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By Nick Pope
LONDON
ON the afternoon of Nov. 7, 2006,
pilots and airport employees
at O'Hare International Air
. port in Chicago saw a disc
like object hovering over the
tarmac for several minutes. Because
nothing was tracked on radar, the Fed
eral Aviation Administration did not in
vestigate. Yet radar is not a reliable de
tector of all aircraft. Stealth planes are
. designed to be invisible to radar, and
be
Why we should more
curious about U.F.O.'s.
many radar systems filter out signals riot
matching the normal characteristics of
aircraft. Did it really make sense to en
tirely ignore the observations of several
witnesses?
A healthy skepticism about extrater
. restrial space travelers leads people to
disregard U.F.O. sightings without a mo
ment's thought. But in the United States,
. this translates into overdependence on
JONATHON ROSEN
radar data and indifference to all kinds of
unidentified aircraft - a weakness that or air safety issues . pilot and some of his passengers re
. could be exploited by terrorists or any- On Dec. 26, 1980, for instance, several ported a huge cigar-shaped U.F.O. - the
. one seeking to engage in espionage witnesses at two American Air Force pilot estimated it to be a mile wide -
against the United States. bases in England reported seeing a near the Channel Islands. At the time, air
The American government has not in- U.F.O. land. An examination of the site traffic controllers reported to the pilot
. vestigated U.F.O. sightings since 1969, turned up indentations in the ground and that radar picked up something, but that
when the Air Force ended Project Blue a level of radiation in the area that was it was '~t1hknown traffic."
Book, an effort to scientifically analyze significantly higher than ordinary. More In addition, there have been several in
all sightings to see if any posed a threat witnesses at the same base reported the cidents of near misses between U.F.O.s
to national security. Britain and France, U.F.O. again on subsequent nights. The and known aircraft - enough to prompt
in contrast, continue to investigate U.F.O. deputy base commander reported that the Ministry of Defense and the British
sightings, because of concerns that some the aircraft aimed light beams into the Civil Aviation Authority to advise pilots,
sightings might be attributable to foreign most highly sensitive area of the base - if they encounter anything, "not to ma
military aircraft breaching their air a clear security breach. neuver, other than to place the object
space, or to foreign space-based systems On March 30 and 31, 1993, there was a astern, if possible." ·
of interest to the intelligence community. wave of U.F.O. sightings over Britain. The United States is no less vulnerable
Most of the incidents investigated in One witness described a triangular than Britain and France to threats to se
Britain have been easily explained as shaped craft that flew slowly over an air curity and air safety. The United States
misidentifications of stars and planets, force base before accelerating away to Air Force or the National Aeronautics
aircraft lights, satellites and meteors, but the horizon in an instant, many times and Space Administration should reopen
some cases have raised national security faster than a jet. The British military re investigations of U.F.O. phenomena. It
ported, "There would seem to be some would not imply that the country has
, Nick Pope, the author of "Open Skies, evidence on this occasion that an uniden suddenly started believing in little green
Closed Minds," was in charge of U.F.O. tified object (or objects) of unknown ori men. It would simply recognize the possi
-investigations for the British Ministry of gin was operating over the U.K." bility that radar alone cannot always tell
~- Defense from 1991 to 1994. On April23, 2007, a commercial airline us what's out there.
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,• ~ BUCKS COUNTY COURIER TIMES
~~ , . f. ..: :· Levittown, Pennsylvania
July 2, 2008
UEO investigators drawrt to Bucks
Since January, four
UFO incidents have been
BUCKS COUNTY COURIER TIMES
reported over Lower Bucks. I Levittown, Pennsylvania ~ ..
July 15,2008 ..
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STAFF WRITER
Flying fajitas high and are not known to be
The Mutual UFO Network said 1t
noisy, I said.
will dispatch "field investigators" to
I could tell she had not
Lower Bucks after four reports of and other considered the balloon possibility.
strange craft hovering over the
She stuck with her UFO story.
county between January and June.
"We aren't alone," she said.
The latest incident was reported alien craft
A man left a message close to
Wednesday, when someone saw a
midnight, according to my voice
craft "with six lights in the shape of
mail.
a boomerang., over the Oxford
Not since the mysterious "I witnessed a UFO," he said.
Valley Mall in Middletown.
Yardley Yeti creature spooked· ''1978. It was docwnented on our
The fll'St sighting was reported
people throughout Lower road in Washington Crossing. We
Jan. 27, and Falls pollee officer Makefield two -~ers ago have I reported it to the National
Jeffrey Omlor was dispatched to received as many remonstrations Institute of Aerial Phenomena. I ·
Don Pablo's on Route 1 across from
from readers on my persistent was asked to be on ABC national
the mall. Someone called 911 to
skepticism. news, and people all the way from
report a craft "hovering like an
This time it's regarding reports here to South Carolina saw this
octopus" over the Mexican restau of alien space craft flashing, thing light up in the sky. A deer
rant. ·omlor said he saw nothing zooming and hovering over Bucks fell asleep or was sleeping on the
strange over the restaurant that County. side of the road and what was
night. It began two weeks ago with really weird was that we took
But that same day, MUFON said ne\vs that an outfit is coming to hundreds of pictures of it, and
it received a third report from a Bucks County to .. investigate" none of the fUm came out. We
pizza deliveryman who said he saw severalliEQ sightings, two of gave it to NICAP and they didn't
an object "over the tree line of them over a shuttered Mexican return it to us for 20 years.
Vermillion Hills" that "appeared to
bistro in Falls (herewith known as "My daughter sa\v one, too, on
be blinking red. whlte and green the "Flying Fajitas Incident."} Eagle Road, I think, 10 o'clock at
lights." Then, a man called to give me a night," he continued. "She was
.T he fourth report was from play-by-play of two large UFOs with a couple of other people and
Newtown on April 25. Someone
floating over Levittown. That something happened that caused
claimed to see "an orange ftre ball
column seems to have given others extreme turbulence, and dogs
that seemed to be crashing out of
the sky. .. the confidence to contact me about howling and everything else and
Each report flied with MUFON their semi-close encounters with suddenly they heard a swish and
was anonymous. The caller to Falls things "up there." the thing was gone. So, I just
police also didn't give a name. But "I'm not saying I saw flying wanted you to know there are
saucers/• a woman said to me. things going on up there.".
that has hardly deterred MUFON. or course not, I said in a Other stories. Discs. Saucers.
Field investigator Elise Simon fatherly way. Round things. Blinking things.
"I didn't imagine it, it was real Silent things. Whooshes, streaks.
See UFO, 4A and there were others who saw," And hovering. Lots of hovering.
said the group probably would she said. "Did you see anyone at the
issue a finding in a couple of She said lt was in the 1980s, in windows, waving?" I asked a guy.
She wasn't sure when Doylestown, when she saw a "No windows," he said.
week~
the investigators would arrive. "grouping" of UFOs in the sky. "How do they know where they
"We'll be talking to the local She said the craft were "round, are going?" I asked.
police, the FAA and the local half the size of a bowling ball. He wasn't sure. Camera gizmos
media and any witnesses," They were moving silently higher or computer sensors, maybe.
said Jolm Ventre, state direc into the sky. They were made of "They are more sophisticated
tor for MUFON, who estimated some kind of metal. You could see than us," he said.
about 93 percent of UFO the sun reflecting on them. The No allen abduction stories,
reports turn out to be conven weirdest part was no noise, and though.
tional aircraft. "That 7 per that was weird because there were What would be really boffo
cent. though, that's the great so many of them." would be a story about an
part, because it really defies
May I comment? abduction in which the abductee
explanation, Ventre said.
u Yes, she said.
is swiped from say, the mall
You say it was a "grouping." parking lot, and fmds an alien
These ·things were round - half crew of Yardley Yeti-type
the size of a bowling ball. Shiny
creatures.
and silent. Could they have been
Anyway, that would solve the
balloons launched from a birthday
Yeti mystery.
party? Those things fly pretty
BUCKS COUNTY COURIER TIMES
Levittown, Pennsylvania
Jerry
July 6, 2008
Janas
COlJIMENTARY
Are extraterrestrials
monitoring Bucks County?
Recent news item: The President Jimmy Carter flled well-known and highly
Mutual UE!J. (Unidentified a report with the National respected reporter for a major
Flying Objects) Network said · ~Investigations Comn1ittee on Philadelphia TV station told
it will dispatch "field investi Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), me in confidence an even
gators'' to Lower Bucks claiming that along \Vith a stranger She claimed to
ston~
[County) after jour reports of dozen other friends. he had have been awakened late at
strange craft hovering over the seen an unidentified flying night and to have seen a
county between January and object (UFO) in October 1969. brightly glowing red spheri ~
June {2008). After the sighting, he vowed cal object descending from
that never again would he the sky and hovering outside c ~
ridicule anyone who claimed
A story that appeared in her bedroom window. =~
this ne\vspaper earlier this to have seen a UFO. Since 1973 reports of UFOs • o
week cited eyewitness 1973 was also the year that seen hovering over Lower ~ 00
numerous Bucks County resi
accoWlts of a boomerang Bucks ha,·en't abated. A typi .... 0
shaped object over Oxford dents claimed to have seen cal report fi1om an online ~ ~
Valley Mall. a strange object strange objects in the night UFO investigative Web site ~· ~
hovering over Don Pablo's sky. Two of them. teenaged reads: "No\: 3, 2001. I was ....
restaurant near the mall, an daughters of one of my close driving to Oxford Valley Mall
~
object hovering over friends, had a terrll\'ing expe from Trevose, to pick up my
Levittown's Vermillion Hills rience while watching a friend fron1 work. I was
section blinking red, white. movie at the Roosevelt Drive almost at the intersection of !
and green lights, and a flre In Theater on Route 1 (where 413 and l\taple Avenue, when I a
the Target shopping center looked up and saw ,..,·hat
ball crashing out of the sky
over Newtown. now stands). According to appeared to be three circ~e~ in
\\·bat's new about UFOs in their panicked descriptions to a triangular pattern hovermg
Lower Bucks? Nothing, really. their father, and later to me, directly above power lines c
the girls saw a large V-sh!lped aloQ.g the street."
With the exception of the
object with bright pulsating An observer from "'TI
alien visits to Mel Gibson's
home in Newtown a couple of lights descend from the sky Levittown's Vermillion Hills 0z
years ago in M. Night and hover over several cars wrote: "Sept. 3, 2001. [I was] en
Shyamalan's locally based parked in front of them. The looking for a star which I usu. . .en,
object reportedly remained
motion picture "Signs," there ally observed with lllY tele
haven't been many UFO sight silent and motionless for long scope. It wasn't where it nor m
minutes before rapidly accel ntally was that night. Right
ings reported in the local .
erating and disappearing into 0
out of that area. a light
news in recent years. Yet 1t
takes only a cursory check of the night sky. appeared and [grew) J to Nova )>
A few days later other wit brilliance. fit] flew straight r-
UFO investigative Websites to
turn up dozens of what some nesses claimed to have seen a towards me; made a sudden :::0
similar object hovering o"·er so-degree right turn: and m
believe to have been extrater
restrial visits to Bucks ~forrisville Borough nnd the then, gradually faded out of \J
County and the Philadelphia U.S. Steel plant. Later that sight. [I] saw similar objects 0
area on a regular basis for year as my curiosity got the and moven1ents in H)98 ..• :::0
best of me, I attended a They made several right/left .....
decades.
regional meeting of UFO turns before fading out. All
I personally remember sev ..
investigators and was
objects were silent."
eral of them, especially sever
informed that dozens of wit Another report frotn 2001
al that occurred in 1973.
nesses had reported seeing reads: "On a clear winter
Nationally and locally, 1973 that same V-shaped object in evening, I \\·ent to the back-
was the year that saw a huge the skies over Lower Bucks
yard, looked up and saw~ ~
spike in UFO sightings. It was County. . huge oval-shaped object, red-
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the year that then-future That same year. a then
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Bucks 'flapping' shape, bright white light toward c0z
the front flanked by dimmer '-<'<- m-1
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white lights, and two red lights ~CO !, r-
NOQ
at the back.
over UF:O sightings o~m
"It made no noise whatsoev ~.? z
-on
er," said Bereck. "It wasn't in a CDm
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hurry to leave ...I watched it =
en
A nonprofit says about 50 reports have been until it just went off and disap '<
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peared over the trees."
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made in Pennsylvania in two months - more
Despite the encounter, ii"
Bereck firmly believes it was
tlzan two dozen _of them in·B ucks Coutzty.
not a flying saucer.
"It was probably something
BY CHRISTOPHER Ruvo covery Channel accompanied -
from a military exercise," she
him to record the interviews, he ,z
STAFF WRITER said. "I'm absolutely positive
said. CDo
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There appear to be two types there is nothing else out there, 1» !'!
Pennsylvania is "flapping." And but I saw something I couldn't :r >
of craft that have been consis -t/1--
Bucks County is apparendy the epi identify and I felt that I should og
tently described by people, said
center. report it." -c
Ventre. ::Tee
"Flaps" is the tenn a national a A police officer discovered CD:::J"
One type is high-flying,
c:=
organization that investigates UFO bright "star-like" object that nothing out of the ordinary. o-no
sightings uses to refer to an abun zips across the sky with great In late June, one person .... m
dance of supposed close encounters claimed to see a UFO "with six ,_ir=.n,
speed, he said. The other is var
in an area in a short period of time. iously described as a low-flying, lights in the shape of a
=a.
The Mutual UFO Network has six-sided or boomerang-shaped boomerang" over the Oxford m::;·
C CD
fielded about 50 UFO reports in the object with multi-color lights Valley Mall in Middletown. (")(')
Keystone State in the last two -from white and red, to green, On I an. 27, someone called e~n'~<... .
oa
months, and more than two dozen blue or orange - that silently 911 to report an aircraft "hover (')
have been in Bucks County, said moves and hovers somewhat ing like an octopus" over a §3
John Ventre, Pennsylvania and like a helicopter, said Ventre. Mexican restaurant in Falls. A ~~
-CD
West Virginia director for the Col The latter type is similar to Falls policeman responded to m
orado-baied nonprofit. what Diana Bereck, 47, the scene, but found nothing. ~
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Then on Wednesday, a Plumstead described seeing in Plumstead Most Mutual UFO Network ~--~
woman told township police that above her development, Cabin investigations conclude that the
she saw a blinking, triangular Run, on Wednesday. aircraft in question is "some
shaped unidentified flying object Bereck, who says she thing conventional and explain
"absolutely, does not believe in able," said spokesman Alejan
hov~g above her neighborhood
off Stump Road around 9:45 p.m. aliens or UFOs, was spooked dro Rojas. He said the network
enough by the craft to report it has investigated around 2,000
"We have clusters of people all
to police. sightings per year. To become a
across the state making reports, but
Bereck said she was driving "field investigator," an appli
mosdy in Bucks County," said Ventre.
down Cabin Run Road when cant must study a manual avail
"It's the largest wave of UFO
her daughter, a passenger, spot able for $18 and pass a 1D O
repons we've seen in Pennsylvania
ted the airborne object hover question test.
since Kecksburg," he added, refer
ing at the altitude of a low-fly Ventre is continuing his
ring to the December 1965 incident
ing plane above houses. on the investigation into the Bucks
in which a "fireball-like" object
other side of the street. County incidents.
purponedly crashed in the woods of
Initially dismissing the sight "Either we're seeing the next
the Westmoreland County commu
ing as a plane, Bereck became a generation of military aircraft,
nity.
bit uncomfortable when the or we're looking at extraterres
Ventre was recently in Lower
craft came closer without mak
~rials," he said.
See U~O, Page A ~ ing any sound. After parking in
Bucks County interviewing
her driveway, she got out of her Chrlstoph•r Ruvo can be reached
eight people who claim to have
car and stared at the craft as it at21~147or
wimessed mysterious flying air hovered, noting its triangular cruvo<lphlll)'burbs.com.
craft. A·f ilm crew from the Dis-
;Mysterious firebal
That explains it
STAR NEWS lights up the sky
It took eight years with George
I Pasadena, California
Bush in the White House to SANTA BERNARDINO - A
July 3, 2008
have my suspicions confirmed m)'steri on s fj reb all bas..lit-Up
• .f r the sky in San Bernardino
about UFOs and the one ·that · bJ ·
County. {_ l
was heading toward the,Craw-. Pasadena, CA
Tom Barnes, a county fire
ford ranch (See: uRadar (Los Angeles Co.)
, dispatch supervisor, says
Star News
tracked unidentified craft near · people from the Nevada state
(Cir. D. 99,201)
Crawford, group's report says," line to Temecula reported
July 12). . seeing a bright streak falling
near the San Bernardino
The little green men are ·
Mountains on Tuesday morn
picking up their alien brother JUL ~ 200B
ing.N o landing site was
and taking him back home. . found. Investigators are still / '
- Ruth Miazgiewicz~ Fort ,_Ill/en'. looking into the_~~-~i~e~t:.... ~
Worth P. C. B. Est_ IRRR
Radar tracked unidentified
craft, group's report says
The Mutual UFO Network says pearing to head toward President Bush's
witness' stqries of Jan. 8 are Crawford Ranch, the same night that doz
ens of people reported seeing UFOs, ac
corroborated by the FAA data.
cording to a report released Thursday by a
By MATT-FRAZIER and MAR~ AGEE national group that studies reports of un-
[email protected], identified·f lying objects. ,
[email protected] According to the M1,1tual UFO Network
Federal Aviation Administration radar ap- report, the FAA radar indicateathat sev~r- Texas UFO sighters were interviewed
pears to confirm the presence of uniden-· al craft were moving in the same compass --
tified aircraft on Jan. 8 over the Stephen- direction and time frame as those cited by live Friday by·L ar:ry King dur-
ville-Dublin area, with at least one ap:- More on UFOS on 11 a ..\ ing a segment of his shQw that
-~--...;..;..;....;.~-~--..:.-----------.... .-..-... ..~ - was trtled·"UFOs: Target Texas?''
UFOs: Witness heartened by new report \-
CONTINUED FROM 1a fro~. CNN's Larry King Live liifil What do
Erath. County residents. The · programandasix-personpro-,\ · ~you think? .. . •
craft were not military and did duction team from Dallas set P'ost a comment on this report ·~
not have transponders that re-.· up in t}).e back yarq of Ricky 1·at.star-telegram,com .
. lay information about them- Sorrells, one of the UFO sight~
selves to radar operat~rs. ers who lives about eight miles MUFON report
Radar tracked a Crawford- west of Dublin. 'I\vo MUFON researchers sai<t
bound craft for mOfC than an They were there for a live they got information for thE;
hour, according to the MU- interview with King, who was report -by filing 10 Freedom of
1
FON report. Witriesses said in his Los Angeles studio. Information requests to th~
they saw two large ·glowing Their segment of the show was FAA, National Weather Ser~
amber lights similcu: in size titled "UFOs: Target Texas?" · vice, all nearby.m ilitary bases~
and color to the lights on the Others interviewed were U.S. Customs and Border Pro~
back of a school bus. .. , Erath County Constable Lee -tection, and the 21st and 30tli
The object seemed to be · Roy Gaitan; Angelia Joiner, a Air:·F o~ce Wing Commands:
stationary or moving at speeds former reporter for the Ste- The researchers noted that the
ofless than 60 mph most of the· phenville Empire-Tribune; FM and weather service were
time, but at qne point it accel- and James Fox, a filmmaker "very responsive," but most of
erated to 53~· mph in 30 se~- from Califor- . the others responded that they
onds, accotding to the report. nia. had no information~
It did not $e.em to reach the Gaitan FM spokesman Roland
property. ,.. told a Star- Herwig said he was not famil~
"Theobjectwastravelingto Telegram re- iar with the radar data and
the southeast on a direct porter that could not comment Friday. ;
course towards the Crawford he felt vindi- · . The report was released on
site'
Ranch," the report states. Joiner .cated ·by the the ·.MUFON Web ·late
"The last time the object new report. Thursday night. ·· · · · ,
was seen on radar at 8 p.m., it "You probably: think we're just . . It seems to back witnesses~
was .c ontinuing on a direct a bunch of hillbillies out here," stories, including G~tan's.
path to CraWford Ranch and Gaitan said. "There were peo- who sqid he saw an unknown
was only 10 miles away. Dur- ple who did doubt me, but I object south of his home
ing.t he ..e ntire episode of over · know I saw somethjng." about four miles southwest of
an hour, there is no indication Gaitan and Joiner told King Dublin. ..
that any of the military jets re- that they hadn't given much He described it as two am~
acted to this unknown craft." · thought to UFQs.b efore Jan. 8. . her lights that were initially
Dozens of people around Now, it has taken over much of statio~ary but changed into
Dublin and · Stephenville - their lives. Joiner said she lost about 10 white lights that de-~
' about 70 miles southwest of her reporting job because she parted at a high rate of speed.
Fort Worth - have reported was spending too much time 44Radar detects an object at
seeing something in the sky on on the UFO question. 1:20 p.m. . only 2.8 miles south-
or about Jan. 8 that did not She told King that all the southwest of the ·constable's
move like conventional air- witnesses' stories are credible. home and traveling in a south
craft. Some witnesses said the "I used to go the other direc- eastern direction," the report
objects were accompanied or tion," she said, ~~But lately I states:· ~~This matcbe~ very well -
followed by mili~ary aircraft. think maybe we're being visit- with the.t ime and direction of
Descriptions varied. Some ed from another place." th~ constable's sighting. At
told of objects up to a mile Gaitan said that for a while 7:36 p~m. radar shows the ob
long and hundreds· of yards he was frustrated by all the at- jeGt suddenly veering to th~
high. Others reported seeing tention. He said he _has given north at.l,900 miles per hour
.,
l'o ~
two to eight lights that flew in at least 150 interviews~ and then returning a minute 1\-II:> I;I.:.>(
formation, changed color and ~~I was seeing that thing in later to continue on its south ~[ ".'",'C
shone with intensity greater my sleep," he said. 441 was. get- eastern course." X~ "a;'
than a welding flame. ting tired of it, but my wife re- Online: The report is available at
minded me that what I saw www.mufon.com
Media attention was pretty special and a lot of i
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The reports attracted interna- people would like to see it."
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tional attention. \ _ · · / -
On Friday. night, a prod~er - . '- '"'-
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VIRGINIAN-PILOT Date: Monday,Jwy1~.2008
Location: NORFOLK, VA
Norfolk, Virginia
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the former Marine who reported seeing a massive UFO in Suffolk?
T~RRELL COPELAND BECAME "CASE NO. 58105" on
The History Channel's new "UFO Hunters" series. There, on
national TV, host Bill Birnes declared the Suffolk man to be
a "hybrid"-a product of intergalactic breeding who is being
prepped for direct contact with his alien relatives.
"That's heavy," Copeland
says. "It's not surprising to
me, though. After all that's
happened these last couple of
years, it could be true."
Yes, life has gotten even
weirder for Copeland, now
26, since the former Marine
became one of several locals
who told The Pilot they've seen
Bitt pare.-.' '"-E t>l-loto
UFOs over Hampton Roads. 11 rrell Copeland ttands ·In zoos outside hli ·hometn. ·
Back then, Copeland reported Suffolk. He say he spotted '8· triangle-shaped cndt·that year.
that he'd witnessed a massive
triangle-shaped craft hovering
over a Suffolk shopping center
late one night in ·2005.
Copeland now says that close Int he end, the show conclud
encounter was followed by an
ed that there wasn't enough ev
has been abducted by their oc-- -
others~httnglastyearthathe idence to prove much of any
cupants. The team called in an
videotaped - an orb of bounc
thing.
expert, but the images were
ing light that pulses different
So where does all that leave
too fuzzy.
colors.
Next, Copeland and Hill Copeland? Waiting for "ET."
Copeland put the video on
were ferried to Massachu ''I truly believe that's what
line, and it wasn't long before
all of this is leading to - a
a mysterious man knocked on setts General Hospital for
meeting with a biological en
his apartment door. Copeland testing, where it was discov
tity," he said.
said the man identified himself ered that both have elevated
In the meantime, Copeland
as a military contractor and levels of the enzyme creatine
gets up before dawn most days
began asking personal ques kinase, normally associated
and heads to work in a ware
tions, ultimately asking if with muscle injury.
house. Nights find him at his
Copeland "was ready for the Mere coincidence? Show
computer, chatting with a host
host Birnes speculated other
truth" and stating that the gov of new acquaintances who have
wise. Perhaps the men's mu
ernment has a "personal rela tracked him through the Inter
tual condition is the result of
tionship with 'ET.'" net. Many tell him they've had
extraterrestrial contacts that
After that, Copeland said, similar experiences.
have altered their physiology.
he began experiencing
The show has earned Cope
Or perhaps they've had numer
what's known in UFO circles land a little more respect at
ous encounters because they
as "missing time" - minutes home: "I was at a low point be
themselves are unique.
or hours that unaccountably fore this. I had decided to just
."I've got a funny feeling,"
vanish - and episodes of tern stop talking about it. I was los
Btrnes told Copeland during
porary paralysis, when he was ing friends. Family members
awake and aware but couldn't ~he episode, "that you are be thought I was losing my mind.
Ing recruited and there is a
move. But when you've been on TV
His story wound up drawing branch of the government ies like, 'Well, maybe he ha~
the attention of the "UFO Hunt that you're being recruited for got something to say.'"
ers" team. TV types showed up -that somehow, some way you What did Copeland's moth
are a hybrid between 'ET: and
in Suffolk in November, and er thin~ about her son being
humans."
branded as an alien hybrid on
C~peland became part of an
That announcement startled
a national television show?
epiSOde called "Alien Contact "
Birnes' sidekick Pat U skert
which first aired in April. ' "I expected her to lose it," he
~ho pulled his boss outside;
said, "but she didn't. She said
. On the episode, Copeland's
How can you conclude that
there was always something
VIdeo was compared with one
the guy's a hybrid?" Uskert
strange about me."
taken at Lake Erie by Mi
asked .Birnes. "I mean, don't
chael Hill of Cleveland who
you th1nk you're going off the
said he has not only had' mul Joanne Klmbettln. (757) 446-2338,
deep end a little bit?"
tiple UFO encounters but also [email protected]
Not quite a year after Kenneth Arnold's report of flying objects kicked off the modern era of UFOs,
and only a relatively few miles away, two sightings of "flying men" were reported from Chehalis
and Longview, Washington. On their 60th anniversary, we present these gems from our Archives:
z co
··· womcid :
~a!! •··Ch~hai
i :
~ ~ ··~~ti=~~~~~e~t .··~_.~.._.i:I....;...-._........;..J.--.;.....--~-~----~~~:--1
.!! § . . . Ina:.: a~d-:· whlzzl.n 1'• ·above
w ~ c: · her baril on January s··.was re-
~ ~ ~ !.·:ported:, Tuesda~ .'.by_.: Mrs. · ~er
. •J llce. ·Z aikowskl, .::81~ .lon1-time
- Chehalis residenL . ·. · . . .
· ·. Her ..r eport was reeelved wlih
·a··e ertaJn· amount of akeptiebm •
. Police Cliief ·Tom .Murray de
. ·dined· to·.· mvesUaate. An army
e>fflclal' at· JleChord field com-·
mentecl that it .. soundS like.o ne
e>f · those . saueer dea}s.;.-1 .j ust
Q ·.
ean't put any: stoek in it at all."
ll-f'1 i Flieri at the "Chehalis eounty-.
~~ : city airport said they.e ould find
W : Here ~ ·· A rtltt Ernie ·! U.charclaolt'a conception of the ••alsalng
no .. recbrd· of a transient bird
• ,.. : ,· man· making a ..r efueling .. stop, and ··whizzing'' hudman · ·M tt. Bernice Zaikowakl ·reported
..., : although. they, coneeded · Janu- caTorl:lfV.ln air abowe her 'buii .•t Chehalis, Wash.~:January 6. · 'I
~ · ary 8 was a ·good .day. for .flying
'Qt1 · and or d 1 nary, old-fashioned .pearcd to retract close to his home !rom school at the time. :
body as he ascended .,very .rap. They saw the man, too, and ]
· .pUots pile~ ··up a l~.t ~f flyini
idly,~' .then were ~xtended . to a~ked me if thev could go into 1
~ ~~:~ vi~~:.=~~~necl.:· hover, · bank and proceed in my back yard so· that they .could ;
1: · · { . · . :;. level flight. She could not tell· watch him longer as he flew
~ ~ Undaunted by do.ubters. Mrs. what mQtive power was used, toward the south end . of the
~ ii ·zaikowa]d., whose veracity is but. sa~ no propeller. The city." ·. ·· .
{Q ; not ctueatloned by acquaintances, winJs did not flap• she added. ·Mrs. Zaikowski asserted at
: said she .• •heard ··a aizzing and · · -..' least five other Chehalis resi-
; whizzinJE and: there he was, just Other v le••r• Listed, · dents, none of whom she knew
.. ·She was eertain lt was .not.a . by name,. told · her ·they also ·
: about·240 feet above my barn."
one-man :;open helleopter~. aueh had seen the birdman. One, a
; . She·. . lnJfsted :she ' could . see. as the· army has at McChord soldier she met at·c hurch. told
· him . . ·clearly, · that ·he · was field, because the "winas did her the army had been experi-
!: ·eaqriudi p. ja)pepde.w !riethd btiog ,·. ~siel vemr awnllnpaus· ...n o.t.1 roktnadtew." .~ m· ost· peop! le . d: on't menu n g w1· th. b.a r d men f or some
·etteve--n1-~s-al~s:-zairo. -
' ehest. The . winis appeared to ski, "but :I have talked to ·some Field. Denies Report_
: be fastened. over~ hf4 shoulders people ini Chehalis that tell me · McCord field offjclals ••id
;: b y " atrap arrangement ·and he they saw :the man, too,i and that that if it had, it was news to ·
!~t:. in·~ u~ria~t-"f~~tio~, she he flew ·aout)l :from 'iChehalis them. . .
and apparently came lin from . o·ne ·Other· explanatlon re- :
: · ·],.olish-boni ·Mrs. ·,Zaikowskl,. the north or west. I malned. Mrs. Zaikowskl said .
: whose descriptive powers occa ult was about 3 P. M. on the· one. mart she talked With IUB· i
. slonallY· failed u she attempted Tuesday after New Year's day Jested 1t must have been an ~
. to explain .t he birdman's ma (January !6 ) and there were . a angel predicting the cominl of
i
n~uvers, said the Jwings ap- I of of small childr.en; .c omlnl a third world war.·
THE DAILY CHRONICLE
utiJ <1:bronirlt
Centralia, WA t
January 21, 1948
Chehalis ··..
woma·n ··.sees ·. ::~Birdma.n'
"':. ·-, ·.·· :-. c.. • .
. .; ·Doubted but atlll uncta'unted, Mrs. · ·. ·· · . - · : ·. ·\ . · - ·.. ./ ··
-Bemlze.Zalkowetl el•year-old Che- appeared to be manipulating con- ma.n had asked to enter her back
_-_halla. zea1dent~:..reJie_ated __ to_LP~!II. trol:.~::=·~--b~_!~,.,;~~.__;J:e Y_~~kl~~~~~~ wth-~.!!~J·~:~rea-~a
Chronicle repo.ornte·r Wediieaday mom- _. . ._ . ·-
lng abe saw January· 8 a blrd- his shoulders _llY a strap. arrange- number of. authorities ~ere inclined .
man . who went .. stzzlna a~d whb.; ment and -be -.flew 1n an uprlg}lt tQ. skepticism. . .Pollee Chief . Tom
· ·ztna,. abovt lier barn before he flew~ position. , · , ·= · • · Murr~y declined to regard It serl-
/~~!~ o~r ~.e·. c~~Y~ d~!~~t~~..:· ~·=~~~~~': ~~~~~ .:JJb~:= ~cf~~
;· .t:o:: :.- b . ht•.
. '·au~·. za!towa""'s_. • 'rl.; ·• ~oug . ahe. attempted .to~exp~ the bbd- record of. a tra.nslent.blrdman mat:
. nneewsdaa yp, r·~ fonre nacte : ltO~ Ot h~ e.ohnael li mWaejod-r tanpapne'aal 'meda ntoe urveetrna,c dte cclloasiee dto t hhe1a w b1ondpy Icnh&o r. da . )fi'eeldf u·aeh~ g·a rsmtoyp .o·f afn!cdt a·ra ata lMd ·et-t·
· Nortbwea~ D!!!ispal)er~ ...c ~r~ed · tbe aa · he ..a acended ~·vecy rapldly ,• a "sounds Uke .o~ ot those aueer :
.. 'atory , In .ttl .~t.lrety and a~vera~ then .were extend~d ·tc)'·JioYer,. bank deal&-I Just eantt pt.tt aay atoct In
=. ~o ne~~k he<w·,t~ · · ~. -.· r·. ·~. ...d ·~ ··,, ..r ·e· ~ · _and .. proceed . 1n · le~l.-~t. She tt at ·au.~ : · ·: . . -.. · .' ." · . 'I
~ ~te~ ~~-_ ..: :: ··. eould ·not .ten ~what :.. 111otlve ·power : McQhord fl~ off1clala also ~ely ·
.· ··:Tbe. Obeh.U. wq~·• lon&-tlme ..,"'-~ ~sed •.l ;)ut abe aaw~no prq~er .. rWed out .lhe·:poss~b~t, ·th~ ·bird~
·.re&ld.ept_w ho~-~·tort ta pGt .doubtec:f Tile~-~ dl~ ·liQt flap. abe ~ld::~·. j;ban .. ~~~ ba~ .. been:·,a ·Oile~J':l&n
·. b)'aequaln~llC~.:Inalsta 1he aaw the ·. .. .._1:e \..11ehalln saki.~ number ..o r beUcopter• . 'I'bey.aald ...~ eJ mew of
, bird man ~learly yand ·that ~he .. waa small chlldren ~mtna. t~ome,:f~ bo experiments ~~· anpy· Ja ~at;
•, ~~ .~.t.l:l-.;~·.~~· ~ ·~. ~ aaw ~ asa.~t. :~ ..~ :.~· :~ .. ~th -~:one~~ hell~pter.· · ~·
.. ...._. .. .· ··" ~··.·. ~ ·.-,·· -~.- -, . ·.,· ... - ~-· .. ·. . .. . •: . .. ··-;.-_:.· ~- .. ~- ,·-·-··.·· .. .... .. . . ·.. . ... . . I
Not quite a year after Kenneth Arnold's report of flying objects kicked off the modern era of UFOs,
and only a relatively few miles away, two sightings of "flying men" were reported from Chehalis
and Longview, Washington. On their 60th anniversary, we present these gems from our Archives:
----- --- - - - -----
.llep.orf
.T wq Winged· Me.n ·
:to.ngview
C~r .·ling AbOve
1 . : . LONG E;w' April.9 (Special) : s\Jita arid .ai fa·r a~ ·I ~an )udg~
Residents of this Columbia river . :-I'm not very Jpod at.j ud1in1
city .\wer~agog ·.Friday : at -.the ,distance--they ~r4! about 2&0
report of- rs~·.Vlola Johnson, a Je~t hlgh,-elr.cling th~~ eity.".
laundry : worker, and James· ; ·Pittman could no.t b}! reaehed
. ~Pittman,- . anitor. that. they had ;for hls version. ot . :the fly inc
seen ,;thre men hovcrJng about men, . . ; . j ·
I .;
250 ·feet in the arr over· Long- ! Mrs. J.ohnson Jaid: . . . · ··
view: · I .. They were goj~g at: ab~ut
· · •'They pI o. k· e.d• · lik·~ ·,_thre· •e men the .same . speed ~s a . freight·
in flyin" suit!' flying through train . and- had so~e kind of. I
.the ·air.'.•.. rs~ JohnMn recalled. apparatus on· their rmdes ·which·, .
" · · rk . drab;· flyin ookecl--ltke-guns, but I know i .
couldn't have beenJe uns·. .. ·::,_
"I" couldn't see arly propellers
. or any··motors .Ued.bn them, but
THE DAILY NEWS l could· · hear motors · which
Longview, WA ~ounded . abou~ lilte airplane
April 9, 1948 motors, only not soj louct
Faces Stay Hlddenrf . • ·
· ''When they ·-fir;t ··~arile :into
'sight, I thought· thef. looked
like ·J UllS, . · but :· ·~ they COt
closer I could.- make .out :_that
· they were not gulls and I knew :
. they were m~n. 1 could see it' :
plain that they were ·men';,; i .
.. I 'couldn't make 'out their.
arn1s, but. l·could see their feet.
dangling down and they '.kept
movinr. their heads llke · ithcy
w~re_lnoking ·around. l couldn't
tell i1 they had goggles on~ but
the: r heads looked llke ·they
had helmets on. I couldn't see
their ·faces:• · · ;
~1rs. Johnson,: a oSS·rear. . old
widow nnd mothe~ ·of lsve ehll·
dren, Aas lived in ·oregon 1lnce
·1918. Her-_present residenee I•
· Rainier and she commutes dally
to·her. work in Longview. .
: \Vhel'\ she and . Pittman
spotted the flylnJ ·• me-q,. their
shoub drew other workers· out
.· qf the laundry, but by then.· the
~Hers were gone. Othel'· Long
view residents reported hearing
· lane mQtor~ about ·the same
~ime and .declared. they :·had
, een three planes circle . over
. he. cit~ at fairly higt1 altitudts.
PrtYioua· ln•tanc:e Cited·
I · I·
~ In Januaey, Mrs .. ' Bernice
~aikowski.-·8 1. a long-time:r esi
~.ent o! Chehalis, .reported a
,imilar ~experience ·with : 1he
~ords that·s he' "heard a .aizzing
anf. whizzing and .there .he was ..
t·ust a,. bout 200 feet . above my
8M~s. Zaiko\vskl's fly.ine ·m Jn
as equipped with big, silver
Ylings onrl appeared to be ma
t~ipuJaling contro_ls alrapped ·to
his chest. The· wings appeared
, jo be strapped over his shoul·
erfi, ·leaving hi{ll to fly in. an
pright position, she said.
J
· Like Mrs. Johnscfn in Lone·
i . i~V't the Chehalis wom-an did
· a ·propeller. '
not~s~e
I .
FOREIGN NEWS
Note: Most British Clippings are courtesy of TIMOTHY GOOD
Spanish Translations courtesy of JANE THOMAS GUMA
THE SUN - London, England -July 7, 2008
SJut St~e:on-Trent-reports or cigor-shaptJ<fobject In the sky
bQtween.3pm.ond 6prp · • .
29 JurtWeston:.super-Mare,:$ orrierset -l:I~'Seen spinning
above the MS before disappearing at "Incredible speed"
f)
25Jun Telford, Shropshire~ light seen hovering and spinning
0 in the air at around 2.30am about 500ft off the ground
23Jun Liverpool· hundreds of people see 13 orange orbs at
9.30pm
0
23 Jun Spondon, Derby~ bright silver light seen hanging In
.0 sky around 9.30pm and then speeding off very fast
23 Jun Reading, Berks -~lent rectangular red object ..s.een
flashing and moving slowly towards earth
21 Jun Dover, Kent· 13 orange Ond red round lights seen
trov~lliNJ at a strange
21 Jun Ramsgate, Kent· bright
red11ght becomes three bright
oronge lights In o triangle
15 Jun Middleton, Manchester -
a blue and white cube seen
tQmtng rondomty
14 Jun Cormarthen, South
Wales.-slow red object spotted
14 Jun Lydney, Gloucs-red
ob~ seen-flying close together
12·Juh • 28 Jun · Brecon
B8ocon$.Wates-odd coloured
.spheriCQIIIghts spotted
10 Jun -t1ertford-flying objects
merge wlth 0 larger light
8 Jun St Athcm, South Wales
at l2.30om the crew of o
pollee chopper ctlase a UFO ·
8 Jun Uanldloes,.M id Wales
smollbrfght white Ught seen
moving very high and fast
G) 8 Jun Shrewsbury,.Shrops
couple chased on.A5 by a
G saucer-shaped object
8Jun Bromsgrove-glowing
· orange ball with red crown
& seen rising In sky
W 1 Jun Uonetn, South Wales-
boy snaps a saucer on his camera around 3pm
7 Jun.ShrtW/Sbury,.Shropshlre-three soldiers see 13 UFOs
~ spinning over their :reni Hill station at 11 pm.
W 6-7 Jun arlstol Channel-sliver Qbject seen hovering
~ 6JUn·BriStol-around lOpmtlveoronge lights seen travelling
GW upwards Ina dlogpnaltlne .
1 Jun Hatfield, Harts -large bright whlte light and a big
e yei!<>W Pght_~een at 10pm ·
31 .May; Birmingham· mysterious objects seen In sky
L!b. t .. f(cly f.lromsgrove -three fletY objects seen.f loating In the
W sk)t .around 9.45pm
24 Apr Birmingham-three disc-shaped objects caught on
camera
IT'S the . summer of the By KATHRYN LISTER something very real and tangible because they are concerned about
which mankind cannot comprehend what man is doing to this planet."
UFO - with dozens of or explain. Royal Navy aircraft engineer
mysterious objects boldly from Cornwall to Hertfordshire. "Usually 95 per cent of sightings Michael Madden, 25, told last week
glowing where none has wAnhdet htehre ietx'sp eratsli enc annaoctti vietxyp laoinr creamn aibnein ge xapnladi nmedy.s tebruiotu ·s i t fivise ptheer ~~= ~~e s~~tei~ s:r!:~;:~~~~1o~:tR
shone before. · natural phenomena .to blame. cent which we can't Just shake. off disappeared at "in·credible speed".
Top UFO watcher Malcolm that particularly interests me." Solaiers reported seeing 13
This tJ')ap shows how reports Robinson said. tyesterday: "Some Malcolm, founder member of objects above. their barracks at
poof uwreedi rdin ·nfriogmht ascirgohstsi nBgsr itahianv.e tthhien gsk iveesr yo vbeirz tahrere U·iKs . happening in snSautirmda:nb ge"erT hoPef rhseei nghhoatmisne gnbsae reenIcn evanentsl tyiu.g natuisounasl, eThneeclrinoc uonHptetielrl r,w iSthhr eroap poUsr.Ft eOAd nnde aar a Capcrodlloiifcsfee.
Shapes of· all sizes, colour and "I have been dealing in UFO "Some experts oelieve it could be k.listerOthe-sun.co.uk
brightness have ·been spotted at sightings for. more than 30 years linked to global warming and craft Read more on UFO sl&htlnp at
pight from Liverpool to Dover and and we are currently dealing with from outer · space are appearing thesun.co.uklbrltishxfiles
·THE SUN
London, England
June 27 .. 2008
EXCLUSIVE
by .JOHN COLES
A BAFFLED university
don who spotted a
UFO over the Brecon
Beacons last night
said: "There is no logi
cal explanation."
Dr Simon Griffey saw 0~ CLOSE ENCOU10N TERS·~
lights loom over a moun JlJl\TE 7, ·JUNB·S, JUNE 12, . /. .
tain ·village before ·.~'::,OiotOi'-
I
they disappeared.
llpm 18.40aDi : 11.40pm
His close · encounter is
the third reported in the Iii¥' .
space of just five days, fol Tern St. At~~; . 1 Llangy:ndir,
lowing. sightings by the Shropshire nr Car01II : . · Brecon Beacons
Army and police.
· Simon, a doctor of psy
chology at Cardiff Univer
sity, said: "I've had loads of
theories proposed by friends
and neighbours but none of same spherical shape that but when .they examined 12" came at a place
them add up." they reported. the pictures later, they which lies almost
Dr Griffey, 50, and his "I know I wasn't seeing found only three of the directly between the
son Jack, 23, were driving things because Jack saw s~wen lights showed up. Tern Hill barracks
near Llangynidr Mountain exactly the same as I. did - Dr Griffey said: "The and St Athan - scenes
in the Brecon Beacons, and two other cars pulled police helicopter crew said of sightings days earlier. in 1981. Expert Nick Pope,
Powys, when they spotted over to look." they failed to record the The Sun told on Tuesday who investigated UFOs for
.lights over Talybont-on-Usk. Sceptics have suggested sighting on their equipment. how three soldiers saw 13 the MoD, wants an official
He said: "There was no the sightings could be huge ." If it had been a natural UFOs spinning over their inquiry into the sightings.
noise whatsoever, it was a man-made lanterns floating phenomenon you surely Tern Hill station at llpm j.coles@the-sun. co.uk
bit eerie. I've driven over into the sky. · would have been able to on Saturday, June 7.
tahnids mhaovuen tanienv efro r se1e7n yaenayrs niBdru, t ·stahied : bo"Iftf inw, aosf tLoloa nbgiyg . psohmoteoognrea ph taol l · oefx ipt. laI'idn like anJdu s8t 0 otvneirle s9 0a wmaiyn utthees claretewr • TdHenEi ed BthBaCt a UyFeOst esrpdoaty
thing like it. It was way above the hori because I have no i'dea of the South Wales police ted in South Wales was a
"There were seven lights zon and stayed there for 15 what to. make of it." chopper reported a UFO as prop from Dr Who, filmed
arid having read the descrip minutes. It was a bit He added: "I think it's it tried to land at St Athan. in Cardiff. It said: "The
tion from the soldiers in smaller than a full moon - plausible that there could Yesterday we revealed show was not in production
Shropshire, there are some quite big and high up." be life on other planets." three women's claims they at the time."
similarities. They were the Jack recorded the phenom The close encounter at were abducted by aliens on Spotted a UFO? Call The Sun
sam-e sort of colour and the enon on his mobile phone - 11.40pm on Thursday, June the A5 - also in Shrops - on 0207 782-4104
WESTMORLAND GAZETTE
Kendal, Cumbria, England
June 13, 2008
UFO spotted over N. Lanes town
G~~~t
- . ~ ......- t-:
DURlNG a·recent trip to the USA I set tum and it just disappeared. M6, it being early Sunday morning.
out for Heathrow on Sunday, May 18, at The driver said 'We'll read all about it But I can swear on oath that what we
3.20 am iri the travel company's minibus. in the Gazette." saw was true. Not a fuel tank discarded
As we drove down the M6, ,. I read your reports on UFOs (Gazette, from a shuttle space mission - if it was:
approaching Carnforth, the driver and I June 6,' 'Truth about UFOs is out there'). it must have landed on Carnforth!
both saw a big bright orange light above. Now .this wasn't a light, the size of a
the town. golf bail, this was mega, the size of a
It was shaped like a shoe box, witli a bus.
slight dome on top - it was huge. The time would have been around
We both remarked, "Look at that, it 3.40-3.45 am. Mrs Kathleen Winn
must be a UFO." Then, it appeared to There was not a lot of traffic on the Sedbergft
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