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SUBJECT: UFO STOPS COPS IN THEIR TRACKS FILE: UFO2447
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This article was on the front page of the Lincoln Journal, 1/28/94.
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-=BEGIN ARTICLE=-
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UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT STOPS COPS IN THEIR TRACKS.
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By Margaret Reist.
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It was a weird night for Lincoln police officers Dave Munn and John
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Clarke.
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Strange things can happen late on a cold Saturday night, when police
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officers working the night shift can be the only people out and about.
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But last weekend at about 4 a.m. Sunday, things seemed even stranger,
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Munn said.
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First of all, he and Clarke had a conversation about UFOs, stemming
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from a discussion of a television program. Different.
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That conversation was interrupted when the officers were sent to check
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a report of two men running around outside in their underwear at 18th
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and J streets. Odd.
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Then while Munn and Clarke were driving to the area, in seperate
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cruisers, both saw an object high up in the sky with a tail of fire
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and colored lights flickering at its base. As it passed in their line
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of sight behind the state Capitol, it disintegrated in a spectrum of
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colors, kind of like a fireworks display. Whoaaaa - VERY strange.
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"It was so bizarre," Munn said. "We were sitting there thinking,
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`What's going to happen next?'" Both got on the radio and said, "Did
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you see that?"
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The officers talked to a resident concerning the reported disturbance
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- who also happened to see the strange flying object - but didn't find
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any men running around in their underwear.
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Munn was curious enough about what he saw to call the Lincoln
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Municipal Airport to see if they'd picked up anything on radar. He was
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told he'd have to call Omaha about that. He wasn't that curious.
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But at the end of his shift, Munn returned to the department and
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learned that four other officers had seen the object.
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The incident was reported to Scott Colborn by the resident to whom
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police talked at 18th and J streets.
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Colborn, director of the Fortean Research Center which investigates,
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studies and collects information on logic-defying occurances, called
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Dr. John Kasher. A physics professor at the University of Nebraska at
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Omaha, Kasher is the head of the state chapter of the Mutual UFO
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Network. Kasher said he plans to investigate to see if there is a
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plausible explanation for the sighting.
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Munn is sure there is, though he believes in the concept of UFOs.
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"But to describe it as a flying saucer or extraterrestrial, no," he
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said. "But, who knows?"
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At first, he said, he thought it was a plane crashing but it was too
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high in the sky for that.
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His best guess: space junk or possibly some kind of comet.
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A caller to a local radio station suggested it was caused by the
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recent earthquake in California. There was also a small earthquake
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Monday evening in northeast Nebraska.
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But Ray Burchett, professor and research geologist in the University
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of Nebraska-Lincoln's conservation and survey division, ruled out that
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possibility.
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Although there have been reports of colored lights connected to
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earthquakes, that normally happens during or immediately preceding an
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earthquake and is usually seen by people close to the epicenter, he
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said. An earthquake causes the atmosphere to become highly ionized,
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like in a thunderstorm, which can result in lightening-like effects,
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he said.
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But an air traffic controller at Eppley Airfield in Omaha who saw the
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object had another explanation: a satellite re-entering the
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atmosphere.
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The controller, who asked not to be identified, said a fellow worker
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also saw the object Sunday morning. He concluded it was a
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falling satellite because air traffic personnel had seen similar
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things in the past that were satellites burning up as they re-entered
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earth's atmosphere. The object was too high to be captured on radar,
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the unidentified controller said.
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So there's the explanation for the strange events last Sunday morning.
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Maybe.
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-=END ARTICLE=-
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