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UFO Reports #2
beginning part 2; UFO REPORTS.
Report #: 218
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 01-18-1987
Location: 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
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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 Sara-
toga, 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 appari-
tion became a cluster of lights.
"It was scary. When it started get-
ting 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.
>> Comments: S4/P5
Report #: 219
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 01-24-1987
Location: 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
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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.
>> Comments: S4/P4
Report #: 220
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 01-24-1987
Location: GIGHARBOR, 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
Gighorbor, 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
letf 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
case number CFN#:0333 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.
>> Comments: S4/P4
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28-Jan-87 17:04 MST
Sb: AP 01/28 UFO Explained
By PAUL RAEBURN
AP Science Editor
NEW YORK (AP) -- Astronomical calculations show that a Japan Air
Lines pilot who claimed to see an unidentified flying object over
Alaska last November was actually looking at Jupiter and possibly
Mars, says a new report.
"This is not the first time that an experienced pilot has
mistaken a bright celestial body for a UFO, nor will it be the
last," said the report by Philip J. Klass, a longtime investigator
of claimed UFO sightings.
"Jupiter was only 10 degrees above the horizon, making it
appear to the pilot to be roughly at his own 35,000-foot
altitude," the report said.
The planet also was unusually bright, and located exactly where
the pilot said he saw the UFO. The pilot, Capt. Kenjyu Terauchi,
never mentioned seeing Jupiter or Mars.
Mars was just below and to the right of Jupiter, and may explain
Terauchi's initial report that he saw two lights, Klass said.
Klass said Tuesday he has found, in hundreds of UFO
investigations, that "they've all turned out to have prosaic
explanations." He spoke in a telephone interview from Colorado,
where he is vacationing.
The Buffalo-based Committee for the Scientific Investigation of
Claims of the Paranormal, which issued Klass' report, is an
organization of scientists who investigate claims of UFO sightings,
ESP occurrences and other so-called paranormal phenomena.
Klass, who heads the organization's UFO subcommittee, is an
editor with the magazine Aviation Week and Space Technology, and
author of "UFOs: The Public Deceived." He has been investigating
UFO sightings for more than 20 years.
In his report, he said Terauchi's claims that the object
followed him as he made a 360-degree turn are contradicted by what
he told flight controllers at the time.
John Leyden, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration
in Washington, D.C., quoted from a summary of conversations between
Terauchi and ground controllers in which the pilot reported losing
sight of the object after completing his turn.
The object reappeared a few moments later, according to the FAA
summary quoted by Leyden.
Paul Steucke, a spokesman for the FAA in Anchorage, said that
Terauchi told FAA officials in an interview that the object stayed
with him as he turned.
Terauchi was over Alaska enroute from Europe, via Iceland, to
Tokyo when he saw the mysterious light.
According to Klass, who reviewed a complete copy of the
transcript, the pilot never reported seeing Jupiter or Mars, even
though they were clearly visible.
Morris Simoncelli, a spokesman for Japan Air Lines in New York,
said, "We have no position on this as the airline. The captain
said he saw something; he reported it. He followed procedures."
A United Airlines flight and an Air Force C-130 cargo plane that
were in Terauchi's vicinity at the time of the claimed sighting
were asked to look for the object, and neither reported seeing it.
"I think that the Japanese pilot should have been a little more
skeptical when the United airliner and the Air Force plane reported
seeing nothing," Klass said.
A reported radar "blip" near the Japan Air Lines plane was a
spurious echo from the mountainous terrain underneath the aircraft,
Klas said.
Terauchi reported a second UFO sighting in approximately the
same area on January 11. That sighting was explained by FDA
officials as village lights bouncing off ice crystals in the
atmosphere.
Terauchi later conceded that that was a reasonable explanation,
said Steucke.
Steucke said the FAA would be releasing the results of its own
investigation in mid-February.
Report #: 220
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 01-24-1987
Location: GIGHARBOR, 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 sequence to any movement that
the object made". This could be the same
object that was reported in Arnold, city,PA
case number CFN#:0333 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.
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ParaNet Rating: S3/P3
----------------------
Report #: 221
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 01-28-1987
Location: 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.
ParaNet Rating: S2/P2. Witness probably not reporting
reliably.
CUFON Computer UFO Network
Report #: 222
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 01-31-1987
Location: 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 deputies 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'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-officer department 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 counties have been
reported to a study group.
ParaNet Rating: S3/P5. Possible Astronomical Body.
CUFON Computer UFO Network
Report #: 224
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 02-08-1987
Location: 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.
ParaNet Rating: S4/P3
CUFON Computer UFO Network
Report #: 225
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 02-11-1987
Location: 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 CFN#:0338 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 !!
ParaNet Rating: S2/P3. Probable Astronomical Body.
CUFON Computer UFO Network
Report #: 226
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 02-15-1987
Location: 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.
ParaNet Rating: S4/P4.
CUFON Computer UFO Network
Report #: 227
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 02-15-1987
Location: 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 of 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 meteorite, 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 Jamaica 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, while 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."
ParaNet Rating: S1 - Low Atmosphere Bolide
THE HYNEK RATING SYSTEM
-----------------------
.
S: Strangeness
The "Strangeness" factor of a case description shall be rated from 1 to
5 as follows:
.
1 - Explained or Explainable
2 - Probably Explainable, with more data
3 - Possibly Explainable, but with elements of strangeness
4 - Strange; Does not conform with known principles
5 - Highly Strange; Definitely indicative of intelligent guidance
.
Examples:
S1 - Aircraft, meteor, etc.
S2 - Experimental aircraft; planet or star
S3 - Slow, low flying objects in formation
S4 - BOL (Ball of Light Phenomena); physical traces
S5 - Close Encounters, Abductions, etc.
.
P: Probability
The "Probability" factor of a case relates to the credibility, number
and separation of witnesses and/or the soundness of evidence gathered.
It shall be rated from 1 to 5 as follows:
.
1 - Not Credible or Sound
2 - Unreliable; Smacks of Hoax
3 - Somewhat credible or indeterminate
4 - Credible; Sound
5 - Highly Credible, leaving almost no doubt
.
Examples:
P1 - Known Hoaxer or UFO "Flake"; Hoax Photo
P2 - Repeat Witness; Conflicting Testimony
P3 - Standard, first-time witness; slight radiation reading
P4 - Multiple witnesses; pilot; clear photo
P5 - National Figure; Multiple independent witnesses; videotape
.
The composite Hynek Rating of a case shall consist of the combined S &
P factors, stated as Sn/Pn, e.g. S3/P5; except that cases with an S
factor of 1 shall simply be stated as S1.
.
Examples using recent or famous cases:
S1 - Wickenburg, AZ, July 10 (explanation:Mars)
S5/P1 - Billy Meier
S2/P5 - X-shaped UFO, Petaluma, CA May 28
S4/P5 - Brazilian "Ping Pong Balls"
S5/P4 - Betty & Barney Hill
S4/P4 - Lubbock Lights
S5/P5 - MedEvac Helicopter ("Coyne" Case)
S3/P2 - Delphos
S4/P2 - Anything published in SAUCER SMEAR
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