Info-ParaNet Newsletters Volume I Number 598 Monday, October 19th 1992 (C) Copyright 1992 Paranet Information Service. All Rights Reserved. Today's Topics: Kevin Randle Comes to Denver UFO Conference Re: MYSTERY OBJECT Bo Gritz and Government secrecy. Leeds Conference Milk Hill UFO Video 'going To Extremes', 9/22/92 TR-3A Meteorite Totals Car! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael.Corbin@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Corbin) Subject: Kevin Randle Comes to Denver Date: 9 Oct 92 03:22:03 GMT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: Michael Corbin Deryl Bair MICAP, Inc. (303) 431-8796 AUTHOR OF "UFO CRASH AT ROSWELL" TO LECTURE IN DENVER TITLE: "EYEWITNESSES REVISITED" DATE: Thursday, October 29th in Boulder Friday, October 30th in Denver BOULDER LOCATION: Baseline Middle School Auditorium 20th & Baseline Road DENVER LOCATION: Super 8 Hotel and Conference Center I-25 and Speer Blvd in Denver TIMES: 7:30 PM BOTH LOCATIONS (DOORS OPEN AT 7:00 PM) TICKETS: $8.00 ADVANCE, $10.00 AT DOOR FOR MICAP MEMBERS $10.00 ADVANCE, $12.50 AT DOOR FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC TICKETS CAN BE PURCHASED AT THE DENVER TICKET BUS ON ON THE 16TH STREET MALL (16TH & CURTIS) UP TO THE DATE OF THE EVENT. CALL (303) 431-8796 FOR MORE INFO. On July 8, 1947, Colonel William Blanchard--the commanding officer of the 509th Bomb Group in Roswell, New Mexico--officially announced to the world that the U.S. Army had "captured a flying saucer." Within hours, the story was quashed by Brigadier General Roger M. Ramey, commander of the Eighth Air Force in Fort Worth, Texas, who told the press that the reported "flying saucer" was nothing more than the scattered remains of a military target balloon. Ramey claimed that the officers of the 509th had been caught up in the excitement of the moment and simply misidentified the debris. Ramey's explanation was the last word on the Roswell flying saucer until 1978, when Jesse Marcel, a former intelligence officer of the 509th, revealed that he was the man who had picked up the debris. Marcel said, "I was certain ... that it was not a weather balloon, not an aircraft, nor a missile. It was something else ... we didn't know what it was." The intensive investigation that exploded the Roswell coverup was conducted by Donald R. Schmitt, Director of Special Investigations for the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, and Kevin D. Randle, a former Air Force intelligence officer. For more than two years they travelled across the country and interviewed over three hundred witnesses in order to discover the truth about the crash at Roswell. Their conclusion, reported in their recent book UFO CRASH AT ROSWELL, is that a vehicle of extraterrestrial manufacture did indeed crash in the New Mexico desert in 1947, just as the Army had originally claimed. This month, MICAP, Inc., an international UFO research organization headquartered in the Denver area, will feature Roswell investigator Kevin Randle at a pair of public lectures to be held in Boulder and Denver. This illustrated presentation will reveal Randle & Schmitt's latest findings in the ongoing investigation of the Roswell crash. Included for the first time will be a rare audio recording of the actual 1947 radio broadcast announcing the recovery of a flying saucer near Roswell. Kevin D. Randle is a professional investigative journalist with previous training in military intelligence. He has been studying the UFO phenomenon for more than twenty years and has published three books and more than fifty magazine articles on the subject. He was one of the first persons outside the government to examine the files of Project Blue Book, the official U.S. Air Force investigation of UFOs. As a former member of APRO (the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization), and currently as a special investigator for CUFOS (the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies), he has researched UFO landing-trace reports, occupant sightings, and abduction cases. His two previous books--THE OCTOBER SCENARIO and THE UFO CASEBOOK--established him as one of the premier authors in the field. His latest work, UFO CRASH AT ROSWELL, was co- authored with Donald Schmitt and published last year by Avon Books. Kevin Randle regularly appears on radio and television, and has been featured on NBC's UNSOLVED MYSTERIES. He will be available for interviews in the Denver/Boulder area on October 28th and 29th. Contact Michael Corbin at (303) 431-8796 to make arrangements. -- Michael Corbin - via ParaNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name INTERNET: Michael.Corbin@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bob.Dunn@p0.f31.n1012.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Bob Dunn) Subject: UFO Conference Date: 7 Oct 92 03:17:00 GMT BBS: Fortean Research Center Date: 10-06-92 (19:17) Number: 1975 From: SCOTT COLBORN Refer#: NONE To: ALL Recvd: NO Subj: Exploring Unexplained Phe Conf: (10) FIDO UFO --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Exploring Unexplained Phenomena V, the fifth annual conference on unexplained phenomena, will take place April 30th-May 2nd in Lincoln, NE, at the Nebraska Center, 33rd & Holdrege. Confirmed speakers for the 1993 conference are: Linda Moulton Howe, Budd Hopkins, Dr. Jack Kasher, Stanton Friedman, Kevin Randle, Rosemary Ellen Guiley, and Professor John Salter. Several more speakers will be added to the roster. The conference will begin Friday, April 30th at 1 p.m. and will end Sunday, May 2nd at 12:00 noon. For more information please send a S.A.S.E. to: The Fortean Research Center, P.O. Box 94627, Lincoln, NE, 68509. Thanks for telling a friend, and we'll see you in Lincoln in 1993! * OLX 2.1 TD * ParaNet(sm) Alpha-Beta 9:1012/31 Fido 1:285/205 - JetMail v1.14a6 - Unregistered QWK Mail Door for Spitfire -- Bob Dunn - via ParaNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name INTERNET: Bob.Dunn@p0.f31.n1012.z9.FIDONET.ORG -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pete.Porro@f414.n154.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Pete Porro) Subject: Re: MYSTERY OBJECT Date: 8 Oct 92 15:49:00 GMT Just in case it's of any help... There was (and may still be) a Harvard Meteor Project. They had Super-Schmidt cameras spaced out and set to record meteors for tracking and research. Sometimes it was possible to triangulate and recover the remains. May be out of date but Richard E. McCrosky was in charge. Another lead may be Robert J. Davis, director of Celescope project, which is at the Smithsonian, in conjunction with NASA. If the Harvard project is dead, there should still be documentation of their efforts. By the way, meteors enter the atmosphere at a speed of 11 to 72 Km per second. Which is about 7 to 44 Miles per second. I took the slowest speed and it works out to just over 400 miles per minute, and the top range is 2640 MPM, which as you can see leaves much room in between for variations in speed. This information is over 10 years old, but leads to the institutions involved. -- Pete Porro - via ParaNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name INTERNET: Pete.Porro@f414.n154.z1.FIDONET.ORG -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ecn.purdue.edu!lush Subject: Bo Gritz and Government secrecy. Date: 12 Oct 92 00:38:36 GMT From: lush@ecn.purdue.edu (Gregory B Lush) To all, Col. James 'Bo' Gritz is an independent candidate for President and is on the ballot in a couple dozen or so states. The following is an excerpt from a question and answer session following a speech he gave in Tehachapi, California. I think it is of interest to you readers. If you would like a copy of the whole speech, I can e-mail it to you. Greg Begin quoting. Question: What about William Cooper and his claims about extraterrestrials and the Kennedy assassination? Bo: It's a great and a good question and a fair one about Bill Cooper and all that he says including the part about when I was Commander of Special Forces in Latin America, I had something to do with the alien stuff. Here's the real quick run down... First of all, Bill Cooper caught himself in a terrible lie. He shot himself. We didn't do it to him. Bill Cooper had been selling a tape made by someone who worked for me by the name of Lars Hansen. Allegedly, it shows the driver, Bill Greer, turning around and killing the President, but, Bob Groden is a friend of mine, he was the man for the Congressional Assassinations Committee who was their technical film advisor. Life magazine bought up the Zapruder film, but, Groden had access to it for the Congressional Investigations. So, Groden made himself a first generation copy. I told Lars, when he showed me that, I said, 'Lars, you got big trouble. We never shoot anybody with a chrome-plated 45. We've got so much stuff we could use, you'd never use something that would reflect like that.' Secondly, the driver impossible. The reason is because the driver has got to control that vehicle. If you're going to kill the President, I don't care how hypnotized you've been or how little blood you've got in your veins, you don't kill the President every day and turn around and have to direct your attentionyou know what happens when you turn around if you drop a cigarette butt between your knees or you turn around to get something that falls off the seatand so, I said, 'It's just too tricky and you don't need it because there's enough ways to get him without using the driver.' So Lars went to Bob Groden and when he went there Bob Groden laughed and pulled out his 1st generation and gave us a copy of it and it very clearly shows that it is Kellerman. Kellerman is in the right-hand seat. Kellerman gets down when the bullets start flying, then just as the President is killed, Kellerman raises up. When he raises up, the sun reflects off of Kellerman's hair. The same as it's reflecting off the other peoples hair, but, the bar is kind of a bright bar, It's slanted up this way and Greer, on the 1st generation film, has both hands on the wheel just like this (Bo demonstrates hand position). He is turned and looked at the President, but, both hands are locked, just like they're taught to be locked, so the vehicle isn't going to veer. He turns around, looks at the Presidentno question, I think Greer is probably in on it, 'cause he's slowing the vehicle downbut, Kellerman lifts up, the bar of light shows off his hair, the President is hit in the head. I believe from the right front, and, of course, you all know the result of it. Now, Cooper, of course, has said that he saw that and all the secret documents. Let me give you some logic. Does anybody believe that I was a Chief of Congressional Relations in the Office of Secretary of Defense? Does anybody believe that I was an Army General Staff Officer in the Pentagon? I have been there at the highest levels of classification. As a Chief of Congressional Relations, there were almost no documents that weren't available because you have to be there to determine whether Congress has the clearance to see the stuff that they request. Like when Senator Barry Goldwater wanted to go into Hangar 18 at Wright Patterson, somebody had to see whether or not it was all right and they said, 'No, you can't go.' Somebody was authorized to look and see. I didn't know anything about flying saucers in those days, or aliens and so I didn't go looking around, but, I guess I probably could have. Here's my point. Cooper says that when the watch officer Cooper's never claimed to be an officer. He keeps saying he's been a Naval Intelligence Officer. That's a lie. Cooper's been an enlisted man, there's no question. He was an enlisted man in the Navy and in the Air Force. Cooper said that when the Naval Watch Officer went for coffee that he grabbed a file and copied it. Now, here's the problems with that. See, Cooper's never been around classified information. First of all, Watch Officers don't go for coffee. They send the enlisted man, probably, to get it. Secondly, if you do go, every safe has a red and green tag. It says 'Open' or it says 'Closed'. On every safe there is a place to sign in and sign out. If you even take your eyes off those containers, you spin all the dials, you put the green tags in and you sign them and then you go to the men's room or to get coffee. Nobody leaves those safes open. Secondly, there is no Xerox machine authorized anywhere around classified information containers. Can you understand why? Xerox almost put us out of the security business anyway, but, you can understand why you couldn't have a Xerox. Thirdly, and here's the greatest problem with his logic can you imagine having in one file that a Navy person could go through and look and find one file that tells everything from the aliens to government drug trafficking, to who killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy, to everything else that he says. It was all in one file? Give me a break. It would be in probably twenty five files and it would be all over the place and why would they have that kind of information in Hawaii? You see, they don't copy this stuff and put it all over. If it is 'code word', if it is coded, then sometimes an Admiral may have to fly all the way from Hawaii to Washington in order to see a 'code word' document that is S.I. Special Intelligence, Above Top Secret, because they don't let these things out, they don't Xerox them and send them all out. When I was in command of Special Forces Latin America, I knew a lot about what was going on within the CIA and our covert operations. My efficiency report is right in here. It says, 'This officer is responsible for unconventional warfare in Latin America.' Unconventional warfare, guerilla warfare, subversion, sabotage, assassinations, direct action missions, all of those were within my scope of responsibilities. I didn't know anything about aliens. I had never heard anything about them. I knew about the government drug operations. I didn't like it, but, as a commander, you are always taught you keep your eye on your mission. So, when Manuel Noriega turns up dirty dealing in Operation Watch Tower, we're going to kill him and that's what we send back. Then, when I'm ordered by a three star general, Harold Arons says, 'You keep your hands off Manuel Noreiga. He has immense value at the highest levels.' What are you going to do? You don't know how this thing is interfacing with the world. You have to have some faith in great white father and big brother. That's why there is no original thought in uniform. If you've got people in uniform looking like Schwarzkopfpeople saying, 'Make Schwarzkopf President.' Maybe in three or four years if Schwarzkopf will start getting his head up and learning what's going on, he might make a good President. But, coming out of uniform, friends, you know far more than General Schwarzkopf right now about what's real in the world. So, that's the story. I think Cooper got caught and I think he got mad. He put on his phone answering machine, 'If you support Bo Gritz, Jesus Christ will not claim you.' (Crowd laughter) I don't know what Cooper knows about Jesus. I know this if you looked, for example, at my files, it says very clearly, 'This officer is given Top Secret clearance, background investigation this date...' It's easy to show. It's no big deal. But, Cooper has never produced a single document that has ever shown that he has even had access. Your assignments say, 'This officer was a Chief of Congressional Relations... this period of time.' Cooper has no documents that show or he's ever presented I've got his file that shows he had any kind of assignment that would allow him to have any other clearance than maybe he turned the lights on and off for a briefing one time. Here is what we're going to do. You see, if the alien thing is real you know, about The Grays and The Reptilians here's what happens: Who created us? God. Thank you. Who created government? We the people created government. Now, if we created the government, should there be secrets? There is a need for national security, but, friends, if there are aliens and when I say, 'I'm going to open up Hangar 18' that doesn't mean that's all. When I say, 'If you want to go into Hangar 18, we're taking volunteers.' I mean that we are going to open the book, because I don't care what's in there. Don't you think America should know what is going on? We need to know the history, all the way back from the very beginning. We need to know whether it was Nazis flying saucers or whether it was from outer space. We need to know what landed at Roswell (New Mexico) or crashed and that they were so secret that they wouldn't let Barry Goldwater look at it. We need to know these things. Why? It's our country. Who are we keeping the secrets from? The Russians? Mikhail Gorbachev perhaps? No, and so, do you understand when I say, 'We're going to open the doors to Hangar 18', what does that mean? It doesn't mean that we say, 'Hide everything in Hangar 18, we're getting ready to open the doors.' It means the whole program gets their doors opened. If you want to be part of it, if you've got some skill and knowledge, you make sure we get your name and address. I'll guarantee you that when we're in the office, you'll be one that will be one of a party of a hundred. You think that this inspection in Iraq is going to be in detail? We're going to get to the bottom. We need to know if the aliens are here to help us GOOD. If they are here to not nibble on our ankles, we need to know that, don't we? So let's just get to the truth. Isn't the truth a very precious commodity? But, it sure isn't easy. End quoting. -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cix.compulink.co.uk!rtrevelyan Subject: Leeds Conference Date: 12 Oct 92 21:55:09 GMT From: Server Systems Ltd Hi, The following is a brief coverage of the recent, 26th September 1992, Quest International UFO Conference. The speakers were Antony Dodd, Graham W.Birdsall, Colin Andrews, Armen Victorian and late non-scheduled guest Bob Deane. Tony Dodd spoke of in great detail of the abduction cases and mentioned the 'linda' case but when into a considerable amount of detail about one particulat case of a woman, from the North of England, who had been abducted. She agreed to be regressed by Tony Dodd and spoke of her ordeal whilst being videod. She spoke of the type of being mentioned in many such cases. These beings examined her and shone a red light in her face, they pushed a glass rod through her navel and extracted some type of fluid. The woman, not named, was getting very anxious under regression at this point and was brought out of the hypnosis. When this woman came out of her regression she complained of her face being very hot and was rubbing it, her face was bright red on one side, the side she claimed the being shone the red light. He also showed slides of a supposed implant which had been removed from a man who had been subjected to an abduction. Tony Dodd also showed some video footage taken by, I believe, an American camera crew and was of a crop field infont of a tumuli near Stonehendge. On the video shown was footage in broad daylight of a luminous object in the sky flashing on and off. From infront of the tumuli in the field and from seemingly behind the tumuli appeared four disk like bright shapes, similar to the phenomenon filmed by Steve Alexander at Milk Hill and by the German students. These disks moved rapidly from their hiding place one after the other and shot up to join with the bright object in the sky. All object took different routes to the skybound phenomenon and as soon as the last one was at this point the ariel bright object dis-appeared , disks as well. It looked very much of a scheduled 'pickup' and the video was shown at one frame at a time and clearly showed some definate positive moves from the disks to rendevous with the bright ariel object. If I can find out who shot the film I will post the details but I am sure this film will appear again. The next speaker Was Graham Birdsall who spoke of the advanced technology involved and conjectured at Area 51. Very interesting footage of the B2 aircraft but the main gist of the lecture was, whre has all the money gone to, surely not all into the B2. Colin Andrews talk was as usual captivating. He spoke of the previous years cricles, spoke of and showed slides of the current, 92, seasons circles and was very forceful to get one opinion over. He said that the inteligence community was very active at present in the crop circle/ufo area and warned everyone to be very careful. He spoke of a forthcoming Equinox program , British Science program, having been brought forward by a couple of months to address the fact that there is something goinf to happen in a matter of months. He spoke of Money and Governments being of no use anymore in the close future and everone must 'know where you are, know who you are, .. ' This he said was very important and would be needed for us to survive.He said 'we are on the edge of a golden, a golden edge, this is our moment' The audience were transfixed by this understandably. He then continued to talk of the events that happened on the night of 26th/27th July 1992 at Woodborough Hill , Alton Barnes, Wiltshire. The team consisted of Colin Andrews, Stephen Greer and others. They were split into two group, one group were located in a field near by these were remote viewers and the other group on Woodborough Hill, these had the equipment. The night carried on into the early hours and Colin Andrews started to leave by car down a lane, the group on Woodborough Hill heard a loud crackling noise coming from the rear of his car, he did not. Some others began to leave. As one small group of people started to leave they saw an array of lights only five of six hundred feet away from where they were. These lights were rotating anti clockwise around what appear to be the base of a structured object. Above the array of lights were three amber spheres all part of the same array. The object moved along about 30ft above the ground and silhouetted trees as it passed. The object then positioned itself and showed a collection of many lights in a trangle formation that looked like a christmas tree. At this point Dr. Greer did not have his camera of powerful beams to hand as they had packed up for the night. He managed to get the bright powerful beam and directed it at the object, flashing once. The object then seemed to respond by turning off all lights and back on again. Dr.Greer then did the same thing but with two flashes, the object responded by doing turning its lights off then on again twice. At this point a red ball then parted company with the object and moved off. The event then terminated very qucikly, (Colin Andrews words). There is much much more to this story(again CAs words). Fascinating stuff but hard to prove although there is suggested to have been a group of four completely independant witnesses that saw the red ball. Next up was Armen Victorian. He spoke of and played audio tapes of various inteligence community stories. He played the tape, very poor quality, of a conversation between himslef and a guy caled Jim Snarbel [sp], Mr Snarbel who is also a supposed crop circle hoaxer claimed to be with the CIA,(over the phone ??) Anyway this statement has caused some controvercial times within the crop circle community and has been the subject of great debates and arguments. Who is Jim Snarbel? The last speaker was a guest speaker not billed to talk. He was an American ex Army official, Bob Deane. He claimed to have worked at Cosmic Top Secret level of clearance within the US Army and was privy to some extraordinary documents on UFOs. He firstly said that he was aware of one of the audience being from the Inteligence community although he did not know who it was and welcomed him/her. He said that he was going to break the secrecy code he had signed as he believed people had a right to know what goes on. He spoke of one document in particular that had only about 15 copies. This document was initiated by a British Air Marshall called Sir Thomas Pike who was at that time the Deputy Air Allied Commander of Europe and worked directly with General Lander Mendleson [sp]who was Supreme Allied Commander of Europe. The documents subject was that large numbers of metallic circular craft of enormous size were flying at extremely high altitude had been sighted over Europe and Russia. He said that at the time, in 1963, these craft nearly triggered world war 3 as at one time the Soviets believed these craft to be from us. The study into these documents was performed by American/French and English Univercities and Government groups and classified as Cosmic Top Secret. The document was split into the first part, an inch and a half thick and included 10 annexes. There were annexes on Radar and Electromagnetic effects, Optical and Light Analysis, Photographic and Holographic Analysis, Historical Research, Metalurgical and Techinical Analysis, Atmospheric Physics, Biological Analysis of xxxx (not sure what he said). In the report also contained complete coverage of a crashed UFO in northern Germany on 1962 where 12 small bodies were retrieved. One of the annexes was on phsycological studies and phsycological impact, one on Socialogical effects and Implecations and the last one was on Theological Implecations. He spoke of the fact that the earth had been under scrutiny by several extra terrestrial civilizations and were were and still are under some type of genetic correction. He also spoke of a 'golden' time soon, probably within the next fifteen years when the world will be very different and we are in for some very difficult times,not all people will survive the changes. We will interact with intergalactic entities and some people will end up not living on this planet. He believed very much in re-incarnation and that one would be incarnated on another planet. His closing speak was that what is coming up is very frightening and we must prepare for it. The above talks were pretty wacky and could be passed as cranky but they were well received by the whole audience, of about 500 people, and was an excellent conference. For 5 pounds it was well worth it and they can count on me being there next time. Regards, Robert PS. Has anyone viewed the Bob Lazar video and if so what did you think of it. Is he telling the truth. I was inclined to believe the technical physics stuff not knowing any better. Can this be proved or disproved by physics. If he is telling a load of rubbish has someone pointed this out from a scientific viewpoint ie can't create antimatter that way? -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cix.compulink.co.uk!rtrevelyan Subject: Milk Hill UFO Video Date: 12 Oct 92 23:16:44 GMT From: Server Systems Ltd Hi, Can anyone confirm if the video of the Milk Hill UFO sighting of a disk in broad daylight taken by Steve Alexander in 1990 has evey been analysed. The was a rumour from Colin Andrews that NASA were very interested in it and were going to analyse it. For those who have not seen it it is of a bright shining disk that moves around a crop field next to a 'pictogram' at Milk Hill near Alton Barnes. Thanks, Robert -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ray.Jenson@p0.f605.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Ray Jenson) Subject: 'going To Extremes', 9/22/92 Date: 13 Oct 92 08:46:01 GMT I would like a description of what you saw, if not inconvernient. Thanks. (this is in regard to what you saw on 9/22). -- Ray Jenson - via ParaNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name INTERNET: Ray.Jenson@p0.f605.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jim.Speiser@f100.n1012.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Speiser) Subject: TR-3A Date: 14 Oct 92 06:16:00 GMT This message was from JIM SPEISER to ALL, originally in conference UFO Echo and was forwarded to you by JIM SPEISER. ------------------------- Does anyone here have a photo or artist's conception of the TR-3A "Black Manta"? Is there a GIF file extant? Can anyone at least direct me to an issue of AvWeek or any other magazine that featured a photo of this craft? Thanks, Jim * OLX 2.1 TD * Fundamentalism: Fund=Give Cash, Amentalism=Without Brains -- Jim Speiser - via ParaNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name INTERNET: Jim.Speiser@f100.n1012.z9.FIDONET.ORG -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael.Corbin@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Corbin) Subject: Meteorite Totals Car! Date: 15 Oct 92 01:02:01 GMT * Forwarded from "Fidonet UFO Conference" * Originally by Sheldon Wernikoff * Originally to Albert Dobyns * Originally dated 11 Oct 1992, 20:09 Hi Albert... Long time no read! Thought you might find the following article of interest in conjunction with your recent meteor conversation: ------------------------------------------------------------------- From the Chicago Tribune, Sunday, October 11, 1992: NEW YORK (AP) SORRY, YOUR POLICY WON'T COVER DAMAGE BY SPACE ROCKS Michelle Knapp will have to find a new way to get around for a while, thanks to a 30 pound meteor that slammed into her parked car, passing right through and leaving a small crater underneath. The meteor came from a shower called the Draconids, a bright display of falling space debris seen every October 9th, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Rich Mamrosh. Sightings of streaking fireballs in the sky were reported late Friday in western Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, the District of Columbia, and North Carolina. Knapp, an 18 year old high school senior in suburban Peekskill, was at home when she heard a loud crash. "The noise of it literally shook the windows," she said. "It sounded like something hit the house." She and a neighbor went outside and saw the smashed trunk of her 1980 Chevy Malibu, a hole straight through and a small crater in the ground underneath. "We felt the rock and it was pretty hot," Knapp said. A meteor is a piece of space rock that begins to burn because of intense heat caused by the friction of hitting the atmosphere. Police weighed the meteorite, which was about 1 foot in diameter, she said. Scientists from Columbia University came to investigate. "My car is totaled," she said. "I'm upset but at the same time its kind of exciting. I bought the car from my grandmother for 100 bucks, so financially I'm not set back to far." Needless to say, the car was not insured for meteor damage. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Take care, Sheldon # Origin: Chicago Area Computer Center (8:8/7001) -- Michael Corbin - via ParaNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name INTERNET: Michael.Corbin@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG ******************************************************************************* Submissions infopara@scicom.alphacdc.com Administrative requests infopara-request@scicom.alphacdc.com FTP archive grind.isca.uiowa.edu:/info/paranet/infopara Permission to distribute Michael.Corbin@paranet.org Private mail to Paranet/Fidonet users firstname.lastname@paranet.org UUCP gateway {ncar,isis,csn}!scicom *********************End**of**the**InfoPara**Newsletter************************