From: George A. File <Majorstar@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 15:54:32 EST
Fwd Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 17:07:47 -0500
Subject: Filer's Files #02 - 2000 Political Awakening 


Filer's Files #02 --2000,  MUFON Skywatch Investigations
George A. Filer,  Director, Mutual UFO Network Eastern
January 13, 2000 -- Majorstar@aol.com  (609) 654-0020
Web Site at www.filersfiles.com. Chuck Warren Webmaster.

IS IT TIME TO MAKE UFOs A POLITICAL ISSUE?

On Tuesday, I was called by Heather Anne Harder, Ph.D., who is
running as a candidate for the President of the United States.
She was a genuinely nice person, but most important to
Ufologists she feels that research and openness in government is
needed concerning UFOs.  She says, "She knows UFO's exist." She
had her own personal sighting of strange lights that were
observed by 24 people.  This was followed by an unexplained
experience of missing time.  She is well aware that former
Governor Jimmy Carter also had a UFO sighting and made election
promises to find out what was going on, but after his election
no answers were given.  Even today, former President Carter
refuses to answer MUFON queries about his own personal sighting.
She vows to get some answers if she is elected. Although, MUFON
does not endorse any candidates for public office, Dr. Heather
Anne Harder is refreshing in that she understands the UFO
phenomenon.  It is delightful to talk to a person who
comprehends and acknowledges the American citizen's frustration
with the situation.  She promises that if she is elected, she
will demand some tough answers.  She will not accept the usual
sly remarks about UFOs from government employees that work for
us.  Dr. Harder feels we are being visited and contacted on a
regular basis by an alien presence and further research is
desperately needed.

Dr. Harder indicated that if the UFO community wants to be
heard, the presidential primaries provide the ideal forum. Each
candidate is fighting hard to get a small percentage of the
votes.  In states like New Hampshire and Iowa, one voice is
worth thousands perhaps tens of thousands of votes.  Once one of
these candidates is elected, we would have little chance of ever
talking to the new the President.  But each individual voter in
the primary takes on unique importance since so few participate
in the primaries.  Dr. Harder suggested that people interested
in UFOs, should show up at a caucus and the various meetings and
ask questions about UFOs from each candidate.  Astronaut Dr.
Edgar Mitchell stated, research into UFOs might be the most
important endeavor of mankind. Yet most candidates appear to
know little about the subject.  Ufology needs a presidential
candidate who will demand answers, and get the government
interested.  Most of you reading these files know that UFOs are
in our skies, and in some cases creating a safety hazard.  NASA
has spent some 20 billion dollars searching for life on Mars,
but refuses to admit the failure of 23 out of 31 probes could
have anything to do with UFOs.  They tell me they are not
interested in looking at the Soviet Phobus 2 film that shows a
UFO intercepting the probe near Mars.  I suggest we want some
answers, not condescending we know what is best for the millions
of UFO enthusiasts.  It seems most of the candidates say the
same thing.  Perhaps its time to listen to someone like Dr.
Harder who will support our cares and needs.  These files are
sent to all the presidential candidates and she is the first one
to contact me.  So naturally I'm flattered.  She feels the
campaign needs citizen participation rather than lobbyists
deciding what's best for you.  Dr. Harder wants to have honest
and healthy mechanisms for citizen participation to reclaim the
government and reestablish it as being for the People.  She
wants to empower the American people to become the ultimate
stabilizing force as the fourth branch of democratic government.
Although, MUFON does not support any candidate for public
office, Dr. Heather Harder is interested in UFOs and how this
relates to the average citizen.

NEW JERSEY DISC CAUGHT ON DIGITAL CAMERA

WILLINGBORO -- Jerry Kirk sent me a disc of several shots of a
UFO sighting that occurred on January 5, 2000, at 4:43 PM.  The
two original digital views were shot with a Polaroid PDC
digital camera without the benefit of magnification on Sussex
Drive just east of Philadelphia. There was another aircraft
flying in the same direction, east by northeast.  The disc
shots show a cylindrical UFO without wings or tail assembly.
Although trees are visible in the bottom of the photographs it
is difficult to estimate the UFOs altitude.  The craft appeared
to head towards the Atlantic Ocean at 25,000 to 35,000 feet or
5 to 10,000 feet above the regular air traffic.  Additional
magnification applied to these images, does not bring out any
wings or tail structure. Thanks to Jerry Kirk. The images can
be viewed at www.filersfiles.com.  This type of UFO is being
observed on a regular basis and has been involved with near
misses with our commercial aircraft.  Similar craft were
observed five hours earlier in Pennsylvania.

PENNSYLVANIA THREE CYLINDER SHAPED UFOs

EXTON -- The National Reporting Center reports three cylinder
shaped objects were viewed moving east to west, at 9:50 AM on
January 5, 1999. The witness was walking his dog and looked up
to see an unidentified flying cylinder without wings.  He
checked his dog and looked up again to see two more cylinder
shaped objects.  The witness said, "They looked like white cans
with two rings in black on each craft with no wings or tail
section visible."  The first and smaller craft did not fly as
straight as the other two.  The last two were about the same
size but larger than the first.  Thanks to Peter Davenport and
NUFORC. Editor's Note: Editors Note: The photos in New Jersey
and the Pennsylvania description appear to be similar objects.
Craft were observed on the same day both East and West of
Philadelphia about 50 miles a part.

INVESTIGATION OF SEPTEMBER FLORIDA SIGHTINGS

TAMPA - MUFON State Section Director Lorraine Gerber writes,
people all over Florida were reporting fast moving, some slow
moving and even hovering objects on September 7, 1999. These
objects were observed in some cases for up to ten minutes from
Navarre in north Florida to Miami in the south.  NASA and NORAD
said the UFO reports were caused by the reentry of a spent SL
12 Russian booster rocket body moving from the Northwest to
Southeast across the US at about 5:00 a.m. The primary MUFON
investigators were Phil Bayly, Bob and Jimmy Kruse, Polly Bryan
and myself.  Phil Bayly, former Air Force officer and lead
investigator calculated the 17,000 mph reentry speed to have
placed the object over Florida for only one and a half minutes.
Investigator's reports showed that witnesses had observed
objects going west to south, east to west, south to east to
north for extended periods. With the help of the UFO Reporting
Center, Malcolm Hawthorn, and Art Bell witnesses were located
who gave detailed accounts of their sightings. Some of the
sightings reported by UFORC included: Cigar shaped object over
St. Petersburg at 5:10 a.m., "Something strange in the sky."
At Tavares at 5:04 a.m. a   Cigar shaped object with three
lights.  Orlando, 3:00 a.m. a fireball.  South Miami, 5:03
a.m., three blue-green spheres, (two separate reports).
Poinciana, Lake Wales, Lake Helen, Kissimmee, 5:05 a.m., saw
what appeared to be a meteor breaking up.  Changed shape to 13
balls of light with and without tails, red, yellow, green,
blue.  Ocoee at 5:05 a.m. saw five upright disks traveling
south at low altitude and medium speed with light beams
directly between each disk.

Ruling out some of the fast moving objects that traveled from a
north to a south direction, Bayly profiled some of the more
questionable cases that were investigated by our MUFON group as
well as two that Ann Lieberman, SSD from Venice investigated.
He found that they did not fit into the Russian debris reentry
profile.  The following are some of those cases: In Tampa, a
witness, Dr. Lynn Sayne, was bringing his newspaper in at 5:00
a.m. when he saw an object going from the south to north then
east, moving in an irregular pattern as it changed directions.
He said that the object was not streaking. He also said that
there were six F-16s in flight and three had experienced the
loss of their electronics.  Sayne said, "In a period of five to
eight seconds their aircraft systems completely shut down."  He
was aware of the fact that Tampa emergency vehicles were also
alerted.  At 5:00 a.m., two witnesses in Seminole reported
seeing an object just above the tree line only 300 to 400 feet
away.  After changing shapes three times, it was last seen as a
saucer shaped object 75 feet wide forming a cloud around it in
a cloudless sky, and going straight up until it disappeared
from view.  This sighting also lasted several minutes. In St.
Petersburg, Isle Del Sol, a witness was awakened at 3:08 a.m.
with a silvery white light illuminating her bedroom.  She
looked out her window and saw two huge balloon-shaped spheres
gliding northeast over Boca Ciega Bay that were six times the
size of the moon.

Three witnesses reported seeing a cigar like object in the west
that hovered and moved slightly.  One witness coming from Port
Charlotte to Sarasota from 4:45 to 5:00 a.m., observed an
object for five minutes at 1000 yards away, about 800 to 850
feet altitude. The object had windows in ¼ of its left section
and was 225 feet wide.  It had a white strobe-like light at the
nose and a blue one at the rear bottom.  As a retired fire
fighter, he thought it was a jetliner crashing and that he
should stop to see if he could pinpoint the crash site.  It
hovered and moved slightly towards the south while he watched
for five minutes.  He also saw emergency vehicles circling the
area.  Another witness driving west from Myakka State Park saw
a similar object for several minutes.  A third witness driving
west from Arcadia saw a comparable object in the west.  A
significant sighting was reported from Lutz at 5:15 AM, when an
illuminated object moved west and five airborne objects moved
toward it as if to intersect.  The first object got smaller
until it finally was seen bursting out and then imploding as it
disappeared.  The witness saw a total of 15 aircraft in the
area some for ten minutes.  A witness at 5:00 a.m. in Englewood
saw what he described as "six jumbo jets flying together in
unison," illuminating each other, "but they were not aircraft."
They were fast moving objects going from north to south over
the gulf, but not an object reentering our atmosphere. Bayly
acquired video footage shot by a John Vye and shown September
7th on Channels 9 and 13 (FOX TV).   MUFON is trying to contact
Mr. Vye.  In a frame by frame analysis, Bayly asserts that the
object is doing a barrel roll, first one way and then in the
opposite direction.  Reentering debris would not make this kind
of maneuver.  After careful analysis Bayly ruled out the
possibility that these sightings were the result of a
reentering booster rocket body.  Bayly concluded that his
findings on some of the cases do not support NASA's or NORAD's
explanation. Thanks to Lorraine Gerber.

ALABAMA UFO

MADISON -- Aaron Crossley says that on January 7, 2000, I saw
an unidentified flying object on my way to the bowling alley
with my friends Tyler, Daniel, David and Jessica. It was about
8:45 PM, when a bright blue light caught my eye.  "It was
extremely bright like a blue fireball, and it streaked across
the sky from south to north horizon in a second." It was moving
incredibly fast. If I had blinked I would miss it. After I
asked my friends if they had seen it, which sadly they had not,
Tyler told me that he had seen exactly the same thing last year
while delivering Pizzas, except there were three of them when
he saw them, and they appeared to be flying in V formation.  I
have to wonder if Alabama is part of some secret projects
flight plan. And what better place given the reputation of its
native residents. I hear numerous UFO stories around here now
that I've come out with mine.  Thanks to Aaron Crossley
raverkid@earthlink.net.

MICHIGAN GREEN FIREBALL

THREE RIVERS -- Alan Otterson reports that on January 7, 1999,
I was watching TV with my wife with our inside lights on. Alans
says, "I was surprised to see streaking by our window a very
bright lime green fireball heading toward the north."  I jumped
up and dashed to the door and saw it vanish. Shortly after I
saw another bright light goldfish in color just above the
treetops across the field from us. This light slowly and I mean
very slowly moved southeast toward Three Rivers, Michigan.
There wasn't any noise. Thanks to Alan D. Otterson
alancath@gte.net

ILLINOIS FLYING ARROWHEAD SEEN BY POLICE

SAINT CLAIR COUNTY -- In the early hours of January 5, 2000,
police dispatchers started receiving numerous reports of a huge
slow moving craft that resembled an arrowhead just east of St.
Louis.  It had an unusual sprinkling of lights defined as a
starfield camouflage with three bright lights on the tail.
Milstadt police officers responded to complaints and at least
four policemen claim to have observed the huge craft. The
object was similar to a flying wing or flying triangle with
small twinkling lights that appeared to be designed to
camouflage the craft from observers on the ground. Lebanon,
Shiloh, Highland and Dupo police officers reportedly sighted
the large flying object.  Scott Air Force Base is near by but
the tower was closed at that time of night. The craft had three
brighter lights on its tail, and flew from the
northeast-to-southwest across the Metro East area about 4:00
AM.  The craft was described as two stories high and about
three times as long.  The police searched various web sites to
attempt to find likeness of the craft.  The only craft that
appeared similar was the photo of a "Stealth Blimp" on the
Popular Mechanics Web site. Thanks to Mark Scott and Ken Young
who has a likeness of the photo at
http://home.fuse.net/ufo/camouflage1.html and Millstadt Police
http://millstadtpolice.homepage.com/aircraft.html

MISSOURI UFO SPOTTED BY AIRLINE CREW

SPRINGFIELD -- While flying a B757 a commercial flight at
33,000 feet from LAX to CLT on December 26, 1999, the two
pilots and two flight attendants were observing an earth
satellite-passing overhead from the cockpit. It was well past
sunset at about 7:00 PM CST. The earth satellite apparently
flew into the terminator and disappeared while high overhead.
The witness stated, "Within a moment or so, a white-lighted
object overtook and passed us in fairly close proximity making
at least 200 knots more than we were."  Our airspeed was .80
Mach and our ground speed was 483 knots or 550mph. The object
was first noted south of our west to east course at a distance
estimated to be from about 2 to 5 miles.  It appeared to be at
nearly the same or a slightly higher altitude. The object
showed only a bright white light that appeared to be slightly
disturbed by turbulence, or very slightly pulsating. Its course
appeared constant, as did its altitude. It passed us and faded
rather quickly from sight in about forty seconds.

A query was made to Memphis Center ARRTC as to any possible
traffic. The controller said he had nothing on his scope that
could be what we saw. We saw nothing on our TCAS, set to
observe other transponders within 4,000 feet of our altitude
and within 20 miles of horizontal distance. No red (left wing)
position light and no fuselage red rotating beacons were
sighted by any of the witnesses. No magnetic or electrical
disturbances on our aircraft occurred. At least one passenger
noted the object pass by our craft from the passenger cabin.
Thanks to Peter Davenport at the National UFO Reporting Center,
www.ufocenter.com Editor's Note: Generally, radar operators are
told not to confirm UFOs and to keep other traffic away.

MEXICO VIDEO

MONTERREY -- Gary Carson wrote, "Recently, on or about the
January 4, 2000, the TV Azteca  3 o'clock News filmed a UFO,
motionless near Monterrey."  It was visible for about 10
minutes, then took off. This was my closest encounter ever, and
I was thrilled. The anchorwoman was Rosa Maria De Castro and
the footage was pretty clear.  It was sort of hat-shaped object
and dark in color in the clear blue sky. I enjoy your site and
respect your integrity. Thanks to Gary Carson
gcferrone@hotmail.com

NEW ZEALAND SIGHTINGS

AUCKLAND -- UFO Researcher Karen Lyster writes, I thought I'd
pass along a few UFO sightings.  A witness reports, that on
December 29,  my step son and his fiancee, who  live with us,
were awakened in the middle of the night by strange noises. Two
nights later on January 1, 2000, I was awakened by a noise and
a red glow outside with an intermittent white flash.  I thought
new years fireworks, but it was 3:00 AM.  I tried to get up to
investigate but found I could not move, I tried to wake my
partner but could not, my next recall was that it was daylight
some three hours later.

AUCKLAND -- Peter writes: "My 17 year old son rang me at 12:30
AM on January 1, 2000, not to wish me a Happy New Year, but to
tell me of his experience with UFO's!" He was standing on the
roof of a five story carpark in downtown Auckland with a
hundred other people, overlooking the Viaduct Basin where the
band Split Enz were conducting a New Year's Eve concert.  The
band counts down to 2000 ...3, 2, 1!  Suddenly, two red discs
appear high up in the sky above and behind the stage. People
seemed frightened by the discs.  The UFOs moved left and then
descended at an acute angle. The crowd on the roof top moves
back in fear.  By then, the fireworks have started, and while
thousands if not millions of people focus on the big bangs and
pyrotechnics, the disks disappear from view behind a tall
building.  The discs were 'big' and remain the same distance
apart as they moved.  Some of the frightened crowd on the
rooftop start running towards the lift. A natural instinct
fueled by fear.  The discs were in view for about 8 seconds.
During the fireworks display more red discs appear in the sky
and hover for a few moments before disappearing. Part of the
display involves red flares but these were distinguishable from
the discs by their telltale smoke trails and their descent to
the ground. One of the discs appears to land on a Naval ship
anchored in Auckland harbor.  The total sightings lasted for
about seven minutes.

BEACHLANDS -- Peter writes: "I was driving back to Maraetai to
deliver a paper to a subscriber who missed out and saw a
horizontal flying cylinder at 7:25 AM on January 10, 2000.  It
had three segments of white with one segment at each end and
one in the middle.  It was high above Waiheke Island and
traveling slowly toward Auckland.  What struck me immediately,
was the three segments of this 'plane.' They were silvery white
rectangles, one at each end and one in the middle. It was about
an inch and a half long from my perspective and relatively
thin. I stopped the car to have a decent look but it may have
gone behind the gorgeous clouds this morning.  Thanks to Peter
and Researcher Karen Lyster at
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Congress/2301/Directory.ht
ml

"A UFO BOOM DOES'T WORRY CHINA'S RULERS

That was the headline on a front page article in the January
11, 2000, New York Times.  The Times is the nation's leading
newspaper, and long ago decided UFOs were not a topic that fits
their masthead motto: "All the news that's fit to print."  In
recent years they have carried only two UFO-related stories.
One was a sarcastic dismissal of UFO sightings in Russia, which
they attributed to a resurgence of pre-Communist mysticism.
The other was a long report on the Air Force "investigation" of
the Roswell Incident, unquestioningly repeating the assertion
that the 1947 fuss was caused by a Mogul balloon.  Oddly, the
China story is treated "straight," without the usual demeaning
language.  According to the Times, there have been a large
number of UFO sightings in China, and these are studied by
several research organizations that are very "mainstream" in
their scientific approach.  Apparently the government is
supportive of this research and interest, as distinguished from
the official condemnation of various semi-religious movements.

         "Indeed, a large portion of China's UFO enthusiasts are
         scientists and engineers, not the sci-fi buffs or
         apocalyptic stargazers who are the stereotype in the
         United States.  Many of China's UFO research societies
         require a college degree and published research for
         membership.  The Chinese Air Force attends important
         UFO meetings."  And quoting a leader of Chinese UFO
         research, "In the US, scholars investigating this are
         under pressure and have been derided.  But in China the
         academic discussion is quite free, so in this area
         American academics are quite jealous of us." The
         article ends with another quote that should be taken to
         heart by American UFO researchers. "We're very careful
         and cautious to present things scientifically and to
         filter out things that head in a superstitious
         direction, since there's a great deal of fakery in the
         UFO field as well as real occurrence." Thanks to
         researcher Bob Durant.

NASA DIDN'T TELL LOCKHEED ABOUT CANYON


D E N V E R - The Associated Press reports, The vanished Mars
Polar Lander probably broke apart in a canyon, The Denver Post
reported January  6, citing scientists who suggested the
landing site was the reason for NASA's latest failure.  The
$165 million lander was supposed to touch down Dec. 3 for a
90-day mission to analyze the planet's atmosphere and search
for frozen water beneath its south pole. It has not been heard
from since it started its descent after an 11-month cruise, and
NASA has not offered a reason for the disappearance.  Members
of the Lockheed Martin team who maneuvered the craft to Mars
believe a canyon nearly a mile deep and 6 miles wide in some
places was the landing site, the Post reported, citing an
unidentified source at the aeronautics company who was on the
mission team.  Orbiter Burned Up The source relied on
"probable" landing coordinates posted online by NASA and its
Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Lab officials acknowledged that they
knew the canyon was in the area.  "We believe we landed in a
region that was in the vicinity (of the canyon), but we have no
way of knowing whether it hit those slopes," said Daniel
McCleese, the Mars Surveyor Program scientist at JPL.  The loss
of the lander came less than three months after bungled
communications between Lockheed and JPL caused the Mars Climate
Orbiter to burn up in the Martian atmosphere.  Lockheed
scientists were reportedly surprised to learn that the canyon
was inside the lander's projected landing zone. During the
mission, Lockheed scientists steered the craft under JPL
direction. "No one on our side knew that canyon was there," the
Lockheed source told the Post. "All of the sudden, two weeks
later, we got this MOLA data" - topographical maps and images -
"and it was like, 'Look at that hole!'" Thanks to Jan 6, Denver
Post.

Editor's Note: Hundreds of Millions of dollars have been lost
because of NASA's apparent unwillingness to share data with
Lockheed.  The Lockheed scientists would also be surprised to
learn that this area on Mars has features that appear to be
artificially formed assuming they are not a combination of
pixilization and transmission errors.  They have been given
descriptive names by NASA such as Nod and Inca City. The Inca
City area located at 81.8°S - 59.1°W, has many rectangular
walled areas each about 4 miles across similar to the ancient
cities in Peru.  Interestingly, the Inca's believe they were
visited by spacemen and celebrate with spinning wheels that
look like UFOs. The site at Nod appears to be an ancient
cultural site with structures. Nod appears to  have been used
for growing plants and producing oxygen since the site is on
the edge of snow and ice fields composed of carbon dioxide at
83°S 43°W.  NASA's name for Nod is the location Cain was sent
to wander by God in Genesis 4.  My speculation is that NASA has
found evidence of ancient intelligent life on Mars, but can not
make an announcement until its probes are successful.

Researcher Carl Feindt has a new web site based on UFO's seen
near water at www.waterufo.net.   The site was built by Chuck
Warren and is well worth viewing.

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