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Part 6
Copyright ©
1997/98 By Harry Mason B.Sc., M.Sc., M.A.I.M.M., M.I.M.M., F.G.S.
(Geologist-Geophysicist)
"All
Rights Reserved"
(Parts 1-5
published in abridged format in Nexus Magazine)
(Part 6 published in "The
Strange" Netzine)
List of Contents :-
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.
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