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Filers Files #26 - 2004 Skywatch Investigations
George A. Filer, Director MUFON Eastern
Vice President of Skywatch International
June 17, 2004, Webmaster: Chuck Warren --
Threat from Taurid Meteors
The purpose of these files is to report the UFO eyewitness and photo/video
evidence that occurs on a daily basis around the world and in space. These
Files make the assumption that extraterrestrial intelligent life exists.
Taurid Meteor Stream Approaching, Mars - The Tubes, Upstate New York -
Daylight Objects, New Jersey - Oval and Lights, Pennsylvania - Light Flies
Formation With Plane, West Virginia - UFO Seen Only With Sun Glasses, North
Carolina - Disc, Florida - Falling Red Balls and a Flying Triangle, New
Mexico - Multi-Colored Craft, Arizona - Bright Moving Lights, California -
Cylinders and Light, Canada - Disk and Globes, Portugal - UFO Photographed,
Italy - Numerous UFO Reports, Slovak - Crop Circles Exhibit at National
Museum, and New Zealand - Meteorite.
Taurid Meteor Stream Approaching
I have received dozens of e-mails concerning the possible threat of a
meteor impact on Earth. Someone impersonating Dr. Gartrell a scientist
from Australia has made a series of dire impact predictions on the Internet
for later this month. Dr. Gartrell denies he made the predictions and
said. "There is always a finite possibility of the impact of space debris
and I am certainly in favor of the work being done on early-warning
systems, but I have no knowledge whatsoever of any ... imminent threat. I
have never met any of the people who are making such claims on the
Internet."
Comet over Japan May 9, 2004
I thought it would be interesting to determine if there is any realistic
threat to Earth? NASA reports that the closest comet approach will be on
June 26, 2004, by Comet 1998 SF36, at .0137 or about five times the
distance of earth to moon (e=m). One of the facts known about comets is
that they tend to divide or fragment and some debris might hit the Earth.
David Booth who wrote the controversial book 'Code Red: The Coming
Destruction of America, 2004' predicts, "A large dark planetary object will
come up from beneath the Earth and collide with the South Pole. There will
be huge explosions on the West Coast of US." Based on the available
evidence it is my opinion this will not happen. However, the facts are
according to the famous astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle that the Earth has been
hit regularly by large meters. There were mass extinctions 94.5 million
years ago, a mass extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago, and another
extinction of life 36.9 million years ago. Studies indicated that impact
craters on the Earth and on the Moon show sustained and violent
bombardments taking place about every 30 million years. The sun and its
solar system move through the far edges of the Milky Way periodically in a
circular pattern. The Milky Way contains millions of comet fragments or
meteors that could destroy life on Earth at almost any time. Twice each
year Earth passes through the Taurid meteor stream from the 24 June to 6
July and again from 3 to 15 November that contains billions of meteoroids
and fragmented space debris. The meteors radiate from an Epsilon Tauri and
Taurus. Sir Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe claim there were impacts
around 10,000 BC causing the ice Age to end, others at 7000 BC, 5000 BC,
4000 BC, 2500 BC, 1000 BC and 500 AD. Archeological excavations indicate
that from 2500 B.C. to 2000 B.C. formerly well-established civilizations
collapsed or disintegrated under bombardment from Taurid meteors. These
disasters occurred in the Aegean, Anatolia, The Near and Middle East,
Egypt, North Africa and Asia. Egyptian records indicate a climatological
upheaval and abrupt desertification of previously lush agricultural lands.
During this period many of the pyramids were built and their shape and size
would make great bombardment shelters to protect the pharaohs. The red
planet Mars passes through the sky near Taurus and it is interesting to
note that the Arabian word for Cairo means Mars. The Great Sphinx in Cairo
and the so called Bent and Red Pyramids of Dashur were painted red because
of their association with the Mars.
We are entering a particularly dangerous period as waves of galactic
material swamp the entire solar system. We are dangerously close to the
upper limit of the cycle of about 39 million years when severe impacts
occur. The sun is now penetrating the remains of a disintegrating giant
molecular cloud that is a star-forming region of the Milky Way. Essentially
we are entering or within a part of the galaxy that indicates that a
bombardment episode is imminent and that the impact rate may be
exceptionally high. We are presently at the inner edge of the Orion spiral
arm where there are likely to be more meteoroids and comets. Astronomers
claim a disintegrating comet exploded in the air above Tunguska, Russia on
June 30, 1908, flattening 2,000 square miles of forest. On June 22 to 26,
1975, our Moon was splattered with a sustained barrage of ton sized
boulders. The facts are there is a potential danger as we ride on
spaceship Earth and many UFO reports during late June and July may turn out
to be space debris. Although a major impact is very unlikely, we can count
on running into the Taurid meteor stream later this month.
NASA states, "There are no known Near Earth Object's (NEO) on a collision
course with the Earth. There is a possibility that an as yet undiscovered
large NEO may hit the Earth, but the probability of this happening over the
next 100 years is extremely small." NEOs are small objects -asteroids and
certain comets- that orbit in the solar system relatively close to Earth
and could one day collide with Earth. The NASA declaration makes me
extremely nervous because dark fragments could be headed this way. In
March, NASA activated the Sentry, a new system to monitor NEOs and assess
their threat to Earth. Our atmosphere will protect us from most space
debris, but impacts are likely to be heard and smaller meteorites will
likely get through.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/neofact.html
This summer the world's top scientists will meet to plan defenses against
an asteroid bombardment that could wipe out a city or disrupt a country's
infrastructure. The scientists will plan ways to divert and discover ways
to combat collisions from space.
Last December, Britain's Royal Astronomical Society hosted an international
meeting of astronomers on the asteroid impact threat. In January, the
world's astronomers petitioned Australia's government to build a special
asteroid-detecting telescope. In March, NASA activated a "Sentry," a new
system to monitor near-Earth objects (NEOs). Brian G. Marsden, with the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts
claims, "We've had a couple of close shaves during the past few months," An
asteroid caused public jitters when discovered March 12. Named 2002 EM7, it
came from the direction of the sun - an astronomical blind spot where
objects are hidden in the sun's glare. Astronomers didn't detect 2002 EM7
until four days after it came within 288,000 miles of Earth, which they
regard as a close encounter. In September, NASA will conduct a "Workshop on
Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids,"
The point is that there are dangerous asteroids, meteoroids, and comet
fragments heading toward Earth. It will be interesting to watch the skies,
but most of the debris passes by during the daylight. Only infrared cameras
are likely to pick up the fireworks. Often as the meteors enter our
atmosphere an explosion can be heard and occasionally large meteors can be
caught on camera.
Mars - The Tubes
Professor David Southwood, European Space Agency Director of Science
states, "One of the main targets of the Mars Express mission is to discover
the presence of water in one of its chemical states. Through the initial
mapping of the South polar cap on 18 January, OMEGA, the combined camera
and infrared spectrometer, has already revealed the presence of water ice
and carbon dioxide ice."
Scientists claim where there is water there is life and based on this
assumption and my experience as a photo interpreter, I believe there are
strong indications of intelligent life has existed on Mars. A JPL satellite
image.
http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/ab1_m04/maps/M0001674.gif shows tubes near
a large crater where water leakage is apparent. The letters "RID" are also
evident just below the tube indicating some kind of artificial structures
on Mars and intelligence.
In the center of the image are glassy semi-transparent linear features with
a cylindrical shape that are tube or tunnel like. These diameters range
from 140 yards and greater with somewhat regular supporting arch structure.
The tubes are mostly buried but occasionally are uncovered. (25.63 N
37.5W)
At numerous places on Mars these strange tube like structures may indicate
a transfer system for large amounts of water from the polar caps, or other
sources of water such as found in craters. We have spotted water collection
systems within the craters. This tunnel system would also likely contain an
underground railroad, boats, or a method for moving bulk cargo. Each spring
millions of gallons of water melt at the polar caps and may be transported
through the tubes to underground municipalities. The tubes could also be
used to launch Martians off the planet since rockets are a wasteful method
of going in to space. Rockets expend much of their energy in lifting
themselves and their fuel rather than lifting cargo. Electromagnetic craft
using the tubes could reach high speeds underground and catapult into
space. This approach is well suited to Mars because its gravity is less
than half of the earth's. An ideal site for gradual acceleration is on a
steady upward slope. An electromagnetic train could reach speeds of
thousands of miles an hour underground and gradually climb some high point
and shoot out into space, accelerate and continue on to Earth.
Even today, UFO's are photographed regularly by the NASA Mar's Rovers
indicating unidentified space craft are being operated over Mars. The
Russian Phobos II satellite using infrared technology discovered large
sources of Mars underground heat indicating a city the size of San
Francisco. Many of the monuments on Mars may have been built as a warning
to us that the inhabitants were aware of impending disaster and then built
exceptionally large structures to the provide both a warning and a record
of their civilization.
Upstate New York - Daylight Objects
A house wife writes that she noticed people were saying that they were
taking pictures of the clouds and unseen strange objects were appearing in
their photos. She decided to do some experimenting and went out with her
camera three days ago, and started to take random pictures of the sky. She
says, "On June 7, 2004, when I got in to look at my photos I couldn't
believe what I was seeing. Not only did one 'object' appear, but sometimes
two were in the photos. Everyday I have been taking photos, and everyday I
am seeing what I call "silver orbs" and "flat silver objects." These things
are not there when I take the photos but show up on the photographs. I have
seen so many other pictures just like mine now, that there is no denying
that there are allot of these up there.
Thanks to Brian Vike http://www.hbccufo.com/
New Jersey - Oval and Lights
FORT LEE -- Right after the five military jets flew by going southwest at 4
PM, an oval shaped, black, heavy-like object was observed heading northwest
on May 31, 2004. The jets made a huge sound and the witness saw a strangely
tilted object that might have been a big balloon or an advertising
aircraft. However, this craft was not floating; it was flying and had a
heavy metal feeling.
Thanks to Peter Davenport Director http://www.ufocenter.com/
MANVILLE - The witness noticed a moving light in the sky that brightened
and dimmed and occasionally darted around on June 3, 2004, at 11:15 PM. The
witness states, "From my porch, I saw a light that seemed to move slightly
and change in brightness and drifted to the west. Then it darted very
quickly to the side, then back. As the hour passed it seemed to drift
northwest, the light got smaller, but still varied in brightness. Around
12:12 AM, it finally faded out of sight still moving west.
Thanks to Peter Davenport Director http://www.ufocenter.com/
Pennsylvania - Light Flies Formation With Plane
COLLINGDALE - The observer was lying in bed watching the planes in the sky
and a large bright white light appeared a short distance behind an airplane
on June 2, 2004. There are three planes that have the same route fairly
close together and he always watches them pass. The first was at 11:11 PM,
the second at two minutes later, and the third at 11:20 PM. The observer
states, "I was watching this last plane coming towards me and all of a
sudden a very bright circular looking light appeared not far behind the
plane." This was not another plane, because it was too close and had just
one very bright white light. It flew formation with plane for a few seconds
and then it stopped for a second, dimmed a notch, then a second later it
dimmed another notch, a second afterthat it just went out."
Thanks to Peter Davenport Director http://www.ufocenter.com/
West Virginia - UFO Seen With Sun Glasses
BECKLEY - On June 3, 2004, the witness was traveling north on I-77 on an
overcast day when he spotted a UFO through the lens of his sunglasses at
12:23 PM, that appeared as a bright star. Directly in front of the car was
a bright round object at 45 degrees off the horizon moving west about the
speed of a small prop plane. The sunglasses are probably polarized. He
reports, "I looked over the glasses to try to see a contrail, but the
object disappeared, but when I looked through the glasses, I could see the
bright object again." I looked over my glasses for the second time and
could see only sky. With the sun behind me I could see the object through
my glasses! Is it cloaking, ET or terrestrial? As far as I know, I am the
only one to see it."
Thanks to Peter Davenport Director http://www.ufocenter.com/
North Carolina - Disc
MOSHEIM - Mr. Mark W. Repass says, "At first I thought I was seeing a large
meteorite traveling horizontally across the night sky on June 2, 2004, at
11:15 PM. But then I noticed there was no trail and it was symmetrical and
solid. It was traveling south at a high rate of speed like the military
jets do when they fly the treetops around here, but it was dark. There was
only one light and no flashing lights the way aircraft have. From my
perspective it was about twenty percent the size of the moon and gained
altitude and flew around the tip of the mountain to the south the way a
military jet would, then made a left turn and disappeared. It was very fast
and very smooth. It had no flashing lights and made no sound and was too
fast for a helicopter."
Thanks to Peter Davenport Director http://www.ufocenter.com/
Florida - Falling Red Balls and a Flying Triangle
WEST PALM BEACH -- On June 2, at 11:55 PM, the witness walked outside and
noticed a bright object to the southwest that was getting really bright and
then dim to the point where he couldn't see it. He grabbed his binoculars
and saw six or seven small red balls of light shooting downward out of this
larger light. It was very much like a UFO documentary. Balls of light were
dropping and shooting out of this object. The witness called several news
stations, but nothing had been reported.
Thanks to Peter Davenport Director
MILTON -- Two witnesses were sitting on their front porch talking at 10:40
PM, on June 5, 2004, and observed two shooting stars and then another star
moving slowly in sky. The neighbor noticed two more lights behind it and
these formed a flying triangle. There were no clouds this night and the
object was traveling slowly east and remained in the triangle position for
five minutes, then each light blinked off one after another. No aircraft
was noted in the area, and it was moving ever so slow. Thanks to Brian
Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research http://www.ufocenter.com/
Ohio - UFOs Videotaped
Fostoria - George Ritter continues to video tape UFOs over the nearby
farmer's fields. A MUFON investigation team visited George last Sunday.
Above is frame one of the UFO videotape. Frame 2 is below taken 1/180 of a
second later. The UFO has moved into the trees.
A 20,000 year old French cave drawing by homo sapiens recorded their life
styles and conquests by painting amazingly accurate pictures of animals
such as bison, horses, antelopes, and mammoths--that were almost
universally found in the area. But in addition there were unknown symbols
known as Tectiforms, that are painted in such a way as to indicate they are
flying in the sky above the other figures.
Illinois - Circular Object
Chicago - A small white circular object hovered in the sky on June 1, 2004,
at 1:30 PM above the city. The witness says, "I was sitting on my back
porch and noticed an object floating by in the sky, that moved slowly and
then hovered for about two minutes. It was round and white, and it was
small in size. It stood still and then started moving upwards and
disappeared."
Thanks to Peter Davenport Director http://www.hbccufo.com/
New Mexico - Multi-Colored Craft
MANZANO MOUNTAINS -- The witness reports we have a farm east of the
mountains and see unusual aircraft that show multiple colors and fly at the
altitude the military generally uses. There are many more colors than
normal. We milk the cows at an odd hour in the evening due to my boys
playing little league and see these craft several times an hour between 9
PM and 11 PM. We are on a major flight path for the Albuquerque and
Kirtland Air Force Base. We have been having a number of sonic booms here
as of late where we can't see the plane. That speaks to me of two
possibilities. Either they are moving so fast we won't be able to see them,
or they are camouflaged to match our blue sky, so it wouldn't surprise me
if these craft were military in nature.
Thanks to Brian Vike, Director http://www.hbccufo.com/
Arizona - Bright Moving Lights
CHANDLER -- Zeke Jimenez, 17 years old, was outside observing the Moon on
June 3, 2004, with his brand new telescope and saw two stars in the
southwest that looked like very close bright planets at 9 PM. He aimed his
telescope at the objects and when he looked back up one of the objects
started to fade away. He states,"That's when I knew I was looking at
something out of this world when the first UFO faded away." He called his
sister but the last UFO then it started to fade away also. By the time my
sister came out it was already gone. All this happened probably within
30-60 seconds. My heart was pounding because I have never seen anything
like that in my life before. The objects were really bright ten times
brighter than any planet. Through the telescope he saw a dark circle with a
really thin line of light from the Moon."
Thanks to Peter Davenport Director http://www.ufocenter.com/
California - Cylinders and Light
MODESTO -- At 9 PM, on Memorial Day, May 31, 2004, while glancing up at
Canis Major, the witness saw an out of place luminous object twice the
magnitude of Polaris. The witness states, "Immediately I knew that the
object didn't belong there and brought it to the attention of two nearby
friends. As they looked the object void of contrail or trailing "burn off"
bolted to the east for about a second coming to a full stop within the
Sextan's Star Formation. It stayed almost perfectly still for ten seconds,
then in a "wobbly" manner descended, and dramatically decreased its
intensity and magnitude to a faint pinhead object just over the house tops.
This was a magnificent white light that along its decent jettison a gold
colored object, which remained stationary for about four minutes until we
lost site of it. The main object was so intensely bright we could not
discern its shape, but it was probably spherical or round.
Thanks to Peter Davenport Director http://www.ufocenter.com/
Modesto UFO taken by R. David Anderson May 31, 2004.
ORINDA - A recording engineer who works in Berkeley was driving on Highway
24 West, approaching the Caldecott tunnel in slow traffic when he saw a
cigar-shaped silver UFO on June 2, 2004. It was flying north of East Bay
Hills of at 12 PM. It was not shiny metallic, but silver and had no wings
or tail. It flew north until the hills blocked the view.
Thanks to Peter Davenport Director http://www.ufocenter.com/
SAN FRANCISCO - Another witness saw a cylinder shaped craft on June 11th,
2004, around 11:30 AM, while walking to his home in Potrero Hill. He
states, I was looking at the Bernal Heights Hill, south of San Francisco
when I saw a shiny object in the sky that caught my attention." What
struck me as odd was it seemed to be diving too steeply toward the ground.
Then I noticed there were no wings on the object. A passing thought that
occurred to me was that it might be some strange metal capsule dropped from
somewhere. It looked like a missile in how it was moving and shape. Then
almost immediately one of those planes with the long contrails quickly flew
in the direction of where the object has last been seen.
Thanks to Brian Vike, Director http://www.hbccufo.com/
Canada - Disk and Globes
WHITBY, ONTARIO -- Around 7:50 AM, the witness was walking to school on
June 3, 2004, when he saw a disc that seemed to have two wings on its
sides. It flew at a constant speed at only 250 feet altitude in a
horizontal direction. It then climbed at about a 40 degree angle and
disappeared. The witness states, "I know what a plane looks like, but this
craft gave me chills."
VERNON, B.C. On Saturday night June 5, 2004, the first flash was so bright
it appeared to lighten the close surroundings at 11:15 PM. It was flying
under 8000 feet just over the building when a halogen white flare appeared,
pulsed once and vanished. Then low in the northwest sky a few miles away
another halogen white globe flared that was visible for a few seconds,
dimmed, and then vanished. About ten minutes after midnight, 8000 feet over
the airport a white light became visible in the cloud as it descended to
just under the cloud. It was bigger than the small planes that fly there.
It brightened, then dimmed back to a light the brightness of Jupiter,
started to ascend back into the cloud then vanished. Through the scattered
clouds the witness could see two golden globes heading both north and south
at different times.
Thanks to Brian Vike, Director, HBCC UFO Research
Portugal: UFO Photographed
Monte Novo - A UFO was photographed on Monday, May 31, 2004, around 2:30
PM, by Eduardo Silva, 25, of the Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade (ISQ)
as he performed a water quality survey on the waters of Monte Novo. Two
engineers and two students were together but did not notice the presence of
the object until they checked the images picked up by the digital camera.
The Portuguese Air Force had followed the tracks of a "spindle-shaped"
object which had crossed the national air space. On Monday, Colonel Barbosa
of the Armed Forces High Command explained that they were currently
"cross-checking information from the radar images and eyewitness accounts."
The reflection of the sun on the apparently metallic object agrees with the
shadows of the trees shown in the photo. Source: Ruiz Chaves/Carlos Varela
Correio da Manh=C3=A3 - http://www.correiomanha.pt Translation (c) 2004.
Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic
PORTIM=C3=83O -- On June 1, 2004, the witness saw what appeared to be a
comet with a long very bright conical tail at 11:15 PM. Suddenly, it
started moving very fast in zigzags to the southwest with a reddish point
and it disappeared leaving a long bright tail behind it, that lasted for a
few minutes. It was not a comet, it was not a meteorite, it was not space
debris, because debris or meteorites don't circle and don't stop in the
air. This UFO was seen in various places in Portugal and was on TV and in
all the press. Twenty people saw a big light on the horizon flying from
south to north for 500 km over Portugal on June 1, 2004, at 11 PM. All the
people that saw the phenomenon report that the UFO was traveling with a
strong light, and with a strange tail of smoke. The trajectory was never
consensual, the speed also. The last sightings were around 500 kilometers
far from the first ones. The sighting was covered by Portuguese television,
radio stations and newspapers.
Thanks to Peter Davenport Director http://www.ufocenter.com/
Italy - Numerous UFO Reports
MILAN - It looks like Milan has become the favorite destination of both
UFOs and strange lighting effects. In a fortnight span, we received almost
ten reports from people witnessing aerial phenomena, plus one regarding a
triangular Crop Circle in Mazzo di Rho. On June 4th, 2004, V.R reports, "A
noisy object slowly flew above my house at midnight, heading northeast and
that wasn't an airplane. It emitted bright white lights and a loud noise
and disappeared beyond some palaces.
Thanks to Roberto Malini and Federico Dezi
Slovak - National Museum Crop Circles Exhibit
BRATISLAVA - The Slovak National Museum recently opened an exhibition
entitled Crop Circles displaying the pictograms and agro-symbols that
unidentified flying objects have left on Slovak territory. According to the
exhibition's organizers, witnesses have seen round, disk-shaped UFOs at the
site of 85 percent of the crop circles here, as well as abroad. The
exhibition displays all the pictograms from Slovakia that have been
registered by the Trnava UFO club. Miroslav Karl=C3=ADk, the club's
chairman says, "The Trnava club has registered nine locations where crop
circles appeared, and 178 reports on UFO observations in the Trnava region
between 1992 and 2003."
Captured on a videocassette and in pictures by amateurs, the display also
features photographs from the Bratislava region. Another part of the
exhibition presents the cases of pictograms found in England in the areas
of Stonehenge, Crabwood, and Chilbolton. The country is famous for its
large number of these formations. At the beginning of the 1990s, around 300
pictograms were found there annually. The exhibition runs until July 25.
Thanks to Zuzana Hab=C5=A1udov=C3=A1
http://www.slovakspectator.sk/clanok-16397.html
New Zealand - Meteroite
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A grapefruit-sized meteorite smashed through the
roof of a New Zealand house, hitting a couch and bouncing off the ceiling
before coming to rest under a computer. The 1.3 kg (2.9 lb) chunk of space
debris dropped out of the sky and plummeted through the tiled roof of the
Auckland home Saturday. "I was in the kitchen doing breakfast and there
was this almighty explosion," owner Brenda Archer told the Sunday
Star-Times newspaper. "It was like a bomb had gone off. I couldn't see
anything, there was just dust." Archer's one-year-old grandson had been
playing nearby minutes before it hit. It is only the ninth meteorite found
in New Zealand and the first to hit a home. The Archers, who are following
expert advice by drying the rock out in their oven, plan to sell it or give
it to a museum. Experts believe the meteorite, a chunk of an asteroid,
could be worth more than NZ$10,000 ($6,290), the newspaper said.
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