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One might think 1997 was a poor year of UFO activity in Israel
judging by the paucity of media reports. In fact, the media
clamped down hard in January '97 after they were burned on the
Achiod alien/lizard story and the false prediction of mass
landings on Jan.5. However, due to the superb research of David
Ronen, Doron Rotem and two young newcomers, Gil Bar and Eddie
Shpitz, it turns out that 1997 was a vintage year for Israeli
ufology.
Some of the most dramatic physical evidence of the country's
intense ten years of activity emerged last year. Following is a
summary of 1997.
FILMS=20
- Over three nights in September 1996, Elad Niger filmed a
remarakable UFO over the coastal plains city of Kochav Yair from
his vantage point in the nearby city of Kfar Saba. He released
the films to David Ronen in March of 1997. They reveal the
prettiest UFO ever filmed in Israel. It looks like a colorful
apple wearing a three pronged crown.
- 1997 saw three UFOs filmed in Rishon Letzion, 20 miles south
of Tel Aviv and a center of UFO activity since 1993 when giant
aliens visited the apartment of Batya Shimon. Of the three clips,
none is so memorable as Gil Bar's November filming of an
ellipsoid disk captured in 4 PM sunlight being chased by an
Israeli Air Force F-15. The UFO's high speed manoevres to escape
the jet are most acrobatic. This is the first known instance of
a military plane chasing a UFO captured on film in Israel.
- Then on November 26, Nahum Shomroni video-taped an afternoon
invasion of low flying UFOs over Tel Aviv. The light conditions
were perfect and the craft were flying at only an estimated 700
meters altitude. The result is a breathtaking view of three
sponge-shaped, dark UFOs of a type possibly never seen before.
PHYSICAL EVIDENCE=20
1997 saw two disturbing animal mutilation incidents associated
with UFO sightings. They continued a pattern that began in the
Negev village of Klachim in Dec. '96. Sylvia and Yitzhak Kadosh
witnessed "an image as big as a house sparkling like a welding
torch" land near their donkey compound. The light vanished before
their eyes and they hoped it would be the last time their farm
suffered such an intrusion. But their hope was not realized. Two
nights later, 2 donkeys were mutilated. The older one had its
eyes and tongue removed and its rib cage was exposed by a
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surgical removal of skin and tissue. The younger animal only had
the latter operation performed on it.
In July '97, the Glam family of Sde Uziah, thirty miles west of
Klachim, had a UFO experience which culminated in Mrs. Glam being
chased by a projector light from an unknown source. Again, two
nights later, their sheep pen was invaded and five sheep were
drained bloodless from precise holes drilled in their cheeks.
Doron Rotem researched both incidents and to this day, keeps an
example from Sde Uziah frozen in his freezer. He admits his wife
is not happy about this mutilated carcass sharing space with the
family groceries.
The final incident made national news, the only UFO story to do
so all year. On Nov. 2, a silver ellipsoid disk hovered over the
Gaza Strip settlement of Paat Hasadeh. On Nov. 8, Yaacov
Mazal-Terem awoke to discover a row of twelve pairs of holes, 5
cm. deep along the fence which enclosed his horse. The horse
itself, had two 1 cm. holes surgically drilled into its front
hooves. The row of holes was photographed by the national media
and their origin remains a mystery. Speculation is they were
alien tracks or pods from a craft.
And finally, the famed hotspot of Kadima returned gloriously to
Israel's UFO history. From 1993-95, approximately 20 landing
spots were discovered after nights of UFO activity in the skies.
Within were shards of material later tested worldwide and found
to be a nearly pure silicon. This year, the same shards were
found twelve miles to the west on the beaches of Gaash and
Shfayim after UFO activity was reported.
On October 10, a UFO was seen over the Kadima suburb of Tel
Yitzhak. Idan Levy discovered its landing circle and found
within, not shiny silicon but an unknown material that looks like
grey branched coral.
SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO=20
I will be bringing the videos of the low flying invasion of Tel
Aviv, the F-15 chasing a most distinct disk over Rishon Letzion
and the colorful apple-shaped craft with a crown over Kochav Yair
to the Laughlin, Nevada conference. I think conferees will agree
this is a most dynamic and important trio of films.
I will also be bringing photos of the three mutilation cases as
well as samples of the Kadima "coral" to be offered for serious
laboratory testing. Israel's unique and powerful wave did not
diminish in 1997, it simply went unreported. That will end in
Laughlin.
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Sent by Barry Chamish - Israeli journalist.
Phone/Fax : (972)-2-9914936 E-Mail :=20
chamish@netmedia.net.il
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