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suffer visions in the early part of the year, and the feminine voice of “‘the Virgin” promised a miracle. During the last week of March about 3,000 persons poured onto the island and waited. Some, including a university professor, a prominent obstetrician and an army major, reported seeing a circular object over the island. It whirled and changed through all the colors of the spectrum, they said. Others claimed that a brilliant glowing cross hovered over the island chapel.* A Lente nee faneale ftn.--~ 2-----~ Aan abe 2226 22.2 ML. wee A luminous female figure appeared on the roof of the Church of the Virgin in the Zeitoun District of Cairo in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, April 2, 1968. Thousands of people quickly gathered to view this entity. She has allegedly returned several times since and has been seen by many clergymen of the Coptic Orthodox Church, including Bishop Athanasius of Beni Suef. The Copts have even issued a formal declaration affirming their acceptance of this miracle. Is the news of these miracles being suppressed? Hardly. Newsweek reviewed the Philippine case on April 8, 1968, and the New York Times carried a dispatch from Cairo on the events there in its issue of May 5, 1920 1968. Six young Canadian girls, ranging from seven to thirteen years old, allegedly saw the Virgin Mary on the evening of Monday, July 22, 1968. They reported that a luminous entity appeared before them, hovering in the sky near St. Bruno, Quebec. Four of the girls saw the figure, but only two, Manon Saint-Jean and Line Grise, heard a voice which they de- scribed as ‘‘soft and slow.”’ It advised them to pray and promised to return again on Monday, October 7. Others in the area reported seeing unusual things in the sky that evening. One boy in neighboring St.-Basile is supposed to have called out to his father, ‘“Look, Daddy, there’s a man walking in the sky.” Among the many other correlations, you will note that the month of March has often played an important part in these events, just as March and April have always produced many of our principal UFO sightings. These religious manifestations are clearly a variation on the UFO mani- festations (or vice versa). The same methods of communication are being employed in both phenomena, and the UFO entities bear a marked resemblance to the religious entities. A Sure Cure for Alligator Bites / 239 * — There were several sightings of glowing, cross-shaped objects over England in the summer and fall of 1967.