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Notice: An in depth news report of the Stephenville, Texas sightings are in our next issue !
SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS Stephenville rides
San Antonio, Texas
January 19, 2008
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wave of after UFO-s
publi~ity_
which describes itself as devoted ''I knew this wasn't right\" he
to research on the topic, says said. So he went' inside to sum
Recent sightings bring
the multiple sightings on the mon· his famil~ His · wife gave
media, investigators, night of Jan. 8 .could turn Ste him this "get.r eal~' look, Gaitan '
phenville into a mini-Roswell. said, but his young son came
T-shirts. "Dozens of people are coming running.
• forward, responsible people, say
ing they saw something,"
Cherry said. "We're talking
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BY LISA SANDBERG . shop owners, ranch owners, oil Continued On Next Page > >
AUSTIN BUREAU field workers, just about every
demographic imaginable."
STEPHENVILLE - All hype . Forget being the Cowboy Cap
aside, space aliens have not in Ital of the World. Folks in town ·
vaded .the streets of.t his rodeo ·
town southwest of Fort Worth - are calling Stephenville the UFO
though nearly everyone here is Capital of the World.
keeping at least a playful eye out Angela Joiner, the only full
. for them. time reporter at the .Stephenville
. And maybe no one here has Empire-Tribune, can hardly put
encountered any little green out a paper. Ever since breaking
men in the week after dozens of the story last week, she's been
residents reported seeing a swamped with calls and e-mails 2
strobe light-flashing object zip from around the world - from
ping through the night sky be people who either want to tell
cause they don't exist. her about their UFO sightings
Sightings from around the or from international media (r;·a ~
country suggest extraterrestrial types assigned to cover the story.
beings · are actually gray, not "I'm not accustomed to this. I
green, says Dennis Balthaser, a don't do this!" Joiner, who's
UFO researcher and former in been on the job 18 months, said
vestigator with the International with a laugh.
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Center in Roswell, N.M.
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"They're somewhat humanoid Area of
looking," Balthaser says of such Gaitan. He's in demand as the Johns ·n·· .rexas ·..
accounts nationally. "They have only elected official who can City
a big head, a small-frame body, corroborate what dozens of oth
anywhere between three and ers saw: something spooky in
five fmgers, no hair ... no ears the sky over Erath· County that
as such. A slit for the mouth." evening.
But even if there's been no He was on foot approaching
space invasion of Stephenville, his home when in the distance
the recent obsession with them he saw a red·g low, not as big as
has been out of this world in the a hot air balloon but big. It
town of 15,400 - and far beyond. didn't appear to be attached to
Ken Cherry, the Texas direc anything. He watched it awhile
tor of the Colorado-based Mu before it burned itself out. Then
tual UFO Network, or MUFON, it reappeared.
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San Antonio, Texas
January 19, 2008 ·
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DONNA MCWILUAM/ASSOCIATED PRESS Stories that go beyond the .
1- Standing near the area where he saw a large silent object in the sky, ordinary. ~
Ricky Sorrells talks about the sighting in Dublin, near Stephenville. are having a ball. _
City Secretary Cindy Stafford
wore a space alien mask to the
City Council this week. It was
fun, she said. ·
Because he hasn't done there
search, Roswell's Balthaser isn't
ready to make any educated
Ar~a of
Father and son saw what Texa's · guesses about what might have
· crossed the sky in Texas. But, if
looked like really bright ·white
· the ,lights were a mile long and
strobe lights, nine or 10 of them. half a mile across, as some have
They flashed as the minutes suggested, that would be the size ·
passed. "All of a sudden, they of a "mother ship," which is
shot off, they traveled northeast much bigger than a flying sau
at a real high rate of speed," cer, he said.
Gaitan said. · Balthaser, a retired engineer.
Though he doesn't believe it interviewing witnesses. with the Texas Department of
was a spaceship, he's had to an- It won't be a quick investiga Transportation, takes his re
swer calls from hundreds of.p eo- . tion, . Cherry cautions. Inter search seriously and hates when
pie from around the country views will be conducted one on other pe6ple don't.
who do. His solution: "I've one. And even after all the anec ·He probably wouldn't appre- .
started screening my calls," he dotes have been gathered and ciate the T-shirts produced by
said. . sifted through ____: don't expect the high school science club
Military officials have said physical evidence · - the re here that proclaim: 'Erath
JESSICA HORTON/STEPHENVILLE EMPIRE-TRIBUNE they had no· aircraft in the area searchers will hedge their bets. County: The New Roswell' and .
S\eve Allen (left) points to the spot iri the sky where he first saw what he believes was a UFO to Mike Von at the time of the sightings. "We could say we eliminated depict a spaceship leavirig earth
· Fremd of ABC News during an interview li.Jesday in Stephenville. Allen, a freight company owner and pilot, And the military ·doesn't in- every other possibility. But we and towing a dairy cow.
said the object he saw last week was a mile long and half a mile wide. vestigate UFO sightings. So.t hat never say, 'This is alien teclniol By Friday, the club had sold
leaves Cherry's MUFON group. ogy' or 'This is a spacecraft,'" 400 of them.
"Dozens of people are co1ning forwarq, responsible people, saying
Five of its investigators will de- Cherry said.
scend on the area today to begin For now, people around town lsandberg@express-news. net
saw something."
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"It was neat," Lance Jones said. "It was
Allen said the lights were not those of a
something. I've never seen anything like it
normal aircraft. He said they were more like
before but it didn't scare me. I just figured it
strobe lights. and while they were all
was military."
watching, the lights reconfigured themselves
from a single horizontal line into two sets of
STEPHENVILLE EMPIRE-TRIBUNE Odom's wife, Claudette. said she was
vertical lights.
Stephenville, Texas previously employed as a flight attendant.
January 10, 2008
"The two sets were approximately one
"Lights were going up and down the side,"
By ANGEL/A JOINER Staff Writer quarter of a mile apart," Allen said. "Then she said. "There was no sound, just the
they turned into dirty burning flames. The
lights. It was moving so fast. It wasn't a
flames were not blue. They were white in
Possible UFO plane. I know how planes move. Honestly, I
color. About two seconds later it
think it was a UFO. It was so fast you
disappeared completely."
sighting couldn't have put your finger on it and move
it fast enough to follow it."
Allen said they were all scratching their
Four area residents witness mysterious
heads and talking about what it could have
object, lights in Selden sky Allen said he has never seen a UFO until
been. when approximately 10 minutes later,
now. but he did suspect there was
the object flew overhead again.
Steve Allen, Mike Odom and Lance Jones something to UFO stories all along.
were out admiring a beautiful Texas sunset
'This time it came from the west traveling
Tuesday evening when they saw something "I was very surprised to finally get my eyes
east towards Glen Rose," Allen said. "And it
none of them can explain. on one," Allen said. "If anybody else saw this
was about two or three miles south of 67.
and got pictures I hope they will contact me."
Allen called it an unidentified flying object. and two military jets. possibly F16s, were in
And, because he's been a private pilot for pursuit." Allen said he has already reported the
more than 30 years, he has a little more sighting to Washington, and is in the process
experience judging air speeds and distances "I was asking, "Are you guys seeing that?" of writing a report on the event.
than most. Allen said.
Allen is the owner of L & S Enterprises and
"We all flipped out," Allen said. "I didn't sleep Mike Odom said he didn't have trouble Texas Freight in Glen Rose. He can be
a wink last night." sleeping but it was a "wild experience." contacted at 254-898-1117.
Allen was at the home of Mike Odom in "It's unexplainable." Odom said. "It was The group plans to return to Odom's house
·Selden about 6:15p.m. when they suddenly something not natural; it was moving way and keep an eye on the sky in the near
noticed flashing lights about "3,500 feet too fast." future, hoping to see it again.
above ground level," he said.
Odom said he saw one other unexplainable
"The ship wasn't really visible and was totally object in the sky in 1978 when he was in
silent, but the lights spanned about a mile Arizona.
long and a half mile wide," Allen said. "The
lights went from corner to corner. It was "Back then something flew over with lights all
directly above Highway 67 traveling towards around," Odom said. "I think this thing
SEGUIN GAZETTE-ENTERPRISE
Stephenville at a high rate of speed -about bothered all of us, but it probably bothered
3,000 miles per hour is what I would Steve more because he's a pilot and he flies Seguin, Texas
estimate." a lot." January 15, 2008
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SEGUIN GAZETTE-ENTERPRISE T UESDAY, j ANUARY 15, .200~ .
Small Texas town abuzz over reported UFO sightings;:
BY ANGELA K. BROWN told them he saw a flat, metal- Abilene and Sheppard in Wichita tured on videotape and spurred .
Associa~~~ ~ess_~ri~~ ______ _ lie object hovering about 300 Falls - also said none of their caUs for a government investiga-·
feet over a pasture behind his aircraft were in the area last tion. A few months later people
STEPHENVILLE (AP) - In Dublin home. But he decided to week. The Air Force no longer reported a similar sight over Las
this farming community where come forward after reading simi- investigates UFOs. Vegas.
nightfall usually brings clear, lar accounts in the Stephenville About 200 UFO sightings are One of the most famous cases
starry skies, residents are abuzz Empire-Tribune. reported each month, mostly in was the 1947 crash on a ranc.p
over reported sightings of what "You hear about big bass or California, Colorado and Texas, near Roswell, N.M. Although.
many believe is a UFO. big buck in the area, but this is according to the Mutual UFO the government said it was a top-~
Several dozen people - a different deal," Sorrells said. Network, which plans to go secret weather balloon, an Army··
including a pilot, county consta- "It feels good to hear that other to the 17 ,000-resident town of officer who helped recover th~. ·
ble and business owners- insist people saw something, because Stephenville to investigate. debris came forward 30 years-
they have seen a large silent that means I'm not crazy." Fourteen percent of later claiming a cover-up, assert- ·
object with bright lights flying Sorrells said he's seen the Americans polled last year by ing that .an alien spacecraft had
low and fast. Some reported see- object several times. He said The Associated Press and Ipsos crashed. Reports later surfaced
ing fighter jets chasing it. he watched it through his rifle's say they have seen a UFO. that a base nurse told s·omeon~
"People wonder what in the telescopic lens and described ·it UFO sightings have been that autopsies were performed'.:
world it is because this is the as very large and without seams, reported all over the world for on aliens fro~ the wreckage. _:
Bible Belt, and everyone is nuts or bolts. centuries, including the infamous A few months after the New..
afraid it's the end of times," said Maj. Karl Lewis, a. spokes- 1897 crash of a cigar-shaped Mexico incident the U.S. Air .
Steve Allen, a freight company man for the 30lst Fighter Wing object near the tiny Texas town Force started Project Blue Book,
owner and pilot who said the at the Joint Reserve Base Naval of Aurora. While some thought which investigated more thrui
object he saw last week was a Air Station in Fort Worth, said no it was a hoax, decades later 12,600 reported UFO sightings
mile long and half a mile wide. F-16s or other aircraft from his inve~tigatbrs from UFO \rroups · - ipcJlllline 700 th~t w~re. neY~r~
.. lt was positively, absolutely base were in''the area the night said evidence suggests the dis- explained-before the program
nothing from these parts." · of Jan. 8, when many sightings figured pilot's body buried that · ended in 1969. ~
While federal officials insist were reported. day was an alien. Erath County Constable
there's a logical explanation, Lewis said the object may In Chicago in late 2006, Lee Roy Gaitan, who said he~
locals swear that it" was larger, have been . an illusion caused some United Airlines pilots and isn't sure about the existence of ·
quieter, faster and lower to the by two commercial airplanes. other employees reported see- UFOs, said one night last week
ground than an airplane. They Lights from the aircraft would ing a saucer-shaped craft hover- he first saw red glowing lightS"·
also said the object's lights seem unusually bright and may ing over O'Hare Airport before and then white flashing ligh~. ·
changed configuration, unlike appear orange due to the setting shooting up through the clouds. moving rapidly across the sky. ~ ·:
those of a plane. People in sev- sun. But federal officials said noth- "I didn't see a flying saucer
eral towns who reported see- "I'm 90 percent sure this was ing showed up on the radar and and I don't know what it was.~
ing it over several weeks have an airliner," Lewis said. "With explained it as some type of but it wasn't an airplane and~ :
offered similar descriptions of the sun's angle, it can play tricks weather phenomenon. I've never seen anything like it,''
the object. on you." In 1997, dozens of people Gaitan said. "I think it must be
Machinist Ricky Sorrells said Officials at the region's two saw lights in a V-formation over some kind of military craft-4t
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San Diego, California
San Diego, California
STEPHENVILLE EMPIRE-TRIBUNE January 1, 2008 December 23, 2007
Stephenville, Texas
January 11, 2008 Strange lights seen
New Year's Eve
By ANGEL/A JOINER Staff Writer in night sky
lights
Mysterious
Residents in Oceanside and Point Lorna
by Susan Shroder called to ask about mysterious lights that
sightings keep
appeared in the sky at sunset Saturday.
It was New Year's Eve, after all, and people Both men reported two parallel orange lights
locals guessing may be in altered states where they see lots that appeared for three or four minutes. One
of strange things. said the lights moved from north to west,
A number of area residents have come then went straight up and disappeared.
But three groups of San Diegans swear they
forward saying they also saw the mysterious
were sober enough to report seeing strange
lights witnessed by Steve Allen and friends San Diego police weren't aware of the
orange-yellow lights in the sky about 30
Tuesday night in Selden. incident. Neither were spokesmen for the
minutes after midnight. And the National
Navy Region Southwest office, the Coast
UFO Reporting Center said Tuesday it got
"It was like nothing I've ever seen before," Guard or Harbor Police. The Federal
enough "similar reports from across the
comes up over and over in their descriptions Aviation Administration referred a call to the
country" to warrant a follow-up investigation.
of bright lights in the sky. Accounts have National UFO Reporting Center in
come in from various locations and a few of Washington state.
Ryan Keegan and his wife. Rachael, were
those brave enough to come forward are
leaving a friend's party at their apartment
listed below with stories of their own. Peter Davenport. director of the UFO
complex in Bay Park about 12:30 a.m. when
Major Karl Lewis of Naval Air Station Joint spotting organization, said Sunday that
they saw the unidentified objects. They went
Reserve Base Fort Worth (Carswell Field) based on limited information provided by a
in and got their friends and took pictures with
believes he might be able to solve the reporter, he believed the lights were "almost
a cell-phone camera.
mystery in a couple of days. certainly not a UFO." Davenport said the
lights were likely contrails -vapor and
"We saw four orange lights in a square and
Allen said his phone rang all day condensation trails -behind a high-altitude
right behind there were three orange lights in
Wednesday with people reporting to him that jet, illuminated at an angle by the setting
a triangle," said Keegan. who is in the home
they had seen the strange lights in the sky. sun. But "it's one of about 10 million
financing business and whose wife is a
possibilities." he said.
kindergarten teacher. "There was no sound.
David Jaquess
no flashing lights. no vapor trail, just solid
lights."
"I live 4.6 miles out on Hwy. 67. About 6:15 RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH
p.m. 1s aw something as I was turning in ~Y They continued to watch the sky and Richmond, Virginia
driveway. I won't say it was a UFO but I will
Keegan said the group saw four more lights December 24, 2007
say it was UFL. meaning it was unidentified
appear about 12:45 a.m. The lights traveled
flying lights. They were real bright yellow.and
east to west. then disappeared in the sky After 80 Years
1 thought I must be seeing the sun reflect1~g over La Jolla.
off a plane. I'm guessing they were five m1les Aliens Are SUII a Mystery
away from me. But. they were unusual~y Keegan said he and his friends had been
bright like a welding arc being struck -1t was drinking, "but we weren't drunk being that it EDITOR, TIMES-DISPATCH:
that bright. I don't discount UFOs but I don't was Near Year's." In response to Edward Taylor's letter,
necessarily believe in them either. I got a call "Right-Wing Paper Disrespects UFOs":
this morning saying there was story about a About the time same in Pacific Beach, This past summer, Roswell, N.M. cele
UFO in today's paper and it was out where I
Dustin Gannon. an amateur astronomer, brated its 50th anniversary of the al
live. 1 immediately said. 'Yeah. I saw it.' I was said he and about a dozen friends saw the leged UFO crash landing on Mac Bra
looking wesUsouthwest."
lights from the backyard of his horne. zel's farm. Sixty years have passed and
Gannon described them as nine red dots
Dublin Constable Lee Roy Gaitan still not one alien to show for it. Sixty
that traveled across the sky for about seven
years and still not one UFO sighting has
minutes. About a half-hour later. the group
"I was outside with my eight-year-old son. been identified as being of extraterres
saw four red dots. They captured the images
Ryan, when I saw lights. It was like nothing on video. trial origin. Sixty years and the UFO
I've ever seen before. It was dark already. At phenomenon is still considered science
first it was two red burning glows that went
"We're still a little freaked out." he said. "It fiction.
away and then came back on. I went inside
was really crazy. It wasn't fireworks." Renowned scientist Arthur C. Clark
to tell my wife. When I came back out I saw
said, "If you've never seen a UFO, you're
something like lights you'd see in a bar. My
little boy and I counted and we carne up with Reached at the National UFO Reporting not very observant. And if you've seen
Center in Harrington. Wash., about 50 miles
nine flashes and they were real spread out. as many as I have, you won't believe in
west of Spokane. center director Peter B.
But I couldn't see them attached to anything, them."
Davenport said a woman he knows in the
just the lights. So I went to my pickup and UFO field made a similar report. She and CHUCK FARIS.
got my binoculars to see if I could see a five people saw the lights traveling in MECHANJCSVD.LE.
plane or something. Even with the binoculars
formation heading west toward Del Mar. She
there was no outline. It started moving
described it as one single unit with seven
towards Stephenville and moving so fast I SEATTLE TIMES
had trouble following it with my binoculars. It lights in total followed by an ~range trian~le Seattle, Washington
covered a big area. It sounds crazy but we
formation; both disappeared 1nto the manne January 3, 2008
layer over the ocean.
really saw what we saw. ~ a matter ~f fact I
mentioned it to an officer 1n Stephenville and
he called me up and said to get the "Based on the fact that I actually know the A surprise in the sky
witness who submitted this report. and
Stephenville paper because I wasn't going to
believe what was in it. I also went to the based on the other seemingly similar reports Democratic presidential
from across the country last night. I would
Dublin paper but they had no other reports candidate Dennis Kucinich says
categorize this sighting over .san Diego as of
on it so I just dropped it. But my little boy he saw a UFO in 1982 while
interest to us," Davenport sa1d.
went to school the next day and told staying at actress Shirley
everybody all about what we'd seen."
San Diego police said Tuesday th~y~ id ~.~ _ Madaine's former estate in
rece1ve any cai1s aoout r..ew l'ear s tve uru Graham, Pierce County.
Anne Frazor
sightings.
"I had just left the nursing home from seeing
my husband. I was going down 914 towards The National UFO Reporting Center also
received reports of similar sightings in Santa
Alexander. Just as I got to the hill at
Monica, the San Francisco Bay area and
Alexander where Hwy. 6 crosses I saw them
Canada.
-the lights. It scared me. I thought two
planes were about to collide. The lights were
as bright as a school bus ahead of you but
up in the air. They were certainly much my home. But as soon as I saw it I jokingly
closer to the ground than I would appreciate I said to them, 'Hey look-a UFO.' I saw two
them to be. I looked in my mirrors and there red lights acting unusual. There were two
were no reflections. Just as I got up to the very bright red ITghfS traveling in formation.
top of the hill they were gone. It was about By formation I mean they kept their positions
6:40p.m." respective to each other. They were so
intensely bright that I realized they must be
James Hughes at a low altitude. But, there was no noise.
The lights were not like a helicopter or a
"I was a navigational specialist in the Air plane. I live near the courthouse, actually
Force and 1 don't know what it was that I saw two blocks from it. towards the river. I was
while 1 was walking two friends to their car at looking north. It was unusual."
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The Dallas Morning News ''I don't think we've ever ufologists say have never been ex- 0
DAllAS - Anyone who takes the had a bad experience where plained. . :::::1
topic seriously knows about what they someone that everyone After the video, Marrs "appeared"
call the "giggle factor." live via a cellphone held up to a micro
' thought was ofT-the-wall
So when Democratic presidential phone and took questions.
candidate Dennis Kucinich was asked came and they didn't go away "There may be more breathtaking
in a recent debate about his belief in feeling good." discoveries coming out in the coming
unidentified flying objects, the North months," he said.
Texas members of Mutual UFO Net KEN CHERRY The recent mainstream news about ~ "
work (MUFON) weren't surprised Texas director of the UFOs did not seem likely to produce a ...
when it turned into a political punch Mutual UFO Network revelation any time soon.
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line. Kucinich said he saw a UFO 25 years
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On the other hand, New Mexico Gov. ( )utsiders often misunderstand the ago while visiting Shirley MacLaine's
Bill Richardson also has addressed pw·pose of the organization, Cherry home in Washington state. Richardson
UFOs - seriously - on the campaign saicl. pledged to reopen the famous case of ~~)~ "'
trail. And in November, a group of "People want us to confirm their aliens reportedly crashing at Roswell
highly credentialed aviation experts drums," he said. ''That is not our job." in 1947. ·.~~r@l 'c~.... . ~
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from around the world called for more I\ lost UFO sightings quickly become The aviation experts calling for more c
official investigations ofUFOs. IFC·s after a little investigation, he said. investigation included a deputy chief ;;o
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and not just as a joke - is welcome to licc p~ers - all of these can fool an un JOHN F. RHODES I THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS retired chief of Accidents and Investi- ~-- a -<
people who have felt pushed to the train~d eye. But all of those valid ex At a recent meeting of the Mutual UFO Network in Irving, Texas, attendees . gations for the Federal Aviation Ad l>
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fringes for a long time. pia 1ations still leave a few watch a decade-old video of Jim Marrs, author of "Alien Agenda." Marrs later . ministration, a pilot with the Chilean c
"There is a growing awareness and um xplainables. Aviation Army, an Air France captain, a l>
answered questions via cellphone. ;;o
willingness on the part of the public to Those few are what the ufologists general in the Iranian air force and a -<
take this seriously," said Ken Cherry, say make them think there's more to representative from the United King UJ
the Texas MUFON director. knc w - but they aren't necessarily "We have had people come to our they settled in to watch a decade-old dom's Ministry of Defense. N
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Is the secret that the ufologists of sur1! what the "more" is. meetings who literally wear a protec. video of a speech made at a previous The group spoke in support of a peti 0
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MUFON have been chasing for decades ";: really haven't made my mind up," tive hat to protect themselves from meeting. The speaker was Jim Marrs, tion that said, in part: "We maintain
about to come out? said MUFON regional director James aliens invading their thoughts," Cherry the Texan author of "Crossfire" - a that a restive, concerned public has the §
"We don't think it's a secret. Just Shatley. ''The preponderance of evi said. book Oliver Stone drew on for the con right to be infm1ned of the facts about
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some people don't believe it," said Ter dence is that either we have discovered The members of his group try to be spiracy-filled plot of his movie "JFK'' UFO incidents that are well-document ~
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ry Groff, Web master for the local MU inc1 edible technology, or there are welcoming and not dismissive of them, and "Alien Agenda," Marrs' account of ed and involve multiple witnesses."
FON group and a ~ained UFO investi son :.e other races that have conquered he said. After all, they all know what government suppression of informa Not all the MUFON members claim r~
gator. tim~ and space and figured out how to it's like to be ridiculed for their ideas. tion about UFOs. to have seen UFOs. But some do have
He was one of about two dozen get here." "I don't think we've ever had a bad It's safe to say Marrs' views about their stories.
members who assembled for a regular F >r all the scientifk aspirations of experience where someone that every UFOs are as accepted by most scientists Lucy Jane Mock, whose husband Jl
meeting last month at an Irving, Texas, MUFON, it's a mash~up of a serious one thought was off:-the-wall came and as his ideas about the Kennedy assassi was in the Air Force, believes she has
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public library. Organizers say they've amc-.Jeur investigation chili and a sup they didn't go away feeling good," nation are by most historians. But this seen several unexplainable things in •
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filled a hall with more than 100 people par~ group for people who say there is Cherry said. was his home crowd, and they listened the sky. ,.
for meetings where a particularly pop Something - or Someone - Out On this afternoon, nobody was wear attentively as he recounted tales of the "I hope you get to see one," she told a II'
uJ.ar speaker appear<;.· ·There. ing an odd hat. After a bit of business, ~i:!pposed UFO crash at Roswell, N.M.,~ visitor to the meeting. "Thrilling!" '""'
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SEATTLE TIMES
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January 3, 2008
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A UFO IN PIERCE COUNTY? I The Democratic presidential candidate acknowledged a
1982 sighting, but has up about the subject on the campaign trail. But two
~lammed
,people.who shared the experience are more forthcoming with details.
BY MICHAEL M. PHILUPS side that evening have come
The Wall Street Journal forward to describe an event ''He said it was
T he 2008 presidential they say left them convinced beautiful, serene, and it
race has raised many that there's intelligent life in moved him. He was not
questions about . the outer space. .
afraid of it, let's. put it
candidates' personal "At no time did I feel afraid,
histories. Will Barack Obama's even though I felt very small," that way. Seeing
past drug use preclude a White said one witness, Paul Costan something that close and
House future? Will Christian zo. "I sensed that I was in the
sophisticated and
conservatives forgive Rudy presence of a greater technol
Giuliani for his two divorces? ogy and intelligence." gentle."
Will voters forgive Hillary Rod The close encounter, Costan
ham Clinton for forgiving Bill? zo said, took place in Septem SHIRLEY MACLAINE
Describing Dennis Kwci_nich,$
And what exactly did Demo ber 1982 at MacLaine's former
cratic candidate Dennis Kucin home in Graham, Pierce Coun UFO ·sishting THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, 2000
ich see hovering above actress ty - an expansive estate on a
Shirley MacLaine's house · 25 ridge above the Puyallup River, tuary where he could write his the UFO incident took place.
·years ago? with a view of Mount Rainier. memoirs. He lived there for the She spoke after Costanzo re
This fall, MacLaine revealed Kucinich, 61, who declined better part of a year. quested she do so, and on con
in her new book that the Ohio several requests to comment Also in residence was Cos dition that her name not be
congressman had seen a UFO for this article, had been the tanzo, a Juilliard-trained trum published.
and felt "a connection in his wunderkind mayor of Cleve pet player and jujitsu black Here's what happened, ac
heart and heard directions in land in the late 1970s and had belt, who worked as Mac cording to separate interviews
his mind." In a Democratic met MacLaine through Bella Laine's assistant, personal with Costanzo and his former
presidential debate in late Oc Abzug, the late New York con trainer and bodyguard. He and girlfriend:
tober, Kucinich acknowledged gresswoman and feminist. The Kucinich became good friends, The day was strange from the
seeing something airborne that actress says she quickly real and Costanzo, now 55, served start. For hours, Kucinlch, Cos
he couldn't identify and then ized she and Kucinich were kin as deputy campaign director tanzo and his companion no
defused the issue with a joke dred spirits. Years later, he and security chief for the con ticed a high-pitched sound.
about opening a campaign of asked MacLaine to be the god gressman's unsuccessful 2004 "There was a sense that some
fice in Roswell, N.M., the capi mother of his daughter. presidential run. thing extraordinary was hap
tal of unexplained sightings. "We just thought the same," MacLaine-.- well-known for pening all day," the girlfriend
Since then, the longshot can MacLaine said in an interview. her fascination with things said. She and Costanzo said
didate has refused to elaborate "We have the same political mystical and extraterrestrial none of the three consumed al
on the experience. points of view." was in Canada that weekend in cohol or drugs.
Now, after keeping quiet When Cleveland voters 1982, performing her one As they sat down to a dinner,
-about the incident for a quarter ousted· Kucinich after one tu- woman show. But Costanzo's K~cinich spotted a light in the
of a century, the two people multuous term, MacLaine of girlfriend· at the time, a model distance, to the left of Mount
who say they were at Kucinich's fered him her home as a sane- and actress, was visiting when Rainier. Costanzo thought it
At Kucinich's suggestion, "I'm the one who reports
Costanzo said each triangle
they jotted down their impres- them, but they never make
. was roughly the size of a large
was a heli~o.pter. . van, while his former girlfriend , sions and -drew pictures to me close visitation," she said.
But Kucimch walked outside I compares it to a "larger Cessna, morialize the event. Kucinich "What am I doing wrong?"
to the deck to look through the : smaller than a jet certainly." kept the notes, according to None of the three reported
telescope that ~e had bought Neither recalls seeing any MacLaine, who said he prom the incident to authorities. And
1 ised her recently that he would over the years that followed,
M~cLaine as~~· After a few markings, landing gear, en
mmutes, Kucimch summoned gines, windows or cockpits. try to find them. · they shared the story'with few
i
the other two: "Guys, come on The craft approached to "It was proof to me that we're people. "Unfortunately, people
out here and look a~ thi~." . within 200 yards, suspended obviously not alone," t:p.e girl-' are ridiculed when they say
friend said. they've had these kinds of ex-
. .Costanzo . a~d his girlfriend over the field just beyond the
JOmed Kucmic~, where they swimming pool. Both witnesses i The next day, the group spot periences, which is why I never
took turns peermg through the say it emitted a quiet, throb ted what they thought to be · came forward with it," the girl
teies~ope. 'Wnar me~ saw m the bing sound - nothing like an military helic'opters · bu-zzing : frienasaid.
far distance, accordmg to both airplane engine. around the valley where they MacLaine said she called Ku
wi~esses, was. a .hove~ng light, "There was a feeling of want had made the sighting. And the cinich before she included his
which soon diVIded mto two, ing to communicate some high-pitched sound remained. 1 UFO sighting in her book,
Kucinich called MacLaine in "Sage-ing while Age-ing," are
and then three. thing, but I didn't know what,"
After a few minutes, the Costanzo said. : Canada to tell her what had counting of her spiritual and
lights moved closer and it be- The craft held steady in mid happened. "He said it was professional journeys. "I can
came apparent that they were air, for perhaps a minute, then beautiful, serene, and it moved handle it,',' she said he told her.
actually three charcoal-gray, sped away, Costanzo said. him," said MacLaine, who is MQre recently, Kucinich has
triangular craft, flying in a tight "Nothing had landed " he said. supporting Kucinich's candida dodged it. Approached by The
wedge. The girlfrie~d said she "No strange beings h~d disem cy. "He was not afraid of it, let's Wall Street Journal for com
remembers each tnangle hav- barked. No obvious messages put it that way. Seeing some ~ ment in December-moments
ing red and green lights run- were beamed down. When thing that close and sophisti 1 after he voted for a House reso
ning down the edges, with ala- they were completely out of cated and gentle." lution praising Christmas and
serlike red light at the tail. sight, we all looked at each MacLaine said she has seen Christianity - Kucinich looked
Costanzo said he recalls white other disbelieving what we had UFOs from a distance in New unblinkingly ahead: "I don't
lights, but no tail. Ir seen." Mexico and Peru, but never up have any comment," he said.
close. She was envious.
FOREIGN NEWS
Telegraph
KETTERING EVENING TELEGRAPH THE SUN
Kettering, Northants, England London, England
January 2, 2008 January 1, 2008
by John Coles
By Nick Tite, Assistant Editor
Oooh arrrr not alone anymore
Amazing UFO
footage
Corby reader spots UFO
UFO over Westmlnlster Abbey
"Does anyone know what It Is?"
UFO enthusiast Krzysztof Dreczkowski
OUR reader Krzysztof Dreczkowski has
filmed this remarkable footage.
Kelvin's photo and, Inset, enlarged view of 'flying saucer
Krzysztof has already sent us pictures of a
UFO he spotted over Corby Boating Lakes.
THIS stunning photo of a UFO over Cornwall was in the centre of the shot, about two
was last night hailed by experts as one of miles away.
And he also sent us pictures of a mystery the best ever taken in Britain.
object spotted over fields in Lincolnshire.
Kelvin, a facilities manager for schools, said:
The classic flying saucer shape is seen
This time he spotted this strange UFO over "There were a couple of tankers out in the
above two ships.
Westminister Abbey in London at the end of bay and I thought that it made a nice shot.
December. Look to the left of the video
near the trees for the mysterious white And UFO watchers believe it could be proof
light. we are NOT alone. "There was nothing in view and certainly no
fault on the camera.
UFOs hold special interest for Krzysztof
because he is part of a UFO organisation in "When I got home I couldn't believe what I
Poland, his homeland. had. I thought, 'Wow, where did that come
from?' I'm not the sort to believe in UFOs
now I'm not so sure."
Express & Star
Nick Pope, one of Britain's foremost UFO
experts, said the photo was one of the best
EXPRESS & STAR he had seen.
Wolverhampton, England
January 3, 2008 Nick, formerly the official Ministry of Defence
UFO analyst, said: "If I was still there I'd be
Mystery 'arrowhead'
looking at this very closely. The object looks
structured, symmetrical and metallic. This
UFO spotted
man has caught something very interesting
indeed."
A mysterious "flying Dorito-shaped" object
which was seen by dozens of people just Kelvin Barbery snapped the mystery object Michael Soper, ofthe Contact International
before Christmas has been spotted again - from a coastal path between Swanpool and
UFO group, agreed: "This does appear
this time in the skies above Lower Gornal. Maenporth. near Falmouth.
genuine. Digital photos can be doctored but
In a weird twist. Kelvin, 55, did not even see everything about it appears consistent."
the UFO at the time.
KELVIN took his picture at 3.31pm on
He thought he was just taking a sea view December 29, with a Nikon D80 Digital SLR
but when he loaded the digital camera card on automatic.
on to his computer. the round metallic "craft"
Wednesfield and Dudley in December and "My daughter and her boyfriend and the next
The strange unexplained flying object was Stourbridge-based UFO Research Midlands door neighbours all saw them and we
seen by residents in Wallows Wood, off The was deluged with calls and emails from watched them for about 15 minutes before
Straits. at around 6.15pm on Tuesday. onlookers who witnessed the object. they disappeared behind the trees."
Householders described the object as Lower Gornal resident Peter Wasdell, aged Paranormal enthusiast Craig Lowe. who is a
looking like an "arrowhead" with three 57. said he could not believe his eyes when
orange lights arranged in the shape of an he saw the object. member of the Birmingham UFO group, said
isosceles triangle. the area was a "hotspot" for unexplained
"The dog started barking and when my wife activity. Mr Lowe. who captured December's
Residents watched it move slowly across the went outside to find out what was going on sighting on videotape, said he believed the
sky before it disappeared from view in the she saw the object in the sky and called me object could be some sort of military aircraft.
direction of Wolverhampton. out to have a look," he said.
Birmingham International Airport spokesman
It is the second time the triangular object has "There were three orangey lights in a triangle John Morris said the airport took all reports
been spotted flying over the Black Country in formation. They weren't shaped like an of UFOs seriously. "We had a couple of
recent weeks. equilateral triangle, more like an isosceles inquiries before Christmas following the first
triangle, and shaped like an old fashioned sightings over Halesowen," he revealed.
Scores of people contacted the Express & arrow head. I don't think it was a plane
Star after seeing a UFO in the skies above because we didn't hear any noise.
T_he ~ouple taped the strange scene for nearly
s1x m1nutes. Mr. Quigley estimates the object
Express & Star OTTAWA!iCITIZEN they saw was more than three kilometres high
and is convinced that the UFO must have
crashed in the strait or in New Brunswick.
EXPRESS & STAR THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
Wolverhampton, England Ottawa, Ontario
January 16, 2008 January 4, 2008
They watched the spectacle for close to 30
minutes and received calls from neighbours
Is there plane truth 'Definitely who also witnessed it.
behind the UFOs? unidentified' "I really didn't want to be looking forward to
hearing that there was a plane crashing
around the area and people losing their lives
P.E.I. couple capture on videotape mystery
on Boxing Day," Mr. Quigley said.
object hurtling toward Earth
Charles Mandel, The Ottawa Citizen But calls the next day to the area's airport,
Summerside RCMP and the federal
Transportation Safety Board came up with no
A video of what appears to be an object trailing
reports of plane crashes.
a dark spiralling plume behind it and
plummeting toward Prince Edward Island's
Ms. Ford-Quigley speculates it might have
Northumberland Strait is the focus of intense
been a fighter jet dumping fuel and in trouble.
speculation.
One thing's for sure: her husband isn't buying
any stories about crashing flying saucers.
A_ P .E. I. couple captured the strange event on
v1deo on Dec. 26, but witnesses and experts
They're here-and they've been spotted by "This is definitely unidentified," Mr. Quigley
alike aren't certain what they're observing.
dozens of folk across the Black Country in said. "But if you're talking Martians or anything
the past few weeks. 'Wf! were kind of dumbfounded," said Tony like that, I haven't seen any to date, so I can't
say I really believe in them."
Qwgley, the P.E.I. farmer who videotaped the
Mysterious triangular unidentified flying
objects with sinister flaming orange lights app~rent unidentified flying object with his wife, That's not the case with Gertrude Campbell.
Mane Ford-Quigley.
have been seen above Dudley, Halesowen The Quigleys' neighbour also saw the UFO,
and Lower Gornal in the last month. along with four other people. Ms. Campbell,
65, firmly believes in UFOs.
Spotted in the early evening and flying in a
westerly direction, the strange craft have "I swear when I come (home) at night time and
been seen by schoolchildren, pensioners I ~ook at some of those stars and they're pretty
and paranormal enthusiasts. b1g, I'd say that's what's looking over us," she
said. But if the P.E.I. object was a saucer, then
Dubbed the 'Dudley Doritos', the UFOs have according to Ms. Campbell: "It broke up
raised fears that extraterrestrial beings are coming down."
about to invade the area.
Don Ledger, a UFO researcher and author
But a sonic boom over Shropshire this week who lives in Bridgewater, N.S., believes the
could have solved the mystery of the object was space junk. He cites the launch in
"spacecraft" sightings. mid-December of a NASA Atlas rocket carrying
a satellite for the U.S. National
The incident involving Britain's newest Reconnaissance Office, the agency that co
fighter jet has offered a clue to the Black ordinates spy satellites south of the border.
Country space invaders.
"Supposedly the booster came down around
A malfunction to a Typhoon Eurofighter southwestern Nova Scotia," said Mr. Ledger,
forced the pilot to plunge 30,000ft causing a Environment Canada and the Transportation who co-wrote with Chris Styles, Dark Object, a
Safety Board of Canada can't explain just
sonic boom which shook the county. book about a purported UFO crash at Shag
what It was a P .E.I. couple filmed in the Island
Harbour, N.S., in 1967.
skies on Wednesday evening. When Tony
The plane -which when viewed from
Quigley and his wife Marie of North Tryon,
underneath looks like a triangle with lights at just east of the Confederation Bridge, saw a "That (NASA booster) didn't make orbit the
the tips of both wings and on the nose cone - dark spiral In the sky they went for the video way it was supposed to, but I can't prove it.
performed an emergency descent above camera.
Shrewsbury, breaking the sound barrier. "After a certain point in its launch, everything
goes what they call dark at NASA and it turns
Police were inundated with calls from The couple was out walking late in the over to the spooks down there in the U.S. who
concerned residents wondering what they afternoon near North Tryon on the island's handle the satellites. So if indeed it did come
had seen and fearing there had been an west end when Mr. Quigley spotted the down, you're not going to hear about it."
earthquake or an explosion. mysterious object. "I said to Marie, 'Look,
there's a plane in trouble there.' It looked like The Quigleys are sending their video to
The Eurofighter had been flying on a training smoke coming from it." Ufology Research of Manitoba in Winnipeg, in
sortie from RAF Coningsby when the hopes that the private, non-profit group can
malfunction happened, although, not help solve the mystery.
surprisingly, the Ministry of Defence (MOD)
refused to confirm whether the plane had
been flying over the Black Country in recent
weeks. "They both drew what looked like a diamond
Diamond-shaped with orange lights in the
shape with lights, although Casey said it only
corners, their drawings matched descriptions
Spokesman for the MOD, Mervyn Wynne had lights in each corner and Chelsea said it
of sightings seen since last December.
~ones,. would only say: "The MOD only had lights all around it.
Earlier last month, dozens of people saw a
1nvest1gates UFO sightings to see if it
huge orange "Dorito-shaped craft" with three
believes there may be airspace integrity ''They're used to seeing planes and
lights flying over Halesowen and a similar
ISSUeS. helicopters and they never bother them, so it
object was seen by people living in Lower
can't have been something like that.
"The MOD examines reports to establish Gornal on New Year's Day.
whether the UK's airspace may have been "I joked to them that it was ET going home,
compromised by hostile or unauthorised Householders in Wallows Wood described
military activity. the object as looking like an "arrowhead"
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defence experts. The truth, though, could be a little bit more
The Express & Star has been bombarded mundane.
"Unless there is evidence of a potential with messages speculating what it could be.
threat, there is no attempt to identify the The girls' grandmother, Mrs Marie Bridges Paranormal enthusiast Craig Lowe, who is a
nature of each sighting reported." says it was the girls' "spooked" reaction member of the Birmingham UFO group, says
Drawings by two schoolgirls of a UFO they which made her realise something was not he had suspected the strange craft spotted
saw over Dudley have similarities to the right. over the Black Country could be of military
origin after reading witnesses' reports in the
shape of the new Eurofighter.
"I was sat watching the TV and the girls were Express & Star.
Chelsea and Casey Bridges, aged seven sleeping in my bed when they ran into the
and nine, were drifting off to sleep at their lounge looking scared," she says. "The description seems to fit in with the
grandmother's house in Chestnut Avenue, in "They were both frightened and said they profile of a Typhoon Eurofighter and I'm of
Dudley, when they saw the UFO flying over were scared something was coming to get the opinion the craft is of military origin," he
Dudley Castle last week. them and asked if they could stay downstairs says. "Unfortunately, we can't know for sure
with me because they didn't want to go back because the Ministry of Defence won't
They pair were so afraid they ran crying upstairs. confirm anything -maybe they're flying over
populated areas to see how the public
downstairs to tell their grandmother what
they had seen and proceeded to draw "I made them both draw a picture of what react."
identical pictures of the strange craft. they saw.
So for now, at least, the sightings remain a
mystery.
Evening Leader Evening Leader Evening:L eader
EVENING LEADER (Wrexham & Flintshire EVENING LEADER (Wrexham & Flintshire EVENING LEADER (Wrexham & Flintshire
Edition)
Edition) Edition)
Chester, UK
Chester, UK Chester, UK
January 10, 2008 January 7, 2008 January 4, 2008
by Petra Bamby by Kate Forrester
By Kate Forrester
Residents line up to More people report
More mystery
confirm UFO seeing 'UFOs' flying
sightings after
sightings over county
Christmas Day UFO
report Last week, the Leader reported on the Unexplained lights seen in the sky over
sighting, made by Harry Hughes, of Mynydd Flintshlre on Christmas Day have
REPORTS of UFO sightings across the lsa. as he was going out to his shed on p~or_npt~ reports from other people of
region are continuing to flood in. Christmas Day. s1m1lar s1ghtings.
Mr Hughes saw several orange-red orbs Har~ Hughes, of Mynydd lsa. reported
moving "faster than a plane" through the air. seemg five round orange lights in the sky
and glowing in the night sky. The incident above his house in Grays Road on
matched a sighting over Wrexham last year. Christmas Day at about 7.20pm.
Now, three more reports have come in from He said: "I looked up and saw what looked
people saying they saw the same objects on like five bright orangey-red fireballs flying
the same day. through the sky. coming from the Bodfari
direction.
David Clark. of Elwy Close in Bryn y Baal,
says he can confirm that everything Mr "They were travelling quite fast. about 10 -12
More UFO sighting• over the region are being Hughes says is correct. seconds ap~rt and were revolving. They
reported to the Leader. were travelling too fast to be aircraft and
He said: "It is absolutely true what he says. were completely silent."
There were three very bright lights which
After Harry Hughes of Mynydd lsa first suddenly separated and one looked like it Harry called to his wife Pam to look at the
reported seeing five orange lights in the sky shot straight up at high speed. objects before they disappeared and as she
on Christmas Day, the Leader has received followed him out to the garden, they began
reports of more sightings on a daily basis. "At first we thought they were balloons or to change direction.
planes but they were going too fast and they
Ten-year-old James Holmes. of didn't look like planes. H~rry's description of the unexplained
Rhydymwyn, said: "On the night of Sunday, ObJects matched that of Leigh and Lynn
January 6, at around 1am. I was woken up "There was no noise whatsoever and they ~lliams, of Borras, Wrexham, who caught
by some strange white lights spiralling were going so fast. I have never seen s1ght of several strange orange orbs in the
across my bedroom ceiling. anything like it before." sky in July. The couple managed to take
pictures and these were posted on the
"I wasn't frightened because I live near a We published the story of the latest incident Evening Leader website.
football club and the Rhydymwyn Institute
on our website, and users have flocked to
which has a very bright light at night. I knew view the details. The latest report prompted two more
it wasn't them because I was used to them. Flintshire residents to speak out about their
A Mrs Coulton, from Mold, described how own strange sightings, both of which match
''When I got up in the morning, I heard my her family were left perplexed after seeing the descriptions of the infamous orange
mum talking about lights so I guess she saw orange coloured lights. orbs.
them too.
She said: "The light was a fair way off, it was Mike Jones. of Sychdyn, was sitting outside
"My mum thought it was the wind moving a coming towards us then stopped went his house in the early hours of New Year's
tree so that the light of a lamppost behind backwards, stayed still for about four or five Day. when he caught sight of two lights in
the tree would move. but I don't think it was minutes. then faded away. It was really the sky.
because my bedroom is on the other side of
strange. It was definitely there, was not a
the house to hers. firework, star. helicopter, or plane. We really He said: "It was about 1.1O am and I saw two
don't know what it was." orange lights in the sky, both travelling at the
"We then thought it may have been a search same speed, with no sound at all. Then they
helicopter but there wasn't any noise. She Marie Davies. of Chester Road in Mold, was just disappeared.
said there were several of them in quick
driving from Holywell to Halykn on Christmas
succession a few times that night." day when she spotted a red light low in the "They definitely weren't planes or
sky at 7pm. helicopters. They were something very
After the Leader featured a number of strange."
incidents yesterday. including the famous
She said: "At first I thought it was the moon
Berwyn Mountain sighting in the 1970s, but it was too low in the sky. It was flame red Jen~y May. from Sandycroft, also reported
Gerard Coughlan, of Coed Onn Road, Flint, and was standing still over the Dee Estuary seemg strange objects in the sky above her
was prompted to recall an incident from the way. home in July.
past. "I couldn't believe my eyes. I would like to She added: "We were sitting out in the back
see it again. I don't drink so it wasn't that. garden in July with our next door neighbours
He said: "I saw several disc-shaped objects There was no way it was an aeroplane. It and at about 11 pm we saw four bright
flying at very high altitude and at great speed was very weird." orange lights that came from the west and
about 15 years ago from my outside my shot up into the sky, then shot off in different
house. directions towards the north.
"I looked up and thought it must be the Red "They danced before they shot off and even
Arrows, but then realised there was no my neighbour. who doesn't believe in that
sound at all and I could see very clearly that sort of thing, saw them. He was gobsmacked
they were perfectly round in shape, and pale ~nrl-dirln't t~lk fnr th~ rp~t of tt,~ ni~!"'~
grey in colour.
"About two months later my brother, who is
"The other interesting thing was that they all another non-believer, saw three bright
kept changing positions at lightning speed, orange lights in the sky. They then formed a
as if they were 'playing about'. line and shot off. They seemed to be above
Unexplained objects spotted above Mold by
Airbus in Broughton. We don't know if they
eight-year-old Demi-Lee. The youngster
"They were travelling in a northerly direction captured this photograph herself. are from there."
and went from above my head to out of sight
in about 30 seconds. I watched them the There have been reports of sightings posted
whole time but have never been able explain on the Evening Leader website from as far
what they were. afield as San Diego, California, where a
couple claimed they saw four similar glowing
"As an engineer. I am fully aware of what orange lights.
things look like, but cannot give any
explanation as to what these 'saucers' were." Explanations have been offered that the
objects were in fact "UFO balloons" or
Chinese lanterns, and the issue has been
the subject of an ongoing public debate in
Flintshire and Wrexham.
"It wasn't a meteor, nor a falling star. I have
Evening Leader
to admit I have never seen anything like it in
EVENING LEADER (Wrexham & Flintshire my life."
Edition)
EVENING LEADER (Wrexham & Flintshire Chester, UK Closer to home, John Smith of Sychdyn,
Edition) January 8, 2008 said: "My girlfriend and I also saw two
Chester, UK orange lights on New Year's day around
January 11, 2008 UFO mystery about 1.1 Oam.
By Kate Forrester deepens as "My girlfriend had just gone to the back
garden to let the dog out when she saw
Are these lights a sightings increase them. She called me over and we could not
believe our eyes. The two lights were
UFO? travelling through the sky together. There
was no sound and they were too low to be a
plane or helicopter."
SPECULATION continues to mount as
more people across the region report
Mike Jones, also of Sychdyn, was sitting
UFO sightings.
outside his house in the early hours of New
Year's Day, when he caught sight of two
Nina Griffiths, of Mold, says her eight-year lights in the sky.
old daughter Demi-Lee caught sight of
strange orange lights in the sky when she He said: "It was about 1.1 Oam and I saw two
was playing in her bedroom on December orange lights in the sky, both travelling at the
23. same speed, with no sound at all. Then they
just disppeared.
Demi-Lee managed to take pictures of the
mysterious objects on her camera. "They definitely weren't planes or
FURTHER reports of UFO activity In the
skies above the region have been flooding helicopters. They were something very
Nina said: "Demi-Lee was in her bedroom in. strange."
playing and decided to take the pictures of
her own accord. She came down to show Marie Davies, of Chester Road, Mold was
me and I did think it was a bit strange, but Harry Hughes' sighting of five orange orbs in driving from Holywell to Halkyn on Christmas
then I forgot about it until I read the articles the sky above his house in Mynydd lsa on Day when she spotted a red light low in the
in the Evening Leader. Christmas Day has prompted numerous sky at 7pm.
reports from other residents of similar
''When I showed Demi-Lee, she got quite sightings across Flintshire, Wrexham and She said: "At first I thought it was the moon
excited and said 'I told you so!' I really can't Chester. but it was too low in the sky. It was flame red
explain what these objects were." and was standing still over the Dee Estuary
David Clark, of Elwy Close, Bryn y Baal, way.
David Allman. of Durham Road, Blacon, was agreed with Mr Hughes' description of the
with friends at St Theresa's Social Club on strange objects. "I couldn't believe my eyes. I would like to
Boxing Day when he also saw some unusual see it again. There was no way it was an
lights. He said: "It is absolutely true what he says. aeroplane. It was very weird."
There were three very bright lights which
He said: "Someone was outside having a suddenly separated and one looked like it Another resident in the Mold area added:
cigarette when they saw some little fiery shot straight up at high speed. "The light was a fair way off, it was coming
balls in the sky. I went out and there was towards us then stopped went backwards,
about 14 of us who saw it and it was so odd. "At first we thought they were balloons or stayed still for about four or five mins, then
faded away.
There was a straight line of about three in planes but they were going too fast and they
the sky and they weren't falling like fireworks didn't look like planes.
would. "It was really strange. It was definitely there,
was not a firework, star, helicopter, or plane.
"There was no noise whatsoever and they
We really don't know what it was."
"Three came fairly close together and then were going so fast. I have never seen
there was a space and two more. anything like it before."
Jenny May, from Sandycroft, also reported
seeing strange objects in the sky above her
"When we told people they joked and said The mysterious orange orbs have also been
home.
we'd been drinking, but we all saw it and it spotted by residents in Chester, and last
was strange." week the Leader received a report via the
She said: "We were sitting in the back
website of two sightings of them in San
Steve and Anna Jones, of Upton. also Diego, California. garden in July with our next door neighbours
caught sight of something strange on New and at about 11 pm we saw four bright
Year's Eve. User rduke222, from California, wrote: "My orange lights that came from the west and
shot up into the sky, then shot off in different
wife and I saw four orange glowing objects
Steve said: "I was leaning out of an upstairs directions towards the north.
just after midnight on New Year's Eve, which
window in our house smoking at about
had the same characteristics described in
9.30pm. I happened to look to the east and "They danced before they shot off and even
this article.
saw four orange lights, that were travelling my neighbour, who didn't believe in that sort
between one and two minutes apart. of thing, saw them.
"They approached from the east and
departed to the west. My impression was
"They were moving west and looked like "He was gobsmacked and didn't talk for the
that they were the exhaust from propulsion.
they were travelling too slow to be aircraft. rest of the night.
These objects were at great altitude and
There were no flashing lights and no sound
appeared to follow a flight test corridor that
at all. I have no idea what they were." "About two months later my brother, who is
passes over San Diego from the Edwards another non-believer, saw another three
Anna added: "My 14 year old son had been AFB area. bright orange lights playing in the sky. They
out with his friends in Kingsway, Chester, at then all formed a line and shot off.
about the same time as Steve saw the lights. "These objects were not meteors or falling
He came home and said that he and his 'space junk'. It is likely they were 'Black "They seemed to be above Airbus in
friends had seen seven orange lights in the Project' aircraft that had just taken off from Broughton. We don't know if they are
sky that were travelling very fast, about one the Edwards AFB (or Area 51) area and something from there."
minute apart. were already very high and going very fast.
Jed Price, of Chester, said: "My wife and I
"He said they were completely silent and "We could not hear any sound from these saw the orange UFOs too. It was on New
then slowed down, before shooting off objects but that is not surprising if they were Year's Eve at 10.25pm in the Narrows Park,
nuir.klv as hi~h up and moving as fast as I believe Hoole.
they were." ·
"My son is quite cynical and doesn't believe "There were four lights flying in a line from
in that sort of thing usually, but he said he Online user Waylon, also of California, south to north. The first three were about 30
definitely saw something. added: "A day or two after Christmas I was seconds apart and the fourth was a minute
standing outside in northern California and later.
"It is quite worrying that so many people noticed what looked like an airline jet moving
have reported seeing these things and that across the sky in a south to north direction. "It was the silence and speed that led us to
nobody knows what they are." believe they were UFOs."
"What caught my attention was that it was Most of the recent sightings have been
Paula Norgrove, also of Upton, saidd: "I saw glowing orange. At first I thought it might be reported in the Mold and Sychdyn
three gold lights in the sky in Hoole on New on fire, but I didn't see any smoke or hear area and across Chester.
Year's Eve. They moved very fast but made any noise.
no noise at all. The first sighting of the orange orbs came
"As I watched it coming overhead it slowed from Leigh and Lynn Williams, of Borras,
"I also saw another similar gold light a few down and seemed to stop and hover in the Wrexham, in July of last year, and
days later at about 3am in Upton. This one night sky. At this point my curiosity would not explanations offered have included "UFO
didn't move at all, it just stayed still and I let me take my eyes off of it. balloons" and Chinese lanterns.
watched it for about 10 minutes."
"After probably 45 seconds there seemed to The debate continues across the region with
be burning debris falling from it. And then more and more sightings being reported
after another 20 seconds the light went out. every day.
