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reportedly went on for several hours.  One witness told Dave Perkins
later, that he thought ". . .it was the end of the world!"  These
Huerfano sightings are being investigated by David Perkins.
SAME DAY
Thursday January 8, 1998 between 10 and 11am Huerfano County, La Veta
MOA Witness reported "20 to 30" jets criss-crosing the Huerfano in a
grid pattern, 25-year resident witness claimed this aerial manuevering
was "highly unusual," even in over the MOA. Six and a half hours
later, Thursday January 8, 1998, 5:20 pm, over the Baca Ranch, 2 miles
east of mile marker 93 on State Highway 17, two witnesses driving
north on 17 noticed a brightly blinking small light two miles to the
east of their location. They then observed a "150 foot diameter disc"
with a small, low cupola, light was on underside. Object was plainly
visible in dusk lighting. Appeared to be at "between 1500 to 2000 feet
" in altitude and traveling down the center of the SLV south by
southwest. One of the witnesses estimated the speed at between "500
and 600 mph." Two other cars on 17 may have also witnessed object.
Duration of sighting about "30 seconds."
The next day, Friday January 9, 1998, 5:20 pm, in Costilla County,
SLV CO., a witness e-mailed the following report Jan 10: "Just last
night my daughter and her friend and parent were coming home from
basketball practice and mentioned that on. . .". . .Thursday [Jan 8
'98] night [in Costilla County SLV CO] they noticed two lights
emanating from the sky in the approximate location where the
carcasses [of three pigs] were discovered. She mentioned this before
I told here about the discovery of the pigs." Sunday January 10,
1998, Huerfano County La Veta MOA.  More reports of unusual light
activity which are under investigation.
Here Come Those Sky Katchinas
Those pesky fireballs that have been reported here in the SLV for
decades inexplicably made a couple of dramatic appearances in January.
 I have a hunch these objects are somehow connected to subsequent
military activity reported in our area.
January 11, 1998, 12:15 am Front Range of Colorado
By Jim Hughes [Denver Post staff writer] Jan.-12 - 1998.  "A
mysterious object lit up the night sky up and down the Front Range
early Sunday then startled witnesses with a deafening explosion.
There was no official explanation about the object Sunday. Military
spokesmen denied the object was a military aircraft. Local scientists
speculated it could have been a meteor or an illegal firework . . ."
How interesting the January 11th Colorado object's glow, as it passed
over, was again a captured by the same security camera that caught
last year's "meteor" at the same location. And how interesting last
October's huge New Mexico/West Texas "meteor" occurred on the same
flight path--almost a year to-the-day-- from a similar object seen on
the same flight path last year.  Later in January, more fireballs
were reported.
Saturday January 11, 1998, at dusk Huerfano County, La
Veta MOA.  Again, reports of unusual light/craft activity. Tuesday
January 20, 1998, 6:00 pm -south of the Great Sand Dunes, a Hooper,
CO, resident reports to a friend watching a "big star doing some big
twists" over his friend's house.  The friend then called me at 7:30
and I contacted the witness and learned that the object/light was
flashing "red-green and blue." The nonchalant witness described the
multi-colored light as hovering for five or so minutes just south of
the Sand Dunes Oasis, where his friend lived. Both witnesses claimed
the object was not Sirius rising in the east. One claimed the
"object" was two times larger than the brightest planets, and was 5
degrees north of Sirius the heaven's brightest star, which he was
able to identify.  At around 6:15 pm, I happened to witness two low
flying jets headed from the east, over the Sangre de Cristos, south
toward the location where the light was observed. Jets were flying
under 3000 feet above the Valley floor. They were in close formation.
There Go Those Sky Katchinas
Odd parallels between recent Australian and Colorado Fireball events
seems to be developing.  Consider the following article written by
Harry Mason (who wrote a multi-part article called Bright Skies, for
Nexus Magazine).  This excerpt is re-printed w/ permission from "THE
STRANGE" February 16, 1998, a weekly Newsletter distributed by; Louise
A. Lowry  Taak46b@prodigy.com Weird Australian Fireball Events
"There have been many other post-May 1993 Australian reports (in
excess of 1000 often multiple events) concerning aerial fireballs and
associated light energy emission. These involve exotic diesel freight
train noise making spherical fireballs, and some noiseless variants,
flying long trajectories over different parts of Australia.  These
fireballs have been observed in all our states (as recently as the
4th. of February 1997), and in many cases have exhibited variations
on and combinations of the following actions: very low altitude "nap
of earth" trajectories, small to non-existent tails, no fragment drop
off, apparent velocity less than that of sound, no associated sonic
booms, considerable sudden change in course, speed up, stop dead,
reverse course, fly vertically upwards into space, create intense
vibration of ground and housing as they pass over, or explode in
massive blue-white arcing light displays with major explosive sound
events - or silent intense light flashes, create power generation
over-voltage outages and other electrical effects. The Banjawarn case
demonstrates a cause-effect relationship with a 3.9 Richter scale
earthquake and other fireballs have possibly been related on at least
two occasions to 3.0-4.0 richter scale earthquakes in eastern
Australia. If meteors are the source of these observations then
lately we appear to be continually encountering a very odd species of
meteor that exhibits a previously undocumented very exotic behaviour
and a very high statistical rate of arrival in Australia."'
Why would there be such an upsurge in fireball-type sightings in two
such divergent locations?  I have heard speculation that the Earth is
travelling through remnants of the Hale-Bopp comet tail, but I have
not seen conclusive proof of this theory mentioned anywhere analyzed
Colorado Fireball Questions
Tim Edwards, from Salida, sent me the following reports and article
re-print from the Denver Post.  Why are these fireballs continually
appearing in Australia and Colorado? "The following are the Salida
Colo. reports, and an article from the Denver post on the Jan. 27
events. As you can see objects were reported at numerous different
times at multiple location ranging about 250 miles away and from noon
Tues. and then at various times that night. How can meteors or debris
keep hitting the same general area over a 10-hour time-frame? A
question I'm going to ask The  Museum of Natural History in Denver
when I make a report. These are a frequent event in Colorado Getting
a little escalation lately of reports and increased military
activity. My 17 year old daughter Laray was sitting in the computer
room January 27, 1998 at 9:00, when she viewed a moon sized ball of
green light out of the south window [lights were on in the room] for
a couple of seconds moving at high speed and disappearing to the
southwest. At the same time my wife's sister [Kathy Rauter] and her 4
kids were driving to our house and viewed it down the road a half
mile to the south of our home. They also reported the same
description and said other people had to see it. No tail was observed
by any of the witnesses. They were extremely excited and some were
scared. I could tell by the reactions it was a major sighting. They
said it did not appear to be that far away. I just had got off the
computer and was upstairs reading a book so I missed the action
again. Laray also had viewed a green globe hovering and then shooting
down behind a ridge south of town this summer as well as multiple
reports by locals of orbs hovering and moving at high speed in the
area."
Several Report Seeing Its Blazing Path
By Stephanie Sylvester  The Denver Post-1-28-98 BRECKENRIDGE-
Several people saw a large fiery object trailed by a plume of smoke
crash to the ground near here about noon Tuesday.  "It was a fairly
large object that was on fire with smoke that was spiraling off the
back of it," said Blue River Marshal Steve Ford, who saw it from his
car near Blue River Road and Highway 9.  "My first thought was that it
was a meteor." Fork watched the object plummet more than a thousand
feet.  He lost sight of it at tree level. "It was a vertical shot
toward the ground, and I'm sure it impacted the ground," Ford said.
Leigh Pezzicara, a spokeswoman for the Breckenridge Ski Resort, said
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