UFO Shuts Down Russian Airport for Almost 2 Hours
January 29, 2001 07:53 CDT 

A southern Siberian airport was shut down on Friday for an hour and a half when an unidentified flying object was found hovering above its runway, the Interfax news agency reported. 

The crew of an Il-76 cargo aircraft, unable to take off, reported that they saw a luminescent object hovering above the runway of the Siberia's Barnaul airport, said local aviation company director Ivan Komarov. 

Another cargo plane refused to use the runway for the same reason and landed at another airport, said Komarov. The UFO took off and disappeared 90 minutes later. 

Original Source: Agence France Presse 

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Sightings of Blue Fireball Over Nebraska & Colorado
January 15, 2001 08:11 CDT 


A fireball brightened the skies over western Nebraska and eastern Colorado late Thursday night, but authorities have not determined what it was. Drivers on I-80 between Kimball and Sidney, Wyoming were the first to report seeing the blue flash of light fall down towards the horizon. Similar sightings were reported near Chadron as well as Denver.

Motorist J.L. Schmidt told the Casper Star-Tribune that the ball of light appeared to have dropped near the Sidney airport, but the Sheriff's Department in Cheyenne County did not find evidence of a meteorite. "That's how close it seemed, but it could have been far off," said Schmidt. 

The crew of an emergency medical helicopter also saw the light on their way to Scottsbluff after flying a patient to Denver. "It was just a big bright burst of light, then it just burned itself out," said Randy Meininger, an EMT. The crew saw the fireball while in the air about 30 miles east of Greeley, Colorado. The light came from the east, near the Nebraska-Colorado border. 

"We thought it was just a real bright falling star, but it literally lit up the inside of the helicopter," said Meininger. 

Original Source: Casper Star-Tribune 

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August 27, 2000 - Clearlake, California

Small white light

Two residents report a small light, similar to a star, following a small plane above the city around 9:20 p.m.  The individuals were in two different locations and reported similar events.

A light was spotted in the sky following a small plane, the light accelerated to be in front of the plane, and then shot straight up and out of sight.

Just prior to the sighting above Clearlake a power outage occurred Hidden Valley Lake.  Forty one Pacific Gas & Electric customers were without power from *:15 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. 

source: Observer-American 8/30/00

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UFOs Photographed Over Erupting Mexico Volcano!

December 27, 2000 07:32 CDT 

After the eruption earlier this month of Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano, something extraordinary was captured on film. Local newspapers Milenio and Extramex both show a photograph of an unknown luminous flying object over the erupting volcano. Reporter Alfonso Reyes snapped one of the pictures last Tuesday while covering the catastrophic event, and didn't even realize what he was photographing until the film was developed. Experts insist the object is not a meteor, plane, or helicopter. 

Unknown objects have been seen flying over this same volcano in the past. In June of 1999, CENAPRED, the government agency for disaster prevention captured a picture of an unusual oblong-shaped object over the volcano. That photograph remains unexplained to this day. 

Source: Santiago Yturria via Rense.com

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South African UFOs Are NASA Rockets 

UPI
May 2, 2000 
Last week, two chunks of white-hot metal fell from the sky.
Residents and police in South Africa's Western Cape province were baffled after the unidentified objects crashed to earth last week. Newspapers carried front page photographs of puzzled policemen and farmers staring at the first, a solid metal ball, weighing around 30 kilograms (65 pounds), that made a 20-centimeter dent when it hit the ground in Worcester, outside Cape Town, last Thursday. The next day, an even bigger object, weighing about 100 kilograms (more than 200 pounds), crashed down on a nearby farm.

NASA has confirmed the two objects are part of a U.S. rocket launched four years ago, which the space agency said was expected to shed debris over southern Africa. NASA's chief scientist and orbital debris program manager, Nick Johnson, told Radio 702 the two objects were from a Delta rocket that NASA launched in 1996.

He said circumstantial evidence -- the timing of their landing and their size -- indicated the two objects were ones NASA had been expecting to land in the region.

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On Wednesday night, The Star was overwhelmed with callers claiming sightings of UFOs in various parts of Petaling Jaya.

Most of the callers claimed to have seen the "UFOs" hovering high in the sky, emitting various colors of light from crimson red, orangy lights with a red wisp at the end, to pinkish and even white lights. 

There were reports of sightings in Gombak, Sentul, Setapak and later on in Bangsar, Brickfields and Subang.

"It remained bright with several reddish and smaller lights hopping from one end to another,'' one caller said. 

Caller Albert Hui, claims to have seen about seven to eight of these red lights in a straight line and remaining there for at least half-an-hour. 

At about 10:30 p.m., Seelan called in and said a crowd of about 50 people had gathered at a petrol station at the entrance of Taman Datuk Senu in Sentuland were mesmerized by what he described as "reddish green" lights. 

Most claimed that the strange lights came from the east. 

At 10:00 p.m., Star reporter Wani Muthiah was on the highway in the company van heading towards the RMAF base in Sungai Besi when she too noticed the bright lights. Numerous cars had pulled off the highway to see the strange phenomenon. 

Wani spoke to several people who were puzzled by the "UFOs." 

She then drove toward the direction of the lights with company driver Mohd Saad B. Mohd through the Chinese cemetery in Sungai Besi and the trail brought them back to the Federal Highway near Taman Seputeh. It was then that they discovered that the lights were coming from the hilltop somewhere near Taman Seputeh. Once they reached the hilltop, they parked nearly 500 meters from the Thien Hou temple off Jalan Syed Putra where they saw the objects being released. 

As it turns out, the UFOs were actually good luck lanterns released from the Thien Hou temple on Wednesday night. They were released in conjunction with the Chap Goh Meh celebration. 

The cylindrical lanterns are made of paper and work like a hot air balloon. They are 1 meter high and about half a meter wide. 

They use a thick slow-burning paper, which has been soaked in kerosene at the bottom as a burner to create the hot air. The flame lasts for over 10 minutes. 

In intervals of several minutes each, some of the balloons are released in perfect succession, appearing to be a row when carried by the wind. 

A Thien Hou temple official then took Muthiah up to the temple rooftop where people were purchasing the "UFOs". 

Family members were seen writing their names on the lanterns and reciting prayers before sending them to "heaven." 

Original Source: The Star 

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By Steve Vogel
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, July 27, 2002; Page B02

For Renny Rogers, it was strange enough that military jets were flying low over his home in Waldorf in the middle of the night. It was what he thinks he saw when he headed outside to look early yesterday that floored him.

"It was this object, this light-blue object, traveling at a phenomenal rate of speed," Rogers said. "This Air Force jet was right behind it, chasing it, but the object was just leaving him in the dust. I told my neighbor, 'I think those jets are chasing a UFO.' "

Military officials confirm that two F-16 jets from Andrews Air Force Base were scrambled early yesterday after radar detected an unknown aircraft in area airspace. But they scoff at the idea that the jets were chasing a strange and speedy, blue unidentified flying object.

"We had a track of interest, so we sent up some aircraft," said Maj. Douglas Martin, a spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado, which has responsibility for defending U.S. airspace. "Everything was fine in the sky, so they returned home."

At the same time, military officials say they do not know just what the jets were chasing, because whatever it was disappeared. "There are any number of scenarios, but we don't know what it was," said Maj. Barry Venable, another spokesman for NORAD.

Radar detected a low, slow-flying aircraft about 1 a.m. yesterday, according to a military official. Controllers were unable to establish radio communication with the unidentified aircraft, and NORAD was notified. When the F-16s carrying air-to-air missiles were launched from Andrews, the unidentified aircraft's track faded from the radar, the military official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Pilots with the D.C. Air National Guard's 113th Air Wing, which flew the F-16s from Andrews, reported nothing out of the ordinary, NORAD officials said.

"It was a routine launch," said Lt. Col. Steve Chase, a senior officer with the wing, which keeps pilots and armed jets on 24-hour alert at Andrews to respond to incidents as part of an air defense system protecting Washington after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Rogers remains convinced that what he saw was not routine. "It looked like a shooting star with no trailing mist," he said. "I've never seen anything like it."

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July 31, 2002

Was it a meteor, a flash of lightning or something not quite of this world that streaked across the skies of Greater Cincinnati at about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday [July 30]?

The National Weather Service received "a good number" of phone calls around that time from people around the tri-state, reporting the unusual phenomenon. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base outside of Dayton also received calls about "blue lights in the sky," said spokesperson Andrea Attaway-Young, but they couldn't be seen from the base.

National Weather Service meteorologist Greg Tipton said callers described it as a "blue streak moving across the sky."

Some said it was a "blue-white explosion" — but not accompanied by any sound. Others said it had a tail, like a comet, Tipton said. Another described it as "a bolt of blue lightning arcing above the clouds."

Area amateur astronomers — who didn't see the meteor — didn't want to speculate on what it could have been, but the American Meteor Society's Web site says meteors are frequently reported as being blue-white in color, are often described as "explosions" and sometimes have a tail — technically, a "train," a glowing trail of superheated oxygen.

Thousands of meteors streak across the sky every day, but most aren't seen either because they happen during the day or over an uninhabited area, such as the ocean. Last year, there were over 200 sightings of so-called "fireballs" that were big enough to be seen with the naked eye, the society's Web site said.


Source: The Cincinnati Post - Craig Garretson -

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By Will Ryan
Special to The Denver Post


Tuesday, October 08, 2002 - For the second night in a row - and at almost the exact same time - people across Colorado state saw a streaking fireball shoot across the sky early Monday night.

Experts said the brilliant object was probably another meteor burning up in the atmosphere.

Eyewitnesses described the Monday fireball as having similar brightness and size as the object seen across the Western United States on Sunday. However, reports said Monday night's fireball was moving in the opposite direction - west to east - compared with the one Sunday.

Around 7:15 p.m., law-enforcement dispatchers began receiving reports from most corners of the state, including Grand Junction, Durango, Boulder and Douglas County.

"It was definitely a fireball," said Bryan Golding, who was driving south on Broadway in Highlands Ranch. "It was white in front with orange around it, with little pieces coming off it."

It was 1 to 2 inches in diameter as viewed through his windshield, Golding said, with about a 3-inch long tail.

Karen Byrd, staff duty officer with the Federal Aviation Administration in Seattle, said she had received reports of meteor showers.

Firestone resident Ginny Shaw was driving east of Longmont when she saw a "big ball of fire" streaking eastward across the sky from the direction of the mountains.

"To me it looked like it dropped down, in my mind, in the northeast Denver area,' she said.

Robert Stencel, a professor of astronomy at the University of Denver, said two similar events on consecutive nights was not necessarily unusual, especially for this time of year.

"We are into about a six-week period where two highly prominent meteor showers are occurring," Stencel said.

Two annual meteor showers - the Giacobinids, which peak yearly in mid-October, and the Leonids of November - increase the probability of meteors striking Earth's atmosphere, he said. Stencel said asteroids, which have passed relatively close to Earth in the past year, could have smaller debris around them.

"If one large chunk flies by, it's possible that smaller pieces are traveling in similar orbits," Stencel said. "There might be a modest armada of boulders around it."

Stencel also noted that the asteroid named 1997 XF11, which will pass within 5.9 million miles of Earth later this month, and peripheral debris associated with it could also be responsible for the recent meteors.

While the appearance of such prominent fireballs two nights in a row is interesting, Stencel said, it is not an extraordinary event.

"It's probably a 1 or 2 on a scale of 10," he said.

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May 26, 2005



Ohio is home to some of the most UFO sightings in the country. The strange sightings don't end in the night sky, they also lurk in the woods and lakes of northeast Ohio, NewsChannel5's Paul Kiska reported.

Kiska reported that police are even left stunned by some of the reports, and the video of UFO sightings can bring chills to even skeptics.


And Ohio has the second highest number of reported UFO sightings.

Last week, Olmsted Falls police officers took pictures after getting calls from anxious residents who saw strange green and red lights moving across the night sky.

Police officers observed the moving lights even though the Hopkins International Airport radar didn't indicate anything was in the area.

Police later heard that a new blimp from Akron Goodyear was being tested, but there were no sightings reported between Akron and Olmsted Falls, Kiska reported.

NewsChannel5's photographer Tom Deau has seen a UFO. He shared his story from the summer of 1984.

"It was just hovering in the sky, and, whew, it took off -- gone," Deau said. "It still gives me chills today telling the story. Just weird."

Even Bigfoot or Sasquatch sightings have been reported from Chardon to Niles.

One of the most well-known sightings took place in the Cuyahoga Valley National Forest a few years ago. Several surprised motorists reported seeing a large hairy creature with human-like features crossing Interstate 271.

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