All Hands,

These bulletins have been sent out individually in electronic form to our Georgia members since 1998. Beginning this month, there will be a slight change. Future 'Updates' will be posted to our local web page www.mufonga.org about the first week of each month, with no further general individual dissemination.

Mark has advised me that recent problems with the server for our local page have been resolved. In the past, reported cases and other information would be 'saved up' until enough for a substantial bulletin had accumulated. Special bulletins, or events needing rapid dissemination for obvious reasons, might occasionally still be broadcast, but normally, all will be posted about the first week of each month via a memo to Mark and then to the Georgia home page.

Currently, we have been dealing with a host of historical cases mixed in with current events. As usual, please note that much of this information is raw and unvetted.

In no particular order of receipt;

On or about 6May08 at about 4AM, a male witness and his friend were stargazing from the terrace of the primary witness' 20th floor condo located near Lenox and Phipps Plaza in Buckhead (north Atlanta). Witness noticed a bright star-like light (about BB+ size) off to the NNW, saying it appeared to be over Dobbins Reserve Air Base, at 15, then moving to about 20 degrees above the horizon. He watched via binoculars, saying through binos it was then about aspirin size. The light moved sideways about 5 degrees, then up about 5 degrees and back to the original position, some movement at high speed. The light then vanished as it also came to the attention of the secondary witness. MUFONGA's J. Alexander of Marietta contacted the authorities at Dobbins who denied knowledge of any such event in their vicinity. One must also not overlook the fact that darting spring-time insects illuminated by the massive security lighting from Lenox/Phipps directly adjacent and below might come into play here, or the fact that night observation of distant lights suspected to be 12 miles away (distance to Dobbins from condo) could actually be much further away.

On or about 10June62, a 5YOA witness and his 7YOA brother was living in Lawrenceville (the now adult witness is currently living in Mississippi). He stated that he was awakened by his brother during the night and they both peered out of the window. Observed was a nearby saucer shaped craft recalled to be about 60 feet in diameter and 12 feet thick, 20-40 yards away. Craft was ringed with red lights, with four large flashing panels, and something like glass panels with humanoid figures peering out. Witness had to pull himself up on the window sill to observe this event. Much later in either 1988 or 1989, the witness recalls that the Aurora Borealis was supposed to make a rare visit to the skies of the southeast. He was in a field in an unknown location in Macon Georgia to observe. About 9:30PM he observed a rectangular craft slowly approaching his location and was then 20-40 yards away. It passed over and continued on in silence, appearing to be about 50 feet long, 20 feet wide and 20 feet thick, with odd shaped lights surrounding it...........over-flight speed about 30mph. Witness was advised to also report the later event on CMS.

On 8Feb67, 5 students from Georgia Southern University in Statesboro were out late in violation of the dorm rules and returning from a basketball games in Athens. It was after midnight and it is believed they were traveling south on Hwy 25 in the vicinity of Millen, Georgia (east Georgia near the SC state line). Witness indicated that the current news of the day was all about the increase in UFO sightings in the southeast and elsewhere in the USA ('1967 UFO Wave' as now described by Dick Hall, MUFON, and former MUFONGA historian M. Hitt, and other researchers in various writings and books). Witness said they were actually watching the skies due to these radio reports. Somewhere near Millen, they observed a bright light approaching from the east, getting larger, and at one point some stars were blotted out. They stopped in the middle of the road and got out to watch as the light appeared to be moving directly overhead. Witness indicated at it's closest (overhead), it resembled a triangular configuration of fluorescent lights about the size of his outstretched hands when creating a triangle shape by touching thumb tips and index tips together. It stopped overhead and appeared to be getting larger but then became obvious it was descending. The group quickly fled for the car and continued on south. The light moved back to the east and paralleled their course southward, then turned red and vanished. Witness stated that they mostly discussed this matter among themselves. Later, they all went their separate ways after college and he has not seen his college friends again. However, the account does not stop there. Two weeks later......the witness stated that about dusk one evening he and one of his friends from the car were walking near the campus post office and Dairy Queen and a nearby parking area. He and his co-witness were relating the previous event to a third party when they noticed a sudden rush of wind from off to the left. Upon looking, they observed an appx. 40 foot unknown dark cigar-like craft 'whooshing by' at about 40-50 mph, above and behind a stand of trees in the rear of a nearby store. There was no engine noise, but a clanking sound as of metal against metal, and a row of 'windows' with visible light as if coming from within. Witness ran across the street past the trees and into the open parking area and was right behind the craft as it moved away in a straight line, and as the other two witnesses caught up. The object was observed departing, when it suddenly moved up 90 degrees, then made a 180 degree turn-around, continuing in the same direction, did another 90 degree maneuver and continued on. Witness described this as looking much like a cartoon sequence it was so bizarre. This strange sequence was then repeated twice more and each time, fiery bits of light, looking like flames, were emitted and rained down, vanishing before reaching the ground. The object was then gone, off into the distance. Witness observed others in the Dairy Queen parking lot who seemed oblivious to the event. Witness was also concerned that his two co-witnesses were NOT that concerned with what had just occurred..........as if "this stuff happens all the time down here". The witness now lives close to the writer's home and was found to be a retired professional, a former counselor in the field of illegal drug and substance abuse and is acquainted with the many civic 'movers and shakers' in his hometown, VIPs also known to this writer. These two cases are being investigated conjointly, though it's an administrative process, due to the extreme age and remote location of the events. It should be noted that during this same time frame, two Augusta area events were reported (about 40 miles north of Millen), both involving motorists. This case and the witness accounts in NO WAY carry ANY of the tone of a 40 year old 'frat joke' or hoax being brought forward to 2008. The witness is a respected member of his community and a retired professional as far as could be determined. There are special aspects to this case that may come out later, and it appears similar in it's bizarre nature to the 1970 West Point Georgia event described in an earlier 'Update'.

An adult witness living in Rome, Georgia reported that on or about June99, when he was 13 YOA, he was on a camping trip with his friend and family at Lake Allatoona (20 or so miles NNW above Atlanta). They were sleeping in a tent with the top off to give a sky view. During the night, they were awakened and observed a circular white light appx. 30 feet in diameter hovering over the nearby trees. They fled to the camper where the adults were sleeping, and the light was later found to be gone. Witness stated that his friend saw a group of lights rather than one large light.

An adult resident of Cleveland (north Georgia mountain area) stated that on an unknown date and time in 1999 (night), he was leaving for work and observed a silent boomerang object flying low and slow southward over the town. Size is described as 31-100 feet wide in his report. Additionally, the color seemed to be a metallic gray and this was determined from nearby shopping center lights seeming to reflect off of the object. Please note that one of our former Georgia Ufology associates, along with a second witness, observed a similar boomerang in SC during the same general time frame, and it too was flying quietly, low and slow, and ALSO seemed to reflect the town lights off of the underside. Mark and Leslie of Blairsville were assigned to contact this Cleveland witness.

3May08, about 10:52PM, an adult female resident of Cleveland Georgia reported 2 star-like objects flashing red and green lights and moving left and right, closer, than further away. Watched until about 11:00PM. Mark and Leslie M. of Blairsville looked into this matter and determined it was most likely military or law enforcement aircraft involved in some sort of operation.

An adult resident of Effingham County (Coastal Region) reported that on or about 20Mar04 at about 8:00PM, in the vicinity of Fort Stewart, he observed a bright object falling to earth at about a 45 degree angle, estimated to be about 20-30 miles away. Noticed also were two explosion-like events during the descent. Witness is an excellent observer who was assigned to the Army Field Artillery, and said that this occurrence did not appear to be of the standard meteoric variety i.e. not burning out quickly.....burn lasting at least 30 seconds. ASD D. Marchant of the Coastal Region looked into this matter, and after following a long Sherlockian trail of research, determined that this object was most likely satellite Cosmos 2385 degrading and burning up in the atmosphere. All of the re-entry data uncovered pointed to this according to Dave's report.

Meetings- The Atlanta Area Study Group meeting for early summer (June) was postponed until probably August due to potential new information to be generated and returned from the Symposium in San Jose.

The 28June meeting of the Coastal Region was also canceled due to member illness, and vacations. Coastal advises it will probably be reset for late July or early August.

Reminder to all FIs/FITs-----Be prepared to purchase the new FIs Manual in late July or August, as it will be changing the way we do things. More on this after the Symposium. Additional.........remember.........in your closing FIs narrative on CMS, always include all of the resulting category numbers from the BGE, and include the GPS co-ordinates for the event site and any other related locations. Google Earth makes this so easy even without a GPS unit.

Best,

Tom Sheets, SD MUFONGA

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SKY WATCHING GUIDE for 2008
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Great - Great night to be out looking
Good - A descent night for sky watching (at least most of the night)
Fair - A good night to stay home
Bad - No way I'm leaving the house
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Jul 12-13 - Bad - 1/2 Moon visible to 2:15 am
Jul 19-20 - Bad - Full moon visible all night long
Jul 26-27 - Good to Fair - Moon sliver rises at 1:00 am
Aug 02-03 - Great - no moon visible
Aug 09-10 - Good - 1/2 Moon visible to 11:45 am
Aug 16-17 - Bad - Full moon visible all night
Aug 23-24 - Fair - 1/2 moon rises at 12:40
Aug 30-31 - Great - no moon visible, Orion rises at 3:45
Sep 06-07 - Good - Moon sliver visible to 11:25
Sep 13-14 - Bad - Full moon visible all night
Sep 20-21 - Fair - 1/2 moon rises at 11:40 am
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