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SUBJECT: 03/87 SIGHTING IN GAMBELL, ALASKA FILE: UFO1376
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Report #: 224
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From: UFO INFO SERVICE
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Date Sent: 05-10-1987
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Subject: GAMBELL, AK
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CASE TYPE: LRS
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DATE: 17 MARCH 1987
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TIME: 23:55 HOURS
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CFN#: 0346
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DURATION: UNKNOWN
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WITNESSES: MANY
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SOURCE: TIMES ANCHORAGE, AK MARCH 20/1987
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Alaska National Guard officials in Anchorage Thursday reported that guardmen
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living in Western Alaska made reports of a half-dozen sightings of
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Unidentified Flying Objects complete with colored lights and spewing smoke.
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Most of the sightings were made a few minutes before midnight on Tuesday. Of
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the six sightings, one was dismessed as a Soviet helicopter operating off Big
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Diomede Island in the Bering Strait, according to Lt.Mike Haller, information
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officer for the guard.
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One of the other sightings from Gambell on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering
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Sea - could describe an Air Force AWACS radar surveillance aircraft, Haller
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said. A guard member, relaying a report from another villager, said an
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aircraft appeared west of Gambell at about 11:55 p.m. The object had a black,
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round nose, he said, with an object on top of the fuselage.
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An AWACS aircrft carries a disk-shaped radar dome on top of the fuselage.
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But the Air Force, which operates two AWACS in Alaska, said neither plane was
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in the air that night. Staff Sgt. Frank Singleton said the planes were flying
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only day missions.
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Other descriptions relayed to Guard officials consistently described bright
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lights and clouds around the object, haller said. From Elim, on Norton
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sound, a villager desribed an object with "very bright aqua and blue-green
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lights" about the size of two football fields with egg-shaped clouds around
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it.
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The night sky was clear throughout the region. The sighting took place at
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11:56 p.m. with the object spotted about 5 miles north of Elim. Three
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separate groups of villagers saw it traveling to the southwest, haller said.
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In Savoonga, a Guard member received a call from a neighbor at 11:50 p.m. He
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estimated an object larger then a jet was flying at 30,000 feet with two
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bright lights and smoke moving from front to rear.
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In Tununak, about 125 miles west of Bethel on Nelson Island, a Guard member
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described the object as a bright white light, such as an aircraft landing
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light as seen through fog. The sky was clear, however . The object was
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traveling from west to east over the Island and was estimated to be flying at
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30,000 to 40,000 feet.
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The reports follow two visual sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects by the
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captain of a Japan Air Lines aircraft flying over Interior Alaska.
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