SA> Grampians: gateway to UFOs

 SA> June 14, 2003

 SA> RECENT photos revealing mysterious lights visible around the
 SA> Grampians mountain ranges, extending 100 to 160km north of
 SA> Warrnambool, have been released to The Standard.

There are also the famous "Brown Mountain lights of Virgina" that
have drawn
the same kind of attention over the ages. These lights also hover over a
mountain range as do the ones in Your article. This phenomenom has never
been fully explained, but the popular explanation by skeptics is a weather
event similar to a fireball. Despite the arguments of open-minded people,
automotive headlights and aircraft are also mentioned by the skeptics.

      Regards,
           Jack

 E-mail: Jack{at}Sargeant.org

 SA> Known as a `hot spot' for UFO activity over the past two years, the
 SA> area is attracting `paranormal' enthusiasts from around the country.

 SA> Victorian woman Jacqueline Purtell spent two days in January observing
 SA> activity over the Grampians ranges and reported seeing multiple moving
 SA> and stationary objects of varying colours.

 SA> She estimated the closest of the spherical shapes to be 1.5km away.

 SA> Victorian UFO Research Society public relations officer Paul Norman
 SA> has been investigating UFOs since 1954.

 SA> He said UFOs had been spotted almost nightly since two flew over the
 SA> car of a man travelling from Horsham to Halls Gap in June 2001.

 SA> "There's a big one called `the commander' and it operates in concert
 SA> with smaller ones," Mr Norman said.

 SA> Two archeologists and researchers from the University of Melbourne
 SA> have been investigating the phenomenon.

 SA> Mr Norman said the lights were invariably in a straight-line format and
 SA> often flashed on and off simultaneously before disappearing from sight.

 SA> He said lakes high in the Grampians could have had some influence on
 SA> the UFO attraction.

 SA> Ms Purtell used a camera attached to a telescope to photograph the
 SA> images and said the lights were being manoeuvred in an unnatural
 SA> manner.

 SA> "Car head-lights cannot, to my knowledge, fly over the top of mountain
 SA> ranges. If they do, please let me know. We might be onto something,"
 SA> she mused on her Victorian UFO Research Society sighting report form.
 SA> -- Report: JACLYN DENSLEY

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 SA> Cheers, Steve..

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