From: Masinaigan@aol.com
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 13:27:44 EST
To: updates@globalserve.net
Subject: UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 3, Number 8
     UFO ROUNDUP
Volume 3, Number 8
February 22, 1998
Editor: Joseph Trainor
UFOs SWEEP ACROSS MAINE
     UFOs visited several towns in Maine, the largest
state in the USA's northeastern region, on Tuesday,
January 27, 1998, in an astounding one-night flap.
     A UFO visited Deer Island in Penobscot Bay, on
Maine's Atlantic Ocean coast, illuminating several
homes.
     Janet Stanley of Stonington, Me. (population 700),
a port town on the southern tip of the island, had just
turned on her TV set to watch President Clinton's
State of the Union speech.  As she entered the bathroom,
she "was startled by an immensely bright blue light that
came through the miniblinds on her west-facing window."
Opening the blinds, "she saw the western sky filled with
a deep bright blue (glow) with yellow vertical streaks
resembling lightning strikes."
     Nine miles to the north, in Little Deer Isle, Me.,
"Seth Harkness was watching the speech...at ten minutes
after nine (9:10 p.m.) when a blinding white light came
through the east-facing windows of his living room."
     In St. Agatha, Me., Pam Pelletier was taking her dog
for a walk when she "began hearing a series of huge sky
explosions, maybe 7 or 8 of them."  The incident took
place at 7:30 p.m.
     At 9:10 p.m., Grace Ouellette was at her home near
Long Lake in Madawaska, Me. (population 3,653), a town
on the Canadian border approximately 215 miles
(344 kilometers) north of Bangor when she spotted
"a large orange ball with white flashing lights."  At first
she thought it was a small plane about to crash at the
airport in nearby Frenchville (population 475).
     Across the St. Johns River, in St. Francois de
Madawaska, New Brunswick, Canada, Roger Bard
"reported that he had seen a ball of fire go down on the
American side of the river.  'It did not look like a falling
star,' he said."
     St. Francois de Madawaska is 213 miles
(341 kilometers) northwest of Fredericton, capital of
New Brunswick province.
     In Millinocket, Me. (population 6,922), a small city
69 miles (110 kilometers) north of Bangor, Ellen Cousins
"said she saw a bright orange streak as she looked
north at 7:30 p.m."
     Evelyn Robinson was driving on Interstate Highway 95
from Houlton (population 5,627) to Island Falls
(population 650) at 9:30 p.m. when she "spotted a huge
blue-green light streaking from east to west and leaving
sparks behind."
     "Robinson said, 'It was very fast, falling to the ground
at a 45 degree angle.  It was very startling and unnerved
me a bit.'"
     In Oakland, Me. (population 3,510), located on Maine
Highway 11 about 60 miles (100 kilometers) north of
Bangor, local police Officer Rick Stubbert "received a
report of something falling from the sky into McGrath
Pond...and planned to send divers out on Friday."
     Elsewhere in Oakland, Kelly Sirois and her father,
Ron Sirois, "heard loud explosions at 8:30 and at
10:30 p.m. that caused both to think that something
had impacted with their house."
     UFO phenomena were also reported in Deer Isle,
six miles (10 kilometers) north of Stonington, and in
Lincoln, Me. (population 3,399), a town on Highway 6
approximately 49 miles (78 kilometers) north of Bangor.
(See the Bangor Daily News for January 30, 1998,
"Witnesses see fireball in sky near Madawaska" and
"More witnesses report seeing bright-colored county
fireball."  Many thanks to Gordon J. Gianninoto for
these news stories.)
(Editor's Comment: Well, I guess we know what
Stephen King's next novel is going to be about.)
MORE UFO SIGHTINGS NEAR
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA
     A spherical silver UFO appeared repeatedly
over the Florida panhandle and southern Alabama
and was seen by dozens of eyewitnesses.
     In Gulf Breeze, Fla. (population 5,530), a resort
town seven miles (11 kilometers) south of Pensacola,
columnist Carole Baker of the Pensacola Beach
Islander was driving on Shoreline Road at 6:35 p.m.
on January 31, 1998 when she saw "not one but two
bright red objects low on the horizon to the east."
     Ms. Baker kept the objects in view for 90 seconds,
adding, "The two red objects had a distinctive shape.
Each central, large, ruby red light had adjacent to it
on either side one smaller red light...This was
suggestive to me of a ring-shaped configuration
which we have witnessed in this area many times
before."
     On Thursday, February 5, 1998, Vicki Lyons of
Pensacola, Fla. (population 58,165) experienced a
strange compulsion at 2:30 p.m.  "I suddenly
without any real reason began to think that I should
leave earlier."
     Getting in her car, Ms. Lyons drove west on
Interstate Highway 10 into Alabama.  As she neared
Elsanore, Ala. 16 miles (26 kilometers) west of
Pensacola, "All of a sudden, I watched streaking
across my windshield to the southwest a perfectly
round silver ball, so silver it looked like a sterling
silver perfect 'marble' in the sky."
     Ms. Lyons told CNI News that the UFO "looked
like an aspirin held at arm's length" and was about
one mile away  "It contrasted sharply against the
cloudless blue sky.  As I was looking at it and
pondering pulling off the interstate (highway), it
suddenly took off at tremendously fast speed and
crossed in front of me, over the interstate and off
to the north.  The speed of the object was
indescribable!  It was so spectacular that I screamed
in excitement when it flashed across in front of me."
     On Saturday, February 7, 1998, Christie Edwards
of Robertsdale, Ala., a town on Highway 90 about
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