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SUBJECT: PATROLMAN SEES LIGHTS IN WISCONSON SKY FILE: UFO1195
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Sb: APwi 01/26 Belleville UFO
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BELLEVILLE, Wis. (AP) -- A Belleville patrolman's sighting of
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strange lights in the night sky is under investigation by a
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national UFO study center, the police chief said Monday.
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Officer Glen Kazmar reported the red, white and blue lights to
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sheriff's dispatchers who relayed the sighting to the Federal
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Aviation Administration control tower in Chicago on Jan. 15, police
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Chief Jack Pace said.
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"He couldn't see what the lights were attached to," Pace said.
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"All he saw was red, white and blue lights, wavering close
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together and forming a straight line. He couldn't hear any sound."
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Kazmar was off duty Monday and did not answer his home
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telephone, but he told the Monroe Evening Times: "When it just
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stayed in the same place, and the bright lights, then I knew it was
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something that isn't normal."
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Kazmar first sighted the lights about 9 p.m. and he and a
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passenger, Jeff Furseth, began studying them more closely about 3
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a.m., Kazmar told the Evening Times. They watched them until nearly
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daybreak, when the lights disappeared on the horizon.
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The officer estimated he got within a mile of the lights, Pace
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said.
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Other reports of lights were received that night by sheriff's
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deputies in Dane and Green counties. The FAA tower in Chicago also
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said it was tracking a slowly moving object in the area, but made
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no radio contact with it.
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"Actually, we're not sure if what they were looking at on their
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radar was what officer Kazmar saw, but it's possible," Pace said.
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The sighting has been referred to the Center for UFO Studies,
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which has an office in Glenview, Ill., said Sherman Larsen, a
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founding director of the group. Pace said an investigator from the
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center contacted him and he referred the man to Kazmar.
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"Happenings in Dane County very closely correspond to a number
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of sightings in the Waukesha area and Kenosha County," said Don
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Schmitt, the Milwaukee man assigned by the center to investigate
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Kazmar's lights.
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"One matches identically to one in northern Dane County," he
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said, adding he currently is investigating 11 state UFO reports.
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Pace said he was a private pilot and he believed the lights
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Kazmar reported didn't belong to a conventional aircraft, which
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would have red, white and green lights. "Lights moving very slowly
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or standing still is a little abnormal for aircraft," he added.
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However, having no radio contact is normal, especially if an
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aircraft is on a visual flight path, he added.
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Since Kazmar's sighting and news of it spread, the six-officer
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department has received several calls about UFO sightings, Pace
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said. Some calls have also been made to Kazmar's home.
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None of the sightings resemble what Kazmar reported and Pace
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added he expects the reports to taper off.
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"Eventually people will find something else to talk about," he
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said. "Something else will spark their interest. New rumours will
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start."
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