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Filer's Files #32 -- 2000; MUFON Skywatch Investigations

TORRENTIAL RAINS, INCREASED UFO AND SUN ACTIVITY

As I write this New Jersey is again being hit by torrential rains, flooding 
and poor weather.  I have not seen this kind of weather since the 
Vietnam War.  Many people are reporting strange weather that might 
be tied to contrails, disappearing aircraft and increased UFO reports.  
We had 14 inches or rain yesterday.  Nothing similar to these rains 
are reported unless a hurricane comes through the area.  When there 
are momentary breaks in the clouds at night, a Perseid meteor shower 
can be seen shining through the colorful Northern Lights.  Auroras 
were spotted as far south as Los Angeles, California and New Jersey.  
On August 12, 2000, the Earth was hit by a shock wave from coronal 
mass ejection's from our sun as solar activity remained high.  The colorful 
skies when visible through the clouds and smoke from Western fires has 
been spectacular.  Perhaps the meteors, fireballs, and Northern Lights 
have encouraged people to report the flow of UFOs.  If you can see the 
sky you might see some interesting sights.  

I don't get easily worried but I'm concerned about what connection might 
exist between the vast wildfires raging out of control in much of the 
Western United States and many reports of fireballs, meteor showers, 
coronal mass ejection's, and the strange weather ongoing in recent weeks.  
We have more reports of low level contrails forming, hinting at some 
type of weather manipulation or virus control operations. The news media
warns of the spreading of the West Nile Virus in the Eastern US and 
heavy aerial spraying to reduce the mosquito population carrying the virus.  
Eighty-two fires are burning in the West.  I'm uncomfortable with all these
 reports.  Living not far from Princeton, I wondered what the father of 
modern physics, Albert Einstein would say about all this?  He said,  
"Science without religion is lame," Einstein also wrote, "Religion with 
science is blind."  I take this to mean we better start collecting scientific 
evidence and praying for a little sunshine and help.  When viruses start 
exploding and changing with all these weather changes, we need help 
where ever we can get it.  

 
RUSSIA SUBMARINE HITS UNDERWATER USO

ARCTIC CIRCLE NORTH OF EUROPEAN RUSSIA -- Itar-Tass 
news agency said, the nuclear-powered Russian submarine Kursk 
reported it had hit an unidentified object underwater on Sunday, 
August 13, 2000.  Small rescue submarines were circling the Kursk 
for an initial inspection and found it damaged, but sitting straight on 
the seabed after a collision The stricken sub was built in 1994, and 
is classed as Oscar-2 by NATO.  Officials said, the submarine was 
damaged, possibly in collision with a foreign submarine.  Although 
not generally known to the public, high speed unidentified submerged 
objects (USOs) are frequently reported.  UFOs are often seen 
entering and leaving the water.  RIA news agency quoted the 
Northern Fleet press office as saying the crew was not in danger 
and that the question of abandoning the stricken vessel had not 
been raised.  ''The Russian Northern Fleet command said, "They 
did not rule out that the foreign submarine was also damaged and 
was now not far from the Kursk.''  Russian and US submarines 
traditionally play war games in the area.  In 1993, a Russian Delta-3
 class nuclear-powered submarine collided with the USS Grayling in
 the Barents Sea, but both vessels were able to return to base.  US
 Navy spokeswoman said, that a US Navy ship "Loyal," that gathers
 underwater acoustical data, was about 250 miles away from the 
Russian submarine when it went down.  The ship was there by 
coincidence and had nothing to do with the Russian submarine or 
subsequent rescue efforts." Two US submarines were also in the 
general area but there is no indication they were involved.  

 
THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF SWISSAIR UFO NEAR MISS

KENNEDY AIRPORT -- Two friends of mine Bob Durant and 
Don Berliner investigated one of the most significant cases 
concerning UFOs in recent years.  At 5:07 PM on August 9, 
1997, a Swissair Boeing 747 experienced a "near miss" with a 
cylindrical "glowing white" object traveling almost directly toward 
the cockpit at very high speed.  The airliner was in level flight at 
23,000 feet and cruising at 340 knots indicated speed in a 
cloudless sky.  Six weeks after the event, the story was 
disseminated by the Associated Press new service.  According 
to the AP account, the National Transportation Safety Board 
(NSTB) identified the object as a weather balloon, citing a report 
from another airline of a weather balloon in the same general area.  
The airplane was a Boeing 747, a wide-bodied along range airliner 
with Swiss national registration.  The flight left Philadelphia 
International Airport at 4:50 PM and landed at Boston Logan 
Airport 57 minutes later.  The cockpit crew consisted of Captain 
Phil Bobet, with 15,000 hours flying time, First Officer copilot G 
with 7,500 hours and Flight Engineer K.  Captain Bobet was 
sitting in the left pilot's seat when sixteen minutes after takeoff 
they were over New York Kennedy Airport in clear weather.  
The two pilots almost simultaneously saw the UFO.  The following 
dialogue is from the tape recording made by the FAA.  This permits 
later investigation of communications where accidents or unusual 
events occur. 

Swissair Flight 127 (Probably Capt. Bobet speaking.)  "ATC 
Swissair 127." 
ATC = Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center, Danbury Sector 
22:  "Go ahead Swissair." 
Swissair:  "Yes sir, I don't know what it was, but it just over flew 
just like a couple of hundred feet above us.  I don't know if it was 
a rocket or whatever.  But incredibly fast.  Opposite direction."  
ATC: "In the opposite direction?" 
Swissair: "Yes sir, and the time was two-one-zero-seven (5:07 PM 
local time).  It was too fast to be an airplane."
ATC: "OK, thank you."  To Houston 986, another airplane in 
the vicinity of Swissair 127: "Did you see anything like a missile 
in your area, perhaps off to your right?"
H 986: "I'll take a good look, but if it's going that fast, I probably 
won't get a chance.  We just saw Swissair go by a minute ago."
Swissair 127:  "We had no warning.  It was way too fast!" 

The radio report was so provocative that the Boston Flight 
Standards office was notified while the airplane was still airborne 
and a FFA officer was sent to meet the crew.  The Federal Bureau 
of Investigation (FBI), the National Transportation Safety Board 
(NTSB), along with the FAA met the pilots.  Normally this type 
of meeting is unheard of.  The next day the Swissair crew was 
interviewed separately by four government agents.  Bob Durant a 
commercial airline pilot later interviewed the Captain Bobet who 
said, he was clearly dismayed the balloon explanation.  "He thought 
it preposterous!" 

Captain Bolet thought, "The path of the UFO was from opposite 
direction, slightly right.  Estimated horizontal distance-between 
First Officer's seat and engine #3, vertical distance between 100 
and 200 feet above the aircraft.  "At the same time, I saw the First 
Officer plunging his head down towards his knees.  The Flight Officer 
mentioned later that he thought he would get hit by the object.  The 
UFO speed appeared to be very high.  The object was white and 
balloons are dark.  Balloons fly for about an hour and the last one 
had been launched ten hours earlier.  Thanks to R. J. Durant and 
Don Berliner.  A detailed report is available from the Fund for UFO 
Research.  

 
Editor's Note: Several terrible accidents have occurred in recent 
years that may be related to near collisions with UFOs.  The crew 
of Egyptian Flight 990 apparently put their aircraft into a steep dive 
possibly as the result of a near miss.  News accounts speculated 
that a pilot wanted to commit suicide and caused the death of 
those aboard.  I feel it is more likely that Flight 990 took evasive 
action to avoid hitting an approaching Unidentified Flying Object 
similar to the one that almost hit Swissair 127.  Allegedly, Egyptian 
pilot Gameel el-Batouty's said a prayer "Now I put my faith in 
God's hands" just prior to diving the aircraft.  The plane dived for 
40 seconds and seemed to pull up before failing to recover.  Many 
of us might of stated something similar. 

PENNSYLVANIA LIGHTS

BETHLEHEM -- Margaret Kichline writes, "I went outside about 
4:00 AM on July 23, 2000, with my binoculars since it was pretty 
clear.  Fifteen minutes later, I saw a bright yellowish-white object 
right below the moon that was the size and brightness of Polaris.  
It was moving very fast traveling toward Ursa Minor.  I would say 
it took 20 seconds before it was out of my view.  At  4:30 AM, 
another object identical to the first flew directly above the moon 
heading north toward Polaris.  About 5:00 AM , I saw three similar 
fast moving flying objects, except they were not as bright, and were 
moving in same general area of the sky.  There were no sounds, 
and no strobing lights.  They were just steady glowing objects.  
Thanks to: Peggy K. vixalien@enter.net.

FLORIDA RODS   

TAMPA -- Skywatch reports that a lady notified them that on 
August 7, 2000, "I have just seen the most remarkable site when 
I saw three rod-shaped craft in a huge triangular formation with 
the largest in the center." I do not believe they are stars because 
you can see stars beyond them.  The stars are not nearly as 
bright and colorful.  They are not rod-shaped and are not 
anywhere near as large as these appear to be.  They appear 
to be over Tampa with the central and largest object facing 
north.  There is a misty cloud cover to the west of them and 
there are what appear to be two of the other, smaller rod shaped 
vehicles just to the north of the large triangular formation.  These 
two are also quite elongated and bright.  They do not appear to 
be moving at all."  I watched for a full five minutes.  They still 
haven't moved and I have never seen any stars in the Florida 
sky that are elongated or truly rod-shaped as these are.  They 
look like skinny, colorful vertical bars.  There is no noise.  The 
streetlight behind my house blinked off an on the whole time I 
was standing there, never fully lighting up or sustaining light.  At
first I saw what I thought was a shooting star, but it appeared as 
a very THICK band of white light shooting from north to south 
just east of the large triangular formation.  It wasn't falling down 
-- it crossed north/south."  Thanks to: DRxDON    Skywatch 
International, INC. 

VIRGINIA CONTRAILS 

HAMPTON ROADS - Contrails are intense almost every day, 
but the real spooky thing is that, on any given plane, the contrails 
stop, start, stop, start, etc., leaving a pattern of disjointed trails 
what the heck is THAT?  The contrails are particularly intense 
over Virginia Beach.  It looks like tic-tac-toe almost every day.  
Thanks to Steven Wallace Steve xcongressx@yahoo.com.  

Editors Note: We are getting reports of contrails from all over 
the world.  If anyone owns an expensive video cameral with 
3ccd please take photos.  If you own a plane get air samples. 


WISCONSIN:  HOW AIRPLANES SUDDENLY DISAPPEAR 

MADISON -- Whitley Strieber writes he received this interesting 
E-mail from  Mark.  "Last summer, I was taking my noon walk 
next to Truax Field, when I saw an Orion sub hunter aircraft with 
the long MAD detector off the tail.  I noticed because it was 
painted totally white, and had no markings.  The Air National 
Guard was wheeling the craft into a hangar.  About two weeks 
later, I was out in the sticks on the Wisconsin River when I heard 
the loud roar of a large plane.  I looked up and there was nothing.  
I put on Polaroid sunglasses, and the plane was perfectly visible. 
 I put the glasses on and off several times and the plane was only 
visible with polarized light.  Nova had a show on camouflage, and
it showed you could put lights on a military tank, and illuminate the 
tank, and it would disappear into the glare of the sky in the horizon.  
I think that there are aircraft that are illuminated with wing tip floods 
that make them disappear in the glare of the sky.  I think the answer
is technically very simple.  A law enforcement friend informed me 
that the big Orion's are used to sniff methlabs in our war on drugs.  
Thanks to Mark S.sulla@gdinet.com and W Strieber, 
whitley@strieber.com  

NORTH DAKOTA FIREBALLS AND DISAPPEARING CRAFT

Dave Fugere writes, "I have had Chemtrails sightings and taken 
pictures.  Once you've had this strange stuff happen to you there 
is no way you can rest and blow it off without wanting to do a lot 
more observing.  I videotaped rods on film six months before I 
even heard about them.  I never thought I would ever be telling 
someone that I saw an airplane vanish in front of my eyes but it 
happened two weeks ago.  Almost every night between 9 and 
11:00 PM we have one or two planes that fly over my house 
with red and green lights.  I was watching with my binoculars and 
I looked down for a for a second.  When I looked back up and it 
was gone!  You and others are now reporting things similar to what 
I saw.  

On August 7, 2000, I saw a white fireball in the northern sky falling 
at a certain trajectory and then it just seemed to drop at a steep angle.  
I fully expected it to hit not far away and was waiting for the explosion 
as it disappeared over my house.  I was surprised to see it still burning 
very bright, but it didn't leave a trail like a shooting star does and was 
much slower. This is the third time this year I have seen one like this 
but this one was the brightest and biggest and burned the longest.  
Thanks to :DaveDFugere@goesp.com (Dave Fugere) 

TEXAS DAYLIGHT CYLINDER

AUSTIN -- We had a daylight sighting of a large cylindrical object 
which lasted 30 seconds before the object disappeared on June 30, 
2000, at 8:30 PM, which is still broad daylight.  My husband and I 
spent a week on Lake Travis in a subdivision called Lakeway.  
There were jets and light planes flying to and from Austin's airport.  
My eye was drawn to a very bright white object which suddenly 
appeared flying rather quickly to the southeast at four to five 
thousand feet.  The western sun reflected on the object and we 
were able to see the side of a large white cylindrical object with a 
very distinct round, flat rear end, also bright white.  After about 
thirty seconds we saw the round rear of the craft enter the only 
cloud in the sky and we lost sight of it altogether.  There was no 
noise made by the craft.  The two areas in which my husband and 
I disagree are the angle in which the object flew, he says at a tilt 
and I say parallel to land, and what the front of the craft might have 
looked like.  My husband believes the front was flat and I just 
couldn't tell because the object appeared suddenly and the front 
end was past our point of determination.  My eighteen year old 
son has begun to look up since our sighting and on August 6, 2000, 
told me he saw what appeared to be a falling star.  The *star's* 
trajectory lasted much longer than that of shooting stars he has 
seen in the past.  It also flashed a blue light during it's trajectory 
which took up the entire sky he was able to see.  Thanks to Craig 
and Carol Cowgill

WASHINGTON LIGHTS

GIG HARBOR -- Linda Lull writes I have been observing and 
following the chemtrail story for the past eighteen months.  Lately, 
I noticed these light objects going in and out of sight. The most I 
can make out of them is a shinning light, then they total disappear 
from sight.  I have been observing this activity for some time now.  
It does seem to be getting more frequent.  Yesterday, I spotted 
the bright light twice in two different locations.  I have noticed 
these light objects being visible than not visible around Chemtrails.  
I did not know what to make of it?  I might add I'm a former 
Flight Attendant.  Thanks to: Linda Lull, lindalull@hotmail.com.

CALIFORNIA LIGHTS  

VICTORVILLE -- Mr. R. called the MUFON San Bernardino 
Hotline to report that on August 9, 2000, his wife looked out 
the window and noticed two very bright white lights swooping 
back and forth in the sky at 11:30 PM.  She alerted him to the 
lights and he went outside his front door and was met by a 
blinding white light that illuminated his house and street.  The 
light suddenly went out and he noticed both his outdoor mercury 
vapor lights and street lights were out.  As he stood in the total 
darkness, he was again surrounded by the intensely bright light 
that lasted about a minute then once again blinked out of sudden 
darkness.  About a minute and a half later he heard a rumbling 
sound like a sonic boom, that sounded like the noise that 
sometimes precedes an earthquake.  The windows in his house 
rattled, but the ground never shook.  Following the vibration, he 
looked towards the northeast sky and saw what appeared to be 
two faint white "falling stars" that were "falling" side by side and 
disappeared at the same moment.  Mr. R. reported that there 
were no visual observations of normal aircraft or helicopters in the 
sky during the event and no sound was heard, with the exception 
of rumbling.  Thanks to Cinde Costello LOOKIN4ET

ENGLAND UFO SEEN 

NORTH LONDON - A high flying slow moving UFO was 
observed Friday afternoon on August 11, 2000, with a flashing 
light as it went into high cloud.  Some observers thought the 
flashing light was actually light reflecting from sun.  The shape 
discernible was egg shape on its side.  It was not a plane, its 
possible the object was a weather balloon but both the shape 
and movements didn't seem right.  Too low to be satellite.  
The object was visible for about 20 minutes until it didn't 
appear to emerge from cloud.  Thanks to DAVE 

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REFERENCES: 
Filer's Files #32 -- 2000,  MUFON Skywatch Investigations
George A. Filer,  Director,  Mutual UFO Network Eastern 
August 14, 2000,  Majorstar@aol.com, Sponsored by Electronic Arts 
Web Site at: http://www.filersfiles.com.-Chuck Warren Webmaster.