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From         : ZS2ABF
To           : UFO   {at}WW      
Type/Status  : B$
Date/Time    : 06-Nov 14:09
Bid          : 990452ZS2ABF
Message #    : 265006
Title        : Re: UFO INTEREST GROUP 196rply
Path: !VE3UIL!ON4HU!IK2XDE!DB0RES!ON0AR!F1ZNR!ON0BEL!ZS0MEE!ZS0ELD!

From: ZS2ABF{at}ZS0ELD.ELD.ZAF.AF
To  : UFO{at}WW


Hi Sten, 
and all UFO Interest Group members.
Nice to hear from you after so long.

Many thanks for prodding me along and telling me to keep up
the UFO series of sightings.

Yes, six only replies to my latest request and 2 of those
were open "WW to UFO" ones.

All said keep it up and one person said he also puts them on
to the internet so that his friends can read them. In the
last 2 years that I've been sending out the Bulls I have had
17 replies. Most of them personal and not for publication so
as to keep their identity secure. This request I respect.

What I am going to do is just give you all the prefix's of
the hams call signs to show you the coverage achieved and
the spread of world wide interest in the UFO subject.
Replies received from:
N2/DK5/KC8/ZS1/ZS2/ZR2/G7/UT1/G4/G7/KA1/G6/G0/G0/VE3/ZS5
/GM0/ZS6

That's 18 via packet alone. I get some via Email but some of
those are the "Lunar tick Fringe" Hi.

I have been worried about the size of my bulls as they
average around 24K.  One local ZS ham suggested that I cut
them down to 5K and then more people may read them. I think
5K is far too small to convey the large amount of information
that I have available to send you. As it is I have already
weeded out quiet a lot before sending it to you as I can
judge that those sightings are typically due to natural
causes .i.e. Many sightings are reported during firework
celebrations (rockets !).

I've also wondered if the sysops would throw them out, as
they were too big to forward and may "bog down" their
systems. Having thought about that I realize that HF
forwarding is a thing of the past and the internet has taken
over that function, so it is no problem. I also know that
people are too lazy to read long boring Bulls. Then again if
you are interested in the UFO phenomena you want all the
sighting information, so that you may form your own
conclusions.

I have been accused of being a Sceptic by my friend Paul in
Canada. I have told him I am no Sceptic. I am careful and
objective (I hope). Some people believe every thing they
read but I am not one of them. If you wish to be a UFO
investigator you have to be objective and try to get the
FACTS and not hearsay.

I have said before 95% of sightings are of misidentified
Natural or manmade occurrences. It's the 5% that interests
me and others that I have spoken to.

Here follows a little Course in Astronomy to show you how
difficult it would be for an Alien race to find us within
the Cosmos.

The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human
understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity
is our tiny planetary home. In cosmic perspective, most
human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. I believe our
future depends on how well we know this cosmos in which we
float like a mote of dust in the morning sky.

The dimensions of the Cosmos are so large that using
familiar units of distance, such as meters or miles, chosen
for their utility on Earth, make little sense. Instead, we
measure distance with the speed of light. I one second a
beam of light travels 186,000 miles, nearly 300,000 kilometres
or seven times around the Earth. In eight minutes it will
travel from the Sun to the Earth. We can say the Sun is eight
light-minutes away. In a year, it crosses nearly ten trillion
kilometres, about six trillion miles, of intervening space.
That unit of length, the distance light goes in a year, is
called a light-year. It measures not time but
distance-enormous distances. If we are randomly inserted into
the Cosmos, the chance that we would find ourselves on or near
a planet would be less than one in a billion trillion. In

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