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SUBJECT: THOSE STRANGE LIGHTS WERE...... FILE: UFO1257
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NEWS CLIPPING SERVICE
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DATE OF ARTICLE: November 4, 1988
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SOURCE OF ARTICLE: Daily Quill
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LOCATION: West Plains, Missouri
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BYLINE: Julie Warner
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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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THOSE STRANGE LIGHTS WERE...
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By Julie Warner
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Quill Staff Writer
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If you were one of the several area residents who spied
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unidentified bright yellow lights hovering in the sky at night in
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the past couple of weeks, the Missouri Air National Guard has the
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answer to what you saw.
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Last Tuesday evening about a dozen West Plains, Mtn. View
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and Peace Valley residents reported sightings of bright yellow
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lights in the night sky. Some witnesses said the lights were in
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a straight line and others saw them in formations. The number of
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lights varied from two to as many as eight. The witnesses all
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said the lights didn't seem connected to any objects and that
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they would flash on and off, sometimes all at once or a few at a
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time, and then would just disappear.
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Howell County Sheriff Hubert Holman told the Quill today a
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report came into his office Tuesday evening that bright orange
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lights were spotted above Fair View Elementary School on K
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Highway. A deputy was dispatched to the area, but the lights had
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disappeared, Holman said.
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Among some of the witnesses who spotted these lights Tuesday
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were a West Plains Policeman and Mtn. View Policemen Ron Pruett.
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According to Capt. Ken MacNevin, a public affairs officer
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for the Missouri Air National Guard in Jefferson City, the lights
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were probably not UFOs but glows from maneuvers being undertaken
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by members of the 131st tactical flight wing flying out of St.
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Louis and practicing weapon-deceiving techniques.
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MacNevin explained that one of the standard defense
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techniques used by the military in avoiding or deceiving
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missiles, some of which are heat-seeking, is to spit out hot
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flares. He said that if a heat-seeking missile was to be shot at
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one of the U.S. fighter jets, the pilot would shoot off one of
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these flares and the missile should be deceived and veer towards
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the flare instead of the jet.
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In recent weeks this unit acquired some of these flares and
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has been practicing some of these flight maneuvers with Phantom
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F-4 fighter jets in what is called the Meramec Military
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Operations Region, which covers a large portion of south central
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Missouri.
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MacNevin said the practice maneuvers have been taking place
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on Tuesdays and some Wednesday evenings from 5:30 to 8, and they
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will continue for the next several weeks.
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He said that sightings outside of this time frame can
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probably also be attributed to military operations. MacNevin
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said that this air space is dedicated to all and any military
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units in the United States, and units from Missouri and
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surrounding states have probably all used this area for practice
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maneuvers at some point in time.
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