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Many thanks to George A. Filer of MUFON for this
news story.)
UFOs MAKE NIGHT FLIGHTS
OVER SOUTH AUSTRALIA
     Two UFO sightings were reported near Adelaide,
South Australia (S.A.) last week.
     On Thursday, April 2, 1998, at 11 p.m., residents
of Mallala, S.A., located about 50 kilometers (30 miles)
north of Adelaide, "reported sighting a flashing light in
the northern sky.  The illumination flashed each time
for about 21 seconds, and it was about 70 degrees above
the horizon."
     On Saturday, April 4, 1998, at 4 a.m., witnesses near
Durrem, S.A. reported seeing "a large white illumination
'in a holding pattern' (hovering) above a paddock" located
"25 kilometers (15 miles) from the nearest township."
While the UFO hovered over the paddock, "small red
lights came out of the ground and rose up into the larger
illumination."  (Many thanks to Ross Dowe and the
Australia-New Zealand 24-Hour UFO Hotline for these
reports.)
DAYLIGHT DISC SPOTTED BY
STUDENTS IN MALAYSIA
     On Saturday, March 14, 1998, several students
at Taman Orkid, near Mingguan in the Southeast Asian
county of Malaysia "saw an object like a saucer."
     The boys, ranging in age from 11 to 14, said the
UFO "was at a distance of 100 meters (330 feet) and
about the size of two cars."
     Mohd Firdaus Rashid, age 12, said, "The saucer
seemed to have a light on its rear...The saucer beamed
its light at us a few times, and when all its lights flashed,
it flew away into the sky."
     Rashid and six companions were playing near the
mosque when they sighted the saucer hovering nearby.
     Mohd Nazrin Ozali, age 11, said "the color of the craft
was grey.  The saucer did not rotate, and we saw four
wings and a light beam onto a field."
     Ihsan Ibrahim, age 12, said they lost sight of the
UFO when it retreated behind a hill.  (See the newspaper
Alor Star of Kedah, Malaysia for March 15, 1998.  Many
thanks to Steve Wilson and Skywatch International for
this report.)
BLACK HELICOPTERS ACTIVE
ON BOTH SIDES OF THE
ATLANTIC OCEAN
     Black helicopters were sighted recently at two
UFO sites on either side of the Atlantic.
     On Tuesday, March 24, 1998, at 7:30 p.m., Peter
Gann was "approaching the last mini-roundabout on
Strathaven county road" in East Kilbride, Scotland
when he sighted one.  "The chopper was visibly black
and hovering over the fields and factories in the area.
It had the shape of a--don't laugh--Airwolf chopper on
TV and was either dark grey or black in colour."
     East Kilbride, located 30 miles (48 kilometers)
southeast of Glasgow, has been the center of a UFO
flap since December 1997.
     On January 25, 1998, a Greenhills man reported,
"My sighting is of a large black helicopter, and it was
only a hundred yards from my window.  I could see the
rotor blade quite clearly...It was big, it was black, and it
did have unusual lighting."  (Many thanks to Dave
Ledger for this report.)
     Here in the USA, two black helicopter sightings were
reported in mid-March near Salisbury, North Carolina
(population 23,087), a town on Highway 29 about
115 miles (184 kilometers) west of Raleigh.
     On Friday, March 13, 1998, witnesses on Bringle
Ferry Road spotted a black helicopter hovering over
the area where local resident Thomas Moon saw a
triangular UFO the night of January 30th.
     On Saturday, March 14, 1998, ufologists Stefan
Duncan and Jamie Maness spotted a black helicopter
flying over High Rock Lake, east of Salisbury.  Their
sighting took place at 11 p.m.  Duncan, who is the
editor of American UFO Newsletter (AUFON), was
on a routine skywatch at the time.  (See AUFON #4
for 1998,  Many thanks to Stefan Duncan for letting
UFO ROUNDUP quote from his report.)
from the UFO Files...
1976: ABDUCTION IN IRAN
     On April 5, 1976, Gholam Reza Barzagani, 19,
took a walk in the woods near his hometown of
Chalus, near the Caspian Sea in northern Iran.
     "According to Barzagani, while he was walking
along in the deep forest on Friday, he suddenly saw
a UFO emerge from the sky, fly straight towards
him and stop directly above him.  He said he was
unable to move as he watched four 'beings' come out
of the spaceship and take him inside it."
     "He claims that he spent some time under the
scrutiny of the 'beings' before passing out.  'The next
thing I remember is that I woke up back on Earth
early in the morning, not in the lush Caspian forests,
but surrounded by barren lands.'"
     Barzagani wandered all morning until he found a
dirt road and followed it into the town of Isfahan.  The
UFO had dropped him off in the desert a good
480 kilometers (300 miles) south of Chalus.
     Barzagani was examined by doctors at the Red
Lion and Sun Society Hospital in Isfahan.  They
pronounced him physically and psychologically fit.
The head physician said, "This young man firmly
believes that he has been aboard a flying saucer."
     SAVAK, then Iran's national police, investigated
the case and learned that "a number of people from
these villages" around Isfahan "reported seeing what
they described as a 'flying saucer.'"
     The Barzagani case was the first in a series of
UFO incidents that culminated in the pursuit of a
UFO by fighter jets of the Iranian Air Force in
September 1976.  (See the Tehran Journal for
April 7, 1976.  See also UNSOLVED UFO
SIGHTINGS, volume 3, number 3, Autumn 1995
issue, "UFOs and the Persian Gulf War" by
Timothy Green Beckley, page 41.)
FUN UFO WEBSITES:
     Cydonia is the word this week!  Check out the new
Face photo at the Malin Space Science Systems
website.  You'll find it at http://www.msss.com/
mars/global_surveyor/camera/images/4_6_face_
releases/index.html
     The Face can also be seen at this URL:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/target/CYD/index.html
     And at http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/
marsurv.html
     Mark Haywood's Cosmic Horizons website is up
and online.  Drop in at http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/
~mark.haywood/homepage.html
     Another new site is Paul McTaggart's Abduction
Phenomena webpage.  You can reach it at this URL:
http://www.abductee.net
     Don't miss our parent site, UFO INFO.  John Hayes
is in the processing of adding new info sources to the
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