March 21, 2000 Dallas, Texas - After hearing my radio reports about the mysterious fires southeast of Little Rock, Arkansas first reported on March 9, 2000, a listener in The Colony north of Dallas, Texas sent me an e-mail that began:
March 16, 2000 Scott, Arkansas - The mystery of unexplained fires about 25 miles southeast of Little Rock, Arkansas might actually be related to a fiery bolide that apparently came down and evaporated north of Austin around 8:30 PM CST, March 9th. I interviewed one eyewitness from Cabot, Arkansas today who wishes to remain anonymous, but told me, "It was 8:25 p.m. We were on Stagecoach Road and Highway 38 outside Old Austin. We started driving down the road heading home and I looked over at my husband and right there to his left, I could see out of nowhere running parallel with us on the road was what we thought at first was a small airplane on fire."
March 16, 2000 Conroe, Texas – Recently I talked with Dr. Jeff Meldrum, an anatomy and anthropology professor at Idaho State University in Pocatello who has examined at least 100 casts of alleged Sasquatch footprint casts. He has also collaborated with Police Officer Jimmy Chilcutt of Conroe, Texas who is a crime scene investigator and latent fingerprint examiner for the Conroe Police Department. Officer Chilcutt was so impressed by three of the casts he studied that he told Field and Stream magazine in January, “I can assure you there’s an animal up in the Pacific Northwest that we have never seen.”Click for report.
February 27, 2000 Laurel, Maryland - A human machine is orbiting an asteroid for the first time in known human history. It's a NASA satellite called NEAR for Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous. NEAR moved into orbit around an asteroid called 433 Eros on February 14th. At first the NEAR satellite was photographing at a range of 210 miles. But this past week on February 23rd, NEAR moved into about 130 miles from Eros. The satellite will keep getting closer to the asteroid over the next 12 months until its mission is completed in February 2001.
"I guess it's the equivalent of striking oil. It was enormously exciting. It was unbelievable."
- Tasios Melis, Ph.D.
Plant and Microbial Biology
University of California, Berkeley
February 25, 2000 Berkeley, California - The journal, Plant Physiology, reported in February 2000 that for the first time scientists at the University of California, Berkeley and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado, have been able to trigger a metabolic switch in algae to turn sunlight into large quantities of hydrogen gas. A joint patent on this new hydrogen production technique from plant photosynthesis has been filed by the two institutions.
February 21, 2000 Phoenix, Arizona - Another unusual aerial object was seen in the sky over Phoenix by a family of three on June 28, 1999 and now they are coming forward in hopes that someone else might have seen the object, too. Dan Heaton, his wife Lorraine and their 30-year-old daughter, Kim, were driving home at 10:20 PM when Mr. Heaton first noticed a diamond or square pattern of lights coming so low that he pulled the car over and asked his wife and daughter to get out and watch with him. Dan has worked for the same insurance company for twenty-nine years and had U. S. Air Force training when he was younger. He told me, "I know planes and I generally know what we have, but my family and I had never seen anything like this before."
February 16, 2000 Baltimore, Maryland - It looks a bit like a 25 mile long, five mile wide potato. In one photo, it even resembles a Dutch shoe. Called 433 Eros, it's made out of iron and magnesium-bearing silicates and is now the focus of a NASA satellite called NEAR, Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous. NEAR moved into orbit around Eros on February 14 and will stay there for the next year. Eros is one of the biggest asteroids in our Solar System circling between the earth and Mars. It's almost twice the size of Manhattan, measuring about 25 miles long and nearly five miles wide.
February 6, 2000 Everett, Washington - January 6th was a new moon, a night without moon light. The two previous evenings leading up to the new moon were nearly as dark. And yet, a husband and wife driving along a rural Snohomish, Washington road thought they saw the biggest, brightest full moon they had ever seen low over the Snohomish River. Back in the 1970s, many eyewitnesses throughout the United States, Canada and other parts of the world reported seeing "full moon"-sized glowing spheres hovering over rivers, farms and ranches. One area that has long had such reports, coupled with Sasquatch sightings and unusual animal deaths referred to as "animal mutilations," is Snohomish, Washington in wilderness country northeast of Seattle.
