April 25, 2002

Residents in a Chinese city contacted local media to report UFOs hovering in the sky.

The four UFOs surrounded by a bright yellow light were spotted flying over Beijing.

They were reportedly flying at a height of 10 kilometers and moving in pairs.

The Shanghai Star quotes the Beijing Times as saying they appeared on Monday evening for around an hour.

However, the Beijing Planetarium says it has not been proved that UFOs exist.

Lan Songzhu, engineer of Xinglong Observation Station of Beijing Astronomical Observatory, says there have been more than 10,000 recorded UFO sightings in the last 100 years.

He says about 95% of these sightings have been shown to be related to astronomy, the atmosphere or the global magnetic field.

 

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Derby Evening Telegraph via This is Derbyshire / England - April 24, 2002
A new possible UFO alert in the Derbyshire hotspot of Bonsall Moor has been sounded.

Radio enthusiast Ron Gaunt said he was talking on a long-wave radio at the top of Bonsall Moor when a bright blue light shone down on his Ford Focus.

Mr. Gaunt, a former radio operator in the Royal Engineers, said that sheep in a nearby field were startled by the eerie light.

And he noticed interference on the radio waves as the light bathed the hilltop for nearly two minutes just before 3am on April 7.

The 71-year-old, from Darley Dale, explained what was happening to radio friend Barbara Whyman, who was 40 miles away in Sheffield.

"He asked if I had a fault on my radio equipment. I thought my plug must have worked loose, but it was fine," said Mrs. Whyman.

Mr. Gaunt was so shaken that he decided to leave the moor a few minutes later, rather than transmit until dawn as he usually does.

He said: "It was a very clear and frosty night and suddenly it was like broad daylight. It left me feeling rather dizzy."

On returning to his home, Mr. Gaunt tested his radio equipment only to find there was nothing wrong with it.

He passed on details to Derbyshire police, who said their helicopter was not in the area at the time.

Although the moor is crossed by power cables, East Midlands Electricity said no problems had been logged.

Police said there were no other reports of blue lights on the moor, a regular scene of UFO hunts.
 

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 UFO May Have Caused Su-27 Jet to Crash

KIEV/Moscow - A UFO could have caused the calamity that claimed 84 lives, and leaving almost 200 people injured during an air show near the Ukrainian city of Lviv on July 27.

On that Sunday, Russian television station NTV was transmitting the event as a Soechoi Su-27 jet aircraft performed aerial maneuvers in the sky at the public air show. The craft was filmed plummeting out of control and exploding on the ground among crowds of visitors.

According to NTV, when later reviewing the tape at slow speed they observed a dark unidentified flying object appear on the right hand side of the jet, rising in an arc from a wood near the Lviv airfield just moments before it crashed. NTV says the dark object is definitely not a bird, but what it is the pictures do not make clear.

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Evhen Marchuk of the Ukrainian National Security Council has told the Interfax news agency that initial investigations into the disaster, which included detailed analysis of two videotapes made by air show viewers, "almost certainly" ruled out technical problems with the aircraft or a possible bird strike.

Marchuk even went so far as to say the investigating commission he headed had identified birds flying near the airfield at the time of the crash, but specifically ruled out birds as a cause of the accident, as the birds were "clearly not near the aircraft" at the time it hit the ground.

A duty officer at Ukraine's Ministry of Emergency Situations said this evening he was aware of the NTV television report, but could provide no further comment.

 NZOOM - ONE NEWS

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July 5, 2002

Lübeck - Two officials believed at first that it was an aircraft crashing. Polizeihauptmeister Achim Kähler (44) and his colleague Dirk Schöning (39) were on night patrol in Luebeck, when they saw a bright light racing across the sky.

What was strange about it was that the fiery object flew on and at such speed that it could not be caught by the chasing police auto.

Was it a light aircraft, or a UFO? A restaurant worker in Canal Street was astonished when he looked skyward. "I saw red fire", said Salvatore Cairoli. The object flew apparently controlled towards Travemuende, before it turned off to the right and disappeared. The operations center immediately made enquiries with the air traffic control in Bremen and with the air base of the German Federal Armed Forces in Jagel about low-altitude flights above Luebeck - nothing!

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UFO Hunters Keen To Test New Picture of UFO

The image of a mystery object floating over the Tonbridge skyline could be one of the biggest discoveries of the last 50 years, according to a leading UFO group.

UFO Monitors East Kent says the picture, taken near Dry Hill Park Road, bears a remarkable resemblance to an unexplained image taken in America more than 50 years ago.

After spotting the photograph in the Kent and Sussex Courier last month, researcher Chris Rolfe was stunned and excited and wants to carry out tests to determine its authenticity. The picture shows a dark disc-like object with what appears to be a pointed turret or column flying low over the Tonbridge skyline.

Mr Rolfe said: "If deemed to be genuine, the Tonbridge UFO photograph may prove highly significant. Something resembling the tower-like appendage seen at the top of the Tonbridge object featured on two previous pictures widely regarded among the most authentic of all known UFO photographs."

Oregon farmer Paul Trent and his wife took the first pictures on May 11, 1950, when they saw the bright object approaching their farmhouse silently. The Trents had the pictures processed and, after they were published, the images attracted international interest leading to intensive scientific analysis.

However, the US Condon Committee employed to investigate UFO sightings was unable to offer a rational explanation and concluded the object could not be identified.

The Kent & Sussex Courier

 thisisKent / England - Aug 2.02

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August 7, 2002 - Prinos, Greece

There were reports early on August 7 of bright lights in the sky over the village of Prinos in the Koziakas municipality (population 3,000), in Trikala prefecture in central Greece. Many Prinos villagers believe the strange markings left in one man's fields were caused by an alien UFO.

The alien furor began on the morning of August 7. One villager rushed to the local cafe to report a strange sight. He said he had witnessed a strange "circle", about ten meters in diameter and full of small holes, "land" in his field and create holes up to 20cm deep. Half of his fellow villagers immediately rushed to the field. Though the new US box-office hit Signs showing Mel Gibson in a similar predicament hasn't been released in Greece yet, many of them now believe it was a UFO.

Now UFO-mania has swept Prinous, with each resident attempting to offer an explanation for the event. Many villagers share the man's conviction that the "signs" are the work of alien visitors. Children of the neighboring village say that, at the same time of the "sighting", they saw bright lights in the sky, which descended onto the spot where his field is located. Another farmer, who was in his field at the same time, also reports that he saw a huge object land in his neighbor's field.

It isn't the first time a UFO sighting has been reported in the area, says ANA newswire.

(ANA, Athens News) ATHENS NEWS , 09/08/2002 , page: A08
 

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August 12, 2002  Shanwa, India

SHANWA, India, Aug. 12 —  It comes in the night, a flying sphere emitting red and blue lights that attacks villagers in this poor region, extensively burning those victims it does not kill. At least that’s what panic-stricken villagers say. At least seven people have died of unexplained injuries in the past week in Uttar Pradesh state.

“A MYSTERIOUS flying object attacked him in the night,” Raghuraj Pal said of his neighbor, Ramji Pal, who died recently in Shanwa. “His stomach was ripped open. He died two days later.”
Many others have suffered scratches and surface wounds, which they say were inflicted while they slept. In the village of Darra, 53-year-old Kalawati said she was attacked last week and displayed blisters on her blackened forearms.
“It was like a big soccer ball with sparkling lights,” said Kalawati, who uses only one name. “It burned my skin.”
“I can’t sleep because of pain,” she said.

ALTERNATE EXPLANATIONS
Doctors dismiss the stories as mass hysteria.
“More often than not the victims have unconsciously inflicted the symptoms themselves,” said Narrotam Lal, a doctor at King George’s Medical College in Lucknow, the state capital.
The police have another explanation: bugs.
“It is a 3½-inch-long winged insect” that leaves rashes and superficial wounds, Kavindra P. Singh, a superintendent of police, told the Press Trust of India news agency.
Police drew this conclusion after residents of one village found insects they had never seen before.

VILLAGERS WORRIED
Villagers are unconvinced. In the most affected area, the Mirzapur district, 440 miles (700 meters) southeast of New Delhi, people have stopped sleeping outdoors despite the sweltering heat and frequent power outages.
Villagers also have formed protection squads that patrol Shanwa, beating drums and shouting slogans such as, “Everyone alert. Attackers beware.”

Some accuse district officials of inaction and failing to capture the “aliens.” One person died Thursday in nearby Sitapur when police fired shots to disperse a 10,000-strong crowd demanding that authorities capture the mysterious attackers.
“People just block the roads and attack the police for inaction each time there’s a death or injury,” said Amrit Abhijat, Mirzapur’s district magistrate, who claims he has captured the UFO on film.

© 2002 Associated Press.
 

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MANY residents of south-western Nepal are living in fear after seeing a fireball swoop down from the sky to attack a woman two nights in a row, reports said.

The Kathmandu Post quoted residents of the southwestern city of Nepalgunj saying the UFO would target people sleeping on their terraces and roofs to escape the summer heat.
"Sahim Khan, 55, was sleeping peacefully on the terrace of her house when the fireball-like object flew towards her ready to attack her," the newspaper said quoting a local.
"When we rushed towards Khan's house after seeing the object, it disappeared instantly."
Residents said the same ball of fire had come after Khan the night before.
Asked about the mysterious assailant, the district's deputy superintendent of police, Gokarna Bahadur Pal, told the paper he had seen a red object in the sky but did not know what it was.
Rumors were circulating in the town that the same fireball killed a woman several days ago in a village in neighboring India.
The Weekend Australian
From an AFP correspondent in Kathmandu, Nepal

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