Hi Everyone, I want to address the previous post made by myself concerning the "Massive UFO Sighting in the Western US last night. Please forgive me as I was going on the SAME information NUFORC (Peter Davenport) was going on. I have also read more information from eyewitnesses at the Cyberspace ORBIT site. Maybe this message from Washington State MUFON Director will shed some light on the subject. I will not post anything more on this subject unless more credible information surfaces. Thank you for your patience and understanding. Tim Edwards -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Fwd: MAJOR UFO EVENT OVER WESTERN US SEPTEMBER 1, 1999 Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 21:34:16 EDT From: GRolwes@aol.com To: tedwards@tcia.net Tim, I did not properly address your last e-mail and it popped back to me. Here's the late afternoon research from the Portland, Oregon ANG unit concerning the F-15's. Hope it will be of value. Jerry Rolwes MUFON State Director Washington State -------------------- Return-path: GRolwes@aol.com From: GRolwes@aol.com Full-name: G Rolwes Message-ID: <53125acd.25005766@aol.com> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 18:42:46 EDT Subject: MAJOR UFO EVENT OVER WESTERN US SEPTEMBER 1, 1999 To: artbell@mindspring.com, %20director@ufocenter.com, UFOLAWYER1@aol.com, tedwards@caus.org, perry.nouis@peterson.af.mil, Majorstar@aol.com, janesse@icehouse.net, schuessler@mho.net, Ktperehwon@aol.com, eotl@west.net, faxman@virtual-cafe.com, potsey@msn.com, hulk@gelac.mar.lmco.com, fsphys@brunnet.net, neonsky@lvcm.com, KAnder6444@aol.com, bookdc@ccipost.net, MUFONHQ@aol.com Ladies and Gentlemen: Please reference my earlier e-mail with the information from NORAD on the reentry of Russian rocket body material NORAD catalog #25761 with a reentry time of 10:10 Mt. time 1 September 99. Mr. Davenport called me around noon today and was concerned I was coming to a too quick assumption about this "major UFO event." He requested me to check out the Art Bell Shows lady caller from the Portland, Oregon area concerning the Oregon Air National Guard (ANG) F-15 fighters quickly lauching and departing south in "pursuit of something." Again, I simply picked up the phone and called the command post for the 142nd Tactical Fighter Wing Portland, Oregon ANG. I attempted to speak with Civialian Mona Jordon, 142nd ANG Public Affairs Office. I was not able to get her. So I asked to speak to the on duty supervisor of flying (SOF). I explained the comments made by Mr. Bell's caller about the late evening launch and recovery of a sizeable number of F-15's. The following was porvided to me by Oregon ANG Major Hook, on-duty SOF. (Paraphrased) "We launched a package of six F-15 aircraft last night on 1 September 99. The first aircraft lauched at 8:30 PM and last one off was at 8:45 PM. None of the aircraft lauched went into military power (afterburner) as was reported by the woman caller. The fighters were then recovered an hour and fifteen minutes to one hour and twenty minutes later. They were not in pursuit of any unidentified boggies. They were launched as part of a two week phase of night flying training which was published in the local area Portland press." As reported by Major Hook. It just didn't take that much to make these telephone calls to the active and ANG USAF organizations. I have done this to attempt to prove a point. Before everyone starts making assumptions about USAF operations--just pick up the phone and call these folks. They are easy to talk to and the material is easily verifiable. Mr. Davenport expressed concern over the strange power outages throughout the country. I asked him if anyone had called the civilian power companies to ask the reason for the outages. He stated he did not have time to call in that the flap was still going on. I asked Major Nouis of SPACE COM Public Affairs if it was possible that the one couple who called in and said they saw a crash along the Utah/Nevada border could that have been the Russian space debries. He said yes it was a possibility, but we took it a step further. Question: Could the debries, even without fuel, create an explosion with light. His answer was yes. You have metal returning at hyper velosity. The kinetic energy alone could give off heat energy regardless of what it would hit, but if it hit stone there would be even more given off. This information takes away a lot of the strangeness of the reported events. There may well have been other unrelated events, but here's the prime thrust of what occurred. I doubt this is a very major event. I hope that Mr. Bell and Jeff Rense will air this aspect of the alleged flap tonight so that the listeners can make up their minds based on what information I have acquired. We need to quit speculating before we check issues out. It's conterproductive for any of us to look bad. Jerry Rolwes Washington State MUFON Director 509-327-4868 grolwes@aol.com