Filer's Files #15 -- 2000, MUFON Skywatch Investigations
George A. Filer, Director, Mutual UFO Network Eastern
April 17, 2000, [email protected] (609) 654-0020
Web Site at www.filersfiles.com. - Chuck Warren Webmaster.

LIFE BEYOND EARTH

Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Guion S. Bluford both believe there's life
beyond Earth. In a Los Angeles Times article in 1973, Eugene Cernan who was
commander of Apollo 17 said, "I've been asked (about UFOs) and I've said
publicly I thought they (UFOs) were somebody else, some other civilization."
Astronaut Guion S. Bluford who is the veteran of four space shuttle missions
also says there is extraterrestrial life in the universe. He holds a
doctorate degree in aerospace engineering and was the first African American
to fly in space aboard the Challenger in 1983. Bluford flew on STS 8 in 1983
(the shuttle's first nighttime launch), STS 61A in 1985, STS 39 in 1991, and
STS 53 in 1992. Logging more than 700 hours in space and 5,000 hours as an
Air Force jet pilot, Bluford currently is vice president of the science and
engineering group for Federal Data Corp. He recently spoke at the
Information Technology Association of America's Convocation in Chicago.
"When you're in orbit mire than 200 miles above the Earth, you realize how
delicate and thin the layer that is our atmosphere really is," he said. "And
you realize how insignificant Earth is in the universe. You see no national
boundaries upon the land, and you realize that all six billion of us must
live and survive together." Bluford said he thinks it's likely that other
life exists beyond Earth. "We're so infinitesimal," he said, "that it's hard
not to imagine other life being created beyond our planet and galaxy. I
don't know what form this life might take, but even on Earth, life forms are
created in many different environments--undersea, on land, and in the
atmosphere."

NEW JERSEY TWO BOOMERANG SHAPED CRAFT SPOTTED

TUCKERTON -- I was standing outside my home with my family and neighbors
looking at a strange pink sky on April 6, 2000. I was outside at 8:34 PM
because the color was very odd. There were clear skies with lots of stars
out and the moon was very clear. As we kept staring at the sky we centered
our attention to an area where the sky was a pink circle that looked like
pink sunrays. All of a sudden I saw two boomerang shaped objects flying
through the pink rays in the sky. They had no lights on them and were dull
looking, kind of like a dull silver. I watched the two objects follow each
other and zigzag around a few stars until they disappeared. There were no
sounds as the objects were flying across the sky. They traveled faster then
an airplane but slower then a shooting star and they didn't look like a
shooting stars. Thanks to Peter Davenport Director NUFORC www.nuforc.com

PUERTO RICO HAS TWO MORE UFO SIGHTINGS

SAN JUAN -- On Saturday, March 25, 2000, at 5:50 PM, two high-flying UFOs
were seen by several dozen eyewitnesses. According to author Scott Corrales
they traveled in opposite directions. "One was traveling west at an
approximate heading of 295 degrees magnetic. The other was traveling east at
a heading for 115 degrees magnetic." "At least one of the eyewitnesses,
Celestino 'Junior' Ortiz, a popular radio announcer on Alpha Rock 105.7 FM,
was able to capture both objects on his camcorder." "As he was leaving his
house, Ortiz, his wife and son, and friends spotted the mysterious object
heading west at a 20-degree angle. He reached for his camcorder and began
filming. The objects initially looked like comets or meteors entering the
atmosphere. The object traveling east passed high above the eyewitnesses,
said the members of his family. No sound of jet engines or sonic boom was
heard as it flew by." In early March 2000, Wally Durand Urbino of the Puerto
Rican UFO Research Group also reported a UFO sighting in the city of
Isabella, P.R. "Luminous balls were seen. The witnesses reported that the
luminous spheres departed in the direction of the mountains, heading north,
and then veered towards the east, heading out over the Atlantic Ocean,
becoming lost in the sea mist." Thanks to Scott Corrales y Lucy Guzman UFO
Roundup Vol. 5, # 15, 4/13/00 Editor: Joseph Trainor
http://ufoinfo.com/roundup/

PENNSYLVANIA FLYING TRIANGLE SEEN

PITTSBURGH -- I saw an arrowhead shaped object without lights pass very near
the moon on April 13, 2000. It took two seconds to cover the distance of the
diameter of the moon at 22:30 hours. The object was moving from west to
east. The sky was clear and the object probably would not have been noticed
unless moonlight shone on the object. I would have thought it was a cloud by
the general coloring, if it were not for its extremely symmetrical shape. It
did not change shape or fade, and there were no other clouds present in the
sky. The size of the image was about 3/4 the size of the moon. I'm just
curious if anyone else saw something that night in the Pittsburgh sky? A few
seconds after witnessing the event I did hear what sounded like a loud jet,
but I live in an urban area with a great many noises from multiple sources.
Thanks to Peter Davenport Director NUFORC www.nuforc.com

INDIANA: UFO HOVERS OVER PLANT

INDIANAPOLIS -- WB reports that he is a former Indiana Deputy Sheriff now in
private security at a large Indianapolis chemical plant. On Tuesday, March
14, 2000, at about 10:50 PM, he was patrolling the facility with an
associate, when he observed a white glowing elongated object about 30 to 35
feet long. The object was hovering over high-tension wires about 50 yards
away. It was completely silent. As they watched, the object moved in a
southerly direction at about 25 to 30 mph, and passed over them about 50 feet
up. It continued along in silence and disappeared to the south after about
three minutes. The witness has prepared a sketch, and indicated the object
was shaped like a grain of rice, rounded at both ends. This case was
referred to Indiana MUFON for investigation. Thanks to Tom Sheets, ISUR
Board-SD MUFONGA [email protected].

WEST VIRGINIA VIDEOS OF DISC UFOs

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS -- On April 6, 2000, the Fire Tower Look Out at Blue
Bend Recreation area videotaped four UFOs at 4:30 PM. Four UFOs can be seen
just after they come out of the cloud. The objects are circular and appear
to be approximately 50 feet across. Within a two minutes 14 different UFO's
are caught on video. The best video is when nine of these objects are seen
flying straight up through the clouds all at once, together. They all
continue flying even higher up into the atmosphere. All of the footage has
been slowed down to 90 frames per/second. This footage is absolutely
phenomenal. Thanks to Chris Miller See: http://www.UFOfootage.com/

MISSOURI NUMEROUS UFO 's SIGHTED

NORTHEAST -- On January 13, 2000, we watched approximately 32 UFO's and seven
aircraft between 6:45 to 8:45 PM. They were going traveling in all
directions and not in formation. There were eight at one time, then three or
four at a time. It first started when my daughter and my two grandchildren
were on their way to see me. They live about 23 miles west of me. They were
driving down the road when my grandson saw something in the sky in the
distance and they began to watch it closer. They were so hypnotized by it
that they turned off the highway on to a secondary road to get a closer look.
They drove several miles down the road until my daughter and grandson began
to get scared. They wanted my granddaughter to turn around, but she would
not. She was almost hypnotized by the light. She finally pulled onto a
gravel road and stopped. Now they were very close to the object and observed
it for five minutes. During the time they stayed in this spot the light quit
moving and just hovered. The mother and grandson were getting scared so
finally my granddaughter started back the same way. The light followed them
as they returned the way they came. The UFO crossed over the top of their
car and followed them at a distance all the way to my house. When the object
passed over the car and when hovering it changed form. It went from actually
looking like a UFO to looking completely different. But it was the SAME
light! A soon as they got to my house they ran in and got me and we all
stood outside watching. That is when it all started. UFOs were everywhere!
We counted 32 in all, 7 airplanes. We got a neighbor to watch, then my
daughter went to her friend's house and got them to watch, so there were
actually about seven witnesses. There was no noise except the noise from the
planes. Thanks to Adeline Davis [email protected]

ARKANSAS FLYING CIGAR STOPS CAR

HOT SPRINGS - On April 9, 2000, I was driving home from church home and saw
an enormous cigar shaped craft. I happened to look up and coming straight at
me was a metallic pinkish cigar shaped object flying toward my vehicle at
about 100 feet above the road when my car died at 16:30 PM. Light was
glowing off of it and it was going more than 100 miles an hour. It stopped
right in front of my car, and that was the last thing I remembered before I
woke up. I have flashes of memory that I seem to recall being held to a
table but I couldn't feel any straps or restraints. I was very cold and I
heard a high-pitched buzzing the entire time. When I awoke, I was laying in
the back-seat of my car. I could smell a burning odor like the wires in my
car were fried. It was dark and when I got home about four and a half-hours
later. I went to sleep and slept for fourteen hours. Just yesterday, I
noticed I had two bright red scars running parallel to each other along my
back. I read somewhere that unexplainable scars or missing time were signs
of abduction. I really was skeptical at first but now I'm grateful for
people like you helping us. Thanks to Peter Davenport Director NUFORC,
www.nuforc.com.

TEXAS LARGE FLYING TRIANGLE SPOTTED

ARLINGTON -- Mike Harman reports seeing a large Flying Triangle or kite
shaped craft on April 10, 2000, at 10:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time. I was
driving north on IH 360, and drove under I 20 when I spotted a large
triangular shaped object about a mile directly ahead of me. The object was
60 to 100 feet wide judging from it's proximity to the high tension power
line towers near it. I would guess this craft was two pencil erasers wide as
held at arm's length. The triangle was hovering or moving very slowly near
the power lines. The triangle was fairly flat on top and was sharply pointed
on each end. It was solid black and its nose pointed slightly downward as it
hovered almost motionless. The altitude of the object was not more than 500
to 1000 feet above the ground. I also noticed a shiny metallic much smaller
object just ahead of the large triangle. This object was very close to the
triangle and seemed to be connected with the triangle in some way. It could
have been a helicopter, but it was too far away to tell for sure. I noticed
the sun glinting off the object as it made a turn. The silver object was
only a tenth the size of the triangle. I was unable to determine sound as I
was observing this from inside a moving automobile at the time. They hovered
near high-tension lines. My wife was with me and would not allow me stop,
"keep your eyes on the road," she said. I had two or three minute's total
time to observe these strange craft. I was a mile away from the craft at the
time of this sighting, I could not make out too much detail and could only
see the shape of the craft. It was too flat for a blimp or a balloon and
what was that bright silver object so near it? Both were hovering not moving
or moving very slowly. The weather was partly cloudy and the object was
definitely below the could cover. This is the second major sighting I've had
since 04/09/2000 at 12:50PM. Thanks to Michael Harman
[email protected]. Private UFO Investigations

HOW TO TAKE UFO PHOTOS?

With the advent of better cameras we are obtaining more videos and
photographs of UFOs. Actually we would like to analyze your photos. Mark
Cashman MUFON's CT State Director suggests: First of all, remind your readers
that objects seen with the naked eye will appear much smaller on film. The
moon, which seems so large, can be a pinpoint on film when shot with a
standard lens. Photos of pinpoint light sources are useless. Second, the
only photos of interest will be those which show something large enough to
demonstrate detail. In addition, they must show the object near, preferably
in front of, reference points of a known distance; this will allow
determination of size and make hoaxes more difficult. Multiple different
exposure rates, zoom, and f-stop can be helpful, as can be the use of a
variety of filters. Third, a tradeoff between sensitivity and grain size
must be struck. Usually this means films no higher than 800 ASA, but
preferably any higher than 400 ASA. Unfortunately, in low light conditions,
this means that handshake will cause blur, so a tripod is advised. Fourth,
no photo is any better than the report and the investigation. Photogrammetry
cannot resolve the truth of a photo alone. Witnesses who photograph must
provide at least as much documentation as the anecdotal witness. They must
especially identify the type of camera, lens, and the time of day and
direction of the photo, and zoom / f-stop settings. In addition, they should
preserve the camera for examination by experts. Ideally, after photographing
the UFO, the witness should shoot a variety of natural objects at known
distances using the same film, camera, and settings. These objects should be
identified, their distance specified, and the prints made available along
with the UFO shots. These calibration photos are essential to determining
the nature of an unidentified light source or object. If the sighting is a
distant night or day sighting, streetlights and passing aircraft make good
calibration candidates. The lens must be clean. Finally, everyone should
become more aware of the appearance of lens flares (day and night),
development flaws, lens dirt, and other artifacts. Note that digital cameras
have their own artifacts that are very unusual looking. Digital photos and
videos should be evaluated very carefully, because they're low resolution and
slow frame rates make hoaxing and errors fairly easy. Ideally, the use of
stereo camera setups, like that described by Dr. Maccabee in "The Gulf Breeze
Photos", can show something about the distance of photographed objects.
However, calibration is essential. For subjects like "rods" which may be
very close to the camera, calibration, preferably independently verified, is
even more important. I hope this helps. Thanks to Mark Cashman, creator of
The Temporal Doorway at [email protected] (Mark Cashman)

MONTANA DISC HOVERS FOR TWO HOURS

SOMERS -- Vern Corban by all means, publish my story. The more it is seen,
the more likely I will reach someone who may also have seen that craft. I
was at my grandmother's home in the Flathead Valley. I was about five years
old and this is why I do not recall for sure the year, but I do know it was
around 1953 during the summer. The sky was bright blue and the land was
covered with grass. My mother came into the living room and told me there was
a UFO outside. Mom and grandma were frightened, so I was not allowed to go
outside, but we did go to the window facing the UFO and peek out. Across the
street no more than 50 yards away hovered a silvery top-shaped object about
the size of a water tower reservoir--the kind that is mounted on long girder
legs. It was directly above the neighbor's driveway. There were many people
lined up along the highway, which ran between our house and the UFO. There
were no intervening trees or buildings, so it was quite clear that this was
no normal aircraft. It held its position 25 feet above the ground for
something like two hours. Since, I was not allowed to continue to watch, I
didn't see it depart. I was told several people notified the authorities and
they refused to come out at first. When they finally did the craft had
already left. I believe that there may have been pictures taken by some of
the witnesses. Thanks to Vern Corban [email protected].

CALIFORNIA LIGHTS OVER DESERT

Donald Macpherson writes on April 6, 2000, my wife and I were driving east on
I 10 about one-third of the way from Indio toward Blythe. A quarter moon was
low in the western sky around 8 30 PM and the night was clear. My wife said,
" There's lightning'." I glanced out her passenger side window and noticed a
yellowish light a hundred yards south of the highway. Then a second light
appeared about two hand widths to the east. Then a third and fourth light
appeared about the same distance east. The lights were quite evenly spaced
and about the same height above the top of a hill. Another light passed over
the three lights and was outlined by their glow. The lights were traveling
east at about 70 mph just maintaining the same speed we were. There was
another flash behind the hills. The lights were in view for fifteen minutes
until the road curved to the left. I assumed there was some kind of a
military operation. The lights were perfectly steady, yellowish and stayed
at the same height. Flares would have been white, flickering and descending
giving off visible smoke. No aircraft employs steady yellowish lights.
Considering the fact that these lights stayed due south of us for fifteen
minutes, I must conclude that they were traveling east at our speed. Thanks
to: Donald Macpherson e mail dmacphe975 @aol.com

NEW ZEALAND SIGHTINGS AND ABDUCTION

CHRISTCHURCH -- Kevin Kemm who is 42 writes I have been investigating UFO's
for the last 17 years and have personally seen 25 most with witnesses at my
side. It all began with abductions from my home in Christchurch. One time
while on the road with my band six of us saw an enormous UFO send out what I
now know as a probe. It hovered silently over our heads. The underside was
exactly like the Travis Walton craft. Some of the guys in the band freaked
out and returned inside the house. Two of us remained outside until the ship
shot strait up and vanished. The craft was at least 100 feet across. The
underside was a swirling mass like looking into a cooling volcano crust. I'm
not too sure if we had missing time, as I haven't spoken to the others for
many years. Perhaps, I should have regressive hypnosis to find out about
these first abductions. I can remember almost everything; they were Grey's
who froze me. All I could use was my eyes. I tried to speak but I couldn't.
One of the Grey's came over and touched my head. I felt a lot more at ease,
and I was totally awake. Since then, I have vivid premonitions, which often
come true. I have predicted many events and have written them down and had
the notes witnessed. Another gift they gave me was to paint awesome pictures
that I wasn't able to do before. The Grey's don't like it when I move, even
though I'm tagged they get lost for a while and I actually miss their
presence. A close friend of mine and I often go down to the beach near our
city at 2:30 AM, when the UFO how starts. I'm really surprised no one else
is on the beach at that time as this happens quite often. Usually two craft
come along. One blinks out and the other remains over the beach though out
the night as if to keep an eye on the city. I recently purchased a digital
camera and on the next clear night I'm going out. Yes, you may print my
story if you want. Please dot hesitate to email me if you need an
experienced field investigator as I am already a qualified private
investigator by profession. Thanks to: Kevin [email protected] (k-kemm)

WRIGHT PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE

AREA 51 -- Robert Collins writes in the URL below there is an Area 51 drawing
extracted from a January, 1945 Wright Field Project Sanitary Sewerage
Investigation and Report, Master Sanitary Sewerage Plan from the US
Engineering Office, Cincinnati, Ohio. (File No. O-P 1175-1/2). This Area 51
is known to be on maps prior to 1945 and on maps up to at least 1948: Area 51
is located in what is known today as Area "B." of Wright Patterson Air Force
Base. The drawing runs almost directly east/west and sits on a hill over
looking the flight line. Above Area 51 running directly west is an
"Acceleration Runway/Ramp" used for doing high velocity aircraft testing and
running down the hill: See
http://home.sprintmail.com/~rigoletto/reports/wpaaf_area51.htm for further
information and
http://home.sprintmail.com/~rigoletto/Sanctuary_Of_The_Birds.htm for
updates and reports.

ROSWELL EVIDENCE IN GENERAL RAMEY'S HAND

On July 7, 1947, the Army Air Force announced from Roswell they had recovered
the wreckage of a crashed UFO. Less than twenty-four hours later, General
Ramey the Commander's 8th Army Air Force was photographed in his office by
Fort Worth Star Telegram photographer James Bond Johnson holding a piece of
paper and standing in front of the alleged debris. Several distinguished
groups are attempting to decipher the writing on the assumed message using
modern computers. David Rudiak comments on last week's Filer's Files #14,
Message Comparisons saying, "My thinking is based on what I believe to be a
fairly accurate reading of a _real_ message being held by General Ramey, a
Roswell principle at a critical moment." I have some important amendments to
the last three lines of the message. The following I now believe very
accurately conveys the content of these lines: (Capital letters/words denote
higher confidence as to accuracy the lower case letters. dashes (-) denote
uncertainty as to space or character).
Line 5......AT ROSWELL. ASsure [Affirm]
Line 6. thaT ciC-teAM SAID SEND MiStatEd rElease AS STORY And said
[MiStakEn] [mEaning/message/vErsion]
Line 7. (story)theY nEXt SEND OUT is OF WEATHER BALLOONS would farE[takE]
COPY [Stamp in large letters partially obscuring left edge of lines 7 & 8]
Line 8. (better if)THEY ADD LAND DRopsONDE CreWS. <"stage">[Handwriting
beneath "dropsonde"] says "land dropsonde"}

These lines are clearly about the Roswell cover-up. If my take on these
lines is accurate (and I strongly feel that it is), then a scenario something
like the following emerges. A counter-intelligence team was in charge (the
"CIC-TEAM"). There may also be a reference to another "team" up on the third
line of the message (according to interpretations by Don Burleson and myself)
that handled wreckage transported to Fort Worth. ("...THE WRECK YOU
FORWARDED TO THE --TEAM(?) AT FORT WORTH, TEX.")] Ramey seems to be asking
(or had asked) for confirmation that this team was responsible for the
original misstated/mistaken story. (Ramey would therefore appear not to be
fully in-the-loop on this matter.) Thus the captured crashed disk press
release from Roswell base was no accident and probably not the handiwork of
regular Roswell or 8th Army Air Force personnel. Instead the press release
was a plan put into action by the CI team in charge. The CI team also
apparently thought that the follow-up weather balloon story next being sent
out (not clear who originated it) would fly better if they bolstered it with
"land dropsonde crews." A "dropsonde" is a specialized meteorological word
for a weather balloon radiosonde that is dropped by parachute, usually from a
plane, but sometimes lofted by a balloon. (Funk and Wagnall's Dictionary) A
"dropsonde crew" is just an obtuse and unusual way of saying a weather
balloon crew. Add weather balloon crews to increase credibility of the
weather balloon story, says the message.

The last part of the message is referring to the military weather balloon
demonstrations that followed immediately after Roswell used to debunk Roswell
and the recent national wave of flying saucer sightings. This is a matter of
historical record. Alamogordo was one of these on July 9, but there were
others published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram with photos on July 11. The
handwriting underneath "land dropsonde crews," possibly Ramey's, says to
"stage" one of the demonstrations and make sure photos were taken ("photos
yes."). And so it was done a day and a half later at Fort Worth AAF. There
also appears to be a "COPY" stamp indicating this wasn't the original, but a
copy of a message recently sent out or received. This message obviously
contains many important clues as to what happened at Roswell. (And I haven't
even talked about the "victims of the wreck" phrase up near the top of the
message.) The provenance of this document is unquestionable. General Ramey
himself is holding the smoking gun in his hand over the dead body of a
weather balloon. Where is this message now? If Roswell was truly a
"nonevent" as the modern AF counterintelligence team labeled it, then Ramey's
message, copy or original, should be in some archive somewhere along with
other of Ramey's or 8th AAF documents. We can settle all arguments over
exactly what it says by obtaining a copy of it. What harm could possibly
come of it? On the other hand, if Roswell was a lot more than a crashed
Mogul balloon, then we can expect to get the usual run-around from the Air
Force during FOIA requests. Thanks to David Rudiak

EDITORS NOTE: I want to thank you for all cards and letters asking about my
health. After my by-pass operation last month I now walk over two miles each
day. I'm feeling healthier than ever. Regards,
George Filer.

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