posted on 13-9-2004 at 08:38 PM Post Number: 800001 (post id: 820695) quote
collin, please give a different link. the one you gave doesn't work.
The link is to a Yahoo forum.
For the sake of convenience for those who wish the article to be more easy to access, and since it's not too long, i am reposting it below:
From: drboylan [mailto:
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Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 6:53 PM
To: UFOFacts; DrRichBoylanReports
Subject: [DrRichBoylanReports] MARINE JETS IN BATTLE WITH OREGON SAUCER?
MARINE JETS IN BATTLE WITH OREGON SAUCER?
"Two California Marine reservists died Wednesday," July 21, 2004, "after two F/A-18 jet fighters collided over the Columbia River near Arlington,
Oregon during a training exercise."
"The fiery crash scattered debris up to 30 miles (48 kilometers) away. One pilot parachuted to safety, but the other two Marines' bodies were
recovered after their bodies fell into the river."
"The explosion at about 2:30 p.m. was visible more than 40 miles (64 kilometers) away. A driver on Interstate (Highway) 84 near Echo saw a bright
flash in the sky, followed by a trail of smoke."
"The shock wave from the collision felt like 'a big boom of rolling thunder,' said Don Adams, a fuel island attendant at the Anderson Chevron."
"The explosion shook the gas station's canopy, and Adams went out and saw one jet, with the rear half engulfed flames falling toward the west of the
small community of about 500."
"Inside, cashier James Baker heard the explosion and saw part of the fuselage falling from the sky, as well as what looked like half an aircraft
falling to the east."
"The jets were based at Miramar Naval Air Station near San Diego," California, "and had flown out of Portland (Oregon) earlier in the day, said
Nancy Corey, a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokesperson."
"The pilots, two of seven visiting from California, were part of an annual two-week training experience with the Portland-based (Oregon) Air National
Guard 142nd Fighter Wing, said spokeswoman Capt. Misti Mazzia."
"'We bring units that are different from us and fly and fight against them to keep our skills polished,' she said. Last year (2003), the 142nd
Fighter Wing visited Miramar Naval Air Station on a military training exercise, Capt. Mazzia said."
"An Oregon Air National Guard spokesman told the Associated Press that the planes were on a low-altitude training exercise. One of the dead men was
a pilot, and the other was either a pilot or a weapons operator, military spokesmen said."
"Marine spokesman Capt. Dan McSweeney in Quantico, Virginia said the incident was being investigated but did not release the names of the dead men
because their families had not yet been told of their deaths."
"The survivor, tentatively identified as Major Craig Bardon, was taken to the Mid-Columbia Medical Center in The Dalles, Oregon after he parachuted
to land on a hill to the west of Arlington."
The following day, Thursday, July 22, 2004, the National UFO Reporting Center received a report of a UFO in the region. The female eyewitness
reported, "Around 11:10 p.m., on July 22, my husband and I were out studying satellites on our front lawn" in Portland, Ore. "As I looked to my
right, I exclaimed, 'Oh, look! That is the lowest, biggest and brightest satellite we have seen.'
Right at that moment, the object darted off at a right angle and, within eight seconds, dimmed and was gone...disappeared out of sight. The object
was round in shape and lit up all around and had spike-type legs(approximately 5 or 6 of them) extending from the center of the object. It was not
like any of the other satellites we had seen that evening, and none of them shot off within eight seconds and disappeared."
Commenting on the incident, UFO Roundup editor Joseph Trainor said, "For years people have heard Air Force latrine rumors about the 'designated
hitter.'
On every military air patrol, at least one jet flies fully armed. This jet 'rides shotgun' on the flight and, if the flight encounters a UFO, this
particular pilot automatically switches to combat flight rules and attacks the ZZZobject."
"This may be what happened in Arlington. Look at the evidence that contradicts the 'collision' story. The survivor said he doesn't know what
happened. Witnesses on the ground reported two explosions. And that strange carbon-fiber whuttizzit fell out of the sky thirty minutes after people
saw the aerial fireball. All in all, this is one very strange airborne 'collision.'" (See the Tri-City Herald for July 22, 2004, "Two killed in
fighter jet collision in Gorge."