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SUBJECT: WYTHEVILLE, VA UFO SIGHTINGS FILE: UFO1203
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PART 2
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#: 2 S0/EasyPlex
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23-Oct-87 16:12 MST
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Sb: APva 10/23 1653 UFO Sightings
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Fm: Executive News Svc. [72135,424]
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By DIRK BEVERIDGE Associated Press Writer
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WYTHEVILLE, Va. (AP) -- Five people who claim to have seen UFOs said Friday
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a secret military operation has stirred up the recent flying saucer craze in
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Wythe County, but they offered no evidence to back the assertion.
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"It appears we are dealing with something of a military nature," said news
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director Danny Gordon of radio station WYVE. He and four other people talked
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about sightings they said they made Thursday night.
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"A lot of people are scared," Gordon told reporters. "Will the military
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please tell us where they are?"
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Spokesmen for various branches of the military have denied knowledge of
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operations that would have prompted the series of flying saucer reports that
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began in September.
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One of the members of the panel assembled by Gordon, New York photographer
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John Stember, said he took a videotape and still photographs Thursday night of
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a dome-shaped object flying in tandem with a smaller, roundish object.
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"I saw this large, sort of orange glow," Stember said. "The first seemed to
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be a large domed shape, with an ambient light behind it."
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He said his still pictures were being processed, but the pictures would be
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available to reporters. But when approached after the news conference, Stember
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said he had removed his film from the area to protect it.
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Another member of the panel, Andrew Convery, a systems analyst with the
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Virginia Beach-based Navy software contractor Computer Dynamics Inc., said he
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believed there had been some kind of crash in the area. He refused to elaborate
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and refused to say why he would not elaborate.
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"We have very substantial reasons, we just can't produce any proof," Convery
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said.
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Convery said he had come to Wytheville on his own time because he for years
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has followed UFO stories. He said he thinks the military is operating the
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mysterious flights because other military craft operate routinely in the area.
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Convery said he does not think the military would fly its jets at low
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altitudes in the area of flying objects it could not identify.
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"They fly aircraft over the top while these things are flying down below,"
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Convery said.
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Gordon said some of the UFOs have swooped down and harassed motorists in the
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county, at times chasing them down the road with spotlights on them or even
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running some people off the road.
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"Imagine you're a bored fighter jock," Convery said. "To relieve the tedium
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you chase a local around."
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Copyright 1987 by the Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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