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SUBJECT: 08/86 SIGHTING IN WINCHESTER, KY. FILE: UFO1355
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Report #: 201
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From: UFO INFO SERVICE
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Date Sent: 12-10-1986
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Subject: WINCHESTER, KY
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CASE TYPE: LRS - NL
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DATE: 12 AUGUST 1986
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TIME: 2100 TO 2200 HOURS
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CFN#: 0323
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DURATION: UNKNOWN
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WITNESSES: MANY
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SOURCE: SUN, WINCHESTER, KY
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Although authorities don't have any answers yet, an anonymous caller to the
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Winchester Police Department Wednesday may provide some clues to the cause of
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a bright flashing light and house-shaking boom many county residents reported
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Tuesday night.
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Clark County Sheriff Gary Lawson, whose department is investigating the
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incident, said the caller said "that he did shoot off a Class B fireworks
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left over from the Fourth of July... It was a rocket-type firework that could
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go one to two miles in the air and then explode."
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Lawson said the caller said he had the explosive in his home and was afraid
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to keep it there any longer and that he "didn't mean to alarm anybody."
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Several residents along the Flanagan Station Road said that between 9 and 10
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p.m. Tuesday they heard a boom, like an explosion. Some saw a bright flashing
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light and others reported smelling strong odors, much like gun powder.
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Rumors began Wednesday that a meteor had fallen in the area, that an air-
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plane had crashed or that a B-52 aircraft had caused the strange light and
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sound. It was reported that a meteorite or perhaps a piece of a Japanese
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satalite had been tracked by radar down the eastern coastline and into Clark
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County. People jokingly suggested that UFOs had landed or that the Russians
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were invading.
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Lawson and other members of his department searched the area in the
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southeastern Clark County on foot and covered a 40 square mile area by air,
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but could find nothing.
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"We were flying about 2,000 feet up and had a pretty good view, but we
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couldn't see anything unusual," he said.
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This morning the incident remained a mystery.
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