UFO Sightings: Indonesia Update

March 4, 2000
UPDATE:  Java, Indonesia

One of the disadvantages we have encountered here at Mystical Universe is the inability to read and/or understand different languages throughout the world. Fortunately, the Guest who sent us his UFO/Unusual Sighting report has taken the time to translate into English, the Jawa Post Newspaper article of January 26, 2000. We are including it here for your information.  IF ANYONE has additional data, or knows of more details regarding this MOST unusual happening, please contact me here at Mystical Universe. We need answers! Thank you.
Nancy, Director of Operations, Editor

TRANSLATION:
SAR) has found the ruin of KM Lintas Samudera that sank in the sea around the Cape Taipa, South-East Sulawesi (Celebes), on the early dawn of  Sunday, but they found no trapped passenger inside the ship. The ruin of the 15 GT  tonnage ship were found floating on the coastal area of Taipa and now has been pulled aside to the Metui Village. Said the Chief of Southeast Sulawesis District Office of Dept. of Transportation whom also the Coordinator of  SAR team, Ir. Mawardi Yusuf in Kendari this afternoon.

The KM Lintas Samudera sank on its way from Molore in the Sultra(South-east Sulawesi)-Sulteng(Central Sulawesi) province border to Kendari, caused by huge-hard sea waves. In the accident, 7 were killed, 42 were survived and unknown were missing.

According to Mawardi, the join SAR team helped by the local fishermen now keep trying to search the missing passengers by searching along the coasts and small islands where it assumed that the survivors could have landed. There's very little chance that the missing passengers would be found alive, because beside it is already more than 3 x 24 hours, the ships was not equipped with life jackets.

We don't know the certain number of the missing passengers in the accident, we even do not know the certain number of the whole passengers aboard that ships because the captain of the ship didn't have any passengers manifests. said Mawardi. But for now, the information of the number of missing passengers holds by the SAR team to be the basic of the search ,come from the survivors that confess that six of their familiy members who were aboard the ship still havent found yet.

Among the six missing passenger is the father, mother and sister of a child name Yana (6 years old). The fathers name was Awan (35), mothers was Siti (30) and sisters was Lilis (10), all came from the Pondidaha District, Municipality of Kendari. That poor little child is now being kept by the Children Shelter House belongs to the local District office of Dept. of Social. Many people of Sultra were touched by the accident and is interested to keep and look after the child, among them is the Commander of Kendaris Naval Base Col.(P) R Budi Hardjo.

Some survivors, most of them are transmigrants, of UPT III and IV in Hialu, District of Asera, Municipality of Kendari explain that beside the big-waves, the ship sank because it collided with some kind of strange creature.  I saw it myself, the ship was hitting something like a boat which have three beams of bright lights. People say that it was the giant octopussy, that according to people, there are many of them in the sea of Cape Taipa. Said Sukaryo, one of the survivors.

In the first month of the year 2000, this is the second accident of sunk ships. The first, in the early January, is the KM Mutiara in the sea of Municipality of Muna, that caused 7 out of 41 of its passengers were killed.(an/tim). That was my own free-translation of the news published in Jawa Pos on January 26,2000. Jawa Pos is the national newspaper that has the central office in Surabaya, East Java. Maybe you could look further for the news recorded by the local newspapers that closer to the location of accident.

Theres a big chance that my translation wasnt absolutely correct, because the lack of my English, but I try my best to give a picture of what the news tells us.
Thank you!