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HUGE UFO EMERGES FROM SEA NEAR OIL RIG The UFO was sighted for 30 minutes. Photographic record? Yes Did you experience any effects, i.e., loss of time? Yes. All our watches showed 30 minutes late. Weather and conditions: Windy weather, cold. Daylight. don't know if my time was right. Everyone else's watch stopped ticking as well, with various times. As I and about 20 other men neared our stations to perform the daily greasing and releasing routine, we stopped cold in our tracks. The bore that drills the hole into the ocean floor was bent like a toothpick into a V shape. We looked at the underwater cameras to recheck what our eyes saw and we couldn't believe. First off, this bore is 140.65 feet thick, made of solid steel. Nothing can bend it, let alone something on the ocean floor— and it wasn't even on the ocean floor! It he following report was posted on the Internet by Ben Field of UFO Updates, Toronto, Canada, on 14 January 1998, and was reprinted in the April 1998 issue of The Star Beacon. Jeremy Packer's description of this UFO sighting follows: Thad just woken up for our daily routine on the rig. Our sleeping quarters were below sea level, so we all had to trundge [sic.] up to the main core housing to start work. It was about 7.58 to 8.00. My watch stopped ticking at 7.58, but I Permission to publish report: Yes Name: Jeremy Clark Packer Age: 32 Occupation: Engineer Date of sighting: Monday, (?) December 1997 Time of sighting: 8:00 am Location of sighting: Corpus Christi, Texas Description of area: Oil platform, 30 miles from shore off Gulf of Mexico. No land masses, no clouds, heavy wind, several liners. 500-manned rig. Other witnesses? Yes Relationship of witnesses: Co-workers The UFO was sighted in or near water. The UFO was sighted in or near an air route. The height of the UFO from the ground was about 280- 300 feet above sea. Noise information heard during the sighting: Rumbling sound for most of the sighting. Our watches stopped working! ee | ke = a ae, r= —_ A ys os s JUNE - JULY 1998 NEXUS - 63