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June 27, 2006

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STRANGE AREA NEWS

UFO Festival an out-of-this-world experience

Freedom Newspapers - Clovis News Journal

June 24, 2006

CLOVIS, NM - In keeping with the tradition of celebrating UFOs, aliens and mysterious crashes, the city of Roswell will host its 12th annual UFO Festival from Thursday to July 3. Taking a day trip to the nationally known festival could quench anyone's desire for everything extraterrestrial.

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UFO Incident Resurfaces : Researcher says he has photo of mysterious lights near Cannon

By Marlena Hartz - Clovis News Journal marlena_hartz@link.freedom.com

June 17, 2006

CLOVIS, NM - Thirty years after UFOs were reportedly sighted hovering over Clovis skies, another photograph of the event has surfaced.

A UFO researcher said this week he has a photo — albeit fuzzy — of a tubular shaped craft that danced above Clovis on Jan. 21, 1976.

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'Fire in the sky' sparks Friday 13th questions

October 14, 2000

By BETH WILSON - Globe-News Staff Writer

Expectations for the paranormal reached a peak when Friday the 13th's full moon combined with a bright light streaking the Panhandle sky.

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Longview man reports casket theft

May 26, 2000

The Associated Press

LONGVIEW (AP) - All that is left where Maggie McKinley's casket had been buried since 1873 is a 4-foot hole in the red dirt. Her tombstone is in disarray and her casket is gone.

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Man still recovering after bee attack

May 20, 2000

PLEAK (AP) - Texas A&M University insect experts will examine bees that attacked a Fort Bend County man and killed his dog this week to determine whether they were European bees or the aggressive Africanized bees.

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Black cat mystery reaching Loch Ness proportions

April 26, 2000

By DAVID STEVENS

CLARENDON - Lou Myers doesn't know whether it's a leopard or a jaguar or a mountain lion, but she is certain a big, black cat is prowling around Clarendon. She saw it about six weeks ago while looking out the window of the Brass Lantern Restaurant north of town.

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More Strange Lights Reported Over Lubbock

NUFORC Sighting Report

Occurred:3/24/2006 22:30 (Entered as:3/24/2006 22:30)

Reported:3/25/2006 6:05:45 PM 18:05

Posted:5/15/2006

Location:Lubbock, TX.

Shape:Circle

Duration:30 seconds

Saw an illuminated object moving quickly from the south to the north at a high altitude and was being followed by a plane.

At around 10:30 pm I was in my back yard and saw a swift moving lighted circular object that was about 35 degrees above the horizon at what seemed a high altitude. My house faces north and the back door into the back yard faces south. I was standing in the middle of my yard and noticed the object in the south sky moving north-north west.

One block south of my house there is a brightly lit car lot and birds and bats can be illuminated up to about 100 feet above the lot. I first I thought it was an illuminated bird as it moved across the sky but as it moved very quickly (approximately 10 times the speed of a jet airliner at cruising altitude) from a south-south west, to west position it became obvious that it was it was not being illuminated from the ground because it never waivered in brightness and appeared to be at a high altitude.

The light was not brilliant more of solid off white illumination. The light did not blink nor did I see it change color (I am red-green color blind and therefore might not of noticed subtle color changes).

Once it was approaching a due west position I called my wife out to see. She saw it to and first thought it was a plane but I pointed out the velocity and she agreed that it was moving very fast and could not make out what it could be. It appeared to very slightly lower in altitude as it moved. We tracked it from the back yard until my sight line was blocked by my neighbors house.

I then walked quickly to the front yard and saw it in the northwest sky for about 5 more seconds before it again moved out of my sight line by the roofs of houses across the street. At the point that my sight line was blocked it was only about 15 degrees above the horizon.

I then walked back into my house and back into the back yard. I then noticed a plane in the southwest sky that was approaching from the south west then changed direction moving north along a very similar path that was taken by the object. The lights on this plane were a yellowish color and it had a blinking light. It was moving much slower than the object that had just passed.

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Mysterious Lights Reported Over Lubbock

NUFORC Sighting Report

Occurred:2/27/2006 10:17 (Entered as:02/27/06 10:17)

Reported:2/27/2006 9:42:21 PM 21:42

Posted:3/11/2006

Location:Lubbock, TX.

Shape:Other

Duration:3 sec.

No outline of the ship, just appeared as six lights moving at great speeds, Great Speed!

I couldn't see an actual outline of the UFO, just lights. There were two pairs of lights, each pair containing three lights, so a total of six. They were moving at incredible speeds, but i couldnt judge if it was close or far, it was at night and the lights were dim. They weren't dim as in distance, but as if they were meant to "camoflouge" with the night.

When I saw the lights they were like so... but after about 2 seconds into the sightings they split, appearing as such.

The two pair kept their speeds and aligned perfectly, then they dissapeared into the night, almost fading into the night.

((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD))

SOURCE

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Bluish-silver UFO Reported in Amarillo - "it felt like Jello"

NUFORC Sighting Report

Occurred:3/23/2006 15:30 (Entered as:3/23/06 15:30)

Reported:4/28/2006 1:45:18 PM 13:45

Posted:5/15/2006

Location:Amarillo, TX

Shape:Rectangle

Duration:20 seconds

Bluish silverish UFO felt like jello over Amarillo,Texas.

When my grandfather picked me up from Puckett Elementry School at 15:00 we went down Bell St. I noticed something silver and shiny, at the corner of my eye. I looked out the passenger side window and saw something rectangular about three feet away from me.

I said " Papa look " and he said "what?" and then I felt it, it looked solid but felt like jello.

I heard my voice singing a song that I had stuck in my head from quior that morning. Then I saw three lines that had looked a lot like the design on my shoes.

My grandfather couldn't see it from where he was sitting (driving). I saw a square on top that was blueish and translucent. This is where I saw the lines that resembles on my shoe. Then it vanished very quickly from my sight.

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Bright Blue Light Reported Streaking Across Amarillo Sky

NUFORC Sighting Report

Occurred:10/14/2005 06:40 (Entered as:10/14/2005 6:40)

Reported:10/14/2005 6:44:34 AM 06:44

Posted:10/20/2005

Location:Amarillo, TX.

Shape:Sphere

Duration:7 minutes

At 06:40 this morning I saw what I thought was a shooting star, but it then stopped and it lite up bright blue for about a minute.

After that the light dimmed and then it looked like a star. At that time the star shot off at a high speed and then stopped. When it stopped it turned back into a big blue light and then the light went back off and it looked like a star again.

The object then started to move again and stopped in the middle of the big dipper and then shot off at a high rate of speed and dissapered.

SOURCE

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Burnt-orange Colored UFO Reported over Lubbock

NUFORC Sighting Report

Occurred:8/8/2005 23:00 (Entered as:08/08/2005 23:00)

Reported: 8/8/2005 9:10:49 PM 21:10

Posted: 9/2/2005

Location:Lubbock, TX.

Shape:Changing

Duration:3 minutes

The shape started with cloudy formation then evolved into a burnted orange color starting at the bottom of the cloud. Then turned more orange color moving up from the bottom. I then went to get my wife to see and she saw the same thing.

After a couple of minutes it slowly lost it's color and vanished. I have never really believed in these things, however, I wonder about it now! It just happened moments of me e-mailing this!!!

SOURCE


Conspiracy Theory

Mysterious 'Z Ray' Cripples Plane Engines Over NY In 1935

The Denver Post, May 26, 1935

From Bill Oliver-UFO*BC oliver2849@home.com

New York, May 25 - Airplane pilots making flight in this vicinity have asked the department of commerce to investigate a supposed radio-ray device which they believe stops the motors of airplanes passing over New York city.

The airplanes, flying over the central part of Manhattan, have had mysterious troubles with their engines during the last few months. As a result, belief is spreading in aeronautical circles here that some short-wave experimenter has developed a "Z-ray" which interferes with the workings of airplane motors at which it is aimed.

A peculiar thing about the occurrences is that the planes' motors simply "go dead" without apparent cause, and when they are examined later, it is seldom possible to determine what was wrong. Twice, however, electrical parts have been found to be burned out, as if by a heavy current of electricity.

Several times disasters have narrowly been avoided, as the magnetism which stalls the engines does not pass off for some time, and the planes must be brought to an emergency landing. When a plane is flying at 5,000 feet or more over the city, it is possible to land at one of several airports, but the planes that have been affected by the supposed "Z-ray" are usually flying at lower altitudes.

The most recent occurrence of this nature was the near-disaster which overtook the cabin monoplane piloted by Michael Stupelli, which was forced to land with three passengers in the East river a few days ago when its motor stopped from electrical trouble which has not yet been solved.

The pilot reported he was "almost in a straight line with the top" of a mid-town skyscraper, where shortwave radio tests are known to be under way, when the motor gasped and died. From that instant he was unable to get a spark out of his generator, but when the plane was examined later the only trouble seemed to be that several electrical parts were highly magnetized.

Radio experts here said that no experiments with "Z-ray" were being made in Manhattan, so far as they knew. They pointed out, however, reports from the continent of automobiles being mysteriously halted by short-wave devices near the Italian border.

Department of commerce inspectors are expected to join with officials of the federal communications commission in their investigation. In the meantime major air lines have issued orders to their pilots to obey strictly instructions against flying over Manhattan.

Many thanks to Bill Oliver from UFO-BC and Sightings.com for this story.

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