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SUBJECT: SOMETHING IN THE SKY OVER LEWISTON FILE: UFO2092
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PART 1
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+ The following article appeared in the Wednesday, +
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+ October 2, 1991 edition of the LEWISTON MORNING +
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+ TRIBUNE, which serves the Lewiston Idaho, Clarkston +
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+ Washington area. Also Washington State University and +
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+ the University of Idaho both 40 miles to the north. +
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+ Clarkston and Lewiston are in the Snake River Canyon +
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+ area of southeastern Washington and Northern Idaho, +
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+ 20 miles north of Oregon. Elevation is aproximately +
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+ 600 feet in their dessert canyon, which has a mild +
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+ snow-free climate. The Snake river and Clearwater +
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+ river converge there, the gateway to Hell's Canyon. +
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+ Industries there include the wood and paper products +
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+ of International Potlatch Corporation, and bullets, +
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+ ammunition and weaponery of Blount Corporation, a +
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+ division of Omark, which has recently opened a super +
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+ secret, government linked, well guarded, installation +
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+ near the regional airport in south Lewiston... +
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Lewiston Morning Tribune - Lewiston Idaho - October 2, 1991
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IT'S NOT A BIRD; IT'S NOT A PLANE; BY GOLLY WHAT IS IT?
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By general assignment reporter SANDRA L. LEE
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The 9-year-old saw it first in the northwest sky above Lewiston. Then
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his 8-year-old friend, and the babysitter, the babysitter's parents, and
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a friend and her two children, and the people who brought the telescope.
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Saturday night it was a bright, multi-colored light that moved up and
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down and had a "black pointy thing on it."
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And there was a ball of clear light, like a silent wave much closer than
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the blinking light, that lit the sky for several seconds.
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Sunday night, there were two of the pulsing lights, one a little closer
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than the other, but still far away, although they seemed to respond to
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light directed at them from a flashlight and then from a camera's flash,
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said Sarah G. Krueger, a Lewiston High School senior.
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And Monday night they were back again, and much more active, said
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Krueger, who set up a watching post on the hill north of Regency Plaza
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Retirement Center.
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Were they UFOs? "I dont't have a clue," Krueger said. They weren't
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airplanes, and she doesn't think they were stars. But flying saucers? "I
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never even believed in them before, really," she said.
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She called Fairchild Air Force Base on the advice of a Lewiston Tribune
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editor, and someone there told her there was nothing in the air to
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account for the sitings, she said.
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Then she was given the number of the National UFO Reporting Center in
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Seattle, a private, non-profit organization that documents reports from
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all of North America.
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The volunteer taking calls that night told her it might be a
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double-star, one star so close to another as to appear as one. But NOT
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if it was actually changing position.
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Margaret Gahner saw it too. It was different than what she and two
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family members saw 13 years ago in southern Idaho, she said.
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That time, they were fishing from a boat at night when three white
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lights zig-zagged overhead. They were higher than a jet, but not far
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away like the stars, she said.
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It went on for about an hour, Gahner said. "We wanted to get home
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because we were SCARED."
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Robert J.. Gribble, director of the National UFO Reporting Center, was
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non-committal about his opinion of the moving sighting over Lewiston.
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Stationary objects usually are easy to identify, Gribble said. Most of
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them are scintillating stars whose multiple colors are caused by
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particles in our atmosphere. Smog. Air pollution.
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And bright stars in the northeast and northwest skies draw frequent
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reports, he added.
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"The problem is something at such a distance, of that description, it's
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almost impossible to make a positive identification."
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Every report is kept on file for at least 30 days so information can be
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pooled. If there are independent reports from the same location, an
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attempt may be made to put together an onsite investigation, Gribble
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said.
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Investigations are rare nowadays, however. Sightings, once frequent,
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started tapering off about 10 years ago, he said.
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The center was created in 1974 when the U.S. Air Force quit accepting
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data on UFO phenomena. People had no place to go to make reports where
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they could expect follow-up, Gribble said.
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All the work at the center is done by volunteers.
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So was there -- is there -- a UFO over the Lewiston - Clarkston Valley?
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Certainly, in the sense that no one has yet identified that multicolored
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blinking object as being anything specific. Or identified the source of
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the light.
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But could they have been that thing of dreams, a spaceship possibly
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carrying alien beings?
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Sarah Krueger plans to keep watch evenings from about 8:30 to 9:30. Just
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in case. From her vantage point on the edge of Lewiston Orchards, one
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was sighted a little over Potlatch Corp. and the other more to the west,
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over downtown Lewiston or Clarkston.
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Take a look. What do you think?
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