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SUBJECT: UFO SIGHTINGS ATTRIBUTED TO SECRET US CRAFT FILE: UFO1143
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TIMES & WORLD-NEWS, Roanoke, VA - Feb. 19,1990
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By PAUL DELLINGER / SOUTHWEST BUREAU
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WYTHEVILLE-Several people who viewed a pattern of lights hovering above
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their heads in a darkened Wytheville Community College room agreed that it
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looked like an unidentified flying object they had seen in the skies of
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Southwest Virginia.
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They were not seeing a flying saucer containing little green men, but a
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model of the radar-eluding Stealth B-2 bomber that Rhode Island businessman Tony
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Gonsalves had constructed.
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Gonsalves, 47, visited Wythe County earlier this month because it had been
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a hotbed of UFO sightings in recent years. He said similar sightings have
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reported in Hudson Valley, N.Y., and Fyffe, Ala.
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"I believe there's a secret government aircraft flying around that the
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public hasn't been advised about," he said.
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Gonsalves is not talking about the Stealth aircraft that was rolled out for
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public view in 1988, one of six that reportedly have been built. Those would
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make noise, he said, and the boomerang-shaped aircraft spotted across the
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country in recent years have been silent.
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Referring to recent debate on what happened to $22 billion of the money
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allocated to developing an airplane that can avoid radar detection, he said: "I
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don't think it [the money] disappeared at all. I think they built some
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airplanes."
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He suggests that the money went into Stealth craft powered by "UFO
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technology"-in his view, some sort of antigravity field generated by nuclear
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energy.
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"Now, where did they get it [the technology]? That's another story, but in
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my opinion, they have it," he said.
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One possible source, he said, would be a crashed flying saucer that the
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government recovered and kept secret.
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"I am a firm believer that this planet is being visited by aliens. I think
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they've been coming here for a long time," he said.
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Whether they agreed with him on that, at least five of the about 75 people
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attending his talk at Wytheville Community College agreed that the Stealth shape
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is what they saw.
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What convinced the group was a quarter-size model of the aircraft, built by
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Gonsalves, based on what data has been released about the secret plane.
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Using his experience as a jet mechanic on U.S. Navy aircraft carriers,
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Gonsalves said he placed lights on his 4-foot model in a pattern that would be
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logical for landing purposes or illuminate the ground for a low-flying, slow-
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moving plane.
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With the meeting room in Fincastle Hall darkened, he showed how using
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different lights on the dark craft could make it seem to have different shapes
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in night skies. A number of people agreed that the lights defined shapes of
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objects they had seen.
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Gonsalves said he came to Wytheville to talk with people who might have
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seen an experimental-Stealth aircraft. He is compling the information for a
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book.
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=END=
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