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21-Jan-88 16:31 MST
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Sb: APn 01/21 1536 Australia-UFO
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Fm: Executive News Svc. [76374,303]
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SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Police said Thursday they received two
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reports of unidentified flying objects, one of which looked like a huge
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egg cup, and that they were treating the matter seriously.
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Four members of a family said the object shaped like an egg cup
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pursued their car along a remote stretch of outback highway Wednesday
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morning, plucked it from the ground and covered it in ash, police
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reported.
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Faye Knowles told police her speech and that of her sons changed
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during the encounter on the highway.
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Crewmen of a tuna boat 50 miles away said a UFO buzzed their vessel a
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few minutes later and their voices become unintelligible.
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"We were a little bit skeptical at first, but after investigating we
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are treating the reports very seriously," said Jim Furnell, a police
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sergeant in South Australia state.
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He said forensic scientists would examine the black powdery ash found
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inside and outside Mrs. Knowles' car. She told police she was driving on
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the Nullabor Plain from Perth in Western Australia when she first saw a
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glowing object in her rear window at 2:45 a.m. Wednesday.
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"It apparently picked the car up off the road, shook it quite
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violently and forced the car back with such pressure that one of the
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tires was blown," Furnell said. "While this was happening the family
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said their voices were distorted and it was as if they were talking in
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slow motion."
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He said the crewmen of the tuna boat could not have known about Mrs.
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Knowles' experience when they reported a UFO sighting in the Great
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Australia Bight.
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Keith Basterfield of UFO Research Inc., an international organization
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that records such sightings, said "it will certainly be the most
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physical of encounters ever recorded in Australia" if the reports are
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confirmed.
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A spokesman at the Royal Australian Air Force base in Edinburgh,
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South Australia, said he was not aware of any military aircraft in the
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area at the time.
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Copyright 1988 by the Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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