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SUBJECT: SIGHTING DESCRIBED AT BATTLE MOUNTAIN, NV. FILE: UFO1263
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NEWS CLIPPING SERVICE
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DATE OF ARTICLE: February 1, 1989
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SOURCE OF ARTICLE: Independent
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LOCATION: Elko, Nevada
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BYLINE: None
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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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UFO SIGHTING DESCRIBED BY BATTLE MOUNTAIN
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Elaine Goldman would like someone to tell her what it was
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she saw on her way home to Battle Mountain Monday evening.
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Failing that, she would at least like to know that someone else
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saw what she, her sister and her aunt observed in the skies of
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northeastern Nevada.
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The three women were driving west on Interstate 80 at about
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5 p.m. Monday, Goldman said, and were about 28 miles from Battle
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Mountain when they first sighted the object. "At first, it
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looked like a star, but it was so light outside," Goldman said.
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As they drew nearer to the object, which Goldman said sat
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motionless hundreds of feet above Interstate 80, they began to
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realize that this was no star.
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"We were close enough to it to tell it wasn't an airplane or
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a helicopter, either," Goldman said, "I get kind of nervous."
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She described the thing as "kind of like an oval" in shape,
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its size difficult to pinpoint because of the distance involved,
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and bathed in a red glow. Two short streams of what appeared to
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be smoke emanated from the center of the oval, Goldman said,
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adding the streams in no way resembled the contrails of a jet
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aircraft.
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At each end of the oval was a flashing red light, which
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could have accounted for the glow, the Battle Mountain woman
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added.
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Goldman said she and her relatives kept the object in sight
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for 10-15 minutes before they passed directly beneath it. And
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then it was gone. "It just disappeared," she said. "It was
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there and then it wasn't."
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The object may have vanished, but not Goldman's curiosity
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about what it could have been. A check yesterday at the Federal
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Aviation Administration office in Elko provided little assistance
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-- the official on duty said there were no UFO sightings reported
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there Monday.
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But Goldman says she is hopeful that someone will come
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forward to corroborate her sighting. "I'm sure somebody else had
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to have seen it," the Battle Mountain woman said.
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