To: UFO UpDates - Toronto 
From: Mark Cashman 
Subject: re: UFO UpDate: Effects of UFO "sightings" on Asian countries
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 11:05:00 -0800
>  From: UFO UpDates - Toronto , on 1/16/98 8:17 AM:
>  From: "Terry Walker" 
>  To: updates@globalserve.net
>  Subject: Effects of UFO "sightings" on Asian countries
>  Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 02:19:19 PST
>  For
>  example, when TIME and NEWSWEEK made big deals of out Roswell and
>  the Phoenix hoax last year
Please indicate how the Pheonix sightings were hoaxed.
>  Ever notice how
>  these UFOs never land in poor rural Vietnam or even in modern
>  sleek Japan? No, they always pick No. 1 Country in the World the
>  USA (okay, sometimes the UK or France, other snotty uppity
>  nations that think they are Number 1 too)?
This is the kind of thing that passes for argumentation in "skeptical"
circles. I've seen it again and again.
I think you need to spend a little time with the case literature, such
as the Project 1947 EM Effects catalog from which the following
excerpts were extracted. You'll notice that these cases are not in
the US, France, or other European countries,  and are often from
rural areas or over the ocean, and a number of them date from
before major US press coverage of UFOs.
Jan 1942                Arjeplog, Sweden        E. Thorander;
object/humanoid/effects Stig Aggestad Kuslig narkontakt skramde
katt och pojke          Original        UFO-Information, 1981, nr l, p. 17
1944            India   glowing disc immobilized airplane
Original        Winkler: Catalog of UFO-like data before 1947 (1984),
p. 60, from: Flying Saucers Magazine n. 18 and Constable: sky
creatures (1976), no page given.
February, 1944  2:30AM   4,500 feet over Bass Strait (Aus)
“...the plane gained a most unusual companion. A "dark shadow"
appeared along side the plane and kept pace with it, at a distance
of only some 100 to 150 feet. The Beaufort was travelling at about
235 miles per hour. The object appeared to have a flickering light
and flame belching from its rear end. Only about 15 feet of the rear
end of the UFO was visible to the bomber crew, apparently due to
"reflection of light from the exhaust." The strange object stayed
with the bomber for some 18 to 20 minutes, during which time all
radio and direction finding instruments refused to function. It finally
accelerated away from the plane at approximately three times the
speed of the bomber. Upon landing, the pilot reported the incident
to his base superiors, but he claimed he was only laughed at.
Such a reaction seems extraordinary in retrospect since it turns
out that Beauforts figured heavily in official RAAF list of planes
that "went missing without trace" during World War Two in the
Bass Strait area - an area that was not linked to any significant
enemy activity. I have been told that the Beauforts had a
mechanical problem that may have accounted for some of
these losses.”
>From legion@werple.net.au  10/97 Source: Bill Chalker  Bill
Chalker: Australian A.F. report files. APRO Bulletin, v.30 n.10
pp.5-7. Bill Chalker: Historical Australian UFO reports.
UFO Research Australia Newsletter, v.4 n.3 (Nov-Dec. 1983) p.30
Aug 28, 1945            Btn Okinawa and Iwo Jima        Three brilliant
white-colored balls pace AAF plane.EM effects.C46 had engine
trouble, lost altitude as 3 UFOs observed from plane.
OriginalMark Cashman, 11/97     (EC #1)Stringfield, Leonard, _Inside
Saucer Post...3-0 Blue_, 1957, The Moeller Printing Co., Cincinnati,
OHUFO Evidence, p73
Aug. 14, 1947   0900    Raveo (Italy)   R. L. Johannis saw a disk on the
ground  and two dwarfs less than 1 m tall, wearing dark blue
coveralls with red collars and belts. They had over-sized heads,
greenish faces, huge, salient dark eyes without eyelashes or
eyebrows, but surrounded by a ringlike muscle. They wore
something similar to crash helmets.  The center of their belts
projected a "vapor,"and the witness suffocated, feeling a strong
electrical discharge. The creature had greenish hands with eight
talonlike fingers. (Humanoids 2; Magonia; FRS67, 1).
Mark Cashman 8/97       Vallee Magonia  63
July 19, 1952   4:30 PM Madre de Dios, Peru     Round object making a
buzzing sound seen in sky after two-way radio went dead. Object later
seen and photographed at Porto Maldonado. Original Updated by Mark
Cashman 5/97    UFO Investigator, Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 33 (wrong year given)
Gross: UFOS: A History 1951.  UFO Photographs Around the World Vol.2
(A.Roberts/W.Stevens..1985), thanks to Victor J.Kean2Loren Gross’s
UFO:s a history, the 1951 booklet pages 34 and 35, courtesy Anders
Liljegren 3UFO Investigator of September 1957 courtesy Anders Liljegren
4 Video: UFO Sightings: The Photographic Evidence Vol 2; Wendelle
Stevens
Aug 17, 1953    18:00   Ciudad Valles, Mexico    Salvidor Villanueva, 40,
noted failure in his auto engine. As he tried to make repairs he was
approached by two men, 4 ft. tall wearing gray coveralls and carrying
helmets. An object 40 ft. across, disc-shaped with a dome and humming
sound was seen. It ascended vertically at high speed. Bushes and sticks
were found broken at the site. This formed a circle 40 to 45 ft. across.
(FSR 1-70)                      Phillps Trace Catalog case 55, FSR 1-70,
http://www.iufog.org/project1947/phillips.htm
Feb, 2, 1955            near Valera, Venezuela  “Commercial airliner en-route
from Barqisimeto; radio went dead both at Valera and Barqisimeto as
pilot started to report a UFO sighting.”                Mark Cashman 11/97
UFO
Evidence p 74
May 1, 1956             Tokyo, Japan    “TV pictures distorted as UFO passed
over.”          Mark Cashman 11/97      UFO Evidence p 74
Dec, 1956               Far East        “Visual and radar sighting of round 
UFO
by Air
Force jet pilot”                Mark Cashman 11/97      UFO Evidence p 74
Jan 30, 1958            near Lima, Peru “Truck, bus, and car passengers felt
shock; motors of all three vehicles failed as UFO descended and
hovered.”               Mark Cashman 11/97      UFO Evidence p 75
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