The Portuguese press has announced that the airforce is on
alert since dozens of people saw a UFO on Tuesday. The
newspaper Correio da Manha reports that "Military radar
surveillance has been increased and F16 planes are ready for
take-off." Meanwhile, the UFO sighted in South Devon in the
U.K. interests the media, but not the military.
The Portuguese UFO is described as a silent, luminous object,
giving off white smoke. Paulo Lagarto, of the national air
traffic control authority, Navegacao Aerea de Portugal (NAV),
says, "The control tower in Oporto (north) detected a flying
object which had been observed 25 minutes earlier in Montijo
and Beja (south)." Geologist José Fernando Monteiro says
the UFO wasn't a meteorite, since a meteorite would have
moved much faster and made a lot of noise. The European
Space Agency says it wasn't a satellite.
In South Devon, in the U.K., the switchboard at the Herald
Express was swamped with calls from people who saw a cigar-
shaped UFO. Colleen Smith and Paul James write that
Nick Borne snapped a photo of it with his cellphone. He
says, "I was just panning around with the [cellphone] when
the UFO popped up and I took the pictures. I'm still quite
skeptical about it all. At the end of the day it was something
I could not identify. It was stationary and conical shaped
with a dome in the middle. I've no idea what it was."
Retired British Aerospace engineer Roy Dutton tracked the
object for 20 minutes through a high-powered telescope. He
says, "At first I thought it was just an airship but I could see
it clearly and there were no signs of control or propulsion.
There were no features whatsoever. It was jet black. It was
just like a great big party balloon?I have never seen anything
like this before. I know from my experience of aircraft that it
was flying at about 10,000 ft and it was very big, at least
the size of a Jumbo jet. After about 15 minutes it stopped.
Then it just wobbled and ascended to probably double the
altitude, drifting away quite quickly...What concerned me was
that it was in the flight path often used by aircraft
approaching Exeter airport. My first guess was that it was
some sort of experimental balloon, in which case the
authorities should be investigating."
Helen McGregor and Hayley Tucker also saw the UFO. Helen
says, "We all just stood there. Nobody said anything because
we didn't know what it was. It looked like a kite but it was
really, really high. It was just a long black tube. We ran back
to tell my auntie but when we looked again it had gone."
Laura Lamont was with a crowd of about 10 people, all of
whom saw it. She says, "It was really amazing. We were all
stuck for words. During the time we were watching it a red
helicopter went across and there was a low-flying jet which
went passed. They were nothing like this. It was so high up
in the sky and it just seemed to have stopped there, dead.
Lots of others were pointing up to it too."
Witness Simon Wills says, "It was long and black with a shiny
texture." Gary Close watched it through high magnification
binoculars and says, "The end facing me had a yellow tinge.
If it was an escaped balloon I could not see any wire or
rigging attached. It was very peculiar. It's difficult to say
how big it was."
On this week's
Dreamland, Whitley probes conspiracies. First, he
talks with
Donald Bain, who explored the CIA mind control of
supermodel Candy Jones. A recent massive release of CIA
mind control documents has confirmed that they even
extended their activities to children. For subscribers, Whitley
interviews Judith K. Moore, who says she was one of these
victims.
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