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THE TWILIGHT ZONE 3,000 in the USSR 1,000 in the rest of Asia 500 in Europe We are still awaiting the figures from the sixth time, hurting his ankle. The seventh blow from above hit dropping out of the clear sky. Edward Garnham said: 'It exploded twice in mid-air, dived towards my house and hit the ground, where it exploded in flames, wrecking my garden and greenhouse.’ Police investiga- tion established that it was a wartime Sullivan on June 25, 1977, while he was fishing. He required hospitalisation for stomach and chest burns on that occasion. Australia. Interesting note: I asked Jenny Randles during the UFO Conference in Sydney just what percentage of sightings she thought were reported. The answer was 10%. Personally, I think it is even less than that. I get a lot of people tell me of their sightings or experiences, and the first thing Task them is - did you report it to anyone. No-one I have spoken to has ever reported their experience, many not even to their own family! Back to the report: Data from Paul Ferrughel of the National Sighting Research Centre indicates that you are most likely to see a UFO between 9 and 10pm during January. For the five year period of 1986-90, January, followed closely by October, was the peak month. June was by far the lull month, with February, March, April, May and December being strong months. Though he was never able to explain his peculiar attraction for lightning, Sullivan once said that he could actually see the 4-4. defence device, of the ‘aerial mine’ sort and made in 1942. Where had it come from? bolts as they headed for him. Sullivan took his | own life at 3am on the Well, wherever it came from, it had been there since >it Wi fired into the air between morning of September 28th, 1983. Two of his burned Ranger hats now reside in Guinness World Exhibit Halls in New York iv) Japanese Treasure Troves For the second time in 5 days, a man hunting for bamboo shoots found a bag containing 100m yen ($1,000,000) in the same bamboo thicket near Tokyo. The total haul, according to the Guardian, was over $2 million. The money turned out to belong to Kazuyasu Noguchi, a company presi- dent. Rather than pay tax he had left the money in the bamboos hoping that whoev- er picked it up would donate it to charity! City, and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. (Source: Charles Berlitz's World of Strange Phenomena, Vol.1) FROM THE BEST OF FORTEAN TIMES... i) The Exploding Cat Peppi, a cat adored and spoiled for eight years at Anmer Lodge old folks' home in Stanmore, London, went for his usual nap on a chair in the day lounge. "There was a terrific bang and a flash and he flew sever- al feet into the air", said Mrs Irene v) Coffin Coma When a tyre burst in 1977, the hearse carrying Gerry Allison to his funeral on the outskirts of Los Angeles overturned and crashed tail-first into the front window of a McSweeney, the deputy. Some believed Peppi was enveloped in a ‘blue flame’. Firemen, called to investigate, could find no obvious cause for the blast, and blamed "a build up of static on the cat's fur." If that is so, why hadn't it happened before? ROD rival undertaker's parlour. The hearse doors burst open and flung the coffin through the window. Deve de dae ee Roy Cleveland Sullivan, a retired forest ranger from Waynesboro, Virginia, was known as the Human Lightning Rod because he had been struck by lightning seven times in the course of his thirty-six Bystanders were astonished to see Allison, dressed in white burial robes, step- ping out of the shattered glass. The crash had brought him out of a coma which doctors had mistaken for death. ii) Raining Frogs Falls of pink frogs on __ the Gloucestershire town of Stroud were year career. The first strike in ’42 caused the loss of the on a big toenail. Twenty seven years later a second bolt of lightning burned his eye- brows off. The following year, in 1970, a third bolt seared his left shoulder. vi) You wooden believe it! Occasionally, someone splits open a tree and finds a frog, or even a fish, inside. Of course it's impossible, but it does happen... *December 21, 1865: Angus MacDonald cut down a white ash tree and on splitting it found a live frog embedded in the wood. The tree was about 45cm in diameter,a and perfectly sound; the cavity in which the frog had been enclosed appeared as if carved out to hold the creature. recently reported. The original report appeared on 24th October 1987 (Daily Mirror and Daily Star), saying that an unnamed elderly lady had reported to the Gloucestershire Trust for Nature Conservation (GTNC) that 'tiny rose-coloured frogs' had fallen during recent torrential rain. In 1972, after a fourth bolt set his hair on fire, he began carrying a carton of water around with him in his car. On August 7th, 1973, he was driving when a bolt of light- ning came out of a small low lying cloud, hit him on the head through his hat, set his hair on fire again, knocked him ten feet out of his car, went through both legs, and knocked his shoe off. Sullivan poured the water over his head to cool off. iii) A Bomb out of Time A man working in his garden in Athelstan Rd, Bittern, near Southhampton, looked up to see a five-foot cylinder on an unopened parachute and trailing wires * May 30, 1905: A toad quickly died after its liberation from an oak tree split hoen borer NEXUS - 48 1942 and 1945. No one will ever know. Published by Allen & Unwin, Dec '91. THE HUMAN LIGHTNING On June 5, 1976 Sullivan was struck for open by fellers in Norfolk, UK. YEAR BOOK - JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1992