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SUBJECT: A NEST OF INFO ON GULFBREEZE UFOs FILE: UFO1616
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PART 2
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1238 01-30-89 12:11 aes
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Researchers say photos show UFO
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GULF BREEZE, Fla. (UPI) _ UFO experts are debating the authenticity
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of photographs of an eerie cylindrical object glowing in the night sky
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over the Florida Panhandle town of Gulf Breeze.
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More than 135 residents in the past 18 months have reported seeing
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a strange craft hovering in skies over Gulf Breeze, the Tampa Tribune
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reported Sunday.
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One resident, asked to be identified only as "Ed," has produced
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photographs showing a cylindrical craft ringed with lights and what may
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be windows.
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The pictures have sparked a battle between two UFO investigating
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groups.
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The Mutual UFO Network, a 20-year-old group of scientists and
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layman researchers, believes Ed's pictures are real. The Center for UFO
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Studies, a non-profit group founded by the late astronomer J. Allen
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Hynek, does not.
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The network cites a 90-page study by Navy physicist Bruce Maccabee,
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who says Ed could not have fabricated such convincing photographs.
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"A professional magician would have a difficult time doing this,"
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he said.
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The center relies on its researchers and on Robert Nathan, of
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He said the photos show glaring
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inconsistencies typical of double exposures.
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Mark Rodeghier of the Center for UFO Studies said the case has
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"deteriorated into a shouting match" between the two groups, and that
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the network's endorsement of the pictures biased Maccabee's study.
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"Except those intimately connected with the network, 90 percent of
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serious UFO researchers think (the) Gulf Breeze (case) is a hoax,"
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Rodeghier said.
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But residents of the town of 6,000 think they know what they saw.
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"I was exhilarated," said Brenda Pollak, a City Council member
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who claimed to see a large, lighted craft twice in one night last spring
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over Pensacola Bay. "I can tell you now _ for every one person who has
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reported seeing the craft, there are 10 who talk about it but don't want
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anyone to know."
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