Filer's Files #22 --1999,  MUFON Skywatch Investigations  
George A. Filer,   Mutual UFO Network Eastern Director, 
June 4, 1999,  Majorstar@aol.com  (609) 654-0020

UFO reports decrease in US, but increase in Canada, Mexico and the UK.

FLORIDA

GAINESVILLE – On Friday, May 7, 1999, Cheryl Kirkland and her boyfriend were 
traveling west on NW 39th Avenue between Main and NW 6th Streets, Alachua 
County.  Cheryl said, "I was in the passenger seat, while my boyfriend was 
driving when I noticed three objects in the distance on my side ahead at 8:15 
PM.  As we got closer, I realized that they were floating, not flying.  I 
know they were not birds since I am a bird enthusiast and have experience in 
bird identification.  They were three "balls" dark gray to black in 
appearance and were in a vertical triangular formation (not a triangular 
flight pattern horizontal and parallel to the ground).  I thought that they 
were perhaps balloons but decided they were rather large to be balloons and 
did not think three balloons would float and remain in a triangular pattern.  
They were the size of a small automobile.  Two of the balls moved up and 
down.  I said, "What are those three balls in the sky -- slow down!"  We 
drove at 30 mph and slower.  They flew right by in a perfect spherical shape. 
 My boyfriend slowed down and glanced over and saw the objects, but could not 
get a good look.  I told him to pull over.  He said he couldn't.  I yelled, 
"Pull over."  He argued, "There's no place to pull over!"  He was able to 
drive slowly, while I kept my eye on the objects.  Then they just vanished.  
My boyfriend said he did briefly see three objects and they were moving up 
and down.  I called the police, but the officer I spoke with seemed 
skeptical.  He told me to call the local TV station.  I spoke to the local TV 
meteorologist, who said there were no weather balloons in this area.  He 
suggested they may have been reflections from the sun.  However, they were 
not shiny.  They were dark balls and definitely solid objects.  The UFO was 
sighted for 3 to-4 minutes at 1/4 mile. Thanks to Ben Field BUFOD: 
http://www.abcfield.foirce9.co.uk

TEXAS

KARNES CITY -- Michael Harvey writes that in the summer of 1971, I was 
working the night shift for Conoco Oil Company at an open pit uranium mine 
west of Karnes City.  I was one of six people operating Caterpillar 657B 
earth movers.  We were down to about 210 feet deep when this incident 
happened.  It was about 11:10 PM, just after shift change.  We were getting 
ready to crank our machines, when the 85 acre pit lit up as if it was 
daylight.  The light was so bright that I had to squint because it hurt my 
eyes.  I remember hearing a high pitched hissing noise and the hair on my 
arms stood on end.  I was so scared!  I fell to the ground and started 
praying.  I remember trying to look up, but the light was so bright I could 
not.  After about two minutes, the light started getting dimmer and I could 
finally look up at it.  What I saw amazed me.  The object was round and the 
bright light was coming from the center of the bottom of the UFO.  Around the 
perimeter of the craft were hundreds of penlight size light beams that 
alternated in all colors of the spectrum.  Now, I know they were laser beams. 
 The UFO was rising up slowly at first and then went straight up out of sight 
in about 10 seconds.  I was crying and shaking and so was everyone else.  The 
other shift workers thought we were crazy when we told them what had 
happened.  But, we got the last laugh.  This is how we proved the sighting 
actually happened.  There is a vein of uranium ore that runs from George, 
West Texas to almost Texarkana, Texas.  When determining where to place a 
uranium mine, the following steps are accomplished:  (1) A geologist with a 
Geiger counter flies over the area and finds the highest radiation reading.  
(2) Drilling trucks are sent out and core samples are drilled to determine 
the highest concentration of ore.  These core samples are drilled in a grid 
pattern and every core sample is given a tracking number and logged in 
showing the concentration and amount of uranium present. (3) The open pit 
mine is then laid out according to these core samples.  When this UFO 
incident happened, we were about two feet away from a layer of hard rock 
called the "tap rock" that lies directly on top of the uranium ore.  The 
uranium ore varied in depth from 6 to 18 inches and had about the same brown 
color as low grade coal.  Two days after this incident, the tap rock was 
removed to expose the uranium ore.  We were astounded to find that the 
uranium ore was now a chalky white substance that had NO radioactivity at 
all!  There was a 250 foot diameter circle of this chalky material in the 
center of the pit.  Outside of the circle, the uranium ore was still as 
potent as before the incident.  Core samples do not lie.  This chalky 
material was uranium before this incident.  Many a night I have thought about 
what happened and wondered why the UFO needed the uranium?  Thanks to M. 
Harvey Sam Rayburn Lake, TX mharve@inu.net 

ARIZONA CONTRAILS AND UFO

PHOENIX -- Gary Graham was shooting photographs of strange contrails on May 
7, 1999, at 10:00 AM.  He was later interviewed by Linda Moulton Howe on the 
Art Bell show.  Gary stated, "I've been kind of interested in the contrails 
and been taking pictures of them for the last several months.  And so, I 
looked up into the sky and the sky was just full of contrails that morning, 
including an X.  I've seen a lot of contrails up there, but not an X every 
single time."  Snip.  Linda asked, "WHAT DID YOU SEE?"  Gary stated, "When I 
first looked at this, it looked almost like a round, metallic ball in the 
sky.  I kind of focused in over the roof of my next door neighbor's house and 
just outside one of the clouds up there and fairly close to one of the 
contrails.  There was this round, metallic, ball-looking thing.  And then 
right next to that, fairly close to it, there was a dark spot on the film.  I 
zoomed in on it and could still see what appeared to be kind of a round 
metallic object up there, but then the two dark spots -- or actually, the 
dark spot -- looked like two dark spots.  It looked to me as if it could be a 
couple of military jets."  Thanks to Gary Graham and Linda Moulton Howe.  See 
photos on: Contrail Connection http://www.contrailconnection.com/lmh1.htm 
garyariz@home.com

BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA UFO SIGHTINGS

Last week we reported on four major UFO sightings in the Surrey Corridor 
between May 21 and 23, 1999.  Bill Oliver UFO*BC reports there have been 
numerous UFO sightings this year over British Columbia.  The first sighting 
occurred in January when Richard was traveling east on Zero Avenue, when he 
saw a wedge-shaped aircraft stationary above the power lines.  It was 'so 
low,' and displaying white flashing lights.  Richard had two other sightings. 
 MAPLE RIDGE: On April 20, 1999, a couple who saw at 9:15 PM a small 
pulsating light approaching at only 250 feet above the ground.  When the 
light became stationary, all the lights in the town went out!  About ten 
minutes later they saw a big white flash and a meteor-like streak heading in 
a northwestern direction, towards Pitt Lake.  They heard a "rushing wind 
sound" and the city lights then came back on.  BC Hydro confirmed that Maple 
Ridge had an eleven minute transmission feed loss into a substation at 9:15 
PM. 
CRESCENT BEACH -- On 22-April, a couple saw a brilliant flash of light in the 
night sky replaced by a circular spinning red light.  The object moved out of 
sight after a 30 second viewing.  Five days later a man and a woman came upon 
several swirls of grass laid down and woven in an area of high grass, that 
may have been caused by the UFO.  The pattern was about 15 feet in diameter 
and was very apparent in the otherwise normal grass area.     
RICHMOND -- George, Linda and their 11-year-old son were driving south across 
Oak Street Bridge May 1, 1999.  Linda said, "What's that?"  She pointed at a 
square, flat object "floating" about 1000 to 1500 feet above the ground.  It 
had 8 "flood lights" on the front, white in color and steady in their 
illumination.  At Shell Road, the object passed overhead at 10:00 PM 
displaying an underside view of "aluminum sheeting."  This object made no 
discernible noise and no power source could be seen.  The craft was seen for 
15 to 20 seconds and appeared to be heading towards Steveston Highway instead 
of the Vancouver Airport.  The estimated speed was 150 mph and although it 
lacked "depth," it appeared to be the size of a Boeing 737.  George phoned 
the control tower, but was told they had nothing unusual on radar.  This is 
the third sighting of very, very thin rectangular objects. 
SURREY – On May 3, 1999, at 9:30 PM, Gilan (9) and his ten-year-old sister 
saw 30 blue lights surrounding a large blue ball, which they watched for 4 
minutes.  On May 7, 1999, a boy resting in his bed looked out the window 
10:45 PM, saw a bright white shiny circle move south across the sky.  The 
object was the size of a penny at arm's length. 

WHITE ROCK -- Debbie was attending to her young son, in his bedroom on April 
27, when a blast of blue light entered the room through the horizontal blinds 
at 4:30 AM.  Looking onto the street from another window she was astonished 
to see a cluster of 8 to 12 rectangular lights beamed onto the road in front 
of her neighbor's driveway.  The lights were stationary and covered an area 
about 8 by 8 feet.  She could also sense a really deep hum.  After viewing 
this for about ten seconds she was so shocked she returned to her son's room. 
 As she did so, a blast of white light came from the back of her house in the 
Dogwood Park area.  Looking into the park, she could see the white light of a 
UFO amongst the trees. 
On May 7, 1999, Johan was driving down Fir Street at 9:00 PM, when he saw a 
large yellow, and blue-gray patch of light traveling across the water in an 
easterly direction.  He estimates the object was "300 meters in diameter"!  
The light appeared to be pulsating.  He viewed it from his car for about 30 
seconds. 
On May 8, a couple and their two children were driving southeast on Highway 
#99.  Upon reaching 152nd Street at 9:30 PM they saw a large wedge-shaped 
craft approaching slowly, at a very low altitude.  It had a bright white 
light in the center, a blue light on one side and a red light on the other 
side.  A small conventional airplane flew diagonally across its path!  The 
wedge-shaped craft veered south towards White Rock.  Total viewing time was 
at least 4 minutes.  
On May 9, Kevin and a friend were also driving south on Highway #99 when they 
spotted a "stealth" aircraft stationary about 100 feet above the trees at 
10:15 PM.  The object displayed four headlights.  Shortly afterwards they 
observed a "starburst" in the clear night sky, the color being orange to red. 
 When the light display faded away, the craft began to move away slowly.  At 
this point a red and blue flashing light appeared, one at each wing tip.  The 
object had been above the highway 4 minutes.  The airport said, their radar 
coverage is limited to 1,000 feet and above, and that they had nothing to 
report at this time.  
Fifteen minutes later, Aliza, Sasha and Jennifer were leaving McDonalds at 
10:30 PM, when Sasha spotted a "HUGE" boomerang-shaped object slowly 
approaching at a very low level.  They stopped the car and got out to gaze at 
it as it passed silently overhead.  It had 6 to 8 broad beamed red, green and 
white "headlights" flashing on and off, but not sequentially.  The lights 
like an "image" in the clear night sky.  After 8 seconds, the object 
disappeared from view in an instant!  All three young women were strongly 
affected by what they saw.  On May 19, 1999, Laura and a friend saw a large 
white triangle come down vertically over White Rock at 11:44 PM.  It was the 
"size of her fist held at arm's length.
BURNABY - The next night, on May 10, Sid and Leon were on Burnaby Mountain 
when they spotted a "massive," long craft below the tops of the trees at 
10:43 PM.  It initially appeared stationary, but started moving slowly, with 
no discernible noise.  The right side facing them had a yellow light, a long 
red light and a blue to green or gray light.  They viewed it for 6 to 8 
minutes.  Twenty minutes later it returned, with the light configuration in 
reverse.  VICTORIA, Two nights later on 12 May a married couple was at the 
gazebo a favorite UFO viewing spot at the University of Victoria.  They were 
looking eastward across the Straits of Juan De Fuca, towards Vancouver, when 
they saw a bright light, the color of fire, indulge in high speed erratic 
motions around 9:00 PM.  They watched it for about 8 minutes before it landed 
or disappeared into the ocean?  The light was 1/2 the size of a dime held at 
arm's length.  A few minutes later, another fiery object appeared in the same 
spot and "danced" around the sky in an identical manner.  After eight 
minutes, this triangular shaped object also disappeared in a similar manner.  
Later, a third yellow to gold object appeared and repeated the antics of the 
two previous objects for about 8 minutes before disappearing.
MUD BAY -- On May 14, 1999, a married couple was walking along Mud Bay at 
8:15 PM, when they saw a 35 foot long 'black thing.'  It had an upright 'tail 
fin' traveling through the water from marker to marker.  It made no sound and 
left no wake!  The man is convinced it was neither a sea lion nor a whale.  
At 8:30 PM they were on the road near "1000 Steps" at Crescent Beach when 
they saw on the road an orange spot of light about ten feet in diameter. 
RICHMOND – On May 15, 1999, two people observed two red objects high in the 
sky at 9:15 PM.  The objects were seen for a two or three minutes and 
displayed unusual flight patterns flying from right to left and then 
reversing.  They did not maintain a consistent light as they blinked randomly 
without sequence for the total sighting time.  Thanks to Louise A. Lowry and 
Bill Oliver UFO*BC oliver2849@home.com

CONTRAILS OVER  BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA  

VANCOUVER -- On May 21, 1999, more unusual contrail or 'chemtrail' patterns 
were seen again.  This was probably the "heaviest" day since mid-April.  The 
first sighting was at 12:30 PM, was a single odd looking contrail to the 
east, which was "bent" at a fairly sharp almost 90 degree angle, looking like 
an "L" floating in the sky.  By 2:30 PM, we noticed several contrails off in 
the west that noticeably expanded, and formed 'beads' along the bottom of it, 
like 'drips.'  Over the next two hours the western half of the sky became 
filled with six contrails, that became very thick.  Most were horizontal and 
parallel to each other, while another one crossed the sky at an odd looking 
angle.  I noticed a large X type pattern composed of a large, very thick, 
translucent looking contrail and a narrower but still large contrail.  At 
about 4:00, another, even bolder X was seen.  I've noticed many of the larger 
contrails seem to appear out of nowhere.  No planes are heard or seen.  The 
contrails were at a lower altitude than the cumulous clouds at 6,000 to 
12,000 feet and too low for normal contrail formation.  
On May 26, 1999, the "contrails" were seen en masse today.  Since 11:30 AM, 
the activity was virtually nonstop.  There were numerous contrails in all 
directions, including large Xs and "grid patterns" with four crossing each 
other overhead.  Some of the contrails are *very* thick and wide, others are 
thinner.  Some looked very low in altitude, others were higher up.  I 
observed a low flying twin engine plane that repeatedly circled overhead.  
Using my binoculars I could see its landing gear was down, and it had a 
flashing light on its tail.  It did not leave a noticeable contrail, since it 
was too low for any normal contrail formation.  Later, I observed a vaporish 
"contrail" like pattern that began to develop as it cut through the sky.  A 
second and third contrail developed and they all seemed to blend into one big 
one.  The contrails slowly developed and thickened after repeated flybys of 
the aircraft, rather than simply being initially "sprayed out" in the usual 
noticeable manner.  That area of the sky was then later filled with the big 
wide low level contrails.  Thanks to Paul Anderson Director The Millennium 
Project Web: http://persweb.direct.ca/psa 

MEXICO

PUEBLA – On June 1, 1999, three UFOs were filmed by Mexican Television over 
the city of Puebla in broad daylight.  Mexican television has shown at least 
three UFOs hanging over the city of Puebla southeast of the Mexican capital.  
Judging by the film shown by "Atsteka" television the UFOs were visible in 
the sky for around five minutes.  The phenomenon had been watched on Monday 
morning by dozens of people.  They said, the UFOs, were rather large, and 
were lined up in space eight kilometers wide.  The UFOs had a silver color, a 
round shape and emanated a powerful light.  One of them quickly disappeared, 
while the other two moved southwest, flying at a very high speed.  Mexican 
Civil Aviation officials have not given any explanation of the incident yet.  
Channel 9 in Chile also carried the video report as part of its breaking news 
reports of UFO sightings over South America.  Thanks to Guillermo Alarcon 
ufoalarcon@webtv.net

CHILE

SANTIAGO -- Guillermo Alarcon reports that on Saturday, May 19, 1999, Channel 
7 showed a video of a UFO over the Chilean capital in broad daylight.  The 
program was broadcast at 10:00 PM, on a breaking news report.  There was also 
another UFO image filmed the night before.  Thanks to: Guillermo Alarcon 
ufoalarcon@webtv.net Editor's Note:  The government of Chile is working with 
UFO investigators to investigate various UFO reports.  They are taking a very 
open stance concerning the intruding UFOs.  It would be refreshing if the US 
government would do likewise. 

UNITED KINGDOM  METEOROLOGISTS  SEE UFO

WESSENDEN RESERVOIR -- John Morris age 48 reports that he and a colleague had 
a sighting of a UFO on Friday, May 28, 1999, at 11:30 AM.  John states:  "I 
viewed a metallic craft, triangular in dimensions; approaching some forty 
feet in length, from tip to tip."  Said craft was in view for some 45 
seconds, flying at high speed and amazing versatility some six feet above the 
ground.  It disappeared over the crest of a hill above rolling moorland.  The 
nearest town is Huddersfield.  The weather conditions were clear and dry with 
a calm wind.  No sound was heard.  The craft flew amazingly close to the 
ground following the rolling hills at about six feet.  A video was made of 
the craft.  There was no missing time experienced and permission is granted 
to publish this report.  Thanks to Ben Field BUFOD: 
http://www.abcfield.foirce9.co.uk.  Editor's Note: We would like to get copy 
of these videos to place in the Air Victory Museum's, UFO exhibits. 

HOW TO STOP ABDUCTIONS

Wes Clark writes, "The abductees we work with have had great success in 
stopping abductions by calling for help from Jesus.  The book of Acts should 
be read because it has many parallels with the present day UFO abduction 
phenomena.  We are not trying to tell anyone what they should believe, we are 
reporting -- what our cases have proved.  I am reporting on what I have found 
in some not-so-ancient Greek writings.  It's amazing how few things have 
changed in the enemy's tactics since the first century.  In the Acts of the 
Apostles Chapter 19, Paul writes:

"A team of itinerant Jews who were traveling from town to town casting out 
demons planned to experiment by using the name of the Lord Jesus.  The 
incantation they decided on was this: "I adjure you by Jesus, whom Paul 
preaches, to come out!  Seven Sons Of Sceva, a Jewish priest, were doing 
this.  But when they tried it on a man possessed by a demon, the demon 
replied, "I know Jesus and I know Paul, but who are you?"  And he leaped on 
two of them and beat them up, so that they fled out of his house naked and 
badly injured.  The story of what happened spread quickly all through 
Ephesus, to Jews and Greeks alike; and a solemn fear descended on the city, 
and the name of the Lord Jesus was greatly honored.  Many of the believers 
who had been practicing black magic confessed their deeds and brought their 
incantation books and charms and burned them at a public bonfire."  Acts 19, 
verse 13 to 19.

Wes further states, "The implications of this record are tremendous!  These 
seven brothers tried to do what many of their contemporaries were 
successfully doing -- casting out evil spirits, also known as "Space Pals" in 
the name of Jesus Christ!  This is EXACTLY what today's former abductees have 
done!  The reason these guys were not successful is because they used the 
name of Jesus like a magic word, like "abra cadabra."  They weren't using the 
power of the name of Christ with any authority because at that point, they 
had no personal relationship with Jesus Christ, hence, no Sonship rights.  
(Reference Romans 8:16-17.)  This evil spirit recognized that right away, 
hence his statement, "Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are YOU?"  It 
recognized, of course, the power and authority of Jesus Christ, and also 
Paul, who as a joint-heir with Christ, used the name with authority.  These 
seven brothers however did not have that authority.  The evil spirit saw 
their bluff and called them on it, and as the story points out, they took 
quite a beating.  This also by the way suggests that demonic entities can 
manifest physically as the wounds these guys received were obviously 
physical.  The people of Ephesus were able to understand something that we 
today, cannot seem to grasp -- the power of Jesus Christ.  There is 
absolutely no mystery about if it exists, what the source of it is, or what 
it all means.  Not only does it suggest the reality of spiritual warfare.  It 
also suggests it is not a game for spiritual lightweights and/or people who 
don't know what they're talking about.  This is unlike all the ambiguous 
double talk shrouded in mystery that we get from many sources.  If one must 
attack these findings, one must attack the cases.  To do that, one must call 
them liars, and to do that, one must call every abductee who ever came 
forward with their story a liar.  Thanks to Wesley M. Clark, wclark59@bv.net 

HEAVIEST HURRICANE SEASON EVER PREDICTED.  Fourteen major hurricanes are 
predicted during the next 6 months by the U.S. National Hurricane Center.

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Durant on Roswell are two of the scheduled speakers.  On July 2-4, 30th 
Annual MUFON 1999 International UFO Symposium at Hyatt Regency Crystal City 
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