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- The summer of 1999
saw the return of flying triangular formations over
Israel and as
always, their appearance was greeted with video cameras to
solidly
document them. With the media uninterested in the phenomena, it
is
Israel's old guard of skywatchers who made certain that the aerial
invaders
were captured on film.
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- Take July 22, as
a case in point. This was the evening of Tisha B'av,
a sad Jewish fast
day, recalling the destruction of the Second Temple by
the Romans. The
triangular craft was first spotted in the north of the
country at 7:30
PM, sundown, in the cities of Tsfat and Yokneam. It was
videotaped in
both places. Then the phone network went to work. Rafi Malka,
a
professional photographer who, in 1988, videotaped Israel's first UFO,
over Haifa, was told of the triangle. He managed to tape it from his home
in Ashdod and earned the distinction of being the first Israeli to
videotape
two separate UFOs.
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- He phoned his
nephew Doron Cohen in Yavne who spread the word in that
city. Among
those he contacted was professor Rami Shkalim, who produced
an
absolutely brilliant videotape of the craft. He was one of over two
hundred people in three groups viewed the craft in Yavne until it
disappeared
at approxomately 12:30 AM. But he was the only one to have
just purchased
a Sony 320 zoom video camera, essentially professional
equipment.
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- I drove to Professor Shkalim's home and
watched his film. It ranks
as one of the most exciting in Israel's
brief UFO history, and that is
no mean accomplishment. For ten minutes
we see a craft with two silvery
lights, both surrrunded by a perfectly
circular red aura twice their size.
Then the craft seems to turn and we
see a tiny third light to the left.
Then it seems to turn again and we
have a triangle of lights. Then the
craft becomes two lights, which
emit spirally turning lights, like twisting
fireworks, before the craft
disappears to the west. During the night the
craft traversed an oval
shaped path in the upper northern sky.
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- Dr. Shkalim
is some witness! He has a PhD in both physics and philosophy
and is
currently a professor of Kabbala at Bar Ilan University. And he
took
the courageous step of going public with his videotape. He called
the
popular television morning news program, Goof Morning Israel, and
volunteered
to present his tape on camera. He appeared with the
Israeli establishment's
prime debunker, Prof. Ariel Cohen and tore him
apart with the solidness
of his evidence. Cohen, meanwhile was more
ignorant than usual. In a classic
statement of perverted misknowledge,
he claimed that, "In 1947, the
first UFOs were seen by Arnold
Palmer."
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- It was a media triumph for Prof.
Shkalim, and by its end the program's
host chided Cohen, telling him,
"This film is too weird to be written
of as a planet or anything
else we know."
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- The fact that the UFO appeared
nationwide on Tish B'av follows the
pattern of major incidents falling
on Jewish holy days. Without going into
the details of each encounter,
(they are summarized with photos at http://members.tripod.com/~ufoisrael),
the Shikmona Beach incident occured on Rosh Hashana evening, the Kadima
sightings were on the Sabbath, the crop formation at Tel Adashim was also
formed on Rosh Hashana evening, while an even more spectacular formation
at Bet Zarzir was formed on Passover evening. Israel's most documented
UFO incidents occur with undeniable regularity on Jewish holy evenings
and the latest Tisha B'av sighting has convinced many local observors that
this can no longer be dismissed as accidental.
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- On
August 27, ufologist David Ronen was skywatching as usual and spotted
a
triangular UFO over Tel Aviv. He quickly phoned Gil Bar and told him,
"The craft is heading towards Rishon Letzion. Get your camera."
Gil rushed to his roof and managed to film the craft before his camera's
batteries gave out. He only had two minutes to work with but it was
enough.
Gil captured precisely the same triangular UFO that Adrian Dvir
and his
group of "alien healers" had filmed the October
before over Rishon
Letzion.
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- In November 1997,
fifteen year old Gil filmed a UFO over downtown Rishon
Letzion being
chased by an earthly plane in broad daylight. Now he, like
Rafi Malka,
joins the elite club of Israeli skywatchers who have filmed
two
separate UFOs.
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