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Date: 04-03-98 (15:43)             Number: 195
From: JACK SARGEANT                Refer#: NONE
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>>> Continued from previous message
of a UFO flying from west to east between Pensacola
Beach and Gulf Breeze...The video shows a bright
white/silver object traveling quite fast across the sky.
Toward the end of the video, the object seems to tilt,
or turn, showing a bright flash as it catches the sun's
rays.  After that, it appears to fade, probably turning away,
it pursues and erratic course until it is out of sight.  This
object does not appear to be an airplane approaching
Pensacola airport, since its speed and altitude are too
high and fast" for a conventional aircraft.
     On Monday, March 23, 1998, Florida authorities
closed Highway 192 in Holipaw, about five miles
(8 kilometers) north of Narcoossee, the site of the
March 17 flyover of a V-shaped UFO.
     The highway was closed following a head-on
collision between a pickup truck and a semi-tractor
trailer hauling a load of chemicals.  The crash took
place near the intersection of Highways 192 and 441.
The semi spilled an unspecified quantity of the
chemical Dithan.  As a result, the authorities began
hazardous material (HAZMAT) clean-up procedures.
     Highway 192 in Holipaw was supposed to remain
closed "for a day."  However, on Wednesday, March 25,
authorities said the road would remain closed "until
sometime tomorrow."
     Ufologist Daniel Cox pointed out that Holipaw, Fla.
is in a "rural, wooded and swampy" area, adding,
"Closing of Highway 192 in this vicinity, near the
intersection of Highways 192 and 441, effectively
eliminates all civilian traffic in the region, at least as
far as primary roads are concerned."
     This has led some UFO buffs to wonder if a
saucer landed early last week in Holipaw.
     On Wednesday evening, March 25, a newspaper
reporter from Sebring, Fla. spotted mysterious lights
in the sky over Highway 60 as he was driving to
Lake Wales (population 9,670), a city 53 miles
(85 kilometers) east of Tampa.
    Each night from Monday, March 23, to Friday,
March 27, "a crew of five to ten people harvesting
palms at night have been seeing lights in the sky an
estimated 20 to 30 miles (32 to 48 kilometers)" north
of Lake Okeechobee, according to Jean Brown of
Tampa Bay MUFON.
     On Friday, March 27, 1998, the operations manager
at the U.S. Air Force's Avon Park Bombing Range
informed Ms. Brown that "for the past two weeks, the
Air Force has been dropping flares attached to
parachutes, two at a time, for A-10s at high altitude
testing night vision goggles.  He said testing was
supposed to end last night (Thursday, March 26), and
that they have received many calls as these flares
have been seen from Lake Wales south."
(Many thanks to Jean Brown, Carole Baker, Danny Cox,
Josh Harris, Courtland Lewis, Steve Wilson Sr. and
others for these Florida reports.)
FOUR LUMINOUS UFOs SEEN
NEAR FRENCH AIR BASE
     On Sunday evening, February 15, 1998, three
people--Ferdinand D., Simone B. and Beatrice S.--
were driving on Autoroute RN13 between Evreux
and Saint Andre de l'Eure when they spied "four
luminous objects in the sky."
     A UFO was first seen near the perimeter
of the Armee de l'Air (French Air Force--J.T.)
Base 105 Evreux/Fauville.
     "It had a spherical form and remained stationary
in front of us," Ferdinand reported.  "As we drove into
'old Evreux,' the object was on our right."
     They dropped off Beatrice at her home in the
Val David section of Evreux and then drove down
Chaussee (local road) D67, heading back to Saint
Andre de l'Eure.
     "We then saw three other spheres in a stationary
group," Simone reported.  "The first one came and
made a jerky motion.  Then the UFOs dispersed in
all directions."
     Stopping the car, Ferdinand and Simone stepped
outside to get a better look.  They watched the first
UFO return.  "The intensity of the light varied, seeming
to give an impression of shrinkage and expansion.  It
disappeared after ten minutes."
     Evreux is a city in the department of Eure
about 140 kilometers (84 miles) west of Paris.
(Merci beaucoup a Thierry Garnier pour ces
nouvelles.)
ANOTHER UFO SIGHTED IN
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
     On Monday, March 23, 1998, at 9:45 p.m.,
witnesses in Bindoon, Western Australia (W.A.),
84 kilometers (51 miles) north of Perth, saw
"a large, multicoloured light moving around high
up in the eastern sky."
     For fifteen minutes, the witnesses watched
what they described as "a light yellow/gold object"
with "red/green lights move around in a weird fashion
never seen before...The illumination appeared too large
for a star or planet."
     Earlier in the week, two UFO sightings were
reported in New South Wales, Australia.
     On Thursday, March 19, 1998, at 9:15 p.m.,
people living 20 kilometers (12 miles) west of
Mussellbrook, N.S.W. reported seeing "a large,
low-flying aerial craft with lots of odd surging noises,
no lights."  The UFO "passed overhead on a bearing
of southeast to northwest."  No Royal Australian
Air Force (RAAF) activity was reported in that vicinity
at the time of the sighting.
     On Sunday, March 22, 1998, sometime after
midnight, people in Taylor Lakes, N.S.W. reported
seeing a UFO with "multicoloured flashing lights
and some windows" fly overhead.  (Many thanks to
Ross Dowe and the Australia/New Zealand National
UFO Hotline for these reports.)
UFOs APPEAR IN PANAMA
     Following a two-month hiatus, UFOs returned
to Central America on February 25, 1998, turning
up in the nation of Panama.
     On Wednesday, February 25, at 2:39 a.m.,
police in the small city of Santiago de Veraguas
received calls from residents claiming to have
seen an OVNI (Spanish acronym for UFO) in
the night sky.
     By morning, city authorities were checking
out rumors of "a possible UFO landing."
     Santiago is on the Pan-American Highway
240 kilometers (150 miles) west of Balboa.
     That evening, at 9:15 p.m., a mysterious explosion
rocked the Barriada Florestal section of Santiago.
Investigating police and firefighters found a perfectly
circular hole in the roof of one of the houses.  The
cause of the hole remains unexplained.
     The following day, Thursday, February 26, 1998,
at 11:23 p.m., a triangular UFO was seen hovering
above Cerro Gordo hill on the outskirts of Santiago.
Fifteen people witnessed the object and described
it as "another UFO...with three lights of different
colors, shaped like a boomerang or a triangle.
There was no U.S. Air Force or Panamanian air
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