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SUBJECT: FEWER UFO SIGHTINGS IN 1989 FILE: UFO1160
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POST-GAZETTE, Pittsburgh, PA - Jan.20,1990
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by Wash Gjebre
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Post-Gazette Staff Writer
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More than 100 UFO sightings were reported in Pennsylvania last year, in
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addition to dozens of unexplained incidents, including ice falling from the sky
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in May and sightings of Bigfoot, says a Greensburg-based group that investigates
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such reports.Stan Gordon, founder and director of the Pennsylvania Association
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for the Study of the Unexplained, said 168 reports of UFO sightings were
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recorded in 1989, 87 fewer than the previous year.
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The associates also investigated 51 reports of other unexplained incidents
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last year, a decrease from the 125 reported in 1988. Gordon, who runs the
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volunteer clearinghouse from his Greensburg home, said he did not know why the
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number of reports decreased.
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He said many of the reports of UFO sightings were explained as meteors,
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planets, aircraft lights, unusual atmospheric conditions or searchlight
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displays. But 27 sightings in Westmoreland, Butler, Indiana, Bedford, Crawford
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and other counties could not be explained, he said.
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Among the reports of UFO sightings in 1989, he said, were these:
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* Two women said they saw a silent, luminous object with flashing red
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lights hovering over Squirrel Hill at 2:57 a.m. May 17. The women filed a
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police report on the incident.
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* In three sightings, strange objects were persued by military jets. On
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Aug. 31, UFOs were spotted in several counties within a short time. On Oct.
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28, "an unusual hovering light that picked up speed as numerous military
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jets in single formation chased it" was reported in Butler County, Gordon
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said.
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* A number of triangular-shaped aerial objects were seen in the afternoon
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of Dec. 23 near a power station in Warren County. "Once again, as we have
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seen in other years, these objects seem to be attracted to energy sources
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of various types, and several sightings occured near power plants in the
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state," Gordon said.
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On May 21, the association was notified that a piece of ice had fallen from
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a clear sky near Ligonier. A lab found that the material contained lead,
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cadmium, arsenic, aluminum, and zinc, Gordon said. He said the high metal
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content "seemed to indicate the possibility that the ice may have originated
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from a high altitude aircraft, yet weather data for that area at that time
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indicated a low chance for icing conditions."
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The association continues to receive reports of sightings of a creature
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called Bigfoot, especially in the Chestnut Ridge area of Westmoreland County,
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Gordon said. A fisherman in Donegal reported that at 12:15 a.m. April 20, he saw
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"a 7-foot-tall , broad shouldered, hair-covered, upright creature" that made
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loud shrilling sounds before moving into the woods.
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Gordon said reports of unexplained phenomena could be made on the non-
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profit association's 24-hour hotline, (412)838-7768.
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