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SUBJECT: UFO UPDATE FILE: UFO1164
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REGISTER-GUARD, Eugene,OR - JAN. 22, 1990
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Remember the New Year's Eve UFO sighting by a group of Eugene partygoers,
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reported here last Monday? Enough others have called or written since then to
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convince me that there was something in the sky that night. But what it was
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remains-as it always does in UFO stories-a tantalizing unknown.
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Sherill Bowers reported last week that she and a group of 20-30 people at a
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party at East 15th and Moss watched five lights move slowly, in varying
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formations, across the sky for about twenty minutes after midnight. Robert
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McCaffrey, a real estate salesman who lives in the Ferry Street Bridge area,
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said five people at his house saw the same thing. The large bright lights
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appeared in the south and moved north, he said.
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"What we were looking at was an almost perfectly diamond-shaped formation,
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and finally a fifth light appeared like a tail on a kite," he said. "What was
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striking was there was absolutly no sound. "When they came overhead of us, they
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split formation, two lights in one line, two in another," he said. "My son
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(Sean, 16) ran in and got his camera and took two or three photos."
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Sean's pictures show two bright spots-slightly squiggly, because of the
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camera movement-in the sky. But the photos wouldn't reproduce well in the paper.
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McCaffery said the lights dissappeared over the Coburg Hills after about
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ten minutes. Nancy Dear, a teacher who was at the McCaffrey's party, gave a
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similar description. As Bowers had, she phoned every agency she could think of
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in a futile search for an explanation.
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Betsy Steffensen and anither group watcher the lights from the panaoramic
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view at her house on Skyline Boulevard. Binoculars didn't help in
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identification. "When we put the binoculars on them, they were still just these
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lights," Steffensen said. Eugene poet Ingrid Wendt and her daughter saw them
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from near the University of Oregon's Hayward Field. Runners Marcia and Bill
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McChesney watched them from across the river.
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"We were returning to our friend's party after running the Midnight Run in
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Alton Baker Park," Marcia McChesney said. "The strongest drink we consumed that
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evening was coffee." But the sightings seem to have been limited to the Eugene
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area. There have been no reports from elseware in the state. At the University
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of Oregon's Pine Mountain Observatory nead Bend, for example, research assistant
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Doug Hawkins said he was working that night and saw nothing but stars and
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planets.
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McCaffery dosen't belive the lights were anything extraterrestrial, but
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he's still curious. "This has just had us all baffled," he said. "There has to
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be a logical explanation."
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If only one of those lights had dropped a bottle-with a message in it...
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=END=
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**********************************************
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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