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Feature Articles: Alien Abductions, Cattle Mutilations, Conspiracies, Roswell, UFOsBright Skies: Part 6
Part 6 PART 6 :- October 1997 Planetary
Events Update A. Recent Australian
(October 97) Events B. Recent USA (October 97)
Events Meteor Lights Up New Mexico
Sky Sonic Blast From Meteor
Rocks El Paso Mystery Meteor Causes a Big
Stir in El Paso Texas C. Other Planetary Scenarios
and Fairy Stories (Black Triangles) BRIGHT SKIES - Part 6 (NB NOT
Published in Nexus Magazine) Copyright © OCTOBER 1997
PLANETARY EVENTS UPDATE (A) RECENT AUSTRALIAN
(October 97) EVENTS (1) On Saturday 11th.
October 1997 at 18.13hrs The Melbourne based National UFO Hotline
operator Ross Dowe began receiving the first of well over 1000
telephone calls from Australian residents of the eastern states
of New South Wales and Queensland. Ross estimates that some 2.5
million people saw the following events that shattered that
peaceful sunset (daylight to dusk) night skies. At 18.12 to 18.14hrs an
extremely bright glowing fluorescent lime green illumination
crossed the NSW skies from SW to NE taking some 8-10 seconds to
do so. The light was said to be "extremely large", an
"enormous light", "like a semi-trailer in the
skies", and it flew with a very long illuminated green tail.
As this light descended it got much larger - according to some
eyewitnesses. As the illumination dipped
down some 20-30 degrees below it's initial high (orbital ?)
altitude it appeared to break into 2 main lights; some observers
saw 9 lights in a trail. Others (apparently underneath the final
downwards trajectory explosion) reported that the initial single
light exploded into a huge fireworks display as it approached
ground level with literally thousands of lights exploding out in
all directions before cascading downwards in an umbrella shape.
Some exploded pieces reportedly spiraled downwards leaving dark
brown smoke trails. A crop-duster pilot
operating near Warwick in southern Queensland spent 10 valuable
last light minutes searching for glowing objects on the ground -
after seeing many glowing plasma balls fly past his wing and over
a nearby hill and apparently rain down to ground level around
him. He could find no evidence that anything had hit the ground
and/or survived the fall, but the explosion "ground
zero" was apparently near, and above, Warwick. The "objects"
flight and it's low altitude explosion left a huge sound trail
that reverberated around in the clouds and sky for some five
minutes as an intense shuddering noise. Cracks and booms with
rolling thunder were heard from as far south as Bateman's Bay
near Sydney. The fluoro-green
illumination's flight and it's explosion were witnessed from as
far south as Sydney and the Snowy Mountains and from as far north
as 300km. north of Brisbane. 2) At 18.15hrs observers in
Southern Queensland saw a very bright silvery lime green light
with a green-gold-purple tail flying at relatively low altitude
from N to S. Observers in central and eastern NSW reported seeing
a bright fireball plus tail flying at relatively low altitude
from N to S between 18.17 to 18.20hrs. Ross Dowe reasons that the
initial sightings of a high altitude illumination flying from SW
to NE at 18.12-18.14hrs and then other reports of a similar
illumination flying from N to S at 18.15-18.20hrs are probably of
the same "object" which has come in northwest of Dubbo
and curved around to the south as it descended. This logical
thesis is currently un-proven and more analysis of respondent
reports is required. 3) At approximately 19.30hrs
a bright orange illumination was reported as seen flying from N
to S just east of Newcastle NSW (i.e. out to sea). 4) At 21.45hrs reports came
in from the Hunter Valley NSW (north of Sydney) of a vertical
"Cats Eye" orange illumination (like a fat pencil
sharpened at both ends, bulging in the middle, hanging vertically
in the night skies). This apparition was moving slowly from NW to
SE and was leading a small orange fireball in a double formation
flight. 5) On Sunday 12th October
1997 at 22.00hrs Ross Dowe received several calls from NW Sydney
and other areas of NSW about two red lights flying from SW to NE
at high (orbital ?) altitude. One light stopped dead in
the sky, whilst the other altered course to now fly towards the
East. The hovering light then accelerated and continued at it's
previous speed towards the NE. 90 minutes later another two red
lights arrived from the SW and repeated the above mentioned
maneuvers again - implying orbital revolution of the planet. 6) On Monday 13th October
1997 at 18.20hrs a policeman and his wife were some 20-30 minutes
drive south of Gundagai NSW looking SW when they observed two
lights approaching slowly from the South at some 30 degrees angle
above the horizon. Sunset was about 18.35hrs, and this sighting
lasted from 18.20hrs until about 19.00hrs. Whilst they were driving
towards these lights they observed the two lights in the same
azimuth position for about 30 minutes or so, but the lights moved
slowly to lower altitude over the same time period. When nearer
they stopped to take a photo. The lights retained the same
brightness in the early night sky as they had when seen in
earlier daylight. Suddenly one illuminated
object thrust an orange-red fiery "exhaust trail" light
out behind it. This lit up both objects well and allowed a better
view of the forms and shapes behind the lights. One illuminated object
turned out to be a dark brown or black triangular shape estimated
to be about one mile in length i.e. this thing was HUGE. It then
rotated through 90 degrees and immediately jetted a larger
enormous orange-red fiery exhaust (estimated to be ten miles in
length !) from the rear, whilst it sped off at extremely high
speed to the North - faster than any known jet aircraft, and
rapidly disappeared over the horizon. The second illuminated
object was observed to be spherical with a large halo around it.
This sphere remained static for a few more minutes then sped off
to the South. Neither object made any sound whilst performing
these maneuvers. The Victorian policeman had
previously believed that only "nutters and fruit-loops"
saw and reported such events. He had been involved in high level
security operations for VIP visits to Australia. This involved
much vetting and psycho-profiling and he therefore regarded
himself as a sane man with good observational powers. 7) Ross Dowe's initial
analysis of the incidents on Saturday 11th. October 1997 came to
the tentative conclusion that they could possibly reflect rubbish
removal from the MIR Space Station. This thesis revolves around
the idea of a large rubbish skip capsule, full of MIR's refuse
and damaged parts, recently replaced by the Shuttle mission,
being ejected from orbit and burning up in the atmosphere over
Australia. Perhaps this is so ......... Unfortunately for the space
junk hypothesis another well connected source has claimed that it
was panic stations that Saturday at the Australian Ministry of
Defence as confusion and chaos reigned in all directions. He was
certain that he sensed real terror in the MOD staff that day as
they attempted to tackle the days events occurring in Australian
air space. (B) RECENT USA (October 97)
EVENTS However these Australian
October 97 events should not, and cannot, be viewed in isolation
from other recent events that have been reported from the USA. (1) On Thursday 9th. October
1997 at 12.47pm. many western-central US observers reported
strange "meteor" like illuminations and a final massive
air-burst explosion. A fiery "Sun" like
light, or fireball, was seen flying across the midday skies of
Texas and New Mexico. These events created a fairly severe fright
for many of the thousands of American citizens who witnessed and
experienced same. The following newspaper
report describes these events :- October 11, 1997 (Saturday)
"Santa Fe New Mexican" newspaper: METEOR LIGHTS UP NEW MEXICO
SKY - The Associated Press Scientists from New
Mexico defense laboratories will scour an area near El Paso, Texas, this weekend
in search of a bright and noisy meteor that was tracked by equipment
designed to monitor nuclear tests. "The meteor made a
huge sonic signal. They heard it like a freight train in El Paso," said Doug
ReVelle, a meteorologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The meteor appeared at
12:47 p.m. Thursday as a flash about as bright as the surface of a setting sun,
said Robert Simpson, a spokesman for McDonald Observatory 175 miles
southeast of E1 Paso. The flash was seen and heard by people in Texas and New
Mexico. "If it had happened
at night it would have lit up the countryside as bright as day," said Bill
Wren, another McDonald Observatory spokesman. ReVelle said Los Alamos
scientists were able to track the meteor's path using data from Los Alamos
listening stations set up originally to monitor nuclear explosions anywhere on
Earth. Los Alamos lab was the birthplace of the atomic bomb in World War II. Aside from the blast like
sound people heard near the Texas New Mexico state line, meteors emit sound
waves that are too low frequency for human ears. But the bomb monitoring
equipment, an array of low frequency microphones, picked it up, lab scientists
said Friday. "The data from our
array puts the meteor 441 kilometers (almost 275 miles) south of Los Alamos.
We'll be looking for it in a location we've identified near E1 Paso,"
ReVelle said. Based on its
"infrasonic signature," or noise, the object was
estimated to have been 20 to 30 inches
in diameter, he said. Besides searching for
what's left of the meteor, which may have exploded into tiny bits in :he sky, the
research team will interview witnesses about how bright it was and what it
sounded like, according to a LANL statement. It said witnesses in Santa Fe,
Los Alamos, Albuquerque, El Paso and points in between saw the
phenomenon. ReVelle said he expects
to spend the entire weekend looking for it with four other scientists,
including two from Canada. "It could take weeks
to find," he said, "but it could take a day or less, depending on how lucky we
get." The Los Alamos nuclear
listening stations have been in place since 1983 and still are used in U.S.
non-proliferation efforts. But the array also has helped scientists detect
bolides, meteors and other space debris that send brilliant streaks across
the sky and sometimes crash into Earth. The array detects meteors
every year. ReVelle said about 10 meteors that are more than 6 feet in
diameter, with energy equivalent to a 1 kiloton blast, enter the atmosphere
annually. Most burn up in the atmosphere without hitting the ground. Joining ReVelle on the
weekend hunt will be Peter Brown of the University of Western Ontario in
Canada, Alan Hildebrand of the National Research Council in Ottawa, Canada, Mark
Boslough of Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, and a fifth
researcher, from the University of New Mexico, whose name wasn't immediately
available. Fire and police agencies
in El Paso County and southern New Mexico were flooded with reports of
an explosion that shook homes and jangled nerves Thursday. Some saw the flash;
others heard a shuddering boom from Anthony, Texas, along the New
Mexico state line, to Horizon City, in far east El Paso County. 2) Other USA reports mention
military helicopter interest in the "impact" site and
other strange flashes of light seen in the daylight mid-day sky.
All in all this recent New Mexico event appears suspiciously like
the recent NSW "meteor" event - right down to the final
explosion and cascading lights, but some other internet reports
throw some variations into the equation :- News Alert! I'm told this evening a
meteor or satellite or possibly a UFO crashed
tonight near El Paso
Texas in an area which sits at the corners of the
borders with the country
of Mexico ( right across from Ciudad Juarez or
Jaurez Mexico , look at a
map ) It's a hop skip and jump into the US
State of New Mexico from
there...but the TV station trying to cover it
is in the city iof El
Paso in the state of TEXAS USA...the UFO as
described was videotaped
over the area around El Paso last thursday
afternoon. It was seen in
the skies in the El Paso area, and it was also
there that residents were
jolted by sonic boom and a glowing slow
ballistic type entry
impact. I'm also told the feds are all over the
place, trying to keep a
lid on things. I can't get confirmation on any
of this. Terry James Sonic Blast From Meteor
Rocks El Paso - El Paso (KVIA) Shortly before 1:00 p.m.
Thursday a series of sonic blasts rocked El Paso.
El Paso Police report
that an acre of scorched earth twenty-seven miles east
of El Paso and twenty
miles north of Hueco Tanks confirms speculation that a
meteor, or its remains,
just missed the Sun City. The sonic boom which followed
the meteor's crash was
heard as far away as Anthony, NM and felt in El Paso. One El Paso resident was
startled to see what she described as "a streak of
light, similar to a
falling star, that ended in a ball of yellow and orange
light and a brilliant
explosion." Dr. Harold Slusher, Professor of Physics at
the University of Texas
at El Paso, said that description and a video
recording of smoke that
trailed off after the explosion were consistent with
the destruction of a
meteor: "I'd say off-hand...that it's the explosion of a
daytime meteor or a swarm
of meteoric objects, small objects made of rock and
metal, that penetrate the
atmosphere. They'd survive through the atmosphere and
sometimes
explode...[trailing] debris and what appears to be smoke like
what
you saw in the film you
showed me." According to Dr. Slusher,
such highly visible traces of daytime meteoric
activity are extremely
rare. The glare of the sun usually blocks any evidence
of a streak of debris
trailing in the wake of meteoric collisions.
Lorie Hernandez was
outside on the porch of her home in Socorro when an
explosion overhead caused
her to grab for a video camera. "It was like a flash
and after maybe a minute,
my cousin said, 'Look! Look up in the sky!'...
That's when it popped. We
heard a big 'pop.' It lasted for like a minute. The big
pop lasted a long time,
and then after that...all the smoke started coming out.
That's when the little
pops like firecrackers started to sound. That's when
everyone was screaming
and everyone was more scared...we expected something
to fall out [of the cloud
of smoke] like an airplane or something." Frances McRimmon rushed
out to record the event on video immediately after
the blast shook her East
El Paso home. McRimmon says she saw what looked like
a military helicopter
hovering over the site of the explosion. News 7 cameras
also recorded several
aircraft flying through the remaining plumes of smoke
shortly after impact.
More information will
surely follow from this extraordinary opportunity for
the study of meteoric
activity. Reported by Barry
Carpenter and Elizabeth O'Hara Steve Wingate N. California Director,
Skywatch International MYSTERY METEOR CAUSES A BIG
STIR IN EL PASO, TEXAS On Thursday, October 9,
1997, at 12:47 p.m., an unusual meteor flashed through the sky
over El Paso, Texas, creating a massive explosion that shook
homes from El Paso to Las Cruces, New Mexico. Robert Simpson, spokesman
for the McDonald Observatory in Texas, said the explosion was
caused "by what appeared to be a small meteor... about as
bright as the surface of the setting sun." The meteor was
thought to have impacted in the West Texas "brush
country" desert, south of the Hueco Mountains, about 30
miles east of El Paso. "A police helicopter
flying 25 miles east of the city spotted about an acre of
scorched ground that might be the area where the meteor
hit." "A police command
post was set up in the Organ Mountains as U.S. Army Reserve
helicopters used infrared sensors to look for pieces of debris
from the object. What they are looking for is any debris that is
still hot or anything that came off the object." (Many
thanks to Rebecca Schatte for forwarding this item.) "Las Cruces (N.M.)
police Sgt. Joel Cano said the North American Aerospace Defense
Command (NORAD) tracked the object as it entered Earth's
atmosphere until it fell to the ground 30 miles east of El
Paso." (See Reuters story for October 9, 1997.) The explosion triggered
"hundreds of calls" to El Paso police and other law
enforcement agencies. Most witnesses saw a "dark
contrail" or "black smoke" or a "lightning
flash in the sky." (Editor's Comment: NORAD
tracked the "meteor" all the way down, and then the
Army Reserve choppers scrambled to retrieve it. I've seen lots of
meteors fall, and I have yet to see a helicopter strike team show
up looking for it afterward. Does anyone else think there may be
more to this El Paso case than was reported by AP and Reuters?) Dave Perkins, a writer
based in the NM area said he had heard that at least one police officer had
said he saw small strips of aluminum foil raining down shortly after the event.
No corroboration as yet, no attempt to collect samples mentioned ~GH These events start to
severely strain the meteor thesis of the news media and official
scientific sources !!! C. OTHER PLANETARY
SCENARIO'S and FAIRY STORIES 1) Then we have a short
report from New Zealand :- This report is from the
8th of Oct.97 "A huge silvery ball with a glowing tail that lit up
the northern NZ sky." Off course it was Mir rubbish, they say, but
this can't all be Mir rubbish Harry or there would be no Mir left up there
by now ! 2) Just two weeks ago we
were informed in our Australian press that a USA military
"Two Metre Diameter Laser Weapon" was to be fired from
the continental USA (at a low power setting) at a redundant
orbiting satellite to see if it could damage same. Allegedly this
was the very first such test of a ground based "Star
Wars" Laser system. Then the test was reported as canceled
...... Could it be that they ran
the "test" anyway - and it was very successful - on two
separate occasions ? Eye-witness evidence suggests that the beam
or pulse was actually fired from orbit and exploded on contact
with some object flying in the lower atmosphere ??? But as for this being the
first such test - well it would appear that some new "fairy
stories" are being run on the mushroom public - why ? Please refer to my Bright
Skies Part 4 Nexus Magazine article about ground eye-witness, and
STS -48 "Hoagland video tape", evidence of NW
Australian Exmouth "VLF Radio" Base and "Pine
Gap" Alice Springs based pulse beam weapons being fired at
orbiting "UFO's" in September 1991. Debris raining down on both
the USA and Australia - three days apart - with sightings of
strange fireballs, huge black flying triangles and hallowed
spheres makes an interesting scenario. 3) The first object seen
near Gundegai reminds one of the many reports in UFO circles and
the popular press of huge black flying "triangles" from
the USA, the North Atlantic and the UK over the last couple of
years. Also internet reports, backed up by pers. com. reports
from a British engineer resident in Moscow, describing
Cosmospheres (anti-gravity drive space craft allegedly of Soviet
manufacture) would appear to fit the second object sighted near
Gundegai - the hallowed sphere. Recent reports from the
Russian underground suggest that there now exists a second
generation Cosmosphere. Is this is a large black triangular craft
? According to Ross Dowe he had been expecting sighting reports
of black triangular UFO's about now - they have been commonly
reported for the past few years from around Australia in October
each year. Is it possible that they
come down under every year in our, near perfect for flying,
spring weather - for military maneuvers ??? Are they Russian,
American, British, other, or alien in origin ??? British submariners have
reported to UK UFO researcher Tony Dodds that the "Huge
Black Triangles" observed in the North Atlantic over the
past few years can dive under water and travel there at speeds of
150 knots - outstripping all nuclear subs and surface vessels -
which cannot get close to them. Royal Navy submariners are told
that these BT's and events involving same are top secret items
and are ordered to not discuss any aspect of these vehicles at
any time. Try one out - you will get a
robotic tape recorded message from them - often repeated two or
three times for effect - word perfect each time !!! You may find
one who will talk - they like a drink - rum will usually
unscramble the tape recording and allow access to the inner hard
drive memory banks !!! They will complain that you
probably know more than they do about the things - help them out
if you can - since everyone is being kept out of the loop on this
stuff. Whatever these things are, and whosoever they belong to,
seems to be one of the most closely closeted secrets around. In the UK there is currently
a "D" notice on newspapers, radio, and TV forbidding
mention of the "BT's" and events surrounding them. They
reportedly vaporised a US Navy Destroyer in the North Atlantic, a
year or so past, and they have been the cause of two major NATO
fleet deployments into the North Atlantic in the last year or so. "BT's" in groups
and singularly have been seen recently by many commercial
aircraft on the Canada - Iceland - UK leg. Tony has received many
radiophone reports from fishing boats operating in the
Greenland-Iceland region and from others in the North Sea who
have observed these BT's flying in and out of the seas. Over the last year or so
reports have come in of BT's seen hovering at ground level in
Fifeshire, Scotland, with landing parties of small grey aliens
nearby handling box loads of equipment on and off. Recently strange explosions
and falling debris were seen near the Hebrides Islands NW of
Scotland. Other large explosions and small earthquakes have been
experienced close offshore - just SE of Edinburgh. The UK is
currently building a "giga-joule EM beam plasma weapon"
in northern Scotland, near the Dounray Nuclear Power Station -
under advice from a US Californian company called "Physics
International". Could this be a typical "alien
zapper" as installed at Exmouth NW Australia ??? Many thousands of motorists
on the British M 1 motorway stopped to watch a "BT" for
several minutes whilst it hovered at low altitude (looking as
large as the "Wembley Football Stadium") over this
three lane national road artery some two years ago. Fishing vessels NW of
Iceland have reportedly seen as many as three BT's at a time rise
out of the sea and blast away into orbit. One hovered right over
a fishing boat and blew out their entire electrical and
communications system, which reset back to normal when the black
triangle flew away. This implies some kind of electromagnetic or
electrostatic anti-gravity drive system powers the
"BT's". Large black triangular
shaped craft were reported to the author several years ago, by
highly trained USA observers who spent many days in remote field
areas, such as miners and geologists. These BT's were being
commonly observed droning at slow speed and low altitude across
the Californian "Mother Lode" gold country NE of Los
Angeles in night skies during the early 1980's - "sounding
like an airborne freight train with massive diesel engines".
Sometimes they reportedly sped off at fantastic speed. 4) Perhaps Ross Dowe's
initial thesis is correct and it's all just shit and rubbish
being dropped on our heads from the ill fated MIR space station -
"those bloody Russkies and their strange sense of sound
eco-principles again". Perhaps they are super
secret USA, Russian, or British space craft, coupled with some
recent military ground to space (or space to "ground")
EM beam weapon tests - with hits on satellites or aircraft
dropping debris on our heads ??? Perhaps they really are just
a bunch of meteors or bolides exhibiting some very strange flight
characteristics and associated explosive or electrostatic charge
effects ??? Or could it be that there
really is a very covert war going on between Earth and off-planet
alien forces ??? I am reminded of that meteor
that flew across the USA a few months back. You will remember it
easily from news reports of the day - since it came in from space
traveling towards the east, dived from orbital altitude towards
the ground heating up to bright orange and green incandescence
with a reasonably long tail - before bouncing up and out of
orbit, doing a 180 degree flip, before coming back in - now
traveling towards the west ............. Don't you just love the
antics of these aerial "meteor" beasties and that of
the astronomers, and other "authorities", who have to
fit an ever increasing number of highly strange public
observations into their pre-conceived meteor, or bolide, mind set
box ??? Spin Doctors issue orders -
just make sure those earthlings keep their heads in the "We
are the Centre of the Solar System/Universe Box" and the
"We are only Surrounded by Inanimate Rocks and Natural God
Driven Events Box". No peeping out now !!! Heaven forbid that the
public reports continually demonstrate sentient guidance behavior
and other strange oddities in these recent events that somehow
just fail to equate with nature - as we know it. Are these events just
another page in an evolving high tech space war involving real
off-planet aliens and the beleaguered forces of planet Earth, or
are they the continuing exchange of fire from two belligerent
oligarchic planetary powers - possibly aided and abetted by
opposing off-planet allies ??? Obviously someone, or some
group out there, who think that they run this place really do not
want us to know what is going down so to speak ! But honestly you
guys please get some better fairy stories running, the current
crop are somewhat insulting .............. By now, after the past few
years of very odd "astronomical" events, even the most
hide bound, died in the wool, stuck in the mud, flat earther,
ivory tower professor, establishment diehard conservative, public
purse research grant consumer, afraid of ridicule and loss of
earnings, must be beginning to get a rather dim yet glowing light
bulb in their forehead ................ One thing is certain folks -
our skies are surely experiencing some amazing events these days.
If it wasn't so interesting it would almost be getting scary
................ HARRY MASON B.Sc., M.Sc.,
M.A.I.M.M., M.I.M.M., F.G.S. (Geologist-Geophysicist) mailto:orbitx@iinet.net.au Harry Mason, Reprinted with permission of the author. |