UFO ROUNDUP

Volume 8 Number 50 December 31, 2003 Editor: Joseph Trainor E-mail: Masinaigan@aol.com NO WORD FROM BRITISH MARS PROBE "The fate of Britain's first unmanned mission to Mars was in doubt on Thursday," December 25, 2003, "as the appointed hour for the Beagle 2 Martian lander to signal from the planet's surface passed with a disappointing silence from space." "The tiny lander, a saucer only 25 inches (62 centimeters) across was due to open up like a pocket watch on the Martian surface and issue nine notes to a passing American Mars Odyssey spacecraft for relay back to Earth." "Despite the initial radio silence, the science team dire...

Volume 8 Number 49 December 24, 2003 Editor: Joseph Trainor E-mail: Masinaigan@aol.com UFO HOVERS OVER A VILLAGE IN MALAYSIA "An unidentified flying object was sighted hovering over a quiet village in" Malaysia's northern Kedah state, near the border with Thailand, "the second such sighting there in two years, a report said on Tuesday," December 16, 2003. "A nine-year-old boy saw a slow-moving, disc-like object about the size of a car emitting a greenish light" and "hovering in the air over Banggol Cicar village, near the town of Baling, for about four minutes before it disappeared." "Mohamad Amirul Syafiq said at first he thought it...

Volume 8 Number 48 December 17, 2003 Editor: Joseph Trainor E-mail: Masinaigan@aol.com MORMONS IN PELLUCIDAR!? "A belief that the Earth is hollow and inhabited within has caused a Provo, Utah man to plan an expedition to the North Pole and possibly to the Earth's interior." "Steve Currey runs an expedition company in Provo (population 105,166). For over 40 years, he has organized fly-fishing, kayaking, river-rafting and trekking trips around the world. Many locations of his trips are exotic and fascinating, but his next destination is something way out of the ordinary." "Currey was contacted by Rodney Cluff, author of World Top Secre...

Volume 8 Number 47 December 10, 2003 Editor: Joseph Trainor E-mail: Masinaigan@aol.com KENTUCKY UFO SIGHTING MAY HAVE INCLUDED AN ABDUCTION Mysterious screams heard at the site of a UFO landing in eastern Kentucky have researchers wondering if an abduction was involved. According to Ohio ufologist Kenny Young, an eyewitness, Dr. Virgil Davis "was driving toward his home" in Morehead, Kentucky (population 5,914) on Friday, November 21 (2003) between 9 and 10 p.m., with his two sons, aged 15 and 18 respectively. He recalls the specific date, knowing that one son was in college and would not have been home any day but Friday." "While drivin...

Volume 8 Number 46 December 3rd, 2003 Editor: Joseph Trainor E-mail: Masinaigan@aol.com BIGFOOT ON THE MOVE IN PENNSYLVANIA Residents were startled Sunday, November 16, 2003, when they saw Bigfoot swimming in Edinboro Lake, located in Pennsylvania's northwestern corner, just south of Lake Erie. According to ufologist Stan Gordon, "The Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society received a report of what appeared to be 'a very large human shape swimming in a lake near Erie, Pa.' (population 103,717)." Edinboro Lake is located at the intersection of Routes 99 and 6 North approximately 15 miles (25 kilometers) south of Erie. "The figure appear...

Volume 8 Number 45 November 26, 2003 Editor: Joseph Trainor E-mail: Masinaigan@aol.com "RADAR GLITCH" CAUSES WHITE HOUSE PANIC "Was it a bird, a plane, a computer glitch? No one connected to the (USA's) air defense system claimed to know, but whatever it was, it briefly turned the White House upside-down Thursday," November 20, 2003. "About 9:20 a.m., the staff members in the West Wing and school children on tours were ordered by the Secret Service to evacuate. The initial word was that radar had picked up a plane within five miles (8 kilometers) of restricted White House airspace." "In fact, it was a false alarm. But somewhere, some...

Volume 8 Number 44 November 19, 2003 Editor: Joseph Trainor E-mail: Masinaigan@aol.com SAUCER CRASHES IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Hundreds in the Dominican Republic claim to have seen a UFO go down in the rain forests of Diego de Ocampo mountain, located near the Caribbean country's northern coastline. "The object was seen from Santiago," a city 200 kilometers (120 miles) northwest of Santo Domingo, the national capital, "by cameraman Noendi Valerio of (TV) Channel 25, who claims having recorded the beam of light from his home in the city's Los Reyes sector." "In Navarette, several residents claimed having seen the column of smoke ...

Volume 8 Number 43 November 12, 2003 Editor: Joseph Trainor E-mail: Masinaigan@aol.com AUTHORITIES IN AUSTRALIA TRACE BLACK PANTHERS "A State Government's inquiry" in Australia "has found that it is 'more likely than not' a colony of 'big cats' are roaming Sydney's outskirts and beyond." "The revelations are the results of a four-month investigation into the 'black panther phenomenon' which for years has plagued residents across Sydney's West, Northwest, Richmond, the Blue Mountains and Lithgow" in the state of New South Wales (NSW)." "While National Parks and Wildlife officials are yet to implement a ...

Volume 8 Number 42 November 5, 2003 Editor: Joseph Trainor E-mail: Masinaigan@aol.com DERO SEEN NEAR CANAL IN BUENOS AIRES "Residents in the barrio Casilda (neighborhood)" of Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, "claim having seen 'a black dwarf.' They claim that it appears by night at the Candelaria Canal, that it is black and that its body is covered with hair." (Editor's Comment: Sounds like a Dero, a strange little subterranean creature, similar to the Tommyknockers of Cornwall, UK, that were first described by UFO contactee Richard Shaver in 1945.) "The information was piled up with a certain degree of humor by the lo...

Volume 8 Number 41 October 29, 2003 Editor: Joseph Trainor E-mail: Masinaigan@aol.com PHANTOM PANTHER TERRORIZES OMAHA "When a mountain lion shows up in the middle of a Midwestern city, it's bound to make news and this was the case last week when it entered into Omaha (population 390,007)," the largest city in the USA's state of Nebraska. "It was the first confirmed sighting of a mountain lion (puma in UK--J.T.) in the eastern third of Nebraska, officials said." "The lion was captured just a few blocks from one of the city's busiest intersections after being pursued by authorities. It was hit with a tranquilizer gun and then ...