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SUBJECT: PARANET:APOLLO UFO SIGHTING:DBW FILE: UFO2525
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Date: Tue Mar 29 18:35:09 1988
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From: DALE B. WEDGE (ae511)
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Subj: ParaNet:Apollo UFO Sighting:DBW
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Well, the Sig is getting boring, so its time for another UFO
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upload. This one comes from ParaNet and is entitled "Apollo
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Program UFO Sighting from 1960's Comes to Light."
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(Washington State MUFON, March 21, 1988.) An interesting UFO
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report from the 1960's involvingthe test firing of an Apollo
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space program booster rocket recently came to light as a
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result of a follow-up to the January 21, 1988 Whidbey Island
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UFO sighting. Dan MacIndoe of Oak Harbor, Washington received
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many phone calls from other UFO witnesses as a consequence of
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reporting his UFO sighting to a local radio station and giving
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out his home phone number. One of them was from Paul J. Allen
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of Snohomish, Washington, who told him of his encounter with
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a UFO while working for GE/NASA in the summer of either 1966 or
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1967.
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A quality control inspector working for General Electric
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at the NASA Mississippi Test facility at the time, Mr. Allen
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was at work during the st captive test firing of the
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second stage, Saturn IV-B rocket. He doesn't recall the
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exact date but he believes it was probably during the
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summer of either 1966 or 1967. (The date should be easily
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obtnable from archived historical records of the
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Space program.)
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At approximately 11:00 p.m. he stepped outside the Data Pro-
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cessing Center building for a smokeaand to view the test
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firing. He noticed a brig tlight approaching rapidly from
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the east, which he took to be a light from a plane at first.
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However, it approached the Test Facility at an unbelievable
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speed, slowing over the Saturn V-B test stand before contin-
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uing on towards the Saturn IV-B test stand, whereupon it
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stopped and stood over the exhaust blast from the test
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firing for a minute to a minute and a half. He descirbed the
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UFO as 200 feet in diameter. It hovered at 3,000-5,000 feet
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during the stage 2 captive firing, directly over the
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exhaust blast updraft until the firing ended. Then it
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approached at about 30 mph, came over the data processing
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center for about aother minute, and left travelling almost
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straight up.
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Mr. Allen states there were 19 peop who witnessed the UFO
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where he stood and another 9 to 11 people on the roof of the
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Control Facility Building, who had been filming the test
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firing and also saw it. No pictures of the test firing
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were ever shown to his group although they were shown film
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footage of all other firings. They were told that a weather
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balloon with a flashlight attached had been the cause
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of the UFO report and that was what they had seen. They were
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also told that if they discussed the sighting with the public
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they woulose their jobs.
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A complete report of this sighting is being sent to
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MUFON National Headquarters and to CAUS.
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