From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 03-02-1986
  Subject: NASSAU COUNTY, NY

CASE TYPE:   CE I - NL
     DATE:   22 NOVEMBER 1985
     TIME:   20:30 HOURS
     CFN#:   0178
   SOURCE:   NEWSDAY, GARDEN CITY
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Nassau County police sais: Last night, the unidentified object moving across
the evening skies was a blimp.  But then again, the Federal Aviation
Administration and the port Authority police said: It was a prank by small
planes flying in formation.  More then two dozen Nassau residents phoned
newsday last night to report a strange, slient object with blinking lights
crossing north by northeast over Valley Stream, West Hempstead, Garden City,
New Hyde Park, Westbury and Port Wasgington. Leslie Gross reported that she and
her husband were in Manhasset about 8:30 p.m. when they saw an object like a
kite....moving slowly through the sky.  There were white and red lights
flashing on and off.  It was a seven-dot configuration.  Then it changed from a
triangular shape to an oval shape. It was quite large.It was low enough so that
If it was a plane, you would have heard the motor.  After South Shore precincts
received more then 50 telephoned queries a car was dispat- ched to the
Hempstead area about 8:45 p.m.  Officers Paul Scheibelein and Robert Schiller
of the Fifth Precinct identified the object as a blimp.  They said: They could
see the oval shape and identify the runing lights.  Port Authority police and
the FAA said: The UFO was probably four or five small planes flying in
formation.
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