Showing posts sorted by relevance for query 1998. Sort by date Show all posts
Showing posts sorted by relevance for query 1998. Sort by date Show all posts

Wednesday, 18 March 2020

Website Searches:
Focus On UFO News Articles From
the Years 1997 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001


Website: Trove (National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia):

(Search term: UFO 1997)

(Flying Saucer 1997)
(no results as of 18 March 2020)

(UFO 1998)

(Flying Saucer 1998)
(no results as of 18 March 2020)

(UFO 1999)

(Flying Saucer 1999)

(UFO 2000)
(no results as of 18 March 2020)

(Flying Saucer 2000)
(no results as of 18 March 2020)

(UFO 2001)

(Flying Saucer 2001)
(no results as of 18 March 2020)

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(National Library of Australia/wikimedia.org image)

Friday, 6 March 2020

UFO Report:
“The 1998 UFO Chronology”


Released: 15 May 2009
Updated: 10 December 2016
(NICAP.org)

Quote from the UFO report:
“Our thanks for these chronologies must go to the A-Team, in [particular], Richard Hall, Dan Wilson (archive researcher), and Jean Waskiewicz (online NICAP DBase [NSID]. You will note the many foreign reports that we are now being able to access. Our special thanks to Dan Wilson for getting those to us. As more come in, this page will be updated. Previous chronologies (1947 to 1969) involved the expertise of two other team members; Rebecca Wise (Project Blue Book Archive) and Brad Sparks (Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns). Other entries are those filed with Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle and researcher Michael Swords.

Francis Ridge
NICAP Site Coordinator

April 22, 1998; various cities, WA
UFOs sighted at sub base and nuclear storage facility.

Sept. 20, 1998: Henfield, Sussex, England
2:15 AM Two uniformed police officers, one male and one female were on patrol in the Henfield area on the main A281 Brighton Road when they saw several unusual lights in the sky. Each light was the size of a Jumbo jet aircraft. For scale a large aircraft flew near to the lights. Each light was circular and not connected to the others. They stopped their vehicle to get a better look. As they watched they suddenly saw a beam of light being shone down to the ground approximately 200-300 metres away. It was a rural location with no housing nearby. They drove toward the beam but it suddenly went out. Both the officers were shook up by the incident that lasted in the region of 35-45 minutes. The sighting was officially reported to the MoD. (Source: The 5TH ANNUAL PRUFOS POLICE REPORT 2006, by Detective Constable 1877 Heseltine, British Transport Police)

Sept. 25, 1998; Blackstone, Sussex, UK
Night. Two constables see 5 lights in sky while driving patrol. They get out to watch. Lights are apparently large [one size of jumbo jet]. They contort together in motion like a snake. Moved very fast. Then a bright beam appeared on road ahead. Beam did not seem diminished by misty conditions. Very piercing. Constables shown headlights on it and it disappeared. Inspecting the area they found nothing. UFO investigator Larry Dean quoted. (Lead from Mike Swords, Source: West Sussex County Times, Horsham, UK, Oct.2, 1998)

Nov. 1998; Nr. Benbrook, TX
[no day stated] 5:00 AM. A deputy sheriff was driving to work when he noticed a glowing, pulsing light to his right. He could also see beams, like lasers, shot upwards. A news program on his radio was asking if anyone near Benbrook could confirm lights reported in to them. He called them [all his calls were difficult to get through] and said he was in the vicinity. He mentioned that he'd also seen a small plane apparently flying towards the area and the radio man said that this was their spotter plane. Then the entire electrical system of his car cut out, and he rolled to a stop. [engine out too, obviously]. Even his cell-phone would not work, even though it was only on battery power having nothing to do with the car. He himself felt as though an ‘energy’ had hit him on the top of his head and run right down his body. ‘It felt like someone had poured warm oil over my head’. The feeling left in three minutes. The car was immediately restartable. His radio had lost all its programming. His cell-phone came back on and worked once he unlocked the code. He thought about telling his officer colleagues but decided against it. (Lead from Mike Swords, Source: R. Joseph L. [name left semi-anonymous]. About.com Paranormal.1999)”

Benbrook is a suburb of Fort Worth, Texas.


Wikipedia article: “Benbrook, Texas”:


Wikipedia article: “Blackstone, West Sussex”:


Wikipedia article: “Henfield”:


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Satellite photo of Fort Worth, Texas (tageo.com)
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Satellite photo of Henfield, UK (tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)

Wednesday, 20 May 2020

UFO Radio Interview:
“Clas Svahn, Files of the Unexplained,
UFOs & More”


Streamed live: 14 January 2020
(Podcast UFO, Sebago, Maine)

Source: Martin Willis Live Shows (YouTube channel)

Video text:
“Clas Svahn will be joining us from Sweden to discuss UFOs in Sweden, [UFO-Sverige’s] massive library and his latest and very interesting book, Files of the Unexplained, The Hidden History and Forgotten Photographs from the world of the Unknown.  https://bit.ly/35H0S2f

[UFO-Sverige]: https://www.ufo.se
https://www.afushop.se/store/p/basic-...

http://www.afu.se/afu2/

https://www.ufo.se/

CLAS SVAHN Born: 12 April 1958 in Mariestad, Sweden.
Education: Journalist since 1978 after studies at Journalisthögskolan in Gothenburg.
Occupation: Journalist at Mariestads-Tidningen (Mariestad) 1978-1983, Norrbottens-Kuriren (Luleå) 1983-1990 and Dagens Nyheter (Stockholm), Sweden’s largest morning newspaper, since 1990. Works as a reviewer for UFO, science fiction and other related books for the Swedish libraries.
Family: Wife Anneli and two children, Niklas (born 1992) and Markus (born 1994).
Hobbies: UFO research, amateur astronomy.

UFO-history:
Founded the local organisation UFO-Mariestad on 17 May 1974, member of UFO-Sweden’s board since 1988 and chairman 1991–2013. Since 2013 Svahn is international director for UFO-Sweden [UFO-Sverige] and also vice chairman for the organization. Chairman of Archives For the Unexplained, AFU, in Norrköping since 2017. Editor of UFO-Sweden’s magazine ‘UFO-Aktuellt’. Leader of two expeditions to Lake Nammajaure in 2012 and 2014 trying two locate a sunken Ghost Rocket. Main character in the documentary ‘Ghost Rockets’ 2015.

UFO-books in Swedish:
‘Domstensfallet – en svensk närkontakt 1958’ with Anders Liljegren (‘The Domsten case – a Swedish close encounter in 1958’, AFU 1989); ‘Mötet i gläntan’ with Gösta Carlsson (‘The encounter in the clearing’, NTB Parthenon, 1995); ‘UFO-Mysteriet – från flygande tefat till cirklar i sädesfälten’ (‘The UFO mystery – from flying saucers to crop circles’, Parthenon 1998); ‘Fakta om UFO’ (‘Facts about UFOs’, Parthenon 1998) with Göran Norlén; ‘UFO – möte med det okända’ (‘UFO – encounter with the unknown’, Semic 2000); ‘Vålnader, utomjordingar och mystiska fenomen – Bilder av det okända’, (‘Hauntings, aliens and mystical phenomena – Pictures of the unknown’ Semic 2010); Main contributor to ‘Världens största konspirationer’ (‘The world’s largest conspiracies’, Semic 2012); ‘UFO – spökraketer, ljusglober och utomjordingar’, (‘UFOs – Ghost Rockets, orbs of light and aliens’, Semic 2014); ‘Mötet i gläntan’ with Gösta Carlsson (‘The encounter in the clearing’ Parthenon & UFO-Sverige new and expanded edition 2015); ‘Det okända – övernaturliga möten och fenomen, (‘The Unknown - supernatural meetings and phenomena’, Semic 2018) and ‘Verklighetens Arkiv X’ (‘Files of the unexplained – the hidden history and forgotten photographs from the world of the unknown’ (Semic 2019).

UFO-books in English and contributions to other UFO books:
One chapter in ‘UFOs 1947–1987 – The 40 Year Search for an Explanation’ with Anders Liljegren (Fortean Tomes 1987, ed. Evans/Spencer); One chapter in ‘Phenomenon’ (Futura 1988, ed. Spencer/Evans); One chapter with Robert Bartholomew and Anders Liljegren in ‘UFOs & Alien Contact’, (Prometheus Books 1998, Bartholomew/Howard); One chapter in ‘The Swedish Ghost Rocket Delusion of 1946’ with Robert Bartholomew, Glenn Dawes and Anders Liljegren (Fortean Studies Volume 6, John Brown Publ. 1999, ed. Steve Moore); Two chapters in ‘UFOs and government – A Historical Inquiry’, (Anomalist Books 2012, ed. Michael Swords & Robert Powell); One chapter in ‘Ovnis: Las 50 mejores evidencias’, (Cydonia 2017, ed. José Antonio Caravaca); One chapter in ‘Aliens, Ships and Hoaxes’ (Kindle 2018, ed. Milton W. Hourcade); ‘Files of the unexplained – the hidden history and forgotten photographs from the world of the unknown’ (AFU 2019) and one chapter in ‘2019 International UFO Symposium’ (MUFON 2019, ed. Barbra Schuessler Sobhani).

UFO related books:
‘Övernaturligt’ (‘Supernatural’, coauthor, Semic 1997); ‘Oförklarligt’ (‘Unexplained’, coauthor, Semic 1998); ‘Gåtfullt’ (‘Strange’, coauthor, Semic 1999); ‘Berättelser om det okända’ (‘Tales of the unexplained’, Semic 2008)

Other media:
Svahn has also co-produced several domestic TV-programs in Sweden as well as SciFi Channels ‘Earthscan’ and ‘Sweden special’. During 2019 he produced a series of UFO programs for Dagens Nyheters TV channel. He has contributed with articles in many Swedish and foreign UFO magazines. Svahns pictures have been published in many books and magazines, such as: Evans/Spencer, ed: UFOs 1947–1987 (1987), Stone: UFO Investigation (1993), Moran: Alien art (1998), Clark: The UFO Encyclopedia (1998), Bord: ‘The World of the Unexplained’ (1998) and Nylén: ‘Den nödvändiga boken om Allsvenskan’ (2004).”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me4eA3y-ytw

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(Martin Willis Live Shows/youtube.com image)

Tuesday, 6 July 2010

MUFON Document:
1998: "Closing the Great Divide
Between Science and Ufology"

1998 MUFON International UFO Symposium (26-28 June 1998) abstracts:

http://www.mufon.com/symp1998.htm












John F. Schuessler was one of the lecturers at the 1998 MUFON symposium (jerrypippin.com photo)

Thursday, 1 July 2010

UFO Audio Report:
Large UFO Sighted over Whiteman Air Force Base,

Late 1998, 22 February 2008 (UFOs Northwest)

Two U.S. Air Force security patrolmen sighted a large, slow moving, triangular shaped craft over the Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri in late 1998. Time: Between 1:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m.:

http://www.ufosnw.com/sighting_reports/1998/whitemanafbmo121998/witrepweb.mp3

UFO sighting report:

http://www.ufosnw.com/sighting_reports/1998/whitemanafbmo121998/whitemanafbmo121998.htm

Whiteman Air Force Base is located approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Knob Noster, Missouri.

Wikipedia article: “Whiteman Air Force Base”:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteman_Air_Force_Base

UFOs Northwest (William Puckett) website:

http://www.ufosnw.com/

















Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit (Stealth Bomber) over
Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri (btopenworld.com photo)

Tuesday, 2 November 2010

UFO News Article:
Chinese Air Force Jet Fighter Pilot Chased UFO in 1998,
25 October 2010 (SOHU.com News, Beijing, China)


A Chinese Air Force J-6 jet fighter pilot chased a UFO near Cangzhou Air Force Base on 19 October 1998, at 11:30 p.m., SOHU.com News reports:

http://news.sohu.com/20101025/n276370640.shtml

English translation:

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.sohu.com%2F20101025%2Fn276370640.shtml

This case is notable, since the UFO incident report was officially disclosed by the Chinese Military.

NOTE: UFO Roundup and Agence France Presse reported on this UFO incident in November 1998. The Chinese Air Force jet
fighter pilot chased 1 UFO (not 2, as reported here earlier), according to the articles (misunderstanding due to language differences between English and Chinese). The crew of the J-6 jet fighter consisted of a pilot and a radar officer. According to the UFO Roundup article, the UFO disappeared before two more modern Chinese jet fighters could arrive in the area. The UFO was sighted by 140 people at the Air Force Base. And the UFO was tracked by radar.














Cangzhou, Hebei Province, China
(panoramio.com photo)











A J-6/F-6 jet fighter on display at the China Aviation Museum
(wikimedia.org photo)

Tuesday, 29 September 2015

UFO Mailing List Post:
“RAF Feltwell – UFO Trackers?”


By Gerry Lovell, 13 September 1998
(UFO UpDates, Toronto, Canada)

Source: The People, London, UK
Date: 13 September 1998

Quote from the post:
“This is the top secret airforce base which a former defence
chief believes is used to spy on alien activity above Britain
[photo shows two radomes positioned close to perimeter fence at
RAF Feltwell -- G=AC ].

Lord Hill-Norton, chief of the defence staff in the Seventies,
is convinced that a United States Air Force squadron in Suffolk
[on the Norfolk/Suffolk County border and 70 crow miles NNE of
London -- G=AC ] is tracking UFOs which may threaten Earth.

‘There's something fishy at the base and I am puzzled,’ he told
me. ‘I have asked a number of questions about the base and never
get a satisfactory answer.’

The Ministry of Defence did admit that RAF Feltwell has a
special US unit ‘tracking man-made objects in deep space.’ ”

http://www.ufoupdateslist.com/1998/sep/m13-010.shtml
















Aerial view of RAF Feltwell, East Anglia, UK
(pinterest.com photo)






















Satellite photo of Feltwell, UK (tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)

Friday, 6 March 2020

UFO Case Report:
“UFO OBSERVED OVER SUBMARINE BASE AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS FACILITY – April 22, 1998”


(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:
“Synopsis: From between approximately 2120 hrs. and 2130 hrs. (Pacific Daylight Time), one or more objects, variously described as a blue-green sphere, an oval of blue-green light, or a disc with six lights on it, was reported from multiple points throughout western Washington State. The object was reported to change direction of flight on at least three occasions, to execute a rolling maneuver on at least one occasion, to come to an almost complete stop in two locations, to reverse its general course of travel from south to north, and to change its appearance, including its color, on at least two occasions. One reliable observer witnessed the object to pass slowly over the center of Bangor Submarine Base on Hood Canal, approximately 20-30 miles to the west of Seattle, passing directly over the underground bunkers where nuclear weapons are thought to be stored. In excess of a dozen seemingly independent and reliable reports regarding the alleged sightings were received by the National UFO Reporting Center between April 22 and May 11.

Summary of Witness Reports:

1. Snohomish County, WA: A 16-yr. old male and his mother, located approximately 15-20 miles north of Seattle, witnessed a blue-green object suddenly descend from the sky, hover, and then accelerate to the south-southwest and disappear in that direction at approximately 2120 hrs. (PDT).

2. Poulsbo, WA: Larry Swanson, a former federal employee and computer specialist, who resides approximately ¼ mile from the northeast corner of the Bangor Submarine Base, allegedly witnessed a brightly lighted, disc-shaped object glide silently over the center of that military facility at approximately 2122 hrs. The object tilted somewhat, so the witness was able to see the ventral side of the object quite clearly, he reports. A computer-generated graphic, provided by the witness, is shown above.

3. Auburn, WA: A man out walking his dog witnessed a perfectly circular, blue-green ball of light descend from north to south in the western sky at 2120 hrs. at a very high velocity.

4. Puyallup, WA: A man driving to work witnessed a striking blue-green ball of light descending at a 30-35 degree angle from north to south in the western sky at a very high velocity.

5. Shelton, WA: A young father witnessed a blue-green ball of light streak across the sky to the west of his location.

6. Oakville, WA: A mother and her two sons, driving west on State Route 12, located to the west of Interstate 5, witnessed a ‘disc shaped’ object, imbedded in a cloud of blue-green light, streak from north to south in the western sky. The object appeared to ‘follow the contour’ of the horizon, dipping down suddenly, and then rising up again during its rapid flight to the south. The object was reported to generate a peculiar ‘tail,’ which streamed off the aft end of the object for a fleeting instant. All three witnesses believed they observed three lights on the top of the disc, and three lights on its ventral side, as well.

7. Steilacoom, WA: A woman witnessed a blue-green ball of light streak from north to south in the western sky at 2123 hrs..

8. Vancouver, WA: A husband and wife witnessed a blue-green ball of light move slowly from north to south in the western sky. Very peculiar appearance to the object, they reported, with a peculiar looking “mist” surrounding the object.

9. Portland, OR: A young musician witnessed a blue-green ball of light move from west to east in the northern sky from his vantage point in the city of Portland, OR.

10. Vancouver, WA: A male Ph.D. in computer science, driving north on Interstate 5 witnessed a blue-green ball of light, that seemed to him to descend vertically ahead of his automobile and hover momentarily above the highway. The witness added that he had experienced some very unusual emotional reactions to the event.

11. Yakima, WA: A law enforcement officer witnessed a blue-green ball of light moving at a very high velocity from south to north for approximately 2 seconds. During his sighting, the object suddenly changed its color from green to red. The sighting occurred at 2130 hrs., the witness thought.

(This web page produced for the NICAP site by Francis Ridge)”


Wikipedia article: “Naval Submarine Base Bangor”:


The whole Wikipedia article:
“Naval Submarine Base Bangor is a former submarine base of the United States Navy that was merged with Naval Station Bremerton into Naval Base Kitsap in 2004.[1]

History

The Naval Support Base Bangor's naval history began in 1942 when it became a site for shipping ammunition to the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. For an expansion and to establish a permanent naval base, the U.S. Navy purchased 7,676 acres (3100 hectares) of land on the Hood Canal near the town of Bangor for approximately $18.7 million. The U.S. Naval ammunition magazine was established on June 5, 1944, for its construction, and it began operations in January 1945.

Beginning in World War II, and through the Korean War and the Vietnam War, until January 1973, the Bangor Annex continued its service as a U.S. Navy Ammunition Depot responsible for shipping conventional weapons abroad.

In 1973, the Navy announced the selection of the Bangor base as the home port for the first squadron of Ohio-class Trident Fleet Ballistic Missile submarines. On February 1, 1977, the Trident Submarine Base was officially activated. Naval Base Kitsap includes the Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific (SWFPAC) which provides maintenance, calibration, missile assembly/test, spare parts, and spare nuclear warhead storage for the Trident II ballistic missiles that are carried by the nuclear submarines.

This Trident submarine base is the sole one for the U.S. Pacific Fleet, with the Trident submarine base at Kings Bay, Georgia, for the U.S. Atlantic Fleet being the only other one.”

Wikipedia article: “Naval Base Kitsap”:


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Naval Submarine Base Bangor, Bangor, Washington
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Satellite photo of Bangor, Washington (tageo.com)
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Sunday, 9 June 2013

UFO Mailing List Post: 
“C-E: The Great Wave: October, 1973”
by Kenny Young, 21 July 1998
(UFO UpDates, Toronto, Canada)

In this post, Kenny Young announces the creation of a new website:

http://www.ufoupdateslist.com/1998/jul/m21-017.shtml












The late Kenny Young, U.S. TV Reporter,
UFO Author & Researcher (rense.com photo)

Sunday, 8 March 2020

UFO Report (Cases) (E-mail):
”Subject: Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant/
Triangle UFO reports nearby”


By Daniel Wilson, 2 September 2004
(NICAP.org)

Quote from the e-mail:
“HERE IS ANOTHER CASE OF A TROUBLED NUCLEAR POWER PLANT AND TRIANGLE-SHAPED UFOS BEING REPORTED NEARBY.”

My comment:
In this e-mail, Daniel Wilson presents seven NUFORC UFO case reports. The North Carolina UFO incidents occurred on 23 June 1998, 12 August 1999, 22 November 2000, 1 January 2002, 2 August 2002, 21 November 2002, 10 July 2003.

He also presents a news article (“Problems mount at Shearon Harris”) that reports on the 2003 Shearon Harris Nuclear Plant emergency shutdowns.

The Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant is located in New Hill, North Carolina.

http://nicap.org/nuccon/021121_N_Carolina.htm

Wikipedia article: “Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant”:


Quote from the Wikipedia article:
“The Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant with a single Westinghouse designed pressurized-water nuclear reactor operated by Duke Energy. It was named in honor of W. Shearon Harris, former president of Carolina Power & Light (predecessor of Progress Energy Inc.).[2] Located in New Hill, North Carolina, in the United States, about 20 miles (30 km) southwest of Raleigh, it generates 900 MWe, has a 523-foot (160 m) natural draft cooling tower, and uses Harris Lake for cooling. The reactor achieved criticality in January 1987 and began providing power commercially on May 2 of that year.

The Shearon Harris site was originally designed for four reactors, but cost and weakening demand despite a growing population resulted in three of the reactors being canceled. The final cost approached $3.9B, including safety upgrades mandated after the Three Mile Island accident.

On November 16, 2006, the operator applied to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a renewal and extension of the plant's operating license.[3] The NRC granted the renewal on December 17, 2008, extending the license from forty years to sixty.[4]”











Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant. Unit 1. Copied from
the NRC web site, which is operated by the US government.
(text by Wikipedia) (wikimedia.org) (wikimedia.org)

















Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant. New Hill, North Carolina
(Google photo)