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Filer's Files #10 -- 2001,  MUFON Skywatch Investigations
George A. Filer,  Director,  Mutual UFO Network Eastern 
March 5, 2001, Sponsored by Electronic Arts; Majorstar@aol.com. 
Webmaster Chuck Warren --  http://www.filersfiles.com.  

UFOs CAUSE CONCERNS FOR AIR SAFETY:  Another unexplained crash occurs 
in Georgia.  UFO reports come in from New York, Maryland, North Carolina, 
Tennessee, Colorado, Oregon, United Kingdom, and Australia.  

ARTHUR CLARKE ALSO SEES LIFE ON MARS

Arthur Clarke is known for spinning elaborate, visionary tales of futures 
that might be, none more famous than "2001: A Space Odyssey." But according 
to Clarke, the real 2001 has some pretty unbelievable things to offer. "I'm 
fairly convinced that we have discovered life on Mars," Clarke told Space.com 
Sunday as Buzz Aldrin listened.  "There are some incredible photographs from 
[the Jet Propulsion Laboratory], which to me are pretty convincing proof of 
the existence of large forms of life on Mars!  Have a look at them.  I don't 
see any other interpretation."  Thanks to Space.com: 
http://www.space.com/peopleinterviews/clarke_believe_010227.html 

Editor's Note:  Since 1997, I have expressed my belief that Mars images show 
evidence of life on our neighboring planet.  I suggest if a panel of experts 
were shown the evidence they would also conclude that life once existed on 
Mars.  

GEORGIA: WAS A UFO INVOLVED IN THE CRASH OF ARMY TRANSPORT? 

MACON-- John Thompson an excellent UFO investigator sent me information from 
the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  Writers Ron Martz and Alan Judd report 
that 21 National Guard personnel died in a farm field near this small Georgia 
town when a twin-engine turboprop transport plane crashed and burst into 
flames March 3, 2001. The worst military aviation disaster in Georgia's 
history involved the very reliable C-23 Sherpa troop and cargo carrying 
aircraft.  There were heavy rains and thunderstorms reported in the general 
area.  The Sherpa crashed about an hour after it took off at 8:57 a.m. from 
Hurlburt Field, an Air Force installation near Fort Walton Beach, Fla.  The 
plane was en route to Oceana, Virginia., after a training mission at 
Hurlburt.  President Bush issued a statement saying he was deeply saddened by 
news of the crash. "This tragic loss on a routine training mission reminds us 
of the sacrifices made each and every day by all of our men and women in 
uniform," Bush said in the statement. "The price of freedom is never free. 
Today's events remind us that it is sometimes unspeakably high.  

Witnesses said the plane appeared to come down slowly and almost glide before 
crashing in a muddy field.  Dennis Posey a farmer described the sound of the 
plane coming down as "a scream."  He heard a crash and Posey jumped in his 
pickup truck and drove a mile from his house, discovering a plane that was 
beyond hope.  "It was engulfed.  By that time, there was nothing anybody 
could do, I assure you," Posey said.  "The impact was so great," he said. "I 
knew nobody could be alive when the plane hit the ground."  He described the 
fuselage of the Army transport plane as compacted. "There was no way there 
was anybody left," he said.   Posey said the plane apparently began to break 
apart before it crashed.  A 4- or 5-foot piece of the tail section landed in 
a small pecan grove near the home of his father, D.E. Posey, about 
three-fourths of a mile from the crash site.  A 20-foot section of the 
plane's left wing hit the ground about a quarter-mile from the pecan grove, 
closer to the crash site.  Posey said there were no burn marks on either of 
those pieces or a half-dozen other pieces of the plane scattered in the area. 
 

Editor's Note: I have concerns that a UFO may have been involved in this 
crash.  First, UFOs are frequently seen flying at low level in the general 
area. Second, the Sherpa is a slow flying aircraft and it is unlikely that 
both a wing and tail would have structural failure even if the craft had 
flown into bad weather.  Third, Similar crashes have occurred with unknown 
metals found on the tail structures and wings indicating a mid-air collision 
with an unidentified craft.  Forth, The crew had no time to issue any warning 
or May Day indicating a collision of some type.  Fifth, witnesses indicated 
there was no airborne explosion.  I freely admit this is a remote 
possibility, however it is time that all possibilities be considered in the 
tragic loss of life.  UFOs are frequently sighted in the area of crashes.  
The extraordinary power and high speeds of UFOs may accidentally cause damage 
to our aircraft.

NEW YORK DIAMOND SHAPED OBJECT

FISHKILL -- The witness reports three bright white lights crossed I-84 and 
headed west paralleling the highway towards Hudson River on February 22, 
2001.  Where the highway crests a ridge and drops into a valley there is a 
panoramic view so I scanned the sky for lights, and saw the usual assortment 
of recognizable aircraft lights at 8:15 PM.  However, I saw a group of three 
very white bright lights in a straight line, close enough to each other that 
my initial reaction was that they couldn't be separate aircraft.  They were 
also much lower than aircraft in the area typically fly.  As I continued 
west, I tried to gauge the object's motion relative to mine.  It made a 
banking maneuver which carried it across the highway directly in front of me, 
a 1/4 mile away, and only a couple of hundred feet up at most.  Though it was 
night, there was more than enough ambient lighting so I could see it's 
bottom, which was a black diamond shape, with three bright white lights 
across it.  

There were no discernable wings - it was as though I was looking at a large, 
black kite.  Two of the lights were at opposite points of the diamond, with 
the third in the middle.  Since the object was banked over, the three lights 
were in a vertical line.  The object continued it's turn, then leveled out at 
treetop height and continued westbound towards the Hudson River, paralleling 
the highway but on the other side from me.  I called my girlfriend who lives 
two miles from my position intending to ask her to go outside and look for 
the object.  When she answered, she started telling me that she was watching 
an object from the house.  We agreed that it was the same craft, and she was 
able to view it for a couple minutes.  She had initially noticed it through 
the living room window, due to it's bright, unusually configured lights and 
low altitude.  Having spent five years in the Air Force with a keen interest 
and familiarity with most types of aircraft, I know that what I saw was not a 
conventional aircraft nor were its flight characteristics.  Even if it was a 
military aircraft from Stewart AFB nearby, I can't understand why it would 
fly so low over an interstate highway, then descend to treetop level and 
parallel the road.  Thanks to Peter Davenport Director NUFORC www.ufocenter.co

MARYLAND FIRE IN THE SKY

MOUNT AIRY -- Saturday, March 2, 2001, Erik was walking his dog at around 
12:50 AM when he thought he saw the moon, but then realized it was a flaming 
light in the sky.  It was about 1 to 2 miles away, not to high in the sky.  
The flaming got more intense lighting up the sky in the area.  The light then 
formed into a horizontal light form and then slowly (over the course of about 
2 minutes) faded out.  Several cars turning down the road at this time were 
probably trying to get a closer look.  Eric's sister saw something similar in 
the past year.  It was too still to be a plane, too big and fiery to be a 
helicopter.  It was like fireworks hovering in the sky for 5 to 10 minutes.  
Thanks to Eric D. and billbean@ufoman.ne contact@mgroove.net  

NORTH CAROLINA HOVERING 

LAKE JUNALUSKA --On February 26, 2001, at 5:35 PM, Jade Moon writes, "I was 
headed south on Highway 209, from Crabtree when I saw a white dot in the 
southwestern sky that was not moving.  By the time I reached the bridge that 
crossed over I-40, I noticed that the dot in the sky at 10 o'clock was fading 
fast, but almost instantly another had appeared at 4 o'clock.  Several 
sightings of cigar shaped objects have occurred over Lake Junaluska in the 
past. 
 
I traveled another 50 yards south, and by the time I had reached the Citgo 
truck stop, both objects had disappeared.  There was no sound and nor jet 
stream, as any aircraft would have left in the sky.  My 8 year old daughter 
did not look quick enough to see the first object, but she also verified the 
sighting of the second object.  You may feel free to post this report.  
Thanks to: Jade Moon jademoon68@earthlink.net
 
TENNESSEE FACELESS ROBED ENTITY

The UFO photographs on your website taken several miles from Nashville are 
astounding!  I had an encounter some thirty years ago in La Vergne with a 
faceless, robed entity.  Not until recently, would I have connected my 
encounter with extra-terrestrials.  The E.T. encounter I had was very 
peaceful and loving.  Thanks to Murfreesboro, TN resident  

ILLINOIS FLYING LIGHTS CONTINUE

ROCKFORD -- On Saturday February 10, 2001, my wife and I were driving 
eastbound in Rockford when at 10:25 PM a formation of lights in the sky 
caught my wife's attention.  She asked me what it was? I had no clue either, 
but we noticed that we were not the only ones seeing it because most people 
were pulling over on the side of the street to take a good look of the 
lights, which were traveling in a southwest direction.  We pulled over in a 
Restaurant's parking lot, and we noticed all the patrons at that restaurant 
were outside watching those lights, despite the cold temperature which must 
have been on the teens.  The lady standing next to me theorized that they 
were some kind of memorial lanterns lit up and launched from a nearby 
hospital and that were being carried by the wind.  However it was interesting 
to see that the lights were shifting positions very slowly and it was 
interesting to see that at the end of the sighting one of the lights started 
traveling in the opposite direction as the other lights.  This event was also 
on Fire scanner channels and observed by fire personnel.  The sighting was 
also reported on local TV, station.  All units moved at various speeds and 
direction.  

COLORADO UFO WITH STUBBY WINGS

MOFFAT -- Christopher O'Brien reports, "Tony," his wife and their young child 
were traveling east on County Rd T, on  March 2, 2001,  when they observed "a 
small cigar-shaped UFO flying south toward Blanca Peak.  The craft was the 
size of a Cessna plane.  At first we thought it was a small plane but it 
didn't have a [vertical stabilizer] tail," and they noted it was "traveling 
too slowly to be a conventional plane."  The witnesses estimated the object 
was less than 1/4- mile away and was flying at an altitude of "100 feet."  
The craft flew by the front of their car for about ten seconds when, to their 
surprise, "it blinked out" and disappeared.  "We couldn't believe our 
eyes--it just vanished."  The craft was "dull silver" in color and noted it 
may have had "stubby little wings"  extending out from the fuselage.  At the 
time of their sighting there was no wind and the sky was clear over the 
valley floor with some broken clouds over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains 
which are located 15-miles to the east of the sighting location.  They did 
not discern a cupola or cockpit or see any identifying markings nor was there 
any sound.  Seconds after the fly-by "Tony" who is normally quiet and low -- 
key excitedly called Chris on his cell-phone to file their sighting report.  
Thanks to Christopher O'Brien author of  The Mysterious Valley (St Martins 
Press)

OREGON DISC SIGHTING AFTER FIFTY TWO YEARS

ROGUE RIVER -- Dr. Bruce Macabbee writes, "Last week in Filer's Files #9 you 
wrote: > In one of the best reports I've received recently a former SR-71 Air 
Force Crew Chief phoned to tell me he and his family of four had a witnessed  
a disc shaped UFO outside their home around 8:30 PM on both February 21st, 
and 22nd, 2001.  It started when he noticed a bright light at the top of the  
mountain behind his home>  The mention of Rogue River caught my attention 
because one of the most credible sightings of all time occurred there in May, 
1949.  The story is told in Chapter 10 of THE UFO/FBI CONNECTION."  Very 
briefly, a pancake- shaped object with a single small vertical fin was 
observed by three men and two women while they were in a fishing boat on the 
Rogue River near Gold Beach, Oregon.  It was late afternoon on a clear day, 
May 24, while they were  scanning the river looking for fish jumping that 
they noticed the object approaching from the northeast.  It stopped moving 
and hovered about east of their location for several minutes.  During this 
time two of the men, who were employees of the Ames Research Laboratory near 
San Francisco, were able to look through 8X binoculars each man having about 
a minute of viewing time.  To the naked eye it looked like a coin seen 
obliquely, but in the binoculars it resolved to a thick pancake shape and the 
surface looked "wrinkled and dirty."  It  should be obvious that under such 
excellent viewing conditions any  ordinary aircraft shape or balloon shape 
would have been clearly  obvious (if you can see an object well to see 
surface details you can  certainly see the overall shape).  While one of the 
men was watching  this object rotated on its vertical axis and then 
accelerated away to the southeast.  They estimated that it achieved the speed 
of a jet in a few seconds, all with no noise.  

 What sets this sighting apart from other "run of the mill," multiple 
witness, daylight sightings under optimum viewing conditions is what 
happened.... or didn't happen afterward.  The witnesses did not tell the 
local paper, the radio or TV.  In fact there is no evidence they told anyone 
EXCEPT the _security office _ at Ames Research Laboratory.  Their report 
began an investigation into the sighting by officers of the Air Force Office 
of Special Investigation.   The investigation involved interviews with all 
the witnesses and interviews with acquaintances of the Ames employees.   The 
investigation showed that the  witnesses were credible  and probably very 
accurate in their report.  The specific description of the shape and dynamics 
of the object make it clear that this is either the "real thing".... a flying 
saucer/craft not made by humans or a hoax.  But I reject the hoax explanation 
because anyone who has a job that requires a security clearance, as at Ames 
Research Laboratory, will not (unless he is totally crazy) try to hoax the 
security office where he works.  (Loss of clearance = loss of job)  This case 
is listed as one of the 12 best unknown sightings between 1947 and 1952 by 
the Battelle Memorial Institute in the so-called Special Report #14 of 
Project Blue Book.  There are further details and the results of my own 
investigation presented in the UFO/FBI book. The book can be purchased 
on-line at Amazon or Barnes and Noble and is in ookstores, published by 
Llewellyn in May, 2000.  Thanks to Bruce Macabbee.

CHILE,  PILOTS SPOT GIANT SILVER SAUCER  

ANTOFAGASTA -- Two airborne jetliners spotted a giant silver UFO hovering at 
an  altitude of 60,000 feet near the city of Antofagasta in Northern Chile 
around 11:00 AM on February 16, 2001.  News reports indicate that a high 
altitude silver colored balloon had been released earlier and may have been 
responsible for the sightings.  The object had been tracked by radar and was 
identified as a small silver object west of El Loa's provincial capital.  
Thanks to Scott Corrales 

AUSTRALIA  MORE SEE STRANGE OBJECTS

The Border Watch Newspaper, February 27, 2001, reports of an unidentified 
flying objects along the southeast Coast line last week have increased.  Four 
people sitting in a car near Port MacDonnell lighthouse last Tuesday night 
described what they believe was a UFO.  Their sighting has been verified by 
two more people.  The object was flying in the vicinity of Victoria and 
towards the ocean.  Their descriptions of the "Alien Machine are virtually 
identical to two sightings near Port MacDonnell light house, the other near 
Mumbannar.  They described, "A large white hazy object in the sky, which 
moved at incredible speed when not moving slowly or stationary."  People 
traveling in a car at 12:40 AM  last Tuesday night saw the object near 
Mumbannar.  Their description matches that of the separate sightings at Port 
McDonnell and seems to describe an object which-moved in a huge arc across 
the sea then inland.  It was moving at varying speeds, then just disappeared 
in a flash.  The Victorian people who phoned us said they had contacted the 
weather bureau but there was no balloon activity. The motorists said the 
object was round, large white and surrounded by a haze.  The five people who 
saw the object at Port MacDonnell are convinced they saw a UFO and were 
"quite freaked out"  Thanks to Trevor Raynor  and  Diane Harrison National 
Director of The Australian UFO Research  Network Australian Skywatch Director

UNITED KINGDOM  ORANGE LIGHTS  

Roger Kennedy writes, "I was just reading your article about orange lights 
over Australia."  I was visiting the site because at about 6:50 (GMT) five 
orange lights flew above our home in Fleetwood, England.  The lights began as 
an orange color and progressed to yellow before disappearing.  They were 
arranged in a V  formation and one light always maintained the "wingman" 
position.  They changed this position into what looked like a half swastika, 
they then returned to form a V shape, the lights gradually changed shape and 
color and finally disappeared, wingman last.  At first I thought they must be 
plains, but 3 interesting things changed my  mind.  1/ they made no sound, we 
get loads of planes overhead and they are  always loud, 2/They were flying 
too slow.  we get lots of helicopters too,  and they are faster than these 
lights, 3/When I tried to take a photo of the lights, nothing showed up on 
the viewfinder.  I was just wondering if you have heard of anything like 
this.  Thanks to: R. Kennedy  rogerk@rogerk.screaming.net  

AIRLINE PILOTS OFTEN SEE UFOs

Jennifer writes, "Just thought you'd like to know, A few years ago, my 
neighbor, a Delta Airlines captain, said he had seen several "things" he 
couldn't explain over the years but he never reported them because it is 
well-known among the commercial pilots that one would be branded a nut and 
"looney."  He would be taken off active duty for a period of time while he 
(not the incident) were investigated.  "not worth it," he stated.  Thanks to 
Jennifer Brown-Jacobs  

NEW MEXICO: NSA FACILITY/MANZANO WEAPONS STORAGE AREA

SANDIA BASE -- Robert Collins writes,  "The National Security Agency Facility 
located at the entrance to the Coyote Canyon area of Sandia Base, in 
Albuquerque played a significant role in the Paul Bennewitz UFO affair."  The 
Kirtland AFB, AFOSI office began investigating in October 1981, and ending in 
August 1983.  Both NSA and the FBI were said to have carried on the 
investigation till 1985.  What reportedly got NSA involved in the first place 
was Paul Bennewitz beaming radio transmissions at the Manzano Weapons Storage 
area: Right away this was a security issue since at the time Manzano was the 
home of 17,000 + tactical nuclear weapons.  Added comments, nuclear weapons 
facilities were often reportedly used to hide UFO related artifacts and then 
President Reagan and Vice President Bush made frequent trips to Manzano 
during Reagan's presidency to view UFO exhibits. Please see  
http://home.sprintmail.com/~rigoletto/reports/nsa_facility_sandia_base.htm    

NEW JERSEY GREAT UFO CONGRESS 2001 

BORDENTOWN -- March 31 and April 1 at the Days Inn on Route 206 at the NJ 
Turnpike Exit #7.  Jan Aldrich will talk about his Project 1947 
investigations, Don Ecker will discuss the Dark Side of the Moon, Viki 
Ecker's talk concerns "In Search of the Secret Keepers," Dolores Cannon 
discusses The Soul, Between Death and Life, Richard Cassaro will speak on the 
truth concerning Ancient Egypt, , Bob Durant's talk is about The Ramey Memo, 
and Nancy Talbot talk is on the Physical Evidence regarding plants, soils at 
crop formation sites. Call Pat Marcatillio for reservations at 609 631-8955

NEW NASA SHUTTLE VIDEO OF UFOs IN SPACE 

Jeff Challender has prepared a new tape of various UFOs that were caught on 
recent Shuttle video footage.  Jeff has over an hour long tape of UFOs shot 
in space.  Jeff spends hundreds of hours watching the shuttle broadcasts from 
space and is now an expert on NASA missions and even those onboard the 
shuttle are unlikely to see what Jeff does.  Using Jeff's directions you will 
be able to learn the difference between space junk, ice crystals and real 
UFOs.  I feel confident we could go into a court of law and convince any jury 
that there are UFOs moving at high speed around the Earth.  Send $25 to: Jeff 
Challender 2768 Mendel Way - Sacramento, California 95833-2011

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