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     On Thursday, March 26, 1998, driving instructor
Brenda Hughie, 39, of Greenhills was giving a road
lesson to Tricia McLean, 46, on Strathaven Road.
when "a flashing object crossed the sky."
     "The dazzling light" startled Brenda, and she "got out
of her grey Vauxhall Corsa for a better look."
     "'I don't believe in UFOs, but afterwards I felt dizzy
and weak,'" she reported, "'When I got home, the whole
room was spinning.  Everyone thinks I am crazy.  They
don't believe me!'"
     Whitehills resident Tricia McLean reported, "I saw
six flashing lights in the sky.  Two were brighter and
went in different directions.  Brenda watched it out the
windscreen (windshield) first, and then I stopped the car."
     East Kilbride is 30 miles (48 kilometers) southeast
of Glasgow, Scotland's largest city.
(See the East Kilbride News for March 27, 1998,
"It's An L of a UFO" by Susie Kelly.  Many thanks to
Dave Ledger for this report.)
UFO VIDEOTAPED HOVERING
OVER A BEACH IN BRAZIL
     On Saturday, March 28, 1998, hundreds of people
relaxing on the beach at Praia do Jose Menino in
the seaport city of Santos were startled when an OVNI
(Portuguese acronym for UFO) suddenly appeared
offshore.
     Santos is in southern Brazil, about 120 kilometers
(72 miles) southeast of Sao Paulo.
     As the UFO hovered over Ilha da Urubuquecaba, an
offshore island, Valentim do Nascimento Junior picked
up his videocam and began shooting footage.  The UFO
was described as "a disc-shaped object covered with a
luminosity in the colors yellow, green and blue."
     Nascimento videotaped the UFO for 40 minutes as
the beachgoers watched it hover.  Then, "the light
flickering strangely," the UFO zipped away over the
horizon.
     Wallacy Albino, director-general of Grupo de
Estudos Ufologicos do Guaruja, a Brazilian UFO group,
has studied the Nascimento video.  He said that at
one point "a smaller light left the OVNI, circulated in
the sky and then returned to the object."  (See the
Brazilian newspaper Gazeta de Limeira for March 30,
1998, "OVNI e Filmado por 40 Minutos na Praia
de Jose Menino."  Muito obrigado a Pedro Cunha
por eso caso.)
CIGAR-SHAPED UFO SEEN NEAR
CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND
     Three people witnessed a cigar-shaped UFO in the
sky over Bexley, just north of Christchurch, South Island,
in New Zealand on Monday, March 30, 1998.
     At 8:30 p.m., Edith Perkins saw what she called
"a capsule or cigar-shaped object at first...silver-whitish
body, darker grey forked tail."
     "At the time I was doing some chores in our backyard,"
she reported, "We live by the coastal line of New Brighton.
NaturallyI looked up and I observed, still overhead, the
silver-whitish object coming.  I was facing west.  The
rounded edges, front and back, of the object called my
attention.  Its size appeared to be about 10 centimeters
(five inches) long (if held at arm's length--J.T.)."  She
estimated its altitude to be 30,000 feet but "was puzzled
that there was no trail behind it."
     Edith went to fetch a pair of 7X35 binoculars.  She
was soon joined by her husband and a home-care nurse.
As they watched, "suddenly a very bright light covered
the object.  It did not happen as a flash of light.  It had a
beginning" and at the end of the light burst, "I was seeing
a different rear on the craft, a forked end to it, the colour
of it was dark grey."
     Another burst of light occurred, "and the object
presented a rim, all around the craft, with either
intermittent colour lights on the rim or a rotating rim."
She described the lights as "reddish-orange tones."
The UFO flew out over Pegasus Bay, heading northeast.
(Many thanks to Ross Dowe and the Australia/
New Zealand 24-Hour UFO Hotline for this report.)
TWO NEW UFO SIGHTINGS
IN SOUTHEAST AUSTRALIA
     Two UFOs were reported Friday night, March 27,
1998, in southeastern Australia.
     At 7:30 p.m., people at Lake Corangamite in
Victoria state, 192 kilometers (120 miles) west of
Melbourne, reported "sighting a large and bright
orange fireball cross the whole sky."  They described
it as "a large meteor with a long tail."
     At 8:10 p.m., in Batemans Bay, New South Wales,
a shore town 256 kilometers (160 miles) south of Sydney,
witnesses saw "two orange lights with odd square or
rectangular tails follow each other.  They headed
southeast south from the northeast.  The illuminations
were traveling too slow to be satellites and appeared to
be in the atmosphere."  (Many thanks to Ross Dowe and
the Australia/New Zealand 24-Hour UFO Hotline for
these reports.)
THREE SILVER SPHERE UFOs
SPOTTED IN ONTARIO
     On Saturday, March 28, 1998, at 7:09 p.m., Amy
Hill was driving on Route 401 near Oshawa, Ontario,
Canada (population 129,344) when she spotted
three spherical, silvery UFOs in the night sky.
     "My husband and I were driving westward on the 401,"
Amy reported, "We watched three circular objects.
They were almost clear-looking whitish balls.  They moved
in a circular pattern and would come and join in the center,
then move out, go around in a circle, and then repeat the
same"  maneuver.  "We pulled over to watch."
     Oshawa is 30 miles (50 kilometers) northeast
of Toronto.  (Many thanks to Kenneth Young of T.A.S.K.
for this report.)
from the UFO Files...
1485: CICERO'S DAUGHTER
    or "Who Left the Light On?"
     In April 1485, workmen quarrying for marble near
the old Appian Way in Rome, Italy made a strange
discovery.  They broke into an underground chamber
with "walls of smooth stone" that was "illuminated by
a bright lampada (lamp) cool to the touch."
     They also discovered the body of a black-haired
teenaged girl in unfamiliar clothing.
     Among those who visited the mysterious crypt was
Bartolomeo Fonte, a Renaissance artist from Firenze
(Florence).  He described the find in a letter to his
friend, Francesco Sassetti.
     "They discovered there a marble sarcophagus.
On opening it they found a body on its back covered
by a substance two inches thick, greasy and perfumed.
The oforous crust was removed beginning at the head,
there appeared to them a face of such limpid paleness
it seemed as if the young lady had been buried that
day.  Her long black hair still hung from her skull,
parted and knotted to suit a young girl and fastened
in a little net of silk and gold."
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