Among the major stories reported by CAUS this week, Al Collier -- apparently no relation to contactee Alex Collier of Letters from Andromeda fame -- reported a sighting of a triangular UFO near McCrory, TN. According to Collier, the object occupied about a thumbnail-sized space in the sky and was emphatically "white, not silver in color."
Most unusual in Collier's opinion, the object moved slowly but still left a jetstream-like trail behind it. When the object suddenly vanished after about 15 seconds, the trail disappeared also.
Elsewhere on the CAUS site, Jodie Smith related a personal contact experience in the hope of finding out more about the tall blond aliens known colloquially as the "Nordic" type. In her report, she described her dreams of engaging in group levitation with a particularly focused group of about 20 of these creatures.
UFOCity published a press release from Robert and Ryan Wood, who have specialized in the "Majestic Documents" that allegedly prove CIA complicity in the UFO phenomenon. The Woods admitted that Timothy Cooper, one of the main sources of the documents, "took a polygraph examination and did not do well" after a recent radio appearance. However, as lie detectors remain inadmissible courtroom evidence, the truth of the Majestic affair remains "too early to conclude," they added.
Meanwhile, New York-based radio program UFO Desk expanded its Internet broadcast capability by adding selected programs to the streaming video available on anomalies.net.
Crop Circle Connector enjoyed a busy week, posting a discussion of the geometry of elliptical crop patterns, which would require would-be hoaxers to use more complicated techniques and equipment. Even more exciting, the site released a curious film depicting "a white object flying into and out of the (crop) formation below Barbury Castle" in Wiltshire. While the camerawork is compelling, the object itself resembles nothing so much as a plastic bag or other bit of airborne flotsam.
Paranormal News contented itself with an overview of the Face on Mars controversy, concluding that even the 1998 photographs of the Martian feature could look like a face -- more specifically, a "lion with a dark nose and whiskers" -- after some digital manipulation.
The newsgroups were also subdued, apparently caught in a late summer lull in both activity and interest. Those participants who remained active occupied themselves by heckling "The Reluctant Prophet," a newly emerged contactee who has evolved a complicated 350,000-year historical narrative but has so far been tight-lipped about who or what his "friends" are.
Finally, in a bizarre development, other Usenet denizens apparently mistook last August's disappearance of two Japanese military planes for current news, prompting apparently serious speculation as to the planes' fate.
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