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Saturday, October 25, 2003
NASA Opens Kecksburg Docs
NASA has agreed to turn over documents relating to the alleged crash of a UFO in Kecksburg, Pa., in 1965, the SCI FI Channel announced. The news comes a day after SCI FI said it would pursue legal action against the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to release its records on the incident.
NASA informed Lee Helfrich, attorney for the Channel-sponsored Coalition for Freedom of Information, that it is releasing 36 pages of documents, the Channel said.
The release comes after 10 months of pursuing the records through the Freedom of Information Act. The Department of Defense and the U.S. Army have yet to release any records under similar requests, the Channel said.
"For more than four months we have received no response from NASA, but one day after John Podesta, President Clinton's former chief of staff and member of the Moynihan Commission, and Bonnie Hammer, president of SCI FI Channel, called on government agencies to make public records that are over 25 years old, lo and behold, NASA responds," Helfrich said in a statement.
"I think it's fair to say that we have truly entered the realm of science fiction in Washington, D.C., when it's fair game to disclose the identity of a clandestine CIA agent, but not the records of an unexplained crash in Kecksburg, Pa., that occurred 38 years ago," Podesta said at a news conference this week.
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Durangoan reports he saw UFO
Durango - Colorado - Tim Butler doesn’t believe in flying saucers. His perception is more sophisticated. It was a flying boomerang that caught his attention.
Durangoan Tim Butler sketched this drawing of an unidentified aircraft he claims he saw flying above Durango on Sept. 28.
From his perch on Smelter Mountain about 6 p.m. Sept. 28, Butler, a Durango sound engineer, saw a silent, silver boomerang – 40 to 60 feet long – sweep over Fort Lewis College, around Smelter Mountain, and across the Animas River toward the airport, he said. The object was flying at a little higher than 1,000 feet. "It was flying so low I think it was illegal."
Then, as Butler fumbled unsuccessfully with his binoculars, he watched the object bank west behind Paradise Ridge and disappear, two or three minutes from the time he’d first seen it. Butler was with a friend who saw the craft, too. But he said his friend declined to be interviewed, citing fears that he may "end up on some future ‘Men in Black’ list."
Official observers seemed to have missed the flight.
The Durango-La Plata County Airport reported no unusual activity on that date. Financial Director Don Brockus said an American West Express plane departed about that time. If it had gone north, it might have flown along the path that Butler described.
"Doesn’t sound like anything we have coming and going. But anything other than airliners doesn’t have to check in with us. UFOs never let us know," Brockus said.
The National Weather Service at Grand Junction said: "There isn’t any annotation about anybody seeing anything in the sky. And one of the guys working that shift has his own telescope and he would have noticed."
The Department of Defense’s Strategic Command in Nebraska would only be concerned with the sighting if it had been space debris. "Strategic Command did not track any object predicted for entry at that time and location," a spokesman said.
Butler believes that what he saw was no airplane. His theory: unknown technology, possibly from the military, possibly not.
"I’m a scientist at heart so I’m a pretty skeptical person," he said. "I’ve been going to air shows in Oshkosh since I was a kid. It wasn’t like any military technology I’ve seen."
Butler said the public only knows years after the fact what technology the military has. "There’s about a 20-year time span between reported objects and the time we find out about them," he said.
The boomerang, Butler said, was notable for what it didn’t have: It lacked markings, a cockpit, portholes, a tail and dorsal fins, stabilizing equipment, propellers, engines, and rivets.
"It wasn’t thermalling and didn’t make a sound," he said. "There was no heat distortion behind the end. I thought it had to be a military drone at one point but there was no contrail, no propulsion."
Butler recalled that the sun hadn’t set and he was looking across at Fort Lewis.
"It was a clear, beautiful afternoon. My friend thought he saw a bird. It looked to me like a little glider from the Animas Valley. I have friends who launch gliders from there.
"Then I started seeing reflections from it. The reflections made it look really white, like a long tube of quicksilver. But when it turned, it looked like a cylinder with wings swept back into a delta."
Others sightings reported
So intrigued was Butler with his sighting that he began doing research. He returned to Smelter Mountain to draw a map of where the craft flew. Then he heard about a report in The Silverton Standard about a recent sighting; he drove to Silverton to get a copy.
The Standard reported on Sept. 19 that three residents on two separate occasions reported seeing a boomerang-shaped object over Silverton: Anita Steck and Tammy Rhoades saw the boomerang around 7 p.m. Sept. 15. At first it wasn’t moving, then it turned and flew away fast, leaving a trail of smoke." Steck said she saw the same object again around 11 p.m. the same night.
Chris Tousimis saw a bright object over Sultan Mountain late that night or early the next morning, the Standard wrote. He described it as emanating two rays of light downward, giving it a boomerang-like appearance.
The National UFO Reporting Center’s Web site reported 408 sightings in September. There were 19 sightings on Sept. 28, the night Butler saw the Durango boomerang.
The nearest sighting reported by the center that day was in Santa Fe, at 6 p.m., almost exactly the time Butler had his sighting. The Santa Fe phenomenon was described as "a large, bright, egg-shaped object that moved slightly." The sighting lasted an hour.
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Friday, October 24, 2003
The New Roswell: Kecksburg Exposed - 7 p.m. + 9 p.m. tonight, Sci Fi Channel
It has remained an enigma for nearly 40 years -- a saga that began on Dec. 9, 1965, when a fireball was observed streaking across the Westmoreland County sky.
Many witnesses said the fiery object appeared to bank, turn and glide into a wooded ravine near the small Mount Pleasant Township community of Kecksburg. At the scene, onlookers were told a meteor had crashed. More persistent curiosity-seekers were turned away by police and military personnel; some at gunpoint.
Over the years, many questions have been asked; few have been answered. Just what exactly took place in the woods that night? And why was the military so anxious to cover it up?
The Sci Fi Channel endeavors to "blow the lid off" the baffling UFO case in "The New Roswell: Kecksburg Exposed," airing tonight. "What really happened in that little town, known to some as Pennsylvania's Roswell?" asks host Bryant Gumbel in his opening narrative.
What, indeed? The townsfolk remain very much divided. "I think it was something from outer space," says one local resident. Another smiles, emphasizing, "Once the cameras are rolling, people will say anything if they think they're going to be on television."
Regardless, notes Gumbel, eyewitness accounts remain consistent. Through a series of dramatic re-creations, the documentary returns to an evening that would forever change the dynamics in a quiet, unassuming community.
Eyewitness Robert Blystone remembers seeing a "controlled fireball" in the sky. A short time later, Bill Weaver, then 19, saw a bluish light -- "like a welder's light" glowing in the woods. Johnstown resident Don Sebastian details a contingent of "probably 100 soldiers," as well as two "unearthly screams" he says he'll never forget. Pittsburgh jazz musician Jerry Betters says he observed an "acorn-shaped object with hieroglyphics" being hauled away on a flat-bed truck.
Viewers learn of the late John Murphy's efforts to ascertain the truth. Murphy, a news reporter for WHJB radio in Greensburg, snapped photos and interviewed many eyewitnesses that evening. Mable Mazza, the station's office manager at the time, remembers seeing one of the photos, depicting a "cone-like thing" surrounded by a lot of trees.
However, says Mazza, Murphy's enthusiasm for the case evaporated after he received several "unexpected visitors" at the station. Soon after, Murphy was killed in a hit-and-run accident in the state of California. The driver was never found. And the news reporter's notebooks, tapes and photos mysteriously disappeared not long after.
Coincidence? "If someone did away with John, it was because he saw and knew too much," says Bonnie Millslagle, his former wife.
In an effort to further unravel the mystery, Sci Fi enlists the services of West Virginia University professors Dr. J. Stephen Kite (geology and geography) and Dr. Ray Hicks (forestry), for several days of on-site research. With assistance from witnesses Bill Bulebush and John Hays, the investigative team locates what is believed to be the actual crash site. Their findings -- the result of soil and tree core sample studies -- indicate proof of a "traumatic event" at the site on or near 1965, Hicks says.
The special also offers several differing points of view: James Oberg, space consultant; Nick Redfern, author of "Strange Secrets," and Richard Dolan, author of "UFOs & The National Security State."
"The New Roswell" concludes with scenes filmed during a town meeting, held in August at the Kecksburg fire hall. The event was unprecedented; the first-ever gathering of believers and nonbelievers.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2003
Edmonton researchers discover new way of generating electricity
EDMONTON (CP) - A University of Alberta research team says it has discovered a clean way of generating electricity by simply directing water at a solid surface.
The discovery is chronicled in a research paper to be published Monday by the London-based Institute of Physics. It has a wide range of possible uses - from powering small devices such as Palm Pilots or calculators with water batteries, to maybe someday contributing electricity from a clean, renewable source to a national power grid, says the university.
"The discovery of an entirely new way of producing power is an incredible, fundamental research breakthrough that occurs only once in a lifetime," said David Lynch, dean of the university's engineering faculty.
With the help of two graduate students, engineering professors Daniel Kwok and Larry Kostiuk were able to light a small bulb by squeezing a syringe of ordinary tap water through a glass "filter" with microscopic-sized holes.
They did it by harnessing the natural energy that is created on a very tiny scale when a flowing liquid meets a solid surface.
It's been known for many decades that when a liquid such as water comes into contact with a non-conducting solid such as glass, ceramic or stone an interaction occurs between the two at a microscopic level that creates a charge on the surface, Kostiuk said.
Because of the movement of positive and negative ions, the solid becomes negatively charged and the water next to the surface positively charged.
Kwok was explaining if one puts the water through a "microchannel," - imagine a tiny tube - the positive and negatives ions move so that one end becomes positive and the other negative.
"I was walking on a cloud for the next day. I couldn't believe nobody else had really looked at this and done it before.
"The possibility just kept bouncing through my mind about how we would do this," said Kostiuk , adding Kwok shared his enthusiasm.
What continues to strike Kostiuk is the simplicity of their invention.
Using a syringe, they pressed water through their "filter," a two-centimetre glass disc with 450,000 holes in it - something commonly found in labs, he said. The holes act as the microchannels where the charge is created.
They attached metal electrodes at either end of their device and connected them using a wire to create a pathway for the current - and they had electricity.
"Embarrassingly, that's it," he said.
Theoretically, there's nothing to prevent it from being scaled up, Kostiuk said. To create electricity on a very large scale, you would have to have a large volume of water flowing through many million microchannels.
The university applied for a patent on their invention in August and is currently working with the inventors to find ways to commercialize the discovery.
Kwok said not only has he received correspondence from academics already offering suggestions for the research, it appears to have captured the public imagination as well - judging from the many congratulatory e-mails from individuals.
"Everybody knows about electricity and everybody knows about water. . . It really caught public attention because . . . nobody has been able to come up with a new method of generating electricity for the last 160 years."
Major electricity breakthroughs:
1800: Allesandro Volta discovers electrochemical effect, used in batteries.
1821: Thomas Seebeck discovers Seebeck effect, used in thermoelectric generators.
1831: Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction, used in electric generators.
1839: Edmond Becquerel discovers photovoltaic effect, used in solar cells.
1839: Sir William Grove discovers proton exchange membranes used in fuel cells.
2002: Larry Kostiuk and Daniel Kwok discover electrokinetic effect, could lead to pressurized water battery and other uses.
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Cable channel suing NASA over UFO documents
The truth is out there, and the Sci Fi Channel is determined to find it, even if that means suing NASA, the Department of Defence, the U.S. Army and Air Force for documents related to unidentified flying objects.
Sci Fi, a U.S. cable channel, is part of a group pressuring the federal government to de-classify UFO information.
Last year Sci Fi joined forces with an investigative journalist, a Washington, DC law firm, and former President Clinton chief of staff John Podesta, to gain release of documents relating to an incident it calls "the new Roswell," a UFO sighting in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania in 1965.
"Now, one year later, despite serious effort to uncover the facts, NASA and the Department of Defence are still maintaining their wall of silence," said Sci Fi Channel president Bonnie Hammer. "Whether or not this has anything to do with UFOs the public has the right to know."
Now the Sci FI Channel is supporting what could turn into a series of lawsuits, first against NASA and then against the Department of Defence, the Army and Air Force, to get classified documents released to the public.
The group said it expects to file the suit against NASA within a week.
NASA was chosen as the first agency to be sued because SCI FI and the groups' attorney, Lee Helfrich of the Washington, DC-based firm, Lobel, Novins and Lamont, believe that they've fully exhausted their administrative options with the agency, a prerequisite for a judge to agree to hear the case.
While news organisations routinely pursue Freedom of Information Act requests with the government, it's relatively rare for a cable channel, to pursue such a course of action.
In December 1965, residents of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania watched a fireball descend into a heavily-forested area 40 miles from Pittsburgh. That night the area was cordoned off by the military, trucks and helicopters came and went, and the town was briefly placed under martial law.
The next day, headlines in the Greensburg, Pennsylvania Tribune-Review read "Unidentified Flying Object Falls Near Kecksburg" and "Army Ropes Off Area," but residents of Kecksburg were never told why the military cordoned off the area and what, if anything, was found.
The results of Sci Fi's new investigation into the incident will air Friday in a documentary hosted by Bryant Gumbel called "The New Roswell: Kecksburg Exposed."
In Kecksburg it hired a forestry expert from West Virginia University who discovered growth patterns and core damage to trees there that support a "traumatic event" in 1965.
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Monday, October 20, 2003
Enlightening sighting for local family
Bearspaw - Canada - Two glowing clouds that seemed to follow a Bearspaw family around their property Saturday night has the makings of a fictional tale, but Omkar Channan knows what he saw.
Around 10 p.m. Saturday, Channan's son was walking the family dog on their property northwest of the city.
"All of a sudden, the dog started barking and we saw two small clouds over the house -- they seemed to be chasing each other around and then merging together," said the elder Channan, who is a published author and recently retired from his role as the city's chief controller of prosecutions.
As the family gathered outside, the strangest part of their experience began.
"We were walking around the property, and whatever it was seemed to be following us," said Channan, explaining the objects were about 900 to 1,200 metres above ground.
In an effort to get witnesses to the strange event, the Channans called the RCMP, both the Calgary International and Springbank airports, and neighbours.
"It was the strangest thing I've ever seen," said Carol Geremia, one of the Channan's neighbours who also called others as she ventured outside.
"The clouds, or whatever they were, were perfectly round and illuminated -- it kind of gave me the creeps," she said.
"The (possibility) of it being a UFO comes to mind, but I've never experienced anything like that before and it's just really bizarre that it seemed to be following us," Channan said.
Don Hladiuk has been an astronomer for more than 30 years and the Channans' experience is unusual, he said.
"Over the past 20 to 30 years, I've heard a lot of stories and a lot can be explained, but this one comes out of the abnormal," he said.
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Sunday, October 19, 2003
UFO Seen in Chillicothe, Ohio
Chillicothe - Ohio - Local residents reported an Unidentified Flying Object Friday night while attending a Unioto football game. An unexplainable series of lights lit up the night sky according to Lonnie Caplinger and his son Bruce.
"I couldn't believe it," Bruce said. "It was too weird. It just makes you wonder what's going on out there."
According to Bruce, he just happened to be looking up at the sky when he saw two bright lights that appeared to be moving toward him.
"Then of all of sudden, a third one appeared, then a fourth one, almost like a tear drop dropping out of the other one," he said. "They were in a horizontal line, four bright lights. Then they slowly turned orange and just disappeared."
Bruce said the Friday night sighting was almost identical to what he saw seven years ago, a reporting of strange lights in the sky which was recorded by a Ross County man and then broadcast on Channel 10 News.
"Coincidentally it was in the same area," Bruce said, "and at the same time of year."
Lonnie said the series of unidentified lights almost looked like a plane with four lights strung across the wing.
"But if it was a plane it was huge, huge, huge," he said.
Friday's night sighting was the third reported locally since 1986, when Barbara Herrnstein witnessed inexplicable lights during a session of stargazing.
According to Crystal Lavadour, from the office of public affairs of Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, there were no reports of strange lights Friday evening, and no calls were reported locally according to the Ross County Sheriff's office.
Lonnie stands behind his allegation. Unexplainable or not, what he witnessed at a Friday night football game was real, he said, and perhaps ... alive.
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