Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 08:43:27 -0500 (EST)
From: skywatch_ok@msn.com [George A. Filer]
To: updates@globalserve.net
Subject:    Filer's Files #6-1998  MUFON Skywatch Investigations=20
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   Filer's Files #6-1998  MUFON Skywatch Investigations=20
>From George A. Filer:  MUFON Eastern Director, =20
February 16, 1998;  Majorstar@aol.com  (609) 654-0020  =20
Evidence of life on Mars would help confirm UFO reports on Earth.
FLORIDA=20
Last week we ran the account of the three days or sightings over the Gulf
Breeze and Pensacola, Florida area. Anne Morrison's, Elise and Ray Pollock,
reported on their sightings on January 31st. Now Vicki, Pat & Buddy  write: =
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Dear fellow UFO friends,  We wanted to share with you some very exciting
sightings which took place in the last few days, as they are so very
significant when you look at the circumstances surrounding them. Life=
 Magazine
was here with their outstanding photographers, along with Whitley Strieber,
who is writing the piece, and the UFO showed up for the photo shoot, and=
 then
the next night as well. Then I also had a spectacular daytime UFO   sighting
that resembles what is being seen in Mexico. It certainly seems   that UFO
activity is picking up around the country, and it certainly has come back to
us in Gulf Breeze!  We are now out at night again checking out the skies=
 with
a vengeance. We are including accounts of several   people describing the
incredible events of the last few days.  Hope you   enjoy, and let us know=
 if
any interesting events are happening in your area, as well.=20
Thought I would document my records and impressions for the UFO sightings on
Pensacola Beach from 6:29 to 6:37 p.m. on January 30-31, 1998.  We saw a
bright, cherry-red light very similar in appearance to those frequently
sighted around Gulf Breeze in 1991-92 that were known as Bubba. The UFO was
near the water's edge in front of the Dunes Hotel. The UFO traveled in
straight line toward us and appeared to turn  eastward while directly
overhead. The final position of UFO was directly overhead of witnesses, when
it faded out.. The wind was from the southeast almost opposite the flight=
 path
of the UFO.  There was no sound. The UFO was at an estimated altitude of=
 5,000
to 8,000 feet.  I took 12 photographs and got something on 7 of the shots.=
 All
were time exposures using my  2000mm focal length lens, Ektar 100 film, and
tripod-mounted, 35mm Minolta SRT102 camera with pneumatic shutter  release.
Each photo shows a pulsing red line that moved up and out of the camera's
field of view.  I actually had a hard time getting the UFO into view and
keeping it there, while locking in my camera's  tripod; with hindsight, I=
 wish
I had aimed in front of the expected line of travel and just let it pass by.
The pulsing intensity of the UFO was probably in the 10 to 20 pulses per
second range, something which the human  eye can not detect, but the film
record clearly shows.  Witnesses noticed some changes in intensity during=
 the
8 minute sighting, but none observed the rapid pulsing recorded on film. =
 The
light was estimated at 1 to 2  feet in diameter and 1 to 2 miles distance=
 from
camera. Five of the witnesses were being photographed by Life Magazine
photographers, who  had the witnesses pose looking to the sky to the north
exactly where the UFO appeared.  The witnesses strongly felt:   1. That this
UFO appearance was more than just coincidence,  2. That the intelligence
behind this UFO knew where we were and want we were doing, and   3. That it
wanted the UFO to be noticed and reported in an important medium such as=
 Life
Magazine. Thanks to John Thompson, Vicki, Pat & Buddy.
OHIO
In our #4 Files we reported on the Zaneville, Ohio sighting of a large V
shaped UFO on January 29, 1998.  Kenny Young of the UFO Research Group
provides some additional information in answer to questions by Dr. Bruce
Cornet, Keith M. King and Tim Edwards. Could the military be intentionally
dropping flares and flying in a triangular formation in the area when=
 chasing
a reported UFO?  It seems too much of a coincidence that following the 13
March 1997, Phoenix event, the AF in Ohio should drop flares on the same=
 night
that a large triangular-shaped craft was spotted by witnesses: "Although
witnesses described a massive triangular object in Arizona (accompanied by
reports of military jets in action in the vicinity), a duplicate incident in
Ohio on March 26, 1997 of an identical 'triangular ship' was explained as a
flare formation traveling in a triangular arrangement (after being=
 discharged
from over-flying military jets also traveling in a triangular grouping.=20
Ken Young responds: I'm not sure how confident I am to deal with this
question, aside from just pointing out the similarities apparent in the
description of the object. We have no information to indicate that the=
 recent
sighting in Zanesville, Ohio (January 29, 1998) has any relevance or
relationship to the Phoenix sightings aside from the descriptive reference
given by the witnesses, eluding to a 'triangular definition' of an unknown
aerial object. In the case of the Zanesville sighting, this locality is not
within a MOA (Military Operating Area) and the time of the event was not
within the time frame for flare activities  permissible within MOAs.  We=
 have
no reason to think that flares were involved with the Zanesville, Ohio
sighting in any way. I would not affiliate anything with the Arizona=
 sightings
simply because the 'flare explanation' seriously complicates the Arizona
account and has 'stressed down' the case with allot of 'noise.'  Although
witnesses described a massive triangular object in Arizona (accompanied by
reports of military jets in action in the vicinity), a duplicate incident in
Ohio on March 26, 1997 of an identical 'triangular ship' was explained as a
flare formation traveling in a triangular arrangement (after being =
 discharged
from over-flying military jets also traveling in a triangular grouping).
Videotapes of the Ohio events (one also happening on October 16, 1996) were
made and analyzed, witnesses interviewed, and the Springfield Air National
Guard did openly confess and admit responsibility (right down to a televised
admission on the Cincinnati cable-TV program 'UFO UPDATE: LIVE!.=20
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