| 07.06.2002 | UFOs seen over Patagones, Argentina. |
| 07.06.2002 | Debates about cattle mutilations, Argentina. |
| 07.06.2002 | NIDS publishes report on mutilated cow in June 2001 in Montana. |
| 07.06.2002 | NIDS publishes report about mysterious ice circle on US ranch. |
| 07.06.2002 | Pilots report surface-to-air missile explosion, Ukraine. |
| 07.05.2002 | Triangular silent UFO seen near Mulhouse, France. |
| 07.04.2002 | Sightings in Sri Lanka. |
| 07.03.2002 | SENASA hypothesis generates many doubts, Argentina. |
| 07.03.2002 | SENASA official explanation found unconvincing in Río Cuarto, Argentina. |
| 07.01.2002 | SENASA official press release on recent cattle mutilations in Argentina: rodents. |
The NIDS (National Institute for Discovery Science, a US privately funded research organisation) was contacted at 8.00 AM on the morning of February 21, 2002 regarding an ice circle that had mysteriously appeared on a ranch overnight. According to the report, at approx 7.00 AM on the morning of February 21, 2002 the circle, measuring 5 feet 9 inches in diameter, was discovered in an irrigation canal on a ranch in NE Utah. The local NIDS investigator, who is a retired deputy sheriff and an experienced tracker, was on the spot within less than an hour. The investigator immediately proceeded to take photographs (see photos 1-3 in report on the What's New Section of the NIDS web site: http://www.nidsci.org ).
The ice was approximately 3/4 inch thick under the circle. The circle occurred near a spot where ranch cattle frequently drink water. [See photo in report]. According to the investigator, the nearby cattle were behaving normally when he arrived. The remainder of the report has just been posted on the NIDS web site.
Many thanks to NIDS for their announcement and their work.
A mutilated Red Angus cow was found in Montana in June 2001 with no obvious tracks from vehicles, people, or predators around the animal. The mutilations consisted of very clean excisions of the left eye and eyelid, rectum, genitalia, and tongue. The previous NIDS Report (http://198.63.56.18/pdf/montana_cattlemutilation.pdf ) documented the analyses of green colored tissue from underneath the left jaw-bone, vitreous fluid, and a maggot mass. A cursory examination of vitreous fluid from a control heifer was also done. This recent addendum report summarizes the results obtained when additional brain tissues samples were submitted for analysis from the Montana cow, as well as the control heifer. The assignment was to look for any components that should not be normally present in the mutilated animal. Secondly, an in-depth evaluation of the MS data previously obtained in November 2001 from vitreous fluid of the control heifer was completed as an aid to accomplish this objective.
The results in this addendum report support those reported previously. Oxindole was found at low levels in the brain of the mutilated animal but not in the brain of the control. Oxindole was found at high concentrations in the eye-fluid of the Montana animal and was completely absent from the eye-fluid of the control animal. This addendum report (three photos, one table and eight figures) documents the complete GCMS comparative analysis of the eye fluids from both mutilated and control animal. No other unusual molecules were found in the brain of the mutilated animal.
The report has been recently posted in the "What's New" section of the NIDS web site at: http://www.nidsci.org
On July 7, 2002, G.R.E.P.I announces an observation that occurred two days ago near Mulhouse and calls for additional witnesses.
Here are the circumstances of this observation as they were reported to G.R.E.P.I:
"This 5th of July 2002 around 10:30 p.m. I was on the motorway on my way back from Switzerland and going in the direction of Brussels. While I was at the height of Mulhouse I observed an enormous flying object in the sky, it was a triangle formed by three white lights and a circular red light in the middle. The colors were very pure and that resembled neons in a circular shape, the object did not seem to make any noise and moved slowly. I stopped on the motorway and observed the phenomenon, I was very impressed when it passed right above me. At this time I was able to note that there was also a body with these three lights. I called the police force of Mulhouse but apparently I was the only one to announce the phenomenon. However there were several people on the motorway. If anybody saw the same phenomenon this July 5 around 10:30 p.m. I would be happy to learn about it because I remain somehow alone with my observation."
"I think I have seen the object to a hundred meters altitude and it must have measured at least 100 meters wide. I had not drunk anything that day and I do not take drugs, it is the first time that I see such a phenomenon and I am sure that I have not been dreaming."
The original articles are on the Web site of the newspaper Daily News of Sri Lanka on www.dailynews.lk/2002/07/04/new19.html for July 4, 2002, and some older related information is in the Documents - Newspapers section of my site.
Under the title "Flying saucers on the rise again?" the newspaper tells that hundreds of people have seen UFO phenomena over Sri Lanka according to professor Chandana Jayaratne of the University of Colombo who has investigated the cases.
Several UFO sightings have been reported from various parts of Sri Lanka over the last few weeks, and Jayaratne sais that "these sightings have been confirmed by a group of keen observers," at a press conference held in the Colombo University. One of the observers, Sanjeeva Bandara, has even written books on UFOs.
Another unnamed observer said that "More than 100 villagers have seen the UFO," and "In general we cannot consider these stories as being fabricated. We camped near the Parakrama Samudra on June 15. We didn't see anything on our first day but on the second day around 11.30 pm we saw a blue-white light. The light beam is so unlike any of other light beam we have seen before. The light beams rotated, suddenly disappeared and reappeared a few seconds later from a place 300-400 meters away from the place it was initially. A few seconds later it again disappeared. We camped near the Parakrama Samudraya. Dense jungle stretched out to the far end and the light beam came from the jungle. Therefore, we could not go out to investigate. Out of our preliminary investigations it turned out to be an object capable of emitting 'V' shaped beam of light of intense illumination. The villagers including an Advanced Level student told us the flying object is capable of moving at a very high velocity and when it is travelling at a lower height it made a sound similar to a sound made by a bee. And it could change its direction to avoid colliding with trees. For three consecutive days we observed the same UFO."
