Possible Chupacabra Sighting

LAST UPDATE: 6/13/2005 8:58:43 PM
Posted By: Walker Robinson

Another mystery beast has surfaced in South Texas, and some say it might be a chupacabra.

The first one surfaced in Elmendorf last year. Now, one man in Luling, east of San Antonio, tells News 4 WOAI he caught a mysterious beast on video tape.

Chris Coble says he and a friend were driving and saw the creature peer out from behind a bush.

“We were driving down the road and he'd seen it, probably about 30 yards off the road,” Coble said of his friend. They were in a wooded area up near Luling.

“It was three foot tall, hairless, long, and had like a hunch back,” Coble said.

He brought the videotape to News 4 WOAI. On videotape, the animal looks like it could be a dog or coyote, but Coble says it could be a chupacabra.

A rancher in Elmendorf claimed last year he found a mystery beast on his property. That animal was sent away for DNA testing.

News 4 WOAI went to wildlife experts about the newest claim about the animal in Luling.

“I really don't think it is a chupacabra,” Tiffany Soecthing with Natural Bridge Caverns Wildlife Ranch said of Coble’s creature. “I would lean towards a dog that has a hair problem.”

Soeching said she has seen animals like it before and Coble’s "beast" looks like a wolf hybrid.

Comment: (from Signs of the Times) I admit that I have never seen a chupacabra. Only in photos. The only thing even resembling a paranormal experience happened when I was young at Mardi Gras, but I think that was the alcohol. However, I have read John Keel's The Mothman Prophecies, and that scared the dickens out of me. Personally, I'd prefer not to have some trans-dimensional portal open up above my head dumping chupacabra's or other window fallers into my reality, but some folks say that we'll be seeing more and more of this kind of thing over the next few years. Who knows?

Meteor shower sparks calls to police

07 June 2005

A meteor shower was visible throughout New Zealand last night, prompting calls to police about distress flares.

Inspector Kristy Meates said 10 calls were logged between 7pm and 7.40pm in the central and lower North Island. More calls were reported elsewhere.

Callers claimed to have seen "greeny-blue flares", but distress flares are red. The reaction was similar to that on August 3 last year when people reported seeing fireballs. They were thought to have been from the Perseid meteor shower, associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle.

Carter Observatory's senior astronomer Brian Carter said meteor showers were uncommon in June but not unheard of. They were made up of space matter entering Earth's atmosphere.

Such events were spectacular to watch but held greater significance if people saw meteors landing on the ground - something which happened rarely.

Area man says meteorite hit his driveway

By Patricia Wolff
of The Northwestern
Posted May 22, 2005

WAUTOMA, Wisconsin - When something that looked curiously like a meteorite landed in Bill Hicks's driveway and left a sizable indentation, he wondered out loud if maybe it was meant for his neighbor.

"We live near Camp Phillip. Maybe God was trying to speak to them and he missed," Hicks mused.

Pastor Tom Klusmeyer laughed out loud when he heard that."We've got some neighbors who wish we weren't here. Maybe he's one of them. We sing and make noise and praise God. Some of the neighbors want peace and quiet," Klusmeyer said.

Camp Phillip is a ministry of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Church that caters year-round to children and families. Hicks lives about a mile from the camp on Buttercup Avenue west of Wautoma.

"I don't even hear them," Hicks said.

He definitely heard the rock that landed in his driveway about three weeks ago. It sounded like a big thunderclap so he didn't think much of it at the time.

"I got up in the morning and saw the hole and said, 'What the hell is that?'" Hicks said.

He filled the hole, which he estimated at about 2 feet deep, with cat litter, gravel and rocks so that his SUV wouldn't get snarled up when he tried to back out, he said.

Hicks and his roommate Larry Linde haven't shown the rock to any experts but they've asked someone from the astronomy department at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh to take a look at it.

"It definitely looks like pictures I've seen of meteorites," Linde said.
It measures about 4 inches by 6 inches and is reddish-brown in color.

Neither Hicks nor Linde would be surprised if the rock turned out to be a meteorite, they said. Other rare occurrences have happened on their property.

"We've been struck by lightning twice since I've been living here," Hicks said.

The same thing happened at the camp, Klusmeyer said.

But, a meteorite is more rare than that.

"You're four times more likely to get hit by lightning than a meteorite," Linde said.

'Fireball' lights up sky

18/05/2005 15:09 - (SA)

Helsinki - An exceptionally bright "fireball" was spotted late on Tuesday slicing through the sky over Finland before exploding over the country's border with Russia, the Finnish Astronomical Association (URSA) said on Wednesday.

The phenomenon was witnessed by dozens of people in the eastern part of the country.

"Our mathematicians have roughly calculated that the (fireball) began its decent over our eastern border and ended in an explosion over the Russian Karelia region," URSA newsletter editor Marko Pekkola said.

Closer calculations will be needed to determine the exact route taken by the "fireball", which was probably an incandescent meteorite, Pekkola added.