Chupacabras struck again last week at two locked henhouses in Lebu Alto, a
farm village on the outskirts of the city of Concepcion, which is 300
kilometers (180 miles) south of Santiago de Chile, the national capital.
According to the Chilean newspaper Diario El Sur, "The attacks occurred in
two different locations, and in both, witnesses claim having seen a beast
with similar characteristics. The attacks on the henhouses in the Lebu
commune by an unknown being bolsters the existence of the mythic
'Chupacabras' in the area, more specifically in the province of Arauco."
"In the early morning hours yesterday (Saturday, May 13, 2000) in the Lebu
Alto section, two families claimed to have been victims of strange events
which caused the deaths of 24 hens."
"The event, confirmed by the Lebu Carabineros (Chile's national
police--J.T.) took place at 4 a.m. on Saturday morning.when an
unidentified resident heard a noise in her henhouse. Getting out of bed
and going outside, she found that her dogs were calm--even fearful--
despite the fact that something was going on in the henhouse. As she
approached the gate, she told police, she managed to see a rounded figure
jump away from the chicken coop and go around the base of a nearby hill,"
the Cerro La Cruz. "Upon entering the henhouse, the witness confirmed that
17 of her 19 hens were dead with visible signs of tearing."
"Shortly afterward, the chicken coop of a neighboring farm was also
attacked, and another resident gave a similar account. At 8 a.m., the
Carabineros were notified of these events. Police elements reported to the
scene and verified the animals' deaths. The carcasses were collected and
sent to Concepcion for further analysis."
In its May 15, 2000 edition, Cronica, the other newspaper of Concepcion,
made the claim that three Chupacabras had been captured by the Chilean
army near a local copper mine and turned over to the custody of agents of
the USA's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Cronica reported, "Radio Padahuel and (TV) Channel 13 transmitted news
reports indicating that a family of strange creatures--possible
'Chupacabras'--had been found by military personnel in the vicinity of the
Radomiro Tomic (copper) mine within the Second Region."
"According to information provided by Radio Pudahuel, it was a female, a
male and a cub--a story which has the ring of The X-Files around it--and
were delivered to agents of the USA's FBI agency which arrived at Calama
from Santiago (where the USA federal police have an office in their
embassy) The creatures quietly would have been taken to the USA"
"No further mention of the event was made, but police sources told Cronica
that the capture of the specimens was real and that everything had
transpired as was originally told" on Radio Pudahuel. (See Diario El Sur
for May 14, 2000 and Cronica for May 15, 2000. Muchas gracias a Scott
Corrales, autor de los libros, Chupacabras and Other Mysteries y Forbidden
Mexico y tambien Gloria Coluchi para esas historias.)
(Editor's Comment: If the report about the Radomiro Tomic mine is true,
then this is the third report we've seen this year of a "secret team,"
either FBI or NASA, hunting for aliens in South America. See UFO Roundup,volume 5, number 5 and 20 for the earlier stories.)(References)
RADAR SPOTS "GHOST PLANES" IN LAKE MICHIGAN TRIANGLE
For the past five weeks, air traffic controllers at the O'Hare
International Airport in Chicago, Illinois have been seeing images of
"ghost planes" on their radar sets, usually in the skies of the Lake
Michigan Triangle.
The Triangle is an area of Lake Michigan which runs from Ludington,
Michigan south to Benton Harbor, Mich., then across the lake to Manitowoc,
Wisconsin and then back to Ludington.
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, "False radar images have been popping
up on the screens of O'Hare International Airport's air traffic
controllers, forcing pilots to take sudden turns unnecessarily."
"At least a dozen 'ghost planes' have been reported during the last few
weeks, the newspaper said, citing documents from the Terminal Radar
Approach Control Center in Elgin, Illinois (population 78,000)."
"Controllers said that at least a few times they have ordered pilots to
take sudden turns to avoid what appeared to be planes on their radar,
potentially putting passengers at risk."
"'The ghosting is a complete terror for air traffic controllers,' said
Charles Bunting, president of the Elgin local the National Air Traffic
Controllers Association."
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokesman Tony Molinaro "said there
have been 13 ghost images in the last five weeks rather than the usual
eight or nine the FA would normally expect in this time period., 'meaning
we shall need to look into them.'"
"But Mike Egan, vice president of the controller's union at Elgin, accused
the FAA of playing down the problem. 'Maybe 130, but not 13,' Egan said
Friday (May 19, 2000). 'We had a couple of them today, as a matter of
fact. They know there's a problem.'" (See the Chicago Sun-Times for My 21,
2000. Many thanks to Steve Wilson Sr. for this newspaper article.)
(Editor's Comment: It's possible that the recent upsurge in solar activity
is behind this phenomenon. Either causing the "ghost plane" echoes
themselves. Or by "opening the Triangle" and allowing the O'Hare radar
sets to sweep the skies of the past...or the future.)
DAZZLING UFO SEEN ON LAKE ERIE'S SOUTH SHORE
On Sunday, May 21, 2000, at 11:30 a.m., Sarah M. was at Sheffield Lake,
Ohio (population 9,800), a town on the southern shore of Lake Erie, when
she spotted a dazzling gleam in the sky.
According to Sarah, the UFO approached from the north, over Lake Erie, and
then shot away to the east. She described the object as "a shape about
like an oval and a square. It was very bright. I practically had to use
sunglasses. Was going slowly but not too slow. Really bright, almost like
the sun's rays. It was about 15 feet tall and about 30 feet long, and was
about 200 feet (60 meters) above the ground.," with an estimated speed of
"about 30 miles per hour on approach and 60 miles per hour flying away."
Sheffield Lake is on Ohio Route 6 approximately 25 miles (40 kilometers)
west of Cleveland. (Email Form Report)
1972: UTAH'S MYSTERIOUS GADIANTON CANYON
One of the strangest Highway Space Warp (HSW) cases took place in
southeastern Utah near the railroad crossing of Modena, on the edge of the
Escalante Desert.
There's a slickrock canyon just north of Modena that bears the name of
Gadianton. It's a name that brings a shudder to God-fearing Latter-Day
Saints.
"Among the freighters who hauled supplies to Pioche (Nevada) in the
seventies (1870s--J.T.) there grew up a legend that a rocky gorge near the
Nevada Line was haunted by the Gadianton robbers, a terroristic
brotherhood which the Book of Mormon explains as having sprung up among
the Nephites and Lamanites in the century before Christ."
The Gadiantons were a mysterious sect of assassins quite similar to the
Bruder Schweigen of Germany or the Crna Ruka of Yugoslavia.
"Wide-eyed freighters told tales of rocks closing the way, and of the
canyon folding up to entrap them."
Eventually the old Gadianton tales were forgotten in Utah's Iron County.
Until May of 1972, when four coeds from Southern Utah University (SUU)
were driving back to their dorm in Cedar City after spending Saturday at a
local rodeo in Pioche. (All names have been changed to protect the
witnesses' confidentiality--J.T.)
Janna North had the wheel of her father's 1971 Chevrolet Nova, and Carol
Abbott was in the passenger seat. Sitting in the back seat were Lisa
Rochefort and Bethany Gordon. It was after 10 p.m. when the girls crossed
the Utah-Nevada state line nine miles (14 kilometers) east of Modena. And
they were anxious to get back to the campus before their housemother, Mrs.
Mortensen, locked the dorm doors.
That stretch of Utah Highway 56 is pretty desolate, all sand and sagebrush
and ocotillo and Spanish bayonet, with the red sandstone bluffs on the
northern horizon. So the girls were pretty happy when they finally spotted
the Union Pacific railroad crossing at Modena. But just past the rails,
Janna noticed something strange. Two sets of blacktop highway headed off
into the desert--one veered sharply to the southeast, the other shooting
northeast toward the canyon country further north.
"Which one do we take?" asked Carol.
"Left," Janna said. She knew that Cedar City was 46 miles (73 kilometers)
to the northeast, and she guessed that the canyon road would bring them
home much sooner.
Five minutes later, the Chevy entered the red-rock canyon. Janna, who had
been chatting with her friends, suddenly noticed that the car's headlights
were shining more brightly on the pavement. Looking closer, she let out a
gasp. The white centerline was gone. Instead of black asphalt, they were
driving on white cement..
"Janna, up ahead!" Carol exclaimed.
Janna gasped. The highway ended abruptly at a rocky cliff face. Janna
stepped down hard on the brake pedal. Fishtailing slightly, the Chevy
screeched to a stop in front of the cliff.
"Oh, great! A dead end!" Putting the gear into reverse, Janna swung the
car's nose around. "You'd think they'd put up a few warning signs."
"Now we've got to go all the way back to Modena," Bethany complained.
"We're never going to make curfew," Lisa said.
"We'll make good time once we're back on the state highway," Janna assured
them.
Tense minutes passed. Janna began to feel uneasy. They were still rolling
along, hemmed in by red canyon walls. But they should have been back out
in the open desert by this time.
The canyon gradually gave way to open country. The girls gasped. Instead
of moonlit desert, they saw grain fields on the right and a large like,
with stands of ponderosa pine, on the left.
Carol looked around in awe. "This sure ain't Modena!"
"We must've gotten turned around back there," Janna said, her gaze darting
back and forth. "Where the hell are we?"
Up ahead Janna spied a roadhouse (tavern--J.T.) and an adjacent parking
lot. It seemed to have a neon sign, but she couldn't red it. What should
have been letters were brightly-lit squiggles and curlycues. Some men came
out of the building.
"There are some guys," Carol said.
Bethany let out a giggle. "Are they cute?"
"Let's find out." Lisa began rolling down the rear passenger window.
"Lisa! We don't have time for this," Janna said.
"Relax!" Hastily she touched up her lipstick. "I'm only going to ask them
how to get back to the highway."
As Janna slowed down, she noticed a good deal of consternation among the
men. As if they'd been startled by some unknown animal. Sticking her head
out the window, Lisa said, "Hi! We're--" And she let out a terrified
scream.
"Lisa! What--!?" Janna turned in her seat.
"Get out of here!" the girl screamed, frantically rolling up the window.
"Punch it, Jana!"
Bethany shrieked, "Step on it!"
Tires sitting sand, the Chevy zoomed away from the building. Janna stepped
down hard on the gas pedal. The lake flew by on her left.
"Oh, my God! They're coming after us!" Bethany shouted. "Janna, faster!"
Janna glanced in her rear-view mirror, and what she saw turned her blood
to ice. They were being chased, but not by any vehicle that had ever been
built in Detroit.
Four queer-looking automobiles followed in their wake. Egg-shaped vehicles
mounted on tricycle wheels. That is, with two large wheels in the front
and a smaller wheel in the rear. A single bright white headlight shone
from the front of each pursuing "car." They made a strange whirring or
buzzing sound as they rolled along.
"Janna, go faster! They're gaining on us!"
Ahead the road led back into a red-rock canyon. Janna's Chevy plunged into
it at 80 miles per hour. The road was so narrow, it seemed to hem them in.
The Chevy's tires kicked up a billowing cloud of dust. They could no
longer see their pursuers.
Minutes later, they roared out of the canyon, back into the familiar
desert. All at once, the road vanished. The headlights showed nothing but
sagebrush and ocotillo. The Chevy bucked and jostled like a wild bronc.
Janna hit the brakes. Too late! The car sideskidded down an arroyo and
came to rest at the bottom.
Shaking uncontrollably, the girls emerged from the car. Miraculously they
were unhurt. The Chevy took the worst of it, with three flat tires,
numerous dings in the front bumper and a missing hubcap. Jenna took one
look and clapped both hands to her forehead. "Oh, no-no-no! My dad's going
to kill me!"
Lisa, however, was near-hysterical. She sat on the ground, hugging the
knees of her bell- bottom blue jeans, weeping and moaning, She kept
mumbling, "They-they weren't human..."
The girls stayed with the car until sunrise. Then they walked a couple of
miles due south. Boy, were they glad when they found the familiar blacktop
of Highway 56. An hour later, they flagged down a cruiser of the Utah
Highway Patrol and told their story.
Trooper Vic Lundquist, who investigated the case, noted several
circumstances that were never adequately explained.
(1) There were no tire tracks showing where the Chevy had left Highway 56
in Modena.
(2) Tire tracks from the wrecked Chevy extended only 200 yards back into
the desert and ended abruptly.
(3) No one could explain how the Chevy had gotten nearly two miles north
of Highway 56 without leaving any physical trace of its passage through
the rough desert terrain.
(4) Although volunteers searched diligently, no trace of the Chevy's right
front hubcap was ever found.
If Utah's Gadianton Canyon is, as some people claim, a gateway to another
dimension, then perhaps Janna's missing hubcap is a prime exhibit--an
"alien artifact"--on display in a museum on that parallel Earth. (See the
book Utah: A Guide to the State by Hastings House Publishers, New York,
N.Y., 1945, page 298.)
Today's Quote: "If God had wanted me to exercise, he would have put
diamonds on the ground." Joan Rivers.
We'll be back in seven days with more UFO and paranormal news from around
the planet Earth, brought to you by "the paper that goes home-- UFO
Roundup." See you then.
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