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March 2010_june_july_2009.qxd 29/03/2010 11:52 AM Page 5 From The ‘X’ Zone NewsDesk 5 Alien Abduction Day MEMA spokesman Jeff Rent said the south Limerick seen strange lights in the sky. I Arrives, But Will Little annual meteor shower is expected to continue begged them not to give out my name, one's through Tuesday. reputation being rather important to a journalist. “People see shooting stars at night and Green Men? they’re not too surprised, but when they see it in Later, I promised – if I can solve this. But they got no reply from listeners. FOXNews.com the daytime, it can catch people off guard,” Rent So our orange light in the sky and its said. silent passing remained a puzzle until I Googled Clamp on your foil hat and cower under There were no reports of the meteor around and, lo and behold, there are dozens of your bed, Alien Abduction Day is here! touching ground. Sightings also were reported people all around Ireland who've seen exactly March 20 was Alien Abduction Day, in Louisiana, Rent said. [] the same thing at different times. Most gave when "the skies are carefully watched by those their names in full and locations. Check out expecting / wishing to be abducted by an alien Revealed: the strange www.myufo.com life form," states eHow.com. For instance, Fred Johnston from The strange holiday's origins are mystery of a Limerick Galway city reported seeing something on unclear, though it was clearly popularized by UFO - and how it was January 1 that was "bright red or orange", the 2008 Alien Abduction Day festival in "round" in shape and "large, fading into the Toronto. That means no "Free UFO Rides," solved distance and silent." "Random Abduction Incidents" or "getting in 20 March 2010 At least I wasn't the only one. touch with your inner-extraterrestrial," which You can see for yourself what appears to were highlighted on a flyer for a past festival. By Staff Reporter be a close-up of what we witnessed if you log The festival was an all around sci-fi onto YouTube and watch a video posted by a street party in Toronto, sponsored by a comic EMERGENCY services, including a woman from Kilnamona, Clare, called, UFO book shop and several local businesses. But rescue helicopter, rushed out to Caherconlish over County Clare Ireland Dec 2008. references online exist to the even from years following a report to the Gardai from a man Over 5,000 people have viewed the earlier -- and watch for Twitter to heat up there on Sunday, March 7, that a small plane video. The shimmering effect of the UFO is Saturday with the #AlienAbductionDay tag. appeared to have crashed. supposedly caused by atmospheric diffraction, For UFO fans in Toronto and beyond, Strangely, as the Limerick Leader according to one comment. hoping to celebrate this year, eHow.com offers reported the following day, the emergency However, the most helpful website I the following tips for enjoying your own Alien services, including ambulance, fire brigade and found was one that tracks satellites that just Abduction Day. a rescue helicopter "found no evidence of a happen to reflect light from the sun on to earth: For starters, you can keep track of all plane crash". www.heavens-above.com your alien and UFO sightings. If you are new at I was initially hoping that the man who In particular, it tracks Iradium this sort of extraterrestrial stuff, UFOcenter.com reported the downed plane saw what I saw from Corporation satellites, they're used for can help. You will find "The Web's most the back garden of my home in Fedamore only communications and each features three highly comprehensive and up-to-date UFO a couple of hours afterwards. If so, he had seen reflective mission antennae. There are at least information source; provided by America's a UFO and would probably have thought that he 80 such satellites overhead and they have a foremost UFO Reporting Agency; in continuous was going mad. magnitude of -8, which is brighter than the operation since 1974." The site even features a I was going to put him out of his misery space station or Venus. UFO sighting report form. until I got more details from the gardai about the So what were the chances of one Another idea, thanks to eHow.com, is to Caherconlish incident. happening to reflect light our way that evening? visit a Web site devoted to alien abduction "The man who reported it to us – and to Very slim indeed, but not beyond possibility. As experiences at Abduct.com. This site describes Shannon Rescue Service – saw smoke coming it happens, the website provides an option to log itself as "the world's oldest and largest research from a plane, it flew low and he didn't see it in your latitude, longtitude and height above Web site into the alien abduction and UFO coming back up," said a Garda spokesperson sea-level to plot where the nearest one to you is experience." It features several computer from Roxboro. "We've since learned that there's at any given time. It also crucially allows you to screens worth of helpful UFO/alien links, along a local fellow out there who performs stunts backtrack the satellites' movements over the with an Alien Abduction Survey, discussion with a plane using smoke. It was a false report." previous 48 hours. group, questions and answers, research, photos, One mystery solved. And that's where the breakthrough drawings, personal encounters, and more. So what did I see then? came. If this is all a little too far out, go more At 7.40pm that same evening, I saw a I typed in my co-ordinates and found mainstream and simply enjoy an alien abduction bright, round light travelling through the sky at that Iradium Satellite 49 just happened to pass movie on March 20. Here are a few suggestions: the same speed, trajectory and direction as an over our house at 7.50pm (my co-ordinates "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "Fire in airplane. There was no sound, it lasted for just were approximate, not absolutely precise which the Sky," "Men in Black," "The Astronaut's over a minute, moving northwestwards, until might explain the 10 minute gap in timing). Wife," "Taken" and "Signs." suddenly it vanished. Eureka! We didn't see an alien craft. We'd Still too much? There's always "Ghost "Where'd it go, daddy?" my two-and-a- witnessed an Iradium flare. Busters." [] half year old son, Oisin, asked. "An Iridium flare looks like a star that I didn't know. moves slowly and quickly brightens, then "What was it, daddy?" he asked. slowly fades away and it travels silently," UFO sighting believed to I was stumped. reports the website. It would only have been visible within a But I'd been quick enough to take a snap be meteor with my camera-phone, shoot 30 seconds of two-mile or more radius and only for a matter of By ROBIN FITZGERALD crappy video with the same phone, and I even minutes. The narrow focus of the sun's relection phoned a friend who used to work in Shannon on earth and the short timeframe explained why Reports of possible UFO sightings in Airport while it was still visible. Live 95FM was not inundated with UFO sightings. You had to be standing where we South Mississippi this week appear to have been He didn't know either, but by Tuesday he were, or nearby. a fireball from a Gamma Normids meteor was able to tell me that the international space When Oisin grows up, I'll fill him in and shower, according to the Mississippi station was visible over Ireland that week and Emergency Management Agency. for four minutes that very evening, at 8.35pm at least if we see another strange light in the sky, or a reader does, they can keep going without MEMA received calls on Sunday (GMT). Sounded plausible, except the timing losing their minds.[] afternoon from Stone, Jackson and Carroll was out. I saw what I saw at 7.40pm (GMT). We counties reporting a fireball that fell from the double-checked the times. They were correct. THE ‘X’ ZONE RADIO SHOW sky. In the meantime, I'd put the word out through Live 95FM asking had anyone else in www.xzoneradiotv.com