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SUBJECT: 12+ PEOPLE SEE X-SHAPED UFO IN CALIFORNIA FILE: UFO1205
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Date: 23-May-86 13:17 MST
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From: Executive News Svc. [72135,424]
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Subj: APca 05/23 UFO
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Theeeey're baaaaack.
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For UFO believers who have endured years of drab skies and no sightings,
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Thursday, and its full moon, was a big day.
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More than a dozen people said they saw a mysterious UFO racing across the
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pre-dawn sky north of San Francisco -- a strange X-shaped craft with
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blinking lights that hovered above the hills of Sonoma County before
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speeding away into the dark.
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A California Highway Patrol officer who declined to be named and radio
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station KTOB News Director Arlette Cohen were among those who reported
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spotting the strange craft at about 4:30 a.m. PDT between the cities of
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Petaluma and Sonoma about 40 miles north of here.
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The sighting came on the heels of reports of pingpong-ball-sized
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multi-colored UFOs crowding radar screens in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The
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government scrambled jet fighters to intercept the tiny objects, and two
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pilots said they saw the objects flying nearby.
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"I saw these two white lights to the east," Ms. Cohen said, estimating
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the craft was about 1,000 feet in the air. She said she noticed the UFO
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when it crossed to the west side of the highway, and "hovered almost
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stock-still ... for a few seconds."
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Ms. Cohen said she was driving to work at her Petaluma station,
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northbound on U.S. 101, and made the sighting shortly before reaching
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Petaluma.
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She said a full moon was still visible above. She also said she rolled
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down her car window to listen for the sound of a helicopter but heard
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nothing.
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When the craft crossed the highway once again, she said she saw two "tiny
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green lights" glowing faintly on the side opposite the two bright white
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lights.
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"I think I saw sort of a black `X' silhouette shape," Ms. Cohen said.
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"It was really hard to tell."
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"An unidentified object described as a large orange `X' with white lights
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in the front was seen traveling at a high rate of speed eastbound from
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Petaluma," Santa Rosa CHP Officer Bill McChristian said of the report from
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the unidentified officer and several callers.
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San Francisco Bay area air traffic controllers said they could not
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explain the sighting, saying radar screens detected no such object flying
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over the area at that time.
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The North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado said no man-made
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spacecraft would have been visible at 4:30 a.m. in Northern California, but
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that debris from the Cosmo 1683 satellite reportedly re-entered the
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atmosphere over California more than an hour later, at 5:41.
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"We don't have anything at that time," said Lt. Virginia Sullivan of
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NORAD.
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The sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects first sprang up in the 1940s
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and in 1947 the University of Colorado and the Air Force decided to look
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into the matter. [SIC: The UofC did not begin their investigation until
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1969 -- T/A]
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In 1969, after two decades of research, the university concluded there
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wasn't the slightest evidence of "alien crafts."
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Soon after, the flying saucer fad waned and UFO clubs folded. Wayne
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Shannon of San Francisco television station KRON reported
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Thursday night, with tounge firmly in cheek, that he received a call from
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a woman in Petaluma, once a city so well known for its chicken ranching that
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the local football team was dubbed The Leghorns.
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Shannon said the caller knew what everyone saw Thursday: it was the souls
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of all those dead chickens. Shannon called them "Poultrygeists," a takeoff
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on the current movie "Poltergeist II." You know. The one with the
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television commercials in which the little blonde girl says: "Theeeey're
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baaack."
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