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ponderous objects when addressed, yet in flight their startling departures, sudden stops, and right-angle turns at high speed require them to be virtually massless."*° In recent decades a number of well-documented, and startling encounters with UFOs have further illustrated the paraphysical nature of UFOs. On December 17, 1996, scientists from the Atmospheric Sciences Department at Creighton University in Nebraska released video footage of a mysterious spherical object traveling at one one-hundredth the speed of light (1,860 miles per second) about 80 kilometers above the ground in western Kansas.*’ The videotape footage, taken on August 22, 1996, showed the object for about .003 second. In the six-frame sequence, the object can clearly been seen crossing upward and left across the field of view while retaining its shape and intense glow The incredible speed and angular momentum of the object was, according to researchers, impossible for a physical object! The object's fantastic flight pattern led Morris B. Pongratz, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, to state that "it is clearly something that does not have any mass, the angular speed is too fast to be anything at orbital velocity."** After only six video frames, the object disappeared from view and was officially categorized as unidentified. Regarding the footage, Dr. Dean A. Morss, assistant professor of atmospheric sciences at Creighton University, stated, "It's the first and only event of this kind photographed to my knowledge."*? Morss and his colleagues maintain that the ball's tremendous speed and apparent lack of mass eliminate any of the commonly offered explanations for unknown objects sighted in the atmosphere. A well-documented and fascinating UFO encounter occurred on the evenings of December 26 and 27, 1980, at Rendlesham Forest next to the USAF base at Royal Air Force (RAF) Woodbridge in Suffolk, England. According to military eyewitnesses a large, very bright "meteor" fell over the North Sea to the east of Woodbridge at 2:50 A.M. on December 26. Radar operators at RAF Watton in Norfolk registered an "unknown" flying object that moved toward the coast over the North Sea then disappeared in the vicinity of Rendlesham Forest. Security police at the eastern (back ) gate of the USAF activity on RAF Woodbridge saw light coming down from the sky into the trees. While approaching, their radios failed. The object would later be described in an official detailed letter by the Deputy Base Commander, Lt Col Charles I. Halt, as "metallic in appearance."”° It "illuminated the entire forest with a white light" and "had a pulsing red light on top and a bank of blue lights underneath. The object was hovering or on legs." The object maneuvered through the trees and disappeared. It "was briefly sighted approximately an hour later near the 1 1 back gate." The next night the UFO was seen again. Lt. Col. Halt was called from a formal dinner and took a team to investigate. Halt tape-recorded his own comments as he and the 4B THE MYSTERY BALL RENDLESHAM FOREST INCIDENT