{38} UNITED KINGDOM UFO MAILING LIST
Date: 11th February 1996 - Members = 371
In this mail:-
1st IRC meeting success.
Sky One UFO documentary.
Life On Earth 'May Have Come From A Meteorite'
New telescope to listen for TV from space.
UFO refueling over Cornwall info.
Flying saucer taken for a spin round Earls Court.
Strangers in the night sky.
Could be?
UFO 'buzzed' airliner at Manchester Airport.
Any groups in the San Jose, California area.
Dave says: May I say thank you to all those who joined our first IRC meeting Friday night. I think we can mark it up as being successful. I thoroughly enjoyed it and am looking forward to the next one. Anyone wishing a copy of the transcript (text file) please send mail with IRC TRANSCRIPT in the subject area. The file is 10k in size and zipped.
From: Bazzer
Hi Dave.
Apparently there will be a prog on Sky 1 next Thursday at 8.00pm
called "Sightings" which appears to be about Flying Saucers.
8.00 Sightings
A special programme looking at UFOs and other unexplained phenomena.
From: The Daily Mail newspaper.
Date: 31st January 1996.
Have the Martians already landed?
It all seemed a little far fetched in H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds.
But the latest scientific research suggests there could be life on
Mars after all.
Unlike the advanced civilisation described in the book, however, our cosmic neighbours are likely to be giant white worms that feed on
bacteria.
Scientists believe microsopic life once existed on the surface of the Red Planet but moved underground billions of years ago to escape the harsh conditions.
The most striking theory being discussed at a conference in london
yesterday was that life on Earth may have begun on Mars.
A meteorite could bave smashed into the surface of the distant planet and sent rock fragments - and their microscopic inhabitants - hurtling through space in our direction.
The theory was sparked by the discovery last March of an Antarctic
rock which was proven to have come from Mars and which contained
amino-acids - the building blocks of life.
Hope of finding life on Mars was all but abandoned 20 years ago when the Viking probe landed on the sub-zero landscape and failed to detect a single organic molecule, even though it was sensitive enough to pick out one part in a billion. But thinking changed late last year when American scientists found bacteria living more than half a mile
beneath the Columbia River on a diet of nothing but darkness, rocks and water - well away from the life giving light of the sun.
Similar conditions could easily exist on Mars, say the experts, who are meeting in London under the umbrella of the Ciba worldwide
scientific foundation.
Later this year, the first in a series of unmanned U.S. space probes will be launched to look for fossil evidence of Martian life. The
probes are due to report back in 2005 and the findings could lead to a radical rethink of theories on the evolution of out solar system.
Professor Malcolm Walter, from the School of Earth Sciences at
Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia, said pictures of
Mars showed valleys and channels which once contained lakes and rivers when surface temperatures were higher.
He believes life may have retreated deep into the planet's interior as temperatures plunged billions of years ago and then stayed there -
sustained by the warmth of volcanic hot springs. Professor Walter
compared the importance of the exploration programme to the great
European voyages in the Middle Ages and Charles Darwin's work on the theory of Evolution in the 19th century.
Dr Robert Hutchison, a meteorite specialist at the Natural History
Museum, said any bacteria which had made the journey between the
planets would have faced a severe endurance test - possibly circling the sun for millions of years before they landed.
But he believed that such a journey was possible. "Any life in the
very middle of the rock would be protected from the ultra-violet
radiation of space and the heat of entering the Earth's atmosphere,"
he explained.
Dr Hutchison believed there was a "distinct possibility" that theories of Martian life could soon be proved true.
But he added: "We won't find little green men and any life we do find will be extremely ancient.
"It's a good job they won't be able to communicate because we'd have heard all their jokes already."
From: The Sunday Times newspaper.
Date: 28th January 1996.
By Steve Connor - Science Correspondent.
AN AMBITIOUS plan to look for intelligent life on other planets and peer into black holes with a radio telescope the size of 150 football pitches emerged in Britain last week.
Scientists who met at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire, where the first radio telescope was built 50 years ago, said the new instrument would be
hundreds of times more sensitive than today's most powerful
telescopes.
Unlike the Hubble space telescope, it will be able to focus on
extremely faint sources of radiation emanating from distant stars and galaxies. As a radio telescope, it will also exploit a far broader
range of the radiation spectrum than Hubble, which detects only light.
The telescope, to be built over the next 15 years, will cover an area of 11m sq ft, and measure nearly three quarters of a mile accross. It will be able to detect radio signals from about 15 billion light years away - the outside edge of the universe. Because this radiation has taken billions of years to reach Earth, scientists hope it will
provide new evidence about the Big Bang, the primordial explosion
thought to have created the universe.
"This allows us to see these galaxies at the time when they were
forming. We should be able to look back to 90% of the age of the
universe. We don't know exactly what we'll find." said Dr Robert
Braun, an astronomer at the national astronomy foundation in the
Netherlands.
Dr Peter Wilkinson, a Jodrell Bank scientist who helped to organise last week's summit, said one of the more ambitious objectives was to search for any artificial radio signals eminating from the broadcasts of intelligent lifeforms on other planets.
Present radio telescopes would only detect strong alien transmissions that were deliberately sent in the direction of Earth, said Wilkinson.
"If you had an enormous telescope then you could pick up other
transmissions, for instance if they had radio or TV broadcasts. If
other civilisations had a big telescope looking at us they could tell there is something unnatural here just by our radio and TV
broadcasts."
Dr John Dreher, and American astronomer involved in the search for
extraterrestrial intelligence, said the new telescope would be
sensitive enough to detect TV-like broadcasts of alien life living
between 10 and 20 light years away. The giant telescope will
eventually be linked electronically to smaller radio telescopes in
orbit around Earth to create a network of radio telescopes with an
even wider collecting area. This will enable astronomers to separate two distant sources of radiation that are so close as to be
indistinguishable with conventional telescopes on Earth.
Wilkinson said one of the most important objectives of the new
telescope was to search for black holes, intensely violent areas
formed by collapsed stars with such strong gravitational fields that all nearby matter and even light is sucked in. "We want to find out whether there is a black hole at the centre of every galaxy, including our own," he said.
Traditional optical instruments, such as the Hubble telescope, are
hampered in their search for black holes by massive dust clouds which obscure their view. Unlike light, however, radio waves can penetrate dust, enabling radio telescopes to "look" inside black holes.
Because the new telescope will be 200 times bigger than Jodrell Bank, strikingly different technology will have to be applied. Instead of one giant steel dish, scientists envisage hundreds or even thousands of dishes, each computer-controlled to focus on the faintest radio
waves from distant starts.
Some scientists believe the telescope should be sited in Britain,
because of its distinguished history of radio radioastronomy, dating back to the discovery of Radio Waves in space by Sir Bernard Lovell in
1947. Others favour rural central Eurpoe or the desert of the
Australian interior, where there is less risk of radio interference from built-up areas.
The astronomers who met last week will draw up a detailed financial ploposal over the next two two years to secure a 100-200m ukp to build the instrument. It will come about through international
collaboration, as the project is too big for any one country.
Dave says: I would like to thank Doug at Little Green Men BBS. 01342
844517 - 24 Hours Regularly updated - Fido: 2:440/217.0, Internet:
lgmnews@nolimits.demon.co.uk - for the above two reports.
To: ufo@holodeck.demon.co.uk
From: gary@gweller.compulink.co.uk (Gary Weller)
UFO FUELLING OVER CORNWALL info!
Original report appeared in UK-UFO-ML issue {36}
Looks like it's a hoax I'm afraid. According to the latest Skunk Works Digest the March "Encounters" mag carries an apology from the editor about the picture.
Gary Weller
Dave says: I concur that Encounter magazine made a big mistake in this report. They upset a number of people namely Bill Rose who made the mock-up picture for an illustration in the October edition of
Astronomy Now, Quest and Pole Star Publications. Encounters did print a whole page explaining their mess up and were full of appologies.
From: Iain Bryson
Source: The Electronic Telegraph.
Date: Friday 26th January 1996.
THIS super lightweight, 18ft flying saucer was orbiting Earls Court, west London, yesterday, writes Robert Uhlig, Technology Correspondent.
Unfortunately for UFO-spotters, it broke with tradition, containing no little green men and no flashing lights, and it did not bank and scoot off as soon as it was spotted. However, the craft is saucer-shaped and it does fly with remarkable agility at up to 400ft - so qualifying as a flying saucer.
It is one of a range of "Hystars" planned to go into production in
Britain this year. The Hystar 101 is filled with helium and uses a
reversible fan propeller at its centre to climb and drop. Eight
propellers on its rim direct it forwards, backwards, sideways and
enable it to spin.
These flying machines are the brainchild of a Canadian businessman and theme park designer, George Nankovich, who claims that within 18
months he will have produced a 140ft model to carry 20 passengers at speeds up to 55 knots and at 10,000 ft altitude.
Dave Says: This article plus a photograph is now available on the
groups WWW site.
From: Simon Lamont
Source: Wallasey News Report.
Date: 17th January 1996. p.5.
UFO experts called to Wirral 'mystery'
Special investigation by Cheryl Wright
UFO experts have just carried out an invetigation into strange
lights above the sky at Clatterbridge. The investigation - carried out by the British UFO Research Association - was set up after three
people in the same car all reported a "close encounter" with an
unidentified flying object in the skies above Wirral. Since time began there have been documented cases of strange objects in the sky. Even in the Bible ufologists claim that there is a reference to a UFO. For many, the existence of UFOs is confined to the realms of science
fiction. But for researchers and enthusiasts - UFOs are very real.
These people make up the 1,000 members of Britain's largest UFO
organisation, BUFORA. The British UFO Research Association thoroughly investigates every reported sighting in the country. BUFORA's local representative Tony Eccles, investigates sightings in the North West, the most recent being the one at Clatterbridge. The sighting was
reported by three people travelling in the same car along the M53 in early October. They reported two bright lights in the sky as they
approached Clatterbridge roundabout, which appeared to hover and
dance. As the car neared Bromborough, the lights swooped down over it, allowing a closer look. The occupants reported larger lights
surrounded by smaller blue lights. But this may be a case that
demonstrates the need to keep an open mind about such unexplained
phenomena. For after investigation, Tony found that humid air
conditions at the time may be to blame. A possible explanation, he
says, is that the lights could have been refracted from a different source, possibly a police helicopter.
The article is accompanied by two pictures with the caption:
"Somewhere out there? Reporter Cheryl Wright looks to the skies and, inset, an impression of what a UFO might look like". The inset picture is actually of a classic "grey" alien, not a UFO, and looks like it was taken from the cover of Fortean Times #83.
From: sja@obelix.celtic.co.uk
Date sent: Thu, 1 Feb 96 20:01:15 PST
COULD BE?
Hiya,
This is my first sort of story that may or may not be significant. It involves my father and two of his friends.
It was quite a few years back, and he is unsure of the exact date, but he relayed it to me as best he could recall.
My father and his friends had decided to go late night fishing at a place called Strumble Head, which is on the Pembrokeshire Coastline between Fishguard and St. Davids in West Wales.
It was roughly 2.00 a.m., there wasn't a cloud in the sky, and they noticed something a few feet out from the rocks.
It had lit up quite a big part of the sea, it had a sort of
fluorescent glow to it, but when they shone their torches onto the
sea, it went away. It was underwater, but they couldn't see what it was.
There is a lighthouse at Strumble Head, but my father said that the lights in the sea were not flashing on or off. Maybe it was just a
shoal of fish, which is the only explanation that I can think of. If anybody else has had a similar experience around this area, or knows of any explanation to this, please can you get in touch, I would be most interested.
I'm sorry if this is a bit long winded, but I'm not very good at
telling things in short form :)
From: "Corinne.Owen@QEH.OX.AC.UK"
From: Martin Adamson
Souce: The Times newspaper.
Date: February 2nd, 1996.
UFO `BUZZED' AIRLINER AT MANCHESTER AIRPORT
By Harvey Elliott, Air Correspondent
A British Airways passanger jet had a close encounter with an
unidentified flying object while landing at Manchester Airport, an
official report disclosed last night.
The Boeing 737, with 60 people on board, was overtaken at high speed by a wedge-shaped craft as the plane descended through 4,000ft on the final stages of a journey from Milan.
Captain Roger Wills reported that the UFO, which was emblazoned with small white lights and possibly a black stripe down its side, flashed silently down the side of the jet so close that his co-pilot, First Officer Mark Stewart, involuntarily ducked as it went by.
There was no sound and no wake but both pilots were so concerned
that they filed a formal `airmiss' report. The Civil Aviation
Authority launched an investigation, the fourth such incident since
1987, and after a year-long inquirey concluded yesterday that they
could find no likely explanation. The three previous reported
sightings also baffled the CAA experts.
The incident happend at 6:48pm on January 6 last year with the
aircraft just above the clouds and visibility was at least ten miles.
Then air traffic controllers had the following conversation with
Flight 5061:
B737: `We just had something go down the right hand side, just
above us very fast.'
Machester: `Well there's nothing seen on the radar. Was it an
aircraft?' B737: `Well it had lights, it went down the starboard side very quick.'
Captain Wills and First Officer Stuart are certain that the object was solid and not a balloon, a model aircraft or even a military 'Stealth'
aircraft which the captain had seen before and would have recognised.
Both pilots should be commended for their courage in submitting a
report, the investigators said.
From: Jeffrey DePalma@3mail.3Com.COM
Also I was wondering if you know of any UFO groups that meet in the San Jose, California area.
Dave.
ufo@holodeck.demon.co.uk
Visit us on the World Wide Web at
http://www.waverider.co.uk/~paulj/ufo1.html
To subscribe or unsubscribe please do the following:
Send mail to the above address with either
SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject area.
For information on receiving back issues send mail
with BACK ISSUE INFO in the subject area.
Meet us regularly on the IRC. Dates of meetings will
be posted. Join us on channel #UK-UFO-ML
Date: 11th February 1996 - Members = 371
In this mail:-
1st IRC meeting success.
Sky One UFO documentary.
Life On Earth 'May Have Come From A Meteorite'
New telescope to listen for TV from space.
UFO refueling over Cornwall info.
Flying saucer taken for a spin round Earls Court.
Strangers in the night sky.
Could be?
UFO 'buzzed' airliner at Manchester Airport.
Any groups in the San Jose, California area.
IRC MEETING
Dave says: May I say thank you to all those who joined our first IRC meeting Friday night. I think we can mark it up as being successful. I thoroughly enjoyed it and am looking forward to the next one. Anyone wishing a copy of the transcript (text file) please send mail with IRC TRANSCRIPT in the subject area. The file is 10k in size and zipped.
SKY ONE UFO DOCUMENTARY
From: Bazzer
Hi Dave.
Apparently there will be a prog on Sky 1 next Thursday at 8.00pm
called "Sightings" which appears to be about Flying Saucers.
Dave says: According to Sky TV Guide:
8.00 Sightings
A special programme looking at UFOs and other unexplained phenomena.
From: The Daily Mail newspaper.
Date: 31st January 1996.
LIFE ON EARTH 'MAY HAVE COME FROM A METEORITE'
Have the Martians already landed?
By John Lawrence
It all seemed a little far fetched in H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds.
But the latest scientific research suggests there could be life on
Mars after all.
Unlike the advanced civilisation described in the book, however, our cosmic neighbours are likely to be giant white worms that feed on
bacteria.
Scientists believe microsopic life once existed on the surface of the Red Planet but moved underground billions of years ago to escape the harsh conditions.
The most striking theory being discussed at a conference in london
yesterday was that life on Earth may have begun on Mars.
A meteorite could bave smashed into the surface of the distant planet and sent rock fragments - and their microscopic inhabitants - hurtling through space in our direction.
The theory was sparked by the discovery last March of an Antarctic
rock which was proven to have come from Mars and which contained
amino-acids - the building blocks of life.
Hope of finding life on Mars was all but abandoned 20 years ago when the Viking probe landed on the sub-zero landscape and failed to detect a single organic molecule, even though it was sensitive enough to pick out one part in a billion. But thinking changed late last year when American scientists found bacteria living more than half a mile
beneath the Columbia River on a diet of nothing but darkness, rocks and water - well away from the life giving light of the sun.
Similar conditions could easily exist on Mars, say the experts, who are meeting in London under the umbrella of the Ciba worldwide
scientific foundation.
Later this year, the first in a series of unmanned U.S. space probes will be launched to look for fossil evidence of Martian life. The
probes are due to report back in 2005 and the findings could lead to a radical rethink of theories on the evolution of out solar system.
Professor Malcolm Walter, from the School of Earth Sciences at
Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia, said pictures of
Mars showed valleys and channels which once contained lakes and rivers when surface temperatures were higher.
He believes life may have retreated deep into the planet's interior as temperatures plunged billions of years ago and then stayed there -
sustained by the warmth of volcanic hot springs. Professor Walter
compared the importance of the exploration programme to the great
European voyages in the Middle Ages and Charles Darwin's work on the theory of Evolution in the 19th century.
Dr Robert Hutchison, a meteorite specialist at the Natural History
Museum, said any bacteria which had made the journey between the
planets would have faced a severe endurance test - possibly circling the sun for millions of years before they landed.
But he believed that such a journey was possible. "Any life in the
very middle of the rock would be protected from the ultra-violet
radiation of space and the heat of entering the Earth's atmosphere,"
he explained.
Dr Hutchison believed there was a "distinct possibility" that theories of Martian life could soon be proved true.
But he added: "We won't find little green men and any life we do find will be extremely ancient.
"It's a good job they won't be able to communicate because we'd have heard all their jokes already."
From: The Sunday Times newspaper.
Date: 28th January 1996.
NEW TELESCOPE TO LISTEN FOR TV FROM SPACE
By Steve Connor - Science Correspondent.
AN AMBITIOUS plan to look for intelligent life on other planets and peer into black holes with a radio telescope the size of 150 football pitches emerged in Britain last week.
Scientists who met at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire, where the first radio telescope was built 50 years ago, said the new instrument would be
hundreds of times more sensitive than today's most powerful
telescopes.
Unlike the Hubble space telescope, it will be able to focus on
extremely faint sources of radiation emanating from distant stars and galaxies. As a radio telescope, it will also exploit a far broader
range of the radiation spectrum than Hubble, which detects only light.
The telescope, to be built over the next 15 years, will cover an area of 11m sq ft, and measure nearly three quarters of a mile accross. It will be able to detect radio signals from about 15 billion light years away - the outside edge of the universe. Because this radiation has taken billions of years to reach Earth, scientists hope it will
provide new evidence about the Big Bang, the primordial explosion
thought to have created the universe.
"This allows us to see these galaxies at the time when they were
forming. We should be able to look back to 90% of the age of the
universe. We don't know exactly what we'll find." said Dr Robert
Braun, an astronomer at the national astronomy foundation in the
Netherlands.
Dr Peter Wilkinson, a Jodrell Bank scientist who helped to organise last week's summit, said one of the more ambitious objectives was to search for any artificial radio signals eminating from the broadcasts of intelligent lifeforms on other planets.
Present radio telescopes would only detect strong alien transmissions that were deliberately sent in the direction of Earth, said Wilkinson.
"If you had an enormous telescope then you could pick up other
transmissions, for instance if they had radio or TV broadcasts. If
other civilisations had a big telescope looking at us they could tell there is something unnatural here just by our radio and TV
broadcasts."
Dr John Dreher, and American astronomer involved in the search for
extraterrestrial intelligence, said the new telescope would be
sensitive enough to detect TV-like broadcasts of alien life living
between 10 and 20 light years away. The giant telescope will
eventually be linked electronically to smaller radio telescopes in
orbit around Earth to create a network of radio telescopes with an
even wider collecting area. This will enable astronomers to separate two distant sources of radiation that are so close as to be
indistinguishable with conventional telescopes on Earth.
Wilkinson said one of the most important objectives of the new
telescope was to search for black holes, intensely violent areas
formed by collapsed stars with such strong gravitational fields that all nearby matter and even light is sucked in. "We want to find out whether there is a black hole at the centre of every galaxy, including our own," he said.
Traditional optical instruments, such as the Hubble telescope, are
hampered in their search for black holes by massive dust clouds which obscure their view. Unlike light, however, radio waves can penetrate dust, enabling radio telescopes to "look" inside black holes.
Because the new telescope will be 200 times bigger than Jodrell Bank, strikingly different technology will have to be applied. Instead of one giant steel dish, scientists envisage hundreds or even thousands of dishes, each computer-controlled to focus on the faintest radio
waves from distant starts.
Some scientists believe the telescope should be sited in Britain,
because of its distinguished history of radio radioastronomy, dating back to the discovery of Radio Waves in space by Sir Bernard Lovell in
1947. Others favour rural central Eurpoe or the desert of the
Australian interior, where there is less risk of radio interference from built-up areas.
The astronomers who met last week will draw up a detailed financial ploposal over the next two two years to secure a 100-200m ukp to build the instrument. It will come about through international
collaboration, as the project is too big for any one country.
Dave says: I would like to thank Doug at Little Green Men BBS. 01342
844517 - 24 Hours Regularly updated - Fido: 2:440/217.0, Internet:
lgmnews@nolimits.demon.co.uk - for the above two reports.
To: ufo@holodeck.demon.co.uk
From: gary@gweller.compulink.co.uk (Gary Weller)
UFO FUELLING OVER CORNWALL info!
Original report appeared in UK-UFO-ML issue {36}
Looks like it's a hoax I'm afraid. According to the latest Skunk Works Digest the March "Encounters" mag carries an apology from the editor about the picture.
Regards
Gary Weller
Dave says: I concur that Encounter magazine made a big mistake in this report. They upset a number of people namely Bill Rose who made the mock-up picture for an illustration in the October edition of
Astronomy Now, Quest and Pole Star Publications. Encounters did print a whole page explaining their mess up and were full of appologies.
From: Iain Bryson
Source: The Electronic Telegraph.
Date: Friday 26th January 1996.
FLYING SAUCER TAKEN FOR A SPIN AROUND EARLS COURT
THIS super lightweight, 18ft flying saucer was orbiting Earls Court, west London, yesterday, writes Robert Uhlig, Technology Correspondent.
Unfortunately for UFO-spotters, it broke with tradition, containing no little green men and no flashing lights, and it did not bank and scoot off as soon as it was spotted. However, the craft is saucer-shaped and it does fly with remarkable agility at up to 400ft - so qualifying as a flying saucer.
It is one of a range of "Hystars" planned to go into production in
Britain this year. The Hystar 101 is filled with helium and uses a
reversible fan propeller at its centre to climb and drop. Eight
propellers on its rim direct it forwards, backwards, sideways and
enable it to spin.
These flying machines are the brainchild of a Canadian businessman and theme park designer, George Nankovich, who claims that within 18
months he will have produced a 140ft model to carry 20 passengers at speeds up to 55 knots and at 10,000 ft altitude.
Dave Says: This article plus a photograph is now available on the
groups WWW site.
From: Simon Lamont
Source: Wallasey News Report.
Date: 17th January 1996. p.5.
STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT SKY
UFO experts called to Wirral 'mystery'
Special investigation by Cheryl Wright
UFO experts have just carried out an invetigation into strange
lights above the sky at Clatterbridge. The investigation - carried out by the British UFO Research Association - was set up after three
people in the same car all reported a "close encounter" with an
unidentified flying object in the skies above Wirral. Since time began there have been documented cases of strange objects in the sky. Even in the Bible ufologists claim that there is a reference to a UFO. For many, the existence of UFOs is confined to the realms of science
fiction. But for researchers and enthusiasts - UFOs are very real.
These people make up the 1,000 members of Britain's largest UFO
organisation, BUFORA. The British UFO Research Association thoroughly investigates every reported sighting in the country. BUFORA's local representative Tony Eccles, investigates sightings in the North West, the most recent being the one at Clatterbridge. The sighting was
reported by three people travelling in the same car along the M53 in early October. They reported two bright lights in the sky as they
approached Clatterbridge roundabout, which appeared to hover and
dance. As the car neared Bromborough, the lights swooped down over it, allowing a closer look. The occupants reported larger lights
surrounded by smaller blue lights. But this may be a case that
demonstrates the need to keep an open mind about such unexplained
phenomena. For after investigation, Tony found that humid air
conditions at the time may be to blame. A possible explanation, he
says, is that the lights could have been refracted from a different source, possibly a police helicopter.
The article is accompanied by two pictures with the caption:
"Somewhere out there? Reporter Cheryl Wright looks to the skies and, inset, an impression of what a UFO might look like". The inset picture is actually of a classic "grey" alien, not a UFO, and looks like it was taken from the cover of Fortean Times #83.
From: sja@obelix.celtic.co.uk
Date sent: Thu, 1 Feb 96 20:01:15 PST
COULD BE?
Hiya,
This is my first sort of story that may or may not be significant. It involves my father and two of his friends.
It was quite a few years back, and he is unsure of the exact date, but he relayed it to me as best he could recall.
My father and his friends had decided to go late night fishing at a place called Strumble Head, which is on the Pembrokeshire Coastline between Fishguard and St. Davids in West Wales.
It was roughly 2.00 a.m., there wasn't a cloud in the sky, and they noticed something a few feet out from the rocks.
It had lit up quite a big part of the sea, it had a sort of
fluorescent glow to it, but when they shone their torches onto the
sea, it went away. It was underwater, but they couldn't see what it was.
There is a lighthouse at Strumble Head, but my father said that the lights in the sea were not flashing on or off. Maybe it was just a
shoal of fish, which is the only explanation that I can think of. If anybody else has had a similar experience around this area, or knows of any explanation to this, please can you get in touch, I would be most interested.
I'm sorry if this is a bit long winded, but I'm not very good at
telling things in short form :)
From: "Corinne.Owen@QEH.OX.AC.UK"
From: Martin Adamson
Souce: The Times newspaper.
Date: February 2nd, 1996.
UFO `BUZZED' AIRLINER AT MANCHESTER AIRPORT
By Harvey Elliott, Air Correspondent
A British Airways passanger jet had a close encounter with an
unidentified flying object while landing at Manchester Airport, an
official report disclosed last night.
The Boeing 737, with 60 people on board, was overtaken at high speed by a wedge-shaped craft as the plane descended through 4,000ft on the final stages of a journey from Milan.
Captain Roger Wills reported that the UFO, which was emblazoned with small white lights and possibly a black stripe down its side, flashed silently down the side of the jet so close that his co-pilot, First Officer Mark Stewart, involuntarily ducked as it went by.
There was no sound and no wake but both pilots were so concerned
that they filed a formal `airmiss' report. The Civil Aviation
Authority launched an investigation, the fourth such incident since
1987, and after a year-long inquirey concluded yesterday that they
could find no likely explanation. The three previous reported
sightings also baffled the CAA experts.
The incident happend at 6:48pm on January 6 last year with the
aircraft just above the clouds and visibility was at least ten miles.
Then air traffic controllers had the following conversation with
Flight 5061:
B737: `We just had something go down the right hand side, just
above us very fast.'
Machester: `Well there's nothing seen on the radar. Was it an
aircraft?' B737: `Well it had lights, it went down the starboard side very quick.'
Captain Wills and First Officer Stuart are certain that the object was solid and not a balloon, a model aircraft or even a military 'Stealth'
aircraft which the captain had seen before and would have recognised.
Both pilots should be commended for their courage in submitting a
report, the investigators said.
From: Jeffrey DePalma@3mail.3Com.COM
Also I was wondering if you know of any UFO groups that meet in the San Jose, California area.
Dave.
UNITED KINGDOM UFO MAILING LIST
ufo@holodeck.demon.co.uk
Visit us on the World Wide Web at
http://www.waverider.co.uk/~paulj/ufo1.html
To subscribe or unsubscribe please do the following:
Send mail to the above address with either
SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject area.
For information on receiving back issues send mail
with BACK ISSUE INFO in the subject area.
Meet us regularly on the IRC. Dates of meetings will
be posted. Join us on channel #UK-UFO-ML
