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Filers Files #18 - 2004 Skywatch Investigations George A. Filer, Director
MUFON Eastern
April 21, 2004, Webmaster: Chuck Warren --
If photos don't show up in email, try
www.georgefiler.com/ "Weekly files" Views
Many Dwelling Places
This weeks files review: ISS Astronauts See Possible UFO, Mars Face
Compares with Egyptian Headdress, Connecticut - Flying Triangle,
Pennsylvania - Strange Lights, North Carolina - White Silvery Cigar,
Florida - UFO Sighting, USAF Flying Saucer?, Wisconsin - Bright Light, Ohio
- UFO or Tanker, Indiana - Disc, Tennessee - Arrowhead UFO, Minnesota -
Canadian Geese?, Iowa - Egg, Alabama - Plane Hits Unidentified Object,
Texas - Disks, California -UFO Photographed, Canada - Fast Moving Lights,
and England - Cross.
ISS Astronauts See Possible UFO
Maria Thom=C3=A9 writes from Brazil, "I have something very interesting
for you." Last year, when astronaut ED LU was on the ISS on his mission
with Yuri Malenchenko, he said the following: "When flying on the ISS over
the south of Australia, after the sun had just set and when Mars was rising
up, through the atmosphere, he flew eastwards and turned his attention to
watching the `aurora', when suddenly he SAW a "flash of light" amidst the
auroral curtains. "It was a "small point" brighter than a typical star. It
lasted about 2 seconds and then he saw another flash and then another, all
together maybe 5 or 6 flashes over a period of a minute or two. He said,
"He never before heard about those flashes coming from auroras... And he
later ruled out some explanations, but found nothing that could explain
what those "flashes" were?"... So he was left (he and his Russian
companion) with a mystery up to now...Don't you think, he really SAW a UFO?
Cosmic Greetings and Peace in all frontiers! Thanks to: Maria Thom=C3=A9
in Brazil
Jesus said, "In my Father's house are many dwelling places; if it were not
so, I would have told you, for I go to prepare a place for you." John 14:2
Mars Face Comparison with Egyptian Headdress
Several people have noticed that some faces on Mars wear tall head dress or
hats that are similar to Egyptian, Assyrian, Inca, or Mesopotamian head
wear. David Grey sent this JPL image.
Face on the edge of Mar's Bonneville Crater with head dress
Headdress is similar to Egypt's god King Narmer 3050 B.C. on slate palette.
This JPL image taken from satellite shows similar headgear.
Thanks to Dr.Tom Van Flandern
Other comparisons are at:
http://www.vantasticdetail.com/MarsFaceComparison.html
Connecticut - Flying Triangle
ENFIELD -- Coming out of the house last night, at 8 PM, on April 5, 2004,
my right eye quickly caught a light, or lights off to the right. I looked
up and saw a craft of some kind, so I quickly grabbed my camcorder that
happened to be on my front seat. From this point on I have on video, its
not the best, I tried to zoom in and out, and the camera didn't like that
in darkness. I took a couple of street lights but the craft has three
triangle lights, with one in the center flashing. It was coming towards me
over the homes. I followed it with the camera until it got to the end of
the street, when I noticed another craft coming from the opposite way
traveling towards us. The two met at the end of the street.
This other craft was flashing a white light and had stationary lights
surrounding it just like the one I saw up close. I got into my truck to go
look for them, but they had gone, but above the old town pool park, I saw
both of them, hovering, almost fully cloaked. One wasn't all the way
cloaked, it's hard to explain, but to the right of the craft, it was lit
up, just a little, and its lights were lower, then stronger. It was doing
something while the other stayed stationary to its left. Finally the light
went out, and both of them were cloaked, but each of the craft had one
little light at each end, as if it was a distant star far off. The lights
were on each side, with a certain distance apart, the other craft had the
same lights barely visible, and they hovered just a little distance from
the other.
The one on the left crossed over to the right moving towards me, and it
starts to follow me as I am walking. I get inside my truck as it leaves,
still cloaked.
I was roughly 35 yards away as I filmed the smaller craft that was a little
smaller than a small airplane, that had three lights, one in the center,
while the fourth was flashing a white light. A light was also being beamed
out towards the other side. The craft went at a good pace; it traveled
with one light as a leading part of the craft while the other two lights
were on the sides.
There was no sound. In the video, it goes behind telephone poles and phone
lines.
Thanks to Peter Davenport UFOcenter
Pennsylvania - Strange Lights
WILLIAMSPORT -- Lights high in the sky, too high to be radio tower lights,
hovering for long time at 6:40 PM, on April 5, 2004. They were flickering
red, blue, and bright white background.
Thanks to Peter Davenport UFOcenter
North Carolina - White Silvery Cigar
LINCOLNTON - The witness saw a white silvery cigar shaped UFO at an
estimated altitude of 15,000 feet, traveling at a high rate of speed
heading due east at 6:40 PM, on April 1, 2004. Five minutes later a second
object was seen traveling in the same direction and attitude. There were
other aircraft in the same area and following the flight path for landing
in Charlotte. There was no reflection off any of the aircraft and nothing
out of the ordinary!! Both objects crossed the sky in less than a minutes
time. These objects left no vapor trails and no noise was noticed. I am
an aviation professional and have not experienced or seen anything that
travels at this rate of speed or constructed in this cigar shape pattern.
UFOcenter
MOCKSVILLE -- A bright light with a yellowish gold tint hovered over the
tree line for a few minutes on April 4, 2004. The light went out at 11:20
PM, after a few minutes. Numerous planes were flying around the area at the
time. This is the third time I have seen these lights in the last four
months, but on these dates the lights did not go out, they would just move
horizontally, stop, move forward, stop, move vertical, etc. There is never
any sound and the light is always consistent in strength, never dimming
until this event when it just "cut off".
Thanks to Peter Davenport UFOcenter
Florida - UFO sighting
LANTANA -- I was hoping you would be able to help me. I am not including
my name for I which to remain anonymous however I would appreciate it
immensely if you would be able to investigate a sighting I observed the
other night. Besides myself there were six others who witnessed it. They
included neighbors as well as two family members.
On Thursday, April 15, 2004, at 8:40 PM, We saw a circular object with
flames bursting behind it which hovered low in the sky then shot up. I
cannot say how fast it was going. It felt like it was going very slow
which seemed odd. The peculiar thing it did not stay straight on a course
but would zig zag back and forth. Finally, it just disappeared into the
northeastern sky. Please contact me with any information regarding this
sighting.
Thanks to FL 33462
USAF Flying Saucer?
TAMPA - Jack Picket claims to have seen four flying saucers at Mac Dill Air
Force Base in 1967. The craft had a high tail and were marked with
X-perimental and were being destroyed in the salvage yard at Mac Dill AFB.
I visited Mac Dill and Avon Park Air Force Bases and talked to numerous
officers and enlisted men stationed there during this time period. None
had seen any flying saucers at these bases. Below is an illustration of two
the four disk aircraft Jack saw.
This excellent illustration is by Michael H. Schratt, Chuck Biddlecom and
Gino Marcomini. We are looking for anyone who can verify or refute the
story. The website www.usafflyingsaucers.com at gives details.
Wisconsin - Bright Light
HAZEL GREEN/BENTON -- I was on my way to pick up my 14 year old from work
at a supper club at 6:40 PM, on April 1, 2004. I saw a very low bright
light in the sky that was not moving. As I got closer, I noticed a bright
red light but it was not flashing. I was right underneath it, but I was
too afraid to stop and get out of my vehicle as I was alone at this point.
I picked up my daughter and I went back the same way, my daughter looked
off to the north and said "What is that"? There it was again, even lower in
the sky, and moving. So I started to follow it northwest, but we lost it.
We wondered if it could have been a small aircraft that had to make an
emergency landing. Nothing was ever reported about an aircraft landing in
the area. It was very low, and very bright.
MILWAUKEE - Nicolas writes, "I'm a 32 year old male who has an interesting
story from almost 25 years ago to tell you." I was a student at Good Hope
School and on the day it happened I was there. A terrible "tornado" storm
(the teacher blamed it on that) hit Milwaukee. But I swear no tornado in
the urban area could have kicked up this much dust. We were in the duck and
cover position for almost a half hour. In the middle of the total
blackout, a girl named Renee Jones pointed at the clock. She had gotten up
out of the duck and cover position and exclaimed "look its midnight!" as
the clock said 12 PM. The sky was completely dark for at least a half hour.
There was no sound and the closest tornado, a real rarity in the city, was
10 miles away. It is my contention that this was a very large space ship
that blocked out the sun completely. I want to go for a ride! I wish it
would come back.
Sincerely Nicholas Jay Boyes
Ohio - UFO or Tanker
George Ritter writes, "Well, weird just keeps getting weirder here five
miles west of Fostoria. On the 15th of April my friend Allan August came
over to cut some trees. We were working when I turned around and saw what
appeared to be an Air Force tanker complete with retracted boom with the
small V shaped wings on the end. I thought it might be in trouble flying
at only about five hundred feet in altitude. I said "Hey Augie take a look
at this, it has four engines!" It was painted slate grey with no markings
or windows or port holes. What was so amazing, this aircraft was going so
slow, it wasn't going fast enough to stay aloft and was totally silent.
There was no exhaust that we could see. Myself and Allan are both combat
veterans and know what it sounds like when a jet comes over your position
that low. I called the Sheriff's office and the local airport to see if
anyone else had reported the craft, the deputy checked his log for the 15th
from noon until 3 PM and said nothing was reported during that time and the
airport said they had no traffic at all of that kind.
Thanks to George Ritter
Indiana - Disc
MOORSVILLE -- I was traveling south on state highway 67 south, just north
of town when a silver disk about 10-12 feet in diameter at about 300 feet
passed over my RAV4 at 6:40 PM, on April 1, 2004. It was moving from west
to east at about (est. 100mph) at around a 3-5 degree upward angle. It
looked to be only about 3-4 feet thick, no lights, no wings, no sound, and
no smoke.
Thanks to Peter Davenport UFOcenter
Tennessee - Arrowhead UFO
NEWPORT -- It was shaped somewhat like an arrowhead flying backwards, with
what looked to be a head or knob on the front on April 5, 2004, at 11 PM.
It didn't look mechanical, it was more like some kind of animal. It did not
have extended wings like a bird of any kind, but seemed to have some sort
of stubby wings which were part of the body, like a flying squirrel or some
type of bat. They protruded out near the head, and tapered back to a point
at the rear. The creature appeared to be around three feet from head to
tail, & a little over 2 ft. wide at the shoulders. It was moving very fast
in a straight line at an altitude of approx. 150 ft. I saw no method of
propulsion such as wing movement. It just seemed to be gliding, but at a
high rate of speed. It maintained level flight moving west where I
eventually lost sight of it. Other details were a light brown color along
the sides of the wings, like skin, with a dark body color, possibly dark
brown or black.
Thanks to Peter Davenport UFOcenter
Minnesota - Canadian Geese?
ST. PAUL - The witnesses live in a high rise in downtown and about 8:30 PM
on April 1, 2004, they went out on their balcony to have a cigarette. The
witness states, "My wife noticed a flying `V' formation heading due south."
She pointed it out to me and we stared at it. Our initial thought was that
it was a UFO, but as we observed for about three minutes we noticed that
the formation metamorphosed into a sloppy looking "W." Then we saw a piece
of it break off and go to the other side forming a lopsided "V" formation
again. There was a cloud formation to the southeast that was slightly
illuminated on the top as well. My wife and I saw the exact same thing over
downtown St. Paul, March 31, 2004, heading south around 8:30 PM. There is a
large Canadian goose population around here. Typically we can see flocks
flying south near the end of the evening. Based on our observation we
thought that the "V" was a flock of geese flying at a higher than normal
elevation and they were catching the last rays of light on their
underbellies rather than a UFO. Again, we could be wrong. I have seen
unexplained sights in the sky before but this was the first time I had ever
seen an illuminated flying "V." In this particular instance though, I think
that the sight we saw probably had a natural explanation.
Thanks to Brian Vike, Director CANADA HBCC Research
Iowa - Egg
PERRY -- it was really big and it was glowing neon green when it stopped
just above the Mc Creary Recreation Center on April 1, 2004, at 12:27 PM.
Then, it started to spin making a soft pitch whine. Then, it started
changing shapes and it started turning orange then red then back to green
then after a few hours of that it just stopped and it almost was like it
was going to fall out of the sky when it took off leaving a blue trail of
something in the air. The craft turned white then made a sound somewhat
like a gunshot being fired from a 12 gauge then it disappeared. Later, my
friend and I went over there and we found this strange metal book but it
won't open and it has strange writing on it.
Thanks to Peter Davenport UFOcenter
Alabama - Plane Hits Unidentified Object
MOBILE REGISTER, staff Reporter Joe Danborn writes, "Federal investigators
have determined that a single-engine delivery plane that crashed into Big
Bateau Bay on Oct. 23, 2002, slammed into something 3,000 feet above the
Mobile-Tensaw Delta moments earlier -- they're just not sure what it was.
The highly unusual National Transportation Safety Board account points to
unidentified red marks on the severely damaged nose and front belly of the
plane as evidence that it hit another object in the air. The crash killed
54-year-old pilot Thomas J. Preziose of Mobile minutes after he took off
from Downtown Airport. From Our Advertiser Agency officials "don't know of
any other accident that we have in our files that states 'collision with an
unknown object,'" said Keith Holloway, a spokesman for the NTSB, which
investigates all domestic air accidents. "I've never seen a report like
that," said Don Godwin, a veteran pilot and chief executive officer of
Mid-Atlantic Freight, which owned the plane. "And it's very troubling to
have something like this happen and not know what caused it. I know the
family's upset, and understandably upset.
It's just a great thing that this kind of thing didn't happen to an
airliner with a bunch of people on it." The report also notes that
malfunctioning radar recording equipment hampered efforts to determine the
exact cause of the accident. Moreover, an air traffic controller at Mobile
Regional Airport apparently gave incorrect positions to Preziose about the
location of a DC-10 in the area, according to the recently released report,
officially called a finding of facts. A Federal Aviation Administration
official at Mobile Regional Airport said Tuesday afternoon he wasn't aware
of any equipment malfunctions. He deferred further comment to officials who
had left for the day. The five-page report states that the FedEx DC-10
doesn't appear to have been involved in the collision; investigators
examined it the day after the crash and found it unscathed. That lack of
damage, however, deepens the mystery as to what happened to Preziose's
Cessna 208B Cargomaster. Experienced pilot: Preziose was a veteran pilot
for the New York City Police Department and had been an instructor on the
Cessna 208 for the Pan Am Flight Academy in Memphis, according to the
report. He had worked for several months for Mid-Atlantic Freight, the
company contracting with DHL, and had flown the same route numerous times.
An autopsy revealed no drugs or alcohol in his system. The plane -- which
had passed a routine FAA inspection a few days earlier, the report states
-- disappeared from radar about 15 minutes of taking off from Mobile
Downtown Airport at Brookley around 7:30 p.m. Flying under contract for the
delivery company DHL Worldwide Express, it was bound for Montgomery bearing
420 pounds of business documents. About 10 minutes after takeoff,
Preziose, using the call sign "Night Ship 282," switched from talking to
the control tower at Brookley to the FAA tower at Mobile Regional Airport,
a standard procedure, according to Bay Haas, executive director of the
Mobile Airport Authority. His agency maintains and staffs the Brookley
tower, while the FAA operates the Mobile Regional tower, he said. A DC-10
ahead: As Preziose climbed northeast through the overcast sky, relying on
instruments to take him to his cruising altitude of 3,000 feet, the Mobile
Regional controller alerted him to the presence of the DC-10, which was
seven miles straight in front of him, flying at 4,000 feet and inbound for
Brookley, according to a transcript of the chatter contained in the report.
Preziose acknowledged it. A minute later, the controller told Preziose the
DC-10, now just two miles from the Cessna, had crossed the smaller plane's
path and remained at 4,000 feet. "Roger, I got him above me right now,"
Preziose replied, apparently confirming he saw the FedEx plane.
Seconds later, the report states, he came back on the air: "I needed to
deviate, I needed to deviate, I needed to deviate, I needed --." A
commercial frog hunter in an airboat assisting Alabama Marine Police and
Coast Guard crews found the wreckage around midnight, resting in shallow
water, about 1 miles north of the Mobile Bay Causeway. The wings were
shattered, and most of the front of the plane was little more than
fragments. "The impact of that collision disintegrated that airplane before
it hit the water out there," Godwin said. Engine split in half: The Pratt
& Whitney engine block was split in two, the report states. Godwin called
that a strong indicator of a violent impact. "That's a big deal. That
airplane could fall out of the sky and hit concrete and it's unlikely it
would've broken the engine in half like that." The NTSB report details the
agency's attempts to find the source of the red marks on the Cessna.
Investigators sent fragments with the markings to Wright Patterson Air
Force Base in Ohio for testing.
The markings were compared to other materials from the plane, including red
paint and a red cargo bag. The tests also examined paint from an unmanned
aerial vehicle, apparently to determine whether the Cessna had struck a
military drone. Similar tests were performed by the U.S. Aircraft
Insurance Group -- which took custody of the wreckage in February -- with
similar results, the report states.
"The main result from the investigation is that the material in the red
streaks on the skin of the accident airplane was significantly different
from the other materials that were examined for comparison," the report
states. Additionally, investigators were unable to identify the source of
"a small piece of what appeared to be black anodized aluminum, which was
found embedded in the left wing" near the fuselage, the report states.
"There's definitely no chance that that particular incident involved one of
our drones," said 1st Lt. Sage Park, a spokeswoman for the 53rd Wing, which
operates unmanned airplanes out of Tyndall Air Force Base in the Florida
Panhandle. Those drones do not fly as far west as the Mobile area, she
said. A spokeswoman at Eglin Air Force Base, farther west in the Panhandle,
said squadrons there also generally do their testing over the Gulf of
Mexico and do not venture into airspace near Mobile. Neither of the Air
Force officials nor a spokesman at Naval Air Station Pensacola could
immediately confirm whether units based there were conducting aircraft or
missile tests when the Cessna crashed, although all said it was unlikely
for various reasons. The Navy spokesman said the Pensacola station has
radar that reaches Mobile, although it is generally monitored for activity
in the Gulf rather than near Mobile.
The accident report does not indicate whether investigators sought radar
data from any of the military installations. Based on the limited radar
information they could find, investigators concluded the Cessna never
crossed paths with the DC-10, contrary to what the air traffic controller
told Preziose, the report states. Greg Breedlove, a lawyer with the Mobile
firm Cunningham Bounds, said his firm has been retained by Preziose's
family and is examining several possibilities, including that the Cessna
simply got caught in turbulence caused by the FedEx plane. Another
possibility?: Sam Houston, resident agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement
Administration office in Mobile, said his agency had no information about
the accident, although he said he could not rule out the possibility that a
drug smuggling plane might have struck the Cessna. "There is active drug
smuggling in Alabama, yes, by air," he said. Godwin, the Mid-Atlantic
Freight executive, said it was "very hard to believe that in this United
States, with terrorism being what it is, that there's no record of any
aircraft or object moving in our space out there. You'd think somebody
somewhere has a record of that collision." NTSB investigators should issue
their final analysis on the accident within a few months, said Holloway,
the spokesman.
On the Web: NTSB Aviation Accident Synopses:
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/Month.asp
The Birmingham News | The Huntsville Times | Mobile Register =C2=A92004
al.com.
Editor's Note: The fact the leading edge of the Cessna had and the engine
block split in two by the violent impact infers the collision occurred with
a high speed craft. The black aluminum imbedded in the wing was sent to
Wright Paterson AFB for analysis suggests UFO involvement. Videos from the
space shuttle has shown high speed UFOs moving along the Gulf Coast
corridor on a regular basis. There have been other mysteries surrounding
similar midair crashes.
Texas - Disk
LEAGUE CITY - The witness thought they were birds at first buzzing around
the clear sky on April 1, 2004, at 12:27 PM. But then they started to make
these weird formations and he saw some reflection, that he knew was metal.
Four made a triangle and then there were five and then six. The witness
explains, "They disappeared and then came back, and as they moved I saw
more and more 20, then 50 then about 100. They looked like white fireworks
in the sky. They would appear and then disappear in two different sets. A
passenger plane flew into the direction of the lights and then they were
gone.
UFOcenter
COLLEGE STATION -- We saw 6 dots in the sky directly above, they were all
close to each other, and moved to the right slowly across the sky at 11 PM,
on April 7, 2004. They began moving apart, then back together. After about
8 sec. they faded out. Both of us saw the entire event.
UFOcenter
CORPUS CHRISTI -- The triangle would fly at fast speeds then it would stop
and shine a bright blue beam down on houses at 12:30 PM, on April 4, 2004.
It did this about five times then it soared up in the sky and vanished.
Thanks to Peter Davenport UFOcenter
California -UFO Photographed
MODESTO -- R. David Anderson writes, "I greatly appreciate your featuring
the UFO pictures on Filer's Files #16. I have color enhanced these recent
photos and got some interesting results. I used the AOL editing controls to
get this effect. The details of the UFO's become more discernible, the
picture looks like there is an energy field around it and actual figures
imbedded within that field. March 27, 2004 photo of UFO's. by R. David
Anderson
Canada - Orange and Fast Moving Lights
WILLIAMS LAKE, BRITISH COLUMBIA - On April 10, 2004, at 11:30 p.m. Brian
Vike took a call from a witness who reported seeing a large orange shaped
object sitting stationary at a distance and close to the tops of the trees.
The object was visible for approximately a minute, it then broke into two
orange colored lights and disappeared very quickly. The object was seen in
the southwest. No sudden movements were noted, no sound was heard. There
were also clear skies that night.
ACTON, ONTARIO -- My fiancee and I wrote previously about a sighting
on April 9, 2004. This was the sighting of multiple lights, traveling at a
fast speed with no flashing lights or sound. Well, since that sighting we
have continued to see these odd lights in the sky, around 9:20 p.m. to 9:50
p.m. On the second sighting, myself and our neighbor spotted 25-30 of these
lights in the shape of a 'V'. They were moving north at high altitude.
Again, there were no flashing lights and there was no sound.
The third sighting took place on April 15, 2004. There were three
witnesses: Myself, my fiancee, and our neighbor. At 9:29 p.m. - we saw 7
lights in a perfect 'V' shape that seemed very distant for about 15
seconds. Less then a minute later, five lights in a different pattern were
seen very distant. At 9:44 p.m. three lights were spotted, and was more
distinctive and brighter. These lights seemed to be lower to the ground
than the first two sightings. The lights lasted about 20 seconds. They were
the size of a pinky fingernail. Then at 9:49 p.m.- four lights, lower to
the ground were seen that were the size of Joe's thumb fingernail. These
lights lasted about 19 seconds. There was no sound, during any of the
sightings and all were moving at a quick speed.
There were 3 separate sightings on April 16th, 2004, the first at 9:20 p.m.
- were 7 lights, that lasted 16 seconds was spotted just west of the Big
Dipper heading north in an unorganized 'V' shape. At 9:25 p.m. - 2 lights,
lasted 17 seconds that were further west of the Big Dipper. The left light
was ahead of the right light but they moved across the sky, ended up
side-by-side, and disappeared into the distant with the right light now
leading. At 9:27 p.m - seven lights, that lasted 20 seconds were in an
unorganized 'V' shape. This sighting was visible in the distance and not
right above us, much harder to spot.
We have been seeing them on a regular basis, and are very curious about
what we are observing.
Thanks to Brian Vike, Director CANADA HBCC Research
England - Cross wavering and no sound
LONDON -- When I first saw it, it was an extremely bright light that
changed to another extremely bright colored light, coming towards my
direction at 6:40 PM, on April 1, 2004. Then suddenly the bright light
stopped and as it passed overhead the lights switched into a cross
formation. What I found strange was that even though it might have been
high in the sky there was no sound off it and it wavered twice slightly as
it passed overhead. It continued in the same direction till I lost sight of
it. Because I live near Heathrow airport I see aircraft every day but this
was not similar to anything I have ever seen before.
Thanks to Peter Davenport UFOcenter
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