid the issues.


What this science writer needs is a good abduction experience --
  without the amnesia. But is there really such a thing as a
"good" abduction experience?


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                           Miniature UFO Sighting

From: Larry Hatch <larry@LARRYHATCH.NET>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 00:31:45 -0800
Fwd Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 11:52:25 -0500
Subject: Miniature UFO Sighting


Hello all:

I just got the message below thru my website. It has an air of
sincerity to it as you will see, and a curious feature, new to
me, which encouraged me to write back for more details.....

"Going threw the mountains of B.C. summer of 1973 in a VW van,
with friend whose Grandfather was an insurance inspector for the
railroad, Glen had all these neet places to see and relate too
as far as railways are concerned. Well, one nite up in the high
mountains it was getting dark, so we decided to find somewhere
to sleep.

Great stars and mountain views everywhere, decided to sleep
outside of the van. It was we we hours of the night when I
decided to get up and pee. Standing away from the area where
Glen and I had camped, Glen being over about 25 feet away from
where I was, I looked over and around and to my amazament there
was a small kind of almost like an oil platform [those huge kind
in the North Sea].

It was miniture ,about 2 feet by 2.5 feet by 2 feet high , there
I was starring into it with total recall, smoke and lights and
all kinds of devices working on it and in it, this is what it
seemed to appear to be doing ,or at least appearing to doing
something that I do not know what, it wa truely the one sighting
that, to this day I just can't understand what it was.....

Does This Sound Familliar To You In Any Way????

We were outside of Golden area of British Columbia in the high mts.

Thanks for your great siite, reading is a pleasure. If you need
more details please e-mail <on.the.edge@(deleted -LH)>

"- Michael and Nancy "

- - - -

Well, none of this sounded at all familiar to me. I wrote back
asking if there were any moving parts: wheels, levers etc. which
might give further clues. I haven't gotten any response to that
yet.

I must add that the return email address <on.the.edge@xxxx> does
not inspire confidence. Regardless, does anybody know of a
sighting much like this one? A miniature oil platform working
away (hovering?) near some campsite in the Canadian Rockies?
That's a new one on me.


Best

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                            UK Government Secrecy

From: Joe McGonagle <joe@ufology.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 10:07:29 -0000
Fwd Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 11:54:46 -0500
Subject: UK Government Secrecy


Although this story is unrelated to UFOs directly, it is a
strong example of the lengths which the UK Government will go to
in order to protect what it regards as sensitive information.

[Extract from the Guardian newspaper website]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,853957,00.html

"MoD secures gag as agent sues

Richard Norton-Taylor
Thursday December 5, 2002
The Guardian

The Ministry of Defence has obtained a sweeping injunction
preventing the media from disclosing allegations made by a
former agent for British military intelligence in Northern
Ireland"

More details of the case in question can be found at:

http://cryptome.org/fru-claimant2.htm

but you may need to be quick, I expect the UK Government will be
seeking a U.S. injunction to remove the page.

I have verified with the solicitors firm that they are
representing Samuel Jay Rosenfeld in a case against the MOD this
morning. I have also validated the name and address of Samuel
Jay Rosenfeld by checking the telephone directory and I can
confirm that a Brigadier Peter Everson is listed as being
employed at the Defence Intelligence and Security Centre at RAF
Chicksands as the Chief Executive.


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                       Man Abducted In Brazil - Hoax!

From: Thiago Luiz Ticchetti <thiagolt@opengate.com.br>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 09:50:53 -0200
Fwd Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 12:23:39 -0500
Subject: Man Abducted In Brazil - Hoax!


Please my friends, this is very important.


Thiago Luiz Ticchetti
Vice-Presidente da Entidade Brasileira de Estudos Extraterrestres (EBE-ET)
Bras=EDlia/Brasil

www.ebe-et.com.br

-----

From: A. J. Gevaerd (Revista UFO)
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 8:01 PM
Subject: Man Abducted In Brazil - HOAX

Dear friends:

Please let everybody know that this is a campaign to promote the
biggest UFO hoaxer of all times in Brazil, Urandir Fernandes de
Oliveira, who has actually created a sect of fanatics around
him, composed of people who blindly believe in his alleged ET
contacts and healing powers, none of them ever confirmed.

The man has been repeatedly exposed as hoaxer and many people
from his sect, after waking up to reality, have come forward to
describe Urandir's tricks. His last great attempt to go public
in Brazil and overseas happened last year, when he invented that
a UFO had crashed at his friend's farm. It was only another of
his hoaxes, perpetrated to attract people to his activities, to
which they are invited to join if they pay a considerable amount
of money. His history is all fake and the man is fastly becoming
a millionaire with his obscure agenda, supported by thousands of
fanatics. Urandir is largely rejected by 99% of the Brazilian
UFO Community, who perfectly knows that he is nothing but a
hoaxer. This story bellow is NOT to be taken seriously, as no
responsible UFO researcher has been allowed to scrutinize the
scenario and the alleged case.

A. J. Gevaerd,
Editor, Brazilian UFO Magazine
gevaerd@ufo.com.br

-----

http://rense.com/general32/abduct.htm

Man Abducted In Brazil -
Amazing Photos Of Scene
By Felipe Castelo Branco
11-29-2

Note - All Photos And Text Copyright 2002-03 Felipe Castelo Branco
All Rights Reserved. May Not Be Reproduced
Without Specific Written Permission


Hello Jeff....I would like to share a couple of photos of the
traces found after an abduction took place in a farm house near
the city of Campo Grande, about 1300 kilometers nothwest of Rio
de Janeiro. The event was witnessed by 28 people present in the
farm (I was there as well), who saw the big "disc of light"
(maybe 50 meters in diameter) hover silently above the house
about 100 meters high... then the disc shot down a blueish beam
of light on the house and "abducted" a man who was lying on his
bed. This was around 8:00 pm and when we broke in the bedroom,
there was this intense ozone smell. We were all very amazed to
have witnessed such a phenomena. The man who was abducted
returned after 48 hours and had a lot to say about his
experience (it was his 3rd abduction). Our group has been
studying the UFO phenomena in this area for the past 6 years.


Regards,

Felipe










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                   Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Houran

From: Jim Houran <JHouran@siumed.edu>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 07:41:14 -0600
Fwd Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 12:39:08 -0500
Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Houran


 >From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 14:44:46 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case

 >I will see what I can do about presenting everyone with a set of
 >criteria that will help to define the elements of of a 'UFO'
 >abduction case. Maybe it'll help to reduce the noise level to
 >the point where more salient cases involving multiple witnesses
 >and physical evidence can be focused upon by the larger research
 >community. I'll keep you (and the List) posted.



Hi, all:

Probably the best way to conceptualize a baseline (i.e., core)
abduction experience is to apply Rasch scaling techniques to the
responses of 'genuine' abductees and those who are not genuine.

As I and several co-authors have shown repeatedly in peer-
reviewed, published studies on NDEs, haunt-poltergeist
experiences, paranormal belief and experiences, transliminality,
and even celebrity worshippers, Rasch scaling can determine if
there is a core probabilistic hierarchy of events that underlies
all genuine experiences and which is not tainted by extarneous
sources of error, such as age, gender, or even culture-based
response biases.

Rasch analyses can also determine if the 'dis-genuine abductees
interpret questions differently than genuine abductees.

If anyone is interested in pursuing this, I would be happy to
facilitate these analyses, as long as I had access to a large (N
around 300) database of 'genuine' versus 'dis-genuine' abductees
in order to administer certain questions.


Best Wishes,

Jim Houran








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                       Taken Comes To The BBC In 2003

From: Philip Mantle <philipmantle@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:13:10 -0000
Fwd Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 12:45:59 -0500
Subject: Taken Comes To The BBC In 2003


You might be interested to know that the 10 episode TV mini-
series 'Taken', produced by Steven Spielberg, will be screened
on BBC 2 the second week of January 2003. This epic series deals
entirely with alien abductions and is already going down great
guns in the USA.


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                   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - King

From: Tom King <tomking2030@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 15:56:55 +0000
Fwd Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 12:51:00 -0500
Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - King


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 22:57:03 EST
 >Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>From: Tom King <tomking2030@hotmail.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 23:03:45 +0000
 >>Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>>From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>To: - UFO UpDates Subscribers -
 >>>Subject: UFO UpDate: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk
 >>>Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 16:34:32 -0500

 >>>Source: BBC OnLine

 >>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2538959.stm

 ><snip>

 >>The only one hear that is delusional is this so-called
 >>scientist. I'm sure he really did his UFO homework before he
 >>wrote this garbage. If we need to get rid of anything it's that
 >>cult called SETI. What a waste of money that 'science' is.

 >>How much of our tax dollars
 >>are thrown down the drain to these 9 to 5 scientists while us
 >>broke tax payers are supposed to make the biggest discovery of
 >>all time in our spare-time a few bucks?

 >Tom:

 >You should take your own advice and do your own homework before
 >you spout off.

 >According to the SETI website, at:

 >http://www.seti.org/

 >"Project Phoenix, the Earth's most comprehensive hunt for
 >extraterrestrial intelligence, has continued only through
 >private contributions".


Bob:

FYI, for a long time they were funded by tax dollars. Thank God
that waste of money stopped. Of course the cult that listens to
radio noise will debunk every single UFO photo/video,
eyewitness. Because if any of these clowns admitts UFOs could
already be here. Than they would be out of a job now wouldn't
they? Conflict of interest for these people to support any
research outside of their own project.

 >>It's the typical stuff you hear from a professional astronomer.

 >And your example is just another of the uninformed, anti-
 >government and anti-science rantings that we get from saucer
 >believers.

It's clear you don't know what you're talking about! How do you
know I don't work for the government? You label me anti-
government because I think our money is wasted on SETI? I'm
anti-science because I think our money is wasted on SETI? The
SETI cult is not science there is no proof any of what their
doing could work.

While people like you sit and around and wait for astronomers to
give official word of alien existence, the rest of us don't
really care for their opinion. It figures you would stick up for
this guy, it speaks volumes about you.


Tom King
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                    Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais

From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 17:19:26 +0100
Fwd Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 12:54:21 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais


 >From: Jim Houran <JHouran@siumed.edu>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 13:26:04 -0600
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 18:40:18 -0400
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol. com>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 20:16:13 EST
 >>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers. com>
 >>>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net>
 >>>>Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 18:20:30 -0400
 >>>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>>>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol. com>
 >>>>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net
 >>>>>Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 20:23:13 EST
 >>>>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>>>>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers. com>
 >>>>>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net>
 >>>>>>Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 22:37:20 -0400
 >>>>>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufman?

<snip>

 >I would like to know, from anyone on the List, which
 >eyewitnesses from the Roswell case are actually deemed reliable
 >and whose testimony is open to scrutiny.

 >To make this clear, I would greatly appreciate a list of
 >witnesses who are identified and whose testimony is documented
 >clearly (and dated) and which is available publicly.

 >Lastly, have the tapes of the hypnosis sessions of Jesse Marcel,
 >Jr. which were facilitated by Kent Jeffrey been made public?

To Jim Houran, Kevin, Stan and the List

First, regarding the tapes:

In the MUFON UFO Journal of January 1998, Robert Durant wrote
that he "was among a handful of ufologists to whom Mr Jeffrey
sent copies of the video tapes". But several days later he
"received a telephone call from Mr Jeffrey abruptly requesting
that I return the tapes".

He complied the same day without making a copy, as requested.
So you should ask now Mr Kent Jeffrey, presumably.

But you have a full report by Robert Durant in three issues of
the Mufon Journal (Jan. to March 1998) answering the previous
paper of Kent Jeffrey, in the Mufon Journal of July 1997, and
thorougly contradicting it. And convincingly, in my opinion!

I met with Dr Marcel in Dec. 1997, and he told me something like
this : "I don't understand Kent. I know what I saw and they were
extraordinary fragments".

Regarding the reliability of certain Roswell witnesses, I would
like to risk some remarks.

First, congratulations to Kevin Randle and Mark Rodegheir for
their outstanding article in IUR, which I just read on the CUFOS
web site.

A question which troubles me is the possibility that some
witnesses may have been sincere at first but may have become
unreliable later. For what reason ? First, the desire to boost
their story. This might be the case for Jim Ragsdale. But there
may be other reasons!

Another one could be pressure for commercial reasons (Ragsdale
again). But there might be yet another reason : pressure from
people in charge of protecting the secret.

The first example is, of course, William McBrazel, with two
stories, the second one under military escort, with some details
such as the weight of the debris : less than five pounds! Are
there other witnesses of that kind ?

I noted with interest that Kevin, in his IUR article on Kaufmann,
recalled that "He always picked up the check, claiming that someone
else paid for it. The implication was that the government was
watching and Frank was just doing his job".
Well, what kind of job was he doing ?

This reminds me of what John Carpenter, whom I met in Laughlin in
march 2000, told me about Gerald Anderson. He had met him
recently and Anderson was in excellent health and mood. His
attitude was the one of a man satisfied to have done his job well.
Carpenter was the hypnotherapist who had regressed Anderson
and who had supported him during several years. Now he was
convinced that he had played a role.

A question remains : could he have given, maybe like Kaufmann
and even Ragsdale, some true information, cleverly mixed with
lies ? The trick is then to make a very interesting story, but
which will be discredited sooner or later. I suspect two
possiblez scenarios here : "amplifying disinformation", or
gradual release of information, under tight control.

The cas of Glenn Dennis might be yet another one. He would have
tolf the truth basically, but proitected the identity of the
nurse. He may also have had his memory somewhat mixed up, after
forty years. I already noted in a previous post :

Regarding Glenn Dennis and the "missing nurse", I am perplexed
by the information given about Eilen Fanton, both in the
"Roswell Report. Case Closed" (pages 82-83), and by Karl Pflock
in his last book, at pages 138-139.

She seems to correspond on several points to the description
made by Glenn Dennis. Could it be that at least part of his
original story was accurate ? Or is there a solid argument
against that, apart from the false name Naomi Selff ?

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                   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Velez

From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:32:34 -0500
Fwd Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 12:57:48 -0500
Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Velez


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 22:57:03 EST
 >Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>From: Tom King <tomking2030@hotmail.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 23:03:45 +0000
 >>Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>>From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>To: - UFO UpDates Subscribers -
 >>>Subject: UFO UpDate: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk
 >>>Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 16:34:32 -0500

 >>>Source: BBC OnLine

 >>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2538959.stm

 ><snip>

 >>The only one hear that is delusional is this so-called
 >>scientist. I'm sure he really did his UFO homework before he
 >>wrote this garbage. If we need to get rid of anything it's that
 >>cult called SETI. What a waste of money that 'science' is.

Hola Young Bob, Tom, All,

Tom wrote:

 >>How much of our tax dollars
 >>are thrown down the drain to these 9 to 5 scientists while us
 >>broke tax payers are supposed to make the biggest discovery of
 >>all time in our spare-time a few bucks?

Bob responds:

 >Tom:

 >You should take your own advice and do your own homework before
 >you spout off.

 >According to the SETI website, at:

 >http://www.seti.org/

 >"Project Phoenix, the Earth's most comprehensive hunt for
 >extraterrestrial intelligence, has continued only through
 >private contributions".

Which only serves to strengthen/make Tom's original point! Dr.
Michio Kaku (who is a shade smarter than the three of us put
together) made the same point Tom made in his presentation at
the GWU symposium regarding the government funding of UFO
research.

On a personal note: as a contributing tax-payer I'd rather see
some of my tax dollars go into 'formal' UFO research projects as
opposed to; spending it on another crate of $200. a-piece
hammers or 'another' destructive weapon that is only intended to
kill off human beings.

Some of the best and brightest we have, assembled in DC and
called for the investigation of the UFO phenomenon. Get with the
program Bob. Your thinking on the UFO phenom is stuck in the
paleolithic age.

 >>It's the typical stuff you hear from a professional astronomer.

 >And your example is just another of the uninformed, anti-
 >government and anti-science rantings that we get from saucer
 >believers.

No, it wasn't. Tom made a good and valid point. It is only your
myopia regarding anything connected to the UFO question that
prevents you from seeing the validity of his comments yourself.

Your own comments are the kind of dogmatic, 'I have all the
answers' 'the earth is flat' kind of knee-jerk response that we
are used to getting from intellectually constipated skeptics
with a thinking disorder.

 >Clear skies,

Clear the prejudice and cobwebs from your head!

 >"Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk"

Never forget Bob, as the great Stooge himself once intoned; "He
who nyuks last, nyuks best! :)


Regards,

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                   Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Velez

From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:49:39 -0500
Fwd Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 12:59:43 -0500
Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Velez


 >From: Bill Hamilton <skyman22@fastmail.fm>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 06:24:21 -0800
 >Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case

 >>From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 13:47:08 -0500
 >>Subject: Defining An Abduction Case

 >>Hello All,

 >>In hopes of starting a fruit-bearing discussion on the subject
 >>of defining UFO abduction cases, I offer the following:

 >>'Something' has been happening to me and to many others for all
 >>of our lives. 'Something' involving "UFOs" and their occupants.
 >>(Whoever or whatever they may be.) There are enough physical
 >>components to the phenomena to justify the serious consideration
 >>of serious, thoughtful people. There are enough of those people
 >>on this List. Enough to help to resolve the contentious issue of
 >>'what' defines an abduction case.

 >>To kick things off, I'd like to suggest the details surrounding
 >>the Betty and Barney Hill case as a starting point.

 >>1. Two people who were awake (conscious) and on their way home
 >>encounter an "unidentified" aerial object/phenomena.

 >>2. The 'UFO sighting' is one where there is close proximity to
 >>the object and the event 'seems' to be focused on the
 >>individuals involved.

 >>3. There is contact/interaction with the occupants of the "UFO."

 >All 3 of the above fit my experience with Pamela in March 1993
 >on Highway 375 in Nevada, yet to this day I am unsure of what
 >transpired.

 >John, this is what I have attempted to do to strengthen the
 >signal from all the noise. I think we need to start with the
 >cataloging of encounter cases from the CE-3 level where humanoid
 >occupants have been sighted in the vicinity of landed craft and
 >classify the details. Next, the CE-4 experiences like the 3-
 >point one above. Last on my list would be bedroom visits only
 >or recalled dreams. Then, any CE-5/CE-4/CE-3 combo where humans
 >have initiated an encounter event.

 >Also, documenting of any and all physical traces or physical
 >evidence.

 >Patterns are important as well. The astounding Brazil abduction
 >on Rense's sight is out-of-pattern and is now denounced as a
 >hoax. Reed's story was like that. Consistency of pattern is
 >important, but we must also recognize changes in pattern or
 >consistent departures from it.

 >Whatever we have after a solid study is the core of the evidence
 >which could be very convincing.

 >At some stage we need to go beyond some conclusion about the
 >reality and nature of these abductions and find out who? what?
 >why?


Hi Bill, All,

I agree wholeheartedly with everything you said, Bill. I'm going
to try to take this on because it needs doing. Apparently if I
don't do it myself, it'll never materialize. Would anybody
interested in making a contribution please forward your thoughts
and suggestions to my private e-mail address.

This undertaking should rightfully be one that reflects an
'informed' consensus. Several List members have already made
some sound suggestions. I will be contacting some of you
(privately) for help with this important task.


Thanks to all,

John Velez







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                  Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Ledger

From: Don Ledger <dledger@ns.sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 13:17:33 -0400
Fwd Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 13:02:25 -0500
Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Ledger


 >From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 23:13:08 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>Source: BBC OnLine

 >>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2538959.stm

 >>Tuesday, 3 December, 2002, 14:32 GMT

 >>'Why I believe UFOs are bunk'

 >>Government papers suggest that details of a "UFO scare" in
 >>Suffolk in 1980 were suppressed in order to avoid public panic.
 >>BBC News Online Science Editor Dr David Whitehouse says we
 >>should abandon the UFO "myth".

 >>UFOs in the sense of unexplained lights in the sky certainly
 >>exist.

 >>But flying saucers, that is, alien spacecraft, never have.

 >>It really is about time we put down the whole UFO-spaceship
 >t>hing as part of the past; part of an old-fashioned view of the
 >>mysteries of space.
 >
 >>At best, they were a delusion, wishful thinking by some who
 >>didn't want to know better.
 >
 >>At worst they were, in some instances, a con as unscrupulous
 >>people exploited others.
 >
 >>We have had UFOs for more than 50 years now. During that time,
 >>we are supposed to have had innumerable sightings of alien craft
 >>in our atmosphere, numerous encounters with strange beings as
 >>well as a great many abductions.
 >
 >>Fuzzy logic
 >
 >>And what have we got to show for it? Remarkably little - a few
 >>amazing stories told by those who claim to have been witnesses
 >>and abductees, as well as a fuzzy photographs and videos, and of
 >>course, lots of fakes.

 >>Is it not strange that of all the photos and film shot of UFOs
 >>are poor and inadequate. You might have thought that at least
 >>one of them would be a close-up and in focus.

 >Obviously Whitehouse knows little about the subject.  Here he is
 >caught in circular logic

 >IF there were real UFOs there would be some clear photos of
 >UFOs. There are clear photos of objects reported to be UFOs but,
 >of course, they are fakes.

 >Therefore there are no clear photos of UFOs.

 >Therefore there are no UFOs.

 >If ever real UFOs appear there will be some clear photos of
 >UFOs. (But if any such photos appear they will turn out to be
 >fakes..... etc.)

 >I believe Whitehouse's article is bunk.

Certainly Whitehouse's article is one of the most amateurish
pieces of crap I've ever come across. I also get a little
suspicious when someone writes such an ill-informed diatribe.
What's he got to be upset about? How does it bother him. Does he
have some idea that UFO reports, the people that report them,
and those that investigate them are somehow doing damage to
public order? Why the rant?

How come we don't get this same reaction to people reporting
images of the Virgin Mary in the coffee stains on a T-shirt, or
in one case here, a rain-stain on the side of a Tim Horton's
[coffee and donut outlet in Canada]. People burning candles and
singing hymns to a rain stain. Now there's brain-damaged goods
for you.

As for the attack on science - that's a fallacy. Consider the
number of pedigreed scientists that are, and have been looking
at the UFO question. I for one encourage good science, not ill
informed nay-sayers.


Best,

Don Ledger








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                 Meier Photo [was: Canada's National Post On

From: Jim Deardorff <deardorj@proaxis.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 11:14:56 -0800
Fwd Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 08:13:45 -0500
Subject: Meier Photo [was: Canada's National Post On


 >From: Stan Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 10:47:25 -0400
 >Subject: Canada's National Post On Rendlesham

 >Cnanada's National Post for today, December 4, 2002, page A3,
 >contains a large serious article about the MOD having to
 >release the files on Rendlesham. Unfortunately one of Billy
 >Meier's phony  pictures is used for the visual, but I doubt if
 >the writer had any say in that decision. The author of the
 >article is given as Peter Goodspeed at:
 >pgoodspeed@nationalpost.com


Hello Stan and List,

I suppose if Meier had the money for lawyers, and the
disposition for it, he could sue those who use his photos
without his permission, and those who slander him.

The photo that ended up in Goodspeed's article is from Meier's 8
March 1975 Ober-Saedelegg series, being the photo called the
'logpile scene'. It and the other seven surviving photos in that
series remain standing as genuine, never having been in any
credible sense refuted (just as his other series stand
unrefuted, save for some of the many photos from his 5-day space
trip that he was informed were tampered with during development,
and which he therefore disavowed a few years ago).

The photo in question is the one that Wendelle Stevens had
physicist Neil Davis of Design Technology analyze - a 2nd or
3rd generation print - that Davis found consistent with the UFO
craft being a large object in the distance. Upon eyeballing
several of the other photos in this series, in which the craft
moved up to twice as far away as in the logpile scene, I've
found the 'haze effect' to be noticeable.

In my website I display some Meier-case photo material that
doesn't require the original color transparencies for analysis
of genuineness, considering that they were taken in 1975-76.


Jim Deardorff

http://www.tjresearch.info/ufology.htm
http://www.tjresearch.info/moretree.htm
http://www.tjresearch.info/bachtel.htm
http://www.tjresearch.info/BillyYes.htm
http://www.tjresearch.info/hasenbol.htm

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                   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Young

From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:39:40 EST
Fwd Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 08:15:11 -0500
Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Young


 >From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:32:34 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 22:57:03 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>>From: Tom King <tomking2030@hotmail.com>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 23:03:45 +0000
 >>>Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >Tom wrote:

 >>>How much of our tax dollars
 >>>are thrown down the drain to these 9 to 5 scientists while us
 >>>broke tax payers are supposed to make the biggest discovery of
 >>>all time in our spare-time a few bucks?

 >Bob responds:

 >>You should take your own advice and do your own homework before
 >>you spout off.

 >>According to the SETI website, at:

 >>http://www.seti.org/

 >>"Project Phoenix, the Earth's most comprehensive hunt for
 >>extraterrestrial intelligence, has continued only through
 >>private contributions".

 >Which only serves to strengthen/make Tom's original point!

Hi, John:

Huh?

 >Dr. Michio Kaku (who is a shade smarter than the three of us
 >put together) made the same point Tom made in his
 >presentation at the GWU symposium regarding the
 >government funding of UFO research.

If he did, then he ain't as smart as you think. John, please
read the original posts over again.

The SETI program uses private funds, not tax money.


Clear skies,

Bob Young

And one of the other Stooges, Larry Fine (Louis Fienberg), said,
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From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:56:49 EST
Fwd Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 08:17:32 -0500
Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Young


 >From: Tom King <tomking2030@hotmail.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 15:56:55 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 22:57:03 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >FYI, for a long time they were funded by tax dollars.

Only at the beginning, and it was worth every penny.

 >Thank God that waste of money stopped. Of course the cult
 >that listens to radio noise will debunk every single UFO
 >photo/video, eyewitness.

Cult? Coming from ufoology, that's a joke.

 >Because if any of these clowns admitts UFOs could
 >already be here. Than they would be out of a job now wouldn't
 >they?

An interesting observation. It probably explains why few if any
one in ufology dares to actually try to obtain instrumented
records of UFOs. They prefer to wallow in the vicarious thrills
of abuctees and other "experiences", if they aren't out peddling
books and lecturing to the faithful.

 >It's clear you don't know what you're talking about! How do you
 >know I don't work for the government?

Why would I care? I was commenting on your anti-guv'mint
hysteria, not where you get your paycheck.

 >While people like you sit and around and wait for astronomers to
 >give official word of alien existence, the rest of us don't
 >really care for their opinion.

Yup, I knew that. That's why is described your comment as
uninformed.

 >It figures you would stick up for this guy, it speaks volumes
 >about you.

Thank you, sir. As one cult member to another, it sure is nice
that we can still appreciate each other.


Clear skies,

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                       Re: Abductions & Ufology - Hall

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 20:37:43 +0000
Fwd Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 08:20:11 -0500
Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology - Hall


 >From: Amy Hebert <yellowrose129@attbi.com>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 01:34:11 -0600
 >Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >>From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 21:04:35 +0000
 >>Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >>>From: Amy Hebert <yellowrose129@attbi.com>
 >>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 00:31:40 -0600
 >>>Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >>>>From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >>>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>>Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 21:49:03 +0000
 >>>>Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >>>>>From: Greg Sandow <greg@gregsandow.com>
 >>>>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>>>Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 16:58:08 -0500
 >>>>>Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >>>Just wondering... how did you determine the two were "basket
 >>>cases" and what instruments did you use to determine a "very
 >>>high percentage" were "entirely sane and grounded individuals"?

 >>Using my observational powers and knowledge of psychology and
 >>human behavior based on being Senior Abstracts Editor for the
 >>American Psychological Association. It doesn't take a
 >>professional to recognize people who are having difficulty
 >>functioning as human beings and whose behavior and vocalizations
 >>are bizarre.

 >Hi, Dick:

 >Let me see if I understand what you are saying. You determined
 >the two claimed abductees you worked with were "basket cases"
 >based on your observational powers and knowledge of psychology
 >you learned through reading abstracts for the American
 >Psychological Association? Further, you claim it doesn't take a
 >professional to recognize those who are dysfunctional? (I'm not
 >repeating you or myself, I'm summarizing.)

Amy,

I perceive that we have a much larger area of agreement than of
disagreement, so don't understand why you persist in misreading
and then misrepresenting my comments repeatedly. In effect, you
berate me for the sins of others and then you seem to try to
cast everything I say in the worst possible light.  I will
insert some responses below, but will snip out repetitive or
unimportant  stuff to spare the readers. - Dick

 >Good Lord! You mean I wasted 6 years of my life studying,
 >training and practicing (and learning to write not just
 >psychological abstracts but also the research and reports that
 >go with them) to become a psychotherapist for nothing?! It never
 >occurred to me that all I had to do to pass those exams and earn
 >those degrees was to read a bunch of abstracts. Sure wish
 >someone had told me this _before_ I did all that work. <wink>

Your sarcasm aside, this is not at all what I said, suggested,
or implied.  I didn't *read* abstracts at the American
Psychological Association (APA), I created them from the
scientific literature after reading the articles. In fact, it
was many a psychology graduate student and PhD who admitted to
me that they simply *read* our abstracts rather than the
original articles while doing research for their theses.

<snip>

 >Usually when someone tells me "it doesn't take a professional",
 >they don't have the necessary degrees or training in the area
 >they are addressing. Do you have a degree in psychology, Dick?

(1) My vita can be read at my web site (www.hallrichard.com);
(2) During the NICAP years we had an academic PhD visit and ask
for an audience of professionals to whom he could disclose
important information about UFOs. We provided an audience of
scientists, engineers, lawyers, and two very highly placed
behavioral scientists, one the clinical director of a major
Washington-area insitution. When our PhD identified himself as
God (or inconsistently at times as at God's right hand;
schizophrenic God?) and began a lecture on numerology, it didn't
take our PhD clinician or M.D. psychiatrist to tell that we were
dealing with a severely mentally ill person. Does it take a PhD
psychologist to figure out that a certain heavyweight boxer
doesn't have both oars in the water? That's what I meany by
"basket cases"; pathology that is obvious to any thinking
person, or certainly to one familiar with the psychology
literature and who has interacted extensively with
psychologists.

 >>I always worked (past tense; I no longer work with
 >>abductees except superficially with referral information)
 >>professional psychologists, one of whom was discussed at some
 >>length in my posting to Greg Sandow on this list. No evdience
 >>was found of any serious psychopathology.

 >As I said before, lack of evidence of serious psychopathology
 >does not mean someone is beyond fabricating their experiences.
 >Well adjusted people can think they have been abducted even
 >though they weren't. Have you watched TV lately, Dick?

I never said it meant that. But I don't follow your argument
that well-adjusted people are likely to think they have been
abducted. And by the way, Amy, what do you mean by "abducted"?
Is this a circular argument in which you are assuming that
anyone who claims to have been abducted has to be fantasizing or
lying?

 >With all the programs about UFOs and abduction scenarios on TV,
 >at the movies, etc. I'd be surprised if people were _not_
 >associating various odd experiences in their past with aliens
 >and flying saucers. It doesn't mean they were abducted. It means
 >the media can and does influence some people to believe they
 >were abducted when they were not. If a mere Halloween radio
 >program can convince people to go out and shoot anything that
 >moves, it doesn't take much to convince some people they have
 >been abducted.

You need to re-read your literature: That is not what happened
with the Orson Welles broadcast. One of my brothers who is a PhD
social psychologist and who has taught classes on panic and
rumors has written a very interesting article about this popular
misbelief.

 >Even professional psychologists may find themselves at a loss
 >when it comes to abduction phenomena. There are no criteria for
 >working with claimed abductees. Most of it is being made up as
 >we go. There are no tests that can establish, beyond doubt, that
 >someone is telling the truth. There are no surveys that can
 >determine who is more likely to be a genuine abductee and who is
 >not. In the end, it all boils down to a matter of opinion,
 >professional and otherwise.

Who said that I, we, anyone could establish the truth about
abductions beyond a doubt? You keep setting up such false
premises and then getting exercised about them.

 >It takes more than just interviewing and/or hypnotizing people
 >who claim to have been abducted to get an idea of just how
 >bizarre this phenomenon really is. Sometimes it means getting up
 >in the middle of the night and going to be with someone who
 >calls you on the phone nearly hysterical because they see beings
 >creeping down the hall (with objects hovering nearby and burn
 >marks in the yard)... again. Sometimes it means touching the
 >scars up and down their legs where they dug implants out of
 >their legs with a knife to let them know you are not afraid of
 >their fear. And sometimes it means returning, day after day, to
 >listen to their stories even though you see little balls of
 >light darting through the walls when all you really want to do
 >is get the hell out of there.

As I said, I have worked with over 150 abductees so I have
experienced some of this. I am well aware how bizarre the whole
phenomenon is. That's why it scares me.

 >It takes a lot of compassion to understand what these people
 >must be going through. Once you have encountered the more
 >physical aspects of these phenomena, you no longer focus on
 >hypnotic regressions or taped interviews. Once you actually see
 >phenomena manifest before you, writing books is the least of
 >your concerns. And once you encounter phenomena up close and in
 >person, you learn what it means to be really terrified. (Now you
 >know why I stopped doing abduction research. That and the lack
 >of support even among those of the abduction community.

I appreciate your compassionate concern for abductees, but you
are not the only one who is compassionate. And what has writing
books" got to do with it in this context? I stopped doing
abduction research primarily because of too much vicariously
experiencing the phenomenon, and for other reasons as well.

 >There is a lack of scientific research in this area mainly
 >because few people are willing to put their claims to the test.
 >If you question or probe, you're not believing every word they
 >say and therefore, not doing research. Catch 22. )

There is a lack of research funding that would allow good
scientific research.  And I don't understand your last sentence
at all. If you are implying that I or other serious
investigators are "believing every word they say," that is
simply untrue.

 >>>Furthermore, how did you distinguish which ones were genuine
 >>>abductees and which ones were not?

 >>I never said I did. The term "genuine abductee" is not that
 >>meaningful to me. If a person thinks or suspects they have been
 >>abducted and it is causing them problems, I am nonjudgmental
 >>about whether it "really" happened.

 >It didn't matter to you whether or not they had actually had the
 >experiences they claimed? There is a difference between being
 >open minded and being nonjudgmental. You keep an open mind while
 >looking for evidence to indicate the truth. Somewhere along the
 >line you have to decide whether you think they have been
 >abducted or not, based on the evidence. Otherwise you might go
 >around claiming to have worked with dozens or hundreds of
 >abductees even though you never really knew who had been
 >abducted and who only claimed to have been abducted but were
 >not.

Now this is really twisting my words around. I didn't say that
it "didn't matter to me." Of course it matters, but how does one
tell? Do you think it's all fantasy and imagination? I don't. I
see nothing unscientific in reserving judgment until more and
better data are available before making up my mind in any given
case.  From what I have read in the literature and personally
experienced, it seems very unlikely to me that any significant
percentage of abductions are merely fantasy or imagination. How
did you determine that, Amy? What tests have you conducted, and
where is the output of your research for peer review?

 >>>I know you, like many others, are only trying to help but what
 >>>if even ten were not genuine abductees but rather suffering from
 >>>delusions or some other types of encounters with the unknown?
 >>>What kind of 'support' will these individuals find in your
 >>>support group or as part of your research?

 >>If they were suffering from delusions, probably no help at all.
 >>But I am not unsophisticated about recognizing possibly
 >>delusional people.

 >That's right, you read psychological abstracts about human
 >behavior.

You do carry your false premises and misreadings to the bitter end.

 >>>It may be all well and good to provide some kind of help for
 >>>those experiencing abductions but what may be happening to those
 >>>who are treated as abductees but are not? Do you have any idea
 >>>of the amount of suffering caused for those who experience
 >>>phenomena in their lives and are labeled as "abductees" when no
 >>>one really knows what's going on?

 >>This is another of many false premises on your part. I never
 >>labelled anyone anything or suggested to anyone that they had
 >>been abducted by aliens. (Read "Testing Reality".) I always
 >>emphasized that "no one really knows what's going on."\

 >How about restating some of your contentions here? (I'd love to
 >read your "Testing Reality" but couldn't find it on the
 >internet. Is it posted someplace convenient for all to read?)

As I said in a previous post, it is available from the Fund for
UFO Research (www.fufor.com); the price is $5.00 plus postage.

<snip>

 >Nice talking with you, Dick.

 >Amy

Take care, Amy. But please do read what I say more carefully
before sounding off.

  - Dick









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                    Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Hall

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 20:50:27 +0000
Fwd Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 08:21:32 -0500
Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Hall


 >From: Eleanor White <eleanor@raven1.net>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 14:50:44 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case

 >>From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
 >>To: UFO UpDates <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 07:19:49 -0700
 >>Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case

 >>>From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 13:47:08 -0500
 >>>Subject: Defining An Abduction Case

 >>Hello John,

 ><snip>

 >>Stop yelling from the tree tops for somebody else to do your
 >>work. Get your research going and bring the rest of us
 >>enlightenment regarding the abduction phenomenon. Take what you
 >>personally have experienced and approach it from a position 180
 >>degrees away from the personal aspects of emotion. Don't sell
 >>yourself short. You are just as capable of doing quality
 >>abduction research as the "seasoned" researcher.

 >John, if you can come up with case documentation which requires
 >someone to read each case and fill in a computer database from
 >the reads, and from which queries can be answered by way of the
 >database software, I volunteer.

 >I have a PC with plenty of disk space and horsepower, and I am
 >an experienced database manager and computer programmer.  It
 >would be a privilege to work as your data entry operator on this
 >important project.

 >I am semi-retired and could devote 2 to 3 full days per week on
 >this.

 >Once you have a substantial number of records analyzed and
 >entered into a computer database, it is easy to get an
 >incredible number of _accurate_ answers very quickly.

 >Furthermore, you can get answers which were never even thought
 >of during the data entry phase.

 >Eleanor White

Eleanor,

This is a very generous offer, and leads me to volunteer as
well. I am a very experienced abstractor/indexer and have worked
on major national and international databases. Although I am not
likely to have the time to do all the abstracting, what I can do
is draft a Thesaurus of indexing terms, create some sample
abstracts, and outline abstracing procedures for anyone who has
the time. I even have experience in training abstractors. In
fact, the format I used in The UFO Evidence, Volume II, might be
a good way to go about it. I am the copyright owner, and can
send you those cases abstracts electronicallyto incorporate in a
database provided you can handle WordPerfect 5.1.


  - Dick








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                     Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - Rimmer

From: John Rimmer <jrimmer@magonia.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:34:18 +0000
Fwd Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 08:24:12 -0500
Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43 - Rimmer


 >From: Stan Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 22:09:07 -0400
 >Subject: Re: Magonia Supplement 43

 >As I have said in another post on this thread,
 >all governments have a common interest in covering up whatever
 >solid knowledge they have. Major ones want to learn new
 >technology, to keep others from learning what hey have learned,
 >and to avoid admitting their air space can be violated with
 >impunity.

Unfortunately, in more than fifty years the US, British and
Russian/Soviet governments don't seem to have learned anything
of practical use at all.

 >None of which I am aware want their citizens to start thinking
 >of themselves as Earthlings because it would reduce their power.
 >So far as I know the aliens haven't taken sides, they haven't
 >seriously attacked any governments, why should smaller nations
 >worry about them?If US or Soviet Space surveillance systems pick
 >up one crashing, then contact the country and offer a reward.

Is this likely to work with, e.g.: Iraq, Libya, North Korea,
Iran, or, for that matter, India, Pakistan or even France?

 >I haven't said anything about any agreement between the Aliens
 >and various governments.Is there one? They are here to do their
 >thing. I would think that primarily they want to be left alone.
 >I have heard of a number of instances in which military craft
 >attacking UFOs have been destroyed . As a former radar operator
 >told me after a US plane disappeared while being tracked as it
 >approached a UFO, the word went out: don't shoot, take pictures.

Would it be too much to ask for references to these cases
involving military craft destroyed by UFOs? I mean direct
reports with quotations and named people, dates and places, not
"a story I heard from some guy when I was in the army".

 >It wouldn't take much monitoring of earth to determine that we
 >have a primitive society whose major activity is tribal warfare.
 >A Russian article in an English language Russian magazine
 >stressed how important it was that we be able to distinguish
 >between a flying saucer and the other guy's missiles so as to
 >avoid starting a 3rd World war. I do suspect as discussed by
 >Hansen (The Missing Times) that there has been government
 >influence on the major media to avoid taking the subject very
 >seriously.

This is hardly surprising. I should hope that the Russian
military as much as the American or the British, would be very
careful indeed about what it starts shooting at. Everyone agrees
that unidentified flying objects exist, not everyone is as sure
as you are that they are extraterrestrial spacecraft. Defence
establishments pay huge amounts of money (often through 'black
projects') to aquire sophisticated surveilance and detection
systems that will distinguish between enemy missiles and a wide
range of other "unidentifieds". > >>However, as you will have
gathered from the debate earlier this >>year about Trindade
Island, I am rather less sanguin than you >>about these so-
  called 'multiple witness sightings'.

 >You certainly are. That is your privilege  though I suspect you
 >are very much in a minority of those who have studied the facts
 >about the case. Espcially since no one has come forward who was
 >there to say the case was a hoax. When the press reports a crowd
 >of 47,000 at a sports event, I don't need to have a list of the
 >names of all attendees to accept that that is pretty close to
 >correct. Obviously Trindade is not the only multiple witness

I won't go into this at length here, as I have written about
this in some detail in the forthcoming 'Magonia Supplement'.
Just one point: being in a minority doesn't make you wrong (or
is Mr Friedman indulging in 'research by referendum' again?).

If a UFO landed in the centre spot at a World Cup match, I would
not expect the names of everyone present in the crowd. I would
expect at least a couple of dozen direct eyewitness reports. Not
unreasonable, surely?

 >It is not a tie game, John. The ayes have it by a big
 >margin.

Oh, dear, research by referendum again!

 >Remember that ITV program?

Which one? Coronation Street?

--
John Rimmer
Magonia Magazine
www.magonia.demon.co.uk/arc/00/newmag.htm








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                       FOIA Request to FAA - 12-05-02

From: Larry W. Bryant <overtci@cavtel.net>
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 17:41:46 -0500
Fwd Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 08:31:51 -0500
Subject: FOIA Request to FAA - 12-05-02



TO:  Administrator
      U. S. Federal Aviation Administration
      ATTN:  Freedom of Information Manager
      E-mail:  9-awa-aoa-consumer@faa.gov
      800 Independence Avenue, S.W.
      Washington, DC  20591

FROM:  Larry W. Bryant
        3518 Martha Custis Drive
        Alexandria, VA  22302

DATE:  December 5, 2002

In the aftermath of the July 26, 2002, UFO fly-over and
subsequent USAF jet-interceptor chase near Waldorf, Md., a
number of persons have dispatched to your headquarters certain
freedom-of-information requests for access to all FAA-generated
and FAA-received records pertaining to this incident.

In light of your agency's protracted delay in fulfilling these
requests about such a vital public issue as UFO reality (and our
government's response thereto), I hereby submit this letter as
an FOIA request that you promptly send me a copy of the
following records:

(1)  All FAA-generated and FAA-received records about the
Waldorf Incident that any FAA personnel have shared, to date,
with the National Institute for Discovery Science (pursuant to
the recently inaugurated NIDS-FAA agreement for such transfer of
FAA-acquired UFO-encounter reports).

(2)  The entire contents of the FAA FOIA case file being
maintained on each of the above-cited FOIA requests about the
Waldorf Incident (said records to include all agency records-
search tasking documents, intra-/inter-agency coordination
papers, correspondence, document-review papers, memoranda for
record, e-mail messages, memoranda of telephone conversations,
document-transmittal slips, technical reports, administrative-
processing notes, FOIA-decision appeal letters, and
minutes/audio tapes of meetings/teleconferences).

(3)  All congressional correspondence in which your agency has
become a party as regards the aftermath of the Waldorf Incident.

(4)  All FAA-USAF interaction/coordination documents relating to
the Waldorf Incident.

Since I make this request on behalf of the public's growing
interest in acquiring full, prompt knowledge of how certain FAA
personnel respond to UFO-related events, developments, and
trends, I ask that you waive all records-search fees incident to
your fulfilling it.  Please note that I'm sending you a signed
printout of this e-formatted letter.



LARRY W. BRYANT
Director, Washington, D.C., Office of
Citizens Against UFO Secrecy

Copies furnished to:

Mark S. Zaid, Esq. (Washington, D.C.)

Chairman, U. S. Senate Committee on Government Affairs

Chairman, U. S. Senate Committee on Intelligence

Editor, the Internet website of http://www.ufocity.com








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                         Is Somebody Taping 'Taken'?

From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 15:51:16 -0500
Fwd Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 09:40:57 -0500
Subject: Is Somebody Taping 'Taken'?


Hi all,

I'm an ex-pat American living in Ontario and no longer get the
SCI-FI network as I did in the States.

Does anyone know if I could borrow, buy, barter or steal taped
episodes of "Taken" ? I'm desperate to see the series, with all
the web hoo-hah surrounding it.


Thanks,

Dave Ferreira









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                     Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle

From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:36:11 EST
Fwd Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 09:47:07 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle


 >From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 18:40:18 -0400
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 20:16:13 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net>
 >>>Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 18:20:30 -0400
 >>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
 >>>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net
 >>>>Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 20:23:13 EST
 >>>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

Good Morning, Stan, List, All -

I'm going to snip some of this to keep it from becoming very
long. I hope clarity will follow...

 >><snip>

 >>Yes, and I saw the drawings before the Popular Mechanics
 >>article, but I think Av Week might have beat him. So, if asked,
 >>I could say, honestly, that Frank's drawings might have been
 >>inspired by Av Week. Won't Phil Klass be thrilled?

 >Are you saying that you saw Frank's drawings before Dec. 1991?

I'm saying that I believe I saw the drawings before they came
out in Popular Mechanics, but not before they were noted in Av
Week. That certainly could be the source of his inspiration...
Though the timing is such that he might have already seen the
Popular Mechanics. It's a very close thing.

 >>>>First let me apologize for my rather inelegant statement above.
 >>>>My excuse was having to get to the store very early because they
 >>>>were selling DVD players for $30. American (what is that in
 >>>>Canada now, about a thousand bucks?). Anyway, what I meant was
 >>>>that while I have little doubt that Frank Kaufmann has invented
 >>>>his tales, I wasn't present and I seriously doubt he made any
 >>>>sort of admission to Friedman, Schmitt or Howe.

 >Don't forget Balthaser. Why do you doubt it? Four witnesses
 >isn't enough for you? We know Frank wasn't in good health and
 >knew he had cancer . He might have felt guilty for lying.

My question is did he admit to lying to you, at that time, or
did he amend his story which is not quite the same thing. Did he
say, in his Frank Kaufmann voice, "Well, I lied about that.
Marcel and Blanchard didn't accompany me out to the site?" Or,
did he just change the story, which is not an admission of
lying.

And, if he admitted lying, why did none of the others ever mention
this?

Or, are we simply left with your interpretation of the situation...

<snip>

 >>No, but from reading your sentence, it wasn't clear what you
 >>meant. It seemed to suggest that I was.

 >>I remember the 1995 meeting, held in the Roswell Inn but I do
 >>not remember ranting and shouting... But isn't this in the same
 >>meeting where you made the false claim I had been an English
 >>major in college (See, once again we are not allowed mistakes,
 >>just false claims. And for those keeping score at home, I'm an
 >>Army captain.).

 >Why would what you majored in have come up in a meeting whose
 >purpose was for me to interview Frank? your article in Story's
 >encyclopedia says your degree was in Anthropology.

Because, as you were ranting about what I had written in "The
History of UFO Crashes," (which you are still ranting about so
long after publication of it) you said something about me being
an English major in college (checked that out real good didn't
you?) and I said that my undergraduate studies had been in
Anthropology, and you started to say, "No wonder you and Tom
Carey..."

The implication there was that we both had studied Anthropology,
though Tom, if I remember was a physical anthropologist and I
was more oriented toward archaeology.

Are you now making the false claim this didn't happen?

 >>And didn't I write an article published in the MUFON Journal in
 >>which I challenged these 38 false claims which included such
 >>gems as "That S.T. Friedman know all about an RS alien tissue
 >>sample." I still don't know what this means. Or the laughable
 >>"Testimony from anonymous caller is fully trustworthy." I don't
 >>know where I might have ever suggested it. And what is the
 >>relevance of this now? Didn't we go over it at the time when you
 >>made these false claims?

 >Matter of fact you and Don had noted testimony from an anonymous
 >caller and considered it reliable.

Well, that's not quite the same thing is it? Besides, I knew
(know) who that specific anonymous caller was (is) and have
actually interviewed him in his office... Tom Carey, I believe,
knows who it is.

This in comparison to the anonymous cowboy who told Robert Drake
about the crash on the Plains you have reported a number of
times. The difference here is that I, in fact, know the
anonymous source while you are using testimony from an second-
hand source who is quoting an anonymous source. Interesting...

 >Yes, you wrote a MUFOn Journal article in response. And I wrote
 >an 8 page response (Nov.10,1995) refuting your refutation.

So it's come around to me again has it? I could write a
refutation of your refutation of my refutation of your original
38 false claims. Is there a point to that? I pass on my turn.

 >>And I have explained to you four times what the sentence meant
 >>and while it might have been constructed a little better, your
 >>interpretation is your interpretation and not mine.

 >Let the Listers decide: The quote comes after your discussion of
 >the Frank Scully book..."In fact, in 1980 I provided Ron Story
 >with the segment on the hidden alien bodies and crashed saucers
 >for "The UFO Encyclopedia". In it I made it clear that none of
 >the reports of crashed saucers had ever withstood objective
 >investigation.The road was strewn with the remains of those
 >stories, starting with the Aztec, New Mexico, case and working
 >its way to the Spitzbergen report, and the events near Roswell,
 >New Mexico". "A History of UFO Crashes" Kevin Randle. 1995.
 >There was no mention of Roswell in your Encyclopedia article.

Inelegant, yes. Confusing, yes. But please note the period. It
doesn't actually say that Roswell was mentioned in Story's
Encyclopedia, but does say that the road is strewn with the
remains of those saucers. Interpret away.

 >>>>There is nothing in that part of Stan's MUFON speech that
 >>>>suggests that Frank Kaufmann told him, Schmitt or Howe that he
 >>>>told lies about his involvement.

 >>>This is simply untrue. In the paper (bottom of p. 200 in the
 >>>Symp. Proc. ) "On December 13, 1999,Frank was most cordial at his
 >>>home to myself, Dennis Balthaser, Linda Howe, and Don Schmitt. I
 >>>explicitly asked if Blanchard had gone out with him. NO. Did
 >>>Marcel go with you? NO. "In 1995 he had claimed that he had
 >>>awakened both in the middle of the night and they had all gone
 >>>together. Perhaps Kevin has forgotten that I had also asked
 >>>wouldn't they have waited for a spotter plane before Blanchard
 >>>would leave his post without knowing what was there. Frank said
 >>>there were no spotter planes. But others have said there were. I
 >>>had also raised questions about Frank's response when asked by
 >>>Japanese researchers what the wreckage looked like and he said
 >>>just as Jesse Marcel Jr. , described it, though Jesse had NOT
 >>>been at the crash site and Frank had claimed to have been there.
 >>>I have also raised questions as to why Frank felt free to talk
 >>>openly about one of the most classified and significant events>>>in
history, but he couldn't tell who his contacts were, etc ad
 >>>nauseum.

 >>What you wrote is, "On December 13, 1999,Frank was most cordial
 >>at his home to myself, Dennis Balthaser, Linda Howe, and Don
 >>Schmitt. I explicitly asked if Blanchard had gone out with him.
 >>NO. Did Marcel go with you? NO. There were a number of his
 >>excellent paintings on the wall. During the same visit Linda
 >>Howe..."

 >>First, has anyone ever taught you how to write a paragraph?

 >Nope. Though what followed was relevant to Frank's reliability.

Well, at least we agree on that... you don't know how to write
a paragraph. Stream of consciousness disappeared in the 1980s.

 >>Second, how are we supposed to interpret from those sentences
 >>that Kaufmann admitted lying to you? It certainly doesn't say
 >>that to me. In fact, it doesn't say that anywhere in that
 >>report.

 >He said that what he had said earlier wasn't true.I think that
 >is very close to saying he had previously lied to us.

Actually it doesn't say that. It says that Kaufmann once suggested
he had awakened Blanchard and Marcel and they accompanied
him out to the site. Later it says they didn't. Mistakes happen,
though this would be a major mistake and certainly would raise
a red flag... But again, there is no admission that he lied and
no suggestion that such was the case.


 >>>If true, however, the question
 >>>is, why would he sit on all this information for almost three
 >>>years?.

 >>>Kevin, the meeting was in December 1999. I wrote my MUFON 2000
 >>>paper in the spring of 2000. . a few months later. not 3 years.

 >>Yes, but you didn't say that Kaufmann admitted lying to you until
 >>recently, which is nearly three years. Your MUFON paper
 >>doesn't say he admitted lying to you which would have been an
 >>important revelation at the time. Now, it's just another bit of
 >>evidence that is no longer of importance.

 >Admitting that what he had previously told me wasn't true is not
 >admitting he had lied??? What would you call it?

Well, if I was defending Frank, which I really don't want to do,
given what we know now, I would suggest that in your close
questioning of him, either he was confused and made a mistake,
or you were confused about what he said and made a mistake.

My point here, once again, is that you didn't make it clear, and
didn't start calling him a liar until he was conveniently dead.
You said that you had made the allegation, but you didn't. You
presented your version of the events but you didn't say Kaufmann
admitted lying... a wholly different and important point.

On the flip side, I labeled Anderson a liar early and have
repeated that statement many times, hoping he would sue.
Discovery is a wonderful thing.

<snip>

 >>>Way off base here, Kevin. I noted previously and in the 2000
 >>>paper that Scanlon's last position at ADC which ended in early
 >>>1948 was as Public Affairs man at Mitchell Field in NY and there
 >>>were no ADC radar systems in NM in 1947(with or without
 >>>Scanlon). Frank had long ago stated he knew nothing about Radar.
 >>>Scanlon as PA guy would certainly have not been ordering
 >>>somebody who knew nothing about radar to visit nonexistent
 >>>facilities at White Sands.

 >>There were radars at White Sands in 1947 for crying out loud.
 >>You decided they must have been ADC radars though I don't know
 >>why.

 >Scanlon was ADC though not apprently connected with any radars
 >in NM.

Ahh, so you assumed that because Scanlon was assigned to ADC
that any radar facilities he would have known about in New
Mexico would have been ADC and that the ADC, if concerned about
something in New Mexico wouldn't have been able to request the
use of another's radars that happened to be in New Mexico.

And, you admit there were radars at White Sands. This is
splitting a truly fine hair.

 >>>I did not say Schmitt had never lied to me. What I said was that
 >>>he had not told me he had degrees from anywhere. He did not lie
 >>>to me about his academic credentials. This was significant
 >>>because I have a deserved reputation for checking on credentials
 >>>(yes, I did call about yours)and would have checked if he had

 >>>given them. You will recall that when I heard that Milwaukee
 >>>Magazine had identified that Don didn't have the credentials he
 >>>had claimed to them, and that he worked for the US Post Office,
 >>>that I called the post office and asked for Don. He came to the
 >>>phone. You were excoriating those of us who accepted the story
 >>>from MM for 6 weeks before finally acknowledging that you had
 >>>been had. I gather you still haven't gotten over it.

 >>So if he didn't lie to you about his credentials, does this mean
 >>the lie doesn't count? That he said it in print but not to you
 >>means that he didn't lie about it? And don't you think it
 >>laughable that he walked around the museum in Roswell pointing
 >>out what he believed to be the hoaxes?

 >I didn't say the lies to whomever, (you MM or whatever) didn't
 >count. I said he hadn't lied to me about his credentials. So I
 >hadn't checked because he had never claimed to me he had any
 >degrees.

You know, I sat in a room when Schmitt made claims about his
educational background and you were there. So, he did say those
things to you.

On the other hand, did Bob Lazar make his claims of education to
you, or did you just jump in...

And did you ever check Gerald Anderson's claim that he had a
degree in microbiology, which he made to you on the tape you
made of your first interview with him? And if not, why not...
and wouldn't learning he had no degree in microbiology have
worried you greatly?

<snip>

 >>While I'll agree that Menzel's intelligence qualifications were
 >>different, I won't agree that they were superior.

 >What, if any were Scanlon's? When did Hap Arnold call on him?
 >Incidentally Arnold resigned in 1946 because of poor health.

I thought I had provided all this before. See Piercing the Fog
(John F. Kreis, 1996, published by Air Force History and Museums
Programs,) for a more complete analysis. According to Kreis,
"Arnold [the aforementioned Hap Arnold] brought Brig. Gen.
Martin Scanlon back from his post as military air attache in
London to become the first AC/AS, Intelligence (A-2)..." Which
puts Scanlon at the top of what was becoming Air Force
Intelligence.

While in London, his job was to observe (spy) on the creation of
the German Air Force and British development of its Air Force...
This was in the 1930s.

This goes on to talk about the coordination between G-2 (Army
Intelligence) and Air Force intelligence, determining what the
Air Force needed, as opposed to what the Army needed.

But you know, this really isn't that important in this
discussion, especially since we now know that Kaufmann's
testimony was unreliable. My point was obviously lost on you.

 >>>>The point here is that Stan didn't publish anything suggesting
 >>>>that Kaufmann had admitted to lying. All we are told is that
 >>>>Kaufmann met with Stan, Howe and Schmitt.

 >>>Admitting that neither Blanchard nor Marcel went out with him
 >>>when he had previously told you, Don, and me that they had, is
 >>>an admission of lying as spelled out in my paper. Read it again.
 >>>I have also referred to the McKnight letter which certainly
 >>>suggests Frank was telling tales.

 >>I simply don't remember him saying that. Maybe he said something
 >>else and you misremember it. And, even if he did, how does this
 >>translate into a statement that he had lied, based on what you
 >>wrote in that paper? Maybe he made a simple mistake. Must
 >>everything in UFOlogy be a false claim and a lie?

 >How could his describing in detail his coming over the pass from
 >White Sands and waking both Blanchard and Marcel and their all
 >going to his crash site together be a simple mistake? Marcel and
 >Blanchard were key actors in the drama in which he placed
 >himself at the center.

Oh, I don't know. Maybe like Glenn Dennis deciding the nurse's
name wasn't Naomi Self... or that she had been killed in a
plane crash that killed five Army nurses... or that Anderson
said that three aliens were dead and then two were dead, one
injured and one relatively uninjured... or that he received
telepathic communications from the creature.


 >>And the McKnight affidavit comes from a man who wasn't there in
 >>1947, who was four years old in 1947, and suggested that he had
 >>never heard of anything happening on the ranch owned by
 >>relatives. Not exactly proof positive.

 >Where is there any evidence that Scanlon was there in 1947... as
 >opposed to 1942?

Scanlon didn't have to set foot in New Mexico to run the
operation (which is not to say that Frank didn't make this
claim). Besides, aren't we getting hung up here. We now know
that Frank was making it up. I was merely suggesting that, at
the time Frank involved Scanlon, meaning when he told me, I
learned that Scanlon had a background in intelligence. Now this
seems to be more of a serendipitous situation than anything
else. The point is, Scanlon had a background in intelligence and
could have been involved because of it. But, since we know
Kaufmann was making this up, it really is of no importance now.

 >The McKnight affidavit also noted that there
 >was no way to get to Frank's crash site except by horseback in
 >1947. But Frank had some sort of army vehicle and then a big
 >flat bed truck dashing out and back cross country???

Let's see if I understand this. The Army, which crossed Europe
and fought in the Pacific, which crossed all sorts of rugged
terrain without the use of roads, was stymied by the New Mexico
Desert?

<snip>

 >>>Frank certainly was aware of my complaints about him as he
 >>>referenced in an August 7, 1995, letter to me, things I had said
 >>>about him in my September 26, 1994 paper " The Roswell Incident,
 >>>the USAF, and the NY Times", in a Nov. 18, 1994, letter to you,
 >>>in letters to Paul Davids on Dec. 20, 1994, and January 3, 1995,
 >>>and to Jack Rodden on January 7, 1995 . I presume some of this
 >>>input to him came from you.

 >>Presume all you want, I'm confused by this. Are you suggesting
 >>that I was Frank's ghost writer on this? Are you suggesting that
 >>Frank was incapable of responding to your attacks?

 >I am stating that you and he were aware of my concerns.

Ahhh.... It has no relevance, then.

 >>>>Now, please, understand, I am not suggesting that Frank Kaufmann
 >>>>can be rehabilitated. As far as I'm concerned, he should become
 >>>>a footnote to the Roswell case, just as Gerald Anderson and
 >>>>Glenn Dennis should be footnotes. Both men were caught in a
 >>>>changing and shifting story that as we investigated moved
 >>>>farther from the truth. Or, Stan, do you now have the "real"
 >>>>name of the nurse? And now that Anderson appears on the Navy
 >>>>SEALs Wall of Shame, are you finally convinced that he can't be
 >>>>trusted?

 >>>I think that both Glenn Dennis and Gerald Anderson made real
 >>>contributions to the story despite your great antipathy to both.

 >>Yeah, just like the contribution Frank Kaufmann made...

 >>>You will recall that Gerald passed a polygraph (Frank never took
 >>>one) and that a medical technician realled the nurse and
 >>>described her as Glenn did without any prompting from me. They,
 >>>(G and G), both independently described a strange combination of
 >>>a red haired officer and a black sergeant.

 >>Gee, talk about selective use of data... Anderson passed a
 >>polygraph test but admitted to forging a telephone bill to make
 >>me look bad... Actually, he forged two telephone bills, and a
 >>diary, and a letter from the family to prove he was telling the
 >>truth.

 >No evidence provide re the altter items. You will recall I
 >obtained the real bill from the phone company.

I'm not sure what you mean here. Altter items? If you mean other
items, there certainly is evidence, from the forensic test you
arranged showing that Uncle Ted's diary couldn't have been
written before 1974, but no evidence it wasn't written in 1990,
the second telephone bill that he passed around when you, and
John Carpenter met with him on September 19, 1992, (See John
Carpenter's "Gerald Anderson: Disturbing Revelations" MUFON UFO
Jounal, March 1993) which is evidence that Gerald had created
other documents. We have his ever shifting tale of the Plains of
San Agustin saucer which fits so nicely with your outdated
scenario.

And you may recall that I obtained the real bill from the
telephone company long before you did and published it in IUR
(Missing Time, August 1992).

 >>Let's see, he claimed to be a Navy SEAL when he was not.
 >>He changed details of this sighting... milky blue eyes to
 >>black... and which of his crash sites do you accept? The one
 >>near the VLA? The one north of highway 60? Horse Springs? And
 >>were three dead and one injured or was it two dead, one dying
 >>and one relatively uninjured.

 >More fiction.

Ahh, a proclamation. Well, yes, it is fiction, but from Gerald
Anderson, all on tape so we don't have to wade through the
personal notes of the interviewer. (A crappy tape, I admit, but
a tape... and tell us about the tape of your first interview
with Anderson in which you tell him not to talk to me...)

You know full well that Gerald is listed on the Navy SEALs' Wall
of Shame since you are partially responsible for his being
there. You've heard the tape where he said the alien eyes were
not blue like the blue of human eyes, but a milky blue. I even
showed you a copy of "Transformation" with the milky blue eyes
on the cover.

So, which part of that is fiction and who is the author of the
fiction? Don't you think it time to retire the Gerald Anderson
story since it is filled with lies and forged documents?

 >>.. Did he take the sociology class
 >>instead of Dr. Buskirk's anthropology class? Why is it that he
 >>will not allow for independent verification of his claims? Oh
 >>yeah, he passed a polygraph test.

 >5 people who were in the anthro class reviewed Gerald's picture
 >from the yearbook and say he wasn't in the class. Despite your
 >repeated claim to the contrary, one of them, Larry Henning,
 >never told you Gerald was in his class.

Henning did tell me that Anderson was in the class, but you see,
this red herring (it's so close to Henning that I couldn't
resist) is irrelevant. In reality, I actually talked to the
people at the Albuquerque High School, as did Dr. Buskirk. While
I was on the telephone, They looked at his record and told me he
had taken the class. Get it, they reviewed the transcript and
told me he was in the class. I searched for another way to
disclose this information after you alerted Gerald to the
problem and he threatened to sue everyone. Now, it no longer
matters because those people are out of harm's way. The real
evidence comes from the high school.... Prove me wrong, get an
independent copy of his transcript and not the doctored version
you flashed around (which btw, is another forged document we can
credit to Anderson). Didn't you ever suspect it was faked, given
that he would not allow you to verify it with the school?

<snip>

 >>As for this nurse, just what name is she given today? Obviously
 >>it's not Naomi Self. And, are you one of the researchers who
 >>wouldn't listen when Dennis told us all that he'd give us a name
 >>but it wouldn't be her name? Are you one of the researchers who
 >>ran off in search of Naomi Self even though Dennis had made it
 >>clear to us that Self wasn't her name? Or, at least claims today
 >>that he tried to make it clear... but only after we proved the
 >>negative. There was no Army nurse names Naomi Self.

 >Remember that I was the first to talk to Glenn and at that time
 >he had not said her name wasn't Naomi Self. The medical
 >technician recognized the name and described her.

And I talked to him within weeks and he gave the name to me. Are
you suggesting that he didn't give the name to you? Didn't he
trust you?

 >>>I happen to think much of the world is gray.

 >>Was Kaufmann ever in this gray basket?

 >Of course he was, until I heard more and more claims that didn't >make
sense.

Oh, you mean like those made by Gerald Anderson? Telepathic
communications? 509th over on the Plains. Aircraft landing on
the highway. Really... and you say Kaufmann made claims that
didn't make sense.

 >>>You seem to operate on a black and white basis. That is your
 >>>privilege.

 >>I actually think the world is filled with color which is a much
 >>more pleasant way of seeing it. But then I write science
 >>fiction... coming in April, "Signals", from Ace Books.

 >Congratulations. How many fiction books is that now? Surely over
 >80? I have always said you were good at creating scenarios.

Gee, I don't know... do you want to know how many books were
written, how many sold, or how many published? It's three
different numbers. And does writing science fiction disqualify
me from UFO research? (Btw, the second book in that series,
Generation Ship, will be out in the fall, 2003)

Wouldn't lying be more of a disqualification?

 >People who want copies of my 1995 list of Kevin's false
 >claims, of Kevin's MUFON J. response, and my 8 page letter and
 >my Kaufmann meeting notes (July 1995 and December 1999), please
 >send a snail mail address. (off list would probably be best).

Yes, those of you interested in this old and tired fight, write
to Stan and request copies of everything. Given that Kaufmann
has been proven to be a liar, isn't it time to move on... And
who really cares that Stan came up with what he believes to be
38 false claims that Don Schmitt and Kevin Randle made... or
didn't that change to the point where I had inherited them all?

But here are a couple of germane questions. Do you really
believe Gerald Anderson is telling any truth? Or isn't he just
an opportunist like Frank Kaufmann? And do you really believe
the Jim Ragsdale story as you claimed in that silly brochure
that Max Littel printed? Shouldn't we retire all these stories
and move on?


KRandle








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                       Re: Phony Credentials? - Gates

From: Robert Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 23:48:40 EST
Fwd Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 10:11:51 -0500
Subject: Re: Phony Credentials? - Gates


 >From: Jim Speiser <jimspeiser@yahoo.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 11:40:43 -0700
 >Subject: Phony Credentials? [was: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed]

<snip>

 >Unfortunately, to this list it now appears we may have to add
 >the name of William C. Levengood, who up to now has enjoyed a
 >fairly unblemished reputation as a plant biologist. It seems he
 >bolstered that reputation, and his crop circle work, by placing
 >the word 'Dr.' before his name, and/or not objecting when others
 >did so.

 >Acting on a tip from a well-known UFO 'Internal Affairs
 >Division', I asked Levengood, point-blank, if his Doctorate were
 >legitimate. He insisted that it was, and said it was a "Ph.D.
 >equivalent," handed out by the National Academy of Science.

 >A few quick calls to the NAS by others on this List revealed
 >that they do not hand out any kind of degrees nor their
 >equivalents, not being an academic institution.

 >I frankly don't know how this reflects on his crop circle
 >research, and perhaps he has a legitimate degree somehow, but no
 >one I know has ever heard of a 'Ph.D. equivalent', and everyone I
 >know insists "You either got-or-you-haven't-got a doctorate." I
 >for one will have to take Mr. Levengood's future research with a
 >grain of salt.

Hi Jim,

One does wonder what a 'Ph.D. Equivalent' is. Gives new meaning
to Piled Higher and Deeper....

Cheers,

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                   Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Sandow

From: Greg Sandow <greg@gregsandow.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:55:39 -0500
Fwd Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 10:17:54 -0500
Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Sandow


 >From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 20:50:27 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case

 >This is a very generous offer, and leads me to volunteer as
 >well. I am a very experienced abstractor/indexer and have worked
 >on major national and international databases. Although I am not
 >likely to have the time to do all the abstracting, what I can do
 >is draft a Thesaurus of indexing terms, create some sample
 >abstracts, and outline abstracing procedures for anyone who has
 >the time. I even have experience in training abstractors. In
 >fact, the format I used in The UFO Evidence, Volume II, might be
 >a good way to go about it. I am the copyright owner, and can
 >send you those cases abstracts electronicallyto incorporate in a
 >database provided you can handle WordPerfect 5.1

Dick, it occurs to me that - if you somehow had the time - you'd
be doing a great service if you'd write abstracts of key papers
in the abduction literature. There's a lot of important work
that's not well enoguh known. I've seen people from all sides of
the abduction debate weigh in with opinions they might have
modified if they'd read some of what's out there. Some people
don't yet know things that _have_ been found out; others
reinvent the wheel, going over ground that's already been
thoroughly covered. I've recently seen a couple of people search
the web for information, and then cry out with puzzlement or
dismay when they don't find it. We could use a guide to
abduction literature - simply a listing of what's been written,
with an abstract of what each entry says.

As a start, I'd love to see these things covered:

-all of Eddie Bullard's papers, plus his 1987 study for FUFOR

-the proceedings of the 1992 abduction conference (already
abstracted in the published volume?)

-some Budd Hopkins papers that have only been published by the
Intruders Foundation

-several papers on the psychology of abductees (I supplied a
brief bibliography to someone on this list who asked me for it)

-Stuart Appelle's crucial 1996 paper from JUFOS, critically
looking at the abduction evidence, and at the theories of
skeptics and believers

And these are only things I know about, or that come to my mind
at this moment. There's got to be much more that, given the
problem I've set forth, I've never heard about.


Greg Sandow

Books should be abstracted, too. Some important ones aren't
available. For instance Jim Schnabel's "Dark White," a valuable
(if somewhat frivolous) look at the early days of abduction
research.








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                   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Velez

From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 01:33:13 -0500
Fwd Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 10:14:37 -0500
Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Velez


 >From: Tom Bowden <tomrbowden@yahoo.com>
 >Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 00:21:16 -0800 (PST)
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 22:24:25 +0000
 >>Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>>From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>To: - UFO UpDates Subscribers -
 >>>Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 16:34:32 -0500
 >>>Subject: UFO UpDate: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>>Source: BBC OnLine

 >>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2538959.stm

 >>>Tuesday, 3 December, 2002, 14:32 GMT

 >>>'Why I believe UFOs are bunk'

<snip>

 >>Well, he obviously is an ill-informed, faithist debunker who
 >>undoubtedly has never investigated a single substantial case nor
 >>read any of the serious literature by people who have, instead
 >>adopting the "fuzzy logic" of his kind who use "mythology" as a
 >>convenient excuse to avoid the issues.

 >What this science writer needs is a good abduction experience --
 >without the amnesia.

Hiya Tom,

You wrote:

 >But is there really such a thing as a "good" abduction experience?

Depends on how much anal stimulation you like while your semen
is being taken and weird 'things' are being shoved up your nose.

Regards,

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                         Ray L. Wallace, 1918 - 2002

From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 10:23:52 -0500
Fwd Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 10:23:52 -0500
Subject: Ray L. Wallace, 1918 - 2002

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134589898_raywallaceobit05m.=
html


Lovable trickster created a monster with Bigfoot hoax

By Bob Young
Seattle Times staff reporter

Bigfoot is dead. Really.

"Ray L. Wallace was Bigfoot. The reality is, Bigfoot just died,"
said Michael Wallace about his father, who died of heart failure
Nov. 26 in a Centralia nursing facility. He was 84.

The truth can finally be told, according to Mr. Wallace's family
members. He orchestrated the prank that created Bigfoot in 1958.

Some experts suspected Mr. Wallace had planted the footprints
that launched the term "Bigfoot." But Mr. Wallace and his family
had never publicly admitted the 1958 deed until now.

"The fact is there was no Bigfoot in popular consciousness
before 1958. America got its own monster, its own Abominable
Snowman thanks to Ray Wallace," said Mark Chorvinsky, editor of
Strange magazine and one of the leading proponents of the theory
that Mr. Wallace fathered Bigfoot.

Pranks and hoaxes were just part of Mr. Wallace's nature.

"He'd been a kid all his life. He did it just for the joke and
then he was afraid to tell anybody because they'd be so mad at
him," said nephew Dale Lee Wallace, who said he has the alder-
wood carvings of the giant humanoid feet that gave life to a
worldwide phenomenon.

It was in August 1958 in Humboldt County, Calif., that Jerry
Crew, a bulldozer operator for Wallace Construction, saw prints
of huge naked feet circling and walking away from his rig.

The Humboldt Times in Eureka, Calif., ran a front-page story on
the prints and coined the term "Bigfoot."

According to family members, Mr. Wallace smirked. He had asked a
friend to carve the 16-inch-long feet. Then he and his brother
Wilbur had slipped them on and created the footprints as a
prank, family members said.

His joke soon swept the country, which was fascinated by rumors
of Himalayan Abominable Snowmen in the 1950s, Chorvinsky said.

"The Abominable Snowman was appropriated by Ray Wallace. It got
into the press, took on a life of its own and next thing you
know there's a Bigfoot, one of the most popular monsters in the
world," he said.

Mr. Wallace continued to milk the prank for years. He offered to
sell a Bigfoot to Texas millionaire Tom Slick and then backed
out when Slick made a serious bid. Mr. Wallace later put out a
press release saying he wanted to buy a baby Bigfoot for $1
million, said Loren Coleman, who has written two books about
Bigfoot. Mr. Wallace also cut a record of supposed Bigfoot
sounds and printed posters of a Bigfoot sitting peaceably with
other animals, said Chorvinsky, who received several hundred
pages of correspondence from Mr. Wallace.

But Mr. Wallace's chief contributions to bigfootery were films
and photos he supposedly captured of the creature in the wild.

There were depictions of Bigfeet eating elk and frogs, of a
Bigfoot sitting on a log and of a Bigfoot munching on cereal.

"Ray's contribution was study into the actual behavior of
Bigfoot, what it eats, how it acts," said Ray Crowe, director of
the International Bigfoot Society in Hillsboro, Ore.

Chorvinsky believes the Wallace family's admission creates
profound doubts about leading evidence of Bigfoot's existence:
the so-called Patterson film, the grainy celluloid images of an
erect apelike creature striding away from the movie camera of
rodeo rider Roger Patterson in 1967. Mr. Wallace said he told
Patterson where to go _ near Bluff Creek, Calif. _ to spot a
Bigfoot, Chorvinsky said.

"Ray told me that the Patterson film was a hoax, and he knew who
was in the suit," Chorvinsky said.

Michael Wallace said his father called the Patterson film "a
fake" and said he had nothing to do with it. But he said his
mother admitted she had been photographed in a Bigfoot suit. "He
had several people he used in his movies," Michael Wallace said.

Mr. Wallace never received proper credit in the Bigfoot
community, Chorvinsky said. "He got it off the ground, and he
kept getting glossed over. He's been consistently marginalized
or ignored by authors," Chorvinsky said.

Why? "Because it hurts the case for Bigfoot if you talk too much
about Ray Wallace," he replied.

The Wallace family's revelation does not faze some Bigfoot
experts, and the debate about Bigfoot's existence rages on.

"These rumors have been circulating for some time," said Jeff
Meldrum, an associate professor of anatomy and anthropology at
Idaho State University.

Meldrum said he has casts of 40 to 50 footprints that he
concludes, from their anatomical features, come from authentic
unknown primates.

"To suggest all these are explained by simple carved feet
strapped to boots just doesn't wash," he said. Even if the
Wallace family's claims are true, Meldrum added, there are
historical accounts of Bigfootlike creatures going back to the
1800s. "How do you account for that?"

It's easy, replied Chorvinsky; the historical accounts were
mistakes, myths or hoaxes. "I would like to see the evidence
beyond the anecdotal. Jeff Meldrum's job is show us the beef,
something beyond old newspaper articles."

As for Meldrum's claim about authentic footprints, Chorvinsky
said: "Jeff Meldrum is not an expert in creating hoaxes. I was a
professional magician and special-effects film director;
anything can be faked."

Michael Wallace said family members knew about his father's hoax
but never let on.

"The family just sat back and grinned," he said. "He didn't mean
to hurt anyone."

To them, it was just another one of Mr. Wallace's jokes. Like
the time he dropped a powerful firecracker down the chimney of a
bunkhouse while loggers played cards inside. Or the time he
convinced his crew that wild cats with bushy tails were living
in forest treetops.

To his family, Bigfoot was a small part of Mr. Wallace.

A rugged rogue with a big laugh and generous heart, Mr. Wallace
was born in Clarksdale, Mo., and came West as a boy. He spent
much of his adult life taming the country. He built part of
Highway 1 in coastal California, he cut trees when they were so
big that trucks carried one-log loads, and he opened a free
petting zoo near Chehalis.

In 1942, he married Elna Sorensen and moved around the Pacific
Northwest as his company built logging roads and cut timber. His
four adopted sons spent much of their childhood in logging
camps.

"Sometimes we lived in the middle of nowhere. You couldn't ask
for a better life as a kid," said Michael, his oldest son, now a
home builder in Castle Rock.

In 1961, he settled down in Toledo, Lewis County. Shortly after,
he opened a free zoo, the Wild Animal Farm, off Interstate 5. It
stayed open for about 13 years. His wife ran an adjacent
hamburger stand to help support the zoo. "I didn't have normal
pets," said Michael Wallace. "I had cougars, raccoons, deer and
bear cubs."

Mr. Wallace would sometimes give free hamburgers and milkshakes
to families that looked poor, his son said.

"He loved children and wanted to adopt every kid he saw. He was
a good provider. If he wasn't playing a practical joke, he was
always working."

Nephew Dale Lee Wallace added: "He always told us to believe in
the good Lord and stay married. He was always preaching things
like that."

His son is convinced Mr. Wallace is still relishing his biggest
practical joke. "I know he's just cracking up," said Michael
Wallace.

Mr. Wallace was preceded in death by son Gary, who died in a
logging accident. Besides his wife and son Michael, Mr. Wallace
is survived by sons, Larry, of Winlock, and Richard, of Toledo;
10 grandchildren, six great-grandchildren and numerous nieces
and nephews.

Remembrances may be donated to Children's Hospital & Regional
Medical Center in Seattle.

Bob Young: 206-464-2174 or byoung@seattletimes.com

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                    Fife UFO Witnesses Respond To Appeal

From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 15:00:00 -0500
Fwd Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 15:00:00 -0500
Subject: Fife UFO Witnesses Respond To Appeal

http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/ShowStory.cfm?StoryID=29530


Fife UFO Witnesses Respond To Appeal

UFO investigators have had an "absolutely astonishing response"
to an appeal for witnesses to a string of alleged close
encounters in north-east Fife, writes Michael Alexander.

Lee Close, chief investigator with the Anglo Scottish UFO
Research Agency (ASUFORA), revealed today that since last
Thursday the group had received 11 phone calls and four e-mails
concerning unexplained sightings over the past few years.

As a result of the newspaper publicity he said ASUFORA had also
now been asked to take part in a documentary about UFOs and
alien abductions in Scotland.

Meanwhile, a number of independent UFO investigators across
Scotland have also come forward wanting to collaborate their
efforts and join the team.

Mr Close said, "There has been an astonishing response since
last week. We have had at least 10 sightings reported to us from
the Fife area.

"These include a sighting in Dundee in 1994, one over RAF
Leuchars, Burntisland on November 28, and Ballingry on the June
1.

"There have also been sightings in Kirkcaldy, Glenrothes and
several other locations including Freuchie."

ASUFORA made its appeal for witnesses last week following a new
report of a UFO sighting in the Freuchie area.

Six years ago two local women made headlines around the world
after claiming they encountered aliens at Drummy Wood, Freuchie.

Now UFO enthusiasts are being drawn to the area in renewed
numbers following a new "sighting" by a retired US army captain
and his family during a visit to the area last summer.

Mr Close said it was now his team's job to assess whether the
latest reports could be explained by astronomical or aircraft
factors, or whether there might be something more supernatural
at work.

Sighting-report forms had now been sent out to all the
individuals and he was awaiting replies.

Mr Close said he was still keen to hear any other reports,
including photographic and video evidence.

And he again offered assurances that anyone who did so would be
treated with the strictest confidentiality.

He said ASUFORA was also hoping to expand as a professional
group and was looking for equipment and financial support.

He added, "We are currently looking for things like
electromagentic field detectors, access to Geiger counters,
digital cameras, night vision field glasses and recording
equipment."

Anyone with information or who can help can phone the ASUFORA
hotline on 07796 095480.

Further information can be found at www.geocities.com/asufora or
by e-mailing Lee Close on asufora@hotmail.com


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                    UK Daily Mail Rendlesham UFO Article

From: Dave Haith visions@ntlworld.com
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 15:27:16 -0000
Fwd Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 15:04:11 -0500
Subject: UK Daily Mail Rendlesham UFO Article


In today's (Dec 6, 2002) UK's Daily Mail is a full page feature
by Nick Craven under a composite picture of a grey alien
standing in front of saucer hovering over trees.

The subheadline is 'Revealed: the UFO sighting the Government
kept quiet for 20 years' with a main headline  'The day the
aliens landed... in Suffolk'

The article reads:


The young airmen ran through the forest towards the strange glow
in the trees fearing it might be a crashed aircraft.

Suddenly the whole area was covered in a brilliant white light
from above, where an unearthly triangular craft seemed to float
silently above the trees.

Frozen in terror, the servicemen watched as the object hovered
for a while, appearing to observe them, then shot off faster
than any aircraft they had ever seen.

This was not Hollywood's latest venture into science fiction,
but the genuine account of U.S. airmen at a Suffolk RAF base
more than 20 years ago.

In December 1980, Rendelsham Forest near RAF Woodbridge was,
according to alien watchers, the site of Britain's most
celebrated UFO sighting, which the Government has tried to keep
quiet ever since.

This week the Ministry of Defence was criticised by the
Parliamentary Ombudsman for repeatedly refusing to reveal the
contents of the secret 'Rendlesham File' despite much of its
contents being released in America under the U.S.. Freedom of
Information Act.

Now the Ministry of Defence has finally - and reluctantly -
  released the Rendlesham files to public view under the British
version of the Act, so we can - officially - learn exactly what
a group of military witnesses saw in the forest on that chilly
night 22 years ago. It makes for astonishing reading. Between
Christmas 1980 and New Year, two incidents occurred on
successive nights near the US Air Force nuclear base at RAF
Woodbridge.

They were reported in a remarkable memo by the Deputy Base
Commander Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt, under the innocuous
title 'Unexplained Lights'. He told how three military policemen

saw light in the trees outside the back gate of the airfield and
set off, fearing a crash.

Lt Col Halt wrote: "They reported seeing a strange glowing
object in the forest...described as being metallic in appearance
and triangular in shape, approximately two to three metres
across the base and 2m high. It illuminated the entire forest
with a white light.

"The object itself has a pulsating red light on top and a bank
of blue lights underneath.

"The object was hovering or on legs. As the patrolmen approached
it manoeuvred through the trees and disappeared. At this time
the animals on a nearby farm went into a frenzy".

The next day Lt Col Halt joined a patrol which found three
depressions on the forest floor where the object had been
sighted. Radiation readings of ten times the normal level were
found around the site.

Not all Lt Col Halt's account has the hallmark of military
efficiency. He got the date of the incident wrong, recording the
initial sighting as December 27 when it was the 26th.

While checking the area, the officer recorded what he found on a
Dictaphone, but the tape was to record something far more
dramatic when the strange lights returned after nightfall.

The breathless officer can be heard saying: "There's no doubt
about it, there's a strange flashing red  light ahead....pieces
of it are shooting off...this is weird. It's like the pupil of
an eye looking at you, winking."

Later on he observed: "We got two strange objects, half moon
shape, dancing with coloured lights on them....Yeah, they're
both heading north.  He's coming in towards us now....Now we're
observing what appears to be a beam coming down to the ground."

In the background there are excited shouts from members of the
four-man patrol and another officer exclaims: "Look at the
colours.....s**t!"

"This is unreal" gasps Lt Col Halt.

Over the years, as the memo leaked out, other former officers
went public, backing up the story. Most notable was another USAF
security patrol-man, Larry Warren. According to his account,
there were not just lights, but something far more incredible.
He said the triangular object appeared right in front of him and
he felt nauseous as the hairs on the back of his neck stood on
end.

He claims to have seen three 'aeronaut entities' communicating
telepathically with the senior officer. The aliens were 3ft tall
and resembled "kids in snowsuits". He said they floated on
bluish/gold balls of light out of their craft.

According to Warren, the next morning, he and the other airmen
were checked over with a Geiger counter and instructed to sign
statements which merely mentioned seeing 'unusual lights'. They
were told by senior officers not to discuss the incidents.

Other parts of the his story emerged during subsequent hypnotic
regression, it seems - itself a highly controversial technique
by which to divine the truth. In this account, following his
close encounter, he was abducted by aliens and taken under the
base to a network of tunnels. The aliens told him they used the
tunnels to get to the North sea.

Warren's account, published in a book in 1997, merely allowed
the sceptics to rubbish the Rendlesham incident as fantasy,
obscuring the fact that something inexplicable happened that
night, and that the witnesses, far from being anorak star-
gazers, were seasoned Air Force personnel.

Ian Ridpath, editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Astronomy, is
not convinced. He believes the men were merely seeing the
revolving beam of the Orford Ness lighthouse five miles away.
The depressions in the earth were merely rabbit diggings, he
said, and the radiation was of naturally occurring levels.
Additionally he discovered that a very bright meteor has been
visible in southern England that night.

"UFO hunters will continue to believe that an alien spaceship
landed in Rendlesham Forest" concludes Ridpath, dismissing it as
"a marvellous product of human imagination".

Brenda Butler, one of the regular band of 'sky watchers' who
spend their nights in Rendlesham Forest, doesn't mind being
accused of using her imagination or of being called downright
'nutty' when she tells people how she has been abducted by
aliens three times.

The chirpy, 58 year old grandmother from Leiston, near
Woodbridge, spends three nights a week in the woods with other
devotees, and says she has seen spacecraft on no fewer than five
occasions.

"People say that I'm mad, but I just tell them they should keep
an open mind until they've seen it for themselves" she said.
"There's a portal between our world and that of the aliens. They
come through on interdimensional energy."

The most recent investigation into Rendlesham was led by the
unlikely figure of glamorous society internet gossip columnist
Georgina Bruni, who interviewed more than 100 witnesses for her
book, You Can't Tell The People.

"I started out as a sceptic" said Miss Bruni, 51, who became
interested in the case five years ago.

"But after speaking to the people who saw it, I am sure this was
an event of biblical proportions and it was not of this world.
"I'm less convinced by accounts of abductions by aliens and
whatever but something very strange happened here and the
Government, by trying to deny it and put the lid on it, have
given the conspiracy theorists a field day."

So what really happened at Rendlesham - was it just a case of
over-excited Americans indulging in group hallucination? Did
trained military personnel really mistake a lighthouse for a
moving spaceship? None of the solutions seems to hold much water
and we are forced to file the incident under 'unexplained'.
Rendlesham has been described as 'Britain's Roswell' - the
alleged incident in which an alien spacecraft was recovered near
the town of New Mexico in 1947 after crashing.

The U.S. government says it was a weather balloon but that only
fuelled the fascination of Hollywood producers and the UFO-
logists still further.

Initially the MoD denied that anything out of the ordinary had
been reported at Rendlesham. Years later Georgina Bruni says she
tackled Lady Thatcher about UFOs at a charity event and was
told: "You must have the facts and you can't tell the people".
That seems to have been the official line on UFOs for years and
has helped maintain the sinister X-Files aura about the whole
area.

After all, no good mystery is complete without attendant
conspiracy theories. The Truth May Be Out There but there's no
fun in searching for it unless you have to cut through a blanket
of official denials and cover-ups, is there?

One day, even the MoD might learn that lesson.



PLEASE NOTE. I have keyed in this story for personal information
only and have no permission - should any be needed - for it to
be used on websites, magazines or for non-personal use.

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                        Re: Phony Credentials? - Hall

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 15:56:47 +0000
Fwd Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 15:32:07 -0500
Subject: Re: Phony Credentials? - Hall


 >From: Robert Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 23:48:40 EST
 >Subject: Re: Phony Credentials?

 >>From: Jim Speiser <jimspeiser@yahoo.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 11:40:43 -0700
 >>Subject: Phony Credentials? [was: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed]

 >>Unfortunately, to this list it now appears we may have to add
 >>the name of William C. Levengood, who up to now has enjoyed a
 >>fairly unblemished reputation as a plant biologist. It seems he
 >>bolstered that reputation, and his crop circle work, by placing
 >>the word 'Dr.' before his name, and/or not objecting when others
 >>did so.

 >>Acting on a tip from a well-known UFO 'Internal Affairs
 >>Division', I asked Levengood, point-blank, if his Doctorate were
 >>legitimate. He insisted that it was, and said it was a "Ph.D.
 >>equivalent," handed out by the National Academy of Science.

 >>A few quick calls to the NAS by others on this List revealed
 >>that they do not hand out any kind of degrees nor their
 >>equivalents, not being an academic institution.

 >>I frankly don't know how this reflects on his crop circle
 >>research, and perhaps he has a legitimate degree somehow, but no
 >>one I know has ever heard of a 'Ph.D. equivalent', and everyone I
 >>know insists "You either got-or-you-haven't-got a doctorate." I
 >>for one will have to take Mr. Levengood's future research with a
 >>grain of salt.

 >Hi Jim,

 >One does wonder what a 'Ph.D. Equivalent' is. Gives new meaning
 >to Piled Higher and Deeper....


Robert,

I have a B.A. in Philosophy, and a PhD Equivalent (PhDE) in
Ufology.  (-;

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From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 16:04:37 +0000
Fwd Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 15:33:40 -0500
Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Hall


 >From: Greg Sandow <greg@gregsandow.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:55:39 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case

 >>From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 20:50:27 +0000
 >>Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case

 >>This is a very generous offer, and leads me to volunteer as
 >>well. I am a very experienced abstractor/indexer and have worked
 >>on major national and international databases. Although I am not
 >>likely to have the time to do all the abstracting, what I can do
 >>is draft a Thesaurus of indexing terms, create some sample
 >>abstracts, and outline abstracing procedures for anyone who has
 >>the time. I even have experience in training abstractors. In
 >>fact, the format I used in The UFO Evidence, Volume II, might be
 >>a good way to go about it. I am the copyright owner, and can
 >>send you those cases abstracts electronicallyto incorporate in a
 >>database provided you can handle WordPerfect 5.1

 >Dick, it occurs to me that - if you somehow had the time - you'd
 >be doing a great service if you'd write abstracts of key papers
 >in the abduction literature. There's a lot of important work
 >that's not well enoguh known. I've seen people from all sides of
 >the abduction debate weigh in with opinions they might have
 >modified if they'd read some of what's out there. Some people
 >don't yet know things that _have_ been found out; others
 >reinvent the wheel, going over ground that's already been
 >thoroughly covered. I've recently seen a couple of people search
 >the web for information, and then cry out with puzzlement or
 >dismay when they don't find it. We could use a guide to
 >abduction literature - simply a listing of what's been written,
 >with an abstract of what each entry says.

 >As a start, I'd love to see these things covered:

 >-all of Eddie Bullard's papers, plus his 1987 study for FUFOR

 >-the proceedings of the 1992 abduction conference (already
 >abstracted in the published volume?)

 >-some Budd Hopkins papers that have only been published by the
 >Intruders Foundation

 >-several papers on the psychology of abductees (I supplied a
 >brief bibliography to someone on this list who asked me for it)

 >-Stuart Appelle's crucial 1996 paper from JUFOS, critically
 >looking at the abduction evidence, and at the theories of
 >skeptics and believers

 >And these are only things I know about, or that come to my mind
 >at this moment. There's got to be much more that, given the
 >problem I've set forth, I've never heard about.

 >Greg Sandow

 >Books should be abstracted, too. Some important ones aren't
 >available. For instance Jim Schnabel's "Dark White," a valuable
 >(if somewhat frivolous) look at the early days of abduction
 >research.

Greg,

I agree. This fits exactly with my concept of an abduction
literature database. In the past I have advocated a "Quick
Alert" system for important UFO-related literature.

However, since the Corporate Axis of Evil has pretty well wiped
out my retirement funds, I can't afford much more pro bono work
and am already straining it a bit to offer what I did. It will
have to be a very spare time activity for me, and paying work
will have to come first at all times.


  - Dick









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From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:16:34 -0500
Fwd Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 16:12:17 -0500
Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Maccabee


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:56:49 EST
 >Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>From: Tom King <tomking2030@hotmail.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 15:56:55 +0000
 >>Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>>From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 22:57:03 EST
 >>>Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

<snip>

 >>Thank God that waste of money stopped. Of course the cult
 >>that listens to radio noise will debunk every single UFO
 >>photo/video, eyewitness.

 >Cult? Coming from ufoology, that's a joke.

 >>Because if any of these clowns admitts UFOs could
 >>already be here. Than they would be out of a job now wouldn't
 >>they?

 >An interesting observation. It probably explains why few if any
 >one in ufology dares to actually try to obtain instrumented
 >records of UFOs. They prefer to wallow in the vicarious thrills
 >of abuctees and other "experiences", if they aren't out peddling
 >books and lecturing to the faithful.

A statement by the uninformed?

There already are "instrumented records of UFOs." And they are
studiously collected. Read White Sands Proof at my web site as
an example.









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                      Re: Abductions & Ufology - Hebert

From: Amy Hebert <yellowrose129@attbi.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:03:43 -0600
Fwd Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 16:14:46 -0500
Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology - Hebert


 >From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 20:37:43 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >>From: Amy Hebert <yellowrose129@attbi.com>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 01:34:11 -0600
 >>Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

<snip>

Dick, I have always admired your knowledge of UFO phenomena and
your accomplishments in the field of UFO studies. However, in
our current discussion you avoid the issues, make obvious
attempts to twist my statements into the opposite of what I am
saying, and have continually wandered off into past events that
have nothing to do with the discussion at hand. Since we both
have other work to do, I will summarize and attempt to bring
this thread to a conclusion.

 >Amy,

 >I perceive that we have a much larger area of agreement than of
 >disagreement, so don't understand why you persist in misreading
 >and then misrepresenting my comments repeatedly.

I'm not sure we agree as much as you think, Dick.

Neither am I misreading or misrepresenting your comments. What
you have said is there in black and white. On 11-30-02, you
claimed to have worked with "something like 150" abductees, only
two were "psychological basket cases", and "a very high
percentage clearly were entirely sane and grounded individuals".
On 12-2-02, I asked how you determined, 1) most of the 150
individuals were abductees (rather than suffering from
encounters with other phenomena not necessarily abduction
related or only individuals who claimed to have been abducted
but were not), 2)only two of the 150 were "psychological basket
cases", and 3) a very high percentage were sane and grounded
individuals.

You replied by referring me to an article you wrote, your
"observational powers and knowledge of psychology and human
behavior" based on your position as "Senior Abstracts Editor for
the American Psychological Association" and claimed "it doesn't
take a professional" to recognize mental illness (or, as you
stated, "difficulty functioning as human beings and whose
behavior and vocalizations are bizarre"). You further claimed
"no evidence was found of any serious psychopathology" among the
individuals you worked with (past tense) and you are
"nonjudgmental" about whether those you worked with were
actually abducted or not ("whether it 'really' happened").

I then asked if you had a degree in psychology and asked if you
could restate you contentions from your article you keep
referring to (since the materials are not readily available and
the discussion will be long since forgotten by the time I obtain
and read your article).

 >(1) My vita can be read at my web site (www.hallrichard.com);

Now you tell me to read your vita on your web site instead of
answering my question directly about whether you have a degree
in psychology. Since I see no mention of a degree in psychology
listed in your "vita" nor a degree in any field, I presume you
do not have a degree in psychology.

I requested information about your educational background, skill
level and training to assess your qualifications for recognizing
individuals with any form of psychopathology. I'm sorry but
reading, writing and editing psychological abstracts are not
qualifications for diagnosing psychopathology or establishing
sanity in individuals who claim to have been abducted (IMHO).

Therefore, as far as I can tell, the answers to my three original
inquiries are:

1. You were "nonjudgmental" about whether or not the abductees
you worked with were actually abductees (by whatever definition
you reference that term). So you did not determine which
individuals may have actually had abduction experiences, which
ones may have had experiences with other non-abduction related
phenomena or which ones only claimed they had been abducted but
were not.

2. You do not have a degree in psychology or official
qualifications for determining the presence of psychopathology
in any of the individuals you worked with who claimed to have
been abducted. Therefore, you determined only two were "basket
cases" based on your opinion rather than any official
qualifications for making such determinations.

3. Your statement that "a very high percentage clearly were
entirely sane and grounded individuals" is also based on your
opinions rather than any qualifications you may have to assess
the presence or lack of psychopathology in the individuals you
worked with.

You need to read your own statements more carefully, Dick, and
consider the difference between what you know and what you only
think you know about abduction phenomena.

In fact, we all need to re-evaluate the information currently
available about abduction phenomena and ask ourselves how much
is based merely on opinion and how much is based on scientific,
unbiased research. I asked myself that question then packed up
all my books and papers about abduction phenomena and put them
in storage. I've started over from scratch.

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                   Re: Defining An Abduction Case - White

From: Eleanor White <eleanor@raven1.net>
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 12:09:38 -0500
Fwd Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 16:17:14 -0500
Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case - White


 >From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 20:50:27 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case

 >>From: Eleanor White <eleanor@raven1.net>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 14:50:44 -0500
 >>Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case

 >This is a very generous offer, and leads me to volunteer as
 >well. I am a very experienced abstractor/indexer and have worked
 >on major national and international databases. Although I am not
 >likely to have the time to do all the abstracting, what I can do
 >is draft a Thesaurus of indexing terms, create some sample
 >abstracts, and outline abstracing procedures for anyone who has
 >the time. I even have experience in training abstractors. In
 >fact, the format I used in The UFO Evidence, Volume II, might be
 >a good way to go about it. I am the copyright owner, and can
 >send you those cases abstracts electronicallyto incorporate in a
 >database provided you can handle WordPerfect 5.1.


I don't have it but Microsoft Works can handle it. These days,
cross pollination is much easier than the early days of the PC -
  most major software can read and often write files in
competitor software format. Word Perfect 5.1 is a nifty piece of
software.

By the way, regards John Velez' concern about appearing biased
by way of being both an experiencer and a resarcher, this has
advantages too. Similar advantages would accrue if, say, the
9/11 investigation panel included civilians, as some in the
buildings who escaped, and some who participated in the rescue
and cleanup efforts.

For example:

- A bona fide experiencer is much more likely to be able
  to filter out the cases where the experience might not
  fit a true UFO abduction case. "More sensitive
  antennae".

- A bona fide experiencer is likely to work the hardest
  at doing a clean, rigorous project, and sustaining the
  long hours of work required.

- A bona fide experiencer like John Velez, who has
  experience in media and public speaking is most likely
  to be able to clarify the descriptions from other cases
  where the original language is vague or hard to
  comprehend. After all, abductees weren't selected
  because of their writing ability.

As to those who doubt the finished work's validity, that's easy
to handle. Simply make all the case files (anonymized), the
database, and the database query logic available to the entire
world. As work proceeds, those handling the data would almost
instinctively realize that every small piece of work they do may
be scrutinized and would take the necessary care to anticipate
scrutiny, and prepare the work for it.

This is, after all, what scientists do when they do peer review.

After the compilation, analysis and report is complete, the ball
is in the court of the world's scientists. If they don't review
it, then their opinions can be rebutted.

After all, lots of people working in behavioural sciences have
behavioural problems, yet they aren't barred from working in
their fields.


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                           Re: Meier Photo - Young

From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 12:19:19 EST
Fwd Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 16:18:30 -0500
Subject: Re: Meier Photo - Young


 >From: Jim Deardorff <deardorj@proaxis.com>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 11:14:56 -0800
 >Subject: Meier Photo [was: Canada's National Post On Rendlesham]

Hi, Jim:

In your opinion, is there any Meier picture which is a hoax?


Clear skies,

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                          A (Renewed) CIA Mea Culpa

From: Larry W. Bryant <overtci@cavtel.net>
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 15:44:37 -0500
Fwd Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 16:22:46 -0500
Subject: A (Renewed) CIA Mea Culpa


In a letter to Larry W. Bryant dated Nov. 26, 2002, CIA FOIA chief
Kathryn I. Dyer expresses the following:


"This is in response to your 22 July 2002 letter regarding your
request under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act
for the 'Intelligence Advisory Board memorandum of July 17,
1947.' We have informed the National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA) that, with respect to your appeal
regarding the Intelligence Advisory Board memorandum, the record
had been previously released in its entirety as part of another
collection and, therefore, could be released in full to you. We
trust you have received a copy from NARA.

In your letter you point out, correctly, that you do not have
an unpaid fee balance for processing your request number F-1978-
01025. We apologize for failing to note this fact, and we have
taken appropriate action to correct our electronic system."


LWB Note: Indeed, the glacially responsive NARA folks, in
response to my recent FOIA lawsuit against their protracted
delay, finally did manage to cough up an uncensored version of
the memo's agenda item No. 3 (which, alas, we now know has no
mention of either the Roswell Incident or MJ-12 machinations).

So, to what does the declassified item refer?

Well, it and its now-declassified, multipage attachment refer to
a discussion about the proposed employment of military reserve
officers as intelligence-gathering agents.

Does this setback in the eternal quest for ANY Roswell/MJ-12
documentary smoking guns mean that all is said and done?

Stay tuned.

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

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                       Re: Phony Credentials? - Young

From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 15:51:58 EST
Fwd Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 19:24:19 -0500
Subject: Re: Phony Credentials? - Young


 >From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 15:56:47 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Phony Credentials?

 >>From: Robert Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 23:48:40 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Phony Credentials?

<snip>

 >>One does wonder what a 'Ph.D. Equivalent' is. Gives new meaning
 >>to Piled Higher and Deeper....

 >Robert,

 >I have a B.A. in Philosophy, and a PhD Equivalent (PhDE) in
 >Ufology.  (-;

 >Dick

Ahem...

It's good that my degrees aren't a B.S., an M.S. [more of same],
and a Ph.D. [piled higher and deeper].

An artsy crowd, ain't we?

Clear skies,
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                       Re: Abductions & Ufology - Hall

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 22:11:55 +0000
Fwd Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 19:27:50 -0500
Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology - Hall


 >From: Amy Hebert <yellowrose129@attbi.com>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:03:43 -0600
 >Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >>From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 20:37:43 +0000
 >>Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >>>From: Amy Hebert <yellowrose129@attbi.com>
 >>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 01:34:11 -0600
 >>>Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >Dick, I have always admired your knowledge of UFO phenomena and
 >your accomplishments in the field of UFO studies. However, in
 >our current discussion you avoid the issues, make obvious
 >attempts to twist my statements into the opposite of what I am
 >saying, and have continually wandered off into past events that
 >have nothing to do with the discussion at hand. Since we both
 >have other work to do, I will summarize and attempt to bring
 >this thread to a conclusion.

Amy,

This is truly a breathtakingly false, inaccurate, and entirely
self-serving "summation" - and I speak as a very experienced
abstractor/summarizer. And to top it off you (Ms. Pot) accuse me
(Mr. Kettle) of "attempting to twist [your] statements..."

I have given you (and the long-suffering List) very full and
complete answers, which for unknown reasons you choose to
ignore, deny, and pretend that I haven't. I will leave it to
List members to decide who is talking facts and sense here and
who is not.

You now rank right up there with Bob Young as not deserving any
further answer.

"Avoiding issues????"

How long are you going to avoid reading "Testing Reality" which
I have repeatedly steered you toward?

Lot's of luck, Amy. I agree that this thread should be brought
to a conclusion since there is no communication going on between
you and me, but hopefully anyone else who has bothered to read
it will learn something.

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                         Re: Meier Photo - Deardorff

From: Jim Deardorff <deardorj@proaxis.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 15:52:21 -0800
Fwd Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 19:29:33 -0500
Subject: Re: Meier Photo - Deardorff


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 12:19:19 EST
 >Subject: Re: Meier Photo

 >>From: Jim Deardorff <deardorj@proaxis.com>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 11:14:56 -0800
 >>Subject: Meier Photo [was: Canada's National Post On Rendlesham]

 >Hi, Jim:

 >In your opinion, is there any Meier picture which is a hoax?

No; none from his photo series of 1975: March, 3, 8 & 18, June
14, July 9; 1976: March 8, 14, 29.

Please let me know if you find any way the photos/movies I
discuss in my website files could have been credibly hoaxed.


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                          Secrecy News -- 12/06/02

From: Steven Aftergood <saftergood@fas.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 12:42:36 -0500
Fwd Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 19:32:00 -0500
Subject: Secrecy News -- 12/06/02


SECRECY NEWS
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2002, Issue No. 120
December 6, 2002


**      COURT RULES ON ENEMY COMBATANTS
**      RUMSFELD ON YEMEN, FOIA
**      FOIA LOSES TRACTION
**      BUSH OBSERVES EID AL-FITR


COURT RULES ON ENEMY COMBATANTS

The President has wide latitude as commander in chief to
designate someone like suspected "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla an
enemy combatant and to detain him indefinitely without trial,
even though Padilla is an American citizen captured on American
soil, and even though Congress has not formally declared a state
of war, a federal court ruled this week.

It is "simply wrong" to "assume that indefinite confinement of
one not convicted of a crime is per se unconstitutional," wrote
Judge Michael B. Mukasey of the Southern District of New York in
his December 4 ruling.

On the other hand, contrary to the Bush Administration's
position, Padilla must be permitted access to an attorney so
that he may be able to challenge the grounds for his detention
before a court of law, Judge Mukasey found.

"Padilla's need to consult with a lawyer to help him do what the
[habeas corpus] statute permits him to do is obvious," Judge
Mukasey wrote.

The legal issues involved are of such fundamental importance
that they will be of interest to many.  Judge Mukasey's 105 page
ruling may be found here:

http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/rulings/02CV04445.pdf


RUMSFELD ON YEMEN, FOIA

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld deflected questions this week
about U.S. policy concerning military operations such as the
November 3 strike in Yemen that killed six reputed al Qaeda
targets.

Will the U.S. undertake this kind of lethal action only with the
permission of the target country? asked Pam Hess of UPI at a
press briefing on December 3.  When is killing preferred to
capture and interrogation?  And why was the Yemen mission a CIA
operation rather than a DoD one?

"Those are very good questions," Secretary Rumsfeld genially
replied.

However, he said, "I don't even concede there was a Yemen
mission."

Doesn't the public have some kind of right to know?  Sure,
Rumsfeld said.

In fact, he noted, "I was one of the authors of the Freedom of
Information Act.  Yeah, back in the 1960s.  I really was.  I was
one of the co-authors of that legislation."

"That's why it doesn't work," said an identified reporter.

See excerpts from the December 3 Pentagon press briefing here:

http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2002/12/dod120302.html


FOIA LOSES TRACTION

Within the letter of the law, the executive branch has
considerable leeway in its interpretation of statutes such as
the Freedom of Information Act.  In the Bush Administration, all
of that interpretive leeway, and then some, has been used to
withhold information, including information that previously had
been released to requesters.

A letter to the editor in the Washington Post today cites
several examples of the growing resistance to disclosure.  See
"What Our Government is Hiding" by James F. Kerrigan here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16436-
2002Dec5.html

In a properly functioning system of checks and balances, it
would be up to Congress to address such wholesale shifts in FOIA
practices, and to enact appropriate remedies.  But Republicans
who were formerly skeptical of big government now favor minimal
restraints on executive authority.  So congressional action on
this front appears increasingly unlikely.


BUSH OBSERVES EID AL-FITR

President Bush visited the Islamic Center of Washington
yesterday, where he removed his shoes, and spoke in honor of Eid
al-Fitr, the celebration at the end of the Islamic month of
Ramadan.

By doing so, he was conspicuously distancing himself from those
on the political and religious right who are generally hostile
to the Islamic world, while strengthening the kind of American
pluralism that embraces Muslims as much as anyone else.  It is
the sort of thing Presidents are supposed to do, but it was
nevertheless a good and decent gesture.

See "President Commemorates Eid al-Fitr" on the White House web
site here:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/12/20021205-5.html


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                           Re: Meier Photo - Hall

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 00:42:42 +0000
Fwd Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 21:09:47 -0500
Subject: Re: Meier Photo - Hall


 >From: Jim Deardorff <deardorj@proaxis.com>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 15:52:21 -0800
 >Subject: Re: Meier Photo

 >>From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 12:19:19 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Meier Photo

 >>>From: Jim Deardorff <deardorj@proaxis.com>
 >>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 11:14:56 -0800
 >>>Subject: Meier Photo [was: Canada's National Post On Rendlesham]

 >>Hi, Jim:

 >>In your opinion, is there any Meier picture which is a hoax?

 >No; none from his photo series of 1975: March, 3, 8 & 18, June
 >14, July 9; 1976: March 8, 14, 29.

 >Please let me know if you find any way the photos/movies I
 >discuss in my website files could have been credibly hoaxed.

 >Jim Deardorff
 >http://www.tjresearch.info

Jim,

Omigod, please don't force me to agree with Bob Young anymore.
Meier is so obviously a fraud that I have to question your
critical faculties. Excuse me. In the words of a colleague at
Congressional Information Service (these days known as
Lexis/Nexis) I am not only "over the hill" but I am accelerating
down the other side. I don't care to hear this utterly unfounded
revisionist history of what any scholarly or educated person
would conclude is clear-cut BS.

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                           A Question Of The Real

From: Colin Bennett <sharkley@panzerben.fsworld.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 01:19:26 -0000
Fwd Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 21:12:49 -0500
Subject: A Question Of The Real


Hello List Savants,

I alway find Dave Clarke's comments apt, well-informed and to
the point. But I would like to ask him a question. As co-author
of a book recently published, why did he chose to reveal a
cover-up of something he does not believe exists in the first
place?

If he did choose to reveal the cover-up of nothing at all, then
he is to be congratulated in constructing a conceit worthy of
John Donne, Borges, or even the Brentford Polonius. This is a
metaphysical quibble worthy of the Schoolmen and Occam's old
Friars. I do hope David lets us know if he gets letters from
folk who oppose him, that is people who believe that there was
no cover-up of nothing at all in the first place. But as King
Lear said to Cordelia, "nothing shall come of nothing..."

Or can we assume that dear David is, like Cardinal Manning long
ago, already contemplating the road to Rome? Confession is of
course, even within technological and scientific cultures, still
quite a valid spiritual option. Therefore he need not live in
fear and trembling as he contemplates confusing aspects of what
T.S. Eliot called the Calamitous Annunciation. Surely List
brethren and sisters all will all understand if one of our
Prodigal Sons decides to leave the white-washed chapels of his
agony and decides once more to entire the mysterium. If Dave has
any sense he will drag the Brentford Polonius with him kicking
and struggling as yet he might, and kneel before the The Truth.

In these Last Days there is still time for both forgiveness and
absolution, even for those deepest in sin. Remember: a refusal
to Believe is not the Unforgivable Sin, if only because some
poor confused fools would disbelieve anything out of a spiritual
need that has lost itself and in is in desperate need of divine
solace.

Hark the Herald Angels Sing!

Blessings of the Season to all List Savants, Gurus, Priestesses,
and Hierosarches!


Colin








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                          Moderator Re: Billy Meier

From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 14:40:54 -0500
Fwd Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 14:40:54 -0500
Subject: Moderator Re: Billy Meier


We are starting to go over old ground on the Meier threads.

There are about 666 messages currently available at the
UFO UpDates Archive regarding Meier at:

http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/

scroll down and use the Google Search and set the radio-button
to 'Search virtuallystrange.net'.

Please do not submit anything further on Meier until you are
_certain_ that your topic on the case has not previously passed across
subscribers screens over the past seven years.

Thank you,

Errol Bruce-Knapp
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                 Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Friedman

From: Stan Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 22:17:50 -0400
Fwd Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 14:46:16 -0500
Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Friedman


<snip>

 >There already are "instrumented records of UFOs." And they are
 >studiously collected. Read White Sands Proof at my web site as
 >an example.

I consider radar an instrument as well and would suggest Jim
McDonald's radar cases.

The US taxpayer has still been contributing to SETI.
Contributions of appreciated stock (Bill Allan of Microsoft,
Hewlett Packard guys etc,) are tax deductible at current value.
If sold, there would be considerable capital gains taxes. The
public foots the bill for the difference.

Maybe Listers from the UK can help me out here. Isn't Dr. David
Whiteside, the BBC science-on-line guy who made these stupid
comments, the same guy with whom I tangled on TV in Manchester,
UK, in about March of 1995 and when Tim Good, Nick Pope and I
"debated" three men on the con side, a Psychologist, a
Physicist and Dr.Whiteside on the ITV broadcast in June of
1997?

That is the one where 100,000 people called in to say yes or no
to the question of alien visitations. 92% of the callers and
"only" 73 % of the studio audience said yes.

If it was Dr. W, he also claimed that there wasn't anything in
NM but sand, and when I said it was the only place on Earth in
July, 1947, where an alien visitor could study all 3
technologies indicating soon (100 years) Earthlings could be
leaving... nuclear weapons, V- 2 rockets, and powerful radar,
suggested that they could have gone to Russia.

I had to point out that not only were 2 of the 3 US nuclear
weapons labs in NM, but also White Sands, Kirtland and Roswell
and that the Soviets didn't test their first A-Bomb until August
1949.

If it was he, he hasn't learned anything since.


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                  Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Fleming

From: Lan Fleming <lfleming5@houston.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 22:37:24 -0600
Fwd Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 14:53:59 -0500
Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Fleming


 >From: Don Ledger <dledger@ns.sympatico.ca>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 13:17:33 -0400
 >Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Ledger

<snip>

 >Certainly Whitehouse's article is one of the most amateurish
 >pieces of crap I've ever come across. I also get a little
 >suspicious when someone writes such an ill-informed diatribe.
 >What's he got to be upset about? How does it bother him. Does he
 >have some idea that UFO reports, the people that report them,
 >and those that investigate them are somehow doing damage to
 >public order? Why the rant?


I think this guy may have very good reason to rant. The BBC has
invested heavily in debunking for years.

A good example is the hoax they spread about the closure of the
"British UFO Bureau", which isn't at all the big organization
that its name and the BBC implied, and which didn't actually
close according to the British UFO Magazine. (The UFO Bureau
member whom the BBC interviewed said that they had misquoted
him).

Now you've got to admit, the folks that came up with this "end
of the UFO era" scam were pretty darn clever. The BBC was also
involved in a number of crop circle hoaxes and, of course, in
promoting NASA's media campaign against planetary SETI.

But despite all this high-quality debunking, there still seems
to be a rising tide of mainstream media reports on UFOs,
probably fueled in part by the Sci-Fi Channel taking on the
issue in a big way.

I'd be mad, too, if I had devoted years of hard work to
misleading the public, and that's all the thanks I got.








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                     Re: Abductions & Ufology - Speiser

From: Jim Speiser <jimspeiser@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 01:42:53 -0700
Fwd Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 14:57:19 -0500
Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology - Speiser


 >From: Amy Hebert <yellowrose129@attbi.com>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:03:43 -0600
 >Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >>From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 20:37:43 +0000
 >>Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >>>From: Amy Hebert <yellowrose129@attbi.com>
 >>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 01:34:11 -0600
 >>>Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >You need to read your own statements more carefully, Dick, and
 >consider the difference between what you know and what you only
 >think you know about abduction phenomena.

 >In fact, we all need to re-evaluate the information currently
 >available about abduction phenomena and ask ourselves how much
 >is based merely on opinion and how much is based on scientific,
 >unbiased research. I asked myself that question then packed up
 >all my books and papers about abduction phenomena and put them
 >in storage. I've started over from scratch.

<snip>

I feel I must jump in here. Not that Dick needs me to defend
him, but I do not posess a degree in anything, not even an
associates, I don't think I can even pronounce "curriculum
vitae" correctly, yet I firmly believe I can recognize a basket-
case when I see one - and I've seen plenty. (Remember, I once
chaired a Moseley Conference). I resent the idea that
psychologists think that recognizing mental illness is their
exclusive domain. As a matter of fact, if it weren't for us lay
people telling certain individuals we meet that "You maybe
oughta get a check-up from the neck-up," there wouldn't BE very
many psychologists or psychiatrists. Just because I can't write
a paper on border deficit disorder doesn't mean I don't know
when someone's a few french fries short of a happy meal.

And on another point, Amy, you seem to talk about the
triichotomy between abductees, people who think they are
abductees but are experiencing some other phenomenon, and people
who claim to be abductees but aren't, as if there exists some
protocol for making this distinction, that somehow Dick and/or
others are not privy to. It's thus far proven impossible to
prove that someone _has_ been abducted; just how in the heck can
it be proven that someone _hasn't_ been?


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                      Re: Abductions & Ufology - Hebert

From: Amy Hebert <yellowrose129@attbi.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 03:05:43 -0600
Fwd Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 14:59:03 -0500
Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology - Hebert


 >From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 22:11:55 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >>From: Amy Hebert <yellowrose129@attbi.com>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:03:43 -0600
 >>Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >I will leave it to
 >List members to decide who is talking facts and sense here and
 >who is not.

Yes, let's leave it to others to decide for themselves.

 >You now rank right up there with Bob Young as not deserving any
 >further answer.

I, who think there are UFOs and genuine abductees, now rank up
there with Bob Young? Move over, Bob, it's a whole new ball
game. ;>

 >Lot's of luck, Amy. I agree that this thread should be brought
 >to a conclusion since there is no communication going on between
 >you and me, but hopefully anyone else who has bothered to read
 >it will learn something.

Lots of luck to you too, Dick.

Amy

(B.A. psychology, 1981, M.Ed. counseling-psychology, 1992 -
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                       UFO Sightings OZ Files 07.12.02

From: Diane Harrison <auforn@hypermax.net.au>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 19:01:33 +1000
Fwd Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 15:14:21 -0500
Subject: UFO Sightings OZ Files 07.12.02


UFO Sightings OZ Files 07.12.02

30.11.02 BELLATA N.S.W 2117hrs (Source: 1800 Freecallin National
Hotline Callin Code: 02763) Date: 30/11/02 Day:  Saturday Time:
  9.17am DST Location: Bellata area (between Moree and Narrabri)
Classification: CE2 (sound during experience was very audible
and real) Duration of sighting: 2 minutes approx Light colour:
orange/white
Apparent size: Lights appeared 6 foot apart at
apparent perspective
Shape: Unknown
Noise: Magnified sound of ocean roaring x 25 plus times in
quadraphonic surround sound
Objects observed: Six lights flying in formation
Activity when object seen: On 100,000 acre property opening gate
Other witness's: Wife
Name: John Farr

Report

John is a professional shooter and was opening a gate on the
100,000 acre property he was working on when he noticed six
orange/white lights moving in formation heading West/Southwest
of his position. The lights formed a rectangular pattern with
the bottom three lights slightly infront of the top three. The
objects held this formation during the course of the sighting.
John has been a professional shooter for 25 years and has spent
70% of nights in paddocks but noticed that these lights seemed
out of place in the night sky. John viewed the lights through
the scope of his gun at one point, but the lights only appeared
bigger, without definition of shape. The lights were of an
intermittent nature, with some on and some off as they "ripped
across the night sky" faster than any plane or jet in John's
many observations of same. As the objects approached
approximately 12 o'clock high, John noticed a noise he first
thought was the wind. As the objects moved from 12 o'clock to 3
o'clock, the sound increased to such an extent that John in a
somewhat frightened state went into his four wheel drive to put
the spot lights on fearing " something" was going to ram him.
John described the sound "Like something coming at you". At this
point it became the sound and not the lights that created most
consternation for John and his wife. John described the sound
as"surrounding him" and being like " the roar of the sea
magnified 25 to 40 times". Interestingly, John stated that the
sound did not hurt his ears and did not contain the harsh shrill
of jets, nor did the windows of his four wheel drive rattle. The
noise grew to a frightening crescendo before reducing in volume
as the lights moved to 3 o'clock, this noise lasted for 20 to 30
seconds. At the peak of volume, John felt that the noise was
terrestrial in nature and it was only after he made the
correlation of the lights moving away and the sound decreasing
that he made a connection. The noise was so loud at one point "
you could not hear yourself talk". Due to John's experience with
night time skies,low flying jets,meteors,satellites and general
familiarity with the night sky, as well as the sounds of the
bush,due to his vocation and 25 years of experience, I find this
an interesting case. I would estimate 80% of cases report no
noise, 15% report low humming or whirring and only 5% where the
noise becomes the overwhelming experience of the encounter.
Obviously I found John to be sincere and logical in his
reasonings, and find no reason to doubt his summation of events.
The exact date of this sighting should be confirmed by
Wednesday, when John checks his diary. Regards Doug Moffett
AUFORN Director N.S.W

Hi Everyone

I've been very busy transcribing interviews again for those that
may have missed this. Doug did a great Job for us all and with
his enthusiasm for the subject the ABC enthusiastically placed
The Australian UFO Research Network and story on their webpage
for all of OZ to read.... giving us some great coverage. Well
done Doug.

Again if you're going to pass this on to any other e-mail List
all we ask is that you credit the source of the information and
the investigators as a lot of work goes into sightings like
these.

I hope you enjoy this report.

UFO Seen On The New England Highway
Report by Doug Moffett AUFORN Director NSW
Transcribed by Diane Harrison

25.11.02 EDGEROI N.S.W
(Source: 1800 Freecallin National Hotline Callin Code: 02760)
Date: 25/11/02 Day:  Monday Time: 8.40pm DST
Location: Edgeroi (between Moree and Narrabri)
Classification: CE1 (50 mtrs) approx
Duration of sighting: 3 seconds approx
Light colour: red/green
Apparent size: Two road lanes wide
Shape: Unknown
Noise: None
Objects observed: Single
Activity when object seen: Driving
Other witness's: Girlfriend
Name: Peter G
Referred to: Doug Moffett

----------------Initial Report------------

Peter was driving down the Newell Hwy at 8.40pm DST on the 25th
of November just before Edgeroi (just outside of Narribri), with
his girlfriend in his truck. They had the windows down and were
talking, the radio was not on. There was no vehicles in front of
him and a car a long way behind. Peter suddenly noticed an
object to his left hand side. The object had two red at the
front, two red lights at the back and two green lights on the
edges of the middle, no shape could be determined. The object
was approximately 50 mtrs away from the truck at about telegraph
pole height.

When first noticed by Peter the object was travelling at right
angles to the ground, with the lights at a North/South
configuration. It appeared to Peter that the object was either
taking evasive action to miss the truck or was trying to show
him something. When Peter got the attention of his girlfriend
(who had not sighted the object due to it's incredible speed)
the object had now flattened out to a more conventional
East/West configuration and only the rear red lights could be
seen, this was viewed through the open driver's side window on
the right hand side. The geography of the area in question
consists of very flat plains. The object maintained it's very
low altitude over the plains to disappear within 1.5 to 2
seconds over the horizon. Peter stated that the object was like
"something out of "Star Wars" and was the quickest thing he had
ever seen". No noise was heard during the sighting.

The object was estimated to be about the size of two road lanes
by Peter. Peter rang Coonabarrabran Observatory, Police and
various observatories before calling Williamtown Air Base, who
referred Peter to the Hotline Number. When Peter got to Edgeroi,
he had cold shivers for three hours after the encounter.
Previous to this encounter, Peter had not given any thought at
all to possible ET visitation, he is now convinced he saw
something totally unexplainable. Due to the sincerity of the
witness and the facts pertaining to this case I have no doubt
Peter saw a genuine UFO. My personal belief is that Peter saw an
ET craft. Peter is going to call back in the next few days to
the general store in Edgeroi to see if there are any other
reports and will phone the Hotline if there is. I did not feel
comfortable asking Peter about missing time/abduction scenario's
as he was experiencing difficulty dealing with what had just
happened to him as it was, perhaps later.

Regards Doug Moffett AUFORN NSW

Do you believe? Call Mulder and Scully,
we've got an X-file!
ABC Radio New England North West Presenter: Kate Sieper
Wednesday, 27 November 2002
http://www.abc.net.au/newengland/stories/s736045.htm
this URL may not be available any more

They say the truth is out there, but for residents of the North
West region of New South Wales, it might be a bit closer than
they thought!

A truck driver travelling north of Narrabri on Monday night says
he spotted a low-flying object he can't explain, "I was heading
north... and this thing came from the left hand side, about
telegraph pole height. I was in its path, and it swooped around
front of me... it was amazing the pace it went, and then it just
sort of flattened out and took off on the right hand side, and
disappeared along the flat", 'Peter the Truckie' says , "I
thought it might have been an aircraft, from an airforce base,
so I rang Williamstown Air Force base, and they said 'no, it
wouldn't be flying that low', and I rang Parkes telescope and
the observatory in Canberra just to find out I'm not going
bloody silly!"

Peter was put in contact with Doug Moffatt, from the Australian
UFO Research Network, who says, "this is a particularly dramatic
case and find it impossible to come up with any conclusion of
some sort of terrestrial background".

ABC Radio New England North West interview with Doug Moffett

ABC presenter Kate Sieper: Hi Doug, Peter had a really
interesting Sighting.?

Doug: "Yes a lot of people do see thing in the sky but not as
dramatic as this"."This is pretty dramatic case and I one of the
good thing about it is because if the particular facts of the
case find near impossible to come up with an answer or a
conclusion of or come up with a terrestrial back ground". "When
it crossed the road and took of Peter and his girl friend viewed
it for one or two seconds and it was travelling at telegraph
pole height". "And was moving across the plains, which is a dead
flat area and you can virtually see to the horizon, which is
around about thirty miles away". "So if you do the math's at
that it would have to have been moving at fifteen miles per
second which equate to 54,000 to 108,00 miles per hour well that
sure get rid of a lot of possibilities".

Kate: How about some I don't know hum! some sort of weather
balloon maybe getting caught up the midstream of the truck then
zipping in front of the truck, hum! then just blowing away.?

Doug: "Well I think with the description with the lights and that,
weather balloons don't have lights on them that I'm aware of " "And
with that configuration, two at the front and two at the back, and
two green in the middle would make it a rectangular type shape object
and one would imagine". And it seemed to travel away at tremendous
speed and distance". "Peter watched it as it disappeared over the
distance". "So and the width of it being the size of two road lanes
wide, would make it difficult to come up with any terrestrial
explanation".

Kate: Ann mentioned she saw something like this 28 years ago and
to have Peter describe it now, do you think there were sighting
of this nature in this area.

Doug: "No I don't think so, but Barrabra in particular there
seems to be, if you like is a hotspot a hotspot of activity and
has been over the years". "Why I don't know", "I've been to
Barrabra about a year or so ago with the my organisation to
speak to locals up there because so many of them had stories and
quite amazing stories". "A large percentage of people that live
there have had sightings and what we call close encounters".
"This meaning they were very close to the object and in Peters
case it was only fifty meters away". "So a large percentage of
the population in a small town like Barrabra, sightings were
incredibly high to other places".

"So it would appear there seems to be a connection to that New
England area and in particular". "With Barrabra it seems to be
there are lots of reports". "But then again there could be other
towns that are having similar reports and as you were saying and
its very true that people tend to keep these stories to
themselves because of the ridicule that they are quite often
subjected to".

"Some one can be a totally credible figure until they mention
something like this and they become incredible their bubble
bursts their credibility bubble bursts". "Everyone that knows
Peter", "and he sound's a very credible person and to me he
sounds very sincere and a genuine person". "I have doubt what so
ever that what he saw was what he saw". "He sounds like a very
down to earth sought of guy and people that know him would say
he would never make up something like this and that Peter would
know what he was talking about".

Kate: Doug where does these sighting lead and what do the UFO
Research Network do with these reports.

Doug: "What we are trying to do at the moment is to correlate
them into a database and this is a lot work". "We are all
volunteers and we have all got to put bread on the table and do
this all from home and have our own lives as well". "Its slow
going but we are trying to get together a data base and a
workable data base were we can do things, like for instance
categorizing the sighting by the lights like in Peter case there
was red and green and in Ann's case hers was red and green as
well". "The area it was in at the time, the date it was in, once
we get all that information and there are thousands and
thousands of reports and then we start to plot something and try
and have a better understanding of what this phenomenon is". "It
up to each ones personal opinion as to wether these are ET craft
or not and I don't have evidence to support that".

Thank you Doug Moffett for these

--
kind regards

Diane Harrison

National Director
The Australian UFO Research Network and UFO Hotline.
Australian Skywatch Director

Co Editor
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                 Houston, B.C. & Vancouver, B.C. Video Clips

From: Brian Vike - HBCC UFO Research <hbccufo@telus.net>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 02:26:36 -0800
Fwd Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 15:16:27 -0500
Subject: Houston, B.C. & Vancouver, B.C. Video Clips


Good Day List

I made some reports on sightings this year and I also did
receive video and still photos of some of the sightings. Well I
finally have the video clips up on my site for everyone to have
a look at, and are very welcome to comment on if they would care
to.

The video clips are of a sightings in Houston, British Columbia
and one from Vancouver, British Columbia. I have placed the
reports with the URLs for each of the video clips, so I hope
everyone will figure it out.

The URL below is a direct link to the page on my site where you
can then check each of the clips out:

http://www.geocities.com/hbccufo/videoclips.html

I would really like to thank John Cope for taking the images
from VHS and placing them to a format so everyone can view the
clips on my site.


Take care

Brian
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                     Re: A Question Of The Real - Clarke

From: David Clarke <cd292@crazydiamonds.fsnet.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 11:33:41 -0000
Fwd Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 15:27:12 -0500
Subject: Re:  A Question Of The Real - Clarke


 >From: Colin Bennett <sharkley@panzerben.fsworld.co.uk>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 01:19:26 -0000
 >Subject: A Question Of The Real

 >I alway find Dave Clarke's comments apt, well-informed and to
 >the point. But I would like to ask him a question. As co-author
 >of a book recently published, why did he chose to reveal a
 >cover-up of something he does not believe exists in the first
 >place?


Hi Colin,

Thanks... However, I'm not sure what you mean by "a cover-up
of something he does not believe exists in the first place."

I'll try to be to the point, as always, by saying yes, I think
we have established there was a cover-up of *something*. And no,
I don't believe there is sufficient evidence to suggest that
what was being covered up was ET spacecraft, if that is what
you are implying.

But why does that mean that the process of research and
investigation was wasted? Isn't the pursuit of knowledge
important, particularly knowledge that has been suppressed? And,
more importantly, why do research in the first place if you
already know 'the answer' ? I don't know the answer, hence the
need for further research.

But I have always believed that, behind all the hoaxes, rumours
and illusions, there is some unknown phenomena lurking behind
the UFO mystery. That has always been my position - check out
some of my earlier writings with Paul Devereux etc. My research
into the British Government archives has simply underlined this
suspicion - that there were a number of completely baffling
reports, many from military personnel, a number supported by
instrumental evidence such as radar, that could not be
explained. In these circumstances, and whilst fighting a Cold
War, the MoD's policy of evasiveness and obfusication seems
quite logical, after all there was a (Cold) war on.

But the documentary (and oral) evidence that has survived has
convinced me that there is, despite what MoD claim, substantial
material that is of interest to scientists within this data. Two
scientists, one of whom is an astronomer of international
repute, are now aware of this material and supporting further
work in the MoD archives. Just two cases that have altered my
perspective the most are the Farnborough test pilot sightings,
detailed in the Flying Saucer Working Party report, and the
Little Rissington incident which followed.

You can read our book from many different standpoints, and it's
amusing to see how some have concluded it is a debunking
exercise whilst others have taken a completely opposite
viewpoint. Actually, it is a snapshot of ongoing research, and
is meant as a historical overview of work to date. As new
evidence comes to light, opinions and conclusions change. But
that is a situation that can, from my perspective, only be
arrived at by hard work.

So what is all this "something he does not believe exists"
malarkey?


Best,

Dave Clarke

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               Spielberg's TAKEN Sets Record For SciFi Channel

From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 10:10:55 -0500
Fwd Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 15:29:08 -0500
Subject: Spielberg's TAKEN Sets Record For SciFi Channel


The SciFi Channel has indicated that TAKEN has set at least one
record for the number of viewers turning to the cable network.
It would be interesting to see how many households followed the
show through the week.

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2002-12/05/15.00.sfc9:00am

ET, 5-December-02

9:00am ET, 5-December-02

Taken Sets Ratings Record

The Dec. 2 premiere of the SCI FI Channel's original miniseries
Steven Spielberg Presents Taken broke ratings records for the
network, pulling in a rating of 4.9 and an audience of 3.9
million households, SCI FI announced. That represented the
largest viewing audience in the channel's history, breaking the
previous record held by part one of Frank Herbert's Dune by 28
percent. Taken premiered at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Dec. 2 and continues
to run nightly over the next 10 weekdays.

"I'm absolutely thrilled with the success of the premiere night
of Taken," Bonnie Hammer, president of the SCI FI Channel, said
in a statement. "It is simply an incredible testament to
everyone involved in this project, all of whom lent support to
what was an unparalleled creative risk. From our partnership
with DreamWorks, our team at SCI FI, the strength and loud
'event-of-the-year' support from our affiliates and, finally,
the understanding from advertisers that this was a high-cachet,
can't-miss opportunity, we're incredibly grateful."

The premiere of Taken drew more than 6 million viewers and
scored across every rating demographic: The show came in first
for the night in basic cable in households (4.9) and persons 18-
49 (3.1) and first among all cable networks (including premium)
in persons 25-54 (4.0) from 9-11 p.m.







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                 Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Maccabee

From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 12:26:06 -0500
Fwd Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 15:31:20 -0500
Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Maccabee


 >From: Don Ledger <dledger@ns.sympatico.ca>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 13:17:33 -0400
 >Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 23:13:08 -0500
 >>Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>>Source: BBC OnLine

 >>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2538959.stm

 >>>Tuesday, 3 December, 2002, 14:32 GMT

 >>>'Why I believe UFOs are bunk'

I should have pointed out before: Whitehouse is a 'believer'.

He doesn't say "UFOs Are Bunk" . He says "I believe" UFOs
are bunk.

Must be something wrong with his "belief system."


 >Certainly Whitehouse's article is one of the most amateurish
 >pieces of crap I've ever come across. I also get a little
 >suspicious when someone writes such an ill-informed diatribe.
 >What's he got to be upset about? How does it bother him. Does he
 >have some idea that UFO reports, the people that report them,
 >and those that investigate them are somehow doing damage to
 >public order? Why the rant?

What else do you expect from a "believer?"







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                      Re: Phony Credentials? - Maccabee

From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 12:26:11 -0500
Fwd Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 15:34:10 -0500
Subject: Re: Phony Credentials? - Maccabee


 >From: Robert Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 23:48:40 EST
 >Subject: Re: Phony Credentials?

 >>From: Jim Speiser <jimspeiser@yahoo.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 11:40:43 -0700
 >>Subject: Phony Credentials? [was: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed]

 ><snip>

 >>Unfortunately, to this list it now appears we may have to add
 >>the name of William C. Levengood, who up to now has enjoyed a
 >>fairly unblemished reputation as a plant biologist. It seems he
 >>bolstered that reputation, and his crop circle work, by placing
 >>the word 'Dr.' before his name, and/or not objecting when others
 >>did so.

 >>Acting on a tip from a well-known UFO 'Internal Affairs
 >>Division', I asked Levengood, point-blank, if his Doctorate were
 >>legitimate. He insisted that it was, and said it was a "Ph.D.
 >>equivalent," handed out by the National Academy of Science.

Ph.D. is preceded by a B.S. (yes, more BS if he doesn't have a
Bachelor of Science degree from somewhere) and an MS (yes, More
of the Same) if he doesn't have a Master of Science from
somewhere. Few (if any) people get a Ph.D straight out of high
school. Few get a Ph.D. as the next degree after a BS, although
it does happen, I guess (I was told I didn't have to complete an
MS degree to continue in the Ph.D program, but once you've done
MS level work you may as well take the degree... which I did.)








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                    Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais

From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 19:17:19 +0100
Fwd Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 15:38:46 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais


 >From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:36:11 EST
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed


<snip>

 >But here are a couple of germane questions. Do you really
 >believe Gerald Anderson is telling any truth? Or isn't he just
 >an opportunist like Frank Kaufmann? And do you really believe
 >the Jim Ragsdale story as you claimed in that silly brochure
 >that Max Littel printed? Shouldn't we retire all these stories
 >and move on?

Kevin, Stan and the List,

Or were they playing roles?

And in that role, could parts of their stories be true?

I asked some questions like that in my previous message (of 12-5-02).

I would like you two brave researchers on Roswell to stop
quarreling a moment and discuss such questions!

Or reject them and tell us why.


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                  Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Tonnies

From: Mac Tonnies <macbot@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 12:38:21 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 15:43:05 -0500
Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Tonnies


 >From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 12:26:06 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>From: Don Ledger <dledger@ns.sympatico.ca>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 13:17:33 -0400
 >>Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>>From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto
 ><ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 23:13:08 -0500
 >>>Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

<snip>

 >I should have pointed out before: Whitehouse is a 'believer'.

 >He doesn't say "UFOs Are Bunk" . He says "I believe" UFOs
 >are bunk.

 >Must be something wrong with his "belief system."


Bruce,

Good catch! The distinction can be subtle, but it's almost
always symptomatic of someone who doesn't know how to think for
himself.

http://mactonnies.com/skeptic.html

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                      Re: Phony Credentials? - Speiser

From: Jim Speiser <jimspeiser@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 13:53:34 -0700
Fwd Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 16:14:44 -0500
Subject: Re: Phony Credentials? - Speiser


 >From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 12:26:11 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Phony Credentials?

 >>From: Robert Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 23:48:40 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Phony Credentials?

 >>>From: Jim Speiser <jimspeiser@yahoo.com>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 11:40:43 -0700
 >>>Subject: Phony Credentials? [was: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed]

 >><snip>

 >>>Unfortunately, to this list it now appears we may have to add
 >>>the name of William C. Levengood, who up to now has enjoyed a
 >>>fairly unblemished reputation as a plant biologist. It seems he
 >>>bolstered that reputation, and his crop circle work, by placing
 >>>the word 'Dr.' before his name, and/or not objecting when others
 >>>did so.

 >>>Acting on a tip from a well-known UFO 'Internal Affairs
 >>>Division', I asked Levengood, point-blank, if his Doctorate were
 >>>legitimate. He insisted that it was, and said it was a "Ph.D.
 >>>equivalent," handed out by the National Academy of Science.

 >Ph.D. is preceded by a B.S. (yes, more BS if he doesn't have a
 >Bachelor of Science degree from somewhere) and an MS (yes, More
 >of the Same) if he doesn't have a Master of Science from
 >somewhere. Few (if any) people get a Ph.D straight out of high
 >school. Few get a Ph.D. as the next degree after a BS, although
 >it does happen, I guess (I was told I didn't have to complete an
 >MS degree to continue in the Ph.D program, but once you've done
 >MS level work you may as well take the degree... which I did.)

Sorry, I did not mean to imply that Levengood does not have a
legitimate degree of some kind, just that he does not have a
Ph.D.

Here is his CV (however you pronounce it):

LEVENGOOD, W.C. -- Biophysicist
     M.S. in Biophysics, Univeristy of Michigan, 1970
     M.A. in Bioscience, Ball State University, 1961
     Research physicist at the Institute of Science and
     Technology and the Dept. of Natural Resources,
     U. Michigan, 1961-1970; Director of Biophysical
     Research for private-sector companies, 1970-83.
     Published 50 scientific papers, including eight in
     the prestigous journal Nature; three papers
     (1994; 1995; 1999) present results from studies of
     crop circle plants and soils. Currently pursuing
     various research interests at his laboratory (Pine-
     landia Biophysical Laboratory) in Grass Lakes, MI.

Note that he does _not_ list "Ph.D. Equivalent." But we all know
that he has allowed himself to be addressed as "Doctor" without
correction. This is unlike Stan Friedman, whom _everyone_ wants
to call "Doctor" yet he corrects them instantly. (Stan, why
don't you just get a PhDE so you don't have to correct people?
:-)

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                   SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight

From: Larry Landsman <LL1157@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 16:29:04 EST
Fwd Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 17:05:48 -0500
Subject: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight


[Non-Subscriber Post]

 >From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 11:33:44 EST
 >Subject: Re: Randle On 'Coast'

 >>From: Lester Hahn <lesterhahn@hotmail.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 21:02:22 -0600
 >>Subject: Randle On 'Coast'

 >>Dear Mr. Randle:

 >>Given that you were the main consultant on the Sci-Fi Roswell
 >>special and overhearing your comments this past Saturday night
 >>on Coast, where you mentioned the recommendations you made
 >>regarding the archaeological expedition to the crash site, did
 >>you ever suggest seeking the expertise of an FAA crash
 >>investigator to assist with the project.

 >Good Morning, All -

 >There really is nothing for such a crash analysis at the moment.
 >All we have is a pasture in the high desert and no real sign of
 >debris.

 >Yes, the Sci Fi Channel investigation found a subsoil
 >disturbance that could be the remains of the gouge, but at the
 >moment there is nothing for expert analysis from the FAA point
 >of view. I have consulted with aircraft accident experts inside
 >the military, but without photographs of the debris strewn about
 >or with all sides of the crash long gone, they couldn't
 >contribute much.

 >KRandle


I'd like to introduce myself.

As SCI FI's Director of Special Projects, I've been closely
following UFO UpDates for the latest and greatest news from the
world of ufology.

SCI FI has especially been interested in the feedback from the
community about Steven Spielberg's TAKEN, as well as our recent
documentary THE ROSWELL CRASH: STARTLING NEW EVIDENCE. I've been
keenly following the reaction to the Roswell special in
particular since I was the individual who contracted the
University of New Mexico to conduct the dig, as well as the
creative executive on the show (I directed MPH throughout the
show's development).

I've been dismayed and quite surprised to read some of the
comments regarding the veracity of the show due to the fact we
decided to work with (and consult) certain Roswell researchers.

As you may or may not know, SCI FI and MPH Entertainment have
attempted to conduct its work with professional impartiality and
balanced reporting (throughout the scientific dig and the
production phase of the documentary). We feel the results are
evident in the show itself and have received much kudos from the
ufo community at large.

Nonetheless, on behalf of SCI FI, I find myself having to
respond to some inaccuracies and misperceptions that have been
posted (see above) in an attempt to set the record straight.

It was I who originally contacted Don Schmitt last May on behalf
of SCI FI (having worked on SHOWTIME's ROSWELL) to offer up some
of the Channel's resources to the current ongoing investigation.
We were well aware that Don and Tom's efforts represented the
only ongoing active research currently underway. We were also
well aware of their close affiliation to the International UFO
Museum and Research Center and, despite the trouble Don had many
years ago, we thought (and still do) that Tom and Don have
conducted some excellent research since their partnering.

Furthermore, from day one, we were well aware of the very
acrimonious falling out between Don and Kevin Randle. In
addition, we were also well aware of the earlier effort by
representatives of CUFOS to try to conduct some archaeological
exam of the debris field. Don never ever "lied" to anyone at SCI
FI or UNM about that project, as some have claimed on UFO
Updates. Once again, we want to officially state our strong
support of researchers Don Schmitt and Tom Carey.

Just to correct any further misperceptions, the only UFO
research 'consultants', in any sense of the word, that we worked
with on THE ROSWELL CRASH was Don, Tom, Dave Rudiak and the
IUFOMARC. Of course, we interviewed many folks for the show but
our main source of info on the Roswell Incident itself (other
than previously published works), as well as our source for new
eyewitnesses, was through our relationships with Tom, Don and
David. We simply could not have pulled the show together without
them.

Thanks again for allowing us at SCI FI to "set the record
straight."

Larry Landsman
Director, Special Projects
SCI FI Channel











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                            Magonia Supplement 44

From: John Rimmer <jrimmer@magonia.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 21:31:37 +0000
Fwd Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 17:08:57 -0500
Subject: Magonia Supplement 44


Here's John Harney's Editorial from Magonia Supplement 44. The
complete Trindade article, and Martin Kottmeyer writing about a
strange smoking UFO can be found on the Magonia Website at:

www.magonia.demon.co.uk/arc/00/ms44.htm

----------------------------------------------------------------

EDITORIAL

In this issue, John Rimmer takes a look at one of the great
"classics" of ufology, the Trindade Island case. It is an
excellent example of the will-to-believe in action among
ufologists, especially the type which Jim Moseley refers to as
"Serious Ufologists".

These people took it for granted that the story and the
photographs were genuine because there were so many witnesses
that it was inconceivable that it could be explained as a hoax
or a misperception of some mundane object or phenomenon. They
did not ask who these witnesses were and they did not ask to see
the statements they presumably made to official and amateur
investigators. Not only did they not ask but when John Rimmer
raised the question on the UFO UpDates mailing list, he found
that such questions were not exactly welcome. Doubt was being
cast on a ufological article of faith. However, those who were
distressed by this attempt to debunk this great classic case
were no doubt relieved when Jerome Clark announced that
important new evidence would soon become available which would
show that it could not possibly have been a hoax. We are eagerly
awaiting this event and we earnestly hope that we do not have to
publish too many gentle reminders in this newsletter before this
promise is fulfilled.

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                      Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Hall

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 21:55:01 +0000
Fwd Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 17:12:15 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Hall


 >From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 19:17:19 +0100
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:36:11 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>But here are a couple of germane questions. Do you really
 >>believe Gerald Anderson is telling any truth? Or isn't he just
 >>an opportunist like Frank Kaufmann? And do you really believe
 >>the Jim Ragsdale story as you claimed in that silly brochure
 >>that Max Littel printed? Shouldn't we retire all these stories
 >>and move on?

 >Kevin, Stan and the List,

 >Or were they playing roles?

 >And in that role, could parts of their stories be true?

 >I asked some questions like that in my previous message
 >(of 12-5-02).

 >I would like you two brave researchers on Roswell to stop
 >quarreling a moment and discuss such questions!

 >Or reject them and tell us why.


Gildas and List,

This "organized disinformation" scenario, which I have
encountered before, from other French Ufologists, is not one of
those peculiarly French perspectives like worship of Jerry
Lewis. (-; I have thought along similar lines at times. But, you
must always be aware that in any given case the simpler
explanation of individual dishonesty may be the explanation.

On the other hand, if you hypothesize that there is a grand-
scale cover-up, then just such disinformation tactics become
something reasonable to think about. Discrediting of key
witnesses and key cases would be the primary goal.


  - Dick








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                        Italian UFO Newsflash No. 376

From: Edoardo Russo <edoardo.russo@tiscali.it>
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 22:42:45 +0100
Fwd Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 11:53:29 -0500
Subject: Italian UFO Newsflash No. 376


ITALIAN UFO NEWSFLASH

ISSUE NO. 376 - 28 NOVEMBER 2002

by the Italian Center for UFO Studies
(Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici, CISU)

Contents:


  - Conference In Florence
  - SEPRA Does Not Close Down
  - European UFO Journal Wins An Award


CONFERENCE IN FLORENCE

On Saturday, 23 November, the 17th National Conference of
Ufology took place, as announced and organized by the Italian
Center for UFO Studies.

At the conference, which was closed to the public, there
participated some thirty-odd scholars hailing from throughout
Italy, who discussed on ten or so subjects related to various
ongoing study projects, catalogs, investigations and activities:
from Italian cases of USOs (underwater UFOs), to encounters of
the third kind; from this past summer's Italian mission in the
Norwegian valley of Hessdalen, to Project Sassalbo (which
organizes the surveillance of a similar, suspected scene of
recurring luminous phenomena); from progress made on the
national caselog database, to evidence of activity at the local
branches, not to mention the histographic analysis of the
Italian Wave of 1952, and of catalogs devoted to
socio-ufological aspects in music and advertising.

The conference program and report syntheses may be reviewed at
the CISU Website:

http://www.arpnet.it/ufo/17conveg.htm


SEPRA DOES NOT CLOSE DOWN

Nobody knew about it, but SEPRA, the official French ufological
body, had been at risk of being shut down.

Founded in 1977 as part of CNES (French National Center for
Space Studies), the group for the study of unidentified
aerospace phenomena was then reconfigured, in 1988, as a service
for analyzing phenomena of atmospheric re-entry, then
subsequently returned to broadening its reach to "rare aerospace
phenomena" in 2000 following a failed attempt, in 1993, to
assume a European status, at the initiative of the then-European
parliamentary representative, the physicist Tullio Regge.

In the wake of internal pressure on CNES to suppress SEPRA, the
general director of the body last year entrusted responsibility
for its evaluation to an external consultant who, at one time,
had been a collaborator of GEPAN: Fran=E7ois Louange, He gathered
the opinions of thirty-odd scientific personalities (inside and
outside of CNES) at high military, political and journalistic
levels.

The conclusion, presented to CNES at the beginning of this year
and then copied to the various other interested entities (e.g.,
CNRS, Academy of Sciences, the gendarmerie, civil aviation), was
exactly the opposite of that which had motivated it: practically
all those questioned agreed on the fact that it is necessary
that SEPRA's activities continue and this may also have only
been the result of public need but, more important yet, there
exist phenomena which are still misunderstood and of interest to
science. Louange even suggested an increase in the financial
resources allocated to SEPRA, so as to allow the carrying out of
investigations: something which is presently impossible.

[Le Figaro, 20 November; Liberation, 21 November; Europe 1, 27
November; Ovni-Sciences, 20-27 November; in collaboration with
Roberto Labanti]


EUROPEAN UFO JOURNAL WINS AN AWARD

The "European Journal of UFO and Abduction Studies" has received
the "Cuadernos de Ufologia Award" for 2002.

The prize is awarded by the Fundacion Anomal=EDa, a Spanish law
foundation having the scope of gathering funds for financing or
awarding projects and UFO works of a scientific nature.

The magazine, founded in 1999 and published in Great Britain by
the UFO group established within Totton College - within its
official course of studies on UFOs - aims at furnishing of a
common European forum to students. On the editorial committee
are some of the most noted ufologists of the "Old Continent,"
some of whom are fellows from the Italian Center for UFO
Studies.

[Press Release by the Fundaci=F3n Anomal=EDa; collaboration by Renzo
Cabassi]


Collaborators on this edition were: Renzo Cabassi and Roberto
Labanti.


- - -

This is the English translation of UFOTEL, a free phone/Internet
information service on UFOs edited weekly by Edoardo Russo for
the Italian Center for UFO Studies (Centro Italiano Studi
Ufologici), available in Italian by calling +39-011-545294, or
by e-mail subscription, or on CISU website:

at http://www.arpnet.it/ufo/ultime.htm

UFOTEL is a supplement to "UFO - Rivista di informazione
ufologica", published by the Italian Center for UFO Studies,
registered at Tribunale di Torino, No. 3670, on 19 June 1986.
Director: Giovanni Settimo.
Publisher: Cooperativa UPIAR, Corso Vittorio
Emanuele 108, 10121 Turin, Italy

Translated from Italian to English by:
Gary J. Presto, Freelance IT-EN Translator/Proofreader
1123 Revere Beach Pky., # 12
Revere, MA 02151 USA
Tel.: ++ 1.781.485.1683, Fax: ++ 1.781.485.1684
ICQ: 110502923, E-mail: gpresto@attbi.com
Webpage: http://www.proz.com/translator/723



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                   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Young

From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 17:44:44 EST
Fwd Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 11:55:39 -0500
Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Young


 >From: Stan Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 22:17:50 -0400
 >Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

<snip>

 >The US taxpayer has still been contributing to SETI.
 >Contributions of appreciated stock (Bill Allan of Microsoft,
 >Hewlett Packard guys etc,) are tax deductible at current value.
 >If sold, there would be considerable capital gains taxes. The
 >public foots the bill for the difference.

Hello, Stan:

Yes, that would be true about all charitable donations to
qualified educational and scientific groups. 'Bout the same as
the money donated to the Fund for UFO Research, I guess, which I
believe funded your research a couple of times?

Are you suggesting that the U.S. should elliminate charitable
gift tax benetifs?

 >on the ITV broadcast in June of 1997?

 >That is the one where 100,000 people called in to say yes or no
 >to the question of alien visitations. 92% of the callers and
 >"only" 73 % of the studio audience said yes.

Stan, as a trained scientist you realize of course that such
self-selected surveys don't mean much. TV shows like to use this
to whip up "personal involvement" among the audience. Keeps them
tuned in for the soap-suds ads.


Clear skies,

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                           Is Bigfoot Really Dead?

From: Loren Coleman <lcolema1@maine.rr.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 19:24:46 -0500
Fwd Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 11:59:13 -0500
Subject: Is Bigfoot Really Dead?


In response to many inquiries of "Loren, what do you think?" -
  please see:

December 9, 2002
Is Bigfoot Really Dead?
Insights into the Wallace Hoax

which is the first item at:

http://www.lorencoleman.com


Thank you.

Happy Holidays to all,

Loren








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                      Re: Abductions & Ufology - Reason

From: Catherine Reason <CathyM@ukf.net>
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 01:59:20 -0000
Fwd Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 12:01:04 -0500
Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology - Reason


 >From: Jim Speiser <jimspeiser@yahoo.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 01:42:53 -0700
 >Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

Hello Jim, Amy, Dick and all

 >I feel I must jump in here. Not that Dick needs me to defend
 >him, but I do not posess a degree in anything, not even an
 >associates, I don't think I can even pronounce "curriculum
 >vitae" correctly, yet I firmly believe I can recognize a basket-
 >case when I see one - and I've seen plenty. (Remember, I once
 >chaired a Moseley Conference). I resent the idea that
 >psychologists think that recognizing mental illness is their
 >exclusive domain. As a matter of fact, if it weren't for us lay
 >people telling certain individuals we meet that "You maybe
 >oughta get a check-up from the neck-up," there wouldn't BE very
 >many psychologists or psychiatrists. Just because I can't write
 >a paper on border deficit disorder doesn't mean I don't know
 >when someone's a few french fries short of a happy meal.

I have been reluctant to jump in too, but I guess if it's ok for
Jim, it's probably ok for me too.

I don't have anything against Dick Hall either, in fact, he sent
me a very encouraging email soon after I joined this List -
  which I haven't forgotten. I just hope he isn't about to regret
doing that.

It doesn't matter to me how many degrees one has - I've known
plenty of people with MB/MD degrees who shouldn't have been
allowed anywhere near real patients. It matters a lot, though,
when someone claims to be able to identify a "basket case" (an
interesting dx, btw, which I'm sure you won't find in the DSM
IV) on the basis of casual inspection - no matter how many
degrees they claim to have.

Anyone who seriously believes they can do this should take a
look at David Rosenhan's article: "On being sane in insane
places" (Science 179 pp 250-258).

If they still believe they have this magical power, I'd like
them to answer the following questions.

1) How would they distinguish between cognitive distortion due
to underlying organic dysfunction, and cognitive distortion due
to post-traumatic sequelae;

2) How would they distinguish between unusual behavor due to
psychiatric disorder and unusual behavior due to personal
eccentricity (check out the case of Joyce Brown for an example
of exactly this problem);

3) How would they make the distinction in (2) when both
psychiatric disorder and personal eccentricity occur in the same
person (you'd be surprised how often this happens);

4) How would they distinguish between psychiatric pathology and
non-pathological psychiatric phenomena (such as hearing voices);

5) How they would dx Bipolar Disorder, given that I've lost
count of the number of BP patients who in effect dx'd
themselves, despite having previously been hospitalized during
manic episodes;

6) How they would differentiate "Basket Case Syndrome" from
schizophrenia, bipolar, borderline personality disorder (which
may not even exist, incidentally) PTSD, ADHD, Asperger's
Syndrome;

7) How they would distinguish "Basket Case Syndrome" from
malnutrition, the effects of organic disease, or the side-
  effects of anti-psychotic drugs prescribed to individuals dx'd
with major psychoses.

I could go on (at great length) but I will spare you your ears
and your computer screens.

Cathy

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               Documentary To Revisit Kelly Little Men Legend

From: Loren Coleman <lcolema1@maine.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 00:29:33 -0500
Fwd Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 12:06:29 -0500
Subject: Documentary To Revisit Kelly Little Men Legend



Hopkinsville, Kentucky
Kentucky New Era
December 6, 2002
------------------------------------------------------------------------
New documentary to revisit Kelly Green Men legend

By MICHELE CARLTON

-----------------

An independent production company in Glendale, Calif., plans a
trip to Hopkinsville this month to research the 1955 invasion of
"little green men" in the community of Kelly for a documentary.

Barcon Productions will be filming eyewitness accounts for a
film entitled "Monsters of the UFO" to be released next summer.

"We interview witnesses and what they saw and then base our film
on their accounts," said documentary producer Lisa McIntosh in a
telephone interview from Glendale Thursday afternoon. "We'll try
to recreate exactly what they saw."

The local legend took root when residents of the small town
reported the landing of a spaceship near the home of Cecil "Lucky"
Sutton home on the Old Madisonville Road at the edge of Kelly on
Aug. 21, 1955. Sutton and other family members said 12 little
men landed in a spaceship and then battled them at the house for
hours.

Although the invaders are now known as the "little green men of
Kelly," the original stories did not paint them green. Sutton
and others actually said the creatures were silver.

Most of the Sutton family members who said they fought the
aliens off with shotguns are deceased. However, McIntosh said
former State Trooper Russell Ferguson, who investigated the
Suttons' reports, has agreed to be interviewed on camera about
the event.

"We are still looking for others," McIntosh said.

McIntosh and Barcon Productions owner Barry Conrad plan a trip
to Kentucky as soon as they secure more interviews with
witnesses to the Kelly event who are willing to speak on camera.

"We were both familiar with the Kelly story. When we decided to
do this project, it was one of the stories we were just dying to
work on," McIntosh said. "We were completely taken by it. It's
truly an amazing story."

The documentary will focus on three stories involving close
encounters with unexplained phenomenon. In addition to the Kelly
green men, the documentary will explore first--hand accounts of
the Mothman legend in Point Pleasant, W.Va., and the Flatwoods
Monster in Flatwoods, W.Va. McIntosh said filming in the West
Virginia locations is complete.

Barcon Productions specializes in producing documentaries on the
paranormal. The company has produced shows featuring psychic
talk show host James Van Praagh and "California's Most Haunted,"
a documentary on haunted houses in the Golden State.

McIntosh said "Monsters of the UFO" may air on cable television
next summer. The Sci--Fi and Discovery channels are possible
markets for the documentary, she said. Michele Carlton can be
reached by telephone at 887--3235 or by e--mail at
mcarlton@kentuckynewera.com.

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                        Italian UFO Newsflash No. 377

From: Edoardo Russo <edoardo.russo@tiscali.it>
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 09:57:39 +0100
Fwd Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 12:08:22 -0500
Subject: Italian UFO Newsflash No. 377


ITALIAN UFO NEWSFLASH

ISSUE NO. 377 - 5 DECEMBER 2002

by the Italian Center for UFO Studies
(Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici, CISU)

Contents:


- Sightings In Italy: November Update
- New Book by Roberto Pinotti
- Multimedia Show In Turin


SIGHTINGS IN ITALY: NOVEMBER UPDATE

The usual monthly statistical recap of reports of UFO sightings
gathered by the Italian Center for UFO Studies have been put on
line.

Sightings occurring during the month of November and recorded to
date were 30. This confirms a decrease for the autumn period,
compared with that of the summer. There was only one close
encounter (in Puglia); about one-third of the reports turned out
to be caused by astronomical objects; and a good 40% came from
Lombardy.

Major data, and, in particular, the monthly lists of cases,
tables and statistical graphs featuring distribution by month,
time, region and type together with that for the previous two
years are also available, as always, on the CISU Website:
(www.arpnet.it/ufo/cases2002.htm).

The month just ended brought the total of cases for the year
2002 to 663. It therefore seems reasonable that, in the final
tally, the current year will not lag very far behind the
preceding one which, with its nearly 800 sightings, was already
a notably "rich" year.

The increase in the annual mean number of cases gathered
reflects also the higher level of efficiency of the telematic
working group on the Italian caselog, which was formed by the
CISU last year for real-time monitoring of sightings in our
country.

[Communication by Giorgio Abraini]


NEW BOOK BY ROBERTO PINOTTI

The latest literary effort from Roberto Pinotti is in
bookstores.

It's entitled "I messaggeri del cielo - Testimonianze
extraterrestri nell'antichit=E0" ("Messengers In The Sky:
Extraterrestrial Evidence In Ancient Times"). It includes an
update of his previous book from 1991, "Angeli, dei, astronavi"
("Angels, Gods, Spaceships"), devoted to space archeology,
clipeology, and pre-Arnold UFO reports.

It's published by Oscar Mondadori, totals 277 pages (including
illustrations), and sells for 7.80 Euro.

[Report by Paolo Fiorino]


MULTIMEDIA SHOW IN TURIN

"Catch sight of...: avvistamenti - segni e segnali di altra
provenienza" ("Catch Sight Of...: Sightings - Signs & Signals Of
Another Origin"): this is the title of the multimedia art
exhibit inspired by UFOs, which will take place in Turin from 13
through 16 December.

The show, assembling the works of over 20 painters, sculptors
and artists will be held in the wide locale of the "=C9space" in
Turin, Via Mantova 38. Admission is free, and hours are from 10
a.m. to noon and 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday through Monday.

Admission will also be free to the two lectures scheduled for
5:30 p.m. on Saturday ("Crop Circles: Art Becomes Alien'") and
on Sunday ("UFOs On The Movie Screen"). A fee is asked for the
multimedia show, which will accompany the inauguration on Friday
evening, at 9 p.m., which will feature video-shows and a concert
by the electro-pop group "Essential."

[Collaboration by Giorgio Giorgi, Maria Grazia Fiore and Valerio
Vigliaturo;
http://www.arpnet.it/ufo/catch02.htm]


Collaborators on this edition were: Giorgio Abraini, Maria
Grazia Fiore, Paolo Fiorino, Giorgio Giorgi and Valerio
Vigliaturo.


- - -

This is the English translation of UFOTEL, a free phone/Internet
information service on UFOs edited weekly by Edoardo Russo for
the Italian Center for UFO Studies (Centro Italiano Studi
Ufologici), available in Italian by calling +39-011-545294, or
by e-mail subscription, or on CISU website at:

http://www.arpnet.it/ufo/ultime.htm

UFOTEL is a supplement to "UFO - Rivista di informazione
ufologica", published by the Italian Center for UFO Studies,
registered at Tribunale
di Torino, No. 3670, on 19 June 1986.
Director: Giovanni Settimo.
Publisher: Cooperativa UPIAR, Corso Vittorio
Emanuele 108, 10121 Turin, Italy

Translated from Italian to English by:
Gary J. Presto, Freelance IT-EN Translator/Proofreader
1123 Revere Beach Pky., # 12
Revere, MA 02151 USA
Tel.: ++ 1.781.485.1683, Fax: ++ 1.781.485.1684
ICQ: 110502923, E-mail: gpresto@attbi.com
Webpage: http://www.proz.com/translator/723



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                   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Pope

From: Nick Pope <nick@popemod.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 13:00:54 -0000
Fwd Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 12:10:13 -0500
Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Pope


 >From: Stan Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 22:17:50 -0400
 >Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

  <snip>

 >Maybe Listers from the UK can help me out here. Isn't Dr. David
 >Whiteside, the BBC science-on-line guy who made these stupid
 >comments, the same guy with whom I tangled on TV in Manchester,
 >UK, in about March of 1995 and when Tim Good, Nick Pope and I
 >"debated" three men on the con side, a Psychologist, a
 >Physicist and Dr.Whiteside on the ITV broadcast in June of
 >1997?

 >That is the one where 100,000 people called in to say yes or no
 >to the question of alien visitations. 92% of the callers and
 >"only" 73 % of the studio audience said yes.

Stan and List,

I don't know about your 1995 TV appearance in Manchester, but
the 1997 event did not involve Dr. David Whiteside. The show was
entitled "Strange But True? Live" and aired on June 27 1997.
You, Tim Good and I debated with Professor Frank Close (a
physicist), Dr. David Hughes (an astronomer) and Dr. Chris
French (a psychologist). The motion was "Do you believe aliens
have already visited Earth?"

The viewing audience was estimated at just under 7 million, and
over 100,000 calls were made to the telephone lines. Of these
calls, 92% agreed with the motion and 8% disagreed.

Best wishes,

Nick Pope








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                    Re: A Question Of The Real - Bennett

From: Colin Bennett <sharkley@panzerben.fsworld.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 13:05:22 -0000
Fwd Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 12:11:35 -0500
Subject: Re: A Question Of The Real - Bennett


 >From: David Clarke <cd292@crazydiamonds.fsnet.co.uk>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 11:33:41 -0000
 >Subject: Re: A Question Of The Real

 >I have always believed that, behind all the hoaxes, rumours
 >and illusions, there is some unknown phenomena lurking behind
 >the UFO mystery. That has always been my position - check out
 >some of my earlier writings with Paul Devereux etc. My research
 >into the British Government archives has simply underlined this
 >suspicion - that there were a number of completely baffling
 >reports, many from military personnel, a number supported by
 >instrumental evidence such as radar, that could not be
 >explained.

Thank you David for making your position clear. Half way along
road to Rome is better than all the way along the road to
Brentford.


Best wishes,

Colin








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                    Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais

From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 17:52:45 +0100
Fwd Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 12:34:49 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais


 >From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 21:55:01 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 19:17:19 +0100
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:36:11 EST
 >>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>But here are a couple of germane questions. Do you really
 >>>believe Gerald Anderson is telling any truth? Or isn't he just
 >>>an opportunist like Frank Kaufmann? And do you really believe
 >>>the Jim Ragsdale story as you claimed in that silly brochure
 >>>that Max Littel printed? Shouldn't we retire all these stories
 >>>and move on?

 >>Kevin, Stan and the List,

 >>Or were they playing roles?

 >>And in that role, could parts of their stories be true?

 >>I asked some questions like that in my previous message
 >>(of 12-5-02).

 >>I would like you two brave researchers on Roswell to stop
 >>quarreling a moment and discuss such questions!

 >>Or reject them and tell us why.


 >Gildas and List,

 >This "organized disinformation" scenario, which I have
 >encountered before, from other French Ufologists, is not one of
 >those peculiarly French perspectives like worship of Jerry
 >Lewis. (-; I have thought along similar lines at times. But, you
 >must always be aware that in any given case the simpler
 >explanation of individual dishonesty may be the explanation.

 >On the other hand, if you hypothesize that there is a grand-
 >scale cover-up, then just such disinformation tactics become
 >something reasonable to think about. Discrediting of key
 >witnesses and key cases would be the primary goal.


Dick and List,

French film buffs made mistakes. But they were not mistaken in
promoting American filmakers in the whole world! And Jerry
Lewis did some likeable movies too.

I agree that we must first look for the simpler explanation. But
in the case of Roswell, we may have some doubts when counting so
many dubious witnesses and stories, contradicting each orher :
what a mess! And yet if we keep calm about that, we still have
very strong witnesses and a very strong case. So the idea of
disinformation must come to mind.

What about the most recent one, the story of the alleged
cameraman! Philip Mantle and Michael Hesemann supported it in
their book "Beyond Roswell". In that case, we don't even know
who is the real author of the story.

I don't think we need to hypothethize on a "grand-scale" cover-
up. Just plain cover-up of the Roswell crash would do.

However, the idea of a deep, long term cover-up is not
unreasonable either, in the context of a half-century of
official denial.

Gildas








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From: Colin Bennett <sharkley@panzerben.fsworld.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 00:01:03 -0000
Fwd Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 12:37:24 -0500
Subject: A Possible Roswell/RAF Connection


Hello List Savants,


I am writing a book on Captain Ruppelt and his time at Grudge
and Blue Book, and I am developing the many sub- plots that
existed both before and during his time. I have come across some
information that could possibly lead to an interesting new
aspect of the Roswell issue.


 From approximately 1946-1955, the RAF leased over 87 B-29
Superfortress bombers (called Washingtons by the RAF), from
American stocks as stopgap aircraft to supplement the serving
but obsolescent Lincoln bombers, that were lengthened re-builds
of the wartime Lancaster with American engines. These
Washingtons were intended to be the core of Britain's atomic
deterrent prior to the introduction in 1955 of the first modern
jet-powered V-Bomber, the Valiant. With the first British test
of a crude nuclear device in Australia in 1952, it was obviously
going to be some time before the British were going to be able
to put an airborne weapon into operational service. The superb
new jet-powered Canberra (1950) would not do because it had only
a medium tactical range for Soviet penetration, and in any case
the American nuclear bombs of this time would not fit into its
fuselage. The Canberra (later the US B57) could hit the Soviet
armour coming down the North German plains, but it could hardly
reach Soviet strategic centers. The Canberra's role was an
important role, since at this time on the ground (due to 95%
demobilisation), there was only a handful of  M47, M48, and
British Comet tanks to stop approximately 5000 Stalin 2s and
T34/85s! Centurion could stop them, but there were no more than
a dozen or so in Europe at this time.

It is almost certain therefore that some nuclear bombs were also
leased with the British B-29s, possibly with arming keys held in
American hands, as was the case with the later nuclear-tipped
U.S Corporal rockets based in Europe. However, I have not been
able to trace this necessary modification and operational
arrangement, which must have been somewhat complex, to say the
least. Of the nuclear role there can be no doubt, if only
because many Washingtons based in Britain had black anti-flash
radiation paint on their underbellies, and so it must have been
planned for a few to attack at a very low altitude, indicating a
possible hi-lo tactic to fox radar.

Possibly the leasing was top secret, if only to get around
American law. Certainly the later two-key arrangement of the WAC
Corporal (and also Honest John) was a way of getting round the
MacMahon Act that forbade the export of American nuclear
information.

Immediately after the Japanese surrender, there were no nuclear
weapons immediately available in the US, but technicians and
scientists managed to clobber together a few non-standard lab-
workshop prototypes for the first Bikini tests in mid 1946,
these test bombs being dropped by  509th elements from Pacific
bases, as were many others. The very first standard production
bombs of any practical use to the newly formed USAF as part of
Curtis Le May's equally young Strategic Air Command were the Mk
111 and Mk IV plutonium fusion bombs. These had ongoing
modifications, particularly of the arming devices, case-shaping,
and weight.  120 Mk 111s were produced from April 1947 to April
1949, and 550 of the Mk IV. Yield of both types varied from 18
to 49 Kilotons. Pending the delivery of the first B-50 bombers
to the SAC in late June of 1949, the main delivery weapon was
still the B29, which laboured somewhat under the weight of the
Fat Man models, and all that that meant in terms of operational
efficiency. B-50s were steadily delivered to the 509th in
Roswell from mid 1949 to 1950, but the B-29 was still retained
in large part because of endless problems with the B-50. The Fat
Man shape for instance could not be altered all that quickly
because of the spatial configuration of the implosion ens, and
the manufacturers, because of secrecy, failed to liaise properly
with Boeing on other important detailed issues

As we know, the 509th squadron that delivered the Hiroshima and
Nagasaki bombs came straight from Tinian (where Ruppelt himself
flew out on bombing missions with 444th group) and was based at
Roswell AAF base as one of the only two spearhead bomb groups
(the other was the 93rd) of Curtis Le May's SAC. In the
excitement about Roswell, it has hardly been mentioned that the
base was the one and only nuclear weapon training establishment
in the US immediately after the War until the 509th moved to
Pease AFB, now Walker, where they fly the B2 Spirit. Training
and support, design and modification of aircraft and prototypes,
selection of crews, Intelligence liaison and transport of
factory-fresh weapons from the Hanford plant and Los Alamos, all
these things must have come together in Roswell in these very
early days.

I now come to my point. My question is this: 87 Washingtons in
all were leased by Britain. Assuming ten-man crews, plus reserve
crews makes for1000 men all told, and assuming at least a three-
to-one ratio of ground crews and support (not a low number,
considering the operational storage of a nuclear weapon, since
arming procedures alone must have taken many to train on), this
makes for 3000 men all told, not including special RAF Regiment
base security staff. Now the facilities for handling and
training for the B-29 were non-existent in the UK. The aircraft
had not seen action in Europe, and the nuclear weapons
themselves were still crude, heavy, and fairly large devices
requiring unique and specialised storage and handling
facilities. This effort and these resources involved no less
than the entire re-creation of the entire RAF offensive bomber
force with new arcraft and new equipment!

My question is this: did any of the RAF servicemen flying
Washingtons train at Roswell?  To negotiate the leasing of
nuclear weapons and aircraft from America plus support and
training was the equivalent to acquiring the most advanced
technology of the time as part of a complete weapons system. The
high level of political and military negotiations alone must
have been both substantial and lengthy, certainly from early
1947 onwards, with the concept stages emerging as early as 1946.
  If there was only a small RAF liaison team in Roswell during
this time, it would be an interesting new light on this period,
particular as some of these RAF ground and aircrews might well
be very much still alive and perhaps available for interview. I
think hardly that the few US bases in the UK at this time would
have had the facilities, the time, or indeed the inclination to
train such a considerable and strategically important RAF force.
In any case, they were 24-hour instantaneous attack squadrons
(conventional bombing was hardly considered), and could hardly
have been shackled by an extremely complex training programme
for another national.

In terms of nuclear arming procedures alone (the original
detachable initiator device is still a closely-guarded secret
some fifty years later) I do not think that RAF personnel could
have managed without going to Roswell at this time for courses
and intensive training, particularly if co-operative keying was
involved. My opinion is that there is a very good possibility
that an RAF team may well have been at Roswell in 1947, and
other RAF teams may well have been liaising with higher staffing
levels within US government and Pentagon strategic planning in
relation to Roswell activities. Certainly Air Marshall Hugh
Dowding's son (who by the way met Adamski in 1959) was in
involved for some time with the highest level of USAF/RAF
planning, and was attached to the Pentagon as part of a long-
standing team presence.

Certainly the Washington was an untried aeroplane as far as the
RAF were concerned and it was designed to carry an unprecedented
weapon of apocalyptic power. Training on RAF bases in Britain
would have been a risky business. Running through many averages,
at a peacetime rate, it would have taken certainly some three
years to train 87 bomber crews plus all their support, ready for
operational deployment in 1950. The 509th was the nucleus of all
such training, and technical manuals from Roswell-derived
experience must have abounded on RAF bases during this time. If
US Roswell teams did train these men then we have a presence at
Roswell during the crucial years that we have not known about
previously.

Well List Savants I hope you find these questions interesting.

If anyone has any kind of information on this matter of Roswell
RAF staff or crews, it would be appreciated and it will be
acknowledged in my forthcoming book on Ruppelt, An American
Demonology. I must admit this is a very long shot indeed, but as
the Bishop said to the Actress, it is perhaps worth a try, and
someone somewhere might just have a an interesting story to
tell. I look forward to any such replies, and will keep the List
informed of any developments.


Colin








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                   Re: Security Classifications - Aldrich

From: Jan Aldrich <project1947@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 21:47:50 -0500
Fwd Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 12:42:01 -0500
Subject: Re: Security Classifications - Aldrich


 >From: Robert Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 01:43:31 EST
 >Subject: Re: Security Classifications

 >>From: Murray Bott <murrayb@win.co.nz>
 >>To: Updates List <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 18:20:15 +1300 (NZDT)
 >>Subject: Security Classifications [was: Frank Kaufman?]


 >>Greetings List

 >>On 28th Novemember Stan Friedman wrote

 >>>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 22:37:20 -0400
 >>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufman?

Greetings

As I have said before it seems that whenever we start discussing
this topic, it is like a video game with everything reset to
zero.

Several years ago, I went through more than 50 problems with SOM
1-01. This was not an extensive survey of the alleged Top Secret
manual that supposedly tells teams how to plan and conduct
recovery operations of crashed UFOs.

One of the objections, not the main fatal one, but a valid
objection was that the SOM 1-01 did not follow established
security procedures for the time frame for marking and
controlling classified information.

Since then various comments debunking these security procedure
have appeared here. Somehow if someone can find an example of a
document that does not follow established procedures that
negates every reference to such procedure and renders what
appears a violation, a true document.

Security procedures are proscribed by in general terms in
various Presidential Executive Orders. In the modern post-World
War II era, these executive orders have been changed a number of
time Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, Carter, and Reagan all made
sweeping changes. Markings and controls of document change to
reflect the orders. Further, agencies issue implementing
directives that establish specific procedures and additional
requirement to be followed in that agency.

Top Secret material is much more stringently controlled than
other classified material. It required continuous accountability
from production to destruction a fact that seems lost on many
so-called researchers and apparently on the fabricators of MJ-12
documents.

I can't say that I am much impressed with the Woods' research on
SOM 1-01 but there are two things that they have shown which are
important, the copy originated at Kirtland AFB and that it had a
TO (Technical Order) number. Since it was from an Air Force
base, it should have had proper controls as specified in Air
Force regulations at the time. It did not as I have previously
observed. The indication is that it was an active document, not
a historical document retired to inactive status or in an
archives somewhere.

(Aside: The TO number and the placement indicates that the cover
of SOM 1-01 might have been fabricated from the cover of an
already existing joint Army-Air Force technical manual. When I
visited Carlisle Barracks, I did look for such a manual, the
administrative listing of Army Technical Manuals (TM) indicated
several likely candidates, but did not indicate if there was an
associated TO number. Attempts to find some of the candidate in
the Army Historical Institute's TM library unfortunately was not
conclusive as many manuals are superceded or rescinded manuals
from this era are missing. Also, the collection is not complete.
Maxwell AFB does not have a collection of old TOs.)

See further comments below.

 >><snip>

 >>>I will have more to say about the claim I am told was made that
 >>>MJ-12 is a fraud once I see the program.

 >>>My paper noted above does point out that despite Jan Aldrich's
 >>>recent false claim that the GAO must have been mistaken, that
 >>>the GAO found examples of the use of TOP SECRET RESTRICTED on
 >>>documents from the same time frame as the Cutler Twining memo,
 >>>that they indeed had.

 >>Stan,

 >>I recall that Jan asked that you provide an "Independantly
 >>Verifiable Copy" of such a Document containing "TOP SECRET
 >>RESTRICTED" Classification.

 >>Stan my enquiry to you (and Jan) is:

 >>Have you provided Jan with such a document yet? - Or do you wish
 >>to ignore this request and hope that it will go away?

 >>Until then Stan your claim is nothing more than that - A claim
 >>without any form of verifiable evidence

 >As I recall the GAO claimed in its report that they actually ran
 >across documents with that classification on it even though the
 >classification did not exist.

 >In the Eisenhower Presidential library I went through many boxes
 >of formerly highly classified documents as part of cold war
 >history research. I ran across documents with that were formerly
 >Top Secret restricted (Non Restricted Data documents) and other
 >such. According to my notes the documents were not necessarly
 >classified "by the book" but was a mix which represented what
 >different people in the administration did. The bottom line on
 >all of that is even if the document was incorrectly marked, it
 >still was a classified document and treated as such.

Well, Murray, the Top Secret, Secret, and Confidential
Restricted documents are just pouring in here at the rate of
zero a week.

 >When this issue popped up awhile back I thought I may have
 >gotten copies of documents with the TS Restricted on it. I am
 >still looking as I have time through 20 or so thousand pages of
 >documents. I ran across documents (archives) that were formerly
 >TS but had _NO_ document control numbers. Before anybody unloads
 >the next breath about how the declassifers may have blanked them
 >out, etc etc, bottom line is many of these were the "original"
 >documents and what was in fact on the document was very plainly
 >visible.

Once again we have reset back to zero. I discussed this before!
In implementing TS controls, the commands have some leeway, the
document should have some unique identification that can be
logged if it is in multiple copies than it should be identified
by a copy number. Now the AAF, and then the USAF, HQ staff
controled and logged their TS messages from the Pentagon
Classified Message Center using the message number and the
message copy. Other copies of the messages provided to the
various members of the AAF/USAF staff were noted by copy number
with their disposition on the back of the AAF/USAF record copy
message. So there is no formal log nor is there on each message
the words "Top Secret Control Number." However, the
implementation is proper under the directives at the time.

 >Awhile back somebody was first claiming that all TS documents
 >had to have a control number on every page.

Can you tell me who claimed this? It certainly wasn't me.

 >When that was proven
 >wrong, the claim switched to 'well only the cover sheet..' Using
 >that bit of logic the MJ-12 EBD would only need to have some
 >kind of cover sheet to make it apple pie, a ok. There are TS
 >documents that do not have so called and allged cover sheets. I
 >have seen others were the package is marked TS but when you
 >remove the attached document (leaving on the cover sheet) the
 >classification is Secret, or whatever.

How you can determine this from material in archives is beyond
me.

 >If you go to:

 >http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB21/06-01.htm

 >you will find a complete copy of the TS Presidential directive
 >that launched the gulf war in 91'. It is marked TS but no
 >control numbers. When I inquired about that back afte it was
 >declassified I was told that was "not uncommon" in Presidential
 >NSC level documents.


This document has gone through two archives, the Presidential
Library and the National Security Archive, at George Washington
University. Further this html version does not reproduce the
whole page, so it is not possible to see the whole document, nor
the backs of the pages, nor any cover or title page, nor any
logs. I don't pretend to be an expert on presidential papers.
Perhaps some one should consult the presidential libraries to
find out how the document was controlled. However it is a
numbered National Security Directive, I would think it would
start there!

 >Go to:

 >http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB74/U2-06.pdf

 >You will find a 1 page TS letter from Andrew Goodpaster, with no
 >cover sheet and no TS control numbers, although you can see the
 >TS classification and, naughty, naughty, it was stamped TS twice
 >at the top and bottom.

Again some of the page is not reproduced which seems to be the
filing instructions. It seems that this document is indeed given
an unique number "MR 78-41 #19." Since it is probably the only
copy, it requires no "Copy--of --copies." Again to belabor the
obvious, how do you know that there was no cover sheet. Cover
sheet for the whole file. Unless one can see the context of the
file, this speculation is useless. As for the stamping of the
document twice on both the bottom and top, get real! There could
be several reasons for this including someone trying to make
appearance in the file neater.

 >Go to:

 >http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB45/

 >download document 2.

 >This is a 2 page TS letter from President Eisenhower to SecDef
 >Thomas Gates. No control numbers or even a hint of somebody
 >blackening out a control number, or other.

 >Go to:

 >http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/dl/U2Incident/MemConfDDEonNov241954.pdf

 >You will find a 1 page TS document with no control numbers.

Again, is there some unique number associated with this document
and is there an indication of what copy of how many copies
exist? My previous discussion applies.

 >Go to:

http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/dl/U2Incident/MemofordirectorofCIAreTelenet8255
9page1.pdf

 >You will find a "cover sheet" for a Talent code word document
 >The cover sheet is marked "Top Secret" but no control numbers.
 >however the document itself has the control numbers on the upper
 >right hand side of each page.

 >Go to:

http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/dl/Sputnik/MemoofConferencewithPresKillianKisti
akowskyFeb61958page1.pdf

 >You will find a TS Memorandum of conversation with the President
 >but no control numbers.

 >Go to:

 >http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/dl/Sputnik/

 >MeetingwithBronketalOct81957.pdf
 >Apparently this was not classified, but Dr. Bronk apparently had
 >a close relationship with the President that he could call him
 >in and have him read a statement the President was going to
 >give.

 >In the DDay section you have a incoming msg to General Marshall
 >with Top Secret in the Upper left and right corners of the
 >document, eyes only, and a Top Secret on the center bottom

 >Go to:

 >http://www.cs.umb.edu/jfklibrary/nsam.htm

 >Click on number click on number 36
 >"Improving the Security of Nuclear Weapons In NATO" which you
 >will notice it is signed by McGeorge Bundy not the President AND
 >Top Secret only appears at the bottom of the page, not the top,
 >AND it is not written on White House stationary nor does it have
 >a control number.

Again unique number, and unique copy number. No problem to log
and control this document.

 >Now click on number 37 "Saceur Procedures for Ordering use of
 >Nuclear Weapons 4/16/61" and you will notice that Top Secret
 >appears on both top and bottom of page, not written on White
 >House stationary, and NO TS control number.

 >Click on number 154 "U.S. Nato Alert procedures" which was
 >classified TS but no control numbers

Again see my comment directly above. Also, please note that each
one of these are tabbed. Perhaps the whole file has a TS control
number assigned. Again, just looking at these individual pages
without the context of the control scheme is meaningless.

 >Go to:

 >http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/document/nsdmnssm/nsdm276a.htm

 >in which you will find a copy of a 3 page Ford Administration
 >National Security decision Memorandum number 276 entitled having
 >to do with Nuclear weapons. Notice that the document is
 >classified TOP SECRET/Restricted Data, but NO TS control numbers
 >are on it. Also it was signed by Henry Kissenger who claimed
 >that he never had a Q clearance which would be required for Top
 >Secret/Restricted Data.

The White House has its own clearance and access procedures.
Obviously the National Security Advisor has to have access to
nuclear weapons data!

 >Now if you skim through some of the related nuclear NSDM's you
 >will find they are all correctly marked either Secret/RD or
 >TS/RD...that is until you get to number 300 which relates to
 >nuclear weapons and it is classified Top Secret/Sensitive

 >>>I also noted that not all TS documents have TS Control numbers,
 >>>again despite Jan's false claim to the contrary.

 >I don't believe Jans claim is false. What it boils down to is
 >based upon "his" working experience this is how the
 >classification world turned. This is similar to the folks in the
 >PR department of the Pentagon who denied for years that the
 >Stealth fighter did not exist. Based upon their knowledge,
 >understanding and what they were told it did not exist.

 >If somebody wants to really, independently verify what Stan and
 >I have said, get on a plane and go to the Presidential
 >library(s). Spend awhile going through thousands of pages of
 >formerly highly classified documents and you will find what has
 >been said is correct.

 >The bottom line is documents were not always marked apple pie,
 >by the book correct and folks treated them as classified
 >documents.

While you may have gone through large numbers of documents which
are not active, you apparently have not researched how the White
House or the Executive branch controlled and safeguarded such
documents. So you have missed the whole point.

Now let us look at some documents in Stan's Final Report on
Operation Majestic 12. If one looks at pages E-11, E-12 and E-13
all are stamped Top Secret however none have any classified
information. They are all transmittal or cover letters to Top
Secret documents. As such they are stamped Top Secret. It is
also noted that they are considered unclassified when separated
from their Top Secret attachment. (It should be noted that all
three of the letter are from then CIA Director Allan Dulles to
Col. Goodpaster, White House Staff Secretary. So all letters are
essentially the same in that they transmit a Top Secret
document.) However, it should be noted that the letter on page
E-11 plainly has "T. S. #158734/c, Copy #1." Why? Well,
speculation is just that, but my experience tells me that either
as a record management or security manager decision, it was
decided to retain the cover letter with the TS document in the
file instead of separating them.

I suppose that one could conclude, probably wrongly, that
controls were applied to various documents in a haphazard
manner.


Aside:
Please note that the AF Intel Record and Routing sheets
concerning AIR 203 at

http://project1947.com/fig/48docdex.htm#top

are all filed together under one TS control number. However, the
draft and interim reports referred to in these R & R sheets are
not in the file. The same is true for most files in AF HQ
intelligence UFO correspondence files either classified or
unclassified. Generally what is contained there are some
letters, memoranda for records, and many transmittal documents
without the reports, enclosues or attachments.

As with the letter should in Stan's report on pages E-12 and E-
13 it would be possible to concluded that TS documents can be
found without TS control numbers or properly controled.


Jan Aldrich
Project 1947
http://www.project1947.com/
P. O. Box 391
Canterbury, CT 06331
(860) 546-9135








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                     Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Gates

From: Robert Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 01:00:20 EST
Fwd Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 12:55:38 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Gates


 >From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 19:17:19 +0100
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:36:11 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 ><snip>

 >>But here are a couple of germane questions. Do you really
 >>believe Gerald Anderson is telling any truth? Or isn't he just
 >>an opportunist like Frank Kaufmann? And do you really believe
 >>the Jim Ragsdale story as you claimed in that silly brochure
 >>that Max Littel printed? Shouldn't we retire all these stories
 >>and move on?

 >Kevin, Stan and the List,

 >Or were they playing roles?

 >And in that role, could parts of their stories be true?

Hi Gildas,

Reminds me of the post earlier on this List about the death of
Ray Wallace who started the bigfoot story using carved wooden
feet. Now apparently the guy enjoyed a good prank and milked it
for all of its worth.

As to Kaufman, who knows what may have motivated him to
fabricate a tale about crashed saucer... but it was still a
fabricated tale... why should we still be discussing the merits,
or possible merits, of it?

Gee, I would prefer discussing the merits and possibilitys of
the jewel encrusted helmet.... :)

Cheers,

Robert






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                       Questions From A New Subscriber

From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 02:00:20 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 13:02:00 -0500
Subject: Questions From A New Subscriber


Hi, my name is Laurel, I'm new to this List. I've been deeply
interested in the UFO subject since the 1970's but been "out of
the loop", so to speak, for a few years, so I'm trying to catch
up (just ordered Corso Roswell book from Amazon).

I've got a few immediate questions and would really welcome any
comments/feedback on the following:

1. Does anyone know the Real Reason radio host Art Bell is going
off the air soon? His paranoia or a publicity ploy, or perhaps
this has something to do with his recent conversation with
Richard Hoagland (related verbatim on an Art Bell internet
site)?

2. I'd like any opinions re: The Project Grudge 13/Blue Book
papers which Bill English put on tape, were then prepared by
John Lear and forwarded to Bill Cooper in 1988, I believe. Does
anyone believe these papers have any validity (why Bill Moore
labeled them a fraud I don't know)?

I am especially concerned about a portion of these papers which
describe the abduction and mutilation of a Sgt. Jonathan P.
Lovette at the White Sands missile testing range in New Mexico
in 1956 - do any of you give this material any creedence? Any
conjectures about the "grey's" purposes for obtaining human
body parts/blood?


Thanks,

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                     European UFO Journal Press Release

From: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos <ballesterolmos@yahoo.es>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 14:28:40 +0100 (CET)
Fwd Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 13:12:22 -0500
Subject: European UFO Journal Press Release


Please find herewith a letter from the editor-in-chief of the European
Journal of UFO and Abduction Studies (EJUFOAS), soliciting papers,
informing the new, reduced pricing structure, and more. EJUFOAS is
published from the Psychology Department, Totton College, United Kingdom
and it has an European-wide range of editors, included Dr David Clarke, Dr
Massimo Teodorani, Edoardo Russo, etc.

Best regards,

Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos
Member, EJUFOAS Board

-----

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Due to winning the Cuardenos de Ufologia Prize for 2002 (from
Fundacion Anomalia) the European Journal of UFO and Abduction
Studies has reduced its price significantly!

Please find as an attachment in Word, a copy of the new
subscription form showing reduced prices for all combinations of
sales from one part-volume up to the entire set! Please visit
our Italian-based website at:

http://www.cisu.org/ejpres.htm

which houses a complete contents list for each part-volume
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                     Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle

From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 12:24:54 EST
Fwd Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 13:14:16 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle


 >From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 19:17:19 +0100
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:36:11 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed


<snip>

 >>But here are a couple of germane questions. Do you really
 >>believe Gerald Anderson is telling any truth? Or isn't he just
 >>an opportunist like Frank Kaufmann? And do you really believe
 >>the Jim Ragsdale story as you claimed in that silly brochure
 >>that Max Littel printed? Shouldn't we retire all these stories
 >>and move on?

 >Kevin, Stan and the List,

 >Or were they playing roles?

No.

 >And in that role, could parts of their stories be true?

In one sense yes, meaning simply that they built their stories
on the Roswell case. But their stories are all invention, based
on what they perceived the truth of Roswell to be. Their stories
should be rejected.

 >I asked some questions like that in my previous message (of 12-5-02).

Yes you did, and I believed that I had answered them in my other
posts. Let me elaborate.

Frank Kaufmann claimed to be a master sergeant and had a
document to prove it. He was not a master sergeant and the
document was faked.

Gerald Anderson claimed to be a Navy SEAL, but the SEALs, on
their website, exposed him as a faker. While he might have been
in the Navy, he was not a SEAL.

Frank Kaufmann showed various documents and had others that
suggested he was telling the truth, but those documents were
faked.

Gerald Anderson showed various documents, including his
telephone bill, a second telephone bill, Uncle Ted's diary, and
so on but those documents were faked.

Both of these men spun tales that put them into the center of
the Roswell case, but all attempts at verification have now
failed. I believe that there is no reason to accept the
testimony of either as reliable and no reason to believe that
either was some sort of disinformation agent put into place to
bring down the Roswell case. Both were opportunists who injected
themselves into the case and spun tales. The faked documents,
the contradictory nature of their stories, and the ever shifting
tales have proven this.

Jim Ragsdale's tale is now just laughable. Originally, it made
some sense and seemed to corroborate some of the Kaufmann tale.
But he told of gold helmets (can anyone think of a worst metal
for a helmet), a jewel encrusted throne inside the crashed
flying saucer, and made changes in his original story (he didn't
get close but saw the bodies in the distance to he was down
there pulling the helmets from them). The changes in his story
were clearly induced by the monetary rewards offered and are of
such a contradictory nature that they should now be completely
and utterly rejected.

Glenn Dennis told a nice little story about his nurse friend who
was involved in a preliminary autopsy and provided many of us
with her name. At one point, he even chastised me because we had
yet to find her after he had confided the name to me. Now that
Vic Golubic, among others, have proved that Naomi Self (or the
variations on it offered at other times) was not her name and
Dennis has suggested that he never gave us the real name, his
story should be rejected. Still worse, he claims he told us he
hadn't given us the real name but we ignored his warning, and
this, I think takes the wind out of his missing nurse tale. That
he has been caught in this major distortion and tried to alibi
by blaming the researcher suggests to me that we should not
believe anything else that he has to say on the topic.

He also told us that she had been killed in an aircraft accident
that killed five Army nurses. I checked the New York Times
Index, specifically those reports relating to aircraft
accidents, from July 1947 through December 1954, and there was
no aircraft accident that killed five Army nurses. Don Berliner
checked the Stars and Stripes (sort of a military newspaper)
with similar negative results... conclusion, that part of the
story was not true.

Later, in an interview published in the MUFON UFO Journal,
Dennis said that he believed that she had been discharged from
the Army and had become a nun... again without any proof that
such was the case or that anyone named Naomi Self had ever been
an Army nurse.

Nor do I believe that the government has been involved in any
sort of disinformation campaign here. I believe that each of
these men invented his story out of whole cloth for the exposure
it would give him and the limited monetary rewards he might
enjoy.

If we want to understand Roswell and UFOs, it is best to
eliminate these tales, relegating them to the footnote status
they deserve. I don't know how to make it any clearer than this.
They were not involved in the 1947 events, they did not possess
any knowledge about those events that suggests they were on the
inside, they have been caught and then changed their stories.
They were not part of a disinformation campaign. This suggestion
is the last desperate attempt to retain some of the tale rather
than rejecting it totally, as we should.

 >I would like you two brave researchers on Roswell to stop
 >quarreling a moment and discuss such questions!

I have done that repeatedly, but clearly the answers are not the
ones you wish to hear.

 >Or reject them and tell us why.

As I have done repeatedly. I once spent an hour explaining,
carefully, why the Gerald Anderson telephone bill was a fake,
providing all the evidence necessary. The man looked at me and
asked, "How do you know the government didn't fake the phone
bill to make Anderson look bad?"

The answer was that the government couldn't have possibly
anticipated that this particular bill would be of any importance
and intercepted it before it got to Anderson. The only person on
the face of the planet who could have faked it was Anderson as
the evidence showed.

I realized at that point that there were some who would never
accept the truth unless Anderson admitted it. Which he did. And
we still have to discuss him...

KRandle








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               Re: A Possible Roswell/RAF Connection - Clarke

From: David  Clarke <cd292@crazydiamonds.fsnet.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 18:00:12 -0000
Fwd Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 13:18:16 -0500
Subject: Re: A Possible Roswell/RAF Connection - Clarke


 >From: Colin Bennett <sharkley@panzerben.fsworld.co.uk>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 00:01:03 -0000
 >Subject: A Possible Roswell/RAF Connection

 >If anyone has any kind of information on this matter of Roswell
 >RAF staff or crews, it would be appreciated and it will be
 >acknowledged in my forthcoming book on Ruppelt, An American
 >Demonology. I must admit this is a very long shot indeed, but as
 >the Bishop said to the Actress, it is perhaps worth a try, and
 >someone somewhere might just have a an interesting story to
 >tell. I look forward to any such replies, and will keep the List
 >informed of any developments.

Hi Colin,

May I suggest that you try placing an advert in the RAF veterans
magazine 'AIRMAIL', appealing to any crews who trained at
Roswell to get in touch. The mag is widely read by former RAF
airmen and women in retirement across the world. I recently
placed an advert there asking for info on UFO/radar cases from
the '50s and received dozens of replies.


Best,

Dave Clarke

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                       Re: Abductions & Ufology - Hall

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 19:18:23 +0000
Fwd Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 16:39:57 -0500
Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology - Hall


 >From: Catherine Reason <CathyM@ukf.net>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 01:59:20 -0000
 >Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >>From: Jim Speiser <jimspeiser@yahoo.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 01:42:53 -0700
 >>Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >Hello Jim, Amy, Dick and all

 >>I feel I must jump in here. Not that Dick needs me to defend
 >>him, but I do not posess a degree in anything, not even an
 >>associates, I don't think I can even pronounce "curriculum
 >>vitae" correctly, yet I firmly believe I can recognize a basket-
 >>case when I see one - and I've seen plenty. (Remember, I once
 >>chaired a Moseley Conference). I resent the idea that
 >>psychologists think that recognizing mental illness is their
 >>exclusive domain. As a matter of fact, if it weren't for us lay
 >>people telling certain individuals we meet that "You maybe
 >>oughta get a check-up from the neck-up," there wouldn't BE very
 >>many psychologists or psychiatrists. Just because I can't write
 >>a paper on border deficit disorder doesn't mean I don't know
 >>when someone's a few french fries short of a happy meal.

 >I have been reluctant to jump in too, but I guess if it's ok for
 >Jim, it's probably ok for me too.

 >I don't have anything against Dick Hall either, in fact, he sent
 >me a very encouraging email soon after I joined this List -
 >which I haven't forgotten. I just hope he isn't about to regret
 >doing that.

 >It doesn't matter to me how many degrees one has - I've known
 >plenty of people with MB/MD degrees who shouldn't have been
 >allowed anywhere near real patients. It matters a lot, though,
 >when someone claims to be able to identify a "basket case" (an
 >interesting dx, btw, which I'm sure you won't find in the DSM
 >IV) on the basis of casual inspection - no matter how many
 >degrees they claim to have.

Cathy,

No need to cut and run for the shelter. I pretty much agree with
you, but I didn't say anything about "casual inspection" and I
certainly didn't claim to be a psychological diagnostician in
regard to all kinds of subtleties.

Please re-read my post where I defined, very carefully, what I
meant by a "basket case".

[see:

http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/nov/m30-022.shtml

http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/dec/m02-010.shtml

-- ebk]

And also for what I was talking about, the root cause is
irrelevant. It makes no never mind to me why Mike Tyson bites
people's ears off and assaults everyone in public. I was talking
*recognition* only. I stand by what I said.

 >Anyone who seriously believes they can do this should take a
 >look at David Rosenhan's article: "On being sane in insane
 >places" (Science 179 pp 250-258).

 >If they still believe they have this magical power, I'd like
 >them to answer the following questions.

 >1) How would they distinguish between cognitive distortion due
 >to underlying organic dysfunction, and cognitive distortion due
 >to post-traumatic sequelae;

 >2) How would they distinguish between unusual behavor due to
 >psychiatric disorder and unusual behavior due to personal
 >eccentricity (check out the case of Joyce Brown for an example
 >of exactly this problem);

 >3) How would they make the distinction in (2) when both
 >psychiatric disorder and personal eccentricity occur in the same
 >person (you'd be surprised how often this happens);

 >4) How would they distinguish between psychiatric pathology and
 >non-pathological psychiatric phenomena (such as hearing voices);

 >5) How they would dx Bipolar Disorder, given that I've lost
 >count of the number of BP patients who in effect dx'd
 >themselves, despite having previously been hospitalized during
 >manic episodes;

 >6) How they would differentiate "Basket Case Syndrome" from
 >schizophrenia, bipolar, borderline personality disorder (which
 >may not even exist, incidentally) PTSD, ADHD, Asperger's
 >Syndrome;

 >7) How they would distinguish "Basket Case Syndrome" from
 >malnutrition, the effects of organic disease, or the side-
 >effects of anti-psychotic drugs prescribed to individuals dx'd
 >with major psychoses.

 >I could go on (at great length) but I will spare you your ears
 >and your computer screens.

 >Cathy

 >(Getting ready to join Bob and Amy in the skeptics' dugout)


Your posts have been thoughtful and helpful.


  - Dick







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             Re: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight - Myers

From: Royce J. Myers III - The UFO Watchdog <ufowatchdog@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 11:47:36 -0800
Fwd Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 16:45:10 -0500
Subject: Re: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight - Myers


 >From: Larry Landsman <LL1157@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 16:29:04 EST
 >Subject: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight

 >[Non-Subscriber Post]

 >>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 11:33:44 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Randle On 'Coast'

 >>>From: Lester Hahn <lesterhahn@hotmail.com>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 21:02:22 -0600
 >>>Subject: Randle On 'Coast'

<snip>

 >I'd like to introduce myself.

 >As SCI FI's Director of Special Projects, I've been closely
 >following UFO UpDates for the latest and greatest news from the
 >world of ufology.

 >SCI FI has especially been interested in the feedback from the
 >community about Steven Spielberg's TAKEN, as well as our recent
 >documentary THE ROSWELL CRASH: STARTLING NEW EVIDENCE. I've been
 >keenly following the reaction to the Roswell special in
 >particular since I was the individual who contracted the
 >University of New Mexico to conduct the dig, as well as the
 >creative executive on the show (I directed MPH throughout the
 >show's development).

 >I've been dismayed and quite surprised to read some of the
 >comments regarding the veracity of the show due to the fact we
 >decided to work with (and consult) certain Roswell researchers.

 >As you may or may not know, SCI FI and MPH Entertainment have
 >attempted to conduct its work with professional impartiality and
 >balanced reporting (throughout the scientific dig and the
 >production phase of the documentary). We feel the results are
 >evident in the show itself and have received much kudos from the
 >ufo community at large.

 >Nonetheless, on behalf of SCI FI, I find myself having to
 >respond to some inaccuracies and misperceptions that have been
 >posted (see above) in an attempt to set the record straight.

 >It was I who originally contacted Don Schmitt last May on behalf
 >of SCI FI (having worked on SHOWTIME's ROSWELL) to offer up some
 >of the Channel's resources to the current ongoing investigation.
 >We were well aware that Don and Tom's efforts represented the
 >only ongoing active research currently underway. We were also
 >well aware of their close affiliation to the International UFO
 >Museum and Research Center and, despite the trouble Don had many
 >years ago, we thought (and still do) that Tom and Don have
 >conducted some excellent research since their partnering.

 >Furthermore, from day one, we were well aware of the very
 >acrimonious falling out between Don and Kevin Randle. In
 >addition, we were also well aware of the earlier effort by
 >representatives of CUFOS to try to conduct some archaeological
 >exam of the debris field. Don never ever "lied" to anyone at SCI
 >FI or UNM about that project, as some have claimed on UFO
 >Updates. Once again, we want to officially state our strong
 >support of researchers Don Schmitt and Tom Carey.

 >Just to correct any further misperceptions, the only UFO
 >research 'consultants', in any sense of the word, that we worked
 >with on THE ROSWELL CRASH was Don, Tom, Dave Rudiak and the
 >IUFOMARC. Of course, we interviewed many folks for the show but
 >our main source of info on the Roswell Incident itself (other
 >than previously published works), as well as our source for new
 >eyewitnesses, was through our relationships with Tom, Don and
 >David. We simply could not have pulled the show together without
 >them.

 >Thanks again for allowing us at SCI FI to "set the record
 >straight."


Larry,

Let's drop phrases like "acrimonious falling out" or "the
trouble Don had many years ago" and get to the issue - which is
the credibility of Don Schmitt. While I could rehash Schmitt
having lied about his employment, educational background and his
Roswell research, I'm not going to nor do I think I have to.

The fact of the matter here is Don Schmitt has no credibility in
this field and many are worried that his association with any
effort in further investigating Roswell or other UFO cases will
backfire right in the face of the UFO community. Larry, I did e-
mail you for comment about this, but did not receive a response
back for whatever reason.

If the Sci Fi dig does find anything relating to Roswell, you
know as well as I that every skeptic and toilet-seat debunker
out there is going to jump right on the Schmitt credibility
wagon and ride it until the wheels smoke and burn down
everything else around it. If Sci Fi begins to generate any
serious inquiry from the media as well, do you not think that
they're going to inquire about Schmitt's background and his
false claims? What will you say then? Will you tell them it was
just an "acrimonious falling out" or just a bit of "trouble Don
had many years ago" ? No one is going to go for downplaying or
spin on this.

While you've "been dismayed and quite surprised" by some of the
comments generated by people on this List, many of the people on
this List have also been dismayed and quite surprised that Sci
Fi chose to use Schmitt in any of its UFO programming. What's
even more dismaying to me is that you, being in charge of the
project and having worked with both Schmitt and Randle on the
Roswell movie, were fully aware of the past actions of Schmitt
and how his actions severely damaged the Roswell case and
Ufology in general.

While the archeological dig and the GWU UFO symposium are steps
in the right direction, which I applaud, utilizing a known liar
as one of your consultants is guaranteed to cripple your
efforts. Whether you care or not, your choice has already had a
negative impact with many ufologists at the expsense of your
credibility. Like many out there, I am hoping that Sci Fi will
be able to vastly contribute to Ufology in a positive and
productive manner. I just hope we do not start seeing a rash of
the usual suspects and other UFO frauds making the rounds on Sci
Fi.

"Spielberg's TAKEN Sets Record For SciFi Channel"

I think we know where Sci Fi's interest in UFOs is heading.
After all, this is show biz. Sci Fi will get its ratings and
advertisers, a few months of media coverage and specials about
UFOs might follow, and then Ufology will, once again, fade into
the background and await the next round...

Hope I'm wrong, but I doubt I am as we've seen this so many
times before. Perhaps Sci Fi will surprise us all... hopefully
it will.


Regards,

Royce J. Myers III
UFOWATCHDOG.COM
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                              Another Approach

From: Roy Norris <rnorris@charter.net>
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 14:02:31 -0600
Fwd Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 16:51:56 -0500
Subject: Another Approach


I have been a frequent reader of this List for a number of years
and have had an interest in UFO phenomena since the fifties. I
have been the CEO of a major aircraft manufacturer, held a Top
Secret Clearance (no, I don't have any inside information), and
have had two UFO sightings in my life. I have read widely on the
subject and studied the evidence. Like many of you, I am
disappointed in the progress that has been made in determining
the route cause of this phenomenon and making that information
available to the public at large despite enormous efforts, much
of it by participants on this list.

I just finished re-reading all of Major Donald Kehole's books
and it is amazing that there has been so little progress in the
last 50 years on this incredibly important subject. We are
asking the same questions (and getting no answers) and using the
same methods as we did in the early 50's. Isn't 50 years of very
little progress indicative of the fact that our investigative
methods are inappropriate to the task?

(Don't bother to tell me the phenomena aren't real or are
explained as mis-identifications of common celestial objects,
balloons, aircraft, or other natural phenomena. I have seen two
of these things, know aircraft and their capabilities pretty
well, am an avid amateur astronomer and not likely to mistake
Venus for anything other than Venus , and have a good solid
engineering education!)

It seems to me that real progress could be made through a
different approach: amassing sufficient scientifically
significant measurements to, once and for all, establish that
many of the phenomena have characteristics that cannot be
explained by conventional theory and may possess features
indicating a machine under intelligent control using propulsion
and control mechanisms of a heretofore unknown means.

Since it is difficult to predict where UFO phenomena will occur,
I have in mind a mobile data collection vehicle that could
travel to where they are occurring and that at a minimum could
acquire and record the following data:

1) Changes in the local electric field

2) Changes in the local magnetic field

3) A gravimeter to sense any changes in the local gravitational
   field.

4) A HF/VHF/UHF spectrum analyzer

5) A low dispersion optical spectrograph to catch a flash
   spectrum of any object observed

6) A high dispersion optical spectrograph to allow detailed
   analysis of emission lines

7) An X-Ray spectrophotometer to evaluate energy levels and
   energy transition of any processes involved

8) Conventional movie and still cameras

9) A basic radar capability perhaps based around a simple and
   inexpensive consumer marine radar with recording capability

The coincidental recording of the above data would provide
tremendous insight into the nature and processes involved in
these phenomena. An X-Ray or Gamma Ray photometer in particular
could yield valuable information on power generation methods by
looking at energy transition levels.

Such a system could be assembled using surplus equipment for
under fifty thousand dollars and if placed in the vicinity of a
UFO sighting could yield a wealth of information that could
significantly advance our knowledge and potential to
scientifically characterize these phenomena.

The problem then becomes one of placing our monitoring vehicle
where a UFO sighting is likely to occur. Although there is no
sure predictor, there is some indication that UFO sightings are
frequently repeated over a period of time (ie, the Hudson Valley
sightings or the Gulf Breeze sightings for example).  Also,
UFO's have shown a propensity in the past to show up around
certain military installations, and nuclear facilities.

With all of the effort that has been expended on post sighting
investigation, Freedom of Information Act endeavors, cataloging
of UFO reports, Roswell research, publishing of hundreds if not
thousands of UFO books, why has not this rather simple and
straight forward approach been undertaken? Someone like Lawrence
Rockefeller could fund this out of pocket change. It could be
funded at a fraction of the cost of The Disclosure Project. Why
has no one (publicly) pursued this very obvious and straight
forward path to further our knowledge??







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                               Anton Anfalov?

From: Albert Rosales <Garuda79@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 15:15:12 EST
Fwd Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 16:54:00 -0500
Subject: Anton Anfalov?


Hello everyone, I am looking for information as to email or postal
address to Mr Anfalov, I am desperately trying to contact him ref
exchange of information.

Thank you.

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               Re: European UFO Journal Press Release - Hayes

From: John Hayes <webmaster@ufoinfo.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 20:33:47 +0000
Fwd Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 16:56:16 -0500
Subject: Re: European UFO Journal Press Release - Hayes


 >From: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos <ballesterolmos@yahoo.es>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 14:28:40 +0100 (CET)
 >Subject: European UFO Journal Press Release

<snip>

 >If you have any questions about the journal or find that
 >the attachment does not work, please do not hesitate to
 >contact me at:

 >ejufoas@totton.ac.uk


If anyone has problems with the form in the original message
they can download a Word version at:

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http://www.ufoinfo.com/files/EJUFOAS_Subscription_Form.zip

You can also print out an online version at:

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               Frank Edwards - Mutual Network Radio Archives?

From: Gord Heath <gwheath@shaw.ca>
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 13:38:42 -0800
Fwd Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 16:57:39 -0500
Subject: Frank Edwards - Mutual Network Radio Archives?


Does any List subscriber know if there are any archives of Frank
Edwards radio broadcasts from 1953?

I am specifically searching for a transcript or recording of a
program in late November 1953, in which he interviewed two
pilots.

If anyone knows where I may be able to locate this material,
please contact me:


Gord Heath

gwheath@shaw.ca
(604) 576-6400
42-14877 58th Ave.
Surrey, BC  V3S 8Y9








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                          Re: Abductions & Ufology

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 22:11:01 +0000
Fwd Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 17:39:51 -0500
Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology


 >From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 19:18:23 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >>From: Catherine Reason <CathyM@ukf.net>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 01:59:20 -0000
 >>Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

<snip>

 >>I don't have anything against Dick Hall either, in fact, he sent
 >>me a very encouraging email soon after I joined this List -
 >>which I haven't forgotten. I just hope he isn't about to regret
 >>doing that.

 >>It doesn't matter to me how many degrees one has - I've known
 >>plenty of people with MB/MD degrees who shouldn't have been
 >>allowed anywhere near real patients. It matters a lot, though,
 >>when someone claims to be able to identify a "basket case" (an
 >>interesting dx, btw, which I'm sure you won't find in the DSM
 >>IV) on the basis of casual inspection - no matter how many
 >>degrees they claim to have.

 >Cathy,

 >No need to cut and run for the shelter. I pretty much agree with
 >you, but I didn't say anything about "casual inspection" and I
 >certainly didn't claim to be a psychological diagnostician in
 >regard to all kinds of subtleties.

 >Please re-read my post where I defined, very carefully, what I
 >meant by a "basket case".

 >[see:

 >http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/nov/m30-022.shtml

 >http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/dec/m02-010.shtml


See also:

http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/dec/m06-004.shtml








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             Re: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight - Hall

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 22:23:51 +0000
Fwd Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 17:42:14 -0500
Subject: Re: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight - Hall


 >From: Royce J. Myers III - The UFO Watchdog <ufowatchdog@earthlink.net>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 11:47:36 -0800
 >Subject: Re: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight

 >>From: Larry Landsman <LL1157@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 16:29:04 EST
 >>Subject: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight

 >>[Non-Subscriber Post]

 >>>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 11:33:44 EST
 >>>Subject: Re: Randle On 'Coast'

 >>>>From: Lester Hahn <lesterhahn@hotmail.com>
 >>>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>>Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 21:02:22 -0600
 >>>>Subject: Randle On 'Coast'

 >>I'd like to introduce myself.

 >>As SCI FI's Director of Special Projects, I've been closely
 >>following UFO UpDates for the latest and greatest news from the
 >>world of ufology.

 >>SCI FI has especially been interested in the feedback from the
 >>community about Steven Spielberg's TAKEN, as well as our recent
 >>documentary THE ROSWELL CRASH: STARTLING NEW EVIDENCE. I've been
 >>keenly following the reaction to the Roswell special in
 >>particular since I was the individual who contracted the
 >>University of New Mexico to conduct the dig, as well as the
 >>creative executive on the show (I directed MPH throughout the
 >>show's development).

 >>I've been dismayed and quite surprised to read some of the
 >>comments regarding the veracity of the show due to the fact we
 >>decided to work with (and consult) certain Roswell researchers.

 >>As you may or may not know, SCI FI and MPH Entertainment have
 >>attempted to conduct its work with professional impartiality and
 >>balanced reporting (throughout the scientific dig and the
 >>production phase of the documentary). We feel the results are
 >>evident in the show itself and have received much kudos from the
 >>ufo community at large.

 >>Nonetheless, on behalf of SCI FI, I find myself having to
 >>respond to some inaccuracies and misperceptions that have been
 >>posted (see above) in an attempt to set the record straight.

 >>It was I who originally contacted Don Schmitt last May on behalf
 >>of SCI FI (having worked on SHOWTIME's ROSWELL) to offer up some
 >>of the Channel's resources to the current ongoing investigation.
 >>We were well aware that Don and Tom's efforts represented the
 >>only ongoing active research currently underway. We were also
 >>well aware of their close affiliation to the International UFO
 >>Museum and Research Center and, despite the trouble Don had many
 >>years ago, we thought (and still do) that Tom and Don have
 >>conducted some excellent research since their partnering.

 >>Furthermore, from day one, we were well aware of the very
 >>acrimonious falling out between Don and Kevin Randle. In
 >>addition, we were also well aware of the earlier effort by
 >>representatives of CUFOS to try to conduct some archaeological
 >>exam of the debris field. Don never ever "lied" to anyone at SCI
 >>FI or UNM about that project, as some have claimed on UFO
 >>Updates. Once again, we want to officially state our strong
 >>support of researchers Don Schmitt and Tom Carey.

 >>Just to correct any further misperceptions, the only UFO
 >>research 'consultants', in any sense of the word, that we worked
 >>with on THE ROSWELL CRASH was Don, Tom, Dave Rudiak and the
 >>IUFOMARC. Of course, we interviewed many folks for the show but
 >>our main source of info on the Roswell Incident itself (other
 >>than previously published works), as well as our source for new
 >>eyewitnesses, was through our relationships with Tom, Don and
 >>David. We simply could not have pulled the show together without
 >>them.

 >>Thanks again for allowing us at SCI FI to "set the record
 >>straight."

Mr. Landsman,

Although the Roswell documentary has definite merits and, as
documentaries go, was much above average, I agree completely,
wholeheartedly, 150% with what Royce says here. "Acrimonious
falling out" doesn't hack it. Don Schmitt has lost all
credibility in the UFO field due to his mendacity; Kevin Randle
is admired for his truth-telling, honesty, and willingness to
admit past errors. I have personally been in the middle of some
of this and interacted with both of them in regard to Roswell
investigations and know whereof I speak.


  - Dick Hall







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                 Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Friedman

From: Stan Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 18:45:20 -0400
Fwd Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 18:46:20 -0500
Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Friedman


 >From: Nick Pope <nick@popemod.freeserve.co.uk>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 13:00:54 -0000
 >Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>From: Stan Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 22:17:50 -0400
 >>Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 ><snip>

 >>Maybe Listers from the UK can help me out here. Isn't Dr. David
 >>Whiteside, the BBC science-on-line guy who made these stupid
 >>comments, the same guy with whom I tangled on TV in Manchester,
 >>UK, in about March of 1995 and when Tim Good, Nick Pope and I
 >>"debated" three men on the con side, a Psychologist, a
 >>Physicist and Dr.Whiteside on the ITV broadcast in June of
 >>1997?

 >>That is the one where 100,000 people called in to say yes or no
 >>to the question of alien visitations. 92% of the callers and
 >>"only" 73 % of the studio audience said yes.

 >Stan and List,

 >I don't know about your 1995 TV appearance in Manchester, but
 >the 1997 event did not involve Dr. David Whiteside. The show was
 >entitled "Strange But True? Live" and aired on June 27 1997.
 >You, Tim Good and I debated with Professor Frank Close (a
 >physicist), Dr. David Hughes (an astronomer) and Dr. Chris
 >French (a psychologist). The motion was "Do you believe aliens
 >have already visited Earth?"

Thanks much Nick. Spot on. It was indeed David Hughes on both
shows though Whiteside was just as ignorant and arrogant.
Frankly I only remembered the David part.

 >The viewing audience was estimated at just under 7 million, and
 >over 100,000 calls were made to the telephone lines. Of these
 >calls, 92% agreed with the motion and 8% disagreed.

I should add that there were, intentionally, other debunkers on
the show and in the audience, which may account for why the
audience believer-vote was "only" 73%, taken before the debate.
I suppose we could say we clobbered them. By the way the total
audience number, which I had not recalled, is more than twice
the number that saw the recent all time most popular SCI-FI
Documentary show about Roswell.


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                  Researchers Accuse ASU's THEMIS Of Fraud

From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 19:09:34 -0500
Fwd Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 19:09:34 -0500
Subject: Researchers Accuse ASU's THEMIS Of Fraud

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/2002-12-05/news.html/1/index.html

December 5, 2002

To Spite the Face

Researchers accuse ASU's THEMIS of fraud and cover-up on latest
image of 'Face on Mars'

BY QUETTA CARPENTER

Under the surface of Mars lies an ancient, nuclear-powered city
left by Martian citizens. At least, that's what a group of space
researchers think. And they're trying to prove it by invoking a
little-known remnant of President Clinton's last days called the
"Data Quality Act" that went into force in October of this year.
The filing, dated October 31, 2002, gives NASA 40 days to
address the complaint that there is faulty data on Arizona State
University's THEMIS Web site.

THEMIS (Thermal Emission Imaging System) is the crown jewel of
ASU's science department that takes and analyzes images from an
infrared camera on NASA's Odyssey satellite and releases them to
the public. THEMIS also conducts expansive educational programs
for students, scientists and interested observers. But its
reputation is now being trashed in almost every Mars or space-
related Web site on the Internet with headlines like, "Is NASA
Capable of Lying?" and "Odyssey Slaps the Face on Mars."

The heated controversy that has incited the faithful conspiracy
congregation - led by a charismatic "preacher" named Richard
Hoagland - concerns one image that was released in July of this
year, and the software manager at THEMIS, Noel Gorelick.

The image in question is the first high-resolution infrared
image of a region called Cydonia - which houses the so-called
"Face on Mars." This has been the most hotly contested region of
Mars since a 1976 Viking image showed what clearly appeared to
be a human face on the planet's surface. But subsequent images
from NASA have cast a web of suspicion on the region, the
"face," and the other structures surrounding it, inciting almost
epic conspiracy theories all over the world.

The reason the infrared, or "IR," images are so important is
that they show temperatures, allowing for a more definitive
analysis of the origin of structures on Cydonia.

Hoagland claims to have proof that ASU's Gorelick swapped the
July 24 Cydonia image for a manipulated one in order to keep
people off the scent - or get them on it. And Hoagland's
arguments are not falling on deaf ears - starting a five-month
feeding frenzy on the Web and on a popular conspiracy radio talk
show hosted by Art Bell. The image in question has been viewed
120,000 times from a link on MSNBC mentioning Hoagland's beef
with THEMIS.

Given his involvement with unorthodox scientific research,
Hoagland is surprisingly difficult to throw into the crackpot
category. His lengthy dissertations are reminiscent of the Lone
Gunmen from The X-Files, but his r=E9sum=E9 doesn't read like a
typical conspiracy theorist. He was the recipient of the
Angstrom Medal for Excellence in Science in Stockholm, Sweden, a
colleague of Carl Sagan, and a former science adviser to CBS
News and Walter Cronkite.

His pet project, The Enterprise Mission - where he goes by "The
Captain" - monitors all of the data from NASA and does research
in excruciating minutia. Its early '90s school education
program, The Enterprise Classroom, received a Points of Light
Award from Barbara Bush and was featured on NASA's Spacelink --
  even getting a visit from the space shuttle Atlantis crew. But
Hoagland and The Enterprise Mission's research now focuses
almost exclusively on SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial
Intelligence).

According to Hoagland, an image of the Cydonia region was
released on July 24 via Web download to Keith Laney, a NASA Ames
Research Center consultant who works with The Enterprise
Mission. Laney claims that he did not alter the image, but when
he compared it to the image on the THEMIS Web site, he realized
the two were different.

"Science, if you do it right, does not lie," says Hoagland. "But
here, the evidence tells a different story than [the people at
THEMIS] do."

Enter vast conspiracy theory.

Hoagland and his horde say that there is little surprise when
NASA releases misleading or purely false images. Several images
have been released of the Cydonia plane since the original
Viking expedition - some making the "face" appear completely
flat as though nothing is there, and others that present
alternate views that look less human. Hoagland thinks these
images have been released to kill public interest in the issue.

And Hoagland doesn't think it's just Mars. He also has theories
of cover-up conspiracies on Europa (a moon of Jupiter), the dark
side of Earth's moon, Mars moon Phobos, and a host of other
topics.

As far as Hoagland is concerned, NASA is not trustworthy on
anything because of a study produced by the Washington, D.C.,
think tank The Brookings Institute in 1963, before the Viking
expedition. This report, known as The Brookings Report, asserts
that the government should hide evidence of life on other
planets - if it finds any - to avoid religious and overall
societal breakdown. Assuming that this report was made a part of
internal NASA policy, Hoagland now dedicates himself to
searching for any and all possible manipulations of NASA images
and information. "The people of this country pay good money for
this research, and they should get what they pay for," says
Hoagland. "The pattern of deception would only exist if there
was something there."

It is Laney and Hoagland's assertion that ASU's Gorelick
"bamf'ed" or redirected Laney to the "real" Cydonia image in
order to send up a red flag that THEMIS' information was being
purposefully flawed. Hoagland admits it sounds bizarre, but
asks, "If we're crazy - or have consciously perpetrated a fraud
here - why bother? Who's ultimately going to listen to
seriously ill people for long?"

And many people are still listening to Hoagland.

THEMIS officials contradict Hoagland's allegations. "There is no
scientific validity to anything Hoagland says about this,"
claims Dr. Philip Christensen, the principal investigator at
THEMIS. "Their image is completely fabricated. It takes about
six steps on Photoshop to make our image look like theirs."

Hoagland wants THEMIS to release the image exactly as it comes
to them, with no processing. "If they have nothing to hide, why
won't they show us the raw data?" Hoagland demands.

Christensen has a simple answer. "The reason we don't release
the so-called raw-data' is that you can't read raw data. We give
people as close to unaltered as humanly possible, short of
saying, Here's a line of ones and zeroes.'"

But Hoagland believes ASU's Gorelick has a motive for the
alleged image-swap. "Read between the lines. It's all code," he
claims. Hoagland's basis for this belief is anomalous image
dates, and a collection of numbers he feels to be significant
indicators of a complex code. "The image is 333 pixels across
and 1,947 pixels long. Those numbers have meaning - they are
very important.

"Forget what's in the image; look at the other things. It's a
meta-message."

Realizing how cloak and dagger he sounds, Hoagland remarks,
"When you're dealing with Spooksville, you have to be a little
James Bond." Hoagland maintains that Gorelick logged more than
1,000 hours on The Enterprise Mission Web site during the
controversy over the image. "Why would he do that?" Hoagland
wants to know. "It's bizarre unless he is playing a very
sophisticated game."

Gorelick himself (who goes by the handle "bamf" on Web chat
rooms) says that the accusations are "totally false." Gorelick
admits to frequenting both Hoagland's site and other Mars-
related sites for personal interest reasons, but is less than
happy with being characterized as a fraud and a liar. "I think
it shows paranoid delusion," remarks Gorelick when asked whether
he was sending secret messages to Hoagland and Laney. "Laney
claims I was goading him into [analyzing the image]. But I
wasn't even talking to him."

As far as Laney's image, Gorelick says, "My opinion is that
Laney invented that image through intentional or unintentional
manipulation," and believes Hoagland's crew is using him as a
scapegoat in order to legitimize their cause. "Hoagland is
getting good results with this sensationalism. He gets money,
resources, and he's on the radio all the time."

Christensen echoes Gorelick's sentiment, saying, "Anything we
do, that group is going to complain about it. You can't win."

But these protestations are not taken at face value by
Hoagland's camp. "Why put this stuff out - unless it's a cry
for help? They want to get caught," says Hoagland.

Hoagland says ASU's Gorelick, and others like him, are unhappy
with the fact that they cannot release complete data to the
public - and this "bamf'ed" image is his way of fighting back.
"It only takes one white crow to prove that not all crows are
black," Hoagland explains. "That's what I think [Gorelick] is
trying to give us - one white crow."

Gorelick laughs in response, "I actually like this part. He
gives me more credit than I am probably worthy of - that I
could engineer such a thing."

In any case, Gorelick says that THEMIS is not bound by the
federal Data Quality Act. "It's not a NASA Web site, it's an ASU
Web site. And it's not a NASA image, it's an ASU image.

"Even if it were relevant, we would respond that Laney's data
was incorrect and that the Web site has the correct image - or
more likely claim it's frivolous."

An answer on the filing is due on December 11. Hoagland is
hopeful, saying, "If [Gorelick] sent Laney to a bamf to get
another image, he has to admit what he did."

Either way, the response is unlikely to satisfy Hoagland. "If
you begin to believe that the government can lie, why would they
keep their grubby hands off of this?" Hoagland asks.

But THEMIS and her crew are not alarmed. Says Christensen,
"[Hoagland] can go on and on for a long time - but every now
and again there's some interesting conjecture. The scientific
community needs someone to keep them thinking on their toes."

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             Re: Frank Edwards - Mutual Network Radio Archives?

From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 16:35:13 -0700
Fwd Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 20:20:42 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Edwards - Mutual Network Radio Archives?


 >From: Gord Heath <gwheath@shaw.ca>
 >To: UFO Updates <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 13:38:42 -0800
 >Subject: Frank Edwards - Mutual Network Radio Archives?

 >Does any List subscriber know if there are any archives of
 >Frank Edwards radio broadcasts from 1953?

<snip>

 >Gord Heath

Hello Gord,

I'm not really sure, but I think I have the largest collection
of Frank's newscasts in existence. Here is a list of what I have
available. Please contact me off-list for arrangement of copies.

Frank Edwards Broadcasts:

August 25, 1952. William Squyres gives an interview to Edwards
about his encounter with a Disc and Humanoid.
Source: Connors.
Sound Quality: Good.
Running Time: 00:04:51.


November 25, 1952. Lt. David C. Brigham's T-6 Trainer and 2 F-84
jets flying next to him north of Misawa, Japan, are paced by a
flying disc.
Source: Connors.
Sound Quality: Good.
Running Time: 00:02:00.


December, 1952. Edwards reports on the New Delhi crash and the
USAF DC-6 crash on December 14, 1952 in the Gulf of Mexico. He
comments on aircraft damaged by flying saucers.
Source: Connors.
Sound Quality: Good.
Running Time: 00:02:13.


1953. Exact broadcast date unknown. Edwards brings on Maj.
Donald E. Keyhoe to give an update on recent cases he has been
told about through his contacts at the Pentagon, etc.
Source: Connors.
Sound Quality: Good.
Running Time: 00:02:19.


1953. Exact broadcast date unknown. Keyhoe vs USAF Secrecy
report. Sen. Case questions Brig. Gen. Joe Kelly about
censorship issue and Bob Considine's inability to view the
Tremonton, UT film at WPAFB.
Source: Connors.
Sound Quality: Very Good.
Running Time: 00:02:07.


1953. Exact broadcast date unknown. Report on Project Twinkle.
Source: Connors.
Sound Quality: Good.
Running Time: 00:04:38.


1953. WPAFB Censorship Announcement by the USAF.
Source: Connors.
Sound Quality: Good.
Running Time: 00:00:34.


1953. Large flying disc over England.
Source: Connors.
Sound Quality: Good.
Running Time: 00:01:19.


Edwards reports on the windshield pitting mystery in the U.S.
and England. Also springs the famous Houston TV signal hoax
whereby an alleged TV stations signal was returned and picked up
by viewers in England three years after the station stopped
broadcasting. This is an excessively rare sound clip.
Source: Connors.
Sound Quality: Good.
Running Time: 00:02:47.


Unknown date. Pilot sightings and ship sighting of UFOs.
Source: Connors.
Sound Quality: Good.
Running Time: 00:03:09.


Medley of 1954 newscasts. Includes report from Maj. Donald
Keyhoe on Secretary of Defense Talbot sighting, artificial
satellites and Air Force being put on alert.

Other clips include Gen. Nathan Twining's UFO/Mars quote,
Pilot cases, Ground Observer Corps Filter Center
requirements regarding UFOs, death of a military pilot
chasing a UFO, jets scrambling for radar observed UFOs, etc.
Source: Connors.
Sound Quality: Good.
Running Time: 00:16:50.


Wendy Connors
Faded Discs/SHG







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                Re: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight -

From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 19:09:38 -0500
Fwd Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 20:24:08 -0500
Subject: Re: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight -


 >From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 22:23:51 +0000
 >Subject: Re: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight

 >>From: Royce J. Myers III - The UFO Watchdog
 ><ufowatchdog@earthlink.net>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 11:47:36 -0800
 >>Subject: Re: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight

 >>>From: Larry Landsman <LL1157@aol.com>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 16:29:04 EST
 >>>Subject: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight

 >>>[Non-Subscriber Post]

<snip>

Richard Hall wrote:

 >Mr. Landsman,

 >Although the Roswell documentary has definite merits and, as
 >documentaries go, was much above average, I agree completely,
 >wholeheartedly, 150% with what Royce says here. "Acrimonious
 >falling out" doesn't hack it. Don Schmitt has lost all
 >credibility in the UFO field due to his mendacity; Kevin Randle
 >is admired for his truth-telling, honesty, and willingness to
 >admit past errors. I have personally been in the middle of some
 >of this and interacted with both of them in regard to Roswell
 >investigations and know whereof I speak.


Richard, Royce, and all-

I think the point is that there are few researchers that are
actively pursuing the Roswell event at this point, and probably
with good reason. The subject has been argued back and forth for
years, and there's no resolution in sight. Whether it's popular
among most researchers or not, Don Schmitt and Tom Carey have
been active in the investigation of Roswell. I have great
respect for other researchers who have been actively involved in
this research in the past, but I know of little active
involvement by them currently. Obviously, there may be research
that I'm not aware of.

I'm not necessarily pleased that Don Schmitt was involved, but
do we really want to let this discussion fall back into one of
personalities. If diehard skeptics want to point to Don's
involvement, then so be it. If the SciFi Channels program has
brought out new information and made good points for the general
public, then it shouldn't matter which researchers were
involved. I didn't hear any new information presented by Don,
but certainly the involvement of an archeologist from the
University of New Mexico was a plus, as was David Rudiak's memo
interpretation. Do we want to harp on the involvement of someone
whom isn't trusted, rather than the aspects that may prove to be
a positive step in this.

As far as the SciFi's using this as a stepping stone to higher
ratings, I have to question why that's a problem. Even if they
fade into the background (which I hope will not be the case),
they've already brought Roswell back into the discussion and I
believe that's a positive step. They had the resources to make
this happen, and since this program had relatively high ratings,
they might be interested in continuing this effort with
information provided by other researchers.

Having met him, I believe Larry Landsman has a real interest in
this genre, and the SciFi Channel has already expressed interest
in pursuing this further (not necessarily Roswell, but other
facets of the genre as well). I would add that Larry is not
operating in a vaccuum, and has been in touch with several other
major researchers as well. Concerns regarding Schmitt's
involvement were expressed early on, but the general feeling has
been that the SciFi Channel's involvement in the field could be
a positive step. I would hope they don't decide to back away
from this genre because some researchers continue to kick sand
in their face.

IMO, the question of whether Roswell was the result of a crashed
craft (as opposed to a balloon) will rise or fall based on the
evidence and information presented, not the person who brings it
to light.

My 2-cents.

Steve







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                        Re: Another Approach - Kaeser

From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 19:28:34 -0500
Fwd Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 20:26:41 -0500
Subject: Re: Another Approach - Kaeser


 >From: Roy Norris <rnorris@charter.net>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 14:02:31 -0600
 >Subject: Another Approach

<snip>

 >Such a system could be assembled using surplus equipment for
 >under fifty thousand dollars and if placed in the vicinity of a
 >UFO sighting could yield a wealth of information that could
 >significantly advance our knowledge and potential to
 >scientifically characterize these phenomena.

Hi Roy-

I'm glad to see a relatively fresh viewpoint with many good
ideas, but I think your last paragraph explains why a full blown
scientific probe hasn't taken place. It's really a question of
money.

A vast majority of the research into sightings, as well as FOIA
requests and analysis, has been funded through volunteer efforts
and relatively meager donations from several major benefactors.
I would speculate that you couldn't scrape together the amount
of money you mention if you combined the bank accounts of all
three major research groups in the U.S. Given the current state
of the economy, I think there's little in the way of large
donations to hope for. I also think the ongoing costs of
maintenance and analysis by qualified individuals would add to
your total. Unless there's a benefactor who would be interested
in setting up a trust fund of some sort, I'm not sure how you'd
make it happen.


Steve







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                 Who Is Marching Us to War? The Unthinkable

From: Michael Brownlee <eostrust@mindspring.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 17:47:15 -0700
Fwd Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 20:31:02 -0500
Subject: Who Is Marching Us to War? The Unthinkable


With the recent publication of The Allies of Humanity: An Urgent
Message About the Extraterrestrial Presence in the World Today

http://www.alliesofhumanity.org/index.html

Marshall Summers became the first major spiritual teacher to
declare that the increasing apperance of UFOs and other related
phenomena is symptomatic of nothing less than a subtle and
heretofore unopposed invasion by extraterrestrial forces who
seek to exploit Earth's resources entirely for their own
benefit.

Summers has just released an important and timely statement
about the impending war, providing a very different perspective
than can be found in the debate now raging throughout the world.

A brief excerpt:

"...the United States could win its war with Iraq, at great
costs, only to lose a greater war later on. What I am proposing
is that we are all being marched to war by forces from beyond
our world who seek to divide and weaken the human family for the
benefit of the Intruders. Our fears, prejudices, self-doubts and
desire for revenge are all being manipulated and used by the
Intervention and we are not seeing it. Like Cortez, the
Intruders will play us against one another as they slowly build
their presence and influence within our world waiting for the
time when we are too weak and distracted to resist..."

Summers' message deserves careful consideration and thoughtful
response. Read the entire white paper at:

http://www.alliesofhumanity.org/message.htm


Michael Brownlee
http://www.newthreshold.blogspot.com







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                    Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Friedman

From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers. com>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 22:56:03 -0400
Fwd Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:53:10 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Friedman


 >From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol. com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net
 >Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:36:11 EST
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers. com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net>
 >>Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 18:40:18 -0400
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol. com>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net
 >>>Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 20:16:13 EST
 >>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers. com>
 >>>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net>
 >>>>Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 18:20:30 -0400
 >>>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>>>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol. com>
 >>>>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net
 >>>>>Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 20:23:13 EST
 >>>>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >Good Morning, Stan, List, All -

 >I'm going to snip some of this to keep it from becoming very
 >long. I hope clarity will follow...
snip>

Yes, this has become much too large. Since only one lister has requested the
materials I offered about Frank,your false claims, etc, no point in wasting
space.
<snip>
 >
 >
 >>Don't forget Balthaser. Why do you doubt it? Four witnesses
 >>isn't enough for you? We know Frank wasn't in good health and
 >>knew he had cancer. He might have felt guilty for lying.
 >
 >My question is did he admit to lying to you, at that time, or
 >did he amend his story which is not quite the same thing. Did he
 >say, in his Frank Kaufmann voice, "Well, I lied about that.
 >Marcel and Blanchard didn't accompany me out to the site?" Or,
 >did he just change the story, which is not an admission of
 >lying.
 >
 >And, if he admitted lying, why did none of the others ever mention
 >this?
 >
 >Or, are we simply left with your interpretation of the situation...

We are left with my notes and the agreement of those who were there that
they were accurate.
I don't see how you can possibly deny that what he said in 1999 means he was
lying in 1995.



 ><snip>
 >
 >>>No, but from reading your sentence, it wasn't clear what you
 >>>meant. It seemed to suggest that I was.
 >
 >>>I remember the 1995 meeting, held in the Roswell Inn but I do
 >>>not remember ranting and shouting... But isn't this in the same
 >>>meeting where you made the false claim I had been an English
 >>>major in college (See, once again we are not allowed mistakes,
 >>>just false claims. And for those keeping score at home, I'm an
 >>>Army captain. ).
 >
 >>Why would what you majored in have come up in a meeting whose >>purpose
was for me to interview Frank? your article in Story's
 >>encyclopedia says your degree was in Anthropology.
 >
 >Because, as you were ranting about what I had written in "The
 >History of UFO Crashes," (which you are still ranting about so
 >long after publication of it) you said something about me being
 >an English major in college (checked that out real good didn't
 >you?) and I said that my undergraduate studies had been in
 >Anthropology, and you started to say, "No wonder you and Tom
 >Carey... "

 >The implication there was that we both had studied Anthropology,
 >though Tom, if I remember was a physical anthropologist and I
 >was more oriented toward archaeology.

 >Are you now making the false claim this didn't happen?

 >>>And didn't I write an article published in the MUFON Journal in
 >>>which I challenged these 38 false claims which included such
 >>>gems as "That S. T. Friedman know all about an RS alien tissue
 >>>sample. " I still don't know what this means. Or the laughable
 >>>"Testimony from anonymous caller is fully trustworthy. " I don't
 >>>know where I might have ever suggested it. And what is the
 >>>relevance of this now? Didn't we go over it at the time when you
 >>>made these false claims?

 >>Matter of fact you and Don had noted testimony from an anonymous
 >>caller and considered it reliable.

 >Well, that's not quite the same thing is it? Besides, I knew
 >(know) who that specific anonymous caller was (is) and have
 >actually interviewed him in his office... Tom Carey, I believe,
 >knows who it is.

 >This in comparison to the anonymous cowboy who told Robert Drake
 >about the crash on the Plains you have reported a number of
 >times. The difference here is that I, in fact, know the
 >anonymous source while you are using testimony from an second-
 >hand source who is quoting an anonymous source. Interesting...

What is interesting is that you continue to make this false
claim knowing full well that Drake had referred me to Dr. Roscoe
Wilmuth who had told him of seeing documents about the Plains of
San Augustin crash while working at Los Alamos. You know full
well I located Roscoe, talked to his wife, who said he was on a
dig in BC... call back in a month. I did. He had a fatal heart
attack 3 days earlier.

 >>Yes, you wrote a MUFON Journal article in response. And I wrote
 >>an 8 page response (Nov. 10,1995) refuting your refutation.

 >So it's come around to me again has it? I could write a
 >refutation of your refutation of my refutation of your original
 >38 false claims. Is there a point to that? I pass on my turn.

 >>>And I have explained to you four times what the sentence meant
 >>>and while it might have been constructed a little better, your
 >>>interpretation is your interpretation and not mine.

 >>Let the Listers decide: The quote comes after your discussion of
 >>the Frank Scully book... "In fact, in 1980 I provided Ron Story
 >>with the segment on the hidden alien bodies and crashed saucers
 >>for "The UFO Encyclopedia". In it I made it clear that none of
 >>the reports of crashed saucers had ever withstood objective
 >>investigation. The road was strewn with the remains of those
 >>stories, starting with the Aztec, New Mexico, case and working
 >>its way to the Spitzbergen report, and the events near Roswell,
 >>New Mexico". "A History of UFO Crashes" Kevin Randle. 1995.
 >>There was no mention of Roswell in your Encyclopedia article.

 >Inelegant, yes. Confusing, yes. But please note the period. It
 >doesn't actually say that Roswell was mentioned in Story's
 >Encyclopedia, but does say that the road is strewn with the
 >remains of those saucers. Interpret away.

I thought you were the paragraph expert. It is in the same
paragraph.

 >>>>>There is nothing in that part of Stan's MUFON speech that
 >>>>>suggests that Frank Kaufmann told him, Schmitt or Howe that he
 >>>>>told lies about his involvement.

 >>>>This is simply untrue. In the paper (bottom of p. 200 in the
 >>>>Symp. Proc. ) "On December 13, 1999,Frank was most cordial at his
 >>>>home to myself, Dennis Balthaser, Linda Howe, and Don Schmitt. I
 >>>>explicitly asked if Blanchard had gone out with him. NO. Did
 >>>>Marcel go with you? NO. "In 1995 he had claimed that he had
 >>>>awakened both in the middle of the night and they had all gone
 >>>>together. Perhaps Kevin has forgotten that I had also asked
 >>>>wouldn't they have waited for a spotter plane before Blanchard
 >>>>would leave his post without knowing what was there. Frank said
 >>>>there were no spotter planes. But others have said there were. I
 >>>>had also raised questions about Frank's response when asked by
 >>>>Japanese researchers what the wreckage looked like and he said
 >>>>just as Jesse Marcel Jr. , described it, though Jesse had NOT
 >>>>been at the crash site and Frank had claimed to have been there.
 >>>>I have also raised questions as to why Frank felt free to talk
 >>>>openly about one of the most classified and significant eventsin
 >>>>history, but he couldn't tell who his contacts were, etc ad
 >>>>nauseum.

 >>>What you wrote is, "On December 13, 1999,Frank was most cordial
 >>>at his home to myself, Dennis Balthaser, Linda Howe, and Don
 >>>Schmitt. I explicitly asked if Blanchard had gone out with him.
 >>>NO. Did Marcel go with you? NO. There were a number of his
 >>>excellent paintings on the wall. During the same visit Linda
 >>>Howe... "

 >>>First, has anyone ever taught you how to write a paragraph?

 >>Nope. Though what followed was relevant to Frank's reliability.

 >Well, at least we agree on that... you don't know how to write
 >a paragraph. Stream of consciousness disappeared in the 1980s.

 >>>Second, how are we supposed to interpret from those sentences
 >>>that Kaufmann admitted lying to you? It certainly doesn't say
 >>>that to me. In fact, it doesn't say that anywhere in that
 >>>report.

 >>He said that what he had said earlier wasn't true. I think that
 >>is very close to saying he had previously lied to us.

 >Actually it doesn't say that. It says that Kaufmann once suggested
 >he had awakened Blanchard and Marcel and they accompanied
 >him out to the site. Later it says they didn't. Mistakes happen,
 >though this would be a major mistake and certainly would raise
 >a red flag... But again, there is no admission that he lied and
 >no suggestion that such was the case.

Frank had stated very forcefully his claim that Blanchard and
Marcel had gone with him in the middle of the night. This
frankly made no sense at all as I noted in my notes. This wasn't
a "Maybe," or "I think that possibly" Just as clearly he
admitted NO Blanchard had not gone with him and neither at
Marcel.

 >>>>If true, however, the question
 >>>>is, why would he sit on all this information for almost three
 >>>>years?.

 >>>>Kevin, the meeting was in December 1999. I wrote my MUFON 2000
 >>>>paper in the spring of 2000.. a few months later. not 3 years.

 >>>Yes, but you didn't say that Kaufmann admitted lying to you until
 >>>recently, which is nearly three years. Your MUFON paper
 >>>doesn't say he admitted lying to you which would have been an
 >>>important revelation at the time. Now, it's just another bit of
 >>>evidence that is no longer of importance.

 >>Admitting that what he had previously told me wasn't true is not
 >>admitting he had lied??? What would you call it?

 >Well, if I was defending Frank, which I really don't want to do,
 >given what we know now, I would suggest that in your close
 >questioning of him, either he was confused and made a mistake,
 >or you were confused about what he said and made a mistake.

 >My point here, once again, is that you didn't make it clear, and
 >didn't start calling him a liar until he was conveniently dead.
 >You said that you had made the allegation, but you didn't. You
 >presented your version of the events but you didn't say Kaufmann

 >On the flip side, I labeled Anderson a liar early and have
 >repeated that statement many times, hoping he would sue.
 >Discovery is a wonderful thing.

 ><snip>

 >>>>Way off base here, Kevin. I noted previously and in the 2000
 >>>>paper that Scanlon's last position at ADC which ended in early
 >>>>1948 was as Public Affairs man at Mitchell Field in NY and there
 >>>>were no ADC radar systems in NM in 1947(with or without
 >>>>Scanlon). Frank had long ago stated he knew nothing about Radar.
 >>>>Scanlon as PA guy would certainly have not been ordering
 >>>>somebody who knew nothing about radar to visit nonexistent
 >>>>facilities at White Sands.

 >>>There were radars at White Sands in 1947 for crying out loud.
 >>>You decided they must have been ADC radars though I don't know
 >>>why.

 >>Scanlon was ADC though not apprently connected with any radars
 >>in NM.

 >Ahh, so you assumed that because Scanlon was assigned to ADC
 >that any radar facilities he would have known about in New
 >Mexico would have been ADC and that the ADC, if concerned about
 >something in New Mexico wouldn't have been able to request the
 >use of another's radars that happened to be in New Mexico.

 >And, you admit there were radars at White Sands. This is
 >splitting a truly fine hair.

 >>>>I did not say Schmitt had never lied to me. What I said was that
 >>>>he had not told me he had degrees from anywhere. He did not lie
 >>>>to me about his academic credentials. This was significant
 >>>>because I have a deserved reputation for checking on credentials
 >>>>(yes, I did call about yours)and would have checked if he had

 >>>>given them. You will recall that when I heard that Milwaukee
 >>>>Magazine had identified that Don didn't have the credentials he
 >>>>had claimed to them, and that he worked for the US Post Office,
 >>>>that I called the post office and asked for Don. He came to the
 >>>>phone. You were excoriating those of us who accepted the story
 >>>>from MM for 6 weeks before finally acknowledging that you had
 >>>>been had. I gather you still haven't gotten over it.

 >>>So if he didn't lie to you about his credentials, does this mean
 >>>the lie doesn't count? That he said it in print but not to you
 >>>means that he didn't lie about it? And don't you think it
 >>>laughable that he walked around the museum in Roswell pointing
 >>>out what he believed to be the hoaxes?

 >>I didn't say the lies to whomever, (you MM or whatever) didn't
 >>count. I said he hadn't lied to me about his credentials. So I
 >>hadn't checked because he had never claimed to me he had any
 >>degrees.

 >You know, I sat in a room when Schmitt made claims about his
 >educational background and you were there. So, he did say those
 >things to you.

Kevin I frankly think this is another one of the many scenarios
you have created but that simply isn't true.

For about a decade you have villified all who made claims
thatdisagreed with your new view of Roswell. You have created
scenarios that were interesteing but unrelated to reality.
Barney Barnett was out in Roswell, but lied to his wife. Then
Roswell was in his district. That Larry Henning said Gerald
Anderson was in the Anthropology courseThat 3 antrhopologists
said they were in the Plains in early July 1947 and said
nothing happened there when in fact none were there and alll had
said they knew nothing about a crash in the Plains. Not the same
thing. The same goes for your critiques of MJ-12 such as
claiming that Moore and I hadn't realized that the document was
by a military man for a military man when I had explicitly said
that. You commented about Hillenkoetter signing as Admiral
instead of Rear Admiral when there is no signature and all the
ranks are generic etc etc. People are always asking me why other
people do things such as lie about credentials, etc. I say I am
not a psychiatrist. In your case it is clear you want to be king
of the Roswell Hill no matter what.

 >On the other hand, did Bob Lazar make his claims of education to
 >you, or did you just jump in...

I have a tape of Lazar claiming an MS from MIT in Physics. He
thought the year was probably 1982.. George Knapp and John Lear
claimed Bob had told them the same thing. I have a tape of him
saying Bill Duxler would remember him in his Physics Class at
Cal Tech. I located Duxler who never taught at CIT only at
Pierce JC. Bob had mentioned PJC to me.

 >And did you ever check Gerald Anderson's claim that he had a
 >degree in microbiology, which he made to you on the tape you
 >made of your first interview with him? And if not, why not...
 >and wouldn't learning he had no degree in microbiology have
 >worried you greatly?

He said he was working on one and I checked and he was.
 ><snip>
 >
 >>>While I'll agree that Menzel's intelligence qualifications were
 >>>different, I won't agree that they were superior.

 >>What, if any were Scanlon's? When did Hap Arnold call on him?
 >>Incidentally Arnold resigned in 1946 because of poor health.

 >I thought I had provided all this before. See Piercing the Fog
 >(John F. Kreis, 1996, published by Air Force History and Museums
 >Programs,) for a more complete analysis. According to Kreis,
 >"Arnold [the aforementioned Hap Arnold] brought Brig. Gen.
 >Martin Scanlon back from his post as military air attache in
 >London to become the first AC/AS, Intelligence (A-2)... " Which
 >puts Scanlon at the top of what was becoming Air Force
 >Intelligence.

 >While in London, his job was to observe (spy) on the creation of
 >the German Air Force and British development of its Air Force...
 >This was in the 1930s.

 >This goes on to talk about the coordination between G-2 (Army
 >Intelligence) and Air Force intelligence, determining what the
 >Air Force needed, as opposed to what the Army needed.

This was prewar. Was he involved in Intelligence postwar? Or
even during the war besides assessing damage done in Pacific
bombings.

 >But you know, this really isn't that important in this
 >discussion, especially since we now know that Kaufmann's
 >testimony was unreliable. My point was obviously lost on you.

 >>>>>The point here is that Stan didn't publish anything suggesting
 >>>>>that Kaufmann had admitted to lying. All we are told is that
 >>>>>Kaufmann met with Stan, Howe and Schmitt.

 >>>>Admitting that neither Blanchard nor Marcel went out with him
 >>>>when he had previously told you, Don, and me that they had, is
 >>>>an admission of lying as spelled out in my paper. Read it again.
 >>>>I have also referred to the McKnight letter which certainly
 >>>>suggests Frank was telling tales.

 >>>I simply don't remember him saying that. Maybe he said something
 >>>else and you misremember it. And, even if he did, how does this
 >>>translate into a statement that he had lied, based on what you
 >>>wrote in that paper? Maybe he made a simple mistake. Must
 >>>everything in UFOlogy be a false claim and a lie?

 >>How could his describing in detail his coming over the pass from
 >>White Sands and waking both Blanchard and Marcel and their all
 >>going to his crash site together be a simple mistake? Marcel and
 >>Blanchard were key actors in the drama in which he placed
 >>himself at the center.

 >>>And the McKnight affidavit comes from a man who wasn't there in
 >>>1947, who was four years old in 1947, and suggested that he had
 >>>never heard of anything happening on the ranch owned by
 >>>relatives. Not exactly proof positive.

Hub Corn wasn't even born in 1947

 >>The McKnight affidavit also noted that there
 >>was no way to get to Frank's crash site except by horseback in
 >>1947. But Frank had some sort of army vehicle and then a big
 >>flat bed truck dashing out and back cross country???

 >Let's see if I understand this. The Army, which crossed Europe
 >and fought in the Pacific, which crossed all sorts of rugged
 >terrain without the use of roads, was stymied by the New Mexico
 >Desert?

Now you are being absurd. That was a very large army and they
didn't do it all over night which is what Frank claimed. You
know perfectly well that itis standard practice to leave a
crashed vehicle in situ at least long enough to get good
pictures of where things are relative to each other. Maybe there
were seabees to built the bridges and build the road. Or maybe
they drove out in tanks? from the local airbase of course.

 ><snip>

 >>>>Frank certainly was aware of my complaints about him as he
 >>>>referenced in an August 7, 1995, letter to me, things I had said
 >>>>about him in my September 26, 1994 paper " The Roswell Incident,
 >>>>the USAF, and the NY Times", in a Nov. 18, 1994, letter to you,
 >>>>in letters to Paul Davids on Dec. 20, 1994, and January 3, 1995,
 >>>>and to Jack Rodden on January 7, 1995. I presume some of this
 >>>>input to him came from you.

 >>>Presume all you want, I'm confused by this. Are you suggesting
 >>>that I was Frank's ghost writer on this? Are you suggesting that
 >>>Frank was incapable of responding to your attacks?

 >>I am stating that you and he were aware of my concerns.

 >Ahhh.... It has no relevance, then.

 >>>>>Now, please, understand, I am not suggesting that Frank Kaufmann
 >>>>>can be rehabilitated. As far as I'm concerned, he should become
 >>>>>a footnote to the Roswell case, just as Gerald Anderson and
 >>>>>Glenn Dennis should be footnotes. Both men were caught in a
 >>>>>changing and shifting story that as we investigated moved
 >>>>>farther from the truth. Or, Stan, do you now have the "real"
 >>>>>name of the nurse? And now that Anderson appears on the Navy
 >>>>>SEALs Wall of Shame, are you finally convinced that he can't be
 >>>>>trusted?

 >>>>I think that both Glenn Dennis and Gerald Anderson made real
 >>>>contributions to the story despite your great antipathy to both.

 >>>Yeah, just like the contribution Frank Kaufmann made...

 >>>>You will recall that Gerald passed a polygraph (Frank never took
 >>>>one) and that a medical technician realled the nurse and
 >>>>described her as Glenn did without any prompting from me. They,
 >>>>(G and G), both independently described a strange combination of
 >>>>a red haired officer and a black sergeant.

 >>>Gee, talk about selective use of data... Anderson passed a
 >>>polygraph test but admitted to forging a telephone bill to make
 >>>me look bad... Actually, he forged two telephone bills, and a
 >>>diary, and a letter from the family to prove he was telling the
 >>>truth.

 >>No evidence provide re the altter items. You will recall I
 >>obtained the real bill from the phone company.

 >I'm not sure what you mean here. Altter items? If you mean other
 >items, there certainly is evidence, from the forensic test you
 >arranged showing that Uncle Ted's diary couldn't have been
 >written before 1974, but no evidence it wasn't written in 1990,
 >the second telephone bill that he passed around when you, and
 >John Carpenter met with him on September 19, 1992, (See John
 >Carpenter's "Gerald Anderson: Disturbing Revelations" MUFON UFO
 >Jounal, March 1993) which is evidence that Gerald had created
 >other documents. We have his ever shifting tale of the Plains of
 >San Agustin saucer which fits so nicely with your outdated
 >scenario.

Perhaps you have forgotten that one of the reasons you rejected
the Plains scenario was that Frank said nothing happened out
there. Perhaps it is time to reconsider...

How convenient to leave out Baca, and Foard, and the
postmistress and Barnett, and Barnett's boss.....

 >And you may recall that I obtained the real bill from the
 >telephone company long before you did and published it in IUR
 >(Missing Time, August 1992).

 >>>Let's see, he claimed to be a Navy SEAL when he was not.
 >>>He changed details of this sighting... milky blue eyes to
 >>>black... and which of his crash sites do you accept? The one
 >>>near the VLA? The one north of highway 60? Horse Springs? And
 >>>were three dead and one injured or was it two dead, one dying
 >>>and one relatively uninjured.

 >>More fiction.

 >>.. Did he take the sociology class
 >>>instead of Dr. Buskirk's anthropology class? Why is it that he
 >>>will not allow for independent verification of his claims? Oh
 >>>yeah, he passed a polygraph test.

 >>5 people who were in the anthro class reviewed Gerald's picture
 >>from the yearbook and say he wasn't in the class. Despite your
 >>repeated claim to the contrary, one of them, Larry Henning,
 >>never told you Gerald was in his class.

 >Henning did tell me that Anderson was in the class, but you see,
 >this red herring (it's so close to Henning that I couldn't
 >resist) is irrelevant. In reality, I actually talked to the
 >people at the Albuquerque High School, as did Dr. Buskirk. While
 >I was on the telephone, They looked at his record and told me he
 >had taken the class. Get it, they reviewed the transcript and
 >told me he was in the class. I searched for another way to
 >disclose this information after you alerted Gerald to the
 >problem and he threatened to sue everyone. Now, it no longer
 >matters because those people are out of harm's way. The real
 >evidence comes from the high school.... Prove me wrong, get an
 >independent copy of his transcript and not the doctored version
 >you flashed around (which btw, is another forged document we can
 >credit to Anderson). Didn't you ever suspect it was faked, given
 >that he would not allow you to verify it with the school?

 ><snip>

 >>>As for this nurse, just what name is she given today? Obviously
 >>>it's not Naomi Self. And, are you one of the researchers who
 >>>wouldn't listen when Dennis told us all that he'd give us a name
 >>>but it wouldn't be her name? Are you one of the researchers who
 >>>ran off in search of Naomi Self even though Dennis had made it
 >>>clear to us that Self wasn't her name? Or, at least claims today
 >>>that he tried to make it clear... but only after we proved the
 >>>negative. There was no Army nurse names Naomi Self.

 >>Remember that I was the first to talk to Glenn and at that time
 >>he had not said her name wasn't Naomi Self. The medical
 >>technician recognized the name and described her.

Yes,of course he said her name was Naomi Self.

 >And I talked to him within weeks and he gave the name to me. Are
 >you suggesting that he didn't give the name to you? Didn't he
 >trust you?

 >>>>I happen to think much of the world is gray.

 >>>Was Kaufmann ever in this gray basket?

 >>Of course he was, until I heard more and more claims that didn't
 >>make sense.

Apparently he wasn't often in your gray box since so much of
your view about Roswell and MJ-12 was based on what he claimed.

 >Oh, you mean like those made by Gerald Anderson? Telepathic
 >communications? 509th over on the Plains. Aircraft landing on
 >the highway. Really... and you say Kaufmann made claims that
 >didn't make sense.

 >>>>You seem to operate on a black and white basis. That is your
 >>>>privilege.

 >>>I actually think the world is filled with color which is a much
 >>>more pleasant way of seeing it. But then I write science
 >>>fiction... coming in April, "Signals", from Ace Books.

 >>Congratulations. How many fiction books is that now? Surely over
 >>80? I have always said you were good at creating scenarios.

 >Gee, I don't know... do you want to know how many books were
 >written, how many sold, or how many published? It's three
 >different numbers. And does writing science fiction disqualify
 >me from UFO research? (Btw, the second book in that series,
 >Generation Ship, will be out in the fall, 2003)

How about saying how many were published?. Will these books list you as
author?.

 >Wouldn't lying be more of a disqualification?
 >
 >>People who want copies of my 1995 list of Kevin's false
 >>claims, of Kevin's MUFON J. response, and my 8 page letter and
 >>my Kaufmann meeting notes (July 1995 and December 1999), please
 >>send a snail mail address. (off list would probably be best).
 >
 >Yes, those of you interested in this old and tired fight, write
 >to Stan and request copies of everything. Given that Kaufmann
 >has been proven to be a liar, isn't it time to move on... And
 >who really cares that Stan came up with what he believes to be
 >38 false claims that Don Schmitt and Kevin Randle made... or
 >didn't that change to the point where I had inherited them all?
 >
 >But here are a couple of germane questions. Do you really
 >believe Gerald Anderson is telling any truth? Or isn't he just
 >an opportunist like Frank Kaufmann? And do you really believe
 >the Jim Ragsdale story as you claimed in that silly brochure
 >that Max Littel printed? Shouldn't we retire all these stories
 >and move on?

Yes I really believe much of what Anderson was saying is true,
and that Ragsdale was talking about a location out on the Pine
Lodge Road not where you tried to place him to satisfy the
Kaufmann story. I also don't believe Sgt Pyles told you a
specific date, place direction or that the Nun's log gave a
descriptiof anything other than a fireball or that Easley said
many of the things you attributed to him.

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                      Re: Abductions & Ufology - Hebert

From: Amy Hebert <yellowrose129@attbi.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 01:41:15 -0600
Fwd Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 16:07:36 -0500
Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology - Hebert


 >From: Jim Speiser <jimspeiser@yahoo.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 01:42:53 -0700
 >Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >>From: Amy Hebert <yellowrose129@attbi.com>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:03:43 -0600
 >>Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

<snip>

Hi, Jim:

Sorry I took so long to reply - had to deck the halls. ;>

 >I feel I must jump in here. Not that Dick needs me to defend
 >him, but I do not posess a degree in anything, not even an
 >associates, I don't think I can even pronounce "curriculum
 >vitae" correctly,

Neither can I.

 >yet I firmly believe I can recognize a basket-
 >case when I see one - and I've seen plenty. (Remember, I once
 >chaired a Moseley Conference).

My heart goes out to you. ;>

It's not the obvious basket cases that are the problem, Jim.
It's the ones who seem perfectly 'normal' but are not that make
it hard to know when they are telling the truth and when they
are fabricating (or a little of both). Even if an individual
seems to be functioning quite well, he or she can still be a bit
looney or subject to creating scenarios that did not exist.

I've met people who seemed quite 'normal' on the surface but who
had a tendency to lie or stretch the truth due to some unmet
needs they had. I've also known people who claimed they had been
abducted but who displayed numerous behaviors that led me to
wonder if they had only deluded themselves into believing their
own lies.

Like it or not there are people who think being an abductee
makes them special or "chosen". Add to this the attention given
to claimed abductees as they tell of their experiences in
support groups, on TV talk shows, at conferences, on E-lists,
etc. In addition, these individuals may find a cure for their
loneliness when they find themselves so openly accepted in an
experiencer support group.

This is where it takes a trained professional to recognize the
more subtle characteristics of unmet wants and needs in those
who may claim to have been abducted.

 >I resent the idea that
 >psychologists think that recognizing mental illness is their
 >exclusive domain. As a matter of fact, if it weren't for us lay
 >people telling certain individuals we meet that "You maybe
 >oughta get a check-up from the neck-up," there wouldn't BE very
 >many psychologists or psychiatrists. Just because I can't write
 >a paper on border deficit disorder doesn't mean I don't know
 >when someone's a few french fries short of a happy meal.

Sometimes it's easy to know when someone is "a few French fries
short of a happy meal" but sometimes it is difficult to know
when someone is mentally ill. This is why it's important to
consult those trained to evaluate mental competency rather than
reach conclusions based only on opinion.

For example, think of all the serial killers who seemed
perfectly normal on the outside while few around them suspected
they were mass murders. There are people in this world who wear
a facade when among others and become entirely different
personalities in private and in their heads. That's why it's so
important to have a deeper understanding of the human psyche
especially when it comes to the study of abduction experiences.

We not only need researchers educated in scientific protocol but
also those who possess the skills and tools that may help us get
to the bottom of this mess and figure out what's going on.

We need multidisciplinary teams not lone rangers. If a
psychologist offers to administer personality profiles to gain a
better understanding of those who claim to have been abducted,
should we turn him/her down because we already know all we need
to know about 'French fries and Happy Meals'? If a medical
doctor offers to remove alleged implants and a research lab
offers to analyze the composition of those alleged implants,
should we turn away because we think we know all we need to know
about implants, how to remove them and their composition?

The study of abduction phenomena will gain more recognition and
a better reputation if we let those qualified in their fields
add their knowledge and skills to the on-going research. The
resulting data will be based less on opinion and conjecture and
more on qualified, objective analysis.

 >And on another point, Amy, you seem to talk about the
 >triichotomy between abductees, people who think they are
 >abductees but are experiencing some other phenomenon, and people
 >who claim to be abductees but aren't, as if there exists some
 >protocol for making this distinction, that somehow Dick and/or
 >others are not privy to. It's thus far proven impossible to
 >prove that someone _has_ been abducted; just how in the heck can
 >it be proven that someone _hasn't_ been?


That's the point, Jim. No known protocol yet exists for
distinguishing between those who have actually been abducted and
those who have not. That's why I asked Dick how he knew he had
worked with "something like 150" abductees as opposed to 150
people who _claimed_ they had been abducted.

If you really think about it, all the data we have thus far
about alleged abductees and abduction phenomena is based largely
on the stories told by those who claim to have been abducted
with little physical evidence or collaborating testimony from
multiple witnesses to back up their stories.

Many in the UFO and abduction communities believe, like you,
that it is impossible to "prove" someone has been abducted. Many
operate under the assumption that because UFO's and abductions
are caused by aliens, their technologies and skills are
hundreds, perhaps thousands of years more advanced compared to
us. What can we do in the face of such 'alien magic'?

As indicated in my post under this same subject title posted
Nov. 26, 2002:

http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/nov/m26-002.shtml

we need to take a more active approach to abduction research.
Rather than passively waiting for that "cocktail napkin" to just
drop in our laps, let's search for any kinds of "cocktail
napkins" that can be collected. We need to apply forensics to
the study of abduction phenomena and focus on physical evidence
we have overlooked simply because we never looked for it.

When an individual comes to an investigator or researcher with
claims of having been abducted, the first step is to record that
person's story. After obtaining the basic details, the
researcher or investigator can set up strategies to gather
data/evidence from the abduction scene (as one would do at a
crime scene). If the individual claims to have had repeat
abductions, odds are they may be abducted again. Studies can be
set up to collect data and/or physical evidence from the scene
should the individual be abducted again. These studies need to
be blind studies to insure that neither the claimed abductee nor
the abductors tamper with the evidence. (I cannot go into detail
about these research designs because I plan to use them when I
continue my abduction research.)

In short, abduction stories should be considered only the
beginning of an investigation not the core of an investigation
or research. Although lack of physical evidence does not mean a
claimed abductee is lying, it should never be regarded as
unattainable. If people are being physically abducted in any way
by any kinds of physical beings to any kinds of physical
environments (or a mix of physical and non-physical), then there
will be some kinds of physical interaction between the abductee,
the abductors and the environments involved before, during and
after an abduction. We need to begin our investigations and
research with a professionally trained, multidisciplinary team,
screen those more likely to be genuine abductees from those
making similar claims and focus on finding physical evidence to
support or refute abduction claims rather than focus on
abduction claims and stories alone.


Amy








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                   Re: Mantell Case - Peer Review - Velez

From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 02:51:07 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 16:10:59 -0500
Subject: Re: Mantell Case - Peer Review - Velez


Hi All,

I was just out visiting the Virtually Strange website and
reading the results of all the work that Kevin Randle put into
compiling the details and testimony of the Thomas Mantell crash
case.

http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/nov/m16-026.shtml

EBK made a formal announcement a couple of weeks ago. I hope
that all the work/hours that Kevin and EBK have put into
creating this 'peer-review' opportunity does not go to waste.

This is the first peer-review venue _ever_ created for UFO cases
and it would be a crying shame to see this excellent idea die in
the cradle ignored and unused.

Kevin, it's a l-o-n-g read and I haven't digested it all yet,
but I will shortly. I will offer my 'layman's' opinion as soon
as I've completed the homework you have set out for us. I hope
this new 'peer-review' section at the VSN website eventually
gets the workout it deserves.

BTW, I didn't post the Mantell material to the AIC website
because AIC is already a 'part of' the Virtually Strange
Network. It would be redundant and a waste of EBK's already
strained bandwidth to duplicate the same material within two
sections of the same site.

This peer-review section is a rare and wonderful opportunity for
us. Let's not waste it folks.

Regards to all,

John Velez








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                Re: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight -

From: Jan Aldrich <project1947@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 5:28:10 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 16:28:51 -0500
Subject: Re: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight -


 >From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 22:23:51 +0000
 >Subject: Re: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight

 >>From: Royce J. Myers III - The UFO Watchdog <ufowatchdog@earthlink.net>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 11:47:36 -0800
 >>Subject: Re: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight

 >>>From: Larry Landsman <LL1157@aol.com>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 16:29:04 EST
 >>>Subject: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight

 >>>[Non-Subscriber Post]

 >>>>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
 >>>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>>Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 11:33:44 EST
 >>>>Subject: Re: Randle On 'Coast'

 >>>>>From: Lester Hahn <lesterhahn@hotmail.com>
 >>>>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>>>Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 21:02:22 -0600
 >>>>>Subject: Randle On 'Coast'

 >>>I'd like to introduce myself.

 >>>As SCI FI's Director of Special Projects, I've been closely
 >>>following UFO UpDates for the latest and greatest news from the
 >>>world of ufology.

 >>>SCI FI has especially been interested in the feedback from the
 >>>community about Steven Spielberg's TAKEN, as well as our recent
 >>>documentary THE ROSWELL CRASH: STARTLING NEW EVIDENCE. I've been
 >>>keenly following the reaction to the Roswell special in
 >>>particular since I was the individual who contracted the
 >>>University of New Mexico to conduct the dig, as well as the
 >>>creative executive on the show (I directed MPH throughout the
 >>>show's development).

 >>>I've been dismayed and quite surprised to read some of the
 >>>comments regarding the veracity of the show due to the fact we
 >>>decided to work with (and consult) certain Roswell researchers.

 >>>As you may or may not know, SCI FI and MPH Entertainment have
 >>>attempted to conduct its work with professional impartiality and
 >>>balanced reporting (throughout the scientific dig and the
 >>>production phase of the documentary). We feel the results are
 >>>evident in the show itself and have received much kudos from the
 >>>ufo community at large.

 >>>Nonetheless, on behalf of SCI FI, I find myself having to
 >>>respond to some inaccuracies and misperceptions that have been
 >>>posted (see above) in an attempt to set the record straight.

 >>>It was I who originally contacted Don Schmitt last May on behalf
 >>>of SCI FI (having worked on SHOWTIME's ROSWELL) to offer up some
 >>>of the Channel's resources to the current ongoing investigation.
 >>>We were well aware that Don and Tom's efforts represented the
 >>>only ongoing active research currently underway. We were also
 >>>well aware of their close affiliation to the International UFO
 >>>Museum and Research Center and, despite the trouble Don had many
 >>>years ago, we thought (and still do) that Tom and Don have
 >>>conducted some excellent research since their partnering.

 >>>Furthermore, from day one, we were well aware of the very
 >>>acrimonious falling out between Don and Kevin Randle. In
 >>>addition, we were also well aware of the earlier effort by
 >>>representatives of CUFOS to try to conduct some archaeological
 >>>exam of the debris field. Don never ever "lied" to anyone at SCI
 >>>FI or UNM about that project, as some have claimed on UFO
 >>>Updates. Once again, we want to officially state our strong
 >>>support of researchers Don Schmitt and Tom Carey.

 >>>Just to correct any further misperceptions, the only UFO
 >>>research 'consultants', in any sense of the word, that we worked
 >>>with on THE ROSWELL CRASH was Don, Tom, Dave Rudiak and the
 >>>IUFOMARC. Of course, we interviewed many folks for the show but
 >>>our main source of info on the Roswell Incident itself (other
 >>>than previously published works), as well as our source for new
 >>>eyewitnesses, was through our relationships with Tom, Don and
 >>>David. We simply could not have pulled the show together without
 >>>them.

 >>>Thanks again for allowing us at SCI FI to "set the record
 >>>straight."

 >Mr. Landsman,

 >Although the Roswell documentary has definite merits and, as
 >documentaries go, was much above average, I agree completely,
 >wholeheartedly, 150% with what Royce says here. "Acrimonious
 >falling out" doesn't hack it. Don Schmitt has lost all
 >credibility in the UFO field due to his mendacity; Kevin Randle
 >is admired for his truth-telling, honesty, and willingness to
 >admit past errors. I have personally been in the middle of some
 >of this and interacted with both of them in regard to Roswell
 >investigations and know whereof I speak.

Royce, Dick, come on, don't be such sticks in the mud!

Don Schmitt, no matter what his sins are is no worse than
dozens, no - make that scores - ah well, for effect let's make
that hundreds, of other fellows and gals in ufology. Honesty,
somesty, who cares!? Just about two dozen other UFO folks, a
real small minority of ufology, and they should be turned out
into the street. If you two guys don't get back in line, you
will get the same treatment.

While we are at it, we should all stop harping about Arthur
Anderson, Enron, etc., too, that is in the past. Hey, they did
some excellent work at one time, come on.

I think the SCI-FI channel would do well to look into Otis T.
Carr. Now there is a real pioneer and look at the horrible
treatment he got for just telling a couple of little white ones.
Come on. That's in the past anyway.

I especially would also point to Bob Lazar. Hey, the story is
good. We shouldn't worry about truth, that is secondary. Nah, it
is not even secondary, truth's proper place is about number 15
in any consideration.

Did I tell you about the recovery of a crash saucer from the DMZ
in Korea right under the noses of the North Koreans? I was
there! Well, I don't want to give away everything in my book.
And any ways, John and I haven't finished writing it yet. It
will be sure to outsell Corso! Good story!

Come on, Dick, Royce, it's fun to con the marks, can be
profitable too if you are not too greedy.


Sincerely (come on!)

Jan

Jan Aldrich
Project 1947
http://www.project1947.com/
P. O. Box 391
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                               Javier Sierra?

From: Philip Mantle <philipmantle@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:46:00 -0000
Fwd Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:00:16 -0500
Subject: Javier Sierra?


Hi UFO UpDates,

Does anyone on the List happen to have an e-mail address for
Javier Sierra in Spain please. If you do could you get back to
me at:

philipmantle@hotmail.com

Thanks,

Philip.

www.alienportraits.co.uk







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                           Paul Davids' New Movie

From: Terry Blanton <blantont@rtpatlanta.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:50:06 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:02:14 -0500
Subject: Paul Davids' New Movie


Hi, ebk. I think you and the listers will find this interesting.

RKO studios will soon release the title of a new film by
Executive Producers Paul Davids (Showtime's 'Roswell - The
Movie') and Richard Hoagland. There's an intriguing story on
Paul's website about the research surrounding the production:
evidence found in NASA archives, NASA's refusal to release first
generation 'public' images, and firings of NASA employees who
co-operated with the research.

Go to:

http://www.pauldavids.com

click on the "Films" button and "New RKO/Hoagland Film" on the
next page.


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                    Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais

From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 16:36:10 +0100
Fwd Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:06:54 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais


 >From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 12:24:54 EST
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 19:17:19 +0100
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:36:11 EST
 >>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 ><snip>

 >>>But here are a couple of germane questions. Do you really
 >>>believe Gerald Anderson is telling any truth? Or isn't he just
 >>>an opportunist like Frank Kaufmann? And do you really believe
 >>>the Jim Ragsdale story as you claimed in that silly brochure
 >>>that Max Littel printed? Shouldn't we retire all these stories
 >>>and move on?

 >>Kevin, Stan and the List,

 >>Or were they playing roles?

 >No.
 >
Kevin,

Thank you very much for taking the trouble to recapitulate, very
clearly, the reasons to discard all these witnesses: Kaufmann,
Anderson, Ragsdale and Dennis.

All that is good. Yes, all of them lied one way or another. Now,
I don't think it would be wise to discard and forget entirely
their stories.

I was just trying to open a little discussion on two ideas:

- "amplifying disinformation" (drowning true facts in
unbelievable tales, easy to debunk)

- indirect, gradual release of information, mixed with false
elements to prevent it from going too far and too fast.

Actually, it is conceivable that, in certains operations, the
two goals would be mixed.

For one thing, we know that there is disinformation around. A
good example of it was given by Bill Moore when he confessed his
participation in actions against Paul Bennewitz, to make him
loose his mental sanity. This disinformation was conceived at
AFOSI in Kirtland, of Doty's fame.

And there is the complex case of the "alien autopsy".

What do you make of the testimony of Bob Shell, on this List, in
messages dated 28 January 1999 and 1 February 1999 (thread:
"Santilli film Scraps"), where he revealed that Capt. McAndrew
had told him that he had seen the film in the Air Force
archives?

This alone rules out a simple money-making hoax (unless Bob
Shell invented that, but why?). It implies an involvement of the
military. There are other witnesses along that line.

Then, if we pay attention to the story of the cameraman, we see
clearly that it is an unbelievable tale. But it has some points
in common with those of our "Roswell liers". The plains of San
Agustin is one, a dubious one.

Hence, my little question:

perhaps some stories, including those ot the Roswell liars, are
mixtures of true informations and lies?

Regarding the Dennis story, are we to discard the testimony of
L. M. Hall, former chief of police who seemed to remember that
Dennis told him that he had been called by the base about small
caskets? Of course, even if this is true, he could have invented
the rest.

As for the Kaufmann story, I recently came across testimony,
through a French friend, who met with an alleged witness in
1972. His story has points in common with Kaufmann. He saw the
craft and gave a similar description of it. And, in addition, he
mentioned a collision with a balloon train. It would be amusing
if the first Pflock hypothesis turned out to be right !

So, we would be well advised not to throw away all these stories
and not to forget them entirely.

The sinking of Kaufmann may not be the end of the story.


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                          Secrecy News -- 12/10/02

From: Steven Aftergood <saftergood@fas.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:29:55 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:10:01 -0500
Subject: Secrecy News -- 12/10/02


SECRECY NEWS
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2002, Issue No. 121
December 10, 2002


**      9/11 PANEL URGES "MORE REALISTIC" SECRECY POLICIES
**      NETWORK CENTRIC INTELLIGENCE?
**      SCIENCE, SECRECY AND NATIONAL SECURITY
**      GAO LAWSUIT AGAINST VICE PRESIDENT DISMISSED
**      ISTANBUL INTRIGUES


9/11 PANEL URGES "MORE REALISTIC" SECRECY POLICIES

The congressional Joint Inquiry into September 11 will recommend
revising government information policies not only to promote
information sharing among government agencies, but also to
expand public access to government information.

"The President should review and consider amendments to the
Executive Orders, policies and procedures that govern the
national security classification of intelligence information, in
an effort to expand access to relevant information for federal
agencies outside the Intelligence Community, for state and local
authorities, and for the American public," according to the
Joint Inquiry's draft Recommendation 14, which may be approved
today.

This unexpected gesture towards public access apparently
reflects the Joint Inquiry assessment, articulated by staff
director Eleanor Hill on October 17, that "an alert and
committed American public" could be "the most potent weapon" in
the war against terrorism.

The draft Recommendation goes on to acknowledge that the
government secrecy system is not as "realistic" as it should be
and that it is routinely subject to abuse:

"Congress should consider the degree to which excessive
classification has been used in the past and the extent to which
the emerging threat environment has greatly increased the need
for real-time sharing of sensitive information."

"The [proposed] Director of National Intelligence, in
consultation with the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of
State, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Attorney
General, should review and report to the House and Senate
Intelligence Committees on proposals for a new and more
realistic approach to the processes and structures that have
governed the designation of sensitive and classified
information."

"The report should include proposals to protect against the use
of the classification process as a shield to protect agency
self- interest."

The full text of the Recommendations will be formally released
upon approval by the members of the Joint Inquiry.


NETWORK CENTRIC INTELLIGENCE?

The principal Recommendation of the congressional Joint Inquiry
into September 11 is the establishment of a cabinet-level
Director of National Intelligence. This rather innocuous
proposal may be worth adopting, if only to demonstrate that any
changes at all in the entrenched U.S. intelligence community can
still be achieved.

In the long run, however, reinforcing the hierarchical structure
of U.S. intelligence is unlikely to solve any important
problems.

To the contrary. Instead of a super-Director of Central
Intelligence, it may be more important to work to decentralize
intelligence into fluid, opportunistic networks.

The role of loose networks in "massively multiplayer online
games" -- which are essentially video games played by thousands
of simultaneous players -- and their relevance for the conduct
of military operations were suggestively described by David
Ignatius in a Washington Post op-ed entitled "Outgaming Osama,"
December 6:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16433-2002Dec5.html

The concept of "network centric warfare" as applied to U.S. Navy
programs, with citations to the relevant literature, was
discussed in "Navy Network-Centric Warfare Concept: Key Programs
and Issues for Congress" by Ronald O'Rourke of the Congressional
Research Service, updated November 25, 2002:

http://www.fas.org/man/crs/RS20557.pdf

The possible application of a similar approach to national
intelligence -- which would serve no one's bureaucratic
interests -- awaits further development.


SCIENCE, SECRECY AND NATIONAL SECURITY

The creation of the new Department of Homeland Security is
likely to have significant implications for the conduct of U.S.
science and technology programs, according to a lengthy
assessment in the latest issue of Chemical and Engineering News.

"To carry out its mandate, this massive new Cabinet-level agency
will have to marshal the skills of scientists and engineers to
develop the technologies needed to prevent, protect against, and
respond to future acts of terrorism," writes Lois R. Ember.

"But, some commentators point out, the law creating the
department also sets up rules that restrict the flow of
information to scientists and to the general public and may
actually retard progress in securing the homeland."

See "Science in the Service of Security" by Lois R. Ember,
Chemical and Engineering News, December 9:

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/8049/8049homeland.html

The use of the still poorly defined term "sensitive but
unclassified" as an information control category continues to
generate much gnashing of teeth, as scientists and others worry
about its potential scope of application.

See "Entering the Twilight Zone of What Material to Censor," by
Martin Enserink, Science Magazine, November 22, p. 1548
(subscribers only):

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/298/5598/1548

A recent National Academy of Sciences (NAS) study on non-lethal
weapons provides a remarkable case study of current convolutions
in information disclosure policy.

"Before [the study] was published Nov. 4, its classification
review became a yearlong tug of war between NAS and a Defense
Department office, revealing just how difficult and contentious
decisions about releasing government information can be
following Sept. 11," according to a recent story in Inside the
Navy.

The National Academy voiced frustration with its Pentagon
sponsor for blocking publication, while the Academy itself
became the target of criticism from the watchdog Sunshine
Project for unaccountably withholding unclassified records and
evading the Federal Advisory Committee Act.

The whole sorry episode is well told in "NAS Study Shows Messy
Reality Tied To Balancing Security, Openness" by Christopher
Castelli, Inside the Navy, December 2, reposted with permission
here:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2002/12/itn120202.html

The National Academy announced that it will hold a day long forum on
"Scientific Openness and National Security" on January 9, 2003.


GAO LAWSUIT AGAINST VICE PRESIDENT DISMISSED

In an affirmation of Bush Administration secrecy policy, a
General Accounting Office (GAO) lawsuit against Vice President
Cheney seeking records from the Vice President's Energy Task
Force was dismissed by a federal judge as "historically
unprecedented" and unsuited for judicial intervention. See:

http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/02-340.pdf

The ruling was immediately denounced by congressional Democrats,
who suggested that its outcome was determined by the fact that
the judge, John D. Bates, was a Republican appointee.

"What is 'unprecedented' is not GAO's request for this
information," said Rep. Henry Waxman, "but the Administration's
refusal to provide the information. The reason that there has
never been a case like this is that every other Administration
has released this kind of information. There is ample precedent
for GAO's request, but none for the Administration's refusal."
See:

http://www.house.gov/waxman/


ISTANBUL INTRIGUES

A richly anecdotal history of diplomacy and espionage in
Istanbul during World War II is provided in a new edition of
"Istanbul Intrigues" by Barry Rubin.

Drawing on interviews with principals and primary sources in
multiple languages (but without scholarly apparatus), Rubin
offers a highly readable account of the political and military
ferment that characterized Istanbul in that momentous time.

Rubin is director of the Institute for Turkish Studies at the
Global Research in International Affairs Center near Tel Aviv,
Israel. The new edition of his book is published by Turkey's
Bosphurus University Press in Istanbul. For more information,
see:

http://gloria.idc.ac.il/publications/books/istanbul_intrigues.html

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

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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
days for more UFO, Fortean and paranormal news from
around the planet Earth, brought to you by "the paper
that goes home--UFO Roundup."  See you next time!

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              Re: Who Is Marching Us to War? The Unthinkable -

From: Paul Kimball <Kimballwood@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:34:37 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:20:26 -0500
Subject: Re: Who Is Marching Us to War? The Unthinkable -


 >From: Michael Brownlee <eostrust@mindspring.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 17:47:15 -0700
 >Subject: Who Is Marching Us to War? The Unthinkable


 >With the recent publication of The Allies of Humanity: An Urgent
 >Message About the Extraterrestrial Presence in the World Today

 >http://www.alliesofhumanity.org/index.html

To be fair, I actually took a look.

To be fair, it was the funniest thing I read all day.

 >Marshall Summers became the first major spiritual teacher to
 >declare that the increasing apperance of UFOs and other related
 >phenomena is symptomatic of nothing less than a subtle and
 >heretofore unopposed invasion by extraterrestrial forces who
 >seek to exploit Earth's resources entirely for their own
 >benefit.

It strikes me that a debate between Summers and Dr. Greer would
make for fascinating television - "G: the aliens are good" - "S:
no, you fool, the aliens are bad, intent on taking over the
planet" - "G: fear monger!" - "S: appeaser!".

 >Summers has just released an important and timely statement
 >about the impending war, providing a very different perspective
 >than can be found in the debate now raging throughout the world.

 >A brief excerpt:

 >"...the United States could win its war with Iraq, at great
 >costs, only to lose a greater war later on. What I am proposing
 >is that we are all being marched to war by forces from beyond
 >our world who seek to divide and weaken the human family for the
 >benefit of the Intruders. Our fears, prejudices, self-doubts and
 >desire for revenge are all being manipulated and used by the
 >Intervention and we are not seeing it. Like Cortez, the
 >Intruders will play us against one another as they slowly build
 >their presence and influence within our world waiting for the
 >time when we are too weak and distracted to resist..."

There's only one flaw with this analysis (okay - there are a
myriad of flaws, but I choose to point out only the most
obvious). If the aliens are plotting, then they're nothing like
Cortez, who, in the best tradition of Julius Caesar, veni vidi
vici'd his way across the Americas. Now if he had hidden out on
some island, and manipulated events from there, perhaps...

In that sense, 'V' was much more realistic (plus, Jane Badler
was one good looking lizard!).

 >Summers' message deserves careful consideration and thoughtful
 >response. Read the entire white paper at:

 >http://www.alliesofhumanity.org/message.htm

I have given it careful consideration (which is more than it
deserves, but...), and here's my thoughtful response -

Thanks for the chuckle. As I was trying to balance the corporate
books, it was a well-needed break from reality.

Now, back to reading the posts about serious ufological matters.


Regards,

Paul Kimball








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                      Re: Paul Davids' New Movie - Hall

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 22:40:24 +0000
Fwd Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:30:04 -0500
Subject: Re: Paul Davids' New Movie - Hall


 >From: Terry Blanton <blantont@rtpatlanta.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:50:06 -0500
 >Subject: Paul Davids' New Movie

 >Hi, ebk. I think you and the listers will find this interesting.

 >RKO studios will soon release the title of a new film by
 >Executive Producers Paul Davids (Showtime's 'Roswell - The
 >Movie') and Richard Hoagland. There's an intriguing story on
 >Paul's website about the research surrounding the production:
 >evidence found in NASA archives, NASA's refusal to release first
 >generation 'public' images, and firings of NASA employees who
 >co-operated with the research.

 >Go to:

 >http://www.pauldavids.com

 >click on the "Films" button and "New RKO/Hoagland Film" on the
 >next page.

 >Terry


List,

As my grandmother used to say, "Lor' ha' mercy!" That's all we
need is a paranoid Hoagland/Davids production. Sow biz uber
alles.

  - Dick







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             Re: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight - Myers

From: Royce J. Myers III - The UFO Watchdog <ufowatchdog@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 20:33:04 -0800
Fwd Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:50:56 -0500
Subject: Re: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight - Myers


 >From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 19:09:38 -0500
 >Subject: Re: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight

 >>From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 22:23:51 +0000
 >>Subject: Re: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight

 >>>From: Royce J. Myers III - The UFO Watchdog
 >><ufowatchdog@earthlink.net>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 11:47:36 -0800
 >>>Subject: Re: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight

 >>>>From: Larry Landsman <LL1157@aol.com>
 >>>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>>Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 16:29:04 EST
 >>>>Subject: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight


<snip>

The problem here is that Larry Landsman knew about Schmitt's
past. As far as I'm concerned, anyone in their right mind would
have never utilized Schmitt. You're just sticking your face out
there begging to get punched. Can you imagine this being a
criminal case and having Schmitt as your star witness? No
thanks. He's a defense lawyer's dream and a duck in a barrel for
skeptics.

I could frankly care less that Schmitt is reported to be
actively engaged in Roswell research. So what? What new
revelations did Schmitt bring with him to the program? None. I'm
surprised we were regaled with tales of Roswell metal being
hidden in caves or more anonymous sources. I think Schmitt was
used by Sci Fi due to his association with the Roswell Museum
and Landsman needed to ensure the co-operation of the museum for
his documentary. Everything has a price, but I wouldn't be
willing to pay or risk that much for it.

The point is that everyone on this List knows that any evidence
or research that Schmitt is involved in will be hit with a
hammer from every end and anything mildly important will have a
shadow cast over it. We've seen it before and we'll probably see
it again. Schmitt's problem is that he is "the boy that cried
UFO" and no one in this field trusts him. And that really is
unfortunate to see as I believe Schmitt would have been able to
vastly contribute to the field had he not destroyed his own
reputation or one of the most heralded UFO cases ever. Who
hasn't heard of Roswell?!

I believe in giving people a second chance, people do indeed
make honest mistakes or what they say has been misperceived or
not conveyed the way it should have - I'm easily guilty of that
in many instances as are many people on this List. However, in
the case of Schmitt, he was apparently given more than his fair
share of chances to come clean and failed to take those
opportunities. People are more likely to forgive someone who
readily comes forward and accepts responsibility.

Instead of winding up with some great publicity for Roswell and
a well documented, well researched UFO case that might have been
the most important case in the history of this field, Schmitt
left us with lies, more lies, excuses, incompetent research and
a black eye on the face of UFOlogy that has never fully healed,
as is evident by the messages to this List.

Sci Fi is entitled to promote its programming and earn its
ratings, I have no problem with that at all. After all, it is
show biz and nothing is free. I understand the entertainment
factor needed for programming. I also did acknowledge the
positive aspect of what Sci Fi has done with involving the
archeological team and its staging of the GWU UFO Symposium. I
hope we see many more conferences organized on that level with
that class of speakers.

My problem here is that Larry Landsman was well aware of
Schmitt's background and the massive damage his research had
already done. So why would someone who claims to want to promote
science and responsible investigation in this field ever use
someone like Schmitt to begin with? I would only be interested
in using people that have a past of being credible, honest and
forthcoming. Why chance risking any kind of credible find over
one person?

I just hope that Sci Fi does not choose to use the
sensationalist charlatans out there for future programming. I
see this great opportunity for Ufology and am very concerned
that it will take a turn for the worse. After all, Sean David
Morton once had a program on Sci Fi. I don't think a single
person wants to be associated with that, especially the serious
UFO researchers out there and those that are concerned about the
subject - whether it proves to be extraordinary or mundane.

Larry, I hope you decide to exercise a bit more caution in the
people you choose to be the voice of Ufology and I also hope you
choose to keep an open ear to the people that know this field
far better than most. You're no dummy Larry, we know that. But
do know that if you burn this field, you will be left with
nothing but the weeds that sprout from the ashes...


Regards,

Royce J. Myers III
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                       Re: Another Approach - Maccabee

From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:33:29 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:55:49 -0500
Subject: Re: Another Approach - Maccabee


 >From: Roy Norris <rnorris@charter.net>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 14:02:31 -0600
 >Subject: Another Approach

 >The problem then becomes one of placing our monitoring vehicle
 >where a UFO sighting is likely to occur. Although there is no
 >sure predictor, there is some indication that UFO sightings are
 >frequently repeated over a period of time (ie, the Hudson Valley
 >sightings or the Gulf Breeze sightings for example). Also,
 >UFO's have shown a propensity in the past to show up around
 >certain military installations, and nuclear facilities.

 >With all of the effort that has been expended on post sighting
 >investigation, Freedom of Information Act endeavors, cataloging
 >of UFO reports, Roswell research, publishing of hundreds if not
 >thousands of UFO books, why has not this rather simple and
 >straight forward approach been undertaken? Someone like Lawrence
 >Rockefeller could fund this out of pocket change. It could be
 >funded at a fraction of the cost of The Disclosure Project. Why
 >has no one (publicly) pursued this very obvious and straight
 >forward path to further our knowledge??

The answer is a combination of $$$$ and time. Not enough $$$ for
not a long enough duration of time.

Your suggestion of an instrumented van has been tried... was
used in Gulf Breeze... unfortunately arrived after the end of
the big sighting flap there (of course, we didn't know that the
flap had ended... this became apparent in retrospect).

The Fund for UFO Research and and individuals have proposed
instrument packages that could be shipped to the locations of
multiple sightings within a day or so. These packages would
contain instruments, cameras, et c. whatever can be packaged.
Either a trained operator would have to be shipped along with it
or local investigators would have to be trained to use it.

In the early 1970's Ray Stanford had Project Starlight
International in Texas which did have an instrumented van as
well as a large research "farm" outside Austin. Actually
recorded some events, but couldn't "prove" anything. Need
accurate recording as well as impeccable documentation of
provenance.

The instrumented van which went to Gulf Breeze in 1992 was
"documentable" but arrived too late. Said van was subsequently
  "decommissioned" and the instruments and van used for other
activities. (Much of the equipment could be reconstituted over a
several month period of time... in case $$$$$$ are waiting out
there for something to do).

I don't know what the Project Starlight International budget
was, but I would guess many tens of thousands to in the
neigborhood of 100K or more. Supported by a proivate donor in
Texas who was a strong supporter of Stanford.

The budget for the Gulf Breeze van was probably about 40K plus
travel expenses, etc. Might have been 50-60 K investigation
overall. Not sure since I didn't handle the $$$. The van
expedition, asembled by George Hathaway, was supported by a real
prince of a fellow, who some here will know, but who has been
laying low in years since for various political reasons.

If someone wants to endow a "UFO Investigation Fund" at a high
enough level so that 20K or more level of investigation could be
supported each year by the interest on the endowment plus an
initial shot of, say, $100 K to assemble a van plus shipable
instrument package (and perhaps to train nvestigators) then we
might be able to convert UFO investigation into a real science!.
The experience of NIDS with their instrumented farm would
probably be valuable to study (what can happen at the site of
repeated anomalous events/sightings).

Incidently, you mention Laurence R. It is well known that he has
an interest in the subject. Perhaps if a number of scientists
approached him directly with a specific plan he would be willing
to support this, especially if some others with philanthropist
tendencies were also willing to contribute.






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             Re: Frank Edwards - Mutual Network Radio Archives?

From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:33:34 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 19:11:51 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Edwards - Mutual Network Radio Archives?


 >From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
 >Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 16:35:13 -0700
 >To: UFO Updates <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Subject: Re: Frank Edwards - Mutual Network Radio Archives?

 >>From: Gord Heath <gwheath@shaw.ca>
 >>To: UFO Updates <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 13:38:42 -0800
 >>Subject: Frank Edwards - Mutual Network Radio Archives?

 >>Does any List subscriber know if there are any archives of
 >>Frank Edwards radio broadcasts from 1953?

<snip>

 >1953. Exact broadcast date unknown. Report on Project Twinkle.
 >Source: Connors.
 >Sound Quality: Good.
 >Running Time: 00:04:38.

Since I have studied Project Twinkle - see:
http://brumac.8k.com

look for White Sands Proof - I would be interested in knowing
whether or not Edwards learned anything I don't know already!.

Is the tape an interview of one of the Twinkle staff or
something else?






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                Re: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight -

From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 19:45:12 -0500
Fwd Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:21:06 -0500
Subject: Re: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight -


 >From: Royce J. Myers III - The UFO Watchdog <ufowatchdog@earthlink.net>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 20:33:04 -0800
 >Subject: Re: SCI FI Channel Sets The Record Straight

 ><snip>

 >The problem here is that Larry Landsman knew about Schmitt's
 >past. As far as I'm concerned, anyone in their right mind would
 >have never utilized Schmitt. You're just sticking your face out
 >there begging to get punched. Can you imagine this being a
 >criminal case and having Schmitt as your star witness? No
 >thanks. He's a defense lawyer's dream and a duck in a barrel for
 >skeptics.

 >I could frankly care less that Schmitt is reported to be
 >actively engaged in Roswell research. So what? What new
 >revelations did Schmitt bring with him to the program? None. I'm
 >surprised we were regaled with tales of Roswell metal being
 >hidden in caves or more anonymous sources. I think Schmitt was
 >used by Sci Fi due to his association with the Roswell Museum
 >and Landsman needed to ensure the co-operation of the museum for
 >his documentary. Everything has a price, but I wouldn't be
 >willing to pay or risk that much for it.

 >The point is that everyone on this List knows that any evidence
 >or research that Schmitt is involved in will be hit with a
 >hammer from every end and anything mildly important will have a
 >shadow cast over it. We've seen it before and we'll probably see
 >it again. Schmitt's problem is that he is "the boy that cried
 >UFO" and no one in this field trusts him. And that really is
 >unfortunate to see as I believe Schmitt would have been able to
 >vastly contribute to the field had he not destroyed his own
 >reputation or one of the most heralded UFO cases ever. Who
 >hasn't heard of Roswell?!

So the fact that someone of ill repute is involved in this will
taint it beyond redemption.

On a different List, I asked Kevin for his opinion of Schmitt's
involvement in SciFi's Roswell program, and I hope he won't mind
if I post his public response on that list here:

====Kevin Randle's response====

I've actually tried to form a response that makes sense on a
couple of occasions and haven't had much luck. I guess the best
word is ambivalent. On the one hand I doubt that it makes any
real difference, especially if what Schmitt says is corroborated
by other, more reliable witnesses. On the other hand, this is
what is wrong in UFOlogy. We have a discredited researcher who
continues to move forward spreading his misinformation and
telling tales to others. But, before we begin to condemn those
at the Sci Fi Channel for using him, we must remember that he
has a position of authority at the museum in Roswell and that
UFO groups still pay him to talk to them. We can't hold the Sci
Fi Channel to one standard and ourselves to another, lesser
standard. The solution might seem to boycott the producers, as
advocated in other threads, but in the end, we give the forum to
those who don't deserve it.

So, I'm ambivalent. He's on the program and he probably says
nothing on it that isn't true... or at least that he doesn't
believe to be true which isn't quite the same thing. All we can
do is watch and hope that the producers have put together a good
program. One that doesn't have any real spin or bias, but looks
at the facts, limited though they are.

=====End Kevin Randle's response====


With due respect to researchers that have advanced the Roswell
investigation much further than Don Schmitt, the fact that
Schmitt and Carey are carrying on current research DOES matter
to those who are trying to present current research.

Do we take that information as gospel because of who has said
it? I certainly hope not.

Will the fact that a discredited researcher is involved cause
glee among skeptics? Of course it will.

In the long run, will it matter if the information and evidence
presented is of value. I tend to doubt it.

I certainly don't support Schmitt's involvement in ufology, but
I can't condemn the program or the network because of his
involvement. I, too, hope that the SciFi Channel exhibits better
judgment in the future. But let's keep in mind that WE aren't
the target audience here. Most of us know where we stand on this
subject, or at least have a pretty good idea. This program was
aimed at the general public, and apparently attracted a fairly
large audience, by the SciFi Channel's standards.

I can think of several personalities in this genre that are far
worse. If the SciFi Channel travels down those paths I'll simply
stop watching and hope the damage the field is minor. But that's
based on the nonsense they spout, and not on the fact that
they're fools and charlatans.

There have been many documentaries on Roswell produced in the
last few years, and this was the first that seemed to take a
fairly balanced approach to the subject. It wasn't great and it
seems they really didn't have time to finish the archeological
research they'd started. But I find that it's an interesting
relationship between the genre and the SciFi Channel that's
evolving, and one can only hope that in the long run it's
positive.


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                     Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Rudiak

From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:02:05 -0800
Fwd Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:26:39 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Rudiak


 >From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
 >Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 17:19:26 +0100
 >Fwd Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 12:54:21 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais

 >A question which troubles me is the possibility that some
 >witnesses may have been sincere at first but may have become
 >unreliable later. For what reason ? First, the desire to boost
 >their story. This might be the case for Jim Ragsdale. But there
 >may be other reasons!

Gildas,

Thank you for raising these issues. I have similar questions
about witnesses who at first might seem credible but later
either "flip" stories or are shown to be unreliable in other
ways. A key question in my mind is the "why" for the lying or
change of stories. Do they reflect a purely personal agenda or
are there outside forces at work?

Here's an analogy. Suppose a prosecution witness is shown to be
lying on the witness stand. There are various reasons that the
witness might lie, each of them putting a different perspective
on the possible guilt or innocence of the accused. E.g.:

1. It's a high-profile case and the witness enjoys the attention
and publicity. The testimony is largely made up. In this case, a
reasonable jury might conclude that witness perjury has little
or no bearing on the guilt or innocence of the accused. The
testimony is ignored.

2. The witness harbors malice towards the accused. The jury
might again conclude the testimony should be ignored or maybe
treated cautiously since it is obviously highly biased.

3. The witness has turned state's evidence in exchange for
immunity from prosecution. The jury might conclude that the
prosecution has no case if they have to depend on someone
obviously motivated by purely selfish reasons. This might make
the jury lean towards innocence of the accused.

4. The witness has been bribed, threatened, or is part of a
conspiracy to frame the accused. Again this could point towards
innocence in the jury's mind.

5. The witness is in collusion with the accused. Admitting to
lying on the witness stand might be part of a scheme to convince
the jury of the innocence of the accused.  But this would
backfire if the scheme were exposed, in which case the jury
might be convinced of guilt instead.

In all cases, the witness is lying about some things, but guilt
or innocence is placed in a different light depending on why the
witness lied. Much of the testimony could even be based on
inside knowledge and be mostly truthful. The jury could choose
to totally disregard the testimony if they deemed it completely
unreliable, or they might weigh it along with other evidence,
mindful that parts of the testimony are questionable.

In the case of Roswell, I think it is often a mistake to totally
disregard what some witnesses says because parts of their story
are obviously untruthful. Like members of a jury, this is
obviously a matter of personal judgment when it comes to judging
witness credibility.

E.g., Mogul engineer Charles Moore has recently been exposed as
a hoaxer by Brad Sparks and myself regarding his "calculated"
Mogul trajectory, and also been caught altering other data, such
as maps, to promote some sort of agenda. Whether his agenda is
personal or whether he was "inspired" by some outside agency I
don't know. But he has clearly perjured himself

However, I think it foolish to disregard everything he has had
to say, though I now treat his statements with much more
caution. Other witnesses I think should be treated in a similar
fashion, lest we possibly throw out the baby with the bathwater.

 >Another one could be pressure for commercial reasons (Ragsdale
 >again). But there might be yet another reason : pressure from
 >people in charge of protecting the secret.

 >The first example is, of course, William McBrazel, with two
 >stories, the second one under military escort, with some details
 >such as the weight of the debris : less than five pounds! Are
 >there other witnesses of that kind ?

 >I noted with interest that Kevin, in his IUR article on Kaufmann,
 >recalled that "He always picked up the check, claiming that someone
 >else paid for it. The implication was that the government was
 >watching and Frank was just doing his job".
 >Well, what kind of job was he doing ?

Kaufmann claimed that he was a government counterintelligence
and disinformation agent left behind to keep an eye on things.
Whether this was true or not, I don't know, but there is some
circumstantial evidence that might support it:

1. He was shown in the 1947 base yearbook receiving a medal from
deputy base commander Lt. Col. Payne Jennings. This medal was
found in his personal effects after his death. Yet he was
supposed to be nothing but a civilian clerk at the base. What
was his medal for? Exceptional typing or filing?

2. Kaufmann, a native New Yorker, was planning to return to New
York and was all packed to go. Then Roswell happened. He told
his wife words to the effect, "Unpack everything, we're
staying." This "tale" was corroborated by his wife, who was
described to me as a sweet old lady completely without guile.

3. The following year, Kaufmann was now on the board of the
Roswell Chamber of Commerce. This would be an excellent position
to keep Kaufmann plugged into the town rumor mill, if that was
the intent. First, I find it odd that an obvious outsider like
Kaufmann would be in such a position in a small cowtown. Small
towns tend to be very insular and suspicious of outsiders. It
typically takes a long time to win people's trust and be
accepted. More telling, however, is what turned up at the
Roswell hall of records. All board members of the Chamber of
Commerce were paid out of town funds - except for Kaufmann, who
was paid from some unknown outside source. This would be in line
with Kaufmann always picking up the check claiming that somebody
else was paying for it.

 >This reminds me of what John Carpenter, whom I met in Laughlin in
 >march 2000, told me about Gerald Anderson. He had met him
 >recently and Anderson was in excellent health and mood. His
 >attitude was the one of a man satisfied to have done his job well.
 >Carpenter was the hypnotherapist who had regressed Anderson
 >and who had supported him during several years. Now he was
 >convinced that he had played a role.

I too suspect Kaufmann played a role, though maybe not exactly
the role he devised for himself. He may also have been an
insider of some sort. Some of his information was original and
seems to have checked out.

E.g., Kaufmann, I believe, was the first to claim that it was
the special counter-intelligence corps team (which he claimed to
be a part) which came up with the bright idea of the base press
release of recovering a flying disc. That's the way I read the
Ramey memo as well. There is also testimony from several
witnesses to the effect of strange CIC people being at the base.
(Though conceivably Kaufmann might have been aware of this.)

A good example was Sgt. Robert Smith of the Air Transport Unit,
who said he helped load C54's with crates of crash material
while unknown, plain-clothes "inspectors" flashed ID cards from
some unknown project. Smith also said a cousin of his with the
Secret Service served as Truman's representative. Kaufmann also
mentioned the SS agent and gave the same name. See:

http://www.roswellproof.com/smith.html

Kaufmann, again I believe, was the first to claim that bodies
were recovered inside the craft. This was also corroborated by
Gen. Arthur Exon.

Furthur, this item is almost definitely in the Ramey memo, first
speaking of "the victims of the wreck" being "forwarded to"
"Fort Worth, Tex." The very next statement in the memo reads "in
the 'disc' they will ship". What was being shipped from inside
the "disc" was being sent by plane to Fort Worth, the context
indicating that this was the bodies.

Kaufmann, however, claimed that the Fort Worth shipment
- testified to by Robert Slusher and "Tim", who were on the
flight - see:

http://www.roswellproof.com/B29_Flight_July9.html

- was nothing but a diversion, the bodies actually being shipped
elsewhere. This may have been Kaufmann acting as the
disinformationalist, mixing truth with lies.

Another example of deception mixed with truth by Kaufmann were
his shifting crash sites. The point of this would be to keep
people looking in the wrong place, and also to later discredit
their research and Roswell in general as the inconsistencies in
the testimony mounted.

 >A question remains : could he have given, maybe like Kaufmann
 >and even Ragsdale, some true information, cleverly mixed with
 >lies ? The trick is then to make a very interesting story, but
 >which will be discredited sooner or later. I suspect two
 >possiblez scenarios here : "amplifying disinformation", or
 >gradual release of information, under tight control.

This is the way I look at it. A lot of these Roswell witnesses
are not black and white, but more shades of gray. If they lie
(or maybe not tell all they know), sometimes the most important
question is why did they lie? Was it a personal agenda for self-
glorification, or is there something else behind it, such as
self-protection, protection of others, or maybe to deliberately
confuse an already confusing situation on behalf of government
counterintelligence (CI)?

When you think about, it makes a lot of sense that if something
as stupendous as an ET crash had occurred, somebody would be
left behind to keep an eye on the situation. People might also
be paid off to lie and eventually discredit themselves.
Investigators who initially bought into their stories get
discredited by association, along with the whole scenario of a
saucer crash.

Once CI gets involved, everything can become a hall of mirrors.
During WWII, Allied CI through various ruses had the Germans
completely confused about Allied invasion plans. Even after the
Normandy invasion was well underway, the Germans remained
convinced that this was only a diversion.

So Kaufmann was officially nothing but a humble clerk. But when
you think about it, this is the perfect cover for a CI mole,
somebody who is completely inconspicuous, but is really behaving
like a "fly on the wall." It's like a waiter spy listening in on
the sensitive conversations of the customers.

There are other examples of CI people who had regular "day
jobs", but were also serving in a CI capacity. Take the case of
Larry Dyvad, associated with Project Mogul, supposedly as a
chase pilot for the balloon flights. That was his "day job." But
the day after the Roswell base press release, he was part of a
team at Alamogordo debunking Roswell and flying saucers using
weather balloons and radar targets (one of a number of such
demonstrations incidentally). See:

www.roswellproof.com/militarydebunk.html

This even came up in the Air Force Roswell report in the
interviews with Charles Moore and Col. Albert Trakowski by Lt.
James McAndrew. Given Dyvad's involvement with the Alamogordo
demonstration, they speculated that he was secretly with CI.

Additional evidence of this comes from a 1951 document.
Trakowski's replacement as Mogul Project Officer was Col. Edward
Doty, who we know today from multiple documents, was really an
AFOSI officer (i.e., Air Force counterintelligence) and also in
charge of UFO investigations at Holloman AFB, Alamogordo. Both
Doty and Dyvad took a UFO report from a radar station near
Corona, N.M. in 1951. A discussion of this and the document can
be viewed at:

http://www.roswellproof.com/Dyvad1951.html

It is also noteworthy that the Air Force included a 1959 letter
from Doty to the Holloman base historian (Appendix 4 to McAndrew
section), detailing his involvement with the balloon projects at
Alamogordo starting in January 1948, but telling the historian
nothing at all about being with AFOSI or being the base UFO
investigator.

So Doty too seems to have a "day job", but he was considerably
more than just chief of various balloon project. Furthermore, he
seems to have deliberately concealed his primary military
affiliation (AFOSI) plus other secretive responsibilities.

The point is, we don't really know if Kaufmann was nothing more
than a clerk. Maybe that's all he was, but he may have been
considerably more than that. As is usually the case with
Roswell, the truth of the matter is muddled.

 >The case of Glenn Dennis might be yet another one. He would have
 >told the truth basically, but protected the identity of the
 >nurse. He may also have had his memory somewhat mixed up, after
 >forty years. I already noted in a previous post :

 >Regarding Glenn Dennis and the "missing nurse", I am perplexed
 >by the information given about Eilen Fanton, both in the
 >"Roswell Report. Case Closed" (pages 82-83), and by Karl Pflock
 >in his last book, at pages 138-139.

 >She seems to correspond on several points to the description
 >made by Glenn Dennis. Could it be that at least part of his
 >original story was accurate ? Or is there a solid argument
 >against that, apart from the false name Naomi Selff ?

Dennis is a classic example of a Roswell witness who I think is
basically telling the truth but for various reasons chose not to
tell the whole truth. He may very well be still protecting the
true identity of a real person. (I have additional information
on this which I am not at liberty to disclose. Despite
statements to the contrary, the existence of a real Nurse X has
not been conclusively ruled out. E.g., there were other nurses
at the base, some civilian, who are not pictured in the base
yearbook.)

There is also some independent corroboration of Dennis' story
from other witnesses, as I have detailed on my website. See:

http://www.roswellproof.com/dennis.html

Because Dennis lied about the nurse's name, various
investigators have been trying to distance themselves as much as
possible from him. I think this is as big a mistake as
dismissing everything that, say, a Charles Moore has had to say.
And we may be making a similar mistake in totally dismissing
Frank Kaufmann.

The problem, of course, is trying to pick out the truth amidst
the deception. But this is not much different from the task that
police investigators face when dealing with less-than-truthful
witnesses to a crime. A smart investigator will not completely
discount testimony from such witnesses if other evidence
corroborates parts of their stories. If anything, the reasons
behind the lies may be far more important than the testimony
itself.

E.g., if (hypothetically) the government had paid Charles Moore
to promote a hoax in order to further debunk Roswell, that
information would be hugely significant in and of itself.

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               Latest Vice-President Lyndon Johnson UFO Letter

From: Grant Cameron <presidentialufo@presidency.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 21:54:23 -0500
Fwd Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:28:40 -0500
Subject: Latest Vice-President Lyndon Johnson UFO Letter


The very short, Vice President Johnson letter was written to
Leon Davidson, a prominent NICAP UFO investigator in the late
1950s. It can be seen at:

www.presidentialufo.com/johnson_pictures.htm

Davidson is probably most famous for helping to expose the CIA
as they tried to recover an "alien message" by impersonating Air
Force officers. The case was even written up in the CIA paper "A
Die-Hard Issue: CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90."

I have written up a review of the Maier case at

www.presidentialufo.com/maier_sisters.htm

The Johnson library told me that they do not have the October 8,
1961 Davidson letter. I would appreciate hearing from anyone who
knows what happened to Davidson's files.

Another letter still being sought from Johnson's files is one
where Johnson replies to a letter talking about a story dealing
with the George  Adamski Saturnian spacecraft. In the letter
Vice President Johnson says,

"Thank you for your letter of October 11, 1962. My reply to your
enquiries about a Saturnian spacecraft landing on a U.S. airbase
is simply that there is no factual basis for such a report.
There is, however, no law which prevents such imaginative ideas
being reported. The alternative would be a type of censorship
over freedom of speech and expression which would do more harm
than good."

At this point we don't know who the author is, which is
preventing the recovery of the letter.

Grant Cameron
www.presidentialufo.com/news_update.htm
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                  Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Rimmer

From: John Rimmer <jrimmer@magonia.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:08:34 +0000
Fwd Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:30:33 -0500
Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Rimmer


 >From: Stan Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 18:45:20 -0400
 >Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >I should add that there were, intentionally, other debunkers on
 >the show and in the audience, which may account for why the
 >audience believer-vote was "only" 73%, taken before the debate.
 >I suppose we could say we clobbered them. By the way the total
 >audience number, which I had not recalled, is more than twice
 >the number that saw the recent all time most popular SCI-FI
 >Documentary show about Roswell.

More Research by Referendum. Surely all these "votes" show more
about the nature of the audience at these events than the
strength of the arguments advanced?

--
John Rimmer
Magonia Magazine
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                      Re: Abductions & Ufology - Morton

From: Dave Morton <Marspyrs@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 07:12:12 EST
Fwd Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:32:30 -0500
Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology - Morton


 >From: Amy Hebert <yellowrose129@attbi.com>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 01:41:15 -0600
 >Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology


 >>From: Jim Speiser <jimspeiser@yahoo.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 01:42:53 -0700
 >>Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >>>From: Amy Hebert <yellowrose129@attbi.com>
 >>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:03:43 -0600
 >>>Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 ><snip>

 >For example, think of all the serial killers who seemed
 >perfectly normal on the outside while few around them suspected
 >they were mass murders. There are people in this world who wear
 >a facade when among others and become entirely different
 >personalities in private and in their heads. That's why it's so
 >important to have a deeper understanding of the human psyche
 >especially when it comes to the study of abduction experiences.

<snip>

Although I have no idea if I could differentiate a "true"
abductee from a fake one, some people's psyches are fairly
transparent to me, as they probably are to some others.

For example, years ago I was channel surfing and saw a videotape
of a lawyer arguing something or other in front of a jury. He
was well-dressed, eloquent, pleasant, smooth, and talented. My
immediate, gut reaction was fear and panic. I wanted to yell out
to someone, "Tackle that guy! Chain him up! He's a monster!" I
continued to watch the program to see what it was about. It was
about the "lawyer" whose name was Ted Bundy. Bundy was arguing
his case as his own attorney, and this turned out to be a
special program about him after he had finally been convicted,
but long before he was executed. At that time, I knew his name
but had never seen his photograph, and knew very little about
him. His speech, facial expressions and body language were so
disingenuous, controlled, yet almost flippant, it was positively
terrifying. His manner seemed to be one of "controlled
recklessness", implicitly expressing a willingness and ability
to kill (or something equally horrible), as well as a
fearlessness and huge contempt for those judging him, since he
seemed confident they would be too blind to see that a real
murderer was standing right in front of them. He skated on the
edge of disaster, confident that he could escape, just as he had
done before. Had I met him in real life, I would have been very
afraid of him. Frankly, I would have been terrified.

The videotape of Bundy's act when he claimed to have a Multiple
Personality Disorder (or whatever the correct term is) was one
of the biggest farces I have ever seen in my entire life - and I
knew almost nothing about MPDs. It was as phony as a 3 1/2
dollar bill. Only a bleeding heart Liberal could have been taken
in by that pathetic and amateurish attempt to escape execution
and gain sympathy for poor, little Teddy, the confused and
amnesic serial killer whose other self did all those terrible
things, but didn't bother to tell little Teddy about them...

At least Tony Perkins as Norman Bates was semi-believable when
he gasped offscreen, "Oh God - Mother! Blood! Blood!!" in the
movie Psycho. By comparison, Ted Bundy acted like an amateur
trying out for a high school play - and not getting the part due
to his bad acting. (A more astute psychologist hired by the
Prosecution later punctured Bundy's act with many holes, proving
to all that Bundy was clueless in his ignorant attempts to
imitate someone with MPD. That particular psychologist was very
knowledgable and quite impressive, since he was able to actually
prove Bundy was acting - not merely appeal to common sense or
simply render a generalized, professional opinion.)

I admit that had I met Heinrich Himmler, not knowing who he was,
I might have been fooled. But Himmler, if I'm not mistaken,
believed he was doing the "right" thing, whereas Bundy knew he
was a serial killer without supposed moral justification or any
support base. Everything about Bundy was a lie, except his
crimes and some legal training.

My point here is that not everyone is fooled by these people. In
fact, I'm often pretty amazed when I hear the statements made by
people who knew Bundy and John Wayne Gacey and others, that they
seemed "perfectly normal". Normal??? What's normal about an
overweight clown with a piercing stare (Gacey)? Or a man on
trial for his life, accused of murdering a number of women,
acting as if he'd been pulled over for doing 43 in a 40mph zone,
and with every "calm" movement and smiling syllable shouting
out, "I'm lying through my teeth, you idiots! Can't you see
that?" (Bundy). (And he might have pulled it off had it not been
for the clinching evidence: The bite marks.)

Professionals are sometimes fooled - with Bundy and others. I
did some counseling in 1979 with a psychiatrist. He was an older
man who impressed me with his caring attitude, and the fact that
he'd been around the block. Yet even he was fooled by one of his
patients, he admitted to me. He had treated a man who was
supposedly suffering from problems induced by battle stress
during WW2. The patient described the sights, sounds, smells,
etc, of battle to the psychiatrist in graphic detail. At some
point, the Doctor needed to contact the man's relatives for more
information since little progress was being made. He spoke with
several relatives, and they all said, "John? Our John? In WW2?
No, he was here working at the local bakery in Littleville
during the war. Yes, I'm positive. He was never in the
military." The patient later confessed that he'd made it all up,
and fooled even this experienced psychiatrist.

Of course, I never met that former patient or knew his real name
or the town he came from. It was all completely anonymous. But
I'd bet a dollar I could have spotted his phoniness from across
the room - or at least after a 10-minute conversation. And I'd
bet another dollar that a number of other people could do the
same - with or without formal training in psychology. I do have
a good track record, but I haven't bothered to keep score. I
would imagine many others can honestly make the same claim.

The "OJ chase" certainly showed evidence of OJ's guilt. But if
anyone actually believed all his ridiculous stories before his
arrest, how could they believe his arraignment plea of "100% not
guilty", I think he said. No innocent man pleads "100% not
guilty" when charged with a crime... They say, "Not guilty, your
honor". No degree in psychology is needed for that situation and
some others which are just as easy to penetrate. And if you were
to ask me if I saw something sinister in OJ Simpson _before_ he
did what he did, I would have to answer, "Yes" - but I don't
know how many people would believe me. This was yet another case
of someone who did _not_ act "perfectly normal" in his public
life, in my opinion, and when I heard his wife had been killed,
had a good hunch as to who might have done it. Again, I would
imagine that others can honestly make the same claim, even
though they knew him only from television, etc, and had no
inside information.

The point of all this is that it's not that easy to conceal a
lie, in my opinion. Sure, we can all be fooled by someone. There
are some very good liars out there! But most liars, most of the
time, are overflowing with signs of deception which effectively
turn them into flashing neon signs, advertising their deceit.
And that principle would apply to fake abductees - the ones who
are lying, not the mentally ill - as well as others. As to the
mentally ill fake abductees, some of them would probably be more
difficult to detect if they seemed to be "normal" in most ways,
since they would presumably not be "lying".

If I've made any factual errors regarding Bundy, I apologize: I
saw that program many years ago, and haven't checked any sources
to verify my recollections. But it was so frightening (except
for the laughable MPD act), it feels like I watched it
yesterday.

Dave Morton






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                      Re: Abductions & Ufology - Kaeser

From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:17:37 -0500
Fwd Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:25:58 -0500
Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology - Kaeser


 >From: Dave Morton <Marspyrs@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 07:12:12 EST
 >Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

<snip>[and my respone makes more sense if you've read the
previous post]

 >The point of all this is that it's not that easy to conceal a
 >lie, in my opinion. Sure, we can all be fooled by someone. There
 >are some very good liars out there! But most liars, most of the
 >time, are overflowing with signs of deception which effectively
 >turn them into flashing neon signs, advertising their deceit.
 >And that principle would apply to fake abductees - the ones who
 >are lying, not the mentally ill - as well as others. As to the
 >mentally ill fake abductees, some of them would probably be more
 >difficult to detect if they seemed to be "normal" in most ways,
 >since they would presumably not be "lying".

Are we assuming that only someone who is "mentally ill" would
make up abduction stories? How "mentally ill" would they have to
be? What about those persons who may simply be deluded into
believing their own confabulated memories? Does that denote a
mental illness?

A "fake" abductee, IMO, would indicate that someone is making up
their story, for some reasion, but how do we tell the difference
between someone who simply believes they've been abducted when
in fact they have not?  Should we accept on faith the word of
abduction researchers that they can tell the difference. John
Mack was taken in by a reporter, who spent a number of months as
part of an abduction group, which she later wrote about in a
Time Magazine article. She obviously knew that she was faking
it, but what about non-abdutees who aren't? Other than their own
beliefs and faith in humanity, how do researchers measure the
difference.

I don't have any answers to most of these questions, which is
one of the reasons I try to distance myself from the abduction
side of this genre. Unlike others on this list, I would
recommend that the two areas of study be seperated, but that's
not really likely to happen. It is obvious that there is a
phenomenon involved here, but what the cause might be is still
completely up in the air, IMO.

Human psychology is not a black-and-white issue that can be
easily defined. IMO, we shouldn't try to frame our arguements on
that basis. A number of very good questions have been asked in
previous posts in this thread, which point to some of the facets
that have been developed by professionals in recent years. I
suspect that far more than half of humanity has some mental
issues that they have to deal with.


My thoughts.

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                        Re: Another Approach - Young

From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:56:33 EST
Fwd Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:32:48 -0500
Subject: Re: Another Approach - Young


 >From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:33:29 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>From: Roy Norris <rnorris@charter.net>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 14:02:31 -0600
 >>Subject: Another Approach

<snip>

 >If someone wants to endow a "UFO Investigation Fund" at a high
 >enough level so that 20K or more level of investigation could be
 >supported each year by the interest on the endowment plus an
 >initial shot of, say, $100 K to assemble a van plus shipable
 >instrument package (and perhaps to train nvestigators) then we
 >might be able to convert UFO investigation into a real science!.
 >The experience of NIDS with their instrumented farm would
 >probably be valuable to study (what can happen at the site of
 >repeated anomalous events/sightings).

 >Incidently, you mention Laurence R. It is well known that he has
 >an interest in the subject. Perhaps if a number of scientists
 >approached him directly with a specific plan he would be willing
 >to support this, especially if some others with philanthropist
 >tendencies were also willing to contribute.

"Statistically speaking, an unimpeachable photograph must sooner
or later appear if UFOs are a physical reality.  Every year that
passes without such a photograph being produced is evidence
against the position that unknown objects are operating in the
Earth's atmosphere" Stuart Nixon, Director, NICAP, November
1972.


Good luck,

Bob Young

"Statistically speaking, an unimpeachable photograph must sooner
or later appear if UFOs are a physical reality.  Every year that
passes without such a photograph being produced is evidence
against the position that unknown objects are operating in the
Earth's atmosphere"

   -- Stuart Nixon, Director, NICAP, November 1972.







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                  Re: Mantell Case - Peer Review - Maccabee

From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:35:58 -0500
Fwd Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:34:14 -0500
Subject: Re: Mantell Case - Peer Review - Maccabee


 >From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 02:51:07 -0500
 >Subject: Mantell Case - Peer Review

 >Hi All,

 >I was just out visiting the Virtually Strange website and
 >reading the results of all the work that Kevin Randle put into
 >compiling the details and testimony of the Thomas Mantell crash
 >case.

 >http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/nov/m16-026.shtml

Kevin as done an admirable job of collecting the evidence and
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                               Paul Bennewitz?

From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:49:13 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:41:54 -0500
Subject: Paul Bennewitz?


On Dr. Maccabee's website, I just read/reviewed his report on
UFO Landing near Kirtland AFB, and would like more material
about Paul Bennewitz, as his involvement with the UFO subject is
much more complicated, as I understand.

Some years ago, when visiting the Lorenzens of APRO, Coral
Lorenzen gave me a 17 page Summary & Status report called
'Project Beta' by Bennewitz. We didn't have time to discuss it
but I am very interested in finding out, if anyone is privy to
info, as to whether this material is the product of
disinformation, and also more details about whether Bennewitz
was discredited and if so, by whom?


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                          FILER'S FILES #50 -- 2002

From: George A. Filer <Majorstar@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 16:41:23 -0500
Fwd Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:45:05 -0500
Subject: FILER'S FILES #50 -- 2002



FILER'S FILES #50 -- 2002, MUFON Skywatch Investigations
George A. Filer, Director Mutual UFO Network Eastern
December 11, 2002, Majorstar@aol.com Webmaster: Chuck
Warren -- My new website is at: http://www.georgefiler.com

SIGHTINGS DECREASE FOR THE HOLIDAYS

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December 14, 2002, has begun. Unlike the recent Leonids, which
were nearly overwhelmed in some places by moonlight, the
Geminids of 2002 will not be dimmed by a glaring moon. These
meteors come from a curious object -- a "Twilight Zone" cross
between a comet and an asteroid -- called 3220 Phaethon.

ENDEAVOUR VIDEO SPOTS SELF-LUMINOUS OBJECTS

Jeff Challender writes the Space Shuttle Endeavour had to spend
three extra days aloft due to bad weather at the Cape, while
millions of people were without power due to severe weather on
Earth. I've now looked at every single tape from STS-113, which
landed in Florida earlier today. There were 22 six hour tapes on
this flight, and out of it all there were only two events of
note. On December 1, 2002, the first event was composed of an
apparently self-luminous object whizzing past the
Shuttle/Station in the deep of night at 5:05 PM Central
(Houston) Time. The sun was blocked by the Earth, so there was
no external source of light.

NASA is getting better at censorship. I am noticing a new
phenomenon in which the live action downlink will stop cold for
a short time, and resume live action with some portion missing.
It's as if something was deliberately "cut out" of the
broadcast, as in live radio or TV when they have a foul mouthed
caller, and can excise the offending speech. On December 3,
2002, at 8:37 AM Central time there was another remarkable event
when a strobing object came into view. After reaching a point
near center screen, it stopped completely and became much
brighter. Then after a short time stationary, it REVERSED it's
course and exited the screen near the point of first entry,
strobing as before. Satellites, ice and debris DON'T DO
THIS.....EVER! Furthermore, there is no evidence of a firing of
the RCS at any time during the event.

On Monday, December 2, the Shuttle Endeavour, and ISS, had
undocked and separated that afternoon. When they came over
Sacramento, California at 5:30 PST that evening, they were only
a very few degrees of arc apart. It was absolutely awesome! I
managed to get both spacecraft in the same field of view in my
camcorder...even with zoom. Endeavour was in lead, ISSy in
trail. ISSy was by far the brighter of the two due to her
greater size and reflective surface area. It was the most
incredible pass I have ever recorded, and won't soon be
forgotten. I wouldn't be at all surprised if unwitting ground
observers at various locations in the Pacific Northwest mistook
this apparition for a UFO sighting, it was that rare and
spectacular. This is only the second time in all my years of
observing that I've seen this. The other time was a few hours
after Atlantis had undocked from ISSy during the STS-110 mission
last April. During that pass however, the spacecraft were quite
a bit farther apart to the naked eye. May God Bless you and
yours. Thanks to Jeff Challender Director; Project P.R.O.V.E.
jefchall@winfirst.com

Editors Note: The severe weather on Earth is likely related to
sunspots and solar flares on the sun. Shuttle Endeavour finally
returned to Earth on Saturday, successfully concluding what
turned out to be a two-week International Space Station assembly
and crew rotation mission with veteran mission commander Jim
Wetherbee at the controls. Once again NASA has done a great job
and kindly provided us with proof of UFOs in space.

NEW YORK PHOTO PICTURE OF A FLASHING "V" SHAPED LIGHT.

HAMBURG -- The witness reports, " I looked out the window and
saw a flashing object that I thought was a plane on November 19,
2002, but it remained stationary for more than 5 minutes." I
went to the other room and got my digital binocular camera, took
pictures at 11:35 PM, and downloaded them to my computer. It was
a "V" shaped object with multiple colored lights. It remained
stationary for about 20 minutes, then disappeared. It just
stopped blinking and disappeared. Thanks to Peter Davenport [
http://www.ufocenter.com/ ]NUFORC

NEW JERSEY BOOMERANG OBJECT

TURNERSVILLE -- Evelyn Galson phoned to tell me that on October
22, 2002, at about 9:20 AM, I was traveling on Route 42, when I
noticed a boomerang object just above the trees on the left hand
side of the highway. It was about two inches long at arms
length, and was purest white. It looked like the same object I
had spotted in 1998 with my husband, on Crosskeys Road. Again I
was unable to stop, I had to pick up a friend of mine and take
her to the doctors and she would have missed her appointment if
I stopped. Since they are still around I will be looking around
the area with my camera equipment more often. I may be able to
get some photos or a video. 'Thanks to Evelyn Galson

HADDON HEIGHTS -- Paul Nahay, writes I was in a car being driven
by Sue Swiatek (of the Fund for UFO Research, the website of
which I am webmaster), on Sunday, November 10, 2002. We were
driving south on Rt. 295. I was in the front passenger seat, and
about 1:30 PM, Sue saw something to the left and ahead of us
near the southeast quadrant of the Rt. 295 and White Horse
Pike/Rt. 30 interchange. I got to see it for three seconds, so
it was difficult to determine how anomalous it really was. What
I saw was a large, dark rectangular object, oriented
horizontally, just above the trees, about 1.5 miles away. It was
the length (left to right) of two of my thumbs held at arm's
length, and it was about 1/4 as wide as it was long. The middle
estimate object was between 53 to 213 meters long or 1.7 times
the length of a 747. It was either black or very dark gray, and
it was somewhat "fuzzy" in its outline, in a way I can't quite
describe; it looked strange, unlike anything I've seen before.
We were currently driving down a hill, thus the object, which I
happened to see as the bottom of it descended below the
treeline.

Sue, who saw it for a few seconds longer, said she thought it
was moving horizontally and downward, very slowly. There may
have been an adequate clearing/field beyond the trees that we
saw, where it could have landed. It looked too rectangular
(sharpish corners) to be a blimp, at least the blimps that I
have seen. Absolutely no wings. I'm clear on this. Definitely
anomalous, but could have been an unusual design of a blimp that
is more rectangular than I'm used to seeing. Paul says, "It was
definitely not an airplane, nor a conventional blimp, and
certainly not a helicopter; there were no wings of any kind, nor
anything hanging down from it, such as the cabin of a blimp. Had
it been a human-built craft, it had to be landing, and quite
slowly (far more than any plane could), and it appeared to be
going down in an area that was fairly dense with trees. We were
startled enough by this sight that we pulled off at Exit 30
(Lawnside, NJ), and searched but were unable to see it again.
Thanks to Paul Nahay, and Sue Swiatek see full report at:
http://pnahay.home.sprynet.com/ufowitne.htm


VIRGINIA FLASHES LIGHT UP SKY

HAMPTON -- Early on December 5, 2002, this morning at
approximately 3:45 AM, while I was on duty Security Forces for
Langley Air Force Base, 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 sudden and lit
up the whole area. It was raining and hailing, 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
yellowish-orangeish glow and the final flash was bluish-
greenish. These lit up the entire sky and knocked out two city
blocks' power.

We patrolled the area suspecting it might have been the
repercussions of a fallen tree or downed wire. We couldn't find
any debris. We notified the Fire Department and the Power
Company. We are still unclear as to what was the cause of the
power outage. The airman and myself believe it to have been a
UFO. After the third flash, we thought we saw an "Illuminated"
triangle-vortex flashing around in the sky. It was very brief
though. Thanks to zenbunny@mac.com Para-Discuss@yahoogroups.com

NORTH CAROLINA CLOSE ENCOUNTER

MARINE'S CHERRY POINT STATION -- John Thompson writes, "Here's a
tidbit I gleamed recently from a former North Carolina
resident." This man said in the late 1950s, while living not far
from the home of the 2nd Marine Air Wing, that he had a
remarkable close-encounter experience. While playing baseball
with high school age friends someone hit the ball over the roof
of his house. He chased the ball and saw a round, disc-shaped
craft with platform around it just "sitting" in the air. The
craft was 40 feet diameter sat motionless and soundless about a
100 feet away and about 20 feet high. An opening appeared in the
UFO and a humanoid in a skin tight suit and skull cap stepped
out onto the platform. The humanoid after only a few seconds
spotted him and immediately reentered the UFO. The saucer then
zoomed away. The humanoid stood about "five feet three" and wore
"a gray suit." The sighting occurred on a bright, slightly
cloudy, Sunday afternoon at about 3 p.m. He said, the dramatic
daylight sighting left such an impression that he can remember
what he saw over 40 years ago as if it was only yesterday.

The unknown object appeared to used colors to mimic its
background for camouflage purposes. He says despite being only
several miles from the Marine base he never considered the UFO
was a man-made craft because of its seamless construction, zero
engine noise, and great speed displayed. The entity, despite its
short stature, did have human form. This sounds much like the
New Guinea sighting made by a priest many years ago. Thanks to
John Thompson

OHIO VIDEO OF UFOs

Dave Crisp writes, I took a series of photos of UFOs on November
20, 2002, around 4 PM, The last shot in this mail was taken a
The first shot was taken around 12 PM, November 20th. Two
different videos at different times of the day of the same
craft. Maybe not the same craft? They look kind of different.
This is all too shocking to me. Each video is around 30 seconds
long. Keep in mind, I did not know these were UFOs at the time
and I had a hard time seeing them in the view finder. The sun
was bright. I heard a jet during the second shooting and I
thought I was capturing a real live jet spraying chemtrails. I
hope this is clear but I am still processing this event. That
tells me that it is strange and not natural. I am a certified
drug counselor. Thanks to Dave Crisp
http://community.webtv.net/crispsongs/PaulDavidCrisp

LOUISIANA REPORTERS SEE UFO

ALEXANDRIA -- I wanted to let you know that I had a strange
sighting on December 6, 2002, just about 15 minutes ago at 2:10
PM, on Interstate 49 and Pineville Expressway interchange in a
crystal clear blue sky. A photographer, Douglas Collier, and I
were returning from an assignment. I am a reporter for the
Alexandria Daily Town Talk. Just as we were approaching our exit
into downtown Alexandria, I happened to look up and I noticed an
armada of about 12 military helicopters flying west in formation
most likely heading to nearby Fort Polk. This in itself was an
unusual sight, but then, something else caught my eye, a
cylindrical white-colored object hanging motionless beyond the
group of helicopters. I immediately informed Douglas about the
object and I told him to pull over -- which he did once we got
onto the exit ramp and found a safe place to pull over.
Unfortunately, he could not get a visual on the object, although
I kept pointing at it. I watched it for about three minutes
before it began picking up speed and disappearing in the
northeastern sky.

We put in a call to the Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office, but
there have been no reports of unusual aerial activity. The
sighting immediately reminded me of that famous videotape from
Mexico where the military helicopters are flying in formation
and a UFO is spotted in the background. There was a similar
report made in January 2002 where a hunter said he saw a
cylindrical or cigar-shaped craft fly over him in rural LaSalle
Parish. This area is very wooded and swampy. And in Jan. 2002, I
wrote a couple of stories about in The Town Talk
(www.thetowntalk.com) about strange lights seen in the sky. Just
a little background for you. Thanks Andrew Griffin

BATON ROUGE -- The witness reports, I pulled into a Burger King
at 1:20 PM on November 13, 2002, I was about to get out of my
car when I saw a big black object in my rearview mirror, at
first I thought the mirror had something on it, put when I got
out of the car and looked at the sky I saw a big black sphere
hovering in mid air. Then, after a moment, it just vanished.

UFOWISCONSIN REPORTS LIGHTS

BABCOCK -- My mother and I were driving home south on Highway 80
towards Babcock around 7:45 PM, and in the Southern sky for
almost the entire drive to Babcock which was about a 15 minute
drive we observed a huge light display on November 25, 2002. At
first we thought it was airplanes but the flashing lights
remained stationary, then we thought it might be satellites. It
was an amazing display of lights like the Fourth of July. It
looked like 15 to 20 lights flashing like strobe lights and they
filled the entire front car windshield view of the sky and no
where else in the side car window views. Amazing! Then when we
got to Babcock and turned off on Highway 173 our mini van went
dead and we coasted to the side of the road! We didn't stop to
get out of the van and I got the van started again as quick as I
could. The van stopped mysteriously two more times on the way
home.

DETROIT -- Amy N. (age 30) reports, "I live in the suburbs and
on November 27th, at 6 AM my sister and I were up. As I let the
dog out I looked into the sky and there was a large stationary
light. We got the binoculars and checked it out. It was a very
large white light. It was at least 20 to 25 times as large as
any of the stars located in the sky at that hour of the morning.
Thanks to Amy.

ILLINOIS DIGITAL IMAGES OF FOUR UFOs

NILES -- Walter Lawrence took a digital photo on Thanksgiving at
about 3:30 PM, roughly one hour before sunset north/northeast of
O'Hare International Airport. The formation of cylindrical or
cigar-shaped UFOs lasted approximately 45 seconds. I ran into
the house, and grabbed a small digital camera and snapped off
one photo. They made no sound and were virtually motionless.
When I returned they were moving from west to east and after
taking the photograph, three of them shot off to the east so
fast that if I had blinked I would have missed their departure.
The fourth one took off almost due south right past O'Hare
airport and was lost in haze. Thanks to Walter Lawrence. The
photo show four cylinder like objects flying in formation. See
views at: [
http://www.nationalufocenter.com/files/2002/index.php ]Filer's
Files UFO Center Views

WASHINGTON BRIGHT SPHERE

RENTON -- I live on a hill overlooking downtown Renton, and
Boeing. Shortly after midnight on November 20, 2002, I was
turning off the lights in my living room when a bright light
caught my eye as a cloud illuminated, in which a round bright
object bolted out from it (south to north). It sped at a VERY
fast speed over Boeing where it then shot upward and disappeared
into either another cloud or it just vanished into thin air. It
could not have been an aircraft as it was completely silent and
it was moving too fast. Eighteen months ago, I experienced
another incident. I was living in Kirkland at that time and was
awakened by a beam of light in my window and a loud "swish-
swish-swish" noise. The VCR was turning on-and-off by itself. I
woke up my boyfriend who was as startled as I. The next thing we
remember is waking up in the morning. The clocks were off by 3
hours. I called Puget Sound Energy, but no outages had been
reported that night. Then I noticed that there was a small
purple crescent-shape on my right shoulder. It looked like a
tattoo and it eventually faded after about a month. Thanks to
Peter Davenport [ http://www.ufocenter.com/ ]NUFORC

OREGON FLYING TRIANGLE

PORTLAND -- On November 19, 2002, the witness reports he saw a
UFO pass from the south near the intersection of Holgate and
30th Ave. It banked and headed over the river towards downtown
at 8:30 PM. I saw two strong rounded lights, like headlights,
coming my way at an altitude a little low for passenger jet. It
was of similar shape as a fighter and had a flashing red light
similar to passenger jet's blink. I saw two circular lights on
the bottom of craft. It was quieter and slower and a different
type of shape than I'm used to seeing. I pretty much watch the
sky every night. I've seen a few UFO's in my life. one very
dramatic and I've seen a lot of planes. This one was different
enough to wonder about. Thanks to Peter Davenport [
http://www.ufocenter.com/ ]NUFORC

CALIFORNIA STRANGE LIGHT RETURNS

LOS ANGELES -- Dr. Leir writes, "For the 7th Year, the
mysterious Camarillo UFO has returned. It has been seen now from
two different areas. One in Camarillo and one in Carpenteria
west of L.A. David Anderson with International MUFON is in the
process of trying to triangulate the object and get an estimate
of it's altitude. It's behavior is the same as it has been in
previous years. It appears high in the Northwestern sky as a
very bright star in about a window from 4:30 to 5:30 PM. It
traverses the sky with a southeast heading and lasts for
approximately 15 minutes. It is seen to spawn other bright
objects which sometimes return to the original object. When it
leaves, it folds up into a straight bright line and is gone. We
have no further information to give a clue as to what this
object is since it was filmed through Celestron 6 telescope some
years ago. It is just pathetic that there is no interest or
money to solve this mystery. I have even called Moorpark College
(Local to this area) and they simply did not ever get back to
me, even after talking with one of the professors there. I have
also contacted the local amateur astronomical society and they
also have no interest. This is absolutely pathetic and
disgusting. Shame on so called organized science. Thanks to Dr.
Leir

MEXICO TOURIST SIGHTING

COZUMEL -- On the evening of Nov. 28, 2002, Thanksgiving in
fact, my girlfriend and I were at a resort on the island of
Cozumel in the Caribbean waters off Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.
She decided to walk down to the beach and when she returned at
10 p.m. she had a weird look on her face. She said "Did you see
those lights?" In the southern sky, she saw a semicircular band
of pulsating, colored lights. The lights were positioned like
they were on the edge of a circular object, arching on a curved
plane. The lights were red, green and yellow, she said, with a
prominent red light in the middle. She said they were blinking
in a complex pattern, sort of like what was portrayed in "Close
Encounters of the Third Kind." There was no noise, and the
lights just hovered in static formation -- I can only guess they
were affixed to a large object. The lights slowly descended in
her direction, while they pulsated about a mile away. After 30
to 60 seconds some clouds obscured her view -- and when they
rolled by, the lights were gone. Just like that.

ARGENTINA: UFO "FLEET" VIDEO

BUENOS AIRES -- An intense "UFO wave" rolled over Capital
Federal on November 28, 2002. Two witnesses saw a variety of
phenomena at 8:30 AM. Using a camera described as "broken and
out of date" one of them was able to photograph a fleet of three
objects descending over the northeast section of Capital
Federal. No apparent electrical anomalies were reported in the
witness's area. Minutes earlier, another object flashed for
several minutes over the vicinity of Chacarita and Belgrano at
an altitude of 1500 meters. "Arturo and I saw the entire
phenomenon," says witness. He employed a Sony 360 Nightshot
"reduced to VHS and paused" to record the images. "What can be
seen in the video sequence is some 15 frames of one UFO,
hitherto unseen, which crossed the skies from south to north on
a lengthy journey, seconds before the formation was observed. It
stopped completely for only brief seconds." To see the
video:

http://groups.msn.com/glaucoart/Documentos/VIDEOS-VIDEOS-VIDEOS-VIDEOS-/flo2=
002.mpg


Institute of Hispanic Ufology. Special thanks to Lucy Guzm=E1n, www.ovni.net
Translation (C) 2002

UKRAINE AND RUSSIA HEADING BACK TO THE MOON

MOSCOW -- A joint Russo-Ukrainian space agency will launch a
series of US-owned spacecraft for the Moon's exploration next
year, the Kosmotras agency's officials said. The Russian-made
Dnepr rockets would carry satellites that would take pictures of
the Moon's surface and then land on the Moon, officials said
late Tuesday as quoted by the ITAR-TASS news agency. Ultimately
the small spacecraft would be able to deliver various commercial
cargo to the Moon, as well as conduct experiments and explore
the Moon's surface.

The first launch within the framework of the Kosmotras's 20-
million-dollar contract with the US-based TransOrbital was
scheduled for December 20. The Dnepr rocket would carry five
satellites, owned by Argentina, Germany, Italy and Saudi Arabia,
as well as a model of the Moon-exploring spacecraft. The first
such spacecraft would blast off in October 2003, TransOrbital
officials said, adding that the spacecraft would carry two
cameras that would simultaneously photograph and film the Moon's
surface. According to TransOrbital's president Dennis Laurie,
the company hopes to "conclusively prove the often-contested
fact that US astronauts landed on the Moon," as well as outline
a comprehensive map of the Moon's surface. Thanks to Pravda

PARALLEL UNIVERSE MIRROR MATTER MYSTERY

BBC News Online, Dr David Whitehouse reports: Two Australian
scientists believe they have found evidence of a parallel
universe of strange matter within our own Solar System. Dr
Robert Foot and Dr Saibal Mitra, of the University of Melbourne,
report that close-up observations of the asteroid Eros by the
Near-Shoemaker probe indicate it has been splattered by so-
called "mirror matter." Mirror matter is not antimatter, it is
altogether weirder. It is somehow a "reflection" of normal
matter, a sort of parallel series of particles required to
restore the balance of the Universe. Sounds far-fetched -- some
believe so. However, experiments are underway to confirm or deny
the existence of this strange, potentially significant, but as
yet undetected component of the cosmos. Cosmic balance Mirror
matter is a hypothetical form of matter that restores nature's
flawed left-right symmetry. Laws of nature, such as the rules
that govern the interactions of fundamental particles, show a
high degree of symmetry except that some laws are not the same
when reflected in a hypothetical mirror. Blue dirt: Pools of
dust may be impact sites. This means that elementary particles
display a preference for left over right. In a way, the Universe
is left-handed. Why? Nobody knows. Dr Robert Foot "There could
be mirror matter stars, planets and galaxies out there." Thanks
to BBC News Online.

Editor's Note: A parallel universe would explain most UFO
sightings as they fly in and out of our universe.

NEW JERSEY MISSING TIME

Carol F. reports, "My girl friend and I were driving along the
highway out in the country on a warm summer day, when I noticed
a flying disc shaped object off to our right moving parallel to
us, " I asked if she saw the disc? She said, "Yes, but its
behind the trees now." As we drove along at 60 mph, it appeared
again about 200 yards to the right of the highway, moving at our
same speed and direction. If we sped up or slowed down it stayed
in the same relative position off to our right. Occasionally it
would be obscured by trees, but when we came to open fields the
craft was still there moving with us. The craft stayed with us
for at least fifteen minutes never changing its relative
position. It appeared to be 30 feet in diameter, metallic, and
smooth. We commented on it following us and felt very uneasy.
Strangely, we arrived at our destination about an hour late.

Although, possibly not related, later I started having terrible
pain in my joints, and was always exhausted. Due to extreme
fatigue I had to sleep nine to twelve hours a day. I wanted to
thank you for suggesting to take OPC-3. This product has changed
my life, since taking it daily I have felt energetic, lost
twenty pounds without dieting, and my joints hardly bother me.
Thanks to Carol F.

Editors Note: Many people have written to me about their
sightings, missing time, and the strange effects on their
health. My local MD recommended this product to me, and now my
whole family is now taking it. The results are so impressive
that I'm now making it available to my readers. OPC-3 is a
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effective free radical neutralizers. They are not limited to
being strong antioxidants, they are also crucial in their role
in supporting the circulatory system and strengthening the
capillaries. OPC-3 is a natural food supplement that should be
taken for a lifetime.

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UFO DEFENSE TACTICS - WEATHER SHIELD TO CHEMTRAILS

A. K. Johnstone, Ph.D., explores with evidence, the creation of
a weather shield to deter UFOs from entering earth's atmosphere,
as well as the erratic weather changes in recent years. Numerous
UFO sightings are examined from a scientific viewpoint and a
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NEW NASA SHUTTLE VIDEO OF UFOs IN SPACE

Jeff Challender has prepared a new tape of various UFOs that
were caught on recent Shuttle video footage. Jeff has over a
hour-long tape of UFOs shot in space. Jeff spends hundreds of
hours watching the shuttle broadcasts from space and is now an
expert on NASA missions and even those onboard the shuttle are
unlikely to see what Jeff does. Using Jeff's directions you will
be able to learn the difference between space junk, ice crystals
and real UFOs. See UFOs moving at high speed around the Earth.
Send $25 to: Jeff Challender 2768 Mendel Way - Sacramento,
California 95833-2011

MUFON UFO JOURNAL -- For more detailed monthly investigative
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Happy Holidays - Praise God from whom all blessings flow!

Regards, George Filer
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                  Streaks On Mars Created By Flowing Water!

From: Nick Balaskas <nikolaos@YorkU.CA>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 15:07:46 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Fwd Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:47:25 -0500
Subject: Streaks On Mars Created By Flowing Water!


Hi everyone!

Our suspicions about flowing water on Mars mentioned on UFO
UpDates over the past few years has now been confirnmed. Those
mysterious dark streaks that were seen in photos of Mars which
were not present in earlier ones were produced by recent flows
of water.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0212/10marswater/

Since there is also much frozen water on the surface of Mars at
the poles, if the Mars Polar Lander spaceprobe did not crash
three years ago this month (I still have a few NASA certificates
printed for friends and many MUFON Ontario members who's names
and messaged were placed on board that spaceprobe), we may have
also had confirmation that other transient features which look
very much like vegetation and found along the melting edges of
the ice caps are indeed just that, vegetation!

Last month there was a well attended Mars workshop in Ottawa to
design and build an all Canadian Mars lander(s) that may finally
answer the question of life on Mars. Government funding for this
all Canadian mission to Mars has been already approved and we
expect to have one or more landers on Mars by 2011. This is in
addition to other Canadian experiments that are on existing
foreign spaceprobes now on their way to Mars (Japan's 'Nozomi' -
the third nation after Russia and the U.S. to send a spaceprobe
to Mars) or others to be launched soon.

After his experiences with NASA, Richard Hoagland can rest
assured that our CSA will share all what it discovers about Mars
with the public, including finding Martians.


Nick Balaskas








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                 Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Friedman

From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 16:28:22 -0400
Fwd Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:50:11 -0500
Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Friedman


 >From: John Rimmer <jrimmer@magonia.demon.co.uk>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:08:34 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>From: Stan Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 18:45:20 -0400
 >>Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>I should add that there were, intentionally, other debunkers on
 >>the show and in the audience, which may account for why the
 >>audience believer-vote was "only" 73%, taken before the debate.
 >>I suppose we could say we clobbered them. By the way the total
 >>audience number, which I had not recalled, is more than twice
 >>the number that saw the recent all time most popular SCI-FI
 >>Documentary show about Roswell.

 >More Research by Referendum. Surely all these "votes" show more
 >about the nature of the audience at these events than the
 >strength of the arguments advanced?


Sorry John, I don't do research by referendum.

It is very important for the general public and the media to
understand that a majority are ready to accept the notion that
some UFOs are ET visitors. 100,000 is a pretty good sample size.

In my experience, the major reason people don't report
sightings, that professors don't teach classes about UFOs, or
sponsor Theses about UFOs, and that the press doesn't treat the
subject fairly and honestly, is the false perception stimulated
by the ha ha treatment, that most people don't accept UFO
reality.

In fact, they do.

Most people behave on the basis of how they think people will
react to them and are fearful of ridicule.

The reality of flying saucers is determined by the overwhelming
evidence.

The ITV show demonstrated that a discussion between three
serious UFO investigators, data gatherers, or whatever and three
learned professors can produce sufficient evidence to convince
people who can express their vote anonymously and safely without
fear of ridicule. That is very important.

Stan Friedman
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                Re: Latest Vice-President Lyndon Johnson UFO

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 20:38:59 +0000
Fwd Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:52:10 -0500
Subject: Re: Latest Vice-President Lyndon Johnson UFO


 >From: Grant Cameron <presidentialufo@presidency.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 21:54:23 -0500
 >Subject: Latest Vice-President Lyndon Johnson UFO Letter

 >The very short, Vice President Johnson letter was written to
 >Leon Davidson, a prominent NICAP UFO investigator in the late
 >1950s. It can be seen at:


Grant,

Leon Davidson was not a NICAP investigator, prominent or
otherwise. I headed the NICAP investigation network.

  - Dick







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                   Re: Security Classifications - Friedman

From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:16:32 -0400
Fwd Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:55:41 -0500
Subject: Re:  Security Classifications - Friedman


 >From: Jan Aldrich <project1947@earthlink.net>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 21:47:50 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Security Classifications

 >>From: Robert Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 01:43:31 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Security Classifications

 >>>From: Murray Bott <murrayb@win.co.nz>
 >>>To: Updates List <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 18:20:15 +1300 (NZDT)
 >>>Subject: Security Classifications [was: Frank Kaufman?]

 >>>Greetings List

 >>>On 28th Novemember Stan Friedman wrote

 >>>>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >>>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>>Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 22:37:20 -0400
 >>>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufman?

 >Greetings

 >As I have said before it seems that whenever we start discussing
 >this topic, it is like a video game with everything reset to
 >zero.


I have made a gigantic snip because there are just a few points
I wish to make:

1. I very much appreciate all the effort Robert Gates made  to provide
specific examples of aberrantly marked documents.

2. I wish to express appreciation for these 2 remarks by Jan Aldrich
    "I don't  pretend to be an expert on presidential papers" and
    "The White House has its own clearance and access procedures"

This was my point, now confirmed by Jan, in noting earlier that
Jan's fine credentials did not seem to include procedures etc
for the White House, NSC, etc. The CT, TF, and EBE documents
would seem to fall under the White House.

3. With regard to the need for TS Control numbers I referred
specifically to pages B-4 and B-5 in my "Final Report on
Operation Majestic 12" since these 2 TOP SECRET Documents from
Robert Cutler, which were found in the papers of General Nathan
Twining at the LCMD, did _not_ have TS Control numbers.

The two pages were ignored by Jan in his response. Instead he
refers to pages E-11,E-12,E-13. These pages  do make an
important point since each has a different date format,
  contrary to the notion of Joe Nickell who objected to the EBE
because its date format did not follow the government style
manual.

I will repeat once again that I cannot provide copies of the TOP
SECRET RESTRICTED Documents noted by the GAO because they were
still classified. I tried.

But, Jan, since you have my report, please see pages B-4, and B-
5 to add to your collection of  genuine TS documents without TS
control numbers.


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                               Fred Steckling?

From: Ann Druffel <Anndruffel@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 16:48:24 EST
Fwd Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 18:25:35 -0500
Subject: Fred Steckling?


A premier English UFO research journal has asked me to try to
contact Fred Steckling, re. whether he holds the copyright
and/or availability to George Adamski archives. They wish to
consult with him re. a particular piece in the archives they
have great interest in.

If anyone knows where I can contact Fred Steckling, I would
appreciate very much if you could contact me.

Thank you.


Ann Druffel
257 Sycamore Glen
Pasadena, CA 91105
(323) 256-8655
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                       Re: Another Approach - Kimball

From: Paul Kimball <Kimballwood@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:52:38 EST
Fwd Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 18:37:08 -0500
Subject: Re: Another Approach - Kimball


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:56:33 EST
 >Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:33:29 -0500
 >>Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>If someone wants to endow a "UFO Investigation Fund" at a high
 >>enough level so that 20K or more level of investigation could be
 >>supported each year by the interest on the endowment plus an
 >>initial shot of, say, $100 K to assemble a van plus shipable
 >>instrument package (and perhaps to train nvestigators) then we
 >>might be able to convert UFO investigation into a real science!.
 >>The experience of NIDS with their instrumented farm would
 >>probably be valuable to study (what can happen at the site of
 >>repeated anomalous events/sightings).

 >>Incidently, you mention Laurence R. It is well known that he has
 >>an interest in the subject. Perhaps if a number of scientists
 >>approached him directly with a specific plan he would be willing
 >>to support this, especially if some others with philanthropist
 >>tendencies were also willing to contribute.

 >"Statistically speaking, an unimpeachable photograph must sooner
 >or later appear if UFOs are a physical reality. Every year that
 >passes without such a photograph being produced is evidence
 >against the position that unknown objects are operating in the
 >Earth's atmosphere" Stuart Nixon, Director, NICAP, November
 >1972.


Statistically speaking, even if an 'unimpeachable' photograph
were to appear, 9 out of 10 skeptics would be able to find a way
to rationalize it, at least to themselves (the tenth presumably
drinking himself into a stupor as his world crashed down around
his ears). Then, no doubt, they would start demanding ufologists
produce an unimpeachable alien.






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                         Re: Another Approach - Hall

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 23:00:54 +0000
Fwd Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 18:42:40 -0500
Subject: Re: Another Approach - Hall


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:56:33 EST
 >Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:33:29 -0500
 >>Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>>From: Roy Norris <rnorris@charter.net>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 14:02:31 -0600
 >>>Subject: Another Approach

 >>If someone wants to endow a "UFO Investigation Fund" at a high
 >>enough level so that 20K or more level of investigation could be
 >>supported each year by the interest on the endowment plus an
 >>initial shot of, say, $100 K to assemble a van plus shipable
 >>instrument package (and perhaps to train nvestigators) then we
 >>might be able to convert UFO investigation into a real science!.
 >>The experience of NIDS with their instrumented farm would
 >>probably be valuable to study (what can happen at the site of
 >>repeated anomalous events/sightings).

 >>Incidently, [incidentally] you mention Laurence R. It is well
 >>known that he has an interest in the subject. Perhaps if a
 >>number of scientists approached him directly with a specific
 >>plan he would be willing to support this, especially if some
 >>others with philanthropist tendencies were also willing to
 >>contribute.

 >"Statistically speaking, an unimpeachable photograph must sooner
 >or later appear if UFOs are a physical reality. Every year that
 >passes without such a photograph being produced is evidence
 >against the position that unknown objects are operating in the
 >Earth's atmosphere" Stuart Nixon, Director, NICAP, November
 >1972.

 >Good luck,

 >Bob Young

 >"Statistically speaking, an unimpeachable photograph must sooner
 >or later appear if UFOs are a physical reality. Every year that
 >passes without such a photograph being produced is evidence
 >against the position that unknown objects are operating in the
 >Earth's atmosphere"

 > -- Stuart Nixon, Director, NICAP, November 1972.

Bob,

I suppose that saying it twice is supposed to make it true.
Howsomever, I was involved in the hiring of Stuart Nixon as a
NICAP editorial assistant, which I now acknowledge was one of my
most mistaken judgments.

In the first place, his quoted statement is pseudoscientific BS
("statistically speaking?"), but more importantly he
persistently and aggravatingly ignored his instructions from
Donald Keyhoe (Director) and Richard Hall (Assistant Director)
as to what his work assignment was, wasted lots of time and
money on things that he was not assigned to do, and then
participated in destroying the very effective network that we
had set up.

There is a lot more I could say (maybe in my - very unlikely -
  memoirs), but that might give aid and comfort to the
"Government conspiracy" theorists, so I will not say more for
now. He may simply have been pigheaded and stubborn, but his
subsequently revealed connections with Jack Acuff and other CIA





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                        Re: Another Approach - Ledger

From: Don Ledger <dledger@ns.sympatico.ca>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 19:09:34 -0400
Fwd Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 18:45:23 -0500
Subject: Re: Another Approach - Ledger


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:56:33 EST
 >Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:33:29 -0500
 >>Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>>From: Roy Norris <rnorris@charter.net>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 14:02:31 -0600
 >>>Subject: Another Approach

 ><snip>

 >>If someone wants to endow a "UFO Investigation Fund" at a high
 >>enough level so that 20K or more level of investigation could be
 >>supported each year by the interest on the endowment plus an
 >>initial shot of, say, $100 K to assemble a van plus shipable
 >>instrument package (and perhaps to train nvestigators) then we
 >>might be able to convert UFO investigation into a real science!.
 >>The experience of NIDS with their instrumented farm would
 >>probably be valuable to study (what can happen at the site of
 >>repeated anomalous events/sightings).

 >>Incidently, you mention Laurence R. It is well known that he has
 >>an interest in the subject. Perhaps if a number of scientists
 >>approached him directly with a specific plan he would be willing
 >>to support this, especially if some others with philanthropist
 >>tendencies were also willing to contribute.

 >"Statistically speaking, an unimpeachable photograph must sooner
 >or later appear if UFOs are a physical reality. Every year that
 >passes without such a photograph being produced is evidence
 >against the position that unknown objects are operating in the
 >Earth's atmosphere" Stuart Nixon, Director, NICAP, November
 >1972.

 >Good luck,

 >Bob Young

 >"Statistically speaking, an unimpeachable photograph must sooner
 >or later appear if UFOs are a physical reality. Every year that
 >passes without such a photograph being produced is evidence
 >against the position that unknown objects are operating in the
 >Earth's atmosphere"

 > -- Stuart Nixon, Director, NICAP, November 1972.

How about the 2 mile plus diameter objects passing behind the
teather on the STS 75 mission? What are those?

If you go to this NASA site with photos from STS-75:

http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/iams/html/pao/STS-75.htm

The photos taken show not one picture of the teather when 77 to





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                       Re: Another Approach - Speiser

From: Jim Speiser <jimspeiser@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:18:20 -0700
Fwd Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:41:32 -0500
Subject: Re: Another Approach - Speiser


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:56:33 EST
 >Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:33:29 -0500
 >>Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>>From: Roy Norris <rnorris@charter.net>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 14:02:31 -0600
 >>>Subject: Another Approach

 ><snip>

 >"Statistically speaking, an unimpeachable photograph must sooner
 >or later appear if UFOs are a physical reality. Every year that
 >passes without such a photograph being produced is evidence
 >against the position that unknown objects are operating in the
 >Earth's atmosphere" Stuart Nixon, Director, NICAP, November
 >1972.

Bob:

See Kanazawa. If there is an impeachment thereof, please advise.

Jim Speiser

All history is little else than a long succession of useless cruelties.
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                      Re: Abductions & Ufology - White

From: Eleanor White <eleanor@raven1.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 20:37:05 -0500
Fwd Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:46:43 -0500
Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology - White


 >From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:17:37 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >>From: Dave Morton <Marspyrs@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 07:12:12 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

<snip>

 >A "fake" abductee, IMO, would indicate that someone is making up
 >their story, for some reasion, but how do we tell the difference
 >between someone who simply believes they've been abducted when
 >in fact they have not? Should we accept on faith the word of
 >abduction researchers that they can tell the difference. John
 >Mack was taken in by a reporter, who spent a number of months as
 >part of an abduction group, which she later wrote about in a
 >Time Magazine article. She obviously knew that she was faking
 >it, but what about non-abdutees who aren't? Other than their own
 >beliefs and faith in humanity, how do researchers measure the
 >difference.

<snip>

I'm involved with psycho-electronic mind control victims, and
have been for 22 years. MC victims have about the same level of
physical trace evidence, and about the same level of disbelief
on the part of the public as UFO abductees. In fact, some of the
reported effects are at the UFO case technology level.

We "old hands" find that both "fake" or "wannabe" victims, and
intentional disinformation agents who masquerade as victims, are
not hard to ID after some _time_ has elapsed. Time does the job
for us.

Six months of frequent email contact, say, or a year of less
frequent contact, is sufficient in the MC arena. Just as when a
doctor lets a patient relate all the symptoms without giving the
patient any clues, the idea is to let the "wannabe" or disinfo
agent have his/her say for a while, listening patiently.

Genuine MC victims know quite well the "real syndrome groupings"
of events and after some time, simply assign a believability
score silently, and go on to working with others who show the
valid syndrome groupings, and not having much if any
communications with the fakes.

What this means is, for experienced MC investigators and
activists, determining who is and who isn't genuine has not
proven to be a major problem. I would suspect that in any UFO
abductee study, letting some time elapse would work equally
well. If a study subject is no longer available for contact, a
committee of experiencers might decide on marginal case files.


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                        Re: Another Approach - Young

From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 21:30:02 EST
Fwd Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:58:58 -0500
Subject: Re: Another Approach - Young


 >From: Paul Kimball <Kimballwood@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:52:38 EST
 >Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:56:33 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >Statistically speaking, even if an 'unimpeachable' photograph
 >were to appear, 9 out of 10 skeptics would be able to find a way
 >to rationalize it, at least to themselves (the tenth presumably
 >drinking himself into a stupor as his world crashed down around
 >his ears). Then, no doubt, they would start demanding ufologists
 >produce an unimpeachable alien.

Undoubtedly.  But two of the greatest mysteries of UFOlogy
remain:

1)  Why is there no unimpeachable evidence of the saucers'
existance?

2)  Why have UFOlogists spun their wheels for more than 50 years
with only a couple half-hearted attempts to _obtain data_? Are
they afraid of something, or don't they like the idea of years
and years of unrelenting boredom searching for the real saucers?

Or do they already suspect the truth?


Clear skies,

Bob Young

"Watch the skies. Everywhere. Keep looking. Keep watching the
skies!"  --Ned Scott, a character in the original movie version
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                        Re: Another Approach - Young

From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 21:42:38 EST
Fwd Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:00:22 -0500
Subject: Re: Another Approach - Young


 >From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 23:00:54 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:56:33 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>"Statistically speaking, an unimpeachable photograph must sooner
 >>or later appear if UFOs are a physical reality. Every year that
 >>passes without such a photograph being produced is evidence
 >>against the position that unknown objects are operating in the
 >>Earth's atmosphere" Stuart Nixon, Director, NICAP, November
 >>1972.

 >I suppose that saying it twice is supposed to make it true.

Dick:

Sorry, my finger just kept twitching when I stumbled over this.
I'm sure you understand.

 >There is a lot more I could say (maybe in my - very unlikely -
 >memoirs), but that might give aid and comfort to the
 >"Government conspiracy" theorists, so I will not say more for
 >now. He may simply have been pigheaded and stubborn, but his
 >subsequently revealed connections with Jack Acuff and other CIA
 >persons, partisans, apologists raises very significant questions
 >about the entire issue of 'disinformation'.

My God, Dick, spooks? I shall await your memoirs.

But, I wonder, in these last 30 years there must have been
billions and billions of pictures of the sky. Where are the
unimpeachable ones of saucers?

Clear skies,
Bob Young

"Watch the skies. Everywhere. Keep looking. Keep watching the
skies!" --Ned Scott, a character in the original movie version
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                        Re: Another Approach - Young

From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 21:55:29 EST
Fwd Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:01:37 -0500
Subject: Re: Another Approach - Young


 >From: Don Ledger <dledger@ns.sympatico.ca>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 19:09:34 -0400
 >Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:56:33 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >How about the 2 mile plus diameter objects passing behind the
 >teather on the STS 75 mission? What are those?

 >If you go to this NASA site with photos from STS-75:

 >http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/iams/html/pao/STS-75.htm

 >The photos taken show not one picture of the teather when 77 to
 >100 nautical miles from the Shuttle. Talk about sticking your
 >head in the sand. Business as usual.

Hi, Don:

Could you be more specific, please? What do you think is strange
about any particular picture?


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              Leon Davidson [was: Latest... Lyndon Johnson UFO

From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 23:22:42 -0400
Fwd Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:05:49 -0500
Subject: Leon Davidson [was: Latest... Lyndon Johnson UFO


 >From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 20:38:59 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Latest Vice-President Lyndon Johnson UFO Letter

 >>From: Grant Cameron <presidentialufo@presidency.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 21:54:23 -0500
 >>Subject: Latest Vice-President Lyndon Johnson UFO Letter

 >>The very short, Vice President Johnson letter was written to
 >>Leon Davidson, a prominent NICAP UFO investigator in the late
 >>1950s. It can be seen at:

 >Leon Davidson was not a NICAP investigator, prominent or
 >otherwise. I headed the NICAP investigation network.

 >- Dick

Dr. Leon Davidson is owed a debt by all of us because of his
efforts to gain access to Project Blue Book Special Report No.
14, well before there was an FOIA.

He distributed many hundreds of copies including some of the
tables and charts and graphs. It was very important for me to
discover a copy of his version in the UC Berkeley Library Back
about 1960.

I still have available the 256 page complete version with all
the tables charts etc. $25. including Priority Mail from:

UFORI
POB 958
Houlton
ME
04730-0958

Has data on 3201 Sightings.

He had worked at Los Alamos Scientific Lab.and had some strange
ideas as well.


Stan Friedman







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                       Re: Another Approach - Friedman

From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 23:36:22 -0400
Fwd Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:08:37 -0500
Subject: Re: Another Approach - Friedman


 >From: Paul Kimball <Kimballwood@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:52:38 EST
 >Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:56:33 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>>From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:33:29 -0500
 >>>Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>>If someone wants to endow a "UFO Investigation Fund" at a high
 >>>enough level so that 20K or more level of investigation could be
 >>>supported each year by the interest on the endowment plus an
 >>>initial shot of, say, $100 K to assemble a van plus shipable
 >>>instrument package (and perhaps to train nvestigators) then we
 >>>might be able to convert UFO investigation into a real science!.
 >>>The experience of NIDS with their instrumented farm would
 >>>probably be valuable to study (what can happen at the site of
 >>>repeated anomalous events/sightings).

 >>>Incidently, you mention Laurence R. It is well known that he has
 >>>an interest in the subject. Perhaps if a number of scientists
 >>>approached him directly with a specific plan he would be willing
 >>>to support this, especially if some others with philanthropist
 >>>tendencies were also willing to contribute.

 >>"Statistically speaking, an unimpeachable photograph must sooner
 >>or later appear if UFOs are a physical reality. Every year that
 >>passes without such a photograph being produced is evidence
 >>against the position that unknown objects are operating in the
 >>Earth's atmosphere" Stuart Nixon, Director, NICAP, November
 >>1972.

 >Statistically speaking, even if an 'unimpeachable' photograph
 >were to appear, 9 out of 10 skeptics would be able to find a way
 >to rationalize it, at least to themselves (the tenth presumably
 >drinking himself into a stupor as his world crashed down around
 >his ears). Then, no doubt, they would start demanding ufologists
 >produce an unimpeachable alien.


It happened last night on a TLC Special which was a mixed good
and bad program. Two PhD's acted as live in sceptics... no
investigations or study of non tabloid evidence required.....

One said he probably wouldn't believe the planet was being
visited until he could shake hands with an alien.


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               Re: Streaks On Mars Created By Flowing Water! -

From: Lan Fleming <lfleming5@houston.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 22:49:15 -0600
Fwd Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:12:00 -0500
Subject: Re: Streaks On Mars Created By Flowing Water! -


 >From: Nick Balaskas <nikolaos@YorkU.CA>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 15:07:46 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
 >Subject: Streaks On Mars Created By Flowing Water!

 >Our suspicions about flowing water on Mars mentioned on UFO
 >UpDates over the past few years has now been confirnmed. Those
 >mysterious dark streaks that were seen in photos of Mars which
 >were not present in earlier ones were produced by recent flows
 >of water.

 >http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0212/10marswater/

I'm glad to see that scientists finally have progressed to the
point where they can utter the words "liquid" and "water" in the
same sentence in relation to these dark streaks on Mars. It
seems they had to work their way up to it gradually so as not to
upset colleagues with an emotional commitment to the belief that
Mars has been a completely dry and arid place for the past three
billion years or so.

An earlier paper written by people at MIT kind of beat around
the bush, talking about possible "phase transitions" of water
without quite saying in their abstract that the transition they
were suggesting was a transition of water ice to liquid water:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?2002AGUSM.P31A..11A

As far as I know, the first people to propose that these
features may have something to do with liquid water were Efrain
Palermo and Jill England in the paper they presented at a Mars
Society conference last year:

http://home.attbi.com/~palermo63/Mars_Anomalies/SeepsPaper.pdf

They are amateur researchers, but I think they did very high-
quality work. Their co-author was geologist Harry Moore, a
member of the Society for Planetary SETI Research. (disclosure:
I edited the paper for them and made some modest contributions
to it. Well, OK, that's not _really_ a disclosure; I'm just
bragging shamelessly about my peripheral involvement).

Since they wrote their paper, I've read quite a few papers
published previously (going back to the Viking missions) about
these streaks by professional planetary scientists. Not a single
one of them even mentioned the possibility that their formation
might have had something to do with flowing water, perhaps
because the streaks clearly are not three billion years old.
They appear in some images taken by the MGS spacecraft but were
absent in previous photographs of the same area taken a few
months earlier, so some of them are no more than a few months
old. The only explanation that was seriously considered by any
of the pro's (and that seems compatible with the dry-Mars
belief) was dust slides. With some minor variations, the
hypothesis is that a light colored overburden of air-born dust
builds up until it collapses under its own weight, sliding down-
slope and exposing darker underlying rock as dark "streaks"
against the surrounding undisturbed dust blanket.

The England/Palermo/Moore paper gives several compelling
reasons, in my opinion, as to why this dust explanation is
unlikely to be correct, despite the many professional papers
endorsing it. (One major problem with the dust hypothesis is
that not all the streaks are darker than the surrounding
undisturbed surface; some are lighter). These two more recent
professional papers give additional and significant support for
the involvement of liquid water.

I would like to think that England and Palermo got the ball
rolling (or the dust sliding, in this case). Sometimes it takes
amateurs to help shake loose the dusty overburdens that tend to
accumulate in academia as surely as they do on Mars.


From: Lan Fleming <lfleming5@houston.rr.com>
To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 22:49:15 -0600
Subject: Re: Streaks On Mars Created By Flowing Water!


 >From: Nick Balaskas <nikolaos@YorkU.CA>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 15:07:46 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
 >Subject: Streaks On Mars Created By Flowing Water!

 >Our suspicions about flowing water on Mars mentioned on UFO
 >UpDates over the past few years has now been confirnmed. Those
 >mysterious dark streaks that were seen in photos of Mars which
 >were not present in earlier ones were produced by recent flows
 >of water.

 >http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0212/10marswater/

I'm glad to see that scientists finally have progressed to the
point where they can utter the words "liquid" and "water" in the
same sentence in relation to these dark streaks on Mars. It
seems they had to work their way up to it gradually so as not to
upset colleagues with an emotional commitment to the belief that
Mars has been a completely dry and arid place for the past three
billion years or so.

An earlier paper written by people at MIT kind of beat around
the bush, talking about possible "phase transitions" of water
without quite saying in their abstract that the transition they
were suggesting was a transition of water ice to liquid water:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?2002AGUSM.P31A..11A

As far as I know, the first people to propose that these
features may have something to do with liquid water were Efrain
Palermo and Jill England in the paper they presented at a Mars
Society conference last year:

http://home.attbi.com/~palermo63/Mars_Anomalies/SeepsPaper.pdf

They are amateur researchers, but I think they did very high-
quality work. Their co-author was geologist Harry Moore, a
member of the Society for Planetary SETI Research. (disclosure:
I edited the paper for them and made some modest contributions
to it. Well, OK, that's not _really_ a disclosure; I'm just
bragging shamelessly about my peripheral involvement).

Since they wrote their paper, I've read quite a few papers
published previously (going back to the Viking missions) about
these streaks by professional planetary scientists. Not a single
one of them even mentioned the possibility that their formation
might have had something to do with flowing water, perhaps
because the streaks clearly are not three billion years old.
They appear in some images taken by the MGS spacecraft but were
absent in previous photographs of the same area taken a few
months earlier, so some of them are no more than a few months
old. The only explanation that was seriously considered by any
of the pro's (and that seems compatible with the dry-Mars
belief) was dust slides. With some minor variations, the
hypothesis is that a light colored overburden of air-born dust
builds up until it collapses under its own weight, sliding down-
slope and exposing darker underlying rock as dark "streaks"
against the surrounding undisturbed dust blanket.

The England/Palermo/Moore paper gives several compelling
reasons, in my opinion, as to why this dust explanation is
unlikely to be correct, despite the many professional papers
endorsing it. (One major problem with the dust hypothesis is
that not all the streaks are darker than the surrounding
undisturbed surface; some are lighter). These two more recent
professional papers give additional and significant support for
the involvement of liquid water.

I would like to think that England and Palermo got the ball
rolling (or the dust sliding, in this case). Sometimes it takes
amateurs to help shake loose the dusty overburdens that tend to
accumulate in academia as surely as they do on Mars.







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                    Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais

From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:14:23 +0100
Fwd Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:22:47 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais


 >From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:02:05 -0800
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
 >>Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 17:19:26 +0100
 >>Fwd Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 12:54:21 -0500
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais

 >>A question which troubles me is the possibility that some
 >>witnesses may have been sincere at first but may have become
 >>unreliable later. For what reason? First, the desire to boost
 >>their story. This might be the case for Jim Ragsdale. But there
 >>may be other reasons!

 >Gildas,

<snip>

 >>I noted with interest that Kevin, in his IUR article on Kaufmann,
 >>recalled that "He always picked up the check, claiming that someone
 >>else paid for it. The implication was that the government was
 >>watching and Frank was just doing his job".
 >>Well, what kind of job was he doing?

 >Kaufmann claimed that he was a government counterintelligence
 >and disinformation agent left behind to keep an eye on things.
 >Whether this was true or not, I don't know, but there is some
 >circumstantial evidence that might support it:

David, Kevin, Stan and all

Thank you for your very interesting informations and questions
about Frank Kaufmann. They seem to confirm my impresion that he
was not a simple author of "tall tales".

 >1. He was shown in the 1947 base yearbook receiving a medal from
 >deputy base commander Lt. Col. Payne Jennings. This medal was
 >found in his personal effects after his death. Yet he was
 >supposed to be nothing but a civilian clerk at the base. What
 >was his medal for? Exceptional typing or filing?

Yes, I have seen the picture in the book of Karl Pflock. It is a
little odd for a man who was a modest office clerk. What was
that medal for?

Kevin, do you have the answer?

 >2. Kaufmann, a native New Yorker, was planning to return to New
 >York and was all packed to go. Then Roswell happened. He told
 >his wife words to the effect, "Unpack everything, we're
 >staying." This "tale" was corroborated by his wife, who was
 >described to me as a sweet old lady completely without guile.

Yes, it's another curious development!

 >3. The following year, Kaufmann was now on the board of the
 >Roswell Chamber of Commerce. This would be an excellent position
 >to keep Kaufmann plugged into the town rumor mill, if that was
 >the intent. First, I find it odd that an obvious outsider like
 >Kaufmann would be in such a position in a small cowtown. Small
 >towns tend to be very insular and suspicious of outsiders. It
 >typically takes a long time to win people's trust and be
 >accepted. More telling, however, is what turned up at the
 >Roswell hall of records. All board members of the Chamber of
 >Commerce were paid out of town funds - except for Kaufmann, who
 >was paid from some unknown outside source. This would be in line
 >with Kaufmann always picking up the check claiming that somebody
 >else was paying for it.

Does anyone know who paid him for that job?

<snip>

 >Another example of deception mixed with truth by Kaufmann were
 >his shifting crash sites. The point of this would be to keep
 >people looking in the wrong place, and also to later discredit
 >their research and Roswell in general as the inconsistencies in
 >the testimony mounted.

This raises another interesting question, the one of alleged
bodies found a few miles from the debris field. There are very
few sources about that.

First, Kevin Randle wrote in his first book: "research suggests
that the second crash was not near Magdalena, but much closer to
the first site, no more than two or three miles from it. And the
bodies were not found on July 3, but on July 8" (p 89).

They would have been found in an aerial search that day, with
Brazel in the plane.

In his second book, Karl Pflock says he verified that Kaufmann
was the one who said that (p 68).

This could explain the enigmatic remark of Brazel to Frank Joyce
on July 8, about the little men who were not green, if he had
seen them.

Now, there is the recent new testimony of Frank Joyce revealing
what Brazel had told him, on the phone on Sunday 6, that he had
seen the bodies in the field, not far from the debris field.

If this is true, it raises still another question: Brazel must
have shown the bodies on Monday to Major Marcel and Cavitt!

And then, Marcel told only part of the story.

In fact, he hinted to that in his long conversation with Linda
Corley in 1981. I quote from her speech at the Mufon symposium
of 2000 (in the Proceedings):

Question of L Corley (p 126): "Had Jesse revealed everything he
knew about the Roswell incident?"

Answer: "No, I can't, for the sake of my country.

"Listen, I was a trained intelligence officer. Once you do that,
it's with you for life.

"There's a hell of a lot I haven't said".

And before saying that, Marcel also stated (p 123):

"Had there been bodies of aliens in the debris, I would have
picked them up and brought them in".

So, is it possible that the first story of Kaufmann was right?
Would the "impact site" closer to Roswel be an invention?

Or could there be some truth in it too?

Then bodies would have been found in two places?

And what about the second Ragsdale story??

My impression is that, for the time being, the best thing to do
is to keep all theses stories in a (large) "grey basket", and
look for new information.

<snip>

 >So Doty too seems to have a "day job", but he was considerably
 >more than just chief of various balloon project. Furthermore, he
 >seems to have deliberately concealed his primary military
 >affiliation (AFOSI) plus other secretive responsibilities.

Yes, the role of Col. Edward Doty is an interesting one.
In addition to being the father of Richard Doty!
Well informed people say the son was not as bright as the father.

<snip>

 >Dennis is a classic example of a Roswell witness who I think is
 >basically telling the truth but for various reasons chose not to
 >tell the whole truth. He may very well be still protecting the
 >true identity of a real person. (I have additional information
 >on this which I am not at liberty to disclose. Despite
 >statements to the contrary, the existence of a real Nurse X has
 >not been conclusively ruled out. E.g., there were other nurses
 >at the base, some civilian, who are not pictured in the base
 >yearbook.)

Yes, again, it looks like we may only have part of that
story.....


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                        Grifton, NC UFO News Article

From: Kenny Young <ufo@fuse.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 03:23:15 -0800
Fwd Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:25:22 -0500
Subject: Grifton, NC UFO News Article


Source: The Daily Reflector - Greenville, North Carolina

http://www.reflector.com/news/newsfd/auto/feed/news/2002/12/11/1039585789.03162.
6737.6599.html

Unidentified object spotted over Grifton

By Jana Clancey
December 11, 2002
The Daily Reflector


Creatures from outer space may have been checking on the affairs
of Pitt County residents Friday night.

Several people from Farmville to the southern tip of Pitt County
reported an odd light racing across the night sky.

J.K. Butler, a former Grifton volunteer firefighter, was sitting
in the old Red and White parking lot about 11 p.m. Friday. He
was there with three fire department friends when the sky around
them lighted up, coloring everything from the ground to the
trees to themselves a strange shade of green and blue.

The light passed over them, he said. And when they looked up, it
was so blinding they couldn't identify the object.

"We all just looked at each other like, 'What in the world was
that?'" Butler said. "I've seen meteors and space junk and
satellites. I ain't never seen anything that color.

"It had some good size to it, too, and it was up in the air
pretty good," he said.

His first thought: the light had come from a UFO. His second:
another country was firing missiles in the direction of Pitt
County.

"Maybe it was government-related. If it was, we'll never know,"
he said.

Over the fire-rescue scanners mounted in the volunteers' trucks,
calls came in from Ayden and the Pitt County Sheriff's Office.
Butler heard patrol cars being dispatched to check for something
that had fallen from the sky in the area of Jolly and Abbott
Farm roads.

Sgt. Marty Burroughs sent three of his deputies to survey for
damage, or possibly, a spacecraft between the Ayden Police
Department and the two rural roads. They didn't find a thing,
not even a small piece of space tin.

"The main thing we checked were houses to make sure nobody had
been hit by anything," he said.

Deputies found the houses to be safe and left the area.

Burroughs had a dispatcher contact Lenoir and Greene county
sheriff's departments to see if a craft had crashed beyond the
county line. But nothing was reported.

A deputy in Ayden and several Greenville officers reported
seeing the peculiar light near Pitt Community College at Fire
Tower Road and N.C. 11

"They just said it was moving and it appeared to be descending,"
he said.

Asked if he thought the light was a UFO, Burroughs said, "It
could have been. I don't know. I can't explain it.

Sheriff Mac Manning jokingly chalked the sighting up to the work
of a shiny red sled and nine flying reindeer.

"I thought it was maybe Santa Claus making an early run, but we
ruled that out pretty quick," Manning said.

Apparently, he said, the light was bright enough and big enough
to attract quite a bit of attention.

Manning said the sighting of whatever-it-was isn't a big deal.
Deputies patrolling remote areas of the county report seeing
things in the sky all of the time, he said.

Whatever it was, it scared J.K. Butler - and his buddies. For
two hours they watched the night sky, looking for something,
anything that could help complete the puzzle to what they had
seen; whether that be little green men or a plane with similar
lights.

He was asked if he'd recently been watching the Sci-Fi Channel's
series on UFOs called 'Taken'. He said he'd never heard of it,
and after being informed of the show's angle on alien
abductions, he said there's no way he's watching it now.







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                     Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle

From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:31:15 EST
Fwd Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:32:20 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle


 >From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers. com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net>
 >Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 22:56:03 -0400
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol. com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net
 >>Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:36:11 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers. com>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net>
 >>>Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 18:40:18 -0400
 >>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol. com>
 >>>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net
 >>>>Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 20:16:13 EST
 >>>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>>>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers. com>
 >>>>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net>
 >>>>>Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 18:20:30 -0400
 >>>>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>>>>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol. com>
 >>>>>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net
 >>>>>>Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 20:23:13 EST
 >>>>>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

Good Morning, Stan, List, All -

 >>I'm going to snip some of this to keep it from becoming very
 >>long. I hope clarity will follow...

And I shall do it again because, well, frankly, I can...

<snip>

 >>My question is did he admit to lying to you, at that time, or
 >>did he amend his story which is not quite the same thing. Did he
 >>say, in his Frank Kaufmann voice, "Well, I lied about that.
 >>Marcel and Blanchard didn't accompany me out to the site?" Or,
 >>did he just change the story, which is not an admission of
 >>lying.

 >>And, if he admitted lying, why did none of the others ever mention
 >>this?

 >>Or, are we simply left with your interpretation of the situation...

 >We are left with my notes and the agreement of those who were
 >there that they were accurate. I don't see how you can
 >possibly deny that what he said in 1999 means he was lying in
 >1995.

I didn't say that. I have asked, repeatedly, if he admitted
lying to you at any point, or if it was your interpretation of
the situation. He did not say, "Stan, my man, I lied in 1995
because neither Jess nor Butch went out there with me."

 From your convoluted responses, I am able to deduce that you
asked specific questions, similar to those asked earlier and
that you received answers that did not match. From this you
deduced that he was lying, which seems reasonable, but he did
not admit he had lied. That is your interpretation and is not an
accurate representation of the situation as you have described
it here and in your MUFON paper.

 ><snip>


 >>>Why would what you majored in have come up in a meeting whose
 >>>purpose was for me to interview Frank? your article in Story's
 >>>encyclopedia says your degree was in Anthropology.

 >>Because, as you were ranting about what I had written in "The
 >>History of UFO Crashes," (which you are still ranting about so
 >>long after publication of it) you said something about me being
 >>an English major in college (checked that out real good didn't
 >>you?) and I said that my undergraduate studies had been in
 >>Anthropology, and you started to say, "No wonder you and Tom
 >>Carey... "

 >>The implication there was that we both had studied Anthropology,
 >>though Tom, if I remember was a physical anthropologist and I
 >>was more oriented toward archaeology.

 >>Are you now making the false claim this didn't happen?

There has been no answer to this question.

 >>>>And didn't I write an article published in the MUFON Journal in
 >>>>which I challenged these 38 false claims which included such
 >>>>gems as "That S. T. Friedman know all about an RS alien tissue
 >>>>sample. " I still don't know what this means. Or the laughable
 >>>>"Testimony from anonymous caller is fully trustworthy. " I don't
 >>>>know where I might have ever suggested it. And what is the
 >>>>relevance of this now? Didn't we go over it at the time when you
 >>>>made these false claims?

 >>>Matter of fact you and Don had noted testimony from an anonymous
 >>>caller and considered it reliable.

 >>Well, that's not quite the same thing is it? Besides, I knew
 >>(know) who that specific anonymous caller was (is) and have
 >>actually interviewed him in his office... Tom Carey, I believe,
 >>knows who it is.

 >>This in comparison to the anonymous cowboy who told Robert Drake
 >>about the crash on the Plains you have reported a number of
 >>times. The difference here is that I, in fact, know the
 >>anonymous source while you are using testimony from an second-
 >>hand source who is quoting an anonymous source. Interesting...

 >What is interesting is that you continue to make this false
 >claim knowing full well that Drake had referred me to Dr. Roscoe
 >Wilmuth who had told him of seeing documents about the Plains of
 >San Augustin crash while working at Los Alamos. You know full
 >well I located Roscoe, talked to his wife, who said he was on a
 >dig in BC... call back in a month. I did. He had a fatal heart
 >attack 3 days earlier.

And while this is true, it is, in fact, irrelevant and non
responsive. Drake originally said that he heard the story of the
crashed saucer while working in the area of the Plains with
Wesley Hurt and Dan McKnight. In October 1947 he said that he,
and the others stopped at a ranch and he wandered off looking
for snails, an interest of his. There he met an old cowboy who
told him of the crash and the bodies and Drake didn't know if he
was hearing the tale from a witness or someone who had heard it
from another party.

Once he had joined with the others, he claimed that on the way
back to Albuquerque, they all discussed the story. Well, the
others were found and interviewed and had no memory of this
discussion, so Drake then said that they hadn't discussed it on
the way back to Albuquerque.

Drake also mentioned Roscoe Wilmeth, who, according to Drake,
had worked as a document clerk at the Los Alamos National
Laboratory and who, again according to Drake, had seen a secret
file concerning a flying saucer crash. Wilmeth had told Drake
that he wanted to go to the body site... which, I believe, you
decided mean the Plains.

So, we have Drake involved in another strange tale and to your
credit, Stan, you tried to check it out, but Wilmeth died before
you could talk to him. Drake had no one to contradict him this
time.

Drake came up with another story, this one told by students at
Chaco Canyon (an archaeological site northwest of Albuquerque,
for those of you keeping score at home), who said a number of
the students returned from a weekend trip talking about a
crashed saucer. Well, once again, the students who were there in
1947, and who have been interviewed, failed to corroborate
Drake's tale.

Drake apparently never saw anything himself... Wilmeth, at best
saw photographs and reports but we don't know for sure, and the
students who were there say the side trip didn't happen...

But we'll still believe because no one talked to Wilmeth.

And I thought I had taught you how to spell San Agustin...

<snip>

 >>>>And I have explained to you four times what the sentence meant
 >>>>and while it might have been constructed a little better, your
 >>>>interpretation is your interpretation and not mine.

 >>>Let the Listers decide: The quote comes after your discussion of
 >>>the Frank Scully book... "In fact, in 1980 I provided Ron Story
 >>>with the segment on the hidden alien bodies and crashed saucers
 >>>for "The UFO Encyclopedia". In it I made it clear that none of
 >>>the reports of crashed saucers had ever withstood objective
 >>>investigation. The road was strewn with the remains of those
 >>>stories, starting with the Aztec, New Mexico, case and working
 >>>its way to the Spitzbergen report, and the events near Roswell,
 >>>New Mexico". "A History of UFO Crashes" Kevin Randle. 1995.
 >>>There was no mention of Roswell in your Encyclopedia article.

 >>Inelegant, yes. Confusing, yes. But please note the period. It
 >>doesn't actually say that Roswell was mentioned in Story's
 >>Encyclopedia, but does say that the road is strewn with the
 >>remains of those saucers. Interpret away.

 >I thought you were the paragraph expert. It is in the same
 >paragraph.

I didn't say that. I merely asked if anyone had taught you how to
write a paragraph and you admitted that no one had. I never said
that I was an expert, but even if I was, that doesn't mean that
every one I write is a gem.

<snip>

 >Frank had stated very forcefully his claim that Blanchard and
 >Marcel had gone with him in the middle of the night. This
 >frankly made no sense at all as I noted in my notes. This wasn't
 >a "Maybe," or "I think that possibly" Just as clearly he
 >admitted NO Blanchard had not gone with him and neither at
 >Marcel.

Yes, I get it. Frank, according to your notes, told you that
Marcel and Blanchard went out with him and later, years later,
said they did not. Clearly a contradiction. Possibly indicative
of a lie. But the point remains, he didn't say he lied, he
changed the story. Not quite the same thing.

 ><snip>

 >>>>>given them. You will recall that when I heard that Milwaukee
 >>>>>Magazine had identified that Don didn't have the credentials he
 >>>>>had claimed to them, and that he worked for the US Post Office,
 >>>>>that I called the post office and asked for Don. He came to the
 >>>>>phone. You were excoriating those of us who accepted the story
 >>>>>from MM for 6 weeks before finally acknowledging that you had
 >>>>>been had. I gather you still haven't gotten over it.

 >>>>So if he didn't lie to you about his credentials, does this mean
 >>>>the lie doesn't count? That he said it in print but not to you
 >>>>means that he didn't lie about it? And don't you think it
 >>>>laughable that he walked around the museum in Roswell pointing
 >>>>out what he believed to be the hoaxes?

 >>>I didn't say the lies to whomever, (you MM or whatever) didn't
 >>>count. I said he hadn't lied to me about his credentials. So I
 >>>hadn't checked because he had never claimed to me he had any
 >>>degrees.

 >>You know, I sat in a room when Schmitt made claims about his
 >>educational background and you were there. So, he did say those
 >>things to you.

 >Kevin I frankly think this is another one of the many scenarios
 >you have created but that simply isn't true.

But really irrelevant as you prove with your following. Not
everyone has to make the claims to you. You seem only to check
out some of them. Why this double standard?

 >For about a decade you have villified all who made claims
 >thatdisagreed with your new view of Roswell. You have created
 >scenarios that were interesteing but unrelated to reality.
 >Barney Barnett was out in Roswell, but lied to his wife.

Only because we had found the diary she kept in 1947 (remember
how I retrieved it and showed it to you) and there was
absolutely no mention of anything that suggested the saucer
crash. In fact, the diary showed that Barnett had been in his
office on the day he supposedly found the crash, so it had to
either happen a day earlier (July 1), or on July 8. The diary
eliminated the July 3 date that you seem to favor. We were
trying to figure out how this could be, if Barnett was involved.
(By the way, didn't Anderson peg it as July 5 another impossible
day according to the diary, which is another indication of
Anderson's lies.)

Never said that he was in Roswell... that would be your imagination.

 >Then >Roswell was in his district.

Never said Roswell was in his district. Said that he did get to Roswell
for meetings... a wholly different proposition.

 >That Larry Henning said Gerald
 >Anderson was in the Anthropology course

Once again, Henning did say it but it is not relevant. The
transcripts prove Anderson took the class and Anderson therefore
lied about this.

 >That 3 antrhopologists
 >said they were in the Plains in early July 1947 and said
 >nothing happened there when in fact none were there and alll had
 >said they knew nothing about a crash in the Plains.

We have Herbert Dick, Wesley Hurt and Dan McKnight, who were all
on the Plains in July 1947, and all said they knew nothing of
the crash... though, according to you, it was the talk all over
that part of New Mexico.

 >Not the same
 >thing. The same goes for your critiques of MJ-12 such as
 >claiming that Moore and I hadn't realized that the document was
 >by a military man for a military man when I had explicitly said
 >that.

I didn't say that, as I have tried to explain to you many times
in the past. I said that you didn't understand the significance
of it, which you repeatedly prove.

 >You commented about Hillenkoetter signing as Admiral
 >instead of Rear Admiral when there is no signature and all the
 >ranks are generic etc etc. People are always asking me why other
 >people do things such as lie about credentials, etc. I say I am
 >not a psychiatrist. In your case it is clear you want to be king
 >of the Roswell Hill no matter what.

My point here, which was lost on you as you began splitting
hairs, was that you could find no document signed by
Hillenkoetter on which he had gotten his rank wrong. You have
said, repeatedly, that your research suggested that
Hillenkoetter was the author of the MJ-12 briefing, and my point
was that Hillenkoetter would not have allowed it to go forward
with his rank wrong on it. You refuse to understand my point
which is, actually, you have no document, signed or unsigned,
that was written by Hillenkoetter on which he got his own rank
wrong.

This simply is not how the military operates, and the fact the
other ranks are wrong only strengthens the point.

As for your final point, I have a single word. Projection.

 >>On the other hand, did Bob Lazar make his claims of education to
 >>you, or did you just jump in...

 >I have a tape of Lazar claiming an MS from MIT in Physics. He
 >thought the year was probably 1982.. George Knapp and John Lear
 >claimed Bob had told them the same thing. I have a tape of him
 >saying Bill Duxler would remember him in his Physics Class at
 >Cal Tech. I located Duxler who never taught at CIT only at
 >Pierce JC. Bob had mentioned PJC to me.

So, he really didn't make the claims to you, but made them to others
and you checked them out... I see.


 ><snip>

 >>>What, if any were Scanlon's? When did Hap Arnold call on him?
 >>>Incidentally Arnold resigned in 1946 because of poor health.

 >>I thought I had provided all this before. See Piercing the Fog
 >>(John F. Kreis, 1996, published by Air Force History and Museums
 >>Programs,) for a more complete analysis. According to Kreis,
 >>"Arnold [the aforementioned Hap Arnold] brought Brig. Gen.
 >>Martin Scanlon back from his post as military air attache in
 >>London to become the first AC/AS, Intelligence (A-2)... " Which
 >>puts Scanlon at the top of what was becoming Air Force
 >>Intelligence.

 >>While in London, his job was to observe (spy) on the creation of
 >>the German Air Force and British development of its Air Force...
 >>This was in the 1930s.

 >>This goes on to talk about the coordination between G-2 (Army
 >>Intelligence) and Air Force intelligence, determining what the
 >>Air Force needed, as opposed to what the Army needed.

 >This was prewar. Was he involved in Intelligence postwar? Or
 >even during the war besides assessing damage done in Pacific
 >bombings.

Yes, he was involved in intelligence during the early stages of
the war and no, he was not after the war. He did have an
intelligence background and this really is becoming a boring
part of the discussion.

 >>But you know, this really isn't that important in this
 >>discussion, especially since we now know that Kaufmann's
 >>testimony was unreliable. My point was obviously lost on you.

 >>>>And the McKnight affidavit comes from a man who wasn't there in
 >>>>1947, who was four years old in 1947, and suggested that he had
 >>>>never heard of anything happening on the ranch owned by
 >>>>relatives. Not exactly proof positive.
 >Hub Corn wasn't even born in 1947

What in the bloody hell does this have to do with anything? No
one said that he was, or that owned the land in 1947, or that he
saw anything himself. No one even mentioned Hub Corn or
suggested he had anything to do with this.

 >>>The McKnight affidavit also noted that there
 >>>was no way to get to Frank's crash site except by horseback in
 >>>1947. But Frank had some sort of army vehicle and then a big
 >>>flat bed truck dashing out and back cross country???

 >>Let's see if I understand this. The Army, which crossed Europe
 >>and fought in the Pacific, which crossed all sorts of rugged
 >>terrain without the use of roads, was stymied by the New Mexico
 >>Desert?

 >Now you are being absurd. That was a very large army and they
 >didn't do it all over night which is what Frank claimed. You
 >know perfectly well that itis standard practice to leave a
 >crashed vehicle in situ at least long enough to get good
 >pictures of where things are relative to each other. Maybe there
 >were seabees to built the bridges and build the road. Or maybe
 >they drove out in tanks? from the local airbase of course.

Seabees in Europe? Army engineers maybe, but Seabees?

I was merely suggesting that the trouble you might have driving
your luxury car to the site in 1947 wouldn't have stopped the
Army in 1947. We cross some horrid terrain with humvees today.

 ><snip>

 >>>No evidence provide re the altter items. You will recall I
 >>>obtained the real bill from the phone company.

 >>I'm not sure what you mean here. Altter items? If you mean other
 >>items, there certainly is evidence, from the forensic test you
 >>arranged showing that Uncle Ted's diary couldn't have been
 >>written before 1974, but no evidence it wasn't written in 1990,
 >>the second telephone bill that he passed around when you, and
 >>John Carpenter met with him on September 19, 1992, (See John
 >>Carpenter's "Gerald Anderson: Disturbing Revelations" MUFON UFO
 >>Jounal, March 1993) which is evidence that Gerald had created
 >>other documents. We have his ever shifting tale of the Plains of
 >>San Agustin saucer which fits so nicely with your outdated
 >>scenario.

 >Perhaps you have forgotten that one of the reasons you rejected
 >the Plains scenario was that Frank said nothing happened out
 >there. Perhaps it is time to reconsider...

Frank said that? (Sorry, just kidding.) No, that really wasn't a
reason for dumping the Plains. There were other, much better
reasons.

 >How convenient to leave out Baca, and Foard, and the
 >postmistress and Barnett, and Barnett's boss.....

Let's see, Baca heard the story from Barnett, Foard (a witness I
found, by the way) suggested that he might have learned of it
after publication of The Roswell Incident and knew nothing for
himself, the post mistress who confirms she was there but again
saw nothing for herself, and Barnett's boss (Fleck Danley) who
could have been convinced he knew Billy the Kid,  got the story
from Barnett... Do we see a common thread here? No first- hand
testimony, and nearly all related back to Barnett.

 ><snip>

 >>>Remember that I was the first to talk to Glenn and at that time
 >>>he had not said her name wasn't Naomi Self. The medical
 >>>technician recognized the name and described her.

 >Yes,of course he said her name was Naomi Self.

And what is her name today?

 >>>>>I happen to think much of the world is gray.
 >>>>Was Kaufmann ever in this gray basket?

 >>>Of course he was, until I heard more and more claims that didn't
 >>>make sense.

 >Apparently he wasn't often in your gray box since so much of
 >your view about Roswell and MJ-12 was based on what he claimed.

Took me a moment, but I finally understood this. Kaufmann's
point of view was only one, and yes, I believed him. I liked
him. Hell, he bought me breakfast. And while his tales helped
shape one view of Roswell, his weren't the only ones, and he had
nothing to do with my views of MJ-12.

 >>Oh, you mean like those made by Gerald Anderson? Telepathic
 >>communications? 509th over on the Plains. Aircraft landing on
 >>the highway. Really... and you say Kaufmann made claims that
 >>didn't make sense.

 >>>>>You seem to operate on a black and white basis. That is your
 >>>>>privilege.

 >>>>I actually think the world is filled with color which is a much
 >>>>more pleasant way of seeing it. But then I write science
 >>>>fiction... coming in April, "Signals", from Ace Books.

 >>>Congratulations. How many fiction books is that now? Surely over
 >>>80? I have always said you were good at creating scenarios.

 >>Gee, I don't know... do you want to know how many books were
 >>written, how many sold, or how many published? It's three
 >>different numbers. And does writing science fiction disqualify
 >>me from UFO research? (Btw, the second book in that series,
 >>Generation Ship, will be out in the fall, 2003)

 >How about saying how many were published?. Will these books list you as
 >author?.

Well, I could then ask if you wanted only those on which my name
appears, or only those that I wrote myself, or all of them, even
if my name doesn't appear. You have to ask specific questions.
But, to make it easy on you, the answer today is... (The next
book in that series, FTL for Faster Than Light, will be out the
following year... I'm working on it now. And don't forget
Signals, out in April, 2003.)

 >>Wouldn't lying be more of a disqualification?

<snip>

 >>But here are a couple of germane questions. Do you really
 >>believe Gerald Anderson is telling any truth? Or isn't he just
 >>an opportunist like Frank Kaufmann? And do you really believe
 >>the Jim Ragsdale story as you claimed in that silly brochure
 >>that Max Littel printed? Shouldn't we retire all these stories
 >>and move on?

 >Yes I really believe much of what Anderson was saying is true,

Which part... that he was in telepathic communication with the
living alien? That he was a Navy SEAL? That he didn't take the
anthropology class from Dr. Buskirk? That his family arrived
first and others followed? That there was a battalion-sized
operation with aircraft landing on the road? That officers from
the 509th was over there? That the site was near the VLA? Horse
Springs? Just which part is true, and given all the tales he's
told, all the changes he's made (wow, does this mean that he's
admitted lying... oh, yeah, he did. He said he faked the phone
bill to make me look bad), just which parts do you believe are
true? I personally believe that his name is Gerald Anderson.

 >and that Ragsdale was talking about a location out on the Pine
 >Lodge Road not where you tried to place him to satisfy the
 >Kaufmann story.

You know, of course, that the interview to which you refer here
was conducted by Don Schmitt. He showed Ragsdale photographs of
the area, which Ragsdale said looked right and identified the
area on a map which kind of takes it out of the realm of
interpretation. He mentioned that it was near the El Paso Gas
pipeline, which wasn't built in 1947, but he was using that as a
landmark... and then, after he talked to Max Littell and they
had a chance to think, suddenly, its out near Boy Scout
Mountain.

 >I also don't believe Sgt Pyles told you a
 >specific date, place direction

Nope, he said the first part of July...

 >or that the Nun's log gave a
 >descriptiof anything other than a fireball

Well, again, you'll have to ask your new best friend Don Schmitt
about that, since he was the one who came up with the nun story,
and the diary he said confined it...

 >or that Easley said
 >many of the things you attributed to him.

Gee, this is a new one. How about trotting out the old false
claim that I misquoted General Exon too... Or J. Bond Johnson?

But, since you keep introducing irrelevancies into this
discussion, let's do this. Explain why, after you learned I had
sold the first Roswell book, you wrote a letter (September 15,
1989) suggesting that I put your name on the book and give you a
quarter of the money, and when that didn't happen, you wrote to
my publisher (June 11, 1990), suggesting factual mistakes,
flights of fancy, and lifting your research, an allegation of
plagiarism... and then, in your book, you used interviews
conducted by me, and Don Schmitt and me with neither credit nor
attribution, leaving the impression that you had conducted the
interviews when you hadn't even been there? Or why, in using one
of our interviews of Bill Brazel, you inserted the word black in
front of the word sergeant, altering the context of the meeting
(and changing the meaning of the whole section), and using it as
a corroboration for the failing Anderson tale? Or why you have
called the hosts of my lectures asking why I was booked rather
than you and suggesting they should have called you? And no,
this won't boil down to a he said- he said argument because you
have done the same thing to Robert Hastings and Jim Moseley.

And finally, just because it's fun, I'll mention that you
castigated me for failing to acknowledge the Fund for UFO
Research for their financial support of our investigation. While
the monies were paid to Schmitt, it was an oversight not to
mention them. I had the opportunity to correct the mistake in
the third edition of The UFO Crash at Roswell (which is not the
same as the third printing), but to do so, I had to remove one
of the acknowledgments. This, I believe is the definition of
irony.


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                     Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle

From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:35:12 EST
Fwd Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:58:08 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle


 >From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:02:05 -0800
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
 >>Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 17:19:26 +0100
 >>Fwd Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 12:54:21 -0500
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais

 >>A question which troubles me is the possibility that some
 >>witnesses may have been sincere at first but may have become
 >>unreliable later. For what reason ? First, the desire to boost
 >>their story. This might be the case for Jim Ragsdale. But there
 >>may be other reasons!

 >Gildas,

 >Thank you for raising these issues. I have similar questions
 >about witnesses who at first might seem credible but later
 >either "flip" stories or are shown to be unreliable in other
 >ways. A key question in my mind is the "why" for the lying or
 >change of stories. Do they reflect a purely personal agenda or
 >are there outside forces at work?

Or maybe it's that their stories were never reliable but we
didn't learn that until we had investigated them more
fully. So, it seemed they were once reliable but, in fact,
they never were.

<snip of an irrelevant courtroom analogy>

 >In the case of Roswell, I think it is often a mistake to totally
 >disregard what some witnesses says because parts of their story
 >are obviously untruthful. Like members of a jury, this is
 >obviously a matter of personal judgment when it comes to judging
 >witness credibility.

The problem is to determine which witnesses stories are
untruthful because the events happened so long ago and there is
a real possibility they are simply mistaken, and which witnesses
stories are untruthful because they're making them up. And,
which witnesses stories have changed, unconsciously, because of
contamination. Loretta Procter finally talked of the pink
lettering on the debris, as described by Mack Brazel. This
change, I believe, was introduced, not because Loretta was
lying, but because she had heard so much about this over the
years, that she came to believe Mack had mentioned it to her. An
honest, simple mistake that does not negate all that she had
reported in the past.

 >E.g., Mogul engineer Charles Moore has recently been exposed as
 >a hoaxer by Brad Sparks and myself regarding his "calculated"
 >Mogul trajectory, and also been caught altering other data, such
 >as maps, to promote some sort of agenda. Whether his agenda is
 >personal or whether he was "inspired" by some outside agency I
 >don't know. But he has clearly perjured himself

(A) It is clear from my discussions with him that his agenda is
personal (which doesn't automatically make him wrong, and (b) he
didn't perjure himself because none of the statements were made
under oath.

 >However, I think it foolish to disregard everything he has had
 >to say, though I now treat his statements with much more
 >caution. Other witnesses I think should be treated in a similar
 >fashion, lest we possibly throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Of course, but it is a question of deciding which witnesses
should be treated differently.

 >>Another one could be pressure for commercial reasons (Ragsdale
 >>again). But there might be yet another reason : pressure from
 >>people in charge of protecting the secret.

 >>The first example is, of course, William McBrazel, with two
 >>stories, the second one under military escort, with some details
 >>such as the weight of the debris : less than five pounds! Are
 >>there other witnesses of that kind ?

 >>I noted with interest that Kevin, in his IUR article on Kaufmann,
 >>recalled that "He always picked up the check, claiming that someone
 >>else paid for it. The implication was that the government was
 >>watching and Frank was just doing his job".
 >>Well, what kind of job was he doing ?

 >Kaufmann claimed that he was a government counterintelligence
 >and disinformation agent left behind to keep an eye on things.
 >Whether this was true or not, I don't know, but there is some
 >circumstantial evidence that might support it:

 >1. He was shown in the 1947 base yearbook receiving a medal from
 >deputy base commander Lt. Col. Payne Jennings. This medal was
 >found in his personal effects after his death. Yet he was
 >supposed to be nothing but a civilian clerk at the base. What
 >was his medal for? Exceptional typing or filing?

Actually, if you look closely and check, you'll find that this
is a World War II Victory Medal which was given to everyone who
served in the armed forces from 7 Dec 1941 to 31 Dec 1946, and
to which Kaufmann was entitled based on his service in the Army,
documented by the real Separation Qualification Record. I
believe this little ceremony was created because Kaufmann had
not been "issued" this medal, to which he was entitled. In the
grand context of the universe, it means nothing.

 >2. Kaufmann, a native New Yorker, was planning to return to New
 >York and was all packed to go. Then Roswell happened. He told
 >his wife words to the effect, "Unpack everything, we're
 >staying." This "tale" was corroborated by his wife, who was
 >described to me as a sweet old lady completely without guile.

And to me he told of his love of New Mexico and how he wished to
stay there because he had found gainful employment. In fact, if
we look at his record, we discover that in early 1947, he was
working at the base and from what he said, was "frozen" into
that position for a period of time. The earliest he could have
been ready to depart New Mexico was December 1947... months
after Roswell happened. According to the record, he was able to
leave his job at the air field to take one in town. The record
does not corroborate this tale. And I certainly agree that
Juanita was a very nice lady.

 >3. The following year, Kaufmann was now on the board of the
 >Roswell Chamber of Commerce. This would be an excellent position
 >to keep Kaufmann plugged into the town rumor mill, if that was
 >the intent. First, I find it odd that an obvious outsider like
 >Kaufmann would be in such a position in a small cowtown. Small
 >towns tend to be very insular and suspicious of outsiders. It
 >typically takes a long time to win people's trust and be
 >accepted. More telling, however, is what turned up at the
 >Roswell hall of records. All board members of the Chamber of
 >Commerce were paid out of town funds - except for Kaufmann, who
 >was paid from some unknown outside source. This would be in line
 >with Kaufmann always picking up the check claiming that somebody
 >else was paying for it.

In those sorts of organizations, there are always "patrons" who
contribute to the operation and there is nothing nefarious
attached to it. This seems to be one of those cases because the
money doesn't trace to a black government source. Kaufmann, in
fact, suggested to me that such was the case. The money came
from a political patron and the Chamber was limited by that
patron as to how it could be spent.

Kaufmann always picking up the check was just one of those
things... a part of his act and means nothing, other than he
picked up the check. Actually, I out maneuvered him once and
managed to get the check... but here's another thought. Maybe he
thought paying for the breakfast was compensation for all the
tales he told.

 >>This reminds me of what John Carpenter, whom I met in Laughlin in
 >>march 2000, told me about Gerald Anderson. He had met him
 >>recently and Anderson was in excellent health and mood. His
 >>attitude was the one of a man satisfied to have done his job well.
 >>Carpenter was the hypnotherapist who had regressed Anderson
 >>and who had supported him during several years. Now he was
 >>convinced that he had played a role.

 >I too suspect Kaufmann played a role, though maybe not exactly
 >the role he devised for himself. He may also have been an
 >insider of some sort. Some of his information was original and
 >seems to have checked out.

I believe now that this information that did check out was more
serendipitous than inside knowledge. He picked General Scanlon
as one of the important insiders, I believe, because he knew
Scanlon was a real general who had been at Roswell. That Scanlon
had a background in intelligence was another of these
serendipitous coincidences.

Kaufmann had no real role, other than that which he invented for
himself, as shown by the faked records... faked records that were
clearly his creation. They existed for no other purpose than to
"prove" that Kaufmann was telling the truth.

 >E.g., Kaufmann, I believe, was the first to claim that it was
 >the special counter-intelligence corps team (which he claimed to
 >be a part) which came up with the bright idea of the base press
 >release of recovering a flying disc. That's the way I read the
 >Ramey memo as well. There is also testimony from several
 >witnesses to the effect of strange CIC people being at the base.
 >(Though conceivably Kaufmann might have been aware of this.)

Kaufmann did claim that a special team came into Roswell, but
this was information that was already "out there". He broke no
new ground there.

 >A good example was Sgt. Robert Smith of the Air Transport Unit,
 >who said he helped load C54's with crates of crash material
 >while unknown, plain-clothes "inspectors" flashed ID cards from
 >some unknown project. Smith also said a cousin of his with the
 >Secret Service served as Truman's representative. Kaufmann also
 >mentioned the SS agent and gave the same name. See:

 >http://www.roswellproof.com/smith.html

 >Kaufmann, again I believe, was the first to claim that bodies
 >were recovered inside the craft. This was also corroborated by
 >Gen. Arthur Exon.

 >Furthur, this item is almost definitely in the Ramey memo, first
 >speaking of "the victims of the wreck" being "forwarded to"
 >"Fort Worth, Tex." The very next statement in the memo reads "in
 >the 'disc' they will ship". What was being shipped from inside
 >the "disc" was being sent by plane to Fort Worth, the context
 >indicating that this was the bodies.

 >Kaufmann, however, claimed that the Fort Worth shipment
 >- testified to by Robert Slusher and "Tim", who were on the
 >flight - see:

 >http://www.roswellproof.com/B29_Flight_July9.html

 >- was nothing but a diversion, the bodies actually being shipped
 >elsewhere. This may have been Kaufmann acting as the
 >disinformationalist, mixing truth with lies.

 >Another example of deception mixed with truth by Kaufmann were
 >his shifting crash sites. The point of this would be to keep
 >people looking in the wrong place, and also to later discredit
 >their research and Roswell in general as the inconsistencies in
 >the testimony mounted.

Or, the point could be that he didn't remember what he told us
from one visit to the next.

 >>A question remains : could he have given, maybe like Kaufmann
 >>and even Ragsdale, some true information, cleverly mixed with
 >>lies ? The trick is then to make a very interesting story, but
 >>which will be discredited sooner or later. I suspect two
 >>possiblez scenarios here : "amplifying disinformation", or
 >>gradual release of information, under tight control.

 >This is the way I look at it. A lot of these Roswell witnesses
 >are not black and white, but more shades of gray. If they lie
 >(or maybe not tell all they know), sometimes the most important
 >question is why did they lie? Was it a personal agenda for self-
 >glorification, or is there something else behind it, such as
 >self-protection, protection of others, or maybe to deliberately
 >confuse an already confusing situation on behalf of government
 >counterintelligence (CI)?

 >When you think about, it makes a lot of sense that if something
 >as stupendous as an ET crash had occurred, somebody would be
 >left behind to keep an eye on the situation. People might also
 >be paid off to lie and eventually discredit themselves.
 >Investigators who initially bought into their stories get
 >discredited by association, along with the whole scenario of a
 >saucer crash.

 >Once CI gets involved, everything can become a hall of mirrors.
 >During WWII, Allied CI through various ruses had the Germans
 >completely confused about Allied invasion plans. Even after the
 >Normandy invasion was well underway, the Germans remained
 >convinced that this was only a diversion.

 >So Kaufmann was officially nothing but a humble clerk. But when
 >you think about it, this is the perfect cover for a CI mole,
 >somebody who is completely inconspicuous, but is really behaving
 >like a "fly on the wall." It's like a waiter spy listening in on
 >the sensitive conversations of the customers.

But you see, the problem here is that even when these people are
sent in, a review of their military training and their military
records gives a hint about them. While a specific mission might
be classified, you just don't snag someone without training and
jam them into such a position. They had a background that tends
to confirm this, but the records show Kaufmann had no such
background. More to the point, I have seen records of his real
background, and later, altered records that suggest other
positions... but nothing that suggests any training at all. In
fact, his training and assignments are all in line with a clerk.

And there's the clue. Take any of the special forces
organizations. A soldier might not be assigned in a position
that shows his training as a cover for what he does, however, if
you look at the record, you find that he has, at some point,
gotten the specific training, that he was assigned to the bases
and posts where that training was given, and his records reflect
the completion of those schools and that training. Kaufmann's
records did not reflect any of this.

His educational background and his military training just do not
reflect any sort of specialized assignment. Again, the nature of
the assignment might be disguised, but the training, either
military or civilian would be there. Those sorts of schools are
such that there would be no reason to conceal them. That Frank
altered his records, attempting to make it look as if he had the
right background suggests that he knew that anyone attempting to
verify his background would see the truth.

 >There are other examples of CI people who had regular "day
 >jobs", but were also serving in a CI capacity. Take the case of
 >Larry Dyvad, associated with Project Mogul, supposedly as a
 >chase pilot for the balloon flights. That was his "day job." But
 >the day after the Roswell base press release, he was part of a
 >team at Alamogordo debunking Roswell and flying saucers using
 >weather balloons and radar targets (one of a number of such
 >demonstrations incidentally). See:

 >www.roswellproof.com/militarydebunk.html

 >This even came up in the Air Force Roswell report in the
 >interviews with Charles Moore and Col. Albert Trakowski by Lt.
 >James McAndrew. Given Dyvad's involvement with the Alamogordo
 >demonstration, they speculated that he was secretly with CI.

They key here is that they speculate... there is nothing to
confirm that. Has anyone attempted to check his record to find
out if he had the real training in CI?

 >Additional evidence of this comes from a 1951 document.
 >Trakowski's replacement as Mogul Project Officer was Col. Edward
 >Doty, who we know today from multiple documents, was really an
 >AFOSI officer (i.e., Air Force counterintelligence) and also in
 >charge of UFO investigations at Holloman AFB, Alamogordo. Both
 >Doty and Dyvad took a UFO report from a radar station near
 >Corona, N.M. in 1951. A discussion of this and the document can
 >be viewed at:

 >http://www.roswellproof.com/Dyvad1951.html
 >It is also noteworthy that the Air Force included a 1959 letter
 >from Doty to the Holloman base historian (Appendix 4 to McAndrew
 >section), detailing his involvement with the balloon projects at
 >Alamogordo starting in January 1948, but telling the historian
 >nothing at all about being with AFOSI or being the base UFO
 >investigator.

 >So Doty too seems to have a "day job", but he was considerably
 >more than just chief of various balloon project. Furthermore, he
 >seems to have deliberately concealed his primary military
 >affiliation (AFOSI) plus other secretive responsibilities.

But you see, there is a record. There is a paper trail that can
be investigated. With Kaufmann, the paper trail does not exist.
The only documents that lead to that conclusion are clearly
faked, and when the real documents are found, they tell a
substantially different story.

 >The point is, we don't really know if Kaufmann was nothing more
 >than a clerk. Maybe that's all he was, but he may have been
 >considerably more than that. As is usually the case with
 >Roswell, the truth of the matter is muddled.

Here, the truth is not muddled. We have the documents and we
have the evidence. Kaufmann was nothing more than a clerk. The
record clearly establishes this. The only reason to suggest it
is muddled is an attempt to rehabilitate the Kaufmann tales now
that the flaws have been discovered and the documentation has
been found.

 >>The case of Glenn Dennis might be yet another one. He would have
 >>told the truth basically, but protected the identity of the
 >>nurse. He may also have had his memory somewhat mixed up, after
 >>forty years. I already noted in a previous post :

 >>Regarding Glenn Dennis and the "missing nurse", I am perplexed
 >>by the information given about Eilen Fanton, both in the
 >>"Roswell Report. Case Closed" (pages 82-83), and by Karl Pflock
 >>in his last book, at pages 138-139.
 >>She seems to correspond on several points to the description
 >>made by Glenn Dennis. Could it be that at least part of his
 >>original story was accurate ? Or is there a solid argument
 >>against that, apart from the false name Naomi Selff ?

 >Dennis is a classic example of a Roswell witness who I think is
 >basically telling the truth but for various reasons chose not to
 >tell the whole truth. He may very well be still protecting the
 >true identity of a real person. (I have additional information
 >on this which I am not at liberty to disclose. Despite
 >statements to the contrary, the existence of a real Nurse X has
 >not been conclusively ruled out. E.g., there were other nurses
 >at the base, some civilian, who are not pictured in the base
 >yearbook.)

There were other nurses at the base, and there were civilian
nurses who sometimes worked at the base, and of course, who
worked in the hospital there. However, I believe a comprehensive
search has been conducted and all nurses who were in Roswell in
July, 1947, have been identified. Dennis' nurse is not among
them.

Is that conclusive, in and of itself? No. To me, the real
problem arose when Dennis was confronted with this information.
He then began to "spin" the story. He hadn't given any of us the
real name because of his promise. She wasn't Naomi Self but
someone else. He told us all that in the beginning, but we chose
to ignore it, at least according to what he says today. He has
altered his story as the investigation revealed new information.
That suggests the story is not true.

Well, the truth is that he gave us what he told us was the real
name. He wanted to protect her so we weren't supposed to revel
the name, but we had the real one. As I have explained in the
past, at one point he quizzed me about the lack of progress with
finding the nurse. He complained that he had given us the real
name and why couldn't we find her. Now, when we suggested there
was no nurse named Naomi Self in the Army, or in any civilian
capacity in Roswell, he changed the name. It was our fault for
not listening to him. All this suggests that his story is not
true.

Or, when we found that five Army nurses hadn't been killed in a
plane crash, he told us that she had been discharged early and
had become a nun.

The problem isn't that we got information wrong, but that when
challenged by the facts, altered the story to fit the new facts.
That suggests a tale that is a fabrication rather than one that
is simply misremembered.

 >There is also some independent corroboration of Dennis' story
 >from other witnesses, as I have detailed on my website. See:

 >http://www.roswellproof.com/dennis.html

 >Because Dennis lied about the nurse's name, various
 >investigators have been trying to distance themselves as much as
 >possible from him. I think this is as big a mistake as
 >dismissing everything that, say, a Charles Moore has had to say.
 >And we may be making a similar mistake in totally dismissing
 >Frank Kaufmann.

But with Kaufmann, he's standing out there alone, suddenly
telling me in 1998 to forget about Glenn Dennis, to forget about
Walter Haut because they knew nothing of value. He was now
maneuvering to be the number one guy in the Roswell area. Talk
to him, oh, and pay his fee, or you won't get the "real" Roswell
story.

Then, we discover all those documents he had created to prove
that he was the one and only "real" guy.

 >The problem, of course, is trying to pick out the truth amidst
 >the deception. But this is not much different from the task that
 >police investigators face when dealing with less-than-truthful
 >witnesses to a crime. A smart investigator will not completely
 >discount testimony from such witnesses if other evidence
 >corroborates parts of their stories. If anything, the reasons
 >behind the lies may be far more important than the testimony
 >itself.

The big point here is if other investigations corroborate parts
of the story, but we must also be aware of contamination. How
much did Kaufmann know from those other sources... I know that
he watched the Unsolved Mysteries segment because he talked
about it having seen it. From that point on, he kept himself
informed of about the latest in the Roswell case.

A smart investigator will realize when he has been had and will
take steps to eliminate the testimony so that he won't
continually trip over it. There comes a time, as the evidence
mounts, that the smart investigator will realize that nothing
from that source is of value and eliminate it.

 >E.g., if (hypothetically) the government had paid Charles Moore
 >to promote a hoax in order to further debunk Roswell, that
 >information would be hugely significant in and of itself.

But there is always a paper trail. I have seen a copy of a
letter written by McAndrew in which he suggests that Moore be
given some sort of testimonial dinner for all his hard work on
the Roswell case. Not the same as being paid in cash, but a
suggestion of a kind of payment. We can find independent
corroboration... with Kaufmann, we have nothing.


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                   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Clark

From: Jerome Clark <jkclark@frontiernet.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:26:57 -0600
Fwd Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:00:17 -0500
Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Clark


 >From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 16:28:22 -0400
 >Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>From: John Rimmer <jrimmer@magonia.demon.co.uk>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:08:34 +0000
 >>Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>>From: Stan Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 18:45:20 -0400
 >>>Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk


 >>More Research by Referendum. Surely all these "votes" show more
 >>about the nature of the audience at these events than the
 >>strength of the arguments advanced?

 >Sorry, John, I don't do research by referendum.

 >It is very important for the general public and the media to
 >understand that a majority are ready to accept the notion that
 >some UFOs are ET visitors. 100,000 is a pretty good sample size.

 >In my experience, the major reason people don't report
 >sightings, that professors don't teach classes about UFOs, or
 >sponsor Theses about UFOs, and that the press doesn't treat the
 >subject fairly and honestly, is the false perception stimulated
 >by the ha ha treatment....

If so-called psychosocial ufology were anything other than
debunking/pelicanism by a more polite name, it would be as
concerned with the role of ridicule and disbelief as it would
with their opposites.

As much as anything, ridicule and the fear of it have shaped UFO
reporting and discussion over the entire history of the UFO
controversy. Traditions of disbelief have done fully as much to
make sober analysis as impossible as uncritical belief has. More
maybe, since it's those with power who are immersed in the
former.


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                          Secrecy News -- 12/12/02

From: Steven Aftergood <saftergood@fas.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:27:10 -0500
Fwd Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:14:27 -0500
Subject: Secrecy News -- 12/12/02


SECRECY NEWS
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2002, Issue No. 122
December 12, 2002


**      CIA INSISTS ON 1947 INTELLIGENCE BUDGET SECRECY
**      REPORT OF CONGRESSIONAL 9/11 INQUIRY RELEASED
**      BUSH POLICY ON WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
**      IRAQI WMD DECLARATION: TABLE OF CONTENTS
**      CHINA WHITE PAPER ON NATIONAL DEFENSE
**      SECRECY IN THE NEWS


CIA INSISTS ON 1947 INTELLIGENCE BUDGET SECRECY

In an act of bureaucratic dementia, the Central Intelligence
Agency has decided to reassert the obviously false claim that
declassification of the intelligence budget totals from 1947 and
1948 would cause damage to the national security of the United
States and would compromise intelligence sources and methods.

The CIA, unable to admit error and adjust its policies
accordingly, reiterated its bizarre classification position this
week in a brief filed in opposition to a Freedom of Information
Act lawsuit brought by the Federation of American Scientists
that seeks disclosure of the historical budget totals.

In response to previous litigation, budget totals from 1997 and
1998 have previously been disclosed. However, CIA inexplicably
holds that the same information from 50 years earlier is too
sensitive to release.

Perhaps more than any other single failing, CIA's inability to
adapt its information policies to current realities suggests
that the Agency may have reached the end of its useful lifetime.

The Justice Department, in accordance with Attorney General
Ashcroft's October 2001 Freedom of Information policy statement
which discourages release of contested information, is
vigorously defending the CIA position.

The CIA's initial reply to the FAS lawsuit is signed by three
Justice Department attorneys, who probably did not have this
kind of thing in mind when they went to law school. FAS is
acting pro se, i.e. without legal representation.

At the end of a mostly formulaic response, the CIA feistily asks
not only that the lawsuit be dismissed but that the Agency be
awarded its costs. See the CIA's December 10 filing here:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/foia/cia121002.html


REPORT OF CONGRESSIONAL 9/11 INQUIRY RELEASED

While the CIA resists the disclosure of half-century-old budget
numbers, a congressional joint committee is calling for a "more
realistic" approach to the classification of intelligence
information.

"I think that we need to re-examine the basic principles of what
constitute the national security, in terms of what information
should be withheld, what information should be shared," said
Sen. Bob Graham, outgoing chairman of the Senate Intelligence
Committee and co-chair of the congressional Joint Inquiry into
September 11, speaking at a press conference yesterday on the
release of the Inquiry's final report.

"I am concerned that a lot of, I think, an excessive amount of
the rationale for classification and, then, declassification has
more to do with avoiding the embarrassment of what it would mean
to an agency and possibly to individuals by letting the American
people know how their agencies are functioning," Sen. Graham
said.

"And finally, I think there is a great conflict of interest when
you have the same people classifying information, who are then
asked to declassify. They have a vested interest in disclosure
and they have a vested interest in not lifting the veil," he
said.

The findings and recommendations of the congressional Joint
Inquiry, along with a lengthy dissenting report from Senator
Richard Shelby, are posted here:

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2002_rpt/index.html


BUSH POLICY ON WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

The Bush Administration released a six page document entitled
"National Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction," which
warns that the United States would resort to "all of our
options" in response to the use of weapons of mass destruction.

The unclassified strategy document corresponds to the classified
National Security Presidential Directive 17, the Washington Post
reported. See the text here:

http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nspd/nspd-17.html


IRAQI WMD DECLARATION: TABLE OF CONTENTS

Iraq has carried out a remarkably robust and diverse program on
weapons of mass destruction, judging from the table of contents
of its declaration to the United Nations Security Council.

In a December 7 note from Foreign Minister Naji Sabri, Iraq
thoughtfully cautioned that publication of the detailed
information contained in its unreleased declaration "entails
risk and is inconsistent with the norms of the weapons non-
  proliferation regime."

See the table of contents of the Iraqi declaration here:

http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2002/12/iraq120702.pdf


CHINA WHITE PAPER ON NATIONAL DEFENSE

"The world needs peace, the people want cooperation, nations
long for development and society aspires for progress."

So begins "China's National Defense in 2002," a new white paper
on the defense policy of the People's Republic of China. It is
the fourth such publication issued since 1995.

The document provides official statements on defense spending
(169.444 billion yuan in 2002) as well as the size of the armed
forces (less than 2.5 million members in the People's Liberation
Army), and pronounces on Chinese military objectives and
interests. See the English text, published December 9, here:

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/china/doctrine/natdef2002.html


SECRECY IN THE NEWS

The debate over non-lethal weapons is updated in "Bang! You're
Incapacitated" by Brad Knickerbocker in the Christian Science
Monitor, December 12:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1212/p11s03-stgn.html

One account of the conclusions of the congressional Joint
Inquiry into September 11 is provided in "Intelligence overhaul
necessary, panel says" by Mary Jacoby, St. Petersburg Times,
December 12:

http://www.sptimes.com/2002/12/12/Worldandnation/Intelligence_overhaul.shtml

The imperative of sharing information related to homeland
security will sooner or later have to confront the aging
machinery of the security clearance system. See "Feds Seek to
Share More Threat Information Without Security Clearances," by
Chuck McCutcheon, Newhouse News, December 11:

http://www.newhouse.com/archive/story1a121102.html


_______________________________________________
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                     Re: Abductions & Ufology - Maccabee

From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:10:37 -0500
Fwd Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:17:19 -0500
Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology - Maccabee


 >From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:17:37 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology


 >>From: Dave Morton <Marspyrs@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 07:12:12 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

<snip>

 >A "fake" abductee, IMO, would indicate that someone is making up
 >their story, for some reasion, but how do we tell the difference
 >between someone who simply believes they've been abducted when
 >in fact they have not?  Should we accept on faith the word of
 >abduction researchers that they can tell the difference. John
 >Mack was taken in by a reporter, who spent a number of months as
 >part of an abduction group, which she later wrote about in a
 >Time Magazine article. She obviously knew that she was faking
i>t, but what about non-abdutees who aren't? Other than their own
 >beliefs and faith in humanity, how do researchers measure the
 >difference.

Here's a test: read the first chapter in Abduction In My Life
and answer the question, did this really happen to the writer?
(Said question has been asked by numerous readers.)






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                       Re: Another Approach - Maccabee

From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:12:55 -0500
Fwd Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:18:40 -0500
Subject: Re: Another Approach - Maccabee


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:56:33 EST
 >Subject: Re: Another Approach


 >>From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:33:29 -0500
 >>Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>>From: Roy Norris <rnorris@charter.net>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 14:02:31 -0600
 >>>Subject: Another Approach

<snip>

 >>If someone wants to endow a "UFO Investigation Fund" at a high
 >>enough level so that 20K or more level of investigation could be
 >>supported each year by the interest on the endowment plus an
 >>initial shot of, say, $100 K to assemble a van plus shipable
 >>instrument package (and perhaps to train nvestigators) then we
 >>might be able to convert UFO investigation into a real science!.
 >>The experience of NIDS with their instrumented farm would
 >>probably be valuable to study (what can happen at the site of
 >>repeated anomalous events/sightings).

 >>Incidently, you mention Laurence R. It is well known that he has
 >>an interest in the subject. Perhaps if a number of scientists
 >>approached him directly with a specific plan he would be willing
 >>to support this, especially if some others with philanthropist
 >>tendencies were also willing to contribute.

  Bob wrote:

 >"Statistically speaking, an unimpeachable photograph must sooner
 >or later appear if UFOs are a physical reality. Every year that
 >passes without such a photograph being produced is evidence
 >against the position that unknown objects are operating in the
 >Earth's atmosphere" Stuart Nixon, Director, NICAP, November
 >1972.

Of course, one can ask, is anything "unimpeachable" and
furthermore, even if an unimpeachable photo came along
skeptic/debunker types would think up an explanation.

I knew Stuart quite well. He was taking a very conservative
attitude here, the standard NICAP stance. The unstated
assumption in his above statement is that there had been, up to
1972 , no "unimpeachable photograph." Of course, he was wrong in
that assumption. It's just that he wasn't aware of any. Consider
the White Sands Proof movies discussed at my web site.

The McMinnville photos had, as of 1972, been endorsed by the
Condon Committee investigator (Wm. Hartmann). An attempt at
"impeachment" by the Klass/Sheaffer team had not yet occurred
(and said impeachment attempt was rebuffed several years later)

The Trindade photo had been published, of course.

It was not known at that time that Air Force intelligence
accepted the Rhodes photo (Phoenix, 1947) as real (used it in
the TS Air Intelligence report of 1948).

The New Zealand sightings with 16 mm color movie (lots of
"photos" )n had not yet occurred.

And so on.

After Stuart left NICAP in 73(?) he dropped out of ufology.
Haven't heard anything of him since.







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                       Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Maccabee

From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:13:08 -0500
Fwd Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:23:27 -0500
Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Maccabee


 >From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:49:13 -0800 (PST)
 >Subject: Paul Bennewitz?

 >On Dr. Maccabee's website, I just read/reviewed his report on
 >UFO Landing near Kirtland AFB, and would like more material
 >about Paul Bennewitz, as his involvement with the UFO subject is
 >much more complicated, as I understand.

 >Some years ago, when visiting the Lorenzens of APRO, Coral
 >Lorenzen gave me a 17 page Summary & Status report called
 >'Project Beta' by Bennewitz. We didn't have time to discuss it
 >but I am very interested in finding out, if anyone is privy to
 >info, as to whether this material is the product of
 >disinformation, and also more details about whether Bennewitz
 >was discredited and if so, by whom?

I did not spend a lot of time studying the Bennewitz
involvement. I concentrated on the AFOSI aspects of the Kirtland
Landing (and other sightings in the summer of 1980). My
recollection is dim and others can correct me as needed:

Sometime in the late 1970's Bennewitz was working with a lady
abductee/contactee who told him (through hypnosis?) that there
was an underground alien base near Dulce, NM. Bennewitz,
independently, was receiving electromagnetic signals at his
company headquarters and laboratory which is/was just outside
one of the gates at Kirtland AFB (Thunder Research, as I
recall). He came to believe the signals he received were
communications between Kirtland and the aliens. (Subsequent
research suggested that he had detected radiation from a large
device at Kirtland which was intended to simulate the
electromagnetic pulse from a nuclear weapon... said device was
used to test the vulnerability of aircraft to EM pulses.)

Bennewitz contacted Kirtland to point out that he was detecting
this radiation and AFOSI investigated.

AFOSI - Air Force Office of Special Investigations, normally a
criminal investigative unit, but often used to investigate UFO
reports.

This is how Richard Doty became involved with Bennewitz in the
fall of 1980. However, previous to that, in August 1980 there
were sightings in the area that were reported to AFOSI
headquarters (and forms the basis for my paper, UFO Landings At
Kirtland AFB or Welcome To The Cosmic Watergate, the paper
referred to on my web site.) The landing was in a restricted
area in the Mazano mountains. Doty was the investigator of the
Kirtland Landing case.

So, you have UFO sightings in the summer of 1980, and then AFOSI
was contacted about Bennewitz's claim of detecting
communications with aliens. 'Naturally' AFOSI was interested.
Could Bennewitz be tapping into classified transmissions?

A big meeting was held at Bennewitz's lab in November (?) 1980.
Doty and other intel agents and scientists were there. Bennewitz
showed a movie he had of a strange object near an airplane
taking off and reported on the electromagnetic signals he had
received. Subsequently the overt investigation of Bennewitz was
dropped as it seems that Bennewitz's electromagnetic signals
could be explained (although perhaps Bennewitz wasn't told the
explanation).

I presume that Bennewitz was duly impressed by the interest
shown by the AF in what he had "discovered" and this may have
convinced him he was on the right track.... aliens existed, and
they communicated with Kirtland and there was a base near Dulce.

This series of events, which have been documented (written down)
piecemeal in several sources (e.g. Bill Moore writings) led to the
following:

1) Moore and Berlitz' Roswell book came out in the late summer
of 1980. This led to Doty contacting Moore in the fall of 1980.
Moore investigated, among other things, Bennewitz. As Moore has
explained it, he decided to go along with Doty/AFOSI and supply
Bennewitz with documents that were probably only partially true.
One of the documents was the "seed" which grew, 7 years later,
into the MJ-12 controversy. This document, called the "Acquarius
Document" refers to an analysis of Bennewitz's film and refers
to UFO information in Project Acquarius that can only be
accessed by "MJ-12."

Yes the first mention of that dreaded phrase!

6 years later I was informed of this and tried to locate
"Project Acquarius." A DIA librarian located a report from
Project Acquarius through "channel B" and I talked to a guy who
was custodian of the report.... but I couldn't see it.

For several years after the intial contact with Doty, Moore went
on a number of wild goose chases to obtain documents that would
prove a top secret government investigation. This has been
written about elsewhere (Moore) and in Dec., 1984 the "biggie"
hit.... the Eisenhower Briefing Document (EBD) which ostensibly
was the smoking gun and has been the subject of such
argmentation and anguish ever since. The existence of the EBD
was kept secret by Moore (and Shandara) while they investigated.
However, a second copy of same was leaked to a writer in England
(Timothy Goode, author of Above Top Secret) who went public with
it in March/April of 1987 and subsequently Moore released it in
the USA. This started an immense controversy that still rages in
the dim dark corners of ufology.

That is one "thread" of history that followed from the fateful
fall of 1980. Here is another:

2) Bennewitz's involvement with the AF and the on going
investigation of Kirtland events and Bennewitz's stories came to
the attention of John Lear, son of Bill Lear (of Lear Jet fame)
in the middle 1980's. Lear decided to go public with basically
everything Bennewitz said and this was a lot by now, Bennewitz
claimed to have investigated the Dulce Story and found it to be
true. The lady "witness/abductee/ contactee" (I forget her name)
had said there had been a battle for control of the underground
base and the aliens had won. She also talked about vats of human
body parts and other nice things in the alien base. Lear went
public with a version of this implying he had knowledge of deep
secrets of the US government - alien interactions. Had the US
sold out to the aliens? (What else could they do?)..... and so
on. Also, in a sort of cosmic convergence with Bennewitz and
Lear, we had one William Cooper who went public with ever more
unbelievable stories about aliens and documents and so on. At
the same time there was the KRLL document (written by....
Grace..forget his first name). ( I think a lot of this stuff
lives in perpetuity on the web. ) There were others claiming
information and documents. This stuff reached a crescendo in
December of 1987, about 8 months after the EBD had been
released.

Lear and Cooper sort of teamed up for a year or so, until Lear
realized that Cooper was a real "basket case" (psychopath of
some sort) who kept changing his story. (I talked to Cooper at
the time he first went public. He was claiming he had documents
that proved the cover up. He told me he had written them from
memory, having seen them over ten years before. He told me his
documents were correct but the ones provided by Bill Moore were
fakes. I mused over that.... Cooper's documents were word for
word identical to what Moore had provided months before Cooper
came on the scene. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA)
................................................................
...

Epilogue

Subequently Bill Moore "confessed" to having provided Bennewitz
with questionable documents and he was severaly criticized and
he dropped out of ufology. (I haven't had any contact with him
for close to 10 years now). He occasionally "appears" in
Moseley's 'Saucer Smear' newsletter.

Bennewitz spent time in one or more hospitals for psychological
problems. I tried to visit him in 1985 at the time of my
investigation of the Kirtland Landing referred to above. I went
to his company headquarters but he wouldn't see me. I left a
phone number and he called. He said he would talk only because I
was a friend of J. Allen Hynek. Bennewitz told me about the
aliens (and others?) sticking needles into him all the time. I
really didn't learn much of value from him.

Lear got fed up with ufology and dropped out.

Cooper took his conspiratorial ravings elsewhere. He wrote a
book Behold a Pale Horse, a name taken from Revelation... the
end times, etc. In that book I, among many others, was
identified as a CIA agent of destruction. Anyone who disagreed
with Cooper was a CIA agent . This was true even if Cooper
changed his story and you agreed with the last story he told
(one reason Lear split). A more accurate name for Cooper's book
woudl have been Behind a Pale Horse. Cooper was shot while
trying to avoid arrest a couple of years ago (had nothing to do
with UFOs)... more to do with militias.

..................

Someday someone ought to write this all down as a story.... Of
course the readers would think it all fiction. <LOL>

..................

I look forward to commentary and corrections on this brief
attempt at pulling this history out of you-know-where since I
haven't thought about this stuff for years! I know there are a
lot of other "players" out there in the UpDates list who have
pieces of it.






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                        Re: Another Approach - Ledger

From: Don Ledger <dledger@ns.sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:13:37 -0400
Fwd Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:25:42 -0500
Subject: Re: Another Approach - Ledger


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 21:55:29 EST
 >Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>From: Don Ledger <dledger@ns.sympatico.ca>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 19:09:34 -0400
 >>Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>>From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:56:33 EST
 >>>Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>How about the 2 mile plus diameter objects passing behind the
 >>teather on the STS 75 mission? What are those?

 >>If you go to this NASA site with photos from STS-75:

 >>http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/iams/html/pao/STS-75.htm

 >>The photos taken show not one picture of the teather when 77 to
 >>100 nautical miles from the Shuttle. Talk about sticking your
 >>head in the sand. Business as usual.

 >Could you be more specific, please? What do you think is strange
 >about any particular picture?

Not a damn thing Bob. That's the point. It's like showing
pictures of a nice family outing in the woods while completely
ignoring the  photos taken of a bear eating your brother. Read
what I said.

CAVU

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                           Spain: UFO Over Xativa?

From: Scott Corrales <lornis1@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:35:08 -0500
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 01:24:33 -0500
Subject: Spain: UFO Over Xativa?


SOURCE: Las Provincias (newspaper--Spain)
DATE: December 12, 2002

A UFO FLIES OVER XATIVA

**Three local policemen claim having seen light in the sky and a
metallic flying object that gave off a powerful light on
different occasions**

There are more than clouds and stars in the skies over Xativa.
Local police officer Paco Hell=EDn is one of three policemen who
in recent days claims having seen metallic unidentified flying
objects giving off very bright light. The first sighting
occurred in the early hours of November 20 to the 21st.
According to Hell=EDn "an unexplained metallic object gave off a
strong blue light and moved in a visibly notable manner."

"I was at my station and some fellow officers on patrol told me
they had seen the object. Thinking it might be the planet Venus,
I headed to the location and saw the object did not look at all
like any of the stars that were out at that time."

After that, the three policemen saw "how the object moved
vertically." To add certainty to these movements, the officers
used the cables of the RENFE catenary and the mountains in the
background as a point of reference. "We suddenly saw that the
object, as soon as it was both above and in between the cables,
approached and went away from the mountain tops."

The agents witnessed the display from 0600 to 0650 hours. They
then decided to contact the Manises Airport control tower to
have the facility's radar detect the object. "There, after
providing the coordinates of 150 to 170 degrees southeast,
taking the airport as reference, they told us that nothing
appeared in their radar, because in order for an object to be
detected, it needs to have a transponder that issues a signal."

"Days later," continued the officer, "I went to the airport and
remarked [on the event] with some of the directros of the
aviation school, who told me that he too had seen a luminous
object from his balcony, and it was possibly work being
performed on a space station."

Days went by and another agent claimed having seen "a metallic
object over the Lluis Alcayins hospital. This occurred on
November 29 or 30, "and on the following day it was also around
that same area," adds Hell=EDn. According to his description, "it
was thimble-shaped and gave off a glowing white light at its
core, and an intense blue hue that changed to a lighter color."

=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
Translation (C) 2002 Scott Corrales
Institute of Hispanic Ufology
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                     Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Young

From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:47:47 EST
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 01:27:05 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Young


 >From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:02:05 -0800
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

<snip>

 >E.g., Mogul engineer Charles Moore has recently been exposed as
 >a hoaxer by Brad Sparks and myself regarding his "calculated"
 >Mogul trajectory, and also been caught altering other data, such
 >as maps, to promote some sort of agenda. Whether his agenda is
 >personal or whether he was "inspired" by some outside agency I
 >don't know. But he has clearly perjured himself

What is your definition of "perjury"?

Is it the same as if somebody calls you a "liar"?

Or is it that, now, anybody who makes what may be a mistake, or
even interprets the meaning of weather data differently that you
wish, so that it does not match your world view is a "perjuror"?

Whatever you think this is, it ain't science, pal.

And it's hardly useful Ufology, either, whatever that may mean.

What, exactly, is your problem?


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                        Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Redfern

From: Nick Redfern <Skywatcher4u@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:52:15 EST
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 01:34:04 -0500
Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Redfern


 >From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:49:13 -0800 (PST)
 >Subject: Paul Bennewitz?

 >On Dr. Maccabee's website, I just read/reviewed his report on
 >UFO Landing near Kirtland AFB, and would like more material
 >about Paul Bennewitz, as his involvement with the UFO subject is
 >much more complicated, as I understand.

 >Some years ago, when visiting the Lorenzens of APRO, Coral
 >Lorenzen gave me a 17 page Summary & Status report called
 >'Project Beta' by Bennewitz. We didn't have time to discuss it
 >but I am very interested in finding out, if anyone is privy to
 >info, as to whether this material is the product of
 >disinformation, and also more details about whether Bennewitz
 >was discredited and if so, by whom?


One of the people connected with the Bennewitz events was USAF
Col. Richard Weaver of Roswell-Mogul balloon fame. Interesting
links here if you dig.


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                        Re: Another Approach - Young

From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:04:14 EST
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 01:35:27 -0500
Subject: Re: Another Approach - Young


 >From: Don Ledger <dledger@ns.sympatico.ca>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:13:37 -0400
 >Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 21:55:29 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>>From: Don Ledger <dledger@ns.sympatico.ca>
 >>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 19:09:34 -0400
 >>>Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>>How about the 2 mile plus diameter objects passing behind the
 >>>teather on the STS 75 mission? What are those?

<snip>

 >>Could you be more specific, please? What do you think is strange
 >>about any particular picture?

 >Not a damn thing Bob. That's the point. It's like showing
 >pictures of a nice family outing in the woods while completely
 >ignoring the photos taken of a bear eating your brother. Read
 >what I said.

OK, Don. I thought maybe you could point us to a picture of the
two-mile wide object, so that we could all take a look, and
maybe try to check the measurements, somehow.

If there is no picture, how do you know there was such an
object, then?


Clear skies,

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                       Re: Another Approach - Speiser

From: Jim Speiser <jimspeiser@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:12:37 -0700
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 01:38:14 -0500
Subject: Re: Another Approach - Speiser


 >From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 23:00:54 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:56:33 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>>From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:33:29 -0500
 >>>Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>>>From: Roy Norris <rnorris@charter.net>
 >>>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>>Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 14:02:31 -0600
 >>>>Subject: Another Approach

 >>"Statistically speaking, an unimpeachable photograph must sooner
 >>or later appear if UFOs are a physical reality. Every year that
 >>passes without such a photograph being produced is evidence
 >>against the position that unknown objects are operating in the
 >>Earth's atmosphere"

 >>-- Stuart Nixon, Director, NICAP, November 1972.


 >I suppose that saying it twice is supposed to make it true.
 >Howsomever, I was involved in the hiring of Stuart Nixon as a
 >NICAP editorial assistant, which I now acknowledge was one of my
 >most mistaken judgments.

 >In the first place, his quoted statement is pseudoscientific BS
 >("statistically speaking?"), but more importantly he
 >persistently and aggravatingly ignored his instructions from
 >Donald Keyhoe (Director) and Richard Hall (Assistant Director)
 >as to what his work assignment was, wasted lots of time and
 >money on things that he was not assigned to do, and then
 >participated in destroying the very effective network that we
 >had set up.

 >There is a lot more I could say (maybe in my - very unlikely -
 >memoirs), but that might give aid and comfort to the
 >"Government conspiracy" theorists, so I will not say more for
 >now. He may simply have been pigheaded and stubborn, but his
 >subsequently revealed connections with Jack Acuff and other CIA
 >persons, partisans, apologists raises very significant questions
 >about the entire issue of 'disinformation'.


Dick,

You're living in the 70s - you're impeaching Nixon all over
again!

I think that, without knowing any of the background you
provided, the quote is nonetheless a valid statement. Its only
fault is the fact that there are thus far some _unimpeached_ - I
won't say _unimpeachable_ - photos and videos.

I provided one example, Kanazawa. So his statement, while valid
in a vacuum, is nonetheless rendered moot.


Jim Speiser

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                        Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Speiser

From: Jim Speiser <jimspeiser@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:39:06 -0700
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 01:40:00 -0500
Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Speiser


 >From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:13:08 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:49:13 -0800 (PST)
 >>Subject: Paul Bennewitz?

 >..................

 >Someday someone ought to write this all down as a story.... Of
 >course the readers would think it all fiction. <LOL>

 >..................

 >I look forward to commentary and corrections on this brief
 >attempt at pulling this history out of you-know-where since I
 >haven't thought about this stuff for years! I know there are a
 >lot of other "players" out there in the UpDates list who have
 >pieces of it.

Bruce:

Don Ecker has done a commendable job of chronicling all this in
a series of articles for Fortean Times. I'll try to post a URL
if one exists...


Jim Speiser

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                   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Hutchinson

From: Bruce Hutchinson <bhutch@grassyhill.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:59:44 -500
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 01:43:06 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Hutchinson


 >From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:14:23 +0100
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:02:05 -0800
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>I noted with interest that Kevin, in his IUR article on
 >>>Kaufmann, recalled that "He always picked up the check,
 >>>claiming that someone else paid for it. The implication was
 >>>that the government was watching and Frank was just doing his
 >>>job". Well, what kind of job was he doing?

A snow job? <gr>

 >>Kaufmann claimed that he was a government counterintelligence
 >>and disinformation agent left behind to keep an eye on things.
 >>Whether this was true or not, I don't know, but there is some
 >>circumstantial evidence that might support it:

 >Thank you for your very interesting informations and questions
 >about Frank Kaufmann. They seem to confirm my impresion that he
 >was not a simple author of "tall tales".

Why do I suspect that in Frank Kaufmann, we may have another
Billy Meier-type debate just starting?

My guess is that there are many people who are loath to let go
of Frank's tale, if only because it was his stories that were
the foundation of Roswell's most sensational aspects. So I
forsee years of wrangling over the minutiae of Frank's stories,
and many attempts to rehabilitate him. This "armchair" dialogue
between David and Gildas is just the start.

It was Kevin Randle who was closest to Frank Kaufmann - he was
the guy who looked him in the eyes. Kevin also has the most to
lose - Frank's tales were the lynch-pin of "The Truth about the
UFO Crash at Roswell".

So if Kevin can publicly say that he no longer has any
confidence in _anything_ Frank had to say about the Roswell
Incident, well... he is the guy in the field, the one who should
know best. He has earned his position among UFO Advocates as an
Authority on Roswell and Frank Kaufmann.

If Kevin says Frank's story was a lie, why don't you believe
him?


(from my armchair)

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                       Re: Another Approach - Kimball

From: Paul Kimball <Kimballwood@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:05:56 EST
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 01:47:34 -0500
Subject: Re: Another Approach - Kimball


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 21:30:02 EST
 >Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>From: Paul Kimball <Kimballwood@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:52:38 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>>From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:56:33 EST
 >>>Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>Statistically speaking, even if an 'unimpeachable' photograph
 >>were to appear, 9 out of 10 skeptics would be able to find a way
 >>to rationalize it, at least to themselves (the tenth presumably
 >>drinking himself into a stupor as his world crashed down around
 >>his ears). Then, no doubt, they would start demanding ufologists
 >>produce an unimpeachable alien.

 >Undoubtedly.  But two of the greatest mysteries of UFOlogy
 >remain:

 >1)  Why is there no unimpeachable evidence of the saucers'
 >existance?

I would  suggest that the first "greatest mystery" of ufology is
why the skeptics continue to ignore the evidence (admittedly
circumstantial, but trials are decided on a lot less) that some
UFOs may be extraterrestrial in origin?

 >2)  Why have UFOlogists spun their wheels for more than 50 years
 >with only a couple half-hearted attempts to _obtain data_? Are
 >they afraid of something, or don't they like the idea of years
 >and years of unrelenting boredom searching for the real saucers?

I would suggest that the second greatest mystery in ufology is
why the skeptics continue to ignore or dismiss the data that has
been collected, including the tremendous body of credible
eyewitness testimony?

 >Or do they already suspect the truth?

Or are they scared of what a reasoned look at the data might mean?

 >Clear skies,

Sounds like yours are pretty foggy, actually.

 >Bob Young

Best regards,

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                  Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Rimmer

From: John Rimmer <jrimmer@magonia.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 21:12:31 +0000
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 01:49:11 -0500
Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Rimmer


 >From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 16:28:22 -0400
 >Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>From: John Rimmer <jrimmer@magonia.demon.co.uk>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:08:34 +0000
 >>Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>>From: Stan Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 18:45:20 -0400
 >>>Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>>I should add that there were, intentionally, other debunkers on
 >>>the show and in the audience, which may account for why the
 >>>audience believer-vote was "only" 73%, taken before the debate.
 >>>I suppose we could say we clobbered them. By the way the total
 >>>audience number, which I had not recalled, is more than twice
 >>>the number that saw the recent all time most popular SCI-FI
 >>>Documentary show about Roswell.

 >>More Research by Referendum. Surely all these "votes" show more
 >>about the nature of the audience at these events than the
 >>strength of the arguments advanced?


 >Sorry John, I don't do research by referendum.

 >It is very important for the general public and the media to
 >understand that a majority are ready to accept the notion that
 >some UFOs are ET visitors. 100,000 is a pretty good sample size.

 >In my experience, the major reason people don't report
 >sightings, that professors don't teach classes about UFOs, or
 >sponsor Theses about UFOs, and that the press doesn't treat the
 >subject fairly and honestly, is the false perception stimulated
 >by the ha ha treatment, that most people don't accept UFO
 >reality.

 >In fact, they do.

 >Most people behave on the basis of how they think people will
 >react to them and are fearful of ridicule.

No they aren't. Most people are not actually very bothered about
UFOs, still less worry about what their contemporaries will
think of them if they express an opinion on the subject. Most
people don't think UFOs are very important or have anything to
do with their own lives. There, I've said it, the ultimate
heresy!

People will, however, take an interest in the matter if it is
presented to them in an interesting way, and for all that I
disagree with Mr Friedman's viewpoints, I readily accept that
his arguments are presented in an interesting and entertaining
manner.

 >The reality of flying saucers is determined by the overwhelming
 >evidence.

I thought it had all been covered up!

 >The ITV show demonstrated that a discussion between three
 >serious UFO investigators, data gatherers, or whatever and three
 >learned professors can produce sufficient evidence to convince
 >people who can express their vote anonymously and safely without
 >fear of ridicule. That is very important.

I regard all such polls, phone-in votes and petitions as
worthless, even ones which support my own viewpoint. A recent
BBC-TV poll declared that Princess Diana was the third greatest
person in British history, ahead of figures like Newton, Darwin,
Cromwell, Queen Elizabeth the First, King Alfred and
Shakespeare. UFOs are such a non-issue for most people that,
when encouraged to, they are likely to vote on the spur of the
moment for the viewpoint which amused or entertained them the
most.

The relationship that may have to genuine scientific evidence
is, to say the least, problematical!

  -- John Rimmer Magonia
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                  Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Rimmer

From: John Rimmer <jrimmer@magonia.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 20:53:52 +0000
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 01:50:28 -0500
Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Rimmer


 >From: Jerome Clark <jkclark@frontiernet.net>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:26:57 -0600
 >Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 16:28:22 -0400
 >>Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>>From: John Rimmer <jrimmer@magonia.demon.co.uk>
 >>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:08:34 +0000
 >>>Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>>More Research by Referendum. Surely all these "votes" show more
 >>>about the nature of the audience at these events than the
 >>>strength of the arguments advanced?

 >>Sorry, John, I don't do research by referendum.

 >>It is very important for the general public and the media to
 >>understand that a majority are ready to accept the notion that
 >>some UFOs are ET visitors. 100,000 is a pretty good sample size.

 >>In my experience, the major reason people don't report
 >>sightings, that professors don't teach classes about UFOs, or
 >>sponsor Theses about UFOs, and that the press doesn't treat the
 >>subject fairly and honestly, is the false perception stimulated
 >>by the ha ha treatment....
 >
 >If so-called psychosocial ufology were anything other than
 >debunking/pelicanism by a more polite name, it would be as
 >concerned with the role of ridicule and disbelief as it would
 >with their opposites.
 >
 >As much as anything, ridicule and the fear of it have shaped UFO
 >reporting and discussion over the entire history of the UFO
 >controversy. Traditions of disbelief have done fully as much to
 >make sober analysis as impossible as uncritical belief has. More
 >maybe, since it's those with power who are immersed in the
 >former.

Whatever my views may be of Stanton Friedman's theories about
UFOs, I cannot doubt that he represents a very large body of
opinion amongst the general public - as he says above, "a
majority are ready to accept the notion that some UFOs are ET
visitors. 100,000 is a pretty good sample size".

We have discussed the "ridicule factor" at length on this list,
and I am still unconvinced that it exists. Yes, people in the
media do make silly comments about UFOs, yet at the same time
many people in the media also give wide, uncritical publicity to
UFO claims, otherwise why else would groups like CSICOP start
getting worked up about what they see as a "tide of credulity"
threatening their world view?

For every example of the "ha ha treatment" of UFOs in the media
- and I'm not denying that it exists - there is an example of an
equal and opposite "gee-whiz treatment" where UFO-related claims
are promoted uncritically at face value.

If Jerry wants psychosocial ufologists to take the role of
ridicule and disbelief seriously, perhaps he might like to write
an article on the subject for Magonia magazine?

--
John Rimmer
Magonia Magazine
www.magonia.demon.co.uk







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                        Tagish Lake Meteorite Article

From: Brian Straight <brians@mdbs.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:22:13 -0500
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 01:52:07 -0500
Subject: Tagish Lake Meteorite Article


Possible Precursors to Early Life Found in "Tagish Lake" Meteorite

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=10115

"In a study published today in the "International Journal of
Astrobiology," researchers state that a meteorite that fell to
Earth over northwestern Canada in January 2000 contains a
previously unseen type of primitive organic material that was
formed long before our own solar system came into being."








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                    Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Friedman

From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 19:56:05 -0400
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 01:56:02 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Friedman


 >From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:31:15 EST
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers. com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net>
 >>Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 22:56:03 -0400
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol. com>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net
 >>>Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:36:11 EST
 >>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers. com>
 >>>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net>
 >>>>Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 18:40:18 -0400
 >>>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>>>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol. com>
 >>>>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net
 >>>>>Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 20:16:13 EST
 >>>>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>>>>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers. com>
 >>>>>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net>
 >>>>>>Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 18:20:30 -0400
 >>>>>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>>>>>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol. com>
 >>>>>>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net
 >>>>>>>Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 20:23:13 EST
 >>>>>>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >Good Morning, Stan, List, All -

 >>>I'm going to snip some of this to keep it from becoming very
 >>>long. I hope clarity will follow...

 >And I shall do it again because, well, frankly, I can...

 ><snip>

I just can't spend the time and effort correcting all the false
claims that were in this post. Perhaps if I were a better
typist, but I am not. So my snip is a huge one - all but that
above. I am sure some Listers will breathe a sigh of relief.


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                     Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Printy

From: Tim Printy <Tprinty2@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 21:33:36 EST
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 01:59:34 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Printy


 >From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:02:05 -0800
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

<snip>

 >A good example was Sgt. Robert Smith of the Air Transport Unit,
 >who said he helped load C54's with crates of crash material
 >while unknown, plain-clothes "inspectors" flashed ID cards from
 >some unknown project. Smith also said a cousin of his with the
 >Secret Service served as Truman's representative. Kaufmann also
 >mentioned the SS agent and gave the same name.

I am not so sure about this and I think Kevin Randle needs to
resolve this issue. First, the names are not exactly the same
(Devinnes vs DeVinney). This is not too big a deal but what is
really important is footnote 50 in the book "The Truth About the
UFO Crash at Roswell". According to this note, the name listed
does not come from Kaufmann but is attributed to an interview
with Smith in 1991. The question is, did Kaufmann give this name
or was it just Smith?


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                      Re: Abductions & Ufology - Velez

From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 00:59:30 -0500
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 02:03:12 -0500
Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology - Velez


 >From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:10:37 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >>From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:17:37 -0500
 >>Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >>>From: Dave Morton <Marspyrs@aol.com>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 07:12:12 EST
 >>>Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 ><snip>

 >>A "fake" abductee, IMO, would indicate that someone is making up
 >>their story, for some reasion, but how do we tell the difference
 >>between someone who simply believes they've been abducted when
 >>in fact they have not?  Should we accept on faith the word of
 >>abduction researchers that they can tell the difference. John
 >>Mack was taken in by a reporter, who spent a number of months as
 >>part of an abduction group, which she later wrote about in a
 >>Time Magazine article. She obviously knew that she was faking
 >i>t, but what about non-abdutees who aren't? Other than their own
 >>beliefs and faith in humanity, how do researchers measure the
 >>difference.

 >Here's a test: read the first chapter in Abduction In My Life
 >and answer the question, did this really happen to the writer?
 >(Said question has been asked by numerous readers.)

Hi Steve, Bruce, all,

Been following this thread. It's been interesting learning what
it is people think of abductees, their reports and the abduction
phenomenon. With some room for debate here and there, much of it
is valid and the way I would feel and think about it if it
wasn't happening to me. As I have said, myself and many others
cannot enjoy the luxury of disbelief.

How about a 'real' test? How about a formal investigation?

The thing that keeps coming back to me as I read this back and
forth debate about who is full of it and who isn't, is the human
cost. The 'price' that (even if they be few in number) that
honest, brave and sincere individuals have to pay for reporting
what has been happening to them and to their families. How they
have to sit and wait and tend to their own wounds while the rest
of the world decides whether they are going to believe them or
not. And all because they felt an obligation to their fellow
men/women to let them know what they suspect or know (as the
case may be) is going on.

Re: liars

Fact: People can be fooled.

Fact: Some people will intentionally fool other people for
whatever reasons, monetary, psychological etc. they may have as
individuals for doing so.

Does that mean that _everyone_ is lying?

No. It doesn't.

It would only take _one_ person who is accurately and factually
reporting a kidnapping by the occupants of a UFO to make this an
urgent and ugly concern for all. Not just a 'chosen' (pun
intended) few.

People who are 'crazy' are unbalanced in many ways and it
shows symptoms in many aspects of their behavior, interactions
with others, relationships and indeed their 'lives' in general.

Someone with the kind of character disorder that would allow
them to  construct and tell elaborate lies to others, do not
tell just 'one lie.' They lie all the time. To every one they
know. It is a 'symptom' of whatever it is that is wrong with
them.

It is also how chronic tellers of elaborate lies get caught.
They tell so many lies to so many people, that at some point
they forget what lie they told to which person and they get
eventually busted. If they're lucky and smart they get help.

By force of sheer numbers, the odds that _every_ person who has
reported UFO abduction over the years has a character disorder
on the scale that would allow them to do such a thing is slim.
Like I said, it would only take 'one' person reporting the truth
to make this _everyone's_ problem.

In the meantime, while the albeit 'righteous' debate rages on
about who can be believed and how to find that out, the ones who
are only reporting what has happened to them continue to be
ignored and go without help of any kind.

Kind of like asking a rape victim for a semen sample as proof
before tending to the knife wounds they received during the
assault. Not _everybody_ is lying. That means; that some people
who have been seriously traumatized _repeatedly_ over a life-
time and who have had to endure literally 'inhuman' events and
ordeals continue to go ignored and completely unattended.

One thing Amy Hebert said that I am in complete agreement with
is; we desperately need a multi-disciplinary investigation into
this whole abduction business. And we needed it yesterday.

While many are engaged in an endless debate about who may be
lying or not, we have thousands of our neighbors falling between
the cracks who are reporting being kidnapped by the occupants of
UFOs. Whether it turns out to be a literal truth or not isn't
even the real issue. Looking into the cause of whatever is
evidently affecting a large number of otherwise sane and stabile
human beings world-wide, is.

We really need to get our priorities straight. People, human
beings should rightfully always be at the top of any agenda.
Screw whether UFOs, aliens, or abductions are real or not.
Either; thousands of ordinary and perfectly 'sane' individuals
are manifesting some new psychological disorder, or something
else, real or otherwise, is happening to them. We need to know
what that 'something' is.

The only way we're going to find out is if everybody begins to
demand, in one voice, an immediate, formal, multi-disciplinary
investigation into these reports.

Isn't anybody out there worried that whatever this 'bug' is that
is affecting so many thousands of others may one day infect you?
I'm not crazy or a liar and I 'contracted' whatever this 'thing'
is. If it is some new kind of 'crazy' that can affect an
ordinary, family oriented, working man like myself, what makes
you think that it can't happen to you? If it turns out to be a
purely human phenomenon then aren't _all_ human beings
susceptible to catching it? If it's all in our heads, what makes
anyone think they are magically, uniquely, immune to it.

If not for humanitarian reasons; to help others, then out of
pure self-preservation everyone should be calling for an
investigation into these matters. We'll figure out who was
BS'ing and who wasn't later.

Right now... we _all_ need to know what is going on. Period.
There but for the Grace of God go you and your loved ones. The
only way we're going to learn anything is to call for the
immediate investigation of these reports.

End of story.


Regards,

John Velez
abductee, telling the truth and awaiting the day.

Sign the International Petition to the United Nations
for disclosure of information pertaining to UFOs.

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                       Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Goldstein

From: Josh Goldstein <clearlight@t-online.de>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 07:03:52 +0100
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 02:08:22 -0500
Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Goldstein



 >From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:13:08 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:49:13 -0800 (PST)
 >>Subject: Paul Bennewitz?


Hi Bruce, Laurel, and Listerions,

What a story from Ufodom in the eighties this is. A great cast
of extreme characters in amazing events while great truth, great
disinformation, and the utterings of some very disturbed minds
spew forth. I'm thinking a movie. I remember going through this
as it unfolded back then. I am sure lots of you fellow
Listerions remember this ride as you were taken on it.

 >>On Dr. Maccabee's website, I just read/reviewed his report on
 >>UFO Landing near Kirtland AFB, and would like more material
 >>about Paul Bennewitz, as his involvement with the UFO subject is
 >>much more complicated, as I understand.

 >>Some years ago, when visiting the Lorenzens of APRO, Coral
 >>Lorenzen gave me a 17 page Summary & Status report called
 >>'Project Beta' by Bennewitz. We didn't have time to discuss it
 >>but I am very interested in finding out, if anyone is privy to
 >>info, as to whether this material is the product of
 >>disinformation, and also more details about whether Bennewitz
 >>was discredited and if so, by whom?

 >I did not spend a lot of time studying the Bennewitz
 >involvement. I concentrated on the AFOSI aspects of the Kirtland
 >Landing (and other sightings in the summer of 1980). My
 >recollection is dim and others can correct me as needed:

 >Sometime in the late 1970's Bennewitz was working with a lady
 >abductee/contactee who told him (through hypnosis?) that there
 >was an underground alien base near Dulce, NM. Bennewitz,
 >independently, was receiving electromagnetic signals at his
 >company headquarters and laboratory which is/was just outside
 >one of the gates at Kirtland AFB (Thunder Research, as I
 >recall). He came to believe the signals he received were
 >communications between Kirtland and the aliens. (Subsequent
 >research suggested that he had detected radiation from a large
 >device at Kirtland which was intended to simulate the
 >electromagnetic pulse from a nuclear weapon... said device was
 >used to test the vulnerability of aircraft to EM pulses.)

It has been so long that I am also dim regarding what I became
aware of first and the date. For me it was most likely sometime
in 1981. I respected Bill Moore as a researcher and
investigator. I had read the Roswell book, and being in
California, would see him and chat it up with him at some
meetings. I used to call him on the phone to discuss some cases.
That's a long ways before I ended up sitting in the audience 8
years later when Moore confessed his naive tragedy at the MUFON
Symposium.

Those are only two of my bookends to this great drama. Between
them and beyond it contains all the story and visual elements to
make a gripping ride. Are any executive producers reading this?
;->It would be great to interview Bruce and all the other people
close to this epic. I was just a spectator to the events as they
became known to us folks trying to learn all we could from the
UFO field. Here I'll just add a few nuggets from my memory to
Bruce's fine portrayal of the timeline and the major events,

Laurel, I don't have time now to look into websites that may be
telling this story with many pages of all the events and
characters that wove it into an exciting adventure. I remember
being very excited over many aspects of all this as it unfolded.
If you do not remember it or it is new to you, I suggest
checking out websites.

 >Bennewitz contacted Kirtland to point out that he was detecting
 >this radiation and AFOSI investigated.

 >AFOSI - Air Force Office of Special Investigations, normally a
 >criminal investigative unit, but often used to investigate UFO
 >reports.

 >This is how Richard Doty became involved with Bennewitz in the
 >fall of 1980. However, previous to that, in August 1980 there
 >were sightings in the area that were reported to AFOSI
 >headquarters (and forms the basis for my paper, UFO Landings At
 >Kirtland AFB or Welcome To The Cosmic Watergate, the paper
 >referred to on my web site.) The landing was in a restricted
 >area in the Mazano mountains. Doty was the investigator of the
 >Kirtland Landing case.

I remember being shocked when reports of those sightings were
brought out, as they seemed to be pretty solid and reliable.
Bruce, you cover it well on your site.

 >So, you have UFO sightings in the summer of 1980, and then AFOSI
 >was contacted about Bennewitz's claim of detecting
 >communications with aliens. 'Naturally' AFOSI was interested.
 >Could Bennewitz be tapping into classified transmissions?

 >A big meeting was held at Bennewitz's lab in November (?) 1980.
 >Doty and other intel agents and scientists were there. Bennewitz
 >showed a movie he had of a strange object near an airplane
 >taking off and reported on the electromagnetic signals he had
 >received. Subsequently the overt investigation of Bennewitz was
 >dropped as it seems that Bennewitz's electromagnetic signals
 >could be explained (although perhaps Bennewitz wasn't told the
 >explanation).
 >
 >I presume that Bennewitz was duly impressed by the interest
 >shown by the AF in what he had "discovered" and this may have
 >convinced him he was on the right track.... aliens existed, and
 >they communicated with Kirtland and there was a base near Dulce.

 >This series of events, which have been documented (written down)
 >piecemeal in several sources (e.g. Bill Moore writings) led to the
 >following:

At first, when I had found out that he was a scientist receiving
electromagnetic signals I became very excited because his house
overlooked Coyote Canyon, which contained the Manzano Mountain
underground nuclear storage depot. That was where those two
landing cases took place.

I can't remember, but I think Bennewitz told AFOSI about Project
Beta and presented the Project Beta document at that time.
Later, when I looked at it I wondered about Bennewitz. But
around that time I had read his report on the woman, I think
Christa Tilton, who reported the aliens being underground up at
Dulce Canyon. They had defeated our best forces and we had to
make a deal with the devil, the aliens.

They built a many layered hive underground that contained
various vats, plumbing, and associated equipment to keep the
aliens alive. The deal was that we could also live if we
supplied the aliens with the required number of people to enable
them to live. The aliens ate through some form of skin
absorbance process. Therefore the humans would have to be
floating in vats, slowly aging to a fine vintage until they were
liquified and their essences absorbed by dining aliens. Was this
an alien wine cellar?

I used to read Bennewitz`s reports from when he flew his plane
over Dulce Canyon. He even reported structures on the surface
and UFOs going in and out. Maybe it was more like a McDonalds
for the aliens. Maybe they were like the Nazis and separated the
people according to types and listed them as such on the menu. I
know, how could anyone believe such a tale?

I don't remember just when and how but a new actor appeared, a
voice of authority named Gabe Valdez, a New Mexico State Police
or Highway Patrol officer.He lived and patrolled in the Dulce
Canyon area. He also reported the same kind of structures as did
Bennewitz. Do any researchers remember how he first came on the
scene and met Bennewitz? The Dulce canyon reports ended up
causing a bunch of folks to go out there and earnestly look for
the entrance to the underground alien nest, as if they wouldn't
get zapped if they came anywhere near it.

There was one suspicious shaft but that was not the entrance.
They ended up wondering if it was in an area guarded by
unpopulated watch towers disguised as hunting towers

<snip>

 >Lear and Cooper sort of teamed up for a year or so, until Lear
 >realized that Cooper was a real "basket case" (psychopath of
 >some sort) who kept changing his story. (I talked to Cooper at
 >the time he first went public. He was claiming he had documents
 >that proved the cover up. He told me he had written them from
 >memory, having seen them over ten years before. He told me his
 >documents were correct but the ones provided by Bill Moore were
 >fakes. I mused over that.... Cooper's documents were word for
 >word identical to what Moore had provided months before Cooper
 >came on the scene. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA)
 >................................................................
 >...

 >Epilogue

 >Subequently Bill Moore "confessed" to having provided Bennewitz
 >with questionable documents and he was severaly criticized and he
 >dropped out of ufology. (I haven't had any contact with him for
 >close to 10 years now). He occasionally "appears" in
 >Moseley's 'Saucer Smear' newsletter.

 >Bennewitz spent time in one or more hospitals for psychological
 >problems. I tried to visit him in 1985 at the time of my
 >investigation of the Kirtland Landing referred to above. I went
 >to his company headquarters but he wouldn't see me. I left a
 >phone number and he called. He said he would talk only because I
 >was a friend of J. Allen Hynek. Bennewitz told me about the
 >aliens (and others?) sticking needles into him all the time. I
 >really didn't learn much of value from him.

 >Lear got fed up with ufology and dropped out.

 >Cooper took his conspiratorial ravings elsewhere. He wrote a
 >book Behold a Pale Horse, a name taken from Revelation... the
 >end times, etc. In that book I, among many others, was
 >identified as a CIA agent of destruction. Anyone who disagreed
 >with Cooper was a CIA agent . This was true even if Cooper
 >changed his story and you agreed with the last story he told
 >(one reason Lear split). A more accurate name for Cooper's book
 >woudl have been Behind a Pale Horse. Cooper was shot while
 >trying to avoid arrest a couple of years ago (had nothing to do
 >with UFOs)... more to do with militias.

The sickest part about Cooper was that, due to his psychopathic
paranoia and militia mania, he took a married police officer and
father.with him. He murdered that officer. I first saw him crazy Bill
in person in the1980s and immediately knew that he would have easily
risen through the ranks of the Waffen SS given the opportunity.

Then there is the storyline of Richard Doty, MJ-12, and the Woods.
Doty is out of the military but he is not having loose lips. I don't
know how long his father lived but somehow my mind gets a funny
picture of Pa and son Doty sitting in front of a computer and busting
out laughing at Pa and son Woods over the great joke of
disinformation being played. Are there pieces of truth mixed with
pieces of fraud? Who knows? Does USAF OSI?

 >Someday someone ought to write this all down as a story.... Of
 >course the readers would think it all fiction. <LOL>

As I said before, this has movie written all over it. Then
again, there is TV. Maybe the Sci-Fi Network would be
interested. ;-)

Please remember, just because UFOs do not hover over football
stadiums does not mean that if they contain occupants they are
not watching the NFL.

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                        Re: Another Approach - Bowden

From: Tom Bowden <tomrbowden@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 23:57:39 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:52:28 -0500
Subject: Re: Another Approach - Bowden


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 21:30:02 EST
 >Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>From: Paul Kimball <Kimballwood@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:52:38 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Another Approach

<snip>

 >Undoubtedly. But two of the greatest mysteries of UFOlogy
 >remain:

 >1) Why is there no unimpeachable evidence of the saucers'
 >existance?

 >2) Why have UFOlogists spun their wheels for more than 50 years
 >with only a couple half-hearted attempts to _obtain data_? Are
 >they afraid of something, or don't they like the idea of years
 >and years of unrelenting boredom searching for the real saucers?

 >Or do they already suspect the truth?


Now this is just too much! Many people over the last several
decades have spent many thousands of hours, mostly on their own
time, trying to obtain data. What you are referring to as "half-
hearted attempts" for some have been a lifelong passion and
avocation. Many have sacrificed careers and marriages to the
cause.

I reiterate the often echoed plea: To obtain data requires the
means to set up a bona-fide research project; to set up such a
project requires funds for equipment and dedicated staffing, and
it also requires enough recognition from scientists in multiple
disciplines so that a healthy, unprejudiced exchange of data can
take place. Unimpeachable evidence is not required before
research can be funded. Should medical researchers have proof of
a cure for cancer before they can receive funding for research?

Mr. Young, why don't you try making at least a half-hearted
attempt at opening up your narrow mind.

Tom Bowden









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                       Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Bourdais

From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:54:10 +0100
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:58:30 -0500
Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Bourdais


 >From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:13:08 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:49:13 -0800 (PST)
 >>Subject: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>On Dr. Maccabee's website, I just read/reviewed his report on
 >>UFO Landing near Kirtland AFB, and would like more material
 >>about Paul Bennewitz, as his involvement with the UFO subject is
 >>much more complicated, as I understand.

 >>Some years ago, when visiting the Lorenzens of APRO, Coral
 >>Lorenzen gave me a 17 page Summary & Status report called
 >>'Project Beta' by Bennewitz. We didn't have time to discuss it
 >>but I am very interested in finding out, if anyone is privy to
 >>info, as to whether this material is the product of
 >>disinformation, and also more details about whether Bennewitz
 >>was discredited and if so, by whom?

 >I did not spend a lot of time studying the Bennewitz
 >involvement. I concentrated on the AFOSI aspects of the Kirtland
 >Landing (and other sightings in the summer of 1980). My
 >recollection is dim and others can correct me as needed:

 >Sometime in the late 1970's Bennewitz was working with a lady
 >abductee/contactee who told him (through hypnosis?) that there
 >was an underground alien base near Dulce, NM. Bennewitz,
 >independently, was receiving electromagnetic signals at his
 >company headquarters and laboratory which is/was just outside
 >one of the gates at Kirtland AFB (Thunder Research, as I
 >recall). He came to believe the signals he received were
 >communications between Kirtland and the aliens. (Subsequent
 >research suggested that he had detected radiation from a large
 >device at Kirtland which was intended to simulate the
 >electromagnetic pulse from a nuclear weapon... said device was
 >used to test the vulnerability of aircraft to EM pulses.)


Bruce and all

In studying that story, I found the following elements :

In 1980, Bennewitz had been informed by APRO of the abduction of
Judy Doraty and her daughter Cindy, in 1973 in Texas. There had
been hypnosis sessions, first in 1978, and in Mars 1980
conducted by Dr Sprinkle in the presence of Linda Howe, who told
the story in her book "An Alien harvest" (1989). Ten years
later, Cindy wished to have an hypnotic regression too. It was
done in 1990 by John Carpenter with Linda Howe. The transcript
of that session is in the book of Linda Howe "Glimpses of other
realities" - Volume 1 (1993). The point here is that the mother
and the daughter don't recall any underground laboratory.

Then comes the abduction case of Myrna Hansen, on 5 May 1980
with her son, near Cimarron, north-east of New Mexico. She was
regressed by Dr Sprinkle on May 11, in the presence of Paul
Bennewitz. The transcript of that session is in the book of
Linda Howe "An Alien Harvest" (pp 112 to 116, and Annex 13, pp
340 to 373). In her book, Linda Howe did not give her name, but
it has been published since (see for instance Jerome Clark's "UFO
Encyclopedia" Vol III p 26). One thing at least is clear, Myrna
Hansen did not mention Dulce. On the contrary, she felt she had
been taken to an underground lab in a place between Las Cruces
and Roswell, in the south of New Mexico.

So, this is not the origin of the rumors about Dulce, which is
located in the north-west of New Mexico. Where do they
originate, then?

According to the respected researcher Jim McCampbell, who
interviewed Bennewitz in 1984, Bennewitz thought he had spotted
the Dulce area after he had received messages on his computer.
But there is more. He said he had been invited to fly over the
place (the Archuleta mesa) in a helicopter with officers from
Kirtland AFB. He gave the name of a Major Edwards, in charge of
security of the Manzano area at Kirtland, and of a Colonel
Carpenter. He also mentions as a source of information an OSI
(AFOSI) agent. He does not give the name but he is probably
Richard Doty. These elements are in the controversial book by
William Steinman "UFO Crash at Aztec" (1986, pages 578 to 587).
I am curious to know if this is confirmed from another source.

Regarding the disinformation fed to Paul Bennewitz, here is what
William Moore said in his speech at the Mufon Symposium of 1989
in Las Vegas. I have the video, and the text published by Moore
himself in his review "Focus" (June 30, 1989). I verified that
his speech and his text are almost identical - Moore read his
text.

He said, after telling how he had been recruited by a "well
placed individual in the intelligence commnunity", whom he
called the "Falcon", and put in contact with Richard Doty who
became his liaison man at AFOSI:


"I also discovered that, whatever it was Bennewitz was involved
in, he was the subject of considerable interest on the part of
not one but several government agencies, and that they were
actively trying to defuse him by pumping as much disinformation
through him as he could possibly absorb. Being a very small part
of that process gave me, I thought, something of an advantage.
It became my intention to play that advantage for all the
information I could get out of it."


So, it looks like the rumor of Dulce originated, not from
abductees, but from intelligence agencies.

Any other opinions?

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                    Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais

From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:55:29 +0100
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:02:18 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais


 >From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
 >Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:35:12 EST
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:02:05 -0800
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
 >>>Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 17:19:26 +0100
 >>>Fwd Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 12:54:21 -0500
 >>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais

<snip>

 >The big point here is if other investigations corroborate parts
 >of the story, but we must also be aware of contamination. How
 >much did Kaufmann know from those other sources... I know that
 >he watched the Unsolved Mysteries segment because he talked
 >about it having seen it. From that point on, he kept himself
 >informed of about the latest in the Roswell case.


Kevin,

This is another interesting aspect of the Kaufmann problem.
Perhaps he came across some real information and began to
elaborate on them?

I would like you to give your opinion now about the "impact
site", closer to Roswell. After the demise of both Ragsdale and
Kaufmann, what is left of it?

I think there are some indirect testimonies, still standing,
about it?

And what do you think of the testimonies about bodies at the
Foster ranch? I mentioned that in my previous message. I forgot
to mention the source - a very interesting article - "Mack
Brazel Reconsidered" by Thomas Carey and Donald Schmit, in the
IUR of winter 1999, which told of the new revelations made by
Frank Joyce in 1998, that Brazel had seen the bodies.

At the end of their IUR article, they mention other sources.

Wilcox's widow Inez who said that her husband "went out there to
the site. There was a big burned area, and he saw debris. It was
in the evening. There were "space beings"". (She did not give
the location, apparently)

A woman in Ruidoso remembered her husband coming back from a
detail to a ranch "up near Corona" where bodies had been found.
His clothes smelled very bad.

According to the family of the late Meyers Wahnee, who was a
pilot in Roswell, he told them that there were three separate
sites ! Bodies were found and first flown to Texas. "Decomposing
body parts" had been found among the debris at the Foster ranch.

BTW, Brazel complained to Joyce about the stench of the bodies.

I remember that, after your speech in Roswell in 1995, I
questioned your revised time line which seemed a bit short to
allow for such a decomposition, but you replied: "what do we
know about the decomposition of Et bodies?". Well, I still think
that these bodies would have been there a longer time.

Carey and Schmit also mention the last testimony of Loretta
Proctor, at the age of 81, who said that her son "Dee" took her
to visit a place where "something else" had been found, about
2.5 miles east-southeast of the debris field".

What do you think of all these testimonies?


Gildas Bourdais








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                            Thanks From 'Beyond'

From: Philip Mantle <philip.mantle@eidosnet.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 18:10:05 -0000
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:06:47 -0500
Subject: Thanks From 'Beyond'


On behalf of everyone involved at the Beyond web site:

http://www.beyondpublications.com

I would like to thank everyone for all of their endeavours in
making the site a success. We have a constant stream of visitors
to the site and while the hits have not yet reached the
millions, we are very happy with the way things are progressing.

In 2003 we hope to be able to spend more time on the site,
adding new graphics, improving various other aspects, and
ironing out one or two technical errors that still seem to
bother us.

Of course the hunt for a continuous supply of articles still
goes on. We are in constant need of articles on:

Alien Abductions
UFOs
Crop Circles
Paranormal/Psychic Phenomenon
Cover-ups/Conspiracies
Cryptozoology
Fortean Phenomenon
Alternative Medicine
Alternative History/Archaeology
Alternative/Hidden/Free Energy
Spirituality
News Items

In short, anything that is currently BEYOND accepted science.

If you have any articles that you would like to submit please do
so via: philipmantle@hotmail.com

If you are one of our past contributors, and there are far too
many for me to remember them all, please do consider further
contributions. Your contributions in 2002 have been exceptional
and without you BEYOND simply would not exist. A big thank you
is extended to all of you.

In return for articles I will gladly publicise/promote anything
of yours in return such as new books, conferences, meetings etc.

The site was up-dated at the beginning of December and will be
up-dated again early in January 2003. We have a competition
still running the prize of which is copies of our recently
published books 'Without Consent' and 'Awakening'.

Again, thank you for your efforts in 2002 and may we take this
opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Xmas and a Happy New
Year.


Yours Sincerely,


Philip Mantle
Beyond
http://www.beyondpublications.com


PS.

If you are still looking for that unique Xmas gift and would
like to obtain some top class UFO artwork, then please take a
look at special effects artist Rob Townshend's work at:

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                      Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Richardson

From: Geoff Richardson <geoff@fastdog.karoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:27:15 -0000
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:11:10 -0500
Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Richardson


 >From: Nick Redfern <Skywatcher4u@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:52:15 EST
 >Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:49:13 -0800 (PST)
 >>Subject: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>On Dr. Maccabee's website, I just read/reviewed his report on
 >>UFO Landing near Kirtland AFB, and would like more material
 >>about Paul Bennewitz, as his involvement with the UFO subject is
 >>much more complicated, as I understand.

 >>Some years ago, when visiting the Lorenzens of APRO, Coral
 >>Lorenzen gave me a 17 page Summary & Status report called
 >>'Project Beta' by Bennewitz. We didn't have time to discuss it
 >>but I am very interested in finding out, if anyone is privy to
 >>info, as to whether this material is the product of
 >>disinformation, and also more details about whether Bennewitz
 >>was discredited and if so, by whom?

 >One of the people connected with the Bennewitz events was USAF
 >Col. Richard Weaver of Roswell-Mogul balloon fame. Interesting
 >links here if you dig.


Paul Bennewitz's involvement with "The Aviary" and alleged
incidents near the town of Dulce is covered at The WHY? FILES

http://www.thewhyfiles.co.uk


Regards,

Geoff Richardson







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                        Re: Another Approach - Ledger

From: Don Ledger <dledger@ns.sympatico.ca>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:47:54 -0400
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:17:45 -0500
Subject: Re: Another Approach - Ledger


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:04:14 EST
 >Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>From: Don Ledger <dledger@ns.sympatico.ca>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:13:37 -0400
 >>Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>>From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 21:55:29 EST
 >>>Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>>>From: Don Ledger <dledger@ns.sympatico.ca>
 >>>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 19:09:34 -0400
 >>>>Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>>>How about the 2 mile plus diameter objects passing behind the
 >>>>teather on the STS 75 mission? What are those?

 ><snip>

 >>>Could you be more specific, please? What do you think is strange
 >>>about any particular picture?

 >>Not a damn thing Bob. That's the point. It's like showing
 >>pictures of a nice family outing in the woods while completely
 >>ignoring the photos taken of a bear eating your brother. Read
 >>what I said.

 >OK, Don. I thought maybe you could point us to a picture of the
 >two-mile wide object, so that we could all take a look, and
 >maybe try to check the measurements, somehow.

 >If there is no picture, how do you know there was such an
 >object, then?


It was on TLC again the other night Bob. I've seen it often.
NASA shot video. Maybe someone can point you to a site with the
video images.

best,

Don







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                   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Clark

From: Jerome Clark <jkclark@frontiernet.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:41:54 -0600
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:21:59 -0500
Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Clark


 >From: John Rimmer <jrimmer@magonia.demon.co.uk>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 20:53:52 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>From: Jerome Clark <jkclark@frontiernet.net>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:26:57 -0600
 >>Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 16:28:22 -0400
 >>>Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>>>From: John Rimmer <jrimmer@magonia.demon.co.uk>
 >>>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:08:34 +0000
 >>>>Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk
 >>If so-called psychosocial ufology were anything other than
 >>debunking/pelicanism by a more polite name, it would be as
 >>concerned with the role of ridicule and disbelief as it would
 >>with their opposites.

 >>As much as anything, ridicule and the fear of it have shaped UFO
 >>reporting and discussion over the entire history of the UFO
 >>controversy. Traditions of disbelief have done fully as much to
 >>make sober analysis as impossible as uncritical belief has. More
 >>maybe, since it's those with power who are immersed in the
 >>former.

 >We have discussed the "ridicule factor" at length on this list,
 >and I am still unconvinced that it exists.

Which is precisely one reason I have such a hard time taking
psychosocial ufology seriously. It denies the large role
ridicule has played in the history of our subject but argues (as
Peter Rogerson once did in Magonia) that Americans have
abduction hallucinations because they fear their Hispanic fellow
citizens.

In the real world, UFOs remain a subject unfit for any but
dismissive treatment, except on the margins and fringes, which
themselves serve as the focus of ridicule. Steven Spielberg has
recently been attacked for basing even an explicitly science-
fiction series on UFOs, in a ridicule-laced article in the
widely read on-line magazine Slate.

This is how it works: The elites in a position to encourage and
fund the sort of UFO research that we on the margins can't do
but which must be done drive ufology to the margins, then point
to the fact that it's on the margins as proof of its
illegitimacy. Meantime, everybody from scientists to politicians
to major news media to stand-up comedians routinely equates
belief in UFOs with belief in a living Elvis, or something
comparably knuckleheaded. This will not be news to any List
member except John.


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                                Getting Taken

From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:31:34 -0500
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:31:34 -0500
Subject: Getting Taken

http://slate.msn.com/?id74656

Getting Taken

Steven Spielberg, paranormal huckster
By Chris Mooney

Updated Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 12:54 PM PT

Suppose that the truth really is "out there," as The X-Files
postulated, but not exactly where you might expect. In other
words, rather than a vast government conspiracy to conceal proof
that aliens have visited Earth, perhaps the real plot lies
elsewhere. The entertainment industry, for instance, is
constantly putting out films, TV shows, and pseudo-documentaries
suggesting that Americans are being visited or even abducted in
droves by gray-skinned, strangely kinky spacemen_and that the
government wants to keep it all quiet. Dark Skies, Roswell,
Fox's Alien Autopsy special _ Could the real conspiracy be on
the part of the mass media and designed to make people believe
in UFOs because it helps ratings?

If such a plot exists, Steven Spielberg would have to be the
ringleader. After all, Spielberg planted the seeds of modern UFO
obsession with 1977's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which
he quickly followed up with E.T. (1982). And now it appears that
Spielberg was just getting warmed up. This Dec. 2, the Sci Fi
Channel will air the first installment of Taken, a 10-part
fictional miniseries about alien abductions, for which Spielberg
served as executive producer.

A 20-hour epic, Taken blends all the staples of our modern UFO
mythology into a multigenerational tale of three families torn
apart_and brought together_by aliens and the government's
ruthless quest to understand them. In the first generation, Air
Force pilot Russell Keys and his crew are saved by flashing blue
lights after their plane is shot down over France in World War
II; Army intelligence officer Owen Crawford investigates a crash
at Roswell, N.M.; and Lubbock, Texas, waitress Sally Clarke is
seduced and impregnated by a charming stranger who appears one
night, wounded, in her barn. Two generations later, Keys'
grandson Charlie and Clarke's granddaughter Lisa struggle to
protect their gifted part-alien daughter, Allie, from Crawford's
granddaughter Mary, who also works for the military. The final
conflagration reveals nothing less than the UFOs' true
intentions for humanity.

With its slogan "Some secrets we keep. Some are kept from us,"
Taken brings the conspiracy-mongering of The X-Files to its
logical conclusion, all but demanding that the feds come clean
about Roswell and other UFO encounters of the classified kind.
Still, Taken, which was four years in the making, may represent
the swan song of 1990s UFO culture. As Aliens in America author
Jodi Dean pointed out to me recently, following 9/11, America's
UFO fixation seemed to dwindle; with real invaders to worry
about, it was hard to care about alien ones. With its allusions
to government cover-ups, alien implants, the Roswell crash, and
alien-human hybrids, Taken almost seems like a time capsule made
especially for television.


The Sci Fi Channel, however, is treating aliens more seriously
than ever. The network, which now reaches some 80 million homes,
has billed Taken as a breakout premiere that will prove it's a
"television powerhouse." Sci Fi has also prepared a slew of tie-
ins: a Roper Poll announcing that three-quarters of Americans
are prepared for the discovery of extraterrestrial life; pseudo-
documentaries titled Abduction Diaries and The Roswell Crash:
Startling New Evidence; and public events featuring UFO-
abduction gurus John Mack, Bud Hopkins, and David Jacobs. All
this might seem an odd accompaniment to a fictional TV series,
but Sci Fi has gone even further. It has launched an advocacy
group called the Coalition for the Freedom of Information, which
plans to sue and file Freedom of Information Act requests to
make the government come clean about UFOs. Of course, if the
outlandish UFO information requests received by the National
Security Agency are any indication, the coalition's chief
achievement may be to drive a lot of bureaucrats up the wall.

Such activities certainly do suggest that Sci Fi and Spielberg
are out to make people believe in UFOs. Indeed, Sci Fi's
excavation of the Roswell crash site and other gimmicks threaten
to drag Taken into a sinkhole of purportedly factual UFO-
mongering. The evidence about Roswell overwhelmingly suggests
that what crashed in 1947 was a government spy balloon;
similarly, close examination of UFO-abduction claims
overwhelmingly suggests they're best explained by sleep
paralysis and other conditions. Those who already believe
otherwise, however, will never accept these explanations. That
makes battles over UFOlogy worse than pointless, especially if
they're conducted by a network like Sci Fi, rather than through
serious scientific channels, and presented in the context of
promoting a fictional drama.

Neither Taken nor its various tie-ins present us with any new
truths, but at least the series has other merits. In a fictional
format, Taken deftly historicizes the UFO lore that our culture
has churned out since the late 1940s, in a sense merging The X-
Files with something like Forrest Gump. At times Taken even
seems aware that with UFOs, what we're actually dealing with are
the modern analogues of fairies and fallen angels.

What's also impressive_and characteristically Spielbergian_is
how the momentous events of Taken unfold against thoroughly
mundane backdrops. Sally Clarke's bizarre contraption to contact
her alien lover recalls E.T.'s "phone home" gadget. When Owen
Crawford, head of a top-secret government UFO project, attempts
to kidnap Clarke's half-alien son Jacob, the song "Purple People
Eater" comes on the radio as they drive away. In yet another
scene, we learn that one useful technology the government
acquired from the UFOs was Velcro. The concept of "taken" is
itself a double entendre_characters are abducted and abused by
UFOs, but also by the government.

The one aspect of Taken that doesn't come in for a sensitive,
historicized treatment is the UFO itself_and its supposed
activities. In one installment, a highly complicated crop circle
appears in the United States in the year 1969 or 1970, even
though the crop circle phenomenon really only got going in the
mid-1970s in southern England. Similarly, Taken's aliens are
short, black-eyed, huge-skulled humanoids known as "grays," yet
it was only in 1961 with the Betty and Barney Hill "abduction"
that aliens began to be described this way. As an "Alien Time
Line" by the paranormal investigator Joe Nickell demonstrates,
up through the 1970s, people were seeing blobs, insectoids,
hairy dwarfs, robots, reptilians, and other types. In other
words, the way that UFOs appeared to Americans was itself
historically contingent on, and highly influenced by, media
representations.

Granted, if Taken admitted this, it would also have to admit
that Spielberg himself generated much of the lore that the
series has now repackaged and dramatized. But at least the Taken
crew seems willing to joke about it. In a recent interview,
Taken screenwriter Leslie Bohem noted that Spielberg once said
to him of alien abductions, "If this isn't true, then why are
all these stories the same?" To which Bohem replied, "Maybe
because of your movies?" That's not exactly fessing up to the
existence of a vast media conspiracy_but it's a promising start.







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              'Abductee' Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira A Hoaxer

From: A. J. Gevaerd - Revista UFO Brazil <gevaerd@ufo.com.br>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:51:13 -0200
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:56:32 -0500
Subject: 'Abductee' Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira A Hoaxer


To the International UFO Community: Very important

Please be informed that the story of a man abducted in Brazil,
with dramatic photos of the scenario, is a campaign to promote,
overseas, the biggest UFO hoaxer of all time in Brazil, Urandir
Fernandes de Oliveira, who has actually created a sect of
fanatics around him, composed of people who blindly believe in
his alleged ET contacts and healing powers, none of them ever
confirmed by anyone. The man has been repeatedly exposed as
hoaxer by dozens of UFO researchers. Many people from his sect,
after 'waking up to reality', have come forward to describe
Urandir=B4s tricks and scheme.

His last great attempt to go public in Brazil and overseas
happened last year, when he invented the story (easily exposed)
that a UFO had crashed at his friend's farm. It was only another
of his hoaxes, perpetrated to attract people to his activities,
to which they are invited to join if they pay a considerable
amount of money.

His history is all fake and the man is quickly becoming a
millionaire with his obscure agenda, supported by thousands of
fanatics.

Urandir is largely rejected by 99% of the Brazilian UFO
Community, who know that he is nothing but a hoaxer.

This story is _not_ to be taken seriously, as no responsible UFO
researcher has been allowed to scrutinize the scenario and the
alleged case.

Urandir was interviewed by Jeff Rense on Thursday night,
December 12, assisted by his fellow Felipe Castelo Branco. This
has taken serious people in the USA and all over the world to
believe in the story invented by Urandir.

The damage can be much bigger than one can think.

In Brazil, responsible UFO researchers and large media stream
have succeeded in debunking him at a considerable level. We have
succeeded in preventing thousands of Brazilians being cheated by
Urandir and now he is trying to establish his sect in the USA
and other countries.

Serious UFO researchers all over the world cannot let it happen.
The man is as fake as a 3- dollar bill. He spent time in jail
for selling property that doesn't belong to him.


A. J. Gevaerd

gevaerd@ufo.com.br
Editor, Brazilian UFO Magazine.
National Director, Mutual UFO Network.
Director, International UFO Congress.







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                 Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Friedman

From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:52:47 -0400
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:00:06 -0500
Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Friedman


 >From: Jerome Clark <jkclark@frontiernet.net>
 >To: <UFOupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:41:54 -0600
 >Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>From: John Rimmer <jrimmer@magonia.demon.co.uk>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 20:53:52 +0000
 >>Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>>From: Jerome Clark <jkclark@frontiernet.net>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:26:57 -0600
 >>>Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

<snip>

 >>>If so-called psychosocial ufology were anything other than
 >>>debunking/pelicanism by a more polite name, it would be as
 >>>concerned with the role of ridicule and disbelief as it would
 >>>with their opposites.

 >>>As much as anything, ridicule and the fear of it have shaped UFO
 >>>reporting and discussion over the entire history of the UFO
 >>>controversy. Traditions of disbelief have done fully as much to
 >>>make sober analysis as impossible as uncritical belief has. More
 >>>maybe, since it's those with power who are immersed in the
 >>>former.

 >>We have discussed the "ridicule factor" at length on this list,
 >>and I am still unconvinced that it exists.

 >Which is precisely one reason I have such a hard time taking
 >psychosocial ufology seriously. It denies the large role
 >ridicule has played in the history of our subject but argues (as
 >Peter Rogerson once did in Magonia) that Americans have
 >abduction hallucinations because they fear their Hispanic fellow
 >citizens.

 >In the real world, UFOs remain a subject unfit for any but
 >dismissive treatment, except on the margins and fringes, which
 >themselves serve as the focus of ridicule. Steven Spielberg has
 >recently been attacked for basing even an explicitly science-
 >fiction series on UFOs, in a ridicule-laced article in the
 >widely read on-line magazine Slate.

 >This is how it works: The elites in a position to encourage and
 >fund the sort of UFO research that we on the margins can't do
 >but which must be done drive ufology to the margins, then point
 >to the fact that it's on the margins as proof of its
 >illegitimacy. Meantime, everybody from scientists to politicians
 >to major news media to stand-up comedians routinely equates
 >belief in UFOs with belief in a living Elvis, or something
 >comparably knuckleheaded. This will not be news to any List
 >member except John.


After almost all of my 700 lectures in 15 countries, I have
asked my audiences how many had seen a flying saucer as
previously described. About 10% raised their hands.

Then I asked how many reported what they saw? 90% of the hands
went down.

I have asked many of the people who hadn't reported their
sightings Why Not? The most common answer was the equivalent of
"They would say I was some kind of a nut".

Several professors have indicated they were interested, but
didn't dare to have their names associated with UFOs.

I have talked to journalists who have told me possible articles
about UFOs were vetoed by their bosses because of the ridicule
factor.

John, it is real.


Stan Friedman








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                     Re: Abductions & Ufology - Speiser

From: Jim Speiser <jimspeiser@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:31:16 -0700
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:17:51 -0500
Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology - Speiser


 >From: Amy Hebert <yellowrose129@attbi.com>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 01:41:15 -0600
 >Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >>From: Jim Speiser <jimspeiser@yahoo.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 01:42:53 -0700
 >>Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 >>>From: Amy Hebert <yellowrose129@attbi.com>
 >>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:03:43 -0600
 >>>Subject: Re: Abductions & Ufology

 ><snip>

 >Hi, Jim:

 >Sorry I took so long to reply - had to deck the halls. ;>

 >>I feel I must jump in here. Not that Dick needs me to defend
 >>him, but I do not posess a degree in anything, not even an
 >>associates, I don't think I can even pronounce "curriculum
 >>vitae" correctly,

 >Neither can I.

 >>yet I firmly believe I can recognize a basket-
 >>case when I see one - and I've seen plenty. (Remember, I once
 >>chaired a Moseley Conference).

 >My heart goes out to you. ;>

 >It's not the obvious basket cases that are the problem, Jim.
 >It's the ones who seem perfectly 'normal' but are not that make
 >it hard to know when they are telling the truth and when they
 >are fabricating (or a little of both). Even if an individual
 >seems to be functioning quite well, he or she can still be a bit
 >looney or subject to creating scenarios that did not exist.

Amy:

Your point here is well-taken. I don't for a second pretend to
be able to recognize problems in people who don't manifest them
outwardly; for that I do rely on the professionals. My point was
merely that I don't think it takes a professional to say that
someone who believes that the CIA is using their body as a
listening post has some issues.

My brother-in-law was dating a woman who began claiming that her
drinking water was being purposely contaminated with microscopic
computer chips which, when they entered her body, would enable
the CIA to hear everything she heard or said. She would
continually call the police and the FBI with this startling
information. (My brother-in-law is now living with us because of
this). I didn't think I needed too many college degrees to say
that something is wrong with her; I could probably even put a
name to it: paranoid-schizophrenia. But I wouldn't rely on that
diagnosis unless a professional agreed. I believe this was the
point that Dick was making as well.

 >Like it or not there are people who think being an abductee
 >makes them special or "chosen". Add to this the attention given
 >to claimed abductees as they tell of their experiences in
 >support groups, on TV talk shows, at conferences, on E-lists,
 >etc. In addition, these individuals may find a cure for their
 >loneliness when they find themselves so openly accepted in an
 >experiencer support group.

 >This is where it takes a trained professional to recognize the
 >more subtle characteristics of unmet wants and needs in those
 >who may claim to have been abducted.

This raises another point that was made to me long ago by Mark
Rodeghier, when I participated in a CUFOS study. The abduction
phenomenon seems to cut across many cultural, social _and_
psychological lines. At least back then (about 1990) it seemed
to be "demographically neutral", except that it tends to favor
women (is that still true?) Mark said that, with such a fair
cross- section, it is inevitable that some individuals who do
have "issues" will be affected, as a matter of random selection.
We should not necessarily screen these individuals out of any
samplings until and unless we can determine that their "issues"
are the direct cause of their abduction claims. Makes things
even more difficult, n'est-ce pas?

 >We not only need researchers educated in scientific protocol but
 >also those who possess the skills and tools that may help us get
 >to the bottom of this mess and figure out what's going on.

 >>And on another point, Amy, you seem to talk about the
 >>triichotomy between abductees, people who think they are
 >>abductees but are experiencing some other phenomenon, and people
 >>who claim to be abductees but aren't, as if there exists some
 >>protocol for making this distinction, that somehow Dick and/or
 >>others are not privy to. It's thus far proven impossible to
 >>prove that someone _has_ been abducted; just how in the heck can
 >>it be proven that someone _hasn't_ been?

 >That's the point, Jim. No known protocol yet exists for
 >distinguishing between those who have actually been abducted and
 >those who have not. That's why I asked Dick how he knew he had
 >worked with "something like 150" abductees as opposed to 150
 >people who _claimed_ they had been abducted.

Perhaps we should simply change the nomenclature and call them
all "abduction claimants." That's what's implied whenever I use
the term "abductee" anyway.

 >we need to take a more active approach to abduction research.
 >Rather than passively waiting for that "cocktail napkin" to just
 >drop in our laps, let's search for any kinds of "cocktail
 >napkins" that can be collected. We need to apply forensics to
 >the study of abduction phenomena and focus on physical evidence
 >we have overlooked simply because we never looked for it.

I think we may need to go beyond that, Amy. I for one am
grudgingly, hesitantly, _slowly_ trying to retrain my strongly
left-brained self to encompass the possibility that this is all
happening on some non-physical plane of reality. Cases like the
Maureen Puddy case have indicated to me that this is a
possibility, one which I'm hesitant to embrace because my eyes
glaze over at the mention of the word "metaphysical." As an
atheist, I reject supernatural explanations, but as someone who
has worked with abductees, I am not ready to consign the whole
thing to a psychopathological solution. I'm sorta stuck between
a rock and a soft, squishy place. So while I agree we need to
continue the search for physical evidence, I think we may also
need to sit back and learn as much as we can from the New
Physics - string theory, M-branes, and the like. That's why I'm
particularly excited about the participation of Bernard Haisch:

http://www.ufoskeptics.org


Jim Speiser

The history of the race, and each individual's experience, are
thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a
lie told well is immortal.
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                        Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Redfern

From: Nick Redfern <Skywatcher4u@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:54:15 EST
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:22:06 -0500
Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Redfern


 >From: Geoff Richardson <geoff@fastdog.karoo.co.uk>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:27:15 -0000
 >Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>From: Nick Redfern <Skywatcher4u@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:52:15 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>>From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:49:13 -0800 (PST)
 >>>Subject: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>>On Dr. Maccabee's website, I just read/reviewed his report on
 >>>UFO Landing near Kirtland AFB, and would like more material
 >>>about Paul Bennewitz, as his involvement with the UFO subject is
 >>>much more complicated, as I understand.

 >>>Some years ago, when visiting the Lorenzens of APRO, Coral
 >>>Lorenzen gave me a 17 page Summary & Status report called
 >>>'Project Beta' by Bennewitz. We didn't have time to discuss it
 >>>but I am very interested in finding out, if anyone is privy to
 >>>info, as to whether this material is the product of
 >>>disinformation, and also more details about whether Bennewitz
 >>>was discredited and if so, by whom?

 >>One of the people connected with the Bennewitz events was USAF
 >>Col. Richard Weaver of Roswell-Mogul balloon fame. Interesting
 >>links here if you dig.

 >Paul Bennewitz's involvement with "The Aviary" and alleged
 >incidents near the town of Dulce is covered at The WHY? FILES

 >http://www.thewhyfiles.co.uk


Re. this debate about Bennewitz and the Dulce rumors: the very
elderly Falcon (despite what some have said there was more than
one Falcon) once used the alias of Steven V. Ayres.

Track the Ayres name and it will lead to a whole ream of data
about how and why the Dulce stories were created.

There is no alien base at Dulce and never was. This was a
creation of the fertile minds of Intelligence.


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                   Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Velez

From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:41:32 -0500
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:28:43 -0500
Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Velez


 >From: Jerome Clark <jkclark@frontiernet.net>
 >To: <UFOupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:41:54 -0600
 >Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>From: John Rimmer <jrimmer@magonia.demon.co.uk>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 20:53:52 +0000
 >>Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>>From: Jerome Clark <jkclark@frontiernet.net>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:26:57 -0600
 >>>Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>>>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >>>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 16:28:22 -0400
 >>>>Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>>>>From: John Rimmer <jrimmer@magonia.demon.co.uk>
 >>>>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>>>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:08:34 +0000
 >>>>>Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk
 >>>If so-called psychosocial ufology were anything other than
 >>>debunking/pelicanism by a more polite name, it would be as
 >>>concerned with the role of ridicule and disbelief as it would
 >>>with their opposites.

 >>>As much as anything, ridicule and the fear of it have shaped UFO
 >>>reporting and discussion over the entire history of the UFO
 >>>controversy. Traditions of disbelief have done fully as much to
 >>>make sober analysis as impossible as uncritical belief has. More
 >>>maybe, since it's those with power who are immersed in the
 >>>former.

 >>We have discussed the "ridicule factor" at length on this list,
 >>and I am still unconvinced that it exists.

Hi Jerry, John, and via carom shot, Peter Rogerson,

Jerry wrote:

 >Which is precisely one reason I have such a hard time taking
 >psychosocial ufology seriously. It denies the large role
 >ridicule has played in the history of our subject but argues (as
 >Peter Rogerson once did in Magonia) that Americans have
 >abduction hallucinations because they fear their Hispanic fellow
 >citizens.

We've been on this merry-go-round before, Jerry. The last time
you mentioned Rogerson's remark I asked, "How does Mr. Rogerson
explain an Hispanic American abductee like me?"

I never received a response. <VBG>

Maybe in cases such as mine, Mr. Rogerson believes the engine
behind the hallucinations is, self-loathing!  {:-O

Yes, but it makes perfect sense! I'm hallucinating being
abducted by UFO occupants because I am a Puerto Rican American
New Yorker that hates himself! Why wasn't I able to see this
before? The only answer is; I am a blind man and Rogerson is a
genius of human psychology.

What else could it be?

As to the non-existence of 'ridicule'; I wish that John had been
sitting in the audience of a program I participated in 6 years
ago in Toronto. Before any of us were brought out on stage, the
program staff prepped/rehearsed the audience to laugh and boo on
cue.

We were completely unprepared when some three hundred people
started roaring with laughter and booing as we simply responded
to the questions that the program's host was asking.

It was _brutal_.

During a break, Budd tried to round us up and get us off stage
in an effort to protect us. I made him sit his ass down because
I refused to give the idiots in the audience the satisfaction of
having run us off. I'm afraid that along with my other 'mental
maladies' I don't suffer idiots or ridicule very well either.
But sorry, I digress.

Organized ridicule though it may be, the existing (general)
atmosphere of derision and ridicule is what allows/facilitates
such mean-spirited 'mass misbehavior' to happen in the first
place. If it wasn't 'ok' to engage in such behavior, people
would have balked at any suggestion to indulge in it. The
problem is; that it is 'ok' to do it.

UFO witnesses quickly learn that you have to be careful about
who you share your report with. It doesn't take very many raised
eyebrow looks, or bursts of laughter, to effectively shut their
mouths. Sometimes for decades.

And... wouldn't shutting the witnesses mouths (by creating a
general atmosphere of ridicule around the subject) be a
wonderful aid to anyone interested in keeping the reality of
UFOs to themselves. When viewed in this light, ridicule becomes
a bloody effective and useful little tool. Does it not?

Another genuine mystery:

Has anybody else noticed that Jerry and John take up their
swords more often, to have yet another go at one another, only
_after_ the cold days of winter have set in?

Raging transatlantic cabin fever virus?

We'll have to wait for the saucers to land before we will be
able to resolve this one!   ;)

My two cents.


John Velez

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                       Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Maccabee

From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:43:38 -0500
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:31:15 -0500
Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Maccabee


 >From: Josh Goldstein <clearlight@t-online.de>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 07:03:52 +0100
 >Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:13:08 -0500
 >>Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>>From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:49:13 -0800 (PST)
 >>>Subject: Paul Bennewitz?

 >What a story from Ufodom in the eighties this is. A great cast
 >of extreme characters in amazing events while great truth, great
 >disinformation, and the utterings of some very disturbed minds
 >spew forth. I'm thinking a movie. I remember going through this
 >as it unfolded back then. I am sure lots of you fellow
 >Listerions remember this ride as you were taken on it.

 >>>On Dr. Maccabee's website, I just read/reviewed his report on
 >>>UFO Landing near Kirtland AFB, and would like more material
 >>>about Paul Bennewitz, as his involvement with the UFO subject is
 >>>much more complicated, as I understand.

<snip>

I appreciate Josh jumping in here. This story can only be put
together by accumulating the recollections of many people. I
have some documentation fro years past, but not much.

 >I used to read Bennewitz`s reports from when he flew his plane
 >over Dulce Canyon. He even reported structures on the surface
 >and UFOs going in and out. Maybe it was more like a McDonalds
 >for the aliens. Maybe they were like the Nazis and separated the
 >people according to types and listed them as such on the menu. I
 >know, how could anyone believe such a tale?

The scientist who wrote the book 'UFOLOGY' back in the late
60's... can't think of his name right off... checked up on
Bennewitz's claim of having flown over the Archeluta Mesa near
Dulce and finding the remains of crashed saucers, lasers, and
what not on the gound. the scientist got aerial photos and
compare with Bennewitz's sketches. Nothing checked out. Also,
numerous investigators including Bill Moore and John Alexander
(and others) visited the Mesa, checked with local Indians and
owner of a ranch... never found anything that so far as I know.

 >I don't remember just when and how but a new actor appeared, a
 >voice of authority named Gabe Valdez, a New Mexico State Police
 >or Highway Patrol officer.He lived and patrolled in the Dulce
 >Canyon area. He also reported the same kind of structures as did
 >Bennewitz. Do any researchers remember how he first came on the
 >scene and met Bennewitz? The Dulce canyon reports ended up
 >causing a bunch of folks to go out there and earnestly look for
 >the entrance to the underground alien nest, as if they wouldn't
 >get zapped if they came anywhere near it.>

 >There was one suspicious shaft but that was not the entrance.
 >They ended up wondering if it was in an area guarded by
 >unpopulated watch towers disguised as hunting towers

Valdez got into the late 1970's cattle mutilation stuff, I
believe, and from there into UFOs. He did accompany Bennewitz on
one or more expeditions to the Archeluta Mesa, as I recall. I
heard a story about him claiming to have seen a saucer fly into
(or out of?) a canyon wall. No hole, just a wall! (Your standard
"through the wall" UFO travel.)










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                       Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Maccabee

From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:04:14 -0500
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:32:59 -0500
Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Maccabee


 >From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:54:10 +0100
 >Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:13:08 -0500
 >>Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>

<snip>

Thanks for all the information you supplied, which helps me to
recall some other things. In another message I referred to "a
scientist" who checkde up on Bennewitz's claims of having found
saucer debris and other stuff on the Arhcelute Mesa. That
scientist was, indeed, James McCampbell.

 >So, it looks like the rumor of Dulce originated, not from
 >abductees, but from intelligence agencies.

 >Any other opinions?

There was another abductee, whom recalled after writing my
initial message, as Christa Tilton, and another respondent also
recalled that name.








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                        Re: Getting Taken - Maccabee

From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:10:23 -0500
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:34:55 -0500
Subject: Re: Getting Taken - Maccabee


 >Source: Slate Magazine Online

 >http://slate.msn.com/?id74656

 >Getting Taken

 >Steven Spielberg, paranormal huckster
 >By Chris Mooney

 >Updated Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 12:54 PM PT

 >Suppose that the truth really is "out there," as The X-Files
 >postulated, but not exactly where you might expect. In other
 >words, rather than a vast government conspiracy to conceal proof
 >that aliens have visited Earth, perhaps the real plot lies
 >elsewhere. The entertainment industry, for instance, is
 >constantly putting out films, TV shows, and pseudo-documentaries
 >suggesting that Americans are being visited or even abducted in
 >droves by gray-skinned, strangely kinky spacemen_and that the
 >government wants to keep it all quiet. Dark Skies, Roswell,
 >Fox's Alien Autopsy special _ Could the real conspiracy be on
 >the part of the mass media and designed to make people believe
 >in UFOs because it helps ratings?

 >If such a plot exists, Steven Spielberg would have to be the
 >ringleader. After all, Spielberg planted the seeds of modern UFO
 >obsession with 1977's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which
 >he quickly followed up with E.T. (1982).

What a dumb statement..... The guy clearly doesn't know his UFO
history... if he really thinks  Spielberg planted the seeds of
modern UFO obsession! If anything, the seeds had been planted
30 years before and Steven merely reaped the harvest!








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                         Re: Getting Taken - Bassett

From: Steve Bassett <SGBList2@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:27:08 EST
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:48:49 -0500
Subject: Re: Getting Taken - Bassett


 >From: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: 12/13/02 8:37:19 AM Pacific Standard Time
 >To: -> UFO UpDates Subscribers <-
 >Subj: UFO UpDate: Getting Taken

 >Source: Slate Magazine Online
 >http://slate.msn.com/?id74656

 >Getting Taken

 >Steven Spielberg, paranormal huckster
 >By Chris Mooney
 >Updated Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 12:54 PM PT


This may be the single most ignorant piece of writing on the
subject we hold dear in a high-level publication I have seen to
date. It is breathtaking.

Note the typical debunking terms:

"pseudo-documentaries"
"kinky"
"ringleader"
"obsession"
"mythology"
"conspiracy-mongering"
"outlandish"
"gimmicks"
"mongering"
"lore"

Mr. Mooney is a victim of propaganda. He doesn't know better.
But unlike most, he is a journalist and has a professional
obligation to know better. The promulgators of the incipient
national security state would most certainly wish a thousand
clones of Mr. Mooney to keep the desks at newspapers and network
news offices nationwide filled with "pseudo-journalists" who can
write but can't think. Then their hopes and desires would be so
much easier to achieve.

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                     Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Rudiak

From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:08:18 -0800
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 18:24:08 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Rudiak


 >From: Tim Printy <Tprinty2@aol.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 21:33:36 EST
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed


 >>From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:02:05 -0800
 >>Subject: Frank Kaufmann Exposed


<snip>

 >>A good example was Sgt. Robert Smith of the Air Transport Unit,
 >>who said he helped load C54's with crates of crash material
 >>while unknown, plain-clothes "inspectors" flashed ID cards from
 >>some unknown project. Smith also said a cousin of his with the
 >>Secret Service served as Truman's representative. Kaufmann also
 >>mentioned the SS agent and gave the same name.

 >I am not so sure about this and I think Kevin Randle needs to
 >resolve this issue. First, the names are not exactly the same
 >(Devinnes vs DeVinney). This is not too big a deal but what is
 >really important is footnote 50 in the book "The Truth About the
 >UFO Crash at Roswell". According to this note, the name listed
 >does not come from Kaufmann but is attributed to an interview
 >with Smith in 1991. The question is, did Kaufmann give this name
 >or was it just Smith?

I stand corrected. Smith's affidavit said "DeVinney." The name
of "Devinnes" appeared in the book in the midst of a lot of
testimony attributed to "McKenzie", i.e., Kaufmann. Therefore I
thought Kaufmann was independently providing the same name (or
close to it). The footnote, however, attributes "Devinnes" to
Smith, not Kaufmann.


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                        Re: Getting Taken - Hamilton

From: Bill Hamilton <skyman22@fastmail.fm>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:08:49 -0800
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:00:33 -0500
Subject: Re: Getting Taken - Hamilton


 >From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:10:23 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Getting Taken

 >>Source: Slate Magazine Online

 >>http://slate.msn.com/?id74656

 >>Getting Taken

 >>Steven Spielberg, paranormal huckster
 >>By Chris Mooney

 >>Updated Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 12:54 PM PT

 >>Suppose that the truth really is "out there," as The X-Files
 >>postulated, but not exactly where you might expect. In other
 >>words, rather than a vast government conspiracy to conceal proof
 >>that aliens have visited Earth, perhaps the real plot lies
 >>elsewhere. The entertainment industry, for instance, is
 >>constantly putting out films, TV shows, and pseudo-documentaries
 >>suggesting that Americans are being visited or even abducted in
 >>droves by gray-skinned, strangely kinky spacemen_and that the
 >>government wants to keep it all quiet. Dark Skies, Roswell,
 >>Fox's Alien Autopsy special _ Could the real conspiracy be on
 >>the part of the mass media and designed to make people believe
 >>in UFOs because it helps ratings?

 >>If such a plot exists, Steven Spielberg would have to be the
 >>ringleader. After all, Spielberg planted the seeds of modern UFO
 >>obsession with 1977's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which
 >>he quickly followed up with E.T. (1982).

 >What a dumb statement..... The guy clearly doesn't know his UFO
 >history... if he really thinks Spielberg planted the seeds of
 >modern UFO obsession! If anything, the seeds had been planted
 >30 years before and Steven merely reaped the harvest!

Perhaps he should be nominated to the Hall of Ignorance.
Now let's see... who can we blame 30 years earlier?

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                         Re: Getting Taken - Tonnies

From: Mac Tonnies <macbot@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:16:45 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:04:47 -0500
Subject: Re: Getting Taken - Tonnies


 >From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto
 ><ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:10:23 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Getting Taken

<snip>

 >>If such a plot exists, Steven Spielberg would have to be the
 >>ringleader. After all, Spielberg planted the seeds of modern UFO
 >>obsession with 1977's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which
 >>he quickly followed up with E.T. (1982).

 >What a dumb statement..... The guy clearly doesn't know his UFO
 >history... if he really thinks Spielberg planted the seeds of
 >modern UFO obsession! If anything, the seeds had been planted
 >30 years before and Steven merely reaped the
 >harvest!

You're abolutely right. 'Taken' seems to have brought out some
particularly idiotic comments from the mainstream. Spielberg not
only reaped the ufological harvest with 'Close Encounters', but
did so in a very methodical, particular way: the various
sightings leading to the film's climax are taken almost directly
from J. Allen Hynek's 'The UFO Experience'.

It should also be noted that UFO debunkers predicted that 'Close
Encounters' would result in an apparent UFO 'flap' fueled by
gullible movie-goers. That prediction failed.


=====
Mac Tonnies (macbot@yahoo.com)

Transcelestial Ontology and Postmillennial Studies
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                     Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Rudiak

From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:28:52 -0800
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:07:33 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Rudiak


 >From: Bruce Hutchinson <bhutch@grassyhill.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:59:44 -500
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Hutchinson

 >>From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:14:23 +0100
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:02:05 -0800
 >>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed


 >>>Kaufmann claimed that he was a government counterintelligence
 >>>and disinformation agent left behind to keep an eye on things.
 >>>Whether this was true or not, I don't know, but there is some
 >>>circumstantial evidence that might support it:

 >>Thank you for your very interesting informations and questions
 >>about Frank Kaufmann. They seem to confirm my impresion that he
 >>was not a simple author of "tall tales".

 >Why do I suspect that in Frank Kaufmann, we may have another
 >Billy Meier-type debate just starting?

 >My guess is that there are many people who are loath to let go
 >of Frank's tale,

Like you are "loath to let go" of Charles Moore and his little
Mogul Flight #4 tale? You and Printy have been awfully silent
of late.

 >if only because it was his stories that were
 >the foundation of Roswell's most sensational aspects. So I
 >forsee years of wrangling over the minutiae of Frank's stories,
 >and many attempts to rehabilitate him. This "armchair" dialogue
 >between David and Gildas is just the start.

We are not "loath to let go" of Kaufmann. Much of Kaufmann's
story always bothered me and probably Gildas as well. He was
the basis for the completely revised July 5 crash recovery
timeline incorporated into Kevin Randle's second book. This
added too many inconsistencies and loose ends to the story for
my tastes.

On the other hand, some parts of his story squared with other
information, as I pointed out in my post. And there were
oddities about Kaufmann remaining in Roswell and his sources of
income. Kaufmann's story was never a simple one.

It is very important to know whether the man was a clever
individual hoaxer or worked for the government, as he claimed.
  If the former, his testimony means nothing. If the latter,
then his actions were part of an on-going cover-up. Motive is
very important. (However, it may also be academic, since it may
be impossible to determine.)

 >It was Kevin Randle who was closest to Frank Kaufmann - he was
 >the guy who looked him in the eyes. Kevin also has the most to
 >lose - Frank's tales were the lynch-pin of "The Truth about the
 >'UFO Crash at Roswell'.

 >So if Kevin can publicly say that he no longer has any
 >confidence in _anything_ Frank had to say about the Roswell
 >Incident, well... he is the guy in the field, the one who should
 >know best. He has earned his position among UFO Advocates as an
 >Authority on Roswell and Frank Kaufmann.

Is this your usual appeal to authority? If a year ago I had
written that Randle was the authority on Kaufmann, had looked
him in the eyes and vouched for his sincerity, would that have
convinced you his story was completely true?

Incidentally, Randle isn't the only person to spend some time
with Kaufmann. It was Tom Carey and the evil Don Schmitt who
spent the most time with Kaufmann toward the end. After he died,
they finally got the proof that he had fabricated his documents,
which was shared with CUFOS, who then shared it with Randle.
(BTW the information about Kaufmann hoaxing documents was
withheld, not as part of a cover-up, but out of deference to his
widow, who died only a few months ago.)

The document hoaxing was pretty damning, but parts of Kaufmann's
story still had cross-corroboration from other independent
witnesses. (And, as I noted, also the Ramey memo) That's why it
remains hard to figure Kaufmann out. He was not a typical
hoaxer. Even when he was dying, frail, and deathly ill, he was
still going to take Carey and Schmitt out to the "true" main
craft crash site. (According to Carey, they were all in the Land
Rover ready to go when an unseasonable snow storm prevented the
trip at the last moment.)

Now ask yourself - are these the actions of an ordinary hoaxer?
If you were dying of cancer and barely able to hold it in
anymore, would you go traipsing off into the wilderness with
some googly-eyed UFO researchers just for a prank?

Kaufmann still remains something of an enigma, at least to some
of us.

 >If Kevin says Frank's story was a lie, why don't you believe him?

Which parts of his story? Some parts of his story were obvious
lies, other parts were not. (Why do you think Kevin Randle stuck
by him for so long?) The questions in my mind are what were his
sources of information and why did he lie?

Hey Bruce. I consider myself an authority on Charles Moore and
his model Flight #4 model trajectory. I'm telling you it's a
complete lie. There isn't even any ambiguity here. The math
proves it. Why won't you believe me?


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                       Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Gonzalez

From: Luis R. Gonzalez <lrgm@arrakis.es>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:37:12 +0100
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:09:18 -0500
Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Gonzalez


Just to mention that in one of the last Skeptical Inquirer
somebody wrote to explain that the UFO seen at the Dulce Base
were Skyhooks balloons...

He knew because he himself launched them.


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                     Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Rudiak

From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:45:07 -0800
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:12:46 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Rudiak


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:47:47 EST
 >Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 01:27:05 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Young

 >>From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:02:05 -0800
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

<snip>

 >>E.g., Mogul engineer Charles Moore has recently been exposed as
 >>a hoaxer by Brad Sparks and myself regarding his "calculated"
 >>Mogul trajectory, and also been caught altering other data, such
 >>as maps, to promote some sort of agenda. Whether his agenda is
 >>personal or whether he was "inspired" by some outside agency I
 >>don't know. But he has clearly perjured himself

 >What is your definition of "perjury"?

 >Is it the same as if somebody calls you a "liar"?

 >Or is it that, now, anybody who makes what may be a mistake, or
 >even interprets the meaning of weather data differently that you
 >wish, so that it does not match your world view is a "perjuror"?

While it is pointless to argue with an obvious math illiterate
such as yourself, Moore's hoaxing is absolutely provable
mathematically. This has nothing to do with interpreting "the
meaning of weather data" differently from what I 'wish'. It's
Moore's math using his own data that is wildly in error (and
which also hangs him). Anybody who is math competent, can read
tables correctly, and run calculations correctly can
independently verify this quite apart from my 'wishes'.

Moore did the following:

1. Stated he was assuming certain things in his model, but
actually did a number of completely different things. His stated
assumptions don't square with his own model.

2. Ran his calculation table improperly, destroying the symmetry
and integrity of his own data and in violation of how he
calculated some of the data in another table.

3. Had literally dozens of other mathematical 'mistakes' in his
table, as pointed out by Brad Sparks

The combination of Moore's 'mistakes' and altered assumptions
all combined miraculously to take his Flight #4 "exactly" to the
Foster Ranch. Remove his math 'mistakes' and hold his feet to
the fire on his stated assumptions, and the real calculated
trajectory has the balloons missing by a huge margin.

This is all detailed at my Website:

www.roswellproof.com/flight4_trajectory.html

Moore's 'calculated' phony trajectory was a deliberate fraud.
Nobody, especially a scientist of Moore's background, makes a
series of 'mistakes' like this by pure accident. This is obvious
to all but the math illiterate and to debunkers who will never
speak ill of a fellow debunker.

 >Whatever you think this is, it ain't science, pal.

Yes, you got that part right. Whatever Moore did, it wasn't
science, "pal". It was hoaxing.

 >And it's hardly useful Ufology, either, whatever that may mean.

I guess in your little world, it is only "useful Ufology" if it
can be used to discredit UFO reports or Ufologists. But it is
not so "useful" if it discredits debunkers of Ufology.

 >What, exactly, is your problem?

What exactly is _your_ problem? Kneejerk denial? Hypocrisy?


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                  Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Rimmer

From: John Rimmer <jrimmer@magonia.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:06:41 +0000
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:14:13 -0500
Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk - Rimmer


 >From: Jerome Clark <jkclark@frontiernet.net>
 >To: <UFOupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:41:54 -0600
 >Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>From: John Rimmer <jrimmer@magonia.demon.co.uk>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 20:53:52 +0000
 >>Subject: Re: Why I Believe UFOs Are Bunk

 >>We have discussed the "ridicule factor" at length on this list,
 >>and I am still unconvinced that it exists.

 >Which is precisely one reason I have such a hard time taking
 >psychosocial ufology seriously. It denies the large role
 >ridicule has played in the history of our subject but argues (as
 >Peter Rogerson once did in Magonia) that Americans have
 >abduction hallucinations because they fear their Hispanic fellow
 >citizens.

Jerry, I think here you are in danger of crossing the line from
gross misrepresentation to complete fabrication.

This is _not_ what Peter Rogerson said, nor anything like it.

--
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                       Re: Another Approach - Speiser

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:29:09 +0000
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:21:37 -0500
Subject: Re: Another Approach - Speiser


 >From: Jim Speiser <jimspeiser@yahoo.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:12:37 -0700
 >Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 23:00:54 +0000
 >>Subject: Re: Another Approach

<snip>

 >>There is a lot more I could say (maybe in my - very unlikely -
 >>memoirs), but that might give aid and comfort to the
 >>"Government conspiracy" theorists, so I will not say more for
 >>now. He may simply have been pigheaded and stubborn, but his
 >>subsequently revealed connections with Jack Acuff and other CIA
 >>persons, partisans, apologists raises very significant questions
 >>about the entire issue of 'disinformation'.

 >Dick,

 >You're living in the 70s - you're impeaching Nixon all over
 >again!

 >I think that, without knowing any of the background you
 >provided, the quote is nonetheless a valid statement. Its only
 >fault is the fact that there are thus far some _unimpeached_ - I
 >won't say _unimpeachable_ - photos and videos.

 >I provided one example, Kanazawa. So his statement, while valid
 >in a vacuum, is nonetheless rendered moot.


Jim,

I agree in principle, but of course Bob Young likes to quote
pseudoscientific arguments based on scientific-sounding
'statistics' which, really, are just some skeptic's wild guess.
That's my point. As long as it agrees with his skeptibunker
position, it has to be valid. "Tricky Stuart" (Nixon) fancied
himself to be a great photoanalyst, which he had no training for
(he was hired for an editorial position). He spent hours and
hours diddling with poor, weak, essentially worthless photos
(with one or two exceptions) rather than doing his assigned
work. We reprimanded him several times, but it didn't help much.
Citation of him as some kind of expert or authority, therefore,
is totally meaningless.


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                         Re: Getting Taken - Bowden

From: Tom Bowden <tomrbowden@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:30:27 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:23:47 -0500
Subject: Re: Getting Taken - Bowden


UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net> wrote:

 >Source: Slate Magazine Online

 >http://slate.msn.com/?id74656

 >Getting Taken

 >Steven Spielberg, paranormal huckster
 >By Chris Mooney

 >Updated Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 12:54 PM PT

<snip>

This author clearly has no knowledge of the history of the UFO
phenomenon or Ufology, unless he is a covert operative whose
mission it is to put a certain spin on media coverage of UFO-
related programming.

I see Bruce Maccabee has already registered a similar reaction
to this article.


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                 Possible Precursors To Early Life On Earth

From: Todd Lemire <tlemire@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 20:47:57 -0500
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:23:12 -0500
Subject: Possible Precursors To Early Life On Earth


Subject: Researchers Find Possible Precursors To Early Life
          On Earth In Tagish Lake Meteorite
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:45:24 -0600
From: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory <info@jpl.nasa.gov>


http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/news/releases/2002/J02-122.html

December 11, 2002

Catherine E. Watson
Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas
(Phone: 281/483-5111)

Release: #J02-122

RESEARCHERS FIND POSSIBLE PRECURSORS TO EARLY LIFE ON EARTH IN
METEORITE

In a study published today in the "International Journal of
Astrobiology," researchers state that a meteorite that fell to
Earth over northwestern Canada in January 2000 contains a
previously unseen type of primitive organic material that was
formed long before our own solar system came into being.

The Tagish Lake meteorite fell to Earth over the Yukon Territory
of Canada on Jan. 18, 2000. Parts of the meteorite were
collected and kept frozen in an unprecedented level of
cleanliness to ensure that it was not contaminated by any
terrestrial sources.

Through extensive testing using, in part, electron microscopes,
the researchers found numerous hollow, bubble-like hydrocarbon
globules in the meteorite. They believe these organic globules,
the first found in any natural sample, are very similar to those
produced in laboratory simulations designed to recreate the
initial conditions present when life first formed in the
universe.

"While not of biological origin themselves, these globules would
have served very well to protect and nurture primitive organisms
on Earth," said Dr. Michael Zolensky, an author of the paper and
a researcher in the Office of Astromaterials Research and
Exploration Science at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
"They would have been ready-made homes for early life forms."

The type of meteorite in which the globules were found is also
so fragile that it generally breaks up into dust during its
entry into Earth's atmosphere, scattering its organic contents
across a wide swath.

"If, as we suspect, this type of meteorite has been falling onto
Earth throughout its entire history, then the Earth was provided
with these hydrocarbon globules at the same time life was first
forming here," Zolensky said. "We were exceedingly fortunate
that this particular meteorite was so large that some pieces
survived to be recovered on the ground."

Last year, researchers at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett
Field, Calif., announced that they had made basically identical
hydrocarbon globules in the laboratory from materials present in
the early solar system and interstellar space.

"What we have now shown is that that these globules were in fact
made naturally in the early solar system, and have been falling
to Earth throughout time," Zolensky said.

The researchers believe the Tagish Lake meteorite came from the
outer asteroid belt, toward Jupiter, and that similar organic
materials may have been falling onto the moons of Jupiter,
including Europa.

"It is interesting to speculate about the presence of these
organics in the ocean we believe may be present under the ice
cap of this moon," Zolensky said.

A team of five researchers collaborated on the two-year study.
The team was led by Keiko Nakamura of Kobe University in Japan,
who was funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of
Science. Nakamura is now working at JSC under a postdoctoral
grant from the U.S. National Research Council. Co-authors of the
study include Zolensky, who was funded by the NASA
Cosmochemistry Program; Satoshi Tomita and Kazushige Tomeoka,
both of Kobe University, who were funded by the Japan Society
for the Promotion of Science and the Japanese Ministry of
Education, Science, Sports and Culture, respectively; and Satoru
Nakashima of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, who was also
funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

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                            UFOs Visit Grampians

From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:30:19 -0500
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:30:19 -0500
Subject: UFOs Visit Grampians

http://the.standard.net.au/articles/2002/12/13/1039656207350.html


UFOs Visit Grampians

December 13, 2002

THE Grampians has been identified as a hot spot for unidentified
flying objects.

The latest issue of The Australian UFO Bulletin reports on a
series of ongoing sightings in the national park area.

Investigator Paul Norman writes that the sightings have been
reported since May and initially involved a large white-lighted
object, a pale yellow object and smaller active luminous
objects.

Mr Norman said the patterns of sightings had recently changed
and the large white object had not been seen since October 15.

The number of smaller objects spotted, however, had increased
with as many as 20 at a time appearing in various formations and
movements, he said.

"The nature of their activity has included blinking or
signalling each other as well as manoeuvring around in the
valley."

The yellow-colored object has displayed 35 or more small,
equally-spaced red or black lights within its circle, the
article reports.

Mr Norman said witnesses had been attending the viewing location
on a nightly basis to monitor the strange sights.


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                   Meteor Shower From The 'Twilight Zone'

From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:43:25 -0500
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:43:25 -0500
Subject: Meteor Shower From The 'Twilight Zone'

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/12/13/geminids.meteors/index.html

Meteor Shower From The 'Twilight Zone'

By Richard Stenger
CNN
Friday, December 13, 2002
Posted: 1:32 PM EST (1832 GMT)


(CNN) -- Meteors known for their graceful, slow and bright
yellow trails put on a display each December, but the dependable
celestial shower springs from a rather strange source.

The Geminids, which will peak overnight between Friday and
Saturday, do not come from cometary debris like most meteors.

Rather, they originate from a mysterious object in the inner
solar system that defies astronomical classification.

"I enjoy the Geminids because they come from the Twilight Zone,"
joked NASA scientist Bill Cooke in a statement.

Conventional meteor showers like the Leonids and Perseids come
from comets, boulders of ice and rock that shed material when
they approach the sun, creating picturesque tails and leaving
clouds of gas and dust.

When the Earth plows through such debris patches, minuscule
comet fragments burn up in the atmosphere and light up the
nighttime sky.

But the Geminids are linked to 3200 Phaethon, an inner solar
system object that lacks many qualities of comets in the
neighborhood.

"3200 Phaethon doesn't sprout a tail when it comes close to the
sun. It doesn't have a halo or a coma," Cooke said in a NASA
bulletin.

"In fact, based on its orbit and the way it reflects sunlight,
it seems much more like an asteroid," he said.

But 3200 Phaethon's size and association with a meteor shower
give it some comet-like qualities, boosting speculation that
3200 Phaethon is a combination asteroid-comet.

"It has become quite obvious in recent years that our
nomenclature in astronomy is not keeping pace with our
discoveries," Cooke said.

"We like to place objects in neat, well-defined categories even
though Mother Nature makes no such distinctions," he said,
citing debate over whether Pluto is a small planet or a large
Kuiper Belt Object, one of many giant ice chunks beyond the
planets. 'Rocky comet corpse'

Astronomers theorize that 3200 Phaethon is the remnant of a
comet that gradually lost its ice supply after repeated brushes
with the sizzling heat of the sun.

"Now all that's left is a rocky comet corpse," Cooke said.

Regardless of their source, the Geminids provide one of the most
consistent annual meteor shows. They hardly match the Leonids
and Perseids at their best, which during good years produce
thousands of shooting stars an hour.

But the latter two are much sporadic from year to year. And the
Geminids are growing in intensity each year.

During peak hours Saturday morning local time, more than 100
meteors an hour are expected in ideal conditions, which are dark
and clear skies. The best time to watch is a several-hour
stretch between moonset and dawn.

"Just lie back and watch the stars," said Alan MacRobert, editor
of Sky & Telescope. "If the moon is still up, face a little east
of straight overhead in order to keep its glare out of your
eyes.

The Geminids gradually increased in the weeks before the main
event. But within days afterward, meteor counts will plummet.


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                       ETs May Be Beaming Lasers At Us

From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:37:16 -0500
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:37:16 -0500
Subject: ETs May Be Beaming Lasers At Us

http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82%257E1865%257E1050775,00.html

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 8:02:20 AM MST

Space Watch: ETs May Be Beaming Lasers At Us

Optical search starts after UC Berkeley astronomer suggests
aliens shine light

By William Brand
Staff Writer

BERKELEY - For more than 40 years, researchers on Earth have
scanned data from radio telescopes around the world looking for
signals from another civilization somewhere in myriad stars -
  without results.

Now, thanks to a suggestion from a University of California,
Berkeley, Nobel laureate, they're trying something different:
Astronomers are peering into space with their own eyes.

They are looking through data from optical telescopes seeking
bright bursts of laser light that would indicate a sentient
being is out there.

Astronomers have discovered more than 100 planets circling other
suns, and belief is growing that we are not alone.

Indeed, scientists now realize life is hardy. Researchers
recently found primitive bacteria nearly two miles down in a
South African gold mine, surviving on hydrogen and sulfur
instead of oxygen.

The nonprofit SETI Institute, based in Mountain View, conducts a
massive radio astronomy search using data received by the huge
radio telescope array at Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

The optical search began about two years ago, and more
astronomers are signing on.

Besides a UC Berkeley effort at the Leuschner observatory near
Orinda, and by a Harvard astronomer, SETI and UC Santa Cruz are
conducting a search from the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton,
near San Jose. SETI also has commissioned UC Berkeley graduate
student Amy Raines to examine data obtained byBerkeley planet
hunter Geoff Marcy.

The optical idea came from UC Berkeley professor Charles Townes,
who shared the Nobel Prize for physics in 1964 for the basic
inventions that led to the laser, which he patented with Arthur
Schawlow, a 1981 Nobel laureate.

Townes said Thursday he's delighted about the optical search.

It has always made sense to him to look for points of intense
laser light from space, he said. A civilization as advanced as
our own or more sophisticated might indeed use a tight, compact
laser beam as a bright signal.

Dan Werthimer, a UC Berkeley astronomer and extraterrestrial
intelligence researcher, says he's a bit chagrined.

"Charlie Townes' office is right next to mine. I've been here 25
years and he's said for a long time, 'Dan, you should do some
optical searches,'" Werthimer said. "Charlie was right, and
we're really a little bit embarrassed. We thought radio was the
only way to communicate between the stars. But that is an
antiquated point of view."

Radio was developed during World War II and the technology
became good, Werthimer said. "Lasers came along later and, at
the time they were invented (before 1960), they were little
dinky things.

"Only Charlie Townes could see the laser power that was coming."

Townes said he and a colleague first wrote a paper on a laser
search in 1961. "A civilization out there could be a thousand
years ahead of us," Townes said. "It seems possible that some
being on a planet orbiting a nearby star could send a bright
enough beam that we could see it blinking."

Radio waves spread out, but laser beams stay compact and
focused, he said. "Nobody took us very seriously then, but now
people have begun to say, 'Wait a minute.'"

Townes advanced the idea again in 1997 at a SETI Institute
planning session, and this time the group took him seriously.
Planners included laser experts from Livermore National
Laboratory, where the world's most powerful lasers are being
developed for the National Ignition Facility.

Optical SETI was born.

Seth Shostak, SETI Institute senior astronomer, said the optical
idea makes a lot of sense.

"Charlie pointed out to us that if an advanced civilization
wanted to get in touch with Earth, why not ping us with a laser.
Pulses as short as a nanosecond - one billionth of a second --
  would do it," he said.

"There are lasers at Livermore now that could send a signal like
that," Shostak said.

Building such a laser is expensive, but looking for a beacon is
cheap, well within SETI's nonprofit budget. "For $10,000 or
less, you can build an instrument to look for beacons. Now it's
being done," Shostak said.

Townes watches the whole process with delight. He agrees that
scoffers about the possibility of extraterrestrial life are
themselves a vanishing species.

The SETI Institute, in appreciation, will bestow its second
annual Frank Drake Award to Townes next spring.

At 87, Townes still arrives at his UC Berkeley office around
8:30 a.m. daily. And he continues his research. "Science is
fun," he said. "Why stop?"







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                   More Signs Solar System Has 10th Planet

From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:58:48 -0500
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:58:48 -0500
Subject: More Signs Solar System Has 10th Planet

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=360803

More Signs That Solar System Has 10th Planet
By Charles Arthur, Technology Editor

12 December 2002

The solar system may have a tenth planet lurking beyond the
orbit of Pluto, calculations by astronomers in Britain and
Argentina indicate. "Planet X" could lie 60 times further from
the Sun than the Earth, roughly 600 million miles out. But
nobody would have spotted it directly because, if it exists, it
orbits in a direction that astronomers rarely study.

The new planet, thought to be the same size as Earth, would lie
on the inside edge of the Kuiper Belt, a distant region of the
solar system principally composed of small pieces of rock and
interstellar leftovers from the creation of the solar system.
Yet it could have the seeds of life, because astronomers have
detected ice and complex molecules on the surface of some of the
rocks there.

One of the scientists who developed the idea, Dr Mario Melita,
of the astronomy unit at Queen Mary, University of London, said
yesterday: "The Belt has a sharp edge to it, which isn't well
understood. But people have noticed gaps in planetary rings and
when they've looked there, they've found orbiting moons that
have swept up the matter by their gravity."

Dr Melita, and Dr Adrian Brunini, of the University of La Plata
in Argentina, suggested the sharp edge of the Kuiper Belt was
caused by a similar sweeping, and that had, over time, created a
planet-sized object, whose orbit of the sun would be almost
circular, but angled by 20 degrees to that of the inner planets.

"We could observe it with telescopes, but there's a lot of space
to cover," Dr Melita said. "And we don't normally look in that
direction relative to Earth."

The idea has had qualified approval from other astronomers.
"There's something funny going on out there [in the Kuiper
Belt]," Marc Bule of the prestigious Lowell Observatory in
Arizona told New Scientist magazine. Alan Stern of the
Southwestern Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, said the
area was "a region of planetary formation, with 100,000 objects
that are 'miniature planets'."

Modern astronomers reckon that Pluto, discovered in 1930,
actually originated in the Belt. Its orbit sometimes passes
within that of Neptune, the next most outlying planet. In
October, a team at the California Institute of Technology
discovered a Kuiper Belt object half the size of Pluto, which
they named Quaoar.

Dr Stern told New Scientist the discovery was probably only the
first of many. "There are more likely 900 planets in the solar
system than nine," he said. "And all but eight are in the Kuiper
Belt."

But the existence of a planet is not yet confirmed. Other
hypotheses could explain the Belt's shape, Dr Melita said, such
as a small star about one-tenth as large as the Sun, passing
near when the solar system formed about six billion years ago.
"That could have created something like this," he said.







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                     Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle

From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:53:09 EST
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 22:15:30 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle


 >From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:28:52 -0800
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

<snip>

 >Incidentally, Randle isn't the only person to spend some time
 >with Kaufmann. It was Tom Carey and the evil Don Schmitt who
 >spent the most time with Kaufmann toward the end. After he died,
 >they finally got the proof that he had fabricated his documents,
 >which was shared with CUFOS, who then shared it with Randle.
 >(BTW the information about Kaufmann hoaxing documents was
 >withheld, not as part of a cover-up, but out of deference to his
 >widow, who died only a few months ago.)

<snip>

Good Evening, Dave, List, All -

Just to set the record straight, it was not CUFOS who introduced
me to the fabricated documents. Yes, I know that there are some
who believe that CUFOS is filled with unethical and deceitful
people who delight in giving away secrets, but I have learned
this is not the case. Just ask yourself where all those stories
come from and then ask yourself why we should believe him?


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                         Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Hatch

From: Larry Hatch <larry@larryhatch.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:57:26 -0800
Fwd Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 12:25:00 -0500
Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Hatch


 >From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:43:38 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>From: Josh Goldstein <clearlight@t-online.de>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 07:03:52 +0100
 >>Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>>From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:13:08 -0500
 >>>Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

<snip>

 >>I used to read Bennewitz`s reports from when he flew his plane
 >>over Dulce Canyon. He even reported structures on the surface
 >>and UFOs going in and out. Maybe it was more like a McDonalds
 >>for the aliens. Maybe they were like the Nazis and separated the
 >>people according to types and listed them as such on the menu. I
 >>know, how could anyone believe such a tale?

 >The scientist who wrote the book 'UFOLOGY' back in the late
 >60's... can't think of his name right off... checked up on
 >Bennewitz's claim of having flown over the Archeluta Mesa near
 >Dulce and finding the remains of crashed saucers, lasers, and
 >what not on the gound. the scientist got aerial photos and
 >compare with Bennewitz's sketches. Nothing checked out. Also,
 >numerous investigators including Bill Moore and John Alexander
 >(and others) visited the Mesa, checked with local Indians and
 >owner of a ranch... never found anything that so far as I know.


Hi Bruce:

I would bet the writer was Jim McCampbell. Jim lives nearby and
we used to visit before (gasp!) employment took up all my time.

Sadly, I don't have a copy of Jim's book Ufology, I had to
borrow his. Its rather scarce and well recommended for the nuts-
and-bolts people out there.

If we ever discussed Bennewitz, I since forgot the details.


Best wishes

- Larry Hatch









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                          Re: Getting Taken - Myers

From: Royce J. Myers III <ufowatchdog@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 20:39:27 -0800
Fwd Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 12:28:41 -0500
Subject: Re: Getting Taken - Myers

 >From: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >To: <- UFO UpDates Subscribers ->
 >Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 8:32 AM
 >Subject: UFO UpDate: Getting Taken


 >Source: Slate Magazine Online

<snip>

 >The Sci Fi Channel, however, is treating aliens more seriously
 >than ever. The network, which now reaches some 80 million homes,
 >has billed Taken as a breakout premiere that will prove it's a
 >"television powerhouse." Sci Fi has also prepared a slew of tie-
 >ins: a Roper Poll announcing that three-quarters of Americans
 >are prepared for the discovery of extraterrestrial life; pseudo-
 >documentaries titled Abduction Diaries and The Roswell Crash:
 >Startling New Evidence; and public events featuring UFO-
 >abduction gurus John Mack, Bud Hopkins, and David Jacobs. All
 >this might seem an odd accompaniment to a fictional TV series,
 >but Sci Fi has gone even further. It has launched an advocacy
 >group called the Coalition for the Freedom of Information, which
 >plans to sue and file Freedom of Information Act requests to
 >make the government come clean about UFOs. Of course, if the
 >outlandish UFO information requests received by the National
 >Security Agency are any indication, the coalition's chief
 >achievement may be to drive a lot of bureaucrats up the wall.

Though I had concern about the Roswell documentary, referring to
it as a "pseudo-documentary" is pretty insulting. Overall, minus
the general distrust of Schmitt, the documentary was well done.
I did note that the article made no reference to the GWU UFO
Symposium at all. The article failed to mention the scientists
involved and instead chose to focus on the "UFO-abduction
gurus".

 >Such activities certainly do suggest that Sci Fi and Spielberg
 >are out to make people believe in UFOs. Indeed, Sci Fi's
 >excavation of the Roswell crash site and other gimmicks threaten
 >to drag Taken into a sinkhole of purportedly factual UFO-
 >mongering. The evidence about Roswell overwhelmingly suggests
 >that what crashed in 1947 was a government spy balloon;
 >similarly, close examination of UFO-abduction claims
 >overwhelmingly suggests they're best explained by sleep
 >paralysis and other conditions. Those who already believe
 >otherwise, however, will never accept these explanations. That
 >makes battles over UFOlogy worse than pointless, especially if
 >they're conducted by a network like Sci Fi, rather than through
 >serious scientific channels, and presented in the context of
 >promoting a fictional drama.

Who is the smoking anus that wrote this? This idiot obviously
checked out his UFO cliff notes and crammed to write this poorly
researched and poorly reasoned excuse of an article. And no one
is "making" anyone believe in anything - unlike the author of
this article and his ridiculous attempt to completely debunk the
subject based on his opinion and what probably amounted to
nothing more than an Internet search for UFOs.

<snip>

 >The one aspect of Taken that doesn't come in for a sensitive,
 >historicized treatment is the UFO itself_and its supposed
 >activities. In one installment, a highly complicated crop circle
 >appears in the United States in the year 1969 or 1970, even
 >though the crop circle phenomenon really only got going in the
 >mid-1970s in southern England. Similarly, Taken's aliens are
 >short, black-eyed, huge-skulled humanoids known as "grays," yet
 >it was only in 1961 with the Betty and Barney Hill "abduction"
 >that aliens began to be described this way. As an "Alien Time
 >Line" by the paranormal investigator Joe Nickell demonstrates,
 >up through the 1970s, people were seeing blobs, insectoids,
 >hairy dwarfs, robots, reptilians, and other types. In other
 >words, the way that UFOs appeared to Americans was itself
 >historically contingent on, and highly influenced by, media
 >representations.

Joe Nickell? The time frame that crop formations appeared?
Aliens the product of pop culture? It is clear the author
completely lacks any sound knowledge of the subject nor has that
person engaged in any actual research of the subject.

 >Granted, if Taken admitted this, it would also have to admit
 >that Spielberg himself generated much of the lore that the
 >series has now repackaged and dramatized. But at least the Taken
 >crew seems willing to joke about it. In a recent interview,
 >Taken screenwriter Leslie Bohem noted that Spielberg once said
 >to him of alien abductions, "If this isn't true, then why are
 >all these stories the same?" To which Bohem replied, "Maybe
 >because of your movies?" That's not exactly fessing up to the
 >existence of a vast media conspiracy_but it's a promising start.

Steven Spielberg is hardly responsible for cementing the
foundations of modern UFOlogy. Far from it and this article is
nothing short of grossly inaccurate and guilty of extreme
ignorance. It is always easy to take the high road and dole out
half-ass excuses and glazed over BS as opposed to tackling some
very tough questions. Perhpas the author of the article should
fess up to not having done any real research on the subject to
begin with...


Regards,

Royce J. Myers III
UFOWATCHDOG.COM
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                         Re: Getting Taken - Kaeser

From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 08:53:48 -0500
Fwd Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 12:42:09 -0500
Subject: Re: Getting Taken - Kaeser


 >From: Steve Bassett <SGBList2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:27:08 EST
 >Subject: Re: Getting Taken

 >>Steven Spielberg, paranormal huckster
 >>By Chris Mooney
 >>Updated Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 12:54 PM PT

 >This may be the single most ignorant piece of writing on the
 >subject we hold dear in a high-level publication I have seen to
 >date. It is breathtaking.

<snip>

 >Mr. Mooney is a victim of propaganda. He doesn't know better.
 >But unlike most, he is a journalist and has a professional
 >obligation to know better. The promulgators of the incipient
 >national security state would most certainly wish a thousand
 >clones of Mr. Mooney to keep the desks at newspapers and network
 >news offices nationwide filled with "pseudo-journalists" who can
 >write but can't think. Then their hopes and desires would be so
 >much easier to achieve.

Freedom of the press allows for the publication of ignorance, as
well as ability to sway public opinion. Indeed, this is
protected by the Constitution (in the U.S.). As a former member
of the press, I was able to define truth as I saw it, and wrote
stories accordingly (however, never about this subject).

In the print media, this freedom extends to the publishers and
editors, who hold the real power in the publishing world. It is
usually THEIR agendas that are promoted, with reporters and
writers hired to carry them out. There is no "professional
obligation" to tell the truth. If you view the press as some
sort of "savior", then you're faith is obviously misplaced. This
doesn't imply that you cannot be critical, but let's not expect
something from a profession that isn't there.

I read Mooney's piece and came very close to writing him
directly to tell him of my thoughts. On the other hand,
contacting him would probably re-enforce those beliefs, rather
than promote a rational discussion. So, I decided against it. He
is quite obviously unfamiliar with the genre and like the
general public believes that Ufology (and all that it
represents) is more entertainment than science. I know there
have been numerous polls on this subject, but polling (like
statistics) can be quite misleading. Does anyone believe that a
poll conducted (and framed by) CISCOP would reach the same
conclusions as the recent poll sponsored by the Sci-Fi Channel?

TAKEN was entertainment and generated a number of reviews, with
most viewing the program in a positive way. Most of the polls I
read did not pass judgment on the genre, which I felt was a
positive. Mooney opted to include his own personal views, and
that's his right. We may not like it, but that's life in the big
city.

Steve








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                       Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Maccabee

From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 09:00:29 -0500
Fwd Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 12:45:51 -0500
Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Maccabee


 >From: Nick Redfern <Skywatcher4u@aol.com>
 >Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:54:15 EST
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>From: Geoff Richardson <geoff@fastdog.karoo.co.uk>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:27:15 -0000
 >>Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

<snip>

 >>Paul Bennewitz's involvement with "The Aviary" and alleged
 >>incidents near the town of Dulce is covered at The WHY? FILES

 >>http://www.thewhyfiles.co.uk


 >Re. this debate about Bennewitz and the Dulce rumors: the very
 >elderly Falcon (despite what some have said there was more than
 >Falcon) once used the alias of Steven V. Ayres.

 >Track the Ayres name and it will lead to a whole ream of data
 >about how and why the Dulce stories were created.

 >There is no alien base at Dulce and never was. This was a
 >creation of the fertile minds of Intelligence.

One question raised here is when Bennewitz started talking about
the Dulce "base." I had the impression that he had been told of
this by hte abductee _before_ the big meeting at Kirtland AFB in
Nov 1980 (after which the disinformation project began).








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                        Re: Getting Taken - Maccabee

From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 09:00:29 -0500
Fwd Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 12:47:50 -0500
Subject: Re: Getting Taken - Maccabee


 >From: Mac Tonnies <macbot@yahoo.com>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:16:45 -0800 (PST)
 >Subject: Re: Getting Taken

 >>From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto
 >><ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:10:23 -0500
 >>Subject: Re: Getting Taken

<snip>

 >>What a dumb statement..... The guy clearly doesn't know his UFO
 >>history... if he really thinks Spielberg planted the seeds of
 >>modern UFO obsession! If anything, the seeds had been planted
 >>30 years before and Steven merely reaped the
.>harvest!

 >You're abolutely right. 'Taken' seems to have brought out some
 >particularly idiotic comments from the mainstream. Spielberg not
 >only reaped the ufological harvest with 'Close Encounters', but
 >did so in a very methodical, particular way: the various
 >sightings leading to the film's climax are taken almost directly
f>rom J. Allen Hynek's 'The UFO Experience'.

 >It should also be noted that UFO debunkers predicted that 'Close
 >Encounters' would result in an apparent UFO 'flap' fueled by
 >gullible movie-goers. That prediction failed.

Correct. Has anyone heard of a comparable prediction for a rise
in sightings/abduction reports as a result of Taken?








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                       Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Bourdais

From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 15:47:54 +0100
Fwd Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 12:52:20 -0500
Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Bourdais


 >From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:04:14 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:54:10 +0100
 >>Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>>From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:13:08 -0500
 >>>Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>>From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>

 ><snip>

 >Thanks for all the information you supplied, which helps me to
 >recall some other things. In another message I referred to "a
 >scientist" who checkde up on Bennewitz's claims of having found
 >saucer debris and other stuff on the Arhcelute Mesa. That
 >scientist was, indeed, James McCampbell.

 >>So, it looks like the rumor of Dulce originated, not from
 >>abductees, but from intelligence agencies.

 >>Any other opinions?

 >There was another abductee, whom recalled after writing my
 >initial message, as Christa Tilton, and another respondent also
 >recalled that name.


Bruce and all,

Yes, I know the testimony of Christa Tilton, but it came later,
after the "revelations" of Bennewitz. That's why I did not
mention her.

She was another abductee remembering an underground base, but
she only supposed it was in the Dulce area when she visited the
place - she had then the "feeling" it was there!

My questions was : where did the Dulce rumor start ?

And the answer seems to be: Afosi at Kirtland.

According to McCampbell and Bill Moore, Bennewitz was fed with
many stupendous "revelations" regarding Dulce, which were later
one of the sources of the "horrible truth" of Lear, Cooper and
others.

All that smells strongly of "amplifying disinformation", as the
Cometa report called it!


Gildas Bourdais








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                       ETs May Be Beaming Lasers At Us

From: Don Ledger <dledger@ns.sympatico.ca>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 13:24:00 -0400
Fwd Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 12:55:42 -0500
Subject: ETs May Be Beaming Lasers At Us


 >From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >To: <- UFO UpDates Subscribers ->
 >Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:37:16 -0500
 >Subject: ETs May Be Beaming Lasers At Us


 >Source: The Oakland Tribune - California

 >http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82%257E1865%257E1050775,00.html

 >Friday, December 13, 2002 - 8:02:20 AM MST

 >Space Watch: ETs May Be Beaming Lasers At Us

 >Optical search starts after UC Berkeley astronomer suggests
 >aliens shine light

 >By William Brand
 >Staff Writer

 >BERKELEY - For more than 40 years, researchers on Earth have
 >scanned data from radio telescopes around the world looking for
 >signals from another civilization somewhere in myriad stars -
 >without results.

 >Now, thanks to a suggestion from a University of California,
 >Berkeley, Nobel laureate, they're trying something different:
 >Astronomers are peering into space with their own eyes.

 >They are looking through data from optical telescopes seeking
 >bright bursts of laser light that would indicate a sentient
 >being is out there.


Hi List,

As laudable as this appears, it seems to me that this would be
more of a needle in a haystack than the radio transmission
approach. It also implies that the senders would have to know of
our existance and target us. Depending how far away we were from
their planet they would have to target the laser at the position
in space where Earth would would be when the beam arrived. Their
firing position would have to be from a point in space not
affected by their planet's rotation wit a power sourse
sufficient to send powerful laser bursts, continuously for many
years.

In order for us to see it, we would have to be looking in the
right place at the right time period-in other words-how long
would this light be transmitting and how long ago was it sent.
Did the transmission end two years ago?

Even though laser, tight beamed as it is, does lose some of its
tight beam qualities, targeting these bursts would enjoy little
in the way of a "live observor" discovery. One would have to go
over years of photographic plates [basically all of them] and
continue to photograph all areas of the sky all of the time. Or
you pick one section of the sky and concentarte on that looking
for the light beam. It could be though that a couple of arc
seconds away from that area a laser could be flashing away [I'm
over here] and completely ignored.

I don't think $10,000.00 is going to cover this project.

But bring it on. I'm all eyes.

Don Ledger






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                      Re: UFOs Visit Grampians - Hatch

From: Larry Hatch <larry@larryhatch.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 05:57:11 -0800
Fwd Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 12:43:52 -0500
Subject: Re: UFOs Visit Grampians - Hatch


 >Source: The Warrnambool Standard - Victoria, Australia

 >http://the.standard.net.au/articles/2002/12/13/1039656207350.html

 >UFOs Visit Grampians

 >December 13, 2002

 >THE Grampians has been identified as a hot spot for unidentified
 >flying objects.

 >The latest issue of The Australian UFO Bulletin reports on a
 >series of ongoing sightings in the national park area.

 >Investigator Paul Norman writes that the sightings have been
 >reported since May and initially involved a large white-lighted
 >object, a pale yellow object and smaller active luminous
 >objects.

<snip>


Hello everyone.


After years of cataloging and mapping UFO sightings, I have a
real sour taste in my mouth, and a deep suspicion of so-called
"UFO Hotspots".

Almost invariably, these result from the hyperactivity of what I
call "UFO Hotshots".  One of them is in Oregon for example, you
can all name others. They help fill in weekly UFO newsletters
during dry spells.

Some Hollywood type once phoned and asked for verification of a
UFO "hotspot" somewhere near a particular town in the southern
central valley of California.

I couldn't help much, one or two sightings, none very close, and
the dates were all wrong. The sad goodbye gave me the impression
that my work just wasn't good enough, and they would find
somebody else more cooperative.

I am tempted to train my email filters to trash any message with
the phrase "hot-spot", hyphenated or not.  The only thing that
stops me is my morbid curiosity; which phony is blowing smoke
this week?

However rare, there remains the possibility of a genuine
localized spurt of fairly interesting sightings. What I will
never do is to buy a keyboard without a Delete key.


Best wishes

- Larry Hatch








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                    Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais

From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 15:47:24 +0100
Fwd Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 12:49:32 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais


 >From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:28:52 -0800
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: Bruce Hutchinson <bhutch@grassyhill.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:59:44 -500
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Hutchinson

 >>>From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:14:23 +0100
 >>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>>From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
 >>>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>>Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:02:05 -0800
 >>>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

<snip>

 >>if only because it was his stories that were
 >>the foundation of Roswell's most sensational aspects. So I
 >>forsee years of wrangling over the minutiae of Frank's stories,
 >>and many attempts to rehabilitate him. This "armchair" dialogue
 >>between David and Gildas is just the start.
 >
 >We are not "loath to let go" of Kaufmann. Much of Kaufmann's
 >story always bothered me and probably Gildas as well. He was
 >the basis for the completely revised July 5 crash recovery
 >timeline incorporated into Kevin Randle's second book. This
 >added too many inconsistencies and loose ends to the story for
 >my tastes.
 >

David,

Yes, I had doubts about Kaufmann and Ragsdale, as soon as I read
the second book of Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt.

The time line was too short, ir did not seem to allow enough
time for the decomposition of the bodies.

Kaufmann's radar surveillance in White Sands with a miror in the
toilet was frankly comical, the motoring across the fields at
night was hard to believe, and for Ragsdale as well, if the
place really was the "impact site". When I visited it in July
1995, I talked with Hub Corn and he pointed to plants with sharp
needles which could puncture tires. Not a good place for night
camping, if we add some rattle snakes. In his video, Kaufmann
said (tongue in cheek) that DuBose went to the crash site : I
did not believe it.

In my French book on Roswell, published in 1995, I was cautious
about these stories. And again in more recent books and
articles. I know some ufologists and authors who were not so
prudent. On the other hand, I still think some parts of the
story may be true.


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                         Re: Getting Taken - Kimball

From: Paul Kimball <Kimballwood@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 13:20:25 EST
Fwd Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 10:31:17 -0500
Subject: Re: Getting Taken - Kimball


No need to quote from the article - everyone on the List has
read it, no doubt. I only want to add that this kind of tripe is
what film and television producers who try to take the UFO
subject seriously have to put up with from elements of the
media. There may be a media conspiracy out there, but it isn't
working to prove UFOs are real!


Regards,

Paul Kimball
Redstar Films Limited

P.S. Our company will be following up last year's Stanton T.
Friedman IS Real! with a 2003 documentary tentatively titled "Do
You Believe in Majic?" for Space here in Canada, about... well,
the title is self-explanatory.







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                           I Made The Front Page!

From: Dave Haith <visions@ntlworld.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 19:07:47 -0000
Fwd Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 10:34:23 -0500
Subject: I Made The Front Page!


Bournemouth (UK) Daily Echo's weekly magazine is out today with
the main front cover featuring a silly close up photograph of me
peering up at the sky on the front cover with the caption 'The
truth is up there' - subcaptioned 'Bournemouth's alien abductee
support group.'

Inside there is a two page feature with another large photo of
me reading a UFO book and then an obvious old library picture
from Close Encounters, all with the headline We are not alone.

The treatment is not very original but at least they allowed me
to write the piece myself and have printed without changes. I
post the article below for your interest (amusement?) I will let
you know what response there is if any.

Cheers
Dave Haith


-----

A new Steven Spielberg TV series about alien abduction could
rekindle disturbing memories among `hidden' abductees, claims a
Bournemouth UFO researcher.

The multi-million dollar 20 hour, ten part mini-series `Taken',
based on real life events, airs in Britain on the BBC in January
and follows the fate of fictional famies plagued through three
generations by UFO abduction.

A recent Roper poll in the US revealed that nearly three million
Americans claim experiences related to alien abduction and
support groups have been set up with trained counsellors to deal
with the victims' trauma.

Bournemouth retired journalist and UFO researcher Dave Haith
believes that because the phenomenon has a much lower profile
here, the UK could be unprepared for the psychological impact
sparked by the TV series.

So Dave of Kinson Road, is setting up a confidential help group
to give abductees information on the subject and advice where
they can get counselling if needed.

Dave (60) explained: "Because this subject is so often treated
with derision, those who have these experiences fear `coming
out' because they will be thought insane and even lose their
jobs. Many are traumatised and suffer severe psychological
disturbance and sometimes physical injuries from being taken and
experimented on by, what they perceive as, alien beings.

"I believe this subject is where child sex abuse was, a decade
or more ago when it was claimed hardly to exist. But now, given
the glare of publicity, thousands are coming forward, revealing
their experiences and seeking help. It's the same with UFO
abduction -- it's still a hidden problem and I think it's likely
we have seen only the tip of the iceberg."

Dave says that in a way similar to survivors of sexual abuse,
many UFO abductees have blocked memories of their painful
experiences.

"These could be brought to the surface by the TV series" he
said. "But in a hostile environment which pours scorn on their
stories, they will have nowhere to turn. I want to provide a
safe place for them to get information and talk about their
experiences with others if needed."

Dave, who has studied the subject for 40 years, has a library of
UFO books, video-tapes and contacts of abductee counsellors,
which he plans to make available to those who report these
bizarre experiences.

Earlier this month (Nov) in New York there was a unique
symposium on UFO abduction addressed by leading experts --
Harvard Professor of Psychiatry and Pulitzer prize-winner Dr
John Mack; Associate Professor of History at Philadelphia's
Temple University Dr David Jacobs and veteran abduction
investigator and author Budd Hopkins.

They spoke of abduction through generations of families and what
- incredibly - appears to be a breeding programme of alien-human
hybrids. Budd Hopkins said that if what they thought was taking
place, was happening, it is the most important event in human
history.

Said Dave: "I recorded this live broadcast from the internet and
will arrange for interested people to hear it. It would at least
give abductees reassurance that they are not alone in what
they're going through."

When Dr Mack appeared on TV in Britain discussing UFO abduction
with Richard and Judy, the programme took around 600 phone
calls, many of which involved reported encounters with small
grey beings.

For many people even the existence of UFOs is difficult to
accept.

But Nick Pope, who had the job of studying UFOs in the Ministry
of Defence for several years, said: "My unique access to new
data and previous government files convinced me that the UFO
phenomenon raised serious defence and national security issues.
  I came across numerous instances where UFOs had been tracked on
radar, leading to jets being scrambled.  There were also cases
where there had been terrifying near-misses between UFOs and
civilian aircraft.  All this led me to believe that an
extraterrestrial explanation for some sightings could not be
ruled out."

Nick has also also investigated many cases of alleged abduction.

At a recent conference, following the testimony of an abductee,
Nick commented: "People like this are not attention-seekers
after their fifteen minutes of fame. Those few who do go public,
do so with a quiet dignity not found in the attention-seeker.
  The second possibility is that they are suffering from a
collective delusion of fantastic depth and breadth.  There is
simply no psychological or psychiatric evidence to support such
a theory.  The third possibility is that they are describing, to
the best of their ability, events that have actually taken
place.  I favour the third view."

Nick, who still works for the Ministry of Defence, adds:  "The
response to the UK appearance of John Mack neatly reinforces the
point that if you are prepared to go looking, there are no
shortage of abduction cases in Britain."

Does local investigator Dave really believe aliens are
kidnapping humans?

He said: "I appreciate these are happenings which are almost
impossible to believe. But when you consider the amount of
evidence that has built up, it is also almost impossible not to
believe. Something major is certainly going on and there's no
doubt many people are suffering as a result."

He added: "Not all abductees or people claiming contact with
other intelligences, suffer trauma. Some say their experiences
are transformative and allow them to see the universe from a
higher perspective. I just want to provide a haven where all UFO
contactees will be treated seriously and with respect."

If you believe you may have been abducted or just need more
information on UFOs, you can contact Dave on 01202 528685 or
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                       Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Maccabee

From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 14:54:09 -0500
Fwd Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 10:36:23 -0500
Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Maccabee


 >From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 15:47:54 +0100
 >Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:04:14 -0500
 >>Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

<snip>

 >My questions was : where did the Dulce rumor start ?

And the answer seems to be: Afosi at Kirtland.

 >According to McCampbell and Bill Moore, Bennewitz was fed with
 >many stupendous "revelations" regarding Dulce, which were later
 >one of the sources of the "horrible truth" of Lear, Cooper and
 >others.

If that is so, then I guess there was no mention of Dulce in the
literature until late 1980, if the disinformation started after
the AFOSI/Bennewitz meeting in Nov. 1980.








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                Re: More Signs Solar System Has 10th Planet -

From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 17:02:34 -0400
Fwd Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 10:38:25 -0500
Subject: Re: More Signs Solar System Has 10th Planet -


 >From: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >To: <- UFO UpDates Subscribers - >
 >Date: 13-Dec-02 22:58
 >Subject: More Signs Solar System Has 10th Planet


 >Source: The Independant - UK

 >http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=360803

 >More Signs That Solar System Has 10th Planet
 >By Charles Arthur, Technology Editor

 >12 December 2002

 >The solar system may have a tenth planet lurking beyond the
 >orbit of Pluto, calculations by astronomers in Britain and
 >Argentina indicate. "Planet X" could lie 60 times further from
 >the Sun than the Earth, roughly 600 million miles out. But
 >nobody would have spotted it directly because, if it exists, it
 >orbits in a direction that astronomers rarely study.

There is a major error in math here. If the object is 60 times
further from the sun than is earth it is about 5.5 Billion Miles
out not a mere 600 million which would put it between Jupiter
and Saturn in tead of well beyond Pluto.

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               Re: ETs May Be Beaming Lasers At Us - Friedman

From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 17:09:27 -0400
Fwd Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 10:42:01 -0500
Subject: Re: ETs May Be Beaming Lasers At Us - Friedman


 >From: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >To: <- UFO UpDates Subscribers - >
 >Date: 13-Dec-02 22:37
 >Subject: ETs May Be Beaming Lasers At Us


 >Source: The Oakland Tribune - California

http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82%257E1865%257E1050775,00.html

 >Friday, December 13, 2002 - 8:02:20 AM MST

 >Space Watch: ETs May Be Beaming Lasers At Us

 >Optical search starts after UC Berkeley astronomer suggests
 >aliens shine light

 >By William Brand
 >Staff Writer

 >BERKELEY - For more than 40 years, researchers on Earth have
 >scanned data from radio telescopes around the world looking for
 >signals from another civilization somewhere in myriad stars -
 >without results.

 >Now, thanks to a suggestion from a University of California,
 >Berkeley, Nobel laureate, they're trying something different:
 >Astronomers are peering into space with their own eyes.

 >They are looking through data from optical telescopes seeking
 >bright bursts of laser light that would indicate a sentient
 >being is out there.

<snip>

 >The SETI Institute, in appreciation, will bestow its second
 >annual Frank Drake Award to Townes next spring.

 >At 87, Townes still arrives at his UC Berkeley office around
 >8:30 a.m. daily. And he continues his research. "Science is
 >fun," he said. "Why stop?"

Townes is right. Science is fun.

It is good to see that the SETI cultists who have focused so
hard on radio have finally been recognizing that somebody out
there could be ahead of us and develop lasers.

Who knows? Maybe within a decade they will understand that
aliens have been visiting earth for a long time, probably using
technology well advanced over ours. We have evidence, so far
they have none. But why let the facts get in the way of their
theories?

And yes, I have challenged Shostak to a debate. He is unwilling.



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                        Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Redfern

From: Nick Redfern <Skywatcher4u@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 17:14:30 EST
Fwd Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 10:55:43 -0500
Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Redfern



 >From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 09:00:29 -0500
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>From: Nick Redfern <Skywatcher4u@aol.com>
 >>Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:54:15 EST
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>>From: Geoff Richardson <geoff@fastdog.karoo.co.uk>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:27:15 -0000
 >>>Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

<snip>

 >>Paul Bennewitz's involvement with "The Aviary" and alleged
 >>incidents near the town of Dulce is covered at The WHY? FILES

 >>http://www.thewhyfiles.co.uk

 >Re. this debate about Bennewitz and the Dulce rumors: the very
 >elderly Falcon (despite what some have said there was more than
 >Falcon) once used the alias of Steven V. Ayres.

 >Track the Ayres name and it will lead to a whole ream of data
 >about how and why the Dulce stories were created.

 >There is no alien base at Dulce and never was. This was a
 >creation of the fertile minds of Intelligence.

One question raised here is when Bennewitz started talking about
the Dulce "base." I had the impression that he had been told of
this by the abductee _before_ the big meeting at Kirtland AFB in
Nov 1980 (after which the disinformation project began).

Bennewitz had indeed been told about the Dulce story before
AFOSI got involved directly. However, he made the mistake of
telling everyone what he was doing and this filtered back to
AFOSI who simply amplified and elaborated on Bennewitz's beliefs
with their own tall tales. After all, if OSI were saying that
there was an alien base at Dulce as well then that was
corraboration and it had to be correct. Right? Er, no. It wasn't
correct but it was remarkably effective in sending Bennewitz off
the deep end and into a carefully controllable avenue.


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                     CASE MJ-12 by Kevin Randle (Review)

From: Mac Tonnies <macbot@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 15:51:36 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 10:57:50 -0500
Subject: CASE MJ-12 by Kevin Randle (Review)


CASE MJ-12 by Kevin Randle

(reviewed by Mac Tonnies)

"Case MJ-12" fills a void in the Roswell/crashed-saucer
literature. While most ufologists have concluded that the MJ-12
documents (now numbering in the thousands) are clever forgeries,
those convinced that an extraterrestrial craft crashed at
Roswell, NW in 1947 concede that something very much like the
MJ-12 working group would have been conceived.

Randle probes the origin of the post-Roswell oversight committee
with a keen sense of perspective, demonstrating anachronisms and
errors in the MJ-12 papers. More importantly, he fingers key
personnel who would have been likely members of a top-secret
team devoted to exploiting the Roswell crash debris and alien
bodies.

"Case MJ-12" succinctly frames the modern myth that is MJ-12 in
historical context and challenges the UFO research community to
dig deeper. This book is Randle's most topical and engagingly
opinionated since "The Abduction Enigma," recommended to anyone
familiar with the convoluted, emotionally charged landscape of
the Roswell case. Great fun when read alongside MJ-12 proponent
Stan Friedman's "TOP SECRET/MAJIC."

****

For more indepedently reviewed UFO titles, see:

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                              Backwards In Time

From: Dave Haith <visions@ntlworld.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 00:12:24 -0000
Fwd Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 11:00:31 -0500
Subject: Backwards In Time


Here's another sceptical review of Taken from Time magazine.

There are so many points to argue here, I don't know where to
start. So I won't start. Why grace such bilge with sensible
argument anyway.

Journos like this have something in common with the aliens -
  they both seem to come from another planet! Onwards and
upwards!

Dave

-----

Source Time Magazine

http://www.time.com/time/columnist/printout/0,8816,398945,00.html

Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2002

Are We Being Taken by Spielberg?

A skeptical look at the filmmaker's alien abduction show
By LEON JAROFF

The Sci-Fi Channel is best known for programs that contain very
little Sci and an abundance of Fi. Its most popular show until
now, John Edward's "Crossing Over" (which I savaged last year in
TIME) remains devoid of science, let alone truth. Edward, you
recall, claims to be a medium who can transmit messages from the
dearly departed to their bereaved relatives. That's nonsense, of
course, and lacks even the kind of scientific credibility and
measurability that I have, for example, when my response to
questions about my shirt size is "I'm a medium."

But I digress. Spurred on by the success of the Edward show, the
Sci-Fi Channel has now outdone itself. It is currently running a
ten-part mini-series called "Taken", which deals with alien
abductions and is garnering the best viewer ratings in the
history of the Channel. The subject alone, dealing with humans
who are abducted, taken aboard UFOs by aliens, examined - often
sexually - and return to tell their story, is enough to attract
the millions of na=EFve Americans who believe in UFOs and
government cover-ups. But Taken is made even more compelling
fare by the widely heralded news that its executive producer is
none other than Steven Spielberg, creator of such Hollywood
smash hits as "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "E.T."

In the mini-series, according to reviewer Chris Mooney, who has
seen all ten episodes, Spielberg artfully portrays the abduction
experiences of three families. They encounter UFOs and aliens,
are abducted, saved, abused, seduced, and even impregnated by
well-intentioned creatures who appear in different guises but
generally resemble the "grays" of UFO mythology. All the while,
representatives of the Federal government hang around, hostile,
sometimes menacing and brutal, and always conspiratorial.

The Spielberg touch, as usual, makes the mini-series highly
entertaining. But the artistry and a sometimes humorous approach
can't obscure the fact that "Taken" takes alien abductions
rather seriously. It seems to give credence such nonsense as the
purported crash of an alien spacecraft at Roswell, New Mexico,
the notion that the idea for Velcro was acquired from the
wreckage of a UFO and the fiction that it's those pesky aliens
who are responsible for creating crop circles. Apparently buying
into these fantasies, the Sci-Fi Channel, with a straight face,
has formed an organization called the Coalition for the Freedom
of Information. The group plans to sue and file requests under
the Freedom of Information Act to make the Federal Government
fess up all that it knows about decades of alien mischief and
conniving. Paranoia? I doubt it. Promotion? More likely.

The really puzzling part of this latest assault on rationality
by the Sci-Fi Channel is Spielberg's role. His obsession with
aliens is evident. Can someone as gifted and intelligent as
Spielberg really believe? Sure. Take John Mack, for example. The
highly respected, intelligent and tenured Harvard psychiatrist,
possibly to fill some deep-seated emotional need, has
embarrassed his university by very publicly embracing the myth
of alien abductions. Could the same need be motivating
Spielberg? Or does he simply know what makes for good box office
numbers and ratings? I suspect the former.

Perhaps I'm being a little too hard on Spielberg. Truth of the
matter is that, as a confirmed skeptic, I'm offended by his
treatment in "Taken", of a skeptic and "alien debunker" named
Tom Clarke, who maintains his disbelief almost until the end,
when he learns that his half-brother is half-alien and renounces
his skepticism. No true, self-respecting skeptic would cave in
that easily on the basis of such flimsy evidence.








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                      Re: UFOs Visit Grampians - Bowden

From: Tom Bowden <tomrbowden@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 16:59:53 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 11:03:15 -0500
Subject: Re: UFOs Visit Grampians - Bowden


 >From: Larry Hatch <larry@larryhatch.net>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 05:57:11 -0800
 >Subject: Re: UFOs Visit Grampians

<snip>

 >After years of cataloging and mapping UFO sightings, I have a
 >real sour taste in my mouth, and a deep suspicion of so-called
 >"UFO Hotspots".

 >Almost invariably, these result from the hyperactivity of what I
 >call "UFO Hotshots". One of them is in Oregon for example, you
 >can all name others. They help fill in weekly UFO newsletters
 >during dry spells.

<snip>

Larry,

The view from here in Oregon is a bit different. I don't know
who is calling it a "hot spot", but 2001 and 2002 have been
years of high UFO sighting activity here. Naturally some have
been covered by legitimate explanations, but we are having a
high incidence of several types of cases: flying triangles,
silver spheres, and red-lighted UFOs which do not behave like
conventional aircraft. We have had at least one bona-fide crop
formation. To add to the mix, a lot of the unidentifieds are
being followed or pursued by military jets, usually F-16s, but
in one case by A-10 "Warthogs".

Add to this that most reports come from the northwestern part of
Oregon (Portland and the Willamette River Valley area), which is
the most populated.  Historically, there have been a lot of
sightings with high strangeness in the sparsely populated rural,
mountainous and desert areas of Eastern Oregon, however it is
often hard to get reports from the rural Oregonians. They are
largely small-town conservatives, farmers and ranchers who
typically view flying saucers as a very fringy subject. They
often do not want to do or say anything that might cause them to
be identified with any new-age cult type people from Portland.

I am not sure who the "hotshot" is, if that is what you are
suggesting, but most identifiable phenomena are being screened
out before anything is trumpeted on the internet. Often
partially investigate cases are made public in the hopes that
additional witnesses will come forward. The cases are being
investigated whenever people are available.

Earlier this year we had a claim of a UFO photograph which we
attempted to investigate. I am not sure why, but as soon as I
said I wanted to be able to borrow the negative for analysis,
the person withdrew from the discussions and I have not heard
from him again. I chalk this sort of thing up to screening out
of potential hoaxes.

I understand and appreciate your reaction to the purported "hot
spot" claims, but please don't jump to conclusions until the
facts are in (assuming we can find any "facts").

Regards,
Tom Bowden
MUFON Asst. SD for Oregon








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                         Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Gates

From: Robert Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 22:00:35 EST
Fwd Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 11:06:09 -0500
Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Gates


 >From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:54:10 +0100
 >Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:13:08 -0500
 >>Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

<snip>

 >Bruce and all

 >In studying that story, I found the following elements :

 >In 1980, Bennewitz had been informed by APRO of the abduction of
 >Judy Doraty and her daughter Cindy, in 1973 in Texas. There had
 >been hypnosis sessions, first in 1978, and in Mars 1980
 >conducted by Dr Sprinkle in the presence of Linda Howe, who told
 >the story in her book "An Alien harvest" (1989). Ten years
 >later, Cindy wished to have an hypnotic regression too. It was
 >done in 1990 by John Carpenter with Linda Howe. The transcript
 >of that session is in the book of Linda Howe "Glimpses of other
 >realities" - Volume 1 (1993). The point here is that the mother
 >and the daughter don't recall any underground laboratory.

Gildas all,

As I recall the name of the abductee in the Bennowitz story
is/was Christina Tilton or something like that. As I recall she
later was married to a researcher, and last I heard is living
near/around Oklahoma City.


Cheers,

Robert







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                         Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Gates

From: Robert Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 22:22:54 EST
Fwd Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 11:08:01 -0500
Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Gates


 >From: Nick Redfern <Skywatcher4u@aol.com>
 >Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:54:15 EST
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?


 >>From: Geoff Richardson <geoff@fastdog.karoo.co.uk>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:27:15 -0000
 >>Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>>From: Nick Redfern <Skywatcher4u@aol.com>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:52:15 EST
 >>>Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>>>From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
 >>>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:49:13 -0800 (PST)
 >>>>Subject: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>>>On Dr. Maccabee's website, I just read/reviewed his report on
 >>>>UFO Landing near Kirtland AFB, and would like more material
 >>>>about Paul Bennewitz, as his involvement with the UFO subject is
 >>>>much more complicated, as I understand.

 >>>>Some years ago, when visiting the Lorenzens of APRO, Coral
 >>>>Lorenzen gave me a 17 page Summary & Status report called
 >>>>'Project Beta' by Bennewitz. We didn't have time to discuss it
 >>>>but I am very interested in finding out, if anyone is privy to
 >>>>info, as to whether this material is the product of
 >>>>disinformation, and also more details about whether Bennewitz
 >>>>was discredited and if so, by whom?

 >>>One of the people connected with the Bennewitz events was USAF
 >>>Col. Richard Weaver of Roswell-Mogul balloon fame. Interesting
 >>>links here if you dig.

 >>Paul Bennewitz's involvement with "The Aviary" and alleged
 >>incidents near the town of Dulce is covered at The WHY? FILES

 >>http://www.thewhyfiles.co.uk


 >Re. this debate about Bennewitz and the Dulce rumors: the very
 >elderly Falcon (despite what some have said there was more than
 >one Falcon) once used the alias of Steven V. Ayres.

 >Track the Ayres name and it will lead to a whole ream of data
 >about how and why the Dulce stories were created.

Nick,

Where does one go to track the Ayres name and the hows and whys
of Dulce?

 >There is no alien base at Dulce and never was. This was a
 >creation of the fertile minds of Intelligence.

As I recall Christina Tilton was the abductee who unloaded the
story on Paul.

As to "Dulce" I have not seen any evidence to suggest anything
was ever there in the first place. That is not to say there is
not some kind of facility somewhere else on the border.

During my cold war research a former high ranking individual also
referenced an underground facility on the NM/CO border in passing.
When I asked what went on he told me something along the lines of
research and he wasn't going to discuss it any further because
it was highly classified.

Later on I ran across a story about how Congressman Bill
Richardson (former Sec of Energy, now Governor of New Mexico)
got into trouble for disclosing the existence of some kind of
classified underground base on the border between Colorado and
New Mexico.

I have also heard some people claim that the underground
facility is actually part of Los Alamos and may be some kind of
extended facility located away from Los Alamos.

Bottom line was I thought Dulce was a red herring, however their
may have been some kind of underground facility on the NM/CO
border.

Cheers,

Robert








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                         Great Moments In Debunking

From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 12:20:17 -0700
Fwd Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:13:07 -0500
Subject: Great Moments In Debunking


Dear EBK and Listers,

While preparing my audio archive into digital format, I
sometimes stumble upon what I call, Great Moments in Ufology.
Such a moment is shared with the UFO UpDates lurkers and
dedicated to such skeptibunkers, Pelicanists, etc., as Philip
Klass, Kal Korff, Robert Shaeffer, Bob Young, John Rimmer...
well, the list is endless.

On April 22, 1967 the American Society of Newspaper Editors
convened in Washington, D. C. On the program for that day were
three noted names in Ufology: Major Hector Quintanilla, Dr.
James E. McDonald and Dr. Donald H. Menzel. They were all
engaged in the education of the ASNE regarding UFOs. Quintanilla
namby-pambied around the issue and denied the USAF knew anything.
Menzel pontificated and rambled into inversions and McDonald
cleaned both their clocks with logic and sound reasoning. The
audience was delighted.

At the end of the presentation was a question and answer period.
The final question came from Frederick Martecord of the Arizona
Republic newspaper. His question was addressed to Dr. Menzel. I
quote:

"I would like to ask Dr. Menzel if he had been teaching at the
University of Saragosa in 1491, if he would have advised
Isabella not to give Columbus the money to determine if the
world was flat?"

The audience went wild and Menzel sputtered an inane reply that
he would have advised Queen Isabella to give Columbus the money.
However, the damage had been done. Menzel's credibility lay in
tatters on the floor of the Fourth Estate.


Wendy Connors

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                     Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle

From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 16:52:51 EST
Fwd Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:14:46 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle


 >From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:55:29 +0100
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
 >>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:35:12 EST
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:02:05 -0800
 >>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>>From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
 >>>>Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 17:19:26 +0100
 >>>>Fwd Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 12:54:21 -0500
 >>>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais

 ><snip>

 >>The big point here is if other investigations corroborate parts
 >>of the story, but we must also be aware of contamination. How
 >>much did Kaufmann know from those other sources... I know that
 >>he watched the Unsolved Mysteries segment because he talked
 >>about it having seen it. From that point on, he kept himself
 >>informed of about the latest in the Roswell case.

Good Morning, Gildas, Dave, List, All -

Before we start, let me ask a simple question. How many lies and
how many forged documents must we discover before we decide
that a witness is unreliable? No, I'm not referring to little mistakes
that are the fault of memory tricks, but of honest to gosh lies and
documents that were forged.


 >Kevin,

 >This is another interesting aspect of the Kaufmann problem.
 >Perhaps he came across some real information and began to
 >elaborate on them?

Yes, it was on Unsolved Mysteries and he jumped right in. Oh,
you mean official sources? Then he came across nothing.

 >I would like you to give your opinion now about the "impact
 >site", closer to Roswell. After the demise of both Ragsdale and
 >Kaufmann, what is left of it?

Nothing.

 >I think there are some indirect testimonies, still standing,
 >about it?

 >And what do you think of the testimonies about bodies at the
 >Foster ranch? I mentioned that in my previous message. I forgot
 >to mention the source - a very interesting article - "Mack
 >Brazel Reconsidered" by Thomas Carey and Donald Schmit, in the
 >IUR of winter 1999, which told of the new revelations made by
 >Frank Joyce in 1998, that Brazel had seen the bodies.

After all the years of saying one thing, supplying documents,
and answering questions, suddenly, he is talking of Brazel
seeing the bodies and providing detailed information. Please
don't be offended if I'm skeptical. Ask Tom and Don about the
grape soda and his ride out to the Brazel ranch with Whitmore or
some of the more bizarre stories that Joyce has told over the
years such as his adventures during a mountain fishing trip.

 >At the end of their IUR article, they mention other sources.

 >Wilcox's widow Inez who said that her husband "went out there to
 >the site. There was a big burned area, and he saw debris. It was
 >in the evening. There were "space beings"". (She did not give
 >the location, apparently)

Actually, we don't know this. It was Inez's granddaughter who
said that Inez said that George Wilcox had seen the big burned
area and the debris. He sent deputies out... which means it was
probably in Chavez County and not Lincoln County where the
Brazel (Foster) ranch was located. But note that the information
is third-hand at best. While the granddaughter is a nice woman
and telling us what she believes to be the truth, when we filter
data through so many witnesses, they are easily distorted.

 >A woman in Ruidoso remembered her husband coming back from a
 >detail to a ranch "up near Corona" where bodies had been found.
 >His clothes smelled very bad.

Yes, this is all well and good, but there have also been
aircraft accidents in the area. Tommy Tyree told us that during
the Second World War an aircraft had crashed in the area and the
teenagers from Corona knew where it had happened though the
military had wanted to keep the site a secret. My point is that
this tale told by a woman in Ruidoso does not specifically take
us to the alien bodies... Interpretation has led us down the
wrong path more than once.

In their story, neither Carey nor Schmitt provides any evidence
that this event is related to the crash of an alien ship. The
bodies could just as easily be human as alien, and it is the
woman's interpretation of the situation that is in error. There
may be no way to ever learn if her late husband had been
involved in the recovery of alien creatures or the unfortunate
victims of an aircraft accident.

 >According to the family of the late Meyers Wahnee, who was a
 >pilot in Roswell, he told them that there were three separate
 >sites ! Bodies were found and first flown to Texas. "Decomposing
 >body parts" had been found among the debris at the Foster ranch.

 >BTW, Brazel complained to Joyce about the stench of the bodies.

 >I remember that, after your speech in Roswell in 1995, I
 >questioned your revised time line which seemed a bit short to
 >allow for such a decomposition, but you replied: "what do we
 >know about the decomposition of Et bodies?". Well, I still think
 >that these bodies would have been there a longer time.

How long do you think they were there? Couldn't have been more
than a couple of days, given everything else. And I ask again,
just what do we know about the decomposition of an alien body? I
can think of lots of reasons that an alien body might not
decompose as quickly or in the same fashion as a human body.

 >Carey and Schmit also mention the last testimony of Loretta
 >Proctor, at the age of 81, who said that her son "Dee" took her
 >to visit a place where "something else" had been found, about
 >2.5 miles east-southeast of the debris field".

Which is the site the Cliff Stone tried to feed us in 1989 which
he said came from the Proctors. But, as I mentioned in another
post, Loretta Proctor had introduced, in 1995, the idea that
Mack Brazel had told her about the pink writing and this was the
first time she had ever mentioned anything like that. So, I'm
cautious about these new revelations that come so long after a
witness has told the story of the crash time and again. We must
be very careful here.

 >What do you think of all these testimonies?

Given my recent track record, I'm not sure my take on these
testimonies is all that important. I will point out that they
are not first hand, but second hand at best. And I will point
out that we have other testimony that is in conflict with it,
from the story told by Melvin Brown to that of Frankie Rowe,
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                   Open UFO Files To Rest Of Us Earthlings

From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:20:00 -0500
Fwd Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:20:00 -0500
Subject: Open UFO Files To Rest Of Us Earthlings

http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/epaper/editions/today/opinion_d39fe7f8945b02d90
09a.html

December 13, 2002

Open UFO Files To Rest Of Us Earthlings

Leslie Kean - Pacifica Radio
Friday, December 13, 2002

As Steven Spielberg's TV series "Taken" raises public interest
in government secrecy about unidentified flying objects, the
Washington Post reports that Attorney General John Ashcroft has
tightened the lid on the Freedom of Information Act. Ashcroft
gave federal officers the green light to bend or perhaps break
the information act if they want to withhold records, and he'll
even defend them in court.

Two-thirds of the American people believe their government is
withholding information about UFOs, and 60 percent of adults
want the information declassified if it is not a national
security risk, according to a September Roper Poll commissioned
by the Sci Fi Channel.

So far, declassified records and scientific investigation
clearly show that some UFOs are not science fiction. Unexplained
objects have been well documented by trained observers such as
pilots and military personnel. Some have landed and left ground
traces in England, France and the United States.

"People have been digging through the files and investigating
for years now. The files are quite convincing. The only thing
that's lacking is the official stamp," says Apollo 14 astronaut
Edgar Mitchell.

As a result, the Sci Fi Channel is publicly calling for the
declassification of government documents on UFO activity.

In October, network President Bonnie Hammer joined President
Clinton's former chief of staff, John Podesta, to support a new
information act initiative requested by me and the Washington
law firm of Lobel, Novins and Lamont.

"I think it's time to open the books on questions that have
remained in the dark, on the question of government
investigations of UFOs," Podesta said at a Washington news
conference. "We ought to do it because... the American people
quite frankly can handle the truth, and we ought to do it
because it's the law."

The request seeks documentation on the crash of an object of
unknown origin in Kecksburg, Pa., in 1965. The U.S. government
denies anything fell from the sky, despite the signed affidavits
of firefighters, radio journalists, dozens of witnesses at the
scene and newspaper reports to the contrary.

In 1969, the U.S. Air Force stated that "no UFO reported,
investigated and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any
indication of threat to our national security" to justify
closure of its investigation. The government still takes this
position, despite routinely refusing to comply with information
act requests about UFO cases on the basis of national security.
In fact, some UFO incidents have obvious national security
implications, although this would not appear to justify the
withholding of information about them.

According to North American Aerospace Defense Command logs, U.S.
fighter jets attempted to pursue UFOs in 1975. Defense
Department reports state that UFOs were also pursued after
hovering over three supersensitive nuclear missile launch sites
that same year.

And as recently as last July, two F-16s from Andrews Air Force
Base were scrambled in the sky over Washington after radar
detected an unknown aircraft. Military officials said they do
not know what the jets were chasing, because whatever it was
disappeared.

This month, the British Ministry of Defense released files on a
famous multiple-witness case at Bentwaters Air Base in 1980. A
memo by U.S. Deputy Base Commander Lt. Col. Charles Halt and a
tape recording at the scene detail the landing of a glowing
triangular craft that left three circular depressions and
radiation 10 times higher than normal in a nearby forest.

Echoing the U.S. line, the British government also dismisses the
phenomenon by claiming that the event was "of no defense
significance." However, Britain's former Chief of the Defense
Staff, Adm. Lord Hill-Norton, says that whether this represents
the hallucination of men with the responsibility for guarding
nuclear weapons or "the entry of a vehicle from outer space,"
it "cannot fail to be of defense interest."

There is no longer an acceptable justification for the
withholding of reports on UFO incidents decades old, whether
they are of defense interest or not. Nor is it acceptable for
the attorney general unilaterally to refuse to enforce
information act. The American people should not have to rely on
Spielbergian science fiction for answers.

Leslie Kean, an investigative reporter and producer for Pacifica
radio, is research director of the Coalition for Freedom of
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                  APRO File Services Offered Free Of Charge

From: Bruce Morgan <ironangel_99@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 19:29:46 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:20:00 -0500
Subject: APRO File Services Offered Free Of Charge


[Non-Subscriber Post]


Hello

I read the e-mail thread regarding the condition and the status
of the APRO files. I am Bruce Morgan, a cinematographer, working
on a very independent film concerning UFO Air Force issues in
1952.

Within the next six months, I will be glad to offer my services
and pay for material fees free of charge, if anyone wants to
forward this to the party in possession of the APRO files. That
is I am willing to record the APRO files on film or digital
medium for the sake of the organization which wishes to fulfill
the exchange data agreement with MUFON.

My request is only to take photographic copy of the data I am
interested in this is my only request for the service I will
render.

I believe the old version of APRO was a very special group
of people and the record would be of interest to folks in the
UFO research community at large.

If I can help contact me

Bruce Morgan
Post Office Box 5502
Santa Monica California
90409-5502

Thanks for any response








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                            Combat Diary Number 1

From: Colin Bennett <sharkley@panzerben.fsworld.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 02:34:54 -0000
Fwd Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:27:28 -0500
Subject: Combat Diary Number 1


Hello all good List folk,

Jan Aldrich contacted me privately and asked me the following
questions, in response to a recent posting of mine concerning
a possible Roswell-RAF connection that I am researching.
I thought that the List might be interested in my reply.
In this reply I discuss what is meant by fiction, and in
order not to compromise the bandwidth of this List, I intend
to answer his other important questions at a later date.


Colin

-----

Dear Mr. Bennett,

I "know" that Roswell is the key to everything, but please
explain what any of this has to do with Captain Ruppelt? Is this
to be a work of fiction? What is Ruppelt's connection to the
Roswell incident? Why would a unit committed to the Strategic
Air Command be used as a training unit? Not while General Lemay
was in command it wouldn't! Of course, Lemay was not commander
of SAC in 1947 and was 1948 was in Europe.

There were other facilities for training B-29 crews and for
training with nuclear weapons. Since the majority of 509th
members and others assigned to Roswell knew nothing of the
Roswell incident, why would British "students" know anything?

I think that there is not any violation of the MacMahon Act by
leasing Honest John, Little John and Corporal missiles to the
UK. Obviously, certain nuclear data was given to NATO. The
reason for the "Atomal" access in the NATO security scheme.
Probably there was an adjustment by Congress in the
authorization of NATO.

Sincerely,

Jan Aldrich,
Project 1947

-----

Dear Mr. Aldrich,

I would like to answer your question simply and directly sir,
but even though I bear a Degree from the university of Oxford in
English Language and Literature, I am somewhat ashamed to say
that I do not know what a fiction is, quite. Many philosophers,
from Aristotle to T.S. Eliot through Cervantes and Melville have
tried to define what "fiction" is exactly, and all have failed.
Some modern puritans refer to a book that does have a document
box number or a security reference or a footnote about
statistics in every single clause in every sentence as a work of
fiction. In a recent IUR, a profoundly silly woman reviewer went
so far as to say that the lack of an index made the book she was
reviewing a work of fiction! On the other hand, some writers
proper ("proper" refers to those dreadful people who use image,
symbol, metaphor and imagination as entry to a system instead of
statistics and documents) refer to books of researchers as
manuals, not books.

"Fact" is just one way amongst others to try and come to
knowledge of a thing. It is merely one component of experience,
and must be considered in relation to other components that have
equally valid claims to be arbiters of experience.

Primarily, I am a satirist and portrait painter in words. For
the Fortean Times and Philosophy Now, I paint landscapes and
personalities, and in the February 2003 issue of the Fortean
Times, Mr. James Oberg can stand back and gaze at his (not
exactly uncomplimentary) oil. As a painter, I see features of
character and soul, the atmosphere and background of a person
rather than where he or she was on a particular date. I enter
the system that way. Within a person I seen landscapes
stretching round the Moon and back. I can't help it. People pay
me to do it. I carve these things as a gypsy carves pegs. In the
words of that great American novelist Toni Morrison, I listen
and let the trail talk to me. Even the most dour and sober
investigator should this. It is an old Indian trick that will
survive laboratories and nuclear power plants. Facts are a
guide, but you don't let them control the situation, you don't
let them define it. As in any painting, you make them produce
more than their sum.

Yes, I start with "facts" in the respect that I know that
Captain Ruppelt was not a 18th century cabbage farmer from old
New York. After I have narrowed him down to a post-war conscript
officer in the US Air Force, a deeper state of trance begins,
induced by facts, almost as if facts want to re-focus
themselves. Then nudge, hint, and grumble. Then I listen. I turn
off the facts like

I turn off a light. I enter the hidden system. The system talks
to me. Then the book almost writes itself. The system opens up.
Everywhere in Ruppelt's 1956 book, The Report on Unidentified
Flying Objects I find conspiracy and fantasy. I find things that
don't fit anywhere, missing pieces. The facts are just not
sufficient. Yes, they lead you to the trail, but they can't take
the journey themselves. A typical Ruppelt day was like an Oswald
day or an Adamski day or indeed a Joycean Bloomsday. The 24 hour
span of Joyce's novel Ulysses matches the single-year plan of
Project 1947. We push the Ufological envelope to different
limits. As such, we move Ufology nearer the "truth" of artform
than anything else. Just as you point out, Jan, many of the
events in Project 1947 do not fit, and in Ruppelt's hours as he
described them do not fit, perhaps were not even meant to fit,
as in life. Ruppelt varies his impressions all the time, comes
in from many different angles, he keeps on the move like a good
boxer, and like Che Guevara (another amateur writer), just
happens to discover that he is a prose master. Ruppelt produces
sketches of whole and entire military landscapes, then a crayon
daub here, a mere doodle there. He is depressed, accusatory, and
devious in turn, like a character in a novel. His book is a
first journey into the surrealistic psychology of the Military-
Industrial-Complex, an essay in time and technology. After
reading The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects a reader is
convinced that a scrape of paint off a mid-twentieth-century bus
stop is sufficient to convince us that Matter itself is pure
Plot.

You see therefore Jan, in this matter of the defining of
fiction, we must be most careful. I myself see your magnificent
Project 1947 web site and others like it indeed (Maccabee,
Rudiak, et al) as a new kind of authentic 21st century text. I
see these things not so much involved in trying to define the
UFO, but as long metaphysical novels about identity and human
thoughts and endeavour involved with whole landscapes of
developing science, technology and national history. You are
unbeknown to you, creating a language; like it or not, you are
telling a story rich in fantasy and lore and multiple
associations beyond the sun and moon. Sir, you are walking tall!

Project 1947 is a work of art. You are a modern Quixote. On this
List, the word fiction is virtually a swear word, and that is
because the concept of fiction is little understood in a
supermarket and TV age that demands very simple-minded consumer-
consumables in body, mind, and spirit. If we cannot define
fiction, we can at least say that psychological, socially and
intellectually it is of vital importance. From cave walls to
Keruoac, fiction defines the moral condition. Fact alone, as a
somewhat historically arriveste concept, cannot do that. If fact
and fiction have any proper correspondence, it is that they are
equally as full of old historical ghosts. They act different
theatres in rival shows with different scripts, but they are
both cultural performances, nevertheless, as is indeed your own
site, sir! Antiquity of course solved this two-state problem.
 From Homer to Shakespeare, the rather elegant solution was the
conception of a scale of being in which there is possible all
kinds of translations of matter, being, and spirit. There
existed a mythopoetic dialogue between an infinite variety of
intermediate states of being, from the almost vaporous to the
almost solid. We have fallen from that of course, and so we
grate our teeth of the mechanical and wonder what is wrong.
Antiquity was a much more sophisticated world than is our own.
Rich in semi-forms and anomalous states, it had a much creative
and fruitful relationship with the unconscious than ourselves,
with our bad-tempered rattling cans full of facts.

Now don't just sneer at all this as verbal salad (to quote a
prominent List member who should have know better -- it made him
sound like an intellectual top of the head yob, which as a
prominent physicist he most patently is not). Whether you like
it or not, Jan, you are creating (as indeed are the Moderators
of this List) a new form of expression. I have given up reading
novels for this glittering mysterium of the Web. Please don't
sneer at my long haired words. Have pity for me. I am doomed. I
have a touch of the poet. Only a touch, but it has almost ruined
my life, as Project 1947 has I guess, probably nearly ruined
your own. Being artists, we are both stricken with what
Kierkegaard called the sickness unto death. You have only to add
the recent dialogue between Stanton Friedman and Kevin Randle
posted 12/9/02 and your Starship Enterprise, sir, will talk and
walk, the first intermediate life-form since Adamski's Orthon. I
have never ever read anything like this Friedman/Randle dialogue
in my chequered life, and the blessed pair are to be
congratulated. They have made my Christmas. Their List
contribution in this case is vastly superior to the kind of
"fiction proper" put out by pre-electric spoilt brats who should
have their over-affluent over-stimulated over-fed little bottoms
smacked soundly. Sorting out just exactly who is talking to who
at any one time should be made into a Christmas board game. Add
this Friedman/Randle dialogue, and the labyrinths of Project
1947 will have both a live brain and a live developing story.
Trailing fragmentary contributions from others, this kind of
pure theatre will certainly make Project 1947 the first Web
Animal Mk 1.


What is the story behind this Friedman/Randle dialogue?

The story is about how many impure comrades can pass through the
eye of a rather impure needle. Ufology it appears, has now
reached its proto-Maoist stage where erring pilgrims such as
Frank Kaufmann are interrogated by an inner circle of savants
and examined for imagining and fictions and half-forms rather
like the bodies of witches were examined for marks of devilish
intercourse. Like most well educated Western folk, the examiners
are force-fed like a Christmas goose with the binary dialectics
of false and true, that is the two-state empirical
indoctrination of most well trained "researchers". This kind of
"knowledge" is a consumer product in itself; countless tons of
such Boolian colonisation pour in and out of the university
main-frames by the microsecond, and most of it is just about
suitable as hard-core for motorway foundations. That there might
indeed be forms of life existing between these two narrow and
primitive (and forever approximate) yes/no alternatives is not
for the moment anything like a Western tribal option. Thus do we
keep bumping into things that we don't understand because we
have not yet reprogrammed that paradigm within which such a
twilight half-life as the UFO can be recognised.

I notice that the old Soviet Commissar word "refurbished" is
used for those lost souls who are forced to confess that they
might just have imagined something. Mao Tse Tung himself called
this process "fanshen". In the Soviet Union, this meant that
certain faces in publicity photographs were brushed out. In
Communist China, this was a means of purifying the village of
all consumer desires (sex and pleasure) and capitalist
contaminations (property and profit), and independent initiative
(entrepreneurial individualism). The contactees and abductees
are easy meat for fanshen. To disastrously fact-prone
personalities, the abductees are in a very weak dialectical
position. Like the lost souls of Christianity and Communism, and
in turn Science, their fallen state has to be somehow
"corrected" and their dialectical impurities washed away as one
of the various equivalents of "sin". If I had been the said
Frank Kauffman before this worthy group of fact-prone
personalities, rather than "confessing" to the miniature child-
brides in front of him, I would have stood on a table, unzipped,
and pissed all over their worthy liberal factual puritanism,
their terribly restricted view of basic human instincts and
psychology (most researchers lack all life experience and lack
that criminal instinct required to fight for significant
information), and their petite-bourgeois lust for clean
intellectual linen and far too comfortable sense of proper
purpose. It is most obvious that many of these Ufological
interrogators have lived lives that have been far too well
protected.

I imagine future crimes. Has he stolen a car? No, your honour,
he has been imagining things. Twenty years in the slammer! The
attempt to annihilate certain kinds of mental activity is not
that they are false or unreal, but that partial forms of
imagining might just come about. It is the oldest single aspect
of human culture that survives still in its primordial form. The
Friedman/Randle dialogue is about the casing out of impurities:
the visionaries, the social failures, the liars and fantasists,
the con men, all these things to be replaced by "real science"
who will clean up the farm and get rid of the falsehoods and
freaks in the ghetto and their "wrong answers" from their
"failed culture". The kind of high-school condescension as
regards what Mom told them about the Other Side of Town is found
in Donna Kossey's otherwise excellent book, Kooks. For the
record, like Mr. Velez, I have had a UFO experience, and know
that I lost some time. But unlike Mr Velez, I have no
recollection of abduction at all.

I think that Mr. Velez might agree that we are not careful here,
Ufology, in its urge to get into a white coat and handle test
probes and analyze "proper" grown-up pointer-readings is going
to be accused of using coercive group-pressures in order to get
the answer it wants. This is the problem with science, which on
its worst side is a semi-automated systems-machine demanding
standard binary responses. Just like Ufology, science has great
problems with the unique event of the kook experience, or with a
complex of low-frequency events, such as the paranormal
spectrum. Both cultures, in filtering out noise and anomaly,
throw their separate babies out with two separate tubs of
bathwater. It is no use grumbling about "subjectivities" when
subjectivities have produced almost all the good ideas we have
ever had, including the high-impedance voltmeter of 1890, the
souped-up versions of which still comprise most scientific
"instrumentation". There has been little work done on seeing
"fact" as a dialectical procedure. I suggest that any proposal
to a university for a psycho-social analysis of "factual"
systems would arouse as much intellectual prejudice as would a
suggest for a course on UFOs, both things being threats to
present Western thought.

Like the high-impedance voltmeter, all these dialectical
procedures are but tarted-up contemporary versions of ancient
tribal metaphysics. They are used to try and boil out the
subjectivities until the answers required duly appear (that is
the answers most easily managed). This is a common procedure
within a scientific culture. In the Frank Kauffman case, and in
the case of the Benveniste experiments (see The Anomalist No 6)
the process of forced interrogation can be seen as raw systems-
anthropology in action. Yes, it is on a much smaller scale of
course, but it is certainly analogous to the kind of mini show-
trial seen the old Communist bloc. The interrogators go off
wagging their tails with a juicy bone of a "fact" between their
teeth and leave the carcass of a sacrificed human being behind
them. This bone will be used to construct yet another pseudo
explanation to join those other piles of cannibalized bones
called factual explanations. One day it will dawn on "objective"
researchers that without impurities, the great unwashed, the
fantasists, the creative fibber, Shakespeare's Fool and George
Hansen's Trickster, no "reality" works at all, that is unless
you equate reality with a mass of rattling skeletons in rattling
cupboards, which is as good a description of western scientific
high-impedance pointer-readings as any.

What has this got to do with Ruppelt, you ask? What has Ruppelt
got to do with Roswell? All his working life, Ruppelt was a
systems man encased in a very tight system. He did not have a
youth worth the name outside the fuselage of a warplane on
active service. Though flesh and blood, he was therefore built
of all the resonant inferences of such a specialized system.
Take a man from such a unique cultural context, and he is a wet
sack underfoot. Ruppelt's connection with nukes is implicit. I
don't want to reveal much out about my book, but Ruppelt through
a chance death or illness might well have come within hours of
being chosen to be navigator/bombardier aboard Enola Gay or
Bockscar. When a man comes that close to apocalyptic forces, he
doesn't need to go to Roswell to know all about Roswell if you
know what I mean. Bless him, he was a Warrior amongst the
stoutest of American hearts.

Jan, your almost-sneer at the word "fictions" is not worthy of
you. Life and experience are far too complex to consist of
fictions on the one hand and facts on the other. One of the
reasons why Ufology remains an outsider culture is because of
its very primitive intellectual structure. Writers such as
Jacques Vallee and George Hansen try to correct this, but still
we hear the simple minded cry of "I must get the facts of the
situation, and to do this I must de-mystify, get rid of the
fantasies". In Philosophy and Art, Literary Criticism, simple-
minded debates about "did he imagine it or was it real?" are
laughably na=EFve. Ufologists may be baffled by Frank Kauffman and
many like him, but literary types would smile at the bafflement.
What we learn from the makeup of characters in major world
fiction is that say, Kauffman is between Conrad's Lord Jim and
Mann's Auschenbach of Death in Venice. Without such cultural
contexts Ufologists are trying to re-invent the wheel in this
crude "lets separate the facts from the fiction" effort. This is
the blue-collar garage-question approach, and contains the
laughable assumption that both personality and experience are
made up of bundles of very clever spanners, and all a very
clever investigator has to do is find the spanner that is made
of marzipan. In other words, get rid of the nutcases and there
will stand the shining truth! The older cultures have thrown out
such Neanderthal concepts hundreds (if not thousands!) of years
ago.

Fledging Ufology had better start growing up quickly and rid
itself of these witless and simplistic industrial
contaminations. Frank Kauffman's mind, like every single mind on
this planet was a criminal mess, a ghetto, a shanty town, a
gipsy camp, and long may consciousness remain so. As such, a
single isolated strand of consciousness is not to be trusted for
a moment, any more than a single action of a single idea.
Between life and death, we are the carriers of limitless
agendas. We can only imagine what alien culture A is necessarily
going to be like in this respect, and compared with alien
culture B, and so on.

Contact will entail both surprises and some disappointments, of
which linear bourgoise hard-working plain honest dealing will
the most unlikely. In order to understand the UFO must cast off
every single strand of mechanistic industrial determinism within
is. And must demolish almost every single assumption we ever had
about the structure of the world and the makeup of what we call
personality. Aliens may already be here as huge system-implants,
their Dulce "vats" being rather huge interacting web sites in
which they lay their eggs.

Their brain might have evolved to pure media, and be constructed
of the kind of living advertisement that looked George Adamski
in the eye. Aliens might well be disembodied web-games leading
to ever-widening penumbras of uncertainty. All is ambiguity. The
highest level of "them" might even be induced metaphor that we
incubate and spread like seed-corn through all our systems of
reference to make up that Copernican change of paradigm that
many people on this List know we are about to experience.

Thus we have to be very careful when we use the words "fiction"
and "reality". We can expect certainly that what humanity is
about to experience will not be based old-industrial objective
work-and-worth based paradigms. We will experience things that
we did not expect, recognise, and things we are least capable of
dealing with. We should not expect advanced super-extensions of
our industrially-oriented WASP selves, but possibly jokes and
shows, advertisements and quadrupal takes as alien levels C and
G interact with very different alien levels P and Q, again
compared with levels S and P, say. Certainly, as with our own
colonisation of people, what the "primitive" sees is not what
the primitive gets.

Their software and image and media manipulations of first level
A will be out of this world, and they will of course be in a
state of decay or war. Certainly they will have internal
conflicts. Therefore yes, I can readily believe say that there
was a landing at Kirtland AFB, but if there was, I do not think
that it would be nearly as real as the nut and bolt folk claim.
We might be seeing something as quasi-substantial as their
equivalent to a rejected prototype for a graphic toothpaste
advertisement, and how real is that, relatively to us? When the
redesigns of the toothpaste advertisements of alien level A are
combined with the rubbish tips of alien level Q, and combined in
turn with the lies, evasions, and disasters of alien level M,
the concrete "reality" of the nut-and-bolt view begins to look
like a newspaper shredded by a heavy downpour.

When these things in turn are combined yet again with our own
culture (built essentially of similar multi-layed
advertisements), the idea of analysis based on mechanical ideas
of truth and reality becomes a Fortean joke in itself. To add to
the confusion, we will surely contact at least some of the
amplified elements of what we know we have already in our own
society. We will meet strands of half-lost and three-quarter-
understood meanings that will combine with abruptly curtailed
scandals; advertisements will have lost half their meaning and
relevance; jokes will not make sense, conversations and cartoons
will have lost their point, and advanced alien concepts of
entertainment in particular will be incomprehensible to us as a
joke to a German. They will of course have their failures and
crooks and criminals if only because all mind-stuff works that
way, and not in any clean Pavlovian behaviouristic fashion.

Add alien saints and the alien mad, alien loners and
psychopaths, the superficial and the not-to-bright, the lost and
the despairing (and indeed the fools and the jokers and
tricksters) as contact components, and we can see that if we
expect from "contact" a single isolated thread of old
"objective" hard-industrial "meaning" (this being a cultural
advertisement in itself), then we are very likely to be
disappointed. As colonials in turn, we should expect the very
worst, not the best. This is why I think Adamski's experience
was significant. Like many contactees, I think he drew his
experience as it was, with absurd, plain silly and totally
unbelievable elements (such as the return of his photograph
negative thrown from a porthole of the UFO!).

In all liklehood, the blond androgynous sylph from "Venus" was
custom-designed as bait for him, and his Christian
interpretation was his own subjective component, grafted on to
what was probably a structured act in the first place. What we
so easily call "reality" is that complex. That this whole story
(and many others like it) could have been cleaned up
considerably to make it a better act is evidence that what
Adamski encountered was in all likelihood part of a laugh-in.
Perhaps we may have to somewhat painfully accept such
experiences as momentary alien signals rather than
electromagnetic pulsations.

We must expect such hardly complimentary treatment, and not some
wizened ET sage come bearing a box full of the secrets of his
culture. Yes, we would like the universe to be serious and
scientific, a good bourgeois, but I think Adamski met what we
fear most: a kind of piss-taking song and dance show rigged just
for him, as it might just be rigged for us, and rigged not by
one alien cultural level alone. Some very snobbish folk who
really aught to know better reject the burger-selling Adamski
because they think (rather like Shakespeare, unfortunately) that
really significant experiences can only happen to significant
folk. Others reject Adamski not because he lacked education or
intelligence, but that what he saw and experienced suggests that
alien culture might not pay us the compliment of seeing us in a
serious light at all. We will have to consider seriously that
aliens might well have evolved from strong directions
recognisable to us to the whimsical nature of almost disembodied
media-stuff. That survival of the fittest might need comic
subversion of the major physical survival instincts as described
by Darwin is an idea that he might well have been both surprised
and fascinated to see.

But our ego is such that we don't like to be the subjects of
jokes. The loincloth folk we colonised we can laugh at, but not
ourselves. Aliens are as likely to give us a coherent techno-
industrial signal as we are likely to stop our car and give our
card to a herd of cows in a field. If we get a sensible signal,
then this would certainly presage our destruction. It will be as
phony as a silicon tit or the Brentford Polonius. Like Orthon,
it will more likely be a trick or treat, or a trap or a joke.
Our present Jack meets Jill from abroad ideas will have to go,
and we will have to think right out of the box.

We must consider ideas beyond the beyond and beyond that beyond
again. We might meet rehearsals not solidities, actor's
improvisations rather than mechanisms, and tissues of
disembodied information more than flesh and blood.

Such a thing as the Kirtland AFB landing will not be any more
real than a stage performance can be considered real. I think
Adamski met Orthon and I think also that the replacement of
beloved science by Orthon's Agent and his team of Creative
Management will be one of the most exhilarating disappointments
that both Western science and civilisation will have to face.

Jan, it is midnight in London. I have fed my cats and I have
given Mr. Oberg's oil its final touches. You can see it on
varnishing day in early February, Bin Laden be willing. And so
to bed, making notes on answering Mr Jan Aldrich's other
questions at great length some other time.

Yours affectionately, in triumph and disaster, and compliments
of the season to all List Savants.


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                                Rendlesham 2

From: Eric Morris <bufosc@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 15:47:55 +0000
Fwd Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:35:54 -0500
Subject: Rendlesham 2


In 2003 The British UFO Studies Centre are to release details of
a 'Rendlesham 2' case.

Investigated purely by the British UFO Studies Centre this case
will open the public's eyes to the fact that Rendlesham has not
just happened once, but at least twice.

BUFOSC hold all the necessary evidence, material and
photographic.

On the second Tuesday of January these revelations will be made
at BUFOSC's monthly meeting at the Waterloo Community Centre
Waterloo Road Runcorn.

If you believe Ufology is dead, wait until 2003 when the _real_
evidence, involving disinformation,espionage, black budgets and
hardware, infiltration plus witness testimony will be revealed.


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                                 Et Tu, ET?

From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:54:54 -0500
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Subject: Et Tu, ET?

http://www.utne.com/web_special/web_specials_archives/articles/829-1.html

Et Tu, ET?
Web Specials Archives
By Helen Cordes,
Utne Reader Online

What's behind increasing interest in alien communication?

Move over, Carl Sagan. While his Project SETI (Search for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence) passively scans skies for unusual
radio frequencies, SWAT teams from North Carolina emergency room
MD Steven Greer's CSETI (Center for the Study of Extra
Terrestrial Intelligence) are aggressively initiating contact
with aliens. Whenever, wherever, UFO sitings reveal a "window"
to aliens, CSETI teams arrive, flashing ultra-bright lights,
broadcasting tones, and beaming good vibes.

Skeptical? Then read Greer's defense in Keith Thompson's
spellbinding Yoga Journal (July/Aug. 1995) account. In Tennessee
('91), Florida ('92), and Mexico ('93), UFOs winged toward the
team, blinking back in patterned response. And because of such
efforts, Greer predicts that in five years human/ET contact will
confirm his notion that aliens want to be our friends.

Thompson, whose extensive UFO research culminated in Angels and
Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination (Addison-Wesley,$12),
also believes the time is ripe to investigate "windows". But he
sees rising UFO interest as synchronous with the current
fascination with angelic visitations, near-death experiences,
shamanic journeys, and age-old figures like Celtic elves and
Indian tricksters. Where CSETI sees ETs, Thompson envisions some
contact with "an unexplained source of energy in their [UFO
fans] physical and psychic environment."

In other words, there's something out there, but it probably
isn't actual space creatures who, notes Thompson wryly, "speak
the native tongue of every nation they visit." Others believe
UFO sightings are also symbolic, "more akin to a cosmic
educational program to expand humanity's sense of the possible,"
as Jason Keehn writes in his Brain/Mind Bulletin (May 1995)
review of Zen in the Art of Close Encounters (New Being
Project).

But what if Greer's right that there's a quasi-governmental
multinational group that has incontrovertible proof of UFO
contact -- info that CSETI-like groups are dying to have
unveiled. As Thompson notes, government cover-ups of important
information are not unprecedented.

If such revelations occur, many earthlings will nod, "I told you
so." These believers network, appropriately, in the etherworld
of online, in spots where ET wannabe friends can learn such
basics as "10 things you can do if you encounter a UFO" -- stay
calm, document everything, don't touch anything they've left
behind, and report it. But even then, will you be believed?
Should you?


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                   How Do You Prefer Aliens? Bark Or Bite?

From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:53:23 -0500
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Subject: How Do You Prefer Aliens? Bark Or Bite?

Source: The Gainesville Times - Georgia

http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/stories/20021215/localnews/579608.html

Sunday, December 15, 2002

How Do You Prefer Aliens? Bark Or Bite?

By Jim Chapman

If you happened to catch the recent TV series "Taken," you may
be a bit nervous about seeing bright lights around your house.

The aliens may be coming for you.

Or, as in the TV series, it may be deadly federal agents coming,
too.

Either way, it ain't good.

In real life, what's one to make of UFO sightings?

Do we dismiss thousands of witnesses from around the globe? Even
if the vast majority of sightings are hoaxes, what about the
others?

Personally, I've never been taken aloft, and I have never seen a
UFO.

Yet, several very credible folks I know swear they have seen
one. One guy was a chemical engineer.

That leaves us UFO skeptics in a lurch.

One thing we can agree on, however, is the many colorful
depictions of aliens.

In print, TV and movies we have a cafeteria of alien looks, and
motives.

You might take your aliens with a side dish of compassion, like
the cuddly alien in the movie "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial."

You may like them dangerous, like the kind Sigourney Weaver
busted caps into in the "Alien" movies.

Or, you may like a sweet and sour alien dish, like the puzzling
melon heads on "Taken." They'd abduct you but weren't mean about
it.

One of my favorites is the Klingons of Star Trek fame. They have
heads like English walnuts and a wine-drunk temper.

Some characters got pretty good at handling alien situations.

Star Trek's Captain Kirk, for example, often seemed to fall into
predicaments with pretty young alien girls spray-painted with
metal-flake silver.

Sometimes he got rough; others times he found that a good tongue
kiss seemed to best solve intergalactic showdowns.

I like my aliens rough and tumble, like the "Predator" type, who
had a face like the belly of a crab, twitching this way and
that.

He took no prisoners, and would detonate a nuke on you in a
heartbeat.

Some aliens offer wit instead of wallop.

Mork, of "Mork and Mindy," the lovably psychotic alien, tweaked
logic to his own understanding, often bringing a new awareness
to those around him.

Many alien styles have been influenced by Robert Geiger, creator
of the "Alien" movie look.

His rancid creatures were all knots and knuckles, dribbling
saliva that melts steel like butter.

They don't even try to communicate; they just bite your head off
and leave it at that.

Mr. Spock, the Vulcan, on the other hand, could do a mind "meld"
and lay a heavy piece of understanding on any recipient.

In some depictions, the aliens drag people aboard the mothership
for a session with the "probe." (While most of humanity would
fight such, I'd bet there's a segment that would actually pay
cash for the treatment.)

Aliens seldom have a Southern accent; it's hard to imagine an
alien saying, "Y'all come!"

Bottom line is, real or not, aliens are so deeply embedded in
our social conscience they have become real in the way the
Easter Bunny or Ross Perot is real.

Consequently, even us skeptics get nervous when the strong
lights hit the car.

If they ever beam me up to the mothership, I'm hoping that the
aliens are friendly. Maybe they'll offer moondust sandwiches and
a six-armed back rub. And no head biting stuff.

Because in space, as on earth, having your head bitten off gets
old in a hurry.

Jim Chapman is presentation editor and columnist for The Times.
E-mail: jchapman@gainesvilletimes.com


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                       Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Bourdais

From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:17:33 +0100
Fwd Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:56:00 -0500
Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Bourdais


 >From: Robert Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 22:00:35 EST
 >Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:54:10 +0100
 >>Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>>From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:13:08 -0500
 >>>Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

 ><snip>

 >>Bruce and all

 >>In studying that story, I found the following elements :

 >>In 1980, Bennewitz had been informed by APRO of the abduction of
 >>Judy Doraty and her daughter Cindy, in 1973 in Texas. There had
 >>been hypnosis sessions, first in 1978, and in Mars 1980
 >>conducted by Dr Sprinkle in the presence of Linda Howe, who told
 >>the story in her book "An Alien harvest" (1989). Ten years
 >>later, Cindy wished to have an hypnotic regression too. It was
 >>done in 1990 by John Carpenter with Linda Howe. The transcript
 >>of that session is in the book of Linda Howe "Glimpses of other
 >>realities" - Volume 1 (1993). The point here is that the mother
 >>and the daughter don't recall any underground laboratory.

 >Gildas all,

 >As I recall the name of the abductee in the Bennowitz story
 >is/was Christina Tilton or something like that. As I recall she
 >later was married to a researcher, and last I heard is living
 >near/around Oklahoma City.


Robert, and all

The story of Christa Tilton came much later. In an article
published in the review "UFO Universe" (vol 1 No 2, April/may
1991), Christa Tilton wrote that she "became aware of having
UFO-related experiences in 1984". Before that date, she "was not
the slightest bit interested in anything having to do with the
subject". Further in her long article, she recalls that, in late
1987, "some friends" invited her on a trip to New Mexico. They
entered the town of Dulce, and there she had a "feeling of
panic". That's when "the deputy who took us on a tour told us of
rumors of an underground facility there". The "deputy" was Gabe
Valdez, from the context. And that's when she began to think it
was the place where she had been abducted.

So, Christa Tilton is not the at the origin of the rumor of
Dulce. Judy Doraty and Myrna Hansen are not either, as shown in
the books of Linda Howe that I mentioned already.

My question is now - who else? Was there another abductee?


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                     Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Connors

From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 10:58:09 -0700
Fwd Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:18:53 -0500
Subject: Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Connors


 >From: Colin Bennett <sharkley@panzerben.fsworld.co.uk>
 >To: UFO Updates <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 02:34:54 -0000
 >Subject: Combat Diary Number 1


 >Hello all good List folk,

 >Jan Aldrich contacted me privately and asked me the following
 >questions, in response to a recent posting of mine concerning
 >a possible Roswell-RAF connection that I am researching.
 >I thought that the List might be interested in my reply.
 >In this reply I discuss what is meant by fiction, and in
 >order not to compromise the bandwidth of this List, I intend
 >to answer his other important questions at a later date.


<snip>

Huh? Good Golly, Bennet, that was definitely a five tablet
aspirin read! You mean you paint Ruppelt in colors, much like he
planted blue morning glories in front of his tent while on
Tinian? (See Captain Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of the Saucers -
  1952 by Mike Hall and Wendy Connors... available on Amazon.com
or from me). Ruppelt was actually a simple man of simple values.
He wasn't the mental giant with the large connections you
intimate.

Dabbling on the canvas of literature without the facts is much
like scratching the nose with barbed wire. An old professor of
mine, who shall remain nameless (or blameless as the case may
be), once told me that my flowery prose took away from the
enjoyment of the meal. I was told that what I could write in a
paragraph I could manage in one declarative sentence and once
that was done I could abbreviate. <G>


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                          Secrecy News -- 12/16/02

From: Steven Aftergood <saftergood@fas.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:21:59 -0500
Fwd Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:49:22 -0500
Subject: Secrecy News -- 12/16/02


SECRECY NEWS
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2002, Issue No. 123
December 16, 2002


**      NEW REGULATIONS ON BIOLOGICAL AGENTS
**      JUSTICE DEPT ADVISES OTHER NATIONS ON FOIA
**      DARPA: SMELL YA LATER
**      THE LEM CHRONICLES
**      SECRECY IN THE NEWS
**      SUPPORT SECRECY NEWS


NEW REGULATIONS ON BIOLOGICAL AGENTS

In a far-reaching regulatory response to terrorism that may
affect the conduct of science in thousands of U.S. laboratories,
the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the
Department of Agriculture (USDA) last week unveiled new
regulations governing the possession, transfer and use of
certain biological agents and toxins that are deemed to be
particularly hazardous to public health, or to plant or animal
life.

The rules generally require increased security for these
materials, termed "select agents," and impose restrictions on
who may have access to them.  Several dozen select agents have
been designated, including anthrax, ebola, and smallpox.

"Protecting the health of Americans is paramount, and this rule
strengthens our ability to ensure that essential research on
these agents continues while making certain they don't fall into
the wrong hands," said HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson in a
December 10 press release.

"These safeguards will help protect the food supply without
sacrificing valuable research being done on these agents," said
Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman.

It is probably a good idea to maintain a careful inventory of
the locations of such hazardous materials, and to regulate
access to them.

But any suggestion that scientific research concerning these
agents will be unimpeded is wishful thinking.  The new
regulations are sufficiently complex and burdensome that they
constitute a significant disincentive to laboratories
considering such research, particularly if the labs employ
foreign scientists or students.

See the texts of the new regulations, published in the Federal
Register on December 13, here:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2002/12/ag121302.html

and

http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2002/12/hhs121302.html

A helpful, if rather daunting, fact sheet on the new regulation
is available from the Centers for Disease Control here:

http://www.cdc.gov/od/sap/docs/faq.pdf

See also "New regulations on biological materials get mixed
reviews" by David Ruppe, Global Security Newswire, December 12:

http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1202/121202gsn1.htm


JUSTICE DEPT ADVISES OTHER NATIONS ON FOIA

The U.S. Department of Justice, which has an uneven record of
its own on freedom of information policy, is routinely engaged
in advising other countries on their information access
policies, according to a new statement from the Department's
Office of Information and Privacy (OIP).

"As it is United States government policy to encourage the
adoption and successful implementation of openness-in-government
(or 'transparency in government,' as it often is referred to
overseas) throughout the world, OIP has provided background
briefings and advice to increasing numbers of foreign visitors
over the years."

"To date, more than 45 other nations have enacted their own
Freedom of Information Act counterparts, with many more
considering such legislation, and OIP has met with
representatives of more than six dozen nations."

See "OIP Gives FOIA Implementation Advice to Other Nations,"
December 12:

http://www.usdoj.gov/oip/foiapost/2002foiapost30.htm


DARPA: SMELL YA LATER

Talk about Total Information Awareness.  Now the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants to find out how
to identify particular individuals by their genetically-
determined odor.

DARPA is "soliciting innovative proposals to (1) determine
whether genetically-determined odortypes can be used to identify
specific individuals, and if so (2) to develop the science and
enabling technology for detecting and identifying specific
individuals by such odortypes."

See DARPA's presolicitation notice for the "Odortype Detection
Program," December 13, here (thanks to WMA):

http://www.eps.gov/spg/USA/USAMC/DAAD19/DAAD19-03-R-0004/SynopsisP.html


THE LEM CHRONICLES

The Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem, author of the
classic 1961 novel "Solaris" which has recently been remade into
a movie, hasn't seen the film but expressed bafflement based on
the reviews.

"To my best knowledge, the book was not dedicated to erotic
problems of people in outer space," he told the Boston Globe.
  His objective was something more profound, if perhaps less
entertaining.

"I shall allow myself to repeat that I only wanted to create a
vision of human encounter with something that certainly
exists... But cannot be reduced to human concepts, images, or
ideas."

See "The Lem Chronicles," a fine profile of the remarkable 81
year old writer by Jeet Heer, Boston Globe, December 15:

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/349/focus/The_Lem_chronicles+.shtml


SECRECY IN THE NEWS

"With fellow Republicans set to run Congress and a federal court
upholding his right to secrecy, President Bush over the next two
years will be protected from potentially embarrassing
congressional investigations into his administration, especially
its relationship with big corporate donors, government officials
say."

See "Officials See Bush Insulated from Hill Probes" by Jim
VandeHei, December 15:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55615-2002Dec14.html

"As the War on Terror proceeds, augmented by new incidents and
warnings of more yet to come, institutions in the United States
and other threatened democracies face the renewal of an old and
agonizing challenge. It is to balance two vital needs:  to deal
with random assaults, planned and executed by individuals or
states indifferent to adverse consequences for themselves or
others;  and yet to preserve, at the same time, freedoms that
are essential threads in the democratic fabric," writes Donald
Kennedy in a Science Magazine editorial.

See "Balancing Terror and Freedom," December 13:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/298/5601/2091

"Government's expanding powers, which it says are needed to
fight the war on terrorism, worry many people because of the
long-term consequences for ordinary citizens, including a loss
of privacy," writes James Heaney of the Buffalo News.

See "Has Big Brother arrived, and is he watching us?", December
15:

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20021215/1007874.asp


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                        Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Redfern

From: Nick Redfern <Skywatcher4u@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:30:51 EST
Fwd Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:03:35 -0500
Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Redfern


 >From: Robert Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 22:22:54 EST
 >Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>From: Nick Redfern <Skywatcher4u@aol.com>
 >>Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:54:15 EST
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>>From: Geoff Richardson <geoff@fastdog.karoo.co.uk>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:27:15 -0000
 >>>Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

 >>>From: Nick Redfern <Skywatcher4u@aol.com>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:52:15 EST
 >>>Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

<snip>

 >>Re. this debate about Bennewitz and the Dulce rumors: the very
 >>elderly Falcon (despite what some have said there was more than
 >>one Falcon) once used the alias of Steven V. Ayres.

 >>Track the Ayres name and it will lead to a whole ream of data
 >>about how and why the Dulce stories were created.


 >Nick,
 >
 >Where does one go to track the Ayres name and the hows and whys
 >of Dulce?

 >>There is no alien base at Dulce and never was. This was a
 >>creation of the fertile minds of Intelligence.


 >As I recall Christina Tilton was the abductee who unloaded the
 >story on Paul.

 >As to "Dulce" I have not seen any evidence to suggest anything
 >was ever there in the first place. That is not to say there is
 >not some kind of facility somewhere else on the border.

 >During my cold war research a former high ranking individual also
 >referenced an underground facility on the NM/CO border in passing.
 >When I asked what went on he told me something along the lines of
 >research and he wasn't going to discuss it any further because
 >it was highly classified.

 >Later on I ran across a story about how Congressman Bill
 >Richardson (former Sec of Energy, now Governor of New Mexico)
 >got into trouble for disclosing the existence of some kind of
 >classified underground base on the border between Colorado and
 >New Mexico.

 >I have also heard some people claim that the underground
 >facility is actually part of Los Alamos and may be some kind of
 >extended facility located away from Los Alamos.

 >Bottom line was I thought Dulce was a red herring, however their
 >may have been some kind of underground facility on the NM/CO
 >border.


Hi Robert,

The information I have on Ayres etc., came directly from 2
former AFOSI guys I met for fairly extensive and personal
meetings in mid-2001. I don't like dealing with off-the-record
sources at all, but there's no doubting that they are what they
claim to be and have solid documentation to back up their
claims.

Both worked on aspects of the Bennewitz case (and later on the
Air Force's GWEN project) and were also interviewed by 3
Intelligence agencies when the MJ12 documents surfaced in 1984
re leaking of classified papers etc and a potential Soviet link.
They felt they were being set up to be fall-guys in the
MJ12/Bennewitz saga. For reasons I'm not sure of, no prosecution
happened.

In very, very limited fashion, this Soviet link is briefly
alluded to in the reference section of Gerlad Haines UFOs and
the CIA paper, but there is much more that remains unsaid.  The
gist of the story is that (as has been intimated and published
elsewhere on several occasions) Bennewitz was indeed on the
track of something very interesting but that was not, as he
believed, UFO-related at all.

In part, it related to a classified Air Force communications
operation. When Bennewitz began telling everyone about his
discoveries, the Air Force freaked out because he was talking
about something that was a very real (but down to earth and
totally non-UFO) classified project. They tried to dissuade him
in what was genuinely a sincere and calm way. Bennewitz took
this to mean that he was on the verge of uncovering the truth
and only dug even further.

AFOSI then brought in the heavy guys and Bennewitz was treated
to some extreme psycholgical manipulation. One of the AFOSI guys
told me in great detail about how Bennewitz's house was broken
into on several occasions. Nothing was taken but the OSI guys
would slightly alter the arrangement of the furniture etc. to
make Bennewitz even more paranoid.

For the record, most of those involved in this exercise seemed
to genuinely find it distasteful and regretted having to do it.
Some of the tales they passed on to Bennewitz were outright
fabrications, I was told, and others were "modifications" of
information pased on to him by his informants and witnesses.

Ironically, some was allegedly based on grossly distorted
accounts of genuine and classified UFO data held at Kirtland
that it was deemed okay to be disseminated. But the whole point
was to get Bennewitz deeply into the dark-side of the UFO
subject (underground bases, hostile aliens etc.) and away from
the classified USAF project, that had no UFO link at all. It
worked.

I was shown documents (about 120 pages in total) with the Ayres
(and other) signature on them and have no doubt that these were
copies of the real thing.

For the record, the two guys I spoke with said that they copied
what was a much larger amount of documentation as insurance
against any legal action against them for their part in the
Bennewitz saga.

Although I haven't seen all of the papers they profess to
having, I've seen enough to know that they are very damning and
identify certain USAF people (who were tied with the UFO subject
in the 80s and particularly in the 90s) to the Bennewitz caper.

For the record, the reason I can say this openly now is because
both guys are going public with all of this shortly.

The Dulce angle is a strange one and I have seen evidence (again
from the AF guys) that the military was doing classified
biological warfare research in the area - that coincidentally
had a high count of animal mutilations. Safe to say that the
mute angle appears to have less to do with aliens and more to do
with this bio-war operation in the area.

They had some interesting things to say about the Cabazon Indian
range too that all ties in.

Do a search for Cabazon and the late writer Danny Casolaro and
there is interesting material that has a direct bearing on all
this weird activity on Indian reservations and legal statutes
etc re what can be done in such areas that can't be done
elsewhere in the US.

There are many dots here that can be joined.

I'm working on exploding all this shortly, but hope there might
be some out there that can fill in more of the gaps.


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             Re: Open UFO Files To Rest Of Us Earthlings - Velez

From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:15:00 -0500
Fwd Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:20:41 -0500
Subject: Re: Open UFO Files To Rest Of Us Earthlings - Velez


 >Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

 >http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/epaper/editions/today/opinion_d39fe7f
8945b02d
 >9009a.html

 >December 13, 2002

 >Open UFO Files To Rest Of Us Earthlings

 >Leslie Kean - Pacifica Radio
 >Friday, December 13, 2002

Hi Leslie, All

Leslie wrote:

 >As Steven Spielberg's TV series "Taken" raises public interest
 >in government secrecy about unidentified flying objects, the
 >Washington Post reports that Attorney General John Ashcroft has
 >tightened the lid on the Freedom of Information Act. Ashcroft
 >gave federal officers the green light to bend or perhaps break
 >the information act if they want to withhold records, and he'll
 >even defend them in court.

As if there haven't been enough freedoms curtailed in this
country over the last thirty years, more are now being made
obsolete in record numbers by 'King' Bush. (If he wants to be
_our_ president maybe he can actually win a popular election in
2004! Then he can rightfully be called "President" of the
American people.)

The American citizenry should be outraged by the words of Mr.
Ashcroft. We're all trapped on a train with no brakes that is
rolling downhill towards totalitarianism at break-neck speed.
Between acts such as Mr. Ashcroft's and the death of the free
press in this country, our future looks dim indeed.

If the American people don't begin to protest in great numbers
ala the 60's and the Viet Nam war era, the 'few' in Washington
will continue to impose their self-serving will on the rest of
us and they will eventually strip the people of their power and
take us all back to a time of Jim/Crow or further back to an era
when we were ruled by dictatorial Kings.

If King Bush is allowed to have his way, start looking around
for a strong paddle because our Ship of State is headed for the
Deep Doo-doo Rapids. I don't know about you, but I'd hate to be
caught in those rapids without a paddle.

 >There is no longer an acceptable justification for the
 >withholding of reports on UFO incidents decades old, whether
 >they are of defense interest or not. Nor is it acceptable for
 >the attorney general unilaterally to refuse to enforce
 >information act. The American people should not have to rely on
 >Spielbergian science fiction for answers.

Amen, Leslie. As much as I enjoyed 'Taken' for its entertainment
value, and as many UFO 'facts' as had been woven into the
'story' it was just a 'story' and nothing more. (The last two
segments were piss poor by the way. Almost as if the writer got
tired or something.)

'Taken' should not be used as, or considered to be,
'educational' by anyone. Fiction far outweighed fact throughout
the series. For 'facts' we rely on our academic institutions and
professionals, to a lesser degree our elected officials, and to
an even lesser degree the  journalistic media.

When it comes to the subject of UFOs they have all fallen down
(hard) on the job and on their collective asses.

Furthermore...

In consideration of the fact that the leader of the American UFO
disclosure movement is busy promoting "friendly aliens" and
writing articles for "Yoga Magazine" we can't hold out much hope
for the success of a disclosure movement on the home front.
Given the complete lack of effective/affirmative action by the
American disclosure project and add that to the atmosphere of
secrecy and increasing government control of vital public
information that King Bush and his court-jesters are attempting
to put into place, we're left with a gloomy picture for the
future along with poor prospects for getting any action on the
UFO issue here at home.

Enter the International Petition to the UN for UFO disclosure!

Let's face it kids... the American disclosure project has been
as effective as a thoroughbred breeding stud wearing a condom.
Lots of grunting and effort with _no_ results at all. If we go
by indicators like Mr. Ashcroft and the direction he is taking
us in, there is little hope for any positive action on the part
of officialdom here in the US.

Which is precisely why the International petition to the UN for
UFO information disclosure was created!

In ten months we have only managed to secure 2212 signatures.
It's a crying shame because the only hope we have of increasing
the number of member nations (which currently stands at 5) that
have opened up their UFO files to the public and the media will
be by force of numbers alone.The only way that the small number
of nations that have made complete UFO disclosure will increase
is, if the people make their wishes known in numbers large
enough to command the action and attention of our respective
nations leaders. The "pressure" has to come from the bottom -
up.

Sign and _actively_promote_ the International petition to the
U.N.

It's "our only hope Obe Won Kenobe!"

 >Leslie Kean, an investigative reporter and producer for Pacifica
 >radio, is research director of the Coalition for Freedom of
 >Information.

Terrific and timely piece, Leslie. Keep em coming. If there is
anything I can do to help with the work CFI is attempting, you
have only to ask. This is the kind of initiative and effort that
I can get behind and would happily contribute my support and
services to. Keep up the good work.

Warmest regards,

John Velez

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disclosure of information pertaining to UFOs.

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                     Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle

From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol. com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:43:28 EST
Fwd Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:27:56 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle


 >From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers. com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net>
 >Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 22:56:03 -0400
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol. com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net
 >>Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:36:11 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

Good Day, Stan, List, All -

I will note here that Stan declined the opportunity to respond
other than to suggest these were all false claims. Well, I have
the evidence and since Stan picked up his marbles, I'll just
offer that evidence because, again, I can. And because, I
suspect some of these assaults are going to be renewed in the
near future, I thought it time to stress these points. For those
interested, Case MJ-12 has just been published by HarperCollins
and I'll bet it's going to be a favorite of Stan's.

Stan wrote:

 >I just can't spend the time and effort correcting all the false
 >claims that were in this post. Perhaps if I were a better
 >typist, but I am not. So my snip is a huge one - all but that
 >above. I am sure some Listers will breathe a sigh of relief.

 >Stan Friedman

<snip>

 >>>But here are a couple of germane questions. Do you really
 >>>believe Gerald Anderson is telling any truth? Or isn't he just
 >>>an opportunist like Frank Kaufmann? And do you really believe
 >>>the Jim Ragsdale story as you claimed in that silly brochure
 >>>that Max Littel printed? Shouldn't we retire all these stories
 >>>and move on?

 >>Yes I really believe much of what Anderson was saying is true,

 >Which part... that he was in telepathic communication with the
 >living alien? That he was a Navy SEAL? That he didn't take the
 >anthropology class from Dr. Buskirk? That his family arrived first
 >and others followed? That there was a battalion-sized operation
 >with aircraft landing on the road? That officers from the 509th
 >was over there? That the site was near the VLA? Horse Springs?
 >Just which part is true, and given all the tales he's told, all the
 >changes he's made (wow, does this mean that he's admitted
 >lying... oh, yeah, he did. He said he faked the phone bill to make
 >me look bad), just which parts do you believe are true? I personally
 >believe that his name is Gerald Anderson.

Please note that Stan did not answer any of these questions nor
comment on the point that Anderson had actually admitted lying
to him and others, as well as forging a document. Then,
according to John Carpenter, Anderson whipped out another
document that too had been forged.

<snip>

 >or that Easley said
 >many of the things you attributed to him.

 >Gee, this is a new one. How about trotting out the old false claim
 >that I misquoted General Exon too... Or J. Bond Johnson?

Stan had reported, falsely, that I had misquoted General Exon in
UFO CRASH AT ROSWELL. Even after I told him that General Exon
said he hadn't been misquoted, Stan said he was going to
continue to say this because that was what he had been told.

In a letter dated 24 Nov 91, General Exon wrote "...although I
believe you did quote me accurately... the quotes were O.K. but
the authoritative emphasis was yours." See "The Plains of San
Agustin Controversy" published by CUFOS and FUFOR, in June 1992
for the complete text of the letter.

 >But, since you keep introducing irrelevancies into this
 >discussion, let's do this. Explain why, after you learned I had
 >sold the first Roswell book, you wrote a letter (September 15,
 >1989) suggesting that I put your name on the book and give you
 >a quarter of the money, and when that didn't happen, you wrote
 >to my publisher (June 11, 1990), suggesting factual mistakes,
 >flights of fancy, and lifting your research, an allegation of
 >plagiarism...

I, of course, have copies of those letters, and the ones from my
attorney to Stan about all of this. Further, and I'm sorry to
drag Richard Hall into this, but he asked for the documentation
so that he could investigate. The conclusion of that
investigation was published in IUR in the May/June 1993 issue.
Dick wrote, "Randle alleged that Friedman and others, apparently
acting in concert, had attempted to interfere with publication
of the book UFO CRASH AT ROSWELL (then in preparation) by
contacting the publisher, Avon Books, making charges of
plagiarism and generally impugning Randle's character and
integrity. I asked Randle for documentation, which he provided.
I asked Friedman for an explanation, and he never replied... The
concerted effort to derail the Randle/Schmitt book is
indefensible."

Note here that when we reached this point in our current
dialogue, Stan picked up his marbles, as he had in the past.

 >and then, in your book, you used interviews conducted by me,
 >and Don Schmitt and me with neither credit nor attribution,
 >leaving the impression that you had conducted the interviews
 >when you hadn't even been there?

All anyone has to do is compare the interviews published in
Stan's Crash at Corona with those published in UFO Crash at
Roswell to see the similarities. Just look at the interview of
Robert Smith published on page 124 in which Stan wrote, "In a
1991 interview, he described his involvement:" But Stan wasn't
at the 1991 interview. It was conducted on video tape by Don
Schmitt and me, yet there is no attribution for it.

 >Or why, in using one of our interviews of Bill Brazel, you
 >inserted the word black in front of the word sergeant, altering
 >the context of the meeting (and changing the meaning of the
 >whole section), and using it as a corroboration for the failing
 >Anderson tale?

See Jerry Clark's editorial in the July/August 1992 issue of IUR
where he wrote, "chilling example of this appears on page 85,
[Crash at Corona] where we find these words attributed to Bill
Brazel, son of  Mac[k] Brazel... One officer was named
Armstrong. 'He had a [black] sergeant with him.' The same
quote, taken from the same interview (conducted by Randle and
Schmitt [and in which Friedman was not a participant], appears
on page 130 of UFO Crash at Roswell, but without the bracketed
word... Not only has Brazel never said the sergeant was black,
he emphatically denies it... So why the adjective between
brackets? To make Brazel's testimony conform to Anderson's."

 >Or why you have called the hosts of
 >my lectures asking why I was booked rather than you and
 >suggesting they should have called you? And no, this won't
 >boil down to a he said- he said argument because you have done
 >the same thing to Robert Hastings and Jim Moseley.

Just look at page 202 of Shockingly Close to the Truth where
Moseley wrote, "...several colleges at which I spoke told me
they had received calls from Stan, after I was already booked,
trying to get them to switch to him. It goes without saying this
was dirty pool..."

 >And finally, just because it's fun, I'll mention that you
 >castigated me for failing to acknowledge the Fund for UFO
 >Research for their financial support of our investigation.
 >While the monies were paid to Schmitt, it was an oversight not
 >to mention them. I had the opportunity to correct the mistake
 >in the third edition of The UFO Crash at Roswell (which is not
 >the same as the third printing), but to do so, I had to remove
 >one of the acknowledgments. This, I believe is the definition
 >of irony.

So Stan might not want to play anymore, but I've been waiting a
long time to have some answers here and hoped we were about to
get them. Instead, everything is dismissed as a false claim
without any evidence to show the claims were false. Research by
proclamation.


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                    Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Friedman

From: Stan Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:54:22 -0400
Fwd Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:11:54 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Friedman


 >From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol. com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:43:28 EST
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers. com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net>
 >>Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 22:56:03 -0400
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol. com>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net
 >>>Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:36:11 EST
 >>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >Good Day, Stan, List, All -

 >I will note here that Stan declined the opportunity to respond
 >other than to suggest these were all false claims. Well, I have
 >the evidence and since Stan picked up his marbles, I'll just
 >offer that evidence because, again, I can. And because, I
 >suspect some of these assaults are going to be renewed in the
 >near future, I thought it time to stress these points. For those
 >interested, Case MJ-12 has just been published by HarperCollins
 >and I'll bet it's going to be a favorite of Stan's.

 >Stan wrote:

 >>I just can't spend the time and effort correcting all the false
 >>claims that were in this post. Perhaps if I were a better
 >>typist, but I am not. So my snip is a huge one - all but that
 >>above. I am sure some Listers will breathe a sigh of relief.

 >>Stan Friedman

 ><snip>

I have read  "Case MJ-12" and will  be writing a detailed
review. The ISBN Number is 0-380-81473-0. It will help if people
have the book when they read my review. Incidentally, there is
considerable research in the book that was mine and is not
attributed to me either, but perhaps that is just as well. Tell
you what Kevin, I will provide to you the  items I previously
offered... notes on my meetings with Kaufmann  (You have my
letter to you and the list of 38 false claims) if you send me
copies of those letters in which I supposedly tried to stop your
book from being published, wanted my name on it etc. etc.

Mine can be sent to me at POB 958, Houlton, ME 04730-0958.

You can send your address off-list. I would, of course, like to
know, as I am sure other Listers would, where  and how you
obtained the Kaufmann documents that you discuss in the IUR
article with Mark.

Maybe somebody out there would like to sponsor a debate between
us?


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             Re: How Do You Prefer Aliens? Bark Or Bite? - Hall

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 22:07:52 +0000
Fwd Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:43:34 -0500
Subject: Re: How Do You Prefer Aliens? Bark Or Bite? - Hall


 >From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >To: <- UFO UpDates Subscribers ->
 >Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:53:40 -0500
 >Subject: How Do You Prefer Aliens? Bark Or Bite?

 >Source: The Gainesville Times - Georgia

 >http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/stories/20021215/localnews/579608.html

 >Sunday, December 15, 2002

 >How Do You Prefer Aliens? Bark Or Bite?

 >By Jim Chapman

 >If you happened to catch the recent TV series "Taken," you may
 >be a bit nervous about seeing bright lights around your house.

 >The aliens may be coming for you.

 >Or, as in the TV series, it may be deadly federal agents coming,
 >too.

 >Either way, it ain't good.

<snip>

List,

This is an example of just the sort of silly, shallow,
meaningless, Style section crap I expected would result from
'Taken', serving only to confuse fact and fiction.

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                      Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Hall

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 22:17:59 +0000
Fwd Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:23:43 -0500
Subject: Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Hall


 >From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
 >To: UFO Updates <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 10:58:09 -0700
 >Subject: Re: Combat Diary Number 1

 >>From: Colin Bennett <sharkley@panzerben.fsworld.co.uk>
 >>To: UFO Updates <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 02:34:54 -0000
 >>Subject: Combat Diary Number 1

 >>Hello all good List folk,

 >>Jan Aldrich contacted me privately and asked me the following
 >>questions, in response to a recent posting of mine concerning
 >>a possible Roswell-RAF connection that I am researching.
 >>I thought that the List might be interested in my reply.
 >>In this reply I discuss what is meant by fiction, and in
 >>order not to compromise the bandwidth of this List, I intend
 >>to answer his other important questions at a later date.

 >Huh? Good Golly, Bennet, that was definitely a five tablet
 >aspirin read! You mean you paint Ruppelt in colors, much like he
 >planted blue morning glories in front of his tent while on
 >Tinian? (See Captain Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of the Saucers -
 >1952 by Mike Hall and Wendy Connors... available on Amazon.com
 >or from me). Ruppelt was actually a simple man of simple values.
 >He wasn't the mental giant with the large connections you
 >intimate.

 >Dabbling on the canvas of literature without the facts is much
 >like scratching the nose with barbed wire. An old professor of
 >mine, who shall remain nameless (or blameless as the case may
 >be), once told me that my flowery prose took away from the
 >enjoyment of the meal. I was told that what I could write in a
 >paragraph I could manage in one declarative sentence and once
 >that was done I could abbreviate. <G>

 >Wendy Connors

List,

A fascinating contrast between the plain-spoken Wendy and the -
  polar opposite - Colin Bennett. Never has one person so engaged
in such expository verbosity compounded by philosophical
pedantry. Little does Colin know (until now) that I am in the
process of reviewing his sort-of biography of Charles Fort,
which also is compounded by tangential diversions (or is it
diversionary tangents?) Actually, it is pretty interesting and
probably will receive a mostly favorable review.


  - Dick









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                   Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Young

From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:55:53 EST
Fwd Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:26:08 -0500
Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Young


 >From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
 >To: UFO Updates <UFOUpdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 12:20:17 -0700
 >Subject: Great Moments In Debunking

 >Dear EBK and Listers,

 >While preparing my audio archive into digital format, I
 >sometimes stumble upon what I call, Great Moments in Ufology.
 >Such a moment is shared with the UFO UpDates lurkers and
 >dedicated to such skeptibunkers, Pelicanists, etc., as Philip
 >Klass, Kal Korff, Robert Shaeffer, Bob Young, John Rimmer...
 >well, the list is endless.

 >On April 22, 1967 the American Society of Newspaper Editors
 >convened in Washington, D. C.

<snip>

 >At the end of the presentation was a question and answer period.
 >The final question came from Frederick Martecord of the Arizona
 >Republic newspaper. His question was addressed to Dr. Menzel. I
 >quote:

 >"I would like to ask Dr. Menzel if he had been teaching at the
 >University of Saragosa in 1491, if he would have advised
 >Isabella not to give Columbus the money to determine if the
 >world was flat?"

 >The audience went wild and Menzel sputtered an inane reply that
 >he would have advised Queen Isabella to give Columbus the money.
 >However, the damage had been done. Menzel's credibility lay in
 >tatters on the floor of the Fourth Estate.

Hi, Wendy:

Well, well, well. Another cheap shot dredged out of the dusty
past.

In 1492 few educated people thought the world was flat, and this
obviously had nothing whatsoever to do with Columbus' proposed
voyage.

After all, he wanted to sail around the world, not over the
edge.

But then, over the edge always seems to be a fitting description
for your dusty droolings.


Clear skies,

Bob Young

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                     Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Rimmer

From: John Rimmer <jrimmer@magonia.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 23:37:39 +0000
Fwd Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:09:36 -0500
Subject: Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Rimmer


 >From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 22:17:59 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Combat Diary Number 1

 >Little does Colin know (until now) that I am in the
 >process of reviewing his sort-of biography of Charles Fort,
 >which also is compounded by tangential diversions (or is it
 >diversionary tangents?) Actually, it is pretty interesting and
 >probably will receive a mostly favorable review.


But the question we all want answered is, how did it improve
your love life? Mr Bennett assures us it will do so!

--
John Rimmer
Magonia Magazine
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                  Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Connors

From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:49:57 -0700
Fwd Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:15:29 -0500
Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Connors


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:55:53 EST
 >To: UFO Updates <UFOUpdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Young

 >>From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
 >>To: UFO Updates <UFOUpdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 12:20:17 -0700
 >>Subject: Great Moments In Debunking

 >Well, well, well. Another cheap shot dredged out of the dusty
 >past. And just as apropo now, as then, Bob. You know the
 >saying...if the shoe fits.

 >In 1492 few educated people thought the world was flat, and
 >this obviously had nothing whatsoever to do with Columbus'
 >proposed voyage.

 >After all, he wanted to sail around the world, not over the
 >edge. It was a direct quote, Bob. I didn't give my opinion on
 >how it was phrased, only that it was asked.

 >But then, over the edge always seems to be a fitting
 >description for your dusty droolings. Anything to keep your
 >types nailed inside the coffin, Bob.

 >Clear skies,
 >Bob Young
 >Member, The Donald Menzel, Ph.D., Appreciation Society

You must be really proud, guy. Ranks right up there with getting
your career in carnival barking. BTW. What exactly is your claim
to fame besides writing the most posts to UFO UpDates?


Wendy Connors
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                     Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle

From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol. com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:57:49 EST
Fwd Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:17:59 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle


 >From: Stan Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:54:22 -0400
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol. com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:43:28 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers. com>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net>
 >>>Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 22:56:03 -0400
 >>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol. com>
 >>>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange. net
 >>>>Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:36:11 EST
 >>>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>Good Day, Stan, List, All -

 ><snip>

 > (You have my
 >letter to you and the list of 38 false claims) if you send me
 >copies of those letters in which I supposedly tried to stop your
 >book from being published, wanted my name on it etc. etc.

You don't have copies of these letters? On September 15, 1989,
you wrote, " My suggestion would be that all three of our names
appear on the book (mine [Stan's] last) and with my getting a
25% share."

Copy on the way to you.

On June 11 you wrote to my editor at Avon Books in which you
complained, "I am certainly anxious to see the Randle Schmitt
book to see if one again my contribution is undervalued and if
there are many factual mistakes, flights of fancy, lifting of my
[Stan's] research much of which remains unpublished."

Copy on the way to you. But please note, I did provide a
reference for those who wish to see what a disinterested third
part thought.

This is the letter in which you raise the allegation, "They
[Randle and Schmitt] have made many trips to Roswell and have
found people not previously located partly through government
computers to which I did not have access."

Just what the hell was that all about?

Please note that the questions have still not been answered.

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                     Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Bennett

From: Colin Bennett <sharkley@panzerben.fsworld.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 00:37:57 -0000
Fwd Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 22:32:01 -0500
Subject: Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Bennett


 >From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
 >To: UFO Updates <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 10:58:09 -0700
 >Subject: Re: Combat Diary Number 1


 >Huh? Good Golly, Bennet, that was definitely a five tablet
 >aspirin read!

Thank you. It was inspired madam, by the amazing Friedman/Randle
dialogues on this List, which are of equal interest to their
respective books.

In my household these amazing confrontations have replaced TV,
sex, and recording the many scores of vapour trails over London
each and every morning (some 300 alone yesterday, and made by
quite visible large-bodied supersonic aircraft whose profile is
not in any book off aircraft recognition). My unfed animals are
howling, my unpaid staff are screaming, and my unpaid landord is
shouting, and all because of analysis of the
Friedman/Randledialogues. My wife says we should send them both
an invoice, or sue them for devastating marital rights. The
situation in my household madam is appalling, and all because of
these two men. Even investigations into the activities of the
Brentford Polonius have ceased momentarily upon this sight of
Ufology become artform.

For goodness sake why doesn't some enterprising person write a
series about these dialogues? In the long run, they will turn
out to be infinitely more interesting and representative of
Ufology than anything Speilberg does. I am considering editing
these dialogues and writing what we here in the old curiosity
shop call a lunchtime play.

 >Ruppelt was actually a simple man of simple values.
 >He wasn't the mental giant with the large connections you
 >intimate.

Please don't give us the home-brew human being bit, Wendy.
Finally, we are all as complicated as one another in a
complicated world. I do know that Adamski and Ruppelt were not
exactly intellectually-inclined well-educated geniuses, but the
Western World threaded through them implicitly rather like ivy
through an old house. Like the equally education-shorn Andy
Warhol, they felt the world's heart beat. They knew big systems
when they saw them, and their achievements were greater than
those of many far more intelligent folk.

 >Dabbling on the canvas of literature without the facts is much
 >like scratching the nose with barbed wire.

Well Wendy, as the holder of an Oxford Degree in English
Language and Literature, the author of four books, and a
lecturer in English L:iterature for 25 years, I think I can
claim in all honesty that I am hardly a dabbler. Wrong and bad I
may be, but not a dabbler!

But have no fears Wendy. Your own book on Ruppelt is a wonderful
piece of work that I most whole-heartedly recommend to this
List. It is without doubt one of the best Ufological works I
have ever read.

So don't worry Wendy, I won't be pulling the carpet under your
feet. I am going in a very different direction!


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                        Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Oplatka

From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:55:26 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 22:38:19 -0500
Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Oplatka


Re: my initial questions posed on here Dec. 11 about Paul
Bennewitz situation - many thanks to all who have responded with
such interesting information/opinions!

More on This:

According to information from article, "The Falcon and the Snow-
Job , which includes the segment "The Destruction of Paul
Bennewitz", Leo Sprinkle did conduct hypnosis sessions with a
mother and son who were abducted near Cimarron, New Mexico in
May, 1980. The woman was Myrna Hansen, I believe. Bennewitz was
present during these sessions, and at one point (according to
Linda Howe's "An Alien Harvest", p. 362), Hansen mentioned
seeing an indoor river and leaning on a rail looking down at
this. Bennewitz interjected at this point with the question, "A
cavern?". Hansen said "maybe", to which Bennewitz said, "That's
it. Underground temperature is 56 degrees F."

According to this Falcon article, Bennewitz believed the woman's
story and that it was somehow connected to the lights he was
seeing over Manzano storage area. Then he began filming the
lights and tape recording the low-frequency radio transmissions.
Sometime _after_ that, AFOSI began feeding Bennewitz
disinformation in an attempt to confuse/discredit him. One must
ask, of course, what was so important and/or threatening about
Bennewitz' information that it triggered this large
disinformation feeding plan aimed at Bennewitz? And who exactly
'ordered' Doty to embark on this disinformation scenario? The
key question here, still, is what part of this disinformation
had some truth to it? As Stan Friedman once stated: "Some
disinformation is true because an invariable characteristic of
disinformation is that it contains some facts." I believe that
Robert Gates, in his recent e-mail here, has alluded to this.
Exactly which parts of the Bennewitz material were skewed by
AFOSI?

Further Puzzles:

Upon searching through my files, I came across some more papers
which Jim Lorenzen had given me. The first page said "The Dulce
Papers" which were followed by nine pages of drawings of:
depictions of many sacs of bladders(?), pieces of "pale meat" in
amber liquid, dozen of baby "creatures" in wombs, tanks, long
hallways, cameras, glass tube which contained a 5' fetus
(alien?), and illustrations of crystalline metal, pure gold
crystal, hexagonal packed atoms (best for electronic
conductors), and a drawing of a large-headed (light-bulb shaped)
entity with big eyes... the last page was signed "Karen
Pennison". She had written on here also, "This is either a
coincidence or I've seen these, too. This is what "D" saw in
9/1963".

I then recalled seeing these same drawings in the book, "The
Matrix" by Val Valerian (aka Grace). I wonder if Jim Lorenzen
received them from Grace or Lear? In any case, in the Matrix
book I noticed that on the back of the Dulce Papers page was a
detailed map entitled, "Event Characteristics of Four Corners
Area".

This map was not included in the papers J. Lorenzen had given
me. The map showed an area (arrow pointing to it) called
"Archeleta Mesa and Dulce Base", near to Farmington, Chaco Cyn.
and caves near the San Juan River. Also on map there were marked
areas which were "suspected ancient tunnel sites".

Who drew this map? Was it Grace, and where did he get this info,
was it from Hansen?

She did, under hypnosis mention a river and did describe
"cavern-like" areas. Also, she had mentioned long hallways and
cameras.

Lastly, I found in my file a clipping from a tabloid, "Weekly
World", Sept. 20, 1988, entitled, Space Aliens Have a Secret
Base in New Mexico". But, I cannot recall if J. Lorenzen had
given this to me also, or if I had gotten if from another
source. In any event, the last paragraph of this article read:
"Included in the information available, Stringfield said, are
persistent reports that the evil spacemen have an underground
installation on or near an Apache reservation near Dulce, New
Mexico.

'From what I've been able to learn, our government and military
know its precise location'.

Ignoring the preposterous tabloid phrase, "evil spacemen", I
have been pondering the validity of all this, as I have always
respected L. Stringfield very much. So, where are these
underground bases/labs - somewhere near the New Mexico-Colorado
border?

Again, any info or opinions/feedback of any of this will be
greatly appreciated,


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                     Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Aldrich

From: Jan Aldrich <project1947@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 20:48:54 -0500
Fwd Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 22:47:14 -0500
Subject: Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Aldrich


 >From: Colin Bennett <sharkley@panzerben.fsworld.co.uk>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 02:34:54 -0000
 >Subject: Combat Diary Number 1

I thought this was a private communication, but long suffering
Listers if you are interested, see below, but I would waste my
time if I were you.

 >Hello all good List folk,

 >Jan Aldrich contacted me privately and asked me the following
 >questions, in response to a recent posting of mine concerning
 >a possible Roswell-RAF connection that I am researching.
 >I thought that the List might be interested in my reply.
 >In this reply I discuss what is meant by fiction, and in
 >order not to compromise the bandwidth of this List, I intend
 >to answer his other important questions at a later date.

 >Colin

 >-----

 >Dear Mr. Bennett,

 >I "know" that Roswell is the key to everything, but please
 >explain what any of this has to do with Captain Ruppelt? Is this
 >to be a work of fiction? What is Ruppelt's connection to the
 >Roswell incident? Why would a unit committed to the Strategic
 >Air Command be used as a training unit? Not while General Lemay
 >was in command it wouldn't! Of course, Lemay was not commander
 >of SAC in 1947 and was 1948 was in Europe.

 >There were other facilities for training B-29 crews and for
 >training with nuclear weapons. Since the majority of 509th
 >members and others assigned to Roswell knew nothing of the
 >Roswell incident, why would British "students" know anything?

 >I think that there is not any violation of the MacMahon Act by
 >leasing Honest John, Little John and Corporal missiles to the
 >UK. Obviously, certain nuclear data was given to NATO. The
 >reason for the "Atomal" access in the NATO security scheme.
 >Probably there was an adjustment by Congress in the
 >authorization of NATO.

 >Sincerely,
 >
 >Jan Aldrich,
 >Project 1947

 >-----

 >Dear Mr. Aldrich,

 >I would like to answer your question simply and directly sir,

After reading your answer, I doubt you are capable of
answering anything simply and directly!

 >but even though I bear a Degree from the university of Oxford in
 >English Language and Literature, I am somewhat ashamed to say
 >that I do not know what a fiction is, quite.

Pity!

<snip>

 >Project 1947 is a work of art. You are a modern Quixote.

Thanks, I know who is the patron saint of of lost causes.

<snip>

 >Now don't just sneer at all this as verbal salad (to quote a
 >prominent List member who should have know better it made him
 >sound like an intellectual top of the head yob, which as a
 >prominent physicist he most patently is not). Whether you like
 >it or not, Jan, you are creating (as indeed are the Moderators
 >of this List) a new form of expression. I have given up reading
 >novels for this glittering mysterium of the Web. Please don't
 >sneer at my long haired words. Have pity for me. I am doomed. I
 >have a touch of the poet. Only a touch, but it has almost ruined
 >my life, as Project 1947 has I guess, probably nearly ruined
 >your own. Being artists, we are both stricken with what
 >Kierkegaard called the sickness unto death.

No, I don't think my life is ruined. I am sorry, I am not an
artist but rather a philistine.

<snip>

 >I imagine future crimes. Has he stolen a car? No, your honour,
 >he has been imagining things. Twenty years in the slammer! The
 >attempt to annihilate certain kinds of mental activity is not
 >that they are false or unreal, but that partial forms of
 >imagining might just come about. It is the oldest single aspect
 >of human culture that survives still in its primordial form. The
 >Friedman/Randle dialogue is about the casing out of impurities:
 >the visionaries, the social failures, the liars and fantasists,
 >the con men, all these things to be replaced by "real science"
 >who will clean up the farm and get rid of the falsehoods and
 >freaks in the ghetto and their "wrong answers" from their
 >"failed culture". The kind of high-school condescension as
 >regards what Mom told them about the Other Side of Town is found
 >in Donna Kossey's otherwise excellent book, Kooks. For the
 >record, like Mr. Velez, I have had a UFO experience, and know
 >that I lost some time. But unlike Mr Velez, I have no
 >recollection of abduction at all.

Hey, I've lost a lot of time reading these ramblings, also,
In fact, I hereby apply for a refund!


<snip>

 >What has this got to do with Ruppelt, you ask? What has Ruppelt
 >got to do with Roswell? All his working life, Ruppelt was a
 >systems man encased in a very tight system. He did not have a
 >youth worth the name outside the fuselage of a warplane on
 >active service. Though flesh and blood, he was therefore built
 >of all the resonant inferences of such a specialized system.
 >Take a man from such a unique cultural context, and he is a wet
 >sack underfoot. Ruppelt's connection with nukes is implicit. I
 >don't want to reveal much out about my book, but Ruppelt through
 >a chance death or illness might well have come within hours of
 >being chosen to be navigator/bombardier aboard Enola Gay or
 >Bockscar. When a man comes that close to apocalyptic forces, he
 >doesn't need to go to Roswell to know all about Roswell if you
 >know what I mean. Bless him, he was a Warrior amongst the
 >stoutest of American hearts.

No, I don't know what you mean which is exactly why I asked
the questions.

<snip>

 >We must expect such hardly complimentary treatment, and not some
 >wizened ET sage come bearing a box full of the secrets of his
 >culture. Yes, we would like the universe to be serious and
 >scientific, a good bourgeois, but I think Adamski met what we
 >fear most: a kind of piss-taking song and dance show rigged just
 >for him, as it might just be rigged for us, and rigged not by
 >one alien cultural level alone. Some very snobbish folk who
 >really aught to know better reject the burger-selling Adamski
 >because they think (rather like Shakespeare, unfortunately) that
 >really significant experiences can only happen to significant
 >folk. Others reject Adamski not because he lacked education or
 >intelligence, but that what he saw and experienced suggests that
 >alien culture might not pay us the compliment of seeing us in a
 >serious light at all. We will have to consider seriously that
 >aliens might well have evolved from strong directions
 >recognisable to us to the whimsical nature of almost disembodied
 >media-stuff. That survival of the fittest might need comic
 >subversion of the major physical survival instincts as described
 >by Darwin is an idea that he might well have been both surprised
 >and fascinated to see.

My, my, I think Adamski made up a space opera setting to replay
his wisdom of ancient Tibet, nothing more nothing less.

<snip>

 >Jan, it is midnight in London. I have fed my cats and I have
 >given Mr. Oberg's oil its final touches. You can see it on
 >varnishing day in early February, Bin Laden be willing. And so
 >to bed, making notes on answering Mr Jan Aldrich's other
 >questions at great length some other time.

Please don't bother, life is far to short. I have other more
important things to do, like clean the lint out of belly button.
Sorry, I tripped over you and woke you from your sleep, please
go back to dreams your demented dreams.

 >Yours affectionately, in triumph and disaster, and compliments
 >of the season to all List Savants.

 >Colin


There is something to be said about being separated from the
Mother Country after all!



Jan Aldrich
Project 1947
http://www.project1947.com/
P. O. Box 391
Canterbury, CT 06331
(860) 546-9135








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                   Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Young

From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 20:55:32 EST
Fwd Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 22:49:27 -0500
Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Young


 >From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
 >To: UFO Updates <UFOUpdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:49:57 -0700
 >Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking

 >>From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >>Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:55:53 EST
 >>To: UFO Updates <UFOUpdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Young

<snip>

 >What exactly is your claim to fame besides writing the most
 >posts to UFO UpDates?

Wendy:

Me, famous? Gee, coming from a member of the Flat-Earth Society,
that's really cool.

Yanks a lot.


Clear skies,

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                   Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Bowden

From: Tom Bowden <tomrbowden@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:02:25 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 22:50:59 -0500
Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Bowden


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:55:53 EST
 >Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking

 >>From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
 >>To: UFO Updates <UFOUpdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 12:20:17 -0700
 >>Subject: Great Moments In Debunking

<snip>

 >Bob Young

 >Member, The Donald Menzel, Ph.D., Appreciation
 >Society


Bob, give me a break. Menzel knew UFOs were real. All his
debunking statements were part of the coverup in which he was
participating.


Tom Bowden








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                        Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Speiser

From: Jim Speiser <jimspeiser@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:21:37 -0700
Fwd Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 22:53:13 -0500
Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz? - Speiser


 >From: Nick Redfern <Skywatcher4u@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:30:51 EST
 >Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?

<snip>

 >The Dulce angle is a strange one and I have seen evidence (again
 >from the AF guys) that the military was doing classified
 >biological warfare research in the area - that coincidentally
 >had a high count of animal mutilations. Safe to say that the
 >mute angle appears to have less to do with aliens and more to do
 >with this bio-war operation in the area.

 >They had some interesting things to say about the Cabazon Indian
 >range too that all ties in.

 >Do a search for Cabazon and the late writer Danny Casolaro and
 >there is interesting material that has a direct bearing on all
 >this weird activity on Indian reservations and legal statutes
 >etc re what can be done in such areas that can't be done
 >elsewhere in the US.

 >There are many dots here that can be joined.

 >I'm working on exploding all this shortly, but hope there might
 >be some out there that can fill in more of the gaps.


Nick:

For information on the Cabazon/Wackenhut connection, you should
point them to "The Last Circle," a copy of which is still extant
on the web.

Jim Speiser

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                   Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Lemire

From: Todd Lemire <tlemire@comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 21:47:35 -0500
Fwd Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 22:57:24 -0500
Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Lemire


 >From: Eleanor White <eleanor@raven1.net>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 12:09:38 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case

 >>From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 20:50:27 +0000
 >>Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case

 >>>From: Eleanor White <eleanor@raven1.net>
 >>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 14:50:44 -0500
 >>>Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case

 >>This is a very generous offer, and leads me to volunteer as
 >>well. I am a very experienced abstractor/indexer and have worked
 >>on major national and international databases. Although I am not
 >>likely to have the time to do all the abstracting, what I can do
 >>is draft a Thesaurus of indexing terms, create some sample
 >>abstracts, and outline abstracing procedures for anyone who has
 >>the time. I even have experience in training abstractors. In
 >>fact, the format I used in The UFO Evidence, Volume II, might be
 >>a good way to go about it. I am the copyright owner, and can
 >>send you those cases abstracts electronicallyto incorporate in a
 >>database provided you can handle WordPerfect 5.1.

 >I don't have it but Microsoft Works can handle it. These days,
 >cross pollination is much easier than the early days of the PC -

 >most major software can read and often write files in
 >competitor software format. Word Perfect 5.1 is a nifty piece of
 >software.

 >By the way, regards John Velez' concern about appearing biased
 >by way of being both an experiencer and a resarcher, this has
 >advantages too. Similar advantages would accrue if, say, the
 >9/11 investigation panel included civilians, as some in the
 >buildings who escaped, and some who participated in the rescue
 >and cleanup efforts.

 >For example:

 >- A bona fide experiencer is much more likely to be able
 >to filter out the cases where the experience might not
 >fit a true UFO abduction case. "More sensitive
 >antennae".

 >- A bona fide experiencer is likely to work the hardest
 >at doing a clean, rigorous project, and sustaining the
 >long hours of work required.

 >- A bona fide experiencer like John Velez, who has
 >experience in media and public speaking is most likely
 >to be able to clarify the descriptions from other cases
 >where the original language is vague or hard to
 >comprehend. After all, abductees weren't selected
 >because of their writing ability.

 >As to those who doubt the finished work's validity, that's easy
 >to handle. Simply make all the case files (anonymized), the
 >database, and the database query logic available to the entire
 >world. As work proceeds, those handling the data would almost
 >instinctively realize that every small piece of work they do may
 >be scrutinized and would take the necessary care to anticipate
 >scrutiny, and prepare the work for it.

 >This is, after all, what scientists do when they do peer
 >review.

 >After the compilation, analysis and report is complete, the
 >ball is in the court of the world's scientists. If they don't
 >review it, then their opinions can be rebutted.

 >After all, lots of people working in behavioural sciences have
 >behavioural problems, yet they aren't barred from working in
 >their fields.


 >Eleanor White



John and others,

How would something like Dan Wright's "Abduction Transcription
Project" fit into this line of research or would it? This
particular project had "The Master Transcript Index" which was
an alphabetical, cross-referenced listing of approximately two
thousand words and phrases uttered verbatim by the subjects on
tape in describing their experiences. "The Root Factor Index"
divides the aforementioned terms into 54 topics in order to
group similar event characteristics - entity appearance,
behaviors, procedures and communications; the ships outward
appearance, etc.(1) This was compiled from 142 separate cases
from 15 researchers and I believe would provide at least some
starting point or basis for your research John.

1) Wright, Dan - MUFON SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS - COMMONALITIES &
DISPARITIES: FINDINGS OF THE MUFON ABDUCTION TRANSCRIPTION
PROJECT - PG. 165


Respectfully,

Todd Lemire
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                   Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Velez

From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 23:25:28 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:40:14 -0500
Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Velez


 >From: Todd Lemire <tlemire@comcast.net>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 21:47:35 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case

 >>From: Eleanor White <eleanor@raven1.net>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 12:09:38 -0500
 >>Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case

 >>>From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 20:50:27 +0000
 >>>Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case

<snip>

 >John and others,

 >How would something like Dan Wright's "Abduction Transcription
 >Project" fit into this line of research or would it? This
 >particular project had "The Master Transcript Index" which was
 >an alphabetical, cross-referenced listing of approximately two
 >thousand words and phrases uttered verbatim by the subjects on
 >tape in describing their experiences. "The Root Factor Index"
 >divides the aforementioned terms into 54 topics in order to
 >group similar event characteristics - entity appearance,
 >behaviors, procedures and communications; the ships outward
 >appearance, etc.(1) This was compiled from 142 separate cases
 >from 15 researchers and I believe would provide at least some
 >starting point or basis for your research John.

 >1) Wright, Dan - MUFON SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS - COMMONALITIES &
 >DISPARITIES: FINDINGS OF THE MUFON ABDUCTION TRANSCRIPTION
 >PROJECT - PG. 165


Hello Todd,

I will be contacting you shortly (privately.) Your suggestion
sounds great and it could be just what the doctor ordered. I
have a small commercial job to complete, (gotta eat & pay the
bankers their 'vigorish' for the house) and then I will get in
touch with you.

"Excellent idea Smithers... excellent!"  ;)

Thank you, Todd.

Regards,

John Velez

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                  Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Connors

From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 22:38:52 -0700
Fwd Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:44:06 -0500
Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Connors


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >To: UFO Updates <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 20:55:32 EST
 >Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Young

 >>From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
 >>To: UFO Updates <UFOUpdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:49:57 -0700
 >>Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking

<snip>

 >>What exactly is your claim to fame besides writing the most
 >>posts to UFO UpDates?

 >Me, famous? Gee, coming from a member of the Flat-Earth
 >Society, that's really cool.

 >Yanks a lot.

 >Clear skies,

 >Bob Young

I didn't say anything about "fame." I implied you were pretty
lame. Big difference. Why is that? Because you seriously lack
reading comprehension skills for starters. The reporter used the
word "flat." I quoted him exactly as he stated the question.

But, that's just like a Menzelite, having an inversion adversion
to everything rational and logical.


Clear Head,

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                     Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Bennett

From: Colin Bennett <sharkley@panzerben.fsworld.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 08:24:27 -0000
Fwd Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:45:50 -0500
Subject: Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Bennett


 >From: Jan Aldrich <project1947@earthlink.net>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 20:48:54 -0500>
 >Subject: Re: Combat Diary Number 1

Hi Jan,

Sorry the longer thoughts and the longer sentences appear to
have defeated you so easily. Keep on piling up the documents and
the statistics. The ledger clerks and the archive animals need
them badly. They are as good an excuse for non-thinking as any,
and make the whole amusing house of cards a little higher.

I'll give your site a visit on those rare occasions whenever I
want a date, a time, a place, or a fact. I'm surprised at you, I
am. Even the Brentford Polonius has revealed a sense of humour
of late, and says my work is erotic. It obviously has not worked
in your case. Don't worry, there are plenty of alternative
commercial treatments in the press if you look carefully in the
back pages. They will even cure your sourpuss manic-depressive
lack of all humour, for which Listers will be most grateful. If
this is what facts do to folk such as you, I'd rather watch old
street-cleaning training films in a darkened room on a bad day
in Brentford.

Loosen up, for the sake of both our endangered nations, please!

Keep smiling (if you ever smile at all), keep on writing the
telephone numbers, and long may your web animal graze!


Colin (Bad Man) Bennett








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                    Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais

From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 11:49:50 +0100
Fwd Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:48:09 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais


 >From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 16:52:51 EST
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:55:29 +0100
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

<snip>

 >>I would like you to give your opinion now about the "impact
 >>site", closer to Roswell. After the demise of both Ragsdale and
 >>Kaufmann, what is left of it?

 >Nothing.


Kevin, and all,

Thank you for this clear and courageous answer!

I would like now  to discuss a bit, if you agree, the hypothesis
of another site, not very far from Roswell.

We still have several testimonies about it. There is the
testimony of Lewis Rickett who said that when Cavitt drove him
to the site, it took about 45 minutes, in a westerly direction
from the base.

His description of the site does not match well the Corn ranch
"impact site". He does not mention a cliff, but recalls "little
dunes". According to the article of Tom Carey on Cavitt and
Rickett published in IUR of fall 1998 ("Will the real Sheridan
Cavitt please stand up?"), Rickett described it as "mostly
flattish scrub desert interspersed with rolling knolls or
dunes".

Rickett also remembers assisting Dr Lincoln LaPaz in
september1947 (that's in your first book, pp 118-121). in search
of ground traces, related to the crash, near Roswell. They found
"a place where the ground had been crystallized, a little bit of
the foil-like debris was discovered". I know that skeptics Todd
and Pflock have put in doubt Rickett's memory, arguing that he
may have been confused with another research, that one with
LaPaz in 1949, searching for debris of "green fireballs".

But there is another witness for their search in 1947, Earl
Zimmerman, CIC agent in Roswell, who had also participated in
the search of LaPaz. He mentioned a place where the ground had
turned "pale blue".

Todd and Pflock say he was probably also mistaken, having worked
too with LaPaz in 1949.

The logic of that argument is beyond me: they could both have
assisted LaPaz twice, in 1947 and 1949!

And finally Rickett gave a description of the craft, so that
mysterious other site could have been the real impact site?

What would be today your opinion of Rickett's recollections?

And what about the testimony of Frankie Rowe? It also points to
a place close to Roswell. Do you still support her?

There is a new witness, Chester Barton, found by Joseph Stefula
(article in IUR of summer 2001), whose name was given to him by
his friend William P. LaParl. Barton was sent to the crash site
by Major Edwin Easley. He recalled going to a crash site close
to Roswell at about 45 minutes drive, like Rickett. He thougth
that it had been a B-29 carrying nuclear explosives, hence the
secrecy. But everybody agrees that this theory does not stand,
and he was not allowed to come close to the wreck.

Barton remembers well the site: "it was in rough, undeveloped,
flat countryside. It had been burned. It "was comprised of two
or three burned areas including the area within which  the
wreckage rested". BTW, recalls hearing later of rumors about a
crashed spacecraft with alien bodies. So, there were rumors at
the base, contrary to the opinions of Kent Jeffrey and others.

Are there other testimonies about another site near Roswell?
Perhaps we could mention the daughter of sheriff Wilcox, Phyllis
McGuire (your first book, pp 45-46). She remembered that two
deputies had found "an area of blackened ground" which looked
like "something large and circular had touched down" Was place
could that be?

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                           UFO Cover Up Witnesses?

From: Ed Case <Case_ed@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 05:30:54 -0800
Fwd Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:52:59 -0500
Subject: UFO Cover Up Witnesses?


I have a question for the List. We know there are many credible
witnesses who have come forward with descriptions of a UFO
'Cover Up'. Airline pilots, FAA employees, military personnel
and others have convincing, credible descriptions of the efforts
made to keep people from going public with information about UFO
encounters. People like Gordon Cooper, Ed Mitchell, John
Callahan (FAA), Brig. Gen. Lovekin, Adm. Hillenkoetter whose
testimony (especially when corroborated by others) should be
taken very seriously.

My question is this: How many credible witnesses have come
forward and admitted that they have taken part in the efforts to
cover up evidence and discourage or damage witnesses?

Who are the most credible and does their testimony point very
far up the chain of command?

Have any of the skeptic/debunkers ever admitted that they were
taking part in a dishonest effort to keep the public from
knowing the truth about UFOs and the UFO cover up?


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                      Re: Backwards In Time - Maccabee

From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 08:55:48 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:55:28 -0500
Subject: Re: Backwards In Time - Maccabee


 >From: Dave Haith <visions@ntlworld.com>
 >To: <UfoUpdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 00:12:24 -0000
 >Subject: Backwards In Time

 >Here's another sceptical review of Taken from Time magazine.

 >There are so many points to argue here, I don't know where to
 >start. So I won't start. Why grace such bilge with sensible
 >argument anyway.

 >Journos like this have something in common with the aliens -
 >they both seem to come from another planet! Onwards and
 >upwards!

 >Dave

-----

 >Source Time Magazine

 >http://www.time.com/time/columnist/printout/0,8816,398945,00.html

 >Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2002

 >Are We Being Taken by Spielberg?

 >A skeptical look at the filmmaker's alien abduction show
 >By LEON JAROFF

<snip>

Hmmm.... did this guy write the review without seeing all 10
episodes?

<snip>

 >Perhaps I'm being a little too hard on Spielberg. Truth of the
 >matter is that, as a confirmed skeptic, I'm offended by his
 >treatment in "Taken", of a skeptic and "alien debunker" named
 >Tom Clarke, who maintains his disbelief almost until the end,
 >when he learns that his half-brother is half-alien and renounces
 >his skepticism. No true, self-respecting skeptic would cave in
 >that easily on the basis of such flimsy evidence.

I agree. The dyed in the wool skeptic (a la PJK) wouldn't change
his opinion if he, himself, were abducted.








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                    Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Maccabee

From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 08:55:55 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:01:06 -0500
Subject: Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Maccabee


 >From: Colin Bennett <sharkley@panzerben.fsworld.co.uk>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 02:34:54 -0000
 >Subject: Combat Diary Number 1

 >Hello all good List folk,

 >Jan Aldrich contacted me privately and asked me the following
 >questions, in response to a recent posting of mine concerning
 >a possible Roswell-RAF connection that I am researching.
 >I thought that the List might be interested in my reply.
 >In this reply I discuss what is meant by fiction, and in
 >order not to compromise the bandwidth of this List, I intend
 >to answer his other important questions at a later date.


 >Colin

-----

 >Dear Mr. Bennett,

 >I "know" that Roswell is the key to everything, but please
 >explain what any of this has to do with Captain Ruppelt? Is this
 >to be a work of fiction? What is Ruppelt's connection to the
 >Roswell incident? Why would a unit committed to the Strategic
 >Air Command be used as a training unit? Not while General Lemay
 >was in command it wouldn't! Of course, Lemay was not commander
 >of SAC in 1947 and was 1948 was in Europe.

 >There were other facilities for training B-29 crews and for
 >training with nuclear weapons. Since the majority of 509th
 >members and others assigned to Roswell knew nothing of the
 >Roswell incident, why would British "students" know anything?

<snip>

-----

 >Dear Mr. Aldrich,

 >I would like to answer your question simply and directly sir,
 >but even though I bear a Degree from the university of Oxford in
 >English Language and Literature, I am somewhat ashamed to say
 >that I do not know what a fiction is, quite. Many philosophers,
 >from Aristotle to T.S. Eliot through Cervantes and Melville have
 >tried to define what "fiction" is exactly, and all have failed.
 >Some modern puritans refer to a book that does have a document
 >box number or a security reference or a footnote about
 >statistics in every single clause in every sentence as a work of
 >fiction. In a recent IUR, a profoundly silly woman reviewer went
 >so far as to say that the lack of an index made the book she was
 >reviewing a work of fiction! On the other hand, some writers
 >proper ("proper" refers to those dreadful people who use image,
 >symbol, metaphor and imagination as entry to a system instead of
 >statistics and documents) refer to books of researchers as
 >manuals, not books.

 >"Fact" is just one way amongst others to try and come to
 >knowledge of a thing. It is merely one component of experience,
 >and must be considered in relation to other components that have
 >equally valid claims to be arbiters of experience.

 >Primarily, I am a satirist and portrait painter in words. For
 >the Fortean Times and Philosophy Now, I paint landscapes and
 >personalities, and in the February 2003 issue of the Fortean
 >Times, Mr. James Oberg can stand back and gaze at his (not
 >exactly uncomplimentary) oil. As a painter, I see features of
 ><character and soul, the atmosphere and background of a person
 >rather than where he or she was on a particular date. I enter
 >the system that way. Within a person I seen landscapes
 >stretching round the Moon and back. I can't help it. People pay

<snip>

 >Yours affectionately, in triumph and disaster, and compliments
 >of the season to all List Savants.

Oy vey! With all due respect to Colin the artist in paint and in
language, as I peruse the monograph by Colin as he prepares to
answer (sometime later) the questions posed by Jan Aldrich, I am
reminded of a day long ago and a place... Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania... a cold day in November, 1863, November 19 to be
exact, when a crowd had gathered at the site of the battlefield
(Battle of Gettysburg, July, 1863). They had gathered to hear
two men speak. The first was famous for his oratory... Edgar (or
Edward, I can't recall) Everett Hale... a man from whom the
words flowed so mellifluosly, dripping like the sweetest honey
on the ears of the listeners below the reviewing stand. It was
later reported in the newspapers that he spoke for about 3 hours
and delighted the listeners with his oratory.

Then the other man spoke for about 3 minutes. The newspapers
hardly mentioned his speech.

Yet virtually every American Schoolchild has heard it. Many can
repeat it.

Few if any people alive today have ever heard of Mr. Hale (I was
told, many years ago, by my grandmother that he was a distant
relative, that's why I know about him). Most people in the USA,
however, know of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address.

I admire Colin's way with words. The use of language in my own
two books is a poor comparison to the language useage, the
erudite allusions to literature, etc., which flow volubly from
Colin's typewriter, er, computer, uh, keyboard (there, that
encompasses both!). However, there is also something to be said
for getting to the point.

Regarding the Kirtland Landing (which is discussed on my web
site) Colin wrote:

 >Their software and image and media manipulations of first level
 >A will be out of this world, and they will of course be in a
 >state of decay or war. Certainly they will have internal
 >conflicts. Therefore yes, I can readily believe say that there
 >was a landing at Kirtland AFB, but if there was, I do not think
 >that it would be nearly as real as the nut and bolt folk claim.
 >We might be seeing something as quasi-substantial as their
 >equivalent to a rejected prototype for a graphic toothpaste
 >advertisement, and how real is that, relatively to us? When the
 >redesigns of the toothpaste advertisements of alien level A are
 >combined with the rubbish tips of alien level Q, and combined in
 >turn with the lies, evasions, and disasters of alien level M,
 >the concrete "reality" of the nut-and-bolt view begins to look
 >like a newspaper shredded by a heavy downpour.

<snip>

 >Such a thing as the Kirtland AFB landing will not be any more
 >real than a stage performance can be considered real.


Not nuts and bolts?

A bright light was seen to travel a zig zag path through the sky
by guards at the Manzano Mountain storage area. They saw it then
drop downward into a canyon. It was then out of their view,
Sometime later they saw the same light (or another like it) fly
upward and disappear into the night sky.

In the meantime another security guard was driving along a road
\through the canyon that the light went into ("Coyote Canyon").
He saw a brightly lighted object behind a building, inside the
fence of an "alarmed" structure. He tried to phone to the
security office a couple of miles away... His radio couldn't get
through, an unusual situation. So he grabbed his gun and started
to walk toward the building when suddenly this light took off
straight.

One may imagine that this is when the Manzano Guards, 2 miles
away (about) saw the light shoot upwards.

Now, if I may be so bold as to play Lincoln to your Hale (yes, I
know there's no comparison here on my part at least), then in
the interest of getting to the point, I will simply quote the
security guard who described the event. He was described as a
former hellicopter mechanic and he said "It wasn't a
helicopter".

Then what was it? Colin can certainly suggest it was a chimera,
a vision, a lie, the equivalent of an alien toothpaste
advertisement, a stage performance.....

But for me it certainly sounds like "nuts and bolts".....








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                  Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Maccabee

From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 08:55:52 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:02:23 -0500
Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Maccabee


 >From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
 >To: UFO Updates <UFOUpdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 12:20:17 -0700
 >Subject: Great Moments In Debunking


 >Dear EBK and Listers,

 >While preparing my audio archive into digital format, I
 >sometimes stumble upon what I call, Great Moments in Ufology.
 >Such a moment is shared with the UFO UpDates lurkers and
 >dedicated to such skeptibunkers, Pelicanists, etc., as Philip
 >Klass, Kal Korff, Robert Shaeffer, Bob Young, John Rimmer...
 >well, the list is endless.

 >On April 22, 1967 the American Society of Newspaper Editors
 >convened in Washington, D. C. On the program for that day were
 >three noted names in Ufology: Major Hector Quintanilla, Dr.
 >James E. McDonald and Dr. Donald H. Menzel. They were all
 >engaged in the education of the ASNE regarding UFOs. Quintanilla
 >namby-pambied around the issue and denied the USAF knew anything.
 >Menzel pontificated and rambled into inversions and McDonald
 >cleaned both their clocks with logic and sound reasoning. The
 >audience was delighted.

I think McDonald's speech is available in a package of McDonald
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                    C.E.: Another UFO Scramble Over D.C.?

From: Kenny Young <ufo@fuse.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:44:30 -0800
Fwd Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:23:39 -0500
Subject: C.E.: Another UFO Scramble Over D.C.?


 >From: Chaz Stuart <Daydisk2@WEBTV.NET>
 >To: CURRENT-ENCOUNTERS@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
 >Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 00:40:58 -0500
 >Subject: Another UFO Over D.C.?

Chaz Stuart wrote:

 >Heard on the 4 P.M. news today ( Monday) on 700 WLW in
 >Cincinnati, that an unidentified aircraft was detected by radar
 >over Washington. "F-16s were dispatched but found nothing", the
 >announcer said. (sound familiar?) It was the lead story that
 >hour but I never heard another word about it thereafter.

Charles, List;

Well I also searched high and low but found nothing about the
report mentioned above. Out of frustration more than anything I
finally called 700 WLW radio station this morning to look into
the alleged report first announced on the CE list by Charles
Stuart. I spoke with a female employee of the newsroom who said
she would be able to refer back to the 4:00 p.m. radio news
script from yesterday Monday, December 16, 2002. I explained
that I sought to verify a report that someone thought they heard
on their radio station and that I was unable to locate any
additional information online after searching through the news
wires such as Google, UPI, Reuters and the Associated Press.

The newsroom employee was very kind to refer back to yesterday's
news script and verified that such a story was featured on their
4:00 p.m. newscast. She read me the text of the script, which
only briefly stated: "F-16 fighter jets were scrambled over the
White House after radar had detected a possible intruder over
the Washington D.C. airspace. They were unable to locate the
intruder and said it probably turned out to be nothing."

I asked the employee if she knew of the source of this news
report announced on her station yesterday and she said that the
text was likely an "anchors rewrite" of an Associated Press
story, or more likely an ABC Radio News report. I told her I had
trouble finding the report on online news wires and she said
that AP is not a good source for news as some breaking news
stories are not accompanied by written documentation and are not
up to date.

I did search the ABC Radio news website at:

http://www.abcradio.com

but found no news items posted there.

This story is not to be found on the internet news wires I have
searched such as AP, Reuters, Google and UPI. I launched a great
deal of my searches from the Drudge Report site, typing in
keywords such as "unidentified" and "radar" into the various
search engines for different news wires. A good deal of the
difficulty in finding this news story might be general media
disinterest in the report, but it's strange that in our present
day of terrorist concerns nationwide, such a story - even if the
incident itself is trivial to begin with - could be so
effectively buried or simply discarded due to ineptitude or
disinterest. Regardless, the story as heard by Charles was
reported on the 4:00 p.m. 700 WLW newscast yesterday.


Kenny Young








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             Re: C.E.: Another UFO Scramble Over D.C.? - Kaeser

From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:44:35 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:49:51 -0500
Subject: Re: C.E.: Another UFO Scramble Over D.C.? - Kaeser


 >From: Kenny Young <ufo@fuse.net>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:44:30 -0800
 >Subject: C.E.: Another UFO Scramble Over D.C.?

 >>From: Chaz Stuart <Daydisk2@WEBTV.NET>
 >>To: CURRENT-ENCOUNTERS@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
 >>Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 00:40:58 -0500
 >>Subject: Another UFO Over D.C.?

 >Chaz Stuart wrote:

 >>Heard on the 4 P.M. news today ( Monday) on 700 WLW in
 >>Cincinnati, that an unidentified aircraft was detected by radar
 >>over Washington. "F-16s were dispatched but found nothing", the
 >>announcer said. (sound familiar?) It was the lead story that
 >>hour but I never heard another word about it thereafter.

 >Charles, List;

 >Well I also searched high and low but found nothing about the
 >report mentioned above. Out of frustration more than anything I
 >finally called 700 WLW radio station this morning to look into
 >the alleged report first announced on the CE list by Charles
 >Stuart. I spoke with a female employee of the newsroom who said
 >she would be able to refer back to the 4:00 p.m. radio news
 >script from yesterday Monday, December 16, 2002. I explained
 >that I sought to verify a report that someone thought they heard
 >on their radio station and that I was unable to locate any
 >additional information online after searching through the news
 >wires such as Google, UPI, Reuters and the Associated Press.

 >The newsroom employee was very kind to refer back to yesterday's
 >news script and verified that such a story was featured on their
 >4:00 p.m. newscast. She read me the text of the script, which
 >only briefly stated: "F-16 fighter jets were scrambled over the
 >White House after radar had detected a possible intruder over
 >the Washington D.C. airspace. They were unable to locate the
 >intruder and said it probably turned out to be nothing."

 >I asked the employee if she knew of the source of this news
 >report announced on her station yesterday and she said that the
 >text was likely an "anchors rewrite" of an Associated Press
 >story, or more likely an ABC Radio News report. I told her I had
 >trouble finding the report on online news wires and she said
 >that AP is not a good source for news as some breaking news
 >stories are not accompanied by written documentation and are not
 >up to date.

 >I did search the ABC Radio news website at:

 >http://www.abcradio.com

 >but found no news items posted there.

 >This story is not to be found on the internet news wires I have
 >searched such as AP, Reuters, Google and UPI. I launched a great
 >deal of my searches from the Drudge Report site, typing in
 >keywords such as "unidentified" and "radar" into the various
 >search engines for different news wires. A good deal of the
 >difficulty in finding this news story might be general media
 >disinterest in the report, but it's strange that in our present
 >day of terrorist concerns nationwide, such a story - even if the
 >incident itself is trivial to begin with - could be so
 >effectively buried or simply discarded due to ineptitude or
 >disinterest. Regardless, the story as heard by Charles was
 >reported on the 4:00 p.m. 700 WLW newscast yesterday.


Just to add to the confusion, I've searched the web sites of
local news outlets and found nothing. This surprises me if it
was on the A-P or ABC News wires. Maybe the Editor was TAKEN,
and went through a time warp.

I have not heard this story on a local all news outlet, and
they're always trying to find local stories of interest. I'll
keep looking as I can.


Steve






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                   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Hutchinson

From: Bruce Hutchinson <bhutch@grassyhill.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:40:36 -500
Fwd Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:52:49 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Hutchinson


 >From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:28:52 -0800
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: Bruce Hutchinson <bhutch@grassyhill.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:59:44 -500
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Hutchinson

Dave, List and Readers;

<snip>

 >>if only because it was his stories that were
 >>the foundation of Roswell's most sensational aspects. So I
 >>forsee years of wrangling over the minutiae of Frank's stories,
 >>and many attempts to rehabilitate him. This "armchair" dialogue
 >>between David and Gildas is just the start.

 >We are not "loath to let go" of Kaufmann. Much of Kaufmann's
 >story always bothered me and probably Gildas as well. He was the
 >basis for the completely revised July 5 crash recovery timeline
 >incorporated into Kevin Randle's second book. This added too many
 >inconsistencies and loose ends to the story for my tastes.

 >On the other hand, some parts of his story squared with other
 >information, as I pointed out in my post. And there were oddities
 >about Kaufmann remaining in Roswell and his sources of income.
 >Kaufmann's story was never a simple one.

 >It is very important to know whether the man was a clever
 >individual hoaxer or worked for the government, as he claimed.
 > If the former, his testimony means nothing. If the latter, then
 >his actions were part of an on-going cover-up. Motive is very
 >important. (However, it may also be academic, since it may be
 >impossible to determine.)

And I think that it is this "mystery" of Frank's connections to
the government (ie: The Conspiracy) that will fuel the the
debate for years to come. Perhaps not with you, but a lot of
others will launch countless attempts to rehabilitate Frank.

After all, "The Truth..." is still available, and many people
consider it the defining story of Roswell.

 >Incidentally, Randle isn't the only person to spend some time
 >with Kaufmann. It was Tom Carey and the evil Don Schmitt who
 >spent the most time with Kaufmann toward the end. After he died,
 >they finally got the proof that he had fabricated his documents,
 >which was shared with CUFOS, who then shared it with Randle. (BTW
 >the information about Kaufmann hoaxing documents was withheld,
 >not as part of a cover-up, but out of deference to his widow, who
 >died only a few months ago.)

 >The document hoaxing was pretty damning, but parts of Kaufmann's
 >story still had cross-corroboration from other independent
 >witnesses. (And, as I noted, also the Ramey memo) That's why it
 >remains hard to figure Kaufmann out. He was not a typical hoaxer.
 >Even when he was dying, frail, and deathly ill, he was still
 >going to take Carey and Schmitt out to the "true" main craft
 >crash site. (According to Carey, they were all in the Land Rover
 >ready to go when an unseasonable snow storm prevented the trip at
 >the last moment.)

 >Now ask yourself - are these the actions of an ordinary hoaxer?
 >If you were dying of cancer and barely able to hold it in
 >anymore, would you go traipsing off into the wilderness with some
 >googly-eyed UFO researchers just for a prank?

It must be obvious to most that Frank was not an "ordinary
hoaxer". Ordinary Hoaxer's do not go through the trouble of
preparing elaborate forgeries to buttress their stories. Kevin
will have to elaborate on this, but it seems from reading the
CUFOS article that Frank planned out his revelations, and
prepared the documents, in advance. This way he did not fall
into the traps Gerald Anderson did, and having to scramble to
produce some sot of "proof" to back up yesterdays' lies.

 >>It was Kevin Randle who was closest to Frank Kaufmann - he was
 >>the guy who looked him in the eyes. Kevin also has the most to
 >>lose - Frank's tales were the lynch-pin of "The Truth about the
 >>'UFO Crash at Roswell'.

 >>So if Kevin can publicly say that he no longer has any
 >>confidence in _anything_ Frank had to say about the Roswell
 >>Incident, well... he is the guy in the field, the one who
 >>should know best. He has earned his position among UFO
 >>Advocates as an Authority on Roswell and Frank Kaufmann.

 >Is this your usual appeal to authority? If a year ago I had
 >written that Randle was the authority on Kaufmann, had looked
 >him in the eyes and vouched for his sincerity, would that have
 >convinced you his story was completely true? Kaufmann still
 >remains something of an enigma, at least to some of us.

Maybe my tongue was not easly visable as I thought- as it was
firmly planted in cheek.

My point - lost as it was - is that others here on the List have
railed against those who do not do field research. Their message
is that the facts and opinions of Field Researchers must be
considered gospel.

But in this case, the Feild Researcher has declared that an
important witness was a hoaxer/liar. Within days of this
revelation, attempts to salvage at least some of Frank
Kaufmann's story have already started.

 >>If Kevin says Frank's story was a lie, why don't you believe
 >>him?

 >Which parts of his story? Some parts of his story were obvious
 >lies, other parts were not. (Why do you think Kevin Randle stuck
 >by him for so long?) The questions in my mind are what were his
 >sources of information and why did he lie?

The "sources" should be obvious. Why? How about Fame and
Glory? When Frank died, he was, at least in his mind, an
Important Person.

 >Hey Bruce. I consider myself an authority on Charles Moore and
 >his model Flight #4 model trajectory. I'm telling you it's a
 >complete lie. There isn't even any ambiguity here. The math
 >proves it. Why won't you believe me?

Note that you had to modify your "proof" considerably once Tim
proved your initial argument was even worse math.

As far as "an authority" goes... I'll leave that appellation to
a qualified Atmospheric Physicist.


Regards,

Bruce Hutchinson








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                            Robert Todd & Roswell

From: Bruce Hutchinson <bhutch@grassyhill.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:56:47 -500
Fwd Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 11:09:08 -0500
Subject: Robert Todd & Roswell


I am sure that many Listerians are familiar with the
investigative work and research published by Robert Todd. While
that name may be reviled by some, his work on the Roswell Saga
cannot be underestimated.

Robert's investigations included uncovering the Mogul solution,
the release of Maj. Jessie Marcel's military records, and the
revelation of the Schulgen Memo forgery.

Until now, his work has only been available in snippets, and no
where online could you find the complete set of his Cowflops
Quarterly newsletter. Well, that oversight has been rectified.

All eight issues of Cowflops are now online at:

http://www.roswellfiles.com/storytellers/Todd.htm

These are currently available only in .pdf format. If there is
anyone out there with fast, accurate fingers who would like to
transcribe these into a Word format, I would be very grateful.


Regards,

Bruce Hutchinson








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From: Bruce Hutchinson <bhutch@grassyhill.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 11:44:36 -500
Fwd Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:34:17 -0500
Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Hutchinson


 >From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
 >To: UFO Updates <UFOUpdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 12:20:17 -0700
 >Subject: Great Moments In Debunking

Dear List and Readers;

I see that the conversation here has devolved somewhat from the
core of Wendy's post...

 >'At the end of the presentation was a question and answer period.
 >The final question came from Frederick Martecord of the Arizona
 >Republic newspaper. His question was addressed to Dr. Menzel. I
 >quote:

 >"I would like to ask Dr. Menzel if he had been teaching at the
 >University of Saragosa in 1491, if he would have advised Isabella
 >not to give Columbus the money to determine if the world was
 >flat?"'

Unfortunately, Columbus didn't determine that the world wasn't
flat. This had been known for well over 1500 years prior to
Columbus and had been shown quite clearly to be a sphere or
sphere-shaped. Not only did most intelligent people know that
the world wasn't flat, but Eratosthenes measured it surprisingly
accurately. Prior to Eratosthenes, Aristotle estimated the world
was a sphere about 400,000 stadia in circumference and
Archimedes estimated it was a sphere about 300,000 stadia in
circumference.

The sources differ slightly in what Eratosthenes measured result
was, either 250,000 stadia or 252,000 stadia. As 252,000 stadia
equals about 29,000 miles, this is a surprisingly good
measurement given the tools and knowledge available to him. For
those not in the know, it is a sphere and the polar
circumference is 24,819 miles.

Pythagoras declared the world a sphere sometime before the end
of the sixth century BC.

Aristotle showed quite clearly that it was a sphere. For a
listing of Columbus's incredible gross errors look at the
Mapmakers by John Noble Wilford.

No one of any learning believed that the world was flat. They
believed it was about the size it actually is. Columbus was
grossly in error because he believed it was closer to Ptolemy's
predicted size. Therefore, with this belief that was grossly in
error, Columbus believed that he could sail all the way to India
by going west as it would only be a few thousand miles.

For additional info, the ancient Greeks are credited with making
the first globes of the Earth clearly showing that they knew it
was a sphere, and Behaim definitely made one in Nurnberg on
which the recent Portuguese discoveries could be shown for the
amazement of the populace. This was in 1490. For those who
have forgotten, Columbus didn't set sail until 1492.

So, the great moment in debunking is that Frederick Martecord
was full of bunk! Rejoice and tell the world, the Earth is a
sphere and this has been known for over 2000 years!


Regards,

Bruce Hutchinson








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                           UFO Universe Magazine?

From: Royce J. Myers III <ufowatchdog@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:45:36 -0800
Fwd Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:36:06 -0500
Subject: UFO Universe Magazine?


Listers,

I'm in search of a copy of a copy of UFO Universe Magazine that
featured an article written by Sean David Morton titled "Area
51: The most highly classified above-ground facility the United
States maintains and not the US military's worst kept secret."

The only reference I can find for the magazine is that it was
published in late 1994. Any help would be greatly appreciated,
thanks!


Regards,

Royce J. Myers III
UFOWATCHDOG.COM








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                   Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Kaeser

From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 14:08:02 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 14:19:37 -0500
Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Kaeser


 >From: Bruce Hutchinson <bhutch@grassyhill.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 11:44:36 -500
 >Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking

<snip>

 >No one of any learning believed that the world was flat. They
 >believed it was about the size it actually is. Columbus was
 >grossly in error because he believed it was closer to Ptolemy's
 >predicted size. Therefore, with this belief that was grossly in
 >error, Columbus believed that he could sail all the way to India
 >by going west as it would only be a few thousand miles.

 >For additional info, the ancient Greeks are credited with making
 >the first globes of the Earth clearly showing that they knew it
 >was a sphere, and Behaim definitely made one in Nurnberg on
 >which the recent Portuguese discoveries could be shown for the
 >amazement of the populace. This was in 1490. For those who
 >have forgotten, Columbus didn't set sail until 1492.

 >So, the great moment in debunking is that Frederick Martecord
 >was full of bunk! Rejoice and tell the world, the Earth is a
 >sphere and this has been known for over 2000 years!

I think you're both right. Certainly the fact that the Earth was
a sphere was known to some for more than two centuries, but that
often flew in the face of the teachings of the church during the
13th, 14th and 15th Centuries. It is perfectly accurate to state
that Columbus confirmed for many (during the latter part of the
15th Century) that the Earth was, indeed, round. Most knowledge
during that time period was handed down verbally, which allowed
all kinds of beliefs to grow and spread through the masses.
Often it was the church that was the keeper of official
knowledge, and obviously they had their own agenda.


Steve








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                 Was New Zealander First In Flying Machine?

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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 14:29:26 -0500
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Subject: Was New Zealander First In Flying Machine?

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_T
ype1&c=Article&cid=1035775620594&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154

Dec. 15, 2002. 01:00 AM

Was New Zealander first in flying machine?
Wright brothers' title contested
'Mad' Pearse may have flown earlier

Bill Taylor
Staff Reporter

The kiwi, national symbol of New Zealand, is a bird that cannot
fly.

How ironic that a New Zealander - a Kiwi - may have been first
to solve the riddle of flight.

A sensitive, artistic man who refused to walk the path his
parents set him on. A man forced to retreat behind high hedges
by neighbours who feared he was beholden to the devil.

A prophet still without total honour in his own country.

The Wright Brothers? Orville-and-Wilbur-Come-Lately, say the
people who believe Richard Pearse flew several times as the
brothers worked on their Flyer in their Ohio bicycle shop.

Whatever the truth, 2003 sees one of the last and greatest of
the great centenaries, the 100th anniversary of powered flight.

There are photographs and exact data to prove that Orville
Wright made a 12-second, 36.6-metre flight at Kill Devil Hills,
North Carolina, Dec. 17, 1903.

There's nothing but a handful of informally collected eyewitness
accounts to confirm Pearse's first flight. Few people outside
New Zealand have heard of the reclusive farmer and self-taught
engineer from the remote community of Waitohi on the South
Island. He was born there in 1877 and died of a heart attack in
Christchurch in 1953. He'd been confined to a psychiatric
hospital for two years, suffering from paranoia.

He was forgotten even in his homeland until the remains of his
third and last aircraft were found in a Christchurch garage some
years after his death.

Researchers believe that on or about March 31, 1903, "Mad
Pearse," also known as "Bamboo Dick" for his building material
of choice, flew for about 140 metres before his plane crashed
into the gorse hedge surrounding the farm that he never wanted
and always neglected. He'd let the hedge grow almost four metres
high and seven metres wide to keep out a skeptical world.

"Even now, not everyone here shares the admiration for him,"
says his great-nephew Jeff, on the phone from the house where
Pearse was born and raised. "New Zealand is still a young
country and it's a ... funny country. They tend to doubt
themselves. People are as keen to disbelieve as to believe."

The family house is now on Pearse Rd., "but don't read too much
into that. The Crombies live on Crombie Rd. Still, there is a
Richard Pearse Drive and a Richard Pearse Airport."

Pearse was featured on New Zealand's millennium postage stamps
with such pioneers as Sir Edmund Hillary, first to climb
Everest, and Ernest Rutherford, first to split the atom.

Enthusiasts hope to fly a replica of Pearse's plane near the
original site March 31. Wind-tunnel tests suggest it'll be like
piloting a modern ultralight.

He never claimed to have truly beaten the Wright brothers,
saying he hadn't met his own exacting standards for "proper ...
sustained and controlled flight." His descents were too erratic
and his plane, he wrote to the Christchurch Star in 1928, wasn't
fast enough to steer effectively. "I had successful navigation
within my grasp ... but I decided to give up the struggle as it
was useless to try to compete against the men who had factories
at their backs."

"At no point did Richard have an agenda to be the first to fly,"
says Jeff. "But he had this extraordinary vision of what flight
could be. He wanted to fly to Temuka, 15 kilometres away."

Pearse's machine was in some ways more advanced than the first
Wright Flyer. It had "tricycle" landing gear with a nose wheel,
at least 20 years ahead of its time; wheels rather than skids;
one wing rather than two; and ailerons for steering similar to
those used in modern aircraft. The Wright brothers used "wing
warping," twisting the wing to change the flow of air over it.
The engine in Pearse's plane was considerably lighter than the
Wrights' engine.

"There wasn't a single car in the district, no internal
combustion, so he had to figure it out for himself," says Jeff.
"He had to think of a propeller that would work. There was
nothing to copy. He had to do a lot of experimentation and all
on his own. He had no training or education, except for the
local school."

The final proof of his achievement remains tantalisingly
elusive. Pearse injured his collarbone crashing into the hedge.
The hospital records were destroyed in a fire. Someone took a
photo of his aircraft in the hedge. It was lost in a flood.

Dr. Peter Jakab, a curator at the Smithsonian's National Air and
Space Museum in Washington D.C., doesn't deny that Pearse got
off the ground. "But what he flew was essentially a powered
glider flying into a ravine. So it wasn't a true powered flight.
He's just one of many pre-Wright claimants."

Geoff Rodliffe, author of a biography of Pearse, says the
evidence points to five flights between March and July 10, 1903.

"Enough people, up to 18 or 20 at a time, saw him airborne to
put it, I believe, beyond doubt that he flew several times that
year," says Rodliffe from his home in Auckland.

"Few people wrote down what they saw. But I've talked to a
number of people who saw him fly. I knew two of his younger
sisters quite well.

"Pearse was totally driven. His life could have been very
different. He was chased by a girl for several years. She wanted
to marry him and have lots of children. But he wouldn't. Finally
there was a tearful scene and ... he was on his own after that."

Jeff Pearse's father, 86, is named after his uncle. "He
remembers visiting Richard in Christchurch, remembers him as a
guy full of scientific knowledge, talking in engineering terms,
talking about planes."

Pearse, who once built a bamboo-framed bicycle, also used bamboo
for his aircraft frame. Other materials and engine parts were
salvaged junk, including tobacco tins.

"He'd order his bamboo from Auckland and then cycle to Temuka
and bring it back over his shoulder on his bike," says Jeff.

As a boy, Pearse devised a mechanical needle-threader for his
mother and a "zoetrope" for his sisters that flicked still
pictures to produce moving images.

He never wanted to be a farmer. But his parents, who had nine
children - enough for a family orchestra in which Richard played
the cello - couldn't afford engineering school. On his 21st
birthday, his father gave him 40 hectares to farm. He stayed
with agriculture for 13 years, plodding behind a horse-drawn
plough with his head buried in a science magazine.

During early ground tests, Pearse was seen steering his plane
with horse-reins. If his fields were too wet he used the road by
his farm. This is where he supposedly took off on his first
flight.

One account says he wheeled the plane down to the crossroads by
the school and, as a small crowd gathered, tried to start the
engine.

It was late afternoon when the aircraft lurched into the air. It
veered to the left but kept climbing before crashing into the
hedge.

Witnesses have said later flights took off from a small hill.
Some reportedly were as short as 15 metres, others up to 400
metres with Pearse landing on a partly dried-up river bed.
Engine parts and a propeller have been found there.

One of Pearse's neighbours, Arthur Tozer, was crossing the river
in a wagon when Pearse reportedly made his third flight,
spooking Tozer and his horses by roaring low over their heads.

"He never got the mix right for sustained controlled flight over
a distance," says Jeff. "There's absolutely no doubt that he was
airborne for some distance. But the degree of control ... some
people who saw him fly said he circled the paddock twice, others
that he simply kept veering off to one side."

Parts of the plane, including the undercarriage, are on display
in Auckland's Museum of Transport and Technology. A replica of
the plane was built in the 1970s and exhibited at Expo 86 in
Vancouver.

Pearse built a bigger aircraft around 1907 but it's believed to
have been too difficult to control to ever have left the ground.

Pearse worked on his third and final aircraft, also on display
in the technology museum, between 1928 and 1947. It was designed
for vertical take-off and landing. He envisioned it as "the
private plane for the millions," bringing aviation to anyone who
could afford a car. It never got off the ground.

The gorse hedges in Waitohi are gone, says Jeff, and none of the
farm buildings remain.

"This house is pretty much the same. But where he flew, there's
nothing any more to see."

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                              Deceptive Memory

From: Brian Straight <brians@mdbs.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 15:48:41 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:55:09 -0500
Subject: Deceptive Memory


An interesting (and provocative) perspective. Worth a read.....

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/12/1550830.php








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                  Re: Great Moments in Debunking - Connors

From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:26:32 -0700
Fwd Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:54:10 -0500
Subject: Re: Great Moments in Debunking - Connors


Unbelievable.

The purpose of my original post was not to elicit a discourse on
whether the Earth was flat or round. It is neither. It's
spheroidal-like with a bulge at the equator. Nor does it make a
difference whether Martecord's question was phrased correctly.

The question asked by Martecord was rhetorical. What he was
saying after listening to Dr. McDonald, was that Dr. Menzel was
short sighted, lacked imagination and was full of proverbial
B.S.; that everyone in the audience knew Menzel was outclassed
by McDonald's rational and logical approach. In effect,
Martecord pulled the rug out from under Menzel and that Menzel
had lost the scientific debate with McDonald in the minds of the
audience.

Jeez.

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              CCCRN News: Signs of Destiny Conference Photos &

From: Paul Anderson <psa@look.ca>
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Photos and a review by Joanna Emery of the Signs of Destiny
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The links page on the web site has also been modified and
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'The Lou Gentile Show', part of the Paranormal Radio Network and
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                       UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 7 Number 51

From: John Hayes <webmaster@ufoinfo.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:32:12 +0000
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Posted on behalf of Joseph Trainor.

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==========================

       UFO ROUNDUP
Volume 7, Number 51
December 17, 2002
Editor: Joseph Trainor

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


THIMBLE-SHAPED UFO SEEN
BY POLICEMEN IN SPAIN

       "There are more than clouds and stars in the skies
over Xativa," in southeastern Spain.  "Local police
officer Paco Hellan is one of three policemen who in
recent days claims having seen metallic unidentified
flying objects giving off very bright light."
       "The first sighting occurred in the early hours of
(Wednesday) November 20 (2002).  According to Hellan, 'an
unexplained metallic object gave off a strong blue light
and moved in a visibly notable manner.'"
       "'I was at my station and some fellow officers on
patrol told me that they had seen the object.  Thinking
it might be the planet Venus, I headed to the location
and saw (that) the object did not look at all like any of
the stars that were out at that time.'"
       "After that, the three policemen saw 'how the object
moved vertically.'" To assure themselves that the UFO was
indeed moving, "the officers used the (power) cables of
the RENFE and the mountains in the background as points
of reference.  'We suddenly saw that the object, as soon
as it was both above and in between the cables,
approached and went away from the mountain tops.'"
       Hellan and his fellow officers "witnessed the
display from 6 a.m. to 6:50 a.m.  Then they decided to
contact the Manises Airport control tower to have the
facility's radar detect the object."
       "'There, after providing the coordinates of 150 to
170 degrees southeast, taking the airport as a reference
(point), they told us that nothing appeared on their
radar, because in order for an object to be detected, it
needs to have a transponder that issues a (radio)
signal."
       "'Days later,' continued the officer, 'I went to the
airport and remarked (on the event--S.C.) with one of the
directors of the aviation school, who told me that he too
had seen a luminous object from his balcony, and it was
probably work being performed on a space station.'"
       "Days went by and another (police) agent claimed
having seen 'a metallic object over the Lluis Alcayins
Hospital.  This occurred on (Friday or Saturday) November
29 or 30 (2002), 'and on the following day, it was also
around the same area,' added Hellan.  According to his
description, 'it was thimble-shaped and gave off a
glowing white light at its core and an intense blue hue
that changed to a lighter color.'"
       Xativa is in southeastern Spain, about 80 kilometers
(50 miles) south of the city of Valencia.  (See the
Spanish newspaper Las Provincias for December 12, 2002,
"A UFO flies over Xativa."  Muchas gracias a Scott
Corrales y Jordi Ardanuy para eso articulo de diario.)


SADDAM's AREA 51?

       A UFO incident in Iraq four years ago has raised
disturbing questions about possible collaboration between
aliens and Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
       On Thursday, December 16, 1998, during Operation
Desert Fox, the Allied air strike against Iraq, a video
clip aired on CNN showed a UFO hovering over Baghdad, the
capital of Iraq, and moving away to avoid a stream of
tracer anti-aircraft fire.  (For the full story on this
incident, see UFO Roundup, Volume 3, Number 51 for
December 22, 1998, "UFO intervenes in Operation Desert
Fox," page 1.)
       At the time, it was thought to be just another UFO
sighting, although captured on videotape.  But now,
ufologists think there might have been more to this
incident.
       According to Jack Sarfatti, on Friday night,
December 6, 2002, "a caller into the Art Bell (radio)
show, who claims to have a connection to the military,
said a UFO crashed in Iraq in recent years.  The U.S. is
searching for any public pretext to invade Iraq, but its
greatest fear is that Saddam will reverse-engineer the
crashed alien spacecraft."
       "The craft allegedly crashed during the Gulf War
(1990-1991) or more recently (possibly December 1998).
This will be Iraq's Roswell.  The U.S. is currently
reverse-engineering the Roswell craft and fears Saddam's
scientists will catch up with or even go beyond the U.S.
in one or more areas.  These areas of research include
zero point, over-ratio or gravimetric tenchology, which
would allow for a tremendous advance, allowing Iraq to
become a leading power."
       Another caller reportedly hinted at the presence of
"Saucer Nazis" in Iraq, assisting Saddam Hussein with his
plans.  Sarfatti commented, "Of course, the Occult Nazi
SS (proper name: SS-Ahnenerbe--J.T.) has probably been in
Iraq since World War II, and, if Nick Cook is right,
maybe.  But I think this story is all really silly
disinformation and misinformation.  But what do I know?
I'm just a warped macro-quantum mechanic."
       However, in actuality, Nazi interest in Iraq goes
back 80 years to the early 1920s, to a time when the
Nazionalsocialische Deutsches Arbeiterspartei (NSDAP) was
still brawling in the streets of Berlin.
       In 1924, Detlef Schmude, one of the leading lights
of the NSDAP's forerunner, the Thule Gesellschaft, left
Germany on an extended pilgrimage in the Middle East.
Schmude had been a Canon in a Thule-related mystic group,
the Order of the New Templars, and the editor of the
Thule group's magazine, Ostara.  Schmude settled in
Tabriz, in Iran, and spent the next few years hunting for
what he called "the Hidden Masters."
       Then, in early 1939, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris,
Hitler's spymaster and head of the Abwehr intelligence
agency, sent Dr. Paul Leverkuehn to the Middle East to
cultivate Muslim allies for the Third Reich.  Strangely
enough, Dr. Leverkuehn's headquarters was Detlef
Schmude's old stamping ground, Tabriz.  And his most
successful convert was Rashid Ali, the pro-Nazi prime
minister of Iraq, who was overthrown during the British
invasion of Iraq two years later, in 1941.
       Admiral Canaris became involved in the Stauffenberg
bomb plot against Hitler in July 1944.  He was arrested
and thrown into the Flossenburg concentration camp, where
he was executed in April 1945.  Abwehr agents and
operations in the Middle East were taken over by the
Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler and placed under the
control of Rudolf von Sebottendorff (nee Adam Glauer).
By some strange coincidence, Sebottendorff was a Thule
lodge brother like Schmude and, from 1916 on, a member of
the New Templars.
       Even stranger, Sebottendorff's dead body was found
floating in the Bosporus near the docks of Istanbul on
May 9, 1945, the day after World War II in Europe ended.
       What happened to the Thule/SS organization in Iraq
after 1945, no one in the West knows.
       One who took a keen interest in Iraq was SS-
Brigadefuhrer Karl Maria Wiligut, alias Weisthor, who was
called "Himmler's Rasputin."  In 1940, he called
Himmler's attention to important archaeological
discoveries in Iraq's Irbil province.  Scientists had dug
up man-made artifacts dating back to 10,000 B.C.
       Wiligut claimed to be the last of a line of
sorcerers called the Ueiskuinigs, which had originated
hundreds of thousands of years ago on the lost continent
of Atlantis.  With important Neolithic discoveries being
made in Iraq, Wiligut thought it was vital to have the
SS-Ahnenerbe on the scene, and it was probably he who
advised Himmler to give control of the apparat to
Sebottendorff.  (For more on Wiligut, see the feature
story in this issue.)
       After the war, in 1947, the biggest cache of
Neolithic items yet was unearthed by Dorothy Garrod of
Cambridge University, all dating back to 10,000 B.C.  The
find was at Zarzi in the upper valley of the as-Zab as-
Saghir  (or Little Zab River, to give the Arabic a free
translation--J.T.), about 100 kilometers (60 miles)
southeast of Irbil.  Another important discovery was made
by Prof. Braidwood of the Chicago Oriental Institute in
1951, Neolithic artifacts dating back to 6,000 B.C.
(Editor's Note: The ruins of Shimurru, a Sumerian city
dating back to 3,000 B.C., are also in that valley.)
       UFO Roundup correspondents in the Middle East came
up with a mixed bag of information about the valley.
       Ayesha al-Khatabi wrote, "Zarzi?  That's a remote
region, Joe, even for Iraq.  The upper valley has a mixed
population, Kurds mostly, with some Arabs and Yezidis.
There is a famous imam's tomb just south of Zarzi, in the
village of Shornakh.  It's called the Ishkut-i-Kuhr-i-
Kish, and it's sacred to the Kurds.  The interesting
thing about Zarzi is that there is a giant limestone
cliff on the edge of town.  An intriguing cave painting
was found there years ago, showing a Sumerian prince
bowing before a deity.  Behind the god's throne is an
eleven-pointed star. A proof of ancient astronauts,
perhaps?  This cliff is called Ishkut-i-Qizapan."
       "I wonder if there might be an underground alien
base at Qizapan, in truth similar to Mount Moncayo in
Spain."  (For more on this engimatic peak, see UFO
Roundup, volume 5, number 1 for January 6, 2000, "1815:
Spain's mysterious Mount Moncayo," page 8.)
       "I have, however, heard nothing of a UFO crash in
Iraq.  I have never heard of Thule, either.  But Tabriz
is not far from Zarzi.  It's only 250 kilometers (150
miles) away, with a good road from Tabriz to Mahabad,
also in Iran.  It is possible for people to cross the
border west of Mahabad and enter Iraq and the valley that
way."
       Mohammed Daud al-Hayyat wrote, "There are rumors of
aliens in Iraq but no talk of a crash.  The souk (market)
gossip in Sulaimaniya (south of Zarzi--J.T.) says the
aliens are the guests of Saddam.  Where are they staying?
Well, there is the usual talk of an underground base.
But Saddam does have a palace in the valley.  The old
fortress of Qalaat-e-Julundi used to belong to the
(Iraqi) royal family.  Here the king met with the Kurdish
chieftains.  After the revolution, the government took
possession, and now, like every palace in Iraq, it is the
'summer mansion' of Saddam.  The reason I mention the
Qalaat-e-Julundi is that it is nearly impregnable.  The
citadel stands on a hill surrounded on three sides by
precipices that plunge vertically down to the (Little
Zab) river.  I think Saddam is letting the aliens stay
there."
       Mohammed Hajj al-Amdar wrote, "There are some very
strange stories coming out of that valley.  They say
Saddam has given the aliens sanctuary, so they won't be
captured by the Americans.  Nobody will go near the
citadel of Qalaat-e-Julundi at night.  They say the
aliens have created 'watchdogs' for Saddam.  The aliens
take simple desert scorpions and use their bio-
engineering to grow them to giant size.  Scorpions as
large as cows!  They have implants to control them."
       "The scorpions are the perfect guards.  They blend
in with the desert, move swiftly and silently and zero
right in on their warm-blooded prey.  The luckless
intruder hears a strange skittering noise on the stones.
Then a pincer crushes his neck, and another (pincer) his
legs, and he is slammed to the ground, and the barbed
tail strikes six or seven times.  Death comes quickly..."
       "I hear that Saddam says the mission of these
creatures is 'to discourage guests who have not been
invited.'  He has a strange sense of humor, that fellow."
       It appears that something is going on in the Little
Zab valley, but it is unclear just what.  Is Zarzi the
site of Saddam's "Area 51?"  Or the location of some
Neolithic "Temple of Doom?"  We'll have to sit back and
wait and see what develops, if anything.  (Many thanks to
Jack Sarfatti, Art Wagner, Ayesha al-Khatabi, Mohammed
Daud al-Hayyat and Mohammed Hajj al-Amdar for these
reports.  See also The Occult Roots of Nazism by Nicholas
Goodrick-Clarke, New York University Press, 1983, pages
112 through 117; and Canaris by Heinz Hohne, Doubleday
and Co., Garden City, N.Y., 1979, page 377.)


OUTBACK TERROR GOES ON
A RAMPAGE IN AUSTRALIA

       It's back!  The Outback Terror, the strange,
elusive, black-panther-like creature which has been
spotted for decades in Australia but never captured, made
headlines last week in the Gippsland region of Victoria
state, about 150 kilometers (90 miles) west of Melbourne.
       "Fresh reports of black panthers roaming Victoria's
countryside killing cattle have emerged after a Gippsland
dairy farmer claimed that up to 200 cows on his farm had
been mauled."
       "Ron Jones said the latest casualty--a Friesian cow-
-had its jaw torn away and its ear and brain eaten.
'They go in through the ear and eat the brain out; the
back end of the cow has been eaten out; and the bag
(udder) area was eaten out,' Mr. Jones told the
Australian Broadcasting Company radio.  'I've seen about
a dozen of them now, and when they're sitting on their
backsides, they're about three feet six (106 centimeters)
from the ground up to the top of the head.'"
       "'When they take off, they sort of go in big loping
bounds.  They cover about 20 feet (6 meters) every bound-
-they're about 8 feet (2.4 meters) roughly from the tip
of their nose to the end of their tail.'"
       "Mr. Jones said they are too big to be feral cats.
'It's definitely a cat the way it moves.  When they kill
an animal, they just lay on it and chew away at it,' he
said, 'Where a dog stands and tears at it and leaves a
jagged wound.  Their (the creature's inflicted) wounds
are just as though you'd cut the meat with a carving
knife.'"
(Editor's Note: Paranormal investigator Rex Gilroy and
other researchers believe that the creature is not a
member of the cat family.  They think it is an unknown
species of marsupial, a distant relative of the kangaroo
and the opossum, which evolved as a top-of-the-food-chain
predator in Australia's marsupial-dominated ecosystem.
Australia's Aboriginal people call these creatures Devil
Dogs of the Dreamtime.)
       "Debate about the possible existence of panthers or
pumas has raged for decades, with sightings reported in
several parts of rural Victoria."
(Editor's Note:  The Outback Terror has also been
reported in South Australia and Western Australia.)
       "Explanations include that U.S. servicemen released
big cats they kept as mascots" during World War II "or
that the creatures escaped from travelling circuses more
than 100 years ago."
       "Mr. Jones said he had taken a few pot shots at the
animals but with no success."
       "Stephan Kaiser, from the Gippsland Department of
Primary Industries, said a local wild dog (dingo in
Australia--J.T.) catcher had been out to Mr. Jones's
farm."
       "'The dogger supported Mr. Jones's view that the
injuries (to the cow) seemed inconsistent with a dog
attack,' he said."
       "DNA testing has been conducted on carcasses in the
quest to determine whether the killers were feline or
canine, but Mr. Kaiser said it was difficult to get a
conclusive reading."
       "He said serious attacks on cattle had increased
recently in the Yarram district, and he was considering
setting up infra-red cameras to determine the culprit."
       "With 25 years' experience in dealing with feral
animals, did he believe the big cat was out there?"
       "'I'm a scientist.  I'll wait for the evidence,' Mr.
Kaiser said."  (See The Australian News for December 12,
2002, "'Killer cats' on the loose."  Many thanks to Diane
Harrison and AUFORN for forwarding this newspaper story.)
(Editor's Note:  For more on the elusive Outback Terror,
see UFO Roundup, volume 6, number 21 for May 24, 2001,
"Australia's 'Outback Terror' goes on the prowl," page
4.)


CIGAR-SHAPED UFO SEEN
IN SOUTHERN FLORIDA

       On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 10:45 p.m., Larry
Snow "was driving in my car up the onramp from Okeechobee
Boulevard" in West Palm Beach, Florida (population
82,103).  "As I was approaching the top of the ramp, I
saw these bright lights off to the left in the sky.  At
that time, I wasn't thinking anything of it.  But then
the lights were in a row, all connected, like this:
000000000000."
       The lights "started tilting, moving away, and then
the lights just went out.  That's when I turned to look.
And then I saw some dark object.  (At this point, I had
slowed my car to a stop on the left side of the onramp--
L.S.)  I saw this dark object continue on its way.  I got
out of the car and couldn't see it anymore."
       "I saw other airplanes with lights blinking in the
distance but no sight of the object.  It happened pretty
quickly.  I wasn't able to make out the size and shape,
except for when the lights were on.  Weirdest thing I've
ever seen."
       Larry "was wondering if anyone else saw anything
similar that night."
       The UFO was "hard to make out.  I saw lights, and
then it was completely dark.  Darker than the sky at that
time.  At first it wasn't moving fast at all.  But when
the lights shut off, it was like it vanished."  (Email
Form Report)


CIRCULAR UFO SIGHTED IN
CASSATT, SOUTH CAROLINA

       On Saturday, November 30, 2002, at 5 p.m., Shelly
Gaines "was facing northeast when I saw a bright circular
light that slowly descended and winked out after thirty
seconds."
       Shelley's sighting took place in Cassatt, South
Carolina.
       "Less than ten minutes afterward, two helicopters
began circling the area and two more five minutes after
that."
       Two hours later, at 7 p.m., Shelly "saw a streak of
light that lasted only a few seconds.  One of the
helicopters cut straight towards the streak."
       "I saw a second streak at around 9 p.m.  Another
helicopter went in that direction.  By that time, there
were about six helicopters flying around the area."
       "The ball (UFO) descended slowly, but the streaks
were very fast."  (Email Form Report)


ORANGE UFOs SIGHTED IN
CLOVIS, NEW MEXICO

       On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 10 p.m.,
eyewitness D.N. saw a UFO approach from the west at his
home in Clovis, New Mexico (population 32,667).
       "Orange lights appeared," he reported, "Round, only
a couple at a time, and then they vanished."
       "Then, shortly after, appeared some others, four to
seven of them, in a circular hovering path.  Then they
vanished and were seen no more."
       D.N. described the UFOs as "baseball-sized, orange,
round lights that mostly just hovered."
       Clovis, N.M. is on Highway 60, 84 and 70 just 20
miles (32 kilometers) west of the Texas state line.
(Email Form Report)
(Editor's Note:  Once again, the UFOs are visiting an
ancient site.  Archaeologists digging at Clovis have
unearthed some of the oldest artifacts in North America--
Paleolithic stone tools dating back to 50,000 B.C.)


AVIATRIX DEATH UNVEILS
SECRET FDR DIPLOMACY

       The death of a 1930s aviatrix in Fairfax, Virginia
last week revealed some new facts about President
Franklin D. Roosevelt's secret diplomacy during World War
II.
       "Fay Gillis Wells, a pioneer aviator, White House
correspondent and writer who covered Hollywood,
accompanied by her pet leopard, Snooks, died December 2
(2002) in Fairfax, Va.  She was 94."
       "Ms. Wells was born in Minneapolis (Minnesota) and
her family moved often.  When her father, a mining
engineer, went to Moscow in 1930, she was an aviation
correspondent.  She became the first American woman to
fly a Soviet airplane and the first foreigner to own a
Soviet glider."
       "She married for the first time on a lark to
experience the Palace of Weddings in Moscow, only to
discover that the immediate divorce she and her husband
had planned was a bit trickier.  Her brief first marriage
was to Ellery Walter, a writer."
       "Four days after earning her federal pilot's license
on October 5, 1929, Ms. Wells wrote letters to 117 other
American women who were licensed to fly, asking them to
meet on Long Island.  In part because of enthusiasm about
Amelia Earhart's flight across the Atlantic the year
before, 26 showed up."
       "Earhart, the first president, proposed calling the
group the Ninety-Nines, in honor of the 99 charter
members.  Wells, who was one of the last four of the 99,
devoted much of the latter part of her life to
maintaining the International Forest of Friendship in
Earhart's hometown in Atchison, Kansas."
(Editor's Note:  Amelia Earhart, the foremost American
aviatrix of the 1930s, vanished over the Pacific Ocean
with her navigator Fred Noonan in 1937.  Her fate is
still a mystery.)
       "When Wiley Post made a solo flight around the world
in 1933," Fay Gillis Wells "arranged logistics and
interpreted in Siberia.  He invited her to fly with him
for a 2,250-mile leg, but then decided against it because
it might endanger the record as a solo flight."
       "Post tried to make it up to her by taking her on a
flight in 1935 to Siberia by way of Alaska.  She
regretfully turned down the trip, which turned out to be
the one on which Post and (actor) Will Rogers, her
replacement, died in a crash near Point Barrow, Alaska."
       "Instead, she went on a honeymoon to Ethiopia with
Linton Wells, a swashbuckling foreign correspondent.
Their marriage grew out of a movie date in New York City.
Instead of seeing The Wedding Night starring Gary Cooper,
they eloped and saw the movie the next night."
       "In 1936, the couple went to Hollywood, where Ms.
Wells reported for the Herald Tribune.  They had taken a
leopard, a lioness and a cheetah home from Africa, and
she took the leopard along on interviews."
       "In 1938, the two did radio shows from South
America."
       Three years later, in 1941, "Ms. Wells and her
second husband were sent by President Franklin D.
Roosevelt on a secret mission to Africa to look for
possible postwar homelands for Jews.  They were asked by
Roosevelt to investigate possible African locations for a
Jewish homeland, and they recommended Angola."
(Editor's Comment: Now, that's a new one.  Apparently,
FDR left no stone unturned in his efforts to rescue the
European Jews.  Using backchannel diplomacy, he was
trying to open an escape route for the Jews.
Interesting, too, that his efforts intensified in 1941,
at the same time the Nazis had decided to abandon their
"forced emigration" schemes in favor of "the Final
Solution."  Apparently, FDR had a spy in Hitler's inner
circle.)
       After her son, Linton II, was born in 1946, Ms.
Wells became a full-time wife and mother for 18 years.
She resumed her journalism career in 1963 and "was one of
three women who traveled as reporters with President
Richard M. Nixon on his trip to China in 1972."
       "She deeply regretted missing out on being an
astronaut."
       "Linton Wells died in 1977.  In addition to her son,
who lives in Springfield, Va., Ms. Wells is survived by
her brother and two grandsons."  (See the Chicago Tribune
for December 10, 2002, "Fay Gillis Wells, 94: Aviator,
journalist was global adventurer," page 13.)
(Editor's Comment:  Like President Harry S. Truman said,
"The only thing new in the world is the history you don't
know.")


  From the UFO Files...

1866: HITLER'S WARLOCK

       He was called "Himmler's Rasputin."  He sent scores
of Nazi agents around the world on a quest for magickal
artifacts.  He literally wrote the book on Esoteric
Nazism.  And he claimed to be the last warlock or
magician of an order dating back to the lost continent of
Atlantis.
       Of all the strange personalities in Adolf Hitler's
entourage, Karl Maria Wiligut was certainly the oddest.
       Wiligut was born on December 10, 1866 in Vienna,
then the capital of the large eastern European empire of
Austria-Hungary.  "Both his father and his grandfather
had served as officers in the Austrian army" and Karl,
"the eldest son followed this family tradition."
       In 1880, "at the age of fourteen, he began attending
the Imperial Cadet School at Vienna-Breitensee and in
December 1884 he joined the 99th Infantry Regiment at
Mostar," in what is now Bosnia-Hercegovina.  "He was
promoted second lieutenant in November 1888, (first)
lieutenant in 1892 and captain in 1903.  During this
early period of his military career, he served with the
99th, 88th and 47th Infantry Regiments" of the Austro-
Hungarian Army.
       In 1900, while stationed at Znaim in Moravia,
Wiligut became intrigued by a curious prehistoric menhir
called the Rabenstein, the subject of much local
folklore.  As a result, he began reading the books of
Guido von List, a fellow Austrian and founder of the
Ariosophy movement, and tried his own hand at volkisch
poetry.
(Editor's Comment:  You know your editor.  Can't pass an
ancient monument or ruin without checking it out.  If any
of our eastern European readers has more information
about these ruins at Znaim, please send an email to UFO
Roundup.)
       In 1907, Wiligut married Malwine Leuts von
Treuenringen.  His daughter Gertrud was born in Vienna in
1908 and, while there, Wiligut made the acquaintance of
Theodore Czepl, a member of the Order of the New Templars
(ONT).  Czepl invited Wiligut to join "an occult circle
in Vienna, whose members included Willy Thaler, a cousin
of Wiligut's, his wife, Marie Thaler, the well-known
(stage) actress, and several ONT brothers."
       During the course of these meetings, Wiligut
revealed "the he had received instruction on the runes
from his grandfather Karl Wiligut (1794-1883) and dated
his formal initiation into the family secrets by his
father" in 1890.
       And what secrets!  The elder Wiligut told 24-year-
old Karl that he was "the last descendant of a long-line
of Germanic sages, the Uiligotis of the Asa-Uana-Sippe,
which dated back to a remote prehistoric era.  Wiligut
claimed to possess ancestral-clairvoyant memory, which
enabled him to recall the history and experiences of his
tribe over thousands of years."
       Wiligut believed that Germany was originally settled
in 228,000 B.C. by people from the lost continent of
Atlantis and that his family began in the magickal city
of Arual-Joruvallas (now Goslar--J.T.).  He insisted that
the Bible was much older than anyone thought, that the
events of the New Testament had taken place in Germany
and not Palestine, and that Jesus Christ was really
Krist, an avatar who had founded the Irminist religion in
12,500 B.C.  The Wiligut family were supposed to be sages
of Irminism who were driven into the northern European
wilderness by rival sorcerers in 1,200 B.C.
       Wiligut's budding career in Ariosophy was cut short
in 1914 by another catastrophe--World War I.  "In October
1914, he became a staff officer in the 30th Infantry
Regiment, witnessing action against the Russian army in
the Carpathians along the northeastern flank of the
(Austro-Hungarian) empire.  Following an exhausting
campaign during which he was either in battle or on long
night marches, Wiligut was promoted to lieutenant colonel
and and transferred back to Graz to organize
reinforcements for the 14th and 49th Infantry Regiments."
(Editor's Note: Graz is the boyhood home of actor Arnold
Schwarzenegger.)
       "He was then posted to the Italian front where he
held a succession of commands between June 1915 and" was
"promoted to the rank of colonel in August 1917...In May
1918, Wiligut was recalled from the front in the South
Tyrol  and placed in command of camps for returned
soldiers at Zolkiew, north of Lemberg (now Lvov--J.T.) in
the Ukraine."
       Discharged in January 1919, Wiligut brought his
family to Salzburg.  But like many Austro-Hungarian staff
officers, he felt that his country had been cheated of
victory in the war.  The empire, he felt, had been
brought down by the political intrigues of (pick one) (A)
the Vatican; (B) Freemasonry; and (C) the Jews.  What was
needed, he thought, was a new German-speaking empire.
       In 1922, the retired colonel founded his own
volkisch newspaper, Der Eiserne Besen (German for The
Iron Broom--J.T.) and began calling for a rightwing
revolt to overthrow the socialist Austrian republic.
"Matters abruptly climaxed in November 1924 when Wiligut
was involuntarily committed to the Salzburg mental
asylum, where he was certified insane and remained an
inmate until his release in early 1927."
       Wiligut's disciples--Ernst Rudiger, Friedrich
Teltscher, Friedrich Schiller and Werner von Bulow--
assisted his daughters, Gertrud and Lotte, in persuading
the Austrian courts to let him out.  Five years later, in
1932, heeding the call of "the Higher Powers," Wiligut
emigrated to Germany and settled in Bogenhausen, a suburb
of Munich.
       Shortly thereafter, another disciple, Richard
Anders, introduced the elderly sorcerer to his good
friend, Heinrich Himmler, a rising star in the NSDAP or
Nazi Party.  Himmler, who was deeply interested in German
prehistory, "was evidently impressed by Wiligut's
ancestral-clairvoyant memory and decided to exploit as
fully as possible this unique source of information on
ancient Germanic religion and traditions."
       "In September 1933, Wiligut joined the SS under the
pseudonym 'Karl Maria Weisthor.'"  Wiligut and Himmler
became fast friends.  Himmler never tired of hearing the
old man talk about "the hidden history of Atlantis," as
revealed in his visions, or reading Wiligut's endless
magazine articles on European prehistory.
       Wiligut designed the dreaded SS Totenkopf ring and
hat badge, plus the runic symbols used on black SS
uniforms and flags.  With his newest disciple, Gunther
Kirchhoff, he sent archaeological teams to investigate
prehistoric sites at Gaggenau in 1934, Germany's Murg
valley in 1936 and Glozel, France in 1940.
       Money was no obstacle.  Himmler created the SS-
Ahnenerbe in 1936, promoted his elderly mentor-in-magick
to SS-Brigadefuhrer (General), and turned him loose on
several dozen crackpot projects.  First prize undoubtedly
goes to "Wiligut's Tunnel."  This was a vertical tunnel
16 kilometers (10 miles) deep begun in Hungary in 1941,
designed to carry an elevator car that would lower
Himmler and Wiligut into "the Inner World of Agharti"
(Better known to readers of Edgar Rice Burroughs as
Pellucidar--J.T.)  Millions were spent on the tunnel, and
work continued until November 1944, when the lack of
supplies forced the SS project to close.
       But age had finally caught up with the old warlock.
He resigned from active duty in the SS in August 1939 and
moved to his "beloved Goslar" the following year.
Himmler sent Elsa Baltrusch, a member of his household
staff, to look after Wiligut, who spent his declining
years with his runes and spells and ancient artifacts.
       Evacuated to Austria in 1943, Wiligut was there when
the war ended.  He was briefly detained and questioned by
the British Army at Velden, but then was allowed to
return to Germany.  He fell ill during the trip in
December 1945.  "The journey proved too much for the old
man and he was hospitalized on arrival.  Karl Maria
Wiligut died on 3 January 1946, the last of his secret
line."  (See the book The Occult Roots of Nazism by
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, New York University Press,
1992, pages 177 to 191.)

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                  Dick Hall on Stanton T. Friedman IS Real

From: Paul Kimball <Kimballwood@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 16:40:42 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:59:51 -0500
Subject: Dick Hall on Stanton T. Friedman IS Real


Dick has kindly given me permission to post his comments to me
with respect to our documentary Stanton T. Friedman IS Real! As
no producer can resist a little good publicity (most of us can't
resist the bad stuff!)...

---

Paul,

I watched the videotape with interest, and have the following
comments (which you may quote if you wish):

Some people are put off by Stanton Friedman's outspokenness and
aggressive self-promotion. Yet, you have to admire his dogged
persistence and scientifically grounded commentaries. This film
captures both his personal and his human qualities. It
incorporates family history and photographs.

The so-called "production values" (imagery, film quality,
editing) are outstanding. Perhaps most importantly, the
basically laudatory depiction of Friedman is offset, in a fair
and balanced manner, by colleagues who disagree with him in some
instances and by skeptics. A very fair and balanced portrayal of
a major figure in UFO research.

Dick Hall

---

Coming from such a respected member of the ufological community,
I take this as far higher praise than anything the media could
dole out.

Paul Kimball
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                     Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Rudiak

From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:26:19 -0800
Fwd Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:58:10 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Rudiak


 >From: Bruce Hutchinson <bhutch@grassyhill.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:40:36 -500
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:28:52 -0800
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>From: Bruce Hutchinson <bhutch@grassyhill.com>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:59:44 -500
 >>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>Incidentally, Randle isn't the only person to spend some time
 >>with Kaufmann. It was Tom Carey and the evil Don Schmitt who
 >>spent the most time with Kaufmann toward the end. After he died,
 >>they finally got the proof that he had fabricated his documents,
 >>which was shared with CUFOS, who then shared it with Randle. (BTW
 >>the information about Kaufmann hoaxing documents was withheld,
 >>not as part of a cover-up, but out of deference to his widow, who
 >>died only a few months ago.)

 >>The document hoaxing was pretty damning, but parts of Kaufmann's
 >>story still had cross-corroboration from other independent
 >>witnesses. (And, as I noted, also the Ramey memo) That's why it
 >>remains hard to figure Kaufmann out. He was not a typical hoaxer.
 >>Even when he was dying, frail, and deathly ill, he was still
 >>going to take Carey and Schmitt out to the "true" main craft
 >>crash site. (According to Carey, they were all in the Land Rover
 >>ready to go when an unseasonable snow storm prevented the trip at
 >>the last moment.)

 >>Now ask yourself - are these the actions of an ordinary hoaxer?
 >>If you were dying of cancer and barely able to hold it in
 >>anymore, would you go traipsing off into the wilderness with some
 >>googly-eyed UFO researchers just for a prank?

 >It must be obvious to most that Frank was not an "ordinary
 >hoaxer". Ordinary Hoaxer's do not go through the trouble of
 >preparing elaborate forgeries to buttress their stories. Kevin
 >will have to elaborate on this, but it seems from reading the
 >CUFOS article that Frank planned out his revelations, and
 >prepared the documents, in advance. This way he did not fall
 >into the traps Gerald Anderson did, and having to scramble to
 >produce some sot of "proof" to back up yesterdays' lies.

And yet this carefully prepared, meticulous hoaxer left the
same forgeries behind to destroy his story after he died. He
could easily have thrown them in the trash or burned them, but
he didn't. Instead, he seemed to have deliberately set up his
own downfall.

Was this a mere oversight from somebody who otherwise was so
careful to plan out everything in advance? Or was it part of a
master plan to discredit Roswell and researchers like Kevin
Randle who bought into Kaufmann's overall story?

If Kaufmann was consistent in his M.O., then the latter theory
makes more sense. He was as careful in exposing himself as a
fraud as he was in setting himself up as pivotal, know-all
figure in the Roswell case.

 >>>It was Kevin Randle who was closest to Frank Kaufmann - he was
 >>>the guy who looked him in the eyes. Kevin also has the most to
 >>>lose - Frank's tales were the lynch-pin of "The Truth about the
 >>>'UFO Crash at Roswell'.

 >>So if Kevin can publicly say that he no longer has any
 >>confidence in _anything_ Frank had to say about the Roswell
 >>Incident, well... he is the guy in the field, the one who
 >>should know best. He has earned his position among UFO
 >>Advocates as an Authority on Roswell and Frank Kaufmann.

 >>Is this your usual appeal to authority? If a year ago I had
 >>written that Randle was the authority on Kaufmann, had looked
 >>him in the eyes and vouched for his sincerity, would that have
 >>convinced you his story was completely true? Kaufmann still
 >>remains something of an enigma, at least to some of us.

 >My point - lost as it was - is that others here on the List have
 >railed against those who do not do field research. Their message
 >is that the facts and opinions of Field Researchers must be
 >considered gospel.

Could you please point me to a statement by anybody (much less
multiple "others") that what field researchers say is "gospel?"
In case you haven't noticed, the field researchers on the List
have been busy savaging one another rather than singing "the
gospel" together in the choir.

 >But in this case, the Feild Researcher has declared that an
 >important witness was a hoaxer/liar.

And other "Field Researchers", equally familiar with Kaufmann,
aren't so sure. Mind you, these aren't people who have bought
into his story, but have had big questions about him for many
years. (People like Carey, Schmitt, and Balthauser) It has been
obvious for some time that Kaufmann was playing some sort of
game, and, in fact, said as much himself. But was it a game
strictly of his own making or did it extend beyond him?

 >Within days of this
 >revelation, attempts to salvage at least some of Frank
 >Kaufmann's story have already started.

Gee, sort of like you and Tim Printy trying to salvage Charles
Moore after Brad Sparks and I exposed his Mogul trajectory
calculation as a hoax. The difference between Moore and
Kaufmann, however, is that there isn't any ambiguity about
Moore's hoax, which is provable mathematically.

 >>If Kevin says Frank's story was a lie, why don't you believe
 >>him?

 >Which parts of his story? Some parts of his story were obvious
 >lies, other parts were not. (Why do you think Kevin Randle stuck
 >by him for so long?) The questions in my mind are what were his
 >sources of information and why did he lie?

 >The "sources" should be obvious.

Really? What were his sources that "victims" were found "IN
the disc"? (Ramey message?) Or that a "CIC/team" was
responsible for the base press release of a recovered "flying
disk." (Ramey message) Or about the crate shipment to Fort
Worth on July 9?

Maybe he was a lucky guesser, as Kevin Randle surmises. Or
maybe he kept close tabs on ongoing Roswell research and his
testimony was contaminated. Or maybe he really did have some
inside information. But where he got the various parts of his
story still is not obvious.

 >Why? How about Fame and Glory?

Is "fame and glory" sufficient motivation to go out in the field
to yet another crash site when deathly ill with cancer? Again,
think about it. Would you?

And wouldn't Kaufmann know that as soon as he died, his papers
would be gone through and the hoaxed documents exposed? You
would think to protect all his hard fought for "Fame and Glory"
he would at least destroy the clear-cut evidence of his hoaxing.
  But he left it behind. Why?

 >When Frank died, he was, at least in his mind, an Important Person.

Who would know that his "documents" would soon be exposed as
frauds, quickly destroying his "Important Personage." Thus
Kaufmann was both exceedingly clever at preparing documents in
advance to bolster his story, but also incredibly stupid in
leaving them behind to destroy his reputation after his death.
  Or was it stupidity?

 >>Hey Bruce. I consider myself an authority on Charles Moore and
 >>his model Flight #4 model trajectory. I'm telling you it's a
 >>complete lie. There isn't even any ambiguity here. The math
 >>proves it. Why won't you believe me?

 >Note that you had to modify your "proof" considerably once Tim
 >proved your initial argument was even worse math.

In case you missed it, Printy had his math arguments totally
demolished and then fled his Update's debate with me with his
tail planted firmly between his legs. (Naturally he tried to
spin his defeat even in full retreat, claiming that I had
actually demonstrated the basic validity of Moore's work--a
flagrant lie.)


 >As far as "an authority" goes... I'll leave that appellation to
 >a qualified Atmospheric Physicist.

As usual, when you have no real arguments, back to your appeal
to authority.

The accountants at Arthur Anderson were no doubt "qualified" as
well, but that didn't stop them from cooking the books on behalf
of Enron and other of their corporate client ilk. Figuring out
how they rigged the numbers doesn't suddenly make the books
balance.

Moore is a hoaxer. Unlike Kaufmann, there is no ambiguity here,
except to hypocritical, disengenuous, and/or clueless debunkers
who refuse to take on one of their own.


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                    Re: UFO Cover Up Witnesses? - Bowden

From: Tom Bowden <tomrbowden@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 16:53:36 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 17:54:37 -0500
Subject: Re: UFO Cover Up Witnesses? - Bowden


 >From: Ed Case <Case_ed@hotmail.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 05:30:54 -0800
 >Subject: UFO Cover Up Witnesses?

<snip>

 >Have any of the skeptic/debunkers ever admitted that they were
 >taking part in a dishonest effort to keep the public from
 >knowing the truth about UFOs and the UFO cover up?

I believe J. Allen Hynek describes his personal struggle with
this issue.  I think he came to recognize the dishonesty in what
the Air Force expected him to do.  I am not sure where this can
be found, but perhap in the preface or introduction to "The UFO
Experience".

If I am mistaken, then I apologize for sending you on a wild
goose chase. Maybe someone on the list can correct my
misconception.

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                    Re: Great Moments in Debunking - Hall

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 23:45:46 +0000
Fwd Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 17:52:48 -0500
Subject: Re: Great Moments in Debunking - Hall


 >From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
 >To: UFO Updates <UFOUpdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:26:32 -0700
 >Subject: Re: Great Moments in Debunking

 >Unbelievable.

 >The purpose of my original post was not to elicit a discourse on
 >whether the Earth was flat or round. It is neither. It's
 >spheroidal-like with a bulge at the equator. Nor does it make a
 >difference whether Martecord's question was phrased correctly.

 >The question asked by Martecord was rhetorical. What he was
 >saying after listening to Dr. McDonald, was that Dr. Menzel was
 >short sighted, lacked imagination and was full of proverbial
 >B.S.; that everyone in the audience knew Menzel was outclassed
 >by McDonald's rational and logical approach. In effect,
 >Martecord pulled the rug out from under Menzel and that Menzel
 >had lost the scientific debate with McDonald in the minds of the
 >audience.

 >Jeez.

 >Wendy Connors

Wendy,

Beautifully expressed, and with great restraint. And by the way,
I was [literally] there and confirm that McDonald made mincemeat
out of both Quintanilla and Menzel. Any serious scholar (as
opposed to some of the highly opinionated, factually deprived
debunkers who are so fond of quoting skeptibunker Scripture
rather than listening to rational debate) would benefit by
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                     Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle

From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 20:40:13 EST
Fwd Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 17:57:56 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle


 >From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 11:49:50 +0100
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed


 >>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 16:52:51 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:55:29 +0100
 >>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 ><snip>

 >>>I would like you to give your opinion now about the "impact
 >>>site", closer to Roswell. After the demise of both Ragsdale and
 >>>Kaufmann, what is left of it?

 >>Nothing.


 >Kevin, and all,

 >Thank you for this clear and courageous answer!

 >I would like now  to discuss a bit, if you agree, the hypothesis
 >of another site, not very far from Roswell.

Good Evening, Gildas, List, All -

Nope, I'm not going to answer any more questions until someone
answers the following, which I asked before but which was
ignored.

 >Before we start, let me ask a simple question. How many lies
 >and how many forged documents must we discover before we decide
 >that a witness is unreliable? No, I'm not referring to little
 >mistakes that are the fault of memory tricks, but of honest to
 >gosh lies and documents that were forged.


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                             Re: Paul Bennewitz?

From: Nick Redfern <Skywatcher4u@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 22:31:28 EST
Fwd Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 18:17:59 -0500
Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?


 >From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
 >Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:55:26 -0800 (PST)
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Subject: Re: Paul Bennewitz?


 >Re: my initial questions posed on here Dec. 11 about Paul
 >Bennewitz situation - many thanks to all who have responded with
 >such interesting information/opinions!

 >More on This:

<snip>

Further to this debate about Bennewitz and disinformation: I'm
hoping that when the 2 USAF guys come forward in public that all
of these questions will be answered. But there is one aspect of
the Bennewitz case that has seldom been mentioned and that has a
bearing on crashed UFOs and disinformation.

Bennewitz had been told by his USAF "informants" that the
military had shot down and recovered a UFO and that a hostile
response was expected from the aliens. This, needles to say,
didn't do anything other than make Bennewitz even more stressed
and concerned. However, this was a fake story designed - again -
  to detract him from delving into what was (in part) an
operation involving a classified AF communication system and
that he believed was involved with alien communications. But
this is not the first time that such disinformation using
crashed UFOs has occurred.

For example, take a look at the National Security Agency's
website and click on their UFO-FOIA section.

Scroll down and you will find a copy of a State Department
report forwarded to the NSA in the 1960s. It is a translation of
a Russian article titled "Flying Saucers? They're a Myth!" You
can download this in PDF.

There is a section in this article on the alleged UFO crash on
the island of Spitzbergen in 1952. However, on the NSA's copy of
this report, someone has circled the Spitzbergen section with
the word "PLANT".

Now, I have accessed this same document by FOIA from the State
Department, CIA, Army and Air Force and the "PLANT" note only
appears on the NSA copy.

This leads me to believe that someone within NSA knew that this
was a bogus and planted story and maybe, perhaps, planted by
sources attached to NSA.

Similarly, in the wake of WW2, several of Hungary's national
treasures were handed over to the US military for safekeeping
and transferred to Fort Know for safekeeping. This operation was
known as Klondike. Among the items for transfer was the crown of
St. Stephen.

The items were returned to the Hungarian Government in 1978 by
the US. However, the crucial point is that the US Army personnel
that transported the artifacts were told they were transporting
"the wings and engine of a flying saucer." This was done to mask
the truth about what was being moved.

The Bennewitz saga, the Spitzbergen report and the Klondike
operation (among others) all indicate that spurious crashed UFO
accounts have been spread by US Intelligence from the fifties
until at least the eighties.


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                   Re: Great Moments in Debunking - Young

From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 22:37:54 EST
Fwd Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 18:19:34 -0500
Subject: Re: Great Moments in Debunking - Young


 >From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
 >To: UFO Updates <UFOUpdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:26:32 -0700
 >Subject: Re: Great Moments in Debunking

<snip>

 >In effect, Martecord pulled the rug out from under Menzel and
 >that Menzel had lost the scientific debate with McDonald in
 >the minds of the audience.

Wendy:

An audience which was packed to the rafters with saucer
believers. A cheap shot like Martecord's question, itself a
piece of ignorance, got a laugh from the choir. That old Doc
Menzel may have been nonplussed by this stunt isn't exactly the
biggest news of the year.


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From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 23:01:26 EST
Fwd Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 18:21:04 -0500
Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Young


 >From: Tom Bowden <tomrbowden@yahoo.com>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:02:25 -0800 (PST)
 >Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking

<snip>

 >Bob, give me a break. Menzel knew UFOs were real. All his
 >debunking statements were part of the coverup in which he was
 >participating.

Hi, Tom:

I think that you are seriously underrating the role of belief,
and strongly held opinions, in the UFO equation.

Have you considered the possibility that old Doc Menzel, who was
after all, Director of Harvard College Observatory, and on
occasion seemed to like to throw his weight around, may actually
have believed that there were no real saucers?

By denying this skeptic even the honest possession of his own
beliefs, and insisting that The Truth is that he must be part of
The Conspiracy reveals just as much about your beliefs as it
does about his.


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                        Re: Another Approach - Young

From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 23:30:04 EST
Fwd Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 18:24:46 -0500
Subject: Re: Another Approach - Young


 >From: Tom Bowden <tomrbowden@yahoo.com>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 23:57:39 -0800 (PST)
 >Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 21:30:02 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Another Approach

<snip>

 >>2) Why have UFOlogists spun their wheels for more than 50 years
 >>with only a couple half-hearted attempts to _obtain data_? Are
 >>they afraid of something, or don't they like the idea of years
 >>and years of unrelenting boredom searching for the real saucers?

 >>Or do they already suspect the truth?

 >Now this is just too much! Many people over the last several
 >decades have spent many thousands of hours, mostly on their own
 >time, trying to obtain data. What you are referring to as "half-
 >hearted attempts" for some have been a lifelong passion and
 >avocation. Many have sacrificed careers and marriages to the
 >cause.

Tom,

I agree, there certainly are many enthusiasts.

 >I reiterate the often echoed plea: To obtain data requires the
 >means to set up a bona-fide research project; to set up such a
 >project requires funds for equipment and dedicated staffing, and
 >it also requires enough recognition from scientists in multiple
 >disciplines so that a healthy, unprejudiced exchange of data can
 >take place.

Can you list the efforts made over the past 50 years by Ufology
to obtain funding for such a serious effort?

As opposed to, say, efforts to obtain funding for one's books?

Everytime SETI is mentioned, many (but not all) UFOlogists
attack it. I suppose this may happen with any serious attempt to
obtain data. I wonder why there is far more effort to stop such
a search than there is to put UFOlogy on a sound footing?

Makes me wonder.


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From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 23:36:06 EST
Fwd Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 19:10:22 -0500
Subject: Re: Another Approach - Young


 >From: Paul Kimball <Kimballwood@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:05:56 EST
 >Subject: Re: Another Approach

<snip>

 >I would suggest that the second greatest mystery in ufology is
 >why the skeptics continue to ignore or dismiss the data that has
 >been collected, including the tremendous body of credible
 >eyewitness testimony?

Paul:

And I would add a corollary to it: Why after 55 years is there
no physical proof of the existance of saucers, but only
unsupported eyewitness testimony?  What might this imply?


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                     Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Gates

From: Robert Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 00:52:14 EST
Fwd Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 19:13:47 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Gates


 >From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:26:19 -0800
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: Bruce Hutchinson <bhutch@grassyhill.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:40:36 -500
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:28:52 -0800
 >>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>>From: Bruce Hutchinson <bhutch@grassyhill.com>
 >>>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:59:44 -500
 >>>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>Incidentally, Randle isn't the only person to spend some time
 >>>with Kaufmann. It was Tom Carey and the evil Don Schmitt who
 >>>spent the most time with Kaufmann toward the end. After he died,
 >>>they finally got the proof that he had fabricated his documents,
 >>>which was shared with CUFOS, who then shared it with Randle. (BTW
 >>>the information about Kaufmann hoaxing documents was withheld,
 >>>not as part of a cover-up, but out of deference to his widow, who
 >>>died only a few months ago.)

 >>>The document hoaxing was pretty damning, but parts of Kaufmann's
 >>>story still had cross-corroboration from other independent
 >>>witnesses. (And, as I noted, also the Ramey memo) That's why it
 >>>remains hard to figure Kaufmann out. He was not a typical hoaxer.
 >>>Even when he was dying, frail, and deathly ill, he was still
 >>>going to take Carey and Schmitt out to the "true" main craft
 >>>crash site. (According to Carey, they were all in the Land Rover
 >>>ready to go when an unseasonable snow storm prevented the trip at
 >>>the last moment.)

 >>>Now ask yourself - are these the actions of an ordinary hoaxer?
 >>>If you were dying of cancer and barely able to hold it in
 >>>anymore, would you go traipsing off into the wilderness with some
 >>>googly-eyed UFO researchers just for a prank?

 >>It must be obvious to most that Frank was not an "ordinary
 >>hoaxer". Ordinary Hoaxer's do not go through the trouble of
 >>preparing elaborate forgeries to buttress their stories. Kevin
 >>will have to elaborate on this, but it seems from reading the
 >>CUFOS article that Frank planned out his revelations, and
 >>prepared the documents, in advance. This way he did not fall
 >>into the traps Gerald Anderson did, and having to scramble to
 >>produce some sot of "proof" to back up yesterdays' lies.

 >And yet this carefully prepared, meticulous hoaxer left the
 >same forgeries behind to destroy his story after he died. He
 >could easily have thrown them in the trash or burned them, but
 >he didn't. Instead, he seemed to have deliberately set up his
 >own downfall.

I agree with David on this one. He apparently had time to go out
to some location, but didn't have time to burn/destroy documents
in his own possession.

 >Was this a mere oversight from somebody who otherwise was so
 >careful to plan out everything in advance? Or was it part of a
 >master plan to discredit Roswell and researchers like Kevin
 >Randle who bought into Kaufmann's overall story?

 >If Kaufmann was consistent in his M.O., then the latter theory
 >makes more sense. He was as careful in exposing himself as a
 >fraud as he was in setting himself up as pivotal, know-all
 >figure in the Roswell case.

Did anyone actually ask the widow to view his tax returns and
see what his actual sources of income was? If the suggestion is
that he was some kind of person working for somebody else/ gov
agency, it is very likely this would show up on his tax return.

 >>>>It was Kevin Randle who was closest to Frank Kaufmann - he was
 >>>>the guy who looked him in the eyes. Kevin also has the most to
 >>>>lose - Frank's tales were the lynch-pin of "The Truth about the
 >>>>'UFO Crash at Roswell'.

 >>>So if Kevin can publicly say that he no longer has any
 >>>confidence in _anything_ Frank had to say about the Roswell
 >>>Incident, well... he is the guy in the field, the one who
 >>>should know best. He has earned his position among UFO
 >>>Advocates as an Authority on Roswell and Frank Kaufmann.

 >>>Is this your usual appeal to authority? If a year ago I had
 >>>written that Randle was the authority on Kaufmann, had looked
 >>>him in the eyes and vouched for his sincerity, would that have
 >>>convinced you his story was completely true? Kaufmann still
 >>>remains something of an enigma, at least to some of us.

 >>My point - lost as it was - is that others here on the List have
 >>railed against those who do not do field research. Their message
 >>is that the facts and opinions of Field Researchers must be
 >>considered gospel.

Skeptics are the only ones who preach a gospel. I would suggest
there are very, very, very few instances were one skeptic
critically examines the theories, notions, and ideas peddled by
some other skeptic. Point seems to be that if any skeptical
explanation is tossed out, none of the other skeptics challenge
or debate it, while the UFO researchers are more honest and will
challenge and debate what comes from within.

 >Could you please point me to a statement by anybody (much less
 >multiple "others") that what field researchers say is "gospel?"
 >In case you haven't noticed, the field researchers on the List
 >have been busy savaging one another rather than singing "the
 >gospel" together in the choir.

My point exactly. The UFO researchers openly debate theories and
ideas, while skeptics rarely do that. For example what skeptic
ever challenged the Pelican theory?

 >>But in this case, the Field Researcher has declared that an
 >>important witness was a hoaxer/liar.

 >And other "Field Researchers", equally familiar with Kaufmann,
 >aren't so sure. Mind you, these aren't people who have bought
 >into his story, but have had big questions about him for many
 >years. (People like Carey, Schmitt, and Balthauser) It has been
 >obvious for some time that Kaufmann was playing some sort of
 >game, and, in fact, said as much himself. But was it a game
 >strictly of his own making or did it extend beyond him?

According to Stan Friedman Kaufmann admitted to him in 99 or
2000 that the story he was telling was not correct.

 >>Within days of this
 >>revelation, attempts to salvage at least some of Frank
 >>Kaufmann's story have already started.

 >Gee, sort of like you and Tim Printy trying to salvage Charles
 >Moore after Brad Sparks and I exposed his Mogul trajectory
 >calculation as a hoax. The difference between Moore and
 >Kaufmann, however, is that there isn't any ambiguity about
 >Moore's hoax, which is provable mathematically.

My favorite bit of blather (don't recall who did) was the
individual who essentially pronounced that because they figured
out how Moore came up with the calculations, somehow they were
correct. As I have pointed out elsewhere just because you can
figure out how a person came up with the theory/idea/notion that
2 plus 2 equals 6 doesn't mean the answer is 6.

 >>>If Kevin says Frank's story was a lie, why don't you believe
 >>>him?

 >>Which parts of his story? Some parts of his story were obvious
 >>lies, other parts were not. (Why do you think Kevin Randle stuck
 >>by him for so long?) The questions in my mind are what were his
 >>sources of information and why did he lie?

 >>The "sources" should be obvious.

 >Really? What were his sources that "victims" were found "IN
 >the disc"? (Ramey message?) Or that a "CIC/team" was
 >responsible for the base press release of a recovered "flying
 >disk." (Ramey message) Or about the crate shipment to Fort
 >Worth on July 9?

 >Maybe he was a lucky guesser, as Kevin Randle surmises. Or
 >maybe he kept close tabs on ongoing Roswell research and his
 >testimony was contaminated. Or maybe he really did have some
 >inside information. But where he got the various parts of his
 >story still is not obvious.

Perhaps I missed something but the core Kaufmann tale has been
around for sometime before Kaufmann.

 >>Why? How about Fame and Glory?

 >Is "fame and glory" sufficient motivation to go out in the field
 >to yet another crash site when deathly ill with cancer? Again,
 >think about it. Would you?

That truly is a puzzle. Which crash site did he go out to?

 >And wouldn't Kaufmann know that as soon as he died, his papers
 >would be gone through and the hoaxed documents exposed? You
 >would think to protect all his hard fought for "Fame and Glory"
 >he would at least destroy the clear-cut evidence of his hoaxing.
 > But he left it behind. Why?

One would assume that he would fully know that the documents he
created would be found after his death.

 >>When Frank died, he was, at least in his mind, an Important Person.

 >Who would know that his "documents" would soon be exposed as
 >frauds, quickly destroying his "Important Personage." Thus
 >Kaufmann was both exceedingly clever at preparing documents in
 >advance to bolster his story, but also incredibly stupid in
 >leaving them behind to destroy his reputation after his death.
 >Or was it stupidity?

 >>>Hey Bruce. I consider myself an authority on Charles Moore and
 >>>his model Flight #4 model trajectory. I'm telling you it's a
 >>>complete lie. There isn't even any ambiguity here. The math
 >>>proves it. Why won't you believe me?

 >>Note that you had to modify your "proof" considerably once Tim
 >>proved your initial argument was even worse math.

 >In case you missed it, Printy had his math arguments totally
 >demolished and then fled his Update's debate with me with his
 >tail planted firmly between his legs. (Naturally he tried to
 >spin his defeat even in full retreat, claiming that I had
 >actually demonstrated the basic validity of Moore's work--a
 >flagrant lie.)

The bottom line is that David has proven the math is bogus and
it really doesn't matter how the 2 plus 2 added up to 6. In
essence Moore's calculations apparently have made the Jewel
encrusted helmet/Kaufmann file.


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                      Re: Robert Todd & Roswell - Gates

From: Robert Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 01:10:52 EST
Fwd Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 19:15:56 -0500
Subject: Re: Robert Todd & Roswell - Gates


 >From: Bruce Hutchinson <bhutch@grassyhill.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:56:47 -500
 >Subject: Robert Todd & Roswell


 >I am sure that many Listerians are familiar with the
 >investigative work and research published by Robert Todd. While
 >that name may be reviled by some, his work on the Roswell Saga
 >cannot be underestimated.

As I recall vile and profane are the key words.

 >Robert's investigations included uncovering the Mogul solution,
 >the release of Maj. Jessie Marcel's military records, and the
 >revelation of the Schulgen Memo forgery.

Keep in mind that Mogul ended up not being a "solution." At the
very, very best it ended up being 17 miles short. But after
further investigation into the math Moore used to calculate, we
find all the presumptions, assumptions and bogus math which led
to the Moore's Mogul math calculations. As I recall somebody
started blathering about how they discovered how Moore
calculated the math...as if that made it correct. Kind of like
saying "Ah, I understand the rational of how a person adds 2
plus 2 and they ended up with 6, even though the correct answer
is 4.

The skeptibunkers are gullible believers if they keep buying
into the Mogul theory.

As I recall (not sure of this) the forgery Schulgen memo floated
up or leaked through Bill 'I am part of a government
disinformation plot against UFO researchers' Moore.

The problem with the real Schulgen/Twining memo is the level of
classification they were written at...Secret as I recall which
tells anybody knowledgeable about the classification system that
information of a higher classification could not, nor would not
be included in the letter at a lower classification.


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                             Beyond Competition

From: Philip Mantle <philipmantle@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 14:22:52 -0000
Fwd Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 19:17:22 -0500
Subject: Beyond Competition


Don't forget, there's still time to win copies of 'Awakening' by
Mary Rodwell, and 'Without Consent' by Carl Nagaitis and Philip
Mantle. The competition runs on the BEYOND web site
(www.beyondpublications.com) until the end of December.

All the very best and a happy holiday to one and all.


Philip Mantle
www.alienportraits.co.uk







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                     Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle

From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 09:46:27 EST
Fwd Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 19:19:24 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle


 >From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:26:19 -0800
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: Bruce Hutchinson <bhutch@grassyhill.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:40:36 -500
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:28:52 -0800
 >>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>>From: Bruce Hutchinson <bhutch@grassyhill.com>
 >>>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:59:44 -500
 >>>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed


Good Morning Dave, Bruce, List, All -

<snip>

 >>It must be obvious to most that Frank was not an "ordinary
 >>hoaxer". Ordinary Hoaxer's do not go through the trouble of
 >>preparing elaborate forgeries to buttress their stories. Kevin
 >>will have to elaborate on this, but it seems from reading the
 >>CUFOS article that Frank planned out his revelations, and
 >>prepared the documents, in advance. This way he did not fall
 >>into the traps Gerald Anderson did, and having to scramble to
 >>produce some sot of "proof" to back up yesterdays' lies.

 >And yet this carefully prepared, meticulous hoaxer left the
 >same forgeries behind to destroy his story after he died. He
 >could easily have thrown them in the trash or burned them, but
 >he didn't. Instead, he seemed to have deliberately set up his
 >own downfall.

Because, like Gerald Anderson, he never expected us to find all
the documents. He expected them to be destroyed so that they
wouldn't expose him later. Anderson sent a forged copy of his
telephone bill to John Carpenter, never expecting Carpenter
would send it on to me, or that I would be able to get a copy of
the original bill from the telephone company to prove that he
had forged the copy he sent to Carpenter. Kaufmann never
expected us to see the forgeries he created, nor have the
original documents for comparison.

 >Was this a mere oversight from somebody who otherwise was so
 >careful to plan out everything in advance? Or was it part of a
 >master plan to discredit Roswell and researchers like Kevin
 >Randle who bought into Kaufmann's overall story?

It was simply mere oversight because he couldn't predict the
future.

<snip>

 >And other "Field Researchers", equally familiar with Kaufmann,

 >aren't so sure. Mind you, these aren't people who have bought
 >into his story, but have had big questions about him for many
 >years. (People like Carey, Schmitt, and Balthauser) It has been
 >obvious for some time that Kaufmann was playing some sort of
 >game, and, in fact, said as much himself. But was it a game
 >strictly of his own making or did it extend beyond him?

Would this be the same Don Schmitt who told me that Kaufmann had
been a colonel?

Yes, he was playing a game, but it was one of his own invention
and had nothing to do with inside knowledge or overtones of
control from on high. Kaufmann was making it up as he went
along, making a few bucks doing so, and having a good time.

<snip>

 >>>If Kevin says Frank's story was a lie, why don't you believe
 >>>him?

 >>Which parts of his story? Some parts of his story were obvious
 >>lies, other parts were not. (Why do you think Kevin Randle stuck
 >>by him for so long?) The questions in my mind are what were his
 >>sources of information and why did he lie?

Well, clearly Kaufmann was telling some truth, but that truth
came from watching Roswell documentaries, reading Roswell books
and articles and not from any inside knowledge. I stuck by
Kaufmann because there seemed to be subtle corroboration for his
story that indicated to me that he knew some things... I now
believe that those were just serendipitous coincidence rather
than inside knowledge.

But let me ask this. How many lies does he get to tell and how
many documents does he get to forge before we all realize that
his stories were nothing more than that? Just stories.

<snip>

 >>Why? How about Fame and Glory?

 >Is "fame and glory" sufficient motivation to go out in the field
 >to yet another crash site when deathly ill with cancer? Again,
 >think about it. Would you?

Absolutely. Fame and glory, or a seeking of the spotlight is a
very powerful incentive.

And I watched a very nasty fight between my stepfather and my
mother when he was deathly ill with cancer because he thought he
could drive himself into town even when there were any number of
us who were standing right there to do it. It says something
about the psychology of the situation and a desire to return to
more normal times and little else.

 >And wouldn't Kaufmann know that as soon as he died, his papers
 >would be gone through and the hoaxed documents exposed? You
 >would think to protect all his hard fought for "Fame and Glory"
 >he would at least destroy the clear-cut evidence of his hoaxing.
 >But he left it behind. Why?

Because he believed those going through the papers would never
understand the significance of them to the rest of us. He
believed those papers would not see the light of day.

And have you ever had the unpleasant task of sorting through the
debris after the death of a close relative. It is always a mess
and there is so much of it that such things, that might have no
importance to the family, are simply overlooked.

 >>When Frank died, he was, at least in his mind, an Important Person.

 >Who would know that his "documents" would soon be exposed as
 >frauds, quickly destroying his "Important Personage." Thus
 >Kaufmann was both exceedingly clever at preparing documents in
 >advance to bolster his story, but also incredibly stupid in
 >leaving them behind to destroy his reputation after his death.
 >Or was it stupidity?

Of course it wasn't stupidity. He just couldn't predict the future.

<snip>

 >Moore is a hoaxer. Unlike Kaufmann, there is no ambiguity here,
 >except to hypocritical, disengenuous, and/or clueless debunkers
 >who refuse to take on one of their own.


There is no ambiguity here. Kaufmann clearly was not who he
claimed to be. The documents prove it. He wasn't a colonel as
Don Schmitt once claimed, nor was he a master sergeant as he
claimed. He wasn't on the inside of the great cover up, the
people he named were all found on other lists that had nothing
to do with UFOs or Roswell, and the proof he claimed he had to
substantiate his story were forgeries that he created himself.

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                  Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Gonzalez

From: Luis R. Gonzalez <lrgm@arrakis.es>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 18:53:19 +0100
Fwd Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 19:20:42 -0500
Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case - Gonzalez


 >From: Todd Lemire <tlemire@comcast.net>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 21:47:35 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Defining An Abduction Case

 >How would something like Dan Wright's "Abduction Transcription
 >Project" fit into this line of research or would it? This
 >particular project had "The Master Transcript Index" which was
 >an alphabetical, cross-referenced listing of approximately two
 >thousand words and phrases uttered verbatim by the subjects on
 >tape in describing their experiences. "The Root Factor Index"
 >divides the aforementioned terms into 54 topics in order to
 >group similar event characteristics - entity appearance,
 >behaviors, procedures and communications; the ships outward
 >appearance,

In one of my very first post to this List,

Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 10:28:03 +0200

I wrote,

 >I prepared a long and detailed questionnaire inquiring about the
 >Project, his conclusions and his two MUFON Proceedings' papers
 >etc. and asked for a copy of those final products for our
 >Spanish UFO research foundation (www.anomalia.org) even offering
 >to pay any reasonable price.

 >"After further consideration, I have decided not to convey
 >further information about the abduction-related project I
 >managed."

<snip>

 >I naively stressed that I did not want any debate, just the raw
 >information to reach my own conclusions, but it seems that I am
 >too skeptical for him.

 >The point is that a painstaking work is being kept under wraps,
 >and nobody (except MUFON members) can access it. MUFON has the
 >right to benefit of its efforts, but the information should be
 >freely shared (at least among serious researchers... as I
 >considered myself :-))

So, if any of you is more lucky (or less skeptical to him) and
do get the mentioned material we would appreciate your sharing
it.


Yours,

Luis R. Gonzalez Manso








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                     Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Rudiak

From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:24:25 -0800
Fwd Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 19:24:02 -0500
Subject: Re:  Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Rudiak


 >From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
 >Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:53:09 EST
 >Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 22:15:30 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle

 >>From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:28:52 -0800
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

<snip>

 >>Incidentally, Randle isn't the only person to spend some time
 >>with Kaufmann. It was Tom Carey and the evil Don Schmitt who
 >>spent the most time with Kaufmann toward the end. After he died,
 >>they finally got the proof that he had fabricated his documents,
 >>which was shared with CUFOS, who then shared it with Randle.
 >>(BTW the information about Kaufmann hoaxing documents was
 >>withheld, not as part of a cover-up, but out of deference to his
 >>widow, who died only a few months ago.)

<snip>

 >Just to set the record straight, it was not CUFOS who introduced
 >me to the fabricated documents. Yes, I know that there are some
 >who believe that CUFOS is filled with unethical and deceitful
 >people who delight in giving away secrets, but I have learned
 >this is not the case. Just ask yourself where all those stories
 >come from and then ask yourself why we should believe him?

Kevin,

Just to straighten the record even further, perhaps you should
tell us just who did introduce you to the documents. And then to
get it really straight, where did they get the documents?
Chances are, this will all eventually trace back to CUFOS one
way or another, regardless if you got the documents directly
from CUFOS or not.

In the end, it was both you and Mark Rodeghier, director of
CUFOS, who wrote the recent expose of Kaufmann, found at the
CUFOS website.

http://www.cufos.org/FrankKaufmannExposed.pdf

In the section by Rodeghier, he writes, "Recently I was able to
visit Roswell along with two colleagues and meet with Juanita
Kaufmann, Frank's widow. She allowed us access to her husband's
office and papers, for which we are very grateful."

What got left out of the story here, according to recent e-mail
I have had with Tom Carey and Don Schmitt, was that one of those
unnamed Rodeghier colleagues was Don Schmitt.

Schmitt and Carey had carefully nurtured a relationship with
Kaufmann and his family over a period of years and were the
one's granted access to his office and papers after his death.

When I was in Roswell in August of 2001, by chance I was there
simultaneously as Don Schmitt. Schmitt told me at that time that
it didn't look good for Kaufmann's documents, that he had
probably hoaxed all of them, and the typewriter that he had done
it with was in his personal effects. I was also told this
information was going to be withheld until after Juanita
Kaufmann's death out of respect to her.

I treated this as privileged information and sat on it for over
a year. I am not even going to question whether CUFOS and you
should have been the ones to first blow the whistle. But both
you and Rodeghier should have at least acknowledged Don Schmitt
and Tom Carey's crucial role in digging out this information.
Instead they got written completely out of the picture. Schmitt
at best became an anonymous "colleague" in Rodeghier's article,
and unless one knew better, played no role at all in Rodeghier's
research or uncovering Kaufmann's document hoaxing.


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                          Secrecy News -- 12/18/02

From: Steven Aftergood <saftergood@fas.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:21:20 -0500
Fwd Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 19:27:12 -0500
Subject: Secrecy News -- 12/18/02


SECRECY NEWS
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2002, Issue No. 124
December 18, 2002


**      SECRET LAUNDRY MANUALS REVEAL INFO POLICY DEFECTS
**      STATE DEPARTMENT HISTORY NEWS
**      MORE ON TOTAL INFORMATION AWARENESS
**      SECRECY IN THE NEWS


SECRET LAUNDRY MANUALS REVEAL INFO POLICY DEFECTS

Unauthorized disclosures of purportedly restricted technical
information about Navy laundry machines show that the Department
of Defense indiscriminately applies access controls to
unclassified information, improperly withholding such
information from the public, and that no oversight mechanism is
in place to correct the problem.

Under the Arms Export Control Act, the Export Administration
Act, and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR),
the Defense Department is authorized to designate information as
export- controlled "technical data" that is exempt from public
disclosure. Anyone who discloses such data is subject to "severe
criminal penalties" including fines and imprisonment.

But several documents containing restricted "technical data"
have nevertheless been disclosed, and they cast a harsh light on
the arbitrariness of Pentagon information policy.

Francois Boo, a researcher at GlobalSecurity.org, spotted an
utterly mundane Service Manual for a laundry dryer machine, of
all things, on the web site of the Navy Exchange Service
Command. Published by the Naval Ships System Command, the cover
sheet warns that it contains export-controlled "technical data"
and should be destroyed "by any method that will prevent
disclosure of contents or reconstruction of the document." See
the full document here:

http://www.navy-nex.com/ship_stores_CD/PDF/Laundry/MAN434.PDF

Other manuals containing restricted technical data on "laundry
and dry cleaning" and "washer extractors," likewise found by the
eagle- eyed M. Boo and also bearing fearsome legal warnings
against disclosure, are available here:

http://www.navy-nex.com/ship_stores_CD/PDF/Laundry/150.pdf

http://www.navy-nex.com/ship_stores_CD/PDF/Laundry/60.pdf

http://www.navy-nex.com/ship_stores_CD/PDF/Laundry/ch655.pdf

One might ask, what difference does it make if Navy washing
machine service manuals are withheld from the public (albeit
unsuccessfully), particularly if comparable or superior
technical information is available elsewhere?

There are at least two answers.

One is that as a matter of principle no government information
should be withheld from the public without a legitimate reason,
such as national security, personal privacy, or (genuine) export
control concerns. That is the nature of an open society.

The other answer is that if Pentagon officials are able to
arbitrarily designate benign, unclassified information as
restricted "technical data" even when it serves no purpose to do
so, then they will not refrain from withholding additional
information when it serves their political or institutional
interests.

Yet there is apparently no effective system of checks and
balances in place to curb excesses or correct violations. This
is an especially important defect at a time when the Bush
Administration is fleshing out the new information control
category "sensitive but unclassified" (also termed "sensitive
homeland security information").

"The rules regarding 'technical data' are particularly difficult
to understand," according to a 1996 National Academy of Sciences
report dealing with cryptography policy ("Cryptography's Role in
Securing the Information Society," pp. 159-160).

"In practice, these and other similar issues regarding technical
data do not generally pose problems because these laws are for
the most part difficult to enforce and in fact are not generally
enforced," the report continued.

(Thus, there is little likelihood that the U.S. Navy officials
who illegally posted the restricted laundry manuals on the web
will be prosecuted, much less sent to jail.)

"Nevertheless, the vagueness and broad nature of the regulations
may well put people in jeopardy unknowingly," according to the
NAS.


STATE DEPARTMENT HISTORY NEWS

The U.S. Department of State has just published the most recent
volume of its official Foreign Relations of the United States
(FRUS) series.

The full text of "Foreign Relations, 1969-1976: Foreign
Assistance, International Development, Trade Policies, 1969-
1972" is posted here:

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/nixon/iv/

U.S. and Russian officials met in Washington last week to
discuss a joint historical project to document Soviet-American
relations during the years 1969-1976, according to a December 13
press release. See:

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2002/15936.htm


MORE ON TOTAL INFORMATION AWARENESS

The status and direction of DARPA's controversial Total Information
Awareness program are critically assessed in a new report from the
Center for Public Integrity.

See "Outsourcing Big Brother: Office of Total Information
Awareness Relies on Private Sector to Track Americans" by Adam
Mayle and Alex Knott:

http://www.public-i.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=484

("If the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Total
Information Awareness initiative reminded you of George Orwell's
'1984'," wrote David C. Morrison on Congressional Quarterly's
Homeland Security website yesterday, then "its new Odortype
Protection Program [to identify individuals by their scent]
might make you think more of 'Animal Farm'." Wish I'd written
that.)

Efforts by the Electronic Privacy Information Center to compel
DARPA to disgorge information about TIA are described in
"Privacy group sues Pentagon for documents on 'total
information' project" by Shane Harris, Government Executive
Daily Briefing, December 17:

http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1202/121702h1.htm


SECRECY IN THE NEWS

White House moves to privatize the publication of government
documents could disrupt regular public access to records, warn
librarians and openness advocates.

See "E-Gov Law Sets Up Clash Over White House Outsourcing Plan,"
by Brian Krebs, Washingtonpost.com, December 17:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1371-2002Dec17.html

Confronted by onerous regulations intended to improve the
security of hazardous biological agents, university laboratories
around the country are instead destroying their inventories of
these substances at an untold cost to scientific research.

See "After 9/11, Universities are Destroying Biological Agents,"
by Diana Jean Schemo, New York Times, December 17:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/17/health/17LAB.html

"Watchdog groups continue attempts to penetrate the inner
sanctum of the executive branch using the Freedom of Information
Act and other open government laws," writes Vanessa Blum in
Legal Times. "Now, more pressure will be put on these suits to
wrangle information from a reluctant administration."

See "Secrecy Fights Loom Large in D.C.," December 18:

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1039054459282


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                                Putin & UFOs

From: Nikolay V. Subbotin <Nikolay.Subbotin@psu.ru>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 00:15:10 +0500
Fwd Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 19:30:28 -0500
Subject: Putin & UFOs


On Thursday of December 19, 2002 at 12.00 Moscow time in a
direct Aether "The First Channel ", telechannel "Russia", radio
stations "Beacon" and "Russian Radio" the Chief Of State V. V.
Putin will answer problems of the citizens of Russia. Perm
ufologiests and public organization RUFORS, basing in Perm, have
formed "package" ("packet") of problems, which one till now
manage the party by military and government departments of
Russian Federation.

Open Letter

Dear Mr. President!

In many countries for last years the heightened interest of a
public to a problem of so-called "flying saucers" is watched, in
light of the spent governmental programs there is a
declassification and promulgation before the secret documents
verifying the facts of availability on the Earth of unknowns of
vehicles and technologies. Whether it is possible to light an
official position of Russia on the given problem? Whether there
is a similar activity in ours ???????? (declassification of the
documents), whether the familiarization of a public with
outcomes of military exploration programs of a type "Setka-AN",
"Setka-MO", "Horizon" and other is planned(glided)?


Yours faithfully,

Nickolay Subbotin

The chief of a public organization RUFORS
http://ufo.psu.ru
http://rufon.r2.ru
Russia, 614010, Perm, P.O.Box 5172
E-mail: Nikolay.Subbotin@psu.ru
Mobil phone.: 8-90247-54805
ICQ: 7227013

Ufologiests hope to receive by a straight line the answer of the
President, which one will help in further researches both
association of efforts of civil and state frames in problems of
analysis of a problem of UFO.







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             Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or Fact?'

From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 15:47:23 -0500
Fwd Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 19:33:08 -0500
Subject: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or Fact?'


I can't believe the times they've chosen to air this, and missed
the premiere because there was no promotion of it that I had
seen.

See: http://www.scifi.com/symposium/

What:

An hour-long compilation of highlights from the two recent
groundbreaking SCI-FI Channel-sponsored symposiums on the UFO
phenomenon.

When:

Premiered Friday, December 13, at 3:00am E/P
Sunday, December 22, at 2:00am E/P
Friday, December 27, at 7:00am E/P
Saturday, December 28, at 5:00am E/P

Part One:

On November 8, 2002, SCI FI assembled eminent scientists and
aviation experts for an historic meeting in Washington, D.C., at
George Washington University. Highlights of this unique
symposium, moderated by Ray Suarez, senior correspondent, The
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, include a discussion of the potential
for interstellar travel and the evidence of unidentified aerial
phenomena, sometimes referred to as UFOs. Participants included
Dr. Michio Kaku, Dr. Richard Henry, Dr. Peter Sturrock, Dr.
Jacques Vallee, Dr. Bernard Haisch, Ted Roe and John Callahan.

Part Two:

On November 19, 2002, at New York's Regency Hotel, SCI FI
gathered the world's foremost UFO-abduction experts for the first
time to present the facts and theories behind the fiction depicted
in Steven Spielberg's recent mega-miniseries TAKEN. Moderated by
veteran network journalist Morton Dean, this extraordinary
symposium brought together Budd Hopkins, Dr. John E. Mack and Dr.
David M. Jacobs, three of the world's most highly regarded and
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                         Filer's Files # 51 -- 2002

From: George A. Filer <Majorstar@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 16:56:07 EST
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Subject: Filer's Files # 51 -- 2002


FILER'S FILES #51 -- 2002, MUFON Skywatch Investigations
George A. Filer, Director Mutual UFO Network Eastern
December 18, 2002,  Majorstar@aol.com
Webmaster: ChuckWarren
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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR AS SIGHTINGS SUDDENLY
INCREASE

The purpose of these files is to report the UFO eyewitness and
photo/video evidence that occurs on a daily basis around the
world and in space. features this week are: a view of the world
(cosmos) at Christmas, Pennsylvania egg like spheres, Maryland
UFO five times bigger than the moon, Washington DC F-16s
scrambled after intruders, Virginia UFO video investigation,
North Carolina egg like unidentified flying objects, Georgia
MUFON report, Florida stars dance across the sky, Ohio chevron,
Colorado large flying triangle, Washington dogs go crazy over
huge craft, California strange craft over bay, Mexico yacht has
flyover, Venezuela UFO wave, United Kingdom sightings, Australia
metallic sphere traveling at great speed.

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A VIEW OF THE WORLD (COSMOS) AT CHRISTMAS

UFOs continue to be sighted in unusually large numbers
indicating the world is under scrutiny by watchers, guardians,
tricksters, angels, extraterrestrials, or who ever they are. My
research has indicated there are various groups of aliens with
different intentions, their motivations may be very different
and they often appear to be fighting one another. Most religions
of the world agree in the concept of Sons of Light and Sons of
Darkness, good angels and evil ones, good aliens and bad. It is
my opinion the ancient writings give us an excellent
understanding of our visitors. Their visits have often been
interpreted in religious terms, but the data is essentially
truthful and often the best we have.

Perhaps it would be useful at this time of year to step back and
look at our world through alien eyes. It is quite possible that
our wars and crime are considered a serious threat to other life
forms. A case can be made that they sent messengers to help
establish a peaceful humanity by providing a moral code to live
by that has its basis in the Ten Commandments, that we should
love one another. The foundations of western culture are both
Judaism and Christianity while Islam is prominent in many other
parts of the world. Islam believes in essentially the same Ten
Commandments and all the great prophets of Judaism and
Christianity. Islam honor's Christ, as second only to the
Prophet Mohammed himself.

During the last decade the world has changed a great deal as the
West triumphed in the Cold War and Communist countries changed
their governments and scientific atheism was essentially
defeated by Christian cultures. Most Communist countries are now
allowing freedom of religion. China and Cuba remain Communist,
but are changing as well. The very foundations of the Roman
Catholic Church are being cleansed with the removal of many
priests and bishops. A war is likely to occur in Iraq and the
threat from nuclear biological or chemical terrorism grows. The
US and Russia are building a space station and our satellites
are being sent out to Mars and other planets. A joint Russo -
Ukrainian space agency will launch a series of spacecraft for
the Moon's exploration and landings next year. China is ready to
launch men into space. Heavy fighting continues in Afghanistan,
Israel, Palestine and various other hot spots. Pakistan and
India have set off nuclear weapons. Terrorists are blowing up
buildings and killing people around the world. Many cities
around the world even without the threat of terror are dangerous
to live in due to the high crime, drugs and shootings.

Anyone watching Earth, could easily come to the conclusion Earth
is a very dangerous place and humans should not be allowed to
venture into the Cosmos. To some extent we are involved in a
religious war. Certain elements claiming to be strong Islamic
Fundamentalists have chosen to declare a Holy War against
Christian countries using terrorism. They point to western
aggression and the Crusades as evidence of western aggression
with more recent attacks on Iraq and Palestine.

According to the Bible which is the foundation of Western
Culture angelic messengers were sent to provide humans with a
morale code that would allow us to live peacefully in the
Cosmos. The Ten Commandments and other religious teachings all
provide laws that if followed would allow humankind to join the
other intelligent civilizations in the universe. The Bible
provides some amazing concepts of a world view. The God of the
Bible is the God of the Cosmos located in the Andromeda Galaxy,
Creator, and supreme ruler of the heavens and the Earth. The
Bible, Torah and Koran informs us messengers or angels have been
sent on a regular basis to provide us with teachings. No where
in the Bible is life, limited to this Earth, in fact it speaks
of cities, armies, animals, houses, horses, and the like in
heaven. It strongly implies there is extraterrestrial life in
the Cosmos. Hebrews 1 states, "God who at sundry times and in
divers manners spoke in times past unto the fathers by the
prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son,
whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made
the worlds."

If intelligent life was found today on Mars, people could simply
dust off their Bible and point out many passages, that clearly
point to extraterrestrial visits such as the wheel like
spaceship that landed near Ezekiel. In some cases we may have to
go back to the original Greek meaning of words because
throughout the Bible the Greek word Kosmos has been changed to
world during translation. Kosmos means the Cosmos or universe
just like it does today and is used 169 times in the Bible. It
is obvious that the watchers are aware of the threat we present
to the Cosmos.

We celebrate Christmas because, "For God so loved the world
(Cosmos) that he gave his one and only son, that whoever
believes in him should not perish but have eternal life" (John
3:16) Jesus last words were "Go into all the world (Cosmos) and
preach the Good News to everyone, everywhere." After the Lord
Jesus had spoken to them he was taken up into heaven and he sat
at the right hand of God. (Mark 16:15&19) The Great Commission
of Christianity is not only to spread the gospel throughout the
world, but to spread the gospel throughout the Cosmos. Does our
Christian President have a plan to fulfill prophecy of the
Bible? My hope is that there can be peace on Earth. Then this
Biblical mission can be carried out. The final promise of the
Bible is: "And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a
cloud with power and great glory."

WEATHER UPDATE: The sun is currently experiencing a M-Class
Flares with increased sunpot activity likely, that will probably
result in "extreme weather" on Earth.

BUSH ORDERS MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM DEPLOYED

An unarmed Minuteman II intercontinental ballistic missile was
launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California during an
unsuccessful test of the Missile Defense Program on December 11,
2002. President Bush has ordered the U.S. military to begin
deploying a national missile defense system with 10 interceptor
rockets at a base in Alaska by 2004, that will likely stop a
relatively small number of incoming ballistic missiles. As a
candidate, Bush promised to build an anti-missile shield, and
earlier this year he pulled out of an anti-ballistic missile
treaty to advance the plan. Tuesday, he cited the Sept. 11,
2001, terrorist attacks on America as evidence that the country
faces ''unprecedented threats'' and needs the anti-missile
shield. ''Today, the United States cannot stop a single
ballistic missile headed for an American city,'' said Hunter, R-
Calif., who chairs Armed Services subcommittee on military
research and development.

PENNSYLVANIA EGG LIKE SPHERES

SHARPSVILLE -- On December 8, 2002, I was driving on the
Charleston Road at 7:45 PM, with my friend when I saw two
definite aircraft hovering in the West. It appeared a beam of
light emanated from one of the objects. They disappeared after
the beam ceased.

PITTSBURGH -- The witness and a friend were doing some training
for cross country track by running a few miles on this abandoned
strip-mine near our houses at 4:00 PM. We were running along on
November 19, 2002, when I looked up, and saw an almost
elliptical object that came within fifty feet of us. It was
right above us and barely made any sound. Then all of the sudden
it made this rumbling sound. Thanks to Peter Davenport NUFORC

MARYLAND UFO FIVE TIMES BIGGER THAN THE MOON.

BALTIMORE -- A 50 year old steelworker reports that on November
19, 2002, around 5:20 AM, he witnessed something that he could
not explain. He says, "I was observing the meteor shower, as I
was looking up I noticed a large object moving across the night
sky from north to south and the object was five times the size
of the moon. It had a line of 8 to 10 lights across it, and also
had four lights in a circle on the right side. I lost sight of
the object as it went overhead. Peter Davenport spoke at length
with this witness, and we found him to be quite credible. PD))

WASHINGTON DC F-16S SCRAMBLED TWICE

CNN announced, "Two Air Force F-16 fighters were scrambled
Monday, December 16, 2002, at 10:30 AM, after radar detected a
potential violation of the 15-mile restricted flight zone around
the nation's capital, said officials with the North American
Aerospace Defense Command. Officials speculated either a flock
of birds or an anomaly caused by high winds resulted in the
radar reading, which indicated a possible flight violation 18
miles northwest of Reagan National Airport. F-16s maintained a
combat air patrol over Washington for at least an hour, and air
traffic was halted briefly.

WBAY ABC Channel 2 News in Wisconsin reports that later that
night, Two more fighter jets were scrambled on December 17,
2002, to intercept a small plane over the nation's capital. The
plane had flown into restricted airspace over Washington, but
officials determined it posed no threat and called off the
intercept.   The plane later landed in Martinsville, West
Virginia. Since the nine-eleven attacks, fighters have responded
to more than 600 airspace security incidents. Thanks to Kenny
Young.

Editor's Note: Bill Bean and others are regularly videotaping
unknown flying craft over the area that is likely being picked
up by radars. Any radar operator knows the difference between a
balloon and a UFO intruder.

VIRGINIA PARANORMAL AND UFO INVESTIGATION

LEESBURG -- Alexander Zikas MUFON VA investigator and who has a
masters degree in engineering evaluated the reports of UFOs and
high paranormal activity and has determined the probably cause
is misidentification of the airport traffic, stars, and street
lamps. The witness lives on a high hill overlooking the entire
area and has double paned windows which can explain the
reflective moving lights. As he conducted interviews with the
witness she pointed out aircraft strobe lights as possible UFO
activity. There had been reflections of moving lights in the
windows that again were probably aircraft landing at the nearby
Dulles Airport. Videos taken by the witness appear to be unusual
lighting patterns on some landing aircraft. The remarkable speed
of the objects was likely caused by the zoom-out effect of the
camcorder rather than jerking of the camera. The witness claimed
the lights were jumping and could not be aircraft lights. The
investigator felt the jumping lights were caused by eye fatigue.
Her camera batteries mysteriously became drained by the jumping
lights. This may have been caused the radar/radio signals from
Dulles airport tower that can be seen from the home.

The investigator was able to photograph orbs at the eyewitness'
street corner named after the Ball Bluff Battlefield, which is
allegedly active for "ghosts". The witness appears to have a
heightened awareness of the paranormal and may be witnessing
what a lot people are seeing lately, called "Shadow people". The
house is situated on a hill that may have been an old settlement
for a frontier settler or Indian camp. The family has a history
of psychic ability and has recorded very high electrometric
biofield readings that are much higher than normal. The daughter
had exceptionally high readings and may be picking up various
spirits or may be the cause of paranormal activity. Thanks to
author of Greek Future, Alexander Zikas
http://www.GreekFuture.com

NORTH CAROLINA EGG LIKE UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

LINCOLNTON -- While watching the Leonid meteor showers , looking
straight up there was an area where most of the meteors seemed
to be coming from on November 19, 2002. I noticed a satellite
moving into this area at 5:40 AM, then there appeared two
football shaped objects each with 5 or 6 orange lights traveling
north-northwest faster then the satellite, but slower than the
meteors. They lasted about 25 seconds. Then the one on the left
moved directly behind the other and began moving extremely fast
and erratic side to side, forward, and backwards that aircraft
could not do. I'm 48 years old and have never seen anything like
this.

GRIFTON -- Jana Clancey of the The Daily Reflector writes,
"Creatures from outer space may have been checking on the
affairs of Pitt County residents Friday night. Several people
from Farmville to the southern tip of Pitt County reported an
odd light racing across the night sky. J.K. Butler, a former
Grifton volunteer firefighter, was sitting in the old Red and
White parking lot about 11 p.m. Friday. He was there with three
fire department friends when the sky around them lighted up,
coloring everything from the ground to the trees to themselves a
strange shade of green and blue. The light passed over them, he
said. And when they looked up, it was so blinding they couldn't
identify the object. "We all just looked at each other like,
'What in the world was that?'"

Butler said. "I've never seen anything that color, and it had
some good size to it, too, and it was up in the air pretty
good", he said. His first thought: the light had come from a
UFO. "Maybe it was government-related. If it was, we'll never
know," he said. Over the fire-rescue scanners mounted in the
volunteers' trucks, calls came in from Ayden and the Pitt County
Sheriff's Office. Butler heard patrol cars being dispatched to
check for something that had fallen from the sky in the area of
Jolly and Abbott Farm roads. Sgt. Marty Burroughs sent three of
his deputies to survey for damage, or possibly, a spacecraft
between the Ayden Police Department and the two rural roads.
They didn't find a thing. Deputies found the houses to be safe
and left the area. Snip:
http://www.reflector.com/news/newsfd/auto/feed/news/2002/12/11/1
039585789.03162.6737.6599.html

GEORGIA MUFON REPORT

LAGRANGE -- MUFONGA has a source of information from a really
sharp, intelligent, and observant female resident whose father
is a 33 year veteran airline pilot, and her husband a veteran
Marine. This witness indicated that shortly after 6 AM on
Monday, December 2, 2002, she went onto her porch to feed her
cats. She noticed a stationary blinking light above/through the
pine trees across her street, where no blinking light should
have been. She observed more closely and found it to be similar
to a beacon light and she timed the flashes to about every eight
seconds. She added that it appeared to be like a light on top of
one of the satellite antennas, but no such array exists in that
area. She later described it to her husband who told her of his
experience during the same time frame. He arrives at his work
location about 6:00 AM, which is about ten miles from home.
About 6:25 AM, that morning, he and a couple of his associates
were outside and observed some sort of triangular appearing
craft silently "zip" across the sky. It was just beginning to
get light outside, with only tree outlines visible. The flying
triangle had one light in the center and may have been about the
size of baseball at arm's length. Thanks to Tom Sheets, State
Director MUFONGA

FLORIDA MOVING STARS DANCE ACROSS THE SKY

LAKE PANASOFFKEE -- My background first: I am a 20 year AF vet,
pilot, and aircraft owner 67 years of age. I have never seen a
UFO, although I have been looking for one for a long time. Early
this morning, I was out in an open field watching the Leonid
meteor showers and about 05:45 AM. I noticed a bright, very high
object traveling across the sky. When I noticed the first object
it traveled in a straight line ENE across the sky about 80
degrees above the horizon. Since the sun was about to come up I
could see the arc of light that the sun made in the eastern sky.
It seemed to travel faster than satellites I have seen before.
As it reached the upper edge of the arc the sun made it
disappear from view. About 5 minutes later another bright object
appeared and traveled in the same direction, same speed, and the
same altitude as the first. It disappeared from my view in the
same area of the sky. All this time I was seeing the meteors as
they entered the atmosphere and burned up. The third object
appeared in about the same area as the first two about 5 minutes
later but traveled more in an easterly direction. I know there
is a lot of space junk in orbit so I can't discount that. But I
don't think that many satellites would have traveled across the
sky that close together in time. It took the objects about 20
seconds to travel the distance that I was able to observe them.

BRADENTON -- My daughter and I had gotten up to watch the Leonid
Meteor Shower this morning (November 18, 2002) for her science
project and were facing northeast when she saw a star move
across the sky. She asked me to look and to my surprise, I also
saw what appeared to be a star moving across the sky. It was not
a shooting star because it was moving in a horizontal direction.
A second star moved towards the first and we noticed several of
these star looking objects moving all around. They appeared to
stay in pairs. We saw them come to abrupt stops in mid-flight,
make right angle turns, doing 360 circles. They made a full
circle in their area and would make a 90 degree turn or shoot
straight across the sky. They appeared to be "dancing" across
the sky in pairs except for the lone "star". My daughter and I
woke my husband up and he too came out and saw the phenomena.
Thanks to Peter Davenport NUFORC

OHIO CHEVRON GOSSAMER V-SHAPED OBJECT

LAKEWOOD -- Around 11:30 PM, on November 27, 2002, an amateur
astronomer for the past twenty years was looking and caught
sight of the planet Jupiter, rather bright and imposing. It was
a rather chilly evening so I decided to leave my telescope
indoors and just do some 'eyeball astronomy'. After a couple
minutes I suddenly noticed an object midway up in the east
moving south. Its appearance was that of broadly V-shaped
gossamer contrail, three full moon diameters wide, without any
lights or form of illumination. The object continued to move
south steadily. I lost sight of it after twenty seconds!

COLORADO 'V' SHAPED, LARGE FLYING TRIANGLE

DENVER -- It was a 'v' shaped object with a main set of lights
on the front at 1100 PM, on December 13, 2002. I couldn't count
them. Possibly about ten. Behind these lights there were several
dimmer ones possibly defining more of the object. It looked like
there may have been smaller lights around it. It was fairly
large and it was moving east to west just above the tree line. I
estimate that it was moving at 200mph. It was about 200 yards up
and 1/8th of a mile south of me. It didn't make any noise and it
completely disappeared. Thanks to NUFORC

WASHINGTON DOGS GO CRAZY OVER HUGE UFO

BELLINGHAM -- On December 8, 2002, the dogs went crazy at about
8:45 PM, with the amazing light display on a cold, but clear
night. The witness was standing out side watching my husband
chopping fire wood, when all the dogs of Sudden Valley started
howling. I heard a strange loud eerie hum that went low to high
then back to low. I asked my husband what was that and we heard
it one more time. My husband yelled, "That's what made the
noise!" There was a flash of lights circling a ship that was
standing motionless a 1000 feet above us. Then it began to move
and the lights on this object flashed different colors. A red
light that made the shape of circle seem to come from the top of
the ship cascading down to the base of the ship showing the true
size. It was Huge! Then once the red circle reached the base of
the center of the bottom of the ship four lines on each side of
the circle in the center of the ship went from the center to the
outer part of the ship four on each side. The lines of light
went from the center to the outside then lights completed a
circle of the outside of the ship.. It was an amazing display of
a light show that kept repeating the pattern of lights. It was
flying south then in seconds it was going west like the shape of
an L.directly down our street. I ran down the road too keep it
in sight. I saw the side view and it was the shape of a huge top
hat with a circular base that was at least 200 feet in diameter.
Thanks to Peter Davenport NUFORC

CALIFORNIA STRANGE CRAFT OVER BAY AREA

HAYWARD -- It was about 4 PM, when the witness saw what looked
like a planet or star, but it didn't shine like one. On November
19, 2002, he ran into the house and grabbed his binoculars
(12x50) and saw an object about the size of a dime at arm's
length. It was "egg shaped" like Billy D said, that had a
strange black "scaffolding" structure behind it. The object was
pale yellow and was seen for ten minutes. A flash of light
appeared below it. An orb like object streaked to the left at an
incredible speed, and at arm's length it appeared to be the size
of a dime. I was surprised and moved trying to show Billy D as
the object streaked away and headed out over the bay. A minute
later an object flew over head leaving a huge loom of chemtrail
almost in the same spot the UFO was hovering! Thanks to Peter
Davenport NUFORC

MEXICO YACHT HAS HIGH SPEED FLYOVER

PACIFIC OCEAN -- A couple was on board their yacht, about 60
miles west of Acapulco on November 23, 2002, when they saw a
soundless flashing object cross the sky in five seconds, moving
ENE to WSW at 9:09 PM. The object was intermittently flashing a
bright white light. My wife thinks it was very high up; if so,
its speed must have been enormous. The object may have had more
than one light flashing.

VENEZUELA CRAFT SIGHTED BY MANY WITNESSES

CARACAS -- On November 22, 2002, I received a phone call from
Zuly Suju reporting a sighting at about 7.40 PM, in nearby Santa
M=F3nica. The object was spherical and about 40 meters in diameter
and its lights were rotating in slow motion, but very intense.
The object was hovering and with improving the vision, she
noticed that it moved very slowly to the east/west zone. The
next day, when having breakfast at the Encuentro Iberoamericano
de Redluz. Miranda told me that an object was also sighted there
at about the same time, about 85 km from the former location.
Then a couple Romayra y Reinaldo Le=F3n, just arriving from
Caracas said that they live at the west side of the city and
they noticed the object at about 7.35 PM. Thanks to Martha
Rosenthal http://www.ceinpla.com

POLICE TRACK UNITED KINGDOM SIGHTINGS

SWADLINCOTE DERBYSHIRE -- Whilst driving along a country road
from to Swadlincote, I was aware of a very intense flashing
above my car. I pulled over and both myself and my girlfriend
looked up in amazement as three objects flashed at a slow rate
and moved faster than I had ever seen. at first we thought that
they could be fireworks but they started making a whirring noise
not dissimilar to an electricity substation.

CONGERSTONE -- On December 12, 2002,the sky was bright over the
fields we could see the northern lights at 10:56 PM. To our
right hovering stationary for 5 to10 minutes just above trees,
we saw a shining a bright light. It was very difficult to see
any shape, because the light was so bright. Then it rose slowly
and gracefully into the air a few meters away and came overhead,
very low and very quietly, gliding above us and disappeared out
of view. We ran outside to watch as it went over with its
colored blue, red yellow and white lights that were fairly dim
now. We think it was a Diamond shape and a second craft followed
its path, but this had a more familiar shape.

POLICE FORCES ON UFO ALERT -- European police appear to have a
new interest in UFO reports with a possible connection to
combating terrorism. Reports of UFOs are rising during the
holidays that is normally a slow period.

AUSTRALIA METALLIC SPHERE TRAVELING AT GREAT SPEED

HALLS GAP (NEAR MELBOURNE) -- The witness was sitting on the
back balcony of the Hall's Gap Tavern after a day seeing the
sites. He had just taken a picture of a commercial jet traveling
west towards Perth simply because he liked the look of the vapor
trail at 2:56 PM on November 16, 2002. He spotted what he
thought was a white feather or possibly a thistle down floating
in the in the air 20 degrees above the horizon. The quite odd
thing about this object was that it wasn't floating about
aimlessly like a wind born object, it was going dead straight
from west to east across the sky. It was difficult to focus on
because it was a fair distance away. I stared at it for a few
seconds before realizing that I'd better take a picture. I moved
out onto the lawn I took one photograph despite the size and
distance. As I stared at it longer it diminished in size and
eventually stopped eastward movement. I realized that it was a
light metallic colored sphere heading directly upward from my
position. Its movement was possibly an arc from the point I
first observed the object to the point that it disappeared from
view directly above me. It made no noise. Left no trail. It
appeared to be round in shape with no wings. No man made object
I've ever seen can move like this thing did. It took 20 seconds
to traverse to a 90 degree position directly above me at an
estimated speed of 6,000.

Collie in Australia writes, "I took some OPC-3 last year to
recover from a serious illness; two other people here were
bedridden for 6 months, then recovered quickly on taking OPC-3.
Medically it checks out well on the public database with studies
done by the Pasteur Institute. Will try to cure another sick
person with it next week! Thanks to Collie.

Editors Note: Many people have written to me about their
sightings and success with OPC-3. My local MD recommended this
product to me and uses it to help many health problems, and now
my whole family is now taking it. The results are so impressive
that I'm now making it available to my readers. It is made from
a combination of grape seed, pine bark and red wine extracts in
addition to bilberry and citrus extracts. These OPC's are super
effective free radical neutralizers. They are not limited to
being strong antioxidants, they are also crucial in their role
in supporting the circulatory system and strengthening the
capillaries. OPC-3 is a natural food supplement that should be
taken for a lifetime.

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UFO DEFENSE TACTICS - WEATHER SHIELD TO CHEMTRAILS

A. K. Johnstone, Ph.D., explores with evidence, the creation of
a weather shield to deter UFOs from entering earth's atmosphere,
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NEW NASA SHUTTLE VIDEO OF UFOs IN SPACE

Jeff Challender has prepared a new tape of various UFOs that
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Subject: Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Rimmer


 >From: Colin Bennett <sharkley@panzerben.fsworld.co.uk>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 08:24:27 -0000
 >Subject: Re: Combat Diary Number 1

 >Hi Jan,

 >Sorry the longer thoughts and the longer sentences appear to
 >have defeated you so easily. Keep on piling up the documents and
 >the statistics. The ledger clerks and the archive animals need
 >them badly. They are as good an excuse for non-thinking as any,
 >and make the whole amusing house of cards a little higher.

 >I'll give your site a visit on those rare occasions whenever I
 >want a date, a time, a place, or a fact. I'm surprised at you, I
 >am. Even the Brentford Polonius has revealed a sense of humour
 >of late, and says my work is erotic. It obviously has not worked
 >in your case. Don't worry, there are plenty of alternative
 >commercial treatments in the press if you look carefully in the
 >back pages. They will even cure your sourpuss manic-depressive
 >lack of all humour, for which Listers will be most grateful. If
 >this is what facts do to folk such as you, I'd rather watch old
 >street-cleaning training films in a darkened room on a bad day
 >in Brentford.

 >Loosen up, for the sake of both our endangered nations, please!

 >Keep smiling (if you ever smile at all), keep on writing the
 >telephone numbers, and long may your web animal graze!

 >Colin (Bad Man) Bennett

As Mr Bennett has been so kind as to explain to the readers of
UFO UpDates all about my background and ancestry, in his
masterful essay "Rimmer Exposed", and thus reveal the reasons I
became the dreadful sceptic and pelicanist you see before you, I
hope you will grant me the indulgence of explaining some of the
historical factors which have made Mr Bennett the verbose
sesquipedalianist we have come to know and love.

Mr Bennett is the product of a peculiarly British (and more
particularly English) social background, and American readers
will need to have a little digression into the details of the
English class system in order to fully understand it.

Amongst the middle and upper classes in England there has been a
distinction since before the nineteenth century between those
who are "in trade" and those who are in "the professions". This
harks back to the historical division between families whose
wealth was hereditary and based on land, and the rising class of
merchants, manufacturers and entrepreneurs which arose in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

It has always been the case that those who had inherited their
wealth have looked down on those who earned it, and to dismiss
such people as being "in trade", which was (and indeed sometimes
still is) considered an insult. It is worth pointing out that in
this context "in trade" applies equally to the owner of a small
corner shop or the owner of multinational corporation. The only
professions suitable for sons of the landed classes were the
Army, the Law, the civil service and colonial government, and,
for the less intellectually endowed, the Church.

According to some historians, such as Corelli Barnett, it was this
aristocratic disdain for wealth-creation which has led to the gradual
decline of Britain as an industrial power over two centuries.

By the mid-twentieth century a new situation arose which further
discomforted the 'landed' classes. This was the expansion of
further education to a much wider spectrum of the population,
most particulalry to the working class and the lower middle
classes, people who were by and large the servants of the
'landed' classes. The Grammar School system, introduced after
World War II, gave many working class children (and here I
declare an interest as I went to a Grammar School) the first
opportunity to get an education of the same standard (and in
many cases better) than the offspring of the upper classes, who
could afford to send their children to private schools (which,
of course are known in Britain as 'Public Schools' - but then we
drive on the wrong side of the road as well, don't we!)

This caused a lot of resentment and a great deal of petty
snobbery, and it is this which we see expressed so vividly in
the outpourings of Mr Colin Bennett. In his world anything
scientific, mechanical, progessive, indeed anything practical,
comes from a lower social strata than the elevated one occupied
by the products of the English private school system. You can
see this in his disdain - expressed with such relish - for the
perfectly innocent town of Brentford.

Brentford is a suburb of London, largely occupied by what I
think Americans refer to as "blue-collar" workers, people who
are employed in the industrial and commercial enterprises of
West London and around Heathrow Airport. It is a town of modest
streets and modest people, lying along the bank of the River
Thames.

His, I suspect totally phoney, disdain for facts and figures is
also a product of the ennervating private school education
system, which traditionally regarded Latin grammar as a more
fitting subject for study than science. His unpleasant little
jibe against Jan Aldrich (above) is an unfortunately all-too-
typical example of his class's snobbery. Notice how 'ledger
clerk' is used as a term of abuse - it is of course 'ledger
clerks' (or computer operators as they now tend to be called)
which make much of Mr Bennett's cosy little world possible - by,
for instance, arranging for the meagre royalties on his books to
be paid to his bank account.

I am afraid that you are all being subjected, unneccesarily, to
the embittered outpourings of a man who sees that his world has
ended, but is still trying desperately to hold on to the
remnants of a class-system that are disintegrated beneath him.
Unfortunately the only way he can do this is by sneering and
snobbish remarks aimed at the "tradesmen", "shop-girls", and
"ledger clerks" that he can still - just - manage to convince
himself comprise the lower orders.

There is another possibility which explains Mr Bennett's world
view. It may be that he is not a scion of the landed classes.
Perhaps he too hails from the respectable working class. Maybe
his father was a lock- keeper on the Grand Union Canal at
Brentford, and maybe he too is a product of the emancipating
post-war Grammar Schools.

But far from seeing this as an achievment, he burns with a
smouldering resentment of his humble origins. Perhaps the
Grammar School he went to was one which rather too
enthusiastically copied the manners and forms of the 'Public'
Schools. Our Mr Bennett might have entered this ethos with
enthusiasm, modifying his West London vowels and glottal stops
to the more strangulated elocutions of Kensington and Chelsea.
As a favourite of the English teacher, he would seek to impress
with essays filled with flowery rhetoric and meaningless
formulations. The school amateur dramatic society might also
have given opportunities for display and preening. This would
impress the teachers, but he would find himself the butt of
cruel ridicule in the schoolyard afterwards.

Now free of these childhood torments he can lucubrate at length
to the readers of UpDates, attempting to impress the many
English majors who read it as much as he impressed his favourite
teacher all those years ago. But maybe not, for I would much
rather imagine him as the last shrivelled branch of a once noble
family tree - as I am sure would he.

--
John Rimmer, the Mage of Mortlake
Magonia Magazine
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              [EWAR] Rendlesham File: A Triangle-Shaped Aerial

From: Mark Doulton <doults@tiscali.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 00:11:54 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
Fwd Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 19:43:11 -0500
Subject: [EWAR] Rendlesham File: A Triangle-Shaped Aerial



-------Original Message-------

From: William Forster
Date: 18 December 2002 21:12:04
To: Mark Doulton
Subject: Fw: [EWAR] Rendlesham File: A Triangle-Shaped Aerial Craft (with
interview)


----- Original Message -----

From: eric stewart
To: ewar@topica.com
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 7:54 PM
Subject: [EWAR] Rendlesham File: A Triangle-Shaped Aerial Craft (with
interview)

Twenty-two years ago on December 26, 1980, U. S. Air Force Staff
Sergeant James Penniston was stationed in the 81st Security
Police Squadron at the large joint British and U. S. Air Force
base known as RAF (Royal Air Force) Bentwaters and its smaller,
secondary base at Woodbridge, about three miles away, where some
aircraft were kept. Not long after midnight on December 26, Sgt.
Penniston was asked to investigate odd lights seen moving in the
Rendlesham forest between Bentwaters and Woodbridge. Joining him
was USAF Airman First Class John Burroughs and several other
security and military personnel. (read more)

As the security men approached the odd lights about 300 meters
off the main access road in the trees, the men could see blue,
yellow, red and white colors were pulsing.


Provided below is a complete interview with that witness:

Jim Penniston, Former USAF Staff Sergeant, 81st Security Police
Squadron, Joint USAF and RAF Bentwaters/Woodbridge, England Air
Force Base: "As we got closer, a silhouette of an object was
present and I realized at that point, it was not a conventional
aircraft, meaning it was not one that was published in Jane's
Defence book about aircraft. It was like no aircraft that I had
ever seen.

WHAT WAS THE SHAPE?

Triangular.

WHEN YOU SAY TRIANGULAR, WAS IT ABSOLUTELY STRAIGHT ON THREE
SIDES? OR WAS IT SWOOPY LIKE A CORVETTE? OR?

No, no, it was triangular, straight on each side.

[Sketch of triangular craft by USAF Staff Sergeant, Jim
Penniston, from his December 26, 1980 investigation notes made
after midnight while examining the glowing craft of unknown
origin in the Rendlesham forest near the joint RAF and USAF
Bentwaters AFB in Woodbridge, England.]

IN TERMS OF WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS MADE OUT OF?

Well, I couldn't tell at that point, but obviously I set the
other airmen up to complete the radio relay because we were
having awful bad static on the radios. I could barely talk to
the first patrolman that I had set by the logging road. I could
barely hear him. I could not hear our control center at all.

Anyway, as I got closer to it, it was -- I tell you what -- I do
have my notes from that night in my notebook. And it's probably
best to just read it out of there.

I had my notebook and my camera while I was out there because
cameras were carried because of terrorism to take pictures of
base encroachments. And it says what I wrote that night:
'Triangular in shape. The top portion is producing mainly white
light which encompasses most of the upper section of the craft.
A small amount of white light is appearing from what appears to
be the bottom of the craft. At the left side is a bluish light.
And on the other side is red. The lights seem to be molded as
part of the exterior of the structure.'

THE LIGHTS SEEM TO BE MOLDED AS ...

Part of the exterior of the structure." You got to remember,
that's the way I wrote it that night. It might not make sense in
the sentence structure. The light seemed to be molded as if part
of the exterior of the structure, smooth, slowly fading into the
rest of the outside of the structure, gradually molding into the
fabric of the craft."

Then at that time, I started taking photos. I think there were
36 in a roll. They were all B & W, that's what we carried.

WHERE DID THOSE PHOTOGRAPHS GO?

Base photo lab.

AND THE BASE PHOTO LAB PHOTOS WOULD BE IN WHOSE HANDS TODAY?

U. S. Air Force.

AND THEY WERE NOT RELEASED IN THIS RENDLESHAM FILE.

No.

SO, IT'S NOT A COMPLETE FILE RELEASE?

Oh, no. What the British knew of this incident I would say is
probably 10% of what happened. The other 90% is through U. S.
channels. It would be primarily -- the way to report it -- would
be through USAF channels to 3rd Air Force to MAJCOM Major Air
Command, which would have been at Ramstein AFB. Then Ramstein
has procedures reporting to JCS in the United States.

AND THAT'S THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF (IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
PENTAGON.)

Correct. And that's the reporting procedures for anything. It
could be for aircraft crashes or just if we have a security
situation. That would be the reporting path it would take.

SO, YOU TOOK PHOTOGRAPHS -- AT LEAST 36 IN BLACK AND WHITE -- OF
THIS TRIANGLE IN WHICH LIGHT SEEMS TO BE PART OF ITS STRUCTURE.
THOSE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE IN A FILE SOMEWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT. WHAT ELSE HAPPENED BEYOND PHOTOGRAPHING?

Well, on the night in question with me -- I did a full
investigation of the downed craft. I mean I did a 360 degree
walk around it. It was on the ground approximately 45 minutes.

DID YOU TOUCH IT?

Yes, as part of the investigation. The size of it was
approximately 3 meters wide by 3 meters tall -- that's
approximately 9 feet.

AND WHAT CAN YOU SAY ABOUT THE SURFACE THAT YOU TOUCHED?

Well, I think the fabric or the shell was -- I guess the best
description would be a very smooth opaque, like black glass.
Even though at a distance, it appeared metallic. It made no
sense, once I was up there (close to it) that it was more like
black glass. I'm not sure -- I was pretty confused at that point.

WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT THIS A FEW YEARS AGO, YOU REMEMBERED, I
THINK, SEEING SOME KIND OF SYMBOLS?

Yes, that is probably the most interesting part of it. I did
draw them into my notebook. That was part of the 360 (degree
examination) we were doing on the investigation because it was
not a downed aircraft at that point, but we knew we had
something out of the ordinary. You don't mind if I look at my
notes, do you? 'On this smooth exterior shell, there is writing
of some kind. I'm not sure what it is. Size 3-inch lettering.
May be symbols that stretch for a length of 2 feet. Maybe a
little more.'

The feeling after I touched these symbols, I would describe them
as like etched or engraved, like a diamond cut on glass. That
was the feeling of these. I guess etching would be the best way
to describe it.

SO THE SYMBOLS WERE CUT INTO THE SURFACE, NOT RAISED FROM THE
SURFACE?

Right, it was not paint or anything like that. One was
triangular. That was in the center. That had three circles
around it, or rather, circular objects (two small solid black
circles and triangle all inside a circumscribing circle).

Symbols engraved into the dark, glassy surface of the triangular
craft, re-drawn from his original December 26, 1980 USAF notes
at the Rendlesham forest site by Jim Penniston.

WHEN YOU TOUCHED THESE SYMBOLS WITH YOUR HAND, DID YOU GET ANY
IMAGES IN YOUR MIND?

No. But I did have a sensation. The fabric of the craft was
warmer than the air temperature. The air temperature that night
was around 31 or 32 Fahrenheit. The craft was quite a bit
warmer.

AND YOU COULD FEEL THAT WITH YOUR HANDS?

Oh, yes.

WHEN YOU TOUCHED THE SURFACE, WAS THERE ANY REACTION FROM THE
CRAFT ITSELF IN ANY WAY?

Well, I had no problem going around the craft and doing the 360-
degree looking at it. But after I did touch the actual symbols
and that on the exterior of the craft, that's when it started to
-- I backed away. I backed away from it because the light was
starting to get brighter. There still was absolutely no sound.
That is probably the most incredible part of this. There was
absolutely no sound from this craft.

WHICH COLOR LIGHT GOT BRIGHTER, WHITE, RED, OR?

White. You know, there is no doubt that the craft was
mechanical, or ship or whatever you want to call it. But there
is also no doubt in my mind that it was under intelligent
control because the craft lifted off the ground.

At that point, I thought it was on fixed legs, the craft. But
when it lifted off the ground, there was no legs on it, so I
don't know how it was sitting on the ground. It lifted up a few
feet, sort of went through the woods maybe 25 or 30 meters,
hovered momentarily, then lifted up to about 250 feet above the
top of the trees and then it was literally in the blink of an
eye, gone at that point.

YOU ARE ALL STANDING THERE AND DO WHAT NEXT?

Well, I turned to my partner there and said, 'How are you going
to explain this?' And that was pretty much -- we were trying to
absorb what we had just seen. It was most unusual.

WHO WAS WITH YOU?

The patrolman who was with me was John Burroughs. He has worked
the law enforcement side. In fact, he had worked directly for
Bud Stefans, but he was one of the guys who went out there with
me.

SO, IS HE THE ONLY ONE WITH YOU?

Well, immediately next to me at 10 feet, yes. We, of course, we
had another one back about 100 meters and there were others back
at a logging road. Of course, there were several people at the
East Gate. And all of this was observed from Bentwaters, too.

YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN CONSISTENT ON THE EARLY MORNING OF DECEMBER
26 AS YOUR AND JOHN BURROUGHS' ENCOUNTER WITH THE CRAFT.

And the only reason I know that for sure is because it was
Boxing Day. Christmas was over, it was the day after Christmas.

YOU AND JOHN BURROUGHS FILED A REPORT ABOUT EXACTLY WHAT
HAPPENED THEN?

Yeah, we kept a very sanitized -- we reported it to our Security
Shift Commander, I think it was Captain Mike Verrano at the
time. And we were assured by then the senior officer at
Bentwaters that this information would not go outside the United
States channels.

DID YOU UNDERSTAND AT THE TIME WHY THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A
PROBLEM IF PEOPLE WOULD JUST HAVE SAID WHAT HAPPENED PUBLICLY?

I did ask specifically that of Col. Halt. And his response was
pretty much, 'Well, don't worry about it. We're treating it as
TOP SECRET information right now.'

So, when he said that to me, that tells me that it's not going
to leave U. S. channels.

DID YOU SAY TO COL. HALT, 'I SAW IT. IT WAS TRIANGULAR. IT
SEEMED TO BE MADE...?

Oh, he was fully briefed.

DID HE SAY TO YOU AND YOU SAY TO HIM, 'WE'RE DEALING WITH AN
EXTRATERRESTRIAL CRAFT HERE?'

No. No. We are dealing with a craft of unknown origin. We had a
lot of questions and no answers. Why, how can a craft take off
with no sound? How can it have this type of appearance? How can
it emit heat without fire or anything like that? We had a lot of
questions.

BUT YOU DIDN'T DISCUSS ENTITIES?

No, never."

--

"Entities" Described in MOD Rendlesham File

Yet, "entities" are described in the November 29, 2002 release
of the Rendlesham file by the British Ministry of Defence as
shown in the following memo in which the date, address and
writer are blacked out:


English Ministry of Defence Memo that references "several
entities near RAF Bentwaters on the night of December 29/30
1980." Jim Penniston knew there was at least one other incident
in which U. S. Air Force Lt. Colonel Charles Halt was involved.
It's also possible that several incidents happened over a series
of nights. Further, intelligence agents often deliberately
scramble dates to confound investigators.



September 10, 1994 - Jim Penniston Tried Hypnosis To Remember
More

DS8 referenced in the last paragraph of the MOD Memo is a
reference Jim Penniston overheard at the U. S. Air Force Office
of Special Investigations (AFOSI), Bentwaters, when he was asked
to report for further debriefing about the December 26 incident.
At the AFOSI office, agents asked Sgt. Penniston to sign a
release so he could be given Sodium Pentothal, combined with
hypnosis, that would be recorded by two tape recorders.
Penniston said he agreed "to get them off my back. They seemed a
lot happier after I signed the release."

Penniston remembered that the agents at Bentwaters had him "lay
down on a walnut table" and that a "British guy" got the needle
ready. Under hypnosis, he described receiving information from
the lights of the triangular craft about "time travelers" from
some distant future coming back to get genetic material from
earth to use as "band-aids" in a future where reproduction of
the time traveling species is failing. For excerpts from Jim
Penniston's 1994 hypnosis session to recall more details from
his interaction with the triangular craft at Bentwaters AFB,
England on December 26, 1980.

MOD Rendlesham File

Several times in the recent November 29, 2002 Ministry of
Defence Rendlesham File release, documents say that the
Bentwaters incident did not have any impact on defense concerns.

That position was challenged by one May 14, 1985 letter from an
unnamed writer to attorney David Alton in Westminster, London:
"I cannot accept Lord Trefargne's view that there is no defence
interest in this case. Unless Lt. Col. Halt was out of his mind,
there is clear evidence in his report that British air space and
territory were intruded upon by an unidentified vehicle on two
occasions in late December 1980, and no authority was able to
prevent this. If, on the other hand, Halt's report cannot be
believed, there is equally clear evidence of a serious
misjudgment of events by U. S. Air Force personnel at an
important base in British territory. Either way, the case can
hardly be without defence significance." I asked Jim Penniston
why he thought the Ministry of Defence took the position that
the Bentwaters incident had no impact on British defence
security.

Jim Penniston: "Well, their air space got violated. They weren't
fully aware of what was going on. How can a craft invade air
space that dramatically in that country without having a full
alert to all the RAF bases? I don't think they actually know. I
think there might have been one RAF base maybe recorded air
traffic or something and of course Bentwaters did. But, I think
it is an embarrassment for them that they actually had an
aircraft, or craft of some sort, land unannounced, without them
being fully aware of it. I think that is a significant defence
issue for Britain.

Here we are sitting in the year 2002 and 22 years later, and we
cannot replicate the technology that was there in Rendlesham
that night. Those are the questions we all have, the witnesses,
is how can this be?

AND BETWEEN THE END OF DECEMBER 1980 AND DECEMBER OF 2002, AS WE
ARE SPEAKING TODAY ON DECEMBER 8, YOU HAVE NEVER HAD ANYBODY SAY
TO YOU OFF THE RECORD, 'JIM, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED AT
BENTWATERS?'

No, I haven't. No one has ever done that. I have just as many
unanswered questions that you do. We would love to have an
absolute answer about what we investigated. That would make it a
lot easier for all of us.

AND YOU DO NOT HAVE...?

I do not have the answers. All I have is questions and more
questions.

AND MEMORIES?

Yes. That's the other part, too.

MEANING?

Well, you wonder how much -- with the cover-up -- I was involved
with it, too. When you start classifying stuff and you start
saying, 'We're not going to speak about this. We're following
orders.' Hey, cover-ups happen. I was involved with it, too,
unknowingly, but I was part of it. And I think that's probably
the worst part of it right now."

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                  Re: Great Moments in Debunking - Connors

From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 16:50:17 -0700
Fwd Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 19:45:58 -0500
Subject: Re: Great Moments in Debunking - Connors


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >To: UFO Updates <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 22:37:54 EST
 >Subject: Re: Great Moments in Debunking - Young

 >>From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
 >>To: UFO Updates <UFOUpdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:26:32 -0700
 >>Subject: Re: Great Moments in Debunking

<snip>

 >Wendy:

 >An audience which was packed to the rafters with saucer
 >believers. A cheap shot like Martecord's question, itself a
 >piece of ignorance, got a laugh from the choir. That old Doc
 >Menzel may have been nonplussed by this stunt isn't exactly the
 >biggest news of the year.

To believe that a convention of the American Society of
Newspaper Editors equates to "An audience... packed to the
rafters with saucer believers," boggles the rational mind. All
except yours of course, which kind of just sits there in a jar
and sputters.

Old Doc Menzel wasn't "nonplussed" by any stretch of the
imagination. He learned that there were people in the world that
can see some scientists, no matter what their perceived stature,
are just as prone to being con artists as the President of
Enron, Worldcom, etc. and that Menzel ranked right up there with
scientists who once said that man would never fly.

 >Clear skies,

 >Bob Young

Clear Thought,

Wendy Connors







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                   Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Ledger

From: Don Ledger <dledger@ns.sympatico.ca>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:33:19 -0400
Fwd Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:55:29 -0500
Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Ledger


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 23:01:26 EST
 >Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking

 >>From: Tom Bowden <tomrbowden@yahoo.com>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:02:25 -0800 (PST)
 >>Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking

 ><snip>

 >>Bob, give me a break. Menzel knew UFOs were real. All his
 >>debunking statements were part of the coverup in which he was
 >>participating.

 >I think that you are seriously underrating the role of belief,
 >and strongly held opinions, in the UFO equation.

 >Have you considered the possibility that old Doc Menzel, who was
 >after all, Director of Harvard College Observatory, and on
 >occasion seemed to like to throw his weight around, may actually
 >have believed that there were no real saucers?

 >By denying this skeptic even the honest possession of his own
 >beliefs, and insisting that The Truth is that he must be part of
 >The Conspiracy reveals just as much about your beliefs as it
 >does about his.


I don't think he believed there were no real saucers. But I also
don't think he had a choice considering his intelligence
connections. BTW - wasn't that audience mostly press. Were they
all believers in dishware?

CAVU

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                        Re: Another Approach - Ledger

From: Don Ledger <dledger@ns.sympatico.ca>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:43:23 -0400
Fwd Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:57:12 -0500
Subject: Re: Another Approach - Ledger


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 23:36:06 EST
 >Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>From: Paul Kimball <Kimballwood@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:05:56 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Another Approach

 ><snip>

 >>I would suggest that the second greatest mystery in ufology is
 >>why the skeptics continue to ignore or dismiss the data that has
 >>been collected, including the tremendous body of credible
 >>eyewitness testimony?

 >And I would add a corollary to it: Why after 55 years is there
 >no physical proof of the existance of saucers, but only
 >unsupported eyewitness testimony?  What might this imply?


If I could butt in here Bob. Do you believe "black holes" exist?
If so, show me the physical evidence.

Now, compare with the trace evidence discovered over the years.
Tell Ted Phillips, there's no trace evidence.

CAVU

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                          Spielberg's Take On Taken

From: Steve Bassett <SGBList2@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 19:56:38 EST
Fwd Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 06:30:44 -0500
Subject: Spielberg's Take On Taken


When I read the UPI story below, I was sickened. It was a great
disappointment.

If in 1994, Steven Spielberg had been interviewed by a reporter
and stated,

"I don't personally believe there was a holocaust. No one was
gassed. The book, 'Schindler's List,' is a nice mythology, a
good saga. I think the reason 'Schindler's List' clicked with
the public was it wasn't 3 1/2 hours of special effects. It was
3 1/2 hours of human dynamics and trauma. It really was a trauma
drama."

I would have been no less offended.

For six years I have worked in the swamp known as Washington,
DC. It is a town filled with liars. Lying is an art form. It is
pandemic. It is sickening.

There have been times when I despaired there are not 10 people
left in this country willing to stand for the truth at the risk
of a nickel or a vote.

If the government of a nation and the citizens of that nation
steadfastly refuse to stand for the truth and repeatedly accept
lies, misinformation, disinformation and secrecy as substitutes,
do they not deserve whatever calamities befall them and their
nation?

Rich or poor, vulnerable or powerful - who will stand for the
truth in this country? Who will speak truth to power? Or does it
no longer matter any more?

When the victims of Agent Orange approached the government that
sent them to Viet Nam, they were met with lies and
misinformation. When the victims of Gulf War illnesses
approached the government who sent them to the Gulf, they were
met with lies and misinformation. And abductees? They don't even
dare approach their government. A few have. It was pointless.

It took years, but in time the Nam and Gulf War vets finally
broke through the lies and deception and got some help, though
many died before help came. Abductees (government or alien
generated - no difference) are in a far more difficult position.
Almost no one will stand up to the state on their behalf. Not
even billionaires.

You cannot build a just nation on lies and secrecy. WHY IS THIS
SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND?

Steve Bassett

_____________________________________

SPIELBERG 'TAKEN' BY MINI RESPONSE

Steven Spielberg is thrilled with the response his new mini-
series, 'Taken', has gotten from TV viewers.

The 10-day, 20-hour series chronicled the lives of three
generations of families whose lives were altered by alien
encounters.

"I guess a lot of people have been abducted," the series'
executive producer joked with United Press International. "I
think more Americans have been abducted now that I see the
ratings. The ratings are the best the Sci Fi Channel has ever
had."

So, does the man behind 'E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial' and 'Close
Encounters of the Third Kind' really believe in aliens?

"I don't personally believe anyone has ever been abducted by
aliens," Spielberg explained. "This is a nice mythology, a good
saga. I think the reason 'Taken' clicked with the public was it
wasn't 20 hours of special effects. It was 20 hours of family
dynamics and trauma. It really was a trauma drama and that is
all to the credit of one man, Leslie Bohem, who wrote every
single hour of that show.

"When I was trolling the waters looking for the right person (to
write the series) because I had the concept, but I needed
someone to write all the episodes, it was Les who said, 'I don't
want to do spaceships and aliens every single episode. I really
want to show the effects it has on the people who have been
taken and the effect on his loved ones.'"

That said, Spielberg admitted he does believe in intergalactic
life, but quickly qualified the statement by adding: "I believe
that we are not alone in the universe, that somewhere out there
there are a billion possible places for intelligent life to
evolve. I don't really know if I believe that we have ever been
visited in our century. Maybe if you go to... books and look at
the mythology of who built the pyramids... who really built the
pyramids, who knows? But I don't know if I really believe that
either."

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              Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or

From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:00:03 EST
Fwd Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 06:32:18 -0500
Subject: Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or


 >From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 15:47:23 -0500
 >Subject: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or Fact?'

 >I can't believe the times they've chosen to air this, and missed
 >the premiere because there was no promotion of it that I had
 >seen.

 >See: http://www.scifi.com/symposium/

 >What:

 >An hour-long compilation of highlights from the two recent
 >groundbreaking SCI-FI Channel-sponsored symposiums on the UFO
 >phenomenon.

 >Participants included

<snip>

 >Dr. Michio Kaku, Dr. Richard Henry, Dr. Peter Sturrock, Dr.
 >Jacques Vallee, Dr. Bernard Haisch, Ted Roe and John Callahan.

<snip>

 >Budd Hopkins, Dr. John E. Mack and Dr. David M. Jacobs

Steve:

Maybe the SCI-FI Channel was just embarrased by this howler, and
decided to just "slip it under the door".

With this crowd, even Jerry Clark and Dick Hall couldn't (but
will) call this "balanced".


Clear skies,

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                               Re: Bill Moore?

From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 18:58:37 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 06:33:50 -0500
Subject: Re: Bill Moore?


Whatever happened to Bill Moore, does anyone know? Is he
still active in Ufology or is he keeping silent?


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                       Re: Another Approach - Kimball

From: Paul Kimball <Kimballwood@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 00:54:11 EST
Fwd Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 06:36:18 -0500
Subject: Re: Another Approach - Kimball


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 23:36:06 EST
 >Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>From: Paul Kimball <Kimballwood@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:05:56 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Another Approach

<snip>

 >>I would suggest that the second greatest mystery in ufology is
 >>why the skeptics continue to ignore or dismiss the data that has
 >>been collected, including the tremendous body of credible
 >>eyewitness testimony?

 >Paul:

 >And I would add a corollary to it: Why after 55 years is there
 >no physical proof of the existance of saucers, but only
 >unsupported eyewitness testimony?  What might this imply?

Hmmm... I suppose you would say that it implies there are no
such things as UFOs (in the extra-terrestrial sense of the
term). I would suggest that it means the issue is still an
ongoing one, and that, while physical proof would be ideal, the
testimony of eyewitnesses is nonetheless compelling, and worthy
of something more than a dismissive "it means nothing" from
debunkers.

By the way, the use of the word "unsupported" is a clever bit of
sophistry. In debating, however, we were always taught to
challenge such blanket assertions? Accordingly, I have to ask -
  just what would "supported" eyewitness testimony entail, at
least to you?

Before answering, remember that your standard should be one that
a reasonable person would accept; so there's no confusion, let's
say 'reasonable' in the civil trial sense, which is to say 'on
the blance of probabilities', or more likely than not, as a
burden of proof. Again, remember - we are talking about the
possibility that there these UFO sightings may be real, and the
possibility that they may be extra-terrestrial in origin. If I
was talking about the certainty that they exist, I would suggest
a stricter burden of proof. But we're just talking about the
possibility, which is what the eyewitness testimony implies to
me.


Best regards,

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                     Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Bennett

From: Colin Bennett <sharkley@panzerben.fsworld.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 09:02:22 -0000
Fwd Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 06:39:58 -0500
Subject: Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Bennett


 >From: John Rimmer <jrimmer@magonia.demon.co.uk>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 22:28:01 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Combat Diary Number 1

Hello List Savants,

For once I agree with every single thing the Brenford Polonius
has to say, including his complaints about my West London
accent. After 35 years in this melting pot, such sad declines do
occur. By coincidence, my mother herself (waving her stick from
a wheelchair) recently scolded me about this sad deterioration
in my address. In order to preserve family peace, I am now
paying a lot of money to a professional coach who will restore
my original accent to its former posh Oxford glory.

This is all great fun, but it is all a complete waste of time,
and a lot of this very English provincial neck-biting must be
very boring, irrelevant, and somewhat meaningless to North
American audiences.

My New Year's resolution is to stop this Alice in Wonderland
English nonsense on my part and I hope Mr Rimmer decides to do
likewise, if only because the Americans will think we are both
as mad as hatters, if they have not already thought that for a
long time.

As regards Mr Jan Aldrich, he fired the first shot by launching
a totally unjustified and savage attack on my Combat Diary
Number 1. I have looked through this Diary, and can find nothing
of offence other than myself exercising my creative imagination
about his magnificent web site, which was intended to be
complimentary. The word imagination is of course most suspect in
the Maoist dialectical "fact-talk" of common Ufology (I think
you will agree John, that's rather a nice Orwellian coining, and
will probably cause multiple screams from the document-heads of
the leading Commissars). Lost causes (Mr Aldrich's his own
phrase, not mine) on scale of Project 1947 bring him to genius
level, though in his present mood he will hate me for saying so.

But back to my point. If Jan Aldrich thinks being referred to as
a Cervantes is insulting, then I can tell him that any writer
who was named as such would run ten times around the moon and
back screaming with joy.

If Mr Aldrich wants to offer me an apology for his petulance, he
will, by return, get an apology for mine own. Meantime a very
Happy Christmas to both of you!


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                      Re: Bill Moore? - Ballester Olmos

From: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos <ballesterolmos@yahoo.es>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:38:53 +0100 (CET)
Fwd Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 06:52:11 -0500
Subject: Re: Bill Moore? - Ballester Olmos


 >From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 18:58:37 -0800 (PST)
 >Subject: Bill Moore?

 >Whatever happened to Bill Moore, does anyone know? Is he
 >still active in Ufology or is he keeping silent?


I advise you to read 'Shockingly Close to the Truth', by James
Moseley and Karl Pflock (Prometheus Books).


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                  Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Friedman

From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 08:06:27 -0400
Fwd Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 07:28:43 -0500
Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Friedman


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 23:01:26 EST
 >Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking

 >>From: Tom Bowden <tomrbowden@yahoo.com>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:02:25 -0800 (PST)
 >>Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking

 ><snip>

 >>Bob, give me a break. Menzel knew UFOs were real. All his
 >>debunking statements were part of the coverup in which he was
 >>participating.

 >I think that you are seriously underrating the role of belief,
 >and strongly held opinions, in the UFO equation.

 >Have you considered the possibility that old Doc Menzel, who was
 >after all, Director of Harvard College Observatory, and on
 >occasion seemed to like to throw his weight around, may actually
 >have believed that there were no real saucers?

 >By denying this skeptic even the honest possession of his own
 >beliefs, and insisting that The Truth is that he must be part of
 >The Conspiracy reveals just as much about your beliefs as it
 >does about his.

 >Clear skies,

 >Bob Young

 >"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves." - Goethe

Bob, you might try reading the chapter on Menzel in my book TOP
SECRET/MAJIC or my article The Secret Life of of Donald H.
Menzel, in IUR, Jan/Feb 1988 pp20-24. You are right, skeptics
deceive themselves all the time.


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              Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or

From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 07:46:44 -0500
Fwd Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 07:50:37 -0500
Subject: Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:00:03 EST
 >Subject: Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or Fact?'

<snip>

 >Steve:

 >Maybe the SCI-FI Channel was just embarrased by this howler, and
 >decided to just "slip it under the door".

 >With this crowd, even Jerry Clark and Dick Hall couldn't (but
 >will) call this "balanced".


Sorry Bob, I think your out-voted on this one. You weren't there
at the Symposium in Washington and I guess I wouldn't comment on
what you percieve to have been said. Richard wrote a good
article on this event for the MUFON Journal, but I'm not sure
that's high on your reading list. Perhaps the Washington Post
story would be more to your liking, but that might be construed
as research, so nevermind.....







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                   Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken - Kaeser

From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 08:02:29 -0500
Fwd Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 16:16:10 -0500
Subject: Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken - Kaeser


 >From: Steve Bassett <SGBList2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 19:56:38 EST
 >Subject: Spielberg's Take On Taken

 >When I read the UPI story below, I was sickened. It was a great
 >disappointment.

<snip>

I'm not surprised by his stance at all, given the fact that he's
in the business of myth and entertainment.  It would have
shocked me if he had made some sort of statement that would suck
him into the UFO/Abduction genre and come to haunt him down the
road.

As far as government secrecy is concerned, I'd keep in mind
Pogo's great truth,

"We have seen the enemy. . .and he is us . . ."
Pogo . . .Okeefenokee Swamp, 1958. (Walt Kelly)

A web search of Pogo's phrase returns several variations, and
I'm unsure if it's be modified by authors through the years or
if he actually used it in several ways at different times.

But it does us little good to complain about our elected
goverment if we continue to put them back into office.  As noted
by a past Speaker of the House, "All politics is local".


Steven Kaeser








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                  Re: Great Moments in Debunking - Friedman

From: Stan Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 09:17:10 -0400
Fwd Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 16:17:48 -0500
Subject: Re: Great Moments in Debunking - Friedman


 >From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 23:45:46 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Great Moments in Debunking

 >>From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
 >>To: UFO Updates <UFOUpdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:26:32 -0700
 >>Subject: Re: Great Moments in Debunking

 >>Unbelievable.

 >>The purpose of my original post was not to elicit a discourse on
 >>whether the Earth was flat or round. It is neither. It's
 >>spheroidal-like with a bulge at the equator. Nor does it make a
 >>difference whether Martecord's question was phrased correctly.

 >>The question asked by Martecord was rhetorical. What he was
 >>saying after listening to Dr. McDonald, was that Dr. Menzel was
 >>short sighted, lacked imagination and was full of proverbial
 >>B.S.; that everyone in the audience knew Menzel was outclassed
 >>by McDonald's rational and logical approach. In effect,
 >>Martecord pulled the rug out from under Menzel and that Menzel
 >>had lost the scientific debate with McDonald in the minds of the
 >>audience.

 >Beautifully expressed, and with great restraint. And by the way,
 >I was [literally] there and confirm that McDonald made mincemeat
 >out of both Quintanilla and Menzel. Any serious scholar (as
 >opposed to some of the highly opinionated, factually deprived
 >debunkers who are so fond of quoting skeptibunker Scripture
 >rather than listening to rational debate) would benefit by
 >studying McDonald's writings on these subjects. - Dick

Right on , Dick. I personally refer to Jim's 1968 Congressional
testimony, 71 pages long with information on 41 cases, as the
best single paper about UFO sightings ever done.

For those who think there is only tabloid nonsense about this
subject, it provides a solid data base. Copies are still
available from UFORI, POB 958, Houlton, ME 04730-0958 for $10.
including S and H. I don't think it is available anywhere else.


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                     Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Connors

From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 06:35:30 -0700
Fwd Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 16:20:17 -0500
Subject: Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Connors


 >From: Colin Bennett <sharkley@panzerben.fsworld.co.uk>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 09:02:22 -0000
 >Subject: Re: Combat Diary Number 1

<snip>

 >This is all great fun, but it is all a complete waste of time,
 >and a lot of this very English provincial neck-biting must be
 >very boring, irrelevant, and somewhat meaningless to North
 >American audiences.

<snip>

No, Colin, it isn't meaningless at all. It's one of the reasons
we kicked your British butts out of the Colonies and formed
States. <G>

Thank you for the kind words regarding Mike Hall and my book on
Ruppelt. John Rimmer gave it a nice review in Magonia, but his
main criticism was that it didn't contain anything about British
ufology...go figure, huh?

I am still wading through your book on Charles Fort and will
write the promised review soon.

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                       Re: Another Approach - Maccabee

From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 10:08:29 -0500
Fwd Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 16:25:18 -0500
Subject: Re: Another Approach - Maccabee


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 23:36:06 EST
 >Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>From: Paul Kimball <Kimballwood@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:05:56 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Another Approach

<snip>

 >>I would suggest that the second greatest mystery in ufology is
 >>why the skeptics continue to ignore or dismiss the data that has
 >>been collected, including the tremendous body of credible
 >>eyewitness testimony?

 >Paul:

 >And I would add a corollary to it: Why after 55 years is there
 >no physical proof of the existance of saucers, but only
 >unsupported eyewitness testimony? What might this imply?

Your question is based on the tacit assumption that there is no
"physical proof" of flying saucers. Will you please define
"physical proof" so that we can decide whether or not there is
some?

Also, you refer to "unsupported eyewitness testimony".
What do you mean by "unsupported"... or, what sort of
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                   Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Hutchinson

From: Bruce Hutchinson <bruce@inclusivesolutions.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 11:17:35 -500
Fwd Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 16:28:18 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Hutchinson


 >From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:02:05 -0800
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

David, List and Readers;

<snip>

 >...Trakowski's replacement as Mogul Project Officer was Col.
 >Edward Doty, who we know today from multiple documents, was
 >really an AFOSI officer (i.e., Air Force counterintelligence)
 >and also in charge of UFO investigations at Holloman AFB,
 >Alamogordo.

In checking through the information I have at hand, I cannot
find a single document that supports your rather sweeping claim
of "multiple documents" supporting your accusation that Col
Edward Doty was connected officially to the AFOSI.

Major (later Colonel) Edward Doty was assigned to what
essentially was a field unit of the Air Force Cambridge Research
Station/Center/Laboratory, as it was variously called over the
years. Doty did indeed investigate UFO sightings around the
Holloman AFB, NM, area, where Doty was assigned. But he didn't
carry out those investigations because he was an AFOSI type, but
rather because he was a scientific type.

I suspect that because Doty's name appears on the Project
Twinkle Final Report, you feel that this just _has_ to connect
Doty to CI. You know, ...of course, that Project Twinkle was
carried out separately from Project Blue Book. In fact, Project
Twinkle was carried out under the Air Force's geophysical
research program, a large part of which was handled by the Air
Force Cambridge Research Laboratory (AFCRL), which later was
renamed the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory and which today is
known as Phillips Laboratory.

In Air Force historical reports, Major Edward Doty is credited
with having created the Balloon Branch at Holloman AFB (formerly
Alamogordo Army Air Field) almost singlehandedly. Major Doty
also worked on Project Mogul (or Mogul-like) experiments at
Holloman AFB at least as late as 1951. He carried out a lot of
the scientific field work at Holloman for the AFCRL.

Major Edward Doty undoubtedly worked with AFOSI personnel during
the Project Twinkle investigations, but Doty himself was _not_ a
member of AFOSI, and I doubt that you can produce an authentic,
official, Air Force record showing that he was ever assigned to
AFOSI. You can- and did- make some unwarranted assumptions, but
that hardly justifies such sweeping statements of "fact" based
on absurdly weak evidence.

And as a side note, your site erroneously claims Edward Doty was
the father of Richard Doty. (Richard has also claimed -falsely-
  that Edward was his uncle!) You need to correct that.


Regards,

Bruce Hutchinson
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                   Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Sandow

From: Greg Sandow <greg@gregsandow.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:18:30 -0500
Fwd Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 16:30:30 -0500
Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Sandow


 >From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 08:06:27 -0400
 >Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking

 >>From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 23:01:26 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking

 >>>Bob, give me a break. Menzel knew UFOs were real. All his debunking
 >>>statements were part of the coverup in which he was participating.

 >>I think that you are seriously underrating the role of belief, and
 >>strongly held opinions, in the UFO equation.

May I propose something radical? With all respect for Stan and
Bob - two very smart people - maybe we should stop these
believer/skeptic duels. I've fought my share of them, but they
increasingly seem pointless. The same things get said over and
over again, and nobody budges an inch.

Maybe we could find some areas in which debate could be
productive. Or else concentrate on Kevin's project, which he
started with his Mantell piece. (And Kevin, let me say how
honored I am that you suggested I take part in the peer review.
I haven't had time, but wish I did.)

We need to move forward, instead of standing in the same place,
waving our arms.


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                          Dr. Ellen Crystall Passes

From: Scott C. Carr <sardonica@erols.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:44:46 -0800
Fwd Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 16:34:24 -0500
Subject: Dr. Ellen Crystall Passes


I just wanted to pass along some sad information.....

On Monday, December 16, Dr. Ellen Crystall - author of 'Silent
Invasion' - passed away after a 2-1/2 year battle with
pancreatic cancer. Ellen will be remembered for her dedication
to researching and writing on the UFO - and other - paranormal
phenomenon in New York's Hudson valley and the hotspot Pine
Bush.

The funeral was held Thursday, Dec. 19.

In lieu of flowers, donations in Ellen's memory may be made to:
Association of Computer Online Resources, 173 Duane Street,
Suite 3A,New York NY 10013-3334. The association maintains
www.acor.org which provides a large amount of resources; much
through email listservs which are cancer specific.

She is greatly missed.


--Scott C. Carr

Chief Editor, The Flying Saucer Gazette
www.apocalypsefiction.com
www.erols.com/sardonica/








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                     Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Rimmer

From: John Rimmer <jrimmer@magonia.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 19:05:29 +0000
Fwd Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 16:35:39 -0500
Subject: Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Rimmer


 >From: Colin Bennett <sharkley@panzerben.fsworld.co.uk>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 09:02:22 -0000
 >Subject: Re: Combat Diary Number 1

 >My New Year's resolution is to stop this Alice in Wonderland
 >English nonsense on my part and I hope Mr Rimmer decides to do
 >likewise, if only because the Americans will think we are both
 >as mad as hatters, if they have not already thought that for a
 >long time.

Agreed, but I shall be watching carefully for any backsliding


--
John Rimmer
Magonia Magazine
www.magonia.demon.co.uk









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                    Russian Book 'Psychotronic Golgotha'

From: Eleanor White <eleanor@raven1.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 11:40:24 -0500
Fwd Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 16:37:49 -0500
Subject: Russian Book 'Psychotronic Golgotha'


Hi folks -

This is about the Russian book "Psychotronic Golgotha" written
by by N.I. Anisimov, 1999, and translated excerpts of which are
on either my site or Cheryl Welsh's:

http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~welsh/golgotha.htm

or

http://www.raven1.net/golgotha.htm

For YEARS, both current-day psycho-electronic and MKULTRA
victims have experienced targetting which matches the technology
level reported by UFO abductees, and paranormal event exper-
  iencers.  This has been a hard sell to people who have just
recently been brought in to this waking nightmare we call
"current day mind control", as many do not get the full range of
MC effects.

Well, the Russian mind control scene, described in the book
being translated by Cheryl's paid translator, makes reference to
"anti- gravity weapons".  The excerpt is here below.  In some
ways Russia has been more open on UFOs and paranormal events, so
possibly they are, in this book, being more open about mind
control technology.

Here's the excerpt:

===========================================
The fourth types are based on anti-gravitational technology. The
principle of gravitational types of non-lethal weapons consists
in that any object can be artificially deprived of the earth's
natural attraction and become an obedient toy in the hands of an
operator sitting at the control panel of the gravitational
weapons. Military technologies created on anti- gravitational
technology possess the highest maneuverability of any of the
most modern and exotic weapons. The first and second types of
non-lethal weapons -at the end -are not classified, but the
third and fourth -from previously -are officially considered
Secret.
============================================

Holiday blessings,

Eleanor







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                        Italian UFO Newsflash No. 374

From: Edoardo Russo <edoardo.russo@tiscali.it>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 22:31:36 +0100
Fwd Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 17:15:00 -0500
Subject: Italian UFO Newsflash No. 374


ITALIAN UFO NEWSFLASH

ISSUE NO. 374 -  7 NOVEMBER 2002

by the Italian Center for UFO Studies
(Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici, CISU)

Contents:

- The Reorganization Of The Vesco Archives Completed
- CISU National Congress In Florence
- More Books & DVDs


THE REORGANIZATION OF THE VESCO ARCHIVES COMPLETED

After three months of work, in which several people participated
over what totaled some hundreds of man-hours, the work of
selecting and reorganizing the material contained in the "Renato
Vesco Archive" has come to a conclusion, at the Turin
headquarters of the CISU.

The well known Genoan aeronautical engineer, writer and
ufologist, deceased in 2000, had in fact willed his archives and
library directly to the Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU).
It took two trucks to retrieve and transport them, and
everything was loaded into a warehouse upon being inventoried in
short order.

It was only with the transfer of the CISU to its new, more wide
headquarters, inaugurated this past June, that it became
possible to proceed (following a new relocation) with a detailed
audit of the contents of over 400 boxes. From these, there
effectively emerged a small treasure trove of documents of both
a ufological and an aeronautical nature: these areas in which
Vesco had been intensely involved dating back to the 1940s.

The archiving and copying of the materials  for various files,
projects and catalogues is now underway.

[Communication by Paolo Fiorino e Giuseppe Stilo]


CISU NATIONAL CONGRESS IN FLORENCE

The countdown continues to the XVII National Ufology Congress
  organized as every year by the Italian Center for UFO  Studies
  (CISU) for the purpose of taking stock of our "craft."

In fact, the theme of the conference will be "CISU 2002:
Projects, Investigations and Ongoing Activities." Among the
topics anticipated: the presentation of the book "Ultimatum alla
Terra" ("Ultimatum to Earth"), devoted to the 1952 Wave; the
recent accomplishments of "Progetto Italia 3" and "UsoCat"; the
Italian mission of this past summer in Hessdalen, Norway;
"Project Sassalbo"; the socio-ufological catalogues relative to
UFOs in music and advertising; the computerized databases of the
Italian case histories; and local activities of investigation
and public education.

The congress, which will take place in Florence on Saturday, 23
November, will not be open to the public. However, ufologist and
UFO buffs  (even those who are not members of the CISU) will be
able to participate in the goings-on, upon confirmation
requested through the Center's administrative offices.


MORE BOOKS & DVDS

For collectors, a third video DVD covering our argument is out,
entitled "UFO: dossier inedito" ("UFOs: Unpublished Dossier").
It is produced by Tuttivideo, distributed by Finson, and on sale
for 9.99 Euro.

On the para-ufological front, books continue to arrive in stores
that have to do with the conspiracy theme and which contain
ample sections on UFOs and aliens. Such is the case with "Il
complotto Stargate" ("The Stargate Conspiracy"), penned by Lynn
Picknett and Clive Prince: it is published by Sperling & Kupfer
(348 pages, 19.50 Euro). There's also the essay by Alfredo
Lissoni, entitled "Nuovo ordine mondiale  - Il governo occulto
planetario" ("The New World Order  - The Planetary Occult
Government"). It's published by Edizioni Segno, totals 237
pages, and sells for 15 Euro.

[Reports by Giovanni Ascione, Paolo Fiorino and Roberto
Labanti].


Collaborators on this edition were: Giovanni Ascione, Paolo
Fiorino, Roberto Labanti and Giuseppe Stilo.


- - -

This is the English translation of UFOTEL, a free phone/Internet
information service on UFOs edited weekly by  Edoardo Russo for
the Italian Center for UFO Studies (Centro Italiano Studi
Ufologici), available in Italian by calling +39-011-545294, or
by e-mail subscription, or on CISU website at
http://www.arpnet.it/ufo/ultime.htm

UFOTEL is a supplement to "UFO - Rivista di informazione
ufologica", published by the Italian Center for UFO Studies,
registered at Tribunale di Torino,  No. 3670, on 19 June 1986.
Director: Giovanni Settimo.
Publisher: Cooperativa UPIAR, Corso Vittorio
Emanuele 108, 10121 Turin, Italy

Translated from Italian to English by:
Gary J. Presto, Freelance IT-EN Translator/Proofreader
1123 Revere Beach Pky., # 12
Revere, MA 02151 USA
Tel.: ++ 1.781.485.1683, Fax: ++ 1.781.485.1684
ICQ: 110502923, E-mail: gpresto@attbi.com
Webpage: http://www.proz.com/translator/723



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Corso Vittorio Emanuele 108,  10121 Torino, Italia

This newsletter (as a whole or in part) may be freely copied,
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- to promote the scientific study of UFO phenomena in Italy;
- to help circulate information about UFO phenomena and studies;
- to coordinate national activities of data collecting and studying.

You may reach Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici:
- by mail: CISU, Corso Vittorio Emanuele 108, 10121 Torino, Italia
- by phone: +39 (011) 30.78.63 (24 hours UFO Hotline)
- by fax: +39 (011) 54.50.33
- by Internet e-mail: cisu@ufo.it
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                      Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Clark

From: Jerome Clark <jkclark@frontiernet.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:49:07 -0600
Fwd Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 17:16:25 -0500
Subject: Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Clark


 >From: John Rimmer <jrimmer@magonia.demon.co.uk>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 19:05:29 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Combat Diary Number 1

 >>From: Colin Bennett <sharkley@panzerben.fsworld.co.uk>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 09:02:22 -0000
 >>Subject: Re: Combat Diary Number 1

 >>My New Year's resolution is to stop this Alice in Wonderland
 >>English nonsense on my part and I hope Mr Rimmer decides to do
 >>likewise, if only because the Americans will think we are both
 >>as mad as hatters, if they have not already thought that for a
 >>long time.

 >Agreed, but I shall be watching carefully for any backsliding

I for one look forward to a bit of backsliding. Colin Bennett is
the most original, entertaining figure to appear on the scene in
a long time, a real breath of fresh air, not to mention good
humor. John Rimmer gets mad whenever I say anything nice to or
about him, so I'll just wish him a happy holiday season. I look
forward to a New Year full of his - and Colin's - distinctive
posts.

Cheers of the season to all,

Jerry Clark









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                    Re: Great Moments in Debunking - Hall

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 21:53:01 +0000
Fwd Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 17:29:04 -0500
Subject: Re: Great Moments in Debunking - Hall


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 22:37:54 EST
 >Subject: Re: Great Moments in Debunking

 >>From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
 >>To: UFO Updates <UFOUpdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:26:32 -0700
 >>Subject: Re: Great Moments in Debunking

 >>In effect, Martecord pulled the rug out from under Menzel and
 >>that Menzel had lost the scientific debate with McDonald in
 >>the minds of the audience.

 >Wendy:

 >An audience which was packed to the rafters with saucer
 >believers. A cheap shot like Martecord's question, itself a
 >piece of ignorance, got a laugh from the choir. That old Doc
 >Menzel may have been nonplussed by this stunt isn't exactly the
 >biggest news of the year.

 >Clear skies,

 >Bob Young

That Bob Young would make such an... ill-informed off-the-wall
statement isn't exactly a surprise to me; it appears to be one
of his specialties as a Know-Nothing zealot. I was at the
referenced meeting. The audience primarily consisted of
newspaper editors from around the country (American Society of
Newspaper Editors) who could only be characterized as "saucer
believers" by a loyal skeptibunker and faithist  believer in
Saint Donnie. Newspaper editors were a very hard sell on UFOs. I
know because at that point, I had already spent 8 years trying
to sell them on it.

  - Dick









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                  Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken - Maccabee

From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 17:40:14 -0500
Fwd Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 18:56:07 -0500
Subject: Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken - Maccabee


 >From: Steve Bassett <SGBList2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 19:56:38 EST
 >Subject: Spielberg's Take On Taken

 >When I read the UPI story below, I was sickened. It was a great
 >disappointment.

Spielberg stated that he didn't believe anyone had been abducted
and furthermore doubted that there have been True UFO sightings
of Alien Flying Craft (AFC), although he didn't use those terms,
of course. Surprising?

Twenty years ago after ET was in the theatres and Steve was
earning (I was told) a mere $3M per DAY from the film, we at the
Fund for UFO Research decided to approach him through a mutual
acdquaintance to ask if he would be willing to toss a little $$$
in our direction for research... a few tens of K would be
nice... "chump change" for him. Response: "I can't get involved
in anything controversial."








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              Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 22:40:05 +0000
Fwd Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 18:58:00 -0500
Subject: Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:00:03 EST
 >Subject: Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or Fact?'

 >>From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 15:47:23 -0500
 >>Subject: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or Fact?'

 >>I can't believe the times they've chosen to air this, and missed
 >>the premiere because there was no promotion of it that I had
 >>seen.

 >>See: http://www.scifi.com/symposium/

 >>What:

 >>An hour-long compilation of highlights from the two recent
 >>groundbreaking SCI-FI Channel-sponsored symposiums on the UFO
 >>phenomenon.

 >>Participants included

 >>Dr. Michio Kaku, Dr. Richard Henry, Dr. Peter Sturrock, Dr.
 >>Jacques Vallee, Dr. Bernard Haisch, Ted Roe and John Callahan.

 >>Budd Hopkins, Dr. John E. Mack and Dr. David M. Jacobs

 >Steve:

 >Maybe the SCI-FI Channel was just embarrased by this howler, and
 >decided to just "slip it under the door".

 >With this crowd, even Jerry Clark and Dick Hall couldn't (but
 >will) call this "balanced".


Bob,

Nothing like putting words in my mouth to your heart's content,
no matter how false and misleading they are. There was a time
when I thought (and hoped) that you might be a rational skeptic.
That time has long since passed.

It was your sainted Donald Menzel that wrote to Bill Nash
(witness to the July 1952 sighting of what Bob would have us
believe was a formation of glowing red, disc-shaped meteors that
flew underneath an airliner and abruptly reversed direction)
that what he had seen was fireflies trapped between the panes of
glass in the windshield of the aircraft! What was it, Bob, low-
level formation meteors with the ability to reverse direction,
or fireflies in the windshield? What is your gag threshold of
absurdity?

  - Dick









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                         Re: Another Approach - Hall

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 23:03:49 +0000
Fwd Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 19:00:09 -0500
Subject: Re: Another Approach - Hall


 >From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 10:08:29 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 23:36:06 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>>From: Paul Kimball <Kimballwood@aol.com>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:05:56 EST
 >>>Subject: Re: Another Approach

 >>>I would suggest that the second greatest mystery in ufology is
 >>>why the skeptics continue to ignore or dismiss the data that has
 >>>been collected, including the tremendous body of credible
 >>>eyewitness testimony?

 >>And I would add a corollary to it: Why after 55 years is there
 >>no physical proof of the existance of saucers, but only
 >>unsupported eyewitness testimony? What might this imply?

 >Your question is based on the tacit assumption that there is no
 >"physical proof" of flying saucers. Will you please define
 >"physical proof" so that we can decide whether or not there is
 >some?

 >Also, you refer to "unsupported eyewitness testimony".
 >What do you mean by "unsupported"... or, what sort of
 >"support" would you like to see?

Bruce,

This is very appropriate "bluff-calling", but I doubt that it
will be an antidote to his future bluffing. You have to
understand that (from his perspective) it all _is_ nonsense, and
therefore there can be no evidence or physical proof of the
"existance" [sic] of "saucers" [also undefined]. Zealotry and
logic/scientific method do not go together. "Supported," in his
view, apparently means proof of crashed saucers and alien
bodies. You and I have to accept that we are gullible
"believers," while Bob is the soul of rationality. Ha, ha, ha!

And ho-ho-ho!

- Dick








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                    Re: Dr. Ellen Crystall Passes - Hall

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 23:08:45 +0000
Fwd Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 19:02:16 -0500
Subject: Re: Dr. Ellen Crystall Passes - Hall


 >From: Scott C. Carr <sardonica@erols.com>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:44:46 -0800
 >Subject: Dr. Ellen Crystall Passes

 >I just wanted to pass along some sad information.....

 >On Monday, December 16, Dr. Ellen Crystall - author of 'Silent
 >Invasion' - passed away after a 2-1/2 year battle with
 >pancreatic cancer. Ellen will be remembered for her dedication
 >to researching and writing on the UFO - and other - paranormal
 >phenomenon in New York's Hudson valley and the hotspot Pine
 >Bush.

 >The funeral was held Thursday, Dec. 19.

 >In lieu of flowers, donations in Ellen's memory may be made to:
 >Association of Computer Online Resources, 173 Duane Street,
 >Suite 3A,New York NY 10013-3334. The association maintains
 >www.acor.org which provides a large amount of resources; much
 >through email listservs which are cancer specific.

 >She is greatly missed.

 >--Scott C. Carr

 >Chief Editor, The Flying Saucer Gazette

With all due respect, "Dr." Ellen Crystal? - Dick








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                        Italian UFO Newsflash No. 378

From: Edoardo Russo <edoardo.russo@tiscali.it>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 22:05:14 +0100
Fwd Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 08:35:21 -0500
Subject: Italian UFO Newsflash No. 378


ITALIAN UFO NEWSFLASH

ISSUE NO. 378 - 12 DECEMBER 2002

by the Italian Center for UFO Studies
(Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici, CISU)

Contents:

- UFOs & Mysteries in a "Focus" Magazine CD-Rom
- UFO-Inspired Art & Music On Exhibit


UFOS & MYSTERIES IN A "FOCUS" MAGAZINE CD-ROM

On newsstands now, accompanied by quite a share of advertising,
is the new CD-ROM by "Focus Magazine" [a wide-circulation
popular science monthly], devoted this time around to "Science &
Great Mysteries" and subtitled "From Stonehenge to UFOs"
(selling for 9.90 Euro).

Texts, images, films and graphic animations span the range from
mysterious animals to spiritism, from prophecies to
archeological mysteries, and from crop circles to Atlantis,
  with a large section on UFOs, which the Italian Center for UFO
Studies (CISU) helped to revise a part of the texts of.

[Report by Paolo Toselli]


UFO-INSPIRED ART & MUSIC ON EXHIBIT

Friday evening the 13th marks the inauguration of the UFO-
inspired artistic exhibit "Catch Sight Of...: Sightings  - Signs
& Signals Of Another Provenance". It was conceived by Valerio
Vigliaturo and is hosted through Monday, 16 December, in the
locale of the "=C9space" on Via Mantova 38, in Turin.

Among the participants, there will be 25 painters, sculptors,
photographers and other artists exhibiting their work at the
venue, which will be accessible with free admission between the
hours of 10 am and Noon and 5 pm and 8 pm, from Saturday through
Monday.

Within the exhibit, there will also occur two free lectures on
the phenomenon of crop circles ("Crop Circles: Art Imitates
Aliens," on Saturday the 14th at 5:30 pm), and on the
relationship between UFOs and the cinema ("UFOs On The Screen,"
by CISU member Fabrizio Dividi, on Sunday the 15th at 5:30 pm).

Also accessible at a fee (6 Euro), on the evening of the
inauguration on Friday the 13th, at 9 pm, are the multimedia
show "E.T. Night," videoshows, and the concert by the electro-
pop group "Essential."

[Collaboration by Valerio Vigliaturo; UFO-Italia, 7 December]


Collaborators on this edition were:
Paolo Toselli and Valerio Vigliaturo.

- - -

This is the English translation of UFOTEL, a free phone/Internet
information service on UFOs edited weekly by  Edoardo Russo for
the Italian Center for UFO Studies (Centro Italiano Studi
Ufologici), available in Italian by calling +39-011-545294, or
by e-mail subscription, or on CISU website at
http://www.arpnet.it/ufo/ultime.htm

UFOTEL is a supplement to "UFO - Rivista di informazione
ufologica", published by the Italian Center for UFO Studies,
registered at Tribunale
di Torino,  No. 3670, on 19 June 1986.
Director: Giovanni Settimo.
Publisher: Cooperativa UPIAR, Corso Vittorio
Emanuele 108, 10121 Turin, Italy

Translated from Italian to English by:
Gary J. Presto, Freelance IT-EN Translator/Proofreader
1123 Revere Beach Pky., # 12
Revere, MA 02151 USA
Tel.: ++ 1.781.485.1683, Fax: ++ 1.781.485.1684
ICQ: 110502923, E-mail: gpresto@attbi.com
Webpage: http://www.proz.com/translator/723



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Corso Vittorio Emanuele 108,  10121 Torino, Italia

This newsletter (as a whole or in part) may be freely copied,
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- to promote the scientific study of UFO phenomena in Italy;
- to help circulate information about UFO phenomena and studies;
- to coordinate national activities of data collecting and studying.

You may reach Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici:
- by mail: CISU, Corso Vittorio Emanuele 108, 10121 Torino, Italia
- by phone: +39 (011) 30.78.63 (24 hours UFO Hotline)
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- by Internet e-mail: cisu@ufo.it
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                   Re: Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Bennett

From: Colin Bennett <sharkley@panzerben.fsworld.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 01:14:53 -0000
Fwd Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:20:21 -0500
Subject: Re: Re: Combat Diary Number 1 - Bennett


 >From: John Rimmer <jrimmer@magonia.demon.co.uk>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 19:05:29 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Combat Diary Number 1.

 >Agreed, but I shall be watching carefully for any backsliding

And I shall be on watch, Brentford Polonius, for any piece of
coffin-donkey breath that attempts to reduce my beloved Ufology
(the most wonderful subject in this world) to the thrown
dustbins and bathbun chapelspiel of bland English provincial
mediocrity whose god is the Great Mundane.

Oh sorry BP, I think I just backslid. I am absolutely hopeless.
I hope I don't do this again in Combat Diary Number 2, and reduce
the Great and Good to foaming fury!

I shall try again, but I warn all pelicans that I am as good at
rationalism and democracy as I am good at resolutions, and that
is not very good. Perhaps I have a criminal nature. Perhaps I do
not want to be objectivised, factualised, and especially
socialised. I realise I have a problem, BP. But I have to drink
pelican blood. It is in my nature. Without the blood of the
Disbelievers on my lips, I turn into a supersonic pumpkin
without notice ( have strange DNA).

That's awkward in the dentist's surgery, and especially the
welfare queue, where they won't even give you a past shelf-life
sandwich if they can't see the hairs on your backside, and
that'd difficult for a pumpkin, what?

Once, pursuing a bounder who did not believe in the alien
surgery film, I was nearly shot by my own Neighbourhood Watch
who witnessed my transformation into in a two-foot diameter
ribbed ball with short hairy legs. Even Jan Aldrich would have
laughed as my melon hams negotiated fences and garages and I
finished emptying the toughest bar in town after going in there
at supersonic speed and ordering two fingers of Umbongo and a
jar of jello to go. There was pumpkin and hard dude believers
all over the place.

I suppose I do this all in the cause of Wonder. I am committed.
I have no alternative.

Just think of that. It's a kind of Darwinian curse. A criminal
pumpkin who turns into a four-four pelican-eater before your
very eyes. If I can't find the blood of pelicans, the only thing
I can can is do pantos and barmitzvahs.You should try this
sometime, BP. It's better than Methodism I can tell you. After
all Jesus was good at the transformations, what?

But perhaps Wendy Connors is right. America is best rid of both
of us.

I go now to my anti-backsliding meditations.

I have to tell you BP, that they are not going well at all.

Wish me luck!


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                                   Hynek?

From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 17:23:11 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:24:28 -0500
Subject: Hynek?


Oh yes  I did have one more question, and I hope it's not really
naive, but is it the general consensus of opinion among
researchers here that Hynek was respected and well thought of,
or were his "findings" considered to be somehow "suspect" or
tied in with some specific agenda?


Happy Holidays, All,

Laurel







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                   Re: Dr. Ellen Crystall Passes - Sandow

From: Greg Sandow <greg@gregsandow.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 21:13:04 -0500
Fwd Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:26:11 -0500
Subject: Re: Dr. Ellen Crystall Passes - Sandow


 >From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 23:08:45 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Dr. Ellen Crystall Passes

 >With all due respect, "Dr." Ellen Crystal? - Dick


Ellen had a PhD in music from NYU. She wrote a thesis on an
interesting subject, if I remember it correctly - some American
composers from the 1920s, who were spiritually inclined.

She was quite a good composer. And she had a lovely touch with
animals. I visited her once in her house in Pennsylvania.
Chipmunks ran right up to us, begging for food. And deer came
out of the woods to be fed. One of them ate out of my hand. I
don't claim there's anything unique about this, but for whatever
it's worth, I've never encountered it anywhere else.


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                   Re: Great Moments in Debunking - Gates

From: Robert Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 01:00:27 EST
Fwd Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:34:59 -0500
Subject: Re: Great Moments in Debunking - Gates


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 22:37:54 EST
 >Subject: Re: Great Moments in Debunking

 >>From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
 >>To: UFO Updates <UFOUpdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:26:32 -0700
 >>Subject: Re: Great Moments in Debunking

 ><snip>

 >>In effect, Martecord pulled the rug out from under Menzel and
 >>that Menzel had lost the scientific debate with McDonald in
 >>the minds of the audience.

 >Wendy:

 >An audience which was packed to the rafters with saucer
 >believers. A cheap shot like Martecord's question, itself a
 >piece of ignorance, got a laugh from the choir. That old Doc
 >Menzel may have been nonplussed by this stunt isn't exactly the
 >biggest news of the year.

Bobs skies aren't too clear in this instance. As I recall from
my reading it was a room full of veteran newspaper
reporters/editors as opposed to what Bob characterizes as
"saucer believers."

The shot wasn't cheap at all... it just demonstrated how foolish
Menzels theories were... which were not lost on the audience.


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                   Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Gates

From: Robert c <RGates8254@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 01:07:00 EST
Fwd Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:36:32 -0500
Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Gates


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 23:01:26 EST
 >Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking

 >>From: Tom Bowden <tomrbowden@yahoo.com>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:02:25 -0800 (PST)
 >>Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking

 ><snip>

 >>Bob, give me a break. Menzel knew UFOs were real. All his
 >>debunking statements were part of the coverup in which he was
 >>participating.

 >Hi, Tom:

 >I think that you are seriously underrating the role of belief,
 >and strongly held opinions, in the UFO equation.

 >Have you considered the possibility that old Doc Menzel, who was
 >after all, Director of Harvard College Observatory, and on
 >occasion seemed to like to throw his weight around, may actually
 >have believed that there were no real saucers?

Don't I recall seeing somewhere that Menzel reported a UFO himself?

 >By denying this skeptic even the honest possession of his own
 >beliefs, and insisting that The Truth is that he must be part of
 >The Conspiracy reveals just as much about your beliefs as it
 >does about his.

We do know that Menzel was involved in highly classified work
for the US Govt. Doesn't mean he was the kingpin of crashed
saucers, but he did have a classified background so to speak.


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                   Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken - Speiser

From: Jim Speiser <jimspeiser@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 00:10:04 -0700
Fwd Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:54:11 -0500
Subject: Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken - Speiser


 >From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 17:40:14 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken

 >>From: Steve Bassett <SGBList2@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 19:56:38 EST
 >>Subject: Spielberg's Take On Taken

<snip>

 >Twenty years ago after ET was in the theatres and Steve was
 >earning (I was told) a mere $3M per DAY from the film, we at the
 >Fund for UFO Research decided to approach him through a mutual
 >acdquaintance to ask if he would be willing to toss a little $$$
 >in our direction for research... a few tens of K would be
 >nice... "chump change" for him. Response: "I can't get involved
 >in anything controversial."

This reminds me of another Great Moment In Debunking.

At the 1987 MUFON Conference in Washington DC, the fledgling
MJ-12 controversy was center stage, and Bill Moore was giving
a talk. He sidetracked onto a story he had heard that went
some- thing like the following:

President Reagan invited Steven Spielberg to the White House for
a special private screening of 'ET: The Extraterrestrial'. When
it was over, Reagan clapped Spielberg on the back and said
something along the lines of, "My friend, there aren't 5 people
in this town who know just how true that story is."

Moore had barely finished telling this story when, from the back
of the room, a small voice said, "Carter was President." We all
turned around and immediately recognized the speaker, dear old
Uncle Phil. Jaime Shandera was in the audience as well, and
began goading Klass, "What's that Phil? What'd you say? Stand
up and be heard!" Whereupon Klass rose to his feet imperiously
and intoned, "In 1977, Jimmy Carter was the President of the
United States..." Moore interrupted him, "That's right, Phil,
but 'ET' was released in 1981! You stand corrected..._again_!!"

The place roared with laughter and applause, and I've never seen
anyone slink into their seat quite as slowly. Though of course
it was an innocent slip, and though I'm sure the Reagan story is
apocryphal, it was still a great moment.


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                   Re: Great Moments in Debunking - Morton

From: Dave Morton <Marspyrs@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 05:04:03 EST
Fwd Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:57:29 -0500
Subject: Re: Great Moments in Debunking - Morton


 >From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
 >Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 16:50:17 -0700
 >Fwd Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 19:45:58 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Great Moments in Debunking - Connors

 >>From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >>To: UFO Updates <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 22:37:54 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Great Moments in Debunking - Young

 >>>From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
 >>>To: UFO Updates <UFOUpdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:26:32 -0700
 >>>Subject: Re: Great Moments in Debunking

<snip>

 >>Wendy:

 >>An audience which was packed to the rafters with saucer
 >>believers. A cheap shot like Martecord's question, itself a
 >>piece of ignorance, got a laugh from the choir. That old Doc
 >>Menzel may have been nonplussed by this stunt isn't exactly the
 >>biggest news of the year.

 >To believe that a convention of the American Society of
 >Newspaper Editors equates to "An audience... packed to the
 >rafters with saucer believers," boggles the rational mind. All
 >except yours of course, which kind of just sits there in a jar
 >and sputters.

 >Old Doc Menzel wasn't "nonplussed" by any stretch of the
 >imagination. He learned that there were people in the world that
 >can see some scientists, no matter what their perceived stature,
 >are just as prone to being con artists as the President of
 >Enron, Worldcom, etc. and that Menzel ranked right up there with
 >scientists who once said that man would never fly.

 >>Clear skies,

 >>Bob Young

 >Clear Thought,

 >Wendy Connors

I have a theory I may try out, when I have absolutely nothing
better to do. I think it's a possibility that Bob Young is
actually an email auto-responder unit, programmed to pick some
reply at random from thousands of possible replies in its
database.

For example, if you say, "Menzel's explanation for the whale-
sized, humming saucer hovering over my house was dark fog.", the
Young auto-responder might reply with something like, "Dr. Menzel
was a college professor, and he had a large collection of
telescopes, as well as microscopes (for stamp collecting - a
hobby). Harvard College is one of the oldest institutions of
higher learning in this country. Mogul balloons were produced by
the thousands during the war. Buy War Bonds!"

The unit then appends a signature file (varied occasionally)
stating something like, "Click here! Bob Young" - or whatever
the unit chooses at random. It's always irrelevant, irrational,
and false - and sometimes completely incomprehensible, but it's
a response generated by a computer, ie, an auto-responder.

I may setup a "junk" Email account and try it, some cold day in
January, just to satisfy my very weak curiosity. Then again, I
might not bother.


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                            Re: Hynek? - Speiser

From: Jim Speiser <jimspeiser@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 07:47:05 -0700
Fwd Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:23:03 -0500
Subject: Re: Hynek? - Speiser


 >From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
 >Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 17:23:11 -0800 (PST)
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Subject: Hynek?

 >Oh yes I did have one more question, and I hope it's not really
 >naive, but is it the general consensus of opinion among
 >researchers here that Hynek was respected and well thought of,
 >or were his "findings" considered to be somehow "suspect" or
 >tied in with some specific agenda?

Pre- or Post-'Swamp Gas'?


Jim Speiser

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the
Gospels in praise of intelligence.
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                            Re: Hynek? - Friedman

From: Stan Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 11:28:53 -0400
Fwd Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 17:58:55 -0500
Subject: Re: Hynek? - Friedman


 >From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
 >Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 17:23:11 -0800 (PST)
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Subject: Hynek?

 >Oh yes  I did have one more question, and I hope it's not really
 >naive, but is it the general consensus of opinion among
 >researchers here that Hynek was respected and well thought of,
 >or were his "findings" considered to be somehow "suspect" or
 >tied in with some specific agenda?


Laurel, you must joking about a consensus amongst UFO
researchers. :-)

Hynek was a nice gentleman who almost always avoided taking a
stand. He was very concerned about the possible reactions from
his Astronomy colleagues.

Once he told me that the problem was that 90% of scientists
didn't believe in UFOs. I responded that if he meant astronomers
over the age of 60, I would agree. But that in my lectures to
many professional groups, I found great acceptance, although I
came on much stronger than he ever did. He almost always
apologized at the beginning of his lectures for even  speaking
about UFOs.

He would never do his homework about interstellar travel, so
that like most astronomers, he didn't see how one can get here
from there - he looked for paranormal explanations. He did write
a number of articles calling attention to the idea that some UFO
sightings were worth studying. There was an enormous contrast
between him and Jim MacDonald.

His book "The UFO Experience" is on my short list of important
sources of UFO information. He did seem very much concerned that
if he spoke too strongly the USAF would cancel his consulting
contract.

At a meeting in LA, when he was ready to retire, he stated he
was submitting a grant request to the government for a UFO
study. I asked him how much? $25,000. That doesn't put a big
value on such a study. Ask for $250K and settle for $175.

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                             Re: Hynek? - Clark

From: Jerome Clark <jkclark@frontiernet.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:45:07 -0600
Fwd Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 18:01:19 -0500
Subject: Re: Hynek? - Clark


 >From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
 >Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 17:23:11 -0800 (PST)
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Subject: Hynek?

 >Oh yes I did have one more question, and I hope it's not really
 >naive, but is it the general consensus of opinion among
 >researchers here that Hynek was respected and well thought of,
 >or were his "findings" considered to be somehow "suspect" or
 >tied in with some specific agenda?


I knew Allen Hynek reasonably well, and I've also had the
experience of writing a multi-volume encyclopedic history of the
UFO controversy.

 From those perspectives, I'd say that history is likely to judge
Hynek the major figure in, perhaps even the hero of, UFO
history. (James McDonald, of course, will also receive his share
of praise.) Hynek had his faults - not just as Blue Book hatchet
man in his early career, but as sometimes woolly-minded
speculationist in his later - but his contributions hugely
outweigh his shortcomings, of which all scientific pioneers
always have their share.

Besides his understanding that the UFO phenomenon represents
something of importance, he exercised great courage in openly
criticizing science, government, and military for their shameful
neglect. In a future age, when the Menzels and Klasses have been
forgotten, Hynek will get his due.


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                          Secrecy News -- 12/20/02

From: Steven Aftergood <saftergood@fas.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 14:20:35 -0500
Fwd Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 18:11:14 -0500
Subject: Secrecy News -- 12/20/02


SECRECY NEWS
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2002, Issue No. 125
December 20, 2002


**      ADDITIONAL VIEWS ON CONGRESSIONAL 9/11 PANEL
**      REP. HORN SPEAKS OUT ON FOIA
**      DECLASSIFICATION OF NAZI WAR CRIMES RECORDS
**      RESOURCES ON IRAQ


ADDITIONAL VIEWS ON CONGRESSIONAL 9/11 PANEL

Several members of the congressional Joint Inquiry into
September 11 released additional statements this week,
amplifying or dissenting from the conclusions of the joint
committee's December 10 report and shedding new light on the
inner workings of intelligence oversight.

Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) criticized
the joint committee leadership for improperly excluding the
other members from committee deliberations and ignoring their
complaints.

"The inquiry was conducted and overseen in a way that left rank-
and- file Members at a distinct disadvantage...," Senators Kyl
and Roberts wrote.  "There was no debate about the Report...
Throughout the process, rank-and-file Members complained about
irregularities.... Upon instructions from the Chairmen -- and in
violation of SSCI rules -- the [joint inquiry staff] often
failed to tell Members and staff of  important non-compartmented
information it discovered in a timely manner."

The Senators also presented some astute criticisms of the
contents of the final report.  For example:

"The Report ... does not really grapple with the contradiction
between the high-ranking officials' complaints about inadequate
resources and the fact that, according to the Office of
Management and Budget, the intelligence agencies usually got
what they asked for."

And not least, the Kyl/Roberts statement offers some insight
into the attitudes and approach of Senator Roberts, who is
expected to be the next chairman of the Senate Intelligence
Committee.

For example, it appears that Roberts advocates new anti-leak
legislation, a cause previously identified with Senator Richard
Shelby.  Thus, Senators Kyl and Roberts wrote:

"Another change in the law that could improve the institutional
framework would be further congressional legislation to enable
the U.S. Government to deter and punish unauthorized disclosure
of security-related information."

See the Additional Views of Senator Jon Kyl and Senator Pat
Roberts here:

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2002_rpt/kyl-roberts.html

Congresswoman Jane Harman (D-CA) offered additional views that
were more supportive of the final joint inquiry report in a
December 19 statement here:

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2002_rpt/harman.html


REP. HORN SPEAKS OUT ON FOIA

"I would ... encourage FOIA requesters to persevere in demanding
the greatest access to information consistent with the public
interest," said Rep. Stephen Horn (R-CA), an outstanding
congressional champion of the Freedom of Information Act who is
retiring this year.

Furthermore, "I urge them to reach out to those in Congress who
are responsible for FOIA oversight in order to ensure that those
in the Legislative Branch understand the issues from a front-
line perspective," he said.

The Justice Department's Office of Information and Privacy (OIP)
conducted an extensive and rather insightful interview with Rep.
Horn on the past, present and future of FOIA, congressional
oversight, homeland security and related themes.

See the transcript of the interview, published December 19,
here:

http://www.usdoj.gov/oip/foiapost/2002foiapost31.htm

A tip of the hat is due to the Justice Department Office of
Information and Privacy, which had no obligation to conduct this
kind of interview or to publish it.  Doing so signifies a
genuine commitment to the FOIA process on the part of the OIP
that one can only be grateful for.  OIP staff attorneys are not
to blame if one of their agency clients is corrupt.


DECLASSIFICATION OF NAZI WAR CRIMES RECORDS

The last big declassification initiative enacted by Congress was
the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, later amended to
include the Japanese Imperial Government Disclosure Act.

The progress of the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial
Government Interagency Working Group in fulfilling these
mandates is described in the November 2002 issue of the
newsletter Disclosure, which is posted here (thanks to MJR):

http://www.archives.gov/iwg/disclosure_magazine/disclosure_nov2002.pdf

The most recent meeting minutes of the Interagency Working Group
are available here:

http://www.archives.gov/iwg/meetings/minutes_102502.html


RESOURCES ON IRAQ

A U.S. State Department Fact Sheet entitled "Illustrative
Examples of Omissions From the Iraqi Declaration to the United
Nations Security Council," published December 19, is available
here:

http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2002/12/dos121902.html

"Congressional Action on Iraq 1990-2002: A Compilation of
Legislation," by Jeremy M. Sharp, Congressional Research
Service, updated December 5, 2002, is available here:

http://www.fas.org/man/crs/RS21324.pdf

"Iraq: Weapons Threat, Compliance, Sanctions, and U.S. Policy,"
by Kenneth Katzman, Congressional Research Service, updated
December 10, 2002, may be found here:

http://www.fas.org/man/crs/IB92117.pdf


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                  Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken - Friedman

From: Stan Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:24:33 -0400
Fwd Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 18:17:29 -0500
Subject: Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken - Friedman


 >From: Jim Speiser <jimspeiser@yahoo.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 00:10:04 -0700
 >Subject: Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken

 >>From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 17:40:14 -0500
 >>Subject: Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken

 >>>From: Steve Bassett <SGBList2@aol.com>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 19:56:38 EST
 >>>Subject: Spielberg's Take On Taken

 ><snip>

 >>Twenty years ago after ET was in the theatres and Steve was
 >>earning (I was told) a mere $3M per DAY from the film, we at the
 >>Fund for UFO Research decided to approach him through a mutual
 >>acdquaintance to ask if he would be willing to toss a little $$$
 >>in our direction for research... a few tens of K would be
 >>nice... "chump change" for him. Response: "I can't get involved
 >>in anything controversial."

 >This reminds me of another Great Moment In Debunking.

 >At the 1987 MUFON Conference in Washington DC, the fledgling
 >MJ-12 controversy was center stage, and Bill Moore was giving
 >a talk. He sidetracked onto a story he had heard that went
 >some- thing like the following:

 >President Reagan invited Steven Spielberg to the White House for
 >a special private screening of 'ET: The Extraterrestrial'. When
 >it was over, Reagan clapped Spielberg on the back and said
 >something along the lines of, "My friend, there aren't 5 people
 >in this town who know just how true that story is."

 >Moore had barely finished telling this story when, from the back
 >of the room, a small voice said, "Carter was President." We all
 >turned around and immediately recognized the speaker, dear old
 >Uncle Phil. Jaime Shandera was in the audience as well, and
 >began goading Klass, "What's that Phil? What'd you say? Stand
 >up and be heard!" Whereupon Klass rose to his feet imperiously
 >and intoned, "In 1977, Jimmy Carter was the President of the
 >United States..." Moore interrupted him, "That's right, Phil,
 >but 'ET' was released in 1981! You stand corrected..._again_!!"

 >The place roared with laughter and applause, and I've never seen
 >anyone slink into their seat quite as slowly. Though of course
 >it was an innocent slip, and though I'm sure the Reagan story is
 >apocryphal, it was still a great moment.


Don't be so sure the story is apochryphal. I heard from either
Bill or Jaimie that Jaimie got the story from Spielberg
himself.....

Incidentally, there are many other examples of Phil Klass
putting his foot in his mouth such as claiming that the MJ-12
documents are fraudulent because Material was misspelled
Materiel in both the document and by Moore. The proper spelling
is indeed Materiel. He confused Van Bush with George Bush,
falsely claimed that Vandenberg's forte was radar when it was
intelligence, falsely claimed the Pica Type on the Cutler
Twining memo was wrong since his 9 examples of NSC material (of
the 250,000 pages at the Eisenhower Library) only used elite
type.

He paid me $1000. for that false claim, then complained bitterly
about my publishing a copy of our correspondence and the check
in my "Final Report on Operation Majestic 12". I noted more than
20 false claims about Roswell that he made early on in my paper
"Flying Saucers, Noisy Negativists, and Truth".

Remember that one of the debunker rules is "Don't
bother me with the facts, my mind is made up."

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                Re: [EWAR] Rendlesham File: A Triangle-Shaped

From: Nick Pope <nick@popemod.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 22:22:59 -0000
Fwd Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 18:19:28 -0500
Subject: Re: [EWAR] Rendlesham File: A Triangle-Shaped


 >From: Mark Doulton <doults@tiscali.co.uk>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 00:11:54 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
 >Subject: [EWAR] Rendlesham File: A Triangle-Shaped Aerial Craft

 >-------Original Message-------

 >From: William Forster
 >Date: 18 December 2002 21:12:04
 >To: Mark Doulton
 >Subject: Fw: [EWAR] Rendlesham File: A Triangle-Shaped Aerial Craft (with
interview)

  >----- Original Message -----

 >From: eric stewart
 >To: ewar@topica.com
 >Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 7:54 PM
 >Subject: [EWAR] Rendlesham File: A Triangle-Shaped Aerial Craft (with
interview)

 >Twenty-two years ago on December 26, 1980, U. S. Air Force Staff
 >Sergeant James Penniston was stationed in the 81st Security
 >Police Squadron at the large joint British and U. S. Air Force
 >base known as RAF (Royal Air Force) Bentwaters and its smaller,
 >secondary base at Woodbridge, about three miles away, where some
 >aircraft were kept. Not long after midnight on December 26, Sgt.
 >Penniston was asked to investigate odd lights seen moving in the
 >Rendlesham forest between Bentwaters and Woodbridge. Joining him
 >was USAF Airman First Class John Burroughs and several other
 >security and military personnel. (read more)

Mark and List,

I was interested to see this interview. Those who have Georgina
Bruni's book on the Bentwaters case, You Can't Tell The People,
will be aware that a chapter was devoted to Penniston's
testimony.

 ><snip>

 >Then at that time, I started taking photos. I think there were
 >36 in a roll. They were all B & W, that's what we carried.

 >WHERE DID THOSE PHOTOGRAPHS GO?

 >Base photo lab.

 >AND THE BASE PHOTO LAB PHOTOS WOULD BE IN WHOSE HANDS TODAY?

 >U. S. Air Force.

 >AND THEY WERE NOT RELEASED IN THIS RENDLESHAM FILE.

 >No.

 >SO, IT'S NOT A COMPLETE FILE RELEASE?

 >Oh, no. What the British knew of this incident I would say is
 >probably 10% of what happened. The other 90% is through U. S.
 >channels. It would be primarily -- the way to report it -- would
 >be through USAF channels to 3rd Air Force to MAJCOM Major Air
 >Command, which would have been at Ramstein AFB. Then Ramstein
 >has procedures reporting to JCS in the United States.

Neither of the two files containing papers on the Rendlesham
Forest incident contained these photographs, and I have never
seen them.

Georgina Bruni published some photographs of the alleged landing
site, taken shortly after the incident, showing Captain Mike
Verrano (USAF) and Police Constable Brian Cresswell. She
acquired these photographs from Master Sergeant Ray Gulyas
(USAF). Again, these photographs were not on any of the MOD
files.

A February 16, 1981 document on the MOD website makes it clear
that Charles Halt's tape recordings of part of one of the
incidents were given to General Gabriel (C-in-C USAFE) and taken
to Ramstein AFB. Information on this and on other aspects of
the material in the MOD files can be found at:

http://www.nickpope.net/rendlesham_files_reviewed.htm

 ><snip>

 >YOU AND JOHN BURROUGHS FILED A REPORT ABOUT EXACTLY WHAT
 >HAPPENED THEN?

 >Yeah, we kept a very sanitized -- we reported it to our Security
 >Shift Commander, I think it was Captain Mike Verrano at the
 >time. And we were assured by then the senior officer at
 >Bentwaters that this information would not go outside the United
 >States channels.

Again, Georgina Bruni published these in her book. As well as the ones
allegedly submitted by Penniston and Burroughs, she published witness
statements signed by Edward Cabansag, Fred Buran and J. D. Chandler.

 ><snip>

 >Yet, "entities" are described in the November 29, 2002 release
 >of the Rendlesham file by the British Ministry of Defence as
 >shown in the following memo in which the date, address and
 >writer are blacked out:

 >English Ministry of Defence Memo that references "several
 >entities near RAF Bentwaters on the night of December 29/30
 >1980."

This memo is a fake, and has been in the public domain for many
years.

Best wishes,

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                     Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle

From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 18:14:26 EST
Fwd Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 19:11:19 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle


 >From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:24:25 -0800
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:53:09 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed


David, List, All -

I'm replying to you carefully here, because there are other
things going on in this, not the least of which is a rather
transparent attempt by Schmitt to cause trouble for CUFOS, Mark,
and me. He is suggesting unethical behavior on our part, and, of
course, encouraging the view that I'm a bad person because I
"turned" on Frank so quickly. Never mind the man lied to me for
more than a decade and supplied documents that we now know are
forgeries. (And as I read this, I noticed that the sentence
about the man who lied to me for a decade could apply to both
Kaufmann and Schmitt.)

 >>Just to set the record straight, it was not CUFOS who introduced
 >>me to the fabricated documents. Yes, I know that there are some
 >>who believe that CUFOS is filled with unethical and deceitful
 >>people who delight in giving away secrets, but I have learned
 >>this is not the case. Just ask yourself where all those stories
 >>come from and then ask yourself why we should believe him?

 >Kevin,

 >Just to straighten the record even further, perhaps you should
 >tell us just who did introduce you to the documents. And then to
 >get it really straight, where did they get the documents?
 >Chances are, this will all eventually trace back to CUFOS one
 >way or another, regardless if you got the documents directly
 >from CUFOS or not.

Actually, there are a number of sources of documents. Schmitt,
Carey and you seem to believe that such documents could only
have originated with them and who then supplied them to CUFOS.
In fact, Carey raised a similar allegation after I wrote my
article about Frank Kaufmann for FATE magazine. He told Schmitt
that the information had to come from CUFOS never thinking that
I used nothing in that article from CUFOS but only that from my
own files. If you go back to the article, you'll see a document
in there that came from... Frank Kaufmann.

So, I received documents from Frank himself and have a letter
  from Frank that confirms this. I have obtained documents from
NARA in attempts to corroborate what Frank said about his
background and the fact he might have been an officer.....
Remember, Schmitt suggested more than once Kaufmann had been a
colonel.

And there were documents and information that came from other
sources, but I believe if we traced them back, we'd find the
original source was not CUFOS, but Don Schmitt. What this means
is that CUFOS did not supply these documents to me. It means
Schmitt doesn't know how to keep a secret. He'll just have to
think about what he told to whom and who might have shared that
information with me. If he's worried about those things, then he
should keep his own mouth shut.

And there were documents that came from inside the skeptical
community who also know how to use FOIA and who to send such
requests to in the first place. Several documents that weren't
published because they have no relevance to the articles include
War Department Notification of Personnel Action dated December
12, 1947, allowing Kaufmann to resign his position to take a job
in town, Special Order 51 dated 13 Mar 1947 that appointed
"civilian" Frank Kaufmann to the Efficiency Rating Committee,
and the Transcript/Statement of Federal Service that showed
Kaufmann employed at the base as a clerk (personnel) from
November 11, 1945 to December 12, 1947, with a top salary of
$3,146 a year. Ask Schmitt if he has any of these documents.

For those of you keeping score at home, I might point out that
Frank also supplied a copy of the famous Twining letter of 24
September 1947 which had the "buy war bonds" logo on it. It was
one way to underscore the validity of some of the other
documents he was supplying because they had the same logo on it.
It meant that he knew this and since some of his forged
documents had these same logos, it means that he had paper from
the era in his possession.

A story that is illustrative of this is that told by William
Steinman about the Sarbacher letter. Steinman claimed he shared
it only with William Moore, but somehow copies of the letter
ended up all over the place including anonymous copies that
arrived in Bruce Maccabee's mailbox. The point is, Steinman was
providing some with copies and they were giving them to others.
He lost control when he opened the door and Schmitt has done the
same thing here.

So, you see, once again, the only source of documents about
Frank Kaufmann was not only Don Schmitt, but lots of others
including the U.S. government.

 >In the end, it was both you and Mark Rodeghier, director of
 >CUFOS, who wrote the recent expose of Kaufmann, found at the
 >CUFOS website.

 >http://www.cufos.org/FrankKaufmannExposed.pdf

 >In the section by Rodeghier, he writes, "Recently I was able to
 >visit Roswell along with two colleagues and meet with Juanita
 >Kaufmann, Frank's widow. She allowed us access to her husband's
 >office and papers, for which we are very grateful."

 >What got left out of the story here, according to recent e-mail
 >I have had with Tom Carey and Don Schmitt, was that one of those
 >unnamed Rodeghier colleagues was Don Schmitt.

Well, let's talk about that. There were three people who visited
the house. One of them asked, for personal reasons that are
unrelated to the UFO field, to be left out of the story. If
Schmitt has told you who this is, then he has violated a
confidence. If he has not, then he is acting honorably.

Mark Rodeghier tried to contact Schmitt repeatedly, both on the
telephone and with email to tell him about the planned articles,
to receive his input for them, and to explain how the bylines
would be handled. Schmitt never returned the telephone calls nor
answered the email. The only conclusion to be drawn was that he
was uninterested in the story and didn't care to be involved in
it. We weren't going to attach anyone's name who had not given
permission to do so. Had we done that, we'd probably be having a
different sort of conversation.

 >Schmitt and Carey had carefully nurtured a relationship with
 >Kaufmann and his family over a period of years and were the
 >one's granted access to his office and papers after his death.

 From this sentence you seem to suggest that Carey was in the
house with Rodeghier and Schmitt. I'm sure you didn't mean this.
He was not there.

 >When I was in Roswell in August of 2001, by chance I was there
 >simultaneously as Don Schmitt. Schmitt told me at that time that
 >it didn't look good for Kaufmann's documents, that he had
 >probably hoaxed all of them, and the typewriter that he had done
 >it with was in his personal effects. I was also told this
 >information was going to be withheld until after Juanita
 >Kaufmann's death out of respect to her.

Which is a very nice gesture, for which we can thank Mike
Swords. He advocated strongly that everything be withheld until
after Juanita Kaufmann died.

 >I treated this as privileged information and sat on it for over
 >a year. I am not even going to question whether CUFOS and you
 >should have been the ones to first blow the whistle. But both
 >you and Rodeghier should have at least acknowledged Don Schmitt
 >and Tom Carey's crucial role in digging out this information.
 >Instead they got written completely out of the picture. Schmitt
 >at best became an anonymous "colleague" in Rodeghier's article,
 >and unless one knew better, played no role at all in Rodeghier's
 >research or uncovering Kaufmann's document hoaxing.

First, why shouldn't I blow the whistle. I found Frank Kaufmann
and convinced him to talk with Don Schmitt and me. I introduced
Frank to Schmitt, and I met with him many times when Schmitt
wasn't there. The last time I saw him, Kaufmann was attempting
to position himself as the number one Roswell guy, suggesting
that any number of others should be ignored because THEY weren't
telling the truth. Only Frank was telling the truth and he had
the documents to prove it... And Frank hinted about some
unsavory communication he'd had with Schmitt about me.

There is a very simple reason that Schmitt wasn't mentioned in
the article. He never returned telephone calls or answered email
enquiries about what and how he wanted to be identified in the
article. This lack of communication is how I ended up called a
liar in OMNI magazine. Schmitt convinced Paul McCarthy to write
an article about the missing nurses (ever wonder why he felt it
necessary to pass this story onto someone else rather than have
me, his partner and a professional writer write it?) to expose
it in a national forum.  Then McCarthy began asking difficult
questions and Schmitt stopped returning McCarthy's telephone
calls. (Do we see a trend here?) McCarthy got pissed, and chased
the information. When Schmitt finally condescended to talk to
McCarthy, in an attempt to spin his way clear, told McCarthy
that WE had invented the missing nurses tale for the publicity
it would generate or some such nonsense. Not only would I not be
dumb enough to say something like that to a reporter, I would
never have involved my partner in such a transparent scheme
without, at the very least, asking him.

And, if you're worried about Mark leaving Schmitt's name out of
the article, remember Schmitt running around telling people
about the note that Patrick Saunders had written in The Truth
about the UFO Crash at Roswell... a note that came to me, not to
Schmitt and one in which he forgot to mention my name as the
source. Which, of course, is not excuse for bad behavior on our
part, but shows a trend in the UFO community. This is not to
suggest any bad behavior by us but merely an illustration. Had
Schmitt returned the telephone calls or answered the emails,
then his role would have been acknowledged. He has only himself
to blame.

But the real point is that Schmitt would not return telephone
calls or email and there was no choice but to leave him out of
the article. Without his permission, and his input, he couldn't
be included. Now there is a nasty fight going on about this,
with Schmitt standing on the sidelines fanning the flames (as
your email suggests) because he feels slighted. Maybe he should
learn to return telephone calls, answer an email, and stop
making up things as he goes along.

So, yes, Schmitt was there and Schmitt carried documents out of
the house. No one denies this. Some of these documents he shared
with CUFOS and others he did not. Sources for documents about
Frank come from a number of sources including Frank himself,
NARA, Don Schmitt and even some members of the skeptical
community. There are, of course, duplications here.

But Schmitt was not the only one there, nor was he the only one
to have talked to Frank about this. Frank gave many interviews
and one of the last on video tape provided the text (which was
read) but not a hard copy of the Easley letter... still another
source that traces back, not to Schmitt as you allege but to
Frank himself.

And please, tell me again, how Schmitt and Carey were dubious
about Frank Kaufmann when Schmitt was tripping all over himself
to boost Frank's credibility by suggesting he had once been a
colonel. I never heard Frank say that, but I did hear Schmitt
say it numerous times.

I think this covers all the points your raised. Does any of this
give you pause?


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                    Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken - Hall

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 23:31:55 +0000
Fwd Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 19:29:10 -0500
Subject: Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken - Hall


 >From: Stan Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:24:33 -0400
 >Subject: Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken

 >>From: Jim Speiser <jimspeiser@yahoo.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 00:10:04 -0700
 >>Subject: Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken

 >>>From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 17:40:14 -0500
 >>>Subject: Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken

<snip>

 >>This reminds me of another Great Moment In Debunking.

 >>At the 1987 MUFON Conference in Washington DC, the fledgling
 >>MJ-12 controversy was center stage, and Bill Moore was giving
 >>a talk. He sidetracked onto a story he had heard that went
 >>some- thing like the following:

 >>President Reagan invited Steven Spielberg to the White House for
 >>a special private screening of 'ET: The Extraterrestrial'. When
 >>it was over, Reagan clapped Spielberg on the back and said
 >>something along the lines of, "My friend, there aren't 5 people
 >>in this town who know just how true that story is."

 >>Moore had barely finished telling this story when, from the back
 >>of the room, a small voice said, "Carter was President." We all
 >>turned around and immediately recognized the speaker, dear old
 >>Uncle Phil. Jaime Shandera was in the audience as well, and
 >>began goading Klass, "What's that Phil? What'd you say? Stand
 >>up and be heard!" Whereupon Klass rose to his feet imperiously
 >>and intoned, "In 1977, Jimmy Carter was the President of the
 >>United States..." Moore interrupted him, "That's right, Phil,
 >>but 'ET' was released in 1981! You stand corrected..._again_!!"

 >>The place roared with laughter and applause, and I've never seen
 >>anyone slink into their seat quite as slowly. Though of course
 >>it was an innocent slip, and though I'm sure the Reagan story is
 >>apocryphal, it was still a great moment.

 >Don't be so sure the story is apochryphal. I heard from either
 >Bill or Jaimie that Jaimie got the story from Spielberg
 >himself.....

<snip>

Stan,

Shandera was the source of the story. I'm not sure that makes it
credible. He was also intimately involved in helping to create
the MJ-12 myth. As Kevin says about Kaufmann et al., how many
flaws, errors, lies, misrepresentations do we need before we
conclude that the MJ-12 documents are fraudulent.

  - Dick








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                  Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken - Maccabee

From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 22:52:47 -0500
Fwd Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 07:48:18 -0500
Subject: Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken - Maccabee


 >From: Jim Speiser <jimspeiser@yahoo.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 00:10:04 -0700
 >Subject: Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken

 >>From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 17:40:14 -0500
 >>Subject: Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken

 >>>From: Steve Bassett <SGBList2@aol.com>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 19:56:38 EST
 >>>Subject: Spielberg's Take On Taken

<snip>

 >>Twenty years ago after ET was in the theatres and Steve was
 >>earning (I was told) a mere $3M per DAY from the film, we at the
 >>Fund for UFO Research decided to approach him through a mutual
 >>acdquaintance to ask if he would be willing to toss a little $$$
 >>in our direction for research... a few tens of K would be
 >>>in anything controversial."

 >This reminds me of another Great Moment In Debunking.

 >At the 1987 MUFON Conference in Washington DC, the fledgling
 >MJ-12 controversy was center stage, and Bill Moore was giving
 >a talk. He sidetracked onto a story he had heard that went
 >some- thing like the following:

 >President Reagan invited Steven Spielberg to the White House for
 >a special private screening of 'ET: The Extraterrestrial'. When
i>t was over, Reagan clapped Spielberg on the back and said
 >something along the lines of, "My friend, there aren't 5 people
 >in this town who know just how true that story is."

<snip>

I, too heard that story... from Shandara, who, one presumes, got
it from Spielberg (I seem to recall that Shandara worked for
Spielberg at one time).








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                            Re: Hynek? - Oplatka

From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 20:37:09 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 07:55:27 -0500
Subject: Re: Hynek? - Oplatka


Many thanks to Stan Friedman and Jerry Clark for their
information about Dr. Hynek!

I was very interested/relieved to see Jerry Clark's comment
about Hynek becoming sometimes in his later career, a wooly-
minded speculationist, because recently I had read in material
from two different sources, that Hynek had claimed that "1 out
of every 40 people" in the United States had been abducted.
Since I neither believe nor accept this, I wanted to learn more
about Dr. Hynek in this context. Perhaps Dr. Hynek did not make
that statement?

I now want to read his book, "The UFO Experience", and am
wondering how to obtain it - can this book be gotten from
Amazon.com, does anyone know? Now I recall reading In Linda
Howe's "Alien Harvest" book, that a Col. George Weinbrenner at
Wright-Patterson, once showed this book to Robert Emenegger.

Also, Stan Friedman's comment that Hynek looked for paranormal
explanations as to how one can get from here to there, triggered
my increasing quandary regarding a theory of Robert Lazar, and
some comments made by Philip Corso in his Roswell book. Since I
never even took math in college and am considering buying a copy
of "Quantum Physics for Dummies, I hope my question does not
sound too moronic, and is as follows:

LAZAR/CORSO QUANDARY -

In an article in Odyssey Magazine (Volume 2, No. 7), Lazar
commented: "An anti-matter reactor allows the spaceships to
produce their own gravitational fields... gravity distorts time
and space... imagining that you were in a spacecraft that could
exert a tremendous gravitational field by itself, you could sit
on any particular place and turn on the gravity generator and
actually warp space and time, and fold it. By shutting that off,
you'd click back and you'd be a tremendous distance from where
you were but time would not have even moved because you
essentially shut it off".

Now, in Corso's book, he says that Dr. Hermann Oberth once
suggested that we consider the Roswell craft from the N.M.
desert not a spacecraft, but a time machine. I do not understand
how these two statements relate to Corso's comments about: how
the Roswell craft perhaps had an electromagnetic anti-gravity
drive and brain-wave directed navigational controls. And that
the EBE's utilized a wave-propagation technology as an anti-
gravity drive and nav. system, which means they traveled inside
some form of adjustable electronic wave. Are Lazar's and Corso's
theories in contradiction with one another, or what? I guess
I'll be thinking about this throughout the Holidays and for the
rest of my life.


Thanks,

Laurel






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                              Re: Christenson?

From: Jim Speiser <jimspeiser@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 00:57:45 -0700
Fwd Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 07:57:19 -0500
Subject: Re: Christenson?


This will be a tough one...I'll be surprised if I get it, but,
here goes....

Does anyone know the email address for Marge Christenson? Or
Dave?

Thanks in advance...


==JJS==






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                               Holiday Wishes

From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 08:39:42 -0500
Fwd Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 08:34:42 -0500
Subject: Holiday Wishes


Hello All,

Whether Jew or Christian, Muslim or Agnostic, Cow or Alien,
this is the time of year when All can come together in a Spirit
of Brotherhood.

http://www.virtuallystrange.net/aic/xmas.html

My best wishes to all for a happy, healthy holiday season.


Warmest regards,

John Velez
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                    Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais

From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 15:47:10 +0100
Fwd Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 10:12:44 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Bourdais


 >From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:26:19 -0800
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

<snip>

 >And yet this carefully prepared, meticulous hoaxer left the
 >same forgeries behind to destroy his story after he died. He
 >could easily have thrown them in the trash or burned them, but
 >he didn't. Instead, he seemed to have deliberately set up his
 >own downfall.

 >Was this a mere oversight from somebody who otherwise was so
 >careful to plan out everything in advance? Or was it part of a
 >master plan to discredit Roswell and researchers like Kevin
 >Randle who bought into Kaufmann's overall story?

 >If Kaufmann was consistent in his M.O., then the latter theory
 >makes more sense. He was as careful in exposing himself as a
 >fraud as he was in setting himself up as pivotal, know-all
 >figure in the Roswell case.


David and all,

Again, I agree with you. It is odd that Kaufmann left behind him
such proof of his forgeries. Simple neglect and disorder look
like a rather weak explanation to me.

In another post, answering me, Kevin Randle demands an answer
to his question:

 >Before we start, let me ask a simple question. How many lies
 >and how many forged documents must we discover before we decide
 >that a witness is unreliable? No, I'm not referring to little
 >mistakes that are the fault of memory tricks, but of honest to
 >gosh lies and documents that were forged."

Well, I think that you gave your answer to that. Of course,
Kaufmann was unreliable. The question now is to try to
understand his behavior. To me, it's an open question. And some
aspects, at least, of his story match with other, independant,
testimonies

In my post to Kevin (Dec.17) I asked what other witnesses we
still have about a site closer than the Foster ranch. I
mentioned:

- Lewis Ricket and his 45 minutes trip with Cavitt ;
- Frankie Rowe (I hope not to be killed for that) ;
- Chester Barton (IUR of summer 2001), again 45 minutes drive ;

I suppose we can add:

-William Woody, who wrote in his affidavit (Pflock's book p 291)
that when his father drove on the US 285, they found soldiers
stationed as soon as 19 miles up north ;

- another witness found by Tom Carey and Donald Schmitt, called
"Tex" (see Filer's File 12, 2000, and CNI News of April 1,
2000). Tom Carey said to CNI that, although the scene seemed to
match the scenario given by Frank Kaufmann, the terrain seemed
to indicate another location, farther north toward Corona. He
described a "teardrop shaped craft", like Kaufmann.

Regarding the testimony of Rickett, I checked how Karl Pflock
treated him in his second book. He wrote repeatedly that Rickett
had been to the Foster ranch ! (see pages 27, 35, 99, etc.) And,
of course, Pflock pointed out that, according to Rickett, there
was only a little amount of debris. A convenient detail for the
Mogul theory. On the other hand Rickett is found unreliable when
he describes a very strong piece that he could not bend : not
good for Mogul.

What was the place where Cavitt took him to an urgent visit? Was
it just for a little amount of debris? Or was it the impact site
of the craft? According to Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt in
their second book (p 141), Rickett, although the craft was
already removed when they arrived, he heard about it's shape :
"long, thin, with a "batlike" wing on it".

All this suggests that there was an impact site close to
Roswell, but we don't know exactly where it was.


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                     Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle

From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:06:45 EST
Fwd Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 15:14:41 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle


 >From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 15:47:10 +0100
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:26:19 -0800
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

Good Morning, Gildas, List, All -

 ><snip>

 >>And yet this carefully prepared, meticulous hoaxer left the
 >>same forgeries behind to destroy his story after he died. He
 >>could easily have thrown them in the trash or burned them, but
 >>he didn't. Instead, he seemed to have deliberately set up his
 >>own downfall.

 >>Was this a mere oversight from somebody who otherwise was so
 >>careful to plan out everything in advance? Or was it part of a
 >>master plan to discredit Roswell and researchers like Kevin
 >>Randle who bought into Kaufmann's overall story?

 >>If Kaufmann was consistent in his M.O., then the latter theory
 >>makes more sense. He was as careful in exposing himself as a
 >>fraud as he was in setting himself up as pivotal, know-all
 >>figure in the Roswell case.


 >David and all,

 >Again, I agree with you. It is odd that Kaufmann left behind him
 >such proof of his forgeries. Simple neglect and disorder look
 >like a rather weak explanation to me.

The real answer is that he never expected them to be found. He
wasn't thinking in terms of UFO researchers looking at these
papers but in terms of his wife and family sorting through them
and they wouldn't understand the significance of them. He didn't
expect those documents to see the light of day.

 >In another post, answering me, Kevin Randle demands an answer
 >to his question:

 >>Before we start, let me ask a simple question. How many lies
 >>and how many forged documents must we discover before we decide
 >>that a witness is unreliable? No, I'm not referring to little
 >>mistakes that are the fault of memory tricks, but of honest to
 >>gosh lies and documents that were forged."

Because no one seems to want to deal with this aspect of
research. It happens to us all the time and we just march right
passed it, whistling happily. We have caught any number of
witnesses and researchers inventing documents and lying, but we
ignore it all. I just wondered how many lies and how many forged
documents must be found before we decide that a witness or
researcher is unreliable and we remove them from our lists,
notes, and theories.

 >Well, I think that you gave your answer to that. Of course,
 >Kaufmann was unreliable. The question now is to try to
 >understand his behavior. To me, it's an open question. And some
 >aspects, at least, of his story match with other, independant,
 >testimonies

I think Kaufmann's behavior is easily understood in the context
of what he said and what he did. There were personal and
financial rewards. He claimed to be reluctant to talk, on
camera, to the media, but he was always there, hand out for some
coin of the realm, ready to tell all he knew.

 >In my post to Kevin (Dec.17) I asked what other witnesses we
 >still have about a site closer than the Foster ranch. I
 >mentioned:

 >- Lewis Ricket and his 45 minutes trip with Cavitt ;

Rickett's estimate of the time could have been in error,
slightly, but I think his description suggests a site closer to
Roswell than the Foster ranch... and closer than Boy Scout
Mountain (thanks Max Littell and Jim Ragsdale). Clearly there
was a site closer to Roswell.

 >- Frankie Rowe (I hope not to be killed for that) ;

Remember first that Frankie Rowe did not go out to the site, so
we're left with her impression of what her father said. Further, it
seems clear that the Roswell fire department wouldn't have been
making runs up into Lincoln County. This suggests a site closer
to Roswell and one in Chaves County.

 >- Chester Barton (IUR of summer 2001), again 45 minutes drive ;

Again, suggestive of something closer than the Foster ranch and
Boy Scout Mountain, but without a precise location.

 >I suppose we can add:

 >-William Woody, who wrote in his affidavit (Pflock's book p 291)
 >that when his father drove on the US 285, they found soldiers
 >stationed as soon as 19 miles up north ;

Which doesn't give us a site, only that the cordon extended far
beyond the Foster ranch and which suggestions some sort of find
closer to Roswell.

 >- another witness found by Tom Carey and Donald Schmitt, called
 >"Tex" (see Filer's File 12, 2000, and CNI News of April 1,
 >2000). Tom Carey said to CNI that, although the scene seemed to
 >match the scenario given by Frank Kaufmann, the terrain seemed
 >to indicate another location, farther north toward Corona. He
 >described a "teardrop shaped craft", like Kaufmann.

Which they really should have called "Swede", but that's another
story... I believe that he has been determined to be unreliable
at this point, or that his story is somewhat dubious. "Tex", I
think, can be shoved, for the moment, into Stan Friedman's ever
present and huge gray basket...

 >Regarding the testimony of Rickett, I checked how Karl Pflock
 >treated him in his second book. He wrote repeatedly that Rickett
 >had been to the Foster ranch ! (see pages 27, 35, 99, etc.) And,
 >of course, Pflock pointed out that, according to Rickett, there
 >was only a little amount of debris. A convenient detail for the
 >Mogul theory. On the other hand Rickett is found unreliable when
 >he describes a very strong piece that he could not bend : not
 >good for Mogul.

I believe Rickett, at this point, to be reliable, though he
might have been confused by some of the minor details, but then,
who wouldn't be trying to remember things fifty years in the
past?

 >What was the place where Cavitt took him to an urgent visit? Was
 >it just for a little amount of debris? Or was it the impact site
 >of the craft? According to Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt in
 >their second book (p 141), Rickett, although the craft was
 >already removed when they arrived, he heard about it's shape :
 >"long, thin, with a "batlike" wing on it".

Well, according to Cavitt, that never happened, but then, I
don't believe Cavitt was very reliable either. His story changed
more often than a model on a runway displaying the latest
fashions. Rickett was trying to help. Cavitt was not.

 >All this suggests that there was an impact site close to
 >Roswell, but we don't know exactly where it was.

Yes, it certainly does and we now have, what, half a dozen
candidates for that location. We can eliminate the Corn site, I
suppose, and Boy Scout Mountain, but we still have quite a
few of them.

I hope this helps, and I'm still waiting for an answer to my
questions.

But, instead of screaming about that, let me wish everyone a
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and send my best to you all for
the coming year.

KRandle






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                     Re: Corso [was: Re: Hynek?] - Gates

From: Robert Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 12:16:20 -0500
Fwd Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 15:17:13 -0500
Subject: Re: Corso [was: Re: Hynek?] - Gates


 >From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 20:37:09 -0800 (PST)
 >Subject: Re: Hynek?

<snip>

 >Now, in Corso's book, he says that Dr. Hermann Oberth once
 >suggested that we consider the Roswell craft from the N.M.
 >desert not a spacecraft, but a time machine. I do not understand
 >how these two statements relate to Corso's comments about: how
 >the Roswell craft perhaps had an electromagnetic anti-gravity
 >drive and brain-wave directed navigational controls. And that
 >the EBE's utilized a wave-propagation technology as an anti-

Hi Laurel, list,

Recall also Corso's famous remark, uttered literally at the end
of the NBC Dateline interview he gave, about the "Nazi Time
machine" that the US supposedly recovered at the end of/after WW
2.

So Corso and time machine(s) theories are not uncommon so to
speak.

Cheers,

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                             Re: Hynek? - Clark

From: Jerome Clark <jkclark@frontiernet.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 13:38:50 -0600
Fwd Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 15:19:42 -0500
Subject: Re: Hynek? - Clark


 >From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 20:37:09 -0800 (PST)
 >Subject: Re: Hynek?

 >I was very interested/relieved to see Jerry Clark's comment
 >about Hynek becoming sometimes in his later career, a wooly-
 >minded speculationist, because recently I had read in material
 >from two different sources, that Hynek had claimed that "1 out
 >of every 40 people" in the United States had been abducted.
 >Since I neither believe nor accept this, I wanted to learn more
 >about Dr. Hynek in this context. Perhaps Dr. Hynek did not make
 >that statement?

I am unaware of any such statement or belief. Allen Hynek and I
had several long conversations about our respective views of the
UFO phenomenon. Sometimes he expressed opinions that I found
pretty esoteric and, to me, unconvincing and unwarranted, but I
don't recall anything like this. In any case, the 1 in 40 figure
related to the alleged abductee population didn't come into the
literature till the 1990s, after Allen's death (in 1986).

 From time to time, I see statements credited to Allen that I
know he did not make. This, I suspect, is one of them.

Finally, I would say that Corso and Lazar are both entirely
noncredible. Any time spent thinking about them or their claims
is time wasted. They ought not to be part of any serious
discussion.


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                     Re: Lazar [was: Re: Hynek?] - Hall

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 21:19:08 +0000
Fwd Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 16:45:42 -0500
Subject: Re: Lazar [was: Re: Hynek?] - Hall


 >From: Jerome Clark <jkclark@frontiernet.net>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 13:38:50 -0600
 >Subject: Re: Hynek?

 >Finally, I would say that Corso and Lazar are both entirely
 >noncredible. Any time spent thinking about them or their claims
 >is time wasted. They ought not to be part of any serious
 >discussion.

 >Jerry Clark

Jerry & List,

Amen to this! Both Corso and Lazar embellished their
credentials, both told lies, both told tall tales which had no
supporting evidence whatsoever.

As one tiny example, one of Lazar's major supporters (G.H.)
circulated an IRS W-2 form that he claimed Lazar had found,
allegedly proving that Lazar had been on the payroll of a
government agency. Well, the zip code on the address of his
alleged employer did not exist at the time and does not exist
now. I have lived in the Washington, D.C., area all of my adult
life, was employed for many years by Congressional Information
Service, had access to all kinds of government directories, etc.
The document is a crude fraud.

  - Dick








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                  Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken - Friedman

From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 20:24:02 -0400
Fwd Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 16:32:50 -0500
Subject: Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken - Friedman


 >From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 23:31:55 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken

 >>From: Stan Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:24:33 -0400
 >>Subject: Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken

 >>>From: Jim Speiser <jimspeiser@yahoo.com>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 00:10:04 -0700
 >>>Subject: Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken

 >>>>From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
 >>>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>>Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 17:40:14 -0500
 >>>>Subject: Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken

 ><snip>

 >>>This reminds me of another Great Moment In Debunking.

 >>>At the 1987 MUFON Conference in Washington DC, the fledgling
 >>>MJ-12 controversy was center stage, and Bill Moore was giving
 >>>a talk. He sidetracked onto a story he had heard that went
 >>>some- thing like the following:

 >>>President Reagan invited Steven Spielberg to the White House for
 >>>a special private screening of 'ET: The Extraterrestrial'. When
 >>>it was over, Reagan clapped Spielberg on the back and said
 >>>something along the lines of, "My friend, there aren't 5 people
 >>>in this town who know just how true that story is."

 >>>Moore had barely finished telling this story when, from the back
 >>>of the room, a small voice said, "Carter was President." We all
 >>>turned around and immediately recognized the speaker, dear old
 >>>Uncle Phil. Jaime Shandera was in the audience as well, and
 >>>began goading Klass, "What's that Phil? What'd you say? Stand
 >>>up and be heard!" Whereupon Klass rose to his feet imperiously
 >>>and intoned, "In 1977, Jimmy Carter was the President of the
 >>>United States..." Moore interrupted him, "That's right, Phil,
 >>>but 'ET' was released in 1981! You stand corrected..._again_!!"

 >>>The place roared with laughter and applause, and I've never seen
 >>>anyone slink into their seat quite as slowly. Though of course
 >>>it was an innocent slip, and though I'm sure the Reagan story is
 >>>apocryphal, it was still a great moment.

 >>Don't be so sure the story is apochryphal. I heard from either
 >>Bill or Jaimie that Jaimie got the story from Spielberg
 >>himself.....

 ><snip>

 >Shandera was the source of the story. I'm not sure that makes it
 >credible. He was also intimately involved in helping to create
 >the MJ-12 myth. As Kevin says about Kaufmann et al., how many
 >flaws, errors, lies, misrepresentations do we need before we
 >conclude that the MJ-12 documents are fraudulent.


With all due respect, Dick, the biggest myth is that the original
MJ-12 documents (EBD,TF, CT) are myths. I think I have heard all
the arguments, including those in "Case MJ-12". My review of the
latter will be lengthy indeed.

I got to know Jaimie quite well over a period of time. He was
hard working, bright, and rational.I have no reason to disagree
with the account given of the trip to DC during which the CT
memo was discovered or about their (Bill Moore and Jaimie)
reaction to the EBD. I believe Jerry Clark can testify about at
least one of the strange postcards. We certainly didn't agree
about everything, such as, for example the wisdom of using
Falcon and Condor - 'UFO Coverup? Live!' - when they knew some
of what they presented would not be true. My argument was that
the public had no way of sorting the truth from the fiction. We
had a long loud argument about that, after the show. Bill and I
had disagreements about the way he published the EBD (Highly
censored, without saying so), his presentation in Las Vegas and
many other items. But he sure did a lot of useful research such
as about Irving Newton, Barney Barnett's boss, etc.

Don't forget that I did demonstrate that a host of Tim Cooper
MJ-12 documents were fraudulent in my MUFON 2000 paper.An awful
lot of the objections to the EBD, TF, CT, are proclamations
based upon inadequate research.

Don't give up on MJ-12 yet.Certainly it is inappropriate to
assume that because documents from one source are fraudulent,
that all documents are fraudulent. One would certainly expect
that intelligence personnel ,once real material had surfaced,
would flood the market with junk.


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                   The Feats & Pitfalls Of Archeo-Ufology

From: Larry W. Bryant <overtci@cavtel.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 20:22:19 -0500
Fwd Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 16:35:39 -0500
Subject: The Feats & Pitfalls Of Archeo-Ufology


The Feats (and Pitfalls) of Archeo-Ufology
By
Larry W. Bryant


"For the people to know the truth, they must have full
accountabilty from their government." -- Larry W. Bryant
(December 2002)


When they arrived from the U. S. Bureau of Land Management in my
mailbox in mid-December 2002, the 15 pages of FOIA-sought BLM
records about the Roswell Incident's recent archeological
excavation at the Foster Ranch UFO-crash site had, as I'd
expected, few surprises.

Other than containing the multipage University of New Mexico's
"Archeological Testing and Remote-sensing Study Plan" (most of
which I'd already seen), the package includes a couple of
state/federal excavation permits:

* From the U. S. Department of Interior -- "Application for a
Federal Permit under the Archeological Resources Protection Act
or the Antiquities Act" (minus a few attachments):

In the form's block No. 4 (Lands of the United States for which
a permit is requested), UNM excavation director William H.
Doleman enters, on July 30, 2002, this descriptor:  "Lincoln
County, Township 4 South, Range 16 East [Sec. 19, 20, 29, 30] .
. .."  And, in block No. 5 (Nature and extent of the work
proposed, including how and why it is proposed to be conducted),
he enters:  "Purpose of project is survey and limited
archeological testing of a 300-ft. by 0.75 mile area to detect
physical evidence of an extraterrestrial vessel impact in 1947.
  Archeological activities will include: . . .."

* From the U. S. Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management
-- "Cultural Resource Use Permit":

Dr. Doleman lists the "Name of Permittee" as the [UNM] Office of
Contract Archeology.  In block No. 4 (Nature of Authorized
Activity), he enters:  "Testing at the 'debris field' alleged
1947 UFO incident."  The permit takes effect on Sept. 16, 2002,
and expires a year later.  Its approval authority is listed as
Carsten F. Goff, deputy state director in the Division of
Resource Planning, Use, and Protection.  In his Sept. 16, 2002,
transmittal letter to N.M. historic-preservation official Jan
Biella, Roswell-based BLM assistant field manager T. R. Kreager
writes: "We have reviewed this plan and believe that the
proposed work is a good approach for this unusual scientific
inquiry."  And on that very day, Dr. Biella faxed back to
Kreager the concurrence of the New Mexico State Historic
Preservation Office in Santa Fe (unable to resist a closing
phrase of -- mocking? -- insight):  "Concur with testing plan.
  We understand that tribal consultation is on-going.  Please
advise us if the tribes provide comments.  We wish you best of
luck as you boldly go where no one has gone before."

Meanwhile, back at the ranch . . . we turn our attention to a
portion of the testing plan that poses some unanswered
questions.

In the section titled "Laboratory Processing," we find this
subplan:

"Artifacts and sediment samples will be transported to the
laboratory at OCA.  Sediment samples will be left sealed and
curated in a locked cabinet, while Native American artifacts
will be processed using standard OCA methods that included
checking against the FS catalog, cleaning with water, and
rebagging and labeling.  All collected Native American artifacts
will be briefly described and photographed and/or drawn if their
nature warrants.

"[And here's the kicker:]  As noted above, it is presumed that
any suspected non-terrestrial materials will be transported to
an appropriate laboratory (to be determined by consultation
between BLM and the project's sponsors [i.e., SciFi Channel])
for scientific evaluation."

Since the BLM-granted permit makes it plain that, at any time in
the project, the Bureau may assert its proprietary interest over
any artifact retrieved from the impact site, what measures can
SciFi Channel (or any member of the public, for that matter)
take to thwart arbitrary BLM sequestration of a bonafide
extraterrestrial artifact?

What authority (if any) does ANY federal official have to
establish limits on public access to the retrieved E.T.
artifacts and to lab analysis thereof?

Does the Bureau intend to consult with U. S. military officials
during its coordination of E.T.-artifact analysis with UNM/SciFi
Channel experts; if so, why?  And if those officials were to
insist on imposing "national security" secrecy upon the E.T.
artifacts, how could that heavy-handedness be
reviewed/appealed/rescinded, and by whom?

If the retrieved E.T. artifacts prove to be technology of high
commercial value, who will decide (and will have the authority
to decide) to market them?  And who will have a say in
determining who gets the licensing and the proceeds of that
marketing?

What steps have all pertinent federal officials taken (and/or
plan to take) in advancing, preserving, and protecting the
public's stakeholdership in the results of the lab analysis of
any E.T. artifacts acquired during the Roswell excavation?

Once the authenticity of any Roswell E.T. artifact is confirmed,
what role should the U. S. Congress play in helping resolve the
various historical, socio-political, and cultural issues
surrounding that confirmation?

As you ponder these questions (and add your own), I recommend
that you photo-copy this essay and send it to your
congressmembers -- with the request that they seek straight
answers from the powers that be.  While you're at it, ask them
(or dare them) to print this essay in the "Extensions of
Remarks" section of their cherished daily publication
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                        Re: Holiday Wishes - Maccabee

From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 22:36:10 -0500
Fwd Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 16:36:51 -0500
Subject: Re: Holiday Wishes - Maccabee


 >From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 08:39:42 -0500
 >Subject: Holiday Wishes


 >Hello All,

 >Whether Jew or Christian, Muslim or Agnostic, Cow or Alien,
 >this is the time of year when All can come together in a Spirit
 >of Brotherhood.

 >My best wishes to all for a happy, healthy holiday season.

I'll second that!!






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                       Re: Rendlesham File... - Easton

From: James Easton <voyager@jeaston.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 04:59:08 -0000
Fwd Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 16:39:33 -0500
Subject: Re: Rendlesham File... - Easton


 >From: Mark Doulton <doults@tiscali.co.uk>
 >Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 00:11:54 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
 >Subject: [EWAR] Rendlesham File: A Triangle-Shaped Aerial

For information:

Originally...

To: Linda Moulton Howe [earthfiles@earthfiles.com]
CC: 'The UFO Research List' [UFORL@yahoogroups.com]


Dear Linda,

Regarding the purported Ministry of Defence [MoD] document
publicised at:

http://www.earthfiles.com

under the heading...

"December 9, 2002 - Update on British Rendlesham UFO Incident
from a U.S. Air Force Eyewitness. Click report here".

This document was known to be a hoax over 15 years ago and is
highlighted in 'Skycrash', by Jenny Randles, Brenda Butler and
Dot Street.

Therein, Jenny wrote:

"This anonymous memo was sent, as a photocopy to the research
team in early 1994, obviously as an indented 'real' leaked
document [if it was a genuine 'leak', then hardly likely to
masquerade as something released under the US FOIA with blanked-
out segments - James].

We have investigated it... and our conclusion is that it is a
deliberate fake by certain parties, whose identities are
strongly suspected by us.

There are a number of valid reasons for believing that this is a
hoax.

For one thing, the MoD letter-head is of a style not used on
public letters until late 1983.

[...]

On 19 June, 1984, after several attempts, Andrew Mathewson, new
head of DS8 at the MoD, wrote to Harry Harris, calling the memo
'very interesting' but adding 'I have to say it is a forgery and
probably intended as a joke'.

This hoax has clearly been planned to test us, or more likely,
to impugn our credibility should we fall for the trick. We call
their bluff". [END OF EXTRACT]


It's a pity that so many years afterwards, someone has still
fallen for it.


At the time this bogus photocopy was sent to Jenny and Co.,
there was still considerable confusion about the dating of any
'UFO' incidents and no surprise that we now understand said memo
ridiculously dates an 'acknowledged alien spaceship landing' as
occurring two nights later than factual misconstrued events it
professes were 'covered-up'.


Your web site claims:

"Not long after midnight on December 26, Sgt. Penniston was
asked to investigate odd lights seen moving in the Rendlesham
forest between Bentwaters and Woodbridge. Joining him was USAF
Airman First Class John Burroughs and several other security and
military personnel".

As Penniston should confirm, aside from Burroughs, the only
other person directly involved was Airman Ed Cabansag - not
'several others'.


It was John Burroughs who alerted myself to the 'earthfiles'
allegations.


Penniston reportedly claims:

"The patrolman who was with me was John Burroughs. He has worked
the law enforcement side. In fact, he had worked directly for
Bud Stefans, but he was one of the guys who went out there with
me.

Q: SO, IS HE THE ONLY ONE WITH YOU?

Well, immediately next to me at 10 feet, yes. We, of course, we
had another one back about 100 meters and there were others back
at a logging road. Of course, there were several people at the
East Gate. And all of this was observed from Bentwaters, too".
[END]


It's long been established that SSgt Bud Steffans [sic] - who
was on patrol with Burroughs remained back at 'east gate'. There
were never 'several people'.

How could there be?

It was Burroughs and Steffan's patrol - checking out an isolated
post - which first reported 'unfamiliar lights', seemingly
within Rendlesham forest.

Penniston and Cabansag responded to the report and consequently
Burroughs, Cabansag and Penniston [BC&P] received permission to
investigate further, leaving Steffans back at east agate.


There were never 'others' back at the logging road which BC&P
followed into the forest - it was only MSgt Chandler, who
subsequently arrived after hearing the radio communications.

For verification, see Penniston's previous - quite different -
  claims and further, factual, background, at:

http://www.rendlesham.com/

The huge discrepancies with Penniston's seemingly ever elaborate
story are evidenced therein.


Meanwhile, Burroughs still maintains, as he always has, that
they never encountered anything more enigmatic than 'unusual
lights'.

He also acknowledges that the three man patrol ultimately
travelled for some two miles before realising one source of
lights they had pursued was a coastal lighthouse.

As for Penniston's infinitely more convoluted tale, Burroughs
concludes that 'Jim' has been "heavily influenced" by subsequent
'hypnotic regression'.

As I'm not championing a classic 'ET landing and nefarious
secret government cover up' assertion, I have no dilemma
concerning such widely divergent witness testimony.

However, I certainly wouldn't promote such claims until I had
resolved the manifest contradictions.


The inherent explanation will perhaps be self-evident to many,
especially those who ask why elementary, requisite, research
failed to spot such a blatantly ludicrous document forgery and
instead promoted it as genuine, 'best evidence'.


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                         Re: Holiday Wishes - McCoy

From: GT McCoy <gtmccoy@harborside.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 21:21:28 -0800
Fwd Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 16:41:56 -0500
Subject: Re: Holiday Wishes - McCoy


 >From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 08:39:42 -0500
 >Subject: Holiday Wishes

Hello all, John,

As one who has had more on his plate than he wants, yet is
Blessed by the "God who is there." (Francis Sheaffer) I pray
that all of the Listers and Listerions  out there have a holiday
season that is filled with joy and peace.


GT McCoy

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                             Re: Corso - Gehrman

From: Ed Gehrman <egehrman@psln.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 09:38:13 -0800
Fwd Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 16:44:28 -0500
Subject: Re: Corso - Gehrman


 >From: Robert Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 12:16:20 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Corso [was: Re: Hynek?]

 >>From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 20:37:09 -0800 (PST)
 >>Subject: Re: Hynek?

 ><snip>

 >>Now, in Corso's book, he says that Dr. Hermann Oberth once
 >>suggested that we consider the Roswell craft from the N.M.
 >>desert not a spacecraft, but a time machine. I do not understand
 >>how these two statements relate to Corso's comments about: how
 >>the Roswell craft perhaps had an electromagnetic anti-gravity
 >>drive and brain-wave directed navigational controls. And that
 >>the EBE's utilized a wave-propagation technology as an anti-

 >Hi Laurel, list,

 >Recall also Corso's famous remark, uttered literally at the end
 >of the NBC Dateline interview he gave, about the "Nazi Time
 >machine" that the US supposedly recovered at the end of/after WW
 >2.

 >So Corso and time machine(s) theories are not uncommon so to
 >speak.

Laurel,

Please continue your research on Col. Corso and  ignore the
negative comments by Robert and Jerry. They're good fellows but
like so many of their peers, they've disregarded the positive
evidence that supports Col. Corso's veracity.

See:

http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2000/aug/m16-020.shtml

http://www.caus.org/membercomments/mc062900.shtml


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                               Roswell Crash?

From: Alan Kerrigan <akerrigan3@comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:58:09 -0500
Fwd Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 16:48:00 -0500
Subject: Roswell Crash?


From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:06:45 EST
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed


 >Regarding the testimony of Rickett, I checked how Karl Pflock
 >treated him in his second book. He wrote repeatedly that Rickett
 >had been to the Foster ranch ! (see pages 27, 35, 99, etc.) And,
 >of course, Pflock pointed out that, according to Rickett, there
 >was only a little amount of debris. A convenient detail for the
 >Mogul theory. On the other hand Rickett is found unreliable when
 >he describes a very strong piece that he could not bend : not
 >good for Mogul.

I'm new to UFO UpDates and have been reading the mail. I should
know better than to say anything... but here goes.

Has anyone considered the military having a lucky day with the
Roswell crash. Could the saucer have crashed into Project Mogul?

This may explain why there was a second crash site, how a craft
that travelled so many miles ended up crashing in the first
place, and answer some debris issues.

I imagine this was one of the first considerations, but I don't
know how it was ruled out.

  Why do I expect insulting responses?


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                  From Those That Brought Us The Reed Fraud

From: Royce J. Myers III - The Watchdog <ufowatchdog@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 22:34:19 -0800
Fwd Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 17:05:44 -0500
Subject: From Those That Brought Us The Reed Fraud


Here we are with yet another photo case and not a shred of proof
from Iaria and Maussan (aka Dumb and Dumber, you choose which
one is which)...

http://www.aliendestiny.com/jaimeanalysis1.htm

I guess these guys must have an open UFO fraud market in Mexico
to sell their wares. My current story on this.....

http://www.ufowatchdog.com/dubious.html


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                                   WTC UFO

From: William Sawers <best.wsawers@clear.net.nz>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 09:56:07 +1300
Fwd Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 17:09:13 -0500
Subject: WTC UFO


List,

I may be a bit out of date with this but I just found it on the
Para-normal website and these videos are quite extraordinary.

The first shows a different view of the 2nd plane hitting, but
I'm _not_ entirely sure of the UFO connection, unless its the
_very_ fast spot(?) that goes from top right to bottom
left...???

The 2nd is another story... if you haven't seen this vid, by a
Japanese videographer, I would strongly urge you to take a look.
It shows, uncannily, the 2nd plane, from a distance it almost
looks like it's being tracked until it hits the tower. Almost
immediately an object (UFO?) travels from right to left... fast,
then veers in, in an amazing turn towards the towers. If you
watch carefully, it then seems to appear again and leave out the
left side of the frame.

Both vids are very short and won't use much resources. You do
need Win Media Player tho'.

Hopefully I haven't wasted bandwidth here, but if anyone has any
ideas. I'd be really interested in what this 2nd object is!.

They are simply called:

NEW WTC UFOs (footage 1)

and

NEW WTC UFOs (footage 2)

and the page is:

http://www.para-normal.com/nuke/html/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownloa
d&cid=9

Regards and a Happy Xmas and Merry New Year to all from
downunder (NZ)


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                             Abduction Question

From: Eleanor White <eleanor@raven1.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 08:28:25 -0500
Fwd Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 17:13:06 -0500
Subject: Abduction Question


A question for John Velez and the List:

Is the percentage of abductions from buildings other than the
residence of the abductee very small? For example, hotel rooms.

If yes, does that show that this is a highly deliberate and
targetted phenomenon, and does that in turn add to the
credibility of the reports?


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                          Secrecy News -- 12/23/02

From: Steven Aftergood <saftergood@fas.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 12:12:22 -0500
Fwd Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 19:04:38 -0500
Subject: Secrecy News -- 12/23/02


SECRECY NEWS
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2002, Issue No. 126
December 23, 2002


**      FBI FILES ON NAZI WAR CRIMES TRANSFERRED
**      SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY PANELS GET HOMOGENIZED
**      NEW VISA RESTRICTIONS IMPEDE US SCIENCE
**      MUCH SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY ALREADY IN PLACE
**      CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT OF SURVEILLANCE


FBI FILES ON NAZI WAR CRIMES TRANSFERRED

The Federal Bureau of Investigation transferred to the National
Archives a vast quantity of historical records on hundreds of
topics broadly related to Nazi war crimes earlier this year in
compliance with the 1998 Nazi War  Crimes Disclosure Act.

A list of the file topics, obtained by researcher Michael
Ravnitzky, suggests that this will be a resource of considerable
historical value if it survives the declassification process.

The transferred records must still undergo review by the Central
Intelligence Agency and the Justice Department Office of Special
Investigations.  Also, prior to release, some of the more
physically fragile records will have to be placed in protective
wrappers.

The list of FBI records not only offers a preview into this
collection but will also provide a useful indication of what
records are ultimately withheld from disclosure.  See the
September 10, 2002 list here (thanks to MJR and MK):

http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/fbi-nwcda-091002.htm

A parallel collection of FBI records concerning Japanese war
crimes during World War II has also been transferred to the
National Archives, according to the October 2002 minutes of the
Archives' Interagency Working Group, but no comparable listing
of its contents has yet been released.


SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY PANELS GET HOMOGENIZED

The Bush Administration is subjecting its own scientific
advisory panels to unprecedented ideological scrutiny, critics
say, yielding an unusually homogenous groups of advisors who
tend to produce predictable advice.

See "Advisors Put Under a Microscope" by Aaron Zitner, Los
Angeles Times, December 23:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-
advise23dec23.story


NEW VISA RESTRICTIONS IMPEDE US SCIENCE

It would be surprising if the attenuated deliberative process
that led to adoption of the USA Patriot Act, the Homeland
Security Act and other new security policies did not have
undesired negative consequences. After all, anticipating such
outcomes is a large part of the purpose of prior deliberations
which normally ought to embrace diverse critical voices.

Now those undesired negative effects are starting to surface, in
one domain and another.

"Recent efforts by our government to constrain the flow of
international visitors in the name of national security are
having serious unintended consequences for American science,
engineering, and medicine," according to a December 13 statement
from the presidents of the National Academies of  Science and
Engineering.

"The evidence we have collected from the U.S. scientific
community reveals that ongoing research collaborations have been
hampered; that outstanding young scientists, engineers, and
health researchers have been prevented from or delayed in
entering this country; that important international  conferences
have been canceled or negatively impacted; and that such
conferences will be moved out of the United States in the future
if the situation is not corrected. Prompt action is needed."

See "Visa Delays Blasted" by William Schulz in Chemical and
Engineering News, December 23 (which includes a link to the NAS
statement) here:

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/topstory/8051/8051notw3.html


MUCH SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY ALREADY IN PLACE

"In the Pentagon research effort to detect terrorism by
electronically monitoring the civilian population, the most
remarkable detail may be this: Most of the pieces of the system
are already in place."

See "Many Tools of Big Brother are Up and Running," by John
Markoff and John Schwartz, New York Times, December 23:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/23/technology/23PEEK.html

Of course, increased surveillance does not translate directly
into increased security.  The basic premise of the Pentagon's
Total Information Awareness initiative -- that future terrorist
activity could be discerned within the mass of all transactional
data -- remains unproven and  intrinsically dubious.

The White House has received 9,000 faxes complaining about the
Total Information Awareness program, according to a report in
the Washington Times' Insight magazine today.


CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT OF SURVEILLANCE

If there is to be effective oversight of the Bush
Administration's burgeoning surveillance activity, much of it
will have to come from the Senate Judiciary Committee, which has
jurisdiction over the Justice Department, the FBI, and the
legislative underpinnings of government surveillance.

But the impending shift in committee chairmanship from Senator
Patrick Leahy to Senator Orrin Hatch will inevitably mean a
change in the committee's public profile and a diminution of its
critical stance towards the Administration.

See "Judiciary Panel Adds Surveillance Oversight" by Brian
Krebs,
WashingtonPost.com, December 23:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28402-2002Dec23.html


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               AP Story on Jim's Ex-NASA 'Moon Hoax' Rebuttal

From: Jerry Cohen <rjcohen@optonline.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 14:17:19 -0500
Fwd Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 19:09:20 -0500
Subject: AP Story on Jim's Ex-NASA 'Moon Hoax' Rebuttal


 >From: James Oberg <jamesoberg@houston.rr.com>
 >To: Cooky Oberg <cooky@houston.rr.com>
 >Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 14:08:20 -0600
 >Subject: AP story on Jim's ex-NASA 'Moon Hoax' Rebuttal


 >AP story on NASA 'Moon Hoax' Un-Rebuttal
 >http://www.space.com/news/oberg_hoaxes_021221.html

 >Hoaxers vs. Rocket Scientists:

 >Even NASA Unsure How to Counter Claims of Faked Moon
 >Missions
 >By Marcia Dunn
 >Associated Press
 >posted: 10:24 pm ET  21 December 2002

 >CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) -- Is that the moon or a studio
 >in the Nevada desert? How can the flag flutter when there's no
 >wind on the moon? Why can't we see stars in the moon-landing
 >pictures? For three decades, NASA has taken the high road,
 >ignoring those who claimed the Apollo moon landings were
 >faked and part of a colossal government conspiracy.

 >The claims and suspicious questions like the ones cited here
 >mostly showed up in books and on the Internet. But last year's
 >prime-time Fox TV special on the so-called ``moon hoax''
 >prompted schoolteachers and others to plead with NASA for
 >factual ammunition to fight back.

 >So a few months ago, the space agency budgeted $15,000 to
 >hire a former rocket scientist and author to produce a small
 >book refuting the disbelievers' claims. It would be written
 >primarily with teachers and students in mind.

 >The idea backfired, however, embarrassing the space agency for
 >responding to ignorance, and the book deal was chucked.

- - - - - - - - - - - - -

Hey Jim,

Son of a gun, the shoe's on the other foot. What's wrong with a
little skepticism? You know, I wasn't actually there to see them
shoot those things up there. I know a lot of people say they did
it and they have all kinds of "claimed" scientific data
regarding it, but if I didn't see it, who knows?

But seriously, if you check your records, it might not be
impossible some of the people spouting this rhetoric are
actually a radical splinter group of CISCOP itself, possibly
paid up members. :-)

Now you have a small taste of how it feels. Pretty sick isn't
it?

Jerry Cohen
http://www.cohenufo.org/

PS Please forgive me, I have to post this to UpDates. I think a
lot of them will really appreciate this, and some really need to
see it.

Also seriously, best wishes for a happy, healthy holiday and
same to all our UpDates list members.






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                             Re: Hynek? - Cohen

From: Jerry Cohen <rjcohen@optonline.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 14:29:19 -0500
Fwd Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 19:11:04 -0500
Subject: Re: Hynek? - Cohen


 >From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 17:23:11 -0800 (PST)
 >Subject: Hynek?

 >Oh yes  I did have one more question, and I hope it's not really
 >naive, but is it the general consensus of opinion among
 >researchers here that Hynek was respected and well thought of,
 >or were his "findings" considered to be somehow "suspect" or
 >tied in with some specific agenda?

Laurel,

The answer to your question from my perspective is no. I wrote a
letter why I felt this way at:

http://www.cohenufo.org/Hynek/hynk_mole_cohn.htm

The linet links are no good any more, but those files can be
found at my site index:

http://www.cohenufo.org/Indx.html

If you have any trouble finding them, I'd be happy to help you.

Clicking the following link will also take you to a lot more
information regarding Dr. Hynek.

http://www.cohenufo.org/Hynksmlbio.htm

He's my personal hero.

Best wishes for a happy, healthy holiday.

Sincerely,

Jerry Cohen
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                    Gerald Anderson On The Wall of Shame

From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 15:25:40 EST
Fwd Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 19:13:51 -0500
Subject: Gerald Anderson On The Wall of Shame


Good Afternoon, List, All -

For fun, I sometimes look at the Navy SEAL's Wall of Shame:

http://www.authentiseal.org/wos/htm

because it is interesting Gerald Anderson's name appears on it
for lying about his service with the SEALs. Everyone should take
a moment to take a look there, and then follow the links to
other sites exposing those who claim military service, secret
missions, and lots of medals for bravery. It shows us just how
wide spread all this is... and suggests that maybe we shouldn't
be that hard on those we find in our own ranks (And yes, I'm
probably the most vocal of those pointing all this out).

For those interested, here is the listing for Anderson:

NAME: Anderson, Gerald Francis
FALSE CLAIM: SEAL
CITY: Springfield
STATE: MO
DATE POSTED: 30 NOV 2000
RATING: * * * *

COMMENTS: After being warned to stop the lies, our source found
a flyer at the college offering a survival course by "ex-Navy
SEAL"


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                         Re: Holiday Wishes - Ogbojo

From: Jennifer Ogbojo <jobbojo@webtv.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 16:01:29 -0600 (CST)
Fwd Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 19:16:12 -0500
Subject: Re: Holiday Wishes - Ogbojo


I am new to list and I find it quite fascinating. I hope that
each and of you have wonderful holiday.

Peace be with us all!


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                        Re: Roswell Crash? - Tonnies

From: Mac Tonnies <macbot@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 14:08:50 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 19:31:11 -0500
Subject: Re: Roswell Crash? - Tonnies


 >From: Alan Kerrigan <akerrigan3@comcast.net>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:58:09 -0500
 >Subject: Roswell Crash?

 >From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:06:45 EST
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>Regarding the testimony of Rickett, I checked how Karl Pflock
 >>treated him in his second book. He wrote repeatedly that Rickett
 >>had been to the Foster ranch ! (see pages 27, 35, 99, etc.) And,
 >>of course, Pflock pointed out that, according to Rickett, there
 >>was only a little amount of debris. A convenient detail for the
 >>Mogul theory. On the other hand Rickett is found unreliable when
 >>he describes a very strong piece that he could not bend : not
 >>good for Mogul.

 >I'm new to UFO UpDates and have been reading the mail. I should
 >know better than to say anything... but here goes.

 >Has anyone considered the military having a lucky day with the
 >Roswell crash. Could the saucer have crashed into Project Mogul?

 >This may explain why there was a second crash site, how a craft
 >that travelled so many miles ended up crashing in the first
 >place, and answer some debris issues.

 >I imagine this was one of the first considerations, but I don't
 >know how it was ruled out.

I believe Karl Pflock was the first to offer this idea, before
he converted to Mogulism. (And this isn't an insult: I enjoyed
Pflock's book thoroughly and can respect his decision, even if
I'm still on the fence.)

Although I didn't watch "Taken," wasn't this the scenario used?

=====
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                     Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle

From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 18:28:24 +0100
Fwd Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 19:32:44 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Randle


 >From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:06:45 EST
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 15:47:10 +0100
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:26:19 -0800
 >>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >Good Morning, Gildas, List, All -

<snip>

 >Well, according to Cavitt, that never happened, but then, I
 >don't believe Cavitt was very reliable either. His story changed
 >more often than a model on a runway displaying the latest
 >fashions. Rickett was trying to help. Cavitt was not.

Kevin and all,

To this I would add that Cavitt did not try to help either the
Mogul theory. It would have been easy for him to "remenber" that
he had, indeed, found a Mogul balloon train, when interviewed by
Colonel Weaver, but he refused. To me, he meant : one tale is
enough ! And the Air Force published that !

 >>All this suggests that there was an impact site close to
 >>Roswell, but we don't know exactly where it was.

 >Yes, it certainly does and we now have, what, half a dozen
 >candidates for that location. We can eliminate the Corn site, I
 >suppose, and Boy Scout Mountain, but we still have quite a
 >few of them.

 >I hope this helps, and I'm still waiting for an answer to my
 >questions.

 >But, instead of screaming about that, let me wish everyone a
 >Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and send my best to you all for
 >the coming year.

Thank you, Kevin, and Happy Holidays to you, and all.

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                              Re: Corso - Hall

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 22:04:04 +0000
Fwd Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 19:34:20 -0500
Subject: Re: Corso - Hall


 >From: Ed Gehrman <egehrman@psln.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 09:38:13 -0800
 >Subject: Re: Corso

 >>From: Robert Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 12:16:20 -0500
 >>Subject: Re: Corso [was: Re: Hynek?]

 >>>From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 20:37:09 -0800 (PST)
 >>>Subject: Re: Hynek?

 >>>Now, in Corso's book, he says that Dr. Hermann Oberth once
 >>>suggested that we consider the Roswell craft from the N.M.
 >>>desert not a spacecraft, but a time machine. I do not understand
 >>>how these two statements relate to Corso's comments about: how
 >>>the Roswell craft perhaps had an electromagnetic anti-gravity
 >>>drive and brain-wave directed navigational controls. And that
 >>>the EBE's utilized a wave-propagation technology as an anti-

 >>Hi Laurel, list,

 >>Recall also Corso's famous remark, uttered literally at the end
 >>of the NBC Dateline interview he gave, about the "Nazi Time
 >>machine" that the US supposedly recovered at the end of/after WW
 >>2.

 >>So Corso and time machine(s) theories are not uncommon so to
 >>speak.

 >Laurel,

 >Please continue your research on Col. Corso and  ignore the
 >negative comments by Robert and Jerry. They're good fellows but
 >like so many of their peers, they've disregarded the positive
 >evidence that supports Col. Corso's veracity.

 >See:

 >http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2000/aug/m16-020.shtml

 >http://www.caus.org/membercomments/mc062900.shtml


Laurel,

I suggest you pay attention to Robert and Jerry, who know
whereof they speak. Corso's "veracity" is zero to nada.

  - Dick Hall








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                   Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken - Randle

From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 17:18:55 EST
Fwd Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 19:36:41 -0500
Subject: Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken - Randle


 >From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 20:24:02 -0400
 >Subject: Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken

<snip>

 >With all due respect, Dick, the biggest myth is that the original
 >MJ-12 documents (EBD,TF, CT) are myths. I think I have heard all
 >the arguments, including those in "Case MJ-12". My review of the
 >latter will be lengthy indeed.

Stan, List, All -

Why do I suspect that this review will be less than flattering?
And remember, Stan still refuses to answer the hard questions
that have been posted here.

Well, Stan, review away and the rest of you have a Merry
Christmas and a Happy New Year, or Happy Holidays, or whatever
and however you celebrate..... And no, I didn't mean to leave
Stan out of all that. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to him,
too.


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                            Re: WTC UFO - Ledger

From: Don Ledger <dledger@ns.sympatico.ca>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 18:50:36 -0400
Fwd Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 19:39:00 -0500
Subject: Re: WTC UFO - Ledger


 >From: William Sawers <best.wsawers@clear.net.nz>
 >Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 09:56:07 +1300
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Subject: WTC UFO

 >List,

 >I may be a bit out of date with this but I just found it on the
 >Para-normal website and these videos are quite extraordinary.

 >The first shows a different view of the 2nd plane hitting, but
 >I'm _not_ entirely sure of the UFO connection, unless its the
 >_very_ fast spot(?) that goes from top right to bottom
 >left...???

 >The 2nd is another story... if you haven't seen this vid, by a
 >Japanese videographer, I would strongly urge you to take a look.
 >It shows, uncannily, the 2nd plane, from a distance it almost
 >looks like it's being tracked until it hits the tower. Almost
 >immediately an object (UFO?) travels from right to left... fast,
 >then veers in, in an amazing turn towards the towers. If you
 >watch carefully, it then seems to appear again and leave out the
 >left side of the frame.

 >Both vids are very short and won't use much resources. You do
 >need Win Media Player tho'.

 >Hopefully I haven't wasted bandwidth here, but if anyone has any
 >ideas. I'd be really interested in what this 2nd object is!.

 >They are simply called:

 >NEW WTC UFOs (footage 1)

 >and

 >NEW WTC UFOs (footage 2)

 >and the page is:

 >http://www.para-normal.com/nuke/html/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownl
oad&cid=9

 >Regards and a Happy Xmas and Merry New Year to all from
 >downunder (NZ)


William,

I don't know about wasting bandwidth but as for wasting my time,
that's another matter. If you want to sell your site why not
mention that up front instead of taking me there and then asking
me where I think I'm going and telling me I have to register.


Bah humbug.

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                    Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken - Hall

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 23:32:04 +0000
Fwd Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 19:42:36 -0500
Subject: Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken - Hall


 >From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 20:24:02 -0400
 >Subject: Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken

 >>From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 23:31:55 +0000
 >>Subject: Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken

 >>>From: Stan Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:24:33 -0400
 >>>Subject: Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken

<snip>

 >>>>This reminds me of another Great Moment In Debunking.

 >>>>At the 1987 MUFON Conference in Washington DC, the fledgling
 >>>>MJ-12 controversy was center stage, and Bill Moore was giving
 >>>>a talk. He sidetracked onto a story he had heard that went
 >>>>some- thing like the following:

 >>>>President Reagan invited Steven Spielberg to the White House for
 >>>>a special private screening of 'ET: The Extraterrestrial'. When
 >>>>it was over, Reagan clapped Spielberg on the back and said
 >>>>something along the lines of, "My friend, there aren't 5 people
 >>>>in this town who know just how true that story is."

 >>>>Moore had barely finished telling this story when, from the back
 >>>>of the room, a small voice said, "Carter was President." We all
 >>>>turned around and immediately recognized the speaker, dear old
 >>>>Uncle Phil. Jaime Shandera was in the audience as well, and
 >>>>began goading Klass, "What's that Phil? What'd you say? Stand
 >>>>up and be heard!" Whereupon Klass rose to his feet imperiously
 >>>>and intoned, "In 1977, Jimmy Carter was the President of the
 >>>>United States..." Moore interrupted him, "That's right, Phil,
 >>>>but 'ET' was released in 1981! You stand corrected..._again_!!"

 >>>>The place roared with laughter and applause, and I've never seen
 >>>>anyone slink into their seat quite as slowly. Though of course
 >>>>it was an innocent slip, and though I'm sure the Reagan story is
 >>>>apocryphal, it was still a great moment.

 >>>Don't be so sure the story is apochryphal. I heard from either
 >>>Bill or Jaimie that Jaimie got the story from Spielberg
 >>>himself.....

 >>Shandera was the source of the story. I'm not sure that makes it
 >>credible. He was also intimately involved in helping to create
 >>the MJ-12 myth. As Kevin says about Kaufmann et al., how many
 >>flaws, errors, lies, misrepresentations do we need before we
 >>conclude that the MJ-12 documents are fraudulent.

 >With all due respect, Dick, the biggest myth is that the original
 >MJ-12 documents (EBD,TF, CT) are myths. I think I have heard all
 >the arguments, including those in "Case MJ-12". My review of the
 >latter will be lengthy indeed.

 >I got to know Jaimie quite well over a period of time. He was
 >hard working, bright, and rational.I have no reason to disagree
 >with the account given of the trip to DC during which the CT
 >memo was discovered or about their (Bill Moore and Jaimie)
 >reaction to the EBD. I believe Jerry Clark can testify about at
 >least one of the strange postcards. We certainly didn't agree
 >about everything, such as, for example the wisdom of using
 >Falcon and Condor - 'UFO Coverup? Live!' - when they knew some
 >of what they presented would not be true. My argument was that
 >the public had no way of sorting the truth from the fiction. We
 >had a long loud argument about that, after the show. Bill and I
 >had disagreements about the way he published the EBD (Highly
 >censored, without saying so), his presentation in Las Vegas and
 >many other items. But he sure did a lot of useful research such
 >as about Irving Newton, Barney Barnett's boss, etc.

 >Don't forget that I did demonstrate that a host of Tim Cooper
 >MJ-12 documents were fraudulent in my MUFON 2000 paper.An awful
 >lot of the objections to the EBD, TF, CT, are proclamations
 >based upon inadequate research.

 >Don't give up on MJ-12 yet.Certainly it is inappropriate to
 >assume that because documents from one source are fraudulent,
 >that all documents are fraudulent. One would certainly expect
 >that intelligence personnel ,once real material had surfaced,
 >would flood the market with junk.


Stan,

With all due respect in return, and you deserve respect for your
long years of trying to establish the truth, at this point the
skeptical arguments about the authenticity of MJ-12 are very
strong. Although I am in no position to pass firm or final
judgment, the arguments by Randle and others do not yet have
satisfactory answers and a great deal of game-playing and lying
has been demonstrated. So I feel entirely justified in
expressing my rather deep skepticism about MJ-12. Aside from
that, both Bill Moore and Jaime Shandera have (like Sen. Lott)
hurt themselves by their remarks and have no one else to blame
for their lack of credibility.

My own take on Roswell at this point is that clearly something
far more unusual than a Mogul balloon, and certainly far beyond
a standard weather balloon, crashed near Roswell. Certainly
disinformation could be a factor, and I personally do not doubt
that it has occurred, but to what degree is impossible to say.
So it can not simply be asserted that an alien spacecraft
crashed and all efforts to deny that are simply disinformation.

Some of what has occurred, as Kevin points out, apparently is
due to personal dishonesty. Since the waters are so muddied by
dishonest witnesses (no matter how motivated), the truth is very
elusive. All of this is further compounded by the various,
usually well-meaning, efforts to decipher the Ramey memo, which
come out with substantially different interpretations as each
intepreter claims to be the only one doing it the right way.

Whatever happened to objective peer review? David Rudiak, whose
Roswell web site is a positive asset, even went so far as to
suggest that peer review was equivalent to a Government
conspiracy. Huh? Let's get real here!

Science and credible products thereof derive from respectful
attention to dissenting viewpoints and careful  peer review,
while exposing dishonesty and falsehoods. Unfortunately, the
pseudoscience of "Ufology" doesn't hack it in these respects.


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              Re: Feats & Pitfalls of Archeo-Ufology - Oplatka

From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 16:09:38 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 09:53:59 -0500
Subject: Re: Feats & Pitfalls of Archeo-Ufology - Oplatka


Hi all,

I very much enjoyed Larry's article about the excavation in New Mexico
re: ET artifacts and I am going to photocopy it and send it to my
Congress representatives - very good idea!

My New Year's Message:

Besides wishing you All a Very Merry Christmas and Truly Happy
New Year, I am adding this thought after re-reading Corso's
book. Although I know some are appalled by Corso's claims, I was
considering something he wrote (p. 79):

"Flying saucers did truly buzz over Washington D.C., in 1952,
and there are plenty of graphs and radar reports to substantiate
it. But we denied it while encouraging science fiction writers
to make movies like 'The Man from Planet X' to blow off some
pressure concerning the truth about flying discs. This was
called camouflage through limited disclosure, and it worked."

So, my New Year's Message to all disinformants echoes the last line in
'The Man from Planet X': "The truth cannot be contained, but it can
be reduced to gossip"!

Any comments?


Seasons Greetings,

Laurel






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               Victoria To Vancouver, B.C. Sighting From Ferry

From: Brian Vike - HBCC UFO Research <hbccufo@telus.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 16:25:48 -0800
Fwd Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:00:45 -0500
Subject: Victoria To Vancouver, B.C. Sighting From Ferry


HBCC UFO Research

Victoria to Vancouver, B.C.

Date: December 21, 2002
Time: 9:20 a.m.

The witness also telephoned the sighting in, plus emailed the
report.

Hello

On Saturday Dec 21, 2002 I was on the ferry going to Victoria
from Vancouver. At 9:20 a.m. I went out on the deck to have a
cigarette. I was the only one out at that time because it was
quite cool and windy. Their was blue sky but with lots of clouds
that were moving quite fast because of the wind. I saw a white
ball or sphere shaped object approaching a cloud. It didn't move
very fast, it seemed to float but I know it wasn't a balloon. It
was very white. It didn't look very big but how can I tell at
that height. I watched it for about ten seconds not taking my
eye off it. As it was approaching the cloud and then was covered
by the cloud I waited for it to reappear after the wind moved
the cloud ( the cloud wasn't big) but I never saw it again. It
either moved with the cloud or disappeared. It was moving in the
northwest direction until it was covered in the cloud, then I
don't know what happened to it. Other people came out and I was
going to ask them to look at it but it never came out of the
cloud so I don't know if anyone else saw it. The length of the
event took approx: 10 to 15 seconds. I have contacted some
sources in hopes of trying to solve this case.

Thank you to the witness for their report

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                         Re: Roswell Crash? - Bowden

From: Tom Bowden <tomrbowden@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 17:06:49 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:03:30 -0500
Subject: Re: Roswell Crash? - Bowden


 >From: Mac Tonnies <macbot@yahoo.com>
 >Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 14:08:50 -0800 (PST)
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Subject: Re: Roswell Crash?

 >>From: Alan Kerrigan <akerrigan3@comcast.net>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:58:09 -0500
 >>Subject: Roswell Crash?

 >>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:06:45 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

<snip>

 >>I'm new to UFO UpDates and have been reading the mail. I should
 >>know better than to say anything... but here goes.

 >>Has anyone considered the military having a lucky day with the
 >>Roswell crash. Could the saucer have crashed into Project Mogul?

<snip>

 >I believe Karl Pflock was the first to offer this idea, before
 >he converted to Mogulism.

 >Although I didn't watch "Taken," wasn't this the scenario used?


Yes, "Taken" mentioned that scenario several times. It seems it
is part of the "mythology" that Spielberg is so fond of
mentioning.


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                              E-Mail Addresses?

From: Thiago Luiz Ticchetti <thiagolt@opengate.com.br>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 23:37:26 -0200
Fwd Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:05:41 -0500
Subject: E-Mail Addresses?


Hello list,

I would like to know these e-mails:

Mr. Colin Andrews
Mr. Pablo Villarrubia-Mauso
Mr. Derrel Sims
Mr. Roger Leir.


Thank you very much,

Thiago Luiz Ticchetti


Presidente da Entidade Brasileira de Estudos Extraterrestres
Roberto Afonso Beck (EBE-ET/RAB)
Bras=EDlia/Brasil

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                         Brazil's Recent 'Abductee'

From: Thiago Luiz Ticchetti <thiagolt@opengate.com.br>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 23:55:18 -0200
Fwd Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:09:23 -0500
Subject: Brazil's Recent 'Abductee'


Hello List,

First of all I would like to wish you all a very merry
Christmas and a great New Year!

Well, we here in Brazil are facing a great menace to all
brazilian ufology's credibility, a credibility conquered by
several ufologists over the decades. The name of that threat is
Urandir Fernandes of Oliveira. That 'gentleman' is spreading
around the world (mainly for the USA) that has been maintaining
contact with extraterrestrials and that was abducted for several
times! That is all lies! Don't believe in that person's words!

He already appeared in the program of Mr. Jeff Rense and now it
is in Linda Howe's site, that is giving to him some credit.

Please, I warming you, don't believe in this man! He takes
advantage of naive people to steal their money and make them
fools.

Once again I repeat, don't believe in this man and in its lies.

Who wants more information about that person's lies, please get
in touch with me or Mr. A.J. Gevared (gevaerd@ufo.com.br)

Thank you very much for your attention

Thiago Luiz Ticchetti
Presidente da Entidade Brasileira de Estudos Extraterrestres
Roberto Afonso Beck (EBE-ET/RAB)
Bras=EDlia/Brasil

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                       Re: Abduction Question - Velez

From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 05:03:27 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:16:55 -0500
Subject: Re: Abduction Question - Velez


 >From: Eleanor White <eleanor@raven1.net>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 08:28:25 -0500
 >Subject: Abduction Question

 >A question for John Velez and the List:

Hi Eleanor,

 >Is the percentage of abductions from buildings other than the
 >residence of the abductee very small? For example, hotel rooms.

I have no idea what the 'percentages' are. No one (that I
know of) has conducted a survey into the question.

Yes, there are _many_ cases of reported abductions that happened
to the experiencer/witness away from home. The Russ Hudson case
was one of those presented by Budd Hopkins at the M.I.T.
conference in 1992. Russ and four others (his band-mates) were
abducted from a hotel room.

I have partial but 'conscious' recollections of having been
abducted from a hotel room while I was away from home back in
1994. I have received letters over the years from people who
were 'taken' while away from home.

 >If yes, does that show that this is a highly deliberate and
 >targetted phenomenon,

The fact that the same people are taken repeatedly over the
course of a lifetime, regardless of whether the family has moved
several times, is more to the point. People are taken while away
from their homes all the time. IMHO the former is more curious
than the latter.

'They' can find us no matter where we are.

 >and does that in turn add to the credibility of the reports?

I don't know. I don't think so. 'Credibility' has to do with the
character, expertise and history/track record, of the person
reporting. What I 'think' you are asking is; is this 'evidence'
that the abductions are objective events as opposed to
subjective ones.

To both, I answer, no. I firmly believe that the 'answer' lies
hidden and undiscovered in the bodies (physiology) of the
abductees. Somewhere in our bodies is the 'hard' evidence
everyone has been asking for. You don't need to wait for the
opportunity to steal an ashtray from a UFO, or for one to crash
in your backyard to obtain 'hard' evidence. Abductees are
accessible and 'on hand' in large numbers. The only thing that
needs doing is the testing itself.

Practical suggestions for avenues of investigation:

At the recent GWU symposium held in Wash. D.C. Dr. Michio Kaku
suggested that tests intended to locate and identify
'nanotechnology' (submicroscopic 'machines') in the body's of
the abductees would be 'proof positive' (if any were to be
found) of an 'objective' phenomenon. He also suggested that DNA
testing might be able to settle the issue once and for all as
well. Anything unusual or unique in the DNA of abductees would
prove to be a bona-fide 'smoking gun.'

So many interesting and potentially enlightening avenues to
study and explore. But sadly, no one is looking into _any_ of
them. There are no plans for any such testing in the future
either.

Abductees... poor bastards! They certainly can't turn to their
'abductors' for help. Can't turn to other people for help either
because a. there isn't much they can do anyway and b. because
most of them are too busy grabbing their stomachs as they roll
around on the floor laughing their asses off after you've opened
up to them.

Few, if any, in the academic/professional world are listening.
No one is trying or planning to conduct any 'practical' research
into the subject - so... it doesn't look like it's going to
happen any time soon.

Abductees have only themselves, their own inner resources and
maybe a few other individuals that they can turn to. The
situation they face is the epitome of the phrase, "Caught
between a rock and hard place."

Talk about a sad state of affairs.


Regards,

John Velez, speaking strictly for myself


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                        Re: Hynek? - Cohen [Re-send]

From: Jerry Cohen <rjcohen@optonline.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 05:12:05 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:38:54 -0500
Subject: Re: Hynek? - Cohen [Re-send]


 >From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
 >Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 17:23:11 -0800 (PST)
 >Fwd Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:24:28 -0500
 >Subject: Hynek?

 >Oh yes I did have one more question, and I hope it's not really
 >naive, but is it the general consensus of opinion among
 >researchers here that Hynek was respected and well thought of,
 >or were his "findings" considered to be somehow "suspect" or
 >tied in with some specific agenda?


- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

This is a re-do for obvious reasons. If you read the first one.
I was very tired when I wrote it. Hopefully, this one is more
intelligent and all the links work. I just changed my computer
over here and things still aren't working the way they used to.

Sorry Laurel - Jerry

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Laurel,

The answer to your question from my perspective is I think he
was respected by many and, over time, some people thought he
might have been a mole. However, after thinking about it
carefully, I decided not. I had a discussion with one person who
felt that way at:

http://www.cohenufo.org/Hynek/hynk_mole_cohn.htm

If the links still aren't working for any reason, I'd be happy
to help you.

Clicking the following link should also take you to a lot more
information regarding Dr. Hynek.

http://www.cohenufo.org/Hynksmlbio.htm

He's my personal hero.

Best wishes for a happy, healthy holiday.


Sincerely,

Jerry Cohen
http://www.cohenufo.org/

Email: rjcohen@optonline.net








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                        Re: Roswell Crash? - Bourdais

From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:56:31 +0100
Fwd Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:40:54 -0500
Subject: Re: Roswell Crash? - Bourdais


 >From: Alan Kerrigan <akerrigan3@comcast.net>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:58:09 -0500
 >Subject: Roswell Crash?

 >From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:06:45 EST
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>Regarding the testimony of Rickett, I checked how Karl Pflock
 >>treated him in his second book. He wrote repeatedly that Rickett
 >>had been to the Foster ranch ! (see pages 27, 35, 99, etc.) And,
 >>of course, Pflock pointed out that, according to Rickett, there
 >>was only a little amount of debris. A convenient detail for the
 >>Mogul theory. On the other hand Rickett is found unreliable when
 >>he describes a very strong piece that he could not bend : not
 >>good for Mogul.

 >I'm new to UFO UpDates and have been reading the mail. I should
 >know better than to say anything... but here goes.

 >Has anyone considered the military having a lucky day with the
 >Roswell crash. Could the saucer have crashed into Project Mogul?

 >This may explain why there was a second crash site, how a craft
 >that travelled so many miles ended up crashing in the first
 >place, and answer some debris issues.


I said in a previous post that I heard recently of a witness who
said that, bak in 1972 (see my message of September 17).

To my knowledge, there is no definitive refutation of that
theory. Who knows ? The final  truth may still be "out there" to
discover.


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                          Secrecy News -- 12/24/02

From: Steven Aftergood <saftergood@fas.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:19:48 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:43:02 -0500
Subject: Secrecy News -- 12/24/02


SECRECY NEWS
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2002, Issue No. 127
December 24, 2002


**      NIXON'S NUCLEAR PLOY
**      DECLASSIFIED IMAGERY OF USS PUEBLO
**      INTERVIEW WITH RUSSIAN SVR DIRECTOR
**      GROOM LAKE DISCLOSURE EXEMPTION RENEWED
**      INDIA PASSES FREEDOM OF INFORMATION LAW
**      NORTH KOREA CAN'T STAND NEW JAMES BOND FILM


NIXON'S NUCLEAR PLOY

Researchers probing through declassified records continue to
discover momentous episodes in Cold War history that never made
it into the history books because they were never intended to
become public knowledge.

One such episode, in which U.S. nuclear forces around the world
were put on heightened alert, is newly described by historians
William Burr and Jeffrey Kimball.

"In 1969 President Richard Nixon ordered a worldwide nuclear
alert-- one of the largest secret military operations in U.S.
history. Only Nixon, his special adviser for national security
affairs Henry Kissinger, Kissinger's National Security Council
aide Col. Alexander Haig, and White House  chief of staff H. R.
'Bob' Haldeman, knew that the underlying purpose of the alert,
known as the 'Joint Chiefs of Staff Readiness Test,' was to
convince the Soviets that helping to end the war in Vietnam was
in their best interests."

See "Nixon's Nuclear Ploy" in the January/February 2003 issue of
the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists here:

   http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/2003/jf03/jf03burr.html

Some of the underlying documentation uncovered by Burr and
Kimball is posted on the web site of the National Security
Archive here:

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB81/index.htm


DECLASSIFIED IMAGERY OF USS PUEBLO

In 1968, North Korea captured the U.S.S. Pueblo, a U.S. Navy
intelligence vessel, and held its crew hostage for eleven
months.

The seized ship was soon located through aerial surveillance
collected by the Central Intelligence Agency.  That CIA
surveillance imagery has recently been declassified, and
acquired by GlobalSecurity.org, which posted selected images
here:

  http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/imint/pueblo-
imagery-1.htm


INTERVIEW WITH RUSSIAN SVR DIRECTOR

"Does an intelligence officer's wife also need to be an
intelligence officer?"

That was one of the questions posed to Russian Foreign
Intelligence Service (SVR) Director Sergey Lebedev in a wide-
ranging interview in Rossiyskaya Gazeta published on December
20, the day on which Russia's security services are honored.

See the text of the interview, translated by the Foreign
Broadcast Information Service, here:

http://www.fas.org/irp/world/russia/svr/rg122002.html


GROOM LAKE DISCLOSURE EXEMPTION RENEWED

The famous secret Air Force base near Groom Lake, Nevada, also
known as Area 51, remains exempt from any and all environmental
laws that would require the disclosure of classified information
concerning the base.

President Bush formally renewed the exemption last September.
  His determination that "it is in the paramount interest of the
United States" to prevent disclosure of information about the
site was published in the Federal Register on December 24.  See:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2002/12/fr122402.html


INDIA PASSES FREEDOM OF INFORMATION LAW

India became the latest country to enact a Freedom of
Information law, as the Indian parliament gave final approval to
the legislation on December 16.  The text of the new law has
been posted on the freedominfo.org web site here:

http://www.freedominfo.org/news.htm


NORTH KOREA CAN'T STAND NEW JAMES BOND FILM

In what must be the oddest sign of escalating tensions between
the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
(DPRK), the North Koreans have lashed out at the latest James
Bond movie, "Die Another Day."

"The 20th installment of the American movie series James Bond
007 describes our Republic as an axis of evil and incites North-
South confrontation and has contents that groundlessly belittle
and humiliate our nation and even viciously insult our race,"
according to a December 19 broadcast on the Korean Central
Broadcast Station in Pyongyang.

"We view this not as a certain movie producer's problem but as a
product of the United States' policy of belittling the Korean
nation and its hostile policy toward the DPRK."

"The movie is intolerable."

See "The United States' Shoddy Act of Insulting the Korean
Nation," translated by the Foreign Broadcast Information
Service, here:

http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2002/12/dprk121902.html

The next issue of Secrecy News will not be published until the
week of January 6, 2003.


_______________________________________________
Secrecy News is written by Steven Aftergood and published by the
Federation of American Scientists.

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                        Re: Roswell Crash? - Bourdais

From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 16:33:58 +0100
Fwd Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 11:34:36 -0500
Subject: Re: Roswell Crash? - Bourdais


 >From: Mac Tonnies <macbot@yahoo.com>
 >Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 14:08:50 -0800 (PST)
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Subject: Re: Roswell Crash?

 >>From: Alan Kerrigan <akerrigan3@comcast.net>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:58:09 -0500
 >>Subject: Roswell Crash?

 >>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:06:45 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

<snip>

 >>Has anyone considered the military having a lucky day with the
 >>Roswell crash. Could the saucer have crashed into Project Mogul?

 >>This may explain why there was a second crash site, how a craft
 >>that travelled so many miles ended up crashing in the first
 >>place, and answer some debris issues.

 >>I imagine this was one of the first considerations, but I don't
 >>know how it was ruled out.

 >I believe Karl Pflock was the first to offer this idea, before
 >he converted to Mogulism. (And this isn't an insult: I enjoyed
 >Pflock's book thoroughly and can respect his decision, even if
 >I'm still on the fence.)


To all,

After hearing of a new witness who allegedly said, back in 1972,
that there had been a collision with a balloon train, I tried to
see if any Mogul train would do. Perhaps the Mogul flight 9
would do, as Karl Pflock had speculated in his first book.

Pflock had to drop Flight 9 because it probably had no radar
target, which was an absolute need for the flower tapes. But
that was not needed for a collision.

Here is what Pflock says now with the help of Professor Moore
(see pages 155 and 156 of his second book):

NYU Flight 9 was to track a V-2 launching, which failed. Since
the neoprene balloons were already inflated, the cluster was
launched nevertheless, but without instruments and radar
targets. Only with a dummy load, and that was done in the
evening of July 3. There was no flight record, but it is
confirmed by Dr Crary's diary, and by pictures of the launching,
preserved by Eileen Farnochi, which are shown by Pflock in his
book (actually, the picture is not very clear).

And Pflock concludes - "My Flight 9 notion had been
shot down".

Well, maybe not for the collision theory.

Starting again from there, there are some questions, such as the
date of the crash. Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt first adopted
the date of July 2 on the base of the Wilmot sighting. Then they
opted for July 4 on the ground of new testimonies. With the
discredit on Ragsdale and Kaufmann, the question of the date
seems open again - could it have been July 3?

William Woody only remembed that he had driven with his father
during the week-end, and that it was a day or two after his
sighting one evening. This is compatible with July 3.

A tentative scenario would be now:

Collision in the evening, or night of July 3 with Flight 9. The
army discovers the impact site, no very far north of Roswell,
during the same night or on Friday July 4.

They retrieve the craft and bodies the same day, or during the
following night.

Mack Brazel finds the debris field the same day, talks about it
on Saturday 5 at Corona, and goes to Roswell on Sunday 6.

Now, another problem is still the absence of radar reflector.
 From where did come the debris shown in the office of Gal Ramey?
Perhaps from White Sands, for instance - why not?

Another difficulty is the description of flower tape, first by
Brazel, and later by his daughter Bessie. But Brazel could have
been taught to say that (at a time when the balloon explanation
was being staged). Since Bessie was not there, anyway, according
to her family and neighbors, she may have remembered another
balloon discovery, before or after the crash.

I don't say that this is the truth - only that it does not seem
impossible, apparently. Perhaps we will know more, if new
witnesses can be found?


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                Re: Brazil's Recent 'Abductee' - Moulton Howe

From: Linda Moulton Howe <earthfiles@earthfiles.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 11:05:15 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 11:40:01 -0500
Subject: Re: Brazil's Recent 'Abductee' - Moulton Howe


[Non-Subscriber Post]

 >From: Thiago Luiz Ticchetti <thiagolt@opengate.com.br>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 23:55:18 -0200
 >Subject: Brazil's Recent 'Abductee'

 >Hello List,

 >First of all I would like to wish you all a very merry
 >Christmas and a great New Year!

 >Well, we here in Brazil are facing a great menace to all
 >brazilian ufology's credibility, a credibility conquered by
 >several ufologists over the decades. The name of that threat is
 >Urandir Fernandes of Oliveira. That 'gentleman' is spreading
 >around the world (mainly for the USA) that has been maintaining
 >contact with extraterrestrials and that was abducted for several
 >times! That is all lies! Don't believe in that person's words!

 >He already appeared in the program of Mr. Jeff Rense and now it
 >is in Linda Howe's site, that is giving to him some credit.

 >Please, I warming you, don't believe in this man! He takes
 >advantage of naive people to steal their money and make them
 >fools.

 >Once again I repeat, don't believe in this man and in its lies.

 >Who wants more information about that person's lies, please get
 >in touch with me or Mr. A.J. Gevared (gevaerd@ufo.com.br)

 >Thank you very much for your attention

 >Thiago Luiz Ticchetti


Dear Mr. Ticchetti:

cc: Felipe Branco

I have interviewed Felipe Branco about his own firsthand
experiences. Mr. Oliveira does not speak English. Mr. Branco
certainly has a right to describe his own experiences.


Sincerely,

Linda Moulton Howe

Reporter and Editor
Earthfiles.com and
News Contributor,
Premiere Radio Networks

e-mail: earthfiles@earthfiles.com
Fax: 215-491-9842
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                         Re: Roswell Crash? - Kaeser

From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 12:02:09 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 14:24:19 -0500
Subject: Re: Roswell Crash? - Kaeser


 >From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:56:31 +0100
 >Subject: Re: Roswell Crash?

 >>From: Alan Kerrigan <akerrigan3@comcast.net>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:58:09 -0500
 >>Subject: Roswell Crash?

 >>I'm new to UFO UpDates and have been reading the mail. I should
 >>know better than to say anything... but here goes.

 >>Has anyone considered the military having a lucky day with the
 >>Roswell crash. Could the saucer have crashed into Project Mogul?

 >>This may explain why there was a second crash site, how a craft
 >>that travelled so many miles ended up crashing in the first
 >>place, and answer some debris issues.


 >I said in a previous post that I heard recently of a witness who
 >said that, bak in 1972 (see my message of September 17).

 >To my knowledge, there is no definitive refutation of that
 >theory. Who knows ? The final truth may still be "out there" to
 >discover.

 >Gildas Bourdais

This theory seems to be so tenuous that it hardly seems worth
repeating. A craft designed to fly through space and deal with
space debris (which natural or not) would seem to be able to
deal with a floating object in the atmosphere. TAKEN used this
as a scenario to help tie in the genre as tightly as possible,
but that doesn't give it credence.

Gildas, are you sure that the witness you mentioned suggested a
MOGUL balloon? I believe that project was still highly
classified at that time and it wasn't until the mid 80's that
information on it was declassified. In 1972 the Air Force was
still claiming that a weather balloon had been found on the
ranch near Corona, NM. That claim was modified in 1995 by the
Air Force and identified the debris as that of a top secret
MOGUL balloon.

If we are to blindly speculate as to a cause, then it would make
more sense (IMHO) that a catastrophic event on the craft caused
it to lose control and strike the ground, causing it to skip
from the debris site to its final resting place. But this is
pure speculation based on what we perceive from the limited (and
controversial) evidence at hand. Descriptions from the debris
field do not describe a craft of any kind, and there are four or
five distinct crash sites (where the craft allegedly came to
rest) identified by anecdotal testimony from various witnesses.

Another blind speculation that I've heard indicates that the
craft lost control when it flew through early radar emissions,
which caused the occupants to lose control and crash. Again,
this seems a bit far fetched given the fact that the Universe is
filled with many forms of radiation which it would have to deal
with. What about the alleged crash of two alien craft into one
another, which could explain the multiple crash sites mentioned.
But, again, this speculation doesn't really help a scientific
quest for the truth.

As an aside:

I would like to wish everyone on UpDates a Happy and Safe
Holiday Season. We live in troubled times, and there are many
who are far from home during this special time of year. 'Tis the
season to wish everyone Peace and Prosperity, and certainly that
is my wish to all.

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                             Re: Hynek? - Clark

From: Jerome Clark <jkclark@frontiernet.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 12:10:58 -0600
Fwd Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 14:26:44 -0500
Subject: Re: Hynek? - Clark



 >From: Jerry Cohen <rjcohen@optonline.net>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 05:12:05 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Hynek? - Cohen [Re-send]

 >>From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
 >>Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 17:23:11 -0800 (PST)
 >>Fwd Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:24:28 -0500
 >>Subject: Hynek?

 >>Oh yes I did have one more question, and I hope it's not really
 >>naive, but is it the general consensus of opinion among
 >>researchers here that Hynek was respected and well thought of,
 >>or were his "findings" considered to be somehow "suspect" or
 >>tied in with some specific agenda?

I don't know what this question means. What is a "specific
agenda"? Allen Hynek's "specific agenda," if you want to call it
that, was to argue that science had shamefully neglected UFO
study and that Blue Book's explanations for sightings were often
highly wrong. He wrote what is arguably the single finest book
on the subject, The UFO Experience. There were no hidden
motives.

By nature Hynek was a nonconfrontational man, which drove James
McDonald nuts. McDonald judged Hynek too cautious, even too
opportunistic (he complained that Allen had accepted Blue Book's
consulting fees for years before giving voice to criticism of
the project's many failures). But Allen was not the sort of man
who enjoyed getting in anybody's face. When he finally acted and
spoke out, it was because he simply couldn't tolerate what he
was seeing any longer. He also knew he would be on the receiving
end of ridicule, and he was. He made his share of mistakes, as
all scientists and other humans do and probably he should have
stepped forward earlier. But he acted, finally, with courage and
out of principle.


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                       Re: Abduction Question - White

From: Eleanor White <eleanor@raven1.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 15:03:14 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 15:49:49 -0500
Subject: Re: Abduction Question - White


 >From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
 >Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 05:03:27 -0500
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Subject: Re: Abduction Question

<snip>

 >Abductees have only themselves, their own inner resources and
 >maybe a few other individuals that they can turn to. The
 >situation they face is the epitome of the phrase, "Caught
 >between a rock and hard place."

 >Talk about a sad state of affairs.


Hm. You know, that story about the abductee who was abducted
along with his boat and recording GPS suggests another idea.

Nowadays, Digital Angel sells a wearable GPS type locator
gadget at this web page:

http://www.digitalangel.net/consumer.asp

The unit is $400 US and the monitoring charge is $30 US per
month.

They offer, for wandering seniours, a service called
"WanderAlert" that sends the service customer an alert if the
person wearing the unit leaves a preset area.

How about if those people currently undergoing fairly frequent
abductions were to subscribe to this service?

I'm guessing the abductors would not steal the unit as that
would be tangible evidence of their crime.

If they personally can't afford it, the cost is low enough that
presumably others with a keen interest in solving the mystery
could cover it.

How does that sound?


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                              A Christmas Break

From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 15:52:45 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 15:52:45 -0500
Subject: A Christmas Break

Past Christmases found me celebrating at home, close to to
what I laughingly call my computer - this year brings, as the
passing years frequently do, a change.

I shall be away until Friday, noon-ish, Eastern. And unless
something truly unexpected happens - ufologically speaking - UFO
UpDates will be off-line for a couple of days.

Now matter how you celebrate this time of the year, may it
be peaceful and joyous.


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                        Re: Roswell Crash? - Bourdais

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 22:28:26 +0000
Fwd Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 11:00:36 -0500
Subject: Re: Roswell Crash? - Bourdais


 >From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 16:33:58 +0100
 >Subject: Re: Roswell Crash?

 >>From: Mac Tonnies <macbot@yahoo.com>
 >>Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 14:08:50 -0800 (PST)
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Subject: Re: Roswell Crash?

 >>>From: Alan Kerrigan <akerrigan3@comcast.net>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:58:09 -0500
 >>>Subject: Roswell Crash?

 >>>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:06:45 EST
 >>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>Has anyone considered the military having a lucky day with the
 >>>Roswell crash. Could the saucer have crashed into Project Mogul?

 >To all

<snip>

 >And Pflock concludes - "My Flight 9 notion had been
 >shot down".

 >Well, maybe not for the collision theory.

<snip>

 >A tentative scenario would be now:

 >Collision in the evening, or night of July 3 with Flight 9. The
 >army discovers the impact site, no very far north of Roswell,
 >during the same night or on Friday July 4.

 >They retrieve the craft and bodies the same day, or during the
 >following night.

 >Mack Brazel finds the debris field the same day, talks about it
 >on Saturday 5 at Corona, and goes to Roswell on Sunday 6.

 >Now, another problem is still the absence of radar reflector.
 >From where did come the debris shown in the office of Gal Ramey?
 >Perhaps from White Sands, for instance - why not?

 >Another difficulty is the description of flower tape, first by
 >Brazel, and later by his daughter Bessie. But Brazel could have
 >been taught to say that (at a time when the balloon explanation
 >was being staged). Since Bessie was not there, anyway, according
 >to her family and neighbors, she may have remembered another
 >balloon discovery, before or after the crash.

 >I don't say that this is the truth - only that it does not seem
 >impossible, apparently. Perhaps we will know more, if new
 >witnesses can be found?


Gildas,

A major problem with this speculation is this: Why should an
interplanetary, intergalatic, or otherwise craft constructed of
materials that can't be bent, broken, or burnt be done in by a
collision with a flimsy balloon? That doesn't make any sense.

  - Dick






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                              Re: Hynek? - Hall

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 22:41:04 +0000
Fwd Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 11:03:18 -0500
Subject: Re: Hynek? - Hall


 >From: Jerome Clark <jkclark@frontiernet.net>
 >To: <UFOupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 12:10:58 -0600
 >Subject: Re: Hynek? - Clark

 >>From: Jerry Cohen <rjcohen@optonline.net>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 05:12:05 -0500
 >>Subject: Re: Hynek? - Cohen [Re-send]

 >>>From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
 >>>Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 17:23:11 -0800 (PST)
 >>>Fwd Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:24:28 -0500
 >>>Subject: Hynek?

 >>>Oh yes I did have one more question, and I hope it's not really
 >>>naive, but is it the general consensus of opinion among
 >>>researchers here that Hynek was respected and well thought of,
 >>>or were his "findings" considered to be somehow "suspect" or
 >>>tied in with some specific agenda?

 >I don't know what this question means. What is a "specific
 >agenda"? Allen Hynek's "specific agenda," if you want to call it
 >that, was to argue that science had shamefully neglected UFO
 >study and that Blue Book's explanations for sightings were often
 >highly wrong. He wrote what is arguably the single finest book
 >on the subject, The UFO Experience. There were no hidden
 >motives.

 >By nature Hynek was a nonconfrontational man, which drove James
 >McDonald nuts. McDonald judged Hynek too cautious, even too
 >opportunistic (he complained that Allen had accepted Blue Book's
 >consulting fees for years before giving voice to criticism of
 >the project's many failures). But Allen was not the sort of man
 >who enjoyed getting in anybody's face. When he finally acted and
 >spoke out, it was because he simply couldn't tolerate what he
 >was seeing any longer. He also knew he would be on the receiving
 >end of ridicule, and he was. He made his share of mistakes, as
 >all scientists and other humans do and probably he should have
 >stepped forward earlier. But he acted, finally, with courage and
 >out of principle.

 >Jerry Clark

Jerry & List,

As a close personal friend and colleague of Jim McDonald, and
first an adversary (during his USAF years) and then a colleague
of Allen Hynek, I agree completely with what Jerry says here.
Different people have different motivations and what I like to
call "personal devils" that influence how they perform. I
admired--even loved--Jim McDonald. However, I came to respect
Allen Hynek and to be more tolerant of differing personal styles
and how they affect human interactions. Allen clearly was a
talented and principled advocate who, in the last words I heard
him speak, vowed to dedicate the rest of his life to an attempt
to persuade scientists to take UFOs seriously.

  - Dick








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                     Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Rudiak

From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 15:00:25 -0800
Fwd Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 15:41:06 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Rudiak


From: Bruce Hutchinson <bruce@inclusivesolutions.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 11:17:35 -500
Fwd Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 16:28:18 -0500
Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed - Hutchinson


 >From: David Rudiak <DRudiak@earthlink.net>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:02:05 -0800
 >Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed
David, List and Readers;

<snip>

 >>...Trakowski's replacement as Mogul Project Officer was Col.
 >>Edward Doty, who we know today from multiple documents, was
 >>really an AFOSI officer (i.e., Air Force counterintelligence)
 >>and also in charge of UFO investigations at Holloman AFB,
 >>Alamogordo.

 >In checking through the information I have at hand, I cannot
 >find a single document that supports your rather sweeping claim
 >of "multiple documents" supporting your accusation that Col
 >Edward Doty was connected officially to the AFOSI.

 >Major (later Colonel) Edward Doty was assigned to what
 >essentially was a field unit of the Air Force Cambridge Research
 >Station/Center/Laboratory, as it was variously called over the
 >years. Doty did indeed investigate UFO sightings around the
 >Holloman AFB, NM, area, where Doty was assigned. But he didn't
 >carry out those investigations because he was an AFOSI type, but
 >rather because he was a scientific type.

 >I suspect that because Doty's name appears on the Project
 >Twinkle Final Report, you feel that this just _has_ to connect
 >Doty to CI. You know, ...of course, that Project Twinkle was
 >carried out separately from Project Blue Book. In fact, Project
 >Twinkle was carried out under the Air Force's geophysical
 >research program, a large part of which was handled by the Air
 >Force Cambridge Research Laboratory (AFCRL), which later was
 >renamed the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory and which today is
 >known as Phillips Laboratory.

The information that Doty was OSI came from Leonard
Stringfield's Status Report #6, based on the Project Twinkle
summaries plus information from a witness who said Doty was also
in charge of security at Holloman.

The Twinkle summaries do defnitely state that Doty assumed
responsibility for Holloman UFO investigations sometime in 1951.
He and Dyvad took the UFO report from Corona on July 11, 1951.
By the time of discussions with Doty on Aug. 27, 1951, it was
stated that that Doty was "thoroughly acquainted with the
situation."  It also clearly states that he was to continue to
collect and review reports and maintain liaison with AFOSI.
Doty's 1959 letter to the Holloman base historian mentioned none
of this, only his connection to the balloon projects.

At the very least he was in charge of UFO investigations at
Holloman starting in 1951 and reported to AFOSI, even if he
wasn't AFOSI.  AFOSI officer Richard Doty (who variously claimed
Edward Doty was either his father or uncle) said the elder Doty
was also involved in investigating the Lonnie Zemora Socorro
incident for Project Blue Book.

Upon review, I would have to agree this doesn't demonstrate that
Doty was with OSI, as Stringfield claimed, but he did
unquestionably investigate on their behalf and report to them.

 >In Air Force historical reports, Major Edward Doty is credited
 >with having created the Balloon Branch at Holloman AFB (formerly
 >Alamogordo Army Air Field) almost singlehandedly. Major Doty
 >also worked on Project Mogul (or Mogul-like) experiments at
 >Holloman AFB at least as late as 1951. He carried out a lot of
 >the scientific field work at Holloman for the AFCRL.

My, what a fountain of arcane information you are today.  I've
never known you to personally research anything in depth,
instead regurgitating what others have written or playing front
man for them.  Who are you playing front man for today Bruce?
This sounds like something Tim Printy would have written, not
you.

 >Major Edward Doty undoubtedly worked with AFOSI personnel during
 >the Project Twinkle investigations, but Doty himself was _not_ a
 >member of AFOSI, and I doubt that you can produce an authentic,
 >official, Air Force record showing that he was ever assigned to
 >AFOSI. You can- and did- make some unwarranted assumptions, but
 >that hardly justifies such sweeping statements of "fact" based
 >on absurdly weak evidence.

 >And as a side note, your site erroneously claims Edward Doty was
 >the father of Richard Doty. (Richard has also claimed -falsely-
 >that Edward was his uncle!) You need to correct that.

Richard Doty told people like Bruce Maccabee and Philip Klass
that Edward Doty was his father.  He told Robert Todd that
Edward Doty was his uncle.  Before I "correct" this, perhaps you
can enlighten us to the true relationship of the two Dotys and
how you know this for a fact.

If I am wrong about Doty being AFOSI (as it currently appears I
am), I have no problems making the necessary corrections.  I do
strive to be accurate.

Perhaps you can tell your pal/ghostwriter Tim Printy to do
likewise on his webpage concerning Charles Moore's Flight 4
trajectory hoax and alternation of the Flight 5 map.  He's still
claiming I got this all wrong and Moore is an innocent.  I have
yet to see where any of my mathematical or other arguments have
been refuted by either you or Printy.  When are you guys going
to muster the integrity to admit to this?


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                        Re: Roswell Crash? - Tonnies

From: Mac Tonnies <macbot@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 17:45:49 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 15:42:19 -0500
Subject: Re: Roswell Crash? - Tonnies


 >From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 12:02:09 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Roswell Crash?

<snip>

 >This theory seems to be so tenuous that it hardly seems worth
 >repeating. A craft designed to fly through space and deal with
 >space debris (which natural or not) would seem to be able to
 >deal with a floating object in the atmosphere.

<snip>

We assume the Roswell craft (if it existed) was some kind of
spacecraft.  Why?  It could have been an alien craft designed
solely for atmospheric use.

=====
Mac Tonnies (macbot@yahoo.com)

Transcelestial Ontology, Theoretical Ufology and Postmillennial Studies
http://mactonnies.com






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                 Re: Brazil's Recent 'Abductee' - Ticchetti

From: Thiago Luiz Ticchetti <thiagolt@opengate.com.br>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 19:14:05 -0200
Fwd Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 16:11:25 -0500
Subject: Re: Brazil's Recent 'Abductee' - Ticchetti


 >From: Linda Moulton Howe <earthfiles@earthfiles.com>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 11:05:15 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Brazil's Recent 'Abductee'


 >Dear Mr. Ticchetti:

 >cc: Felipe Branco

 >I have interviewed Felipe Branco about his own firsthand
 >experiences. Mr. Oliveira does not speak English. Mr. Branco
 >certainly has a right to describe his own experiences.


Sincerely,

Linda Moulton Howe

Reporter and Editor
Earthfiles.com and
News Contributor,
Premiere Radio Networks

e-mail: earthfiles@earthfiles.com
Fax: 215-491-9842
P. O. Box 300
Jamison, PA 18929-0300



Dear Linda,

Of course that he has the right to describe his own
experiences... _but_ it must be the _truth_, Whic it is _not_!
Mr. Felipe Branco is friend of Urandir, and tell the same
stories.

Please, give some space to me and Gevaerd (who lives near Mr.
Urandir property) to show that they are trying to deceive you.


Thank you very much and have a Merry Christmas


Thiago Luiz Ticchetti
Presidente da Entidade Brasileira de Estudos Extraterrestres
Roberto Afonso Beck (EBE-ET/RAB)
Bras=EDlia/Brasil

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                  Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken - Friedman

From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 22:14:30 -0400
Fwd Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 16:14:37 -0500
Subject: Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken - Friedman


 >From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 17:18:55 EST
 >Subject: Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken

 >>From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 20:24:02 -0400
 >>Subject: Re: Spielberg's Take On Taken

 ><snip>

 >>With all due respect, Dick, the biggest myth is that the original
 >>MJ-12 documents (EBD,TF, CT) are myths. I think I have heard all
 >>the arguments, including those in "Case MJ-12". My review of the
 >>latter will be lengthy indeed.

 >Stan, List, All -

 >Why do I suspect that this review will be less than flattering?
 >And remember, Stan still refuses to answer the hard questions
 >that have been posted here.

 >Well, Stan, review away and the rest of you have a Merry
 >Christmas and a Happy New Year, or Happy Holidays, or whatever
 >and however you celebrate..... And no, I didn't mean to leave
 >Stan out of all that. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to him,
 >too.


My best wishes to all for a joyous holiday season and a
prosperous and loving year.

My purpose in reviewing the book (I hope all buy it) is to seek
errors of omission and comission, perhaps to provide alternative
views. After all I have been seriously involved with Majestic
for 18 years now. I will say it was good to see 8 of my
publications on the subject listed in the bibliography, which
was more than for anyone else. My concern is not with flattering
or un-flattering (is there such a word?) anybody.


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                    CI: Enigmatic Polar 'Trails' on Mars

From: Mac Tonnies <macbot@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 20:54:23 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 16:17:59 -0500
Subject: CI: Enigmatic Polar 'Trails' on Mars


Cydonian Imperative
12-24-02

Enigmatic Polar "Trails" on Mars
by Mac Tonnies

See: http://mactonnies.com/cydonia.html

Recently discovered "sled trail" formations on Mars' south pole
have puzzled the Mars research community. The "trails"--long,
shallow grooves that have elicited joking comments about Martian
snow-sports--are inconsistent with our understanding of Mars'
geology. While the trails could be accounted for by glacier
action if they were on Earth, Mars' lack of glaciers leaves more
exotic possibilities open.

[image]

Unexplained trails on Mars' mysterious south pole.

While I don't think it's likely, it's conceivable that the
trails are the remains of an engineering project. I offer the
possibility on a purely speculative basis; as one of the
features' discoverers very aptly remarked, we probably won't
know what we're looking at until we are able to investigate in
person.

If only NASA would act on this sentiment instead of readying the
next volley of telerobotic probes.

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                              Re: Corso - Gates

From: Robert Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 00:44:48 EST
Fwd Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 16:19:53 -0500
Subject: Re: Corso - Gates


 >From: Ed Gehrman <egehrman@psln.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 09:38:13 -0800
 >Subject: Re: Corso


 >>From: Robert Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 12:16:20 -0500
 >>Subject: Re: Corso [was: Re: Hynek?]

 >>>From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 20:37:09 -0800 (PST)
 >>>Subject: Re: Hynek?

 >><snip>

 >>>Now, in Corso's book, he says that Dr. Hermann Oberth once
 >>>suggested that we consider the Roswell craft from the N.M.
 >>>desert not a spacecraft, but a time machine. I do not understand
 >>>how these two statements relate to Corso's comments about: how
 >>>the Roswell craft perhaps had an electromagnetic anti-gravity
 >>>drive and brain-wave directed navigational controls. And that
 >>>the EBE's utilized a wave-propagation technology as an anti-

 >>Hi Laurel, list,

 >>Recall also Corso's famous remark, uttered literally at the end
 >>of the NBC Dateline interview he gave, about the "Nazi Time
 >>machine" that the US supposedly recovered at the end of/after WW
 >>2.

 >>So Corso and time machine(s) theories are not uncommon so to
 >>speak.

 >Laurel,

 >Please continue your research on Col. Corso and ignore the
 >negative comments by Robert and Jerry. They're good fellows but
 >like so many of their peers, they've disregarded the positive
 >evidence that supports Col. Corso's veracity.

Ed,

So what is "negative" about the truth?

Corso did in fact make the claim about the time machine to the
reporter. We know from Corso's military record that what he
claimed in the book was not in fact correct. Corso claimed that
Birnes stroked the book and there were some inaccuracys in the
book that he couldn't correct do to some contractual obligation
he was under. Birnes claimed that the book is a faithful
reproduction of every word that fell out of Corso's mouth,
further that Birnes had it all on tape. Further that Corso had
read the manuscript and galley proofs of the book a number of
times and had approved what was written in the book. Birnes had
all of the material on tape for 3 (thats right three) Corso
books. I notice that Birnes has been in no hurry to do the other
two books.

So the bottom line still is "Corso and time machine(s) theories
are not uncommon so to speak."

Cheers,

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                       UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 7 Number 52

From: John Hayes <webmaster@ufoinfo.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 13:50:05 +0000
Fwd Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 16:22:04 -0500
Subject: UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 7 Number 52


Posted on behalf of Joseph Trainor.

<Masinaigan@aol.com>
==========================

      UFO ROUNDUP
Volume 7, Number 52
December 24, 2002
Editor: Joseph Trainor

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


TEEN VIDEOTAPES UFOs
IN AFYON, TURKEY

       On Thursday, December 5, 2002, a teenager used his
videocamera to shoot both daylight and night footage of
two UFOs that were hovering over the Davulga district of
Emirdag, a suburb of Afyon, a city in western Turkey.
       "Nineteen-year-old Ramazan Elmas captured the images
of the bright objects with his videocamera on two
successive days and nights," Thursday and Friday,
December 5 and 6, 2002.  "The video pictures of the
objects created much excitement among the residents" of
Afyon.
       "Elmas stated that his father and his friends, Evran
Calik, Adem Erdogan and Mehmet Golkuyu, also witnessed
the incident.  And he (Ramazan Elmas) got in trouble with
the local police."
       "'The police asked me to hand over the cassette, but
I rejected their demand,'" Elmas said, "'Then several
military officers came over from Afyon.  They watched the
footage and wanted to get it.  I reported this to the
Emirdag Public Prosecutor.  The Public Prosecutor
concluded that I was entitled to the copyright of the
video footage.  At that point, the police ceased to
demand it.'"
(Editor's Note:  In Turkey, a public prosecutor is
similar to a district attorney here in the USA.)
       Afyon is located 250 kilometers (150 miles)
southwest of Ankara, the capital of Turkey.  (Many thanks
of Haktan Akdogan of Sirius Space Sciences Research in
Istanbul for this news story.)
(Editor's Note:  For more on recent UFO sightings in
Afyon, see UFO Roundup, volume 7, number 47 for November
19, 2002, "Six Turkish airline crews saw the UFOs over
Afyon," page 2.)


LUMINOUS UFO SIGHTED NEAR
BIRMINGHAM IN UK

       On Thursday, December 19, 2002, at 6 a.m., Joy W.
was driving to work through Small Heath, near Birmingham,
UK, when she spotted an unusual bright light in the sky.
       "A very bright white light approached from the east,
travelling very fast in a straight line, too fast for a
plane," Joy reported, "Constant brightness.  At first I
thought it was a very large shooting star.  But it kept
at the same height."
       "It was a bright silver light, star-like but bigger
than a star, roundish in shape.  The sky was clear.  I
was about four miles (7 kilometers) from the Birmingham
airport.  It could not have been a plane as it was like a
ball of very bright light, even as it was going away from
me."  (Email Form Report)


UFO FLAP CONTINUES
IN VENEZUELA

       Although the intense level of UFO activity in South
America has diminished during the past two weeks, UFO
sightings remain at an all-time high in the nation of
Venezuela.
       Reports of UFOs continue to pour out of Venezuela,
which is also currently embroiled in a political crisis.
       "On Thursday, October 17, 2002, Heilinghs Ferreira
and his brother observed a stationary UFO over the Cerro
Avila (hill) in Caracas," the national capital.  "The UFO
showed ever-changing lights that were colored red,
yellow, blue and white.  Then, for ten minutes, the UFO
moved laterally through the sky above Cerro Avila, then
hovered for another five minutes, and finally disappeared
while right over the peak."
       "On Sunday, November 10, 2002, a witness observed an
ovoid UFO with a brilliant aura around it in the sky
above Maracay," located 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of
Caracas.  "The object repeatedly brightened and
diminished its luminosity until it faded away
completely."
       "On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 8:40 p.m., various
witnesses reported the presence of a spherical UFO
approximately 40 meters (132 feet) in diameter, moving
around in the skies over Caracas.  The UFO presented
rotating lights on its outer rim.  It moved slowly from
east to west before becoming lost in the horizon."  (See
NotiOVNI for December 8 and December 15, 2002.  Muchas
gracias a Daniel Munoz e tambien a Jose Iglesias del
Proyecto Orion de Venezuela para esos informes.)


TWO MORE UFO SIGHTINGS
REPORTED IN COLOMBIA

       "On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 8:30 p.m.,
reporter Nestor Melendez of the Canal Capital TV station
in Bogota, the capital of Colombia, captured on video the
maneuvers of a large multicolored luminous sphere as it
moved about over the Cerro Monserrate (hill)."
       "On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 9:30 a.m., an
enormous silver UFO in the form of a spinning top flew
over rooftops in Bogota.  The object was captured on
video when it passed over a futbol (soccer in the USA--
J.T.) field where a local Bogota team was holding a
practice scrimmage."  (See NotiOVNI for December 15,
2002.  Muchas gracias a Daniel Munoz y tambien a William
Chavez Ariza del Contacto OVNI de Colombia para esos
informes.)


UFOs SPOTTED IN THREE
STATES OF MEXICO

       "On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 8:15 p.m., a
luminous UFO was captured on video over the (large) city
of Cuernavaca in the state of Morelos" In Mexico.
       "In this video, taken by Armado Marquez, are
recorded the slow maneuvers of a strange object with a
very intense luminosity.  The UFO finally disappeared
over Chalma, a suburb southeast of Cuernavaca.  But then,
several minutes later, the UFO abruptly reversed its
trajectory and flew back over Cuernavaca before
disappearing completely."
       "On Friday, December 6, 2002, according to Mexican
ufologist Alberto Gomez, a UFO was sighted by two police
officers in Matamoros, a city in the state of
Tamaulipas," just across the Rio Grande from Brownsville,
Texas, USA.  "Police officer Jaime Mata and his partner,
Juan Reynaldo Najera, saw a UFO over the east side of
Matamoros.  According to the officers, the UFO was white
and 'four times brighter than a star' and moved at a very
high altitude over the barrio Nueva Jerusalem
(neighborhood)."
       "The UFO was also seen by two other officers,
Rosalio Gomez and Juan Carlos Garcia Moreno, who said the
UFO 'had several lights on it.'  The blinking lights were
red, green, orange and yellow.  They radioed their watch
commander, Captain Jose Luis Valdez, who also saw the
slow-moving object."
       "On Wednesday, December 11, 2002, ufologist Carlos
Clemente of Grupo Los Vigilantes reported that, for seven
minutes, a spherical UFO was videotaped over Polanco, a
town north of Mexico City.  Clemente reported that the
object was seen by many witnesses.  During the period of
observation, no airplanes were reported in the vicinity,
which is unusual because Polanco is directly beneath the
commercial jet lane between Mexico City and the USA."
(See the Mexican newspaper El Bravo of Matamoros for
December 8, 2002.  Also NotiOVNI for December 8, 2002.
Muchas gracias a Daniel Munoz para esos informes.)


MYSTERIOUS LIGHT BEAM
SHINES ON OREGON TOWN

       On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 7:30 p.m., Sonja
Maricle was at her home in Chiloquin, Oregon (population
716) when she "first saw it to the south.  I sighted
balls of flashing light (blue, red, gold and green--S.M.)
dancing in the treeline above our house on Chiloquin
Ridge.  Directly below the lights was a very bright light
poking through the forest, causing the forest floor and
manzanita bushes to glow."
       "After about ten minutes, a beam shone down from
above our heads onto the glowing forest floor below.  The
beam of light came from seemingly nowhere, as we could
see nothing above us in the trees."
       "The lights seemed to dance rather erratically for
about ten minutes and then stopped and seemed to signal
to each other, flashing back and forth, and then started
dancing again.  After watching for approximately 45
minutes, the lights formed a V-shape and circled several
times and moved over quickly out of sight to the
southeast."
       The UFOs were "initially gold," Sonja added,
"Flickers of blue, red, gold and green as the objects
rotated.  They appeared roundish, spherical.  About 70 to
80 feet (21 to 24 meters) off the ground when directly in
front of the trees.  Maybe a mile in the sky, give or
take, when leaving."
       Chiloquin, Ore. is in Klamath County, approximately
30 miles (50 kilometers) southeast of Crater Lake
National Park.  (Email Form Report)
(Editor's Note:  Chiloquin is also 25 miles (40
kilometers) north of Klamath Falls, which is considered
"the UFO capital of Oregon.")


 From the UFO Files...

1990: A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE
            IN SASKATCHEWAN

       "Many years ago my father was an Indian Agent on a
reserve (reservation in the USA--J.T.) in northern
Saskatchewan province" in Canada.
       "He was a no-nonsense sort of man.  He didn't
believe in anything unless he saw it with his own two
eyes."
       "It was almost dark that cold wintry day" in
December 1990 "when a very distraught man pounded on the
door.  His ten-year-old daughter was missing.  It seems
she had taken a horse and ridden down the road several
miles to visit a friend at about 4:30 p.m.  He became
concerned that she hadn't come home, so he went out
looking for her, expecting to run into her on her way
home."
       "He went to the friend's house and found out that
she had never been there!  Worried, he headed back home,
stopping along the way to see if she had gone elsewhere,
but no one had seen her."
       "So the man came to talk to my father, who arranged
a search party.  Fifty men with lamps searched late into
the night for any sign of the girl."
       "It started snowing heavily.  And when it began to
snow, the men knew their chances of finding the child
weren't very good at all.  Not a trace of her was found,
nor of the horse.  My dad first thought that the horse
might've bolted and thrown her.  But when the horse
didn't come home, either, the town was full of somber
faces and sorrowful hearts."
       "At daybreak, the men met on the main road.  They
walked slowly, and as they came around the curve in the
street, one man gave a startled yell.  Everyone stopped."
       "There, standing in the middle of the field, were
the girl and the horse!  My father stood and watched as
the girl's father ran out into the field and gathered his
little daughter into his arms.  She was smiling and
didn't look as if she had been out in the cold the whole
night.  And, man, did she have a story to tell us."
(Editor's Note:  In northern Saskatchewan, the
temperature always plummets right after a snowfall.  That
night, it could have gone as low as minus 20 or 30
degrees Fahrenheit.)
       "Trotting down the path, she had seen an old couple
in traditional native (Anishinabe, also known as Chippewa
or Chipewyan--J.T.) costume standing in the middle of the
road.  She didn't know them, but when she got closer,
they smiled and held out their hands to her.  Unafraid,
she slid down from her horse and started walking with the
old couple."
       "They stood on each side of her and asked her to
talk awhile with them as they walked over the deep snow.
The couple told the girl about her Native American
(Anishinabe) heritage and of the native ways and customs.
Then they took her to a log cabin where they sat and
talked some more."
       "Finally, they said it was time to return, and as
they said goodbye to her, the old woman pressed an amulet
into her hand to protect her from all harm."
       "The next thing the little girl remembered was being
in the middle of the field with her father running toward
her."
       "As she told this story, she held out the amulet for
all to see.  Her father gave a cry and dropped down to
his knees, tears streaming down his cheeks.  Her asked
her if the old people had known her secret name.  She
said they had.  The couple had also told the girl that
her family was blessed by angels."
       "Her father told her that she had just described her
own grandparents.  But they had died in a fire" in 1978
"just before she was born.  The cabin where the girl said
they took her had been destroyed before she was born."
       Twelve years earlier, the father had searched
through the blackened ruins of the cabin for his mother's
amulet.  But he had been unable to find it.  (See
Christmas Angels, American Media Mini Mags, Inc., Boca
Raton, Fla., 2001, pages 34 to 38.)


       Tonight is Christmas Eve, and, as most of us settle
down to celebrate with family and friends, let us not
forget those who cannot join in the festivities.  These
are the gallant men and women on active duty in the
military forces of the nations around the world.  Let's
take a moment to remember them on Christmas Day and to
thank them for the many sacrifices they've made on our
behalf.
       So, if you are a member of one of the armed services
on active duty this Christmas, on behalf of all the
readers and correspondents and the gang at UFO Roundup,
let me wish you a "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year."
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                        Re: Roswell Crash? - Bourdais

From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 15:17:35 +0100
Fwd Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 16:36:32 -0500
Subject: Re: Roswell Crash? - Bourdais


 >From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 12:02:09 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Roswell Crash?

 >>From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:56:31 +0100
 >>Subject: Re: Roswell Crash?

 >>>From: Alan Kerrigan <akerrigan3@comcast.net>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:58:09 -0500
 >>>Subject: Roswell Crash?

 >>>I'm new to UFO UpDates and have been reading the mail. I should
 >>>know better than to say anything... but here goes.

 >>>Has anyone considered the military having a lucky day with the
 >>>Roswell crash. Could the saucer have crashed into Project Mogul?

 >>>This may explain why there was a second crash site, how a craft
 >>>that travelled so many miles ended up crashing in the first
 >>>place, and answer some debris issues.

 >>I said in a previous post that I heard recently of a witness who
 >>said that, bak in 1972 (see my message of September 17).

 >>To my knowledge, there is no definitive refutation of that
 >>theory. Who knows? The final truth may still be "out there" to
 >>discover.


<snip>

 >This theory seems to be so tenuous that it hardly seems worth
 >repeating. A craft designed to fly through space and deal with
 >space debris (which natural or not) would seem to be able to
 >deal with a floating object in the atmosphere. TAKEN used this
 >as a scenario to help tie in the genre as tightly as possible,
 >but that doesn't give it credence.

Steve and all

This theory is worth repeating, at least for me, because I came
across a testimony which seems quite reliable to me. A French
friend (anonymous) revealed to me recently (I was the first to
whom he told that) that he had participated in a conversation
with a former technician of Roswell, and it was in 1972, at a
time when nobody would talk about the Roswell crash, and even
less about a collision with a "balloon train". I know this
friend well enough to be convinced that his testimony is
authentic. I would not mention it on this list if I was not sure
of that.

As for the nature of the alleged ufo, we don't know its
functioning and its performances. We don't know if it had space
flight capacity. We could rather suppose that it was a light
shuttle craft of some kind, maybe launched from a spaceship.
More that that, the description of the craft by several
witnesses as a delta wing shape suggests that it may even have
been a kind of rescue craft, after the explosion of a bigger one
(the debris field?).

Who knows? We can imagine various scenarios.

Perhaps the main UFO had been put in trouble by a combination of
lightning and collision with an unexpected balloon train.
Perhaps it had favored a lightning stroke on the craft?
Incidentally, when Marcel recalled that Brazel had mentioned
hearing a strange explosion amidst a thunderstorm, Brazel did
not give a precise date for that. Therefore, It could have been
in the evening of July 3.

 >Gildas, are you sure that the witness you mentioned suggested a
 >MOGUL balloon? I believe that project was still highly
 >classified at that time and it wasn't until the mid 80's that
 >information on it was declassified. In 1972 the Air Force was
 >still claiming that a weather balloon had been found on the
 >ranch near Corona, NM. That claim was modified in 1995 by the
 >Air Force and identified the debris as that of a top secret
 >MOGUL balloon.

No, the witness did not mention the term MOGUL. He mentioned a
balloon train. My friend and the American family he lived with
were to go later to a hot air balloon demonstration in
Albuquerque. The witness "Tom" joked that these balloons would
not be tied together like the balloon train.

One more word : my friend told me that last summer, and we did
not know anything then about the film Taken. So he could not be
influenced by it. He did not know well the Roswell case, anyway.
I had not discussed that with him before.

Gildas Bourdais






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                          Filer's Files #52 -- 2002

From: George A. Filer <Majorstar@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 15:47:18 -0500
Fwd Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 16:39:25 -0500
Subject: Filer's Files #52 -- 2002



FILER'S FILES #52 -- 2002, MUFON Skywatch Investigations
George A. Filer,  Director Mutual UFO Network Eastern
December 25, 2002,   Majorstar@aol.com Webmaster: Chuck
Warren -- My new website is at:

http://www.georgefiler.com


MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR AS
SIGHTINGS INCREASE FOR THE HOLIDAYS

The purpose of these files is to report the UFO eyewitness and
photo/video evidence that occurs on a daily basis around the
world and in space.  Are angels visiting earth?  New York UFO
allegedly hit by missile, New England Christmas UFOs 1909,
Pennsylvania flying triangle, North Carolina cigar and disc,
Georgia huge dark object, Florida fireball breaks up, Ohio two
cigar shaped objects hovering, Indiana sphere 3 glowing objects,
Minnesotta large flying light, South Dakota boomerangs, Arkansas
boomerangs, Iowa bright lights with forked tail, Texas black dot
aloft, Nevada two white lights in the daytime sky, Washington
flash, Brazilian abduction photo story, Venezuela singer sees
UFO,  Australia strange lights. A letter about Angels and
Canadian intercept of UFO.

ARE ANGELS VISITING EARTH AND CREATING MIRACLES?

ANGELS -- It seems fitting that during the holidays that we
should discuss angels that many people feel have a connection to
UFOs.  Countless witnesses claim to have seen angels, and many
believe they even have their own Guardian Angel.  Thousands of
books, television shows, paintings, and movies indicate angels
are real.  Some people claim to have seen bright lights or human
like beings, that they associate with angels.  According to the
scriptures angels are messengers of God and visitors from
heaven.  Of course many think of heaven as a mystical home of
God, but many passages in ancient scriptures indicate heaven is
actually another planet in the northern sky.  Angels are
essentially spiritual and superhuman beings who are credited as
coming from heaven bringing God's message to mankind.  The
scriptures state that God created the heavens and the Earth.  In
various scriptures, angels clearly state God should be
glorified, but not the! m.  Our ancestors who saw strange craft
in the sky or alien beings several thousand years ago often
thought of these landings as being religious in nature.  Much of
what is written could be explained by extraterrestrial visitors
and advanced technology.  I personally feel that the stories in
the scriptures are true, based on the knowledge then available.
An Angel of the Lord spoke with Abraham in the Torah, when he
was 99 years old and childless, telling the Jewish leader he
would become the father of a multitude of nations.  According to
Genesis the prediction was full-filled.  The Eastern religions
speak of Devas who are organized in a military hierarchy and
operate in a similar manner to angels.  One angel brought the
message of the entire Koran to Mohammed and the Moslems.

In the New Testament of the Bible it states:  "In the sixth
month, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth and a town in
Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named
Joseph, a descendant of David.  The virgin's name was Mary.  The
angel went to her and said, "Greetings you are highly favored!
The Lord is with you."  Mary was greatly troubled at his words
and wondered what kind of greeting this might be.  But the angle
said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with
God.  You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you
are to give him the name Jesus.  He will be great and will be
called the Son of the Most High.  The Lord God will give him the
throne of his Father David, and he will reign over the house of
Jacob forever, his kingdom will never end. Mary asked the angel,
"How can this be, since I am a virgin?" The angel answered, "The
Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Mos! t High
will over shadow you.  So the holy one to be born will be called
the Son of God!"  Luke 1-verses 26 to 35.  Two thousand years
later, much of world celebrates this birth at Christmas.

Much of our history revolves around visitors from a planet
called Heaven.  In Indian Vedic writings the topmost authority
in the material universe are known as Brahma, and he lives in
the highest material planetary system, called Brahmaloka.  In
these writings they describe UFO like craft called vimanas flown
by angelic like alien beings.  These extraterrestrial angelic
visitors are real according to most of the great historic
religious writings of mankind.  It seems reasonable that these
are not simply myths, but are based on actual visits by angels,
visitors, watchers, ET, devas or what ever you choose to call
them.  They are given credit for bringing writing to Earth.
When I spoke to Presbyterian minister Barry Downing with a Ph.D.
in science and religion, who has written extensively about UFOs
such as the "Bible and UFOs" told me UFOs provide evidence for
the reality of Biblical phenomena, such as visits by angels that
have often seemed myt! hical to many people.  Recently in
Philadelphia dozens of children during a church service claim to
have seen angels, while older people were unable to see them.
NASA is already planning on terraforming Mars, to create an
inhabitable atmosphere and eventually settlers.  Is it possible
angels were sent to develop Earth, similar to our plan to
transform Mars?  Thousands of books have been written describing
angels interactions with Earth bringing knowledge, new types of
food, and even intervention in human DNA creating modern human
beings.

Sumerian and Babylonian texts according to Zecharia Sitchin and
geologist Christian O'Brien the Elohim or angels manipulated
from earlier human forms. Genesis 6 tells us that, "The sons of
God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took
them wives of all which they chose."  If you visit the great
temples and churches around the world, almost all have the story
of an angel who oversaw their construction.  Often there are
similar stories of strange flying objects in the sky.  Several
friends of mine seriously claim they were healed by angels.  To
understand the full meaning of Christmas is to realize all that
happens in the world may not be simply by chance, angels may be
here accomplishing miracles in among us.  So remember when you
enjoy Christmas it all started with an angel.  And if you are
ever in trouble or need, never forget this wonderful promise,
"For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in
all your! ways."  Psalms 91.

NEW ENGLAND CHRISTMAS UFOs IN 1909

Dr. Don Johnson writes, "During Christmas season of 1909 UFO
sightings throughout New England were reported.  The evidence
that makes me continue to believe that we were dealing with
unorthodox technology and not misidentifications of Venus was
the reports of a powerful searchlight being employed.  That,
combined with the distances covered, keeps me open minded that
we may be dealing with an unidentified, UFO-related, phenomenon.
Thanks to Don Johnson Ph.D.

NEW YORK UFO ALLEGEDLY HIT BY MISSILE

GRIFFISS AIR FORCE BASE -- Ed Jarrett writes, I'm looking for
information on the following: When I was stationed at Griffiss
AFB, 1971-1974, while attending a meeting, some of the senior
NCOs were discussing UFO's.  When I asked them about this, they
said, why yes, there was a piece shot off one a couple of years
ago.  The UFO was picked up on radar coming in over the
Atlantic.  East coast bases could not scramble fast enough, and
a fighter from the 49th Fighter Interceptor Squadron was
scrambled to intercept.  They had F-106 Delta Darts stationed
there at the time.  The pilot tracked the thing and fired a
missile, knocking a piece off the UFO.  His aircraft began to
burn/melt and he bailed out.  The aircraft wreckage and the
piece of the UFO were recovered and laid out in the main hangar.
They said the piece was several feet long and bright metallic.
No one was allowed to go near it, but you could see it from the
office windows! upstairs in the hangar.  The pilot was shipped
out the next day.  He was a captain.  When queried whether they
were joking with me, they all agreed it was true and in the
newspaper.  They further stated the UFO piece was sent to Wright
Patterson AFB in Ohio.  I don't know if this is true, but should
be easily checked out with the Rome, New York newspaper.  This
would be the first hard evidence if true.  Thanks to Ed Jarrett
ejarrett@innernet.net and isur@america.net

PENNSYLVANIA FLYING TRIANGLE

CROYDON -- On December 8, 2002, the witness says, "My girlfriend
and I were heading toward Philadelphia on Route 13 in Bucks
County at 12:20 AM, when we saw three white lights in a straight
horizontal line."  My girlfriend said, "It was moving toward us,
but limbs on the trees made it difficult to get a good look."
We drove towards the object which hovered for at least two
minutes.  I saw the speed of it as it started to accelerate not
super fast but enough to where we couldn't gain on it.  The
weirdest part was that it moved with its lights staying
horizontal, so it didn't turn like a normal aircraft.  Instead
it slid right across Route 13.  It slowed down and slowly
descended, and when I got to the Corydon Train Station, it was
only 65 feet away from my car.  I was astonished, but I saw
three white lights in a V triangle shape with a red light in the
middle which was not always on.  It didn't make a sound.  Thanks
to Pete! r Davenport   [ http://www.ufocenter.com/ ]NUFORC

NORTH CAROLINA UFO SEEN OVER TWO TOWNS

TARBORO -- The witnesses had left church to take some girls home
on December 8, 2002, around 9:00 PM, when one pointed up and
said, "Look what is that?"  I said, "It looks like a UFO."  She
said I thought so too.  So we kept going straight to it to get a
closer look.  We got closer and it looked like a saucer shape
and had lights and looked like it was spinning and blinking.  It
had a circle around it.  It kind of sat in the sky blinking and
spinning.  We got closer and it went down behind some trees,
then came back up for a split second and was gone. It was not a
plane because it was too big, and it wasn't moving at first.

WILSON -- Twenty-five miles southwest a second group of
witnesses also spotted a UFO that flew across town on December
8, 2002, until it went out of view over the treeline at 9:00 PM.
As we exited off the highway to go into the city, I spotted the
big, bright light in the sky.  It was about 150 feet off the
ground and two miles away.  The sky was thinly veiled in clouds,
the crescent moon and some stars behind them.  The light we saw
was almost as large and as bright as the crescent moon and was
clearly visible on the underside of the clouds.  It was a cigar
shape and moved with us as we drove into the city.  We were
traveling at 60 mph and it was doing 150 mph.  We got caught at
every stop light trying to follow  as it passed over the town.
We kept up the best we could and finally lost sight of it as it
disappeared.  We were out in the country and no roads led to the
object.  It must have been of huge dimensions as we! could tell
it was always at least a couple miles away, but was still as big
as the moon.  [ http://www.ufocenter.com/ ]NUFORC

GEORGIA HUGE DARK OBJECT

LYERLY -- MUFON State Director Tom Sheets reports that on
Tuesday, December 10, 2002, a family was driving up Highway 100
in when they observed a large dark object hovering low over the
roadway about 10 PM.  White and blue lights were observed on the
craft flying perhaps as low as 50 feet as the car drove directly
underneath the object and continued.  While passing underneath,
the car was said to "vibrate."  The Mrs. witness stated that the
object was at least as big as a semi-rig, and of unusual shape.
She was able to see a pointed end, fanning out towards the form
of a half circle type of configuration.  She had difficulty
describing it, but stated a sketch would be more enlightening.
Efforts to stop and relocate the object were futile.  It is
unknown at this time whether the "vibration" was due to the
vehicle's engine running rough or if it was caused by the craft.
This SD did not let the witness vent too much, as she agreed to
t! alk further with MUFONGA's Rome investigator Mary Dee
Janssen.  This witness indicated that she got the phone number
of "UFO Reports" from the telephone operator, so this was the
first official use of the hotline by a citizen.  Thanks to State
Director MUFONGA

SUWANEE -- While taking trash bin down to the end of our
driveway on December 15, 2002, which is about 250 feet away, my
fourteen year old son saw a light appear behind a neighbor's
house.  The light proceeded at a "speed, that is hard to
describe" on a horizontal path until it disappeared and seemed
to land beyond the horizon behind some trees at 10:30 PM.  My
son described the light as " a perfect ball of light that did
not give off light but 'was' light and made no sound...but moved
at incredible speed.

FLORIDA FIREBALL BREAKS UP

BOCA RATON -- A bright orange-yellow flare-like light traveled
across the sky towards the south on December 10, 2002, breaking
into two still-flaming pieces before disappearing at 10:55 PM.
A fireball flying south across about a third of the sky, broke
into two pieces just before it disappeared from sight.  It was
like no "shooting star" I have seen before because of the
brightness, duration, and also the length of its path.  It was
more like a steady orange-yellow light like a space-shuttle
night launch.

NORTH MIAMI -- On December 10, 2002, a small fireball like
object was seen hovering over a water treatment plant at the
back of FIU campus.  Students saw a fireball like object
rotating then it sped out and disappeared at 10:15 PM. It looked
like the aurora when it disappeared, but in Florida we don't
have an aurora.  We also noticed after the object disappeared it
left this very cold smelly fume like air with faint colors like
a little bit of water on some gasoline.  The distance between
where we were standing to the object was about 2 blocks away.
The object was about 2000 feet up.  It was not a helicopter or a
student's science project

SAFETY HARBOR -- I was looking at the stars on December 10,
2002, when my friend and I saw a flashing red light at 11:05 PM.
It was moving fast to the left and right and then it went
straight up in the sky and turned right going straight for two
minutes.  Thanks to Peter Davenport   [
http://www.ufocenter.com/ ]NUFORC

OHIO TWO CIGAR SHAPED OBJECTS HOVERING

VIENNA -- The witness was driving through town on December 8,
2002, when he spotted two somewhat cigar shaped objects hovering
in the east at 9 PM.  A beam of light appeared to come from one
of the objects that hovered for about six minutes.  The beam
only lasted about one minute.  Shortly thereafter what appeared
to be possibly three aircraft approached the UFOs and they
almost instantly disappeared.  Thanks to Peter Davenport  [
http://www.ufocenter.com/ ]NUFORC

INDIANA SPHERE 3 GLOWING OBJECTS

FRANKFORT -- On December 10, 2002, my husband and I were driving
ten miles south of Frankfort at 7:30 PM, when we noticed two
balls of light and I thought that I had seen another one briefly
to the left of the larger ball.  There was one large ball of
light and another smaller one to the right.  The light was a
kind of yellowish with pinkish tones.  They appeared to be about
one half mile away and lasted for about ten seconds.  About
eight minutes later, we were just outside Frankfort when my
husband saw them again.  There were three distinct balls of
light, one a bit larger than the other two but farther away.
The larger one's light got bright and then dimmed, and then
brightened briefly again, then all three balls of light dimmed
and went out together.  We called my son-in-law at the
Tippecanoe County Sheriff's Dept. to see if anyone was reporting
UFOs, but none had been reported.  Thanks to Peter Davenport  [
htt! p://www.ufocenter.com/ ]NUFORC

MINNESOTA VERY LARGE FLYING LIGHT

STANCHFIELD -- The witness was driving to his cabin on West Rush
Lake, on December 21, 2002, at about 5:15 AM.  The witness was
traveling east on Highway 65 towards Rush City when he saw a
very large light in the eastern sky.  He reports, "I guess that
it was 1000 feet in the air and hovering above me that I was so
pre-occupied with it that it was effecting my driving.'"  I
viewed it for about five minutes before it took off into the
eastern sky at a very high speed.  It was roughly three seconds
before it was out of my view.  I never believed in this stuff
before, but I know I wasn't imagining it because I was wide
awake.  I would like to know if anyone else reported this?
Shep034@cs.com

WISCONSIN TRIANGULAR PATTERN OF LIGHTS

GREEN BAY -- Just after arriving for the Packers/Vikings game on
December 8, 2002, a group of us noticed three white lights in a
triangular pattern come above us and fly directly over Lambeau
Field heading west at 5:30 PM.  At first, we thought it might be
a plane leaving Austin Strabel Airport because several aircraft
had passed over already, due to the wind patterns.  This had
been broadcast during the game.  The flying triangle flew over
without making any noticeable sound.  Since it was dark at the
time, we can only give a description of the pattern of lights,
not the overall size or distance.  Due to it being a prime time
broadcast football game (ESPN) a group of us think it might have
been some sort of surveillance aircraft, however I have decided
to report it just in case.  Thanks to Peter Davenport  [
http://www.ufocenter.com/ ]NUFORC

SOUTH DAKOTA BOOMERANGS

SIOUX FALLS -- The witness reports seeing a tear shaped white
light that shot straight up out of sight on December 7, 2002, in
a starry night sky at 11:15 PM.  The object was pointed on the
top side and rounded on the bottom with pure white light with a
white tail.  It flew from true north and shot straight up from a
lower altitude 30 degrees to 90 degrees above the horizon and
disappeared within 1 and one half seconds.  When it disappeared
the light did not fade it simply vanished as if it went into a
black tunnel.  Thanks to Peter Davenport  [
http://www.ufocenter.com/ ]NUFORC

IOWA BRIGHT LIGHTS WITH FORKED TAIL

BENTON -- The witness an amateur astronomer was driving east on
US 30 as dark fell and saw a shimmering bright white light three
times the size of Venus on November 23, 2002.  It was a brighter
than usual light in the east with a dripping tail with a liquid
appearance at times just like Venus at its most intense.  The
light hovered for five minutes, then it moved and doubled in
intensity and appeared for a time to have a forked tail pointing
downward, and it seemed to throw off a particle or two.  It
briefly faded down to a bright ball of light but then flared
again to a brilliant white shimmering light more than three
times the size of Venus.  As he drove the red blinking lights of
1000 foot towers were now visible about twenty miles away.  The
object was twice as high as the towers and 15 miles southeast of
Cedar Rapids.  As he drove straight east for over twenty minutes
this light did not change its location and appeared similar to
the "Star ! of Bethlehem" pictures.  I just checked star charts
and verified that Venus is now a morning star and this was not
Jupiter or any other star.  Thanks to Peter Davenport  [
http://www.ufocenter.com/ ]NUFORC

ARKANSAS TWO BOOMERANGS

CHIMES -- A middle aged couple was driving home on State 254
during the evening on December 8, 2002, when they saw 2
boomerang shaped flying craft hovering over a neighbor's field.
On at least one of the crafts a series of lighted windows could
be seen with occupants moving around inside.  When the couple
turned around to go down the neighbors driveway, the objects
vanished.  They turned around to go home and when they arrived,
their college aged daughter was waiting for them.  She had just
arrived home from college from the opposite direction and
excitedly told them about seeing a triangle shaped object up the
road, before they could tell her about what they'd seen.  This
area is very rural.

TEXAS BLACK DOT ALOFT SHOWING A BRILLIANT LIGHT

RICHARDSON -- The observer is a 59 year old former police
detective who has extensive experience in microwave and RF
engineering, and in uplink satellite telecommunications.  He
initially saw the object at 8:56 AM on December 5, 2002.  He was
driving and it was necessary to focus intermittently on traffic
until he could stop in a parking lot.  At that point, while
still visible, the object simply disappeared, leaving nothing
but a small and dim point of white light that continued to fade
until it too disappeared.  Elapsed time from the initial glimpse
until the light faded completely out was less than two minutes.
The object appeared as a black dot, initially about 1/8 inch in
size at arm's length.  It was at altitude and was heading east
at about 080 degrees and at an elevation angle of around 40
degrees.  The light was clearly visible in the daylight but was
not moving.

ODESSA -- Object traveling at a very fast rate A very fast
moving oval object traveling from south to north on December 8,
2002, at 5:55 AM.  It was making a gradual accent near the
horizon.  A beautiful sight, one I will never forget. Thanks to
Peter Davenport   [ http://www.ufocenter.com/ ]NUFORC

NEVADA TWO WHITE LIGHTS IN THE DAYTIME SKY

LAS VEGAS -- On December 7, 2002, the witness was outside of the
building he works in and heard a helicopter flying nearby at
10:10 AM.  He stated, "When I looked up to see where it was I
noticed what I first thought to be an airliner flying west at
high altitude.  When it stopped and appeared to be falling I
realized it was not an airliner but a light instead.  It seamed
to be falling for about ten to fifteen seconds when it suddenly
moved back to the west very fast.  That is when I noticed a
second dot of light that the first had moved to and stopped.
Both dots of light were stationary at that point and did not
appear to be changing altitude.  I called my coworkers to come
and look but the dots seemed to slowly gain altitude and fade
away before they were able to spot them.  It should also be
noted that I am a former air defense crew member and have had
extensive aircraft recognition training. Thanks to Peter
Davenport  [ htt! p://www.ufocenter.com/ ]NUFORC

WASHINGTON STREAK OF LIGHT

TACOMA -- November 27, 2002, 8:04 AM, a flash of light streaked
across the daytime sky at about the altitude of a jet, but at
least ten times faster.  In my peripheral vision I saw a light
streak across a short distance of the sky -- if it had been just
a few feet away.  Its speed was at least 1000 mph.  If I had
witnessed this at night, I would have assumed it was a "shooting
star," but the sun had been up for an hour.  It was foggy, but I
could still see the blue sky clearly.  It left a short contrail
that faded at both ends.  The incident and contrail seemed too
close to Earth to be a meteor.

VENEZUELA SINGER SEE UFO

RISCOS -- Martha Rosenthal reports that "TOO MUCH Magazine,"
claims pop singer Deborah Sachs as well as her manager Ingrid
Angulo saw an object, standing still over their Los Riscos III
building at 7:07 PM, on December 14, 2002.  The craft was at an
altitude of not more than 120 meters southeast of Caracas.  The
craft had red and yellow flashing lights set in a ring form.
The craft made no sound and then moved toward their building in
such a way that they lost sight of it as it passed.  They called
immediately to the magazine and the reporter indicated she was
highly impressed by their sincerity.  Thanks to Martha
Rosenthal, martha@ifxnw.com.ve,  http://www.ceinpla.com

BRAZIL AMAZING PHOTOS OF SCENE

Felipe Castelo Branco wrote to Jeff Rense that, "I would like to
share a couple of photos of the traces found after an abduction
took place in a farm house near the city of Campo Grande, about
1300 kilometers northwest of Rio de Janeiro.  The event was
witnessed by 28 people present in the farm (I was there as
well), who saw the big "disc of light" (maybe 50 meters in
diameter) hover silently above the house about 100 meters high
... then the disc shot down a bluish beam of light on the house
and "abducted" a man who was lying on his bed.  This was around
8:00 PM and when we broke in the bedroom, there was this intense
ozone smell.  We were all very amazed to have witnessed such a
phenomena. The man who was abducted returned after 48 hours and
had a lot to say about his experience (it was his 3rd
abduction).  Our group has been studying the UFO phenomena in
this area for the past 6 years.  Thanks to Felipe Castelo Branco
11-29-2  See photos at:&! nbsp;
http://www.rense.com/general32/abduct.htm

AUSTRALIA STRANGE LIGHTS

It was roughly 4 AM, I had been awake for two hours on December
11, 2002.  I was looking out at the backyard, when I noticed
three white lights.  I thought they were drops of rain, but as I
looked closer, I could see that they stayed in the same position
as I walked around the kitchen.  All of a sudden, a fourth one
emerged from behind the ground 150 meters away.  They then begun
to interact with each other and fly right through each other.
Then as I went out onto the balcony to get a better look, one
approached in my direction.  I was in the house within seconds,
as I peered out of the window, it continued its approach.  The
three behind it lit up brightly for about a second, and the
object immediately flew back to the group.

They hovered for a few minutes when they merged together and
changed shape to an oval with the furthest points of the oval
pointing horizontally.  It then began to shrink then expand and
finally began to fly up, and glare through the clouds until it
disappeared.  The lights when I first saw them appeared to be
diamonds, but seemed to round themselves out.

E-MAIL ABOUT ANGELS

Mike Rogalski writes, "First, congratulations on your
www.filer.unfranchise.com website.  I wish you prosperity and
joy!"  I appreciate your comments linking God, Christ, angels,
etc., to the UFO phenomena.  Of particular interest to me was
your statement about the "world" actually the Greek word
"Cosmos" which would obviously not be translated as "world" if
we took it straight from the Greek.  I really appreciate that
insight, because of some of the difficulty in linking God with
aliens.

You may find it interesting that in Ezekiel, he mentions that
the pilot of the crystal craft was "like unto the son of man."
He doesn't say it was human, necessarily, but the phrasing
implies that it was a similarity to a human....perhaps a gray.
Also, that phrase is often used capitalized to indicate Christ -
- The Son of man.  Playing around with a little bit of
ambiguity, and you could easily place Christ at the helm of the
UFO.  At the very least, it was not an angel piloting the craft.

One problem I have with the aliens being moral beings is their
conduct performed in the "greater good," which subjects us to
experimentation.  Perhaps the concept of "lab rats" is only
relative to the intelligence conducting the experiments.  I
agree that the aliens are varied, with many differing motives,
morals, and conduct.  So this does make it difficult to place
all of them in one category of classification as angels, gods,
or whatever.  Angels and Demons works well, so there you go--the
bible telling us all about it when we're ready to hear it.

After working at Edwards AFB for NASA, I got to realize that you
just don't scramble a $30 million dollar plane on a whim.  Those
scrambles always indicate a substantial bogey before anyone
leaves the ground.  Only in Washington would I scramble jets
before I knew for sure what I was looking at.  I wish you and
yours a happy new year!  Perhaps it will be a year of
breakthrough! Thanks to Mike Rogalski djdjdisco@email.com

CANADIAN INTERCEPT OF UFO

NEWFOUNDLAND -- Canadian fighter aircraft were scrambled
Christmas Eve, December 24, 2002, to intercept a UFO with red
blinking nose light.  The interceptor pilots reported seeing a
jolly old man wearing red clothing who smiled and waved.  The
craft was in the shape of a slay and was drawn by numerous
flying reindeer.

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NEW NASA SHUTTLE VIDEO OF UFOs IN SPACE

Jeff Challender has prepared a new tape of various UFOs that
were caught on recent Shuttle video footage.  Jeff has over a
hour-long tape of UFOs shot in space.  Using Jeff's directions
you will be able to learn the difference between space junk, ice
crystals and real UFOs. See UFOs moving at high speed around the
Earth.  Send $25 to: Jeff Challender 2768 Mendel Way -
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                    'Thing From Another World' Actor Dies

From: Loren Coleman <lcolema1@maine.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 23:10:53 -0500
Fwd Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 16:41:13 -0500
Subject: 'Thing From Another World' Actor Dies

Source: Yahoo News

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=494&ncid=762&e=8&u=/ap/20021225
/ap_en_tv/obit_tobey



Entertainment - AP TV
'Thing From Another World' Actor Dies
Wed Dec 25, 6:30 PM ET

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. - Ken Tobey, who had seven prolific
decades playing small roles in movies such as 1951's classic
"The Thing from Another World" and in numerous television shows,
died Dec. 22. He was 85.

Tobey often played a law enforcement officer, a soldier or
military brass. His nearly 100 films ranged from Westerns to B-
movie thrillers. He also made dozens of appearances in
television from the 1990s back to 1949, when he played a
sheriff's deputy in an episode of "The Lone Ranger."

Perhaps his most memorable role was Capt. Patrick Hendry in
1951's "The Thing From Another World." The film was remade as
"The Thing" in 1982.

He also starred in the TV show "Whirlybirds," playing the co-
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                      'Out Of The Blue' Hits The Market

From: Grant Cameron <presidentialufo@presidency.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 23:27:23 -0500
Fwd Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 16:42:57 -0500
Subject: 'Out Of The Blue' Hits The Market


Out Of The Blue Documentary Hits the Market

For those more sheltered researchers who have never been to the
World UFO Congress held yearly in Laughlin, Nevada, you should
know that included with program of speakers from around the
world, the conference hosts the Annual UFO Film Festival where
new UFO and related documentaries compete in a series of Academy
Awards style categories.

Every morning, for seven days, conference participants get out
of bed early to go view the latest documentaries from film
producers around the world. A panel of judges then reviews the
various entries, and awards winners in the various academy
awards style categories. Each winner receives the prestigious
EBE Award.

The big winner at the 2002 World Congress, among the 17
documentaries entered, was the 70 minute documentary OUT OF THE
BLUE. It won in the Best UFO Documentary - Long Subject
category, and it also won the People's Choice Award voted on by
the hundreds of attendees. OUT OF THE BLUE was produced and
directed by James Fox, Tim Coleman, and Boris Zubov.

I was one of the many who saw the film in Laughlin. Now, having
seen it again, I think it is even better than my first Laughlin
impressions. This dim Laughlin recollection is probably due in
part to the late night cocktail parties hosted at the Congress
by Cynthia Siegel, the host of Sacramento Cable 73's UFO
Connection.

OUT OF THE BLUE is a historic look at the UFO phenomena. It
deals with many of the more prominent UFO people and events
during the last half century. It begins with the stories of the
World War II "Foo Fighters," and continues right up to present
events. The documentary tells this UFO history with numerous UFO
video clips, historic news footage segments, and scores of
interviews done with those involved in the cases.

It is a story that is told extremely well. Even my 19-year old
son, who has limited tolerance for things Ufological, sat
quietly for 35 minutes watching OUT OF THE BLUE before his cell
phone rang and he headed off to attend to more important worldly
events.

OUT OF THE BLUE has two very impressive investigative segments.
One dealt with the 1997 Phoenix lights, and the second was on
1980 Rendlesham Forest sighting (which has gained widespread
interest of late following the British governments opening of
the Rendlesham file).

Each of these two stories is told with many unseen interviews
with witnesses and the UFO researchers collected the evidence.
The Phoenix lights segment is almost nine minutes long and
presents very strong witness testimony discounting the
government explanation of flares as the cause of the sighting.
The Rendlesham segment already discussed and showed the
documents now being discussed in the press, and it includes all
of the audio tapes taken by base members during the sighting.

Other key UFO events presented in OUT OF THE BLUE include the
Graham Bethune sighting, Gordon Copper's involvement in the
filming of a UFO at Edwards AFB, Robert Jacobs account of the
Vandenberg AFB film showing a UFO disabling an Atlas missile in
1964, the 1967 "no-go" of almost 20 missiles at Malmstrom AFB
during a UFO sighting in 1967, and the 1998 UFO film footage at
Somerset, England.

OUT OF THE BLUE went to the former Soviet Union to conduct
interviews with Generals and Major Generals who were involved in
major UFO incidences and UFO investigations inside the secretive
former communist state. Some of the more prominent Russian UFO
cases are detailed.

OUT OF THE BLUE deals with the involvement of U.S. presidents in
the UFO mystery. The producers replay a November 2000 phone
conversation they managed to get with former President Gerald
Ford concerning his initiation of a congressional investigation
following a series of UFO sightings in his home state of
Michigan in 1965. The documentary looks at the Aalien invasion@
remarks made by President Reagan and replays video from his
alien invasion remark made at the United Nations in 1987.

Most importantly, the producers managed to get a video interview
with former President Jimmy Carter. On the short clip Carter
quickly mentioned the UFO sighting that he had in 1969. He is
then asked the ultimate question of what he had done about UFOs
while in the White House. Surprisingly, Carter answers the
question. To see what he said you will have to watch the video.

As further support that this is one of the better documentaries
of the last few year one has to go no further than to quote the
words of Sceptic Magazine publisher Michael Shermer who wrote,
"OUT OF THE BLUE breaks out of the paradigmatic mold and emerges
as one of the very best films ever produced on this, one of the
most interesting subjects in the history of science." In order
to avoid being strung up by his buying public Shermer added
AAlthough I remain skeptical that alien intelligences have
visited Earth (until someone can produce for me an alien
spacecraft or body)."

The weaknesses of the documentary are few. I am sure that many
will attack the producers choice of using Colonel Philip Corso
testimony to bolster their case. Others, if they even notice,
will protest the use of one Billy Meier UFO video segment. I, of
course, thought that their could have been much more on the
Presidential role, but I do fully credit these documentary
producers as being the first to actually review the Presidential
role in the UFO mystery.

Hopefully, now that these three independent producers have spent
their last pennies to produce this major documentary, they will
be able to sell it to one of the cable networks so hundreds of
thousands rather than hundreds can watch it. It would be a shame
to lose the skills of these three film producers due to a lack
of funding. This is because they seem to understand Ufology and
its many pitfalls, and can present a documentary case that even
a sceptic will love.

Copies are available at

http://www.outoftheblue.tv/purchase/purchase.html


Grant Cameron

www.presidentialufo.com/news_update.htm

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                             Re: Hynek - Oplatka

From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 11:10:30 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 16:48:20 -0500
Subject: Re: Hynek - Oplatka


My asking if Hynek had a "specific agenda", pehaps that was
a poor choice of words on my part. I was trying to reconcile in
my mind Hynek's early "swamp gas" theory with his later
statement about 1 out of 40 people being abducted.

After re-reading some of my files, I see that perhaps Hynek was,
at that time, directed by the Air Force to state his views
(publicly) due to pressure, and thus issued his "swamp gas"
theory statement. And Perhaps Major Quintanilla pushed and
reiterated the S.G. theory. As far as the 1 out of 40 abducted
statement made much later, pehaps, as Jerry has suggested, Hynek
simply never said that. So, is this assessment of Hynek's swamp
gas theory, pretty much correct?


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                       Re: Another WTC UFO? - Yturria

From: Santiago Yturria <SYTURRIA@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 14:29:24 EST
Fwd Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 16:50:21 -0500
Subject: Re: Another WTC UFO? - Yturria


Dear friends,

I've just seen the ABC news version of the WTC UFO (pre-Sept.
11). In 2000 the SCI-FI channel released the well known UFO over
the WTC video, the one that approached the helicopter where the
alleged witness Barbara S. was filming with a friend, you
remember?

Now the ABC news comes with their own WTC UFO (pre-Sept 11) just
like the SCI-FI channel. See the video here:

http://abcnews.go.com/onair/popoff/ufo2000/wallace_ufo_abc.html

You will need the Real One player. The date of the videoclip is
marked as 2000 and  submitted by Erin Hayes. That's the only
information available but the funny thing is that this UFO is
almost identical that the one from the SCI-FI channel version.
Coincidence ?


Happy New Year,

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                       FOIA Request To NSA - 12-26-02

From: Larry W. Bryant <overtci@cavtel.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 15:17:17 -0500
Fwd Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 16:52:42 -0500
Subject: FOIA Request To NSA - 12-26-02


To: president@whitehouse.gov

TO:  Freedom of Information Manager
      U. S. National Security Agency
      Fort George G. Meade, MD  20755-6248

FROM:  Larry W. Bryant
        3518 Martha Custis Drive
        Alexandria, VA  22302

DATE:  December 26, 2002

Word has come to me that certain NSA personnel presented to
president Jimmy Carter a special briefing on the reality of some
UFO's as alien spacecraft.  A UFO-coverup whistleblower, who
happens to be a former White House staffer, has privately
revealed that the briefing included a 15-minute color motion-
  picture film taken at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M. -- the film
showing UFO occupants and U. S. military personnel making
physical contact.

Accordingly, under terms of the U. S. Freedom of Information
Act, I hereby request that you furnish me a copy of all NSA-
  generated and NSA-received records pertaining to the above-
cited presidential briefing, to include a copy of the film and
its associated documentation.

Since I make this request as a member of the UFO-awareness press
(especially as a columnist for the Internet website of
http://www.ufocity.com -- "LWB Chronicles"), I ask that you
waive all records-search fees incident to your fulfilling it.

Please note that I'm snail-mailing to you a signed printout of
this e-formatted letter.




LARRY W. BRYANT
Director, Washington, D.C., Office of
Citizens Against UFO Secrecy

Copies furnished to:

   Mark S. Zaid, Esq. (Washington, D.C.)

   Peter Robbins, Editor-in-Chief, UFOcity.com

   Chairman, U. S. Senate Committee on Intelligence

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

"For the people to arm themselves with the truth, they must have full
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                   UFO Cult Says It Has First Human Clone

From: Loren Coleman <lcolema1@maine.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 23:40:15 -0500
Fwd Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 17:01:13 -0500
Subject: UFO Cult Says It Has First Human Clone

Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation

http://www.abc.net.au/news/justin/nat/newsnat-27dec2002-35.htm

Posted: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 13:24 AEDT


Cult says it has first human clone

The human cloning cult Clonaid says a human cloned baby has been
born. Clonaid says the birth by Caesarean went well but there is
no independent scientific confirmation the baby is a clone.

Clonaid was founded in 1997 by the Raelian cult, which claims
life on earth was created through genetic engineering by
extraterrestrials. French scientist and member of the Raelian
sect, Brigitte Boisselier, told the AFP news agency the baby is
a girl.

Ms Boisselier, president of the human cloning society Clonaid,
says the birth "went very well".

The baby is the first born of five cloned babies the Raelians
have said are due.

The Raelians, who claim 55,000 followers worldwide, believe life
on earth was established by extraterrestrials who arrived in
flying saucers 25,000 years ago, and that humans themselves were
created by cloning. The movement's founder, Rael - the former
French journalist Claude Vorilhon - lives in Quebec. He
describes himself as a prophet and claims that cloning will
enable humanity to attain eternal life.






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             New Washington D.C. Scramble: UFO Witness Surfaces

From: Kenny Young <ufo@fuse.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 12:09:25 -0800
Fwd Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 17:03:24 -0500
Subject: New Washington D.C. Scramble: UFO Witness Surfaces


UFO UpDates list:

Apparently something rather interesting may have taken place
inside of restricted airspace around Washington D.C. on Monday,
December 16. For details, see the website at:

http://home.fuse.net/ufo


Thanks and Happy New Year

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                        Re: Roswell Crash? - Bourdais

From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 18:59:54 +0100
Fwd Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 17:05:19 -0500
Subject: Re: Roswell Crash? - Bourdais


 >From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 12:02:09 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Roswell Crash?

 >>From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:56:31 +0100
 >>Subject: Re: Roswell Crash?

 >This theory seems to be so tenuous that it hardly seems worth
 >repeating. A craft designed to fly through space and deal with
 >space debris (which natural or not) would seem to be able to
 >deal with a floating object in the atmosphere. TAKEN used this
 >as a scenario to help tie in the genre as tightly as possible,
 >but that doesn't give it credence.


Steve, and the List

David Rudiak has given me strong arguments against the
collision, suggesting that the witness "Tom" might have been
confused.

I have called again my friend, I have explained him the
discussion, and he agrees that, yes, his witness might have been
confused, mixing together two different events which would have
been close in time and space.

The Kellahin testimony suggests that he may have been shown a
balloon train, near the road leading to the Foster ranch, which
would have been found in the vicinity. Perhaps that's were the
confusion would have come from. And perhaps such confusion would
have even been spread deliberately?

I apologize if I have conbtributed myself in spreading that
confusion, fifty years later!


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                              Re: Corso - Gates

From: Ed Gehrman <egehrman@psln.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 13:51:34 -0800
Fwd Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 17:11:50 -0500
Subject: Re: Corso - Gates


 >From: Robert Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 00:44:48 EST
 >Subject: Re: Corso

 >>From: Ed Gehrman <egehrman@psln.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 09:38:13 -0800
 >>Subject: Re: Corso


 >>Laurel,

 >>Please continue your research on Col. Corso and ignore the
 >>negative comments by Robert and Jerry. They're good fellows but
 >>like so many of their peers, they've disregarded the positive
 >>evidence that supports Col. Corso's veracity.

 >Ed,

 >So what is "negative" about the truth?
 >Corso did in fact make the claim about the time machine to the
 >reporter.

Robert,

Yes, he certainly did but does that automatically make it a lie?
He said the same thing on Art Bell but the VSA indicates he was
telling the truth. Now, he may have been mistaken and what he
thought was a time machine was in fact something else, but he
was telling the truth as he saw it.

 >We know from Corso's military record that what he
 >claimed in the book was not in fact correct.

Which part? The Col.-Light Col issue is unresolved but aside
from that, what part of his military record do you think he lied
about. Please be specific and use citations. Did he lie about
being in command of a nuclear facility. Does the military give
nuclear commands such as this to liars and psychopaths?

 >Corso claimed that
 >Birnes stroked the book and there were some inaccuracies in the
 >book that he couldn't correct do to some contractual obligation
 >he was under. Birnes claimed that the book is a faithful
 >reproduction of every word that fell out of Corso's mouth,
 >further that Birnes had it all on tape. Further that Corso had
 >read the manuscript and galley proofs of the book a number of
 >times and had approved what was written in the book. Birnes had
 >all of the material on tape for 3 (thats right three) Corso
 >books. I notice that Birnes has been in no hurry to do the other
 >two books.

Other books are not in the works as far as I know; but I don't
think Birnes is involved any longer.

Corso said there were numerous mistakes but he didn't blame
Birnes. He did much of the story from memory and of course there
will be some mistakes.

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Rampart/2271/corso.html

 >So the bottom line still is "Corso and time machine(s) theories
 >are not uncommon so to speak."

I don't know exactly what this sentence means but yes Col. Corso
alluded to time machines.

 >Cheers,

 >Robert

and the same to you.


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                Re: New Washington D.C. Scramble: UFO Witness

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 22:58:11 +0000
Fwd Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 22:37:44 -0500
Subject: Re:  New Washington D.C. Scramble: UFO Witness


 >From: Kenny Young <ufo@fuse.net>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 12:09:25 -0800
 >Subject: New Washington D.C. Scramble: UFO Witness Surfaces

 >UFO UpDates list:

 >Apparently something rather interesting may have taken place
 >inside of restricted airspace around Washington D.C. on Monday,
 >December 16. For details, see the website at:

 >http://home.fuse.net/ufo

 >Thanks and Happy New Year

 >Kenny Young

Kenny,

Pardon me, but I do not understand the significance of this
link. All I see is a repeat of what you have already posted.

- Dick







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                        Re: Roswell Crash? - Kerrigan

From: Alan Kerrigan <akerrigan3@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 18:08:51 -0500
Fwd Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 06:40:14 -0500
Subject: Re: Roswell Crash? - Kerrigan


 >From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 22:28:26 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Roswell Crash?

 >>From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 16:33:58 +0100
 >>Subject: Re: Roswell Crash?

 >>>From: Mac Tonnies <macbot@yahoo.com>
 >>>Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 14:08:50 -0800 (PST)
 >>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Subject: Re: Roswell Crash?

 >>>>From: Alan Kerrigan <akerrigan3@comcast.net>
 >>>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>>Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:58:09 -0500
 >>>>Subject: Roswell Crash?

 >>>>From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
 >>>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>>Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:06:45 EST
 >>>>Subject: Re: Frank Kaufmann Exposed

 >>>>Has anyone considered the military having a lucky day with the
 >>>>Roswell crash. Could the saucer have crashed into Project Mogul?

 >>To all

 ><snip>

 >>And Pflock concludes - "My Flight 9 notion had been
 >>shot down".

 >>Well, maybe not for the collision theory.

 ><snip>

 >>A tentative scenario would be now:

 >Collision in the evening, or night of July 3 with Flight 9. The
 >>army discovers the impact site, no very far north of Roswell,
 >>during the same night or on Friday July 4.

 >>They retrieve the craft and bodies the same day, or during the
 >>following night.

 >>Mack Brazel finds the debris field the same day, talks about it
 >>on Saturday 5 at Corona, and goes to Roswell on Sunday 6.

 >>Now, another problem is still the absence of radar reflector.
 >>From where did come the debris shown in the office of Gal Ramey?
 >>Perhaps from White Sands, for instance - why not?

 >>Another difficulty is the description of flower tape, first by
 >>Brazel, and later by his daughter Bessie. But Brazel could have
 >>been taught to say that (at a time when the balloon explanation
 >>was being staged). Since Bessie was not there, anyway, according
 >>to her family and neighbors, she may have remembered another
 >>balloon discovery, before or after the crash.

 >>I don't say that this is the truth - only that it does not seem
 >>impossible, apparently. Perhaps we will know more, if new
 >>witnesses can be found?

 >A major problem with this speculation is this: Why should an
 >interplanetary, intergalatic, or otherwise craft constructed of
 >materials that can't be bent, broken, or burnt be done in by a
 >collision with a flimsy balloon? That doesn't make any sense.


Dick,

You are a man of logic and common sense. You are probably right,
but what would the effect be on a small craft powered by
electromagnetism striking a large foil bag in our atmosphere
during a possible lightening storm? How many foil bags and
lightening storms are in space? If they did hit one in space...
they wouldn't necessarily hit ground for a million miles or so.
And, how many sightings report wobbly movement of the craft. Why
would a craft that travels that far... wobble in our atmosphere?
That doesn't make sense either. We are using our frame of
reference to decipher this, which is all we have. Their frame of
reference may be totally different.







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                      Re: UFOs Visit Grampians - Taylor

From: Barry Taylor <stingray@nor.com.au>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 23:19:39 +1000
Fwd Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 06:43:07 -0500
Subject: Re: UFOs Visit Grampians - Taylor


Hello List members,

I would like to comment on the UFO activity reported from the
Grampians area of Victoria Australia. I live in the north of New
South Wales, and have been corresponding with Paul Norman of the
Victorian UFO Research Society regarding the continuous activity
in this location.

This activity was brought to our notice early this year. We
heard that video footage had been taken and sent to the USA for
analysis. The exact location was not disclosed at this point in
time.

I had my first viewing of this footage at the August UFO
Conference in Sydney, where I was a guest speaker. Paul Norman
showed several minutes of the footage from the Grampians
Mountains "UFO's". Having done extensive video analysis of UFO
footage myself, I was interested to see what all the fuss was
about.

Basically, the footage showed distant bright illuminations way
out of focus, and forming the notorious "Airy Disc". It was
impossible to judge what these illuminations actually were, or
what the source of light may have been. The location where these
lights were, is supposed to be rugged bushland, with little or
no population. Yet no Topographical maps have been accessed even
to this day so as to establish roads, farm houses, fire trails
or points of interest that may attract human activity to the
area in question.

Just recently, the guy who took the video footage and is
apparently the main Skywatcher to the Grampian illuminations,
sent me a 2 hour video of the footage he had taken over the last
few months hoping I could add weight to this "UFO Hot Spot" now
being compared to the Norwegian  Hessdalen project conducted by
the =D8stfold College Norway.

The footage showed some of the layout of the land at late dusk,
but mostly taken in the darkness of night. Infrared was
sometimes used which only brightened the illuminations and did
not show colour. Most still badly out of focus.

In visual analysis of the footage as a first stage subject
familiarity run, I noted the distant horizon of approx. 15klm
and kept it in alignment with closer mountain ridges so as to
see just how far the illuminations moved in relation to these
features. Throughout the whole sequence, NO illumination moved
ABOVE the distant horizon line. This means that to date, the
illuminations are classified as GROUND BASED illuminations, NOT
aerial illuminations.

There are a couple of good short sequences which show the
illuminations moving close BEHIND tree trunks. Two bright
illuminations follow the exact same path on two consecutive
nights. Could this indicate a road or track? Someone really
needs to drive into this area to check it out. The land has
areas of clear felled trees, now grassland and grazing cattle so
access is possible.

It appears that the patrons associated with the Victorian UFO
group lack the knowledge and necessary photographic equipment in
order to gather the necessary photographic evidence, and are
unwilling to venture into the midst of the area where these
'lights' are seen with nightly regularity. A Newspaper reporter
visited the location, took still photographs using time
exposure, one showing two illuminations leaving CURVED motion
trails. Curved in different directions ruling out camera
movement. The Journalists came away unable to explain what they
had observed.

So something strange just may be occurring in the Grampians of
Victoria, but very little valuable photographic evidence has
resulted in the several months of this event so far. just how
long it will continue is anyones guess. It is either a true UFO
event, and a special one at that, or Human activity, or a
combination of both. It needs a dedicated team of researchers to
spend a full week or two there. THAN there would be answers.

I will keep you informed if you are interested.


Barry Taylor




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                Re: New Washington D.C. Scramble: UFO Witness

From: Kenny Young <ufo@fuse.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 22:54:56 -0800
Fwd Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 06:45:36 -0500
Subject: Re: New Washington D.C. Scramble: UFO Witness


 >From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 22:58:11 +0000
 >Subject: Re: New Washington D.C. Scramble: UFO Witness Surfaces

 >Kenny,

 >Pardon me, but I do not understand the significance of this
 >link. All I see is a repeat of what you have already posted.

 >- Dick

That's why I didn't include the text. I sent the link to the
website to avoid cross-posting what was already put on the
CURRENT ENCOUNTERS List during the time EBK went on break so
that those on EBK's List who are not on the CE List could also
be 'updated' about the latest D.C. episode.


Thanks,

KY







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                     *U* UFO Database Images Plagiarized

From: Larry Hatch <larry@larryhatch.net>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 03:23:06 -0800
Fwd Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 07:24:27 -0500
Subject: *U* UFO Database Images Plagiarized


To: seiko@dpstudios.com

Dear Seiko:

[ Others, please bear with me on this. -LH ]

In reference to this web page of yours:

  http://www.dpstudios.com/redondo/ufo.html

I see you like my UFO map of the Western USA, among others.

So do I. It took 18 years of bone-crunching research and
programming to produce them with the *U* database. It was
more work to put them up on their sole rightful website:

  http://www.larryhatch.net/

Please read the small print at the bottom of my Maps Menu
screen:  http://www.larryhatch.net/MAPSMENU.html
.. where it states:

" All Maps, Statistical screens, Data and *U* Web Pages are
  Copyright  =A9  1985-2002  Larry Hatch. "

On your page above, you have:

a) Copied my copyrighted map straight off my website.
b) Copied my text, virtually unchanged, from my same
   web page, presenting both as if they were your work.
c) Completely omitted any mention of the *U* Database,
   Larry Hatch, or any other clue to the authorship of
   this huge work.
d) Linked the small _and_ the full size (640-480) map so
   that the bandwidth to view these images is charged to
   my website host instead of yours.
e) Altered the "Home Page" link so that it points to
   your website instead of mine.
f) Apparently used this, and other similar stratagems
   to help sell your website(s).
   $9000! See center banner ad in page below ..

  http://www.dpstudios.com/redondo/VisitorLobby.htm

On your Home Page (the altered link) ..

  http://www.dpstudios.com/redondo/index.start.html

.. I find the statement:

  "Spammer's are advised to read the "Spam Offer" above,
  as any misuse of information snagged from this site could
  prove very "expensive" for the Spammer.
  (We have successfully sued over 110 Spammers in the last
  year, accounting for an increase in revenue above 28
  percent. Thank you Spammers everywhere, for your
  consistent stupidity."

On yet another page of yours:

  http://www.dpstudios.com/redondo/terms.html

.. I find this amazing paragraph!

" 5. Trademarks. www.dpstudios.com, DPStudios, and all related
  logos, products and services described in this website are
  either trademarks or registered trademarks of DPStudios Lab,
  or their licensors, and (aside from "Use of Logos" below) may
  not be copied, imitated or used, in whole or in part, without
  the prior written permission of DPStudios.

  In addition, all page headers, custom graphics, button icons,
  and scripts are service marks, trademarks, and/or trade dress
  of DPStudios and may not be copied, imitated, or used, in
  whole or in part, without the prior written permission of
  DPStudios. "

Does that include the maps you ripped of from me? I take it you
are eager to go to court.

I strongly advise you to either give full credit to both Larry
Hatch, _and_ the *U* UFO Database, with clear easy links; or
else take down any and all links, images and references to my
work.


Sincerely

- Larry Hatch






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                              Re: Corso - Gates

From: Robert Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 01:51:28 EST
Fwd Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 07:45:10 -0500
Subject: Re: Corso - Gates


 >From: Ed Gehrman <egehrman@psln.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 13:51:34 -0800
 >Subject: Re: Corso

 >>From: Robert Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 00:44:48 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Corso

 >>>From: Ed Gehrman <egehrman@psln.com>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 09:38:13 -0800
 >>>Subject: Re: Corso

 >>>Laurel,

 >>>Please continue your research on Col. Corso and ignore the
 >>>negative comments by Robert and Jerry. They're good fellows but
 >>>like so many of their peers, they've disregarded the positive
 >>>evidence that supports Col. Corso's veracity.

 >>Ed,

 >>So what is "negative" about the truth?
 >>Corso did in fact make the claim about the time machine to the
 >>reporter.

 >Robert,

 >Yes, he certainly did but does that automatically make it a lie?
 >He said the same thing on Art Bell but the VSA indicates he was
 >telling the truth. Now, he may have been mistaken and what he
 >thought was a time machine was in fact something else, but he
 >was telling the truth as he saw it.

Ed,

All I pointed out is Corso's theory/connection to so-called time
machines, either the alleged Nazi or ET types.

 >>We know from Corso's military record that what he
 >>claimed in the book was not in fact correct.

 >Which part? The Col.-Light Col issue is unresolved but aside
 >from that, what part of his military record do you think he lied
 >about. Please be specific and use citations. Did he lie about
 >being in command of a nuclear facility. Does the military give
 >nuclear commands such as this to liars and psychopaths?

The first line of Corso's book is not correct, i.e. that he was
the head of/in charge of Army FTD for two years. In fact it was
90 days. Of the 90 days he was absent 15. In fact and reality he
worked at FTD for a total of 1 year not two.

As to being in "command of a nuclear facility" what exactly are
we discussing? His service record (signed by him at or around
retirement) shows that he was in various command positions such
as air defense battalion commander, but that isn't "command of a
nuclear facility."

There were other issues as well.

 >>Corso claimed that
 >>Birnes stroked the book and there were some inaccuracies in the
 >>book that he couldn't correct do to some contractual obligation
 >>he was under. Birnes claimed that the book is a faithful
 >>reproduction of every word that fell out of Corso's mouth,
 >>further that Birnes had it all on tape. Further that Corso had
 >>read the manuscript and galley proofs of the book a number of
 >>times and had approved what was written in the book. Birnes had
 >>all of the material on tape for 3 (thats right three) Corso
 >>books. I notice that Birnes has been in no hurry to do the other
 >>two books.

 >Other books are not in the works as far as I know; but I don't
 >think Birnes is involved any longer.

Didn't Birnes just publish some Corso stuff in UFO mag recently?

 >Corso said there were numerous mistakes but he didn't blame
 >Birnes. He did much of the story from memory and of course there
 >will be some mistakes.

 >http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Rampart/2271/corso.html

Take a look at the Birnes 1997 interview at:

http://www.omnimag.com/archives/chats/hs090297.html

At that location you will see Birnes states that Corso had began
writing his manuscript between 1993-1995 and "they" meaning
Birnes and Corso assembled the material into 5 seperate
manuscripts, one of which was the Roswell book.

In the Interview, Birnes is asked: "How did the writing process
between the two of you work? Did you interview him on audio or
videotape? Did he ever supply any original documents that would
confirm his rather remarkable story?"

To which Birnes replies:

"Videotape! Prior to beginning the manuscript, we interviewed
Col. Corso on video, fourteen hours of which exist at the movie
studio. Thereafter, I worked from Col. Corso's copious notes,
documents that he provided, and material that he requested from
Army sources. If I had specific questions, I'd ask them. Then,
the colonel and I met and went over the manuscript in draft
form. He made changes, corrections, revisions, etc."

Elsewhere he claimed that he accurately recorded everything that
Corso said.

By supposed Corso family accounts, allegedly Birnes rushed the
book to print before Corso checked the final draft. Supposedly
the bogus sections were only in the first three chapters dealing
with Roswell etc etc. By other accounts inaccuracies and factual
problems were here and there throughout the book.

As I recall Birnes also stated that the chapter(s) dealing with
the Roswell story were a composite of the many Roswell stories and
not meant to be accurate, just that the publisher wanted the
reader to have some kind of general background to Corso
allegedly seeing the alien bodies at Fort Riley.

Supposedly around, or just before his heart attack in the summer
of 1998 Corso said in a statement:


"Certain elements have laid claim to all my future writings.
They have involved me in legal proceedings. I will not foster on
the world cheap sensationalism, half-truths, errors passed off
as reality, etc., for the purpose of personal gain.

The U.S. government and the Army have not attempted or even
hinted to me not to make the truth on Roswell or UFOs that I
possess known to the world. But other elements have stopped me,
by using the courts. I will not under any condition put the
knowledge I possess into their hands to exploit for their ends;
so the story may never be told.

I survive on my military retirement pay. It is not sufficient to
live on and pay my legal fees, although my attorneys have been
most tolerant. I have not received any royalties from "The Day
After Roswell" and as such cannot continue my work because of
the heavy financial burden..

Therefore, I wish to establish the Col. Philip J. Corso Legal
Fund. All donations and questions may be referred to [my
attorney, Deborah L. Taylor. See further information below].

I wish to add that I have received [speaking] invitations from
Italy-San Marino (accepted expenses only), China-Beijing UFO
Research Organization, Moscow, England, Germany, Australia,
Japan, Brazil, Mexico, France and numerous scientific
organizations worldwide and in the United States. I have not
been able to accept because of possible legal implications by
those that wish to exploit the situation. They have even
involved my family into the fracas and legal matters."

***End Corso statement


So towards the end Corso claimed he never made a dime in
royalties off the book, was involved in legal proceedings from
people who were laying claim to his writings apparently to:
"foster on the world cheap sensationalism, half-truths, errors
passed off as reality, etc., for the purpose of personal gain."

One wonders who these "people" were and what the "cheap
sensationalism, half-truths, errors were that were passed off as
reality for personal gain. Note the past tense of this "passed
off as reality.."

Then we had Phillip Corso Jr. and the Corsofiles web site that
was up and running, going to put the entire Corso manuscript on
the web then the whole thing dies supposedly with a business
disagreement with somebody that was doing the web site. Now the
site references to Internet searches.

Phil Jr at one point said the inaccuracies were marketing
descrepencies and the the Corsofiles web site (now closed) would
fill in the gaps. He also said there was 'no government
conspiracy' and that we should never 'exchange Ufology for
religion.' That he had the 'the famous Rainbow file (E.B.E.)'
whatever that was and they were trying to make a UFO from Corso
Srs notes.

Supposedly some event was going to happen in April of 2003.
Apparently we will be caught up to alien technology of 1947
levels by 2003.

And so Corso is just as murky as ever.


Cheers,

Robert






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                  Re: Brazil's Recent 'Abductee' - Gevaerd

From: A. J. Gevaerd <gevaerd@ufo.com.br>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 09:17:19 -0200
Fwd Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 08:00:58 -0500
Subject: Re: Brazil's Recent 'Abductee' - Gevaerd


 >From: Thiago Luiz Ticchetti <thiagolt@opengate.com.br>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 19:14:05 -0200
 >Subject: Re: Brazil's Recent 'Abductee'

 >>From: Linda Moulton Howe <earthfiles@earthfiles.com>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 11:05:15 -0500
 >>Subject: Re: Brazil's Recent 'Abductee'


Dear Thiago,

Thanks to your efforts and the efforts of a few other colleagues
we have succeeded in preventing a new hoax in Ufology. However,
there are still many people who don=B4t know the facts about this
alleged abduction and therefore I am sending this to the List:

- - - - - - - - - -

BRAZILIAN ABDUCTION WITH PHOTOS OF THE SCENE IS NOT ONLY A HOAX,
BUT ALSO A BIG JOKE

*Announcement to the world UFO community*

Dear friends:

Please be informed that the story of a man abducted in Brazil,
with photos of the scene, is a campaign to promote the biggest
UFO hoaxer of all time in Brazil, Urandir Fernandes de
Oliveira, who has actually created a sect of fanatics around
him, composed of people who blindly believe in his alleged ET
contacts and healing powers, none of them ever confirmed by
anyone. The man has been repeatedly exposed as hoaxer by several
UFO researchers and major media networks. Dozens of people from
his own sect, after "waking up to reality", have come forward to
complain of Urandir=B4s tricks.

His last great attempt to go public in Brazil and overseas
happened last year, when he fabricated the story (easily
exposed) that a UFO had crashed at his friend=B4s farm. It was
only another of his hoaxes, perpetrated to attract people to his
cult activities. They are invited to join if they pay money. His
alleged background is fake and the man is quikly becoming rich
with his obscure agenda, supported by thousands of fanatics.
Urandir is rejected by 99% of the _Brazilian_UFO_Community_, who
know that his well publicized 'contacts' are nothing but hoaxes.
His story is _not_ to be taken seriously, as no responsible UFO
researcher has been allowed to examine the scenario and the
alleged case.

Brazilian UFO researchers are sending many e-mails to our
foreign colleagues, especially in USA, to warn them about the
hoax. So far, only a few people have listened to us. Jeff Rense
is one of them and had me on his show to explain things on
December 20. The story can still be found at Linda Moulton
Howe's www.earthfiles.com.

Linda, like other UFO journalists in the States, such as Whitley
Strieber and Art Bell, has been supplied with info about
Urandir's new and past hoaxes. Brazilian UFO researchers have
been dealing with this gentleman for 7 years now. We have
succeeded in preventing that thousands of people being cheated
by Urandir and now he is trying the USA.

I have personally investigated his background and his claims.
Everything he claims about his past is false. I wonder how some
UFO researchers overseas could publish his stories without
checking it out first, or even without consulting their
Brazilian colleagues about it. But we hope that at some point
some people will discover by themselves that the case is a hoax
and withdraw their support. Absolutely no serious UFO researcher
in Brazil would consider Urandir's new allegations, as he had
faked everything else before.

Please also observe that Urandir was arrested for a few days in
Porto Alegre, March 2000, accused of selling someone's else
property as if it was his. What he did - and we have all the
records - was to split a small farm (which now is his thanks to
his followers' money) into 6,000 plots of land, sold to
thousands of people who believed that, by buying the land, they
would be safe from Armageddon holocaust side-by-side with
Urandir and his "cosmic brothers". Any resemblance to
Applewhite's story? Sure. Urandir made much money, at least a
few million, as each piece was sold by about US$ 700.

Urandir's new 'abduction' is preposterous. He has told
  everybody that in the 2-day period he was "abducted" he was
taken to a "special intergalactic meeting with 49 alien races
including some people from The Great White Fraternity and a
representative of God Himself". He had claimed that he was the
only person from Earth present at that meeting and that he was
given a "special mission" for the next years. And this is what
his followers believe. The previous abduction that he claimed to
have, back a few years, he was missing for a few days, too. He
spent those days in an apartment in S=E3o Paulo eating pizza and
watching movies. And, of course, laughing at the people who
believed in him.

Because it all - and there's more - we, the Brazilian UFO
researchers, are very surprised to see the audience that the
gentleman is getting in the USA. We are concerned that this can
give him an opportunity to expand his activities towards that
country, as he tried to do with Colombia and Spain. So, people
must be aware of the situation in order to prevent more frauds
and hoaxes in Ufology. Those of you needing more info can write
to any Brazilian UFO researcher or to me. Those who read
Portuguese or want to check out the pictures of him in jail can
hit www.ufo.com.br/edicoes/ufo71.


A. J. Gevaerd
Editor of the Brazilian UFO Magazine.
National Director, Mutual UFO Network
gevaerd@ufo.com.br
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                Re: New Washington D.C. Scramble: UFO Witness

From: Kenny Young <ufo@fuse.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 22:54:56 -0800
Fwd Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 06:45:36 -0500
Subject: Re: New Washington D.C. Scramble: UFO Witness


 >From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 22:58:11 +0000
 >Subject: Re: New Washington D.C. Scramble: UFO Witness Surfaces

 >Kenny,

 >Pardon me, but I do not understand the significance of this
 >link. All I see is a repeat of what you have already posted.

 >- Dick

That's why I didn't include the text. I sent the link to the
website to avoid cross-posting what was already put on the
CURRENT ENCOUNTERS List during the time EBK went on break so
that those on EBK's List who are not on the CE List could also
be 'updated' about the latest D.C. episode.


Thanks,

KY







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                  Re: New Washington D.C. Scramble: - Hall

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 16:17:38 +0000
Fwd Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 10:26:43 -0500
Subject: Re: New Washington D.C. Scramble:  - Hall


 >From: Kenny Young <ufo@fuse.net>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 22:54:56 -0800
 >Subject: Re: New Washington D.C. Scramble: UFO Witness Surfaces

 >>From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 22:58:11 +0000
 >>Subject: Re: New Washington D.C. Scramble: UFO Witness Surfaces

 >>Kenny,

 >>Pardon me, but I do not understand the significance of this
 >>link. All I see is a repeat of what you have already posted.

 >>- Dick

 >That's why I didn't include the text. I sent the link to the
 >website to avoid cross-posting what was already put on the
 >CURRENT ENCOUNTERS List during the time EBK went on break so
 >that those on EBK's List who are not on the CE List could also
 >be 'updated' about the latest D.C. episode.


Kenny,

Okay, thanks. I sometimes forget that the same material often
gets posted on both Lists, and sometimes in addition I receive
forwarded copies of the same information. Therefore, at times I
get frustrated over what seems to be endless repetition.

  - Dick








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                       Is Ufology Dead Or Just Dozing?

From: Joe McGonagle <joe@ufology.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 16:40:21 -0000
Fwd Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 10:28:23 -0500
Subject: Is Ufology Dead Or Just Dozing?


Jenny Randles wrote an excellent article for EYE magazine, which
is now up at their website at:

http://www.hufos1.karoo.net

It is quite critical of ufology, but does make some suggestions
as to the way forward. Just to give you a taste, read the
following quote:


"So UFOlogy will never go back to the way it was. It has changed,
forever, and the UFO community that once controlled what was said
and done has lost the say in its own subject. Indeed, UFOlogists
have almost become an irrelevance - at best lumbering behind a
litany of advertisers,hype merchants, web site designers, and
sci-fi entrepreneurs."


So, is ufology dead, or just dozing?


Joe









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                             Re: Corso - Gehrman

From: Ed Gehrman <egehrman@psln.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 11:45:10 -0800
Fwd Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 10:42:06 -0500
Subject: Re: Corso - Gehrman


 >From: Robert Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 01:51:28 EST
 >Subject: Re: Corso

 >>From: Ed Gehrman <egehrman@psln.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 13:51:34 -0800
 >>Subject: Re: Corso

 >>Yes, he certainly did but does that automatically make it a lie?
 >>He said the same thing on Art Bell but the VSA indicates he was
 >>telling the truth. Now, he may have been mistaken and what he
 >>thought was a time machine was in fact something else, but he
 >>was telling the truth as he saw it.

 >Ed,

 >All I pointed out is Corso's theory/connection to so-called time
 >machines, either the alleged Nazi or ET types.

Yes and you were correct, but you seemed to imply that this was
nonsense and I wanted to emphasize that although it might seem
like nonsense, Col. Corso wasn't (didn't seem to be) lying,
although he may have been mistaken. I didn't think his
mentioning of time machines should discredit his other claims.

 >>>We know from Corso's military record that what he
 >>>claimed in the book was not in fact correct.

 >>Which part? The Col.-Light Col issue is unresolved but aside
 >>from that, what part of his military record do you think he lied
 >>about. Please be specific and use citations. Did he lie about
 >>being in command of a nuclear facility. Does the military give
 >>nuclear commands such as this to liars and psychopaths?

 >The first line of Corso's book is not correct, i.e. that he was
 >the head of/in charge of Army FTD for two years. In fact it was
 >90 days. Of the 90 days he was absent 15. In fact and reality he
 >worked at FTD for a total of 1 year not two.

Yes that sentence is a little confusing. But there is no doubt
that he worked the Foreign Technology desk for Gen. Trudeau, and
that he saw these as "incredible" years.

 >As to being in "command of a nuclear facility" what exactly are
 >we discussing? His service record (signed by him at or around
 >retirement) shows that he was in various command positions such
 >as air defense battalion commander, but that isn't "command of a
 >nuclear facility."

I too admit to a poorly written sentence. He was commander of a
Nike battalion. Do they give commands of Nike battalions to
frauds and psychopaths?

 >>>Corso claimed that
 >>>Birnes stroked the book and there were some inaccuracies in the
 >>>book that he couldn't correct do to some contractual obligation
 >>>he was under. Birnes claimed that the book is a faithful
 >>>reproduction of every word that fell out of Corso's mouth,
 >>>further that Birnes had it all on tape. Further that Corso had
 >>>read the manuscript and galley proofs of the book a number of
 >>>times and had approved what was written in the book. Birnes had
 >>>all of the material on tape for 3 (thats right three) Corso
 >>>books. I notice that Birnes has been in no hurry to do the other
 >>>two books.

 >>Other books are not in the works as far as I know; but I don't
 >>think Birnes is involved any longer.

 >Didn't Birnes just publish some Corso stuff in UFO mag recently?

He may have although I'm not familar with it.

 >>Corso said there were numerous mistakes but he didn't blame
 >>Birnes. He did much of the story from memory and of course there
 >>will be some mistakes.

 >>http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Rampart/2271/corso.html

 >Take a look at the Birnes 1997 interview at:

 >http://www.omnimag.com/archives/chats/hs090297.html

 >At that location you will see Birnes states that Corso had began
 >writing his manuscript between 1993-1995 and "they" meaning
 >Birnes and Corso assembled the material into 5 seperate
 >manuscripts, one of which was the Roswell book.
 >In the Interview, Birnes is asked: "How did the writing process
 >between the two of you work? Did you interview him on audio or
 >videotape? Did he ever supply any original documents that would
 >confirm his rather remarkable story?"

 >To which Birnes replies:

 >"Videotape! Prior to beginning the manuscript, we interviewed
 >Col. Corso on video, fourteen hours of which exist at the movie
 >studio. Thereafter, I worked from Col. Corso's copious notes,
 >documents that he provided, and material that he requested from
 >Army sources. If I had specific questions, I'd ask them. Then,
 >the colonel and I met and went over the manuscript in draft
 >form. He made changes, corrections, revisions, etc."
 >Elsewhere he claimed that he accurately recorded everything that
 >Corso said.

I don't doubt that he felt this way, but I think Col. Corso
could have made many mistakes about dates, places, etc, that he
wanted to correct and was unable to do so. Phil Jr. told me that
his father was constatently making changes and revisions in a
note book that he always carried. I had the impression that the
book in print was not a finished product.

 >By supposed Corso family accounts, allegedly Birnes rushed the
 >book to print before Corso checked the final draft. Supposedly
 >the bogus sections were only in the first three chapters dealing
 >with Roswell etc etc. By other accounts inaccuracies and factual
 >problems were here and there throughout the book.

Yes I agree that this is the case. There were factual errors
throughout the book. But the main emphasis of the book is
accurate: Col. Corso and Gen. Trudeau furnished alien,
technologically advanced artifacts to US defense contractors who
were already working on similar projects and they were
encouraged to research and develop this technology. These same
companies were assisted in this endeavor through government
contracts initiated by the foreign technology desk.

 >As I recall Birnes also stated that the chapter(s) dealing with
 >the Roswell story were a composite of the many Roswell stories and
 >not meant to be accurate, just that the publisher wanted the
 >reader to have some kind of general background to Corso
 >allegedly seeing the alien bodies at Fort Riley.

Yes, I agree.

<snip>

 >And so Corso is just as murky as ever.

Yes very murky indeed - from:

http://www.floridatoday.com/news/people/stories/2000/oct/peo100800a.htm

Oct. 8, 2000
UFO memoirs go online
Son plans to upload father's story on Web

By Billy Cox
FLORIDA TODAY

<snip>

"In Bethesda, Md., where Stephen Bassett operates a political
action committee lobbying elected officials to take a stand on
public disclosure of classified UFO records, arguments over The
Day After Roswell amount to "nitpicking" that "helps government
management of this issue." Statements such as Corso being a
member of the National Security Council, when he was only an
aide, don't bother him.

"The core issues here are true" he says. "For whatever flaws the
book might have, it took a tremendous amount of courage for Col.
Corso to come public with it. If you listen to the man tell his
story on camera, he comes across as sincere and credible."

For others, such as retired Army Col. and former Los Alamos
National Laboratory director of Advanced Concepts John Anderson,
the lack of evidence for Corso's claims only deepens the
mystery.

"The world's leader in night-vision technology is the Army. Some
of those guys in Electro Optics' night-vision division are
personal friends of mine," Anderson says. "I looked into the
history of their technology development, and Phil's story
doesn't hold. You never see technological advances that cannot
be accounted for - or anticipated - by traditional good
science."

What puzzles Anderson, author of Future War: Non-lethal Weapons
in 21st Century Warfare, are the facts that can be verified.

"I met Phil before the book came out. I liked the guy," says
Anderson from his home in Las Vegas. "Ninety-eight percent of
what he claimed is, in fact, accurate - where he was, what he
did, all that.

"I checked it out. Here's a man who sat in front of Congress in
1992 saying we lost quite a few planes over the Soviet Union
playing cat-and-mouse with their air defense system. In '95 or
thereabouts, he was up there again, exposing the KGB's
exploitation of American POWs who were sent to Czechoslovakia."

Equally intriguing to Anderson is Corso's relationship with
Trudeau. In 1980, when the Army War College in Carlisle
Barracks, Pa., began videotaping oral histories for its library,
"Trudeau was one of the first eight men to be interviewed,"
Anderson says. "There's a wide status gap between a lieutenant
colonel and a lieutenant general, but when Trudeau was
interviewed, who did he want right there with him? Phil Corso.
It was a very, very unique situation." Anderson's take on Corso?

"He's an enigma."

-----

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                     *U* Database Images Plagiarized #2

From: Larry Hatch <larry@larryhatch.net>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 14:28:12 -0800
Fwd Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 10:47:38 -0500
Subject: *U* Database Images Plagiarized #2


Hello all:


Again, let me apologize for bringing up such a distasteful
matter during the holidays.

I want to thank those who wrote in off-list, providing useful
information (site registration etc.) and fun suggestions.

One of these was to rename my stolen map image, repaint my links
to the new name, then _replace_ the stolen ones, under the
original name with something truly outrageous. That could be
fun, but first I want to see some response from the perps.

There are apparently at least two 'domains' involved in this,
its rather complex. The first one is DPSTUDIOS.COM with the
webmistress Seiko <seiko@dpstudios.com>. Seiko is apparently
Japanese, trying to make her way into the world of sales and e-
  commerce.

Closely associated, is ELECTRAWEB run by one Richard van Bree
<dick@electraweb.com>. One or both clearly know better, judging
from the legalese I quoted, and they so blissfully do not
practice themselves.

If I could ask something from you:

I am on two UFO Lists only; UFO UpDates and Project-1947.

If any of you are on other UFO discussion groups online, I would
ask you to copy my original message [below] to Seiko (and now
also to Richard van Bree) to any and all UFO Email Lists that
you may also belong to.

Full exposure is probably the most effective counter-measure for
this sort commercial abuse and plagiarism.

Should anyone care to further offer their opinions on this
matter to Seiko and/or van Bree at their email addresses above,
that might be nice too.


Much appreciated!

- Larry Hatch

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To: seiko@dpstudios.com
cc: Ufo Updates, Project 1947..


Dear Seiko:

[ Others, please bear with me on this. -LH ]

In reference to this web page of yours:

  http://www.dpstudios.com/redondo/ufo.html

I see you like my UFO map of the Western USA, among others.

So do I. It took 18 years of bone-crunching research and
programming to produce them with the *U* database. It was
more work to put them up on their sole rightful website:

  http://www.larryhatch.net/

Please read the small print at the bottom of my Maps Menu
screen:  http://www.larryhatch.net/MAPSMENU.html
.. where it states:

" All Maps, Statistical screens, Data and *U* Web Pages are
  Copyright  =A9  1985-2002  Larry Hatch. "

On your page above, you have:

a) Copied my copyrighted map straight off my website.
b) Copied my text, virtually unchanged, from my same
   web page, presenting both as if they were your work.
c) Completely omitted any mention of the *U* Database,
   Larry Hatch, or any other clue to the authorship of
   this huge work.
d) Linked the small _and_ the full size (640-480) map so
   that the bandwidth to view these images is charged to
   my website host instead of yours.
e) Altered the "Home Page" link so that it points to
   your website instead of mine.
f) Apparently used this, and other similar stratagems
   to help sell your website(s).
   $9000! See center banner ad in page below ..

  http://www.dpstudios.com/redondo/VisitorLobby.htm

On your Home Page (the altered link) ..

  http://www.dpstudios.com/redondo/index.start.html

.. I find the statement:

  "Spammer's are advised to read the "Spam Offer" above,
  as any misuse of information snagged from this site could
  prove very "expensive" for the Spammer.
  (We have successfully sued over 110 Spammers in the last
  year, accounting for an increase in revenue above 28
  percent. Thank you Spammers everywhere, for your
  consistent stupidity."

On yet another page of yours:

  http://www.dpstudios.com/redondo/terms.html

.. I find this amazing paragraph!

" 5. Trademarks. www.dpstudios.com, DPStudios, and all related
  logos, products and services described in this website are
  either trademarks or registered trademarks of DPStudios Lab,
  or their licensors, and (aside from "Use of Logos" below) may
  not be copied, imitated or used, in whole or in part, without
  the prior written permission of DPStudios.

  In addition, all page headers, custom graphics, button icons,
  and scripts are service marks, trademarks, and/or trade dress
  of DPStudios and may not be copied, imitated, or used, in
  whole or in part, without the prior written permission of
  DPStudios. "

Does that include the maps you ripped of from me? I take it you
are eager to go to court.

I strongly advise you to either give full credit to both Larry
Hatch, _and_ the *U* UFO Database, with clear easy links; or
else take down any and all links, images and references to my
work.


Sincerely

- Larry Hatch



Sincerely

- Larry Hatch








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                       Re: Roswell Crash? - Goldstein

From: Josh Goldstein <clearlight@t-online.de>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 05:37:47 +0100
Fwd Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 22:52:45 -0500
Subject: Re: Roswell Crash? - Goldstein


 >From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 22:28:26 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Roswell Crash?

 >>From: Gildas Bourdais <gbourdais@wanadoo.fr>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 16:33:58 +0100
 >>Subject: Re: Roswell Crash?

<snip>

 >>A tentative scenario would be now:

 >>Collision in the evening, or night of July 3 with Flight 9. The
 >>army discovers the impact site, no very far north of Roswell,
 >>during the same night or on Friday July 4.

 >>They retrieve the craft and bodies the same day, or during the
 >>following night.

 >>Mack Brazel finds the debris field the same day, talks about it
 >>on Saturday 5 at Corona, and goes to Roswell on Sunday 6.

 >>Now, another problem is still the absence of radar reflector.
 >>From where did come the debris shown in the office of Gal Ramey?
 >>Perhaps from White Sands, for instance - why not?

 >>Another difficulty is the description of flower tape, first by
 >>Brazel, and later by his daughter Bessie. But Brazel could have
 >>been taught to say that (at a time when the balloon explanation
 >>was being staged). Since Bessie was not there, anyway, according
 >>to her family and neighbors, she may have remembered another
 >>balloon discovery, before or after the crash.

 >>I don't say that this is the truth - only that it does not seem
 >>impossible, apparently. Perhaps we will know more, if new
 >>witnesses can be found?

 >Gildas,

 >A major problem with this speculation is this: Why should an
 >interplanetary, intergalatic, or otherwise craft constructed of
 >materials that can't be bent, broken, or burnt be done in by a
 >collision with a flimsy balloon? That doesn't make any sense.


Dick,

I agree with you. From whatever sense or nonsense I do not know
but I have always felt the same regarding a trufo going haywire
from radar or nature's storms. Of course it is not like I would
have even the slightest idea of what their power, propulsion,
and navigation systems would be.


Josh








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              Puerto Rico: Final Resting Place for Chupacabras?

From: Scott Corrales <lornis1@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 07:31:09 -0500
Fwd Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 22:57:37 -0500
Subject: Puerto Rico: Final Resting Place for Chupacabras?


The Journal of Hispanic Ufology

December 29, 2002

A Final Resting Place for Chupacabras?

Xmas Suprise Startles Jayuya

Alex David   PARA PRIMERA HORA


A six year old boy and his brother found the strange carcass in
Jayuya. (Para PRIMERA HORA / Edgar V=E1zquez Col=F3n)

JAYUYA.-  A discovery only increases the mystery: the bones of a
strange creature disturbed the calm days of Christmas
festivities in the town of Jayuya.

The animal remains were found on Tuesday at 1:30 pm while young
Angel Oquendo, 6, played with his brother Sixto, 10, between the
supports and footings of a recently built dwelling on family
property in the Canalizo sector near the city of Utuado.

According to Adelaida Quiles, Angel's mother, the boy summoned
her while they roasted a pig for Christmas Eve dinner.

"He called me saying, Mommy, come here, there's a dead mouse,
and I ignored him, but he kept calling and I asked my husband to
take over the preparations while I took a look."

As soon as she sound the dead animal's remains near one of the
house's supports, she called her husband, Cesar oquendo,
realizing that the remains were not something she could readily
identify. They slid a piece of cardboard under it to bring it
out into the light. "Upon seeing it, we wondered if that thing
could be the Chupacabras or something similar," said Quiles.

A quick observation reveraled that the animal had no traces of
wool, hair or feathers on its carcass. Nor was there any
evidence of it having had upper extremities or wings.

The creature would have apparently stood some 2 ft. tall and was
supported by its rear extremities, which had pronounced claws
and three equally long bones. This gave the impression that it
was able to jump considerable heights. Its wide, elongated head,
with prominent eyes, sported a complete set of teeth with long
upper fangs, two of them in the molar area and another in the
bottom jaw, marking its carnivorous nature (...).

The ears were palm-shaped and measured nearly an inch in length,
and there was a curved shape to its spinal column. The creature
also had a pointed tail measuring nearly 1 1/2 ft. long similar
to that of a reptile, and it appeared to have provided support
for it while it walked.

The surprise among the local residents was still considerable as
they awaited the arrival of a Forensic Sciences researcher who
would verify the animal's characteristcs. Curiously, several
birds had been slain months ago on the same rural property:
eight hens and one rooster were found slain outside their cages
and had belonged to Victor Quiles, Adelaida's father.

Jose Carlos Rivera, residing in the same area, lost five hens
consecutively around the same time and in the same manner. He
stated that an uncle of his lost 23 animals and his sister
another 2. Rivera, a traveling food vendor near the entrance of
the town, claimed to have not experienced further attacks and
had paid no further attention to the incident.

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Translation (C) 2002 Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic
Ufology. Special thanks to Luiseppi Qui=F1ones
(www.cyberevistacero.cjb.net)







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                             Re: Corso - Aldrich

From: Jan Aldrich <project1947@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 8:39:50 -0500
Fwd Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 23:02:10 -0500
Subject: Re: Corso - Aldrich


 >From: Ed Gehrman <egehrman@psln.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 13:51:34 -0800
 >Subject: Re: Corso

 >>From: Robert Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 00:44:48 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Corso

<snip>

 >>>Please continue your research on Col. Corso and ignore the
 >>>negative comments by Robert and Jerry. They're good fellows but
 >>>like so many of their peers, they've disregarded the positive
 >>>evidence that supports Col. Corso's veracity.

 >>So what is "negative" about the truth?
 >>Corso did in fact make the claim about the time machine to the
 >>reporter.

 >Yes, he certainly did but does that automatically make it a lie?
 >He said the same thing on Art Bell but the VSA indicates he was
 >telling the truth. Now, he may have been mistaken and what he
 >thought was a time machine was in fact something else, but he
 >was telling the truth as he saw it.

 >>We know from Corso's military record that what he
 >>claimed in the book was not in fact correct.

 >Which part? The Col.-Light Col issue is unresolved but aside
 >from that, what part of his military record do you think he lied
 >about. Please be specific and use citations. Did he lie about
 >being in command of a nuclear facility. Does the military give
 >nuclear commands such as this to liars and psychopaths?

 >>Corso claimed that
 >>Birnes stroked the book and there were some inaccuracies in the
 >>book that he couldn't correct do to some contractual obligation
 >>he was under. Birnes claimed that the book is a faithful
 >>reproduction of every word that fell out of Corso's mouth,
 >>further that Birnes had it all on tape. Further that Corso had
 >>read the manuscript and galley proofs of the book a number of
 >>times and had approved what was written in the book. Birnes had
 >>all of the material on tape for 3 (thats right three) Corso
 >>books. I notice that Birnes has been in no hurry to do the other
 >>two books.

 >Other books are not in the works as far as I know; but I don't
 >think Birnes is involved any longer.

 >Corso said there were numerous mistakes but he didn't blame
 >Birnes. He did much of the story from memory and of course there
 >will be some mistakes.

 >http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Rampart/2271/corso.html

 >>So the bottom line still is "Corso and time machine(s) theories
 >>are not uncommon so to speak."

 >I don't know exactly what this sentence means but yes Col. Corso
 >alluded to time machines.


Enough of this junk!

Is there a giant space-based anti-ET weapons system which is
keeping the evil ET at bay the result of efforts unknown to him
at the time by the Savior of Mankind, Colonel General Corso?

Answer that or go away!

And the Non-disclosure project why are you against a space based
defense which according to Corso, one of the witnesses in your
witness list, already exists and is doing a handy job of keeping
the evil ET away?

Answer that or go away!

I can't believe at this point we are still debating over Corso's
military record which is available for all to see.

If you haven't, check it out at

http://www.cufon.org/

His FBI record is also there.

http://www.cufon.org/special/corsofbi.pdf

His military records indicate that he constantly stretched the
truth in his book. His FBI record indicate that he engaged in
rather juvenile activities, but more seriously that he had
accused people of disloyal activity which the FBI had to check
and found wanting.

Also, read Corso's book and note the special relationship he had
with Hoover. Then look what Hoover said about him in his FBI
file.

Ed, I may not know a liar every time I see and hear one, but I
know one thing for sure. Corso was a liar, his book was a lie
and his contributions to Ufology have been lies, confusion and
stupidity. Not one positive thing!


Jan Aldrich

Project 1947
http://www.project1947.com/
P. O. Box 391
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                              Re: Hynek - Cohen

From: Jerry Cohen <rjcohen@optonline.net>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 09:46:36 -0500
Fwd Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 23:04:09 -0500
Subject: Re: Hynek - Cohen


 >From: Laurel Oplatka <calabash2003@webtv.net>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 11:10:30 -0800 (PST)
 >Subject: Re: Hynek - Oplatka


 >My asking if Hynek had a "specific agenda", pehaps that was a
 >poor choice of words on my part.  I was trying to reconcile in my
 >mind Hynek's early "swamp gas" theory with his later statement
 >about 1 out of 40 people being abducted.

 >After re-reading some of my files, I see that perhaps Hynek was,
 >at that time, directed by the Air Force to state his views
 >(publicly) due to pressure, and thus issued his "swamp gas"
 >theory statement.  And Perhaps Major Quintanilla pushed and
 >reiterated the S.G. theory.  As far as the 1 out of 40 abducted
 >statement made much later, pehaps, as Jerry has suggested,
 >Hynek simply never said that.  So, is this assessment of
 >Hynek's swamp gas theory, pretty much correct?


Laurel,

Dr. Hynek's "Swamp Gas Theory" was proposed for one specific
case in which the UFO in question was reported in a swamp.

Clicking at the following you can see Dr. Hynek's own words
regarding his part in those Michigan sightings and where he was
at in his study of UFOs to that point. The article by Dr. Hynek
appeared 12/17/66 in the Saturday Evening Post.

http://www.cohenufo.org/sepost_66_hynek.2.html#hynekmichigan

In the following specific part of the article, Hynek describes
exactly how he came up with the explanation. Hynek also told us
that he had reached a point where he realized he needed to get
other scientists involved in the study. He felt the problem was
big enough that it was probably impossible for him to solve it
by himself.

http://www.cohenufo.org/sepost_66_hynek.2.html#hynekmichexplan

Also in this article, he mentions writing a letter to the Air
Force to try to get them to study the subject more seriously. He
also wrote another letter in 1968 to his boss Colonel Raymond S.
Sleeper where he tells him the statistics in Blue Book are a
farce. It is important to read this to gain some insight into
his relationship with the Air Force.

http://www.cohenufo.org/ocr.5a.html#anchor210180

Reading the above and the links I gave you in my 24 Dec 2002
posting to UpDates

http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/dec/m24-007.shtml

will give you plenty of information concerning Dr. Hynek and his
evolution regarding UFOs. You just have to read it.


Respectfully,

Jerry Cohen

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              Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or

From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:48:48 EST
Fwd Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 23:07:04 -0500
Subject: Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or


 >From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 22:40:05 +0000
 >Subject: Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or Fact?'

 >>From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:00:03 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or Fact?'

 >>>From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 15:47:23 -0500
 >>>Subject: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or Fact?'

 >>>I can't believe the times they've chosen to air this, and missed
 >>>the premiere because there was no promotion of it that I had
 >>>seen.

 >>>See: http://www.scifi.com/symposium/

<snip>

 >>>Participants included

 >>>Dr. Michio Kaku, Dr. Richard Henry, Dr. Peter Sturrock, Dr.
 >>>Jacques Vallee, Dr. Bernard Haisch, Ted Roe and John Callahan.
 >>>Budd Hopkins, Dr. John E. Mack and Dr. David M. Jacobs

 >>Steve:

<snip>

 >>With this crowd, even Jerry Clark and Dick Hall couldn't (but
 >>will) call this "balanced".

 >Bob,

 >Nothing like putting words in my mouth to your heart's content,
 >no matter how false and misleading they are.

Dick,

Which of these gentlemen do you consider a "skeptic"?

 >There was a time when I thought (and hoped) that you might
 >be a rational skeptic. That time has long since passed.

Thank you, sir.

 >It was your sainted Donald Menzel

I don't take The Communion, so you might say that I'm just an
admirer.

 >that wrote to Bill Nash
 >(witness to the July 1952 sighting of what Bob would have us
 >believe was a formation of glowing red, disc-shaped meteors that
 >flew underneath an airliner and abruptly reversed direction)
 >that what he had seen was fireflies trapped between the panes of
 >glass in the windshield of the aircraft! What was it, Bob, low-
 >level formation meteors with the ability to reverse direction,
 >or fireflies in the windshield? What is your gag threshold of
 >absurdity?

I would go with the fireball-meteors-burning-out explanation.

Remember that you heard it here first (according to Jerry): A
skeptic has just proposed an alternate explanation for another
skeptic's explanation.

I thought that Menzel finally settled on searchlights or some
such thing? Are you sure that his letter wasn't just proposing
possibilities?

Please rate as the most rational the following three choices:

1) A bright fireball meteor, with different sized fragments
burning out in random order (as described)

2) Fireflies between the window glass

3) Alien spacemen in little flying saucers reversing directions
at high speed without being smeared on the inside of the little
cabins.


Clear skies,

Bob Young

"If you've never seen a UFO, you're not very observant. And if
you've seen as many as I have, you won't believe in them."
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                   Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Young

From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:54:37 EST
Fwd Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 23:09:11 -0500
Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking - Young


 >From: Greg Sandow <greg@gregsandow.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:18:30 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Great Moments In Debunking

<snip>

 >Maybe we could find some areas in which debate could be
 >productive. Or else concentrate on Kevin's project, which he
 >started with his Mantell piece.


Greg, all:

This is a worthwhile approach.

 >We need to move forward, instead of standing in the same place,
 >waving our arms.

Couldn't agree more. How about opening a discussion about the
design of an experiment which seeks to collect data on UFO
visits?


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                   Re: Security Classifications - Aldrich

From: Jan Aldrich <project1947@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 16:47:4 -0500
Fwd Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 23:28:03 -0500
Subject: Re: Security Classifications - Aldrich


 >From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:16:32 -0400
 >Subject: Re: Security Classifications

 >>From: Jan Aldrich <project1947@earthlink.net>
 >>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 21:47:50 -0500
 >>Subject: Re: Security Classifications

<snip>

 >>As I have said before it seems that whenever we start discussing
 >>this topic, it is like a video game with everything reset to
 >>zero.

I haven't had time to answer some messages I feel are important.
Now here goes. Again, the statement above applies.

 >I have made a gigantic snip because there are just a few points
 >I wish to make:

 >1. I very much appreciate all the effort Robert Gates made to provide
 >specific examples of aberrantly marked documents.

 >2. I wish to express appreciation for these 2 remarks by Jan Aldrich
 >"I don't pretend to be an expert on presidential papers" and
 >"The White House has its own clearance and access procedures"

 >This was my point, now confirmed by Jan, in noting earlier that
 >Jan's fine credentials did not seem to include procedures etc
 >for the White House, NSC, etc. The CT, TF, and EBE documents
 >would seem to fall under the White House.

The point is taken, however, just because Stan Friedman and
Robert Gates have slogged through a number of formerly
classified White House papers does not make them experts either.
Neither have taken the time to learn about security procedure at
the White House. Now in the early days several White House
classified items list AR (Army Regulation) 380-5 as the
authority for certain classified actions. No doubt because the
White House communication is run by the Army.

 >3. With regard to the need for TS Control numbers I referred
 >specifically to pages B-4 and B-5 in my "Final Report on
 >Operation Majestic 12" since these 2 TOP SECRET Documents from
 >Robert Cutler, which were found in the papers of General Nathan
 >Twining at the LCMD, did _not_ have TS Control numbers.

 >The two pages were ignored by Jan in his response. Instead he
 >refers to pages E-11,E-12,E-13. These pages do make an
 >important point since each has a different date format,
 >contrary to the notion of Joe Nickell who objected to the EBE
 >because its date format did not follow the government style
 >manual.

1. B-4 and B-5 are not White House documents. They were, as you
say, found in the papers of General Twining.

2. The items at page E-11, E-12, and E-13 are White House
documents that is, the last people to have custody of these
documents while they were classified was the White House. The
specific pages also contain no classified information but are
stamped Top Secret. One has as previous pointed out a TS control
number, while the other two do not, probably a clerical decision
to separate the transmittal letters from the classified material
in the latter case. I also gave several reasons why certain
pages or record included in folders or files might not have TS
control numbers.

 >I will repeat once again that I cannot provide copies of the TOP
 >SECRET RESTRICTED Documents noted by the GAO because they were
 >still classified. I tried.

And Secret Restricted and Confidential Restricted? So there are
not examples of these to be had?

 >But, Jan, since you have my report, please see pages B-4, and B-
 >5 to add to your collection of genuine TS documents without TS
 >control numbers.

But you had the answer, you just cut it out. These are
declassified documents, they are not seen in their original
context.

However, I can trump anything you have said, I have a Top Secret
document that has not marking on it at all. No Top Secret, no
nuthin'.

http://209.132.68.98/documents/pdf/hillenkoetter-menzel_sept1963.pdf

I obtained my copy from the APL, it had no classified marking
and is otherwise completely clean. I like what the Woods have
done with it though, crude lettering of Top Secret and CIA Copy,
sooooh convincing.

Of course, there are a whole bunch of these things on the Woods'
website. They just have no shame whatsoever. They are still
pushing the Aquarius Briefing document fabricated with a cover
sheet used for high level correspondence so there were be no
smears or stray marks on important letters or items. How silly?
What is even sillier even after that has been demonstrated,
people still believe it and wasted time and money chasing it.

Looking at a review of the an MJ-12 presentation Bill Hamilton
said the one of the main objections to MJ-12 was the lack of TS
control numbers which the Woods had answered.

That is what the Woods would like people to think. One of the
main objections to MJ-12 that the MJ-12 people are incredibly
stupid, just less stupid that the three other birds in Bill
Moore's aviary, the Loon, the Cookoo, and the Turkey, birds who
swallow this kind of thing. Lack TS control numbers is one of
the more minor objections.

In SOM 1-01, MJ-12 proves that they don't know much about
technical intelligence, logistics, security, or even elementary
military operations. Nor do they know how to communicate the
information to the people who must carry out the operation. In
just 24 hours I listed over 50 objections to this silly
document. Most have stood up pretty well, but the Woods claim
they have countered all my objections. I have yet to see any
such refutations.

And, of course, Stan, you are still pushing this thing pretty
hard, also.

Most of the other long MJ-12 documents have all kinds of place
or out of time errors in them, however, to point them out would
just give Cooper, Wood, and Wood criticism to do better in the
next set of documents.


Jan Aldrich
Project 1947
http://www.project1947.com/
P. O. Box 391
Canterbury, CT 06331
(860) 546-9135

PS I just noticed this one. So stupid it is unbelievable.

http://209.132.68.98/documents/pdf/ipu_fieldorder.pdf

Hello, who signed the thing? Who do they contact when some
officer going by orders put out by the CofS to reduce all flying
to a minimum will not release fuel for their flight, hm? Just to
whom do they report? The secretary at the front desk? There are
other thing wrong with this document, it is like doing a
crossword. See how many stupid things you can come up with,
gentle reader?

Don't expect the Woods to come up with any!








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                         Rendlesham Forest - 12/1980

From: Tom Bowden <tomrbowden@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 00:15:21 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:37:06 -0500
Subject: Rendlesham Forest - 12/1980


Dear List Readers,

I have begun reading Larry Warren's book, "Left at East Gate",
and so far I have found it very interesting. The MoD files
together with the information provided by Jim Penniston indicate
at the very least that something rather exceptional did occur in
that location on the dates in question, and no plausible
official explanation has been given.

 From what has been depicted in Larry Warren's account, this is a
hugely complex case with a host of witnesses. I understand that
James Easton has concerns about some of Penniston's claims (see
"UFO UpDate: Re: Rendlesham File... - Easton" dated 12/22);
however one cannot draw too many conclusions about internal
consistency in a high-strangeness case such as this. If we try
to fit all of the witness' accounts into a standard paradigm of
accepted physical/temporal reality, we might be missing the
entire point of what is going on.

If enough independent verification can be obtained, it would
seem that this case might consitute the proverbial smoking gun.
I would like to hear from anyone (on or off List) about more
background research which may have been done on this case and on
the witnesses.

It would behoove us to establish a small but solid base of cases
with the best possible provenance, to be used in case an
opportunity comes along to bring evidence before some official
inquiry. Many of us would like to see something like
Congressional comittee hearings, but as it stands now, we might
be upstaged by a Steven Greer style lineup of witnesses, which
would not help our cause.

In brief, I would like to know what we have to work with the
Rendlesham Forest case. Does it have good, sturdy legs? And what
other good, strong cases do we have with enough detail and
defense intelligence implications to interest a Congressional
comittee?


Thanks to all,

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                  'The Phenomena Show' Comes To Queensland

From: Diane Harrison <auforn@hypermax.net.au>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 18:26:53 +1000
Fwd Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:44:56 -0500
Subject: 'The Phenomena Show' Comes To Queensland


The Phenomena Show is in Coolangatta

Hi Folks

Yes folks the Phenomena Show has finally come to Queensland
Barry Cummings the organizer has just been on the phone to me
and he would like me to pass the word around which I am.

He has also invited AUFORN to be present at the exhibit to help
answer any of the general public's questions re Aliens and UFOs
and has welcomed a display of the 1800 77 22 88 UFO Hotline
number which is great also. Barry did inform me Tino of UFORQ
was at the exhibit yesterday and the Gold Bulletin ran a cover
story. Barry said they presented a balanced review, which was
great.

Robert and I will be there next Saturday

-----

M E D I A  R E L E A S E
December 9th, 2002
For Immediate Release:

http://www.hypermax.net.au/~auforn/Phenomena.html

The Aliens Are Coming

The world's largest travelling UFO and alien exhibition,
Phenomena - Alien Encounter, is being brought to the Gold Coast
this Christmas.

Phenomena offers an eerie and fascinating glimpse into the
bizarre realm of UFOs, extra terrestrials and close encounters
as it attempts to answer one of mankind's greatest mysteries: Is
there life on other planets?

The visually spectacular show, featuring 10 separate exhibits,
displays models, photographs, videos, interactive and historical
material supplied by UFO magazine in the UK.

 From the history of UFO sightings through to the infamous
Roswell incident and reported alien abductions, Phenomena takes
audiences on a mysterious and at time unsettling journey into
the unknown.

"It is the largest exhibition of its kind in the world," said
Greg Volich, director of Gold Coast-based international
travelling Exhibition Company the Atech Group, which has brought
Phenomena to the Coast.

"It is has just finished a stint at the Bahrain Summer Festival
where it was viewed by tens of thousands of people and we are
bringing it to the Gold Coast for Christmas before embarking on
a world tour.

"For anyone with a fascination with UFOs and extra terrestrials,
Phenomena will pose as many questions as it seeks to answer. And
even if you're a non-believer, it's still great fun."

Phenomena - The Alien Encounter's exhibits include:

(2) History - Since the dawn of time, the earth has been visited
by strange and unexplained phenomena. The prophet Ezekial wrote
of it and many primitiveculturs, including Australia's
Aboriginals, depicted it in their art. Alien Encounter takes
visitors on a journey through the history of contact.

Search for Life - Even before the enormity of space was
conquered, humans wondered whether the stars could be abodes for
alien life forms. Alien Encounter joins SETI, Voyager and the
NASA missions to educate visitors on the current search for
life.

The Evidence - The best photographic evidence, video footage,
witness accounts and radar tracks. Many claims have been
documented; many have been quickly disproved as unreliable,
outrageous or simply mistaken. Some, however, defy explanation.

The Explanations - Errors in perception are commonplace in UFO
reports, potentially transforming an ordinary phenomenon into a
mysterious or unidentified object. Aircraft lights, aurora,
comets, flares, lenticular clouds, satellites, sun pillars and
even reflections from curved glass have led to extravagant
claims. Alien Encounter helps the visitor play scientist.

Crop Circles - Crop circles, first dubbed "The Mowing Devil',
have taken place in farmers' fields since at least 1678.
Visitors to Phenomena are presented with possible explanations
including wind, electromagnetic fields and perhaps even alien
intervention.

Encounters - Phenomena looks at various alien encounters,
including the death of Capt Thomas Mantell during the Kentucky
incident of 1948 and the startling image of Lt. William
Patterson surrounded by a ring of enormous blue-white lights
during the buzzing of the White House in 1952.

Abductions and Implants - The sheer number of people now
claiming abduction experiences covers a wide spectrum of
society. Alien Encounter looks at the most famous, including New
Yorker

*(3) Linda Cortile's claim that she was "floated' out of her
12th floor apartment in 1989 to a waiting spacecraft.

Conspiracy - Are the governments of the world conspiring to
protect the public from material they consider too much for us
to accept or confront? The stories of a secret government
organisation and their agents - The Men in Black - are perhaps
more fact than fiction.

Alien Harvest - The mysterious deaths and mutilations of animals
throughout the US and Europe have mystified scientists and the
medical profession. Bloodless carcasses with no clues to the
cause of death are just the beginning of the mystery. More
disturbingly, Phenomena has evidence that suggests this activity
may not be focused on animals alone.

Roswell - Did something crash in New Mexico in 1947? Were alien
bodies recovered and does reverse engineering of alien
technology takes place at Area 51 as Bob Lazar claims. Phenomena
- The Alien Encounter looks at one of the 20th century's
greatest mysteries.

Phenomena - The Alien Encounter will operate 10am to 8pm daily
from December 15 to January 27.

The attraction will be located in the Showcase Shopping Centre
LEVEL 1, Griffith Street, at Coolangatta.


For further information or comment contact

ATECH Group International
Operations Director - Barry Cummings

Ph: (0419) 774 739 Or (07) 5525 7977

-----


Please feel free to pass this around.

--
Kind regards

Diane Harrison

National Director
The Australian UFO Research Network and UFO Hotline.
Australian Skywatch Director

Co Editor
The Australasian UFOlogist Magazine

Tel number 1800 77 22 88 a Free Call
Australian UFO Research Network -
http://www.hypermax.net.au/~auforn
E-mail auforn@hypermax.net.au

A non profit organisation
PO Box 738
Beaudessert 4285
QLD Australia
Tel 07 55 44 6888

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Dear Webmasters

Could you please update your web link to our webpage
THE AUSTRALIAN UFO RESEARCH NETWORK
New Link is http://www.hypermax.net.au/~auforn

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                 Re: Is Ufology Dead Or Just Dozing? - Hale

From: Roy Hale <roy.hale@ntlworld.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 16:07:36 -0000
Fwd Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:49:38 -0500
Subject: Re: Is Ufology Dead Or Just Dozing? - Hale


 >From: Joe McGonagle <joe@ufology.org.uk>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 16:40:21 -0000
 >Subject: Is Ufology Dead Or Just Dozing?

 >"So UFOlogy will never go back to the way it was. It has changed,
 >forever, and the UFO community that once controlled what was said
 >and done has lost the say in its own subject. Indeed, UFOlogists
 >have almost become an irrelevance - at best lumbering behind a
 >litany of advertisers, hype merchants, web site designers, and
 >sci-fi entrepreneurs."

 >So, is ufology dead, or just dozing?

 >Joe

Hi,

Slightly disappointed in my opinion.

The Web is just a new way of getting a lot of data on UFOs to
people around the world, who probably never had any chance of
doing so before. It also stinks of 'stuck in the past' ufology.

How many people wish to go to lectures to hear a ufologist,
bumbling on about their own opinions? Lecture attendances have
dropped since the web appeared, simply because of the ease
  which info on UFOs is to get.

Does the logic that Ms. Randels puts across, also apply to UFO
writers, and the hype that goes along with that? Or is this
elitism in its raw form?

I personally know a hell of a lot of web based UFO researchers,
who put a tremendous effort into the info on their site, I feel
they will not be too happy with this cheap dig.


Roy..








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From: Jim Speiser <jimspeiser@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 09:23:45 -0700
Fwd Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:52:15 -0500
Subject: Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:48:48 EST
 >Subject: Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or Fact?'

 >>From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 22:40:05 +0000
 >>Subject: Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or Fact?'

 >>>From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:00:03 EST
 >>>Subject: Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or Fact?'

 >>>>From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
 >>>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>>Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 15:47:23 -0500
 >>>>Subject: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or Fact?'

 >>>>I can't believe the times they've chosen to air this, and missed
 >>>>the premiere because there was no promotion of it that I had
 >>>>seen.

 >>>>See: http://www.scifi.com/symposium/

 ><snip>

 >>>>Participants included

 >>>>Dr. Michio Kaku, Dr. Richard Henry, Dr. Peter Sturrock, Dr.
 >>>>Jacques Vallee, Dr. Bernard Haisch, Ted Roe and John Callahan.
 >>>>Budd Hopkins, Dr. John E. Mack and Dr. David M. Jacobs

 >Dick,

 >Which of these gentlemen do you consider a "skeptic"?

Answer: They are all skeptics. Everyone is a skeptic, and
everyone is a believer. We just draw our lines at different
places. Dick is simply saying, and I agree, that the List is
balanced because most or all of the individuals "draw their
lines" at sensible places, unlike some Skeptics (capital "S")
who draw their lines (and anchor them with cement) at a place
that only includes Venus, meteors, balloons and pelicans.


==JJS==








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From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:08:55 -0500
Fwd Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:08:55 -0500
Subject: Crop Circles? How About Ice Holes?


Crop Circles? How About Ice Holes?
Mystery Hole In Lake Ice Baffling Folks North Of Brainerd

Posted: 8:38 a.m. CST December 30, 2002


Months after a Hollywood flick about those controversial and
mysterious crop circles earned a couple hundred million dollars
in the United States, a black hole in the ice of a lake near
Brainerd has authorities scratching their heads.

The hole was first spotted last February on North Long Lake just
north of the central Minnesota resort city and immediately
caught the imagination of folks in the area, quickly becoming a
source of speculation, conversation and concern.

The Brainerd Dispatch wrote about the hole late last week,
summing up the questions in the area: "What caused the hole to
appear? Distant earthquakes? New thermal springs on the lake
bottom? Sabotage by unknown enemies?"

The area watershed district has since spent $4,000 trying to
figure out what's causing the hole, but has yet to find an
answer.

While the hole has caused tongue-in-cheek talk similar to that
of the crop circles, it also has proven deadly.

The Dispatch reports that as many as a dozen riders of all-
terrain vehicles and anowmobiles have gone into the water at the
hole, and at least one of them has died.

Signs warning of the hole have been erected around the lake and
at public access points.

Such holes aren't uncommon on lakes in the state, but they are
typically caused by hot thermal springs being concentrated in
one area, but the sudden appearance of the hole last February
has many ruling out that possibility.

In addition, Al Cibuzar, head of A.W. Research Laboratories in
Brainerd, first viewed the hole while flying over the lake last
March. He flew over it again last week and used an infrared,
water-penetrating camera and discovered the hole is slowly
getting larger.

A diver went through the hole last week and reported "an
ordinary lake bottom," the newspaper said.

Researchers plan to continue monitoring the lake bottom, water
temperature and other variables involved with the hole.

Another odd wrinkle to the mystery is that the ice thickness on
the hole's perimeter ranges from 4 to 10 inches.


Copyright 2002 by Channel 4000. The Associated Press contributed
to this report. All rights reserved.


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              E.T. Call Canada: One In Five Thinks Life Is Out

From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:30:06 -0500
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Subject: E.T. Call Canada: One In Five Thinks Life Is Out



Source: The Globe & Mail - Canada

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/TGAM/20021230/UPOLLN/Fro
nt/frontpage/frontpage_temp/1/1/5/

The Globe & Mail - Canada

Print Edition

E.T., call Canada: one in five thinks there is life out there

By ALANNA MITCHELL


Monday, December 30, 2002 - Page A1

The stolid, long-suffering Canadian of national myth may exist,
but a new poll suggests that hidden under that pedestrian
exterior lurks a heart longing for hope, faith and proof of
extraterrestrial life.

A national poll published yesterday by Ipsos-Reid found that 22
per cent of Canadians trust that life on another planet will be
discovered in their lifetime.

Among those 18 to 34 - the crowd that grew up with Star Trek
and The X-Files - that figure rose to 33 per cent. For people
55 and older, it was just 13 per cent.

Regionally, those living in Alberta, Quebec and the Atlantic
provinces were most likely to support the scenario of life on
another planet. Levels of household income, usually a proxy for
levels of education, did not affect the degree of trust in life
far, far away.

"Is this hope chasing reality? It's quite possible," said John
Wright, senior vice-president of Ipsos-Reid, adding that this
was the first time his firm asked this question.

Last year, though, the polling outfit asked Canadians whether
they believe that extraterrestrials visit Earth on a regular
basis. The answer? Fully 20 per cent said yes. (By comparison,
just 3 per cent said they believe Elvis is still alive.)

The poll published yesterday was taken between Sept. 25 and Nov.
7, 2002, long before last week's headlines about Quebec's
Raelian group, their belief that humanity came from another
planet and their assertion that they have produced the first
human-born clone.

The survey results suggest that 1,007 Canadians polled are
conscious of the huge leaps made in science and technology, and
that many have formed otherworldly expectations of them.

"It's become less science fiction and more of a reality," Mr.
Wright said.

But that's not all Canadians told the pollsters they have faith
in. A majority - 51 per cent - said they trust that angels
exist. That faith was highest in women at 60 per cent, compared
with 40 per cent of men. It also showed up stronger in people 55
and older (54 per cent) than in those younger than 35 (47 per
cent).

But the biggest angelic surprise was that 71 per cent of those
polled in Saskatchewan and Manitoba said they trust that angels
exist. The province with the least trust was Alberta where the
figure reached only 46 per cent.

Canadians' level of household income appeared to predict their
degree of trust in the immortal helpers of God. The lower their
income, the more likely they were to trust that angels exist.

A majority also trust that God exists - 61 per cent. But older
Canadians were much more likely (71 per cent) to trust in the
existence of God than younger ones (52 per cent of those 18 to
34).

In all, the Ipsos-Reid poll captured a serene population. More
than half said they had trust that the economy would grow and
that they would earn more in 2003.

Roughly three-quarters said they trusted that they would not
lose their jobs in the coming year, that they would spend more
time with their children, that the coming year would be a good
one and even that they would get together with their families
for the year-end holidays next Christmas.

The poll's findings are considered accurate to within 3.1
percentage points, 19 times in 20.


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              Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or

From: Don Ledger <dledger@ns.sympatico.ca>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:07:04 -0400
Fwd Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:32:32 -0500
Subject: Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:48:48 EST
 >Subject: Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or Fact?'

 >>From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 22:40:05 +0000
 >>Subject: Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or Fact?'


 >1) A bright fireball meteor, with different sized fragments
 >burning out in random order (as described)

 >2) Fireflies between the window glass

 >3) Alien spacemen in little flying saucers reversing directions
 >at high speed without being smeared on the inside of the little
 >cabins.


Hi Bob,

As per your questions above, I pick number three as the correct
answer.

Number one and two are just too outrageouse to consider.

And ol' Arthur has made more money out of ET than anyone else.
What's he got to complain about?


CAVU

Don









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                Re: Is Ufology Dead Or Just Dozing? - Redfern

From: Nick Redfern <Skywatcher4u@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 12:36:12 EST
Fwd Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 16:05:26 -0500
Subject: Re: Is Ufology Dead Or Just Dozing? - Redfern


 >From: Roy Hale <roy.hale@ntlworld.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 16:07:36 -0000
 >Subject: Re: Is Ufology Dead Or Just Dozing?

 >>From: Joe McGonagle <joe@ufology.org.uk>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 16:40:21 -0000
 >>Subject: Is Ufology Dead Or Just Dozing?

 >>"So UFOlogy will never go back to the way it was. It has changed,
 >>forever, and the UFO community that once controlled what was said
 >>and done has lost the say in its own subject. Indeed, UFOlogists
 >>have almost become an irrelevance - at best lumbering behind a
 >>litany of advertisers, hype merchants, web site designers, and
 >>sci-fi entrepreneurs."

 >>So, is ufology dead, or just dozing?


 >Slightly disappointed in my opinion.

 >The Web is just a new way of getting a lot of data on UFOs to
 >people around the world, who probably never had any chance of
 >doing so before. It also stinks of 'stuck in the past' ufology.

 >How many people wish to go to lectures to hear a ufologist,
 >bumbling on about their own opinions? Lecture attendances have
 >dropped since the web appeared, simply because of the ease
 >which info on UFOs is to get.

 >Does the logic that Ms. Randels puts across, also apply to UFO
 >writers, and the hype that goes along with that? Or is this
 >elitism in its raw form?

 >I personally know a hell of a lot of web based UFO researchers,
 >who put a tremendous effort into the info on their site, I feel
 >they will not be too happy with this cheap dig.



Roy..


Even as someone who wrote several UFO books back in the 1990s
and who has spoken at a lot of conferences and gigs, I agree
with you, Roy, that it's much preferable and refreshing today to
access material easily, freely, and from your office via the Net
rather than having to trek all across the country to listen to a
lecture.

For me, the old days have gone and I've moved on. I see that the
UFO "community" has changed, fractured and in some ways
collapsed in the last few years and websites and the Net have
played a big role in that. But that change isn't a bad thing at
all and I welcome it.

So what if the UFO research community isn't what it once was or
that groups are shutting down or that there might be less new
books on the shelves? This may actually be a good thing because
it might mean that people will actually get back to doing grass
roots research instead of spending all of their time just trying
to be (very) minor media celebrities, or propping up a fading
community, magazine or group for reasons such as nostalgia or
because it's their livelihood (among others).

It might also mean that we won't  be seeing the same old faces
on the lecture circuit peddling the same old tired stuff to
audiences that pay their money and hear nothing new except empty
promises of big revelations in "the near future."

The days of 1997-8 when there were 5 or 6 UFO publications on
the newsstands each month in England are gone (and probably for
ever), and groups that might have had monthly attendances of 100
may be closing, but that shouldn't stop people who are in the
subject for the right reasons from doing good work, as I know
Jenny will continue to do and I count her as one of those
people. And if more groups close, gig attendances drop and more
magazines go out of publication and the Net becomes the main
focal point for data, then that's just society (and ufology)
changing.

Remember, if you stand still, you die.


Cheers,

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              Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or

From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:01:50 -0500
Fwd Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 16:07:28 -0500
Subject: Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or


 >From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:48:48 EST
 >Subject: Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or Fact?'

 >Please rate as the most rational the following three choices:

 >1) A bright fireball meteor, with different sized fragments
 >burning out in random order (as described)

 >2) Fireflies between the window glass

 >3) Alien spacemen in little flying saucers reversing directions
 >at high speed without being smeared on the inside of the little
 >cabins.


Bob

Clearly you want to rationalize your conclusions based upon
beliefs and faith in what can (or should) exist.  I'm not sure
how you transend to a new level of scientific understanding (if
one exists).  To limit one's view of what can exist with self-
imposed blinders seems to fly in the face of scientific
exploration.


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                Re: Is Ufology Dead Or Just Dozing? - Kaeser

From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:16:52 -0500
Fwd Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 16:09:04 -0500
Subject: Re: Is Ufology Dead Or Just Dozing? - Kaeser


 >From: Roy Hale <roy.hale@ntlworld.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 16:07:36 -0000
 >Subject: Re: Is Ufology Dead Or Just Dozing?

<snip>

 >The Web is just a new way of getting a lot of data on UFOs to
 >people around the world, who probably never had any chance of
 >doing so before. It also stinks of 'stuck in the past' ufology.

 >How many people wish to go to lectures to hear a ufologist,
 >bumbling on about their own opinions? Lecture attendances have
 >dropped since the web appeared, simply because of the ease
 >which info on UFOs is to get.

 >Does the logic that Ms. Randels puts across, also apply to UFO
 >writers, and the hype that goes along with that? Or is this
 >elitism in its raw form?

 >I personally know a hell of a lot of web based UFO researchers,
 >who put a tremendous effort into the info on their site, I feel
 >they will not be too happy with this cheap dig.

How does one differentiate between good and bad research (or
information) on the Internet? There are many good researchers
who have placed their material on the Internet, but how does
someone new to the field know that one site is better than
another? Do we take the Art Bell approach and simply let the
audience decide for themselves?

The Internet has provided a tremendous forum for networking in
this genre that has never before existed, but it also has
created an anarchy that seems to have no foundation and major
UFO research organizations throughout the world have been
severely impacted.

Are we in a scientific pursuit of knowledge or do we remain a
loosely knit group of people who happen to share a similar
interest and have the ability to communicate with one another.


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                             Re: Corso - Gehrman

From: Ed Gehrman <egehrman@psln.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 10:40:41 -0800
Fwd Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 16:15:16 -0500
Subject: Re: Corso - Gehrman


 >From: Jan Aldrich <project1947@earthlink.net>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 8:39:50 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Corso

 >>From: Ed Gehrman <egehrman@psln.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 13:51:34 -0800
 >>Subject: Re: Corso

 >>>From: Robert Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
 >>>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>>Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 00:44:48 EST
 >>>Subject: Re: Corso

 ><snip>

 >>>>Please continue your research on Col. Corso and ignore the
 >>>>negative comments by Robert and Jerry. They're good fellows but
 >>>>like so many of their peers, they've disregarded the positive
 >>>>evidence that supports Col. Corso's veracity.

 >>>So what is "negative" about the truth?
 >>>Corso did in fact make the claim about the time machine to the
 >>>reporter.

 >>Yes, he certainly did but does that automatically make it a lie?
 >>He said the same thing on Art Bell but the VSA indicates he was
 >>telling the truth. Now, he may have been mistaken and what he
 >>thought was a time machine was in fact something else, but he
 >>was telling the truth as he saw it.

 >>>We know from Corso's military record that what he
 >>>claimed in the book was not in fact correct.

 >>Which part? The Col.-Light Col issue is unresolved but aside
 >>from that, what part of his military record do you think he lied
 >>about. Please be specific and use citations. Did he lie about
 >>being in command of a nuclear facility. Does the military give
 >>nuclear commands such as this to liars and psychopaths?

 >>>Corso claimed that
 >>>Birnes stroked the book and there were some inaccuracies in the
 >>>book that he couldn't correct do to some contractual obligation
 >>>he was under. Birnes claimed that the book is a faithful
 >>>reproduction of every word that fell out of Corso's mouth,
 >>>further that Birnes had it all on tape. Further that Corso had
 >>>read the manuscript and galley proofs of the book a number of
 >>>times and had approved what was written in the book. Birnes had
 >>>all of the material on tape for 3 (thats right three) Corso
 >>>books. I notice that Birnes has been in no hurry to do the other
 >>>two books.
 >
 >>Other books are not in the works as far as I know; but I don't
 >>think Birnes is involved any longer.

 >>Corso said there were numerous mistakes but he didn't blame
 >>Birnes. He did much of the story from memory and of course there
 >>will be some mistakes.

 >>http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Rampart/2271/corso.html

 >>>So the bottom line still is "Corso and time machine(s) theories
 >>>are not uncommon so to speak."

 >>I don't know exactly what this sentence means but yes Col. Corso
 >>alluded to time machines.

 >Enough of this junk!

Jan,

Robert and I were having a polite discussion and you've
intruded. "Enough of this junk!" is a rude remark and an insult.
  And I certainly challenge your assertion that my efforts are
"junk". Mike Kemp's VSA is a professional research report that I
paid for with good ol' US greenbacks and not some flea market
castaway as you insinuate.

I'll answer your post, but unless I see some mutual respect,
it's the last response you'll get from me.

 >Is there a giant space-based anti-ET weapons system which is
 >keeping the evil ET at bay the result of efforts unknown to him
 >at the time

I've no answer to that question nor do you; this holds true for
anyone else on the List. We have absolutely no way of knowing
what the US arsenal holds. These are black projects. How much do
you know about the TR3-b?

 >by the Savior of Mankind, Colonel General Corso?

That's a cheap shot. Yes, he was proud of what he thought he had
accomplished and since I think he did what he says he did, I
have to agree and admire his courage and abilities.

 >Answer that or go away!

Who put you in charge of this List? These are bully tactics and
not becoming. They make you seem ignorant and pushy.

 >And the Non-disclosure project why are you against a space based
 >defense which according to Corso, one of the witnesses in your
 >witness list, already exists and is doing a handy job of keeping
 >the evil ET away?

I'm not part of the "(Non) {how cute}-Disclosure project" and
have never been. I support their efforts. I also know they're
not perfect. They published my article because they thought it
was the correct interpretation of the facts.

 >Answer that or go away!

This is so rude!

 >I can't believe at this point we are still debating over Corso's
 >military record which is available for all to see.

 >http://www.cufon.org/

As far as I know we're not debating his military record. and I
agree; everyone should visit your site and see for themselves
Col.Corso's military record which indicates he is who he says he
is.

 >His FBI record is also there.
 >http://www.cufon.org/special/corsofbi.pdf
 >His military records indicate that he constantly stretched the
 >truth in his book.

Or were these honest mistakes? Could you be more specific.

 >His FBI record indicate that he engaged in
 >rather juvenile activities, but more seriously that he had
 >accused people of disloyal activity which the FBI had to check
 >and found wanting.

I'll be glad to discuss this with you but first you have to
prove to me that you've carefully read my rebuttal to Larry
Bryant's slanderous remarks.

http://www.caus.org/membercomments/mc062900.shtml

I've tried to get Bryant to discuss our different takes on this
subject, but so far he hasn't bothered to reply.

 >Also, read Corso's book and note the special relationship he had
 >with Hoover. Then look what Hoover said about him in his FBI
 >file.

And we should believe Hoover?

 >Ed, I may not know a liar every time I see and hear one, but I
 >know one thing for sure. Corso was a liar, his book was a lie
 >and his contributions to Ufology have been lies, confusion and
 >stupidity. Not one positive thing!

I think you need to take a deep breath; then answer in a calm
and deliberate manner. Bully boys are not in control of this
List.


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                              Re: Corso - Young

From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 16:32:41 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 07:25:54 -0500
Subject: Re: Corso - Young


 >From: Ed Gehrman <egehrman@psln.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 11:45:10 -0800
 >Subject: Re: Corso

<snip>

 >I wanted to emphasize that although it might seem
 >like nonsense, Col. Corso wasn't (didn't seem to be) lying,

Ed:

He lied, in writing, about his rank.  Does this count?


Clear skies,

Bob Young








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              Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or

From: Richard Hall <hallrichard99@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 21:31:20 +0000
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 07:28:56 -0500
Subject: Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or


 >From: Jim Speiser <jimspeiser@yahoo.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 09:23:45 -0700
 >Subject: Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or Fact?'

 >>From: Bob Young <YoungBob2@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:48:48 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or Fact?'

<snip>

 >>>>>From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
 >>>>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>>>Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 15:47:23 -0500
 >>>>>Subject: Sci-Fi's 'UFO Phenomenon: Science Fiction Or Fact?'

 >>>>>I can't believe the times they've chosen to air this, and missed
 >>>>>the premiere because there was no promotion of it that I had
 >>>>>seen.

 >>>>>See: http://www.scifi.com/symposium/

 >>>>>Participants included

 >>>>>Dr. Michio Kaku, Dr. Richard Henry, Dr. Peter Sturrock, Dr.
 >>>>>Jacques Vallee, Dr. Bernard Haisch, Ted Roe and John Callahan.
 >>>>>Budd Hopkins, Dr. John E. Mack and Dr. David M. Jacobs

 >>Dick,

 >>Which of these gentlemen do you consider a "skeptic"?

 >Answer: They are all skeptics. Everyone is a skeptic, and
 >everyone is a believer. We just draw our lines at different
 >places. Dick is simply saying, and I agree, that the List is
 >balanced because most or all of the individuals "draw their
 >lines" at sensible places, unlike some Skeptics (capital "S")
 >who draw their lines (and anchor them with cement) at a place
 >that only includes Venus, meteors, balloons and pelicans.


Jim,

I never said anything one way or the other about the "balance"
of the panel. I was merely objecting to Bob Young putting words
in my mouth.

Apparently his definition of "balanced" is including someone,
like him, who has meteors flying below an airliner and reversing
direction (observed by witnesses in the plane and on the
ground), and who believes in supersonic pelicans.

However, I appreciate your point. There are many people who take
UFOs seriously who are better and more traditional skeptics than
Menzel, Klass, or Young, including Richard Henry, for example.

  - Dick









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                   Re: Rendlesham Forest - 12/1980 - Kisak

From: Paul F. Kisak <kki@visuallink.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 16:43:03 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 09:03:54 -0500
Subject: Re: Rendlesham Forest - 12/1980 - Kisak


 >From: Tom Bowden <tomrbowden@yahoo.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 00:15:21 -0800 (PST)
 >Subject: Rendlesham Forest case of 12/1980

<snip>

 >In brief, I would like to know what we have to work with the
 >Rendlesham Forest case. Does it have good, sturdy legs? And what
 >other good, strong cases do we have with enough detail and
 >defense intelligence implications to interest a Congressional
 >comittee?


The case that IMO had the most credibility, documentation and a
proper vetting were:

1.  Belgium - http://www.gpgwebdesign.com.au/belguim.htm
(the above site gives a general overview of the incident)

The USAF Woodbridge Base/Rendlesham has undergone some credible
debunking.

Based on my experience within the US Intelligence community, a
congressional committee will not produce much more than they
have in the past.

What is required is a whistleblower from the proper place at the
proper time and with the appropriate credentials and
incriminating material.


Best,

Paul








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                Re: Is Ufology Dead Or Just Dozing? - Connors

From: Wendy Connors <FadedDiscs@comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 14:50:16 -0700
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 09:05:49 -0500
Subject: Re: Is Ufology Dead Or Just Dozing? - Connors


 >From: Joe McGonagle <joe@ufology.org.uk>
 >To: UFO Updates <UFOUpdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 16:40:21 -0000
 >Subject: Is Ufology Dead Or Just Dozing?


Joe, etc.,

Strictly from a personal viewpoint I've never been busier or
happier working in Ufology than at this moment in time.

Gone are the heady days of the Contactee's. Debunkers are
sputtering in the wind and going nowhere. But, on the historical
front, things are a 'popping!

I don't regret or forlorn any of the changes Ufology has endured
over the last 56 years. I've been here for every single day of
it! Others may rue the current state of affairs in the field,
but not me.

 From my position I am still finding lost gems of knowledge and
sharing them with the field at large. My work on preserving
various historical aspects are at full speed and will be there
for the next UFO go-around. I enjoy the friendship of others who
share the passion of the historical road of Ufology and getting
the time to go back and review. It ain't boring!!!

Ufology isn't found on the internet chat lines. It's found by
digging into the past and being ready for the future. There will
always be the "Good. The Bad and The Ugly" in Ufology just as
there are in all fields of endeavor.

The only reasonably good change in Ufology is that the armchair
ufologists are getting bored and looking for new pastures. As
for everyone else, we grab the gold ring and continue to ride!
Here's why!

Famous quotes from Ufology past:

"No man from our planet will land on the moon...ever!" - Alex
McNeil at James Moseley's Saucer News, NY meeting of 4/21/67.

"Mr. Keel? Do you think humans, like aliens, reproduce by Binary
Force?" Asked of John Keel in a letter from a person in France
in 1966. Keel replied at his lecture to a Saucer News meeting
audience on 3/17/67: "I dunno, but it doesn't sound like very
much fun!"

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                           FOTOCAT News - 12-2002

From: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos <ballesterolmos@yahoo.es>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 00:44:03 +0100 (CET)
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 09:09:57 -0500
Subject: FOTOCAT News - 12-2002


PROJECT FOTOCAT NEWS, December 2002

FOTOCAT is a catalog of UFO photo events which presently
contains 2800 records. Managed by Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos
and owned by Fundacion Anomalia, a bilingual News report appears
at

www.anomalia.org@fotocat1.htm

and a preliminary content report (in Spanish) can be found at:

www.anomalia.org@infofotocat.pdf

We continue receiving various forms of cooperation from
specialists located in many parts of the world. For example:

* Mexico is a country which has produced lots of UFO imagery.
The critical researcher Luis Ruiz Noguez, much experienced in
processing photographic cases, is assisting us by reviewing the
Mexican section of FOTOCAT and sending new cases. This help is
proving to be invaluable.

* Famous US writer Ronald Story has been kind enough to donate a
copy of the CD Rom version of his huge UFO Encyclopedia, which
includes a vast number of images of unidentified flying objects.

* Thanks to Patrick Ferryn, from the serious Belgian UFO
association SOBEPS, we have received 10 years of old issues of
its excellent journal Inforespace, to complete our collection.

* Ole Henningsen, an ufologist from the Danish group SUFOI, has
helped by reviewing cases reported in Denmark.

FOTOCAT in the media
A Letter to the Editor describing the project has been published
in the Winter 2002 issue of the CUFOS International UFO Reporter
as well as in the January 2003 issue of Fortean Times (Great
Britain).

Also, an interview by C. Riffo to this compiler has been
released (in Spanish) at the Terra portal:

http://www.terra.cl/ovnis/index.cfm?id_reg=3D215500&pagina=3Dentrevistas&cat=
egoria=3Dentrevistas

Cases Per Country
FOTOCAT has been tallied by country, and we present the
distribution of cases for those countries contributing over 1 %
of the total (28):

USA:                 795 cases  (almost 30% of the grand total are US cases!)
Spain:          376 cases (it represents the higher sample ever collected)
Australia:      142 cases
Argentina:      123 cases
Italy:          119 cases
France:      119 cases
Great Britain:  119 cases
Japan:               113 cases
Mexico:      112 cases
Chile:           95 cases
Poland:       67 cases
Sweden:       66 cases
Space:        55 cases (astronaut cases or footage from spacecraft)
Canada:       52 cases
Brazil:          47 cases
Switzerland:     34 cases (the effect of Billy Meier)
Germany:              32 cases
Russia:       28 cases=09

There are regions of the globe with a good coverage, while there
are others still poorly documented in this catalog. The process
of extracting cases from mainstream UFO journals like MUFON UFO
Journal, Flying Saucer Review, Lumi=E8res Dans La Nuit and many
others will balance the equation. We also expect that the
contributions from colleagues will generate a representative
census of cases worldwide, larger than any other produced
before. When it is posted in the internet for free access, we
hope it will be a useful piece of information for students of
this elusive phenomena.

Help Needed
Readers and investigators are requested to contribute lists of
local cases to FOTOCAT by writing to <fotocat@anomalia.org>.
Other ways to participate in this program are by reviewing the
case lists we will produce for specific countries on demand,
with the purpose to correct dates or location names, add the
names of photographers, informing about potential explanations,
and sending information on cases unknown to us.

Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos
Research Director, Anomaly Foundation (not-for-profit organization)
<www.anomalia.org>








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                   Re: Rendlesham Forest - 12/1980 - Pope

From: Nick Pope <nick@popemod.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 00:06:23 -0000
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 09:11:15 -0500
Subject: Re: Rendlesham Forest - 12/1980 - Pope


 >From: Tom Bowden <tomrbowden@yahoo.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 00:15:21 -0800 (PST)
 >Subject: Rendlesham Forest case of 12/1980

 >I have begun reading Larry Warren's book, "Left at East Gate",
 >and so far I have found it very interesting. The MoD files
 >together with the information provided by Jim Penniston indicate
 >at the very least that something rather exceptional did occur in
 >that location on the dates in question, and no plausible
 >official explanation has been given.

<snip>

 >In brief, I would like to know what we have to work with the
 >Rendlesham Forest case. Does it have good, sturdy legs? And what
 >other good, strong cases do we have with enough detail and
 >defense intelligence implications to interest a Congressional
 >comittee?

Tom and List,

There is indeed much good evidence concerning this case. Aside
from "Left at East Gate", the two best sources of information
about this case are probably the MOD files that you mention, and
Georgina Bruni's book on the case, "You Can't Tell The People".

The official documents can be found on the MOD website. Most of
the papers are public correspondence, but the early ones
concerning the official investigation are the most interesting.
Check out in particular the DI52 document dated 23 February
1981, in which the radiation readings taken by Halt's team at
the alleged landing site are discussed, and the phrase "seems
significantly higher than the average background ..." is used.
See also the 16 February 1981 document from MOD Air Defence
staff, referring to Gen Gabriel being given Halt's tape
recordings of one encounter. Gabriel was C-in-C USAFE, and an
interesting point about this is that when Georgina Bruni and I
met with former Bentwaters CO General Gordon Williams, he stated
that he was unaware of this.

The MOD documents can be found at the following link:

http://www.mod.uk/linked_files/publications/foi/ufo/ufofilepart1.pdf

My commentary on these documents is at the following link:

http://www.nickpope.net/rendlesham_files_reviewed.htm

Georgina Bruni's book "You Can't Tell The People" is based on
interviews with many of the military witnesses, and includes
various USAF documents and photographs relating to the case. It
was Georgina (working with former Chief of the Defence Staff
Lord Hill-Norton) who lobbied the MOD to release the files on
this incident, submitted a request under the Code of Practice on
Access to Government Information, and obtained the documents
early in 2001.

Best wishes,

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                  Re: Rendlesham Forest - 12/1980 - Speiser

From: Jim Speiser <jimspeiser@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 17:57:55 -0700
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 09:16:21 -0500
Subject: Re: Rendlesham Forest - 12/1980 - Speiser


 >From: Tom Bowden <tomrbowden@yahoo.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 00:15:21 -0800 (PST)
 >Subject: Rendlesham Forest case of 12/1980

 >I have begun reading Larry Warren's book, "Left at East Gate",
 >and so far I have found it very interesting. The MoD files
 >together with the information provided by Jim Penniston indicate
 >at the very least that something rather exceptional did occur in
 >that location on the dates in question, and no plausible
 >official explanation has been given.

 >From what has been depicted in Larry Warren's account, this is a
 >hugely complex case with a host of witnesses. I understand that
 >James Easton has concerns about some of Penniston's claims (see
 >"UFO UpDate: Re: Rendlesham File... - Easton" dated 12/22);
 >however one cannot draw too many conclusions about internal
 >consistency in a high-strangeness case such as this. If we try
 >to fit all of the witness' accounts into a standard paradigm of
 >accepted physical/temporal reality, we might be missing the
 >entire point of what is going on.

Tom:

I briefly looked into the Rendlesham Forest thing for a time
back in the eighties, and I came to the conclusion that the
internal inconsistency _is_ the entire point of what's going on.
If I can't even get two gentlemen to agree on the date of a
sighting, I generally give up and move on. Maybe you can make
sense out of this quagmire; I had direct access to a primary
witness, John Burroughs, for over two years, and I still
couldn't figure the thing out.

Good luck.

==JJS==








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               Re: *U* Database Images Plagiarized #2 - Lewis

From: SMiles Lewis <elfis@austin.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 20:59:57 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 09:19:28 -0500
Subject: Re: *U* Database Images Plagiarized #2 - Lewis


 >From: Larry Hatch <larry@larryhatch.net>
 >To: Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>,
 >Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 14:28:12 -0800
 >Subject: *U* Database Images Plagiarized #2

 >Hello all:

 >Again, let me apologize for bringing up such a distasteful
 >matter during the holidays.


 >There are apparently at least two 'domains' involved in this,
 >its rather complex. The first one is DPSTUDIOS.COM with the
 >webmistress Seiko <seiko@dpstudios.com>. Seiko is apparently
 >Japanese, trying to make her way into the world of sales and e-
 >commerce.

 >Closely associated, is ELECTRAWEB run by one Richard van Bree
 ><dick@electraweb.com>. One or both clearly know better, judging
 >from the legalese I quoted, and they so blissfully do not
 >practice themselves.

Anyone care to comment on the fact that www.dpstudios.com
redirects you to fbi.gov?

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                              Re: Corso - Gates

From: Robert Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 02:13:18 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 09:40:58 -0500
Subject: Re: Corso - Gates


 >From: Ed Gehrman <egehrman@psln.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 11:45:10 -0800
 >Subject: Re: Corso

 >>From: Robert Gates <RGates8254@aol.com>
 >>To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >>Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 01:51:28 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Corso

 >>>From: Ed Gehrman <egehrman@psln.com>
 >>>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>>Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 13:51:34 -0800
 >>>Subject: Re: Corso

<snip>

 >>All I pointed out is Corso's theory/connection to so-called time
 >>machines, either the alleged Nazi or ET types.

 >Yes and you were correct, but you seemed to imply that this was
 >nonsense and I wanted to emphasize that although it might seem
 >like nonsense, Col. Corso wasn't (didn't seem to be) lying,
 >although he may have been mistaken. I didn't think his
 >mentioning of time machines should discredit his other claims.

He just seemed to have some kind of "time machine" connection so
to speak.

 >>>>We know from Corso's military record that what he
 >>>>claimed in the book was not in fact correct.

 >>>Which part? The Col.-Light Col issue is unresolved but aside
 >>>from that, what part of his military record do you think he lied
 >>>about. Please be specific and use citations. Did he lie about
 >>>being in command of a nuclear facility. Does the military give
 >>>nuclear commands such as this to liars and psychopaths?

 >>The first line of Corso's book is not correct, i.e. that he was
 >>the head of/in charge of Army FTD for two years. In fact it was
 >>90 days. Of the 90 days he was absent 15. In fact and reality he
 >>worked at FTD for a total of 1 year not two.

 >Yes that sentence is a little confusing. But there is no doubt
 >that he worked the Foreign Technology desk for Gen. Trudeau, and
 >that he saw these as "incredible" years.

No doubt that he worked at Army FTD. However I would point out
that other then "Corso said in his book..." there is, and has
been no other verifiable documents that have been released, or
put forth by his family to verify any of the Alien/ET claims.

According to the 1st chapter of his next book he was really
impressed with the personal meeting of ET in a mine at the White
Sands range. That should rate as an incredible year as well.

 >>As to being in "command of a nuclear facility" what exactly are
 >>we discussing? His service record (signed by him at or around
 >>retirement) shows that he was in various command positions such
 >>as air defense battalion commander, but that isn't "command of a
 >>nuclear facility."

 >I too admit to a poorly written sentence. He was commander of a
 >Nike battalion. Do they give commands of Nike battalions to
 >frauds and psychopaths?

Corso didn't release his book when he was in command of a Nike
battalion, nor did he make any Roswell/meet ET claims until long
after he retired.

As to the general thought of people telling stories that appear
to be sincere, I would suggest that history is littered with
them. Frank Kaufman, Ragsdale's jewel encrusted ET helmet, Bill
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman" Clinton,
Richard "Your President is not a crook" Nixon, not to mention
many alleged Vietnam vets that claimed medals and military
service they didn't have (see the book Stolen Valor).

<snip>

 >>Didn't Birnes just publish some Corso stuff in UFO mag recently?

 >He may have although I'm not familar with it.

In the Feb/March 2002 UFO Magazine we had the following article:

"Designer Aliens: Travelers Customized For Space
BY BILL KENT & JAN HESTER

 From the Corso Files: Extensive notes on autopsied EBEs outline
a creature pared down and geared up for travel in an extremely
unfriendly environment."

So apparently Birnes still has material from the "Corso Files."

Concerning the Senators forward to the Corso book, according to
Corso in an interview at Roswell with Lindemann/CNI news Corso
claimed that "I also got a note from him [Thurmond] authorizing
Simon and Schuster to print it. Bill Birnes has all that.
Apparently Bill has a signed note from the Senator authorizing
the publication of the original forward.

<snip>

 >>By supposed Corso family accounts, allegedly Birnes rushed the
 >>book to print before Corso checked the final draft. Supposedly
 >>the bogus sections were only in the first three chapters dealing
 >>with Roswell etc etc. By other accounts inaccuracies and factual
 >>problems were here and there throughout the book.

 >Yes I agree that this is the case. There were factual errors
 >throughout the book. But the main emphasis of the book is
 >accurate: Col. Corso and Gen. Trudeau furnished alien,
 >technologically advanced artifacts to US defense contractors who
 >were already working on similar projects and they were
 >encouraged to research and develop this technology. These same
 >companies were assisted in this endeavor through government
 >contracts initiated by the foreign technology desk.

So the bottom line is the book has a number of mistakes and
errors in it for various reasons, Corso Sr was constantly
scribing changes and revisions (of the Day After..) in his note
book that he carried, even though according to Birnes that
Birnes accurately reproduced what Corso said either using video
tape and the process of creating the manuscript. Apparently the
so called accurate portions dealt with the concept of ET
technology being "seeded" throughout private industry...even
though in the article you cite the individual comes up with the
fact that the night vision technology ET theory doesn't hold up.
What happened to Phil's notebook that has all the inaccuracies
and corrections he scribed up until he died?

Point is that we seem to be able to verify the fact that Corso
worked for Army FTD, that Corso worked with/on NSC during the
Eisenhower Admin., the POW story and others. That can all be
independently verified. What can't be verified, at this point,
is claims that Corso handled/seeded Roswell/ET technology while
he worked for Army FTD, and or not to mention his personal and
up front meeting with ET in 1957.. "a new world if you can take
it"

My Corso prediction is that 10 years from now (like MJ-12 and
AA) it will still be murky as ever.


Cheers,

Robert








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               Re: Is Ufology Dead Or Just Dozing? - McGonagle

From: Joe McGonagle <joe@ufology.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 07:57:01 -0000
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 09:47:01 -0500
Subject: Re: Is Ufology Dead Or Just Dozing? - McGonagle


 >From: Roy Hale <roy.hale@ntlworld.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 16:07:36 -0000
 >Subject: Re: Is Ufology Dead Or Just Dozing?

 >>From: Joe McGonagle <joe@ufology.org.uk>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 16:40:21 -0000
 >>Subject: Is Ufology Dead Or Just Dozing?

<snip>

 >>So, is ufology dead, or just dozing?

 >Slightly disappointed in my opinion.

 >The Web is just a new way of getting a lot of data on UFOs to
 >people around the world, who probably never had any chance of
 >doing so before. It also stinks of 'stuck in the past' ufology.

 >How many people wish to go to lectures to hear a ufologist,
 >bumbling on about their own opinions? Lecture attendances have
 >dropped since the web appeared, simply because of the ease
 >which info on UFOs is to get.

There are a few things which I do like about the lecture
circuits-the opportunity to meet people with similar interests,
the opportunities (occasionally) to discuss specifics with a
presenter, the knees up in the bar afterwards. I would hate to
see all of these things totally supplanted by the internet.

 >Does the logic that Ms. Randles puts across, also apply to UFO
 >writers, and the hype that goes along with that? Or is this
 >elitism in its raw form?

I can't speak for Jenny, but my understanding is that her
remarks go deeper than just the effect of the internet; It
includes the procedural and ethical attitudes of groups and
individuals involved in UFO research, for example, the lack of
standardisation, the total absence of a clear focal point for
witnesses to report their sightings to or for the media to refer
to.

Personally, I was more interested in Jenny's suggetion towards a
solution, which included harnessing the benefits of the internet
to nurture a positive effect on ufology and how it is perceived.

 >I personally know a hell of a lot of web based UFO researchers,
 >who put a tremendous effort into the info on their site, I feel
 >they will not be too happy with this cheap dig.

I agree that there are some excellent sites out there covering
ufology, but there is also a hell of a lot of inaccurate,
outdated, and in some cases, totally unfounded articles. I am
also possibly guilty of propogating false stories, not
deliberately of course, but because I have forwarded a story or
a link without thoroughly researching it.

While there are some excellent articles at your web site:

http://www.thelosthaven.co.uk

They are difficult to find amongst all of the commercial links.
On the UFO page, you have a link marketing a Fortune Teller
CD..... what sort of impression do you think this gives of
ufology?

You also have a link to:

http://www.AngliaEarthMysteries.co.uk

You may be unaware, but the "owner" of AEM who goes under
various names including Jack/Jac/Steve Solomon/Lassiter/Sheridan
and combinations thereof is currently in legal dispute with the
Norfolk UFO Society with regard to group assets and other
matters. In fact, if you follow the link which is on your site:

http://www.angliaearthmysteries.co.uk

there is a brief statement about the matter there.

Another UK site:

http://www.crowdedskies.com

by Roy Lake carries an article by Tony Dodd dated June 2002
about the 1970 lightning crash, complete with a fake transcript
of the in-flight conversation. This incident recently received a
great deal of publicity both on the national media, and in the
UK UFO magazine due to the release of the flight accident report
by the MOD. The UFO connection has effectively been shown to be
an outright hoax, but there is no mention of these details at
the site. I am not suggesting that either Tony Dodd or Roy Lake
were conscious parties to the hoax, but it is an example of an
article with no foundation in reality (and it does raise a
questionmark about Dodd's effectivness as an "Alien
Investigator"....).

Yet another infamous UK case is covered at your other site:

http://freespace.virgin.net/roy.hale

which, incidentally, I think is much more professional looking
than:

http://www.thelosthaven.co.uk

the Sheffield Incident as put forward by convicted drug dealer,
Max Burns. How someone like him can manipulate people into
supporting him in spite of his lack of remorse for his crime
astounds me! He is definitely one character that ufology would
be better off without!

Please don't misunderstand me, I appreciate that operating such
a web site soaks up a lot of time, money, and effort, and I
wouldn't expect it to be perfect in every way, but perhaps you
can see the point about how ufology is often misrepresented on
the internet in such a way as to either confuse people about
what ufology encompasses, or even scare them away from the
topic! I quite like a lot of the content at your sites, there
are far worse ones out there.....


Cheers,

Joe

(Not a crystal-ball gazing, drug-dealing, multiple personality
parasite of ufology, contrary to the image of ufology on the
Net)








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               Re: s Ufology Dead Or Just Dozing? - McGonagle

From: Joe McGonagle <joe@ufology.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 08:37:39 -0000
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 09:54:06 -0500
Subject: Re: s Ufology Dead Or Just Dozing? - McGonagle


 >From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:16:52 -0500
 >Subject: Re: Is Ufology Dead Or Just Dozing?

 >>From: Roy Hale <roy.hale@ntlworld.com>
 >>To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >>Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 16:07:36 -0000
 >>Subject: Re: Is Ufology Dead Or Just Dozing?

<snip>

 >How does one differentiate between good and bad research (or
 >information) on the Internet? There are many good researchers
 >who have placed their material on the Internet, but how does
 >someone new to the field know that one site is better than
 >another? Do we take the Art Bell approach and simply let the
 >audience decide for themselves?

In my opinion, Ufology needs a credible National - thence
International - authority, a group perhaps elected by the
various local groups, which has the power to set policies and
standards within ufology, and issue - or withdraw! - a
"standards compliance" certificate of some kind.

Of course, this would lead to accusations of "elitism" etc, but
so what? If it does raise standards, and becomes recognised as a
national focal point for the media, the public, and the
authorities, who cares if the 'Alien Spotters of Great Britain'
(membership 5 million worldwide, HQ address flat 3b, 14 Backend
Road, Worthington, Sussex) get the hump and go off in a huff?
Both of the members - sorry, I mean the President and the Vice-
President Global Operations - will continue to be ignored.
Ufology needs to bite the bullet and take hold of the reins,
otherwise it will simply continue to move in circles. Of course
this will take a great deal of time and effort, but I believe it
is achievable.

 >The Internet has provided a tremendous forum for networking in
 >this genre that has never before existed, but it also has
 >created an anarchy that seems to have no foundation and major
 >UFO research organizations throughout the world have been
 >severely impacted.

I don't believe that all of the blame can be placed on the
advent of the InterNet, this has just accelerated the effect. It
is just that some people's minds have been so open that their
brains have fallen out! The InterNet is simply a convenient
platform for some people who would never be considered viable by
the mainstream media to air their views and gain support from
gullible, or equally "open minded" people. The same effect can
be found in the printed media before the internet was widely
available, for example, Flying Saucer Review.

 >Are we in a scientific pursuit of knowledge or do we remain a
 >loosely knit group of people who happen to share a similar
 >interest and have the ability to communicate with one another.

I think that the answer is both - we are a loosely knit
community, a large part of which deeply desires and strives for
the recognition of Ufology by the authorities, acadaemia, and
the publc as a ligitimate area of study. The rational voices of
the community are drowned out by the raucous squealing from the
sheep-diviners and high priests of the minority which have
effectively taken over by virtue of the fact that they make more
entertaining subjects for the media.


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                  Granisle, British Columbia - It Returns?

From: Brian Vike - HBCCUFO <hbccufo@telus.net>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 00:42:44 -0800
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 09:56:29 -0500
Subject: Granisle, British Columbia - It Returns?


Howdy,

Hope your Christams was a good one, it looks as if sightings are
still taking place around Northern, British Columbia. Was slow
for a while, but back at it.

---

Granisle, British Columbia

Date:  December 27, 2002
Time: approx: 2:10 a.m.

HBCC UFO note: It has been an exciting year for me here in
northern British Columbia. After a slow start in for the year
2001 (6 reported UFO sightings, my investigation into the
Vanderhoof crop circles and a cattle mute), 2002 has been an
ubelievable time for a UFO investigator. With this sighting
report, this will bring the total cases I have worked on to 120
cases. Most of the cases are for the pacific northwest here in
B.C. I have talked to over 200 witnesses for these 120 reported
sightings. I still am working on two more still yet to come for
the end of this year.

Did the same Golden UFO return to Granisle?  (Raw data)

I had a telephone call from a nice fellow who reported that he,
and three other co-workers were doing some last minute work
around the logging camp which is located across Babine Lake,
just across the lake from Granisle, British Columbia. One of the
workers gave out a loud cry telling the other workers to look
into the direction he was pointing to.  Approx: a half kilometer
away from their location, which would have been to the north.
The men all witnessed a bright, white/yellowish light coming
from behind the trees in the distance. At this point all that
was visible was a a brightness shinning above the trees.

(HBCC UFO note:) I know the area well as I have spent a lot of
time fishing the lakes in the area, and there is nothing out
there other than forest, lakes and streams. Of course cut blocks
in which are being logged. I asked the fellow if there may have
been logging equipment working in the area where the light was
seen coming from, using their bight lights to log and harvest
the timber. He said NO ! The loggers were making ready the
area/camp for logging to start up again after the holiday season
was over and done with.

After dropping everything the men were doing, watching and
wondering what this glowing light was, to their shock a large
glowing golden/orangish disk shaped object with a large halo of
white around the craft rose up in the distance and stopped and
hovered. I was told they observed the object for approx: 10
seconds at the most, which the fellow said seemed like a life
time. As the object moved away from their location, heading
roughly to the north they did lose sight of the craft quickly,
but after losing sight of the object they still could see the
bright light, which they figured was the light which was given
off from the object for sometime. (approx: 5 minutes after
seeing the object). The light grew faint and disappeared.

HBCC UFO note: I am still gathering information on this case,
and the other case at Granisle, British Columbia in which two
authorities witnessed a large glowing orange/gold almost saucer
shaped (oval?) object hovering right over top the old Bell
Copper mine. This took place on October 22, 2002 at 10:25 p.m.
This full report is at my website.

I should have a report from Terrace B.C. as well coming quickly,
witnessed watched an object on December 27, 2002, 8:35pm.
  around the hot springs which is a short distance from the main
junction heading west towards Kitimat. The witness watched a
saucer shaped object with one row of lights with two very bright
lights close together.

And another I am working on, and am speaking with the witness,
this report came to me from my friends from UFO*BC and is a
joint investigation. This sighting takes place in between
Kitimat and Terrace, B.C. at Onion Lake. Full reports on these
new sightings will be posted soon.

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                            2002 Humanoid Reports

From: Albert Rosales <Garuda79@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:32:05 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:14:40 -0500
Subject: 2002 Humanoid Reports


Happy new year everyone

Sincerely,

Albert

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2002 Humanoid Reports. It appears to be a slow start for this
year with only one recorded case, again from Chile. We will see
what develops later on the year. 2001 was pretty busy but it was
a decline from 2000. Maybe we will see another down trend again,
later to pick up again in the near future. This seems to be the
ever-ongoing trend of the phenomena. Will it always stay the
same? Time will tell. Following is a list of known 2002 humanoid
cases.


1.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: January 2002
Time: 0300A
An employee at the local Minera Escondida was on his way to the
storage freezer in order to pick up some supplies when an
unknown creature jumped him from behind. He could only describe
it as hairy and dark. He was left with deep scratches and in a
state of shock. Terrified he ran away and bumped into two other
employees who were able to see a shadowy creature in the dark.

HC addendum
Source: La Estrella del Loa de Calama, ChileType: E


2.
Location. Caracas, Venezuela
Date: January 2002
Time: late night
Late one night in a dream-like state the witness woke up to see
seven to eight strange figures in her bedroom. They were dark
gray in color and very thin, with three large thick long fingers
on their hands. They had large, lipless mouths and large shiny
protruding black eyes, their noses were thin and protruding,
small ears, the heads was large and pointy. The humanoids
appeared to be naked and she was able to see a penis on the
humanoids. They were about 1.55 meters in height. She felt dizzy
and under the control of the strange entities. She was led out
of her bedroom by one of the humanoids that removed her clothing
and made her lie down on the floor. The humanoids apparently
attempted to molest her sexually and possibly attempted to rape
her but were not successful. She apparently passed out and does
not remember anything else about the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Lista Alcione and witness communicationType: E


3.
Location. Fort McMurry, Alberta, Canada
Date: January 2 2002
Time: 2032
Two men were parked on an isolated dirt road when they spotted a
large cone-shaped object descend and hover. One of the men
exited the car and he vanished in plain sight of the other, the
craft then also disappeared. The other man tried to drive away
to get help but the car would not start and it was to cold to
walk. He soon went to sleep and woke up later to find his friend
sleeping next to him. Later they drove back to town. His friend
does not remember what happened during those two hours of
missing time. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


4.
Location. Paso Lovera, Corrientes, Argentina
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2030
Gabriela Lencinas, 15-year old and a 19-year old friend were
returning home on a bicycle when they spotted a large cloud like
object descend from the sky and from it a giant figure emerge.
The witnesses stopped their bicycles to see a car approach the
giant figure, stop, the driver exit the car and then re-entering
the vehicle and driving quickly away. The figure then rose up
into the cloud and disappeared. The girls reported that the
giant human-like figure had its hair standing up on his head and
was extending its arms towards the witnesses that quickly rode
their bicycles home. Other in the area reported seeing bright
lights that same night.

HC addendum
Source: Pablo Omastott
Type: B?


5.
Location. Villa San Rafael, Chile
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2345
Two young teenagers, Jean F and Nelson C, where at home at night
when Jean noticed that his pet snake had escaped from its cage.
Both boys began looking for it outside among the rubble of the
parcel. They recalled how half an hour before, their two dogs
strangely began to howl and cry; however, it did not seem to be
important at that point in time. They searched for the pet snake
together when suddenly, about 30 meters from where they stood;
they saw what appeared to be a stray dog. They threw rocks at to
avoid an attack. However, to their surprise, the animal stood
there, motionless and fearless; it did not get scared nor it ran
away as ordinary dogs normally do. Shortly, the strange animal
began to move towards them. The movements it made as it walked
were very strange. It used two legs at a time. It made very
small sand short leaps like a rabbit. Suddenly, it stopped and
it stood up on two legs. The teenagers then began to feel some
kind of energy. "It was like an electrical shock in the
stomach," they said. It later walked again making a loud
dragging noise, making small leaps and only moving one of its
legs. They noticed the weird shape of the animal. "It was like a
rugby football with legs," one of them said. Jean began to feel
frightened and started to move away from animal. On the other
hand, Nelson felt a strange need to get closer to the creature;
he got to within 2 meters away from it. The creature appear to
emit a strange luminosity that apparently, was bright enough to
lit a small area around the creature in spite of the nighttime
darkness. Nelson was mesmerized as he stared at the strange
creature. He described it as having a head like a large dog with
a flat nose like a bulldog. Its eyes were slanted and pale-red
in color, which could only be seen when the creature turned its
head from side to side like a lizard. At that moment, Nelson
heard a voice in his head saying, "Don't stare, and just run
away." They provided further description, describing the ears as
flat, round and large. Its arms were short, it had elbows, and
the hands had three fingers. It had hair like the one on a wild
pig. Its legs were like the ones of a goat. The feet had also
three fingers and a membrane like ducks, but somewhat shorter.
On its curved back, they were able to notice a spinal section
covered with amounts of even thicker hair. Most of the hair of
the animal was gray, but the tail had a white tip. Nelson
finally fled, terrified, from the area. He also described how he
felt an inexplicable bone-chilling cold sensation.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center
Type: E


6.
Location. Not given
Date: January 12 2002
Time: night
Ted Parker was eating some leftover food when he claims the food began to
change. The bread of the sandwich turned an orange color and the lamb
became a silvery metallic color, sort of like liquid mercury. As he watched
transfixed, he saw the orange bread and metallic lamb turn into the figure
of an "alien" with the form of a man. It was silver in color and its outfit
(smooth pants and shirt, like a jump suit) was orange in color. At this
point Parker glanced at the wall clock and it indicated that 2 hours had
gone by, even though it felt like minutes only. The alien figure
communicated using telepathic means and asked Ted to come with him. They
both went outside and there, Ted saw a landed black-colored craft in his
backyard. In a split second Ted found himself inside the craft not knowing
how he got there. The inside of the craft was pure white in color with
strips of the metallic silver that the alien figure appeared to be made of.
The rest of the incident is just a blur, but Parker did remembered hearing
several loud high-pitched rings while onboard the object. A couple of days
before while eating dinner with several other people there had been a
similar high pitched ring and everybody had just stopped eating and walked
out of the room.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: G or F?



7.
Location. Chihuahua, Mexico
Date: January 29 2002
Time: night
Several days before seeing a UFO the witness remembered being in a
dream-like state in which he felt very calm and saw numerous disc shaped
objects, orange-red in color. A human like figure was talking to him about
the objects and their propulsion. The UFO he saw was of an orange color and
he felt a sort of ecstasy when he observed the craft. Several of his
neighbors also saw the object.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: G or F?


8.
Location. Near Palmyra, Wisconsin
Date: February 2002
Time: 0200A
Two men reported seeing a creature that resembled a bipedal "gigantic wolf"
walking down a road west of the city. They said the creature was at least 7
ft tall with a wolf-like head. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Linda GodfreyType: E


9.
Location. West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
Nebilson Sangma reported encountering a scary furry creature on a hunting
trip in the jungles. He reportedly took a video of the creature's nesting
place. According to Sangma, the creature walked erect like a human, had
built a house like nesting place, and would emerge from it frequently to
feast on a banana grove. Sangma and his brother observed the gigantic
creature for three consecutive days from afar. Officials and villagers have
been hunting for the creature in the forest but it seems to have
disappeared as furtively as it appeared.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 13
Type: E


10.
Location. Near Dover, England
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness had been jogging along a low path by the beach when she noticed
a tall, well built being in a black skin tight suit, that stood watching
her from nearby. He wore a black helmet wit a brown visor pulled down. At
first she thought it was a biker but as she approached the figure, it
suddenly disappeared in plain sight. As she continued to run she noticed a
black craft jutting out of the sand, it was small and oval shaped, matt and
ribbed it also disappeared in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: E?


11.
Location. Rosario de la Frontera, Salta, Argentina
Date: February 2002
Time: night
A strange creature called by locals "El Pestizo" has attacked several lone
pedestrians in the middle of the night. It is described as a dark man
shaped shadowy being. A boy riding his bicycle on the way to visit some
friends was toppled from his bicycle and found a black shadowy figure
facing him. The young man managed to upholster his shotgun and fire two
shots. But, when he saw that they had no effect, he promptly drew his knife
and stabbed the figure without any apparent harm. Frightened the youth
tried to escape but the creature knocked him down without saying a word and
began dragging him by the hair to the side of the road. At this point the
young man began to scream. A local man, who rushed to provide assistance,
only to find a black shadow dragging the boy by the hair, heard his cries.
The fearful shape disappeared without a trace after it became aware of the
other man's presence. Six other locals have reported being attacked by a
similar being and received wounds.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


12.
Location. Not given
Date: February 2002
Time: early morning
The witness was alone at home and was preparing his breakfast when suddenly
he heard a window break; he went to see what had happened. Grabbing a golf
club he peeked inside the room where the window broke. He was stunned to
see a strange creature climbing on his bed. It appeared to be hurt, because
it seemed that it could not move well. Gripping the golf club he went a
step nearer and the creature hissed horribly. It shrieked in an unworldly
manner. Terrified the witness did not move. The creature was small, about
the size of a large rabbit, and it was dark in color and had reddish eyes.
It had wings and a spine of quills on its back, and had a semi reptilian
face. It appeared to have hair and small legs. The witness raised the golf
club and the creature hissed again showing its large yellowish teeth, which
appeared to be sharp, like those of a crocodile. It suddenly hopped out of
the window and rapidly hopped across the street into the oak trees.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June archiveType: E


13.
Location. Vigevano, Italy
Date: February 2002
Time: 0100A
In the outskirts of this city a witness observed from his vehicle a
luminous humanoid entity walking along a roadway. It scurried away into the
darkness when approached.
No other information.

HC addendum
Source: CISU, ItalyType: E



14.
Location. Corguinho, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Date: February 5 2002
Time: night
During a localized UFO flap several witnesses reported seeing a strange
creature described as about 1.3 meters in height, having two legs, with a
physique like a human but who moved with a strange fluctuating motion. The
creature was seen five times by twenty people in the rural zone around
Corguinho. In Rochedo, 6 miles south of Corguinho five Cebu cattle were
found dead with a single incision on the side of the throat. The bodies had
been drained of blood. (Is there a connection?).

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


15.
Location. Mount Podbrdo, Bosnia Hercigovina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: morning
Contactee and stigmatic Giorgio Bongiovanni was visiting the shrine on top
of the mountain and was praying silently to the Virgin when, to his
astonishment, a glowing luminous female figure appeared and touched his
forehead with her fingertips. His stigmata scar vanished instantly. The
female figure told him to return to Italy and make known what had happened.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 14
Type: E or F?


16.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: evening
73-year-old Maria Rufina Cayo, a local shepherd was walking back home with
her dogs and the cattle. Suddenly at one point, something spooked the
animals, and these began to stampede. Looking around she spotted a bizarre
creature standing about 12 meters away. She described it as a humanoid,
half animal, half human, about 1.70m in height, with bright red eyes, sharp
protruding fangs, and hands and feet that ended in sharp claws. The
creature looked at the witness three times then it scrambled away using
quick jumping motions with is powerfully built hind legs, she also noticed
large pointy ears. The top part of its body seems to have been covered in a
shiny white blanket. It somehow resembled a centaur walking on two
claw-like feet.  Alerted by the shouts of Maria, two men, Santos Jaimes,
and Ruben Colque ran out to investigate with their dogs. Suddenly the dogs
stopped and began making pitiful howling noises, they refused to move any
further. The men heard noises behind some nearby bushes and went to
investigate and spotted a bizarre creature that stood staring at them with
huge reddish eyes. It then moved quickly away in the direction of Cerro
Negro and disappeared from sight. The witnesses noticed very sharp claws on
the creature's feet with a very sharp claw that appeared to be pointed
backwards. Strange footprints were found the next day.

HC addendum
Source: El Tribuno, Salta Argentina March 27 2002
Also Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E



17.
Location. Khanpur, Ahmedabad, India
Date: February 20 2002
Time: after midnight
Several local residents reportedly have encountered a person, dressed in
black and wearing a mask. Dubbed the "Monkeyman" whom they described as
between 25 and 20 years of age, dark skinned and having curly hair can
reportedly be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees. Two
local youths chased it and the figure reportedly disappeared in plain
sight. The two youths have been behaving abnormally since then. The
stranger was also chased along the riverbed near the Cama Hotel and it also
suddenly disappeared. Others have heard the stranger running on the
rooftops. Abdul Hamid another youngster of the local slums described the
figure as a tall lean man that carries a sharp weapon. "I saw him from the
back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised the alarm, he jumped to
another roof and then on to a tree." Police have searched for the stranger
but nothing has been found.

HC addendum
Source: Fortean Times, India Express
Type: E


18.
Location. Prague, Czech Republic
Date: February 23 2002
Time: night
Blanka Slemendova was in her apartment when she saw a "ship" hovering over
some nearby woods. It was shining red, white and yellow lights. She then
heard telepathic communication coming from the object telling her to go and
meet them at an unspecified location. Looking over to her bedroom wall she
saw what appeared to be a projection of human like faces looking at her.
Later that night she saw luminous figures in her room and a floating red
light also in her room. The next night she saw what appeared to be 2 gray
suns and around them a golden lights with numerous groups of shiny
human-like figures floating about. She interpreted these as being angels.

HC addendum
Source: Direct from witness (Slemendova)
Type: C & F?


19.
Location. Wycliffe Well Roadhouse, Northern Territory Australia
Date: early March 2002
Time: evening
While workers in the area watched unusual lights in the sky an aboriginal
woman encountered a triangular sort of object in a paddock and all of the
sudden she saw three silvery clad human like figures that began to move
toward her vehicle. She turned the vehicle around and took off.

HC addendum
Source: Lou Farcus ABC On-lineType: C


20.
Location. Near Canberra Australia
Date: March 2002
Time: 1700
Several friends were taking a trip to the coast and it was already very
dark. They had already entered a tropical forest area and there was a mist
rolling along the ground. As they turned around they saw something
squatting in the middle of the road. It stared at them, and just as they
thought they were going to hit it, it leaped off the road and into the
trees. It leaped about 10 meters in the air. The creature was definitely
human looking although it wore strange clothes. It was dressed in a green
robe of some kind with little pieces of gold on it, and it was either
wearing a head crest or it had a row of spikes running from its forehead to
the top of its neck. Very frightened the witnesses drove out of the forest
and at the same time the mist turned to a thick fog. They pulled over and
decided to wait until the fog had cleared, although none of them were too
happy about it. As they sat around and waited they suddenly heard a shriek.
It sounded like some sort of wild animal and they turned the car on so the
headlights would scare it away. The headlights revealed the same creature
they had seen earlier. It hid its face from the light and shrieked. Right
before the witnesses' eyes, the creature seemed to evaporate into the fog.
Within five minutes the fog had gone and the normal rolling mist was back.
The witnesses quickly left the area and drove towards the coast.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June ArchiveType: E


21.
Location. Guanica Puerto Rico
Date: March 1 2002
Time: 2345
Reinaldo Rios (involved in other encounters) was in his bedroom that night
when a large white light suddenly appeared. It flew around the room several
times and then hovered. He heard voices coming from the light, which
communicated with him. The voice said: "I am your real father." Soon the
light transformed itself into a figure resembling that of a little boy it
then vanished in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: UFOs over America.com
Type: E


22.
Location. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 0800A
The witness and his wife were in bed that Saturday morning talking when
their 5-year-old daughter came into the bedroom with her baby brother,
whose cot is placed under their bedroom window. They heard a strange noise
and some green light came into the window. Their daughter looked out the
window and reported seeing a "flying car" with four spinning green lights
on top. She saw two windows in the vehicle and saw two dark brown faces
looking out. His wife saw the craft flying past through the curtains. That
same morning, in a large tree near the witness house a strange structure
was found. The branches were arranged in a rectangular pen shape, vertical,
each approximately 30 to 40 cm long. They found a few smaller sticks
scaling down in size from the structure. A piece of concrete slab was found
propped up on one corner. The witnesses had never seen this strange
structure before and think is some kind of message left by the visitors.
(Some kind of bizarre crop circle?). A few nights before they had heard
strange noises coming from the kitchen area.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: A


23.
Location. Golasecca Di Novara, Italy
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 2330
Augusto & Maurizia were in their vehicle parked in an open field next to a
wooded area having a heated discussion when suddenly a powerful beam of
reddish-orange light illuminated the area around them. They rolled down the
car window and heard a sharp metallic sound that seemed to be increasing in
intensity. They now noticed, behind the beam of light a hovering
disc-shaped craft with a central rotating ring, it hovered about a meter
from the ground. From the object, a cigar-shaped beam of light emerged;
they could see it as the central ring of the craft slowly rotated on its
axis. The craft was only about 10 meters away. At this point, and only
about 4 meters from the object Augusto saw what appeared to be a gelatinous
transparent humanoid-like figure with a visible head, arms and legs. The
figure was silvery in color and was very tall, about 3 meters or so. At
this point Augusto became concerned and drove away from the area and did
not see the object or figure depart. The whole episode lasted about 10
minutes. The metallic noise was heard all throughout the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Alfredo Lissoni, CUN Milano, Michelle Castellano CUN VareseType: C


24.
Location. Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England
Date: March 3 2002
Time: morning
Helen Diskin went for a walk in the countryside talking snap shots along
the way with her digital camera. Returning home she loaded these into her
computer and was intrigued by an odd-looking image. It looked like a
luminous figure in an area of no sunlight, skulking amongst the trees. She
returned to the site of the photo twice afterward and could find no
explanation for the figure. The figure resembled a small helmeted figure
that she had not seen when she took the picture of an area of the woods she
had thought of as "mysterious."

HC addendum
Source: Helen Diskin, UFO Magazine Vol. 22 # 1Type: E?


25.
Location. Near Trenton New Jersey
Date: March 4 2002
Time: night
Several witnesses were camping outside of town and late at night one of
them was attempting to put out the bonfire when he heard the most awful and
horrifying scream. It resembled that of an injured dog crossed with a
scream of a woman. The witness dropped the flashlight and was joined by
another witness. Suddenly out of the woods a hideous and gruesome creature
appeared. It did not look human, somewhat satyr-like in appearance and
walked on two legs. It had a long tail like a dragon and wings like those
unicorns in fantasy books. The beast took several steps towards the
witnesses and one of them picked up and asked and yelled at it and then
shone his flashlight at it. The creature then turned towards the bushes and
ran away from the area.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: E


26.
Location. Pichaca, Salta, Argentina
Date: March 9 2002
Time: night
Ceferino Leoncio was cleaning his one room metal shack when suddenly a
bright light engulfed the room. He felt a sudden heat as he saw a tiny
figure (50 cm) of an angel-like creature materialize in front of him. It
slowly moved its small wing-like protrusions and moved around and then
suddenly stopped and remained still. It appeared to be a small living human
like living being until it appeared to hardened and turn into some type of
statue of cherubic appearance. Locals have now built a shrine around the
tiny "statue" and call the strange materialization a "religious miracle".

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso
Type: F?



27.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: March 16 2002
Time: 2215
Mirna, was watching television alone in her room when she began hearing
noises coming from outside, at first she thought it was her dogs playing
around with some empty cans. But the noises kept getting louder and louder
and she decided to go outside to investigate. Once outside she was stunned
to see some type creature that had somehow entered the rabbit cage and was
attacking the animals that were making loud unearthly screams. Thinking at
first that it was one of the dogs she approached the case but realized that
it was a gray colored hairy hunched over creature, that was moving quickly
inside the cage. She stepped back and could not understand how the creature
had entered the cage, since there wasn't any apparent hole or aperture
visible anywhere and the door was firmly closed. Afraid she ran inside her
home and notified her son, both then ran out but the creature had
mysteriously disappeared. Unnerved, they could not understand how they
creature had escaped since the door to the rabbit caged was still firmly
locked. Later they could only find a small round hole in the wire only
several centimeters in width, not large enough for a creature estimated to
have been about 70 to 80 cm in height. Several of the rabbits were found
injured and one was dead.

HC addendum
Source: Calama UFO CenterType: E


28.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: March 19 2002
Time: 2000
Young Elizabeth Lera reported seeing a short humanoid with "dark eyes"
looking into the building compound from behind a wire fence. It appeared
not to have any other facial features and was wearing dark clothing; it
wore some type of head covering, which was hard to see because of the
darkness. She could only see a pair of large dark eyes on his face that
appeared to shine in the darkness. Some more children now arrived and
observed as the humanoid move several steps towards them. Another witness,
Rene Mamani saw the humanoid run and hide behind some bushes. It seemed to
move at very high speed in an unnatural fashion. It seemed to have remained
suspended in mid-air for a few seconds. It then seemed to fly through the
air and disappeared into some nearby woods. Other students at the school
reportedly saw it again on the night of the 20th.

HC addendum
Source: Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E


29.
Location. Woodburn, Oregon
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 0300A
The witness was sleeping when she woke up suddenly feeling paralyzed. The
witness was completely unable to move or speak. Her next memory was of a
strange sensation on her left cheek, which hurt a lot. Unseen "beings" were
apparently taking skin samples. Her face was left with a pink fleshy scoop
down my left cheek, directly on the cheekbone. A teardrop scar was left on
her cheek.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical Universe
Type: G?




30.
Location. Bethlehem, Israel
Date: March 21 2002
Time: night
At the besieged Church of The Nativity several awed witnesses have come
forward describing the events of Thursday night. That night, a smell of
roses filled the sanctuary as the Daughters of Charity held their evening
prayers. "The sweet scent was soon followed by a high musical humming sound
and a distinct feeling of warmth emanating from the ceiling." Then, the
sisters reported, seeing a glowing beam of light gradually forming the
likeness of the Blessed Virgin "like a film coming into focus." Tears were
running down her face, and she uttered a prophetic warning. "Time is
growing short, and the promised Judgment Day is nearly at hand." One week
before the apparition, The Church of the Holy Family was the scene of a
ferocious firefight between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 17Type: F


31.
Location. Not given
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 2255
16-year old Steven Mizon saw hovering over a street a large oval shaped
craft encircled in bright lights and with several lighted windows around
its edge. A figure stared down at him from one of the windows. No other
information.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Watch
Type: A



32.
Location. Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain
Date: March 26 2002
Time: 1500
A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a deserted road when
he noticed ahead in the distance and in the middle of the roadway an object
resembling a shiny pear that was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat
perplexed he approached and noticed two individuals standing on a nearby
field. These were over 2 meters in height, wore tight fitting white
coveralls and helmets resembling that of the early astronauts. He parked
his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men
walked away and entered the shiny pear-shaped craft while the other
remained behind. Knowing that these men were "not from this earth" he still
asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt that as
he approached the strange pair he had been in some type of a trance and
seemed to have floated over the road. The humanoid answered and appeared
genuinely happy as to his offer of assistance but said that everything was
in order. He also added that the area was very beautiful and also added:
"Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such
beautiful scenes, they disappeared a long time ago." The astounded witness
managed to ask the humanoid where he was from and was told that they hailed
from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The
humanoid smiled as he answered the question. The humanoid then bid goodbye
and walked towards the nearby shiny pear shaped object, he then disappeared
inside of it. The craft then emitted a loud whistling sound and disappeared
at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the
humanoids as about 2.50 meters in height, wide chests and heavy set, thin
legs. Generally human features, but somewhat "refined" or sharpened
features. The suits were very tight fitting made of an apparent synthetic
material resembling plastic. Their eyes were very light almost white and
their speech was hesitant & accented. Also their movements seemed kind of
clumsy.

HC addendum
Source: J M Garcia, Francisco Padron, SpainType: B


33.
Location. Pringle Lake, Texas
Date: March 28 2002
Time: 1100A
Mark Hakemack and a friend had taken an airboat out on the NW side of the
lake to do a little redfish fishing. The day was kind of hazy, with broken
cloud cover. They had caught several trout and were just chatting when he
hooked up a large redfish while playing with the fish, Mark happened to
glance upwards and saw a large bird-like creature emerge from a cloudbank.
His friend saw it too, after about 20 to 25 seconds it flew behind cloud
cover again. The strange creature was grayish in color and the profile of a
raptor, short neck/head, no legs sticking out behind, and no long tail
feathers. Mark could not take his eyes off it. He estimated the wingspan to
have been 10' to 14 ' in overall. It appeared to be soaring on the wind,
although, he did see it give a couple of light "flaps" with its wings. The
witness could only relate this to the legendary "Thunderbird" legend.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.comType: E


34.
Location. Sevilla, Spain
Date: March 30 2002
Time: late night
The witness to the March 26 case was at home with his wife and was getting
ready to sleep when he heard footsteps coming from patio area outside his
chalet. Armed with a club, he opened the door and was stunned to see the
same two tall heavyset humanoids he had encountered 4 days before. One of
the humanoids was kneeling on the ground as if inspecting something on the
soil, the other one upon hearing the door open, turned and quickly assured
the witness not to fear that they were not here to harm him. Stunned, the
witness invited the two humanoids in the house for some refreshments (!).
These declined the invitation telling that they had to go already. Using
the same clumsy movements both humanoids walked towards the rear of the
house where the witness noticed the same shiny metallic pear shaped craft
on the ground. They entered the object, which quickly left at high speed.
The witness's wife awakened by the voices was able to see the two humanoids
from a second story window, and described them in the same way.

HC addendum
Source: Francisco Padron, Jose Manuel Garcia, SpainType: B


35.
Location. Los Cipreses, Chile
Date: March 31 2002
Time: noon
During a local UFO congress 24 persons in three groups entered a
dimensional gateway that appeared by itself over the terrain. It was kind
of a dome, a luminous archway measuring four by four meters. The
participants lost their materiality without disappearing completely. Upon
entering, they met several human-like alien characters with large baldheads
and wearing robes that waited within and received information. According to
sources the contact experience was "dimensional" it was like crossing into
a different reality. The 24 participants were "all professionals, college
students of high intellectual levels, mostly Chileans," and some were
members of Grupo Rama, a New Age association.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 16, quoting Camilo Valdivieto
Type: G or F?


36.
Location. Tbilissi Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: night
A man entered the local St David church and reported that "a phantom with
wings" had approached him and predicted an earthquake that indeed took
place on April 25 2002, devastating areas of central Georgia.

HC addendum
Source: Pravda
Type: E?


37.
Location. Near Macon, Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: 2300
Three friends were awakened by loud banging noises and bellowing sounds
coming from outside. One of the men ran to the bathroom and looked out the
window to see a figure run by and squat in the nearby bushes. He described
the creature as about 3 ft tall, hairy with what appeared to be horns on
its head and hands; he could not see a face. Others in the neighborhood
heard the banging noises.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.com and direct witness
Communication.
Type: E


38.
Location. Belvedere di Tezze, Italy
Date: April 26 2002
Time: evening
A 20-year old woman was returning home one night when she noticed some
bright lights nearby of an unknown origin. She followed the lights in her
car until she stopped near a local pizzeria. She saw the light near the
ground and within the lights two tall slender human like figures wearing
some type of headgear. Since she was carrying a camera she was able to snap
a quick picture. The figures then vanished. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Gruppo Accademico Ufologico Scandicci quoting
"Il giornale di Vicenza"Type: E?


39.
Location. Puente Santamaria, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: early morning
Two young men observed a dark object descend towards the ground about 100
meters away. According to the two witnesses from the craft descended a
small humanoid, orange in color. Very scared they both ran from the area
and reported their experience to others.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: B


40.
Location. Merceditas, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: evening
An elderly couple was walking along National Route # 8 when about 800
meters from their location they noticed a very strong light. The light
descended next to a puddle at about 70 meters from the witness. Both then
saw two very short orange colored humanoids that moved in very agile
movements near the object. Terrified they walked away and upon looking back
saw a bright glow on the ground.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: C


41.
Location. Barangay, Philippines
Date: May 2002
Time: night
Several local residents reported seeing a bizarre creature described as an
"aswang" reputed to be a winged vampire type creature, it reportedly had
red glowing eyes, long black hair, and was wearing a white flowing gown. It
was seen perched on top of a bamboo tree. Residents at nearby Roxas
reported seeing a similar creature. The police was called but a search
failed to locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Akasico.comType: E


42.
Location. Alvear, La Pampa Argentina
Date: May 3 2002
Time: near midnight
Several young men were returning home late at night along a deserted
roadway when suddenly out of nowhere a female figure wearing a light
flowing gown and with long black hair appeared in front of them. The
strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly and repeatedly asked for
assistance from the men in a strange urgent tone. Terrified the men ran
from the area and later returned with additional witnesses but they could
find no trace of the strange apparition.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E?


43.
Location. Taralgon Victoria, Australia
Date: May 24 2002
Time: 2355
Walking near the Loy Yang Power station 45-year old Martin Taylor was
suddenly blinded by an intense blue light and he felt extremely dizzy. His
next memory was of being in a circular room with a variety of lights and
buttons scattered about the walls. He was lying on a large table that
seemed to be of a very highly polished metal. He was strapped down and his
shirt had been removed. There were wires attached to his arms, neck and
temples. A four ft tall humanoid figure with very large almond shaped eyes,
almost transparent looking skin, ghostly white in appearance examined him.
The figure had three extremely long fingers on each hand and spoke in a
strange dialect.

HC addendum
Source: UFO WatchType: G


44.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: May 29 2002
Time: midnight
Irma Rick watched a rotating luminous object descend close to the ground
next to a grain silo; it gave off a powerful bluish light through some
openings around its circumference. It hovered close to the ground. Through
an opening a strange creature was seen to descend to the ground. It was
described as having an elongated semi-transparent white body; it also had
an elongated head. She could not see any eyes or legs on the creature as it
stood motionless next to the craft. She observed the creature and object
for about 5 minutes until she dropped the flashlight she was carrying.
Afraid she left the area and did not see the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: B



45.
Location. Lembang Bandung, Indonesia
Date: May 30 2002
Time: 2315
The witness was driving his motorcycle across a highland area when he
spotted some flashing lights overhead and then noticed a silvery
disc-shaped craft descend low over some nearby graves at a cemetery. The
craft had blue and orange flashing lights around its rim. There was no
sound as the craft apparently emitted a beam of light towards the ground
and levitated what appeared to be some dead bodies onboard the object. (!)
The witness was apparently paralyzed and was unable to move. The craft then
shot away at a 45-degree angle and disappeared from sight. When that
happened the witness left the scene.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


46.
Location. Houston, Texas
Date: late May 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness was at the local electric company in order to pay a bill when
she decided to use the restrooms. Sitting in the stall she then noticed on
the side of the wall of the stall what appeared to be a face lit up in a
dull light. When the witness looked directly at the "face" it vanished. She
described is as having large round eyes no visible nose and a slit-like
mouth. (A peeping tom alien?)

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.comType: E?


47.
Location. General Acha, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: early June 2002
Time: various
A resident of the Oeste neighborhood informed newspaper sources that a
short green-colored dwarf like entity has appeared twice on her property:
once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When her husband ran out
responding to her screams, the mysterious entity vanished by rapidly
climbing up a tree. All versions agree in that the entity is short in
stature. Another resident added that it moved so quickly that it was hard
to describe it. In the same area mysterious cattle mutilations have also
been reported.

HC addendum
Source: Loren Coleman in UFO UpdatesType: E


48.
Location. Ojo De Agua, Argentina
Date: June 2002
Time: afternoon
Several passengers onboard two farm micro buses reported seeing a very tall
dark man like figure that appeared to be wearing a tight fitting diver's
outfit standing on a nearby field. Nearby numerous mysterious animal
mutilations have been reported. The figure was silent and was quickly lost
from sight as the buses moved away.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E




49.
Location. Near Tampa, Florida
Date: June 2002
Time: night
A man and three of his friends reported encountering two bizarre chupacabra
type creatures one stood about 3-4 ft tall, the other looked to be about 6
ft tall. Both had large glowing red eyes and spikes starting from the head
to the back. They scurried away into a wooded area. (They were to have
further encounters in August).

HC addendum
Source: Art Bell.comType: E


50.
Location. Antalya, Turkey
Date: June 5 2002
Time: afternoon
Approximately 45 witnesses claimed they saw an UFO in the Santral district
landing on the backyard of the Fatma Primary School. Several students
including Murat Esici age 11 saw an alien emitting red rays from his eyes
come out of the object. His hands and feet were metallic. He had a very big
head and was about 1.80 meters in height. Esici temporarily lost her voice
immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also
claimed they san an unusual craft and an alien beside it. "His eyes and
hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes." The children
were overcome with shock after the incident.

HC addendum
Source: Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center Intl
Type: B


51.
Location. Polonnauruwa, Sri Lanka
Date: June 8 2002
Time: 2200
Approximately 50 to 70 eyewitnesses saw a UFO flying at about 100 meters
above ground level. The object was silent and briefly landed emitting a
bright flash like light. When it was close to the ground the object emitted
a buzzing sound. Three other witnesses saw three 2 ft tall creatures than
when approached ran into the jungle and disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Sources
Type: D


52.
Location. Polonnaruwa, Sir Lanka
Date: June 9 2002
Time: 2012
Two witnesses went to a bath on a nearby river when they heard a loud
thundering sound and a UFO appeared. The craft landed nearby and two, 2 ft
tall "aliens" emerged from the object. One of the humanoids flung a small
fluorescent fireball like object that flew over a house and vanished. Soon
the craft and humanoids disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC & News Reports
Type: B



53.
Location. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Date: June 10 2002
Time: 1900
Witnesses saw a mysterious light in the sky and others saw a large disc
shaped object land nearby. Three humanoids only about 2 ft tall emerged
from the craft and disappeared into the forest when approached. The object
also left.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Reports
Type: B


54.
Location. Chantilly, Virginia
Date: June 10 2002
Time: night
The witness was awakened during the night with a sense of some presence in
the room. Looking toward the door, he saw, fading quickly, something, which
almost had the appearance of a hologram. Next, shadows appeared outside the
windows in an erratic shape. At first he thought the shadows to be from
trees moving in a strong wind. The appearance was of a storm blowing the
limbs to create these shadows outside the window. However, there was no
storm. He looked at the adjacent window on the side of the house facing
opposite and there was no wind at all. In fact there was no trees
positioned in such a way to cast a shadow. He opened the blinds to see what
might be causing the shadows. He then saw what seemed to be a hologram with
the shape of two small eyes moving erratically outside the window.
Frightened he closed the blinds. Two weeks later he was awakened by a
humming sound and again saw the erratic shadows outside the window. He
watched the shadows for 10-15 minutes and then called the police. The
police found no signs of any intrusion in the yard. When the police left
the witness walked toward the door facing the back porch and saw a large
burst of bluish white light. It looked unnatural, almost like a laser. He
has not seen the "shadows" again.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: E?


55.
Location. Ataliva Roca, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 11 2002
Time: 1930
A worker at a local drainage project was sitting and guarding some
machinery when he noticed a short greenish colored humanoid figure that was
approaching his location from a nearby field. The witness became concerned
and drove away from the area in the construction equipment and did not see
the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


56.
Location. Eduardo Castex, La Pampa Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Two girls of a local school encountered a short greenish humanoid figure in
the playing yard. The figure was standing up and appeared to be raising its
arms up to the sky. Terrified the two girls retreated into the school and
watched the figure scurry away into some nearby woods. Around the same time
a local farmer found a strangely mutilated hog in his farm.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


57.
Location. Chasico, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Hugo Deluca and several other workers were parked in a bus in an isolated
area when they spotted about 20 meters away a short, 1.20 meters tall,
bipedal figure completely covered in gray hair. It walked upright like a
man and then scurried away into some woods vanishing from sight. The area
had been hit with animal mutilations around the same time.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


58.
Location. Castex, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 13 2002
Time: night
A 70-year old man had gone to his driveway to check on a flat tire in his
car when a short light green colored humanoid suddenly appeared next to
him. It had large round ears, and two reddish luminous eyes. Its body was
thin and almost triangular in shape. The witness attempted to yell out but
was suddenly unable to speak and at the same time strange warmth invaded
his body. Several seconds later the humanoid vanished and the witness
returned to normal. He reported the incident to the police.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


59.
Location. La Laguna, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 14 2002
Time: afternoon
Several youngster had gone into the fields in order to obtain some firewood
when they saw sitting on a clearing in the woods two human like figures,
all dressed in black. They sat facing each other, one looking towards the
east the other towards the west, unmoving. Unnerved by the sight the
juveniles ran from the area. The next day the father of one of the boys
found two dead cows at the site, but could find no trace of the strange
pair. Days later a sheep and a horse were found dead and strangely
mutilated in the nearby location of El Cardonal.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: E


60.
Location. De Kalb, Illinois
Date: June 15 2002
Time: 0030A
The witness was sitting in his family room watching TV when he noticed a
bright flash of light outside the window. He saw the flash several times
and decided to check his backyard there he saw a circular light moving
around in circles. The light began to get closer; scared he ran inside his
home and called a friend on the phone. He then quickly ran outside and saw
the circle getting closer, he noticed that it had a purplish color to it
and it began to descend towards the ground. He became nauseous and dizzy
and collapsed on to the ground. He tried to crawl to the house but was
unable to move. He turned his head and saw the purplish object on the
ground and what appeared to be a door opening up. He then heard a squeaking
noise and saw a tall and a short figure standing by a door of the object.
The two figures started to move towards him, walking in a strange bopping
fashion. They were of a dark complexion with a bumpy texture, other than
that they resembled normal human beings. The shorter figure approached and
picked up the witness' camera and stared at it. He then looked at the
taller figure and handed it to him. The taller of the two looked at the
camera and then at the witness. The witness then heard loud unpleasant
shrieks coming from the taller figure, which then gave the camera back to
the shorter figure, which covered the camera with his hand, seconds later a
light began to emerge from their hands. Then they stopped, threw the camera
aside and began to walk towards the witness. They reached his side and
started to examine his body. A dog began to bark from inside the house and
the shorter figure put out his hand and the dog stopped barking. At this
point the witness began to vomit. After about a minute he began to relax
and to breathe better. When he turned his head he realized that the two
figures and the purple spherical object were now gone. The next day he had
a very severe headache.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: B


61.
Location. San Juan, Argentina
Date: June 20 2002
Time: evening
At a location where the body of a strangely mutilated carcass of a cow was
found two witnesses reported seeing a small creature with large glowing
slanted eyes and about one meter in height. Later in the same area, members
of the Gimenez family after investigating noises and a strong odor coming
from a wooded area found a mutilated cow and also watched a short humanoid
with glowing eyes scurrying away into the woods.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


62.
Location. Manuel Rodriguez, Calama, Chile
Date: June 22 2002
Time: after midnight
A bizarre creature was spotted at a local housing complex on San Antonio
Street. Witnesses reported that it resembled an ape and it jumped all over
the roof. It passed right in front of the witness, Maria Gavia's window and
then it came back making all manner of noise. The creature was able to make
very long jumps, unlike any a human could. It jumped and landed on the
neighbor's roof and then it left the area. Neighborhood dogs acted scared
and began howling. Others described the creature as about 1.5 meters tall,
stocky in build with bright red eyes. It made a lot of noise. Others
reportedly chased the creature.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center, quoting El
Mercurio de CalamaType: E


63.
Location. Angencia Realico, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 23 2002
Time: late night
Several hunters returning to a local ranch spotted about 50 meters away two
large glowing reddish eyes staring at them. They turned off their
flashlight and approached closer on foot, about 30 meters away they again
saw the reddish eyes on a dark creature that appeared to be standing on top
of an apparently dead animal. One of the hunters shone its flashlight on
the figure again and saw a figure about 40 cm in height that quickly ran
from the area at very high speed. The creature disappeared into the brush.
At the scene, a dead and mutilated young heifer. Other mutilations were
reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


64.
Location. Rancul, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 25 2002
Time: 2020
Two young men, Nestor Pinto and Daniel Gatica were walking on a field when
they encountered a short man-like figure with huge pointy ears and long
dangling arms standing near some brush. The figure scurried into the brush
and disappeared and at the same time the two witnesses ran away from the
area and did not see the strange dwarf again.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


65.
Location. Bavaria, Germany (exact location not given)
Date: June 25 2002
Time: night
The witness had stayed up late watching the soccer game as was in his
bedroom when suddenly there was a coldness around him that made him shiver.
He noticed that his audio capabilities were somehow enhanced and he was
able to hear sounds that previously he was unable to hear. He then heard a
noise outside his door and went out to investigate. The noise became louder
as he approached the door. He then heard footsteps and opened the door. A
very small man with a somewhat deformed body that was smiling at him
confronted the witness. He looked straight ahead and then stared at the
witness. His next memory was of waking up in his bed in the morning.

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.com
Type: E


66.
Location. Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2105
The primary witness had stepped out on his back porch when his attention
was drawn to two huge black "birds" which were approaching from the north.
His first impression was they were Herons, but soon realized that the color
was wrong, and "they were huge, much larger than any bird I have ever
seen." The two huge birds landed at the top of a very tall coniferous tree.
The witness stated that the wingspan appeared to be wider than the
branches, jest below where they had landed. The body size was estimated to
be about six feet from head to tail. The oddest feature was the shape of
the wings, which according to the witness appeared to be bat-like. The tree
where the "birds" landed seemed as though it would break from their weight.
The witness yelled for others in the house to come outside to look. Another
family member was able to see the huge black birds as they passed overhead,
and headed for some woods. After checking the size of the branches where
the birds had landed, the witness estimated that the wingspan would have
been close to 12 feet or somewhat larger.

HC addendum
Source: Stan GordonType: E


67.
Location. Marldon Hill, Paington, England
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2357
A couple were walking near a local historic monument (a windmill) and they
drew closer to monument they heard a low whirling noise. The noise
progressed to a high-pitched whining, almost out of hearing range. Then
they saw a mysterious glow coming from the dark side of the windmill, and
then to their astonishment they saw 5 or 6 shadow like figures standing in
front of the windmill. Startled the two began to run back towards the main
road. The woman looked back and saw the figures become engulfed by a bright
light and disappear, and then everything became quiet.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Sightings UKType: E?


68.
Location. Adelia Maria, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 3 2002
Time: 2100
Pedro and Estela Moine had decided to visit the business district of town
called Barrio Norte and crossed the old railroad yard through a pedestrian
pathway that ran through a pasture area between some silos, old railroad
depots and abandoned wreckage. As the couple moved through the premises
they suddenly became aware of a strange and incomprehensible conversation
between many voices. Startled, they stopped walking moved a few meters more
and then heard the voices again which now sounded like strange "O" sounds.
Pedro looked toward the silos and was able to see resembling humanoid but
lacking upper and lower extremities. Despite the pleas of his wife, Pedro
ran several meters toward an inner alley in the silo plant, being able to
make out some 45 meters to the west and in profile---the entity, which
acting surprised, avoided the encounter and moved again to the north.
However, what filled the witnesses with wonderment was that the creature
did so as though flying or floating without touching the facilities it
passed. Pedro and Estela ran after it. It was thus that the man managed to
see the entity apparently hiding behind the control room of the truck
scale. Pedro ran toward it and was again startled to see the apparition
rising as a plane taking off, flying at an altitude of 5 meters and
disappearing behind a large metal shed. Bewildered, both witnesses called
out, but were unable to see anything else. Pedro Moine as "a thing with
human shape" described the apparition. It had some sort of light, although
he could not say if reflected or self-generated, although he tends to
believe the latter, since it was a nebulous whitish light, which kept him
from making out details. The entire mass of the apparition appeared to be a
body covered from head to toe in some sort of mantle, which he described as
though it wore a hat, but covered with some kind of long raincoat reaching
down to what he took to be its feet. He added that the "conversational
sounds" repeated themselves in three separate occasions at various
intensities. They were like conversations in a strange language.

HC addendum
Source: Mario Luis Bracamonte, C.O.R, Rio Cuarto Argentina
Type: E


69.
Location. Jerusalem, Israel
Date: July 6 2002
Time: night
A remote TV camera picked up images of "orbs seen on the corner to the
right of the Wailing Wall." They seemed to have facial features almost like
a ghost, reported investigator Charlotte LeFevre. The orbs were described
as "sharp and distinct". The orbs were next to the women's prayer area in
front of the Wall. Other strange phenomena, has been reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 29Type: F?


70.
Location. Villa Elisa, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: July 13 2002
Time: 2300
A young woman fainted from nervous shock after having an alleged closed
encounter with "some sort of green dwarf". This occurred---enveloped in
darkness---along Misioneros Salesianos Street very close to several houses.
An ambulance was called and apparently transported the witness who was in
shock.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria ColuchiType: E


71.
Location. Patna, India
Date: July 21 2002
Time: night
Several residents claim they've been bitten or scratched by a "black
monkey-like creature with colored lights flashing from its eyes." Resident
Pawan Kumar Niyogi who was sleeping on the terrace of his house claims "a 5
ft tall monkey-like creature" attacked him. He said: "I was terrified and
thought my life was going to end but it merely scratched me on the shoulder
before jumping off the roof." Local residents are conducting night vigils
and carrying torches to guard their homes.

HC addendum
Source: Ananova, Ufoupdates. Type: E


72.
Location. Chajan, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 21 2002
Time: 2300
Police officer Guillermo Arias was on routine patrol through a rural area
when he heard over the radio that his colleagues in arms over at Achiras
were seeing lights in sectors of said community, and that they were heading
towards Chajan along National Route 8. At the wheel of the police patrol
van, he managed to see a formation of 7 lights in the distance and decided
to drive 10 km along a rural dirt road. When he had covered said distance,
he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine of his vehicle sputtered
and died, causing the police car to strike the edge of a guardrail.
Simultaneously, the lights on the van's dashboard began turning on and off
randomly, the police radio went haywire and its dial displayed the random
shifting of the frequencies while the cabin became filled with an acrid
odor, as though of burnt wiring, and the interior lights and stop
indicator, which were broken, began lighting on and off. Seized by fear,
Arias leaped from the van and walked away a few meters down the road,
losing his cellular phone in the escape. The darkness was total, when
suddenly, amid the confusing situation; an immense light emerged from a
field adjacent to the road as a triangular object rose majestically into
the air. Now Arias condition went from fear to abject terror as he saw what
he described as a real "floating city" some 200 meters long with a long row
of windows (perhaps as many as 100). Arias claims having seen something
move behind them, describing the movement as "TV sets which make lines and
shadows", which he defined as "non-human", and that many beams of light
came out of the giant triangle, aimed at the ground. The event lasted 2-3
seconds, but to Arias it felt like an eternity. The object suddenly rose
and sped away, vanishing behind the hills of a local field. As the object
moved away, the whole area was lit up like daytime and there was an
afterglow that lasted another 20 minutes.

HC addendum
Source: C.O.R., Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense, Argentina
Type: A


73.
Location. Waconia, Minnesota
Date: July 26 2002
Time: 0300A
The young witness was sleeping in the backyard with his sister when he
suddenly woke up. He then noticed that the side of the tent that faced the
wetlands and lake was lit up. Looking towards the light he saw a shadowy
torso and arm of a humanoid figure that seemed to be moving around within
the light. He watched for 30 seconds and saw the figure move the fingers of
his hands. The witness became frightened and hid in his sleeping bag. He
came out about an hour later and the light and strange figure were
completely gone.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


74.
Location. Sedona, Arizona
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 0310A
In a wooded area the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all
white, with black "straight" eyes; and black diagonal/diamond strip of
"clothing" on top. He stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then
left. Prior to seeing the figure the witness had seen lights in a large
oval shaped pattern in the sky.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


75.
Location. Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 1730
Three girls had decided to visit the rooftop as they did the prior evening
watching for satellites. It was dusk and the girls had a good vantage point
looking towards the east. With them they had a pair of binoculars and a
pair of walkie-talkies. The girls noticed that a large orange light
appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The anomaly
was noted to have fluctuated in colors of orange, yellow, white and pale
blue. At fist they thought of an arriving airplane, but then a second light
appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10
degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some
unusually maneuvering; from a stationary position it accelerated at least 5
degrees closer to the ground surface at an approximate 45-60 degree angle
within a matter of a single second. The first anomaly then began to move
slowly towards the north. At this stage they partially lost view of it as
it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley-like
region of the horizon. According to the witnesses, this third object
appeared to have "landed" on the ground surface. The object was then viewed
through the binoculars and presented in great detail; the object was
described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange,
blue/purple and white rotating around the rim. Thy also noted the trees
being slightly illuminated by this extraordinary phenomenon. They were
suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, "Identify
yourself." This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in a
foreign language. Around 1830 the girls were then called down to have
dinner. At about 2030 the girls re-established their places on the roof
after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still
present. Unexpectedly a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above
the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. "It
was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away." The
light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it
is not clear how one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became
extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed
her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not
sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another of the girls woke up
the next morning with her nose bleeding. She also mentioned that she had
seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom.

HC addendum
Source: The Australian UFO Research NetworkType: D or
F?



76.
Location. Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 29 2002
Time: early morning
Local residents have seen a strange figure, which they described as
resembling a "shroud". The apparitions, which always occur in the early
morning hours, have become so common that in recent days several neighbors
have stayed up late to see them, and it is thus that they were able to
confirm the simultaneous presence of up to 2 such beings, as well as red
lights flying over the area. All the witnesses whether individuals or in a
group, agree that the entities are nebulous and glowing, with a pair of red
eyes being clearly identifiable, and glassy faces (as if transparent).
Their movements are smooth and they always appear from behind the sand
dunes, as though "coming form the Naval Base." Most witnesses agree that
they show a great interest in the water tanks located above the roofs, and
that they do not flee upon detecting the presence of local
residents---rather, they stare at them fixedly for some minutes. Deep
silence is perceived during the observations and "the air appears to become
still" and neither heat nor cold can be felt---only a sensation of warmth,
as if the beings emanated heat. Witnesses also state that things appear to
be darker when "the shroud" appears, as though ambient lighting were
dimmed. Another curious fact is the large number of cats and dogs who
report to the place where the sightings occur and sit down to observe it in
silence, in a state resembling a trance. A series of semi-circular prints
have been found in the dunes, not very deep, with 15-20 cm separations in
some cases and 30-50 cm in others. The locals have identified them as the
strange being's footprints. Efforts have been made to photograph the
"shroud", but all images, despite the use of different cameras appear
exposed. One witness who approached the site to witness the phenomenon took
two photos of the prints in the afternoon and decided to stay with the
group of people hoping to see the "shroud", managing to take some photos of
same and record the new prints which appeared in the dunes after the
sighting. A completely uncommon print was found at the site---but the
residents aren't sure if it's related to the phenomenon: it has the shape
of a five-fingered claw. One witness tried to make use of his carbine's
telescopic sight to see the figure in greater detail, but "when he tried to
focus on it, he could see nothing_it was a though it could only be seen
with the unaided eye."

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, IHU, Christian Quintero and O A Mario
Proyecto Condor
Type: C or E?


77.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 30 2002
Time: 0530A
27-year old Mariela Baigorri reported seeing a strange figure that floated
in front of her house. She had woken up early that morning and was getting
ready to mount her bicycle when she saw behind the fence something floating
in mid-air. It appeared to be a figure wearing a flowing white transparent
tunic, with bright red eyes and undefined facial features. Feeling no fear
she decided to approach it. She felt as if the figure waited for her and
was observing her. At this point Mariela felt some fear and began reciting
the Lord's Prayer. The figure suddenly moved back and disappeared in plain
sight.

HC addendum
Source: Juan Carlos Corrales Morey, Vision Ovni, Argentina
Type: E


78.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 31 2002
Time: 1845
23-year old Julian Pereyra was in his vehicle when he observed two red
spheres flying slowly over some nearby woods, they seemed to descend and
disappear behind the trees. 15 minutes later, Pereyra, accompanied by
several other witnesses approached the area and observed what they
described a tall floating figure wearing a white glowing cape like outfit,
it seemed to glide silently over a field. It had what appeared to be a
visor at face level and two beams of red light emerged from where the eyes
would have been. The witnesses watched the strange figure glide over the
fields for about 30 minutes. Curiously numerous local dogs and cats
approached and also watched the figure in fascination. The lights and
figure disappeared into the distance. In another occasion Pereyra and some
of his family members encountered the strange humanoid and felt a strange
sensation as if the wind had suddenly stopped, they felt as they were
inside a vacuum or "bubble." Strange tracks have been reportedly found in
the area also.

HC addendum
Source: Diario La Nueva Provincia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Type: C?


79.
Location. La Cienaga, Pocri, Panama
Date: early August 2002
Time: night
Luis Alfredo Diaz reported hearing loud noises coming from the terraced
patio where the kitchen was located, going to investigate he found his cat
apparently dead with two obvious holes on the neck and some blood on the
floor. Before finding the cat he had called his wife, Maria de Los Santos
Barrios. As his wife stood in front of him a panic stricken look came over
her face, turning around he was confronted by a bizarre 1-meter tall
humanoid that had jumped to the center of the patio. The creature was
described as thin, covered with dark hair, with large pointed ears that
almost covered its face, it had very large eyes and extremely strong hind
legs resembling that of a kangaroo. Terrified he ran to his son's bedroom
and carried him outside yelling for his neighbors. A search failed to
locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Panamanian Paranormal Forum
Type: E


80.
Location. Near Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Date: August 2002
Time: night
The same witness involved in a similar encounter last year was again
camping in the same area when he again heard a noise. Shining the light in
the direction of the sound he again saw the same creature. The creature sat
there crouched by the trees staring at the witness. The witness walked
slowly towards it, he got to within 20 ft when it just jumped backward and
disappeared. He described the creature as about five to six ft in height,
gray in color. It was totally naked. It had human features, but more
leathery, and its face was very wide, its eyes were huge and even though
they reflected light, they still looked black, resembling two intensely
black marbles. Its legs were very muscular, but turned backwards, like a
bird. Other hikers in the area have reported encountering little brown men
on some of the more isolated trails.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal Story Archives, November 2002Type: E


81.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: August 1 2002
Time: late evening
64-year old Raul Dorado was touring some fields when he heard a loud sound
on two occasions, like a whirlwind, which drew his attention. The third
time he saw something he describes as a green circle with three legs
hovering over him. At that moment Dorado fell to the ground, and according
to his story, he carried a shotgun, binoculars and a cellular phone, the
latter, which was taken from his hand, and he could clearly see being
sucked into the object, which was apparently at low altitude. His next
recollection was seeing the object disappear toward the east. Dorado
remained at the location for an hour before being able to rise and walk
back to his car, returning to town in a state of shock. He had to be
hospitalized. Later when calls were placed to the (abducted) cellular phone
someone would pick up and heavy breathing could be heard. Later on the
phone was apparently disconnected.

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, quoting Diario La Arena, La PampaType: G?


82.
Location. Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Date: August 2 2002
Time: 1730
A man named Todd Sees went up the mountain to look for pre-season deer. He
told his wife that he would be home by noon. He rode his 4-wheeler up the
power line behind his home. He never returned. A search party composed of
local police, state police and volunteers searched for Sees. The 4-wheeler
was found on the top of the mountain near a power-line. Tracking dogs could
find nothing to go on around the 4-wheeler. The search went on for 2 days
and over 6 miles of mountain was covered from top to bottom. Then, in the
evening of the 2nd day, his body was found in a hard to reach wooded area.
He was wearing his underwear. He was emaciated---not bloated. He was pale
and had an expression of horror on his face. When he went up the mountain
he was fully dressed, boots, camo-vest, hat, socks, pants. 3 people, on one
farm, said they saw a large round bright object just above the power-lines
at the time of the disappearance. It was silent, it did not move for about
10 to 15 minutes. It suddenly went up and suddenly stopped. A light shone
down and something was pulled up into the light. It then went straight up,
hesitated again, and then went west over the Susquehanna River and out of
sight. More specifically a farmer saw an object above Montour Ridge at the
power lines, on top of the mountain, it was round and very still over the
lines. Suddenly it moved what looked like a few hundred feet to the east,
it stopped and a beam of blue and white light shone to the ground. What was
seen next was very unnerving, he saw what appeared to be a man suspended in
the light, he was being pulled up head first, he was moving his arms slowly
in the light. What looked like a man was pulled up into the bottom of the
craft. A few seconds later it started shuddering, then went west very fast,
stopped briefly, and then went straight up and out of sight. Also three
fishermen saw the craft. The FBI is supposedly also investigating. (Debated
as a hoax, who would? and for what purpose?).

HC addendum
Source: Rense, UFO updates, NUFORCType: G?






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                            2002 Humanoid Reports

From: Albert Rosales <Garuda79@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:32:05 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:14:40 -0500
Subject: 2002 Humanoid Reports


Happy new year everyone

Sincerely,

Albert

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2002 Humanoid Reports. It appears to be a slow start for this
year with only one recorded case, again from Chile. We will see
what develops later on the year. 2001 was pretty busy but it was
a decline from 2000. Maybe we will see another down trend again,
later to pick up again in the near future. This seems to be the
ever-ongoing trend of the phenomena. Will it always stay the
same? Time will tell. Following is a list of known 2002 humanoid
cases.


1.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: January 2002
Time: 0300A
An employee at the local Minera Escondida was on his way to the
storage freezer in order to pick up some supplies when an
unknown creature jumped him from behind. He could only describe
it as hairy and dark. He was left with deep scratches and in a
state of shock. Terrified he ran away and bumped into two other
employees who were able to see a shadowy creature in the dark.

HC addendum
Source: La Estrella del Loa de Calama, ChileType: E


2.
Location. Caracas, Venezuela
Date: January 2002
Time: late night
Late one night in a dream-like state the witness woke up to see
seven to eight strange figures in her bedroom. They were dark
gray in color and very thin, with three large thick long fingers
on their hands. They had large, lipless mouths and large shiny
protruding black eyes, their noses were thin and protruding,
small ears, the heads was large and pointy. The humanoids
appeared to be naked and she was able to see a penis on the
humanoids. They were about 1.55 meters in height. She felt dizzy
and under the control of the strange entities. She was led out
of her bedroom by one of the humanoids that removed her clothing
and made her lie down on the floor. The humanoids apparently
attempted to molest her sexually and possibly attempted to rape
her but were not successful. She apparently passed out and does
not remember anything else about the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Lista Alcione and witness communicationType: E


3.
Location. Fort McMurry, Alberta, Canada
Date: January 2 2002
Time: 2032
Two men were parked on an isolated dirt road when they spotted a
large cone-shaped object descend and hover. One of the men
exited the car and he vanished in plain sight of the other, the
craft then also disappeared. The other man tried to drive away
to get help but the car would not start and it was to cold to
walk. He soon went to sleep and woke up later to find his friend
sleeping next to him. Later they drove back to town. His friend
does not remember what happened during those two hours of
missing time. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


4.
Location. Paso Lovera, Corrientes, Argentina
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2030
Gabriela Lencinas, 15-year old and a 19-year old friend were
returning home on a bicycle when they spotted a large cloud like
object descend from the sky and from it a giant figure emerge.
The witnesses stopped their bicycles to see a car approach the
giant figure, stop, the driver exit the car and then re-entering
the vehicle and driving quickly away. The figure then rose up
into the cloud and disappeared. The girls reported that the
giant human-like figure had its hair standing up on his head and
was extending its arms towards the witnesses that quickly rode
their bicycles home. Other in the area reported seeing bright
lights that same night.

HC addendum
Source: Pablo Omastott
Type: B?


5.
Location. Villa San Rafael, Chile
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2345
Two young teenagers, Jean F and Nelson C, where at home at night
when Jean noticed that his pet snake had escaped from its cage.
Both boys began looking for it outside among the rubble of the
parcel. They recalled how half an hour before, their two dogs
strangely began to howl and cry; however, it did not seem to be
important at that point in time. They searched for the pet snake
together when suddenly, about 30 meters from where they stood;
they saw what appeared to be a stray dog. They threw rocks at to
avoid an attack. However, to their surprise, the animal stood
there, motionless and fearless; it did not get scared nor it ran
away as ordinary dogs normally do. Shortly, the strange animal
began to move towards them. The movements it made as it walked
were very strange. It used two legs at a time. It made very
small sand short leaps like a rabbit. Suddenly, it stopped and
it stood up on two legs. The teenagers then began to feel some
kind of energy. "It was like an electrical shock in the
stomach," they said. It later walked again making a loud
dragging noise, making small leaps and only moving one of its
legs. They noticed the weird shape of the animal. "It was like a
rugby football with legs," one of them said. Jean began to feel
frightened and started to move away from animal. On the other
hand, Nelson felt a strange need to get closer to the creature;
he got to within 2 meters away from it. The creature appear to
emit a strange luminosity that apparently, was bright enough to
lit a small area around the creature in spite of the nighttime
darkness. Nelson was mesmerized as he stared at the strange
creature. He described it as having a head like a large dog with
a flat nose like a bulldog. Its eyes were slanted and pale-red
in color, which could only be seen when the creature turned its
head from side to side like a lizard. At that moment, Nelson
heard a voice in his head saying, "Don't stare, and just run
away." They provided further description, describing the ears as
flat, round and large. Its arms were short, it had elbows, and
the hands had three fingers. It had hair like the one on a wild
pig. Its legs were like the ones of a goat. The feet had also
three fingers and a membrane like ducks, but somewhat shorter.
On its curved back, they were able to notice a spinal section
covered with amounts of even thicker hair. Most of the hair of
the animal was gray, but the tail had a white tip. Nelson
finally fled, terrified, from the area. He also described how he
felt an inexplicable bone-chilling cold sensation.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center
Type: E


6.
Location. Not given
Date: January 12 2002
Time: night
Ted Parker was eating some leftover food when he claims the food began to
change. The bread of the sandwich turned an orange color and the lamb
became a silvery metallic color, sort of like liquid mercury. As he watched=

transfixed, he saw the orange bread and metallic lamb turn into the figure=

of an "alien" with the form of a man. It was silver in color and its outfit=

(smooth pants and shirt, like a jump suit) was orange in color. At this
point Parker glanced at the wall clock and it indicated that 2 hours had
gone by, even though it felt like minutes only. The alien figure
communicated using telepathic means and asked Ted to come with him. They
both went outside and there, Ted saw a landed black-colored craft in his
backyard. In a split second Ted found himself inside the craft not knowing=

how he got there. The inside of the craft was pure white in color with
strips of the metallic silver that the alien figure appeared to be made of.=

The rest of the incident is just a blur, but Parker did remembered hearing=

several loud high-pitched rings while onboard the object. A couple of days=

before while eating dinner with several other people there had been a
similar high pitched ring and everybody had just stopped eating and walked=

out of the room.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: G or F?



7.
Location. Chihuahua, Mexico
Date: January 29 2002
Time: night
Several days before seeing a UFO the witness remembered being in a
dream-like state in which he felt very calm and saw numerous disc shaped
objects, orange-red in color. A human like figure was talking to him about=

the objects and their propulsion. The UFO he saw was of an orange color and=

he felt a sort of ecstasy when he observed the craft. Several of his
neighbors also saw the object.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: G or F?


8.
Location. Near Palmyra, Wisconsin
Date: February 2002
Time: 0200A
Two men reported seeing a creature that resembled a bipedal "gigantic wolf"=

walking down a road west of the city. They said the creature was at least 7=

ft tall with a wolf-like head. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Linda GodfreyType: E


9.
Location. West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
Nebilson Sangma reported encountering a scary furry creature on a hunting
trip in the jungles. He reportedly took a video of the creature's nesting
place. According to Sangma, the creature walked erect like a human, had
built a house like nesting place, and would emerge from it frequently to
feast on a banana grove. Sangma and his brother observed the gigantic
creature for three consecutive days from afar. Officials and villagers have=

been hunting for the creature in the forest but it seems to have
disappeared as furtively as it appeared.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 13
Type: E


10.
Location. Near Dover, England
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness had been jogging along a low path by the beach when she noticed=

a tall, well built being in a black skin tight suit, that stood watching
her from nearby. He wore a black helmet wit a brown visor pulled down. At
first she thought it was a biker but as she approached the figure, it
suddenly disappeared in plain sight. As she continued to run she noticed a=

black craft jutting out of the sand, it was small and oval shaped, matt and=

ribbed it also disappeared in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: E?


11.
Location. Rosario de la Frontera, Salta, Argentina
Date: February 2002
Time: night
A strange creature called by locals "El Pestizo" has attacked several lone=

pedestrians in the middle of the night. It is described as a dark man
shaped shadowy being. A boy riding his bicycle on the way to visit some
friends was toppled from his bicycle and found a black shadowy figure
facing him. The young man managed to upholster his shotgun and fire two
shots. But, when he saw that they had no effect, he promptly drew his knife=

and stabbed the figure without any apparent harm. Frightened the youth
tried to escape but the creature knocked him down without saying a word and=

began dragging him by the hair to the side of the road. At this point the
young man began to scream. A local man, who rushed to provide assistance,
only to find a black shadow dragging the boy by the hair, heard his cries.=

The fearful shape disappeared without a trace after it became aware of the=

other man's presence. Six other locals have reported being attacked by a
similar being and received wounds.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


12.
Location. Not given
Date: February 2002
Time: early morning
The witness was alone at home and was preparing his breakfast when suddenly=

he heard a window break; he went to see what had happened. Grabbing a golf=

club he peeked inside the room where the window broke. He was stunned to
see a strange creature climbing on his bed. It appeared to be hurt, because=

it seemed that it could not move well. Gripping the golf club he went a
step nearer and the creature hissed horribly. It shrieked in an unworldly
manner. Terrified the witness did not move. The creature was small, about
the size of a large rabbit, and it was dark in color and had reddish eyes.=

It had wings and a spine of quills on its back, and had a semi reptilian
face. It appeared to have hair and small legs. The witness raised the golf=

club and the creature hissed again showing its large yellowish teeth, which=

appeared to be sharp, like those of a crocodile. It suddenly hopped out of=

the window and rapidly hopped across the street into the oak trees.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June archiveType: E


13.
Location. Vigevano, Italy
Date: February 2002
Time: 0100A
In the outskirts of this city a witness observed from his vehicle a
luminous humanoid entity walking along a roadway. It scurried away into the=

darkness when approached.
No other information.

HC addendum
Source: CISU, ItalyType: E



14.
Location. Corguinho, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Date: February 5 2002
Time: night
During a localized UFO flap several witnesses reported seeing a strange
creature described as about 1.3 meters in height, having two legs, with a
physique like a human but who moved with a strange fluctuating motion. The=

creature was seen five times by twenty people in the rural zone around
Corguinho. In Rochedo, 6 miles south of Corguinho five Cebu cattle were
found dead with a single incision on the side of the throat. The bodies had=

been drained of blood. (Is there a connection?).

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


15.
Location. Mount Podbrdo, Bosnia Hercigovina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: morning
Contactee and stigmatic Giorgio Bongiovanni was visiting the shrine on top=

of the mountain and was praying silently to the Virgin when, to his
astonishment, a glowing luminous female figure appeared and touched his
forehead with her fingertips. His stigmata scar vanished instantly. The
female figure told him to return to Italy and make known what had happened.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 14
Type: E or F?


16.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: evening
73-year-old Maria Rufina Cayo, a local shepherd was walking back home with=

her dogs and the cattle. Suddenly at one point, something spooked the
animals, and these began to stampede. Looking around she spotted a bizarre=

creature standing about 12 meters away. She described it as a humanoid,
half animal, half human, about 1.70m in height, with bright red eyes, sharp=

protruding fangs, and hands and feet that ended in sharp claws. The
creature looked at the witness three times then it scrambled away using
quick jumping motions with is powerfully built hind legs, she also noticed=

large pointy ears. The top part of its body seems to have been covered in a=

shiny white blanket. It somehow resembled a centaur walking on two
claw-like feet.  Alerted by the shouts of Maria, two men, Santos Jaimes,
and Ruben Colque ran out to investigate with their dogs. Suddenly the dogs=

stopped and began making pitiful howling noises, they refused to move any
further. The men heard noises behind some nearby bushes and went to
investigate and spotted a bizarre creature that stood staring at them with=

huge reddish eyes. It then moved quickly away in the direction of Cerro
Negro and disappeared from sight. The witnesses noticed very sharp claws on=

the creature's feet with a very sharp claw that appeared to be pointed
backwards. Strange footprints were found the next day.

HC addendum
Source: El Tribuno, Salta Argentina March 27 2002
Also Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E



17.
Location. Khanpur, Ahmedabad, India
Date: February 20 2002
Time: after midnight
Several local residents reportedly have encountered a person, dressed in
black and wearing a mask. Dubbed the "Monkeyman" whom they described as
between 25 and 20 years of age, dark skinned and having curly hair can
reportedly be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees. Two
local youths chased it and the figure reportedly disappeared in plain
sight. The two youths have been behaving abnormally since then. The
stranger was also chased along the riverbed near the Cama Hotel and it also=

suddenly disappeared. Others have heard the stranger running on the
rooftops. Abdul Hamid another youngster of the local slums described the
figure as a tall lean man that carries a sharp weapon. "I saw him from the=

back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised the alarm, he jumped to=

another roof and then on to a tree." Police have searched for the stranger=

but nothing has been found.

HC addendum
Source: Fortean Times, India Express
Type: E


18.
Location. Prague, Czech Republic
Date: February 23 2002
Time: night
Blanka Slemendova was in her apartment when she saw a "ship" hovering over=

some nearby woods. It was shining red, white and yellow lights. She then
heard telepathic communication coming from the object telling her to go and=

meet them at an unspecified location. Looking over to her bedroom wall she=

saw what appeared to be a projection of human like faces looking at her.
Later that night she saw luminous figures in her room and a floating red
light also in her room. The next night she saw what appeared to be 2 gray
suns and around them a golden lights with numerous groups of shiny
human-like figures floating about. She interpreted these as being angels.

HC addendum
Source: Direct from witness (Slemendova)
Type: C & F?


19.
Location. Wycliffe Well Roadhouse, Northern Territory Australia
Date: early March 2002
Time: evening
While workers in the area watched unusual lights in the sky an aboriginal
woman encountered a triangular sort of object in a paddock and all of the
sudden she saw three silvery clad human like figures that began to move
toward her vehicle. She turned the vehicle around and took off.

HC addendum
Source: Lou Farcus ABC On-lineType: C


20.
Location. Near Canberra Australia
Date: March 2002
Time: 1700
Several friends were taking a trip to the coast and it was already very
dark. They had already entered a tropical forest area and there was a mist=

rolling along the ground. As they turned around they saw something
squatting in the middle of the road. It stared at them, and just as they
thought they were going to hit it, it leaped off the road and into the
trees. It leaped about 10 meters in the air. The creature was definitely
human looking although it wore strange clothes. It was dressed in a green
robe of some kind with little pieces of gold on it, and it was either
wearing a head crest or it had a row of spikes running from its forehead to=

the top of its neck. Very frightened the witnesses drove out of the forest=

and at the same time the mist turned to a thick fog. They pulled over and
decided to wait until the fog had cleared, although none of them were too
happy about it. As they sat around and waited they suddenly heard a shriek.=

It sounded like some sort of wild animal and they turned the car on so the=

headlights would scare it away. The headlights revealed the same creature
they had seen earlier. It hid its face from the light and shrieked. Right
before the witnesses' eyes, the creature seemed to evaporate into the fog.=

Within five minutes the fog had gone and the normal rolling mist was back.=

The witnesses quickly left the area and drove towards the coast.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June ArchiveType: E


21.
Location. Guanica Puerto Rico
Date: March 1 2002
Time: 2345
Reinaldo Rios (involved in other encounters) was in his bedroom that night=

when a large white light suddenly appeared. It flew around the room several=

times and then hovered. He heard voices coming from the light, which
communicated with him. The voice said: "I am your real father." Soon the
light transformed itself into a figure resembling that of a little boy it
then vanished in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: UFOs over America.com
Type: E


22.
Location. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 0800A
The witness and his wife were in bed that Saturday morning talking when
their 5-year-old daughter came into the bedroom with her baby brother,
whose cot is placed under their bedroom window. They heard a strange noise=

and some green light came into the window. Their daughter looked out the
window and reported seeing a "flying car" with four spinning green lights
on top. She saw two windows in the vehicle and saw two dark brown faces
looking out. His wife saw the craft flying past through the curtains. That=

same morning, in a large tree near the witness house a strange structure
was found. The branches were arranged in a rectangular pen shape, vertical,=

each approximately 30 to 40 cm long. They found a few smaller sticks
scaling down in size from the structure. A piece of concrete slab was found=

propped up on one corner. The witnesses had never seen this strange
structure before and think is some kind of message left by the visitors.
(Some kind of bizarre crop circle?). A few nights before they had heard
strange noises coming from the kitchen area.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: A


23.
Location. Golasecca Di Novara, Italy
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 2330
Augusto & Maurizia were in their vehicle parked in an open field next to a=

wooded area having a heated discussion when suddenly a powerful beam of
reddish-orange light illuminated the area around them. They rolled down the=

car window and heard a sharp metallic sound that seemed to be increasing in=

intensity. They now noticed, behind the beam of light a hovering
disc-shaped craft with a central rotating ring, it hovered about a meter
from the ground. From the object, a cigar-shaped beam of light emerged;
they could see it as the central ring of the craft slowly rotated on its
axis. The craft was only about 10 meters away. At this point, and only
about 4 meters from the object Augusto saw what appeared to be a gelatinous=

transparent humanoid-like figure with a visible head, arms and legs. The
figure was silvery in color and was very tall, about 3 meters or so. At
this point Augusto became concerned and drove away from the area and did
not see the object or figure depart. The whole episode lasted about 10
minutes. The metallic noise was heard all throughout the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Alfredo Lissoni, CUN Milano, Michelle Castellano CUN VareseType: C


24.
Location. Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England
Date: March 3 2002
Time: morning
Helen Diskin went for a walk in the countryside talking snap shots along
the way with her digital camera. Returning home she loaded these into her
computer and was intrigued by an odd-looking image. It looked like a
luminous figure in an area of no sunlight, skulking amongst the trees. She=

returned to the site of the photo twice afterward and could find no
explanation for the figure. The figure resembled a small helmeted figure
that she had not seen when she took the picture of an area of the woods she=

had thought of as "mysterious."

HC addendum
Source: Helen Diskin, UFO Magazine Vol. 22 # 1Type: E?


25.
Location. Near Trenton New Jersey
Date: March 4 2002
Time: night
Several witnesses were camping outside of town and late at night one of
them was attempting to put out the bonfire when he heard the most awful and=

horrifying scream. It resembled that of an injured dog crossed with a
scream of a woman. The witness dropped the flashlight and was joined by
another witness. Suddenly out of the woods a hideous and gruesome creature=

appeared. It did not look human, somewhat satyr-like in appearance and
walked on two legs. It had a long tail like a dragon and wings like those
unicorns in fantasy books. The beast took several steps towards the
witnesses and one of them picked up and asked and yelled at it and then
shone his flashlight at it. The creature then turned towards the bushes and=

ran away from the area.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: E


26.
Location. Pichaca, Salta, Argentina
Date: March 9 2002
Time: night
Ceferino Leoncio was cleaning his one room metal shack when suddenly a
bright light engulfed the room. He felt a sudden heat as he saw a tiny
figure (50 cm) of an angel-like creature materialize in front of him. It
slowly moved its small wing-like protrusions and moved around and then
suddenly stopped and remained still. It appeared to be a small living human=

like living being until it appeared to hardened and turn into some type of=

statue of cherubic appearance. Locals have now built a shrine around the
tiny "statue" and call the strange materialization a "religious miracle".

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso
Type: F?



27.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: March 16 2002
Time: 2215
Mirna, was watching television alone in her room when she began hearing
noises coming from outside, at first she thought it was her dogs playing
around with some empty cans. But the noises kept getting louder and louder=

and she decided to go outside to investigate. Once outside she was stunned=

to see some type creature that had somehow entered the rabbit cage and was=

attacking the animals that were making loud unearthly screams. Thinking at=

first that it was one of the dogs she approached the case but realized that=

it was a gray colored hairy hunched over creature, that was moving quickly=

inside the cage. She stepped back and could not understand how the creature=

had entered the cage, since there wasn't any apparent hole or aperture
visible anywhere and the door was firmly closed. Afraid she ran inside her=

home and notified her son, both then ran out but the creature had
mysteriously disappeared. Unnerved, they could not understand how they
creature had escaped since the door to the rabbit caged was still firmly
locked. Later they could only find a small round hole in the wire only
several centimeters in width, not large enough for a creature estimated to=

have been about 70 to 80 cm in height. Several of the rabbits were found
injured and one was dead.

HC addendum
Source: Calama UFO CenterType: E


28.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: March 19 2002
Time: 2000
Young Elizabeth Lera reported seeing a short humanoid with "dark eyes"
looking into the building compound from behind a wire fence. It appeared
not to have any other facial features and was wearing dark clothing; it
wore some type of head covering, which was hard to see because of the
darkness. She could only see a pair of large dark eyes on his face that
appeared to shine in the darkness. Some more children now arrived and
observed as the humanoid move several steps towards them. Another witness,=

Rene Mamani saw the humanoid run and hide behind some bushes. It seemed to=

move at very high speed in an unnatural fashion. It seemed to have remained=

suspended in mid-air for a few seconds. It then seemed to fly through the
air and disappeared into some nearby woods. Other students at the school
reportedly saw it again on the night of the 20th.

HC addendum
Source: Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E


29.
Location. Woodburn, Oregon
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 0300A
The witness was sleeping when she woke up suddenly feeling paralyzed. The
witness was completely unable to move or speak. Her next memory was of a
strange sensation on her left cheek, which hurt a lot. Unseen "beings" were=

apparently taking skin samples. Her face was left with a pink fleshy scoop=

down my left cheek, directly on the cheekbone. A teardrop scar was left on=

her cheek.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical Universe
Type: G?




30.
Location. Bethlehem, Israel
Date: March 21 2002
Time: night
At the besieged Church of The Nativity several awed witnesses have come
forward describing the events of Thursday night. That night, a smell of
roses filled the sanctuary as the Daughters of Charity held their evening
prayers. "The sweet scent was soon followed by a high musical humming sound=

and a distinct feeling of warmth emanating from the ceiling." Then, the
sisters reported, seeing a glowing beam of light gradually forming the
likeness of the Blessed Virgin "like a film coming into focus." Tears were=

running down her face, and she uttered a prophetic warning. "Time is
growing short, and the promised Judgment Day is nearly at hand." One week
before the apparition, The Church of the Holy Family was the scene of a
ferocious firefight between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 17Type: F


31.
Location. Not given
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 2255
16-year old Steven Mizon saw hovering over a street a large oval shaped
craft encircled in bright lights and with several lighted windows around
its edge. A figure stared down at him from one of the windows. No other
information.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Watch
Type: A



32.
Location. Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain
Date: March 26 2002
Time: 1500
A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a deserted road when=

he noticed ahead in the distance and in the middle of the roadway an object=

resembling a shiny pear that was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat
perplexed he approached and noticed two individuals standing on a nearby
field. These were over 2 meters in height, wore tight fitting white
coveralls and helmets resembling that of the early astronauts. He parked
his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men=

walked away and entered the shiny pear-shaped craft while the other
remained behind. Knowing that these men were "not from this earth" he still=

asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt that as
he approached the strange pair he had been in some type of a trance and
seemed to have floated over the road. The humanoid answered and appeared
genuinely happy as to his offer of assistance but said that everything was=

in order. He also added that the area was very beautiful and also added:
"Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such
beautiful scenes, they disappeared a long time ago." The astounded witness=

managed to ask the humanoid where he was from and was told that they hailed=

from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The=

humanoid smiled as he answered the question. The humanoid then bid goodbye=

and walked towards the nearby shiny pear shaped object, he then disappeared=

inside of it. The craft then emitted a loud whistling sound and disappeared=

at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the
humanoids as about 2.50 meters in height, wide chests and heavy set, thin
legs. Generally human features, but somewhat "refined" or sharpened
features. The suits were very tight fitting made of an apparent synthetic
material resembling plastic. Their eyes were very light almost white and
their speech was hesitant & accented. Also their movements seemed kind of
clumsy.

HC addendum
Source: J M Garcia, Francisco Padron, SpainType: B


33.
Location. Pringle Lake, Texas
Date: March 28 2002
Time: 1100A
Mark Hakemack and a friend had taken an airboat out on the NW side of the
lake to do a little redfish fishing. The day was kind of hazy, with broken=

cloud cover. They had caught several trout and were just chatting when he
hooked up a large redfish while playing with the fish, Mark happened to
glance upwards and saw a large bird-like creature emerge from a cloudbank.=

His friend saw it too, after about 20 to 25 seconds it flew behind cloud
cover again. The strange creature was grayish in color and the profile of a=

raptor, short neck/head, no legs sticking out behind, and no long tail
feathers. Mark could not take his eyes off it. He estimated the wingspan to=

have been 10' to 14 ' in overall. It appeared to be soaring on the wind,
although, he did see it give a couple of light "flaps" with its wings. The=

witness could only relate this to the legendary "Thunderbird" legend.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.comType: E


34.
Location. Sevilla, Spain
Date: March 30 2002
Time: late night
The witness to the March 26 case was at home with his wife and was getting=

ready to sleep when he heard footsteps coming from patio area outside his
chalet. Armed with a club, he opened the door and was stunned to see the
same two tall heavyset humanoids he had encountered 4 days before. One of
the humanoids was kneeling on the ground as if inspecting something on the=

soil, the other one upon hearing the door open, turned and quickly assured=

the witness not to fear that they were not here to harm him. Stunned, the
witness invited the two humanoids in the house for some refreshments (!).
These declined the invitation telling that they had to go already. Using
the same clumsy movements both humanoids walked towards the rear of the
house where the witness noticed the same shiny metallic pear shaped craft
on the ground. They entered the object, which quickly left at high speed.
The witness's wife awakened by the voices was able to see the two humanoids=

from a second story window, and described them in the same way.

HC addendum
Source: Francisco Padron, Jose Manuel Garcia, SpainType: B


35.
Location. Los Cipreses, Chile
Date: March 31 2002
Time: noon
During a local UFO congress 24 persons in three groups entered a
dimensional gateway that appeared by itself over the terrain. It was kind
of a dome, a luminous archway measuring four by four meters. The
participants lost their materiality without disappearing completely. Upon
entering, they met several human-like alien characters with large baldheads=

and wearing robes that waited within and received information. According to=

sources the contact experience was "dimensional" it was like crossing into=

a different reality. The 24 participants were "all professionals, college
students of high intellectual levels, mostly Chileans," and some were
members of Grupo Rama, a New Age association.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 16, quoting Camilo Valdivieto
Type: G or F?


36.
Location. Tbilissi Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: night
A man entered the local St David church and reported that "a phantom with
wings" had approached him and predicted an earthquake that indeed took
place on April 25 2002, devastating areas of central Georgia.

HC addendum
Source: Pravda
Type: E?


37.
Location. Near Macon, Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: 2300
Three friends were awakened by loud banging noises and bellowing sounds
coming from outside. One of the men ran to the bathroom and looked out the=

window to see a figure run by and squat in the nearby bushes. He described=

the creature as about 3 ft tall, hairy with what appeared to be horns on
its head and hands; he could not see a face. Others in the neighborhood
heard the banging noises.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.com and direct witness
Communication.
Type: E


38.
Location. Belvedere di Tezze, Italy
Date: April 26 2002
Time: evening
A 20-year old woman was returning home one night when she noticed some
bright lights nearby of an unknown origin. She followed the lights in her
car until she stopped near a local pizzeria. She saw the light near the
ground and within the lights two tall slender human like figures wearing
some type of headgear. Since she was carrying a camera she was able to snap=

a quick picture. The figures then vanished. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Gruppo Accademico Ufologico Scandicci quoting
"Il giornale di Vicenza"Type: E?


39.
Location. Puente Santamaria, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: early morning
Two young men observed a dark object descend towards the ground about 100
meters away. According to the two witnesses from the craft descended a
small humanoid, orange in color. Very scared they both ran from the area
and reported their experience to others.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: B


40.
Location. Merceditas, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: evening
An elderly couple was walking along National Route # 8 when about 800
meters from their location they noticed a very strong light. The light
descended next to a puddle at about 70 meters from the witness. Both then
saw two very short orange colored humanoids that moved in very agile
movements near the object. Terrified they walked away and upon looking back=

saw a bright glow on the ground.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: C


41.
Location. Barangay, Philippines
Date: May 2002
Time: night
Several local residents reported seeing a bizarre creature described as an=

"aswang" reputed to be a winged vampire type creature, it reportedly had
red glowing eyes, long black hair, and was wearing a white flowing gown. It=

was seen perched on top of a bamboo tree. Residents at nearby Roxas
reported seeing a similar creature. The police was called but a search
failed to locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Akasico.comType: E


42.
Location. Alvear, La Pampa Argentina
Date: May 3 2002
Time: near midnight
Several young men were returning home late at night along a deserted
roadway when suddenly out of nowhere a female figure wearing a light
flowing gown and with long black hair appeared in front of them. The
strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly and repeatedly asked for=

assistance from the men in a strange urgent tone. Terrified the men ran
from the area and later returned with additional witnesses but they could
find no trace of the strange apparition.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E?


43.
Location. Taralgon Victoria, Australia
Date: May 24 2002
Time: 2355
Walking near the Loy Yang Power station 45-year old Martin Taylor was
suddenly blinded by an intense blue light and he felt extremely dizzy. His=

next memory was of being in a circular room with a variety of lights and
buttons scattered about the walls. He was lying on a large table that
seemed to be of a very highly polished metal. He was strapped down and his=

shirt had been removed. There were wires attached to his arms, neck and
temples. A four ft tall humanoid figure with very large almond shaped eyes,=

almost transparent looking skin, ghostly white in appearance examined him.=

The figure had three extremely long fingers on each hand and spoke in a
strange dialect.

HC addendum
Source: UFO WatchType: G


44.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: May 29 2002
Time: midnight
Irma Rick watched a rotating luminous object descend close to the ground
next to a grain silo; it gave off a powerful bluish light through some
openings around its circumference. It hovered close to the ground. Through=

an opening a strange creature was seen to descend to the ground. It was
described as having an elongated semi-transparent white body; it also had
an elongated head. She could not see any eyes or legs on the creature as it=

stood motionless next to the craft. She observed the creature and object
for about 5 minutes until she dropped the flashlight she was carrying.
Afraid she left the area and did not see the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: B



45.
Location. Lembang Bandung, Indonesia
Date: May 30 2002
Time: 2315
The witness was driving his motorcycle across a highland area when he
spotted some flashing lights overhead and then noticed a silvery
disc-shaped craft descend low over some nearby graves at a cemetery. The
craft had blue and orange flashing lights around its rim. There was no
sound as the craft apparently emitted a beam of light towards the ground
and levitated what appeared to be some dead bodies onboard the object. (!)=

The witness was apparently paralyzed and was unable to move. The craft then=

shot away at a 45-degree angle and disappeared from sight. When that
happened the witness left the scene.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


46.
Location. Houston, Texas
Date: late May 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness was at the local electric company in order to pay a bill when
she decided to use the restrooms. Sitting in the stall she then noticed on=

the side of the wall of the stall what appeared to be a face lit up in a
dull light. When the witness looked directly at the "face" it vanished. She=

described is as having large round eyes no visible nose and a slit-like
mouth. (A peeping tom alien?)

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.comType: E?


47.
Location. General Acha, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: early June 2002
Time: various
A resident of the Oeste neighborhood informed newspaper sources that a
short green-colored dwarf like entity has appeared twice on her property:
once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When her husband ran out
responding to her screams, the mysterious entity vanished by rapidly
climbing up a tree. All versions agree in that the entity is short in
stature. Another resident added that it moved so quickly that it was hard
to describe it. In the same area mysterious cattle mutilations have also
been reported.

HC addendum
Source: Loren Coleman in UFO UpdatesType: E


48.
Location. Ojo De Agua, Argentina
Date: June 2002
Time: afternoon
Several passengers onboard two farm micro buses reported seeing a very tall=

dark man like figure that appeared to be wearing a tight fitting diver's
outfit standing on a nearby field. Nearby numerous mysterious animal
mutilations have been reported. The figure was silent and was quickly lost=

from sight as the buses moved away.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E




49.
Location. Near Tampa, Florida
Date: June 2002
Time: night
A man and three of his friends reported encountering two bizarre chupacabra=

type creatures one stood about 3-4 ft tall, the other looked to be about 6=

ft tall. Both had large glowing red eyes and spikes starting from the head=

to the back. They scurried away into a wooded area. (They were to have
further encounters in August).

HC addendum
Source: Art Bell.comType: E


50.
Location. Antalya, Turkey
Date: June 5 2002
Time: afternoon
Approximately 45 witnesses claimed they saw an UFO in the Santral district=

landing on the backyard of the Fatma Primary School. Several students
including Murat Esici age 11 saw an alien emitting red rays from his eyes
come out of the object. His hands and feet were metallic. He had a very big=

head and was about 1.80 meters in height. Esici temporarily lost her voice=

immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also=

claimed they san an unusual craft and an alien beside it. "His eyes and
hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes." The children
were overcome with shock after the incident.

HC addendum
Source: Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center Intl
Type: B


51.
Location. Polonnauruwa, Sri Lanka
Date: June 8 2002
Time: 2200
Approximately 50 to 70 eyewitnesses saw a UFO flying at about 100 meters
above ground level. The object was silent and briefly landed emitting a
bright flash like light. When it was close to the ground the object emitted=

a buzzing sound. Three other witnesses saw three 2 ft tall creatures than
when approached ran into the jungle and disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Sources
Type: D


52.
Location. Polonnaruwa, Sir Lanka
Date: June 9 2002
Time: 2012
Two witnesses went to a bath on a nearby river when they heard a loud
thundering sound and a UFO appeared. The craft landed nearby and two, 2 ft=

tall "aliens" emerged from the object. One of the humanoids flung a small
fluorescent fireball like object that flew over a house and vanished. Soon=

the craft and humanoids disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC & News Reports
Type: B



53.
Location. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Date: June 10 2002
Time: 1900
Witnesses saw a mysterious light in the sky and others saw a large disc
shaped object land nearby. Three humanoids only about 2 ft tall emerged
from the craft and disappeared into the forest when approached. The object=

also left.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Reports
Type: B


54.
Location. Chantilly, Virginia
Date: June 10 2002
Time: night
The witness was awakened during the night with a sense of some presence in=

the room. Looking toward the door, he saw, fading quickly, something, which=

almost had the appearance of a hologram. Next, shadows appeared outside the=

windows in an erratic shape. At first he thought the shadows to be from
trees moving in a strong wind. The appearance was of a storm blowing the
limbs to create these shadows outside the window. However, there was no
storm. He looked at the adjacent window on the side of the house facing
opposite and there was no wind at all. In fact there was no trees
positioned in such a way to cast a shadow. He opened the blinds to see what=

might be causing the shadows. He then saw what seemed to be a hologram with=

the shape of two small eyes moving erratically outside the window.
Frightened he closed the blinds. Two weeks later he was awakened by a
humming sound and again saw the erratic shadows outside the window. He
watched the shadows for 10-15 minutes and then called the police. The
police found no signs of any intrusion in the yard. When the police left
the witness walked toward the door facing the back porch and saw a large
burst of bluish white light. It looked unnatural, almost like a laser. He
has not seen the "shadows" again.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: E?


55.
Location. Ataliva Roca, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 11 2002
Time: 1930
A worker at a local drainage project was sitting and guarding some
machinery when he noticed a short greenish colored humanoid figure that was=

approaching his location from a nearby field. The witness became concerned=

and drove away from the area in the construction equipment and did not see=

the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


56.
Location. Eduardo Castex, La Pampa Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Two girls of a local school encountered a short greenish humanoid figure in=

the playing yard. The figure was standing up and appeared to be raising its=

arms up to the sky. Terrified the two girls retreated into the school and
watched the figure scurry away into some nearby woods. Around the same time=

a local farmer found a strangely mutilated hog in his farm.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


57.
Location. Chasico, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Hugo Deluca and several other workers were parked in a bus in an isolated
area when they spotted about 20 meters away a short, 1.20 meters tall,
bipedal figure completely covered in gray hair. It walked upright like a
man and then scurried away into some woods vanishing from sight. The area
had been hit with animal mutilations around the same time.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


58.
Location. Castex, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 13 2002
Time: night
A 70-year old man had gone to his driveway to check on a flat tire in his
car when a short light green colored humanoid suddenly appeared next to
him. It had large round ears, and two reddish luminous eyes. Its body was
thin and almost triangular in shape. The witness attempted to yell out but=

was suddenly unable to speak and at the same time strange warmth invaded
his body. Several seconds later the humanoid vanished and the witness
returned to normal. He reported the incident to the police.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


59.
Location. La Laguna, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 14 2002
Time: afternoon
Several youngster had gone into the fields in order to obtain some firewood=

when they saw sitting on a clearing in the woods two human like figures,
all dressed in black. They sat facing each other, one looking towards the
east the other towards the west, unmoving. Unnerved by the sight the
juveniles ran from the area. The next day the father of one of the boys
found two dead cows at the site, but could find no trace of the strange
pair. Days later a sheep and a horse were found dead and strangely
mutilated in the nearby location of El Cardonal.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: E


60.
Location. De Kalb, Illinois
Date: June 15 2002
Time: 0030A
The witness was sitting in his family room watching TV when he noticed a
bright flash of light outside the window. He saw the flash several times
and decided to check his backyard there he saw a circular light moving
around in circles. The light began to get closer; scared he ran inside his=

home and called a friend on the phone. He then quickly ran outside and saw=

the circle getting closer, he noticed that it had a purplish color to it
and it began to descend towards the ground. He became nauseous and dizzy
and collapsed on to the ground. He tried to crawl to the house but was
unable to move. He turned his head and saw the purplish object on the
ground and what appeared to be a door opening up. He then heard a squeaking=

noise and saw a tall and a short figure standing by a door of the object.
The two figures started to move towards him, walking in a strange bopping
fashion. They were of a dark complexion with a bumpy texture, other than
that they resembled normal human beings. The shorter figure approached and=

picked up the witness' camera and stared at it. He then looked at the
taller figure and handed it to him. The taller of the two looked at the
camera and then at the witness. The witness then heard loud unpleasant
shrieks coming from the taller figure, which then gave the camera back to
the shorter figure, which covered the camera with his hand, seconds later a=

light began to emerge from their hands. Then they stopped, threw the camera=

aside and began to walk towards the witness. They reached his side and
started to examine his body. A dog began to bark from inside the house and=

the shorter figure put out his hand and the dog stopped barking. At this
point the witness began to vomit. After about a minute he began to relax
and to breathe better. When he turned his head he realized that the two
figures and the purple spherical object were now gone. The next day he had=

a very severe headache.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: B


61.
Location. San Juan, Argentina
Date: June 20 2002
Time: evening
At a location where the body of a strangely mutilated carcass of a cow was=

found two witnesses reported seeing a small creature with large glowing
slanted eyes and about one meter in height. Later in the same area, members=

of the Gimenez family after investigating noises and a strong odor coming
from a wooded area found a mutilated cow and also watched a short humanoid=

with glowing eyes scurrying away into the woods.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


62.
Location. Manuel Rodriguez, Calama, Chile
Date: June 22 2002
Time: after midnight
A bizarre creature was spotted at a local housing complex on San Antonio
Street. Witnesses reported that it resembled an ape and it jumped all over=

the roof. It passed right in front of the witness, Maria Gavia's window and=

then it came back making all manner of noise. The creature was able to make=

very long jumps, unlike any a human could. It jumped and landed on the
neighbor's roof and then it left the area. Neighborhood dogs acted scared
and began howling. Others described the creature as about 1.5 meters tall,=

stocky in build with bright red eyes. It made a lot of noise. Others
reportedly chased the creature.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center, quoting El
Mercurio de CalamaType: E


63.
Location. Angencia Realico, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 23 2002
Time: late night
Several hunters returning to a local ranch spotted about 50 meters away two=

large glowing reddish eyes staring at them. They turned off their
flashlight and approached closer on foot, about 30 meters away they again
saw the reddish eyes on a dark creature that appeared to be standing on top=

of an apparently dead animal. One of the hunters shone its flashlight on
the figure again and saw a figure about 40 cm in height that quickly ran
from the area at very high speed. The creature disappeared into the brush.=

At the scene, a dead and mutilated young heifer. Other mutilations were
reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


64.
Location. Rancul, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 25 2002
Time: 2020
Two young men, Nestor Pinto and Daniel Gatica were walking on a field when=

they encountered a short man-like figure with huge pointy ears and long
dangling arms standing near some brush. The figure scurried into the brush=

and disappeared and at the same time the two witnesses ran away from the
area and did not see the strange dwarf again.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


65.
Location. Bavaria, Germany (exact location not given)
Date: June 25 2002
Time: night
The witness had stayed up late watching the soccer game as was in his
bedroom when suddenly there was a coldness around him that made him shiver.=

He noticed that his audio capabilities were somehow enhanced and he was
able to hear sounds that previously he was unable to hear. He then heard a=

noise outside his door and went out to investigate. The noise became louder=

as he approached the door. He then heard footsteps and opened the door. A
very small man with a somewhat deformed body that was smiling at him
confronted the witness. He looked straight ahead and then stared at the
witness. His next memory was of waking up in his bed in the morning.

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.com
Type: E


66.
Location. Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2105
The primary witness had stepped out on his back porch when his attention
was drawn to two huge black "birds" which were approaching from the north.=

His first impression was they were Herons, but soon realized that the color=

was wrong, and "they were huge, much larger than any bird I have ever
seen." The two huge birds landed at the top of a very tall coniferous tree.=

The witness stated that the wingspan appeared to be wider than the
branches, jest below where they had landed. The body size was estimated to=

be about six feet from head to tail. The oddest feature was the shape of
the wings, which according to the witness appeared to be bat-like. The tree=

where the "birds" landed seemed as though it would break from their weight.=

The witness yelled for others in the house to come outside to look. Another=

family member was able to see the huge black birds as they passed overhead,=

and headed for some woods. After checking the size of the branches where
the birds had landed, the witness estimated that the wingspan would have
been close to 12 feet or somewhat larger.

HC addendum
Source: Stan GordonType: E


67.
Location. Marldon Hill, Paington, England
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2357
A couple were walking near a local historic monument (a windmill) and they=

drew closer to monument they heard a low whirling noise. The noise
progressed to a high-pitched whining, almost out of hearing range. Then
they saw a mysterious glow coming from the dark side of the windmill, and
then to their astonishment they saw 5 or 6 shadow like figures standing in=

front of the windmill. Startled the two began to run back towards the main=

road. The woman looked back and saw the figures become engulfed by a bright=

light and disappear, and then everything became quiet.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Sightings UKType: E?


68.
Location. Adelia Maria, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 3 2002
Time: 2100
Pedro and Estela Moine had decided to visit the business district of town
called Barrio Norte and crossed the old railroad yard through a pedestrian=

pathway that ran through a pasture area between some silos, old railroad
depots and abandoned wreckage. As the couple moved through the premises
they suddenly became aware of a strange and incomprehensible conversation
between many voices. Startled, they stopped walking moved a few meters more=

and then heard the voices again which now sounded like strange "O" sounds.=

Pedro looked toward the silos and was able to see resembling humanoid but
lacking upper and lower extremities. Despite the pleas of his wife, Pedro
ran several meters toward an inner alley in the silo plant, being able to
make out some 45 meters to the west and in profile---the entity, which
acting surprised, avoided the encounter and moved again to the north.
However, what filled the witnesses with wonderment was that the creature
did so as though flying or floating without touching the facilities it
passed. Pedro and Estela ran after it. It was thus that the man managed to=

see the entity apparently hiding behind the control room of the truck
scale. Pedro ran toward it and was again startled to see the apparition
rising as a plane taking off, flying at an altitude of 5 meters and
disappearing behind a large metal shed. Bewildered, both witnesses called
out, but were unable to see anything else. Pedro Moine as "a thing with
human shape" described the apparition. It had some sort of light, although=

he could not say if reflected or self-generated, although he tends to
believe the latter, since it was a nebulous whitish light, which kept him
from making out details. The entire mass of the apparition appeared to be a=

body covered from head to toe in some sort of mantle, which he described as=

though it wore a hat, but covered with some kind of long raincoat reaching=

down to what he took to be its feet. He added that the "conversational
sounds" repeated themselves in three separate occasions at various
intensities. They were like conversations in a strange language.

HC addendum
Source: Mario Luis Bracamonte, C.O.R, Rio Cuarto Argentina
Type: E


69.
Location. Jerusalem, Israel
Date: July 6 2002
Time: night
A remote TV camera picked up images of "orbs seen on the corner to the
right of the Wailing Wall." They seemed to have facial features almost like=

a ghost, reported investigator Charlotte LeFevre. The orbs were described
as "sharp and distinct". The orbs were next to the women's prayer area in
front of the Wall. Other strange phenomena, has been reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 29Type: F?


70.
Location. Villa Elisa, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: July 13 2002
Time: 2300
A young woman fainted from nervous shock after having an alleged closed
encounter with "some sort of green dwarf". This occurred---enveloped in
darkness---along Misioneros Salesianos Street very close to several houses.=

An ambulance was called and apparently transported the witness who was in
shock.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria ColuchiType: E


71.
Location. Patna, India
Date: July 21 2002
Time: night
Several residents claim they've been bitten or scratched by a "black
monkey-like creature with colored lights flashing from its eyes." Resident=

Pawan Kumar Niyogi who was sleeping on the terrace of his house claims "a 5=

ft tall monkey-like creature" attacked him. He said: "I was terrified and
thought my life was going to end but it merely scratched me on the shoulder=

before jumping off the roof." Local residents are conducting night vigils
and carrying torches to guard their homes.

HC addendum
Source: Ananova, Ufoupdates. Type: E


72.
Location. Chajan, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 21 2002
Time: 2300
Police officer Guillermo Arias was on routine patrol through a rural area
when he heard over the radio that his colleagues in arms over at Achiras
were seeing lights in sectors of said community, and that they were heading=

towards Chajan along National Route 8. At the wheel of the police patrol
van, he managed to see a formation of 7 lights in the distance and decided=

to drive 10 km along a rural dirt road. When he had covered said distance,=

he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine of his vehicle sputtered=

and died, causing the police car to strike the edge of a guardrail.
Simultaneously, the lights on the van's dashboard began turning on and off=

randomly, the police radio went haywire and its dial displayed the random
shifting of the frequencies while the cabin became filled with an acrid
odor, as though of burnt wiring, and the interior lights and stop
indicator, which were broken, began lighting on and off. Seized by fear,
Arias leaped from the van and walked away a few meters down the road,
losing his cellular phone in the escape. The darkness was total, when
suddenly, amid the confusing situation; an immense light emerged from a
field adjacent to the road as a triangular object rose majestically into
the air. Now Arias condition went from fear to abject terror as he saw what=

he described as a real "floating city" some 200 meters long with a long row=

of windows (perhaps as many as 100). Arias claims having seen something
move behind them, describing the movement as "TV sets which make lines and=

shadows", which he defined as "non-human", and that many beams of light
came out of the giant triangle, aimed at the ground. The event lasted 2-3
seconds, but to Arias it felt like an eternity. The object suddenly rose
and sped away, vanishing behind the hills of a local field. As the object
moved away, the whole area was lit up like daytime and there was an
afterglow that lasted another 20 minutes.

HC addendum
Source: C.O.R., Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense, Argentina
Type: A


73.
Location. Waconia, Minnesota
Date: July 26 2002
Time: 0300A
The young witness was sleeping in the backyard with his sister when he
suddenly woke up. He then noticed that the side of the tent that faced the=

wetlands and lake was lit up. Looking towards the light he saw a shadowy
torso and arm of a humanoid figure that seemed to be moving around within
the light. He watched for 30 seconds and saw the figure move the fingers of=

his hands. The witness became frightened and hid in his sleeping bag. He
came out about an hour later and the light and strange figure were
completely gone.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


74.
Location. Sedona, Arizona
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 0310A
In a wooded area the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all
white, with black "straight" eyes; and black diagonal/diamond strip of
"clothing" on top. He stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then
left. Prior to seeing the figure the witness had seen lights in a large
oval shaped pattern in the sky.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


75.
Location. Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 1730
Three girls had decided to visit the rooftop as they did the prior evening=

watching for satellites. It was dusk and the girls had a good vantage point=

looking towards the east. With them they had a pair of binoculars and a
pair of walkie-talkies. The girls noticed that a large orange light
appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The anomaly
was noted to have fluctuated in colors of orange, yellow, white and pale
blue. At fist they thought of an arriving airplane, but then a second light=

appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10=

degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some=

unusually maneuvering; from a stationary position it accelerated at least 5=

degrees closer to the ground surface at an approximate 45-60 degree angle
within a matter of a single second. The first anomaly then began to move
slowly towards the north. At this stage they partially lost view of it as
it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley-like
region of the horizon. According to the witnesses, this third object
appeared to have "landed" on the ground surface. The object was then viewed=

through the binoculars and presented in great detail; the object was
described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange,=

blue/purple and white rotating around the rim. Thy also noted the trees
being slightly illuminated by this extraordinary phenomenon. They were
suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, "Identify
yourself." This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in a
foreign language. Around 1830 the girls were then called down to have
dinner. At about 2030 the girls re-established their places on the roof
after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still
present. Unexpectedly a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above
the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. "It
was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away." The=

light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it=

is not clear how one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became
extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed
her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not=

sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another of the girls woke up
the next morning with her nose bleeding. She also mentioned that she had
seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom.

HC addendum
Source: The Australian UFO Research NetworkType: D or
F?



76.
Location. Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 29 2002
Time: early morning
Local residents have seen a strange figure, which they described as
resembling a "shroud". The apparitions, which always occur in the early
morning hours, have become so common that in recent days several neighbors=

have stayed up late to see them, and it is thus that they were able to
confirm the simultaneous presence of up to 2 such beings, as well as red
lights flying over the area. All the witnesses whether individuals or in a=

group, agree that the entities are nebulous and glowing, with a pair of red=

eyes being clearly identifiable, and glassy faces (as if transparent).
Their movements are smooth and they always appear from behind the sand
dunes, as though "coming form the Naval Base." Most witnesses agree that
they show a great interest in the water tanks located above the roofs, and=

that they do not flee upon detecting the presence of local
residents---rather, they stare at them fixedly for some minutes. Deep
silence is perceived during the observations and "the air appears to become=

still" and neither heat nor cold can be felt---only a sensation of warmth,=

as if the beings emanated heat. Witnesses also state that things appear to=

be darker when "the shroud" appears, as though ambient lighting were
dimmed. Another curious fact is the large number of cats and dogs who
report to the place where the sightings occur and sit down to observe it in=

silence, in a state resembling a trance. A series of semi-circular prints
have been found in the dunes, not very deep, with 15-20 cm separations in
some cases and 30-50 cm in others. The locals have identified them as the
strange being's footprints. Efforts have been made to photograph the
"shroud", but all images, despite the use of different cameras appear
exposed. One witness who approached the site to witness the phenomenon took=

two photos of the prints in the afternoon and decided to stay with the
group of people hoping to see the "shroud", managing to take some photos of=

same and record the new prints which appeared in the dunes after the
sighting. A completely uncommon print was found at the site---but the
residents aren't sure if it's related to the phenomenon: it has the shape
of a five-fingered claw. One witness tried to make use of his carbine's
telescopic sight to see the figure in greater detail, but "when he tried to=

focus on it, he could see nothing_it was a though it could only be seen
with the unaided eye."

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, IHU, Christian Quintero and O A Mario
Proyecto Condor
Type: C or E?


77.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 30 2002
Time: 0530A
27-year old Mariela Baigorri reported seeing a strange figure that floated=

in front of her house. She had woken up early that morning and was getting=

ready to mount her bicycle when she saw behind the fence something floating=

in mid-air. It appeared to be a figure wearing a flowing white transparent=

tunic, with bright red eyes and undefined facial features. Feeling no fear=

she decided to approach it. She felt as if the figure waited for her and
was observing her. At this point Mariela felt some fear and began reciting=

the Lord's Prayer. The figure suddenly moved back and disappeared in plain=

sight.

HC addendum
Source: Juan Carlos Corrales Morey, Vision Ovni, Argentina
Type: E


78.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 31 2002
Time: 1845
23-year old Julian Pereyra was in his vehicle when he observed two red
spheres flying slowly over some nearby woods, they seemed to descend and
disappear behind the trees. 15 minutes later, Pereyra, accompanied by
several other witnesses approached the area and observed what they
described a tall floating figure wearing a white glowing cape like outfit,=

it seemed to glide silently over a field. It had what appeared to be a
visor at face level and two beams of red light emerged from where the eyes=

would have been. The witnesses watched the strange figure glide over the
fields for about 30 minutes. Curiously numerous local dogs and cats
approached and also watched the figure in fascination. The lights and
figure disappeared into the distance. In another occasion Pereyra and some=

of his family members encountered the strange humanoid and felt a strange
sensation as if the wind had suddenly stopped, they felt as they were
inside a vacuum or "bubble." Strange tracks have been reportedly found in
the area also.

HC addendum
Source: Diario La Nueva Provincia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Type: C?


79.
Location. La Cienaga, Pocri, Panama
Date: early August 2002
Time: night
Luis Alfredo Diaz reported hearing loud noises coming from the terraced
patio where the kitchen was located, going to investigate he found his cat=

apparently dead with two obvious holes on the neck and some blood on the
floor. Before finding the cat he had called his wife, Maria de Los Santos
Barrios. As his wife stood in front of him a panic stricken look came over=

her face, turning around he was confronted by a bizarre 1-meter tall
humanoid that had jumped to the center of the patio. The creature was
described as thin, covered with dark hair, with large pointed ears that
almost covered its face, it had very large eyes and extremely strong hind
legs resembling that of a kangaroo. Terrified he ran to his son's bedroom
and carried him outside yelling for his neighbors. A search failed to
locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Panamanian Paranormal Forum
Type: E


80.
Location. Near Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Date: August 2002
Time: night
The same witness involved in a similar encounter last year was again
camping in the same area when he again heard a noise. Shining the light in=

the direction of the sound he again saw the same creature. The creature sat=

there crouched by the trees staring at the witness. The witness walked
slowly towards it, he got to within 20 ft when it just jumped backward and=

disappeared. He described the creature as about five to six ft in height,
gray in color. It was totally naked. It had human features, but more
leathery, and its face was very wide, its eyes were huge and even though
they reflected light, they still looked black, resembling two intensely
black marbles. Its legs were very muscular, but turned backwards, like a
bird. Other hikers in the area have reported encountering little brown men=

on some of the more isolated trails.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal Story Archives, November 2002Type: E


81.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: August 1 2002
Time: late evening
64-year old Raul Dorado was touring some fields when he heard a loud sound=

on two occasions, like a whirlwind, which drew his attention. The third
time he saw something he describes as a green circle with three legs
hovering over him. At that moment Dorado fell to the ground, and according=

to his story, he carried a shotgun, binoculars and a cellular phone, the
latter, which was taken from his hand, and he could clearly see being
sucked into the object, which was apparently at low altitude. His next
recollection was seeing the object disappear toward the east. Dorado
remained at the location for an hour before being able to rise and walk
back to his car, returning to town in a state of shock. He had to be
hospitalized. Later when calls were placed to the (abducted) cellular phone=

someone would pick up and heavy breathing could be heard. Later on the
phone was apparently disconnected.

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, quoting Diario La Arena, La PampaType: G?


82.
Location. Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Date: August 2 2002
Time: 1730
A man named Todd Sees went up the mountain to look for pre-season deer. He=

told his wife that he would be home by noon. He rode his 4-wheeler up the
power line behind his home. He never returned. A search party composed of
local police, state police and volunteers searched for Sees. The 4-wheeler=

was found on the top of the mountain near a power-line. Tracking dogs could=

find nothing to go on around the 4-wheeler. The search went on for 2 days
and over 6 miles of mountain was covered from top to bottom. Then, in the
evening of the 2nd day, his body was found in a hard to reach wooded area.=

He was wearing his underwear. He was emaciated---not bloated. He was pale
and had an expression of horror on his face. When he went up the mountain
he was fully dressed, boots, camo-vest, hat, socks, pants. 3 people, on one=

farm, said they saw a large round bright object just above the power-lines=

at the time of the disappearance. It was silent, it did not move for about=

10 to 15 minutes. It suddenly went up and suddenly stopped. A light shone
down and something was pulled up into the light. It then went straight up,=

hesitated again, and then went west over the Susquehanna River and out of
sight. More specifically a farmer saw an object above Montour Ridge at the=

power lines, on top of the mountain, it was round and very still over the
lines. Suddenly it moved what looked like a few hundred feet to the east,
it stopped and a beam of blue and white light shone to the ground. What was=

seen next was very unnerving, he saw what appeared to be a man suspended in=

the light, he was being pulled up head first, he was moving his arms slowly=

in the light. What looked like a man was pulled up into the bottom of the
craft. A few seconds later it started shuddering, then went west very fast,=

stopped briefly, and then went straight up and out of sight. Also three
fishermen saw the craft. The FBI is supposedly also investigating. (Debated=

as a hoax, who would? and for what purpose?).

HC addendum
Source: Rense, UFO updates, NUFORCType: G?






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                            2002 Humanoid Reports

From: Albert Rosales <Garuda79@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:32:05 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:14:40 -0500
Subject: 2002 Humanoid Reports


Happy new year everyone

Sincerely,

Albert

-----

2002 Humanoid Reports. It appears to be a slow start for this
year with only one recorded case, again from Chile. We will see
what develops later on the year. 2001 was pretty busy but it was
a decline from 2000. Maybe we will see another down trend again,
later to pick up again in the near future. This seems to be the
ever-ongoing trend of the phenomena. Will it always stay the
same? Time will tell. Following is a list of known 2002 humanoid
cases.


1.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: January 2002
Time: 0300A
An employee at the local Minera Escondida was on his way to the
storage freezer in order to pick up some supplies when an
unknown creature jumped him from behind. He could only describe
it as hairy and dark. He was left with deep scratches and in a
state of shock. Terrified he ran away and bumped into two other
employees who were able to see a shadowy creature in the dark.

HC addendum
Source: La Estrella del Loa de Calama, ChileType: E


2.
Location. Caracas, Venezuela
Date: January 2002
Time: late night
Late one night in a dream-like state the witness woke up to see
seven to eight strange figures in her bedroom. They were dark
gray in color and very thin, with three large thick long fingers
on their hands. They had large, lipless mouths and large shiny
protruding black eyes, their noses were thin and protruding,
small ears, the heads was large and pointy. The humanoids
appeared to be naked and she was able to see a penis on the
humanoids. They were about 1.55 meters in height. She felt dizzy
and under the control of the strange entities. She was led out
of her bedroom by one of the humanoids that removed her clothing
and made her lie down on the floor. The humanoids apparently
attempted to molest her sexually and possibly attempted to rape
her but were not successful. She apparently passed out and does
not remember anything else about the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Lista Alcione and witness communicationType: E


3.
Location. Fort McMurry, Alberta, Canada
Date: January 2 2002
Time: 2032
Two men were parked on an isolated dirt road when they spotted a
large cone-shaped object descend and hover. One of the men
exited the car and he vanished in plain sight of the other, the
craft then also disappeared. The other man tried to drive away
to get help but the car would not start and it was to cold to
walk. He soon went to sleep and woke up later to find his friend
sleeping next to him. Later they drove back to town. His friend
does not remember what happened during those two hours of
missing time. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


4.
Location. Paso Lovera, Corrientes, Argentina
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2030
Gabriela Lencinas, 15-year old and a 19-year old friend were
returning home on a bicycle when they spotted a large cloud like
object descend from the sky and from it a giant figure emerge.
The witnesses stopped their bicycles to see a car approach the
giant figure, stop, the driver exit the car and then re-entering
the vehicle and driving quickly away. The figure then rose up
into the cloud and disappeared. The girls reported that the
giant human-like figure had its hair standing up on his head and
was extending its arms towards the witnesses that quickly rode
their bicycles home. Other in the area reported seeing bright
lights that same night.

HC addendum
Source: Pablo Omastott
Type: B?


5.
Location. Villa San Rafael, Chile
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2345
Two young teenagers, Jean F and Nelson C, where at home at night
when Jean noticed that his pet snake had escaped from its cage.
Both boys began looking for it outside among the rubble of the
parcel. They recalled how half an hour before, their two dogs
strangely began to howl and cry; however, it did not seem to be
important at that point in time. They searched for the pet snake
together when suddenly, about 30 meters from where they stood;
they saw what appeared to be a stray dog. They threw rocks at to
avoid an attack. However, to their surprise, the animal stood
there, motionless and fearless; it did not get scared nor it ran
away as ordinary dogs normally do. Shortly, the strange animal
began to move towards them. The movements it made as it walked
were very strange. It used two legs at a time. It made very
small sand short leaps like a rabbit. Suddenly, it stopped and
it stood up on two legs. The teenagers then began to feel some
kind of energy. "It was like an electrical shock in the
stomach," they said. It later walked again making a loud
dragging noise, making small leaps and only moving one of its
legs. They noticed the weird shape of the animal. "It was like a
rugby football with legs," one of them said. Jean began to feel
frightened and started to move away from animal. On the other
hand, Nelson felt a strange need to get closer to the creature;
he got to within 2 meters away from it. The creature appear to
emit a strange luminosity that apparently, was bright enough to
lit a small area around the creature in spite of the nighttime
darkness. Nelson was mesmerized as he stared at the strange
creature. He described it as having a head like a large dog with
a flat nose like a bulldog. Its eyes were slanted and pale-red
in color, which could only be seen when the creature turned its
head from side to side like a lizard. At that moment, Nelson
heard a voice in his head saying, "Don't stare, and just run
away." They provided further description, describing the ears as
flat, round and large. Its arms were short, it had elbows, and
the hands had three fingers. It had hair like the one on a wild
pig. Its legs were like the ones of a goat. The feet had also
three fingers and a membrane like ducks, but somewhat shorter.
On its curved back, they were able to notice a spinal section
covered with amounts of even thicker hair. Most of the hair of
the animal was gray, but the tail had a white tip. Nelson
finally fled, terrified, from the area. He also described how he
felt an inexplicable bone-chilling cold sensation.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center
Type: E


6.
Location. Not given
Date: January 12 2002
Time: night
Ted Parker was eating some leftover food when he claims the food began to
change. The bread of the sandwich turned an orange color and the lamb
became a silvery metallic color, sort of like liquid mercury. As he watched=

transfixed, he saw the orange bread and metallic lamb turn into the figure=

of an "alien" with the form of a man. It was silver in color and its outfit=

(smooth pants and shirt, like a jump suit) was orange in color. At this
point Parker glanced at the wall clock and it indicated that 2 hours had
gone by, even though it felt like minutes only. The alien figure
communicated using telepathic means and asked Ted to come with him. They
both went outside and there, Ted saw a landed black-colored craft in his
backyard. In a split second Ted found himself inside the craft not knowing=

how he got there. The inside of the craft was pure white in color with
strips of the metallic silver that the alien figure appeared to be made of.=

The rest of the incident is just a blur, but Parker did remembered hearing=

several loud high-pitched rings while onboard the object. A couple of days=

before while eating dinner with several other people there had been a
similar high pitched ring and everybody had just stopped eating and walked=

out of the room.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: G or F?



7.
Location. Chihuahua, Mexico
Date: January 29 2002
Time: night
Several days before seeing a UFO the witness remembered being in a
dream-like state in which he felt very calm and saw numerous disc shaped
objects, orange-red in color. A human like figure was talking to him about=

the objects and their propulsion. The UFO he saw was of an orange color and=

he felt a sort of ecstasy when he observed the craft. Several of his
neighbors also saw the object.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: G or F?


8.
Location. Near Palmyra, Wisconsin
Date: February 2002
Time: 0200A
Two men reported seeing a creature that resembled a bipedal "gigantic wolf"=

walking down a road west of the city. They said the creature was at least 7=

ft tall with a wolf-like head. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Linda GodfreyType: E


9.
Location. West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
Nebilson Sangma reported encountering a scary furry creature on a hunting
trip in the jungles. He reportedly took a video of the creature's nesting
place. According to Sangma, the creature walked erect like a human, had
built a house like nesting place, and would emerge from it frequently to
feast on a banana grove. Sangma and his brother observed the gigantic
creature for three consecutive days from afar. Officials and villagers have=

been hunting for the creature in the forest but it seems to have
disappeared as furtively as it appeared.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 13
Type: E


10.
Location. Near Dover, England
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness had been jogging along a low path by the beach when she noticed=

a tall, well built being in a black skin tight suit, that stood watching
her from nearby. He wore a black helmet wit a brown visor pulled down. At
first she thought it was a biker but as she approached the figure, it
suddenly disappeared in plain sight. As she continued to run she noticed a=

black craft jutting out of the sand, it was small and oval shaped, matt and=

ribbed it also disappeared in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: E?


11.
Location. Rosario de la Frontera, Salta, Argentina
Date: February 2002
Time: night
A strange creature called by locals "El Pestizo" has attacked several lone=

pedestrians in the middle of the night. It is described as a dark man
shaped shadowy being. A boy riding his bicycle on the way to visit some
friends was toppled from his bicycle and found a black shadowy figure
facing him. The young man managed to upholster his shotgun and fire two
shots. But, when he saw that they had no effect, he promptly drew his knife=

and stabbed the figure without any apparent harm. Frightened the youth
tried to escape but the creature knocked him down without saying a word and=

began dragging him by the hair to the side of the road. At this point the
young man began to scream. A local man, who rushed to provide assistance,
only to find a black shadow dragging the boy by the hair, heard his cries.=

The fearful shape disappeared without a trace after it became aware of the=

other man's presence. Six other locals have reported being attacked by a
similar being and received wounds.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


12.
Location. Not given
Date: February 2002
Time: early morning
The witness was alone at home and was preparing his breakfast when suddenly=

he heard a window break; he went to see what had happened. Grabbing a golf=

club he peeked inside the room where the window broke. He was stunned to
see a strange creature climbing on his bed. It appeared to be hurt, because=

it seemed that it could not move well. Gripping the golf club he went a
step nearer and the creature hissed horribly. It shrieked in an unworldly
manner. Terrified the witness did not move. The creature was small, about
the size of a large rabbit, and it was dark in color and had reddish eyes.=

It had wings and a spine of quills on its back, and had a semi reptilian
face. It appeared to have hair and small legs. The witness raised the golf=

club and the creature hissed again showing its large yellowish teeth, which=

appeared to be sharp, like those of a crocodile. It suddenly hopped out of=

the window and rapidly hopped across the street into the oak trees.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June archiveType: E


13.
Location. Vigevano, Italy
Date: February 2002
Time: 0100A
In the outskirts of this city a witness observed from his vehicle a
luminous humanoid entity walking along a roadway. It scurried away into the=

darkness when approached.
No other information.

HC addendum
Source: CISU, ItalyType: E



14.
Location. Corguinho, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Date: February 5 2002
Time: night
During a localized UFO flap several witnesses reported seeing a strange
creature described as about 1.3 meters in height, having two legs, with a
physique like a human but who moved with a strange fluctuating motion. The=

creature was seen five times by twenty people in the rural zone around
Corguinho. In Rochedo, 6 miles south of Corguinho five Cebu cattle were
found dead with a single incision on the side of the throat. The bodies had=

been drained of blood. (Is there a connection?).

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


15.
Location. Mount Podbrdo, Bosnia Hercigovina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: morning
Contactee and stigmatic Giorgio Bongiovanni was visiting the shrine on top=

of the mountain and was praying silently to the Virgin when, to his
astonishment, a glowing luminous female figure appeared and touched his
forehead with her fingertips. His stigmata scar vanished instantly. The
female figure told him to return to Italy and make known what had happened.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 14
Type: E or F?


16.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: evening
73-year-old Maria Rufina Cayo, a local shepherd was walking back home with=

her dogs and the cattle. Suddenly at one point, something spooked the
animals, and these began to stampede. Looking around she spotted a bizarre=

creature standing about 12 meters away. She described it as a humanoid,
half animal, half human, about 1.70m in height, with bright red eyes, sharp=

protruding fangs, and hands and feet that ended in sharp claws. The
creature looked at the witness three times then it scrambled away using
quick jumping motions with is powerfully built hind legs, she also noticed=

large pointy ears. The top part of its body seems to have been covered in a=

shiny white blanket. It somehow resembled a centaur walking on two
claw-like feet.  Alerted by the shouts of Maria, two men, Santos Jaimes,
and Ruben Colque ran out to investigate with their dogs. Suddenly the dogs=

stopped and began making pitiful howling noises, they refused to move any
further. The men heard noises behind some nearby bushes and went to
investigate and spotted a bizarre creature that stood staring at them with=

huge reddish eyes. It then moved quickly away in the direction of Cerro
Negro and disappeared from sight. The witnesses noticed very sharp claws on=

the creature's feet with a very sharp claw that appeared to be pointed
backwards. Strange footprints were found the next day.

HC addendum
Source: El Tribuno, Salta Argentina March 27 2002
Also Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E



17.
Location. Khanpur, Ahmedabad, India
Date: February 20 2002
Time: after midnight
Several local residents reportedly have encountered a person, dressed in
black and wearing a mask. Dubbed the "Monkeyman" whom they described as
between 25 and 20 years of age, dark skinned and having curly hair can
reportedly be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees. Two
local youths chased it and the figure reportedly disappeared in plain
sight. The two youths have been behaving abnormally since then. The
stranger was also chased along the riverbed near the Cama Hotel and it also=

suddenly disappeared. Others have heard the stranger running on the
rooftops. Abdul Hamid another youngster of the local slums described the
figure as a tall lean man that carries a sharp weapon. "I saw him from the=

back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised the alarm, he jumped to=

another roof and then on to a tree." Police have searched for the stranger=

but nothing has been found.

HC addendum
Source: Fortean Times, India Express
Type: E


18.
Location. Prague, Czech Republic
Date: February 23 2002
Time: night
Blanka Slemendova was in her apartment when she saw a "ship" hovering over=

some nearby woods. It was shining red, white and yellow lights. She then
heard telepathic communication coming from the object telling her to go and=

meet them at an unspecified location. Looking over to her bedroom wall she=

saw what appeared to be a projection of human like faces looking at her.
Later that night she saw luminous figures in her room and a floating red
light also in her room. The next night she saw what appeared to be 2 gray
suns and around them a golden lights with numerous groups of shiny
human-like figures floating about. She interpreted these as being angels.

HC addendum
Source: Direct from witness (Slemendova)
Type: C & F?


19.
Location. Wycliffe Well Roadhouse, Northern Territory Australia
Date: early March 2002
Time: evening
While workers in the area watched unusual lights in the sky an aboriginal
woman encountered a triangular sort of object in a paddock and all of the
sudden she saw three silvery clad human like figures that began to move
toward her vehicle. She turned the vehicle around and took off.

HC addendum
Source: Lou Farcus ABC On-lineType: C


20.
Location. Near Canberra Australia
Date: March 2002
Time: 1700
Several friends were taking a trip to the coast and it was already very
dark. They had already entered a tropical forest area and there was a mist=

rolling along the ground. As they turned around they saw something
squatting in the middle of the road. It stared at them, and just as they
thought they were going to hit it, it leaped off the road and into the
trees. It leaped about 10 meters in the air. The creature was definitely
human looking although it wore strange clothes. It was dressed in a green
robe of some kind with little pieces of gold on it, and it was either
wearing a head crest or it had a row of spikes running from its forehead to=

the top of its neck. Very frightened the witnesses drove out of the forest=

and at the same time the mist turned to a thick fog. They pulled over and
decided to wait until the fog had cleared, although none of them were too
happy about it. As they sat around and waited they suddenly heard a shriek.=

It sounded like some sort of wild animal and they turned the car on so the=

headlights would scare it away. The headlights revealed the same creature
they had seen earlier. It hid its face from the light and shrieked. Right
before the witnesses' eyes, the creature seemed to evaporate into the fog.=

Within five minutes the fog had gone and the normal rolling mist was back.=

The witnesses quickly left the area and drove towards the coast.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June ArchiveType: E


21.
Location. Guanica Puerto Rico
Date: March 1 2002
Time: 2345
Reinaldo Rios (involved in other encounters) was in his bedroom that night=

when a large white light suddenly appeared. It flew around the room several=

times and then hovered. He heard voices coming from the light, which
communicated with him. The voice said: "I am your real father." Soon the
light transformed itself into a figure resembling that of a little boy it
then vanished in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: UFOs over America.com
Type: E


22.
Location. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 0800A
The witness and his wife were in bed that Saturday morning talking when
their 5-year-old daughter came into the bedroom with her baby brother,
whose cot is placed under their bedroom window. They heard a strange noise=

and some green light came into the window. Their daughter looked out the
window and reported seeing a "flying car" with four spinning green lights
on top. She saw two windows in the vehicle and saw two dark brown faces
looking out. His wife saw the craft flying past through the curtains. That=

same morning, in a large tree near the witness house a strange structure
was found. The branches were arranged in a rectangular pen shape, vertical,=

each approximately 30 to 40 cm long. They found a few smaller sticks
scaling down in size from the structure. A piece of concrete slab was found=

propped up on one corner. The witnesses had never seen this strange
structure before and think is some kind of message left by the visitors.
(Some kind of bizarre crop circle?). A few nights before they had heard
strange noises coming from the kitchen area.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: A


23.
Location. Golasecca Di Novara, Italy
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 2330
Augusto & Maurizia were in their vehicle parked in an open field next to a=

wooded area having a heated discussion when suddenly a powerful beam of
reddish-orange light illuminated the area around them. They rolled down the=

car window and heard a sharp metallic sound that seemed to be increasing in=

intensity. They now noticed, behind the beam of light a hovering
disc-shaped craft with a central rotating ring, it hovered about a meter
from the ground. From the object, a cigar-shaped beam of light emerged;
they could see it as the central ring of the craft slowly rotated on its
axis. The craft was only about 10 meters away. At this point, and only
about 4 meters from the object Augusto saw what appeared to be a gelatinous=

transparent humanoid-like figure with a visible head, arms and legs. The
figure was silvery in color and was very tall, about 3 meters or so. At
this point Augusto became concerned and drove away from the area and did
not see the object or figure depart. The whole episode lasted about 10
minutes. The metallic noise was heard all throughout the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Alfredo Lissoni, CUN Milano, Michelle Castellano CUN VareseType: C


24.
Location. Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England
Date: March 3 2002
Time: morning
Helen Diskin went for a walk in the countryside talking snap shots along
the way with her digital camera. Returning home she loaded these into her
computer and was intrigued by an odd-looking image. It looked like a
luminous figure in an area of no sunlight, skulking amongst the trees. She=

returned to the site of the photo twice afterward and could find no
explanation for the figure. The figure resembled a small helmeted figure
that she had not seen when she took the picture of an area of the woods she=

had thought of as "mysterious."

HC addendum
Source: Helen Diskin, UFO Magazine Vol. 22 # 1Type: E?


25.
Location. Near Trenton New Jersey
Date: March 4 2002
Time: night
Several witnesses were camping outside of town and late at night one of
them was attempting to put out the bonfire when he heard the most awful and=

horrifying scream. It resembled that of an injured dog crossed with a
scream of a woman. The witness dropped the flashlight and was joined by
another witness. Suddenly out of the woods a hideous and gruesome creature=

appeared. It did not look human, somewhat satyr-like in appearance and
walked on two legs. It had a long tail like a dragon and wings like those
unicorns in fantasy books. The beast took several steps towards the
witnesses and one of them picked up and asked and yelled at it and then
shone his flashlight at it. The creature then turned towards the bushes and=

ran away from the area.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: E


26.
Location. Pichaca, Salta, Argentina
Date: March 9 2002
Time: night
Ceferino Leoncio was cleaning his one room metal shack when suddenly a
bright light engulfed the room. He felt a sudden heat as he saw a tiny
figure (50 cm) of an angel-like creature materialize in front of him. It
slowly moved its small wing-like protrusions and moved around and then
suddenly stopped and remained still. It appeared to be a small living human=

like living being until it appeared to hardened and turn into some type of=

statue of cherubic appearance. Locals have now built a shrine around the
tiny "statue" and call the strange materialization a "religious miracle".

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso
Type: F?



27.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: March 16 2002
Time: 2215
Mirna, was watching television alone in her room when she began hearing
noises coming from outside, at first she thought it was her dogs playing
around with some empty cans. But the noises kept getting louder and louder=

and she decided to go outside to investigate. Once outside she was stunned=

to see some type creature that had somehow entered the rabbit cage and was=

attacking the animals that were making loud unearthly screams. Thinking at=

first that it was one of the dogs she approached the case but realized that=

it was a gray colored hairy hunched over creature, that was moving quickly=

inside the cage. She stepped back and could not understand how the creature=

had entered the cage, since there wasn't any apparent hole or aperture
visible anywhere and the door was firmly closed. Afraid she ran inside her=

home and notified her son, both then ran out but the creature had
mysteriously disappeared. Unnerved, they could not understand how they
creature had escaped since the door to the rabbit caged was still firmly
locked. Later they could only find a small round hole in the wire only
several centimeters in width, not large enough for a creature estimated to=

have been about 70 to 80 cm in height. Several of the rabbits were found
injured and one was dead.

HC addendum
Source: Calama UFO CenterType: E


28.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: March 19 2002
Time: 2000
Young Elizabeth Lera reported seeing a short humanoid with "dark eyes"
looking into the building compound from behind a wire fence. It appeared
not to have any other facial features and was wearing dark clothing; it
wore some type of head covering, which was hard to see because of the
darkness. She could only see a pair of large dark eyes on his face that
appeared to shine in the darkness. Some more children now arrived and
observed as the humanoid move several steps towards them. Another witness,=

Rene Mamani saw the humanoid run and hide behind some bushes. It seemed to=

move at very high speed in an unnatural fashion. It seemed to have remained=

suspended in mid-air for a few seconds. It then seemed to fly through the
air and disappeared into some nearby woods. Other students at the school
reportedly saw it again on the night of the 20th.

HC addendum
Source: Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E


29.
Location. Woodburn, Oregon
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 0300A
The witness was sleeping when she woke up suddenly feeling paralyzed. The
witness was completely unable to move or speak. Her next memory was of a
strange sensation on her left cheek, which hurt a lot. Unseen "beings" were=

apparently taking skin samples. Her face was left with a pink fleshy scoop=

down my left cheek, directly on the cheekbone. A teardrop scar was left on=

her cheek.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical Universe
Type: G?




30.
Location. Bethlehem, Israel
Date: March 21 2002
Time: night
At the besieged Church of The Nativity several awed witnesses have come
forward describing the events of Thursday night. That night, a smell of
roses filled the sanctuary as the Daughters of Charity held their evening
prayers. "The sweet scent was soon followed by a high musical humming sound=

and a distinct feeling of warmth emanating from the ceiling." Then, the
sisters reported, seeing a glowing beam of light gradually forming the
likeness of the Blessed Virgin "like a film coming into focus." Tears were=

running down her face, and she uttered a prophetic warning. "Time is
growing short, and the promised Judgment Day is nearly at hand." One week
before the apparition, The Church of the Holy Family was the scene of a
ferocious firefight between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 17Type: F


31.
Location. Not given
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 2255
16-year old Steven Mizon saw hovering over a street a large oval shaped
craft encircled in bright lights and with several lighted windows around
its edge. A figure stared down at him from one of the windows. No other
information.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Watch
Type: A



32.
Location. Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain
Date: March 26 2002
Time: 1500
A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a deserted road when=

he noticed ahead in the distance and in the middle of the roadway an object=

resembling a shiny pear that was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat
perplexed he approached and noticed two individuals standing on a nearby
field. These were over 2 meters in height, wore tight fitting white
coveralls and helmets resembling that of the early astronauts. He parked
his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men=

walked away and entered the shiny pear-shaped craft while the other
remained behind. Knowing that these men were "not from this earth" he still=

asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt that as
he approached the strange pair he had been in some type of a trance and
seemed to have floated over the road. The humanoid answered and appeared
genuinely happy as to his offer of assistance but said that everything was=

in order. He also added that the area was very beautiful and also added:
"Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such
beautiful scenes, they disappeared a long time ago." The astounded witness=

managed to ask the humanoid where he was from and was told that they hailed=

from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The=

humanoid smiled as he answered the question. The humanoid then bid goodbye=

and walked towards the nearby shiny pear shaped object, he then disappeared=

inside of it. The craft then emitted a loud whistling sound and disappeared=

at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the
humanoids as about 2.50 meters in height, wide chests and heavy set, thin
legs. Generally human features, but somewhat "refined" or sharpened
features. The suits were very tight fitting made of an apparent synthetic
material resembling plastic. Their eyes were very light almost white and
their speech was hesitant & accented. Also their movements seemed kind of
clumsy.

HC addendum
Source: J M Garcia, Francisco Padron, SpainType: B


33.
Location. Pringle Lake, Texas
Date: March 28 2002
Time: 1100A
Mark Hakemack and a friend had taken an airboat out on the NW side of the
lake to do a little redfish fishing. The day was kind of hazy, with broken=

cloud cover. They had caught several trout and were just chatting when he
hooked up a large redfish while playing with the fish, Mark happened to
glance upwards and saw a large bird-like creature emerge from a cloudbank.=

His friend saw it too, after about 20 to 25 seconds it flew behind cloud
cover again. The strange creature was grayish in color and the profile of a=

raptor, short neck/head, no legs sticking out behind, and no long tail
feathers. Mark could not take his eyes off it. He estimated the wingspan to=

have been 10' to 14 ' in overall. It appeared to be soaring on the wind,
although, he did see it give a couple of light "flaps" with its wings. The=

witness could only relate this to the legendary "Thunderbird" legend.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.comType: E


34.
Location. Sevilla, Spain
Date: March 30 2002
Time: late night
The witness to the March 26 case was at home with his wife and was getting=

ready to sleep when he heard footsteps coming from patio area outside his
chalet. Armed with a club, he opened the door and was stunned to see the
same two tall heavyset humanoids he had encountered 4 days before. One of
the humanoids was kneeling on the ground as if inspecting something on the=

soil, the other one upon hearing the door open, turned and quickly assured=

the witness not to fear that they were not here to harm him. Stunned, the
witness invited the two humanoids in the house for some refreshments (!).
These declined the invitation telling that they had to go already. Using
the same clumsy movements both humanoids walked towards the rear of the
house where the witness noticed the same shiny metallic pear shaped craft
on the ground. They entered the object, which quickly left at high speed.
The witness's wife awakened by the voices was able to see the two humanoids=

from a second story window, and described them in the same way.

HC addendum
Source: Francisco Padron, Jose Manuel Garcia, SpainType: B


35.
Location. Los Cipreses, Chile
Date: March 31 2002
Time: noon
During a local UFO congress 24 persons in three groups entered a
dimensional gateway that appeared by itself over the terrain. It was kind
of a dome, a luminous archway measuring four by four meters. The
participants lost their materiality without disappearing completely. Upon
entering, they met several human-like alien characters with large baldheads=

and wearing robes that waited within and received information. According to=

sources the contact experience was "dimensional" it was like crossing into=

a different reality. The 24 participants were "all professionals, college
students of high intellectual levels, mostly Chileans," and some were
members of Grupo Rama, a New Age association.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 16, quoting Camilo Valdivieto
Type: G or F?


36.
Location. Tbilissi Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: night
A man entered the local St David church and reported that "a phantom with
wings" had approached him and predicted an earthquake that indeed took
place on April 25 2002, devastating areas of central Georgia.

HC addendum
Source: Pravda
Type: E?


37.
Location. Near Macon, Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: 2300
Three friends were awakened by loud banging noises and bellowing sounds
coming from outside. One of the men ran to the bathroom and looked out the=

window to see a figure run by and squat in the nearby bushes. He described=

the creature as about 3 ft tall, hairy with what appeared to be horns on
its head and hands; he could not see a face. Others in the neighborhood
heard the banging noises.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.com and direct witness
Communication.
Type: E


38.
Location. Belvedere di Tezze, Italy
Date: April 26 2002
Time: evening
A 20-year old woman was returning home one night when she noticed some
bright lights nearby of an unknown origin. She followed the lights in her
car until she stopped near a local pizzeria. She saw the light near the
ground and within the lights two tall slender human like figures wearing
some type of headgear. Since she was carrying a camera she was able to snap=

a quick picture. The figures then vanished. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Gruppo Accademico Ufologico Scandicci quoting
"Il giornale di Vicenza"Type: E?


39.
Location. Puente Santamaria, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: early morning
Two young men observed a dark object descend towards the ground about 100
meters away. According to the two witnesses from the craft descended a
small humanoid, orange in color. Very scared they both ran from the area
and reported their experience to others.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: B


40.
Location. Merceditas, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: evening
An elderly couple was walking along National Route # 8 when about 800
meters from their location they noticed a very strong light. The light
descended next to a puddle at about 70 meters from the witness. Both then
saw two very short orange colored humanoids that moved in very agile
movements near the object. Terrified they walked away and upon looking back=

saw a bright glow on the ground.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: C


41.
Location. Barangay, Philippines
Date: May 2002
Time: night
Several local residents reported seeing a bizarre creature described as an=

"aswang" reputed to be a winged vampire type creature, it reportedly had
red glowing eyes, long black hair, and was wearing a white flowing gown. It=

was seen perched on top of a bamboo tree. Residents at nearby Roxas
reported seeing a similar creature. The police was called but a search
failed to locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Akasico.comType: E


42.
Location. Alvear, La Pampa Argentina
Date: May 3 2002
Time: near midnight
Several young men were returning home late at night along a deserted
roadway when suddenly out of nowhere a female figure wearing a light
flowing gown and with long black hair appeared in front of them. The
strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly and repeatedly asked for=

assistance from the men in a strange urgent tone. Terrified the men ran
from the area and later returned with additional witnesses but they could
find no trace of the strange apparition.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E?


43.
Location. Taralgon Victoria, Australia
Date: May 24 2002
Time: 2355
Walking near the Loy Yang Power station 45-year old Martin Taylor was
suddenly blinded by an intense blue light and he felt extremely dizzy. His=

next memory was of being in a circular room with a variety of lights and
buttons scattered about the walls. He was lying on a large table that
seemed to be of a very highly polished metal. He was strapped down and his=

shirt had been removed. There were wires attached to his arms, neck and
temples. A four ft tall humanoid figure with very large almond shaped eyes,=

almost transparent looking skin, ghostly white in appearance examined him.=

The figure had three extremely long fingers on each hand and spoke in a
strange dialect.

HC addendum
Source: UFO WatchType: G


44.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: May 29 2002
Time: midnight
Irma Rick watched a rotating luminous object descend close to the ground
next to a grain silo; it gave off a powerful bluish light through some
openings around its circumference. It hovered close to the ground. Through=

an opening a strange creature was seen to descend to the ground. It was
described as having an elongated semi-transparent white body; it also had
an elongated head. She could not see any eyes or legs on the creature as it=

stood motionless next to the craft. She observed the creature and object
for about 5 minutes until she dropped the flashlight she was carrying.
Afraid she left the area and did not see the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: B



45.
Location. Lembang Bandung, Indonesia
Date: May 30 2002
Time: 2315
The witness was driving his motorcycle across a highland area when he
spotted some flashing lights overhead and then noticed a silvery
disc-shaped craft descend low over some nearby graves at a cemetery. The
craft had blue and orange flashing lights around its rim. There was no
sound as the craft apparently emitted a beam of light towards the ground
and levitated what appeared to be some dead bodies onboard the object. (!)=

The witness was apparently paralyzed and was unable to move. The craft then=

shot away at a 45-degree angle and disappeared from sight. When that
happened the witness left the scene.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


46.
Location. Houston, Texas
Date: late May 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness was at the local electric company in order to pay a bill when
she decided to use the restrooms. Sitting in the stall she then noticed on=

the side of the wall of the stall what appeared to be a face lit up in a
dull light. When the witness looked directly at the "face" it vanished. She=

described is as having large round eyes no visible nose and a slit-like
mouth. (A peeping tom alien?)

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.comType: E?


47.
Location. General Acha, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: early June 2002
Time: various
A resident of the Oeste neighborhood informed newspaper sources that a
short green-colored dwarf like entity has appeared twice on her property:
once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When her husband ran out
responding to her screams, the mysterious entity vanished by rapidly
climbing up a tree. All versions agree in that the entity is short in
stature. Another resident added that it moved so quickly that it was hard
to describe it. In the same area mysterious cattle mutilations have also
been reported.

HC addendum
Source: Loren Coleman in UFO UpdatesType: E


48.
Location. Ojo De Agua, Argentina
Date: June 2002
Time: afternoon
Several passengers onboard two farm micro buses reported seeing a very tall=

dark man like figure that appeared to be wearing a tight fitting diver's
outfit standing on a nearby field. Nearby numerous mysterious animal
mutilations have been reported. The figure was silent and was quickly lost=

from sight as the buses moved away.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E




49.
Location. Near Tampa, Florida
Date: June 2002
Time: night
A man and three of his friends reported encountering two bizarre chupacabra=

type creatures one stood about 3-4 ft tall, the other looked to be about 6=

ft tall. Both had large glowing red eyes and spikes starting from the head=

to the back. They scurried away into a wooded area. (They were to have
further encounters in August).

HC addendum
Source: Art Bell.comType: E


50.
Location. Antalya, Turkey
Date: June 5 2002
Time: afternoon
Approximately 45 witnesses claimed they saw an UFO in the Santral district=

landing on the backyard of the Fatma Primary School. Several students
including Murat Esici age 11 saw an alien emitting red rays from his eyes
come out of the object. His hands and feet were metallic. He had a very big=

head and was about 1.80 meters in height. Esici temporarily lost her voice=

immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also=

claimed they san an unusual craft and an alien beside it. "His eyes and
hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes." The children
were overcome with shock after the incident.

HC addendum
Source: Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center Intl
Type: B


51.
Location. Polonnauruwa, Sri Lanka
Date: June 8 2002
Time: 2200
Approximately 50 to 70 eyewitnesses saw a UFO flying at about 100 meters
above ground level. The object was silent and briefly landed emitting a
bright flash like light. When it was close to the ground the object emitted=

a buzzing sound. Three other witnesses saw three 2 ft tall creatures than
when approached ran into the jungle and disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Sources
Type: D


52.
Location. Polonnaruwa, Sir Lanka
Date: June 9 2002
Time: 2012
Two witnesses went to a bath on a nearby river when they heard a loud
thundering sound and a UFO appeared. The craft landed nearby and two, 2 ft=

tall "aliens" emerged from the object. One of the humanoids flung a small
fluorescent fireball like object that flew over a house and vanished. Soon=

the craft and humanoids disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC & News Reports
Type: B



53.
Location. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Date: June 10 2002
Time: 1900
Witnesses saw a mysterious light in the sky and others saw a large disc
shaped object land nearby. Three humanoids only about 2 ft tall emerged
from the craft and disappeared into the forest when approached. The object=

also left.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Reports
Type: B


54.
Location. Chantilly, Virginia
Date: June 10 2002
Time: night
The witness was awakened during the night with a sense of some presence in=

the room. Looking toward the door, he saw, fading quickly, something, which=

almost had the appearance of a hologram. Next, shadows appeared outside the=

windows in an erratic shape. At first he thought the shadows to be from
trees moving in a strong wind. The appearance was of a storm blowing the
limbs to create these shadows outside the window. However, there was no
storm. He looked at the adjacent window on the side of the house facing
opposite and there was no wind at all. In fact there was no trees
positioned in such a way to cast a shadow. He opened the blinds to see what=

might be causing the shadows. He then saw what seemed to be a hologram with=

the shape of two small eyes moving erratically outside the window.
Frightened he closed the blinds. Two weeks later he was awakened by a
humming sound and again saw the erratic shadows outside the window. He
watched the shadows for 10-15 minutes and then called the police. The
police found no signs of any intrusion in the yard. When the police left
the witness walked toward the door facing the back porch and saw a large
burst of bluish white light. It looked unnatural, almost like a laser. He
has not seen the "shadows" again.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: E?


55.
Location. Ataliva Roca, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 11 2002
Time: 1930
A worker at a local drainage project was sitting and guarding some
machinery when he noticed a short greenish colored humanoid figure that was=

approaching his location from a nearby field. The witness became concerned=

and drove away from the area in the construction equipment and did not see=

the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


56.
Location. Eduardo Castex, La Pampa Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Two girls of a local school encountered a short greenish humanoid figure in=

the playing yard. The figure was standing up and appeared to be raising its=

arms up to the sky. Terrified the two girls retreated into the school and
watched the figure scurry away into some nearby woods. Around the same time=

a local farmer found a strangely mutilated hog in his farm.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


57.
Location. Chasico, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Hugo Deluca and several other workers were parked in a bus in an isolated
area when they spotted about 20 meters away a short, 1.20 meters tall,
bipedal figure completely covered in gray hair. It walked upright like a
man and then scurried away into some woods vanishing from sight. The area
had been hit with animal mutilations around the same time.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


58.
Location. Castex, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 13 2002
Time: night
A 70-year old man had gone to his driveway to check on a flat tire in his
car when a short light green colored humanoid suddenly appeared next to
him. It had large round ears, and two reddish luminous eyes. Its body was
thin and almost triangular in shape. The witness attempted to yell out but=

was suddenly unable to speak and at the same time strange warmth invaded
his body. Several seconds later the humanoid vanished and the witness
returned to normal. He reported the incident to the police.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


59.
Location. La Laguna, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 14 2002
Time: afternoon
Several youngster had gone into the fields in order to obtain some firewood=

when they saw sitting on a clearing in the woods two human like figures,
all dressed in black. They sat facing each other, one looking towards the
east the other towards the west, unmoving. Unnerved by the sight the
juveniles ran from the area. The next day the father of one of the boys
found two dead cows at the site, but could find no trace of the strange
pair. Days later a sheep and a horse were found dead and strangely
mutilated in the nearby location of El Cardonal.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: E


60.
Location. De Kalb, Illinois
Date: June 15 2002
Time: 0030A
The witness was sitting in his family room watching TV when he noticed a
bright flash of light outside the window. He saw the flash several times
and decided to check his backyard there he saw a circular light moving
around in circles. The light began to get closer; scared he ran inside his=

home and called a friend on the phone. He then quickly ran outside and saw=

the circle getting closer, he noticed that it had a purplish color to it
and it began to descend towards the ground. He became nauseous and dizzy
and collapsed on to the ground. He tried to crawl to the house but was
unable to move. He turned his head and saw the purplish object on the
ground and what appeared to be a door opening up. He then heard a squeaking=

noise and saw a tall and a short figure standing by a door of the object.
The two figures started to move towards him, walking in a strange bopping
fashion. They were of a dark complexion with a bumpy texture, other than
that they resembled normal human beings. The shorter figure approached and=

picked up the witness' camera and stared at it. He then looked at the
taller figure and handed it to him. The taller of the two looked at the
camera and then at the witness. The witness then heard loud unpleasant
shrieks coming from the taller figure, which then gave the camera back to
the shorter figure, which covered the camera with his hand, seconds later a=

light began to emerge from their hands. Then they stopped, threw the camera=

aside and began to walk towards the witness. They reached his side and
started to examine his body. A dog began to bark from inside the house and=

the shorter figure put out his hand and the dog stopped barking. At this
point the witness began to vomit. After about a minute he began to relax
and to breathe better. When he turned his head he realized that the two
figures and the purple spherical object were now gone. The next day he had=

a very severe headache.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: B


61.
Location. San Juan, Argentina
Date: June 20 2002
Time: evening
At a location where the body of a strangely mutilated carcass of a cow was=

found two witnesses reported seeing a small creature with large glowing
slanted eyes and about one meter in height. Later in the same area, members=

of the Gimenez family after investigating noises and a strong odor coming
from a wooded area found a mutilated cow and also watched a short humanoid=

with glowing eyes scurrying away into the woods.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


62.
Location. Manuel Rodriguez, Calama, Chile
Date: June 22 2002
Time: after midnight
A bizarre creature was spotted at a local housing complex on San Antonio
Street. Witnesses reported that it resembled an ape and it jumped all over=

the roof. It passed right in front of the witness, Maria Gavia's window and=

then it came back making all manner of noise. The creature was able to make=

very long jumps, unlike any a human could. It jumped and landed on the
neighbor's roof and then it left the area. Neighborhood dogs acted scared
and began howling. Others described the creature as about 1.5 meters tall,=

stocky in build with bright red eyes. It made a lot of noise. Others
reportedly chased the creature.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center, quoting El
Mercurio de CalamaType: E


63.
Location. Angencia Realico, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 23 2002
Time: late night
Several hunters returning to a local ranch spotted about 50 meters away two=

large glowing reddish eyes staring at them. They turned off their
flashlight and approached closer on foot, about 30 meters away they again
saw the reddish eyes on a dark creature that appeared to be standing on top=

of an apparently dead animal. One of the hunters shone its flashlight on
the figure again and saw a figure about 40 cm in height that quickly ran
from the area at very high speed. The creature disappeared into the brush.=

At the scene, a dead and mutilated young heifer. Other mutilations were
reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


64.
Location. Rancul, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 25 2002
Time: 2020
Two young men, Nestor Pinto and Daniel Gatica were walking on a field when=

they encountered a short man-like figure with huge pointy ears and long
dangling arms standing near some brush. The figure scurried into the brush=

and disappeared and at the same time the two witnesses ran away from the
area and did not see the strange dwarf again.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


65.
Location. Bavaria, Germany (exact location not given)
Date: June 25 2002
Time: night
The witness had stayed up late watching the soccer game as was in his
bedroom when suddenly there was a coldness around him that made him shiver.=

He noticed that his audio capabilities were somehow enhanced and he was
able to hear sounds that previously he was unable to hear. He then heard a=

noise outside his door and went out to investigate. The noise became louder=

as he approached the door. He then heard footsteps and opened the door. A
very small man with a somewhat deformed body that was smiling at him
confronted the witness. He looked straight ahead and then stared at the
witness. His next memory was of waking up in his bed in the morning.

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.com
Type: E


66.
Location. Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2105
The primary witness had stepped out on his back porch when his attention
was drawn to two huge black "birds" which were approaching from the north.=

His first impression was they were Herons, but soon realized that the color=

was wrong, and "they were huge, much larger than any bird I have ever
seen." The two huge birds landed at the top of a very tall coniferous tree.=

The witness stated that the wingspan appeared to be wider than the
branches, jest below where they had landed. The body size was estimated to=

be about six feet from head to tail. The oddest feature was the shape of
the wings, which according to the witness appeared to be bat-like. The tree=

where the "birds" landed seemed as though it would break from their weight.=

The witness yelled for others in the house to come outside to look. Another=

family member was able to see the huge black birds as they passed overhead,=

and headed for some woods. After checking the size of the branches where
the birds had landed, the witness estimated that the wingspan would have
been close to 12 feet or somewhat larger.

HC addendum
Source: Stan GordonType: E


67.
Location. Marldon Hill, Paington, England
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2357
A couple were walking near a local historic monument (a windmill) and they=

drew closer to monument they heard a low whirling noise. The noise
progressed to a high-pitched whining, almost out of hearing range. Then
they saw a mysterious glow coming from the dark side of the windmill, and
then to their astonishment they saw 5 or 6 shadow like figures standing in=

front of the windmill. Startled the two began to run back towards the main=

road. The woman looked back and saw the figures become engulfed by a bright=

light and disappear, and then everything became quiet.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Sightings UKType: E?


68.
Location. Adelia Maria, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 3 2002
Time: 2100
Pedro and Estela Moine had decided to visit the business district of town
called Barrio Norte and crossed the old railroad yard through a pedestrian=

pathway that ran through a pasture area between some silos, old railroad
depots and abandoned wreckage. As the couple moved through the premises
they suddenly became aware of a strange and incomprehensible conversation
between many voices. Startled, they stopped walking moved a few meters more=

and then heard the voices again which now sounded like strange "O" sounds.=

Pedro looked toward the silos and was able to see resembling humanoid but
lacking upper and lower extremities. Despite the pleas of his wife, Pedro
ran several meters toward an inner alley in the silo plant, being able to
make out some 45 meters to the west and in profile---the entity, which
acting surprised, avoided the encounter and moved again to the north.
However, what filled the witnesses with wonderment was that the creature
did so as though flying or floating without touching the facilities it
passed. Pedro and Estela ran after it. It was thus that the man managed to=

see the entity apparently hiding behind the control room of the truck
scale. Pedro ran toward it and was again startled to see the apparition
rising as a plane taking off, flying at an altitude of 5 meters and
disappearing behind a large metal shed. Bewildered, both witnesses called
out, but were unable to see anything else. Pedro Moine as "a thing with
human shape" described the apparition. It had some sort of light, although=

he could not say if reflected or self-generated, although he tends to
believe the latter, since it was a nebulous whitish light, which kept him
from making out details. The entire mass of the apparition appeared to be a=

body covered from head to toe in some sort of mantle, which he described as=

though it wore a hat, but covered with some kind of long raincoat reaching=

down to what he took to be its feet. He added that the "conversational
sounds" repeated themselves in three separate occasions at various
intensities. They were like conversations in a strange language.

HC addendum
Source: Mario Luis Bracamonte, C.O.R, Rio Cuarto Argentina
Type: E


69.
Location. Jerusalem, Israel
Date: July 6 2002
Time: night
A remote TV camera picked up images of "orbs seen on the corner to the
right of the Wailing Wall." They seemed to have facial features almost like=

a ghost, reported investigator Charlotte LeFevre. The orbs were described
as "sharp and distinct". The orbs were next to the women's prayer area in
front of the Wall. Other strange phenomena, has been reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 29Type: F?


70.
Location. Villa Elisa, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: July 13 2002
Time: 2300
A young woman fainted from nervous shock after having an alleged closed
encounter with "some sort of green dwarf". This occurred---enveloped in
darkness---along Misioneros Salesianos Street very close to several houses.=

An ambulance was called and apparently transported the witness who was in
shock.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria ColuchiType: E


71.
Location. Patna, India
Date: July 21 2002
Time: night
Several residents claim they've been bitten or scratched by a "black
monkey-like creature with colored lights flashing from its eyes." Resident=

Pawan Kumar Niyogi who was sleeping on the terrace of his house claims "a 5=

ft tall monkey-like creature" attacked him. He said: "I was terrified and
thought my life was going to end but it merely scratched me on the shoulder=

before jumping off the roof." Local residents are conducting night vigils
and carrying torches to guard their homes.

HC addendum
Source: Ananova, Ufoupdates. Type: E


72.
Location. Chajan, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 21 2002
Time: 2300
Police officer Guillermo Arias was on routine patrol through a rural area
when he heard over the radio that his colleagues in arms over at Achiras
were seeing lights in sectors of said community, and that they were heading=

towards Chajan along National Route 8. At the wheel of the police patrol
van, he managed to see a formation of 7 lights in the distance and decided=

to drive 10 km along a rural dirt road. When he had covered said distance,=

he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine of his vehicle sputtered=

and died, causing the police car to strike the edge of a guardrail.
Simultaneously, the lights on the van's dashboard began turning on and off=

randomly, the police radio went haywire and its dial displayed the random
shifting of the frequencies while the cabin became filled with an acrid
odor, as though of burnt wiring, and the interior lights and stop
indicator, which were broken, began lighting on and off. Seized by fear,
Arias leaped from the van and walked away a few meters down the road,
losing his cellular phone in the escape. The darkness was total, when
suddenly, amid the confusing situation; an immense light emerged from a
field adjacent to the road as a triangular object rose majestically into
the air. Now Arias condition went from fear to abject terror as he saw what=

he described as a real "floating city" some 200 meters long with a long row=

of windows (perhaps as many as 100). Arias claims having seen something
move behind them, describing the movement as "TV sets which make lines and=

shadows", which he defined as "non-human", and that many beams of light
came out of the giant triangle, aimed at the ground. The event lasted 2-3
seconds, but to Arias it felt like an eternity. The object suddenly rose
and sped away, vanishing behind the hills of a local field. As the object
moved away, the whole area was lit up like daytime and there was an
afterglow that lasted another 20 minutes.

HC addendum
Source: C.O.R., Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense, Argentina
Type: A


73.
Location. Waconia, Minnesota
Date: July 26 2002
Time: 0300A
The young witness was sleeping in the backyard with his sister when he
suddenly woke up. He then noticed that the side of the tent that faced the=

wetlands and lake was lit up. Looking towards the light he saw a shadowy
torso and arm of a humanoid figure that seemed to be moving around within
the light. He watched for 30 seconds and saw the figure move the fingers of=

his hands. The witness became frightened and hid in his sleeping bag. He
came out about an hour later and the light and strange figure were
completely gone.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


74.
Location. Sedona, Arizona
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 0310A
In a wooded area the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all
white, with black "straight" eyes; and black diagonal/diamond strip of
"clothing" on top. He stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then
left. Prior to seeing the figure the witness had seen lights in a large
oval shaped pattern in the sky.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


75.
Location. Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 1730
Three girls had decided to visit the rooftop as they did the prior evening=

watching for satellites. It was dusk and the girls had a good vantage point=

looking towards the east. With them they had a pair of binoculars and a
pair of walkie-talkies. The girls noticed that a large orange light
appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The anomaly
was noted to have fluctuated in colors of orange, yellow, white and pale
blue. At fist they thought of an arriving airplane, but then a second light=

appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10=

degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some=

unusually maneuvering; from a stationary position it accelerated at least 5=

degrees closer to the ground surface at an approximate 45-60 degree angle
within a matter of a single second. The first anomaly then began to move
slowly towards the north. At this stage they partially lost view of it as
it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley-like
region of the horizon. According to the witnesses, this third object
appeared to have "landed" on the ground surface. The object was then viewed=

through the binoculars and presented in great detail; the object was
described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange,=

blue/purple and white rotating around the rim. Thy also noted the trees
being slightly illuminated by this extraordinary phenomenon. They were
suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, "Identify
yourself." This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in a
foreign language. Around 1830 the girls were then called down to have
dinner. At about 2030 the girls re-established their places on the roof
after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still
present. Unexpectedly a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above
the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. "It
was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away." The=

light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it=

is not clear how one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became
extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed
her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not=

sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another of the girls woke up
the next morning with her nose bleeding. She also mentioned that she had
seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom.

HC addendum
Source: The Australian UFO Research NetworkType: D or
F?



76.
Location. Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 29 2002
Time: early morning
Local residents have seen a strange figure, which they described as
resembling a "shroud". The apparitions, which always occur in the early
morning hours, have become so common that in recent days several neighbors=

have stayed up late to see them, and it is thus that they were able to
confirm the simultaneous presence of up to 2 such beings, as well as red
lights flying over the area. All the witnesses whether individuals or in a=

group, agree that the entities are nebulous and glowing, with a pair of red=

eyes being clearly identifiable, and glassy faces (as if transparent).
Their movements are smooth and they always appear from behind the sand
dunes, as though "coming form the Naval Base." Most witnesses agree that
they show a great interest in the water tanks located above the roofs, and=

that they do not flee upon detecting the presence of local
residents---rather, they stare at them fixedly for some minutes. Deep
silence is perceived during the observations and "the air appears to become=

still" and neither heat nor cold can be felt---only a sensation of warmth,=

as if the beings emanated heat. Witnesses also state that things appear to=

be darker when "the shroud" appears, as though ambient lighting were
dimmed. Another curious fact is the large number of cats and dogs who
report to the place where the sightings occur and sit down to observe it in=

silence, in a state resembling a trance. A series of semi-circular prints
have been found in the dunes, not very deep, with 15-20 cm separations in
some cases and 30-50 cm in others. The locals have identified them as the
strange being's footprints. Efforts have been made to photograph the
"shroud", but all images, despite the use of different cameras appear
exposed. One witness who approached the site to witness the phenomenon took=

two photos of the prints in the afternoon and decided to stay with the
group of people hoping to see the "shroud", managing to take some photos of=

same and record the new prints which appeared in the dunes after the
sighting. A completely uncommon print was found at the site---but the
residents aren't sure if it's related to the phenomenon: it has the shape
of a five-fingered claw. One witness tried to make use of his carbine's
telescopic sight to see the figure in greater detail, but "when he tried to=

focus on it, he could see nothing_it was a though it could only be seen
with the unaided eye."

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, IHU, Christian Quintero and O A Mario
Proyecto Condor
Type: C or E?


77.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 30 2002
Time: 0530A
27-year old Mariela Baigorri reported seeing a strange figure that floated=

in front of her house. She had woken up early that morning and was getting=

ready to mount her bicycle when she saw behind the fence something floating=

in mid-air. It appeared to be a figure wearing a flowing white transparent=

tunic, with bright red eyes and undefined facial features. Feeling no fear=

she decided to approach it. She felt as if the figure waited for her and
was observing her. At this point Mariela felt some fear and began reciting=

the Lord's Prayer. The figure suddenly moved back and disappeared in plain=

sight.

HC addendum
Source: Juan Carlos Corrales Morey, Vision Ovni, Argentina
Type: E


78.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 31 2002
Time: 1845
23-year old Julian Pereyra was in his vehicle when he observed two red
spheres flying slowly over some nearby woods, they seemed to descend and
disappear behind the trees. 15 minutes later, Pereyra, accompanied by
several other witnesses approached the area and observed what they
described a tall floating figure wearing a white glowing cape like outfit,=

it seemed to glide silently over a field. It had what appeared to be a
visor at face level and two beams of red light emerged from where the eyes=

would have been. The witnesses watched the strange figure glide over the
fields for about 30 minutes. Curiously numerous local dogs and cats
approached and also watched the figure in fascination. The lights and
figure disappeared into the distance. In another occasion Pereyra and some=

of his family members encountered the strange humanoid and felt a strange
sensation as if the wind had suddenly stopped, they felt as they were
inside a vacuum or "bubble." Strange tracks have been reportedly found in
the area also.

HC addendum
Source: Diario La Nueva Provincia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Type: C?


79.
Location. La Cienaga, Pocri, Panama
Date: early August 2002
Time: night
Luis Alfredo Diaz reported hearing loud noises coming from the terraced
patio where the kitchen was located, going to investigate he found his cat=

apparently dead with two obvious holes on the neck and some blood on the
floor. Before finding the cat he had called his wife, Maria de Los Santos
Barrios. As his wife stood in front of him a panic stricken look came over=

her face, turning around he was confronted by a bizarre 1-meter tall
humanoid that had jumped to the center of the patio. The creature was
described as thin, covered with dark hair, with large pointed ears that
almost covered its face, it had very large eyes and extremely strong hind
legs resembling that of a kangaroo. Terrified he ran to his son's bedroom
and carried him outside yelling for his neighbors. A search failed to
locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Panamanian Paranormal Forum
Type: E


80.
Location. Near Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Date: August 2002
Time: night
The same witness involved in a similar encounter last year was again
camping in the same area when he again heard a noise. Shining the light in=

the direction of the sound he again saw the same creature. The creature sat=

there crouched by the trees staring at the witness. The witness walked
slowly towards it, he got to within 20 ft when it just jumped backward and=

disappeared. He described the creature as about five to six ft in height,
gray in color. It was totally naked. It had human features, but more
leathery, and its face was very wide, its eyes were huge and even though
they reflected light, they still looked black, resembling two intensely
black marbles. Its legs were very muscular, but turned backwards, like a
bird. Other hikers in the area have reported encountering little brown men=

on some of the more isolated trails.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal Story Archives, November 2002Type: E


81.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: August 1 2002
Time: late evening
64-year old Raul Dorado was touring some fields when he heard a loud sound=

on two occasions, like a whirlwind, which drew his attention. The third
time he saw something he describes as a green circle with three legs
hovering over him. At that moment Dorado fell to the ground, and according=

to his story, he carried a shotgun, binoculars and a cellular phone, the
latter, which was taken from his hand, and he could clearly see being
sucked into the object, which was apparently at low altitude. His next
recollection was seeing the object disappear toward the east. Dorado
remained at the location for an hour before being able to rise and walk
back to his car, returning to town in a state of shock. He had to be
hospitalized. Later when calls were placed to the (abducted) cellular phone=

someone would pick up and heavy breathing could be heard. Later on the
phone was apparently disconnected.

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, quoting Diario La Arena, La PampaType: G?


82.
Location. Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Date: August 2 2002
Time: 1730
A man named Todd Sees went up the mountain to look for pre-season deer. He=

told his wife that he would be home by noon. He rode his 4-wheeler up the
power line behind his home. He never returned. A search party composed of
local police, state police and volunteers searched for Sees. The 4-wheeler=

was found on the top of the mountain near a power-line. Tracking dogs could=

find nothing to go on around the 4-wheeler. The search went on for 2 days
and over 6 miles of mountain was covered from top to bottom. Then, in the
evening of the 2nd day, his body was found in a hard to reach wooded area.=

He was wearing his underwear. He was emaciated---not bloated. He was pale
and had an expression of horror on his face. When he went up the mountain
he was fully dressed, boots, camo-vest, hat, socks, pants. 3 people, on one=

farm, said they saw a large round bright object just above the power-lines=

at the time of the disappearance. It was silent, it did not move for about=

10 to 15 minutes. It suddenly went up and suddenly stopped. A light shone
down and something was pulled up into the light. It then went straight up,=

hesitated again, and then went west over the Susquehanna River and out of
sight. More specifically a farmer saw an object above Montour Ridge at the=

power lines, on top of the mountain, it was round and very still over the
lines. Suddenly it moved what looked like a few hundred feet to the east,
it stopped and a beam of blue and white light shone to the ground. What was=

seen next was very unnerving, he saw what appeared to be a man suspended in=

the light, he was being pulled up head first, he was moving his arms slowly=

in the light. What looked like a man was pulled up into the bottom of the
craft. A few seconds later it started shuddering, then went west very fast,=

stopped briefly, and then went straight up and out of sight. Also three
fishermen saw the craft. The FBI is supposedly also investigating. (Debated=

as a hoax, who would? and for what purpose?).

HC addendum
Source: Rense, UFO updates, NUFORCType: G?






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                            2002 Humanoid Reports

From: Albert Rosales <Garuda79@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:32:05 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:14:40 -0500
Subject: 2002 Humanoid Reports


Happy new year everyone

Sincerely,

Albert

-----

2002 Humanoid Reports. It appears to be a slow start for this
year with only one recorded case, again from Chile. We will see
what develops later on the year. 2001 was pretty busy but it was
a decline from 2000. Maybe we will see another down trend again,
later to pick up again in the near future. This seems to be the
ever-ongoing trend of the phenomena. Will it always stay the
same? Time will tell. Following is a list of known 2002 humanoid
cases.


1.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: January 2002
Time: 0300A
An employee at the local Minera Escondida was on his way to the
storage freezer in order to pick up some supplies when an
unknown creature jumped him from behind. He could only describe
it as hairy and dark. He was left with deep scratches and in a
state of shock. Terrified he ran away and bumped into two other
employees who were able to see a shadowy creature in the dark.

HC addendum
Source: La Estrella del Loa de Calama, ChileType: E


2.
Location. Caracas, Venezuela
Date: January 2002
Time: late night
Late one night in a dream-like state the witness woke up to see
seven to eight strange figures in her bedroom. They were dark
gray in color and very thin, with three large thick long fingers
on their hands. They had large, lipless mouths and large shiny
protruding black eyes, their noses were thin and protruding,
small ears, the heads was large and pointy. The humanoids
appeared to be naked and she was able to see a penis on the
humanoids. They were about 1.55 meters in height. She felt dizzy
and under the control of the strange entities. She was led out
of her bedroom by one of the humanoids that removed her clothing
and made her lie down on the floor. The humanoids apparently
attempted to molest her sexually and possibly attempted to rape
her but were not successful. She apparently passed out and does
not remember anything else about the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Lista Alcione and witness communicationType: E


3.
Location. Fort McMurry, Alberta, Canada
Date: January 2 2002
Time: 2032
Two men were parked on an isolated dirt road when they spotted a
large cone-shaped object descend and hover. One of the men
exited the car and he vanished in plain sight of the other, the
craft then also disappeared. The other man tried to drive away
to get help but the car would not start and it was to cold to
walk. He soon went to sleep and woke up later to find his friend
sleeping next to him. Later they drove back to town. His friend
does not remember what happened during those two hours of
missing time. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


4.
Location. Paso Lovera, Corrientes, Argentina
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2030
Gabriela Lencinas, 15-year old and a 19-year old friend were
returning home on a bicycle when they spotted a large cloud like
object descend from the sky and from it a giant figure emerge.
The witnesses stopped their bicycles to see a car approach the
giant figure, stop, the driver exit the car and then re-entering
the vehicle and driving quickly away. The figure then rose up
into the cloud and disappeared. The girls reported that the
giant human-like figure had its hair standing up on his head and
was extending its arms towards the witnesses that quickly rode
their bicycles home. Other in the area reported seeing bright
lights that same night.

HC addendum
Source: Pablo Omastott
Type: B?


5.
Location. Villa San Rafael, Chile
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2345
Two young teenagers, Jean F and Nelson C, where at home at night
when Jean noticed that his pet snake had escaped from its cage.
Both boys began looking for it outside among the rubble of the
parcel. They recalled how half an hour before, their two dogs
strangely began to howl and cry; however, it did not seem to be
important at that point in time. They searched for the pet snake
together when suddenly, about 30 meters from where they stood;
they saw what appeared to be a stray dog. They threw rocks at to
avoid an attack. However, to their surprise, the animal stood
there, motionless and fearless; it did not get scared nor it ran
away as ordinary dogs normally do. Shortly, the strange animal
began to move towards them. The movements it made as it walked
were very strange. It used two legs at a time. It made very
small sand short leaps like a rabbit. Suddenly, it stopped and
it stood up on two legs. The teenagers then began to feel some
kind of energy. "It was like an electrical shock in the
stomach," they said. It later walked again making a loud
dragging noise, making small leaps and only moving one of its
legs. They noticed the weird shape of the animal. "It was like a
rugby football with legs," one of them said. Jean began to feel
frightened and started to move away from animal. On the other
hand, Nelson felt a strange need to get closer to the creature;
he got to within 2 meters away from it. The creature appear to
emit a strange luminosity that apparently, was bright enough to
lit a small area around the creature in spite of the nighttime
darkness. Nelson was mesmerized as he stared at the strange
creature. He described it as having a head like a large dog with
a flat nose like a bulldog. Its eyes were slanted and pale-red
in color, which could only be seen when the creature turned its
head from side to side like a lizard. At that moment, Nelson
heard a voice in his head saying, "Don't stare, and just run
away." They provided further description, describing the ears as
flat, round and large. Its arms were short, it had elbows, and
the hands had three fingers. It had hair like the one on a wild
pig. Its legs were like the ones of a goat. The feet had also
three fingers and a membrane like ducks, but somewhat shorter.
On its curved back, they were able to notice a spinal section
covered with amounts of even thicker hair. Most of the hair of
the animal was gray, but the tail had a white tip. Nelson
finally fled, terrified, from the area. He also described how he
felt an inexplicable bone-chilling cold sensation.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center
Type: E


6.
Location. Not given
Date: January 12 2002
Time: night
Ted Parker was eating some leftover food when he claims the food began to
change. The bread of the sandwich turned an orange color and the lamb
became a silvery metallic color, sort of like liquid mercury. As he watched=

transfixed, he saw the orange bread and metallic lamb turn into the figure=

of an "alien" with the form of a man. It was silver in color and its outfit=

(smooth pants and shirt, like a jump suit) was orange in color. At this
point Parker glanced at the wall clock and it indicated that 2 hours had
gone by, even though it felt like minutes only. The alien figure
communicated using telepathic means and asked Ted to come with him. They
both went outside and there, Ted saw a landed black-colored craft in his
backyard. In a split second Ted found himself inside the craft not knowing=

how he got there. The inside of the craft was pure white in color with
strips of the metallic silver that the alien figure appeared to be made of.=

The rest of the incident is just a blur, but Parker did remembered hearing=

several loud high-pitched rings while onboard the object. A couple of days=

before while eating dinner with several other people there had been a
similar high pitched ring and everybody had just stopped eating and walked=

out of the room.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: G or F?



7.
Location. Chihuahua, Mexico
Date: January 29 2002
Time: night
Several days before seeing a UFO the witness remembered being in a
dream-like state in which he felt very calm and saw numerous disc shaped
objects, orange-red in color. A human like figure was talking to him about=

the objects and their propulsion. The UFO he saw was of an orange color and=

he felt a sort of ecstasy when he observed the craft. Several of his
neighbors also saw the object.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: G or F?


8.
Location. Near Palmyra, Wisconsin
Date: February 2002
Time: 0200A
Two men reported seeing a creature that resembled a bipedal "gigantic wolf"=

walking down a road west of the city. They said the creature was at least 7=

ft tall with a wolf-like head. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Linda GodfreyType: E


9.
Location. West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
Nebilson Sangma reported encountering a scary furry creature on a hunting
trip in the jungles. He reportedly took a video of the creature's nesting
place. According to Sangma, the creature walked erect like a human, had
built a house like nesting place, and would emerge from it frequently to
feast on a banana grove. Sangma and his brother observed the gigantic
creature for three consecutive days from afar. Officials and villagers have=

been hunting for the creature in the forest but it seems to have
disappeared as furtively as it appeared.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 13
Type: E


10.
Location. Near Dover, England
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness had been jogging along a low path by the beach when she noticed=

a tall, well built being in a black skin tight suit, that stood watching
her from nearby. He wore a black helmet wit a brown visor pulled down. At
first she thought it was a biker but as she approached the figure, it
suddenly disappeared in plain sight. As she continued to run she noticed a=

black craft jutting out of the sand, it was small and oval shaped, matt and=

ribbed it also disappeared in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: E?


11.
Location. Rosario de la Frontera, Salta, Argentina
Date: February 2002
Time: night
A strange creature called by locals "El Pestizo" has attacked several lone=

pedestrians in the middle of the night. It is described as a dark man
shaped shadowy being. A boy riding his bicycle on the way to visit some
friends was toppled from his bicycle and found a black shadowy figure
facing him. The young man managed to upholster his shotgun and fire two
shots. But, when he saw that they had no effect, he promptly drew his knife=

and stabbed the figure without any apparent harm. Frightened the youth
tried to escape but the creature knocked him down without saying a word and=

began dragging him by the hair to the side of the road. At this point the
young man began to scream. A local man, who rushed to provide assistance,
only to find a black shadow dragging the boy by the hair, heard his cries.=

The fearful shape disappeared without a trace after it became aware of the=

other man's presence. Six other locals have reported being attacked by a
similar being and received wounds.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


12.
Location. Not given
Date: February 2002
Time: early morning
The witness was alone at home and was preparing his breakfast when suddenly=

he heard a window break; he went to see what had happened. Grabbing a golf=

club he peeked inside the room where the window broke. He was stunned to
see a strange creature climbing on his bed. It appeared to be hurt, because=

it seemed that it could not move well. Gripping the golf club he went a
step nearer and the creature hissed horribly. It shrieked in an unworldly
manner. Terrified the witness did not move. The creature was small, about
the size of a large rabbit, and it was dark in color and had reddish eyes.=

It had wings and a spine of quills on its back, and had a semi reptilian
face. It appeared to have hair and small legs. The witness raised the golf=

club and the creature hissed again showing its large yellowish teeth, which=

appeared to be sharp, like those of a crocodile. It suddenly hopped out of=

the window and rapidly hopped across the street into the oak trees.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June archiveType: E


13.
Location. Vigevano, Italy
Date: February 2002
Time: 0100A
In the outskirts of this city a witness observed from his vehicle a
luminous humanoid entity walking along a roadway. It scurried away into the=

darkness when approached.
No other information.

HC addendum
Source: CISU, ItalyType: E



14.
Location. Corguinho, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Date: February 5 2002
Time: night
During a localized UFO flap several witnesses reported seeing a strange
creature described as about 1.3 meters in height, having two legs, with a
physique like a human but who moved with a strange fluctuating motion. The=

creature was seen five times by twenty people in the rural zone around
Corguinho. In Rochedo, 6 miles south of Corguinho five Cebu cattle were
found dead with a single incision on the side of the throat. The bodies had=

been drained of blood. (Is there a connection?).

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


15.
Location. Mount Podbrdo, Bosnia Hercigovina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: morning
Contactee and stigmatic Giorgio Bongiovanni was visiting the shrine on top=

of the mountain and was praying silently to the Virgin when, to his
astonishment, a glowing luminous female figure appeared and touched his
forehead with her fingertips. His stigmata scar vanished instantly. The
female figure told him to return to Italy and make known what had happened.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 14
Type: E or F?


16.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: evening
73-year-old Maria Rufina Cayo, a local shepherd was walking back home with=

her dogs and the cattle. Suddenly at one point, something spooked the
animals, and these began to stampede. Looking around she spotted a bizarre=

creature standing about 12 meters away. She described it as a humanoid,
half animal, half human, about 1.70m in height, with bright red eyes, sharp=

protruding fangs, and hands and feet that ended in sharp claws. The
creature looked at the witness three times then it scrambled away using
quick jumping motions with is powerfully built hind legs, she also noticed=

large pointy ears. The top part of its body seems to have been covered in a=

shiny white blanket. It somehow resembled a centaur walking on two
claw-like feet.  Alerted by the shouts of Maria, two men, Santos Jaimes,
and Ruben Colque ran out to investigate with their dogs. Suddenly the dogs=

stopped and began making pitiful howling noises, they refused to move any
further. The men heard noises behind some nearby bushes and went to
investigate and spotted a bizarre creature that stood staring at them with=

huge reddish eyes. It then moved quickly away in the direction of Cerro
Negro and disappeared from sight. The witnesses noticed very sharp claws on=

the creature's feet with a very sharp claw that appeared to be pointed
backwards. Strange footprints were found the next day.

HC addendum
Source: El Tribuno, Salta Argentina March 27 2002
Also Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E



17.
Location. Khanpur, Ahmedabad, India
Date: February 20 2002
Time: after midnight
Several local residents reportedly have encountered a person, dressed in
black and wearing a mask. Dubbed the "Monkeyman" whom they described as
between 25 and 20 years of age, dark skinned and having curly hair can
reportedly be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees. Two
local youths chased it and the figure reportedly disappeared in plain
sight. The two youths have been behaving abnormally since then. The
stranger was also chased along the riverbed near the Cama Hotel and it also=

suddenly disappeared. Others have heard the stranger running on the
rooftops. Abdul Hamid another youngster of the local slums described the
figure as a tall lean man that carries a sharp weapon. "I saw him from the=

back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised the alarm, he jumped to=

another roof and then on to a tree." Police have searched for the stranger=

but nothing has been found.

HC addendum
Source: Fortean Times, India Express
Type: E


18.
Location. Prague, Czech Republic
Date: February 23 2002
Time: night
Blanka Slemendova was in her apartment when she saw a "ship" hovering over=

some nearby woods. It was shining red, white and yellow lights. She then
heard telepathic communication coming from the object telling her to go and=

meet them at an unspecified location. Looking over to her bedroom wall she=

saw what appeared to be a projection of human like faces looking at her.
Later that night she saw luminous figures in her room and a floating red
light also in her room. The next night she saw what appeared to be 2 gray
suns and around them a golden lights with numerous groups of shiny
human-like figures floating about. She interpreted these as being angels.

HC addendum
Source: Direct from witness (Slemendova)
Type: C & F?


19.
Location. Wycliffe Well Roadhouse, Northern Territory Australia
Date: early March 2002
Time: evening
While workers in the area watched unusual lights in the sky an aboriginal
woman encountered a triangular sort of object in a paddock and all of the
sudden she saw three silvery clad human like figures that began to move
toward her vehicle. She turned the vehicle around and took off.

HC addendum
Source: Lou Farcus ABC On-lineType: C


20.
Location. Near Canberra Australia
Date: March 2002
Time: 1700
Several friends were taking a trip to the coast and it was already very
dark. They had already entered a tropical forest area and there was a mist=

rolling along the ground. As they turned around they saw something
squatting in the middle of the road. It stared at them, and just as they
thought they were going to hit it, it leaped off the road and into the
trees. It leaped about 10 meters in the air. The creature was definitely
human looking although it wore strange clothes. It was dressed in a green
robe of some kind with little pieces of gold on it, and it was either
wearing a head crest or it had a row of spikes running from its forehead to=

the top of its neck. Very frightened the witnesses drove out of the forest=

and at the same time the mist turned to a thick fog. They pulled over and
decided to wait until the fog had cleared, although none of them were too
happy about it. As they sat around and waited they suddenly heard a shriek.=

It sounded like some sort of wild animal and they turned the car on so the=

headlights would scare it away. The headlights revealed the same creature
they had seen earlier. It hid its face from the light and shrieked. Right
before the witnesses' eyes, the creature seemed to evaporate into the fog.=

Within five minutes the fog had gone and the normal rolling mist was back.=

The witnesses quickly left the area and drove towards the coast.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June ArchiveType: E


21.
Location. Guanica Puerto Rico
Date: March 1 2002
Time: 2345
Reinaldo Rios (involved in other encounters) was in his bedroom that night=

when a large white light suddenly appeared. It flew around the room several=

times and then hovered. He heard voices coming from the light, which
communicated with him. The voice said: "I am your real father." Soon the
light transformed itself into a figure resembling that of a little boy it
then vanished in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: UFOs over America.com
Type: E


22.
Location. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 0800A
The witness and his wife were in bed that Saturday morning talking when
their 5-year-old daughter came into the bedroom with her baby brother,
whose cot is placed under their bedroom window. They heard a strange noise=

and some green light came into the window. Their daughter looked out the
window and reported seeing a "flying car" with four spinning green lights
on top. She saw two windows in the vehicle and saw two dark brown faces
looking out. His wife saw the craft flying past through the curtains. That=

same morning, in a large tree near the witness house a strange structure
was found. The branches were arranged in a rectangular pen shape, vertical,=

each approximately 30 to 40 cm long. They found a few smaller sticks
scaling down in size from the structure. A piece of concrete slab was found=

propped up on one corner. The witnesses had never seen this strange
structure before and think is some kind of message left by the visitors.
(Some kind of bizarre crop circle?). A few nights before they had heard
strange noises coming from the kitchen area.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: A


23.
Location. Golasecca Di Novara, Italy
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 2330
Augusto & Maurizia were in their vehicle parked in an open field next to a=

wooded area having a heated discussion when suddenly a powerful beam of
reddish-orange light illuminated the area around them. They rolled down the=

car window and heard a sharp metallic sound that seemed to be increasing in=

intensity. They now noticed, behind the beam of light a hovering
disc-shaped craft with a central rotating ring, it hovered about a meter
from the ground. From the object, a cigar-shaped beam of light emerged;
they could see it as the central ring of the craft slowly rotated on its
axis. The craft was only about 10 meters away. At this point, and only
about 4 meters from the object Augusto saw what appeared to be a gelatinous=

transparent humanoid-like figure with a visible head, arms and legs. The
figure was silvery in color and was very tall, about 3 meters or so. At
this point Augusto became concerned and drove away from the area and did
not see the object or figure depart. The whole episode lasted about 10
minutes. The metallic noise was heard all throughout the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Alfredo Lissoni, CUN Milano, Michelle Castellano CUN VareseType: C


24.
Location. Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England
Date: March 3 2002
Time: morning
Helen Diskin went for a walk in the countryside talking snap shots along
the way with her digital camera. Returning home she loaded these into her
computer and was intrigued by an odd-looking image. It looked like a
luminous figure in an area of no sunlight, skulking amongst the trees. She=

returned to the site of the photo twice afterward and could find no
explanation for the figure. The figure resembled a small helmeted figure
that she had not seen when she took the picture of an area of the woods she=

had thought of as "mysterious."

HC addendum
Source: Helen Diskin, UFO Magazine Vol. 22 # 1Type: E?


25.
Location. Near Trenton New Jersey
Date: March 4 2002
Time: night
Several witnesses were camping outside of town and late at night one of
them was attempting to put out the bonfire when he heard the most awful and=

horrifying scream. It resembled that of an injured dog crossed with a
scream of a woman. The witness dropped the flashlight and was joined by
another witness. Suddenly out of the woods a hideous and gruesome creature=

appeared. It did not look human, somewhat satyr-like in appearance and
walked on two legs. It had a long tail like a dragon and wings like those
unicorns in fantasy books. The beast took several steps towards the
witnesses and one of them picked up and asked and yelled at it and then
shone his flashlight at it. The creature then turned towards the bushes and=

ran away from the area.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: E


26.
Location. Pichaca, Salta, Argentina
Date: March 9 2002
Time: night
Ceferino Leoncio was cleaning his one room metal shack when suddenly a
bright light engulfed the room. He felt a sudden heat as he saw a tiny
figure (50 cm) of an angel-like creature materialize in front of him. It
slowly moved its small wing-like protrusions and moved around and then
suddenly stopped and remained still. It appeared to be a small living human=

like living being until it appeared to hardened and turn into some type of=

statue of cherubic appearance. Locals have now built a shrine around the
tiny "statue" and call the strange materialization a "religious miracle".

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso
Type: F?



27.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: March 16 2002
Time: 2215
Mirna, was watching television alone in her room when she began hearing
noises coming from outside, at first she thought it was her dogs playing
around with some empty cans. But the noises kept getting louder and louder=

and she decided to go outside to investigate. Once outside she was stunned=

to see some type creature that had somehow entered the rabbit cage and was=

attacking the animals that were making loud unearthly screams. Thinking at=

first that it was one of the dogs she approached the case but realized that=

it was a gray colored hairy hunched over creature, that was moving quickly=

inside the cage. She stepped back and could not understand how the creature=

had entered the cage, since there wasn't any apparent hole or aperture
visible anywhere and the door was firmly closed. Afraid she ran inside her=

home and notified her son, both then ran out but the creature had
mysteriously disappeared. Unnerved, they could not understand how they
creature had escaped since the door to the rabbit caged was still firmly
locked. Later they could only find a small round hole in the wire only
several centimeters in width, not large enough for a creature estimated to=

have been about 70 to 80 cm in height. Several of the rabbits were found
injured and one was dead.

HC addendum
Source: Calama UFO CenterType: E


28.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: March 19 2002
Time: 2000
Young Elizabeth Lera reported seeing a short humanoid with "dark eyes"
looking into the building compound from behind a wire fence. It appeared
not to have any other facial features and was wearing dark clothing; it
wore some type of head covering, which was hard to see because of the
darkness. She could only see a pair of large dark eyes on his face that
appeared to shine in the darkness. Some more children now arrived and
observed as the humanoid move several steps towards them. Another witness,=

Rene Mamani saw the humanoid run and hide behind some bushes. It seemed to=

move at very high speed in an unnatural fashion. It seemed to have remained=

suspended in mid-air for a few seconds. It then seemed to fly through the
air and disappeared into some nearby woods. Other students at the school
reportedly saw it again on the night of the 20th.

HC addendum
Source: Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E


29.
Location. Woodburn, Oregon
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 0300A
The witness was sleeping when she woke up suddenly feeling paralyzed. The
witness was completely unable to move or speak. Her next memory was of a
strange sensation on her left cheek, which hurt a lot. Unseen "beings" were=

apparently taking skin samples. Her face was left with a pink fleshy scoop=

down my left cheek, directly on the cheekbone. A teardrop scar was left on=

her cheek.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical Universe
Type: G?




30.
Location. Bethlehem, Israel
Date: March 21 2002
Time: night
At the besieged Church of The Nativity several awed witnesses have come
forward describing the events of Thursday night. That night, a smell of
roses filled the sanctuary as the Daughters of Charity held their evening
prayers. "The sweet scent was soon followed by a high musical humming sound=

and a distinct feeling of warmth emanating from the ceiling." Then, the
sisters reported, seeing a glowing beam of light gradually forming the
likeness of the Blessed Virgin "like a film coming into focus." Tears were=

running down her face, and she uttered a prophetic warning. "Time is
growing short, and the promised Judgment Day is nearly at hand." One week
before the apparition, The Church of the Holy Family was the scene of a
ferocious firefight between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 17Type: F


31.
Location. Not given
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 2255
16-year old Steven Mizon saw hovering over a street a large oval shaped
craft encircled in bright lights and with several lighted windows around
its edge. A figure stared down at him from one of the windows. No other
information.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Watch
Type: A



32.
Location. Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain
Date: March 26 2002
Time: 1500
A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a deserted road when=

he noticed ahead in the distance and in the middle of the roadway an object=

resembling a shiny pear that was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat
perplexed he approached and noticed two individuals standing on a nearby
field. These were over 2 meters in height, wore tight fitting white
coveralls and helmets resembling that of the early astronauts. He parked
his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men=

walked away and entered the shiny pear-shaped craft while the other
remained behind. Knowing that these men were "not from this earth" he still=

asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt that as
he approached the strange pair he had been in some type of a trance and
seemed to have floated over the road. The humanoid answered and appeared
genuinely happy as to his offer of assistance but said that everything was=

in order. He also added that the area was very beautiful and also added:
"Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such
beautiful scenes, they disappeared a long time ago." The astounded witness=

managed to ask the humanoid where he was from and was told that they hailed=

from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The=

humanoid smiled as he answered the question. The humanoid then bid goodbye=

and walked towards the nearby shiny pear shaped object, he then disappeared=

inside of it. The craft then emitted a loud whistling sound and disappeared=

at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the
humanoids as about 2.50 meters in height, wide chests and heavy set, thin
legs. Generally human features, but somewhat "refined" or sharpened
features. The suits were very tight fitting made of an apparent synthetic
material resembling plastic. Their eyes were very light almost white and
their speech was hesitant & accented. Also their movements seemed kind of
clumsy.

HC addendum
Source: J M Garcia, Francisco Padron, SpainType: B


33.
Location. Pringle Lake, Texas
Date: March 28 2002
Time: 1100A
Mark Hakemack and a friend had taken an airboat out on the NW side of the
lake to do a little redfish fishing. The day was kind of hazy, with broken=

cloud cover. They had caught several trout and were just chatting when he
hooked up a large redfish while playing with the fish, Mark happened to
glance upwards and saw a large bird-like creature emerge from a cloudbank.=

His friend saw it too, after about 20 to 25 seconds it flew behind cloud
cover again. The strange creature was grayish in color and the profile of a=

raptor, short neck/head, no legs sticking out behind, and no long tail
feathers. Mark could not take his eyes off it. He estimated the wingspan to=

have been 10' to 14 ' in overall. It appeared to be soaring on the wind,
although, he did see it give a couple of light "flaps" with its wings. The=

witness could only relate this to the legendary "Thunderbird" legend.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.comType: E


34.
Location. Sevilla, Spain
Date: March 30 2002
Time: late night
The witness to the March 26 case was at home with his wife and was getting=

ready to sleep when he heard footsteps coming from patio area outside his
chalet. Armed with a club, he opened the door and was stunned to see the
same two tall heavyset humanoids he had encountered 4 days before. One of
the humanoids was kneeling on the ground as if inspecting something on the=

soil, the other one upon hearing the door open, turned and quickly assured=

the witness not to fear that they were not here to harm him. Stunned, the
witness invited the two humanoids in the house for some refreshments (!).
These declined the invitation telling that they had to go already. Using
the same clumsy movements both humanoids walked towards the rear of the
house where the witness noticed the same shiny metallic pear shaped craft
on the ground. They entered the object, which quickly left at high speed.
The witness's wife awakened by the voices was able to see the two humanoids=

from a second story window, and described them in the same way.

HC addendum
Source: Francisco Padron, Jose Manuel Garcia, SpainType: B


35.
Location. Los Cipreses, Chile
Date: March 31 2002
Time: noon
During a local UFO congress 24 persons in three groups entered a
dimensional gateway that appeared by itself over the terrain. It was kind
of a dome, a luminous archway measuring four by four meters. The
participants lost their materiality without disappearing completely. Upon
entering, they met several human-like alien characters with large baldheads=

and wearing robes that waited within and received information. According to=

sources the contact experience was "dimensional" it was like crossing into=

a different reality. The 24 participants were "all professionals, college
students of high intellectual levels, mostly Chileans," and some were
members of Grupo Rama, a New Age association.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 16, quoting Camilo Valdivieto
Type: G or F?


36.
Location. Tbilissi Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: night
A man entered the local St David church and reported that "a phantom with
wings" had approached him and predicted an earthquake that indeed took
place on April 25 2002, devastating areas of central Georgia.

HC addendum
Source: Pravda
Type: E?


37.
Location. Near Macon, Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: 2300
Three friends were awakened by loud banging noises and bellowing sounds
coming from outside. One of the men ran to the bathroom and looked out the=

window to see a figure run by and squat in the nearby bushes. He described=

the creature as about 3 ft tall, hairy with what appeared to be horns on
its head and hands; he could not see a face. Others in the neighborhood
heard the banging noises.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.com and direct witness
Communication.
Type: E


38.
Location. Belvedere di Tezze, Italy
Date: April 26 2002
Time: evening
A 20-year old woman was returning home one night when she noticed some
bright lights nearby of an unknown origin. She followed the lights in her
car until she stopped near a local pizzeria. She saw the light near the
ground and within the lights two tall slender human like figures wearing
some type of headgear. Since she was carrying a camera she was able to snap=

a quick picture. The figures then vanished. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Gruppo Accademico Ufologico Scandicci quoting
"Il giornale di Vicenza"Type: E?


39.
Location. Puente Santamaria, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: early morning
Two young men observed a dark object descend towards the ground about 100
meters away. According to the two witnesses from the craft descended a
small humanoid, orange in color. Very scared they both ran from the area
and reported their experience to others.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: B


40.
Location. Merceditas, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: evening
An elderly couple was walking along National Route # 8 when about 800
meters from their location they noticed a very strong light. The light
descended next to a puddle at about 70 meters from the witness. Both then
saw two very short orange colored humanoids that moved in very agile
movements near the object. Terrified they walked away and upon looking back=

saw a bright glow on the ground.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: C


41.
Location. Barangay, Philippines
Date: May 2002
Time: night
Several local residents reported seeing a bizarre creature described as an=

"aswang" reputed to be a winged vampire type creature, it reportedly had
red glowing eyes, long black hair, and was wearing a white flowing gown. It=

was seen perched on top of a bamboo tree. Residents at nearby Roxas
reported seeing a similar creature. The police was called but a search
failed to locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Akasico.comType: E


42.
Location. Alvear, La Pampa Argentina
Date: May 3 2002
Time: near midnight
Several young men were returning home late at night along a deserted
roadway when suddenly out of nowhere a female figure wearing a light
flowing gown and with long black hair appeared in front of them. The
strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly and repeatedly asked for=

assistance from the men in a strange urgent tone. Terrified the men ran
from the area and later returned with additional witnesses but they could
find no trace of the strange apparition.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E?


43.
Location. Taralgon Victoria, Australia
Date: May 24 2002
Time: 2355
Walking near the Loy Yang Power station 45-year old Martin Taylor was
suddenly blinded by an intense blue light and he felt extremely dizzy. His=

next memory was of being in a circular room with a variety of lights and
buttons scattered about the walls. He was lying on a large table that
seemed to be of a very highly polished metal. He was strapped down and his=

shirt had been removed. There were wires attached to his arms, neck and
temples. A four ft tall humanoid figure with very large almond shaped eyes,=

almost transparent looking skin, ghostly white in appearance examined him.=

The figure had three extremely long fingers on each hand and spoke in a
strange dialect.

HC addendum
Source: UFO WatchType: G


44.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: May 29 2002
Time: midnight
Irma Rick watched a rotating luminous object descend close to the ground
next to a grain silo; it gave off a powerful bluish light through some
openings around its circumference. It hovered close to the ground. Through=

an opening a strange creature was seen to descend to the ground. It was
described as having an elongated semi-transparent white body; it also had
an elongated head. She could not see any eyes or legs on the creature as it=

stood motionless next to the craft. She observed the creature and object
for about 5 minutes until she dropped the flashlight she was carrying.
Afraid she left the area and did not see the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: B



45.
Location. Lembang Bandung, Indonesia
Date: May 30 2002
Time: 2315
The witness was driving his motorcycle across a highland area when he
spotted some flashing lights overhead and then noticed a silvery
disc-shaped craft descend low over some nearby graves at a cemetery. The
craft had blue and orange flashing lights around its rim. There was no
sound as the craft apparently emitted a beam of light towards the ground
and levitated what appeared to be some dead bodies onboard the object. (!)=

The witness was apparently paralyzed and was unable to move. The craft then=

shot away at a 45-degree angle and disappeared from sight. When that
happened the witness left the scene.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


46.
Location. Houston, Texas
Date: late May 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness was at the local electric company in order to pay a bill when
she decided to use the restrooms. Sitting in the stall she then noticed on=

the side of the wall of the stall what appeared to be a face lit up in a
dull light. When the witness looked directly at the "face" it vanished. She=

described is as having large round eyes no visible nose and a slit-like
mouth. (A peeping tom alien?)

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.comType: E?


47.
Location. General Acha, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: early June 2002
Time: various
A resident of the Oeste neighborhood informed newspaper sources that a
short green-colored dwarf like entity has appeared twice on her property:
once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When her husband ran out
responding to her screams, the mysterious entity vanished by rapidly
climbing up a tree. All versions agree in that the entity is short in
stature. Another resident added that it moved so quickly that it was hard
to describe it. In the same area mysterious cattle mutilations have also
been reported.

HC addendum
Source: Loren Coleman in UFO UpdatesType: E


48.
Location. Ojo De Agua, Argentina
Date: June 2002
Time: afternoon
Several passengers onboard two farm micro buses reported seeing a very tall=

dark man like figure that appeared to be wearing a tight fitting diver's
outfit standing on a nearby field. Nearby numerous mysterious animal
mutilations have been reported. The figure was silent and was quickly lost=

from sight as the buses moved away.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E




49.
Location. Near Tampa, Florida
Date: June 2002
Time: night
A man and three of his friends reported encountering two bizarre chupacabra=

type creatures one stood about 3-4 ft tall, the other looked to be about 6=

ft tall. Both had large glowing red eyes and spikes starting from the head=

to the back. They scurried away into a wooded area. (They were to have
further encounters in August).

HC addendum
Source: Art Bell.comType: E


50.
Location. Antalya, Turkey
Date: June 5 2002
Time: afternoon
Approximately 45 witnesses claimed they saw an UFO in the Santral district=

landing on the backyard of the Fatma Primary School. Several students
including Murat Esici age 11 saw an alien emitting red rays from his eyes
come out of the object. His hands and feet were metallic. He had a very big=

head and was about 1.80 meters in height. Esici temporarily lost her voice=

immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also=

claimed they san an unusual craft and an alien beside it. "His eyes and
hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes." The children
were overcome with shock after the incident.

HC addendum
Source: Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center Intl
Type: B


51.
Location. Polonnauruwa, Sri Lanka
Date: June 8 2002
Time: 2200
Approximately 50 to 70 eyewitnesses saw a UFO flying at about 100 meters
above ground level. The object was silent and briefly landed emitting a
bright flash like light. When it was close to the ground the object emitted=

a buzzing sound. Three other witnesses saw three 2 ft tall creatures than
when approached ran into the jungle and disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Sources
Type: D


52.
Location. Polonnaruwa, Sir Lanka
Date: June 9 2002
Time: 2012
Two witnesses went to a bath on a nearby river when they heard a loud
thundering sound and a UFO appeared. The craft landed nearby and two, 2 ft=

tall "aliens" emerged from the object. One of the humanoids flung a small
fluorescent fireball like object that flew over a house and vanished. Soon=

the craft and humanoids disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC & News Reports
Type: B



53.
Location. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Date: June 10 2002
Time: 1900
Witnesses saw a mysterious light in the sky and others saw a large disc
shaped object land nearby. Three humanoids only about 2 ft tall emerged
from the craft and disappeared into the forest when approached. The object=

also left.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Reports
Type: B


54.
Location. Chantilly, Virginia
Date: June 10 2002
Time: night
The witness was awakened during the night with a sense of some presence in=

the room. Looking toward the door, he saw, fading quickly, something, which=

almost had the appearance of a hologram. Next, shadows appeared outside the=

windows in an erratic shape. At first he thought the shadows to be from
trees moving in a strong wind. The appearance was of a storm blowing the
limbs to create these shadows outside the window. However, there was no
storm. He looked at the adjacent window on the side of the house facing
opposite and there was no wind at all. In fact there was no trees
positioned in such a way to cast a shadow. He opened the blinds to see what=

might be causing the shadows. He then saw what seemed to be a hologram with=

the shape of two small eyes moving erratically outside the window.
Frightened he closed the blinds. Two weeks later he was awakened by a
humming sound and again saw the erratic shadows outside the window. He
watched the shadows for 10-15 minutes and then called the police. The
police found no signs of any intrusion in the yard. When the police left
the witness walked toward the door facing the back porch and saw a large
burst of bluish white light. It looked unnatural, almost like a laser. He
has not seen the "shadows" again.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: E?


55.
Location. Ataliva Roca, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 11 2002
Time: 1930
A worker at a local drainage project was sitting and guarding some
machinery when he noticed a short greenish colored humanoid figure that was=

approaching his location from a nearby field. The witness became concerned=

and drove away from the area in the construction equipment and did not see=

the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


56.
Location. Eduardo Castex, La Pampa Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Two girls of a local school encountered a short greenish humanoid figure in=

the playing yard. The figure was standing up and appeared to be raising its=

arms up to the sky. Terrified the two girls retreated into the school and
watched the figure scurry away into some nearby woods. Around the same time=

a local farmer found a strangely mutilated hog in his farm.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


57.
Location. Chasico, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Hugo Deluca and several other workers were parked in a bus in an isolated
area when they spotted about 20 meters away a short, 1.20 meters tall,
bipedal figure completely covered in gray hair. It walked upright like a
man and then scurried away into some woods vanishing from sight. The area
had been hit with animal mutilations around the same time.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


58.
Location. Castex, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 13 2002
Time: night
A 70-year old man had gone to his driveway to check on a flat tire in his
car when a short light green colored humanoid suddenly appeared next to
him. It had large round ears, and two reddish luminous eyes. Its body was
thin and almost triangular in shape. The witness attempted to yell out but=

was suddenly unable to speak and at the same time strange warmth invaded
his body. Several seconds later the humanoid vanished and the witness
returned to normal. He reported the incident to the police.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


59.
Location. La Laguna, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 14 2002
Time: afternoon
Several youngster had gone into the fields in order to obtain some firewood=

when they saw sitting on a clearing in the woods two human like figures,
all dressed in black. They sat facing each other, one looking towards the
east the other towards the west, unmoving. Unnerved by the sight the
juveniles ran from the area. The next day the father of one of the boys
found two dead cows at the site, but could find no trace of the strange
pair. Days later a sheep and a horse were found dead and strangely
mutilated in the nearby location of El Cardonal.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: E


60.
Location. De Kalb, Illinois
Date: June 15 2002
Time: 0030A
The witness was sitting in his family room watching TV when he noticed a
bright flash of light outside the window. He saw the flash several times
and decided to check his backyard there he saw a circular light moving
around in circles. The light began to get closer; scared he ran inside his=

home and called a friend on the phone. He then quickly ran outside and saw=

the circle getting closer, he noticed that it had a purplish color to it
and it began to descend towards the ground. He became nauseous and dizzy
and collapsed on to the ground. He tried to crawl to the house but was
unable to move. He turned his head and saw the purplish object on the
ground and what appeared to be a door opening up. He then heard a squeaking=

noise and saw a tall and a short figure standing by a door of the object.
The two figures started to move towards him, walking in a strange bopping
fashion. They were of a dark complexion with a bumpy texture, other than
that they resembled normal human beings. The shorter figure approached and=

picked up the witness' camera and stared at it. He then looked at the
taller figure and handed it to him. The taller of the two looked at the
camera and then at the witness. The witness then heard loud unpleasant
shrieks coming from the taller figure, which then gave the camera back to
the shorter figure, which covered the camera with his hand, seconds later a=

light began to emerge from their hands. Then they stopped, threw the camera=

aside and began to walk towards the witness. They reached his side and
started to examine his body. A dog began to bark from inside the house and=

the shorter figure put out his hand and the dog stopped barking. At this
point the witness began to vomit. After about a minute he began to relax
and to breathe better. When he turned his head he realized that the two
figures and the purple spherical object were now gone. The next day he had=

a very severe headache.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: B


61.
Location. San Juan, Argentina
Date: June 20 2002
Time: evening
At a location where the body of a strangely mutilated carcass of a cow was=

found two witnesses reported seeing a small creature with large glowing
slanted eyes and about one meter in height. Later in the same area, members=

of the Gimenez family after investigating noises and a strong odor coming
from a wooded area found a mutilated cow and also watched a short humanoid=

with glowing eyes scurrying away into the woods.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


62.
Location. Manuel Rodriguez, Calama, Chile
Date: June 22 2002
Time: after midnight
A bizarre creature was spotted at a local housing complex on San Antonio
Street. Witnesses reported that it resembled an ape and it jumped all over=

the roof. It passed right in front of the witness, Maria Gavia's window and=

then it came back making all manner of noise. The creature was able to make=

very long jumps, unlike any a human could. It jumped and landed on the
neighbor's roof and then it left the area. Neighborhood dogs acted scared
and began howling. Others described the creature as about 1.5 meters tall,=

stocky in build with bright red eyes. It made a lot of noise. Others
reportedly chased the creature.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center, quoting El
Mercurio de CalamaType: E


63.
Location. Angencia Realico, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 23 2002
Time: late night
Several hunters returning to a local ranch spotted about 50 meters away two=

large glowing reddish eyes staring at them. They turned off their
flashlight and approached closer on foot, about 30 meters away they again
saw the reddish eyes on a dark creature that appeared to be standing on top=

of an apparently dead animal. One of the hunters shone its flashlight on
the figure again and saw a figure about 40 cm in height that quickly ran
from the area at very high speed. The creature disappeared into the brush.=

At the scene, a dead and mutilated young heifer. Other mutilations were
reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


64.
Location. Rancul, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 25 2002
Time: 2020
Two young men, Nestor Pinto and Daniel Gatica were walking on a field when=

they encountered a short man-like figure with huge pointy ears and long
dangling arms standing near some brush. The figure scurried into the brush=

and disappeared and at the same time the two witnesses ran away from the
area and did not see the strange dwarf again.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


65.
Location. Bavaria, Germany (exact location not given)
Date: June 25 2002
Time: night
The witness had stayed up late watching the soccer game as was in his
bedroom when suddenly there was a coldness around him that made him shiver.=

He noticed that his audio capabilities were somehow enhanced and he was
able to hear sounds that previously he was unable to hear. He then heard a=

noise outside his door and went out to investigate. The noise became louder=

as he approached the door. He then heard footsteps and opened the door. A
very small man with a somewhat deformed body that was smiling at him
confronted the witness. He looked straight ahead and then stared at the
witness. His next memory was of waking up in his bed in the morning.

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.com
Type: E


66.
Location. Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2105
The primary witness had stepped out on his back porch when his attention
was drawn to two huge black "birds" which were approaching from the north.=

His first impression was they were Herons, but soon realized that the color=

was wrong, and "they were huge, much larger than any bird I have ever
seen." The two huge birds landed at the top of a very tall coniferous tree.=

The witness stated that the wingspan appeared to be wider than the
branches, jest below where they had landed. The body size was estimated to=

be about six feet from head to tail. The oddest feature was the shape of
the wings, which according to the witness appeared to be bat-like. The tree=

where the "birds" landed seemed as though it would break from their weight.=

The witness yelled for others in the house to come outside to look. Another=

family member was able to see the huge black birds as they passed overhead,=

and headed for some woods. After checking the size of the branches where
the birds had landed, the witness estimated that the wingspan would have
been close to 12 feet or somewhat larger.

HC addendum
Source: Stan GordonType: E


67.
Location. Marldon Hill, Paington, England
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2357
A couple were walking near a local historic monument (a windmill) and they=

drew closer to monument they heard a low whirling noise. The noise
progressed to a high-pitched whining, almost out of hearing range. Then
they saw a mysterious glow coming from the dark side of the windmill, and
then to their astonishment they saw 5 or 6 shadow like figures standing in=

front of the windmill. Startled the two began to run back towards the main=

road. The woman looked back and saw the figures become engulfed by a bright=

light and disappear, and then everything became quiet.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Sightings UKType: E?


68.
Location. Adelia Maria, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 3 2002
Time: 2100
Pedro and Estela Moine had decided to visit the business district of town
called Barrio Norte and crossed the old railroad yard through a pedestrian=

pathway that ran through a pasture area between some silos, old railroad
depots and abandoned wreckage. As the couple moved through the premises
they suddenly became aware of a strange and incomprehensible conversation
between many voices. Startled, they stopped walking moved a few meters more=

and then heard the voices again which now sounded like strange "O" sounds.=

Pedro looked toward the silos and was able to see resembling humanoid but
lacking upper and lower extremities. Despite the pleas of his wife, Pedro
ran several meters toward an inner alley in the silo plant, being able to
make out some 45 meters to the west and in profile---the entity, which
acting surprised, avoided the encounter and moved again to the north.
However, what filled the witnesses with wonderment was that the creature
did so as though flying or floating without touching the facilities it
passed. Pedro and Estela ran after it. It was thus that the man managed to=

see the entity apparently hiding behind the control room of the truck
scale. Pedro ran toward it and was again startled to see the apparition
rising as a plane taking off, flying at an altitude of 5 meters and
disappearing behind a large metal shed. Bewildered, both witnesses called
out, but were unable to see anything else. Pedro Moine as "a thing with
human shape" described the apparition. It had some sort of light, although=

he could not say if reflected or self-generated, although he tends to
believe the latter, since it was a nebulous whitish light, which kept him
from making out details. The entire mass of the apparition appeared to be a=

body covered from head to toe in some sort of mantle, which he described as=

though it wore a hat, but covered with some kind of long raincoat reaching=

down to what he took to be its feet. He added that the "conversational
sounds" repeated themselves in three separate occasions at various
intensities. They were like conversations in a strange language.

HC addendum
Source: Mario Luis Bracamonte, C.O.R, Rio Cuarto Argentina
Type: E


69.
Location. Jerusalem, Israel
Date: July 6 2002
Time: night
A remote TV camera picked up images of "orbs seen on the corner to the
right of the Wailing Wall." They seemed to have facial features almost like=

a ghost, reported investigator Charlotte LeFevre. The orbs were described
as "sharp and distinct". The orbs were next to the women's prayer area in
front of the Wall. Other strange phenomena, has been reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 29Type: F?


70.
Location. Villa Elisa, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: July 13 2002
Time: 2300
A young woman fainted from nervous shock after having an alleged closed
encounter with "some sort of green dwarf". This occurred---enveloped in
darkness---along Misioneros Salesianos Street very close to several houses.=

An ambulance was called and apparently transported the witness who was in
shock.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria ColuchiType: E


71.
Location. Patna, India
Date: July 21 2002
Time: night
Several residents claim they've been bitten or scratched by a "black
monkey-like creature with colored lights flashing from its eyes." Resident=

Pawan Kumar Niyogi who was sleeping on the terrace of his house claims "a 5=

ft tall monkey-like creature" attacked him. He said: "I was terrified and
thought my life was going to end but it merely scratched me on the shoulder=

before jumping off the roof." Local residents are conducting night vigils
and carrying torches to guard their homes.

HC addendum
Source: Ananova, Ufoupdates. Type: E


72.
Location. Chajan, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 21 2002
Time: 2300
Police officer Guillermo Arias was on routine patrol through a rural area
when he heard over the radio that his colleagues in arms over at Achiras
were seeing lights in sectors of said community, and that they were heading=

towards Chajan along National Route 8. At the wheel of the police patrol
van, he managed to see a formation of 7 lights in the distance and decided=

to drive 10 km along a rural dirt road. When he had covered said distance,=

he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine of his vehicle sputtered=

and died, causing the police car to strike the edge of a guardrail.
Simultaneously, the lights on the van's dashboard began turning on and off=

randomly, the police radio went haywire and its dial displayed the random
shifting of the frequencies while the cabin became filled with an acrid
odor, as though of burnt wiring, and the interior lights and stop
indicator, which were broken, began lighting on and off. Seized by fear,
Arias leaped from the van and walked away a few meters down the road,
losing his cellular phone in the escape. The darkness was total, when
suddenly, amid the confusing situation; an immense light emerged from a
field adjacent to the road as a triangular object rose majestically into
the air. Now Arias condition went from fear to abject terror as he saw what=

he described as a real "floating city" some 200 meters long with a long row=

of windows (perhaps as many as 100). Arias claims having seen something
move behind them, describing the movement as "TV sets which make lines and=

shadows", which he defined as "non-human", and that many beams of light
came out of the giant triangle, aimed at the ground. The event lasted 2-3
seconds, but to Arias it felt like an eternity. The object suddenly rose
and sped away, vanishing behind the hills of a local field. As the object
moved away, the whole area was lit up like daytime and there was an
afterglow that lasted another 20 minutes.

HC addendum
Source: C.O.R., Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense, Argentina
Type: A


73.
Location. Waconia, Minnesota
Date: July 26 2002
Time: 0300A
The young witness was sleeping in the backyard with his sister when he
suddenly woke up. He then noticed that the side of the tent that faced the=

wetlands and lake was lit up. Looking towards the light he saw a shadowy
torso and arm of a humanoid figure that seemed to be moving around within
the light. He watched for 30 seconds and saw the figure move the fingers of=

his hands. The witness became frightened and hid in his sleeping bag. He
came out about an hour later and the light and strange figure were
completely gone.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


74.
Location. Sedona, Arizona
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 0310A
In a wooded area the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all
white, with black "straight" eyes; and black diagonal/diamond strip of
"clothing" on top. He stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then
left. Prior to seeing the figure the witness had seen lights in a large
oval shaped pattern in the sky.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


75.
Location. Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 1730
Three girls had decided to visit the rooftop as they did the prior evening=

watching for satellites. It was dusk and the girls had a good vantage point=

looking towards the east. With them they had a pair of binoculars and a
pair of walkie-talkies. The girls noticed that a large orange light
appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The anomaly
was noted to have fluctuated in colors of orange, yellow, white and pale
blue. At fist they thought of an arriving airplane, but then a second light=

appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10=

degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some=

unusually maneuvering; from a stationary position it accelerated at least 5=

degrees closer to the ground surface at an approximate 45-60 degree angle
within a matter of a single second. The first anomaly then began to move
slowly towards the north. At this stage they partially lost view of it as
it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley-like
region of the horizon. According to the witnesses, this third object
appeared to have "landed" on the ground surface. The object was then viewed=

through the binoculars and presented in great detail; the object was
described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange,=

blue/purple and white rotating around the rim. Thy also noted the trees
being slightly illuminated by this extraordinary phenomenon. They were
suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, "Identify
yourself." This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in a
foreign language. Around 1830 the girls were then called down to have
dinner. At about 2030 the girls re-established their places on the roof
after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still
present. Unexpectedly a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above
the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. "It
was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away." The=

light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it=

is not clear how one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became
extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed
her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not=

sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another of the girls woke up
the next morning with her nose bleeding. She also mentioned that she had
seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom.

HC addendum
Source: The Australian UFO Research NetworkType: D or
F?



76.
Location. Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 29 2002
Time: early morning
Local residents have seen a strange figure, which they described as
resembling a "shroud". The apparitions, which always occur in the early
morning hours, have become so common that in recent days several neighbors=

have stayed up late to see them, and it is thus that they were able to
confirm the simultaneous presence of up to 2 such beings, as well as red
lights flying over the area. All the witnesses whether individuals or in a=

group, agree that the entities are nebulous and glowing, with a pair of red=

eyes being clearly identifiable, and glassy faces (as if transparent).
Their movements are smooth and they always appear from behind the sand
dunes, as though "coming form the Naval Base." Most witnesses agree that
they show a great interest in the water tanks located above the roofs, and=

that they do not flee upon detecting the presence of local
residents---rather, they stare at them fixedly for some minutes. Deep
silence is perceived during the observations and "the air appears to become=

still" and neither heat nor cold can be felt---only a sensation of warmth,=

as if the beings emanated heat. Witnesses also state that things appear to=

be darker when "the shroud" appears, as though ambient lighting were
dimmed. Another curious fact is the large number of cats and dogs who
report to the place where the sightings occur and sit down to observe it in=

silence, in a state resembling a trance. A series of semi-circular prints
have been found in the dunes, not very deep, with 15-20 cm separations in
some cases and 30-50 cm in others. The locals have identified them as the
strange being's footprints. Efforts have been made to photograph the
"shroud", but all images, despite the use of different cameras appear
exposed. One witness who approached the site to witness the phenomenon took=

two photos of the prints in the afternoon and decided to stay with the
group of people hoping to see the "shroud", managing to take some photos of=

same and record the new prints which appeared in the dunes after the
sighting. A completely uncommon print was found at the site---but the
residents aren't sure if it's related to the phenomenon: it has the shape
of a five-fingered claw. One witness tried to make use of his carbine's
telescopic sight to see the figure in greater detail, but "when he tried to=

focus on it, he could see nothing_it was a though it could only be seen
with the unaided eye."

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, IHU, Christian Quintero and O A Mario
Proyecto Condor
Type: C or E?


77.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 30 2002
Time: 0530A
27-year old Mariela Baigorri reported seeing a strange figure that floated=

in front of her house. She had woken up early that morning and was getting=

ready to mount her bicycle when she saw behind the fence something floating=

in mid-air. It appeared to be a figure wearing a flowing white transparent=

tunic, with bright red eyes and undefined facial features. Feeling no fear=

she decided to approach it. She felt as if the figure waited for her and
was observing her. At this point Mariela felt some fear and began reciting=

the Lord's Prayer. The figure suddenly moved back and disappeared in plain=

sight.

HC addendum
Source: Juan Carlos Corrales Morey, Vision Ovni, Argentina
Type: E


78.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 31 2002
Time: 1845
23-year old Julian Pereyra was in his vehicle when he observed two red
spheres flying slowly over some nearby woods, they seemed to descend and
disappear behind the trees. 15 minutes later, Pereyra, accompanied by
several other witnesses approached the area and observed what they
described a tall floating figure wearing a white glowing cape like outfit,=

it seemed to glide silently over a field. It had what appeared to be a
visor at face level and two beams of red light emerged from where the eyes=

would have been. The witnesses watched the strange figure glide over the
fields for about 30 minutes. Curiously numerous local dogs and cats
approached and also watched the figure in fascination. The lights and
figure disappeared into the distance. In another occasion Pereyra and some=

of his family members encountered the strange humanoid and felt a strange
sensation as if the wind had suddenly stopped, they felt as they were
inside a vacuum or "bubble." Strange tracks have been reportedly found in
the area also.

HC addendum
Source: Diario La Nueva Provincia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Type: C?


79.
Location. La Cienaga, Pocri, Panama
Date: early August 2002
Time: night
Luis Alfredo Diaz reported hearing loud noises coming from the terraced
patio where the kitchen was located, going to investigate he found his cat=

apparently dead with two obvious holes on the neck and some blood on the
floor. Before finding the cat he had called his wife, Maria de Los Santos
Barrios. As his wife stood in front of him a panic stricken look came over=

her face, turning around he was confronted by a bizarre 1-meter tall
humanoid that had jumped to the center of the patio. The creature was
described as thin, covered with dark hair, with large pointed ears that
almost covered its face, it had very large eyes and extremely strong hind
legs resembling that of a kangaroo. Terrified he ran to his son's bedroom
and carried him outside yelling for his neighbors. A search failed to
locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Panamanian Paranormal Forum
Type: E


80.
Location. Near Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Date: August 2002
Time: night
The same witness involved in a similar encounter last year was again
camping in the same area when he again heard a noise. Shining the light in=

the direction of the sound he again saw the same creature. The creature sat=

there crouched by the trees staring at the witness. The witness walked
slowly towards it, he got to within 20 ft when it just jumped backward and=

disappeared. He described the creature as about five to six ft in height,
gray in color. It was totally naked. It had human features, but more
leathery, and its face was very wide, its eyes were huge and even though
they reflected light, they still looked black, resembling two intensely
black marbles. Its legs were very muscular, but turned backwards, like a
bird. Other hikers in the area have reported encountering little brown men=

on some of the more isolated trails.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal Story Archives, November 2002Type: E


81.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: August 1 2002
Time: late evening
64-year old Raul Dorado was touring some fields when he heard a loud sound=

on two occasions, like a whirlwind, which drew his attention. The third
time he saw something he describes as a green circle with three legs
hovering over him. At that moment Dorado fell to the ground, and according=

to his story, he carried a shotgun, binoculars and a cellular phone, the
latter, which was taken from his hand, and he could clearly see being
sucked into the object, which was apparently at low altitude. His next
recollection was seeing the object disappear toward the east. Dorado
remained at the location for an hour before being able to rise and walk
back to his car, returning to town in a state of shock. He had to be
hospitalized. Later when calls were placed to the (abducted) cellular phone=

someone would pick up and heavy breathing could be heard. Later on the
phone was apparently disconnected.

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, quoting Diario La Arena, La PampaType: G?


82.
Location. Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Date: August 2 2002
Time: 1730
A man named Todd Sees went up the mountain to look for pre-season deer. He=

told his wife that he would be home by noon. He rode his 4-wheeler up the
power line behind his home. He never returned. A search party composed of
local police, state police and volunteers searched for Sees. The 4-wheeler=

was found on the top of the mountain near a power-line. Tracking dogs could=

find nothing to go on around the 4-wheeler. The search went on for 2 days
and over 6 miles of mountain was covered from top to bottom. Then, in the
evening of the 2nd day, his body was found in a hard to reach wooded area.=

He was wearing his underwear. He was emaciated---not bloated. He was pale
and had an expression of horror on his face. When he went up the mountain
he was fully dressed, boots, camo-vest, hat, socks, pants. 3 people, on one=

farm, said they saw a large round bright object just above the power-lines=

at the time of the disappearance. It was silent, it did not move for about=

10 to 15 minutes. It suddenly went up and suddenly stopped. A light shone
down and something was pulled up into the light. It then went straight up,=

hesitated again, and then went west over the Susquehanna River and out of
sight. More specifically a farmer saw an object above Montour Ridge at the=

power lines, on top of the mountain, it was round and very still over the
lines. Suddenly it moved what looked like a few hundred feet to the east,
it stopped and a beam of blue and white light shone to the ground. What was=

seen next was very unnerving, he saw what appeared to be a man suspended in=

the light, he was being pulled up head first, he was moving his arms slowly=

in the light. What looked like a man was pulled up into the bottom of the
craft. A few seconds later it started shuddering, then went west very fast,=

stopped briefly, and then went straight up and out of sight. Also three
fishermen saw the craft. The FBI is supposedly also investigating. (Debated=

as a hoax, who would? and for what purpose?).

HC addendum
Source: Rense, UFO updates, NUFORCType: G?






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                            2002 Humanoid Reports

From: Albert Rosales <Garuda79@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:32:05 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:14:40 -0500
Subject: 2002 Humanoid Reports


Happy new year everyone

Sincerely,

Albert

-----

2002 Humanoid Reports. It appears to be a slow start for this
year with only one recorded case, again from Chile. We will see
what develops later on the year. 2001 was pretty busy but it was
a decline from 2000. Maybe we will see another down trend again,
later to pick up again in the near future. This seems to be the
ever-ongoing trend of the phenomena. Will it always stay the
same? Time will tell. Following is a list of known 2002 humanoid
cases.


1.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: January 2002
Time: 0300A
An employee at the local Minera Escondida was on his way to the
storage freezer in order to pick up some supplies when an
unknown creature jumped him from behind. He could only describe
it as hairy and dark. He was left with deep scratches and in a
state of shock. Terrified he ran away and bumped into two other
employees who were able to see a shadowy creature in the dark.

HC addendum
Source: La Estrella del Loa de Calama, ChileType: E


2.
Location. Caracas, Venezuela
Date: January 2002
Time: late night
Late one night in a dream-like state the witness woke up to see
seven to eight strange figures in her bedroom. They were dark
gray in color and very thin, with three large thick long fingers
on their hands. They had large, lipless mouths and large shiny
protruding black eyes, their noses were thin and protruding,
small ears, the heads was large and pointy. The humanoids
appeared to be naked and she was able to see a penis on the
humanoids. They were about 1.55 meters in height. She felt dizzy
and under the control of the strange entities. She was led out
of her bedroom by one of the humanoids that removed her clothing
and made her lie down on the floor. The humanoids apparently
attempted to molest her sexually and possibly attempted to rape
her but were not successful. She apparently passed out and does
not remember anything else about the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Lista Alcione and witness communicationType: E


3.
Location. Fort McMurry, Alberta, Canada
Date: January 2 2002
Time: 2032
Two men were parked on an isolated dirt road when they spotted a
large cone-shaped object descend and hover. One of the men
exited the car and he vanished in plain sight of the other, the
craft then also disappeared. The other man tried to drive away
to get help but the car would not start and it was to cold to
walk. He soon went to sleep and woke up later to find his friend
sleeping next to him. Later they drove back to town. His friend
does not remember what happened during those two hours of
missing time. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


4.
Location. Paso Lovera, Corrientes, Argentina
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2030
Gabriela Lencinas, 15-year old and a 19-year old friend were
returning home on a bicycle when they spotted a large cloud like
object descend from the sky and from it a giant figure emerge.
The witnesses stopped their bicycles to see a car approach the
giant figure, stop, the driver exit the car and then re-entering
the vehicle and driving quickly away. The figure then rose up
into the cloud and disappeared. The girls reported that the
giant human-like figure had its hair standing up on his head and
was extending its arms towards the witnesses that quickly rode
their bicycles home. Other in the area reported seeing bright
lights that same night.

HC addendum
Source: Pablo Omastott
Type: B?


5.
Location. Villa San Rafael, Chile
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2345
Two young teenagers, Jean F and Nelson C, where at home at night
when Jean noticed that his pet snake had escaped from its cage.
Both boys began looking for it outside among the rubble of the
parcel. They recalled how half an hour before, their two dogs
strangely began to howl and cry; however, it did not seem to be
important at that point in time. They searched for the pet snake
together when suddenly, about 30 meters from where they stood;
they saw what appeared to be a stray dog. They threw rocks at to
avoid an attack. However, to their surprise, the animal stood
there, motionless and fearless; it did not get scared nor it ran
away as ordinary dogs normally do. Shortly, the strange animal
began to move towards them. The movements it made as it walked
were very strange. It used two legs at a time. It made very
small sand short leaps like a rabbit. Suddenly, it stopped and
it stood up on two legs. The teenagers then began to feel some
kind of energy. "It was like an electrical shock in the
stomach," they said. It later walked again making a loud
dragging noise, making small leaps and only moving one of its
legs. They noticed the weird shape of the animal. "It was like a
rugby football with legs," one of them said. Jean began to feel
frightened and started to move away from animal. On the other
hand, Nelson felt a strange need to get closer to the creature;
he got to within 2 meters away from it. The creature appear to
emit a strange luminosity that apparently, was bright enough to
lit a small area around the creature in spite of the nighttime
darkness. Nelson was mesmerized as he stared at the strange
creature. He described it as having a head like a large dog with
a flat nose like a bulldog. Its eyes were slanted and pale-red
in color, which could only be seen when the creature turned its
head from side to side like a lizard. At that moment, Nelson
heard a voice in his head saying, "Don't stare, and just run
away." They provided further description, describing the ears as
flat, round and large. Its arms were short, it had elbows, and
the hands had three fingers. It had hair like the one on a wild
pig. Its legs were like the ones of a goat. The feet had also
three fingers and a membrane like ducks, but somewhat shorter.
On its curved back, they were able to notice a spinal section
covered with amounts of even thicker hair. Most of the hair of
the animal was gray, but the tail had a white tip. Nelson
finally fled, terrified, from the area. He also described how he
felt an inexplicable bone-chilling cold sensation.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center
Type: E


6.
Location. Not given
Date: January 12 2002
Time: night
Ted Parker was eating some leftover food when he claims the food began to
change. The bread of the sandwich turned an orange color and the lamb
became a silvery metallic color, sort of like liquid mercury. As he watched=

transfixed, he saw the orange bread and metallic lamb turn into the figure=

of an "alien" with the form of a man. It was silver in color and its outfit=

(smooth pants and shirt, like a jump suit) was orange in color. At this
point Parker glanced at the wall clock and it indicated that 2 hours had
gone by, even though it felt like minutes only. The alien figure
communicated using telepathic means and asked Ted to come with him. They
both went outside and there, Ted saw a landed black-colored craft in his
backyard. In a split second Ted found himself inside the craft not knowing=

how he got there. The inside of the craft was pure white in color with
strips of the metallic silver that the alien figure appeared to be made of.=

The rest of the incident is just a blur, but Parker did remembered hearing=

several loud high-pitched rings while onboard the object. A couple of days=

before while eating dinner with several other people there had been a
similar high pitched ring and everybody had just stopped eating and walked=

out of the room.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: G or F?



7.
Location. Chihuahua, Mexico
Date: January 29 2002
Time: night
Several days before seeing a UFO the witness remembered being in a
dream-like state in which he felt very calm and saw numerous disc shaped
objects, orange-red in color. A human like figure was talking to him about=

the objects and their propulsion. The UFO he saw was of an orange color and=

he felt a sort of ecstasy when he observed the craft. Several of his
neighbors also saw the object.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: G or F?


8.
Location. Near Palmyra, Wisconsin
Date: February 2002
Time: 0200A
Two men reported seeing a creature that resembled a bipedal "gigantic wolf"=

walking down a road west of the city. They said the creature was at least 7=

ft tall with a wolf-like head. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Linda GodfreyType: E


9.
Location. West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
Nebilson Sangma reported encountering a scary furry creature on a hunting
trip in the jungles. He reportedly took a video of the creature's nesting
place. According to Sangma, the creature walked erect like a human, had
built a house like nesting place, and would emerge from it frequently to
feast on a banana grove. Sangma and his brother observed the gigantic
creature for three consecutive days from afar. Officials and villagers have=

been hunting for the creature in the forest but it seems to have
disappeared as furtively as it appeared.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 13
Type: E


10.
Location. Near Dover, England
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness had been jogging along a low path by the beach when she noticed=

a tall, well built being in a black skin tight suit, that stood watching
her from nearby. He wore a black helmet wit a brown visor pulled down. At
first she thought it was a biker but as she approached the figure, it
suddenly disappeared in plain sight. As she continued to run she noticed a=

black craft jutting out of the sand, it was small and oval shaped, matt and=

ribbed it also disappeared in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: E?


11.
Location. Rosario de la Frontera, Salta, Argentina
Date: February 2002
Time: night
A strange creature called by locals "El Pestizo" has attacked several lone=

pedestrians in the middle of the night. It is described as a dark man
shaped shadowy being. A boy riding his bicycle on the way to visit some
friends was toppled from his bicycle and found a black shadowy figure
facing him. The young man managed to upholster his shotgun and fire two
shots. But, when he saw that they had no effect, he promptly drew his knife=

and stabbed the figure without any apparent harm. Frightened the youth
tried to escape but the creature knocked him down without saying a word and=

began dragging him by the hair to the side of the road. At this point the
young man began to scream. A local man, who rushed to provide assistance,
only to find a black shadow dragging the boy by the hair, heard his cries.=

The fearful shape disappeared without a trace after it became aware of the=

other man's presence. Six other locals have reported being attacked by a
similar being and received wounds.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


12.
Location. Not given
Date: February 2002
Time: early morning
The witness was alone at home and was preparing his breakfast when suddenly=

he heard a window break; he went to see what had happened. Grabbing a golf=

club he peeked inside the room where the window broke. He was stunned to
see a strange creature climbing on his bed. It appeared to be hurt, because=

it seemed that it could not move well. Gripping the golf club he went a
step nearer and the creature hissed horribly. It shrieked in an unworldly
manner. Terrified the witness did not move. The creature was small, about
the size of a large rabbit, and it was dark in color and had reddish eyes.=

It had wings and a spine of quills on its back, and had a semi reptilian
face. It appeared to have hair and small legs. The witness raised the golf=

club and the creature hissed again showing its large yellowish teeth, which=

appeared to be sharp, like those of a crocodile. It suddenly hopped out of=

the window and rapidly hopped across the street into the oak trees.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June archiveType: E


13.
Location. Vigevano, Italy
Date: February 2002
Time: 0100A
In the outskirts of this city a witness observed from his vehicle a
luminous humanoid entity walking along a roadway. It scurried away into the=

darkness when approached.
No other information.

HC addendum
Source: CISU, ItalyType: E



14.
Location. Corguinho, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Date: February 5 2002
Time: night
During a localized UFO flap several witnesses reported seeing a strange
creature described as about 1.3 meters in height, having two legs, with a
physique like a human but who moved with a strange fluctuating motion. The=

creature was seen five times by twenty people in the rural zone around
Corguinho. In Rochedo, 6 miles south of Corguinho five Cebu cattle were
found dead with a single incision on the side of the throat. The bodies had=

been drained of blood. (Is there a connection?).

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


15.
Location. Mount Podbrdo, Bosnia Hercigovina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: morning
Contactee and stigmatic Giorgio Bongiovanni was visiting the shrine on top=

of the mountain and was praying silently to the Virgin when, to his
astonishment, a glowing luminous female figure appeared and touched his
forehead with her fingertips. His stigmata scar vanished instantly. The
female figure told him to return to Italy and make known what had happened.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 14
Type: E or F?


16.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: evening
73-year-old Maria Rufina Cayo, a local shepherd was walking back home with=

her dogs and the cattle. Suddenly at one point, something spooked the
animals, and these began to stampede. Looking around she spotted a bizarre=

creature standing about 12 meters away. She described it as a humanoid,
half animal, half human, about 1.70m in height, with bright red eyes, sharp=

protruding fangs, and hands and feet that ended in sharp claws. The
creature looked at the witness three times then it scrambled away using
quick jumping motions with is powerfully built hind legs, she also noticed=

large pointy ears. The top part of its body seems to have been covered in a=

shiny white blanket. It somehow resembled a centaur walking on two
claw-like feet.  Alerted by the shouts of Maria, two men, Santos Jaimes,
and Ruben Colque ran out to investigate with their dogs. Suddenly the dogs=

stopped and began making pitiful howling noises, they refused to move any
further. The men heard noises behind some nearby bushes and went to
investigate and spotted a bizarre creature that stood staring at them with=

huge reddish eyes. It then moved quickly away in the direction of Cerro
Negro and disappeared from sight. The witnesses noticed very sharp claws on=

the creature's feet with a very sharp claw that appeared to be pointed
backwards. Strange footprints were found the next day.

HC addendum
Source: El Tribuno, Salta Argentina March 27 2002
Also Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E



17.
Location. Khanpur, Ahmedabad, India
Date: February 20 2002
Time: after midnight
Several local residents reportedly have encountered a person, dressed in
black and wearing a mask. Dubbed the "Monkeyman" whom they described as
between 25 and 20 years of age, dark skinned and having curly hair can
reportedly be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees. Two
local youths chased it and the figure reportedly disappeared in plain
sight. The two youths have been behaving abnormally since then. The
stranger was also chased along the riverbed near the Cama Hotel and it also=

suddenly disappeared. Others have heard the stranger running on the
rooftops. Abdul Hamid another youngster of the local slums described the
figure as a tall lean man that carries a sharp weapon. "I saw him from the=

back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised the alarm, he jumped to=

another roof and then on to a tree." Police have searched for the stranger=

but nothing has been found.

HC addendum
Source: Fortean Times, India Express
Type: E


18.
Location. Prague, Czech Republic
Date: February 23 2002
Time: night
Blanka Slemendova was in her apartment when she saw a "ship" hovering over=

some nearby woods. It was shining red, white and yellow lights. She then
heard telepathic communication coming from the object telling her to go and=

meet them at an unspecified location. Looking over to her bedroom wall she=

saw what appeared to be a projection of human like faces looking at her.
Later that night she saw luminous figures in her room and a floating red
light also in her room. The next night she saw what appeared to be 2 gray
suns and around them a golden lights with numerous groups of shiny
human-like figures floating about. She interpreted these as being angels.

HC addendum
Source: Direct from witness (Slemendova)
Type: C & F?


19.
Location. Wycliffe Well Roadhouse, Northern Territory Australia
Date: early March 2002
Time: evening
While workers in the area watched unusual lights in the sky an aboriginal
woman encountered a triangular sort of object in a paddock and all of the
sudden she saw three silvery clad human like figures that began to move
toward her vehicle. She turned the vehicle around and took off.

HC addendum
Source: Lou Farcus ABC On-lineType: C


20.
Location. Near Canberra Australia
Date: March 2002
Time: 1700
Several friends were taking a trip to the coast and it was already very
dark. They had already entered a tropical forest area and there was a mist=

rolling along the ground. As they turned around they saw something
squatting in the middle of the road. It stared at them, and just as they
thought they were going to hit it, it leaped off the road and into the
trees. It leaped about 10 meters in the air. The creature was definitely
human looking although it wore strange clothes. It was dressed in a green
robe of some kind with little pieces of gold on it, and it was either
wearing a head crest or it had a row of spikes running from its forehead to=

the top of its neck. Very frightened the witnesses drove out of the forest=

and at the same time the mist turned to a thick fog. They pulled over and
decided to wait until the fog had cleared, although none of them were too
happy about it. As they sat around and waited they suddenly heard a shriek.=

It sounded like some sort of wild animal and they turned the car on so the=

headlights would scare it away. The headlights revealed the same creature
they had seen earlier. It hid its face from the light and shrieked. Right
before the witnesses' eyes, the creature seemed to evaporate into the fog.=

Within five minutes the fog had gone and the normal rolling mist was back.=

The witnesses quickly left the area and drove towards the coast.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June ArchiveType: E


21.
Location. Guanica Puerto Rico
Date: March 1 2002
Time: 2345
Reinaldo Rios (involved in other encounters) was in his bedroom that night=

when a large white light suddenly appeared. It flew around the room several=

times and then hovered. He heard voices coming from the light, which
communicated with him. The voice said: "I am your real father." Soon the
light transformed itself into a figure resembling that of a little boy it
then vanished in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: UFOs over America.com
Type: E


22.
Location. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 0800A
The witness and his wife were in bed that Saturday morning talking when
their 5-year-old daughter came into the bedroom with her baby brother,
whose cot is placed under their bedroom window. They heard a strange noise=

and some green light came into the window. Their daughter looked out the
window and reported seeing a "flying car" with four spinning green lights
on top. She saw two windows in the vehicle and saw two dark brown faces
looking out. His wife saw the craft flying past through the curtains. That=

same morning, in a large tree near the witness house a strange structure
was found. The branches were arranged in a rectangular pen shape, vertical,=

each approximately 30 to 40 cm long. They found a few smaller sticks
scaling down in size from the structure. A piece of concrete slab was found=

propped up on one corner. The witnesses had never seen this strange
structure before and think is some kind of message left by the visitors.
(Some kind of bizarre crop circle?). A few nights before they had heard
strange noises coming from the kitchen area.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: A


23.
Location. Golasecca Di Novara, Italy
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 2330
Augusto & Maurizia were in their vehicle parked in an open field next to a=

wooded area having a heated discussion when suddenly a powerful beam of
reddish-orange light illuminated the area around them. They rolled down the=

car window and heard a sharp metallic sound that seemed to be increasing in=

intensity. They now noticed, behind the beam of light a hovering
disc-shaped craft with a central rotating ring, it hovered about a meter
from the ground. From the object, a cigar-shaped beam of light emerged;
they could see it as the central ring of the craft slowly rotated on its
axis. The craft was only about 10 meters away. At this point, and only
about 4 meters from the object Augusto saw what appeared to be a gelatinous=

transparent humanoid-like figure with a visible head, arms and legs. The
figure was silvery in color and was very tall, about 3 meters or so. At
this point Augusto became concerned and drove away from the area and did
not see the object or figure depart. The whole episode lasted about 10
minutes. The metallic noise was heard all throughout the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Alfredo Lissoni, CUN Milano, Michelle Castellano CUN VareseType: C


24.
Location. Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England
Date: March 3 2002
Time: morning
Helen Diskin went for a walk in the countryside talking snap shots along
the way with her digital camera. Returning home she loaded these into her
computer and was intrigued by an odd-looking image. It looked like a
luminous figure in an area of no sunlight, skulking amongst the trees. She=

returned to the site of the photo twice afterward and could find no
explanation for the figure. The figure resembled a small helmeted figure
that she had not seen when she took the picture of an area of the woods she=

had thought of as "mysterious."

HC addendum
Source: Helen Diskin, UFO Magazine Vol. 22 # 1Type: E?


25.
Location. Near Trenton New Jersey
Date: March 4 2002
Time: night
Several witnesses were camping outside of town and late at night one of
them was attempting to put out the bonfire when he heard the most awful and=

horrifying scream. It resembled that of an injured dog crossed with a
scream of a woman. The witness dropped the flashlight and was joined by
another witness. Suddenly out of the woods a hideous and gruesome creature=

appeared. It did not look human, somewhat satyr-like in appearance and
walked on two legs. It had a long tail like a dragon and wings like those
unicorns in fantasy books. The beast took several steps towards the
witnesses and one of them picked up and asked and yelled at it and then
shone his flashlight at it. The creature then turned towards the bushes and=

ran away from the area.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: E


26.
Location. Pichaca, Salta, Argentina
Date: March 9 2002
Time: night
Ceferino Leoncio was cleaning his one room metal shack when suddenly a
bright light engulfed the room. He felt a sudden heat as he saw a tiny
figure (50 cm) of an angel-like creature materialize in front of him. It
slowly moved its small wing-like protrusions and moved around and then
suddenly stopped and remained still. It appeared to be a small living human=

like living being until it appeared to hardened and turn into some type of=

statue of cherubic appearance. Locals have now built a shrine around the
tiny "statue" and call the strange materialization a "religious miracle".

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso
Type: F?



27.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: March 16 2002
Time: 2215
Mirna, was watching television alone in her room when she began hearing
noises coming from outside, at first she thought it was her dogs playing
around with some empty cans. But the noises kept getting louder and louder=

and she decided to go outside to investigate. Once outside she was stunned=

to see some type creature that had somehow entered the rabbit cage and was=

attacking the animals that were making loud unearthly screams. Thinking at=

first that it was one of the dogs she approached the case but realized that=

it was a gray colored hairy hunched over creature, that was moving quickly=

inside the cage. She stepped back and could not understand how the creature=

had entered the cage, since there wasn't any apparent hole or aperture
visible anywhere and the door was firmly closed. Afraid she ran inside her=

home and notified her son, both then ran out but the creature had
mysteriously disappeared. Unnerved, they could not understand how they
creature had escaped since the door to the rabbit caged was still firmly
locked. Later they could only find a small round hole in the wire only
several centimeters in width, not large enough for a creature estimated to=

have been about 70 to 80 cm in height. Several of the rabbits were found
injured and one was dead.

HC addendum
Source: Calama UFO CenterType: E


28.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: March 19 2002
Time: 2000
Young Elizabeth Lera reported seeing a short humanoid with "dark eyes"
looking into the building compound from behind a wire fence. It appeared
not to have any other facial features and was wearing dark clothing; it
wore some type of head covering, which was hard to see because of the
darkness. She could only see a pair of large dark eyes on his face that
appeared to shine in the darkness. Some more children now arrived and
observed as the humanoid move several steps towards them. Another witness,=

Rene Mamani saw the humanoid run and hide behind some bushes. It seemed to=

move at very high speed in an unnatural fashion. It seemed to have remained=

suspended in mid-air for a few seconds. It then seemed to fly through the
air and disappeared into some nearby woods. Other students at the school
reportedly saw it again on the night of the 20th.

HC addendum
Source: Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E


29.
Location. Woodburn, Oregon
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 0300A
The witness was sleeping when she woke up suddenly feeling paralyzed. The
witness was completely unable to move or speak. Her next memory was of a
strange sensation on her left cheek, which hurt a lot. Unseen "beings" were=

apparently taking skin samples. Her face was left with a pink fleshy scoop=

down my left cheek, directly on the cheekbone. A teardrop scar was left on=

her cheek.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical Universe
Type: G?




30.
Location. Bethlehem, Israel
Date: March 21 2002
Time: night
At the besieged Church of The Nativity several awed witnesses have come
forward describing the events of Thursday night. That night, a smell of
roses filled the sanctuary as the Daughters of Charity held their evening
prayers. "The sweet scent was soon followed by a high musical humming sound=

and a distinct feeling of warmth emanating from the ceiling." Then, the
sisters reported, seeing a glowing beam of light gradually forming the
likeness of the Blessed Virgin "like a film coming into focus." Tears were=

running down her face, and she uttered a prophetic warning. "Time is
growing short, and the promised Judgment Day is nearly at hand." One week
before the apparition, The Church of the Holy Family was the scene of a
ferocious firefight between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 17Type: F


31.
Location. Not given
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 2255
16-year old Steven Mizon saw hovering over a street a large oval shaped
craft encircled in bright lights and with several lighted windows around
its edge. A figure stared down at him from one of the windows. No other
information.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Watch
Type: A



32.
Location. Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain
Date: March 26 2002
Time: 1500
A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a deserted road when=

he noticed ahead in the distance and in the middle of the roadway an object=

resembling a shiny pear that was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat
perplexed he approached and noticed two individuals standing on a nearby
field. These were over 2 meters in height, wore tight fitting white
coveralls and helmets resembling that of the early astronauts. He parked
his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men=

walked away and entered the shiny pear-shaped craft while the other
remained behind. Knowing that these men were "not from this earth" he still=

asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt that as
he approached the strange pair he had been in some type of a trance and
seemed to have floated over the road. The humanoid answered and appeared
genuinely happy as to his offer of assistance but said that everything was=

in order. He also added that the area was very beautiful and also added:
"Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such
beautiful scenes, they disappeared a long time ago." The astounded witness=

managed to ask the humanoid where he was from and was told that they hailed=

from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The=

humanoid smiled as he answered the question. The humanoid then bid goodbye=

and walked towards the nearby shiny pear shaped object, he then disappeared=

inside of it. The craft then emitted a loud whistling sound and disappeared=

at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the
humanoids as about 2.50 meters in height, wide chests and heavy set, thin
legs. Generally human features, but somewhat "refined" or sharpened
features. The suits were very tight fitting made of an apparent synthetic
material resembling plastic. Their eyes were very light almost white and
their speech was hesitant & accented. Also their movements seemed kind of
clumsy.

HC addendum
Source: J M Garcia, Francisco Padron, SpainType: B


33.
Location. Pringle Lake, Texas
Date: March 28 2002
Time: 1100A
Mark Hakemack and a friend had taken an airboat out on the NW side of the
lake to do a little redfish fishing. The day was kind of hazy, with broken=

cloud cover. They had caught several trout and were just chatting when he
hooked up a large redfish while playing with the fish, Mark happened to
glance upwards and saw a large bird-like creature emerge from a cloudbank.=

His friend saw it too, after about 20 to 25 seconds it flew behind cloud
cover again. The strange creature was grayish in color and the profile of a=

raptor, short neck/head, no legs sticking out behind, and no long tail
feathers. Mark could not take his eyes off it. He estimated the wingspan to=

have been 10' to 14 ' in overall. It appeared to be soaring on the wind,
although, he did see it give a couple of light "flaps" with its wings. The=

witness could only relate this to the legendary "Thunderbird" legend.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.comType: E


34.
Location. Sevilla, Spain
Date: March 30 2002
Time: late night
The witness to the March 26 case was at home with his wife and was getting=

ready to sleep when he heard footsteps coming from patio area outside his
chalet. Armed with a club, he opened the door and was stunned to see the
same two tall heavyset humanoids he had encountered 4 days before. One of
the humanoids was kneeling on the ground as if inspecting something on the=

soil, the other one upon hearing the door open, turned and quickly assured=

the witness not to fear that they were not here to harm him. Stunned, the
witness invited the two humanoids in the house for some refreshments (!).
These declined the invitation telling that they had to go already. Using
the same clumsy movements both humanoids walked towards the rear of the
house where the witness noticed the same shiny metallic pear shaped craft
on the ground. They entered the object, which quickly left at high speed.
The witness's wife awakened by the voices was able to see the two humanoids=

from a second story window, and described them in the same way.

HC addendum
Source: Francisco Padron, Jose Manuel Garcia, SpainType: B


35.
Location. Los Cipreses, Chile
Date: March 31 2002
Time: noon
During a local UFO congress 24 persons in three groups entered a
dimensional gateway that appeared by itself over the terrain. It was kind
of a dome, a luminous archway measuring four by four meters. The
participants lost their materiality without disappearing completely. Upon
entering, they met several human-like alien characters with large baldheads=

and wearing robes that waited within and received information. According to=

sources the contact experience was "dimensional" it was like crossing into=

a different reality. The 24 participants were "all professionals, college
students of high intellectual levels, mostly Chileans," and some were
members of Grupo Rama, a New Age association.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 16, quoting Camilo Valdivieto
Type: G or F?


36.
Location. Tbilissi Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: night
A man entered the local St David church and reported that "a phantom with
wings" had approached him and predicted an earthquake that indeed took
place on April 25 2002, devastating areas of central Georgia.

HC addendum
Source: Pravda
Type: E?


37.
Location. Near Macon, Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: 2300
Three friends were awakened by loud banging noises and bellowing sounds
coming from outside. One of the men ran to the bathroom and looked out the=

window to see a figure run by and squat in the nearby bushes. He described=

the creature as about 3 ft tall, hairy with what appeared to be horns on
its head and hands; he could not see a face. Others in the neighborhood
heard the banging noises.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.com and direct witness
Communication.
Type: E


38.
Location. Belvedere di Tezze, Italy
Date: April 26 2002
Time: evening
A 20-year old woman was returning home one night when she noticed some
bright lights nearby of an unknown origin. She followed the lights in her
car until she stopped near a local pizzeria. She saw the light near the
ground and within the lights two tall slender human like figures wearing
some type of headgear. Since she was carrying a camera she was able to snap=

a quick picture. The figures then vanished. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Gruppo Accademico Ufologico Scandicci quoting
"Il giornale di Vicenza"Type: E?


39.
Location. Puente Santamaria, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: early morning
Two young men observed a dark object descend towards the ground about 100
meters away. According to the two witnesses from the craft descended a
small humanoid, orange in color. Very scared they both ran from the area
and reported their experience to others.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: B


40.
Location. Merceditas, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: evening
An elderly couple was walking along National Route # 8 when about 800
meters from their location they noticed a very strong light. The light
descended next to a puddle at about 70 meters from the witness. Both then
saw two very short orange colored humanoids that moved in very agile
movements near the object. Terrified they walked away and upon looking back=

saw a bright glow on the ground.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: C


41.
Location. Barangay, Philippines
Date: May 2002
Time: night
Several local residents reported seeing a bizarre creature described as an=

"aswang" reputed to be a winged vampire type creature, it reportedly had
red glowing eyes, long black hair, and was wearing a white flowing gown. It=

was seen perched on top of a bamboo tree. Residents at nearby Roxas
reported seeing a similar creature. The police was called but a search
failed to locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Akasico.comType: E


42.
Location. Alvear, La Pampa Argentina
Date: May 3 2002
Time: near midnight
Several young men were returning home late at night along a deserted
roadway when suddenly out of nowhere a female figure wearing a light
flowing gown and with long black hair appeared in front of them. The
strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly and repeatedly asked for=

assistance from the men in a strange urgent tone. Terrified the men ran
from the area and later returned with additional witnesses but they could
find no trace of the strange apparition.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E?


43.
Location. Taralgon Victoria, Australia
Date: May 24 2002
Time: 2355
Walking near the Loy Yang Power station 45-year old Martin Taylor was
suddenly blinded by an intense blue light and he felt extremely dizzy. His=

next memory was of being in a circular room with a variety of lights and
buttons scattered about the walls. He was lying on a large table that
seemed to be of a very highly polished metal. He was strapped down and his=

shirt had been removed. There were wires attached to his arms, neck and
temples. A four ft tall humanoid figure with very large almond shaped eyes,=

almost transparent looking skin, ghostly white in appearance examined him.=

The figure had three extremely long fingers on each hand and spoke in a
strange dialect.

HC addendum
Source: UFO WatchType: G


44.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: May 29 2002
Time: midnight
Irma Rick watched a rotating luminous object descend close to the ground
next to a grain silo; it gave off a powerful bluish light through some
openings around its circumference. It hovered close to the ground. Through=

an opening a strange creature was seen to descend to the ground. It was
described as having an elongated semi-transparent white body; it also had
an elongated head. She could not see any eyes or legs on the creature as it=

stood motionless next to the craft. She observed the creature and object
for about 5 minutes until she dropped the flashlight she was carrying.
Afraid she left the area and did not see the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: B



45.
Location. Lembang Bandung, Indonesia
Date: May 30 2002
Time: 2315
The witness was driving his motorcycle across a highland area when he
spotted some flashing lights overhead and then noticed a silvery
disc-shaped craft descend low over some nearby graves at a cemetery. The
craft had blue and orange flashing lights around its rim. There was no
sound as the craft apparently emitted a beam of light towards the ground
and levitated what appeared to be some dead bodies onboard the object. (!)=

The witness was apparently paralyzed and was unable to move. The craft then=

shot away at a 45-degree angle and disappeared from sight. When that
happened the witness left the scene.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


46.
Location. Houston, Texas
Date: late May 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness was at the local electric company in order to pay a bill when
she decided to use the restrooms. Sitting in the stall she then noticed on=

the side of the wall of the stall what appeared to be a face lit up in a
dull light. When the witness looked directly at the "face" it vanished. She=

described is as having large round eyes no visible nose and a slit-like
mouth. (A peeping tom alien?)

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.comType: E?


47.
Location. General Acha, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: early June 2002
Time: various
A resident of the Oeste neighborhood informed newspaper sources that a
short green-colored dwarf like entity has appeared twice on her property:
once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When her husband ran out
responding to her screams, the mysterious entity vanished by rapidly
climbing up a tree. All versions agree in that the entity is short in
stature. Another resident added that it moved so quickly that it was hard
to describe it. In the same area mysterious cattle mutilations have also
been reported.

HC addendum
Source: Loren Coleman in UFO UpdatesType: E


48.
Location. Ojo De Agua, Argentina
Date: June 2002
Time: afternoon
Several passengers onboard two farm micro buses reported seeing a very tall=

dark man like figure that appeared to be wearing a tight fitting diver's
outfit standing on a nearby field. Nearby numerous mysterious animal
mutilations have been reported. The figure was silent and was quickly lost=

from sight as the buses moved away.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E




49.
Location. Near Tampa, Florida
Date: June 2002
Time: night
A man and three of his friends reported encountering two bizarre chupacabra=

type creatures one stood about 3-4 ft tall, the other looked to be about 6=

ft tall. Both had large glowing red eyes and spikes starting from the head=

to the back. They scurried away into a wooded area. (They were to have
further encounters in August).

HC addendum
Source: Art Bell.comType: E


50.
Location. Antalya, Turkey
Date: June 5 2002
Time: afternoon
Approximately 45 witnesses claimed they saw an UFO in the Santral district=

landing on the backyard of the Fatma Primary School. Several students
including Murat Esici age 11 saw an alien emitting red rays from his eyes
come out of the object. His hands and feet were metallic. He had a very big=

head and was about 1.80 meters in height. Esici temporarily lost her voice=

immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also=

claimed they san an unusual craft and an alien beside it. "His eyes and
hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes." The children
were overcome with shock after the incident.

HC addendum
Source: Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center Intl
Type: B


51.
Location. Polonnauruwa, Sri Lanka
Date: June 8 2002
Time: 2200
Approximately 50 to 70 eyewitnesses saw a UFO flying at about 100 meters
above ground level. The object was silent and briefly landed emitting a
bright flash like light. When it was close to the ground the object emitted=

a buzzing sound. Three other witnesses saw three 2 ft tall creatures than
when approached ran into the jungle and disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Sources
Type: D


52.
Location. Polonnaruwa, Sir Lanka
Date: June 9 2002
Time: 2012
Two witnesses went to a bath on a nearby river when they heard a loud
thundering sound and a UFO appeared. The craft landed nearby and two, 2 ft=

tall "aliens" emerged from the object. One of the humanoids flung a small
fluorescent fireball like object that flew over a house and vanished. Soon=

the craft and humanoids disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC & News Reports
Type: B



53.
Location. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Date: June 10 2002
Time: 1900
Witnesses saw a mysterious light in the sky and others saw a large disc
shaped object land nearby. Three humanoids only about 2 ft tall emerged
from the craft and disappeared into the forest when approached. The object=

also left.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Reports
Type: B


54.
Location. Chantilly, Virginia
Date: June 10 2002
Time: night
The witness was awakened during the night with a sense of some presence in=

the room. Looking toward the door, he saw, fading quickly, something, which=

almost had the appearance of a hologram. Next, shadows appeared outside the=

windows in an erratic shape. At first he thought the shadows to be from
trees moving in a strong wind. The appearance was of a storm blowing the
limbs to create these shadows outside the window. However, there was no
storm. He looked at the adjacent window on the side of the house facing
opposite and there was no wind at all. In fact there was no trees
positioned in such a way to cast a shadow. He opened the blinds to see what=

might be causing the shadows. He then saw what seemed to be a hologram with=

the shape of two small eyes moving erratically outside the window.
Frightened he closed the blinds. Two weeks later he was awakened by a
humming sound and again saw the erratic shadows outside the window. He
watched the shadows for 10-15 minutes and then called the police. The
police found no signs of any intrusion in the yard. When the police left
the witness walked toward the door facing the back porch and saw a large
burst of bluish white light. It looked unnatural, almost like a laser. He
has not seen the "shadows" again.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: E?


55.
Location. Ataliva Roca, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 11 2002
Time: 1930
A worker at a local drainage project was sitting and guarding some
machinery when he noticed a short greenish colored humanoid figure that was=

approaching his location from a nearby field. The witness became concerned=

and drove away from the area in the construction equipment and did not see=

the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


56.
Location. Eduardo Castex, La Pampa Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Two girls of a local school encountered a short greenish humanoid figure in=

the playing yard. The figure was standing up and appeared to be raising its=

arms up to the sky. Terrified the two girls retreated into the school and
watched the figure scurry away into some nearby woods. Around the same time=

a local farmer found a strangely mutilated hog in his farm.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


57.
Location. Chasico, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Hugo Deluca and several other workers were parked in a bus in an isolated
area when they spotted about 20 meters away a short, 1.20 meters tall,
bipedal figure completely covered in gray hair. It walked upright like a
man and then scurried away into some woods vanishing from sight. The area
had been hit with animal mutilations around the same time.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


58.
Location. Castex, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 13 2002
Time: night
A 70-year old man had gone to his driveway to check on a flat tire in his
car when a short light green colored humanoid suddenly appeared next to
him. It had large round ears, and two reddish luminous eyes. Its body was
thin and almost triangular in shape. The witness attempted to yell out but=

was suddenly unable to speak and at the same time strange warmth invaded
his body. Several seconds later the humanoid vanished and the witness
returned to normal. He reported the incident to the police.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


59.
Location. La Laguna, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 14 2002
Time: afternoon
Several youngster had gone into the fields in order to obtain some firewood=

when they saw sitting on a clearing in the woods two human like figures,
all dressed in black. They sat facing each other, one looking towards the
east the other towards the west, unmoving. Unnerved by the sight the
juveniles ran from the area. The next day the father of one of the boys
found two dead cows at the site, but could find no trace of the strange
pair. Days later a sheep and a horse were found dead and strangely
mutilated in the nearby location of El Cardonal.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: E


60.
Location. De Kalb, Illinois
Date: June 15 2002
Time: 0030A
The witness was sitting in his family room watching TV when he noticed a
bright flash of light outside the window. He saw the flash several times
and decided to check his backyard there he saw a circular light moving
around in circles. The light began to get closer; scared he ran inside his=

home and called a friend on the phone. He then quickly ran outside and saw=

the circle getting closer, he noticed that it had a purplish color to it
and it began to descend towards the ground. He became nauseous and dizzy
and collapsed on to the ground. He tried to crawl to the house but was
unable to move. He turned his head and saw the purplish object on the
ground and what appeared to be a door opening up. He then heard a squeaking=

noise and saw a tall and a short figure standing by a door of the object.
The two figures started to move towards him, walking in a strange bopping
fashion. They were of a dark complexion with a bumpy texture, other than
that they resembled normal human beings. The shorter figure approached and=

picked up the witness' camera and stared at it. He then looked at the
taller figure and handed it to him. The taller of the two looked at the
camera and then at the witness. The witness then heard loud unpleasant
shrieks coming from the taller figure, which then gave the camera back to
the shorter figure, which covered the camera with his hand, seconds later a=

light began to emerge from their hands. Then they stopped, threw the camera=

aside and began to walk towards the witness. They reached his side and
started to examine his body. A dog began to bark from inside the house and=

the shorter figure put out his hand and the dog stopped barking. At this
point the witness began to vomit. After about a minute he began to relax
and to breathe better. When he turned his head he realized that the two
figures and the purple spherical object were now gone. The next day he had=

a very severe headache.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: B


61.
Location. San Juan, Argentina
Date: June 20 2002
Time: evening
At a location where the body of a strangely mutilated carcass of a cow was=

found two witnesses reported seeing a small creature with large glowing
slanted eyes and about one meter in height. Later in the same area, members=

of the Gimenez family after investigating noises and a strong odor coming
from a wooded area found a mutilated cow and also watched a short humanoid=

with glowing eyes scurrying away into the woods.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


62.
Location. Manuel Rodriguez, Calama, Chile
Date: June 22 2002
Time: after midnight
A bizarre creature was spotted at a local housing complex on San Antonio
Street. Witnesses reported that it resembled an ape and it jumped all over=

the roof. It passed right in front of the witness, Maria Gavia's window and=

then it came back making all manner of noise. The creature was able to make=

very long jumps, unlike any a human could. It jumped and landed on the
neighbor's roof and then it left the area. Neighborhood dogs acted scared
and began howling. Others described the creature as about 1.5 meters tall,=

stocky in build with bright red eyes. It made a lot of noise. Others
reportedly chased the creature.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center, quoting El
Mercurio de CalamaType: E


63.
Location. Angencia Realico, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 23 2002
Time: late night
Several hunters returning to a local ranch spotted about 50 meters away two=

large glowing reddish eyes staring at them. They turned off their
flashlight and approached closer on foot, about 30 meters away they again
saw the reddish eyes on a dark creature that appeared to be standing on top=

of an apparently dead animal. One of the hunters shone its flashlight on
the figure again and saw a figure about 40 cm in height that quickly ran
from the area at very high speed. The creature disappeared into the brush.=

At the scene, a dead and mutilated young heifer. Other mutilations were
reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


64.
Location. Rancul, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 25 2002
Time: 2020
Two young men, Nestor Pinto and Daniel Gatica were walking on a field when=

they encountered a short man-like figure with huge pointy ears and long
dangling arms standing near some brush. The figure scurried into the brush=

and disappeared and at the same time the two witnesses ran away from the
area and did not see the strange dwarf again.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


65.
Location. Bavaria, Germany (exact location not given)
Date: June 25 2002
Time: night
The witness had stayed up late watching the soccer game as was in his
bedroom when suddenly there was a coldness around him that made him shiver.=

He noticed that his audio capabilities were somehow enhanced and he was
able to hear sounds that previously he was unable to hear. He then heard a=

noise outside his door and went out to investigate. The noise became louder=

as he approached the door. He then heard footsteps and opened the door. A
very small man with a somewhat deformed body that was smiling at him
confronted the witness. He looked straight ahead and then stared at the
witness. His next memory was of waking up in his bed in the morning.

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.com
Type: E


66.
Location. Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2105
The primary witness had stepped out on his back porch when his attention
was drawn to two huge black "birds" which were approaching from the north.=

His first impression was they were Herons, but soon realized that the color=

was wrong, and "they were huge, much larger than any bird I have ever
seen." The two huge birds landed at the top of a very tall coniferous tree.=

The witness stated that the wingspan appeared to be wider than the
branches, jest below where they had landed. The body size was estimated to=

be about six feet from head to tail. The oddest feature was the shape of
the wings, which according to the witness appeared to be bat-like. The tree=

where the "birds" landed seemed as though it would break from their weight.=

The witness yelled for others in the house to come outside to look. Another=

family member was able to see the huge black birds as they passed overhead,=

and headed for some woods. After checking the size of the branches where
the birds had landed, the witness estimated that the wingspan would have
been close to 12 feet or somewhat larger.

HC addendum
Source: Stan GordonType: E


67.
Location. Marldon Hill, Paington, England
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2357
A couple were walking near a local historic monument (a windmill) and they=

drew closer to monument they heard a low whirling noise. The noise
progressed to a high-pitched whining, almost out of hearing range. Then
they saw a mysterious glow coming from the dark side of the windmill, and
then to their astonishment they saw 5 or 6 shadow like figures standing in=

front of the windmill. Startled the two began to run back towards the main=

road. The woman looked back and saw the figures become engulfed by a bright=

light and disappear, and then everything became quiet.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Sightings UKType: E?


68.
Location. Adelia Maria, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 3 2002
Time: 2100
Pedro and Estela Moine had decided to visit the business district of town
called Barrio Norte and crossed the old railroad yard through a pedestrian=

pathway that ran through a pasture area between some silos, old railroad
depots and abandoned wreckage. As the couple moved through the premises
they suddenly became aware of a strange and incomprehensible conversation
between many voices. Startled, they stopped walking moved a few meters more=

and then heard the voices again which now sounded like strange "O" sounds.=

Pedro looked toward the silos and was able to see resembling humanoid but
lacking upper and lower extremities. Despite the pleas of his wife, Pedro
ran several meters toward an inner alley in the silo plant, being able to
make out some 45 meters to the west and in profile---the entity, which
acting surprised, avoided the encounter and moved again to the north.
However, what filled the witnesses with wonderment was that the creature
did so as though flying or floating without touching the facilities it
passed. Pedro and Estela ran after it. It was thus that the man managed to=

see the entity apparently hiding behind the control room of the truck
scale. Pedro ran toward it and was again startled to see the apparition
rising as a plane taking off, flying at an altitude of 5 meters and
disappearing behind a large metal shed. Bewildered, both witnesses called
out, but were unable to see anything else. Pedro Moine as "a thing with
human shape" described the apparition. It had some sort of light, although=

he could not say if reflected or self-generated, although he tends to
believe the latter, since it was a nebulous whitish light, which kept him
from making out details. The entire mass of the apparition appeared to be a=

body covered from head to toe in some sort of mantle, which he described as=

though it wore a hat, but covered with some kind of long raincoat reaching=

down to what he took to be its feet. He added that the "conversational
sounds" repeated themselves in three separate occasions at various
intensities. They were like conversations in a strange language.

HC addendum
Source: Mario Luis Bracamonte, C.O.R, Rio Cuarto Argentina
Type: E


69.
Location. Jerusalem, Israel
Date: July 6 2002
Time: night
A remote TV camera picked up images of "orbs seen on the corner to the
right of the Wailing Wall." They seemed to have facial features almost like=

a ghost, reported investigator Charlotte LeFevre. The orbs were described
as "sharp and distinct". The orbs were next to the women's prayer area in
front of the Wall. Other strange phenomena, has been reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 29Type: F?


70.
Location. Villa Elisa, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: July 13 2002
Time: 2300
A young woman fainted from nervous shock after having an alleged closed
encounter with "some sort of green dwarf". This occurred---enveloped in
darkness---along Misioneros Salesianos Street very close to several houses.=

An ambulance was called and apparently transported the witness who was in
shock.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria ColuchiType: E


71.
Location. Patna, India
Date: July 21 2002
Time: night
Several residents claim they've been bitten or scratched by a "black
monkey-like creature with colored lights flashing from its eyes." Resident=

Pawan Kumar Niyogi who was sleeping on the terrace of his house claims "a 5=

ft tall monkey-like creature" attacked him. He said: "I was terrified and
thought my life was going to end but it merely scratched me on the shoulder=

before jumping off the roof." Local residents are conducting night vigils
and carrying torches to guard their homes.

HC addendum
Source: Ananova, Ufoupdates. Type: E


72.
Location. Chajan, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 21 2002
Time: 2300
Police officer Guillermo Arias was on routine patrol through a rural area
when he heard over the radio that his colleagues in arms over at Achiras
were seeing lights in sectors of said community, and that they were heading=

towards Chajan along National Route 8. At the wheel of the police patrol
van, he managed to see a formation of 7 lights in the distance and decided=

to drive 10 km along a rural dirt road. When he had covered said distance,=

he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine of his vehicle sputtered=

and died, causing the police car to strike the edge of a guardrail.
Simultaneously, the lights on the van's dashboard began turning on and off=

randomly, the police radio went haywire and its dial displayed the random
shifting of the frequencies while the cabin became filled with an acrid
odor, as though of burnt wiring, and the interior lights and stop
indicator, which were broken, began lighting on and off. Seized by fear,
Arias leaped from the van and walked away a few meters down the road,
losing his cellular phone in the escape. The darkness was total, when
suddenly, amid the confusing situation; an immense light emerged from a
field adjacent to the road as a triangular object rose majestically into
the air. Now Arias condition went from fear to abject terror as he saw what=

he described as a real "floating city" some 200 meters long with a long row=

of windows (perhaps as many as 100). Arias claims having seen something
move behind them, describing the movement as "TV sets which make lines and=

shadows", which he defined as "non-human", and that many beams of light
came out of the giant triangle, aimed at the ground. The event lasted 2-3
seconds, but to Arias it felt like an eternity. The object suddenly rose
and sped away, vanishing behind the hills of a local field. As the object
moved away, the whole area was lit up like daytime and there was an
afterglow that lasted another 20 minutes.

HC addendum
Source: C.O.R., Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense, Argentina
Type: A


73.
Location. Waconia, Minnesota
Date: July 26 2002
Time: 0300A
The young witness was sleeping in the backyard with his sister when he
suddenly woke up. He then noticed that the side of the tent that faced the=

wetlands and lake was lit up. Looking towards the light he saw a shadowy
torso and arm of a humanoid figure that seemed to be moving around within
the light. He watched for 30 seconds and saw the figure move the fingers of=

his hands. The witness became frightened and hid in his sleeping bag. He
came out about an hour later and the light and strange figure were
completely gone.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


74.
Location. Sedona, Arizona
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 0310A
In a wooded area the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all
white, with black "straight" eyes; and black diagonal/diamond strip of
"clothing" on top. He stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then
left. Prior to seeing the figure the witness had seen lights in a large
oval shaped pattern in the sky.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


75.
Location. Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 1730
Three girls had decided to visit the rooftop as they did the prior evening=

watching for satellites. It was dusk and the girls had a good vantage point=

looking towards the east. With them they had a pair of binoculars and a
pair of walkie-talkies. The girls noticed that a large orange light
appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The anomaly
was noted to have fluctuated in colors of orange, yellow, white and pale
blue. At fist they thought of an arriving airplane, but then a second light=

appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10=

degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some=

unusually maneuvering; from a stationary position it accelerated at least 5=

degrees closer to the ground surface at an approximate 45-60 degree angle
within a matter of a single second. The first anomaly then began to move
slowly towards the north. At this stage they partially lost view of it as
it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley-like
region of the horizon. According to the witnesses, this third object
appeared to have "landed" on the ground surface. The object was then viewed=

through the binoculars and presented in great detail; the object was
described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange,=

blue/purple and white rotating around the rim. Thy also noted the trees
being slightly illuminated by this extraordinary phenomenon. They were
suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, "Identify
yourself." This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in a
foreign language. Around 1830 the girls were then called down to have
dinner. At about 2030 the girls re-established their places on the roof
after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still
present. Unexpectedly a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above
the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. "It
was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away." The=

light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it=

is not clear how one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became
extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed
her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not=

sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another of the girls woke up
the next morning with her nose bleeding. She also mentioned that she had
seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom.

HC addendum
Source: The Australian UFO Research NetworkType: D or
F?



76.
Location. Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 29 2002
Time: early morning
Local residents have seen a strange figure, which they described as
resembling a "shroud". The apparitions, which always occur in the early
morning hours, have become so common that in recent days several neighbors=

have stayed up late to see them, and it is thus that they were able to
confirm the simultaneous presence of up to 2 such beings, as well as red
lights flying over the area. All the witnesses whether individuals or in a=

group, agree that the entities are nebulous and glowing, with a pair of red=

eyes being clearly identifiable, and glassy faces (as if transparent).
Their movements are smooth and they always appear from behind the sand
dunes, as though "coming form the Naval Base." Most witnesses agree that
they show a great interest in the water tanks located above the roofs, and=

that they do not flee upon detecting the presence of local
residents---rather, they stare at them fixedly for some minutes. Deep
silence is perceived during the observations and "the air appears to become=

still" and neither heat nor cold can be felt---only a sensation of warmth,=

as if the beings emanated heat. Witnesses also state that things appear to=

be darker when "the shroud" appears, as though ambient lighting were
dimmed. Another curious fact is the large number of cats and dogs who
report to the place where the sightings occur and sit down to observe it in=

silence, in a state resembling a trance. A series of semi-circular prints
have been found in the dunes, not very deep, with 15-20 cm separations in
some cases and 30-50 cm in others. The locals have identified them as the
strange being's footprints. Efforts have been made to photograph the
"shroud", but all images, despite the use of different cameras appear
exposed. One witness who approached the site to witness the phenomenon took=

two photos of the prints in the afternoon and decided to stay with the
group of people hoping to see the "shroud", managing to take some photos of=

same and record the new prints which appeared in the dunes after the
sighting. A completely uncommon print was found at the site---but the
residents aren't sure if it's related to the phenomenon: it has the shape
of a five-fingered claw. One witness tried to make use of his carbine's
telescopic sight to see the figure in greater detail, but "when he tried to=

focus on it, he could see nothing_it was a though it could only be seen
with the unaided eye."

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, IHU, Christian Quintero and O A Mario
Proyecto Condor
Type: C or E?


77.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 30 2002
Time: 0530A
27-year old Mariela Baigorri reported seeing a strange figure that floated=

in front of her house. She had woken up early that morning and was getting=

ready to mount her bicycle when she saw behind the fence something floating=

in mid-air. It appeared to be a figure wearing a flowing white transparent=

tunic, with bright red eyes and undefined facial features. Feeling no fear=

she decided to approach it. She felt as if the figure waited for her and
was observing her. At this point Mariela felt some fear and began reciting=

the Lord's Prayer. The figure suddenly moved back and disappeared in plain=

sight.

HC addendum
Source: Juan Carlos Corrales Morey, Vision Ovni, Argentina
Type: E


78.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 31 2002
Time: 1845
23-year old Julian Pereyra was in his vehicle when he observed two red
spheres flying slowly over some nearby woods, they seemed to descend and
disappear behind the trees. 15 minutes later, Pereyra, accompanied by
several other witnesses approached the area and observed what they
described a tall floating figure wearing a white glowing cape like outfit,=

it seemed to glide silently over a field. It had what appeared to be a
visor at face level and two beams of red light emerged from where the eyes=

would have been. The witnesses watched the strange figure glide over the
fields for about 30 minutes. Curiously numerous local dogs and cats
approached and also watched the figure in fascination. The lights and
figure disappeared into the distance. In another occasion Pereyra and some=

of his family members encountered the strange humanoid and felt a strange
sensation as if the wind had suddenly stopped, they felt as they were
inside a vacuum or "bubble." Strange tracks have been reportedly found in
the area also.

HC addendum
Source: Diario La Nueva Provincia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Type: C?


79.
Location. La Cienaga, Pocri, Panama
Date: early August 2002
Time: night
Luis Alfredo Diaz reported hearing loud noises coming from the terraced
patio where the kitchen was located, going to investigate he found his cat=

apparently dead with two obvious holes on the neck and some blood on the
floor. Before finding the cat he had called his wife, Maria de Los Santos
Barrios. As his wife stood in front of him a panic stricken look came over=

her face, turning around he was confronted by a bizarre 1-meter tall
humanoid that had jumped to the center of the patio. The creature was
described as thin, covered with dark hair, with large pointed ears that
almost covered its face, it had very large eyes and extremely strong hind
legs resembling that of a kangaroo. Terrified he ran to his son's bedroom
and carried him outside yelling for his neighbors. A search failed to
locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Panamanian Paranormal Forum
Type: E


80.
Location. Near Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Date: August 2002
Time: night
The same witness involved in a similar encounter last year was again
camping in the same area when he again heard a noise. Shining the light in=

the direction of the sound he again saw the same creature. The creature sat=

there crouched by the trees staring at the witness. The witness walked
slowly towards it, he got to within 20 ft when it just jumped backward and=

disappeared. He described the creature as about five to six ft in height,
gray in color. It was totally naked. It had human features, but more
leathery, and its face was very wide, its eyes were huge and even though
they reflected light, they still looked black, resembling two intensely
black marbles. Its legs were very muscular, but turned backwards, like a
bird. Other hikers in the area have reported encountering little brown men=

on some of the more isolated trails.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal Story Archives, November 2002Type: E


81.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: August 1 2002
Time: late evening
64-year old Raul Dorado was touring some fields when he heard a loud sound=

on two occasions, like a whirlwind, which drew his attention. The third
time he saw something he describes as a green circle with three legs
hovering over him. At that moment Dorado fell to the ground, and according=

to his story, he carried a shotgun, binoculars and a cellular phone, the
latter, which was taken from his hand, and he could clearly see being
sucked into the object, which was apparently at low altitude. His next
recollection was seeing the object disappear toward the east. Dorado
remained at the location for an hour before being able to rise and walk
back to his car, returning to town in a state of shock. He had to be
hospitalized. Later when calls were placed to the (abducted) cellular phone=

someone would pick up and heavy breathing could be heard. Later on the
phone was apparently disconnected.

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, quoting Diario La Arena, La PampaType: G?


82.
Location. Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Date: August 2 2002
Time: 1730
A man named Todd Sees went up the mountain to look for pre-season deer. He=

told his wife that he would be home by noon. He rode his 4-wheeler up the
power line behind his home. He never returned. A search party composed of
local police, state police and volunteers searched for Sees. The 4-wheeler=

was found on the top of the mountain near a power-line. Tracking dogs could=

find nothing to go on around the 4-wheeler. The search went on for 2 days
and over 6 miles of mountain was covered from top to bottom. Then, in the
evening of the 2nd day, his body was found in a hard to reach wooded area.=

He was wearing his underwear. He was emaciated---not bloated. He was pale
and had an expression of horror on his face. When he went up the mountain
he was fully dressed, boots, camo-vest, hat, socks, pants. 3 people, on one=

farm, said they saw a large round bright object just above the power-lines=

at the time of the disappearance. It was silent, it did not move for about=

10 to 15 minutes. It suddenly went up and suddenly stopped. A light shone
down and something was pulled up into the light. It then went straight up,=

hesitated again, and then went west over the Susquehanna River and out of
sight. More specifically a farmer saw an object above Montour Ridge at the=

power lines, on top of the mountain, it was round and very still over the
lines. Suddenly it moved what looked like a few hundred feet to the east,
it stopped and a beam of blue and white light shone to the ground. What was=

seen next was very unnerving, he saw what appeared to be a man suspended in=

the light, he was being pulled up head first, he was moving his arms slowly=

in the light. What looked like a man was pulled up into the bottom of the
craft. A few seconds later it started shuddering, then went west very fast,=

stopped briefly, and then went straight up and out of sight. Also three
fishermen saw the craft. The FBI is supposedly also investigating. (Debated=

as a hoax, who would? and for what purpose?).

HC addendum
Source: Rense, UFO updates, NUFORCType: G?






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                            2002 Humanoid Reports

From: Albert Rosales <Garuda79@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:32:05 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:14:40 -0500
Subject: 2002 Humanoid Reports


Happy new year everyone

Sincerely,

Albert

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2002 Humanoid Reports. It appears to be a slow start for this
year with only one recorded case, again from Chile. We will see
what develops later on the year. 2001 was pretty busy but it was
a decline from 2000. Maybe we will see another down trend again,
later to pick up again in the near future. This seems to be the
ever-ongoing trend of the phenomena. Will it always stay the
same? Time will tell. Following is a list of known 2002 humanoid
cases.


1.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: January 2002
Time: 0300A
An employee at the local Minera Escondida was on his way to the
storage freezer in order to pick up some supplies when an
unknown creature jumped him from behind. He could only describe
it as hairy and dark. He was left with deep scratches and in a
state of shock. Terrified he ran away and bumped into two other
employees who were able to see a shadowy creature in the dark.

HC addendum
Source: La Estrella del Loa de Calama, ChileType: E


2.
Location. Caracas, Venezuela
Date: January 2002
Time: late night
Late one night in a dream-like state the witness woke up to see
seven to eight strange figures in her bedroom. They were dark
gray in color and very thin, with three large thick long fingers
on their hands. They had large, lipless mouths and large shiny
protruding black eyes, their noses were thin and protruding,
small ears, the heads was large and pointy. The humanoids
appeared to be naked and she was able to see a penis on the
humanoids. They were about 1.55 meters in height. She felt dizzy
and under the control of the strange entities. She was led out
of her bedroom by one of the humanoids that removed her clothing
and made her lie down on the floor. The humanoids apparently
attempted to molest her sexually and possibly attempted to rape
her but were not successful. She apparently passed out and does
not remember anything else about the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Lista Alcione and witness communicationType: E


3.
Location. Fort McMurry, Alberta, Canada
Date: January 2 2002
Time: 2032
Two men were parked on an isolated dirt road when they spotted a
large cone-shaped object descend and hover. One of the men
exited the car and he vanished in plain sight of the other, the
craft then also disappeared. The other man tried to drive away
to get help but the car would not start and it was to cold to
walk. He soon went to sleep and woke up later to find his friend
sleeping next to him. Later they drove back to town. His friend
does not remember what happened during those two hours of
missing time. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


4.
Location. Paso Lovera, Corrientes, Argentina
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2030
Gabriela Lencinas, 15-year old and a 19-year old friend were
returning home on a bicycle when they spotted a large cloud like
object descend from the sky and from it a giant figure emerge.
The witnesses stopped their bicycles to see a car approach the
giant figure, stop, the driver exit the car and then re-entering
the vehicle and driving quickly away. The figure then rose up
into the cloud and disappeared. The girls reported that the
giant human-like figure had its hair standing up on his head and
was extending its arms towards the witnesses that quickly rode
their bicycles home. Other in the area reported seeing bright
lights that same night.

HC addendum
Source: Pablo Omastott
Type: B?


5.
Location. Villa San Rafael, Chile
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2345
Two young teenagers, Jean F and Nelson C, where at home at night
when Jean noticed that his pet snake had escaped from its cage.
Both boys began looking for it outside among the rubble of the
parcel. They recalled how half an hour before, their two dogs
strangely began to howl and cry; however, it did not seem to be
important at that point in time. They searched for the pet snake
together when suddenly, about 30 meters from where they stood;
they saw what appeared to be a stray dog. They threw rocks at to
avoid an attack. However, to their surprise, the animal stood
there, motionless and fearless; it did not get scared nor it ran
away as ordinary dogs normally do. Shortly, the strange animal
began to move towards them. The movements it made as it walked
were very strange. It used two legs at a time. It made very
small sand short leaps like a rabbit. Suddenly, it stopped and
it stood up on two legs. The teenagers then began to feel some
kind of energy. "It was like an electrical shock in the
stomach," they said. It later walked again making a loud
dragging noise, making small leaps and only moving one of its
legs. They noticed the weird shape of the animal. "It was like a
rugby football with legs," one of them said. Jean began to feel
frightened and started to move away from animal. On the other
hand, Nelson felt a strange need to get closer to the creature;
he got to within 2 meters away from it. The creature appear to
emit a strange luminosity that apparently, was bright enough to
lit a small area around the creature in spite of the nighttime
darkness. Nelson was mesmerized as he stared at the strange
creature. He described it as having a head like a large dog with
a flat nose like a bulldog. Its eyes were slanted and pale-red
in color, which could only be seen when the creature turned its
head from side to side like a lizard. At that moment, Nelson
heard a voice in his head saying, "Don't stare, and just run
away." They provided further description, describing the ears as
flat, round and large. Its arms were short, it had elbows, and
the hands had three fingers. It had hair like the one on a wild
pig. Its legs were like the ones of a goat. The feet had also
three fingers and a membrane like ducks, but somewhat shorter.
On its curved back, they were able to notice a spinal section
covered with amounts of even thicker hair. Most of the hair of
the animal was gray, but the tail had a white tip. Nelson
finally fled, terrified, from the area. He also described how he
felt an inexplicable bone-chilling cold sensation.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center
Type: E


6.
Location. Not given
Date: January 12 2002
Time: night
Ted Parker was eating some leftover food when he claims the food began to
change. The bread of the sandwich turned an orange color and the lamb
became a silvery metallic color, sort of like liquid mercury. As he watched=

transfixed, he saw the orange bread and metallic lamb turn into the figure=

of an "alien" with the form of a man. It was silver in color and its outfit=

(smooth pants and shirt, like a jump suit) was orange in color. At this
point Parker glanced at the wall clock and it indicated that 2 hours had
gone by, even though it felt like minutes only. The alien figure
communicated using telepathic means and asked Ted to come with him. They
both went outside and there, Ted saw a landed black-colored craft in his
backyard. In a split second Ted found himself inside the craft not knowing=

how he got there. The inside of the craft was pure white in color with
strips of the metallic silver that the alien figure appeared to be made of.=

The rest of the incident is just a blur, but Parker did remembered hearing=

several loud high-pitched rings while onboard the object. A couple of days=

before while eating dinner with several other people there had been a
similar high pitched ring and everybody had just stopped eating and walked=

out of the room.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: G or F?



7.
Location. Chihuahua, Mexico
Date: January 29 2002
Time: night
Several days before seeing a UFO the witness remembered being in a
dream-like state in which he felt very calm and saw numerous disc shaped
objects, orange-red in color. A human like figure was talking to him about=

the objects and their propulsion. The UFO he saw was of an orange color and=

he felt a sort of ecstasy when he observed the craft. Several of his
neighbors also saw the object.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: G or F?


8.
Location. Near Palmyra, Wisconsin
Date: February 2002
Time: 0200A
Two men reported seeing a creature that resembled a bipedal "gigantic wolf"=

walking down a road west of the city. They said the creature was at least 7=

ft tall with a wolf-like head. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Linda GodfreyType: E


9.
Location. West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
Nebilson Sangma reported encountering a scary furry creature on a hunting
trip in the jungles. He reportedly took a video of the creature's nesting
place. According to Sangma, the creature walked erect like a human, had
built a house like nesting place, and would emerge from it frequently to
feast on a banana grove. Sangma and his brother observed the gigantic
creature for three consecutive days from afar. Officials and villagers have=

been hunting for the creature in the forest but it seems to have
disappeared as furtively as it appeared.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 13
Type: E


10.
Location. Near Dover, England
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness had been jogging along a low path by the beach when she noticed=

a tall, well built being in a black skin tight suit, that stood watching
her from nearby. He wore a black helmet wit a brown visor pulled down. At
first she thought it was a biker but as she approached the figure, it
suddenly disappeared in plain sight. As she continued to run she noticed a=

black craft jutting out of the sand, it was small and oval shaped, matt and=

ribbed it also disappeared in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: E?


11.
Location. Rosario de la Frontera, Salta, Argentina
Date: February 2002
Time: night
A strange creature called by locals "El Pestizo" has attacked several lone=

pedestrians in the middle of the night. It is described as a dark man
shaped shadowy being. A boy riding his bicycle on the way to visit some
friends was toppled from his bicycle and found a black shadowy figure
facing him. The young man managed to upholster his shotgun and fire two
shots. But, when he saw that they had no effect, he promptly drew his knife=

and stabbed the figure without any apparent harm. Frightened the youth
tried to escape but the creature knocked him down without saying a word and=

began dragging him by the hair to the side of the road. At this point the
young man began to scream. A local man, who rushed to provide assistance,
only to find a black shadow dragging the boy by the hair, heard his cries.=

The fearful shape disappeared without a trace after it became aware of the=

other man's presence. Six other locals have reported being attacked by a
similar being and received wounds.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


12.
Location. Not given
Date: February 2002
Time: early morning
The witness was alone at home and was preparing his breakfast when suddenly=

he heard a window break; he went to see what had happened. Grabbing a golf=

club he peeked inside the room where the window broke. He was stunned to
see a strange creature climbing on his bed. It appeared to be hurt, because=

it seemed that it could not move well. Gripping the golf club he went a
step nearer and the creature hissed horribly. It shrieked in an unworldly
manner. Terrified the witness did not move. The creature was small, about
the size of a large rabbit, and it was dark in color and had reddish eyes.=

It had wings and a spine of quills on its back, and had a semi reptilian
face. It appeared to have hair and small legs. The witness raised the golf=

club and the creature hissed again showing its large yellowish teeth, which=

appeared to be sharp, like those of a crocodile. It suddenly hopped out of=

the window and rapidly hopped across the street into the oak trees.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June archiveType: E


13.
Location. Vigevano, Italy
Date: February 2002
Time: 0100A
In the outskirts of this city a witness observed from his vehicle a
luminous humanoid entity walking along a roadway. It scurried away into the=

darkness when approached.
No other information.

HC addendum
Source: CISU, ItalyType: E



14.
Location. Corguinho, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Date: February 5 2002
Time: night
During a localized UFO flap several witnesses reported seeing a strange
creature described as about 1.3 meters in height, having two legs, with a
physique like a human but who moved with a strange fluctuating motion. The=

creature was seen five times by twenty people in the rural zone around
Corguinho. In Rochedo, 6 miles south of Corguinho five Cebu cattle were
found dead with a single incision on the side of the throat. The bodies had=

been drained of blood. (Is there a connection?).

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


15.
Location. Mount Podbrdo, Bosnia Hercigovina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: morning
Contactee and stigmatic Giorgio Bongiovanni was visiting the shrine on top=

of the mountain and was praying silently to the Virgin when, to his
astonishment, a glowing luminous female figure appeared and touched his
forehead with her fingertips. His stigmata scar vanished instantly. The
female figure told him to return to Italy and make known what had happened.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 14
Type: E or F?


16.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: evening
73-year-old Maria Rufina Cayo, a local shepherd was walking back home with=

her dogs and the cattle. Suddenly at one point, something spooked the
animals, and these began to stampede. Looking around she spotted a bizarre=

creature standing about 12 meters away. She described it as a humanoid,
half animal, half human, about 1.70m in height, with bright red eyes, sharp=

protruding fangs, and hands and feet that ended in sharp claws. The
creature looked at the witness three times then it scrambled away using
quick jumping motions with is powerfully built hind legs, she also noticed=

large pointy ears. The top part of its body seems to have been covered in a=

shiny white blanket. It somehow resembled a centaur walking on two
claw-like feet.  Alerted by the shouts of Maria, two men, Santos Jaimes,
and Ruben Colque ran out to investigate with their dogs. Suddenly the dogs=

stopped and began making pitiful howling noises, they refused to move any
further. The men heard noises behind some nearby bushes and went to
investigate and spotted a bizarre creature that stood staring at them with=

huge reddish eyes. It then moved quickly away in the direction of Cerro
Negro and disappeared from sight. The witnesses noticed very sharp claws on=

the creature's feet with a very sharp claw that appeared to be pointed
backwards. Strange footprints were found the next day.

HC addendum
Source: El Tribuno, Salta Argentina March 27 2002
Also Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E



17.
Location. Khanpur, Ahmedabad, India
Date: February 20 2002
Time: after midnight
Several local residents reportedly have encountered a person, dressed in
black and wearing a mask. Dubbed the "Monkeyman" whom they described as
between 25 and 20 years of age, dark skinned and having curly hair can
reportedly be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees. Two
local youths chased it and the figure reportedly disappeared in plain
sight. The two youths have been behaving abnormally since then. The
stranger was also chased along the riverbed near the Cama Hotel and it also=

suddenly disappeared. Others have heard the stranger running on the
rooftops. Abdul Hamid another youngster of the local slums described the
figure as a tall lean man that carries a sharp weapon. "I saw him from the=

back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised the alarm, he jumped to=

another roof and then on to a tree." Police have searched for the stranger=

but nothing has been found.

HC addendum
Source: Fortean Times, India Express
Type: E


18.
Location. Prague, Czech Republic
Date: February 23 2002
Time: night
Blanka Slemendova was in her apartment when she saw a "ship" hovering over=

some nearby woods. It was shining red, white and yellow lights. She then
heard telepathic communication coming from the object telling her to go and=

meet them at an unspecified location. Looking over to her bedroom wall she=

saw what appeared to be a projection of human like faces looking at her.
Later that night she saw luminous figures in her room and a floating red
light also in her room. The next night she saw what appeared to be 2 gray
suns and around them a golden lights with numerous groups of shiny
human-like figures floating about. She interpreted these as being angels.

HC addendum
Source: Direct from witness (Slemendova)
Type: C & F?


19.
Location. Wycliffe Well Roadhouse, Northern Territory Australia
Date: early March 2002
Time: evening
While workers in the area watched unusual lights in the sky an aboriginal
woman encountered a triangular sort of object in a paddock and all of the
sudden she saw three silvery clad human like figures that began to move
toward her vehicle. She turned the vehicle around and took off.

HC addendum
Source: Lou Farcus ABC On-lineType: C


20.
Location. Near Canberra Australia
Date: March 2002
Time: 1700
Several friends were taking a trip to the coast and it was already very
dark. They had already entered a tropical forest area and there was a mist=

rolling along the ground. As they turned around they saw something
squatting in the middle of the road. It stared at them, and just as they
thought they were going to hit it, it leaped off the road and into the
trees. It leaped about 10 meters in the air. The creature was definitely
human looking although it wore strange clothes. It was dressed in a green
robe of some kind with little pieces of gold on it, and it was either
wearing a head crest or it had a row of spikes running from its forehead to=

the top of its neck. Very frightened the witnesses drove out of the forest=

and at the same time the mist turned to a thick fog. They pulled over and
decided to wait until the fog had cleared, although none of them were too
happy about it. As they sat around and waited they suddenly heard a shriek.=

It sounded like some sort of wild animal and they turned the car on so the=

headlights would scare it away. The headlights revealed the same creature
they had seen earlier. It hid its face from the light and shrieked. Right
before the witnesses' eyes, the creature seemed to evaporate into the fog.=

Within five minutes the fog had gone and the normal rolling mist was back.=

The witnesses quickly left the area and drove towards the coast.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June ArchiveType: E


21.
Location. Guanica Puerto Rico
Date: March 1 2002
Time: 2345
Reinaldo Rios (involved in other encounters) was in his bedroom that night=

when a large white light suddenly appeared. It flew around the room several=

times and then hovered. He heard voices coming from the light, which
communicated with him. The voice said: "I am your real father." Soon the
light transformed itself into a figure resembling that of a little boy it
then vanished in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: UFOs over America.com
Type: E


22.
Location. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 0800A
The witness and his wife were in bed that Saturday morning talking when
their 5-year-old daughter came into the bedroom with her baby brother,
whose cot is placed under their bedroom window. They heard a strange noise=

and some green light came into the window. Their daughter looked out the
window and reported seeing a "flying car" with four spinning green lights
on top. She saw two windows in the vehicle and saw two dark brown faces
looking out. His wife saw the craft flying past through the curtains. That=

same morning, in a large tree near the witness house a strange structure
was found. The branches were arranged in a rectangular pen shape, vertical,=

each approximately 30 to 40 cm long. They found a few smaller sticks
scaling down in size from the structure. A piece of concrete slab was found=

propped up on one corner. The witnesses had never seen this strange
structure before and think is some kind of message left by the visitors.
(Some kind of bizarre crop circle?). A few nights before they had heard
strange noises coming from the kitchen area.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: A


23.
Location. Golasecca Di Novara, Italy
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 2330
Augusto & Maurizia were in their vehicle parked in an open field next to a=

wooded area having a heated discussion when suddenly a powerful beam of
reddish-orange light illuminated the area around them. They rolled down the=

car window and heard a sharp metallic sound that seemed to be increasing in=

intensity. They now noticed, behind the beam of light a hovering
disc-shaped craft with a central rotating ring, it hovered about a meter
from the ground. From the object, a cigar-shaped beam of light emerged;
they could see it as the central ring of the craft slowly rotated on its
axis. The craft was only about 10 meters away. At this point, and only
about 4 meters from the object Augusto saw what appeared to be a gelatinous=

transparent humanoid-like figure with a visible head, arms and legs. The
figure was silvery in color and was very tall, about 3 meters or so. At
this point Augusto became concerned and drove away from the area and did
not see the object or figure depart. The whole episode lasted about 10
minutes. The metallic noise was heard all throughout the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Alfredo Lissoni, CUN Milano, Michelle Castellano CUN VareseType: C


24.
Location. Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England
Date: March 3 2002
Time: morning
Helen Diskin went for a walk in the countryside talking snap shots along
the way with her digital camera. Returning home she loaded these into her
computer and was intrigued by an odd-looking image. It looked like a
luminous figure in an area of no sunlight, skulking amongst the trees. She=

returned to the site of the photo twice afterward and could find no
explanation for the figure. The figure resembled a small helmeted figure
that she had not seen when she took the picture of an area of the woods she=

had thought of as "mysterious."

HC addendum
Source: Helen Diskin, UFO Magazine Vol. 22 # 1Type: E?


25.
Location. Near Trenton New Jersey
Date: March 4 2002
Time: night
Several witnesses were camping outside of town and late at night one of
them was attempting to put out the bonfire when he heard the most awful and=

horrifying scream. It resembled that of an injured dog crossed with a
scream of a woman. The witness dropped the flashlight and was joined by
another witness. Suddenly out of the woods a hideous and gruesome creature=

appeared. It did not look human, somewhat satyr-like in appearance and
walked on two legs. It had a long tail like a dragon and wings like those
unicorns in fantasy books. The beast took several steps towards the
witnesses and one of them picked up and asked and yelled at it and then
shone his flashlight at it. The creature then turned towards the bushes and=

ran away from the area.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: E


26.
Location. Pichaca, Salta, Argentina
Date: March 9 2002
Time: night
Ceferino Leoncio was cleaning his one room metal shack when suddenly a
bright light engulfed the room. He felt a sudden heat as he saw a tiny
figure (50 cm) of an angel-like creature materialize in front of him. It
slowly moved its small wing-like protrusions and moved around and then
suddenly stopped and remained still. It appeared to be a small living human=

like living being until it appeared to hardened and turn into some type of=

statue of cherubic appearance. Locals have now built a shrine around the
tiny "statue" and call the strange materialization a "religious miracle".

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso
Type: F?



27.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: March 16 2002
Time: 2215
Mirna, was watching television alone in her room when she began hearing
noises coming from outside, at first she thought it was her dogs playing
around with some empty cans. But the noises kept getting louder and louder=

and she decided to go outside to investigate. Once outside she was stunned=

to see some type creature that had somehow entered the rabbit cage and was=

attacking the animals that were making loud unearthly screams. Thinking at=

first that it was one of the dogs she approached the case but realized that=

it was a gray colored hairy hunched over creature, that was moving quickly=

inside the cage. She stepped back and could not understand how the creature=

had entered the cage, since there wasn't any apparent hole or aperture
visible anywhere and the door was firmly closed. Afraid she ran inside her=

home and notified her son, both then ran out but the creature had
mysteriously disappeared. Unnerved, they could not understand how they
creature had escaped since the door to the rabbit caged was still firmly
locked. Later they could only find a small round hole in the wire only
several centimeters in width, not large enough for a creature estimated to=

have been about 70 to 80 cm in height. Several of the rabbits were found
injured and one was dead.

HC addendum
Source: Calama UFO CenterType: E


28.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: March 19 2002
Time: 2000
Young Elizabeth Lera reported seeing a short humanoid with "dark eyes"
looking into the building compound from behind a wire fence. It appeared
not to have any other facial features and was wearing dark clothing; it
wore some type of head covering, which was hard to see because of the
darkness. She could only see a pair of large dark eyes on his face that
appeared to shine in the darkness. Some more children now arrived and
observed as the humanoid move several steps towards them. Another witness,=

Rene Mamani saw the humanoid run and hide behind some bushes. It seemed to=

move at very high speed in an unnatural fashion. It seemed to have remained=

suspended in mid-air for a few seconds. It then seemed to fly through the
air and disappeared into some nearby woods. Other students at the school
reportedly saw it again on the night of the 20th.

HC addendum
Source: Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E


29.
Location. Woodburn, Oregon
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 0300A
The witness was sleeping when she woke up suddenly feeling paralyzed. The
witness was completely unable to move or speak. Her next memory was of a
strange sensation on her left cheek, which hurt a lot. Unseen "beings" were=

apparently taking skin samples. Her face was left with a pink fleshy scoop=

down my left cheek, directly on the cheekbone. A teardrop scar was left on=

her cheek.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical Universe
Type: G?




30.
Location. Bethlehem, Israel
Date: March 21 2002
Time: night
At the besieged Church of The Nativity several awed witnesses have come
forward describing the events of Thursday night. That night, a smell of
roses filled the sanctuary as the Daughters of Charity held their evening
prayers. "The sweet scent was soon followed by a high musical humming sound=

and a distinct feeling of warmth emanating from the ceiling." Then, the
sisters reported, seeing a glowing beam of light gradually forming the
likeness of the Blessed Virgin "like a film coming into focus." Tears were=

running down her face, and she uttered a prophetic warning. "Time is
growing short, and the promised Judgment Day is nearly at hand." One week
before the apparition, The Church of the Holy Family was the scene of a
ferocious firefight between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 17Type: F


31.
Location. Not given
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 2255
16-year old Steven Mizon saw hovering over a street a large oval shaped
craft encircled in bright lights and with several lighted windows around
its edge. A figure stared down at him from one of the windows. No other
information.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Watch
Type: A



32.
Location. Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain
Date: March 26 2002
Time: 1500
A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a deserted road when=

he noticed ahead in the distance and in the middle of the roadway an object=

resembling a shiny pear that was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat
perplexed he approached and noticed two individuals standing on a nearby
field. These were over 2 meters in height, wore tight fitting white
coveralls and helmets resembling that of the early astronauts. He parked
his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men=

walked away and entered the shiny pear-shaped craft while the other
remained behind. Knowing that these men were "not from this earth" he still=

asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt that as
he approached the strange pair he had been in some type of a trance and
seemed to have floated over the road. The humanoid answered and appeared
genuinely happy as to his offer of assistance but said that everything was=

in order. He also added that the area was very beautiful and also added:
"Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such
beautiful scenes, they disappeared a long time ago." The astounded witness=

managed to ask the humanoid where he was from and was told that they hailed=

from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The=

humanoid smiled as he answered the question. The humanoid then bid goodbye=

and walked towards the nearby shiny pear shaped object, he then disappeared=

inside of it. The craft then emitted a loud whistling sound and disappeared=

at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the
humanoids as about 2.50 meters in height, wide chests and heavy set, thin
legs. Generally human features, but somewhat "refined" or sharpened
features. The suits were very tight fitting made of an apparent synthetic
material resembling plastic. Their eyes were very light almost white and
their speech was hesitant & accented. Also their movements seemed kind of
clumsy.

HC addendum
Source: J M Garcia, Francisco Padron, SpainType: B


33.
Location. Pringle Lake, Texas
Date: March 28 2002
Time: 1100A
Mark Hakemack and a friend had taken an airboat out on the NW side of the
lake to do a little redfish fishing. The day was kind of hazy, with broken=

cloud cover. They had caught several trout and were just chatting when he
hooked up a large redfish while playing with the fish, Mark happened to
glance upwards and saw a large bird-like creature emerge from a cloudbank.=

His friend saw it too, after about 20 to 25 seconds it flew behind cloud
cover again. The strange creature was grayish in color and the profile of a=

raptor, short neck/head, no legs sticking out behind, and no long tail
feathers. Mark could not take his eyes off it. He estimated the wingspan to=

have been 10' to 14 ' in overall. It appeared to be soaring on the wind,
although, he did see it give a couple of light "flaps" with its wings. The=

witness could only relate this to the legendary "Thunderbird" legend.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.comType: E


34.
Location. Sevilla, Spain
Date: March 30 2002
Time: late night
The witness to the March 26 case was at home with his wife and was getting=

ready to sleep when he heard footsteps coming from patio area outside his
chalet. Armed with a club, he opened the door and was stunned to see the
same two tall heavyset humanoids he had encountered 4 days before. One of
the humanoids was kneeling on the ground as if inspecting something on the=

soil, the other one upon hearing the door open, turned and quickly assured=

the witness not to fear that they were not here to harm him. Stunned, the
witness invited the two humanoids in the house for some refreshments (!).
These declined the invitation telling that they had to go already. Using
the same clumsy movements both humanoids walked towards the rear of the
house where the witness noticed the same shiny metallic pear shaped craft
on the ground. They entered the object, which quickly left at high speed.
The witness's wife awakened by the voices was able to see the two humanoids=

from a second story window, and described them in the same way.

HC addendum
Source: Francisco Padron, Jose Manuel Garcia, SpainType: B


35.
Location. Los Cipreses, Chile
Date: March 31 2002
Time: noon
During a local UFO congress 24 persons in three groups entered a
dimensional gateway that appeared by itself over the terrain. It was kind
of a dome, a luminous archway measuring four by four meters. The
participants lost their materiality without disappearing completely. Upon
entering, they met several human-like alien characters with large baldheads=

and wearing robes that waited within and received information. According to=

sources the contact experience was "dimensional" it was like crossing into=

a different reality. The 24 participants were "all professionals, college
students of high intellectual levels, mostly Chileans," and some were
members of Grupo Rama, a New Age association.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 16, quoting Camilo Valdivieto
Type: G or F?


36.
Location. Tbilissi Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: night
A man entered the local St David church and reported that "a phantom with
wings" had approached him and predicted an earthquake that indeed took
place on April 25 2002, devastating areas of central Georgia.

HC addendum
Source: Pravda
Type: E?


37.
Location. Near Macon, Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: 2300
Three friends were awakened by loud banging noises and bellowing sounds
coming from outside. One of the men ran to the bathroom and looked out the=

window to see a figure run by and squat in the nearby bushes. He described=

the creature as about 3 ft tall, hairy with what appeared to be horns on
its head and hands; he could not see a face. Others in the neighborhood
heard the banging noises.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.com and direct witness
Communication.
Type: E


38.
Location. Belvedere di Tezze, Italy
Date: April 26 2002
Time: evening
A 20-year old woman was returning home one night when she noticed some
bright lights nearby of an unknown origin. She followed the lights in her
car until she stopped near a local pizzeria. She saw the light near the
ground and within the lights two tall slender human like figures wearing
some type of headgear. Since she was carrying a camera she was able to snap=

a quick picture. The figures then vanished. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Gruppo Accademico Ufologico Scandicci quoting
"Il giornale di Vicenza"Type: E?


39.
Location. Puente Santamaria, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: early morning
Two young men observed a dark object descend towards the ground about 100
meters away. According to the two witnesses from the craft descended a
small humanoid, orange in color. Very scared they both ran from the area
and reported their experience to others.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: B


40.
Location. Merceditas, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: evening
An elderly couple was walking along National Route # 8 when about 800
meters from their location they noticed a very strong light. The light
descended next to a puddle at about 70 meters from the witness. Both then
saw two very short orange colored humanoids that moved in very agile
movements near the object. Terrified they walked away and upon looking back=

saw a bright glow on the ground.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: C


41.
Location. Barangay, Philippines
Date: May 2002
Time: night
Several local residents reported seeing a bizarre creature described as an=

"aswang" reputed to be a winged vampire type creature, it reportedly had
red glowing eyes, long black hair, and was wearing a white flowing gown. It=

was seen perched on top of a bamboo tree. Residents at nearby Roxas
reported seeing a similar creature. The police was called but a search
failed to locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Akasico.comType: E


42.
Location. Alvear, La Pampa Argentina
Date: May 3 2002
Time: near midnight
Several young men were returning home late at night along a deserted
roadway when suddenly out of nowhere a female figure wearing a light
flowing gown and with long black hair appeared in front of them. The
strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly and repeatedly asked for=

assistance from the men in a strange urgent tone. Terrified the men ran
from the area and later returned with additional witnesses but they could
find no trace of the strange apparition.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E?


43.
Location. Taralgon Victoria, Australia
Date: May 24 2002
Time: 2355
Walking near the Loy Yang Power station 45-year old Martin Taylor was
suddenly blinded by an intense blue light and he felt extremely dizzy. His=

next memory was of being in a circular room with a variety of lights and
buttons scattered about the walls. He was lying on a large table that
seemed to be of a very highly polished metal. He was strapped down and his=

shirt had been removed. There were wires attached to his arms, neck and
temples. A four ft tall humanoid figure with very large almond shaped eyes,=

almost transparent looking skin, ghostly white in appearance examined him.=

The figure had three extremely long fingers on each hand and spoke in a
strange dialect.

HC addendum
Source: UFO WatchType: G


44.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: May 29 2002
Time: midnight
Irma Rick watched a rotating luminous object descend close to the ground
next to a grain silo; it gave off a powerful bluish light through some
openings around its circumference. It hovered close to the ground. Through=

an opening a strange creature was seen to descend to the ground. It was
described as having an elongated semi-transparent white body; it also had
an elongated head. She could not see any eyes or legs on the creature as it=

stood motionless next to the craft. She observed the creature and object
for about 5 minutes until she dropped the flashlight she was carrying.
Afraid she left the area and did not see the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: B



45.
Location. Lembang Bandung, Indonesia
Date: May 30 2002
Time: 2315
The witness was driving his motorcycle across a highland area when he
spotted some flashing lights overhead and then noticed a silvery
disc-shaped craft descend low over some nearby graves at a cemetery. The
craft had blue and orange flashing lights around its rim. There was no
sound as the craft apparently emitted a beam of light towards the ground
and levitated what appeared to be some dead bodies onboard the object. (!)=

The witness was apparently paralyzed and was unable to move. The craft then=

shot away at a 45-degree angle and disappeared from sight. When that
happened the witness left the scene.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


46.
Location. Houston, Texas
Date: late May 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness was at the local electric company in order to pay a bill when
she decided to use the restrooms. Sitting in the stall she then noticed on=

the side of the wall of the stall what appeared to be a face lit up in a
dull light. When the witness looked directly at the "face" it vanished. She=

described is as having large round eyes no visible nose and a slit-like
mouth. (A peeping tom alien?)

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.comType: E?


47.
Location. General Acha, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: early June 2002
Time: various
A resident of the Oeste neighborhood informed newspaper sources that a
short green-colored dwarf like entity has appeared twice on her property:
once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When her husband ran out
responding to her screams, the mysterious entity vanished by rapidly
climbing up a tree. All versions agree in that the entity is short in
stature. Another resident added that it moved so quickly that it was hard
to describe it. In the same area mysterious cattle mutilations have also
been reported.

HC addendum
Source: Loren Coleman in UFO UpdatesType: E


48.
Location. Ojo De Agua, Argentina
Date: June 2002
Time: afternoon
Several passengers onboard two farm micro buses reported seeing a very tall=

dark man like figure that appeared to be wearing a tight fitting diver's
outfit standing on a nearby field. Nearby numerous mysterious animal
mutilations have been reported. The figure was silent and was quickly lost=

from sight as the buses moved away.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E




49.
Location. Near Tampa, Florida
Date: June 2002
Time: night
A man and three of his friends reported encountering two bizarre chupacabra=

type creatures one stood about 3-4 ft tall, the other looked to be about 6=

ft tall. Both had large glowing red eyes and spikes starting from the head=

to the back. They scurried away into a wooded area. (They were to have
further encounters in August).

HC addendum
Source: Art Bell.comType: E


50.
Location. Antalya, Turkey
Date: June 5 2002
Time: afternoon
Approximately 45 witnesses claimed they saw an UFO in the Santral district=

landing on the backyard of the Fatma Primary School. Several students
including Murat Esici age 11 saw an alien emitting red rays from his eyes
come out of the object. His hands and feet were metallic. He had a very big=

head and was about 1.80 meters in height. Esici temporarily lost her voice=

immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also=

claimed they san an unusual craft and an alien beside it. "His eyes and
hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes." The children
were overcome with shock after the incident.

HC addendum
Source: Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center Intl
Type: B


51.
Location. Polonnauruwa, Sri Lanka
Date: June 8 2002
Time: 2200
Approximately 50 to 70 eyewitnesses saw a UFO flying at about 100 meters
above ground level. The object was silent and briefly landed emitting a
bright flash like light. When it was close to the ground the object emitted=

a buzzing sound. Three other witnesses saw three 2 ft tall creatures than
when approached ran into the jungle and disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Sources
Type: D


52.
Location. Polonnaruwa, Sir Lanka
Date: June 9 2002
Time: 2012
Two witnesses went to a bath on a nearby river when they heard a loud
thundering sound and a UFO appeared. The craft landed nearby and two, 2 ft=

tall "aliens" emerged from the object. One of the humanoids flung a small
fluorescent fireball like object that flew over a house and vanished. Soon=

the craft and humanoids disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC & News Reports
Type: B



53.
Location. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Date: June 10 2002
Time: 1900
Witnesses saw a mysterious light in the sky and others saw a large disc
shaped object land nearby. Three humanoids only about 2 ft tall emerged
from the craft and disappeared into the forest when approached. The object=

also left.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Reports
Type: B


54.
Location. Chantilly, Virginia
Date: June 10 2002
Time: night
The witness was awakened during the night with a sense of some presence in=

the room. Looking toward the door, he saw, fading quickly, something, which=

almost had the appearance of a hologram. Next, shadows appeared outside the=

windows in an erratic shape. At first he thought the shadows to be from
trees moving in a strong wind. The appearance was of a storm blowing the
limbs to create these shadows outside the window. However, there was no
storm. He looked at the adjacent window on the side of the house facing
opposite and there was no wind at all. In fact there was no trees
positioned in such a way to cast a shadow. He opened the blinds to see what=

might be causing the shadows. He then saw what seemed to be a hologram with=

the shape of two small eyes moving erratically outside the window.
Frightened he closed the blinds. Two weeks later he was awakened by a
humming sound and again saw the erratic shadows outside the window. He
watched the shadows for 10-15 minutes and then called the police. The
police found no signs of any intrusion in the yard. When the police left
the witness walked toward the door facing the back porch and saw a large
burst of bluish white light. It looked unnatural, almost like a laser. He
has not seen the "shadows" again.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: E?


55.
Location. Ataliva Roca, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 11 2002
Time: 1930
A worker at a local drainage project was sitting and guarding some
machinery when he noticed a short greenish colored humanoid figure that was=

approaching his location from a nearby field. The witness became concerned=

and drove away from the area in the construction equipment and did not see=

the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


56.
Location. Eduardo Castex, La Pampa Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Two girls of a local school encountered a short greenish humanoid figure in=

the playing yard. The figure was standing up and appeared to be raising its=

arms up to the sky. Terrified the two girls retreated into the school and
watched the figure scurry away into some nearby woods. Around the same time=

a local farmer found a strangely mutilated hog in his farm.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


57.
Location. Chasico, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Hugo Deluca and several other workers were parked in a bus in an isolated
area when they spotted about 20 meters away a short, 1.20 meters tall,
bipedal figure completely covered in gray hair. It walked upright like a
man and then scurried away into some woods vanishing from sight. The area
had been hit with animal mutilations around the same time.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


58.
Location. Castex, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 13 2002
Time: night
A 70-year old man had gone to his driveway to check on a flat tire in his
car when a short light green colored humanoid suddenly appeared next to
him. It had large round ears, and two reddish luminous eyes. Its body was
thin and almost triangular in shape. The witness attempted to yell out but=

was suddenly unable to speak and at the same time strange warmth invaded
his body. Several seconds later the humanoid vanished and the witness
returned to normal. He reported the incident to the police.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


59.
Location. La Laguna, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 14 2002
Time: afternoon
Several youngster had gone into the fields in order to obtain some firewood=

when they saw sitting on a clearing in the woods two human like figures,
all dressed in black. They sat facing each other, one looking towards the
east the other towards the west, unmoving. Unnerved by the sight the
juveniles ran from the area. The next day the father of one of the boys
found two dead cows at the site, but could find no trace of the strange
pair. Days later a sheep and a horse were found dead and strangely
mutilated in the nearby location of El Cardonal.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: E


60.
Location. De Kalb, Illinois
Date: June 15 2002
Time: 0030A
The witness was sitting in his family room watching TV when he noticed a
bright flash of light outside the window. He saw the flash several times
and decided to check his backyard there he saw a circular light moving
around in circles. The light began to get closer; scared he ran inside his=

home and called a friend on the phone. He then quickly ran outside and saw=

the circle getting closer, he noticed that it had a purplish color to it
and it began to descend towards the ground. He became nauseous and dizzy
and collapsed on to the ground. He tried to crawl to the house but was
unable to move. He turned his head and saw the purplish object on the
ground and what appeared to be a door opening up. He then heard a squeaking=

noise and saw a tall and a short figure standing by a door of the object.
The two figures started to move towards him, walking in a strange bopping
fashion. They were of a dark complexion with a bumpy texture, other than
that they resembled normal human beings. The shorter figure approached and=

picked up the witness' camera and stared at it. He then looked at the
taller figure and handed it to him. The taller of the two looked at the
camera and then at the witness. The witness then heard loud unpleasant
shrieks coming from the taller figure, which then gave the camera back to
the shorter figure, which covered the camera with his hand, seconds later a=

light began to emerge from their hands. Then they stopped, threw the camera=

aside and began to walk towards the witness. They reached his side and
started to examine his body. A dog began to bark from inside the house and=

the shorter figure put out his hand and the dog stopped barking. At this
point the witness began to vomit. After about a minute he began to relax
and to breathe better. When he turned his head he realized that the two
figures and the purple spherical object were now gone. The next day he had=

a very severe headache.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: B


61.
Location. San Juan, Argentina
Date: June 20 2002
Time: evening
At a location where the body of a strangely mutilated carcass of a cow was=

found two witnesses reported seeing a small creature with large glowing
slanted eyes and about one meter in height. Later in the same area, members=

of the Gimenez family after investigating noises and a strong odor coming
from a wooded area found a mutilated cow and also watched a short humanoid=

with glowing eyes scurrying away into the woods.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


62.
Location. Manuel Rodriguez, Calama, Chile
Date: June 22 2002
Time: after midnight
A bizarre creature was spotted at a local housing complex on San Antonio
Street. Witnesses reported that it resembled an ape and it jumped all over=

the roof. It passed right in front of the witness, Maria Gavia's window and=

then it came back making all manner of noise. The creature was able to make=

very long jumps, unlike any a human could. It jumped and landed on the
neighbor's roof and then it left the area. Neighborhood dogs acted scared
and began howling. Others described the creature as about 1.5 meters tall,=

stocky in build with bright red eyes. It made a lot of noise. Others
reportedly chased the creature.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center, quoting El
Mercurio de CalamaType: E


63.
Location. Angencia Realico, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 23 2002
Time: late night
Several hunters returning to a local ranch spotted about 50 meters away two=

large glowing reddish eyes staring at them. They turned off their
flashlight and approached closer on foot, about 30 meters away they again
saw the reddish eyes on a dark creature that appeared to be standing on top=

of an apparently dead animal. One of the hunters shone its flashlight on
the figure again and saw a figure about 40 cm in height that quickly ran
from the area at very high speed. The creature disappeared into the brush.=

At the scene, a dead and mutilated young heifer. Other mutilations were
reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


64.
Location. Rancul, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 25 2002
Time: 2020
Two young men, Nestor Pinto and Daniel Gatica were walking on a field when=

they encountered a short man-like figure with huge pointy ears and long
dangling arms standing near some brush. The figure scurried into the brush=

and disappeared and at the same time the two witnesses ran away from the
area and did not see the strange dwarf again.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


65.
Location. Bavaria, Germany (exact location not given)
Date: June 25 2002
Time: night
The witness had stayed up late watching the soccer game as was in his
bedroom when suddenly there was a coldness around him that made him shiver.=

He noticed that his audio capabilities were somehow enhanced and he was
able to hear sounds that previously he was unable to hear. He then heard a=

noise outside his door and went out to investigate. The noise became louder=

as he approached the door. He then heard footsteps and opened the door. A
very small man with a somewhat deformed body that was smiling at him
confronted the witness. He looked straight ahead and then stared at the
witness. His next memory was of waking up in his bed in the morning.

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.com
Type: E


66.
Location. Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2105
The primary witness had stepped out on his back porch when his attention
was drawn to two huge black "birds" which were approaching from the north.=

His first impression was they were Herons, but soon realized that the color=

was wrong, and "they were huge, much larger than any bird I have ever
seen." The two huge birds landed at the top of a very tall coniferous tree.=

The witness stated that the wingspan appeared to be wider than the
branches, jest below where they had landed. The body size was estimated to=

be about six feet from head to tail. The oddest feature was the shape of
the wings, which according to the witness appeared to be bat-like. The tree=

where the "birds" landed seemed as though it would break from their weight.=

The witness yelled for others in the house to come outside to look. Another=

family member was able to see the huge black birds as they passed overhead,=

and headed for some woods. After checking the size of the branches where
the birds had landed, the witness estimated that the wingspan would have
been close to 12 feet or somewhat larger.

HC addendum
Source: Stan GordonType: E


67.
Location. Marldon Hill, Paington, England
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2357
A couple were walking near a local historic monument (a windmill) and they=

drew closer to monument they heard a low whirling noise. The noise
progressed to a high-pitched whining, almost out of hearing range. Then
they saw a mysterious glow coming from the dark side of the windmill, and
then to their astonishment they saw 5 or 6 shadow like figures standing in=

front of the windmill. Startled the two began to run back towards the main=

road. The woman looked back and saw the figures become engulfed by a bright=

light and disappear, and then everything became quiet.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Sightings UKType: E?


68.
Location. Adelia Maria, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 3 2002
Time: 2100
Pedro and Estela Moine had decided to visit the business district of town
called Barrio Norte and crossed the old railroad yard through a pedestrian=

pathway that ran through a pasture area between some silos, old railroad
depots and abandoned wreckage. As the couple moved through the premises
they suddenly became aware of a strange and incomprehensible conversation
between many voices. Startled, they stopped walking moved a few meters more=

and then heard the voices again which now sounded like strange "O" sounds.=

Pedro looked toward the silos and was able to see resembling humanoid but
lacking upper and lower extremities. Despite the pleas of his wife, Pedro
ran several meters toward an inner alley in the silo plant, being able to
make out some 45 meters to the west and in profile---the entity, which
acting surprised, avoided the encounter and moved again to the north.
However, what filled the witnesses with wonderment was that the creature
did so as though flying or floating without touching the facilities it
passed. Pedro and Estela ran after it. It was thus that the man managed to=

see the entity apparently hiding behind the control room of the truck
scale. Pedro ran toward it and was again startled to see the apparition
rising as a plane taking off, flying at an altitude of 5 meters and
disappearing behind a large metal shed. Bewildered, both witnesses called
out, but were unable to see anything else. Pedro Moine as "a thing with
human shape" described the apparition. It had some sort of light, although=

he could not say if reflected or self-generated, although he tends to
believe the latter, since it was a nebulous whitish light, which kept him
from making out details. The entire mass of the apparition appeared to be a=

body covered from head to toe in some sort of mantle, which he described as=

though it wore a hat, but covered with some kind of long raincoat reaching=

down to what he took to be its feet. He added that the "conversational
sounds" repeated themselves in three separate occasions at various
intensities. They were like conversations in a strange language.

HC addendum
Source: Mario Luis Bracamonte, C.O.R, Rio Cuarto Argentina
Type: E


69.
Location. Jerusalem, Israel
Date: July 6 2002
Time: night
A remote TV camera picked up images of "orbs seen on the corner to the
right of the Wailing Wall." They seemed to have facial features almost like=

a ghost, reported investigator Charlotte LeFevre. The orbs were described
as "sharp and distinct". The orbs were next to the women's prayer area in
front of the Wall. Other strange phenomena, has been reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 29Type: F?


70.
Location. Villa Elisa, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: July 13 2002
Time: 2300
A young woman fainted from nervous shock after having an alleged closed
encounter with "some sort of green dwarf". This occurred---enveloped in
darkness---along Misioneros Salesianos Street very close to several houses.=

An ambulance was called and apparently transported the witness who was in
shock.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria ColuchiType: E


71.
Location. Patna, India
Date: July 21 2002
Time: night
Several residents claim they've been bitten or scratched by a "black
monkey-like creature with colored lights flashing from its eyes." Resident=

Pawan Kumar Niyogi who was sleeping on the terrace of his house claims "a 5=

ft tall monkey-like creature" attacked him. He said: "I was terrified and
thought my life was going to end but it merely scratched me on the shoulder=

before jumping off the roof." Local residents are conducting night vigils
and carrying torches to guard their homes.

HC addendum
Source: Ananova, Ufoupdates. Type: E


72.
Location. Chajan, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 21 2002
Time: 2300
Police officer Guillermo Arias was on routine patrol through a rural area
when he heard over the radio that his colleagues in arms over at Achiras
were seeing lights in sectors of said community, and that they were heading=

towards Chajan along National Route 8. At the wheel of the police patrol
van, he managed to see a formation of 7 lights in the distance and decided=

to drive 10 km along a rural dirt road. When he had covered said distance,=

he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine of his vehicle sputtered=

and died, causing the police car to strike the edge of a guardrail.
Simultaneously, the lights on the van's dashboard began turning on and off=

randomly, the police radio went haywire and its dial displayed the random
shifting of the frequencies while the cabin became filled with an acrid
odor, as though of burnt wiring, and the interior lights and stop
indicator, which were broken, began lighting on and off. Seized by fear,
Arias leaped from the van and walked away a few meters down the road,
losing his cellular phone in the escape. The darkness was total, when
suddenly, amid the confusing situation; an immense light emerged from a
field adjacent to the road as a triangular object rose majestically into
the air. Now Arias condition went from fear to abject terror as he saw what=

he described as a real "floating city" some 200 meters long with a long row=

of windows (perhaps as many as 100). Arias claims having seen something
move behind them, describing the movement as "TV sets which make lines and=

shadows", which he defined as "non-human", and that many beams of light
came out of the giant triangle, aimed at the ground. The event lasted 2-3
seconds, but to Arias it felt like an eternity. The object suddenly rose
and sped away, vanishing behind the hills of a local field. As the object
moved away, the whole area was lit up like daytime and there was an
afterglow that lasted another 20 minutes.

HC addendum
Source: C.O.R., Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense, Argentina
Type: A


73.
Location. Waconia, Minnesota
Date: July 26 2002
Time: 0300A
The young witness was sleeping in the backyard with his sister when he
suddenly woke up. He then noticed that the side of the tent that faced the=

wetlands and lake was lit up. Looking towards the light he saw a shadowy
torso and arm of a humanoid figure that seemed to be moving around within
the light. He watched for 30 seconds and saw the figure move the fingers of=

his hands. The witness became frightened and hid in his sleeping bag. He
came out about an hour later and the light and strange figure were
completely gone.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


74.
Location. Sedona, Arizona
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 0310A
In a wooded area the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all
white, with black "straight" eyes; and black diagonal/diamond strip of
"clothing" on top. He stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then
left. Prior to seeing the figure the witness had seen lights in a large
oval shaped pattern in the sky.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


75.
Location. Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 1730
Three girls had decided to visit the rooftop as they did the prior evening=

watching for satellites. It was dusk and the girls had a good vantage point=

looking towards the east. With them they had a pair of binoculars and a
pair of walkie-talkies. The girls noticed that a large orange light
appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The anomaly
was noted to have fluctuated in colors of orange, yellow, white and pale
blue. At fist they thought of an arriving airplane, but then a second light=

appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10=

degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some=

unusually maneuvering; from a stationary position it accelerated at least 5=

degrees closer to the ground surface at an approximate 45-60 degree angle
within a matter of a single second. The first anomaly then began to move
slowly towards the north. At this stage they partially lost view of it as
it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley-like
region of the horizon. According to the witnesses, this third object
appeared to have "landed" on the ground surface. The object was then viewed=

through the binoculars and presented in great detail; the object was
described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange,=

blue/purple and white rotating around the rim. Thy also noted the trees
being slightly illuminated by this extraordinary phenomenon. They were
suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, "Identify
yourself." This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in a
foreign language. Around 1830 the girls were then called down to have
dinner. At about 2030 the girls re-established their places on the roof
after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still
present. Unexpectedly a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above
the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. "It
was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away." The=

light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it=

is not clear how one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became
extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed
her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not=

sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another of the girls woke up
the next morning with her nose bleeding. She also mentioned that she had
seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom.

HC addendum
Source: The Australian UFO Research NetworkType: D or
F?



76.
Location. Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 29 2002
Time: early morning
Local residents have seen a strange figure, which they described as
resembling a "shroud". The apparitions, which always occur in the early
morning hours, have become so common that in recent days several neighbors=

have stayed up late to see them, and it is thus that they were able to
confirm the simultaneous presence of up to 2 such beings, as well as red
lights flying over the area. All the witnesses whether individuals or in a=

group, agree that the entities are nebulous and glowing, with a pair of red=

eyes being clearly identifiable, and glassy faces (as if transparent).
Their movements are smooth and they always appear from behind the sand
dunes, as though "coming form the Naval Base." Most witnesses agree that
they show a great interest in the water tanks located above the roofs, and=

that they do not flee upon detecting the presence of local
residents---rather, they stare at them fixedly for some minutes. Deep
silence is perceived during the observations and "the air appears to become=

still" and neither heat nor cold can be felt---only a sensation of warmth,=

as if the beings emanated heat. Witnesses also state that things appear to=

be darker when "the shroud" appears, as though ambient lighting were
dimmed. Another curious fact is the large number of cats and dogs who
report to the place where the sightings occur and sit down to observe it in=

silence, in a state resembling a trance. A series of semi-circular prints
have been found in the dunes, not very deep, with 15-20 cm separations in
some cases and 30-50 cm in others. The locals have identified them as the
strange being's footprints. Efforts have been made to photograph the
"shroud", but all images, despite the use of different cameras appear
exposed. One witness who approached the site to witness the phenomenon took=

two photos of the prints in the afternoon and decided to stay with the
group of people hoping to see the "shroud", managing to take some photos of=

same and record the new prints which appeared in the dunes after the
sighting. A completely uncommon print was found at the site---but the
residents aren't sure if it's related to the phenomenon: it has the shape
of a five-fingered claw. One witness tried to make use of his carbine's
telescopic sight to see the figure in greater detail, but "when he tried to=

focus on it, he could see nothing_it was a though it could only be seen
with the unaided eye."

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, IHU, Christian Quintero and O A Mario
Proyecto Condor
Type: C or E?


77.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 30 2002
Time: 0530A
27-year old Mariela Baigorri reported seeing a strange figure that floated=

in front of her house. She had woken up early that morning and was getting=

ready to mount her bicycle when she saw behind the fence something floating=

in mid-air. It appeared to be a figure wearing a flowing white transparent=

tunic, with bright red eyes and undefined facial features. Feeling no fear=

she decided to approach it. She felt as if the figure waited for her and
was observing her. At this point Mariela felt some fear and began reciting=

the Lord's Prayer. The figure suddenly moved back and disappeared in plain=

sight.

HC addendum
Source: Juan Carlos Corrales Morey, Vision Ovni, Argentina
Type: E


78.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 31 2002
Time: 1845
23-year old Julian Pereyra was in his vehicle when he observed two red
spheres flying slowly over some nearby woods, they seemed to descend and
disappear behind the trees. 15 minutes later, Pereyra, accompanied by
several other witnesses approached the area and observed what they
described a tall floating figure wearing a white glowing cape like outfit,=

it seemed to glide silently over a field. It had what appeared to be a
visor at face level and two beams of red light emerged from where the eyes=

would have been. The witnesses watched the strange figure glide over the
fields for about 30 minutes. Curiously numerous local dogs and cats
approached and also watched the figure in fascination. The lights and
figure disappeared into the distance. In another occasion Pereyra and some=

of his family members encountered the strange humanoid and felt a strange
sensation as if the wind had suddenly stopped, they felt as they were
inside a vacuum or "bubble." Strange tracks have been reportedly found in
the area also.

HC addendum
Source: Diario La Nueva Provincia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Type: C?


79.
Location. La Cienaga, Pocri, Panama
Date: early August 2002
Time: night
Luis Alfredo Diaz reported hearing loud noises coming from the terraced
patio where the kitchen was located, going to investigate he found his cat=

apparently dead with two obvious holes on the neck and some blood on the
floor. Before finding the cat he had called his wife, Maria de Los Santos
Barrios. As his wife stood in front of him a panic stricken look came over=

her face, turning around he was confronted by a bizarre 1-meter tall
humanoid that had jumped to the center of the patio. The creature was
described as thin, covered with dark hair, with large pointed ears that
almost covered its face, it had very large eyes and extremely strong hind
legs resembling that of a kangaroo. Terrified he ran to his son's bedroom
and carried him outside yelling for his neighbors. A search failed to
locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Panamanian Paranormal Forum
Type: E


80.
Location. Near Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Date: August 2002
Time: night
The same witness involved in a similar encounter last year was again
camping in the same area when he again heard a noise. Shining the light in=

the direction of the sound he again saw the same creature. The creature sat=

there crouched by the trees staring at the witness. The witness walked
slowly towards it, he got to within 20 ft when it just jumped backward and=

disappeared. He described the creature as about five to six ft in height,
gray in color. It was totally naked. It had human features, but more
leathery, and its face was very wide, its eyes were huge and even though
they reflected light, they still looked black, resembling two intensely
black marbles. Its legs were very muscular, but turned backwards, like a
bird. Other hikers in the area have reported encountering little brown men=

on some of the more isolated trails.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal Story Archives, November 2002Type: E


81.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: August 1 2002
Time: late evening
64-year old Raul Dorado was touring some fields when he heard a loud sound=

on two occasions, like a whirlwind, which drew his attention. The third
time he saw something he describes as a green circle with three legs
hovering over him. At that moment Dorado fell to the ground, and according=

to his story, he carried a shotgun, binoculars and a cellular phone, the
latter, which was taken from his hand, and he could clearly see being
sucked into the object, which was apparently at low altitude. His next
recollection was seeing the object disappear toward the east. Dorado
remained at the location for an hour before being able to rise and walk
back to his car, returning to town in a state of shock. He had to be
hospitalized. Later when calls were placed to the (abducted) cellular phone=

someone would pick up and heavy breathing could be heard. Later on the
phone was apparently disconnected.

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, quoting Diario La Arena, La PampaType: G?


82.
Location. Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Date: August 2 2002
Time: 1730
A man named Todd Sees went up the mountain to look for pre-season deer. He=

told his wife that he would be home by noon. He rode his 4-wheeler up the
power line behind his home. He never returned. A search party composed of
local police, state police and volunteers searched for Sees. The 4-wheeler=

was found on the top of the mountain near a power-line. Tracking dogs could=

find nothing to go on around the 4-wheeler. The search went on for 2 days
and over 6 miles of mountain was covered from top to bottom. Then, in the
evening of the 2nd day, his body was found in a hard to reach wooded area.=

He was wearing his underwear. He was emaciated---not bloated. He was pale
and had an expression of horror on his face. When he went up the mountain
he was fully dressed, boots, camo-vest, hat, socks, pants. 3 people, on one=

farm, said they saw a large round bright object just above the power-lines=

at the time of the disappearance. It was silent, it did not move for about=

10 to 15 minutes. It suddenly went up and suddenly stopped. A light shone
down and something was pulled up into the light. It then went straight up,=

hesitated again, and then went west over the Susquehanna River and out of
sight. More specifically a farmer saw an object above Montour Ridge at the=

power lines, on top of the mountain, it was round and very still over the
lines. Suddenly it moved what looked like a few hundred feet to the east,
it stopped and a beam of blue and white light shone to the ground. What was=

seen next was very unnerving, he saw what appeared to be a man suspended in=

the light, he was being pulled up head first, he was moving his arms slowly=

in the light. What looked like a man was pulled up into the bottom of the
craft. A few seconds later it started shuddering, then went west very fast,=

stopped briefly, and then went straight up and out of sight. Also three
fishermen saw the craft. The FBI is supposedly also investigating. (Debated=

as a hoax, who would? and for what purpose?).

HC addendum
Source: Rense, UFO updates, NUFORCType: G?






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                            2002 Humanoid Reports

From: Albert Rosales <Garuda79@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:32:05 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:14:40 -0500
Subject: 2002 Humanoid Reports


Happy new year everyone

Sincerely,

Albert

-----

2002 Humanoid Reports. It appears to be a slow start for this
year with only one recorded case, again from Chile. We will see
what develops later on the year. 2001 was pretty busy but it was
a decline from 2000. Maybe we will see another down trend again,
later to pick up again in the near future. This seems to be the
ever-ongoing trend of the phenomena. Will it always stay the
same? Time will tell. Following is a list of known 2002 humanoid
cases.


1.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: January 2002
Time: 0300A
An employee at the local Minera Escondida was on his way to the
storage freezer in order to pick up some supplies when an
unknown creature jumped him from behind. He could only describe
it as hairy and dark. He was left with deep scratches and in a
state of shock. Terrified he ran away and bumped into two other
employees who were able to see a shadowy creature in the dark.

HC addendum
Source: La Estrella del Loa de Calama, ChileType: E


2.
Location. Caracas, Venezuela
Date: January 2002
Time: late night
Late one night in a dream-like state the witness woke up to see
seven to eight strange figures in her bedroom. They were dark
gray in color and very thin, with three large thick long fingers
on their hands. They had large, lipless mouths and large shiny
protruding black eyes, their noses were thin and protruding,
small ears, the heads was large and pointy. The humanoids
appeared to be naked and she was able to see a penis on the
humanoids. They were about 1.55 meters in height. She felt dizzy
and under the control of the strange entities. She was led out
of her bedroom by one of the humanoids that removed her clothing
and made her lie down on the floor. The humanoids apparently
attempted to molest her sexually and possibly attempted to rape
her but were not successful. She apparently passed out and does
not remember anything else about the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Lista Alcione and witness communicationType: E


3.
Location. Fort McMurry, Alberta, Canada
Date: January 2 2002
Time: 2032
Two men were parked on an isolated dirt road when they spotted a
large cone-shaped object descend and hover. One of the men
exited the car and he vanished in plain sight of the other, the
craft then also disappeared. The other man tried to drive away
to get help but the car would not start and it was to cold to
walk. He soon went to sleep and woke up later to find his friend
sleeping next to him. Later they drove back to town. His friend
does not remember what happened during those two hours of
missing time. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


4.
Location. Paso Lovera, Corrientes, Argentina
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2030
Gabriela Lencinas, 15-year old and a 19-year old friend were
returning home on a bicycle when they spotted a large cloud like
object descend from the sky and from it a giant figure emerge.
The witnesses stopped their bicycles to see a car approach the
giant figure, stop, the driver exit the car and then re-entering
the vehicle and driving quickly away. The figure then rose up
into the cloud and disappeared. The girls reported that the
giant human-like figure had its hair standing up on his head and
was extending its arms towards the witnesses that quickly rode
their bicycles home. Other in the area reported seeing bright
lights that same night.

HC addendum
Source: Pablo Omastott
Type: B?


5.
Location. Villa San Rafael, Chile
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2345
Two young teenagers, Jean F and Nelson C, where at home at night
when Jean noticed that his pet snake had escaped from its cage.
Both boys began looking for it outside among the rubble of the
parcel. They recalled how half an hour before, their two dogs
strangely began to howl and cry; however, it did not seem to be
important at that point in time. They searched for the pet snake
together when suddenly, about 30 meters from where they stood;
they saw what appeared to be a stray dog. They threw rocks at to
avoid an attack. However, to their surprise, the animal stood
there, motionless and fearless; it did not get scared nor it ran
away as ordinary dogs normally do. Shortly, the strange animal
began to move towards them. The movements it made as it walked
were very strange. It used two legs at a time. It made very
small sand short leaps like a rabbit. Suddenly, it stopped and
it stood up on two legs. The teenagers then began to feel some
kind of energy. "It was like an electrical shock in the
stomach," they said. It later walked again making a loud
dragging noise, making small leaps and only moving one of its
legs. They noticed the weird shape of the animal. "It was like a
rugby football with legs," one of them said. Jean began to feel
frightened and started to move away from animal. On the other
hand, Nelson felt a strange need to get closer to the creature;
he got to within 2 meters away from it. The creature appear to
emit a strange luminosity that apparently, was bright enough to
lit a small area around the creature in spite of the nighttime
darkness. Nelson was mesmerized as he stared at the strange
creature. He described it as having a head like a large dog with
a flat nose like a bulldog. Its eyes were slanted and pale-red
in color, which could only be seen when the creature turned its
head from side to side like a lizard. At that moment, Nelson
heard a voice in his head saying, "Don't stare, and just run
away." They provided further description, describing the ears as
flat, round and large. Its arms were short, it had elbows, and
the hands had three fingers. It had hair like the one on a wild
pig. Its legs were like the ones of a goat. The feet had also
three fingers and a membrane like ducks, but somewhat shorter.
On its curved back, they were able to notice a spinal section
covered with amounts of even thicker hair. Most of the hair of
the animal was gray, but the tail had a white tip. Nelson
finally fled, terrified, from the area. He also described how he
felt an inexplicable bone-chilling cold sensation.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center
Type: E


6.
Location. Not given
Date: January 12 2002
Time: night
Ted Parker was eating some leftover food when he claims the food began to
change. The bread of the sandwich turned an orange color and the lamb
became a silvery metallic color, sort of like liquid mercury. As he watched=

transfixed, he saw the orange bread and metallic lamb turn into the figure=

of an "alien" with the form of a man. It was silver in color and its outfit=

(smooth pants and shirt, like a jump suit) was orange in color. At this
point Parker glanced at the wall clock and it indicated that 2 hours had
gone by, even though it felt like minutes only. The alien figure
communicated using telepathic means and asked Ted to come with him. They
both went outside and there, Ted saw a landed black-colored craft in his
backyard. In a split second Ted found himself inside the craft not knowing=

how he got there. The inside of the craft was pure white in color with
strips of the metallic silver that the alien figure appeared to be made of.=

The rest of the incident is just a blur, but Parker did remembered hearing=

several loud high-pitched rings while onboard the object. A couple of days=

before while eating dinner with several other people there had been a
similar high pitched ring and everybody had just stopped eating and walked=

out of the room.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: G or F?



7.
Location. Chihuahua, Mexico
Date: January 29 2002
Time: night
Several days before seeing a UFO the witness remembered being in a
dream-like state in which he felt very calm and saw numerous disc shaped
objects, orange-red in color. A human like figure was talking to him about=

the objects and their propulsion. The UFO he saw was of an orange color and=

he felt a sort of ecstasy when he observed the craft. Several of his
neighbors also saw the object.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: G or F?


8.
Location. Near Palmyra, Wisconsin
Date: February 2002
Time: 0200A
Two men reported seeing a creature that resembled a bipedal "gigantic wolf"=

walking down a road west of the city. They said the creature was at least 7=

ft tall with a wolf-like head. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Linda GodfreyType: E


9.
Location. West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
Nebilson Sangma reported encountering a scary furry creature on a hunting
trip in the jungles. He reportedly took a video of the creature's nesting
place. According to Sangma, the creature walked erect like a human, had
built a house like nesting place, and would emerge from it frequently to
feast on a banana grove. Sangma and his brother observed the gigantic
creature for three consecutive days from afar. Officials and villagers have=

been hunting for the creature in the forest but it seems to have
disappeared as furtively as it appeared.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 13
Type: E


10.
Location. Near Dover, England
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness had been jogging along a low path by the beach when she noticed=

a tall, well built being in a black skin tight suit, that stood watching
her from nearby. He wore a black helmet wit a brown visor pulled down. At
first she thought it was a biker but as she approached the figure, it
suddenly disappeared in plain sight. As she continued to run she noticed a=

black craft jutting out of the sand, it was small and oval shaped, matt and=

ribbed it also disappeared in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: E?


11.
Location. Rosario de la Frontera, Salta, Argentina
Date: February 2002
Time: night
A strange creature called by locals "El Pestizo" has attacked several lone=

pedestrians in the middle of the night. It is described as a dark man
shaped shadowy being. A boy riding his bicycle on the way to visit some
friends was toppled from his bicycle and found a black shadowy figure
facing him. The young man managed to upholster his shotgun and fire two
shots. But, when he saw that they had no effect, he promptly drew his knife=

and stabbed the figure without any apparent harm. Frightened the youth
tried to escape but the creature knocked him down without saying a word and=

began dragging him by the hair to the side of the road. At this point the
young man began to scream. A local man, who rushed to provide assistance,
only to find a black shadow dragging the boy by the hair, heard his cries.=

The fearful shape disappeared without a trace after it became aware of the=

other man's presence. Six other locals have reported being attacked by a
similar being and received wounds.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


12.
Location. Not given
Date: February 2002
Time: early morning
The witness was alone at home and was preparing his breakfast when suddenly=

he heard a window break; he went to see what had happened. Grabbing a golf=

club he peeked inside the room where the window broke. He was stunned to
see a strange creature climbing on his bed. It appeared to be hurt, because=

it seemed that it could not move well. Gripping the golf club he went a
step nearer and the creature hissed horribly. It shrieked in an unworldly
manner. Terrified the witness did not move. The creature was small, about
the size of a large rabbit, and it was dark in color and had reddish eyes.=

It had wings and a spine of quills on its back, and had a semi reptilian
face. It appeared to have hair and small legs. The witness raised the golf=

club and the creature hissed again showing its large yellowish teeth, which=

appeared to be sharp, like those of a crocodile. It suddenly hopped out of=

the window and rapidly hopped across the street into the oak trees.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June archiveType: E


13.
Location. Vigevano, Italy
Date: February 2002
Time: 0100A
In the outskirts of this city a witness observed from his vehicle a
luminous humanoid entity walking along a roadway. It scurried away into the=

darkness when approached.
No other information.

HC addendum
Source: CISU, ItalyType: E



14.
Location. Corguinho, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Date: February 5 2002
Time: night
During a localized UFO flap several witnesses reported seeing a strange
creature described as about 1.3 meters in height, having two legs, with a
physique like a human but who moved with a strange fluctuating motion. The=

creature was seen five times by twenty people in the rural zone around
Corguinho. In Rochedo, 6 miles south of Corguinho five Cebu cattle were
found dead with a single incision on the side of the throat. The bodies had=

been drained of blood. (Is there a connection?).

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


15.
Location. Mount Podbrdo, Bosnia Hercigovina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: morning
Contactee and stigmatic Giorgio Bongiovanni was visiting the shrine on top=

of the mountain and was praying silently to the Virgin when, to his
astonishment, a glowing luminous female figure appeared and touched his
forehead with her fingertips. His stigmata scar vanished instantly. The
female figure told him to return to Italy and make known what had happened.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 14
Type: E or F?


16.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: evening
73-year-old Maria Rufina Cayo, a local shepherd was walking back home with=

her dogs and the cattle. Suddenly at one point, something spooked the
animals, and these began to stampede. Looking around she spotted a bizarre=

creature standing about 12 meters away. She described it as a humanoid,
half animal, half human, about 1.70m in height, with bright red eyes, sharp=

protruding fangs, and hands and feet that ended in sharp claws. The
creature looked at the witness three times then it scrambled away using
quick jumping motions with is powerfully built hind legs, she also noticed=

large pointy ears. The top part of its body seems to have been covered in a=

shiny white blanket. It somehow resembled a centaur walking on two
claw-like feet.  Alerted by the shouts of Maria, two men, Santos Jaimes,
and Ruben Colque ran out to investigate with their dogs. Suddenly the dogs=

stopped and began making pitiful howling noises, they refused to move any
further. The men heard noises behind some nearby bushes and went to
investigate and spotted a bizarre creature that stood staring at them with=

huge reddish eyes. It then moved quickly away in the direction of Cerro
Negro and disappeared from sight. The witnesses noticed very sharp claws on=

the creature's feet with a very sharp claw that appeared to be pointed
backwards. Strange footprints were found the next day.

HC addendum
Source: El Tribuno, Salta Argentina March 27 2002
Also Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E



17.
Location. Khanpur, Ahmedabad, India
Date: February 20 2002
Time: after midnight
Several local residents reportedly have encountered a person, dressed in
black and wearing a mask. Dubbed the "Monkeyman" whom they described as
between 25 and 20 years of age, dark skinned and having curly hair can
reportedly be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees. Two
local youths chased it and the figure reportedly disappeared in plain
sight. The two youths have been behaving abnormally since then. The
stranger was also chased along the riverbed near the Cama Hotel and it also=

suddenly disappeared. Others have heard the stranger running on the
rooftops. Abdul Hamid another youngster of the local slums described the
figure as a tall lean man that carries a sharp weapon. "I saw him from the=

back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised the alarm, he jumped to=

another roof and then on to a tree." Police have searched for the stranger=

but nothing has been found.

HC addendum
Source: Fortean Times, India Express
Type: E


18.
Location. Prague, Czech Republic
Date: February 23 2002
Time: night
Blanka Slemendova was in her apartment when she saw a "ship" hovering over=

some nearby woods. It was shining red, white and yellow lights. She then
heard telepathic communication coming from the object telling her to go and=

meet them at an unspecified location. Looking over to her bedroom wall she=

saw what appeared to be a projection of human like faces looking at her.
Later that night she saw luminous figures in her room and a floating red
light also in her room. The next night she saw what appeared to be 2 gray
suns and around them a golden lights with numerous groups of shiny
human-like figures floating about. She interpreted these as being angels.

HC addendum
Source: Direct from witness (Slemendova)
Type: C & F?


19.
Location. Wycliffe Well Roadhouse, Northern Territory Australia
Date: early March 2002
Time: evening
While workers in the area watched unusual lights in the sky an aboriginal
woman encountered a triangular sort of object in a paddock and all of the
sudden she saw three silvery clad human like figures that began to move
toward her vehicle. She turned the vehicle around and took off.

HC addendum
Source: Lou Farcus ABC On-lineType: C


20.
Location. Near Canberra Australia
Date: March 2002
Time: 1700
Several friends were taking a trip to the coast and it was already very
dark. They had already entered a tropical forest area and there was a mist=

rolling along the ground. As they turned around they saw something
squatting in the middle of the road. It stared at them, and just as they
thought they were going to hit it, it leaped off the road and into the
trees. It leaped about 10 meters in the air. The creature was definitely
human looking although it wore strange clothes. It was dressed in a green
robe of some kind with little pieces of gold on it, and it was either
wearing a head crest or it had a row of spikes running from its forehead to=

the top of its neck. Very frightened the witnesses drove out of the forest=

and at the same time the mist turned to a thick fog. They pulled over and
decided to wait until the fog had cleared, although none of them were too
happy about it. As they sat around and waited they suddenly heard a shriek.=

It sounded like some sort of wild animal and they turned the car on so the=

headlights would scare it away. The headlights revealed the same creature
they had seen earlier. It hid its face from the light and shrieked. Right
before the witnesses' eyes, the creature seemed to evaporate into the fog.=

Within five minutes the fog had gone and the normal rolling mist was back.=

The witnesses quickly left the area and drove towards the coast.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June ArchiveType: E


21.
Location. Guanica Puerto Rico
Date: March 1 2002
Time: 2345
Reinaldo Rios (involved in other encounters) was in his bedroom that night=

when a large white light suddenly appeared. It flew around the room several=

times and then hovered. He heard voices coming from the light, which
communicated with him. The voice said: "I am your real father." Soon the
light transformed itself into a figure resembling that of a little boy it
then vanished in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: UFOs over America.com
Type: E


22.
Location. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 0800A
The witness and his wife were in bed that Saturday morning talking when
their 5-year-old daughter came into the bedroom with her baby brother,
whose cot is placed under their bedroom window. They heard a strange noise=

and some green light came into the window. Their daughter looked out the
window and reported seeing a "flying car" with four spinning green lights
on top. She saw two windows in the vehicle and saw two dark brown faces
looking out. His wife saw the craft flying past through the curtains. That=

same morning, in a large tree near the witness house a strange structure
was found. The branches were arranged in a rectangular pen shape, vertical,=

each approximately 30 to 40 cm long. They found a few smaller sticks
scaling down in size from the structure. A piece of concrete slab was found=

propped up on one corner. The witnesses had never seen this strange
structure before and think is some kind of message left by the visitors.
(Some kind of bizarre crop circle?). A few nights before they had heard
strange noises coming from the kitchen area.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: A


23.
Location. Golasecca Di Novara, Italy
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 2330
Augusto & Maurizia were in their vehicle parked in an open field next to a=

wooded area having a heated discussion when suddenly a powerful beam of
reddish-orange light illuminated the area around them. They rolled down the=

car window and heard a sharp metallic sound that seemed to be increasing in=

intensity. They now noticed, behind the beam of light a hovering
disc-shaped craft with a central rotating ring, it hovered about a meter
from the ground. From the object, a cigar-shaped beam of light emerged;
they could see it as the central ring of the craft slowly rotated on its
axis. The craft was only about 10 meters away. At this point, and only
about 4 meters from the object Augusto saw what appeared to be a gelatinous=

transparent humanoid-like figure with a visible head, arms and legs. The
figure was silvery in color and was very tall, about 3 meters or so. At
this point Augusto became concerned and drove away from the area and did
not see the object or figure depart. The whole episode lasted about 10
minutes. The metallic noise was heard all throughout the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Alfredo Lissoni, CUN Milano, Michelle Castellano CUN VareseType: C


24.
Location. Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England
Date: March 3 2002
Time: morning
Helen Diskin went for a walk in the countryside talking snap shots along
the way with her digital camera. Returning home she loaded these into her
computer and was intrigued by an odd-looking image. It looked like a
luminous figure in an area of no sunlight, skulking amongst the trees. She=

returned to the site of the photo twice afterward and could find no
explanation for the figure. The figure resembled a small helmeted figure
that she had not seen when she took the picture of an area of the woods she=

had thought of as "mysterious."

HC addendum
Source: Helen Diskin, UFO Magazine Vol. 22 # 1Type: E?


25.
Location. Near Trenton New Jersey
Date: March 4 2002
Time: night
Several witnesses were camping outside of town and late at night one of
them was attempting to put out the bonfire when he heard the most awful and=

horrifying scream. It resembled that of an injured dog crossed with a
scream of a woman. The witness dropped the flashlight and was joined by
another witness. Suddenly out of the woods a hideous and gruesome creature=

appeared. It did not look human, somewhat satyr-like in appearance and
walked on two legs. It had a long tail like a dragon and wings like those
unicorns in fantasy books. The beast took several steps towards the
witnesses and one of them picked up and asked and yelled at it and then
shone his flashlight at it. The creature then turned towards the bushes and=

ran away from the area.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: E


26.
Location. Pichaca, Salta, Argentina
Date: March 9 2002
Time: night
Ceferino Leoncio was cleaning his one room metal shack when suddenly a
bright light engulfed the room. He felt a sudden heat as he saw a tiny
figure (50 cm) of an angel-like creature materialize in front of him. It
slowly moved its small wing-like protrusions and moved around and then
suddenly stopped and remained still. It appeared to be a small living human=

like living being until it appeared to hardened and turn into some type of=

statue of cherubic appearance. Locals have now built a shrine around the
tiny "statue" and call the strange materialization a "religious miracle".

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso
Type: F?



27.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: March 16 2002
Time: 2215
Mirna, was watching television alone in her room when she began hearing
noises coming from outside, at first she thought it was her dogs playing
around with some empty cans. But the noises kept getting louder and louder=

and she decided to go outside to investigate. Once outside she was stunned=

to see some type creature that had somehow entered the rabbit cage and was=

attacking the animals that were making loud unearthly screams. Thinking at=

first that it was one of the dogs she approached the case but realized that=

it was a gray colored hairy hunched over creature, that was moving quickly=

inside the cage. She stepped back and could not understand how the creature=

had entered the cage, since there wasn't any apparent hole or aperture
visible anywhere and the door was firmly closed. Afraid she ran inside her=

home and notified her son, both then ran out but the creature had
mysteriously disappeared. Unnerved, they could not understand how they
creature had escaped since the door to the rabbit caged was still firmly
locked. Later they could only find a small round hole in the wire only
several centimeters in width, not large enough for a creature estimated to=

have been about 70 to 80 cm in height. Several of the rabbits were found
injured and one was dead.

HC addendum
Source: Calama UFO CenterType: E


28.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: March 19 2002
Time: 2000
Young Elizabeth Lera reported seeing a short humanoid with "dark eyes"
looking into the building compound from behind a wire fence. It appeared
not to have any other facial features and was wearing dark clothing; it
wore some type of head covering, which was hard to see because of the
darkness. She could only see a pair of large dark eyes on his face that
appeared to shine in the darkness. Some more children now arrived and
observed as the humanoid move several steps towards them. Another witness,=

Rene Mamani saw the humanoid run and hide behind some bushes. It seemed to=

move at very high speed in an unnatural fashion. It seemed to have remained=

suspended in mid-air for a few seconds. It then seemed to fly through the
air and disappeared into some nearby woods. Other students at the school
reportedly saw it again on the night of the 20th.

HC addendum
Source: Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E


29.
Location. Woodburn, Oregon
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 0300A
The witness was sleeping when she woke up suddenly feeling paralyzed. The
witness was completely unable to move or speak. Her next memory was of a
strange sensation on her left cheek, which hurt a lot. Unseen "beings" were=

apparently taking skin samples. Her face was left with a pink fleshy scoop=

down my left cheek, directly on the cheekbone. A teardrop scar was left on=

her cheek.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical Universe
Type: G?




30.
Location. Bethlehem, Israel
Date: March 21 2002
Time: night
At the besieged Church of The Nativity several awed witnesses have come
forward describing the events of Thursday night. That night, a smell of
roses filled the sanctuary as the Daughters of Charity held their evening
prayers. "The sweet scent was soon followed by a high musical humming sound=

and a distinct feeling of warmth emanating from the ceiling." Then, the
sisters reported, seeing a glowing beam of light gradually forming the
likeness of the Blessed Virgin "like a film coming into focus." Tears were=

running down her face, and she uttered a prophetic warning. "Time is
growing short, and the promised Judgment Day is nearly at hand." One week
before the apparition, The Church of the Holy Family was the scene of a
ferocious firefight between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 17Type: F


31.
Location. Not given
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 2255
16-year old Steven Mizon saw hovering over a street a large oval shaped
craft encircled in bright lights and with several lighted windows around
its edge. A figure stared down at him from one of the windows. No other
information.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Watch
Type: A



32.
Location. Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain
Date: March 26 2002
Time: 1500
A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a deserted road when=

he noticed ahead in the distance and in the middle of the roadway an object=

resembling a shiny pear that was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat
perplexed he approached and noticed two individuals standing on a nearby
field. These were over 2 meters in height, wore tight fitting white
coveralls and helmets resembling that of the early astronauts. He parked
his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men=

walked away and entered the shiny pear-shaped craft while the other
remained behind. Knowing that these men were "not from this earth" he still=

asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt that as
he approached the strange pair he had been in some type of a trance and
seemed to have floated over the road. The humanoid answered and appeared
genuinely happy as to his offer of assistance but said that everything was=

in order. He also added that the area was very beautiful and also added:
"Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such
beautiful scenes, they disappeared a long time ago." The astounded witness=

managed to ask the humanoid where he was from and was told that they hailed=

from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The=

humanoid smiled as he answered the question. The humanoid then bid goodbye=

and walked towards the nearby shiny pear shaped object, he then disappeared=

inside of it. The craft then emitted a loud whistling sound and disappeared=

at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the
humanoids as about 2.50 meters in height, wide chests and heavy set, thin
legs. Generally human features, but somewhat "refined" or sharpened
features. The suits were very tight fitting made of an apparent synthetic
material resembling plastic. Their eyes were very light almost white and
their speech was hesitant & accented. Also their movements seemed kind of
clumsy.

HC addendum
Source: J M Garcia, Francisco Padron, SpainType: B


33.
Location. Pringle Lake, Texas
Date: March 28 2002
Time: 1100A
Mark Hakemack and a friend had taken an airboat out on the NW side of the
lake to do a little redfish fishing. The day was kind of hazy, with broken=

cloud cover. They had caught several trout and were just chatting when he
hooked up a large redfish while playing with the fish, Mark happened to
glance upwards and saw a large bird-like creature emerge from a cloudbank.=

His friend saw it too, after about 20 to 25 seconds it flew behind cloud
cover again. The strange creature was grayish in color and the profile of a=

raptor, short neck/head, no legs sticking out behind, and no long tail
feathers. Mark could not take his eyes off it. He estimated the wingspan to=

have been 10' to 14 ' in overall. It appeared to be soaring on the wind,
although, he did see it give a couple of light "flaps" with its wings. The=

witness could only relate this to the legendary "Thunderbird" legend.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.comType: E


34.
Location. Sevilla, Spain
Date: March 30 2002
Time: late night
The witness to the March 26 case was at home with his wife and was getting=

ready to sleep when he heard footsteps coming from patio area outside his
chalet. Armed with a club, he opened the door and was stunned to see the
same two tall heavyset humanoids he had encountered 4 days before. One of
the humanoids was kneeling on the ground as if inspecting something on the=

soil, the other one upon hearing the door open, turned and quickly assured=

the witness not to fear that they were not here to harm him. Stunned, the
witness invited the two humanoids in the house for some refreshments (!).
These declined the invitation telling that they had to go already. Using
the same clumsy movements both humanoids walked towards the rear of the
house where the witness noticed the same shiny metallic pear shaped craft
on the ground. They entered the object, which quickly left at high speed.
The witness's wife awakened by the voices was able to see the two humanoids=

from a second story window, and described them in the same way.

HC addendum
Source: Francisco Padron, Jose Manuel Garcia, SpainType: B


35.
Location. Los Cipreses, Chile
Date: March 31 2002
Time: noon
During a local UFO congress 24 persons in three groups entered a
dimensional gateway that appeared by itself over the terrain. It was kind
of a dome, a luminous archway measuring four by four meters. The
participants lost their materiality without disappearing completely. Upon
entering, they met several human-like alien characters with large baldheads=

and wearing robes that waited within and received information. According to=

sources the contact experience was "dimensional" it was like crossing into=

a different reality. The 24 participants were "all professionals, college
students of high intellectual levels, mostly Chileans," and some were
members of Grupo Rama, a New Age association.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 16, quoting Camilo Valdivieto
Type: G or F?


36.
Location. Tbilissi Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: night
A man entered the local St David church and reported that "a phantom with
wings" had approached him and predicted an earthquake that indeed took
place on April 25 2002, devastating areas of central Georgia.

HC addendum
Source: Pravda
Type: E?


37.
Location. Near Macon, Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: 2300
Three friends were awakened by loud banging noises and bellowing sounds
coming from outside. One of the men ran to the bathroom and looked out the=

window to see a figure run by and squat in the nearby bushes. He described=

the creature as about 3 ft tall, hairy with what appeared to be horns on
its head and hands; he could not see a face. Others in the neighborhood
heard the banging noises.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.com and direct witness
Communication.
Type: E


38.
Location. Belvedere di Tezze, Italy
Date: April 26 2002
Time: evening
A 20-year old woman was returning home one night when she noticed some
bright lights nearby of an unknown origin. She followed the lights in her
car until she stopped near a local pizzeria. She saw the light near the
ground and within the lights two tall slender human like figures wearing
some type of headgear. Since she was carrying a camera she was able to snap=

a quick picture. The figures then vanished. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Gruppo Accademico Ufologico Scandicci quoting
"Il giornale di Vicenza"Type: E?


39.
Location. Puente Santamaria, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: early morning
Two young men observed a dark object descend towards the ground about 100
meters away. According to the two witnesses from the craft descended a
small humanoid, orange in color. Very scared they both ran from the area
and reported their experience to others.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: B


40.
Location. Merceditas, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: evening
An elderly couple was walking along National Route # 8 when about 800
meters from their location they noticed a very strong light. The light
descended next to a puddle at about 70 meters from the witness. Both then
saw two very short orange colored humanoids that moved in very agile
movements near the object. Terrified they walked away and upon looking back=

saw a bright glow on the ground.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: C


41.
Location. Barangay, Philippines
Date: May 2002
Time: night
Several local residents reported seeing a bizarre creature described as an=

"aswang" reputed to be a winged vampire type creature, it reportedly had
red glowing eyes, long black hair, and was wearing a white flowing gown. It=

was seen perched on top of a bamboo tree. Residents at nearby Roxas
reported seeing a similar creature. The police was called but a search
failed to locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Akasico.comType: E


42.
Location. Alvear, La Pampa Argentina
Date: May 3 2002
Time: near midnight
Several young men were returning home late at night along a deserted
roadway when suddenly out of nowhere a female figure wearing a light
flowing gown and with long black hair appeared in front of them. The
strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly and repeatedly asked for=

assistance from the men in a strange urgent tone. Terrified the men ran
from the area and later returned with additional witnesses but they could
find no trace of the strange apparition.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E?


43.
Location. Taralgon Victoria, Australia
Date: May 24 2002
Time: 2355
Walking near the Loy Yang Power station 45-year old Martin Taylor was
suddenly blinded by an intense blue light and he felt extremely dizzy. His=

next memory was of being in a circular room with a variety of lights and
buttons scattered about the walls. He was lying on a large table that
seemed to be of a very highly polished metal. He was strapped down and his=

shirt had been removed. There were wires attached to his arms, neck and
temples. A four ft tall humanoid figure with very large almond shaped eyes,=

almost transparent looking skin, ghostly white in appearance examined him.=

The figure had three extremely long fingers on each hand and spoke in a
strange dialect.

HC addendum
Source: UFO WatchType: G


44.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: May 29 2002
Time: midnight
Irma Rick watched a rotating luminous object descend close to the ground
next to a grain silo; it gave off a powerful bluish light through some
openings around its circumference. It hovered close to the ground. Through=

an opening a strange creature was seen to descend to the ground. It was
described as having an elongated semi-transparent white body; it also had
an elongated head. She could not see any eyes or legs on the creature as it=

stood motionless next to the craft. She observed the creature and object
for about 5 minutes until she dropped the flashlight she was carrying.
Afraid she left the area and did not see the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: B



45.
Location. Lembang Bandung, Indonesia
Date: May 30 2002
Time: 2315
The witness was driving his motorcycle across a highland area when he
spotted some flashing lights overhead and then noticed a silvery
disc-shaped craft descend low over some nearby graves at a cemetery. The
craft had blue and orange flashing lights around its rim. There was no
sound as the craft apparently emitted a beam of light towards the ground
and levitated what appeared to be some dead bodies onboard the object. (!)=

The witness was apparently paralyzed and was unable to move. The craft then=

shot away at a 45-degree angle and disappeared from sight. When that
happened the witness left the scene.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


46.
Location. Houston, Texas
Date: late May 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness was at the local electric company in order to pay a bill when
she decided to use the restrooms. Sitting in the stall she then noticed on=

the side of the wall of the stall what appeared to be a face lit up in a
dull light. When the witness looked directly at the "face" it vanished. She=

described is as having large round eyes no visible nose and a slit-like
mouth. (A peeping tom alien?)

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.comType: E?


47.
Location. General Acha, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: early June 2002
Time: various
A resident of the Oeste neighborhood informed newspaper sources that a
short green-colored dwarf like entity has appeared twice on her property:
once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When her husband ran out
responding to her screams, the mysterious entity vanished by rapidly
climbing up a tree. All versions agree in that the entity is short in
stature. Another resident added that it moved so quickly that it was hard
to describe it. In the same area mysterious cattle mutilations have also
been reported.

HC addendum
Source: Loren Coleman in UFO UpdatesType: E


48.
Location. Ojo De Agua, Argentina
Date: June 2002
Time: afternoon
Several passengers onboard two farm micro buses reported seeing a very tall=

dark man like figure that appeared to be wearing a tight fitting diver's
outfit standing on a nearby field. Nearby numerous mysterious animal
mutilations have been reported. The figure was silent and was quickly lost=

from sight as the buses moved away.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E




49.
Location. Near Tampa, Florida
Date: June 2002
Time: night
A man and three of his friends reported encountering two bizarre chupacabra=

type creatures one stood about 3-4 ft tall, the other looked to be about 6=

ft tall. Both had large glowing red eyes and spikes starting from the head=

to the back. They scurried away into a wooded area. (They were to have
further encounters in August).

HC addendum
Source: Art Bell.comType: E


50.
Location. Antalya, Turkey
Date: June 5 2002
Time: afternoon
Approximately 45 witnesses claimed they saw an UFO in the Santral district=

landing on the backyard of the Fatma Primary School. Several students
including Murat Esici age 11 saw an alien emitting red rays from his eyes
come out of the object. His hands and feet were metallic. He had a very big=

head and was about 1.80 meters in height. Esici temporarily lost her voice=

immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also=

claimed they san an unusual craft and an alien beside it. "His eyes and
hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes." The children
were overcome with shock after the incident.

HC addendum
Source: Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center Intl
Type: B


51.
Location. Polonnauruwa, Sri Lanka
Date: June 8 2002
Time: 2200
Approximately 50 to 70 eyewitnesses saw a UFO flying at about 100 meters
above ground level. The object was silent and briefly landed emitting a
bright flash like light. When it was close to the ground the object emitted=

a buzzing sound. Three other witnesses saw three 2 ft tall creatures than
when approached ran into the jungle and disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Sources
Type: D


52.
Location. Polonnaruwa, Sir Lanka
Date: June 9 2002
Time: 2012
Two witnesses went to a bath on a nearby river when they heard a loud
thundering sound and a UFO appeared. The craft landed nearby and two, 2 ft=

tall "aliens" emerged from the object. One of the humanoids flung a small
fluorescent fireball like object that flew over a house and vanished. Soon=

the craft and humanoids disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC & News Reports
Type: B



53.
Location. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Date: June 10 2002
Time: 1900
Witnesses saw a mysterious light in the sky and others saw a large disc
shaped object land nearby. Three humanoids only about 2 ft tall emerged
from the craft and disappeared into the forest when approached. The object=

also left.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Reports
Type: B


54.
Location. Chantilly, Virginia
Date: June 10 2002
Time: night
The witness was awakened during the night with a sense of some presence in=

the room. Looking toward the door, he saw, fading quickly, something, which=

almost had the appearance of a hologram. Next, shadows appeared outside the=

windows in an erratic shape. At first he thought the shadows to be from
trees moving in a strong wind. The appearance was of a storm blowing the
limbs to create these shadows outside the window. However, there was no
storm. He looked at the adjacent window on the side of the house facing
opposite and there was no wind at all. In fact there was no trees
positioned in such a way to cast a shadow. He opened the blinds to see what=

might be causing the shadows. He then saw what seemed to be a hologram with=

the shape of two small eyes moving erratically outside the window.
Frightened he closed the blinds. Two weeks later he was awakened by a
humming sound and again saw the erratic shadows outside the window. He
watched the shadows for 10-15 minutes and then called the police. The
police found no signs of any intrusion in the yard. When the police left
the witness walked toward the door facing the back porch and saw a large
burst of bluish white light. It looked unnatural, almost like a laser. He
has not seen the "shadows" again.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: E?


55.
Location. Ataliva Roca, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 11 2002
Time: 1930
A worker at a local drainage project was sitting and guarding some
machinery when he noticed a short greenish colored humanoid figure that was=

approaching his location from a nearby field. The witness became concerned=

and drove away from the area in the construction equipment and did not see=

the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


56.
Location. Eduardo Castex, La Pampa Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Two girls of a local school encountered a short greenish humanoid figure in=

the playing yard. The figure was standing up and appeared to be raising its=

arms up to the sky. Terrified the two girls retreated into the school and
watched the figure scurry away into some nearby woods. Around the same time=

a local farmer found a strangely mutilated hog in his farm.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


57.
Location. Chasico, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Hugo Deluca and several other workers were parked in a bus in an isolated
area when they spotted about 20 meters away a short, 1.20 meters tall,
bipedal figure completely covered in gray hair. It walked upright like a
man and then scurried away into some woods vanishing from sight. The area
had been hit with animal mutilations around the same time.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


58.
Location. Castex, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 13 2002
Time: night
A 70-year old man had gone to his driveway to check on a flat tire in his
car when a short light green colored humanoid suddenly appeared next to
him. It had large round ears, and two reddish luminous eyes. Its body was
thin and almost triangular in shape. The witness attempted to yell out but=

was suddenly unable to speak and at the same time strange warmth invaded
his body. Several seconds later the humanoid vanished and the witness
returned to normal. He reported the incident to the police.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


59.
Location. La Laguna, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 14 2002
Time: afternoon
Several youngster had gone into the fields in order to obtain some firewood=

when they saw sitting on a clearing in the woods two human like figures,
all dressed in black. They sat facing each other, one looking towards the
east the other towards the west, unmoving. Unnerved by the sight the
juveniles ran from the area. The next day the father of one of the boys
found two dead cows at the site, but could find no trace of the strange
pair. Days later a sheep and a horse were found dead and strangely
mutilated in the nearby location of El Cardonal.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: E


60.
Location. De Kalb, Illinois
Date: June 15 2002
Time: 0030A
The witness was sitting in his family room watching TV when he noticed a
bright flash of light outside the window. He saw the flash several times
and decided to check his backyard there he saw a circular light moving
around in circles. The light began to get closer; scared he ran inside his=

home and called a friend on the phone. He then quickly ran outside and saw=

the circle getting closer, he noticed that it had a purplish color to it
and it began to descend towards the ground. He became nauseous and dizzy
and collapsed on to the ground. He tried to crawl to the house but was
unable to move. He turned his head and saw the purplish object on the
ground and what appeared to be a door opening up. He then heard a squeaking=

noise and saw a tall and a short figure standing by a door of the object.
The two figures started to move towards him, walking in a strange bopping
fashion. They were of a dark complexion with a bumpy texture, other than
that they resembled normal human beings. The shorter figure approached and=

picked up the witness' camera and stared at it. He then looked at the
taller figure and handed it to him. The taller of the two looked at the
camera and then at the witness. The witness then heard loud unpleasant
shrieks coming from the taller figure, which then gave the camera back to
the shorter figure, which covered the camera with his hand, seconds later a=

light began to emerge from their hands. Then they stopped, threw the camera=

aside and began to walk towards the witness. They reached his side and
started to examine his body. A dog began to bark from inside the house and=

the shorter figure put out his hand and the dog stopped barking. At this
point the witness began to vomit. After about a minute he began to relax
and to breathe better. When he turned his head he realized that the two
figures and the purple spherical object were now gone. The next day he had=

a very severe headache.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: B


61.
Location. San Juan, Argentina
Date: June 20 2002
Time: evening
At a location where the body of a strangely mutilated carcass of a cow was=

found two witnesses reported seeing a small creature with large glowing
slanted eyes and about one meter in height. Later in the same area, members=

of the Gimenez family after investigating noises and a strong odor coming
from a wooded area found a mutilated cow and also watched a short humanoid=

with glowing eyes scurrying away into the woods.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


62.
Location. Manuel Rodriguez, Calama, Chile
Date: June 22 2002
Time: after midnight
A bizarre creature was spotted at a local housing complex on San Antonio
Street. Witnesses reported that it resembled an ape and it jumped all over=

the roof. It passed right in front of the witness, Maria Gavia's window and=

then it came back making all manner of noise. The creature was able to make=

very long jumps, unlike any a human could. It jumped and landed on the
neighbor's roof and then it left the area. Neighborhood dogs acted scared
and began howling. Others described the creature as about 1.5 meters tall,=

stocky in build with bright red eyes. It made a lot of noise. Others
reportedly chased the creature.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center, quoting El
Mercurio de CalamaType: E


63.
Location. Angencia Realico, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 23 2002
Time: late night
Several hunters returning to a local ranch spotted about 50 meters away two=

large glowing reddish eyes staring at them. They turned off their
flashlight and approached closer on foot, about 30 meters away they again
saw the reddish eyes on a dark creature that appeared to be standing on top=

of an apparently dead animal. One of the hunters shone its flashlight on
the figure again and saw a figure about 40 cm in height that quickly ran
from the area at very high speed. The creature disappeared into the brush.=

At the scene, a dead and mutilated young heifer. Other mutilations were
reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


64.
Location. Rancul, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 25 2002
Time: 2020
Two young men, Nestor Pinto and Daniel Gatica were walking on a field when=

they encountered a short man-like figure with huge pointy ears and long
dangling arms standing near some brush. The figure scurried into the brush=

and disappeared and at the same time the two witnesses ran away from the
area and did not see the strange dwarf again.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


65.
Location. Bavaria, Germany (exact location not given)
Date: June 25 2002
Time: night
The witness had stayed up late watching the soccer game as was in his
bedroom when suddenly there was a coldness around him that made him shiver.=

He noticed that his audio capabilities were somehow enhanced and he was
able to hear sounds that previously he was unable to hear. He then heard a=

noise outside his door and went out to investigate. The noise became louder=

as he approached the door. He then heard footsteps and opened the door. A
very small man with a somewhat deformed body that was smiling at him
confronted the witness. He looked straight ahead and then stared at the
witness. His next memory was of waking up in his bed in the morning.

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.com
Type: E


66.
Location. Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2105
The primary witness had stepped out on his back porch when his attention
was drawn to two huge black "birds" which were approaching from the north.=

His first impression was they were Herons, but soon realized that the color=

was wrong, and "they were huge, much larger than any bird I have ever
seen." The two huge birds landed at the top of a very tall coniferous tree.=

The witness stated that the wingspan appeared to be wider than the
branches, jest below where they had landed. The body size was estimated to=

be about six feet from head to tail. The oddest feature was the shape of
the wings, which according to the witness appeared to be bat-like. The tree=

where the "birds" landed seemed as though it would break from their weight.=

The witness yelled for others in the house to come outside to look. Another=

family member was able to see the huge black birds as they passed overhead,=

and headed for some woods. After checking the size of the branches where
the birds had landed, the witness estimated that the wingspan would have
been close to 12 feet or somewhat larger.

HC addendum
Source: Stan GordonType: E


67.
Location. Marldon Hill, Paington, England
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2357
A couple were walking near a local historic monument (a windmill) and they=

drew closer to monument they heard a low whirling noise. The noise
progressed to a high-pitched whining, almost out of hearing range. Then
they saw a mysterious glow coming from the dark side of the windmill, and
then to their astonishment they saw 5 or 6 shadow like figures standing in=

front of the windmill. Startled the two began to run back towards the main=

road. The woman looked back and saw the figures become engulfed by a bright=

light and disappear, and then everything became quiet.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Sightings UKType: E?


68.
Location. Adelia Maria, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 3 2002
Time: 2100
Pedro and Estela Moine had decided to visit the business district of town
called Barrio Norte and crossed the old railroad yard through a pedestrian=

pathway that ran through a pasture area between some silos, old railroad
depots and abandoned wreckage. As the couple moved through the premises
they suddenly became aware of a strange and incomprehensible conversation
between many voices. Startled, they stopped walking moved a few meters more=

and then heard the voices again which now sounded like strange "O" sounds.=

Pedro looked toward the silos and was able to see resembling humanoid but
lacking upper and lower extremities. Despite the pleas of his wife, Pedro
ran several meters toward an inner alley in the silo plant, being able to
make out some 45 meters to the west and in profile---the entity, which
acting surprised, avoided the encounter and moved again to the north.
However, what filled the witnesses with wonderment was that the creature
did so as though flying or floating without touching the facilities it
passed. Pedro and Estela ran after it. It was thus that the man managed to=

see the entity apparently hiding behind the control room of the truck
scale. Pedro ran toward it and was again startled to see the apparition
rising as a plane taking off, flying at an altitude of 5 meters and
disappearing behind a large metal shed. Bewildered, both witnesses called
out, but were unable to see anything else. Pedro Moine as "a thing with
human shape" described the apparition. It had some sort of light, although=

he could not say if reflected or self-generated, although he tends to
believe the latter, since it was a nebulous whitish light, which kept him
from making out details. The entire mass of the apparition appeared to be a=

body covered from head to toe in some sort of mantle, which he described as=

though it wore a hat, but covered with some kind of long raincoat reaching=

down to what he took to be its feet. He added that the "conversational
sounds" repeated themselves in three separate occasions at various
intensities. They were like conversations in a strange language.

HC addendum
Source: Mario Luis Bracamonte, C.O.R, Rio Cuarto Argentina
Type: E


69.
Location. Jerusalem, Israel
Date: July 6 2002
Time: night
A remote TV camera picked up images of "orbs seen on the corner to the
right of the Wailing Wall." They seemed to have facial features almost like=

a ghost, reported investigator Charlotte LeFevre. The orbs were described
as "sharp and distinct". The orbs were next to the women's prayer area in
front of the Wall. Other strange phenomena, has been reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 29Type: F?


70.
Location. Villa Elisa, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: July 13 2002
Time: 2300
A young woman fainted from nervous shock after having an alleged closed
encounter with "some sort of green dwarf". This occurred---enveloped in
darkness---along Misioneros Salesianos Street very close to several houses.=

An ambulance was called and apparently transported the witness who was in
shock.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria ColuchiType: E


71.
Location. Patna, India
Date: July 21 2002
Time: night
Several residents claim they've been bitten or scratched by a "black
monkey-like creature with colored lights flashing from its eyes." Resident=

Pawan Kumar Niyogi who was sleeping on the terrace of his house claims "a 5=

ft tall monkey-like creature" attacked him. He said: "I was terrified and
thought my life was going to end but it merely scratched me on the shoulder=

before jumping off the roof." Local residents are conducting night vigils
and carrying torches to guard their homes.

HC addendum
Source: Ananova, Ufoupdates. Type: E


72.
Location. Chajan, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 21 2002
Time: 2300
Police officer Guillermo Arias was on routine patrol through a rural area
when he heard over the radio that his colleagues in arms over at Achiras
were seeing lights in sectors of said community, and that they were heading=

towards Chajan along National Route 8. At the wheel of the police patrol
van, he managed to see a formation of 7 lights in the distance and decided=

to drive 10 km along a rural dirt road. When he had covered said distance,=

he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine of his vehicle sputtered=

and died, causing the police car to strike the edge of a guardrail.
Simultaneously, the lights on the van's dashboard began turning on and off=

randomly, the police radio went haywire and its dial displayed the random
shifting of the frequencies while the cabin became filled with an acrid
odor, as though of burnt wiring, and the interior lights and stop
indicator, which were broken, began lighting on and off. Seized by fear,
Arias leaped from the van and walked away a few meters down the road,
losing his cellular phone in the escape. The darkness was total, when
suddenly, amid the confusing situation; an immense light emerged from a
field adjacent to the road as a triangular object rose majestically into
the air. Now Arias condition went from fear to abject terror as he saw what=

he described as a real "floating city" some 200 meters long with a long row=

of windows (perhaps as many as 100). Arias claims having seen something
move behind them, describing the movement as "TV sets which make lines and=

shadows", which he defined as "non-human", and that many beams of light
came out of the giant triangle, aimed at the ground. The event lasted 2-3
seconds, but to Arias it felt like an eternity. The object suddenly rose
and sped away, vanishing behind the hills of a local field. As the object
moved away, the whole area was lit up like daytime and there was an
afterglow that lasted another 20 minutes.

HC addendum
Source: C.O.R., Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense, Argentina
Type: A


73.
Location. Waconia, Minnesota
Date: July 26 2002
Time: 0300A
The young witness was sleeping in the backyard with his sister when he
suddenly woke up. He then noticed that the side of the tent that faced the=

wetlands and lake was lit up. Looking towards the light he saw a shadowy
torso and arm of a humanoid figure that seemed to be moving around within
the light. He watched for 30 seconds and saw the figure move the fingers of=

his hands. The witness became frightened and hid in his sleeping bag. He
came out about an hour later and the light and strange figure were
completely gone.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


74.
Location. Sedona, Arizona
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 0310A
In a wooded area the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all
white, with black "straight" eyes; and black diagonal/diamond strip of
"clothing" on top. He stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then
left. Prior to seeing the figure the witness had seen lights in a large
oval shaped pattern in the sky.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


75.
Location. Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 1730
Three girls had decided to visit the rooftop as they did the prior evening=

watching for satellites. It was dusk and the girls had a good vantage point=

looking towards the east. With them they had a pair of binoculars and a
pair of walkie-talkies. The girls noticed that a large orange light
appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The anomaly
was noted to have fluctuated in colors of orange, yellow, white and pale
blue. At fist they thought of an arriving airplane, but then a second light=

appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10=

degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some=

unusually maneuvering; from a stationary position it accelerated at least 5=

degrees closer to the ground surface at an approximate 45-60 degree angle
within a matter of a single second. The first anomaly then began to move
slowly towards the north. At this stage they partially lost view of it as
it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley-like
region of the horizon. According to the witnesses, this third object
appeared to have "landed" on the ground surface. The object was then viewed=

through the binoculars and presented in great detail; the object was
described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange,=

blue/purple and white rotating around the rim. Thy also noted the trees
being slightly illuminated by this extraordinary phenomenon. They were
suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, "Identify
yourself." This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in a
foreign language. Around 1830 the girls were then called down to have
dinner. At about 2030 the girls re-established their places on the roof
after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still
present. Unexpectedly a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above
the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. "It
was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away." The=

light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it=

is not clear how one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became
extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed
her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not=

sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another of the girls woke up
the next morning with her nose bleeding. She also mentioned that she had
seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom.

HC addendum
Source: The Australian UFO Research NetworkType: D or
F?



76.
Location. Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 29 2002
Time: early morning
Local residents have seen a strange figure, which they described as
resembling a "shroud". The apparitions, which always occur in the early
morning hours, have become so common that in recent days several neighbors=

have stayed up late to see them, and it is thus that they were able to
confirm the simultaneous presence of up to 2 such beings, as well as red
lights flying over the area. All the witnesses whether individuals or in a=

group, agree that the entities are nebulous and glowing, with a pair of red=

eyes being clearly identifiable, and glassy faces (as if transparent).
Their movements are smooth and they always appear from behind the sand
dunes, as though "coming form the Naval Base." Most witnesses agree that
they show a great interest in the water tanks located above the roofs, and=

that they do not flee upon detecting the presence of local
residents---rather, they stare at them fixedly for some minutes. Deep
silence is perceived during the observations and "the air appears to become=

still" and neither heat nor cold can be felt---only a sensation of warmth,=

as if the beings emanated heat. Witnesses also state that things appear to=

be darker when "the shroud" appears, as though ambient lighting were
dimmed. Another curious fact is the large number of cats and dogs who
report to the place where the sightings occur and sit down to observe it in=

silence, in a state resembling a trance. A series of semi-circular prints
have been found in the dunes, not very deep, with 15-20 cm separations in
some cases and 30-50 cm in others. The locals have identified them as the
strange being's footprints. Efforts have been made to photograph the
"shroud", but all images, despite the use of different cameras appear
exposed. One witness who approached the site to witness the phenomenon took=

two photos of the prints in the afternoon and decided to stay with the
group of people hoping to see the "shroud", managing to take some photos of=

same and record the new prints which appeared in the dunes after the
sighting. A completely uncommon print was found at the site---but the
residents aren't sure if it's related to the phenomenon: it has the shape
of a five-fingered claw. One witness tried to make use of his carbine's
telescopic sight to see the figure in greater detail, but "when he tried to=

focus on it, he could see nothing_it was a though it could only be seen
with the unaided eye."

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, IHU, Christian Quintero and O A Mario
Proyecto Condor
Type: C or E?


77.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 30 2002
Time: 0530A
27-year old Mariela Baigorri reported seeing a strange figure that floated=

in front of her house. She had woken up early that morning and was getting=

ready to mount her bicycle when she saw behind the fence something floating=

in mid-air. It appeared to be a figure wearing a flowing white transparent=

tunic, with bright red eyes and undefined facial features. Feeling no fear=

she decided to approach it. She felt as if the figure waited for her and
was observing her. At this point Mariela felt some fear and began reciting=

the Lord's Prayer. The figure suddenly moved back and disappeared in plain=

sight.

HC addendum
Source: Juan Carlos Corrales Morey, Vision Ovni, Argentina
Type: E


78.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 31 2002
Time: 1845
23-year old Julian Pereyra was in his vehicle when he observed two red
spheres flying slowly over some nearby woods, they seemed to descend and
disappear behind the trees. 15 minutes later, Pereyra, accompanied by
several other witnesses approached the area and observed what they
described a tall floating figure wearing a white glowing cape like outfit,=

it seemed to glide silently over a field. It had what appeared to be a
visor at face level and two beams of red light emerged from where the eyes=

would have been. The witnesses watched the strange figure glide over the
fields for about 30 minutes. Curiously numerous local dogs and cats
approached and also watched the figure in fascination. The lights and
figure disappeared into the distance. In another occasion Pereyra and some=

of his family members encountered the strange humanoid and felt a strange
sensation as if the wind had suddenly stopped, they felt as they were
inside a vacuum or "bubble." Strange tracks have been reportedly found in
the area also.

HC addendum
Source: Diario La Nueva Provincia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Type: C?


79.
Location. La Cienaga, Pocri, Panama
Date: early August 2002
Time: night
Luis Alfredo Diaz reported hearing loud noises coming from the terraced
patio where the kitchen was located, going to investigate he found his cat=

apparently dead with two obvious holes on the neck and some blood on the
floor. Before finding the cat he had called his wife, Maria de Los Santos
Barrios. As his wife stood in front of him a panic stricken look came over=

her face, turning around he was confronted by a bizarre 1-meter tall
humanoid that had jumped to the center of the patio. The creature was
described as thin, covered with dark hair, with large pointed ears that
almost covered its face, it had very large eyes and extremely strong hind
legs resembling that of a kangaroo. Terrified he ran to his son's bedroom
and carried him outside yelling for his neighbors. A search failed to
locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Panamanian Paranormal Forum
Type: E


80.
Location. Near Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Date: August 2002
Time: night
The same witness involved in a similar encounter last year was again
camping in the same area when he again heard a noise. Shining the light in=

the direction of the sound he again saw the same creature. The creature sat=

there crouched by the trees staring at the witness. The witness walked
slowly towards it, he got to within 20 ft when it just jumped backward and=

disappeared. He described the creature as about five to six ft in height,
gray in color. It was totally naked. It had human features, but more
leathery, and its face was very wide, its eyes were huge and even though
they reflected light, they still looked black, resembling two intensely
black marbles. Its legs were very muscular, but turned backwards, like a
bird. Other hikers in the area have reported encountering little brown men=

on some of the more isolated trails.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal Story Archives, November 2002Type: E


81.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: August 1 2002
Time: late evening
64-year old Raul Dorado was touring some fields when he heard a loud sound=

on two occasions, like a whirlwind, which drew his attention. The third
time he saw something he describes as a green circle with three legs
hovering over him. At that moment Dorado fell to the ground, and according=

to his story, he carried a shotgun, binoculars and a cellular phone, the
latter, which was taken from his hand, and he could clearly see being
sucked into the object, which was apparently at low altitude. His next
recollection was seeing the object disappear toward the east. Dorado
remained at the location for an hour before being able to rise and walk
back to his car, returning to town in a state of shock. He had to be
hospitalized. Later when calls were placed to the (abducted) cellular phone=

someone would pick up and heavy breathing could be heard. Later on the
phone was apparently disconnected.

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, quoting Diario La Arena, La PampaType: G?


82.
Location. Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Date: August 2 2002
Time: 1730
A man named Todd Sees went up the mountain to look for pre-season deer. He=

told his wife that he would be home by noon. He rode his 4-wheeler up the
power line behind his home. He never returned. A search party composed of
local police, state police and volunteers searched for Sees. The 4-wheeler=

was found on the top of the mountain near a power-line. Tracking dogs could=

find nothing to go on around the 4-wheeler. The search went on for 2 days
and over 6 miles of mountain was covered from top to bottom. Then, in the
evening of the 2nd day, his body was found in a hard to reach wooded area.=

He was wearing his underwear. He was emaciated---not bloated. He was pale
and had an expression of horror on his face. When he went up the mountain
he was fully dressed, boots, camo-vest, hat, socks, pants. 3 people, on one=

farm, said they saw a large round bright object just above the power-lines=

at the time of the disappearance. It was silent, it did not move for about=

10 to 15 minutes. It suddenly went up and suddenly stopped. A light shone
down and something was pulled up into the light. It then went straight up,=

hesitated again, and then went west over the Susquehanna River and out of
sight. More specifically a farmer saw an object above Montour Ridge at the=

power lines, on top of the mountain, it was round and very still over the
lines. Suddenly it moved what looked like a few hundred feet to the east,
it stopped and a beam of blue and white light shone to the ground. What was=

seen next was very unnerving, he saw what appeared to be a man suspended in=

the light, he was being pulled up head first, he was moving his arms slowly=

in the light. What looked like a man was pulled up into the bottom of the
craft. A few seconds later it started shuddering, then went west very fast,=

stopped briefly, and then went straight up and out of sight. Also three
fishermen saw the craft. The FBI is supposedly also investigating. (Debated=

as a hoax, who would? and for what purpose?).

HC addendum
Source: Rense, UFO updates, NUFORCType: G?






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                            2002 Humanoid Reports

From: Albert Rosales <Garuda79@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:32:05 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:14:40 -0500
Subject: 2002 Humanoid Reports


Happy new year everyone

Sincerely,

Albert

-----

2002 Humanoid Reports. It appears to be a slow start for this
year with only one recorded case, again from Chile. We will see
what develops later on the year. 2001 was pretty busy but it was
a decline from 2000. Maybe we will see another down trend again,
later to pick up again in the near future. This seems to be the
ever-ongoing trend of the phenomena. Will it always stay the
same? Time will tell. Following is a list of known 2002 humanoid
cases.


1.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: January 2002
Time: 0300A
An employee at the local Minera Escondida was on his way to the
storage freezer in order to pick up some supplies when an
unknown creature jumped him from behind. He could only describe
it as hairy and dark. He was left with deep scratches and in a
state of shock. Terrified he ran away and bumped into two other
employees who were able to see a shadowy creature in the dark.

HC addendum
Source: La Estrella del Loa de Calama, ChileType: E


2.
Location. Caracas, Venezuela
Date: January 2002
Time: late night
Late one night in a dream-like state the witness woke up to see
seven to eight strange figures in her bedroom. They were dark
gray in color and very thin, with three large thick long fingers
on their hands. They had large, lipless mouths and large shiny
protruding black eyes, their noses were thin and protruding,
small ears, the heads was large and pointy. The humanoids
appeared to be naked and she was able to see a penis on the
humanoids. They were about 1.55 meters in height. She felt dizzy
and under the control of the strange entities. She was led out
of her bedroom by one of the humanoids that removed her clothing
and made her lie down on the floor. The humanoids apparently
attempted to molest her sexually and possibly attempted to rape
her but were not successful. She apparently passed out and does
not remember anything else about the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Lista Alcione and witness communicationType: E


3.
Location. Fort McMurry, Alberta, Canada
Date: January 2 2002
Time: 2032
Two men were parked on an isolated dirt road when they spotted a
large cone-shaped object descend and hover. One of the men
exited the car and he vanished in plain sight of the other, the
craft then also disappeared. The other man tried to drive away
to get help but the car would not start and it was to cold to
walk. He soon went to sleep and woke up later to find his friend
sleeping next to him. Later they drove back to town. His friend
does not remember what happened during those two hours of
missing time. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


4.
Location. Paso Lovera, Corrientes, Argentina
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2030
Gabriela Lencinas, 15-year old and a 19-year old friend were
returning home on a bicycle when they spotted a large cloud like
object descend from the sky and from it a giant figure emerge.
The witnesses stopped their bicycles to see a car approach the
giant figure, stop, the driver exit the car and then re-entering
the vehicle and driving quickly away. The figure then rose up
into the cloud and disappeared. The girls reported that the
giant human-like figure had its hair standing up on his head and
was extending its arms towards the witnesses that quickly rode
their bicycles home. Other in the area reported seeing bright
lights that same night.

HC addendum
Source: Pablo Omastott
Type: B?


5.
Location. Villa San Rafael, Chile
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2345
Two young teenagers, Jean F and Nelson C, where at home at night
when Jean noticed that his pet snake had escaped from its cage.
Both boys began looking for it outside among the rubble of the
parcel. They recalled how half an hour before, their two dogs
strangely began to howl and cry; however, it did not seem to be
important at that point in time. They searched for the pet snake
together when suddenly, about 30 meters from where they stood;
they saw what appeared to be a stray dog. They threw rocks at to
avoid an attack. However, to their surprise, the animal stood
there, motionless and fearless; it did not get scared nor it ran
away as ordinary dogs normally do. Shortly, the strange animal
began to move towards them. The movements it made as it walked
were very strange. It used two legs at a time. It made very
small sand short leaps like a rabbit. Suddenly, it stopped and
it stood up on two legs. The teenagers then began to feel some
kind of energy. "It was like an electrical shock in the
stomach," they said. It later walked again making a loud
dragging noise, making small leaps and only moving one of its
legs. They noticed the weird shape of the animal. "It was like a
rugby football with legs," one of them said. Jean began to feel
frightened and started to move away from animal. On the other
hand, Nelson felt a strange need to get closer to the creature;
he got to within 2 meters away from it. The creature appear to
emit a strange luminosity that apparently, was bright enough to
lit a small area around the creature in spite of the nighttime
darkness. Nelson was mesmerized as he stared at the strange
creature. He described it as having a head like a large dog with
a flat nose like a bulldog. Its eyes were slanted and pale-red
in color, which could only be seen when the creature turned its
head from side to side like a lizard. At that moment, Nelson
heard a voice in his head saying, "Don't stare, and just run
away." They provided further description, describing the ears as
flat, round and large. Its arms were short, it had elbows, and
the hands had three fingers. It had hair like the one on a wild
pig. Its legs were like the ones of a goat. The feet had also
three fingers and a membrane like ducks, but somewhat shorter.
On its curved back, they were able to notice a spinal section
covered with amounts of even thicker hair. Most of the hair of
the animal was gray, but the tail had a white tip. Nelson
finally fled, terrified, from the area. He also described how he
felt an inexplicable bone-chilling cold sensation.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center
Type: E


6.
Location. Not given
Date: January 12 2002
Time: night
Ted Parker was eating some leftover food when he claims the food began to
change. The bread of the sandwich turned an orange color and the lamb
became a silvery metallic color, sort of like liquid mercury. As he watched=

transfixed, he saw the orange bread and metallic lamb turn into the figure=

of an "alien" with the form of a man. It was silver in color and its outfit=

(smooth pants and shirt, like a jump suit) was orange in color. At this
point Parker glanced at the wall clock and it indicated that 2 hours had
gone by, even though it felt like minutes only. The alien figure
communicated using telepathic means and asked Ted to come with him. They
both went outside and there, Ted saw a landed black-colored craft in his
backyard. In a split second Ted found himself inside the craft not knowing=

how he got there. The inside of the craft was pure white in color with
strips of the metallic silver that the alien figure appeared to be made of.=

The rest of the incident is just a blur, but Parker did remembered hearing=

several loud high-pitched rings while onboard the object. A couple of days=

before while eating dinner with several other people there had been a
similar high pitched ring and everybody had just stopped eating and walked=

out of the room.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: G or F?



7.
Location. Chihuahua, Mexico
Date: January 29 2002
Time: night
Several days before seeing a UFO the witness remembered being in a
dream-like state in which he felt very calm and saw numerous disc shaped
objects, orange-red in color. A human like figure was talking to him about=

the objects and their propulsion. The UFO he saw was of an orange color and=

he felt a sort of ecstasy when he observed the craft. Several of his
neighbors also saw the object.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: G or F?


8.
Location. Near Palmyra, Wisconsin
Date: February 2002
Time: 0200A
Two men reported seeing a creature that resembled a bipedal "gigantic wolf"=

walking down a road west of the city. They said the creature was at least 7=

ft tall with a wolf-like head. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Linda GodfreyType: E


9.
Location. West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
Nebilson Sangma reported encountering a scary furry creature on a hunting
trip in the jungles. He reportedly took a video of the creature's nesting
place. According to Sangma, the creature walked erect like a human, had
built a house like nesting place, and would emerge from it frequently to
feast on a banana grove. Sangma and his brother observed the gigantic
creature for three consecutive days from afar. Officials and villagers have=

been hunting for the creature in the forest but it seems to have
disappeared as furtively as it appeared.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 13
Type: E


10.
Location. Near Dover, England
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness had been jogging along a low path by the beach when she noticed=

a tall, well built being in a black skin tight suit, that stood watching
her from nearby. He wore a black helmet wit a brown visor pulled down. At
first she thought it was a biker but as she approached the figure, it
suddenly disappeared in plain sight. As she continued to run she noticed a=

black craft jutting out of the sand, it was small and oval shaped, matt and=

ribbed it also disappeared in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: E?


11.
Location. Rosario de la Frontera, Salta, Argentina
Date: February 2002
Time: night
A strange creature called by locals "El Pestizo" has attacked several lone=

pedestrians in the middle of the night. It is described as a dark man
shaped shadowy being. A boy riding his bicycle on the way to visit some
friends was toppled from his bicycle and found a black shadowy figure
facing him. The young man managed to upholster his shotgun and fire two
shots. But, when he saw that they had no effect, he promptly drew his knife=

and stabbed the figure without any apparent harm. Frightened the youth
tried to escape but the creature knocked him down without saying a word and=

began dragging him by the hair to the side of the road. At this point the
young man began to scream. A local man, who rushed to provide assistance,
only to find a black shadow dragging the boy by the hair, heard his cries.=

The fearful shape disappeared without a trace after it became aware of the=

other man's presence. Six other locals have reported being attacked by a
similar being and received wounds.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


12.
Location. Not given
Date: February 2002
Time: early morning
The witness was alone at home and was preparing his breakfast when suddenly=

he heard a window break; he went to see what had happened. Grabbing a golf=

club he peeked inside the room where the window broke. He was stunned to
see a strange creature climbing on his bed. It appeared to be hurt, because=

it seemed that it could not move well. Gripping the golf club he went a
step nearer and the creature hissed horribly. It shrieked in an unworldly
manner. Terrified the witness did not move. The creature was small, about
the size of a large rabbit, and it was dark in color and had reddish eyes.=

It had wings and a spine of quills on its back, and had a semi reptilian
face. It appeared to have hair and small legs. The witness raised the golf=

club and the creature hissed again showing its large yellowish teeth, which=

appeared to be sharp, like those of a crocodile. It suddenly hopped out of=

the window and rapidly hopped across the street into the oak trees.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June archiveType: E


13.
Location. Vigevano, Italy
Date: February 2002
Time: 0100A
In the outskirts of this city a witness observed from his vehicle a
luminous humanoid entity walking along a roadway. It scurried away into the=

darkness when approached.
No other information.

HC addendum
Source: CISU, ItalyType: E



14.
Location. Corguinho, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Date: February 5 2002
Time: night
During a localized UFO flap several witnesses reported seeing a strange
creature described as about 1.3 meters in height, having two legs, with a
physique like a human but who moved with a strange fluctuating motion. The=

creature was seen five times by twenty people in the rural zone around
Corguinho. In Rochedo, 6 miles south of Corguinho five Cebu cattle were
found dead with a single incision on the side of the throat. The bodies had=

been drained of blood. (Is there a connection?).

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


15.
Location. Mount Podbrdo, Bosnia Hercigovina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: morning
Contactee and stigmatic Giorgio Bongiovanni was visiting the shrine on top=

of the mountain and was praying silently to the Virgin when, to his
astonishment, a glowing luminous female figure appeared and touched his
forehead with her fingertips. His stigmata scar vanished instantly. The
female figure told him to return to Italy and make known what had happened.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 14
Type: E or F?


16.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: evening
73-year-old Maria Rufina Cayo, a local shepherd was walking back home with=

her dogs and the cattle. Suddenly at one point, something spooked the
animals, and these began to stampede. Looking around she spotted a bizarre=

creature standing about 12 meters away. She described it as a humanoid,
half animal, half human, about 1.70m in height, with bright red eyes, sharp=

protruding fangs, and hands and feet that ended in sharp claws. The
creature looked at the witness three times then it scrambled away using
quick jumping motions with is powerfully built hind legs, she also noticed=

large pointy ears. The top part of its body seems to have been covered in a=

shiny white blanket. It somehow resembled a centaur walking on two
claw-like feet.  Alerted by the shouts of Maria, two men, Santos Jaimes,
and Ruben Colque ran out to investigate with their dogs. Suddenly the dogs=

stopped and began making pitiful howling noises, they refused to move any
further. The men heard noises behind some nearby bushes and went to
investigate and spotted a bizarre creature that stood staring at them with=

huge reddish eyes. It then moved quickly away in the direction of Cerro
Negro and disappeared from sight. The witnesses noticed very sharp claws on=

the creature's feet with a very sharp claw that appeared to be pointed
backwards. Strange footprints were found the next day.

HC addendum
Source: El Tribuno, Salta Argentina March 27 2002
Also Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E



17.
Location. Khanpur, Ahmedabad, India
Date: February 20 2002
Time: after midnight
Several local residents reportedly have encountered a person, dressed in
black and wearing a mask. Dubbed the "Monkeyman" whom they described as
between 25 and 20 years of age, dark skinned and having curly hair can
reportedly be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees. Two
local youths chased it and the figure reportedly disappeared in plain
sight. The two youths have been behaving abnormally since then. The
stranger was also chased along the riverbed near the Cama Hotel and it also=

suddenly disappeared. Others have heard the stranger running on the
rooftops. Abdul Hamid another youngster of the local slums described the
figure as a tall lean man that carries a sharp weapon. "I saw him from the=

back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised the alarm, he jumped to=

another roof and then on to a tree." Police have searched for the stranger=

but nothing has been found.

HC addendum
Source: Fortean Times, India Express
Type: E


18.
Location. Prague, Czech Republic
Date: February 23 2002
Time: night
Blanka Slemendova was in her apartment when she saw a "ship" hovering over=

some nearby woods. It was shining red, white and yellow lights. She then
heard telepathic communication coming from the object telling her to go and=

meet them at an unspecified location. Looking over to her bedroom wall she=

saw what appeared to be a projection of human like faces looking at her.
Later that night she saw luminous figures in her room and a floating red
light also in her room. The next night she saw what appeared to be 2 gray
suns and around them a golden lights with numerous groups of shiny
human-like figures floating about. She interpreted these as being angels.

HC addendum
Source: Direct from witness (Slemendova)
Type: C & F?


19.
Location. Wycliffe Well Roadhouse, Northern Territory Australia
Date: early March 2002
Time: evening
While workers in the area watched unusual lights in the sky an aboriginal
woman encountered a triangular sort of object in a paddock and all of the
sudden she saw three silvery clad human like figures that began to move
toward her vehicle. She turned the vehicle around and took off.

HC addendum
Source: Lou Farcus ABC On-lineType: C


20.
Location. Near Canberra Australia
Date: March 2002
Time: 1700
Several friends were taking a trip to the coast and it was already very
dark. They had already entered a tropical forest area and there was a mist=

rolling along the ground. As they turned around they saw something
squatting in the middle of the road. It stared at them, and just as they
thought they were going to hit it, it leaped off the road and into the
trees. It leaped about 10 meters in the air. The creature was definitely
human looking although it wore strange clothes. It was dressed in a green
robe of some kind with little pieces of gold on it, and it was either
wearing a head crest or it had a row of spikes running from its forehead to=

the top of its neck. Very frightened the witnesses drove out of the forest=

and at the same time the mist turned to a thick fog. They pulled over and
decided to wait until the fog had cleared, although none of them were too
happy about it. As they sat around and waited they suddenly heard a shriek.=

It sounded like some sort of wild animal and they turned the car on so the=

headlights would scare it away. The headlights revealed the same creature
they had seen earlier. It hid its face from the light and shrieked. Right
before the witnesses' eyes, the creature seemed to evaporate into the fog.=

Within five minutes the fog had gone and the normal rolling mist was back.=

The witnesses quickly left the area and drove towards the coast.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June ArchiveType: E


21.
Location. Guanica Puerto Rico
Date: March 1 2002
Time: 2345
Reinaldo Rios (involved in other encounters) was in his bedroom that night=

when a large white light suddenly appeared. It flew around the room several=

times and then hovered. He heard voices coming from the light, which
communicated with him. The voice said: "I am your real father." Soon the
light transformed itself into a figure resembling that of a little boy it
then vanished in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: UFOs over America.com
Type: E


22.
Location. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 0800A
The witness and his wife were in bed that Saturday morning talking when
their 5-year-old daughter came into the bedroom with her baby brother,
whose cot is placed under their bedroom window. They heard a strange noise=

and some green light came into the window. Their daughter looked out the
window and reported seeing a "flying car" with four spinning green lights
on top. She saw two windows in the vehicle and saw two dark brown faces
looking out. His wife saw the craft flying past through the curtains. That=

same morning, in a large tree near the witness house a strange structure
was found. The branches were arranged in a rectangular pen shape, vertical,=

each approximately 30 to 40 cm long. They found a few smaller sticks
scaling down in size from the structure. A piece of concrete slab was found=

propped up on one corner. The witnesses had never seen this strange
structure before and think is some kind of message left by the visitors.
(Some kind of bizarre crop circle?). A few nights before they had heard
strange noises coming from the kitchen area.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: A


23.
Location. Golasecca Di Novara, Italy
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 2330
Augusto & Maurizia were in their vehicle parked in an open field next to a=

wooded area having a heated discussion when suddenly a powerful beam of
reddish-orange light illuminated the area around them. They rolled down the=

car window and heard a sharp metallic sound that seemed to be increasing in=

intensity. They now noticed, behind the beam of light a hovering
disc-shaped craft with a central rotating ring, it hovered about a meter
from the ground. From the object, a cigar-shaped beam of light emerged;
they could see it as the central ring of the craft slowly rotated on its
axis. The craft was only about 10 meters away. At this point, and only
about 4 meters from the object Augusto saw what appeared to be a gelatinous=

transparent humanoid-like figure with a visible head, arms and legs. The
figure was silvery in color and was very tall, about 3 meters or so. At
this point Augusto became concerned and drove away from the area and did
not see the object or figure depart. The whole episode lasted about 10
minutes. The metallic noise was heard all throughout the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Alfredo Lissoni, CUN Milano, Michelle Castellano CUN VareseType: C


24.
Location. Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England
Date: March 3 2002
Time: morning
Helen Diskin went for a walk in the countryside talking snap shots along
the way with her digital camera. Returning home she loaded these into her
computer and was intrigued by an odd-looking image. It looked like a
luminous figure in an area of no sunlight, skulking amongst the trees. She=

returned to the site of the photo twice afterward and could find no
explanation for the figure. The figure resembled a small helmeted figure
that she had not seen when she took the picture of an area of the woods she=

had thought of as "mysterious."

HC addendum
Source: Helen Diskin, UFO Magazine Vol. 22 # 1Type: E?


25.
Location. Near Trenton New Jersey
Date: March 4 2002
Time: night
Several witnesses were camping outside of town and late at night one of
them was attempting to put out the bonfire when he heard the most awful and=

horrifying scream. It resembled that of an injured dog crossed with a
scream of a woman. The witness dropped the flashlight and was joined by
another witness. Suddenly out of the woods a hideous and gruesome creature=

appeared. It did not look human, somewhat satyr-like in appearance and
walked on two legs. It had a long tail like a dragon and wings like those
unicorns in fantasy books. The beast took several steps towards the
witnesses and one of them picked up and asked and yelled at it and then
shone his flashlight at it. The creature then turned towards the bushes and=

ran away from the area.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: E


26.
Location. Pichaca, Salta, Argentina
Date: March 9 2002
Time: night
Ceferino Leoncio was cleaning his one room metal shack when suddenly a
bright light engulfed the room. He felt a sudden heat as he saw a tiny
figure (50 cm) of an angel-like creature materialize in front of him. It
slowly moved its small wing-like protrusions and moved around and then
suddenly stopped and remained still. It appeared to be a small living human=

like living being until it appeared to hardened and turn into some type of=

statue of cherubic appearance. Locals have now built a shrine around the
tiny "statue" and call the strange materialization a "religious miracle".

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso
Type: F?



27.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: March 16 2002
Time: 2215
Mirna, was watching television alone in her room when she began hearing
noises coming from outside, at first she thought it was her dogs playing
around with some empty cans. But the noises kept getting louder and louder=

and she decided to go outside to investigate. Once outside she was stunned=

to see some type creature that had somehow entered the rabbit cage and was=

attacking the animals that were making loud unearthly screams. Thinking at=

first that it was one of the dogs she approached the case but realized that=

it was a gray colored hairy hunched over creature, that was moving quickly=

inside the cage. She stepped back and could not understand how the creature=

had entered the cage, since there wasn't any apparent hole or aperture
visible anywhere and the door was firmly closed. Afraid she ran inside her=

home and notified her son, both then ran out but the creature had
mysteriously disappeared. Unnerved, they could not understand how they
creature had escaped since the door to the rabbit caged was still firmly
locked. Later they could only find a small round hole in the wire only
several centimeters in width, not large enough for a creature estimated to=

have been about 70 to 80 cm in height. Several of the rabbits were found
injured and one was dead.

HC addendum
Source: Calama UFO CenterType: E


28.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: March 19 2002
Time: 2000
Young Elizabeth Lera reported seeing a short humanoid with "dark eyes"
looking into the building compound from behind a wire fence. It appeared
not to have any other facial features and was wearing dark clothing; it
wore some type of head covering, which was hard to see because of the
darkness. She could only see a pair of large dark eyes on his face that
appeared to shine in the darkness. Some more children now arrived and
observed as the humanoid move several steps towards them. Another witness,=

Rene Mamani saw the humanoid run and hide behind some bushes. It seemed to=

move at very high speed in an unnatural fashion. It seemed to have remained=

suspended in mid-air for a few seconds. It then seemed to fly through the
air and disappeared into some nearby woods. Other students at the school
reportedly saw it again on the night of the 20th.

HC addendum
Source: Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E


29.
Location. Woodburn, Oregon
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 0300A
The witness was sleeping when she woke up suddenly feeling paralyzed. The
witness was completely unable to move or speak. Her next memory was of a
strange sensation on her left cheek, which hurt a lot. Unseen "beings" were=

apparently taking skin samples. Her face was left with a pink fleshy scoop=

down my left cheek, directly on the cheekbone. A teardrop scar was left on=

her cheek.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical Universe
Type: G?




30.
Location. Bethlehem, Israel
Date: March 21 2002
Time: night
At the besieged Church of The Nativity several awed witnesses have come
forward describing the events of Thursday night. That night, a smell of
roses filled the sanctuary as the Daughters of Charity held their evening
prayers. "The sweet scent was soon followed by a high musical humming sound=

and a distinct feeling of warmth emanating from the ceiling." Then, the
sisters reported, seeing a glowing beam of light gradually forming the
likeness of the Blessed Virgin "like a film coming into focus." Tears were=

running down her face, and she uttered a prophetic warning. "Time is
growing short, and the promised Judgment Day is nearly at hand." One week
before the apparition, The Church of the Holy Family was the scene of a
ferocious firefight between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 17Type: F


31.
Location. Not given
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 2255
16-year old Steven Mizon saw hovering over a street a large oval shaped
craft encircled in bright lights and with several lighted windows around
its edge. A figure stared down at him from one of the windows. No other
information.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Watch
Type: A



32.
Location. Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain
Date: March 26 2002
Time: 1500
A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a deserted road when=

he noticed ahead in the distance and in the middle of the roadway an object=

resembling a shiny pear that was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat
perplexed he approached and noticed two individuals standing on a nearby
field. These were over 2 meters in height, wore tight fitting white
coveralls and helmets resembling that of the early astronauts. He parked
his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men=

walked away and entered the shiny pear-shaped craft while the other
remained behind. Knowing that these men were "not from this earth" he still=

asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt that as
he approached the strange pair he had been in some type of a trance and
seemed to have floated over the road. The humanoid answered and appeared
genuinely happy as to his offer of assistance but said that everything was=

in order. He also added that the area was very beautiful and also added:
"Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such
beautiful scenes, they disappeared a long time ago." The astounded witness=

managed to ask the humanoid where he was from and was told that they hailed=

from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The=

humanoid smiled as he answered the question. The humanoid then bid goodbye=

and walked towards the nearby shiny pear shaped object, he then disappeared=

inside of it. The craft then emitted a loud whistling sound and disappeared=

at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the
humanoids as about 2.50 meters in height, wide chests and heavy set, thin
legs. Generally human features, but somewhat "refined" or sharpened
features. The suits were very tight fitting made of an apparent synthetic
material resembling plastic. Their eyes were very light almost white and
their speech was hesitant & accented. Also their movements seemed kind of
clumsy.

HC addendum
Source: J M Garcia, Francisco Padron, SpainType: B


33.
Location. Pringle Lake, Texas
Date: March 28 2002
Time: 1100A
Mark Hakemack and a friend had taken an airboat out on the NW side of the
lake to do a little redfish fishing. The day was kind of hazy, with broken=

cloud cover. They had caught several trout and were just chatting when he
hooked up a large redfish while playing with the fish, Mark happened to
glance upwards and saw a large bird-like creature emerge from a cloudbank.=

His friend saw it too, after about 20 to 25 seconds it flew behind cloud
cover again. The strange creature was grayish in color and the profile of a=

raptor, short neck/head, no legs sticking out behind, and no long tail
feathers. Mark could not take his eyes off it. He estimated the wingspan to=

have been 10' to 14 ' in overall. It appeared to be soaring on the wind,
although, he did see it give a couple of light "flaps" with its wings. The=

witness could only relate this to the legendary "Thunderbird" legend.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.comType: E


34.
Location. Sevilla, Spain
Date: March 30 2002
Time: late night
The witness to the March 26 case was at home with his wife and was getting=

ready to sleep when he heard footsteps coming from patio area outside his
chalet. Armed with a club, he opened the door and was stunned to see the
same two tall heavyset humanoids he had encountered 4 days before. One of
the humanoids was kneeling on the ground as if inspecting something on the=

soil, the other one upon hearing the door open, turned and quickly assured=

the witness not to fear that they were not here to harm him. Stunned, the
witness invited the two humanoids in the house for some refreshments (!).
These declined the invitation telling that they had to go already. Using
the same clumsy movements both humanoids walked towards the rear of the
house where the witness noticed the same shiny metallic pear shaped craft
on the ground. They entered the object, which quickly left at high speed.
The witness's wife awakened by the voices was able to see the two humanoids=

from a second story window, and described them in the same way.

HC addendum
Source: Francisco Padron, Jose Manuel Garcia, SpainType: B


35.
Location. Los Cipreses, Chile
Date: March 31 2002
Time: noon
During a local UFO congress 24 persons in three groups entered a
dimensional gateway that appeared by itself over the terrain. It was kind
of a dome, a luminous archway measuring four by four meters. The
participants lost their materiality without disappearing completely. Upon
entering, they met several human-like alien characters with large baldheads=

and wearing robes that waited within and received information. According to=

sources the contact experience was "dimensional" it was like crossing into=

a different reality. The 24 participants were "all professionals, college
students of high intellectual levels, mostly Chileans," and some were
members of Grupo Rama, a New Age association.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 16, quoting Camilo Valdivieto
Type: G or F?


36.
Location. Tbilissi Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: night
A man entered the local St David church and reported that "a phantom with
wings" had approached him and predicted an earthquake that indeed took
place on April 25 2002, devastating areas of central Georgia.

HC addendum
Source: Pravda
Type: E?


37.
Location. Near Macon, Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: 2300
Three friends were awakened by loud banging noises and bellowing sounds
coming from outside. One of the men ran to the bathroom and looked out the=

window to see a figure run by and squat in the nearby bushes. He described=

the creature as about 3 ft tall, hairy with what appeared to be horns on
its head and hands; he could not see a face. Others in the neighborhood
heard the banging noises.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.com and direct witness
Communication.
Type: E


38.
Location. Belvedere di Tezze, Italy
Date: April 26 2002
Time: evening
A 20-year old woman was returning home one night when she noticed some
bright lights nearby of an unknown origin. She followed the lights in her
car until she stopped near a local pizzeria. She saw the light near the
ground and within the lights two tall slender human like figures wearing
some type of headgear. Since she was carrying a camera she was able to snap=

a quick picture. The figures then vanished. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Gruppo Accademico Ufologico Scandicci quoting
"Il giornale di Vicenza"Type: E?


39.
Location. Puente Santamaria, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: early morning
Two young men observed a dark object descend towards the ground about 100
meters away. According to the two witnesses from the craft descended a
small humanoid, orange in color. Very scared they both ran from the area
and reported their experience to others.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: B


40.
Location. Merceditas, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: evening
An elderly couple was walking along National Route # 8 when about 800
meters from their location they noticed a very strong light. The light
descended next to a puddle at about 70 meters from the witness. Both then
saw two very short orange colored humanoids that moved in very agile
movements near the object. Terrified they walked away and upon looking back=

saw a bright glow on the ground.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: C


41.
Location. Barangay, Philippines
Date: May 2002
Time: night
Several local residents reported seeing a bizarre creature described as an=

"aswang" reputed to be a winged vampire type creature, it reportedly had
red glowing eyes, long black hair, and was wearing a white flowing gown. It=

was seen perched on top of a bamboo tree. Residents at nearby Roxas
reported seeing a similar creature. The police was called but a search
failed to locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Akasico.comType: E


42.
Location. Alvear, La Pampa Argentina
Date: May 3 2002
Time: near midnight
Several young men were returning home late at night along a deserted
roadway when suddenly out of nowhere a female figure wearing a light
flowing gown and with long black hair appeared in front of them. The
strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly and repeatedly asked for=

assistance from the men in a strange urgent tone. Terrified the men ran
from the area and later returned with additional witnesses but they could
find no trace of the strange apparition.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E?


43.
Location. Taralgon Victoria, Australia
Date: May 24 2002
Time: 2355
Walking near the Loy Yang Power station 45-year old Martin Taylor was
suddenly blinded by an intense blue light and he felt extremely dizzy. His=

next memory was of being in a circular room with a variety of lights and
buttons scattered about the walls. He was lying on a large table that
seemed to be of a very highly polished metal. He was strapped down and his=

shirt had been removed. There were wires attached to his arms, neck and
temples. A four ft tall humanoid figure with very large almond shaped eyes,=

almost transparent looking skin, ghostly white in appearance examined him.=

The figure had three extremely long fingers on each hand and spoke in a
strange dialect.

HC addendum
Source: UFO WatchType: G


44.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: May 29 2002
Time: midnight
Irma Rick watched a rotating luminous object descend close to the ground
next to a grain silo; it gave off a powerful bluish light through some
openings around its circumference. It hovered close to the ground. Through=

an opening a strange creature was seen to descend to the ground. It was
described as having an elongated semi-transparent white body; it also had
an elongated head. She could not see any eyes or legs on the creature as it=

stood motionless next to the craft. She observed the creature and object
for about 5 minutes until she dropped the flashlight she was carrying.
Afraid she left the area and did not see the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: B



45.
Location. Lembang Bandung, Indonesia
Date: May 30 2002
Time: 2315
The witness was driving his motorcycle across a highland area when he
spotted some flashing lights overhead and then noticed a silvery
disc-shaped craft descend low over some nearby graves at a cemetery. The
craft had blue and orange flashing lights around its rim. There was no
sound as the craft apparently emitted a beam of light towards the ground
and levitated what appeared to be some dead bodies onboard the object. (!)=

The witness was apparently paralyzed and was unable to move. The craft then=

shot away at a 45-degree angle and disappeared from sight. When that
happened the witness left the scene.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


46.
Location. Houston, Texas
Date: late May 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness was at the local electric company in order to pay a bill when
she decided to use the restrooms. Sitting in the stall she then noticed on=

the side of the wall of the stall what appeared to be a face lit up in a
dull light. When the witness looked directly at the "face" it vanished. She=

described is as having large round eyes no visible nose and a slit-like
mouth. (A peeping tom alien?)

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.comType: E?


47.
Location. General Acha, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: early June 2002
Time: various
A resident of the Oeste neighborhood informed newspaper sources that a
short green-colored dwarf like entity has appeared twice on her property:
once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When her husband ran out
responding to her screams, the mysterious entity vanished by rapidly
climbing up a tree. All versions agree in that the entity is short in
stature. Another resident added that it moved so quickly that it was hard
to describe it. In the same area mysterious cattle mutilations have also
been reported.

HC addendum
Source: Loren Coleman in UFO UpdatesType: E


48.
Location. Ojo De Agua, Argentina
Date: June 2002
Time: afternoon
Several passengers onboard two farm micro buses reported seeing a very tall=

dark man like figure that appeared to be wearing a tight fitting diver's
outfit standing on a nearby field. Nearby numerous mysterious animal
mutilations have been reported. The figure was silent and was quickly lost=

from sight as the buses moved away.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E




49.
Location. Near Tampa, Florida
Date: June 2002
Time: night
A man and three of his friends reported encountering two bizarre chupacabra=

type creatures one stood about 3-4 ft tall, the other looked to be about 6=

ft tall. Both had large glowing red eyes and spikes starting from the head=

to the back. They scurried away into a wooded area. (They were to have
further encounters in August).

HC addendum
Source: Art Bell.comType: E


50.
Location. Antalya, Turkey
Date: June 5 2002
Time: afternoon
Approximately 45 witnesses claimed they saw an UFO in the Santral district=

landing on the backyard of the Fatma Primary School. Several students
including Murat Esici age 11 saw an alien emitting red rays from his eyes
come out of the object. His hands and feet were metallic. He had a very big=

head and was about 1.80 meters in height. Esici temporarily lost her voice=

immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also=

claimed they san an unusual craft and an alien beside it. "His eyes and
hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes." The children
were overcome with shock after the incident.

HC addendum
Source: Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center Intl
Type: B


51.
Location. Polonnauruwa, Sri Lanka
Date: June 8 2002
Time: 2200
Approximately 50 to 70 eyewitnesses saw a UFO flying at about 100 meters
above ground level. The object was silent and briefly landed emitting a
bright flash like light. When it was close to the ground the object emitted=

a buzzing sound. Three other witnesses saw three 2 ft tall creatures than
when approached ran into the jungle and disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Sources
Type: D


52.
Location. Polonnaruwa, Sir Lanka
Date: June 9 2002
Time: 2012
Two witnesses went to a bath on a nearby river when they heard a loud
thundering sound and a UFO appeared. The craft landed nearby and two, 2 ft=

tall "aliens" emerged from the object. One of the humanoids flung a small
fluorescent fireball like object that flew over a house and vanished. Soon=

the craft and humanoids disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC & News Reports
Type: B



53.
Location. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Date: June 10 2002
Time: 1900
Witnesses saw a mysterious light in the sky and others saw a large disc
shaped object land nearby. Three humanoids only about 2 ft tall emerged
from the craft and disappeared into the forest when approached. The object=

also left.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Reports
Type: B


54.
Location. Chantilly, Virginia
Date: June 10 2002
Time: night
The witness was awakened during the night with a sense of some presence in=

the room. Looking toward the door, he saw, fading quickly, something, which=

almost had the appearance of a hologram. Next, shadows appeared outside the=

windows in an erratic shape. At first he thought the shadows to be from
trees moving in a strong wind. The appearance was of a storm blowing the
limbs to create these shadows outside the window. However, there was no
storm. He looked at the adjacent window on the side of the house facing
opposite and there was no wind at all. In fact there was no trees
positioned in such a way to cast a shadow. He opened the blinds to see what=

might be causing the shadows. He then saw what seemed to be a hologram with=

the shape of two small eyes moving erratically outside the window.
Frightened he closed the blinds. Two weeks later he was awakened by a
humming sound and again saw the erratic shadows outside the window. He
watched the shadows for 10-15 minutes and then called the police. The
police found no signs of any intrusion in the yard. When the police left
the witness walked toward the door facing the back porch and saw a large
burst of bluish white light. It looked unnatural, almost like a laser. He
has not seen the "shadows" again.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: E?


55.
Location. Ataliva Roca, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 11 2002
Time: 1930
A worker at a local drainage project was sitting and guarding some
machinery when he noticed a short greenish colored humanoid figure that was=

approaching his location from a nearby field. The witness became concerned=

and drove away from the area in the construction equipment and did not see=

the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


56.
Location. Eduardo Castex, La Pampa Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Two girls of a local school encountered a short greenish humanoid figure in=

the playing yard. The figure was standing up and appeared to be raising its=

arms up to the sky. Terrified the two girls retreated into the school and
watched the figure scurry away into some nearby woods. Around the same time=

a local farmer found a strangely mutilated hog in his farm.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


57.
Location. Chasico, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Hugo Deluca and several other workers were parked in a bus in an isolated
area when they spotted about 20 meters away a short, 1.20 meters tall,
bipedal figure completely covered in gray hair. It walked upright like a
man and then scurried away into some woods vanishing from sight. The area
had been hit with animal mutilations around the same time.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


58.
Location. Castex, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 13 2002
Time: night
A 70-year old man had gone to his driveway to check on a flat tire in his
car when a short light green colored humanoid suddenly appeared next to
him. It had large round ears, and two reddish luminous eyes. Its body was
thin and almost triangular in shape. The witness attempted to yell out but=

was suddenly unable to speak and at the same time strange warmth invaded
his body. Several seconds later the humanoid vanished and the witness
returned to normal. He reported the incident to the police.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


59.
Location. La Laguna, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 14 2002
Time: afternoon
Several youngster had gone into the fields in order to obtain some firewood=

when they saw sitting on a clearing in the woods two human like figures,
all dressed in black. They sat facing each other, one looking towards the
east the other towards the west, unmoving. Unnerved by the sight the
juveniles ran from the area. The next day the father of one of the boys
found two dead cows at the site, but could find no trace of the strange
pair. Days later a sheep and a horse were found dead and strangely
mutilated in the nearby location of El Cardonal.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: E


60.
Location. De Kalb, Illinois
Date: June 15 2002
Time: 0030A
The witness was sitting in his family room watching TV when he noticed a
bright flash of light outside the window. He saw the flash several times
and decided to check his backyard there he saw a circular light moving
around in circles. The light began to get closer; scared he ran inside his=

home and called a friend on the phone. He then quickly ran outside and saw=

the circle getting closer, he noticed that it had a purplish color to it
and it began to descend towards the ground. He became nauseous and dizzy
and collapsed on to the ground. He tried to crawl to the house but was
unable to move. He turned his head and saw the purplish object on the
ground and what appeared to be a door opening up. He then heard a squeaking=

noise and saw a tall and a short figure standing by a door of the object.
The two figures started to move towards him, walking in a strange bopping
fashion. They were of a dark complexion with a bumpy texture, other than
that they resembled normal human beings. The shorter figure approached and=

picked up the witness' camera and stared at it. He then looked at the
taller figure and handed it to him. The taller of the two looked at the
camera and then at the witness. The witness then heard loud unpleasant
shrieks coming from the taller figure, which then gave the camera back to
the shorter figure, which covered the camera with his hand, seconds later a=

light began to emerge from their hands. Then they stopped, threw the camera=

aside and began to walk towards the witness. They reached his side and
started to examine his body. A dog began to bark from inside the house and=

the shorter figure put out his hand and the dog stopped barking. At this
point the witness began to vomit. After about a minute he began to relax
and to breathe better. When he turned his head he realized that the two
figures and the purple spherical object were now gone. The next day he had=

a very severe headache.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: B


61.
Location. San Juan, Argentina
Date: June 20 2002
Time: evening
At a location where the body of a strangely mutilated carcass of a cow was=

found two witnesses reported seeing a small creature with large glowing
slanted eyes and about one meter in height. Later in the same area, members=

of the Gimenez family after investigating noises and a strong odor coming
from a wooded area found a mutilated cow and also watched a short humanoid=

with glowing eyes scurrying away into the woods.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


62.
Location. Manuel Rodriguez, Calama, Chile
Date: June 22 2002
Time: after midnight
A bizarre creature was spotted at a local housing complex on San Antonio
Street. Witnesses reported that it resembled an ape and it jumped all over=

the roof. It passed right in front of the witness, Maria Gavia's window and=

then it came back making all manner of noise. The creature was able to make=

very long jumps, unlike any a human could. It jumped and landed on the
neighbor's roof and then it left the area. Neighborhood dogs acted scared
and began howling. Others described the creature as about 1.5 meters tall,=

stocky in build with bright red eyes. It made a lot of noise. Others
reportedly chased the creature.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center, quoting El
Mercurio de CalamaType: E


63.
Location. Angencia Realico, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 23 2002
Time: late night
Several hunters returning to a local ranch spotted about 50 meters away two=

large glowing reddish eyes staring at them. They turned off their
flashlight and approached closer on foot, about 30 meters away they again
saw the reddish eyes on a dark creature that appeared to be standing on top=

of an apparently dead animal. One of the hunters shone its flashlight on
the figure again and saw a figure about 40 cm in height that quickly ran
from the area at very high speed. The creature disappeared into the brush.=

At the scene, a dead and mutilated young heifer. Other mutilations were
reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


64.
Location. Rancul, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 25 2002
Time: 2020
Two young men, Nestor Pinto and Daniel Gatica were walking on a field when=

they encountered a short man-like figure with huge pointy ears and long
dangling arms standing near some brush. The figure scurried into the brush=

and disappeared and at the same time the two witnesses ran away from the
area and did not see the strange dwarf again.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


65.
Location. Bavaria, Germany (exact location not given)
Date: June 25 2002
Time: night
The witness had stayed up late watching the soccer game as was in his
bedroom when suddenly there was a coldness around him that made him shiver.=

He noticed that his audio capabilities were somehow enhanced and he was
able to hear sounds that previously he was unable to hear. He then heard a=

noise outside his door and went out to investigate. The noise became louder=

as he approached the door. He then heard footsteps and opened the door. A
very small man with a somewhat deformed body that was smiling at him
confronted the witness. He looked straight ahead and then stared at the
witness. His next memory was of waking up in his bed in the morning.

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.com
Type: E


66.
Location. Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2105
The primary witness had stepped out on his back porch when his attention
was drawn to two huge black "birds" which were approaching from the north.=

His first impression was they were Herons, but soon realized that the color=

was wrong, and "they were huge, much larger than any bird I have ever
seen." The two huge birds landed at the top of a very tall coniferous tree.=

The witness stated that the wingspan appeared to be wider than the
branches, jest below where they had landed. The body size was estimated to=

be about six feet from head to tail. The oddest feature was the shape of
the wings, which according to the witness appeared to be bat-like. The tree=

where the "birds" landed seemed as though it would break from their weight.=

The witness yelled for others in the house to come outside to look. Another=

family member was able to see the huge black birds as they passed overhead,=

and headed for some woods. After checking the size of the branches where
the birds had landed, the witness estimated that the wingspan would have
been close to 12 feet or somewhat larger.

HC addendum
Source: Stan GordonType: E


67.
Location. Marldon Hill, Paington, England
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2357
A couple were walking near a local historic monument (a windmill) and they=

drew closer to monument they heard a low whirling noise. The noise
progressed to a high-pitched whining, almost out of hearing range. Then
they saw a mysterious glow coming from the dark side of the windmill, and
then to their astonishment they saw 5 or 6 shadow like figures standing in=

front of the windmill. Startled the two began to run back towards the main=

road. The woman looked back and saw the figures become engulfed by a bright=

light and disappear, and then everything became quiet.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Sightings UKType: E?


68.
Location. Adelia Maria, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 3 2002
Time: 2100
Pedro and Estela Moine had decided to visit the business district of town
called Barrio Norte and crossed the old railroad yard through a pedestrian=

pathway that ran through a pasture area between some silos, old railroad
depots and abandoned wreckage. As the couple moved through the premises
they suddenly became aware of a strange and incomprehensible conversation
between many voices. Startled, they stopped walking moved a few meters more=

and then heard the voices again which now sounded like strange "O" sounds.=

Pedro looked toward the silos and was able to see resembling humanoid but
lacking upper and lower extremities. Despite the pleas of his wife, Pedro
ran several meters toward an inner alley in the silo plant, being able to
make out some 45 meters to the west and in profile---the entity, which
acting surprised, avoided the encounter and moved again to the north.
However, what filled the witnesses with wonderment was that the creature
did so as though flying or floating without touching the facilities it
passed. Pedro and Estela ran after it. It was thus that the man managed to=

see the entity apparently hiding behind the control room of the truck
scale. Pedro ran toward it and was again startled to see the apparition
rising as a plane taking off, flying at an altitude of 5 meters and
disappearing behind a large metal shed. Bewildered, both witnesses called
out, but were unable to see anything else. Pedro Moine as "a thing with
human shape" described the apparition. It had some sort of light, although=

he could not say if reflected or self-generated, although he tends to
believe the latter, since it was a nebulous whitish light, which kept him
from making out details. The entire mass of the apparition appeared to be a=

body covered from head to toe in some sort of mantle, which he described as=

though it wore a hat, but covered with some kind of long raincoat reaching=

down to what he took to be its feet. He added that the "conversational
sounds" repeated themselves in three separate occasions at various
intensities. They were like conversations in a strange language.

HC addendum
Source: Mario Luis Bracamonte, C.O.R, Rio Cuarto Argentina
Type: E


69.
Location. Jerusalem, Israel
Date: July 6 2002
Time: night
A remote TV camera picked up images of "orbs seen on the corner to the
right of the Wailing Wall." They seemed to have facial features almost like=

a ghost, reported investigator Charlotte LeFevre. The orbs were described
as "sharp and distinct". The orbs were next to the women's prayer area in
front of the Wall. Other strange phenomena, has been reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 29Type: F?


70.
Location. Villa Elisa, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: July 13 2002
Time: 2300
A young woman fainted from nervous shock after having an alleged closed
encounter with "some sort of green dwarf". This occurred---enveloped in
darkness---along Misioneros Salesianos Street very close to several houses.=

An ambulance was called and apparently transported the witness who was in
shock.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria ColuchiType: E


71.
Location. Patna, India
Date: July 21 2002
Time: night
Several residents claim they've been bitten or scratched by a "black
monkey-like creature with colored lights flashing from its eyes." Resident=

Pawan Kumar Niyogi who was sleeping on the terrace of his house claims "a 5=

ft tall monkey-like creature" attacked him. He said: "I was terrified and
thought my life was going to end but it merely scratched me on the shoulder=

before jumping off the roof." Local residents are conducting night vigils
and carrying torches to guard their homes.

HC addendum
Source: Ananova, Ufoupdates. Type: E


72.
Location. Chajan, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 21 2002
Time: 2300
Police officer Guillermo Arias was on routine patrol through a rural area
when he heard over the radio that his colleagues in arms over at Achiras
were seeing lights in sectors of said community, and that they were heading=

towards Chajan along National Route 8. At the wheel of the police patrol
van, he managed to see a formation of 7 lights in the distance and decided=

to drive 10 km along a rural dirt road. When he had covered said distance,=

he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine of his vehicle sputtered=

and died, causing the police car to strike the edge of a guardrail.
Simultaneously, the lights on the van's dashboard began turning on and off=

randomly, the police radio went haywire and its dial displayed the random
shifting of the frequencies while the cabin became filled with an acrid
odor, as though of burnt wiring, and the interior lights and stop
indicator, which were broken, began lighting on and off. Seized by fear,
Arias leaped from the van and walked away a few meters down the road,
losing his cellular phone in the escape. The darkness was total, when
suddenly, amid the confusing situation; an immense light emerged from a
field adjacent to the road as a triangular object rose majestically into
the air. Now Arias condition went from fear to abject terror as he saw what=

he described as a real "floating city" some 200 meters long with a long row=

of windows (perhaps as many as 100). Arias claims having seen something
move behind them, describing the movement as "TV sets which make lines and=

shadows", which he defined as "non-human", and that many beams of light
came out of the giant triangle, aimed at the ground. The event lasted 2-3
seconds, but to Arias it felt like an eternity. The object suddenly rose
and sped away, vanishing behind the hills of a local field. As the object
moved away, the whole area was lit up like daytime and there was an
afterglow that lasted another 20 minutes.

HC addendum
Source: C.O.R., Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense, Argentina
Type: A


73.
Location. Waconia, Minnesota
Date: July 26 2002
Time: 0300A
The young witness was sleeping in the backyard with his sister when he
suddenly woke up. He then noticed that the side of the tent that faced the=

wetlands and lake was lit up. Looking towards the light he saw a shadowy
torso and arm of a humanoid figure that seemed to be moving around within
the light. He watched for 30 seconds and saw the figure move the fingers of=

his hands. The witness became frightened and hid in his sleeping bag. He
came out about an hour later and the light and strange figure were
completely gone.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


74.
Location. Sedona, Arizona
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 0310A
In a wooded area the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all
white, with black "straight" eyes; and black diagonal/diamond strip of
"clothing" on top. He stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then
left. Prior to seeing the figure the witness had seen lights in a large
oval shaped pattern in the sky.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


75.
Location. Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 1730
Three girls had decided to visit the rooftop as they did the prior evening=

watching for satellites. It was dusk and the girls had a good vantage point=

looking towards the east. With them they had a pair of binoculars and a
pair of walkie-talkies. The girls noticed that a large orange light
appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The anomaly
was noted to have fluctuated in colors of orange, yellow, white and pale
blue. At fist they thought of an arriving airplane, but then a second light=

appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10=

degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some=

unusually maneuvering; from a stationary position it accelerated at least 5=

degrees closer to the ground surface at an approximate 45-60 degree angle
within a matter of a single second. The first anomaly then began to move
slowly towards the north. At this stage they partially lost view of it as
it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley-like
region of the horizon. According to the witnesses, this third object
appeared to have "landed" on the ground surface. The object was then viewed=

through the binoculars and presented in great detail; the object was
described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange,=

blue/purple and white rotating around the rim. Thy also noted the trees
being slightly illuminated by this extraordinary phenomenon. They were
suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, "Identify
yourself." This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in a
foreign language. Around 1830 the girls were then called down to have
dinner. At about 2030 the girls re-established their places on the roof
after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still
present. Unexpectedly a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above
the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. "It
was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away." The=

light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it=

is not clear how one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became
extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed
her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not=

sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another of the girls woke up
the next morning with her nose bleeding. She also mentioned that she had
seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom.

HC addendum
Source: The Australian UFO Research NetworkType: D or
F?



76.
Location. Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 29 2002
Time: early morning
Local residents have seen a strange figure, which they described as
resembling a "shroud". The apparitions, which always occur in the early
morning hours, have become so common that in recent days several neighbors=

have stayed up late to see them, and it is thus that they were able to
confirm the simultaneous presence of up to 2 such beings, as well as red
lights flying over the area. All the witnesses whether individuals or in a=

group, agree that the entities are nebulous and glowing, with a pair of red=

eyes being clearly identifiable, and glassy faces (as if transparent).
Their movements are smooth and they always appear from behind the sand
dunes, as though "coming form the Naval Base." Most witnesses agree that
they show a great interest in the water tanks located above the roofs, and=

that they do not flee upon detecting the presence of local
residents---rather, they stare at them fixedly for some minutes. Deep
silence is perceived during the observations and "the air appears to become=

still" and neither heat nor cold can be felt---only a sensation of warmth,=

as if the beings emanated heat. Witnesses also state that things appear to=

be darker when "the shroud" appears, as though ambient lighting were
dimmed. Another curious fact is the large number of cats and dogs who
report to the place where the sightings occur and sit down to observe it in=

silence, in a state resembling a trance. A series of semi-circular prints
have been found in the dunes, not very deep, with 15-20 cm separations in
some cases and 30-50 cm in others. The locals have identified them as the
strange being's footprints. Efforts have been made to photograph the
"shroud", but all images, despite the use of different cameras appear
exposed. One witness who approached the site to witness the phenomenon took=

two photos of the prints in the afternoon and decided to stay with the
group of people hoping to see the "shroud", managing to take some photos of=

same and record the new prints which appeared in the dunes after the
sighting. A completely uncommon print was found at the site---but the
residents aren't sure if it's related to the phenomenon: it has the shape
of a five-fingered claw. One witness tried to make use of his carbine's
telescopic sight to see the figure in greater detail, but "when he tried to=

focus on it, he could see nothing_it was a though it could only be seen
with the unaided eye."

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, IHU, Christian Quintero and O A Mario
Proyecto Condor
Type: C or E?


77.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 30 2002
Time: 0530A
27-year old Mariela Baigorri reported seeing a strange figure that floated=

in front of her house. She had woken up early that morning and was getting=

ready to mount her bicycle when she saw behind the fence something floating=

in mid-air. It appeared to be a figure wearing a flowing white transparent=

tunic, with bright red eyes and undefined facial features. Feeling no fear=

she decided to approach it. She felt as if the figure waited for her and
was observing her. At this point Mariela felt some fear and began reciting=

the Lord's Prayer. The figure suddenly moved back and disappeared in plain=

sight.

HC addendum
Source: Juan Carlos Corrales Morey, Vision Ovni, Argentina
Type: E


78.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 31 2002
Time: 1845
23-year old Julian Pereyra was in his vehicle when he observed two red
spheres flying slowly over some nearby woods, they seemed to descend and
disappear behind the trees. 15 minutes later, Pereyra, accompanied by
several other witnesses approached the area and observed what they
described a tall floating figure wearing a white glowing cape like outfit,=

it seemed to glide silently over a field. It had what appeared to be a
visor at face level and two beams of red light emerged from where the eyes=

would have been. The witnesses watched the strange figure glide over the
fields for about 30 minutes. Curiously numerous local dogs and cats
approached and also watched the figure in fascination. The lights and
figure disappeared into the distance. In another occasion Pereyra and some=

of his family members encountered the strange humanoid and felt a strange
sensation as if the wind had suddenly stopped, they felt as they were
inside a vacuum or "bubble." Strange tracks have been reportedly found in
the area also.

HC addendum
Source: Diario La Nueva Provincia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Type: C?


79.
Location. La Cienaga, Pocri, Panama
Date: early August 2002
Time: night
Luis Alfredo Diaz reported hearing loud noises coming from the terraced
patio where the kitchen was located, going to investigate he found his cat=

apparently dead with two obvious holes on the neck and some blood on the
floor. Before finding the cat he had called his wife, Maria de Los Santos
Barrios. As his wife stood in front of him a panic stricken look came over=

her face, turning around he was confronted by a bizarre 1-meter tall
humanoid that had jumped to the center of the patio. The creature was
described as thin, covered with dark hair, with large pointed ears that
almost covered its face, it had very large eyes and extremely strong hind
legs resembling that of a kangaroo. Terrified he ran to his son's bedroom
and carried him outside yelling for his neighbors. A search failed to
locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Panamanian Paranormal Forum
Type: E


80.
Location. Near Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Date: August 2002
Time: night
The same witness involved in a similar encounter last year was again
camping in the same area when he again heard a noise. Shining the light in=

the direction of the sound he again saw the same creature. The creature sat=

there crouched by the trees staring at the witness. The witness walked
slowly towards it, he got to within 20 ft when it just jumped backward and=

disappeared. He described the creature as about five to six ft in height,
gray in color. It was totally naked. It had human features, but more
leathery, and its face was very wide, its eyes were huge and even though
they reflected light, they still looked black, resembling two intensely
black marbles. Its legs were very muscular, but turned backwards, like a
bird. Other hikers in the area have reported encountering little brown men=

on some of the more isolated trails.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal Story Archives, November 2002Type: E


81.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: August 1 2002
Time: late evening
64-year old Raul Dorado was touring some fields when he heard a loud sound=

on two occasions, like a whirlwind, which drew his attention. The third
time he saw something he describes as a green circle with three legs
hovering over him. At that moment Dorado fell to the ground, and according=

to his story, he carried a shotgun, binoculars and a cellular phone, the
latter, which was taken from his hand, and he could clearly see being
sucked into the object, which was apparently at low altitude. His next
recollection was seeing the object disappear toward the east. Dorado
remained at the location for an hour before being able to rise and walk
back to his car, returning to town in a state of shock. He had to be
hospitalized. Later when calls were placed to the (abducted) cellular phone=

someone would pick up and heavy breathing could be heard. Later on the
phone was apparently disconnected.

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, quoting Diario La Arena, La PampaType: G?


82.
Location. Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Date: August 2 2002
Time: 1730
A man named Todd Sees went up the mountain to look for pre-season deer. He=

told his wife that he would be home by noon. He rode his 4-wheeler up the
power line behind his home. He never returned. A search party composed of
local police, state police and volunteers searched for Sees. The 4-wheeler=

was found on the top of the mountain near a power-line. Tracking dogs could=

find nothing to go on around the 4-wheeler. The search went on for 2 days
and over 6 miles of mountain was covered from top to bottom. Then, in the
evening of the 2nd day, his body was found in a hard to reach wooded area.=

He was wearing his underwear. He was emaciated---not bloated. He was pale
and had an expression of horror on his face. When he went up the mountain
he was fully dressed, boots, camo-vest, hat, socks, pants. 3 people, on one=

farm, said they saw a large round bright object just above the power-lines=

at the time of the disappearance. It was silent, it did not move for about=

10 to 15 minutes. It suddenly went up and suddenly stopped. A light shone
down and something was pulled up into the light. It then went straight up,=

hesitated again, and then went west over the Susquehanna River and out of
sight. More specifically a farmer saw an object above Montour Ridge at the=

power lines, on top of the mountain, it was round and very still over the
lines. Suddenly it moved what looked like a few hundred feet to the east,
it stopped and a beam of blue and white light shone to the ground. What was=

seen next was very unnerving, he saw what appeared to be a man suspended in=

the light, he was being pulled up head first, he was moving his arms slowly=

in the light. What looked like a man was pulled up into the bottom of the
craft. A few seconds later it started shuddering, then went west very fast,=

stopped briefly, and then went straight up and out of sight. Also three
fishermen saw the craft. The FBI is supposedly also investigating. (Debated=

as a hoax, who would? and for what purpose?).

HC addendum
Source: Rense, UFO updates, NUFORCType: G?






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                            2002 Humanoid Reports

From: Albert Rosales <Garuda79@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:32:05 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:14:40 -0500
Subject: 2002 Humanoid Reports


Happy new year everyone

Sincerely,

Albert

-----

2002 Humanoid Reports. It appears to be a slow start for this
year with only one recorded case, again from Chile. We will see
what develops later on the year. 2001 was pretty busy but it was
a decline from 2000. Maybe we will see another down trend again,
later to pick up again in the near future. This seems to be the
ever-ongoing trend of the phenomena. Will it always stay the
same? Time will tell. Following is a list of known 2002 humanoid
cases.


1.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: January 2002
Time: 0300A
An employee at the local Minera Escondida was on his way to the
storage freezer in order to pick up some supplies when an
unknown creature jumped him from behind. He could only describe
it as hairy and dark. He was left with deep scratches and in a
state of shock. Terrified he ran away and bumped into two other
employees who were able to see a shadowy creature in the dark.

HC addendum
Source: La Estrella del Loa de Calama, ChileType: E


2.
Location. Caracas, Venezuela
Date: January 2002
Time: late night
Late one night in a dream-like state the witness woke up to see
seven to eight strange figures in her bedroom. They were dark
gray in color and very thin, with three large thick long fingers
on their hands. They had large, lipless mouths and large shiny
protruding black eyes, their noses were thin and protruding,
small ears, the heads was large and pointy. The humanoids
appeared to be naked and she was able to see a penis on the
humanoids. They were about 1.55 meters in height. She felt dizzy
and under the control of the strange entities. She was led out
of her bedroom by one of the humanoids that removed her clothing
and made her lie down on the floor. The humanoids apparently
attempted to molest her sexually and possibly attempted to rape
her but were not successful. She apparently passed out and does
not remember anything else about the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Lista Alcione and witness communicationType: E


3.
Location. Fort McMurry, Alberta, Canada
Date: January 2 2002
Time: 2032
Two men were parked on an isolated dirt road when they spotted a
large cone-shaped object descend and hover. One of the men
exited the car and he vanished in plain sight of the other, the
craft then also disappeared. The other man tried to drive away
to get help but the car would not start and it was to cold to
walk. He soon went to sleep and woke up later to find his friend
sleeping next to him. Later they drove back to town. His friend
does not remember what happened during those two hours of
missing time. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


4.
Location. Paso Lovera, Corrientes, Argentina
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2030
Gabriela Lencinas, 15-year old and a 19-year old friend were
returning home on a bicycle when they spotted a large cloud like
object descend from the sky and from it a giant figure emerge.
The witnesses stopped their bicycles to see a car approach the
giant figure, stop, the driver exit the car and then re-entering
the vehicle and driving quickly away. The figure then rose up
into the cloud and disappeared. The girls reported that the
giant human-like figure had its hair standing up on his head and
was extending its arms towards the witnesses that quickly rode
their bicycles home. Other in the area reported seeing bright
lights that same night.

HC addendum
Source: Pablo Omastott
Type: B?


5.
Location. Villa San Rafael, Chile
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2345
Two young teenagers, Jean F and Nelson C, where at home at night
when Jean noticed that his pet snake had escaped from its cage.
Both boys began looking for it outside among the rubble of the
parcel. They recalled how half an hour before, their two dogs
strangely began to howl and cry; however, it did not seem to be
important at that point in time. They searched for the pet snake
together when suddenly, about 30 meters from where they stood;
they saw what appeared to be a stray dog. They threw rocks at to
avoid an attack. However, to their surprise, the animal stood
there, motionless and fearless; it did not get scared nor it ran
away as ordinary dogs normally do. Shortly, the strange animal
began to move towards them. The movements it made as it walked
were very strange. It used two legs at a time. It made very
small sand short leaps like a rabbit. Suddenly, it stopped and
it stood up on two legs. The teenagers then began to feel some
kind of energy. "It was like an electrical shock in the
stomach," they said. It later walked again making a loud
dragging noise, making small leaps and only moving one of its
legs. They noticed the weird shape of the animal. "It was like a
rugby football with legs," one of them said. Jean began to feel
frightened and started to move away from animal. On the other
hand, Nelson felt a strange need to get closer to the creature;
he got to within 2 meters away from it. The creature appear to
emit a strange luminosity that apparently, was bright enough to
lit a small area around the creature in spite of the nighttime
darkness. Nelson was mesmerized as he stared at the strange
creature. He described it as having a head like a large dog with
a flat nose like a bulldog. Its eyes were slanted and pale-red
in color, which could only be seen when the creature turned its
head from side to side like a lizard. At that moment, Nelson
heard a voice in his head saying, "Don't stare, and just run
away." They provided further description, describing the ears as
flat, round and large. Its arms were short, it had elbows, and
the hands had three fingers. It had hair like the one on a wild
pig. Its legs were like the ones of a goat. The feet had also
three fingers and a membrane like ducks, but somewhat shorter.
On its curved back, they were able to notice a spinal section
covered with amounts of even thicker hair. Most of the hair of
the animal was gray, but the tail had a white tip. Nelson
finally fled, terrified, from the area. He also described how he
felt an inexplicable bone-chilling cold sensation.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center
Type: E


6.
Location. Not given
Date: January 12 2002
Time: night
Ted Parker was eating some leftover food when he claims the food began to
change. The bread of the sandwich turned an orange color and the lamb
became a silvery metallic color, sort of like liquid mercury. As he watched=

transfixed, he saw the orange bread and metallic lamb turn into the figure=

of an "alien" with the form of a man. It was silver in color and its outfit=

(smooth pants and shirt, like a jump suit) was orange in color. At this
point Parker glanced at the wall clock and it indicated that 2 hours had
gone by, even though it felt like minutes only. The alien figure
communicated using telepathic means and asked Ted to come with him. They
both went outside and there, Ted saw a landed black-colored craft in his
backyard. In a split second Ted found himself inside the craft not knowing=

how he got there. The inside of the craft was pure white in color with
strips of the metallic silver that the alien figure appeared to be made of.=

The rest of the incident is just a blur, but Parker did remembered hearing=

several loud high-pitched rings while onboard the object. A couple of days=

before while eating dinner with several other people there had been a
similar high pitched ring and everybody had just stopped eating and walked=

out of the room.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: G or F?



7.
Location. Chihuahua, Mexico
Date: January 29 2002
Time: night
Several days before seeing a UFO the witness remembered being in a
dream-like state in which he felt very calm and saw numerous disc shaped
objects, orange-red in color. A human like figure was talking to him about=

the objects and their propulsion. The UFO he saw was of an orange color and=

he felt a sort of ecstasy when he observed the craft. Several of his
neighbors also saw the object.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: G or F?


8.
Location. Near Palmyra, Wisconsin
Date: February 2002
Time: 0200A
Two men reported seeing a creature that resembled a bipedal "gigantic wolf"=

walking down a road west of the city. They said the creature was at least 7=

ft tall with a wolf-like head. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Linda GodfreyType: E


9.
Location. West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
Nebilson Sangma reported encountering a scary furry creature on a hunting
trip in the jungles. He reportedly took a video of the creature's nesting
place. According to Sangma, the creature walked erect like a human, had
built a house like nesting place, and would emerge from it frequently to
feast on a banana grove. Sangma and his brother observed the gigantic
creature for three consecutive days from afar. Officials and villagers have=

been hunting for the creature in the forest but it seems to have
disappeared as furtively as it appeared.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 13
Type: E


10.
Location. Near Dover, England
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness had been jogging along a low path by the beach when she noticed=

a tall, well built being in a black skin tight suit, that stood watching
her from nearby. He wore a black helmet wit a brown visor pulled down. At
first she thought it was a biker but as she approached the figure, it
suddenly disappeared in plain sight. As she continued to run she noticed a=

black craft jutting out of the sand, it was small and oval shaped, matt and=

ribbed it also disappeared in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: E?


11.
Location. Rosario de la Frontera, Salta, Argentina
Date: February 2002
Time: night
A strange creature called by locals "El Pestizo" has attacked several lone=

pedestrians in the middle of the night. It is described as a dark man
shaped shadowy being. A boy riding his bicycle on the way to visit some
friends was toppled from his bicycle and found a black shadowy figure
facing him. The young man managed to upholster his shotgun and fire two
shots. But, when he saw that they had no effect, he promptly drew his knife=

and stabbed the figure without any apparent harm. Frightened the youth
tried to escape but the creature knocked him down without saying a word and=

began dragging him by the hair to the side of the road. At this point the
young man began to scream. A local man, who rushed to provide assistance,
only to find a black shadow dragging the boy by the hair, heard his cries.=

The fearful shape disappeared without a trace after it became aware of the=

other man's presence. Six other locals have reported being attacked by a
similar being and received wounds.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


12.
Location. Not given
Date: February 2002
Time: early morning
The witness was alone at home and was preparing his breakfast when suddenly=

he heard a window break; he went to see what had happened. Grabbing a golf=

club he peeked inside the room where the window broke. He was stunned to
see a strange creature climbing on his bed. It appeared to be hurt, because=

it seemed that it could not move well. Gripping the golf club he went a
step nearer and the creature hissed horribly. It shrieked in an unworldly
manner. Terrified the witness did not move. The creature was small, about
the size of a large rabbit, and it was dark in color and had reddish eyes.=

It had wings and a spine of quills on its back, and had a semi reptilian
face. It appeared to have hair and small legs. The witness raised the golf=

club and the creature hissed again showing its large yellowish teeth, which=

appeared to be sharp, like those of a crocodile. It suddenly hopped out of=

the window and rapidly hopped across the street into the oak trees.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June archiveType: E


13.
Location. Vigevano, Italy
Date: February 2002
Time: 0100A
In the outskirts of this city a witness observed from his vehicle a
luminous humanoid entity walking along a roadway. It scurried away into the=

darkness when approached.
No other information.

HC addendum
Source: CISU, ItalyType: E



14.
Location. Corguinho, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Date: February 5 2002
Time: night
During a localized UFO flap several witnesses reported seeing a strange
creature described as about 1.3 meters in height, having two legs, with a
physique like a human but who moved with a strange fluctuating motion. The=

creature was seen five times by twenty people in the rural zone around
Corguinho. In Rochedo, 6 miles south of Corguinho five Cebu cattle were
found dead with a single incision on the side of the throat. The bodies had=

been drained of blood. (Is there a connection?).

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


15.
Location. Mount Podbrdo, Bosnia Hercigovina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: morning
Contactee and stigmatic Giorgio Bongiovanni was visiting the shrine on top=

of the mountain and was praying silently to the Virgin when, to his
astonishment, a glowing luminous female figure appeared and touched his
forehead with her fingertips. His stigmata scar vanished instantly. The
female figure told him to return to Italy and make known what had happened.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 14
Type: E or F?


16.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: evening
73-year-old Maria Rufina Cayo, a local shepherd was walking back home with=

her dogs and the cattle. Suddenly at one point, something spooked the
animals, and these began to stampede. Looking around she spotted a bizarre=

creature standing about 12 meters away. She described it as a humanoid,
half animal, half human, about 1.70m in height, with bright red eyes, sharp=

protruding fangs, and hands and feet that ended in sharp claws. The
creature looked at the witness three times then it scrambled away using
quick jumping motions with is powerfully built hind legs, she also noticed=

large pointy ears. The top part of its body seems to have been covered in a=

shiny white blanket. It somehow resembled a centaur walking on two
claw-like feet.  Alerted by the shouts of Maria, two men, Santos Jaimes,
and Ruben Colque ran out to investigate with their dogs. Suddenly the dogs=

stopped and began making pitiful howling noises, they refused to move any
further. The men heard noises behind some nearby bushes and went to
investigate and spotted a bizarre creature that stood staring at them with=

huge reddish eyes. It then moved quickly away in the direction of Cerro
Negro and disappeared from sight. The witnesses noticed very sharp claws on=

the creature's feet with a very sharp claw that appeared to be pointed
backwards. Strange footprints were found the next day.

HC addendum
Source: El Tribuno, Salta Argentina March 27 2002
Also Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E



17.
Location. Khanpur, Ahmedabad, India
Date: February 20 2002
Time: after midnight
Several local residents reportedly have encountered a person, dressed in
black and wearing a mask. Dubbed the "Monkeyman" whom they described as
between 25 and 20 years of age, dark skinned and having curly hair can
reportedly be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees. Two
local youths chased it and the figure reportedly disappeared in plain
sight. The two youths have been behaving abnormally since then. The
stranger was also chased along the riverbed near the Cama Hotel and it also=

suddenly disappeared. Others have heard the stranger running on the
rooftops. Abdul Hamid another youngster of the local slums described the
figure as a tall lean man that carries a sharp weapon. "I saw him from the=

back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised the alarm, he jumped to=

another roof and then on to a tree." Police have searched for the stranger=

but nothing has been found.

HC addendum
Source: Fortean Times, India Express
Type: E


18.
Location. Prague, Czech Republic
Date: February 23 2002
Time: night
Blanka Slemendova was in her apartment when she saw a "ship" hovering over=

some nearby woods. It was shining red, white and yellow lights. She then
heard telepathic communication coming from the object telling her to go and=

meet them at an unspecified location. Looking over to her bedroom wall she=

saw what appeared to be a projection of human like faces looking at her.
Later that night she saw luminous figures in her room and a floating red
light also in her room. The next night she saw what appeared to be 2 gray
suns and around them a golden lights with numerous groups of shiny
human-like figures floating about. She interpreted these as being angels.

HC addendum
Source: Direct from witness (Slemendova)
Type: C & F?


19.
Location. Wycliffe Well Roadhouse, Northern Territory Australia
Date: early March 2002
Time: evening
While workers in the area watched unusual lights in the sky an aboriginal
woman encountered a triangular sort of object in a paddock and all of the
sudden she saw three silvery clad human like figures that began to move
toward her vehicle. She turned the vehicle around and took off.

HC addendum
Source: Lou Farcus ABC On-lineType: C


20.
Location. Near Canberra Australia
Date: March 2002
Time: 1700
Several friends were taking a trip to the coast and it was already very
dark. They had already entered a tropical forest area and there was a mist=

rolling along the ground. As they turned around they saw something
squatting in the middle of the road. It stared at them, and just as they
thought they were going to hit it, it leaped off the road and into the
trees. It leaped about 10 meters in the air. The creature was definitely
human looking although it wore strange clothes. It was dressed in a green
robe of some kind with little pieces of gold on it, and it was either
wearing a head crest or it had a row of spikes running from its forehead to=

the top of its neck. Very frightened the witnesses drove out of the forest=

and at the same time the mist turned to a thick fog. They pulled over and
decided to wait until the fog had cleared, although none of them were too
happy about it. As they sat around and waited they suddenly heard a shriek.=

It sounded like some sort of wild animal and they turned the car on so the=

headlights would scare it away. The headlights revealed the same creature
they had seen earlier. It hid its face from the light and shrieked. Right
before the witnesses' eyes, the creature seemed to evaporate into the fog.=

Within five minutes the fog had gone and the normal rolling mist was back.=

The witnesses quickly left the area and drove towards the coast.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June ArchiveType: E


21.
Location. Guanica Puerto Rico
Date: March 1 2002
Time: 2345
Reinaldo Rios (involved in other encounters) was in his bedroom that night=

when a large white light suddenly appeared. It flew around the room several=

times and then hovered. He heard voices coming from the light, which
communicated with him. The voice said: "I am your real father." Soon the
light transformed itself into a figure resembling that of a little boy it
then vanished in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: UFOs over America.com
Type: E


22.
Location. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 0800A
The witness and his wife were in bed that Saturday morning talking when
their 5-year-old daughter came into the bedroom with her baby brother,
whose cot is placed under their bedroom window. They heard a strange noise=

and some green light came into the window. Their daughter looked out the
window and reported seeing a "flying car" with four spinning green lights
on top. She saw two windows in the vehicle and saw two dark brown faces
looking out. His wife saw the craft flying past through the curtains. That=

same morning, in a large tree near the witness house a strange structure
was found. The branches were arranged in a rectangular pen shape, vertical,=

each approximately 30 to 40 cm long. They found a few smaller sticks
scaling down in size from the structure. A piece of concrete slab was found=

propped up on one corner. The witnesses had never seen this strange
structure before and think is some kind of message left by the visitors.
(Some kind of bizarre crop circle?). A few nights before they had heard
strange noises coming from the kitchen area.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: A


23.
Location. Golasecca Di Novara, Italy
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 2330
Augusto & Maurizia were in their vehicle parked in an open field next to a=

wooded area having a heated discussion when suddenly a powerful beam of
reddish-orange light illuminated the area around them. They rolled down the=

car window and heard a sharp metallic sound that seemed to be increasing in=

intensity. They now noticed, behind the beam of light a hovering
disc-shaped craft with a central rotating ring, it hovered about a meter
from the ground. From the object, a cigar-shaped beam of light emerged;
they could see it as the central ring of the craft slowly rotated on its
axis. The craft was only about 10 meters away. At this point, and only
about 4 meters from the object Augusto saw what appeared to be a gelatinous=

transparent humanoid-like figure with a visible head, arms and legs. The
figure was silvery in color and was very tall, about 3 meters or so. At
this point Augusto became concerned and drove away from the area and did
not see the object or figure depart. The whole episode lasted about 10
minutes. The metallic noise was heard all throughout the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Alfredo Lissoni, CUN Milano, Michelle Castellano CUN VareseType: C


24.
Location. Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England
Date: March 3 2002
Time: morning
Helen Diskin went for a walk in the countryside talking snap shots along
the way with her digital camera. Returning home she loaded these into her
computer and was intrigued by an odd-looking image. It looked like a
luminous figure in an area of no sunlight, skulking amongst the trees. She=

returned to the site of the photo twice afterward and could find no
explanation for the figure. The figure resembled a small helmeted figure
that she had not seen when she took the picture of an area of the woods she=

had thought of as "mysterious."

HC addendum
Source: Helen Diskin, UFO Magazine Vol. 22 # 1Type: E?


25.
Location. Near Trenton New Jersey
Date: March 4 2002
Time: night
Several witnesses were camping outside of town and late at night one of
them was attempting to put out the bonfire when he heard the most awful and=

horrifying scream. It resembled that of an injured dog crossed with a
scream of a woman. The witness dropped the flashlight and was joined by
another witness. Suddenly out of the woods a hideous and gruesome creature=

appeared. It did not look human, somewhat satyr-like in appearance and
walked on two legs. It had a long tail like a dragon and wings like those
unicorns in fantasy books. The beast took several steps towards the
witnesses and one of them picked up and asked and yelled at it and then
shone his flashlight at it. The creature then turned towards the bushes and=

ran away from the area.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: E


26.
Location. Pichaca, Salta, Argentina
Date: March 9 2002
Time: night
Ceferino Leoncio was cleaning his one room metal shack when suddenly a
bright light engulfed the room. He felt a sudden heat as he saw a tiny
figure (50 cm) of an angel-like creature materialize in front of him. It
slowly moved its small wing-like protrusions and moved around and then
suddenly stopped and remained still. It appeared to be a small living human=

like living being until it appeared to hardened and turn into some type of=

statue of cherubic appearance. Locals have now built a shrine around the
tiny "statue" and call the strange materialization a "religious miracle".

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso
Type: F?



27.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: March 16 2002
Time: 2215
Mirna, was watching television alone in her room when she began hearing
noises coming from outside, at first she thought it was her dogs playing
around with some empty cans. But the noises kept getting louder and louder=

and she decided to go outside to investigate. Once outside she was stunned=

to see some type creature that had somehow entered the rabbit cage and was=

attacking the animals that were making loud unearthly screams. Thinking at=

first that it was one of the dogs she approached the case but realized that=

it was a gray colored hairy hunched over creature, that was moving quickly=

inside the cage. She stepped back and could not understand how the creature=

had entered the cage, since there wasn't any apparent hole or aperture
visible anywhere and the door was firmly closed. Afraid she ran inside her=

home and notified her son, both then ran out but the creature had
mysteriously disappeared. Unnerved, they could not understand how they
creature had escaped since the door to the rabbit caged was still firmly
locked. Later they could only find a small round hole in the wire only
several centimeters in width, not large enough for a creature estimated to=

have been about 70 to 80 cm in height. Several of the rabbits were found
injured and one was dead.

HC addendum
Source: Calama UFO CenterType: E


28.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: March 19 2002
Time: 2000
Young Elizabeth Lera reported seeing a short humanoid with "dark eyes"
looking into the building compound from behind a wire fence. It appeared
not to have any other facial features and was wearing dark clothing; it
wore some type of head covering, which was hard to see because of the
darkness. She could only see a pair of large dark eyes on his face that
appeared to shine in the darkness. Some more children now arrived and
observed as the humanoid move several steps towards them. Another witness,=

Rene Mamani saw the humanoid run and hide behind some bushes. It seemed to=

move at very high speed in an unnatural fashion. It seemed to have remained=

suspended in mid-air for a few seconds. It then seemed to fly through the
air and disappeared into some nearby woods. Other students at the school
reportedly saw it again on the night of the 20th.

HC addendum
Source: Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E


29.
Location. Woodburn, Oregon
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 0300A
The witness was sleeping when she woke up suddenly feeling paralyzed. The
witness was completely unable to move or speak. Her next memory was of a
strange sensation on her left cheek, which hurt a lot. Unseen "beings" were=

apparently taking skin samples. Her face was left with a pink fleshy scoop=

down my left cheek, directly on the cheekbone. A teardrop scar was left on=

her cheek.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical Universe
Type: G?




30.
Location. Bethlehem, Israel
Date: March 21 2002
Time: night
At the besieged Church of The Nativity several awed witnesses have come
forward describing the events of Thursday night. That night, a smell of
roses filled the sanctuary as the Daughters of Charity held their evening
prayers. "The sweet scent was soon followed by a high musical humming sound=

and a distinct feeling of warmth emanating from the ceiling." Then, the
sisters reported, seeing a glowing beam of light gradually forming the
likeness of the Blessed Virgin "like a film coming into focus." Tears were=

running down her face, and she uttered a prophetic warning. "Time is
growing short, and the promised Judgment Day is nearly at hand." One week
before the apparition, The Church of the Holy Family was the scene of a
ferocious firefight between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 17Type: F


31.
Location. Not given
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 2255
16-year old Steven Mizon saw hovering over a street a large oval shaped
craft encircled in bright lights and with several lighted windows around
its edge. A figure stared down at him from one of the windows. No other
information.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Watch
Type: A



32.
Location. Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain
Date: March 26 2002
Time: 1500
A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a deserted road when=

he noticed ahead in the distance and in the middle of the roadway an object=

resembling a shiny pear that was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat
perplexed he approached and noticed two individuals standing on a nearby
field. These were over 2 meters in height, wore tight fitting white
coveralls and helmets resembling that of the early astronauts. He parked
his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men=

walked away and entered the shiny pear-shaped craft while the other
remained behind. Knowing that these men were "not from this earth" he still=

asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt that as
he approached the strange pair he had been in some type of a trance and
seemed to have floated over the road. The humanoid answered and appeared
genuinely happy as to his offer of assistance but said that everything was=

in order. He also added that the area was very beautiful and also added:
"Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such
beautiful scenes, they disappeared a long time ago." The astounded witness=

managed to ask the humanoid where he was from and was told that they hailed=

from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The=

humanoid smiled as he answered the question. The humanoid then bid goodbye=

and walked towards the nearby shiny pear shaped object, he then disappeared=

inside of it. The craft then emitted a loud whistling sound and disappeared=

at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the
humanoids as about 2.50 meters in height, wide chests and heavy set, thin
legs. Generally human features, but somewhat "refined" or sharpened
features. The suits were very tight fitting made of an apparent synthetic
material resembling plastic. Their eyes were very light almost white and
their speech was hesitant & accented. Also their movements seemed kind of
clumsy.

HC addendum
Source: J M Garcia, Francisco Padron, SpainType: B


33.
Location. Pringle Lake, Texas
Date: March 28 2002
Time: 1100A
Mark Hakemack and a friend had taken an airboat out on the NW side of the
lake to do a little redfish fishing. The day was kind of hazy, with broken=

cloud cover. They had caught several trout and were just chatting when he
hooked up a large redfish while playing with the fish, Mark happened to
glance upwards and saw a large bird-like creature emerge from a cloudbank.=

His friend saw it too, after about 20 to 25 seconds it flew behind cloud
cover again. The strange creature was grayish in color and the profile of a=

raptor, short neck/head, no legs sticking out behind, and no long tail
feathers. Mark could not take his eyes off it. He estimated the wingspan to=

have been 10' to 14 ' in overall. It appeared to be soaring on the wind,
although, he did see it give a couple of light "flaps" with its wings. The=

witness could only relate this to the legendary "Thunderbird" legend.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.comType: E


34.
Location. Sevilla, Spain
Date: March 30 2002
Time: late night
The witness to the March 26 case was at home with his wife and was getting=

ready to sleep when he heard footsteps coming from patio area outside his
chalet. Armed with a club, he opened the door and was stunned to see the
same two tall heavyset humanoids he had encountered 4 days before. One of
the humanoids was kneeling on the ground as if inspecting something on the=

soil, the other one upon hearing the door open, turned and quickly assured=

the witness not to fear that they were not here to harm him. Stunned, the
witness invited the two humanoids in the house for some refreshments (!).
These declined the invitation telling that they had to go already. Using
the same clumsy movements both humanoids walked towards the rear of the
house where the witness noticed the same shiny metallic pear shaped craft
on the ground. They entered the object, which quickly left at high speed.
The witness's wife awakened by the voices was able to see the two humanoids=

from a second story window, and described them in the same way.

HC addendum
Source: Francisco Padron, Jose Manuel Garcia, SpainType: B


35.
Location. Los Cipreses, Chile
Date: March 31 2002
Time: noon
During a local UFO congress 24 persons in three groups entered a
dimensional gateway that appeared by itself over the terrain. It was kind
of a dome, a luminous archway measuring four by four meters. The
participants lost their materiality without disappearing completely. Upon
entering, they met several human-like alien characters with large baldheads=

and wearing robes that waited within and received information. According to=

sources the contact experience was "dimensional" it was like crossing into=

a different reality. The 24 participants were "all professionals, college
students of high intellectual levels, mostly Chileans," and some were
members of Grupo Rama, a New Age association.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 16, quoting Camilo Valdivieto
Type: G or F?


36.
Location. Tbilissi Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: night
A man entered the local St David church and reported that "a phantom with
wings" had approached him and predicted an earthquake that indeed took
place on April 25 2002, devastating areas of central Georgia.

HC addendum
Source: Pravda
Type: E?


37.
Location. Near Macon, Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: 2300
Three friends were awakened by loud banging noises and bellowing sounds
coming from outside. One of the men ran to the bathroom and looked out the=

window to see a figure run by and squat in the nearby bushes. He described=

the creature as about 3 ft tall, hairy with what appeared to be horns on
its head and hands; he could not see a face. Others in the neighborhood
heard the banging noises.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.com and direct witness
Communication.
Type: E


38.
Location. Belvedere di Tezze, Italy
Date: April 26 2002
Time: evening
A 20-year old woman was returning home one night when she noticed some
bright lights nearby of an unknown origin. She followed the lights in her
car until she stopped near a local pizzeria. She saw the light near the
ground and within the lights two tall slender human like figures wearing
some type of headgear. Since she was carrying a camera she was able to snap=

a quick picture. The figures then vanished. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Gruppo Accademico Ufologico Scandicci quoting
"Il giornale di Vicenza"Type: E?


39.
Location. Puente Santamaria, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: early morning
Two young men observed a dark object descend towards the ground about 100
meters away. According to the two witnesses from the craft descended a
small humanoid, orange in color. Very scared they both ran from the area
and reported their experience to others.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: B


40.
Location. Merceditas, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: evening
An elderly couple was walking along National Route # 8 when about 800
meters from their location they noticed a very strong light. The light
descended next to a puddle at about 70 meters from the witness. Both then
saw two very short orange colored humanoids that moved in very agile
movements near the object. Terrified they walked away and upon looking back=

saw a bright glow on the ground.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: C


41.
Location. Barangay, Philippines
Date: May 2002
Time: night
Several local residents reported seeing a bizarre creature described as an=

"aswang" reputed to be a winged vampire type creature, it reportedly had
red glowing eyes, long black hair, and was wearing a white flowing gown. It=

was seen perched on top of a bamboo tree. Residents at nearby Roxas
reported seeing a similar creature. The police was called but a search
failed to locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Akasico.comType: E


42.
Location. Alvear, La Pampa Argentina
Date: May 3 2002
Time: near midnight
Several young men were returning home late at night along a deserted
roadway when suddenly out of nowhere a female figure wearing a light
flowing gown and with long black hair appeared in front of them. The
strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly and repeatedly asked for=

assistance from the men in a strange urgent tone. Terrified the men ran
from the area and later returned with additional witnesses but they could
find no trace of the strange apparition.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E?


43.
Location. Taralgon Victoria, Australia
Date: May 24 2002
Time: 2355
Walking near the Loy Yang Power station 45-year old Martin Taylor was
suddenly blinded by an intense blue light and he felt extremely dizzy. His=

next memory was of being in a circular room with a variety of lights and
buttons scattered about the walls. He was lying on a large table that
seemed to be of a very highly polished metal. He was strapped down and his=

shirt had been removed. There were wires attached to his arms, neck and
temples. A four ft tall humanoid figure with very large almond shaped eyes,=

almost transparent looking skin, ghostly white in appearance examined him.=

The figure had three extremely long fingers on each hand and spoke in a
strange dialect.

HC addendum
Source: UFO WatchType: G


44.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: May 29 2002
Time: midnight
Irma Rick watched a rotating luminous object descend close to the ground
next to a grain silo; it gave off a powerful bluish light through some
openings around its circumference. It hovered close to the ground. Through=

an opening a strange creature was seen to descend to the ground. It was
described as having an elongated semi-transparent white body; it also had
an elongated head. She could not see any eyes or legs on the creature as it=

stood motionless next to the craft. She observed the creature and object
for about 5 minutes until she dropped the flashlight she was carrying.
Afraid she left the area and did not see the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: B



45.
Location. Lembang Bandung, Indonesia
Date: May 30 2002
Time: 2315
The witness was driving his motorcycle across a highland area when he
spotted some flashing lights overhead and then noticed a silvery
disc-shaped craft descend low over some nearby graves at a cemetery. The
craft had blue and orange flashing lights around its rim. There was no
sound as the craft apparently emitted a beam of light towards the ground
and levitated what appeared to be some dead bodies onboard the object. (!)=

The witness was apparently paralyzed and was unable to move. The craft then=

shot away at a 45-degree angle and disappeared from sight. When that
happened the witness left the scene.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


46.
Location. Houston, Texas
Date: late May 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness was at the local electric company in order to pay a bill when
she decided to use the restrooms. Sitting in the stall she then noticed on=

the side of the wall of the stall what appeared to be a face lit up in a
dull light. When the witness looked directly at the "face" it vanished. She=

described is as having large round eyes no visible nose and a slit-like
mouth. (A peeping tom alien?)

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.comType: E?


47.
Location. General Acha, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: early June 2002
Time: various
A resident of the Oeste neighborhood informed newspaper sources that a
short green-colored dwarf like entity has appeared twice on her property:
once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When her husband ran out
responding to her screams, the mysterious entity vanished by rapidly
climbing up a tree. All versions agree in that the entity is short in
stature. Another resident added that it moved so quickly that it was hard
to describe it. In the same area mysterious cattle mutilations have also
been reported.

HC addendum
Source: Loren Coleman in UFO UpdatesType: E


48.
Location. Ojo De Agua, Argentina
Date: June 2002
Time: afternoon
Several passengers onboard two farm micro buses reported seeing a very tall=

dark man like figure that appeared to be wearing a tight fitting diver's
outfit standing on a nearby field. Nearby numerous mysterious animal
mutilations have been reported. The figure was silent and was quickly lost=

from sight as the buses moved away.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E




49.
Location. Near Tampa, Florida
Date: June 2002
Time: night
A man and three of his friends reported encountering two bizarre chupacabra=

type creatures one stood about 3-4 ft tall, the other looked to be about 6=

ft tall. Both had large glowing red eyes and spikes starting from the head=

to the back. They scurried away into a wooded area. (They were to have
further encounters in August).

HC addendum
Source: Art Bell.comType: E


50.
Location. Antalya, Turkey
Date: June 5 2002
Time: afternoon
Approximately 45 witnesses claimed they saw an UFO in the Santral district=

landing on the backyard of the Fatma Primary School. Several students
including Murat Esici age 11 saw an alien emitting red rays from his eyes
come out of the object. His hands and feet were metallic. He had a very big=

head and was about 1.80 meters in height. Esici temporarily lost her voice=

immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also=

claimed they san an unusual craft and an alien beside it. "His eyes and
hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes." The children
were overcome with shock after the incident.

HC addendum
Source: Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center Intl
Type: B


51.
Location. Polonnauruwa, Sri Lanka
Date: June 8 2002
Time: 2200
Approximately 50 to 70 eyewitnesses saw a UFO flying at about 100 meters
above ground level. The object was silent and briefly landed emitting a
bright flash like light. When it was close to the ground the object emitted=

a buzzing sound. Three other witnesses saw three 2 ft tall creatures than
when approached ran into the jungle and disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Sources
Type: D


52.
Location. Polonnaruwa, Sir Lanka
Date: June 9 2002
Time: 2012
Two witnesses went to a bath on a nearby river when they heard a loud
thundering sound and a UFO appeared. The craft landed nearby and two, 2 ft=

tall "aliens" emerged from the object. One of the humanoids flung a small
fluorescent fireball like object that flew over a house and vanished. Soon=

the craft and humanoids disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC & News Reports
Type: B



53.
Location. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Date: June 10 2002
Time: 1900
Witnesses saw a mysterious light in the sky and others saw a large disc
shaped object land nearby. Three humanoids only about 2 ft tall emerged
from the craft and disappeared into the forest when approached. The object=

also left.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Reports
Type: B


54.
Location. Chantilly, Virginia
Date: June 10 2002
Time: night
The witness was awakened during the night with a sense of some presence in=

the room. Looking toward the door, he saw, fading quickly, something, which=

almost had the appearance of a hologram. Next, shadows appeared outside the=

windows in an erratic shape. At first he thought the shadows to be from
trees moving in a strong wind. The appearance was of a storm blowing the
limbs to create these shadows outside the window. However, there was no
storm. He looked at the adjacent window on the side of the house facing
opposite and there was no wind at all. In fact there was no trees
positioned in such a way to cast a shadow. He opened the blinds to see what=

might be causing the shadows. He then saw what seemed to be a hologram with=

the shape of two small eyes moving erratically outside the window.
Frightened he closed the blinds. Two weeks later he was awakened by a
humming sound and again saw the erratic shadows outside the window. He
watched the shadows for 10-15 minutes and then called the police. The
police found no signs of any intrusion in the yard. When the police left
the witness walked toward the door facing the back porch and saw a large
burst of bluish white light. It looked unnatural, almost like a laser. He
has not seen the "shadows" again.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: E?


55.
Location. Ataliva Roca, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 11 2002
Time: 1930
A worker at a local drainage project was sitting and guarding some
machinery when he noticed a short greenish colored humanoid figure that was=

approaching his location from a nearby field. The witness became concerned=

and drove away from the area in the construction equipment and did not see=

the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


56.
Location. Eduardo Castex, La Pampa Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Two girls of a local school encountered a short greenish humanoid figure in=

the playing yard. The figure was standing up and appeared to be raising its=

arms up to the sky. Terrified the two girls retreated into the school and
watched the figure scurry away into some nearby woods. Around the same time=

a local farmer found a strangely mutilated hog in his farm.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


57.
Location. Chasico, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Hugo Deluca and several other workers were parked in a bus in an isolated
area when they spotted about 20 meters away a short, 1.20 meters tall,
bipedal figure completely covered in gray hair. It walked upright like a
man and then scurried away into some woods vanishing from sight. The area
had been hit with animal mutilations around the same time.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


58.
Location. Castex, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 13 2002
Time: night
A 70-year old man had gone to his driveway to check on a flat tire in his
car when a short light green colored humanoid suddenly appeared next to
him. It had large round ears, and two reddish luminous eyes. Its body was
thin and almost triangular in shape. The witness attempted to yell out but=

was suddenly unable to speak and at the same time strange warmth invaded
his body. Several seconds later the humanoid vanished and the witness
returned to normal. He reported the incident to the police.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


59.
Location. La Laguna, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 14 2002
Time: afternoon
Several youngster had gone into the fields in order to obtain some firewood=

when they saw sitting on a clearing in the woods two human like figures,
all dressed in black. They sat facing each other, one looking towards the
east the other towards the west, unmoving. Unnerved by the sight the
juveniles ran from the area. The next day the father of one of the boys
found two dead cows at the site, but could find no trace of the strange
pair. Days later a sheep and a horse were found dead and strangely
mutilated in the nearby location of El Cardonal.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: E


60.
Location. De Kalb, Illinois
Date: June 15 2002
Time: 0030A
The witness was sitting in his family room watching TV when he noticed a
bright flash of light outside the window. He saw the flash several times
and decided to check his backyard there he saw a circular light moving
around in circles. The light began to get closer; scared he ran inside his=

home and called a friend on the phone. He then quickly ran outside and saw=

the circle getting closer, he noticed that it had a purplish color to it
and it began to descend towards the ground. He became nauseous and dizzy
and collapsed on to the ground. He tried to crawl to the house but was
unable to move. He turned his head and saw the purplish object on the
ground and what appeared to be a door opening up. He then heard a squeaking=

noise and saw a tall and a short figure standing by a door of the object.
The two figures started to move towards him, walking in a strange bopping
fashion. They were of a dark complexion with a bumpy texture, other than
that they resembled normal human beings. The shorter figure approached and=

picked up the witness' camera and stared at it. He then looked at the
taller figure and handed it to him. The taller of the two looked at the
camera and then at the witness. The witness then heard loud unpleasant
shrieks coming from the taller figure, which then gave the camera back to
the shorter figure, which covered the camera with his hand, seconds later a=

light began to emerge from their hands. Then they stopped, threw the camera=

aside and began to walk towards the witness. They reached his side and
started to examine his body. A dog began to bark from inside the house and=

the shorter figure put out his hand and the dog stopped barking. At this
point the witness began to vomit. After about a minute he began to relax
and to breathe better. When he turned his head he realized that the two
figures and the purple spherical object were now gone. The next day he had=

a very severe headache.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: B


61.
Location. San Juan, Argentina
Date: June 20 2002
Time: evening
At a location where the body of a strangely mutilated carcass of a cow was=

found two witnesses reported seeing a small creature with large glowing
slanted eyes and about one meter in height. Later in the same area, members=

of the Gimenez family after investigating noises and a strong odor coming
from a wooded area found a mutilated cow and also watched a short humanoid=

with glowing eyes scurrying away into the woods.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


62.
Location. Manuel Rodriguez, Calama, Chile
Date: June 22 2002
Time: after midnight
A bizarre creature was spotted at a local housing complex on San Antonio
Street. Witnesses reported that it resembled an ape and it jumped all over=

the roof. It passed right in front of the witness, Maria Gavia's window and=

then it came back making all manner of noise. The creature was able to make=

very long jumps, unlike any a human could. It jumped and landed on the
neighbor's roof and then it left the area. Neighborhood dogs acted scared
and began howling. Others described the creature as about 1.5 meters tall,=

stocky in build with bright red eyes. It made a lot of noise. Others
reportedly chased the creature.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center, quoting El
Mercurio de CalamaType: E


63.
Location. Angencia Realico, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 23 2002
Time: late night
Several hunters returning to a local ranch spotted about 50 meters away two=

large glowing reddish eyes staring at them. They turned off their
flashlight and approached closer on foot, about 30 meters away they again
saw the reddish eyes on a dark creature that appeared to be standing on top=

of an apparently dead animal. One of the hunters shone its flashlight on
the figure again and saw a figure about 40 cm in height that quickly ran
from the area at very high speed. The creature disappeared into the brush.=

At the scene, a dead and mutilated young heifer. Other mutilations were
reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


64.
Location. Rancul, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 25 2002
Time: 2020
Two young men, Nestor Pinto and Daniel Gatica were walking on a field when=

they encountered a short man-like figure with huge pointy ears and long
dangling arms standing near some brush. The figure scurried into the brush=

and disappeared and at the same time the two witnesses ran away from the
area and did not see the strange dwarf again.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


65.
Location. Bavaria, Germany (exact location not given)
Date: June 25 2002
Time: night
The witness had stayed up late watching the soccer game as was in his
bedroom when suddenly there was a coldness around him that made him shiver.=

He noticed that his audio capabilities were somehow enhanced and he was
able to hear sounds that previously he was unable to hear. He then heard a=

noise outside his door and went out to investigate. The noise became louder=

as he approached the door. He then heard footsteps and opened the door. A
very small man with a somewhat deformed body that was smiling at him
confronted the witness. He looked straight ahead and then stared at the
witness. His next memory was of waking up in his bed in the morning.

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.com
Type: E


66.
Location. Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2105
The primary witness had stepped out on his back porch when his attention
was drawn to two huge black "birds" which were approaching from the north.=

His first impression was they were Herons, but soon realized that the color=

was wrong, and "they were huge, much larger than any bird I have ever
seen." The two huge birds landed at the top of a very tall coniferous tree.=

The witness stated that the wingspan appeared to be wider than the
branches, jest below where they had landed. The body size was estimated to=

be about six feet from head to tail. The oddest feature was the shape of
the wings, which according to the witness appeared to be bat-like. The tree=

where the "birds" landed seemed as though it would break from their weight.=

The witness yelled for others in the house to come outside to look. Another=

family member was able to see the huge black birds as they passed overhead,=

and headed for some woods. After checking the size of the branches where
the birds had landed, the witness estimated that the wingspan would have
been close to 12 feet or somewhat larger.

HC addendum
Source: Stan GordonType: E


67.
Location. Marldon Hill, Paington, England
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2357
A couple were walking near a local historic monument (a windmill) and they=

drew closer to monument they heard a low whirling noise. The noise
progressed to a high-pitched whining, almost out of hearing range. Then
they saw a mysterious glow coming from the dark side of the windmill, and
then to their astonishment they saw 5 or 6 shadow like figures standing in=

front of the windmill. Startled the two began to run back towards the main=

road. The woman looked back and saw the figures become engulfed by a bright=

light and disappear, and then everything became quiet.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Sightings UKType: E?


68.
Location. Adelia Maria, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 3 2002
Time: 2100
Pedro and Estela Moine had decided to visit the business district of town
called Barrio Norte and crossed the old railroad yard through a pedestrian=

pathway that ran through a pasture area between some silos, old railroad
depots and abandoned wreckage. As the couple moved through the premises
they suddenly became aware of a strange and incomprehensible conversation
between many voices. Startled, they stopped walking moved a few meters more=

and then heard the voices again which now sounded like strange "O" sounds.=

Pedro looked toward the silos and was able to see resembling humanoid but
lacking upper and lower extremities. Despite the pleas of his wife, Pedro
ran several meters toward an inner alley in the silo plant, being able to
make out some 45 meters to the west and in profile---the entity, which
acting surprised, avoided the encounter and moved again to the north.
However, what filled the witnesses with wonderment was that the creature
did so as though flying or floating without touching the facilities it
passed. Pedro and Estela ran after it. It was thus that the man managed to=

see the entity apparently hiding behind the control room of the truck
scale. Pedro ran toward it and was again startled to see the apparition
rising as a plane taking off, flying at an altitude of 5 meters and
disappearing behind a large metal shed. Bewildered, both witnesses called
out, but were unable to see anything else. Pedro Moine as "a thing with
human shape" described the apparition. It had some sort of light, although=

he could not say if reflected or self-generated, although he tends to
believe the latter, since it was a nebulous whitish light, which kept him
from making out details. The entire mass of the apparition appeared to be a=

body covered from head to toe in some sort of mantle, which he described as=

though it wore a hat, but covered with some kind of long raincoat reaching=

down to what he took to be its feet. He added that the "conversational
sounds" repeated themselves in three separate occasions at various
intensities. They were like conversations in a strange language.

HC addendum
Source: Mario Luis Bracamonte, C.O.R, Rio Cuarto Argentina
Type: E


69.
Location. Jerusalem, Israel
Date: July 6 2002
Time: night
A remote TV camera picked up images of "orbs seen on the corner to the
right of the Wailing Wall." They seemed to have facial features almost like=

a ghost, reported investigator Charlotte LeFevre. The orbs were described
as "sharp and distinct". The orbs were next to the women's prayer area in
front of the Wall. Other strange phenomena, has been reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 29Type: F?


70.
Location. Villa Elisa, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: July 13 2002
Time: 2300
A young woman fainted from nervous shock after having an alleged closed
encounter with "some sort of green dwarf". This occurred---enveloped in
darkness---along Misioneros Salesianos Street very close to several houses.=

An ambulance was called and apparently transported the witness who was in
shock.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria ColuchiType: E


71.
Location. Patna, India
Date: July 21 2002
Time: night
Several residents claim they've been bitten or scratched by a "black
monkey-like creature with colored lights flashing from its eyes." Resident=

Pawan Kumar Niyogi who was sleeping on the terrace of his house claims "a 5=

ft tall monkey-like creature" attacked him. He said: "I was terrified and
thought my life was going to end but it merely scratched me on the shoulder=

before jumping off the roof." Local residents are conducting night vigils
and carrying torches to guard their homes.

HC addendum
Source: Ananova, Ufoupdates. Type: E


72.
Location. Chajan, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 21 2002
Time: 2300
Police officer Guillermo Arias was on routine patrol through a rural area
when he heard over the radio that his colleagues in arms over at Achiras
were seeing lights in sectors of said community, and that they were heading=

towards Chajan along National Route 8. At the wheel of the police patrol
van, he managed to see a formation of 7 lights in the distance and decided=

to drive 10 km along a rural dirt road. When he had covered said distance,=

he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine of his vehicle sputtered=

and died, causing the police car to strike the edge of a guardrail.
Simultaneously, the lights on the van's dashboard began turning on and off=

randomly, the police radio went haywire and its dial displayed the random
shifting of the frequencies while the cabin became filled with an acrid
odor, as though of burnt wiring, and the interior lights and stop
indicator, which were broken, began lighting on and off. Seized by fear,
Arias leaped from the van and walked away a few meters down the road,
losing his cellular phone in the escape. The darkness was total, when
suddenly, amid the confusing situation; an immense light emerged from a
field adjacent to the road as a triangular object rose majestically into
the air. Now Arias condition went from fear to abject terror as he saw what=

he described as a real "floating city" some 200 meters long with a long row=

of windows (perhaps as many as 100). Arias claims having seen something
move behind them, describing the movement as "TV sets which make lines and=

shadows", which he defined as "non-human", and that many beams of light
came out of the giant triangle, aimed at the ground. The event lasted 2-3
seconds, but to Arias it felt like an eternity. The object suddenly rose
and sped away, vanishing behind the hills of a local field. As the object
moved away, the whole area was lit up like daytime and there was an
afterglow that lasted another 20 minutes.

HC addendum
Source: C.O.R., Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense, Argentina
Type: A


73.
Location. Waconia, Minnesota
Date: July 26 2002
Time: 0300A
The young witness was sleeping in the backyard with his sister when he
suddenly woke up. He then noticed that the side of the tent that faced the=

wetlands and lake was lit up. Looking towards the light he saw a shadowy
torso and arm of a humanoid figure that seemed to be moving around within
the light. He watched for 30 seconds and saw the figure move the fingers of=

his hands. The witness became frightened and hid in his sleeping bag. He
came out about an hour later and the light and strange figure were
completely gone.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


74.
Location. Sedona, Arizona
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 0310A
In a wooded area the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all
white, with black "straight" eyes; and black diagonal/diamond strip of
"clothing" on top. He stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then
left. Prior to seeing the figure the witness had seen lights in a large
oval shaped pattern in the sky.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


75.
Location. Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 1730
Three girls had decided to visit the rooftop as they did the prior evening=

watching for satellites. It was dusk and the girls had a good vantage point=

looking towards the east. With them they had a pair of binoculars and a
pair of walkie-talkies. The girls noticed that a large orange light
appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The anomaly
was noted to have fluctuated in colors of orange, yellow, white and pale
blue. At fist they thought of an arriving airplane, but then a second light=

appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10=

degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some=

unusually maneuvering; from a stationary position it accelerated at least 5=

degrees closer to the ground surface at an approximate 45-60 degree angle
within a matter of a single second. The first anomaly then began to move
slowly towards the north. At this stage they partially lost view of it as
it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley-like
region of the horizon. According to the witnesses, this third object
appeared to have "landed" on the ground surface. The object was then viewed=

through the binoculars and presented in great detail; the object was
described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange,=

blue/purple and white rotating around the rim. Thy also noted the trees
being slightly illuminated by this extraordinary phenomenon. They were
suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, "Identify
yourself." This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in a
foreign language. Around 1830 the girls were then called down to have
dinner. At about 2030 the girls re-established their places on the roof
after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still
present. Unexpectedly a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above
the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. "It
was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away." The=

light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it=

is not clear how one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became
extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed
her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not=

sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another of the girls woke up
the next morning with her nose bleeding. She also mentioned that she had
seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom.

HC addendum
Source: The Australian UFO Research NetworkType: D or
F?



76.
Location. Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 29 2002
Time: early morning
Local residents have seen a strange figure, which they described as
resembling a "shroud". The apparitions, which always occur in the early
morning hours, have become so common that in recent days several neighbors=

have stayed up late to see them, and it is thus that they were able to
confirm the simultaneous presence of up to 2 such beings, as well as red
lights flying over the area. All the witnesses whether individuals or in a=

group, agree that the entities are nebulous and glowing, with a pair of red=

eyes being clearly identifiable, and glassy faces (as if transparent).
Their movements are smooth and they always appear from behind the sand
dunes, as though "coming form the Naval Base." Most witnesses agree that
they show a great interest in the water tanks located above the roofs, and=

that they do not flee upon detecting the presence of local
residents---rather, they stare at them fixedly for some minutes. Deep
silence is perceived during the observations and "the air appears to become=

still" and neither heat nor cold can be felt---only a sensation of warmth,=

as if the beings emanated heat. Witnesses also state that things appear to=

be darker when "the shroud" appears, as though ambient lighting were
dimmed. Another curious fact is the large number of cats and dogs who
report to the place where the sightings occur and sit down to observe it in=

silence, in a state resembling a trance. A series of semi-circular prints
have been found in the dunes, not very deep, with 15-20 cm separations in
some cases and 30-50 cm in others. The locals have identified them as the
strange being's footprints. Efforts have been made to photograph the
"shroud", but all images, despite the use of different cameras appear
exposed. One witness who approached the site to witness the phenomenon took=

two photos of the prints in the afternoon and decided to stay with the
group of people hoping to see the "shroud", managing to take some photos of=

same and record the new prints which appeared in the dunes after the
sighting. A completely uncommon print was found at the site---but the
residents aren't sure if it's related to the phenomenon: it has the shape
of a five-fingered claw. One witness tried to make use of his carbine's
telescopic sight to see the figure in greater detail, but "when he tried to=

focus on it, he could see nothing_it was a though it could only be seen
with the unaided eye."

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, IHU, Christian Quintero and O A Mario
Proyecto Condor
Type: C or E?


77.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 30 2002
Time: 0530A
27-year old Mariela Baigorri reported seeing a strange figure that floated=

in front of her house. She had woken up early that morning and was getting=

ready to mount her bicycle when she saw behind the fence something floating=

in mid-air. It appeared to be a figure wearing a flowing white transparent=

tunic, with bright red eyes and undefined facial features. Feeling no fear=

she decided to approach it. She felt as if the figure waited for her and
was observing her. At this point Mariela felt some fear and began reciting=

the Lord's Prayer. The figure suddenly moved back and disappeared in plain=

sight.

HC addendum
Source: Juan Carlos Corrales Morey, Vision Ovni, Argentina
Type: E


78.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 31 2002
Time: 1845
23-year old Julian Pereyra was in his vehicle when he observed two red
spheres flying slowly over some nearby woods, they seemed to descend and
disappear behind the trees. 15 minutes later, Pereyra, accompanied by
several other witnesses approached the area and observed what they
described a tall floating figure wearing a white glowing cape like outfit,=

it seemed to glide silently over a field. It had what appeared to be a
visor at face level and two beams of red light emerged from where the eyes=

would have been. The witnesses watched the strange figure glide over the
fields for about 30 minutes. Curiously numerous local dogs and cats
approached and also watched the figure in fascination. The lights and
figure disappeared into the distance. In another occasion Pereyra and some=

of his family members encountered the strange humanoid and felt a strange
sensation as if the wind had suddenly stopped, they felt as they were
inside a vacuum or "bubble." Strange tracks have been reportedly found in
the area also.

HC addendum
Source: Diario La Nueva Provincia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Type: C?


79.
Location. La Cienaga, Pocri, Panama
Date: early August 2002
Time: night
Luis Alfredo Diaz reported hearing loud noises coming from the terraced
patio where the kitchen was located, going to investigate he found his cat=

apparently dead with two obvious holes on the neck and some blood on the
floor. Before finding the cat he had called his wife, Maria de Los Santos
Barrios. As his wife stood in front of him a panic stricken look came over=

her face, turning around he was confronted by a bizarre 1-meter tall
humanoid that had jumped to the center of the patio. The creature was
described as thin, covered with dark hair, with large pointed ears that
almost covered its face, it had very large eyes and extremely strong hind
legs resembling that of a kangaroo. Terrified he ran to his son's bedroom
and carried him outside yelling for his neighbors. A search failed to
locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Panamanian Paranormal Forum
Type: E


80.
Location. Near Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Date: August 2002
Time: night
The same witness involved in a similar encounter last year was again
camping in the same area when he again heard a noise. Shining the light in=

the direction of the sound he again saw the same creature. The creature sat=

there crouched by the trees staring at the witness. The witness walked
slowly towards it, he got to within 20 ft when it just jumped backward and=

disappeared. He described the creature as about five to six ft in height,
gray in color. It was totally naked. It had human features, but more
leathery, and its face was very wide, its eyes were huge and even though
they reflected light, they still looked black, resembling two intensely
black marbles. Its legs were very muscular, but turned backwards, like a
bird. Other hikers in the area have reported encountering little brown men=

on some of the more isolated trails.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal Story Archives, November 2002Type: E


81.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: August 1 2002
Time: late evening
64-year old Raul Dorado was touring some fields when he heard a loud sound=

on two occasions, like a whirlwind, which drew his attention. The third
time he saw something he describes as a green circle with three legs
hovering over him. At that moment Dorado fell to the ground, and according=

to his story, he carried a shotgun, binoculars and a cellular phone, the
latter, which was taken from his hand, and he could clearly see being
sucked into the object, which was apparently at low altitude. His next
recollection was seeing the object disappear toward the east. Dorado
remained at the location for an hour before being able to rise and walk
back to his car, returning to town in a state of shock. He had to be
hospitalized. Later when calls were placed to the (abducted) cellular phone=

someone would pick up and heavy breathing could be heard. Later on the
phone was apparently disconnected.

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, quoting Diario La Arena, La PampaType: G?


82.
Location. Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Date: August 2 2002
Time: 1730
A man named Todd Sees went up the mountain to look for pre-season deer. He=

told his wife that he would be home by noon. He rode his 4-wheeler up the
power line behind his home. He never returned. A search party composed of
local police, state police and volunteers searched for Sees. The 4-wheeler=

was found on the top of the mountain near a power-line. Tracking dogs could=

find nothing to go on around the 4-wheeler. The search went on for 2 days
and over 6 miles of mountain was covered from top to bottom. Then, in the
evening of the 2nd day, his body was found in a hard to reach wooded area.=

He was wearing his underwear. He was emaciated---not bloated. He was pale
and had an expression of horror on his face. When he went up the mountain
he was fully dressed, boots, camo-vest, hat, socks, pants. 3 people, on one=

farm, said they saw a large round bright object just above the power-lines=

at the time of the disappearance. It was silent, it did not move for about=

10 to 15 minutes. It suddenly went up and suddenly stopped. A light shone
down and something was pulled up into the light. It then went straight up,=

hesitated again, and then went west over the Susquehanna River and out of
sight. More specifically a farmer saw an object above Montour Ridge at the=

power lines, on top of the mountain, it was round and very still over the
lines. Suddenly it moved what looked like a few hundred feet to the east,
it stopped and a beam of blue and white light shone to the ground. What was=

seen next was very unnerving, he saw what appeared to be a man suspended in=

the light, he was being pulled up head first, he was moving his arms slowly=

in the light. What looked like a man was pulled up into the bottom of the
craft. A few seconds later it started shuddering, then went west very fast,=

stopped briefly, and then went straight up and out of sight. Also three
fishermen saw the craft. The FBI is supposedly also investigating. (Debated=

as a hoax, who would? and for what purpose?).

HC addendum
Source: Rense, UFO updates, NUFORCType: G?






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                            2002 Humanoid Reports

From: Albert Rosales <Garuda79@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:32:05 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:14:40 -0500
Subject: 2002 Humanoid Reports


Happy new year everyone

Sincerely,

Albert

-----

2002 Humanoid Reports. It appears to be a slow start for this
year with only one recorded case, again from Chile. We will see
what develops later on the year. 2001 was pretty busy but it was
a decline from 2000. Maybe we will see another down trend again,
later to pick up again in the near future. This seems to be the
ever-ongoing trend of the phenomena. Will it always stay the
same? Time will tell. Following is a list of known 2002 humanoid
cases.


1.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: January 2002
Time: 0300A
An employee at the local Minera Escondida was on his way to the
storage freezer in order to pick up some supplies when an
unknown creature jumped him from behind. He could only describe
it as hairy and dark. He was left with deep scratches and in a
state of shock. Terrified he ran away and bumped into two other
employees who were able to see a shadowy creature in the dark.

HC addendum
Source: La Estrella del Loa de Calama, ChileType: E


2.
Location. Caracas, Venezuela
Date: January 2002
Time: late night
Late one night in a dream-like state the witness woke up to see
seven to eight strange figures in her bedroom. They were dark
gray in color and very thin, with three large thick long fingers
on their hands. They had large, lipless mouths and large shiny
protruding black eyes, their noses were thin and protruding,
small ears, the heads was large and pointy. The humanoids
appeared to be naked and she was able to see a penis on the
humanoids. They were about 1.55 meters in height. She felt dizzy
and under the control of the strange entities. She was led out
of her bedroom by one of the humanoids that removed her clothing
and made her lie down on the floor. The humanoids apparently
attempted to molest her sexually and possibly attempted to rape
her but were not successful. She apparently passed out and does
not remember anything else about the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Lista Alcione and witness communicationType: E


3.
Location. Fort McMurry, Alberta, Canada
Date: January 2 2002
Time: 2032
Two men were parked on an isolated dirt road when they spotted a
large cone-shaped object descend and hover. One of the men
exited the car and he vanished in plain sight of the other, the
craft then also disappeared. The other man tried to drive away
to get help but the car would not start and it was to cold to
walk. He soon went to sleep and woke up later to find his friend
sleeping next to him. Later they drove back to town. His friend
does not remember what happened during those two hours of
missing time. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


4.
Location. Paso Lovera, Corrientes, Argentina
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2030
Gabriela Lencinas, 15-year old and a 19-year old friend were
returning home on a bicycle when they spotted a large cloud like
object descend from the sky and from it a giant figure emerge.
The witnesses stopped their bicycles to see a car approach the
giant figure, stop, the driver exit the car and then re-entering
the vehicle and driving quickly away. The figure then rose up
into the cloud and disappeared. The girls reported that the
giant human-like figure had its hair standing up on his head and
was extending its arms towards the witnesses that quickly rode
their bicycles home. Other in the area reported seeing bright
lights that same night.

HC addendum
Source: Pablo Omastott
Type: B?


5.
Location. Villa San Rafael, Chile
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2345
Two young teenagers, Jean F and Nelson C, where at home at night
when Jean noticed that his pet snake had escaped from its cage.
Both boys began looking for it outside among the rubble of the
parcel. They recalled how half an hour before, their two dogs
strangely began to howl and cry; however, it did not seem to be
important at that point in time. They searched for the pet snake
together when suddenly, about 30 meters from where they stood;
they saw what appeared to be a stray dog. They threw rocks at to
avoid an attack. However, to their surprise, the animal stood
there, motionless and fearless; it did not get scared nor it ran
away as ordinary dogs normally do. Shortly, the strange animal
began to move towards them. The movements it made as it walked
were very strange. It used two legs at a time. It made very
small sand short leaps like a rabbit. Suddenly, it stopped and
it stood up on two legs. The teenagers then began to feel some
kind of energy. "It was like an electrical shock in the
stomach," they said. It later walked again making a loud
dragging noise, making small leaps and only moving one of its
legs. They noticed the weird shape of the animal. "It was like a
rugby football with legs," one of them said. Jean began to feel
frightened and started to move away from animal. On the other
hand, Nelson felt a strange need to get closer to the creature;
he got to within 2 meters away from it. The creature appear to
emit a strange luminosity that apparently, was bright enough to
lit a small area around the creature in spite of the nighttime
darkness. Nelson was mesmerized as he stared at the strange
creature. He described it as having a head like a large dog with
a flat nose like a bulldog. Its eyes were slanted and pale-red
in color, which could only be seen when the creature turned its
head from side to side like a lizard. At that moment, Nelson
heard a voice in his head saying, "Don't stare, and just run
away." They provided further description, describing the ears as
flat, round and large. Its arms were short, it had elbows, and
the hands had three fingers. It had hair like the one on a wild
pig. Its legs were like the ones of a goat. The feet had also
three fingers and a membrane like ducks, but somewhat shorter.
On its curved back, they were able to notice a spinal section
covered with amounts of even thicker hair. Most of the hair of
the animal was gray, but the tail had a white tip. Nelson
finally fled, terrified, from the area. He also described how he
felt an inexplicable bone-chilling cold sensation.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center
Type: E


6.
Location. Not given
Date: January 12 2002
Time: night
Ted Parker was eating some leftover food when he claims the food began to
change. The bread of the sandwich turned an orange color and the lamb
became a silvery metallic color, sort of like liquid mercury. As he watched=

transfixed, he saw the orange bread and metallic lamb turn into the figure=

of an "alien" with the form of a man. It was silver in color and its outfit=

(smooth pants and shirt, like a jump suit) was orange in color. At this
point Parker glanced at the wall clock and it indicated that 2 hours had
gone by, even though it felt like minutes only. The alien figure
communicated using telepathic means and asked Ted to come with him. They
both went outside and there, Ted saw a landed black-colored craft in his
backyard. In a split second Ted found himself inside the craft not knowing=

how he got there. The inside of the craft was pure white in color with
strips of the metallic silver that the alien figure appeared to be made of.=

The rest of the incident is just a blur, but Parker did remembered hearing=

several loud high-pitched rings while onboard the object. A couple of days=

before while eating dinner with several other people there had been a
similar high pitched ring and everybody had just stopped eating and walked=

out of the room.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: G or F?



7.
Location. Chihuahua, Mexico
Date: January 29 2002
Time: night
Several days before seeing a UFO the witness remembered being in a
dream-like state in which he felt very calm and saw numerous disc shaped
objects, orange-red in color. A human like figure was talking to him about=

the objects and their propulsion. The UFO he saw was of an orange color and=

he felt a sort of ecstasy when he observed the craft. Several of his
neighbors also saw the object.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: G or F?


8.
Location. Near Palmyra, Wisconsin
Date: February 2002
Time: 0200A
Two men reported seeing a creature that resembled a bipedal "gigantic wolf"=

walking down a road west of the city. They said the creature was at least 7=

ft tall with a wolf-like head. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Linda GodfreyType: E


9.
Location. West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
Nebilson Sangma reported encountering a scary furry creature on a hunting
trip in the jungles. He reportedly took a video of the creature's nesting
place. According to Sangma, the creature walked erect like a human, had
built a house like nesting place, and would emerge from it frequently to
feast on a banana grove. Sangma and his brother observed the gigantic
creature for three consecutive days from afar. Officials and villagers have=

been hunting for the creature in the forest but it seems to have
disappeared as furtively as it appeared.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 13
Type: E


10.
Location. Near Dover, England
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness had been jogging along a low path by the beach when she noticed=

a tall, well built being in a black skin tight suit, that stood watching
her from nearby. He wore a black helmet wit a brown visor pulled down. At
first she thought it was a biker but as she approached the figure, it
suddenly disappeared in plain sight. As she continued to run she noticed a=

black craft jutting out of the sand, it was small and oval shaped, matt and=

ribbed it also disappeared in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: E?


11.
Location. Rosario de la Frontera, Salta, Argentina
Date: February 2002
Time: night
A strange creature called by locals "El Pestizo" has attacked several lone=

pedestrians in the middle of the night. It is described as a dark man
shaped shadowy being. A boy riding his bicycle on the way to visit some
friends was toppled from his bicycle and found a black shadowy figure
facing him. The young man managed to upholster his shotgun and fire two
shots. But, when he saw that they had no effect, he promptly drew his knife=

and stabbed the figure without any apparent harm. Frightened the youth
tried to escape but the creature knocked him down without saying a word and=

began dragging him by the hair to the side of the road. At this point the
young man began to scream. A local man, who rushed to provide assistance,
only to find a black shadow dragging the boy by the hair, heard his cries.=

The fearful shape disappeared without a trace after it became aware of the=

other man's presence. Six other locals have reported being attacked by a
similar being and received wounds.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


12.
Location. Not given
Date: February 2002
Time: early morning
The witness was alone at home and was preparing his breakfast when suddenly=

he heard a window break; he went to see what had happened. Grabbing a golf=

club he peeked inside the room where the window broke. He was stunned to
see a strange creature climbing on his bed. It appeared to be hurt, because=

it seemed that it could not move well. Gripping the golf club he went a
step nearer and the creature hissed horribly. It shrieked in an unworldly
manner. Terrified the witness did not move. The creature was small, about
the size of a large rabbit, and it was dark in color and had reddish eyes.=

It had wings and a spine of quills on its back, and had a semi reptilian
face. It appeared to have hair and small legs. The witness raised the golf=

club and the creature hissed again showing its large yellowish teeth, which=

appeared to be sharp, like those of a crocodile. It suddenly hopped out of=

the window and rapidly hopped across the street into the oak trees.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June archiveType: E


13.
Location. Vigevano, Italy
Date: February 2002
Time: 0100A
In the outskirts of this city a witness observed from his vehicle a
luminous humanoid entity walking along a roadway. It scurried away into the=

darkness when approached.
No other information.

HC addendum
Source: CISU, ItalyType: E



14.
Location. Corguinho, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Date: February 5 2002
Time: night
During a localized UFO flap several witnesses reported seeing a strange
creature described as about 1.3 meters in height, having two legs, with a
physique like a human but who moved with a strange fluctuating motion. The=

creature was seen five times by twenty people in the rural zone around
Corguinho. In Rochedo, 6 miles south of Corguinho five Cebu cattle were
found dead with a single incision on the side of the throat. The bodies had=

been drained of blood. (Is there a connection?).

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


15.
Location. Mount Podbrdo, Bosnia Hercigovina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: morning
Contactee and stigmatic Giorgio Bongiovanni was visiting the shrine on top=

of the mountain and was praying silently to the Virgin when, to his
astonishment, a glowing luminous female figure appeared and touched his
forehead with her fingertips. His stigmata scar vanished instantly. The
female figure told him to return to Italy and make known what had happened.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 14
Type: E or F?


16.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: evening
73-year-old Maria Rufina Cayo, a local shepherd was walking back home with=

her dogs and the cattle. Suddenly at one point, something spooked the
animals, and these began to stampede. Looking around she spotted a bizarre=

creature standing about 12 meters away. She described it as a humanoid,
half animal, half human, about 1.70m in height, with bright red eyes, sharp=

protruding fangs, and hands and feet that ended in sharp claws. The
creature looked at the witness three times then it scrambled away using
quick jumping motions with is powerfully built hind legs, she also noticed=

large pointy ears. The top part of its body seems to have been covered in a=

shiny white blanket. It somehow resembled a centaur walking on two
claw-like feet.  Alerted by the shouts of Maria, two men, Santos Jaimes,
and Ruben Colque ran out to investigate with their dogs. Suddenly the dogs=

stopped and began making pitiful howling noises, they refused to move any
further. The men heard noises behind some nearby bushes and went to
investigate and spotted a bizarre creature that stood staring at them with=

huge reddish eyes. It then moved quickly away in the direction of Cerro
Negro and disappeared from sight. The witnesses noticed very sharp claws on=

the creature's feet with a very sharp claw that appeared to be pointed
backwards. Strange footprints were found the next day.

HC addendum
Source: El Tribuno, Salta Argentina March 27 2002
Also Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E



17.
Location. Khanpur, Ahmedabad, India
Date: February 20 2002
Time: after midnight
Several local residents reportedly have encountered a person, dressed in
black and wearing a mask. Dubbed the "Monkeyman" whom they described as
between 25 and 20 years of age, dark skinned and having curly hair can
reportedly be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees. Two
local youths chased it and the figure reportedly disappeared in plain
sight. The two youths have been behaving abnormally since then. The
stranger was also chased along the riverbed near the Cama Hotel and it also=

suddenly disappeared. Others have heard the stranger running on the
rooftops. Abdul Hamid another youngster of the local slums described the
figure as a tall lean man that carries a sharp weapon. "I saw him from the=

back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised the alarm, he jumped to=

another roof and then on to a tree." Police have searched for the stranger=

but nothing has been found.

HC addendum
Source: Fortean Times, India Express
Type: E


18.
Location. Prague, Czech Republic
Date: February 23 2002
Time: night
Blanka Slemendova was in her apartment when she saw a "ship" hovering over=

some nearby woods. It was shining red, white and yellow lights. She then
heard telepathic communication coming from the object telling her to go and=

meet them at an unspecified location. Looking over to her bedroom wall she=

saw what appeared to be a projection of human like faces looking at her.
Later that night she saw luminous figures in her room and a floating red
light also in her room. The next night she saw what appeared to be 2 gray
suns and around them a golden lights with numerous groups of shiny
human-like figures floating about. She interpreted these as being angels.

HC addendum
Source: Direct from witness (Slemendova)
Type: C & F?


19.
Location. Wycliffe Well Roadhouse, Northern Territory Australia
Date: early March 2002
Time: evening
While workers in the area watched unusual lights in the sky an aboriginal
woman encountered a triangular sort of object in a paddock and all of the
sudden she saw three silvery clad human like figures that began to move
toward her vehicle. She turned the vehicle around and took off.

HC addendum
Source: Lou Farcus ABC On-lineType: C


20.
Location. Near Canberra Australia
Date: March 2002
Time: 1700
Several friends were taking a trip to the coast and it was already very
dark. They had already entered a tropical forest area and there was a mist=

rolling along the ground. As they turned around they saw something
squatting in the middle of the road. It stared at them, and just as they
thought they were going to hit it, it leaped off the road and into the
trees. It leaped about 10 meters in the air. The creature was definitely
human looking although it wore strange clothes. It was dressed in a green
robe of some kind with little pieces of gold on it, and it was either
wearing a head crest or it had a row of spikes running from its forehead to=

the top of its neck. Very frightened the witnesses drove out of the forest=

and at the same time the mist turned to a thick fog. They pulled over and
decided to wait until the fog had cleared, although none of them were too
happy about it. As they sat around and waited they suddenly heard a shriek.=

It sounded like some sort of wild animal and they turned the car on so the=

headlights would scare it away. The headlights revealed the same creature
they had seen earlier. It hid its face from the light and shrieked. Right
before the witnesses' eyes, the creature seemed to evaporate into the fog.=

Within five minutes the fog had gone and the normal rolling mist was back.=

The witnesses quickly left the area and drove towards the coast.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June ArchiveType: E


21.
Location. Guanica Puerto Rico
Date: March 1 2002
Time: 2345
Reinaldo Rios (involved in other encounters) was in his bedroom that night=

when a large white light suddenly appeared. It flew around the room several=

times and then hovered. He heard voices coming from the light, which
communicated with him. The voice said: "I am your real father." Soon the
light transformed itself into a figure resembling that of a little boy it
then vanished in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: UFOs over America.com
Type: E


22.
Location. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 0800A
The witness and his wife were in bed that Saturday morning talking when
their 5-year-old daughter came into the bedroom with her baby brother,
whose cot is placed under their bedroom window. They heard a strange noise=

and some green light came into the window. Their daughter looked out the
window and reported seeing a "flying car" with four spinning green lights
on top. She saw two windows in the vehicle and saw two dark brown faces
looking out. His wife saw the craft flying past through the curtains. That=

same morning, in a large tree near the witness house a strange structure
was found. The branches were arranged in a rectangular pen shape, vertical,=

each approximately 30 to 40 cm long. They found a few smaller sticks
scaling down in size from the structure. A piece of concrete slab was found=

propped up on one corner. The witnesses had never seen this strange
structure before and think is some kind of message left by the visitors.
(Some kind of bizarre crop circle?). A few nights before they had heard
strange noises coming from the kitchen area.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: A


23.
Location. Golasecca Di Novara, Italy
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 2330
Augusto & Maurizia were in their vehicle parked in an open field next to a=

wooded area having a heated discussion when suddenly a powerful beam of
reddish-orange light illuminated the area around them. They rolled down the=

car window and heard a sharp metallic sound that seemed to be increasing in=

intensity. They now noticed, behind the beam of light a hovering
disc-shaped craft with a central rotating ring, it hovered about a meter
from the ground. From the object, a cigar-shaped beam of light emerged;
they could see it as the central ring of the craft slowly rotated on its
axis. The craft was only about 10 meters away. At this point, and only
about 4 meters from the object Augusto saw what appeared to be a gelatinous=

transparent humanoid-like figure with a visible head, arms and legs. The
figure was silvery in color and was very tall, about 3 meters or so. At
this point Augusto became concerned and drove away from the area and did
not see the object or figure depart. The whole episode lasted about 10
minutes. The metallic noise was heard all throughout the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Alfredo Lissoni, CUN Milano, Michelle Castellano CUN VareseType: C


24.
Location. Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England
Date: March 3 2002
Time: morning
Helen Diskin went for a walk in the countryside talking snap shots along
the way with her digital camera. Returning home she loaded these into her
computer and was intrigued by an odd-looking image. It looked like a
luminous figure in an area of no sunlight, skulking amongst the trees. She=

returned to the site of the photo twice afterward and could find no
explanation for the figure. The figure resembled a small helmeted figure
that she had not seen when she took the picture of an area of the woods she=

had thought of as "mysterious."

HC addendum
Source: Helen Diskin, UFO Magazine Vol. 22 # 1Type: E?


25.
Location. Near Trenton New Jersey
Date: March 4 2002
Time: night
Several witnesses were camping outside of town and late at night one of
them was attempting to put out the bonfire when he heard the most awful and=

horrifying scream. It resembled that of an injured dog crossed with a
scream of a woman. The witness dropped the flashlight and was joined by
another witness. Suddenly out of the woods a hideous and gruesome creature=

appeared. It did not look human, somewhat satyr-like in appearance and
walked on two legs. It had a long tail like a dragon and wings like those
unicorns in fantasy books. The beast took several steps towards the
witnesses and one of them picked up and asked and yelled at it and then
shone his flashlight at it. The creature then turned towards the bushes and=

ran away from the area.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: E


26.
Location. Pichaca, Salta, Argentina
Date: March 9 2002
Time: night
Ceferino Leoncio was cleaning his one room metal shack when suddenly a
bright light engulfed the room. He felt a sudden heat as he saw a tiny
figure (50 cm) of an angel-like creature materialize in front of him. It
slowly moved its small wing-like protrusions and moved around and then
suddenly stopped and remained still. It appeared to be a small living human=

like living being until it appeared to hardened and turn into some type of=

statue of cherubic appearance. Locals have now built a shrine around the
tiny "statue" and call the strange materialization a "religious miracle".

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso
Type: F?



27.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: March 16 2002
Time: 2215
Mirna, was watching television alone in her room when she began hearing
noises coming from outside, at first she thought it was her dogs playing
around with some empty cans. But the noises kept getting louder and louder=

and she decided to go outside to investigate. Once outside she was stunned=

to see some type creature that had somehow entered the rabbit cage and was=

attacking the animals that were making loud unearthly screams. Thinking at=

first that it was one of the dogs she approached the case but realized that=

it was a gray colored hairy hunched over creature, that was moving quickly=

inside the cage. She stepped back and could not understand how the creature=

had entered the cage, since there wasn't any apparent hole or aperture
visible anywhere and the door was firmly closed. Afraid she ran inside her=

home and notified her son, both then ran out but the creature had
mysteriously disappeared. Unnerved, they could not understand how they
creature had escaped since the door to the rabbit caged was still firmly
locked. Later they could only find a small round hole in the wire only
several centimeters in width, not large enough for a creature estimated to=

have been about 70 to 80 cm in height. Several of the rabbits were found
injured and one was dead.

HC addendum
Source: Calama UFO CenterType: E


28.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: March 19 2002
Time: 2000
Young Elizabeth Lera reported seeing a short humanoid with "dark eyes"
looking into the building compound from behind a wire fence. It appeared
not to have any other facial features and was wearing dark clothing; it
wore some type of head covering, which was hard to see because of the
darkness. She could only see a pair of large dark eyes on his face that
appeared to shine in the darkness. Some more children now arrived and
observed as the humanoid move several steps towards them. Another witness,=

Rene Mamani saw the humanoid run and hide behind some bushes. It seemed to=

move at very high speed in an unnatural fashion. It seemed to have remained=

suspended in mid-air for a few seconds. It then seemed to fly through the
air and disappeared into some nearby woods. Other students at the school
reportedly saw it again on the night of the 20th.

HC addendum
Source: Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E


29.
Location. Woodburn, Oregon
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 0300A
The witness was sleeping when she woke up suddenly feeling paralyzed. The
witness was completely unable to move or speak. Her next memory was of a
strange sensation on her left cheek, which hurt a lot. Unseen "beings" were=

apparently taking skin samples. Her face was left with a pink fleshy scoop=

down my left cheek, directly on the cheekbone. A teardrop scar was left on=

her cheek.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical Universe
Type: G?




30.
Location. Bethlehem, Israel
Date: March 21 2002
Time: night
At the besieged Church of The Nativity several awed witnesses have come
forward describing the events of Thursday night. That night, a smell of
roses filled the sanctuary as the Daughters of Charity held their evening
prayers. "The sweet scent was soon followed by a high musical humming sound=

and a distinct feeling of warmth emanating from the ceiling." Then, the
sisters reported, seeing a glowing beam of light gradually forming the
likeness of the Blessed Virgin "like a film coming into focus." Tears were=

running down her face, and she uttered a prophetic warning. "Time is
growing short, and the promised Judgment Day is nearly at hand." One week
before the apparition, The Church of the Holy Family was the scene of a
ferocious firefight between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 17Type: F


31.
Location. Not given
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 2255
16-year old Steven Mizon saw hovering over a street a large oval shaped
craft encircled in bright lights and with several lighted windows around
its edge. A figure stared down at him from one of the windows. No other
information.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Watch
Type: A



32.
Location. Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain
Date: March 26 2002
Time: 1500
A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a deserted road when=

he noticed ahead in the distance and in the middle of the roadway an object=

resembling a shiny pear that was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat
perplexed he approached and noticed two individuals standing on a nearby
field. These were over 2 meters in height, wore tight fitting white
coveralls and helmets resembling that of the early astronauts. He parked
his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men=

walked away and entered the shiny pear-shaped craft while the other
remained behind. Knowing that these men were "not from this earth" he still=

asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt that as
he approached the strange pair he had been in some type of a trance and
seemed to have floated over the road. The humanoid answered and appeared
genuinely happy as to his offer of assistance but said that everything was=

in order. He also added that the area was very beautiful and also added:
"Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such
beautiful scenes, they disappeared a long time ago." The astounded witness=

managed to ask the humanoid where he was from and was told that they hailed=

from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The=

humanoid smiled as he answered the question. The humanoid then bid goodbye=

and walked towards the nearby shiny pear shaped object, he then disappeared=

inside of it. The craft then emitted a loud whistling sound and disappeared=

at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the
humanoids as about 2.50 meters in height, wide chests and heavy set, thin
legs. Generally human features, but somewhat "refined" or sharpened
features. The suits were very tight fitting made of an apparent synthetic
material resembling plastic. Their eyes were very light almost white and
their speech was hesitant & accented. Also their movements seemed kind of
clumsy.

HC addendum
Source: J M Garcia, Francisco Padron, SpainType: B


33.
Location. Pringle Lake, Texas
Date: March 28 2002
Time: 1100A
Mark Hakemack and a friend had taken an airboat out on the NW side of the
lake to do a little redfish fishing. The day was kind of hazy, with broken=

cloud cover. They had caught several trout and were just chatting when he
hooked up a large redfish while playing with the fish, Mark happened to
glance upwards and saw a large bird-like creature emerge from a cloudbank.=

His friend saw it too, after about 20 to 25 seconds it flew behind cloud
cover again. The strange creature was grayish in color and the profile of a=

raptor, short neck/head, no legs sticking out behind, and no long tail
feathers. Mark could not take his eyes off it. He estimated the wingspan to=

have been 10' to 14 ' in overall. It appeared to be soaring on the wind,
although, he did see it give a couple of light "flaps" with its wings. The=

witness could only relate this to the legendary "Thunderbird" legend.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.comType: E


34.
Location. Sevilla, Spain
Date: March 30 2002
Time: late night
The witness to the March 26 case was at home with his wife and was getting=

ready to sleep when he heard footsteps coming from patio area outside his
chalet. Armed with a club, he opened the door and was stunned to see the
same two tall heavyset humanoids he had encountered 4 days before. One of
the humanoids was kneeling on the ground as if inspecting something on the=

soil, the other one upon hearing the door open, turned and quickly assured=

the witness not to fear that they were not here to harm him. Stunned, the
witness invited the two humanoids in the house for some refreshments (!).
These declined the invitation telling that they had to go already. Using
the same clumsy movements both humanoids walked towards the rear of the
house where the witness noticed the same shiny metallic pear shaped craft
on the ground. They entered the object, which quickly left at high speed.
The witness's wife awakened by the voices was able to see the two humanoids=

from a second story window, and described them in the same way.

HC addendum
Source: Francisco Padron, Jose Manuel Garcia, SpainType: B


35.
Location. Los Cipreses, Chile
Date: March 31 2002
Time: noon
During a local UFO congress 24 persons in three groups entered a
dimensional gateway that appeared by itself over the terrain. It was kind
of a dome, a luminous archway measuring four by four meters. The
participants lost their materiality without disappearing completely. Upon
entering, they met several human-like alien characters with large baldheads=

and wearing robes that waited within and received information. According to=

sources the contact experience was "dimensional" it was like crossing into=

a different reality. The 24 participants were "all professionals, college
students of high intellectual levels, mostly Chileans," and some were
members of Grupo Rama, a New Age association.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 16, quoting Camilo Valdivieto
Type: G or F?


36.
Location. Tbilissi Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: night
A man entered the local St David church and reported that "a phantom with
wings" had approached him and predicted an earthquake that indeed took
place on April 25 2002, devastating areas of central Georgia.

HC addendum
Source: Pravda
Type: E?


37.
Location. Near Macon, Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: 2300
Three friends were awakened by loud banging noises and bellowing sounds
coming from outside. One of the men ran to the bathroom and looked out the=

window to see a figure run by and squat in the nearby bushes. He described=

the creature as about 3 ft tall, hairy with what appeared to be horns on
its head and hands; he could not see a face. Others in the neighborhood
heard the banging noises.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.com and direct witness
Communication.
Type: E


38.
Location. Belvedere di Tezze, Italy
Date: April 26 2002
Time: evening
A 20-year old woman was returning home one night when she noticed some
bright lights nearby of an unknown origin. She followed the lights in her
car until she stopped near a local pizzeria. She saw the light near the
ground and within the lights two tall slender human like figures wearing
some type of headgear. Since she was carrying a camera she was able to snap=

a quick picture. The figures then vanished. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Gruppo Accademico Ufologico Scandicci quoting
"Il giornale di Vicenza"Type: E?


39.
Location. Puente Santamaria, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: early morning
Two young men observed a dark object descend towards the ground about 100
meters away. According to the two witnesses from the craft descended a
small humanoid, orange in color. Very scared they both ran from the area
and reported their experience to others.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: B


40.
Location. Merceditas, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: evening
An elderly couple was walking along National Route # 8 when about 800
meters from their location they noticed a very strong light. The light
descended next to a puddle at about 70 meters from the witness. Both then
saw two very short orange colored humanoids that moved in very agile
movements near the object. Terrified they walked away and upon looking back=

saw a bright glow on the ground.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: C


41.
Location. Barangay, Philippines
Date: May 2002
Time: night
Several local residents reported seeing a bizarre creature described as an=

"aswang" reputed to be a winged vampire type creature, it reportedly had
red glowing eyes, long black hair, and was wearing a white flowing gown. It=

was seen perched on top of a bamboo tree. Residents at nearby Roxas
reported seeing a similar creature. The police was called but a search
failed to locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Akasico.comType: E


42.
Location. Alvear, La Pampa Argentina
Date: May 3 2002
Time: near midnight
Several young men were returning home late at night along a deserted
roadway when suddenly out of nowhere a female figure wearing a light
flowing gown and with long black hair appeared in front of them. The
strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly and repeatedly asked for=

assistance from the men in a strange urgent tone. Terrified the men ran
from the area and later returned with additional witnesses but they could
find no trace of the strange apparition.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E?


43.
Location. Taralgon Victoria, Australia
Date: May 24 2002
Time: 2355
Walking near the Loy Yang Power station 45-year old Martin Taylor was
suddenly blinded by an intense blue light and he felt extremely dizzy. His=

next memory was of being in a circular room with a variety of lights and
buttons scattered about the walls. He was lying on a large table that
seemed to be of a very highly polished metal. He was strapped down and his=

shirt had been removed. There were wires attached to his arms, neck and
temples. A four ft tall humanoid figure with very large almond shaped eyes,=

almost transparent looking skin, ghostly white in appearance examined him.=

The figure had three extremely long fingers on each hand and spoke in a
strange dialect.

HC addendum
Source: UFO WatchType: G


44.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: May 29 2002
Time: midnight
Irma Rick watched a rotating luminous object descend close to the ground
next to a grain silo; it gave off a powerful bluish light through some
openings around its circumference. It hovered close to the ground. Through=

an opening a strange creature was seen to descend to the ground. It was
described as having an elongated semi-transparent white body; it also had
an elongated head. She could not see any eyes or legs on the creature as it=

stood motionless next to the craft. She observed the creature and object
for about 5 minutes until she dropped the flashlight she was carrying.
Afraid she left the area and did not see the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: B



45.
Location. Lembang Bandung, Indonesia
Date: May 30 2002
Time: 2315
The witness was driving his motorcycle across a highland area when he
spotted some flashing lights overhead and then noticed a silvery
disc-shaped craft descend low over some nearby graves at a cemetery. The
craft had blue and orange flashing lights around its rim. There was no
sound as the craft apparently emitted a beam of light towards the ground
and levitated what appeared to be some dead bodies onboard the object. (!)=

The witness was apparently paralyzed and was unable to move. The craft then=

shot away at a 45-degree angle and disappeared from sight. When that
happened the witness left the scene.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


46.
Location. Houston, Texas
Date: late May 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness was at the local electric company in order to pay a bill when
she decided to use the restrooms. Sitting in the stall she then noticed on=

the side of the wall of the stall what appeared to be a face lit up in a
dull light. When the witness looked directly at the "face" it vanished. She=

described is as having large round eyes no visible nose and a slit-like
mouth. (A peeping tom alien?)

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.comType: E?


47.
Location. General Acha, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: early June 2002
Time: various
A resident of the Oeste neighborhood informed newspaper sources that a
short green-colored dwarf like entity has appeared twice on her property:
once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When her husband ran out
responding to her screams, the mysterious entity vanished by rapidly
climbing up a tree. All versions agree in that the entity is short in
stature. Another resident added that it moved so quickly that it was hard
to describe it. In the same area mysterious cattle mutilations have also
been reported.

HC addendum
Source: Loren Coleman in UFO UpdatesType: E


48.
Location. Ojo De Agua, Argentina
Date: June 2002
Time: afternoon
Several passengers onboard two farm micro buses reported seeing a very tall=

dark man like figure that appeared to be wearing a tight fitting diver's
outfit standing on a nearby field. Nearby numerous mysterious animal
mutilations have been reported. The figure was silent and was quickly lost=

from sight as the buses moved away.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E




49.
Location. Near Tampa, Florida
Date: June 2002
Time: night
A man and three of his friends reported encountering two bizarre chupacabra=

type creatures one stood about 3-4 ft tall, the other looked to be about 6=

ft tall. Both had large glowing red eyes and spikes starting from the head=

to the back. They scurried away into a wooded area. (They were to have
further encounters in August).

HC addendum
Source: Art Bell.comType: E


50.
Location. Antalya, Turkey
Date: June 5 2002
Time: afternoon
Approximately 45 witnesses claimed they saw an UFO in the Santral district=

landing on the backyard of the Fatma Primary School. Several students
including Murat Esici age 11 saw an alien emitting red rays from his eyes
come out of the object. His hands and feet were metallic. He had a very big=

head and was about 1.80 meters in height. Esici temporarily lost her voice=

immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also=

claimed they san an unusual craft and an alien beside it. "His eyes and
hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes." The children
were overcome with shock after the incident.

HC addendum
Source: Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center Intl
Type: B


51.
Location. Polonnauruwa, Sri Lanka
Date: June 8 2002
Time: 2200
Approximately 50 to 70 eyewitnesses saw a UFO flying at about 100 meters
above ground level. The object was silent and briefly landed emitting a
bright flash like light. When it was close to the ground the object emitted=

a buzzing sound. Three other witnesses saw three 2 ft tall creatures than
when approached ran into the jungle and disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Sources
Type: D


52.
Location. Polonnaruwa, Sir Lanka
Date: June 9 2002
Time: 2012
Two witnesses went to a bath on a nearby river when they heard a loud
thundering sound and a UFO appeared. The craft landed nearby and two, 2 ft=

tall "aliens" emerged from the object. One of the humanoids flung a small
fluorescent fireball like object that flew over a house and vanished. Soon=

the craft and humanoids disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC & News Reports
Type: B



53.
Location. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Date: June 10 2002
Time: 1900
Witnesses saw a mysterious light in the sky and others saw a large disc
shaped object land nearby. Three humanoids only about 2 ft tall emerged
from the craft and disappeared into the forest when approached. The object=

also left.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Reports
Type: B


54.
Location. Chantilly, Virginia
Date: June 10 2002
Time: night
The witness was awakened during the night with a sense of some presence in=

the room. Looking toward the door, he saw, fading quickly, something, which=

almost had the appearance of a hologram. Next, shadows appeared outside the=

windows in an erratic shape. At first he thought the shadows to be from
trees moving in a strong wind. The appearance was of a storm blowing the
limbs to create these shadows outside the window. However, there was no
storm. He looked at the adjacent window on the side of the house facing
opposite and there was no wind at all. In fact there was no trees
positioned in such a way to cast a shadow. He opened the blinds to see what=

might be causing the shadows. He then saw what seemed to be a hologram with=

the shape of two small eyes moving erratically outside the window.
Frightened he closed the blinds. Two weeks later he was awakened by a
humming sound and again saw the erratic shadows outside the window. He
watched the shadows for 10-15 minutes and then called the police. The
police found no signs of any intrusion in the yard. When the police left
the witness walked toward the door facing the back porch and saw a large
burst of bluish white light. It looked unnatural, almost like a laser. He
has not seen the "shadows" again.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: E?


55.
Location. Ataliva Roca, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 11 2002
Time: 1930
A worker at a local drainage project was sitting and guarding some
machinery when he noticed a short greenish colored humanoid figure that was=

approaching his location from a nearby field. The witness became concerned=

and drove away from the area in the construction equipment and did not see=

the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


56.
Location. Eduardo Castex, La Pampa Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Two girls of a local school encountered a short greenish humanoid figure in=

the playing yard. The figure was standing up and appeared to be raising its=

arms up to the sky. Terrified the two girls retreated into the school and
watched the figure scurry away into some nearby woods. Around the same time=

a local farmer found a strangely mutilated hog in his farm.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


57.
Location. Chasico, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Hugo Deluca and several other workers were parked in a bus in an isolated
area when they spotted about 20 meters away a short, 1.20 meters tall,
bipedal figure completely covered in gray hair. It walked upright like a
man and then scurried away into some woods vanishing from sight. The area
had been hit with animal mutilations around the same time.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


58.
Location. Castex, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 13 2002
Time: night
A 70-year old man had gone to his driveway to check on a flat tire in his
car when a short light green colored humanoid suddenly appeared next to
him. It had large round ears, and two reddish luminous eyes. Its body was
thin and almost triangular in shape. The witness attempted to yell out but=

was suddenly unable to speak and at the same time strange warmth invaded
his body. Several seconds later the humanoid vanished and the witness
returned to normal. He reported the incident to the police.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


59.
Location. La Laguna, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 14 2002
Time: afternoon
Several youngster had gone into the fields in order to obtain some firewood=

when they saw sitting on a clearing in the woods two human like figures,
all dressed in black. They sat facing each other, one looking towards the
east the other towards the west, unmoving. Unnerved by the sight the
juveniles ran from the area. The next day the father of one of the boys
found two dead cows at the site, but could find no trace of the strange
pair. Days later a sheep and a horse were found dead and strangely
mutilated in the nearby location of El Cardonal.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: E


60.
Location. De Kalb, Illinois
Date: June 15 2002
Time: 0030A
The witness was sitting in his family room watching TV when he noticed a
bright flash of light outside the window. He saw the flash several times
and decided to check his backyard there he saw a circular light moving
around in circles. The light began to get closer; scared he ran inside his=

home and called a friend on the phone. He then quickly ran outside and saw=

the circle getting closer, he noticed that it had a purplish color to it
and it began to descend towards the ground. He became nauseous and dizzy
and collapsed on to the ground. He tried to crawl to the house but was
unable to move. He turned his head and saw the purplish object on the
ground and what appeared to be a door opening up. He then heard a squeaking=

noise and saw a tall and a short figure standing by a door of the object.
The two figures started to move towards him, walking in a strange bopping
fashion. They were of a dark complexion with a bumpy texture, other than
that they resembled normal human beings. The shorter figure approached and=

picked up the witness' camera and stared at it. He then looked at the
taller figure and handed it to him. The taller of the two looked at the
camera and then at the witness. The witness then heard loud unpleasant
shrieks coming from the taller figure, which then gave the camera back to
the shorter figure, which covered the camera with his hand, seconds later a=

light began to emerge from their hands. Then they stopped, threw the camera=

aside and began to walk towards the witness. They reached his side and
started to examine his body. A dog began to bark from inside the house and=

the shorter figure put out his hand and the dog stopped barking. At this
point the witness began to vomit. After about a minute he began to relax
and to breathe better. When he turned his head he realized that the two
figures and the purple spherical object were now gone. The next day he had=

a very severe headache.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: B


61.
Location. San Juan, Argentina
Date: June 20 2002
Time: evening
At a location where the body of a strangely mutilated carcass of a cow was=

found two witnesses reported seeing a small creature with large glowing
slanted eyes and about one meter in height. Later in the same area, members=

of the Gimenez family after investigating noises and a strong odor coming
from a wooded area found a mutilated cow and also watched a short humanoid=

with glowing eyes scurrying away into the woods.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


62.
Location. Manuel Rodriguez, Calama, Chile
Date: June 22 2002
Time: after midnight
A bizarre creature was spotted at a local housing complex on San Antonio
Street. Witnesses reported that it resembled an ape and it jumped all over=

the roof. It passed right in front of the witness, Maria Gavia's window and=

then it came back making all manner of noise. The creature was able to make=

very long jumps, unlike any a human could. It jumped and landed on the
neighbor's roof and then it left the area. Neighborhood dogs acted scared
and began howling. Others described the creature as about 1.5 meters tall,=

stocky in build with bright red eyes. It made a lot of noise. Others
reportedly chased the creature.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center, quoting El
Mercurio de CalamaType: E


63.
Location. Angencia Realico, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 23 2002
Time: late night
Several hunters returning to a local ranch spotted about 50 meters away two=

large glowing reddish eyes staring at them. They turned off their
flashlight and approached closer on foot, about 30 meters away they again
saw the reddish eyes on a dark creature that appeared to be standing on top=

of an apparently dead animal. One of the hunters shone its flashlight on
the figure again and saw a figure about 40 cm in height that quickly ran
from the area at very high speed. The creature disappeared into the brush.=

At the scene, a dead and mutilated young heifer. Other mutilations were
reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


64.
Location. Rancul, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 25 2002
Time: 2020
Two young men, Nestor Pinto and Daniel Gatica were walking on a field when=

they encountered a short man-like figure with huge pointy ears and long
dangling arms standing near some brush. The figure scurried into the brush=

and disappeared and at the same time the two witnesses ran away from the
area and did not see the strange dwarf again.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


65.
Location. Bavaria, Germany (exact location not given)
Date: June 25 2002
Time: night
The witness had stayed up late watching the soccer game as was in his
bedroom when suddenly there was a coldness around him that made him shiver.=

He noticed that his audio capabilities were somehow enhanced and he was
able to hear sounds that previously he was unable to hear. He then heard a=

noise outside his door and went out to investigate. The noise became louder=

as he approached the door. He then heard footsteps and opened the door. A
very small man with a somewhat deformed body that was smiling at him
confronted the witness. He looked straight ahead and then stared at the
witness. His next memory was of waking up in his bed in the morning.

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.com
Type: E


66.
Location. Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2105
The primary witness had stepped out on his back porch when his attention
was drawn to two huge black "birds" which were approaching from the north.=

His first impression was they were Herons, but soon realized that the color=

was wrong, and "they were huge, much larger than any bird I have ever
seen." The two huge birds landed at the top of a very tall coniferous tree.=

The witness stated that the wingspan appeared to be wider than the
branches, jest below where they had landed. The body size was estimated to=

be about six feet from head to tail. The oddest feature was the shape of
the wings, which according to the witness appeared to be bat-like. The tree=

where the "birds" landed seemed as though it would break from their weight.=

The witness yelled for others in the house to come outside to look. Another=

family member was able to see the huge black birds as they passed overhead,=

and headed for some woods. After checking the size of the branches where
the birds had landed, the witness estimated that the wingspan would have
been close to 12 feet or somewhat larger.

HC addendum
Source: Stan GordonType: E


67.
Location. Marldon Hill, Paington, England
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2357
A couple were walking near a local historic monument (a windmill) and they=

drew closer to monument they heard a low whirling noise. The noise
progressed to a high-pitched whining, almost out of hearing range. Then
they saw a mysterious glow coming from the dark side of the windmill, and
then to their astonishment they saw 5 or 6 shadow like figures standing in=

front of the windmill. Startled the two began to run back towards the main=

road. The woman looked back and saw the figures become engulfed by a bright=

light and disappear, and then everything became quiet.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Sightings UKType: E?


68.
Location. Adelia Maria, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 3 2002
Time: 2100
Pedro and Estela Moine had decided to visit the business district of town
called Barrio Norte and crossed the old railroad yard through a pedestrian=

pathway that ran through a pasture area between some silos, old railroad
depots and abandoned wreckage. As the couple moved through the premises
they suddenly became aware of a strange and incomprehensible conversation
between many voices. Startled, they stopped walking moved a few meters more=

and then heard the voices again which now sounded like strange "O" sounds.=

Pedro looked toward the silos and was able to see resembling humanoid but
lacking upper and lower extremities. Despite the pleas of his wife, Pedro
ran several meters toward an inner alley in the silo plant, being able to
make out some 45 meters to the west and in profile---the entity, which
acting surprised, avoided the encounter and moved again to the north.
However, what filled the witnesses with wonderment was that the creature
did so as though flying or floating without touching the facilities it
passed. Pedro and Estela ran after it. It was thus that the man managed to=

see the entity apparently hiding behind the control room of the truck
scale. Pedro ran toward it and was again startled to see the apparition
rising as a plane taking off, flying at an altitude of 5 meters and
disappearing behind a large metal shed. Bewildered, both witnesses called
out, but were unable to see anything else. Pedro Moine as "a thing with
human shape" described the apparition. It had some sort of light, although=

he could not say if reflected or self-generated, although he tends to
believe the latter, since it was a nebulous whitish light, which kept him
from making out details. The entire mass of the apparition appeared to be a=

body covered from head to toe in some sort of mantle, which he described as=

though it wore a hat, but covered with some kind of long raincoat reaching=

down to what he took to be its feet. He added that the "conversational
sounds" repeated themselves in three separate occasions at various
intensities. They were like conversations in a strange language.

HC addendum
Source: Mario Luis Bracamonte, C.O.R, Rio Cuarto Argentina
Type: E


69.
Location. Jerusalem, Israel
Date: July 6 2002
Time: night
A remote TV camera picked up images of "orbs seen on the corner to the
right of the Wailing Wall." They seemed to have facial features almost like=

a ghost, reported investigator Charlotte LeFevre. The orbs were described
as "sharp and distinct". The orbs were next to the women's prayer area in
front of the Wall. Other strange phenomena, has been reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 29Type: F?


70.
Location. Villa Elisa, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: July 13 2002
Time: 2300
A young woman fainted from nervous shock after having an alleged closed
encounter with "some sort of green dwarf". This occurred---enveloped in
darkness---along Misioneros Salesianos Street very close to several houses.=

An ambulance was called and apparently transported the witness who was in
shock.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria ColuchiType: E


71.
Location. Patna, India
Date: July 21 2002
Time: night
Several residents claim they've been bitten or scratched by a "black
monkey-like creature with colored lights flashing from its eyes." Resident=

Pawan Kumar Niyogi who was sleeping on the terrace of his house claims "a 5=

ft tall monkey-like creature" attacked him. He said: "I was terrified and
thought my life was going to end but it merely scratched me on the shoulder=

before jumping off the roof." Local residents are conducting night vigils
and carrying torches to guard their homes.

HC addendum
Source: Ananova, Ufoupdates. Type: E


72.
Location. Chajan, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 21 2002
Time: 2300
Police officer Guillermo Arias was on routine patrol through a rural area
when he heard over the radio that his colleagues in arms over at Achiras
were seeing lights in sectors of said community, and that they were heading=

towards Chajan along National Route 8. At the wheel of the police patrol
van, he managed to see a formation of 7 lights in the distance and decided=

to drive 10 km along a rural dirt road. When he had covered said distance,=

he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine of his vehicle sputtered=

and died, causing the police car to strike the edge of a guardrail.
Simultaneously, the lights on the van's dashboard began turning on and off=

randomly, the police radio went haywire and its dial displayed the random
shifting of the frequencies while the cabin became filled with an acrid
odor, as though of burnt wiring, and the interior lights and stop
indicator, which were broken, began lighting on and off. Seized by fear,
Arias leaped from the van and walked away a few meters down the road,
losing his cellular phone in the escape. The darkness was total, when
suddenly, amid the confusing situation; an immense light emerged from a
field adjacent to the road as a triangular object rose majestically into
the air. Now Arias condition went from fear to abject terror as he saw what=

he described as a real "floating city" some 200 meters long with a long row=

of windows (perhaps as many as 100). Arias claims having seen something
move behind them, describing the movement as "TV sets which make lines and=

shadows", which he defined as "non-human", and that many beams of light
came out of the giant triangle, aimed at the ground. The event lasted 2-3
seconds, but to Arias it felt like an eternity. The object suddenly rose
and sped away, vanishing behind the hills of a local field. As the object
moved away, the whole area was lit up like daytime and there was an
afterglow that lasted another 20 minutes.

HC addendum
Source: C.O.R., Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense, Argentina
Type: A


73.
Location. Waconia, Minnesota
Date: July 26 2002
Time: 0300A
The young witness was sleeping in the backyard with his sister when he
suddenly woke up. He then noticed that the side of the tent that faced the=

wetlands and lake was lit up. Looking towards the light he saw a shadowy
torso and arm of a humanoid figure that seemed to be moving around within
the light. He watched for 30 seconds and saw the figure move the fingers of=

his hands. The witness became frightened and hid in his sleeping bag. He
came out about an hour later and the light and strange figure were
completely gone.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


74.
Location. Sedona, Arizona
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 0310A
In a wooded area the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all
white, with black "straight" eyes; and black diagonal/diamond strip of
"clothing" on top. He stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then
left. Prior to seeing the figure the witness had seen lights in a large
oval shaped pattern in the sky.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


75.
Location. Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 1730
Three girls had decided to visit the rooftop as they did the prior evening=

watching for satellites. It was dusk and the girls had a good vantage point=

looking towards the east. With them they had a pair of binoculars and a
pair of walkie-talkies. The girls noticed that a large orange light
appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The anomaly
was noted to have fluctuated in colors of orange, yellow, white and pale
blue. At fist they thought of an arriving airplane, but then a second light=

appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10=

degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some=

unusually maneuvering; from a stationary position it accelerated at least 5=

degrees closer to the ground surface at an approximate 45-60 degree angle
within a matter of a single second. The first anomaly then began to move
slowly towards the north. At this stage they partially lost view of it as
it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley-like
region of the horizon. According to the witnesses, this third object
appeared to have "landed" on the ground surface. The object was then viewed=

through the binoculars and presented in great detail; the object was
described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange,=

blue/purple and white rotating around the rim. Thy also noted the trees
being slightly illuminated by this extraordinary phenomenon. They were
suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, "Identify
yourself." This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in a
foreign language. Around 1830 the girls were then called down to have
dinner. At about 2030 the girls re-established their places on the roof
after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still
present. Unexpectedly a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above
the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. "It
was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away." The=

light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it=

is not clear how one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became
extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed
her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not=

sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another of the girls woke up
the next morning with her nose bleeding. She also mentioned that she had
seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom.

HC addendum
Source: The Australian UFO Research NetworkType: D or
F?



76.
Location. Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 29 2002
Time: early morning
Local residents have seen a strange figure, which they described as
resembling a "shroud". The apparitions, which always occur in the early
morning hours, have become so common that in recent days several neighbors=

have stayed up late to see them, and it is thus that they were able to
confirm the simultaneous presence of up to 2 such beings, as well as red
lights flying over the area. All the witnesses whether individuals or in a=

group, agree that the entities are nebulous and glowing, with a pair of red=

eyes being clearly identifiable, and glassy faces (as if transparent).
Their movements are smooth and they always appear from behind the sand
dunes, as though "coming form the Naval Base." Most witnesses agree that
they show a great interest in the water tanks located above the roofs, and=

that they do not flee upon detecting the presence of local
residents---rather, they stare at them fixedly for some minutes. Deep
silence is perceived during the observations and "the air appears to become=

still" and neither heat nor cold can be felt---only a sensation of warmth,=

as if the beings emanated heat. Witnesses also state that things appear to=

be darker when "the shroud" appears, as though ambient lighting were
dimmed. Another curious fact is the large number of cats and dogs who
report to the place where the sightings occur and sit down to observe it in=

silence, in a state resembling a trance. A series of semi-circular prints
have been found in the dunes, not very deep, with 15-20 cm separations in
some cases and 30-50 cm in others. The locals have identified them as the
strange being's footprints. Efforts have been made to photograph the
"shroud", but all images, despite the use of different cameras appear
exposed. One witness who approached the site to witness the phenomenon took=

two photos of the prints in the afternoon and decided to stay with the
group of people hoping to see the "shroud", managing to take some photos of=

same and record the new prints which appeared in the dunes after the
sighting. A completely uncommon print was found at the site---but the
residents aren't sure if it's related to the phenomenon: it has the shape
of a five-fingered claw. One witness tried to make use of his carbine's
telescopic sight to see the figure in greater detail, but "when he tried to=

focus on it, he could see nothing_it was a though it could only be seen
with the unaided eye."

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, IHU, Christian Quintero and O A Mario
Proyecto Condor
Type: C or E?


77.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 30 2002
Time: 0530A
27-year old Mariela Baigorri reported seeing a strange figure that floated=

in front of her house. She had woken up early that morning and was getting=

ready to mount her bicycle when she saw behind the fence something floating=

in mid-air. It appeared to be a figure wearing a flowing white transparent=

tunic, with bright red eyes and undefined facial features. Feeling no fear=

she decided to approach it. She felt as if the figure waited for her and
was observing her. At this point Mariela felt some fear and began reciting=

the Lord's Prayer. The figure suddenly moved back and disappeared in plain=

sight.

HC addendum
Source: Juan Carlos Corrales Morey, Vision Ovni, Argentina
Type: E


78.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 31 2002
Time: 1845
23-year old Julian Pereyra was in his vehicle when he observed two red
spheres flying slowly over some nearby woods, they seemed to descend and
disappear behind the trees. 15 minutes later, Pereyra, accompanied by
several other witnesses approached the area and observed what they
described a tall floating figure wearing a white glowing cape like outfit,=

it seemed to glide silently over a field. It had what appeared to be a
visor at face level and two beams of red light emerged from where the eyes=

would have been. The witnesses watched the strange figure glide over the
fields for about 30 minutes. Curiously numerous local dogs and cats
approached and also watched the figure in fascination. The lights and
figure disappeared into the distance. In another occasion Pereyra and some=

of his family members encountered the strange humanoid and felt a strange
sensation as if the wind had suddenly stopped, they felt as they were
inside a vacuum or "bubble." Strange tracks have been reportedly found in
the area also.

HC addendum
Source: Diario La Nueva Provincia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Type: C?


79.
Location. La Cienaga, Pocri, Panama
Date: early August 2002
Time: night
Luis Alfredo Diaz reported hearing loud noises coming from the terraced
patio where the kitchen was located, going to investigate he found his cat=

apparently dead with two obvious holes on the neck and some blood on the
floor. Before finding the cat he had called his wife, Maria de Los Santos
Barrios. As his wife stood in front of him a panic stricken look came over=

her face, turning around he was confronted by a bizarre 1-meter tall
humanoid that had jumped to the center of the patio. The creature was
described as thin, covered with dark hair, with large pointed ears that
almost covered its face, it had very large eyes and extremely strong hind
legs resembling that of a kangaroo. Terrified he ran to his son's bedroom
and carried him outside yelling for his neighbors. A search failed to
locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Panamanian Paranormal Forum
Type: E


80.
Location. Near Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Date: August 2002
Time: night
The same witness involved in a similar encounter last year was again
camping in the same area when he again heard a noise. Shining the light in=

the direction of the sound he again saw the same creature. The creature sat=

there crouched by the trees staring at the witness. The witness walked
slowly towards it, he got to within 20 ft when it just jumped backward and=

disappeared. He described the creature as about five to six ft in height,
gray in color. It was totally naked. It had human features, but more
leathery, and its face was very wide, its eyes were huge and even though
they reflected light, they still looked black, resembling two intensely
black marbles. Its legs were very muscular, but turned backwards, like a
bird. Other hikers in the area have reported encountering little brown men=

on some of the more isolated trails.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal Story Archives, November 2002Type: E


81.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: August 1 2002
Time: late evening
64-year old Raul Dorado was touring some fields when he heard a loud sound=

on two occasions, like a whirlwind, which drew his attention. The third
time he saw something he describes as a green circle with three legs
hovering over him. At that moment Dorado fell to the ground, and according=

to his story, he carried a shotgun, binoculars and a cellular phone, the
latter, which was taken from his hand, and he could clearly see being
sucked into the object, which was apparently at low altitude. His next
recollection was seeing the object disappear toward the east. Dorado
remained at the location for an hour before being able to rise and walk
back to his car, returning to town in a state of shock. He had to be
hospitalized. Later when calls were placed to the (abducted) cellular phone=

someone would pick up and heavy breathing could be heard. Later on the
phone was apparently disconnected.

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, quoting Diario La Arena, La PampaType: G?


82.
Location. Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Date: August 2 2002
Time: 1730
A man named Todd Sees went up the mountain to look for pre-season deer. He=

told his wife that he would be home by noon. He rode his 4-wheeler up the
power line behind his home. He never returned. A search party composed of
local police, state police and volunteers searched for Sees. The 4-wheeler=

was found on the top of the mountain near a power-line. Tracking dogs could=

find nothing to go on around the 4-wheeler. The search went on for 2 days
and over 6 miles of mountain was covered from top to bottom. Then, in the
evening of the 2nd day, his body was found in a hard to reach wooded area.=

He was wearing his underwear. He was emaciated---not bloated. He was pale
and had an expression of horror on his face. When he went up the mountain
he was fully dressed, boots, camo-vest, hat, socks, pants. 3 people, on one=

farm, said they saw a large round bright object just above the power-lines=

at the time of the disappearance. It was silent, it did not move for about=

10 to 15 minutes. It suddenly went up and suddenly stopped. A light shone
down and something was pulled up into the light. It then went straight up,=

hesitated again, and then went west over the Susquehanna River and out of
sight. More specifically a farmer saw an object above Montour Ridge at the=

power lines, on top of the mountain, it was round and very still over the
lines. Suddenly it moved what looked like a few hundred feet to the east,
it stopped and a beam of blue and white light shone to the ground. What was=

seen next was very unnerving, he saw what appeared to be a man suspended in=

the light, he was being pulled up head first, he was moving his arms slowly=

in the light. What looked like a man was pulled up into the bottom of the
craft. A few seconds later it started shuddering, then went west very fast,=

stopped briefly, and then went straight up and out of sight. Also three
fishermen saw the craft. The FBI is supposedly also investigating. (Debated=

as a hoax, who would? and for what purpose?).

HC addendum
Source: Rense, UFO updates, NUFORCType: G?






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                            2002 Humanoid Reports

From: Albert Rosales <Garuda79@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:32:05 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:14:40 -0500
Subject: 2002 Humanoid Reports


Happy new year everyone

Sincerely,

Albert

-----

2002 Humanoid Reports. It appears to be a slow start for this
year with only one recorded case, again from Chile. We will see
what develops later on the year. 2001 was pretty busy but it was
a decline from 2000. Maybe we will see another down trend again,
later to pick up again in the near future. This seems to be the
ever-ongoing trend of the phenomena. Will it always stay the
same? Time will tell. Following is a list of known 2002 humanoid
cases.


1.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: January 2002
Time: 0300A
An employee at the local Minera Escondida was on his way to the
storage freezer in order to pick up some supplies when an
unknown creature jumped him from behind. He could only describe
it as hairy and dark. He was left with deep scratches and in a
state of shock. Terrified he ran away and bumped into two other
employees who were able to see a shadowy creature in the dark.

HC addendum
Source: La Estrella del Loa de Calama, ChileType: E


2.
Location. Caracas, Venezuela
Date: January 2002
Time: late night
Late one night in a dream-like state the witness woke up to see
seven to eight strange figures in her bedroom. They were dark
gray in color and very thin, with three large thick long fingers
on their hands. They had large, lipless mouths and large shiny
protruding black eyes, their noses were thin and protruding,
small ears, the heads was large and pointy. The humanoids
appeared to be naked and she was able to see a penis on the
humanoids. They were about 1.55 meters in height. She felt dizzy
and under the control of the strange entities. She was led out
of her bedroom by one of the humanoids that removed her clothing
and made her lie down on the floor. The humanoids apparently
attempted to molest her sexually and possibly attempted to rape
her but were not successful. She apparently passed out and does
not remember anything else about the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Lista Alcione and witness communicationType: E


3.
Location. Fort McMurry, Alberta, Canada
Date: January 2 2002
Time: 2032
Two men were parked on an isolated dirt road when they spotted a
large cone-shaped object descend and hover. One of the men
exited the car and he vanished in plain sight of the other, the
craft then also disappeared. The other man tried to drive away
to get help but the car would not start and it was to cold to
walk. He soon went to sleep and woke up later to find his friend
sleeping next to him. Later they drove back to town. His friend
does not remember what happened during those two hours of
missing time. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


4.
Location. Paso Lovera, Corrientes, Argentina
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2030
Gabriela Lencinas, 15-year old and a 19-year old friend were
returning home on a bicycle when they spotted a large cloud like
object descend from the sky and from it a giant figure emerge.
The witnesses stopped their bicycles to see a car approach the
giant figure, stop, the driver exit the car and then re-entering
the vehicle and driving quickly away. The figure then rose up
into the cloud and disappeared. The girls reported that the
giant human-like figure had its hair standing up on his head and
was extending its arms towards the witnesses that quickly rode
their bicycles home. Other in the area reported seeing bright
lights that same night.

HC addendum
Source: Pablo Omastott
Type: B?


5.
Location. Villa San Rafael, Chile
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2345
Two young teenagers, Jean F and Nelson C, where at home at night
when Jean noticed that his pet snake had escaped from its cage.
Both boys began looking for it outside among the rubble of the
parcel. They recalled how half an hour before, their two dogs
strangely began to howl and cry; however, it did not seem to be
important at that point in time. They searched for the pet snake
together when suddenly, about 30 meters from where they stood;
they saw what appeared to be a stray dog. They threw rocks at to
avoid an attack. However, to their surprise, the animal stood
there, motionless and fearless; it did not get scared nor it ran
away as ordinary dogs normally do. Shortly, the strange animal
began to move towards them. The movements it made as it walked
were very strange. It used two legs at a time. It made very
small sand short leaps like a rabbit. Suddenly, it stopped and
it stood up on two legs. The teenagers then began to feel some
kind of energy. "It was like an electrical shock in the
stomach," they said. It later walked again making a loud
dragging noise, making small leaps and only moving one of its
legs. They noticed the weird shape of the animal. "It was like a
rugby football with legs," one of them said. Jean began to feel
frightened and started to move away from animal. On the other
hand, Nelson felt a strange need to get closer to the creature;
he got to within 2 meters away from it. The creature appear to
emit a strange luminosity that apparently, was bright enough to
lit a small area around the creature in spite of the nighttime
darkness. Nelson was mesmerized as he stared at the strange
creature. He described it as having a head like a large dog with
a flat nose like a bulldog. Its eyes were slanted and pale-red
in color, which could only be seen when the creature turned its
head from side to side like a lizard. At that moment, Nelson
heard a voice in his head saying, "Don't stare, and just run
away." They provided further description, describing the ears as
flat, round and large. Its arms were short, it had elbows, and
the hands had three fingers. It had hair like the one on a wild
pig. Its legs were like the ones of a goat. The feet had also
three fingers and a membrane like ducks, but somewhat shorter.
On its curved back, they were able to notice a spinal section
covered with amounts of even thicker hair. Most of the hair of
the animal was gray, but the tail had a white tip. Nelson
finally fled, terrified, from the area. He also described how he
felt an inexplicable bone-chilling cold sensation.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center
Type: E


6.
Location. Not given
Date: January 12 2002
Time: night
Ted Parker was eating some leftover food when he claims the food began to
change. The bread of the sandwich turned an orange color and the lamb
became a silvery metallic color, sort of like liquid mercury. As he watched=

transfixed, he saw the orange bread and metallic lamb turn into the figure=

of an "alien" with the form of a man. It was silver in color and its outfit=

(smooth pants and shirt, like a jump suit) was orange in color. At this
point Parker glanced at the wall clock and it indicated that 2 hours had
gone by, even though it felt like minutes only. The alien figure
communicated using telepathic means and asked Ted to come with him. They
both went outside and there, Ted saw a landed black-colored craft in his
backyard. In a split second Ted found himself inside the craft not knowing=

how he got there. The inside of the craft was pure white in color with
strips of the metallic silver that the alien figure appeared to be made of.=

The rest of the incident is just a blur, but Parker did remembered hearing=

several loud high-pitched rings while onboard the object. A couple of days=

before while eating dinner with several other people there had been a
similar high pitched ring and everybody had just stopped eating and walked=

out of the room.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: G or F?



7.
Location. Chihuahua, Mexico
Date: January 29 2002
Time: night
Several days before seeing a UFO the witness remembered being in a
dream-like state in which he felt very calm and saw numerous disc shaped
objects, orange-red in color. A human like figure was talking to him about=

the objects and their propulsion. The UFO he saw was of an orange color and=

he felt a sort of ecstasy when he observed the craft. Several of his
neighbors also saw the object.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: G or F?


8.
Location. Near Palmyra, Wisconsin
Date: February 2002
Time: 0200A
Two men reported seeing a creature that resembled a bipedal "gigantic wolf"=

walking down a road west of the city. They said the creature was at least 7=

ft tall with a wolf-like head. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Linda GodfreyType: E


9.
Location. West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
Nebilson Sangma reported encountering a scary furry creature on a hunting
trip in the jungles. He reportedly took a video of the creature's nesting
place. According to Sangma, the creature walked erect like a human, had
built a house like nesting place, and would emerge from it frequently to
feast on a banana grove. Sangma and his brother observed the gigantic
creature for three consecutive days from afar. Officials and villagers have=

been hunting for the creature in the forest but it seems to have
disappeared as furtively as it appeared.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 13
Type: E


10.
Location. Near Dover, England
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness had been jogging along a low path by the beach when she noticed=

a tall, well built being in a black skin tight suit, that stood watching
her from nearby. He wore a black helmet wit a brown visor pulled down. At
first she thought it was a biker but as she approached the figure, it
suddenly disappeared in plain sight. As she continued to run she noticed a=

black craft jutting out of the sand, it was small and oval shaped, matt and=

ribbed it also disappeared in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: E?


11.
Location. Rosario de la Frontera, Salta, Argentina
Date: February 2002
Time: night
A strange creature called by locals "El Pestizo" has attacked several lone=

pedestrians in the middle of the night. It is described as a dark man
shaped shadowy being. A boy riding his bicycle on the way to visit some
friends was toppled from his bicycle and found a black shadowy figure
facing him. The young man managed to upholster his shotgun and fire two
shots. But, when he saw that they had no effect, he promptly drew his knife=

and stabbed the figure without any apparent harm. Frightened the youth
tried to escape but the creature knocked him down without saying a word and=

began dragging him by the hair to the side of the road. At this point the
young man began to scream. A local man, who rushed to provide assistance,
only to find a black shadow dragging the boy by the hair, heard his cries.=

The fearful shape disappeared without a trace after it became aware of the=

other man's presence. Six other locals have reported being attacked by a
similar being and received wounds.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


12.
Location. Not given
Date: February 2002
Time: early morning
The witness was alone at home and was preparing his breakfast when suddenly=

he heard a window break; he went to see what had happened. Grabbing a golf=

club he peeked inside the room where the window broke. He was stunned to
see a strange creature climbing on his bed. It appeared to be hurt, because=

it seemed that it could not move well. Gripping the golf club he went a
step nearer and the creature hissed horribly. It shrieked in an unworldly
manner. Terrified the witness did not move. The creature was small, about
the size of a large rabbit, and it was dark in color and had reddish eyes.=

It had wings and a spine of quills on its back, and had a semi reptilian
face. It appeared to have hair and small legs. The witness raised the golf=

club and the creature hissed again showing its large yellowish teeth, which=

appeared to be sharp, like those of a crocodile. It suddenly hopped out of=

the window and rapidly hopped across the street into the oak trees.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June archiveType: E


13.
Location. Vigevano, Italy
Date: February 2002
Time: 0100A
In the outskirts of this city a witness observed from his vehicle a
luminous humanoid entity walking along a roadway. It scurried away into the=

darkness when approached.
No other information.

HC addendum
Source: CISU, ItalyType: E



14.
Location. Corguinho, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Date: February 5 2002
Time: night
During a localized UFO flap several witnesses reported seeing a strange
creature described as about 1.3 meters in height, having two legs, with a
physique like a human but who moved with a strange fluctuating motion. The=

creature was seen five times by twenty people in the rural zone around
Corguinho. In Rochedo, 6 miles south of Corguinho five Cebu cattle were
found dead with a single incision on the side of the throat. The bodies had=

been drained of blood. (Is there a connection?).

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


15.
Location. Mount Podbrdo, Bosnia Hercigovina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: morning
Contactee and stigmatic Giorgio Bongiovanni was visiting the shrine on top=

of the mountain and was praying silently to the Virgin when, to his
astonishment, a glowing luminous female figure appeared and touched his
forehead with her fingertips. His stigmata scar vanished instantly. The
female figure told him to return to Italy and make known what had happened.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 14
Type: E or F?


16.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: evening
73-year-old Maria Rufina Cayo, a local shepherd was walking back home with=

her dogs and the cattle. Suddenly at one point, something spooked the
animals, and these began to stampede. Looking around she spotted a bizarre=

creature standing about 12 meters away. She described it as a humanoid,
half animal, half human, about 1.70m in height, with bright red eyes, sharp=

protruding fangs, and hands and feet that ended in sharp claws. The
creature looked at the witness three times then it scrambled away using
quick jumping motions with is powerfully built hind legs, she also noticed=

large pointy ears. The top part of its body seems to have been covered in a=

shiny white blanket. It somehow resembled a centaur walking on two
claw-like feet.  Alerted by the shouts of Maria, two men, Santos Jaimes,
and Ruben Colque ran out to investigate with their dogs. Suddenly the dogs=

stopped and began making pitiful howling noises, they refused to move any
further. The men heard noises behind some nearby bushes and went to
investigate and spotted a bizarre creature that stood staring at them with=

huge reddish eyes. It then moved quickly away in the direction of Cerro
Negro and disappeared from sight. The witnesses noticed very sharp claws on=

the creature's feet with a very sharp claw that appeared to be pointed
backwards. Strange footprints were found the next day.

HC addendum
Source: El Tribuno, Salta Argentina March 27 2002
Also Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E



17.
Location. Khanpur, Ahmedabad, India
Date: February 20 2002
Time: after midnight
Several local residents reportedly have encountered a person, dressed in
black and wearing a mask. Dubbed the "Monkeyman" whom they described as
between 25 and 20 years of age, dark skinned and having curly hair can
reportedly be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees. Two
local youths chased it and the figure reportedly disappeared in plain
sight. The two youths have been behaving abnormally since then. The
stranger was also chased along the riverbed near the Cama Hotel and it also=

suddenly disappeared. Others have heard the stranger running on the
rooftops. Abdul Hamid another youngster of the local slums described the
figure as a tall lean man that carries a sharp weapon. "I saw him from the=

back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised the alarm, he jumped to=

another roof and then on to a tree." Police have searched for the stranger=

but nothing has been found.

HC addendum
Source: Fortean Times, India Express
Type: E


18.
Location. Prague, Czech Republic
Date: February 23 2002
Time: night
Blanka Slemendova was in her apartment when she saw a "ship" hovering over=

some nearby woods. It was shining red, white and yellow lights. She then
heard telepathic communication coming from the object telling her to go and=

meet them at an unspecified location. Looking over to her bedroom wall she=

saw what appeared to be a projection of human like faces looking at her.
Later that night she saw luminous figures in her room and a floating red
light also in her room. The next night she saw what appeared to be 2 gray
suns and around them a golden lights with numerous groups of shiny
human-like figures floating about. She interpreted these as being angels.

HC addendum
Source: Direct from witness (Slemendova)
Type: C & F?


19.
Location. Wycliffe Well Roadhouse, Northern Territory Australia
Date: early March 2002
Time: evening
While workers in the area watched unusual lights in the sky an aboriginal
woman encountered a triangular sort of object in a paddock and all of the
sudden she saw three silvery clad human like figures that began to move
toward her vehicle. She turned the vehicle around and took off.

HC addendum
Source: Lou Farcus ABC On-lineType: C


20.
Location. Near Canberra Australia
Date: March 2002
Time: 1700
Several friends were taking a trip to the coast and it was already very
dark. They had already entered a tropical forest area and there was a mist=

rolling along the ground. As they turned around they saw something
squatting in the middle of the road. It stared at them, and just as they
thought they were going to hit it, it leaped off the road and into the
trees. It leaped about 10 meters in the air. The creature was definitely
human looking although it wore strange clothes. It was dressed in a green
robe of some kind with little pieces of gold on it, and it was either
wearing a head crest or it had a row of spikes running from its forehead to=

the top of its neck. Very frightened the witnesses drove out of the forest=

and at the same time the mist turned to a thick fog. They pulled over and
decided to wait until the fog had cleared, although none of them were too
happy about it. As they sat around and waited they suddenly heard a shriek.=

It sounded like some sort of wild animal and they turned the car on so the=

headlights would scare it away. The headlights revealed the same creature
they had seen earlier. It hid its face from the light and shrieked. Right
before the witnesses' eyes, the creature seemed to evaporate into the fog.=

Within five minutes the fog had gone and the normal rolling mist was back.=

The witnesses quickly left the area and drove towards the coast.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June ArchiveType: E


21.
Location. Guanica Puerto Rico
Date: March 1 2002
Time: 2345
Reinaldo Rios (involved in other encounters) was in his bedroom that night=

when a large white light suddenly appeared. It flew around the room several=

times and then hovered. He heard voices coming from the light, which
communicated with him. The voice said: "I am your real father." Soon the
light transformed itself into a figure resembling that of a little boy it
then vanished in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: UFOs over America.com
Type: E


22.
Location. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 0800A
The witness and his wife were in bed that Saturday morning talking when
their 5-year-old daughter came into the bedroom with her baby brother,
whose cot is placed under their bedroom window. They heard a strange noise=

and some green light came into the window. Their daughter looked out the
window and reported seeing a "flying car" with four spinning green lights
on top. She saw two windows in the vehicle and saw two dark brown faces
looking out. His wife saw the craft flying past through the curtains. That=

same morning, in a large tree near the witness house a strange structure
was found. The branches were arranged in a rectangular pen shape, vertical,=

each approximately 30 to 40 cm long. They found a few smaller sticks
scaling down in size from the structure. A piece of concrete slab was found=

propped up on one corner. The witnesses had never seen this strange
structure before and think is some kind of message left by the visitors.
(Some kind of bizarre crop circle?). A few nights before they had heard
strange noises coming from the kitchen area.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: A


23.
Location. Golasecca Di Novara, Italy
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 2330
Augusto & Maurizia were in their vehicle parked in an open field next to a=

wooded area having a heated discussion when suddenly a powerful beam of
reddish-orange light illuminated the area around them. They rolled down the=

car window and heard a sharp metallic sound that seemed to be increasing in=

intensity. They now noticed, behind the beam of light a hovering
disc-shaped craft with a central rotating ring, it hovered about a meter
from the ground. From the object, a cigar-shaped beam of light emerged;
they could see it as the central ring of the craft slowly rotated on its
axis. The craft was only about 10 meters away. At this point, and only
about 4 meters from the object Augusto saw what appeared to be a gelatinous=

transparent humanoid-like figure with a visible head, arms and legs. The
figure was silvery in color and was very tall, about 3 meters or so. At
this point Augusto became concerned and drove away from the area and did
not see the object or figure depart. The whole episode lasted about 10
minutes. The metallic noise was heard all throughout the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Alfredo Lissoni, CUN Milano, Michelle Castellano CUN VareseType: C


24.
Location. Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England
Date: March 3 2002
Time: morning
Helen Diskin went for a walk in the countryside talking snap shots along
the way with her digital camera. Returning home she loaded these into her
computer and was intrigued by an odd-looking image. It looked like a
luminous figure in an area of no sunlight, skulking amongst the trees. She=

returned to the site of the photo twice afterward and could find no
explanation for the figure. The figure resembled a small helmeted figure
that she had not seen when she took the picture of an area of the woods she=

had thought of as "mysterious."

HC addendum
Source: Helen Diskin, UFO Magazine Vol. 22 # 1Type: E?


25.
Location. Near Trenton New Jersey
Date: March 4 2002
Time: night
Several witnesses were camping outside of town and late at night one of
them was attempting to put out the bonfire when he heard the most awful and=

horrifying scream. It resembled that of an injured dog crossed with a
scream of a woman. The witness dropped the flashlight and was joined by
another witness. Suddenly out of the woods a hideous and gruesome creature=

appeared. It did not look human, somewhat satyr-like in appearance and
walked on two legs. It had a long tail like a dragon and wings like those
unicorns in fantasy books. The beast took several steps towards the
witnesses and one of them picked up and asked and yelled at it and then
shone his flashlight at it. The creature then turned towards the bushes and=

ran away from the area.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: E


26.
Location. Pichaca, Salta, Argentina
Date: March 9 2002
Time: night
Ceferino Leoncio was cleaning his one room metal shack when suddenly a
bright light engulfed the room. He felt a sudden heat as he saw a tiny
figure (50 cm) of an angel-like creature materialize in front of him. It
slowly moved its small wing-like protrusions and moved around and then
suddenly stopped and remained still. It appeared to be a small living human=

like living being until it appeared to hardened and turn into some type of=

statue of cherubic appearance. Locals have now built a shrine around the
tiny "statue" and call the strange materialization a "religious miracle".

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso
Type: F?



27.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: March 16 2002
Time: 2215
Mirna, was watching television alone in her room when she began hearing
noises coming from outside, at first she thought it was her dogs playing
around with some empty cans. But the noises kept getting louder and louder=

and she decided to go outside to investigate. Once outside she was stunned=

to see some type creature that had somehow entered the rabbit cage and was=

attacking the animals that were making loud unearthly screams. Thinking at=

first that it was one of the dogs she approached the case but realized that=

it was a gray colored hairy hunched over creature, that was moving quickly=

inside the cage. She stepped back and could not understand how the creature=

had entered the cage, since there wasn't any apparent hole or aperture
visible anywhere and the door was firmly closed. Afraid she ran inside her=

home and notified her son, both then ran out but the creature had
mysteriously disappeared. Unnerved, they could not understand how they
creature had escaped since the door to the rabbit caged was still firmly
locked. Later they could only find a small round hole in the wire only
several centimeters in width, not large enough for a creature estimated to=

have been about 70 to 80 cm in height. Several of the rabbits were found
injured and one was dead.

HC addendum
Source: Calama UFO CenterType: E


28.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: March 19 2002
Time: 2000
Young Elizabeth Lera reported seeing a short humanoid with "dark eyes"
looking into the building compound from behind a wire fence. It appeared
not to have any other facial features and was wearing dark clothing; it
wore some type of head covering, which was hard to see because of the
darkness. She could only see a pair of large dark eyes on his face that
appeared to shine in the darkness. Some more children now arrived and
observed as the humanoid move several steps towards them. Another witness,=

Rene Mamani saw the humanoid run and hide behind some bushes. It seemed to=

move at very high speed in an unnatural fashion. It seemed to have remained=

suspended in mid-air for a few seconds. It then seemed to fly through the
air and disappeared into some nearby woods. Other students at the school
reportedly saw it again on the night of the 20th.

HC addendum
Source: Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E


29.
Location. Woodburn, Oregon
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 0300A
The witness was sleeping when she woke up suddenly feeling paralyzed. The
witness was completely unable to move or speak. Her next memory was of a
strange sensation on her left cheek, which hurt a lot. Unseen "beings" were=

apparently taking skin samples. Her face was left with a pink fleshy scoop=

down my left cheek, directly on the cheekbone. A teardrop scar was left on=

her cheek.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical Universe
Type: G?




30.
Location. Bethlehem, Israel
Date: March 21 2002
Time: night
At the besieged Church of The Nativity several awed witnesses have come
forward describing the events of Thursday night. That night, a smell of
roses filled the sanctuary as the Daughters of Charity held their evening
prayers. "The sweet scent was soon followed by a high musical humming sound=

and a distinct feeling of warmth emanating from the ceiling." Then, the
sisters reported, seeing a glowing beam of light gradually forming the
likeness of the Blessed Virgin "like a film coming into focus." Tears were=

running down her face, and she uttered a prophetic warning. "Time is
growing short, and the promised Judgment Day is nearly at hand." One week
before the apparition, The Church of the Holy Family was the scene of a
ferocious firefight between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 17Type: F


31.
Location. Not given
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 2255
16-year old Steven Mizon saw hovering over a street a large oval shaped
craft encircled in bright lights and with several lighted windows around
its edge. A figure stared down at him from one of the windows. No other
information.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Watch
Type: A



32.
Location. Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain
Date: March 26 2002
Time: 1500
A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a deserted road when=

he noticed ahead in the distance and in the middle of the roadway an object=

resembling a shiny pear that was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat
perplexed he approached and noticed two individuals standing on a nearby
field. These were over 2 meters in height, wore tight fitting white
coveralls and helmets resembling that of the early astronauts. He parked
his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men=

walked away and entered the shiny pear-shaped craft while the other
remained behind. Knowing that these men were "not from this earth" he still=

asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt that as
he approached the strange pair he had been in some type of a trance and
seemed to have floated over the road. The humanoid answered and appeared
genuinely happy as to his offer of assistance but said that everything was=

in order. He also added that the area was very beautiful and also added:
"Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such
beautiful scenes, they disappeared a long time ago." The astounded witness=

managed to ask the humanoid where he was from and was told that they hailed=

from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The=

humanoid smiled as he answered the question. The humanoid then bid goodbye=

and walked towards the nearby shiny pear shaped object, he then disappeared=

inside of it. The craft then emitted a loud whistling sound and disappeared=

at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the
humanoids as about 2.50 meters in height, wide chests and heavy set, thin
legs. Generally human features, but somewhat "refined" or sharpened
features. The suits were very tight fitting made of an apparent synthetic
material resembling plastic. Their eyes were very light almost white and
their speech was hesitant & accented. Also their movements seemed kind of
clumsy.

HC addendum
Source: J M Garcia, Francisco Padron, SpainType: B


33.
Location. Pringle Lake, Texas
Date: March 28 2002
Time: 1100A
Mark Hakemack and a friend had taken an airboat out on the NW side of the
lake to do a little redfish fishing. The day was kind of hazy, with broken=

cloud cover. They had caught several trout and were just chatting when he
hooked up a large redfish while playing with the fish, Mark happened to
glance upwards and saw a large bird-like creature emerge from a cloudbank.=

His friend saw it too, after about 20 to 25 seconds it flew behind cloud
cover again. The strange creature was grayish in color and the profile of a=

raptor, short neck/head, no legs sticking out behind, and no long tail
feathers. Mark could not take his eyes off it. He estimated the wingspan to=

have been 10' to 14 ' in overall. It appeared to be soaring on the wind,
although, he did see it give a couple of light "flaps" with its wings. The=

witness could only relate this to the legendary "Thunderbird" legend.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.comType: E


34.
Location. Sevilla, Spain
Date: March 30 2002
Time: late night
The witness to the March 26 case was at home with his wife and was getting=

ready to sleep when he heard footsteps coming from patio area outside his
chalet. Armed with a club, he opened the door and was stunned to see the
same two tall heavyset humanoids he had encountered 4 days before. One of
the humanoids was kneeling on the ground as if inspecting something on the=

soil, the other one upon hearing the door open, turned and quickly assured=

the witness not to fear that they were not here to harm him. Stunned, the
witness invited the two humanoids in the house for some refreshments (!).
These declined the invitation telling that they had to go already. Using
the same clumsy movements both humanoids walked towards the rear of the
house where the witness noticed the same shiny metallic pear shaped craft
on the ground. They entered the object, which quickly left at high speed.
The witness's wife awakened by the voices was able to see the two humanoids=

from a second story window, and described them in the same way.

HC addendum
Source: Francisco Padron, Jose Manuel Garcia, SpainType: B


35.
Location. Los Cipreses, Chile
Date: March 31 2002
Time: noon
During a local UFO congress 24 persons in three groups entered a
dimensional gateway that appeared by itself over the terrain. It was kind
of a dome, a luminous archway measuring four by four meters. The
participants lost their materiality without disappearing completely. Upon
entering, they met several human-like alien characters with large baldheads=

and wearing robes that waited within and received information. According to=

sources the contact experience was "dimensional" it was like crossing into=

a different reality. The 24 participants were "all professionals, college
students of high intellectual levels, mostly Chileans," and some were
members of Grupo Rama, a New Age association.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 16, quoting Camilo Valdivieto
Type: G or F?


36.
Location. Tbilissi Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: night
A man entered the local St David church and reported that "a phantom with
wings" had approached him and predicted an earthquake that indeed took
place on April 25 2002, devastating areas of central Georgia.

HC addendum
Source: Pravda
Type: E?


37.
Location. Near Macon, Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: 2300
Three friends were awakened by loud banging noises and bellowing sounds
coming from outside. One of the men ran to the bathroom and looked out the=

window to see a figure run by and squat in the nearby bushes. He described=

the creature as about 3 ft tall, hairy with what appeared to be horns on
its head and hands; he could not see a face. Others in the neighborhood
heard the banging noises.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.com and direct witness
Communication.
Type: E


38.
Location. Belvedere di Tezze, Italy
Date: April 26 2002
Time: evening
A 20-year old woman was returning home one night when she noticed some
bright lights nearby of an unknown origin. She followed the lights in her
car until she stopped near a local pizzeria. She saw the light near the
ground and within the lights two tall slender human like figures wearing
some type of headgear. Since she was carrying a camera she was able to snap=

a quick picture. The figures then vanished. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Gruppo Accademico Ufologico Scandicci quoting
"Il giornale di Vicenza"Type: E?


39.
Location. Puente Santamaria, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: early morning
Two young men observed a dark object descend towards the ground about 100
meters away. According to the two witnesses from the craft descended a
small humanoid, orange in color. Very scared they both ran from the area
and reported their experience to others.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: B


40.
Location. Merceditas, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: evening
An elderly couple was walking along National Route # 8 when about 800
meters from their location they noticed a very strong light. The light
descended next to a puddle at about 70 meters from the witness. Both then
saw two very short orange colored humanoids that moved in very agile
movements near the object. Terrified they walked away and upon looking back=

saw a bright glow on the ground.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: C


41.
Location. Barangay, Philippines
Date: May 2002
Time: night
Several local residents reported seeing a bizarre creature described as an=

"aswang" reputed to be a winged vampire type creature, it reportedly had
red glowing eyes, long black hair, and was wearing a white flowing gown. It=

was seen perched on top of a bamboo tree. Residents at nearby Roxas
reported seeing a similar creature. The police was called but a search
failed to locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Akasico.comType: E


42.
Location. Alvear, La Pampa Argentina
Date: May 3 2002
Time: near midnight
Several young men were returning home late at night along a deserted
roadway when suddenly out of nowhere a female figure wearing a light
flowing gown and with long black hair appeared in front of them. The
strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly and repeatedly asked for=

assistance from the men in a strange urgent tone. Terrified the men ran
from the area and later returned with additional witnesses but they could
find no trace of the strange apparition.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E?


43.
Location. Taralgon Victoria, Australia
Date: May 24 2002
Time: 2355
Walking near the Loy Yang Power station 45-year old Martin Taylor was
suddenly blinded by an intense blue light and he felt extremely dizzy. His=

next memory was of being in a circular room with a variety of lights and
buttons scattered about the walls. He was lying on a large table that
seemed to be of a very highly polished metal. He was strapped down and his=

shirt had been removed. There were wires attached to his arms, neck and
temples. A four ft tall humanoid figure with very large almond shaped eyes,=

almost transparent looking skin, ghostly white in appearance examined him.=

The figure had three extremely long fingers on each hand and spoke in a
strange dialect.

HC addendum
Source: UFO WatchType: G


44.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: May 29 2002
Time: midnight
Irma Rick watched a rotating luminous object descend close to the ground
next to a grain silo; it gave off a powerful bluish light through some
openings around its circumference. It hovered close to the ground. Through=

an opening a strange creature was seen to descend to the ground. It was
described as having an elongated semi-transparent white body; it also had
an elongated head. She could not see any eyes or legs on the creature as it=

stood motionless next to the craft. She observed the creature and object
for about 5 minutes until she dropped the flashlight she was carrying.
Afraid she left the area and did not see the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: B



45.
Location. Lembang Bandung, Indonesia
Date: May 30 2002
Time: 2315
The witness was driving his motorcycle across a highland area when he
spotted some flashing lights overhead and then noticed a silvery
disc-shaped craft descend low over some nearby graves at a cemetery. The
craft had blue and orange flashing lights around its rim. There was no
sound as the craft apparently emitted a beam of light towards the ground
and levitated what appeared to be some dead bodies onboard the object. (!)=

The witness was apparently paralyzed and was unable to move. The craft then=

shot away at a 45-degree angle and disappeared from sight. When that
happened the witness left the scene.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


46.
Location. Houston, Texas
Date: late May 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness was at the local electric company in order to pay a bill when
she decided to use the restrooms. Sitting in the stall she then noticed on=

the side of the wall of the stall what appeared to be a face lit up in a
dull light. When the witness looked directly at the "face" it vanished. She=

described is as having large round eyes no visible nose and a slit-like
mouth. (A peeping tom alien?)

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.comType: E?


47.
Location. General Acha, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: early June 2002
Time: various
A resident of the Oeste neighborhood informed newspaper sources that a
short green-colored dwarf like entity has appeared twice on her property:
once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When her husband ran out
responding to her screams, the mysterious entity vanished by rapidly
climbing up a tree. All versions agree in that the entity is short in
stature. Another resident added that it moved so quickly that it was hard
to describe it. In the same area mysterious cattle mutilations have also
been reported.

HC addendum
Source: Loren Coleman in UFO UpdatesType: E


48.
Location. Ojo De Agua, Argentina
Date: June 2002
Time: afternoon
Several passengers onboard two farm micro buses reported seeing a very tall=

dark man like figure that appeared to be wearing a tight fitting diver's
outfit standing on a nearby field. Nearby numerous mysterious animal
mutilations have been reported. The figure was silent and was quickly lost=

from sight as the buses moved away.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E




49.
Location. Near Tampa, Florida
Date: June 2002
Time: night
A man and three of his friends reported encountering two bizarre chupacabra=

type creatures one stood about 3-4 ft tall, the other looked to be about 6=

ft tall. Both had large glowing red eyes and spikes starting from the head=

to the back. They scurried away into a wooded area. (They were to have
further encounters in August).

HC addendum
Source: Art Bell.comType: E


50.
Location. Antalya, Turkey
Date: June 5 2002
Time: afternoon
Approximately 45 witnesses claimed they saw an UFO in the Santral district=

landing on the backyard of the Fatma Primary School. Several students
including Murat Esici age 11 saw an alien emitting red rays from his eyes
come out of the object. His hands and feet were metallic. He had a very big=

head and was about 1.80 meters in height. Esici temporarily lost her voice=

immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also=

claimed they san an unusual craft and an alien beside it. "His eyes and
hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes." The children
were overcome with shock after the incident.

HC addendum
Source: Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center Intl
Type: B


51.
Location. Polonnauruwa, Sri Lanka
Date: June 8 2002
Time: 2200
Approximately 50 to 70 eyewitnesses saw a UFO flying at about 100 meters
above ground level. The object was silent and briefly landed emitting a
bright flash like light. When it was close to the ground the object emitted=

a buzzing sound. Three other witnesses saw three 2 ft tall creatures than
when approached ran into the jungle and disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Sources
Type: D


52.
Location. Polonnaruwa, Sir Lanka
Date: June 9 2002
Time: 2012
Two witnesses went to a bath on a nearby river when they heard a loud
thundering sound and a UFO appeared. The craft landed nearby and two, 2 ft=

tall "aliens" emerged from the object. One of the humanoids flung a small
fluorescent fireball like object that flew over a house and vanished. Soon=

the craft and humanoids disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC & News Reports
Type: B



53.
Location. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Date: June 10 2002
Time: 1900
Witnesses saw a mysterious light in the sky and others saw a large disc
shaped object land nearby. Three humanoids only about 2 ft tall emerged
from the craft and disappeared into the forest when approached. The object=

also left.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Reports
Type: B


54.
Location. Chantilly, Virginia
Date: June 10 2002
Time: night
The witness was awakened during the night with a sense of some presence in=

the room. Looking toward the door, he saw, fading quickly, something, which=

almost had the appearance of a hologram. Next, shadows appeared outside the=

windows in an erratic shape. At first he thought the shadows to be from
trees moving in a strong wind. The appearance was of a storm blowing the
limbs to create these shadows outside the window. However, there was no
storm. He looked at the adjacent window on the side of the house facing
opposite and there was no wind at all. In fact there was no trees
positioned in such a way to cast a shadow. He opened the blinds to see what=

might be causing the shadows. He then saw what seemed to be a hologram with=

the shape of two small eyes moving erratically outside the window.
Frightened he closed the blinds. Two weeks later he was awakened by a
humming sound and again saw the erratic shadows outside the window. He
watched the shadows for 10-15 minutes and then called the police. The
police found no signs of any intrusion in the yard. When the police left
the witness walked toward the door facing the back porch and saw a large
burst of bluish white light. It looked unnatural, almost like a laser. He
has not seen the "shadows" again.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: E?


55.
Location. Ataliva Roca, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 11 2002
Time: 1930
A worker at a local drainage project was sitting and guarding some
machinery when he noticed a short greenish colored humanoid figure that was=

approaching his location from a nearby field. The witness became concerned=

and drove away from the area in the construction equipment and did not see=

the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


56.
Location. Eduardo Castex, La Pampa Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Two girls of a local school encountered a short greenish humanoid figure in=

the playing yard. The figure was standing up and appeared to be raising its=

arms up to the sky. Terrified the two girls retreated into the school and
watched the figure scurry away into some nearby woods. Around the same time=

a local farmer found a strangely mutilated hog in his farm.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


57.
Location. Chasico, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Hugo Deluca and several other workers were parked in a bus in an isolated
area when they spotted about 20 meters away a short, 1.20 meters tall,
bipedal figure completely covered in gray hair. It walked upright like a
man and then scurried away into some woods vanishing from sight. The area
had been hit with animal mutilations around the same time.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


58.
Location. Castex, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 13 2002
Time: night
A 70-year old man had gone to his driveway to check on a flat tire in his
car when a short light green colored humanoid suddenly appeared next to
him. It had large round ears, and two reddish luminous eyes. Its body was
thin and almost triangular in shape. The witness attempted to yell out but=

was suddenly unable to speak and at the same time strange warmth invaded
his body. Several seconds later the humanoid vanished and the witness
returned to normal. He reported the incident to the police.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


59.
Location. La Laguna, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 14 2002
Time: afternoon
Several youngster had gone into the fields in order to obtain some firewood=

when they saw sitting on a clearing in the woods two human like figures,
all dressed in black. They sat facing each other, one looking towards the
east the other towards the west, unmoving. Unnerved by the sight the
juveniles ran from the area. The next day the father of one of the boys
found two dead cows at the site, but could find no trace of the strange
pair. Days later a sheep and a horse were found dead and strangely
mutilated in the nearby location of El Cardonal.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: E


60.
Location. De Kalb, Illinois
Date: June 15 2002
Time: 0030A
The witness was sitting in his family room watching TV when he noticed a
bright flash of light outside the window. He saw the flash several times
and decided to check his backyard there he saw a circular light moving
around in circles. The light began to get closer; scared he ran inside his=

home and called a friend on the phone. He then quickly ran outside and saw=

the circle getting closer, he noticed that it had a purplish color to it
and it began to descend towards the ground. He became nauseous and dizzy
and collapsed on to the ground. He tried to crawl to the house but was
unable to move. He turned his head and saw the purplish object on the
ground and what appeared to be a door opening up. He then heard a squeaking=

noise and saw a tall and a short figure standing by a door of the object.
The two figures started to move towards him, walking in a strange bopping
fashion. They were of a dark complexion with a bumpy texture, other than
that they resembled normal human beings. The shorter figure approached and=

picked up the witness' camera and stared at it. He then looked at the
taller figure and handed it to him. The taller of the two looked at the
camera and then at the witness. The witness then heard loud unpleasant
shrieks coming from the taller figure, which then gave the camera back to
the shorter figure, which covered the camera with his hand, seconds later a=

light began to emerge from their hands. Then they stopped, threw the camera=

aside and began to walk towards the witness. They reached his side and
started to examine his body. A dog began to bark from inside the house and=

the shorter figure put out his hand and the dog stopped barking. At this
point the witness began to vomit. After about a minute he began to relax
and to breathe better. When he turned his head he realized that the two
figures and the purple spherical object were now gone. The next day he had=

a very severe headache.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: B


61.
Location. San Juan, Argentina
Date: June 20 2002
Time: evening
At a location where the body of a strangely mutilated carcass of a cow was=

found two witnesses reported seeing a small creature with large glowing
slanted eyes and about one meter in height. Later in the same area, members=

of the Gimenez family after investigating noises and a strong odor coming
from a wooded area found a mutilated cow and also watched a short humanoid=

with glowing eyes scurrying away into the woods.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


62.
Location. Manuel Rodriguez, Calama, Chile
Date: June 22 2002
Time: after midnight
A bizarre creature was spotted at a local housing complex on San Antonio
Street. Witnesses reported that it resembled an ape and it jumped all over=

the roof. It passed right in front of the witness, Maria Gavia's window and=

then it came back making all manner of noise. The creature was able to make=

very long jumps, unlike any a human could. It jumped and landed on the
neighbor's roof and then it left the area. Neighborhood dogs acted scared
and began howling. Others described the creature as about 1.5 meters tall,=

stocky in build with bright red eyes. It made a lot of noise. Others
reportedly chased the creature.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center, quoting El
Mercurio de CalamaType: E


63.
Location. Angencia Realico, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 23 2002
Time: late night
Several hunters returning to a local ranch spotted about 50 meters away two=

large glowing reddish eyes staring at them. They turned off their
flashlight and approached closer on foot, about 30 meters away they again
saw the reddish eyes on a dark creature that appeared to be standing on top=

of an apparently dead animal. One of the hunters shone its flashlight on
the figure again and saw a figure about 40 cm in height that quickly ran
from the area at very high speed. The creature disappeared into the brush.=

At the scene, a dead and mutilated young heifer. Other mutilations were
reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


64.
Location. Rancul, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 25 2002
Time: 2020
Two young men, Nestor Pinto and Daniel Gatica were walking on a field when=

they encountered a short man-like figure with huge pointy ears and long
dangling arms standing near some brush. The figure scurried into the brush=

and disappeared and at the same time the two witnesses ran away from the
area and did not see the strange dwarf again.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


65.
Location. Bavaria, Germany (exact location not given)
Date: June 25 2002
Time: night
The witness had stayed up late watching the soccer game as was in his
bedroom when suddenly there was a coldness around him that made him shiver.=

He noticed that his audio capabilities were somehow enhanced and he was
able to hear sounds that previously he was unable to hear. He then heard a=

noise outside his door and went out to investigate. The noise became louder=

as he approached the door. He then heard footsteps and opened the door. A
very small man with a somewhat deformed body that was smiling at him
confronted the witness. He looked straight ahead and then stared at the
witness. His next memory was of waking up in his bed in the morning.

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.com
Type: E


66.
Location. Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2105
The primary witness had stepped out on his back porch when his attention
was drawn to two huge black "birds" which were approaching from the north.=

His first impression was they were Herons, but soon realized that the color=

was wrong, and "they were huge, much larger than any bird I have ever
seen." The two huge birds landed at the top of a very tall coniferous tree.=

The witness stated that the wingspan appeared to be wider than the
branches, jest below where they had landed. The body size was estimated to=

be about six feet from head to tail. The oddest feature was the shape of
the wings, which according to the witness appeared to be bat-like. The tree=

where the "birds" landed seemed as though it would break from their weight.=

The witness yelled for others in the house to come outside to look. Another=

family member was able to see the huge black birds as they passed overhead,=

and headed for some woods. After checking the size of the branches where
the birds had landed, the witness estimated that the wingspan would have
been close to 12 feet or somewhat larger.

HC addendum
Source: Stan GordonType: E


67.
Location. Marldon Hill, Paington, England
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2357
A couple were walking near a local historic monument (a windmill) and they=

drew closer to monument they heard a low whirling noise. The noise
progressed to a high-pitched whining, almost out of hearing range. Then
they saw a mysterious glow coming from the dark side of the windmill, and
then to their astonishment they saw 5 or 6 shadow like figures standing in=

front of the windmill. Startled the two began to run back towards the main=

road. The woman looked back and saw the figures become engulfed by a bright=

light and disappear, and then everything became quiet.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Sightings UKType: E?


68.
Location. Adelia Maria, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 3 2002
Time: 2100
Pedro and Estela Moine had decided to visit the business district of town
called Barrio Norte and crossed the old railroad yard through a pedestrian=

pathway that ran through a pasture area between some silos, old railroad
depots and abandoned wreckage. As the couple moved through the premises
they suddenly became aware of a strange and incomprehensible conversation
between many voices. Startled, they stopped walking moved a few meters more=

and then heard the voices again which now sounded like strange "O" sounds.=

Pedro looked toward the silos and was able to see resembling humanoid but
lacking upper and lower extremities. Despite the pleas of his wife, Pedro
ran several meters toward an inner alley in the silo plant, being able to
make out some 45 meters to the west and in profile---the entity, which
acting surprised, avoided the encounter and moved again to the north.
However, what filled the witnesses with wonderment was that the creature
did so as though flying or floating without touching the facilities it
passed. Pedro and Estela ran after it. It was thus that the man managed to=

see the entity apparently hiding behind the control room of the truck
scale. Pedro ran toward it and was again startled to see the apparition
rising as a plane taking off, flying at an altitude of 5 meters and
disappearing behind a large metal shed. Bewildered, both witnesses called
out, but were unable to see anything else. Pedro Moine as "a thing with
human shape" described the apparition. It had some sort of light, although=

he could not say if reflected or self-generated, although he tends to
believe the latter, since it was a nebulous whitish light, which kept him
from making out details. The entire mass of the apparition appeared to be a=

body covered from head to toe in some sort of mantle, which he described as=

though it wore a hat, but covered with some kind of long raincoat reaching=

down to what he took to be its feet. He added that the "conversational
sounds" repeated themselves in three separate occasions at various
intensities. They were like conversations in a strange language.

HC addendum
Source: Mario Luis Bracamonte, C.O.R, Rio Cuarto Argentina
Type: E


69.
Location. Jerusalem, Israel
Date: July 6 2002
Time: night
A remote TV camera picked up images of "orbs seen on the corner to the
right of the Wailing Wall." They seemed to have facial features almost like=

a ghost, reported investigator Charlotte LeFevre. The orbs were described
as "sharp and distinct". The orbs were next to the women's prayer area in
front of the Wall. Other strange phenomena, has been reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 29Type: F?


70.
Location. Villa Elisa, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: July 13 2002
Time: 2300
A young woman fainted from nervous shock after having an alleged closed
encounter with "some sort of green dwarf". This occurred---enveloped in
darkness---along Misioneros Salesianos Street very close to several houses.=

An ambulance was called and apparently transported the witness who was in
shock.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria ColuchiType: E


71.
Location. Patna, India
Date: July 21 2002
Time: night
Several residents claim they've been bitten or scratched by a "black
monkey-like creature with colored lights flashing from its eyes." Resident=

Pawan Kumar Niyogi who was sleeping on the terrace of his house claims "a 5=

ft tall monkey-like creature" attacked him. He said: "I was terrified and
thought my life was going to end but it merely scratched me on the shoulder=

before jumping off the roof." Local residents are conducting night vigils
and carrying torches to guard their homes.

HC addendum
Source: Ananova, Ufoupdates. Type: E


72.
Location. Chajan, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 21 2002
Time: 2300
Police officer Guillermo Arias was on routine patrol through a rural area
when he heard over the radio that his colleagues in arms over at Achiras
were seeing lights in sectors of said community, and that they were heading=

towards Chajan along National Route 8. At the wheel of the police patrol
van, he managed to see a formation of 7 lights in the distance and decided=

to drive 10 km along a rural dirt road. When he had covered said distance,=

he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine of his vehicle sputtered=

and died, causing the police car to strike the edge of a guardrail.
Simultaneously, the lights on the van's dashboard began turning on and off=

randomly, the police radio went haywire and its dial displayed the random
shifting of the frequencies while the cabin became filled with an acrid
odor, as though of burnt wiring, and the interior lights and stop
indicator, which were broken, began lighting on and off. Seized by fear,
Arias leaped from the van and walked away a few meters down the road,
losing his cellular phone in the escape. The darkness was total, when
suddenly, amid the confusing situation; an immense light emerged from a
field adjacent to the road as a triangular object rose majestically into
the air. Now Arias condition went from fear to abject terror as he saw what=

he described as a real "floating city" some 200 meters long with a long row=

of windows (perhaps as many as 100). Arias claims having seen something
move behind them, describing the movement as "TV sets which make lines and=

shadows", which he defined as "non-human", and that many beams of light
came out of the giant triangle, aimed at the ground. The event lasted 2-3
seconds, but to Arias it felt like an eternity. The object suddenly rose
and sped away, vanishing behind the hills of a local field. As the object
moved away, the whole area was lit up like daytime and there was an
afterglow that lasted another 20 minutes.

HC addendum
Source: C.O.R., Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense, Argentina
Type: A


73.
Location. Waconia, Minnesota
Date: July 26 2002
Time: 0300A
The young witness was sleeping in the backyard with his sister when he
suddenly woke up. He then noticed that the side of the tent that faced the=

wetlands and lake was lit up. Looking towards the light he saw a shadowy
torso and arm of a humanoid figure that seemed to be moving around within
the light. He watched for 30 seconds and saw the figure move the fingers of=

his hands. The witness became frightened and hid in his sleeping bag. He
came out about an hour later and the light and strange figure were
completely gone.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


74.
Location. Sedona, Arizona
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 0310A
In a wooded area the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all
white, with black "straight" eyes; and black diagonal/diamond strip of
"clothing" on top. He stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then
left. Prior to seeing the figure the witness had seen lights in a large
oval shaped pattern in the sky.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


75.
Location. Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 1730
Three girls had decided to visit the rooftop as they did the prior evening=

watching for satellites. It was dusk and the girls had a good vantage point=

looking towards the east. With them they had a pair of binoculars and a
pair of walkie-talkies. The girls noticed that a large orange light
appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The anomaly
was noted to have fluctuated in colors of orange, yellow, white and pale
blue. At fist they thought of an arriving airplane, but then a second light=

appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10=

degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some=

unusually maneuvering; from a stationary position it accelerated at least 5=

degrees closer to the ground surface at an approximate 45-60 degree angle
within a matter of a single second. The first anomaly then began to move
slowly towards the north. At this stage they partially lost view of it as
it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley-like
region of the horizon. According to the witnesses, this third object
appeared to have "landed" on the ground surface. The object was then viewed=

through the binoculars and presented in great detail; the object was
described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange,=

blue/purple and white rotating around the rim. Thy also noted the trees
being slightly illuminated by this extraordinary phenomenon. They were
suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, "Identify
yourself." This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in a
foreign language. Around 1830 the girls were then called down to have
dinner. At about 2030 the girls re-established their places on the roof
after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still
present. Unexpectedly a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above
the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. "It
was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away." The=

light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it=

is not clear how one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became
extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed
her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not=

sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another of the girls woke up
the next morning with her nose bleeding. She also mentioned that she had
seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom.

HC addendum
Source: The Australian UFO Research NetworkType: D or
F?



76.
Location. Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 29 2002
Time: early morning
Local residents have seen a strange figure, which they described as
resembling a "shroud". The apparitions, which always occur in the early
morning hours, have become so common that in recent days several neighbors=

have stayed up late to see them, and it is thus that they were able to
confirm the simultaneous presence of up to 2 such beings, as well as red
lights flying over the area. All the witnesses whether individuals or in a=

group, agree that the entities are nebulous and glowing, with a pair of red=

eyes being clearly identifiable, and glassy faces (as if transparent).
Their movements are smooth and they always appear from behind the sand
dunes, as though "coming form the Naval Base." Most witnesses agree that
they show a great interest in the water tanks located above the roofs, and=

that they do not flee upon detecting the presence of local
residents---rather, they stare at them fixedly for some minutes. Deep
silence is perceived during the observations and "the air appears to become=

still" and neither heat nor cold can be felt---only a sensation of warmth,=

as if the beings emanated heat. Witnesses also state that things appear to=

be darker when "the shroud" appears, as though ambient lighting were
dimmed. Another curious fact is the large number of cats and dogs who
report to the place where the sightings occur and sit down to observe it in=

silence, in a state resembling a trance. A series of semi-circular prints
have been found in the dunes, not very deep, with 15-20 cm separations in
some cases and 30-50 cm in others. The locals have identified them as the
strange being's footprints. Efforts have been made to photograph the
"shroud", but all images, despite the use of different cameras appear
exposed. One witness who approached the site to witness the phenomenon took=

two photos of the prints in the afternoon and decided to stay with the
group of people hoping to see the "shroud", managing to take some photos of=

same and record the new prints which appeared in the dunes after the
sighting. A completely uncommon print was found at the site---but the
residents aren't sure if it's related to the phenomenon: it has the shape
of a five-fingered claw. One witness tried to make use of his carbine's
telescopic sight to see the figure in greater detail, but "when he tried to=

focus on it, he could see nothing_it was a though it could only be seen
with the unaided eye."

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, IHU, Christian Quintero and O A Mario
Proyecto Condor
Type: C or E?


77.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 30 2002
Time: 0530A
27-year old Mariela Baigorri reported seeing a strange figure that floated=

in front of her house. She had woken up early that morning and was getting=

ready to mount her bicycle when she saw behind the fence something floating=

in mid-air. It appeared to be a figure wearing a flowing white transparent=

tunic, with bright red eyes and undefined facial features. Feeling no fear=

she decided to approach it. She felt as if the figure waited for her and
was observing her. At this point Mariela felt some fear and began reciting=

the Lord's Prayer. The figure suddenly moved back and disappeared in plain=

sight.

HC addendum
Source: Juan Carlos Corrales Morey, Vision Ovni, Argentina
Type: E


78.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 31 2002
Time: 1845
23-year old Julian Pereyra was in his vehicle when he observed two red
spheres flying slowly over some nearby woods, they seemed to descend and
disappear behind the trees. 15 minutes later, Pereyra, accompanied by
several other witnesses approached the area and observed what they
described a tall floating figure wearing a white glowing cape like outfit,=

it seemed to glide silently over a field. It had what appeared to be a
visor at face level and two beams of red light emerged from where the eyes=

would have been. The witnesses watched the strange figure glide over the
fields for about 30 minutes. Curiously numerous local dogs and cats
approached and also watched the figure in fascination. The lights and
figure disappeared into the distance. In another occasion Pereyra and some=

of his family members encountered the strange humanoid and felt a strange
sensation as if the wind had suddenly stopped, they felt as they were
inside a vacuum or "bubble." Strange tracks have been reportedly found in
the area also.

HC addendum
Source: Diario La Nueva Provincia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Type: C?


79.
Location. La Cienaga, Pocri, Panama
Date: early August 2002
Time: night
Luis Alfredo Diaz reported hearing loud noises coming from the terraced
patio where the kitchen was located, going to investigate he found his cat=

apparently dead with two obvious holes on the neck and some blood on the
floor. Before finding the cat he had called his wife, Maria de Los Santos
Barrios. As his wife stood in front of him a panic stricken look came over=

her face, turning around he was confronted by a bizarre 1-meter tall
humanoid that had jumped to the center of the patio. The creature was
described as thin, covered with dark hair, with large pointed ears that
almost covered its face, it had very large eyes and extremely strong hind
legs resembling that of a kangaroo. Terrified he ran to his son's bedroom
and carried him outside yelling for his neighbors. A search failed to
locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Panamanian Paranormal Forum
Type: E


80.
Location. Near Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Date: August 2002
Time: night
The same witness involved in a similar encounter last year was again
camping in the same area when he again heard a noise. Shining the light in=

the direction of the sound he again saw the same creature. The creature sat=

there crouched by the trees staring at the witness. The witness walked
slowly towards it, he got to within 20 ft when it just jumped backward and=

disappeared. He described the creature as about five to six ft in height,
gray in color. It was totally naked. It had human features, but more
leathery, and its face was very wide, its eyes were huge and even though
they reflected light, they still looked black, resembling two intensely
black marbles. Its legs were very muscular, but turned backwards, like a
bird. Other hikers in the area have reported encountering little brown men=

on some of the more isolated trails.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal Story Archives, November 2002Type: E


81.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: August 1 2002
Time: late evening
64-year old Raul Dorado was touring some fields when he heard a loud sound=

on two occasions, like a whirlwind, which drew his attention. The third
time he saw something he describes as a green circle with three legs
hovering over him. At that moment Dorado fell to the ground, and according=

to his story, he carried a shotgun, binoculars and a cellular phone, the
latter, which was taken from his hand, and he could clearly see being
sucked into the object, which was apparently at low altitude. His next
recollection was seeing the object disappear toward the east. Dorado
remained at the location for an hour before being able to rise and walk
back to his car, returning to town in a state of shock. He had to be
hospitalized. Later when calls were placed to the (abducted) cellular phone=

someone would pick up and heavy breathing could be heard. Later on the
phone was apparently disconnected.

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, quoting Diario La Arena, La PampaType: G?


82.
Location. Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Date: August 2 2002
Time: 1730
A man named Todd Sees went up the mountain to look for pre-season deer. He=

told his wife that he would be home by noon. He rode his 4-wheeler up the
power line behind his home. He never returned. A search party composed of
local police, state police and volunteers searched for Sees. The 4-wheeler=

was found on the top of the mountain near a power-line. Tracking dogs could=

find nothing to go on around the 4-wheeler. The search went on for 2 days
and over 6 miles of mountain was covered from top to bottom. Then, in the
evening of the 2nd day, his body was found in a hard to reach wooded area.=

He was wearing his underwear. He was emaciated---not bloated. He was pale
and had an expression of horror on his face. When he went up the mountain
he was fully dressed, boots, camo-vest, hat, socks, pants. 3 people, on one=

farm, said they saw a large round bright object just above the power-lines=

at the time of the disappearance. It was silent, it did not move for about=

10 to 15 minutes. It suddenly went up and suddenly stopped. A light shone
down and something was pulled up into the light. It then went straight up,=

hesitated again, and then went west over the Susquehanna River and out of
sight. More specifically a farmer saw an object above Montour Ridge at the=

power lines, on top of the mountain, it was round and very still over the
lines. Suddenly it moved what looked like a few hundred feet to the east,
it stopped and a beam of blue and white light shone to the ground. What was=

seen next was very unnerving, he saw what appeared to be a man suspended in=

the light, he was being pulled up head first, he was moving his arms slowly=

in the light. What looked like a man was pulled up into the bottom of the
craft. A few seconds later it started shuddering, then went west very fast,=

stopped briefly, and then went straight up and out of sight. Also three
fishermen saw the craft. The FBI is supposedly also investigating. (Debated=

as a hoax, who would? and for what purpose?).

HC addendum
Source: Rense, UFO updates, NUFORCType: G?






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                            2002 Humanoid Reports

From: Albert Rosales <Garuda79@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:32:05 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:14:40 -0500
Subject: 2002 Humanoid Reports


Happy new year everyone

Sincerely,

Albert

-----

2002 Humanoid Reports. It appears to be a slow start for this
year with only one recorded case, again from Chile. We will see
what develops later on the year. 2001 was pretty busy but it was
a decline from 2000. Maybe we will see another down trend again,
later to pick up again in the near future. This seems to be the
ever-ongoing trend of the phenomena. Will it always stay the
same? Time will tell. Following is a list of known 2002 humanoid
cases.


1.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: January 2002
Time: 0300A
An employee at the local Minera Escondida was on his way to the
storage freezer in order to pick up some supplies when an
unknown creature jumped him from behind. He could only describe
it as hairy and dark. He was left with deep scratches and in a
state of shock. Terrified he ran away and bumped into two other
employees who were able to see a shadowy creature in the dark.

HC addendum
Source: La Estrella del Loa de Calama, ChileType: E


2.
Location. Caracas, Venezuela
Date: January 2002
Time: late night
Late one night in a dream-like state the witness woke up to see
seven to eight strange figures in her bedroom. They were dark
gray in color and very thin, with three large thick long fingers
on their hands. They had large, lipless mouths and large shiny
protruding black eyes, their noses were thin and protruding,
small ears, the heads was large and pointy. The humanoids
appeared to be naked and she was able to see a penis on the
humanoids. They were about 1.55 meters in height. She felt dizzy
and under the control of the strange entities. She was led out
of her bedroom by one of the humanoids that removed her clothing
and made her lie down on the floor. The humanoids apparently
attempted to molest her sexually and possibly attempted to rape
her but were not successful. She apparently passed out and does
not remember anything else about the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Lista Alcione and witness communicationType: E


3.
Location. Fort McMurry, Alberta, Canada
Date: January 2 2002
Time: 2032
Two men were parked on an isolated dirt road when they spotted a
large cone-shaped object descend and hover. One of the men
exited the car and he vanished in plain sight of the other, the
craft then also disappeared. The other man tried to drive away
to get help but the car would not start and it was to cold to
walk. He soon went to sleep and woke up later to find his friend
sleeping next to him. Later they drove back to town. His friend
does not remember what happened during those two hours of
missing time. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


4.
Location. Paso Lovera, Corrientes, Argentina
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2030
Gabriela Lencinas, 15-year old and a 19-year old friend were
returning home on a bicycle when they spotted a large cloud like
object descend from the sky and from it a giant figure emerge.
The witnesses stopped their bicycles to see a car approach the
giant figure, stop, the driver exit the car and then re-entering
the vehicle and driving quickly away. The figure then rose up
into the cloud and disappeared. The girls reported that the
giant human-like figure had its hair standing up on his head and
was extending its arms towards the witnesses that quickly rode
their bicycles home. Other in the area reported seeing bright
lights that same night.

HC addendum
Source: Pablo Omastott
Type: B?


5.
Location. Villa San Rafael, Chile
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2345
Two young teenagers, Jean F and Nelson C, where at home at night
when Jean noticed that his pet snake had escaped from its cage.
Both boys began looking for it outside among the rubble of the
parcel. They recalled how half an hour before, their two dogs
strangely began to howl and cry; however, it did not seem to be
important at that point in time. They searched for the pet snake
together when suddenly, about 30 meters from where they stood;
they saw what appeared to be a stray dog. They threw rocks at to
avoid an attack. However, to their surprise, the animal stood
there, motionless and fearless; it did not get scared nor it ran
away as ordinary dogs normally do. Shortly, the strange animal
began to move towards them. The movements it made as it walked
were very strange. It used two legs at a time. It made very
small sand short leaps like a rabbit. Suddenly, it stopped and
it stood up on two legs. The teenagers then began to feel some
kind of energy. "It was like an electrical shock in the
stomach," they said. It later walked again making a loud
dragging noise, making small leaps and only moving one of its
legs. They noticed the weird shape of the animal. "It was like a
rugby football with legs," one of them said. Jean began to feel
frightened and started to move away from animal. On the other
hand, Nelson felt a strange need to get closer to the creature;
he got to within 2 meters away from it. The creature appear to
emit a strange luminosity that apparently, was bright enough to
lit a small area around the creature in spite of the nighttime
darkness. Nelson was mesmerized as he stared at the strange
creature. He described it as having a head like a large dog with
a flat nose like a bulldog. Its eyes were slanted and pale-red
in color, which could only be seen when the creature turned its
head from side to side like a lizard. At that moment, Nelson
heard a voice in his head saying, "Don't stare, and just run
away." They provided further description, describing the ears as
flat, round and large. Its arms were short, it had elbows, and
the hands had three fingers. It had hair like the one on a wild
pig. Its legs were like the ones of a goat. The feet had also
three fingers and a membrane like ducks, but somewhat shorter.
On its curved back, they were able to notice a spinal section
covered with amounts of even thicker hair. Most of the hair of
the animal was gray, but the tail had a white tip. Nelson
finally fled, terrified, from the area. He also described how he
felt an inexplicable bone-chilling cold sensation.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center
Type: E


6.
Location. Not given
Date: January 12 2002
Time: night
Ted Parker was eating some leftover food when he claims the food began to
change. The bread of the sandwich turned an orange color and the lamb
became a silvery metallic color, sort of like liquid mercury. As he watched=

transfixed, he saw the orange bread and metallic lamb turn into the figure=

of an "alien" with the form of a man. It was silver in color and its outfit=

(smooth pants and shirt, like a jump suit) was orange in color. At this
point Parker glanced at the wall clock and it indicated that 2 hours had
gone by, even though it felt like minutes only. The alien figure
communicated using telepathic means and asked Ted to come with him. They
both went outside and there, Ted saw a landed black-colored craft in his
backyard. In a split second Ted found himself inside the craft not knowing=

how he got there. The inside of the craft was pure white in color with
strips of the metallic silver that the alien figure appeared to be made of.=

The rest of the incident is just a blur, but Parker did remembered hearing=

several loud high-pitched rings while onboard the object. A couple of days=

before while eating dinner with several other people there had been a
similar high pitched ring and everybody had just stopped eating and walked=

out of the room.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: G or F?



7.
Location. Chihuahua, Mexico
Date: January 29 2002
Time: night
Several days before seeing a UFO the witness remembered being in a
dream-like state in which he felt very calm and saw numerous disc shaped
objects, orange-red in color. A human like figure was talking to him about=

the objects and their propulsion. The UFO he saw was of an orange color and=

he felt a sort of ecstasy when he observed the craft. Several of his
neighbors also saw the object.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: G or F?


8.
Location. Near Palmyra, Wisconsin
Date: February 2002
Time: 0200A
Two men reported seeing a creature that resembled a bipedal "gigantic wolf"=

walking down a road west of the city. They said the creature was at least 7=

ft tall with a wolf-like head. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Linda GodfreyType: E


9.
Location. West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
Nebilson Sangma reported encountering a scary furry creature on a hunting
trip in the jungles. He reportedly took a video of the creature's nesting
place. According to Sangma, the creature walked erect like a human, had
built a house like nesting place, and would emerge from it frequently to
feast on a banana grove. Sangma and his brother observed the gigantic
creature for three consecutive days from afar. Officials and villagers have=

been hunting for the creature in the forest but it seems to have
disappeared as furtively as it appeared.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 13
Type: E


10.
Location. Near Dover, England
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness had been jogging along a low path by the beach when she noticed=

a tall, well built being in a black skin tight suit, that stood watching
her from nearby. He wore a black helmet wit a brown visor pulled down. At
first she thought it was a biker but as she approached the figure, it
suddenly disappeared in plain sight. As she continued to run she noticed a=

black craft jutting out of the sand, it was small and oval shaped, matt and=

ribbed it also disappeared in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: E?


11.
Location. Rosario de la Frontera, Salta, Argentina
Date: February 2002
Time: night
A strange creature called by locals "El Pestizo" has attacked several lone=

pedestrians in the middle of the night. It is described as a dark man
shaped shadowy being. A boy riding his bicycle on the way to visit some
friends was toppled from his bicycle and found a black shadowy figure
facing him. The young man managed to upholster his shotgun and fire two
shots. But, when he saw that they had no effect, he promptly drew his knife=

and stabbed the figure without any apparent harm. Frightened the youth
tried to escape but the creature knocked him down without saying a word and=

began dragging him by the hair to the side of the road. At this point the
young man began to scream. A local man, who rushed to provide assistance,
only to find a black shadow dragging the boy by the hair, heard his cries.=

The fearful shape disappeared without a trace after it became aware of the=

other man's presence. Six other locals have reported being attacked by a
similar being and received wounds.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


12.
Location. Not given
Date: February 2002
Time: early morning
The witness was alone at home and was preparing his breakfast when suddenly=

he heard a window break; he went to see what had happened. Grabbing a golf=

club he peeked inside the room where the window broke. He was stunned to
see a strange creature climbing on his bed. It appeared to be hurt, because=

it seemed that it could not move well. Gripping the golf club he went a
step nearer and the creature hissed horribly. It shrieked in an unworldly
manner. Terrified the witness did not move. The creature was small, about
the size of a large rabbit, and it was dark in color and had reddish eyes.=

It had wings and a spine of quills on its back, and had a semi reptilian
face. It appeared to have hair and small legs. The witness raised the golf=

club and the creature hissed again showing its large yellowish teeth, which=

appeared to be sharp, like those of a crocodile. It suddenly hopped out of=

the window and rapidly hopped across the street into the oak trees.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June archiveType: E


13.
Location. Vigevano, Italy
Date: February 2002
Time: 0100A
In the outskirts of this city a witness observed from his vehicle a
luminous humanoid entity walking along a roadway. It scurried away into the=

darkness when approached.
No other information.

HC addendum
Source: CISU, ItalyType: E



14.
Location. Corguinho, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Date: February 5 2002
Time: night
During a localized UFO flap several witnesses reported seeing a strange
creature described as about 1.3 meters in height, having two legs, with a
physique like a human but who moved with a strange fluctuating motion. The=

creature was seen five times by twenty people in the rural zone around
Corguinho. In Rochedo, 6 miles south of Corguinho five Cebu cattle were
found dead with a single incision on the side of the throat. The bodies had=

been drained of blood. (Is there a connection?).

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


15.
Location. Mount Podbrdo, Bosnia Hercigovina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: morning
Contactee and stigmatic Giorgio Bongiovanni was visiting the shrine on top=

of the mountain and was praying silently to the Virgin when, to his
astonishment, a glowing luminous female figure appeared and touched his
forehead with her fingertips. His stigmata scar vanished instantly. The
female figure told him to return to Italy and make known what had happened.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 14
Type: E or F?


16.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: evening
73-year-old Maria Rufina Cayo, a local shepherd was walking back home with=

her dogs and the cattle. Suddenly at one point, something spooked the
animals, and these began to stampede. Looking around she spotted a bizarre=

creature standing about 12 meters away. She described it as a humanoid,
half animal, half human, about 1.70m in height, with bright red eyes, sharp=

protruding fangs, and hands and feet that ended in sharp claws. The
creature looked at the witness three times then it scrambled away using
quick jumping motions with is powerfully built hind legs, she also noticed=

large pointy ears. The top part of its body seems to have been covered in a=

shiny white blanket. It somehow resembled a centaur walking on two
claw-like feet.  Alerted by the shouts of Maria, two men, Santos Jaimes,
and Ruben Colque ran out to investigate with their dogs. Suddenly the dogs=

stopped and began making pitiful howling noises, they refused to move any
further. The men heard noises behind some nearby bushes and went to
investigate and spotted a bizarre creature that stood staring at them with=

huge reddish eyes. It then moved quickly away in the direction of Cerro
Negro and disappeared from sight. The witnesses noticed very sharp claws on=

the creature's feet with a very sharp claw that appeared to be pointed
backwards. Strange footprints were found the next day.

HC addendum
Source: El Tribuno, Salta Argentina March 27 2002
Also Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E



17.
Location. Khanpur, Ahmedabad, India
Date: February 20 2002
Time: after midnight
Several local residents reportedly have encountered a person, dressed in
black and wearing a mask. Dubbed the "Monkeyman" whom they described as
between 25 and 20 years of age, dark skinned and having curly hair can
reportedly be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees. Two
local youths chased it and the figure reportedly disappeared in plain
sight. The two youths have been behaving abnormally since then. The
stranger was also chased along the riverbed near the Cama Hotel and it also=

suddenly disappeared. Others have heard the stranger running on the
rooftops. Abdul Hamid another youngster of the local slums described the
figure as a tall lean man that carries a sharp weapon. "I saw him from the=

back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised the alarm, he jumped to=

another roof and then on to a tree." Police have searched for the stranger=

but nothing has been found.

HC addendum
Source: Fortean Times, India Express
Type: E


18.
Location. Prague, Czech Republic
Date: February 23 2002
Time: night
Blanka Slemendova was in her apartment when she saw a "ship" hovering over=

some nearby woods. It was shining red, white and yellow lights. She then
heard telepathic communication coming from the object telling her to go and=

meet them at an unspecified location. Looking over to her bedroom wall she=

saw what appeared to be a projection of human like faces looking at her.
Later that night she saw luminous figures in her room and a floating red
light also in her room. The next night she saw what appeared to be 2 gray
suns and around them a golden lights with numerous groups of shiny
human-like figures floating about. She interpreted these as being angels.

HC addendum
Source: Direct from witness (Slemendova)
Type: C & F?


19.
Location. Wycliffe Well Roadhouse, Northern Territory Australia
Date: early March 2002
Time: evening
While workers in the area watched unusual lights in the sky an aboriginal
woman encountered a triangular sort of object in a paddock and all of the
sudden she saw three silvery clad human like figures that began to move
toward her vehicle. She turned the vehicle around and took off.

HC addendum
Source: Lou Farcus ABC On-lineType: C


20.
Location. Near Canberra Australia
Date: March 2002
Time: 1700
Several friends were taking a trip to the coast and it was already very
dark. They had already entered a tropical forest area and there was a mist=

rolling along the ground. As they turned around they saw something
squatting in the middle of the road. It stared at them, and just as they
thought they were going to hit it, it leaped off the road and into the
trees. It leaped about 10 meters in the air. The creature was definitely
human looking although it wore strange clothes. It was dressed in a green
robe of some kind with little pieces of gold on it, and it was either
wearing a head crest or it had a row of spikes running from its forehead to=

the top of its neck. Very frightened the witnesses drove out of the forest=

and at the same time the mist turned to a thick fog. They pulled over and
decided to wait until the fog had cleared, although none of them were too
happy about it. As they sat around and waited they suddenly heard a shriek.=

It sounded like some sort of wild animal and they turned the car on so the=

headlights would scare it away. The headlights revealed the same creature
they had seen earlier. It hid its face from the light and shrieked. Right
before the witnesses' eyes, the creature seemed to evaporate into the fog.=

Within five minutes the fog had gone and the normal rolling mist was back.=

The witnesses quickly left the area and drove towards the coast.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June ArchiveType: E


21.
Location. Guanica Puerto Rico
Date: March 1 2002
Time: 2345
Reinaldo Rios (involved in other encounters) was in his bedroom that night=

when a large white light suddenly appeared. It flew around the room several=

times and then hovered. He heard voices coming from the light, which
communicated with him. The voice said: "I am your real father." Soon the
light transformed itself into a figure resembling that of a little boy it
then vanished in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: UFOs over America.com
Type: E


22.
Location. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 0800A
The witness and his wife were in bed that Saturday morning talking when
their 5-year-old daughter came into the bedroom with her baby brother,
whose cot is placed under their bedroom window. They heard a strange noise=

and some green light came into the window. Their daughter looked out the
window and reported seeing a "flying car" with four spinning green lights
on top. She saw two windows in the vehicle and saw two dark brown faces
looking out. His wife saw the craft flying past through the curtains. That=

same morning, in a large tree near the witness house a strange structure
was found. The branches were arranged in a rectangular pen shape, vertical,=

each approximately 30 to 40 cm long. They found a few smaller sticks
scaling down in size from the structure. A piece of concrete slab was found=

propped up on one corner. The witnesses had never seen this strange
structure before and think is some kind of message left by the visitors.
(Some kind of bizarre crop circle?). A few nights before they had heard
strange noises coming from the kitchen area.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: A


23.
Location. Golasecca Di Novara, Italy
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 2330
Augusto & Maurizia were in their vehicle parked in an open field next to a=

wooded area having a heated discussion when suddenly a powerful beam of
reddish-orange light illuminated the area around them. They rolled down the=

car window and heard a sharp metallic sound that seemed to be increasing in=

intensity. They now noticed, behind the beam of light a hovering
disc-shaped craft with a central rotating ring, it hovered about a meter
from the ground. From the object, a cigar-shaped beam of light emerged;
they could see it as the central ring of the craft slowly rotated on its
axis. The craft was only about 10 meters away. At this point, and only
about 4 meters from the object Augusto saw what appeared to be a gelatinous=

transparent humanoid-like figure with a visible head, arms and legs. The
figure was silvery in color and was very tall, about 3 meters or so. At
this point Augusto became concerned and drove away from the area and did
not see the object or figure depart. The whole episode lasted about 10
minutes. The metallic noise was heard all throughout the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Alfredo Lissoni, CUN Milano, Michelle Castellano CUN VareseType: C


24.
Location. Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England
Date: March 3 2002
Time: morning
Helen Diskin went for a walk in the countryside talking snap shots along
the way with her digital camera. Returning home she loaded these into her
computer and was intrigued by an odd-looking image. It looked like a
luminous figure in an area of no sunlight, skulking amongst the trees. She=

returned to the site of the photo twice afterward and could find no
explanation for the figure. The figure resembled a small helmeted figure
that she had not seen when she took the picture of an area of the woods she=

had thought of as "mysterious."

HC addendum
Source: Helen Diskin, UFO Magazine Vol. 22 # 1Type: E?


25.
Location. Near Trenton New Jersey
Date: March 4 2002
Time: night
Several witnesses were camping outside of town and late at night one of
them was attempting to put out the bonfire when he heard the most awful and=

horrifying scream. It resembled that of an injured dog crossed with a
scream of a woman. The witness dropped the flashlight and was joined by
another witness. Suddenly out of the woods a hideous and gruesome creature=

appeared. It did not look human, somewhat satyr-like in appearance and
walked on two legs. It had a long tail like a dragon and wings like those
unicorns in fantasy books. The beast took several steps towards the
witnesses and one of them picked up and asked and yelled at it and then
shone his flashlight at it. The creature then turned towards the bushes and=

ran away from the area.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: E


26.
Location. Pichaca, Salta, Argentina
Date: March 9 2002
Time: night
Ceferino Leoncio was cleaning his one room metal shack when suddenly a
bright light engulfed the room. He felt a sudden heat as he saw a tiny
figure (50 cm) of an angel-like creature materialize in front of him. It
slowly moved its small wing-like protrusions and moved around and then
suddenly stopped and remained still. It appeared to be a small living human=

like living being until it appeared to hardened and turn into some type of=

statue of cherubic appearance. Locals have now built a shrine around the
tiny "statue" and call the strange materialization a "religious miracle".

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso
Type: F?



27.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: March 16 2002
Time: 2215
Mirna, was watching television alone in her room when she began hearing
noises coming from outside, at first she thought it was her dogs playing
around with some empty cans. But the noises kept getting louder and louder=

and she decided to go outside to investigate. Once outside she was stunned=

to see some type creature that had somehow entered the rabbit cage and was=

attacking the animals that were making loud unearthly screams. Thinking at=

first that it was one of the dogs she approached the case but realized that=

it was a gray colored hairy hunched over creature, that was moving quickly=

inside the cage. She stepped back and could not understand how the creature=

had entered the cage, since there wasn't any apparent hole or aperture
visible anywhere and the door was firmly closed. Afraid she ran inside her=

home and notified her son, both then ran out but the creature had
mysteriously disappeared. Unnerved, they could not understand how they
creature had escaped since the door to the rabbit caged was still firmly
locked. Later they could only find a small round hole in the wire only
several centimeters in width, not large enough for a creature estimated to=

have been about 70 to 80 cm in height. Several of the rabbits were found
injured and one was dead.

HC addendum
Source: Calama UFO CenterType: E


28.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: March 19 2002
Time: 2000
Young Elizabeth Lera reported seeing a short humanoid with "dark eyes"
looking into the building compound from behind a wire fence. It appeared
not to have any other facial features and was wearing dark clothing; it
wore some type of head covering, which was hard to see because of the
darkness. She could only see a pair of large dark eyes on his face that
appeared to shine in the darkness. Some more children now arrived and
observed as the humanoid move several steps towards them. Another witness,=

Rene Mamani saw the humanoid run and hide behind some bushes. It seemed to=

move at very high speed in an unnatural fashion. It seemed to have remained=

suspended in mid-air for a few seconds. It then seemed to fly through the
air and disappeared into some nearby woods. Other students at the school
reportedly saw it again on the night of the 20th.

HC addendum
Source: Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E


29.
Location. Woodburn, Oregon
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 0300A
The witness was sleeping when she woke up suddenly feeling paralyzed. The
witness was completely unable to move or speak. Her next memory was of a
strange sensation on her left cheek, which hurt a lot. Unseen "beings" were=

apparently taking skin samples. Her face was left with a pink fleshy scoop=

down my left cheek, directly on the cheekbone. A teardrop scar was left on=

her cheek.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical Universe
Type: G?




30.
Location. Bethlehem, Israel
Date: March 21 2002
Time: night
At the besieged Church of The Nativity several awed witnesses have come
forward describing the events of Thursday night. That night, a smell of
roses filled the sanctuary as the Daughters of Charity held their evening
prayers. "The sweet scent was soon followed by a high musical humming sound=

and a distinct feeling of warmth emanating from the ceiling." Then, the
sisters reported, seeing a glowing beam of light gradually forming the
likeness of the Blessed Virgin "like a film coming into focus." Tears were=

running down her face, and she uttered a prophetic warning. "Time is
growing short, and the promised Judgment Day is nearly at hand." One week
before the apparition, The Church of the Holy Family was the scene of a
ferocious firefight between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 17Type: F


31.
Location. Not given
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 2255
16-year old Steven Mizon saw hovering over a street a large oval shaped
craft encircled in bright lights and with several lighted windows around
its edge. A figure stared down at him from one of the windows. No other
information.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Watch
Type: A



32.
Location. Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain
Date: March 26 2002
Time: 1500
A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a deserted road when=

he noticed ahead in the distance and in the middle of the roadway an object=

resembling a shiny pear that was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat
perplexed he approached and noticed two individuals standing on a nearby
field. These were over 2 meters in height, wore tight fitting white
coveralls and helmets resembling that of the early astronauts. He parked
his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men=

walked away and entered the shiny pear-shaped craft while the other
remained behind. Knowing that these men were "not from this earth" he still=

asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt that as
he approached the strange pair he had been in some type of a trance and
seemed to have floated over the road. The humanoid answered and appeared
genuinely happy as to his offer of assistance but said that everything was=

in order. He also added that the area was very beautiful and also added:
"Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such
beautiful scenes, they disappeared a long time ago." The astounded witness=

managed to ask the humanoid where he was from and was told that they hailed=

from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The=

humanoid smiled as he answered the question. The humanoid then bid goodbye=

and walked towards the nearby shiny pear shaped object, he then disappeared=

inside of it. The craft then emitted a loud whistling sound and disappeared=

at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the
humanoids as about 2.50 meters in height, wide chests and heavy set, thin
legs. Generally human features, but somewhat "refined" or sharpened
features. The suits were very tight fitting made of an apparent synthetic
material resembling plastic. Their eyes were very light almost white and
their speech was hesitant & accented. Also their movements seemed kind of
clumsy.

HC addendum
Source: J M Garcia, Francisco Padron, SpainType: B


33.
Location. Pringle Lake, Texas
Date: March 28 2002
Time: 1100A
Mark Hakemack and a friend had taken an airboat out on the NW side of the
lake to do a little redfish fishing. The day was kind of hazy, with broken=

cloud cover. They had caught several trout and were just chatting when he
hooked up a large redfish while playing with the fish, Mark happened to
glance upwards and saw a large bird-like creature emerge from a cloudbank.=

His friend saw it too, after about 20 to 25 seconds it flew behind cloud
cover again. The strange creature was grayish in color and the profile of a=

raptor, short neck/head, no legs sticking out behind, and no long tail
feathers. Mark could not take his eyes off it. He estimated the wingspan to=

have been 10' to 14 ' in overall. It appeared to be soaring on the wind,
although, he did see it give a couple of light "flaps" with its wings. The=

witness could only relate this to the legendary "Thunderbird" legend.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.comType: E


34.
Location. Sevilla, Spain
Date: March 30 2002
Time: late night
The witness to the March 26 case was at home with his wife and was getting=

ready to sleep when he heard footsteps coming from patio area outside his
chalet. Armed with a club, he opened the door and was stunned to see the
same two tall heavyset humanoids he had encountered 4 days before. One of
the humanoids was kneeling on the ground as if inspecting something on the=

soil, the other one upon hearing the door open, turned and quickly assured=

the witness not to fear that they were not here to harm him. Stunned, the
witness invited the two humanoids in the house for some refreshments (!).
These declined the invitation telling that they had to go already. Using
the same clumsy movements both humanoids walked towards the rear of the
house where the witness noticed the same shiny metallic pear shaped craft
on the ground. They entered the object, which quickly left at high speed.
The witness's wife awakened by the voices was able to see the two humanoids=

from a second story window, and described them in the same way.

HC addendum
Source: Francisco Padron, Jose Manuel Garcia, SpainType: B


35.
Location. Los Cipreses, Chile
Date: March 31 2002
Time: noon
During a local UFO congress 24 persons in three groups entered a
dimensional gateway that appeared by itself over the terrain. It was kind
of a dome, a luminous archway measuring four by four meters. The
participants lost their materiality without disappearing completely. Upon
entering, they met several human-like alien characters with large baldheads=

and wearing robes that waited within and received information. According to=

sources the contact experience was "dimensional" it was like crossing into=

a different reality. The 24 participants were "all professionals, college
students of high intellectual levels, mostly Chileans," and some were
members of Grupo Rama, a New Age association.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 16, quoting Camilo Valdivieto
Type: G or F?


36.
Location. Tbilissi Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: night
A man entered the local St David church and reported that "a phantom with
wings" had approached him and predicted an earthquake that indeed took
place on April 25 2002, devastating areas of central Georgia.

HC addendum
Source: Pravda
Type: E?


37.
Location. Near Macon, Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: 2300
Three friends were awakened by loud banging noises and bellowing sounds
coming from outside. One of the men ran to the bathroom and looked out the=

window to see a figure run by and squat in the nearby bushes. He described=

the creature as about 3 ft tall, hairy with what appeared to be horns on
its head and hands; he could not see a face. Others in the neighborhood
heard the banging noises.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.com and direct witness
Communication.
Type: E


38.
Location. Belvedere di Tezze, Italy
Date: April 26 2002
Time: evening
A 20-year old woman was returning home one night when she noticed some
bright lights nearby of an unknown origin. She followed the lights in her
car until she stopped near a local pizzeria. She saw the light near the
ground and within the lights two tall slender human like figures wearing
some type of headgear. Since she was carrying a camera she was able to snap=

a quick picture. The figures then vanished. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Gruppo Accademico Ufologico Scandicci quoting
"Il giornale di Vicenza"Type: E?


39.
Location. Puente Santamaria, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: early morning
Two young men observed a dark object descend towards the ground about 100
meters away. According to the two witnesses from the craft descended a
small humanoid, orange in color. Very scared they both ran from the area
and reported their experience to others.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: B


40.
Location. Merceditas, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: evening
An elderly couple was walking along National Route # 8 when about 800
meters from their location they noticed a very strong light. The light
descended next to a puddle at about 70 meters from the witness. Both then
saw two very short orange colored humanoids that moved in very agile
movements near the object. Terrified they walked away and upon looking back=

saw a bright glow on the ground.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: C


41.
Location. Barangay, Philippines
Date: May 2002
Time: night
Several local residents reported seeing a bizarre creature described as an=

"aswang" reputed to be a winged vampire type creature, it reportedly had
red glowing eyes, long black hair, and was wearing a white flowing gown. It=

was seen perched on top of a bamboo tree. Residents at nearby Roxas
reported seeing a similar creature. The police was called but a search
failed to locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Akasico.comType: E


42.
Location. Alvear, La Pampa Argentina
Date: May 3 2002
Time: near midnight
Several young men were returning home late at night along a deserted
roadway when suddenly out of nowhere a female figure wearing a light
flowing gown and with long black hair appeared in front of them. The
strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly and repeatedly asked for=

assistance from the men in a strange urgent tone. Terrified the men ran
from the area and later returned with additional witnesses but they could
find no trace of the strange apparition.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E?


43.
Location. Taralgon Victoria, Australia
Date: May 24 2002
Time: 2355
Walking near the Loy Yang Power station 45-year old Martin Taylor was
suddenly blinded by an intense blue light and he felt extremely dizzy. His=

next memory was of being in a circular room with a variety of lights and
buttons scattered about the walls. He was lying on a large table that
seemed to be of a very highly polished metal. He was strapped down and his=

shirt had been removed. There were wires attached to his arms, neck and
temples. A four ft tall humanoid figure with very large almond shaped eyes,=

almost transparent looking skin, ghostly white in appearance examined him.=

The figure had three extremely long fingers on each hand and spoke in a
strange dialect.

HC addendum
Source: UFO WatchType: G


44.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: May 29 2002
Time: midnight
Irma Rick watched a rotating luminous object descend close to the ground
next to a grain silo; it gave off a powerful bluish light through some
openings around its circumference. It hovered close to the ground. Through=

an opening a strange creature was seen to descend to the ground. It was
described as having an elongated semi-transparent white body; it also had
an elongated head. She could not see any eyes or legs on the creature as it=

stood motionless next to the craft. She observed the creature and object
for about 5 minutes until she dropped the flashlight she was carrying.
Afraid she left the area and did not see the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: B



45.
Location. Lembang Bandung, Indonesia
Date: May 30 2002
Time: 2315
The witness was driving his motorcycle across a highland area when he
spotted some flashing lights overhead and then noticed a silvery
disc-shaped craft descend low over some nearby graves at a cemetery. The
craft had blue and orange flashing lights around its rim. There was no
sound as the craft apparently emitted a beam of light towards the ground
and levitated what appeared to be some dead bodies onboard the object. (!)=

The witness was apparently paralyzed and was unable to move. The craft then=

shot away at a 45-degree angle and disappeared from sight. When that
happened the witness left the scene.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


46.
Location. Houston, Texas
Date: late May 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness was at the local electric company in order to pay a bill when
she decided to use the restrooms. Sitting in the stall she then noticed on=

the side of the wall of the stall what appeared to be a face lit up in a
dull light. When the witness looked directly at the "face" it vanished. She=

described is as having large round eyes no visible nose and a slit-like
mouth. (A peeping tom alien?)

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.comType: E?


47.
Location. General Acha, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: early June 2002
Time: various
A resident of the Oeste neighborhood informed newspaper sources that a
short green-colored dwarf like entity has appeared twice on her property:
once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When her husband ran out
responding to her screams, the mysterious entity vanished by rapidly
climbing up a tree. All versions agree in that the entity is short in
stature. Another resident added that it moved so quickly that it was hard
to describe it. In the same area mysterious cattle mutilations have also
been reported.

HC addendum
Source: Loren Coleman in UFO UpdatesType: E


48.
Location. Ojo De Agua, Argentina
Date: June 2002
Time: afternoon
Several passengers onboard two farm micro buses reported seeing a very tall=

dark man like figure that appeared to be wearing a tight fitting diver's
outfit standing on a nearby field. Nearby numerous mysterious animal
mutilations have been reported. The figure was silent and was quickly lost=

from sight as the buses moved away.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E




49.
Location. Near Tampa, Florida
Date: June 2002
Time: night
A man and three of his friends reported encountering two bizarre chupacabra=

type creatures one stood about 3-4 ft tall, the other looked to be about 6=

ft tall. Both had large glowing red eyes and spikes starting from the head=

to the back. They scurried away into a wooded area. (They were to have
further encounters in August).

HC addendum
Source: Art Bell.comType: E


50.
Location. Antalya, Turkey
Date: June 5 2002
Time: afternoon
Approximately 45 witnesses claimed they saw an UFO in the Santral district=

landing on the backyard of the Fatma Primary School. Several students
including Murat Esici age 11 saw an alien emitting red rays from his eyes
come out of the object. His hands and feet were metallic. He had a very big=

head and was about 1.80 meters in height. Esici temporarily lost her voice=

immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also=

claimed they san an unusual craft and an alien beside it. "His eyes and
hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes." The children
were overcome with shock after the incident.

HC addendum
Source: Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center Intl
Type: B


51.
Location. Polonnauruwa, Sri Lanka
Date: June 8 2002
Time: 2200
Approximately 50 to 70 eyewitnesses saw a UFO flying at about 100 meters
above ground level. The object was silent and briefly landed emitting a
bright flash like light. When it was close to the ground the object emitted=

a buzzing sound. Three other witnesses saw three 2 ft tall creatures than
when approached ran into the jungle and disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Sources
Type: D


52.
Location. Polonnaruwa, Sir Lanka
Date: June 9 2002
Time: 2012
Two witnesses went to a bath on a nearby river when they heard a loud
thundering sound and a UFO appeared. The craft landed nearby and two, 2 ft=

tall "aliens" emerged from the object. One of the humanoids flung a small
fluorescent fireball like object that flew over a house and vanished. Soon=

the craft and humanoids disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC & News Reports
Type: B



53.
Location. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Date: June 10 2002
Time: 1900
Witnesses saw a mysterious light in the sky and others saw a large disc
shaped object land nearby. Three humanoids only about 2 ft tall emerged
from the craft and disappeared into the forest when approached. The object=

also left.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Reports
Type: B


54.
Location. Chantilly, Virginia
Date: June 10 2002
Time: night
The witness was awakened during the night with a sense of some presence in=

the room. Looking toward the door, he saw, fading quickly, something, which=

almost had the appearance of a hologram. Next, shadows appeared outside the=

windows in an erratic shape. At first he thought the shadows to be from
trees moving in a strong wind. The appearance was of a storm blowing the
limbs to create these shadows outside the window. However, there was no
storm. He looked at the adjacent window on the side of the house facing
opposite and there was no wind at all. In fact there was no trees
positioned in such a way to cast a shadow. He opened the blinds to see what=

might be causing the shadows. He then saw what seemed to be a hologram with=

the shape of two small eyes moving erratically outside the window.
Frightened he closed the blinds. Two weeks later he was awakened by a
humming sound and again saw the erratic shadows outside the window. He
watched the shadows for 10-15 minutes and then called the police. The
police found no signs of any intrusion in the yard. When the police left
the witness walked toward the door facing the back porch and saw a large
burst of bluish white light. It looked unnatural, almost like a laser. He
has not seen the "shadows" again.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: E?


55.
Location. Ataliva Roca, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 11 2002
Time: 1930
A worker at a local drainage project was sitting and guarding some
machinery when he noticed a short greenish colored humanoid figure that was=

approaching his location from a nearby field. The witness became concerned=

and drove away from the area in the construction equipment and did not see=

the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


56.
Location. Eduardo Castex, La Pampa Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Two girls of a local school encountered a short greenish humanoid figure in=

the playing yard. The figure was standing up and appeared to be raising its=

arms up to the sky. Terrified the two girls retreated into the school and
watched the figure scurry away into some nearby woods. Around the same time=

a local farmer found a strangely mutilated hog in his farm.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


57.
Location. Chasico, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Hugo Deluca and several other workers were parked in a bus in an isolated
area when they spotted about 20 meters away a short, 1.20 meters tall,
bipedal figure completely covered in gray hair. It walked upright like a
man and then scurried away into some woods vanishing from sight. The area
had been hit with animal mutilations around the same time.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


58.
Location. Castex, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 13 2002
Time: night
A 70-year old man had gone to his driveway to check on a flat tire in his
car when a short light green colored humanoid suddenly appeared next to
him. It had large round ears, and two reddish luminous eyes. Its body was
thin and almost triangular in shape. The witness attempted to yell out but=

was suddenly unable to speak and at the same time strange warmth invaded
his body. Several seconds later the humanoid vanished and the witness
returned to normal. He reported the incident to the police.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


59.
Location. La Laguna, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 14 2002
Time: afternoon
Several youngster had gone into the fields in order to obtain some firewood=

when they saw sitting on a clearing in the woods two human like figures,
all dressed in black. They sat facing each other, one looking towards the
east the other towards the west, unmoving. Unnerved by the sight the
juveniles ran from the area. The next day the father of one of the boys
found two dead cows at the site, but could find no trace of the strange
pair. Days later a sheep and a horse were found dead and strangely
mutilated in the nearby location of El Cardonal.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: E


60.
Location. De Kalb, Illinois
Date: June 15 2002
Time: 0030A
The witness was sitting in his family room watching TV when he noticed a
bright flash of light outside the window. He saw the flash several times
and decided to check his backyard there he saw a circular light moving
around in circles. The light began to get closer; scared he ran inside his=

home and called a friend on the phone. He then quickly ran outside and saw=

the circle getting closer, he noticed that it had a purplish color to it
and it began to descend towards the ground. He became nauseous and dizzy
and collapsed on to the ground. He tried to crawl to the house but was
unable to move. He turned his head and saw the purplish object on the
ground and what appeared to be a door opening up. He then heard a squeaking=

noise and saw a tall and a short figure standing by a door of the object.
The two figures started to move towards him, walking in a strange bopping
fashion. They were of a dark complexion with a bumpy texture, other than
that they resembled normal human beings. The shorter figure approached and=

picked up the witness' camera and stared at it. He then looked at the
taller figure and handed it to him. The taller of the two looked at the
camera and then at the witness. The witness then heard loud unpleasant
shrieks coming from the taller figure, which then gave the camera back to
the shorter figure, which covered the camera with his hand, seconds later a=

light began to emerge from their hands. Then they stopped, threw the camera=

aside and began to walk towards the witness. They reached his side and
started to examine his body. A dog began to bark from inside the house and=

the shorter figure put out his hand and the dog stopped barking. At this
point the witness began to vomit. After about a minute he began to relax
and to breathe better. When he turned his head he realized that the two
figures and the purple spherical object were now gone. The next day he had=

a very severe headache.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: B


61.
Location. San Juan, Argentina
Date: June 20 2002
Time: evening
At a location where the body of a strangely mutilated carcass of a cow was=

found two witnesses reported seeing a small creature with large glowing
slanted eyes and about one meter in height. Later in the same area, members=

of the Gimenez family after investigating noises and a strong odor coming
from a wooded area found a mutilated cow and also watched a short humanoid=

with glowing eyes scurrying away into the woods.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


62.
Location. Manuel Rodriguez, Calama, Chile
Date: June 22 2002
Time: after midnight
A bizarre creature was spotted at a local housing complex on San Antonio
Street. Witnesses reported that it resembled an ape and it jumped all over=

the roof. It passed right in front of the witness, Maria Gavia's window and=

then it came back making all manner of noise. The creature was able to make=

very long jumps, unlike any a human could. It jumped and landed on the
neighbor's roof and then it left the area. Neighborhood dogs acted scared
and began howling. Others described the creature as about 1.5 meters tall,=

stocky in build with bright red eyes. It made a lot of noise. Others
reportedly chased the creature.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center, quoting El
Mercurio de CalamaType: E


63.
Location. Angencia Realico, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 23 2002
Time: late night
Several hunters returning to a local ranch spotted about 50 meters away two=

large glowing reddish eyes staring at them. They turned off their
flashlight and approached closer on foot, about 30 meters away they again
saw the reddish eyes on a dark creature that appeared to be standing on top=

of an apparently dead animal. One of the hunters shone its flashlight on
the figure again and saw a figure about 40 cm in height that quickly ran
from the area at very high speed. The creature disappeared into the brush.=

At the scene, a dead and mutilated young heifer. Other mutilations were
reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


64.
Location. Rancul, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 25 2002
Time: 2020
Two young men, Nestor Pinto and Daniel Gatica were walking on a field when=

they encountered a short man-like figure with huge pointy ears and long
dangling arms standing near some brush. The figure scurried into the brush=

and disappeared and at the same time the two witnesses ran away from the
area and did not see the strange dwarf again.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


65.
Location. Bavaria, Germany (exact location not given)
Date: June 25 2002
Time: night
The witness had stayed up late watching the soccer game as was in his
bedroom when suddenly there was a coldness around him that made him shiver.=

He noticed that his audio capabilities were somehow enhanced and he was
able to hear sounds that previously he was unable to hear. He then heard a=

noise outside his door and went out to investigate. The noise became louder=

as he approached the door. He then heard footsteps and opened the door. A
very small man with a somewhat deformed body that was smiling at him
confronted the witness. He looked straight ahead and then stared at the
witness. His next memory was of waking up in his bed in the morning.

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.com
Type: E


66.
Location. Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2105
The primary witness had stepped out on his back porch when his attention
was drawn to two huge black "birds" which were approaching from the north.=

His first impression was they were Herons, but soon realized that the color=

was wrong, and "they were huge, much larger than any bird I have ever
seen." The two huge birds landed at the top of a very tall coniferous tree.=

The witness stated that the wingspan appeared to be wider than the
branches, jest below where they had landed. The body size was estimated to=

be about six feet from head to tail. The oddest feature was the shape of
the wings, which according to the witness appeared to be bat-like. The tree=

where the "birds" landed seemed as though it would break from their weight.=

The witness yelled for others in the house to come outside to look. Another=

family member was able to see the huge black birds as they passed overhead,=

and headed for some woods. After checking the size of the branches where
the birds had landed, the witness estimated that the wingspan would have
been close to 12 feet or somewhat larger.

HC addendum
Source: Stan GordonType: E


67.
Location. Marldon Hill, Paington, England
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2357
A couple were walking near a local historic monument (a windmill) and they=

drew closer to monument they heard a low whirling noise. The noise
progressed to a high-pitched whining, almost out of hearing range. Then
they saw a mysterious glow coming from the dark side of the windmill, and
then to their astonishment they saw 5 or 6 shadow like figures standing in=

front of the windmill. Startled the two began to run back towards the main=

road. The woman looked back and saw the figures become engulfed by a bright=

light and disappear, and then everything became quiet.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Sightings UKType: E?


68.
Location. Adelia Maria, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 3 2002
Time: 2100
Pedro and Estela Moine had decided to visit the business district of town
called Barrio Norte and crossed the old railroad yard through a pedestrian=

pathway that ran through a pasture area between some silos, old railroad
depots and abandoned wreckage. As the couple moved through the premises
they suddenly became aware of a strange and incomprehensible conversation
between many voices. Startled, they stopped walking moved a few meters more=

and then heard the voices again which now sounded like strange "O" sounds.=

Pedro looked toward the silos and was able to see resembling humanoid but
lacking upper and lower extremities. Despite the pleas of his wife, Pedro
ran several meters toward an inner alley in the silo plant, being able to
make out some 45 meters to the west and in profile---the entity, which
acting surprised, avoided the encounter and moved again to the north.
However, what filled the witnesses with wonderment was that the creature
did so as though flying or floating without touching the facilities it
passed. Pedro and Estela ran after it. It was thus that the man managed to=

see the entity apparently hiding behind the control room of the truck
scale. Pedro ran toward it and was again startled to see the apparition
rising as a plane taking off, flying at an altitude of 5 meters and
disappearing behind a large metal shed. Bewildered, both witnesses called
out, but were unable to see anything else. Pedro Moine as "a thing with
human shape" described the apparition. It had some sort of light, although=

he could not say if reflected or self-generated, although he tends to
believe the latter, since it was a nebulous whitish light, which kept him
from making out details. The entire mass of the apparition appeared to be a=

body covered from head to toe in some sort of mantle, which he described as=

though it wore a hat, but covered with some kind of long raincoat reaching=

down to what he took to be its feet. He added that the "conversational
sounds" repeated themselves in three separate occasions at various
intensities. They were like conversations in a strange language.

HC addendum
Source: Mario Luis Bracamonte, C.O.R, Rio Cuarto Argentina
Type: E


69.
Location. Jerusalem, Israel
Date: July 6 2002
Time: night
A remote TV camera picked up images of "orbs seen on the corner to the
right of the Wailing Wall." They seemed to have facial features almost like=

a ghost, reported investigator Charlotte LeFevre. The orbs were described
as "sharp and distinct". The orbs were next to the women's prayer area in
front of the Wall. Other strange phenomena, has been reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 29Type: F?


70.
Location. Villa Elisa, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: July 13 2002
Time: 2300
A young woman fainted from nervous shock after having an alleged closed
encounter with "some sort of green dwarf". This occurred---enveloped in
darkness---along Misioneros Salesianos Street very close to several houses.=

An ambulance was called and apparently transported the witness who was in
shock.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria ColuchiType: E


71.
Location. Patna, India
Date: July 21 2002
Time: night
Several residents claim they've been bitten or scratched by a "black
monkey-like creature with colored lights flashing from its eyes." Resident=

Pawan Kumar Niyogi who was sleeping on the terrace of his house claims "a 5=

ft tall monkey-like creature" attacked him. He said: "I was terrified and
thought my life was going to end but it merely scratched me on the shoulder=

before jumping off the roof." Local residents are conducting night vigils
and carrying torches to guard their homes.

HC addendum
Source: Ananova, Ufoupdates. Type: E


72.
Location. Chajan, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 21 2002
Time: 2300
Police officer Guillermo Arias was on routine patrol through a rural area
when he heard over the radio that his colleagues in arms over at Achiras
were seeing lights in sectors of said community, and that they were heading=

towards Chajan along National Route 8. At the wheel of the police patrol
van, he managed to see a formation of 7 lights in the distance and decided=

to drive 10 km along a rural dirt road. When he had covered said distance,=

he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine of his vehicle sputtered=

and died, causing the police car to strike the edge of a guardrail.
Simultaneously, the lights on the van's dashboard began turning on and off=

randomly, the police radio went haywire and its dial displayed the random
shifting of the frequencies while the cabin became filled with an acrid
odor, as though of burnt wiring, and the interior lights and stop
indicator, which were broken, began lighting on and off. Seized by fear,
Arias leaped from the van and walked away a few meters down the road,
losing his cellular phone in the escape. The darkness was total, when
suddenly, amid the confusing situation; an immense light emerged from a
field adjacent to the road as a triangular object rose majestically into
the air. Now Arias condition went from fear to abject terror as he saw what=

he described as a real "floating city" some 200 meters long with a long row=

of windows (perhaps as many as 100). Arias claims having seen something
move behind them, describing the movement as "TV sets which make lines and=

shadows", which he defined as "non-human", and that many beams of light
came out of the giant triangle, aimed at the ground. The event lasted 2-3
seconds, but to Arias it felt like an eternity. The object suddenly rose
and sped away, vanishing behind the hills of a local field. As the object
moved away, the whole area was lit up like daytime and there was an
afterglow that lasted another 20 minutes.

HC addendum
Source: C.O.R., Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense, Argentina
Type: A


73.
Location. Waconia, Minnesota
Date: July 26 2002
Time: 0300A
The young witness was sleeping in the backyard with his sister when he
suddenly woke up. He then noticed that the side of the tent that faced the=

wetlands and lake was lit up. Looking towards the light he saw a shadowy
torso and arm of a humanoid figure that seemed to be moving around within
the light. He watched for 30 seconds and saw the figure move the fingers of=

his hands. The witness became frightened and hid in his sleeping bag. He
came out about an hour later and the light and strange figure were
completely gone.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


74.
Location. Sedona, Arizona
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 0310A
In a wooded area the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all
white, with black "straight" eyes; and black diagonal/diamond strip of
"clothing" on top. He stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then
left. Prior to seeing the figure the witness had seen lights in a large
oval shaped pattern in the sky.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


75.
Location. Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 1730
Three girls had decided to visit the rooftop as they did the prior evening=

watching for satellites. It was dusk and the girls had a good vantage point=

looking towards the east. With them they had a pair of binoculars and a
pair of walkie-talkies. The girls noticed that a large orange light
appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The anomaly
was noted to have fluctuated in colors of orange, yellow, white and pale
blue. At fist they thought of an arriving airplane, but then a second light=

appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10=

degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some=

unusually maneuvering; from a stationary position it accelerated at least 5=

degrees closer to the ground surface at an approximate 45-60 degree angle
within a matter of a single second. The first anomaly then began to move
slowly towards the north. At this stage they partially lost view of it as
it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley-like
region of the horizon. According to the witnesses, this third object
appeared to have "landed" on the ground surface. The object was then viewed=

through the binoculars and presented in great detail; the object was
described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange,=

blue/purple and white rotating around the rim. Thy also noted the trees
being slightly illuminated by this extraordinary phenomenon. They were
suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, "Identify
yourself." This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in a
foreign language. Around 1830 the girls were then called down to have
dinner. At about 2030 the girls re-established their places on the roof
after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still
present. Unexpectedly a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above
the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. "It
was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away." The=

light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it=

is not clear how one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became
extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed
her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not=

sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another of the girls woke up
the next morning with her nose bleeding. She also mentioned that she had
seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom.

HC addendum
Source: The Australian UFO Research NetworkType: D or
F?



76.
Location. Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 29 2002
Time: early morning
Local residents have seen a strange figure, which they described as
resembling a "shroud". The apparitions, which always occur in the early
morning hours, have become so common that in recent days several neighbors=

have stayed up late to see them, and it is thus that they were able to
confirm the simultaneous presence of up to 2 such beings, as well as red
lights flying over the area. All the witnesses whether individuals or in a=

group, agree that the entities are nebulous and glowing, with a pair of red=

eyes being clearly identifiable, and glassy faces (as if transparent).
Their movements are smooth and they always appear from behind the sand
dunes, as though "coming form the Naval Base." Most witnesses agree that
they show a great interest in the water tanks located above the roofs, and=

that they do not flee upon detecting the presence of local
residents---rather, they stare at them fixedly for some minutes. Deep
silence is perceived during the observations and "the air appears to become=

still" and neither heat nor cold can be felt---only a sensation of warmth,=

as if the beings emanated heat. Witnesses also state that things appear to=

be darker when "the shroud" appears, as though ambient lighting were
dimmed. Another curious fact is the large number of cats and dogs who
report to the place where the sightings occur and sit down to observe it in=

silence, in a state resembling a trance. A series of semi-circular prints
have been found in the dunes, not very deep, with 15-20 cm separations in
some cases and 30-50 cm in others. The locals have identified them as the
strange being's footprints. Efforts have been made to photograph the
"shroud", but all images, despite the use of different cameras appear
exposed. One witness who approached the site to witness the phenomenon took=

two photos of the prints in the afternoon and decided to stay with the
group of people hoping to see the "shroud", managing to take some photos of=

same and record the new prints which appeared in the dunes after the
sighting. A completely uncommon print was found at the site---but the
residents aren't sure if it's related to the phenomenon: it has the shape
of a five-fingered claw. One witness tried to make use of his carbine's
telescopic sight to see the figure in greater detail, but "when he tried to=

focus on it, he could see nothing_it was a though it could only be seen
with the unaided eye."

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, IHU, Christian Quintero and O A Mario
Proyecto Condor
Type: C or E?


77.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 30 2002
Time: 0530A
27-year old Mariela Baigorri reported seeing a strange figure that floated=

in front of her house. She had woken up early that morning and was getting=

ready to mount her bicycle when she saw behind the fence something floating=

in mid-air. It appeared to be a figure wearing a flowing white transparent=

tunic, with bright red eyes and undefined facial features. Feeling no fear=

she decided to approach it. She felt as if the figure waited for her and
was observing her. At this point Mariela felt some fear and began reciting=

the Lord's Prayer. The figure suddenly moved back and disappeared in plain=

sight.

HC addendum
Source: Juan Carlos Corrales Morey, Vision Ovni, Argentina
Type: E


78.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 31 2002
Time: 1845
23-year old Julian Pereyra was in his vehicle when he observed two red
spheres flying slowly over some nearby woods, they seemed to descend and
disappear behind the trees. 15 minutes later, Pereyra, accompanied by
several other witnesses approached the area and observed what they
described a tall floating figure wearing a white glowing cape like outfit,=

it seemed to glide silently over a field. It had what appeared to be a
visor at face level and two beams of red light emerged from where the eyes=

would have been. The witnesses watched the strange figure glide over the
fields for about 30 minutes. Curiously numerous local dogs and cats
approached and also watched the figure in fascination. The lights and
figure disappeared into the distance. In another occasion Pereyra and some=

of his family members encountered the strange humanoid and felt a strange
sensation as if the wind had suddenly stopped, they felt as they were
inside a vacuum or "bubble." Strange tracks have been reportedly found in
the area also.

HC addendum
Source: Diario La Nueva Provincia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Type: C?


79.
Location. La Cienaga, Pocri, Panama
Date: early August 2002
Time: night
Luis Alfredo Diaz reported hearing loud noises coming from the terraced
patio where the kitchen was located, going to investigate he found his cat=

apparently dead with two obvious holes on the neck and some blood on the
floor. Before finding the cat he had called his wife, Maria de Los Santos
Barrios. As his wife stood in front of him a panic stricken look came over=

her face, turning around he was confronted by a bizarre 1-meter tall
humanoid that had jumped to the center of the patio. The creature was
described as thin, covered with dark hair, with large pointed ears that
almost covered its face, it had very large eyes and extremely strong hind
legs resembling that of a kangaroo. Terrified he ran to his son's bedroom
and carried him outside yelling for his neighbors. A search failed to
locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Panamanian Paranormal Forum
Type: E


80.
Location. Near Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Date: August 2002
Time: night
The same witness involved in a similar encounter last year was again
camping in the same area when he again heard a noise. Shining the light in=

the direction of the sound he again saw the same creature. The creature sat=

there crouched by the trees staring at the witness. The witness walked
slowly towards it, he got to within 20 ft when it just jumped backward and=

disappeared. He described the creature as about five to six ft in height,
gray in color. It was totally naked. It had human features, but more
leathery, and its face was very wide, its eyes were huge and even though
they reflected light, they still looked black, resembling two intensely
black marbles. Its legs were very muscular, but turned backwards, like a
bird. Other hikers in the area have reported encountering little brown men=

on some of the more isolated trails.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal Story Archives, November 2002Type: E


81.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: August 1 2002
Time: late evening
64-year old Raul Dorado was touring some fields when he heard a loud sound=

on two occasions, like a whirlwind, which drew his attention. The third
time he saw something he describes as a green circle with three legs
hovering over him. At that moment Dorado fell to the ground, and according=

to his story, he carried a shotgun, binoculars and a cellular phone, the
latter, which was taken from his hand, and he could clearly see being
sucked into the object, which was apparently at low altitude. His next
recollection was seeing the object disappear toward the east. Dorado
remained at the location for an hour before being able to rise and walk
back to his car, returning to town in a state of shock. He had to be
hospitalized. Later when calls were placed to the (abducted) cellular phone=

someone would pick up and heavy breathing could be heard. Later on the
phone was apparently disconnected.

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, quoting Diario La Arena, La PampaType: G?


82.
Location. Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Date: August 2 2002
Time: 1730
A man named Todd Sees went up the mountain to look for pre-season deer. He=

told his wife that he would be home by noon. He rode his 4-wheeler up the
power line behind his home. He never returned. A search party composed of
local police, state police and volunteers searched for Sees. The 4-wheeler=

was found on the top of the mountain near a power-line. Tracking dogs could=

find nothing to go on around the 4-wheeler. The search went on for 2 days
and over 6 miles of mountain was covered from top to bottom. Then, in the
evening of the 2nd day, his body was found in a hard to reach wooded area.=

He was wearing his underwear. He was emaciated---not bloated. He was pale
and had an expression of horror on his face. When he went up the mountain
he was fully dressed, boots, camo-vest, hat, socks, pants. 3 people, on one=

farm, said they saw a large round bright object just above the power-lines=

at the time of the disappearance. It was silent, it did not move for about=

10 to 15 minutes. It suddenly went up and suddenly stopped. A light shone
down and something was pulled up into the light. It then went straight up,=

hesitated again, and then went west over the Susquehanna River and out of
sight. More specifically a farmer saw an object above Montour Ridge at the=

power lines, on top of the mountain, it was round and very still over the
lines. Suddenly it moved what looked like a few hundred feet to the east,
it stopped and a beam of blue and white light shone to the ground. What was=

seen next was very unnerving, he saw what appeared to be a man suspended in=

the light, he was being pulled up head first, he was moving his arms slowly=

in the light. What looked like a man was pulled up into the bottom of the
craft. A few seconds later it started shuddering, then went west very fast,=

stopped briefly, and then went straight up and out of sight. Also three
fishermen saw the craft. The FBI is supposedly also investigating. (Debated=

as a hoax, who would? and for what purpose?).

HC addendum
Source: Rense, UFO updates, NUFORCType: G?






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                            2002 Humanoid Reports

From: Albert Rosales <Garuda79@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:32:05 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:14:40 -0500
Subject: 2002 Humanoid Reports


Happy new year everyone

Sincerely,

Albert

-----

2002 Humanoid Reports. It appears to be a slow start for this
year with only one recorded case, again from Chile. We will see
what develops later on the year. 2001 was pretty busy but it was
a decline from 2000. Maybe we will see another down trend again,
later to pick up again in the near future. This seems to be the
ever-ongoing trend of the phenomena. Will it always stay the
same? Time will tell. Following is a list of known 2002 humanoid
cases.


1.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: January 2002
Time: 0300A
An employee at the local Minera Escondida was on his way to the
storage freezer in order to pick up some supplies when an
unknown creature jumped him from behind. He could only describe
it as hairy and dark. He was left with deep scratches and in a
state of shock. Terrified he ran away and bumped into two other
employees who were able to see a shadowy creature in the dark.

HC addendum
Source: La Estrella del Loa de Calama, ChileType: E


2.
Location. Caracas, Venezuela
Date: January 2002
Time: late night
Late one night in a dream-like state the witness woke up to see
seven to eight strange figures in her bedroom. They were dark
gray in color and very thin, with three large thick long fingers
on their hands. They had large, lipless mouths and large shiny
protruding black eyes, their noses were thin and protruding,
small ears, the heads was large and pointy. The humanoids
appeared to be naked and she was able to see a penis on the
humanoids. They were about 1.55 meters in height. She felt dizzy
and under the control of the strange entities. She was led out
of her bedroom by one of the humanoids that removed her clothing
and made her lie down on the floor. The humanoids apparently
attempted to molest her sexually and possibly attempted to rape
her but were not successful. She apparently passed out and does
not remember anything else about the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Lista Alcione and witness communicationType: E


3.
Location. Fort McMurry, Alberta, Canada
Date: January 2 2002
Time: 2032
Two men were parked on an isolated dirt road when they spotted a
large cone-shaped object descend and hover. One of the men
exited the car and he vanished in plain sight of the other, the
craft then also disappeared. The other man tried to drive away
to get help but the car would not start and it was to cold to
walk. He soon went to sleep and woke up later to find his friend
sleeping next to him. Later they drove back to town. His friend
does not remember what happened during those two hours of
missing time. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


4.
Location. Paso Lovera, Corrientes, Argentina
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2030
Gabriela Lencinas, 15-year old and a 19-year old friend were
returning home on a bicycle when they spotted a large cloud like
object descend from the sky and from it a giant figure emerge.
The witnesses stopped their bicycles to see a car approach the
giant figure, stop, the driver exit the car and then re-entering
the vehicle and driving quickly away. The figure then rose up
into the cloud and disappeared. The girls reported that the
giant human-like figure had its hair standing up on his head and
was extending its arms towards the witnesses that quickly rode
their bicycles home. Other in the area reported seeing bright
lights that same night.

HC addendum
Source: Pablo Omastott
Type: B?


5.
Location. Villa San Rafael, Chile
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2345
Two young teenagers, Jean F and Nelson C, where at home at night
when Jean noticed that his pet snake had escaped from its cage.
Both boys began looking for it outside among the rubble of the
parcel. They recalled how half an hour before, their two dogs
strangely began to howl and cry; however, it did not seem to be
important at that point in time. They searched for the pet snake
together when suddenly, about 30 meters from where they stood;
they saw what appeared to be a stray dog. They threw rocks at to
avoid an attack. However, to their surprise, the animal stood
there, motionless and fearless; it did not get scared nor it ran
away as ordinary dogs normally do. Shortly, the strange animal
began to move towards them. The movements it made as it walked
were very strange. It used two legs at a time. It made very
small sand short leaps like a rabbit. Suddenly, it stopped and
it stood up on two legs. The teenagers then began to feel some
kind of energy. "It was like an electrical shock in the
stomach," they said. It later walked again making a loud
dragging noise, making small leaps and only moving one of its
legs. They noticed the weird shape of the animal. "It was like a
rugby football with legs," one of them said. Jean began to feel
frightened and started to move away from animal. On the other
hand, Nelson felt a strange need to get closer to the creature;
he got to within 2 meters away from it. The creature appear to
emit a strange luminosity that apparently, was bright enough to
lit a small area around the creature in spite of the nighttime
darkness. Nelson was mesmerized as he stared at the strange
creature. He described it as having a head like a large dog with
a flat nose like a bulldog. Its eyes were slanted and pale-red
in color, which could only be seen when the creature turned its
head from side to side like a lizard. At that moment, Nelson
heard a voice in his head saying, "Don't stare, and just run
away." They provided further description, describing the ears as
flat, round and large. Its arms were short, it had elbows, and
the hands had three fingers. It had hair like the one on a wild
pig. Its legs were like the ones of a goat. The feet had also
three fingers and a membrane like ducks, but somewhat shorter.
On its curved back, they were able to notice a spinal section
covered with amounts of even thicker hair. Most of the hair of
the animal was gray, but the tail had a white tip. Nelson
finally fled, terrified, from the area. He also described how he
felt an inexplicable bone-chilling cold sensation.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center
Type: E


6.
Location. Not given
Date: January 12 2002
Time: night
Ted Parker was eating some leftover food when he claims the food began to
change. The bread of the sandwich turned an orange color and the lamb
became a silvery metallic color, sort of like liquid mercury. As he watched=

transfixed, he saw the orange bread and metallic lamb turn into the figure=

of an "alien" with the form of a man. It was silver in color and its outfit=

(smooth pants and shirt, like a jump suit) was orange in color. At this
point Parker glanced at the wall clock and it indicated that 2 hours had
gone by, even though it felt like minutes only. The alien figure
communicated using telepathic means and asked Ted to come with him. They
both went outside and there, Ted saw a landed black-colored craft in his
backyard. In a split second Ted found himself inside the craft not knowing=

how he got there. The inside of the craft was pure white in color with
strips of the metallic silver that the alien figure appeared to be made of.=

The rest of the incident is just a blur, but Parker did remembered hearing=

several loud high-pitched rings while onboard the object. A couple of days=

before while eating dinner with several other people there had been a
similar high pitched ring and everybody had just stopped eating and walked=

out of the room.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: G or F?



7.
Location. Chihuahua, Mexico
Date: January 29 2002
Time: night
Several days before seeing a UFO the witness remembered being in a
dream-like state in which he felt very calm and saw numerous disc shaped
objects, orange-red in color. A human like figure was talking to him about=

the objects and their propulsion. The UFO he saw was of an orange color and=

he felt a sort of ecstasy when he observed the craft. Several of his
neighbors also saw the object.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: G or F?


8.
Location. Near Palmyra, Wisconsin
Date: February 2002
Time: 0200A
Two men reported seeing a creature that resembled a bipedal "gigantic wolf"=

walking down a road west of the city. They said the creature was at least 7=

ft tall with a wolf-like head. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Linda GodfreyType: E


9.
Location. West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
Nebilson Sangma reported encountering a scary furry creature on a hunting
trip in the jungles. He reportedly took a video of the creature's nesting
place. According to Sangma, the creature walked erect like a human, had
built a house like nesting place, and would emerge from it frequently to
feast on a banana grove. Sangma and his brother observed the gigantic
creature for three consecutive days from afar. Officials and villagers have=

been hunting for the creature in the forest but it seems to have
disappeared as furtively as it appeared.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 13
Type: E


10.
Location. Near Dover, England
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness had been jogging along a low path by the beach when she noticed=

a tall, well built being in a black skin tight suit, that stood watching
her from nearby. He wore a black helmet wit a brown visor pulled down. At
first she thought it was a biker but as she approached the figure, it
suddenly disappeared in plain sight. As she continued to run she noticed a=

black craft jutting out of the sand, it was small and oval shaped, matt and=

ribbed it also disappeared in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: E?


11.
Location. Rosario de la Frontera, Salta, Argentina
Date: February 2002
Time: night
A strange creature called by locals "El Pestizo" has attacked several lone=

pedestrians in the middle of the night. It is described as a dark man
shaped shadowy being. A boy riding his bicycle on the way to visit some
friends was toppled from his bicycle and found a black shadowy figure
facing him. The young man managed to upholster his shotgun and fire two
shots. But, when he saw that they had no effect, he promptly drew his knife=

and stabbed the figure without any apparent harm. Frightened the youth
tried to escape but the creature knocked him down without saying a word and=

began dragging him by the hair to the side of the road. At this point the
young man began to scream. A local man, who rushed to provide assistance,
only to find a black shadow dragging the boy by the hair, heard his cries.=

The fearful shape disappeared without a trace after it became aware of the=

other man's presence. Six other locals have reported being attacked by a
similar being and received wounds.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


12.
Location. Not given
Date: February 2002
Time: early morning
The witness was alone at home and was preparing his breakfast when suddenly=

he heard a window break; he went to see what had happened. Grabbing a golf=

club he peeked inside the room where the window broke. He was stunned to
see a strange creature climbing on his bed. It appeared to be hurt, because=

it seemed that it could not move well. Gripping the golf club he went a
step nearer and the creature hissed horribly. It shrieked in an unworldly
manner. Terrified the witness did not move. The creature was small, about
the size of a large rabbit, and it was dark in color and had reddish eyes.=

It had wings and a spine of quills on its back, and had a semi reptilian
face. It appeared to have hair and small legs. The witness raised the golf=

club and the creature hissed again showing its large yellowish teeth, which=

appeared to be sharp, like those of a crocodile. It suddenly hopped out of=

the window and rapidly hopped across the street into the oak trees.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June archiveType: E


13.
Location. Vigevano, Italy
Date: February 2002
Time: 0100A
In the outskirts of this city a witness observed from his vehicle a
luminous humanoid entity walking along a roadway. It scurried away into the=

darkness when approached.
No other information.

HC addendum
Source: CISU, ItalyType: E



14.
Location. Corguinho, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Date: February 5 2002
Time: night
During a localized UFO flap several witnesses reported seeing a strange
creature described as about 1.3 meters in height, having two legs, with a
physique like a human but who moved with a strange fluctuating motion. The=

creature was seen five times by twenty people in the rural zone around
Corguinho. In Rochedo, 6 miles south of Corguinho five Cebu cattle were
found dead with a single incision on the side of the throat. The bodies had=

been drained of blood. (Is there a connection?).

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


15.
Location. Mount Podbrdo, Bosnia Hercigovina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: morning
Contactee and stigmatic Giorgio Bongiovanni was visiting the shrine on top=

of the mountain and was praying silently to the Virgin when, to his
astonishment, a glowing luminous female figure appeared and touched his
forehead with her fingertips. His stigmata scar vanished instantly. The
female figure told him to return to Italy and make known what had happened.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 14
Type: E or F?


16.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: evening
73-year-old Maria Rufina Cayo, a local shepherd was walking back home with=

her dogs and the cattle. Suddenly at one point, something spooked the
animals, and these began to stampede. Looking around she spotted a bizarre=

creature standing about 12 meters away. She described it as a humanoid,
half animal, half human, about 1.70m in height, with bright red eyes, sharp=

protruding fangs, and hands and feet that ended in sharp claws. The
creature looked at the witness three times then it scrambled away using
quick jumping motions with is powerfully built hind legs, she also noticed=

large pointy ears. The top part of its body seems to have been covered in a=

shiny white blanket. It somehow resembled a centaur walking on two
claw-like feet.  Alerted by the shouts of Maria, two men, Santos Jaimes,
and Ruben Colque ran out to investigate with their dogs. Suddenly the dogs=

stopped and began making pitiful howling noises, they refused to move any
further. The men heard noises behind some nearby bushes and went to
investigate and spotted a bizarre creature that stood staring at them with=

huge reddish eyes. It then moved quickly away in the direction of Cerro
Negro and disappeared from sight. The witnesses noticed very sharp claws on=

the creature's feet with a very sharp claw that appeared to be pointed
backwards. Strange footprints were found the next day.

HC addendum
Source: El Tribuno, Salta Argentina March 27 2002
Also Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E



17.
Location. Khanpur, Ahmedabad, India
Date: February 20 2002
Time: after midnight
Several local residents reportedly have encountered a person, dressed in
black and wearing a mask. Dubbed the "Monkeyman" whom they described as
between 25 and 20 years of age, dark skinned and having curly hair can
reportedly be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees. Two
local youths chased it and the figure reportedly disappeared in plain
sight. The two youths have been behaving abnormally since then. The
stranger was also chased along the riverbed near the Cama Hotel and it also=

suddenly disappeared. Others have heard the stranger running on the
rooftops. Abdul Hamid another youngster of the local slums described the
figure as a tall lean man that carries a sharp weapon. "I saw him from the=

back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised the alarm, he jumped to=

another roof and then on to a tree." Police have searched for the stranger=

but nothing has been found.

HC addendum
Source: Fortean Times, India Express
Type: E


18.
Location. Prague, Czech Republic
Date: February 23 2002
Time: night
Blanka Slemendova was in her apartment when she saw a "ship" hovering over=

some nearby woods. It was shining red, white and yellow lights. She then
heard telepathic communication coming from the object telling her to go and=

meet them at an unspecified location. Looking over to her bedroom wall she=

saw what appeared to be a projection of human like faces looking at her.
Later that night she saw luminous figures in her room and a floating red
light also in her room. The next night she saw what appeared to be 2 gray
suns and around them a golden lights with numerous groups of shiny
human-like figures floating about. She interpreted these as being angels.

HC addendum
Source: Direct from witness (Slemendova)
Type: C & F?


19.
Location. Wycliffe Well Roadhouse, Northern Territory Australia
Date: early March 2002
Time: evening
While workers in the area watched unusual lights in the sky an aboriginal
woman encountered a triangular sort of object in a paddock and all of the
sudden she saw three silvery clad human like figures that began to move
toward her vehicle. She turned the vehicle around and took off.

HC addendum
Source: Lou Farcus ABC On-lineType: C


20.
Location. Near Canberra Australia
Date: March 2002
Time: 1700
Several friends were taking a trip to the coast and it was already very
dark. They had already entered a tropical forest area and there was a mist=

rolling along the ground. As they turned around they saw something
squatting in the middle of the road. It stared at them, and just as they
thought they were going to hit it, it leaped off the road and into the
trees. It leaped about 10 meters in the air. The creature was definitely
human looking although it wore strange clothes. It was dressed in a green
robe of some kind with little pieces of gold on it, and it was either
wearing a head crest or it had a row of spikes running from its forehead to=

the top of its neck. Very frightened the witnesses drove out of the forest=

and at the same time the mist turned to a thick fog. They pulled over and
decided to wait until the fog had cleared, although none of them were too
happy about it. As they sat around and waited they suddenly heard a shriek.=

It sounded like some sort of wild animal and they turned the car on so the=

headlights would scare it away. The headlights revealed the same creature
they had seen earlier. It hid its face from the light and shrieked. Right
before the witnesses' eyes, the creature seemed to evaporate into the fog.=

Within five minutes the fog had gone and the normal rolling mist was back.=

The witnesses quickly left the area and drove towards the coast.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June ArchiveType: E


21.
Location. Guanica Puerto Rico
Date: March 1 2002
Time: 2345
Reinaldo Rios (involved in other encounters) was in his bedroom that night=

when a large white light suddenly appeared. It flew around the room several=

times and then hovered. He heard voices coming from the light, which
communicated with him. The voice said: "I am your real father." Soon the
light transformed itself into a figure resembling that of a little boy it
then vanished in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: UFOs over America.com
Type: E


22.
Location. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 0800A
The witness and his wife were in bed that Saturday morning talking when
their 5-year-old daughter came into the bedroom with her baby brother,
whose cot is placed under their bedroom window. They heard a strange noise=

and some green light came into the window. Their daughter looked out the
window and reported seeing a "flying car" with four spinning green lights
on top. She saw two windows in the vehicle and saw two dark brown faces
looking out. His wife saw the craft flying past through the curtains. That=

same morning, in a large tree near the witness house a strange structure
was found. The branches were arranged in a rectangular pen shape, vertical,=

each approximately 30 to 40 cm long. They found a few smaller sticks
scaling down in size from the structure. A piece of concrete slab was found=

propped up on one corner. The witnesses had never seen this strange
structure before and think is some kind of message left by the visitors.
(Some kind of bizarre crop circle?). A few nights before they had heard
strange noises coming from the kitchen area.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: A


23.
Location. Golasecca Di Novara, Italy
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 2330
Augusto & Maurizia were in their vehicle parked in an open field next to a=

wooded area having a heated discussion when suddenly a powerful beam of
reddish-orange light illuminated the area around them. They rolled down the=

car window and heard a sharp metallic sound that seemed to be increasing in=

intensity. They now noticed, behind the beam of light a hovering
disc-shaped craft with a central rotating ring, it hovered about a meter
from the ground. From the object, a cigar-shaped beam of light emerged;
they could see it as the central ring of the craft slowly rotated on its
axis. The craft was only about 10 meters away. At this point, and only
about 4 meters from the object Augusto saw what appeared to be a gelatinous=

transparent humanoid-like figure with a visible head, arms and legs. The
figure was silvery in color and was very tall, about 3 meters or so. At
this point Augusto became concerned and drove away from the area and did
not see the object or figure depart. The whole episode lasted about 10
minutes. The metallic noise was heard all throughout the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Alfredo Lissoni, CUN Milano, Michelle Castellano CUN VareseType: C


24.
Location. Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England
Date: March 3 2002
Time: morning
Helen Diskin went for a walk in the countryside talking snap shots along
the way with her digital camera. Returning home she loaded these into her
computer and was intrigued by an odd-looking image. It looked like a
luminous figure in an area of no sunlight, skulking amongst the trees. She=

returned to the site of the photo twice afterward and could find no
explanation for the figure. The figure resembled a small helmeted figure
that she had not seen when she took the picture of an area of the woods she=

had thought of as "mysterious."

HC addendum
Source: Helen Diskin, UFO Magazine Vol. 22 # 1Type: E?


25.
Location. Near Trenton New Jersey
Date: March 4 2002
Time: night
Several witnesses were camping outside of town and late at night one of
them was attempting to put out the bonfire when he heard the most awful and=

horrifying scream. It resembled that of an injured dog crossed with a
scream of a woman. The witness dropped the flashlight and was joined by
another witness. Suddenly out of the woods a hideous and gruesome creature=

appeared. It did not look human, somewhat satyr-like in appearance and
walked on two legs. It had a long tail like a dragon and wings like those
unicorns in fantasy books. The beast took several steps towards the
witnesses and one of them picked up and asked and yelled at it and then
shone his flashlight at it. The creature then turned towards the bushes and=

ran away from the area.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: E


26.
Location. Pichaca, Salta, Argentina
Date: March 9 2002
Time: night
Ceferino Leoncio was cleaning his one room metal shack when suddenly a
bright light engulfed the room. He felt a sudden heat as he saw a tiny
figure (50 cm) of an angel-like creature materialize in front of him. It
slowly moved its small wing-like protrusions and moved around and then
suddenly stopped and remained still. It appeared to be a small living human=

like living being until it appeared to hardened and turn into some type of=

statue of cherubic appearance. Locals have now built a shrine around the
tiny "statue" and call the strange materialization a "religious miracle".

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso
Type: F?



27.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: March 16 2002
Time: 2215
Mirna, was watching television alone in her room when she began hearing
noises coming from outside, at first she thought it was her dogs playing
around with some empty cans. But the noises kept getting louder and louder=

and she decided to go outside to investigate. Once outside she was stunned=

to see some type creature that had somehow entered the rabbit cage and was=

attacking the animals that were making loud unearthly screams. Thinking at=

first that it was one of the dogs she approached the case but realized that=

it was a gray colored hairy hunched over creature, that was moving quickly=

inside the cage. She stepped back and could not understand how the creature=

had entered the cage, since there wasn't any apparent hole or aperture
visible anywhere and the door was firmly closed. Afraid she ran inside her=

home and notified her son, both then ran out but the creature had
mysteriously disappeared. Unnerved, they could not understand how they
creature had escaped since the door to the rabbit caged was still firmly
locked. Later they could only find a small round hole in the wire only
several centimeters in width, not large enough for a creature estimated to=

have been about 70 to 80 cm in height. Several of the rabbits were found
injured and one was dead.

HC addendum
Source: Calama UFO CenterType: E


28.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: March 19 2002
Time: 2000
Young Elizabeth Lera reported seeing a short humanoid with "dark eyes"
looking into the building compound from behind a wire fence. It appeared
not to have any other facial features and was wearing dark clothing; it
wore some type of head covering, which was hard to see because of the
darkness. She could only see a pair of large dark eyes on his face that
appeared to shine in the darkness. Some more children now arrived and
observed as the humanoid move several steps towards them. Another witness,=

Rene Mamani saw the humanoid run and hide behind some bushes. It seemed to=

move at very high speed in an unnatural fashion. It seemed to have remained=

suspended in mid-air for a few seconds. It then seemed to fly through the
air and disappeared into some nearby woods. Other students at the school
reportedly saw it again on the night of the 20th.

HC addendum
Source: Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E


29.
Location. Woodburn, Oregon
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 0300A
The witness was sleeping when she woke up suddenly feeling paralyzed. The
witness was completely unable to move or speak. Her next memory was of a
strange sensation on her left cheek, which hurt a lot. Unseen "beings" were=

apparently taking skin samples. Her face was left with a pink fleshy scoop=

down my left cheek, directly on the cheekbone. A teardrop scar was left on=

her cheek.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical Universe
Type: G?




30.
Location. Bethlehem, Israel
Date: March 21 2002
Time: night
At the besieged Church of The Nativity several awed witnesses have come
forward describing the events of Thursday night. That night, a smell of
roses filled the sanctuary as the Daughters of Charity held their evening
prayers. "The sweet scent was soon followed by a high musical humming sound=

and a distinct feeling of warmth emanating from the ceiling." Then, the
sisters reported, seeing a glowing beam of light gradually forming the
likeness of the Blessed Virgin "like a film coming into focus." Tears were=

running down her face, and she uttered a prophetic warning. "Time is
growing short, and the promised Judgment Day is nearly at hand." One week
before the apparition, The Church of the Holy Family was the scene of a
ferocious firefight between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 17Type: F


31.
Location. Not given
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 2255
16-year old Steven Mizon saw hovering over a street a large oval shaped
craft encircled in bright lights and with several lighted windows around
its edge. A figure stared down at him from one of the windows. No other
information.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Watch
Type: A



32.
Location. Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain
Date: March 26 2002
Time: 1500
A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a deserted road when=

he noticed ahead in the distance and in the middle of the roadway an object=

resembling a shiny pear that was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat
perplexed he approached and noticed two individuals standing on a nearby
field. These were over 2 meters in height, wore tight fitting white
coveralls and helmets resembling that of the early astronauts. He parked
his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men=

walked away and entered the shiny pear-shaped craft while the other
remained behind. Knowing that these men were "not from this earth" he still=

asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt that as
he approached the strange pair he had been in some type of a trance and
seemed to have floated over the road. The humanoid answered and appeared
genuinely happy as to his offer of assistance but said that everything was=

in order. He also added that the area was very beautiful and also added:
"Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such
beautiful scenes, they disappeared a long time ago." The astounded witness=

managed to ask the humanoid where he was from and was told that they hailed=

from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The=

humanoid smiled as he answered the question. The humanoid then bid goodbye=

and walked towards the nearby shiny pear shaped object, he then disappeared=

inside of it. The craft then emitted a loud whistling sound and disappeared=

at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the
humanoids as about 2.50 meters in height, wide chests and heavy set, thin
legs. Generally human features, but somewhat "refined" or sharpened
features. The suits were very tight fitting made of an apparent synthetic
material resembling plastic. Their eyes were very light almost white and
their speech was hesitant & accented. Also their movements seemed kind of
clumsy.

HC addendum
Source: J M Garcia, Francisco Padron, SpainType: B


33.
Location. Pringle Lake, Texas
Date: March 28 2002
Time: 1100A
Mark Hakemack and a friend had taken an airboat out on the NW side of the
lake to do a little redfish fishing. The day was kind of hazy, with broken=

cloud cover. They had caught several trout and were just chatting when he
hooked up a large redfish while playing with the fish, Mark happened to
glance upwards and saw a large bird-like creature emerge from a cloudbank.=

His friend saw it too, after about 20 to 25 seconds it flew behind cloud
cover again. The strange creature was grayish in color and the profile of a=

raptor, short neck/head, no legs sticking out behind, and no long tail
feathers. Mark could not take his eyes off it. He estimated the wingspan to=

have been 10' to 14 ' in overall. It appeared to be soaring on the wind,
although, he did see it give a couple of light "flaps" with its wings. The=

witness could only relate this to the legendary "Thunderbird" legend.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.comType: E


34.
Location. Sevilla, Spain
Date: March 30 2002
Time: late night
The witness to the March 26 case was at home with his wife and was getting=

ready to sleep when he heard footsteps coming from patio area outside his
chalet. Armed with a club, he opened the door and was stunned to see the
same two tall heavyset humanoids he had encountered 4 days before. One of
the humanoids was kneeling on the ground as if inspecting something on the=

soil, the other one upon hearing the door open, turned and quickly assured=

the witness not to fear that they were not here to harm him. Stunned, the
witness invited the two humanoids in the house for some refreshments (!).
These declined the invitation telling that they had to go already. Using
the same clumsy movements both humanoids walked towards the rear of the
house where the witness noticed the same shiny metallic pear shaped craft
on the ground. They entered the object, which quickly left at high speed.
The witness's wife awakened by the voices was able to see the two humanoids=

from a second story window, and described them in the same way.

HC addendum
Source: Francisco Padron, Jose Manuel Garcia, SpainType: B


35.
Location. Los Cipreses, Chile
Date: March 31 2002
Time: noon
During a local UFO congress 24 persons in three groups entered a
dimensional gateway that appeared by itself over the terrain. It was kind
of a dome, a luminous archway measuring four by four meters. The
participants lost their materiality without disappearing completely. Upon
entering, they met several human-like alien characters with large baldheads=

and wearing robes that waited within and received information. According to=

sources the contact experience was "dimensional" it was like crossing into=

a different reality. The 24 participants were "all professionals, college
students of high intellectual levels, mostly Chileans," and some were
members of Grupo Rama, a New Age association.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 16, quoting Camilo Valdivieto
Type: G or F?


36.
Location. Tbilissi Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: night
A man entered the local St David church and reported that "a phantom with
wings" had approached him and predicted an earthquake that indeed took
place on April 25 2002, devastating areas of central Georgia.

HC addendum
Source: Pravda
Type: E?


37.
Location. Near Macon, Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: 2300
Three friends were awakened by loud banging noises and bellowing sounds
coming from outside. One of the men ran to the bathroom and looked out the=

window to see a figure run by and squat in the nearby bushes. He described=

the creature as about 3 ft tall, hairy with what appeared to be horns on
its head and hands; he could not see a face. Others in the neighborhood
heard the banging noises.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.com and direct witness
Communication.
Type: E


38.
Location. Belvedere di Tezze, Italy
Date: April 26 2002
Time: evening
A 20-year old woman was returning home one night when she noticed some
bright lights nearby of an unknown origin. She followed the lights in her
car until she stopped near a local pizzeria. She saw the light near the
ground and within the lights two tall slender human like figures wearing
some type of headgear. Since she was carrying a camera she was able to snap=

a quick picture. The figures then vanished. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Gruppo Accademico Ufologico Scandicci quoting
"Il giornale di Vicenza"Type: E?


39.
Location. Puente Santamaria, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: early morning
Two young men observed a dark object descend towards the ground about 100
meters away. According to the two witnesses from the craft descended a
small humanoid, orange in color. Very scared they both ran from the area
and reported their experience to others.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: B


40.
Location. Merceditas, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: evening
An elderly couple was walking along National Route # 8 when about 800
meters from their location they noticed a very strong light. The light
descended next to a puddle at about 70 meters from the witness. Both then
saw two very short orange colored humanoids that moved in very agile
movements near the object. Terrified they walked away and upon looking back=

saw a bright glow on the ground.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: C


41.
Location. Barangay, Philippines
Date: May 2002
Time: night
Several local residents reported seeing a bizarre creature described as an=

"aswang" reputed to be a winged vampire type creature, it reportedly had
red glowing eyes, long black hair, and was wearing a white flowing gown. It=

was seen perched on top of a bamboo tree. Residents at nearby Roxas
reported seeing a similar creature. The police was called but a search
failed to locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Akasico.comType: E


42.
Location. Alvear, La Pampa Argentina
Date: May 3 2002
Time: near midnight
Several young men were returning home late at night along a deserted
roadway when suddenly out of nowhere a female figure wearing a light
flowing gown and with long black hair appeared in front of them. The
strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly and repeatedly asked for=

assistance from the men in a strange urgent tone. Terrified the men ran
from the area and later returned with additional witnesses but they could
find no trace of the strange apparition.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E?


43.
Location. Taralgon Victoria, Australia
Date: May 24 2002
Time: 2355
Walking near the Loy Yang Power station 45-year old Martin Taylor was
suddenly blinded by an intense blue light and he felt extremely dizzy. His=

next memory was of being in a circular room with a variety of lights and
buttons scattered about the walls. He was lying on a large table that
seemed to be of a very highly polished metal. He was strapped down and his=

shirt had been removed. There were wires attached to his arms, neck and
temples. A four ft tall humanoid figure with very large almond shaped eyes,=

almost transparent looking skin, ghostly white in appearance examined him.=

The figure had three extremely long fingers on each hand and spoke in a
strange dialect.

HC addendum
Source: UFO WatchType: G


44.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: May 29 2002
Time: midnight
Irma Rick watched a rotating luminous object descend close to the ground
next to a grain silo; it gave off a powerful bluish light through some
openings around its circumference. It hovered close to the ground. Through=

an opening a strange creature was seen to descend to the ground. It was
described as having an elongated semi-transparent white body; it also had
an elongated head. She could not see any eyes or legs on the creature as it=

stood motionless next to the craft. She observed the creature and object
for about 5 minutes until she dropped the flashlight she was carrying.
Afraid she left the area and did not see the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: B



45.
Location. Lembang Bandung, Indonesia
Date: May 30 2002
Time: 2315
The witness was driving his motorcycle across a highland area when he
spotted some flashing lights overhead and then noticed a silvery
disc-shaped craft descend low over some nearby graves at a cemetery. The
craft had blue and orange flashing lights around its rim. There was no
sound as the craft apparently emitted a beam of light towards the ground
and levitated what appeared to be some dead bodies onboard the object. (!)=

The witness was apparently paralyzed and was unable to move. The craft then=

shot away at a 45-degree angle and disappeared from sight. When that
happened the witness left the scene.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


46.
Location. Houston, Texas
Date: late May 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness was at the local electric company in order to pay a bill when
she decided to use the restrooms. Sitting in the stall she then noticed on=

the side of the wall of the stall what appeared to be a face lit up in a
dull light. When the witness looked directly at the "face" it vanished. She=

described is as having large round eyes no visible nose and a slit-like
mouth. (A peeping tom alien?)

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.comType: E?


47.
Location. General Acha, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: early June 2002
Time: various
A resident of the Oeste neighborhood informed newspaper sources that a
short green-colored dwarf like entity has appeared twice on her property:
once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When her husband ran out
responding to her screams, the mysterious entity vanished by rapidly
climbing up a tree. All versions agree in that the entity is short in
stature. Another resident added that it moved so quickly that it was hard
to describe it. In the same area mysterious cattle mutilations have also
been reported.

HC addendum
Source: Loren Coleman in UFO UpdatesType: E


48.
Location. Ojo De Agua, Argentina
Date: June 2002
Time: afternoon
Several passengers onboard two farm micro buses reported seeing a very tall=

dark man like figure that appeared to be wearing a tight fitting diver's
outfit standing on a nearby field. Nearby numerous mysterious animal
mutilations have been reported. The figure was silent and was quickly lost=

from sight as the buses moved away.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E




49.
Location. Near Tampa, Florida
Date: June 2002
Time: night
A man and three of his friends reported encountering two bizarre chupacabra=

type creatures one stood about 3-4 ft tall, the other looked to be about 6=

ft tall. Both had large glowing red eyes and spikes starting from the head=

to the back. They scurried away into a wooded area. (They were to have
further encounters in August).

HC addendum
Source: Art Bell.comType: E


50.
Location. Antalya, Turkey
Date: June 5 2002
Time: afternoon
Approximately 45 witnesses claimed they saw an UFO in the Santral district=

landing on the backyard of the Fatma Primary School. Several students
including Murat Esici age 11 saw an alien emitting red rays from his eyes
come out of the object. His hands and feet were metallic. He had a very big=

head and was about 1.80 meters in height. Esici temporarily lost her voice=

immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also=

claimed they san an unusual craft and an alien beside it. "His eyes and
hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes." The children
were overcome with shock after the incident.

HC addendum
Source: Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center Intl
Type: B


51.
Location. Polonnauruwa, Sri Lanka
Date: June 8 2002
Time: 2200
Approximately 50 to 70 eyewitnesses saw a UFO flying at about 100 meters
above ground level. The object was silent and briefly landed emitting a
bright flash like light. When it was close to the ground the object emitted=

a buzzing sound. Three other witnesses saw three 2 ft tall creatures than
when approached ran into the jungle and disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Sources
Type: D


52.
Location. Polonnaruwa, Sir Lanka
Date: June 9 2002
Time: 2012
Two witnesses went to a bath on a nearby river when they heard a loud
thundering sound and a UFO appeared. The craft landed nearby and two, 2 ft=

tall "aliens" emerged from the object. One of the humanoids flung a small
fluorescent fireball like object that flew over a house and vanished. Soon=

the craft and humanoids disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC & News Reports
Type: B



53.
Location. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Date: June 10 2002
Time: 1900
Witnesses saw a mysterious light in the sky and others saw a large disc
shaped object land nearby. Three humanoids only about 2 ft tall emerged
from the craft and disappeared into the forest when approached. The object=

also left.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Reports
Type: B


54.
Location. Chantilly, Virginia
Date: June 10 2002
Time: night
The witness was awakened during the night with a sense of some presence in=

the room. Looking toward the door, he saw, fading quickly, something, which=

almost had the appearance of a hologram. Next, shadows appeared outside the=

windows in an erratic shape. At first he thought the shadows to be from
trees moving in a strong wind. The appearance was of a storm blowing the
limbs to create these shadows outside the window. However, there was no
storm. He looked at the adjacent window on the side of the house facing
opposite and there was no wind at all. In fact there was no trees
positioned in such a way to cast a shadow. He opened the blinds to see what=

might be causing the shadows. He then saw what seemed to be a hologram with=

the shape of two small eyes moving erratically outside the window.
Frightened he closed the blinds. Two weeks later he was awakened by a
humming sound and again saw the erratic shadows outside the window. He
watched the shadows for 10-15 minutes and then called the police. The
police found no signs of any intrusion in the yard. When the police left
the witness walked toward the door facing the back porch and saw a large
burst of bluish white light. It looked unnatural, almost like a laser. He
has not seen the "shadows" again.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: E?


55.
Location. Ataliva Roca, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 11 2002
Time: 1930
A worker at a local drainage project was sitting and guarding some
machinery when he noticed a short greenish colored humanoid figure that was=

approaching his location from a nearby field. The witness became concerned=

and drove away from the area in the construction equipment and did not see=

the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


56.
Location. Eduardo Castex, La Pampa Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Two girls of a local school encountered a short greenish humanoid figure in=

the playing yard. The figure was standing up and appeared to be raising its=

arms up to the sky. Terrified the two girls retreated into the school and
watched the figure scurry away into some nearby woods. Around the same time=

a local farmer found a strangely mutilated hog in his farm.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


57.
Location. Chasico, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Hugo Deluca and several other workers were parked in a bus in an isolated
area when they spotted about 20 meters away a short, 1.20 meters tall,
bipedal figure completely covered in gray hair. It walked upright like a
man and then scurried away into some woods vanishing from sight. The area
had been hit with animal mutilations around the same time.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


58.
Location. Castex, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 13 2002
Time: night
A 70-year old man had gone to his driveway to check on a flat tire in his
car when a short light green colored humanoid suddenly appeared next to
him. It had large round ears, and two reddish luminous eyes. Its body was
thin and almost triangular in shape. The witness attempted to yell out but=

was suddenly unable to speak and at the same time strange warmth invaded
his body. Several seconds later the humanoid vanished and the witness
returned to normal. He reported the incident to the police.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


59.
Location. La Laguna, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 14 2002
Time: afternoon
Several youngster had gone into the fields in order to obtain some firewood=

when they saw sitting on a clearing in the woods two human like figures,
all dressed in black. They sat facing each other, one looking towards the
east the other towards the west, unmoving. Unnerved by the sight the
juveniles ran from the area. The next day the father of one of the boys
found two dead cows at the site, but could find no trace of the strange
pair. Days later a sheep and a horse were found dead and strangely
mutilated in the nearby location of El Cardonal.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: E


60.
Location. De Kalb, Illinois
Date: June 15 2002
Time: 0030A
The witness was sitting in his family room watching TV when he noticed a
bright flash of light outside the window. He saw the flash several times
and decided to check his backyard there he saw a circular light moving
around in circles. The light began to get closer; scared he ran inside his=

home and called a friend on the phone. He then quickly ran outside and saw=

the circle getting closer, he noticed that it had a purplish color to it
and it began to descend towards the ground. He became nauseous and dizzy
and collapsed on to the ground. He tried to crawl to the house but was
unable to move. He turned his head and saw the purplish object on the
ground and what appeared to be a door opening up. He then heard a squeaking=

noise and saw a tall and a short figure standing by a door of the object.
The two figures started to move towards him, walking in a strange bopping
fashion. They were of a dark complexion with a bumpy texture, other than
that they resembled normal human beings. The shorter figure approached and=

picked up the witness' camera and stared at it. He then looked at the
taller figure and handed it to him. The taller of the two looked at the
camera and then at the witness. The witness then heard loud unpleasant
shrieks coming from the taller figure, which then gave the camera back to
the shorter figure, which covered the camera with his hand, seconds later a=

light began to emerge from their hands. Then they stopped, threw the camera=

aside and began to walk towards the witness. They reached his side and
started to examine his body. A dog began to bark from inside the house and=

the shorter figure put out his hand and the dog stopped barking. At this
point the witness began to vomit. After about a minute he began to relax
and to breathe better. When he turned his head he realized that the two
figures and the purple spherical object were now gone. The next day he had=

a very severe headache.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: B


61.
Location. San Juan, Argentina
Date: June 20 2002
Time: evening
At a location where the body of a strangely mutilated carcass of a cow was=

found two witnesses reported seeing a small creature with large glowing
slanted eyes and about one meter in height. Later in the same area, members=

of the Gimenez family after investigating noises and a strong odor coming
from a wooded area found a mutilated cow and also watched a short humanoid=

with glowing eyes scurrying away into the woods.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


62.
Location. Manuel Rodriguez, Calama, Chile
Date: June 22 2002
Time: after midnight
A bizarre creature was spotted at a local housing complex on San Antonio
Street. Witnesses reported that it resembled an ape and it jumped all over=

the roof. It passed right in front of the witness, Maria Gavia's window and=

then it came back making all manner of noise. The creature was able to make=

very long jumps, unlike any a human could. It jumped and landed on the
neighbor's roof and then it left the area. Neighborhood dogs acted scared
and began howling. Others described the creature as about 1.5 meters tall,=

stocky in build with bright red eyes. It made a lot of noise. Others
reportedly chased the creature.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center, quoting El
Mercurio de CalamaType: E


63.
Location. Angencia Realico, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 23 2002
Time: late night
Several hunters returning to a local ranch spotted about 50 meters away two=

large glowing reddish eyes staring at them. They turned off their
flashlight and approached closer on foot, about 30 meters away they again
saw the reddish eyes on a dark creature that appeared to be standing on top=

of an apparently dead animal. One of the hunters shone its flashlight on
the figure again and saw a figure about 40 cm in height that quickly ran
from the area at very high speed. The creature disappeared into the brush.=

At the scene, a dead and mutilated young heifer. Other mutilations were
reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


64.
Location. Rancul, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 25 2002
Time: 2020
Two young men, Nestor Pinto and Daniel Gatica were walking on a field when=

they encountered a short man-like figure with huge pointy ears and long
dangling arms standing near some brush. The figure scurried into the brush=

and disappeared and at the same time the two witnesses ran away from the
area and did not see the strange dwarf again.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


65.
Location. Bavaria, Germany (exact location not given)
Date: June 25 2002
Time: night
The witness had stayed up late watching the soccer game as was in his
bedroom when suddenly there was a coldness around him that made him shiver.=

He noticed that his audio capabilities were somehow enhanced and he was
able to hear sounds that previously he was unable to hear. He then heard a=

noise outside his door and went out to investigate. The noise became louder=

as he approached the door. He then heard footsteps and opened the door. A
very small man with a somewhat deformed body that was smiling at him
confronted the witness. He looked straight ahead and then stared at the
witness. His next memory was of waking up in his bed in the morning.

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.com
Type: E


66.
Location. Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2105
The primary witness had stepped out on his back porch when his attention
was drawn to two huge black "birds" which were approaching from the north.=

His first impression was they were Herons, but soon realized that the color=

was wrong, and "they were huge, much larger than any bird I have ever
seen." The two huge birds landed at the top of a very tall coniferous tree.=

The witness stated that the wingspan appeared to be wider than the
branches, jest below where they had landed. The body size was estimated to=

be about six feet from head to tail. The oddest feature was the shape of
the wings, which according to the witness appeared to be bat-like. The tree=

where the "birds" landed seemed as though it would break from their weight.=

The witness yelled for others in the house to come outside to look. Another=

family member was able to see the huge black birds as they passed overhead,=

and headed for some woods. After checking the size of the branches where
the birds had landed, the witness estimated that the wingspan would have
been close to 12 feet or somewhat larger.

HC addendum
Source: Stan GordonType: E


67.
Location. Marldon Hill, Paington, England
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2357
A couple were walking near a local historic monument (a windmill) and they=

drew closer to monument they heard a low whirling noise. The noise
progressed to a high-pitched whining, almost out of hearing range. Then
they saw a mysterious glow coming from the dark side of the windmill, and
then to their astonishment they saw 5 or 6 shadow like figures standing in=

front of the windmill. Startled the two began to run back towards the main=

road. The woman looked back and saw the figures become engulfed by a bright=

light and disappear, and then everything became quiet.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Sightings UKType: E?


68.
Location. Adelia Maria, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 3 2002
Time: 2100
Pedro and Estela Moine had decided to visit the business district of town
called Barrio Norte and crossed the old railroad yard through a pedestrian=

pathway that ran through a pasture area between some silos, old railroad
depots and abandoned wreckage. As the couple moved through the premises
they suddenly became aware of a strange and incomprehensible conversation
between many voices. Startled, they stopped walking moved a few meters more=

and then heard the voices again which now sounded like strange "O" sounds.=

Pedro looked toward the silos and was able to see resembling humanoid but
lacking upper and lower extremities. Despite the pleas of his wife, Pedro
ran several meters toward an inner alley in the silo plant, being able to
make out some 45 meters to the west and in profile---the entity, which
acting surprised, avoided the encounter and moved again to the north.
However, what filled the witnesses with wonderment was that the creature
did so as though flying or floating without touching the facilities it
passed. Pedro and Estela ran after it. It was thus that the man managed to=

see the entity apparently hiding behind the control room of the truck
scale. Pedro ran toward it and was again startled to see the apparition
rising as a plane taking off, flying at an altitude of 5 meters and
disappearing behind a large metal shed. Bewildered, both witnesses called
out, but were unable to see anything else. Pedro Moine as "a thing with
human shape" described the apparition. It had some sort of light, although=

he could not say if reflected or self-generated, although he tends to
believe the latter, since it was a nebulous whitish light, which kept him
from making out details. The entire mass of the apparition appeared to be a=

body covered from head to toe in some sort of mantle, which he described as=

though it wore a hat, but covered with some kind of long raincoat reaching=

down to what he took to be its feet. He added that the "conversational
sounds" repeated themselves in three separate occasions at various
intensities. They were like conversations in a strange language.

HC addendum
Source: Mario Luis Bracamonte, C.O.R, Rio Cuarto Argentina
Type: E


69.
Location. Jerusalem, Israel
Date: July 6 2002
Time: night
A remote TV camera picked up images of "orbs seen on the corner to the
right of the Wailing Wall." They seemed to have facial features almost like=

a ghost, reported investigator Charlotte LeFevre. The orbs were described
as "sharp and distinct". The orbs were next to the women's prayer area in
front of the Wall. Other strange phenomena, has been reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 29Type: F?


70.
Location. Villa Elisa, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: July 13 2002
Time: 2300
A young woman fainted from nervous shock after having an alleged closed
encounter with "some sort of green dwarf". This occurred---enveloped in
darkness---along Misioneros Salesianos Street very close to several houses.=

An ambulance was called and apparently transported the witness who was in
shock.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria ColuchiType: E


71.
Location. Patna, India
Date: July 21 2002
Time: night
Several residents claim they've been bitten or scratched by a "black
monkey-like creature with colored lights flashing from its eyes." Resident=

Pawan Kumar Niyogi who was sleeping on the terrace of his house claims "a 5=

ft tall monkey-like creature" attacked him. He said: "I was terrified and
thought my life was going to end but it merely scratched me on the shoulder=

before jumping off the roof." Local residents are conducting night vigils
and carrying torches to guard their homes.

HC addendum
Source: Ananova, Ufoupdates. Type: E


72.
Location. Chajan, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 21 2002
Time: 2300
Police officer Guillermo Arias was on routine patrol through a rural area
when he heard over the radio that his colleagues in arms over at Achiras
were seeing lights in sectors of said community, and that they were heading=

towards Chajan along National Route 8. At the wheel of the police patrol
van, he managed to see a formation of 7 lights in the distance and decided=

to drive 10 km along a rural dirt road. When he had covered said distance,=

he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine of his vehicle sputtered=

and died, causing the police car to strike the edge of a guardrail.
Simultaneously, the lights on the van's dashboard began turning on and off=

randomly, the police radio went haywire and its dial displayed the random
shifting of the frequencies while the cabin became filled with an acrid
odor, as though of burnt wiring, and the interior lights and stop
indicator, which were broken, began lighting on and off. Seized by fear,
Arias leaped from the van and walked away a few meters down the road,
losing his cellular phone in the escape. The darkness was total, when
suddenly, amid the confusing situation; an immense light emerged from a
field adjacent to the road as a triangular object rose majestically into
the air. Now Arias condition went from fear to abject terror as he saw what=

he described as a real "floating city" some 200 meters long with a long row=

of windows (perhaps as many as 100). Arias claims having seen something
move behind them, describing the movement as "TV sets which make lines and=

shadows", which he defined as "non-human", and that many beams of light
came out of the giant triangle, aimed at the ground. The event lasted 2-3
seconds, but to Arias it felt like an eternity. The object suddenly rose
and sped away, vanishing behind the hills of a local field. As the object
moved away, the whole area was lit up like daytime and there was an
afterglow that lasted another 20 minutes.

HC addendum
Source: C.O.R., Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense, Argentina
Type: A


73.
Location. Waconia, Minnesota
Date: July 26 2002
Time: 0300A
The young witness was sleeping in the backyard with his sister when he
suddenly woke up. He then noticed that the side of the tent that faced the=

wetlands and lake was lit up. Looking towards the light he saw a shadowy
torso and arm of a humanoid figure that seemed to be moving around within
the light. He watched for 30 seconds and saw the figure move the fingers of=

his hands. The witness became frightened and hid in his sleeping bag. He
came out about an hour later and the light and strange figure were
completely gone.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


74.
Location. Sedona, Arizona
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 0310A
In a wooded area the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all
white, with black "straight" eyes; and black diagonal/diamond strip of
"clothing" on top. He stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then
left. Prior to seeing the figure the witness had seen lights in a large
oval shaped pattern in the sky.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


75.
Location. Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 1730
Three girls had decided to visit the rooftop as they did the prior evening=

watching for satellites. It was dusk and the girls had a good vantage point=

looking towards the east. With them they had a pair of binoculars and a
pair of walkie-talkies. The girls noticed that a large orange light
appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The anomaly
was noted to have fluctuated in colors of orange, yellow, white and pale
blue. At fist they thought of an arriving airplane, but then a second light=

appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10=

degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some=

unusually maneuvering; from a stationary position it accelerated at least 5=

degrees closer to the ground surface at an approximate 45-60 degree angle
within a matter of a single second. The first anomaly then began to move
slowly towards the north. At this stage they partially lost view of it as
it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley-like
region of the horizon. According to the witnesses, this third object
appeared to have "landed" on the ground surface. The object was then viewed=

through the binoculars and presented in great detail; the object was
described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange,=

blue/purple and white rotating around the rim. Thy also noted the trees
being slightly illuminated by this extraordinary phenomenon. They were
suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, "Identify
yourself." This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in a
foreign language. Around 1830 the girls were then called down to have
dinner. At about 2030 the girls re-established their places on the roof
after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still
present. Unexpectedly a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above
the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. "It
was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away." The=

light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it=

is not clear how one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became
extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed
her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not=

sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another of the girls woke up
the next morning with her nose bleeding. She also mentioned that she had
seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom.

HC addendum
Source: The Australian UFO Research NetworkType: D or
F?



76.
Location. Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 29 2002
Time: early morning
Local residents have seen a strange figure, which they described as
resembling a "shroud". The apparitions, which always occur in the early
morning hours, have become so common that in recent days several neighbors=

have stayed up late to see them, and it is thus that they were able to
confirm the simultaneous presence of up to 2 such beings, as well as red
lights flying over the area. All the witnesses whether individuals or in a=

group, agree that the entities are nebulous and glowing, with a pair of red=

eyes being clearly identifiable, and glassy faces (as if transparent).
Their movements are smooth and they always appear from behind the sand
dunes, as though "coming form the Naval Base." Most witnesses agree that
they show a great interest in the water tanks located above the roofs, and=

that they do not flee upon detecting the presence of local
residents---rather, they stare at them fixedly for some minutes. Deep
silence is perceived during the observations and "the air appears to become=

still" and neither heat nor cold can be felt---only a sensation of warmth,=

as if the beings emanated heat. Witnesses also state that things appear to=

be darker when "the shroud" appears, as though ambient lighting were
dimmed. Another curious fact is the large number of cats and dogs who
report to the place where the sightings occur and sit down to observe it in=

silence, in a state resembling a trance. A series of semi-circular prints
have been found in the dunes, not very deep, with 15-20 cm separations in
some cases and 30-50 cm in others. The locals have identified them as the
strange being's footprints. Efforts have been made to photograph the
"shroud", but all images, despite the use of different cameras appear
exposed. One witness who approached the site to witness the phenomenon took=

two photos of the prints in the afternoon and decided to stay with the
group of people hoping to see the "shroud", managing to take some photos of=

same and record the new prints which appeared in the dunes after the
sighting. A completely uncommon print was found at the site---but the
residents aren't sure if it's related to the phenomenon: it has the shape
of a five-fingered claw. One witness tried to make use of his carbine's
telescopic sight to see the figure in greater detail, but "when he tried to=

focus on it, he could see nothing_it was a though it could only be seen
with the unaided eye."

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, IHU, Christian Quintero and O A Mario
Proyecto Condor
Type: C or E?


77.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 30 2002
Time: 0530A
27-year old Mariela Baigorri reported seeing a strange figure that floated=

in front of her house. She had woken up early that morning and was getting=

ready to mount her bicycle when she saw behind the fence something floating=

in mid-air. It appeared to be a figure wearing a flowing white transparent=

tunic, with bright red eyes and undefined facial features. Feeling no fear=

she decided to approach it. She felt as if the figure waited for her and
was observing her. At this point Mariela felt some fear and began reciting=

the Lord's Prayer. The figure suddenly moved back and disappeared in plain=

sight.

HC addendum
Source: Juan Carlos Corrales Morey, Vision Ovni, Argentina
Type: E


78.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 31 2002
Time: 1845
23-year old Julian Pereyra was in his vehicle when he observed two red
spheres flying slowly over some nearby woods, they seemed to descend and
disappear behind the trees. 15 minutes later, Pereyra, accompanied by
several other witnesses approached the area and observed what they
described a tall floating figure wearing a white glowing cape like outfit,=

it seemed to glide silently over a field. It had what appeared to be a
visor at face level and two beams of red light emerged from where the eyes=

would have been. The witnesses watched the strange figure glide over the
fields for about 30 minutes. Curiously numerous local dogs and cats
approached and also watched the figure in fascination. The lights and
figure disappeared into the distance. In another occasion Pereyra and some=

of his family members encountered the strange humanoid and felt a strange
sensation as if the wind had suddenly stopped, they felt as they were
inside a vacuum or "bubble." Strange tracks have been reportedly found in
the area also.

HC addendum
Source: Diario La Nueva Provincia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Type: C?


79.
Location. La Cienaga, Pocri, Panama
Date: early August 2002
Time: night
Luis Alfredo Diaz reported hearing loud noises coming from the terraced
patio where the kitchen was located, going to investigate he found his cat=

apparently dead with two obvious holes on the neck and some blood on the
floor. Before finding the cat he had called his wife, Maria de Los Santos
Barrios. As his wife stood in front of him a panic stricken look came over=

her face, turning around he was confronted by a bizarre 1-meter tall
humanoid that had jumped to the center of the patio. The creature was
described as thin, covered with dark hair, with large pointed ears that
almost covered its face, it had very large eyes and extremely strong hind
legs resembling that of a kangaroo. Terrified he ran to his son's bedroom
and carried him outside yelling for his neighbors. A search failed to
locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Panamanian Paranormal Forum
Type: E


80.
Location. Near Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Date: August 2002
Time: night
The same witness involved in a similar encounter last year was again
camping in the same area when he again heard a noise. Shining the light in=

the direction of the sound he again saw the same creature. The creature sat=

there crouched by the trees staring at the witness. The witness walked
slowly towards it, he got to within 20 ft when it just jumped backward and=

disappeared. He described the creature as about five to six ft in height,
gray in color. It was totally naked. It had human features, but more
leathery, and its face was very wide, its eyes were huge and even though
they reflected light, they still looked black, resembling two intensely
black marbles. Its legs were very muscular, but turned backwards, like a
bird. Other hikers in the area have reported encountering little brown men=

on some of the more isolated trails.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal Story Archives, November 2002Type: E


81.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: August 1 2002
Time: late evening
64-year old Raul Dorado was touring some fields when he heard a loud sound=

on two occasions, like a whirlwind, which drew his attention. The third
time he saw something he describes as a green circle with three legs
hovering over him. At that moment Dorado fell to the ground, and according=

to his story, he carried a shotgun, binoculars and a cellular phone, the
latter, which was taken from his hand, and he could clearly see being
sucked into the object, which was apparently at low altitude. His next
recollection was seeing the object disappear toward the east. Dorado
remained at the location for an hour before being able to rise and walk
back to his car, returning to town in a state of shock. He had to be
hospitalized. Later when calls were placed to the (abducted) cellular phone=

someone would pick up and heavy breathing could be heard. Later on the
phone was apparently disconnected.

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, quoting Diario La Arena, La PampaType: G?


82.
Location. Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Date: August 2 2002
Time: 1730
A man named Todd Sees went up the mountain to look for pre-season deer. He=

told his wife that he would be home by noon. He rode his 4-wheeler up the
power line behind his home. He never returned. A search party composed of
local police, state police and volunteers searched for Sees. The 4-wheeler=

was found on the top of the mountain near a power-line. Tracking dogs could=

find nothing to go on around the 4-wheeler. The search went on for 2 days
and over 6 miles of mountain was covered from top to bottom. Then, in the
evening of the 2nd day, his body was found in a hard to reach wooded area.=

He was wearing his underwear. He was emaciated---not bloated. He was pale
and had an expression of horror on his face. When he went up the mountain
he was fully dressed, boots, camo-vest, hat, socks, pants. 3 people, on one=

farm, said they saw a large round bright object just above the power-lines=

at the time of the disappearance. It was silent, it did not move for about=

10 to 15 minutes. It suddenly went up and suddenly stopped. A light shone
down and something was pulled up into the light. It then went straight up,=

hesitated again, and then went west over the Susquehanna River and out of
sight. More specifically a farmer saw an object above Montour Ridge at the=

power lines, on top of the mountain, it was round and very still over the
lines. Suddenly it moved what looked like a few hundred feet to the east,
it stopped and a beam of blue and white light shone to the ground. What was=

seen next was very unnerving, he saw what appeared to be a man suspended in=

the light, he was being pulled up head first, he was moving his arms slowly=

in the light. What looked like a man was pulled up into the bottom of the
craft. A few seconds later it started shuddering, then went west very fast,=

stopped briefly, and then went straight up and out of sight. Also three
fishermen saw the craft. The FBI is supposedly also investigating. (Debated=

as a hoax, who would? and for what purpose?).

HC addendum
Source: Rense, UFO updates, NUFORCType: G?






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                            2002 Humanoid Reports

From: Albert Rosales <Garuda79@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:32:05 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:14:40 -0500
Subject: 2002 Humanoid Reports


Happy new year everyone

Sincerely,

Albert

-----

2002 Humanoid Reports. It appears to be a slow start for this
year with only one recorded case, again from Chile. We will see
what develops later on the year. 2001 was pretty busy but it was
a decline from 2000. Maybe we will see another down trend again,
later to pick up again in the near future. This seems to be the
ever-ongoing trend of the phenomena. Will it always stay the
same? Time will tell. Following is a list of known 2002 humanoid
cases.


1.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: January 2002
Time: 0300A
An employee at the local Minera Escondida was on his way to the
storage freezer in order to pick up some supplies when an
unknown creature jumped him from behind. He could only describe
it as hairy and dark. He was left with deep scratches and in a
state of shock. Terrified he ran away and bumped into two other
employees who were able to see a shadowy creature in the dark.

HC addendum
Source: La Estrella del Loa de Calama, ChileType: E


2.
Location. Caracas, Venezuela
Date: January 2002
Time: late night
Late one night in a dream-like state the witness woke up to see
seven to eight strange figures in her bedroom. They were dark
gray in color and very thin, with three large thick long fingers
on their hands. They had large, lipless mouths and large shiny
protruding black eyes, their noses were thin and protruding,
small ears, the heads was large and pointy. The humanoids
appeared to be naked and she was able to see a penis on the
humanoids. They were about 1.55 meters in height. She felt dizzy
and under the control of the strange entities. She was led out
of her bedroom by one of the humanoids that removed her clothing
and made her lie down on the floor. The humanoids apparently
attempted to molest her sexually and possibly attempted to rape
her but were not successful. She apparently passed out and does
not remember anything else about the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Lista Alcione and witness communicationType: E


3.
Location. Fort McMurry, Alberta, Canada
Date: January 2 2002
Time: 2032
Two men were parked on an isolated dirt road when they spotted a
large cone-shaped object descend and hover. One of the men
exited the car and he vanished in plain sight of the other, the
craft then also disappeared. The other man tried to drive away
to get help but the car would not start and it was to cold to
walk. He soon went to sleep and woke up later to find his friend
sleeping next to him. Later they drove back to town. His friend
does not remember what happened during those two hours of
missing time. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


4.
Location. Paso Lovera, Corrientes, Argentina
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2030
Gabriela Lencinas, 15-year old and a 19-year old friend were
returning home on a bicycle when they spotted a large cloud like
object descend from the sky and from it a giant figure emerge.
The witnesses stopped their bicycles to see a car approach the
giant figure, stop, the driver exit the car and then re-entering
the vehicle and driving quickly away. The figure then rose up
into the cloud and disappeared. The girls reported that the
giant human-like figure had its hair standing up on his head and
was extending its arms towards the witnesses that quickly rode
their bicycles home. Other in the area reported seeing bright
lights that same night.

HC addendum
Source: Pablo Omastott
Type: B?


5.
Location. Villa San Rafael, Chile
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2345
Two young teenagers, Jean F and Nelson C, where at home at night
when Jean noticed that his pet snake had escaped from its cage.
Both boys began looking for it outside among the rubble of the
parcel. They recalled how half an hour before, their two dogs
strangely began to howl and cry; however, it did not seem to be
important at that point in time. They searched for the pet snake
together when suddenly, about 30 meters from where they stood;
they saw what appeared to be a stray dog. They threw rocks at to
avoid an attack. However, to their surprise, the animal stood
there, motionless and fearless; it did not get scared nor it ran
away as ordinary dogs normally do. Shortly, the strange animal
began to move towards them. The movements it made as it walked
were very strange. It used two legs at a time. It made very
small sand short leaps like a rabbit. Suddenly, it stopped and
it stood up on two legs. The teenagers then began to feel some
kind of energy. "It was like an electrical shock in the
stomach," they said. It later walked again making a loud
dragging noise, making small leaps and only moving one of its
legs. They noticed the weird shape of the animal. "It was like a
rugby football with legs," one of them said. Jean began to feel
frightened and started to move away from animal. On the other
hand, Nelson felt a strange need to get closer to the creature;
he got to within 2 meters away from it. The creature appear to
emit a strange luminosity that apparently, was bright enough to
lit a small area around the creature in spite of the nighttime
darkness. Nelson was mesmerized as he stared at the strange
creature. He described it as having a head like a large dog with
a flat nose like a bulldog. Its eyes were slanted and pale-red
in color, which could only be seen when the creature turned its
head from side to side like a lizard. At that moment, Nelson
heard a voice in his head saying, "Don't stare, and just run
away." They provided further description, describing the ears as
flat, round and large. Its arms were short, it had elbows, and
the hands had three fingers. It had hair like the one on a wild
pig. Its legs were like the ones of a goat. The feet had also
three fingers and a membrane like ducks, but somewhat shorter.
On its curved back, they were able to notice a spinal section
covered with amounts of even thicker hair. Most of the hair of
the animal was gray, but the tail had a white tip. Nelson
finally fled, terrified, from the area. He also described how he
felt an inexplicable bone-chilling cold sensation.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center
Type: E


6.
Location. Not given
Date: January 12 2002
Time: night
Ted Parker was eating some leftover food when he claims the food began to
change. The bread of the sandwich turned an orange color and the lamb
became a silvery metallic color, sort of like liquid mercury. As he watched=

transfixed, he saw the orange bread and metallic lamb turn into the figure=

of an "alien" with the form of a man. It was silver in color and its outfit=

(smooth pants and shirt, like a jump suit) was orange in color. At this
point Parker glanced at the wall clock and it indicated that 2 hours had
gone by, even though it felt like minutes only. The alien figure
communicated using telepathic means and asked Ted to come with him. They
both went outside and there, Ted saw a landed black-colored craft in his
backyard. In a split second Ted found himself inside the craft not knowing=

how he got there. The inside of the craft was pure white in color with
strips of the metallic silver that the alien figure appeared to be made of.=

The rest of the incident is just a blur, but Parker did remembered hearing=

several loud high-pitched rings while onboard the object. A couple of days=

before while eating dinner with several other people there had been a
similar high pitched ring and everybody had just stopped eating and walked=

out of the room.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: G or F?



7.
Location. Chihuahua, Mexico
Date: January 29 2002
Time: night
Several days before seeing a UFO the witness remembered being in a
dream-like state in which he felt very calm and saw numerous disc shaped
objects, orange-red in color. A human like figure was talking to him about=

the objects and their propulsion. The UFO he saw was of an orange color and=

he felt a sort of ecstasy when he observed the craft. Several of his
neighbors also saw the object.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: G or F?


8.
Location. Near Palmyra, Wisconsin
Date: February 2002
Time: 0200A
Two men reported seeing a creature that resembled a bipedal "gigantic wolf"=

walking down a road west of the city. They said the creature was at least 7=

ft tall with a wolf-like head. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Linda GodfreyType: E


9.
Location. West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
Nebilson Sangma reported encountering a scary furry creature on a hunting
trip in the jungles. He reportedly took a video of the creature's nesting
place. According to Sangma, the creature walked erect like a human, had
built a house like nesting place, and would emerge from it frequently to
feast on a banana grove. Sangma and his brother observed the gigantic
creature for three consecutive days from afar. Officials and villagers have=

been hunting for the creature in the forest but it seems to have
disappeared as furtively as it appeared.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 13
Type: E


10.
Location. Near Dover, England
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness had been jogging along a low path by the beach when she noticed=

a tall, well built being in a black skin tight suit, that stood watching
her from nearby. He wore a black helmet wit a brown visor pulled down. At
first she thought it was a biker but as she approached the figure, it
suddenly disappeared in plain sight. As she continued to run she noticed a=

black craft jutting out of the sand, it was small and oval shaped, matt and=

ribbed it also disappeared in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: E?


11.
Location. Rosario de la Frontera, Salta, Argentina
Date: February 2002
Time: night
A strange creature called by locals "El Pestizo" has attacked several lone=

pedestrians in the middle of the night. It is described as a dark man
shaped shadowy being. A boy riding his bicycle on the way to visit some
friends was toppled from his bicycle and found a black shadowy figure
facing him. The young man managed to upholster his shotgun and fire two
shots. But, when he saw that they had no effect, he promptly drew his knife=

and stabbed the figure without any apparent harm. Frightened the youth
tried to escape but the creature knocked him down without saying a word and=

began dragging him by the hair to the side of the road. At this point the
young man began to scream. A local man, who rushed to provide assistance,
only to find a black shadow dragging the boy by the hair, heard his cries.=

The fearful shape disappeared without a trace after it became aware of the=

other man's presence. Six other locals have reported being attacked by a
similar being and received wounds.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


12.
Location. Not given
Date: February 2002
Time: early morning
The witness was alone at home and was preparing his breakfast when suddenly=

he heard a window break; he went to see what had happened. Grabbing a golf=

club he peeked inside the room where the window broke. He was stunned to
see a strange creature climbing on his bed. It appeared to be hurt, because=

it seemed that it could not move well. Gripping the golf club he went a
step nearer and the creature hissed horribly. It shrieked in an unworldly
manner. Terrified the witness did not move. The creature was small, about
the size of a large rabbit, and it was dark in color and had reddish eyes.=

It had wings and a spine of quills on its back, and had a semi reptilian
face. It appeared to have hair and small legs. The witness raised the golf=

club and the creature hissed again showing its large yellowish teeth, which=

appeared to be sharp, like those of a crocodile. It suddenly hopped out of=

the window and rapidly hopped across the street into the oak trees.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June archiveType: E


13.
Location. Vigevano, Italy
Date: February 2002
Time: 0100A
In the outskirts of this city a witness observed from his vehicle a
luminous humanoid entity walking along a roadway. It scurried away into the=

darkness when approached.
No other information.

HC addendum
Source: CISU, ItalyType: E



14.
Location. Corguinho, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Date: February 5 2002
Time: night
During a localized UFO flap several witnesses reported seeing a strange
creature described as about 1.3 meters in height, having two legs, with a
physique like a human but who moved with a strange fluctuating motion. The=

creature was seen five times by twenty people in the rural zone around
Corguinho. In Rochedo, 6 miles south of Corguinho five Cebu cattle were
found dead with a single incision on the side of the throat. The bodies had=

been drained of blood. (Is there a connection?).

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


15.
Location. Mount Podbrdo, Bosnia Hercigovina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: morning
Contactee and stigmatic Giorgio Bongiovanni was visiting the shrine on top=

of the mountain and was praying silently to the Virgin when, to his
astonishment, a glowing luminous female figure appeared and touched his
forehead with her fingertips. His stigmata scar vanished instantly. The
female figure told him to return to Italy and make known what had happened.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 14
Type: E or F?


16.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: evening
73-year-old Maria Rufina Cayo, a local shepherd was walking back home with=

her dogs and the cattle. Suddenly at one point, something spooked the
animals, and these began to stampede. Looking around she spotted a bizarre=

creature standing about 12 meters away. She described it as a humanoid,
half animal, half human, about 1.70m in height, with bright red eyes, sharp=

protruding fangs, and hands and feet that ended in sharp claws. The
creature looked at the witness three times then it scrambled away using
quick jumping motions with is powerfully built hind legs, she also noticed=

large pointy ears. The top part of its body seems to have been covered in a=

shiny white blanket. It somehow resembled a centaur walking on two
claw-like feet.  Alerted by the shouts of Maria, two men, Santos Jaimes,
and Ruben Colque ran out to investigate with their dogs. Suddenly the dogs=

stopped and began making pitiful howling noises, they refused to move any
further. The men heard noises behind some nearby bushes and went to
investigate and spotted a bizarre creature that stood staring at them with=

huge reddish eyes. It then moved quickly away in the direction of Cerro
Negro and disappeared from sight. The witnesses noticed very sharp claws on=

the creature's feet with a very sharp claw that appeared to be pointed
backwards. Strange footprints were found the next day.

HC addendum
Source: El Tribuno, Salta Argentina March 27 2002
Also Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E



17.
Location. Khanpur, Ahmedabad, India
Date: February 20 2002
Time: after midnight
Several local residents reportedly have encountered a person, dressed in
black and wearing a mask. Dubbed the "Monkeyman" whom they described as
between 25 and 20 years of age, dark skinned and having curly hair can
reportedly be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees. Two
local youths chased it and the figure reportedly disappeared in plain
sight. The two youths have been behaving abnormally since then. The
stranger was also chased along the riverbed near the Cama Hotel and it also=

suddenly disappeared. Others have heard the stranger running on the
rooftops. Abdul Hamid another youngster of the local slums described the
figure as a tall lean man that carries a sharp weapon. "I saw him from the=

back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised the alarm, he jumped to=

another roof and then on to a tree." Police have searched for the stranger=

but nothing has been found.

HC addendum
Source: Fortean Times, India Express
Type: E


18.
Location. Prague, Czech Republic
Date: February 23 2002
Time: night
Blanka Slemendova was in her apartment when she saw a "ship" hovering over=

some nearby woods. It was shining red, white and yellow lights. She then
heard telepathic communication coming from the object telling her to go and=

meet them at an unspecified location. Looking over to her bedroom wall she=

saw what appeared to be a projection of human like faces looking at her.
Later that night she saw luminous figures in her room and a floating red
light also in her room. The next night she saw what appeared to be 2 gray
suns and around them a golden lights with numerous groups of shiny
human-like figures floating about. She interpreted these as being angels.

HC addendum
Source: Direct from witness (Slemendova)
Type: C & F?


19.
Location. Wycliffe Well Roadhouse, Northern Territory Australia
Date: early March 2002
Time: evening
While workers in the area watched unusual lights in the sky an aboriginal
woman encountered a triangular sort of object in a paddock and all of the
sudden she saw three silvery clad human like figures that began to move
toward her vehicle. She turned the vehicle around and took off.

HC addendum
Source: Lou Farcus ABC On-lineType: C


20.
Location. Near Canberra Australia
Date: March 2002
Time: 1700
Several friends were taking a trip to the coast and it was already very
dark. They had already entered a tropical forest area and there was a mist=

rolling along the ground. As they turned around they saw something
squatting in the middle of the road. It stared at them, and just as they
thought they were going to hit it, it leaped off the road and into the
trees. It leaped about 10 meters in the air. The creature was definitely
human looking although it wore strange clothes. It was dressed in a green
robe of some kind with little pieces of gold on it, and it was either
wearing a head crest or it had a row of spikes running from its forehead to=

the top of its neck. Very frightened the witnesses drove out of the forest=

and at the same time the mist turned to a thick fog. They pulled over and
decided to wait until the fog had cleared, although none of them were too
happy about it. As they sat around and waited they suddenly heard a shriek.=

It sounded like some sort of wild animal and they turned the car on so the=

headlights would scare it away. The headlights revealed the same creature
they had seen earlier. It hid its face from the light and shrieked. Right
before the witnesses' eyes, the creature seemed to evaporate into the fog.=

Within five minutes the fog had gone and the normal rolling mist was back.=

The witnesses quickly left the area and drove towards the coast.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June ArchiveType: E


21.
Location. Guanica Puerto Rico
Date: March 1 2002
Time: 2345
Reinaldo Rios (involved in other encounters) was in his bedroom that night=

when a large white light suddenly appeared. It flew around the room several=

times and then hovered. He heard voices coming from the light, which
communicated with him. The voice said: "I am your real father." Soon the
light transformed itself into a figure resembling that of a little boy it
then vanished in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: UFOs over America.com
Type: E


22.
Location. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 0800A
The witness and his wife were in bed that Saturday morning talking when
their 5-year-old daughter came into the bedroom with her baby brother,
whose cot is placed under their bedroom window. They heard a strange noise=

and some green light came into the window. Their daughter looked out the
window and reported seeing a "flying car" with four spinning green lights
on top. She saw two windows in the vehicle and saw two dark brown faces
looking out. His wife saw the craft flying past through the curtains. That=

same morning, in a large tree near the witness house a strange structure
was found. The branches were arranged in a rectangular pen shape, vertical,=

each approximately 30 to 40 cm long. They found a few smaller sticks
scaling down in size from the structure. A piece of concrete slab was found=

propped up on one corner. The witnesses had never seen this strange
structure before and think is some kind of message left by the visitors.
(Some kind of bizarre crop circle?). A few nights before they had heard
strange noises coming from the kitchen area.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: A


23.
Location. Golasecca Di Novara, Italy
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 2330
Augusto & Maurizia were in their vehicle parked in an open field next to a=

wooded area having a heated discussion when suddenly a powerful beam of
reddish-orange light illuminated the area around them. They rolled down the=

car window and heard a sharp metallic sound that seemed to be increasing in=

intensity. They now noticed, behind the beam of light a hovering
disc-shaped craft with a central rotating ring, it hovered about a meter
from the ground. From the object, a cigar-shaped beam of light emerged;
they could see it as the central ring of the craft slowly rotated on its
axis. The craft was only about 10 meters away. At this point, and only
about 4 meters from the object Augusto saw what appeared to be a gelatinous=

transparent humanoid-like figure with a visible head, arms and legs. The
figure was silvery in color and was very tall, about 3 meters or so. At
this point Augusto became concerned and drove away from the area and did
not see the object or figure depart. The whole episode lasted about 10
minutes. The metallic noise was heard all throughout the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Alfredo Lissoni, CUN Milano, Michelle Castellano CUN VareseType: C


24.
Location. Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England
Date: March 3 2002
Time: morning
Helen Diskin went for a walk in the countryside talking snap shots along
the way with her digital camera. Returning home she loaded these into her
computer and was intrigued by an odd-looking image. It looked like a
luminous figure in an area of no sunlight, skulking amongst the trees. She=

returned to the site of the photo twice afterward and could find no
explanation for the figure. The figure resembled a small helmeted figure
that she had not seen when she took the picture of an area of the woods she=

had thought of as "mysterious."

HC addendum
Source: Helen Diskin, UFO Magazine Vol. 22 # 1Type: E?


25.
Location. Near Trenton New Jersey
Date: March 4 2002
Time: night
Several witnesses were camping outside of town and late at night one of
them was attempting to put out the bonfire when he heard the most awful and=

horrifying scream. It resembled that of an injured dog crossed with a
scream of a woman. The witness dropped the flashlight and was joined by
another witness. Suddenly out of the woods a hideous and gruesome creature=

appeared. It did not look human, somewhat satyr-like in appearance and
walked on two legs. It had a long tail like a dragon and wings like those
unicorns in fantasy books. The beast took several steps towards the
witnesses and one of them picked up and asked and yelled at it and then
shone his flashlight at it. The creature then turned towards the bushes and=

ran away from the area.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: E


26.
Location. Pichaca, Salta, Argentina
Date: March 9 2002
Time: night
Ceferino Leoncio was cleaning his one room metal shack when suddenly a
bright light engulfed the room. He felt a sudden heat as he saw a tiny
figure (50 cm) of an angel-like creature materialize in front of him. It
slowly moved its small wing-like protrusions and moved around and then
suddenly stopped and remained still. It appeared to be a small living human=

like living being until it appeared to hardened and turn into some type of=

statue of cherubic appearance. Locals have now built a shrine around the
tiny "statue" and call the strange materialization a "religious miracle".

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso
Type: F?



27.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: March 16 2002
Time: 2215
Mirna, was watching television alone in her room when she began hearing
noises coming from outside, at first she thought it was her dogs playing
around with some empty cans. But the noises kept getting louder and louder=

and she decided to go outside to investigate. Once outside she was stunned=

to see some type creature that had somehow entered the rabbit cage and was=

attacking the animals that were making loud unearthly screams. Thinking at=

first that it was one of the dogs she approached the case but realized that=

it was a gray colored hairy hunched over creature, that was moving quickly=

inside the cage. She stepped back and could not understand how the creature=

had entered the cage, since there wasn't any apparent hole or aperture
visible anywhere and the door was firmly closed. Afraid she ran inside her=

home and notified her son, both then ran out but the creature had
mysteriously disappeared. Unnerved, they could not understand how they
creature had escaped since the door to the rabbit caged was still firmly
locked. Later they could only find a small round hole in the wire only
several centimeters in width, not large enough for a creature estimated to=

have been about 70 to 80 cm in height. Several of the rabbits were found
injured and one was dead.

HC addendum
Source: Calama UFO CenterType: E


28.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: March 19 2002
Time: 2000
Young Elizabeth Lera reported seeing a short humanoid with "dark eyes"
looking into the building compound from behind a wire fence. It appeared
not to have any other facial features and was wearing dark clothing; it
wore some type of head covering, which was hard to see because of the
darkness. She could only see a pair of large dark eyes on his face that
appeared to shine in the darkness. Some more children now arrived and
observed as the humanoid move several steps towards them. Another witness,=

Rene Mamani saw the humanoid run and hide behind some bushes. It seemed to=

move at very high speed in an unnatural fashion. It seemed to have remained=

suspended in mid-air for a few seconds. It then seemed to fly through the
air and disappeared into some nearby woods. Other students at the school
reportedly saw it again on the night of the 20th.

HC addendum
Source: Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E


29.
Location. Woodburn, Oregon
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 0300A
The witness was sleeping when she woke up suddenly feeling paralyzed. The
witness was completely unable to move or speak. Her next memory was of a
strange sensation on her left cheek, which hurt a lot. Unseen "beings" were=

apparently taking skin samples. Her face was left with a pink fleshy scoop=

down my left cheek, directly on the cheekbone. A teardrop scar was left on=

her cheek.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical Universe
Type: G?




30.
Location. Bethlehem, Israel
Date: March 21 2002
Time: night
At the besieged Church of The Nativity several awed witnesses have come
forward describing the events of Thursday night. That night, a smell of
roses filled the sanctuary as the Daughters of Charity held their evening
prayers. "The sweet scent was soon followed by a high musical humming sound=

and a distinct feeling of warmth emanating from the ceiling." Then, the
sisters reported, seeing a glowing beam of light gradually forming the
likeness of the Blessed Virgin "like a film coming into focus." Tears were=

running down her face, and she uttered a prophetic warning. "Time is
growing short, and the promised Judgment Day is nearly at hand." One week
before the apparition, The Church of the Holy Family was the scene of a
ferocious firefight between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 17Type: F


31.
Location. Not given
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 2255
16-year old Steven Mizon saw hovering over a street a large oval shaped
craft encircled in bright lights and with several lighted windows around
its edge. A figure stared down at him from one of the windows. No other
information.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Watch
Type: A



32.
Location. Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain
Date: March 26 2002
Time: 1500
A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a deserted road when=

he noticed ahead in the distance and in the middle of the roadway an object=

resembling a shiny pear that was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat
perplexed he approached and noticed two individuals standing on a nearby
field. These were over 2 meters in height, wore tight fitting white
coveralls and helmets resembling that of the early astronauts. He parked
his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men=

walked away and entered the shiny pear-shaped craft while the other
remained behind. Knowing that these men were "not from this earth" he still=

asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt that as
he approached the strange pair he had been in some type of a trance and
seemed to have floated over the road. The humanoid answered and appeared
genuinely happy as to his offer of assistance but said that everything was=

in order. He also added that the area was very beautiful and also added:
"Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such
beautiful scenes, they disappeared a long time ago." The astounded witness=

managed to ask the humanoid where he was from and was told that they hailed=

from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The=

humanoid smiled as he answered the question. The humanoid then bid goodbye=

and walked towards the nearby shiny pear shaped object, he then disappeared=

inside of it. The craft then emitted a loud whistling sound and disappeared=

at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the
humanoids as about 2.50 meters in height, wide chests and heavy set, thin
legs. Generally human features, but somewhat "refined" or sharpened
features. The suits were very tight fitting made of an apparent synthetic
material resembling plastic. Their eyes were very light almost white and
their speech was hesitant & accented. Also their movements seemed kind of
clumsy.

HC addendum
Source: J M Garcia, Francisco Padron, SpainType: B


33.
Location. Pringle Lake, Texas
Date: March 28 2002
Time: 1100A
Mark Hakemack and a friend had taken an airboat out on the NW side of the
lake to do a little redfish fishing. The day was kind of hazy, with broken=

cloud cover. They had caught several trout and were just chatting when he
hooked up a large redfish while playing with the fish, Mark happened to
glance upwards and saw a large bird-like creature emerge from a cloudbank.=

His friend saw it too, after about 20 to 25 seconds it flew behind cloud
cover again. The strange creature was grayish in color and the profile of a=

raptor, short neck/head, no legs sticking out behind, and no long tail
feathers. Mark could not take his eyes off it. He estimated the wingspan to=

have been 10' to 14 ' in overall. It appeared to be soaring on the wind,
although, he did see it give a couple of light "flaps" with its wings. The=

witness could only relate this to the legendary "Thunderbird" legend.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.comType: E


34.
Location. Sevilla, Spain
Date: March 30 2002
Time: late night
The witness to the March 26 case was at home with his wife and was getting=

ready to sleep when he heard footsteps coming from patio area outside his
chalet. Armed with a club, he opened the door and was stunned to see the
same two tall heavyset humanoids he had encountered 4 days before. One of
the humanoids was kneeling on the ground as if inspecting something on the=

soil, the other one upon hearing the door open, turned and quickly assured=

the witness not to fear that they were not here to harm him. Stunned, the
witness invited the two humanoids in the house for some refreshments (!).
These declined the invitation telling that they had to go already. Using
the same clumsy movements both humanoids walked towards the rear of the
house where the witness noticed the same shiny metallic pear shaped craft
on the ground. They entered the object, which quickly left at high speed.
The witness's wife awakened by the voices was able to see the two humanoids=

from a second story window, and described them in the same way.

HC addendum
Source: Francisco Padron, Jose Manuel Garcia, SpainType: B


35.
Location. Los Cipreses, Chile
Date: March 31 2002
Time: noon
During a local UFO congress 24 persons in three groups entered a
dimensional gateway that appeared by itself over the terrain. It was kind
of a dome, a luminous archway measuring four by four meters. The
participants lost their materiality without disappearing completely. Upon
entering, they met several human-like alien characters with large baldheads=

and wearing robes that waited within and received information. According to=

sources the contact experience was "dimensional" it was like crossing into=

a different reality. The 24 participants were "all professionals, college
students of high intellectual levels, mostly Chileans," and some were
members of Grupo Rama, a New Age association.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 16, quoting Camilo Valdivieto
Type: G or F?


36.
Location. Tbilissi Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: night
A man entered the local St David church and reported that "a phantom with
wings" had approached him and predicted an earthquake that indeed took
place on April 25 2002, devastating areas of central Georgia.

HC addendum
Source: Pravda
Type: E?


37.
Location. Near Macon, Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: 2300
Three friends were awakened by loud banging noises and bellowing sounds
coming from outside. One of the men ran to the bathroom and looked out the=

window to see a figure run by and squat in the nearby bushes. He described=

the creature as about 3 ft tall, hairy with what appeared to be horns on
its head and hands; he could not see a face. Others in the neighborhood
heard the banging noises.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.com and direct witness
Communication.
Type: E


38.
Location. Belvedere di Tezze, Italy
Date: April 26 2002
Time: evening
A 20-year old woman was returning home one night when she noticed some
bright lights nearby of an unknown origin. She followed the lights in her
car until she stopped near a local pizzeria. She saw the light near the
ground and within the lights two tall slender human like figures wearing
some type of headgear. Since she was carrying a camera she was able to snap=

a quick picture. The figures then vanished. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Gruppo Accademico Ufologico Scandicci quoting
"Il giornale di Vicenza"Type: E?


39.
Location. Puente Santamaria, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: early morning
Two young men observed a dark object descend towards the ground about 100
meters away. According to the two witnesses from the craft descended a
small humanoid, orange in color. Very scared they both ran from the area
and reported their experience to others.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: B


40.
Location. Merceditas, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: evening
An elderly couple was walking along National Route # 8 when about 800
meters from their location they noticed a very strong light. The light
descended next to a puddle at about 70 meters from the witness. Both then
saw two very short orange colored humanoids that moved in very agile
movements near the object. Terrified they walked away and upon looking back=

saw a bright glow on the ground.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: C


41.
Location. Barangay, Philippines
Date: May 2002
Time: night
Several local residents reported seeing a bizarre creature described as an=

"aswang" reputed to be a winged vampire type creature, it reportedly had
red glowing eyes, long black hair, and was wearing a white flowing gown. It=

was seen perched on top of a bamboo tree. Residents at nearby Roxas
reported seeing a similar creature. The police was called but a search
failed to locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Akasico.comType: E


42.
Location. Alvear, La Pampa Argentina
Date: May 3 2002
Time: near midnight
Several young men were returning home late at night along a deserted
roadway when suddenly out of nowhere a female figure wearing a light
flowing gown and with long black hair appeared in front of them. The
strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly and repeatedly asked for=

assistance from the men in a strange urgent tone. Terrified the men ran
from the area and later returned with additional witnesses but they could
find no trace of the strange apparition.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E?


43.
Location. Taralgon Victoria, Australia
Date: May 24 2002
Time: 2355
Walking near the Loy Yang Power station 45-year old Martin Taylor was
suddenly blinded by an intense blue light and he felt extremely dizzy. His=

next memory was of being in a circular room with a variety of lights and
buttons scattered about the walls. He was lying on a large table that
seemed to be of a very highly polished metal. He was strapped down and his=

shirt had been removed. There were wires attached to his arms, neck and
temples. A four ft tall humanoid figure with very large almond shaped eyes,=

almost transparent looking skin, ghostly white in appearance examined him.=

The figure had three extremely long fingers on each hand and spoke in a
strange dialect.

HC addendum
Source: UFO WatchType: G


44.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: May 29 2002
Time: midnight
Irma Rick watched a rotating luminous object descend close to the ground
next to a grain silo; it gave off a powerful bluish light through some
openings around its circumference. It hovered close to the ground. Through=

an opening a strange creature was seen to descend to the ground. It was
described as having an elongated semi-transparent white body; it also had
an elongated head. She could not see any eyes or legs on the creature as it=

stood motionless next to the craft. She observed the creature and object
for about 5 minutes until she dropped the flashlight she was carrying.
Afraid she left the area and did not see the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: B



45.
Location. Lembang Bandung, Indonesia
Date: May 30 2002
Time: 2315
The witness was driving his motorcycle across a highland area when he
spotted some flashing lights overhead and then noticed a silvery
disc-shaped craft descend low over some nearby graves at a cemetery. The
craft had blue and orange flashing lights around its rim. There was no
sound as the craft apparently emitted a beam of light towards the ground
and levitated what appeared to be some dead bodies onboard the object. (!)=

The witness was apparently paralyzed and was unable to move. The craft then=

shot away at a 45-degree angle and disappeared from sight. When that
happened the witness left the scene.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


46.
Location. Houston, Texas
Date: late May 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness was at the local electric company in order to pay a bill when
she decided to use the restrooms. Sitting in the stall she then noticed on=

the side of the wall of the stall what appeared to be a face lit up in a
dull light. When the witness looked directly at the "face" it vanished. She=

described is as having large round eyes no visible nose and a slit-like
mouth. (A peeping tom alien?)

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.comType: E?


47.
Location. General Acha, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: early June 2002
Time: various
A resident of the Oeste neighborhood informed newspaper sources that a
short green-colored dwarf like entity has appeared twice on her property:
once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When her husband ran out
responding to her screams, the mysterious entity vanished by rapidly
climbing up a tree. All versions agree in that the entity is short in
stature. Another resident added that it moved so quickly that it was hard
to describe it. In the same area mysterious cattle mutilations have also
been reported.

HC addendum
Source: Loren Coleman in UFO UpdatesType: E


48.
Location. Ojo De Agua, Argentina
Date: June 2002
Time: afternoon
Several passengers onboard two farm micro buses reported seeing a very tall=

dark man like figure that appeared to be wearing a tight fitting diver's
outfit standing on a nearby field. Nearby numerous mysterious animal
mutilations have been reported. The figure was silent and was quickly lost=

from sight as the buses moved away.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E




49.
Location. Near Tampa, Florida
Date: June 2002
Time: night
A man and three of his friends reported encountering two bizarre chupacabra=

type creatures one stood about 3-4 ft tall, the other looked to be about 6=

ft tall. Both had large glowing red eyes and spikes starting from the head=

to the back. They scurried away into a wooded area. (They were to have
further encounters in August).

HC addendum
Source: Art Bell.comType: E


50.
Location. Antalya, Turkey
Date: June 5 2002
Time: afternoon
Approximately 45 witnesses claimed they saw an UFO in the Santral district=

landing on the backyard of the Fatma Primary School. Several students
including Murat Esici age 11 saw an alien emitting red rays from his eyes
come out of the object. His hands and feet were metallic. He had a very big=

head and was about 1.80 meters in height. Esici temporarily lost her voice=

immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also=

claimed they san an unusual craft and an alien beside it. "His eyes and
hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes." The children
were overcome with shock after the incident.

HC addendum
Source: Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center Intl
Type: B


51.
Location. Polonnauruwa, Sri Lanka
Date: June 8 2002
Time: 2200
Approximately 50 to 70 eyewitnesses saw a UFO flying at about 100 meters
above ground level. The object was silent and briefly landed emitting a
bright flash like light. When it was close to the ground the object emitted=

a buzzing sound. Three other witnesses saw three 2 ft tall creatures than
when approached ran into the jungle and disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Sources
Type: D


52.
Location. Polonnaruwa, Sir Lanka
Date: June 9 2002
Time: 2012
Two witnesses went to a bath on a nearby river when they heard a loud
thundering sound and a UFO appeared. The craft landed nearby and two, 2 ft=

tall "aliens" emerged from the object. One of the humanoids flung a small
fluorescent fireball like object that flew over a house and vanished. Soon=

the craft and humanoids disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC & News Reports
Type: B



53.
Location. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Date: June 10 2002
Time: 1900
Witnesses saw a mysterious light in the sky and others saw a large disc
shaped object land nearby. Three humanoids only about 2 ft tall emerged
from the craft and disappeared into the forest when approached. The object=

also left.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Reports
Type: B


54.
Location. Chantilly, Virginia
Date: June 10 2002
Time: night
The witness was awakened during the night with a sense of some presence in=

the room. Looking toward the door, he saw, fading quickly, something, which=

almost had the appearance of a hologram. Next, shadows appeared outside the=

windows in an erratic shape. At first he thought the shadows to be from
trees moving in a strong wind. The appearance was of a storm blowing the
limbs to create these shadows outside the window. However, there was no
storm. He looked at the adjacent window on the side of the house facing
opposite and there was no wind at all. In fact there was no trees
positioned in such a way to cast a shadow. He opened the blinds to see what=

might be causing the shadows. He then saw what seemed to be a hologram with=

the shape of two small eyes moving erratically outside the window.
Frightened he closed the blinds. Two weeks later he was awakened by a
humming sound and again saw the erratic shadows outside the window. He
watched the shadows for 10-15 minutes and then called the police. The
police found no signs of any intrusion in the yard. When the police left
the witness walked toward the door facing the back porch and saw a large
burst of bluish white light. It looked unnatural, almost like a laser. He
has not seen the "shadows" again.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: E?


55.
Location. Ataliva Roca, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 11 2002
Time: 1930
A worker at a local drainage project was sitting and guarding some
machinery when he noticed a short greenish colored humanoid figure that was=

approaching his location from a nearby field. The witness became concerned=

and drove away from the area in the construction equipment and did not see=

the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


56.
Location. Eduardo Castex, La Pampa Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Two girls of a local school encountered a short greenish humanoid figure in=

the playing yard. The figure was standing up and appeared to be raising its=

arms up to the sky. Terrified the two girls retreated into the school and
watched the figure scurry away into some nearby woods. Around the same time=

a local farmer found a strangely mutilated hog in his farm.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


57.
Location. Chasico, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Hugo Deluca and several other workers were parked in a bus in an isolated
area when they spotted about 20 meters away a short, 1.20 meters tall,
bipedal figure completely covered in gray hair. It walked upright like a
man and then scurried away into some woods vanishing from sight. The area
had been hit with animal mutilations around the same time.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


58.
Location. Castex, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 13 2002
Time: night
A 70-year old man had gone to his driveway to check on a flat tire in his
car when a short light green colored humanoid suddenly appeared next to
him. It had large round ears, and two reddish luminous eyes. Its body was
thin and almost triangular in shape. The witness attempted to yell out but=

was suddenly unable to speak and at the same time strange warmth invaded
his body. Several seconds later the humanoid vanished and the witness
returned to normal. He reported the incident to the police.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


59.
Location. La Laguna, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 14 2002
Time: afternoon
Several youngster had gone into the fields in order to obtain some firewood=

when they saw sitting on a clearing in the woods two human like figures,
all dressed in black. They sat facing each other, one looking towards the
east the other towards the west, unmoving. Unnerved by the sight the
juveniles ran from the area. The next day the father of one of the boys
found two dead cows at the site, but could find no trace of the strange
pair. Days later a sheep and a horse were found dead and strangely
mutilated in the nearby location of El Cardonal.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: E


60.
Location. De Kalb, Illinois
Date: June 15 2002
Time: 0030A
The witness was sitting in his family room watching TV when he noticed a
bright flash of light outside the window. He saw the flash several times
and decided to check his backyard there he saw a circular light moving
around in circles. The light began to get closer; scared he ran inside his=

home and called a friend on the phone. He then quickly ran outside and saw=

the circle getting closer, he noticed that it had a purplish color to it
and it began to descend towards the ground. He became nauseous and dizzy
and collapsed on to the ground. He tried to crawl to the house but was
unable to move. He turned his head and saw the purplish object on the
ground and what appeared to be a door opening up. He then heard a squeaking=

noise and saw a tall and a short figure standing by a door of the object.
The two figures started to move towards him, walking in a strange bopping
fashion. They were of a dark complexion with a bumpy texture, other than
that they resembled normal human beings. The shorter figure approached and=

picked up the witness' camera and stared at it. He then looked at the
taller figure and handed it to him. The taller of the two looked at the
camera and then at the witness. The witness then heard loud unpleasant
shrieks coming from the taller figure, which then gave the camera back to
the shorter figure, which covered the camera with his hand, seconds later a=

light began to emerge from their hands. Then they stopped, threw the camera=

aside and began to walk towards the witness. They reached his side and
started to examine his body. A dog began to bark from inside the house and=

the shorter figure put out his hand and the dog stopped barking. At this
point the witness began to vomit. After about a minute he began to relax
and to breathe better. When he turned his head he realized that the two
figures and the purple spherical object were now gone. The next day he had=

a very severe headache.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: B


61.
Location. San Juan, Argentina
Date: June 20 2002
Time: evening
At a location where the body of a strangely mutilated carcass of a cow was=

found two witnesses reported seeing a small creature with large glowing
slanted eyes and about one meter in height. Later in the same area, members=

of the Gimenez family after investigating noises and a strong odor coming
from a wooded area found a mutilated cow and also watched a short humanoid=

with glowing eyes scurrying away into the woods.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


62.
Location. Manuel Rodriguez, Calama, Chile
Date: June 22 2002
Time: after midnight
A bizarre creature was spotted at a local housing complex on San Antonio
Street. Witnesses reported that it resembled an ape and it jumped all over=

the roof. It passed right in front of the witness, Maria Gavia's window and=

then it came back making all manner of noise. The creature was able to make=

very long jumps, unlike any a human could. It jumped and landed on the
neighbor's roof and then it left the area. Neighborhood dogs acted scared
and began howling. Others described the creature as about 1.5 meters tall,=

stocky in build with bright red eyes. It made a lot of noise. Others
reportedly chased the creature.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center, quoting El
Mercurio de CalamaType: E


63.
Location. Angencia Realico, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 23 2002
Time: late night
Several hunters returning to a local ranch spotted about 50 meters away two=

large glowing reddish eyes staring at them. They turned off their
flashlight and approached closer on foot, about 30 meters away they again
saw the reddish eyes on a dark creature that appeared to be standing on top=

of an apparently dead animal. One of the hunters shone its flashlight on
the figure again and saw a figure about 40 cm in height that quickly ran
from the area at very high speed. The creature disappeared into the brush.=

At the scene, a dead and mutilated young heifer. Other mutilations were
reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


64.
Location. Rancul, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 25 2002
Time: 2020
Two young men, Nestor Pinto and Daniel Gatica were walking on a field when=

they encountered a short man-like figure with huge pointy ears and long
dangling arms standing near some brush. The figure scurried into the brush=

and disappeared and at the same time the two witnesses ran away from the
area and did not see the strange dwarf again.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


65.
Location. Bavaria, Germany (exact location not given)
Date: June 25 2002
Time: night
The witness had stayed up late watching the soccer game as was in his
bedroom when suddenly there was a coldness around him that made him shiver.=

He noticed that his audio capabilities were somehow enhanced and he was
able to hear sounds that previously he was unable to hear. He then heard a=

noise outside his door and went out to investigate. The noise became louder=

as he approached the door. He then heard footsteps and opened the door. A
very small man with a somewhat deformed body that was smiling at him
confronted the witness. He looked straight ahead and then stared at the
witness. His next memory was of waking up in his bed in the morning.

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.com
Type: E


66.
Location. Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2105
The primary witness had stepped out on his back porch when his attention
was drawn to two huge black "birds" which were approaching from the north.=

His first impression was they were Herons, but soon realized that the color=

was wrong, and "they were huge, much larger than any bird I have ever
seen." The two huge birds landed at the top of a very tall coniferous tree.=

The witness stated that the wingspan appeared to be wider than the
branches, jest below where they had landed. The body size was estimated to=

be about six feet from head to tail. The oddest feature was the shape of
the wings, which according to the witness appeared to be bat-like. The tree=

where the "birds" landed seemed as though it would break from their weight.=

The witness yelled for others in the house to come outside to look. Another=

family member was able to see the huge black birds as they passed overhead,=

and headed for some woods. After checking the size of the branches where
the birds had landed, the witness estimated that the wingspan would have
been close to 12 feet or somewhat larger.

HC addendum
Source: Stan GordonType: E


67.
Location. Marldon Hill, Paington, England
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2357
A couple were walking near a local historic monument (a windmill) and they=

drew closer to monument they heard a low whirling noise. The noise
progressed to a high-pitched whining, almost out of hearing range. Then
they saw a mysterious glow coming from the dark side of the windmill, and
then to their astonishment they saw 5 or 6 shadow like figures standing in=

front of the windmill. Startled the two began to run back towards the main=

road. The woman looked back and saw the figures become engulfed by a bright=

light and disappear, and then everything became quiet.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Sightings UKType: E?


68.
Location. Adelia Maria, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 3 2002
Time: 2100
Pedro and Estela Moine had decided to visit the business district of town
called Barrio Norte and crossed the old railroad yard through a pedestrian=

pathway that ran through a pasture area between some silos, old railroad
depots and abandoned wreckage. As the couple moved through the premises
they suddenly became aware of a strange and incomprehensible conversation
between many voices. Startled, they stopped walking moved a few meters more=

and then heard the voices again which now sounded like strange "O" sounds.=

Pedro looked toward the silos and was able to see resembling humanoid but
lacking upper and lower extremities. Despite the pleas of his wife, Pedro
ran several meters toward an inner alley in the silo plant, being able to
make out some 45 meters to the west and in profile---the entity, which
acting surprised, avoided the encounter and moved again to the north.
However, what filled the witnesses with wonderment was that the creature
did so as though flying or floating without touching the facilities it
passed. Pedro and Estela ran after it. It was thus that the man managed to=

see the entity apparently hiding behind the control room of the truck
scale. Pedro ran toward it and was again startled to see the apparition
rising as a plane taking off, flying at an altitude of 5 meters and
disappearing behind a large metal shed. Bewildered, both witnesses called
out, but were unable to see anything else. Pedro Moine as "a thing with
human shape" described the apparition. It had some sort of light, although=

he could not say if reflected or self-generated, although he tends to
believe the latter, since it was a nebulous whitish light, which kept him
from making out details. The entire mass of the apparition appeared to be a=

body covered from head to toe in some sort of mantle, which he described as=

though it wore a hat, but covered with some kind of long raincoat reaching=

down to what he took to be its feet. He added that the "conversational
sounds" repeated themselves in three separate occasions at various
intensities. They were like conversations in a strange language.

HC addendum
Source: Mario Luis Bracamonte, C.O.R, Rio Cuarto Argentina
Type: E


69.
Location. Jerusalem, Israel
Date: July 6 2002
Time: night
A remote TV camera picked up images of "orbs seen on the corner to the
right of the Wailing Wall." They seemed to have facial features almost like=

a ghost, reported investigator Charlotte LeFevre. The orbs were described
as "sharp and distinct". The orbs were next to the women's prayer area in
front of the Wall. Other strange phenomena, has been reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 29Type: F?


70.
Location. Villa Elisa, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: July 13 2002
Time: 2300
A young woman fainted from nervous shock after having an alleged closed
encounter with "some sort of green dwarf". This occurred---enveloped in
darkness---along Misioneros Salesianos Street very close to several houses.=

An ambulance was called and apparently transported the witness who was in
shock.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria ColuchiType: E


71.
Location. Patna, India
Date: July 21 2002
Time: night
Several residents claim they've been bitten or scratched by a "black
monkey-like creature with colored lights flashing from its eyes." Resident=

Pawan Kumar Niyogi who was sleeping on the terrace of his house claims "a 5=

ft tall monkey-like creature" attacked him. He said: "I was terrified and
thought my life was going to end but it merely scratched me on the shoulder=

before jumping off the roof." Local residents are conducting night vigils
and carrying torches to guard their homes.

HC addendum
Source: Ananova, Ufoupdates. Type: E


72.
Location. Chajan, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 21 2002
Time: 2300
Police officer Guillermo Arias was on routine patrol through a rural area
when he heard over the radio that his colleagues in arms over at Achiras
were seeing lights in sectors of said community, and that they were heading=

towards Chajan along National Route 8. At the wheel of the police patrol
van, he managed to see a formation of 7 lights in the distance and decided=

to drive 10 km along a rural dirt road. When he had covered said distance,=

he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine of his vehicle sputtered=

and died, causing the police car to strike the edge of a guardrail.
Simultaneously, the lights on the van's dashboard began turning on and off=

randomly, the police radio went haywire and its dial displayed the random
shifting of the frequencies while the cabin became filled with an acrid
odor, as though of burnt wiring, and the interior lights and stop
indicator, which were broken, began lighting on and off. Seized by fear,
Arias leaped from the van and walked away a few meters down the road,
losing his cellular phone in the escape. The darkness was total, when
suddenly, amid the confusing situation; an immense light emerged from a
field adjacent to the road as a triangular object rose majestically into
the air. Now Arias condition went from fear to abject terror as he saw what=

he described as a real "floating city" some 200 meters long with a long row=

of windows (perhaps as many as 100). Arias claims having seen something
move behind them, describing the movement as "TV sets which make lines and=

shadows", which he defined as "non-human", and that many beams of light
came out of the giant triangle, aimed at the ground. The event lasted 2-3
seconds, but to Arias it felt like an eternity. The object suddenly rose
and sped away, vanishing behind the hills of a local field. As the object
moved away, the whole area was lit up like daytime and there was an
afterglow that lasted another 20 minutes.

HC addendum
Source: C.O.R., Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense, Argentina
Type: A


73.
Location. Waconia, Minnesota
Date: July 26 2002
Time: 0300A
The young witness was sleeping in the backyard with his sister when he
suddenly woke up. He then noticed that the side of the tent that faced the=

wetlands and lake was lit up. Looking towards the light he saw a shadowy
torso and arm of a humanoid figure that seemed to be moving around within
the light. He watched for 30 seconds and saw the figure move the fingers of=

his hands. The witness became frightened and hid in his sleeping bag. He
came out about an hour later and the light and strange figure were
completely gone.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


74.
Location. Sedona, Arizona
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 0310A
In a wooded area the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all
white, with black "straight" eyes; and black diagonal/diamond strip of
"clothing" on top. He stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then
left. Prior to seeing the figure the witness had seen lights in a large
oval shaped pattern in the sky.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


75.
Location. Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 1730
Three girls had decided to visit the rooftop as they did the prior evening=

watching for satellites. It was dusk and the girls had a good vantage point=

looking towards the east. With them they had a pair of binoculars and a
pair of walkie-talkies. The girls noticed that a large orange light
appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The anomaly
was noted to have fluctuated in colors of orange, yellow, white and pale
blue. At fist they thought of an arriving airplane, but then a second light=

appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10=

degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some=

unusually maneuvering; from a stationary position it accelerated at least 5=

degrees closer to the ground surface at an approximate 45-60 degree angle
within a matter of a single second. The first anomaly then began to move
slowly towards the north. At this stage they partially lost view of it as
it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley-like
region of the horizon. According to the witnesses, this third object
appeared to have "landed" on the ground surface. The object was then viewed=

through the binoculars and presented in great detail; the object was
described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange,=

blue/purple and white rotating around the rim. Thy also noted the trees
being slightly illuminated by this extraordinary phenomenon. They were
suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, "Identify
yourself." This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in a
foreign language. Around 1830 the girls were then called down to have
dinner. At about 2030 the girls re-established their places on the roof
after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still
present. Unexpectedly a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above
the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. "It
was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away." The=

light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it=

is not clear how one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became
extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed
her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not=

sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another of the girls woke up
the next morning with her nose bleeding. She also mentioned that she had
seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom.

HC addendum
Source: The Australian UFO Research NetworkType: D or
F?



76.
Location. Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 29 2002
Time: early morning
Local residents have seen a strange figure, which they described as
resembling a "shroud". The apparitions, which always occur in the early
morning hours, have become so common that in recent days several neighbors=

have stayed up late to see them, and it is thus that they were able to
confirm the simultaneous presence of up to 2 such beings, as well as red
lights flying over the area. All the witnesses whether individuals or in a=

group, agree that the entities are nebulous and glowing, with a pair of red=

eyes being clearly identifiable, and glassy faces (as if transparent).
Their movements are smooth and they always appear from behind the sand
dunes, as though "coming form the Naval Base." Most witnesses agree that
they show a great interest in the water tanks located above the roofs, and=

that they do not flee upon detecting the presence of local
residents---rather, they stare at them fixedly for some minutes. Deep
silence is perceived during the observations and "the air appears to become=

still" and neither heat nor cold can be felt---only a sensation of warmth,=

as if the beings emanated heat. Witnesses also state that things appear to=

be darker when "the shroud" appears, as though ambient lighting were
dimmed. Another curious fact is the large number of cats and dogs who
report to the place where the sightings occur and sit down to observe it in=

silence, in a state resembling a trance. A series of semi-circular prints
have been found in the dunes, not very deep, with 15-20 cm separations in
some cases and 30-50 cm in others. The locals have identified them as the
strange being's footprints. Efforts have been made to photograph the
"shroud", but all images, despite the use of different cameras appear
exposed. One witness who approached the site to witness the phenomenon took=

two photos of the prints in the afternoon and decided to stay with the
group of people hoping to see the "shroud", managing to take some photos of=

same and record the new prints which appeared in the dunes after the
sighting. A completely uncommon print was found at the site---but the
residents aren't sure if it's related to the phenomenon: it has the shape
of a five-fingered claw. One witness tried to make use of his carbine's
telescopic sight to see the figure in greater detail, but "when he tried to=

focus on it, he could see nothing_it was a though it could only be seen
with the unaided eye."

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, IHU, Christian Quintero and O A Mario
Proyecto Condor
Type: C or E?


77.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 30 2002
Time: 0530A
27-year old Mariela Baigorri reported seeing a strange figure that floated=

in front of her house. She had woken up early that morning and was getting=

ready to mount her bicycle when she saw behind the fence something floating=

in mid-air. It appeared to be a figure wearing a flowing white transparent=

tunic, with bright red eyes and undefined facial features. Feeling no fear=

she decided to approach it. She felt as if the figure waited for her and
was observing her. At this point Mariela felt some fear and began reciting=

the Lord's Prayer. The figure suddenly moved back and disappeared in plain=

sight.

HC addendum
Source: Juan Carlos Corrales Morey, Vision Ovni, Argentina
Type: E


78.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 31 2002
Time: 1845
23-year old Julian Pereyra was in his vehicle when he observed two red
spheres flying slowly over some nearby woods, they seemed to descend and
disappear behind the trees. 15 minutes later, Pereyra, accompanied by
several other witnesses approached the area and observed what they
described a tall floating figure wearing a white glowing cape like outfit,=

it seemed to glide silently over a field. It had what appeared to be a
visor at face level and two beams of red light emerged from where the eyes=

would have been. The witnesses watched the strange figure glide over the
fields for about 30 minutes. Curiously numerous local dogs and cats
approached and also watched the figure in fascination. The lights and
figure disappeared into the distance. In another occasion Pereyra and some=

of his family members encountered the strange humanoid and felt a strange
sensation as if the wind had suddenly stopped, they felt as they were
inside a vacuum or "bubble." Strange tracks have been reportedly found in
the area also.

HC addendum
Source: Diario La Nueva Provincia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Type: C?


79.
Location. La Cienaga, Pocri, Panama
Date: early August 2002
Time: night
Luis Alfredo Diaz reported hearing loud noises coming from the terraced
patio where the kitchen was located, going to investigate he found his cat=

apparently dead with two obvious holes on the neck and some blood on the
floor. Before finding the cat he had called his wife, Maria de Los Santos
Barrios. As his wife stood in front of him a panic stricken look came over=

her face, turning around he was confronted by a bizarre 1-meter tall
humanoid that had jumped to the center of the patio. The creature was
described as thin, covered with dark hair, with large pointed ears that
almost covered its face, it had very large eyes and extremely strong hind
legs resembling that of a kangaroo. Terrified he ran to his son's bedroom
and carried him outside yelling for his neighbors. A search failed to
locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Panamanian Paranormal Forum
Type: E


80.
Location. Near Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Date: August 2002
Time: night
The same witness involved in a similar encounter last year was again
camping in the same area when he again heard a noise. Shining the light in=

the direction of the sound he again saw the same creature. The creature sat=

there crouched by the trees staring at the witness. The witness walked
slowly towards it, he got to within 20 ft when it just jumped backward and=

disappeared. He described the creature as about five to six ft in height,
gray in color. It was totally naked. It had human features, but more
leathery, and its face was very wide, its eyes were huge and even though
they reflected light, they still looked black, resembling two intensely
black marbles. Its legs were very muscular, but turned backwards, like a
bird. Other hikers in the area have reported encountering little brown men=

on some of the more isolated trails.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal Story Archives, November 2002Type: E


81.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: August 1 2002
Time: late evening
64-year old Raul Dorado was touring some fields when he heard a loud sound=

on two occasions, like a whirlwind, which drew his attention. The third
time he saw something he describes as a green circle with three legs
hovering over him. At that moment Dorado fell to the ground, and according=

to his story, he carried a shotgun, binoculars and a cellular phone, the
latter, which was taken from his hand, and he could clearly see being
sucked into the object, which was apparently at low altitude. His next
recollection was seeing the object disappear toward the east. Dorado
remained at the location for an hour before being able to rise and walk
back to his car, returning to town in a state of shock. He had to be
hospitalized. Later when calls were placed to the (abducted) cellular phone=

someone would pick up and heavy breathing could be heard. Later on the
phone was apparently disconnected.

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, quoting Diario La Arena, La PampaType: G?


82.
Location. Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Date: August 2 2002
Time: 1730
A man named Todd Sees went up the mountain to look for pre-season deer. He=

told his wife that he would be home by noon. He rode his 4-wheeler up the
power line behind his home. He never returned. A search party composed of
local police, state police and volunteers searched for Sees. The 4-wheeler=

was found on the top of the mountain near a power-line. Tracking dogs could=

find nothing to go on around the 4-wheeler. The search went on for 2 days
and over 6 miles of mountain was covered from top to bottom. Then, in the
evening of the 2nd day, his body was found in a hard to reach wooded area.=

He was wearing his underwear. He was emaciated---not bloated. He was pale
and had an expression of horror on his face. When he went up the mountain
he was fully dressed, boots, camo-vest, hat, socks, pants. 3 people, on one=

farm, said they saw a large round bright object just above the power-lines=

at the time of the disappearance. It was silent, it did not move for about=

10 to 15 minutes. It suddenly went up and suddenly stopped. A light shone
down and something was pulled up into the light. It then went straight up,=

hesitated again, and then went west over the Susquehanna River and out of
sight. More specifically a farmer saw an object above Montour Ridge at the=

power lines, on top of the mountain, it was round and very still over the
lines. Suddenly it moved what looked like a few hundred feet to the east,
it stopped and a beam of blue and white light shone to the ground. What was=

seen next was very unnerving, he saw what appeared to be a man suspended in=

the light, he was being pulled up head first, he was moving his arms slowly=

in the light. What looked like a man was pulled up into the bottom of the
craft. A few seconds later it started shuddering, then went west very fast,=

stopped briefly, and then went straight up and out of sight. Also three
fishermen saw the craft. The FBI is supposedly also investigating. (Debated=

as a hoax, who would? and for what purpose?).

HC addendum
Source: Rense, UFO updates, NUFORCType: G?






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                            2002 Humanoid Reports

From: Albert Rosales <Garuda79@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:32:05 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:14:40 -0500
Subject: 2002 Humanoid Reports


Happy new year everyone

Sincerely,

Albert

-----

2002 Humanoid Reports. It appears to be a slow start for this
year with only one recorded case, again from Chile. We will see
what develops later on the year. 2001 was pretty busy but it was
a decline from 2000. Maybe we will see another down trend again,
later to pick up again in the near future. This seems to be the
ever-ongoing trend of the phenomena. Will it always stay the
same? Time will tell. Following is a list of known 2002 humanoid
cases.


1.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: January 2002
Time: 0300A
An employee at the local Minera Escondida was on his way to the
storage freezer in order to pick up some supplies when an
unknown creature jumped him from behind. He could only describe
it as hairy and dark. He was left with deep scratches and in a
state of shock. Terrified he ran away and bumped into two other
employees who were able to see a shadowy creature in the dark.

HC addendum
Source: La Estrella del Loa de Calama, ChileType: E


2.
Location. Caracas, Venezuela
Date: January 2002
Time: late night
Late one night in a dream-like state the witness woke up to see
seven to eight strange figures in her bedroom. They were dark
gray in color and very thin, with three large thick long fingers
on their hands. They had large, lipless mouths and large shiny
protruding black eyes, their noses were thin and protruding,
small ears, the heads was large and pointy. The humanoids
appeared to be naked and she was able to see a penis on the
humanoids. They were about 1.55 meters in height. She felt dizzy
and under the control of the strange entities. She was led out
of her bedroom by one of the humanoids that removed her clothing
and made her lie down on the floor. The humanoids apparently
attempted to molest her sexually and possibly attempted to rape
her but were not successful. She apparently passed out and does
not remember anything else about the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Lista Alcione and witness communicationType: E


3.
Location. Fort McMurry, Alberta, Canada
Date: January 2 2002
Time: 2032
Two men were parked on an isolated dirt road when they spotted a
large cone-shaped object descend and hover. One of the men
exited the car and he vanished in plain sight of the other, the
craft then also disappeared. The other man tried to drive away
to get help but the car would not start and it was to cold to
walk. He soon went to sleep and woke up later to find his friend
sleeping next to him. Later they drove back to town. His friend
does not remember what happened during those two hours of
missing time. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


4.
Location. Paso Lovera, Corrientes, Argentina
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2030
Gabriela Lencinas, 15-year old and a 19-year old friend were
returning home on a bicycle when they spotted a large cloud like
object descend from the sky and from it a giant figure emerge.
The witnesses stopped their bicycles to see a car approach the
giant figure, stop, the driver exit the car and then re-entering
the vehicle and driving quickly away. The figure then rose up
into the cloud and disappeared. The girls reported that the
giant human-like figure had its hair standing up on his head and
was extending its arms towards the witnesses that quickly rode
their bicycles home. Other in the area reported seeing bright
lights that same night.

HC addendum
Source: Pablo Omastott
Type: B?


5.
Location. Villa San Rafael, Chile
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2345
Two young teenagers, Jean F and Nelson C, where at home at night
when Jean noticed that his pet snake had escaped from its cage.
Both boys began looking for it outside among the rubble of the
parcel. They recalled how half an hour before, their two dogs
strangely began to howl and cry; however, it did not seem to be
important at that point in time. They searched for the pet snake
together when suddenly, about 30 meters from where they stood;
they saw what appeared to be a stray dog. They threw rocks at to
avoid an attack. However, to their surprise, the animal stood
there, motionless and fearless; it did not get scared nor it ran
away as ordinary dogs normally do. Shortly, the strange animal
began to move towards them. The movements it made as it walked
were very strange. It used two legs at a time. It made very
small sand short leaps like a rabbit. Suddenly, it stopped and
it stood up on two legs. The teenagers then began to feel some
kind of energy. "It was like an electrical shock in the
stomach," they said. It later walked again making a loud
dragging noise, making small leaps and only moving one of its
legs. They noticed the weird shape of the animal. "It was like a
rugby football with legs," one of them said. Jean began to feel
frightened and started to move away from animal. On the other
hand, Nelson felt a strange need to get closer to the creature;
he got to within 2 meters away from it. The creature appear to
emit a strange luminosity that apparently, was bright enough to
lit a small area around the creature in spite of the nighttime
darkness. Nelson was mesmerized as he stared at the strange
creature. He described it as having a head like a large dog with
a flat nose like a bulldog. Its eyes were slanted and pale-red
in color, which could only be seen when the creature turned its
head from side to side like a lizard. At that moment, Nelson
heard a voice in his head saying, "Don't stare, and just run
away." They provided further description, describing the ears as
flat, round and large. Its arms were short, it had elbows, and
the hands had three fingers. It had hair like the one on a wild
pig. Its legs were like the ones of a goat. The feet had also
three fingers and a membrane like ducks, but somewhat shorter.
On its curved back, they were able to notice a spinal section
covered with amounts of even thicker hair. Most of the hair of
the animal was gray, but the tail had a white tip. Nelson
finally fled, terrified, from the area. He also described how he
felt an inexplicable bone-chilling cold sensation.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center
Type: E


6.
Location. Not given
Date: January 12 2002
Time: night
Ted Parker was eating some leftover food when he claims the food began to
change. The bread of the sandwich turned an orange color and the lamb
became a silvery metallic color, sort of like liquid mercury. As he watched=

transfixed, he saw the orange bread and metallic lamb turn into the figure=

of an "alien" with the form of a man. It was silver in color and its outfit=

(smooth pants and shirt, like a jump suit) was orange in color. At this
point Parker glanced at the wall clock and it indicated that 2 hours had
gone by, even though it felt like minutes only. The alien figure
communicated using telepathic means and asked Ted to come with him. They
both went outside and there, Ted saw a landed black-colored craft in his
backyard. In a split second Ted found himself inside the craft not knowing=

how he got there. The inside of the craft was pure white in color with
strips of the metallic silver that the alien figure appeared to be made of.=

The rest of the incident is just a blur, but Parker did remembered hearing=

several loud high-pitched rings while onboard the object. A couple of days=

before while eating dinner with several other people there had been a
similar high pitched ring and everybody had just stopped eating and walked=

out of the room.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: G or F?



7.
Location. Chihuahua, Mexico
Date: January 29 2002
Time: night
Several days before seeing a UFO the witness remembered being in a
dream-like state in which he felt very calm and saw numerous disc shaped
objects, orange-red in color. A human like figure was talking to him about=

the objects and their propulsion. The UFO he saw was of an orange color and=

he felt a sort of ecstasy when he observed the craft. Several of his
neighbors also saw the object.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: G or F?


8.
Location. Near Palmyra, Wisconsin
Date: February 2002
Time: 0200A
Two men reported seeing a creature that resembled a bipedal "gigantic wolf"=

walking down a road west of the city. They said the creature was at least 7=

ft tall with a wolf-like head. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Linda GodfreyType: E


9.
Location. West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
Nebilson Sangma reported encountering a scary furry creature on a hunting
trip in the jungles. He reportedly took a video of the creature's nesting
place. According to Sangma, the creature walked erect like a human, had
built a house like nesting place, and would emerge from it frequently to
feast on a banana grove. Sangma and his brother observed the gigantic
creature for three consecutive days from afar. Officials and villagers have=

been hunting for the creature in the forest but it seems to have
disappeared as furtively as it appeared.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 13
Type: E


10.
Location. Near Dover, England
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness had been jogging along a low path by the beach when she noticed=

a tall, well built being in a black skin tight suit, that stood watching
her from nearby. He wore a black helmet wit a brown visor pulled down. At
first she thought it was a biker but as she approached the figure, it
suddenly disappeared in plain sight. As she continued to run she noticed a=

black craft jutting out of the sand, it was small and oval shaped, matt and=

ribbed it also disappeared in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: E?


11.
Location. Rosario de la Frontera, Salta, Argentina
Date: February 2002
Time: night
A strange creature called by locals "El Pestizo" has attacked several lone=

pedestrians in the middle of the night. It is described as a dark man
shaped shadowy being. A boy riding his bicycle on the way to visit some
friends was toppled from his bicycle and found a black shadowy figure
facing him. The young man managed to upholster his shotgun and fire two
shots. But, when he saw that they had no effect, he promptly drew his knife=

and stabbed the figure without any apparent harm. Frightened the youth
tried to escape but the creature knocked him down without saying a word and=

began dragging him by the hair to the side of the road. At this point the
young man began to scream. A local man, who rushed to provide assistance,
only to find a black shadow dragging the boy by the hair, heard his cries.=

The fearful shape disappeared without a trace after it became aware of the=

other man's presence. Six other locals have reported being attacked by a
similar being and received wounds.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


12.
Location. Not given
Date: February 2002
Time: early morning
The witness was alone at home and was preparing his breakfast when suddenly=

he heard a window break; he went to see what had happened. Grabbing a golf=

club he peeked inside the room where the window broke. He was stunned to
see a strange creature climbing on his bed. It appeared to be hurt, because=

it seemed that it could not move well. Gripping the golf club he went a
step nearer and the creature hissed horribly. It shrieked in an unworldly
manner. Terrified the witness did not move. The creature was small, about
the size of a large rabbit, and it was dark in color and had reddish eyes.=

It had wings and a spine of quills on its back, and had a semi reptilian
face. It appeared to have hair and small legs. The witness raised the golf=

club and the creature hissed again showing its large yellowish teeth, which=

appeared to be sharp, like those of a crocodile. It suddenly hopped out of=

the window and rapidly hopped across the street into the oak trees.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June archiveType: E


13.
Location. Vigevano, Italy
Date: February 2002
Time: 0100A
In the outskirts of this city a witness observed from his vehicle a
luminous humanoid entity walking along a roadway. It scurried away into the=

darkness when approached.
No other information.

HC addendum
Source: CISU, ItalyType: E



14.
Location. Corguinho, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Date: February 5 2002
Time: night
During a localized UFO flap several witnesses reported seeing a strange
creature described as about 1.3 meters in height, having two legs, with a
physique like a human but who moved with a strange fluctuating motion. The=

creature was seen five times by twenty people in the rural zone around
Corguinho. In Rochedo, 6 miles south of Corguinho five Cebu cattle were
found dead with a single incision on the side of the throat. The bodies had=

been drained of blood. (Is there a connection?).

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


15.
Location. Mount Podbrdo, Bosnia Hercigovina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: morning
Contactee and stigmatic Giorgio Bongiovanni was visiting the shrine on top=

of the mountain and was praying silently to the Virgin when, to his
astonishment, a glowing luminous female figure appeared and touched his
forehead with her fingertips. His stigmata scar vanished instantly. The
female figure told him to return to Italy and make known what had happened.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 14
Type: E or F?


16.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: evening
73-year-old Maria Rufina Cayo, a local shepherd was walking back home with=

her dogs and the cattle. Suddenly at one point, something spooked the
animals, and these began to stampede. Looking around she spotted a bizarre=

creature standing about 12 meters away. She described it as a humanoid,
half animal, half human, about 1.70m in height, with bright red eyes, sharp=

protruding fangs, and hands and feet that ended in sharp claws. The
creature looked at the witness three times then it scrambled away using
quick jumping motions with is powerfully built hind legs, she also noticed=

large pointy ears. The top part of its body seems to have been covered in a=

shiny white blanket. It somehow resembled a centaur walking on two
claw-like feet.  Alerted by the shouts of Maria, two men, Santos Jaimes,
and Ruben Colque ran out to investigate with their dogs. Suddenly the dogs=

stopped and began making pitiful howling noises, they refused to move any
further. The men heard noises behind some nearby bushes and went to
investigate and spotted a bizarre creature that stood staring at them with=

huge reddish eyes. It then moved quickly away in the direction of Cerro
Negro and disappeared from sight. The witnesses noticed very sharp claws on=

the creature's feet with a very sharp claw that appeared to be pointed
backwards. Strange footprints were found the next day.

HC addendum
Source: El Tribuno, Salta Argentina March 27 2002
Also Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E



17.
Location. Khanpur, Ahmedabad, India
Date: February 20 2002
Time: after midnight
Several local residents reportedly have encountered a person, dressed in
black and wearing a mask. Dubbed the "Monkeyman" whom they described as
between 25 and 20 years of age, dark skinned and having curly hair can
reportedly be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees. Two
local youths chased it and the figure reportedly disappeared in plain
sight. The two youths have been behaving abnormally since then. The
stranger was also chased along the riverbed near the Cama Hotel and it also=

suddenly disappeared. Others have heard the stranger running on the
rooftops. Abdul Hamid another youngster of the local slums described the
figure as a tall lean man that carries a sharp weapon. "I saw him from the=

back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised the alarm, he jumped to=

another roof and then on to a tree." Police have searched for the stranger=

but nothing has been found.

HC addendum
Source: Fortean Times, India Express
Type: E


18.
Location. Prague, Czech Republic
Date: February 23 2002
Time: night
Blanka Slemendova was in her apartment when she saw a "ship" hovering over=

some nearby woods. It was shining red, white and yellow lights. She then
heard telepathic communication coming from the object telling her to go and=

meet them at an unspecified location. Looking over to her bedroom wall she=

saw what appeared to be a projection of human like faces looking at her.
Later that night she saw luminous figures in her room and a floating red
light also in her room. The next night she saw what appeared to be 2 gray
suns and around them a golden lights with numerous groups of shiny
human-like figures floating about. She interpreted these as being angels.

HC addendum
Source: Direct from witness (Slemendova)
Type: C & F?


19.
Location. Wycliffe Well Roadhouse, Northern Territory Australia
Date: early March 2002
Time: evening
While workers in the area watched unusual lights in the sky an aboriginal
woman encountered a triangular sort of object in a paddock and all of the
sudden she saw three silvery clad human like figures that began to move
toward her vehicle. She turned the vehicle around and took off.

HC addendum
Source: Lou Farcus ABC On-lineType: C


20.
Location. Near Canberra Australia
Date: March 2002
Time: 1700
Several friends were taking a trip to the coast and it was already very
dark. They had already entered a tropical forest area and there was a mist=

rolling along the ground. As they turned around they saw something
squatting in the middle of the road. It stared at them, and just as they
thought they were going to hit it, it leaped off the road and into the
trees. It leaped about 10 meters in the air. The creature was definitely
human looking although it wore strange clothes. It was dressed in a green
robe of some kind with little pieces of gold on it, and it was either
wearing a head crest or it had a row of spikes running from its forehead to=

the top of its neck. Very frightened the witnesses drove out of the forest=

and at the same time the mist turned to a thick fog. They pulled over and
decided to wait until the fog had cleared, although none of them were too
happy about it. As they sat around and waited they suddenly heard a shriek.=

It sounded like some sort of wild animal and they turned the car on so the=

headlights would scare it away. The headlights revealed the same creature
they had seen earlier. It hid its face from the light and shrieked. Right
before the witnesses' eyes, the creature seemed to evaporate into the fog.=

Within five minutes the fog had gone and the normal rolling mist was back.=

The witnesses quickly left the area and drove towards the coast.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June ArchiveType: E


21.
Location. Guanica Puerto Rico
Date: March 1 2002
Time: 2345
Reinaldo Rios (involved in other encounters) was in his bedroom that night=

when a large white light suddenly appeared. It flew around the room several=

times and then hovered. He heard voices coming from the light, which
communicated with him. The voice said: "I am your real father." Soon the
light transformed itself into a figure resembling that of a little boy it
then vanished in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: UFOs over America.com
Type: E


22.
Location. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 0800A
The witness and his wife were in bed that Saturday morning talking when
their 5-year-old daughter came into the bedroom with her baby brother,
whose cot is placed under their bedroom window. They heard a strange noise=

and some green light came into the window. Their daughter looked out the
window and reported seeing a "flying car" with four spinning green lights
on top. She saw two windows in the vehicle and saw two dark brown faces
looking out. His wife saw the craft flying past through the curtains. That=

same morning, in a large tree near the witness house a strange structure
was found. The branches were arranged in a rectangular pen shape, vertical,=

each approximately 30 to 40 cm long. They found a few smaller sticks
scaling down in size from the structure. A piece of concrete slab was found=

propped up on one corner. The witnesses had never seen this strange
structure before and think is some kind of message left by the visitors.
(Some kind of bizarre crop circle?). A few nights before they had heard
strange noises coming from the kitchen area.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: A


23.
Location. Golasecca Di Novara, Italy
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 2330
Augusto & Maurizia were in their vehicle parked in an open field next to a=

wooded area having a heated discussion when suddenly a powerful beam of
reddish-orange light illuminated the area around them. They rolled down the=

car window and heard a sharp metallic sound that seemed to be increasing in=

intensity. They now noticed, behind the beam of light a hovering
disc-shaped craft with a central rotating ring, it hovered about a meter
from the ground. From the object, a cigar-shaped beam of light emerged;
they could see it as the central ring of the craft slowly rotated on its
axis. The craft was only about 10 meters away. At this point, and only
about 4 meters from the object Augusto saw what appeared to be a gelatinous=

transparent humanoid-like figure with a visible head, arms and legs. The
figure was silvery in color and was very tall, about 3 meters or so. At
this point Augusto became concerned and drove away from the area and did
not see the object or figure depart. The whole episode lasted about 10
minutes. The metallic noise was heard all throughout the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Alfredo Lissoni, CUN Milano, Michelle Castellano CUN VareseType: C


24.
Location. Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England
Date: March 3 2002
Time: morning
Helen Diskin went for a walk in the countryside talking snap shots along
the way with her digital camera. Returning home she loaded these into her
computer and was intrigued by an odd-looking image. It looked like a
luminous figure in an area of no sunlight, skulking amongst the trees. She=

returned to the site of the photo twice afterward and could find no
explanation for the figure. The figure resembled a small helmeted figure
that she had not seen when she took the picture of an area of the woods she=

had thought of as "mysterious."

HC addendum
Source: Helen Diskin, UFO Magazine Vol. 22 # 1Type: E?


25.
Location. Near Trenton New Jersey
Date: March 4 2002
Time: night
Several witnesses were camping outside of town and late at night one of
them was attempting to put out the bonfire when he heard the most awful and=

horrifying scream. It resembled that of an injured dog crossed with a
scream of a woman. The witness dropped the flashlight and was joined by
another witness. Suddenly out of the woods a hideous and gruesome creature=

appeared. It did not look human, somewhat satyr-like in appearance and
walked on two legs. It had a long tail like a dragon and wings like those
unicorns in fantasy books. The beast took several steps towards the
witnesses and one of them picked up and asked and yelled at it and then
shone his flashlight at it. The creature then turned towards the bushes and=

ran away from the area.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: E


26.
Location. Pichaca, Salta, Argentina
Date: March 9 2002
Time: night
Ceferino Leoncio was cleaning his one room metal shack when suddenly a
bright light engulfed the room. He felt a sudden heat as he saw a tiny
figure (50 cm) of an angel-like creature materialize in front of him. It
slowly moved its small wing-like protrusions and moved around and then
suddenly stopped and remained still. It appeared to be a small living human=

like living being until it appeared to hardened and turn into some type of=

statue of cherubic appearance. Locals have now built a shrine around the
tiny "statue" and call the strange materialization a "religious miracle".

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso
Type: F?



27.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: March 16 2002
Time: 2215
Mirna, was watching television alone in her room when she began hearing
noises coming from outside, at first she thought it was her dogs playing
around with some empty cans. But the noises kept getting louder and louder=

and she decided to go outside to investigate. Once outside she was stunned=

to see some type creature that had somehow entered the rabbit cage and was=

attacking the animals that were making loud unearthly screams. Thinking at=

first that it was one of the dogs she approached the case but realized that=

it was a gray colored hairy hunched over creature, that was moving quickly=

inside the cage. She stepped back and could not understand how the creature=

had entered the cage, since there wasn't any apparent hole or aperture
visible anywhere and the door was firmly closed. Afraid she ran inside her=

home and notified her son, both then ran out but the creature had
mysteriously disappeared. Unnerved, they could not understand how they
creature had escaped since the door to the rabbit caged was still firmly
locked. Later they could only find a small round hole in the wire only
several centimeters in width, not large enough for a creature estimated to=

have been about 70 to 80 cm in height. Several of the rabbits were found
injured and one was dead.

HC addendum
Source: Calama UFO CenterType: E


28.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: March 19 2002
Time: 2000
Young Elizabeth Lera reported seeing a short humanoid with "dark eyes"
looking into the building compound from behind a wire fence. It appeared
not to have any other facial features and was wearing dark clothing; it
wore some type of head covering, which was hard to see because of the
darkness. She could only see a pair of large dark eyes on his face that
appeared to shine in the darkness. Some more children now arrived and
observed as the humanoid move several steps towards them. Another witness,=

Rene Mamani saw the humanoid run and hide behind some bushes. It seemed to=

move at very high speed in an unnatural fashion. It seemed to have remained=

suspended in mid-air for a few seconds. It then seemed to fly through the
air and disappeared into some nearby woods. Other students at the school
reportedly saw it again on the night of the 20th.

HC addendum
Source: Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E


29.
Location. Woodburn, Oregon
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 0300A
The witness was sleeping when she woke up suddenly feeling paralyzed. The
witness was completely unable to move or speak. Her next memory was of a
strange sensation on her left cheek, which hurt a lot. Unseen "beings" were=

apparently taking skin samples. Her face was left with a pink fleshy scoop=

down my left cheek, directly on the cheekbone. A teardrop scar was left on=

her cheek.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical Universe
Type: G?




30.
Location. Bethlehem, Israel
Date: March 21 2002
Time: night
At the besieged Church of The Nativity several awed witnesses have come
forward describing the events of Thursday night. That night, a smell of
roses filled the sanctuary as the Daughters of Charity held their evening
prayers. "The sweet scent was soon followed by a high musical humming sound=

and a distinct feeling of warmth emanating from the ceiling." Then, the
sisters reported, seeing a glowing beam of light gradually forming the
likeness of the Blessed Virgin "like a film coming into focus." Tears were=

running down her face, and she uttered a prophetic warning. "Time is
growing short, and the promised Judgment Day is nearly at hand." One week
before the apparition, The Church of the Holy Family was the scene of a
ferocious firefight between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 17Type: F


31.
Location. Not given
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 2255
16-year old Steven Mizon saw hovering over a street a large oval shaped
craft encircled in bright lights and with several lighted windows around
its edge. A figure stared down at him from one of the windows. No other
information.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Watch
Type: A



32.
Location. Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain
Date: March 26 2002
Time: 1500
A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a deserted road when=

he noticed ahead in the distance and in the middle of the roadway an object=

resembling a shiny pear that was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat
perplexed he approached and noticed two individuals standing on a nearby
field. These were over 2 meters in height, wore tight fitting white
coveralls and helmets resembling that of the early astronauts. He parked
his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men=

walked away and entered the shiny pear-shaped craft while the other
remained behind. Knowing that these men were "not from this earth" he still=

asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt that as
he approached the strange pair he had been in some type of a trance and
seemed to have floated over the road. The humanoid answered and appeared
genuinely happy as to his offer of assistance but said that everything was=

in order. He also added that the area was very beautiful and also added:
"Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such
beautiful scenes, they disappeared a long time ago." The astounded witness=

managed to ask the humanoid where he was from and was told that they hailed=

from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The=

humanoid smiled as he answered the question. The humanoid then bid goodbye=

and walked towards the nearby shiny pear shaped object, he then disappeared=

inside of it. The craft then emitted a loud whistling sound and disappeared=

at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the
humanoids as about 2.50 meters in height, wide chests and heavy set, thin
legs. Generally human features, but somewhat "refined" or sharpened
features. The suits were very tight fitting made of an apparent synthetic
material resembling plastic. Their eyes were very light almost white and
their speech was hesitant & accented. Also their movements seemed kind of
clumsy.

HC addendum
Source: J M Garcia, Francisco Padron, SpainType: B


33.
Location. Pringle Lake, Texas
Date: March 28 2002
Time: 1100A
Mark Hakemack and a friend had taken an airboat out on the NW side of the
lake to do a little redfish fishing. The day was kind of hazy, with broken=

cloud cover. They had caught several trout and were just chatting when he
hooked up a large redfish while playing with the fish, Mark happened to
glance upwards and saw a large bird-like creature emerge from a cloudbank.=

His friend saw it too, after about 20 to 25 seconds it flew behind cloud
cover again. The strange creature was grayish in color and the profile of a=

raptor, short neck/head, no legs sticking out behind, and no long tail
feathers. Mark could not take his eyes off it. He estimated the wingspan to=

have been 10' to 14 ' in overall. It appeared to be soaring on the wind,
although, he did see it give a couple of light "flaps" with its wings. The=

witness could only relate this to the legendary "Thunderbird" legend.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.comType: E


34.
Location. Sevilla, Spain
Date: March 30 2002
Time: late night
The witness to the March 26 case was at home with his wife and was getting=

ready to sleep when he heard footsteps coming from patio area outside his
chalet. Armed with a club, he opened the door and was stunned to see the
same two tall heavyset humanoids he had encountered 4 days before. One of
the humanoids was kneeling on the ground as if inspecting something on the=

soil, the other one upon hearing the door open, turned and quickly assured=

the witness not to fear that they were not here to harm him. Stunned, the
witness invited the two humanoids in the house for some refreshments (!).
These declined the invitation telling that they had to go already. Using
the same clumsy movements both humanoids walked towards the rear of the
house where the witness noticed the same shiny metallic pear shaped craft
on the ground. They entered the object, which quickly left at high speed.
The witness's wife awakened by the voices was able to see the two humanoids=

from a second story window, and described them in the same way.

HC addendum
Source: Francisco Padron, Jose Manuel Garcia, SpainType: B


35.
Location. Los Cipreses, Chile
Date: March 31 2002
Time: noon
During a local UFO congress 24 persons in three groups entered a
dimensional gateway that appeared by itself over the terrain. It was kind
of a dome, a luminous archway measuring four by four meters. The
participants lost their materiality without disappearing completely. Upon
entering, they met several human-like alien characters with large baldheads=

and wearing robes that waited within and received information. According to=

sources the contact experience was "dimensional" it was like crossing into=

a different reality. The 24 participants were "all professionals, college
students of high intellectual levels, mostly Chileans," and some were
members of Grupo Rama, a New Age association.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 16, quoting Camilo Valdivieto
Type: G or F?


36.
Location. Tbilissi Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: night
A man entered the local St David church and reported that "a phantom with
wings" had approached him and predicted an earthquake that indeed took
place on April 25 2002, devastating areas of central Georgia.

HC addendum
Source: Pravda
Type: E?


37.
Location. Near Macon, Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: 2300
Three friends were awakened by loud banging noises and bellowing sounds
coming from outside. One of the men ran to the bathroom and looked out the=

window to see a figure run by and squat in the nearby bushes. He described=

the creature as about 3 ft tall, hairy with what appeared to be horns on
its head and hands; he could not see a face. Others in the neighborhood
heard the banging noises.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.com and direct witness
Communication.
Type: E


38.
Location. Belvedere di Tezze, Italy
Date: April 26 2002
Time: evening
A 20-year old woman was returning home one night when she noticed some
bright lights nearby of an unknown origin. She followed the lights in her
car until she stopped near a local pizzeria. She saw the light near the
ground and within the lights two tall slender human like figures wearing
some type of headgear. Since she was carrying a camera she was able to snap=

a quick picture. The figures then vanished. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Gruppo Accademico Ufologico Scandicci quoting
"Il giornale di Vicenza"Type: E?


39.
Location. Puente Santamaria, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: early morning
Two young men observed a dark object descend towards the ground about 100
meters away. According to the two witnesses from the craft descended a
small humanoid, orange in color. Very scared they both ran from the area
and reported their experience to others.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: B


40.
Location. Merceditas, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: evening
An elderly couple was walking along National Route # 8 when about 800
meters from their location they noticed a very strong light. The light
descended next to a puddle at about 70 meters from the witness. Both then
saw two very short orange colored humanoids that moved in very agile
movements near the object. Terrified they walked away and upon looking back=

saw a bright glow on the ground.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: C


41.
Location. Barangay, Philippines
Date: May 2002
Time: night
Several local residents reported seeing a bizarre creature described as an=

"aswang" reputed to be a winged vampire type creature, it reportedly had
red glowing eyes, long black hair, and was wearing a white flowing gown. It=

was seen perched on top of a bamboo tree. Residents at nearby Roxas
reported seeing a similar creature. The police was called but a search
failed to locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Akasico.comType: E


42.
Location. Alvear, La Pampa Argentina
Date: May 3 2002
Time: near midnight
Several young men were returning home late at night along a deserted
roadway when suddenly out of nowhere a female figure wearing a light
flowing gown and with long black hair appeared in front of them. The
strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly and repeatedly asked for=

assistance from the men in a strange urgent tone. Terrified the men ran
from the area and later returned with additional witnesses but they could
find no trace of the strange apparition.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E?


43.
Location. Taralgon Victoria, Australia
Date: May 24 2002
Time: 2355
Walking near the Loy Yang Power station 45-year old Martin Taylor was
suddenly blinded by an intense blue light and he felt extremely dizzy. His=

next memory was of being in a circular room with a variety of lights and
buttons scattered about the walls. He was lying on a large table that
seemed to be of a very highly polished metal. He was strapped down and his=

shirt had been removed. There were wires attached to his arms, neck and
temples. A four ft tall humanoid figure with very large almond shaped eyes,=

almost transparent looking skin, ghostly white in appearance examined him.=

The figure had three extremely long fingers on each hand and spoke in a
strange dialect.

HC addendum
Source: UFO WatchType: G


44.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: May 29 2002
Time: midnight
Irma Rick watched a rotating luminous object descend close to the ground
next to a grain silo; it gave off a powerful bluish light through some
openings around its circumference. It hovered close to the ground. Through=

an opening a strange creature was seen to descend to the ground. It was
described as having an elongated semi-transparent white body; it also had
an elongated head. She could not see any eyes or legs on the creature as it=

stood motionless next to the craft. She observed the creature and object
for about 5 minutes until she dropped the flashlight she was carrying.
Afraid she left the area and did not see the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: B



45.
Location. Lembang Bandung, Indonesia
Date: May 30 2002
Time: 2315
The witness was driving his motorcycle across a highland area when he
spotted some flashing lights overhead and then noticed a silvery
disc-shaped craft descend low over some nearby graves at a cemetery. The
craft had blue and orange flashing lights around its rim. There was no
sound as the craft apparently emitted a beam of light towards the ground
and levitated what appeared to be some dead bodies onboard the object. (!)=

The witness was apparently paralyzed and was unable to move. The craft then=

shot away at a 45-degree angle and disappeared from sight. When that
happened the witness left the scene.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


46.
Location. Houston, Texas
Date: late May 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness was at the local electric company in order to pay a bill when
she decided to use the restrooms. Sitting in the stall she then noticed on=

the side of the wall of the stall what appeared to be a face lit up in a
dull light. When the witness looked directly at the "face" it vanished. She=

described is as having large round eyes no visible nose and a slit-like
mouth. (A peeping tom alien?)

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.comType: E?


47.
Location. General Acha, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: early June 2002
Time: various
A resident of the Oeste neighborhood informed newspaper sources that a
short green-colored dwarf like entity has appeared twice on her property:
once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When her husband ran out
responding to her screams, the mysterious entity vanished by rapidly
climbing up a tree. All versions agree in that the entity is short in
stature. Another resident added that it moved so quickly that it was hard
to describe it. In the same area mysterious cattle mutilations have also
been reported.

HC addendum
Source: Loren Coleman in UFO UpdatesType: E


48.
Location. Ojo De Agua, Argentina
Date: June 2002
Time: afternoon
Several passengers onboard two farm micro buses reported seeing a very tall=

dark man like figure that appeared to be wearing a tight fitting diver's
outfit standing on a nearby field. Nearby numerous mysterious animal
mutilations have been reported. The figure was silent and was quickly lost=

from sight as the buses moved away.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E




49.
Location. Near Tampa, Florida
Date: June 2002
Time: night
A man and three of his friends reported encountering two bizarre chupacabra=

type creatures one stood about 3-4 ft tall, the other looked to be about 6=

ft tall. Both had large glowing red eyes and spikes starting from the head=

to the back. They scurried away into a wooded area. (They were to have
further encounters in August).

HC addendum
Source: Art Bell.comType: E


50.
Location. Antalya, Turkey
Date: June 5 2002
Time: afternoon
Approximately 45 witnesses claimed they saw an UFO in the Santral district=

landing on the backyard of the Fatma Primary School. Several students
including Murat Esici age 11 saw an alien emitting red rays from his eyes
come out of the object. His hands and feet were metallic. He had a very big=

head and was about 1.80 meters in height. Esici temporarily lost her voice=

immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also=

claimed they san an unusual craft and an alien beside it. "His eyes and
hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes." The children
were overcome with shock after the incident.

HC addendum
Source: Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center Intl
Type: B


51.
Location. Polonnauruwa, Sri Lanka
Date: June 8 2002
Time: 2200
Approximately 50 to 70 eyewitnesses saw a UFO flying at about 100 meters
above ground level. The object was silent and briefly landed emitting a
bright flash like light. When it was close to the ground the object emitted=

a buzzing sound. Three other witnesses saw three 2 ft tall creatures than
when approached ran into the jungle and disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Sources
Type: D


52.
Location. Polonnaruwa, Sir Lanka
Date: June 9 2002
Time: 2012
Two witnesses went to a bath on a nearby river when they heard a loud
thundering sound and a UFO appeared. The craft landed nearby and two, 2 ft=

tall "aliens" emerged from the object. One of the humanoids flung a small
fluorescent fireball like object that flew over a house and vanished. Soon=

the craft and humanoids disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC & News Reports
Type: B



53.
Location. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Date: June 10 2002
Time: 1900
Witnesses saw a mysterious light in the sky and others saw a large disc
shaped object land nearby. Three humanoids only about 2 ft tall emerged
from the craft and disappeared into the forest when approached. The object=

also left.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Reports
Type: B


54.
Location. Chantilly, Virginia
Date: June 10 2002
Time: night
The witness was awakened during the night with a sense of some presence in=

the room. Looking toward the door, he saw, fading quickly, something, which=

almost had the appearance of a hologram. Next, shadows appeared outside the=

windows in an erratic shape. At first he thought the shadows to be from
trees moving in a strong wind. The appearance was of a storm blowing the
limbs to create these shadows outside the window. However, there was no
storm. He looked at the adjacent window on the side of the house facing
opposite and there was no wind at all. In fact there was no trees
positioned in such a way to cast a shadow. He opened the blinds to see what=

might be causing the shadows. He then saw what seemed to be a hologram with=

the shape of two small eyes moving erratically outside the window.
Frightened he closed the blinds. Two weeks later he was awakened by a
humming sound and again saw the erratic shadows outside the window. He
watched the shadows for 10-15 minutes and then called the police. The
police found no signs of any intrusion in the yard. When the police left
the witness walked toward the door facing the back porch and saw a large
burst of bluish white light. It looked unnatural, almost like a laser. He
has not seen the "shadows" again.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: E?


55.
Location. Ataliva Roca, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 11 2002
Time: 1930
A worker at a local drainage project was sitting and guarding some
machinery when he noticed a short greenish colored humanoid figure that was=

approaching his location from a nearby field. The witness became concerned=

and drove away from the area in the construction equipment and did not see=

the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


56.
Location. Eduardo Castex, La Pampa Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Two girls of a local school encountered a short greenish humanoid figure in=

the playing yard. The figure was standing up and appeared to be raising its=

arms up to the sky. Terrified the two girls retreated into the school and
watched the figure scurry away into some nearby woods. Around the same time=

a local farmer found a strangely mutilated hog in his farm.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


57.
Location. Chasico, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Hugo Deluca and several other workers were parked in a bus in an isolated
area when they spotted about 20 meters away a short, 1.20 meters tall,
bipedal figure completely covered in gray hair. It walked upright like a
man and then scurried away into some woods vanishing from sight. The area
had been hit with animal mutilations around the same time.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


58.
Location. Castex, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 13 2002
Time: night
A 70-year old man had gone to his driveway to check on a flat tire in his
car when a short light green colored humanoid suddenly appeared next to
him. It had large round ears, and two reddish luminous eyes. Its body was
thin and almost triangular in shape. The witness attempted to yell out but=

was suddenly unable to speak and at the same time strange warmth invaded
his body. Several seconds later the humanoid vanished and the witness
returned to normal. He reported the incident to the police.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


59.
Location. La Laguna, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 14 2002
Time: afternoon
Several youngster had gone into the fields in order to obtain some firewood=

when they saw sitting on a clearing in the woods two human like figures,
all dressed in black. They sat facing each other, one looking towards the
east the other towards the west, unmoving. Unnerved by the sight the
juveniles ran from the area. The next day the father of one of the boys
found two dead cows at the site, but could find no trace of the strange
pair. Days later a sheep and a horse were found dead and strangely
mutilated in the nearby location of El Cardonal.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: E


60.
Location. De Kalb, Illinois
Date: June 15 2002
Time: 0030A
The witness was sitting in his family room watching TV when he noticed a
bright flash of light outside the window. He saw the flash several times
and decided to check his backyard there he saw a circular light moving
around in circles. The light began to get closer; scared he ran inside his=

home and called a friend on the phone. He then quickly ran outside and saw=

the circle getting closer, he noticed that it had a purplish color to it
and it began to descend towards the ground. He became nauseous and dizzy
and collapsed on to the ground. He tried to crawl to the house but was
unable to move. He turned his head and saw the purplish object on the
ground and what appeared to be a door opening up. He then heard a squeaking=

noise and saw a tall and a short figure standing by a door of the object.
The two figures started to move towards him, walking in a strange bopping
fashion. They were of a dark complexion with a bumpy texture, other than
that they resembled normal human beings. The shorter figure approached and=

picked up the witness' camera and stared at it. He then looked at the
taller figure and handed it to him. The taller of the two looked at the
camera and then at the witness. The witness then heard loud unpleasant
shrieks coming from the taller figure, which then gave the camera back to
the shorter figure, which covered the camera with his hand, seconds later a=

light began to emerge from their hands. Then they stopped, threw the camera=

aside and began to walk towards the witness. They reached his side and
started to examine his body. A dog began to bark from inside the house and=

the shorter figure put out his hand and the dog stopped barking. At this
point the witness began to vomit. After about a minute he began to relax
and to breathe better. When he turned his head he realized that the two
figures and the purple spherical object were now gone. The next day he had=

a very severe headache.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: B


61.
Location. San Juan, Argentina
Date: June 20 2002
Time: evening
At a location where the body of a strangely mutilated carcass of a cow was=

found two witnesses reported seeing a small creature with large glowing
slanted eyes and about one meter in height. Later in the same area, members=

of the Gimenez family after investigating noises and a strong odor coming
from a wooded area found a mutilated cow and also watched a short humanoid=

with glowing eyes scurrying away into the woods.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


62.
Location. Manuel Rodriguez, Calama, Chile
Date: June 22 2002
Time: after midnight
A bizarre creature was spotted at a local housing complex on San Antonio
Street. Witnesses reported that it resembled an ape and it jumped all over=

the roof. It passed right in front of the witness, Maria Gavia's window and=

then it came back making all manner of noise. The creature was able to make=

very long jumps, unlike any a human could. It jumped and landed on the
neighbor's roof and then it left the area. Neighborhood dogs acted scared
and began howling. Others described the creature as about 1.5 meters tall,=

stocky in build with bright red eyes. It made a lot of noise. Others
reportedly chased the creature.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center, quoting El
Mercurio de CalamaType: E


63.
Location. Angencia Realico, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 23 2002
Time: late night
Several hunters returning to a local ranch spotted about 50 meters away two=

large glowing reddish eyes staring at them. They turned off their
flashlight and approached closer on foot, about 30 meters away they again
saw the reddish eyes on a dark creature that appeared to be standing on top=

of an apparently dead animal. One of the hunters shone its flashlight on
the figure again and saw a figure about 40 cm in height that quickly ran
from the area at very high speed. The creature disappeared into the brush.=

At the scene, a dead and mutilated young heifer. Other mutilations were
reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


64.
Location. Rancul, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 25 2002
Time: 2020
Two young men, Nestor Pinto and Daniel Gatica were walking on a field when=

they encountered a short man-like figure with huge pointy ears and long
dangling arms standing near some brush. The figure scurried into the brush=

and disappeared and at the same time the two witnesses ran away from the
area and did not see the strange dwarf again.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


65.
Location. Bavaria, Germany (exact location not given)
Date: June 25 2002
Time: night
The witness had stayed up late watching the soccer game as was in his
bedroom when suddenly there was a coldness around him that made him shiver.=

He noticed that his audio capabilities were somehow enhanced and he was
able to hear sounds that previously he was unable to hear. He then heard a=

noise outside his door and went out to investigate. The noise became louder=

as he approached the door. He then heard footsteps and opened the door. A
very small man with a somewhat deformed body that was smiling at him
confronted the witness. He looked straight ahead and then stared at the
witness. His next memory was of waking up in his bed in the morning.

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.com
Type: E


66.
Location. Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2105
The primary witness had stepped out on his back porch when his attention
was drawn to two huge black "birds" which were approaching from the north.=

His first impression was they were Herons, but soon realized that the color=

was wrong, and "they were huge, much larger than any bird I have ever
seen." The two huge birds landed at the top of a very tall coniferous tree.=

The witness stated that the wingspan appeared to be wider than the
branches, jest below where they had landed. The body size was estimated to=

be about six feet from head to tail. The oddest feature was the shape of
the wings, which according to the witness appeared to be bat-like. The tree=

where the "birds" landed seemed as though it would break from their weight.=

The witness yelled for others in the house to come outside to look. Another=

family member was able to see the huge black birds as they passed overhead,=

and headed for some woods. After checking the size of the branches where
the birds had landed, the witness estimated that the wingspan would have
been close to 12 feet or somewhat larger.

HC addendum
Source: Stan GordonType: E


67.
Location. Marldon Hill, Paington, England
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2357
A couple were walking near a local historic monument (a windmill) and they=

drew closer to monument they heard a low whirling noise. The noise
progressed to a high-pitched whining, almost out of hearing range. Then
they saw a mysterious glow coming from the dark side of the windmill, and
then to their astonishment they saw 5 or 6 shadow like figures standing in=

front of the windmill. Startled the two began to run back towards the main=

road. The woman looked back and saw the figures become engulfed by a bright=

light and disappear, and then everything became quiet.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Sightings UKType: E?


68.
Location. Adelia Maria, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 3 2002
Time: 2100
Pedro and Estela Moine had decided to visit the business district of town
called Barrio Norte and crossed the old railroad yard through a pedestrian=

pathway that ran through a pasture area between some silos, old railroad
depots and abandoned wreckage. As the couple moved through the premises
they suddenly became aware of a strange and incomprehensible conversation
between many voices. Startled, they stopped walking moved a few meters more=

and then heard the voices again which now sounded like strange "O" sounds.=

Pedro looked toward the silos and was able to see resembling humanoid but
lacking upper and lower extremities. Despite the pleas of his wife, Pedro
ran several meters toward an inner alley in the silo plant, being able to
make out some 45 meters to the west and in profile---the entity, which
acting surprised, avoided the encounter and moved again to the north.
However, what filled the witnesses with wonderment was that the creature
did so as though flying or floating without touching the facilities it
passed. Pedro and Estela ran after it. It was thus that the man managed to=

see the entity apparently hiding behind the control room of the truck
scale. Pedro ran toward it and was again startled to see the apparition
rising as a plane taking off, flying at an altitude of 5 meters and
disappearing behind a large metal shed. Bewildered, both witnesses called
out, but were unable to see anything else. Pedro Moine as "a thing with
human shape" described the apparition. It had some sort of light, although=

he could not say if reflected or self-generated, although he tends to
believe the latter, since it was a nebulous whitish light, which kept him
from making out details. The entire mass of the apparition appeared to be a=

body covered from head to toe in some sort of mantle, which he described as=

though it wore a hat, but covered with some kind of long raincoat reaching=

down to what he took to be its feet. He added that the "conversational
sounds" repeated themselves in three separate occasions at various
intensities. They were like conversations in a strange language.

HC addendum
Source: Mario Luis Bracamonte, C.O.R, Rio Cuarto Argentina
Type: E


69.
Location. Jerusalem, Israel
Date: July 6 2002
Time: night
A remote TV camera picked up images of "orbs seen on the corner to the
right of the Wailing Wall." They seemed to have facial features almost like=

a ghost, reported investigator Charlotte LeFevre. The orbs were described
as "sharp and distinct". The orbs were next to the women's prayer area in
front of the Wall. Other strange phenomena, has been reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 29Type: F?


70.
Location. Villa Elisa, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: July 13 2002
Time: 2300
A young woman fainted from nervous shock after having an alleged closed
encounter with "some sort of green dwarf". This occurred---enveloped in
darkness---along Misioneros Salesianos Street very close to several houses.=

An ambulance was called and apparently transported the witness who was in
shock.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria ColuchiType: E


71.
Location. Patna, India
Date: July 21 2002
Time: night
Several residents claim they've been bitten or scratched by a "black
monkey-like creature with colored lights flashing from its eyes." Resident=

Pawan Kumar Niyogi who was sleeping on the terrace of his house claims "a 5=

ft tall monkey-like creature" attacked him. He said: "I was terrified and
thought my life was going to end but it merely scratched me on the shoulder=

before jumping off the roof." Local residents are conducting night vigils
and carrying torches to guard their homes.

HC addendum
Source: Ananova, Ufoupdates. Type: E


72.
Location. Chajan, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 21 2002
Time: 2300
Police officer Guillermo Arias was on routine patrol through a rural area
when he heard over the radio that his colleagues in arms over at Achiras
were seeing lights in sectors of said community, and that they were heading=

towards Chajan along National Route 8. At the wheel of the police patrol
van, he managed to see a formation of 7 lights in the distance and decided=

to drive 10 km along a rural dirt road. When he had covered said distance,=

he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine of his vehicle sputtered=

and died, causing the police car to strike the edge of a guardrail.
Simultaneously, the lights on the van's dashboard began turning on and off=

randomly, the police radio went haywire and its dial displayed the random
shifting of the frequencies while the cabin became filled with an acrid
odor, as though of burnt wiring, and the interior lights and stop
indicator, which were broken, began lighting on and off. Seized by fear,
Arias leaped from the van and walked away a few meters down the road,
losing his cellular phone in the escape. The darkness was total, when
suddenly, amid the confusing situation; an immense light emerged from a
field adjacent to the road as a triangular object rose majestically into
the air. Now Arias condition went from fear to abject terror as he saw what=

he described as a real "floating city" some 200 meters long with a long row=

of windows (perhaps as many as 100). Arias claims having seen something
move behind them, describing the movement as "TV sets which make lines and=

shadows", which he defined as "non-human", and that many beams of light
came out of the giant triangle, aimed at the ground. The event lasted 2-3
seconds, but to Arias it felt like an eternity. The object suddenly rose
and sped away, vanishing behind the hills of a local field. As the object
moved away, the whole area was lit up like daytime and there was an
afterglow that lasted another 20 minutes.

HC addendum
Source: C.O.R., Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense, Argentina
Type: A


73.
Location. Waconia, Minnesota
Date: July 26 2002
Time: 0300A
The young witness was sleeping in the backyard with his sister when he
suddenly woke up. He then noticed that the side of the tent that faced the=

wetlands and lake was lit up. Looking towards the light he saw a shadowy
torso and arm of a humanoid figure that seemed to be moving around within
the light. He watched for 30 seconds and saw the figure move the fingers of=

his hands. The witness became frightened and hid in his sleeping bag. He
came out about an hour later and the light and strange figure were
completely gone.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


74.
Location. Sedona, Arizona
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 0310A
In a wooded area the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all
white, with black "straight" eyes; and black diagonal/diamond strip of
"clothing" on top. He stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then
left. Prior to seeing the figure the witness had seen lights in a large
oval shaped pattern in the sky.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


75.
Location. Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 1730
Three girls had decided to visit the rooftop as they did the prior evening=

watching for satellites. It was dusk and the girls had a good vantage point=

looking towards the east. With them they had a pair of binoculars and a
pair of walkie-talkies. The girls noticed that a large orange light
appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The anomaly
was noted to have fluctuated in colors of orange, yellow, white and pale
blue. At fist they thought of an arriving airplane, but then a second light=

appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10=

degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some=

unusually maneuvering; from a stationary position it accelerated at least 5=

degrees closer to the ground surface at an approximate 45-60 degree angle
within a matter of a single second. The first anomaly then began to move
slowly towards the north. At this stage they partially lost view of it as
it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley-like
region of the horizon. According to the witnesses, this third object
appeared to have "landed" on the ground surface. The object was then viewed=

through the binoculars and presented in great detail; the object was
described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange,=

blue/purple and white rotating around the rim. Thy also noted the trees
being slightly illuminated by this extraordinary phenomenon. They were
suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, "Identify
yourself." This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in a
foreign language. Around 1830 the girls were then called down to have
dinner. At about 2030 the girls re-established their places on the roof
after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still
present. Unexpectedly a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above
the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. "It
was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away." The=

light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it=

is not clear how one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became
extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed
her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not=

sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another of the girls woke up
the next morning with her nose bleeding. She also mentioned that she had
seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom.

HC addendum
Source: The Australian UFO Research NetworkType: D or
F?



76.
Location. Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 29 2002
Time: early morning
Local residents have seen a strange figure, which they described as
resembling a "shroud". The apparitions, which always occur in the early
morning hours, have become so common that in recent days several neighbors=

have stayed up late to see them, and it is thus that they were able to
confirm the simultaneous presence of up to 2 such beings, as well as red
lights flying over the area. All the witnesses whether individuals or in a=

group, agree that the entities are nebulous and glowing, with a pair of red=

eyes being clearly identifiable, and glassy faces (as if transparent).
Their movements are smooth and they always appear from behind the sand
dunes, as though "coming form the Naval Base." Most witnesses agree that
they show a great interest in the water tanks located above the roofs, and=

that they do not flee upon detecting the presence of local
residents---rather, they stare at them fixedly for some minutes. Deep
silence is perceived during the observations and "the air appears to become=

still" and neither heat nor cold can be felt---only a sensation of warmth,=

as if the beings emanated heat. Witnesses also state that things appear to=

be darker when "the shroud" appears, as though ambient lighting were
dimmed. Another curious fact is the large number of cats and dogs who
report to the place where the sightings occur and sit down to observe it in=

silence, in a state resembling a trance. A series of semi-circular prints
have been found in the dunes, not very deep, with 15-20 cm separations in
some cases and 30-50 cm in others. The locals have identified them as the
strange being's footprints. Efforts have been made to photograph the
"shroud", but all images, despite the use of different cameras appear
exposed. One witness who approached the site to witness the phenomenon took=

two photos of the prints in the afternoon and decided to stay with the
group of people hoping to see the "shroud", managing to take some photos of=

same and record the new prints which appeared in the dunes after the
sighting. A completely uncommon print was found at the site---but the
residents aren't sure if it's related to the phenomenon: it has the shape
of a five-fingered claw. One witness tried to make use of his carbine's
telescopic sight to see the figure in greater detail, but "when he tried to=

focus on it, he could see nothing_it was a though it could only be seen
with the unaided eye."

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, IHU, Christian Quintero and O A Mario
Proyecto Condor
Type: C or E?


77.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 30 2002
Time: 0530A
27-year old Mariela Baigorri reported seeing a strange figure that floated=

in front of her house. She had woken up early that morning and was getting=

ready to mount her bicycle when she saw behind the fence something floating=

in mid-air. It appeared to be a figure wearing a flowing white transparent=

tunic, with bright red eyes and undefined facial features. Feeling no fear=

she decided to approach it. She felt as if the figure waited for her and
was observing her. At this point Mariela felt some fear and began reciting=

the Lord's Prayer. The figure suddenly moved back and disappeared in plain=

sight.

HC addendum
Source: Juan Carlos Corrales Morey, Vision Ovni, Argentina
Type: E


78.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 31 2002
Time: 1845
23-year old Julian Pereyra was in his vehicle when he observed two red
spheres flying slowly over some nearby woods, they seemed to descend and
disappear behind the trees. 15 minutes later, Pereyra, accompanied by
several other witnesses approached the area and observed what they
described a tall floating figure wearing a white glowing cape like outfit,=

it seemed to glide silently over a field. It had what appeared to be a
visor at face level and two beams of red light emerged from where the eyes=

would have been. The witnesses watched the strange figure glide over the
fields for about 30 minutes. Curiously numerous local dogs and cats
approached and also watched the figure in fascination. The lights and
figure disappeared into the distance. In another occasion Pereyra and some=

of his family members encountered the strange humanoid and felt a strange
sensation as if the wind had suddenly stopped, they felt as they were
inside a vacuum or "bubble." Strange tracks have been reportedly found in
the area also.

HC addendum
Source: Diario La Nueva Provincia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Type: C?


79.
Location. La Cienaga, Pocri, Panama
Date: early August 2002
Time: night
Luis Alfredo Diaz reported hearing loud noises coming from the terraced
patio where the kitchen was located, going to investigate he found his cat=

apparently dead with two obvious holes on the neck and some blood on the
floor. Before finding the cat he had called his wife, Maria de Los Santos
Barrios. As his wife stood in front of him a panic stricken look came over=

her face, turning around he was confronted by a bizarre 1-meter tall
humanoid that had jumped to the center of the patio. The creature was
described as thin, covered with dark hair, with large pointed ears that
almost covered its face, it had very large eyes and extremely strong hind
legs resembling that of a kangaroo. Terrified he ran to his son's bedroom
and carried him outside yelling for his neighbors. A search failed to
locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Panamanian Paranormal Forum
Type: E


80.
Location. Near Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Date: August 2002
Time: night
The same witness involved in a similar encounter last year was again
camping in the same area when he again heard a noise. Shining the light in=

the direction of the sound he again saw the same creature. The creature sat=

there crouched by the trees staring at the witness. The witness walked
slowly towards it, he got to within 20 ft when it just jumped backward and=

disappeared. He described the creature as about five to six ft in height,
gray in color. It was totally naked. It had human features, but more
leathery, and its face was very wide, its eyes were huge and even though
they reflected light, they still looked black, resembling two intensely
black marbles. Its legs were very muscular, but turned backwards, like a
bird. Other hikers in the area have reported encountering little brown men=

on some of the more isolated trails.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal Story Archives, November 2002Type: E


81.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: August 1 2002
Time: late evening
64-year old Raul Dorado was touring some fields when he heard a loud sound=

on two occasions, like a whirlwind, which drew his attention. The third
time he saw something he describes as a green circle with three legs
hovering over him. At that moment Dorado fell to the ground, and according=

to his story, he carried a shotgun, binoculars and a cellular phone, the
latter, which was taken from his hand, and he could clearly see being
sucked into the object, which was apparently at low altitude. His next
recollection was seeing the object disappear toward the east. Dorado
remained at the location for an hour before being able to rise and walk
back to his car, returning to town in a state of shock. He had to be
hospitalized. Later when calls were placed to the (abducted) cellular phone=

someone would pick up and heavy breathing could be heard. Later on the
phone was apparently disconnected.

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, quoting Diario La Arena, La PampaType: G?


82.
Location. Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Date: August 2 2002
Time: 1730
A man named Todd Sees went up the mountain to look for pre-season deer. He=

told his wife that he would be home by noon. He rode his 4-wheeler up the
power line behind his home. He never returned. A search party composed of
local police, state police and volunteers searched for Sees. The 4-wheeler=

was found on the top of the mountain near a power-line. Tracking dogs could=

find nothing to go on around the 4-wheeler. The search went on for 2 days
and over 6 miles of mountain was covered from top to bottom. Then, in the
evening of the 2nd day, his body was found in a hard to reach wooded area.=

He was wearing his underwear. He was emaciated---not bloated. He was pale
and had an expression of horror on his face. When he went up the mountain
he was fully dressed, boots, camo-vest, hat, socks, pants. 3 people, on one=

farm, said they saw a large round bright object just above the power-lines=

at the time of the disappearance. It was silent, it did not move for about=

10 to 15 minutes. It suddenly went up and suddenly stopped. A light shone
down and something was pulled up into the light. It then went straight up,=

hesitated again, and then went west over the Susquehanna River and out of
sight. More specifically a farmer saw an object above Montour Ridge at the=

power lines, on top of the mountain, it was round and very still over the
lines. Suddenly it moved what looked like a few hundred feet to the east,
it stopped and a beam of blue and white light shone to the ground. What was=

seen next was very unnerving, he saw what appeared to be a man suspended in=

the light, he was being pulled up head first, he was moving his arms slowly=

in the light. What looked like a man was pulled up into the bottom of the
craft. A few seconds later it started shuddering, then went west very fast,=

stopped briefly, and then went straight up and out of sight. Also three
fishermen saw the craft. The FBI is supposedly also investigating. (Debated=

as a hoax, who would? and for what purpose?).

HC addendum
Source: Rense, UFO updates, NUFORCType: G?






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                            2002 Humanoid Reports

From: Albert Rosales <Garuda79@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:32:05 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:14:40 -0500
Subject: 2002 Humanoid Reports


Happy new year everyone

Sincerely,

Albert

-----

2002 Humanoid Reports. It appears to be a slow start for this
year with only one recorded case, again from Chile. We will see
what develops later on the year. 2001 was pretty busy but it was
a decline from 2000. Maybe we will see another down trend again,
later to pick up again in the near future. This seems to be the
ever-ongoing trend of the phenomena. Will it always stay the
same? Time will tell. Following is a list of known 2002 humanoid
cases.


1.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: January 2002
Time: 0300A
An employee at the local Minera Escondida was on his way to the
storage freezer in order to pick up some supplies when an
unknown creature jumped him from behind. He could only describe
it as hairy and dark. He was left with deep scratches and in a
state of shock. Terrified he ran away and bumped into two other
employees who were able to see a shadowy creature in the dark.

HC addendum
Source: La Estrella del Loa de Calama, ChileType: E


2.
Location. Caracas, Venezuela
Date: January 2002
Time: late night
Late one night in a dream-like state the witness woke up to see
seven to eight strange figures in her bedroom. They were dark
gray in color and very thin, with three large thick long fingers
on their hands. They had large, lipless mouths and large shiny
protruding black eyes, their noses were thin and protruding,
small ears, the heads was large and pointy. The humanoids
appeared to be naked and she was able to see a penis on the
humanoids. They were about 1.55 meters in height. She felt dizzy
and under the control of the strange entities. She was led out
of her bedroom by one of the humanoids that removed her clothing
and made her lie down on the floor. The humanoids apparently
attempted to molest her sexually and possibly attempted to rape
her but were not successful. She apparently passed out and does
not remember anything else about the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Lista Alcione and witness communicationType: E


3.
Location. Fort McMurry, Alberta, Canada
Date: January 2 2002
Time: 2032
Two men were parked on an isolated dirt road when they spotted a
large cone-shaped object descend and hover. One of the men
exited the car and he vanished in plain sight of the other, the
craft then also disappeared. The other man tried to drive away
to get help but the car would not start and it was to cold to
walk. He soon went to sleep and woke up later to find his friend
sleeping next to him. Later they drove back to town. His friend
does not remember what happened during those two hours of
missing time. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


4.
Location. Paso Lovera, Corrientes, Argentina
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2030
Gabriela Lencinas, 15-year old and a 19-year old friend were
returning home on a bicycle when they spotted a large cloud like
object descend from the sky and from it a giant figure emerge.
The witnesses stopped their bicycles to see a car approach the
giant figure, stop, the driver exit the car and then re-entering
the vehicle and driving quickly away. The figure then rose up
into the cloud and disappeared. The girls reported that the
giant human-like figure had its hair standing up on his head and
was extending its arms towards the witnesses that quickly rode
their bicycles home. Other in the area reported seeing bright
lights that same night.

HC addendum
Source: Pablo Omastott
Type: B?


5.
Location. Villa San Rafael, Chile
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2345
Two young teenagers, Jean F and Nelson C, where at home at night
when Jean noticed that his pet snake had escaped from its cage.
Both boys began looking for it outside among the rubble of the
parcel. They recalled how half an hour before, their two dogs
strangely began to howl and cry; however, it did not seem to be
important at that point in time. They searched for the pet snake
together when suddenly, about 30 meters from where they stood;
they saw what appeared to be a stray dog. They threw rocks at to
avoid an attack. However, to their surprise, the animal stood
there, motionless and fearless; it did not get scared nor it ran
away as ordinary dogs normally do. Shortly, the strange animal
began to move towards them. The movements it made as it walked
were very strange. It used two legs at a time. It made very
small sand short leaps like a rabbit. Suddenly, it stopped and
it stood up on two legs. The teenagers then began to feel some
kind of energy. "It was like an electrical shock in the
stomach," they said. It later walked again making a loud
dragging noise, making small leaps and only moving one of its
legs. They noticed the weird shape of the animal. "It was like a
rugby football with legs," one of them said. Jean began to feel
frightened and started to move away from animal. On the other
hand, Nelson felt a strange need to get closer to the creature;
he got to within 2 meters away from it. The creature appear to
emit a strange luminosity that apparently, was bright enough to
lit a small area around the creature in spite of the nighttime
darkness. Nelson was mesmerized as he stared at the strange
creature. He described it as having a head like a large dog with
a flat nose like a bulldog. Its eyes were slanted and pale-red
in color, which could only be seen when the creature turned its
head from side to side like a lizard. At that moment, Nelson
heard a voice in his head saying, "Don't stare, and just run
away." They provided further description, describing the ears as
flat, round and large. Its arms were short, it had elbows, and
the hands had three fingers. It had hair like the one on a wild
pig. Its legs were like the ones of a goat. The feet had also
three fingers and a membrane like ducks, but somewhat shorter.
On its curved back, they were able to notice a spinal section
covered with amounts of even thicker hair. Most of the hair of
the animal was gray, but the tail had a white tip. Nelson
finally fled, terrified, from the area. He also described how he
felt an inexplicable bone-chilling cold sensation.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center
Type: E


6.
Location. Not given
Date: January 12 2002
Time: night
Ted Parker was eating some leftover food when he claims the food began to
change. The bread of the sandwich turned an orange color and the lamb
became a silvery metallic color, sort of like liquid mercury. As he watched=

transfixed, he saw the orange bread and metallic lamb turn into the figure=

of an "alien" with the form of a man. It was silver in color and its outfit=

(smooth pants and shirt, like a jump suit) was orange in color. At this
point Parker glanced at the wall clock and it indicated that 2 hours had
gone by, even though it felt like minutes only. The alien figure
communicated using telepathic means and asked Ted to come with him. They
both went outside and there, Ted saw a landed black-colored craft in his
backyard. In a split second Ted found himself inside the craft not knowing=

how he got there. The inside of the craft was pure white in color with
strips of the metallic silver that the alien figure appeared to be made of.=

The rest of the incident is just a blur, but Parker did remembered hearing=

several loud high-pitched rings while onboard the object. A couple of days=

before while eating dinner with several other people there had been a
similar high pitched ring and everybody had just stopped eating and walked=

out of the room.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: G or F?



7.
Location. Chihuahua, Mexico
Date: January 29 2002
Time: night
Several days before seeing a UFO the witness remembered being in a
dream-like state in which he felt very calm and saw numerous disc shaped
objects, orange-red in color. A human like figure was talking to him about=

the objects and their propulsion. The UFO he saw was of an orange color and=

he felt a sort of ecstasy when he observed the craft. Several of his
neighbors also saw the object.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: G or F?


8.
Location. Near Palmyra, Wisconsin
Date: February 2002
Time: 0200A
Two men reported seeing a creature that resembled a bipedal "gigantic wolf"=

walking down a road west of the city. They said the creature was at least 7=

ft tall with a wolf-like head. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Linda GodfreyType: E


9.
Location. West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
Nebilson Sangma reported encountering a scary furry creature on a hunting
trip in the jungles. He reportedly took a video of the creature's nesting
place. According to Sangma, the creature walked erect like a human, had
built a house like nesting place, and would emerge from it frequently to
feast on a banana grove. Sangma and his brother observed the gigantic
creature for three consecutive days from afar. Officials and villagers have=

been hunting for the creature in the forest but it seems to have
disappeared as furtively as it appeared.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 13
Type: E


10.
Location. Near Dover, England
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness had been jogging along a low path by the beach when she noticed=

a tall, well built being in a black skin tight suit, that stood watching
her from nearby. He wore a black helmet wit a brown visor pulled down. At
first she thought it was a biker but as she approached the figure, it
suddenly disappeared in plain sight. As she continued to run she noticed a=

black craft jutting out of the sand, it was small and oval shaped, matt and=

ribbed it also disappeared in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: E?


11.
Location. Rosario de la Frontera, Salta, Argentina
Date: February 2002
Time: night
A strange creature called by locals "El Pestizo" has attacked several lone=

pedestrians in the middle of the night. It is described as a dark man
shaped shadowy being. A boy riding his bicycle on the way to visit some
friends was toppled from his bicycle and found a black shadowy figure
facing him. The young man managed to upholster his shotgun and fire two
shots. But, when he saw that they had no effect, he promptly drew his knife=

and stabbed the figure without any apparent harm. Frightened the youth
tried to escape but the creature knocked him down without saying a word and=

began dragging him by the hair to the side of the road. At this point the
young man began to scream. A local man, who rushed to provide assistance,
only to find a black shadow dragging the boy by the hair, heard his cries.=

The fearful shape disappeared without a trace after it became aware of the=

other man's presence. Six other locals have reported being attacked by a
similar being and received wounds.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


12.
Location. Not given
Date: February 2002
Time: early morning
The witness was alone at home and was preparing his breakfast when suddenly=

he heard a window break; he went to see what had happened. Grabbing a golf=

club he peeked inside the room where the window broke. He was stunned to
see a strange creature climbing on his bed. It appeared to be hurt, because=

it seemed that it could not move well. Gripping the golf club he went a
step nearer and the creature hissed horribly. It shrieked in an unworldly
manner. Terrified the witness did not move. The creature was small, about
the size of a large rabbit, and it was dark in color and had reddish eyes.=

It had wings and a spine of quills on its back, and had a semi reptilian
face. It appeared to have hair and small legs. The witness raised the golf=

club and the creature hissed again showing its large yellowish teeth, which=

appeared to be sharp, like those of a crocodile. It suddenly hopped out of=

the window and rapidly hopped across the street into the oak trees.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June archiveType: E


13.
Location. Vigevano, Italy
Date: February 2002
Time: 0100A
In the outskirts of this city a witness observed from his vehicle a
luminous humanoid entity walking along a roadway. It scurried away into the=

darkness when approached.
No other information.

HC addendum
Source: CISU, ItalyType: E



14.
Location. Corguinho, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Date: February 5 2002
Time: night
During a localized UFO flap several witnesses reported seeing a strange
creature described as about 1.3 meters in height, having two legs, with a
physique like a human but who moved with a strange fluctuating motion. The=

creature was seen five times by twenty people in the rural zone around
Corguinho. In Rochedo, 6 miles south of Corguinho five Cebu cattle were
found dead with a single incision on the side of the throat. The bodies had=

been drained of blood. (Is there a connection?).

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


15.
Location. Mount Podbrdo, Bosnia Hercigovina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: morning
Contactee and stigmatic Giorgio Bongiovanni was visiting the shrine on top=

of the mountain and was praying silently to the Virgin when, to his
astonishment, a glowing luminous female figure appeared and touched his
forehead with her fingertips. His stigmata scar vanished instantly. The
female figure told him to return to Italy and make known what had happened.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 14
Type: E or F?


16.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: evening
73-year-old Maria Rufina Cayo, a local shepherd was walking back home with=

her dogs and the cattle. Suddenly at one point, something spooked the
animals, and these began to stampede. Looking around she spotted a bizarre=

creature standing about 12 meters away. She described it as a humanoid,
half animal, half human, about 1.70m in height, with bright red eyes, sharp=

protruding fangs, and hands and feet that ended in sharp claws. The
creature looked at the witness three times then it scrambled away using
quick jumping motions with is powerfully built hind legs, she also noticed=

large pointy ears. The top part of its body seems to have been covered in a=

shiny white blanket. It somehow resembled a centaur walking on two
claw-like feet.  Alerted by the shouts of Maria, two men, Santos Jaimes,
and Ruben Colque ran out to investigate with their dogs. Suddenly the dogs=

stopped and began making pitiful howling noises, they refused to move any
further. The men heard noises behind some nearby bushes and went to
investigate and spotted a bizarre creature that stood staring at them with=

huge reddish eyes. It then moved quickly away in the direction of Cerro
Negro and disappeared from sight. The witnesses noticed very sharp claws on=

the creature's feet with a very sharp claw that appeared to be pointed
backwards. Strange footprints were found the next day.

HC addendum
Source: El Tribuno, Salta Argentina March 27 2002
Also Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E



17.
Location. Khanpur, Ahmedabad, India
Date: February 20 2002
Time: after midnight
Several local residents reportedly have encountered a person, dressed in
black and wearing a mask. Dubbed the "Monkeyman" whom they described as
between 25 and 20 years of age, dark skinned and having curly hair can
reportedly be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees. Two
local youths chased it and the figure reportedly disappeared in plain
sight. The two youths have been behaving abnormally since then. The
stranger was also chased along the riverbed near the Cama Hotel and it also=

suddenly disappeared. Others have heard the stranger running on the
rooftops. Abdul Hamid another youngster of the local slums described the
figure as a tall lean man that carries a sharp weapon. "I saw him from the=

back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised the alarm, he jumped to=

another roof and then on to a tree." Police have searched for the stranger=

but nothing has been found.

HC addendum
Source: Fortean Times, India Express
Type: E


18.
Location. Prague, Czech Republic
Date: February 23 2002
Time: night
Blanka Slemendova was in her apartment when she saw a "ship" hovering over=

some nearby woods. It was shining red, white and yellow lights. She then
heard telepathic communication coming from the object telling her to go and=

meet them at an unspecified location. Looking over to her bedroom wall she=

saw what appeared to be a projection of human like faces looking at her.
Later that night she saw luminous figures in her room and a floating red
light also in her room. The next night she saw what appeared to be 2 gray
suns and around them a golden lights with numerous groups of shiny
human-like figures floating about. She interpreted these as being angels.

HC addendum
Source: Direct from witness (Slemendova)
Type: C & F?


19.
Location. Wycliffe Well Roadhouse, Northern Territory Australia
Date: early March 2002
Time: evening
While workers in the area watched unusual lights in the sky an aboriginal
woman encountered a triangular sort of object in a paddock and all of the
sudden she saw three silvery clad human like figures that began to move
toward her vehicle. She turned the vehicle around and took off.

HC addendum
Source: Lou Farcus ABC On-lineType: C


20.
Location. Near Canberra Australia
Date: March 2002
Time: 1700
Several friends were taking a trip to the coast and it was already very
dark. They had already entered a tropical forest area and there was a mist=

rolling along the ground. As they turned around they saw something
squatting in the middle of the road. It stared at them, and just as they
thought they were going to hit it, it leaped off the road and into the
trees. It leaped about 10 meters in the air. The creature was definitely
human looking although it wore strange clothes. It was dressed in a green
robe of some kind with little pieces of gold on it, and it was either
wearing a head crest or it had a row of spikes running from its forehead to=

the top of its neck. Very frightened the witnesses drove out of the forest=

and at the same time the mist turned to a thick fog. They pulled over and
decided to wait until the fog had cleared, although none of them were too
happy about it. As they sat around and waited they suddenly heard a shriek.=

It sounded like some sort of wild animal and they turned the car on so the=

headlights would scare it away. The headlights revealed the same creature
they had seen earlier. It hid its face from the light and shrieked. Right
before the witnesses' eyes, the creature seemed to evaporate into the fog.=

Within five minutes the fog had gone and the normal rolling mist was back.=

The witnesses quickly left the area and drove towards the coast.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June ArchiveType: E


21.
Location. Guanica Puerto Rico
Date: March 1 2002
Time: 2345
Reinaldo Rios (involved in other encounters) was in his bedroom that night=

when a large white light suddenly appeared. It flew around the room several=

times and then hovered. He heard voices coming from the light, which
communicated with him. The voice said: "I am your real father." Soon the
light transformed itself into a figure resembling that of a little boy it
then vanished in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: UFOs over America.com
Type: E


22.
Location. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 0800A
The witness and his wife were in bed that Saturday morning talking when
their 5-year-old daughter came into the bedroom with her baby brother,
whose cot is placed under their bedroom window. They heard a strange noise=

and some green light came into the window. Their daughter looked out the
window and reported seeing a "flying car" with four spinning green lights
on top. She saw two windows in the vehicle and saw two dark brown faces
looking out. His wife saw the craft flying past through the curtains. That=

same morning, in a large tree near the witness house a strange structure
was found. The branches were arranged in a rectangular pen shape, vertical,=

each approximately 30 to 40 cm long. They found a few smaller sticks
scaling down in size from the structure. A piece of concrete slab was found=

propped up on one corner. The witnesses had never seen this strange
structure before and think is some kind of message left by the visitors.
(Some kind of bizarre crop circle?). A few nights before they had heard
strange noises coming from the kitchen area.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: A


23.
Location. Golasecca Di Novara, Italy
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 2330
Augusto & Maurizia were in their vehicle parked in an open field next to a=

wooded area having a heated discussion when suddenly a powerful beam of
reddish-orange light illuminated the area around them. They rolled down the=

car window and heard a sharp metallic sound that seemed to be increasing in=

intensity. They now noticed, behind the beam of light a hovering
disc-shaped craft with a central rotating ring, it hovered about a meter
from the ground. From the object, a cigar-shaped beam of light emerged;
they could see it as the central ring of the craft slowly rotated on its
axis. The craft was only about 10 meters away. At this point, and only
about 4 meters from the object Augusto saw what appeared to be a gelatinous=

transparent humanoid-like figure with a visible head, arms and legs. The
figure was silvery in color and was very tall, about 3 meters or so. At
this point Augusto became concerned and drove away from the area and did
not see the object or figure depart. The whole episode lasted about 10
minutes. The metallic noise was heard all throughout the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Alfredo Lissoni, CUN Milano, Michelle Castellano CUN VareseType: C


24.
Location. Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England
Date: March 3 2002
Time: morning
Helen Diskin went for a walk in the countryside talking snap shots along
the way with her digital camera. Returning home she loaded these into her
computer and was intrigued by an odd-looking image. It looked like a
luminous figure in an area of no sunlight, skulking amongst the trees. She=

returned to the site of the photo twice afterward and could find no
explanation for the figure. The figure resembled a small helmeted figure
that she had not seen when she took the picture of an area of the woods she=

had thought of as "mysterious."

HC addendum
Source: Helen Diskin, UFO Magazine Vol. 22 # 1Type: E?


25.
Location. Near Trenton New Jersey
Date: March 4 2002
Time: night
Several witnesses were camping outside of town and late at night one of
them was attempting to put out the bonfire when he heard the most awful and=

horrifying scream. It resembled that of an injured dog crossed with a
scream of a woman. The witness dropped the flashlight and was joined by
another witness. Suddenly out of the woods a hideous and gruesome creature=

appeared. It did not look human, somewhat satyr-like in appearance and
walked on two legs. It had a long tail like a dragon and wings like those
unicorns in fantasy books. The beast took several steps towards the
witnesses and one of them picked up and asked and yelled at it and then
shone his flashlight at it. The creature then turned towards the bushes and=

ran away from the area.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: E


26.
Location. Pichaca, Salta, Argentina
Date: March 9 2002
Time: night
Ceferino Leoncio was cleaning his one room metal shack when suddenly a
bright light engulfed the room. He felt a sudden heat as he saw a tiny
figure (50 cm) of an angel-like creature materialize in front of him. It
slowly moved its small wing-like protrusions and moved around and then
suddenly stopped and remained still. It appeared to be a small living human=

like living being until it appeared to hardened and turn into some type of=

statue of cherubic appearance. Locals have now built a shrine around the
tiny "statue" and call the strange materialization a "religious miracle".

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso
Type: F?



27.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: March 16 2002
Time: 2215
Mirna, was watching television alone in her room when she began hearing
noises coming from outside, at first she thought it was her dogs playing
around with some empty cans. But the noises kept getting louder and louder=

and she decided to go outside to investigate. Once outside she was stunned=

to see some type creature that had somehow entered the rabbit cage and was=

attacking the animals that were making loud unearthly screams. Thinking at=

first that it was one of the dogs she approached the case but realized that=

it was a gray colored hairy hunched over creature, that was moving quickly=

inside the cage. She stepped back and could not understand how the creature=

had entered the cage, since there wasn't any apparent hole or aperture
visible anywhere and the door was firmly closed. Afraid she ran inside her=

home and notified her son, both then ran out but the creature had
mysteriously disappeared. Unnerved, they could not understand how they
creature had escaped since the door to the rabbit caged was still firmly
locked. Later they could only find a small round hole in the wire only
several centimeters in width, not large enough for a creature estimated to=

have been about 70 to 80 cm in height. Several of the rabbits were found
injured and one was dead.

HC addendum
Source: Calama UFO CenterType: E


28.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: March 19 2002
Time: 2000
Young Elizabeth Lera reported seeing a short humanoid with "dark eyes"
looking into the building compound from behind a wire fence. It appeared
not to have any other facial features and was wearing dark clothing; it
wore some type of head covering, which was hard to see because of the
darkness. She could only see a pair of large dark eyes on his face that
appeared to shine in the darkness. Some more children now arrived and
observed as the humanoid move several steps towards them. Another witness,=

Rene Mamani saw the humanoid run and hide behind some bushes. It seemed to=

move at very high speed in an unnatural fashion. It seemed to have remained=

suspended in mid-air for a few seconds. It then seemed to fly through the
air and disappeared into some nearby woods. Other students at the school
reportedly saw it again on the night of the 20th.

HC addendum
Source: Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E


29.
Location. Woodburn, Oregon
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 0300A
The witness was sleeping when she woke up suddenly feeling paralyzed. The
witness was completely unable to move or speak. Her next memory was of a
strange sensation on her left cheek, which hurt a lot. Unseen "beings" were=

apparently taking skin samples. Her face was left with a pink fleshy scoop=

down my left cheek, directly on the cheekbone. A teardrop scar was left on=

her cheek.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical Universe
Type: G?




30.
Location. Bethlehem, Israel
Date: March 21 2002
Time: night
At the besieged Church of The Nativity several awed witnesses have come
forward describing the events of Thursday night. That night, a smell of
roses filled the sanctuary as the Daughters of Charity held their evening
prayers. "The sweet scent was soon followed by a high musical humming sound=

and a distinct feeling of warmth emanating from the ceiling." Then, the
sisters reported, seeing a glowing beam of light gradually forming the
likeness of the Blessed Virgin "like a film coming into focus." Tears were=

running down her face, and she uttered a prophetic warning. "Time is
growing short, and the promised Judgment Day is nearly at hand." One week
before the apparition, The Church of the Holy Family was the scene of a
ferocious firefight between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 17Type: F


31.
Location. Not given
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 2255
16-year old Steven Mizon saw hovering over a street a large oval shaped
craft encircled in bright lights and with several lighted windows around
its edge. A figure stared down at him from one of the windows. No other
information.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Watch
Type: A



32.
Location. Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain
Date: March 26 2002
Time: 1500
A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a deserted road when=

he noticed ahead in the distance and in the middle of the roadway an object=

resembling a shiny pear that was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat
perplexed he approached and noticed two individuals standing on a nearby
field. These were over 2 meters in height, wore tight fitting white
coveralls and helmets resembling that of the early astronauts. He parked
his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men=

walked away and entered the shiny pear-shaped craft while the other
remained behind. Knowing that these men were "not from this earth" he still=

asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt that as
he approached the strange pair he had been in some type of a trance and
seemed to have floated over the road. The humanoid answered and appeared
genuinely happy as to his offer of assistance but said that everything was=

in order. He also added that the area was very beautiful and also added:
"Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such
beautiful scenes, they disappeared a long time ago." The astounded witness=

managed to ask the humanoid where he was from and was told that they hailed=

from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The=

humanoid smiled as he answered the question. The humanoid then bid goodbye=

and walked towards the nearby shiny pear shaped object, he then disappeared=

inside of it. The craft then emitted a loud whistling sound and disappeared=

at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the
humanoids as about 2.50 meters in height, wide chests and heavy set, thin
legs. Generally human features, but somewhat "refined" or sharpened
features. The suits were very tight fitting made of an apparent synthetic
material resembling plastic. Their eyes were very light almost white and
their speech was hesitant & accented. Also their movements seemed kind of
clumsy.

HC addendum
Source: J M Garcia, Francisco Padron, SpainType: B


33.
Location. Pringle Lake, Texas
Date: March 28 2002
Time: 1100A
Mark Hakemack and a friend had taken an airboat out on the NW side of the
lake to do a little redfish fishing. The day was kind of hazy, with broken=

cloud cover. They had caught several trout and were just chatting when he
hooked up a large redfish while playing with the fish, Mark happened to
glance upwards and saw a large bird-like creature emerge from a cloudbank.=

His friend saw it too, after about 20 to 25 seconds it flew behind cloud
cover again. The strange creature was grayish in color and the profile of a=

raptor, short neck/head, no legs sticking out behind, and no long tail
feathers. Mark could not take his eyes off it. He estimated the wingspan to=

have been 10' to 14 ' in overall. It appeared to be soaring on the wind,
although, he did see it give a couple of light "flaps" with its wings. The=

witness could only relate this to the legendary "Thunderbird" legend.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.comType: E


34.
Location. Sevilla, Spain
Date: March 30 2002
Time: late night
The witness to the March 26 case was at home with his wife and was getting=

ready to sleep when he heard footsteps coming from patio area outside his
chalet. Armed with a club, he opened the door and was stunned to see the
same two tall heavyset humanoids he had encountered 4 days before. One of
the humanoids was kneeling on the ground as if inspecting something on the=

soil, the other one upon hearing the door open, turned and quickly assured=

the witness not to fear that they were not here to harm him. Stunned, the
witness invited the two humanoids in the house for some refreshments (!).
These declined the invitation telling that they had to go already. Using
the same clumsy movements both humanoids walked towards the rear of the
house where the witness noticed the same shiny metallic pear shaped craft
on the ground. They entered the object, which quickly left at high speed.
The witness's wife awakened by the voices was able to see the two humanoids=

from a second story window, and described them in the same way.

HC addendum
Source: Francisco Padron, Jose Manuel Garcia, SpainType: B


35.
Location. Los Cipreses, Chile
Date: March 31 2002
Time: noon
During a local UFO congress 24 persons in three groups entered a
dimensional gateway that appeared by itself over the terrain. It was kind
of a dome, a luminous archway measuring four by four meters. The
participants lost their materiality without disappearing completely. Upon
entering, they met several human-like alien characters with large baldheads=

and wearing robes that waited within and received information. According to=

sources the contact experience was "dimensional" it was like crossing into=

a different reality. The 24 participants were "all professionals, college
students of high intellectual levels, mostly Chileans," and some were
members of Grupo Rama, a New Age association.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 16, quoting Camilo Valdivieto
Type: G or F?


36.
Location. Tbilissi Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: night
A man entered the local St David church and reported that "a phantom with
wings" had approached him and predicted an earthquake that indeed took
place on April 25 2002, devastating areas of central Georgia.

HC addendum
Source: Pravda
Type: E?


37.
Location. Near Macon, Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: 2300
Three friends were awakened by loud banging noises and bellowing sounds
coming from outside. One of the men ran to the bathroom and looked out the=

window to see a figure run by and squat in the nearby bushes. He described=

the creature as about 3 ft tall, hairy with what appeared to be horns on
its head and hands; he could not see a face. Others in the neighborhood
heard the banging noises.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.com and direct witness
Communication.
Type: E


38.
Location. Belvedere di Tezze, Italy
Date: April 26 2002
Time: evening
A 20-year old woman was returning home one night when she noticed some
bright lights nearby of an unknown origin. She followed the lights in her
car until she stopped near a local pizzeria. She saw the light near the
ground and within the lights two tall slender human like figures wearing
some type of headgear. Since she was carrying a camera she was able to snap=

a quick picture. The figures then vanished. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Gruppo Accademico Ufologico Scandicci quoting
"Il giornale di Vicenza"Type: E?


39.
Location. Puente Santamaria, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: early morning
Two young men observed a dark object descend towards the ground about 100
meters away. According to the two witnesses from the craft descended a
small humanoid, orange in color. Very scared they both ran from the area
and reported their experience to others.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: B


40.
Location. Merceditas, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: evening
An elderly couple was walking along National Route # 8 when about 800
meters from their location they noticed a very strong light. The light
descended next to a puddle at about 70 meters from the witness. Both then
saw two very short orange colored humanoids that moved in very agile
movements near the object. Terrified they walked away and upon looking back=

saw a bright glow on the ground.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: C


41.
Location. Barangay, Philippines
Date: May 2002
Time: night
Several local residents reported seeing a bizarre creature described as an=

"aswang" reputed to be a winged vampire type creature, it reportedly had
red glowing eyes, long black hair, and was wearing a white flowing gown. It=

was seen perched on top of a bamboo tree. Residents at nearby Roxas
reported seeing a similar creature. The police was called but a search
failed to locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Akasico.comType: E


42.
Location. Alvear, La Pampa Argentina
Date: May 3 2002
Time: near midnight
Several young men were returning home late at night along a deserted
roadway when suddenly out of nowhere a female figure wearing a light
flowing gown and with long black hair appeared in front of them. The
strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly and repeatedly asked for=

assistance from the men in a strange urgent tone. Terrified the men ran
from the area and later returned with additional witnesses but they could
find no trace of the strange apparition.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E?


43.
Location. Taralgon Victoria, Australia
Date: May 24 2002
Time: 2355
Walking near the Loy Yang Power station 45-year old Martin Taylor was
suddenly blinded by an intense blue light and he felt extremely dizzy. His=

next memory was of being in a circular room with a variety of lights and
buttons scattered about the walls. He was lying on a large table that
seemed to be of a very highly polished metal. He was strapped down and his=

shirt had been removed. There were wires attached to his arms, neck and
temples. A four ft tall humanoid figure with very large almond shaped eyes,=

almost transparent looking skin, ghostly white in appearance examined him.=

The figure had three extremely long fingers on each hand and spoke in a
strange dialect.

HC addendum
Source: UFO WatchType: G


44.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: May 29 2002
Time: midnight
Irma Rick watched a rotating luminous object descend close to the ground
next to a grain silo; it gave off a powerful bluish light through some
openings around its circumference. It hovered close to the ground. Through=

an opening a strange creature was seen to descend to the ground. It was
described as having an elongated semi-transparent white body; it also had
an elongated head. She could not see any eyes or legs on the creature as it=

stood motionless next to the craft. She observed the creature and object
for about 5 minutes until she dropped the flashlight she was carrying.
Afraid she left the area and did not see the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: B



45.
Location. Lembang Bandung, Indonesia
Date: May 30 2002
Time: 2315
The witness was driving his motorcycle across a highland area when he
spotted some flashing lights overhead and then noticed a silvery
disc-shaped craft descend low over some nearby graves at a cemetery. The
craft had blue and orange flashing lights around its rim. There was no
sound as the craft apparently emitted a beam of light towards the ground
and levitated what appeared to be some dead bodies onboard the object. (!)=

The witness was apparently paralyzed and was unable to move. The craft then=

shot away at a 45-degree angle and disappeared from sight. When that
happened the witness left the scene.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


46.
Location. Houston, Texas
Date: late May 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness was at the local electric company in order to pay a bill when
she decided to use the restrooms. Sitting in the stall she then noticed on=

the side of the wall of the stall what appeared to be a face lit up in a
dull light. When the witness looked directly at the "face" it vanished. She=

described is as having large round eyes no visible nose and a slit-like
mouth. (A peeping tom alien?)

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.comType: E?


47.
Location. General Acha, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: early June 2002
Time: various
A resident of the Oeste neighborhood informed newspaper sources that a
short green-colored dwarf like entity has appeared twice on her property:
once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When her husband ran out
responding to her screams, the mysterious entity vanished by rapidly
climbing up a tree. All versions agree in that the entity is short in
stature. Another resident added that it moved so quickly that it was hard
to describe it. In the same area mysterious cattle mutilations have also
been reported.

HC addendum
Source: Loren Coleman in UFO UpdatesType: E


48.
Location. Ojo De Agua, Argentina
Date: June 2002
Time: afternoon
Several passengers onboard two farm micro buses reported seeing a very tall=

dark man like figure that appeared to be wearing a tight fitting diver's
outfit standing on a nearby field. Nearby numerous mysterious animal
mutilations have been reported. The figure was silent and was quickly lost=

from sight as the buses moved away.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E




49.
Location. Near Tampa, Florida
Date: June 2002
Time: night
A man and three of his friends reported encountering two bizarre chupacabra=

type creatures one stood about 3-4 ft tall, the other looked to be about 6=

ft tall. Both had large glowing red eyes and spikes starting from the head=

to the back. They scurried away into a wooded area. (They were to have
further encounters in August).

HC addendum
Source: Art Bell.comType: E


50.
Location. Antalya, Turkey
Date: June 5 2002
Time: afternoon
Approximately 45 witnesses claimed they saw an UFO in the Santral district=

landing on the backyard of the Fatma Primary School. Several students
including Murat Esici age 11 saw an alien emitting red rays from his eyes
come out of the object. His hands and feet were metallic. He had a very big=

head and was about 1.80 meters in height. Esici temporarily lost her voice=

immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also=

claimed they san an unusual craft and an alien beside it. "His eyes and
hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes." The children
were overcome with shock after the incident.

HC addendum
Source: Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center Intl
Type: B


51.
Location. Polonnauruwa, Sri Lanka
Date: June 8 2002
Time: 2200
Approximately 50 to 70 eyewitnesses saw a UFO flying at about 100 meters
above ground level. The object was silent and briefly landed emitting a
bright flash like light. When it was close to the ground the object emitted=

a buzzing sound. Three other witnesses saw three 2 ft tall creatures than
when approached ran into the jungle and disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Sources
Type: D


52.
Location. Polonnaruwa, Sir Lanka
Date: June 9 2002
Time: 2012
Two witnesses went to a bath on a nearby river when they heard a loud
thundering sound and a UFO appeared. The craft landed nearby and two, 2 ft=

tall "aliens" emerged from the object. One of the humanoids flung a small
fluorescent fireball like object that flew over a house and vanished. Soon=

the craft and humanoids disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC & News Reports
Type: B



53.
Location. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Date: June 10 2002
Time: 1900
Witnesses saw a mysterious light in the sky and others saw a large disc
shaped object land nearby. Three humanoids only about 2 ft tall emerged
from the craft and disappeared into the forest when approached. The object=

also left.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Reports
Type: B


54.
Location. Chantilly, Virginia
Date: June 10 2002
Time: night
The witness was awakened during the night with a sense of some presence in=

the room. Looking toward the door, he saw, fading quickly, something, which=

almost had the appearance of a hologram. Next, shadows appeared outside the=

windows in an erratic shape. At first he thought the shadows to be from
trees moving in a strong wind. The appearance was of a storm blowing the
limbs to create these shadows outside the window. However, there was no
storm. He looked at the adjacent window on the side of the house facing
opposite and there was no wind at all. In fact there was no trees
positioned in such a way to cast a shadow. He opened the blinds to see what=

might be causing the shadows. He then saw what seemed to be a hologram with=

the shape of two small eyes moving erratically outside the window.
Frightened he closed the blinds. Two weeks later he was awakened by a
humming sound and again saw the erratic shadows outside the window. He
watched the shadows for 10-15 minutes and then called the police. The
police found no signs of any intrusion in the yard. When the police left
the witness walked toward the door facing the back porch and saw a large
burst of bluish white light. It looked unnatural, almost like a laser. He
has not seen the "shadows" again.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: E?


55.
Location. Ataliva Roca, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 11 2002
Time: 1930
A worker at a local drainage project was sitting and guarding some
machinery when he noticed a short greenish colored humanoid figure that was=

approaching his location from a nearby field. The witness became concerned=

and drove away from the area in the construction equipment and did not see=

the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


56.
Location. Eduardo Castex, La Pampa Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Two girls of a local school encountered a short greenish humanoid figure in=

the playing yard. The figure was standing up and appeared to be raising its=

arms up to the sky. Terrified the two girls retreated into the school and
watched the figure scurry away into some nearby woods. Around the same time=

a local farmer found a strangely mutilated hog in his farm.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


57.
Location. Chasico, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Hugo Deluca and several other workers were parked in a bus in an isolated
area when they spotted about 20 meters away a short, 1.20 meters tall,
bipedal figure completely covered in gray hair. It walked upright like a
man and then scurried away into some woods vanishing from sight. The area
had been hit with animal mutilations around the same time.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


58.
Location. Castex, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 13 2002
Time: night
A 70-year old man had gone to his driveway to check on a flat tire in his
car when a short light green colored humanoid suddenly appeared next to
him. It had large round ears, and two reddish luminous eyes. Its body was
thin and almost triangular in shape. The witness attempted to yell out but=

was suddenly unable to speak and at the same time strange warmth invaded
his body. Several seconds later the humanoid vanished and the witness
returned to normal. He reported the incident to the police.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


59.
Location. La Laguna, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 14 2002
Time: afternoon
Several youngster had gone into the fields in order to obtain some firewood=

when they saw sitting on a clearing in the woods two human like figures,
all dressed in black. They sat facing each other, one looking towards the
east the other towards the west, unmoving. Unnerved by the sight the
juveniles ran from the area. The next day the father of one of the boys
found two dead cows at the site, but could find no trace of the strange
pair. Days later a sheep and a horse were found dead and strangely
mutilated in the nearby location of El Cardonal.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: E


60.
Location. De Kalb, Illinois
Date: June 15 2002
Time: 0030A
The witness was sitting in his family room watching TV when he noticed a
bright flash of light outside the window. He saw the flash several times
and decided to check his backyard there he saw a circular light moving
around in circles. The light began to get closer; scared he ran inside his=

home and called a friend on the phone. He then quickly ran outside and saw=

the circle getting closer, he noticed that it had a purplish color to it
and it began to descend towards the ground. He became nauseous and dizzy
and collapsed on to the ground. He tried to crawl to the house but was
unable to move. He turned his head and saw the purplish object on the
ground and what appeared to be a door opening up. He then heard a squeaking=

noise and saw a tall and a short figure standing by a door of the object.
The two figures started to move towards him, walking in a strange bopping
fashion. They were of a dark complexion with a bumpy texture, other than
that they resembled normal human beings. The shorter figure approached and=

picked up the witness' camera and stared at it. He then looked at the
taller figure and handed it to him. The taller of the two looked at the
camera and then at the witness. The witness then heard loud unpleasant
shrieks coming from the taller figure, which then gave the camera back to
the shorter figure, which covered the camera with his hand, seconds later a=

light began to emerge from their hands. Then they stopped, threw the camera=

aside and began to walk towards the witness. They reached his side and
started to examine his body. A dog began to bark from inside the house and=

the shorter figure put out his hand and the dog stopped barking. At this
point the witness began to vomit. After about a minute he began to relax
and to breathe better. When he turned his head he realized that the two
figures and the purple spherical object were now gone. The next day he had=

a very severe headache.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: B


61.
Location. San Juan, Argentina
Date: June 20 2002
Time: evening
At a location where the body of a strangely mutilated carcass of a cow was=

found two witnesses reported seeing a small creature with large glowing
slanted eyes and about one meter in height. Later in the same area, members=

of the Gimenez family after investigating noises and a strong odor coming
from a wooded area found a mutilated cow and also watched a short humanoid=

with glowing eyes scurrying away into the woods.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


62.
Location. Manuel Rodriguez, Calama, Chile
Date: June 22 2002
Time: after midnight
A bizarre creature was spotted at a local housing complex on San Antonio
Street. Witnesses reported that it resembled an ape and it jumped all over=

the roof. It passed right in front of the witness, Maria Gavia's window and=

then it came back making all manner of noise. The creature was able to make=

very long jumps, unlike any a human could. It jumped and landed on the
neighbor's roof and then it left the area. Neighborhood dogs acted scared
and began howling. Others described the creature as about 1.5 meters tall,=

stocky in build with bright red eyes. It made a lot of noise. Others
reportedly chased the creature.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center, quoting El
Mercurio de CalamaType: E


63.
Location. Angencia Realico, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 23 2002
Time: late night
Several hunters returning to a local ranch spotted about 50 meters away two=

large glowing reddish eyes staring at them. They turned off their
flashlight and approached closer on foot, about 30 meters away they again
saw the reddish eyes on a dark creature that appeared to be standing on top=

of an apparently dead animal. One of the hunters shone its flashlight on
the figure again and saw a figure about 40 cm in height that quickly ran
from the area at very high speed. The creature disappeared into the brush.=

At the scene, a dead and mutilated young heifer. Other mutilations were
reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


64.
Location. Rancul, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 25 2002
Time: 2020
Two young men, Nestor Pinto and Daniel Gatica were walking on a field when=

they encountered a short man-like figure with huge pointy ears and long
dangling arms standing near some brush. The figure scurried into the brush=

and disappeared and at the same time the two witnesses ran away from the
area and did not see the strange dwarf again.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


65.
Location. Bavaria, Germany (exact location not given)
Date: June 25 2002
Time: night
The witness had stayed up late watching the soccer game as was in his
bedroom when suddenly there was a coldness around him that made him shiver.=

He noticed that his audio capabilities were somehow enhanced and he was
able to hear sounds that previously he was unable to hear. He then heard a=

noise outside his door and went out to investigate. The noise became louder=

as he approached the door. He then heard footsteps and opened the door. A
very small man with a somewhat deformed body that was smiling at him
confronted the witness. He looked straight ahead and then stared at the
witness. His next memory was of waking up in his bed in the morning.

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.com
Type: E


66.
Location. Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2105
The primary witness had stepped out on his back porch when his attention
was drawn to two huge black "birds" which were approaching from the north.=

His first impression was they were Herons, but soon realized that the color=

was wrong, and "they were huge, much larger than any bird I have ever
seen." The two huge birds landed at the top of a very tall coniferous tree.=

The witness stated that the wingspan appeared to be wider than the
branches, jest below where they had landed. The body size was estimated to=

be about six feet from head to tail. The oddest feature was the shape of
the wings, which according to the witness appeared to be bat-like. The tree=

where the "birds" landed seemed as though it would break from their weight.=

The witness yelled for others in the house to come outside to look. Another=

family member was able to see the huge black birds as they passed overhead,=

and headed for some woods. After checking the size of the branches where
the birds had landed, the witness estimated that the wingspan would have
been close to 12 feet or somewhat larger.

HC addendum
Source: Stan GordonType: E


67.
Location. Marldon Hill, Paington, England
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2357
A couple were walking near a local historic monument (a windmill) and they=

drew closer to monument they heard a low whirling noise. The noise
progressed to a high-pitched whining, almost out of hearing range. Then
they saw a mysterious glow coming from the dark side of the windmill, and
then to their astonishment they saw 5 or 6 shadow like figures standing in=

front of the windmill. Startled the two began to run back towards the main=

road. The woman looked back and saw the figures become engulfed by a bright=

light and disappear, and then everything became quiet.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Sightings UKType: E?


68.
Location. Adelia Maria, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 3 2002
Time: 2100
Pedro and Estela Moine had decided to visit the business district of town
called Barrio Norte and crossed the old railroad yard through a pedestrian=

pathway that ran through a pasture area between some silos, old railroad
depots and abandoned wreckage. As the couple moved through the premises
they suddenly became aware of a strange and incomprehensible conversation
between many voices. Startled, they stopped walking moved a few meters more=

and then heard the voices again which now sounded like strange "O" sounds.=

Pedro looked toward the silos and was able to see resembling humanoid but
lacking upper and lower extremities. Despite the pleas of his wife, Pedro
ran several meters toward an inner alley in the silo plant, being able to
make out some 45 meters to the west and in profile---the entity, which
acting surprised, avoided the encounter and moved again to the north.
However, what filled the witnesses with wonderment was that the creature
did so as though flying or floating without touching the facilities it
passed. Pedro and Estela ran after it. It was thus that the man managed to=

see the entity apparently hiding behind the control room of the truck
scale. Pedro ran toward it and was again startled to see the apparition
rising as a plane taking off, flying at an altitude of 5 meters and
disappearing behind a large metal shed. Bewildered, both witnesses called
out, but were unable to see anything else. Pedro Moine as "a thing with
human shape" described the apparition. It had some sort of light, although=

he could not say if reflected or self-generated, although he tends to
believe the latter, since it was a nebulous whitish light, which kept him
from making out details. The entire mass of the apparition appeared to be a=

body covered from head to toe in some sort of mantle, which he described as=

though it wore a hat, but covered with some kind of long raincoat reaching=

down to what he took to be its feet. He added that the "conversational
sounds" repeated themselves in three separate occasions at various
intensities. They were like conversations in a strange language.

HC addendum
Source: Mario Luis Bracamonte, C.O.R, Rio Cuarto Argentina
Type: E


69.
Location. Jerusalem, Israel
Date: July 6 2002
Time: night
A remote TV camera picked up images of "orbs seen on the corner to the
right of the Wailing Wall." They seemed to have facial features almost like=

a ghost, reported investigator Charlotte LeFevre. The orbs were described
as "sharp and distinct". The orbs were next to the women's prayer area in
front of the Wall. Other strange phenomena, has been reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 29Type: F?


70.
Location. Villa Elisa, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: July 13 2002
Time: 2300
A young woman fainted from nervous shock after having an alleged closed
encounter with "some sort of green dwarf". This occurred---enveloped in
darkness---along Misioneros Salesianos Street very close to several houses.=

An ambulance was called and apparently transported the witness who was in
shock.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria ColuchiType: E


71.
Location. Patna, India
Date: July 21 2002
Time: night
Several residents claim they've been bitten or scratched by a "black
monkey-like creature with colored lights flashing from its eyes." Resident=

Pawan Kumar Niyogi who was sleeping on the terrace of his house claims "a 5=

ft tall monkey-like creature" attacked him. He said: "I was terrified and
thought my life was going to end but it merely scratched me on the shoulder=

before jumping off the roof." Local residents are conducting night vigils
and carrying torches to guard their homes.

HC addendum
Source: Ananova, Ufoupdates. Type: E


72.
Location. Chajan, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 21 2002
Time: 2300
Police officer Guillermo Arias was on routine patrol through a rural area
when he heard over the radio that his colleagues in arms over at Achiras
were seeing lights in sectors of said community, and that they were heading=

towards Chajan along National Route 8. At the wheel of the police patrol
van, he managed to see a formation of 7 lights in the distance and decided=

to drive 10 km along a rural dirt road. When he had covered said distance,=

he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine of his vehicle sputtered=

and died, causing the police car to strike the edge of a guardrail.
Simultaneously, the lights on the van's dashboard began turning on and off=

randomly, the police radio went haywire and its dial displayed the random
shifting of the frequencies while the cabin became filled with an acrid
odor, as though of burnt wiring, and the interior lights and stop
indicator, which were broken, began lighting on and off. Seized by fear,
Arias leaped from the van and walked away a few meters down the road,
losing his cellular phone in the escape. The darkness was total, when
suddenly, amid the confusing situation; an immense light emerged from a
field adjacent to the road as a triangular object rose majestically into
the air. Now Arias condition went from fear to abject terror as he saw what=

he described as a real "floating city" some 200 meters long with a long row=

of windows (perhaps as many as 100). Arias claims having seen something
move behind them, describing the movement as "TV sets which make lines and=

shadows", which he defined as "non-human", and that many beams of light
came out of the giant triangle, aimed at the ground. The event lasted 2-3
seconds, but to Arias it felt like an eternity. The object suddenly rose
and sped away, vanishing behind the hills of a local field. As the object
moved away, the whole area was lit up like daytime and there was an
afterglow that lasted another 20 minutes.

HC addendum
Source: C.O.R., Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense, Argentina
Type: A


73.
Location. Waconia, Minnesota
Date: July 26 2002
Time: 0300A
The young witness was sleeping in the backyard with his sister when he
suddenly woke up. He then noticed that the side of the tent that faced the=

wetlands and lake was lit up. Looking towards the light he saw a shadowy
torso and arm of a humanoid figure that seemed to be moving around within
the light. He watched for 30 seconds and saw the figure move the fingers of=

his hands. The witness became frightened and hid in his sleeping bag. He
came out about an hour later and the light and strange figure were
completely gone.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


74.
Location. Sedona, Arizona
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 0310A
In a wooded area the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all
white, with black "straight" eyes; and black diagonal/diamond strip of
"clothing" on top. He stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then
left. Prior to seeing the figure the witness had seen lights in a large
oval shaped pattern in the sky.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


75.
Location. Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 1730
Three girls had decided to visit the rooftop as they did the prior evening=

watching for satellites. It was dusk and the girls had a good vantage point=

looking towards the east. With them they had a pair of binoculars and a
pair of walkie-talkies. The girls noticed that a large orange light
appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The anomaly
was noted to have fluctuated in colors of orange, yellow, white and pale
blue. At fist they thought of an arriving airplane, but then a second light=

appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10=

degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some=

unusually maneuvering; from a stationary position it accelerated at least 5=

degrees closer to the ground surface at an approximate 45-60 degree angle
within a matter of a single second. The first anomaly then began to move
slowly towards the north. At this stage they partially lost view of it as
it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley-like
region of the horizon. According to the witnesses, this third object
appeared to have "landed" on the ground surface. The object was then viewed=

through the binoculars and presented in great detail; the object was
described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange,=

blue/purple and white rotating around the rim. Thy also noted the trees
being slightly illuminated by this extraordinary phenomenon. They were
suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, "Identify
yourself." This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in a
foreign language. Around 1830 the girls were then called down to have
dinner. At about 2030 the girls re-established their places on the roof
after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still
present. Unexpectedly a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above
the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. "It
was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away." The=

light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it=

is not clear how one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became
extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed
her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not=

sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another of the girls woke up
the next morning with her nose bleeding. She also mentioned that she had
seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom.

HC addendum
Source: The Australian UFO Research NetworkType: D or
F?



76.
Location. Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 29 2002
Time: early morning
Local residents have seen a strange figure, which they described as
resembling a "shroud". The apparitions, which always occur in the early
morning hours, have become so common that in recent days several neighbors=

have stayed up late to see them, and it is thus that they were able to
confirm the simultaneous presence of up to 2 such beings, as well as red
lights flying over the area. All the witnesses whether individuals or in a=

group, agree that the entities are nebulous and glowing, with a pair of red=

eyes being clearly identifiable, and glassy faces (as if transparent).
Their movements are smooth and they always appear from behind the sand
dunes, as though "coming form the Naval Base." Most witnesses agree that
they show a great interest in the water tanks located above the roofs, and=

that they do not flee upon detecting the presence of local
residents---rather, they stare at them fixedly for some minutes. Deep
silence is perceived during the observations and "the air appears to become=

still" and neither heat nor cold can be felt---only a sensation of warmth,=

as if the beings emanated heat. Witnesses also state that things appear to=

be darker when "the shroud" appears, as though ambient lighting were
dimmed. Another curious fact is the large number of cats and dogs who
report to the place where the sightings occur and sit down to observe it in=

silence, in a state resembling a trance. A series of semi-circular prints
have been found in the dunes, not very deep, with 15-20 cm separations in
some cases and 30-50 cm in others. The locals have identified them as the
strange being's footprints. Efforts have been made to photograph the
"shroud", but all images, despite the use of different cameras appear
exposed. One witness who approached the site to witness the phenomenon took=

two photos of the prints in the afternoon and decided to stay with the
group of people hoping to see the "shroud", managing to take some photos of=

same and record the new prints which appeared in the dunes after the
sighting. A completely uncommon print was found at the site---but the
residents aren't sure if it's related to the phenomenon: it has the shape
of a five-fingered claw. One witness tried to make use of his carbine's
telescopic sight to see the figure in greater detail, but "when he tried to=

focus on it, he could see nothing_it was a though it could only be seen
with the unaided eye."

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, IHU, Christian Quintero and O A Mario
Proyecto Condor
Type: C or E?


77.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 30 2002
Time: 0530A
27-year old Mariela Baigorri reported seeing a strange figure that floated=

in front of her house. She had woken up early that morning and was getting=

ready to mount her bicycle when she saw behind the fence something floating=

in mid-air. It appeared to be a figure wearing a flowing white transparent=

tunic, with bright red eyes and undefined facial features. Feeling no fear=

she decided to approach it. She felt as if the figure waited for her and
was observing her. At this point Mariela felt some fear and began reciting=

the Lord's Prayer. The figure suddenly moved back and disappeared in plain=

sight.

HC addendum
Source: Juan Carlos Corrales Morey, Vision Ovni, Argentina
Type: E


78.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 31 2002
Time: 1845
23-year old Julian Pereyra was in his vehicle when he observed two red
spheres flying slowly over some nearby woods, they seemed to descend and
disappear behind the trees. 15 minutes later, Pereyra, accompanied by
several other witnesses approached the area and observed what they
described a tall floating figure wearing a white glowing cape like outfit,=

it seemed to glide silently over a field. It had what appeared to be a
visor at face level and two beams of red light emerged from where the eyes=

would have been. The witnesses watched the strange figure glide over the
fields for about 30 minutes. Curiously numerous local dogs and cats
approached and also watched the figure in fascination. The lights and
figure disappeared into the distance. In another occasion Pereyra and some=

of his family members encountered the strange humanoid and felt a strange
sensation as if the wind had suddenly stopped, they felt as they were
inside a vacuum or "bubble." Strange tracks have been reportedly found in
the area also.

HC addendum
Source: Diario La Nueva Provincia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Type: C?


79.
Location. La Cienaga, Pocri, Panama
Date: early August 2002
Time: night
Luis Alfredo Diaz reported hearing loud noises coming from the terraced
patio where the kitchen was located, going to investigate he found his cat=

apparently dead with two obvious holes on the neck and some blood on the
floor. Before finding the cat he had called his wife, Maria de Los Santos
Barrios. As his wife stood in front of him a panic stricken look came over=

her face, turning around he was confronted by a bizarre 1-meter tall
humanoid that had jumped to the center of the patio. The creature was
described as thin, covered with dark hair, with large pointed ears that
almost covered its face, it had very large eyes and extremely strong hind
legs resembling that of a kangaroo. Terrified he ran to his son's bedroom
and carried him outside yelling for his neighbors. A search failed to
locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Panamanian Paranormal Forum
Type: E


80.
Location. Near Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Date: August 2002
Time: night
The same witness involved in a similar encounter last year was again
camping in the same area when he again heard a noise. Shining the light in=

the direction of the sound he again saw the same creature. The creature sat=

there crouched by the trees staring at the witness. The witness walked
slowly towards it, he got to within 20 ft when it just jumped backward and=

disappeared. He described the creature as about five to six ft in height,
gray in color. It was totally naked. It had human features, but more
leathery, and its face was very wide, its eyes were huge and even though
they reflected light, they still looked black, resembling two intensely
black marbles. Its legs were very muscular, but turned backwards, like a
bird. Other hikers in the area have reported encountering little brown men=

on some of the more isolated trails.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal Story Archives, November 2002Type: E


81.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: August 1 2002
Time: late evening
64-year old Raul Dorado was touring some fields when he heard a loud sound=

on two occasions, like a whirlwind, which drew his attention. The third
time he saw something he describes as a green circle with three legs
hovering over him. At that moment Dorado fell to the ground, and according=

to his story, he carried a shotgun, binoculars and a cellular phone, the
latter, which was taken from his hand, and he could clearly see being
sucked into the object, which was apparently at low altitude. His next
recollection was seeing the object disappear toward the east. Dorado
remained at the location for an hour before being able to rise and walk
back to his car, returning to town in a state of shock. He had to be
hospitalized. Later when calls were placed to the (abducted) cellular phone=

someone would pick up and heavy breathing could be heard. Later on the
phone was apparently disconnected.

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, quoting Diario La Arena, La PampaType: G?


82.
Location. Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Date: August 2 2002
Time: 1730
A man named Todd Sees went up the mountain to look for pre-season deer. He=

told his wife that he would be home by noon. He rode his 4-wheeler up the
power line behind his home. He never returned. A search party composed of
local police, state police and volunteers searched for Sees. The 4-wheeler=

was found on the top of the mountain near a power-line. Tracking dogs could=

find nothing to go on around the 4-wheeler. The search went on for 2 days
and over 6 miles of mountain was covered from top to bottom. Then, in the
evening of the 2nd day, his body was found in a hard to reach wooded area.=

He was wearing his underwear. He was emaciated---not bloated. He was pale
and had an expression of horror on his face. When he went up the mountain
he was fully dressed, boots, camo-vest, hat, socks, pants. 3 people, on one=

farm, said they saw a large round bright object just above the power-lines=

at the time of the disappearance. It was silent, it did not move for about=

10 to 15 minutes. It suddenly went up and suddenly stopped. A light shone
down and something was pulled up into the light. It then went straight up,=

hesitated again, and then went west over the Susquehanna River and out of
sight. More specifically a farmer saw an object above Montour Ridge at the=

power lines, on top of the mountain, it was round and very still over the
lines. Suddenly it moved what looked like a few hundred feet to the east,
it stopped and a beam of blue and white light shone to the ground. What was=

seen next was very unnerving, he saw what appeared to be a man suspended in=

the light, he was being pulled up head first, he was moving his arms slowly=

in the light. What looked like a man was pulled up into the bottom of the
craft. A few seconds later it started shuddering, then went west very fast,=

stopped briefly, and then went straight up and out of sight. Also three
fishermen saw the craft. The FBI is supposedly also investigating. (Debated=

as a hoax, who would? and for what purpose?).

HC addendum
Source: Rense, UFO updates, NUFORCType: G?






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                            2002 Humanoid Reports

From: Albert Rosales <Garuda79@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:32:05 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:14:40 -0500
Subject: 2002 Humanoid Reports


Happy new year everyone

Sincerely,

Albert

-----

2002 Humanoid Reports. It appears to be a slow start for this
year with only one recorded case, again from Chile. We will see
what develops later on the year. 2001 was pretty busy but it was
a decline from 2000. Maybe we will see another down trend again,
later to pick up again in the near future. This seems to be the
ever-ongoing trend of the phenomena. Will it always stay the
same? Time will tell. Following is a list of known 2002 humanoid
cases.


1.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: January 2002
Time: 0300A
An employee at the local Minera Escondida was on his way to the
storage freezer in order to pick up some supplies when an
unknown creature jumped him from behind. He could only describe
it as hairy and dark. He was left with deep scratches and in a
state of shock. Terrified he ran away and bumped into two other
employees who were able to see a shadowy creature in the dark.

HC addendum
Source: La Estrella del Loa de Calama, ChileType: E


2.
Location. Caracas, Venezuela
Date: January 2002
Time: late night
Late one night in a dream-like state the witness woke up to see
seven to eight strange figures in her bedroom. They were dark
gray in color and very thin, with three large thick long fingers
on their hands. They had large, lipless mouths and large shiny
protruding black eyes, their noses were thin and protruding,
small ears, the heads was large and pointy. The humanoids
appeared to be naked and she was able to see a penis on the
humanoids. They were about 1.55 meters in height. She felt dizzy
and under the control of the strange entities. She was led out
of her bedroom by one of the humanoids that removed her clothing
and made her lie down on the floor. The humanoids apparently
attempted to molest her sexually and possibly attempted to rape
her but were not successful. She apparently passed out and does
not remember anything else about the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Lista Alcione and witness communicationType: E


3.
Location. Fort McMurry, Alberta, Canada
Date: January 2 2002
Time: 2032
Two men were parked on an isolated dirt road when they spotted a
large cone-shaped object descend and hover. One of the men
exited the car and he vanished in plain sight of the other, the
craft then also disappeared. The other man tried to drive away
to get help but the car would not start and it was to cold to
walk. He soon went to sleep and woke up later to find his friend
sleeping next to him. Later they drove back to town. His friend
does not remember what happened during those two hours of
missing time. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


4.
Location. Paso Lovera, Corrientes, Argentina
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2030
Gabriela Lencinas, 15-year old and a 19-year old friend were
returning home on a bicycle when they spotted a large cloud like
object descend from the sky and from it a giant figure emerge.
The witnesses stopped their bicycles to see a car approach the
giant figure, stop, the driver exit the car and then re-entering
the vehicle and driving quickly away. The figure then rose up
into the cloud and disappeared. The girls reported that the
giant human-like figure had its hair standing up on his head and
was extending its arms towards the witnesses that quickly rode
their bicycles home. Other in the area reported seeing bright
lights that same night.

HC addendum
Source: Pablo Omastott
Type: B?


5.
Location. Villa San Rafael, Chile
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2345
Two young teenagers, Jean F and Nelson C, where at home at night
when Jean noticed that his pet snake had escaped from its cage.
Both boys began looking for it outside among the rubble of the
parcel. They recalled how half an hour before, their two dogs
strangely began to howl and cry; however, it did not seem to be
important at that point in time. They searched for the pet snake
together when suddenly, about 30 meters from where they stood;
they saw what appeared to be a stray dog. They threw rocks at to
avoid an attack. However, to their surprise, the animal stood
there, motionless and fearless; it did not get scared nor it ran
away as ordinary dogs normally do. Shortly, the strange animal
began to move towards them. The movements it made as it walked
were very strange. It used two legs at a time. It made very
small sand short leaps like a rabbit. Suddenly, it stopped and
it stood up on two legs. The teenagers then began to feel some
kind of energy. "It was like an electrical shock in the
stomach," they said. It later walked again making a loud
dragging noise, making small leaps and only moving one of its
legs. They noticed the weird shape of the animal. "It was like a
rugby football with legs," one of them said. Jean began to feel
frightened and started to move away from animal. On the other
hand, Nelson felt a strange need to get closer to the creature;
he got to within 2 meters away from it. The creature appear to
emit a strange luminosity that apparently, was bright enough to
lit a small area around the creature in spite of the nighttime
darkness. Nelson was mesmerized as he stared at the strange
creature. He described it as having a head like a large dog with
a flat nose like a bulldog. Its eyes were slanted and pale-red
in color, which could only be seen when the creature turned its
head from side to side like a lizard. At that moment, Nelson
heard a voice in his head saying, "Don't stare, and just run
away." They provided further description, describing the ears as
flat, round and large. Its arms were short, it had elbows, and
the hands had three fingers. It had hair like the one on a wild
pig. Its legs were like the ones of a goat. The feet had also
three fingers and a membrane like ducks, but somewhat shorter.
On its curved back, they were able to notice a spinal section
covered with amounts of even thicker hair. Most of the hair of
the animal was gray, but the tail had a white tip. Nelson
finally fled, terrified, from the area. He also described how he
felt an inexplicable bone-chilling cold sensation.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center
Type: E


6.
Location. Not given
Date: January 12 2002
Time: night
Ted Parker was eating some leftover food when he claims the food began to
change. The bread of the sandwich turned an orange color and the lamb
became a silvery metallic color, sort of like liquid mercury. As he watched=

transfixed, he saw the orange bread and metallic lamb turn into the figure=

of an "alien" with the form of a man. It was silver in color and its outfit=

(smooth pants and shirt, like a jump suit) was orange in color. At this
point Parker glanced at the wall clock and it indicated that 2 hours had
gone by, even though it felt like minutes only. The alien figure
communicated using telepathic means and asked Ted to come with him. They
both went outside and there, Ted saw a landed black-colored craft in his
backyard. In a split second Ted found himself inside the craft not knowing=

how he got there. The inside of the craft was pure white in color with
strips of the metallic silver that the alien figure appeared to be made of.=

The rest of the incident is just a blur, but Parker did remembered hearing=

several loud high-pitched rings while onboard the object. A couple of days=

before while eating dinner with several other people there had been a
similar high pitched ring and everybody had just stopped eating and walked=

out of the room.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: G or F?



7.
Location. Chihuahua, Mexico
Date: January 29 2002
Time: night
Several days before seeing a UFO the witness remembered being in a
dream-like state in which he felt very calm and saw numerous disc shaped
objects, orange-red in color. A human like figure was talking to him about=

the objects and their propulsion. The UFO he saw was of an orange color and=

he felt a sort of ecstasy when he observed the craft. Several of his
neighbors also saw the object.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: G or F?


8.
Location. Near Palmyra, Wisconsin
Date: February 2002
Time: 0200A
Two men reported seeing a creature that resembled a bipedal "gigantic wolf"=

walking down a road west of the city. They said the creature was at least 7=

ft tall with a wolf-like head. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Linda GodfreyType: E


9.
Location. West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
Nebilson Sangma reported encountering a scary furry creature on a hunting
trip in the jungles. He reportedly took a video of the creature's nesting
place. According to Sangma, the creature walked erect like a human, had
built a house like nesting place, and would emerge from it frequently to
feast on a banana grove. Sangma and his brother observed the gigantic
creature for three consecutive days from afar. Officials and villagers have=

been hunting for the creature in the forest but it seems to have
disappeared as furtively as it appeared.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 13
Type: E


10.
Location. Near Dover, England
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness had been jogging along a low path by the beach when she noticed=

a tall, well built being in a black skin tight suit, that stood watching
her from nearby. He wore a black helmet wit a brown visor pulled down. At
first she thought it was a biker but as she approached the figure, it
suddenly disappeared in plain sight. As she continued to run she noticed a=

black craft jutting out of the sand, it was small and oval shaped, matt and=

ribbed it also disappeared in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: E?


11.
Location. Rosario de la Frontera, Salta, Argentina
Date: February 2002
Time: night
A strange creature called by locals "El Pestizo" has attacked several lone=

pedestrians in the middle of the night. It is described as a dark man
shaped shadowy being. A boy riding his bicycle on the way to visit some
friends was toppled from his bicycle and found a black shadowy figure
facing him. The young man managed to upholster his shotgun and fire two
shots. But, when he saw that they had no effect, he promptly drew his knife=

and stabbed the figure without any apparent harm. Frightened the youth
tried to escape but the creature knocked him down without saying a word and=

began dragging him by the hair to the side of the road. At this point the
young man began to scream. A local man, who rushed to provide assistance,
only to find a black shadow dragging the boy by the hair, heard his cries.=

The fearful shape disappeared without a trace after it became aware of the=

other man's presence. Six other locals have reported being attacked by a
similar being and received wounds.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


12.
Location. Not given
Date: February 2002
Time: early morning
The witness was alone at home and was preparing his breakfast when suddenly=

he heard a window break; he went to see what had happened. Grabbing a golf=

club he peeked inside the room where the window broke. He was stunned to
see a strange creature climbing on his bed. It appeared to be hurt, because=

it seemed that it could not move well. Gripping the golf club he went a
step nearer and the creature hissed horribly. It shrieked in an unworldly
manner. Terrified the witness did not move. The creature was small, about
the size of a large rabbit, and it was dark in color and had reddish eyes.=

It had wings and a spine of quills on its back, and had a semi reptilian
face. It appeared to have hair and small legs. The witness raised the golf=

club and the creature hissed again showing its large yellowish teeth, which=

appeared to be sharp, like those of a crocodile. It suddenly hopped out of=

the window and rapidly hopped across the street into the oak trees.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June archiveType: E


13.
Location. Vigevano, Italy
Date: February 2002
Time: 0100A
In the outskirts of this city a witness observed from his vehicle a
luminous humanoid entity walking along a roadway. It scurried away into the=

darkness when approached.
No other information.

HC addendum
Source: CISU, ItalyType: E



14.
Location. Corguinho, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Date: February 5 2002
Time: night
During a localized UFO flap several witnesses reported seeing a strange
creature described as about 1.3 meters in height, having two legs, with a
physique like a human but who moved with a strange fluctuating motion. The=

creature was seen five times by twenty people in the rural zone around
Corguinho. In Rochedo, 6 miles south of Corguinho five Cebu cattle were
found dead with a single incision on the side of the throat. The bodies had=

been drained of blood. (Is there a connection?).

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


15.
Location. Mount Podbrdo, Bosnia Hercigovina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: morning
Contactee and stigmatic Giorgio Bongiovanni was visiting the shrine on top=

of the mountain and was praying silently to the Virgin when, to his
astonishment, a glowing luminous female figure appeared and touched his
forehead with her fingertips. His stigmata scar vanished instantly. The
female figure told him to return to Italy and make known what had happened.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 14
Type: E or F?


16.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: evening
73-year-old Maria Rufina Cayo, a local shepherd was walking back home with=

her dogs and the cattle. Suddenly at one point, something spooked the
animals, and these began to stampede. Looking around she spotted a bizarre=

creature standing about 12 meters away. She described it as a humanoid,
half animal, half human, about 1.70m in height, with bright red eyes, sharp=

protruding fangs, and hands and feet that ended in sharp claws. The
creature looked at the witness three times then it scrambled away using
quick jumping motions with is powerfully built hind legs, she also noticed=

large pointy ears. The top part of its body seems to have been covered in a=

shiny white blanket. It somehow resembled a centaur walking on two
claw-like feet.  Alerted by the shouts of Maria, two men, Santos Jaimes,
and Ruben Colque ran out to investigate with their dogs. Suddenly the dogs=

stopped and began making pitiful howling noises, they refused to move any
further. The men heard noises behind some nearby bushes and went to
investigate and spotted a bizarre creature that stood staring at them with=

huge reddish eyes. It then moved quickly away in the direction of Cerro
Negro and disappeared from sight. The witnesses noticed very sharp claws on=

the creature's feet with a very sharp claw that appeared to be pointed
backwards. Strange footprints were found the next day.

HC addendum
Source: El Tribuno, Salta Argentina March 27 2002
Also Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E



17.
Location. Khanpur, Ahmedabad, India
Date: February 20 2002
Time: after midnight
Several local residents reportedly have encountered a person, dressed in
black and wearing a mask. Dubbed the "Monkeyman" whom they described as
between 25 and 20 years of age, dark skinned and having curly hair can
reportedly be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees. Two
local youths chased it and the figure reportedly disappeared in plain
sight. The two youths have been behaving abnormally since then. The
stranger was also chased along the riverbed near the Cama Hotel and it also=

suddenly disappeared. Others have heard the stranger running on the
rooftops. Abdul Hamid another youngster of the local slums described the
figure as a tall lean man that carries a sharp weapon. "I saw him from the=

back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised the alarm, he jumped to=

another roof and then on to a tree." Police have searched for the stranger=

but nothing has been found.

HC addendum
Source: Fortean Times, India Express
Type: E


18.
Location. Prague, Czech Republic
Date: February 23 2002
Time: night
Blanka Slemendova was in her apartment when she saw a "ship" hovering over=

some nearby woods. It was shining red, white and yellow lights. She then
heard telepathic communication coming from the object telling her to go and=

meet them at an unspecified location. Looking over to her bedroom wall she=

saw what appeared to be a projection of human like faces looking at her.
Later that night she saw luminous figures in her room and a floating red
light also in her room. The next night she saw what appeared to be 2 gray
suns and around them a golden lights with numerous groups of shiny
human-like figures floating about. She interpreted these as being angels.

HC addendum
Source: Direct from witness (Slemendova)
Type: C & F?


19.
Location. Wycliffe Well Roadhouse, Northern Territory Australia
Date: early March 2002
Time: evening
While workers in the area watched unusual lights in the sky an aboriginal
woman encountered a triangular sort of object in a paddock and all of the
sudden she saw three silvery clad human like figures that began to move
toward her vehicle. She turned the vehicle around and took off.

HC addendum
Source: Lou Farcus ABC On-lineType: C


20.
Location. Near Canberra Australia
Date: March 2002
Time: 1700
Several friends were taking a trip to the coast and it was already very
dark. They had already entered a tropical forest area and there was a mist=

rolling along the ground. As they turned around they saw something
squatting in the middle of the road. It stared at them, and just as they
thought they were going to hit it, it leaped off the road and into the
trees. It leaped about 10 meters in the air. The creature was definitely
human looking although it wore strange clothes. It was dressed in a green
robe of some kind with little pieces of gold on it, and it was either
wearing a head crest or it had a row of spikes running from its forehead to=

the top of its neck. Very frightened the witnesses drove out of the forest=

and at the same time the mist turned to a thick fog. They pulled over and
decided to wait until the fog had cleared, although none of them were too
happy about it. As they sat around and waited they suddenly heard a shriek.=

It sounded like some sort of wild animal and they turned the car on so the=

headlights would scare it away. The headlights revealed the same creature
they had seen earlier. It hid its face from the light and shrieked. Right
before the witnesses' eyes, the creature seemed to evaporate into the fog.=

Within five minutes the fog had gone and the normal rolling mist was back.=

The witnesses quickly left the area and drove towards the coast.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June ArchiveType: E


21.
Location. Guanica Puerto Rico
Date: March 1 2002
Time: 2345
Reinaldo Rios (involved in other encounters) was in his bedroom that night=

when a large white light suddenly appeared. It flew around the room several=

times and then hovered. He heard voices coming from the light, which
communicated with him. The voice said: "I am your real father." Soon the
light transformed itself into a figure resembling that of a little boy it
then vanished in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: UFOs over America.com
Type: E


22.
Location. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 0800A
The witness and his wife were in bed that Saturday morning talking when
their 5-year-old daughter came into the bedroom with her baby brother,
whose cot is placed under their bedroom window. They heard a strange noise=

and some green light came into the window. Their daughter looked out the
window and reported seeing a "flying car" with four spinning green lights
on top. She saw two windows in the vehicle and saw two dark brown faces
looking out. His wife saw the craft flying past through the curtains. That=

same morning, in a large tree near the witness house a strange structure
was found. The branches were arranged in a rectangular pen shape, vertical,=

each approximately 30 to 40 cm long. They found a few smaller sticks
scaling down in size from the structure. A piece of concrete slab was found=

propped up on one corner. The witnesses had never seen this strange
structure before and think is some kind of message left by the visitors.
(Some kind of bizarre crop circle?). A few nights before they had heard
strange noises coming from the kitchen area.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: A


23.
Location. Golasecca Di Novara, Italy
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 2330
Augusto & Maurizia were in their vehicle parked in an open field next to a=

wooded area having a heated discussion when suddenly a powerful beam of
reddish-orange light illuminated the area around them. They rolled down the=

car window and heard a sharp metallic sound that seemed to be increasing in=

intensity. They now noticed, behind the beam of light a hovering
disc-shaped craft with a central rotating ring, it hovered about a meter
from the ground. From the object, a cigar-shaped beam of light emerged;
they could see it as the central ring of the craft slowly rotated on its
axis. The craft was only about 10 meters away. At this point, and only
about 4 meters from the object Augusto saw what appeared to be a gelatinous=

transparent humanoid-like figure with a visible head, arms and legs. The
figure was silvery in color and was very tall, about 3 meters or so. At
this point Augusto became concerned and drove away from the area and did
not see the object or figure depart. The whole episode lasted about 10
minutes. The metallic noise was heard all throughout the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Alfredo Lissoni, CUN Milano, Michelle Castellano CUN VareseType: C


24.
Location. Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England
Date: March 3 2002
Time: morning
Helen Diskin went for a walk in the countryside talking snap shots along
the way with her digital camera. Returning home she loaded these into her
computer and was intrigued by an odd-looking image. It looked like a
luminous figure in an area of no sunlight, skulking amongst the trees. She=

returned to the site of the photo twice afterward and could find no
explanation for the figure. The figure resembled a small helmeted figure
that she had not seen when she took the picture of an area of the woods she=

had thought of as "mysterious."

HC addendum
Source: Helen Diskin, UFO Magazine Vol. 22 # 1Type: E?


25.
Location. Near Trenton New Jersey
Date: March 4 2002
Time: night
Several witnesses were camping outside of town and late at night one of
them was attempting to put out the bonfire when he heard the most awful and=

horrifying scream. It resembled that of an injured dog crossed with a
scream of a woman. The witness dropped the flashlight and was joined by
another witness. Suddenly out of the woods a hideous and gruesome creature=

appeared. It did not look human, somewhat satyr-like in appearance and
walked on two legs. It had a long tail like a dragon and wings like those
unicorns in fantasy books. The beast took several steps towards the
witnesses and one of them picked up and asked and yelled at it and then
shone his flashlight at it. The creature then turned towards the bushes and=

ran away from the area.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: E


26.
Location. Pichaca, Salta, Argentina
Date: March 9 2002
Time: night
Ceferino Leoncio was cleaning his one room metal shack when suddenly a
bright light engulfed the room. He felt a sudden heat as he saw a tiny
figure (50 cm) of an angel-like creature materialize in front of him. It
slowly moved its small wing-like protrusions and moved around and then
suddenly stopped and remained still. It appeared to be a small living human=

like living being until it appeared to hardened and turn into some type of=

statue of cherubic appearance. Locals have now built a shrine around the
tiny "statue" and call the strange materialization a "religious miracle".

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso
Type: F?



27.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: March 16 2002
Time: 2215
Mirna, was watching television alone in her room when she began hearing
noises coming from outside, at first she thought it was her dogs playing
around with some empty cans. But the noises kept getting louder and louder=

and she decided to go outside to investigate. Once outside she was stunned=

to see some type creature that had somehow entered the rabbit cage and was=

attacking the animals that were making loud unearthly screams. Thinking at=

first that it was one of the dogs she approached the case but realized that=

it was a gray colored hairy hunched over creature, that was moving quickly=

inside the cage. She stepped back and could not understand how the creature=

had entered the cage, since there wasn't any apparent hole or aperture
visible anywhere and the door was firmly closed. Afraid she ran inside her=

home and notified her son, both then ran out but the creature had
mysteriously disappeared. Unnerved, they could not understand how they
creature had escaped since the door to the rabbit caged was still firmly
locked. Later they could only find a small round hole in the wire only
several centimeters in width, not large enough for a creature estimated to=

have been about 70 to 80 cm in height. Several of the rabbits were found
injured and one was dead.

HC addendum
Source: Calama UFO CenterType: E


28.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: March 19 2002
Time: 2000
Young Elizabeth Lera reported seeing a short humanoid with "dark eyes"
looking into the building compound from behind a wire fence. It appeared
not to have any other facial features and was wearing dark clothing; it
wore some type of head covering, which was hard to see because of the
darkness. She could only see a pair of large dark eyes on his face that
appeared to shine in the darkness. Some more children now arrived and
observed as the humanoid move several steps towards them. Another witness,=

Rene Mamani saw the humanoid run and hide behind some bushes. It seemed to=

move at very high speed in an unnatural fashion. It seemed to have remained=

suspended in mid-air for a few seconds. It then seemed to fly through the
air and disappeared into some nearby woods. Other students at the school
reportedly saw it again on the night of the 20th.

HC addendum
Source: Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E


29.
Location. Woodburn, Oregon
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 0300A
The witness was sleeping when she woke up suddenly feeling paralyzed. The
witness was completely unable to move or speak. Her next memory was of a
strange sensation on her left cheek, which hurt a lot. Unseen "beings" were=

apparently taking skin samples. Her face was left with a pink fleshy scoop=

down my left cheek, directly on the cheekbone. A teardrop scar was left on=

her cheek.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical Universe
Type: G?




30.
Location. Bethlehem, Israel
Date: March 21 2002
Time: night
At the besieged Church of The Nativity several awed witnesses have come
forward describing the events of Thursday night. That night, a smell of
roses filled the sanctuary as the Daughters of Charity held their evening
prayers. "The sweet scent was soon followed by a high musical humming sound=

and a distinct feeling of warmth emanating from the ceiling." Then, the
sisters reported, seeing a glowing beam of light gradually forming the
likeness of the Blessed Virgin "like a film coming into focus." Tears were=

running down her face, and she uttered a prophetic warning. "Time is
growing short, and the promised Judgment Day is nearly at hand." One week
before the apparition, The Church of the Holy Family was the scene of a
ferocious firefight between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 17Type: F


31.
Location. Not given
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 2255
16-year old Steven Mizon saw hovering over a street a large oval shaped
craft encircled in bright lights and with several lighted windows around
its edge. A figure stared down at him from one of the windows. No other
information.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Watch
Type: A



32.
Location. Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain
Date: March 26 2002
Time: 1500
A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a deserted road when=

he noticed ahead in the distance and in the middle of the roadway an object=

resembling a shiny pear that was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat
perplexed he approached and noticed two individuals standing on a nearby
field. These were over 2 meters in height, wore tight fitting white
coveralls and helmets resembling that of the early astronauts. He parked
his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men=

walked away and entered the shiny pear-shaped craft while the other
remained behind. Knowing that these men were "not from this earth" he still=

asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt that as
he approached the strange pair he had been in some type of a trance and
seemed to have floated over the road. The humanoid answered and appeared
genuinely happy as to his offer of assistance but said that everything was=

in order. He also added that the area was very beautiful and also added:
"Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such
beautiful scenes, they disappeared a long time ago." The astounded witness=

managed to ask the humanoid where he was from and was told that they hailed=

from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The=

humanoid smiled as he answered the question. The humanoid then bid goodbye=

and walked towards the nearby shiny pear shaped object, he then disappeared=

inside of it. The craft then emitted a loud whistling sound and disappeared=

at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the
humanoids as about 2.50 meters in height, wide chests and heavy set, thin
legs. Generally human features, but somewhat "refined" or sharpened
features. The suits were very tight fitting made of an apparent synthetic
material resembling plastic. Their eyes were very light almost white and
their speech was hesitant & accented. Also their movements seemed kind of
clumsy.

HC addendum
Source: J M Garcia, Francisco Padron, SpainType: B


33.
Location. Pringle Lake, Texas
Date: March 28 2002
Time: 1100A
Mark Hakemack and a friend had taken an airboat out on the NW side of the
lake to do a little redfish fishing. The day was kind of hazy, with broken=

cloud cover. They had caught several trout and were just chatting when he
hooked up a large redfish while playing with the fish, Mark happened to
glance upwards and saw a large bird-like creature emerge from a cloudbank.=

His friend saw it too, after about 20 to 25 seconds it flew behind cloud
cover again. The strange creature was grayish in color and the profile of a=

raptor, short neck/head, no legs sticking out behind, and no long tail
feathers. Mark could not take his eyes off it. He estimated the wingspan to=

have been 10' to 14 ' in overall. It appeared to be soaring on the wind,
although, he did see it give a couple of light "flaps" with its wings. The=

witness could only relate this to the legendary "Thunderbird" legend.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.comType: E


34.
Location. Sevilla, Spain
Date: March 30 2002
Time: late night
The witness to the March 26 case was at home with his wife and was getting=

ready to sleep when he heard footsteps coming from patio area outside his
chalet. Armed with a club, he opened the door and was stunned to see the
same two tall heavyset humanoids he had encountered 4 days before. One of
the humanoids was kneeling on the ground as if inspecting something on the=

soil, the other one upon hearing the door open, turned and quickly assured=

the witness not to fear that they were not here to harm him. Stunned, the
witness invited the two humanoids in the house for some refreshments (!).
These declined the invitation telling that they had to go already. Using
the same clumsy movements both humanoids walked towards the rear of the
house where the witness noticed the same shiny metallic pear shaped craft
on the ground. They entered the object, which quickly left at high speed.
The witness's wife awakened by the voices was able to see the two humanoids=

from a second story window, and described them in the same way.

HC addendum
Source: Francisco Padron, Jose Manuel Garcia, SpainType: B


35.
Location. Los Cipreses, Chile
Date: March 31 2002
Time: noon
During a local UFO congress 24 persons in three groups entered a
dimensional gateway that appeared by itself over the terrain. It was kind
of a dome, a luminous archway measuring four by four meters. The
participants lost their materiality without disappearing completely. Upon
entering, they met several human-like alien characters with large baldheads=

and wearing robes that waited within and received information. According to=

sources the contact experience was "dimensional" it was like crossing into=

a different reality. The 24 participants were "all professionals, college
students of high intellectual levels, mostly Chileans," and some were
members of Grupo Rama, a New Age association.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 16, quoting Camilo Valdivieto
Type: G or F?


36.
Location. Tbilissi Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: night
A man entered the local St David church and reported that "a phantom with
wings" had approached him and predicted an earthquake that indeed took
place on April 25 2002, devastating areas of central Georgia.

HC addendum
Source: Pravda
Type: E?


37.
Location. Near Macon, Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: 2300
Three friends were awakened by loud banging noises and bellowing sounds
coming from outside. One of the men ran to the bathroom and looked out the=

window to see a figure run by and squat in the nearby bushes. He described=

the creature as about 3 ft tall, hairy with what appeared to be horns on
its head and hands; he could not see a face. Others in the neighborhood
heard the banging noises.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.com and direct witness
Communication.
Type: E


38.
Location. Belvedere di Tezze, Italy
Date: April 26 2002
Time: evening
A 20-year old woman was returning home one night when she noticed some
bright lights nearby of an unknown origin. She followed the lights in her
car until she stopped near a local pizzeria. She saw the light near the
ground and within the lights two tall slender human like figures wearing
some type of headgear. Since she was carrying a camera she was able to snap=

a quick picture. The figures then vanished. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Gruppo Accademico Ufologico Scandicci quoting
"Il giornale di Vicenza"Type: E?


39.
Location. Puente Santamaria, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: early morning
Two young men observed a dark object descend towards the ground about 100
meters away. According to the two witnesses from the craft descended a
small humanoid, orange in color. Very scared they both ran from the area
and reported their experience to others.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: B


40.
Location. Merceditas, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: evening
An elderly couple was walking along National Route # 8 when about 800
meters from their location they noticed a very strong light. The light
descended next to a puddle at about 70 meters from the witness. Both then
saw two very short orange colored humanoids that moved in very agile
movements near the object. Terrified they walked away and upon looking back=

saw a bright glow on the ground.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: C


41.
Location. Barangay, Philippines
Date: May 2002
Time: night
Several local residents reported seeing a bizarre creature described as an=

"aswang" reputed to be a winged vampire type creature, it reportedly had
red glowing eyes, long black hair, and was wearing a white flowing gown. It=

was seen perched on top of a bamboo tree. Residents at nearby Roxas
reported seeing a similar creature. The police was called but a search
failed to locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Akasico.comType: E


42.
Location. Alvear, La Pampa Argentina
Date: May 3 2002
Time: near midnight
Several young men were returning home late at night along a deserted
roadway when suddenly out of nowhere a female figure wearing a light
flowing gown and with long black hair appeared in front of them. The
strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly and repeatedly asked for=

assistance from the men in a strange urgent tone. Terrified the men ran
from the area and later returned with additional witnesses but they could
find no trace of the strange apparition.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E?


43.
Location. Taralgon Victoria, Australia
Date: May 24 2002
Time: 2355
Walking near the Loy Yang Power station 45-year old Martin Taylor was
suddenly blinded by an intense blue light and he felt extremely dizzy. His=

next memory was of being in a circular room with a variety of lights and
buttons scattered about the walls. He was lying on a large table that
seemed to be of a very highly polished metal. He was strapped down and his=

shirt had been removed. There were wires attached to his arms, neck and
temples. A four ft tall humanoid figure with very large almond shaped eyes,=

almost transparent looking skin, ghostly white in appearance examined him.=

The figure had three extremely long fingers on each hand and spoke in a
strange dialect.

HC addendum
Source: UFO WatchType: G


44.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: May 29 2002
Time: midnight
Irma Rick watched a rotating luminous object descend close to the ground
next to a grain silo; it gave off a powerful bluish light through some
openings around its circumference. It hovered close to the ground. Through=

an opening a strange creature was seen to descend to the ground. It was
described as having an elongated semi-transparent white body; it also had
an elongated head. She could not see any eyes or legs on the creature as it=

stood motionless next to the craft. She observed the creature and object
for about 5 minutes until she dropped the flashlight she was carrying.
Afraid she left the area and did not see the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: B



45.
Location. Lembang Bandung, Indonesia
Date: May 30 2002
Time: 2315
The witness was driving his motorcycle across a highland area when he
spotted some flashing lights overhead and then noticed a silvery
disc-shaped craft descend low over some nearby graves at a cemetery. The
craft had blue and orange flashing lights around its rim. There was no
sound as the craft apparently emitted a beam of light towards the ground
and levitated what appeared to be some dead bodies onboard the object. (!)=

The witness was apparently paralyzed and was unable to move. The craft then=

shot away at a 45-degree angle and disappeared from sight. When that
happened the witness left the scene.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


46.
Location. Houston, Texas
Date: late May 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness was at the local electric company in order to pay a bill when
she decided to use the restrooms. Sitting in the stall she then noticed on=

the side of the wall of the stall what appeared to be a face lit up in a
dull light. When the witness looked directly at the "face" it vanished. She=

described is as having large round eyes no visible nose and a slit-like
mouth. (A peeping tom alien?)

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.comType: E?


47.
Location. General Acha, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: early June 2002
Time: various
A resident of the Oeste neighborhood informed newspaper sources that a
short green-colored dwarf like entity has appeared twice on her property:
once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When her husband ran out
responding to her screams, the mysterious entity vanished by rapidly
climbing up a tree. All versions agree in that the entity is short in
stature. Another resident added that it moved so quickly that it was hard
to describe it. In the same area mysterious cattle mutilations have also
been reported.

HC addendum
Source: Loren Coleman in UFO UpdatesType: E


48.
Location. Ojo De Agua, Argentina
Date: June 2002
Time: afternoon
Several passengers onboard two farm micro buses reported seeing a very tall=

dark man like figure that appeared to be wearing a tight fitting diver's
outfit standing on a nearby field. Nearby numerous mysterious animal
mutilations have been reported. The figure was silent and was quickly lost=

from sight as the buses moved away.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E




49.
Location. Near Tampa, Florida
Date: June 2002
Time: night
A man and three of his friends reported encountering two bizarre chupacabra=

type creatures one stood about 3-4 ft tall, the other looked to be about 6=

ft tall. Both had large glowing red eyes and spikes starting from the head=

to the back. They scurried away into a wooded area. (They were to have
further encounters in August).

HC addendum
Source: Art Bell.comType: E


50.
Location. Antalya, Turkey
Date: June 5 2002
Time: afternoon
Approximately 45 witnesses claimed they saw an UFO in the Santral district=

landing on the backyard of the Fatma Primary School. Several students
including Murat Esici age 11 saw an alien emitting red rays from his eyes
come out of the object. His hands and feet were metallic. He had a very big=

head and was about 1.80 meters in height. Esici temporarily lost her voice=

immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also=

claimed they san an unusual craft and an alien beside it. "His eyes and
hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes." The children
were overcome with shock after the incident.

HC addendum
Source: Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center Intl
Type: B


51.
Location. Polonnauruwa, Sri Lanka
Date: June 8 2002
Time: 2200
Approximately 50 to 70 eyewitnesses saw a UFO flying at about 100 meters
above ground level. The object was silent and briefly landed emitting a
bright flash like light. When it was close to the ground the object emitted=

a buzzing sound. Three other witnesses saw three 2 ft tall creatures than
when approached ran into the jungle and disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Sources
Type: D


52.
Location. Polonnaruwa, Sir Lanka
Date: June 9 2002
Time: 2012
Two witnesses went to a bath on a nearby river when they heard a loud
thundering sound and a UFO appeared. The craft landed nearby and two, 2 ft=

tall "aliens" emerged from the object. One of the humanoids flung a small
fluorescent fireball like object that flew over a house and vanished. Soon=

the craft and humanoids disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC & News Reports
Type: B



53.
Location. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Date: June 10 2002
Time: 1900
Witnesses saw a mysterious light in the sky and others saw a large disc
shaped object land nearby. Three humanoids only about 2 ft tall emerged
from the craft and disappeared into the forest when approached. The object=

also left.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Reports
Type: B


54.
Location. Chantilly, Virginia
Date: June 10 2002
Time: night
The witness was awakened during the night with a sense of some presence in=

the room. Looking toward the door, he saw, fading quickly, something, which=

almost had the appearance of a hologram. Next, shadows appeared outside the=

windows in an erratic shape. At first he thought the shadows to be from
trees moving in a strong wind. The appearance was of a storm blowing the
limbs to create these shadows outside the window. However, there was no
storm. He looked at the adjacent window on the side of the house facing
opposite and there was no wind at all. In fact there was no trees
positioned in such a way to cast a shadow. He opened the blinds to see what=

might be causing the shadows. He then saw what seemed to be a hologram with=

the shape of two small eyes moving erratically outside the window.
Frightened he closed the blinds. Two weeks later he was awakened by a
humming sound and again saw the erratic shadows outside the window. He
watched the shadows for 10-15 minutes and then called the police. The
police found no signs of any intrusion in the yard. When the police left
the witness walked toward the door facing the back porch and saw a large
burst of bluish white light. It looked unnatural, almost like a laser. He
has not seen the "shadows" again.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: E?


55.
Location. Ataliva Roca, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 11 2002
Time: 1930
A worker at a local drainage project was sitting and guarding some
machinery when he noticed a short greenish colored humanoid figure that was=

approaching his location from a nearby field. The witness became concerned=

and drove away from the area in the construction equipment and did not see=

the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


56.
Location. Eduardo Castex, La Pampa Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Two girls of a local school encountered a short greenish humanoid figure in=

the playing yard. The figure was standing up and appeared to be raising its=

arms up to the sky. Terrified the two girls retreated into the school and
watched the figure scurry away into some nearby woods. Around the same time=

a local farmer found a strangely mutilated hog in his farm.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


57.
Location. Chasico, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Hugo Deluca and several other workers were parked in a bus in an isolated
area when they spotted about 20 meters away a short, 1.20 meters tall,
bipedal figure completely covered in gray hair. It walked upright like a
man and then scurried away into some woods vanishing from sight. The area
had been hit with animal mutilations around the same time.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


58.
Location. Castex, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 13 2002
Time: night
A 70-year old man had gone to his driveway to check on a flat tire in his
car when a short light green colored humanoid suddenly appeared next to
him. It had large round ears, and two reddish luminous eyes. Its body was
thin and almost triangular in shape. The witness attempted to yell out but=

was suddenly unable to speak and at the same time strange warmth invaded
his body. Several seconds later the humanoid vanished and the witness
returned to normal. He reported the incident to the police.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


59.
Location. La Laguna, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 14 2002
Time: afternoon
Several youngster had gone into the fields in order to obtain some firewood=

when they saw sitting on a clearing in the woods two human like figures,
all dressed in black. They sat facing each other, one looking towards the
east the other towards the west, unmoving. Unnerved by the sight the
juveniles ran from the area. The next day the father of one of the boys
found two dead cows at the site, but could find no trace of the strange
pair. Days later a sheep and a horse were found dead and strangely
mutilated in the nearby location of El Cardonal.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: E


60.
Location. De Kalb, Illinois
Date: June 15 2002
Time: 0030A
The witness was sitting in his family room watching TV when he noticed a
bright flash of light outside the window. He saw the flash several times
and decided to check his backyard there he saw a circular light moving
around in circles. The light began to get closer; scared he ran inside his=

home and called a friend on the phone. He then quickly ran outside and saw=

the circle getting closer, he noticed that it had a purplish color to it
and it began to descend towards the ground. He became nauseous and dizzy
and collapsed on to the ground. He tried to crawl to the house but was
unable to move. He turned his head and saw the purplish object on the
ground and what appeared to be a door opening up. He then heard a squeaking=

noise and saw a tall and a short figure standing by a door of the object.
The two figures started to move towards him, walking in a strange bopping
fashion. They were of a dark complexion with a bumpy texture, other than
that they resembled normal human beings. The shorter figure approached and=

picked up the witness' camera and stared at it. He then looked at the
taller figure and handed it to him. The taller of the two looked at the
camera and then at the witness. The witness then heard loud unpleasant
shrieks coming from the taller figure, which then gave the camera back to
the shorter figure, which covered the camera with his hand, seconds later a=

light began to emerge from their hands. Then they stopped, threw the camera=

aside and began to walk towards the witness. They reached his side and
started to examine his body. A dog began to bark from inside the house and=

the shorter figure put out his hand and the dog stopped barking. At this
point the witness began to vomit. After about a minute he began to relax
and to breathe better. When he turned his head he realized that the two
figures and the purple spherical object were now gone. The next day he had=

a very severe headache.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: B


61.
Location. San Juan, Argentina
Date: June 20 2002
Time: evening
At a location where the body of a strangely mutilated carcass of a cow was=

found two witnesses reported seeing a small creature with large glowing
slanted eyes and about one meter in height. Later in the same area, members=

of the Gimenez family after investigating noises and a strong odor coming
from a wooded area found a mutilated cow and also watched a short humanoid=

with glowing eyes scurrying away into the woods.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


62.
Location. Manuel Rodriguez, Calama, Chile
Date: June 22 2002
Time: after midnight
A bizarre creature was spotted at a local housing complex on San Antonio
Street. Witnesses reported that it resembled an ape and it jumped all over=

the roof. It passed right in front of the witness, Maria Gavia's window and=

then it came back making all manner of noise. The creature was able to make=

very long jumps, unlike any a human could. It jumped and landed on the
neighbor's roof and then it left the area. Neighborhood dogs acted scared
and began howling. Others described the creature as about 1.5 meters tall,=

stocky in build with bright red eyes. It made a lot of noise. Others
reportedly chased the creature.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center, quoting El
Mercurio de CalamaType: E


63.
Location. Angencia Realico, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 23 2002
Time: late night
Several hunters returning to a local ranch spotted about 50 meters away two=

large glowing reddish eyes staring at them. They turned off their
flashlight and approached closer on foot, about 30 meters away they again
saw the reddish eyes on a dark creature that appeared to be standing on top=

of an apparently dead animal. One of the hunters shone its flashlight on
the figure again and saw a figure about 40 cm in height that quickly ran
from the area at very high speed. The creature disappeared into the brush.=

At the scene, a dead and mutilated young heifer. Other mutilations were
reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


64.
Location. Rancul, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 25 2002
Time: 2020
Two young men, Nestor Pinto and Daniel Gatica were walking on a field when=

they encountered a short man-like figure with huge pointy ears and long
dangling arms standing near some brush. The figure scurried into the brush=

and disappeared and at the same time the two witnesses ran away from the
area and did not see the strange dwarf again.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


65.
Location. Bavaria, Germany (exact location not given)
Date: June 25 2002
Time: night
The witness had stayed up late watching the soccer game as was in his
bedroom when suddenly there was a coldness around him that made him shiver.=

He noticed that his audio capabilities were somehow enhanced and he was
able to hear sounds that previously he was unable to hear. He then heard a=

noise outside his door and went out to investigate. The noise became louder=

as he approached the door. He then heard footsteps and opened the door. A
very small man with a somewhat deformed body that was smiling at him
confronted the witness. He looked straight ahead and then stared at the
witness. His next memory was of waking up in his bed in the morning.

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.com
Type: E


66.
Location. Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2105
The primary witness had stepped out on his back porch when his attention
was drawn to two huge black "birds" which were approaching from the north.=

His first impression was they were Herons, but soon realized that the color=

was wrong, and "they were huge, much larger than any bird I have ever
seen." The two huge birds landed at the top of a very tall coniferous tree.=

The witness stated that the wingspan appeared to be wider than the
branches, jest below where they had landed. The body size was estimated to=

be about six feet from head to tail. The oddest feature was the shape of
the wings, which according to the witness appeared to be bat-like. The tree=

where the "birds" landed seemed as though it would break from their weight.=

The witness yelled for others in the house to come outside to look. Another=

family member was able to see the huge black birds as they passed overhead,=

and headed for some woods. After checking the size of the branches where
the birds had landed, the witness estimated that the wingspan would have
been close to 12 feet or somewhat larger.

HC addendum
Source: Stan GordonType: E


67.
Location. Marldon Hill, Paington, England
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2357
A couple were walking near a local historic monument (a windmill) and they=

drew closer to monument they heard a low whirling noise. The noise
progressed to a high-pitched whining, almost out of hearing range. Then
they saw a mysterious glow coming from the dark side of the windmill, and
then to their astonishment they saw 5 or 6 shadow like figures standing in=

front of the windmill. Startled the two began to run back towards the main=

road. The woman looked back and saw the figures become engulfed by a bright=

light and disappear, and then everything became quiet.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Sightings UKType: E?


68.
Location. Adelia Maria, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 3 2002
Time: 2100
Pedro and Estela Moine had decided to visit the business district of town
called Barrio Norte and crossed the old railroad yard through a pedestrian=

pathway that ran through a pasture area between some silos, old railroad
depots and abandoned wreckage. As the couple moved through the premises
they suddenly became aware of a strange and incomprehensible conversation
between many voices. Startled, they stopped walking moved a few meters more=

and then heard the voices again which now sounded like strange "O" sounds.=

Pedro looked toward the silos and was able to see resembling humanoid but
lacking upper and lower extremities. Despite the pleas of his wife, Pedro
ran several meters toward an inner alley in the silo plant, being able to
make out some 45 meters to the west and in profile---the entity, which
acting surprised, avoided the encounter and moved again to the north.
However, what filled the witnesses with wonderment was that the creature
did so as though flying or floating without touching the facilities it
passed. Pedro and Estela ran after it. It was thus that the man managed to=

see the entity apparently hiding behind the control room of the truck
scale. Pedro ran toward it and was again startled to see the apparition
rising as a plane taking off, flying at an altitude of 5 meters and
disappearing behind a large metal shed. Bewildered, both witnesses called
out, but were unable to see anything else. Pedro Moine as "a thing with
human shape" described the apparition. It had some sort of light, although=

he could not say if reflected or self-generated, although he tends to
believe the latter, since it was a nebulous whitish light, which kept him
from making out details. The entire mass of the apparition appeared to be a=

body covered from head to toe in some sort of mantle, which he described as=

though it wore a hat, but covered with some kind of long raincoat reaching=

down to what he took to be its feet. He added that the "conversational
sounds" repeated themselves in three separate occasions at various
intensities. They were like conversations in a strange language.

HC addendum
Source: Mario Luis Bracamonte, C.O.R, Rio Cuarto Argentina
Type: E


69.
Location. Jerusalem, Israel
Date: July 6 2002
Time: night
A remote TV camera picked up images of "orbs seen on the corner to the
right of the Wailing Wall." They seemed to have facial features almost like=

a ghost, reported investigator Charlotte LeFevre. The orbs were described
as "sharp and distinct". The orbs were next to the women's prayer area in
front of the Wall. Other strange phenomena, has been reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 29Type: F?


70.
Location. Villa Elisa, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: July 13 2002
Time: 2300
A young woman fainted from nervous shock after having an alleged closed
encounter with "some sort of green dwarf". This occurred---enveloped in
darkness---along Misioneros Salesianos Street very close to several houses.=

An ambulance was called and apparently transported the witness who was in
shock.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria ColuchiType: E


71.
Location. Patna, India
Date: July 21 2002
Time: night
Several residents claim they've been bitten or scratched by a "black
monkey-like creature with colored lights flashing from its eyes." Resident=

Pawan Kumar Niyogi who was sleeping on the terrace of his house claims "a 5=

ft tall monkey-like creature" attacked him. He said: "I was terrified and
thought my life was going to end but it merely scratched me on the shoulder=

before jumping off the roof." Local residents are conducting night vigils
and carrying torches to guard their homes.

HC addendum
Source: Ananova, Ufoupdates. Type: E


72.
Location. Chajan, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 21 2002
Time: 2300
Police officer Guillermo Arias was on routine patrol through a rural area
when he heard over the radio that his colleagues in arms over at Achiras
were seeing lights in sectors of said community, and that they were heading=

towards Chajan along National Route 8. At the wheel of the police patrol
van, he managed to see a formation of 7 lights in the distance and decided=

to drive 10 km along a rural dirt road. When he had covered said distance,=

he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine of his vehicle sputtered=

and died, causing the police car to strike the edge of a guardrail.
Simultaneously, the lights on the van's dashboard began turning on and off=

randomly, the police radio went haywire and its dial displayed the random
shifting of the frequencies while the cabin became filled with an acrid
odor, as though of burnt wiring, and the interior lights and stop
indicator, which were broken, began lighting on and off. Seized by fear,
Arias leaped from the van and walked away a few meters down the road,
losing his cellular phone in the escape. The darkness was total, when
suddenly, amid the confusing situation; an immense light emerged from a
field adjacent to the road as a triangular object rose majestically into
the air. Now Arias condition went from fear to abject terror as he saw what=

he described as a real "floating city" some 200 meters long with a long row=

of windows (perhaps as many as 100). Arias claims having seen something
move behind them, describing the movement as "TV sets which make lines and=

shadows", which he defined as "non-human", and that many beams of light
came out of the giant triangle, aimed at the ground. The event lasted 2-3
seconds, but to Arias it felt like an eternity. The object suddenly rose
and sped away, vanishing behind the hills of a local field. As the object
moved away, the whole area was lit up like daytime and there was an
afterglow that lasted another 20 minutes.

HC addendum
Source: C.O.R., Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense, Argentina
Type: A


73.
Location. Waconia, Minnesota
Date: July 26 2002
Time: 0300A
The young witness was sleeping in the backyard with his sister when he
suddenly woke up. He then noticed that the side of the tent that faced the=

wetlands and lake was lit up. Looking towards the light he saw a shadowy
torso and arm of a humanoid figure that seemed to be moving around within
the light. He watched for 30 seconds and saw the figure move the fingers of=

his hands. The witness became frightened and hid in his sleeping bag. He
came out about an hour later and the light and strange figure were
completely gone.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


74.
Location. Sedona, Arizona
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 0310A
In a wooded area the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all
white, with black "straight" eyes; and black diagonal/diamond strip of
"clothing" on top. He stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then
left. Prior to seeing the figure the witness had seen lights in a large
oval shaped pattern in the sky.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


75.
Location. Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 1730
Three girls had decided to visit the rooftop as they did the prior evening=

watching for satellites. It was dusk and the girls had a good vantage point=

looking towards the east. With them they had a pair of binoculars and a
pair of walkie-talkies. The girls noticed that a large orange light
appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The anomaly
was noted to have fluctuated in colors of orange, yellow, white and pale
blue. At fist they thought of an arriving airplane, but then a second light=

appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10=

degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some=

unusually maneuvering; from a stationary position it accelerated at least 5=

degrees closer to the ground surface at an approximate 45-60 degree angle
within a matter of a single second. The first anomaly then began to move
slowly towards the north. At this stage they partially lost view of it as
it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley-like
region of the horizon. According to the witnesses, this third object
appeared to have "landed" on the ground surface. The object was then viewed=

through the binoculars and presented in great detail; the object was
described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange,=

blue/purple and white rotating around the rim. Thy also noted the trees
being slightly illuminated by this extraordinary phenomenon. They were
suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, "Identify
yourself." This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in a
foreign language. Around 1830 the girls were then called down to have
dinner. At about 2030 the girls re-established their places on the roof
after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still
present. Unexpectedly a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above
the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. "It
was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away." The=

light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it=

is not clear how one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became
extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed
her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not=

sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another of the girls woke up
the next morning with her nose bleeding. She also mentioned that she had
seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom.

HC addendum
Source: The Australian UFO Research NetworkType: D or
F?



76.
Location. Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 29 2002
Time: early morning
Local residents have seen a strange figure, which they described as
resembling a "shroud". The apparitions, which always occur in the early
morning hours, have become so common that in recent days several neighbors=

have stayed up late to see them, and it is thus that they were able to
confirm the simultaneous presence of up to 2 such beings, as well as red
lights flying over the area. All the witnesses whether individuals or in a=

group, agree that the entities are nebulous and glowing, with a pair of red=

eyes being clearly identifiable, and glassy faces (as if transparent).
Their movements are smooth and they always appear from behind the sand
dunes, as though "coming form the Naval Base." Most witnesses agree that
they show a great interest in the water tanks located above the roofs, and=

that they do not flee upon detecting the presence of local
residents---rather, they stare at them fixedly for some minutes. Deep
silence is perceived during the observations and "the air appears to become=

still" and neither heat nor cold can be felt---only a sensation of warmth,=

as if the beings emanated heat. Witnesses also state that things appear to=

be darker when "the shroud" appears, as though ambient lighting were
dimmed. Another curious fact is the large number of cats and dogs who
report to the place where the sightings occur and sit down to observe it in=

silence, in a state resembling a trance. A series of semi-circular prints
have been found in the dunes, not very deep, with 15-20 cm separations in
some cases and 30-50 cm in others. The locals have identified them as the
strange being's footprints. Efforts have been made to photograph the
"shroud", but all images, despite the use of different cameras appear
exposed. One witness who approached the site to witness the phenomenon took=

two photos of the prints in the afternoon and decided to stay with the
group of people hoping to see the "shroud", managing to take some photos of=

same and record the new prints which appeared in the dunes after the
sighting. A completely uncommon print was found at the site---but the
residents aren't sure if it's related to the phenomenon: it has the shape
of a five-fingered claw. One witness tried to make use of his carbine's
telescopic sight to see the figure in greater detail, but "when he tried to=

focus on it, he could see nothing_it was a though it could only be seen
with the unaided eye."

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, IHU, Christian Quintero and O A Mario
Proyecto Condor
Type: C or E?


77.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 30 2002
Time: 0530A
27-year old Mariela Baigorri reported seeing a strange figure that floated=

in front of her house. She had woken up early that morning and was getting=

ready to mount her bicycle when she saw behind the fence something floating=

in mid-air. It appeared to be a figure wearing a flowing white transparent=

tunic, with bright red eyes and undefined facial features. Feeling no fear=

she decided to approach it. She felt as if the figure waited for her and
was observing her. At this point Mariela felt some fear and began reciting=

the Lord's Prayer. The figure suddenly moved back and disappeared in plain=

sight.

HC addendum
Source: Juan Carlos Corrales Morey, Vision Ovni, Argentina
Type: E


78.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 31 2002
Time: 1845
23-year old Julian Pereyra was in his vehicle when he observed two red
spheres flying slowly over some nearby woods, they seemed to descend and
disappear behind the trees. 15 minutes later, Pereyra, accompanied by
several other witnesses approached the area and observed what they
described a tall floating figure wearing a white glowing cape like outfit,=

it seemed to glide silently over a field. It had what appeared to be a
visor at face level and two beams of red light emerged from where the eyes=

would have been. The witnesses watched the strange figure glide over the
fields for about 30 minutes. Curiously numerous local dogs and cats
approached and also watched the figure in fascination. The lights and
figure disappeared into the distance. In another occasion Pereyra and some=

of his family members encountered the strange humanoid and felt a strange
sensation as if the wind had suddenly stopped, they felt as they were
inside a vacuum or "bubble." Strange tracks have been reportedly found in
the area also.

HC addendum
Source: Diario La Nueva Provincia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Type: C?


79.
Location. La Cienaga, Pocri, Panama
Date: early August 2002
Time: night
Luis Alfredo Diaz reported hearing loud noises coming from the terraced
patio where the kitchen was located, going to investigate he found his cat=

apparently dead with two obvious holes on the neck and some blood on the
floor. Before finding the cat he had called his wife, Maria de Los Santos
Barrios. As his wife stood in front of him a panic stricken look came over=

her face, turning around he was confronted by a bizarre 1-meter tall
humanoid that had jumped to the center of the patio. The creature was
described as thin, covered with dark hair, with large pointed ears that
almost covered its face, it had very large eyes and extremely strong hind
legs resembling that of a kangaroo. Terrified he ran to his son's bedroom
and carried him outside yelling for his neighbors. A search failed to
locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Panamanian Paranormal Forum
Type: E


80.
Location. Near Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Date: August 2002
Time: night
The same witness involved in a similar encounter last year was again
camping in the same area when he again heard a noise. Shining the light in=

the direction of the sound he again saw the same creature. The creature sat=

there crouched by the trees staring at the witness. The witness walked
slowly towards it, he got to within 20 ft when it just jumped backward and=

disappeared. He described the creature as about five to six ft in height,
gray in color. It was totally naked. It had human features, but more
leathery, and its face was very wide, its eyes were huge and even though
they reflected light, they still looked black, resembling two intensely
black marbles. Its legs were very muscular, but turned backwards, like a
bird. Other hikers in the area have reported encountering little brown men=

on some of the more isolated trails.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal Story Archives, November 2002Type: E


81.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: August 1 2002
Time: late evening
64-year old Raul Dorado was touring some fields when he heard a loud sound=

on two occasions, like a whirlwind, which drew his attention. The third
time he saw something he describes as a green circle with three legs
hovering over him. At that moment Dorado fell to the ground, and according=

to his story, he carried a shotgun, binoculars and a cellular phone, the
latter, which was taken from his hand, and he could clearly see being
sucked into the object, which was apparently at low altitude. His next
recollection was seeing the object disappear toward the east. Dorado
remained at the location for an hour before being able to rise and walk
back to his car, returning to town in a state of shock. He had to be
hospitalized. Later when calls were placed to the (abducted) cellular phone=

someone would pick up and heavy breathing could be heard. Later on the
phone was apparently disconnected.

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, quoting Diario La Arena, La PampaType: G?


82.
Location. Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Date: August 2 2002
Time: 1730
A man named Todd Sees went up the mountain to look for pre-season deer. He=

told his wife that he would be home by noon. He rode his 4-wheeler up the
power line behind his home. He never returned. A search party composed of
local police, state police and volunteers searched for Sees. The 4-wheeler=

was found on the top of the mountain near a power-line. Tracking dogs could=

find nothing to go on around the 4-wheeler. The search went on for 2 days
and over 6 miles of mountain was covered from top to bottom. Then, in the
evening of the 2nd day, his body was found in a hard to reach wooded area.=

He was wearing his underwear. He was emaciated---not bloated. He was pale
and had an expression of horror on his face. When he went up the mountain
he was fully dressed, boots, camo-vest, hat, socks, pants. 3 people, on one=

farm, said they saw a large round bright object just above the power-lines=

at the time of the disappearance. It was silent, it did not move for about=

10 to 15 minutes. It suddenly went up and suddenly stopped. A light shone
down and something was pulled up into the light. It then went straight up,=

hesitated again, and then went west over the Susquehanna River and out of
sight. More specifically a farmer saw an object above Montour Ridge at the=

power lines, on top of the mountain, it was round and very still over the
lines. Suddenly it moved what looked like a few hundred feet to the east,
it stopped and a beam of blue and white light shone to the ground. What was=

seen next was very unnerving, he saw what appeared to be a man suspended in=

the light, he was being pulled up head first, he was moving his arms slowly=

in the light. What looked like a man was pulled up into the bottom of the
craft. A few seconds later it started shuddering, then went west very fast,=

stopped briefly, and then went straight up and out of sight. Also three
fishermen saw the craft. The FBI is supposedly also investigating. (Debated=

as a hoax, who would? and for what purpose?).

HC addendum
Source: Rense, UFO updates, NUFORCType: G?






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                            2002 Humanoid Reports

From: Albert Rosales <Garuda79@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:32:05 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:14:40 -0500
Subject: 2002 Humanoid Reports


Happy new year everyone

Sincerely,

Albert

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2002 Humanoid Reports. It appears to be a slow start for this
year with only one recorded case, again from Chile. We will see
what develops later on the year. 2001 was pretty busy but it was
a decline from 2000. Maybe we will see another down trend again,
later to pick up again in the near future. This seems to be the
ever-ongoing trend of the phenomena. Will it always stay the
same? Time will tell. Following is a list of known 2002 humanoid
cases.


1.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: January 2002
Time: 0300A
An employee at the local Minera Escondida was on his way to the
storage freezer in order to pick up some supplies when an
unknown creature jumped him from behind. He could only describe
it as hairy and dark. He was left with deep scratches and in a
state of shock. Terrified he ran away and bumped into two other
employees who were able to see a shadowy creature in the dark.

HC addendum
Source: La Estrella del Loa de Calama, ChileType: E


2.
Location. Caracas, Venezuela
Date: January 2002
Time: late night
Late one night in a dream-like state the witness woke up to see
seven to eight strange figures in her bedroom. They were dark
gray in color and very thin, with three large thick long fingers
on their hands. They had large, lipless mouths and large shiny
protruding black eyes, their noses were thin and protruding,
small ears, the heads was large and pointy. The humanoids
appeared to be naked and she was able to see a penis on the
humanoids. They were about 1.55 meters in height. She felt dizzy
and under the control of the strange entities. She was led out
of her bedroom by one of the humanoids that removed her clothing
and made her lie down on the floor. The humanoids apparently
attempted to molest her sexually and possibly attempted to rape
her but were not successful. She apparently passed out and does
not remember anything else about the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Lista Alcione and witness communicationType: E


3.
Location. Fort McMurry, Alberta, Canada
Date: January 2 2002
Time: 2032
Two men were parked on an isolated dirt road when they spotted a
large cone-shaped object descend and hover. One of the men
exited the car and he vanished in plain sight of the other, the
craft then also disappeared. The other man tried to drive away
to get help but the car would not start and it was to cold to
walk. He soon went to sleep and woke up later to find his friend
sleeping next to him. Later they drove back to town. His friend
does not remember what happened during those two hours of
missing time. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


4.
Location. Paso Lovera, Corrientes, Argentina
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2030
Gabriela Lencinas, 15-year old and a 19-year old friend were
returning home on a bicycle when they spotted a large cloud like
object descend from the sky and from it a giant figure emerge.
The witnesses stopped their bicycles to see a car approach the
giant figure, stop, the driver exit the car and then re-entering
the vehicle and driving quickly away. The figure then rose up
into the cloud and disappeared. The girls reported that the
giant human-like figure had its hair standing up on his head and
was extending its arms towards the witnesses that quickly rode
their bicycles home. Other in the area reported seeing bright
lights that same night.

HC addendum
Source: Pablo Omastott
Type: B?


5.
Location. Villa San Rafael, Chile
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2345
Two young teenagers, Jean F and Nelson C, where at home at night
when Jean noticed that his pet snake had escaped from its cage.
Both boys began looking for it outside among the rubble of the
parcel. They recalled how half an hour before, their two dogs
strangely began to howl and cry; however, it did not seem to be
important at that point in time. They searched for the pet snake
together when suddenly, about 30 meters from where they stood;
they saw what appeared to be a stray dog. They threw rocks at to
avoid an attack. However, to their surprise, the animal stood
there, motionless and fearless; it did not get scared nor it ran
away as ordinary dogs normally do. Shortly, the strange animal
began to move towards them. The movements it made as it walked
were very strange. It used two legs at a time. It made very
small sand short leaps like a rabbit. Suddenly, it stopped and
it stood up on two legs. The teenagers then began to feel some
kind of energy. "It was like an electrical shock in the
stomach," they said. It later walked again making a loud
dragging noise, making small leaps and only moving one of its
legs. They noticed the weird shape of the animal. "It was like a
rugby football with legs," one of them said. Jean began to feel
frightened and started to move away from animal. On the other
hand, Nelson felt a strange need to get closer to the creature;
he got to within 2 meters away from it. The creature appear to
emit a strange luminosity that apparently, was bright enough to
lit a small area around the creature in spite of the nighttime
darkness. Nelson was mesmerized as he stared at the strange
creature. He described it as having a head like a large dog with
a flat nose like a bulldog. Its eyes were slanted and pale-red
in color, which could only be seen when the creature turned its
head from side to side like a lizard. At that moment, Nelson
heard a voice in his head saying, "Don't stare, and just run
away." They provided further description, describing the ears as
flat, round and large. Its arms were short, it had elbows, and
the hands had three fingers. It had hair like the one on a wild
pig. Its legs were like the ones of a goat. The feet had also
three fingers and a membrane like ducks, but somewhat shorter.
On its curved back, they were able to notice a spinal section
covered with amounts of even thicker hair. Most of the hair of
the animal was gray, but the tail had a white tip. Nelson
finally fled, terrified, from the area. He also described how he
felt an inexplicable bone-chilling cold sensation.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center
Type: E


6.
Location. Not given
Date: January 12 2002
Time: night
Ted Parker was eating some leftover food when he claims the food began to
change. The bread of the sandwich turned an orange color and the lamb
became a silvery metallic color, sort of like liquid mercury. As he watched=

transfixed, he saw the orange bread and metallic lamb turn into the figure=

of an "alien" with the form of a man. It was silver in color and its outfit=

(smooth pants and shirt, like a jump suit) was orange in color. At this
point Parker glanced at the wall clock and it indicated that 2 hours had
gone by, even though it felt like minutes only. The alien figure
communicated using telepathic means and asked Ted to come with him. They
both went outside and there, Ted saw a landed black-colored craft in his
backyard. In a split second Ted found himself inside the craft not knowing=

how he got there. The inside of the craft was pure white in color with
strips of the metallic silver that the alien figure appeared to be made of.=

The rest of the incident is just a blur, but Parker did remembered hearing=

several loud high-pitched rings while onboard the object. A couple of days=

before while eating dinner with several other people there had been a
similar high pitched ring and everybody had just stopped eating and walked=

out of the room.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: G or F?



7.
Location. Chihuahua, Mexico
Date: January 29 2002
Time: night
Several days before seeing a UFO the witness remembered being in a
dream-like state in which he felt very calm and saw numerous disc shaped
objects, orange-red in color. A human like figure was talking to him about=

the objects and their propulsion. The UFO he saw was of an orange color and=

he felt a sort of ecstasy when he observed the craft. Several of his
neighbors also saw the object.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: G or F?


8.
Location. Near Palmyra, Wisconsin
Date: February 2002
Time: 0200A
Two men reported seeing a creature that resembled a bipedal "gigantic wolf"=

walking down a road west of the city. They said the creature was at least 7=

ft tall with a wolf-like head. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Linda GodfreyType: E


9.
Location. West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
Nebilson Sangma reported encountering a scary furry creature on a hunting
trip in the jungles. He reportedly took a video of the creature's nesting
place. According to Sangma, the creature walked erect like a human, had
built a house like nesting place, and would emerge from it frequently to
feast on a banana grove. Sangma and his brother observed the gigantic
creature for three consecutive days from afar. Officials and villagers have=

been hunting for the creature in the forest but it seems to have
disappeared as furtively as it appeared.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 13
Type: E


10.
Location. Near Dover, England
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness had been jogging along a low path by the beach when she noticed=

a tall, well built being in a black skin tight suit, that stood watching
her from nearby. He wore a black helmet wit a brown visor pulled down. At
first she thought it was a biker but as she approached the figure, it
suddenly disappeared in plain sight. As she continued to run she noticed a=

black craft jutting out of the sand, it was small and oval shaped, matt and=

ribbed it also disappeared in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: E?


11.
Location. Rosario de la Frontera, Salta, Argentina
Date: February 2002
Time: night
A strange creature called by locals "El Pestizo" has attacked several lone=

pedestrians in the middle of the night. It is described as a dark man
shaped shadowy being. A boy riding his bicycle on the way to visit some
friends was toppled from his bicycle and found a black shadowy figure
facing him. The young man managed to upholster his shotgun and fire two
shots. But, when he saw that they had no effect, he promptly drew his knife=

and stabbed the figure without any apparent harm. Frightened the youth
tried to escape but the creature knocked him down without saying a word and=

began dragging him by the hair to the side of the road. At this point the
young man began to scream. A local man, who rushed to provide assistance,
only to find a black shadow dragging the boy by the hair, heard his cries.=

The fearful shape disappeared without a trace after it became aware of the=

other man's presence. Six other locals have reported being attacked by a
similar being and received wounds.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


12.
Location. Not given
Date: February 2002
Time: early morning
The witness was alone at home and was preparing his breakfast when suddenly=

he heard a window break; he went to see what had happened. Grabbing a golf=

club he peeked inside the room where the window broke. He was stunned to
see a strange creature climbing on his bed. It appeared to be hurt, because=

it seemed that it could not move well. Gripping the golf club he went a
step nearer and the creature hissed horribly. It shrieked in an unworldly
manner. Terrified the witness did not move. The creature was small, about
the size of a large rabbit, and it was dark in color and had reddish eyes.=

It had wings and a spine of quills on its back, and had a semi reptilian
face. It appeared to have hair and small legs. The witness raised the golf=

club and the creature hissed again showing its large yellowish teeth, which=

appeared to be sharp, like those of a crocodile. It suddenly hopped out of=

the window and rapidly hopped across the street into the oak trees.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June archiveType: E


13.
Location. Vigevano, Italy
Date: February 2002
Time: 0100A
In the outskirts of this city a witness observed from his vehicle a
luminous humanoid entity walking along a roadway. It scurried away into the=

darkness when approached.
No other information.

HC addendum
Source: CISU, ItalyType: E



14.
Location. Corguinho, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Date: February 5 2002
Time: night
During a localized UFO flap several witnesses reported seeing a strange
creature described as about 1.3 meters in height, having two legs, with a
physique like a human but who moved with a strange fluctuating motion. The=

creature was seen five times by twenty people in the rural zone around
Corguinho. In Rochedo, 6 miles south of Corguinho five Cebu cattle were
found dead with a single incision on the side of the throat. The bodies had=

been drained of blood. (Is there a connection?).

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


15.
Location. Mount Podbrdo, Bosnia Hercigovina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: morning
Contactee and stigmatic Giorgio Bongiovanni was visiting the shrine on top=

of the mountain and was praying silently to the Virgin when, to his
astonishment, a glowing luminous female figure appeared and touched his
forehead with her fingertips. His stigmata scar vanished instantly. The
female figure told him to return to Italy and make known what had happened.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 14
Type: E or F?


16.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: evening
73-year-old Maria Rufina Cayo, a local shepherd was walking back home with=

her dogs and the cattle. Suddenly at one point, something spooked the
animals, and these began to stampede. Looking around she spotted a bizarre=

creature standing about 12 meters away. She described it as a humanoid,
half animal, half human, about 1.70m in height, with bright red eyes, sharp=

protruding fangs, and hands and feet that ended in sharp claws. The
creature looked at the witness three times then it scrambled away using
quick jumping motions with is powerfully built hind legs, she also noticed=

large pointy ears. The top part of its body seems to have been covered in a=

shiny white blanket. It somehow resembled a centaur walking on two
claw-like feet.  Alerted by the shouts of Maria, two men, Santos Jaimes,
and Ruben Colque ran out to investigate with their dogs. Suddenly the dogs=

stopped and began making pitiful howling noises, they refused to move any
further. The men heard noises behind some nearby bushes and went to
investigate and spotted a bizarre creature that stood staring at them with=

huge reddish eyes. It then moved quickly away in the direction of Cerro
Negro and disappeared from sight. The witnesses noticed very sharp claws on=

the creature's feet with a very sharp claw that appeared to be pointed
backwards. Strange footprints were found the next day.

HC addendum
Source: El Tribuno, Salta Argentina March 27 2002
Also Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E



17.
Location. Khanpur, Ahmedabad, India
Date: February 20 2002
Time: after midnight
Several local residents reportedly have encountered a person, dressed in
black and wearing a mask. Dubbed the "Monkeyman" whom they described as
between 25 and 20 years of age, dark skinned and having curly hair can
reportedly be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees. Two
local youths chased it and the figure reportedly disappeared in plain
sight. The two youths have been behaving abnormally since then. The
stranger was also chased along the riverbed near the Cama Hotel and it also=

suddenly disappeared. Others have heard the stranger running on the
rooftops. Abdul Hamid another youngster of the local slums described the
figure as a tall lean man that carries a sharp weapon. "I saw him from the=

back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised the alarm, he jumped to=

another roof and then on to a tree." Police have searched for the stranger=

but nothing has been found.

HC addendum
Source: Fortean Times, India Express
Type: E


18.
Location. Prague, Czech Republic
Date: February 23 2002
Time: night
Blanka Slemendova was in her apartment when she saw a "ship" hovering over=

some nearby woods. It was shining red, white and yellow lights. She then
heard telepathic communication coming from the object telling her to go and=

meet them at an unspecified location. Looking over to her bedroom wall she=

saw what appeared to be a projection of human like faces looking at her.
Later that night she saw luminous figures in her room and a floating red
light also in her room. The next night she saw what appeared to be 2 gray
suns and around them a golden lights with numerous groups of shiny
human-like figures floating about. She interpreted these as being angels.

HC addendum
Source: Direct from witness (Slemendova)
Type: C & F?


19.
Location. Wycliffe Well Roadhouse, Northern Territory Australia
Date: early March 2002
Time: evening
While workers in the area watched unusual lights in the sky an aboriginal
woman encountered a triangular sort of object in a paddock and all of the
sudden she saw three silvery clad human like figures that began to move
toward her vehicle. She turned the vehicle around and took off.

HC addendum
Source: Lou Farcus ABC On-lineType: C


20.
Location. Near Canberra Australia
Date: March 2002
Time: 1700
Several friends were taking a trip to the coast and it was already very
dark. They had already entered a tropical forest area and there was a mist=

rolling along the ground. As they turned around they saw something
squatting in the middle of the road. It stared at them, and just as they
thought they were going to hit it, it leaped off the road and into the
trees. It leaped about 10 meters in the air. The creature was definitely
human looking although it wore strange clothes. It was dressed in a green
robe of some kind with little pieces of gold on it, and it was either
wearing a head crest or it had a row of spikes running from its forehead to=

the top of its neck. Very frightened the witnesses drove out of the forest=

and at the same time the mist turned to a thick fog. They pulled over and
decided to wait until the fog had cleared, although none of them were too
happy about it. As they sat around and waited they suddenly heard a shriek.=

It sounded like some sort of wild animal and they turned the car on so the=

headlights would scare it away. The headlights revealed the same creature
they had seen earlier. It hid its face from the light and shrieked. Right
before the witnesses' eyes, the creature seemed to evaporate into the fog.=

Within five minutes the fog had gone and the normal rolling mist was back.=

The witnesses quickly left the area and drove towards the coast.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June ArchiveType: E


21.
Location. Guanica Puerto Rico
Date: March 1 2002
Time: 2345
Reinaldo Rios (involved in other encounters) was in his bedroom that night=

when a large white light suddenly appeared. It flew around the room several=

times and then hovered. He heard voices coming from the light, which
communicated with him. The voice said: "I am your real father." Soon the
light transformed itself into a figure resembling that of a little boy it
then vanished in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: UFOs over America.com
Type: E


22.
Location. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 0800A
The witness and his wife were in bed that Saturday morning talking when
their 5-year-old daughter came into the bedroom with her baby brother,
whose cot is placed under their bedroom window. They heard a strange noise=

and some green light came into the window. Their daughter looked out the
window and reported seeing a "flying car" with four spinning green lights
on top. She saw two windows in the vehicle and saw two dark brown faces
looking out. His wife saw the craft flying past through the curtains. That=

same morning, in a large tree near the witness house a strange structure
was found. The branches were arranged in a rectangular pen shape, vertical,=

each approximately 30 to 40 cm long. They found a few smaller sticks
scaling down in size from the structure. A piece of concrete slab was found=

propped up on one corner. The witnesses had never seen this strange
structure before and think is some kind of message left by the visitors.
(Some kind of bizarre crop circle?). A few nights before they had heard
strange noises coming from the kitchen area.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: A


23.
Location. Golasecca Di Novara, Italy
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 2330
Augusto & Maurizia were in their vehicle parked in an open field next to a=

wooded area having a heated discussion when suddenly a powerful beam of
reddish-orange light illuminated the area around them. They rolled down the=

car window and heard a sharp metallic sound that seemed to be increasing in=

intensity. They now noticed, behind the beam of light a hovering
disc-shaped craft with a central rotating ring, it hovered about a meter
from the ground. From the object, a cigar-shaped beam of light emerged;
they could see it as the central ring of the craft slowly rotated on its
axis. The craft was only about 10 meters away. At this point, and only
about 4 meters from the object Augusto saw what appeared to be a gelatinous=

transparent humanoid-like figure with a visible head, arms and legs. The
figure was silvery in color and was very tall, about 3 meters or so. At
this point Augusto became concerned and drove away from the area and did
not see the object or figure depart. The whole episode lasted about 10
minutes. The metallic noise was heard all throughout the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Alfredo Lissoni, CUN Milano, Michelle Castellano CUN VareseType: C


24.
Location. Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England
Date: March 3 2002
Time: morning
Helen Diskin went for a walk in the countryside talking snap shots along
the way with her digital camera. Returning home she loaded these into her
computer and was intrigued by an odd-looking image. It looked like a
luminous figure in an area of no sunlight, skulking amongst the trees. She=

returned to the site of the photo twice afterward and could find no
explanation for the figure. The figure resembled a small helmeted figure
that she had not seen when she took the picture of an area of the woods she=

had thought of as "mysterious."

HC addendum
Source: Helen Diskin, UFO Magazine Vol. 22 # 1Type: E?


25.
Location. Near Trenton New Jersey
Date: March 4 2002
Time: night
Several witnesses were camping outside of town and late at night one of
them was attempting to put out the bonfire when he heard the most awful and=

horrifying scream. It resembled that of an injured dog crossed with a
scream of a woman. The witness dropped the flashlight and was joined by
another witness. Suddenly out of the woods a hideous and gruesome creature=

appeared. It did not look human, somewhat satyr-like in appearance and
walked on two legs. It had a long tail like a dragon and wings like those
unicorns in fantasy books. The beast took several steps towards the
witnesses and one of them picked up and asked and yelled at it and then
shone his flashlight at it. The creature then turned towards the bushes and=

ran away from the area.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: E


26.
Location. Pichaca, Salta, Argentina
Date: March 9 2002
Time: night
Ceferino Leoncio was cleaning his one room metal shack when suddenly a
bright light engulfed the room. He felt a sudden heat as he saw a tiny
figure (50 cm) of an angel-like creature materialize in front of him. It
slowly moved its small wing-like protrusions and moved around and then
suddenly stopped and remained still. It appeared to be a small living human=

like living being until it appeared to hardened and turn into some type of=

statue of cherubic appearance. Locals have now built a shrine around the
tiny "statue" and call the strange materialization a "religious miracle".

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso
Type: F?



27.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: March 16 2002
Time: 2215
Mirna, was watching television alone in her room when she began hearing
noises coming from outside, at first she thought it was her dogs playing
around with some empty cans. But the noises kept getting louder and louder=

and she decided to go outside to investigate. Once outside she was stunned=

to see some type creature that had somehow entered the rabbit cage and was=

attacking the animals that were making loud unearthly screams. Thinking at=

first that it was one of the dogs she approached the case but realized that=

it was a gray colored hairy hunched over creature, that was moving quickly=

inside the cage. She stepped back and could not understand how the creature=

had entered the cage, since there wasn't any apparent hole or aperture
visible anywhere and the door was firmly closed. Afraid she ran inside her=

home and notified her son, both then ran out but the creature had
mysteriously disappeared. Unnerved, they could not understand how they
creature had escaped since the door to the rabbit caged was still firmly
locked. Later they could only find a small round hole in the wire only
several centimeters in width, not large enough for a creature estimated to=

have been about 70 to 80 cm in height. Several of the rabbits were found
injured and one was dead.

HC addendum
Source: Calama UFO CenterType: E


28.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: March 19 2002
Time: 2000
Young Elizabeth Lera reported seeing a short humanoid with "dark eyes"
looking into the building compound from behind a wire fence. It appeared
not to have any other facial features and was wearing dark clothing; it
wore some type of head covering, which was hard to see because of the
darkness. She could only see a pair of large dark eyes on his face that
appeared to shine in the darkness. Some more children now arrived and
observed as the humanoid move several steps towards them. Another witness,=

Rene Mamani saw the humanoid run and hide behind some bushes. It seemed to=

move at very high speed in an unnatural fashion. It seemed to have remained=

suspended in mid-air for a few seconds. It then seemed to fly through the
air and disappeared into some nearby woods. Other students at the school
reportedly saw it again on the night of the 20th.

HC addendum
Source: Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E


29.
Location. Woodburn, Oregon
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 0300A
The witness was sleeping when she woke up suddenly feeling paralyzed. The
witness was completely unable to move or speak. Her next memory was of a
strange sensation on her left cheek, which hurt a lot. Unseen "beings" were=

apparently taking skin samples. Her face was left with a pink fleshy scoop=

down my left cheek, directly on the cheekbone. A teardrop scar was left on=

her cheek.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical Universe
Type: G?




30.
Location. Bethlehem, Israel
Date: March 21 2002
Time: night
At the besieged Church of The Nativity several awed witnesses have come
forward describing the events of Thursday night. That night, a smell of
roses filled the sanctuary as the Daughters of Charity held their evening
prayers. "The sweet scent was soon followed by a high musical humming sound=

and a distinct feeling of warmth emanating from the ceiling." Then, the
sisters reported, seeing a glowing beam of light gradually forming the
likeness of the Blessed Virgin "like a film coming into focus." Tears were=

running down her face, and she uttered a prophetic warning. "Time is
growing short, and the promised Judgment Day is nearly at hand." One week
before the apparition, The Church of the Holy Family was the scene of a
ferocious firefight between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 17Type: F


31.
Location. Not given
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 2255
16-year old Steven Mizon saw hovering over a street a large oval shaped
craft encircled in bright lights and with several lighted windows around
its edge. A figure stared down at him from one of the windows. No other
information.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Watch
Type: A



32.
Location. Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain
Date: March 26 2002
Time: 1500
A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a deserted road when=

he noticed ahead in the distance and in the middle of the roadway an object=

resembling a shiny pear that was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat
perplexed he approached and noticed two individuals standing on a nearby
field. These were over 2 meters in height, wore tight fitting white
coveralls and helmets resembling that of the early astronauts. He parked
his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men=

walked away and entered the shiny pear-shaped craft while the other
remained behind. Knowing that these men were "not from this earth" he still=

asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt that as
he approached the strange pair he had been in some type of a trance and
seemed to have floated over the road. The humanoid answered and appeared
genuinely happy as to his offer of assistance but said that everything was=

in order. He also added that the area was very beautiful and also added:
"Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such
beautiful scenes, they disappeared a long time ago." The astounded witness=

managed to ask the humanoid where he was from and was told that they hailed=

from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The=

humanoid smiled as he answered the question. The humanoid then bid goodbye=

and walked towards the nearby shiny pear shaped object, he then disappeared=

inside of it. The craft then emitted a loud whistling sound and disappeared=

at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the
humanoids as about 2.50 meters in height, wide chests and heavy set, thin
legs. Generally human features, but somewhat "refined" or sharpened
features. The suits were very tight fitting made of an apparent synthetic
material resembling plastic. Their eyes were very light almost white and
their speech was hesitant & accented. Also their movements seemed kind of
clumsy.

HC addendum
Source: J M Garcia, Francisco Padron, SpainType: B


33.
Location. Pringle Lake, Texas
Date: March 28 2002
Time: 1100A
Mark Hakemack and a friend had taken an airboat out on the NW side of the
lake to do a little redfish fishing. The day was kind of hazy, with broken=

cloud cover. They had caught several trout and were just chatting when he
hooked up a large redfish while playing with the fish, Mark happened to
glance upwards and saw a large bird-like creature emerge from a cloudbank.=

His friend saw it too, after about 20 to 25 seconds it flew behind cloud
cover again. The strange creature was grayish in color and the profile of a=

raptor, short neck/head, no legs sticking out behind, and no long tail
feathers. Mark could not take his eyes off it. He estimated the wingspan to=

have been 10' to 14 ' in overall. It appeared to be soaring on the wind,
although, he did see it give a couple of light "flaps" with its wings. The=

witness could only relate this to the legendary "Thunderbird" legend.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.comType: E


34.
Location. Sevilla, Spain
Date: March 30 2002
Time: late night
The witness to the March 26 case was at home with his wife and was getting=

ready to sleep when he heard footsteps coming from patio area outside his
chalet. Armed with a club, he opened the door and was stunned to see the
same two tall heavyset humanoids he had encountered 4 days before. One of
the humanoids was kneeling on the ground as if inspecting something on the=

soil, the other one upon hearing the door open, turned and quickly assured=

the witness not to fear that they were not here to harm him. Stunned, the
witness invited the two humanoids in the house for some refreshments (!).
These declined the invitation telling that they had to go already. Using
the same clumsy movements both humanoids walked towards the rear of the
house where the witness noticed the same shiny metallic pear shaped craft
on the ground. They entered the object, which quickly left at high speed.
The witness's wife awakened by the voices was able to see the two humanoids=

from a second story window, and described them in the same way.

HC addendum
Source: Francisco Padron, Jose Manuel Garcia, SpainType: B


35.
Location. Los Cipreses, Chile
Date: March 31 2002
Time: noon
During a local UFO congress 24 persons in three groups entered a
dimensional gateway that appeared by itself over the terrain. It was kind
of a dome, a luminous archway measuring four by four meters. The
participants lost their materiality without disappearing completely. Upon
entering, they met several human-like alien characters with large baldheads=

and wearing robes that waited within and received information. According to=

sources the contact experience was "dimensional" it was like crossing into=

a different reality. The 24 participants were "all professionals, college
students of high intellectual levels, mostly Chileans," and some were
members of Grupo Rama, a New Age association.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 16, quoting Camilo Valdivieto
Type: G or F?


36.
Location. Tbilissi Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: night
A man entered the local St David church and reported that "a phantom with
wings" had approached him and predicted an earthquake that indeed took
place on April 25 2002, devastating areas of central Georgia.

HC addendum
Source: Pravda
Type: E?


37.
Location. Near Macon, Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: 2300
Three friends were awakened by loud banging noises and bellowing sounds
coming from outside. One of the men ran to the bathroom and looked out the=

window to see a figure run by and squat in the nearby bushes. He described=

the creature as about 3 ft tall, hairy with what appeared to be horns on
its head and hands; he could not see a face. Others in the neighborhood
heard the banging noises.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.com and direct witness
Communication.
Type: E


38.
Location. Belvedere di Tezze, Italy
Date: April 26 2002
Time: evening
A 20-year old woman was returning home one night when she noticed some
bright lights nearby of an unknown origin. She followed the lights in her
car until she stopped near a local pizzeria. She saw the light near the
ground and within the lights two tall slender human like figures wearing
some type of headgear. Since she was carrying a camera she was able to snap=

a quick picture. The figures then vanished. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Gruppo Accademico Ufologico Scandicci quoting
"Il giornale di Vicenza"Type: E?


39.
Location. Puente Santamaria, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: early morning
Two young men observed a dark object descend towards the ground about 100
meters away. According to the two witnesses from the craft descended a
small humanoid, orange in color. Very scared they both ran from the area
and reported their experience to others.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: B


40.
Location. Merceditas, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: evening
An elderly couple was walking along National Route # 8 when about 800
meters from their location they noticed a very strong light. The light
descended next to a puddle at about 70 meters from the witness. Both then
saw two very short orange colored humanoids that moved in very agile
movements near the object. Terrified they walked away and upon looking back=

saw a bright glow on the ground.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: C


41.
Location. Barangay, Philippines
Date: May 2002
Time: night
Several local residents reported seeing a bizarre creature described as an=

"aswang" reputed to be a winged vampire type creature, it reportedly had
red glowing eyes, long black hair, and was wearing a white flowing gown. It=

was seen perched on top of a bamboo tree. Residents at nearby Roxas
reported seeing a similar creature. The police was called but a search
failed to locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Akasico.comType: E


42.
Location. Alvear, La Pampa Argentina
Date: May 3 2002
Time: near midnight
Several young men were returning home late at night along a deserted
roadway when suddenly out of nowhere a female figure wearing a light
flowing gown and with long black hair appeared in front of them. The
strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly and repeatedly asked for=

assistance from the men in a strange urgent tone. Terrified the men ran
from the area and later returned with additional witnesses but they could
find no trace of the strange apparition.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E?


43.
Location. Taralgon Victoria, Australia
Date: May 24 2002
Time: 2355
Walking near the Loy Yang Power station 45-year old Martin Taylor was
suddenly blinded by an intense blue light and he felt extremely dizzy. His=

next memory was of being in a circular room with a variety of lights and
buttons scattered about the walls. He was lying on a large table that
seemed to be of a very highly polished metal. He was strapped down and his=

shirt had been removed. There were wires attached to his arms, neck and
temples. A four ft tall humanoid figure with very large almond shaped eyes,=

almost transparent looking skin, ghostly white in appearance examined him.=

The figure had three extremely long fingers on each hand and spoke in a
strange dialect.

HC addendum
Source: UFO WatchType: G


44.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: May 29 2002
Time: midnight
Irma Rick watched a rotating luminous object descend close to the ground
next to a grain silo; it gave off a powerful bluish light through some
openings around its circumference. It hovered close to the ground. Through=

an opening a strange creature was seen to descend to the ground. It was
described as having an elongated semi-transparent white body; it also had
an elongated head. She could not see any eyes or legs on the creature as it=

stood motionless next to the craft. She observed the creature and object
for about 5 minutes until she dropped the flashlight she was carrying.
Afraid she left the area and did not see the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: B



45.
Location. Lembang Bandung, Indonesia
Date: May 30 2002
Time: 2315
The witness was driving his motorcycle across a highland area when he
spotted some flashing lights overhead and then noticed a silvery
disc-shaped craft descend low over some nearby graves at a cemetery. The
craft had blue and orange flashing lights around its rim. There was no
sound as the craft apparently emitted a beam of light towards the ground
and levitated what appeared to be some dead bodies onboard the object. (!)=

The witness was apparently paralyzed and was unable to move. The craft then=

shot away at a 45-degree angle and disappeared from sight. When that
happened the witness left the scene.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


46.
Location. Houston, Texas
Date: late May 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness was at the local electric company in order to pay a bill when
she decided to use the restrooms. Sitting in the stall she then noticed on=

the side of the wall of the stall what appeared to be a face lit up in a
dull light. When the witness looked directly at the "face" it vanished. She=

described is as having large round eyes no visible nose and a slit-like
mouth. (A peeping tom alien?)

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.comType: E?


47.
Location. General Acha, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: early June 2002
Time: various
A resident of the Oeste neighborhood informed newspaper sources that a
short green-colored dwarf like entity has appeared twice on her property:
once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When her husband ran out
responding to her screams, the mysterious entity vanished by rapidly
climbing up a tree. All versions agree in that the entity is short in
stature. Another resident added that it moved so quickly that it was hard
to describe it. In the same area mysterious cattle mutilations have also
been reported.

HC addendum
Source: Loren Coleman in UFO UpdatesType: E


48.
Location. Ojo De Agua, Argentina
Date: June 2002
Time: afternoon
Several passengers onboard two farm micro buses reported seeing a very tall=

dark man like figure that appeared to be wearing a tight fitting diver's
outfit standing on a nearby field. Nearby numerous mysterious animal
mutilations have been reported. The figure was silent and was quickly lost=

from sight as the buses moved away.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E




49.
Location. Near Tampa, Florida
Date: June 2002
Time: night
A man and three of his friends reported encountering two bizarre chupacabra=

type creatures one stood about 3-4 ft tall, the other looked to be about 6=

ft tall. Both had large glowing red eyes and spikes starting from the head=

to the back. They scurried away into a wooded area. (They were to have
further encounters in August).

HC addendum
Source: Art Bell.comType: E


50.
Location. Antalya, Turkey
Date: June 5 2002
Time: afternoon
Approximately 45 witnesses claimed they saw an UFO in the Santral district=

landing on the backyard of the Fatma Primary School. Several students
including Murat Esici age 11 saw an alien emitting red rays from his eyes
come out of the object. His hands and feet were metallic. He had a very big=

head and was about 1.80 meters in height. Esici temporarily lost her voice=

immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also=

claimed they san an unusual craft and an alien beside it. "His eyes and
hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes." The children
were overcome with shock after the incident.

HC addendum
Source: Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center Intl
Type: B


51.
Location. Polonnauruwa, Sri Lanka
Date: June 8 2002
Time: 2200
Approximately 50 to 70 eyewitnesses saw a UFO flying at about 100 meters
above ground level. The object was silent and briefly landed emitting a
bright flash like light. When it was close to the ground the object emitted=

a buzzing sound. Three other witnesses saw three 2 ft tall creatures than
when approached ran into the jungle and disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Sources
Type: D


52.
Location. Polonnaruwa, Sir Lanka
Date: June 9 2002
Time: 2012
Two witnesses went to a bath on a nearby river when they heard a loud
thundering sound and a UFO appeared. The craft landed nearby and two, 2 ft=

tall "aliens" emerged from the object. One of the humanoids flung a small
fluorescent fireball like object that flew over a house and vanished. Soon=

the craft and humanoids disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC & News Reports
Type: B



53.
Location. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Date: June 10 2002
Time: 1900
Witnesses saw a mysterious light in the sky and others saw a large disc
shaped object land nearby. Three humanoids only about 2 ft tall emerged
from the craft and disappeared into the forest when approached. The object=

also left.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Reports
Type: B


54.
Location. Chantilly, Virginia
Date: June 10 2002
Time: night
The witness was awakened during the night with a sense of some presence in=

the room. Looking toward the door, he saw, fading quickly, something, which=

almost had the appearance of a hologram. Next, shadows appeared outside the=

windows in an erratic shape. At first he thought the shadows to be from
trees moving in a strong wind. The appearance was of a storm blowing the
limbs to create these shadows outside the window. However, there was no
storm. He looked at the adjacent window on the side of the house facing
opposite and there was no wind at all. In fact there was no trees
positioned in such a way to cast a shadow. He opened the blinds to see what=

might be causing the shadows. He then saw what seemed to be a hologram with=

the shape of two small eyes moving erratically outside the window.
Frightened he closed the blinds. Two weeks later he was awakened by a
humming sound and again saw the erratic shadows outside the window. He
watched the shadows for 10-15 minutes and then called the police. The
police found no signs of any intrusion in the yard. When the police left
the witness walked toward the door facing the back porch and saw a large
burst of bluish white light. It looked unnatural, almost like a laser. He
has not seen the "shadows" again.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: E?


55.
Location. Ataliva Roca, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 11 2002
Time: 1930
A worker at a local drainage project was sitting and guarding some
machinery when he noticed a short greenish colored humanoid figure that was=

approaching his location from a nearby field. The witness became concerned=

and drove away from the area in the construction equipment and did not see=

the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


56.
Location. Eduardo Castex, La Pampa Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Two girls of a local school encountered a short greenish humanoid figure in=

the playing yard. The figure was standing up and appeared to be raising its=

arms up to the sky. Terrified the two girls retreated into the school and
watched the figure scurry away into some nearby woods. Around the same time=

a local farmer found a strangely mutilated hog in his farm.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


57.
Location. Chasico, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Hugo Deluca and several other workers were parked in a bus in an isolated
area when they spotted about 20 meters away a short, 1.20 meters tall,
bipedal figure completely covered in gray hair. It walked upright like a
man and then scurried away into some woods vanishing from sight. The area
had been hit with animal mutilations around the same time.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


58.
Location. Castex, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 13 2002
Time: night
A 70-year old man had gone to his driveway to check on a flat tire in his
car when a short light green colored humanoid suddenly appeared next to
him. It had large round ears, and two reddish luminous eyes. Its body was
thin and almost triangular in shape. The witness attempted to yell out but=

was suddenly unable to speak and at the same time strange warmth invaded
his body. Several seconds later the humanoid vanished and the witness
returned to normal. He reported the incident to the police.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


59.
Location. La Laguna, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 14 2002
Time: afternoon
Several youngster had gone into the fields in order to obtain some firewood=

when they saw sitting on a clearing in the woods two human like figures,
all dressed in black. They sat facing each other, one looking towards the
east the other towards the west, unmoving. Unnerved by the sight the
juveniles ran from the area. The next day the father of one of the boys
found two dead cows at the site, but could find no trace of the strange
pair. Days later a sheep and a horse were found dead and strangely
mutilated in the nearby location of El Cardonal.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: E


60.
Location. De Kalb, Illinois
Date: June 15 2002
Time: 0030A
The witness was sitting in his family room watching TV when he noticed a
bright flash of light outside the window. He saw the flash several times
and decided to check his backyard there he saw a circular light moving
around in circles. The light began to get closer; scared he ran inside his=

home and called a friend on the phone. He then quickly ran outside and saw=

the circle getting closer, he noticed that it had a purplish color to it
and it began to descend towards the ground. He became nauseous and dizzy
and collapsed on to the ground. He tried to crawl to the house but was
unable to move. He turned his head and saw the purplish object on the
ground and what appeared to be a door opening up. He then heard a squeaking=

noise and saw a tall and a short figure standing by a door of the object.
The two figures started to move towards him, walking in a strange bopping
fashion. They were of a dark complexion with a bumpy texture, other than
that they resembled normal human beings. The shorter figure approached and=

picked up the witness' camera and stared at it. He then looked at the
taller figure and handed it to him. The taller of the two looked at the
camera and then at the witness. The witness then heard loud unpleasant
shrieks coming from the taller figure, which then gave the camera back to
the shorter figure, which covered the camera with his hand, seconds later a=

light began to emerge from their hands. Then they stopped, threw the camera=

aside and began to walk towards the witness. They reached his side and
started to examine his body. A dog began to bark from inside the house and=

the shorter figure put out his hand and the dog stopped barking. At this
point the witness began to vomit. After about a minute he began to relax
and to breathe better. When he turned his head he realized that the two
figures and the purple spherical object were now gone. The next day he had=

a very severe headache.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: B


61.
Location. San Juan, Argentina
Date: June 20 2002
Time: evening
At a location where the body of a strangely mutilated carcass of a cow was=

found two witnesses reported seeing a small creature with large glowing
slanted eyes and about one meter in height. Later in the same area, members=

of the Gimenez family after investigating noises and a strong odor coming
from a wooded area found a mutilated cow and also watched a short humanoid=

with glowing eyes scurrying away into the woods.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


62.
Location. Manuel Rodriguez, Calama, Chile
Date: June 22 2002
Time: after midnight
A bizarre creature was spotted at a local housing complex on San Antonio
Street. Witnesses reported that it resembled an ape and it jumped all over=

the roof. It passed right in front of the witness, Maria Gavia's window and=

then it came back making all manner of noise. The creature was able to make=

very long jumps, unlike any a human could. It jumped and landed on the
neighbor's roof and then it left the area. Neighborhood dogs acted scared
and began howling. Others described the creature as about 1.5 meters tall,=

stocky in build with bright red eyes. It made a lot of noise. Others
reportedly chased the creature.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center, quoting El
Mercurio de CalamaType: E


63.
Location. Angencia Realico, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 23 2002
Time: late night
Several hunters returning to a local ranch spotted about 50 meters away two=

large glowing reddish eyes staring at them. They turned off their
flashlight and approached closer on foot, about 30 meters away they again
saw the reddish eyes on a dark creature that appeared to be standing on top=

of an apparently dead animal. One of the hunters shone its flashlight on
the figure again and saw a figure about 40 cm in height that quickly ran
from the area at very high speed. The creature disappeared into the brush.=

At the scene, a dead and mutilated young heifer. Other mutilations were
reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


64.
Location. Rancul, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 25 2002
Time: 2020
Two young men, Nestor Pinto and Daniel Gatica were walking on a field when=

they encountered a short man-like figure with huge pointy ears and long
dangling arms standing near some brush. The figure scurried into the brush=

and disappeared and at the same time the two witnesses ran away from the
area and did not see the strange dwarf again.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


65.
Location. Bavaria, Germany (exact location not given)
Date: June 25 2002
Time: night
The witness had stayed up late watching the soccer game as was in his
bedroom when suddenly there was a coldness around him that made him shiver.=

He noticed that his audio capabilities were somehow enhanced and he was
able to hear sounds that previously he was unable to hear. He then heard a=

noise outside his door and went out to investigate. The noise became louder=

as he approached the door. He then heard footsteps and opened the door. A
very small man with a somewhat deformed body that was smiling at him
confronted the witness. He looked straight ahead and then stared at the
witness. His next memory was of waking up in his bed in the morning.

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.com
Type: E


66.
Location. Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2105
The primary witness had stepped out on his back porch when his attention
was drawn to two huge black "birds" which were approaching from the north.=

His first impression was they were Herons, but soon realized that the color=

was wrong, and "they were huge, much larger than any bird I have ever
seen." The two huge birds landed at the top of a very tall coniferous tree.=

The witness stated that the wingspan appeared to be wider than the
branches, jest below where they had landed. The body size was estimated to=

be about six feet from head to tail. The oddest feature was the shape of
the wings, which according to the witness appeared to be bat-like. The tree=

where the "birds" landed seemed as though it would break from their weight.=

The witness yelled for others in the house to come outside to look. Another=

family member was able to see the huge black birds as they passed overhead,=

and headed for some woods. After checking the size of the branches where
the birds had landed, the witness estimated that the wingspan would have
been close to 12 feet or somewhat larger.

HC addendum
Source: Stan GordonType: E


67.
Location. Marldon Hill, Paington, England
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2357
A couple were walking near a local historic monument (a windmill) and they=

drew closer to monument they heard a low whirling noise. The noise
progressed to a high-pitched whining, almost out of hearing range. Then
they saw a mysterious glow coming from the dark side of the windmill, and
then to their astonishment they saw 5 or 6 shadow like figures standing in=

front of the windmill. Startled the two began to run back towards the main=

road. The woman looked back and saw the figures become engulfed by a bright=

light and disappear, and then everything became quiet.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Sightings UKType: E?


68.
Location. Adelia Maria, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 3 2002
Time: 2100
Pedro and Estela Moine had decided to visit the business district of town
called Barrio Norte and crossed the old railroad yard through a pedestrian=

pathway that ran through a pasture area between some silos, old railroad
depots and abandoned wreckage. As the couple moved through the premises
they suddenly became aware of a strange and incomprehensible conversation
between many voices. Startled, they stopped walking moved a few meters more=

and then heard the voices again which now sounded like strange "O" sounds.=

Pedro looked toward the silos and was able to see resembling humanoid but
lacking upper and lower extremities. Despite the pleas of his wife, Pedro
ran several meters toward an inner alley in the silo plant, being able to
make out some 45 meters to the west and in profile---the entity, which
acting surprised, avoided the encounter and moved again to the north.
However, what filled the witnesses with wonderment was that the creature
did so as though flying or floating without touching the facilities it
passed. Pedro and Estela ran after it. It was thus that the man managed to=

see the entity apparently hiding behind the control room of the truck
scale. Pedro ran toward it and was again startled to see the apparition
rising as a plane taking off, flying at an altitude of 5 meters and
disappearing behind a large metal shed. Bewildered, both witnesses called
out, but were unable to see anything else. Pedro Moine as "a thing with
human shape" described the apparition. It had some sort of light, although=

he could not say if reflected or self-generated, although he tends to
believe the latter, since it was a nebulous whitish light, which kept him
from making out details. The entire mass of the apparition appeared to be a=

body covered from head to toe in some sort of mantle, which he described as=

though it wore a hat, but covered with some kind of long raincoat reaching=

down to what he took to be its feet. He added that the "conversational
sounds" repeated themselves in three separate occasions at various
intensities. They were like conversations in a strange language.

HC addendum
Source: Mario Luis Bracamonte, C.O.R, Rio Cuarto Argentina
Type: E


69.
Location. Jerusalem, Israel
Date: July 6 2002
Time: night
A remote TV camera picked up images of "orbs seen on the corner to the
right of the Wailing Wall." They seemed to have facial features almost like=

a ghost, reported investigator Charlotte LeFevre. The orbs were described
as "sharp and distinct". The orbs were next to the women's prayer area in
front of the Wall. Other strange phenomena, has been reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 29Type: F?


70.
Location. Villa Elisa, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: July 13 2002
Time: 2300
A young woman fainted from nervous shock after having an alleged closed
encounter with "some sort of green dwarf". This occurred---enveloped in
darkness---along Misioneros Salesianos Street very close to several houses.=

An ambulance was called and apparently transported the witness who was in
shock.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria ColuchiType: E


71.
Location. Patna, India
Date: July 21 2002
Time: night
Several residents claim they've been bitten or scratched by a "black
monkey-like creature with colored lights flashing from its eyes." Resident=

Pawan Kumar Niyogi who was sleeping on the terrace of his house claims "a 5=

ft tall monkey-like creature" attacked him. He said: "I was terrified and
thought my life was going to end but it merely scratched me on the shoulder=

before jumping off the roof." Local residents are conducting night vigils
and carrying torches to guard their homes.

HC addendum
Source: Ananova, Ufoupdates. Type: E


72.
Location. Chajan, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 21 2002
Time: 2300
Police officer Guillermo Arias was on routine patrol through a rural area
when he heard over the radio that his colleagues in arms over at Achiras
were seeing lights in sectors of said community, and that they were heading=

towards Chajan along National Route 8. At the wheel of the police patrol
van, he managed to see a formation of 7 lights in the distance and decided=

to drive 10 km along a rural dirt road. When he had covered said distance,=

he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine of his vehicle sputtered=

and died, causing the police car to strike the edge of a guardrail.
Simultaneously, the lights on the van's dashboard began turning on and off=

randomly, the police radio went haywire and its dial displayed the random
shifting of the frequencies while the cabin became filled with an acrid
odor, as though of burnt wiring, and the interior lights and stop
indicator, which were broken, began lighting on and off. Seized by fear,
Arias leaped from the van and walked away a few meters down the road,
losing his cellular phone in the escape. The darkness was total, when
suddenly, amid the confusing situation; an immense light emerged from a
field adjacent to the road as a triangular object rose majestically into
the air. Now Arias condition went from fear to abject terror as he saw what=

he described as a real "floating city" some 200 meters long with a long row=

of windows (perhaps as many as 100). Arias claims having seen something
move behind them, describing the movement as "TV sets which make lines and=

shadows", which he defined as "non-human", and that many beams of light
came out of the giant triangle, aimed at the ground. The event lasted 2-3
seconds, but to Arias it felt like an eternity. The object suddenly rose
and sped away, vanishing behind the hills of a local field. As the object
moved away, the whole area was lit up like daytime and there was an
afterglow that lasted another 20 minutes.

HC addendum
Source: C.O.R., Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense, Argentina
Type: A


73.
Location. Waconia, Minnesota
Date: July 26 2002
Time: 0300A
The young witness was sleeping in the backyard with his sister when he
suddenly woke up. He then noticed that the side of the tent that faced the=

wetlands and lake was lit up. Looking towards the light he saw a shadowy
torso and arm of a humanoid figure that seemed to be moving around within
the light. He watched for 30 seconds and saw the figure move the fingers of=

his hands. The witness became frightened and hid in his sleeping bag. He
came out about an hour later and the light and strange figure were
completely gone.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


74.
Location. Sedona, Arizona
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 0310A
In a wooded area the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all
white, with black "straight" eyes; and black diagonal/diamond strip of
"clothing" on top. He stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then
left. Prior to seeing the figure the witness had seen lights in a large
oval shaped pattern in the sky.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


75.
Location. Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 1730
Three girls had decided to visit the rooftop as they did the prior evening=

watching for satellites. It was dusk and the girls had a good vantage point=

looking towards the east. With them they had a pair of binoculars and a
pair of walkie-talkies. The girls noticed that a large orange light
appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The anomaly
was noted to have fluctuated in colors of orange, yellow, white and pale
blue. At fist they thought of an arriving airplane, but then a second light=

appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10=

degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some=

unusually maneuvering; from a stationary position it accelerated at least 5=

degrees closer to the ground surface at an approximate 45-60 degree angle
within a matter of a single second. The first anomaly then began to move
slowly towards the north. At this stage they partially lost view of it as
it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley-like
region of the horizon. According to the witnesses, this third object
appeared to have "landed" on the ground surface. The object was then viewed=

through the binoculars and presented in great detail; the object was
described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange,=

blue/purple and white rotating around the rim. Thy also noted the trees
being slightly illuminated by this extraordinary phenomenon. They were
suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, "Identify
yourself." This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in a
foreign language. Around 1830 the girls were then called down to have
dinner. At about 2030 the girls re-established their places on the roof
after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still
present. Unexpectedly a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above
the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. "It
was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away." The=

light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it=

is not clear how one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became
extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed
her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not=

sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another of the girls woke up
the next morning with her nose bleeding. She also mentioned that she had
seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom.

HC addendum
Source: The Australian UFO Research NetworkType: D or
F?



76.
Location. Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 29 2002
Time: early morning
Local residents have seen a strange figure, which they described as
resembling a "shroud". The apparitions, which always occur in the early
morning hours, have become so common that in recent days several neighbors=

have stayed up late to see them, and it is thus that they were able to
confirm the simultaneous presence of up to 2 such beings, as well as red
lights flying over the area. All the witnesses whether individuals or in a=

group, agree that the entities are nebulous and glowing, with a pair of red=

eyes being clearly identifiable, and glassy faces (as if transparent).
Their movements are smooth and they always appear from behind the sand
dunes, as though "coming form the Naval Base." Most witnesses agree that
they show a great interest in the water tanks located above the roofs, and=

that they do not flee upon detecting the presence of local
residents---rather, they stare at them fixedly for some minutes. Deep
silence is perceived during the observations and "the air appears to become=

still" and neither heat nor cold can be felt---only a sensation of warmth,=

as if the beings emanated heat. Witnesses also state that things appear to=

be darker when "the shroud" appears, as though ambient lighting were
dimmed. Another curious fact is the large number of cats and dogs who
report to the place where the sightings occur and sit down to observe it in=

silence, in a state resembling a trance. A series of semi-circular prints
have been found in the dunes, not very deep, with 15-20 cm separations in
some cases and 30-50 cm in others. The locals have identified them as the
strange being's footprints. Efforts have been made to photograph the
"shroud", but all images, despite the use of different cameras appear
exposed. One witness who approached the site to witness the phenomenon took=

two photos of the prints in the afternoon and decided to stay with the
group of people hoping to see the "shroud", managing to take some photos of=

same and record the new prints which appeared in the dunes after the
sighting. A completely uncommon print was found at the site---but the
residents aren't sure if it's related to the phenomenon: it has the shape
of a five-fingered claw. One witness tried to make use of his carbine's
telescopic sight to see the figure in greater detail, but "when he tried to=

focus on it, he could see nothing_it was a though it could only be seen
with the unaided eye."

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, IHU, Christian Quintero and O A Mario
Proyecto Condor
Type: C or E?


77.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 30 2002
Time: 0530A
27-year old Mariela Baigorri reported seeing a strange figure that floated=

in front of her house. She had woken up early that morning and was getting=

ready to mount her bicycle when she saw behind the fence something floating=

in mid-air. It appeared to be a figure wearing a flowing white transparent=

tunic, with bright red eyes and undefined facial features. Feeling no fear=

she decided to approach it. She felt as if the figure waited for her and
was observing her. At this point Mariela felt some fear and began reciting=

the Lord's Prayer. The figure suddenly moved back and disappeared in plain=

sight.

HC addendum
Source: Juan Carlos Corrales Morey, Vision Ovni, Argentina
Type: E


78.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 31 2002
Time: 1845
23-year old Julian Pereyra was in his vehicle when he observed two red
spheres flying slowly over some nearby woods, they seemed to descend and
disappear behind the trees. 15 minutes later, Pereyra, accompanied by
several other witnesses approached the area and observed what they
described a tall floating figure wearing a white glowing cape like outfit,=

it seemed to glide silently over a field. It had what appeared to be a
visor at face level and two beams of red light emerged from where the eyes=

would have been. The witnesses watched the strange figure glide over the
fields for about 30 minutes. Curiously numerous local dogs and cats
approached and also watched the figure in fascination. The lights and
figure disappeared into the distance. In another occasion Pereyra and some=

of his family members encountered the strange humanoid and felt a strange
sensation as if the wind had suddenly stopped, they felt as they were
inside a vacuum or "bubble." Strange tracks have been reportedly found in
the area also.

HC addendum
Source: Diario La Nueva Provincia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Type: C?


79.
Location. La Cienaga, Pocri, Panama
Date: early August 2002
Time: night
Luis Alfredo Diaz reported hearing loud noises coming from the terraced
patio where the kitchen was located, going to investigate he found his cat=

apparently dead with two obvious holes on the neck and some blood on the
floor. Before finding the cat he had called his wife, Maria de Los Santos
Barrios. As his wife stood in front of him a panic stricken look came over=

her face, turning around he was confronted by a bizarre 1-meter tall
humanoid that had jumped to the center of the patio. The creature was
described as thin, covered with dark hair, with large pointed ears that
almost covered its face, it had very large eyes and extremely strong hind
legs resembling that of a kangaroo. Terrified he ran to his son's bedroom
and carried him outside yelling for his neighbors. A search failed to
locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Panamanian Paranormal Forum
Type: E


80.
Location. Near Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Date: August 2002
Time: night
The same witness involved in a similar encounter last year was again
camping in the same area when he again heard a noise. Shining the light in=

the direction of the sound he again saw the same creature. The creature sat=

there crouched by the trees staring at the witness. The witness walked
slowly towards it, he got to within 20 ft when it just jumped backward and=

disappeared. He described the creature as about five to six ft in height,
gray in color. It was totally naked. It had human features, but more
leathery, and its face was very wide, its eyes were huge and even though
they reflected light, they still looked black, resembling two intensely
black marbles. Its legs were very muscular, but turned backwards, like a
bird. Other hikers in the area have reported encountering little brown men=

on some of the more isolated trails.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal Story Archives, November 2002Type: E


81.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: August 1 2002
Time: late evening
64-year old Raul Dorado was touring some fields when he heard a loud sound=

on two occasions, like a whirlwind, which drew his attention. The third
time he saw something he describes as a green circle with three legs
hovering over him. At that moment Dorado fell to the ground, and according=

to his story, he carried a shotgun, binoculars and a cellular phone, the
latter, which was taken from his hand, and he could clearly see being
sucked into the object, which was apparently at low altitude. His next
recollection was seeing the object disappear toward the east. Dorado
remained at the location for an hour before being able to rise and walk
back to his car, returning to town in a state of shock. He had to be
hospitalized. Later when calls were placed to the (abducted) cellular phone=

someone would pick up and heavy breathing could be heard. Later on the
phone was apparently disconnected.

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, quoting Diario La Arena, La PampaType: G?


82.
Location. Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Date: August 2 2002
Time: 1730
A man named Todd Sees went up the mountain to look for pre-season deer. He=

told his wife that he would be home by noon. He rode his 4-wheeler up the
power line behind his home. He never returned. A search party composed of
local police, state police and volunteers searched for Sees. The 4-wheeler=

was found on the top of the mountain near a power-line. Tracking dogs could=

find nothing to go on around the 4-wheeler. The search went on for 2 days
and over 6 miles of mountain was covered from top to bottom. Then, in the
evening of the 2nd day, his body was found in a hard to reach wooded area.=

He was wearing his underwear. He was emaciated---not bloated. He was pale
and had an expression of horror on his face. When he went up the mountain
he was fully dressed, boots, camo-vest, hat, socks, pants. 3 people, on one=

farm, said they saw a large round bright object just above the power-lines=

at the time of the disappearance. It was silent, it did not move for about=

10 to 15 minutes. It suddenly went up and suddenly stopped. A light shone
down and something was pulled up into the light. It then went straight up,=

hesitated again, and then went west over the Susquehanna River and out of
sight. More specifically a farmer saw an object above Montour Ridge at the=

power lines, on top of the mountain, it was round and very still over the
lines. Suddenly it moved what looked like a few hundred feet to the east,
it stopped and a beam of blue and white light shone to the ground. What was=

seen next was very unnerving, he saw what appeared to be a man suspended in=

the light, he was being pulled up head first, he was moving his arms slowly=

in the light. What looked like a man was pulled up into the bottom of the
craft. A few seconds later it started shuddering, then went west very fast,=

stopped briefly, and then went straight up and out of sight. Also three
fishermen saw the craft. The FBI is supposedly also investigating. (Debated=

as a hoax, who would? and for what purpose?).

HC addendum
Source: Rense, UFO updates, NUFORCType: G?






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                            2002 Humanoid Reports

From: Albert Rosales <Garuda79@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:32:05 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:14:40 -0500
Subject: 2002 Humanoid Reports


Happy new year everyone

Sincerely,

Albert

-----

2002 Humanoid Reports. It appears to be a slow start for this
year with only one recorded case, again from Chile. We will see
what develops later on the year. 2001 was pretty busy but it was
a decline from 2000. Maybe we will see another down trend again,
later to pick up again in the near future. This seems to be the
ever-ongoing trend of the phenomena. Will it always stay the
same? Time will tell. Following is a list of known 2002 humanoid
cases.


1.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: January 2002
Time: 0300A
An employee at the local Minera Escondida was on his way to the
storage freezer in order to pick up some supplies when an
unknown creature jumped him from behind. He could only describe
it as hairy and dark. He was left with deep scratches and in a
state of shock. Terrified he ran away and bumped into two other
employees who were able to see a shadowy creature in the dark.

HC addendum
Source: La Estrella del Loa de Calama, ChileType: E


2.
Location. Caracas, Venezuela
Date: January 2002
Time: late night
Late one night in a dream-like state the witness woke up to see
seven to eight strange figures in her bedroom. They were dark
gray in color and very thin, with three large thick long fingers
on their hands. They had large, lipless mouths and large shiny
protruding black eyes, their noses were thin and protruding,
small ears, the heads was large and pointy. The humanoids
appeared to be naked and she was able to see a penis on the
humanoids. They were about 1.55 meters in height. She felt dizzy
and under the control of the strange entities. She was led out
of her bedroom by one of the humanoids that removed her clothing
and made her lie down on the floor. The humanoids apparently
attempted to molest her sexually and possibly attempted to rape
her but were not successful. She apparently passed out and does
not remember anything else about the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Lista Alcione and witness communicationType: E


3.
Location. Fort McMurry, Alberta, Canada
Date: January 2 2002
Time: 2032
Two men were parked on an isolated dirt road when they spotted a
large cone-shaped object descend and hover. One of the men
exited the car and he vanished in plain sight of the other, the
craft then also disappeared. The other man tried to drive away
to get help but the car would not start and it was to cold to
walk. He soon went to sleep and woke up later to find his friend
sleeping next to him. Later they drove back to town. His friend
does not remember what happened during those two hours of
missing time. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


4.
Location. Paso Lovera, Corrientes, Argentina
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2030
Gabriela Lencinas, 15-year old and a 19-year old friend were
returning home on a bicycle when they spotted a large cloud like
object descend from the sky and from it a giant figure emerge.
The witnesses stopped their bicycles to see a car approach the
giant figure, stop, the driver exit the car and then re-entering
the vehicle and driving quickly away. The figure then rose up
into the cloud and disappeared. The girls reported that the
giant human-like figure had its hair standing up on his head and
was extending its arms towards the witnesses that quickly rode
their bicycles home. Other in the area reported seeing bright
lights that same night.

HC addendum
Source: Pablo Omastott
Type: B?


5.
Location. Villa San Rafael, Chile
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2345
Two young teenagers, Jean F and Nelson C, where at home at night
when Jean noticed that his pet snake had escaped from its cage.
Both boys began looking for it outside among the rubble of the
parcel. They recalled how half an hour before, their two dogs
strangely began to howl and cry; however, it did not seem to be
important at that point in time. They searched for the pet snake
together when suddenly, about 30 meters from where they stood;
they saw what appeared to be a stray dog. They threw rocks at to
avoid an attack. However, to their surprise, the animal stood
there, motionless and fearless; it did not get scared nor it ran
away as ordinary dogs normally do. Shortly, the strange animal
began to move towards them. The movements it made as it walked
were very strange. It used two legs at a time. It made very
small sand short leaps like a rabbit. Suddenly, it stopped and
it stood up on two legs. The teenagers then began to feel some
kind of energy. "It was like an electrical shock in the
stomach," they said. It later walked again making a loud
dragging noise, making small leaps and only moving one of its
legs. They noticed the weird shape of the animal. "It was like a
rugby football with legs," one of them said. Jean began to feel
frightened and started to move away from animal. On the other
hand, Nelson felt a strange need to get closer to the creature;
he got to within 2 meters away from it. The creature appear to
emit a strange luminosity that apparently, was bright enough to
lit a small area around the creature in spite of the nighttime
darkness. Nelson was mesmerized as he stared at the strange
creature. He described it as having a head like a large dog with
a flat nose like a bulldog. Its eyes were slanted and pale-red
in color, which could only be seen when the creature turned its
head from side to side like a lizard. At that moment, Nelson
heard a voice in his head saying, "Don't stare, and just run
away." They provided further description, describing the ears as
flat, round and large. Its arms were short, it had elbows, and
the hands had three fingers. It had hair like the one on a wild
pig. Its legs were like the ones of a goat. The feet had also
three fingers and a membrane like ducks, but somewhat shorter.
On its curved back, they were able to notice a spinal section
covered with amounts of even thicker hair. Most of the hair of
the animal was gray, but the tail had a white tip. Nelson
finally fled, terrified, from the area. He also described how he
felt an inexplicable bone-chilling cold sensation.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center
Type: E


6.
Location. Not given
Date: January 12 2002
Time: night
Ted Parker was eating some leftover food when he claims the food began to
change. The bread of the sandwich turned an orange color and the lamb
became a silvery metallic color, sort of like liquid mercury. As he watched=

transfixed, he saw the orange bread and metallic lamb turn into the figure=

of an "alien" with the form of a man. It was silver in color and its outfit=

(smooth pants and shirt, like a jump suit) was orange in color. At this
point Parker glanced at the wall clock and it indicated that 2 hours had
gone by, even though it felt like minutes only. The alien figure
communicated using telepathic means and asked Ted to come with him. They
both went outside and there, Ted saw a landed black-colored craft in his
backyard. In a split second Ted found himself inside the craft not knowing=

how he got there. The inside of the craft was pure white in color with
strips of the metallic silver that the alien figure appeared to be made of.=

The rest of the incident is just a blur, but Parker did remembered hearing=

several loud high-pitched rings while onboard the object. A couple of days=

before while eating dinner with several other people there had been a
similar high pitched ring and everybody had just stopped eating and walked=

out of the room.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: G or F?



7.
Location. Chihuahua, Mexico
Date: January 29 2002
Time: night
Several days before seeing a UFO the witness remembered being in a
dream-like state in which he felt very calm and saw numerous disc shaped
objects, orange-red in color. A human like figure was talking to him about=

the objects and their propulsion. The UFO he saw was of an orange color and=

he felt a sort of ecstasy when he observed the craft. Several of his
neighbors also saw the object.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: G or F?


8.
Location. Near Palmyra, Wisconsin
Date: February 2002
Time: 0200A
Two men reported seeing a creature that resembled a bipedal "gigantic wolf"=

walking down a road west of the city. They said the creature was at least 7=

ft tall with a wolf-like head. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Linda GodfreyType: E


9.
Location. West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
Nebilson Sangma reported encountering a scary furry creature on a hunting
trip in the jungles. He reportedly took a video of the creature's nesting
place. According to Sangma, the creature walked erect like a human, had
built a house like nesting place, and would emerge from it frequently to
feast on a banana grove. Sangma and his brother observed the gigantic
creature for three consecutive days from afar. Officials and villagers have=

been hunting for the creature in the forest but it seems to have
disappeared as furtively as it appeared.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 13
Type: E


10.
Location. Near Dover, England
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness had been jogging along a low path by the beach when she noticed=

a tall, well built being in a black skin tight suit, that stood watching
her from nearby. He wore a black helmet wit a brown visor pulled down. At
first she thought it was a biker but as she approached the figure, it
suddenly disappeared in plain sight. As she continued to run she noticed a=

black craft jutting out of the sand, it was small and oval shaped, matt and=

ribbed it also disappeared in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: E?


11.
Location. Rosario de la Frontera, Salta, Argentina
Date: February 2002
Time: night
A strange creature called by locals "El Pestizo" has attacked several lone=

pedestrians in the middle of the night. It is described as a dark man
shaped shadowy being. A boy riding his bicycle on the way to visit some
friends was toppled from his bicycle and found a black shadowy figure
facing him. The young man managed to upholster his shotgun and fire two
shots. But, when he saw that they had no effect, he promptly drew his knife=

and stabbed the figure without any apparent harm. Frightened the youth
tried to escape but the creature knocked him down without saying a word and=

began dragging him by the hair to the side of the road. At this point the
young man began to scream. A local man, who rushed to provide assistance,
only to find a black shadow dragging the boy by the hair, heard his cries.=

The fearful shape disappeared without a trace after it became aware of the=

other man's presence. Six other locals have reported being attacked by a
similar being and received wounds.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


12.
Location. Not given
Date: February 2002
Time: early morning
The witness was alone at home and was preparing his breakfast when suddenly=

he heard a window break; he went to see what had happened. Grabbing a golf=

club he peeked inside the room where the window broke. He was stunned to
see a strange creature climbing on his bed. It appeared to be hurt, because=

it seemed that it could not move well. Gripping the golf club he went a
step nearer and the creature hissed horribly. It shrieked in an unworldly
manner. Terrified the witness did not move. The creature was small, about
the size of a large rabbit, and it was dark in color and had reddish eyes.=

It had wings and a spine of quills on its back, and had a semi reptilian
face. It appeared to have hair and small legs. The witness raised the golf=

club and the creature hissed again showing its large yellowish teeth, which=

appeared to be sharp, like those of a crocodile. It suddenly hopped out of=

the window and rapidly hopped across the street into the oak trees.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June archiveType: E


13.
Location. Vigevano, Italy
Date: February 2002
Time: 0100A
In the outskirts of this city a witness observed from his vehicle a
luminous humanoid entity walking along a roadway. It scurried away into the=

darkness when approached.
No other information.

HC addendum
Source: CISU, ItalyType: E



14.
Location. Corguinho, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Date: February 5 2002
Time: night
During a localized UFO flap several witnesses reported seeing a strange
creature described as about 1.3 meters in height, having two legs, with a
physique like a human but who moved with a strange fluctuating motion. The=

creature was seen five times by twenty people in the rural zone around
Corguinho. In Rochedo, 6 miles south of Corguinho five Cebu cattle were
found dead with a single incision on the side of the throat. The bodies had=

been drained of blood. (Is there a connection?).

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


15.
Location. Mount Podbrdo, Bosnia Hercigovina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: morning
Contactee and stigmatic Giorgio Bongiovanni was visiting the shrine on top=

of the mountain and was praying silently to the Virgin when, to his
astonishment, a glowing luminous female figure appeared and touched his
forehead with her fingertips. His stigmata scar vanished instantly. The
female figure told him to return to Italy and make known what had happened.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 14
Type: E or F?


16.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: evening
73-year-old Maria Rufina Cayo, a local shepherd was walking back home with=

her dogs and the cattle. Suddenly at one point, something spooked the
animals, and these began to stampede. Looking around she spotted a bizarre=

creature standing about 12 meters away. She described it as a humanoid,
half animal, half human, about 1.70m in height, with bright red eyes, sharp=

protruding fangs, and hands and feet that ended in sharp claws. The
creature looked at the witness three times then it scrambled away using
quick jumping motions with is powerfully built hind legs, she also noticed=

large pointy ears. The top part of its body seems to have been covered in a=

shiny white blanket. It somehow resembled a centaur walking on two
claw-like feet.  Alerted by the shouts of Maria, two men, Santos Jaimes,
and Ruben Colque ran out to investigate with their dogs. Suddenly the dogs=

stopped and began making pitiful howling noises, they refused to move any
further. The men heard noises behind some nearby bushes and went to
investigate and spotted a bizarre creature that stood staring at them with=

huge reddish eyes. It then moved quickly away in the direction of Cerro
Negro and disappeared from sight. The witnesses noticed very sharp claws on=

the creature's feet with a very sharp claw that appeared to be pointed
backwards. Strange footprints were found the next day.

HC addendum
Source: El Tribuno, Salta Argentina March 27 2002
Also Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E



17.
Location. Khanpur, Ahmedabad, India
Date: February 20 2002
Time: after midnight
Several local residents reportedly have encountered a person, dressed in
black and wearing a mask. Dubbed the "Monkeyman" whom they described as
between 25 and 20 years of age, dark skinned and having curly hair can
reportedly be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees. Two
local youths chased it and the figure reportedly disappeared in plain
sight. The two youths have been behaving abnormally since then. The
stranger was also chased along the riverbed near the Cama Hotel and it also=

suddenly disappeared. Others have heard the stranger running on the
rooftops. Abdul Hamid another youngster of the local slums described the
figure as a tall lean man that carries a sharp weapon. "I saw him from the=

back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised the alarm, he jumped to=

another roof and then on to a tree." Police have searched for the stranger=

but nothing has been found.

HC addendum
Source: Fortean Times, India Express
Type: E


18.
Location. Prague, Czech Republic
Date: February 23 2002
Time: night
Blanka Slemendova was in her apartment when she saw a "ship" hovering over=

some nearby woods. It was shining red, white and yellow lights. She then
heard telepathic communication coming from the object telling her to go and=

meet them at an unspecified location. Looking over to her bedroom wall she=

saw what appeared to be a projection of human like faces looking at her.
Later that night she saw luminous figures in her room and a floating red
light also in her room. The next night she saw what appeared to be 2 gray
suns and around them a golden lights with numerous groups of shiny
human-like figures floating about. She interpreted these as being angels.

HC addendum
Source: Direct from witness (Slemendova)
Type: C & F?


19.
Location. Wycliffe Well Roadhouse, Northern Territory Australia
Date: early March 2002
Time: evening
While workers in the area watched unusual lights in the sky an aboriginal
woman encountered a triangular sort of object in a paddock and all of the
sudden she saw three silvery clad human like figures that began to move
toward her vehicle. She turned the vehicle around and took off.

HC addendum
Source: Lou Farcus ABC On-lineType: C


20.
Location. Near Canberra Australia
Date: March 2002
Time: 1700
Several friends were taking a trip to the coast and it was already very
dark. They had already entered a tropical forest area and there was a mist=

rolling along the ground. As they turned around they saw something
squatting in the middle of the road. It stared at them, and just as they
thought they were going to hit it, it leaped off the road and into the
trees. It leaped about 10 meters in the air. The creature was definitely
human looking although it wore strange clothes. It was dressed in a green
robe of some kind with little pieces of gold on it, and it was either
wearing a head crest or it had a row of spikes running from its forehead to=

the top of its neck. Very frightened the witnesses drove out of the forest=

and at the same time the mist turned to a thick fog. They pulled over and
decided to wait until the fog had cleared, although none of them were too
happy about it. As they sat around and waited they suddenly heard a shriek.=

It sounded like some sort of wild animal and they turned the car on so the=

headlights would scare it away. The headlights revealed the same creature
they had seen earlier. It hid its face from the light and shrieked. Right
before the witnesses' eyes, the creature seemed to evaporate into the fog.=

Within five minutes the fog had gone and the normal rolling mist was back.=

The witnesses quickly left the area and drove towards the coast.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June ArchiveType: E


21.
Location. Guanica Puerto Rico
Date: March 1 2002
Time: 2345
Reinaldo Rios (involved in other encounters) was in his bedroom that night=

when a large white light suddenly appeared. It flew around the room several=

times and then hovered. He heard voices coming from the light, which
communicated with him. The voice said: "I am your real father." Soon the
light transformed itself into a figure resembling that of a little boy it
then vanished in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: UFOs over America.com
Type: E


22.
Location. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 0800A
The witness and his wife were in bed that Saturday morning talking when
their 5-year-old daughter came into the bedroom with her baby brother,
whose cot is placed under their bedroom window. They heard a strange noise=

and some green light came into the window. Their daughter looked out the
window and reported seeing a "flying car" with four spinning green lights
on top. She saw two windows in the vehicle and saw two dark brown faces
looking out. His wife saw the craft flying past through the curtains. That=

same morning, in a large tree near the witness house a strange structure
was found. The branches were arranged in a rectangular pen shape, vertical,=

each approximately 30 to 40 cm long. They found a few smaller sticks
scaling down in size from the structure. A piece of concrete slab was found=

propped up on one corner. The witnesses had never seen this strange
structure before and think is some kind of message left by the visitors.
(Some kind of bizarre crop circle?). A few nights before they had heard
strange noises coming from the kitchen area.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: A


23.
Location. Golasecca Di Novara, Italy
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 2330
Augusto & Maurizia were in their vehicle parked in an open field next to a=

wooded area having a heated discussion when suddenly a powerful beam of
reddish-orange light illuminated the area around them. They rolled down the=

car window and heard a sharp metallic sound that seemed to be increasing in=

intensity. They now noticed, behind the beam of light a hovering
disc-shaped craft with a central rotating ring, it hovered about a meter
from the ground. From the object, a cigar-shaped beam of light emerged;
they could see it as the central ring of the craft slowly rotated on its
axis. The craft was only about 10 meters away. At this point, and only
about 4 meters from the object Augusto saw what appeared to be a gelatinous=

transparent humanoid-like figure with a visible head, arms and legs. The
figure was silvery in color and was very tall, about 3 meters or so. At
this point Augusto became concerned and drove away from the area and did
not see the object or figure depart. The whole episode lasted about 10
minutes. The metallic noise was heard all throughout the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Alfredo Lissoni, CUN Milano, Michelle Castellano CUN VareseType: C


24.
Location. Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England
Date: March 3 2002
Time: morning
Helen Diskin went for a walk in the countryside talking snap shots along
the way with her digital camera. Returning home she loaded these into her
computer and was intrigued by an odd-looking image. It looked like a
luminous figure in an area of no sunlight, skulking amongst the trees. She=

returned to the site of the photo twice afterward and could find no
explanation for the figure. The figure resembled a small helmeted figure
that she had not seen when she took the picture of an area of the woods she=

had thought of as "mysterious."

HC addendum
Source: Helen Diskin, UFO Magazine Vol. 22 # 1Type: E?


25.
Location. Near Trenton New Jersey
Date: March 4 2002
Time: night
Several witnesses were camping outside of town and late at night one of
them was attempting to put out the bonfire when he heard the most awful and=

horrifying scream. It resembled that of an injured dog crossed with a
scream of a woman. The witness dropped the flashlight and was joined by
another witness. Suddenly out of the woods a hideous and gruesome creature=

appeared. It did not look human, somewhat satyr-like in appearance and
walked on two legs. It had a long tail like a dragon and wings like those
unicorns in fantasy books. The beast took several steps towards the
witnesses and one of them picked up and asked and yelled at it and then
shone his flashlight at it. The creature then turned towards the bushes and=

ran away from the area.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: E


26.
Location. Pichaca, Salta, Argentina
Date: March 9 2002
Time: night
Ceferino Leoncio was cleaning his one room metal shack when suddenly a
bright light engulfed the room. He felt a sudden heat as he saw a tiny
figure (50 cm) of an angel-like creature materialize in front of him. It
slowly moved its small wing-like protrusions and moved around and then
suddenly stopped and remained still. It appeared to be a small living human=

like living being until it appeared to hardened and turn into some type of=

statue of cherubic appearance. Locals have now built a shrine around the
tiny "statue" and call the strange materialization a "religious miracle".

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso
Type: F?



27.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: March 16 2002
Time: 2215
Mirna, was watching television alone in her room when she began hearing
noises coming from outside, at first she thought it was her dogs playing
around with some empty cans. But the noises kept getting louder and louder=

and she decided to go outside to investigate. Once outside she was stunned=

to see some type creature that had somehow entered the rabbit cage and was=

attacking the animals that were making loud unearthly screams. Thinking at=

first that it was one of the dogs she approached the case but realized that=

it was a gray colored hairy hunched over creature, that was moving quickly=

inside the cage. She stepped back and could not understand how the creature=

had entered the cage, since there wasn't any apparent hole or aperture
visible anywhere and the door was firmly closed. Afraid she ran inside her=

home and notified her son, both then ran out but the creature had
mysteriously disappeared. Unnerved, they could not understand how they
creature had escaped since the door to the rabbit caged was still firmly
locked. Later they could only find a small round hole in the wire only
several centimeters in width, not large enough for a creature estimated to=

have been about 70 to 80 cm in height. Several of the rabbits were found
injured and one was dead.

HC addendum
Source: Calama UFO CenterType: E


28.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: March 19 2002
Time: 2000
Young Elizabeth Lera reported seeing a short humanoid with "dark eyes"
looking into the building compound from behind a wire fence. It appeared
not to have any other facial features and was wearing dark clothing; it
wore some type of head covering, which was hard to see because of the
darkness. She could only see a pair of large dark eyes on his face that
appeared to shine in the darkness. Some more children now arrived and
observed as the humanoid move several steps towards them. Another witness,=

Rene Mamani saw the humanoid run and hide behind some bushes. It seemed to=

move at very high speed in an unnatural fashion. It seemed to have remained=

suspended in mid-air for a few seconds. It then seemed to fly through the
air and disappeared into some nearby woods. Other students at the school
reportedly saw it again on the night of the 20th.

HC addendum
Source: Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E


29.
Location. Woodburn, Oregon
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 0300A
The witness was sleeping when she woke up suddenly feeling paralyzed. The
witness was completely unable to move or speak. Her next memory was of a
strange sensation on her left cheek, which hurt a lot. Unseen "beings" were=

apparently taking skin samples. Her face was left with a pink fleshy scoop=

down my left cheek, directly on the cheekbone. A teardrop scar was left on=

her cheek.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical Universe
Type: G?




30.
Location. Bethlehem, Israel
Date: March 21 2002
Time: night
At the besieged Church of The Nativity several awed witnesses have come
forward describing the events of Thursday night. That night, a smell of
roses filled the sanctuary as the Daughters of Charity held their evening
prayers. "The sweet scent was soon followed by a high musical humming sound=

and a distinct feeling of warmth emanating from the ceiling." Then, the
sisters reported, seeing a glowing beam of light gradually forming the
likeness of the Blessed Virgin "like a film coming into focus." Tears were=

running down her face, and she uttered a prophetic warning. "Time is
growing short, and the promised Judgment Day is nearly at hand." One week
before the apparition, The Church of the Holy Family was the scene of a
ferocious firefight between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 17Type: F


31.
Location. Not given
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 2255
16-year old Steven Mizon saw hovering over a street a large oval shaped
craft encircled in bright lights and with several lighted windows around
its edge. A figure stared down at him from one of the windows. No other
information.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Watch
Type: A



32.
Location. Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain
Date: March 26 2002
Time: 1500
A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a deserted road when=

he noticed ahead in the distance and in the middle of the roadway an object=

resembling a shiny pear that was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat
perplexed he approached and noticed two individuals standing on a nearby
field. These were over 2 meters in height, wore tight fitting white
coveralls and helmets resembling that of the early astronauts. He parked
his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men=

walked away and entered the shiny pear-shaped craft while the other
remained behind. Knowing that these men were "not from this earth" he still=

asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt that as
he approached the strange pair he had been in some type of a trance and
seemed to have floated over the road. The humanoid answered and appeared
genuinely happy as to his offer of assistance but said that everything was=

in order. He also added that the area was very beautiful and also added:
"Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such
beautiful scenes, they disappeared a long time ago." The astounded witness=

managed to ask the humanoid where he was from and was told that they hailed=

from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The=

humanoid smiled as he answered the question. The humanoid then bid goodbye=

and walked towards the nearby shiny pear shaped object, he then disappeared=

inside of it. The craft then emitted a loud whistling sound and disappeared=

at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the
humanoids as about 2.50 meters in height, wide chests and heavy set, thin
legs. Generally human features, but somewhat "refined" or sharpened
features. The suits were very tight fitting made of an apparent synthetic
material resembling plastic. Their eyes were very light almost white and
their speech was hesitant & accented. Also their movements seemed kind of
clumsy.

HC addendum
Source: J M Garcia, Francisco Padron, SpainType: B


33.
Location. Pringle Lake, Texas
Date: March 28 2002
Time: 1100A
Mark Hakemack and a friend had taken an airboat out on the NW side of the
lake to do a little redfish fishing. The day was kind of hazy, with broken=

cloud cover. They had caught several trout and were just chatting when he
hooked up a large redfish while playing with the fish, Mark happened to
glance upwards and saw a large bird-like creature emerge from a cloudbank.=

His friend saw it too, after about 20 to 25 seconds it flew behind cloud
cover again. The strange creature was grayish in color and the profile of a=

raptor, short neck/head, no legs sticking out behind, and no long tail
feathers. Mark could not take his eyes off it. He estimated the wingspan to=

have been 10' to 14 ' in overall. It appeared to be soaring on the wind,
although, he did see it give a couple of light "flaps" with its wings. The=

witness could only relate this to the legendary "Thunderbird" legend.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.comType: E


34.
Location. Sevilla, Spain
Date: March 30 2002
Time: late night
The witness to the March 26 case was at home with his wife and was getting=

ready to sleep when he heard footsteps coming from patio area outside his
chalet. Armed with a club, he opened the door and was stunned to see the
same two tall heavyset humanoids he had encountered 4 days before. One of
the humanoids was kneeling on the ground as if inspecting something on the=

soil, the other one upon hearing the door open, turned and quickly assured=

the witness not to fear that they were not here to harm him. Stunned, the
witness invited the two humanoids in the house for some refreshments (!).
These declined the invitation telling that they had to go already. Using
the same clumsy movements both humanoids walked towards the rear of the
house where the witness noticed the same shiny metallic pear shaped craft
on the ground. They entered the object, which quickly left at high speed.
The witness's wife awakened by the voices was able to see the two humanoids=

from a second story window, and described them in the same way.

HC addendum
Source: Francisco Padron, Jose Manuel Garcia, SpainType: B


35.
Location. Los Cipreses, Chile
Date: March 31 2002
Time: noon
During a local UFO congress 24 persons in three groups entered a
dimensional gateway that appeared by itself over the terrain. It was kind
of a dome, a luminous archway measuring four by four meters. The
participants lost their materiality without disappearing completely. Upon
entering, they met several human-like alien characters with large baldheads=

and wearing robes that waited within and received information. According to=

sources the contact experience was "dimensional" it was like crossing into=

a different reality. The 24 participants were "all professionals, college
students of high intellectual levels, mostly Chileans," and some were
members of Grupo Rama, a New Age association.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 16, quoting Camilo Valdivieto
Type: G or F?


36.
Location. Tbilissi Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: night
A man entered the local St David church and reported that "a phantom with
wings" had approached him and predicted an earthquake that indeed took
place on April 25 2002, devastating areas of central Georgia.

HC addendum
Source: Pravda
Type: E?


37.
Location. Near Macon, Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: 2300
Three friends were awakened by loud banging noises and bellowing sounds
coming from outside. One of the men ran to the bathroom and looked out the=

window to see a figure run by and squat in the nearby bushes. He described=

the creature as about 3 ft tall, hairy with what appeared to be horns on
its head and hands; he could not see a face. Others in the neighborhood
heard the banging noises.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.com and direct witness
Communication.
Type: E


38.
Location. Belvedere di Tezze, Italy
Date: April 26 2002
Time: evening
A 20-year old woman was returning home one night when she noticed some
bright lights nearby of an unknown origin. She followed the lights in her
car until she stopped near a local pizzeria. She saw the light near the
ground and within the lights two tall slender human like figures wearing
some type of headgear. Since she was carrying a camera she was able to snap=

a quick picture. The figures then vanished. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Gruppo Accademico Ufologico Scandicci quoting
"Il giornale di Vicenza"Type: E?


39.
Location. Puente Santamaria, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: early morning
Two young men observed a dark object descend towards the ground about 100
meters away. According to the two witnesses from the craft descended a
small humanoid, orange in color. Very scared they both ran from the area
and reported their experience to others.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: B


40.
Location. Merceditas, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: evening
An elderly couple was walking along National Route # 8 when about 800
meters from their location they noticed a very strong light. The light
descended next to a puddle at about 70 meters from the witness. Both then
saw two very short orange colored humanoids that moved in very agile
movements near the object. Terrified they walked away and upon looking back=

saw a bright glow on the ground.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: C


41.
Location. Barangay, Philippines
Date: May 2002
Time: night
Several local residents reported seeing a bizarre creature described as an=

"aswang" reputed to be a winged vampire type creature, it reportedly had
red glowing eyes, long black hair, and was wearing a white flowing gown. It=

was seen perched on top of a bamboo tree. Residents at nearby Roxas
reported seeing a similar creature. The police was called but a search
failed to locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Akasico.comType: E


42.
Location. Alvear, La Pampa Argentina
Date: May 3 2002
Time: near midnight
Several young men were returning home late at night along a deserted
roadway when suddenly out of nowhere a female figure wearing a light
flowing gown and with long black hair appeared in front of them. The
strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly and repeatedly asked for=

assistance from the men in a strange urgent tone. Terrified the men ran
from the area and later returned with additional witnesses but they could
find no trace of the strange apparition.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E?


43.
Location. Taralgon Victoria, Australia
Date: May 24 2002
Time: 2355
Walking near the Loy Yang Power station 45-year old Martin Taylor was
suddenly blinded by an intense blue light and he felt extremely dizzy. His=

next memory was of being in a circular room with a variety of lights and
buttons scattered about the walls. He was lying on a large table that
seemed to be of a very highly polished metal. He was strapped down and his=

shirt had been removed. There were wires attached to his arms, neck and
temples. A four ft tall humanoid figure with very large almond shaped eyes,=

almost transparent looking skin, ghostly white in appearance examined him.=

The figure had three extremely long fingers on each hand and spoke in a
strange dialect.

HC addendum
Source: UFO WatchType: G


44.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: May 29 2002
Time: midnight
Irma Rick watched a rotating luminous object descend close to the ground
next to a grain silo; it gave off a powerful bluish light through some
openings around its circumference. It hovered close to the ground. Through=

an opening a strange creature was seen to descend to the ground. It was
described as having an elongated semi-transparent white body; it also had
an elongated head. She could not see any eyes or legs on the creature as it=

stood motionless next to the craft. She observed the creature and object
for about 5 minutes until she dropped the flashlight she was carrying.
Afraid she left the area and did not see the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: B



45.
Location. Lembang Bandung, Indonesia
Date: May 30 2002
Time: 2315
The witness was driving his motorcycle across a highland area when he
spotted some flashing lights overhead and then noticed a silvery
disc-shaped craft descend low over some nearby graves at a cemetery. The
craft had blue and orange flashing lights around its rim. There was no
sound as the craft apparently emitted a beam of light towards the ground
and levitated what appeared to be some dead bodies onboard the object. (!)=

The witness was apparently paralyzed and was unable to move. The craft then=

shot away at a 45-degree angle and disappeared from sight. When that
happened the witness left the scene.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


46.
Location. Houston, Texas
Date: late May 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness was at the local electric company in order to pay a bill when
she decided to use the restrooms. Sitting in the stall she then noticed on=

the side of the wall of the stall what appeared to be a face lit up in a
dull light. When the witness looked directly at the "face" it vanished. She=

described is as having large round eyes no visible nose and a slit-like
mouth. (A peeping tom alien?)

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.comType: E?


47.
Location. General Acha, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: early June 2002
Time: various
A resident of the Oeste neighborhood informed newspaper sources that a
short green-colored dwarf like entity has appeared twice on her property:
once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When her husband ran out
responding to her screams, the mysterious entity vanished by rapidly
climbing up a tree. All versions agree in that the entity is short in
stature. Another resident added that it moved so quickly that it was hard
to describe it. In the same area mysterious cattle mutilations have also
been reported.

HC addendum
Source: Loren Coleman in UFO UpdatesType: E


48.
Location. Ojo De Agua, Argentina
Date: June 2002
Time: afternoon
Several passengers onboard two farm micro buses reported seeing a very tall=

dark man like figure that appeared to be wearing a tight fitting diver's
outfit standing on a nearby field. Nearby numerous mysterious animal
mutilations have been reported. The figure was silent and was quickly lost=

from sight as the buses moved away.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E




49.
Location. Near Tampa, Florida
Date: June 2002
Time: night
A man and three of his friends reported encountering two bizarre chupacabra=

type creatures one stood about 3-4 ft tall, the other looked to be about 6=

ft tall. Both had large glowing red eyes and spikes starting from the head=

to the back. They scurried away into a wooded area. (They were to have
further encounters in August).

HC addendum
Source: Art Bell.comType: E


50.
Location. Antalya, Turkey
Date: June 5 2002
Time: afternoon
Approximately 45 witnesses claimed they saw an UFO in the Santral district=

landing on the backyard of the Fatma Primary School. Several students
including Murat Esici age 11 saw an alien emitting red rays from his eyes
come out of the object. His hands and feet were metallic. He had a very big=

head and was about 1.80 meters in height. Esici temporarily lost her voice=

immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also=

claimed they san an unusual craft and an alien beside it. "His eyes and
hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes." The children
were overcome with shock after the incident.

HC addendum
Source: Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center Intl
Type: B


51.
Location. Polonnauruwa, Sri Lanka
Date: June 8 2002
Time: 2200
Approximately 50 to 70 eyewitnesses saw a UFO flying at about 100 meters
above ground level. The object was silent and briefly landed emitting a
bright flash like light. When it was close to the ground the object emitted=

a buzzing sound. Three other witnesses saw three 2 ft tall creatures than
when approached ran into the jungle and disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Sources
Type: D


52.
Location. Polonnaruwa, Sir Lanka
Date: June 9 2002
Time: 2012
Two witnesses went to a bath on a nearby river when they heard a loud
thundering sound and a UFO appeared. The craft landed nearby and two, 2 ft=

tall "aliens" emerged from the object. One of the humanoids flung a small
fluorescent fireball like object that flew over a house and vanished. Soon=

the craft and humanoids disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC & News Reports
Type: B



53.
Location. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Date: June 10 2002
Time: 1900
Witnesses saw a mysterious light in the sky and others saw a large disc
shaped object land nearby. Three humanoids only about 2 ft tall emerged
from the craft and disappeared into the forest when approached. The object=

also left.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Reports
Type: B


54.
Location. Chantilly, Virginia
Date: June 10 2002
Time: night
The witness was awakened during the night with a sense of some presence in=

the room. Looking toward the door, he saw, fading quickly, something, which=

almost had the appearance of a hologram. Next, shadows appeared outside the=

windows in an erratic shape. At first he thought the shadows to be from
trees moving in a strong wind. The appearance was of a storm blowing the
limbs to create these shadows outside the window. However, there was no
storm. He looked at the adjacent window on the side of the house facing
opposite and there was no wind at all. In fact there was no trees
positioned in such a way to cast a shadow. He opened the blinds to see what=

might be causing the shadows. He then saw what seemed to be a hologram with=

the shape of two small eyes moving erratically outside the window.
Frightened he closed the blinds. Two weeks later he was awakened by a
humming sound and again saw the erratic shadows outside the window. He
watched the shadows for 10-15 minutes and then called the police. The
police found no signs of any intrusion in the yard. When the police left
the witness walked toward the door facing the back porch and saw a large
burst of bluish white light. It looked unnatural, almost like a laser. He
has not seen the "shadows" again.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: E?


55.
Location. Ataliva Roca, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 11 2002
Time: 1930
A worker at a local drainage project was sitting and guarding some
machinery when he noticed a short greenish colored humanoid figure that was=

approaching his location from a nearby field. The witness became concerned=

and drove away from the area in the construction equipment and did not see=

the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


56.
Location. Eduardo Castex, La Pampa Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Two girls of a local school encountered a short greenish humanoid figure in=

the playing yard. The figure was standing up and appeared to be raising its=

arms up to the sky. Terrified the two girls retreated into the school and
watched the figure scurry away into some nearby woods. Around the same time=

a local farmer found a strangely mutilated hog in his farm.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


57.
Location. Chasico, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Hugo Deluca and several other workers were parked in a bus in an isolated
area when they spotted about 20 meters away a short, 1.20 meters tall,
bipedal figure completely covered in gray hair. It walked upright like a
man and then scurried away into some woods vanishing from sight. The area
had been hit with animal mutilations around the same time.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


58.
Location. Castex, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 13 2002
Time: night
A 70-year old man had gone to his driveway to check on a flat tire in his
car when a short light green colored humanoid suddenly appeared next to
him. It had large round ears, and two reddish luminous eyes. Its body was
thin and almost triangular in shape. The witness attempted to yell out but=

was suddenly unable to speak and at the same time strange warmth invaded
his body. Several seconds later the humanoid vanished and the witness
returned to normal. He reported the incident to the police.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


59.
Location. La Laguna, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 14 2002
Time: afternoon
Several youngster had gone into the fields in order to obtain some firewood=

when they saw sitting on a clearing in the woods two human like figures,
all dressed in black. They sat facing each other, one looking towards the
east the other towards the west, unmoving. Unnerved by the sight the
juveniles ran from the area. The next day the father of one of the boys
found two dead cows at the site, but could find no trace of the strange
pair. Days later a sheep and a horse were found dead and strangely
mutilated in the nearby location of El Cardonal.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: E


60.
Location. De Kalb, Illinois
Date: June 15 2002
Time: 0030A
The witness was sitting in his family room watching TV when he noticed a
bright flash of light outside the window. He saw the flash several times
and decided to check his backyard there he saw a circular light moving
around in circles. The light began to get closer; scared he ran inside his=

home and called a friend on the phone. He then quickly ran outside and saw=

the circle getting closer, he noticed that it had a purplish color to it
and it began to descend towards the ground. He became nauseous and dizzy
and collapsed on to the ground. He tried to crawl to the house but was
unable to move. He turned his head and saw the purplish object on the
ground and what appeared to be a door opening up. He then heard a squeaking=

noise and saw a tall and a short figure standing by a door of the object.
The two figures started to move towards him, walking in a strange bopping
fashion. They were of a dark complexion with a bumpy texture, other than
that they resembled normal human beings. The shorter figure approached and=

picked up the witness' camera and stared at it. He then looked at the
taller figure and handed it to him. The taller of the two looked at the
camera and then at the witness. The witness then heard loud unpleasant
shrieks coming from the taller figure, which then gave the camera back to
the shorter figure, which covered the camera with his hand, seconds later a=

light began to emerge from their hands. Then they stopped, threw the camera=

aside and began to walk towards the witness. They reached his side and
started to examine his body. A dog began to bark from inside the house and=

the shorter figure put out his hand and the dog stopped barking. At this
point the witness began to vomit. After about a minute he began to relax
and to breathe better. When he turned his head he realized that the two
figures and the purple spherical object were now gone. The next day he had=

a very severe headache.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: B


61.
Location. San Juan, Argentina
Date: June 20 2002
Time: evening
At a location where the body of a strangely mutilated carcass of a cow was=

found two witnesses reported seeing a small creature with large glowing
slanted eyes and about one meter in height. Later in the same area, members=

of the Gimenez family after investigating noises and a strong odor coming
from a wooded area found a mutilated cow and also watched a short humanoid=

with glowing eyes scurrying away into the woods.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


62.
Location. Manuel Rodriguez, Calama, Chile
Date: June 22 2002
Time: after midnight
A bizarre creature was spotted at a local housing complex on San Antonio
Street. Witnesses reported that it resembled an ape and it jumped all over=

the roof. It passed right in front of the witness, Maria Gavia's window and=

then it came back making all manner of noise. The creature was able to make=

very long jumps, unlike any a human could. It jumped and landed on the
neighbor's roof and then it left the area. Neighborhood dogs acted scared
and began howling. Others described the creature as about 1.5 meters tall,=

stocky in build with bright red eyes. It made a lot of noise. Others
reportedly chased the creature.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center, quoting El
Mercurio de CalamaType: E


63.
Location. Angencia Realico, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 23 2002
Time: late night
Several hunters returning to a local ranch spotted about 50 meters away two=

large glowing reddish eyes staring at them. They turned off their
flashlight and approached closer on foot, about 30 meters away they again
saw the reddish eyes on a dark creature that appeared to be standing on top=

of an apparently dead animal. One of the hunters shone its flashlight on
the figure again and saw a figure about 40 cm in height that quickly ran
from the area at very high speed. The creature disappeared into the brush.=

At the scene, a dead and mutilated young heifer. Other mutilations were
reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


64.
Location. Rancul, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 25 2002
Time: 2020
Two young men, Nestor Pinto and Daniel Gatica were walking on a field when=

they encountered a short man-like figure with huge pointy ears and long
dangling arms standing near some brush. The figure scurried into the brush=

and disappeared and at the same time the two witnesses ran away from the
area and did not see the strange dwarf again.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


65.
Location. Bavaria, Germany (exact location not given)
Date: June 25 2002
Time: night
The witness had stayed up late watching the soccer game as was in his
bedroom when suddenly there was a coldness around him that made him shiver.=

He noticed that his audio capabilities were somehow enhanced and he was
able to hear sounds that previously he was unable to hear. He then heard a=

noise outside his door and went out to investigate. The noise became louder=

as he approached the door. He then heard footsteps and opened the door. A
very small man with a somewhat deformed body that was smiling at him
confronted the witness. He looked straight ahead and then stared at the
witness. His next memory was of waking up in his bed in the morning.

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.com
Type: E


66.
Location. Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2105
The primary witness had stepped out on his back porch when his attention
was drawn to two huge black "birds" which were approaching from the north.=

His first impression was they were Herons, but soon realized that the color=

was wrong, and "they were huge, much larger than any bird I have ever
seen." The two huge birds landed at the top of a very tall coniferous tree.=

The witness stated that the wingspan appeared to be wider than the
branches, jest below where they had landed. The body size was estimated to=

be about six feet from head to tail. The oddest feature was the shape of
the wings, which according to the witness appeared to be bat-like. The tree=

where the "birds" landed seemed as though it would break from their weight.=

The witness yelled for others in the house to come outside to look. Another=

family member was able to see the huge black birds as they passed overhead,=

and headed for some woods. After checking the size of the branches where
the birds had landed, the witness estimated that the wingspan would have
been close to 12 feet or somewhat larger.

HC addendum
Source: Stan GordonType: E


67.
Location. Marldon Hill, Paington, England
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2357
A couple were walking near a local historic monument (a windmill) and they=

drew closer to monument they heard a low whirling noise. The noise
progressed to a high-pitched whining, almost out of hearing range. Then
they saw a mysterious glow coming from the dark side of the windmill, and
then to their astonishment they saw 5 or 6 shadow like figures standing in=

front of the windmill. Startled the two began to run back towards the main=

road. The woman looked back and saw the figures become engulfed by a bright=

light and disappear, and then everything became quiet.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Sightings UKType: E?


68.
Location. Adelia Maria, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 3 2002
Time: 2100
Pedro and Estela Moine had decided to visit the business district of town
called Barrio Norte and crossed the old railroad yard through a pedestrian=

pathway that ran through a pasture area between some silos, old railroad
depots and abandoned wreckage. As the couple moved through the premises
they suddenly became aware of a strange and incomprehensible conversation
between many voices. Startled, they stopped walking moved a few meters more=

and then heard the voices again which now sounded like strange "O" sounds.=

Pedro looked toward the silos and was able to see resembling humanoid but
lacking upper and lower extremities. Despite the pleas of his wife, Pedro
ran several meters toward an inner alley in the silo plant, being able to
make out some 45 meters to the west and in profile---the entity, which
acting surprised, avoided the encounter and moved again to the north.
However, what filled the witnesses with wonderment was that the creature
did so as though flying or floating without touching the facilities it
passed. Pedro and Estela ran after it. It was thus that the man managed to=

see the entity apparently hiding behind the control room of the truck
scale. Pedro ran toward it and was again startled to see the apparition
rising as a plane taking off, flying at an altitude of 5 meters and
disappearing behind a large metal shed. Bewildered, both witnesses called
out, but were unable to see anything else. Pedro Moine as "a thing with
human shape" described the apparition. It had some sort of light, although=

he could not say if reflected or self-generated, although he tends to
believe the latter, since it was a nebulous whitish light, which kept him
from making out details. The entire mass of the apparition appeared to be a=

body covered from head to toe in some sort of mantle, which he described as=

though it wore a hat, but covered with some kind of long raincoat reaching=

down to what he took to be its feet. He added that the "conversational
sounds" repeated themselves in three separate occasions at various
intensities. They were like conversations in a strange language.

HC addendum
Source: Mario Luis Bracamonte, C.O.R, Rio Cuarto Argentina
Type: E


69.
Location. Jerusalem, Israel
Date: July 6 2002
Time: night
A remote TV camera picked up images of "orbs seen on the corner to the
right of the Wailing Wall." They seemed to have facial features almost like=

a ghost, reported investigator Charlotte LeFevre. The orbs were described
as "sharp and distinct". The orbs were next to the women's prayer area in
front of the Wall. Other strange phenomena, has been reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 29Type: F?


70.
Location. Villa Elisa, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: July 13 2002
Time: 2300
A young woman fainted from nervous shock after having an alleged closed
encounter with "some sort of green dwarf". This occurred---enveloped in
darkness---along Misioneros Salesianos Street very close to several houses.=

An ambulance was called and apparently transported the witness who was in
shock.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria ColuchiType: E


71.
Location. Patna, India
Date: July 21 2002
Time: night
Several residents claim they've been bitten or scratched by a "black
monkey-like creature with colored lights flashing from its eyes." Resident=

Pawan Kumar Niyogi who was sleeping on the terrace of his house claims "a 5=

ft tall monkey-like creature" attacked him. He said: "I was terrified and
thought my life was going to end but it merely scratched me on the shoulder=

before jumping off the roof." Local residents are conducting night vigils
and carrying torches to guard their homes.

HC addendum
Source: Ananova, Ufoupdates. Type: E


72.
Location. Chajan, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 21 2002
Time: 2300
Police officer Guillermo Arias was on routine patrol through a rural area
when he heard over the radio that his colleagues in arms over at Achiras
were seeing lights in sectors of said community, and that they were heading=

towards Chajan along National Route 8. At the wheel of the police patrol
van, he managed to see a formation of 7 lights in the distance and decided=

to drive 10 km along a rural dirt road. When he had covered said distance,=

he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine of his vehicle sputtered=

and died, causing the police car to strike the edge of a guardrail.
Simultaneously, the lights on the van's dashboard began turning on and off=

randomly, the police radio went haywire and its dial displayed the random
shifting of the frequencies while the cabin became filled with an acrid
odor, as though of burnt wiring, and the interior lights and stop
indicator, which were broken, began lighting on and off. Seized by fear,
Arias leaped from the van and walked away a few meters down the road,
losing his cellular phone in the escape. The darkness was total, when
suddenly, amid the confusing situation; an immense light emerged from a
field adjacent to the road as a triangular object rose majestically into
the air. Now Arias condition went from fear to abject terror as he saw what=

he described as a real "floating city" some 200 meters long with a long row=

of windows (perhaps as many as 100). Arias claims having seen something
move behind them, describing the movement as "TV sets which make lines and=

shadows", which he defined as "non-human", and that many beams of light
came out of the giant triangle, aimed at the ground. The event lasted 2-3
seconds, but to Arias it felt like an eternity. The object suddenly rose
and sped away, vanishing behind the hills of a local field. As the object
moved away, the whole area was lit up like daytime and there was an
afterglow that lasted another 20 minutes.

HC addendum
Source: C.O.R., Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense, Argentina
Type: A


73.
Location. Waconia, Minnesota
Date: July 26 2002
Time: 0300A
The young witness was sleeping in the backyard with his sister when he
suddenly woke up. He then noticed that the side of the tent that faced the=

wetlands and lake was lit up. Looking towards the light he saw a shadowy
torso and arm of a humanoid figure that seemed to be moving around within
the light. He watched for 30 seconds and saw the figure move the fingers of=

his hands. The witness became frightened and hid in his sleeping bag. He
came out about an hour later and the light and strange figure were
completely gone.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


74.
Location. Sedona, Arizona
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 0310A
In a wooded area the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all
white, with black "straight" eyes; and black diagonal/diamond strip of
"clothing" on top. He stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then
left. Prior to seeing the figure the witness had seen lights in a large
oval shaped pattern in the sky.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


75.
Location. Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 1730
Three girls had decided to visit the rooftop as they did the prior evening=

watching for satellites. It was dusk and the girls had a good vantage point=

looking towards the east. With them they had a pair of binoculars and a
pair of walkie-talkies. The girls noticed that a large orange light
appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The anomaly
was noted to have fluctuated in colors of orange, yellow, white and pale
blue. At fist they thought of an arriving airplane, but then a second light=

appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10=

degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some=

unusually maneuvering; from a stationary position it accelerated at least 5=

degrees closer to the ground surface at an approximate 45-60 degree angle
within a matter of a single second. The first anomaly then began to move
slowly towards the north. At this stage they partially lost view of it as
it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley-like
region of the horizon. According to the witnesses, this third object
appeared to have "landed" on the ground surface. The object was then viewed=

through the binoculars and presented in great detail; the object was
described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange,=

blue/purple and white rotating around the rim. Thy also noted the trees
being slightly illuminated by this extraordinary phenomenon. They were
suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, "Identify
yourself." This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in a
foreign language. Around 1830 the girls were then called down to have
dinner. At about 2030 the girls re-established their places on the roof
after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still
present. Unexpectedly a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above
the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. "It
was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away." The=

light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it=

is not clear how one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became
extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed
her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not=

sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another of the girls woke up
the next morning with her nose bleeding. She also mentioned that she had
seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom.

HC addendum
Source: The Australian UFO Research NetworkType: D or
F?



76.
Location. Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 29 2002
Time: early morning
Local residents have seen a strange figure, which they described as
resembling a "shroud". The apparitions, which always occur in the early
morning hours, have become so common that in recent days several neighbors=

have stayed up late to see them, and it is thus that they were able to
confirm the simultaneous presence of up to 2 such beings, as well as red
lights flying over the area. All the witnesses whether individuals or in a=

group, agree that the entities are nebulous and glowing, with a pair of red=

eyes being clearly identifiable, and glassy faces (as if transparent).
Their movements are smooth and they always appear from behind the sand
dunes, as though "coming form the Naval Base." Most witnesses agree that
they show a great interest in the water tanks located above the roofs, and=

that they do not flee upon detecting the presence of local
residents---rather, they stare at them fixedly for some minutes. Deep
silence is perceived during the observations and "the air appears to become=

still" and neither heat nor cold can be felt---only a sensation of warmth,=

as if the beings emanated heat. Witnesses also state that things appear to=

be darker when "the shroud" appears, as though ambient lighting were
dimmed. Another curious fact is the large number of cats and dogs who
report to the place where the sightings occur and sit down to observe it in=

silence, in a state resembling a trance. A series of semi-circular prints
have been found in the dunes, not very deep, with 15-20 cm separations in
some cases and 30-50 cm in others. The locals have identified them as the
strange being's footprints. Efforts have been made to photograph the
"shroud", but all images, despite the use of different cameras appear
exposed. One witness who approached the site to witness the phenomenon took=

two photos of the prints in the afternoon and decided to stay with the
group of people hoping to see the "shroud", managing to take some photos of=

same and record the new prints which appeared in the dunes after the
sighting. A completely uncommon print was found at the site---but the
residents aren't sure if it's related to the phenomenon: it has the shape
of a five-fingered claw. One witness tried to make use of his carbine's
telescopic sight to see the figure in greater detail, but "when he tried to=

focus on it, he could see nothing_it was a though it could only be seen
with the unaided eye."

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, IHU, Christian Quintero and O A Mario
Proyecto Condor
Type: C or E?


77.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 30 2002
Time: 0530A
27-year old Mariela Baigorri reported seeing a strange figure that floated=

in front of her house. She had woken up early that morning and was getting=

ready to mount her bicycle when she saw behind the fence something floating=

in mid-air. It appeared to be a figure wearing a flowing white transparent=

tunic, with bright red eyes and undefined facial features. Feeling no fear=

she decided to approach it. She felt as if the figure waited for her and
was observing her. At this point Mariela felt some fear and began reciting=

the Lord's Prayer. The figure suddenly moved back and disappeared in plain=

sight.

HC addendum
Source: Juan Carlos Corrales Morey, Vision Ovni, Argentina
Type: E


78.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 31 2002
Time: 1845
23-year old Julian Pereyra was in his vehicle when he observed two red
spheres flying slowly over some nearby woods, they seemed to descend and
disappear behind the trees. 15 minutes later, Pereyra, accompanied by
several other witnesses approached the area and observed what they
described a tall floating figure wearing a white glowing cape like outfit,=

it seemed to glide silently over a field. It had what appeared to be a
visor at face level and two beams of red light emerged from where the eyes=

would have been. The witnesses watched the strange figure glide over the
fields for about 30 minutes. Curiously numerous local dogs and cats
approached and also watched the figure in fascination. The lights and
figure disappeared into the distance. In another occasion Pereyra and some=

of his family members encountered the strange humanoid and felt a strange
sensation as if the wind had suddenly stopped, they felt as they were
inside a vacuum or "bubble." Strange tracks have been reportedly found in
the area also.

HC addendum
Source: Diario La Nueva Provincia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Type: C?


79.
Location. La Cienaga, Pocri, Panama
Date: early August 2002
Time: night
Luis Alfredo Diaz reported hearing loud noises coming from the terraced
patio where the kitchen was located, going to investigate he found his cat=

apparently dead with two obvious holes on the neck and some blood on the
floor. Before finding the cat he had called his wife, Maria de Los Santos
Barrios. As his wife stood in front of him a panic stricken look came over=

her face, turning around he was confronted by a bizarre 1-meter tall
humanoid that had jumped to the center of the patio. The creature was
described as thin, covered with dark hair, with large pointed ears that
almost covered its face, it had very large eyes and extremely strong hind
legs resembling that of a kangaroo. Terrified he ran to his son's bedroom
and carried him outside yelling for his neighbors. A search failed to
locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Panamanian Paranormal Forum
Type: E


80.
Location. Near Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Date: August 2002
Time: night
The same witness involved in a similar encounter last year was again
camping in the same area when he again heard a noise. Shining the light in=

the direction of the sound he again saw the same creature. The creature sat=

there crouched by the trees staring at the witness. The witness walked
slowly towards it, he got to within 20 ft when it just jumped backward and=

disappeared. He described the creature as about five to six ft in height,
gray in color. It was totally naked. It had human features, but more
leathery, and its face was very wide, its eyes were huge and even though
they reflected light, they still looked black, resembling two intensely
black marbles. Its legs were very muscular, but turned backwards, like a
bird. Other hikers in the area have reported encountering little brown men=

on some of the more isolated trails.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal Story Archives, November 2002Type: E


81.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: August 1 2002
Time: late evening
64-year old Raul Dorado was touring some fields when he heard a loud sound=

on two occasions, like a whirlwind, which drew his attention. The third
time he saw something he describes as a green circle with three legs
hovering over him. At that moment Dorado fell to the ground, and according=

to his story, he carried a shotgun, binoculars and a cellular phone, the
latter, which was taken from his hand, and he could clearly see being
sucked into the object, which was apparently at low altitude. His next
recollection was seeing the object disappear toward the east. Dorado
remained at the location for an hour before being able to rise and walk
back to his car, returning to town in a state of shock. He had to be
hospitalized. Later when calls were placed to the (abducted) cellular phone=

someone would pick up and heavy breathing could be heard. Later on the
phone was apparently disconnected.

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, quoting Diario La Arena, La PampaType: G?


82.
Location. Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Date: August 2 2002
Time: 1730
A man named Todd Sees went up the mountain to look for pre-season deer. He=

told his wife that he would be home by noon. He rode his 4-wheeler up the
power line behind his home. He never returned. A search party composed of
local police, state police and volunteers searched for Sees. The 4-wheeler=

was found on the top of the mountain near a power-line. Tracking dogs could=

find nothing to go on around the 4-wheeler. The search went on for 2 days
and over 6 miles of mountain was covered from top to bottom. Then, in the
evening of the 2nd day, his body was found in a hard to reach wooded area.=

He was wearing his underwear. He was emaciated---not bloated. He was pale
and had an expression of horror on his face. When he went up the mountain
he was fully dressed, boots, camo-vest, hat, socks, pants. 3 people, on one=

farm, said they saw a large round bright object just above the power-lines=

at the time of the disappearance. It was silent, it did not move for about=

10 to 15 minutes. It suddenly went up and suddenly stopped. A light shone
down and something was pulled up into the light. It then went straight up,=

hesitated again, and then went west over the Susquehanna River and out of
sight. More specifically a farmer saw an object above Montour Ridge at the=

power lines, on top of the mountain, it was round and very still over the
lines. Suddenly it moved what looked like a few hundred feet to the east,
it stopped and a beam of blue and white light shone to the ground. What was=

seen next was very unnerving, he saw what appeared to be a man suspended in=

the light, he was being pulled up head first, he was moving his arms slowly=

in the light. What looked like a man was pulled up into the bottom of the
craft. A few seconds later it started shuddering, then went west very fast,=

stopped briefly, and then went straight up and out of sight. Also three
fishermen saw the craft. The FBI is supposedly also investigating. (Debated=

as a hoax, who would? and for what purpose?).

HC addendum
Source: Rense, UFO updates, NUFORCType: G?






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                            2002 Humanoid Reports

From: Albert Rosales <Garuda79@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:32:05 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:14:40 -0500
Subject: 2002 Humanoid Reports


Happy new year everyone

Sincerely,

Albert

-----

2002 Humanoid Reports. It appears to be a slow start for this
year with only one recorded case, again from Chile. We will see
what develops later on the year. 2001 was pretty busy but it was
a decline from 2000. Maybe we will see another down trend again,
later to pick up again in the near future. This seems to be the
ever-ongoing trend of the phenomena. Will it always stay the
same? Time will tell. Following is a list of known 2002 humanoid
cases.


1.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: January 2002
Time: 0300A
An employee at the local Minera Escondida was on his way to the
storage freezer in order to pick up some supplies when an
unknown creature jumped him from behind. He could only describe
it as hairy and dark. He was left with deep scratches and in a
state of shock. Terrified he ran away and bumped into two other
employees who were able to see a shadowy creature in the dark.

HC addendum
Source: La Estrella del Loa de Calama, ChileType: E


2.
Location. Caracas, Venezuela
Date: January 2002
Time: late night
Late one night in a dream-like state the witness woke up to see
seven to eight strange figures in her bedroom. They were dark
gray in color and very thin, with three large thick long fingers
on their hands. They had large, lipless mouths and large shiny
protruding black eyes, their noses were thin and protruding,
small ears, the heads was large and pointy. The humanoids
appeared to be naked and she was able to see a penis on the
humanoids. They were about 1.55 meters in height. She felt dizzy
and under the control of the strange entities. She was led out
of her bedroom by one of the humanoids that removed her clothing
and made her lie down on the floor. The humanoids apparently
attempted to molest her sexually and possibly attempted to rape
her but were not successful. She apparently passed out and does
not remember anything else about the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Lista Alcione and witness communicationType: E


3.
Location. Fort McMurry, Alberta, Canada
Date: January 2 2002
Time: 2032
Two men were parked on an isolated dirt road when they spotted a
large cone-shaped object descend and hover. One of the men
exited the car and he vanished in plain sight of the other, the
craft then also disappeared. The other man tried to drive away
to get help but the car would not start and it was to cold to
walk. He soon went to sleep and woke up later to find his friend
sleeping next to him. Later they drove back to town. His friend
does not remember what happened during those two hours of
missing time. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


4.
Location. Paso Lovera, Corrientes, Argentina
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2030
Gabriela Lencinas, 15-year old and a 19-year old friend were
returning home on a bicycle when they spotted a large cloud like
object descend from the sky and from it a giant figure emerge.
The witnesses stopped their bicycles to see a car approach the
giant figure, stop, the driver exit the car and then re-entering
the vehicle and driving quickly away. The figure then rose up
into the cloud and disappeared. The girls reported that the
giant human-like figure had its hair standing up on his head and
was extending its arms towards the witnesses that quickly rode
their bicycles home. Other in the area reported seeing bright
lights that same night.

HC addendum
Source: Pablo Omastott
Type: B?


5.
Location. Villa San Rafael, Chile
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2345
Two young teenagers, Jean F and Nelson C, where at home at night
when Jean noticed that his pet snake had escaped from its cage.
Both boys began looking for it outside among the rubble of the
parcel. They recalled how half an hour before, their two dogs
strangely began to howl and cry; however, it did not seem to be
important at that point in time. They searched for the pet snake
together when suddenly, about 30 meters from where they stood;
they saw what appeared to be a stray dog. They threw rocks at to
avoid an attack. However, to their surprise, the animal stood
there, motionless and fearless; it did not get scared nor it ran
away as ordinary dogs normally do. Shortly, the strange animal
began to move towards them. The movements it made as it walked
were very strange. It used two legs at a time. It made very
small sand short leaps like a rabbit. Suddenly, it stopped and
it stood up on two legs. The teenagers then began to feel some
kind of energy. "It was like an electrical shock in the
stomach," they said. It later walked again making a loud
dragging noise, making small leaps and only moving one of its
legs. They noticed the weird shape of the animal. "It was like a
rugby football with legs," one of them said. Jean began to feel
frightened and started to move away from animal. On the other
hand, Nelson felt a strange need to get closer to the creature;
he got to within 2 meters away from it. The creature appear to
emit a strange luminosity that apparently, was bright enough to
lit a small area around the creature in spite of the nighttime
darkness. Nelson was mesmerized as he stared at the strange
creature. He described it as having a head like a large dog with
a flat nose like a bulldog. Its eyes were slanted and pale-red
in color, which could only be seen when the creature turned its
head from side to side like a lizard. At that moment, Nelson
heard a voice in his head saying, "Don't stare, and just run
away." They provided further description, describing the ears as
flat, round and large. Its arms were short, it had elbows, and
the hands had three fingers. It had hair like the one on a wild
pig. Its legs were like the ones of a goat. The feet had also
three fingers and a membrane like ducks, but somewhat shorter.
On its curved back, they were able to notice a spinal section
covered with amounts of even thicker hair. Most of the hair of
the animal was gray, but the tail had a white tip. Nelson
finally fled, terrified, from the area. He also described how he
felt an inexplicable bone-chilling cold sensation.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center
Type: E


6.
Location. Not given
Date: January 12 2002
Time: night
Ted Parker was eating some leftover food when he claims the food began to
change. The bread of the sandwich turned an orange color and the lamb
became a silvery metallic color, sort of like liquid mercury. As he watched=

transfixed, he saw the orange bread and metallic lamb turn into the figure=

of an "alien" with the form of a man. It was silver in color and its outfit=

(smooth pants and shirt, like a jump suit) was orange in color. At this
point Parker glanced at the wall clock and it indicated that 2 hours had
gone by, even though it felt like minutes only. The alien figure
communicated using telepathic means and asked Ted to come with him. They
both went outside and there, Ted saw a landed black-colored craft in his
backyard. In a split second Ted found himself inside the craft not knowing=

how he got there. The inside of the craft was pure white in color with
strips of the metallic silver that the alien figure appeared to be made of.=

The rest of the incident is just a blur, but Parker did remembered hearing=

several loud high-pitched rings while onboard the object. A couple of days=

before while eating dinner with several other people there had been a
similar high pitched ring and everybody had just stopped eating and walked=

out of the room.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: G or F?



7.
Location. Chihuahua, Mexico
Date: January 29 2002
Time: night
Several days before seeing a UFO the witness remembered being in a
dream-like state in which he felt very calm and saw numerous disc shaped
objects, orange-red in color. A human like figure was talking to him about=

the objects and their propulsion. The UFO he saw was of an orange color and=

he felt a sort of ecstasy when he observed the craft. Several of his
neighbors also saw the object.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: G or F?


8.
Location. Near Palmyra, Wisconsin
Date: February 2002
Time: 0200A
Two men reported seeing a creature that resembled a bipedal "gigantic wolf"=

walking down a road west of the city. They said the creature was at least 7=

ft tall with a wolf-like head. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Linda GodfreyType: E


9.
Location. West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
Nebilson Sangma reported encountering a scary furry creature on a hunting
trip in the jungles. He reportedly took a video of the creature's nesting
place. According to Sangma, the creature walked erect like a human, had
built a house like nesting place, and would emerge from it frequently to
feast on a banana grove. Sangma and his brother observed the gigantic
creature for three consecutive days from afar. Officials and villagers have=

been hunting for the creature in the forest but it seems to have
disappeared as furtively as it appeared.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 13
Type: E


10.
Location. Near Dover, England
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness had been jogging along a low path by the beach when she noticed=

a tall, well built being in a black skin tight suit, that stood watching
her from nearby. He wore a black helmet wit a brown visor pulled down. At
first she thought it was a biker but as she approached the figure, it
suddenly disappeared in plain sight. As she continued to run she noticed a=

black craft jutting out of the sand, it was small and oval shaped, matt and=

ribbed it also disappeared in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: E?


11.
Location. Rosario de la Frontera, Salta, Argentina
Date: February 2002
Time: night
A strange creature called by locals "El Pestizo" has attacked several lone=

pedestrians in the middle of the night. It is described as a dark man
shaped shadowy being. A boy riding his bicycle on the way to visit some
friends was toppled from his bicycle and found a black shadowy figure
facing him. The young man managed to upholster his shotgun and fire two
shots. But, when he saw that they had no effect, he promptly drew his knife=

and stabbed the figure without any apparent harm. Frightened the youth
tried to escape but the creature knocked him down without saying a word and=

began dragging him by the hair to the side of the road. At this point the
young man began to scream. A local man, who rushed to provide assistance,
only to find a black shadow dragging the boy by the hair, heard his cries.=

The fearful shape disappeared without a trace after it became aware of the=

other man's presence. Six other locals have reported being attacked by a
similar being and received wounds.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


12.
Location. Not given
Date: February 2002
Time: early morning
The witness was alone at home and was preparing his breakfast when suddenly=

he heard a window break; he went to see what had happened. Grabbing a golf=

club he peeked inside the room where the window broke. He was stunned to
see a strange creature climbing on his bed. It appeared to be hurt, because=

it seemed that it could not move well. Gripping the golf club he went a
step nearer and the creature hissed horribly. It shrieked in an unworldly
manner. Terrified the witness did not move. The creature was small, about
the size of a large rabbit, and it was dark in color and had reddish eyes.=

It had wings and a spine of quills on its back, and had a semi reptilian
face. It appeared to have hair and small legs. The witness raised the golf=

club and the creature hissed again showing its large yellowish teeth, which=

appeared to be sharp, like those of a crocodile. It suddenly hopped out of=

the window and rapidly hopped across the street into the oak trees.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June archiveType: E


13.
Location. Vigevano, Italy
Date: February 2002
Time: 0100A
In the outskirts of this city a witness observed from his vehicle a
luminous humanoid entity walking along a roadway. It scurried away into the=

darkness when approached.
No other information.

HC addendum
Source: CISU, ItalyType: E



14.
Location. Corguinho, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Date: February 5 2002
Time: night
During a localized UFO flap several witnesses reported seeing a strange
creature described as about 1.3 meters in height, having two legs, with a
physique like a human but who moved with a strange fluctuating motion. The=

creature was seen five times by twenty people in the rural zone around
Corguinho. In Rochedo, 6 miles south of Corguinho five Cebu cattle were
found dead with a single incision on the side of the throat. The bodies had=

been drained of blood. (Is there a connection?).

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


15.
Location. Mount Podbrdo, Bosnia Hercigovina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: morning
Contactee and stigmatic Giorgio Bongiovanni was visiting the shrine on top=

of the mountain and was praying silently to the Virgin when, to his
astonishment, a glowing luminous female figure appeared and touched his
forehead with her fingertips. His stigmata scar vanished instantly. The
female figure told him to return to Italy and make known what had happened.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 14
Type: E or F?


16.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: evening
73-year-old Maria Rufina Cayo, a local shepherd was walking back home with=

her dogs and the cattle. Suddenly at one point, something spooked the
animals, and these began to stampede. Looking around she spotted a bizarre=

creature standing about 12 meters away. She described it as a humanoid,
half animal, half human, about 1.70m in height, with bright red eyes, sharp=

protruding fangs, and hands and feet that ended in sharp claws. The
creature looked at the witness three times then it scrambled away using
quick jumping motions with is powerfully built hind legs, she also noticed=

large pointy ears. The top part of its body seems to have been covered in a=

shiny white blanket. It somehow resembled a centaur walking on two
claw-like feet.  Alerted by the shouts of Maria, two men, Santos Jaimes,
and Ruben Colque ran out to investigate with their dogs. Suddenly the dogs=

stopped and began making pitiful howling noises, they refused to move any
further. The men heard noises behind some nearby bushes and went to
investigate and spotted a bizarre creature that stood staring at them with=

huge reddish eyes. It then moved quickly away in the direction of Cerro
Negro and disappeared from sight. The witnesses noticed very sharp claws on=

the creature's feet with a very sharp claw that appeared to be pointed
backwards. Strange footprints were found the next day.

HC addendum
Source: El Tribuno, Salta Argentina March 27 2002
Also Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E



17.
Location. Khanpur, Ahmedabad, India
Date: February 20 2002
Time: after midnight
Several local residents reportedly have encountered a person, dressed in
black and wearing a mask. Dubbed the "Monkeyman" whom they described as
between 25 and 20 years of age, dark skinned and having curly hair can
reportedly be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees. Two
local youths chased it and the figure reportedly disappeared in plain
sight. The two youths have been behaving abnormally since then. The
stranger was also chased along the riverbed near the Cama Hotel and it also=

suddenly disappeared. Others have heard the stranger running on the
rooftops. Abdul Hamid another youngster of the local slums described the
figure as a tall lean man that carries a sharp weapon. "I saw him from the=

back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised the alarm, he jumped to=

another roof and then on to a tree." Police have searched for the stranger=

but nothing has been found.

HC addendum
Source: Fortean Times, India Express
Type: E


18.
Location. Prague, Czech Republic
Date: February 23 2002
Time: night
Blanka Slemendova was in her apartment when she saw a "ship" hovering over=

some nearby woods. It was shining red, white and yellow lights. She then
heard telepathic communication coming from the object telling her to go and=

meet them at an unspecified location. Looking over to her bedroom wall she=

saw what appeared to be a projection of human like faces looking at her.
Later that night she saw luminous figures in her room and a floating red
light also in her room. The next night she saw what appeared to be 2 gray
suns and around them a golden lights with numerous groups of shiny
human-like figures floating about. She interpreted these as being angels.

HC addendum
Source: Direct from witness (Slemendova)
Type: C & F?


19.
Location. Wycliffe Well Roadhouse, Northern Territory Australia
Date: early March 2002
Time: evening
While workers in the area watched unusual lights in the sky an aboriginal
woman encountered a triangular sort of object in a paddock and all of the
sudden she saw three silvery clad human like figures that began to move
toward her vehicle. She turned the vehicle around and took off.

HC addendum
Source: Lou Farcus ABC On-lineType: C


20.
Location. Near Canberra Australia
Date: March 2002
Time: 1700
Several friends were taking a trip to the coast and it was already very
dark. They had already entered a tropical forest area and there was a mist=

rolling along the ground. As they turned around they saw something
squatting in the middle of the road. It stared at them, and just as they
thought they were going to hit it, it leaped off the road and into the
trees. It leaped about 10 meters in the air. The creature was definitely
human looking although it wore strange clothes. It was dressed in a green
robe of some kind with little pieces of gold on it, and it was either
wearing a head crest or it had a row of spikes running from its forehead to=

the top of its neck. Very frightened the witnesses drove out of the forest=

and at the same time the mist turned to a thick fog. They pulled over and
decided to wait until the fog had cleared, although none of them were too
happy about it. As they sat around and waited they suddenly heard a shriek.=

It sounded like some sort of wild animal and they turned the car on so the=

headlights would scare it away. The headlights revealed the same creature
they had seen earlier. It hid its face from the light and shrieked. Right
before the witnesses' eyes, the creature seemed to evaporate into the fog.=

Within five minutes the fog had gone and the normal rolling mist was back.=

The witnesses quickly left the area and drove towards the coast.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June ArchiveType: E


21.
Location. Guanica Puerto Rico
Date: March 1 2002
Time: 2345
Reinaldo Rios (involved in other encounters) was in his bedroom that night=

when a large white light suddenly appeared. It flew around the room several=

times and then hovered. He heard voices coming from the light, which
communicated with him. The voice said: "I am your real father." Soon the
light transformed itself into a figure resembling that of a little boy it
then vanished in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: UFOs over America.com
Type: E


22.
Location. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 0800A
The witness and his wife were in bed that Saturday morning talking when
their 5-year-old daughter came into the bedroom with her baby brother,
whose cot is placed under their bedroom window. They heard a strange noise=

and some green light came into the window. Their daughter looked out the
window and reported seeing a "flying car" with four spinning green lights
on top. She saw two windows in the vehicle and saw two dark brown faces
looking out. His wife saw the craft flying past through the curtains. That=

same morning, in a large tree near the witness house a strange structure
was found. The branches were arranged in a rectangular pen shape, vertical,=

each approximately 30 to 40 cm long. They found a few smaller sticks
scaling down in size from the structure. A piece of concrete slab was found=

propped up on one corner. The witnesses had never seen this strange
structure before and think is some kind of message left by the visitors.
(Some kind of bizarre crop circle?). A few nights before they had heard
strange noises coming from the kitchen area.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: A


23.
Location. Golasecca Di Novara, Italy
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 2330
Augusto & Maurizia were in their vehicle parked in an open field next to a=

wooded area having a heated discussion when suddenly a powerful beam of
reddish-orange light illuminated the area around them. They rolled down the=

car window and heard a sharp metallic sound that seemed to be increasing in=

intensity. They now noticed, behind the beam of light a hovering
disc-shaped craft with a central rotating ring, it hovered about a meter
from the ground. From the object, a cigar-shaped beam of light emerged;
they could see it as the central ring of the craft slowly rotated on its
axis. The craft was only about 10 meters away. At this point, and only
about 4 meters from the object Augusto saw what appeared to be a gelatinous=

transparent humanoid-like figure with a visible head, arms and legs. The
figure was silvery in color and was very tall, about 3 meters or so. At
this point Augusto became concerned and drove away from the area and did
not see the object or figure depart. The whole episode lasted about 10
minutes. The metallic noise was heard all throughout the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Alfredo Lissoni, CUN Milano, Michelle Castellano CUN VareseType: C


24.
Location. Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England
Date: March 3 2002
Time: morning
Helen Diskin went for a walk in the countryside talking snap shots along
the way with her digital camera. Returning home she loaded these into her
computer and was intrigued by an odd-looking image. It looked like a
luminous figure in an area of no sunlight, skulking amongst the trees. She=

returned to the site of the photo twice afterward and could find no
explanation for the figure. The figure resembled a small helmeted figure
that she had not seen when she took the picture of an area of the woods she=

had thought of as "mysterious."

HC addendum
Source: Helen Diskin, UFO Magazine Vol. 22 # 1Type: E?


25.
Location. Near Trenton New Jersey
Date: March 4 2002
Time: night
Several witnesses were camping outside of town and late at night one of
them was attempting to put out the bonfire when he heard the most awful and=

horrifying scream. It resembled that of an injured dog crossed with a
scream of a woman. The witness dropped the flashlight and was joined by
another witness. Suddenly out of the woods a hideous and gruesome creature=

appeared. It did not look human, somewhat satyr-like in appearance and
walked on two legs. It had a long tail like a dragon and wings like those
unicorns in fantasy books. The beast took several steps towards the
witnesses and one of them picked up and asked and yelled at it and then
shone his flashlight at it. The creature then turned towards the bushes and=

ran away from the area.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: E


26.
Location. Pichaca, Salta, Argentina
Date: March 9 2002
Time: night
Ceferino Leoncio was cleaning his one room metal shack when suddenly a
bright light engulfed the room. He felt a sudden heat as he saw a tiny
figure (50 cm) of an angel-like creature materialize in front of him. It
slowly moved its small wing-like protrusions and moved around and then
suddenly stopped and remained still. It appeared to be a small living human=

like living being until it appeared to hardened and turn into some type of=

statue of cherubic appearance. Locals have now built a shrine around the
tiny "statue" and call the strange materialization a "religious miracle".

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso
Type: F?



27.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: March 16 2002
Time: 2215
Mirna, was watching television alone in her room when she began hearing
noises coming from outside, at first she thought it was her dogs playing
around with some empty cans. But the noises kept getting louder and louder=

and she decided to go outside to investigate. Once outside she was stunned=

to see some type creature that had somehow entered the rabbit cage and was=

attacking the animals that were making loud unearthly screams. Thinking at=

first that it was one of the dogs she approached the case but realized that=

it was a gray colored hairy hunched over creature, that was moving quickly=

inside the cage. She stepped back and could not understand how the creature=

had entered the cage, since there wasn't any apparent hole or aperture
visible anywhere and the door was firmly closed. Afraid she ran inside her=

home and notified her son, both then ran out but the creature had
mysteriously disappeared. Unnerved, they could not understand how they
creature had escaped since the door to the rabbit caged was still firmly
locked. Later they could only find a small round hole in the wire only
several centimeters in width, not large enough for a creature estimated to=

have been about 70 to 80 cm in height. Several of the rabbits were found
injured and one was dead.

HC addendum
Source: Calama UFO CenterType: E


28.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: March 19 2002
Time: 2000
Young Elizabeth Lera reported seeing a short humanoid with "dark eyes"
looking into the building compound from behind a wire fence. It appeared
not to have any other facial features and was wearing dark clothing; it
wore some type of head covering, which was hard to see because of the
darkness. She could only see a pair of large dark eyes on his face that
appeared to shine in the darkness. Some more children now arrived and
observed as the humanoid move several steps towards them. Another witness,=

Rene Mamani saw the humanoid run and hide behind some bushes. It seemed to=

move at very high speed in an unnatural fashion. It seemed to have remained=

suspended in mid-air for a few seconds. It then seemed to fly through the
air and disappeared into some nearby woods. Other students at the school
reportedly saw it again on the night of the 20th.

HC addendum
Source: Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E


29.
Location. Woodburn, Oregon
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 0300A
The witness was sleeping when she woke up suddenly feeling paralyzed. The
witness was completely unable to move or speak. Her next memory was of a
strange sensation on her left cheek, which hurt a lot. Unseen "beings" were=

apparently taking skin samples. Her face was left with a pink fleshy scoop=

down my left cheek, directly on the cheekbone. A teardrop scar was left on=

her cheek.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical Universe
Type: G?




30.
Location. Bethlehem, Israel
Date: March 21 2002
Time: night
At the besieged Church of The Nativity several awed witnesses have come
forward describing the events of Thursday night. That night, a smell of
roses filled the sanctuary as the Daughters of Charity held their evening
prayers. "The sweet scent was soon followed by a high musical humming sound=

and a distinct feeling of warmth emanating from the ceiling." Then, the
sisters reported, seeing a glowing beam of light gradually forming the
likeness of the Blessed Virgin "like a film coming into focus." Tears were=

running down her face, and she uttered a prophetic warning. "Time is
growing short, and the promised Judgment Day is nearly at hand." One week
before the apparition, The Church of the Holy Family was the scene of a
ferocious firefight between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 17Type: F


31.
Location. Not given
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 2255
16-year old Steven Mizon saw hovering over a street a large oval shaped
craft encircled in bright lights and with several lighted windows around
its edge. A figure stared down at him from one of the windows. No other
information.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Watch
Type: A



32.
Location. Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain
Date: March 26 2002
Time: 1500
A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a deserted road when=

he noticed ahead in the distance and in the middle of the roadway an object=

resembling a shiny pear that was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat
perplexed he approached and noticed two individuals standing on a nearby
field. These were over 2 meters in height, wore tight fitting white
coveralls and helmets resembling that of the early astronauts. He parked
his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men=

walked away and entered the shiny pear-shaped craft while the other
remained behind. Knowing that these men were "not from this earth" he still=

asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt that as
he approached the strange pair he had been in some type of a trance and
seemed to have floated over the road. The humanoid answered and appeared
genuinely happy as to his offer of assistance but said that everything was=

in order. He also added that the area was very beautiful and also added:
"Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such
beautiful scenes, they disappeared a long time ago." The astounded witness=

managed to ask the humanoid where he was from and was told that they hailed=

from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The=

humanoid smiled as he answered the question. The humanoid then bid goodbye=

and walked towards the nearby shiny pear shaped object, he then disappeared=

inside of it. The craft then emitted a loud whistling sound and disappeared=

at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the
humanoids as about 2.50 meters in height, wide chests and heavy set, thin
legs. Generally human features, but somewhat "refined" or sharpened
features. The suits were very tight fitting made of an apparent synthetic
material resembling plastic. Their eyes were very light almost white and
their speech was hesitant & accented. Also their movements seemed kind of
clumsy.

HC addendum
Source: J M Garcia, Francisco Padron, SpainType: B


33.
Location. Pringle Lake, Texas
Date: March 28 2002
Time: 1100A
Mark Hakemack and a friend had taken an airboat out on the NW side of the
lake to do a little redfish fishing. The day was kind of hazy, with broken=

cloud cover. They had caught several trout and were just chatting when he
hooked up a large redfish while playing with the fish, Mark happened to
glance upwards and saw a large bird-like creature emerge from a cloudbank.=

His friend saw it too, after about 20 to 25 seconds it flew behind cloud
cover again. The strange creature was grayish in color and the profile of a=

raptor, short neck/head, no legs sticking out behind, and no long tail
feathers. Mark could not take his eyes off it. He estimated the wingspan to=

have been 10' to 14 ' in overall. It appeared to be soaring on the wind,
although, he did see it give a couple of light "flaps" with its wings. The=

witness could only relate this to the legendary "Thunderbird" legend.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.comType: E


34.
Location. Sevilla, Spain
Date: March 30 2002
Time: late night
The witness to the March 26 case was at home with his wife and was getting=

ready to sleep when he heard footsteps coming from patio area outside his
chalet. Armed with a club, he opened the door and was stunned to see the
same two tall heavyset humanoids he had encountered 4 days before. One of
the humanoids was kneeling on the ground as if inspecting something on the=

soil, the other one upon hearing the door open, turned and quickly assured=

the witness not to fear that they were not here to harm him. Stunned, the
witness invited the two humanoids in the house for some refreshments (!).
These declined the invitation telling that they had to go already. Using
the same clumsy movements both humanoids walked towards the rear of the
house where the witness noticed the same shiny metallic pear shaped craft
on the ground. They entered the object, which quickly left at high speed.
The witness's wife awakened by the voices was able to see the two humanoids=

from a second story window, and described them in the same way.

HC addendum
Source: Francisco Padron, Jose Manuel Garcia, SpainType: B


35.
Location. Los Cipreses, Chile
Date: March 31 2002
Time: noon
During a local UFO congress 24 persons in three groups entered a
dimensional gateway that appeared by itself over the terrain. It was kind
of a dome, a luminous archway measuring four by four meters. The
participants lost their materiality without disappearing completely. Upon
entering, they met several human-like alien characters with large baldheads=

and wearing robes that waited within and received information. According to=

sources the contact experience was "dimensional" it was like crossing into=

a different reality. The 24 participants were "all professionals, college
students of high intellectual levels, mostly Chileans," and some were
members of Grupo Rama, a New Age association.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 16, quoting Camilo Valdivieto
Type: G or F?


36.
Location. Tbilissi Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: night
A man entered the local St David church and reported that "a phantom with
wings" had approached him and predicted an earthquake that indeed took
place on April 25 2002, devastating areas of central Georgia.

HC addendum
Source: Pravda
Type: E?


37.
Location. Near Macon, Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: 2300
Three friends were awakened by loud banging noises and bellowing sounds
coming from outside. One of the men ran to the bathroom and looked out the=

window to see a figure run by and squat in the nearby bushes. He described=

the creature as about 3 ft tall, hairy with what appeared to be horns on
its head and hands; he could not see a face. Others in the neighborhood
heard the banging noises.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.com and direct witness
Communication.
Type: E


38.
Location. Belvedere di Tezze, Italy
Date: April 26 2002
Time: evening
A 20-year old woman was returning home one night when she noticed some
bright lights nearby of an unknown origin. She followed the lights in her
car until she stopped near a local pizzeria. She saw the light near the
ground and within the lights two tall slender human like figures wearing
some type of headgear. Since she was carrying a camera she was able to snap=

a quick picture. The figures then vanished. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Gruppo Accademico Ufologico Scandicci quoting
"Il giornale di Vicenza"Type: E?


39.
Location. Puente Santamaria, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: early morning
Two young men observed a dark object descend towards the ground about 100
meters away. According to the two witnesses from the craft descended a
small humanoid, orange in color. Very scared they both ran from the area
and reported their experience to others.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: B


40.
Location. Merceditas, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: evening
An elderly couple was walking along National Route # 8 when about 800
meters from their location they noticed a very strong light. The light
descended next to a puddle at about 70 meters from the witness. Both then
saw two very short orange colored humanoids that moved in very agile
movements near the object. Terrified they walked away and upon looking back=

saw a bright glow on the ground.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: C


41.
Location. Barangay, Philippines
Date: May 2002
Time: night
Several local residents reported seeing a bizarre creature described as an=

"aswang" reputed to be a winged vampire type creature, it reportedly had
red glowing eyes, long black hair, and was wearing a white flowing gown. It=

was seen perched on top of a bamboo tree. Residents at nearby Roxas
reported seeing a similar creature. The police was called but a search
failed to locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Akasico.comType: E


42.
Location. Alvear, La Pampa Argentina
Date: May 3 2002
Time: near midnight
Several young men were returning home late at night along a deserted
roadway when suddenly out of nowhere a female figure wearing a light
flowing gown and with long black hair appeared in front of them. The
strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly and repeatedly asked for=

assistance from the men in a strange urgent tone. Terrified the men ran
from the area and later returned with additional witnesses but they could
find no trace of the strange apparition.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E?


43.
Location. Taralgon Victoria, Australia
Date: May 24 2002
Time: 2355
Walking near the Loy Yang Power station 45-year old Martin Taylor was
suddenly blinded by an intense blue light and he felt extremely dizzy. His=

next memory was of being in a circular room with a variety of lights and
buttons scattered about the walls. He was lying on a large table that
seemed to be of a very highly polished metal. He was strapped down and his=

shirt had been removed. There were wires attached to his arms, neck and
temples. A four ft tall humanoid figure with very large almond shaped eyes,=

almost transparent looking skin, ghostly white in appearance examined him.=

The figure had three extremely long fingers on each hand and spoke in a
strange dialect.

HC addendum
Source: UFO WatchType: G


44.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: May 29 2002
Time: midnight
Irma Rick watched a rotating luminous object descend close to the ground
next to a grain silo; it gave off a powerful bluish light through some
openings around its circumference. It hovered close to the ground. Through=

an opening a strange creature was seen to descend to the ground. It was
described as having an elongated semi-transparent white body; it also had
an elongated head. She could not see any eyes or legs on the creature as it=

stood motionless next to the craft. She observed the creature and object
for about 5 minutes until she dropped the flashlight she was carrying.
Afraid she left the area and did not see the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: B



45.
Location. Lembang Bandung, Indonesia
Date: May 30 2002
Time: 2315
The witness was driving his motorcycle across a highland area when he
spotted some flashing lights overhead and then noticed a silvery
disc-shaped craft descend low over some nearby graves at a cemetery. The
craft had blue and orange flashing lights around its rim. There was no
sound as the craft apparently emitted a beam of light towards the ground
and levitated what appeared to be some dead bodies onboard the object. (!)=

The witness was apparently paralyzed and was unable to move. The craft then=

shot away at a 45-degree angle and disappeared from sight. When that
happened the witness left the scene.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


46.
Location. Houston, Texas
Date: late May 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness was at the local electric company in order to pay a bill when
she decided to use the restrooms. Sitting in the stall she then noticed on=

the side of the wall of the stall what appeared to be a face lit up in a
dull light. When the witness looked directly at the "face" it vanished. She=

described is as having large round eyes no visible nose and a slit-like
mouth. (A peeping tom alien?)

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.comType: E?


47.
Location. General Acha, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: early June 2002
Time: various
A resident of the Oeste neighborhood informed newspaper sources that a
short green-colored dwarf like entity has appeared twice on her property:
once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When her husband ran out
responding to her screams, the mysterious entity vanished by rapidly
climbing up a tree. All versions agree in that the entity is short in
stature. Another resident added that it moved so quickly that it was hard
to describe it. In the same area mysterious cattle mutilations have also
been reported.

HC addendum
Source: Loren Coleman in UFO UpdatesType: E


48.
Location. Ojo De Agua, Argentina
Date: June 2002
Time: afternoon
Several passengers onboard two farm micro buses reported seeing a very tall=

dark man like figure that appeared to be wearing a tight fitting diver's
outfit standing on a nearby field. Nearby numerous mysterious animal
mutilations have been reported. The figure was silent and was quickly lost=

from sight as the buses moved away.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E




49.
Location. Near Tampa, Florida
Date: June 2002
Time: night
A man and three of his friends reported encountering two bizarre chupacabra=

type creatures one stood about 3-4 ft tall, the other looked to be about 6=

ft tall. Both had large glowing red eyes and spikes starting from the head=

to the back. They scurried away into a wooded area. (They were to have
further encounters in August).

HC addendum
Source: Art Bell.comType: E


50.
Location. Antalya, Turkey
Date: June 5 2002
Time: afternoon
Approximately 45 witnesses claimed they saw an UFO in the Santral district=

landing on the backyard of the Fatma Primary School. Several students
including Murat Esici age 11 saw an alien emitting red rays from his eyes
come out of the object. His hands and feet were metallic. He had a very big=

head and was about 1.80 meters in height. Esici temporarily lost her voice=

immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also=

claimed they san an unusual craft and an alien beside it. "His eyes and
hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes." The children
were overcome with shock after the incident.

HC addendum
Source: Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center Intl
Type: B


51.
Location. Polonnauruwa, Sri Lanka
Date: June 8 2002
Time: 2200
Approximately 50 to 70 eyewitnesses saw a UFO flying at about 100 meters
above ground level. The object was silent and briefly landed emitting a
bright flash like light. When it was close to the ground the object emitted=

a buzzing sound. Three other witnesses saw three 2 ft tall creatures than
when approached ran into the jungle and disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Sources
Type: D


52.
Location. Polonnaruwa, Sir Lanka
Date: June 9 2002
Time: 2012
Two witnesses went to a bath on a nearby river when they heard a loud
thundering sound and a UFO appeared. The craft landed nearby and two, 2 ft=

tall "aliens" emerged from the object. One of the humanoids flung a small
fluorescent fireball like object that flew over a house and vanished. Soon=

the craft and humanoids disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC & News Reports
Type: B



53.
Location. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Date: June 10 2002
Time: 1900
Witnesses saw a mysterious light in the sky and others saw a large disc
shaped object land nearby. Three humanoids only about 2 ft tall emerged
from the craft and disappeared into the forest when approached. The object=

also left.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Reports
Type: B


54.
Location. Chantilly, Virginia
Date: June 10 2002
Time: night
The witness was awakened during the night with a sense of some presence in=

the room. Looking toward the door, he saw, fading quickly, something, which=

almost had the appearance of a hologram. Next, shadows appeared outside the=

windows in an erratic shape. At first he thought the shadows to be from
trees moving in a strong wind. The appearance was of a storm blowing the
limbs to create these shadows outside the window. However, there was no
storm. He looked at the adjacent window on the side of the house facing
opposite and there was no wind at all. In fact there was no trees
positioned in such a way to cast a shadow. He opened the blinds to see what=

might be causing the shadows. He then saw what seemed to be a hologram with=

the shape of two small eyes moving erratically outside the window.
Frightened he closed the blinds. Two weeks later he was awakened by a
humming sound and again saw the erratic shadows outside the window. He
watched the shadows for 10-15 minutes and then called the police. The
police found no signs of any intrusion in the yard. When the police left
the witness walked toward the door facing the back porch and saw a large
burst of bluish white light. It looked unnatural, almost like a laser. He
has not seen the "shadows" again.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: E?


55.
Location. Ataliva Roca, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 11 2002
Time: 1930
A worker at a local drainage project was sitting and guarding some
machinery when he noticed a short greenish colored humanoid figure that was=

approaching his location from a nearby field. The witness became concerned=

and drove away from the area in the construction equipment and did not see=

the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


56.
Location. Eduardo Castex, La Pampa Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Two girls of a local school encountered a short greenish humanoid figure in=

the playing yard. The figure was standing up and appeared to be raising its=

arms up to the sky. Terrified the two girls retreated into the school and
watched the figure scurry away into some nearby woods. Around the same time=

a local farmer found a strangely mutilated hog in his farm.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


57.
Location. Chasico, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Hugo Deluca and several other workers were parked in a bus in an isolated
area when they spotted about 20 meters away a short, 1.20 meters tall,
bipedal figure completely covered in gray hair. It walked upright like a
man and then scurried away into some woods vanishing from sight. The area
had been hit with animal mutilations around the same time.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


58.
Location. Castex, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 13 2002
Time: night
A 70-year old man had gone to his driveway to check on a flat tire in his
car when a short light green colored humanoid suddenly appeared next to
him. It had large round ears, and two reddish luminous eyes. Its body was
thin and almost triangular in shape. The witness attempted to yell out but=

was suddenly unable to speak and at the same time strange warmth invaded
his body. Several seconds later the humanoid vanished and the witness
returned to normal. He reported the incident to the police.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


59.
Location. La Laguna, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 14 2002
Time: afternoon
Several youngster had gone into the fields in order to obtain some firewood=

when they saw sitting on a clearing in the woods two human like figures,
all dressed in black. They sat facing each other, one looking towards the
east the other towards the west, unmoving. Unnerved by the sight the
juveniles ran from the area. The next day the father of one of the boys
found two dead cows at the site, but could find no trace of the strange
pair. Days later a sheep and a horse were found dead and strangely
mutilated in the nearby location of El Cardonal.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: E


60.
Location. De Kalb, Illinois
Date: June 15 2002
Time: 0030A
The witness was sitting in his family room watching TV when he noticed a
bright flash of light outside the window. He saw the flash several times
and decided to check his backyard there he saw a circular light moving
around in circles. The light began to get closer; scared he ran inside his=

home and called a friend on the phone. He then quickly ran outside and saw=

the circle getting closer, he noticed that it had a purplish color to it
and it began to descend towards the ground. He became nauseous and dizzy
and collapsed on to the ground. He tried to crawl to the house but was
unable to move. He turned his head and saw the purplish object on the
ground and what appeared to be a door opening up. He then heard a squeaking=

noise and saw a tall and a short figure standing by a door of the object.
The two figures started to move towards him, walking in a strange bopping
fashion. They were of a dark complexion with a bumpy texture, other than
that they resembled normal human beings. The shorter figure approached and=

picked up the witness' camera and stared at it. He then looked at the
taller figure and handed it to him. The taller of the two looked at the
camera and then at the witness. The witness then heard loud unpleasant
shrieks coming from the taller figure, which then gave the camera back to
the shorter figure, which covered the camera with his hand, seconds later a=

light began to emerge from their hands. Then they stopped, threw the camera=

aside and began to walk towards the witness. They reached his side and
started to examine his body. A dog began to bark from inside the house and=

the shorter figure put out his hand and the dog stopped barking. At this
point the witness began to vomit. After about a minute he began to relax
and to breathe better. When he turned his head he realized that the two
figures and the purple spherical object were now gone. The next day he had=

a very severe headache.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: B


61.
Location. San Juan, Argentina
Date: June 20 2002
Time: evening
At a location where the body of a strangely mutilated carcass of a cow was=

found two witnesses reported seeing a small creature with large glowing
slanted eyes and about one meter in height. Later in the same area, members=

of the Gimenez family after investigating noises and a strong odor coming
from a wooded area found a mutilated cow and also watched a short humanoid=

with glowing eyes scurrying away into the woods.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


62.
Location. Manuel Rodriguez, Calama, Chile
Date: June 22 2002
Time: after midnight
A bizarre creature was spotted at a local housing complex on San Antonio
Street. Witnesses reported that it resembled an ape and it jumped all over=

the roof. It passed right in front of the witness, Maria Gavia's window and=

then it came back making all manner of noise. The creature was able to make=

very long jumps, unlike any a human could. It jumped and landed on the
neighbor's roof and then it left the area. Neighborhood dogs acted scared
and began howling. Others described the creature as about 1.5 meters tall,=

stocky in build with bright red eyes. It made a lot of noise. Others
reportedly chased the creature.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center, quoting El
Mercurio de CalamaType: E


63.
Location. Angencia Realico, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 23 2002
Time: late night
Several hunters returning to a local ranch spotted about 50 meters away two=

large glowing reddish eyes staring at them. They turned off their
flashlight and approached closer on foot, about 30 meters away they again
saw the reddish eyes on a dark creature that appeared to be standing on top=

of an apparently dead animal. One of the hunters shone its flashlight on
the figure again and saw a figure about 40 cm in height that quickly ran
from the area at very high speed. The creature disappeared into the brush.=

At the scene, a dead and mutilated young heifer. Other mutilations were
reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


64.
Location. Rancul, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 25 2002
Time: 2020
Two young men, Nestor Pinto and Daniel Gatica were walking on a field when=

they encountered a short man-like figure with huge pointy ears and long
dangling arms standing near some brush. The figure scurried into the brush=

and disappeared and at the same time the two witnesses ran away from the
area and did not see the strange dwarf again.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


65.
Location. Bavaria, Germany (exact location not given)
Date: June 25 2002
Time: night
The witness had stayed up late watching the soccer game as was in his
bedroom when suddenly there was a coldness around him that made him shiver.=

He noticed that his audio capabilities were somehow enhanced and he was
able to hear sounds that previously he was unable to hear. He then heard a=

noise outside his door and went out to investigate. The noise became louder=

as he approached the door. He then heard footsteps and opened the door. A
very small man with a somewhat deformed body that was smiling at him
confronted the witness. He looked straight ahead and then stared at the
witness. His next memory was of waking up in his bed in the morning.

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.com
Type: E


66.
Location. Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2105
The primary witness had stepped out on his back porch when his attention
was drawn to two huge black "birds" which were approaching from the north.=

His first impression was they were Herons, but soon realized that the color=

was wrong, and "they were huge, much larger than any bird I have ever
seen." The two huge birds landed at the top of a very tall coniferous tree.=

The witness stated that the wingspan appeared to be wider than the
branches, jest below where they had landed. The body size was estimated to=

be about six feet from head to tail. The oddest feature was the shape of
the wings, which according to the witness appeared to be bat-like. The tree=

where the "birds" landed seemed as though it would break from their weight.=

The witness yelled for others in the house to come outside to look. Another=

family member was able to see the huge black birds as they passed overhead,=

and headed for some woods. After checking the size of the branches where
the birds had landed, the witness estimated that the wingspan would have
been close to 12 feet or somewhat larger.

HC addendum
Source: Stan GordonType: E


67.
Location. Marldon Hill, Paington, England
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2357
A couple were walking near a local historic monument (a windmill) and they=

drew closer to monument they heard a low whirling noise. The noise
progressed to a high-pitched whining, almost out of hearing range. Then
they saw a mysterious glow coming from the dark side of the windmill, and
then to their astonishment they saw 5 or 6 shadow like figures standing in=

front of the windmill. Startled the two began to run back towards the main=

road. The woman looked back and saw the figures become engulfed by a bright=

light and disappear, and then everything became quiet.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Sightings UKType: E?


68.
Location. Adelia Maria, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 3 2002
Time: 2100
Pedro and Estela Moine had decided to visit the business district of town
called Barrio Norte and crossed the old railroad yard through a pedestrian=

pathway that ran through a pasture area between some silos, old railroad
depots and abandoned wreckage. As the couple moved through the premises
they suddenly became aware of a strange and incomprehensible conversation
between many voices. Startled, they stopped walking moved a few meters more=

and then heard the voices again which now sounded like strange "O" sounds.=

Pedro looked toward the silos and was able to see resembling humanoid but
lacking upper and lower extremities. Despite the pleas of his wife, Pedro
ran several meters toward an inner alley in the silo plant, being able to
make out some 45 meters to the west and in profile---the entity, which
acting surprised, avoided the encounter and moved again to the north.
However, what filled the witnesses with wonderment was that the creature
did so as though flying or floating without touching the facilities it
passed. Pedro and Estela ran after it. It was thus that the man managed to=

see the entity apparently hiding behind the control room of the truck
scale. Pedro ran toward it and was again startled to see the apparition
rising as a plane taking off, flying at an altitude of 5 meters and
disappearing behind a large metal shed. Bewildered, both witnesses called
out, but were unable to see anything else. Pedro Moine as "a thing with
human shape" described the apparition. It had some sort of light, although=

he could not say if reflected or self-generated, although he tends to
believe the latter, since it was a nebulous whitish light, which kept him
from making out details. The entire mass of the apparition appeared to be a=

body covered from head to toe in some sort of mantle, which he described as=

though it wore a hat, but covered with some kind of long raincoat reaching=

down to what he took to be its feet. He added that the "conversational
sounds" repeated themselves in three separate occasions at various
intensities. They were like conversations in a strange language.

HC addendum
Source: Mario Luis Bracamonte, C.O.R, Rio Cuarto Argentina
Type: E


69.
Location. Jerusalem, Israel
Date: July 6 2002
Time: night
A remote TV camera picked up images of "orbs seen on the corner to the
right of the Wailing Wall." They seemed to have facial features almost like=

a ghost, reported investigator Charlotte LeFevre. The orbs were described
as "sharp and distinct". The orbs were next to the women's prayer area in
front of the Wall. Other strange phenomena, has been reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 29Type: F?


70.
Location. Villa Elisa, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: July 13 2002
Time: 2300
A young woman fainted from nervous shock after having an alleged closed
encounter with "some sort of green dwarf". This occurred---enveloped in
darkness---along Misioneros Salesianos Street very close to several houses.=

An ambulance was called and apparently transported the witness who was in
shock.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria ColuchiType: E


71.
Location. Patna, India
Date: July 21 2002
Time: night
Several residents claim they've been bitten or scratched by a "black
monkey-like creature with colored lights flashing from its eyes." Resident=

Pawan Kumar Niyogi who was sleeping on the terrace of his house claims "a 5=

ft tall monkey-like creature" attacked him. He said: "I was terrified and
thought my life was going to end but it merely scratched me on the shoulder=

before jumping off the roof." Local residents are conducting night vigils
and carrying torches to guard their homes.

HC addendum
Source: Ananova, Ufoupdates. Type: E


72.
Location. Chajan, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 21 2002
Time: 2300
Police officer Guillermo Arias was on routine patrol through a rural area
when he heard over the radio that his colleagues in arms over at Achiras
were seeing lights in sectors of said community, and that they were heading=

towards Chajan along National Route 8. At the wheel of the police patrol
van, he managed to see a formation of 7 lights in the distance and decided=

to drive 10 km along a rural dirt road. When he had covered said distance,=

he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine of his vehicle sputtered=

and died, causing the police car to strike the edge of a guardrail.
Simultaneously, the lights on the van's dashboard began turning on and off=

randomly, the police radio went haywire and its dial displayed the random
shifting of the frequencies while the cabin became filled with an acrid
odor, as though of burnt wiring, and the interior lights and stop
indicator, which were broken, began lighting on and off. Seized by fear,
Arias leaped from the van and walked away a few meters down the road,
losing his cellular phone in the escape. The darkness was total, when
suddenly, amid the confusing situation; an immense light emerged from a
field adjacent to the road as a triangular object rose majestically into
the air. Now Arias condition went from fear to abject terror as he saw what=

he described as a real "floating city" some 200 meters long with a long row=

of windows (perhaps as many as 100). Arias claims having seen something
move behind them, describing the movement as "TV sets which make lines and=

shadows", which he defined as "non-human", and that many beams of light
came out of the giant triangle, aimed at the ground. The event lasted 2-3
seconds, but to Arias it felt like an eternity. The object suddenly rose
and sped away, vanishing behind the hills of a local field. As the object
moved away, the whole area was lit up like daytime and there was an
afterglow that lasted another 20 minutes.

HC addendum
Source: C.O.R., Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense, Argentina
Type: A


73.
Location. Waconia, Minnesota
Date: July 26 2002
Time: 0300A
The young witness was sleeping in the backyard with his sister when he
suddenly woke up. He then noticed that the side of the tent that faced the=

wetlands and lake was lit up. Looking towards the light he saw a shadowy
torso and arm of a humanoid figure that seemed to be moving around within
the light. He watched for 30 seconds and saw the figure move the fingers of=

his hands. The witness became frightened and hid in his sleeping bag. He
came out about an hour later and the light and strange figure were
completely gone.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


74.
Location. Sedona, Arizona
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 0310A
In a wooded area the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all
white, with black "straight" eyes; and black diagonal/diamond strip of
"clothing" on top. He stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then
left. Prior to seeing the figure the witness had seen lights in a large
oval shaped pattern in the sky.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


75.
Location. Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 1730
Three girls had decided to visit the rooftop as they did the prior evening=

watching for satellites. It was dusk and the girls had a good vantage point=

looking towards the east. With them they had a pair of binoculars and a
pair of walkie-talkies. The girls noticed that a large orange light
appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The anomaly
was noted to have fluctuated in colors of orange, yellow, white and pale
blue. At fist they thought of an arriving airplane, but then a second light=

appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10=

degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some=

unusually maneuvering; from a stationary position it accelerated at least 5=

degrees closer to the ground surface at an approximate 45-60 degree angle
within a matter of a single second. The first anomaly then began to move
slowly towards the north. At this stage they partially lost view of it as
it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley-like
region of the horizon. According to the witnesses, this third object
appeared to have "landed" on the ground surface. The object was then viewed=

through the binoculars and presented in great detail; the object was
described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange,=

blue/purple and white rotating around the rim. Thy also noted the trees
being slightly illuminated by this extraordinary phenomenon. They were
suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, "Identify
yourself." This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in a
foreign language. Around 1830 the girls were then called down to have
dinner. At about 2030 the girls re-established their places on the roof
after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still
present. Unexpectedly a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above
the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. "It
was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away." The=

light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it=

is not clear how one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became
extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed
her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not=

sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another of the girls woke up
the next morning with her nose bleeding. She also mentioned that she had
seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom.

HC addendum
Source: The Australian UFO Research NetworkType: D or
F?



76.
Location. Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 29 2002
Time: early morning
Local residents have seen a strange figure, which they described as
resembling a "shroud". The apparitions, which always occur in the early
morning hours, have become so common that in recent days several neighbors=

have stayed up late to see them, and it is thus that they were able to
confirm the simultaneous presence of up to 2 such beings, as well as red
lights flying over the area. All the witnesses whether individuals or in a=

group, agree that the entities are nebulous and glowing, with a pair of red=

eyes being clearly identifiable, and glassy faces (as if transparent).
Their movements are smooth and they always appear from behind the sand
dunes, as though "coming form the Naval Base." Most witnesses agree that
they show a great interest in the water tanks located above the roofs, and=

that they do not flee upon detecting the presence of local
residents---rather, they stare at them fixedly for some minutes. Deep
silence is perceived during the observations and "the air appears to become=

still" and neither heat nor cold can be felt---only a sensation of warmth,=

as if the beings emanated heat. Witnesses also state that things appear to=

be darker when "the shroud" appears, as though ambient lighting were
dimmed. Another curious fact is the large number of cats and dogs who
report to the place where the sightings occur and sit down to observe it in=

silence, in a state resembling a trance. A series of semi-circular prints
have been found in the dunes, not very deep, with 15-20 cm separations in
some cases and 30-50 cm in others. The locals have identified them as the
strange being's footprints. Efforts have been made to photograph the
"shroud", but all images, despite the use of different cameras appear
exposed. One witness who approached the site to witness the phenomenon took=

two photos of the prints in the afternoon and decided to stay with the
group of people hoping to see the "shroud", managing to take some photos of=

same and record the new prints which appeared in the dunes after the
sighting. A completely uncommon print was found at the site---but the
residents aren't sure if it's related to the phenomenon: it has the shape
of a five-fingered claw. One witness tried to make use of his carbine's
telescopic sight to see the figure in greater detail, but "when he tried to=

focus on it, he could see nothing_it was a though it could only be seen
with the unaided eye."

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, IHU, Christian Quintero and O A Mario
Proyecto Condor
Type: C or E?


77.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 30 2002
Time: 0530A
27-year old Mariela Baigorri reported seeing a strange figure that floated=

in front of her house. She had woken up early that morning and was getting=

ready to mount her bicycle when she saw behind the fence something floating=

in mid-air. It appeared to be a figure wearing a flowing white transparent=

tunic, with bright red eyes and undefined facial features. Feeling no fear=

she decided to approach it. She felt as if the figure waited for her and
was observing her. At this point Mariela felt some fear and began reciting=

the Lord's Prayer. The figure suddenly moved back and disappeared in plain=

sight.

HC addendum
Source: Juan Carlos Corrales Morey, Vision Ovni, Argentina
Type: E


78.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 31 2002
Time: 1845
23-year old Julian Pereyra was in his vehicle when he observed two red
spheres flying slowly over some nearby woods, they seemed to descend and
disappear behind the trees. 15 minutes later, Pereyra, accompanied by
several other witnesses approached the area and observed what they
described a tall floating figure wearing a white glowing cape like outfit,=

it seemed to glide silently over a field. It had what appeared to be a
visor at face level and two beams of red light emerged from where the eyes=

would have been. The witnesses watched the strange figure glide over the
fields for about 30 minutes. Curiously numerous local dogs and cats
approached and also watched the figure in fascination. The lights and
figure disappeared into the distance. In another occasion Pereyra and some=

of his family members encountered the strange humanoid and felt a strange
sensation as if the wind had suddenly stopped, they felt as they were
inside a vacuum or "bubble." Strange tracks have been reportedly found in
the area also.

HC addendum
Source: Diario La Nueva Provincia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Type: C?


79.
Location. La Cienaga, Pocri, Panama
Date: early August 2002
Time: night
Luis Alfredo Diaz reported hearing loud noises coming from the terraced
patio where the kitchen was located, going to investigate he found his cat=

apparently dead with two obvious holes on the neck and some blood on the
floor. Before finding the cat he had called his wife, Maria de Los Santos
Barrios. As his wife stood in front of him a panic stricken look came over=

her face, turning around he was confronted by a bizarre 1-meter tall
humanoid that had jumped to the center of the patio. The creature was
described as thin, covered with dark hair, with large pointed ears that
almost covered its face, it had very large eyes and extremely strong hind
legs resembling that of a kangaroo. Terrified he ran to his son's bedroom
and carried him outside yelling for his neighbors. A search failed to
locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Panamanian Paranormal Forum
Type: E


80.
Location. Near Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Date: August 2002
Time: night
The same witness involved in a similar encounter last year was again
camping in the same area when he again heard a noise. Shining the light in=

the direction of the sound he again saw the same creature. The creature sat=

there crouched by the trees staring at the witness. The witness walked
slowly towards it, he got to within 20 ft when it just jumped backward and=

disappeared. He described the creature as about five to six ft in height,
gray in color. It was totally naked. It had human features, but more
leathery, and its face was very wide, its eyes were huge and even though
they reflected light, they still looked black, resembling two intensely
black marbles. Its legs were very muscular, but turned backwards, like a
bird. Other hikers in the area have reported encountering little brown men=

on some of the more isolated trails.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal Story Archives, November 2002Type: E


81.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: August 1 2002
Time: late evening
64-year old Raul Dorado was touring some fields when he heard a loud sound=

on two occasions, like a whirlwind, which drew his attention. The third
time he saw something he describes as a green circle with three legs
hovering over him. At that moment Dorado fell to the ground, and according=

to his story, he carried a shotgun, binoculars and a cellular phone, the
latter, which was taken from his hand, and he could clearly see being
sucked into the object, which was apparently at low altitude. His next
recollection was seeing the object disappear toward the east. Dorado
remained at the location for an hour before being able to rise and walk
back to his car, returning to town in a state of shock. He had to be
hospitalized. Later when calls were placed to the (abducted) cellular phone=

someone would pick up and heavy breathing could be heard. Later on the
phone was apparently disconnected.

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, quoting Diario La Arena, La PampaType: G?


82.
Location. Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Date: August 2 2002
Time: 1730
A man named Todd Sees went up the mountain to look for pre-season deer. He=

told his wife that he would be home by noon. He rode his 4-wheeler up the
power line behind his home. He never returned. A search party composed of
local police, state police and volunteers searched for Sees. The 4-wheeler=

was found on the top of the mountain near a power-line. Tracking dogs could=

find nothing to go on around the 4-wheeler. The search went on for 2 days
and over 6 miles of mountain was covered from top to bottom. Then, in the
evening of the 2nd day, his body was found in a hard to reach wooded area.=

He was wearing his underwear. He was emaciated---not bloated. He was pale
and had an expression of horror on his face. When he went up the mountain
he was fully dressed, boots, camo-vest, hat, socks, pants. 3 people, on one=

farm, said they saw a large round bright object just above the power-lines=

at the time of the disappearance. It was silent, it did not move for about=

10 to 15 minutes. It suddenly went up and suddenly stopped. A light shone
down and something was pulled up into the light. It then went straight up,=

hesitated again, and then went west over the Susquehanna River and out of
sight. More specifically a farmer saw an object above Montour Ridge at the=

power lines, on top of the mountain, it was round and very still over the
lines. Suddenly it moved what looked like a few hundred feet to the east,
it stopped and a beam of blue and white light shone to the ground. What was=

seen next was very unnerving, he saw what appeared to be a man suspended in=

the light, he was being pulled up head first, he was moving his arms slowly=

in the light. What looked like a man was pulled up into the bottom of the
craft. A few seconds later it started shuddering, then went west very fast,=

stopped briefly, and then went straight up and out of sight. Also three
fishermen saw the craft. The FBI is supposedly also investigating. (Debated=

as a hoax, who would? and for what purpose?).

HC addendum
Source: Rense, UFO updates, NUFORCType: G?






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                            2002 Humanoid Reports

From: Albert Rosales <Garuda79@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:32:05 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:14:40 -0500
Subject: 2002 Humanoid Reports


Happy new year everyone

Sincerely,

Albert

-----

2002 Humanoid Reports. It appears to be a slow start for this
year with only one recorded case, again from Chile. We will see
what develops later on the year. 2001 was pretty busy but it was
a decline from 2000. Maybe we will see another down trend again,
later to pick up again in the near future. This seems to be the
ever-ongoing trend of the phenomena. Will it always stay the
same? Time will tell. Following is a list of known 2002 humanoid
cases.


1.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: January 2002
Time: 0300A
An employee at the local Minera Escondida was on his way to the
storage freezer in order to pick up some supplies when an
unknown creature jumped him from behind. He could only describe
it as hairy and dark. He was left with deep scratches and in a
state of shock. Terrified he ran away and bumped into two other
employees who were able to see a shadowy creature in the dark.

HC addendum
Source: La Estrella del Loa de Calama, ChileType: E


2.
Location. Caracas, Venezuela
Date: January 2002
Time: late night
Late one night in a dream-like state the witness woke up to see
seven to eight strange figures in her bedroom. They were dark
gray in color and very thin, with three large thick long fingers
on their hands. They had large, lipless mouths and large shiny
protruding black eyes, their noses were thin and protruding,
small ears, the heads was large and pointy. The humanoids
appeared to be naked and she was able to see a penis on the
humanoids. They were about 1.55 meters in height. She felt dizzy
and under the control of the strange entities. She was led out
of her bedroom by one of the humanoids that removed her clothing
and made her lie down on the floor. The humanoids apparently
attempted to molest her sexually and possibly attempted to rape
her but were not successful. She apparently passed out and does
not remember anything else about the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Lista Alcione and witness communicationType: E


3.
Location. Fort McMurry, Alberta, Canada
Date: January 2 2002
Time: 2032
Two men were parked on an isolated dirt road when they spotted a
large cone-shaped object descend and hover. One of the men
exited the car and he vanished in plain sight of the other, the
craft then also disappeared. The other man tried to drive away
to get help but the car would not start and it was to cold to
walk. He soon went to sleep and woke up later to find his friend
sleeping next to him. Later they drove back to town. His friend
does not remember what happened during those two hours of
missing time. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


4.
Location. Paso Lovera, Corrientes, Argentina
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2030
Gabriela Lencinas, 15-year old and a 19-year old friend were
returning home on a bicycle when they spotted a large cloud like
object descend from the sky and from it a giant figure emerge.
The witnesses stopped their bicycles to see a car approach the
giant figure, stop, the driver exit the car and then re-entering
the vehicle and driving quickly away. The figure then rose up
into the cloud and disappeared. The girls reported that the
giant human-like figure had its hair standing up on his head and
was extending its arms towards the witnesses that quickly rode
their bicycles home. Other in the area reported seeing bright
lights that same night.

HC addendum
Source: Pablo Omastott
Type: B?


5.
Location. Villa San Rafael, Chile
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2345
Two young teenagers, Jean F and Nelson C, where at home at night
when Jean noticed that his pet snake had escaped from its cage.
Both boys began looking for it outside among the rubble of the
parcel. They recalled how half an hour before, their two dogs
strangely began to howl and cry; however, it did not seem to be
important at that point in time. They searched for the pet snake
together when suddenly, about 30 meters from where they stood;
they saw what appeared to be a stray dog. They threw rocks at to
avoid an attack. However, to their surprise, the animal stood
there, motionless and fearless; it did not get scared nor it ran
away as ordinary dogs normally do. Shortly, the strange animal
began to move towards them. The movements it made as it walked
were very strange. It used two legs at a time. It made very
small sand short leaps like a rabbit. Suddenly, it stopped and
it stood up on two legs. The teenagers then began to feel some
kind of energy. "It was like an electrical shock in the
stomach," they said. It later walked again making a loud
dragging noise, making small leaps and only moving one of its
legs. They noticed the weird shape of the animal. "It was like a
rugby football with legs," one of them said. Jean began to feel
frightened and started to move away from animal. On the other
hand, Nelson felt a strange need to get closer to the creature;
he got to within 2 meters away from it. The creature appear to
emit a strange luminosity that apparently, was bright enough to
lit a small area around the creature in spite of the nighttime
darkness. Nelson was mesmerized as he stared at the strange
creature. He described it as having a head like a large dog with
a flat nose like a bulldog. Its eyes were slanted and pale-red
in color, which could only be seen when the creature turned its
head from side to side like a lizard. At that moment, Nelson
heard a voice in his head saying, "Don't stare, and just run
away." They provided further description, describing the ears as
flat, round and large. Its arms were short, it had elbows, and
the hands had three fingers. It had hair like the one on a wild
pig. Its legs were like the ones of a goat. The feet had also
three fingers and a membrane like ducks, but somewhat shorter.
On its curved back, they were able to notice a spinal section
covered with amounts of even thicker hair. Most of the hair of
the animal was gray, but the tail had a white tip. Nelson
finally fled, terrified, from the area. He also described how he
felt an inexplicable bone-chilling cold sensation.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center
Type: E


6.
Location. Not given
Date: January 12 2002
Time: night
Ted Parker was eating some leftover food when he claims the food began to
change. The bread of the sandwich turned an orange color and the lamb
became a silvery metallic color, sort of like liquid mercury. As he watched=

transfixed, he saw the orange bread and metallic lamb turn into the figure=

of an "alien" with the form of a man. It was silver in color and its outfit=

(smooth pants and shirt, like a jump suit) was orange in color. At this
point Parker glanced at the wall clock and it indicated that 2 hours had
gone by, even though it felt like minutes only. The alien figure
communicated using telepathic means and asked Ted to come with him. They
both went outside and there, Ted saw a landed black-colored craft in his
backyard. In a split second Ted found himself inside the craft not knowing=

how he got there. The inside of the craft was pure white in color with
strips of the metallic silver that the alien figure appeared to be made of.=

The rest of the incident is just a blur, but Parker did remembered hearing=

several loud high-pitched rings while onboard the object. A couple of days=

before while eating dinner with several other people there had been a
similar high pitched ring and everybody had just stopped eating and walked=

out of the room.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: G or F?



7.
Location. Chihuahua, Mexico
Date: January 29 2002
Time: night
Several days before seeing a UFO the witness remembered being in a
dream-like state in which he felt very calm and saw numerous disc shaped
objects, orange-red in color. A human like figure was talking to him about=

the objects and their propulsion. The UFO he saw was of an orange color and=

he felt a sort of ecstasy when he observed the craft. Several of his
neighbors also saw the object.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: G or F?


8.
Location. Near Palmyra, Wisconsin
Date: February 2002
Time: 0200A
Two men reported seeing a creature that resembled a bipedal "gigantic wolf"=

walking down a road west of the city. They said the creature was at least 7=

ft tall with a wolf-like head. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Linda GodfreyType: E


9.
Location. West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
Nebilson Sangma reported encountering a scary furry creature on a hunting
trip in the jungles. He reportedly took a video of the creature's nesting
place. According to Sangma, the creature walked erect like a human, had
built a house like nesting place, and would emerge from it frequently to
feast on a banana grove. Sangma and his brother observed the gigantic
creature for three consecutive days from afar. Officials and villagers have=

been hunting for the creature in the forest but it seems to have
disappeared as furtively as it appeared.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 13
Type: E


10.
Location. Near Dover, England
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness had been jogging along a low path by the beach when she noticed=

a tall, well built being in a black skin tight suit, that stood watching
her from nearby. He wore a black helmet wit a brown visor pulled down. At
first she thought it was a biker but as she approached the figure, it
suddenly disappeared in plain sight. As she continued to run she noticed a=

black craft jutting out of the sand, it was small and oval shaped, matt and=

ribbed it also disappeared in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: E?


11.
Location. Rosario de la Frontera, Salta, Argentina
Date: February 2002
Time: night
A strange creature called by locals "El Pestizo" has attacked several lone=

pedestrians in the middle of the night. It is described as a dark man
shaped shadowy being. A boy riding his bicycle on the way to visit some
friends was toppled from his bicycle and found a black shadowy figure
facing him. The young man managed to upholster his shotgun and fire two
shots. But, when he saw that they had no effect, he promptly drew his knife=

and stabbed the figure without any apparent harm. Frightened the youth
tried to escape but the creature knocked him down without saying a word and=

began dragging him by the hair to the side of the road. At this point the
young man began to scream. A local man, who rushed to provide assistance,
only to find a black shadow dragging the boy by the hair, heard his cries.=

The fearful shape disappeared without a trace after it became aware of the=

other man's presence. Six other locals have reported being attacked by a
similar being and received wounds.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


12.
Location. Not given
Date: February 2002
Time: early morning
The witness was alone at home and was preparing his breakfast when suddenly=

he heard a window break; he went to see what had happened. Grabbing a golf=

club he peeked inside the room where the window broke. He was stunned to
see a strange creature climbing on his bed. It appeared to be hurt, because=

it seemed that it could not move well. Gripping the golf club he went a
step nearer and the creature hissed horribly. It shrieked in an unworldly
manner. Terrified the witness did not move. The creature was small, about
the size of a large rabbit, and it was dark in color and had reddish eyes.=

It had wings and a spine of quills on its back, and had a semi reptilian
face. It appeared to have hair and small legs. The witness raised the golf=

club and the creature hissed again showing its large yellowish teeth, which=

appeared to be sharp, like those of a crocodile. It suddenly hopped out of=

the window and rapidly hopped across the street into the oak trees.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June archiveType: E


13.
Location. Vigevano, Italy
Date: February 2002
Time: 0100A
In the outskirts of this city a witness observed from his vehicle a
luminous humanoid entity walking along a roadway. It scurried away into the=

darkness when approached.
No other information.

HC addendum
Source: CISU, ItalyType: E



14.
Location. Corguinho, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Date: February 5 2002
Time: night
During a localized UFO flap several witnesses reported seeing a strange
creature described as about 1.3 meters in height, having two legs, with a
physique like a human but who moved with a strange fluctuating motion. The=

creature was seen five times by twenty people in the rural zone around
Corguinho. In Rochedo, 6 miles south of Corguinho five Cebu cattle were
found dead with a single incision on the side of the throat. The bodies had=

been drained of blood. (Is there a connection?).

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


15.
Location. Mount Podbrdo, Bosnia Hercigovina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: morning
Contactee and stigmatic Giorgio Bongiovanni was visiting the shrine on top=

of the mountain and was praying silently to the Virgin when, to his
astonishment, a glowing luminous female figure appeared and touched his
forehead with her fingertips. His stigmata scar vanished instantly. The
female figure told him to return to Italy and make known what had happened.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 14
Type: E or F?


16.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: evening
73-year-old Maria Rufina Cayo, a local shepherd was walking back home with=

her dogs and the cattle. Suddenly at one point, something spooked the
animals, and these began to stampede. Looking around she spotted a bizarre=

creature standing about 12 meters away. She described it as a humanoid,
half animal, half human, about 1.70m in height, with bright red eyes, sharp=

protruding fangs, and hands and feet that ended in sharp claws. The
creature looked at the witness three times then it scrambled away using
quick jumping motions with is powerfully built hind legs, she also noticed=

large pointy ears. The top part of its body seems to have been covered in a=

shiny white blanket. It somehow resembled a centaur walking on two
claw-like feet.  Alerted by the shouts of Maria, two men, Santos Jaimes,
and Ruben Colque ran out to investigate with their dogs. Suddenly the dogs=

stopped and began making pitiful howling noises, they refused to move any
further. The men heard noises behind some nearby bushes and went to
investigate and spotted a bizarre creature that stood staring at them with=

huge reddish eyes. It then moved quickly away in the direction of Cerro
Negro and disappeared from sight. The witnesses noticed very sharp claws on=

the creature's feet with a very sharp claw that appeared to be pointed
backwards. Strange footprints were found the next day.

HC addendum
Source: El Tribuno, Salta Argentina March 27 2002
Also Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E



17.
Location. Khanpur, Ahmedabad, India
Date: February 20 2002
Time: after midnight
Several local residents reportedly have encountered a person, dressed in
black and wearing a mask. Dubbed the "Monkeyman" whom they described as
between 25 and 20 years of age, dark skinned and having curly hair can
reportedly be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees. Two
local youths chased it and the figure reportedly disappeared in plain
sight. The two youths have been behaving abnormally since then. The
stranger was also chased along the riverbed near the Cama Hotel and it also=

suddenly disappeared. Others have heard the stranger running on the
rooftops. Abdul Hamid another youngster of the local slums described the
figure as a tall lean man that carries a sharp weapon. "I saw him from the=

back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised the alarm, he jumped to=

another roof and then on to a tree." Police have searched for the stranger=

but nothing has been found.

HC addendum
Source: Fortean Times, India Express
Type: E


18.
Location. Prague, Czech Republic
Date: February 23 2002
Time: night
Blanka Slemendova was in her apartment when she saw a "ship" hovering over=

some nearby woods. It was shining red, white and yellow lights. She then
heard telepathic communication coming from the object telling her to go and=

meet them at an unspecified location. Looking over to her bedroom wall she=

saw what appeared to be a projection of human like faces looking at her.
Later that night she saw luminous figures in her room and a floating red
light also in her room. The next night she saw what appeared to be 2 gray
suns and around them a golden lights with numerous groups of shiny
human-like figures floating about. She interpreted these as being angels.

HC addendum
Source: Direct from witness (Slemendova)
Type: C & F?


19.
Location. Wycliffe Well Roadhouse, Northern Territory Australia
Date: early March 2002
Time: evening
While workers in the area watched unusual lights in the sky an aboriginal
woman encountered a triangular sort of object in a paddock and all of the
sudden she saw three silvery clad human like figures that began to move
toward her vehicle. She turned the vehicle around and took off.

HC addendum
Source: Lou Farcus ABC On-lineType: C


20.
Location. Near Canberra Australia
Date: March 2002
Time: 1700
Several friends were taking a trip to the coast and it was already very
dark. They had already entered a tropical forest area and there was a mist=

rolling along the ground. As they turned around they saw something
squatting in the middle of the road. It stared at them, and just as they
thought they were going to hit it, it leaped off the road and into the
trees. It leaped about 10 meters in the air. The creature was definitely
human looking although it wore strange clothes. It was dressed in a green
robe of some kind with little pieces of gold on it, and it was either
wearing a head crest or it had a row of spikes running from its forehead to=

the top of its neck. Very frightened the witnesses drove out of the forest=

and at the same time the mist turned to a thick fog. They pulled over and
decided to wait until the fog had cleared, although none of them were too
happy about it. As they sat around and waited they suddenly heard a shriek.=

It sounded like some sort of wild animal and they turned the car on so the=

headlights would scare it away. The headlights revealed the same creature
they had seen earlier. It hid its face from the light and shrieked. Right
before the witnesses' eyes, the creature seemed to evaporate into the fog.=

Within five minutes the fog had gone and the normal rolling mist was back.=

The witnesses quickly left the area and drove towards the coast.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June ArchiveType: E


21.
Location. Guanica Puerto Rico
Date: March 1 2002
Time: 2345
Reinaldo Rios (involved in other encounters) was in his bedroom that night=

when a large white light suddenly appeared. It flew around the room several=

times and then hovered. He heard voices coming from the light, which
communicated with him. The voice said: "I am your real father." Soon the
light transformed itself into a figure resembling that of a little boy it
then vanished in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: UFOs over America.com
Type: E


22.
Location. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 0800A
The witness and his wife were in bed that Saturday morning talking when
their 5-year-old daughter came into the bedroom with her baby brother,
whose cot is placed under their bedroom window. They heard a strange noise=

and some green light came into the window. Their daughter looked out the
window and reported seeing a "flying car" with four spinning green lights
on top. She saw two windows in the vehicle and saw two dark brown faces
looking out. His wife saw the craft flying past through the curtains. That=

same morning, in a large tree near the witness house a strange structure
was found. The branches were arranged in a rectangular pen shape, vertical,=

each approximately 30 to 40 cm long. They found a few smaller sticks
scaling down in size from the structure. A piece of concrete slab was found=

propped up on one corner. The witnesses had never seen this strange
structure before and think is some kind of message left by the visitors.
(Some kind of bizarre crop circle?). A few nights before they had heard
strange noises coming from the kitchen area.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: A


23.
Location. Golasecca Di Novara, Italy
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 2330
Augusto & Maurizia were in their vehicle parked in an open field next to a=

wooded area having a heated discussion when suddenly a powerful beam of
reddish-orange light illuminated the area around them. They rolled down the=

car window and heard a sharp metallic sound that seemed to be increasing in=

intensity. They now noticed, behind the beam of light a hovering
disc-shaped craft with a central rotating ring, it hovered about a meter
from the ground. From the object, a cigar-shaped beam of light emerged;
they could see it as the central ring of the craft slowly rotated on its
axis. The craft was only about 10 meters away. At this point, and only
about 4 meters from the object Augusto saw what appeared to be a gelatinous=

transparent humanoid-like figure with a visible head, arms and legs. The
figure was silvery in color and was very tall, about 3 meters or so. At
this point Augusto became concerned and drove away from the area and did
not see the object or figure depart. The whole episode lasted about 10
minutes. The metallic noise was heard all throughout the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Alfredo Lissoni, CUN Milano, Michelle Castellano CUN VareseType: C


24.
Location. Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England
Date: March 3 2002
Time: morning
Helen Diskin went for a walk in the countryside talking snap shots along
the way with her digital camera. Returning home she loaded these into her
computer and was intrigued by an odd-looking image. It looked like a
luminous figure in an area of no sunlight, skulking amongst the trees. She=

returned to the site of the photo twice afterward and could find no
explanation for the figure. The figure resembled a small helmeted figure
that she had not seen when she took the picture of an area of the woods she=

had thought of as "mysterious."

HC addendum
Source: Helen Diskin, UFO Magazine Vol. 22 # 1Type: E?


25.
Location. Near Trenton New Jersey
Date: March 4 2002
Time: night
Several witnesses were camping outside of town and late at night one of
them was attempting to put out the bonfire when he heard the most awful and=

horrifying scream. It resembled that of an injured dog crossed with a
scream of a woman. The witness dropped the flashlight and was joined by
another witness. Suddenly out of the woods a hideous and gruesome creature=

appeared. It did not look human, somewhat satyr-like in appearance and
walked on two legs. It had a long tail like a dragon and wings like those
unicorns in fantasy books. The beast took several steps towards the
witnesses and one of them picked up and asked and yelled at it and then
shone his flashlight at it. The creature then turned towards the bushes and=

ran away from the area.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: E


26.
Location. Pichaca, Salta, Argentina
Date: March 9 2002
Time: night
Ceferino Leoncio was cleaning his one room metal shack when suddenly a
bright light engulfed the room. He felt a sudden heat as he saw a tiny
figure (50 cm) of an angel-like creature materialize in front of him. It
slowly moved its small wing-like protrusions and moved around and then
suddenly stopped and remained still. It appeared to be a small living human=

like living being until it appeared to hardened and turn into some type of=

statue of cherubic appearance. Locals have now built a shrine around the
tiny "statue" and call the strange materialization a "religious miracle".

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso
Type: F?



27.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: March 16 2002
Time: 2215
Mirna, was watching television alone in her room when she began hearing
noises coming from outside, at first she thought it was her dogs playing
around with some empty cans. But the noises kept getting louder and louder=

and she decided to go outside to investigate. Once outside she was stunned=

to see some type creature that had somehow entered the rabbit cage and was=

attacking the animals that were making loud unearthly screams. Thinking at=

first that it was one of the dogs she approached the case but realized that=

it was a gray colored hairy hunched over creature, that was moving quickly=

inside the cage. She stepped back and could not understand how the creature=

had entered the cage, since there wasn't any apparent hole or aperture
visible anywhere and the door was firmly closed. Afraid she ran inside her=

home and notified her son, both then ran out but the creature had
mysteriously disappeared. Unnerved, they could not understand how they
creature had escaped since the door to the rabbit caged was still firmly
locked. Later they could only find a small round hole in the wire only
several centimeters in width, not large enough for a creature estimated to=

have been about 70 to 80 cm in height. Several of the rabbits were found
injured and one was dead.

HC addendum
Source: Calama UFO CenterType: E


28.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: March 19 2002
Time: 2000
Young Elizabeth Lera reported seeing a short humanoid with "dark eyes"
looking into the building compound from behind a wire fence. It appeared
not to have any other facial features and was wearing dark clothing; it
wore some type of head covering, which was hard to see because of the
darkness. She could only see a pair of large dark eyes on his face that
appeared to shine in the darkness. Some more children now arrived and
observed as the humanoid move several steps towards them. Another witness,=

Rene Mamani saw the humanoid run and hide behind some bushes. It seemed to=

move at very high speed in an unnatural fashion. It seemed to have remained=

suspended in mid-air for a few seconds. It then seemed to fly through the
air and disappeared into some nearby woods. Other students at the school
reportedly saw it again on the night of the 20th.

HC addendum
Source: Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E


29.
Location. Woodburn, Oregon
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 0300A
The witness was sleeping when she woke up suddenly feeling paralyzed. The
witness was completely unable to move or speak. Her next memory was of a
strange sensation on her left cheek, which hurt a lot. Unseen "beings" were=

apparently taking skin samples. Her face was left with a pink fleshy scoop=

down my left cheek, directly on the cheekbone. A teardrop scar was left on=

her cheek.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical Universe
Type: G?




30.
Location. Bethlehem, Israel
Date: March 21 2002
Time: night
At the besieged Church of The Nativity several awed witnesses have come
forward describing the events of Thursday night. That night, a smell of
roses filled the sanctuary as the Daughters of Charity held their evening
prayers. "The sweet scent was soon followed by a high musical humming sound=

and a distinct feeling of warmth emanating from the ceiling." Then, the
sisters reported, seeing a glowing beam of light gradually forming the
likeness of the Blessed Virgin "like a film coming into focus." Tears were=

running down her face, and she uttered a prophetic warning. "Time is
growing short, and the promised Judgment Day is nearly at hand." One week
before the apparition, The Church of the Holy Family was the scene of a
ferocious firefight between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 17Type: F


31.
Location. Not given
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 2255
16-year old Steven Mizon saw hovering over a street a large oval shaped
craft encircled in bright lights and with several lighted windows around
its edge. A figure stared down at him from one of the windows. No other
information.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Watch
Type: A



32.
Location. Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain
Date: March 26 2002
Time: 1500
A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a deserted road when=

he noticed ahead in the distance and in the middle of the roadway an object=

resembling a shiny pear that was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat
perplexed he approached and noticed two individuals standing on a nearby
field. These were over 2 meters in height, wore tight fitting white
coveralls and helmets resembling that of the early astronauts. He parked
his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men=

walked away and entered the shiny pear-shaped craft while the other
remained behind. Knowing that these men were "not from this earth" he still=

asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt that as
he approached the strange pair he had been in some type of a trance and
seemed to have floated over the road. The humanoid answered and appeared
genuinely happy as to his offer of assistance but said that everything was=

in order. He also added that the area was very beautiful and also added:
"Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such
beautiful scenes, they disappeared a long time ago." The astounded witness=

managed to ask the humanoid where he was from and was told that they hailed=

from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The=

humanoid smiled as he answered the question. The humanoid then bid goodbye=

and walked towards the nearby shiny pear shaped object, he then disappeared=

inside of it. The craft then emitted a loud whistling sound and disappeared=

at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the
humanoids as about 2.50 meters in height, wide chests and heavy set, thin
legs. Generally human features, but somewhat "refined" or sharpened
features. The suits were very tight fitting made of an apparent synthetic
material resembling plastic. Their eyes were very light almost white and
their speech was hesitant & accented. Also their movements seemed kind of
clumsy.

HC addendum
Source: J M Garcia, Francisco Padron, SpainType: B


33.
Location. Pringle Lake, Texas
Date: March 28 2002
Time: 1100A
Mark Hakemack and a friend had taken an airboat out on the NW side of the
lake to do a little redfish fishing. The day was kind of hazy, with broken=

cloud cover. They had caught several trout and were just chatting when he
hooked up a large redfish while playing with the fish, Mark happened to
glance upwards and saw a large bird-like creature emerge from a cloudbank.=

His friend saw it too, after about 20 to 25 seconds it flew behind cloud
cover again. The strange creature was grayish in color and the profile of a=

raptor, short neck/head, no legs sticking out behind, and no long tail
feathers. Mark could not take his eyes off it. He estimated the wingspan to=

have been 10' to 14 ' in overall. It appeared to be soaring on the wind,
although, he did see it give a couple of light "flaps" with its wings. The=

witness could only relate this to the legendary "Thunderbird" legend.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.comType: E


34.
Location. Sevilla, Spain
Date: March 30 2002
Time: late night
The witness to the March 26 case was at home with his wife and was getting=

ready to sleep when he heard footsteps coming from patio area outside his
chalet. Armed with a club, he opened the door and was stunned to see the
same two tall heavyset humanoids he had encountered 4 days before. One of
the humanoids was kneeling on the ground as if inspecting something on the=

soil, the other one upon hearing the door open, turned and quickly assured=

the witness not to fear that they were not here to harm him. Stunned, the
witness invited the two humanoids in the house for some refreshments (!).
These declined the invitation telling that they had to go already. Using
the same clumsy movements both humanoids walked towards the rear of the
house where the witness noticed the same shiny metallic pear shaped craft
on the ground. They entered the object, which quickly left at high speed.
The witness's wife awakened by the voices was able to see the two humanoids=

from a second story window, and described them in the same way.

HC addendum
Source: Francisco Padron, Jose Manuel Garcia, SpainType: B


35.
Location. Los Cipreses, Chile
Date: March 31 2002
Time: noon
During a local UFO congress 24 persons in three groups entered a
dimensional gateway that appeared by itself over the terrain. It was kind
of a dome, a luminous archway measuring four by four meters. The
participants lost their materiality without disappearing completely. Upon
entering, they met several human-like alien characters with large baldheads=

and wearing robes that waited within and received information. According to=

sources the contact experience was "dimensional" it was like crossing into=

a different reality. The 24 participants were "all professionals, college
students of high intellectual levels, mostly Chileans," and some were
members of Grupo Rama, a New Age association.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 16, quoting Camilo Valdivieto
Type: G or F?


36.
Location. Tbilissi Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: night
A man entered the local St David church and reported that "a phantom with
wings" had approached him and predicted an earthquake that indeed took
place on April 25 2002, devastating areas of central Georgia.

HC addendum
Source: Pravda
Type: E?


37.
Location. Near Macon, Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: 2300
Three friends were awakened by loud banging noises and bellowing sounds
coming from outside. One of the men ran to the bathroom and looked out the=

window to see a figure run by and squat in the nearby bushes. He described=

the creature as about 3 ft tall, hairy with what appeared to be horns on
its head and hands; he could not see a face. Others in the neighborhood
heard the banging noises.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.com and direct witness
Communication.
Type: E


38.
Location. Belvedere di Tezze, Italy
Date: April 26 2002
Time: evening
A 20-year old woman was returning home one night when she noticed some
bright lights nearby of an unknown origin. She followed the lights in her
car until she stopped near a local pizzeria. She saw the light near the
ground and within the lights two tall slender human like figures wearing
some type of headgear. Since she was carrying a camera she was able to snap=

a quick picture. The figures then vanished. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Gruppo Accademico Ufologico Scandicci quoting
"Il giornale di Vicenza"Type: E?


39.
Location. Puente Santamaria, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: early morning
Two young men observed a dark object descend towards the ground about 100
meters away. According to the two witnesses from the craft descended a
small humanoid, orange in color. Very scared they both ran from the area
and reported their experience to others.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: B


40.
Location. Merceditas, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: evening
An elderly couple was walking along National Route # 8 when about 800
meters from their location they noticed a very strong light. The light
descended next to a puddle at about 70 meters from the witness. Both then
saw two very short orange colored humanoids that moved in very agile
movements near the object. Terrified they walked away and upon looking back=

saw a bright glow on the ground.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: C


41.
Location. Barangay, Philippines
Date: May 2002
Time: night
Several local residents reported seeing a bizarre creature described as an=

"aswang" reputed to be a winged vampire type creature, it reportedly had
red glowing eyes, long black hair, and was wearing a white flowing gown. It=

was seen perched on top of a bamboo tree. Residents at nearby Roxas
reported seeing a similar creature. The police was called but a search
failed to locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Akasico.comType: E


42.
Location. Alvear, La Pampa Argentina
Date: May 3 2002
Time: near midnight
Several young men were returning home late at night along a deserted
roadway when suddenly out of nowhere a female figure wearing a light
flowing gown and with long black hair appeared in front of them. The
strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly and repeatedly asked for=

assistance from the men in a strange urgent tone. Terrified the men ran
from the area and later returned with additional witnesses but they could
find no trace of the strange apparition.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E?


43.
Location. Taralgon Victoria, Australia
Date: May 24 2002
Time: 2355
Walking near the Loy Yang Power station 45-year old Martin Taylor was
suddenly blinded by an intense blue light and he felt extremely dizzy. His=

next memory was of being in a circular room with a variety of lights and
buttons scattered about the walls. He was lying on a large table that
seemed to be of a very highly polished metal. He was strapped down and his=

shirt had been removed. There were wires attached to his arms, neck and
temples. A four ft tall humanoid figure with very large almond shaped eyes,=

almost transparent looking skin, ghostly white in appearance examined him.=

The figure had three extremely long fingers on each hand and spoke in a
strange dialect.

HC addendum
Source: UFO WatchType: G


44.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: May 29 2002
Time: midnight
Irma Rick watched a rotating luminous object descend close to the ground
next to a grain silo; it gave off a powerful bluish light through some
openings around its circumference. It hovered close to the ground. Through=

an opening a strange creature was seen to descend to the ground. It was
described as having an elongated semi-transparent white body; it also had
an elongated head. She could not see any eyes or legs on the creature as it=

stood motionless next to the craft. She observed the creature and object
for about 5 minutes until she dropped the flashlight she was carrying.
Afraid she left the area and did not see the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: B



45.
Location. Lembang Bandung, Indonesia
Date: May 30 2002
Time: 2315
The witness was driving his motorcycle across a highland area when he
spotted some flashing lights overhead and then noticed a silvery
disc-shaped craft descend low over some nearby graves at a cemetery. The
craft had blue and orange flashing lights around its rim. There was no
sound as the craft apparently emitted a beam of light towards the ground
and levitated what appeared to be some dead bodies onboard the object. (!)=

The witness was apparently paralyzed and was unable to move. The craft then=

shot away at a 45-degree angle and disappeared from sight. When that
happened the witness left the scene.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


46.
Location. Houston, Texas
Date: late May 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness was at the local electric company in order to pay a bill when
she decided to use the restrooms. Sitting in the stall she then noticed on=

the side of the wall of the stall what appeared to be a face lit up in a
dull light. When the witness looked directly at the "face" it vanished. She=

described is as having large round eyes no visible nose and a slit-like
mouth. (A peeping tom alien?)

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.comType: E?


47.
Location. General Acha, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: early June 2002
Time: various
A resident of the Oeste neighborhood informed newspaper sources that a
short green-colored dwarf like entity has appeared twice on her property:
once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When her husband ran out
responding to her screams, the mysterious entity vanished by rapidly
climbing up a tree. All versions agree in that the entity is short in
stature. Another resident added that it moved so quickly that it was hard
to describe it. In the same area mysterious cattle mutilations have also
been reported.

HC addendum
Source: Loren Coleman in UFO UpdatesType: E


48.
Location. Ojo De Agua, Argentina
Date: June 2002
Time: afternoon
Several passengers onboard two farm micro buses reported seeing a very tall=

dark man like figure that appeared to be wearing a tight fitting diver's
outfit standing on a nearby field. Nearby numerous mysterious animal
mutilations have been reported. The figure was silent and was quickly lost=

from sight as the buses moved away.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E




49.
Location. Near Tampa, Florida
Date: June 2002
Time: night
A man and three of his friends reported encountering two bizarre chupacabra=

type creatures one stood about 3-4 ft tall, the other looked to be about 6=

ft tall. Both had large glowing red eyes and spikes starting from the head=

to the back. They scurried away into a wooded area. (They were to have
further encounters in August).

HC addendum
Source: Art Bell.comType: E


50.
Location. Antalya, Turkey
Date: June 5 2002
Time: afternoon
Approximately 45 witnesses claimed they saw an UFO in the Santral district=

landing on the backyard of the Fatma Primary School. Several students
including Murat Esici age 11 saw an alien emitting red rays from his eyes
come out of the object. His hands and feet were metallic. He had a very big=

head and was about 1.80 meters in height. Esici temporarily lost her voice=

immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also=

claimed they san an unusual craft and an alien beside it. "His eyes and
hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes." The children
were overcome with shock after the incident.

HC addendum
Source: Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center Intl
Type: B


51.
Location. Polonnauruwa, Sri Lanka
Date: June 8 2002
Time: 2200
Approximately 50 to 70 eyewitnesses saw a UFO flying at about 100 meters
above ground level. The object was silent and briefly landed emitting a
bright flash like light. When it was close to the ground the object emitted=

a buzzing sound. Three other witnesses saw three 2 ft tall creatures than
when approached ran into the jungle and disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Sources
Type: D


52.
Location. Polonnaruwa, Sir Lanka
Date: June 9 2002
Time: 2012
Two witnesses went to a bath on a nearby river when they heard a loud
thundering sound and a UFO appeared. The craft landed nearby and two, 2 ft=

tall "aliens" emerged from the object. One of the humanoids flung a small
fluorescent fireball like object that flew over a house and vanished. Soon=

the craft and humanoids disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC & News Reports
Type: B



53.
Location. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Date: June 10 2002
Time: 1900
Witnesses saw a mysterious light in the sky and others saw a large disc
shaped object land nearby. Three humanoids only about 2 ft tall emerged
from the craft and disappeared into the forest when approached. The object=

also left.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Reports
Type: B


54.
Location. Chantilly, Virginia
Date: June 10 2002
Time: night
The witness was awakened during the night with a sense of some presence in=

the room. Looking toward the door, he saw, fading quickly, something, which=

almost had the appearance of a hologram. Next, shadows appeared outside the=

windows in an erratic shape. At first he thought the shadows to be from
trees moving in a strong wind. The appearance was of a storm blowing the
limbs to create these shadows outside the window. However, there was no
storm. He looked at the adjacent window on the side of the house facing
opposite and there was no wind at all. In fact there was no trees
positioned in such a way to cast a shadow. He opened the blinds to see what=

might be causing the shadows. He then saw what seemed to be a hologram with=

the shape of two small eyes moving erratically outside the window.
Frightened he closed the blinds. Two weeks later he was awakened by a
humming sound and again saw the erratic shadows outside the window. He
watched the shadows for 10-15 minutes and then called the police. The
police found no signs of any intrusion in the yard. When the police left
the witness walked toward the door facing the back porch and saw a large
burst of bluish white light. It looked unnatural, almost like a laser. He
has not seen the "shadows" again.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: E?


55.
Location. Ataliva Roca, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 11 2002
Time: 1930
A worker at a local drainage project was sitting and guarding some
machinery when he noticed a short greenish colored humanoid figure that was=

approaching his location from a nearby field. The witness became concerned=

and drove away from the area in the construction equipment and did not see=

the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


56.
Location. Eduardo Castex, La Pampa Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Two girls of a local school encountered a short greenish humanoid figure in=

the playing yard. The figure was standing up and appeared to be raising its=

arms up to the sky. Terrified the two girls retreated into the school and
watched the figure scurry away into some nearby woods. Around the same time=

a local farmer found a strangely mutilated hog in his farm.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


57.
Location. Chasico, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Hugo Deluca and several other workers were parked in a bus in an isolated
area when they spotted about 20 meters away a short, 1.20 meters tall,
bipedal figure completely covered in gray hair. It walked upright like a
man and then scurried away into some woods vanishing from sight. The area
had been hit with animal mutilations around the same time.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


58.
Location. Castex, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 13 2002
Time: night
A 70-year old man had gone to his driveway to check on a flat tire in his
car when a short light green colored humanoid suddenly appeared next to
him. It had large round ears, and two reddish luminous eyes. Its body was
thin and almost triangular in shape. The witness attempted to yell out but=

was suddenly unable to speak and at the same time strange warmth invaded
his body. Several seconds later the humanoid vanished and the witness
returned to normal. He reported the incident to the police.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


59.
Location. La Laguna, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 14 2002
Time: afternoon
Several youngster had gone into the fields in order to obtain some firewood=

when they saw sitting on a clearing in the woods two human like figures,
all dressed in black. They sat facing each other, one looking towards the
east the other towards the west, unmoving. Unnerved by the sight the
juveniles ran from the area. The next day the father of one of the boys
found two dead cows at the site, but could find no trace of the strange
pair. Days later a sheep and a horse were found dead and strangely
mutilated in the nearby location of El Cardonal.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: E


60.
Location. De Kalb, Illinois
Date: June 15 2002
Time: 0030A
The witness was sitting in his family room watching TV when he noticed a
bright flash of light outside the window. He saw the flash several times
and decided to check his backyard there he saw a circular light moving
around in circles. The light began to get closer; scared he ran inside his=

home and called a friend on the phone. He then quickly ran outside and saw=

the circle getting closer, he noticed that it had a purplish color to it
and it began to descend towards the ground. He became nauseous and dizzy
and collapsed on to the ground. He tried to crawl to the house but was
unable to move. He turned his head and saw the purplish object on the
ground and what appeared to be a door opening up. He then heard a squeaking=

noise and saw a tall and a short figure standing by a door of the object.
The two figures started to move towards him, walking in a strange bopping
fashion. They were of a dark complexion with a bumpy texture, other than
that they resembled normal human beings. The shorter figure approached and=

picked up the witness' camera and stared at it. He then looked at the
taller figure and handed it to him. The taller of the two looked at the
camera and then at the witness. The witness then heard loud unpleasant
shrieks coming from the taller figure, which then gave the camera back to
the shorter figure, which covered the camera with his hand, seconds later a=

light began to emerge from their hands. Then they stopped, threw the camera=

aside and began to walk towards the witness. They reached his side and
started to examine his body. A dog began to bark from inside the house and=

the shorter figure put out his hand and the dog stopped barking. At this
point the witness began to vomit. After about a minute he began to relax
and to breathe better. When he turned his head he realized that the two
figures and the purple spherical object were now gone. The next day he had=

a very severe headache.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: B


61.
Location. San Juan, Argentina
Date: June 20 2002
Time: evening
At a location where the body of a strangely mutilated carcass of a cow was=

found two witnesses reported seeing a small creature with large glowing
slanted eyes and about one meter in height. Later in the same area, members=

of the Gimenez family after investigating noises and a strong odor coming
from a wooded area found a mutilated cow and also watched a short humanoid=

with glowing eyes scurrying away into the woods.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


62.
Location. Manuel Rodriguez, Calama, Chile
Date: June 22 2002
Time: after midnight
A bizarre creature was spotted at a local housing complex on San Antonio
Street. Witnesses reported that it resembled an ape and it jumped all over=

the roof. It passed right in front of the witness, Maria Gavia's window and=

then it came back making all manner of noise. The creature was able to make=

very long jumps, unlike any a human could. It jumped and landed on the
neighbor's roof and then it left the area. Neighborhood dogs acted scared
and began howling. Others described the creature as about 1.5 meters tall,=

stocky in build with bright red eyes. It made a lot of noise. Others
reportedly chased the creature.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center, quoting El
Mercurio de CalamaType: E


63.
Location. Angencia Realico, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 23 2002
Time: late night
Several hunters returning to a local ranch spotted about 50 meters away two=

large glowing reddish eyes staring at them. They turned off their
flashlight and approached closer on foot, about 30 meters away they again
saw the reddish eyes on a dark creature that appeared to be standing on top=

of an apparently dead animal. One of the hunters shone its flashlight on
the figure again and saw a figure about 40 cm in height that quickly ran
from the area at very high speed. The creature disappeared into the brush.=

At the scene, a dead and mutilated young heifer. Other mutilations were
reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


64.
Location. Rancul, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 25 2002
Time: 2020
Two young men, Nestor Pinto and Daniel Gatica were walking on a field when=

they encountered a short man-like figure with huge pointy ears and long
dangling arms standing near some brush. The figure scurried into the brush=

and disappeared and at the same time the two witnesses ran away from the
area and did not see the strange dwarf again.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


65.
Location. Bavaria, Germany (exact location not given)
Date: June 25 2002
Time: night
The witness had stayed up late watching the soccer game as was in his
bedroom when suddenly there was a coldness around him that made him shiver.=

He noticed that his audio capabilities were somehow enhanced and he was
able to hear sounds that previously he was unable to hear. He then heard a=

noise outside his door and went out to investigate. The noise became louder=

as he approached the door. He then heard footsteps and opened the door. A
very small man with a somewhat deformed body that was smiling at him
confronted the witness. He looked straight ahead and then stared at the
witness. His next memory was of waking up in his bed in the morning.

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.com
Type: E


66.
Location. Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2105
The primary witness had stepped out on his back porch when his attention
was drawn to two huge black "birds" which were approaching from the north.=

His first impression was they were Herons, but soon realized that the color=

was wrong, and "they were huge, much larger than any bird I have ever
seen." The two huge birds landed at the top of a very tall coniferous tree.=

The witness stated that the wingspan appeared to be wider than the
branches, jest below where they had landed. The body size was estimated to=

be about six feet from head to tail. The oddest feature was the shape of
the wings, which according to the witness appeared to be bat-like. The tree=

where the "birds" landed seemed as though it would break from their weight.=

The witness yelled for others in the house to come outside to look. Another=

family member was able to see the huge black birds as they passed overhead,=

and headed for some woods. After checking the size of the branches where
the birds had landed, the witness estimated that the wingspan would have
been close to 12 feet or somewhat larger.

HC addendum
Source: Stan GordonType: E


67.
Location. Marldon Hill, Paington, England
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2357
A couple were walking near a local historic monument (a windmill) and they=

drew closer to monument they heard a low whirling noise. The noise
progressed to a high-pitched whining, almost out of hearing range. Then
they saw a mysterious glow coming from the dark side of the windmill, and
then to their astonishment they saw 5 or 6 shadow like figures standing in=

front of the windmill. Startled the two began to run back towards the main=

road. The woman looked back and saw the figures become engulfed by a bright=

light and disappear, and then everything became quiet.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Sightings UKType: E?


68.
Location. Adelia Maria, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 3 2002
Time: 2100
Pedro and Estela Moine had decided to visit the business district of town
called Barrio Norte and crossed the old railroad yard through a pedestrian=

pathway that ran through a pasture area between some silos, old railroad
depots and abandoned wreckage. As the couple moved through the premises
they suddenly became aware of a strange and incomprehensible conversation
between many voices. Startled, they stopped walking moved a few meters more=

and then heard the voices again which now sounded like strange "O" sounds.=

Pedro looked toward the silos and was able to see resembling humanoid but
lacking upper and lower extremities. Despite the pleas of his wife, Pedro
ran several meters toward an inner alley in the silo plant, being able to
make out some 45 meters to the west and in profile---the entity, which
acting surprised, avoided the encounter and moved again to the north.
However, what filled the witnesses with wonderment was that the creature
did so as though flying or floating without touching the facilities it
passed. Pedro and Estela ran after it. It was thus that the man managed to=

see the entity apparently hiding behind the control room of the truck
scale. Pedro ran toward it and was again startled to see the apparition
rising as a plane taking off, flying at an altitude of 5 meters and
disappearing behind a large metal shed. Bewildered, both witnesses called
out, but were unable to see anything else. Pedro Moine as "a thing with
human shape" described the apparition. It had some sort of light, although=

he could not say if reflected or self-generated, although he tends to
believe the latter, since it was a nebulous whitish light, which kept him
from making out details. The entire mass of the apparition appeared to be a=

body covered from head to toe in some sort of mantle, which he described as=

though it wore a hat, but covered with some kind of long raincoat reaching=

down to what he took to be its feet. He added that the "conversational
sounds" repeated themselves in three separate occasions at various
intensities. They were like conversations in a strange language.

HC addendum
Source: Mario Luis Bracamonte, C.O.R, Rio Cuarto Argentina
Type: E


69.
Location. Jerusalem, Israel
Date: July 6 2002
Time: night
A remote TV camera picked up images of "orbs seen on the corner to the
right of the Wailing Wall." They seemed to have facial features almost like=

a ghost, reported investigator Charlotte LeFevre. The orbs were described
as "sharp and distinct". The orbs were next to the women's prayer area in
front of the Wall. Other strange phenomena, has been reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 29Type: F?


70.
Location. Villa Elisa, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: July 13 2002
Time: 2300
A young woman fainted from nervous shock after having an alleged closed
encounter with "some sort of green dwarf". This occurred---enveloped in
darkness---along Misioneros Salesianos Street very close to several houses.=

An ambulance was called and apparently transported the witness who was in
shock.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria ColuchiType: E


71.
Location. Patna, India
Date: July 21 2002
Time: night
Several residents claim they've been bitten or scratched by a "black
monkey-like creature with colored lights flashing from its eyes." Resident=

Pawan Kumar Niyogi who was sleeping on the terrace of his house claims "a 5=

ft tall monkey-like creature" attacked him. He said: "I was terrified and
thought my life was going to end but it merely scratched me on the shoulder=

before jumping off the roof." Local residents are conducting night vigils
and carrying torches to guard their homes.

HC addendum
Source: Ananova, Ufoupdates. Type: E


72.
Location. Chajan, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 21 2002
Time: 2300
Police officer Guillermo Arias was on routine patrol through a rural area
when he heard over the radio that his colleagues in arms over at Achiras
were seeing lights in sectors of said community, and that they were heading=

towards Chajan along National Route 8. At the wheel of the police patrol
van, he managed to see a formation of 7 lights in the distance and decided=

to drive 10 km along a rural dirt road. When he had covered said distance,=

he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine of his vehicle sputtered=

and died, causing the police car to strike the edge of a guardrail.
Simultaneously, the lights on the van's dashboard began turning on and off=

randomly, the police radio went haywire and its dial displayed the random
shifting of the frequencies while the cabin became filled with an acrid
odor, as though of burnt wiring, and the interior lights and stop
indicator, which were broken, began lighting on and off. Seized by fear,
Arias leaped from the van and walked away a few meters down the road,
losing his cellular phone in the escape. The darkness was total, when
suddenly, amid the confusing situation; an immense light emerged from a
field adjacent to the road as a triangular object rose majestically into
the air. Now Arias condition went from fear to abject terror as he saw what=

he described as a real "floating city" some 200 meters long with a long row=

of windows (perhaps as many as 100). Arias claims having seen something
move behind them, describing the movement as "TV sets which make lines and=

shadows", which he defined as "non-human", and that many beams of light
came out of the giant triangle, aimed at the ground. The event lasted 2-3
seconds, but to Arias it felt like an eternity. The object suddenly rose
and sped away, vanishing behind the hills of a local field. As the object
moved away, the whole area was lit up like daytime and there was an
afterglow that lasted another 20 minutes.

HC addendum
Source: C.O.R., Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense, Argentina
Type: A


73.
Location. Waconia, Minnesota
Date: July 26 2002
Time: 0300A
The young witness was sleeping in the backyard with his sister when he
suddenly woke up. He then noticed that the side of the tent that faced the=

wetlands and lake was lit up. Looking towards the light he saw a shadowy
torso and arm of a humanoid figure that seemed to be moving around within
the light. He watched for 30 seconds and saw the figure move the fingers of=

his hands. The witness became frightened and hid in his sleeping bag. He
came out about an hour later and the light and strange figure were
completely gone.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


74.
Location. Sedona, Arizona
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 0310A
In a wooded area the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all
white, with black "straight" eyes; and black diagonal/diamond strip of
"clothing" on top. He stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then
left. Prior to seeing the figure the witness had seen lights in a large
oval shaped pattern in the sky.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


75.
Location. Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 1730
Three girls had decided to visit the rooftop as they did the prior evening=

watching for satellites. It was dusk and the girls had a good vantage point=

looking towards the east. With them they had a pair of binoculars and a
pair of walkie-talkies. The girls noticed that a large orange light
appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The anomaly
was noted to have fluctuated in colors of orange, yellow, white and pale
blue. At fist they thought of an arriving airplane, but then a second light=

appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10=

degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some=

unusually maneuvering; from a stationary position it accelerated at least 5=

degrees closer to the ground surface at an approximate 45-60 degree angle
within a matter of a single second. The first anomaly then began to move
slowly towards the north. At this stage they partially lost view of it as
it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley-like
region of the horizon. According to the witnesses, this third object
appeared to have "landed" on the ground surface. The object was then viewed=

through the binoculars and presented in great detail; the object was
described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange,=

blue/purple and white rotating around the rim. Thy also noted the trees
being slightly illuminated by this extraordinary phenomenon. They were
suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, "Identify
yourself." This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in a
foreign language. Around 1830 the girls were then called down to have
dinner. At about 2030 the girls re-established their places on the roof
after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still
present. Unexpectedly a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above
the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. "It
was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away." The=

light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it=

is not clear how one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became
extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed
her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not=

sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another of the girls woke up
the next morning with her nose bleeding. She also mentioned that she had
seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom.

HC addendum
Source: The Australian UFO Research NetworkType: D or
F?



76.
Location. Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 29 2002
Time: early morning
Local residents have seen a strange figure, which they described as
resembling a "shroud". The apparitions, which always occur in the early
morning hours, have become so common that in recent days several neighbors=

have stayed up late to see them, and it is thus that they were able to
confirm the simultaneous presence of up to 2 such beings, as well as red
lights flying over the area. All the witnesses whether individuals or in a=

group, agree that the entities are nebulous and glowing, with a pair of red=

eyes being clearly identifiable, and glassy faces (as if transparent).
Their movements are smooth and they always appear from behind the sand
dunes, as though "coming form the Naval Base." Most witnesses agree that
they show a great interest in the water tanks located above the roofs, and=

that they do not flee upon detecting the presence of local
residents---rather, they stare at them fixedly for some minutes. Deep
silence is perceived during the observations and "the air appears to become=

still" and neither heat nor cold can be felt---only a sensation of warmth,=

as if the beings emanated heat. Witnesses also state that things appear to=

be darker when "the shroud" appears, as though ambient lighting were
dimmed. Another curious fact is the large number of cats and dogs who
report to the place where the sightings occur and sit down to observe it in=

silence, in a state resembling a trance. A series of semi-circular prints
have been found in the dunes, not very deep, with 15-20 cm separations in
some cases and 30-50 cm in others. The locals have identified them as the
strange being's footprints. Efforts have been made to photograph the
"shroud", but all images, despite the use of different cameras appear
exposed. One witness who approached the site to witness the phenomenon took=

two photos of the prints in the afternoon and decided to stay with the
group of people hoping to see the "shroud", managing to take some photos of=

same and record the new prints which appeared in the dunes after the
sighting. A completely uncommon print was found at the site---but the
residents aren't sure if it's related to the phenomenon: it has the shape
of a five-fingered claw. One witness tried to make use of his carbine's
telescopic sight to see the figure in greater detail, but "when he tried to=

focus on it, he could see nothing_it was a though it could only be seen
with the unaided eye."

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, IHU, Christian Quintero and O A Mario
Proyecto Condor
Type: C or E?


77.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 30 2002
Time: 0530A
27-year old Mariela Baigorri reported seeing a strange figure that floated=

in front of her house. She had woken up early that morning and was getting=

ready to mount her bicycle when she saw behind the fence something floating=

in mid-air. It appeared to be a figure wearing a flowing white transparent=

tunic, with bright red eyes and undefined facial features. Feeling no fear=

she decided to approach it. She felt as if the figure waited for her and
was observing her. At this point Mariela felt some fear and began reciting=

the Lord's Prayer. The figure suddenly moved back and disappeared in plain=

sight.

HC addendum
Source: Juan Carlos Corrales Morey, Vision Ovni, Argentina
Type: E


78.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 31 2002
Time: 1845
23-year old Julian Pereyra was in his vehicle when he observed two red
spheres flying slowly over some nearby woods, they seemed to descend and
disappear behind the trees. 15 minutes later, Pereyra, accompanied by
several other witnesses approached the area and observed what they
described a tall floating figure wearing a white glowing cape like outfit,=

it seemed to glide silently over a field. It had what appeared to be a
visor at face level and two beams of red light emerged from where the eyes=

would have been. The witnesses watched the strange figure glide over the
fields for about 30 minutes. Curiously numerous local dogs and cats
approached and also watched the figure in fascination. The lights and
figure disappeared into the distance. In another occasion Pereyra and some=

of his family members encountered the strange humanoid and felt a strange
sensation as if the wind had suddenly stopped, they felt as they were
inside a vacuum or "bubble." Strange tracks have been reportedly found in
the area also.

HC addendum
Source: Diario La Nueva Provincia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Type: C?


79.
Location. La Cienaga, Pocri, Panama
Date: early August 2002
Time: night
Luis Alfredo Diaz reported hearing loud noises coming from the terraced
patio where the kitchen was located, going to investigate he found his cat=

apparently dead with two obvious holes on the neck and some blood on the
floor. Before finding the cat he had called his wife, Maria de Los Santos
Barrios. As his wife stood in front of him a panic stricken look came over=

her face, turning around he was confronted by a bizarre 1-meter tall
humanoid that had jumped to the center of the patio. The creature was
described as thin, covered with dark hair, with large pointed ears that
almost covered its face, it had very large eyes and extremely strong hind
legs resembling that of a kangaroo. Terrified he ran to his son's bedroom
and carried him outside yelling for his neighbors. A search failed to
locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Panamanian Paranormal Forum
Type: E


80.
Location. Near Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Date: August 2002
Time: night
The same witness involved in a similar encounter last year was again
camping in the same area when he again heard a noise. Shining the light in=

the direction of the sound he again saw the same creature. The creature sat=

there crouched by the trees staring at the witness. The witness walked
slowly towards it, he got to within 20 ft when it just jumped backward and=

disappeared. He described the creature as about five to six ft in height,
gray in color. It was totally naked. It had human features, but more
leathery, and its face was very wide, its eyes were huge and even though
they reflected light, they still looked black, resembling two intensely
black marbles. Its legs were very muscular, but turned backwards, like a
bird. Other hikers in the area have reported encountering little brown men=

on some of the more isolated trails.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal Story Archives, November 2002Type: E


81.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: August 1 2002
Time: late evening
64-year old Raul Dorado was touring some fields when he heard a loud sound=

on two occasions, like a whirlwind, which drew his attention. The third
time he saw something he describes as a green circle with three legs
hovering over him. At that moment Dorado fell to the ground, and according=

to his story, he carried a shotgun, binoculars and a cellular phone, the
latter, which was taken from his hand, and he could clearly see being
sucked into the object, which was apparently at low altitude. His next
recollection was seeing the object disappear toward the east. Dorado
remained at the location for an hour before being able to rise and walk
back to his car, returning to town in a state of shock. He had to be
hospitalized. Later when calls were placed to the (abducted) cellular phone=

someone would pick up and heavy breathing could be heard. Later on the
phone was apparently disconnected.

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, quoting Diario La Arena, La PampaType: G?


82.
Location. Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Date: August 2 2002
Time: 1730
A man named Todd Sees went up the mountain to look for pre-season deer. He=

told his wife that he would be home by noon. He rode his 4-wheeler up the
power line behind his home. He never returned. A search party composed of
local police, state police and volunteers searched for Sees. The 4-wheeler=

was found on the top of the mountain near a power-line. Tracking dogs could=

find nothing to go on around the 4-wheeler. The search went on for 2 days
and over 6 miles of mountain was covered from top to bottom. Then, in the
evening of the 2nd day, his body was found in a hard to reach wooded area.=

He was wearing his underwear. He was emaciated---not bloated. He was pale
and had an expression of horror on his face. When he went up the mountain
he was fully dressed, boots, camo-vest, hat, socks, pants. 3 people, on one=

farm, said they saw a large round bright object just above the power-lines=

at the time of the disappearance. It was silent, it did not move for about=

10 to 15 minutes. It suddenly went up and suddenly stopped. A light shone
down and something was pulled up into the light. It then went straight up,=

hesitated again, and then went west over the Susquehanna River and out of
sight. More specifically a farmer saw an object above Montour Ridge at the=

power lines, on top of the mountain, it was round and very still over the
lines. Suddenly it moved what looked like a few hundred feet to the east,
it stopped and a beam of blue and white light shone to the ground. What was=

seen next was very unnerving, he saw what appeared to be a man suspended in=

the light, he was being pulled up head first, he was moving his arms slowly=

in the light. What looked like a man was pulled up into the bottom of the
craft. A few seconds later it started shuddering, then went west very fast,=

stopped briefly, and then went straight up and out of sight. Also three
fishermen saw the craft. The FBI is supposedly also investigating. (Debated=

as a hoax, who would? and for what purpose?).

HC addendum
Source: Rense, UFO updates, NUFORCType: G?






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                            2002 Humanoid Reports

From: Albert Rosales <Garuda79@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:32:05 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:14:40 -0500
Subject: 2002 Humanoid Reports


Happy new year everyone

Sincerely,

Albert

-----

2002 Humanoid Reports. It appears to be a slow start for this
year with only one recorded case, again from Chile. We will see
what develops later on the year. 2001 was pretty busy but it was
a decline from 2000. Maybe we will see another down trend again,
later to pick up again in the near future. This seems to be the
ever-ongoing trend of the phenomena. Will it always stay the
same? Time will tell. Following is a list of known 2002 humanoid
cases.


1.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: January 2002
Time: 0300A
An employee at the local Minera Escondida was on his way to the
storage freezer in order to pick up some supplies when an
unknown creature jumped him from behind. He could only describe
it as hairy and dark. He was left with deep scratches and in a
state of shock. Terrified he ran away and bumped into two other
employees who were able to see a shadowy creature in the dark.

HC addendum
Source: La Estrella del Loa de Calama, ChileType: E


2.
Location. Caracas, Venezuela
Date: January 2002
Time: late night
Late one night in a dream-like state the witness woke up to see
seven to eight strange figures in her bedroom. They were dark
gray in color and very thin, with three large thick long fingers
on their hands. They had large, lipless mouths and large shiny
protruding black eyes, their noses were thin and protruding,
small ears, the heads was large and pointy. The humanoids
appeared to be naked and she was able to see a penis on the
humanoids. They were about 1.55 meters in height. She felt dizzy
and under the control of the strange entities. She was led out
of her bedroom by one of the humanoids that removed her clothing
and made her lie down on the floor. The humanoids apparently
attempted to molest her sexually and possibly attempted to rape
her but were not successful. She apparently passed out and does
not remember anything else about the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Lista Alcione and witness communicationType: E


3.
Location. Fort McMurry, Alberta, Canada
Date: January 2 2002
Time: 2032
Two men were parked on an isolated dirt road when they spotted a
large cone-shaped object descend and hover. One of the men
exited the car and he vanished in plain sight of the other, the
craft then also disappeared. The other man tried to drive away
to get help but the car would not start and it was to cold to
walk. He soon went to sleep and woke up later to find his friend
sleeping next to him. Later they drove back to town. His friend
does not remember what happened during those two hours of
missing time. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


4.
Location. Paso Lovera, Corrientes, Argentina
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2030
Gabriela Lencinas, 15-year old and a 19-year old friend were
returning home on a bicycle when they spotted a large cloud like
object descend from the sky and from it a giant figure emerge.
The witnesses stopped their bicycles to see a car approach the
giant figure, stop, the driver exit the car and then re-entering
the vehicle and driving quickly away. The figure then rose up
into the cloud and disappeared. The girls reported that the
giant human-like figure had its hair standing up on his head and
was extending its arms towards the witnesses that quickly rode
their bicycles home. Other in the area reported seeing bright
lights that same night.

HC addendum
Source: Pablo Omastott
Type: B?


5.
Location. Villa San Rafael, Chile
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2345
Two young teenagers, Jean F and Nelson C, where at home at night
when Jean noticed that his pet snake had escaped from its cage.
Both boys began looking for it outside among the rubble of the
parcel. They recalled how half an hour before, their two dogs
strangely began to howl and cry; however, it did not seem to be
important at that point in time. They searched for the pet snake
together when suddenly, about 30 meters from where they stood;
they saw what appeared to be a stray dog. They threw rocks at to
avoid an attack. However, to their surprise, the animal stood
there, motionless and fearless; it did not get scared nor it ran
away as ordinary dogs normally do. Shortly, the strange animal
began to move towards them. The movements it made as it walked
were very strange. It used two legs at a time. It made very
small sand short leaps like a rabbit. Suddenly, it stopped and
it stood up on two legs. The teenagers then began to feel some
kind of energy. "It was like an electrical shock in the
stomach," they said. It later walked again making a loud
dragging noise, making small leaps and only moving one of its
legs. They noticed the weird shape of the animal. "It was like a
rugby football with legs," one of them said. Jean began to feel
frightened and started to move away from animal. On the other
hand, Nelson felt a strange need to get closer to the creature;
he got to within 2 meters away from it. The creature appear to
emit a strange luminosity that apparently, was bright enough to
lit a small area around the creature in spite of the nighttime
darkness. Nelson was mesmerized as he stared at the strange
creature. He described it as having a head like a large dog with
a flat nose like a bulldog. Its eyes were slanted and pale-red
in color, which could only be seen when the creature turned its
head from side to side like a lizard. At that moment, Nelson
heard a voice in his head saying, "Don't stare, and just run
away." They provided further description, describing the ears as
flat, round and large. Its arms were short, it had elbows, and
the hands had three fingers. It had hair like the one on a wild
pig. Its legs were like the ones of a goat. The feet had also
three fingers and a membrane like ducks, but somewhat shorter.
On its curved back, they were able to notice a spinal section
covered with amounts of even thicker hair. Most of the hair of
the animal was gray, but the tail had a white tip. Nelson
finally fled, terrified, from the area. He also described how he
felt an inexplicable bone-chilling cold sensation.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center
Type: E


6.
Location. Not given
Date: January 12 2002
Time: night
Ted Parker was eating some leftover food when he claims the food began to
change. The bread of the sandwich turned an orange color and the lamb
became a silvery metallic color, sort of like liquid mercury. As he watched=

transfixed, he saw the orange bread and metallic lamb turn into the figure=

of an "alien" with the form of a man. It was silver in color and its outfit=

(smooth pants and shirt, like a jump suit) was orange in color. At this
point Parker glanced at the wall clock and it indicated that 2 hours had
gone by, even though it felt like minutes only. The alien figure
communicated using telepathic means and asked Ted to come with him. They
both went outside and there, Ted saw a landed black-colored craft in his
backyard. In a split second Ted found himself inside the craft not knowing=

how he got there. The inside of the craft was pure white in color with
strips of the metallic silver that the alien figure appeared to be made of.=

The rest of the incident is just a blur, but Parker did remembered hearing=

several loud high-pitched rings while onboard the object. A couple of days=

before while eating dinner with several other people there had been a
similar high pitched ring and everybody had just stopped eating and walked=

out of the room.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: G or F?



7.
Location. Chihuahua, Mexico
Date: January 29 2002
Time: night
Several days before seeing a UFO the witness remembered being in a
dream-like state in which he felt very calm and saw numerous disc shaped
objects, orange-red in color. A human like figure was talking to him about=

the objects and their propulsion. The UFO he saw was of an orange color and=

he felt a sort of ecstasy when he observed the craft. Several of his
neighbors also saw the object.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: G or F?


8.
Location. Near Palmyra, Wisconsin
Date: February 2002
Time: 0200A
Two men reported seeing a creature that resembled a bipedal "gigantic wolf"=

walking down a road west of the city. They said the creature was at least 7=

ft tall with a wolf-like head. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Linda GodfreyType: E


9.
Location. West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
Nebilson Sangma reported encountering a scary furry creature on a hunting
trip in the jungles. He reportedly took a video of the creature's nesting
place. According to Sangma, the creature walked erect like a human, had
built a house like nesting place, and would emerge from it frequently to
feast on a banana grove. Sangma and his brother observed the gigantic
creature for three consecutive days from afar. Officials and villagers have=

been hunting for the creature in the forest but it seems to have
disappeared as furtively as it appeared.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 13
Type: E


10.
Location. Near Dover, England
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness had been jogging along a low path by the beach when she noticed=

a tall, well built being in a black skin tight suit, that stood watching
her from nearby. He wore a black helmet wit a brown visor pulled down. At
first she thought it was a biker but as she approached the figure, it
suddenly disappeared in plain sight. As she continued to run she noticed a=

black craft jutting out of the sand, it was small and oval shaped, matt and=

ribbed it also disappeared in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: E?


11.
Location. Rosario de la Frontera, Salta, Argentina
Date: February 2002
Time: night
A strange creature called by locals "El Pestizo" has attacked several lone=

pedestrians in the middle of the night. It is described as a dark man
shaped shadowy being. A boy riding his bicycle on the way to visit some
friends was toppled from his bicycle and found a black shadowy figure
facing him. The young man managed to upholster his shotgun and fire two
shots. But, when he saw that they had no effect, he promptly drew his knife=

and stabbed the figure without any apparent harm. Frightened the youth
tried to escape but the creature knocked him down without saying a word and=

began dragging him by the hair to the side of the road. At this point the
young man began to scream. A local man, who rushed to provide assistance,
only to find a black shadow dragging the boy by the hair, heard his cries.=

The fearful shape disappeared without a trace after it became aware of the=

other man's presence. Six other locals have reported being attacked by a
similar being and received wounds.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


12.
Location. Not given
Date: February 2002
Time: early morning
The witness was alone at home and was preparing his breakfast when suddenly=

he heard a window break; he went to see what had happened. Grabbing a golf=

club he peeked inside the room where the window broke. He was stunned to
see a strange creature climbing on his bed. It appeared to be hurt, because=

it seemed that it could not move well. Gripping the golf club he went a
step nearer and the creature hissed horribly. It shrieked in an unworldly
manner. Terrified the witness did not move. The creature was small, about
the size of a large rabbit, and it was dark in color and had reddish eyes.=

It had wings and a spine of quills on its back, and had a semi reptilian
face. It appeared to have hair and small legs. The witness raised the golf=

club and the creature hissed again showing its large yellowish teeth, which=

appeared to be sharp, like those of a crocodile. It suddenly hopped out of=

the window and rapidly hopped across the street into the oak trees.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June archiveType: E


13.
Location. Vigevano, Italy
Date: February 2002
Time: 0100A
In the outskirts of this city a witness observed from his vehicle a
luminous humanoid entity walking along a roadway. It scurried away into the=

darkness when approached.
No other information.

HC addendum
Source: CISU, ItalyType: E



14.
Location. Corguinho, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Date: February 5 2002
Time: night
During a localized UFO flap several witnesses reported seeing a strange
creature described as about 1.3 meters in height, having two legs, with a
physique like a human but who moved with a strange fluctuating motion. The=

creature was seen five times by twenty people in the rural zone around
Corguinho. In Rochedo, 6 miles south of Corguinho five Cebu cattle were
found dead with a single incision on the side of the throat. The bodies had=

been drained of blood. (Is there a connection?).

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


15.
Location. Mount Podbrdo, Bosnia Hercigovina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: morning
Contactee and stigmatic Giorgio Bongiovanni was visiting the shrine on top=

of the mountain and was praying silently to the Virgin when, to his
astonishment, a glowing luminous female figure appeared and touched his
forehead with her fingertips. His stigmata scar vanished instantly. The
female figure told him to return to Italy and make known what had happened.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 14
Type: E or F?


16.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: evening
73-year-old Maria Rufina Cayo, a local shepherd was walking back home with=

her dogs and the cattle. Suddenly at one point, something spooked the
animals, and these began to stampede. Looking around she spotted a bizarre=

creature standing about 12 meters away. She described it as a humanoid,
half animal, half human, about 1.70m in height, with bright red eyes, sharp=

protruding fangs, and hands and feet that ended in sharp claws. The
creature looked at the witness three times then it scrambled away using
quick jumping motions with is powerfully built hind legs, she also noticed=

large pointy ears. The top part of its body seems to have been covered in a=

shiny white blanket. It somehow resembled a centaur walking on two
claw-like feet.  Alerted by the shouts of Maria, two men, Santos Jaimes,
and Ruben Colque ran out to investigate with their dogs. Suddenly the dogs=

stopped and began making pitiful howling noises, they refused to move any
further. The men heard noises behind some nearby bushes and went to
investigate and spotted a bizarre creature that stood staring at them with=

huge reddish eyes. It then moved quickly away in the direction of Cerro
Negro and disappeared from sight. The witnesses noticed very sharp claws on=

the creature's feet with a very sharp claw that appeared to be pointed
backwards. Strange footprints were found the next day.

HC addendum
Source: El Tribuno, Salta Argentina March 27 2002
Also Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E



17.
Location. Khanpur, Ahmedabad, India
Date: February 20 2002
Time: after midnight
Several local residents reportedly have encountered a person, dressed in
black and wearing a mask. Dubbed the "Monkeyman" whom they described as
between 25 and 20 years of age, dark skinned and having curly hair can
reportedly be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees. Two
local youths chased it and the figure reportedly disappeared in plain
sight. The two youths have been behaving abnormally since then. The
stranger was also chased along the riverbed near the Cama Hotel and it also=

suddenly disappeared. Others have heard the stranger running on the
rooftops. Abdul Hamid another youngster of the local slums described the
figure as a tall lean man that carries a sharp weapon. "I saw him from the=

back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised the alarm, he jumped to=

another roof and then on to a tree." Police have searched for the stranger=

but nothing has been found.

HC addendum
Source: Fortean Times, India Express
Type: E


18.
Location. Prague, Czech Republic
Date: February 23 2002
Time: night
Blanka Slemendova was in her apartment when she saw a "ship" hovering over=

some nearby woods. It was shining red, white and yellow lights. She then
heard telepathic communication coming from the object telling her to go and=

meet them at an unspecified location. Looking over to her bedroom wall she=

saw what appeared to be a projection of human like faces looking at her.
Later that night she saw luminous figures in her room and a floating red
light also in her room. The next night she saw what appeared to be 2 gray
suns and around them a golden lights with numerous groups of shiny
human-like figures floating about. She interpreted these as being angels.

HC addendum
Source: Direct from witness (Slemendova)
Type: C & F?


19.
Location. Wycliffe Well Roadhouse, Northern Territory Australia
Date: early March 2002
Time: evening
While workers in the area watched unusual lights in the sky an aboriginal
woman encountered a triangular sort of object in a paddock and all of the
sudden she saw three silvery clad human like figures that began to move
toward her vehicle. She turned the vehicle around and took off.

HC addendum
Source: Lou Farcus ABC On-lineType: C


20.
Location. Near Canberra Australia
Date: March 2002
Time: 1700
Several friends were taking a trip to the coast and it was already very
dark. They had already entered a tropical forest area and there was a mist=

rolling along the ground. As they turned around they saw something
squatting in the middle of the road. It stared at them, and just as they
thought they were going to hit it, it leaped off the road and into the
trees. It leaped about 10 meters in the air. The creature was definitely
human looking although it wore strange clothes. It was dressed in a green
robe of some kind with little pieces of gold on it, and it was either
wearing a head crest or it had a row of spikes running from its forehead to=

the top of its neck. Very frightened the witnesses drove out of the forest=

and at the same time the mist turned to a thick fog. They pulled over and
decided to wait until the fog had cleared, although none of them were too
happy about it. As they sat around and waited they suddenly heard a shriek.=

It sounded like some sort of wild animal and they turned the car on so the=

headlights would scare it away. The headlights revealed the same creature
they had seen earlier. It hid its face from the light and shrieked. Right
before the witnesses' eyes, the creature seemed to evaporate into the fog.=

Within five minutes the fog had gone and the normal rolling mist was back.=

The witnesses quickly left the area and drove towards the coast.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June ArchiveType: E


21.
Location. Guanica Puerto Rico
Date: March 1 2002
Time: 2345
Reinaldo Rios (involved in other encounters) was in his bedroom that night=

when a large white light suddenly appeared. It flew around the room several=

times and then hovered. He heard voices coming from the light, which
communicated with him. The voice said: "I am your real father." Soon the
light transformed itself into a figure resembling that of a little boy it
then vanished in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: UFOs over America.com
Type: E


22.
Location. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 0800A
The witness and his wife were in bed that Saturday morning talking when
their 5-year-old daughter came into the bedroom with her baby brother,
whose cot is placed under their bedroom window. They heard a strange noise=

and some green light came into the window. Their daughter looked out the
window and reported seeing a "flying car" with four spinning green lights
on top. She saw two windows in the vehicle and saw two dark brown faces
looking out. His wife saw the craft flying past through the curtains. That=

same morning, in a large tree near the witness house a strange structure
was found. The branches were arranged in a rectangular pen shape, vertical,=

each approximately 30 to 40 cm long. They found a few smaller sticks
scaling down in size from the structure. A piece of concrete slab was found=

propped up on one corner. The witnesses had never seen this strange
structure before and think is some kind of message left by the visitors.
(Some kind of bizarre crop circle?). A few nights before they had heard
strange noises coming from the kitchen area.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: A


23.
Location. Golasecca Di Novara, Italy
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 2330
Augusto & Maurizia were in their vehicle parked in an open field next to a=

wooded area having a heated discussion when suddenly a powerful beam of
reddish-orange light illuminated the area around them. They rolled down the=

car window and heard a sharp metallic sound that seemed to be increasing in=

intensity. They now noticed, behind the beam of light a hovering
disc-shaped craft with a central rotating ring, it hovered about a meter
from the ground. From the object, a cigar-shaped beam of light emerged;
they could see it as the central ring of the craft slowly rotated on its
axis. The craft was only about 10 meters away. At this point, and only
about 4 meters from the object Augusto saw what appeared to be a gelatinous=

transparent humanoid-like figure with a visible head, arms and legs. The
figure was silvery in color and was very tall, about 3 meters or so. At
this point Augusto became concerned and drove away from the area and did
not see the object or figure depart. The whole episode lasted about 10
minutes. The metallic noise was heard all throughout the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Alfredo Lissoni, CUN Milano, Michelle Castellano CUN VareseType: C


24.
Location. Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England
Date: March 3 2002
Time: morning
Helen Diskin went for a walk in the countryside talking snap shots along
the way with her digital camera. Returning home she loaded these into her
computer and was intrigued by an odd-looking image. It looked like a
luminous figure in an area of no sunlight, skulking amongst the trees. She=

returned to the site of the photo twice afterward and could find no
explanation for the figure. The figure resembled a small helmeted figure
that she had not seen when she took the picture of an area of the woods she=

had thought of as "mysterious."

HC addendum
Source: Helen Diskin, UFO Magazine Vol. 22 # 1Type: E?


25.
Location. Near Trenton New Jersey
Date: March 4 2002
Time: night
Several witnesses were camping outside of town and late at night one of
them was attempting to put out the bonfire when he heard the most awful and=

horrifying scream. It resembled that of an injured dog crossed with a
scream of a woman. The witness dropped the flashlight and was joined by
another witness. Suddenly out of the woods a hideous and gruesome creature=

appeared. It did not look human, somewhat satyr-like in appearance and
walked on two legs. It had a long tail like a dragon and wings like those
unicorns in fantasy books. The beast took several steps towards the
witnesses and one of them picked up and asked and yelled at it and then
shone his flashlight at it. The creature then turned towards the bushes and=

ran away from the area.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: E


26.
Location. Pichaca, Salta, Argentina
Date: March 9 2002
Time: night
Ceferino Leoncio was cleaning his one room metal shack when suddenly a
bright light engulfed the room. He felt a sudden heat as he saw a tiny
figure (50 cm) of an angel-like creature materialize in front of him. It
slowly moved its small wing-like protrusions and moved around and then
suddenly stopped and remained still. It appeared to be a small living human=

like living being until it appeared to hardened and turn into some type of=

statue of cherubic appearance. Locals have now built a shrine around the
tiny "statue" and call the strange materialization a "religious miracle".

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso
Type: F?



27.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: March 16 2002
Time: 2215
Mirna, was watching television alone in her room when she began hearing
noises coming from outside, at first she thought it was her dogs playing
around with some empty cans. But the noises kept getting louder and louder=

and she decided to go outside to investigate. Once outside she was stunned=

to see some type creature that had somehow entered the rabbit cage and was=

attacking the animals that were making loud unearthly screams. Thinking at=

first that it was one of the dogs she approached the case but realized that=

it was a gray colored hairy hunched over creature, that was moving quickly=

inside the cage. She stepped back and could not understand how the creature=

had entered the cage, since there wasn't any apparent hole or aperture
visible anywhere and the door was firmly closed. Afraid she ran inside her=

home and notified her son, both then ran out but the creature had
mysteriously disappeared. Unnerved, they could not understand how they
creature had escaped since the door to the rabbit caged was still firmly
locked. Later they could only find a small round hole in the wire only
several centimeters in width, not large enough for a creature estimated to=

have been about 70 to 80 cm in height. Several of the rabbits were found
injured and one was dead.

HC addendum
Source: Calama UFO CenterType: E


28.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: March 19 2002
Time: 2000
Young Elizabeth Lera reported seeing a short humanoid with "dark eyes"
looking into the building compound from behind a wire fence. It appeared
not to have any other facial features and was wearing dark clothing; it
wore some type of head covering, which was hard to see because of the
darkness. She could only see a pair of large dark eyes on his face that
appeared to shine in the darkness. Some more children now arrived and
observed as the humanoid move several steps towards them. Another witness,=

Rene Mamani saw the humanoid run and hide behind some bushes. It seemed to=

move at very high speed in an unnatural fashion. It seemed to have remained=

suspended in mid-air for a few seconds. It then seemed to fly through the
air and disappeared into some nearby woods. Other students at the school
reportedly saw it again on the night of the 20th.

HC addendum
Source: Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E


29.
Location. Woodburn, Oregon
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 0300A
The witness was sleeping when she woke up suddenly feeling paralyzed. The
witness was completely unable to move or speak. Her next memory was of a
strange sensation on her left cheek, which hurt a lot. Unseen "beings" were=

apparently taking skin samples. Her face was left with a pink fleshy scoop=

down my left cheek, directly on the cheekbone. A teardrop scar was left on=

her cheek.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical Universe
Type: G?




30.
Location. Bethlehem, Israel
Date: March 21 2002
Time: night
At the besieged Church of The Nativity several awed witnesses have come
forward describing the events of Thursday night. That night, a smell of
roses filled the sanctuary as the Daughters of Charity held their evening
prayers. "The sweet scent was soon followed by a high musical humming sound=

and a distinct feeling of warmth emanating from the ceiling." Then, the
sisters reported, seeing a glowing beam of light gradually forming the
likeness of the Blessed Virgin "like a film coming into focus." Tears were=

running down her face, and she uttered a prophetic warning. "Time is
growing short, and the promised Judgment Day is nearly at hand." One week
before the apparition, The Church of the Holy Family was the scene of a
ferocious firefight between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 17Type: F


31.
Location. Not given
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 2255
16-year old Steven Mizon saw hovering over a street a large oval shaped
craft encircled in bright lights and with several lighted windows around
its edge. A figure stared down at him from one of the windows. No other
information.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Watch
Type: A



32.
Location. Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain
Date: March 26 2002
Time: 1500
A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a deserted road when=

he noticed ahead in the distance and in the middle of the roadway an object=

resembling a shiny pear that was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat
perplexed he approached and noticed two individuals standing on a nearby
field. These were over 2 meters in height, wore tight fitting white
coveralls and helmets resembling that of the early astronauts. He parked
his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men=

walked away and entered the shiny pear-shaped craft while the other
remained behind. Knowing that these men were "not from this earth" he still=

asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt that as
he approached the strange pair he had been in some type of a trance and
seemed to have floated over the road. The humanoid answered and appeared
genuinely happy as to his offer of assistance but said that everything was=

in order. He also added that the area was very beautiful and also added:
"Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such
beautiful scenes, they disappeared a long time ago." The astounded witness=

managed to ask the humanoid where he was from and was told that they hailed=

from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The=

humanoid smiled as he answered the question. The humanoid then bid goodbye=

and walked towards the nearby shiny pear shaped object, he then disappeared=

inside of it. The craft then emitted a loud whistling sound and disappeared=

at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the
humanoids as about 2.50 meters in height, wide chests and heavy set, thin
legs. Generally human features, but somewhat "refined" or sharpened
features. The suits were very tight fitting made of an apparent synthetic
material resembling plastic. Their eyes were very light almost white and
their speech was hesitant & accented. Also their movements seemed kind of
clumsy.

HC addendum
Source: J M Garcia, Francisco Padron, SpainType: B


33.
Location. Pringle Lake, Texas
Date: March 28 2002
Time: 1100A
Mark Hakemack and a friend had taken an airboat out on the NW side of the
lake to do a little redfish fishing. The day was kind of hazy, with broken=

cloud cover. They had caught several trout and were just chatting when he
hooked up a large redfish while playing with the fish, Mark happened to
glance upwards and saw a large bird-like creature emerge from a cloudbank.=

His friend saw it too, after about 20 to 25 seconds it flew behind cloud
cover again. The strange creature was grayish in color and the profile of a=

raptor, short neck/head, no legs sticking out behind, and no long tail
feathers. Mark could not take his eyes off it. He estimated the wingspan to=

have been 10' to 14 ' in overall. It appeared to be soaring on the wind,
although, he did see it give a couple of light "flaps" with its wings. The=

witness could only relate this to the legendary "Thunderbird" legend.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.comType: E


34.
Location. Sevilla, Spain
Date: March 30 2002
Time: late night
The witness to the March 26 case was at home with his wife and was getting=

ready to sleep when he heard footsteps coming from patio area outside his
chalet. Armed with a club, he opened the door and was stunned to see the
same two tall heavyset humanoids he had encountered 4 days before. One of
the humanoids was kneeling on the ground as if inspecting something on the=

soil, the other one upon hearing the door open, turned and quickly assured=

the witness not to fear that they were not here to harm him. Stunned, the
witness invited the two humanoids in the house for some refreshments (!).
These declined the invitation telling that they had to go already. Using
the same clumsy movements both humanoids walked towards the rear of the
house where the witness noticed the same shiny metallic pear shaped craft
on the ground. They entered the object, which quickly left at high speed.
The witness's wife awakened by the voices was able to see the two humanoids=

from a second story window, and described them in the same way.

HC addendum
Source: Francisco Padron, Jose Manuel Garcia, SpainType: B


35.
Location. Los Cipreses, Chile
Date: March 31 2002
Time: noon
During a local UFO congress 24 persons in three groups entered a
dimensional gateway that appeared by itself over the terrain. It was kind
of a dome, a luminous archway measuring four by four meters. The
participants lost their materiality without disappearing completely. Upon
entering, they met several human-like alien characters with large baldheads=

and wearing robes that waited within and received information. According to=

sources the contact experience was "dimensional" it was like crossing into=

a different reality. The 24 participants were "all professionals, college
students of high intellectual levels, mostly Chileans," and some were
members of Grupo Rama, a New Age association.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 16, quoting Camilo Valdivieto
Type: G or F?


36.
Location. Tbilissi Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: night
A man entered the local St David church and reported that "a phantom with
wings" had approached him and predicted an earthquake that indeed took
place on April 25 2002, devastating areas of central Georgia.

HC addendum
Source: Pravda
Type: E?


37.
Location. Near Macon, Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: 2300
Three friends were awakened by loud banging noises and bellowing sounds
coming from outside. One of the men ran to the bathroom and looked out the=

window to see a figure run by and squat in the nearby bushes. He described=

the creature as about 3 ft tall, hairy with what appeared to be horns on
its head and hands; he could not see a face. Others in the neighborhood
heard the banging noises.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.com and direct witness
Communication.
Type: E


38.
Location. Belvedere di Tezze, Italy
Date: April 26 2002
Time: evening
A 20-year old woman was returning home one night when she noticed some
bright lights nearby of an unknown origin. She followed the lights in her
car until she stopped near a local pizzeria. She saw the light near the
ground and within the lights two tall slender human like figures wearing
some type of headgear. Since she was carrying a camera she was able to snap=

a quick picture. The figures then vanished. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Gruppo Accademico Ufologico Scandicci quoting
"Il giornale di Vicenza"Type: E?


39.
Location. Puente Santamaria, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: early morning
Two young men observed a dark object descend towards the ground about 100
meters away. According to the two witnesses from the craft descended a
small humanoid, orange in color. Very scared they both ran from the area
and reported their experience to others.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: B


40.
Location. Merceditas, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: evening
An elderly couple was walking along National Route # 8 when about 800
meters from their location they noticed a very strong light. The light
descended next to a puddle at about 70 meters from the witness. Both then
saw two very short orange colored humanoids that moved in very agile
movements near the object. Terrified they walked away and upon looking back=

saw a bright glow on the ground.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: C


41.
Location. Barangay, Philippines
Date: May 2002
Time: night
Several local residents reported seeing a bizarre creature described as an=

"aswang" reputed to be a winged vampire type creature, it reportedly had
red glowing eyes, long black hair, and was wearing a white flowing gown. It=

was seen perched on top of a bamboo tree. Residents at nearby Roxas
reported seeing a similar creature. The police was called but a search
failed to locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Akasico.comType: E


42.
Location. Alvear, La Pampa Argentina
Date: May 3 2002
Time: near midnight
Several young men were returning home late at night along a deserted
roadway when suddenly out of nowhere a female figure wearing a light
flowing gown and with long black hair appeared in front of them. The
strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly and repeatedly asked for=

assistance from the men in a strange urgent tone. Terrified the men ran
from the area and later returned with additional witnesses but they could
find no trace of the strange apparition.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E?


43.
Location. Taralgon Victoria, Australia
Date: May 24 2002
Time: 2355
Walking near the Loy Yang Power station 45-year old Martin Taylor was
suddenly blinded by an intense blue light and he felt extremely dizzy. His=

next memory was of being in a circular room with a variety of lights and
buttons scattered about the walls. He was lying on a large table that
seemed to be of a very highly polished metal. He was strapped down and his=

shirt had been removed. There were wires attached to his arms, neck and
temples. A four ft tall humanoid figure with very large almond shaped eyes,=

almost transparent looking skin, ghostly white in appearance examined him.=

The figure had three extremely long fingers on each hand and spoke in a
strange dialect.

HC addendum
Source: UFO WatchType: G


44.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: May 29 2002
Time: midnight
Irma Rick watched a rotating luminous object descend close to the ground
next to a grain silo; it gave off a powerful bluish light through some
openings around its circumference. It hovered close to the ground. Through=

an opening a strange creature was seen to descend to the ground. It was
described as having an elongated semi-transparent white body; it also had
an elongated head. She could not see any eyes or legs on the creature as it=

stood motionless next to the craft. She observed the creature and object
for about 5 minutes until she dropped the flashlight she was carrying.
Afraid she left the area and did not see the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: B



45.
Location. Lembang Bandung, Indonesia
Date: May 30 2002
Time: 2315
The witness was driving his motorcycle across a highland area when he
spotted some flashing lights overhead and then noticed a silvery
disc-shaped craft descend low over some nearby graves at a cemetery. The
craft had blue and orange flashing lights around its rim. There was no
sound as the craft apparently emitted a beam of light towards the ground
and levitated what appeared to be some dead bodies onboard the object. (!)=

The witness was apparently paralyzed and was unable to move. The craft then=

shot away at a 45-degree angle and disappeared from sight. When that
happened the witness left the scene.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


46.
Location. Houston, Texas
Date: late May 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness was at the local electric company in order to pay a bill when
she decided to use the restrooms. Sitting in the stall she then noticed on=

the side of the wall of the stall what appeared to be a face lit up in a
dull light. When the witness looked directly at the "face" it vanished. She=

described is as having large round eyes no visible nose and a slit-like
mouth. (A peeping tom alien?)

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.comType: E?


47.
Location. General Acha, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: early June 2002
Time: various
A resident of the Oeste neighborhood informed newspaper sources that a
short green-colored dwarf like entity has appeared twice on her property:
once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When her husband ran out
responding to her screams, the mysterious entity vanished by rapidly
climbing up a tree. All versions agree in that the entity is short in
stature. Another resident added that it moved so quickly that it was hard
to describe it. In the same area mysterious cattle mutilations have also
been reported.

HC addendum
Source: Loren Coleman in UFO UpdatesType: E


48.
Location. Ojo De Agua, Argentina
Date: June 2002
Time: afternoon
Several passengers onboard two farm micro buses reported seeing a very tall=

dark man like figure that appeared to be wearing a tight fitting diver's
outfit standing on a nearby field. Nearby numerous mysterious animal
mutilations have been reported. The figure was silent and was quickly lost=

from sight as the buses moved away.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E




49.
Location. Near Tampa, Florida
Date: June 2002
Time: night
A man and three of his friends reported encountering two bizarre chupacabra=

type creatures one stood about 3-4 ft tall, the other looked to be about 6=

ft tall. Both had large glowing red eyes and spikes starting from the head=

to the back. They scurried away into a wooded area. (They were to have
further encounters in August).

HC addendum
Source: Art Bell.comType: E


50.
Location. Antalya, Turkey
Date: June 5 2002
Time: afternoon
Approximately 45 witnesses claimed they saw an UFO in the Santral district=

landing on the backyard of the Fatma Primary School. Several students
including Murat Esici age 11 saw an alien emitting red rays from his eyes
come out of the object. His hands and feet were metallic. He had a very big=

head and was about 1.80 meters in height. Esici temporarily lost her voice=

immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also=

claimed they san an unusual craft and an alien beside it. "His eyes and
hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes." The children
were overcome with shock after the incident.

HC addendum
Source: Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center Intl
Type: B


51.
Location. Polonnauruwa, Sri Lanka
Date: June 8 2002
Time: 2200
Approximately 50 to 70 eyewitnesses saw a UFO flying at about 100 meters
above ground level. The object was silent and briefly landed emitting a
bright flash like light. When it was close to the ground the object emitted=

a buzzing sound. Three other witnesses saw three 2 ft tall creatures than
when approached ran into the jungle and disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Sources
Type: D


52.
Location. Polonnaruwa, Sir Lanka
Date: June 9 2002
Time: 2012
Two witnesses went to a bath on a nearby river when they heard a loud
thundering sound and a UFO appeared. The craft landed nearby and two, 2 ft=

tall "aliens" emerged from the object. One of the humanoids flung a small
fluorescent fireball like object that flew over a house and vanished. Soon=

the craft and humanoids disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC & News Reports
Type: B



53.
Location. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Date: June 10 2002
Time: 1900
Witnesses saw a mysterious light in the sky and others saw a large disc
shaped object land nearby. Three humanoids only about 2 ft tall emerged
from the craft and disappeared into the forest when approached. The object=

also left.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Reports
Type: B


54.
Location. Chantilly, Virginia
Date: June 10 2002
Time: night
The witness was awakened during the night with a sense of some presence in=

the room. Looking toward the door, he saw, fading quickly, something, which=

almost had the appearance of a hologram. Next, shadows appeared outside the=

windows in an erratic shape. At first he thought the shadows to be from
trees moving in a strong wind. The appearance was of a storm blowing the
limbs to create these shadows outside the window. However, there was no
storm. He looked at the adjacent window on the side of the house facing
opposite and there was no wind at all. In fact there was no trees
positioned in such a way to cast a shadow. He opened the blinds to see what=

might be causing the shadows. He then saw what seemed to be a hologram with=

the shape of two small eyes moving erratically outside the window.
Frightened he closed the blinds. Two weeks later he was awakened by a
humming sound and again saw the erratic shadows outside the window. He
watched the shadows for 10-15 minutes and then called the police. The
police found no signs of any intrusion in the yard. When the police left
the witness walked toward the door facing the back porch and saw a large
burst of bluish white light. It looked unnatural, almost like a laser. He
has not seen the "shadows" again.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: E?


55.
Location. Ataliva Roca, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 11 2002
Time: 1930
A worker at a local drainage project was sitting and guarding some
machinery when he noticed a short greenish colored humanoid figure that was=

approaching his location from a nearby field. The witness became concerned=

and drove away from the area in the construction equipment and did not see=

the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


56.
Location. Eduardo Castex, La Pampa Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Two girls of a local school encountered a short greenish humanoid figure in=

the playing yard. The figure was standing up and appeared to be raising its=

arms up to the sky. Terrified the two girls retreated into the school and
watched the figure scurry away into some nearby woods. Around the same time=

a local farmer found a strangely mutilated hog in his farm.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


57.
Location. Chasico, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Hugo Deluca and several other workers were parked in a bus in an isolated
area when they spotted about 20 meters away a short, 1.20 meters tall,
bipedal figure completely covered in gray hair. It walked upright like a
man and then scurried away into some woods vanishing from sight. The area
had been hit with animal mutilations around the same time.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


58.
Location. Castex, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 13 2002
Time: night
A 70-year old man had gone to his driveway to check on a flat tire in his
car when a short light green colored humanoid suddenly appeared next to
him. It had large round ears, and two reddish luminous eyes. Its body was
thin and almost triangular in shape. The witness attempted to yell out but=

was suddenly unable to speak and at the same time strange warmth invaded
his body. Several seconds later the humanoid vanished and the witness
returned to normal. He reported the incident to the police.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


59.
Location. La Laguna, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 14 2002
Time: afternoon
Several youngster had gone into the fields in order to obtain some firewood=

when they saw sitting on a clearing in the woods two human like figures,
all dressed in black. They sat facing each other, one looking towards the
east the other towards the west, unmoving. Unnerved by the sight the
juveniles ran from the area. The next day the father of one of the boys
found two dead cows at the site, but could find no trace of the strange
pair. Days later a sheep and a horse were found dead and strangely
mutilated in the nearby location of El Cardonal.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: E


60.
Location. De Kalb, Illinois
Date: June 15 2002
Time: 0030A
The witness was sitting in his family room watching TV when he noticed a
bright flash of light outside the window. He saw the flash several times
and decided to check his backyard there he saw a circular light moving
around in circles. The light began to get closer; scared he ran inside his=

home and called a friend on the phone. He then quickly ran outside and saw=

the circle getting closer, he noticed that it had a purplish color to it
and it began to descend towards the ground. He became nauseous and dizzy
and collapsed on to the ground. He tried to crawl to the house but was
unable to move. He turned his head and saw the purplish object on the
ground and what appeared to be a door opening up. He then heard a squeaking=

noise and saw a tall and a short figure standing by a door of the object.
The two figures started to move towards him, walking in a strange bopping
fashion. They were of a dark complexion with a bumpy texture, other than
that they resembled normal human beings. The shorter figure approached and=

picked up the witness' camera and stared at it. He then looked at the
taller figure and handed it to him. The taller of the two looked at the
camera and then at the witness. The witness then heard loud unpleasant
shrieks coming from the taller figure, which then gave the camera back to
the shorter figure, which covered the camera with his hand, seconds later a=

light began to emerge from their hands. Then they stopped, threw the camera=

aside and began to walk towards the witness. They reached his side and
started to examine his body. A dog began to bark from inside the house and=

the shorter figure put out his hand and the dog stopped barking. At this
point the witness began to vomit. After about a minute he began to relax
and to breathe better. When he turned his head he realized that the two
figures and the purple spherical object were now gone. The next day he had=

a very severe headache.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: B


61.
Location. San Juan, Argentina
Date: June 20 2002
Time: evening
At a location where the body of a strangely mutilated carcass of a cow was=

found two witnesses reported seeing a small creature with large glowing
slanted eyes and about one meter in height. Later in the same area, members=

of the Gimenez family after investigating noises and a strong odor coming
from a wooded area found a mutilated cow and also watched a short humanoid=

with glowing eyes scurrying away into the woods.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


62.
Location. Manuel Rodriguez, Calama, Chile
Date: June 22 2002
Time: after midnight
A bizarre creature was spotted at a local housing complex on San Antonio
Street. Witnesses reported that it resembled an ape and it jumped all over=

the roof. It passed right in front of the witness, Maria Gavia's window and=

then it came back making all manner of noise. The creature was able to make=

very long jumps, unlike any a human could. It jumped and landed on the
neighbor's roof and then it left the area. Neighborhood dogs acted scared
and began howling. Others described the creature as about 1.5 meters tall,=

stocky in build with bright red eyes. It made a lot of noise. Others
reportedly chased the creature.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center, quoting El
Mercurio de CalamaType: E


63.
Location. Angencia Realico, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 23 2002
Time: late night
Several hunters returning to a local ranch spotted about 50 meters away two=

large glowing reddish eyes staring at them. They turned off their
flashlight and approached closer on foot, about 30 meters away they again
saw the reddish eyes on a dark creature that appeared to be standing on top=

of an apparently dead animal. One of the hunters shone its flashlight on
the figure again and saw a figure about 40 cm in height that quickly ran
from the area at very high speed. The creature disappeared into the brush.=

At the scene, a dead and mutilated young heifer. Other mutilations were
reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


64.
Location. Rancul, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 25 2002
Time: 2020
Two young men, Nestor Pinto and Daniel Gatica were walking on a field when=

they encountered a short man-like figure with huge pointy ears and long
dangling arms standing near some brush. The figure scurried into the brush=

and disappeared and at the same time the two witnesses ran away from the
area and did not see the strange dwarf again.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


65.
Location. Bavaria, Germany (exact location not given)
Date: June 25 2002
Time: night
The witness had stayed up late watching the soccer game as was in his
bedroom when suddenly there was a coldness around him that made him shiver.=

He noticed that his audio capabilities were somehow enhanced and he was
able to hear sounds that previously he was unable to hear. He then heard a=

noise outside his door and went out to investigate. The noise became louder=

as he approached the door. He then heard footsteps and opened the door. A
very small man with a somewhat deformed body that was smiling at him
confronted the witness. He looked straight ahead and then stared at the
witness. His next memory was of waking up in his bed in the morning.

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.com
Type: E


66.
Location. Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2105
The primary witness had stepped out on his back porch when his attention
was drawn to two huge black "birds" which were approaching from the north.=

His first impression was they were Herons, but soon realized that the color=

was wrong, and "they were huge, much larger than any bird I have ever
seen." The two huge birds landed at the top of a very tall coniferous tree.=

The witness stated that the wingspan appeared to be wider than the
branches, jest below where they had landed. The body size was estimated to=

be about six feet from head to tail. The oddest feature was the shape of
the wings, which according to the witness appeared to be bat-like. The tree=

where the "birds" landed seemed as though it would break from their weight.=

The witness yelled for others in the house to come outside to look. Another=

family member was able to see the huge black birds as they passed overhead,=

and headed for some woods. After checking the size of the branches where
the birds had landed, the witness estimated that the wingspan would have
been close to 12 feet or somewhat larger.

HC addendum
Source: Stan GordonType: E


67.
Location. Marldon Hill, Paington, England
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2357
A couple were walking near a local historic monument (a windmill) and they=

drew closer to monument they heard a low whirling noise. The noise
progressed to a high-pitched whining, almost out of hearing range. Then
they saw a mysterious glow coming from the dark side of the windmill, and
then to their astonishment they saw 5 or 6 shadow like figures standing in=

front of the windmill. Startled the two began to run back towards the main=

road. The woman looked back and saw the figures become engulfed by a bright=

light and disappear, and then everything became quiet.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Sightings UKType: E?


68.
Location. Adelia Maria, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 3 2002
Time: 2100
Pedro and Estela Moine had decided to visit the business district of town
called Barrio Norte and crossed the old railroad yard through a pedestrian=

pathway that ran through a pasture area between some silos, old railroad
depots and abandoned wreckage. As the couple moved through the premises
they suddenly became aware of a strange and incomprehensible conversation
between many voices. Startled, they stopped walking moved a few meters more=

and then heard the voices again which now sounded like strange "O" sounds.=

Pedro looked toward the silos and was able to see resembling humanoid but
lacking upper and lower extremities. Despite the pleas of his wife, Pedro
ran several meters toward an inner alley in the silo plant, being able to
make out some 45 meters to the west and in profile---the entity, which
acting surprised, avoided the encounter and moved again to the north.
However, what filled the witnesses with wonderment was that the creature
did so as though flying or floating without touching the facilities it
passed. Pedro and Estela ran after it. It was thus that the man managed to=

see the entity apparently hiding behind the control room of the truck
scale. Pedro ran toward it and was again startled to see the apparition
rising as a plane taking off, flying at an altitude of 5 meters and
disappearing behind a large metal shed. Bewildered, both witnesses called
out, but were unable to see anything else. Pedro Moine as "a thing with
human shape" described the apparition. It had some sort of light, although=

he could not say if reflected or self-generated, although he tends to
believe the latter, since it was a nebulous whitish light, which kept him
from making out details. The entire mass of the apparition appeared to be a=

body covered from head to toe in some sort of mantle, which he described as=

though it wore a hat, but covered with some kind of long raincoat reaching=

down to what he took to be its feet. He added that the "conversational
sounds" repeated themselves in three separate occasions at various
intensities. They were like conversations in a strange language.

HC addendum
Source: Mario Luis Bracamonte, C.O.R, Rio Cuarto Argentina
Type: E


69.
Location. Jerusalem, Israel
Date: July 6 2002
Time: night
A remote TV camera picked up images of "orbs seen on the corner to the
right of the Wailing Wall." They seemed to have facial features almost like=

a ghost, reported investigator Charlotte LeFevre. The orbs were described
as "sharp and distinct". The orbs were next to the women's prayer area in
front of the Wall. Other strange phenomena, has been reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 29Type: F?


70.
Location. Villa Elisa, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: July 13 2002
Time: 2300
A young woman fainted from nervous shock after having an alleged closed
encounter with "some sort of green dwarf". This occurred---enveloped in
darkness---along Misioneros Salesianos Street very close to several houses.=

An ambulance was called and apparently transported the witness who was in
shock.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria ColuchiType: E


71.
Location. Patna, India
Date: July 21 2002
Time: night
Several residents claim they've been bitten or scratched by a "black
monkey-like creature with colored lights flashing from its eyes." Resident=

Pawan Kumar Niyogi who was sleeping on the terrace of his house claims "a 5=

ft tall monkey-like creature" attacked him. He said: "I was terrified and
thought my life was going to end but it merely scratched me on the shoulder=

before jumping off the roof." Local residents are conducting night vigils
and carrying torches to guard their homes.

HC addendum
Source: Ananova, Ufoupdates. Type: E


72.
Location. Chajan, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 21 2002
Time: 2300
Police officer Guillermo Arias was on routine patrol through a rural area
when he heard over the radio that his colleagues in arms over at Achiras
were seeing lights in sectors of said community, and that they were heading=

towards Chajan along National Route 8. At the wheel of the police patrol
van, he managed to see a formation of 7 lights in the distance and decided=

to drive 10 km along a rural dirt road. When he had covered said distance,=

he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine of his vehicle sputtered=

and died, causing the police car to strike the edge of a guardrail.
Simultaneously, the lights on the van's dashboard began turning on and off=

randomly, the police radio went haywire and its dial displayed the random
shifting of the frequencies while the cabin became filled with an acrid
odor, as though of burnt wiring, and the interior lights and stop
indicator, which were broken, began lighting on and off. Seized by fear,
Arias leaped from the van and walked away a few meters down the road,
losing his cellular phone in the escape. The darkness was total, when
suddenly, amid the confusing situation; an immense light emerged from a
field adjacent to the road as a triangular object rose majestically into
the air. Now Arias condition went from fear to abject terror as he saw what=

he described as a real "floating city" some 200 meters long with a long row=

of windows (perhaps as many as 100). Arias claims having seen something
move behind them, describing the movement as "TV sets which make lines and=

shadows", which he defined as "non-human", and that many beams of light
came out of the giant triangle, aimed at the ground. The event lasted 2-3
seconds, but to Arias it felt like an eternity. The object suddenly rose
and sped away, vanishing behind the hills of a local field. As the object
moved away, the whole area was lit up like daytime and there was an
afterglow that lasted another 20 minutes.

HC addendum
Source: C.O.R., Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense, Argentina
Type: A


73.
Location. Waconia, Minnesota
Date: July 26 2002
Time: 0300A
The young witness was sleeping in the backyard with his sister when he
suddenly woke up. He then noticed that the side of the tent that faced the=

wetlands and lake was lit up. Looking towards the light he saw a shadowy
torso and arm of a humanoid figure that seemed to be moving around within
the light. He watched for 30 seconds and saw the figure move the fingers of=

his hands. The witness became frightened and hid in his sleeping bag. He
came out about an hour later and the light and strange figure were
completely gone.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


74.
Location. Sedona, Arizona
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 0310A
In a wooded area the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all
white, with black "straight" eyes; and black diagonal/diamond strip of
"clothing" on top. He stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then
left. Prior to seeing the figure the witness had seen lights in a large
oval shaped pattern in the sky.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


75.
Location. Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 1730
Three girls had decided to visit the rooftop as they did the prior evening=

watching for satellites. It was dusk and the girls had a good vantage point=

looking towards the east. With them they had a pair of binoculars and a
pair of walkie-talkies. The girls noticed that a large orange light
appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The anomaly
was noted to have fluctuated in colors of orange, yellow, white and pale
blue. At fist they thought of an arriving airplane, but then a second light=

appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10=

degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some=

unusually maneuvering; from a stationary position it accelerated at least 5=

degrees closer to the ground surface at an approximate 45-60 degree angle
within a matter of a single second. The first anomaly then began to move
slowly towards the north. At this stage they partially lost view of it as
it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley-like
region of the horizon. According to the witnesses, this third object
appeared to have "landed" on the ground surface. The object was then viewed=

through the binoculars and presented in great detail; the object was
described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange,=

blue/purple and white rotating around the rim. Thy also noted the trees
being slightly illuminated by this extraordinary phenomenon. They were
suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, "Identify
yourself." This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in a
foreign language. Around 1830 the girls were then called down to have
dinner. At about 2030 the girls re-established their places on the roof
after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still
present. Unexpectedly a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above
the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. "It
was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away." The=

light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it=

is not clear how one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became
extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed
her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not=

sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another of the girls woke up
the next morning with her nose bleeding. She also mentioned that she had
seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom.

HC addendum
Source: The Australian UFO Research NetworkType: D or
F?



76.
Location. Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 29 2002
Time: early morning
Local residents have seen a strange figure, which they described as
resembling a "shroud". The apparitions, which always occur in the early
morning hours, have become so common that in recent days several neighbors=

have stayed up late to see them, and it is thus that they were able to
confirm the simultaneous presence of up to 2 such beings, as well as red
lights flying over the area. All the witnesses whether individuals or in a=

group, agree that the entities are nebulous and glowing, with a pair of red=

eyes being clearly identifiable, and glassy faces (as if transparent).
Their movements are smooth and they always appear from behind the sand
dunes, as though "coming form the Naval Base." Most witnesses agree that
they show a great interest in the water tanks located above the roofs, and=

that they do not flee upon detecting the presence of local
residents---rather, they stare at them fixedly for some minutes. Deep
silence is perceived during the observations and "the air appears to become=

still" and neither heat nor cold can be felt---only a sensation of warmth,=

as if the beings emanated heat. Witnesses also state that things appear to=

be darker when "the shroud" appears, as though ambient lighting were
dimmed. Another curious fact is the large number of cats and dogs who
report to the place where the sightings occur and sit down to observe it in=

silence, in a state resembling a trance. A series of semi-circular prints
have been found in the dunes, not very deep, with 15-20 cm separations in
some cases and 30-50 cm in others. The locals have identified them as the
strange being's footprints. Efforts have been made to photograph the
"shroud", but all images, despite the use of different cameras appear
exposed. One witness who approached the site to witness the phenomenon took=

two photos of the prints in the afternoon and decided to stay with the
group of people hoping to see the "shroud", managing to take some photos of=

same and record the new prints which appeared in the dunes after the
sighting. A completely uncommon print was found at the site---but the
residents aren't sure if it's related to the phenomenon: it has the shape
of a five-fingered claw. One witness tried to make use of his carbine's
telescopic sight to see the figure in greater detail, but "when he tried to=

focus on it, he could see nothing_it was a though it could only be seen
with the unaided eye."

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, IHU, Christian Quintero and O A Mario
Proyecto Condor
Type: C or E?


77.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 30 2002
Time: 0530A
27-year old Mariela Baigorri reported seeing a strange figure that floated=

in front of her house. She had woken up early that morning and was getting=

ready to mount her bicycle when she saw behind the fence something floating=

in mid-air. It appeared to be a figure wearing a flowing white transparent=

tunic, with bright red eyes and undefined facial features. Feeling no fear=

she decided to approach it. She felt as if the figure waited for her and
was observing her. At this point Mariela felt some fear and began reciting=

the Lord's Prayer. The figure suddenly moved back and disappeared in plain=

sight.

HC addendum
Source: Juan Carlos Corrales Morey, Vision Ovni, Argentina
Type: E


78.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 31 2002
Time: 1845
23-year old Julian Pereyra was in his vehicle when he observed two red
spheres flying slowly over some nearby woods, they seemed to descend and
disappear behind the trees. 15 minutes later, Pereyra, accompanied by
several other witnesses approached the area and observed what they
described a tall floating figure wearing a white glowing cape like outfit,=

it seemed to glide silently over a field. It had what appeared to be a
visor at face level and two beams of red light emerged from where the eyes=

would have been. The witnesses watched the strange figure glide over the
fields for about 30 minutes. Curiously numerous local dogs and cats
approached and also watched the figure in fascination. The lights and
figure disappeared into the distance. In another occasion Pereyra and some=

of his family members encountered the strange humanoid and felt a strange
sensation as if the wind had suddenly stopped, they felt as they were
inside a vacuum or "bubble." Strange tracks have been reportedly found in
the area also.

HC addendum
Source: Diario La Nueva Provincia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Type: C?


79.
Location. La Cienaga, Pocri, Panama
Date: early August 2002
Time: night
Luis Alfredo Diaz reported hearing loud noises coming from the terraced
patio where the kitchen was located, going to investigate he found his cat=

apparently dead with two obvious holes on the neck and some blood on the
floor. Before finding the cat he had called his wife, Maria de Los Santos
Barrios. As his wife stood in front of him a panic stricken look came over=

her face, turning around he was confronted by a bizarre 1-meter tall
humanoid that had jumped to the center of the patio. The creature was
described as thin, covered with dark hair, with large pointed ears that
almost covered its face, it had very large eyes and extremely strong hind
legs resembling that of a kangaroo. Terrified he ran to his son's bedroom
and carried him outside yelling for his neighbors. A search failed to
locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Panamanian Paranormal Forum
Type: E


80.
Location. Near Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Date: August 2002
Time: night
The same witness involved in a similar encounter last year was again
camping in the same area when he again heard a noise. Shining the light in=

the direction of the sound he again saw the same creature. The creature sat=

there crouched by the trees staring at the witness. The witness walked
slowly towards it, he got to within 20 ft when it just jumped backward and=

disappeared. He described the creature as about five to six ft in height,
gray in color. It was totally naked. It had human features, but more
leathery, and its face was very wide, its eyes were huge and even though
they reflected light, they still looked black, resembling two intensely
black marbles. Its legs were very muscular, but turned backwards, like a
bird. Other hikers in the area have reported encountering little brown men=

on some of the more isolated trails.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal Story Archives, November 2002Type: E


81.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: August 1 2002
Time: late evening
64-year old Raul Dorado was touring some fields when he heard a loud sound=

on two occasions, like a whirlwind, which drew his attention. The third
time he saw something he describes as a green circle with three legs
hovering over him. At that moment Dorado fell to the ground, and according=

to his story, he carried a shotgun, binoculars and a cellular phone, the
latter, which was taken from his hand, and he could clearly see being
sucked into the object, which was apparently at low altitude. His next
recollection was seeing the object disappear toward the east. Dorado
remained at the location for an hour before being able to rise and walk
back to his car, returning to town in a state of shock. He had to be
hospitalized. Later when calls were placed to the (abducted) cellular phone=

someone would pick up and heavy breathing could be heard. Later on the
phone was apparently disconnected.

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, quoting Diario La Arena, La PampaType: G?


82.
Location. Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Date: August 2 2002
Time: 1730
A man named Todd Sees went up the mountain to look for pre-season deer. He=

told his wife that he would be home by noon. He rode his 4-wheeler up the
power line behind his home. He never returned. A search party composed of
local police, state police and volunteers searched for Sees. The 4-wheeler=

was found on the top of the mountain near a power-line. Tracking dogs could=

find nothing to go on around the 4-wheeler. The search went on for 2 days
and over 6 miles of mountain was covered from top to bottom. Then, in the
evening of the 2nd day, his body was found in a hard to reach wooded area.=

He was wearing his underwear. He was emaciated---not bloated. He was pale
and had an expression of horror on his face. When he went up the mountain
he was fully dressed, boots, camo-vest, hat, socks, pants. 3 people, on one=

farm, said they saw a large round bright object just above the power-lines=

at the time of the disappearance. It was silent, it did not move for about=

10 to 15 minutes. It suddenly went up and suddenly stopped. A light shone
down and something was pulled up into the light. It then went straight up,=

hesitated again, and then went west over the Susquehanna River and out of
sight. More specifically a farmer saw an object above Montour Ridge at the=

power lines, on top of the mountain, it was round and very still over the
lines. Suddenly it moved what looked like a few hundred feet to the east,
it stopped and a beam of blue and white light shone to the ground. What was=

seen next was very unnerving, he saw what appeared to be a man suspended in=

the light, he was being pulled up head first, he was moving his arms slowly=

in the light. What looked like a man was pulled up into the bottom of the
craft. A few seconds later it started shuddering, then went west very fast,=

stopped briefly, and then went straight up and out of sight. Also three
fishermen saw the craft. The FBI is supposedly also investigating. (Debated=

as a hoax, who would? and for what purpose?).

HC addendum
Source: Rense, UFO updates, NUFORCType: G?






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                            2002 Humanoid Reports

From: Albert Rosales <Garuda79@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:32:05 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:14:40 -0500
Subject: 2002 Humanoid Reports


Happy new year everyone

Sincerely,

Albert

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2002 Humanoid Reports. It appears to be a slow start for this
year with only one recorded case, again from Chile. We will see
what develops later on the year. 2001 was pretty busy but it was
a decline from 2000. Maybe we will see another down trend again,
later to pick up again in the near future. This seems to be the
ever-ongoing trend of the phenomena. Will it always stay the
same? Time will tell. Following is a list of known 2002 humanoid
cases.


1.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: January 2002
Time: 0300A
An employee at the local Minera Escondida was on his way to the
storage freezer in order to pick up some supplies when an
unknown creature jumped him from behind. He could only describe
it as hairy and dark. He was left with deep scratches and in a
state of shock. Terrified he ran away and bumped into two other
employees who were able to see a shadowy creature in the dark.

HC addendum
Source: La Estrella del Loa de Calama, ChileType: E


2.
Location. Caracas, Venezuela
Date: January 2002
Time: late night
Late one night in a dream-like state the witness woke up to see
seven to eight strange figures in her bedroom. They were dark
gray in color and very thin, with three large thick long fingers
on their hands. They had large, lipless mouths and large shiny
protruding black eyes, their noses were thin and protruding,
small ears, the heads was large and pointy. The humanoids
appeared to be naked and she was able to see a penis on the
humanoids. They were about 1.55 meters in height. She felt dizzy
and under the control of the strange entities. She was led out
of her bedroom by one of the humanoids that removed her clothing
and made her lie down on the floor. The humanoids apparently
attempted to molest her sexually and possibly attempted to rape
her but were not successful. She apparently passed out and does
not remember anything else about the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Lista Alcione and witness communicationType: E


3.
Location. Fort McMurry, Alberta, Canada
Date: January 2 2002
Time: 2032
Two men were parked on an isolated dirt road when they spotted a
large cone-shaped object descend and hover. One of the men
exited the car and he vanished in plain sight of the other, the
craft then also disappeared. The other man tried to drive away
to get help but the car would not start and it was to cold to
walk. He soon went to sleep and woke up later to find his friend
sleeping next to him. Later they drove back to town. His friend
does not remember what happened during those two hours of
missing time. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


4.
Location. Paso Lovera, Corrientes, Argentina
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2030
Gabriela Lencinas, 15-year old and a 19-year old friend were
returning home on a bicycle when they spotted a large cloud like
object descend from the sky and from it a giant figure emerge.
The witnesses stopped their bicycles to see a car approach the
giant figure, stop, the driver exit the car and then re-entering
the vehicle and driving quickly away. The figure then rose up
into the cloud and disappeared. The girls reported that the
giant human-like figure had its hair standing up on his head and
was extending its arms towards the witnesses that quickly rode
their bicycles home. Other in the area reported seeing bright
lights that same night.

HC addendum
Source: Pablo Omastott
Type: B?


5.
Location. Villa San Rafael, Chile
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2345
Two young teenagers, Jean F and Nelson C, where at home at night
when Jean noticed that his pet snake had escaped from its cage.
Both boys began looking for it outside among the rubble of the
parcel. They recalled how half an hour before, their two dogs
strangely began to howl and cry; however, it did not seem to be
important at that point in time. They searched for the pet snake
together when suddenly, about 30 meters from where they stood;
they saw what appeared to be a stray dog. They threw rocks at to
avoid an attack. However, to their surprise, the animal stood
there, motionless and fearless; it did not get scared nor it ran
away as ordinary dogs normally do. Shortly, the strange animal
began to move towards them. The movements it made as it walked
were very strange. It used two legs at a time. It made very
small sand short leaps like a rabbit. Suddenly, it stopped and
it stood up on two legs. The teenagers then began to feel some
kind of energy. "It was like an electrical shock in the
stomach," they said. It later walked again making a loud
dragging noise, making small leaps and only moving one of its
legs. They noticed the weird shape of the animal. "It was like a
rugby football with legs," one of them said. Jean began to feel
frightened and started to move away from animal. On the other
hand, Nelson felt a strange need to get closer to the creature;
he got to within 2 meters away from it. The creature appear to
emit a strange luminosity that apparently, was bright enough to
lit a small area around the creature in spite of the nighttime
darkness. Nelson was mesmerized as he stared at the strange
creature. He described it as having a head like a large dog with
a flat nose like a bulldog. Its eyes were slanted and pale-red
in color, which could only be seen when the creature turned its
head from side to side like a lizard. At that moment, Nelson
heard a voice in his head saying, "Don't stare, and just run
away." They provided further description, describing the ears as
flat, round and large. Its arms were short, it had elbows, and
the hands had three fingers. It had hair like the one on a wild
pig. Its legs were like the ones of a goat. The feet had also
three fingers and a membrane like ducks, but somewhat shorter.
On its curved back, they were able to notice a spinal section
covered with amounts of even thicker hair. Most of the hair of
the animal was gray, but the tail had a white tip. Nelson
finally fled, terrified, from the area. He also described how he
felt an inexplicable bone-chilling cold sensation.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center
Type: E


6.
Location. Not given
Date: January 12 2002
Time: night
Ted Parker was eating some leftover food when he claims the food began to
change. The bread of the sandwich turned an orange color and the lamb
became a silvery metallic color, sort of like liquid mercury. As he watched=

transfixed, he saw the orange bread and metallic lamb turn into the figure=

of an "alien" with the form of a man. It was silver in color and its outfit=

(smooth pants and shirt, like a jump suit) was orange in color. At this
point Parker glanced at the wall clock and it indicated that 2 hours had
gone by, even though it felt like minutes only. The alien figure
communicated using telepathic means and asked Ted to come with him. They
both went outside and there, Ted saw a landed black-colored craft in his
backyard. In a split second Ted found himself inside the craft not knowing=

how he got there. The inside of the craft was pure white in color with
strips of the metallic silver that the alien figure appeared to be made of.=

The rest of the incident is just a blur, but Parker did remembered hearing=

several loud high-pitched rings while onboard the object. A couple of days=

before while eating dinner with several other people there had been a
similar high pitched ring and everybody had just stopped eating and walked=

out of the room.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: G or F?



7.
Location. Chihuahua, Mexico
Date: January 29 2002
Time: night
Several days before seeing a UFO the witness remembered being in a
dream-like state in which he felt very calm and saw numerous disc shaped
objects, orange-red in color. A human like figure was talking to him about=

the objects and their propulsion. The UFO he saw was of an orange color and=

he felt a sort of ecstasy when he observed the craft. Several of his
neighbors also saw the object.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: G or F?


8.
Location. Near Palmyra, Wisconsin
Date: February 2002
Time: 0200A
Two men reported seeing a creature that resembled a bipedal "gigantic wolf"=

walking down a road west of the city. They said the creature was at least 7=

ft tall with a wolf-like head. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Linda GodfreyType: E


9.
Location. West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
Nebilson Sangma reported encountering a scary furry creature on a hunting
trip in the jungles. He reportedly took a video of the creature's nesting
place. According to Sangma, the creature walked erect like a human, had
built a house like nesting place, and would emerge from it frequently to
feast on a banana grove. Sangma and his brother observed the gigantic
creature for three consecutive days from afar. Officials and villagers have=

been hunting for the creature in the forest but it seems to have
disappeared as furtively as it appeared.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 13
Type: E


10.
Location. Near Dover, England
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness had been jogging along a low path by the beach when she noticed=

a tall, well built being in a black skin tight suit, that stood watching
her from nearby. He wore a black helmet wit a brown visor pulled down. At
first she thought it was a biker but as she approached the figure, it
suddenly disappeared in plain sight. As she continued to run she noticed a=

black craft jutting out of the sand, it was small and oval shaped, matt and=

ribbed it also disappeared in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: E?


11.
Location. Rosario de la Frontera, Salta, Argentina
Date: February 2002
Time: night
A strange creature called by locals "El Pestizo" has attacked several lone=

pedestrians in the middle of the night. It is described as a dark man
shaped shadowy being. A boy riding his bicycle on the way to visit some
friends was toppled from his bicycle and found a black shadowy figure
facing him. The young man managed to upholster his shotgun and fire two
shots. But, when he saw that they had no effect, he promptly drew his knife=

and stabbed the figure without any apparent harm. Frightened the youth
tried to escape but the creature knocked him down without saying a word and=

began dragging him by the hair to the side of the road. At this point the
young man began to scream. A local man, who rushed to provide assistance,
only to find a black shadow dragging the boy by the hair, heard his cries.=

The fearful shape disappeared without a trace after it became aware of the=

other man's presence. Six other locals have reported being attacked by a
similar being and received wounds.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


12.
Location. Not given
Date: February 2002
Time: early morning
The witness was alone at home and was preparing his breakfast when suddenly=

he heard a window break; he went to see what had happened. Grabbing a golf=

club he peeked inside the room where the window broke. He was stunned to
see a strange creature climbing on his bed. It appeared to be hurt, because=

it seemed that it could not move well. Gripping the golf club he went a
step nearer and the creature hissed horribly. It shrieked in an unworldly
manner. Terrified the witness did not move. The creature was small, about
the size of a large rabbit, and it was dark in color and had reddish eyes.=

It had wings and a spine of quills on its back, and had a semi reptilian
face. It appeared to have hair and small legs. The witness raised the golf=

club and the creature hissed again showing its large yellowish teeth, which=

appeared to be sharp, like those of a crocodile. It suddenly hopped out of=

the window and rapidly hopped across the street into the oak trees.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June archiveType: E


13.
Location. Vigevano, Italy
Date: February 2002
Time: 0100A
In the outskirts of this city a witness observed from his vehicle a
luminous humanoid entity walking along a roadway. It scurried away into the=

darkness when approached.
No other information.

HC addendum
Source: CISU, ItalyType: E



14.
Location. Corguinho, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Date: February 5 2002
Time: night
During a localized UFO flap several witnesses reported seeing a strange
creature described as about 1.3 meters in height, having two legs, with a
physique like a human but who moved with a strange fluctuating motion. The=

creature was seen five times by twenty people in the rural zone around
Corguinho. In Rochedo, 6 miles south of Corguinho five Cebu cattle were
found dead with a single incision on the side of the throat. The bodies had=

been drained of blood. (Is there a connection?).

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


15.
Location. Mount Podbrdo, Bosnia Hercigovina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: morning
Contactee and stigmatic Giorgio Bongiovanni was visiting the shrine on top=

of the mountain and was praying silently to the Virgin when, to his
astonishment, a glowing luminous female figure appeared and touched his
forehead with her fingertips. His stigmata scar vanished instantly. The
female figure told him to return to Italy and make known what had happened.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 14
Type: E or F?


16.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: evening
73-year-old Maria Rufina Cayo, a local shepherd was walking back home with=

her dogs and the cattle. Suddenly at one point, something spooked the
animals, and these began to stampede. Looking around she spotted a bizarre=

creature standing about 12 meters away. She described it as a humanoid,
half animal, half human, about 1.70m in height, with bright red eyes, sharp=

protruding fangs, and hands and feet that ended in sharp claws. The
creature looked at the witness three times then it scrambled away using
quick jumping motions with is powerfully built hind legs, she also noticed=

large pointy ears. The top part of its body seems to have been covered in a=

shiny white blanket. It somehow resembled a centaur walking on two
claw-like feet.  Alerted by the shouts of Maria, two men, Santos Jaimes,
and Ruben Colque ran out to investigate with their dogs. Suddenly the dogs=

stopped and began making pitiful howling noises, they refused to move any
further. The men heard noises behind some nearby bushes and went to
investigate and spotted a bizarre creature that stood staring at them with=

huge reddish eyes. It then moved quickly away in the direction of Cerro
Negro and disappeared from sight. The witnesses noticed very sharp claws on=

the creature's feet with a very sharp claw that appeared to be pointed
backwards. Strange footprints were found the next day.

HC addendum
Source: El Tribuno, Salta Argentina March 27 2002
Also Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E



17.
Location. Khanpur, Ahmedabad, India
Date: February 20 2002
Time: after midnight
Several local residents reportedly have encountered a person, dressed in
black and wearing a mask. Dubbed the "Monkeyman" whom they described as
between 25 and 20 years of age, dark skinned and having curly hair can
reportedly be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees. Two
local youths chased it and the figure reportedly disappeared in plain
sight. The two youths have been behaving abnormally since then. The
stranger was also chased along the riverbed near the Cama Hotel and it also=

suddenly disappeared. Others have heard the stranger running on the
rooftops. Abdul Hamid another youngster of the local slums described the
figure as a tall lean man that carries a sharp weapon. "I saw him from the=

back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised the alarm, he jumped to=

another roof and then on to a tree." Police have searched for the stranger=

but nothing has been found.

HC addendum
Source: Fortean Times, India Express
Type: E


18.
Location. Prague, Czech Republic
Date: February 23 2002
Time: night
Blanka Slemendova was in her apartment when she saw a "ship" hovering over=

some nearby woods. It was shining red, white and yellow lights. She then
heard telepathic communication coming from the object telling her to go and=

meet them at an unspecified location. Looking over to her bedroom wall she=

saw what appeared to be a projection of human like faces looking at her.
Later that night she saw luminous figures in her room and a floating red
light also in her room. The next night she saw what appeared to be 2 gray
suns and around them a golden lights with numerous groups of shiny
human-like figures floating about. She interpreted these as being angels.

HC addendum
Source: Direct from witness (Slemendova)
Type: C & F?


19.
Location. Wycliffe Well Roadhouse, Northern Territory Australia
Date: early March 2002
Time: evening
While workers in the area watched unusual lights in the sky an aboriginal
woman encountered a triangular sort of object in a paddock and all of the
sudden she saw three silvery clad human like figures that began to move
toward her vehicle. She turned the vehicle around and took off.

HC addendum
Source: Lou Farcus ABC On-lineType: C


20.
Location. Near Canberra Australia
Date: March 2002
Time: 1700
Several friends were taking a trip to the coast and it was already very
dark. They had already entered a tropical forest area and there was a mist=

rolling along the ground. As they turned around they saw something
squatting in the middle of the road. It stared at them, and just as they
thought they were going to hit it, it leaped off the road and into the
trees. It leaped about 10 meters in the air. The creature was definitely
human looking although it wore strange clothes. It was dressed in a green
robe of some kind with little pieces of gold on it, and it was either
wearing a head crest or it had a row of spikes running from its forehead to=

the top of its neck. Very frightened the witnesses drove out of the forest=

and at the same time the mist turned to a thick fog. They pulled over and
decided to wait until the fog had cleared, although none of them were too
happy about it. As they sat around and waited they suddenly heard a shriek.=

It sounded like some sort of wild animal and they turned the car on so the=

headlights would scare it away. The headlights revealed the same creature
they had seen earlier. It hid its face from the light and shrieked. Right
before the witnesses' eyes, the creature seemed to evaporate into the fog.=

Within five minutes the fog had gone and the normal rolling mist was back.=

The witnesses quickly left the area and drove towards the coast.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June ArchiveType: E


21.
Location. Guanica Puerto Rico
Date: March 1 2002
Time: 2345
Reinaldo Rios (involved in other encounters) was in his bedroom that night=

when a large white light suddenly appeared. It flew around the room several=

times and then hovered. He heard voices coming from the light, which
communicated with him. The voice said: "I am your real father." Soon the
light transformed itself into a figure resembling that of a little boy it
then vanished in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: UFOs over America.com
Type: E


22.
Location. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 0800A
The witness and his wife were in bed that Saturday morning talking when
their 5-year-old daughter came into the bedroom with her baby brother,
whose cot is placed under their bedroom window. They heard a strange noise=

and some green light came into the window. Their daughter looked out the
window and reported seeing a "flying car" with four spinning green lights
on top. She saw two windows in the vehicle and saw two dark brown faces
looking out. His wife saw the craft flying past through the curtains. That=

same morning, in a large tree near the witness house a strange structure
was found. The branches were arranged in a rectangular pen shape, vertical,=

each approximately 30 to 40 cm long. They found a few smaller sticks
scaling down in size from the structure. A piece of concrete slab was found=

propped up on one corner. The witnesses had never seen this strange
structure before and think is some kind of message left by the visitors.
(Some kind of bizarre crop circle?). A few nights before they had heard
strange noises coming from the kitchen area.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: A


23.
Location. Golasecca Di Novara, Italy
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 2330
Augusto & Maurizia were in their vehicle parked in an open field next to a=

wooded area having a heated discussion when suddenly a powerful beam of
reddish-orange light illuminated the area around them. They rolled down the=

car window and heard a sharp metallic sound that seemed to be increasing in=

intensity. They now noticed, behind the beam of light a hovering
disc-shaped craft with a central rotating ring, it hovered about a meter
from the ground. From the object, a cigar-shaped beam of light emerged;
they could see it as the central ring of the craft slowly rotated on its
axis. The craft was only about 10 meters away. At this point, and only
about 4 meters from the object Augusto saw what appeared to be a gelatinous=

transparent humanoid-like figure with a visible head, arms and legs. The
figure was silvery in color and was very tall, about 3 meters or so. At
this point Augusto became concerned and drove away from the area and did
not see the object or figure depart. The whole episode lasted about 10
minutes. The metallic noise was heard all throughout the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Alfredo Lissoni, CUN Milano, Michelle Castellano CUN VareseType: C


24.
Location. Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England
Date: March 3 2002
Time: morning
Helen Diskin went for a walk in the countryside talking snap shots along
the way with her digital camera. Returning home she loaded these into her
computer and was intrigued by an odd-looking image. It looked like a
luminous figure in an area of no sunlight, skulking amongst the trees. She=

returned to the site of the photo twice afterward and could find no
explanation for the figure. The figure resembled a small helmeted figure
that she had not seen when she took the picture of an area of the woods she=

had thought of as "mysterious."

HC addendum
Source: Helen Diskin, UFO Magazine Vol. 22 # 1Type: E?


25.
Location. Near Trenton New Jersey
Date: March 4 2002
Time: night
Several witnesses were camping outside of town and late at night one of
them was attempting to put out the bonfire when he heard the most awful and=

horrifying scream. It resembled that of an injured dog crossed with a
scream of a woman. The witness dropped the flashlight and was joined by
another witness. Suddenly out of the woods a hideous and gruesome creature=

appeared. It did not look human, somewhat satyr-like in appearance and
walked on two legs. It had a long tail like a dragon and wings like those
unicorns in fantasy books. The beast took several steps towards the
witnesses and one of them picked up and asked and yelled at it and then
shone his flashlight at it. The creature then turned towards the bushes and=

ran away from the area.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: E


26.
Location. Pichaca, Salta, Argentina
Date: March 9 2002
Time: night
Ceferino Leoncio was cleaning his one room metal shack when suddenly a
bright light engulfed the room. He felt a sudden heat as he saw a tiny
figure (50 cm) of an angel-like creature materialize in front of him. It
slowly moved its small wing-like protrusions and moved around and then
suddenly stopped and remained still. It appeared to be a small living human=

like living being until it appeared to hardened and turn into some type of=

statue of cherubic appearance. Locals have now built a shrine around the
tiny "statue" and call the strange materialization a "religious miracle".

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso
Type: F?



27.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: March 16 2002
Time: 2215
Mirna, was watching television alone in her room when she began hearing
noises coming from outside, at first she thought it was her dogs playing
around with some empty cans. But the noises kept getting louder and louder=

and she decided to go outside to investigate. Once outside she was stunned=

to see some type creature that had somehow entered the rabbit cage and was=

attacking the animals that were making loud unearthly screams. Thinking at=

first that it was one of the dogs she approached the case but realized that=

it was a gray colored hairy hunched over creature, that was moving quickly=

inside the cage. She stepped back and could not understand how the creature=

had entered the cage, since there wasn't any apparent hole or aperture
visible anywhere and the door was firmly closed. Afraid she ran inside her=

home and notified her son, both then ran out but the creature had
mysteriously disappeared. Unnerved, they could not understand how they
creature had escaped since the door to the rabbit caged was still firmly
locked. Later they could only find a small round hole in the wire only
several centimeters in width, not large enough for a creature estimated to=

have been about 70 to 80 cm in height. Several of the rabbits were found
injured and one was dead.

HC addendum
Source: Calama UFO CenterType: E


28.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: March 19 2002
Time: 2000
Young Elizabeth Lera reported seeing a short humanoid with "dark eyes"
looking into the building compound from behind a wire fence. It appeared
not to have any other facial features and was wearing dark clothing; it
wore some type of head covering, which was hard to see because of the
darkness. She could only see a pair of large dark eyes on his face that
appeared to shine in the darkness. Some more children now arrived and
observed as the humanoid move several steps towards them. Another witness,=

Rene Mamani saw the humanoid run and hide behind some bushes. It seemed to=

move at very high speed in an unnatural fashion. It seemed to have remained=

suspended in mid-air for a few seconds. It then seemed to fly through the
air and disappeared into some nearby woods. Other students at the school
reportedly saw it again on the night of the 20th.

HC addendum
Source: Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E


29.
Location. Woodburn, Oregon
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 0300A
The witness was sleeping when she woke up suddenly feeling paralyzed. The
witness was completely unable to move or speak. Her next memory was of a
strange sensation on her left cheek, which hurt a lot. Unseen "beings" were=

apparently taking skin samples. Her face was left with a pink fleshy scoop=

down my left cheek, directly on the cheekbone. A teardrop scar was left on=

her cheek.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical Universe
Type: G?




30.
Location. Bethlehem, Israel
Date: March 21 2002
Time: night
At the besieged Church of The Nativity several awed witnesses have come
forward describing the events of Thursday night. That night, a smell of
roses filled the sanctuary as the Daughters of Charity held their evening
prayers. "The sweet scent was soon followed by a high musical humming sound=

and a distinct feeling of warmth emanating from the ceiling." Then, the
sisters reported, seeing a glowing beam of light gradually forming the
likeness of the Blessed Virgin "like a film coming into focus." Tears were=

running down her face, and she uttered a prophetic warning. "Time is
growing short, and the promised Judgment Day is nearly at hand." One week
before the apparition, The Church of the Holy Family was the scene of a
ferocious firefight between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 17Type: F


31.
Location. Not given
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 2255
16-year old Steven Mizon saw hovering over a street a large oval shaped
craft encircled in bright lights and with several lighted windows around
its edge. A figure stared down at him from one of the windows. No other
information.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Watch
Type: A



32.
Location. Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain
Date: March 26 2002
Time: 1500
A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a deserted road when=

he noticed ahead in the distance and in the middle of the roadway an object=

resembling a shiny pear that was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat
perplexed he approached and noticed two individuals standing on a nearby
field. These were over 2 meters in height, wore tight fitting white
coveralls and helmets resembling that of the early astronauts. He parked
his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men=

walked away and entered the shiny pear-shaped craft while the other
remained behind. Knowing that these men were "not from this earth" he still=

asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt that as
he approached the strange pair he had been in some type of a trance and
seemed to have floated over the road. The humanoid answered and appeared
genuinely happy as to his offer of assistance but said that everything was=

in order. He also added that the area was very beautiful and also added:
"Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such
beautiful scenes, they disappeared a long time ago." The astounded witness=

managed to ask the humanoid where he was from and was told that they hailed=

from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The=

humanoid smiled as he answered the question. The humanoid then bid goodbye=

and walked towards the nearby shiny pear shaped object, he then disappeared=

inside of it. The craft then emitted a loud whistling sound and disappeared=

at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the
humanoids as about 2.50 meters in height, wide chests and heavy set, thin
legs. Generally human features, but somewhat "refined" or sharpened
features. The suits were very tight fitting made of an apparent synthetic
material resembling plastic. Their eyes were very light almost white and
their speech was hesitant & accented. Also their movements seemed kind of
clumsy.

HC addendum
Source: J M Garcia, Francisco Padron, SpainType: B


33.
Location. Pringle Lake, Texas
Date: March 28 2002
Time: 1100A
Mark Hakemack and a friend had taken an airboat out on the NW side of the
lake to do a little redfish fishing. The day was kind of hazy, with broken=

cloud cover. They had caught several trout and were just chatting when he
hooked up a large redfish while playing with the fish, Mark happened to
glance upwards and saw a large bird-like creature emerge from a cloudbank.=

His friend saw it too, after about 20 to 25 seconds it flew behind cloud
cover again. The strange creature was grayish in color and the profile of a=

raptor, short neck/head, no legs sticking out behind, and no long tail
feathers. Mark could not take his eyes off it. He estimated the wingspan to=

have been 10' to 14 ' in overall. It appeared to be soaring on the wind,
although, he did see it give a couple of light "flaps" with its wings. The=

witness could only relate this to the legendary "Thunderbird" legend.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.comType: E


34.
Location. Sevilla, Spain
Date: March 30 2002
Time: late night
The witness to the March 26 case was at home with his wife and was getting=

ready to sleep when he heard footsteps coming from patio area outside his
chalet. Armed with a club, he opened the door and was stunned to see the
same two tall heavyset humanoids he had encountered 4 days before. One of
the humanoids was kneeling on the ground as if inspecting something on the=

soil, the other one upon hearing the door open, turned and quickly assured=

the witness not to fear that they were not here to harm him. Stunned, the
witness invited the two humanoids in the house for some refreshments (!).
These declined the invitation telling that they had to go already. Using
the same clumsy movements both humanoids walked towards the rear of the
house where the witness noticed the same shiny metallic pear shaped craft
on the ground. They entered the object, which quickly left at high speed.
The witness's wife awakened by the voices was able to see the two humanoids=

from a second story window, and described them in the same way.

HC addendum
Source: Francisco Padron, Jose Manuel Garcia, SpainType: B


35.
Location. Los Cipreses, Chile
Date: March 31 2002
Time: noon
During a local UFO congress 24 persons in three groups entered a
dimensional gateway that appeared by itself over the terrain. It was kind
of a dome, a luminous archway measuring four by four meters. The
participants lost their materiality without disappearing completely. Upon
entering, they met several human-like alien characters with large baldheads=

and wearing robes that waited within and received information. According to=

sources the contact experience was "dimensional" it was like crossing into=

a different reality. The 24 participants were "all professionals, college
students of high intellectual levels, mostly Chileans," and some were
members of Grupo Rama, a New Age association.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 16, quoting Camilo Valdivieto
Type: G or F?


36.
Location. Tbilissi Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: night
A man entered the local St David church and reported that "a phantom with
wings" had approached him and predicted an earthquake that indeed took
place on April 25 2002, devastating areas of central Georgia.

HC addendum
Source: Pravda
Type: E?


37.
Location. Near Macon, Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: 2300
Three friends were awakened by loud banging noises and bellowing sounds
coming from outside. One of the men ran to the bathroom and looked out the=

window to see a figure run by and squat in the nearby bushes. He described=

the creature as about 3 ft tall, hairy with what appeared to be horns on
its head and hands; he could not see a face. Others in the neighborhood
heard the banging noises.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.com and direct witness
Communication.
Type: E


38.
Location. Belvedere di Tezze, Italy
Date: April 26 2002
Time: evening
A 20-year old woman was returning home one night when she noticed some
bright lights nearby of an unknown origin. She followed the lights in her
car until she stopped near a local pizzeria. She saw the light near the
ground and within the lights two tall slender human like figures wearing
some type of headgear. Since she was carrying a camera she was able to snap=

a quick picture. The figures then vanished. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Gruppo Accademico Ufologico Scandicci quoting
"Il giornale di Vicenza"Type: E?


39.
Location. Puente Santamaria, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: early morning
Two young men observed a dark object descend towards the ground about 100
meters away. According to the two witnesses from the craft descended a
small humanoid, orange in color. Very scared they both ran from the area
and reported their experience to others.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: B


40.
Location. Merceditas, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: evening
An elderly couple was walking along National Route # 8 when about 800
meters from their location they noticed a very strong light. The light
descended next to a puddle at about 70 meters from the witness. Both then
saw two very short orange colored humanoids that moved in very agile
movements near the object. Terrified they walked away and upon looking back=

saw a bright glow on the ground.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: C


41.
Location. Barangay, Philippines
Date: May 2002
Time: night
Several local residents reported seeing a bizarre creature described as an=

"aswang" reputed to be a winged vampire type creature, it reportedly had
red glowing eyes, long black hair, and was wearing a white flowing gown. It=

was seen perched on top of a bamboo tree. Residents at nearby Roxas
reported seeing a similar creature. The police was called but a search
failed to locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Akasico.comType: E


42.
Location. Alvear, La Pampa Argentina
Date: May 3 2002
Time: near midnight
Several young men were returning home late at night along a deserted
roadway when suddenly out of nowhere a female figure wearing a light
flowing gown and with long black hair appeared in front of them. The
strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly and repeatedly asked for=

assistance from the men in a strange urgent tone. Terrified the men ran
from the area and later returned with additional witnesses but they could
find no trace of the strange apparition.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E?


43.
Location. Taralgon Victoria, Australia
Date: May 24 2002
Time: 2355
Walking near the Loy Yang Power station 45-year old Martin Taylor was
suddenly blinded by an intense blue light and he felt extremely dizzy. His=

next memory was of being in a circular room with a variety of lights and
buttons scattered about the walls. He was lying on a large table that
seemed to be of a very highly polished metal. He was strapped down and his=

shirt had been removed. There were wires attached to his arms, neck and
temples. A four ft tall humanoid figure with very large almond shaped eyes,=

almost transparent looking skin, ghostly white in appearance examined him.=

The figure had three extremely long fingers on each hand and spoke in a
strange dialect.

HC addendum
Source: UFO WatchType: G


44.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: May 29 2002
Time: midnight
Irma Rick watched a rotating luminous object descend close to the ground
next to a grain silo; it gave off a powerful bluish light through some
openings around its circumference. It hovered close to the ground. Through=

an opening a strange creature was seen to descend to the ground. It was
described as having an elongated semi-transparent white body; it also had
an elongated head. She could not see any eyes or legs on the creature as it=

stood motionless next to the craft. She observed the creature and object
for about 5 minutes until she dropped the flashlight she was carrying.
Afraid she left the area and did not see the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: B



45.
Location. Lembang Bandung, Indonesia
Date: May 30 2002
Time: 2315
The witness was driving his motorcycle across a highland area when he
spotted some flashing lights overhead and then noticed a silvery
disc-shaped craft descend low over some nearby graves at a cemetery. The
craft had blue and orange flashing lights around its rim. There was no
sound as the craft apparently emitted a beam of light towards the ground
and levitated what appeared to be some dead bodies onboard the object. (!)=

The witness was apparently paralyzed and was unable to move. The craft then=

shot away at a 45-degree angle and disappeared from sight. When that
happened the witness left the scene.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


46.
Location. Houston, Texas
Date: late May 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness was at the local electric company in order to pay a bill when
she decided to use the restrooms. Sitting in the stall she then noticed on=

the side of the wall of the stall what appeared to be a face lit up in a
dull light. When the witness looked directly at the "face" it vanished. She=

described is as having large round eyes no visible nose and a slit-like
mouth. (A peeping tom alien?)

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.comType: E?


47.
Location. General Acha, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: early June 2002
Time: various
A resident of the Oeste neighborhood informed newspaper sources that a
short green-colored dwarf like entity has appeared twice on her property:
once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When her husband ran out
responding to her screams, the mysterious entity vanished by rapidly
climbing up a tree. All versions agree in that the entity is short in
stature. Another resident added that it moved so quickly that it was hard
to describe it. In the same area mysterious cattle mutilations have also
been reported.

HC addendum
Source: Loren Coleman in UFO UpdatesType: E


48.
Location. Ojo De Agua, Argentina
Date: June 2002
Time: afternoon
Several passengers onboard two farm micro buses reported seeing a very tall=

dark man like figure that appeared to be wearing a tight fitting diver's
outfit standing on a nearby field. Nearby numerous mysterious animal
mutilations have been reported. The figure was silent and was quickly lost=

from sight as the buses moved away.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E




49.
Location. Near Tampa, Florida
Date: June 2002
Time: night
A man and three of his friends reported encountering two bizarre chupacabra=

type creatures one stood about 3-4 ft tall, the other looked to be about 6=

ft tall. Both had large glowing red eyes and spikes starting from the head=

to the back. They scurried away into a wooded area. (They were to have
further encounters in August).

HC addendum
Source: Art Bell.comType: E


50.
Location. Antalya, Turkey
Date: June 5 2002
Time: afternoon
Approximately 45 witnesses claimed they saw an UFO in the Santral district=

landing on the backyard of the Fatma Primary School. Several students
including Murat Esici age 11 saw an alien emitting red rays from his eyes
come out of the object. His hands and feet were metallic. He had a very big=

head and was about 1.80 meters in height. Esici temporarily lost her voice=

immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also=

claimed they san an unusual craft and an alien beside it. "His eyes and
hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes." The children
were overcome with shock after the incident.

HC addendum
Source: Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center Intl
Type: B


51.
Location. Polonnauruwa, Sri Lanka
Date: June 8 2002
Time: 2200
Approximately 50 to 70 eyewitnesses saw a UFO flying at about 100 meters
above ground level. The object was silent and briefly landed emitting a
bright flash like light. When it was close to the ground the object emitted=

a buzzing sound. Three other witnesses saw three 2 ft tall creatures than
when approached ran into the jungle and disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Sources
Type: D


52.
Location. Polonnaruwa, Sir Lanka
Date: June 9 2002
Time: 2012
Two witnesses went to a bath on a nearby river when they heard a loud
thundering sound and a UFO appeared. The craft landed nearby and two, 2 ft=

tall "aliens" emerged from the object. One of the humanoids flung a small
fluorescent fireball like object that flew over a house and vanished. Soon=

the craft and humanoids disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC & News Reports
Type: B



53.
Location. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Date: June 10 2002
Time: 1900
Witnesses saw a mysterious light in the sky and others saw a large disc
shaped object land nearby. Three humanoids only about 2 ft tall emerged
from the craft and disappeared into the forest when approached. The object=

also left.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Reports
Type: B


54.
Location. Chantilly, Virginia
Date: June 10 2002
Time: night
The witness was awakened during the night with a sense of some presence in=

the room. Looking toward the door, he saw, fading quickly, something, which=

almost had the appearance of a hologram. Next, shadows appeared outside the=

windows in an erratic shape. At first he thought the shadows to be from
trees moving in a strong wind. The appearance was of a storm blowing the
limbs to create these shadows outside the window. However, there was no
storm. He looked at the adjacent window on the side of the house facing
opposite and there was no wind at all. In fact there was no trees
positioned in such a way to cast a shadow. He opened the blinds to see what=

might be causing the shadows. He then saw what seemed to be a hologram with=

the shape of two small eyes moving erratically outside the window.
Frightened he closed the blinds. Two weeks later he was awakened by a
humming sound and again saw the erratic shadows outside the window. He
watched the shadows for 10-15 minutes and then called the police. The
police found no signs of any intrusion in the yard. When the police left
the witness walked toward the door facing the back porch and saw a large
burst of bluish white light. It looked unnatural, almost like a laser. He
has not seen the "shadows" again.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: E?


55.
Location. Ataliva Roca, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 11 2002
Time: 1930
A worker at a local drainage project was sitting and guarding some
machinery when he noticed a short greenish colored humanoid figure that was=

approaching his location from a nearby field. The witness became concerned=

and drove away from the area in the construction equipment and did not see=

the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


56.
Location. Eduardo Castex, La Pampa Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Two girls of a local school encountered a short greenish humanoid figure in=

the playing yard. The figure was standing up and appeared to be raising its=

arms up to the sky. Terrified the two girls retreated into the school and
watched the figure scurry away into some nearby woods. Around the same time=

a local farmer found a strangely mutilated hog in his farm.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


57.
Location. Chasico, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Hugo Deluca and several other workers were parked in a bus in an isolated
area when they spotted about 20 meters away a short, 1.20 meters tall,
bipedal figure completely covered in gray hair. It walked upright like a
man and then scurried away into some woods vanishing from sight. The area
had been hit with animal mutilations around the same time.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


58.
Location. Castex, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 13 2002
Time: night
A 70-year old man had gone to his driveway to check on a flat tire in his
car when a short light green colored humanoid suddenly appeared next to
him. It had large round ears, and two reddish luminous eyes. Its body was
thin and almost triangular in shape. The witness attempted to yell out but=

was suddenly unable to speak and at the same time strange warmth invaded
his body. Several seconds later the humanoid vanished and the witness
returned to normal. He reported the incident to the police.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


59.
Location. La Laguna, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 14 2002
Time: afternoon
Several youngster had gone into the fields in order to obtain some firewood=

when they saw sitting on a clearing in the woods two human like figures,
all dressed in black. They sat facing each other, one looking towards the
east the other towards the west, unmoving. Unnerved by the sight the
juveniles ran from the area. The next day the father of one of the boys
found two dead cows at the site, but could find no trace of the strange
pair. Days later a sheep and a horse were found dead and strangely
mutilated in the nearby location of El Cardonal.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: E


60.
Location. De Kalb, Illinois
Date: June 15 2002
Time: 0030A
The witness was sitting in his family room watching TV when he noticed a
bright flash of light outside the window. He saw the flash several times
and decided to check his backyard there he saw a circular light moving
around in circles. The light began to get closer; scared he ran inside his=

home and called a friend on the phone. He then quickly ran outside and saw=

the circle getting closer, he noticed that it had a purplish color to it
and it began to descend towards the ground. He became nauseous and dizzy
and collapsed on to the ground. He tried to crawl to the house but was
unable to move. He turned his head and saw the purplish object on the
ground and what appeared to be a door opening up. He then heard a squeaking=

noise and saw a tall and a short figure standing by a door of the object.
The two figures started to move towards him, walking in a strange bopping
fashion. They were of a dark complexion with a bumpy texture, other than
that they resembled normal human beings. The shorter figure approached and=

picked up the witness' camera and stared at it. He then looked at the
taller figure and handed it to him. The taller of the two looked at the
camera and then at the witness. The witness then heard loud unpleasant
shrieks coming from the taller figure, which then gave the camera back to
the shorter figure, which covered the camera with his hand, seconds later a=

light began to emerge from their hands. Then they stopped, threw the camera=

aside and began to walk towards the witness. They reached his side and
started to examine his body. A dog began to bark from inside the house and=

the shorter figure put out his hand and the dog stopped barking. At this
point the witness began to vomit. After about a minute he began to relax
and to breathe better. When he turned his head he realized that the two
figures and the purple spherical object were now gone. The next day he had=

a very severe headache.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: B


61.
Location. San Juan, Argentina
Date: June 20 2002
Time: evening
At a location where the body of a strangely mutilated carcass of a cow was=

found two witnesses reported seeing a small creature with large glowing
slanted eyes and about one meter in height. Later in the same area, members=

of the Gimenez family after investigating noises and a strong odor coming
from a wooded area found a mutilated cow and also watched a short humanoid=

with glowing eyes scurrying away into the woods.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


62.
Location. Manuel Rodriguez, Calama, Chile
Date: June 22 2002
Time: after midnight
A bizarre creature was spotted at a local housing complex on San Antonio
Street. Witnesses reported that it resembled an ape and it jumped all over=

the roof. It passed right in front of the witness, Maria Gavia's window and=

then it came back making all manner of noise. The creature was able to make=

very long jumps, unlike any a human could. It jumped and landed on the
neighbor's roof and then it left the area. Neighborhood dogs acted scared
and began howling. Others described the creature as about 1.5 meters tall,=

stocky in build with bright red eyes. It made a lot of noise. Others
reportedly chased the creature.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center, quoting El
Mercurio de CalamaType: E


63.
Location. Angencia Realico, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 23 2002
Time: late night
Several hunters returning to a local ranch spotted about 50 meters away two=

large glowing reddish eyes staring at them. They turned off their
flashlight and approached closer on foot, about 30 meters away they again
saw the reddish eyes on a dark creature that appeared to be standing on top=

of an apparently dead animal. One of the hunters shone its flashlight on
the figure again and saw a figure about 40 cm in height that quickly ran
from the area at very high speed. The creature disappeared into the brush.=

At the scene, a dead and mutilated young heifer. Other mutilations were
reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


64.
Location. Rancul, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 25 2002
Time: 2020
Two young men, Nestor Pinto and Daniel Gatica were walking on a field when=

they encountered a short man-like figure with huge pointy ears and long
dangling arms standing near some brush. The figure scurried into the brush=

and disappeared and at the same time the two witnesses ran away from the
area and did not see the strange dwarf again.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


65.
Location. Bavaria, Germany (exact location not given)
Date: June 25 2002
Time: night
The witness had stayed up late watching the soccer game as was in his
bedroom when suddenly there was a coldness around him that made him shiver.=

He noticed that his audio capabilities were somehow enhanced and he was
able to hear sounds that previously he was unable to hear. He then heard a=

noise outside his door and went out to investigate. The noise became louder=

as he approached the door. He then heard footsteps and opened the door. A
very small man with a somewhat deformed body that was smiling at him
confronted the witness. He looked straight ahead and then stared at the
witness. His next memory was of waking up in his bed in the morning.

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.com
Type: E


66.
Location. Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2105
The primary witness had stepped out on his back porch when his attention
was drawn to two huge black "birds" which were approaching from the north.=

His first impression was they were Herons, but soon realized that the color=

was wrong, and "they were huge, much larger than any bird I have ever
seen." The two huge birds landed at the top of a very tall coniferous tree.=

The witness stated that the wingspan appeared to be wider than the
branches, jest below where they had landed. The body size was estimated to=

be about six feet from head to tail. The oddest feature was the shape of
the wings, which according to the witness appeared to be bat-like. The tree=

where the "birds" landed seemed as though it would break from their weight.=

The witness yelled for others in the house to come outside to look. Another=

family member was able to see the huge black birds as they passed overhead,=

and headed for some woods. After checking the size of the branches where
the birds had landed, the witness estimated that the wingspan would have
been close to 12 feet or somewhat larger.

HC addendum
Source: Stan GordonType: E


67.
Location. Marldon Hill, Paington, England
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2357
A couple were walking near a local historic monument (a windmill) and they=

drew closer to monument they heard a low whirling noise. The noise
progressed to a high-pitched whining, almost out of hearing range. Then
they saw a mysterious glow coming from the dark side of the windmill, and
then to their astonishment they saw 5 or 6 shadow like figures standing in=

front of the windmill. Startled the two began to run back towards the main=

road. The woman looked back and saw the figures become engulfed by a bright=

light and disappear, and then everything became quiet.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Sightings UKType: E?


68.
Location. Adelia Maria, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 3 2002
Time: 2100
Pedro and Estela Moine had decided to visit the business district of town
called Barrio Norte and crossed the old railroad yard through a pedestrian=

pathway that ran through a pasture area between some silos, old railroad
depots and abandoned wreckage. As the couple moved through the premises
they suddenly became aware of a strange and incomprehensible conversation
between many voices. Startled, they stopped walking moved a few meters more=

and then heard the voices again which now sounded like strange "O" sounds.=

Pedro looked toward the silos and was able to see resembling humanoid but
lacking upper and lower extremities. Despite the pleas of his wife, Pedro
ran several meters toward an inner alley in the silo plant, being able to
make out some 45 meters to the west and in profile---the entity, which
acting surprised, avoided the encounter and moved again to the north.
However, what filled the witnesses with wonderment was that the creature
did so as though flying or floating without touching the facilities it
passed. Pedro and Estela ran after it. It was thus that the man managed to=

see the entity apparently hiding behind the control room of the truck
scale. Pedro ran toward it and was again startled to see the apparition
rising as a plane taking off, flying at an altitude of 5 meters and
disappearing behind a large metal shed. Bewildered, both witnesses called
out, but were unable to see anything else. Pedro Moine as "a thing with
human shape" described the apparition. It had some sort of light, although=

he could not say if reflected or self-generated, although he tends to
believe the latter, since it was a nebulous whitish light, which kept him
from making out details. The entire mass of the apparition appeared to be a=

body covered from head to toe in some sort of mantle, which he described as=

though it wore a hat, but covered with some kind of long raincoat reaching=

down to what he took to be its feet. He added that the "conversational
sounds" repeated themselves in three separate occasions at various
intensities. They were like conversations in a strange language.

HC addendum
Source: Mario Luis Bracamonte, C.O.R, Rio Cuarto Argentina
Type: E


69.
Location. Jerusalem, Israel
Date: July 6 2002
Time: night
A remote TV camera picked up images of "orbs seen on the corner to the
right of the Wailing Wall." They seemed to have facial features almost like=

a ghost, reported investigator Charlotte LeFevre. The orbs were described
as "sharp and distinct". The orbs were next to the women's prayer area in
front of the Wall. Other strange phenomena, has been reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 29Type: F?


70.
Location. Villa Elisa, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: July 13 2002
Time: 2300
A young woman fainted from nervous shock after having an alleged closed
encounter with "some sort of green dwarf". This occurred---enveloped in
darkness---along Misioneros Salesianos Street very close to several houses.=

An ambulance was called and apparently transported the witness who was in
shock.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria ColuchiType: E


71.
Location. Patna, India
Date: July 21 2002
Time: night
Several residents claim they've been bitten or scratched by a "black
monkey-like creature with colored lights flashing from its eyes." Resident=

Pawan Kumar Niyogi who was sleeping on the terrace of his house claims "a 5=

ft tall monkey-like creature" attacked him. He said: "I was terrified and
thought my life was going to end but it merely scratched me on the shoulder=

before jumping off the roof." Local residents are conducting night vigils
and carrying torches to guard their homes.

HC addendum
Source: Ananova, Ufoupdates. Type: E


72.
Location. Chajan, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 21 2002
Time: 2300
Police officer Guillermo Arias was on routine patrol through a rural area
when he heard over the radio that his colleagues in arms over at Achiras
were seeing lights in sectors of said community, and that they were heading=

towards Chajan along National Route 8. At the wheel of the police patrol
van, he managed to see a formation of 7 lights in the distance and decided=

to drive 10 km along a rural dirt road. When he had covered said distance,=

he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine of his vehicle sputtered=

and died, causing the police car to strike the edge of a guardrail.
Simultaneously, the lights on the van's dashboard began turning on and off=

randomly, the police radio went haywire and its dial displayed the random
shifting of the frequencies while the cabin became filled with an acrid
odor, as though of burnt wiring, and the interior lights and stop
indicator, which were broken, began lighting on and off. Seized by fear,
Arias leaped from the van and walked away a few meters down the road,
losing his cellular phone in the escape. The darkness was total, when
suddenly, amid the confusing situation; an immense light emerged from a
field adjacent to the road as a triangular object rose majestically into
the air. Now Arias condition went from fear to abject terror as he saw what=

he described as a real "floating city" some 200 meters long with a long row=

of windows (perhaps as many as 100). Arias claims having seen something
move behind them, describing the movement as "TV sets which make lines and=

shadows", which he defined as "non-human", and that many beams of light
came out of the giant triangle, aimed at the ground. The event lasted 2-3
seconds, but to Arias it felt like an eternity. The object suddenly rose
and sped away, vanishing behind the hills of a local field. As the object
moved away, the whole area was lit up like daytime and there was an
afterglow that lasted another 20 minutes.

HC addendum
Source: C.O.R., Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense, Argentina
Type: A


73.
Location. Waconia, Minnesota
Date: July 26 2002
Time: 0300A
The young witness was sleeping in the backyard with his sister when he
suddenly woke up. He then noticed that the side of the tent that faced the=

wetlands and lake was lit up. Looking towards the light he saw a shadowy
torso and arm of a humanoid figure that seemed to be moving around within
the light. He watched for 30 seconds and saw the figure move the fingers of=

his hands. The witness became frightened and hid in his sleeping bag. He
came out about an hour later and the light and strange figure were
completely gone.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


74.
Location. Sedona, Arizona
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 0310A
In a wooded area the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all
white, with black "straight" eyes; and black diagonal/diamond strip of
"clothing" on top. He stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then
left. Prior to seeing the figure the witness had seen lights in a large
oval shaped pattern in the sky.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


75.
Location. Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 1730
Three girls had decided to visit the rooftop as they did the prior evening=

watching for satellites. It was dusk and the girls had a good vantage point=

looking towards the east. With them they had a pair of binoculars and a
pair of walkie-talkies. The girls noticed that a large orange light
appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The anomaly
was noted to have fluctuated in colors of orange, yellow, white and pale
blue. At fist they thought of an arriving airplane, but then a second light=

appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10=

degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some=

unusually maneuvering; from a stationary position it accelerated at least 5=

degrees closer to the ground surface at an approximate 45-60 degree angle
within a matter of a single second. The first anomaly then began to move
slowly towards the north. At this stage they partially lost view of it as
it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley-like
region of the horizon. According to the witnesses, this third object
appeared to have "landed" on the ground surface. The object was then viewed=

through the binoculars and presented in great detail; the object was
described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange,=

blue/purple and white rotating around the rim. Thy also noted the trees
being slightly illuminated by this extraordinary phenomenon. They were
suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, "Identify
yourself." This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in a
foreign language. Around 1830 the girls were then called down to have
dinner. At about 2030 the girls re-established their places on the roof
after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still
present. Unexpectedly a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above
the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. "It
was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away." The=

light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it=

is not clear how one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became
extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed
her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not=

sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another of the girls woke up
the next morning with her nose bleeding. She also mentioned that she had
seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom.

HC addendum
Source: The Australian UFO Research NetworkType: D or
F?



76.
Location. Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 29 2002
Time: early morning
Local residents have seen a strange figure, which they described as
resembling a "shroud". The apparitions, which always occur in the early
morning hours, have become so common that in recent days several neighbors=

have stayed up late to see them, and it is thus that they were able to
confirm the simultaneous presence of up to 2 such beings, as well as red
lights flying over the area. All the witnesses whether individuals or in a=

group, agree that the entities are nebulous and glowing, with a pair of red=

eyes being clearly identifiable, and glassy faces (as if transparent).
Their movements are smooth and they always appear from behind the sand
dunes, as though "coming form the Naval Base." Most witnesses agree that
they show a great interest in the water tanks located above the roofs, and=

that they do not flee upon detecting the presence of local
residents---rather, they stare at them fixedly for some minutes. Deep
silence is perceived during the observations and "the air appears to become=

still" and neither heat nor cold can be felt---only a sensation of warmth,=

as if the beings emanated heat. Witnesses also state that things appear to=

be darker when "the shroud" appears, as though ambient lighting were
dimmed. Another curious fact is the large number of cats and dogs who
report to the place where the sightings occur and sit down to observe it in=

silence, in a state resembling a trance. A series of semi-circular prints
have been found in the dunes, not very deep, with 15-20 cm separations in
some cases and 30-50 cm in others. The locals have identified them as the
strange being's footprints. Efforts have been made to photograph the
"shroud", but all images, despite the use of different cameras appear
exposed. One witness who approached the site to witness the phenomenon took=

two photos of the prints in the afternoon and decided to stay with the
group of people hoping to see the "shroud", managing to take some photos of=

same and record the new prints which appeared in the dunes after the
sighting. A completely uncommon print was found at the site---but the
residents aren't sure if it's related to the phenomenon: it has the shape
of a five-fingered claw. One witness tried to make use of his carbine's
telescopic sight to see the figure in greater detail, but "when he tried to=

focus on it, he could see nothing_it was a though it could only be seen
with the unaided eye."

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, IHU, Christian Quintero and O A Mario
Proyecto Condor
Type: C or E?


77.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 30 2002
Time: 0530A
27-year old Mariela Baigorri reported seeing a strange figure that floated=

in front of her house. She had woken up early that morning and was getting=

ready to mount her bicycle when she saw behind the fence something floating=

in mid-air. It appeared to be a figure wearing a flowing white transparent=

tunic, with bright red eyes and undefined facial features. Feeling no fear=

she decided to approach it. She felt as if the figure waited for her and
was observing her. At this point Mariela felt some fear and began reciting=

the Lord's Prayer. The figure suddenly moved back and disappeared in plain=

sight.

HC addendum
Source: Juan Carlos Corrales Morey, Vision Ovni, Argentina
Type: E


78.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 31 2002
Time: 1845
23-year old Julian Pereyra was in his vehicle when he observed two red
spheres flying slowly over some nearby woods, they seemed to descend and
disappear behind the trees. 15 minutes later, Pereyra, accompanied by
several other witnesses approached the area and observed what they
described a tall floating figure wearing a white glowing cape like outfit,=

it seemed to glide silently over a field. It had what appeared to be a
visor at face level and two beams of red light emerged from where the eyes=

would have been. The witnesses watched the strange figure glide over the
fields for about 30 minutes. Curiously numerous local dogs and cats
approached and also watched the figure in fascination. The lights and
figure disappeared into the distance. In another occasion Pereyra and some=

of his family members encountered the strange humanoid and felt a strange
sensation as if the wind had suddenly stopped, they felt as they were
inside a vacuum or "bubble." Strange tracks have been reportedly found in
the area also.

HC addendum
Source: Diario La Nueva Provincia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Type: C?


79.
Location. La Cienaga, Pocri, Panama
Date: early August 2002
Time: night
Luis Alfredo Diaz reported hearing loud noises coming from the terraced
patio where the kitchen was located, going to investigate he found his cat=

apparently dead with two obvious holes on the neck and some blood on the
floor. Before finding the cat he had called his wife, Maria de Los Santos
Barrios. As his wife stood in front of him a panic stricken look came over=

her face, turning around he was confronted by a bizarre 1-meter tall
humanoid that had jumped to the center of the patio. The creature was
described as thin, covered with dark hair, with large pointed ears that
almost covered its face, it had very large eyes and extremely strong hind
legs resembling that of a kangaroo. Terrified he ran to his son's bedroom
and carried him outside yelling for his neighbors. A search failed to
locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Panamanian Paranormal Forum
Type: E


80.
Location. Near Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Date: August 2002
Time: night
The same witness involved in a similar encounter last year was again
camping in the same area when he again heard a noise. Shining the light in=

the direction of the sound he again saw the same creature. The creature sat=

there crouched by the trees staring at the witness. The witness walked
slowly towards it, he got to within 20 ft when it just jumped backward and=

disappeared. He described the creature as about five to six ft in height,
gray in color. It was totally naked. It had human features, but more
leathery, and its face was very wide, its eyes were huge and even though
they reflected light, they still looked black, resembling two intensely
black marbles. Its legs were very muscular, but turned backwards, like a
bird. Other hikers in the area have reported encountering little brown men=

on some of the more isolated trails.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal Story Archives, November 2002Type: E


81.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: August 1 2002
Time: late evening
64-year old Raul Dorado was touring some fields when he heard a loud sound=

on two occasions, like a whirlwind, which drew his attention. The third
time he saw something he describes as a green circle with three legs
hovering over him. At that moment Dorado fell to the ground, and according=

to his story, he carried a shotgun, binoculars and a cellular phone, the
latter, which was taken from his hand, and he could clearly see being
sucked into the object, which was apparently at low altitude. His next
recollection was seeing the object disappear toward the east. Dorado
remained at the location for an hour before being able to rise and walk
back to his car, returning to town in a state of shock. He had to be
hospitalized. Later when calls were placed to the (abducted) cellular phone=

someone would pick up and heavy breathing could be heard. Later on the
phone was apparently disconnected.

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, quoting Diario La Arena, La PampaType: G?


82.
Location. Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Date: August 2 2002
Time: 1730
A man named Todd Sees went up the mountain to look for pre-season deer. He=

told his wife that he would be home by noon. He rode his 4-wheeler up the
power line behind his home. He never returned. A search party composed of
local police, state police and volunteers searched for Sees. The 4-wheeler=

was found on the top of the mountain near a power-line. Tracking dogs could=

find nothing to go on around the 4-wheeler. The search went on for 2 days
and over 6 miles of mountain was covered from top to bottom. Then, in the
evening of the 2nd day, his body was found in a hard to reach wooded area.=

He was wearing his underwear. He was emaciated---not bloated. He was pale
and had an expression of horror on his face. When he went up the mountain
he was fully dressed, boots, camo-vest, hat, socks, pants. 3 people, on one=

farm, said they saw a large round bright object just above the power-lines=

at the time of the disappearance. It was silent, it did not move for about=

10 to 15 minutes. It suddenly went up and suddenly stopped. A light shone
down and something was pulled up into the light. It then went straight up,=

hesitated again, and then went west over the Susquehanna River and out of
sight. More specifically a farmer saw an object above Montour Ridge at the=

power lines, on top of the mountain, it was round and very still over the
lines. Suddenly it moved what looked like a few hundred feet to the east,
it stopped and a beam of blue and white light shone to the ground. What was=

seen next was very unnerving, he saw what appeared to be a man suspended in=

the light, he was being pulled up head first, he was moving his arms slowly=

in the light. What looked like a man was pulled up into the bottom of the
craft. A few seconds later it started shuddering, then went west very fast,=

stopped briefly, and then went straight up and out of sight. Also three
fishermen saw the craft. The FBI is supposedly also investigating. (Debated=

as a hoax, who would? and for what purpose?).

HC addendum
Source: Rense, UFO updates, NUFORCType: G?






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                            2002 Humanoid Reports

From: Albert Rosales <Garuda79@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:32:05 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:14:40 -0500
Subject: 2002 Humanoid Reports


Happy new year everyone

Sincerely,

Albert

-----

2002 Humanoid Reports. It appears to be a slow start for this
year with only one recorded case, again from Chile. We will see
what develops later on the year. 2001 was pretty busy but it was
a decline from 2000. Maybe we will see another down trend again,
later to pick up again in the near future. This seems to be the
ever-ongoing trend of the phenomena. Will it always stay the
same? Time will tell. Following is a list of known 2002 humanoid
cases.


1.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: January 2002
Time: 0300A
An employee at the local Minera Escondida was on his way to the
storage freezer in order to pick up some supplies when an
unknown creature jumped him from behind. He could only describe
it as hairy and dark. He was left with deep scratches and in a
state of shock. Terrified he ran away and bumped into two other
employees who were able to see a shadowy creature in the dark.

HC addendum
Source: La Estrella del Loa de Calama, ChileType: E


2.
Location. Caracas, Venezuela
Date: January 2002
Time: late night
Late one night in a dream-like state the witness woke up to see
seven to eight strange figures in her bedroom. They were dark
gray in color and very thin, with three large thick long fingers
on their hands. They had large, lipless mouths and large shiny
protruding black eyes, their noses were thin and protruding,
small ears, the heads was large and pointy. The humanoids
appeared to be naked and she was able to see a penis on the
humanoids. They were about 1.55 meters in height. She felt dizzy
and under the control of the strange entities. She was led out
of her bedroom by one of the humanoids that removed her clothing
and made her lie down on the floor. The humanoids apparently
attempted to molest her sexually and possibly attempted to rape
her but were not successful. She apparently passed out and does
not remember anything else about the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Lista Alcione and witness communicationType: E


3.
Location. Fort McMurry, Alberta, Canada
Date: January 2 2002
Time: 2032
Two men were parked on an isolated dirt road when they spotted a
large cone-shaped object descend and hover. One of the men
exited the car and he vanished in plain sight of the other, the
craft then also disappeared. The other man tried to drive away
to get help but the car would not start and it was to cold to
walk. He soon went to sleep and woke up later to find his friend
sleeping next to him. Later they drove back to town. His friend
does not remember what happened during those two hours of
missing time. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


4.
Location. Paso Lovera, Corrientes, Argentina
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2030
Gabriela Lencinas, 15-year old and a 19-year old friend were
returning home on a bicycle when they spotted a large cloud like
object descend from the sky and from it a giant figure emerge.
The witnesses stopped their bicycles to see a car approach the
giant figure, stop, the driver exit the car and then re-entering
the vehicle and driving quickly away. The figure then rose up
into the cloud and disappeared. The girls reported that the
giant human-like figure had its hair standing up on his head and
was extending its arms towards the witnesses that quickly rode
their bicycles home. Other in the area reported seeing bright
lights that same night.

HC addendum
Source: Pablo Omastott
Type: B?


5.
Location. Villa San Rafael, Chile
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2345
Two young teenagers, Jean F and Nelson C, where at home at night
when Jean noticed that his pet snake had escaped from its cage.
Both boys began looking for it outside among the rubble of the
parcel. They recalled how half an hour before, their two dogs
strangely began to howl and cry; however, it did not seem to be
important at that point in time. They searched for the pet snake
together when suddenly, about 30 meters from where they stood;
they saw what appeared to be a stray dog. They threw rocks at to
avoid an attack. However, to their surprise, the animal stood
there, motionless and fearless; it did not get scared nor it ran
away as ordinary dogs normally do. Shortly, the strange animal
began to move towards them. The movements it made as it walked
were very strange. It used two legs at a time. It made very
small sand short leaps like a rabbit. Suddenly, it stopped and
it stood up on two legs. The teenagers then began to feel some
kind of energy. "It was like an electrical shock in the
stomach," they said. It later walked again making a loud
dragging noise, making small leaps and only moving one of its
legs. They noticed the weird shape of the animal. "It was like a
rugby football with legs," one of them said. Jean began to feel
frightened and started to move away from animal. On the other
hand, Nelson felt a strange need to get closer to the creature;
he got to within 2 meters away from it. The creature appear to
emit a strange luminosity that apparently, was bright enough to
lit a small area around the creature in spite of the nighttime
darkness. Nelson was mesmerized as he stared at the strange
creature. He described it as having a head like a large dog with
a flat nose like a bulldog. Its eyes were slanted and pale-red
in color, which could only be seen when the creature turned its
head from side to side like a lizard. At that moment, Nelson
heard a voice in his head saying, "Don't stare, and just run
away." They provided further description, describing the ears as
flat, round and large. Its arms were short, it had elbows, and
the hands had three fingers. It had hair like the one on a wild
pig. Its legs were like the ones of a goat. The feet had also
three fingers and a membrane like ducks, but somewhat shorter.
On its curved back, they were able to notice a spinal section
covered with amounts of even thicker hair. Most of the hair of
the animal was gray, but the tail had a white tip. Nelson
finally fled, terrified, from the area. He also described how he
felt an inexplicable bone-chilling cold sensation.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center
Type: E


6.
Location. Not given
Date: January 12 2002
Time: night
Ted Parker was eating some leftover food when he claims the food began to
change. The bread of the sandwich turned an orange color and the lamb
became a silvery metallic color, sort of like liquid mercury. As he watched=

transfixed, he saw the orange bread and metallic lamb turn into the figure=

of an "alien" with the form of a man. It was silver in color and its outfit=

(smooth pants and shirt, like a jump suit) was orange in color. At this
point Parker glanced at the wall clock and it indicated that 2 hours had
gone by, even though it felt like minutes only. The alien figure
communicated using telepathic means and asked Ted to come with him. They
both went outside and there, Ted saw a landed black-colored craft in his
backyard. In a split second Ted found himself inside the craft not knowing=

how he got there. The inside of the craft was pure white in color with
strips of the metallic silver that the alien figure appeared to be made of.=

The rest of the incident is just a blur, but Parker did remembered hearing=

several loud high-pitched rings while onboard the object. A couple of days=

before while eating dinner with several other people there had been a
similar high pitched ring and everybody had just stopped eating and walked=

out of the room.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: G or F?



7.
Location. Chihuahua, Mexico
Date: January 29 2002
Time: night
Several days before seeing a UFO the witness remembered being in a
dream-like state in which he felt very calm and saw numerous disc shaped
objects, orange-red in color. A human like figure was talking to him about=

the objects and their propulsion. The UFO he saw was of an orange color and=

he felt a sort of ecstasy when he observed the craft. Several of his
neighbors also saw the object.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: G or F?


8.
Location. Near Palmyra, Wisconsin
Date: February 2002
Time: 0200A
Two men reported seeing a creature that resembled a bipedal "gigantic wolf"=

walking down a road west of the city. They said the creature was at least 7=

ft tall with a wolf-like head. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Linda GodfreyType: E


9.
Location. West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
Nebilson Sangma reported encountering a scary furry creature on a hunting
trip in the jungles. He reportedly took a video of the creature's nesting
place. According to Sangma, the creature walked erect like a human, had
built a house like nesting place, and would emerge from it frequently to
feast on a banana grove. Sangma and his brother observed the gigantic
creature for three consecutive days from afar. Officials and villagers have=

been hunting for the creature in the forest but it seems to have
disappeared as furtively as it appeared.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 13
Type: E


10.
Location. Near Dover, England
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness had been jogging along a low path by the beach when she noticed=

a tall, well built being in a black skin tight suit, that stood watching
her from nearby. He wore a black helmet wit a brown visor pulled down. At
first she thought it was a biker but as she approached the figure, it
suddenly disappeared in plain sight. As she continued to run she noticed a=

black craft jutting out of the sand, it was small and oval shaped, matt and=

ribbed it also disappeared in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: E?


11.
Location. Rosario de la Frontera, Salta, Argentina
Date: February 2002
Time: night
A strange creature called by locals "El Pestizo" has attacked several lone=

pedestrians in the middle of the night. It is described as a dark man
shaped shadowy being. A boy riding his bicycle on the way to visit some
friends was toppled from his bicycle and found a black shadowy figure
facing him. The young man managed to upholster his shotgun and fire two
shots. But, when he saw that they had no effect, he promptly drew his knife=

and stabbed the figure without any apparent harm. Frightened the youth
tried to escape but the creature knocked him down without saying a word and=

began dragging him by the hair to the side of the road. At this point the
young man began to scream. A local man, who rushed to provide assistance,
only to find a black shadow dragging the boy by the hair, heard his cries.=

The fearful shape disappeared without a trace after it became aware of the=

other man's presence. Six other locals have reported being attacked by a
similar being and received wounds.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


12.
Location. Not given
Date: February 2002
Time: early morning
The witness was alone at home and was preparing his breakfast when suddenly=

he heard a window break; he went to see what had happened. Grabbing a golf=

club he peeked inside the room where the window broke. He was stunned to
see a strange creature climbing on his bed. It appeared to be hurt, because=

it seemed that it could not move well. Gripping the golf club he went a
step nearer and the creature hissed horribly. It shrieked in an unworldly
manner. Terrified the witness did not move. The creature was small, about
the size of a large rabbit, and it was dark in color and had reddish eyes.=

It had wings and a spine of quills on its back, and had a semi reptilian
face. It appeared to have hair and small legs. The witness raised the golf=

club and the creature hissed again showing its large yellowish teeth, which=

appeared to be sharp, like those of a crocodile. It suddenly hopped out of=

the window and rapidly hopped across the street into the oak trees.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June archiveType: E


13.
Location. Vigevano, Italy
Date: February 2002
Time: 0100A
In the outskirts of this city a witness observed from his vehicle a
luminous humanoid entity walking along a roadway. It scurried away into the=

darkness when approached.
No other information.

HC addendum
Source: CISU, ItalyType: E



14.
Location. Corguinho, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Date: February 5 2002
Time: night
During a localized UFO flap several witnesses reported seeing a strange
creature described as about 1.3 meters in height, having two legs, with a
physique like a human but who moved with a strange fluctuating motion. The=

creature was seen five times by twenty people in the rural zone around
Corguinho. In Rochedo, 6 miles south of Corguinho five Cebu cattle were
found dead with a single incision on the side of the throat. The bodies had=

been drained of blood. (Is there a connection?).

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


15.
Location. Mount Podbrdo, Bosnia Hercigovina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: morning
Contactee and stigmatic Giorgio Bongiovanni was visiting the shrine on top=

of the mountain and was praying silently to the Virgin when, to his
astonishment, a glowing luminous female figure appeared and touched his
forehead with her fingertips. His stigmata scar vanished instantly. The
female figure told him to return to Italy and make known what had happened.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 14
Type: E or F?


16.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: evening
73-year-old Maria Rufina Cayo, a local shepherd was walking back home with=

her dogs and the cattle. Suddenly at one point, something spooked the
animals, and these began to stampede. Looking around she spotted a bizarre=

creature standing about 12 meters away. She described it as a humanoid,
half animal, half human, about 1.70m in height, with bright red eyes, sharp=

protruding fangs, and hands and feet that ended in sharp claws. The
creature looked at the witness three times then it scrambled away using
quick jumping motions with is powerfully built hind legs, she also noticed=

large pointy ears. The top part of its body seems to have been covered in a=

shiny white blanket. It somehow resembled a centaur walking on two
claw-like feet.  Alerted by the shouts of Maria, two men, Santos Jaimes,
and Ruben Colque ran out to investigate with their dogs. Suddenly the dogs=

stopped and began making pitiful howling noises, they refused to move any
further. The men heard noises behind some nearby bushes and went to
investigate and spotted a bizarre creature that stood staring at them with=

huge reddish eyes. It then moved quickly away in the direction of Cerro
Negro and disappeared from sight. The witnesses noticed very sharp claws on=

the creature's feet with a very sharp claw that appeared to be pointed
backwards. Strange footprints were found the next day.

HC addendum
Source: El Tribuno, Salta Argentina March 27 2002
Also Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E



17.
Location. Khanpur, Ahmedabad, India
Date: February 20 2002
Time: after midnight
Several local residents reportedly have encountered a person, dressed in
black and wearing a mask. Dubbed the "Monkeyman" whom they described as
between 25 and 20 years of age, dark skinned and having curly hair can
reportedly be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees. Two
local youths chased it and the figure reportedly disappeared in plain
sight. The two youths have been behaving abnormally since then. The
stranger was also chased along the riverbed near the Cama Hotel and it also=

suddenly disappeared. Others have heard the stranger running on the
rooftops. Abdul Hamid another youngster of the local slums described the
figure as a tall lean man that carries a sharp weapon. "I saw him from the=

back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised the alarm, he jumped to=

another roof and then on to a tree." Police have searched for the stranger=

but nothing has been found.

HC addendum
Source: Fortean Times, India Express
Type: E


18.
Location. Prague, Czech Republic
Date: February 23 2002
Time: night
Blanka Slemendova was in her apartment when she saw a "ship" hovering over=

some nearby woods. It was shining red, white and yellow lights. She then
heard telepathic communication coming from the object telling her to go and=

meet them at an unspecified location. Looking over to her bedroom wall she=

saw what appeared to be a projection of human like faces looking at her.
Later that night she saw luminous figures in her room and a floating red
light also in her room. The next night she saw what appeared to be 2 gray
suns and around them a golden lights with numerous groups of shiny
human-like figures floating about. She interpreted these as being angels.

HC addendum
Source: Direct from witness (Slemendova)
Type: C & F?


19.
Location. Wycliffe Well Roadhouse, Northern Territory Australia
Date: early March 2002
Time: evening
While workers in the area watched unusual lights in the sky an aboriginal
woman encountered a triangular sort of object in a paddock and all of the
sudden she saw three silvery clad human like figures that began to move
toward her vehicle. She turned the vehicle around and took off.

HC addendum
Source: Lou Farcus ABC On-lineType: C


20.
Location. Near Canberra Australia
Date: March 2002
Time: 1700
Several friends were taking a trip to the coast and it was already very
dark. They had already entered a tropical forest area and there was a mist=

rolling along the ground. As they turned around they saw something
squatting in the middle of the road. It stared at them, and just as they
thought they were going to hit it, it leaped off the road and into the
trees. It leaped about 10 meters in the air. The creature was definitely
human looking although it wore strange clothes. It was dressed in a green
robe of some kind with little pieces of gold on it, and it was either
wearing a head crest or it had a row of spikes running from its forehead to=

the top of its neck. Very frightened the witnesses drove out of the forest=

and at the same time the mist turned to a thick fog. They pulled over and
decided to wait until the fog had cleared, although none of them were too
happy about it. As they sat around and waited they suddenly heard a shriek.=

It sounded like some sort of wild animal and they turned the car on so the=

headlights would scare it away. The headlights revealed the same creature
they had seen earlier. It hid its face from the light and shrieked. Right
before the witnesses' eyes, the creature seemed to evaporate into the fog.=

Within five minutes the fog had gone and the normal rolling mist was back.=

The witnesses quickly left the area and drove towards the coast.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June ArchiveType: E


21.
Location. Guanica Puerto Rico
Date: March 1 2002
Time: 2345
Reinaldo Rios (involved in other encounters) was in his bedroom that night=

when a large white light suddenly appeared. It flew around the room several=

times and then hovered. He heard voices coming from the light, which
communicated with him. The voice said: "I am your real father." Soon the
light transformed itself into a figure resembling that of a little boy it
then vanished in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: UFOs over America.com
Type: E


22.
Location. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 0800A
The witness and his wife were in bed that Saturday morning talking when
their 5-year-old daughter came into the bedroom with her baby brother,
whose cot is placed under their bedroom window. They heard a strange noise=

and some green light came into the window. Their daughter looked out the
window and reported seeing a "flying car" with four spinning green lights
on top. She saw two windows in the vehicle and saw two dark brown faces
looking out. His wife saw the craft flying past through the curtains. That=

same morning, in a large tree near the witness house a strange structure
was found. The branches were arranged in a rectangular pen shape, vertical,=

each approximately 30 to 40 cm long. They found a few smaller sticks
scaling down in size from the structure. A piece of concrete slab was found=

propped up on one corner. The witnesses had never seen this strange
structure before and think is some kind of message left by the visitors.
(Some kind of bizarre crop circle?). A few nights before they had heard
strange noises coming from the kitchen area.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: A


23.
Location. Golasecca Di Novara, Italy
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 2330
Augusto & Maurizia were in their vehicle parked in an open field next to a=

wooded area having a heated discussion when suddenly a powerful beam of
reddish-orange light illuminated the area around them. They rolled down the=

car window and heard a sharp metallic sound that seemed to be increasing in=

intensity. They now noticed, behind the beam of light a hovering
disc-shaped craft with a central rotating ring, it hovered about a meter
from the ground. From the object, a cigar-shaped beam of light emerged;
they could see it as the central ring of the craft slowly rotated on its
axis. The craft was only about 10 meters away. At this point, and only
about 4 meters from the object Augusto saw what appeared to be a gelatinous=

transparent humanoid-like figure with a visible head, arms and legs. The
figure was silvery in color and was very tall, about 3 meters or so. At
this point Augusto became concerned and drove away from the area and did
not see the object or figure depart. The whole episode lasted about 10
minutes. The metallic noise was heard all throughout the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Alfredo Lissoni, CUN Milano, Michelle Castellano CUN VareseType: C


24.
Location. Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England
Date: March 3 2002
Time: morning
Helen Diskin went for a walk in the countryside talking snap shots along
the way with her digital camera. Returning home she loaded these into her
computer and was intrigued by an odd-looking image. It looked like a
luminous figure in an area of no sunlight, skulking amongst the trees. She=

returned to the site of the photo twice afterward and could find no
explanation for the figure. The figure resembled a small helmeted figure
that she had not seen when she took the picture of an area of the woods she=

had thought of as "mysterious."

HC addendum
Source: Helen Diskin, UFO Magazine Vol. 22 # 1Type: E?


25.
Location. Near Trenton New Jersey
Date: March 4 2002
Time: night
Several witnesses were camping outside of town and late at night one of
them was attempting to put out the bonfire when he heard the most awful and=

horrifying scream. It resembled that of an injured dog crossed with a
scream of a woman. The witness dropped the flashlight and was joined by
another witness. Suddenly out of the woods a hideous and gruesome creature=

appeared. It did not look human, somewhat satyr-like in appearance and
walked on two legs. It had a long tail like a dragon and wings like those
unicorns in fantasy books. The beast took several steps towards the
witnesses and one of them picked up and asked and yelled at it and then
shone his flashlight at it. The creature then turned towards the bushes and=

ran away from the area.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: E


26.
Location. Pichaca, Salta, Argentina
Date: March 9 2002
Time: night
Ceferino Leoncio was cleaning his one room metal shack when suddenly a
bright light engulfed the room. He felt a sudden heat as he saw a tiny
figure (50 cm) of an angel-like creature materialize in front of him. It
slowly moved its small wing-like protrusions and moved around and then
suddenly stopped and remained still. It appeared to be a small living human=

like living being until it appeared to hardened and turn into some type of=

statue of cherubic appearance. Locals have now built a shrine around the
tiny "statue" and call the strange materialization a "religious miracle".

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso
Type: F?



27.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: March 16 2002
Time: 2215
Mirna, was watching television alone in her room when she began hearing
noises coming from outside, at first she thought it was her dogs playing
around with some empty cans. But the noises kept getting louder and louder=

and she decided to go outside to investigate. Once outside she was stunned=

to see some type creature that had somehow entered the rabbit cage and was=

attacking the animals that were making loud unearthly screams. Thinking at=

first that it was one of the dogs she approached the case but realized that=

it was a gray colored hairy hunched over creature, that was moving quickly=

inside the cage. She stepped back and could not understand how the creature=

had entered the cage, since there wasn't any apparent hole or aperture
visible anywhere and the door was firmly closed. Afraid she ran inside her=

home and notified her son, both then ran out but the creature had
mysteriously disappeared. Unnerved, they could not understand how they
creature had escaped since the door to the rabbit caged was still firmly
locked. Later they could only find a small round hole in the wire only
several centimeters in width, not large enough for a creature estimated to=

have been about 70 to 80 cm in height. Several of the rabbits were found
injured and one was dead.

HC addendum
Source: Calama UFO CenterType: E


28.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: March 19 2002
Time: 2000
Young Elizabeth Lera reported seeing a short humanoid with "dark eyes"
looking into the building compound from behind a wire fence. It appeared
not to have any other facial features and was wearing dark clothing; it
wore some type of head covering, which was hard to see because of the
darkness. She could only see a pair of large dark eyes on his face that
appeared to shine in the darkness. Some more children now arrived and
observed as the humanoid move several steps towards them. Another witness,=

Rene Mamani saw the humanoid run and hide behind some bushes. It seemed to=

move at very high speed in an unnatural fashion. It seemed to have remained=

suspended in mid-air for a few seconds. It then seemed to fly through the
air and disappeared into some nearby woods. Other students at the school
reportedly saw it again on the night of the 20th.

HC addendum
Source: Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E


29.
Location. Woodburn, Oregon
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 0300A
The witness was sleeping when she woke up suddenly feeling paralyzed. The
witness was completely unable to move or speak. Her next memory was of a
strange sensation on her left cheek, which hurt a lot. Unseen "beings" were=

apparently taking skin samples. Her face was left with a pink fleshy scoop=

down my left cheek, directly on the cheekbone. A teardrop scar was left on=

her cheek.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical Universe
Type: G?




30.
Location. Bethlehem, Israel
Date: March 21 2002
Time: night
At the besieged Church of The Nativity several awed witnesses have come
forward describing the events of Thursday night. That night, a smell of
roses filled the sanctuary as the Daughters of Charity held their evening
prayers. "The sweet scent was soon followed by a high musical humming sound=

and a distinct feeling of warmth emanating from the ceiling." Then, the
sisters reported, seeing a glowing beam of light gradually forming the
likeness of the Blessed Virgin "like a film coming into focus." Tears were=

running down her face, and she uttered a prophetic warning. "Time is
growing short, and the promised Judgment Day is nearly at hand." One week
before the apparition, The Church of the Holy Family was the scene of a
ferocious firefight between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 17Type: F


31.
Location. Not given
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 2255
16-year old Steven Mizon saw hovering over a street a large oval shaped
craft encircled in bright lights and with several lighted windows around
its edge. A figure stared down at him from one of the windows. No other
information.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Watch
Type: A



32.
Location. Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain
Date: March 26 2002
Time: 1500
A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a deserted road when=

he noticed ahead in the distance and in the middle of the roadway an object=

resembling a shiny pear that was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat
perplexed he approached and noticed two individuals standing on a nearby
field. These were over 2 meters in height, wore tight fitting white
coveralls and helmets resembling that of the early astronauts. He parked
his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men=

walked away and entered the shiny pear-shaped craft while the other
remained behind. Knowing that these men were "not from this earth" he still=

asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt that as
he approached the strange pair he had been in some type of a trance and
seemed to have floated over the road. The humanoid answered and appeared
genuinely happy as to his offer of assistance but said that everything was=

in order. He also added that the area was very beautiful and also added:
"Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such
beautiful scenes, they disappeared a long time ago." The astounded witness=

managed to ask the humanoid where he was from and was told that they hailed=

from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The=

humanoid smiled as he answered the question. The humanoid then bid goodbye=

and walked towards the nearby shiny pear shaped object, he then disappeared=

inside of it. The craft then emitted a loud whistling sound and disappeared=

at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the
humanoids as about 2.50 meters in height, wide chests and heavy set, thin
legs. Generally human features, but somewhat "refined" or sharpened
features. The suits were very tight fitting made of an apparent synthetic
material resembling plastic. Their eyes were very light almost white and
their speech was hesitant & accented. Also their movements seemed kind of
clumsy.

HC addendum
Source: J M Garcia, Francisco Padron, SpainType: B


33.
Location. Pringle Lake, Texas
Date: March 28 2002
Time: 1100A
Mark Hakemack and a friend had taken an airboat out on the NW side of the
lake to do a little redfish fishing. The day was kind of hazy, with broken=

cloud cover. They had caught several trout and were just chatting when he
hooked up a large redfish while playing with the fish, Mark happened to
glance upwards and saw a large bird-like creature emerge from a cloudbank.=

His friend saw it too, after about 20 to 25 seconds it flew behind cloud
cover again. The strange creature was grayish in color and the profile of a=

raptor, short neck/head, no legs sticking out behind, and no long tail
feathers. Mark could not take his eyes off it. He estimated the wingspan to=

have been 10' to 14 ' in overall. It appeared to be soaring on the wind,
although, he did see it give a couple of light "flaps" with its wings. The=

witness could only relate this to the legendary "Thunderbird" legend.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.comType: E


34.
Location. Sevilla, Spain
Date: March 30 2002
Time: late night
The witness to the March 26 case was at home with his wife and was getting=

ready to sleep when he heard footsteps coming from patio area outside his
chalet. Armed with a club, he opened the door and was stunned to see the
same two tall heavyset humanoids he had encountered 4 days before. One of
the humanoids was kneeling on the ground as if inspecting something on the=

soil, the other one upon hearing the door open, turned and quickly assured=

the witness not to fear that they were not here to harm him. Stunned, the
witness invited the two humanoids in the house for some refreshments (!).
These declined the invitation telling that they had to go already. Using
the same clumsy movements both humanoids walked towards the rear of the
house where the witness noticed the same shiny metallic pear shaped craft
on the ground. They entered the object, which quickly left at high speed.
The witness's wife awakened by the voices was able to see the two humanoids=

from a second story window, and described them in the same way.

HC addendum
Source: Francisco Padron, Jose Manuel Garcia, SpainType: B


35.
Location. Los Cipreses, Chile
Date: March 31 2002
Time: noon
During a local UFO congress 24 persons in three groups entered a
dimensional gateway that appeared by itself over the terrain. It was kind
of a dome, a luminous archway measuring four by four meters. The
participants lost their materiality without disappearing completely. Upon
entering, they met several human-like alien characters with large baldheads=

and wearing robes that waited within and received information. According to=

sources the contact experience was "dimensional" it was like crossing into=

a different reality. The 24 participants were "all professionals, college
students of high intellectual levels, mostly Chileans," and some were
members of Grupo Rama, a New Age association.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 16, quoting Camilo Valdivieto
Type: G or F?


36.
Location. Tbilissi Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: night
A man entered the local St David church and reported that "a phantom with
wings" had approached him and predicted an earthquake that indeed took
place on April 25 2002, devastating areas of central Georgia.

HC addendum
Source: Pravda
Type: E?


37.
Location. Near Macon, Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: 2300
Three friends were awakened by loud banging noises and bellowing sounds
coming from outside. One of the men ran to the bathroom and looked out the=

window to see a figure run by and squat in the nearby bushes. He described=

the creature as about 3 ft tall, hairy with what appeared to be horns on
its head and hands; he could not see a face. Others in the neighborhood
heard the banging noises.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.com and direct witness
Communication.
Type: E


38.
Location. Belvedere di Tezze, Italy
Date: April 26 2002
Time: evening
A 20-year old woman was returning home one night when she noticed some
bright lights nearby of an unknown origin. She followed the lights in her
car until she stopped near a local pizzeria. She saw the light near the
ground and within the lights two tall slender human like figures wearing
some type of headgear. Since she was carrying a camera she was able to snap=

a quick picture. The figures then vanished. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Gruppo Accademico Ufologico Scandicci quoting
"Il giornale di Vicenza"Type: E?


39.
Location. Puente Santamaria, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: early morning
Two young men observed a dark object descend towards the ground about 100
meters away. According to the two witnesses from the craft descended a
small humanoid, orange in color. Very scared they both ran from the area
and reported their experience to others.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: B


40.
Location. Merceditas, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: evening
An elderly couple was walking along National Route # 8 when about 800
meters from their location they noticed a very strong light. The light
descended next to a puddle at about 70 meters from the witness. Both then
saw two very short orange colored humanoids that moved in very agile
movements near the object. Terrified they walked away and upon looking back=

saw a bright glow on the ground.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: C


41.
Location. Barangay, Philippines
Date: May 2002
Time: night
Several local residents reported seeing a bizarre creature described as an=

"aswang" reputed to be a winged vampire type creature, it reportedly had
red glowing eyes, long black hair, and was wearing a white flowing gown. It=

was seen perched on top of a bamboo tree. Residents at nearby Roxas
reported seeing a similar creature. The police was called but a search
failed to locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Akasico.comType: E


42.
Location. Alvear, La Pampa Argentina
Date: May 3 2002
Time: near midnight
Several young men were returning home late at night along a deserted
roadway when suddenly out of nowhere a female figure wearing a light
flowing gown and with long black hair appeared in front of them. The
strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly and repeatedly asked for=

assistance from the men in a strange urgent tone. Terrified the men ran
from the area and later returned with additional witnesses but they could
find no trace of the strange apparition.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E?


43.
Location. Taralgon Victoria, Australia
Date: May 24 2002
Time: 2355
Walking near the Loy Yang Power station 45-year old Martin Taylor was
suddenly blinded by an intense blue light and he felt extremely dizzy. His=

next memory was of being in a circular room with a variety of lights and
buttons scattered about the walls. He was lying on a large table that
seemed to be of a very highly polished metal. He was strapped down and his=

shirt had been removed. There were wires attached to his arms, neck and
temples. A four ft tall humanoid figure with very large almond shaped eyes,=

almost transparent looking skin, ghostly white in appearance examined him.=

The figure had three extremely long fingers on each hand and spoke in a
strange dialect.

HC addendum
Source: UFO WatchType: G


44.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: May 29 2002
Time: midnight
Irma Rick watched a rotating luminous object descend close to the ground
next to a grain silo; it gave off a powerful bluish light through some
openings around its circumference. It hovered close to the ground. Through=

an opening a strange creature was seen to descend to the ground. It was
described as having an elongated semi-transparent white body; it also had
an elongated head. She could not see any eyes or legs on the creature as it=

stood motionless next to the craft. She observed the creature and object
for about 5 minutes until she dropped the flashlight she was carrying.
Afraid she left the area and did not see the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: B



45.
Location. Lembang Bandung, Indonesia
Date: May 30 2002
Time: 2315
The witness was driving his motorcycle across a highland area when he
spotted some flashing lights overhead and then noticed a silvery
disc-shaped craft descend low over some nearby graves at a cemetery. The
craft had blue and orange flashing lights around its rim. There was no
sound as the craft apparently emitted a beam of light towards the ground
and levitated what appeared to be some dead bodies onboard the object. (!)=

The witness was apparently paralyzed and was unable to move. The craft then=

shot away at a 45-degree angle and disappeared from sight. When that
happened the witness left the scene.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


46.
Location. Houston, Texas
Date: late May 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness was at the local electric company in order to pay a bill when
she decided to use the restrooms. Sitting in the stall she then noticed on=

the side of the wall of the stall what appeared to be a face lit up in a
dull light. When the witness looked directly at the "face" it vanished. She=

described is as having large round eyes no visible nose and a slit-like
mouth. (A peeping tom alien?)

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.comType: E?


47.
Location. General Acha, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: early June 2002
Time: various
A resident of the Oeste neighborhood informed newspaper sources that a
short green-colored dwarf like entity has appeared twice on her property:
once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When her husband ran out
responding to her screams, the mysterious entity vanished by rapidly
climbing up a tree. All versions agree in that the entity is short in
stature. Another resident added that it moved so quickly that it was hard
to describe it. In the same area mysterious cattle mutilations have also
been reported.

HC addendum
Source: Loren Coleman in UFO UpdatesType: E


48.
Location. Ojo De Agua, Argentina
Date: June 2002
Time: afternoon
Several passengers onboard two farm micro buses reported seeing a very tall=

dark man like figure that appeared to be wearing a tight fitting diver's
outfit standing on a nearby field. Nearby numerous mysterious animal
mutilations have been reported. The figure was silent and was quickly lost=

from sight as the buses moved away.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E




49.
Location. Near Tampa, Florida
Date: June 2002
Time: night
A man and three of his friends reported encountering two bizarre chupacabra=

type creatures one stood about 3-4 ft tall, the other looked to be about 6=

ft tall. Both had large glowing red eyes and spikes starting from the head=

to the back. They scurried away into a wooded area. (They were to have
further encounters in August).

HC addendum
Source: Art Bell.comType: E


50.
Location. Antalya, Turkey
Date: June 5 2002
Time: afternoon
Approximately 45 witnesses claimed they saw an UFO in the Santral district=

landing on the backyard of the Fatma Primary School. Several students
including Murat Esici age 11 saw an alien emitting red rays from his eyes
come out of the object. His hands and feet were metallic. He had a very big=

head and was about 1.80 meters in height. Esici temporarily lost her voice=

immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also=

claimed they san an unusual craft and an alien beside it. "His eyes and
hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes." The children
were overcome with shock after the incident.

HC addendum
Source: Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center Intl
Type: B


51.
Location. Polonnauruwa, Sri Lanka
Date: June 8 2002
Time: 2200
Approximately 50 to 70 eyewitnesses saw a UFO flying at about 100 meters
above ground level. The object was silent and briefly landed emitting a
bright flash like light. When it was close to the ground the object emitted=

a buzzing sound. Three other witnesses saw three 2 ft tall creatures than
when approached ran into the jungle and disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Sources
Type: D


52.
Location. Polonnaruwa, Sir Lanka
Date: June 9 2002
Time: 2012
Two witnesses went to a bath on a nearby river when they heard a loud
thundering sound and a UFO appeared. The craft landed nearby and two, 2 ft=

tall "aliens" emerged from the object. One of the humanoids flung a small
fluorescent fireball like object that flew over a house and vanished. Soon=

the craft and humanoids disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC & News Reports
Type: B



53.
Location. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Date: June 10 2002
Time: 1900
Witnesses saw a mysterious light in the sky and others saw a large disc
shaped object land nearby. Three humanoids only about 2 ft tall emerged
from the craft and disappeared into the forest when approached. The object=

also left.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Reports
Type: B


54.
Location. Chantilly, Virginia
Date: June 10 2002
Time: night
The witness was awakened during the night with a sense of some presence in=

the room. Looking toward the door, he saw, fading quickly, something, which=

almost had the appearance of a hologram. Next, shadows appeared outside the=

windows in an erratic shape. At first he thought the shadows to be from
trees moving in a strong wind. The appearance was of a storm blowing the
limbs to create these shadows outside the window. However, there was no
storm. He looked at the adjacent window on the side of the house facing
opposite and there was no wind at all. In fact there was no trees
positioned in such a way to cast a shadow. He opened the blinds to see what=

might be causing the shadows. He then saw what seemed to be a hologram with=

the shape of two small eyes moving erratically outside the window.
Frightened he closed the blinds. Two weeks later he was awakened by a
humming sound and again saw the erratic shadows outside the window. He
watched the shadows for 10-15 minutes and then called the police. The
police found no signs of any intrusion in the yard. When the police left
the witness walked toward the door facing the back porch and saw a large
burst of bluish white light. It looked unnatural, almost like a laser. He
has not seen the "shadows" again.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: E?


55.
Location. Ataliva Roca, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 11 2002
Time: 1930
A worker at a local drainage project was sitting and guarding some
machinery when he noticed a short greenish colored humanoid figure that was=

approaching his location from a nearby field. The witness became concerned=

and drove away from the area in the construction equipment and did not see=

the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


56.
Location. Eduardo Castex, La Pampa Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Two girls of a local school encountered a short greenish humanoid figure in=

the playing yard. The figure was standing up and appeared to be raising its=

arms up to the sky. Terrified the two girls retreated into the school and
watched the figure scurry away into some nearby woods. Around the same time=

a local farmer found a strangely mutilated hog in his farm.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


57.
Location. Chasico, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Hugo Deluca and several other workers were parked in a bus in an isolated
area when they spotted about 20 meters away a short, 1.20 meters tall,
bipedal figure completely covered in gray hair. It walked upright like a
man and then scurried away into some woods vanishing from sight. The area
had been hit with animal mutilations around the same time.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


58.
Location. Castex, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 13 2002
Time: night
A 70-year old man had gone to his driveway to check on a flat tire in his
car when a short light green colored humanoid suddenly appeared next to
him. It had large round ears, and two reddish luminous eyes. Its body was
thin and almost triangular in shape. The witness attempted to yell out but=

was suddenly unable to speak and at the same time strange warmth invaded
his body. Several seconds later the humanoid vanished and the witness
returned to normal. He reported the incident to the police.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


59.
Location. La Laguna, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 14 2002
Time: afternoon
Several youngster had gone into the fields in order to obtain some firewood=

when they saw sitting on a clearing in the woods two human like figures,
all dressed in black. They sat facing each other, one looking towards the
east the other towards the west, unmoving. Unnerved by the sight the
juveniles ran from the area. The next day the father of one of the boys
found two dead cows at the site, but could find no trace of the strange
pair. Days later a sheep and a horse were found dead and strangely
mutilated in the nearby location of El Cardonal.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: E


60.
Location. De Kalb, Illinois
Date: June 15 2002
Time: 0030A
The witness was sitting in his family room watching TV when he noticed a
bright flash of light outside the window. He saw the flash several times
and decided to check his backyard there he saw a circular light moving
around in circles. The light began to get closer; scared he ran inside his=

home and called a friend on the phone. He then quickly ran outside and saw=

the circle getting closer, he noticed that it had a purplish color to it
and it began to descend towards the ground. He became nauseous and dizzy
and collapsed on to the ground. He tried to crawl to the house but was
unable to move. He turned his head and saw the purplish object on the
ground and what appeared to be a door opening up. He then heard a squeaking=

noise and saw a tall and a short figure standing by a door of the object.
The two figures started to move towards him, walking in a strange bopping
fashion. They were of a dark complexion with a bumpy texture, other than
that they resembled normal human beings. The shorter figure approached and=

picked up the witness' camera and stared at it. He then looked at the
taller figure and handed it to him. The taller of the two looked at the
camera and then at the witness. The witness then heard loud unpleasant
shrieks coming from the taller figure, which then gave the camera back to
the shorter figure, which covered the camera with his hand, seconds later a=

light began to emerge from their hands. Then they stopped, threw the camera=

aside and began to walk towards the witness. They reached his side and
started to examine his body. A dog began to bark from inside the house and=

the shorter figure put out his hand and the dog stopped barking. At this
point the witness began to vomit. After about a minute he began to relax
and to breathe better. When he turned his head he realized that the two
figures and the purple spherical object were now gone. The next day he had=

a very severe headache.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: B


61.
Location. San Juan, Argentina
Date: June 20 2002
Time: evening
At a location where the body of a strangely mutilated carcass of a cow was=

found two witnesses reported seeing a small creature with large glowing
slanted eyes and about one meter in height. Later in the same area, members=

of the Gimenez family after investigating noises and a strong odor coming
from a wooded area found a mutilated cow and also watched a short humanoid=

with glowing eyes scurrying away into the woods.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


62.
Location. Manuel Rodriguez, Calama, Chile
Date: June 22 2002
Time: after midnight
A bizarre creature was spotted at a local housing complex on San Antonio
Street. Witnesses reported that it resembled an ape and it jumped all over=

the roof. It passed right in front of the witness, Maria Gavia's window and=

then it came back making all manner of noise. The creature was able to make=

very long jumps, unlike any a human could. It jumped and landed on the
neighbor's roof and then it left the area. Neighborhood dogs acted scared
and began howling. Others described the creature as about 1.5 meters tall,=

stocky in build with bright red eyes. It made a lot of noise. Others
reportedly chased the creature.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center, quoting El
Mercurio de CalamaType: E


63.
Location. Angencia Realico, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 23 2002
Time: late night
Several hunters returning to a local ranch spotted about 50 meters away two=

large glowing reddish eyes staring at them. They turned off their
flashlight and approached closer on foot, about 30 meters away they again
saw the reddish eyes on a dark creature that appeared to be standing on top=

of an apparently dead animal. One of the hunters shone its flashlight on
the figure again and saw a figure about 40 cm in height that quickly ran
from the area at very high speed. The creature disappeared into the brush.=

At the scene, a dead and mutilated young heifer. Other mutilations were
reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


64.
Location. Rancul, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 25 2002
Time: 2020
Two young men, Nestor Pinto and Daniel Gatica were walking on a field when=

they encountered a short man-like figure with huge pointy ears and long
dangling arms standing near some brush. The figure scurried into the brush=

and disappeared and at the same time the two witnesses ran away from the
area and did not see the strange dwarf again.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


65.
Location. Bavaria, Germany (exact location not given)
Date: June 25 2002
Time: night
The witness had stayed up late watching the soccer game as was in his
bedroom when suddenly there was a coldness around him that made him shiver.=

He noticed that his audio capabilities were somehow enhanced and he was
able to hear sounds that previously he was unable to hear. He then heard a=

noise outside his door and went out to investigate. The noise became louder=

as he approached the door. He then heard footsteps and opened the door. A
very small man with a somewhat deformed body that was smiling at him
confronted the witness. He looked straight ahead and then stared at the
witness. His next memory was of waking up in his bed in the morning.

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.com
Type: E


66.
Location. Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2105
The primary witness had stepped out on his back porch when his attention
was drawn to two huge black "birds" which were approaching from the north.=

His first impression was they were Herons, but soon realized that the color=

was wrong, and "they were huge, much larger than any bird I have ever
seen." The two huge birds landed at the top of a very tall coniferous tree.=

The witness stated that the wingspan appeared to be wider than the
branches, jest below where they had landed. The body size was estimated to=

be about six feet from head to tail. The oddest feature was the shape of
the wings, which according to the witness appeared to be bat-like. The tree=

where the "birds" landed seemed as though it would break from their weight.=

The witness yelled for others in the house to come outside to look. Another=

family member was able to see the huge black birds as they passed overhead,=

and headed for some woods. After checking the size of the branches where
the birds had landed, the witness estimated that the wingspan would have
been close to 12 feet or somewhat larger.

HC addendum
Source: Stan GordonType: E


67.
Location. Marldon Hill, Paington, England
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2357
A couple were walking near a local historic monument (a windmill) and they=

drew closer to monument they heard a low whirling noise. The noise
progressed to a high-pitched whining, almost out of hearing range. Then
they saw a mysterious glow coming from the dark side of the windmill, and
then to their astonishment they saw 5 or 6 shadow like figures standing in=

front of the windmill. Startled the two began to run back towards the main=

road. The woman looked back and saw the figures become engulfed by a bright=

light and disappear, and then everything became quiet.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Sightings UKType: E?


68.
Location. Adelia Maria, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 3 2002
Time: 2100
Pedro and Estela Moine had decided to visit the business district of town
called Barrio Norte and crossed the old railroad yard through a pedestrian=

pathway that ran through a pasture area between some silos, old railroad
depots and abandoned wreckage. As the couple moved through the premises
they suddenly became aware of a strange and incomprehensible conversation
between many voices. Startled, they stopped walking moved a few meters more=

and then heard the voices again which now sounded like strange "O" sounds.=

Pedro looked toward the silos and was able to see resembling humanoid but
lacking upper and lower extremities. Despite the pleas of his wife, Pedro
ran several meters toward an inner alley in the silo plant, being able to
make out some 45 meters to the west and in profile---the entity, which
acting surprised, avoided the encounter and moved again to the north.
However, what filled the witnesses with wonderment was that the creature
did so as though flying or floating without touching the facilities it
passed. Pedro and Estela ran after it. It was thus that the man managed to=

see the entity apparently hiding behind the control room of the truck
scale. Pedro ran toward it and was again startled to see the apparition
rising as a plane taking off, flying at an altitude of 5 meters and
disappearing behind a large metal shed. Bewildered, both witnesses called
out, but were unable to see anything else. Pedro Moine as "a thing with
human shape" described the apparition. It had some sort of light, although=

he could not say if reflected or self-generated, although he tends to
believe the latter, since it was a nebulous whitish light, which kept him
from making out details. The entire mass of the apparition appeared to be a=

body covered from head to toe in some sort of mantle, which he described as=

though it wore a hat, but covered with some kind of long raincoat reaching=

down to what he took to be its feet. He added that the "conversational
sounds" repeated themselves in three separate occasions at various
intensities. They were like conversations in a strange language.

HC addendum
Source: Mario Luis Bracamonte, C.O.R, Rio Cuarto Argentina
Type: E


69.
Location. Jerusalem, Israel
Date: July 6 2002
Time: night
A remote TV camera picked up images of "orbs seen on the corner to the
right of the Wailing Wall." They seemed to have facial features almost like=

a ghost, reported investigator Charlotte LeFevre. The orbs were described
as "sharp and distinct". The orbs were next to the women's prayer area in
front of the Wall. Other strange phenomena, has been reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 29Type: F?


70.
Location. Villa Elisa, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: July 13 2002
Time: 2300
A young woman fainted from nervous shock after having an alleged closed
encounter with "some sort of green dwarf". This occurred---enveloped in
darkness---along Misioneros Salesianos Street very close to several houses.=

An ambulance was called and apparently transported the witness who was in
shock.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria ColuchiType: E


71.
Location. Patna, India
Date: July 21 2002
Time: night
Several residents claim they've been bitten or scratched by a "black
monkey-like creature with colored lights flashing from its eyes." Resident=

Pawan Kumar Niyogi who was sleeping on the terrace of his house claims "a 5=

ft tall monkey-like creature" attacked him. He said: "I was terrified and
thought my life was going to end but it merely scratched me on the shoulder=

before jumping off the roof." Local residents are conducting night vigils
and carrying torches to guard their homes.

HC addendum
Source: Ananova, Ufoupdates. Type: E


72.
Location. Chajan, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 21 2002
Time: 2300
Police officer Guillermo Arias was on routine patrol through a rural area
when he heard over the radio that his colleagues in arms over at Achiras
were seeing lights in sectors of said community, and that they were heading=

towards Chajan along National Route 8. At the wheel of the police patrol
van, he managed to see a formation of 7 lights in the distance and decided=

to drive 10 km along a rural dirt road. When he had covered said distance,=

he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine of his vehicle sputtered=

and died, causing the police car to strike the edge of a guardrail.
Simultaneously, the lights on the van's dashboard began turning on and off=

randomly, the police radio went haywire and its dial displayed the random
shifting of the frequencies while the cabin became filled with an acrid
odor, as though of burnt wiring, and the interior lights and stop
indicator, which were broken, began lighting on and off. Seized by fear,
Arias leaped from the van and walked away a few meters down the road,
losing his cellular phone in the escape. The darkness was total, when
suddenly, amid the confusing situation; an immense light emerged from a
field adjacent to the road as a triangular object rose majestically into
the air. Now Arias condition went from fear to abject terror as he saw what=

he described as a real "floating city" some 200 meters long with a long row=

of windows (perhaps as many as 100). Arias claims having seen something
move behind them, describing the movement as "TV sets which make lines and=

shadows", which he defined as "non-human", and that many beams of light
came out of the giant triangle, aimed at the ground. The event lasted 2-3
seconds, but to Arias it felt like an eternity. The object suddenly rose
and sped away, vanishing behind the hills of a local field. As the object
moved away, the whole area was lit up like daytime and there was an
afterglow that lasted another 20 minutes.

HC addendum
Source: C.O.R., Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense, Argentina
Type: A


73.
Location. Waconia, Minnesota
Date: July 26 2002
Time: 0300A
The young witness was sleeping in the backyard with his sister when he
suddenly woke up. He then noticed that the side of the tent that faced the=

wetlands and lake was lit up. Looking towards the light he saw a shadowy
torso and arm of a humanoid figure that seemed to be moving around within
the light. He watched for 30 seconds and saw the figure move the fingers of=

his hands. The witness became frightened and hid in his sleeping bag. He
came out about an hour later and the light and strange figure were
completely gone.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


74.
Location. Sedona, Arizona
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 0310A
In a wooded area the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all
white, with black "straight" eyes; and black diagonal/diamond strip of
"clothing" on top. He stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then
left. Prior to seeing the figure the witness had seen lights in a large
oval shaped pattern in the sky.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


75.
Location. Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 1730
Three girls had decided to visit the rooftop as they did the prior evening=

watching for satellites. It was dusk and the girls had a good vantage point=

looking towards the east. With them they had a pair of binoculars and a
pair of walkie-talkies. The girls noticed that a large orange light
appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The anomaly
was noted to have fluctuated in colors of orange, yellow, white and pale
blue. At fist they thought of an arriving airplane, but then a second light=

appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10=

degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some=

unusually maneuvering; from a stationary position it accelerated at least 5=

degrees closer to the ground surface at an approximate 45-60 degree angle
within a matter of a single second. The first anomaly then began to move
slowly towards the north. At this stage they partially lost view of it as
it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley-like
region of the horizon. According to the witnesses, this third object
appeared to have "landed" on the ground surface. The object was then viewed=

through the binoculars and presented in great detail; the object was
described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange,=

blue/purple and white rotating around the rim. Thy also noted the trees
being slightly illuminated by this extraordinary phenomenon. They were
suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, "Identify
yourself." This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in a
foreign language. Around 1830 the girls were then called down to have
dinner. At about 2030 the girls re-established their places on the roof
after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still
present. Unexpectedly a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above
the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. "It
was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away." The=

light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it=

is not clear how one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became
extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed
her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not=

sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another of the girls woke up
the next morning with her nose bleeding. She also mentioned that she had
seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom.

HC addendum
Source: The Australian UFO Research NetworkType: D or
F?



76.
Location. Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 29 2002
Time: early morning
Local residents have seen a strange figure, which they described as
resembling a "shroud". The apparitions, which always occur in the early
morning hours, have become so common that in recent days several neighbors=

have stayed up late to see them, and it is thus that they were able to
confirm the simultaneous presence of up to 2 such beings, as well as red
lights flying over the area. All the witnesses whether individuals or in a=

group, agree that the entities are nebulous and glowing, with a pair of red=

eyes being clearly identifiable, and glassy faces (as if transparent).
Their movements are smooth and they always appear from behind the sand
dunes, as though "coming form the Naval Base." Most witnesses agree that
they show a great interest in the water tanks located above the roofs, and=

that they do not flee upon detecting the presence of local
residents---rather, they stare at them fixedly for some minutes. Deep
silence is perceived during the observations and "the air appears to become=

still" and neither heat nor cold can be felt---only a sensation of warmth,=

as if the beings emanated heat. Witnesses also state that things appear to=

be darker when "the shroud" appears, as though ambient lighting were
dimmed. Another curious fact is the large number of cats and dogs who
report to the place where the sightings occur and sit down to observe it in=

silence, in a state resembling a trance. A series of semi-circular prints
have been found in the dunes, not very deep, with 15-20 cm separations in
some cases and 30-50 cm in others. The locals have identified them as the
strange being's footprints. Efforts have been made to photograph the
"shroud", but all images, despite the use of different cameras appear
exposed. One witness who approached the site to witness the phenomenon took=

two photos of the prints in the afternoon and decided to stay with the
group of people hoping to see the "shroud", managing to take some photos of=

same and record the new prints which appeared in the dunes after the
sighting. A completely uncommon print was found at the site---but the
residents aren't sure if it's related to the phenomenon: it has the shape
of a five-fingered claw. One witness tried to make use of his carbine's
telescopic sight to see the figure in greater detail, but "when he tried to=

focus on it, he could see nothing_it was a though it could only be seen
with the unaided eye."

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, IHU, Christian Quintero and O A Mario
Proyecto Condor
Type: C or E?


77.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 30 2002
Time: 0530A
27-year old Mariela Baigorri reported seeing a strange figure that floated=

in front of her house. She had woken up early that morning and was getting=

ready to mount her bicycle when she saw behind the fence something floating=

in mid-air. It appeared to be a figure wearing a flowing white transparent=

tunic, with bright red eyes and undefined facial features. Feeling no fear=

she decided to approach it. She felt as if the figure waited for her and
was observing her. At this point Mariela felt some fear and began reciting=

the Lord's Prayer. The figure suddenly moved back and disappeared in plain=

sight.

HC addendum
Source: Juan Carlos Corrales Morey, Vision Ovni, Argentina
Type: E


78.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 31 2002
Time: 1845
23-year old Julian Pereyra was in his vehicle when he observed two red
spheres flying slowly over some nearby woods, they seemed to descend and
disappear behind the trees. 15 minutes later, Pereyra, accompanied by
several other witnesses approached the area and observed what they
described a tall floating figure wearing a white glowing cape like outfit,=

it seemed to glide silently over a field. It had what appeared to be a
visor at face level and two beams of red light emerged from where the eyes=

would have been. The witnesses watched the strange figure glide over the
fields for about 30 minutes. Curiously numerous local dogs and cats
approached and also watched the figure in fascination. The lights and
figure disappeared into the distance. In another occasion Pereyra and some=

of his family members encountered the strange humanoid and felt a strange
sensation as if the wind had suddenly stopped, they felt as they were
inside a vacuum or "bubble." Strange tracks have been reportedly found in
the area also.

HC addendum
Source: Diario La Nueva Provincia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Type: C?


79.
Location. La Cienaga, Pocri, Panama
Date: early August 2002
Time: night
Luis Alfredo Diaz reported hearing loud noises coming from the terraced
patio where the kitchen was located, going to investigate he found his cat=

apparently dead with two obvious holes on the neck and some blood on the
floor. Before finding the cat he had called his wife, Maria de Los Santos
Barrios. As his wife stood in front of him a panic stricken look came over=

her face, turning around he was confronted by a bizarre 1-meter tall
humanoid that had jumped to the center of the patio. The creature was
described as thin, covered with dark hair, with large pointed ears that
almost covered its face, it had very large eyes and extremely strong hind
legs resembling that of a kangaroo. Terrified he ran to his son's bedroom
and carried him outside yelling for his neighbors. A search failed to
locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Panamanian Paranormal Forum
Type: E


80.
Location. Near Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Date: August 2002
Time: night
The same witness involved in a similar encounter last year was again
camping in the same area when he again heard a noise. Shining the light in=

the direction of the sound he again saw the same creature. The creature sat=

there crouched by the trees staring at the witness. The witness walked
slowly towards it, he got to within 20 ft when it just jumped backward and=

disappeared. He described the creature as about five to six ft in height,
gray in color. It was totally naked. It had human features, but more
leathery, and its face was very wide, its eyes were huge and even though
they reflected light, they still looked black, resembling two intensely
black marbles. Its legs were very muscular, but turned backwards, like a
bird. Other hikers in the area have reported encountering little brown men=

on some of the more isolated trails.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal Story Archives, November 2002Type: E


81.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: August 1 2002
Time: late evening
64-year old Raul Dorado was touring some fields when he heard a loud sound=

on two occasions, like a whirlwind, which drew his attention. The third
time he saw something he describes as a green circle with three legs
hovering over him. At that moment Dorado fell to the ground, and according=

to his story, he carried a shotgun, binoculars and a cellular phone, the
latter, which was taken from his hand, and he could clearly see being
sucked into the object, which was apparently at low altitude. His next
recollection was seeing the object disappear toward the east. Dorado
remained at the location for an hour before being able to rise and walk
back to his car, returning to town in a state of shock. He had to be
hospitalized. Later when calls were placed to the (abducted) cellular phone=

someone would pick up and heavy breathing could be heard. Later on the
phone was apparently disconnected.

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, quoting Diario La Arena, La PampaType: G?


82.
Location. Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Date: August 2 2002
Time: 1730
A man named Todd Sees went up the mountain to look for pre-season deer. He=

told his wife that he would be home by noon. He rode his 4-wheeler up the
power line behind his home. He never returned. A search party composed of
local police, state police and volunteers searched for Sees. The 4-wheeler=

was found on the top of the mountain near a power-line. Tracking dogs could=

find nothing to go on around the 4-wheeler. The search went on for 2 days
and over 6 miles of mountain was covered from top to bottom. Then, in the
evening of the 2nd day, his body was found in a hard to reach wooded area.=

He was wearing his underwear. He was emaciated---not bloated. He was pale
and had an expression of horror on his face. When he went up the mountain
he was fully dressed, boots, camo-vest, hat, socks, pants. 3 people, on one=

farm, said they saw a large round bright object just above the power-lines=

at the time of the disappearance. It was silent, it did not move for about=

10 to 15 minutes. It suddenly went up and suddenly stopped. A light shone
down and something was pulled up into the light. It then went straight up,=

hesitated again, and then went west over the Susquehanna River and out of
sight. More specifically a farmer saw an object above Montour Ridge at the=

power lines, on top of the mountain, it was round and very still over the
lines. Suddenly it moved what looked like a few hundred feet to the east,
it stopped and a beam of blue and white light shone to the ground. What was=

seen next was very unnerving, he saw what appeared to be a man suspended in=

the light, he was being pulled up head first, he was moving his arms slowly=

in the light. What looked like a man was pulled up into the bottom of the
craft. A few seconds later it started shuddering, then went west very fast,=

stopped briefly, and then went straight up and out of sight. Also three
fishermen saw the craft. The FBI is supposedly also investigating. (Debated=

as a hoax, who would? and for what purpose?).

HC addendum
Source: Rense, UFO updates, NUFORCType: G?






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                            2002 Humanoid Reports

From: Albert Rosales <Garuda79@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:32:05 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:14:40 -0500
Subject: 2002 Humanoid Reports


Happy new year everyone

Sincerely,

Albert

-----

2002 Humanoid Reports. It appears to be a slow start for this
year with only one recorded case, again from Chile. We will see
what develops later on the year. 2001 was pretty busy but it was
a decline from 2000. Maybe we will see another down trend again,
later to pick up again in the near future. This seems to be the
ever-ongoing trend of the phenomena. Will it always stay the
same? Time will tell. Following is a list of known 2002 humanoid
cases.


1.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: January 2002
Time: 0300A
An employee at the local Minera Escondida was on his way to the
storage freezer in order to pick up some supplies when an
unknown creature jumped him from behind. He could only describe
it as hairy and dark. He was left with deep scratches and in a
state of shock. Terrified he ran away and bumped into two other
employees who were able to see a shadowy creature in the dark.

HC addendum
Source: La Estrella del Loa de Calama, ChileType: E


2.
Location. Caracas, Venezuela
Date: January 2002
Time: late night
Late one night in a dream-like state the witness woke up to see
seven to eight strange figures in her bedroom. They were dark
gray in color and very thin, with three large thick long fingers
on their hands. They had large, lipless mouths and large shiny
protruding black eyes, their noses were thin and protruding,
small ears, the heads was large and pointy. The humanoids
appeared to be naked and she was able to see a penis on the
humanoids. They were about 1.55 meters in height. She felt dizzy
and under the control of the strange entities. She was led out
of her bedroom by one of the humanoids that removed her clothing
and made her lie down on the floor. The humanoids apparently
attempted to molest her sexually and possibly attempted to rape
her but were not successful. She apparently passed out and does
not remember anything else about the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Lista Alcione and witness communicationType: E


3.
Location. Fort McMurry, Alberta, Canada
Date: January 2 2002
Time: 2032
Two men were parked on an isolated dirt road when they spotted a
large cone-shaped object descend and hover. One of the men
exited the car and he vanished in plain sight of the other, the
craft then also disappeared. The other man tried to drive away
to get help but the car would not start and it was to cold to
walk. He soon went to sleep and woke up later to find his friend
sleeping next to him. Later they drove back to town. His friend
does not remember what happened during those two hours of
missing time. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


4.
Location. Paso Lovera, Corrientes, Argentina
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2030
Gabriela Lencinas, 15-year old and a 19-year old friend were
returning home on a bicycle when they spotted a large cloud like
object descend from the sky and from it a giant figure emerge.
The witnesses stopped their bicycles to see a car approach the
giant figure, stop, the driver exit the car and then re-entering
the vehicle and driving quickly away. The figure then rose up
into the cloud and disappeared. The girls reported that the
giant human-like figure had its hair standing up on his head and
was extending its arms towards the witnesses that quickly rode
their bicycles home. Other in the area reported seeing bright
lights that same night.

HC addendum
Source: Pablo Omastott
Type: B?


5.
Location. Villa San Rafael, Chile
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2345
Two young teenagers, Jean F and Nelson C, where at home at night
when Jean noticed that his pet snake had escaped from its cage.
Both boys began looking for it outside among the rubble of the
parcel. They recalled how half an hour before, their two dogs
strangely began to howl and cry; however, it did not seem to be
important at that point in time. They searched for the pet snake
together when suddenly, about 30 meters from where they stood;
they saw what appeared to be a stray dog. They threw rocks at to
avoid an attack. However, to their surprise, the animal stood
there, motionless and fearless; it did not get scared nor it ran
away as ordinary dogs normally do. Shortly, the strange animal
began to move towards them. The movements it made as it walked
were very strange. It used two legs at a time. It made very
small sand short leaps like a rabbit. Suddenly, it stopped and
it stood up on two legs. The teenagers then began to feel some
kind of energy. "It was like an electrical shock in the
stomach," they said. It later walked again making a loud
dragging noise, making small leaps and only moving one of its
legs. They noticed the weird shape of the animal. "It was like a
rugby football with legs," one of them said. Jean began to feel
frightened and started to move away from animal. On the other
hand, Nelson felt a strange need to get closer to the creature;
he got to within 2 meters away from it. The creature appear to
emit a strange luminosity that apparently, was bright enough to
lit a small area around the creature in spite of the nighttime
darkness. Nelson was mesmerized as he stared at the strange
creature. He described it as having a head like a large dog with
a flat nose like a bulldog. Its eyes were slanted and pale-red
in color, which could only be seen when the creature turned its
head from side to side like a lizard. At that moment, Nelson
heard a voice in his head saying, "Don't stare, and just run
away." They provided further description, describing the ears as
flat, round and large. Its arms were short, it had elbows, and
the hands had three fingers. It had hair like the one on a wild
pig. Its legs were like the ones of a goat. The feet had also
three fingers and a membrane like ducks, but somewhat shorter.
On its curved back, they were able to notice a spinal section
covered with amounts of even thicker hair. Most of the hair of
the animal was gray, but the tail had a white tip. Nelson
finally fled, terrified, from the area. He also described how he
felt an inexplicable bone-chilling cold sensation.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center
Type: E


6.
Location. Not given
Date: January 12 2002
Time: night
Ted Parker was eating some leftover food when he claims the food began to
change. The bread of the sandwich turned an orange color and the lamb
became a silvery metallic color, sort of like liquid mercury. As he watched=

transfixed, he saw the orange bread and metallic lamb turn into the figure=

of an "alien" with the form of a man. It was silver in color and its outfit=

(smooth pants and shirt, like a jump suit) was orange in color. At this
point Parker glanced at the wall clock and it indicated that 2 hours had
gone by, even though it felt like minutes only. The alien figure
communicated using telepathic means and asked Ted to come with him. They
both went outside and there, Ted saw a landed black-colored craft in his
backyard. In a split second Ted found himself inside the craft not knowing=

how he got there. The inside of the craft was pure white in color with
strips of the metallic silver that the alien figure appeared to be made of.=

The rest of the incident is just a blur, but Parker did remembered hearing=

several loud high-pitched rings while onboard the object. A couple of days=

before while eating dinner with several other people there had been a
similar high pitched ring and everybody had just stopped eating and walked=

out of the room.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: G or F?



7.
Location. Chihuahua, Mexico
Date: January 29 2002
Time: night
Several days before seeing a UFO the witness remembered being in a
dream-like state in which he felt very calm and saw numerous disc shaped
objects, orange-red in color. A human like figure was talking to him about=

the objects and their propulsion. The UFO he saw was of an orange color and=

he felt a sort of ecstasy when he observed the craft. Several of his
neighbors also saw the object.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: G or F?


8.
Location. Near Palmyra, Wisconsin
Date: February 2002
Time: 0200A
Two men reported seeing a creature that resembled a bipedal "gigantic wolf"=

walking down a road west of the city. They said the creature was at least 7=

ft tall with a wolf-like head. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Linda GodfreyType: E


9.
Location. West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
Nebilson Sangma reported encountering a scary furry creature on a hunting
trip in the jungles. He reportedly took a video of the creature's nesting
place. According to Sangma, the creature walked erect like a human, had
built a house like nesting place, and would emerge from it frequently to
feast on a banana grove. Sangma and his brother observed the gigantic
creature for three consecutive days from afar. Officials and villagers have=

been hunting for the creature in the forest but it seems to have
disappeared as furtively as it appeared.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 13
Type: E


10.
Location. Near Dover, England
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness had been jogging along a low path by the beach when she noticed=

a tall, well built being in a black skin tight suit, that stood watching
her from nearby. He wore a black helmet wit a brown visor pulled down. At
first she thought it was a biker but as she approached the figure, it
suddenly disappeared in plain sight. As she continued to run she noticed a=

black craft jutting out of the sand, it was small and oval shaped, matt and=

ribbed it also disappeared in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: E?


11.
Location. Rosario de la Frontera, Salta, Argentina
Date: February 2002
Time: night
A strange creature called by locals "El Pestizo" has attacked several lone=

pedestrians in the middle of the night. It is described as a dark man
shaped shadowy being. A boy riding his bicycle on the way to visit some
friends was toppled from his bicycle and found a black shadowy figure
facing him. The young man managed to upholster his shotgun and fire two
shots. But, when he saw that they had no effect, he promptly drew his knife=

and stabbed the figure without any apparent harm. Frightened the youth
tried to escape but the creature knocked him down without saying a word and=

began dragging him by the hair to the side of the road. At this point the
young man began to scream. A local man, who rushed to provide assistance,
only to find a black shadow dragging the boy by the hair, heard his cries.=

The fearful shape disappeared without a trace after it became aware of the=

other man's presence. Six other locals have reported being attacked by a
similar being and received wounds.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


12.
Location. Not given
Date: February 2002
Time: early morning
The witness was alone at home and was preparing his breakfast when suddenly=

he heard a window break; he went to see what had happened. Grabbing a golf=

club he peeked inside the room where the window broke. He was stunned to
see a strange creature climbing on his bed. It appeared to be hurt, because=

it seemed that it could not move well. Gripping the golf club he went a
step nearer and the creature hissed horribly. It shrieked in an unworldly
manner. Terrified the witness did not move. The creature was small, about
the size of a large rabbit, and it was dark in color and had reddish eyes.=

It had wings and a spine of quills on its back, and had a semi reptilian
face. It appeared to have hair and small legs. The witness raised the golf=

club and the creature hissed again showing its large yellowish teeth, which=

appeared to be sharp, like those of a crocodile. It suddenly hopped out of=

the window and rapidly hopped across the street into the oak trees.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June archiveType: E


13.
Location. Vigevano, Italy
Date: February 2002
Time: 0100A
In the outskirts of this city a witness observed from his vehicle a
luminous humanoid entity walking along a roadway. It scurried away into the=

darkness when approached.
No other information.

HC addendum
Source: CISU, ItalyType: E



14.
Location. Corguinho, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Date: February 5 2002
Time: night
During a localized UFO flap several witnesses reported seeing a strange
creature described as about 1.3 meters in height, having two legs, with a
physique like a human but who moved with a strange fluctuating motion. The=

creature was seen five times by twenty people in the rural zone around
Corguinho. In Rochedo, 6 miles south of Corguinho five Cebu cattle were
found dead with a single incision on the side of the throat. The bodies had=

been drained of blood. (Is there a connection?).

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


15.
Location. Mount Podbrdo, Bosnia Hercigovina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: morning
Contactee and stigmatic Giorgio Bongiovanni was visiting the shrine on top=

of the mountain and was praying silently to the Virgin when, to his
astonishment, a glowing luminous female figure appeared and touched his
forehead with her fingertips. His stigmata scar vanished instantly. The
female figure told him to return to Italy and make known what had happened.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 14
Type: E or F?


16.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: evening
73-year-old Maria Rufina Cayo, a local shepherd was walking back home with=

her dogs and the cattle. Suddenly at one point, something spooked the
animals, and these began to stampede. Looking around she spotted a bizarre=

creature standing about 12 meters away. She described it as a humanoid,
half animal, half human, about 1.70m in height, with bright red eyes, sharp=

protruding fangs, and hands and feet that ended in sharp claws. The
creature looked at the witness three times then it scrambled away using
quick jumping motions with is powerfully built hind legs, she also noticed=

large pointy ears. The top part of its body seems to have been covered in a=

shiny white blanket. It somehow resembled a centaur walking on two
claw-like feet.  Alerted by the shouts of Maria, two men, Santos Jaimes,
and Ruben Colque ran out to investigate with their dogs. Suddenly the dogs=

stopped and began making pitiful howling noises, they refused to move any
further. The men heard noises behind some nearby bushes and went to
investigate and spotted a bizarre creature that stood staring at them with=

huge reddish eyes. It then moved quickly away in the direction of Cerro
Negro and disappeared from sight. The witnesses noticed very sharp claws on=

the creature's feet with a very sharp claw that appeared to be pointed
backwards. Strange footprints were found the next day.

HC addendum
Source: El Tribuno, Salta Argentina March 27 2002
Also Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E



17.
Location. Khanpur, Ahmedabad, India
Date: February 20 2002
Time: after midnight
Several local residents reportedly have encountered a person, dressed in
black and wearing a mask. Dubbed the "Monkeyman" whom they described as
between 25 and 20 years of age, dark skinned and having curly hair can
reportedly be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees. Two
local youths chased it and the figure reportedly disappeared in plain
sight. The two youths have been behaving abnormally since then. The
stranger was also chased along the riverbed near the Cama Hotel and it also=

suddenly disappeared. Others have heard the stranger running on the
rooftops. Abdul Hamid another youngster of the local slums described the
figure as a tall lean man that carries a sharp weapon. "I saw him from the=

back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised the alarm, he jumped to=

another roof and then on to a tree." Police have searched for the stranger=

but nothing has been found.

HC addendum
Source: Fortean Times, India Express
Type: E


18.
Location. Prague, Czech Republic
Date: February 23 2002
Time: night
Blanka Slemendova was in her apartment when she saw a "ship" hovering over=

some nearby woods. It was shining red, white and yellow lights. She then
heard telepathic communication coming from the object telling her to go and=

meet them at an unspecified location. Looking over to her bedroom wall she=

saw what appeared to be a projection of human like faces looking at her.
Later that night she saw luminous figures in her room and a floating red
light also in her room. The next night she saw what appeared to be 2 gray
suns and around them a golden lights with numerous groups of shiny
human-like figures floating about. She interpreted these as being angels.

HC addendum
Source: Direct from witness (Slemendova)
Type: C & F?


19.
Location. Wycliffe Well Roadhouse, Northern Territory Australia
Date: early March 2002
Time: evening
While workers in the area watched unusual lights in the sky an aboriginal
woman encountered a triangular sort of object in a paddock and all of the
sudden she saw three silvery clad human like figures that began to move
toward her vehicle. She turned the vehicle around and took off.

HC addendum
Source: Lou Farcus ABC On-lineType: C


20.
Location. Near Canberra Australia
Date: March 2002
Time: 1700
Several friends were taking a trip to the coast and it was already very
dark. They had already entered a tropical forest area and there was a mist=

rolling along the ground. As they turned around they saw something
squatting in the middle of the road. It stared at them, and just as they
thought they were going to hit it, it leaped off the road and into the
trees. It leaped about 10 meters in the air. The creature was definitely
human looking although it wore strange clothes. It was dressed in a green
robe of some kind with little pieces of gold on it, and it was either
wearing a head crest or it had a row of spikes running from its forehead to=

the top of its neck. Very frightened the witnesses drove out of the forest=

and at the same time the mist turned to a thick fog. They pulled over and
decided to wait until the fog had cleared, although none of them were too
happy about it. As they sat around and waited they suddenly heard a shriek.=

It sounded like some sort of wild animal and they turned the car on so the=

headlights would scare it away. The headlights revealed the same creature
they had seen earlier. It hid its face from the light and shrieked. Right
before the witnesses' eyes, the creature seemed to evaporate into the fog.=

Within five minutes the fog had gone and the normal rolling mist was back.=

The witnesses quickly left the area and drove towards the coast.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June ArchiveType: E


21.
Location. Guanica Puerto Rico
Date: March 1 2002
Time: 2345
Reinaldo Rios (involved in other encounters) was in his bedroom that night=

when a large white light suddenly appeared. It flew around the room several=

times and then hovered. He heard voices coming from the light, which
communicated with him. The voice said: "I am your real father." Soon the
light transformed itself into a figure resembling that of a little boy it
then vanished in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: UFOs over America.com
Type: E


22.
Location. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 0800A
The witness and his wife were in bed that Saturday morning talking when
their 5-year-old daughter came into the bedroom with her baby brother,
whose cot is placed under their bedroom window. They heard a strange noise=

and some green light came into the window. Their daughter looked out the
window and reported seeing a "flying car" with four spinning green lights
on top. She saw two windows in the vehicle and saw two dark brown faces
looking out. His wife saw the craft flying past through the curtains. That=

same morning, in a large tree near the witness house a strange structure
was found. The branches were arranged in a rectangular pen shape, vertical,=

each approximately 30 to 40 cm long. They found a few smaller sticks
scaling down in size from the structure. A piece of concrete slab was found=

propped up on one corner. The witnesses had never seen this strange
structure before and think is some kind of message left by the visitors.
(Some kind of bizarre crop circle?). A few nights before they had heard
strange noises coming from the kitchen area.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: A


23.
Location. Golasecca Di Novara, Italy
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 2330
Augusto & Maurizia were in their vehicle parked in an open field next to a=

wooded area having a heated discussion when suddenly a powerful beam of
reddish-orange light illuminated the area around them. They rolled down the=

car window and heard a sharp metallic sound that seemed to be increasing in=

intensity. They now noticed, behind the beam of light a hovering
disc-shaped craft with a central rotating ring, it hovered about a meter
from the ground. From the object, a cigar-shaped beam of light emerged;
they could see it as the central ring of the craft slowly rotated on its
axis. The craft was only about 10 meters away. At this point, and only
about 4 meters from the object Augusto saw what appeared to be a gelatinous=

transparent humanoid-like figure with a visible head, arms and legs. The
figure was silvery in color and was very tall, about 3 meters or so. At
this point Augusto became concerned and drove away from the area and did
not see the object or figure depart. The whole episode lasted about 10
minutes. The metallic noise was heard all throughout the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Alfredo Lissoni, CUN Milano, Michelle Castellano CUN VareseType: C


24.
Location. Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England
Date: March 3 2002
Time: morning
Helen Diskin went for a walk in the countryside talking snap shots along
the way with her digital camera. Returning home she loaded these into her
computer and was intrigued by an odd-looking image. It looked like a
luminous figure in an area of no sunlight, skulking amongst the trees. She=

returned to the site of the photo twice afterward and could find no
explanation for the figure. The figure resembled a small helmeted figure
that she had not seen when she took the picture of an area of the woods she=

had thought of as "mysterious."

HC addendum
Source: Helen Diskin, UFO Magazine Vol. 22 # 1Type: E?


25.
Location. Near Trenton New Jersey
Date: March 4 2002
Time: night
Several witnesses were camping outside of town and late at night one of
them was attempting to put out the bonfire when he heard the most awful and=

horrifying scream. It resembled that of an injured dog crossed with a
scream of a woman. The witness dropped the flashlight and was joined by
another witness. Suddenly out of the woods a hideous and gruesome creature=

appeared. It did not look human, somewhat satyr-like in appearance and
walked on two legs. It had a long tail like a dragon and wings like those
unicorns in fantasy books. The beast took several steps towards the
witnesses and one of them picked up and asked and yelled at it and then
shone his flashlight at it. The creature then turned towards the bushes and=

ran away from the area.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: E


26.
Location. Pichaca, Salta, Argentina
Date: March 9 2002
Time: night
Ceferino Leoncio was cleaning his one room metal shack when suddenly a
bright light engulfed the room. He felt a sudden heat as he saw a tiny
figure (50 cm) of an angel-like creature materialize in front of him. It
slowly moved its small wing-like protrusions and moved around and then
suddenly stopped and remained still. It appeared to be a small living human=

like living being until it appeared to hardened and turn into some type of=

statue of cherubic appearance. Locals have now built a shrine around the
tiny "statue" and call the strange materialization a "religious miracle".

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso
Type: F?



27.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: March 16 2002
Time: 2215
Mirna, was watching television alone in her room when she began hearing
noises coming from outside, at first she thought it was her dogs playing
around with some empty cans. But the noises kept getting louder and louder=

and she decided to go outside to investigate. Once outside she was stunned=

to see some type creature that had somehow entered the rabbit cage and was=

attacking the animals that were making loud unearthly screams. Thinking at=

first that it was one of the dogs she approached the case but realized that=

it was a gray colored hairy hunched over creature, that was moving quickly=

inside the cage. She stepped back and could not understand how the creature=

had entered the cage, since there wasn't any apparent hole or aperture
visible anywhere and the door was firmly closed. Afraid she ran inside her=

home and notified her son, both then ran out but the creature had
mysteriously disappeared. Unnerved, they could not understand how they
creature had escaped since the door to the rabbit caged was still firmly
locked. Later they could only find a small round hole in the wire only
several centimeters in width, not large enough for a creature estimated to=

have been about 70 to 80 cm in height. Several of the rabbits were found
injured and one was dead.

HC addendum
Source: Calama UFO CenterType: E


28.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: March 19 2002
Time: 2000
Young Elizabeth Lera reported seeing a short humanoid with "dark eyes"
looking into the building compound from behind a wire fence. It appeared
not to have any other facial features and was wearing dark clothing; it
wore some type of head covering, which was hard to see because of the
darkness. She could only see a pair of large dark eyes on his face that
appeared to shine in the darkness. Some more children now arrived and
observed as the humanoid move several steps towards them. Another witness,=

Rene Mamani saw the humanoid run and hide behind some bushes. It seemed to=

move at very high speed in an unnatural fashion. It seemed to have remained=

suspended in mid-air for a few seconds. It then seemed to fly through the
air and disappeared into some nearby woods. Other students at the school
reportedly saw it again on the night of the 20th.

HC addendum
Source: Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E


29.
Location. Woodburn, Oregon
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 0300A
The witness was sleeping when she woke up suddenly feeling paralyzed. The
witness was completely unable to move or speak. Her next memory was of a
strange sensation on her left cheek, which hurt a lot. Unseen "beings" were=

apparently taking skin samples. Her face was left with a pink fleshy scoop=

down my left cheek, directly on the cheekbone. A teardrop scar was left on=

her cheek.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical Universe
Type: G?




30.
Location. Bethlehem, Israel
Date: March 21 2002
Time: night
At the besieged Church of The Nativity several awed witnesses have come
forward describing the events of Thursday night. That night, a smell of
roses filled the sanctuary as the Daughters of Charity held their evening
prayers. "The sweet scent was soon followed by a high musical humming sound=

and a distinct feeling of warmth emanating from the ceiling." Then, the
sisters reported, seeing a glowing beam of light gradually forming the
likeness of the Blessed Virgin "like a film coming into focus." Tears were=

running down her face, and she uttered a prophetic warning. "Time is
growing short, and the promised Judgment Day is nearly at hand." One week
before the apparition, The Church of the Holy Family was the scene of a
ferocious firefight between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 17Type: F


31.
Location. Not given
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 2255
16-year old Steven Mizon saw hovering over a street a large oval shaped
craft encircled in bright lights and with several lighted windows around
its edge. A figure stared down at him from one of the windows. No other
information.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Watch
Type: A



32.
Location. Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain
Date: March 26 2002
Time: 1500
A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a deserted road when=

he noticed ahead in the distance and in the middle of the roadway an object=

resembling a shiny pear that was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat
perplexed he approached and noticed two individuals standing on a nearby
field. These were over 2 meters in height, wore tight fitting white
coveralls and helmets resembling that of the early astronauts. He parked
his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men=

walked away and entered the shiny pear-shaped craft while the other
remained behind. Knowing that these men were "not from this earth" he still=

asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt that as
he approached the strange pair he had been in some type of a trance and
seemed to have floated over the road. The humanoid answered and appeared
genuinely happy as to his offer of assistance but said that everything was=

in order. He also added that the area was very beautiful and also added:
"Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such
beautiful scenes, they disappeared a long time ago." The astounded witness=

managed to ask the humanoid where he was from and was told that they hailed=

from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The=

humanoid smiled as he answered the question. The humanoid then bid goodbye=

and walked towards the nearby shiny pear shaped object, he then disappeared=

inside of it. The craft then emitted a loud whistling sound and disappeared=

at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the
humanoids as about 2.50 meters in height, wide chests and heavy set, thin
legs. Generally human features, but somewhat "refined" or sharpened
features. The suits were very tight fitting made of an apparent synthetic
material resembling plastic. Their eyes were very light almost white and
their speech was hesitant & accented. Also their movements seemed kind of
clumsy.

HC addendum
Source: J M Garcia, Francisco Padron, SpainType: B


33.
Location. Pringle Lake, Texas
Date: March 28 2002
Time: 1100A
Mark Hakemack and a friend had taken an airboat out on the NW side of the
lake to do a little redfish fishing. The day was kind of hazy, with broken=

cloud cover. They had caught several trout and were just chatting when he
hooked up a large redfish while playing with the fish, Mark happened to
glance upwards and saw a large bird-like creature emerge from a cloudbank.=

His friend saw it too, after about 20 to 25 seconds it flew behind cloud
cover again. The strange creature was grayish in color and the profile of a=

raptor, short neck/head, no legs sticking out behind, and no long tail
feathers. Mark could not take his eyes off it. He estimated the wingspan to=

have been 10' to 14 ' in overall. It appeared to be soaring on the wind,
although, he did see it give a couple of light "flaps" with its wings. The=

witness could only relate this to the legendary "Thunderbird" legend.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.comType: E


34.
Location. Sevilla, Spain
Date: March 30 2002
Time: late night
The witness to the March 26 case was at home with his wife and was getting=

ready to sleep when he heard footsteps coming from patio area outside his
chalet. Armed with a club, he opened the door and was stunned to see the
same two tall heavyset humanoids he had encountered 4 days before. One of
the humanoids was kneeling on the ground as if inspecting something on the=

soil, the other one upon hearing the door open, turned and quickly assured=

the witness not to fear that they were not here to harm him. Stunned, the
witness invited the two humanoids in the house for some refreshments (!).
These declined the invitation telling that they had to go already. Using
the same clumsy movements both humanoids walked towards the rear of the
house where the witness noticed the same shiny metallic pear shaped craft
on the ground. They entered the object, which quickly left at high speed.
The witness's wife awakened by the voices was able to see the two humanoids=

from a second story window, and described them in the same way.

HC addendum
Source: Francisco Padron, Jose Manuel Garcia, SpainType: B


35.
Location. Los Cipreses, Chile
Date: March 31 2002
Time: noon
During a local UFO congress 24 persons in three groups entered a
dimensional gateway that appeared by itself over the terrain. It was kind
of a dome, a luminous archway measuring four by four meters. The
participants lost their materiality without disappearing completely. Upon
entering, they met several human-like alien characters with large baldheads=

and wearing robes that waited within and received information. According to=

sources the contact experience was "dimensional" it was like crossing into=

a different reality. The 24 participants were "all professionals, college
students of high intellectual levels, mostly Chileans," and some were
members of Grupo Rama, a New Age association.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 16, quoting Camilo Valdivieto
Type: G or F?


36.
Location. Tbilissi Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: night
A man entered the local St David church and reported that "a phantom with
wings" had approached him and predicted an earthquake that indeed took
place on April 25 2002, devastating areas of central Georgia.

HC addendum
Source: Pravda
Type: E?


37.
Location. Near Macon, Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: 2300
Three friends were awakened by loud banging noises and bellowing sounds
coming from outside. One of the men ran to the bathroom and looked out the=

window to see a figure run by and squat in the nearby bushes. He described=

the creature as about 3 ft tall, hairy with what appeared to be horns on
its head and hands; he could not see a face. Others in the neighborhood
heard the banging noises.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.com and direct witness
Communication.
Type: E


38.
Location. Belvedere di Tezze, Italy
Date: April 26 2002
Time: evening
A 20-year old woman was returning home one night when she noticed some
bright lights nearby of an unknown origin. She followed the lights in her
car until she stopped near a local pizzeria. She saw the light near the
ground and within the lights two tall slender human like figures wearing
some type of headgear. Since she was carrying a camera she was able to snap=

a quick picture. The figures then vanished. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Gruppo Accademico Ufologico Scandicci quoting
"Il giornale di Vicenza"Type: E?


39.
Location. Puente Santamaria, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: early morning
Two young men observed a dark object descend towards the ground about 100
meters away. According to the two witnesses from the craft descended a
small humanoid, orange in color. Very scared they both ran from the area
and reported their experience to others.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: B


40.
Location. Merceditas, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: evening
An elderly couple was walking along National Route # 8 when about 800
meters from their location they noticed a very strong light. The light
descended next to a puddle at about 70 meters from the witness. Both then
saw two very short orange colored humanoids that moved in very agile
movements near the object. Terrified they walked away and upon looking back=

saw a bright glow on the ground.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: C


41.
Location. Barangay, Philippines
Date: May 2002
Time: night
Several local residents reported seeing a bizarre creature described as an=

"aswang" reputed to be a winged vampire type creature, it reportedly had
red glowing eyes, long black hair, and was wearing a white flowing gown. It=

was seen perched on top of a bamboo tree. Residents at nearby Roxas
reported seeing a similar creature. The police was called but a search
failed to locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Akasico.comType: E


42.
Location. Alvear, La Pampa Argentina
Date: May 3 2002
Time: near midnight
Several young men were returning home late at night along a deserted
roadway when suddenly out of nowhere a female figure wearing a light
flowing gown and with long black hair appeared in front of them. The
strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly and repeatedly asked for=

assistance from the men in a strange urgent tone. Terrified the men ran
from the area and later returned with additional witnesses but they could
find no trace of the strange apparition.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E?


43.
Location. Taralgon Victoria, Australia
Date: May 24 2002
Time: 2355
Walking near the Loy Yang Power station 45-year old Martin Taylor was
suddenly blinded by an intense blue light and he felt extremely dizzy. His=

next memory was of being in a circular room with a variety of lights and
buttons scattered about the walls. He was lying on a large table that
seemed to be of a very highly polished metal. He was strapped down and his=

shirt had been removed. There were wires attached to his arms, neck and
temples. A four ft tall humanoid figure with very large almond shaped eyes,=

almost transparent looking skin, ghostly white in appearance examined him.=

The figure had three extremely long fingers on each hand and spoke in a
strange dialect.

HC addendum
Source: UFO WatchType: G


44.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: May 29 2002
Time: midnight
Irma Rick watched a rotating luminous object descend close to the ground
next to a grain silo; it gave off a powerful bluish light through some
openings around its circumference. It hovered close to the ground. Through=

an opening a strange creature was seen to descend to the ground. It was
described as having an elongated semi-transparent white body; it also had
an elongated head. She could not see any eyes or legs on the creature as it=

stood motionless next to the craft. She observed the creature and object
for about 5 minutes until she dropped the flashlight she was carrying.
Afraid she left the area and did not see the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: B



45.
Location. Lembang Bandung, Indonesia
Date: May 30 2002
Time: 2315
The witness was driving his motorcycle across a highland area when he
spotted some flashing lights overhead and then noticed a silvery
disc-shaped craft descend low over some nearby graves at a cemetery. The
craft had blue and orange flashing lights around its rim. There was no
sound as the craft apparently emitted a beam of light towards the ground
and levitated what appeared to be some dead bodies onboard the object. (!)=

The witness was apparently paralyzed and was unable to move. The craft then=

shot away at a 45-degree angle and disappeared from sight. When that
happened the witness left the scene.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


46.
Location. Houston, Texas
Date: late May 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness was at the local electric company in order to pay a bill when
she decided to use the restrooms. Sitting in the stall she then noticed on=

the side of the wall of the stall what appeared to be a face lit up in a
dull light. When the witness looked directly at the "face" it vanished. She=

described is as having large round eyes no visible nose and a slit-like
mouth. (A peeping tom alien?)

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.comType: E?


47.
Location. General Acha, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: early June 2002
Time: various
A resident of the Oeste neighborhood informed newspaper sources that a
short green-colored dwarf like entity has appeared twice on her property:
once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When her husband ran out
responding to her screams, the mysterious entity vanished by rapidly
climbing up a tree. All versions agree in that the entity is short in
stature. Another resident added that it moved so quickly that it was hard
to describe it. In the same area mysterious cattle mutilations have also
been reported.

HC addendum
Source: Loren Coleman in UFO UpdatesType: E


48.
Location. Ojo De Agua, Argentina
Date: June 2002
Time: afternoon
Several passengers onboard two farm micro buses reported seeing a very tall=

dark man like figure that appeared to be wearing a tight fitting diver's
outfit standing on a nearby field. Nearby numerous mysterious animal
mutilations have been reported. The figure was silent and was quickly lost=

from sight as the buses moved away.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E




49.
Location. Near Tampa, Florida
Date: June 2002
Time: night
A man and three of his friends reported encountering two bizarre chupacabra=

type creatures one stood about 3-4 ft tall, the other looked to be about 6=

ft tall. Both had large glowing red eyes and spikes starting from the head=

to the back. They scurried away into a wooded area. (They were to have
further encounters in August).

HC addendum
Source: Art Bell.comType: E


50.
Location. Antalya, Turkey
Date: June 5 2002
Time: afternoon
Approximately 45 witnesses claimed they saw an UFO in the Santral district=

landing on the backyard of the Fatma Primary School. Several students
including Murat Esici age 11 saw an alien emitting red rays from his eyes
come out of the object. His hands and feet were metallic. He had a very big=

head and was about 1.80 meters in height. Esici temporarily lost her voice=

immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also=

claimed they san an unusual craft and an alien beside it. "His eyes and
hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes." The children
were overcome with shock after the incident.

HC addendum
Source: Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center Intl
Type: B


51.
Location. Polonnauruwa, Sri Lanka
Date: June 8 2002
Time: 2200
Approximately 50 to 70 eyewitnesses saw a UFO flying at about 100 meters
above ground level. The object was silent and briefly landed emitting a
bright flash like light. When it was close to the ground the object emitted=

a buzzing sound. Three other witnesses saw three 2 ft tall creatures than
when approached ran into the jungle and disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Sources
Type: D


52.
Location. Polonnaruwa, Sir Lanka
Date: June 9 2002
Time: 2012
Two witnesses went to a bath on a nearby river when they heard a loud
thundering sound and a UFO appeared. The craft landed nearby and two, 2 ft=

tall "aliens" emerged from the object. One of the humanoids flung a small
fluorescent fireball like object that flew over a house and vanished. Soon=

the craft and humanoids disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC & News Reports
Type: B



53.
Location. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Date: June 10 2002
Time: 1900
Witnesses saw a mysterious light in the sky and others saw a large disc
shaped object land nearby. Three humanoids only about 2 ft tall emerged
from the craft and disappeared into the forest when approached. The object=

also left.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Reports
Type: B


54.
Location. Chantilly, Virginia
Date: June 10 2002
Time: night
The witness was awakened during the night with a sense of some presence in=

the room. Looking toward the door, he saw, fading quickly, something, which=

almost had the appearance of a hologram. Next, shadows appeared outside the=

windows in an erratic shape. At first he thought the shadows to be from
trees moving in a strong wind. The appearance was of a storm blowing the
limbs to create these shadows outside the window. However, there was no
storm. He looked at the adjacent window on the side of the house facing
opposite and there was no wind at all. In fact there was no trees
positioned in such a way to cast a shadow. He opened the blinds to see what=

might be causing the shadows. He then saw what seemed to be a hologram with=

the shape of two small eyes moving erratically outside the window.
Frightened he closed the blinds. Two weeks later he was awakened by a
humming sound and again saw the erratic shadows outside the window. He
watched the shadows for 10-15 minutes and then called the police. The
police found no signs of any intrusion in the yard. When the police left
the witness walked toward the door facing the back porch and saw a large
burst of bluish white light. It looked unnatural, almost like a laser. He
has not seen the "shadows" again.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: E?


55.
Location. Ataliva Roca, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 11 2002
Time: 1930
A worker at a local drainage project was sitting and guarding some
machinery when he noticed a short greenish colored humanoid figure that was=

approaching his location from a nearby field. The witness became concerned=

and drove away from the area in the construction equipment and did not see=

the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


56.
Location. Eduardo Castex, La Pampa Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Two girls of a local school encountered a short greenish humanoid figure in=

the playing yard. The figure was standing up and appeared to be raising its=

arms up to the sky. Terrified the two girls retreated into the school and
watched the figure scurry away into some nearby woods. Around the same time=

a local farmer found a strangely mutilated hog in his farm.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


57.
Location. Chasico, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Hugo Deluca and several other workers were parked in a bus in an isolated
area when they spotted about 20 meters away a short, 1.20 meters tall,
bipedal figure completely covered in gray hair. It walked upright like a
man and then scurried away into some woods vanishing from sight. The area
had been hit with animal mutilations around the same time.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


58.
Location. Castex, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 13 2002
Time: night
A 70-year old man had gone to his driveway to check on a flat tire in his
car when a short light green colored humanoid suddenly appeared next to
him. It had large round ears, and two reddish luminous eyes. Its body was
thin and almost triangular in shape. The witness attempted to yell out but=

was suddenly unable to speak and at the same time strange warmth invaded
his body. Several seconds later the humanoid vanished and the witness
returned to normal. He reported the incident to the police.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


59.
Location. La Laguna, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 14 2002
Time: afternoon
Several youngster had gone into the fields in order to obtain some firewood=

when they saw sitting on a clearing in the woods two human like figures,
all dressed in black. They sat facing each other, one looking towards the
east the other towards the west, unmoving. Unnerved by the sight the
juveniles ran from the area. The next day the father of one of the boys
found two dead cows at the site, but could find no trace of the strange
pair. Days later a sheep and a horse were found dead and strangely
mutilated in the nearby location of El Cardonal.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: E


60.
Location. De Kalb, Illinois
Date: June 15 2002
Time: 0030A
The witness was sitting in his family room watching TV when he noticed a
bright flash of light outside the window. He saw the flash several times
and decided to check his backyard there he saw a circular light moving
around in circles. The light began to get closer; scared he ran inside his=

home and called a friend on the phone. He then quickly ran outside and saw=

the circle getting closer, he noticed that it had a purplish color to it
and it began to descend towards the ground. He became nauseous and dizzy
and collapsed on to the ground. He tried to crawl to the house but was
unable to move. He turned his head and saw the purplish object on the
ground and what appeared to be a door opening up. He then heard a squeaking=

noise and saw a tall and a short figure standing by a door of the object.
The two figures started to move towards him, walking in a strange bopping
fashion. They were of a dark complexion with a bumpy texture, other than
that they resembled normal human beings. The shorter figure approached and=

picked up the witness' camera and stared at it. He then looked at the
taller figure and handed it to him. The taller of the two looked at the
camera and then at the witness. The witness then heard loud unpleasant
shrieks coming from the taller figure, which then gave the camera back to
the shorter figure, which covered the camera with his hand, seconds later a=

light began to emerge from their hands. Then they stopped, threw the camera=

aside and began to walk towards the witness. They reached his side and
started to examine his body. A dog began to bark from inside the house and=

the shorter figure put out his hand and the dog stopped barking. At this
point the witness began to vomit. After about a minute he began to relax
and to breathe better. When he turned his head he realized that the two
figures and the purple spherical object were now gone. The next day he had=

a very severe headache.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: B


61.
Location. San Juan, Argentina
Date: June 20 2002
Time: evening
At a location where the body of a strangely mutilated carcass of a cow was=

found two witnesses reported seeing a small creature with large glowing
slanted eyes and about one meter in height. Later in the same area, members=

of the Gimenez family after investigating noises and a strong odor coming
from a wooded area found a mutilated cow and also watched a short humanoid=

with glowing eyes scurrying away into the woods.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


62.
Location. Manuel Rodriguez, Calama, Chile
Date: June 22 2002
Time: after midnight
A bizarre creature was spotted at a local housing complex on San Antonio
Street. Witnesses reported that it resembled an ape and it jumped all over=

the roof. It passed right in front of the witness, Maria Gavia's window and=

then it came back making all manner of noise. The creature was able to make=

very long jumps, unlike any a human could. It jumped and landed on the
neighbor's roof and then it left the area. Neighborhood dogs acted scared
and began howling. Others described the creature as about 1.5 meters tall,=

stocky in build with bright red eyes. It made a lot of noise. Others
reportedly chased the creature.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center, quoting El
Mercurio de CalamaType: E


63.
Location. Angencia Realico, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 23 2002
Time: late night
Several hunters returning to a local ranch spotted about 50 meters away two=

large glowing reddish eyes staring at them. They turned off their
flashlight and approached closer on foot, about 30 meters away they again
saw the reddish eyes on a dark creature that appeared to be standing on top=

of an apparently dead animal. One of the hunters shone its flashlight on
the figure again and saw a figure about 40 cm in height that quickly ran
from the area at very high speed. The creature disappeared into the brush.=

At the scene, a dead and mutilated young heifer. Other mutilations were
reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


64.
Location. Rancul, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 25 2002
Time: 2020
Two young men, Nestor Pinto and Daniel Gatica were walking on a field when=

they encountered a short man-like figure with huge pointy ears and long
dangling arms standing near some brush. The figure scurried into the brush=

and disappeared and at the same time the two witnesses ran away from the
area and did not see the strange dwarf again.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


65.
Location. Bavaria, Germany (exact location not given)
Date: June 25 2002
Time: night
The witness had stayed up late watching the soccer game as was in his
bedroom when suddenly there was a coldness around him that made him shiver.=

He noticed that his audio capabilities were somehow enhanced and he was
able to hear sounds that previously he was unable to hear. He then heard a=

noise outside his door and went out to investigate. The noise became louder=

as he approached the door. He then heard footsteps and opened the door. A
very small man with a somewhat deformed body that was smiling at him
confronted the witness. He looked straight ahead and then stared at the
witness. His next memory was of waking up in his bed in the morning.

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.com
Type: E


66.
Location. Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2105
The primary witness had stepped out on his back porch when his attention
was drawn to two huge black "birds" which were approaching from the north.=

His first impression was they were Herons, but soon realized that the color=

was wrong, and "they were huge, much larger than any bird I have ever
seen." The two huge birds landed at the top of a very tall coniferous tree.=

The witness stated that the wingspan appeared to be wider than the
branches, jest below where they had landed. The body size was estimated to=

be about six feet from head to tail. The oddest feature was the shape of
the wings, which according to the witness appeared to be bat-like. The tree=

where the "birds" landed seemed as though it would break from their weight.=

The witness yelled for others in the house to come outside to look. Another=

family member was able to see the huge black birds as they passed overhead,=

and headed for some woods. After checking the size of the branches where
the birds had landed, the witness estimated that the wingspan would have
been close to 12 feet or somewhat larger.

HC addendum
Source: Stan GordonType: E


67.
Location. Marldon Hill, Paington, England
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2357
A couple were walking near a local historic monument (a windmill) and they=

drew closer to monument they heard a low whirling noise. The noise
progressed to a high-pitched whining, almost out of hearing range. Then
they saw a mysterious glow coming from the dark side of the windmill, and
then to their astonishment they saw 5 or 6 shadow like figures standing in=

front of the windmill. Startled the two began to run back towards the main=

road. The woman looked back and saw the figures become engulfed by a bright=

light and disappear, and then everything became quiet.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Sightings UKType: E?


68.
Location. Adelia Maria, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 3 2002
Time: 2100
Pedro and Estela Moine had decided to visit the business district of town
called Barrio Norte and crossed the old railroad yard through a pedestrian=

pathway that ran through a pasture area between some silos, old railroad
depots and abandoned wreckage. As the couple moved through the premises
they suddenly became aware of a strange and incomprehensible conversation
between many voices. Startled, they stopped walking moved a few meters more=

and then heard the voices again which now sounded like strange "O" sounds.=

Pedro looked toward the silos and was able to see resembling humanoid but
lacking upper and lower extremities. Despite the pleas of his wife, Pedro
ran several meters toward an inner alley in the silo plant, being able to
make out some 45 meters to the west and in profile---the entity, which
acting surprised, avoided the encounter and moved again to the north.
However, what filled the witnesses with wonderment was that the creature
did so as though flying or floating without touching the facilities it
passed. Pedro and Estela ran after it. It was thus that the man managed to=

see the entity apparently hiding behind the control room of the truck
scale. Pedro ran toward it and was again startled to see the apparition
rising as a plane taking off, flying at an altitude of 5 meters and
disappearing behind a large metal shed. Bewildered, both witnesses called
out, but were unable to see anything else. Pedro Moine as "a thing with
human shape" described the apparition. It had some sort of light, although=

he could not say if reflected or self-generated, although he tends to
believe the latter, since it was a nebulous whitish light, which kept him
from making out details. The entire mass of the apparition appeared to be a=

body covered from head to toe in some sort of mantle, which he described as=

though it wore a hat, but covered with some kind of long raincoat reaching=

down to what he took to be its feet. He added that the "conversational
sounds" repeated themselves in three separate occasions at various
intensities. They were like conversations in a strange language.

HC addendum
Source: Mario Luis Bracamonte, C.O.R, Rio Cuarto Argentina
Type: E


69.
Location. Jerusalem, Israel
Date: July 6 2002
Time: night
A remote TV camera picked up images of "orbs seen on the corner to the
right of the Wailing Wall." They seemed to have facial features almost like=

a ghost, reported investigator Charlotte LeFevre. The orbs were described
as "sharp and distinct". The orbs were next to the women's prayer area in
front of the Wall. Other strange phenomena, has been reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 29Type: F?


70.
Location. Villa Elisa, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: July 13 2002
Time: 2300
A young woman fainted from nervous shock after having an alleged closed
encounter with "some sort of green dwarf". This occurred---enveloped in
darkness---along Misioneros Salesianos Street very close to several houses.=

An ambulance was called and apparently transported the witness who was in
shock.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria ColuchiType: E


71.
Location. Patna, India
Date: July 21 2002
Time: night
Several residents claim they've been bitten or scratched by a "black
monkey-like creature with colored lights flashing from its eyes." Resident=

Pawan Kumar Niyogi who was sleeping on the terrace of his house claims "a 5=

ft tall monkey-like creature" attacked him. He said: "I was terrified and
thought my life was going to end but it merely scratched me on the shoulder=

before jumping off the roof." Local residents are conducting night vigils
and carrying torches to guard their homes.

HC addendum
Source: Ananova, Ufoupdates. Type: E


72.
Location. Chajan, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 21 2002
Time: 2300
Police officer Guillermo Arias was on routine patrol through a rural area
when he heard over the radio that his colleagues in arms over at Achiras
were seeing lights in sectors of said community, and that they were heading=

towards Chajan along National Route 8. At the wheel of the police patrol
van, he managed to see a formation of 7 lights in the distance and decided=

to drive 10 km along a rural dirt road. When he had covered said distance,=

he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine of his vehicle sputtered=

and died, causing the police car to strike the edge of a guardrail.
Simultaneously, the lights on the van's dashboard began turning on and off=

randomly, the police radio went haywire and its dial displayed the random
shifting of the frequencies while the cabin became filled with an acrid
odor, as though of burnt wiring, and the interior lights and stop
indicator, which were broken, began lighting on and off. Seized by fear,
Arias leaped from the van and walked away a few meters down the road,
losing his cellular phone in the escape. The darkness was total, when
suddenly, amid the confusing situation; an immense light emerged from a
field adjacent to the road as a triangular object rose majestically into
the air. Now Arias condition went from fear to abject terror as he saw what=

he described as a real "floating city" some 200 meters long with a long row=

of windows (perhaps as many as 100). Arias claims having seen something
move behind them, describing the movement as "TV sets which make lines and=

shadows", which he defined as "non-human", and that many beams of light
came out of the giant triangle, aimed at the ground. The event lasted 2-3
seconds, but to Arias it felt like an eternity. The object suddenly rose
and sped away, vanishing behind the hills of a local field. As the object
moved away, the whole area was lit up like daytime and there was an
afterglow that lasted another 20 minutes.

HC addendum
Source: C.O.R., Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense, Argentina
Type: A


73.
Location. Waconia, Minnesota
Date: July 26 2002
Time: 0300A
The young witness was sleeping in the backyard with his sister when he
suddenly woke up. He then noticed that the side of the tent that faced the=

wetlands and lake was lit up. Looking towards the light he saw a shadowy
torso and arm of a humanoid figure that seemed to be moving around within
the light. He watched for 30 seconds and saw the figure move the fingers of=

his hands. The witness became frightened and hid in his sleeping bag. He
came out about an hour later and the light and strange figure were
completely gone.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


74.
Location. Sedona, Arizona
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 0310A
In a wooded area the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all
white, with black "straight" eyes; and black diagonal/diamond strip of
"clothing" on top. He stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then
left. Prior to seeing the figure the witness had seen lights in a large
oval shaped pattern in the sky.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


75.
Location. Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 1730
Three girls had decided to visit the rooftop as they did the prior evening=

watching for satellites. It was dusk and the girls had a good vantage point=

looking towards the east. With them they had a pair of binoculars and a
pair of walkie-talkies. The girls noticed that a large orange light
appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The anomaly
was noted to have fluctuated in colors of orange, yellow, white and pale
blue. At fist they thought of an arriving airplane, but then a second light=

appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10=

degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some=

unusually maneuvering; from a stationary position it accelerated at least 5=

degrees closer to the ground surface at an approximate 45-60 degree angle
within a matter of a single second. The first anomaly then began to move
slowly towards the north. At this stage they partially lost view of it as
it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley-like
region of the horizon. According to the witnesses, this third object
appeared to have "landed" on the ground surface. The object was then viewed=

through the binoculars and presented in great detail; the object was
described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange,=

blue/purple and white rotating around the rim. Thy also noted the trees
being slightly illuminated by this extraordinary phenomenon. They were
suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, "Identify
yourself." This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in a
foreign language. Around 1830 the girls were then called down to have
dinner. At about 2030 the girls re-established their places on the roof
after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still
present. Unexpectedly a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above
the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. "It
was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away." The=

light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it=

is not clear how one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became
extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed
her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not=

sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another of the girls woke up
the next morning with her nose bleeding. She also mentioned that she had
seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom.

HC addendum
Source: The Australian UFO Research NetworkType: D or
F?



76.
Location. Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 29 2002
Time: early morning
Local residents have seen a strange figure, which they described as
resembling a "shroud". The apparitions, which always occur in the early
morning hours, have become so common that in recent days several neighbors=

have stayed up late to see them, and it is thus that they were able to
confirm the simultaneous presence of up to 2 such beings, as well as red
lights flying over the area. All the witnesses whether individuals or in a=

group, agree that the entities are nebulous and glowing, with a pair of red=

eyes being clearly identifiable, and glassy faces (as if transparent).
Their movements are smooth and they always appear from behind the sand
dunes, as though "coming form the Naval Base." Most witnesses agree that
they show a great interest in the water tanks located above the roofs, and=

that they do not flee upon detecting the presence of local
residents---rather, they stare at them fixedly for some minutes. Deep
silence is perceived during the observations and "the air appears to become=

still" and neither heat nor cold can be felt---only a sensation of warmth,=

as if the beings emanated heat. Witnesses also state that things appear to=

be darker when "the shroud" appears, as though ambient lighting were
dimmed. Another curious fact is the large number of cats and dogs who
report to the place where the sightings occur and sit down to observe it in=

silence, in a state resembling a trance. A series of semi-circular prints
have been found in the dunes, not very deep, with 15-20 cm separations in
some cases and 30-50 cm in others. The locals have identified them as the
strange being's footprints. Efforts have been made to photograph the
"shroud", but all images, despite the use of different cameras appear
exposed. One witness who approached the site to witness the phenomenon took=

two photos of the prints in the afternoon and decided to stay with the
group of people hoping to see the "shroud", managing to take some photos of=

same and record the new prints which appeared in the dunes after the
sighting. A completely uncommon print was found at the site---but the
residents aren't sure if it's related to the phenomenon: it has the shape
of a five-fingered claw. One witness tried to make use of his carbine's
telescopic sight to see the figure in greater detail, but "when he tried to=

focus on it, he could see nothing_it was a though it could only be seen
with the unaided eye."

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, IHU, Christian Quintero and O A Mario
Proyecto Condor
Type: C or E?


77.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 30 2002
Time: 0530A
27-year old Mariela Baigorri reported seeing a strange figure that floated=

in front of her house. She had woken up early that morning and was getting=

ready to mount her bicycle when she saw behind the fence something floating=

in mid-air. It appeared to be a figure wearing a flowing white transparent=

tunic, with bright red eyes and undefined facial features. Feeling no fear=

she decided to approach it. She felt as if the figure waited for her and
was observing her. At this point Mariela felt some fear and began reciting=

the Lord's Prayer. The figure suddenly moved back and disappeared in plain=

sight.

HC addendum
Source: Juan Carlos Corrales Morey, Vision Ovni, Argentina
Type: E


78.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 31 2002
Time: 1845
23-year old Julian Pereyra was in his vehicle when he observed two red
spheres flying slowly over some nearby woods, they seemed to descend and
disappear behind the trees. 15 minutes later, Pereyra, accompanied by
several other witnesses approached the area and observed what they
described a tall floating figure wearing a white glowing cape like outfit,=

it seemed to glide silently over a field. It had what appeared to be a
visor at face level and two beams of red light emerged from where the eyes=

would have been. The witnesses watched the strange figure glide over the
fields for about 30 minutes. Curiously numerous local dogs and cats
approached and also watched the figure in fascination. The lights and
figure disappeared into the distance. In another occasion Pereyra and some=

of his family members encountered the strange humanoid and felt a strange
sensation as if the wind had suddenly stopped, they felt as they were
inside a vacuum or "bubble." Strange tracks have been reportedly found in
the area also.

HC addendum
Source: Diario La Nueva Provincia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Type: C?


79.
Location. La Cienaga, Pocri, Panama
Date: early August 2002
Time: night
Luis Alfredo Diaz reported hearing loud noises coming from the terraced
patio where the kitchen was located, going to investigate he found his cat=

apparently dead with two obvious holes on the neck and some blood on the
floor. Before finding the cat he had called his wife, Maria de Los Santos
Barrios. As his wife stood in front of him a panic stricken look came over=

her face, turning around he was confronted by a bizarre 1-meter tall
humanoid that had jumped to the center of the patio. The creature was
described as thin, covered with dark hair, with large pointed ears that
almost covered its face, it had very large eyes and extremely strong hind
legs resembling that of a kangaroo. Terrified he ran to his son's bedroom
and carried him outside yelling for his neighbors. A search failed to
locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Panamanian Paranormal Forum
Type: E


80.
Location. Near Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Date: August 2002
Time: night
The same witness involved in a similar encounter last year was again
camping in the same area when he again heard a noise. Shining the light in=

the direction of the sound he again saw the same creature. The creature sat=

there crouched by the trees staring at the witness. The witness walked
slowly towards it, he got to within 20 ft when it just jumped backward and=

disappeared. He described the creature as about five to six ft in height,
gray in color. It was totally naked. It had human features, but more
leathery, and its face was very wide, its eyes were huge and even though
they reflected light, they still looked black, resembling two intensely
black marbles. Its legs were very muscular, but turned backwards, like a
bird. Other hikers in the area have reported encountering little brown men=

on some of the more isolated trails.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal Story Archives, November 2002Type: E


81.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: August 1 2002
Time: late evening
64-year old Raul Dorado was touring some fields when he heard a loud sound=

on two occasions, like a whirlwind, which drew his attention. The third
time he saw something he describes as a green circle with three legs
hovering over him. At that moment Dorado fell to the ground, and according=

to his story, he carried a shotgun, binoculars and a cellular phone, the
latter, which was taken from his hand, and he could clearly see being
sucked into the object, which was apparently at low altitude. His next
recollection was seeing the object disappear toward the east. Dorado
remained at the location for an hour before being able to rise and walk
back to his car, returning to town in a state of shock. He had to be
hospitalized. Later when calls were placed to the (abducted) cellular phone=

someone would pick up and heavy breathing could be heard. Later on the
phone was apparently disconnected.

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, quoting Diario La Arena, La PampaType: G?


82.
Location. Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Date: August 2 2002
Time: 1730
A man named Todd Sees went up the mountain to look for pre-season deer. He=

told his wife that he would be home by noon. He rode his 4-wheeler up the
power line behind his home. He never returned. A search party composed of
local police, state police and volunteers searched for Sees. The 4-wheeler=

was found on the top of the mountain near a power-line. Tracking dogs could=

find nothing to go on around the 4-wheeler. The search went on for 2 days
and over 6 miles of mountain was covered from top to bottom. Then, in the
evening of the 2nd day, his body was found in a hard to reach wooded area.=

He was wearing his underwear. He was emaciated---not bloated. He was pale
and had an expression of horror on his face. When he went up the mountain
he was fully dressed, boots, camo-vest, hat, socks, pants. 3 people, on one=

farm, said they saw a large round bright object just above the power-lines=

at the time of the disappearance. It was silent, it did not move for about=

10 to 15 minutes. It suddenly went up and suddenly stopped. A light shone
down and something was pulled up into the light. It then went straight up,=

hesitated again, and then went west over the Susquehanna River and out of
sight. More specifically a farmer saw an object above Montour Ridge at the=

power lines, on top of the mountain, it was round and very still over the
lines. Suddenly it moved what looked like a few hundred feet to the east,
it stopped and a beam of blue and white light shone to the ground. What was=

seen next was very unnerving, he saw what appeared to be a man suspended in=

the light, he was being pulled up head first, he was moving his arms slowly=

in the light. What looked like a man was pulled up into the bottom of the
craft. A few seconds later it started shuddering, then went west very fast,=

stopped briefly, and then went straight up and out of sight. Also three
fishermen saw the craft. The FBI is supposedly also investigating. (Debated=

as a hoax, who would? and for what purpose?).

HC addendum
Source: Rense, UFO updates, NUFORCType: G?






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                            2002 Humanoid Reports

From: Albert Rosales <Garuda79@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:32:05 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:14:40 -0500
Subject: 2002 Humanoid Reports


Happy new year everyone

Sincerely,

Albert

-----

2002 Humanoid Reports. It appears to be a slow start for this
year with only one recorded case, again from Chile. We will see
what develops later on the year. 2001 was pretty busy but it was
a decline from 2000. Maybe we will see another down trend again,
later to pick up again in the near future. This seems to be the
ever-ongoing trend of the phenomena. Will it always stay the
same? Time will tell. Following is a list of known 2002 humanoid
cases.


1.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: January 2002
Time: 0300A
An employee at the local Minera Escondida was on his way to the
storage freezer in order to pick up some supplies when an
unknown creature jumped him from behind. He could only describe
it as hairy and dark. He was left with deep scratches and in a
state of shock. Terrified he ran away and bumped into two other
employees who were able to see a shadowy creature in the dark.

HC addendum
Source: La Estrella del Loa de Calama, ChileType: E


2.
Location. Caracas, Venezuela
Date: January 2002
Time: late night
Late one night in a dream-like state the witness woke up to see
seven to eight strange figures in her bedroom. They were dark
gray in color and very thin, with three large thick long fingers
on their hands. They had large, lipless mouths and large shiny
protruding black eyes, their noses were thin and protruding,
small ears, the heads was large and pointy. The humanoids
appeared to be naked and she was able to see a penis on the
humanoids. They were about 1.55 meters in height. She felt dizzy
and under the control of the strange entities. She was led out
of her bedroom by one of the humanoids that removed her clothing
and made her lie down on the floor. The humanoids apparently
attempted to molest her sexually and possibly attempted to rape
her but were not successful. She apparently passed out and does
not remember anything else about the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Lista Alcione and witness communicationType: E


3.
Location. Fort McMurry, Alberta, Canada
Date: January 2 2002
Time: 2032
Two men were parked on an isolated dirt road when they spotted a
large cone-shaped object descend and hover. One of the men
exited the car and he vanished in plain sight of the other, the
craft then also disappeared. The other man tried to drive away
to get help but the car would not start and it was to cold to
walk. He soon went to sleep and woke up later to find his friend
sleeping next to him. Later they drove back to town. His friend
does not remember what happened during those two hours of
missing time. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


4.
Location. Paso Lovera, Corrientes, Argentina
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2030
Gabriela Lencinas, 15-year old and a 19-year old friend were
returning home on a bicycle when they spotted a large cloud like
object descend from the sky and from it a giant figure emerge.
The witnesses stopped their bicycles to see a car approach the
giant figure, stop, the driver exit the car and then re-entering
the vehicle and driving quickly away. The figure then rose up
into the cloud and disappeared. The girls reported that the
giant human-like figure had its hair standing up on his head and
was extending its arms towards the witnesses that quickly rode
their bicycles home. Other in the area reported seeing bright
lights that same night.

HC addendum
Source: Pablo Omastott
Type: B?


5.
Location. Villa San Rafael, Chile
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2345
Two young teenagers, Jean F and Nelson C, where at home at night
when Jean noticed that his pet snake had escaped from its cage.
Both boys began looking for it outside among the rubble of the
parcel. They recalled how half an hour before, their two dogs
strangely began to howl and cry; however, it did not seem to be
important at that point in time. They searched for the pet snake
together when suddenly, about 30 meters from where they stood;
they saw what appeared to be a stray dog. They threw rocks at to
avoid an attack. However, to their surprise, the animal stood
there, motionless and fearless; it did not get scared nor it ran
away as ordinary dogs normally do. Shortly, the strange animal
began to move towards them. The movements it made as it walked
were very strange. It used two legs at a time. It made very
small sand short leaps like a rabbit. Suddenly, it stopped and
it stood up on two legs. The teenagers then began to feel some
kind of energy. "It was like an electrical shock in the
stomach," they said. It later walked again making a loud
dragging noise, making small leaps and only moving one of its
legs. They noticed the weird shape of the animal. "It was like a
rugby football with legs," one of them said. Jean began to feel
frightened and started to move away from animal. On the other
hand, Nelson felt a strange need to get closer to the creature;
he got to within 2 meters away from it. The creature appear to
emit a strange luminosity that apparently, was bright enough to
lit a small area around the creature in spite of the nighttime
darkness. Nelson was mesmerized as he stared at the strange
creature. He described it as having a head like a large dog with
a flat nose like a bulldog. Its eyes were slanted and pale-red
in color, which could only be seen when the creature turned its
head from side to side like a lizard. At that moment, Nelson
heard a voice in his head saying, "Don't stare, and just run
away." They provided further description, describing the ears as
flat, round and large. Its arms were short, it had elbows, and
the hands had three fingers. It had hair like the one on a wild
pig. Its legs were like the ones of a goat. The feet had also
three fingers and a membrane like ducks, but somewhat shorter.
On its curved back, they were able to notice a spinal section
covered with amounts of even thicker hair. Most of the hair of
the animal was gray, but the tail had a white tip. Nelson
finally fled, terrified, from the area. He also described how he
felt an inexplicable bone-chilling cold sensation.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center
Type: E


6.
Location. Not given
Date: January 12 2002
Time: night
Ted Parker was eating some leftover food when he claims the food began to
change. The bread of the sandwich turned an orange color and the lamb
became a silvery metallic color, sort of like liquid mercury. As he watched=

transfixed, he saw the orange bread and metallic lamb turn into the figure=

of an "alien" with the form of a man. It was silver in color and its outfit=

(smooth pants and shirt, like a jump suit) was orange in color. At this
point Parker glanced at the wall clock and it indicated that 2 hours had
gone by, even though it felt like minutes only. The alien figure
communicated using telepathic means and asked Ted to come with him. They
both went outside and there, Ted saw a landed black-colored craft in his
backyard. In a split second Ted found himself inside the craft not knowing=

how he got there. The inside of the craft was pure white in color with
strips of the metallic silver that the alien figure appeared to be made of.=

The rest of the incident is just a blur, but Parker did remembered hearing=

several loud high-pitched rings while onboard the object. A couple of days=

before while eating dinner with several other people there had been a
similar high pitched ring and everybody had just stopped eating and walked=

out of the room.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: G or F?



7.
Location. Chihuahua, Mexico
Date: January 29 2002
Time: night
Several days before seeing a UFO the witness remembered being in a
dream-like state in which he felt very calm and saw numerous disc shaped
objects, orange-red in color. A human like figure was talking to him about=

the objects and their propulsion. The UFO he saw was of an orange color and=

he felt a sort of ecstasy when he observed the craft. Several of his
neighbors also saw the object.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: G or F?


8.
Location. Near Palmyra, Wisconsin
Date: February 2002
Time: 0200A
Two men reported seeing a creature that resembled a bipedal "gigantic wolf"=

walking down a road west of the city. They said the creature was at least 7=

ft tall with a wolf-like head. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Linda GodfreyType: E


9.
Location. West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
Nebilson Sangma reported encountering a scary furry creature on a hunting
trip in the jungles. He reportedly took a video of the creature's nesting
place. According to Sangma, the creature walked erect like a human, had
built a house like nesting place, and would emerge from it frequently to
feast on a banana grove. Sangma and his brother observed the gigantic
creature for three consecutive days from afar. Officials and villagers have=

been hunting for the creature in the forest but it seems to have
disappeared as furtively as it appeared.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 13
Type: E


10.
Location. Near Dover, England
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness had been jogging along a low path by the beach when she noticed=

a tall, well built being in a black skin tight suit, that stood watching
her from nearby. He wore a black helmet wit a brown visor pulled down. At
first she thought it was a biker but as she approached the figure, it
suddenly disappeared in plain sight. As she continued to run she noticed a=

black craft jutting out of the sand, it was small and oval shaped, matt and=

ribbed it also disappeared in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: E?


11.
Location. Rosario de la Frontera, Salta, Argentina
Date: February 2002
Time: night
A strange creature called by locals "El Pestizo" has attacked several lone=

pedestrians in the middle of the night. It is described as a dark man
shaped shadowy being. A boy riding his bicycle on the way to visit some
friends was toppled from his bicycle and found a black shadowy figure
facing him. The young man managed to upholster his shotgun and fire two
shots. But, when he saw that they had no effect, he promptly drew his knife=

and stabbed the figure without any apparent harm. Frightened the youth
tried to escape but the creature knocked him down without saying a word and=

began dragging him by the hair to the side of the road. At this point the
young man began to scream. A local man, who rushed to provide assistance,
only to find a black shadow dragging the boy by the hair, heard his cries.=

The fearful shape disappeared without a trace after it became aware of the=

other man's presence. Six other locals have reported being attacked by a
similar being and received wounds.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


12.
Location. Not given
Date: February 2002
Time: early morning
The witness was alone at home and was preparing his breakfast when suddenly=

he heard a window break; he went to see what had happened. Grabbing a golf=

club he peeked inside the room where the window broke. He was stunned to
see a strange creature climbing on his bed. It appeared to be hurt, because=

it seemed that it could not move well. Gripping the golf club he went a
step nearer and the creature hissed horribly. It shrieked in an unworldly
manner. Terrified the witness did not move. The creature was small, about
the size of a large rabbit, and it was dark in color and had reddish eyes.=

It had wings and a spine of quills on its back, and had a semi reptilian
face. It appeared to have hair and small legs. The witness raised the golf=

club and the creature hissed again showing its large yellowish teeth, which=

appeared to be sharp, like those of a crocodile. It suddenly hopped out of=

the window and rapidly hopped across the street into the oak trees.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June archiveType: E


13.
Location. Vigevano, Italy
Date: February 2002
Time: 0100A
In the outskirts of this city a witness observed from his vehicle a
luminous humanoid entity walking along a roadway. It scurried away into the=

darkness when approached.
No other information.

HC addendum
Source: CISU, ItalyType: E



14.
Location. Corguinho, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Date: February 5 2002
Time: night
During a localized UFO flap several witnesses reported seeing a strange
creature described as about 1.3 meters in height, having two legs, with a
physique like a human but who moved with a strange fluctuating motion. The=

creature was seen five times by twenty people in the rural zone around
Corguinho. In Rochedo, 6 miles south of Corguinho five Cebu cattle were
found dead with a single incision on the side of the throat. The bodies had=

been drained of blood. (Is there a connection?).

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


15.
Location. Mount Podbrdo, Bosnia Hercigovina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: morning
Contactee and stigmatic Giorgio Bongiovanni was visiting the shrine on top=

of the mountain and was praying silently to the Virgin when, to his
astonishment, a glowing luminous female figure appeared and touched his
forehead with her fingertips. His stigmata scar vanished instantly. The
female figure told him to return to Italy and make known what had happened.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 14
Type: E or F?


16.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: evening
73-year-old Maria Rufina Cayo, a local shepherd was walking back home with=

her dogs and the cattle. Suddenly at one point, something spooked the
animals, and these began to stampede. Looking around she spotted a bizarre=

creature standing about 12 meters away. She described it as a humanoid,
half animal, half human, about 1.70m in height, with bright red eyes, sharp=

protruding fangs, and hands and feet that ended in sharp claws. The
creature looked at the witness three times then it scrambled away using
quick jumping motions with is powerfully built hind legs, she also noticed=

large pointy ears. The top part of its body seems to have been covered in a=

shiny white blanket. It somehow resembled a centaur walking on two
claw-like feet.  Alerted by the shouts of Maria, two men, Santos Jaimes,
and Ruben Colque ran out to investigate with their dogs. Suddenly the dogs=

stopped and began making pitiful howling noises, they refused to move any
further. The men heard noises behind some nearby bushes and went to
investigate and spotted a bizarre creature that stood staring at them with=

huge reddish eyes. It then moved quickly away in the direction of Cerro
Negro and disappeared from sight. The witnesses noticed very sharp claws on=

the creature's feet with a very sharp claw that appeared to be pointed
backwards. Strange footprints were found the next day.

HC addendum
Source: El Tribuno, Salta Argentina March 27 2002
Also Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E



17.
Location. Khanpur, Ahmedabad, India
Date: February 20 2002
Time: after midnight
Several local residents reportedly have encountered a person, dressed in
black and wearing a mask. Dubbed the "Monkeyman" whom they described as
between 25 and 20 years of age, dark skinned and having curly hair can
reportedly be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees. Two
local youths chased it and the figure reportedly disappeared in plain
sight. The two youths have been behaving abnormally since then. The
stranger was also chased along the riverbed near the Cama Hotel and it also=

suddenly disappeared. Others have heard the stranger running on the
rooftops. Abdul Hamid another youngster of the local slums described the
figure as a tall lean man that carries a sharp weapon. "I saw him from the=

back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised the alarm, he jumped to=

another roof and then on to a tree." Police have searched for the stranger=

but nothing has been found.

HC addendum
Source: Fortean Times, India Express
Type: E


18.
Location. Prague, Czech Republic
Date: February 23 2002
Time: night
Blanka Slemendova was in her apartment when she saw a "ship" hovering over=

some nearby woods. It was shining red, white and yellow lights. She then
heard telepathic communication coming from the object telling her to go and=

meet them at an unspecified location. Looking over to her bedroom wall she=

saw what appeared to be a projection of human like faces looking at her.
Later that night she saw luminous figures in her room and a floating red
light also in her room. The next night she saw what appeared to be 2 gray
suns and around them a golden lights with numerous groups of shiny
human-like figures floating about. She interpreted these as being angels.

HC addendum
Source: Direct from witness (Slemendova)
Type: C & F?


19.
Location. Wycliffe Well Roadhouse, Northern Territory Australia
Date: early March 2002
Time: evening
While workers in the area watched unusual lights in the sky an aboriginal
woman encountered a triangular sort of object in a paddock and all of the
sudden she saw three silvery clad human like figures that began to move
toward her vehicle. She turned the vehicle around and took off.

HC addendum
Source: Lou Farcus ABC On-lineType: C


20.
Location. Near Canberra Australia
Date: March 2002
Time: 1700
Several friends were taking a trip to the coast and it was already very
dark. They had already entered a tropical forest area and there was a mist=

rolling along the ground. As they turned around they saw something
squatting in the middle of the road. It stared at them, and just as they
thought they were going to hit it, it leaped off the road and into the
trees. It leaped about 10 meters in the air. The creature was definitely
human looking although it wore strange clothes. It was dressed in a green
robe of some kind with little pieces of gold on it, and it was either
wearing a head crest or it had a row of spikes running from its forehead to=

the top of its neck. Very frightened the witnesses drove out of the forest=

and at the same time the mist turned to a thick fog. They pulled over and
decided to wait until the fog had cleared, although none of them were too
happy about it. As they sat around and waited they suddenly heard a shriek.=

It sounded like some sort of wild animal and they turned the car on so the=

headlights would scare it away. The headlights revealed the same creature
they had seen earlier. It hid its face from the light and shrieked. Right
before the witnesses' eyes, the creature seemed to evaporate into the fog.=

Within five minutes the fog had gone and the normal rolling mist was back.=

The witnesses quickly left the area and drove towards the coast.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June ArchiveType: E


21.
Location. Guanica Puerto Rico
Date: March 1 2002
Time: 2345
Reinaldo Rios (involved in other encounters) was in his bedroom that night=

when a large white light suddenly appeared. It flew around the room several=

times and then hovered. He heard voices coming from the light, which
communicated with him. The voice said: "I am your real father." Soon the
light transformed itself into a figure resembling that of a little boy it
then vanished in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: UFOs over America.com
Type: E


22.
Location. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 0800A
The witness and his wife were in bed that Saturday morning talking when
their 5-year-old daughter came into the bedroom with her baby brother,
whose cot is placed under their bedroom window. They heard a strange noise=

and some green light came into the window. Their daughter looked out the
window and reported seeing a "flying car" with four spinning green lights
on top. She saw two windows in the vehicle and saw two dark brown faces
looking out. His wife saw the craft flying past through the curtains. That=

same morning, in a large tree near the witness house a strange structure
was found. The branches were arranged in a rectangular pen shape, vertical,=

each approximately 30 to 40 cm long. They found a few smaller sticks
scaling down in size from the structure. A piece of concrete slab was found=

propped up on one corner. The witnesses had never seen this strange
structure before and think is some kind of message left by the visitors.
(Some kind of bizarre crop circle?). A few nights before they had heard
strange noises coming from the kitchen area.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: A


23.
Location. Golasecca Di Novara, Italy
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 2330
Augusto & Maurizia were in their vehicle parked in an open field next to a=

wooded area having a heated discussion when suddenly a powerful beam of
reddish-orange light illuminated the area around them. They rolled down the=

car window and heard a sharp metallic sound that seemed to be increasing in=

intensity. They now noticed, behind the beam of light a hovering
disc-shaped craft with a central rotating ring, it hovered about a meter
from the ground. From the object, a cigar-shaped beam of light emerged;
they could see it as the central ring of the craft slowly rotated on its
axis. The craft was only about 10 meters away. At this point, and only
about 4 meters from the object Augusto saw what appeared to be a gelatinous=

transparent humanoid-like figure with a visible head, arms and legs. The
figure was silvery in color and was very tall, about 3 meters or so. At
this point Augusto became concerned and drove away from the area and did
not see the object or figure depart. The whole episode lasted about 10
minutes. The metallic noise was heard all throughout the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Alfredo Lissoni, CUN Milano, Michelle Castellano CUN VareseType: C


24.
Location. Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England
Date: March 3 2002
Time: morning
Helen Diskin went for a walk in the countryside talking snap shots along
the way with her digital camera. Returning home she loaded these into her
computer and was intrigued by an odd-looking image. It looked like a
luminous figure in an area of no sunlight, skulking amongst the trees. She=

returned to the site of the photo twice afterward and could find no
explanation for the figure. The figure resembled a small helmeted figure
that she had not seen when she took the picture of an area of the woods she=

had thought of as "mysterious."

HC addendum
Source: Helen Diskin, UFO Magazine Vol. 22 # 1Type: E?


25.
Location. Near Trenton New Jersey
Date: March 4 2002
Time: night
Several witnesses were camping outside of town and late at night one of
them was attempting to put out the bonfire when he heard the most awful and=

horrifying scream. It resembled that of an injured dog crossed with a
scream of a woman. The witness dropped the flashlight and was joined by
another witness. Suddenly out of the woods a hideous and gruesome creature=

appeared. It did not look human, somewhat satyr-like in appearance and
walked on two legs. It had a long tail like a dragon and wings like those
unicorns in fantasy books. The beast took several steps towards the
witnesses and one of them picked up and asked and yelled at it and then
shone his flashlight at it. The creature then turned towards the bushes and=

ran away from the area.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: E


26.
Location. Pichaca, Salta, Argentina
Date: March 9 2002
Time: night
Ceferino Leoncio was cleaning his one room metal shack when suddenly a
bright light engulfed the room. He felt a sudden heat as he saw a tiny
figure (50 cm) of an angel-like creature materialize in front of him. It
slowly moved its small wing-like protrusions and moved around and then
suddenly stopped and remained still. It appeared to be a small living human=

like living being until it appeared to hardened and turn into some type of=

statue of cherubic appearance. Locals have now built a shrine around the
tiny "statue" and call the strange materialization a "religious miracle".

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso
Type: F?



27.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: March 16 2002
Time: 2215
Mirna, was watching television alone in her room when she began hearing
noises coming from outside, at first she thought it was her dogs playing
around with some empty cans. But the noises kept getting louder and louder=

and she decided to go outside to investigate. Once outside she was stunned=

to see some type creature that had somehow entered the rabbit cage and was=

attacking the animals that were making loud unearthly screams. Thinking at=

first that it was one of the dogs she approached the case but realized that=

it was a gray colored hairy hunched over creature, that was moving quickly=

inside the cage. She stepped back and could not understand how the creature=

had entered the cage, since there wasn't any apparent hole or aperture
visible anywhere and the door was firmly closed. Afraid she ran inside her=

home and notified her son, both then ran out but the creature had
mysteriously disappeared. Unnerved, they could not understand how they
creature had escaped since the door to the rabbit caged was still firmly
locked. Later they could only find a small round hole in the wire only
several centimeters in width, not large enough for a creature estimated to=

have been about 70 to 80 cm in height. Several of the rabbits were found
injured and one was dead.

HC addendum
Source: Calama UFO CenterType: E


28.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: March 19 2002
Time: 2000
Young Elizabeth Lera reported seeing a short humanoid with "dark eyes"
looking into the building compound from behind a wire fence. It appeared
not to have any other facial features and was wearing dark clothing; it
wore some type of head covering, which was hard to see because of the
darkness. She could only see a pair of large dark eyes on his face that
appeared to shine in the darkness. Some more children now arrived and
observed as the humanoid move several steps towards them. Another witness,=

Rene Mamani saw the humanoid run and hide behind some bushes. It seemed to=

move at very high speed in an unnatural fashion. It seemed to have remained=

suspended in mid-air for a few seconds. It then seemed to fly through the
air and disappeared into some nearby woods. Other students at the school
reportedly saw it again on the night of the 20th.

HC addendum
Source: Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E


29.
Location. Woodburn, Oregon
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 0300A
The witness was sleeping when she woke up suddenly feeling paralyzed. The
witness was completely unable to move or speak. Her next memory was of a
strange sensation on her left cheek, which hurt a lot. Unseen "beings" were=

apparently taking skin samples. Her face was left with a pink fleshy scoop=

down my left cheek, directly on the cheekbone. A teardrop scar was left on=

her cheek.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical Universe
Type: G?




30.
Location. Bethlehem, Israel
Date: March 21 2002
Time: night
At the besieged Church of The Nativity several awed witnesses have come
forward describing the events of Thursday night. That night, a smell of
roses filled the sanctuary as the Daughters of Charity held their evening
prayers. "The sweet scent was soon followed by a high musical humming sound=

and a distinct feeling of warmth emanating from the ceiling." Then, the
sisters reported, seeing a glowing beam of light gradually forming the
likeness of the Blessed Virgin "like a film coming into focus." Tears were=

running down her face, and she uttered a prophetic warning. "Time is
growing short, and the promised Judgment Day is nearly at hand." One week
before the apparition, The Church of the Holy Family was the scene of a
ferocious firefight between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 17Type: F


31.
Location. Not given
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 2255
16-year old Steven Mizon saw hovering over a street a large oval shaped
craft encircled in bright lights and with several lighted windows around
its edge. A figure stared down at him from one of the windows. No other
information.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Watch
Type: A



32.
Location. Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain
Date: March 26 2002
Time: 1500
A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a deserted road when=

he noticed ahead in the distance and in the middle of the roadway an object=

resembling a shiny pear that was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat
perplexed he approached and noticed two individuals standing on a nearby
field. These were over 2 meters in height, wore tight fitting white
coveralls and helmets resembling that of the early astronauts. He parked
his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men=

walked away and entered the shiny pear-shaped craft while the other
remained behind. Knowing that these men were "not from this earth" he still=

asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt that as
he approached the strange pair he had been in some type of a trance and
seemed to have floated over the road. The humanoid answered and appeared
genuinely happy as to his offer of assistance but said that everything was=

in order. He also added that the area was very beautiful and also added:
"Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such
beautiful scenes, they disappeared a long time ago." The astounded witness=

managed to ask the humanoid where he was from and was told that they hailed=

from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The=

humanoid smiled as he answered the question. The humanoid then bid goodbye=

and walked towards the nearby shiny pear shaped object, he then disappeared=

inside of it. The craft then emitted a loud whistling sound and disappeared=

at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the
humanoids as about 2.50 meters in height, wide chests and heavy set, thin
legs. Generally human features, but somewhat "refined" or sharpened
features. The suits were very tight fitting made of an apparent synthetic
material resembling plastic. Their eyes were very light almost white and
their speech was hesitant & accented. Also their movements seemed kind of
clumsy.

HC addendum
Source: J M Garcia, Francisco Padron, SpainType: B


33.
Location. Pringle Lake, Texas
Date: March 28 2002
Time: 1100A
Mark Hakemack and a friend had taken an airboat out on the NW side of the
lake to do a little redfish fishing. The day was kind of hazy, with broken=

cloud cover. They had caught several trout and were just chatting when he
hooked up a large redfish while playing with the fish, Mark happened to
glance upwards and saw a large bird-like creature emerge from a cloudbank.=

His friend saw it too, after about 20 to 25 seconds it flew behind cloud
cover again. The strange creature was grayish in color and the profile of a=

raptor, short neck/head, no legs sticking out behind, and no long tail
feathers. Mark could not take his eyes off it. He estimated the wingspan to=

have been 10' to 14 ' in overall. It appeared to be soaring on the wind,
although, he did see it give a couple of light "flaps" with its wings. The=

witness could only relate this to the legendary "Thunderbird" legend.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.comType: E


34.
Location. Sevilla, Spain
Date: March 30 2002
Time: late night
The witness to the March 26 case was at home with his wife and was getting=

ready to sleep when he heard footsteps coming from patio area outside his
chalet. Armed with a club, he opened the door and was stunned to see the
same two tall heavyset humanoids he had encountered 4 days before. One of
the humanoids was kneeling on the ground as if inspecting something on the=

soil, the other one upon hearing the door open, turned and quickly assured=

the witness not to fear that they were not here to harm him. Stunned, the
witness invited the two humanoids in the house for some refreshments (!).
These declined the invitation telling that they had to go already. Using
the same clumsy movements both humanoids walked towards the rear of the
house where the witness noticed the same shiny metallic pear shaped craft
on the ground. They entered the object, which quickly left at high speed.
The witness's wife awakened by the voices was able to see the two humanoids=

from a second story window, and described them in the same way.

HC addendum
Source: Francisco Padron, Jose Manuel Garcia, SpainType: B


35.
Location. Los Cipreses, Chile
Date: March 31 2002
Time: noon
During a local UFO congress 24 persons in three groups entered a
dimensional gateway that appeared by itself over the terrain. It was kind
of a dome, a luminous archway measuring four by four meters. The
participants lost their materiality without disappearing completely. Upon
entering, they met several human-like alien characters with large baldheads=

and wearing robes that waited within and received information. According to=

sources the contact experience was "dimensional" it was like crossing into=

a different reality. The 24 participants were "all professionals, college
students of high intellectual levels, mostly Chileans," and some were
members of Grupo Rama, a New Age association.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 16, quoting Camilo Valdivieto
Type: G or F?


36.
Location. Tbilissi Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: night
A man entered the local St David church and reported that "a phantom with
wings" had approached him and predicted an earthquake that indeed took
place on April 25 2002, devastating areas of central Georgia.

HC addendum
Source: Pravda
Type: E?


37.
Location. Near Macon, Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: 2300
Three friends were awakened by loud banging noises and bellowing sounds
coming from outside. One of the men ran to the bathroom and looked out the=

window to see a figure run by and squat in the nearby bushes. He described=

the creature as about 3 ft tall, hairy with what appeared to be horns on
its head and hands; he could not see a face. Others in the neighborhood
heard the banging noises.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.com and direct witness
Communication.
Type: E


38.
Location. Belvedere di Tezze, Italy
Date: April 26 2002
Time: evening
A 20-year old woman was returning home one night when she noticed some
bright lights nearby of an unknown origin. She followed the lights in her
car until she stopped near a local pizzeria. She saw the light near the
ground and within the lights two tall slender human like figures wearing
some type of headgear. Since she was carrying a camera she was able to snap=

a quick picture. The figures then vanished. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Gruppo Accademico Ufologico Scandicci quoting
"Il giornale di Vicenza"Type: E?


39.
Location. Puente Santamaria, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: early morning
Two young men observed a dark object descend towards the ground about 100
meters away. According to the two witnesses from the craft descended a
small humanoid, orange in color. Very scared they both ran from the area
and reported their experience to others.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: B


40.
Location. Merceditas, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: evening
An elderly couple was walking along National Route # 8 when about 800
meters from their location they noticed a very strong light. The light
descended next to a puddle at about 70 meters from the witness. Both then
saw two very short orange colored humanoids that moved in very agile
movements near the object. Terrified they walked away and upon looking back=

saw a bright glow on the ground.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: C


41.
Location. Barangay, Philippines
Date: May 2002
Time: night
Several local residents reported seeing a bizarre creature described as an=

"aswang" reputed to be a winged vampire type creature, it reportedly had
red glowing eyes, long black hair, and was wearing a white flowing gown. It=

was seen perched on top of a bamboo tree. Residents at nearby Roxas
reported seeing a similar creature. The police was called but a search
failed to locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Akasico.comType: E


42.
Location. Alvear, La Pampa Argentina
Date: May 3 2002
Time: near midnight
Several young men were returning home late at night along a deserted
roadway when suddenly out of nowhere a female figure wearing a light
flowing gown and with long black hair appeared in front of them. The
strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly and repeatedly asked for=

assistance from the men in a strange urgent tone. Terrified the men ran
from the area and later returned with additional witnesses but they could
find no trace of the strange apparition.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E?


43.
Location. Taralgon Victoria, Australia
Date: May 24 2002
Time: 2355
Walking near the Loy Yang Power station 45-year old Martin Taylor was
suddenly blinded by an intense blue light and he felt extremely dizzy. His=

next memory was of being in a circular room with a variety of lights and
buttons scattered about the walls. He was lying on a large table that
seemed to be of a very highly polished metal. He was strapped down and his=

shirt had been removed. There were wires attached to his arms, neck and
temples. A four ft tall humanoid figure with very large almond shaped eyes,=

almost transparent looking skin, ghostly white in appearance examined him.=

The figure had three extremely long fingers on each hand and spoke in a
strange dialect.

HC addendum
Source: UFO WatchType: G


44.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: May 29 2002
Time: midnight
Irma Rick watched a rotating luminous object descend close to the ground
next to a grain silo; it gave off a powerful bluish light through some
openings around its circumference. It hovered close to the ground. Through=

an opening a strange creature was seen to descend to the ground. It was
described as having an elongated semi-transparent white body; it also had
an elongated head. She could not see any eyes or legs on the creature as it=

stood motionless next to the craft. She observed the creature and object
for about 5 minutes until she dropped the flashlight she was carrying.
Afraid she left the area and did not see the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: B



45.
Location. Lembang Bandung, Indonesia
Date: May 30 2002
Time: 2315
The witness was driving his motorcycle across a highland area when he
spotted some flashing lights overhead and then noticed a silvery
disc-shaped craft descend low over some nearby graves at a cemetery. The
craft had blue and orange flashing lights around its rim. There was no
sound as the craft apparently emitted a beam of light towards the ground
and levitated what appeared to be some dead bodies onboard the object. (!)=

The witness was apparently paralyzed and was unable to move. The craft then=

shot away at a 45-degree angle and disappeared from sight. When that
happened the witness left the scene.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


46.
Location. Houston, Texas
Date: late May 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness was at the local electric company in order to pay a bill when
she decided to use the restrooms. Sitting in the stall she then noticed on=

the side of the wall of the stall what appeared to be a face lit up in a
dull light. When the witness looked directly at the "face" it vanished. She=

described is as having large round eyes no visible nose and a slit-like
mouth. (A peeping tom alien?)

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.comType: E?


47.
Location. General Acha, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: early June 2002
Time: various
A resident of the Oeste neighborhood informed newspaper sources that a
short green-colored dwarf like entity has appeared twice on her property:
once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When her husband ran out
responding to her screams, the mysterious entity vanished by rapidly
climbing up a tree. All versions agree in that the entity is short in
stature. Another resident added that it moved so quickly that it was hard
to describe it. In the same area mysterious cattle mutilations have also
been reported.

HC addendum
Source: Loren Coleman in UFO UpdatesType: E


48.
Location. Ojo De Agua, Argentina
Date: June 2002
Time: afternoon
Several passengers onboard two farm micro buses reported seeing a very tall=

dark man like figure that appeared to be wearing a tight fitting diver's
outfit standing on a nearby field. Nearby numerous mysterious animal
mutilations have been reported. The figure was silent and was quickly lost=

from sight as the buses moved away.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E




49.
Location. Near Tampa, Florida
Date: June 2002
Time: night
A man and three of his friends reported encountering two bizarre chupacabra=

type creatures one stood about 3-4 ft tall, the other looked to be about 6=

ft tall. Both had large glowing red eyes and spikes starting from the head=

to the back. They scurried away into a wooded area. (They were to have
further encounters in August).

HC addendum
Source: Art Bell.comType: E


50.
Location. Antalya, Turkey
Date: June 5 2002
Time: afternoon
Approximately 45 witnesses claimed they saw an UFO in the Santral district=

landing on the backyard of the Fatma Primary School. Several students
including Murat Esici age 11 saw an alien emitting red rays from his eyes
come out of the object. His hands and feet were metallic. He had a very big=

head and was about 1.80 meters in height. Esici temporarily lost her voice=

immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also=

claimed they san an unusual craft and an alien beside it. "His eyes and
hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes." The children
were overcome with shock after the incident.

HC addendum
Source: Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center Intl
Type: B


51.
Location. Polonnauruwa, Sri Lanka
Date: June 8 2002
Time: 2200
Approximately 50 to 70 eyewitnesses saw a UFO flying at about 100 meters
above ground level. The object was silent and briefly landed emitting a
bright flash like light. When it was close to the ground the object emitted=

a buzzing sound. Three other witnesses saw three 2 ft tall creatures than
when approached ran into the jungle and disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Sources
Type: D


52.
Location. Polonnaruwa, Sir Lanka
Date: June 9 2002
Time: 2012
Two witnesses went to a bath on a nearby river when they heard a loud
thundering sound and a UFO appeared. The craft landed nearby and two, 2 ft=

tall "aliens" emerged from the object. One of the humanoids flung a small
fluorescent fireball like object that flew over a house and vanished. Soon=

the craft and humanoids disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC & News Reports
Type: B



53.
Location. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Date: June 10 2002
Time: 1900
Witnesses saw a mysterious light in the sky and others saw a large disc
shaped object land nearby. Three humanoids only about 2 ft tall emerged
from the craft and disappeared into the forest when approached. The object=

also left.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Reports
Type: B


54.
Location. Chantilly, Virginia
Date: June 10 2002
Time: night
The witness was awakened during the night with a sense of some presence in=

the room. Looking toward the door, he saw, fading quickly, something, which=

almost had the appearance of a hologram. Next, shadows appeared outside the=

windows in an erratic shape. At first he thought the shadows to be from
trees moving in a strong wind. The appearance was of a storm blowing the
limbs to create these shadows outside the window. However, there was no
storm. He looked at the adjacent window on the side of the house facing
opposite and there was no wind at all. In fact there was no trees
positioned in such a way to cast a shadow. He opened the blinds to see what=

might be causing the shadows. He then saw what seemed to be a hologram with=

the shape of two small eyes moving erratically outside the window.
Frightened he closed the blinds. Two weeks later he was awakened by a
humming sound and again saw the erratic shadows outside the window. He
watched the shadows for 10-15 minutes and then called the police. The
police found no signs of any intrusion in the yard. When the police left
the witness walked toward the door facing the back porch and saw a large
burst of bluish white light. It looked unnatural, almost like a laser. He
has not seen the "shadows" again.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: E?


55.
Location. Ataliva Roca, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 11 2002
Time: 1930
A worker at a local drainage project was sitting and guarding some
machinery when he noticed a short greenish colored humanoid figure that was=

approaching his location from a nearby field. The witness became concerned=

and drove away from the area in the construction equipment and did not see=

the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


56.
Location. Eduardo Castex, La Pampa Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Two girls of a local school encountered a short greenish humanoid figure in=

the playing yard. The figure was standing up and appeared to be raising its=

arms up to the sky. Terrified the two girls retreated into the school and
watched the figure scurry away into some nearby woods. Around the same time=

a local farmer found a strangely mutilated hog in his farm.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


57.
Location. Chasico, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Hugo Deluca and several other workers were parked in a bus in an isolated
area when they spotted about 20 meters away a short, 1.20 meters tall,
bipedal figure completely covered in gray hair. It walked upright like a
man and then scurried away into some woods vanishing from sight. The area
had been hit with animal mutilations around the same time.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


58.
Location. Castex, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 13 2002
Time: night
A 70-year old man had gone to his driveway to check on a flat tire in his
car when a short light green colored humanoid suddenly appeared next to
him. It had large round ears, and two reddish luminous eyes. Its body was
thin and almost triangular in shape. The witness attempted to yell out but=

was suddenly unable to speak and at the same time strange warmth invaded
his body. Several seconds later the humanoid vanished and the witness
returned to normal. He reported the incident to the police.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


59.
Location. La Laguna, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 14 2002
Time: afternoon
Several youngster had gone into the fields in order to obtain some firewood=

when they saw sitting on a clearing in the woods two human like figures,
all dressed in black. They sat facing each other, one looking towards the
east the other towards the west, unmoving. Unnerved by the sight the
juveniles ran from the area. The next day the father of one of the boys
found two dead cows at the site, but could find no trace of the strange
pair. Days later a sheep and a horse were found dead and strangely
mutilated in the nearby location of El Cardonal.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: E


60.
Location. De Kalb, Illinois
Date: June 15 2002
Time: 0030A
The witness was sitting in his family room watching TV when he noticed a
bright flash of light outside the window. He saw the flash several times
and decided to check his backyard there he saw a circular light moving
around in circles. The light began to get closer; scared he ran inside his=

home and called a friend on the phone. He then quickly ran outside and saw=

the circle getting closer, he noticed that it had a purplish color to it
and it began to descend towards the ground. He became nauseous and dizzy
and collapsed on to the ground. He tried to crawl to the house but was
unable to move. He turned his head and saw the purplish object on the
ground and what appeared to be a door opening up. He then heard a squeaking=

noise and saw a tall and a short figure standing by a door of the object.
The two figures started to move towards him, walking in a strange bopping
fashion. They were of a dark complexion with a bumpy texture, other than
that they resembled normal human beings. The shorter figure approached and=

picked up the witness' camera and stared at it. He then looked at the
taller figure and handed it to him. The taller of the two looked at the
camera and then at the witness. The witness then heard loud unpleasant
shrieks coming from the taller figure, which then gave the camera back to
the shorter figure, which covered the camera with his hand, seconds later a=

light began to emerge from their hands. Then they stopped, threw the camera=

aside and began to walk towards the witness. They reached his side and
started to examine his body. A dog began to bark from inside the house and=

the shorter figure put out his hand and the dog stopped barking. At this
point the witness began to vomit. After about a minute he began to relax
and to breathe better. When he turned his head he realized that the two
figures and the purple spherical object were now gone. The next day he had=

a very severe headache.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: B


61.
Location. San Juan, Argentina
Date: June 20 2002
Time: evening
At a location where the body of a strangely mutilated carcass of a cow was=

found two witnesses reported seeing a small creature with large glowing
slanted eyes and about one meter in height. Later in the same area, members=

of the Gimenez family after investigating noises and a strong odor coming
from a wooded area found a mutilated cow and also watched a short humanoid=

with glowing eyes scurrying away into the woods.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


62.
Location. Manuel Rodriguez, Calama, Chile
Date: June 22 2002
Time: after midnight
A bizarre creature was spotted at a local housing complex on San Antonio
Street. Witnesses reported that it resembled an ape and it jumped all over=

the roof. It passed right in front of the witness, Maria Gavia's window and=

then it came back making all manner of noise. The creature was able to make=

very long jumps, unlike any a human could. It jumped and landed on the
neighbor's roof and then it left the area. Neighborhood dogs acted scared
and began howling. Others described the creature as about 1.5 meters tall,=

stocky in build with bright red eyes. It made a lot of noise. Others
reportedly chased the creature.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center, quoting El
Mercurio de CalamaType: E


63.
Location. Angencia Realico, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 23 2002
Time: late night
Several hunters returning to a local ranch spotted about 50 meters away two=

large glowing reddish eyes staring at them. They turned off their
flashlight and approached closer on foot, about 30 meters away they again
saw the reddish eyes on a dark creature that appeared to be standing on top=

of an apparently dead animal. One of the hunters shone its flashlight on
the figure again and saw a figure about 40 cm in height that quickly ran
from the area at very high speed. The creature disappeared into the brush.=

At the scene, a dead and mutilated young heifer. Other mutilations were
reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


64.
Location. Rancul, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 25 2002
Time: 2020
Two young men, Nestor Pinto and Daniel Gatica were walking on a field when=

they encountered a short man-like figure with huge pointy ears and long
dangling arms standing near some brush. The figure scurried into the brush=

and disappeared and at the same time the two witnesses ran away from the
area and did not see the strange dwarf again.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


65.
Location. Bavaria, Germany (exact location not given)
Date: June 25 2002
Time: night
The witness had stayed up late watching the soccer game as was in his
bedroom when suddenly there was a coldness around him that made him shiver.=

He noticed that his audio capabilities were somehow enhanced and he was
able to hear sounds that previously he was unable to hear. He then heard a=

noise outside his door and went out to investigate. The noise became louder=

as he approached the door. He then heard footsteps and opened the door. A
very small man with a somewhat deformed body that was smiling at him
confronted the witness. He looked straight ahead and then stared at the
witness. His next memory was of waking up in his bed in the morning.

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.com
Type: E


66.
Location. Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2105
The primary witness had stepped out on his back porch when his attention
was drawn to two huge black "birds" which were approaching from the north.=

His first impression was they were Herons, but soon realized that the color=

was wrong, and "they were huge, much larger than any bird I have ever
seen." The two huge birds landed at the top of a very tall coniferous tree.=

The witness stated that the wingspan appeared to be wider than the
branches, jest below where they had landed. The body size was estimated to=

be about six feet from head to tail. The oddest feature was the shape of
the wings, which according to the witness appeared to be bat-like. The tree=

where the "birds" landed seemed as though it would break from their weight.=

The witness yelled for others in the house to come outside to look. Another=

family member was able to see the huge black birds as they passed overhead,=

and headed for some woods. After checking the size of the branches where
the birds had landed, the witness estimated that the wingspan would have
been close to 12 feet or somewhat larger.

HC addendum
Source: Stan GordonType: E


67.
Location. Marldon Hill, Paington, England
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2357
A couple were walking near a local historic monument (a windmill) and they=

drew closer to monument they heard a low whirling noise. The noise
progressed to a high-pitched whining, almost out of hearing range. Then
they saw a mysterious glow coming from the dark side of the windmill, and
then to their astonishment they saw 5 or 6 shadow like figures standing in=

front of the windmill. Startled the two began to run back towards the main=

road. The woman looked back and saw the figures become engulfed by a bright=

light and disappear, and then everything became quiet.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Sightings UKType: E?


68.
Location. Adelia Maria, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 3 2002
Time: 2100
Pedro and Estela Moine had decided to visit the business district of town
called Barrio Norte and crossed the old railroad yard through a pedestrian=

pathway that ran through a pasture area between some silos, old railroad
depots and abandoned wreckage. As the couple moved through the premises
they suddenly became aware of a strange and incomprehensible conversation
between many voices. Startled, they stopped walking moved a few meters more=

and then heard the voices again which now sounded like strange "O" sounds.=

Pedro looked toward the silos and was able to see resembling humanoid but
lacking upper and lower extremities. Despite the pleas of his wife, Pedro
ran several meters toward an inner alley in the silo plant, being able to
make out some 45 meters to the west and in profile---the entity, which
acting surprised, avoided the encounter and moved again to the north.
However, what filled the witnesses with wonderment was that the creature
did so as though flying or floating without touching the facilities it
passed. Pedro and Estela ran after it. It was thus that the man managed to=

see the entity apparently hiding behind the control room of the truck
scale. Pedro ran toward it and was again startled to see the apparition
rising as a plane taking off, flying at an altitude of 5 meters and
disappearing behind a large metal shed. Bewildered, both witnesses called
out, but were unable to see anything else. Pedro Moine as "a thing with
human shape" described the apparition. It had some sort of light, although=

he could not say if reflected or self-generated, although he tends to
believe the latter, since it was a nebulous whitish light, which kept him
from making out details. The entire mass of the apparition appeared to be a=

body covered from head to toe in some sort of mantle, which he described as=

though it wore a hat, but covered with some kind of long raincoat reaching=

down to what he took to be its feet. He added that the "conversational
sounds" repeated themselves in three separate occasions at various
intensities. They were like conversations in a strange language.

HC addendum
Source: Mario Luis Bracamonte, C.O.R, Rio Cuarto Argentina
Type: E


69.
Location. Jerusalem, Israel
Date: July 6 2002
Time: night
A remote TV camera picked up images of "orbs seen on the corner to the
right of the Wailing Wall." They seemed to have facial features almost like=

a ghost, reported investigator Charlotte LeFevre. The orbs were described
as "sharp and distinct". The orbs were next to the women's prayer area in
front of the Wall. Other strange phenomena, has been reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 29Type: F?


70.
Location. Villa Elisa, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: July 13 2002
Time: 2300
A young woman fainted from nervous shock after having an alleged closed
encounter with "some sort of green dwarf". This occurred---enveloped in
darkness---along Misioneros Salesianos Street very close to several houses.=

An ambulance was called and apparently transported the witness who was in
shock.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria ColuchiType: E


71.
Location. Patna, India
Date: July 21 2002
Time: night
Several residents claim they've been bitten or scratched by a "black
monkey-like creature with colored lights flashing from its eyes." Resident=

Pawan Kumar Niyogi who was sleeping on the terrace of his house claims "a 5=

ft tall monkey-like creature" attacked him. He said: "I was terrified and
thought my life was going to end but it merely scratched me on the shoulder=

before jumping off the roof." Local residents are conducting night vigils
and carrying torches to guard their homes.

HC addendum
Source: Ananova, Ufoupdates. Type: E


72.
Location. Chajan, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 21 2002
Time: 2300
Police officer Guillermo Arias was on routine patrol through a rural area
when he heard over the radio that his colleagues in arms over at Achiras
were seeing lights in sectors of said community, and that they were heading=

towards Chajan along National Route 8. At the wheel of the police patrol
van, he managed to see a formation of 7 lights in the distance and decided=

to drive 10 km along a rural dirt road. When he had covered said distance,=

he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine of his vehicle sputtered=

and died, causing the police car to strike the edge of a guardrail.
Simultaneously, the lights on the van's dashboard began turning on and off=

randomly, the police radio went haywire and its dial displayed the random
shifting of the frequencies while the cabin became filled with an acrid
odor, as though of burnt wiring, and the interior lights and stop
indicator, which were broken, began lighting on and off. Seized by fear,
Arias leaped from the van and walked away a few meters down the road,
losing his cellular phone in the escape. The darkness was total, when
suddenly, amid the confusing situation; an immense light emerged from a
field adjacent to the road as a triangular object rose majestically into
the air. Now Arias condition went from fear to abject terror as he saw what=

he described as a real "floating city" some 200 meters long with a long row=

of windows (perhaps as many as 100). Arias claims having seen something
move behind them, describing the movement as "TV sets which make lines and=

shadows", which he defined as "non-human", and that many beams of light
came out of the giant triangle, aimed at the ground. The event lasted 2-3
seconds, but to Arias it felt like an eternity. The object suddenly rose
and sped away, vanishing behind the hills of a local field. As the object
moved away, the whole area was lit up like daytime and there was an
afterglow that lasted another 20 minutes.

HC addendum
Source: C.O.R., Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense, Argentina
Type: A


73.
Location. Waconia, Minnesota
Date: July 26 2002
Time: 0300A
The young witness was sleeping in the backyard with his sister when he
suddenly woke up. He then noticed that the side of the tent that faced the=

wetlands and lake was lit up. Looking towards the light he saw a shadowy
torso and arm of a humanoid figure that seemed to be moving around within
the light. He watched for 30 seconds and saw the figure move the fingers of=

his hands. The witness became frightened and hid in his sleeping bag. He
came out about an hour later and the light and strange figure were
completely gone.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


74.
Location. Sedona, Arizona
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 0310A
In a wooded area the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all
white, with black "straight" eyes; and black diagonal/diamond strip of
"clothing" on top. He stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then
left. Prior to seeing the figure the witness had seen lights in a large
oval shaped pattern in the sky.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


75.
Location. Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 1730
Three girls had decided to visit the rooftop as they did the prior evening=

watching for satellites. It was dusk and the girls had a good vantage point=

looking towards the east. With them they had a pair of binoculars and a
pair of walkie-talkies. The girls noticed that a large orange light
appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The anomaly
was noted to have fluctuated in colors of orange, yellow, white and pale
blue. At fist they thought of an arriving airplane, but then a second light=

appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10=

degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some=

unusually maneuvering; from a stationary position it accelerated at least 5=

degrees closer to the ground surface at an approximate 45-60 degree angle
within a matter of a single second. The first anomaly then began to move
slowly towards the north. At this stage they partially lost view of it as
it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley-like
region of the horizon. According to the witnesses, this third object
appeared to have "landed" on the ground surface. The object was then viewed=

through the binoculars and presented in great detail; the object was
described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange,=

blue/purple and white rotating around the rim. Thy also noted the trees
being slightly illuminated by this extraordinary phenomenon. They were
suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, "Identify
yourself." This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in a
foreign language. Around 1830 the girls were then called down to have
dinner. At about 2030 the girls re-established their places on the roof
after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still
present. Unexpectedly a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above
the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. "It
was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away." The=

light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it=

is not clear how one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became
extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed
her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not=

sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another of the girls woke up
the next morning with her nose bleeding. She also mentioned that she had
seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom.

HC addendum
Source: The Australian UFO Research NetworkType: D or
F?



76.
Location. Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 29 2002
Time: early morning
Local residents have seen a strange figure, which they described as
resembling a "shroud". The apparitions, which always occur in the early
morning hours, have become so common that in recent days several neighbors=

have stayed up late to see them, and it is thus that they were able to
confirm the simultaneous presence of up to 2 such beings, as well as red
lights flying over the area. All the witnesses whether individuals or in a=

group, agree that the entities are nebulous and glowing, with a pair of red=

eyes being clearly identifiable, and glassy faces (as if transparent).
Their movements are smooth and they always appear from behind the sand
dunes, as though "coming form the Naval Base." Most witnesses agree that
they show a great interest in the water tanks located above the roofs, and=

that they do not flee upon detecting the presence of local
residents---rather, they stare at them fixedly for some minutes. Deep
silence is perceived during the observations and "the air appears to become=

still" and neither heat nor cold can be felt---only a sensation of warmth,=

as if the beings emanated heat. Witnesses also state that things appear to=

be darker when "the shroud" appears, as though ambient lighting were
dimmed. Another curious fact is the large number of cats and dogs who
report to the place where the sightings occur and sit down to observe it in=

silence, in a state resembling a trance. A series of semi-circular prints
have been found in the dunes, not very deep, with 15-20 cm separations in
some cases and 30-50 cm in others. The locals have identified them as the
strange being's footprints. Efforts have been made to photograph the
"shroud", but all images, despite the use of different cameras appear
exposed. One witness who approached the site to witness the phenomenon took=

two photos of the prints in the afternoon and decided to stay with the
group of people hoping to see the "shroud", managing to take some photos of=

same and record the new prints which appeared in the dunes after the
sighting. A completely uncommon print was found at the site---but the
residents aren't sure if it's related to the phenomenon: it has the shape
of a five-fingered claw. One witness tried to make use of his carbine's
telescopic sight to see the figure in greater detail, but "when he tried to=

focus on it, he could see nothing_it was a though it could only be seen
with the unaided eye."

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, IHU, Christian Quintero and O A Mario
Proyecto Condor
Type: C or E?


77.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 30 2002
Time: 0530A
27-year old Mariela Baigorri reported seeing a strange figure that floated=

in front of her house. She had woken up early that morning and was getting=

ready to mount her bicycle when she saw behind the fence something floating=

in mid-air. It appeared to be a figure wearing a flowing white transparent=

tunic, with bright red eyes and undefined facial features. Feeling no fear=

she decided to approach it. She felt as if the figure waited for her and
was observing her. At this point Mariela felt some fear and began reciting=

the Lord's Prayer. The figure suddenly moved back and disappeared in plain=

sight.

HC addendum
Source: Juan Carlos Corrales Morey, Vision Ovni, Argentina
Type: E


78.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 31 2002
Time: 1845
23-year old Julian Pereyra was in his vehicle when he observed two red
spheres flying slowly over some nearby woods, they seemed to descend and
disappear behind the trees. 15 minutes later, Pereyra, accompanied by
several other witnesses approached the area and observed what they
described a tall floating figure wearing a white glowing cape like outfit,=

it seemed to glide silently over a field. It had what appeared to be a
visor at face level and two beams of red light emerged from where the eyes=

would have been. The witnesses watched the strange figure glide over the
fields for about 30 minutes. Curiously numerous local dogs and cats
approached and also watched the figure in fascination. The lights and
figure disappeared into the distance. In another occasion Pereyra and some=

of his family members encountered the strange humanoid and felt a strange
sensation as if the wind had suddenly stopped, they felt as they were
inside a vacuum or "bubble." Strange tracks have been reportedly found in
the area also.

HC addendum
Source: Diario La Nueva Provincia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Type: C?


79.
Location. La Cienaga, Pocri, Panama
Date: early August 2002
Time: night
Luis Alfredo Diaz reported hearing loud noises coming from the terraced
patio where the kitchen was located, going to investigate he found his cat=

apparently dead with two obvious holes on the neck and some blood on the
floor. Before finding the cat he had called his wife, Maria de Los Santos
Barrios. As his wife stood in front of him a panic stricken look came over=

her face, turning around he was confronted by a bizarre 1-meter tall
humanoid that had jumped to the center of the patio. The creature was
described as thin, covered with dark hair, with large pointed ears that
almost covered its face, it had very large eyes and extremely strong hind
legs resembling that of a kangaroo. Terrified he ran to his son's bedroom
and carried him outside yelling for his neighbors. A search failed to
locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Panamanian Paranormal Forum
Type: E


80.
Location. Near Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Date: August 2002
Time: night
The same witness involved in a similar encounter last year was again
camping in the same area when he again heard a noise. Shining the light in=

the direction of the sound he again saw the same creature. The creature sat=

there crouched by the trees staring at the witness. The witness walked
slowly towards it, he got to within 20 ft when it just jumped backward and=

disappeared. He described the creature as about five to six ft in height,
gray in color. It was totally naked. It had human features, but more
leathery, and its face was very wide, its eyes were huge and even though
they reflected light, they still looked black, resembling two intensely
black marbles. Its legs were very muscular, but turned backwards, like a
bird. Other hikers in the area have reported encountering little brown men=

on some of the more isolated trails.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal Story Archives, November 2002Type: E


81.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: August 1 2002
Time: late evening
64-year old Raul Dorado was touring some fields when he heard a loud sound=

on two occasions, like a whirlwind, which drew his attention. The third
time he saw something he describes as a green circle with three legs
hovering over him. At that moment Dorado fell to the ground, and according=

to his story, he carried a shotgun, binoculars and a cellular phone, the
latter, which was taken from his hand, and he could clearly see being
sucked into the object, which was apparently at low altitude. His next
recollection was seeing the object disappear toward the east. Dorado
remained at the location for an hour before being able to rise and walk
back to his car, returning to town in a state of shock. He had to be
hospitalized. Later when calls were placed to the (abducted) cellular phone=

someone would pick up and heavy breathing could be heard. Later on the
phone was apparently disconnected.

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, quoting Diario La Arena, La PampaType: G?


82.
Location. Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Date: August 2 2002
Time: 1730
A man named Todd Sees went up the mountain to look for pre-season deer. He=

told his wife that he would be home by noon. He rode his 4-wheeler up the
power line behind his home. He never returned. A search party composed of
local police, state police and volunteers searched for Sees. The 4-wheeler=

was found on the top of the mountain near a power-line. Tracking dogs could=

find nothing to go on around the 4-wheeler. The search went on for 2 days
and over 6 miles of mountain was covered from top to bottom. Then, in the
evening of the 2nd day, his body was found in a hard to reach wooded area.=

He was wearing his underwear. He was emaciated---not bloated. He was pale
and had an expression of horror on his face. When he went up the mountain
he was fully dressed, boots, camo-vest, hat, socks, pants. 3 people, on one=

farm, said they saw a large round bright object just above the power-lines=

at the time of the disappearance. It was silent, it did not move for about=

10 to 15 minutes. It suddenly went up and suddenly stopped. A light shone
down and something was pulled up into the light. It then went straight up,=

hesitated again, and then went west over the Susquehanna River and out of
sight. More specifically a farmer saw an object above Montour Ridge at the=

power lines, on top of the mountain, it was round and very still over the
lines. Suddenly it moved what looked like a few hundred feet to the east,
it stopped and a beam of blue and white light shone to the ground. What was=

seen next was very unnerving, he saw what appeared to be a man suspended in=

the light, he was being pulled up head first, he was moving his arms slowly=

in the light. What looked like a man was pulled up into the bottom of the
craft. A few seconds later it started shuddering, then went west very fast,=

stopped briefly, and then went straight up and out of sight. Also three
fishermen saw the craft. The FBI is supposedly also investigating. (Debated=

as a hoax, who would? and for what purpose?).

HC addendum
Source: Rense, UFO updates, NUFORCType: G?






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                            2002 Humanoid Reports

From: Albert Rosales <Garuda79@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:32:05 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:14:40 -0500
Subject: 2002 Humanoid Reports


Happy new year everyone

Sincerely,

Albert

-----

2002 Humanoid Reports. It appears to be a slow start for this
year with only one recorded case, again from Chile. We will see
what develops later on the year. 2001 was pretty busy but it was
a decline from 2000. Maybe we will see another down trend again,
later to pick up again in the near future. This seems to be the
ever-ongoing trend of the phenomena. Will it always stay the
same? Time will tell. Following is a list of known 2002 humanoid
cases.


1.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: January 2002
Time: 0300A
An employee at the local Minera Escondida was on his way to the
storage freezer in order to pick up some supplies when an
unknown creature jumped him from behind. He could only describe
it as hairy and dark. He was left with deep scratches and in a
state of shock. Terrified he ran away and bumped into two other
employees who were able to see a shadowy creature in the dark.

HC addendum
Source: La Estrella del Loa de Calama, ChileType: E


2.
Location. Caracas, Venezuela
Date: January 2002
Time: late night
Late one night in a dream-like state the witness woke up to see
seven to eight strange figures in her bedroom. They were dark
gray in color and very thin, with three large thick long fingers
on their hands. They had large, lipless mouths and large shiny
protruding black eyes, their noses were thin and protruding,
small ears, the heads was large and pointy. The humanoids
appeared to be naked and she was able to see a penis on the
humanoids. They were about 1.55 meters in height. She felt dizzy
and under the control of the strange entities. She was led out
of her bedroom by one of the humanoids that removed her clothing
and made her lie down on the floor. The humanoids apparently
attempted to molest her sexually and possibly attempted to rape
her but were not successful. She apparently passed out and does
not remember anything else about the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Lista Alcione and witness communicationType: E


3.
Location. Fort McMurry, Alberta, Canada
Date: January 2 2002
Time: 2032
Two men were parked on an isolated dirt road when they spotted a
large cone-shaped object descend and hover. One of the men
exited the car and he vanished in plain sight of the other, the
craft then also disappeared. The other man tried to drive away
to get help but the car would not start and it was to cold to
walk. He soon went to sleep and woke up later to find his friend
sleeping next to him. Later they drove back to town. His friend
does not remember what happened during those two hours of
missing time. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


4.
Location. Paso Lovera, Corrientes, Argentina
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2030
Gabriela Lencinas, 15-year old and a 19-year old friend were
returning home on a bicycle when they spotted a large cloud like
object descend from the sky and from it a giant figure emerge.
The witnesses stopped their bicycles to see a car approach the
giant figure, stop, the driver exit the car and then re-entering
the vehicle and driving quickly away. The figure then rose up
into the cloud and disappeared. The girls reported that the
giant human-like figure had its hair standing up on his head and
was extending its arms towards the witnesses that quickly rode
their bicycles home. Other in the area reported seeing bright
lights that same night.

HC addendum
Source: Pablo Omastott
Type: B?


5.
Location. Villa San Rafael, Chile
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2345
Two young teenagers, Jean F and Nelson C, where at home at night
when Jean noticed that his pet snake had escaped from its cage.
Both boys began looking for it outside among the rubble of the
parcel. They recalled how half an hour before, their two dogs
strangely began to howl and cry; however, it did not seem to be
important at that point in time. They searched for the pet snake
together when suddenly, about 30 meters from where they stood;
they saw what appeared to be a stray dog. They threw rocks at to
avoid an attack. However, to their surprise, the animal stood
there, motionless and fearless; it did not get scared nor it ran
away as ordinary dogs normally do. Shortly, the strange animal
began to move towards them. The movements it made as it walked
were very strange. It used two legs at a time. It made very
small sand short leaps like a rabbit. Suddenly, it stopped and
it stood up on two legs. The teenagers then began to feel some
kind of energy. "It was like an electrical shock in the
stomach," they said. It later walked again making a loud
dragging noise, making small leaps and only moving one of its
legs. They noticed the weird shape of the animal. "It was like a
rugby football with legs," one of them said. Jean began to feel
frightened and started to move away from animal. On the other
hand, Nelson felt a strange need to get closer to the creature;
he got to within 2 meters away from it. The creature appear to
emit a strange luminosity that apparently, was bright enough to
lit a small area around the creature in spite of the nighttime
darkness. Nelson was mesmerized as he stared at the strange
creature. He described it as having a head like a large dog with
a flat nose like a bulldog. Its eyes were slanted and pale-red
in color, which could only be seen when the creature turned its
head from side to side like a lizard. At that moment, Nelson
heard a voice in his head saying, "Don't stare, and just run
away." They provided further description, describing the ears as
flat, round and large. Its arms were short, it had elbows, and
the hands had three fingers. It had hair like the one on a wild
pig. Its legs were like the ones of a goat. The feet had also
three fingers and a membrane like ducks, but somewhat shorter.
On its curved back, they were able to notice a spinal section
covered with amounts of even thicker hair. Most of the hair of
the animal was gray, but the tail had a white tip. Nelson
finally fled, terrified, from the area. He also described how he
felt an inexplicable bone-chilling cold sensation.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center
Type: E


6.
Location. Not given
Date: January 12 2002
Time: night
Ted Parker was eating some leftover food when he claims the food began to
change. The bread of the sandwich turned an orange color and the lamb
became a silvery metallic color, sort of like liquid mercury. As he watched=

transfixed, he saw the orange bread and metallic lamb turn into the figure=

of an "alien" with the form of a man. It was silver in color and its outfit=

(smooth pants and shirt, like a jump suit) was orange in color. At this
point Parker glanced at the wall clock and it indicated that 2 hours had
gone by, even though it felt like minutes only. The alien figure
communicated using telepathic means and asked Ted to come with him. They
both went outside and there, Ted saw a landed black-colored craft in his
backyard. In a split second Ted found himself inside the craft not knowing=

how he got there. The inside of the craft was pure white in color with
strips of the metallic silver that the alien figure appeared to be made of.=

The rest of the incident is just a blur, but Parker did remembered hearing=

several loud high-pitched rings while onboard the object. A couple of days=

before while eating dinner with several other people there had been a
similar high pitched ring and everybody had just stopped eating and walked=

out of the room.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: G or F?



7.
Location. Chihuahua, Mexico
Date: January 29 2002
Time: night
Several days before seeing a UFO the witness remembered being in a
dream-like state in which he felt very calm and saw numerous disc shaped
objects, orange-red in color. A human like figure was talking to him about=

the objects and their propulsion. The UFO he saw was of an orange color and=

he felt a sort of ecstasy when he observed the craft. Several of his
neighbors also saw the object.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: G or F?


8.
Location. Near Palmyra, Wisconsin
Date: February 2002
Time: 0200A
Two men reported seeing a creature that resembled a bipedal "gigantic wolf"=

walking down a road west of the city. They said the creature was at least 7=

ft tall with a wolf-like head. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Linda GodfreyType: E


9.
Location. West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
Nebilson Sangma reported encountering a scary furry creature on a hunting
trip in the jungles. He reportedly took a video of the creature's nesting
place. According to Sangma, the creature walked erect like a human, had
built a house like nesting place, and would emerge from it frequently to
feast on a banana grove. Sangma and his brother observed the gigantic
creature for three consecutive days from afar. Officials and villagers have=

been hunting for the creature in the forest but it seems to have
disappeared as furtively as it appeared.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 13
Type: E


10.
Location. Near Dover, England
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness had been jogging along a low path by the beach when she noticed=

a tall, well built being in a black skin tight suit, that stood watching
her from nearby. He wore a black helmet wit a brown visor pulled down. At
first she thought it was a biker but as she approached the figure, it
suddenly disappeared in plain sight. As she continued to run she noticed a=

black craft jutting out of the sand, it was small and oval shaped, matt and=

ribbed it also disappeared in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: E?


11.
Location. Rosario de la Frontera, Salta, Argentina
Date: February 2002
Time: night
A strange creature called by locals "El Pestizo" has attacked several lone=

pedestrians in the middle of the night. It is described as a dark man
shaped shadowy being. A boy riding his bicycle on the way to visit some
friends was toppled from his bicycle and found a black shadowy figure
facing him. The young man managed to upholster his shotgun and fire two
shots. But, when he saw that they had no effect, he promptly drew his knife=

and stabbed the figure without any apparent harm. Frightened the youth
tried to escape but the creature knocked him down without saying a word and=

began dragging him by the hair to the side of the road. At this point the
young man began to scream. A local man, who rushed to provide assistance,
only to find a black shadow dragging the boy by the hair, heard his cries.=

The fearful shape disappeared without a trace after it became aware of the=

other man's presence. Six other locals have reported being attacked by a
similar being and received wounds.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


12.
Location. Not given
Date: February 2002
Time: early morning
The witness was alone at home and was preparing his breakfast when suddenly=

he heard a window break; he went to see what had happened. Grabbing a golf=

club he peeked inside the room where the window broke. He was stunned to
see a strange creature climbing on his bed. It appeared to be hurt, because=

it seemed that it could not move well. Gripping the golf club he went a
step nearer and the creature hissed horribly. It shrieked in an unworldly
manner. Terrified the witness did not move. The creature was small, about
the size of a large rabbit, and it was dark in color and had reddish eyes.=

It had wings and a spine of quills on its back, and had a semi reptilian
face. It appeared to have hair and small legs. The witness raised the golf=

club and the creature hissed again showing its large yellowish teeth, which=

appeared to be sharp, like those of a crocodile. It suddenly hopped out of=

the window and rapidly hopped across the street into the oak trees.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June archiveType: E


13.
Location. Vigevano, Italy
Date: February 2002
Time: 0100A
In the outskirts of this city a witness observed from his vehicle a
luminous humanoid entity walking along a roadway. It scurried away into the=

darkness when approached.
No other information.

HC addendum
Source: CISU, ItalyType: E



14.
Location. Corguinho, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Date: February 5 2002
Time: night
During a localized UFO flap several witnesses reported seeing a strange
creature described as about 1.3 meters in height, having two legs, with a
physique like a human but who moved with a strange fluctuating motion. The=

creature was seen five times by twenty people in the rural zone around
Corguinho. In Rochedo, 6 miles south of Corguinho five Cebu cattle were
found dead with a single incision on the side of the throat. The bodies had=

been drained of blood. (Is there a connection?).

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


15.
Location. Mount Podbrdo, Bosnia Hercigovina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: morning
Contactee and stigmatic Giorgio Bongiovanni was visiting the shrine on top=

of the mountain and was praying silently to the Virgin when, to his
astonishment, a glowing luminous female figure appeared and touched his
forehead with her fingertips. His stigmata scar vanished instantly. The
female figure told him to return to Italy and make known what had happened.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 14
Type: E or F?


16.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: evening
73-year-old Maria Rufina Cayo, a local shepherd was walking back home with=

her dogs and the cattle. Suddenly at one point, something spooked the
animals, and these began to stampede. Looking around she spotted a bizarre=

creature standing about 12 meters away. She described it as a humanoid,
half animal, half human, about 1.70m in height, with bright red eyes, sharp=

protruding fangs, and hands and feet that ended in sharp claws. The
creature looked at the witness three times then it scrambled away using
quick jumping motions with is powerfully built hind legs, she also noticed=

large pointy ears. The top part of its body seems to have been covered in a=

shiny white blanket. It somehow resembled a centaur walking on two
claw-like feet.  Alerted by the shouts of Maria, two men, Santos Jaimes,
and Ruben Colque ran out to investigate with their dogs. Suddenly the dogs=

stopped and began making pitiful howling noises, they refused to move any
further. The men heard noises behind some nearby bushes and went to
investigate and spotted a bizarre creature that stood staring at them with=

huge reddish eyes. It then moved quickly away in the direction of Cerro
Negro and disappeared from sight. The witnesses noticed very sharp claws on=

the creature's feet with a very sharp claw that appeared to be pointed
backwards. Strange footprints were found the next day.

HC addendum
Source: El Tribuno, Salta Argentina March 27 2002
Also Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E



17.
Location. Khanpur, Ahmedabad, India
Date: February 20 2002
Time: after midnight
Several local residents reportedly have encountered a person, dressed in
black and wearing a mask. Dubbed the "Monkeyman" whom they described as
between 25 and 20 years of age, dark skinned and having curly hair can
reportedly be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees. Two
local youths chased it and the figure reportedly disappeared in plain
sight. The two youths have been behaving abnormally since then. The
stranger was also chased along the riverbed near the Cama Hotel and it also=

suddenly disappeared. Others have heard the stranger running on the
rooftops. Abdul Hamid another youngster of the local slums described the
figure as a tall lean man that carries a sharp weapon. "I saw him from the=

back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised the alarm, he jumped to=

another roof and then on to a tree." Police have searched for the stranger=

but nothing has been found.

HC addendum
Source: Fortean Times, India Express
Type: E


18.
Location. Prague, Czech Republic
Date: February 23 2002
Time: night
Blanka Slemendova was in her apartment when she saw a "ship" hovering over=

some nearby woods. It was shining red, white and yellow lights. She then
heard telepathic communication coming from the object telling her to go and=

meet them at an unspecified location. Looking over to her bedroom wall she=

saw what appeared to be a projection of human like faces looking at her.
Later that night she saw luminous figures in her room and a floating red
light also in her room. The next night she saw what appeared to be 2 gray
suns and around them a golden lights with numerous groups of shiny
human-like figures floating about. She interpreted these as being angels.

HC addendum
Source: Direct from witness (Slemendova)
Type: C & F?


19.
Location. Wycliffe Well Roadhouse, Northern Territory Australia
Date: early March 2002
Time: evening
While workers in the area watched unusual lights in the sky an aboriginal
woman encountered a triangular sort of object in a paddock and all of the
sudden she saw three silvery clad human like figures that began to move
toward her vehicle. She turned the vehicle around and took off.

HC addendum
Source: Lou Farcus ABC On-lineType: C


20.
Location. Near Canberra Australia
Date: March 2002
Time: 1700
Several friends were taking a trip to the coast and it was already very
dark. They had already entered a tropical forest area and there was a mist=

rolling along the ground. As they turned around they saw something
squatting in the middle of the road. It stared at them, and just as they
thought they were going to hit it, it leaped off the road and into the
trees. It leaped about 10 meters in the air. The creature was definitely
human looking although it wore strange clothes. It was dressed in a green
robe of some kind with little pieces of gold on it, and it was either
wearing a head crest or it had a row of spikes running from its forehead to=

the top of its neck. Very frightened the witnesses drove out of the forest=

and at the same time the mist turned to a thick fog. They pulled over and
decided to wait until the fog had cleared, although none of them were too
happy about it. As they sat around and waited they suddenly heard a shriek.=

It sounded like some sort of wild animal and they turned the car on so the=

headlights would scare it away. The headlights revealed the same creature
they had seen earlier. It hid its face from the light and shrieked. Right
before the witnesses' eyes, the creature seemed to evaporate into the fog.=

Within five minutes the fog had gone and the normal rolling mist was back.=

The witnesses quickly left the area and drove towards the coast.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June ArchiveType: E


21.
Location. Guanica Puerto Rico
Date: March 1 2002
Time: 2345
Reinaldo Rios (involved in other encounters) was in his bedroom that night=

when a large white light suddenly appeared. It flew around the room several=

times and then hovered. He heard voices coming from the light, which
communicated with him. The voice said: "I am your real father." Soon the
light transformed itself into a figure resembling that of a little boy it
then vanished in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: UFOs over America.com
Type: E


22.
Location. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 0800A
The witness and his wife were in bed that Saturday morning talking when
their 5-year-old daughter came into the bedroom with her baby brother,
whose cot is placed under their bedroom window. They heard a strange noise=

and some green light came into the window. Their daughter looked out the
window and reported seeing a "flying car" with four spinning green lights
on top. She saw two windows in the vehicle and saw two dark brown faces
looking out. His wife saw the craft flying past through the curtains. That=

same morning, in a large tree near the witness house a strange structure
was found. The branches were arranged in a rectangular pen shape, vertical,=

each approximately 30 to 40 cm long. They found a few smaller sticks
scaling down in size from the structure. A piece of concrete slab was found=

propped up on one corner. The witnesses had never seen this strange
structure before and think is some kind of message left by the visitors.
(Some kind of bizarre crop circle?). A few nights before they had heard
strange noises coming from the kitchen area.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: A


23.
Location. Golasecca Di Novara, Italy
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 2330
Augusto & Maurizia were in their vehicle parked in an open field next to a=

wooded area having a heated discussion when suddenly a powerful beam of
reddish-orange light illuminated the area around them. They rolled down the=

car window and heard a sharp metallic sound that seemed to be increasing in=

intensity. They now noticed, behind the beam of light a hovering
disc-shaped craft with a central rotating ring, it hovered about a meter
from the ground. From the object, a cigar-shaped beam of light emerged;
they could see it as the central ring of the craft slowly rotated on its
axis. The craft was only about 10 meters away. At this point, and only
about 4 meters from the object Augusto saw what appeared to be a gelatinous=

transparent humanoid-like figure with a visible head, arms and legs. The
figure was silvery in color and was very tall, about 3 meters or so. At
this point Augusto became concerned and drove away from the area and did
not see the object or figure depart. The whole episode lasted about 10
minutes. The metallic noise was heard all throughout the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Alfredo Lissoni, CUN Milano, Michelle Castellano CUN VareseType: C


24.
Location. Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England
Date: March 3 2002
Time: morning
Helen Diskin went for a walk in the countryside talking snap shots along
the way with her digital camera. Returning home she loaded these into her
computer and was intrigued by an odd-looking image. It looked like a
luminous figure in an area of no sunlight, skulking amongst the trees. She=

returned to the site of the photo twice afterward and could find no
explanation for the figure. The figure resembled a small helmeted figure
that she had not seen when she took the picture of an area of the woods she=

had thought of as "mysterious."

HC addendum
Source: Helen Diskin, UFO Magazine Vol. 22 # 1Type: E?


25.
Location. Near Trenton New Jersey
Date: March 4 2002
Time: night
Several witnesses were camping outside of town and late at night one of
them was attempting to put out the bonfire when he heard the most awful and=

horrifying scream. It resembled that of an injured dog crossed with a
scream of a woman. The witness dropped the flashlight and was joined by
another witness. Suddenly out of the woods a hideous and gruesome creature=

appeared. It did not look human, somewhat satyr-like in appearance and
walked on two legs. It had a long tail like a dragon and wings like those
unicorns in fantasy books. The beast took several steps towards the
witnesses and one of them picked up and asked and yelled at it and then
shone his flashlight at it. The creature then turned towards the bushes and=

ran away from the area.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: E


26.
Location. Pichaca, Salta, Argentina
Date: March 9 2002
Time: night
Ceferino Leoncio was cleaning his one room metal shack when suddenly a
bright light engulfed the room. He felt a sudden heat as he saw a tiny
figure (50 cm) of an angel-like creature materialize in front of him. It
slowly moved its small wing-like protrusions and moved around and then
suddenly stopped and remained still. It appeared to be a small living human=

like living being until it appeared to hardened and turn into some type of=

statue of cherubic appearance. Locals have now built a shrine around the
tiny "statue" and call the strange materialization a "religious miracle".

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso
Type: F?



27.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: March 16 2002
Time: 2215
Mirna, was watching television alone in her room when she began hearing
noises coming from outside, at first she thought it was her dogs playing
around with some empty cans. But the noises kept getting louder and louder=

and she decided to go outside to investigate. Once outside she was stunned=

to see some type creature that had somehow entered the rabbit cage and was=

attacking the animals that were making loud unearthly screams. Thinking at=

first that it was one of the dogs she approached the case but realized that=

it was a gray colored hairy hunched over creature, that was moving quickly=

inside the cage. She stepped back and could not understand how the creature=

had entered the cage, since there wasn't any apparent hole or aperture
visible anywhere and the door was firmly closed. Afraid she ran inside her=

home and notified her son, both then ran out but the creature had
mysteriously disappeared. Unnerved, they could not understand how they
creature had escaped since the door to the rabbit caged was still firmly
locked. Later they could only find a small round hole in the wire only
several centimeters in width, not large enough for a creature estimated to=

have been about 70 to 80 cm in height. Several of the rabbits were found
injured and one was dead.

HC addendum
Source: Calama UFO CenterType: E


28.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: March 19 2002
Time: 2000
Young Elizabeth Lera reported seeing a short humanoid with "dark eyes"
looking into the building compound from behind a wire fence. It appeared
not to have any other facial features and was wearing dark clothing; it
wore some type of head covering, which was hard to see because of the
darkness. She could only see a pair of large dark eyes on his face that
appeared to shine in the darkness. Some more children now arrived and
observed as the humanoid move several steps towards them. Another witness,=

Rene Mamani saw the humanoid run and hide behind some bushes. It seemed to=

move at very high speed in an unnatural fashion. It seemed to have remained=

suspended in mid-air for a few seconds. It then seemed to fly through the
air and disappeared into some nearby woods. Other students at the school
reportedly saw it again on the night of the 20th.

HC addendum
Source: Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E


29.
Location. Woodburn, Oregon
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 0300A
The witness was sleeping when she woke up suddenly feeling paralyzed. The
witness was completely unable to move or speak. Her next memory was of a
strange sensation on her left cheek, which hurt a lot. Unseen "beings" were=

apparently taking skin samples. Her face was left with a pink fleshy scoop=

down my left cheek, directly on the cheekbone. A teardrop scar was left on=

her cheek.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical Universe
Type: G?




30.
Location. Bethlehem, Israel
Date: March 21 2002
Time: night
At the besieged Church of The Nativity several awed witnesses have come
forward describing the events of Thursday night. That night, a smell of
roses filled the sanctuary as the Daughters of Charity held their evening
prayers. "The sweet scent was soon followed by a high musical humming sound=

and a distinct feeling of warmth emanating from the ceiling." Then, the
sisters reported, seeing a glowing beam of light gradually forming the
likeness of the Blessed Virgin "like a film coming into focus." Tears were=

running down her face, and she uttered a prophetic warning. "Time is
growing short, and the promised Judgment Day is nearly at hand." One week
before the apparition, The Church of the Holy Family was the scene of a
ferocious firefight between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 17Type: F


31.
Location. Not given
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 2255
16-year old Steven Mizon saw hovering over a street a large oval shaped
craft encircled in bright lights and with several lighted windows around
its edge. A figure stared down at him from one of the windows. No other
information.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Watch
Type: A



32.
Location. Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain
Date: March 26 2002
Time: 1500
A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a deserted road when=

he noticed ahead in the distance and in the middle of the roadway an object=

resembling a shiny pear that was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat
perplexed he approached and noticed two individuals standing on a nearby
field. These were over 2 meters in height, wore tight fitting white
coveralls and helmets resembling that of the early astronauts. He parked
his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men=

walked away and entered the shiny pear-shaped craft while the other
remained behind. Knowing that these men were "not from this earth" he still=

asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt that as
he approached the strange pair he had been in some type of a trance and
seemed to have floated over the road. The humanoid answered and appeared
genuinely happy as to his offer of assistance but said that everything was=

in order. He also added that the area was very beautiful and also added:
"Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such
beautiful scenes, they disappeared a long time ago." The astounded witness=

managed to ask the humanoid where he was from and was told that they hailed=

from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The=

humanoid smiled as he answered the question. The humanoid then bid goodbye=

and walked towards the nearby shiny pear shaped object, he then disappeared=

inside of it. The craft then emitted a loud whistling sound and disappeared=

at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the
humanoids as about 2.50 meters in height, wide chests and heavy set, thin
legs. Generally human features, but somewhat "refined" or sharpened
features. The suits were very tight fitting made of an apparent synthetic
material resembling plastic. Their eyes were very light almost white and
their speech was hesitant & accented. Also their movements seemed kind of
clumsy.

HC addendum
Source: J M Garcia, Francisco Padron, SpainType: B


33.
Location. Pringle Lake, Texas
Date: March 28 2002
Time: 1100A
Mark Hakemack and a friend had taken an airboat out on the NW side of the
lake to do a little redfish fishing. The day was kind of hazy, with broken=

cloud cover. They had caught several trout and were just chatting when he
hooked up a large redfish while playing with the fish, Mark happened to
glance upwards and saw a large bird-like creature emerge from a cloudbank.=

His friend saw it too, after about 20 to 25 seconds it flew behind cloud
cover again. The strange creature was grayish in color and the profile of a=

raptor, short neck/head, no legs sticking out behind, and no long tail
feathers. Mark could not take his eyes off it. He estimated the wingspan to=

have been 10' to 14 ' in overall. It appeared to be soaring on the wind,
although, he did see it give a couple of light "flaps" with its wings. The=

witness could only relate this to the legendary "Thunderbird" legend.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.comType: E


34.
Location. Sevilla, Spain
Date: March 30 2002
Time: late night
The witness to the March 26 case was at home with his wife and was getting=

ready to sleep when he heard footsteps coming from patio area outside his
chalet. Armed with a club, he opened the door and was stunned to see the
same two tall heavyset humanoids he had encountered 4 days before. One of
the humanoids was kneeling on the ground as if inspecting something on the=

soil, the other one upon hearing the door open, turned and quickly assured=

the witness not to fear that they were not here to harm him. Stunned, the
witness invited the two humanoids in the house for some refreshments (!).
These declined the invitation telling that they had to go already. Using
the same clumsy movements both humanoids walked towards the rear of the
house where the witness noticed the same shiny metallic pear shaped craft
on the ground. They entered the object, which quickly left at high speed.
The witness's wife awakened by the voices was able to see the two humanoids=

from a second story window, and described them in the same way.

HC addendum
Source: Francisco Padron, Jose Manuel Garcia, SpainType: B


35.
Location. Los Cipreses, Chile
Date: March 31 2002
Time: noon
During a local UFO congress 24 persons in three groups entered a
dimensional gateway that appeared by itself over the terrain. It was kind
of a dome, a luminous archway measuring four by four meters. The
participants lost their materiality without disappearing completely. Upon
entering, they met several human-like alien characters with large baldheads=

and wearing robes that waited within and received information. According to=

sources the contact experience was "dimensional" it was like crossing into=

a different reality. The 24 participants were "all professionals, college
students of high intellectual levels, mostly Chileans," and some were
members of Grupo Rama, a New Age association.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 16, quoting Camilo Valdivieto
Type: G or F?


36.
Location. Tbilissi Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: night
A man entered the local St David church and reported that "a phantom with
wings" had approached him and predicted an earthquake that indeed took
place on April 25 2002, devastating areas of central Georgia.

HC addendum
Source: Pravda
Type: E?


37.
Location. Near Macon, Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: 2300
Three friends were awakened by loud banging noises and bellowing sounds
coming from outside. One of the men ran to the bathroom and looked out the=

window to see a figure run by and squat in the nearby bushes. He described=

the creature as about 3 ft tall, hairy with what appeared to be horns on
its head and hands; he could not see a face. Others in the neighborhood
heard the banging noises.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.com and direct witness
Communication.
Type: E


38.
Location. Belvedere di Tezze, Italy
Date: April 26 2002
Time: evening
A 20-year old woman was returning home one night when she noticed some
bright lights nearby of an unknown origin. She followed the lights in her
car until she stopped near a local pizzeria. She saw the light near the
ground and within the lights two tall slender human like figures wearing
some type of headgear. Since she was carrying a camera she was able to snap=

a quick picture. The figures then vanished. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Gruppo Accademico Ufologico Scandicci quoting
"Il giornale di Vicenza"Type: E?


39.
Location. Puente Santamaria, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: early morning
Two young men observed a dark object descend towards the ground about 100
meters away. According to the two witnesses from the craft descended a
small humanoid, orange in color. Very scared they both ran from the area
and reported their experience to others.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: B


40.
Location. Merceditas, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: evening
An elderly couple was walking along National Route # 8 when about 800
meters from their location they noticed a very strong light. The light
descended next to a puddle at about 70 meters from the witness. Both then
saw two very short orange colored humanoids that moved in very agile
movements near the object. Terrified they walked away and upon looking back=

saw a bright glow on the ground.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: C


41.
Location. Barangay, Philippines
Date: May 2002
Time: night
Several local residents reported seeing a bizarre creature described as an=

"aswang" reputed to be a winged vampire type creature, it reportedly had
red glowing eyes, long black hair, and was wearing a white flowing gown. It=

was seen perched on top of a bamboo tree. Residents at nearby Roxas
reported seeing a similar creature. The police was called but a search
failed to locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Akasico.comType: E


42.
Location. Alvear, La Pampa Argentina
Date: May 3 2002
Time: near midnight
Several young men were returning home late at night along a deserted
roadway when suddenly out of nowhere a female figure wearing a light
flowing gown and with long black hair appeared in front of them. The
strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly and repeatedly asked for=

assistance from the men in a strange urgent tone. Terrified the men ran
from the area and later returned with additional witnesses but they could
find no trace of the strange apparition.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E?


43.
Location. Taralgon Victoria, Australia
Date: May 24 2002
Time: 2355
Walking near the Loy Yang Power station 45-year old Martin Taylor was
suddenly blinded by an intense blue light and he felt extremely dizzy. His=

next memory was of being in a circular room with a variety of lights and
buttons scattered about the walls. He was lying on a large table that
seemed to be of a very highly polished metal. He was strapped down and his=

shirt had been removed. There were wires attached to his arms, neck and
temples. A four ft tall humanoid figure with very large almond shaped eyes,=

almost transparent looking skin, ghostly white in appearance examined him.=

The figure had three extremely long fingers on each hand and spoke in a
strange dialect.

HC addendum
Source: UFO WatchType: G


44.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: May 29 2002
Time: midnight
Irma Rick watched a rotating luminous object descend close to the ground
next to a grain silo; it gave off a powerful bluish light through some
openings around its circumference. It hovered close to the ground. Through=

an opening a strange creature was seen to descend to the ground. It was
described as having an elongated semi-transparent white body; it also had
an elongated head. She could not see any eyes or legs on the creature as it=

stood motionless next to the craft. She observed the creature and object
for about 5 minutes until she dropped the flashlight she was carrying.
Afraid she left the area and did not see the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: B



45.
Location. Lembang Bandung, Indonesia
Date: May 30 2002
Time: 2315
The witness was driving his motorcycle across a highland area when he
spotted some flashing lights overhead and then noticed a silvery
disc-shaped craft descend low over some nearby graves at a cemetery. The
craft had blue and orange flashing lights around its rim. There was no
sound as the craft apparently emitted a beam of light towards the ground
and levitated what appeared to be some dead bodies onboard the object. (!)=

The witness was apparently paralyzed and was unable to move. The craft then=

shot away at a 45-degree angle and disappeared from sight. When that
happened the witness left the scene.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


46.
Location. Houston, Texas
Date: late May 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness was at the local electric company in order to pay a bill when
she decided to use the restrooms. Sitting in the stall she then noticed on=

the side of the wall of the stall what appeared to be a face lit up in a
dull light. When the witness looked directly at the "face" it vanished. She=

described is as having large round eyes no visible nose and a slit-like
mouth. (A peeping tom alien?)

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.comType: E?


47.
Location. General Acha, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: early June 2002
Time: various
A resident of the Oeste neighborhood informed newspaper sources that a
short green-colored dwarf like entity has appeared twice on her property:
once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When her husband ran out
responding to her screams, the mysterious entity vanished by rapidly
climbing up a tree. All versions agree in that the entity is short in
stature. Another resident added that it moved so quickly that it was hard
to describe it. In the same area mysterious cattle mutilations have also
been reported.

HC addendum
Source: Loren Coleman in UFO UpdatesType: E


48.
Location. Ojo De Agua, Argentina
Date: June 2002
Time: afternoon
Several passengers onboard two farm micro buses reported seeing a very tall=

dark man like figure that appeared to be wearing a tight fitting diver's
outfit standing on a nearby field. Nearby numerous mysterious animal
mutilations have been reported. The figure was silent and was quickly lost=

from sight as the buses moved away.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E




49.
Location. Near Tampa, Florida
Date: June 2002
Time: night
A man and three of his friends reported encountering two bizarre chupacabra=

type creatures one stood about 3-4 ft tall, the other looked to be about 6=

ft tall. Both had large glowing red eyes and spikes starting from the head=

to the back. They scurried away into a wooded area. (They were to have
further encounters in August).

HC addendum
Source: Art Bell.comType: E


50.
Location. Antalya, Turkey
Date: June 5 2002
Time: afternoon
Approximately 45 witnesses claimed they saw an UFO in the Santral district=

landing on the backyard of the Fatma Primary School. Several students
including Murat Esici age 11 saw an alien emitting red rays from his eyes
come out of the object. His hands and feet were metallic. He had a very big=

head and was about 1.80 meters in height. Esici temporarily lost her voice=

immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also=

claimed they san an unusual craft and an alien beside it. "His eyes and
hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes." The children
were overcome with shock after the incident.

HC addendum
Source: Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center Intl
Type: B


51.
Location. Polonnauruwa, Sri Lanka
Date: June 8 2002
Time: 2200
Approximately 50 to 70 eyewitnesses saw a UFO flying at about 100 meters
above ground level. The object was silent and briefly landed emitting a
bright flash like light. When it was close to the ground the object emitted=

a buzzing sound. Three other witnesses saw three 2 ft tall creatures than
when approached ran into the jungle and disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Sources
Type: D


52.
Location. Polonnaruwa, Sir Lanka
Date: June 9 2002
Time: 2012
Two witnesses went to a bath on a nearby river when they heard a loud
thundering sound and a UFO appeared. The craft landed nearby and two, 2 ft=

tall "aliens" emerged from the object. One of the humanoids flung a small
fluorescent fireball like object that flew over a house and vanished. Soon=

the craft and humanoids disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC & News Reports
Type: B



53.
Location. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Date: June 10 2002
Time: 1900
Witnesses saw a mysterious light in the sky and others saw a large disc
shaped object land nearby. Three humanoids only about 2 ft tall emerged
from the craft and disappeared into the forest when approached. The object=

also left.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Reports
Type: B


54.
Location. Chantilly, Virginia
Date: June 10 2002
Time: night
The witness was awakened during the night with a sense of some presence in=

the room. Looking toward the door, he saw, fading quickly, something, which=

almost had the appearance of a hologram. Next, shadows appeared outside the=

windows in an erratic shape. At first he thought the shadows to be from
trees moving in a strong wind. The appearance was of a storm blowing the
limbs to create these shadows outside the window. However, there was no
storm. He looked at the adjacent window on the side of the house facing
opposite and there was no wind at all. In fact there was no trees
positioned in such a way to cast a shadow. He opened the blinds to see what=

might be causing the shadows. He then saw what seemed to be a hologram with=

the shape of two small eyes moving erratically outside the window.
Frightened he closed the blinds. Two weeks later he was awakened by a
humming sound and again saw the erratic shadows outside the window. He
watched the shadows for 10-15 minutes and then called the police. The
police found no signs of any intrusion in the yard. When the police left
the witness walked toward the door facing the back porch and saw a large
burst of bluish white light. It looked unnatural, almost like a laser. He
has not seen the "shadows" again.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: E?


55.
Location. Ataliva Roca, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 11 2002
Time: 1930
A worker at a local drainage project was sitting and guarding some
machinery when he noticed a short greenish colored humanoid figure that was=

approaching his location from a nearby field. The witness became concerned=

and drove away from the area in the construction equipment and did not see=

the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


56.
Location. Eduardo Castex, La Pampa Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Two girls of a local school encountered a short greenish humanoid figure in=

the playing yard. The figure was standing up and appeared to be raising its=

arms up to the sky. Terrified the two girls retreated into the school and
watched the figure scurry away into some nearby woods. Around the same time=

a local farmer found a strangely mutilated hog in his farm.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


57.
Location. Chasico, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Hugo Deluca and several other workers were parked in a bus in an isolated
area when they spotted about 20 meters away a short, 1.20 meters tall,
bipedal figure completely covered in gray hair. It walked upright like a
man and then scurried away into some woods vanishing from sight. The area
had been hit with animal mutilations around the same time.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


58.
Location. Castex, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 13 2002
Time: night
A 70-year old man had gone to his driveway to check on a flat tire in his
car when a short light green colored humanoid suddenly appeared next to
him. It had large round ears, and two reddish luminous eyes. Its body was
thin and almost triangular in shape. The witness attempted to yell out but=

was suddenly unable to speak and at the same time strange warmth invaded
his body. Several seconds later the humanoid vanished and the witness
returned to normal. He reported the incident to the police.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


59.
Location. La Laguna, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 14 2002
Time: afternoon
Several youngster had gone into the fields in order to obtain some firewood=

when they saw sitting on a clearing in the woods two human like figures,
all dressed in black. They sat facing each other, one looking towards the
east the other towards the west, unmoving. Unnerved by the sight the
juveniles ran from the area. The next day the father of one of the boys
found two dead cows at the site, but could find no trace of the strange
pair. Days later a sheep and a horse were found dead and strangely
mutilated in the nearby location of El Cardonal.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: E


60.
Location. De Kalb, Illinois
Date: June 15 2002
Time: 0030A
The witness was sitting in his family room watching TV when he noticed a
bright flash of light outside the window. He saw the flash several times
and decided to check his backyard there he saw a circular light moving
around in circles. The light began to get closer; scared he ran inside his=

home and called a friend on the phone. He then quickly ran outside and saw=

the circle getting closer, he noticed that it had a purplish color to it
and it began to descend towards the ground. He became nauseous and dizzy
and collapsed on to the ground. He tried to crawl to the house but was
unable to move. He turned his head and saw the purplish object on the
ground and what appeared to be a door opening up. He then heard a squeaking=

noise and saw a tall and a short figure standing by a door of the object.
The two figures started to move towards him, walking in a strange bopping
fashion. They were of a dark complexion with a bumpy texture, other than
that they resembled normal human beings. The shorter figure approached and=

picked up the witness' camera and stared at it. He then looked at the
taller figure and handed it to him. The taller of the two looked at the
camera and then at the witness. The witness then heard loud unpleasant
shrieks coming from the taller figure, which then gave the camera back to
the shorter figure, which covered the camera with his hand, seconds later a=

light began to emerge from their hands. Then they stopped, threw the camera=

aside and began to walk towards the witness. They reached his side and
started to examine his body. A dog began to bark from inside the house and=

the shorter figure put out his hand and the dog stopped barking. At this
point the witness began to vomit. After about a minute he began to relax
and to breathe better. When he turned his head he realized that the two
figures and the purple spherical object were now gone. The next day he had=

a very severe headache.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: B


61.
Location. San Juan, Argentina
Date: June 20 2002
Time: evening
At a location where the body of a strangely mutilated carcass of a cow was=

found two witnesses reported seeing a small creature with large glowing
slanted eyes and about one meter in height. Later in the same area, members=

of the Gimenez family after investigating noises and a strong odor coming
from a wooded area found a mutilated cow and also watched a short humanoid=

with glowing eyes scurrying away into the woods.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


62.
Location. Manuel Rodriguez, Calama, Chile
Date: June 22 2002
Time: after midnight
A bizarre creature was spotted at a local housing complex on San Antonio
Street. Witnesses reported that it resembled an ape and it jumped all over=

the roof. It passed right in front of the witness, Maria Gavia's window and=

then it came back making all manner of noise. The creature was able to make=

very long jumps, unlike any a human could. It jumped and landed on the
neighbor's roof and then it left the area. Neighborhood dogs acted scared
and began howling. Others described the creature as about 1.5 meters tall,=

stocky in build with bright red eyes. It made a lot of noise. Others
reportedly chased the creature.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center, quoting El
Mercurio de CalamaType: E


63.
Location. Angencia Realico, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 23 2002
Time: late night
Several hunters returning to a local ranch spotted about 50 meters away two=

large glowing reddish eyes staring at them. They turned off their
flashlight and approached closer on foot, about 30 meters away they again
saw the reddish eyes on a dark creature that appeared to be standing on top=

of an apparently dead animal. One of the hunters shone its flashlight on
the figure again and saw a figure about 40 cm in height that quickly ran
from the area at very high speed. The creature disappeared into the brush.=

At the scene, a dead and mutilated young heifer. Other mutilations were
reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


64.
Location. Rancul, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 25 2002
Time: 2020
Two young men, Nestor Pinto and Daniel Gatica were walking on a field when=

they encountered a short man-like figure with huge pointy ears and long
dangling arms standing near some brush. The figure scurried into the brush=

and disappeared and at the same time the two witnesses ran away from the
area and did not see the strange dwarf again.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


65.
Location. Bavaria, Germany (exact location not given)
Date: June 25 2002
Time: night
The witness had stayed up late watching the soccer game as was in his
bedroom when suddenly there was a coldness around him that made him shiver.=

He noticed that his audio capabilities were somehow enhanced and he was
able to hear sounds that previously he was unable to hear. He then heard a=

noise outside his door and went out to investigate. The noise became louder=

as he approached the door. He then heard footsteps and opened the door. A
very small man with a somewhat deformed body that was smiling at him
confronted the witness. He looked straight ahead and then stared at the
witness. His next memory was of waking up in his bed in the morning.

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.com
Type: E


66.
Location. Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2105
The primary witness had stepped out on his back porch when his attention
was drawn to two huge black "birds" which were approaching from the north.=

His first impression was they were Herons, but soon realized that the color=

was wrong, and "they were huge, much larger than any bird I have ever
seen." The two huge birds landed at the top of a very tall coniferous tree.=

The witness stated that the wingspan appeared to be wider than the
branches, jest below where they had landed. The body size was estimated to=

be about six feet from head to tail. The oddest feature was the shape of
the wings, which according to the witness appeared to be bat-like. The tree=

where the "birds" landed seemed as though it would break from their weight.=

The witness yelled for others in the house to come outside to look. Another=

family member was able to see the huge black birds as they passed overhead,=

and headed for some woods. After checking the size of the branches where
the birds had landed, the witness estimated that the wingspan would have
been close to 12 feet or somewhat larger.

HC addendum
Source: Stan GordonType: E


67.
Location. Marldon Hill, Paington, England
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2357
A couple were walking near a local historic monument (a windmill) and they=

drew closer to monument they heard a low whirling noise. The noise
progressed to a high-pitched whining, almost out of hearing range. Then
they saw a mysterious glow coming from the dark side of the windmill, and
then to their astonishment they saw 5 or 6 shadow like figures standing in=

front of the windmill. Startled the two began to run back towards the main=

road. The woman looked back and saw the figures become engulfed by a bright=

light and disappear, and then everything became quiet.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Sightings UKType: E?


68.
Location. Adelia Maria, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 3 2002
Time: 2100
Pedro and Estela Moine had decided to visit the business district of town
called Barrio Norte and crossed the old railroad yard through a pedestrian=

pathway that ran through a pasture area between some silos, old railroad
depots and abandoned wreckage. As the couple moved through the premises
they suddenly became aware of a strange and incomprehensible conversation
between many voices. Startled, they stopped walking moved a few meters more=

and then heard the voices again which now sounded like strange "O" sounds.=

Pedro looked toward the silos and was able to see resembling humanoid but
lacking upper and lower extremities. Despite the pleas of his wife, Pedro
ran several meters toward an inner alley in the silo plant, being able to
make out some 45 meters to the west and in profile---the entity, which
acting surprised, avoided the encounter and moved again to the north.
However, what filled the witnesses with wonderment was that the creature
did so as though flying or floating without touching the facilities it
passed. Pedro and Estela ran after it. It was thus that the man managed to=

see the entity apparently hiding behind the control room of the truck
scale. Pedro ran toward it and was again startled to see the apparition
rising as a plane taking off, flying at an altitude of 5 meters and
disappearing behind a large metal shed. Bewildered, both witnesses called
out, but were unable to see anything else. Pedro Moine as "a thing with
human shape" described the apparition. It had some sort of light, although=

he could not say if reflected or self-generated, although he tends to
believe the latter, since it was a nebulous whitish light, which kept him
from making out details. The entire mass of the apparition appeared to be a=

body covered from head to toe in some sort of mantle, which he described as=

though it wore a hat, but covered with some kind of long raincoat reaching=

down to what he took to be its feet. He added that the "conversational
sounds" repeated themselves in three separate occasions at various
intensities. They were like conversations in a strange language.

HC addendum
Source: Mario Luis Bracamonte, C.O.R, Rio Cuarto Argentina
Type: E


69.
Location. Jerusalem, Israel
Date: July 6 2002
Time: night
A remote TV camera picked up images of "orbs seen on the corner to the
right of the Wailing Wall." They seemed to have facial features almost like=

a ghost, reported investigator Charlotte LeFevre. The orbs were described
as "sharp and distinct". The orbs were next to the women's prayer area in
front of the Wall. Other strange phenomena, has been reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 29Type: F?


70.
Location. Villa Elisa, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: July 13 2002
Time: 2300
A young woman fainted from nervous shock after having an alleged closed
encounter with "some sort of green dwarf". This occurred---enveloped in
darkness---along Misioneros Salesianos Street very close to several houses.=

An ambulance was called and apparently transported the witness who was in
shock.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria ColuchiType: E


71.
Location. Patna, India
Date: July 21 2002
Time: night
Several residents claim they've been bitten or scratched by a "black
monkey-like creature with colored lights flashing from its eyes." Resident=

Pawan Kumar Niyogi who was sleeping on the terrace of his house claims "a 5=

ft tall monkey-like creature" attacked him. He said: "I was terrified and
thought my life was going to end but it merely scratched me on the shoulder=

before jumping off the roof." Local residents are conducting night vigils
and carrying torches to guard their homes.

HC addendum
Source: Ananova, Ufoupdates. Type: E


72.
Location. Chajan, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 21 2002
Time: 2300
Police officer Guillermo Arias was on routine patrol through a rural area
when he heard over the radio that his colleagues in arms over at Achiras
were seeing lights in sectors of said community, and that they were heading=

towards Chajan along National Route 8. At the wheel of the police patrol
van, he managed to see a formation of 7 lights in the distance and decided=

to drive 10 km along a rural dirt road. When he had covered said distance,=

he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine of his vehicle sputtered=

and died, causing the police car to strike the edge of a guardrail.
Simultaneously, the lights on the van's dashboard began turning on and off=

randomly, the police radio went haywire and its dial displayed the random
shifting of the frequencies while the cabin became filled with an acrid
odor, as though of burnt wiring, and the interior lights and stop
indicator, which were broken, began lighting on and off. Seized by fear,
Arias leaped from the van and walked away a few meters down the road,
losing his cellular phone in the escape. The darkness was total, when
suddenly, amid the confusing situation; an immense light emerged from a
field adjacent to the road as a triangular object rose majestically into
the air. Now Arias condition went from fear to abject terror as he saw what=

he described as a real "floating city" some 200 meters long with a long row=

of windows (perhaps as many as 100). Arias claims having seen something
move behind them, describing the movement as "TV sets which make lines and=

shadows", which he defined as "non-human", and that many beams of light
came out of the giant triangle, aimed at the ground. The event lasted 2-3
seconds, but to Arias it felt like an eternity. The object suddenly rose
and sped away, vanishing behind the hills of a local field. As the object
moved away, the whole area was lit up like daytime and there was an
afterglow that lasted another 20 minutes.

HC addendum
Source: C.O.R., Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense, Argentina
Type: A


73.
Location. Waconia, Minnesota
Date: July 26 2002
Time: 0300A
The young witness was sleeping in the backyard with his sister when he
suddenly woke up. He then noticed that the side of the tent that faced the=

wetlands and lake was lit up. Looking towards the light he saw a shadowy
torso and arm of a humanoid figure that seemed to be moving around within
the light. He watched for 30 seconds and saw the figure move the fingers of=

his hands. The witness became frightened and hid in his sleeping bag. He
came out about an hour later and the light and strange figure were
completely gone.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


74.
Location. Sedona, Arizona
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 0310A
In a wooded area the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all
white, with black "straight" eyes; and black diagonal/diamond strip of
"clothing" on top. He stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then
left. Prior to seeing the figure the witness had seen lights in a large
oval shaped pattern in the sky.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


75.
Location. Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 1730
Three girls had decided to visit the rooftop as they did the prior evening=

watching for satellites. It was dusk and the girls had a good vantage point=

looking towards the east. With them they had a pair of binoculars and a
pair of walkie-talkies. The girls noticed that a large orange light
appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The anomaly
was noted to have fluctuated in colors of orange, yellow, white and pale
blue. At fist they thought of an arriving airplane, but then a second light=

appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10=

degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some=

unusually maneuvering; from a stationary position it accelerated at least 5=

degrees closer to the ground surface at an approximate 45-60 degree angle
within a matter of a single second. The first anomaly then began to move
slowly towards the north. At this stage they partially lost view of it as
it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley-like
region of the horizon. According to the witnesses, this third object
appeared to have "landed" on the ground surface. The object was then viewed=

through the binoculars and presented in great detail; the object was
described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange,=

blue/purple and white rotating around the rim. Thy also noted the trees
being slightly illuminated by this extraordinary phenomenon. They were
suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, "Identify
yourself." This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in a
foreign language. Around 1830 the girls were then called down to have
dinner. At about 2030 the girls re-established their places on the roof
after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still
present. Unexpectedly a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above
the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. "It
was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away." The=

light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it=

is not clear how one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became
extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed
her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not=

sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another of the girls woke up
the next morning with her nose bleeding. She also mentioned that she had
seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom.

HC addendum
Source: The Australian UFO Research NetworkType: D or
F?



76.
Location. Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 29 2002
Time: early morning
Local residents have seen a strange figure, which they described as
resembling a "shroud". The apparitions, which always occur in the early
morning hours, have become so common that in recent days several neighbors=

have stayed up late to see them, and it is thus that they were able to
confirm the simultaneous presence of up to 2 such beings, as well as red
lights flying over the area. All the witnesses whether individuals or in a=

group, agree that the entities are nebulous and glowing, with a pair of red=

eyes being clearly identifiable, and glassy faces (as if transparent).
Their movements are smooth and they always appear from behind the sand
dunes, as though "coming form the Naval Base." Most witnesses agree that
they show a great interest in the water tanks located above the roofs, and=

that they do not flee upon detecting the presence of local
residents---rather, they stare at them fixedly for some minutes. Deep
silence is perceived during the observations and "the air appears to become=

still" and neither heat nor cold can be felt---only a sensation of warmth,=

as if the beings emanated heat. Witnesses also state that things appear to=

be darker when "the shroud" appears, as though ambient lighting were
dimmed. Another curious fact is the large number of cats and dogs who
report to the place where the sightings occur and sit down to observe it in=

silence, in a state resembling a trance. A series of semi-circular prints
have been found in the dunes, not very deep, with 15-20 cm separations in
some cases and 30-50 cm in others. The locals have identified them as the
strange being's footprints. Efforts have been made to photograph the
"shroud", but all images, despite the use of different cameras appear
exposed. One witness who approached the site to witness the phenomenon took=

two photos of the prints in the afternoon and decided to stay with the
group of people hoping to see the "shroud", managing to take some photos of=

same and record the new prints which appeared in the dunes after the
sighting. A completely uncommon print was found at the site---but the
residents aren't sure if it's related to the phenomenon: it has the shape
of a five-fingered claw. One witness tried to make use of his carbine's
telescopic sight to see the figure in greater detail, but "when he tried to=

focus on it, he could see nothing_it was a though it could only be seen
with the unaided eye."

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, IHU, Christian Quintero and O A Mario
Proyecto Condor
Type: C or E?


77.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 30 2002
Time: 0530A
27-year old Mariela Baigorri reported seeing a strange figure that floated=

in front of her house. She had woken up early that morning and was getting=

ready to mount her bicycle when she saw behind the fence something floating=

in mid-air. It appeared to be a figure wearing a flowing white transparent=

tunic, with bright red eyes and undefined facial features. Feeling no fear=

she decided to approach it. She felt as if the figure waited for her and
was observing her. At this point Mariela felt some fear and began reciting=

the Lord's Prayer. The figure suddenly moved back and disappeared in plain=

sight.

HC addendum
Source: Juan Carlos Corrales Morey, Vision Ovni, Argentina
Type: E


78.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 31 2002
Time: 1845
23-year old Julian Pereyra was in his vehicle when he observed two red
spheres flying slowly over some nearby woods, they seemed to descend and
disappear behind the trees. 15 minutes later, Pereyra, accompanied by
several other witnesses approached the area and observed what they
described a tall floating figure wearing a white glowing cape like outfit,=

it seemed to glide silently over a field. It had what appeared to be a
visor at face level and two beams of red light emerged from where the eyes=

would have been. The witnesses watched the strange figure glide over the
fields for about 30 minutes. Curiously numerous local dogs and cats
approached and also watched the figure in fascination. The lights and
figure disappeared into the distance. In another occasion Pereyra and some=

of his family members encountered the strange humanoid and felt a strange
sensation as if the wind had suddenly stopped, they felt as they were
inside a vacuum or "bubble." Strange tracks have been reportedly found in
the area also.

HC addendum
Source: Diario La Nueva Provincia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Type: C?


79.
Location. La Cienaga, Pocri, Panama
Date: early August 2002
Time: night
Luis Alfredo Diaz reported hearing loud noises coming from the terraced
patio where the kitchen was located, going to investigate he found his cat=

apparently dead with two obvious holes on the neck and some blood on the
floor. Before finding the cat he had called his wife, Maria de Los Santos
Barrios. As his wife stood in front of him a panic stricken look came over=

her face, turning around he was confronted by a bizarre 1-meter tall
humanoid that had jumped to the center of the patio. The creature was
described as thin, covered with dark hair, with large pointed ears that
almost covered its face, it had very large eyes and extremely strong hind
legs resembling that of a kangaroo. Terrified he ran to his son's bedroom
and carried him outside yelling for his neighbors. A search failed to
locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Panamanian Paranormal Forum
Type: E


80.
Location. Near Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Date: August 2002
Time: night
The same witness involved in a similar encounter last year was again
camping in the same area when he again heard a noise. Shining the light in=

the direction of the sound he again saw the same creature. The creature sat=

there crouched by the trees staring at the witness. The witness walked
slowly towards it, he got to within 20 ft when it just jumped backward and=

disappeared. He described the creature as about five to six ft in height,
gray in color. It was totally naked. It had human features, but more
leathery, and its face was very wide, its eyes were huge and even though
they reflected light, they still looked black, resembling two intensely
black marbles. Its legs were very muscular, but turned backwards, like a
bird. Other hikers in the area have reported encountering little brown men=

on some of the more isolated trails.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal Story Archives, November 2002Type: E


81.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: August 1 2002
Time: late evening
64-year old Raul Dorado was touring some fields when he heard a loud sound=

on two occasions, like a whirlwind, which drew his attention. The third
time he saw something he describes as a green circle with three legs
hovering over him. At that moment Dorado fell to the ground, and according=

to his story, he carried a shotgun, binoculars and a cellular phone, the
latter, which was taken from his hand, and he could clearly see being
sucked into the object, which was apparently at low altitude. His next
recollection was seeing the object disappear toward the east. Dorado
remained at the location for an hour before being able to rise and walk
back to his car, returning to town in a state of shock. He had to be
hospitalized. Later when calls were placed to the (abducted) cellular phone=

someone would pick up and heavy breathing could be heard. Later on the
phone was apparently disconnected.

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, quoting Diario La Arena, La PampaType: G?


82.
Location. Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Date: August 2 2002
Time: 1730
A man named Todd Sees went up the mountain to look for pre-season deer. He=

told his wife that he would be home by noon. He rode his 4-wheeler up the
power line behind his home. He never returned. A search party composed of
local police, state police and volunteers searched for Sees. The 4-wheeler=

was found on the top of the mountain near a power-line. Tracking dogs could=

find nothing to go on around the 4-wheeler. The search went on for 2 days
and over 6 miles of mountain was covered from top to bottom. Then, in the
evening of the 2nd day, his body was found in a hard to reach wooded area.=

He was wearing his underwear. He was emaciated---not bloated. He was pale
and had an expression of horror on his face. When he went up the mountain
he was fully dressed, boots, camo-vest, hat, socks, pants. 3 people, on one=

farm, said they saw a large round bright object just above the power-lines=

at the time of the disappearance. It was silent, it did not move for about=

10 to 15 minutes. It suddenly went up and suddenly stopped. A light shone
down and something was pulled up into the light. It then went straight up,=

hesitated again, and then went west over the Susquehanna River and out of
sight. More specifically a farmer saw an object above Montour Ridge at the=

power lines, on top of the mountain, it was round and very still over the
lines. Suddenly it moved what looked like a few hundred feet to the east,
it stopped and a beam of blue and white light shone to the ground. What was=

seen next was very unnerving, he saw what appeared to be a man suspended in=

the light, he was being pulled up head first, he was moving his arms slowly=

in the light. What looked like a man was pulled up into the bottom of the
craft. A few seconds later it started shuddering, then went west very fast,=

stopped briefly, and then went straight up and out of sight. Also three
fishermen saw the craft. The FBI is supposedly also investigating. (Debated=

as a hoax, who would? and for what purpose?).

HC addendum
Source: Rense, UFO updates, NUFORCType: G?






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                            2002 Humanoid Reports

From: Albert Rosales <Garuda79@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:32:05 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:14:40 -0500
Subject: 2002 Humanoid Reports


Happy new year everyone

Sincerely,

Albert

-----

2002 Humanoid Reports. It appears to be a slow start for this
year with only one recorded case, again from Chile. We will see
what develops later on the year. 2001 was pretty busy but it was
a decline from 2000. Maybe we will see another down trend again,
later to pick up again in the near future. This seems to be the
ever-ongoing trend of the phenomena. Will it always stay the
same? Time will tell. Following is a list of known 2002 humanoid
cases.


1.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: January 2002
Time: 0300A
An employee at the local Minera Escondida was on his way to the
storage freezer in order to pick up some supplies when an
unknown creature jumped him from behind. He could only describe
it as hairy and dark. He was left with deep scratches and in a
state of shock. Terrified he ran away and bumped into two other
employees who were able to see a shadowy creature in the dark.

HC addendum
Source: La Estrella del Loa de Calama, ChileType: E


2.
Location. Caracas, Venezuela
Date: January 2002
Time: late night
Late one night in a dream-like state the witness woke up to see
seven to eight strange figures in her bedroom. They were dark
gray in color and very thin, with three large thick long fingers
on their hands. They had large, lipless mouths and large shiny
protruding black eyes, their noses were thin and protruding,
small ears, the heads was large and pointy. The humanoids
appeared to be naked and she was able to see a penis on the
humanoids. They were about 1.55 meters in height. She felt dizzy
and under the control of the strange entities. She was led out
of her bedroom by one of the humanoids that removed her clothing
and made her lie down on the floor. The humanoids apparently
attempted to molest her sexually and possibly attempted to rape
her but were not successful. She apparently passed out and does
not remember anything else about the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Lista Alcione and witness communicationType: E


3.
Location. Fort McMurry, Alberta, Canada
Date: January 2 2002
Time: 2032
Two men were parked on an isolated dirt road when they spotted a
large cone-shaped object descend and hover. One of the men
exited the car and he vanished in plain sight of the other, the
craft then also disappeared. The other man tried to drive away
to get help but the car would not start and it was to cold to
walk. He soon went to sleep and woke up later to find his friend
sleeping next to him. Later they drove back to town. His friend
does not remember what happened during those two hours of
missing time. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


4.
Location. Paso Lovera, Corrientes, Argentina
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2030
Gabriela Lencinas, 15-year old and a 19-year old friend were
returning home on a bicycle when they spotted a large cloud like
object descend from the sky and from it a giant figure emerge.
The witnesses stopped their bicycles to see a car approach the
giant figure, stop, the driver exit the car and then re-entering
the vehicle and driving quickly away. The figure then rose up
into the cloud and disappeared. The girls reported that the
giant human-like figure had its hair standing up on his head and
was extending its arms towards the witnesses that quickly rode
their bicycles home. Other in the area reported seeing bright
lights that same night.

HC addendum
Source: Pablo Omastott
Type: B?


5.
Location. Villa San Rafael, Chile
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2345
Two young teenagers, Jean F and Nelson C, where at home at night
when Jean noticed that his pet snake had escaped from its cage.
Both boys began looking for it outside among the rubble of the
parcel. They recalled how half an hour before, their two dogs
strangely began to howl and cry; however, it did not seem to be
important at that point in time. They searched for the pet snake
together when suddenly, about 30 meters from where they stood;
they saw what appeared to be a stray dog. They threw rocks at to
avoid an attack. However, to their surprise, the animal stood
there, motionless and fearless; it did not get scared nor it ran
away as ordinary dogs normally do. Shortly, the strange animal
began to move towards them. The movements it made as it walked
were very strange. It used two legs at a time. It made very
small sand short leaps like a rabbit. Suddenly, it stopped and
it stood up on two legs. The teenagers then began to feel some
kind of energy. "It was like an electrical shock in the
stomach," they said. It later walked again making a loud
dragging noise, making small leaps and only moving one of its
legs. They noticed the weird shape of the animal. "It was like a
rugby football with legs," one of them said. Jean began to feel
frightened and started to move away from animal. On the other
hand, Nelson felt a strange need to get closer to the creature;
he got to within 2 meters away from it. The creature appear to
emit a strange luminosity that apparently, was bright enough to
lit a small area around the creature in spite of the nighttime
darkness. Nelson was mesmerized as he stared at the strange
creature. He described it as having a head like a large dog with
a flat nose like a bulldog. Its eyes were slanted and pale-red
in color, which could only be seen when the creature turned its
head from side to side like a lizard. At that moment, Nelson
heard a voice in his head saying, "Don't stare, and just run
away." They provided further description, describing the ears as
flat, round and large. Its arms were short, it had elbows, and
the hands had three fingers. It had hair like the one on a wild
pig. Its legs were like the ones of a goat. The feet had also
three fingers and a membrane like ducks, but somewhat shorter.
On its curved back, they were able to notice a spinal section
covered with amounts of even thicker hair. Most of the hair of
the animal was gray, but the tail had a white tip. Nelson
finally fled, terrified, from the area. He also described how he
felt an inexplicable bone-chilling cold sensation.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center
Type: E


6.
Location. Not given
Date: January 12 2002
Time: night
Ted Parker was eating some leftover food when he claims the food began to
change. The bread of the sandwich turned an orange color and the lamb
became a silvery metallic color, sort of like liquid mercury. As he watched=

transfixed, he saw the orange bread and metallic lamb turn into the figure=

of an "alien" with the form of a man. It was silver in color and its outfit=

(smooth pants and shirt, like a jump suit) was orange in color. At this
point Parker glanced at the wall clock and it indicated that 2 hours had
gone by, even though it felt like minutes only. The alien figure
communicated using telepathic means and asked Ted to come with him. They
both went outside and there, Ted saw a landed black-colored craft in his
backyard. In a split second Ted found himself inside the craft not knowing=

how he got there. The inside of the craft was pure white in color with
strips of the metallic silver that the alien figure appeared to be made of.=

The rest of the incident is just a blur, but Parker did remembered hearing=

several loud high-pitched rings while onboard the object. A couple of days=

before while eating dinner with several other people there had been a
similar high pitched ring and everybody had just stopped eating and walked=

out of the room.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: G or F?



7.
Location. Chihuahua, Mexico
Date: January 29 2002
Time: night
Several days before seeing a UFO the witness remembered being in a
dream-like state in which he felt very calm and saw numerous disc shaped
objects, orange-red in color. A human like figure was talking to him about=

the objects and their propulsion. The UFO he saw was of an orange color and=

he felt a sort of ecstasy when he observed the craft. Several of his
neighbors also saw the object.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: G or F?


8.
Location. Near Palmyra, Wisconsin
Date: February 2002
Time: 0200A
Two men reported seeing a creature that resembled a bipedal "gigantic wolf"=

walking down a road west of the city. They said the creature was at least 7=

ft tall with a wolf-like head. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Linda GodfreyType: E


9.
Location. West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
Nebilson Sangma reported encountering a scary furry creature on a hunting
trip in the jungles. He reportedly took a video of the creature's nesting
place. According to Sangma, the creature walked erect like a human, had
built a house like nesting place, and would emerge from it frequently to
feast on a banana grove. Sangma and his brother observed the gigantic
creature for three consecutive days from afar. Officials and villagers have=

been hunting for the creature in the forest but it seems to have
disappeared as furtively as it appeared.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 13
Type: E


10.
Location. Near Dover, England
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness had been jogging along a low path by the beach when she noticed=

a tall, well built being in a black skin tight suit, that stood watching
her from nearby. He wore a black helmet wit a brown visor pulled down. At
first she thought it was a biker but as she approached the figure, it
suddenly disappeared in plain sight. As she continued to run she noticed a=

black craft jutting out of the sand, it was small and oval shaped, matt and=

ribbed it also disappeared in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: E?


11.
Location. Rosario de la Frontera, Salta, Argentina
Date: February 2002
Time: night
A strange creature called by locals "El Pestizo" has attacked several lone=

pedestrians in the middle of the night. It is described as a dark man
shaped shadowy being. A boy riding his bicycle on the way to visit some
friends was toppled from his bicycle and found a black shadowy figure
facing him. The young man managed to upholster his shotgun and fire two
shots. But, when he saw that they had no effect, he promptly drew his knife=

and stabbed the figure without any apparent harm. Frightened the youth
tried to escape but the creature knocked him down without saying a word and=

began dragging him by the hair to the side of the road. At this point the
young man began to scream. A local man, who rushed to provide assistance,
only to find a black shadow dragging the boy by the hair, heard his cries.=

The fearful shape disappeared without a trace after it became aware of the=

other man's presence. Six other locals have reported being attacked by a
similar being and received wounds.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


12.
Location. Not given
Date: February 2002
Time: early morning
The witness was alone at home and was preparing his breakfast when suddenly=

he heard a window break; he went to see what had happened. Grabbing a golf=

club he peeked inside the room where the window broke. He was stunned to
see a strange creature climbing on his bed. It appeared to be hurt, because=

it seemed that it could not move well. Gripping the golf club he went a
step nearer and the creature hissed horribly. It shrieked in an unworldly
manner. Terrified the witness did not move. The creature was small, about
the size of a large rabbit, and it was dark in color and had reddish eyes.=

It had wings and a spine of quills on its back, and had a semi reptilian
face. It appeared to have hair and small legs. The witness raised the golf=

club and the creature hissed again showing its large yellowish teeth, which=

appeared to be sharp, like those of a crocodile. It suddenly hopped out of=

the window and rapidly hopped across the street into the oak trees.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June archiveType: E


13.
Location. Vigevano, Italy
Date: February 2002
Time: 0100A
In the outskirts of this city a witness observed from his vehicle a
luminous humanoid entity walking along a roadway. It scurried away into the=

darkness when approached.
No other information.

HC addendum
Source: CISU, ItalyType: E



14.
Location. Corguinho, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Date: February 5 2002
Time: night
During a localized UFO flap several witnesses reported seeing a strange
creature described as about 1.3 meters in height, having two legs, with a
physique like a human but who moved with a strange fluctuating motion. The=

creature was seen five times by twenty people in the rural zone around
Corguinho. In Rochedo, 6 miles south of Corguinho five Cebu cattle were
found dead with a single incision on the side of the throat. The bodies had=

been drained of blood. (Is there a connection?).

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


15.
Location. Mount Podbrdo, Bosnia Hercigovina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: morning
Contactee and stigmatic Giorgio Bongiovanni was visiting the shrine on top=

of the mountain and was praying silently to the Virgin when, to his
astonishment, a glowing luminous female figure appeared and touched his
forehead with her fingertips. His stigmata scar vanished instantly. The
female figure told him to return to Italy and make known what had happened.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 14
Type: E or F?


16.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: evening
73-year-old Maria Rufina Cayo, a local shepherd was walking back home with=

her dogs and the cattle. Suddenly at one point, something spooked the
animals, and these began to stampede. Looking around she spotted a bizarre=

creature standing about 12 meters away. She described it as a humanoid,
half animal, half human, about 1.70m in height, with bright red eyes, sharp=

protruding fangs, and hands and feet that ended in sharp claws. The
creature looked at the witness three times then it scrambled away using
quick jumping motions with is powerfully built hind legs, she also noticed=

large pointy ears. The top part of its body seems to have been covered in a=

shiny white blanket. It somehow resembled a centaur walking on two
claw-like feet.  Alerted by the shouts of Maria, two men, Santos Jaimes,
and Ruben Colque ran out to investigate with their dogs. Suddenly the dogs=

stopped and began making pitiful howling noises, they refused to move any
further. The men heard noises behind some nearby bushes and went to
investigate and spotted a bizarre creature that stood staring at them with=

huge reddish eyes. It then moved quickly away in the direction of Cerro
Negro and disappeared from sight. The witnesses noticed very sharp claws on=

the creature's feet with a very sharp claw that appeared to be pointed
backwards. Strange footprints were found the next day.

HC addendum
Source: El Tribuno, Salta Argentina March 27 2002
Also Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E



17.
Location. Khanpur, Ahmedabad, India
Date: February 20 2002
Time: after midnight
Several local residents reportedly have encountered a person, dressed in
black and wearing a mask. Dubbed the "Monkeyman" whom they described as
between 25 and 20 years of age, dark skinned and having curly hair can
reportedly be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees. Two
local youths chased it and the figure reportedly disappeared in plain
sight. The two youths have been behaving abnormally since then. The
stranger was also chased along the riverbed near the Cama Hotel and it also=

suddenly disappeared. Others have heard the stranger running on the
rooftops. Abdul Hamid another youngster of the local slums described the
figure as a tall lean man that carries a sharp weapon. "I saw him from the=

back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised the alarm, he jumped to=

another roof and then on to a tree." Police have searched for the stranger=

but nothing has been found.

HC addendum
Source: Fortean Times, India Express
Type: E


18.
Location. Prague, Czech Republic
Date: February 23 2002
Time: night
Blanka Slemendova was in her apartment when she saw a "ship" hovering over=

some nearby woods. It was shining red, white and yellow lights. She then
heard telepathic communication coming from the object telling her to go and=

meet them at an unspecified location. Looking over to her bedroom wall she=

saw what appeared to be a projection of human like faces looking at her.
Later that night she saw luminous figures in her room and a floating red
light also in her room. The next night she saw what appeared to be 2 gray
suns and around them a golden lights with numerous groups of shiny
human-like figures floating about. She interpreted these as being angels.

HC addendum
Source: Direct from witness (Slemendova)
Type: C & F?


19.
Location. Wycliffe Well Roadhouse, Northern Territory Australia
Date: early March 2002
Time: evening
While workers in the area watched unusual lights in the sky an aboriginal
woman encountered a triangular sort of object in a paddock and all of the
sudden she saw three silvery clad human like figures that began to move
toward her vehicle. She turned the vehicle around and took off.

HC addendum
Source: Lou Farcus ABC On-lineType: C


20.
Location. Near Canberra Australia
Date: March 2002
Time: 1700
Several friends were taking a trip to the coast and it was already very
dark. They had already entered a tropical forest area and there was a mist=

rolling along the ground. As they turned around they saw something
squatting in the middle of the road. It stared at them, and just as they
thought they were going to hit it, it leaped off the road and into the
trees. It leaped about 10 meters in the air. The creature was definitely
human looking although it wore strange clothes. It was dressed in a green
robe of some kind with little pieces of gold on it, and it was either
wearing a head crest or it had a row of spikes running from its forehead to=

the top of its neck. Very frightened the witnesses drove out of the forest=

and at the same time the mist turned to a thick fog. They pulled over and
decided to wait until the fog had cleared, although none of them were too
happy about it. As they sat around and waited they suddenly heard a shriek.=

It sounded like some sort of wild animal and they turned the car on so the=

headlights would scare it away. The headlights revealed the same creature
they had seen earlier. It hid its face from the light and shrieked. Right
before the witnesses' eyes, the creature seemed to evaporate into the fog.=

Within five minutes the fog had gone and the normal rolling mist was back.=

The witnesses quickly left the area and drove towards the coast.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June ArchiveType: E


21.
Location. Guanica Puerto Rico
Date: March 1 2002
Time: 2345
Reinaldo Rios (involved in other encounters) was in his bedroom that night=

when a large white light suddenly appeared. It flew around the room several=

times and then hovered. He heard voices coming from the light, which
communicated with him. The voice said: "I am your real father." Soon the
light transformed itself into a figure resembling that of a little boy it
then vanished in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: UFOs over America.com
Type: E


22.
Location. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 0800A
The witness and his wife were in bed that Saturday morning talking when
their 5-year-old daughter came into the bedroom with her baby brother,
whose cot is placed under their bedroom window. They heard a strange noise=

and some green light came into the window. Their daughter looked out the
window and reported seeing a "flying car" with four spinning green lights
on top. She saw two windows in the vehicle and saw two dark brown faces
looking out. His wife saw the craft flying past through the curtains. That=

same morning, in a large tree near the witness house a strange structure
was found. The branches were arranged in a rectangular pen shape, vertical,=

each approximately 30 to 40 cm long. They found a few smaller sticks
scaling down in size from the structure. A piece of concrete slab was found=

propped up on one corner. The witnesses had never seen this strange
structure before and think is some kind of message left by the visitors.
(Some kind of bizarre crop circle?). A few nights before they had heard
strange noises coming from the kitchen area.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: A


23.
Location. Golasecca Di Novara, Italy
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 2330
Augusto & Maurizia were in their vehicle parked in an open field next to a=

wooded area having a heated discussion when suddenly a powerful beam of
reddish-orange light illuminated the area around them. They rolled down the=

car window and heard a sharp metallic sound that seemed to be increasing in=

intensity. They now noticed, behind the beam of light a hovering
disc-shaped craft with a central rotating ring, it hovered about a meter
from the ground. From the object, a cigar-shaped beam of light emerged;
they could see it as the central ring of the craft slowly rotated on its
axis. The craft was only about 10 meters away. At this point, and only
about 4 meters from the object Augusto saw what appeared to be a gelatinous=

transparent humanoid-like figure with a visible head, arms and legs. The
figure was silvery in color and was very tall, about 3 meters or so. At
this point Augusto became concerned and drove away from the area and did
not see the object or figure depart. The whole episode lasted about 10
minutes. The metallic noise was heard all throughout the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Alfredo Lissoni, CUN Milano, Michelle Castellano CUN VareseType: C


24.
Location. Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England
Date: March 3 2002
Time: morning
Helen Diskin went for a walk in the countryside talking snap shots along
the way with her digital camera. Returning home she loaded these into her
computer and was intrigued by an odd-looking image. It looked like a
luminous figure in an area of no sunlight, skulking amongst the trees. She=

returned to the site of the photo twice afterward and could find no
explanation for the figure. The figure resembled a small helmeted figure
that she had not seen when she took the picture of an area of the woods she=

had thought of as "mysterious."

HC addendum
Source: Helen Diskin, UFO Magazine Vol. 22 # 1Type: E?


25.
Location. Near Trenton New Jersey
Date: March 4 2002
Time: night
Several witnesses were camping outside of town and late at night one of
them was attempting to put out the bonfire when he heard the most awful and=

horrifying scream. It resembled that of an injured dog crossed with a
scream of a woman. The witness dropped the flashlight and was joined by
another witness. Suddenly out of the woods a hideous and gruesome creature=

appeared. It did not look human, somewhat satyr-like in appearance and
walked on two legs. It had a long tail like a dragon and wings like those
unicorns in fantasy books. The beast took several steps towards the
witnesses and one of them picked up and asked and yelled at it and then
shone his flashlight at it. The creature then turned towards the bushes and=

ran away from the area.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: E


26.
Location. Pichaca, Salta, Argentina
Date: March 9 2002
Time: night
Ceferino Leoncio was cleaning his one room metal shack when suddenly a
bright light engulfed the room. He felt a sudden heat as he saw a tiny
figure (50 cm) of an angel-like creature materialize in front of him. It
slowly moved its small wing-like protrusions and moved around and then
suddenly stopped and remained still. It appeared to be a small living human=

like living being until it appeared to hardened and turn into some type of=

statue of cherubic appearance. Locals have now built a shrine around the
tiny "statue" and call the strange materialization a "religious miracle".

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso
Type: F?



27.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: March 16 2002
Time: 2215
Mirna, was watching television alone in her room when she began hearing
noises coming from outside, at first she thought it was her dogs playing
around with some empty cans. But the noises kept getting louder and louder=

and she decided to go outside to investigate. Once outside she was stunned=

to see some type creature that had somehow entered the rabbit cage and was=

attacking the animals that were making loud unearthly screams. Thinking at=

first that it was one of the dogs she approached the case but realized that=

it was a gray colored hairy hunched over creature, that was moving quickly=

inside the cage. She stepped back and could not understand how the creature=

had entered the cage, since there wasn't any apparent hole or aperture
visible anywhere and the door was firmly closed. Afraid she ran inside her=

home and notified her son, both then ran out but the creature had
mysteriously disappeared. Unnerved, they could not understand how they
creature had escaped since the door to the rabbit caged was still firmly
locked. Later they could only find a small round hole in the wire only
several centimeters in width, not large enough for a creature estimated to=

have been about 70 to 80 cm in height. Several of the rabbits were found
injured and one was dead.

HC addendum
Source: Calama UFO CenterType: E


28.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: March 19 2002
Time: 2000
Young Elizabeth Lera reported seeing a short humanoid with "dark eyes"
looking into the building compound from behind a wire fence. It appeared
not to have any other facial features and was wearing dark clothing; it
wore some type of head covering, which was hard to see because of the
darkness. She could only see a pair of large dark eyes on his face that
appeared to shine in the darkness. Some more children now arrived and
observed as the humanoid move several steps towards them. Another witness,=

Rene Mamani saw the humanoid run and hide behind some bushes. It seemed to=

move at very high speed in an unnatural fashion. It seemed to have remained=

suspended in mid-air for a few seconds. It then seemed to fly through the
air and disappeared into some nearby woods. Other students at the school
reportedly saw it again on the night of the 20th.

HC addendum
Source: Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E


29.
Location. Woodburn, Oregon
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 0300A
The witness was sleeping when she woke up suddenly feeling paralyzed. The
witness was completely unable to move or speak. Her next memory was of a
strange sensation on her left cheek, which hurt a lot. Unseen "beings" were=

apparently taking skin samples. Her face was left with a pink fleshy scoop=

down my left cheek, directly on the cheekbone. A teardrop scar was left on=

her cheek.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical Universe
Type: G?




30.
Location. Bethlehem, Israel
Date: March 21 2002
Time: night
At the besieged Church of The Nativity several awed witnesses have come
forward describing the events of Thursday night. That night, a smell of
roses filled the sanctuary as the Daughters of Charity held their evening
prayers. "The sweet scent was soon followed by a high musical humming sound=

and a distinct feeling of warmth emanating from the ceiling." Then, the
sisters reported, seeing a glowing beam of light gradually forming the
likeness of the Blessed Virgin "like a film coming into focus." Tears were=

running down her face, and she uttered a prophetic warning. "Time is
growing short, and the promised Judgment Day is nearly at hand." One week
before the apparition, The Church of the Holy Family was the scene of a
ferocious firefight between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 17Type: F


31.
Location. Not given
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 2255
16-year old Steven Mizon saw hovering over a street a large oval shaped
craft encircled in bright lights and with several lighted windows around
its edge. A figure stared down at him from one of the windows. No other
information.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Watch
Type: A



32.
Location. Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain
Date: March 26 2002
Time: 1500
A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a deserted road when=

he noticed ahead in the distance and in the middle of the roadway an object=

resembling a shiny pear that was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat
perplexed he approached and noticed two individuals standing on a nearby
field. These were over 2 meters in height, wore tight fitting white
coveralls and helmets resembling that of the early astronauts. He parked
his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men=

walked away and entered the shiny pear-shaped craft while the other
remained behind. Knowing that these men were "not from this earth" he still=

asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt that as
he approached the strange pair he had been in some type of a trance and
seemed to have floated over the road. The humanoid answered and appeared
genuinely happy as to his offer of assistance but said that everything was=

in order. He also added that the area was very beautiful and also added:
"Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such
beautiful scenes, they disappeared a long time ago." The astounded witness=

managed to ask the humanoid where he was from and was told that they hailed=

from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The=

humanoid smiled as he answered the question. The humanoid then bid goodbye=

and walked towards the nearby shiny pear shaped object, he then disappeared=

inside of it. The craft then emitted a loud whistling sound and disappeared=

at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the
humanoids as about 2.50 meters in height, wide chests and heavy set, thin
legs. Generally human features, but somewhat "refined" or sharpened
features. The suits were very tight fitting made of an apparent synthetic
material resembling plastic. Their eyes were very light almost white and
their speech was hesitant & accented. Also their movements seemed kind of
clumsy.

HC addendum
Source: J M Garcia, Francisco Padron, SpainType: B


33.
Location. Pringle Lake, Texas
Date: March 28 2002
Time: 1100A
Mark Hakemack and a friend had taken an airboat out on the NW side of the
lake to do a little redfish fishing. The day was kind of hazy, with broken=

cloud cover. They had caught several trout and were just chatting when he
hooked up a large redfish while playing with the fish, Mark happened to
glance upwards and saw a large bird-like creature emerge from a cloudbank.=

His friend saw it too, after about 20 to 25 seconds it flew behind cloud
cover again. The strange creature was grayish in color and the profile of a=

raptor, short neck/head, no legs sticking out behind, and no long tail
feathers. Mark could not take his eyes off it. He estimated the wingspan to=

have been 10' to 14 ' in overall. It appeared to be soaring on the wind,
although, he did see it give a couple of light "flaps" with its wings. The=

witness could only relate this to the legendary "Thunderbird" legend.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.comType: E


34.
Location. Sevilla, Spain
Date: March 30 2002
Time: late night
The witness to the March 26 case was at home with his wife and was getting=

ready to sleep when he heard footsteps coming from patio area outside his
chalet. Armed with a club, he opened the door and was stunned to see the
same two tall heavyset humanoids he had encountered 4 days before. One of
the humanoids was kneeling on the ground as if inspecting something on the=

soil, the other one upon hearing the door open, turned and quickly assured=

the witness not to fear that they were not here to harm him. Stunned, the
witness invited the two humanoids in the house for some refreshments (!).
These declined the invitation telling that they had to go already. Using
the same clumsy movements both humanoids walked towards the rear of the
house where the witness noticed the same shiny metallic pear shaped craft
on the ground. They entered the object, which quickly left at high speed.
The witness's wife awakened by the voices was able to see the two humanoids=

from a second story window, and described them in the same way.

HC addendum
Source: Francisco Padron, Jose Manuel Garcia, SpainType: B


35.
Location. Los Cipreses, Chile
Date: March 31 2002
Time: noon
During a local UFO congress 24 persons in three groups entered a
dimensional gateway that appeared by itself over the terrain. It was kind
of a dome, a luminous archway measuring four by four meters. The
participants lost their materiality without disappearing completely. Upon
entering, they met several human-like alien characters with large baldheads=

and wearing robes that waited within and received information. According to=

sources the contact experience was "dimensional" it was like crossing into=

a different reality. The 24 participants were "all professionals, college
students of high intellectual levels, mostly Chileans," and some were
members of Grupo Rama, a New Age association.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 16, quoting Camilo Valdivieto
Type: G or F?


36.
Location. Tbilissi Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: night
A man entered the local St David church and reported that "a phantom with
wings" had approached him and predicted an earthquake that indeed took
place on April 25 2002, devastating areas of central Georgia.

HC addendum
Source: Pravda
Type: E?


37.
Location. Near Macon, Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: 2300
Three friends were awakened by loud banging noises and bellowing sounds
coming from outside. One of the men ran to the bathroom and looked out the=

window to see a figure run by and squat in the nearby bushes. He described=

the creature as about 3 ft tall, hairy with what appeared to be horns on
its head and hands; he could not see a face. Others in the neighborhood
heard the banging noises.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.com and direct witness
Communication.
Type: E


38.
Location. Belvedere di Tezze, Italy
Date: April 26 2002
Time: evening
A 20-year old woman was returning home one night when she noticed some
bright lights nearby of an unknown origin. She followed the lights in her
car until she stopped near a local pizzeria. She saw the light near the
ground and within the lights two tall slender human like figures wearing
some type of headgear. Since she was carrying a camera she was able to snap=

a quick picture. The figures then vanished. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Gruppo Accademico Ufologico Scandicci quoting
"Il giornale di Vicenza"Type: E?


39.
Location. Puente Santamaria, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: early morning
Two young men observed a dark object descend towards the ground about 100
meters away. According to the two witnesses from the craft descended a
small humanoid, orange in color. Very scared they both ran from the area
and reported their experience to others.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: B


40.
Location. Merceditas, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: evening
An elderly couple was walking along National Route # 8 when about 800
meters from their location they noticed a very strong light. The light
descended next to a puddle at about 70 meters from the witness. Both then
saw two very short orange colored humanoids that moved in very agile
movements near the object. Terrified they walked away and upon looking back=

saw a bright glow on the ground.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: C


41.
Location. Barangay, Philippines
Date: May 2002
Time: night
Several local residents reported seeing a bizarre creature described as an=

"aswang" reputed to be a winged vampire type creature, it reportedly had
red glowing eyes, long black hair, and was wearing a white flowing gown. It=

was seen perched on top of a bamboo tree. Residents at nearby Roxas
reported seeing a similar creature. The police was called but a search
failed to locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Akasico.comType: E


42.
Location. Alvear, La Pampa Argentina
Date: May 3 2002
Time: near midnight
Several young men were returning home late at night along a deserted
roadway when suddenly out of nowhere a female figure wearing a light
flowing gown and with long black hair appeared in front of them. The
strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly and repeatedly asked for=

assistance from the men in a strange urgent tone. Terrified the men ran
from the area and later returned with additional witnesses but they could
find no trace of the strange apparition.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E?


43.
Location. Taralgon Victoria, Australia
Date: May 24 2002
Time: 2355
Walking near the Loy Yang Power station 45-year old Martin Taylor was
suddenly blinded by an intense blue light and he felt extremely dizzy. His=

next memory was of being in a circular room with a variety of lights and
buttons scattered about the walls. He was lying on a large table that
seemed to be of a very highly polished metal. He was strapped down and his=

shirt had been removed. There were wires attached to his arms, neck and
temples. A four ft tall humanoid figure with very large almond shaped eyes,=

almost transparent looking skin, ghostly white in appearance examined him.=

The figure had three extremely long fingers on each hand and spoke in a
strange dialect.

HC addendum
Source: UFO WatchType: G


44.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: May 29 2002
Time: midnight
Irma Rick watched a rotating luminous object descend close to the ground
next to a grain silo; it gave off a powerful bluish light through some
openings around its circumference. It hovered close to the ground. Through=

an opening a strange creature was seen to descend to the ground. It was
described as having an elongated semi-transparent white body; it also had
an elongated head. She could not see any eyes or legs on the creature as it=

stood motionless next to the craft. She observed the creature and object
for about 5 minutes until she dropped the flashlight she was carrying.
Afraid she left the area and did not see the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: B



45.
Location. Lembang Bandung, Indonesia
Date: May 30 2002
Time: 2315
The witness was driving his motorcycle across a highland area when he
spotted some flashing lights overhead and then noticed a silvery
disc-shaped craft descend low over some nearby graves at a cemetery. The
craft had blue and orange flashing lights around its rim. There was no
sound as the craft apparently emitted a beam of light towards the ground
and levitated what appeared to be some dead bodies onboard the object. (!)=

The witness was apparently paralyzed and was unable to move. The craft then=

shot away at a 45-degree angle and disappeared from sight. When that
happened the witness left the scene.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


46.
Location. Houston, Texas
Date: late May 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness was at the local electric company in order to pay a bill when
she decided to use the restrooms. Sitting in the stall she then noticed on=

the side of the wall of the stall what appeared to be a face lit up in a
dull light. When the witness looked directly at the "face" it vanished. She=

described is as having large round eyes no visible nose and a slit-like
mouth. (A peeping tom alien?)

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.comType: E?


47.
Location. General Acha, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: early June 2002
Time: various
A resident of the Oeste neighborhood informed newspaper sources that a
short green-colored dwarf like entity has appeared twice on her property:
once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When her husband ran out
responding to her screams, the mysterious entity vanished by rapidly
climbing up a tree. All versions agree in that the entity is short in
stature. Another resident added that it moved so quickly that it was hard
to describe it. In the same area mysterious cattle mutilations have also
been reported.

HC addendum
Source: Loren Coleman in UFO UpdatesType: E


48.
Location. Ojo De Agua, Argentina
Date: June 2002
Time: afternoon
Several passengers onboard two farm micro buses reported seeing a very tall=

dark man like figure that appeared to be wearing a tight fitting diver's
outfit standing on a nearby field. Nearby numerous mysterious animal
mutilations have been reported. The figure was silent and was quickly lost=

from sight as the buses moved away.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E




49.
Location. Near Tampa, Florida
Date: June 2002
Time: night
A man and three of his friends reported encountering two bizarre chupacabra=

type creatures one stood about 3-4 ft tall, the other looked to be about 6=

ft tall. Both had large glowing red eyes and spikes starting from the head=

to the back. They scurried away into a wooded area. (They were to have
further encounters in August).

HC addendum
Source: Art Bell.comType: E


50.
Location. Antalya, Turkey
Date: June 5 2002
Time: afternoon
Approximately 45 witnesses claimed they saw an UFO in the Santral district=

landing on the backyard of the Fatma Primary School. Several students
including Murat Esici age 11 saw an alien emitting red rays from his eyes
come out of the object. His hands and feet were metallic. He had a very big=

head and was about 1.80 meters in height. Esici temporarily lost her voice=

immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also=

claimed they san an unusual craft and an alien beside it. "His eyes and
hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes." The children
were overcome with shock after the incident.

HC addendum
Source: Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center Intl
Type: B


51.
Location. Polonnauruwa, Sri Lanka
Date: June 8 2002
Time: 2200
Approximately 50 to 70 eyewitnesses saw a UFO flying at about 100 meters
above ground level. The object was silent and briefly landed emitting a
bright flash like light. When it was close to the ground the object emitted=

a buzzing sound. Three other witnesses saw three 2 ft tall creatures than
when approached ran into the jungle and disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Sources
Type: D


52.
Location. Polonnaruwa, Sir Lanka
Date: June 9 2002
Time: 2012
Two witnesses went to a bath on a nearby river when they heard a loud
thundering sound and a UFO appeared. The craft landed nearby and two, 2 ft=

tall "aliens" emerged from the object. One of the humanoids flung a small
fluorescent fireball like object that flew over a house and vanished. Soon=

the craft and humanoids disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC & News Reports
Type: B



53.
Location. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Date: June 10 2002
Time: 1900
Witnesses saw a mysterious light in the sky and others saw a large disc
shaped object land nearby. Three humanoids only about 2 ft tall emerged
from the craft and disappeared into the forest when approached. The object=

also left.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Reports
Type: B


54.
Location. Chantilly, Virginia
Date: June 10 2002
Time: night
The witness was awakened during the night with a sense of some presence in=

the room. Looking toward the door, he saw, fading quickly, something, which=

almost had the appearance of a hologram. Next, shadows appeared outside the=

windows in an erratic shape. At first he thought the shadows to be from
trees moving in a strong wind. The appearance was of a storm blowing the
limbs to create these shadows outside the window. However, there was no
storm. He looked at the adjacent window on the side of the house facing
opposite and there was no wind at all. In fact there was no trees
positioned in such a way to cast a shadow. He opened the blinds to see what=

might be causing the shadows. He then saw what seemed to be a hologram with=

the shape of two small eyes moving erratically outside the window.
Frightened he closed the blinds. Two weeks later he was awakened by a
humming sound and again saw the erratic shadows outside the window. He
watched the shadows for 10-15 minutes and then called the police. The
police found no signs of any intrusion in the yard. When the police left
the witness walked toward the door facing the back porch and saw a large
burst of bluish white light. It looked unnatural, almost like a laser. He
has not seen the "shadows" again.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: E?


55.
Location. Ataliva Roca, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 11 2002
Time: 1930
A worker at a local drainage project was sitting and guarding some
machinery when he noticed a short greenish colored humanoid figure that was=

approaching his location from a nearby field. The witness became concerned=

and drove away from the area in the construction equipment and did not see=

the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


56.
Location. Eduardo Castex, La Pampa Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Two girls of a local school encountered a short greenish humanoid figure in=

the playing yard. The figure was standing up and appeared to be raising its=

arms up to the sky. Terrified the two girls retreated into the school and
watched the figure scurry away into some nearby woods. Around the same time=

a local farmer found a strangely mutilated hog in his farm.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


57.
Location. Chasico, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Hugo Deluca and several other workers were parked in a bus in an isolated
area when they spotted about 20 meters away a short, 1.20 meters tall,
bipedal figure completely covered in gray hair. It walked upright like a
man and then scurried away into some woods vanishing from sight. The area
had been hit with animal mutilations around the same time.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


58.
Location. Castex, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 13 2002
Time: night
A 70-year old man had gone to his driveway to check on a flat tire in his
car when a short light green colored humanoid suddenly appeared next to
him. It had large round ears, and two reddish luminous eyes. Its body was
thin and almost triangular in shape. The witness attempted to yell out but=

was suddenly unable to speak and at the same time strange warmth invaded
his body. Several seconds later the humanoid vanished and the witness
returned to normal. He reported the incident to the police.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


59.
Location. La Laguna, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 14 2002
Time: afternoon
Several youngster had gone into the fields in order to obtain some firewood=

when they saw sitting on a clearing in the woods two human like figures,
all dressed in black. They sat facing each other, one looking towards the
east the other towards the west, unmoving. Unnerved by the sight the
juveniles ran from the area. The next day the father of one of the boys
found two dead cows at the site, but could find no trace of the strange
pair. Days later a sheep and a horse were found dead and strangely
mutilated in the nearby location of El Cardonal.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: E


60.
Location. De Kalb, Illinois
Date: June 15 2002
Time: 0030A
The witness was sitting in his family room watching TV when he noticed a
bright flash of light outside the window. He saw the flash several times
and decided to check his backyard there he saw a circular light moving
around in circles. The light began to get closer; scared he ran inside his=

home and called a friend on the phone. He then quickly ran outside and saw=

the circle getting closer, he noticed that it had a purplish color to it
and it began to descend towards the ground. He became nauseous and dizzy
and collapsed on to the ground. He tried to crawl to the house but was
unable to move. He turned his head and saw the purplish object on the
ground and what appeared to be a door opening up. He then heard a squeaking=

noise and saw a tall and a short figure standing by a door of the object.
The two figures started to move towards him, walking in a strange bopping
fashion. They were of a dark complexion with a bumpy texture, other than
that they resembled normal human beings. The shorter figure approached and=

picked up the witness' camera and stared at it. He then looked at the
taller figure and handed it to him. The taller of the two looked at the
camera and then at the witness. The witness then heard loud unpleasant
shrieks coming from the taller figure, which then gave the camera back to
the shorter figure, which covered the camera with his hand, seconds later a=

light began to emerge from their hands. Then they stopped, threw the camera=

aside and began to walk towards the witness. They reached his side and
started to examine his body. A dog began to bark from inside the house and=

the shorter figure put out his hand and the dog stopped barking. At this
point the witness began to vomit. After about a minute he began to relax
and to breathe better. When he turned his head he realized that the two
figures and the purple spherical object were now gone. The next day he had=

a very severe headache.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: B


61.
Location. San Juan, Argentina
Date: June 20 2002
Time: evening
At a location where the body of a strangely mutilated carcass of a cow was=

found two witnesses reported seeing a small creature with large glowing
slanted eyes and about one meter in height. Later in the same area, members=

of the Gimenez family after investigating noises and a strong odor coming
from a wooded area found a mutilated cow and also watched a short humanoid=

with glowing eyes scurrying away into the woods.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


62.
Location. Manuel Rodriguez, Calama, Chile
Date: June 22 2002
Time: after midnight
A bizarre creature was spotted at a local housing complex on San Antonio
Street. Witnesses reported that it resembled an ape and it jumped all over=

the roof. It passed right in front of the witness, Maria Gavia's window and=

then it came back making all manner of noise. The creature was able to make=

very long jumps, unlike any a human could. It jumped and landed on the
neighbor's roof and then it left the area. Neighborhood dogs acted scared
and began howling. Others described the creature as about 1.5 meters tall,=

stocky in build with bright red eyes. It made a lot of noise. Others
reportedly chased the creature.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center, quoting El
Mercurio de CalamaType: E


63.
Location. Angencia Realico, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 23 2002
Time: late night
Several hunters returning to a local ranch spotted about 50 meters away two=

large glowing reddish eyes staring at them. They turned off their
flashlight and approached closer on foot, about 30 meters away they again
saw the reddish eyes on a dark creature that appeared to be standing on top=

of an apparently dead animal. One of the hunters shone its flashlight on
the figure again and saw a figure about 40 cm in height that quickly ran
from the area at very high speed. The creature disappeared into the brush.=

At the scene, a dead and mutilated young heifer. Other mutilations were
reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


64.
Location. Rancul, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 25 2002
Time: 2020
Two young men, Nestor Pinto and Daniel Gatica were walking on a field when=

they encountered a short man-like figure with huge pointy ears and long
dangling arms standing near some brush. The figure scurried into the brush=

and disappeared and at the same time the two witnesses ran away from the
area and did not see the strange dwarf again.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


65.
Location. Bavaria, Germany (exact location not given)
Date: June 25 2002
Time: night
The witness had stayed up late watching the soccer game as was in his
bedroom when suddenly there was a coldness around him that made him shiver.=

He noticed that his audio capabilities were somehow enhanced and he was
able to hear sounds that previously he was unable to hear. He then heard a=

noise outside his door and went out to investigate. The noise became louder=

as he approached the door. He then heard footsteps and opened the door. A
very small man with a somewhat deformed body that was smiling at him
confronted the witness. He looked straight ahead and then stared at the
witness. His next memory was of waking up in his bed in the morning.

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.com
Type: E


66.
Location. Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2105
The primary witness had stepped out on his back porch when his attention
was drawn to two huge black "birds" which were approaching from the north.=

His first impression was they were Herons, but soon realized that the color=

was wrong, and "they were huge, much larger than any bird I have ever
seen." The two huge birds landed at the top of a very tall coniferous tree.=

The witness stated that the wingspan appeared to be wider than the
branches, jest below where they had landed. The body size was estimated to=

be about six feet from head to tail. The oddest feature was the shape of
the wings, which according to the witness appeared to be bat-like. The tree=

where the "birds" landed seemed as though it would break from their weight.=

The witness yelled for others in the house to come outside to look. Another=

family member was able to see the huge black birds as they passed overhead,=

and headed for some woods. After checking the size of the branches where
the birds had landed, the witness estimated that the wingspan would have
been close to 12 feet or somewhat larger.

HC addendum
Source: Stan GordonType: E


67.
Location. Marldon Hill, Paington, England
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2357
A couple were walking near a local historic monument (a windmill) and they=

drew closer to monument they heard a low whirling noise. The noise
progressed to a high-pitched whining, almost out of hearing range. Then
they saw a mysterious glow coming from the dark side of the windmill, and
then to their astonishment they saw 5 or 6 shadow like figures standing in=

front of the windmill. Startled the two began to run back towards the main=

road. The woman looked back and saw the figures become engulfed by a bright=

light and disappear, and then everything became quiet.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Sightings UKType: E?


68.
Location. Adelia Maria, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 3 2002
Time: 2100
Pedro and Estela Moine had decided to visit the business district of town
called Barrio Norte and crossed the old railroad yard through a pedestrian=

pathway that ran through a pasture area between some silos, old railroad
depots and abandoned wreckage. As the couple moved through the premises
they suddenly became aware of a strange and incomprehensible conversation
between many voices. Startled, they stopped walking moved a few meters more=

and then heard the voices again which now sounded like strange "O" sounds.=

Pedro looked toward the silos and was able to see resembling humanoid but
lacking upper and lower extremities. Despite the pleas of his wife, Pedro
ran several meters toward an inner alley in the silo plant, being able to
make out some 45 meters to the west and in profile---the entity, which
acting surprised, avoided the encounter and moved again to the north.
However, what filled the witnesses with wonderment was that the creature
did so as though flying or floating without touching the facilities it
passed. Pedro and Estela ran after it. It was thus that the man managed to=

see the entity apparently hiding behind the control room of the truck
scale. Pedro ran toward it and was again startled to see the apparition
rising as a plane taking off, flying at an altitude of 5 meters and
disappearing behind a large metal shed. Bewildered, both witnesses called
out, but were unable to see anything else. Pedro Moine as "a thing with
human shape" described the apparition. It had some sort of light, although=

he could not say if reflected or self-generated, although he tends to
believe the latter, since it was a nebulous whitish light, which kept him
from making out details. The entire mass of the apparition appeared to be a=

body covered from head to toe in some sort of mantle, which he described as=

though it wore a hat, but covered with some kind of long raincoat reaching=

down to what he took to be its feet. He added that the "conversational
sounds" repeated themselves in three separate occasions at various
intensities. They were like conversations in a strange language.

HC addendum
Source: Mario Luis Bracamonte, C.O.R, Rio Cuarto Argentina
Type: E


69.
Location. Jerusalem, Israel
Date: July 6 2002
Time: night
A remote TV camera picked up images of "orbs seen on the corner to the
right of the Wailing Wall." They seemed to have facial features almost like=

a ghost, reported investigator Charlotte LeFevre. The orbs were described
as "sharp and distinct". The orbs were next to the women's prayer area in
front of the Wall. Other strange phenomena, has been reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 29Type: F?


70.
Location. Villa Elisa, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: July 13 2002
Time: 2300
A young woman fainted from nervous shock after having an alleged closed
encounter with "some sort of green dwarf". This occurred---enveloped in
darkness---along Misioneros Salesianos Street very close to several houses.=

An ambulance was called and apparently transported the witness who was in
shock.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria ColuchiType: E


71.
Location. Patna, India
Date: July 21 2002
Time: night
Several residents claim they've been bitten or scratched by a "black
monkey-like creature with colored lights flashing from its eyes." Resident=

Pawan Kumar Niyogi who was sleeping on the terrace of his house claims "a 5=

ft tall monkey-like creature" attacked him. He said: "I was terrified and
thought my life was going to end but it merely scratched me on the shoulder=

before jumping off the roof." Local residents are conducting night vigils
and carrying torches to guard their homes.

HC addendum
Source: Ananova, Ufoupdates. Type: E


72.
Location. Chajan, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 21 2002
Time: 2300
Police officer Guillermo Arias was on routine patrol through a rural area
when he heard over the radio that his colleagues in arms over at Achiras
were seeing lights in sectors of said community, and that they were heading=

towards Chajan along National Route 8. At the wheel of the police patrol
van, he managed to see a formation of 7 lights in the distance and decided=

to drive 10 km along a rural dirt road. When he had covered said distance,=

he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine of his vehicle sputtered=

and died, causing the police car to strike the edge of a guardrail.
Simultaneously, the lights on the van's dashboard began turning on and off=

randomly, the police radio went haywire and its dial displayed the random
shifting of the frequencies while the cabin became filled with an acrid
odor, as though of burnt wiring, and the interior lights and stop
indicator, which were broken, began lighting on and off. Seized by fear,
Arias leaped from the van and walked away a few meters down the road,
losing his cellular phone in the escape. The darkness was total, when
suddenly, amid the confusing situation; an immense light emerged from a
field adjacent to the road as a triangular object rose majestically into
the air. Now Arias condition went from fear to abject terror as he saw what=

he described as a real "floating city" some 200 meters long with a long row=

of windows (perhaps as many as 100). Arias claims having seen something
move behind them, describing the movement as "TV sets which make lines and=

shadows", which he defined as "non-human", and that many beams of light
came out of the giant triangle, aimed at the ground. The event lasted 2-3
seconds, but to Arias it felt like an eternity. The object suddenly rose
and sped away, vanishing behind the hills of a local field. As the object
moved away, the whole area was lit up like daytime and there was an
afterglow that lasted another 20 minutes.

HC addendum
Source: C.O.R., Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense, Argentina
Type: A


73.
Location. Waconia, Minnesota
Date: July 26 2002
Time: 0300A
The young witness was sleeping in the backyard with his sister when he
suddenly woke up. He then noticed that the side of the tent that faced the=

wetlands and lake was lit up. Looking towards the light he saw a shadowy
torso and arm of a humanoid figure that seemed to be moving around within
the light. He watched for 30 seconds and saw the figure move the fingers of=

his hands. The witness became frightened and hid in his sleeping bag. He
came out about an hour later and the light and strange figure were
completely gone.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


74.
Location. Sedona, Arizona
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 0310A
In a wooded area the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all
white, with black "straight" eyes; and black diagonal/diamond strip of
"clothing" on top. He stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then
left. Prior to seeing the figure the witness had seen lights in a large
oval shaped pattern in the sky.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


75.
Location. Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 1730
Three girls had decided to visit the rooftop as they did the prior evening=

watching for satellites. It was dusk and the girls had a good vantage point=

looking towards the east. With them they had a pair of binoculars and a
pair of walkie-talkies. The girls noticed that a large orange light
appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The anomaly
was noted to have fluctuated in colors of orange, yellow, white and pale
blue. At fist they thought of an arriving airplane, but then a second light=

appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10=

degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some=

unusually maneuvering; from a stationary position it accelerated at least 5=

degrees closer to the ground surface at an approximate 45-60 degree angle
within a matter of a single second. The first anomaly then began to move
slowly towards the north. At this stage they partially lost view of it as
it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley-like
region of the horizon. According to the witnesses, this third object
appeared to have "landed" on the ground surface. The object was then viewed=

through the binoculars and presented in great detail; the object was
described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange,=

blue/purple and white rotating around the rim. Thy also noted the trees
being slightly illuminated by this extraordinary phenomenon. They were
suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, "Identify
yourself." This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in a
foreign language. Around 1830 the girls were then called down to have
dinner. At about 2030 the girls re-established their places on the roof
after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still
present. Unexpectedly a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above
the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. "It
was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away." The=

light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it=

is not clear how one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became
extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed
her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not=

sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another of the girls woke up
the next morning with her nose bleeding. She also mentioned that she had
seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom.

HC addendum
Source: The Australian UFO Research NetworkType: D or
F?



76.
Location. Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 29 2002
Time: early morning
Local residents have seen a strange figure, which they described as
resembling a "shroud". The apparitions, which always occur in the early
morning hours, have become so common that in recent days several neighbors=

have stayed up late to see them, and it is thus that they were able to
confirm the simultaneous presence of up to 2 such beings, as well as red
lights flying over the area. All the witnesses whether individuals or in a=

group, agree that the entities are nebulous and glowing, with a pair of red=

eyes being clearly identifiable, and glassy faces (as if transparent).
Their movements are smooth and they always appear from behind the sand
dunes, as though "coming form the Naval Base." Most witnesses agree that
they show a great interest in the water tanks located above the roofs, and=

that they do not flee upon detecting the presence of local
residents---rather, they stare at them fixedly for some minutes. Deep
silence is perceived during the observations and "the air appears to become=

still" and neither heat nor cold can be felt---only a sensation of warmth,=

as if the beings emanated heat. Witnesses also state that things appear to=

be darker when "the shroud" appears, as though ambient lighting were
dimmed. Another curious fact is the large number of cats and dogs who
report to the place where the sightings occur and sit down to observe it in=

silence, in a state resembling a trance. A series of semi-circular prints
have been found in the dunes, not very deep, with 15-20 cm separations in
some cases and 30-50 cm in others. The locals have identified them as the
strange being's footprints. Efforts have been made to photograph the
"shroud", but all images, despite the use of different cameras appear
exposed. One witness who approached the site to witness the phenomenon took=

two photos of the prints in the afternoon and decided to stay with the
group of people hoping to see the "shroud", managing to take some photos of=

same and record the new prints which appeared in the dunes after the
sighting. A completely uncommon print was found at the site---but the
residents aren't sure if it's related to the phenomenon: it has the shape
of a five-fingered claw. One witness tried to make use of his carbine's
telescopic sight to see the figure in greater detail, but "when he tried to=

focus on it, he could see nothing_it was a though it could only be seen
with the unaided eye."

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, IHU, Christian Quintero and O A Mario
Proyecto Condor
Type: C or E?


77.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 30 2002
Time: 0530A
27-year old Mariela Baigorri reported seeing a strange figure that floated=

in front of her house. She had woken up early that morning and was getting=

ready to mount her bicycle when she saw behind the fence something floating=

in mid-air. It appeared to be a figure wearing a flowing white transparent=

tunic, with bright red eyes and undefined facial features. Feeling no fear=

she decided to approach it. She felt as if the figure waited for her and
was observing her. At this point Mariela felt some fear and began reciting=

the Lord's Prayer. The figure suddenly moved back and disappeared in plain=

sight.

HC addendum
Source: Juan Carlos Corrales Morey, Vision Ovni, Argentina
Type: E


78.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 31 2002
Time: 1845
23-year old Julian Pereyra was in his vehicle when he observed two red
spheres flying slowly over some nearby woods, they seemed to descend and
disappear behind the trees. 15 minutes later, Pereyra, accompanied by
several other witnesses approached the area and observed what they
described a tall floating figure wearing a white glowing cape like outfit,=

it seemed to glide silently over a field. It had what appeared to be a
visor at face level and two beams of red light emerged from where the eyes=

would have been. The witnesses watched the strange figure glide over the
fields for about 30 minutes. Curiously numerous local dogs and cats
approached and also watched the figure in fascination. The lights and
figure disappeared into the distance. In another occasion Pereyra and some=

of his family members encountered the strange humanoid and felt a strange
sensation as if the wind had suddenly stopped, they felt as they were
inside a vacuum or "bubble." Strange tracks have been reportedly found in
the area also.

HC addendum
Source: Diario La Nueva Provincia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Type: C?


79.
Location. La Cienaga, Pocri, Panama
Date: early August 2002
Time: night
Luis Alfredo Diaz reported hearing loud noises coming from the terraced
patio where the kitchen was located, going to investigate he found his cat=

apparently dead with two obvious holes on the neck and some blood on the
floor. Before finding the cat he had called his wife, Maria de Los Santos
Barrios. As his wife stood in front of him a panic stricken look came over=

her face, turning around he was confronted by a bizarre 1-meter tall
humanoid that had jumped to the center of the patio. The creature was
described as thin, covered with dark hair, with large pointed ears that
almost covered its face, it had very large eyes and extremely strong hind
legs resembling that of a kangaroo. Terrified he ran to his son's bedroom
and carried him outside yelling for his neighbors. A search failed to
locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Panamanian Paranormal Forum
Type: E


80.
Location. Near Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Date: August 2002
Time: night
The same witness involved in a similar encounter last year was again
camping in the same area when he again heard a noise. Shining the light in=

the direction of the sound he again saw the same creature. The creature sat=

there crouched by the trees staring at the witness. The witness walked
slowly towards it, he got to within 20 ft when it just jumped backward and=

disappeared. He described the creature as about five to six ft in height,
gray in color. It was totally naked. It had human features, but more
leathery, and its face was very wide, its eyes were huge and even though
they reflected light, they still looked black, resembling two intensely
black marbles. Its legs were very muscular, but turned backwards, like a
bird. Other hikers in the area have reported encountering little brown men=

on some of the more isolated trails.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal Story Archives, November 2002Type: E


81.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: August 1 2002
Time: late evening
64-year old Raul Dorado was touring some fields when he heard a loud sound=

on two occasions, like a whirlwind, which drew his attention. The third
time he saw something he describes as a green circle with three legs
hovering over him. At that moment Dorado fell to the ground, and according=

to his story, he carried a shotgun, binoculars and a cellular phone, the
latter, which was taken from his hand, and he could clearly see being
sucked into the object, which was apparently at low altitude. His next
recollection was seeing the object disappear toward the east. Dorado
remained at the location for an hour before being able to rise and walk
back to his car, returning to town in a state of shock. He had to be
hospitalized. Later when calls were placed to the (abducted) cellular phone=

someone would pick up and heavy breathing could be heard. Later on the
phone was apparently disconnected.

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, quoting Diario La Arena, La PampaType: G?


82.
Location. Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Date: August 2 2002
Time: 1730
A man named Todd Sees went up the mountain to look for pre-season deer. He=

told his wife that he would be home by noon. He rode his 4-wheeler up the
power line behind his home. He never returned. A search party composed of
local police, state police and volunteers searched for Sees. The 4-wheeler=

was found on the top of the mountain near a power-line. Tracking dogs could=

find nothing to go on around the 4-wheeler. The search went on for 2 days
and over 6 miles of mountain was covered from top to bottom. Then, in the
evening of the 2nd day, his body was found in a hard to reach wooded area.=

He was wearing his underwear. He was emaciated---not bloated. He was pale
and had an expression of horror on his face. When he went up the mountain
he was fully dressed, boots, camo-vest, hat, socks, pants. 3 people, on one=

farm, said they saw a large round bright object just above the power-lines=

at the time of the disappearance. It was silent, it did not move for about=

10 to 15 minutes. It suddenly went up and suddenly stopped. A light shone
down and something was pulled up into the light. It then went straight up,=

hesitated again, and then went west over the Susquehanna River and out of
sight. More specifically a farmer saw an object above Montour Ridge at the=

power lines, on top of the mountain, it was round and very still over the
lines. Suddenly it moved what looked like a few hundred feet to the east,
it stopped and a beam of blue and white light shone to the ground. What was=

seen next was very unnerving, he saw what appeared to be a man suspended in=

the light, he was being pulled up head first, he was moving his arms slowly=

in the light. What looked like a man was pulled up into the bottom of the
craft. A few seconds later it started shuddering, then went west very fast,=

stopped briefly, and then went straight up and out of sight. Also three
fishermen saw the craft. The FBI is supposedly also investigating. (Debated=

as a hoax, who would? and for what purpose?).

HC addendum
Source: Rense, UFO updates, NUFORCType: G?






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                            2002 Humanoid Reports

From: Albert Rosales <Garuda79@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:32:05 EST
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:14:40 -0500
Subject: 2002 Humanoid Reports


Happy new year everyone

Sincerely,

Albert

-----

2002 Humanoid Reports. It appears to be a slow start for this
year with only one recorded case, again from Chile. We will see
what develops later on the year. 2001 was pretty busy but it was
a decline from 2000. Maybe we will see another down trend again,
later to pick up again in the near future. This seems to be the
ever-ongoing trend of the phenomena. Will it always stay the
same? Time will tell. Following is a list of known 2002 humanoid
cases.


1.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: January 2002
Time: 0300A
An employee at the local Minera Escondida was on his way to the
storage freezer in order to pick up some supplies when an
unknown creature jumped him from behind. He could only describe
it as hairy and dark. He was left with deep scratches and in a
state of shock. Terrified he ran away and bumped into two other
employees who were able to see a shadowy creature in the dark.

HC addendum
Source: La Estrella del Loa de Calama, ChileType: E


2.
Location. Caracas, Venezuela
Date: January 2002
Time: late night
Late one night in a dream-like state the witness woke up to see
seven to eight strange figures in her bedroom. They were dark
gray in color and very thin, with three large thick long fingers
on their hands. They had large, lipless mouths and large shiny
protruding black eyes, their noses were thin and protruding,
small ears, the heads was large and pointy. The humanoids
appeared to be naked and she was able to see a penis on the
humanoids. They were about 1.55 meters in height. She felt dizzy
and under the control of the strange entities. She was led out
of her bedroom by one of the humanoids that removed her clothing
and made her lie down on the floor. The humanoids apparently
attempted to molest her sexually and possibly attempted to rape
her but were not successful. She apparently passed out and does
not remember anything else about the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Lista Alcione and witness communicationType: E


3.
Location. Fort McMurry, Alberta, Canada
Date: January 2 2002
Time: 2032
Two men were parked on an isolated dirt road when they spotted a
large cone-shaped object descend and hover. One of the men
exited the car and he vanished in plain sight of the other, the
craft then also disappeared. The other man tried to drive away
to get help but the car would not start and it was to cold to
walk. He soon went to sleep and woke up later to find his friend
sleeping next to him. Later they drove back to town. His friend
does not remember what happened during those two hours of
missing time. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


4.
Location. Paso Lovera, Corrientes, Argentina
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2030
Gabriela Lencinas, 15-year old and a 19-year old friend were
returning home on a bicycle when they spotted a large cloud like
object descend from the sky and from it a giant figure emerge.
The witnesses stopped their bicycles to see a car approach the
giant figure, stop, the driver exit the car and then re-entering
the vehicle and driving quickly away. The figure then rose up
into the cloud and disappeared. The girls reported that the
giant human-like figure had its hair standing up on his head and
was extending its arms towards the witnesses that quickly rode
their bicycles home. Other in the area reported seeing bright
lights that same night.

HC addendum
Source: Pablo Omastott
Type: B?


5.
Location. Villa San Rafael, Chile
Date: January 12 2002
Time: 2345
Two young teenagers, Jean F and Nelson C, where at home at night
when Jean noticed that his pet snake had escaped from its cage.
Both boys began looking for it outside among the rubble of the
parcel. They recalled how half an hour before, their two dogs
strangely began to howl and cry; however, it did not seem to be
important at that point in time. They searched for the pet snake
together when suddenly, about 30 meters from where they stood;
they saw what appeared to be a stray dog. They threw rocks at to
avoid an attack. However, to their surprise, the animal stood
there, motionless and fearless; it did not get scared nor it ran
away as ordinary dogs normally do. Shortly, the strange animal
began to move towards them. The movements it made as it walked
were very strange. It used two legs at a time. It made very
small sand short leaps like a rabbit. Suddenly, it stopped and
it stood up on two legs. The teenagers then began to feel some
kind of energy. "It was like an electrical shock in the
stomach," they said. It later walked again making a loud
dragging noise, making small leaps and only moving one of its
legs. They noticed the weird shape of the animal. "It was like a
rugby football with legs," one of them said. Jean began to feel
frightened and started to move away from animal. On the other
hand, Nelson felt a strange need to get closer to the creature;
he got to within 2 meters away from it. The creature appear to
emit a strange luminosity that apparently, was bright enough to
lit a small area around the creature in spite of the nighttime
darkness. Nelson was mesmerized as he stared at the strange
creature. He described it as having a head like a large dog with
a flat nose like a bulldog. Its eyes were slanted and pale-red
in color, which could only be seen when the creature turned its
head from side to side like a lizard. At that moment, Nelson
heard a voice in his head saying, "Don't stare, and just run
away." They provided further description, describing the ears as
flat, round and large. Its arms were short, it had elbows, and
the hands had three fingers. It had hair like the one on a wild
pig. Its legs were like the ones of a goat. The feet had also
three fingers and a membrane like ducks, but somewhat shorter.
On its curved back, they were able to notice a spinal section
covered with amounts of even thicker hair. Most of the hair of
the animal was gray, but the tail had a white tip. Nelson
finally fled, terrified, from the area. He also described how he
felt an inexplicable bone-chilling cold sensation.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center
Type: E


6.
Location. Not given
Date: January 12 2002
Time: night
Ted Parker was eating some leftover food when he claims the food began to
change. The bread of the sandwich turned an orange color and the lamb
became a silvery metallic color, sort of like liquid mercury. As he watched=

transfixed, he saw the orange bread and metallic lamb turn into the figure=

of an "alien" with the form of a man. It was silver in color and its outfit=

(smooth pants and shirt, like a jump suit) was orange in color. At this
point Parker glanced at the wall clock and it indicated that 2 hours had
gone by, even though it felt like minutes only. The alien figure
communicated using telepathic means and asked Ted to come with him. They
both went outside and there, Ted saw a landed black-colored craft in his
backyard. In a split second Ted found himself inside the craft not knowing=

how he got there. The inside of the craft was pure white in color with
strips of the metallic silver that the alien figure appeared to be made of.=

The rest of the incident is just a blur, but Parker did remembered hearing=

several loud high-pitched rings while onboard the object. A couple of days=

before while eating dinner with several other people there had been a
similar high pitched ring and everybody had just stopped eating and walked=

out of the room.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: G or F?



7.
Location. Chihuahua, Mexico
Date: January 29 2002
Time: night
Several days before seeing a UFO the witness remembered being in a
dream-like state in which he felt very calm and saw numerous disc shaped
objects, orange-red in color. A human like figure was talking to him about=

the objects and their propulsion. The UFO he saw was of an orange color and=

he felt a sort of ecstasy when he observed the craft. Several of his
neighbors also saw the object.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: G or F?


8.
Location. Near Palmyra, Wisconsin
Date: February 2002
Time: 0200A
Two men reported seeing a creature that resembled a bipedal "gigantic wolf"=

walking down a road west of the city. They said the creature was at least 7=

ft tall with a wolf-like head. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Linda GodfreyType: E


9.
Location. West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
Nebilson Sangma reported encountering a scary furry creature on a hunting
trip in the jungles. He reportedly took a video of the creature's nesting
place. According to Sangma, the creature walked erect like a human, had
built a house like nesting place, and would emerge from it frequently to
feast on a banana grove. Sangma and his brother observed the gigantic
creature for three consecutive days from afar. Officials and villagers have=

been hunting for the creature in the forest but it seems to have
disappeared as furtively as it appeared.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 13
Type: E


10.
Location. Near Dover, England
Date: February 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness had been jogging along a low path by the beach when she noticed=

a tall, well built being in a black skin tight suit, that stood watching
her from nearby. He wore a black helmet wit a brown visor pulled down. At
first she thought it was a biker but as she approached the figure, it
suddenly disappeared in plain sight. As she continued to run she noticed a=

black craft jutting out of the sand, it was small and oval shaped, matt and=

ribbed it also disappeared in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: I was abducted.comType: E?


11.
Location. Rosario de la Frontera, Salta, Argentina
Date: February 2002
Time: night
A strange creature called by locals "El Pestizo" has attacked several lone=

pedestrians in the middle of the night. It is described as a dark man
shaped shadowy being. A boy riding his bicycle on the way to visit some
friends was toppled from his bicycle and found a black shadowy figure
facing him. The young man managed to upholster his shotgun and fire two
shots. But, when he saw that they had no effect, he promptly drew his knife=

and stabbed the figure without any apparent harm. Frightened the youth
tried to escape but the creature knocked him down without saying a word and=

began dragging him by the hair to the side of the road. At this point the
young man began to scream. A local man, who rushed to provide assistance,
only to find a black shadow dragging the boy by the hair, heard his cries.=

The fearful shape disappeared without a trace after it became aware of the=

other man's presence. Six other locals have reported being attacked by a
similar being and received wounds.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


12.
Location. Not given
Date: February 2002
Time: early morning
The witness was alone at home and was preparing his breakfast when suddenly=

he heard a window break; he went to see what had happened. Grabbing a golf=

club he peeked inside the room where the window broke. He was stunned to
see a strange creature climbing on his bed. It appeared to be hurt, because=

it seemed that it could not move well. Gripping the golf club he went a
step nearer and the creature hissed horribly. It shrieked in an unworldly
manner. Terrified the witness did not move. The creature was small, about
the size of a large rabbit, and it was dark in color and had reddish eyes.=

It had wings and a spine of quills on its back, and had a semi reptilian
face. It appeared to have hair and small legs. The witness raised the golf=

club and the creature hissed again showing its large yellowish teeth, which=

appeared to be sharp, like those of a crocodile. It suddenly hopped out of=

the window and rapidly hopped across the street into the oak trees.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June archiveType: E


13.
Location. Vigevano, Italy
Date: February 2002
Time: 0100A
In the outskirts of this city a witness observed from his vehicle a
luminous humanoid entity walking along a roadway. It scurried away into the=

darkness when approached.
No other information.

HC addendum
Source: CISU, ItalyType: E



14.
Location. Corguinho, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Date: February 5 2002
Time: night
During a localized UFO flap several witnesses reported seeing a strange
creature described as about 1.3 meters in height, having two legs, with a
physique like a human but who moved with a strange fluctuating motion. The=

creature was seen five times by twenty people in the rural zone around
Corguinho. In Rochedo, 6 miles south of Corguinho five Cebu cattle were
found dead with a single incision on the side of the throat. The bodies had=

been drained of blood. (Is there a connection?).

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 9
Type: E


15.
Location. Mount Podbrdo, Bosnia Hercigovina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: morning
Contactee and stigmatic Giorgio Bongiovanni was visiting the shrine on top=

of the mountain and was praying silently to the Virgin when, to his
astonishment, a glowing luminous female figure appeared and touched his
forehead with her fingertips. His stigmata scar vanished instantly. The
female figure told him to return to Italy and make known what had happened.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 14
Type: E or F?


16.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: February 11 2002
Time: evening
73-year-old Maria Rufina Cayo, a local shepherd was walking back home with=

her dogs and the cattle. Suddenly at one point, something spooked the
animals, and these began to stampede. Looking around she spotted a bizarre=

creature standing about 12 meters away. She described it as a humanoid,
half animal, half human, about 1.70m in height, with bright red eyes, sharp=

protruding fangs, and hands and feet that ended in sharp claws. The
creature looked at the witness three times then it scrambled away using
quick jumping motions with is powerfully built hind legs, she also noticed=

large pointy ears. The top part of its body seems to have been covered in a=

shiny white blanket. It somehow resembled a centaur walking on two
claw-like feet.  Alerted by the shouts of Maria, two men, Santos Jaimes,
and Ruben Colque ran out to investigate with their dogs. Suddenly the dogs=

stopped and began making pitiful howling noises, they refused to move any
further. The men heard noises behind some nearby bushes and went to
investigate and spotted a bizarre creature that stood staring at them with=

huge reddish eyes. It then moved quickly away in the direction of Cerro
Negro and disappeared from sight. The witnesses noticed very sharp claws on=

the creature's feet with a very sharp claw that appeared to be pointed
backwards. Strange footprints were found the next day.

HC addendum
Source: El Tribuno, Salta Argentina March 27 2002
Also Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E



17.
Location. Khanpur, Ahmedabad, India
Date: February 20 2002
Time: after midnight
Several local residents reportedly have encountered a person, dressed in
black and wearing a mask. Dubbed the "Monkeyman" whom they described as
between 25 and 20 years of age, dark skinned and having curly hair can
reportedly be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees. Two
local youths chased it and the figure reportedly disappeared in plain
sight. The two youths have been behaving abnormally since then. The
stranger was also chased along the riverbed near the Cama Hotel and it also=

suddenly disappeared. Others have heard the stranger running on the
rooftops. Abdul Hamid another youngster of the local slums described the
figure as a tall lean man that carries a sharp weapon. "I saw him from the=

back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised the alarm, he jumped to=

another roof and then on to a tree." Police have searched for the stranger=

but nothing has been found.

HC addendum
Source: Fortean Times, India Express
Type: E


18.
Location. Prague, Czech Republic
Date: February 23 2002
Time: night
Blanka Slemendova was in her apartment when she saw a "ship" hovering over=

some nearby woods. It was shining red, white and yellow lights. She then
heard telepathic communication coming from the object telling her to go and=

meet them at an unspecified location. Looking over to her bedroom wall she=

saw what appeared to be a projection of human like faces looking at her.
Later that night she saw luminous figures in her room and a floating red
light also in her room. The next night she saw what appeared to be 2 gray
suns and around them a golden lights with numerous groups of shiny
human-like figures floating about. She interpreted these as being angels.

HC addendum
Source: Direct from witness (Slemendova)
Type: C & F?


19.
Location. Wycliffe Well Roadhouse, Northern Territory Australia
Date: early March 2002
Time: evening
While workers in the area watched unusual lights in the sky an aboriginal
woman encountered a triangular sort of object in a paddock and all of the
sudden she saw three silvery clad human like figures that began to move
toward her vehicle. She turned the vehicle around and took off.

HC addendum
Source: Lou Farcus ABC On-lineType: C


20.
Location. Near Canberra Australia
Date: March 2002
Time: 1700
Several friends were taking a trip to the coast and it was already very
dark. They had already entered a tropical forest area and there was a mist=

rolling along the ground. As they turned around they saw something
squatting in the middle of the road. It stared at them, and just as they
thought they were going to hit it, it leaped off the road and into the
trees. It leaped about 10 meters in the air. The creature was definitely
human looking although it wore strange clothes. It was dressed in a green
robe of some kind with little pieces of gold on it, and it was either
wearing a head crest or it had a row of spikes running from its forehead to=

the top of its neck. Very frightened the witnesses drove out of the forest=

and at the same time the mist turned to a thick fog. They pulled over and
decided to wait until the fog had cleared, although none of them were too
happy about it. As they sat around and waited they suddenly heard a shriek.=

It sounded like some sort of wild animal and they turned the car on so the=

headlights would scare it away. The headlights revealed the same creature
they had seen earlier. It hid its face from the light and shrieked. Right
before the witnesses' eyes, the creature seemed to evaporate into the fog.=

Within five minutes the fog had gone and the normal rolling mist was back.=

The witnesses quickly left the area and drove towards the coast.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal About.com, June ArchiveType: E


21.
Location. Guanica Puerto Rico
Date: March 1 2002
Time: 2345
Reinaldo Rios (involved in other encounters) was in his bedroom that night=

when a large white light suddenly appeared. It flew around the room several=

times and then hovered. He heard voices coming from the light, which
communicated with him. The voice said: "I am your real father." Soon the
light transformed itself into a figure resembling that of a little boy it
then vanished in plain sight.

HC addendum
Source: UFOs over America.com
Type: E


22.
Location. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 0800A
The witness and his wife were in bed that Saturday morning talking when
their 5-year-old daughter came into the bedroom with her baby brother,
whose cot is placed under their bedroom window. They heard a strange noise=

and some green light came into the window. Their daughter looked out the
window and reported seeing a "flying car" with four spinning green lights
on top. She saw two windows in the vehicle and saw two dark brown faces
looking out. His wife saw the craft flying past through the curtains. That=

same morning, in a large tree near the witness house a strange structure
was found. The branches were arranged in a rectangular pen shape, vertical,=

each approximately 30 to 40 cm long. They found a few smaller sticks
scaling down in size from the structure. A piece of concrete slab was found=

propped up on one corner. The witnesses had never seen this strange
structure before and think is some kind of message left by the visitors.
(Some kind of bizarre crop circle?). A few nights before they had heard
strange noises coming from the kitchen area.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: A


23.
Location. Golasecca Di Novara, Italy
Date: March 2 2002
Time: 2330
Augusto & Maurizia were in their vehicle parked in an open field next to a=

wooded area having a heated discussion when suddenly a powerful beam of
reddish-orange light illuminated the area around them. They rolled down the=

car window and heard a sharp metallic sound that seemed to be increasing in=

intensity. They now noticed, behind the beam of light a hovering
disc-shaped craft with a central rotating ring, it hovered about a meter
from the ground. From the object, a cigar-shaped beam of light emerged;
they could see it as the central ring of the craft slowly rotated on its
axis. The craft was only about 10 meters away. At this point, and only
about 4 meters from the object Augusto saw what appeared to be a gelatinous=

transparent humanoid-like figure with a visible head, arms and legs. The
figure was silvery in color and was very tall, about 3 meters or so. At
this point Augusto became concerned and drove away from the area and did
not see the object or figure depart. The whole episode lasted about 10
minutes. The metallic noise was heard all throughout the encounter.

HC addendum
Source: Alfredo Lissoni, CUN Milano, Michelle Castellano CUN VareseType: C


24.
Location. Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England
Date: March 3 2002
Time: morning
Helen Diskin went for a walk in the countryside talking snap shots along
the way with her digital camera. Returning home she loaded these into her
computer and was intrigued by an odd-looking image. It looked like a
luminous figure in an area of no sunlight, skulking amongst the trees. She=

returned to the site of the photo twice afterward and could find no
explanation for the figure. The figure resembled a small helmeted figure
that she had not seen when she took the picture of an area of the woods she=

had thought of as "mysterious."

HC addendum
Source: Helen Diskin, UFO Magazine Vol. 22 # 1Type: E?


25.
Location. Near Trenton New Jersey
Date: March 4 2002
Time: night
Several witnesses were camping outside of town and late at night one of
them was attempting to put out the bonfire when he heard the most awful and=

horrifying scream. It resembled that of an injured dog crossed with a
scream of a woman. The witness dropped the flashlight and was joined by
another witness. Suddenly out of the woods a hideous and gruesome creature=

appeared. It did not look human, somewhat satyr-like in appearance and
walked on two legs. It had a long tail like a dragon and wings like those
unicorns in fantasy books. The beast took several steps towards the
witnesses and one of them picked up and asked and yelled at it and then
shone his flashlight at it. The creature then turned towards the bushes and=

ran away from the area.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: E


26.
Location. Pichaca, Salta, Argentina
Date: March 9 2002
Time: night
Ceferino Leoncio was cleaning his one room metal shack when suddenly a
bright light engulfed the room. He felt a sudden heat as he saw a tiny
figure (50 cm) of an angel-like creature materialize in front of him. It
slowly moved its small wing-like protrusions and moved around and then
suddenly stopped and remained still. It appeared to be a small living human=

like living being until it appeared to hardened and turn into some type of=

statue of cherubic appearance. Locals have now built a shrine around the
tiny "statue" and call the strange materialization a "religious miracle".

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso
Type: F?



27.
Location. Calama, Chile
Date: March 16 2002
Time: 2215
Mirna, was watching television alone in her room when she began hearing
noises coming from outside, at first she thought it was her dogs playing
around with some empty cans. But the noises kept getting louder and louder=

and she decided to go outside to investigate. Once outside she was stunned=

to see some type creature that had somehow entered the rabbit cage and was=

attacking the animals that were making loud unearthly screams. Thinking at=

first that it was one of the dogs she approached the case but realized that=

it was a gray colored hairy hunched over creature, that was moving quickly=

inside the cage. She stepped back and could not understand how the creature=

had entered the cage, since there wasn't any apparent hole or aperture
visible anywhere and the door was firmly closed. Afraid she ran inside her=

home and notified her son, both then ran out but the creature had
mysteriously disappeared. Unnerved, they could not understand how they
creature had escaped since the door to the rabbit caged was still firmly
locked. Later they could only find a small round hole in the wire only
several centimeters in width, not large enough for a creature estimated to=

have been about 70 to 80 cm in height. Several of the rabbits were found
injured and one was dead.

HC addendum
Source: Calama UFO CenterType: E


28.
Location. Payogasta, Argentina
Date: March 19 2002
Time: 2000
Young Elizabeth Lera reported seeing a short humanoid with "dark eyes"
looking into the building compound from behind a wire fence. It appeared
not to have any other facial features and was wearing dark clothing; it
wore some type of head covering, which was hard to see because of the
darkness. She could only see a pair of large dark eyes on his face that
appeared to shine in the darkness. Some more children now arrived and
observed as the humanoid move several steps towards them. Another witness,=

Rene Mamani saw the humanoid run and hide behind some bushes. It seemed to=

move at very high speed in an unnatural fashion. It seemed to have remained=

suspended in mid-air for a few seconds. It then seemed to fly through the
air and disappeared into some nearby woods. Other students at the school
reportedly saw it again on the night of the 20th.

HC addendum
Source: Patricio Parente, Gaceta OvniType: E


29.
Location. Woodburn, Oregon
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 0300A
The witness was sleeping when she woke up suddenly feeling paralyzed. The
witness was completely unable to move or speak. Her next memory was of a
strange sensation on her left cheek, which hurt a lot. Unseen "beings" were=

apparently taking skin samples. Her face was left with a pink fleshy scoop=

down my left cheek, directly on the cheekbone. A teardrop scar was left on=

her cheek.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical Universe
Type: G?




30.
Location. Bethlehem, Israel
Date: March 21 2002
Time: night
At the besieged Church of The Nativity several awed witnesses have come
forward describing the events of Thursday night. That night, a smell of
roses filled the sanctuary as the Daughters of Charity held their evening
prayers. "The sweet scent was soon followed by a high musical humming sound=

and a distinct feeling of warmth emanating from the ceiling." Then, the
sisters reported, seeing a glowing beam of light gradually forming the
likeness of the Blessed Virgin "like a film coming into focus." Tears were=

running down her face, and she uttered a prophetic warning. "Time is
growing short, and the promised Judgment Day is nearly at hand." One week
before the apparition, The Church of the Holy Family was the scene of a
ferocious firefight between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 17Type: F


31.
Location. Not given
Date: March 21 2002
Time: 2255
16-year old Steven Mizon saw hovering over a street a large oval shaped
craft encircled in bright lights and with several lighted windows around
its edge. A figure stared down at him from one of the windows. No other
information.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Watch
Type: A



32.
Location. Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain
Date: March 26 2002
Time: 1500
A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a deserted road when=

he noticed ahead in the distance and in the middle of the roadway an object=

resembling a shiny pear that was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat
perplexed he approached and noticed two individuals standing on a nearby
field. These were over 2 meters in height, wore tight fitting white
coveralls and helmets resembling that of the early astronauts. He parked
his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men=

walked away and entered the shiny pear-shaped craft while the other
remained behind. Knowing that these men were "not from this earth" he still=

asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt that as
he approached the strange pair he had been in some type of a trance and
seemed to have floated over the road. The humanoid answered and appeared
genuinely happy as to his offer of assistance but said that everything was=

in order. He also added that the area was very beautiful and also added:
"Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such
beautiful scenes, they disappeared a long time ago." The astounded witness=

managed to ask the humanoid where he was from and was told that they hailed=

from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The=

humanoid smiled as he answered the question. The humanoid then bid goodbye=

and walked towards the nearby shiny pear shaped object, he then disappeared=

inside of it. The craft then emitted a loud whistling sound and disappeared=

at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the
humanoids as about 2.50 meters in height, wide chests and heavy set, thin
legs. Generally human features, but somewhat "refined" or sharpened
features. The suits were very tight fitting made of an apparent synthetic
material resembling plastic. Their eyes were very light almost white and
their speech was hesitant & accented. Also their movements seemed kind of
clumsy.

HC addendum
Source: J M Garcia, Francisco Padron, SpainType: B


33.
Location. Pringle Lake, Texas
Date: March 28 2002
Time: 1100A
Mark Hakemack and a friend had taken an airboat out on the NW side of the
lake to do a little redfish fishing. The day was kind of hazy, with broken=

cloud cover. They had caught several trout and were just chatting when he
hooked up a large redfish while playing with the fish, Mark happened to
glance upwards and saw a large bird-like creature emerge from a cloudbank.=

His friend saw it too, after about 20 to 25 seconds it flew behind cloud
cover again. The strange creature was grayish in color and the profile of a=

raptor, short neck/head, no legs sticking out behind, and no long tail
feathers. Mark could not take his eyes off it. He estimated the wingspan to=

have been 10' to 14 ' in overall. It appeared to be soaring on the wind,
although, he did see it give a couple of light "flaps" with its wings. The=

witness could only relate this to the legendary "Thunderbird" legend.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.comType: E


34.
Location. Sevilla, Spain
Date: March 30 2002
Time: late night
The witness to the March 26 case was at home with his wife and was getting=

ready to sleep when he heard footsteps coming from patio area outside his
chalet. Armed with a club, he opened the door and was stunned to see the
same two tall heavyset humanoids he had encountered 4 days before. One of
the humanoids was kneeling on the ground as if inspecting something on the=

soil, the other one upon hearing the door open, turned and quickly assured=

the witness not to fear that they were not here to harm him. Stunned, the
witness invited the two humanoids in the house for some refreshments (!).
These declined the invitation telling that they had to go already. Using
the same clumsy movements both humanoids walked towards the rear of the
house where the witness noticed the same shiny metallic pear shaped craft
on the ground. They entered the object, which quickly left at high speed.
The witness's wife awakened by the voices was able to see the two humanoids=

from a second story window, and described them in the same way.

HC addendum
Source: Francisco Padron, Jose Manuel Garcia, SpainType: B


35.
Location. Los Cipreses, Chile
Date: March 31 2002
Time: noon
During a local UFO congress 24 persons in three groups entered a
dimensional gateway that appeared by itself over the terrain. It was kind
of a dome, a luminous archway measuring four by four meters. The
participants lost their materiality without disappearing completely. Upon
entering, they met several human-like alien characters with large baldheads=

and wearing robes that waited within and received information. According to=

sources the contact experience was "dimensional" it was like crossing into=

a different reality. The 24 participants were "all professionals, college
students of high intellectual levels, mostly Chileans," and some were
members of Grupo Rama, a New Age association.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 16, quoting Camilo Valdivieto
Type: G or F?


36.
Location. Tbilissi Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: night
A man entered the local St David church and reported that "a phantom with
wings" had approached him and predicted an earthquake that indeed took
place on April 25 2002, devastating areas of central Georgia.

HC addendum
Source: Pravda
Type: E?


37.
Location. Near Macon, Georgia
Date: April 2002
Time: 2300
Three friends were awakened by loud banging noises and bellowing sounds
coming from outside. One of the men ran to the bathroom and looked out the=

window to see a figure run by and squat in the nearby bushes. He described=

the creature as about 3 ft tall, hairy with what appeared to be horns on
its head and hands; he could not see a face. Others in the neighborhood
heard the banging noises.

HC addendum
Source: Cryptozoology.com and direct witness
Communication.
Type: E


38.
Location. Belvedere di Tezze, Italy
Date: April 26 2002
Time: evening
A 20-year old woman was returning home one night when she noticed some
bright lights nearby of an unknown origin. She followed the lights in her
car until she stopped near a local pizzeria. She saw the light near the
ground and within the lights two tall slender human like figures wearing
some type of headgear. Since she was carrying a camera she was able to snap=

a quick picture. The figures then vanished. No other information.

HC addendum
Source: Gruppo Accademico Ufologico Scandicci quoting
"Il giornale di Vicenza"Type: E?


39.
Location. Puente Santamaria, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: early morning
Two young men observed a dark object descend towards the ground about 100
meters away. According to the two witnesses from the craft descended a
small humanoid, orange in color. Very scared they both ran from the area
and reported their experience to others.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: B


40.
Location. Merceditas, Colon, Argentina
Date: early May 2002
Time: evening
An elderly couple was walking along National Route # 8 when about 800
meters from their location they noticed a very strong light. The light
descended next to a puddle at about 70 meters from the witness. Both then
saw two very short orange colored humanoids that moved in very agile
movements near the object. Terrified they walked away and upon looking back=

saw a bright glow on the ground.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio Picasso, quoting Semanario ColonType: C


41.
Location. Barangay, Philippines
Date: May 2002
Time: night
Several local residents reported seeing a bizarre creature described as an=

"aswang" reputed to be a winged vampire type creature, it reportedly had
red glowing eyes, long black hair, and was wearing a white flowing gown. It=

was seen perched on top of a bamboo tree. Residents at nearby Roxas
reported seeing a similar creature. The police was called but a search
failed to locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Akasico.comType: E


42.
Location. Alvear, La Pampa Argentina
Date: May 3 2002
Time: near midnight
Several young men were returning home late at night along a deserted
roadway when suddenly out of nowhere a female figure wearing a light
flowing gown and with long black hair appeared in front of them. The
strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly and repeatedly asked for=

assistance from the men in a strange urgent tone. Terrified the men ran
from the area and later returned with additional witnesses but they could
find no trace of the strange apparition.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E?


43.
Location. Taralgon Victoria, Australia
Date: May 24 2002
Time: 2355
Walking near the Loy Yang Power station 45-year old Martin Taylor was
suddenly blinded by an intense blue light and he felt extremely dizzy. His=

next memory was of being in a circular room with a variety of lights and
buttons scattered about the walls. He was lying on a large table that
seemed to be of a very highly polished metal. He was strapped down and his=

shirt had been removed. There were wires attached to his arms, neck and
temples. A four ft tall humanoid figure with very large almond shaped eyes,=

almost transparent looking skin, ghostly white in appearance examined him.=

The figure had three extremely long fingers on each hand and spoke in a
strange dialect.

HC addendum
Source: UFO WatchType: G


44.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: May 29 2002
Time: midnight
Irma Rick watched a rotating luminous object descend close to the ground
next to a grain silo; it gave off a powerful bluish light through some
openings around its circumference. It hovered close to the ground. Through=

an opening a strange creature was seen to descend to the ground. It was
described as having an elongated semi-transparent white body; it also had
an elongated head. She could not see any eyes or legs on the creature as it=

stood motionless next to the craft. She observed the creature and object
for about 5 minutes until she dropped the flashlight she was carrying.
Afraid she left the area and did not see the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: B



45.
Location. Lembang Bandung, Indonesia
Date: May 30 2002
Time: 2315
The witness was driving his motorcycle across a highland area when he
spotted some flashing lights overhead and then noticed a silvery
disc-shaped craft descend low over some nearby graves at a cemetery. The
craft had blue and orange flashing lights around its rim. There was no
sound as the craft apparently emitted a beam of light towards the ground
and levitated what appeared to be some dead bodies onboard the object. (!)=

The witness was apparently paralyzed and was unable to move. The craft then=

shot away at a 45-degree angle and disappeared from sight. When that
happened the witness left the scene.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: G?


46.
Location. Houston, Texas
Date: late May 2002
Time: afternoon
The witness was at the local electric company in order to pay a bill when
she decided to use the restrooms. Sitting in the stall she then noticed on=

the side of the wall of the stall what appeared to be a face lit up in a
dull light. When the witness looked directly at the "face" it vanished. She=

described is as having large round eyes no visible nose and a slit-like
mouth. (A peeping tom alien?)

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.comType: E?


47.
Location. General Acha, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: early June 2002
Time: various
A resident of the Oeste neighborhood informed newspaper sources that a
short green-colored dwarf like entity has appeared twice on her property:
once in the morning and once in the afternoon. When her husband ran out
responding to her screams, the mysterious entity vanished by rapidly
climbing up a tree. All versions agree in that the entity is short in
stature. Another resident added that it moved so quickly that it was hard
to describe it. In the same area mysterious cattle mutilations have also
been reported.

HC addendum
Source: Loren Coleman in UFO UpdatesType: E


48.
Location. Ojo De Agua, Argentina
Date: June 2002
Time: afternoon
Several passengers onboard two farm micro buses reported seeing a very tall=

dark man like figure that appeared to be wearing a tight fitting diver's
outfit standing on a nearby field. Nearby numerous mysterious animal
mutilations have been reported. The figure was silent and was quickly lost=

from sight as the buses moved away.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E




49.
Location. Near Tampa, Florida
Date: June 2002
Time: night
A man and three of his friends reported encountering two bizarre chupacabra=

type creatures one stood about 3-4 ft tall, the other looked to be about 6=

ft tall. Both had large glowing red eyes and spikes starting from the head=

to the back. They scurried away into a wooded area. (They were to have
further encounters in August).

HC addendum
Source: Art Bell.comType: E


50.
Location. Antalya, Turkey
Date: June 5 2002
Time: afternoon
Approximately 45 witnesses claimed they saw an UFO in the Santral district=

landing on the backyard of the Fatma Primary School. Several students
including Murat Esici age 11 saw an alien emitting red rays from his eyes
come out of the object. His hands and feet were metallic. He had a very big=

head and was about 1.80 meters in height. Esici temporarily lost her voice=

immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also=

claimed they san an unusual craft and an alien beside it. "His eyes and
hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes." The children
were overcome with shock after the incident.

HC addendum
Source: Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center Intl
Type: B


51.
Location. Polonnauruwa, Sri Lanka
Date: June 8 2002
Time: 2200
Approximately 50 to 70 eyewitnesses saw a UFO flying at about 100 meters
above ground level. The object was silent and briefly landed emitting a
bright flash like light. When it was close to the ground the object emitted=

a buzzing sound. Three other witnesses saw three 2 ft tall creatures than
when approached ran into the jungle and disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Sources
Type: D


52.
Location. Polonnaruwa, Sir Lanka
Date: June 9 2002
Time: 2012
Two witnesses went to a bath on a nearby river when they heard a loud
thundering sound and a UFO appeared. The craft landed nearby and two, 2 ft=

tall "aliens" emerged from the object. One of the humanoids flung a small
fluorescent fireball like object that flew over a house and vanished. Soon=

the craft and humanoids disappeared.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC & News Reports
Type: B



53.
Location. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Date: June 10 2002
Time: 1900
Witnesses saw a mysterious light in the sky and others saw a large disc
shaped object land nearby. Three humanoids only about 2 ft tall emerged
from the craft and disappeared into the forest when approached. The object=

also left.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC and News Reports
Type: B


54.
Location. Chantilly, Virginia
Date: June 10 2002
Time: night
The witness was awakened during the night with a sense of some presence in=

the room. Looking toward the door, he saw, fading quickly, something, which=

almost had the appearance of a hologram. Next, shadows appeared outside the=

windows in an erratic shape. At first he thought the shadows to be from
trees moving in a strong wind. The appearance was of a storm blowing the
limbs to create these shadows outside the window. However, there was no
storm. He looked at the adjacent window on the side of the house facing
opposite and there was no wind at all. In fact there was no trees
positioned in such a way to cast a shadow. He opened the blinds to see what=

might be causing the shadows. He then saw what seemed to be a hologram with=

the shape of two small eyes moving erratically outside the window.
Frightened he closed the blinds. Two weeks later he was awakened by a
humming sound and again saw the erratic shadows outside the window. He
watched the shadows for 10-15 minutes and then called the police. The
police found no signs of any intrusion in the yard. When the police left
the witness walked toward the door facing the back porch and saw a large
burst of bluish white light. It looked unnatural, almost like a laser. He
has not seen the "shadows" again.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORCType: E?


55.
Location. Ataliva Roca, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 11 2002
Time: 1930
A worker at a local drainage project was sitting and guarding some
machinery when he noticed a short greenish colored humanoid figure that was=

approaching his location from a nearby field. The witness became concerned=

and drove away from the area in the construction equipment and did not see=

the creature depart.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


56.
Location. Eduardo Castex, La Pampa Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Two girls of a local school encountered a short greenish humanoid figure in=

the playing yard. The figure was standing up and appeared to be raising its=

arms up to the sky. Terrified the two girls retreated into the school and
watched the figure scurry away into some nearby woods. Around the same time=

a local farmer found a strangely mutilated hog in his farm.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


57.
Location. Chasico, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: June 12 2002
Time: afternoon
Hugo Deluca and several other workers were parked in a bus in an isolated
area when they spotted about 20 meters away a short, 1.20 meters tall,
bipedal figure completely covered in gray hair. It walked upright like a
man and then scurried away into some woods vanishing from sight. The area
had been hit with animal mutilations around the same time.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


58.
Location. Castex, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 13 2002
Time: night
A 70-year old man had gone to his driveway to check on a flat tire in his
car when a short light green colored humanoid suddenly appeared next to
him. It had large round ears, and two reddish luminous eyes. Its body was
thin and almost triangular in shape. The witness attempted to yell out but=

was suddenly unable to speak and at the same time strange warmth invaded
his body. Several seconds later the humanoid vanished and the witness
returned to normal. He reported the incident to the police.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


59.
Location. La Laguna, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 14 2002
Time: afternoon
Several youngster had gone into the fields in order to obtain some firewood=

when they saw sitting on a clearing in the woods two human like figures,
all dressed in black. They sat facing each other, one looking towards the
east the other towards the west, unmoving. Unnerved by the sight the
juveniles ran from the area. The next day the father of one of the boys
found two dead cows at the site, but could find no trace of the strange
pair. Days later a sheep and a horse were found dead and strangely
mutilated in the nearby location of El Cardonal.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria Raquel Coluchi, El Dragon InvisibleType: E


60.
Location. De Kalb, Illinois
Date: June 15 2002
Time: 0030A
The witness was sitting in his family room watching TV when he noticed a
bright flash of light outside the window. He saw the flash several times
and decided to check his backyard there he saw a circular light moving
around in circles. The light began to get closer; scared he ran inside his=

home and called a friend on the phone. He then quickly ran outside and saw=

the circle getting closer, he noticed that it had a purplish color to it
and it began to descend towards the ground. He became nauseous and dizzy
and collapsed on to the ground. He tried to crawl to the house but was
unable to move. He turned his head and saw the purplish object on the
ground and what appeared to be a door opening up. He then heard a squeaking=

noise and saw a tall and a short figure standing by a door of the object.
The two figures started to move towards him, walking in a strange bopping
fashion. They were of a dark complexion with a bumpy texture, other than
that they resembled normal human beings. The shorter figure approached and=

picked up the witness' camera and stared at it. He then looked at the
taller figure and handed it to him. The taller of the two looked at the
camera and then at the witness. The witness then heard loud unpleasant
shrieks coming from the taller figure, which then gave the camera back to
the shorter figure, which covered the camera with his hand, seconds later a=

light began to emerge from their hands. Then they stopped, threw the camera=

aside and began to walk towards the witness. They reached his side and
started to examine his body. A dog began to bark from inside the house and=

the shorter figure put out his hand and the dog stopped barking. At this
point the witness began to vomit. After about a minute he began to relax
and to breathe better. When he turned his head he realized that the two
figures and the purple spherical object were now gone. The next day he had=

a very severe headache.

HC addendum
Source: Mystical UniverseType: B


61.
Location. San Juan, Argentina
Date: June 20 2002
Time: evening
At a location where the body of a strangely mutilated carcass of a cow was=

found two witnesses reported seeing a small creature with large glowing
slanted eyes and about one meter in height. Later in the same area, members=

of the Gimenez family after investigating noises and a strong odor coming
from a wooded area found a mutilated cow and also watched a short humanoid=

with glowing eyes scurrying away into the woods.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


62.
Location. Manuel Rodriguez, Calama, Chile
Date: June 22 2002
Time: after midnight
A bizarre creature was spotted at a local housing complex on San Antonio
Street. Witnesses reported that it resembled an ape and it jumped all over=

the roof. It passed right in front of the witness, Maria Gavia's window and=

then it came back making all manner of noise. The creature was able to make=

very long jumps, unlike any a human could. It jumped and landed on the
neighbor's roof and then it left the area. Neighborhood dogs acted scared
and began howling. Others described the creature as about 1.5 meters tall,=

stocky in build with bright red eyes. It made a lot of noise. Others
reportedly chased the creature.

HC addendum
Source: Jaime Ferrer, Calama UFO Center, quoting El
Mercurio de CalamaType: E


63.
Location. Angencia Realico, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 23 2002
Time: late night
Several hunters returning to a local ranch spotted about 50 meters away two=

large glowing reddish eyes staring at them. They turned off their
flashlight and approached closer on foot, about 30 meters away they again
saw the reddish eyes on a dark creature that appeared to be standing on top=

of an apparently dead animal. One of the hunters shone its flashlight on
the figure again and saw a figure about 40 cm in height that quickly ran
from the area at very high speed. The creature disappeared into the brush.=

At the scene, a dead and mutilated young heifer. Other mutilations were
reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


64.
Location. Rancul, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: June 25 2002
Time: 2020
Two young men, Nestor Pinto and Daniel Gatica were walking on a field when=

they encountered a short man-like figure with huge pointy ears and long
dangling arms standing near some brush. The figure scurried into the brush=

and disappeared and at the same time the two witnesses ran away from the
area and did not see the strange dwarf again.

HC addendum
Source: Fabio PicassoType: E


65.
Location. Bavaria, Germany (exact location not given)
Date: June 25 2002
Time: night
The witness had stayed up late watching the soccer game as was in his
bedroom when suddenly there was a coldness around him that made him shiver.=

He noticed that his audio capabilities were somehow enhanced and he was
able to hear sounds that previously he was unable to hear. He then heard a=

noise outside his door and went out to investigate. The noise became louder=

as he approached the door. He then heard footsteps and opened the door. A
very small man with a somewhat deformed body that was smiling at him
confronted the witness. He looked straight ahead and then stared at the
witness. His next memory was of waking up in his bed in the morning.

HC addendum
Source: Unsolved Mysteries.com
Type: E


66.
Location. Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2105
The primary witness had stepped out on his back porch when his attention
was drawn to two huge black "birds" which were approaching from the north.=

His first impression was they were Herons, but soon realized that the color=

was wrong, and "they were huge, much larger than any bird I have ever
seen." The two huge birds landed at the top of a very tall coniferous tree.=

The witness stated that the wingspan appeared to be wider than the
branches, jest below where they had landed. The body size was estimated to=

be about six feet from head to tail. The oddest feature was the shape of
the wings, which according to the witness appeared to be bat-like. The tree=

where the "birds" landed seemed as though it would break from their weight.=

The witness yelled for others in the house to come outside to look. Another=

family member was able to see the huge black birds as they passed overhead,=

and headed for some woods. After checking the size of the branches where
the birds had landed, the witness estimated that the wingspan would have
been close to 12 feet or somewhat larger.

HC addendum
Source: Stan GordonType: E


67.
Location. Marldon Hill, Paington, England
Date: June 26 2002
Time: 2357
A couple were walking near a local historic monument (a windmill) and they=

drew closer to monument they heard a low whirling noise. The noise
progressed to a high-pitched whining, almost out of hearing range. Then
they saw a mysterious glow coming from the dark side of the windmill, and
then to their astonishment they saw 5 or 6 shadow like figures standing in=

front of the windmill. Startled the two began to run back towards the main=

road. The woman looked back and saw the figures become engulfed by a bright=

light and disappear, and then everything became quiet.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Sightings UKType: E?


68.
Location. Adelia Maria, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 3 2002
Time: 2100
Pedro and Estela Moine had decided to visit the business district of town
called Barrio Norte and crossed the old railroad yard through a pedestrian=

pathway that ran through a pasture area between some silos, old railroad
depots and abandoned wreckage. As the couple moved through the premises
they suddenly became aware of a strange and incomprehensible conversation
between many voices. Startled, they stopped walking moved a few meters more=

and then heard the voices again which now sounded like strange "O" sounds.=

Pedro looked toward the silos and was able to see resembling humanoid but
lacking upper and lower extremities. Despite the pleas of his wife, Pedro
ran several meters toward an inner alley in the silo plant, being able to
make out some 45 meters to the west and in profile---the entity, which
acting surprised, avoided the encounter and moved again to the north.
However, what filled the witnesses with wonderment was that the creature
did so as though flying or floating without touching the facilities it
passed. Pedro and Estela ran after it. It was thus that the man managed to=

see the entity apparently hiding behind the control room of the truck
scale. Pedro ran toward it and was again startled to see the apparition
rising as a plane taking off, flying at an altitude of 5 meters and
disappearing behind a large metal shed. Bewildered, both witnesses called
out, but were unable to see anything else. Pedro Moine as "a thing with
human shape" described the apparition. It had some sort of light, although=

he could not say if reflected or self-generated, although he tends to
believe the latter, since it was a nebulous whitish light, which kept him
from making out details. The entire mass of the apparition appeared to be a=

body covered from head to toe in some sort of mantle, which he described as=

though it wore a hat, but covered with some kind of long raincoat reaching=

down to what he took to be its feet. He added that the "conversational
sounds" repeated themselves in three separate occasions at various
intensities. They were like conversations in a strange language.

HC addendum
Source: Mario Luis Bracamonte, C.O.R, Rio Cuarto Argentina
Type: E


69.
Location. Jerusalem, Israel
Date: July 6 2002
Time: night
A remote TV camera picked up images of "orbs seen on the corner to the
right of the Wailing Wall." They seemed to have facial features almost like=

a ghost, reported investigator Charlotte LeFevre. The orbs were described
as "sharp and distinct". The orbs were next to the women's prayer area in
front of the Wall. Other strange phenomena, has been reported in the area.

HC addendum
Source: UFO Roundup Vol. 7 # 29Type: F?


70.
Location. Villa Elisa, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: July 13 2002
Time: 2300
A young woman fainted from nervous shock after having an alleged closed
encounter with "some sort of green dwarf". This occurred---enveloped in
darkness---along Misioneros Salesianos Street very close to several houses.=

An ambulance was called and apparently transported the witness who was in
shock.

HC addendum
Source: Gloria ColuchiType: E


71.
Location. Patna, India
Date: July 21 2002
Time: night
Several residents claim they've been bitten or scratched by a "black
monkey-like creature with colored lights flashing from its eyes." Resident=

Pawan Kumar Niyogi who was sleeping on the terrace of his house claims "a 5=

ft tall monkey-like creature" attacked him. He said: "I was terrified and
thought my life was going to end but it merely scratched me on the shoulder=

before jumping off the roof." Local residents are conducting night vigils
and carrying torches to guard their homes.

HC addendum
Source: Ananova, Ufoupdates. Type: E


72.
Location. Chajan, Cordoba, Argentina
Date: July 21 2002
Time: 2300
Police officer Guillermo Arias was on routine patrol through a rural area
when he heard over the radio that his colleagues in arms over at Achiras
were seeing lights in sectors of said community, and that they were heading=

towards Chajan along National Route 8. At the wheel of the police patrol
van, he managed to see a formation of 7 lights in the distance and decided=

to drive 10 km along a rural dirt road. When he had covered said distance,=

he noticed, not without surprise, that the engine of his vehicle sputtered=

and died, causing the police car to strike the edge of a guardrail.
Simultaneously, the lights on the van's dashboard began turning on and off=

randomly, the police radio went haywire and its dial displayed the random
shifting of the frequencies while the cabin became filled with an acrid
odor, as though of burnt wiring, and the interior lights and stop
indicator, which were broken, began lighting on and off. Seized by fear,
Arias leaped from the van and walked away a few meters down the road,
losing his cellular phone in the escape. The darkness was total, when
suddenly, amid the confusing situation; an immense light emerged from a
field adjacent to the road as a triangular object rose majestically into
the air. Now Arias condition went from fear to abject terror as he saw what=

he described as a real "floating city" some 200 meters long with a long row=

of windows (perhaps as many as 100). Arias claims having seen something
move behind them, describing the movement as "TV sets which make lines and=

shadows", which he defined as "non-human", and that many beams of light
came out of the giant triangle, aimed at the ground. The event lasted 2-3
seconds, but to Arias it felt like an eternity. The object suddenly rose
and sped away, vanishing behind the hills of a local field. As the object
moved away, the whole area was lit up like daytime and there was an
afterglow that lasted another 20 minutes.

HC addendum
Source: C.O.R., Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense, Argentina
Type: A


73.
Location. Waconia, Minnesota
Date: July 26 2002
Time: 0300A
The young witness was sleeping in the backyard with his sister when he
suddenly woke up. He then noticed that the side of the tent that faced the=

wetlands and lake was lit up. Looking towards the light he saw a shadowy
torso and arm of a humanoid figure that seemed to be moving around within
the light. He watched for 30 seconds and saw the figure move the fingers of=

his hands. The witness became frightened and hid in his sleeping bag. He
came out about an hour later and the light and strange figure were
completely gone.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


74.
Location. Sedona, Arizona
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 0310A
In a wooded area the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all
white, with black "straight" eyes; and black diagonal/diamond strip of
"clothing" on top. He stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then
left. Prior to seeing the figure the witness had seen lights in a large
oval shaped pattern in the sky.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC
Type: C?


75.
Location. Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia
Date: July 28 2002
Time: 1730
Three girls had decided to visit the rooftop as they did the prior evening=

watching for satellites. It was dusk and the girls had a good vantage point=

looking towards the east. With them they had a pair of binoculars and a
pair of walkie-talkies. The girls noticed that a large orange light
appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The anomaly
was noted to have fluctuated in colors of orange, yellow, white and pale
blue. At fist they thought of an arriving airplane, but then a second light=

appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10=

degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some=

unusually maneuvering; from a stationary position it accelerated at least 5=

degrees closer to the ground surface at an approximate 45-60 degree angle
within a matter of a single second. The first anomaly then began to move
slowly towards the north. At this stage they partially lost view of it as
it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley-like
region of the horizon. According to the witnesses, this third object
appeared to have "landed" on the ground surface. The object was then viewed=

through the binoculars and presented in great detail; the object was
described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange,=

blue/purple and white rotating around the rim. Thy also noted the trees
being slightly illuminated by this extraordinary phenomenon. They were
suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, "Identify
yourself." This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in a
foreign language. Around 1830 the girls were then called down to have
dinner. At about 2030 the girls re-established their places on the roof
after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still
present. Unexpectedly a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above
the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. "It
was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away." The=

light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it=

is not clear how one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became
extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed
her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not=

sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another of the girls woke up
the next morning with her nose bleeding. She also mentioned that she had
seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom.

HC addendum
Source: The Australian UFO Research NetworkType: D or
F?



76.
Location. Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 29 2002
Time: early morning
Local residents have seen a strange figure, which they described as
resembling a "shroud". The apparitions, which always occur in the early
morning hours, have become so common that in recent days several neighbors=

have stayed up late to see them, and it is thus that they were able to
confirm the simultaneous presence of up to 2 such beings, as well as red
lights flying over the area. All the witnesses whether individuals or in a=

group, agree that the entities are nebulous and glowing, with a pair of red=

eyes being clearly identifiable, and glassy faces (as if transparent).
Their movements are smooth and they always appear from behind the sand
dunes, as though "coming form the Naval Base." Most witnesses agree that
they show a great interest in the water tanks located above the roofs, and=

that they do not flee upon detecting the presence of local
residents---rather, they stare at them fixedly for some minutes. Deep
silence is perceived during the observations and "the air appears to become=

still" and neither heat nor cold can be felt---only a sensation of warmth,=

as if the beings emanated heat. Witnesses also state that things appear to=

be darker when "the shroud" appears, as though ambient lighting were
dimmed. Another curious fact is the large number of cats and dogs who
report to the place where the sightings occur and sit down to observe it in=

silence, in a state resembling a trance. A series of semi-circular prints
have been found in the dunes, not very deep, with 15-20 cm separations in
some cases and 30-50 cm in others. The locals have identified them as the
strange being's footprints. Efforts have been made to photograph the
"shroud", but all images, despite the use of different cameras appear
exposed. One witness who approached the site to witness the phenomenon took=

two photos of the prints in the afternoon and decided to stay with the
group of people hoping to see the "shroud", managing to take some photos of=

same and record the new prints which appeared in the dunes after the
sighting. A completely uncommon print was found at the site---but the
residents aren't sure if it's related to the phenomenon: it has the shape
of a five-fingered claw. One witness tried to make use of his carbine's
telescopic sight to see the figure in greater detail, but "when he tried to=

focus on it, he could see nothing_it was a though it could only be seen
with the unaided eye."

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, IHU, Christian Quintero and O A Mario
Proyecto Condor
Type: C or E?


77.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 30 2002
Time: 0530A
27-year old Mariela Baigorri reported seeing a strange figure that floated=

in front of her house. She had woken up early that morning and was getting=

ready to mount her bicycle when she saw behind the fence something floating=

in mid-air. It appeared to be a figure wearing a flowing white transparent=

tunic, with bright red eyes and undefined facial features. Feeling no fear=

she decided to approach it. She felt as if the figure waited for her and
was observing her. At this point Mariela felt some fear and began reciting=

the Lord's Prayer. The figure suddenly moved back and disappeared in plain=

sight.

HC addendum
Source: Juan Carlos Corrales Morey, Vision Ovni, Argentina
Type: E


78.
Location. Arroyo Pareja, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Date: July 31 2002
Time: 1845
23-year old Julian Pereyra was in his vehicle when he observed two red
spheres flying slowly over some nearby woods, they seemed to descend and
disappear behind the trees. 15 minutes later, Pereyra, accompanied by
several other witnesses approached the area and observed what they
described a tall floating figure wearing a white glowing cape like outfit,=

it seemed to glide silently over a field. It had what appeared to be a
visor at face level and two beams of red light emerged from where the eyes=

would have been. The witnesses watched the strange figure glide over the
fields for about 30 minutes. Curiously numerous local dogs and cats
approached and also watched the figure in fascination. The lights and
figure disappeared into the distance. In another occasion Pereyra and some=

of his family members encountered the strange humanoid and felt a strange
sensation as if the wind had suddenly stopped, they felt as they were
inside a vacuum or "bubble." Strange tracks have been reportedly found in
the area also.

HC addendum
Source: Diario La Nueva Provincia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Type: C?


79.
Location. La Cienaga, Pocri, Panama
Date: early August 2002
Time: night
Luis Alfredo Diaz reported hearing loud noises coming from the terraced
patio where the kitchen was located, going to investigate he found his cat=

apparently dead with two obvious holes on the neck and some blood on the
floor. Before finding the cat he had called his wife, Maria de Los Santos
Barrios. As his wife stood in front of him a panic stricken look came over=

her face, turning around he was confronted by a bizarre 1-meter tall
humanoid that had jumped to the center of the patio. The creature was
described as thin, covered with dark hair, with large pointed ears that
almost covered its face, it had very large eyes and extremely strong hind
legs resembling that of a kangaroo. Terrified he ran to his son's bedroom
and carried him outside yelling for his neighbors. A search failed to
locate anything.

HC addendum
Source: Panamanian Paranormal Forum
Type: E


80.
Location. Near Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Date: August 2002
Time: night
The same witness involved in a similar encounter last year was again
camping in the same area when he again heard a noise. Shining the light in=

the direction of the sound he again saw the same creature. The creature sat=

there crouched by the trees staring at the witness. The witness walked
slowly towards it, he got to within 20 ft when it just jumped backward and=

disappeared. He described the creature as about five to six ft in height,
gray in color. It was totally naked. It had human features, but more
leathery, and its face was very wide, its eyes were huge and even though
they reflected light, they still looked black, resembling two intensely
black marbles. Its legs were very muscular, but turned backwards, like a
bird. Other hikers in the area have reported encountering little brown men=

on some of the more isolated trails.

HC addendum
Source: Paranormal Story Archives, November 2002Type: E


81.
Location. Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, Argentina
Date: August 1 2002
Time: late evening
64-year old Raul Dorado was touring some fields when he heard a loud sound=

on two occasions, like a whirlwind, which drew his attention. The third
time he saw something he describes as a green circle with three legs
hovering over him. At that moment Dorado fell to the ground, and according=

to his story, he carried a shotgun, binoculars and a cellular phone, the
latter, which was taken from his hand, and he could clearly see being
sucked into the object, which was apparently at low altitude. His next
recollection was seeing the object disappear toward the east. Dorado
remained at the location for an hour before being able to rise and walk
back to his car, returning to town in a state of shock. He had to be
hospitalized. Later when calls were placed to the (abducted) cellular phone=

someone would pick up and heavy breathing could be heard. Later on the
phone was apparently disconnected.

HC addendum
Source: Scott Corrales, quoting Diario La Arena, La PampaType: G?


82.
Location. Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Date: August 2 2002
Time: 1730
A man named Todd Sees went up the mountain to look for pre-season deer. He=

told his wife that he would be home by noon. He rode his 4-wheeler up the
power line behind his home. He never returned. A search party composed of
local police, state police and volunteers searched for Sees. The 4-wheeler=

was found on the top of the mountain near a power-line. Tracking dogs could=

find nothing to go on around the 4-wheeler. The search went on for 2 days
and over 6 miles of mountain was covered from top to bottom. Then, in the
evening of the 2nd day, his body was found in a hard to reach wooded area.=

He was wearing his underwear. He was emaciated---not bloated. He was pale
and had an expression of horror on his face. When he went up the mountain
he was fully dressed, boots, camo-vest, hat, socks, pants. 3 people, on one=

farm, said they saw a large round bright object just above the power-lines=

at the time of the disappearance. It was silent, it did not move for about=

10 to 15 minutes. It suddenly went up and suddenly stopped. A light shone
down and something was pulled up into the light. It then went straight up,=

hesitated again, and then went west over the Susquehanna River and out of
sight. More specifically a farmer saw an object above Montour Ridge at the=

power lines, on top of the mountain, it was round and very still over the
lines. Suddenly it moved what looked like a few hundred feet to the east,
it stopped and a beam of blue and white light shone to the ground. What was=

seen next was very unnerving, he saw what appeared to be a man suspended in=

the light, he was being pulled up head first, he was moving his arms slowly=

in the light. What looked like a man was pulled up into the bottom of the
craft. A few seconds later it started shuddering, then went west very fast,=

stopped briefly, and then went straight up and out of sight. Also three
fishermen saw the craft. The FBI is supposedly also investigating. (Debated=

as a hoax, who would? and for what purpose?).

HC addendum
Source: Rense, UFO updates, NUFORCType: G?






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                    UFO UpDates Archive Top 20 Reads 2002

From: Errol Bruce-Knapp <errolbk@sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 14:13:03 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 14:13:03 -0500
Subject: UFO UpDates Archive Top 20 Reads 2002

This list compiled from stats generated by Analog 5.22 website
log analyser - the [numbers] represent reads.....

   1 Bob Lazar - True or False?
     Glenn Campbell - [12157]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/jun/m22-012.shtml

   2 Of Flying Wings & Hover Cars
     ebk - [4142]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/1998/aug/m03-008.shtml

   3 'Bad Astronomy': Very Bad Indeed?
     Chris Rutkowski - [4128]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/apr/m05-017.shtml

   4 Re: MOD Rendlesham File Released
     Brad Sparks [4014]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2001/aug/m18-009.shtml

   5 Weekly Filer's Files - #10-2002
     George A. Filer - [2906]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/mar/m06-023.shtml

   6 Of Sociopaths & Conspiracy
     Alfred Lehmberg - [2790]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2001/feb/m07-003.shtml

   7 Roswell Rods On NBC Show
     Stig Agermose - [2616]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/1999/aug/m16-001.shtml

   8 Review - Korff on Thursday's Rense Show
     Alfred Lehmberg - [2328]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/mar/m02-021.shtml

   9 Bush Says UFO Promise Still On
     Grant Cameron - [2195]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/nov/m05-004.shtml

  10 Spielberg's 'Taken' Website
     Bill Stockstill - [2066]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/sep/m21-014.shtml

  11 Tom Lykis' Radio Show Attacks Art Bell
     Erik Beckjord - [1655]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/1997/mar/m30-010.shtml

  12 Spielberg's 'Taken' Project
     Steven Kaeser - [1506]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/may/m02-015.shtml

  13 Filer's Files #27 - 2002
     George A. Filer - [1379]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/jul/m03-035.shtml

  14 Argentina: Large UFO Causes Ground Effects
     Scott Corrales [1328]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/jul/m24-019.shtml

  15 Mysterious Dwarf Causes Concern In Argentina
     Scott Corrales - [1318]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/nov/m08-031.shtml

  16 NOVA - 'Vanished!' 'STENDEC' Solved?
     ebk - [1250]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/jan/m08-008.shtml

  17 Raelians, The Pope & Aborigines
     John. W. Auchettl - [1222]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/jan/m08-008.shtml

  18 The Kokomo Hum
     ebk - [1184]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2002/feb/m14-016.shtml

  19 Sudbury, Ontario Sighting Reports
     ebk - [1151]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/1997/apr/m29-008.shtml

  20 The Real Story Of 'The Mothman Prophecies'
     ebk - [1144]
     http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2001/dec/m07-011.shtml

     ..... and for this year's end, for good measure, interesting
     'Servers & Hits' for 2002:

12116: .gov (USA Government)
  3806: ca.gov
  2872: nasa.gov
  1880: gsi.gov.uk
  1051: uspto.gov
   732: house.gov
   469: va.gov
   298: ssa.gov
   296: usda.gov
   260: treas.gov
   237: defence.gov.au
   183: usgs.gov
   168: faa.gov
   159: anl.gov
   155: panynj.gov
   143: wa.gov
   129: derbyshire.gov.uk
   123: lanl.gov
   116: vic.gov.au
   111: blm.gov
   107: fdic.gov
   101: nsw.gov.au
    96: doe.gov
    83: hants.gov.uk
    80: larp.gov
    78: ornl.gov
    67: gsa.gov
    56: bop.gov

14138: .mil (USA Military)
  4244: nipr.mil
  3388: navy.mil
  2936: army.mil
  2704: af.mil
   250: disa.mil
   180: uscg.mil
   179: usmc.mil
   113: dcaa.mil