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May 2010_june_july_2009.qxd 31/05/2010 6:15 PM Page 14 14 Newfoundland UFOs still a mystery Newfoundland UFOs still a mystery CBC News The unidentified flying objects spotted in January off Newfoundland remain a mystery to the government, despite extensive scrutiny, according to Department of National Defence (DND) documents obtained by CBC News. The documents contain grainy images of a rocket with a long, fiery tail soaring skyward. The reports rule out missiles and model rockets, but don't suggest what the images might show. Military experts discredit the possibility of ballistic and cruise missiles. DND's Directorate of Scientific and Technical Intelligence (DSTI) assessed the images and days later the French government announced allegedly spotted UFOs as governors, and they reported: "The object is not a ballistic missile, test-fires of its new M51 ballistic missiles were both went on to the Oval Office. Carter even not a cruise missile in boost phase nor a cruise successful. promised to reveal all secret files on alien missile in-flight phase. It is also not a licensed In a phone call Friday, however, the encounters but never delivered. model rocket launcher." Directorate General of Armament for France More recently in 2009, Japan’s first lady The Jan. 25 sighting happened on the said that the ballistic test-fires took place on Miyuki Hatoyama confessed in her memoirs southern coast of Newfoundland near Harbour Jan. 27, and not on Jan. 25, the day of the that she’d been abducted by aliens 20 years ago Mille. Several residents reported seeing the sightings off Newfoundland. who whisked her off to Venus. objects, including a woman who was able to It is not clear if new information was photograph one of them. She reported to the uncovered about the UFO sighting since Feb. 1, Balloon-boy parents get RCMP that she had seen three missiles soaring as that date marked the closing time frame for over the ocean and it looked as if they had come the Access to Information request. balloon back up out of the water. CBC News is awaiting the Department The DSTI says in the documents that the of Public Safety's response to the question of FORT COLLINS, Colo. — The runaway UFO- only missiles that can be launched from a whether or not the UFO was eventually like balloon that the world thought was carrying submarine are ballistic or cruise missiles, but identified. [] a 6-year-old boy is back in the hands of the the country's top arms experts say the object parents who pleaded guilty to the hoax. photographed doesn't fit that profile. Weird News Central: The Larimer County Sheriff's office says "There are no distinguishing features on Richard Heene asked to measure the balloon to the object to use for identification … the shape Politicians Report UFO make sure it was the same one he launched into of the flame is atypical of a missile launch," and Sightings infamy on Oct. 15. "the length of the flame is greater than that of Authorities say the Heenes staged the the rocket body. This eliminates the possibility hoax to try to get attention for a reality that it is a cruise missile jet engine exhaust," television show. said DSTI. Heene completed a 90-day jail sentence for his plea of falsely influencing authorities. Undetected by Norad His wife, Mayumi, was sentenced to 10 weekends working at nonprofits for filing a The documents also note that it is the false report. responsibility of the North American Aerospace The Heenes have agreed to pay $36,000 Defence Command (Norad) to "provide in restitution to agencies that responded to the aerospace warning and defence for North hoax. America," and that neither that agency, nor Information from: KUSA-TV, Canada Command, had any information on the http://www.9news.com rockets. "NORAD and [Canada Command] have no evidence to support this sighting" reads the report. The RCMP conducted an investigation, NEW YORK (Wireless Flash - FlashNews) – but according to the Jan. 28 report, the police Tell people you’ve seen a UFO and they’ll think didn't have an answer either. you’re a nut. That, or you’ll be elected "The RCMP … is calling the event an president. unexplained sighting." Last week, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, The documents also say there were no governor of Russia’s Buddhist republic, navy ships involved, and no Canadian Forces Kalmykia, revealed that he was abducted in missile exercises at the time. 1997 from his Moscow apartment by aliens in The government has blocked nine pages yellow uniforms who took him into their and a several paragraphs of the UFO documents spaceship. from public release. But he was hardly laughed out of office. One of the lines leading into a blocked- In fact, Russian officials called for his out portion reads, "Media reporting has linked interrogation, concerned that he may have NOW AVAILABLE AT the sightings to …" spilled official secrets to the E.T.s. At the time there was speculation the AOL Senior Correspondent Buck Wolf www.xzonestore.com rockets may have come from a French says political leaders all over the world have submarine near St-Pierre-Miquelon, since a few claimed they’ve seen UFOs. Both Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter