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=A0=A0=A0=A0 On Wednesday, December 31, 1997, Lynn S. was driving in=
 rush-hour traffic
at 8:52 a.m., in Rockland, Massachusetts a suburb southeast of Boston.=A0=A0=
=A0=A0 As
she neared Reed's Pond, on Market Street in Rockland, she spotted "a cigar-
shaped craft that hovered for a minute and 45 seconds above the waters of
Reed's Pond before it plunged in and exploded. I saw the object come across
the sky, pulsating a blue light from the top with two strong flashing lights
on each side."=A0=A0=A0=A0 "Traffic slowed, but no one seemed to care enough=
 to get
out and see what the object was," she=A0 reported." As I approached the=
 traffic
lights, people were pointing back at the pond.=A0 But without the traffic=
 light
working, drivers were beginning to swear, cut people off and no one was=
 paying
any attention to the object."=A0=A0=A0=A0 "Upon driving home and finding I=
 had no
electricity, I called the electric company but only got a recording. I began
calling other residents of the town.=A0 They all said they had no=
 electricity
after they heard the planes go over.=A0 At 9:15 a.m., Lynn drove back to=
 Reed's
Pond."To my amazement, a black ball hovered in the sky above it, as big as a
silver dollar, but nothing was astir in the pond.=A0 I noticed dead ducks=
 and
seagulls floating on the surface."=A0=A0=A0=A0 The UFO zipped away seconds=
 later.
"For the record, I never heard any planes." Thanks to Joe Trainor editor of
UFO Roundup 3-2, 1/9/98.=20
NORTH CAROLINA
Terry Kimbrell reports,=A0 "Wanted to pass an observation I had of recent
activity in the Blue Ridge Mountains around the Asheville area.=A0 As you=
 know
there has been three reported UFO sightings in December, two near Clyde, NC
and a Decemvber 20th,=A0 sighting around Mars Hill. These areas are within a=
 20
mile radius of Asheville. I still haven't had any luck with contacts. On
January 5th, a hiker on the Appalachian Trail, in the Nantahala National
Forest=A0 reported finding what appeared to be human bare-footprints in the=
 snow
along the trail.=A0 Matt Moneymakers Bigfoot Research reports these=
 footprints
were 13 to 14 inches in length. This area is located 45 miles from=
 Asheville,
in the vicinity of two of the UFO sightings.=A0 Hope Right now the weather=
 is
pretty bad in some of these locations with flooding and the high mountains
have snow.=A0 Thanks to Terry Kimbrell and John Thompson.=20
GEORGIA
MUFON State Director, John=A0 Thompson reports he was a was a guest on an
Atlanta news-talk radio show on January 10th. On the "Royal Treatment" one-
hour show with host Royal Marshall on WSB, 750AM (a 50,000 watt station) we
had several interesting calls come in. The best was from a former naval
officer now living in Fayetteville, Georgia. The gentlemen would not give=
 the
name of his ship or the "body of water" that the incident happened in but
provided many interesting details.=A0=A0 He said that he was on a=
 "antiaircraft
weapons ship" --probably a TICONDEROGA class, Aegis equipped guided missile
cruiser from other details he provided. He said, while he was in the
operations center they tracked a UFO=A0 doing "Mach 8." (About 5,000 mph.)=
 After
watching the UFO on the screen and judging it to be within visual range he
went "to the bridge" and there was the UFO! He said, he then proceeded to
watch the UFO settle to near ocean level and he said it began "to lighten."
After growing bright it suddenly shot straight up and was out of sight=
 within
"two seconds." On asking him if they painted the target, he said, "No,=
 because
we were on condition one status."=A0 So all tracking was done solely by=
 passive
radar. He said, an entry of this incident was made on the ship's log and
occurred about twelve years ago. He wouldn't even name the location or ship=
 he
was on. Nonetheless, there is not a doubt in mind, just based on one
conversation with him, that he was an excellent witness reporting something
highly unusual that had radar confirmation. He knew exactly what I meant=
 when
I asked, "Did you paint the target." This guy was for real. Wish he would=
 call
us. Thanks to John Thompson.
Chief Tom Sheets reported on his investigation of several cases. In the
October 15th, 8 PM, sighting by Jennie and Shelley B. they saw a coned or
bell-shaped object with lights moving over a wide area near Cannonville, in
western Georgia for about 30 minutes. They relocated the UFO on the south=
 side
of Bartley Road. It was moving away at a slow even speed, and they followed=
 it
in a generally westerly direction...The object=A0 had moved from its=
 original
location at a slow but steady speed.=A0 The sisters described the=
 bell-shaped
object has having a large non-blinking light on top=A0 and two red lights on=
 its
bottom. It was the size of a "small aircraft or large car."=A0 The light=
 hovered
at tree top level, when it suddenly accelerated toward them very fast. They
said, "It moved faster than an airplane could move." The object traveled 2=
 1/2
miles in west and returned to Rosie Civers Road.=A0 Chief Sheets concludes=
 that
the "movement" and "no engine noise"=A0 rules out "standard aircraft" or
balloons.=20
On the second case, last summer at dusk, 18 year old Jennie B says she saw=
 an
UFO only 200 feet away from her near Cannonville, GA.=A0 After looking at=
 UFO
photos, she=A0 positively identified the Bell-shaped 9/16/96 Valley, Alabama=
 UFO
photo as exactly like the craft she observed. She saw the UFO for just five
seconds as she did not stop her car. She indicated, "The UFO was the size of=
 a
small car and hovering about 1/2 off the horizon only 200 feet from the=
 road."
This is similar to other reports we have had of the Valley UFO in Georgia,
Colorado, and Kentucky.=20
In the third incident with Jennie B., and somewhat further north of
Cannonville off the Willie Hodnett Road, she saw a rectangular shaped-UFO
shining a bright beam. The box-like UFO,=A0 had a forward-looking white beam=
 and
many non-blinking red lights. Jennie said, it was only a 100 yards away.=
 This
sighting occurred in early November at around 7 PM. The UFO was about the=
 size
of a large transfer truck. She only saw this for about 3-5 seconds. It=
 should
be noted that another UFO sighting took place on this same road that=
 involved
a square-box like UFO shining a light in a cow pasture. That sighting=
 occurred
in Sept. of 1995 and involved a couple and was indirectly verified by a farm
wife that lived nearby. Jennie's sighting may suggest something is regularly
returning to the Willie Hodnett Road area.=20
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