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SUBJECT: A NEST OF INFO ON GULFBREEZE UFOs FILE: UFO1617
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PART 3
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NEWS CLIPPING SERVICE
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DATE OF ARTICLE: January 30, 1989
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SOURCE OF ARTICLE: NEWS
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LOCATION: PARKERSBURG, WV
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BYLINE: NONE (UPI)
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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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LOOK, UP IN THE SKY
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FLORIDANS SURE PHOTOS PROVE
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UFOS VISITING PANHANDLE AREA
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Gulf Breeze, FLA. (UPI) -- Photographs of an eerily lit
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cylindrical object drifting through the night sky have scientists
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debating whether unidentified flying objects are visiting the
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Florida Panhandle.
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More than 135 Gulf Breeze's 6,000 residents have reported
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seeing a strange craft hovering in the skies over the past one
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and a half years, the Tampa Tribune reported Sunday.
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One resident, asked to be identified only as "Ed" to protect
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his anonymity, has produced startling photographs of the alleged
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UFO. Those pictures, showing a cylindrical craft ringed with
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lights and what may be windows, lie at the heart of a simmering
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battle between two UFO investigating groups.
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The Mutual UFO Network, a 20-year-old group of scientists
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and layman researchers, believes Ed's pictures are real. But the
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Center for UFO Studies, a non-profit group found by the late
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astronomer, J. Allen Hynek, does not.
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The network cites a 90-page study done by Navy physicist
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Bruce Maccabee. Maccabee said Ed could not have made such
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perfect fakes, and that the pictures are real.
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"A professional magician would have a difficult time doing
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this," he said.
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Maccabee also cites circumstantial evidence in Ed's favor,
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including sightings by others who described UFOs identical to
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those in Ed's photos.
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The center relies on its own researchers and on Robert
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Nathan of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Nathan, who conceded
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he had not studied the pictures as completely as did Maccabee,
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said the photos show glaring inconsistencies typical of double
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exposures.
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Mark Rodeghier of the Center for UFO Studies said the Gulf
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Breeze case had "deteriorated into a shouting match" because his
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group was forced to play devil's advocate when the network
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endorsed the pictures. That endorsement biased Maccabee's study,
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he said.
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"Except those intimately connected with the network, 90
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percent of serious UFO researchers think Gulf Breeze is a hoax,"
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Rodeghier said.
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For many Gulf Breeze residents, what the experts think is
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beside the point -- they know what they saw.
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"I was exhilarated," said Brenda Pollak, a City Council
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member who said she saw a large, lighted craft twice in one night
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in spring of 1988. Ms. Pollak said she watched the craft hover
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over Pensacola Bay while, unknown to her, Ed shot pictures of the
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UFO from only a few blocks away.
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"I can tell you now -- for every one person who has reported
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seeing the craft, there are 10 who talk about it but don't want
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anyone to know," Ms. Pollack said.
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"I'm not saying that I believe it's from another planet, but
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it's something I had never laid eyes on in my life," added
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Shirley McConnell. Mrs. McConnell and her husband, who is the
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medical examiner for Florida's District 1, say that last June the
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craft hovered within 75 yards of their house for nearly four
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minutes before drifting off.
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"People can say whatever they want about me, but I know what
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I saw. Ed didn't make this up," Mrs. McConnell said.
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