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UFO group re-emerges in Sierra Vista by michael sullivan

Jessica Kaiser, the Cochise County section director of MUFON (Mutual UFO network), sets out literature Sunday at the Sierra Vista public library. (Suzanne Cronn-Herald/Review) herald/review

SIERRA VISTA – About three weeks ago, Pat Burgess of Sierra Vista noticed “a huge, bright light” hovering over Fort Huachuca. She’s sure it wasn’t the blimp that’s often tethered overhead. The light was too big and too bright for that. It was unexplainable.

Seeking explanations for such sightings and other paranormal phenomena, five people gathered Sunday afternoon in the meeting room at Sierra Vista Public Library to discuss UFOs and various celestial mysteries.

The Mutual UFO Network wants to hear their stories.

Burgess, a mature lady who says that she’s seen UFOs in Redlands, Calif.; Bellingham, Wash.; and near Vernon, British Columbia, Canada; has no doubt that what she saw twice recently over the fort – the second time with some friends – was an unidentified flying object. It was about 3,000 feet off the ground, towards the southeast, in front of the mountains, she said.

“It would flare up, and then dim down,” she said prior to the start of the biweekly MUFON meeting. “It was the size (from where she saw it) of an apple, then down to a quarter or half-dollar.”

Why do some people see UFOs and not others?

“I think they’re interested in certain genetic characteristics,” Burgess said.

“They are sometimes invited through meditation or prayers,” added Jessy Kaiser of Willcox, Cochise County section director for MUFON.

Burgess became interested in UFOs many years ago, after learning about accounts of alien abductions and missing time. At the age of 19, in Redlands, she believes that she had a missing time experience. She woke up in her bedroom feeling paralyzed, with a bright light shining through the window. Then, she remembers nothing until waking up again at 5:30 a.m., still paralyzed. She leaped out of bed and went to the next-door neighbors. “They said I was cold as ice, white as a ghost and shaking like a leaf,” she said.

What was that all about?

“I had no idea until later. I read about it (missing time episodes and abductions by space aliens).”

She still doesn’t know for sure, but that incident piqued her interest in paranormal phenomena and, like the others Sunday who responded to the meeting notice, she’s looking for explanations.

Kaiser will open the meeting room at 12:30 p.m. every other Sunday to discuss UFOs, dark matter, time travel, remote viewing and the ominous approach of the unseen planet Nibiru, among other subjects.

In a free-ranging informal discussion before showing a video Sunday, Kaiser explained what MUFON is all about, explained how to get more information on paranormal subjects and promoted the public-access TV show she puts on every other Friday in Tucson.

Called “The Cutting Edge,” the show is not on TV in Cochise County but can be accessed simultaneously online at http://accesstucson.org/whatsontv/watchonlive/, click on Channel 72. Real Player is needed for a live broadcast, which can be downloaded free in advance, Kaiser explained.

The next program, at 8 p.m. June 25, will feature Dr. Lynne Kitei, showing a video of the “Phoenix Lights.” The video will examine an event that occurred on March 13, 1997, when a mile-long V-formation of unexplainable lights hovered over Phoenix and was seen by large numbers of people and reported widely in the mainstream news media. The official from the Air Force explanation was that A-10 military aircraft had dropped flares.

Everyone in the room Sunday had some sort of UFO experience, they said, ranging from balls of fire seen by one man over Willcox and by another man over Montana during the 1970s to up-close-and-personal encounters of the third kind.

Kaiser said that she was visited in her room as a child by beings she perceives as from another world, and she regularly sees UFOS.

“They’re there. There’s no reason to deny them,” she said.

The visitors are not all lovable ET-type characters, she cautioned. Like many other aspects of life, there are good guys and bad guys. The bad guys are reptillians.

MUFON, Kaiser explained, is a “hard-core, science-related organization,” devoted to chronicling and studying UFO reports.

Among the materials available on an information table at the rear of the room were UFO sighting questionnaires, books on UFOs and other paranormal subjects, and brochures for the International UFO Museum & Research Center in Roswell, N.M. Some books and a video are available at the Sierra Vista Public Library and more videos are available at the Huachuca City Public Library, said Jackie Zandrews, a regular member of the Sunday group.

“Do your own research … Connect the dots,” Kaiser advised the group Sunday.

For more information, call 520-384-4266, or e-mail to jessykaiser@yahoo.com.

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