The video was 27 minutes long, and was shown to the mass media by Homer Duran Flowers.

"Approximately to 3:00 hours of Monday a call of a citizen was received who warned us of lights that were seen the east of the city, and when focusing the camera in that direction attracted this object perfectly," it related.

The film shows a round object is clearly defined, with a hoop in gray color and black circle to the center, turning, and at different moments becomes nearer then further away.

In Arizpe Branches a complex system of security cameras exists, that have a range of between 700 to 1500 m.s, with a powerful zoom lens and placed in strategically important points of the city, with an approximated value of $350.000, according to declarations of the Ing.. Ernesto Saro, President Municipal de Ramos Arizpe. The Director of Public Security, Ing. Homero Durán Flowers, declared that the video-operator managed to catch to one of the luminous objects that were reported via telephone, confirming that there was indeed observed shining points in the sky.

According to testimony of Ing. Roberto Rocha, Director of Projects of Telexpertice, basically what was observed in the video is a light source with special characteristics, since luminosity around the probable object is only perceived. Also he explained the importance of the long period of time that the object remained stationary. Taking into account the previous factors, Ing. Rocha considers that this event may have a strange origin.

The operator of Public Security, Brown Elsa, declared:

"We approximately received a call to the 2:50 a.m., was a commander, to say us that we showed ourselves to the window to see a very luminous star of colors and as to the 5 minutes we received another call and we came to observe by the window, was an object greater than a star... when noticing that it changed of colors we decided to focus it with the urban camera and we realized that was taking circular form, until we saw that it was a strange object."

Jaime Maussan exhorted the scientific community to analyz the video. Ruled out was that it can be a star or a conventional object, since the security camera used manual focus, according to his investigation. Also unusual was the central hollow in the image.

Maussan, after further investigation, added the following data:

a) The first telephone call was from Brown Elsa, operator of a commander of the police, and second it corresponded to a watchman's call while on duty.

b) Some members of Public Security observed the enigmatic phenomenon, and in this occasion, it was very distant and in another position, this fact reported the next day.

c) the filmed object is not semi-transparent.

d) Confirmed that the security camera used was focused manually.

e) The movements that are observed in the video are solely of the object, and not of the camera.

f) At several moments it is possible to see that the object inclines towards the sides, being shown a defined volume.

g) the white point that is observed in the images is a small spot in the lens of the camera, is not a celestial body. The probable object presented/displayed movements of expansion and contraction, accompanied by certain pulsations. He is advisable to clarify that some images are cuts of the original photograms, with the purpose of making closeups. Maussan concluded saying that at the moment there is no other logical explanation except a probable UFO from a cosmic short cut or dimensional doorway.

See the UFO Casebook's original report on this case

I was just informaed that this supposed UFO sighting was a commercial for The International Theater Festival in Sarajevo.

HBCC UFO Research Note: Rudolf Bosnjak wrote to UFOINFO, and John sent the sighting over to me. I had emailed Rudolf Bosnjak requesting more detail on the alleged event, but it appears for now no further details are available on this sighting at this time, Rudolf mentioned. Other than what is posted on Rudolf's webpage. There are photos of what appears to be a saucer shaped craft and footage on it. There is also a number of photos which appear to show where the alleged craft had landed, which was on a busy street. Three landing points allegedly appear in front of the peoples theatre in Sarajevo.

Also in the filmed footage people are pointing and running in the street, looking up at the large saucer shaped craft.

I guess I have to wonder, why we haven't heard more about this event. Also why haven't others come forward to tell of what they saw.

I will leave this up to you folks to decide.

I was out trying to take a few photos today, but the jets kept the sky very milky color most of the day so the pics are not too good. I'd take a few and go back in the house for a while and come back out and try again.

It was around 5:00 PM and I went back out, still milky color, so I took a few anyway. I heard a jet above me and knew it was laying a chem trail. As soon as I located it, the jet had already laid a line and left. So I took a photo of the chem trail he left, glad I did! If this is not a saucer type craft ,then I need to quit trying to catch one ,because I don't think I'll get one better than this.

Sending pics...let me know what you think...Larry

Again, some excellent photos, and this certainly is a saucer shaped object with what looks like a cupola.

A big thanks to Larry.

It was during the celebration of 25 years of Solidarity in the city of Wroclaw, Poland that the strange, flying object would make its presence known in the night skies.

The unknown object was clearly visible for five minutes. It then left the view of onlookers with great speed. This film is unusual to me in that the object appears to be semi-transparent. Take a look at this very interesting footage from Poland and see what you think.

This report received a great amount of interest bringing some 25,000 views to our site. The report and video also caught the attention of Channel 3 TV in Phoenix, Arizona.

Soon Rich was on the hotseat answering questions from news reporter Scott Davis. Rich, you did a great job!

The UFO Casebook is publishing the Channel 3 report here for your viewing and downloading in two parts.

Also featured in this film was Jeff Woolwine, a videographer and photographer from Phoenix, who showed some very similar film to Giordano's.

Additional info:

Channel 3 - Phoenix-Aired Wednesday October 5th, 2005

Interviewer is Scott Davis

Original interview was October 3rd, Monday for me and May for Woolwine's.

Scott Davis contacted me because of Jaime Maussan. Jaime usually does interviews for UFOs on the Mexico Channel 55 which is affiliated with Channel 3. The Humanoid videos are compared to Mexico's and of Jeff Woolwine's "Tadpole."

Jeff Woolwine lives 26 miles South of me and that's where this object may have originated from. South Mountain has petroglyphs carved into the mountain documenting these UFH's dating back over 1000 years. The indians used to believe it was their distant brothers visiting them and watching over them. Almost like guardians for them. Maybe that's what these are.

The specter of alien spacecraft hovering over the United States became almost a national obsession in 1947. That was the year the Air Force announced it had retrieved a crashed "flying disc" near Roswell, N.M., only to retract the statement hours later, saying the object really was a high-altitude weather balloon.

Official denials of the presence of strange aircraft did not stop a growing epidemic of UFO (unidentified flying object) sightings in the United States, however. And with the advent of the Atomic Age and the Cold War, newspapers around the country treated the subject with more seriousness than amusement. In 1950, an unlikely source tried to solve the flying-saucer mystery. My Weekly Reader, a current-events publication used as an educational supplement in many elementary schools, explained what UFOs were in terms that young readers could understand and assured youngsters they had no reason to fear flying saucers. According to reports that year from The Times-Dispatch and The Richmond News Leader, fourth- and fifth-graders in the area had learned from My Weekly Reader that flying saucers were real and easy to recognize.

"Some are raised in the middle like a pie. Others turn up around the edge like a saucer," My Weekly Reader said. They varied greatly in size, from a few inches to several city blocks, and produced no noise or fumes.

Some were built of a substance that dissolved slowly with exposure to Earth's atmosphere. "For this reason, the saucers disappear soon after they hit the ground. You probably will never find one." But in case one remained intact long enough to be discovered, it carried a label: "Military secret of the United States of America Air Forces." Flying saucers, My Weekly Reader said, were made in the United States.

Introduced in 1928, My Weekly Reader had such a reputation for truth and accuracy that a fifth-grade teacher at a Richmond school told The Times-Dispatch that her students accepted everything in the article as fact, as did she. The teacher said she "read it with her pupils, and . . . anything My Weekly Reader said must be true."

The author of the article was identified only by the pen name Tom Trott. The Richmond teacher said Trott's travel features were a favorite of her students, and in Trott's first article of the school year he had informed his young readers that he would be "going on a secret mission for the government." In the flying-saucer report, Trott said he had visited a major airport somewhere on the East Coast.

"The most exciting thing we have seen is 'flying saucers,'" Trott told the students. "For several years people in many parts of our country have claimed to have seen flying saucers. The government proved that some of these people were imagining things. However, I am now allowed to tell you that some flying saucers are real. They belong to our Air Force. They will some day be a big help to our country."

Eleanor Johnson, managing editor of elementary school publications for American Education Press, the company that published My Weekly Reader, defended the article.

"Our correspondent had one thought in mind, and that thought was to calm any hysterical fears some children might have built up from hearing too much talk about mysterious flying objects from other planets or deadly flying weapons of our enemies. . . . We are in sympathy with Mr. Trott's motive to overcome a deluge of humbuggery afloat in our land," Johnson said.

Johnson added that My Weekly Reader did not lie. "The staff is convinced that flying saucers most certainly are among this nation's experimental aircraft," she said.

Johnson referred to "similar reports on the so-called saucers printed in various periodicals over the last six months," but she did not cite specifics.

One reputable source that published a report on experimental U.S. aircraft six months before the My Weekly Reader article appeared was the news magazine U.S. News and World Report. Its April 7, 1950, edition included news of the secret development by the military of a disc-shaped aircraft that could hover like a helicopter and accelerate like a jet.

The magazine said the aircraft had been built in 1942 at the Langley Field Aeronautical Laboratory in Virginia.

Although military officials denied that such a craft ever had gone beyond the model stage, the magazine disagreed. "Top Air Force officials know where the saucers originate and are not concerned about them," U.S. News and World Report said.

In reporting My Weekly Reader's contention that flying saucers were real, The News Leader said the Air Force's official position continued to be that no UFO sightings it had investigated provided proof of anything unknown that posed a threat to national security.

The Air Force did not end its official investigation of UFOs until 1969, when it reached the same conclusion after examining more than 12,000 sightings.

Larry Hall is a Times-Dispatch librarian/researcher. Contact him at (804) 649-6076 or lhall@timesdispatch.com. Time Capsules features items from the archives of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and The Richmond News Leader. To learn more about past events in your community, try searching www.archivesva.com. For events prior to 1985, contact the News Research Library at (804) 649-6224 for assistance.

"It also had a big spotlight that was moving around. I don't think it was a helicopter because it sounded like a vacuum cleaner or a generator.

"Perhaps it was a weather balloon. It was very noisy, and it would have woken everyone in the area. It woke me at 2.30am and my husband and I watched it for half and hour.

"Just as he went to get his camera it headed off to South Hill Park and was out of sight -- but we could still hear it."

Midweek's sister paper the Bracknell News was invaded with calls of an extra-terrestrial nature over the summer as UFOs flocked to observe the town. Nowhere in Bracknell Forest was left out of the spacemen's tour, with the paper reporting sightings at the Coppid Beech Hotel (July 7), Birch Hill (July 14), Crown Wood (July 19), Binfield and College Town (July 28) and another in Binfield (August 30).

The News also interviewed local man Terry Walters, who claims he was operated on by aliens in the 1960s and has alsoexorcised a borough councillor's home. Since then alien visitors seemed to have flown south for the winter, but it appears they are once again spying on the town's residents.