UFO ROUNDUP

Volume 1, Number 15                                    May 26, 1996
Editor: Masinaigan                                         FREE

This week we've got two UFO landing stories, both from South
America, but first let's see what's happening in the USA.

LARGE, SLOW-MOVING FIREBALL SEEN IN UPSTATE NEW YORK     

     On Saturday, May 25, 1996, at 10:45 p.m., a couple parked on the
outskirts of Lyons Falls, New York spotted a "large fireball" in the sky.
     "It was pretty impressive," the male witness said.  "It took about 25
seconds to cross the sky, moving from east to west.  It was kind of a
dull yellowish-white."
     Lyons Falls is on Route 12, just west of the Adirondack Mountains,
approximately 36 miles northwest of Utica.
     Note: Conventional meteors are visible for only 5 to 10 seconds.
The Lyons Falls "fireball" was visible for twice the maximum time.

SEVEN MYSTERIOUS WHITE LIGHTS IN SONOMA, CALIFORNIA

     On Sunday, May 12, a man out walking at 1:30 p.m. in Sonoma,
California looked up and spotted seven white lights hovering in the
clear blue sky.  He described them as "a cluster of about seven
yellowish-white lights hanging motionless in the air a good distance
away.  They were arranged like seven coins might look in your hand,
some overlapping the others."
     Near the lights the witness saw "a deep red light that was very
active and bounced around a lot.  It also had a silver sheen to it.  Then
it started moving, still bouncing, towards me."
     The red-and-silver UFO "got to within a block" of the witness.  At
that distance, it seemed "to be about the size of a baseball.  At that
point, I got very nervous.  I wasn't ready for any spaceship rides."
     The red-and-silver UFO zipped away, and the lights winked out at
about 1:45 p.m.  Sonoma is on Highway 12, just north of San Pablo Bay
and twenty miles west of Travis Air Force Base.

THREE DAYLIGHT DISCS CAVORT OVER MASSACHUSETTS

     On Saturday, April 27, 1996, at approximately 6 p.m., a man standing
on the eastern shore of the Quabbin Reservoir, just west of Petersham,
Massachusetts, spotted three UFOs in the sky over the huge man-made
lake.
     "I saw them moving in a circular, sweeping sort of motion," the man
said.  "They made no noise and produced only a brightening light that
seemed to silhouette them against the sky."  At first "the UFOs appeared
as lines in the sky," he added, "but by their appearance I judged them to
be flat or concave in shape.  The area (of flight) was west of my position
looking over the Quabbin.  The objects were moving at what I would say
was 30 miles per hour in a north-south rotation, switching directions in the
air.  I watched them for about five minutes until the objects zipped over the
(Berkshire) hills to the west."

MORE ON THE MINNESOTA SIGHTING

     In UFO ROUNDUP #12, we told the story of Mrs. X and her 11-year-
old son, who saw a disc-shaped UFO over their farm the night of April 27,
the same night as the Quabbin sighting mentioned above.  Mrs. X has
now provided us with more details of her sighting.
     Mrs. X's farm is on Highway 10 in Andover, Minnesota, about thirty
miles north of Minneapolis.  The saucer, she reports, "was 45 degrees
above the horizon and very bright.  Its brightness remained constant
and it was totally silent."
     "I have served in the U.S. Air Force in the past," Mrs. X said.  "And I
worked around aircraft and flight lines.  It was not like anything I'm used
to seeing in the sky, including satellites.  My son was very excited about
it, and it was his idea to go online.  Also, the weather was very good and
there were very few clouds."
     The zigzagging saucer was seen at 8:50 p.m. Central time on April
27 and was last seen headed for Ramsey, Minnesota.

UFO LANDS IN PERU

     The newspaper El Expreso of Lima, Peru ran a story about a UFO
landing high in the Andes in its February 3, 1996 edition.
     According to El Expreso, six UFOs appeared over a remote
mountain meadow, Pampas Lampa, near the town of Recuay, which is
79 kilometers (47 miles) south of Huaraz.  The UFOs badly frightened a
group of Quechua Indian shepherds tending their flocks.  Pampas Lampa
is at a very high altitude, 4,200 meters (13,650 feet) above sea level.
     Eyewitness Silvio Cancio Bedoya, 40, said the UFOs appeared before
8 a.m. local time on Wednesday, January 31, emerging from the Lago
(Lake) de Cococha.  Cancio said the UFOs formed a protective circle
about a larger "mothership."  Then the flight proceeded north to the Rio
Santo.  The UFOs "illuminated the whole valley with a sequence of 
lights ranging from deep purple to light violet."
     The "mothership" landed upriver from the village of Romatambo.
Two occupants emerged from the UFO.  The Quechua Indians described
them as "one meter tall" (3 feet, 3 inches) with large, oversized heads,
long, spindly arms and short bandy legs.  The occupants were wearing
gunmetal gray helmets and matching one-piece coveralls.
     Cancio said the UFO occupants took out transparent containers and,
ignoring the shepherds, collected many samples, including soil, grass,
mountain flowers, plus water and algae from the Rio Santo.  At about
8:40 a.m., the occupants reentered the "mothership," and then all of
the UFOs "zoomed straight up into space."

1962 ARGENTINA FLAP - "OVNI COMING IN FOR A LANDING!"

     I know, I know--I promised the rest of the Argentina story last week.
Unfortunately, it got crowded out by current events.  Anyway, as Paul
Harvey says, "Here it is--the rest of the story."
     In August 1962, the newspaper La Razon of Buenos Aires ran an
astounding story.  An OVNI (Spanish acronym for UFO) had landed at
the airfield in Camba Punat, in the province of Corrientes.
     According to La Razon, airport manager Luis Harvey was warned
by his radar operators that an unannounced airplane was about to land.
Running out on the runway, Harvey saw "a luminous object" circling the
runway at high speed.  Suddenly, the object came down and hovered
four feet off the asphalt.  Harvey and a dozen other witnesses described

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it as "a completely spherical body that hovered, spinning on its axis, a
few feet above the runway."  All the while, the UFO emitted blinding
green, orange and blue lights."
     As Harvey and his crew approached the UFO, it soared upward
and "vanished at staggering speed."
     This, however, was only a warm-up to the big event...
     On December 20, 1962, at approximately 2:15 a.m., radar operator
Jose Besutti was staring at his scope in the Flight Control Tower at
Ezeiza International Airport, just west of Buenos Aires.  Suddenly, he
saw an unidentified blip and contacted airport manager Horacio Alora.
As the tower crew watched, the UFO landed right smack dab on
Ezeiza's main runway.
     Grabbing a pair of binoculars, Alora spotted a silvery disc-shaped
UFO sitting on the runway 2,000 meters (600 yards) from the tower.
An "hombrecito" (little man) climbed out and walked around on the
asphalt as if it were a road.  The UFO had flashing red and white lights.
     Just then, the tower radio squawked, "This is Pan-Am 609 Heavy,
nonstop jet service from Rio de Janeiro, coming in on final approach."
     "Made de Dios!" Alora shouted, "Tell him not to land."
     As one operator raced to the radio, the tower crew heard another
transmission from the four-engined Pan American DC-8.  "Ezeiza Tower,
this is PanAm 609 Heavy.  Just passing the outer marker."
     Grabbing the microphone himself, Alora shouted, "PanAm, go around!
Repeat, go around!  Do not attempt to land."
     "Passing the inner marker," the pilot said, "Jesus H. Christ!  Who left
that truck on the runway!?"
     "That's no truck!" Alora shouted, "It's a flying saucer!"
     Besutti and the others opened the tower windows and began yelling
at the UFO occupant.  "Get out of there!  Hurry!"
     The occupant simply stood there.  Just then, the big jetliner dropped
out of the overcast, lights on and engines whining.  Startled by the sight
of the DC-8 descending toward him, the occupant dashed back to the
UFO.  A hatch popped open in the bottom hemisphere, and he dove
through it.
     Suddenly, the UFO began glowing.  As the DC-8 touched down, it
rose to a height of 600 meters (1,980 feet) and then zoomed eastward
toward Uruguay "at a vertiginous (dizzying) speed."  Five seconds
later, the DC-8 on its rollout rushed right over the spot where the UFO
occupant had been standing.
     Close call, eh?

     Next week we'll be bringing you more UFO stories.  Until then, enjoy
the Memorial Day holiday weekend and keep watching the skies!