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SUBJECT: SIGHTING IN FLORIDA FILE: UFO1259
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NEWS CLIPPING SERVICE
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DATE OF ARTICLE: January 29, 1989
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SOURCE OF ARTICLE: Tribune
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LOCATION: Tampa, Florida
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BYLINE: None
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(C) Copyright 1989 ParaNet Information Service
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All Rights Reserved.
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THIS FILE WAS PROVIDED BY THE UFO NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE
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AND PREPARED BY PARANET ALPHA -- PARANET INFORMATION
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SERVICE
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PARANET INFORMATION SERVICE BBS
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PARANET ALPHA
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DENVER, COLORADO
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REPORTED UFO SIGHTINGS IN FLORIDA
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August 1952--A Boy Scoutmaster in West Palm Beach encounters
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"ball lightning" and surmises that it is a UFO. Ball lightning
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consists of balls of fire that fall swiftly from clouds and then
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explode on the ground.
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August 1954--Five sightings of UFOs take place near
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Gainesville.
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November 1955--At least 15 reports of UFOs in Marion County.
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November 1957--Sightings in Florida escalate. Headline in
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Tribune reads, "Will Sputnik Collide With a Flying Saucer?"
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July 1964--Thirty eight reports of UFOs in Clearwater during
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Fourth of July fireworks display. These are entered in Air
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Force's Project Blue Book but later are revealed to be part of a
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prank.
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April 1, 1965--A flying saucer hoax, complete with
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photographs, appears in Tribune's "In Our Town" column by Patrick
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Kelly. Pictures attributed to a WFLA-TV newsman actually were
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taken by Tribune photographer.
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April 1965--First of UFO sightings reported by Brooksville
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resident John Reeves. Reeves says a spaceship, about 20 to 30
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feet in diameter, landed near his home and humanoids got out. He
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says the craft then retreated at an estimated speed of 5,000 mph
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and was visible in the sky for only 10 seconds. Reeves says he
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retrieved a piece of paper inscribed with strange symbols.
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Investigators from MacDill Air Force Base and the Pentagon later
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decide Reeves' experience is an elaborate hoax. The piece of
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paper is found to be of common material, and the message is a
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simple code for the words, "Planet Mars, are you coming home
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soon? We miss you very much. Why did you stay away so long?"
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April 1966--Sighting of UFO by passengers and pilots of
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airplane flying over Ocala toward Tallahassee. Florida Governor
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Hayden Burns was on the airplane.
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May 1966--Cocoa Beach Chamber of Commerce erects and
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dedicates UFO landing strip at Fisher Park, next to Cape Kennedy.
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A welcoming committee is formed and signs indicate that it is a
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UFO hospitality station.
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December 1966--Brooksville resident John Reeves reports
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another encounter with a UFO. This time, he says, visitors left
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footprints and impression of landing gear in the soil.
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August 1968--Brooksville resident John Reeves reports taking
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trip with UFO creatures and walking on the moon. He says he has
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acquired additional evidence from the aliens, including a piece
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of metal rarely found in nature and moon dust that resembles the
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substance brought back by American probes.
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September 1973--On four consecutive nights, UFO sightings
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are reported throughout Florida.
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May 1974--UFO reported in south Tampa, near intersection of
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Gandy Boulevard and Manhattan Avenue. Eyewitness Carolene Heart
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says the UFO came and went several times between the hours of 7
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p.m. and 2 a.m. one evening. She says witnesses include
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personnel from MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa Fire Department and
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local television stations. Those organizations have no history
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of the sighting, however, nor was there news coverage of the
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event.
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September 1977--Numerous individuals, including Bay County
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sheriff's deputies and security personnel from Tyndall Air Force
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Base, report seeing a UFO in Calloway near Panama City. One of
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the deputies, Bobby Nowell, says the UFO was visible for more
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than three hours in the southeastern sky. An amateur astronomer
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and former pilot, Nowell says, "There was no logical explanation
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for what I saw."
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January 1979--UFO sighting reported in Winter Haven by
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police officer Ron Perdue.
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January through July 1980--More than six UFO sightings
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reported in Pasco County.
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June 1986--Many reports of UFOs sighted in Hillsborough,
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Pinellas, Manatee and Sarasota counties. Meteor shower
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suspected.
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June 1987--On several consecutive nights, residents of
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Silver Spring Shores, Goosky Prairie, Citra and Ocala report
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seeing a UFO. The witnesses include Marion County sheriff's
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deputy Jay Manifold, who says the craft had "a total of four
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lights, red and green," and was hovering at treetop level for
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about 10 seconds.
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was hovering at treetop level for
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about 10 seconds.
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