SUBJECT: UFO STORIES FILE: UFO487 PART - 11 Report #: 201 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 12-10-1986 Subject: WINCHESTER, KY CASE TYPE: LRS - NL DATE: 12 AUGUST 1986 TIME: 2100 TO 2200 HOURS CFN#: 0323 DURATION: UNKNOWN WITNESSES: MANY SOURCE: SUN, WINCHESTER, KY ------------------------------ Although authorities don't have any answers yet, an anonymous caller to the Winchester Police Department Wednesday may provide some clues to the cause of a bright flashing light and house-shaking boom many county residents reported Tuesday night. Clark County Sheriff Gary Lawson, whose department is investigating the incident, said the caller said "that he did shoot off a Class B fireworks left over from the Fourth of July... It was a rocket-type firework that could go one to two miles in the air and then explode." Lawson said the caller said he had the explosive in his home and was afraid to keep it there any longer and that he "didn't mean to alarm anybody." Several residents along the Flanagan Station Road said that between 9 and 10 p.m. Tuesday they heard a boom, like an explosion. Some saw a bright flashing light and others reported smelling strong odors, much like gun powder. Rumors began Wednesday that a meteor had fallen in the area, that an airplane had crashed or that a B-52 aircraft had caused the strange light and sound. It was reported that a meteorite or perhaps a piece of a Japanese satalite had been tracked by radar down the eastern coastline and into Clark County. People jokingly suggested that UFOs had landed or that the Russians were invading. Lawson and other members of his department searched the area in the southeastern Clark County on foot and covered a 40 square mile area by air, but could find nothing. "We were flying about 2,000 feet up and had a pretty good view, but we couldn't see anything unusual," he said. This morning the incident remained a mystery. ------------------------------ Report #: 202 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 12-10-1986 Subject: TALLADEGA, AL CASE TYPE: LRS DATE: 10 NOVEMBER 1986 TIME: UNKNOWN CFN#: 0324 DURATION: UNKNOWN WITNESSES: MANY SOURCE: DAILY HOME, TALLADEGA, AL ------------------------------ A red glowing light with a tail that flared across the sky in the southeast prompted searches in several states for traces of a possible meteor or other space object, but no remants have been found, authorities said Tuesday. The flashing light was spotted about sunset Monday over parts of Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi as it streaked westward, and aviation officials said it was probably a meteor. Maj. Walter Chipchase, a spokesman for the North American Air Defense Command, said the light was not believe to be a disintegrating rocket or satellite. "NORAD did not detect any rocket body or space debris re-entering the atmosphere," he said. Sgt. Ray Williams, a spokesman for Eglin Air Force Base in Fort Walton, Beach, Fla., also said no weather balloons or flights were launched from the base at the time the light was seen. Although authorities said the object likely burned in the atmosphere hundreds of miles from Earth, some local officials looked for fragments in fields and other areas where residents reported sightings. Joe Keltch, a deputy with the Rhea County Sheriff's Department in East Tennessee, said he scoured an area near Graysville where a caller told authorities something had fallen out of the sky. "We got a report that it might have been a piece of a plane," he said. "We looked around and didn't find anything." An area near Ducktown in the southeastern corner of Tennessee also was checked, but no debris was found, said Polk County sheriff's dispatcher Edna Wilcox. "So far, we haven't seen or heard anything," she said. Searches also were conducted in Fannin County in northern Georgia, Cullman County in northern Alabama and other areas as hundreds of calls were made to airports and local authorities but no one turned up any evidence of the object, officials said. "There were reports that it was a fireball falling out of the sky, a downed plane, a possible satellite explosion... or a shooting star" said Gene Jones, director of the Gilmer County (Ga.) Emergency Management Agency. "Apparently it was a meteorite entering the atmosphere." Curley Wainwright, traffic control supervisor at McGhee Tyson Airport in Knoxville, Tenn., said the light had "quite a red glow and a tail behind it" when he saw it behind some clouds. Other sightings were reported in eastern Mississippi around Meridian, Birmingham and Montgomery in Alabama and Morristown and Chattanooga in Tennessee. Jones said chances of finding any pieces of the object were slim. "A meteorite could be the size of a pin-point to a bowling ball," Jones said. "It's like trying to find a needle in a haystack. It may have landed on the ground, but where, God knows." ------------------------------ Report #: 203 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 12-31-1986 Subject: ANCHORAGE, AK CASE TYPE: RV * DATE: 17 NOVEMBER 1986 TIME: 18:19 HOURS CFN#: 0325 DURATION: 20:MINUTES WITNESSES: THREE SOURCE: UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL ------------------------------ ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A mysterious unidentified flying object with flashing white and yellow strobe lights followed a Japan Air Lines cargo jet across the Arctic Circle, the crew says. The three-man crew radioed air traffic controllers in Anchorage that a huge UFO was flying "in formation" with them and the Air Force briefly confirmed and object near the plane, said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Paul Steucke. He said the FAA in Anchorage and Fairbanks did not pick up the object. The incident occurred Nov. 17 but was not made public earlier. Flight 1628 had left Reykjavik, Iceland, flying over the North Pole to Tokyo with a stop in Anchorage. When it landed at Anchorage, FAA security manager Jim Derry interviewed the pilot, Co-pilot and flight engineer. When the report was made to the Air Route Traffic Control Center at 6:19 p.m., Steucke said controllers tried to find the object on radar but "were unable to comfirm a second target with our equipment." At 6:26 p.m. Steucke said the Air Force told the FAA it "saw a second target (object) 8 miles away (from the JAL jet) but they contacted us a mimute later and said they were no longer receiving any radar return (of a second object)." Steucke added, "At 6:32 the JAL pilot requested and received permission for a descent from 35,000 feet to 31,000." Air controllers asked if the lights were still there, and were told, "It is descending in formation." At 6:39 p.m.,20 minutes after the lights first reported, the JAL crew said it no longer saw the lights. At 6:45 p.m. Fairbanks controllers authrized a United Airlines northbound jet to make a 10 degree turn to better view the JAL plane and asked the United crew if it saw anything besides the Boeing 747. It did not. Nor did the JAL crew see the lights again. ------------------------------ Report #: 204 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 01-11-1987 Subject: HARRISBURG, PA CASE TYPE: CE I DATE: 1ST WEEK OCTOBER, 1985 TIME: 0515 HOURS CFN#: 0326 DURATION: UNKNOWN WITNESSES: TWO SOURCE: UFO INFORMATION SERVICE ------------------------------ Witness got up around 4:15 - 5:15 a.m. to go to restroom and saw an object over her home that covered five other homes as well. The object was huge, pure white and had no lights. The object was the shape of a saucer and rotating. Even though the object was bright (brighter than any object she had ever seen) it did not hurt her eyes to look at it. She had no fear and wanted to run out of her home and stand underneath the object but felt paralyzed. The object did return and her 12 year old son was able to see it. Since the incident she has had visions which she did not experience prior to the sighting of the object. ------------------------------ Report #: 205 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 01-11-1987 Subject: ANCHORAGE, AK CASE TYPE: RV - RADAR VISUAL DATE: 17 NOVEMBER 1986 TIME: 1819 HOURS CFN#: 0327 DURATION: 20: MINUTES WITNESSES: THREE SOURCE: UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL ------------------------------ FAA says UFO on radar screen was just a double image of jet United Press International ANCHORAGE - Federal investigators say a review of radar tapes failed to show a UFO shadowing a Japan Air Lines cargo jet, contradicting reports made by the crew and the air-traffic controller who handled the plane. The Federal Aviation Administration's examination of the tapes shows what appears to be a second object near JAL Flight 1628 on Nov. 17, but invesitgators now think it is a double image from the Boeing 747, FAA spokesman Paul Steucke said yesterday. On Dec. 29 the FAA releaed details of the UFO sighting, revealing the flight controller handling the jet saw an object on radar five miles from the plane. The Anchorage Air Route Traffice Control Center directed the crew to take evasive maneuvers, including a 4,000-foot drop and a 360 degree turn. Co-pilot Takanori Tamefuji, 39, said yesterday he did not know why the FAA first confirmed a nearby object and now dismisses it as an image of the 747. In his second interview with the FAA Tuesday, Tamefuji reiterated that he saw lights, and Steucke said, "The co-pilot's testimony supported the pilot's." Although the FAA is satisfied with the double-image explanation, the inquiry is continuing with interviews of the crew and a review of data, Steucke said. Steucke said the pilot, co-pilot and flight engineer have told the same story: Blinking yellow, amber and green lights appeared too close to their plane for comfort. The FAA says the controller apparently misinterpreted what he saw on his screen. But Steucke defended the controller's response, saying, "He had a pilot tell him he was seeing something right there. This is not something where he can take a risk even if it is a double image." The radar image seen in the JAL cockpit and by the controller also appeared intermittently on Air Force radar. Air Force spokesmen dismissed it as "random clutter." ------------------------------ Report #: 206 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 01-12-1987 Subject: WASHINGTON, PA CASE TYPE: CE I DATE: 6 JANUARY 1987 TIME: 20:10 HOURS CFN#: 0328 DURATION: 12:MINUTES WITNESSES: TWO SOURCE: PASU - STAN GORDON, DIR. ------------------------------ Two witnesses reported observing a bright triangular object in the night sky. They said the object was gold in color, with three bright red lights non- blinking, one in each carner. The witnesses stated, that the object hovered for approximately ten minutes before moving off to the north. ( PASU ) is still working on this case and more information will be posted soon. For more info call 412-838-7768. ------------------------------ Report #: 207 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 01-12-1987 Subject: ANCHORAGE, AK CASE TYPE: LRS DATE: 11 JANUARY 1987 TIME: 07:35 HOURS CFN#: 0329 DURATION: 30:MINUTES WITNESSES: THREE SOURCE: FAA ALASKA DISTRICT - PAUL STEUCKE ------------------------------ SPECIAL RELEASE: 2nd Alaska UFO Sighting ParaNet ALPHA and CUFON 01/12 Another Japanese Airlines crew has reported seeing an Unidentified Flying Object ( UFO ) over Alaska, according to the FAA. In a recorded announcement, Paul Steucke, Senior Federal Aviation Administrator for the Alaska District, said that on January 11th at approximately 7:35 AM, Capt. Kinju Teryaki, piloting a JAL 747 cargo plane from Europe to Anchorage, reported to the FAA Air Route Traffic Control Certer (ARTCC) that he saw irregular lights that "looked like a spaceship". The lights were, he said, "amber and white, and travelled from in front of him to below him, and disappeared behind him." The sighting was in two segments, the first for about 20 minutes, and the second occured a little later for approximately 10 minutes. Unlike the November 17th sighting reported by another JAL cargo jet, there was no radar contact by either ground or air-based facilities, "Steucke said". The FAA began interviewing both the captain and co-pilot upon their landing at Anchorage, he said. Steucke made the recording as an alternative to answering an unmanageable volume of phone calls,which have been pouring into the Alaska FAA district since the November 17th sighting was made public on January 1st. According to Steucke,the data from that sighting , voice recorder transcripts, radar tapes and interviews, are being sent to the FAA headquarters in Washington DC as are the data from the January 11th sighting. "The Federal Aviation Administration is not in the business of looking for or identifying UFO's", he said. "We are involved in investigating these reports because the lights violated our federal regulations, as humorous, as that may sound." Steucke's recording will be heard in its entirety tonight on KFYI AM 910, Phoenix, Arizona on the John Giese show, beginning at 1am. Giese will then interview Seattle Ufologist Dale Goudie, who is involved in the JAL UFO investigation. Mr. goudie will also be on CBS once again this friday night on CBS Nightwatch Jan 16/1987 concerning both sighting of the japanese airliners. ------------------------------ Report #: 208 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 01-18-1987 Subject: CALIFORNIA-OREGON CASE TYPE: LRS - NL DATE: 25 NOVEMBER 1986 TIME: 2022 HOURS CFN#: 0330 DURATION: UNKNOWN WITNESSES: MANY SOURCE: ARKANSAS GAZETTE, LITTLE ROCK, AR ------------------------------ ARKANSAS GAZETTE, Little Rock, AR - Nov. 26, 1986 Fireball not man-made, experts say Defense experts Tuesday eliminated "space junk or any man-made object" as an explanation for a mysterious meteoric fireball that streaked across the Pacific Coast. The object, sighted at 8:22 p.m. (CST) Monday, dazzled stargazers from the California-Oregon border to the Los Angeles area. "It looked like a long, green meteor but it lasted way too long, arcing across the sky toward the ocean, then it just blew up," Roy Jackson of Mountain View, Cal., said. "It wasn't space junk or any man-made object re-entering the atmosphere, and we don't track meteors," Del Kindschi of the North American Aerospace Defense Command at Denver said. "We heard about it but there weren't any satellites or man-made space objects entering the atmosphere at that time." (UPI) ------------------------------ Report #: 209 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 01-18-1987 Subject: CLEVELAND, OH. CASE TYPE: LRS - NL DATE: 26 OCTOBER 1986 TIME: 1800 HOURS CFN#: 0331 DURATION: UNKNOWN WITNESSES: TWO SOURCE: PLAIN DEALER, CLEVELAND, OH. ------------------------------ PLAIN DEALER, Cleveland, OH - Oct. 27, 1986 CR: B. Robbins/COUD-I Explosion over lake reported; search on Two Coast Guard boats searched last night for debris after two people said they saw an explosion over Lake Erie, off Euclid. About 6 p.m. a resident of Euclid high-rise near E. 260th St. reported seeing an explosion in the air over the lake. The woman said she saw smoke and debris falling into the lake. Coast Guard officials called Federal Aviation Administration controllers and airports last night to see whether any planes had been reported missing. None were. An official at the Cuyahoga County Airport in Richmond Heights also reported seeing a bright light descending from the sky about the same time, the Coast Guard said. ------------------------------ Report #: 210 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 01-18-1987 Subject: SARATOGA, CA. CASE TYPE: LRS - NL DATE: 14 OCTOBER 1986 TIME: 2015 - 2030 HOURS CFN#: 0332 DURATION: UNKNOWN WITNESSES: FIFTEEN SOURCE: MERCURY NEWS, SAN JOSE, CA ------------------------------ MERCURY NEWS, San Jose, CA - Oct. 23, 1986 Mystery lights return to Saratoga By Kathy Holub Mercury News Staff Writer A beautiful apparition has been glowing in the night sky over Saratoga, leaving viewers baffled and entranced. About 15 people, all agog, called Santa Clara County dispatchers on Tuesday night to report a mysterious bright red light that hovered in the sky from 8:15 to 8:30 and then dis-appeared. Dozens of callers described a similar phenomenon on Oct. 16, same time, same place. "It was very exciting," said Maureen Denton of Los Gatos, who watched last week's display during a break in her real estate class at West Valley College. "It was very bright, much larger than the lights you see on airplanes. At one point, something burning or flickering dropped from it. It was just a tiny little flicker that came down. We all went: `Oooh, what was that?'" No one seems to know. That includes Vicki Yauger of Saratoga, who spied the object Tuesday night while lounging with her husband in thier backyard spa. Yauger said the light appeared high in the northwestern sky, first moving toward them, then away. Through her binoculars, the apparition became a cluster of lights. "It was scary. When it started getting larger, it seemed to be coming down," she said. Yauger didn't see the object fade from view because she had just gone into the house. Her husband told her the light turned green and slowly disappeared. Spokesmen at Moffett Field Naval Air Station said nothing flew out of their airfield Tuesday that looked like that. And officials at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc said they didn't launch a thing Tuesday night. Ditto for Oct. 15. Other watchers of the night sky -air traffic controllers and astronomers at Lick Observatory - said they saw nothing unusual. ------------------------------ Report #: 211 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 01-24-1987 Subject: ARNOLD CITY, PA CASE TYPE: LRS DATE: 21 JANUARY 1987 TIME: 22:00 HOURS CFN#: 0333 DURATION: 3:MINUTES WITNESSES: UNKNOWN SOURCE: PASU - STAN GORDON 412-838-7768 ------------------------------ UFO Sighting report from PASU. AREA of report Arnold City, Fayette County,PA Witnesses reported observing a flying object. They described the object as very bright and said that the object was shaped like an oval. The witnesses said that the object had a red and blue glow to it. They also stated that the UFO or object had a tap-pered down tail another words a structure towards the back of the object. This case is being investigated by PASU. ------------------------------ Report #: 212 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 01-24-1987 Subject: GIG HARBOR, WA CASE TYPE: CE I DATE: 23 JANUARY 1987 TIME: 21:30 HOURS CFN#: 0334 DURATION: 3:MINUTES WITNESSES: THREE SOURCE: UFO INFORMATION SERVICE ------------------------------ At 9:45 P.M. the UFO Information Service in Seattle Washington received a report of a UFO sighting that took place at Gig Harbor, which is in the State of Wash. Three Witnesses reported observing a UFO Unidentified Flying Object. They Stated that they first noticed the object hovering over some houses. The witnesses said the ufo or object was oval shaped and said the color of the object was blue. They stated when the ufo left the area it went straight up and out of sight from them. They also stated that there was "no sequel to any movement that the object made". This could be the same object that was reported in Arnold, city, PA because the object in both cases was oval shaped and in both cases the object was blue. Interesting also is the duration in both cases of 3 minutes. ------------------------------ Report #: 213 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 01-28-1987 Subject: ANCHORAGE, AK CASE TYPE: CE II - RV * DATE: 17 NOVEMBER 1986 TIME: 07:35 HOURS CFN#: 0335 DURATION: 30:MINUTES WITNESSES: THREE SOURCE: AP - ASSOCIATED PRESS, NEW YORK ------------------------------ NEW YORK A Japan Air Liner pilot who claimed to have seen an Unidentified Flying Object over Alaska last Novenber was probably seeing an unusually bright image of the planet Jupiter, an investigator said yesterday. Philip Klass said astronomical calculations show that on Nov. 17, when the UFO, Jupiter was extremely bright and was visible precisely where the pilot reported that he saw the UFO. Mars was just below and to the right of Jupiter, and may explain the pilot's initial report that he saw two lights, Klass said. Klass, an editor with the magazine Aviation Week and Space - Technology and a longtime investigator of UFO sightings, said the pilot's claims that the object followed him as he made a 360 degree turn are contradicted by what he told fight controllers. John Leyden, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration in Washington, quoted from a summary of conversations between the pilot's and ground controllers in which the pilot reported losing sight of the object after completing his turn. The object then reppeared in a few monents, according to the summary. The pilot, Capt. Kenjyu Terauchi, was over Alaska en route from Europe, via Iceland, to Tokyo when he claimed to have sighted the object. ------------------------------ Report #: 214 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 01-31-1987 Subject: BELLEVILLE, WI CASE TYPE: LRS - POSSIBLE - RV DATE: 15 JANUARY 1987 TIME: 21:OO HOURS CFN#: 0336 DURATION: 06:HOURS WITNESSES: MANY SOURCE: AP - BELLEVILLE, WI ------------------------------ A Belleville patrolman's sighting of strange lights in the night sky is under investigation by a ufo study group, the police chief said monday. Officer Glen Kazmar reported the red, white and blue lights to sheriff's dispatchers who relayed the sighting to the Federal Aviation Administration Control Tower on Jan 15, police Chief Jack Pace said. He couldn't see what the lights were attached to, Pace said. He couldn't hear any sound. Kazmar was off duty Monday and did not answer his home telephone, but he told the Monroe Evening Times: when it was just stayed in the same place, and the bright lights, then I knew it was something that wasn't normal. Kazmar first sighted the lights about 9 P.M. and he and a passenger, Jeff Furseth, began studying them more closely about 3 A.M., Kazmar told the Times. They watched them untill nearly daybreak, when the lights disappeared on the horizon. The officer estimated he got within a mile of the lights, Pace said. Other reports of lights were received that night by sheriff's deputice in Dane and Green counties. The FAA tower in Chicago also said it was tracking a slowly moving object in the area, but made no radio contact with it. Actually, we we're not sure if what they were looking at on the their radar was what officer Kazmar saw, but it's possible, Pace said. Happenings in Dane County very closely correspond to a number of sightings in the Waukesha area and Kenosha County. Since Kazmar's sighting and news of it spread the six-oddicer depertment has received several calls about UFO's sightings, Pace said. None of the calls of other sightings resemble what Kazmar reported and Pace added he expects the reports to taper off. Other reports of sightings in near by countys have been reported to a study group. ------------------------------ Report #: 215 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 02-01-1987 Subject: SEWICKLEY HEIGHTS, PA CASE TYPE: CE I DATE: 21 JANUARY 1987 TIME: 2200 HOURS CFN#: 0337 DURATION: UNKNOWN WITNESSES: ONE SOURCE: PASU - DIR. STAN GORDON ------------------------------ UFO sighting reported 1-21-87. Object seen at 10 p.m. in Sewickley Heights, PA. in Allegheny Co. Object was seen about 50 feet above ground hovering near car. It was about four car lengths long, and wide as a single lane road. It was cigar shaped, with multiple lights and it made no sound. As it ascended into the sky it moved over four homes and then turned on a brillian spotlight. Witness reports that she felt some mental communication with the object. For more information call the hotline of PASU 415-838-7768. ------------------------------ Report #: 216 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 02-08-1987 Subject: SELMA, IN. CASE TYPE: CE I - NL DATE: 6 FEBRUARY 1987 TIME: 2145 HOURS CFN#: 0338 DURATION: 30: MINUTES WITNESSES: TWO SOURCE: NATIONAL UFO REPORTING CENTER ------------------------------ Two witnesses observed an oval shaped object 30 feet in diameter at an altitude of 50 feet for 30 minutes with no sound. The dogs in the area were very disturbed. The only color seen was a bright white light. ------------------------------ Report #: 217 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 02-11-1987 Subject: JOLIET, IL CASE TYPE: CE I DATE: 9 FEBRUARY 1987 TIME: 21:45 HOURS CFN#: 0339 DURATION: UNKNOWN WITNESSES: TWO SOURCE: NATIONAL UFO REPORTING CENTER ------------------------------ Two witnesses reported observing a Unidentified Flying Object. The witnesses said the object looked like a big egg or oval shaped object and stated it was as big as a small car. The witnesses stated that the object followed them for a long time going in front of them at times and then going back behind again. They said the object then followed them all the way home at which time they stop the car and ran in the house, the object then stop and hovered for a while before it left the area. the distance the object followed them was approximately or about 7 miles. The witnesses stated the colors coming from the object appeared to look to them like gold and white. The total duration is unknown. This case could be related to CUFON report #216 because the objects in both of theses cases were shaped like an oval or egg shaped. If anyone knows of any other cases like this please call the UFO Information Service in Seattle Washington at (206) 721-5035 Thank You !! ------------------------------ Report #: 218 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 02-15-1987 Subject: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO CASE TYPE: LRS * - POSSIBLE RV DATE: 16 DECEMBER 1986 TIME: DAYTIME CFN#: 0340 DURATION: UNKNOWN WITNESSES: MANY SOURCE: POST, HOUSTON, TX - Dec, 18 1986 ------------------------------ SEVERAL REPORT SPOTTING UFO IN MEXICO CITY Mexico City ( Reuter ) - Mexico City International Airport receiced dozens of call reporting an UFO Unidentifird Flying Object over the Capital Tuesday, the official Notimex News Agency reported Wednesday. The multi-colored object was making a faint buzzing noise as it rapidly circled the city before shooting off at high speed, witnesses said. There was no word on the object's shape or on how long it was visible. Notimex said the crew of a Pan American Airways jet also reported having seen the object briefly. The agency said there have been other sightings over Mexico City of unidentified flying objects in the past few years, one sighting in the same place Nov. 2, 1973 over the capital. ------------------------------ Report #: 219 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 02-15-1987 Subject: FT.MYERS, FL CASE TYPE: LRS - NL DATE: 27 NOVEMBER 1986 TIME: 22:00 HOURS CFN#: 0341 DURATION: 15:MINUTES WITNESSES: MANY SOURCE: NEWS PRESS, FT MYERS, FL ------------------------------ GREEN FLASH LIGHTS SKY ACROSS FLORIDA From News-Press Staff and Wire Services Residents from Southwest Florida to the East Coast og the state Thursday reported seeing a green flash in the sky that lasted approximately 15 minutes, officials said. Callers reported the sighting between 10 and 10:30 P.M. to the Collier County Sheriff's office, an official their said. The sighting was also reported in Charlotte County, a Lee Sheriff's Department spokesman said. A short time after the west coast sighting, residents of the east coast of Florida saw a flare and then heard an explosion, according to a spokesman for the U.S. Coast Guard office in Fort Pierce. Some people even reported a loud sound similiar to thunder that shook houses, the Coast Guard office reported. Unconfirmed reports from across the state said the green streak across the sky was a meteorite which may have landed in the Atantic Ocean. Officials from Patrick Air Force Base in Cape Canaveral could not confirm that the sighting was a meteorte, but said the matter would be investigated today. It was the second time in a week that residents along Florida's Atlantic Coast reported seeing a flash of bright colored light streak across the late night sky. Last Friday, a streak of light seen in the night sky from Tampa to Jmaica produced a similar effect and was apparently produced by debris from a Soviet rocket passing through the Earth's atmosphere. A resident in the West Palm Beach area described the Thursday night light as bright yellow, white another in the area said the light started out red, turned to blue, then pink and yellow. Mike Palmeriti, an astronomer in Malabar, saw the light between 9:30 and 10:00 p.m. He believed it was a "very strong flash of lightning." But Harold Povenmire, a professor at Brevard Community College and director of the Florida Fire Bill Patrol, said he is certain the flash of light was caused by a meteorite entering the atmosphere at 10:03 p.m.. He also stated the light was preceded by a sonic boom that "rattled things around quite a bit." ------------------------------ Report #: 220 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 04-02-1987 Subject: NEW STANTON, PA CASE TYPE: CE I DATE: 16 MARCH 1987 TIME: 17:36 HOURS CFN#: 0342 DURATION: UNKNOWN WITNESSES: MANY SOURCE: PASU ------------------------------ Witnesses reported observing two formations of Unidentified Flying Objects. Witnesses said at 7:36 P.M. Two formations of unidentified lighted objects were seen. Witnesses stated that they first sighted the unidentified objects at a high altitude then they said the objects started dropping to approximately 500 feet. No other information is known at this time. ------------------------------ Report #: 221 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 04-12-1987 Subject: LOYALHANNA, PA CASE TYPE: LRS DATE: 16 MARCH 1987 TIME: 23:15 HOURS CFN#: 0343 DURATION: UNKNOWN WITNESSES: ONE SOURCE: PASU ------------------------------ Witness reported observing a UFO Unidentified Flying Object through window. The witness stated that they saw a red flourescent elongated object. The witness said the object appeared to be approximately two feet in size or diameter. The witness stated that the object was seen moving very slow outside the window of a second floor. P.A.S.U. are now invesigating this case. New information on this case will be posted when it come in. ------------------------------ Report #: 222 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 04-12-1987 Subject: LATROBE, PA CASE TYPE: LRS DATE: 20 MARCH 1987 TIME: 18:30 HOURS CFN#: 0344 DURATION: 5:MINUTES WITNESSES: FOUR SOURCE: PASU ------------------------------ Four witnesses reported observing a UFO Unidentified Flying Object. Three witnesses including a pilot stated that they observed a solid black cigar shaped object. The witnesses said that the object hovered at a high altitude. They stated also that the object hovered in the same area for over five minutes. The total time of observation was five minutes. Also there were reports of strange underground sounds. This report is being invesigated by P.A.S.U. and new information on this case will be posted. ------------------------------ Report #: 223 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 04-22-1987 Subject: GLEASON, WI CASE TYPE: LRS DATE: 3 FEBRUARY 1987 TIME: 18:45 HOURS CFN#: 0345 DURATION: UNKNOWN WITNESSES: THREE SOURCE: JOURNAL, ANTIGO ------------------------------ Another in a series of recent UFO unidentified flying object sightings was reported in the Gleason area Thesday night. Three sister, Rhonda Chapman, 13, Rebecca Chapman, 10, and Tara Chapman, 9, of N8196 Highway H., Gleason, reported to Lincoln County sheriff's department that they spotted a UFO in the sky near their home about 6:45 P.M. The information was relayed to the Langlade County sheriff's department. The girls said they saw a large round object that was first yellow and white in color, and later changed to blue with red flashing lights. Sparks emitted from the object, the girls reported. ------------------------------ Report #: 224 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 05-10-1987 Subject: GAMBELL, AK CASE TYPE: LRS DATE: 17 MARCH 1987 TIME: 23:55 HOURS CFN#: 0346 DURATION: UNKNOWN WITNESSES: MANY SOURCE: TIMES ANCHORAGE, AK MARCH 20/1987 ------------------------------ Alaska National Guard officials in Anchorage Thursday reported that guardmen living in Western Alaska made reports of a half-dozen sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects complete with colored lights and spewing smoke. Most of the sightings were made a few minutes before midnight on Tuesday. Of the six sightings, one was dismessed as a Soviet helicopter operating off Big Diomede Island in the Bering Strait, according to Lt. Mike Haller, information officer for the guard. One of the other sightings from Gambell on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea - could describe an Air Force AWACS radar surveillance aircraft, Haller said. A guard member, relaying a report from another villager, said an aircraft appeared west of Gambell at about 11:55 p.m. The object had a black, round nose, he said, with an object on top of the fuselage. An AWACS aircrft carries a disk-shaped radar dome on top of the fuselage. But the Air Force, which operates two AWACS in Alaska, said neither plane was in the air that night. Staff Sgt. Frank Singleton said the planes were flying only day missions. Other descriptions relayed to Guard officials consistently described bright lights and clouds around the object, haller said. From Elim, on Norton sound, a villager desribed an object with "very bright aqua and blue-green lights" about the size of two football fields with egg-shaped clouds around it. The night sky was clear throughout the region. The sighting took place at 11:56 p.m. with the object spotted about 5 miles north of Elim. Three separate groups of villagers saw it traveling to the southwest, haller said. In Savoonga, a Guard member received a call from a neighbor at 11:50 p.m. He estimated an object larger then a jet was flying at 30,000 feet with two bright lights and smoke moving from front to rear. In Tununak, about 125 miles west of Bethel on Nelson Island, a Guard member described the object as a bright white light, such as an aircraft landing light as seen through fog. The sky was clear, however. The object was traveling from west to east over the Island and was estimated to be flying at 30,000 to 40,000 feet. The reports follow two visual sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects by the captain of a Japan Air Lines aircraft flying over Interior Alaska. ------------------------------ Report #: 225 From: UFO INFO SERVICE Date Sent: 05-12-1987 Subject: WAUKESHA, WI CASE TYPE: LRS DATE: 10 MARCH 1987 TIME: 22:45 HOURS CFN#: 0234 DURATION: UNKNOWN WITNESSES: ONE SOURCE: FREEMAN, WAUKESHA, WI 3/12/87 ------------------------------ Second UFO reported in city area. Waukesha - An unidentified flying object was spotted late Tuesday night by a woman on the city's east side in the same area a similar sighting was reported in November. The woman's husband reported the UFO bscause he said his wife was slighty embarrassed to talk about what she saw. The husband said as the woman pull into her driveway near the corner of Arcadian and Oakland avenues at about 10:45 p.m., she spotted a triangular object with red and white lights hovering in the air less than a mile to the northeast. The woman beeped the horn of her car to alert husdand, but by the time he got outside, the object was out of sight. A UFO matching the same general description, was sighted by a motorist in the area Nov. 24. "She's convinced it wasn't a plan or a helicopter, said the husband, who did not want to be identified. Area law officers and airports reported nothing unusual Tuesday night, and the Wisconsin National Guard and Army Reserve said they had no helicopters in flight in the area at that time. ------------------------------ ********************************************** * THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo * *****************************************************************************************************************