Reported and Edited by Linda Moulton Howe
“The disc's bright light searched the desert soil that got so hot it actually bleached the soil white.”
- J. S., Mining Engineer and Pilot
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October 25, 2013 Los Cerrillos, New Mexico - Part 2 of mining engineer and pilot J. S.'s description of the close disc encounter he and his mining colleague had in the second or third week of July 1977 on Camino Querencia Road southeast of Los Cerrillos, New Mexico, about 25 miles southwest of Santa Fe.
– “I've never seen anything like this. And I've talked with other wildlife biologists who've seen large die-offs, and I've not run across anyone who has seen anything of this magnitude.”
– “It is probably really doubtful that hemorrhagic disease would be the cause because hemorrhagic disease is an infectious disease and would run a course through time before that many animals died and they wouldn’t die in such close proximity to each other”
- Kerry Mower, Wildlife Health Specialist, NM Dept. of Game and Fish
“The whole beach house shook.”
- Witness, Virginia Beach, Virginia
“This is weird. Where are the booms coming from? Sometimes it's like a train backing into another train.”
- Thomas Daniel, resident in Carytown section of Richmond, Virginia
No one can say for sure if what Nencetti and people along the Virginia Beach coast felt this morning really was a sonic boom. Residents around Hampton Roads and in northeastern North Carolina took to social media sites to report that they heard three or four loud booms.
The U.S. Geological Survey didn’t register anything this morning, but did receive reports from residents who heard the noise which some said was accompanied by shaking and came on the two-year anniversary of the 5.8 magnitude earthquake that was centered near Mineral.
September 8, 2013 Albuquerque, New Mexico - Since January 2011 when I received the first reports of bright flashes of light and loud, unexplained booms that rattle windows, garage doors and have even cracked sidewalks, I have produced more than fifty Earthfiles reports about the persistent high strangeness to date. See More Information below. The booms have come periodically and recently, I have received dozens of boom or metal crashing reports again of which a few are shared here in the hopes of learning more from other Earthfiles viewers and radio listeners. Ear and eyewitnesses, please email: [email protected]. All requests for anonymity are honored.
See mp3 audio interview below.
The ice wall containment method has never been used on such a scale before. The ice wall would freeze the ground to a depth of some 90 feet (27 meters) through a system of pipes designed to carry a coolant between minus 20 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit. The U. S. Department of Energy's former site at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee used an ice wall to contain plutonium waste, but only for six years. Building a nearly mile long ice wall around four nuclear reactor buildings is unprecedented.
“Something very unusual struck me. If these two lighter and brighter colored photo strips were left over from earlier satellite photos, their location would most likely be random and not related to each other. However, if you look at the jpeg of the area I have attached to this email, they are very definitely related to the dead cows!”
- Retired Naval Flight Officer Captain Mark Wood
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Updated August 12, 2013 Albuquerque, New Mexico - I emailed to retired Naval Flight Officer Mark Wood the Google Earth image and Lat/Long coordinates of the 3 dead pregnant cows sent to me by Haigler, Nebraska rancher Alex Peterson, Updated Part 3 of these Earthfiles reports. I received back the following email from Captain Wood with written permission to use on the record his full name and military background.