From fwestra@... Fri Jan 31 10:30:31 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: fwestra@... X-Apparently-To: mysterylights@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_4); 31 Jan 2003 18:30:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 76304 invoked from network); 31 Jan 2003 18:30:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 31 Jan 2003 18:30:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rhea.tiscali.nl) (195.241.76.178) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 31 Jan 2003 18:30:30 -0000 Received: from xs195-241-213-47.dial.tiscali.nl (xs195-241-213-47.dial.tiscali.nl [195.241.213.47]) by rhea.tiscali.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A836424A6; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 19:30:24 +0100 (MET) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cc: Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 19:30:24 +0100 X-Mailer: Net-Tamer 1.12.0 Subject: Fwd = UFO-spotters make beeline for Loch Ness X-Mailreader: NTReader v0.37w(P)/Beta (Registered) Message-Id: <20030131183024.7A836424A6@...> From: Frits Westra X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=196822 X-Yahoo-Profile: parodynl Forwarded by: fwestra@... (Frits Westra) URL: http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news.asp?storyvar=5942 Original Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 02:04:31 -0800 ========================== Forwarded message begins ====================== 31 January 2003 UFO-spotters make beeline for Loch Ness VISITORS from another world are creating an out-of-season tourist invasion at Loch Ness. After the Inverness Courier revealed unexplained lights had been seen and filmed on successive nights in the sky over Drumnadrochit, UFO research groups and individual enthusiasts from around Scotland announced plans to head to the area to carry out their own investigations. Former Royal Navy submariner Lee Close, of the Anglo-Scottish UFO Research Agency, was one of the investigators who contacted the Courier to appeal for more information on the sightings. Mr Close, whose group is currently researching 17 UFO sightings in the Fife and Dundee area, now wants to investigate the Loch Ness sighting. Some of the people involved with me have 20 to 30 years experience of sightings, he revealed. All details we receive are treated confidentially and we will approach other groups to help if we need them. It is the same level of service you would get if you went to a professional investigator. At the end of the day, people want to know what they are seeing, he added. Another UFO devotee linked the Drumnadrochit sighting with a UFO spotted in the English Midlands. They have made contact its about the first human clone, he claimed. Unfortunately for alien-seekers, a local expert believes he has a solution to the mysterious lights which is literally more down to Earth. John Dijkslag, who has a PhD in astronomy and lives in the Croy area, is certain the lights have nothing to do with extra-terrestrial visitors and instead owe their origins to the geology of the Great Glen faultline. Its a light show by Mother Earth, Mr Dijkslag told the Courier. It is a geographical-related phenomenon. Its the result of stress propagated by a fault line. He is convinced the explanation for the lights is Tectonic Strain Theory (TST). This involves the release of energy as a result of stress along geological faultlines, a phenomenon Mr Dijkslag has investigated in the Netherlands. In comparison with the faultlines present in the part of Holland where we did our research, this faultline is enormous. I believe its one of the longest faults known to this planet, Mr Dijkslag said. There is a strain through the faultline which is compatible with an elastic band. It could be caused by volcanic activity, but water can cause it too and a lot of water has gone down there in the last few months. The light is actually highly charged electric energy. From the work I have done, the lights originate in the faultline in the middle of the loch. Similar lights were seen above the Kessock Bridge in December 1990. Mr Dijkslag now plans to give a lecture on the phenomenon in Drumnadrochit Village Hall. editorial@... ========================== Forwarded message ends ========================