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was just right below the surface of the water, about 200 feet—the amount of pres- sure it would take would be equal to the Sun's force. We were dumbfounded. Then we got scared! Everyone started hearing a rum- bling noise and we knew it wasn't the engines running the platform bore. Everything shuts off when something goes wrong. Out of the west we saw what looked to be about 25 to 30 helicopters on manoeu- vres—not an uncommon sight. What was uncommon was that the rig commander came up and told us he had no alerts to any military manoeuvres from the Coast Guard that day. They usually alert us whenever they do these things in our vicinity. Another peculiar thing was that the heli- copters made no sounds. None. Zip! Then we all ran to the west side of the platform—about 250 of us, in all. The oth- ers were below sleeping; they have the night shift. Then we saw something that totally changed us! All of the helicopters stopped in mid-air, and something large— very large—surfaced beneath them. It was a huge metal object, about the size of our platform! It just came straight out of the water and straight into the air! It hovered over the helicopters for about two minutes—enough for us to use the tele- scopes to check it out! It was as large as about two football fields, concave underneath, with four large bulbous domes in the concave part of the bottom of it. It turned on its side and we saw that it looked like a huge flying cigar which was tapered at both ends. On the top of the thing was another concave indent that had lights circling within in—every colour you could possibly imagine! It was beautiful! We heard the soft rumbling all throughout the sighting. Then something amazing happened as we stood there in disbelief. Like someone turning off a light switch, it was gone. One second we were all looking through binoc- ulars, telescopes and through just our eyes. Hell, it was close enough you didn't need the devices! Then it was gone. I would say, in as fast as you could blink, or a light switch would turn on and off a light, it was mainland. We were sent on temporary leave by our bosses for what we reported, so that they could fix/repair/replace the bore on the rig. I'm back at work now, but I still look out at the ocean every chance I get! (Source: The Star Beacon newsletter, April 1998; Earth Star Publications, PO Box 117, Paonia, CO 81428-0117; web - site, www. galaxycorp.com/starbeacon. Subscription, 12 issues: US$20 in US; US$28 overseas.) CONTROVERSY CONTINUES OVER ARTIFICIAL LANDFORMS ON MARS s promised, the Mars Global Ax (MGS) once again turned its high-resolution camera towards the controversial landforms at Cydonia on 23 April and delivered a clear, well-lit image of the "Main Pyramid" and "City Square", two features of considerable inter- est to Cydonia researchers. However, the MGS camera failed to cap- ture the "Fortress" which lies slightly northeast of the main pyramid. After the "Face", the Fortress was the object of greatest interest to those who believe the landforms at Cydonia may be artificially constructed. Having now fulfilled a promise to make three imaging attempts over Cydonia dur- ing the month of April, NASA has no fur- ther plans to photograph the area until 1999. But NASA chief administrator Daniel Goldin told CNN science corre- spondent John Holliman that the MGS would, in due course, send back more pic- tures of the Cydonia region "until everyone is satisfied". Depending upon whom one asks, the new Cydonia images show nothing but obviously natural geological features; or they offer strong corroborating evidence of artificial structures; or they prove nothing one way or another. Professor Stanley V. McDaniel of the Society for Planetary SETI Research, one of the strongest proponents of possible arti- ficial structures on Mars, indicated in an essay posted on his website (www.mcdanielreport.com/) that the latest image of the City shows features that "appear consistent with a natural geologi- cal interpretation". Professor McDaniel pointed out that the four small mounds comprising the City Square, which in the 1976 Viking photo gone. The helicopters headed our way and passed us overhead, again never making a sound. We could see that they had absolutely no markings. Familiar with the stuff the military does around here, we knew they weren't military craft. Some looked like they were stainless steel, almost invisible; some were jet black. I counted 22. My best friend counted 28. Everyone had a different amount. We all also noticed that our watches were about 30 minutes later than what the time actually was when we got back to the PARANORMAL PHENOMENA AT Yt TH PaloRDERED “~~ Wa Lee _ BLéc NL POS ' Vie 4} ANIL et Ve ee =” on 64 * NEXUS JUNE - JULY 1998