--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 221 UFO Ref: F4C00003 Date: 04/07/98 From: JACK SARGEANT Time: 07:36am \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Mars "face" Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 18:11:27 -0400 From: Bruce Maccabee Subject: FACE PUNCHED To: UFO UpDates - Toronto Mars face looks as if someone with a giant fist punched it hard and flattened the features.....ad gave it a (left) black eye. JPL-processed image (250 kb at jpl.nasa.gov/marsnews/mgs/cydonia) appears non-symmetric (right half not mirror image of left). Does not appear sculpted when viewed at 4.32 m/pixel resolution. I predict arguments will blossom like the flowers this spring. \_______________________________________________/ __ __ _____ _____ /\ \/\ \/\ __\/\ __`\ Instant Archives at: \ \ \ \ \ \ \_/\ \ \/\ \ http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates \ \ \ \ \ \ _\\ \ \ \ \ UFO UpDates - Toronto \ \ \_\ \ \ \/ \ \ \_\ \ updates@globalserve.net \ \_____\ \_\ \ \_____\ ++ 416-696-0145 \/_____/\/_/ \/_____/ Operated by Errol Bruce-Knapp __ __ ____ __ /\ \/\ \ /\ _ `\ /\ \__ \ \ \ \ \ _____\ \ \/\ \ __ \ \ ,_\ __ ____ \ \ \ \ \/\ __`\ \ \ \ \ / __ \ \ \ \/ /'__`\ / __\ \ \ \_\ \ \ \_\ \ \ \_\ \/\ \ \ \_\ \ \_/\ __//\__, `\ \ \_____\ \ __/\ \____/\ \__/ \_\\ \__\ \____\/\____/ \/_____/\ \ \ \/___/ \/__/\/_/ \/__/\/____/\/___/ +-+-+-+\ \_\+-+-+-+ +-+-+ +-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |T|h|e| \/_/|E|-|M|a|i|l| |L|i|s|t| |S|e|r|v|i|c|e| +-+-+-+ +-+-+-+ +-+-+ +-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ --- FMail 1.22 * Origin: -=Keep Watching the Skies=- Email to: ufo1@juno.com (1:379/12) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 221 UFO Ref: F4C00004 Date: 04/07/98 From: JACK SARGEANT Time: 07:38am \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Vatican says ET's real Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 16:11:22 -0700 From: Skye Turell To: updates@globalserve.net Subject: Vatican Announcement Not Hoax Here's an update from www.sightings.com regarding the Vatican announcements about ETs/contacts. NOT A HOAX!! Vatican Admits On National TV That ET Contact IS REAL 4-4-98 Note - Here is one of the actual Italian television appearances by Father Balducci stating the Vatican's belief that ETs exist. His quotations are in Italian. Click here http://www.worldlink.it/nonsoloufo/baldui01.htm Monsignor Corrado Balducci, a Vatican theologian insider close to the Pope has gone on national Italian television five times in recent months to proclaim that extraterrestrial contact is a real phenomenon. -- Skye Turell ICQ Pager 6797092 \_______________________________________________/ __ __ _____ _____ /\ \/\ \/\ __\/\ __`\ Instant Archives at: \ \ \ \ \ \ \_/\ \ \/\ \ http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates \ \ \ \ \ \ _\\ \ \ \ \ UFO UpDates - Toronto \ \ \_\ \ \ \/ \ \ \_\ \ updates@globalserve.net \ \_____\ \_\ \ \_____\ ++ 416-696-0145 \/_____/\/_/ \/_____/ Operated by Errol Bruce-Knapp __ __ ____ __ /\ \/\ \ /\ _ `\ /\ \__ \ \ \ \ \ _____\ \ \/\ \ __ \ \ ,_\ __ ____ \ \ \ \ \/\ __`\ \ \ \ \ / __ \ \ \ \/ /'__`\ / __\ \ \ \_\ \ \ \_\ \ \ \_\ \/\ \ \ \_\ \ \_/\ __//\__, `\ \ \_____\ \ __/\ \____/\ \__/ \_\\ \__\ \____\/\____/ \/_____/\ \ \ \/___/ \/__/\/_/ \/__/\/____/\/___/ +-+-+-+\ \_\+-+-+-+ +-+-+ +-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |T|h|e| \/_/|E|-|M|a|i|l| |L|i|s|t| |S|e|r|v|i|c|e| +-+-+-+ +-+-+-+ +-+-+ +-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ --- FMail 1.22 * Origin: -=Keep Watching the Skies=- Email to: ufo1@juno.com (1:379/12) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 221 UFO Ref: F4C00005 Date: 04/07/98 From: JACK SARGEANT Time: 07:39am \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Updates, 1 of 4 From: Masinaigan [Joseph Trainor] Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 14:19:17 EDT To: updates@globalserve.net Subject: UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 3, Number 14 UFO ROUNDUP Volume 3, Number 14 April 5, 1998 Editor: Joseph Trainor TRIANGULAR UFOs SIGHTED IN SOUTHERN INDIANA Numerous V-shaped or triangular UFOs were sighted last week in southern Indiana around Evansville (population 126,272). On Sunday, March 22, 1998, at 10 p.m., ufologist Lynn Taylor and his wife Linda were driving home to Bloomington on Highway 37. As they neared Martinsville (population 11,677), about 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of Indianapolis, the couple "got a glimpse of a giant, round, dimly-lit object, perhaps 50 feet above a hill, off to our right," i.e. to the west. Taylor reported, "This is only the fourth time I have witnessed this type of object." On Monday, March 23, 1998, Cal Washburn, an Indiana TV producer, spotted a UFO in the sky over Spurgeon, Ind. (population 250), while traveling on Highway Highway 61 about 19 miles (30 kilometers) south of Petersburg. As he reached a hilltop, Washburn "could see through (the branches of) a tree, some lights that were 'enormous.'" He counted "four to six red-colored lights that were in a 'perfect row.'" He reported that "another four or five lights went off and on intermittently...They moved in a perfect formation. It was as if they were attached to something." On Friday evening, March 27, 1998, three residents of Evansville called WTVW Channel 7 and reported seeing "a light twice as bright as Venus." Looking closer, they spied a triangular UFO with "yellow, white and blue bright lights...with a brilliant white light on the leading edge." In Princeton, Ind. (population 8,127), located on Highway 64 about 27 miles (43 kilometers) north of Evansville, residents reported "a large ring of UFOs seen at the rear of the Toyota manufacturing plant" on the outskirts of town. In Petersburg, Ind. (population 2,449), located on Highway 57 about 14 miles (23 kilometers) north of Princeton, people reported seeing "a large grey triangle with five lights on one side." A "giant flying triangle" was also reported that evening in Otwell, Ind. (population 500), located on Highway 257 about eight miles (11 kilometers) southeast of Petersburg. At 11:02 p.m., Jana Taylor, 14, daughter of Lynn and Linda Taylor of Bloomington, was riding in a car with her friend Karen and Karen's mother, Kate, on old Highway 37 just south of Dolan, Ind. when she spotted something strange in the sky. Jana said she "spotted a triangle-shaped craft hovering motionless, about 15 feet above the trees on a hillside off to our right." "You could make out the shape because of light pollution from (nearby) Bloomington," Jana reported, "The object had a large, bright bluish-white light at each of the three corners. You know what it would look like if you had a blue lens, then put a white lightbulb behind it that's too bright, how the white will overpower the blue, but you could still see some blue?" Jana pointed it out to Karen and her mother. Kate pulled onto a side road. Here they saw more lights on the craft, which Jana described as "four non-blinking red lights that could be seen in the middle area." The UFO then "turned southwest towards Bloomington and dropped behind the hills nearby." (Many thanks to Lynn Taylor, Steve Wilson Sr., Jerry Stevers of MUFON and Kenneth Young of Tri-States Advocates for Scientific Knowledge, T.A.S.K., for these reports.) TWO UFO SIGHTINGS REPORTED IN WESTERN KENTUCKY On Saturday evening, March 28, 1998, witnesses in Hawesville, Kentucky (population 1,150), a town on the south shore of the Ohio River 40 miles (64 kilometers) east of Evansville, Indiana, reported sighting "a very bright light in the eastern sky, moving slowly to the south." On Tuesday, March 31, 1998, Mortimer V. Sloane spotted a "blinking red light on my farm coming from the southwest. I didn't see any structure, just the flashing lights. I have to tell you, this cannot be seen without binoculars--there's something about the red. It's hard to pick out. They stayed in view for two to five minutes. They were about 45 degrees (above the horizon), maybe a little higher. There was no other glow except for the blinking red light." He described the UFO as looking like this * in the binoculars' field of view. The Sloane farm is near Wakefield, Kentucky, on Highway 85 about 36 miles (58 kilometers) southeast of Louisville. (Email Interview) TWO NEW SIGHTINGS ON FLORIDA'S EAST COAST On Sunday, March 29, 1998, at 5:30 p.m., Kathy D. woke up at her home in North Palm Beach, Florida (population 11,343) on Route 1 about 70 miles (112 kilometers) north of Miami. "I rose early at 5:30 a.m. to get my cat, who was out on the patio, and looked up in the east-southeast sky to see a light, and I do mean a huge, bright white light. It was about one-third the size of a full moon. Unbelievable!" "My first thought is that it was a UFO, but then I tried to rationalize it. I thought perhaps it was an airplane headlight...it was so big and bright, heading directly towards me. It was approaching West Palm Beach from the (Atlantic) ocean at about 3,000 to 5,000 feet. But it didn't change course or move at all. The clouds obscured it, and minutes later, it was gone." Thinking no more of it, Kathy went back to bed. Later on Sunday, however, she received a phone call from some friends living in Hobe Sound, Fla. (population 11,507) on Route 1 about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of North Palm Beach. "And they had seen the same thing--a large bright light in the sky which they viewed for a half hour, from 5 a.m. to 5:30 a.m." >>> Continued to next message * SLMR 2.1a * Without apostrophes, the words would slide into the sea. --- FMail 1.22 * Origin: -=Keep Watching the Skies=- Email to: ufo1@juno.com (1:379/12) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 221 UFO Ref: F4C00006 Date: 04/07/98 From: JACK SARGEANT Time: 07:40am \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Updates, 2 of 4 >>> Continued from previous message (Email Interview) GLOWING UFO SIGHTED IN FORT WORTH, TEXAS On Saturday, March 28, 1998, at 11 p.m., Mike H., a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force, and his son, Charlie, 17 "were driving on Texas Highway 287 south and approaching (Interstate Highway) I-30 out of downtown Fort Worth (population 447,619) when we watched an unusual object over the Trinity River area." "At first we thought it was just an airplane," Mike reported. "But then we noticed that the object had several very intense rapidly-strobing green, red and white lights, all three strobing at the same time, almost the way it looks when a police car pulls someone over." "We noticed that there were no other lights visible on the object during the strobing effect. Then, suddenly, the light turned to an all-green light, then all white. This lasted only about a second, then back to the strobing effect again. We did notice the object darting back and forth rapidly. Sometimes it appeared to jump from side to side, causing the light to strobe here, then suddenly a few feet (away) in another direction." "It also darted off about a half mile in one direction, then suddenly dart up 1,000 feet (300 meters), then back in the opposite direction. Then it changed course, moving at an incredible speed in an easterly direction...Then it suddenly turned and went in the opposite direction." With Mike driving east on I-30, son Charlie kept the object in view "for another five minutes" until they "lost sight of it." (Email Interview) UFO SEEN APPROACHING A JETLINER IN OKLAHOMA On Saturday, March 28, 1998, at 8:30 p.m., Hal A. was outdoors near his home in McAlester, Oklahoma (population 16,370), on Highway 270 about 128 miles (205 kilometers) south of Oklahoma City, when he spotted an unusual light in the sky. "I spotted a solid color orange-yellow light traveling northeast," Hal reported. "I watched it for about two minutes. I first thought it was a satellite, but at the same time a commercial jet--it had (standard FAA) blinking red and white strobe lights--was traveling southwest on the same flight path." "The yellow object passed underneath the jet, and was so close it lit up the bottom of the plane!" "I thought they were going to collide up to that point. The object traveled for another five minutes and then blinked out. Just disappeared." (Many thanks to Jim Hickman, vice president of Skywatch International, for this report.) SAUCER TOUCHES DOWN NEAR SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA On Thursday, April 2, 1998, at 12:30 a.m., editor Stefan Duncan of American UFO Newsletter (AUFON) was staked out on the shore of High Rock Lake ten miles (16 kilometers) east of Salisbury, North Carolina (population 23,087). Using a pair of 7X10 binoculars, he scanned the night sky. Salisbury is on Highway 29 about 115 miles (184 kilometers) west of Raleigh. Stefan then spotted "a light in the sky, not blinking, of white, yellow, red...At times it appeared like it had a line of light running across, like looking at Saturn straight on with its rings." (That is, a sphere with an illuminated raised rim--J.T.) The Saturn-shaped UFO "rose vertically, hovered and remained stationary for five minutes. Then the object began to descend straight down until it disappeared behind the trees" two miles away. At 1 a.m., Stefan reported, "The object rose vertically from the same position of the treeline about two inches high (in the field of view) and remained stationary. It was the Saturn shape again. It brightened for about ten seconds, then resumed its regular shine." At 1:25 a.m., a smaller object "with the same brightness" detached itself from the UFO. "It flashed brightly twice." He described the scene as resembling this: o 0 "They stayed in this position for about thirty seconds, and then reformed into one object. Then the object took on the Saturn shape. The light blacked out." (For the full story see, American UFO Newsletter #5 for 1998. Many thanks to Stefan Duncan for this report.) UFO FLYBY WITNESSED IN VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA On Wednesday, March 11, 1998, at 12:25 p.m., MUFON member Dennis Hawley was standing in a parking lot in Virginia Beach, Virginia (population 393,069) when he spotted a UFO. "The UFO was flying very high and fast before disappearing into the haze." Dennis reported, adding that he "originally thought the object was a balloon, but realized it was flying too fast and straight. The UFO was first observed to the southeast flying in from the Atlantic Ocean about three miles away. The object flew on a straight course to the northwest." He described the UFO as a "metallic disc, glowing and extremely fast" and estimated it to be "about the real size of an airliner." Virginia Beach is on Highway 58 about 110 miles (176 kilometers) southeast of Richmond, the state capital. (See Filer's Files #13 for 1998. Many thanks to Dennis Hawley, George A. Filer and Rick Atristain, Virginia state MUFON director, for this report.) COUPLE SIGHTS TRIANGULAR UFO IN CENTRAL MICHIGAN On Thursday, March 26, 1998, at 9:15 p.m., Kenneth and Katarina M. "were enjoying the clear evening" at their home in Brighton, Michigan (population 5,686). a town on Interstate Highway I-23 about 30 miles (48 kilometers) west of Detroit. "Suddenly, we noticed something unusual coming from the north," Katarina reported. "An object passed over our heads in a straight-line direction. The object had a V-shape with real bright white-yellowish lights underneath. We watched it for about four seconds until it passed behind our house. The object made no sound at all." (Many thanks to Tim Hagemeister of NACOMM for this report.) UFOs SEEN FREQUENTLY IN EAST KILBRIDE, SCOTLAND East Kilbride is fast becoming the Gulf Breeze of Scotland. UFOs have been reported daily there during the past two weeks. According to the East Kilbride News, "Dozens of residents have reported strange objects, including a pancake-shaped flying saucer, hovering above the town." "David Cornes, 59, of Murray spotted three military jets chasing a flashing UFO the evening of January 25," 1998. >>> Continued to next message * SLMR 2.1a * Without apostrophes, the words would slide into the sea. --- FMail 1.22 * Origin: -=Keep Watching the Skies=- Email to: ufo1@juno.com (1:379/12) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 221 UFO Ref: F4C00007 Date: 04/07/98 From: JACK SARGEANT Time: 07:40am \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Updates, 3 of 4 >>> Continued from previous message On Thursday, March 26, 1998, driving instructor Brenda Hughie, 39, of Greenhills was giving a road lesson to Tricia McLean, 46, on Strathaven Road. when "a flashing object crossed the sky." "The dazzling light" startled Brenda, and she "got out of her grey Vauxhall Corsa for a better look." "'I don't believe in UFOs, but afterwards I felt dizzy and weak,'" she reported, "'When I got home, the whole room was spinning. Everyone thinks I am crazy. They don't believe me!'" Whitehills resident Tricia McLean reported, "I saw six flashing lights in the sky. Two were brighter and went in different directions. Brenda watched it out the windscreen (windshield) first, and then I stopped the car." East Kilbride is 30 miles (48 kilometers) southeast of Glasgow, Scotland's largest city. (See the East Kilbride News for March 27, 1998, "It's An L of a UFO" by Susie Kelly. Many thanks to Dave Ledger for this report.) UFO VIDEOTAPED HOVERING OVER A BEACH IN BRAZIL On Saturday, March 28, 1998, hundreds of people relaxing on the beach at Praia do Jose Menino in the seaport city of Santos were startled when an OVNI (Portuguese acronym for UFO) suddenly appeared offshore. Santos is in southern Brazil, about 120 kilometers (72 miles) southeast of Sao Paulo. As the UFO hovered over Ilha da Urubuquecaba, an offshore island, Valentim do Nascimento Junior picked up his videocam and began shooting footage. The UFO was described as "a disc-shaped object covered with a luminosity in the colors yellow, green and blue." Nascimento videotaped the UFO for 40 minutes as the beachgoers watched it hover. Then, "the light flickering strangely," the UFO zipped away over the horizon. Wallacy Albino, director-general of Grupo de Estudos Ufologicos do Guaruja, a Brazilian UFO group, has studied the Nascimento video. He said that at one point "a smaller light left the OVNI, circulated in the sky and then returned to the object." (See the Brazilian newspaper Gazeta de Limeira for March 30, 1998, "OVNI e Filmado por 40 Minutos na Praia de Jose Menino." Muito obrigado a Pedro Cunha por eso caso.) CIGAR-SHAPED UFO SEEN NEAR CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND Three people witnessed a cigar-shaped UFO in the sky over Bexley, just north of Christchurch, South Island, in New Zealand on Monday, March 30, 1998. At 8:30 p.m., Edith Perkins saw what she called "a capsule or cigar-shaped object at first...silver-whitish body, darker grey forked tail." "At the time I was doing some chores in our backyard," she reported, "We live by the coastal line of New Brighton. NaturallyI looked up and I observed, still overhead, the silver-whitish object coming. I was facing west. The rounded edges, front and back, of the object called my attention. Its size appeared to be about 10 centimeters (five inches) long (if held at arm's length--J.T.)." She estimated its altitude to be 30,000 feet but "was puzzled that there was no trail behind it." Edith went to fetch a pair of 7X35 binoculars. She was soon joined by her husband and a home-care nurse. As they watched, "suddenly a very bright light covered the object. It did not happen as a flash of light. It had a beginning" and at the end of the light burst, "I was seeing a different rear on the craft, a forked end to it, the colour of it was dark grey." Another burst of light occurred, "and the object presented a rim, all around the craft, with either intermittent colour lights on the rim or a rotating rim." She described the lights as "reddish-orange tones." The UFO flew out over Pegasus Bay, heading northeast. (Many thanks to Ross Dowe and the Australia/ New Zealand 24-Hour UFO Hotline for this report.) TWO NEW UFO SIGHTINGS IN SOUTHEAST AUSTRALIA Two UFOs were reported Friday night, March 27, 1998, in southeastern Australia. At 7:30 p.m., people at Lake Corangamite in Victoria state, 192 kilometers (120 miles) west of Melbourne, reported "sighting a large and bright orange fireball cross the whole sky." They described it as "a large meteor with a long tail." At 8:10 p.m., in Batemans Bay, New South Wales, a shore town 256 kilometers (160 miles) south of Sydney, witnesses saw "two orange lights with odd square or rectangular tails follow each other. They headed southeast south from the northeast. The illuminations were traveling too slow to be satellites and appeared to be in the atmosphere." (Many thanks to Ross Dowe and the Australia/New Zealand 24-Hour UFO Hotline for these reports.) THREE SILVER SPHERE UFOs SPOTTED IN ONTARIO On Saturday, March 28, 1998, at 7:09 p.m., Amy Hill was driving on Route 401 near Oshawa, Ontario, Canada (population 129,344) when she spotted three spherical, silvery UFOs in the night sky. "My husband and I were driving westward on the 401," Amy reported, "We watched three circular objects. They were almost clear-looking whitish balls. They moved in a circular pattern and would come and join in the center, then move out, go around in a circle, and then repeat the same" maneuver. "We pulled over to watch." Oshawa is 30 miles (50 kilometers) northeast of Toronto. (Many thanks to Kenneth Young of T.A.S.K. for this report.) from the UFO Files... 1485: CICERO'S DAUGHTER or "Who Left the Light On?" In April 1485, workmen quarrying for marble near the old Appian Way in Rome, Italy made a strange discovery. They broke into an underground chamber with "walls of smooth stone" that was "illuminated by a bright lampada (lamp) cool to the touch." They also discovered the body of a black-haired teenaged girl in unfamiliar clothing. Among those who visited the mysterious crypt was Bartolomeo Fonte, a Renaissance artist from Firenze (Florence). He described the find in a letter to his friend, Francesco Sassetti. "They discovered there a marble sarcophagus. On opening it they found a body on its back covered by a substance two inches thick, greasy and perfumed. The oforous crust was removed beginning at the head, there appeared to them a face of such limpid paleness it seemed as if the young lady had been buried that day. Her long black hair still hung from her skull, parted and knotted to suit a young girl and fastened in a little net of silk and gold." >>> Continued to next message * SLMR 2.1a * Without apostrophes, the words would slide into the sea. --- FMail 1.22 * Origin: -=Keep Watching the Skies=- Email to: ufo1@juno.com (1:379/12) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 221 UFO Ref: F4C00008 Date: 04/07/98 From: JACK SARGEANT Time: 07:41am \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Updates, 4 of 4 >>> Continued from previous message Some people thought she was Tullia, daughter of the Roman writer/statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero. Tullia married Cornelius Dolabella in 47 B.C. and dropped out of the history books. Others were not so sure, however. Ponte wrote, "Tiny ears, low forehead, black eyelashes, finally eyes of singular shape, under whose eyelids the cornea still appeared. Even the nostrils were still intact and so soft as to vibrate at the simple touch of a finger. Her red lips half-closed, small and white teeth, her scarlet tongue near the palate. Her cheeks, tongue, neck seemed to palpitate. Her arms hung down intact from her shoulders so that you wished you could have moved them. Her nails still adhered firmly to her long, outstretched hands, also if you had tried, you would not have succeeded in detaching them. Her breasts, stomach and womb were, on the contrary, compressed at one side and, after the removal of the aromatic crust, they decomposed. Her back, sides and buttocks instead had conserved their contours and marvelous shapes, just like her thighs and legs, which in life had presented even greater prizes than her face." "In short, this must have concerned the most beautiful young woman of noble family during the period when Rome was at its greatest splendor. However, the majestic monument under the crypt had been destroyed many centuries or so ago, without there remaining even an inscription. Also the sarcophagus did not bear any sign. We know neither the name of the young woman nor her origin nor her age." The discovery also upset a lot of people, notably Pope Innocent VIII. He was troubled by the implications of the "aromatic crust," some sort of ancient preservative that completely stymied decomposition. Even worse was the mysterious lamp "cool to the touch" that had been burning for at least 1,400 years. The pope ordered the Capitoline Hill crypt sealed and had "Tullia" quietly reburied in an Italian convent. As a result, today all that remains of "Tullia" is the charcoal sketch of her Bartolomeo Fonte drew in that mysterious vault five hundred years ago. (See the article "Il Franciulla e La Lampada" in Il Giornale del Misteri, Number 7, Autumn 1971, by Mara Calabri, Corrado Tedeschi Editore, Firenze, Italy. Reprinted in GODS AND SPACEMEN IN GREECE AND ROME by W. Raymond Drake, Signet Books, New American Library, New York, N.Y. 1976, page 174.) (Editor's Comment: I sometimes wonder if "Tullia" might be a dead princess from the lost civilization of Saturnia. The mysterious crypt was found on the Capitoline Hill in Rome. Roman author Marcus Terrentius Varro, in his book DE LINGUA LATINA, writes, "This hill was previously called the Saturnian Hill, we are informed by the writers, and from this Latium has been called the Saturnian Land...It is recorded that on this hill was an old town named Saturnia. Even now (That is, in 50 B.C., when the real Tullia was still a schoolgirl--J.T.) there remain evidences of it; that there is a temple of Saturn by the passage leading to the hill; that there is a Saturnian gate, which Junius writes of as there, which they now call Pondana, that behind the temple of Saturn in the lawns for the buildings of private persons, the back walls are mentioned as the Saturnian Wells.") Today is the birthday of Judith Ann Resnick, one of the seven astronauts who died in the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger January 28, 1986. Judy was born on April 5, 1949. We'll be back next week with more saucer news from "the paper that goes home--UFO ROUNDUP." See you then. UFO ROUNDUP: Copyright 1998 by Masinaigan Productions, all rights reserved. Readers may post items from UFO ROUNDUP on their websites and in newsgroups provided that they credit the newsletter and its editor by name and list the date of issue in which the news item first appeared. \_______________________________________________/ __ __ _____ _____ /\ \/\ \/\ __\/\ __`\ Instant Archives at: \ \ \ \ \ \ \_/\ \ \/\ \ http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates \ \ \ \ \ \ _\\ \ \ \ \ UFO UpDates - Toronto \ \ \_\ \ \ \/ \ \ \_\ \ updates@globalserve.net \ \_____\ \_\ \ \_____\ ++ 416-696-0145 \/_____/\/_/ \/_____/ Operated by Errol Bruce-Knapp __ __ ____ __ /\ \/\ \ /\ _ `\ /\ \__ \ \ \ \ \ _____\ \ \/\ \ __ \ \ ,_\ __ ____ \ \ \ \ \/\ __`\ \ \ \ \ / __ \ \ \ \/ /'__`\ / __\ \ \ \_\ \ \ \_\ \ \ \_\ \/\ \ \ \_\ \ \_/\ __//\__, `\ \ \_____\ \ __/\ \____/\ \__/ \_\\ \__\ \____\/\____/ \/_____/\ \ \ \/___/ \/__/\/_/ \/__/\/____/\/___/ +-+-+-+\ \_\+-+-+-+ +-+-+ +-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |T|h|e| \/_/|E|-|M|a|i|l| |L|i|s|t| |S|e|r|v|i|c|e| +-+-+-+ +-+-+-+ +-+-+ +-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ * SLMR 2.1a * Without apostrophes, the words would slide into the sea. --- FMail 1.22 * Origin: -=Keep Watching the Skies=- Email to: ufo1@juno.com (1:379/12) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 221 UFO Ref: F4C00009 Date: 04/07/98 From: JACK SARGEANT Time: 07:46am \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: UFO hackers, 1 of 4 From: Stig_Agermose@online.pol.dk (Stig Agermose) To: updates@globalserve.net Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 04:06:25 +0100 Subject: The Story Of The UFO Superhackers Thanks to the Sunday Times. Stig ******* The schoolboy spy Sunday Times - London Sun, Mar 29 1998 The Americans called him their No 1 enemy, but he was only 16. Jonathan Ungoed-Thomas reveals one of the strangest stories of the cyber-age. On the evening of April 15, 1994, six American special agents sat in a concrete basement at a secret air force base patiently waiting for an attack. Their unseen and unknown enemy had for weeks been rampaging across the Pentagon network of computers, cracking security codes and downloading secret files. Defence officials feared the infiltrator was a foreign agent. They were monitoring his move ments in a desperate effort to trace him to his lair. He had first been spotted by a systems manager at the Rome Laboratory at the Griffiss air base in New York state, the premier command and control research facility in the United States. He had breached the security system and was using assumed computer identities from the air base to attack other sites, including Nasa, Wright-Patterson air force base - which monitors UFO sightings - and Hanscom air force base in Massachusetts. He was also planting "sniffer files" to pick up every password used in the system. This was a new type of warfare, a "cyber attack" at the heart of the most powerful military machine on earth. But the American military had been preparing for "cyber war" and it had a new breed of agent ready to fight back against the infiltrator. Computer specialists from the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) and the Air Force Information Warfare Centre in San Antonio, Texas, were dispatched to Rome Laboratory to catch the attacker. By the end of the second week of their attempt to outwit him, their windowless basement room was a mess of food wrappers, sleeping bags and empty Coca-Cola cans. Sitting among the debris, the American cyber agents saw a silent alarm throb on one of the many terminals packed into the 30ft by 30ft room. Datastream Cowboy, as he called himself, was online again. They carefully tracked him on a computer screen as he used the access code of a high-ranking Pentagon employee to sign on. This gave him the power to delete files, copy secret information and even crash the system. As he sifted through battlefield simulation data, artificial intelligence files and reports on Gulf war weaponry, the agents worked frantically at their terminals, trying yet again to establish who he was and where he had come from. It was futile. Datastream Cowboy always bounced around the world before launching an attack and it was impossible even to establish in which country he was sitting. Suddenly he left the Pentagon system. The agents rapidly checked the computer address of his new target and were chilled by the result: he was trying to get access to a nuclear facility somewhere in Korea. The shocked agents saw a terrible crisis coming. The United States was embroiled in tense negotiations with North Korea about its suspected nuclear weapons programme. The Clinton administration was publicly split between a faction that wanted to punish the Stalinist regime in Pyongyang for attempting to develop a nuclear bomb and State Department diplomats who insisted on a gentler approach. If the paranoid North Koreans detected a computer attack on their nuclear facility from an American air base - because Datastream Cowboy had assumed an American military identity by routeing his assault through the Griffiss computer - they would be bound to believe that the hawks had won and this was an act of war. Senior defence officials were hurriedly briefed as the agents attempted to establish the exact location in Korea of the computer that Datastream Cowboy was trying to crack. After several tense hours, they had their answer. His target was in South Korea, not North. The security alert was over, but the damage meted out by Datastream Cowboy was not. In the space of a few weeks he had caused more harm than the KGB, in the view of the American military, and was the "No 1 threat to US security". What made Datastream Cowboy so dangerous, in the view of the Americans, was that he was not alone; he was working with a more sophisticated hacker who used the "handle" of Kuji. The agents repeatedly watched Datastream Cowboy unsuccessfully attack a military site and retreat for an e-mail briefing from Kuji. He would then return and successfully hack into the site. Both Datastream Cowboy and Kuji were untraceable. They were weaving a path through computer systems in South Africa, Mexico and Europe before launching their attacks. Over 26 days, Datastream Cowboy and Kuji broke into the Rome Laboratory more than 150 times. Kuji was also monitored attempting an assault on the computers at Nato headquarters near Brussels. It was only three years after the final collapse of Soviet communism, but there was already a strong fear within the American government that the United States had become vulnerable to a new military threat: electronic and computer warfare. Both America's superpower military arsenal and its huge civilian economy had become reliant on microchips and in the words of Jamie Gorelick, a deputy attorney-general: "Some day we will wake up to find that the electronic equivalent of Pearl Harbor has crippled our computer networks and caused more chaos than a well placed nuclear strike. We do not want to wait for that wake-up call." What made the American military so vulnerable was that the Internet - the computer communications system that had been developed by Pentagon scientists as a tool for survival after nuclear war - was opening up in 1994 to anyone in the world who had access to a cheap and powerful personal computer. >>> Continued to next message * SLMR 2.1a * If you were a REAL man, you wouldn't need that parachute! --- FMail 1.22 * Origin: -=Keep Watching the Skies=- Email to: ufo1@juno.com (1:379/12) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 221 UFO Ref: F4C00010 Date: 04/07/98 From: JACK SARGEANT Time: 07:47am \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: UFO hackers, 2 of 4 >>> Continued from previous message The Internet automatically brought hackers to the very gates of the Pentagon's most secret files - and it could not be policed, as it had been deliberately set up without controls to ensure ease of access for nuclear survivors. According to official American figures, the Pentagon's military computers are now suffering cyber attacks at the rate of 250,000 a year and it is retaliating with a $3.6 billion programme of computer protection to key systems. THE attacks by Datastream Cowboy and Kuji were the opening shots in this barrage, and the Pentagon generals insisted that they had to be found and put out of action. It would have been relatively simple to shut them out of the Pentagon network, but they would survive to attack again - and their identities and the information they had already stolen would have remained unknown. The American cyber agents were ordered to continue chasing them through the electronic maze. But how? They used a process called "fingering" in which they tried to detect every computer that Datastream Cowboy had used as stepping stones before attacking them. A computer on the Internet gives its own address in the first few bytes of any communication and the agents tried to trace Datastream Cowboy's path backwards. The process can often be hit and miss because of the vast amount of traffic on the Internet and the hacker's path was simply too long and circuitous to follow to its end. The agents almost gave up hope. Then old-fashioned police work was brought to bear. In the cyber age, where do hackers hang out? On the Internet, of course. They "chat" with each other through their screens. The agents had informants who cruised the Internet and one of these made the breakthrough. He found that Datastream Cowboy hung out at Cyberspace, an Internet "service provider" based in Seattle. Moreover, he was a particularly chatty individual who was eager to engage other hackers in e-mail conversation. Naive, too. Before long, the informant had established that Datastream Cowboy lived in the United Kingdom. He even gave out his home telephone number. Jubilant, a senior AFOSI agent contacted the computer crime unit in Scotland Yard for assistance. Datastream Cowboy's number was traced to a house in a cul-de-sac in Colindale, part of the anonymous north London suburbs. In cold war days it would have been a classic address for a spy's hideaway. Telephone line checks revealed that the hacker was first dialling into Bogota, the Colombian capital, and then using a free phone line from there to hack his way into the sensitive military sites. American agents flew to London and staked out the address with British police officers. Detectives were cautious, however, about making an immediate arrest because they wanted Datastream Cowboy to be online when they entered the house, so that he would be caught in the act. At 8pm on May 12, 1994, four unmarked cars were parked outside the Colindale house. Inside one of them, a detective's mobile phone rang. An agent from the Rome Laboratory was on the other end: Datastream Cowboy was online. Officers made a second call to British Telecom in Milton Keynes and established that a free phone call was being made to South America. Posing as a courier, one of the officers knocked on the door. As it was opened by a middle-aged man, eight policemen silently appeared and swept into the house. The officers quietly searched the downstairs and first floor. Then, creeping up the stairs to a loft- room, they saw a teenager hunched in his chair tapping frantically away on the keyboard of his Pounds 700 PC World computer. They had found Datastream Cowboy. One of the detectives walked up silently behind the young suspect and gently removed his hands from the computer. For 16-year-old Richard Pryce, a music student, it was the shock of his life. He looked at the policemen as they prepared to arrest him and collapsed on the floor in tears. "They thought they were going to find a super-criminal and they just found me, a teenager playing around on his computer," says Pryce now. "My mother had noticed people sitting outside our house for a few days beforehand, but I didn't think much of it. I never thought I would get caught and it was very disturbing when I did. "It had just been a game or a challenge from which I had got a real buzz. It was unbelievable because the computers were so easy to hack, like painting by numbers." Pryce, who was then a pupil at The Purcell School in Harrow, Middlesex, was arrested at his home but released on police bail the same evening. Five stolen files, including a battle simulation program, were discovered on the hard disk of his computer. Another stolen file, which dealt with artificial intelligence and the American Air Order of Battle, was too large to fit on to his desktop computer. So he had placed it in his own storage space at an Internet service provider that he used in New York, accessing it with a personal password. During the subsequent police interviews, one pressing question remained unanswered: who was Kuji? Pryce claimed he had only talked with his hacking mentor on the Internet and did not know where he lived. American investigators regarded Kuji as a far more sophisticated hacker than Datastream. He would only stay on a telephone for a short time, not long enough to be traced successfully. "Kuji assisted and mentored Datastream and in return received from Datastream stolen information...Nobody knows what Kuji did with this information or why it was being collected," agents reported. Mark Morris, who was then a detective sergeant with Scotland Yard's computer crime unit, was one of the investigating officers on the case. "It was awesome that Pryce, who was just one teenager with a computer, could cause so much havoc, but the greater worry in the US was about Kuji," says Morris. "The fear was that he could be a spy working for a hostile foreign power. The job was then to find him." Pryce did give detectives one telephone number, but it was a red herring: a school library in Surrey. During the next two years of compiling evidence in Britain and America in the case against Pryce, British detectives and American agents failed to turn up any evidence that might lead to Kuji. Their break finally came in June 1996 when the computer crime unit decided to sift once again through the mass of information on the hard disk of Pryce's computer. Morris took on the job. "I was at home with my laptop and went through every bit of that hard disk, which was a huge task." It took him three weeks. If all the files had been printed out they would have filled 40 filing cabinets. At last he found what he wanted. "At the bottom of a file in the DOS directory I saw the name Kuji. Next to the name was a telephone number. Pryce might not have even known it was on his system because he downloaded so much information." For American agents hoping to catch a superspy, Kuji's telephone number was a grave disappointment. He was based in Cardiff. A team of officers drove up to his address, a terraced house, and finally discovered Kuji's identity. He was 21-year-old Mathew Bevan, a soft- spoken computer worker with a fascination for science fiction. His bedroom wall was covered with posters from The X Files and one of his consuming interests was the Roswell incident, the alleged crash of a UFO near Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947. He was arrested on June 21, 1996, at the offices of Admiral Insurance where he worked. "I would never have been caught if it wasn't for Pryce and even then they took two years to find me," Bevan says now. "And the only reason Pryce got caught was that he gave his number to a secret service informant." >>> Continued to next message * SLMR 2.1a * If you were a REAL man, you wouldn't need that parachute! --- FMail 1.22 * Origin: -=Keep Watching the Skies=- Email to: ufo1@juno.com (1:379/12) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 221 UFO Ref: F4C00011 Date: 04/07/98 From: JACK SARGEANT Time: 07:47am \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: UFO hackers, 3 of 4 >>> Continued from previous message Bevan, the son of a police officer, said he had not even been alarmed when Datastream Cowboy disappeared from the Internet. "Everyone was joking with me on the e-mail that he must have been arrested, but I didn't believe it. It wasn't until a year later that a friend phoned me and said: 'Have you seen the papers? They think you're a spy'." However, Bevan became confident that he had escaped detection and was stunned when he was arrested. "I was told to go and check the managing director's computer. I went in and there were seven or eight of them in suits and I was arrested." He was charged the next day with two counts of conspiracy under the Criminal Law Act 1997. He was later charged with three offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. Pryce had been charged in June 1995, about 13 months after his arrest, with 12 offences under Section 1 of the Computer Misuse Act 1990. He was also charged with conspiracy three days before Bevan's arrest. At the culmination of one of the biggest ever international computer crime investigations and after a massive security scare in the United States, law enforcers were left with a meagre and faintly embarrassing prize: two young hackers who in their spare time, from the comfort of their bedrooms, had penetrated what should have been the most secure defence network in the world. To rub salt into the wounds, their credentials were hardly impressive. Pryce had scraped a D grade in computer studies at A-level and Bevan had dropped out of an HND course in computer science. Pryce's father, Nick, who restores musical instruments, said: "They said Richard was a No 1 security threat and I think that was just rubbish. They had overreacted and when they found out it was just a teenager, they still wanted to try to make an example of him. I never knew what he was doing at the time; I just thought he was in his bedroom playing on his computer. When I found out, I never thought he had done anything particularly wrong and neither did our friends. He just showed how bad security was on those computers." But how did two rather ordinary young men manage to penetrate the Pentagon computer system and spark such a massive security alert? Both were bright and articulate, but there was nothing in their backgrounds to suggest a computer wizardry that would outwit the American military. Their success was based on a mixture of persistence and good luck, which was abetted by crude security mistakes in the Pentagon computer system. Pryce had had a musical upbringing with his two sisters, Sally and Katie, and had a passion for playing the double bass. He was bought his computer when he was 15 to help him in his studies. He would spend his spare time linked up to a bulletin board on the Internet, where computer users traded information and chatted. It was here tha he got his first introduction to hacking. "I used to get software off the bulletin boards and from one of them I got a 'bluebox', which could recreate the various frequencies to get free phonecalls," he said. "I would phone South America and this software would make noises which would make the operator think I had hung up. I could then make calls anywhere in the world for free." Now 20 and in his third year at the Royal College of Music in London, Pryce said: "I would get on to the Internet and there would be hackers' forums where I learnt the techniques and picked up the software I needed. You also get text files explaining what you can do to different types of computer. "It was just a game, a challenge. I was amazed at how good I got at it. It escalated very quickly from being able to hack a low- profile computer like a university to being able to hack a military system. The name Datastream Cowboy just came to me in a flash of inspiration." The attack on Rome Laboratory, his greatest success, relied on a ferret called Carmen. Pryce easily gained low-level security access to the Rome computer using a default guest password. Once inside the system, he retrieved the password file and downloaded it on to his computer. He then set up a program to bombard the password file with 50,000 words a second. "I just left the computer running overnight until it cracked it," he explained. If all the air force officers with access to the computer had followed orders and used passwords with a mixture of numerals and letters, his attack would have been foiled; but luck was on his side. Morris, who has since left Scotland Yard's computer crime unit and now works in London for Computer Forensic Investigations, a private company, revealed: "He managed to crack the file because a lieutenant in the USAF had used the password Carmen. It was the name of his pet ferret. Once Pryce had got that, he was free to roam the system. There was information there that was deemed classified and highly confidential and he was able to see it." Once he was in the system, Pryce kept getting access to higher levels in his aim to become a "root user", which gives the hacker total control of the computer with the power to shut out other users and command the entire system. "I was interested in Rome Labs because I knew they developed stuff for the military. I just wanted to find out what they were doing. I read that UFO material was being kept at Wright Patterson base and I thought it would also be a laugh to get in there. I also hacked into a Nasa site," he said. "Rome Labs was my main project. I got the programming code for an artificial intelligence project. I downloaded files so I could view them at leisure at home. "I know there was a big fuss when I tried to hack into a computer in Korea, but there was nothing sinister about it. I just fancied having a go at a different sort of computer and I happened to be on the Rome Laboratory computer. I just tapped in the address for the Korean research computer, but I didn't hack into it. It never went further than that." During an intensive three months of hacking, Pryce sent e-mails at least twice a week to the fellow hacker he knew as Kuji, without knowing his real name was Mathew Bevan. Bevan, who is now 23, was more of a loner than Pryce and would spend up to 30 hours without a break on his computer. He claims the fraternity of hackers gave him the friendship that he had failed to find during his childhood. "I was bullied at school and I found my little community and interaction through my computer," he said. "The hackers would all egg each other on. There wasn't anything malicious about it. If there was, I could have downed as many computer systems as I wanted. I was just really looking for anything about UFOs. It was like war games; I just couldn't believe what we could get into. I wasn't tutoring Pryce, but the Americans made out I was because they thought I was some kind of east European masterspy." Pryce agrees: "We embarrassed them by showing how lax their security was and that's why they made out we had been a huge security threat. I'm now amazed by what I did, but I wasn't surprised at the time. It was just my hobby. Some people watched television for six hours a day, I hacked computers." The first time Pryce and Bevan met in person was in July 1996 when they appeared at Bow Street magistrates court jointly charged with conspiracy and offences under the Computer Misuse Act. "He was at the back of the court when I went in and his mother said: 'You'd better say hello', which he did. We didn't even have a chat," said Bevan. Conspiracy charges against both Pryce and Bevan were later dropped, but in March last year Pryce was fined Pounds 1,200 after admitting 12 offences under the Computer Misuse Act. His lawyers said in mitigation that there had been some exaggeration when the Senate armed services committee had been told in 1996 that the Datastream Cowboy had caused more harm than the KGB and was the "No 1 threat to US security". The remaining charges against Bevan were dropped in November after the Crown Prosecution Service decided it was not in the public interest to pursue the case. >>> Continued to next message * SLMR 2.1a * If you were a REAL man, you wouldn't need that parachute! --- FMail 1.22 * Origin: -=Keep Watching the Skies=- Email to: ufo1@juno.com (1:379/12) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 221 UFO Ref: F4C00012 Date: 04/07/98 From: JACK SARGEANT Time: 07:48am \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: UFO hackers, 4 of 4 >>> Continued from previous message Nevertheless, the case of Datastream Cowboy and Kuji remains one of the most notorious in American cyber history. The two young men are living this down in different ways. Pryce's computer was confiscated, to his initial dismay. "After I had my computer taken away it was quite difficult because I had been doing it every night for a year," he said. "If they hadn't caught me, I would have carried on." Now he thinks hacking was a waste of time and insists he will never do it again. He does not even own a computer any more. Bevan, however, has put his notoriety to good use: he is now employed testing the computer security of private companies. Targeting the pentagon United States defence computers have for years been one of the most coveted targets for hacking addicts inspired by the film War Games, which showed a boy cracking an American defence network and nearly starting the third world war. One of the pioneers of this craze was Kevin Mitnick, who repeatedly hacked into Pentagon computers in the mid-1980s. He was jailed in 1989 but continued his exploits on his release and was arrested again after a two-year hunt by the FBI. The number of cyber attacks on the Pentagon is estimated by Washington officials as 250,000 annually, but the incidents the public hears about are only the few where hackers get caught. In 1996 six Danes who hacked into Pentagon computers were given sentences of up to three months. The same year, special agents tracked down three teenage hackers in Croatia who had also succeeded in penetrating Pentagon computers. They were never identified or charged, however, as there is no law against computer hacking in Croatia. Last month there was a spectacular example of the hackers' work when American defence officials revealed that the Pentagon computer network had been subjected to a relentless two-month attack. CIA agents were reportedly anxious that the hackers might be the agents of Saddam Hussein. FBI agents blamed a secret convention of hackers believed to be held in New York. A few days ago, the real culprit gave himself up. Ehud Tenenbaum, an Israeli teenager who dubbed himself The Analyser, had worked with two young hackers in California. Under house arrest in Tel Aviv, he said the attacks were not malicious. He had concentrated on American government sites because he hated organisations. "Chaos, I think it is a nice idea," he said. Copyright 1998, Sunday Times - London. 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