RUINS OF KADATH FOUND
IN ANTARCTICA?
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UFO FLAP BREAKS OUT
IN THE CRIMEA
On Wed, April 23,03, eyewitness Lenura A.
Azizova, 53, "since 1991 a resident of Simferopol,"
capital of the Crimea (also known as the Krym Autonomous
Republic in the Ukraine--J.T.) "stepped out of her house
at No. 13 Zapadnaya Street into her yard, and suddenly she
noticed a bright flash in the sky and a pulsating light in
the middle of the constellation Auriga. The light was
very bright, looking like an electric lamp."
"The object, according to Mrs. Azizova, was pulsating
constantly with red, violet, yellow and white colors. It
was moving in a zigzagging trajectory, up and down through
the sky. Definitely neither a satellite nor an airplane.
The object was totally soundless. After five minutes of
observation, she lost it from sight as the object flew
away."
The next day, on Thurs, April 24,03, "a disk-
shaped UFO was seen hovering over Evpatoriyskoye shosse
(highway--J.T.), northwest of Simferopol's outskirts, near
the turn that leads to the Feliks Dzerzhinskiy collective
farm."
On Sat, April 26,03, at 8 p.m., "two
residents of Simferopol, Alexei and Aleksandr Zavus, from
the yard of their home in the 'original downtown'" of the
millenia-old Crimean city, "observed an unusual object in
the southwestern part of the sky, not far from the star
Sirius."
"Suddenly, the 'bright white star,' brighter than
even Sirius, appeared high in the sky after a flash. It
was hovering for several seconds, slowly moving, and then
suddenly faded away, like an electric lamp being shut
off."
On Wednesday, April 30,03, a UFO appeared three
times over Lenin Square in Simferopol. The sightings were
at 8:45, 9:10 and 9:12 p.m.
UFO Roundup correspondent Anton A. Anfalov reported,
"While standing in Lenin Square, right in the center of
Simferopol, and talking to my friend, Mr. V. Zdorov, about
UFOs, aliens, alien implants and underground bases, we
noticed several light flashes of a white-silver color and
a ruby-red color to the northeast."
"This was definitely neither an airplane nor a
satellite, because the flashes were short, stationary, and
there was a big time lag of two to five minutes between
them. This clearly indicates that the flashes were from a
hovering object or an object that vividly demonstrated
itself to us in a direct connection to the topic of our
talk." (Many thanks to Anton A. Anfalov for these
reports.)
SADDAM "SPACE SPEECH"
HAS IRAQIS TALKING
As predicted, ousted dictator Saddam Hussein did make
a speech to the Iraqi people last week. But there was
some question as to whether the speech was made from the
moon or from a gigantic disk-shaped UFO orbiting the
Earth.
On Mon, May 5,03, Australia's Sydney Morning
Herald "said it received the 14-minute tape from two men
in Baghdad."
"If authentic, it would be the first message from
Saddam since Baghdad fell April 9 (2003). The Herald was
unable to confirm whether the tired-sounding voice on the
tape is Saddam."
According to UFO Roundup's Middle East correspondent
Ayesha al-Khatabi, some residents of Baghdad claim to have
heard Saddam's 15-minute broadcast over their household
radio sets.
"Their impression is that it was a live broadcast,"
Ayesha reported, "My friend Hiba Rashid says she and her
family heard it live. One of her uncles was changing the
frequencies on their Grundig radio when he heard Saddam's
voice. He called everyone in the house to come and
listen. It (the broadcast) was on 1320 on the AM band.
Hiba says she recognized Saddam's voice, but there was a
lot of static."
Last week, Mohammed Daud al-Hayyat reported that the
"hot rumor" in Baghdad was that Saddam would shortly make
a radio speech "from the moon" in "four or five days."
The actual broadcast was made during that time frame.
(See UFO Roundup, volume 8, number 18 for May 7,03,
"Surprise appearance by Saddam startles Iraqis," page 1.)
"U.S. officials are studying an audio tape that is
said to be of fallen leader Saddam Hussein speaking from
inside Iraq sometime after Apr 28 (2003)," which was
Saddam's sixty-sixth birthday. "U.S. officials don't know
whether he is alive."
In other developments in Iraq, a black helicopter
made a surprise appearance over al-Zafaraniya, a
neighborhood on the south side of Baghdad, last week.
"Zafaraniya is a working-class neighborhood with a
wide, well-integrated ethnic mix. Sunni and Shiite
Muslims interact and intermarry and live side by side with
Christians, Kurds and other minorities. The streets are
unpaved and dusty. Stone walls surround dust-colored two-
story houses made of concrete and conceal well-tended
courtyards with flower gardens."
"People were startled last week when they heard the
sound of a helicopter engine right above their rooftops,"
Ayesha reported, "When they went outside, they saw a black
helicopter hovering overhead. A side door opened, and a
flood of leaflets came falling out. The wind (rotor
turbulence--J.T.) blew the leaflets all over the
neighborhood. Few people actually saw a leaflet or read
the Arabic message on it. The people have seen many, many
Anglo-American helicopters but never before one of the
mystery black helicopters."
According to USA Today, "Last week, for instance, a
U.S. military helicopter dropped leaflets over the
Zafaraniya neighborhood in south Baghdad. Most blew away
before anyone could retrieve them. So few people actually
saw what they said. But that didn't stop the local rumor
mill from churning out theories about the mysterious
missive. Soon many Zafaraniya residents had convinced
themselves that they were about to be thrown out of their
homes by the U.S. military--a striking example of their
willingness to assume the worst about American
intentions."
"Over cups of thick Turkish coffee, Zafaraniya
residents are eager to discuss the U.S. occupation and
share their more fanciful theories."
"Among the theories rampant in Baghdad and
Zafaraniya--that Saddam was an American agent all along
and is now safely in CIA custody. Or, alternatively, that
he's still in hiding and preparing to return to power."
(See USA Today for Wed, May 7,03, "Conspiracy
theories and rumors about U.S. intentions swirl in
Baghdad," page 2A and for Thurs, May 8,03, "New
audio tape is reported to be of Saddam after the war,"
page 4A. Many thanks to Ayesha al-Khatabi for the
additional information.)
UFO SIGHTED IN NIAGARA,
NORTH CAROLINA
"A local man and his wife saw what he describes as a
UFO Wed night," April 30,03.
"The unidentified flying object appeared as a bright
white light, hovered for a minute, and then flew across
the sky 'with the speed of a meteor,' said Fred Lloyd, an
assistant golf pro at the Whispering Pines Golf Course."
"The light appeared to him and his wife, Nancy Lee,
above the treetops on the right hand side of the road on
U.S. (Route) 1 near Niagara, N.C. at about 9 p.m. as the
two were coming home from church, Lloyd said. The entire
sighting lasted less than two seconds."
"The light was much bigger than a meteor, Lloyd said,
and brighter than the moon. When Lloyd and his wife first
noticed the UFO, they saw it out of the corner of their
eyes, Lloyd said, and it appeared as if there were two or
three lights. When they got a better look, then it was
just one."
"When the light headed north and disappeared, Lloyd
said the sighting left him feeling excited and a little
out of sorts."
"'It made the hair on the back of my neck stand up,'
he said."
"Lloyd joked about whether people would think he was
odd for claiming to have seen a UFO."
"'Half the people who know me think I'm credible, and
the other half know I'm not,' he said, 'My wife is one of
the most credible people in the world.'"
Prominent American ufologist George Fawcett of
Lincolnton, N.C. (population 9,965) is looking into the
case. "Fawcett has investigated over 3,000 UFO sightings
in 80 different countries over 60 years."
"Sightings usually happen near military bases or
nuclear power plants, Fawcett said."
"Lloyd has no idea what he saw, but be believes it
wasn't a meteor or an airplane."
"'This, to me, has no explanation,' he said, 'Nothing
I know of in the sky can act like that.'" (See the North
Carolina newspaper The Pilot for May 4,03, "Couple
reports seeing UFO Wednesday night." Many thanks to John
Hayes for sending along this newspaper article.)
DAYLIGHT DISC SPOTTED
NEAR SAN DIEGO
On Tues, May 6,03, 2:20 p.m., eyewitness E.G.
was driving near the Sycuan Casino in El Cajon, California
(population 94,869), on Interstate Highway I-8 about 11
miles (17 kilometers) east of San Diego, when she noticed
a strange silvery glimmer in the eastern sky.
E.G. reported, "It looked silver-gray in color and
was as big as an airliner. It was a long oval shape. It
caught my eye as if the sun had hit a mirror. Then I
watched, as I thought it might crash. But it just floated
straight behind the cloud. I pulled the car over to wait,
but it never showed up again."
E.G. described the object as "a cylindrical UFO with
no wings" and "about the size of a Southwest Airlines
jetliner." (Email Form Report)
COUPLE AT HOME SIGHT A
UFO IN MEDINA, OHIO
On Wednesday, April 30,03, at 10 p.m., Jason Davis
was at his home in Medina, Ohio (population 25,139), a
small town on Routes 3 and 18 approximately 28 miles (45
kilometers) south of Cleveland, when "my wife yelled
downstairs to me to look out the window toward the back of
the house."
"It was a generally clear night with the moon almost
full and also in the southern sky but almost overhead," he
recalled, "There was a light in the sky that seemed to not
blink or move or resemble a plane at all from that
distance, which was approximately 10 to 20 miles (16 to 32
kilometers) away. The light seemed to be coming towards
us at about the same speed as a low-flying jet aircraft
would."
"I looked at it through binoculars and was surprised
at what I saw, so I grabbed the digital camera and tried
to get a couple of good pictures. I'm not a pro. I just
fired off a couple photos without using the flash or
trying to turn on the digital zoom."
"I must admit that the lights had a more defined
shape when viewed through the binoculars than the photo,
but it is interesting looking. The object never seemed to
change speed or direction, and it was in view for about
two minutes. It left no trail, but a jet that went by a
few minutes later left a very obvious trail in the intense
moonlight." (Email Form Report)
MYSTERIOUS GLOWING LIGHT
SEEN OVER A LONDON PARK
On Wed, May 7, 03, at 12:15 a.m., Gene Perry
and his girl friend were strolling through Manor Park in
London, the UK's capital, when they spotted a "white light
turning reddish as it dimmed over a five-second period."
It was "as bright a light as a first-magnitude star,"
Gene reported, "and was moving from nearly directly above
us, slightly north, to the south. I said to my partner,
'Look, it's a satellite.'"
"She looked up and saw it, too, and said, 'I'm
getting my glasses.'"
"I watched it for another ten seconds before it
turned dimmer and disappeared. Viewing time in total was
10 to 25 seconds."
"I grew up on American air force bases all around the
world and have seen all kinds of aircraft in all kinds of
weather and at all angles. This object was brighter than
all of the satellites I've ever seen. Weather was clear
with no moon. If you held your hand at arm's length, the
distance (the UFO) traveled was about two inches. It also
had a slight curve in its path." (Email Form Report)
THE SPAWN OF CTHULU?
"A new species of jellyfish with a yard-wide (meter-
wide) fleshy red bell and a cluster of wrinkled thick arms
has been found by scientists nearly a mile (1,200 meters)
beneath the cold, dark waters of the Pacific Ocean."
"Marine biologists at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research
Institute," near San Francisco, California "discovered 23
of what they call Big Reds in Monterey Bay and the Sea of
Cortez" in Mexico "and off Hawaii, Japan and the Farallon
Islands near San Francisco, according to the latest online
edition of the journal Marine Biology."
"Biologists have used a remote-controlled submarine
to get video images of the big jellyfish swimming and have
collected tissue samples of the bell and the thick arms of
one specimen. From the samples, scientists have concluded
that Big Red is a unique species." (See the Duluth, Minn.
News-Tribune for May 8,03, "Giant jellyfish found in
Pacific," page 2A.)
(Editor's Comment: First it was ancient ruins in
Antarctica. Then it was giant red jellyfish. What's
next!? The "terrible three-lobed eye" growing on the
floor of the Aegean? Stay tuned.)
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