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SUBJECT: DON'S GB SIGHTING REPORT FILE: UFO2296
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**** Don's Gulf Breeze Sighting Report ****
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This past weekend (6/13-14), I left for a 3 day weekend to meet some
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friends up in the Gulfbreeze area. I arrived shortly before 5 in the
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afternoon as it was a 7 1/2 hour drive from my home in Sanford,Fla to
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the Pensacola city limits. Right after I arrived, a friend took me on
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a tour of the Gulf Breeze area, starting with Shoreline Park and
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ending up at Fort Pickens. This was my first trip. I stayed at
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the Gulfbreeze Holiday Inn (51 Gulf Breeze Pkwy), which overlooks
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Pensacola Bay. We met the following people for dinner at the
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Inn's Bon Appetit restaurant: Dr. Steven Greer of CSETI, Rosemary
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Ellen Guiley, Director of the Center for North American Crop
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Circle Studies, Bruce and Ann Morrison of the Gulf breeze Skywatch
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organization, Vicki Lyons, Bob Oueschler, Boots Eckert, Field
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Investigator for Pensacola MUFON. After a lively dinner, we headed
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out to Fort Pickens, which is across the bridge from Gulf Breeze
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and drove to a spot that Dr. Steven Greer,Oueschler and Bruce
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Morrison had picked earlier in the day. It was a "pull-off" spot
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off the main road large enough for about 20 vehicles. I would
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estimate that around 40 people were gathered there within a short
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time of our arrival at 9:30 pm on Saturday night on June 13th.
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To better describe this location: This is a long road on a very narrow
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island, which dead-ends into the Spanish Fort . We were about
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4 miles away from the actual Fort itself. At our backs was the Gulf, and
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in front of us was the rear side of the Pensacola Bay. From where we were
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situated, you could look across Pensacola Bay and see towards Shoreline
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Park, which is the area that many of the sightings have occurred.
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Bob Oueschler had his small pickup truck loaded down with a
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considerable amount of video gear. Both he and Bruce Morrison
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had several video cams set up, and Bob had a camera on loan
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that he was using from Bruce Maccabee which he told me
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was a .51 lux and it was very long,narrow and had an accompanying
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monitor to help out in the focusing process. There were, I
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would estimate at _least_ 15 video cameras set up. These ranged
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from the hand held type to the tripod mounted complete with very
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long telephoto lenses attached. Bruce Morrison was saying that
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the *previous* night (6/12) that his Skywatch team had observed
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the GB UFO arising _from_ Pensacola Bay. While I was conversing
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with both Bob Oueschler and Bruce Morrison, Dr. Steven Greer,
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and a few members of his CSETI group, went down to the nearby
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beach and did their "thought-sequencing" thing (more of a
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meditative type deal). They were a few minutes into doing this,
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when they re-joined the rest of us and started using their hand
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held 1/2 million candlepower lights to create triangular patterns
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in the night sky. It was about 10:15 at this point. Bruce Morrison
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had informed us that the GB UFO had been keeping to a "schedule"
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of around 10:30 for the last 5 nights so we watched as Greer's
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group was doing the "light-sequencing thing" and the rest
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of us took to saying "C'mon bubba!" (this is what the locals
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call the GB UFO :-) . All of the video cameras were pointed toward
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the bridge in the direction of Shoreline Park, as Bruce had
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indicated earlier that this was the most likely direction that
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the GB UFO would appear (he was later proved right). We watched
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the sky and noted all the aircraft coming and going (it's fairly
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busy)..noted all the constellations and even tracked a satellite
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going over to identify all the items that were recognizable and
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non-UFO. Noted that Jupiter was fairly bright. Noted we had a full
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moon partially obscured behind clouds to the rear of us.
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I was down at the other end of the parking lot talking to some
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people when I heard Bruce yell out "There it is!"..rushed over
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to Bob Oueschler's pickup and looking up saw a BRILLIANT white
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light over Pensacola Bay and in the direction that Bruce said
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it would be. I would estimate it to have been about 2 miles away
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from us and it appeared to be about 3-4000 ft high. As we watched,
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the LIGHT flashed several times very quickly, then it changed colors
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from white to a deep red. The change to red lasted several seconds
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and it faded out altogether for 7 sec by my watch as if a rheostat
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had been turned down. It came back to white seconds later, and I
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could see flashes of green, then once more back to red. Duration
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of this sighting lasted just a bit over 1 minute. During this time,
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no movement was observed. The object did a slow fade and was not seen
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anymore. Suffice it to say, that everyone who was present and had
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video cameras got it all on tape. At NO time, were _sparks_ observed
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nor any "flare-like" behaviour observed.
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There's been much discussion as to this being a "flare". Uh, right guys..
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Flares give off SPARKS and aren't noted to fade in and out, change from
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white to red and back several times. What I observed was definately NOT
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a "flare". Bruce Morrison told me of an experiment that was performed
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a long time back when a local TV station _did_ sent up a balloon-lofted
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flare to compare it with the readily available video of this object and
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the two were broadcasted over the local station side by side. NOT EVEN
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CLOSE!
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I would not go so far as to say that I observed an "alien craft"..in my
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opinion, it was anomolous phenomena. I could NOT make out any structure
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that would have shown it to be a "craft", but then again it was quite a
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distance away and perhaps digital enhancement may prove useful in this
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respect. I wonder if anyone has bothered to contact Jim Moore, the
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cameraman for station KHOU in Houston, that showed the film to the
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Houston area during the airing of the "Intruders" movie. I understand
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from sources that his digital enhancement _did_ show the outline of the
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"Ed Craft".
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And finally, I did speak a little bit with the "UFO Rainmaker", Dr.
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Steven Greer. A very interesting fellow and one in whom I believe you
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will be hearing more on in the next few months.
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As I read Chris Rutkowski's June issue of "The Swamp Gas Journal"
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(and thanks for the mention :-), I read his comments imploring others
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to get more involved in this case and I heartily agree. It *always*
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struck me as being mightily presumptous of _some_ people to have dismissed
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the GB UFO's as being a "hoax" when these people have NEVER stepped foot
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in the state of Florida and done any investigation on their own!
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Time to get off your duffs guys. Bruce Morrison has over 400 video tapes
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of this object and Bob Oueschler probably has quite a few as well. It's
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high time the UFOlogical community got over their "Ed-bashing" and
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start getting more directly INVOLVED. Like flying into Pensacola
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and spending time with the principals..visiting the sites. Bring
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some equipment with you and sit out with the Skywatch team and get bit
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by the mosquitoes like everyone else :-)
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In case anyone is interested, here's the telephone numbers of a couple
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of people very much involved and that could provide some further info:
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Bruce and Ann Morrison - Gulf Breeze Skywatch: 904-433-2737
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Boots Eckert - Field Investigator - MUFON : 904-438-3261
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Also, Dr. Steven Greer can be reached at: 704-274-5671 (Asheville,N.C.)
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Don
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