September 6, 1999 Welcome back to Joe Trainor and UFO Roundup! --Paul B. Thompson, Nebula Editor, PSCPPol@aol.com    Two Metallic UFOs Fly Over Brazilian Beach  UFO Hovers Over Town in Northern Portugal  Dead Egyptian Revives in the Morgue  Attack of the Giant Turtles: The Adventure Continues... Two Metallic UFOs Fly Over Brazilian Beach On Wednesday, July 7, 1999, "two metallic yellow OVNIs" (Portuguese acronym for UFOs-J.T.) were spotted while flying over Praia da Baleia beach on Ilha Bela in the South Atlantic, off the coast of Sao Paulo state. According to Diario de Grande ABC, "the objects had a strange metallic yellow color and were coming from the ocean" at a height of "about 20 meters (66 feet). They had no wings and made no sound." Brazilian UFOlogists are investigating the sighting. (See the Brazilian newspaper Diario de Grande ABC for July 8, 1999. Muito obrigado a Thiago Luiz Tichetti por eso caso.) UFO Hovers Over Town in Northern Portugal On Saturday, July 10, 1999, a silvery UFO was seen hovering over Rojas, a tiny town in the rugged mountains of the Tras os Montes region of northern Portugal. "There were a lot of witnesses to this sighting," a resident reported. "They say it was kind of like a silver ball with a black or navy-blue stripe at the center. They had it in view for over five minutes." Rojas is about 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Mirandella, site of last year's big UFO sighting, and about 270 kilometers (164 miles) north of Lisboa, the national capital. (Muito obrigado a Guillermo Alarcon por eso caso.) Editor's Note: The Tras os Montes area was also the site of a weird sheep mutilation case back in the spring of 1997.) Dead Egyptian Revives in the Morgue According to the newspaper Al-Akhbar of Cairo, "a man pronounced dead from drowning off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt, regained consciousness after spending three hours in a morgue refrigerator." "Ali Abdel-Rahim Muhammad, 32, an Arabic teacher, said the last thing he remembers is having a dizzy spell and seeing a vision of his mother's face while swimming at the beach on Monday," August 9, 1999. Muhammad "was awakened by a loud bang and unfamiliar voices." "'I found myself locked inside tight walls of metal and whispers of people I didn't recognize,' Muhammad said." "He grabbed the hand of an attendant who was trying to close the refrigerator drawer in the Alexandria morgue. His firm grip sent the attendant and a family who had apparently come over to identify the body of a loved one scurrying out of the morgue, yelling, 'Help us!'" (See the Minneapolis, Minnesota Star-Tribune for August 11, 1999, page A-3, "'Drowned' Egyptian awakens in morgue.") Attack of the Giant Turtles: The Adventure Continues... "An ancient sea turtle, nearly half the size of a full-grown steer, was rescued near the Verrazanno Narrows Bridge" in New York City's harbor on Tuesday, August 10, 1999. "Coast Guard officers who rescued the turtle, estimated to weigh 600 pounds and to be nearly a century old, spotted it Monday," August 9, 1999, while making an inspection tour of the oil tanker M/V Loucas, out of Nicosia, Cyprus. "The turtle had snagged its left fin on a line attached to a lobster cage near the bow of the tanker and was weak from trying to keep afloat with one free fin." "'This is an unusual case,' said Coast Guard officer Don Wagner, who said the Coast Guard chose to return the animal to the sea rather than take it to an aquarium." "'It has been doing well for 100 years, so it was better to let it go,' said Wagner." (See the Chicago Tribune for August 11, 1999, page 6, "Snagged by ship's line, giant sea turtle is rescued.") Join us next time for more UFO and paranormal news from around the world. With any luck, we might be able to get our "From the UFO Files" feature section up and running again. Until then, have a great week! UFO ROUNDUP Volume 4, Number 17 Editor: Joseph Trainor, Masinaigan@aol.com © Copyright 1999 by Masinaigan Productions, all rights reserved. Nebula: UFOs & Extraterrestrial Phenomena The ParaStore: UFO Books & More UFO message board: Share your views