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Date: 11-Mar-87 00:17 MST
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Subj: APwi 03/10 Belleville UFO
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BELLEVILLE, Wis. (AP) -- Lavonne Freidig says she first thought it was
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a distant flock of geese, but closer observation showed an object shaped
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like an airplane fuselage with no wings.
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Belleville had recorded another sighting this year of an unidentified
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flying object.
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"It just hung there. I watched it and watched it," she said Monday of
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the object or objects she and her son, Bill, saw in the sky at dusk Sunday.
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After several minutes, the hitherto motionless object took off without a
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sound, leaving a vapor trail and several smaller objects behind it, she
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said.
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"It was really strange," said Ms. Freidig, adding that a local
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businessman and several of his out-of-town relatives, as well as residents
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of nearby Paoli also saw the object, and that someone also photographed it
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with a camera he had in his car.
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She said she and her son called the Dane County sheriff's office and
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were given the number of a national unidentified flying object reporting
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center to call.
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The cigar-shaped object appeared to be about as large as a pen held at
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arm's length, she said.
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In mid-January, Belleville police officer Glen Kazmar reported seeing
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lights much brighter than a star suspended in the sky west of Belleville
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for more than a half hour one evening.
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He said at the time that a Federal Aviation Administration radar center
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in Illinois detected a slow-moving object on its radar screens on the night
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in question.
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Jack Smith, manager of the FAA control tower at the Dane County Regional
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Airport in Madison, said Monday that tower operators did not report any
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unidentified objects on their radar screens Sunday evening.
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He said the tower received no reports of sightings from pilots.
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Copyright 1987 by the Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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