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1942: THE BRENNAN DOGFIGHT
     Five years before Roswell, during World War II, a
Bristol Beaufighter of the Royal Australian Air Force
(RAAF) clashed with a UFO over the Bass Strait,
south of Melbourne, Australia.  Here is the pilot's
own account:
     "We had orders not long after the Japanese attack
on Darwin (on February 19, 1942--J.T.) to patrol the
Bass Strait where fishermen had reported seeing
mysterious lights on the sea at night."
(Editor's Note:  The Allied high command thought
the lights might be from long-range German U-boats
or Japanese I-class submarines.)
     "At 5:50 p.m. of a lovely sunny (February) evening,
we were flying some miles east of the Tasman
Peninsula when, of a sudden, there came out of a
cloud bank, a singular airfoil of a glistening bronze
color."
     "I'd say it was around 150 feet long and about
50 feet in diameter.  It had a sort of beak at its prow,
and the surface seemed burled or rippled or fluted.
On its upper surface was a dome or cupola, from
which I seemed to see reflected flashes as the sun
struck something, which might or might not have
been a helmet, worn by something inside."
     At this point, the pilot, Lt. William Brennan,
took his Beaufighter in for a closer look.
     "Every now and again there came from its
keel greenish-blue flashes.  It turned at a small
angle towards us, and I was amazed to see, framed
in a white circle on the front of the dome, an image
of a large, grinning Cheshire cat."
(Editor's Comment: Cartoon "nose art" was common
on warplanes of World War II.  It seems that the
UFOnauts had gotten into the spirit of the times.)
     "The damn thing flew parallel to us for some
minutes, then it abruptly turned away and, as it
did so, it showed four things like fins on its belly-
side.  It went off at a hell of a pace, turned and
dived straight down into the Pacific, and went under,
throwing up a regular whirlpool of waves!  Just as
if it had been a submarine.  No, the Japs had
nothing in the amphibian line like that mysterious
bird."  (See FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED
by Harold T. Wilkins, Citadel Press, New York, NY
1955, pages 224-255.)
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Mizuki Tamura's new site.  Log in at this URL:
http://www.bekkoame.or.jp/~fitzroy/html/ufoe.html
     On Saturday, February 14, Ontario ufologist
Jennifer Jarvis launched her new site, ORBWATCH.
Check it out at http://www.per.to/orbwatch
     Our parent site, UFO INFO, has a great new
feature--a whole webpage devoted to the Irish UFO
Research Association (IUFORA).  For a look at
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go to http://www.digiserve.com/ufoinfo/iufora/
files.shtml
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     Last week your editor mentioned a site devoted
to underground bases.  Several readers have
informed me that the URL for this site--http://www.
budget.net/~harbob/undbases.htm--cannot be
contacted.  Readers, please take note.
     And that's it for this week.  If you come across
a UFO story in your local newspaper, why not clip
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     We'll be back next weekend with more saucer
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UFO ROUNDUP."  See you then!
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