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SUBJECT: IS THIS A UFO ? FILE: UFO2388
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Taken from the FRONT PAGE of "The Manly Daily" May 28,1993
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IS THIS A UFO?
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`Spiritual journey' captured on video.
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by Jason Brown
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Two young men are convinced their lives have been altered by an
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extraterrestrial experience.
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Ryan Williams and Skip O'Neill have captured on video what they
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claim are two UFOs hovering over Frenchs Forest. [14kms NNW of
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Sydney]
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The excited men contacted "The Manly Daily" after reading reports
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of unexplained patterned orange lights off Harbord [14kms N of
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Sydney]
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"The Daily" has taken graphic photos from the 11 minute video,
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which shows a bright light changing shape and colour before
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blooming into a large multi-coloured striped sphere. The video
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also shows a smaller bright orange light hovering nearby.
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Manly UFO investigator Gary Wiseman, who viewed the video
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yesterday, said he had never seen an object expand and contract
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so dramatically.
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He said the large object looked simmilar to other footage of
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alleged UFO sightings, particularly a 1978 New Zealand sighting
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filmed by a news crew.
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"It's not neccessarily something from outer space", he said. "But
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it looks like something with extreme energy. The reaction from
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the boys is very similar to those people I have spoken to in the
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past."
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Ryan, 19, of Frenchs Forest, and 21-year-old Skip, from
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Melbourne, captured the bizarre experience on video and still
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camera during the early hours of last Thursday.
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The pair were returning home from a Mona Vale nightclub at about
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3.30am when they first spotted a strange bright light hovering of
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the Long Reef headland.
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After spending about 20 minutes taking still photos of the ebbing
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light, they raced to Ryan's Frenchs Forest home [7kms away] with
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intensions of returning to Long Reef with a video camera to film
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the spectacle.
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But they claim the light followed them and "brought a friend with
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it".
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Ryan, a university student, captured the video footage of the
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object from outside his home.
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"I've no doubt about its presence, I felt invigorated," Skip
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said.
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"The whole time not only were we acknowledging it, but it seemed
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to be acknoeledging us.
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"A lot of people are going to be extremely sceptical, but it was
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like experiencing a miracle. I felt like I had been on some
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fantastic journey."
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Ryan said he experienced a loss of time and felt like he was
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being watched.
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"There was a full attraction to it," he said.
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"It kept changing colour from fluoroscent to reddish, even the
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aura it was putting of was changing. I definately had the feeling
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that there was some sort of intelligence behind it."
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Ryan said he had spotted three UFOs before, but the sightings had
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never been coupled with the same emotional feelings.
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He takes avid interst in the unexplained and collects videos and
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magazines concerning UFOs.
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But Skip has never taken an active interest in UFOs and until
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last Thursday did not beleive they existed.
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"I've changed my views since then. I don't think I will ever be
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the same again because it was like a spiritual experience," he
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said.
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Australian Skeptics national secretary Harry Edwards, of Newport,
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said while he had not viewed the video, he beleived the light
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could be a large planet such as Venus.
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"It sounds like it would be rather difficult to manufacture the
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video," he said.
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"But there are all sorts of weird and wonderful things in the
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atmosphere."
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Sydney Observatory education officer Rod Somerville said the
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large bright object could have been Venus which rose in the East
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at 3.15am.
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He said the image could change or appear to shake as a result of
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atmospheric conditions.
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The video may have created some distortion, he said.
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A police spokesman said no helicopters were operating along the
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northern beaches at that time.
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Despite the disclaimers, Ryan and Skip remain convinced of their
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galactic experience.
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"You wouldn't know what it was like unless you were there." said
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Skip.
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"We can't beleive we were the only ones who saw it. It was so
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intensely there.
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"We have tried to speculate about the possibilities and we have
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been unable to come up with anything."
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Meanwhile 10 people called the "Manly Daily" yesterday and
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reported seeing hovering orange lights between Manly and Avalon
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on Monday night.
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Origin: A.L.I.E.N. BBS * Sydney Australia
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Thanks to Scott Hall
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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