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NEWS Volume 1 News letter No.43
Don't forget to "LOOK UP TO THE SKIES" you may see something exiting.
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HBCC UFO Recently Reported Sightings
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Cannon AFB UFO Incident 1976 - Black & White Photo Of Unknown Object
HBCC UFO Research Note: The photo below Bruce took in January 1976. I had the picture scanned at the stationary store and just picked it up this morning and have posted it here to the website. Bruce admits the photo is fuzzy and doesn't show much in the way of detail for the object itself, but still with the many eyewitness accounts, military document and of course this photo it just adds more to the case. To me this is telling that there was certainly something very unusual taking place over the Cannon AFB and really all around the areas of Clovis, Texico and Farwell, New, Mexico. As for a weather related problem, I personal don't buy this idea at all.
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Clovis, New Mexico Sighting - Related To The Cannon AFB Sightings
Date: January 1976
Time: Evening
HBCC UFO Research Note: Reports from Clovis, New Mexico have been coming in from a number of different people. I am waiting on a detailed description of a "burn spot" in the open field that yielded a strangely shaped piece of metal (very light and strong) that was confiscated by authorities. The witness also saw the tracks of pads in the field that were immediately covered over and he was interrogated by authorities (not local) during the event and much, much more coming.
A gentleman called me from Clovis, New Mexico on Sunday June 18, 2006 (Father's day). Since I was out at the time the call came in, my daughter took the fellows name and phone number and told him I would call Monday, June 19, 2006.
I did telephone the man on Monday, June 19, 2006 and had a wonderful conversation with him, plus took an amazing report over what he and a close friend of his saw that night. The fellow also gave me the name of his buddy and another name of someone else who was witness to strange events that night also. I should point out that he also knew of others who saw the unusual objects over the two nights back in January of 1976. The fellow called after reading the Clovis News Journal as they carried a large article on the events that took place over the Cannon AFB in New Mexico.
The witness and his friend were out hunting coyotes just south (some 6 or 7 miles) of Clovis, New Mexico on a dirt road.
As they drove down the dirt road they both observed a light low over the horizon. Wondering what it was, as it appeared to look out of the norm, they decided to investigate. They knew there wasn't any bright stars that close to the horizon at least at this time of the year and at that time. As they watched, the light did not move and again the gentleman impressed upon me that what ever this light was, "it was low"!
Eventually they started traveling towards the light and finally got positioned right underneath it. The witness said it was a blue/green blinking light. They both were so fascinated by what they were seeing above them, and the light sitting stationary above at approximately 300 yards they got out of the truck. The object was not making a sound, he said, it was dead quite! There wasn't even a breeze that evening and they estimated they sat underneath the object for approximately 5 minutes.
Since the men both had rifles with them, the witness I talked with grabbed his 30-06 rifle and took a shot at the object and believes he put a round into it. As soon as the fellow fired and the impact of the shell struck the craft it immediately started to move straight north. They both jumped back into the truck and started to head north towards Clovis following the object. The driver got the truck up to it's top speed which was running at 120 miles per hour and the object was pulling away from the two men in their truck. He said is was moving alot faster than they were able to travel. They estimated it had to be traveling at 200 miles an hour or better. The object changed it's direction of travel by turning in a slight curve and it was now heading in the direction towards Texico, New, Mexico. As they still were traveling at a high rate of speed along the dirt road they said they could see the highway which was approximately two miles away from them, and it, it meaning the object.
Still keeping their eyes peeled on this strange light/craft, they saw a local Sheriff traveling along the highway east towards Texico from Clovis in his squad car, with the car's emergency lights flashing. The men figured the Sheriff was from either Texico or Farwell, New, Mexico. As they watched the object it shone a bright light down onto the Sheriff's squad car, completely flooding the squad car with light, then the object shot straight up at an incredible rate of speed and disappeared.
It just shot up into space and it was gone!
He told me he sat by quietly because he figured it might have been a military aircraft and he just put a bullet into the thing, not wanting to get into any trouble over shooting it. Also he mentioned after he saw the object doing all these strange maneuvers he was glad he placed a bullet into it.
He also told me that they watched the lights on the first night they were being reported in the area with his cousin, and the lights moved erratically all over the night sky. So once again this shows that these unusual lights were around for two nights like everyone has been reporting.
The witness also mentioned that he spoke to another man who taught at the Clovis Community College (name was given) and he watched the object/lights travel right behind the man's property which was north of Clovis. This fellow reported that the object was long/cigar in shape.
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Clovis, New Mexico UFO Event - 1976 Burnt Ground & Unusual Metal & Men In Suits
Date: 1976
I took some time to sit down and write what I remember about that time, thirty years ago. I remembered quite a bit, maybe more than my friends. Here is the text:
I was a senior in high school, and was approached by a local young man named (name removed). He had heard that I owned a large telescope, and wondered if we might use it together to try to get a view of some objects he'd seen in the sky and taken pictures of the previous night. I had a 6" reflector telescope, and back then, it was uncommon.
I accompanied him and a young reporter from the Clovis News Journal for the next 36 hours or so. We had the telescope with us in the trunk of the car. We went out to several remote areas at the edge of town, and my friend described what he had seen the night before. We set up the scope, and binoculars, and looked at the sky. There were several moments when we thought we saw movement in the star field, but couldn't be sure. Sometime after midnight, we decided to doze at the News Journal office, on a couple beat up old couches they had there, and listen to the police scanner.
After a short while, we heard a call go out for a "public service" to the "burn spot" behind the Colonial Park church, at the northwest edge of town. "Public service" meant fire, police, and emergency medical services were all to respond. We scurried out to the car, piled in and beat everyone but the state police to the site. When we arrived, a State Policeman told us that a couple had been "parking" (we knew the young couple from high school) behind the church when they saw a craft with green lights land in the field beside the church. It stayed a few moments, then blasted off into the sky. When it took off, it started the field on fire. When we got there, the fire was not burning. We could smell the burnt grass, so we crossed a barbed wire fence to get to the burned spot with flashlights in our hands.
The burned area was very strange. The prevalent winds here are from the west, and I remember that the burn spot ran north and south, about 100 yards long and 30 yards wide, contrary to the wind. There was a strange pattern at the edge of the burn also. The grass inside the burned area was burnt to the ground, then at the edge, the short grass wasn't touched, and the taller grass farther out was singed only at the tops. Some of the grass fifteen feet from the edge of the burn was singed on the top, with untouched grass in between. So it seemed that a giant flame had played over the field, completely unlike a natural grass fire, which has a clear line delineating the edge. This peculiar pattern was all around the edge of the burned spot.
In the middle of the burn, we found a weird clue. There was a square of grass, about 18 inches, perfectly square, and the grass had been pressed down hard into the dirt. Around the square the grass was completely burned away, but the grass flattened in the square was untouched, but for being pressed down. It seemed as if something very, very heavy was sitting there, and left a footprint in the grass. We spread out, looking for other similar "footprints," but there were none, only the one, singular square.
As we were in the field, walking around the burned spot, a four-door sedan pulled up to the edge of the field where the firefighters and local police were waiting. The sedan had four men inside, all of them wore suits. The state police waved us over. The men were pretty much nondescript, clean shaven, average looking, short haircuts, but not quite military. They started asking us questions. One of them opened the trunk of the car and it was filled with electronic equipment. He took a device out of the trunk and closed the trunk. We told them about the square footprint, and they wanted to see it. We all walked to the field, and showed them the spot. With the flashlights playing on the spot, one of the men took his shoe and rubbed the spot out, obliterating it. I remember his words to this day. "That's nothing."
We were instantly angry. I marched off away from the group and more towards the edge of the burn, where we hadn't looked around. I was fuming, shining the light around hoping to get another clue. I found one.
It was a piece of constructed metal, about two feet long. When I picked it up, I noticed that it was very light, yet strong, like titanium. On one end was a tube, about two inches in diameter, and attached to the side of the tube and running along its length was a small flat bar. The bar was about twice as long as the tube, and on the end of the bar was attached a fin. The fin was about 8" wide, and very flat and thin.
I yelled to my friends, but before they could get there, one of the suits ran up and snatched it from me. He hauled it away so fast that my friends only got a glimpse of it. The suits then told us to leave the area. We stomped off, and hung around by our car. What the suits didn't know is that the young reporter, who had his camera around his neck the whole time, had taken a photograph of the square footprint. That photo is still somewhere out there.
The police, firefighters, and ambulance were all leaving, as there were no casualties and no fire. The police announced they were all going to Denny's, a local restaurant, for coffee. The suits asked if one of us young people would ride with them, and since I was the youngest, I was "elected."
I sat between two of the suits in the back seat. They interrogated me while we were driving, asking all kinds of personal questions, about me, what I did with my time, what movies I liked, my hobbies. Even at a young age, I knew they were fishing. I was polite, and was very happy to get out of their car. We all sat at different tables at the restaurant, and didn't talk much, as the suits were listening.
When we left, everyone (including the suits) went to the old empty Hotel Clovis, and I hauled my big telescope up to the roof. The suits had binoculars and several small, box-like instruments they were peering through. I remember how strange it was, them letting us youngsters even go up there. We watched the sky, waited, and watched some more.
I was getting dreary eyed when one of my friends noticed some strange movement in the star field. It was as if a star would just zip across the sky to another location where it would just stay. We'd watch it a while, and it would zip again, with excited shouts going up, "Did you see that?" "Did you see?" The suits would always deny seeing anything.
This watching went on for several hours, but no stunning play of lights or colors appeared. We all went to our homes and slept until the next night.
The next day, we read in the paper that the burn had been made by fireworks. In January. I knew it was a cover-up, as the burn pattern couldn't have possibly been made by fireworks. They also said that what was seen in the sky was Saturn. There was no mention of the footprint, or the strange piece of metal.
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Albany, New York Moon Sized Sphere Witnessed By Many
Date: April 1, 1981
Time: 6:00 -7:00 a.m.
Location of Sighting: I-90 eastbound, just outside Albany NY
Number of witnesses: 2
Number of objects: 3
Shape of objects: Sphere.
Full Description of event/sighting: My good friend and I were travelling by car eastbound on I-90, headed trout fishing, just outside Albany NY, when up ahead we saw several cars pulled off to the side of the highway. We thought it was an accident. As we slowed, we could see a crowd of maybe as many as ten people, were out of their cars and motioning to the sky. They seemed frantic, so we pulled off to see what was going on. The occupants ran to our window and informed us that they had all witnessed UFO's. We got out, and suddenly, on the horizon, what seemed like a few miles ahead, rising up from ground level, about the size of the full moon, a magenta sphere shot up, to a point which appeared to be a few hundred feet. The object then stopped dead in the sky, motionless, and just sat there for a couple seconds.
Then it shot straight across the horizon to the south at great speed and stopped dead again. But this time it began what can only be described as a pacing motion, back and forth, as if it were a football player looking for a hole to access. It was then, while in motion, it made a right angle turn and shot straight up and out of sight... at an unbelievable speed. At the time we talked of the speed with which it shot off into the heavens as "hyper-spacing." As it vanished into the atmosphere it left behind a magenta cloud which hung eerily in the morning sky. The sky was clear up to that point and the odd cloud took many minutes to dissipate.
To our amazement, two more spheres followed and performed the exact same maneuvers. The people from the cars stated that they had seen other spheres before these. Everyone seemed to be in a state of euphoria.
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Palenque, Mexico A Solid Oblong Craft Hovers Above Witnesses
Date: 1996
Time: 4:00 or 4.30 a.m.
I greatly appreciate what you do in this whole complex and dynamic field of interest. For years I have been interested in the so called UFO phenomena (I'm 26) and have probably discussed the issues a million times with many people and enjoy the different perspectives people have.
To be as brief as possible, I live in New Zealand and my father who is a professional director of photography was filming a BBC series called "Spirits of the Jaguar" back in 96' when he along with 2 or 3 others had the sighting. What really blows me away about the sighting is the location it was in (Palenque, Mexico) and the apparent interest the UFO had either in the people viewing it or King Pacals tomb/pyramid. Basically, they were setting up there equipment, camera etc for the day shoot. It was only 4:00 or 4:30 am so still dark, so unfortunately there was no way of filming the event.
After realizing there was a small light on the horizon over the jungle in Palenque my father and others become curious as it was a little unusual, although at first they speculated it could be some kind of micro-light craft. Eventually the light came silently zigzagging towards them. Now at this stage they were directly at the bottom of the Temple of Inscriptions setting
up. As the light came closer it suddenly sped up if I recall correctly and zoomed towards their position, where it "stopped on a dime" in my fathers words. Now keep in mind as far as my father was concerned UFO's were only something his son talked and read about all the time.
He had no belief what so ever in their existence and never really looked at the evidence, despite my pleads! Now this light had stopped directly above them (or perhaps above the temple itself) and it's luminescence went out to reveal a solid oblong kind of shape, perhaps a couple thousand feet up and perhaps the size of a large truck, but I'm not 100% sure about that. My father described it as pretty much brick like. After a few moments of awe and confusion amongst the watchers the crafts light came back on and it shot off to the horizon again at a seemingly impossible speed, all the while completely silent! I believe the light was pretty much the entire craft glowing (propulsion system effect?)
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Clovis, New Mexico Two Witnesses Observe A Perfect Circle
Date: Requested (2004) ?
Time: Requested
Message: Hi, My Name is (removed), I live in Clovis, New Mexico, I'm 16 years old, a couple of years ago, I don't know when, but me and my Brother were outside playing basket ball, we looked up to the east and we saw a strange object floating around. It wasn't a bird, it wasn't a jet. We looked closer at it, and it's colors were spinning around like in a perfect circle. The colors were red, blue, yellow, black and green. Well we were still looking at it, then couple of seconds later it vanished into thin air. Then after we saw it disappear, we just went back to playing basket ball. Well thank you for your time.
Thank you to the witness for the report.
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Fairview Heights, Illinois A Ball Shaped Object Just Below The Clouds
Date: April 2, 2006
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Sphere
Full Description of event/sighting: I was with my father making a delivery. We arrived in Fairview Heights just after a tornado had blown through. I was watching the clouds still looking for signs of another tornado. The clouds were very low but seemed to be moving rather fast. We were pulling into the parking lot in Fairview Heights when I rolled my window down to get a better look at the sky. I saw a ball shaped object just below the clouds right above me a little to the right. I noticed it right away because the clouds were moving and it was not and the clouds were very low so it seemed very close to me. I would say that it was a little bigger around then a stop sign. It was a dull silver color almost like a grey. It was very slick with no type of lines or anything. it was Very smooth and round. I looked at it for a few seconds then it shot straight up into the clouds extremely fast. Thanks.
Thank you to the witness for the report.
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Fort Qu'Appelle Echo Lake, Saskatchewan A Bright Light Round In Shape
Date: June 5, 2006
Time: Approx: 10:00 p.m.
I also saw something that night. I was sitting down by my dock at Pasqua Lake. Around 10:00 pm I saw a bright light that was round in shape and moving very fast. It went from up high in the southern sky down to the water level to the north. This was over the Standing Buffalo Reservation which separates Echo and Pasqua Lake. My immediate thought was that a plane had crashed but there was no sound, it looked like it went right into the lake. I have seen "falling stars" before but this was 50 times larger than any I had seen. I waited to see if there were any stories about a large object falling from the sky in the newspapers but nothing was reported. I googled UFO sightings in Fort Qu'appelle and read the report. I am not sure what I saw but I can confirm the original posting on the web site. Please do not mention my name or share my E-mail address. Thanks.
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Kilburn Area London, UK. A White Dot Of Light Becomes Larger
Date: June 17, 2006
Time: Approx: 11:50 p.m.
I am living in Kilburn area in London, UK. I am writing you because after read Mt. Pleasant information about unknown lights I found some similarities with my sight. It was 10 or 5 minutes to midnight on Saturday June 17, 2006 so the same date and similar time. I know USA are few hours behind UK and I though if the light I saw was the same it travelled 4-5 hours across ocean to hit there.
I was in bed looking from my open window the clean sky and no stars. Suddenly this white dot started to appear from the South and progress in size as it was getting closer to my view. It had a round perfect shape, white light not so bright and reminded me a full moon when seeing on the afternoon light. Pale white. While moving in direction to North, there was no noise, tail and was fast. Probably the whole vision of this light took 1 minute or 2, until disappeared in the distance.
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San Pablo, California Craft Gives Off Bright Flashes Of Red & Blue Lights
Date: June 18, 2006
Time: 11:08 p.m.
Location of Sighting: At first from on facing second story window, then backyard.
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: All I saw was a round pattern of lights when it banked.
Full Description of event/sighting: I called you Monday evening, I saw a craft from my second story window. I live on the top of a hill that has a good deal of overhead air traffic, both helicopters and fixed wing. So when what I thought was a helicopter came crossing by, and I realized there was no noise coming from it, it grabbed my attention. I saw this craft approach and ascend, coming from the bay and crossing right over the house. It appeared to bank to right a bit, revealing a very atypical pattern of extremely bright flashes of red and blue lights, which appeared to be coming from the edges of a round shape profile. The actual shape or silhouette of this object I could not see. When this happened, I left the 2nd story window I was in front of, and ran downstairs to the backyard for another look.
The object flew silently by over head, heading slightly to the right. I tracked the lights, which were so bright that they were actually hard to look directly at, I could actually feel a slight ringing in my ears as they flashed. The object passed the tree-line and gave me one chance to try and guess its size and range. Whatever size it was, it appeared to be at relatively low altitude. I am very interested to hear about any sightings like this that happened that night in this area, or recently and nearby.
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This document is shared information that is intended to assist anyone and everyone with a further understanding of UFO information from around the world, copyright is supported where due. Our usual thanks go to Brian Vike for his Canadian contribution.
73's and Bye from Peter ZS2ABF - East London, South Africa.
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