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SUBJECT: RIDDLE IN THE SKY FILE: UFO2863
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Is it a plane? A planet? Reports of mysterious object revive UFO debate
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Grand Rapids PRESS News Service, January 31, 1995
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MUSKEGON - They're baaack!
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They may not be alien spacecraft, but less than a year after UFO sightings
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stirred West Michigan, new reports have returned of mysterious objects in
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the night sky.
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More than a dozen Wolf Lake area residents late Saturday told Muskegon County
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Sheriff's deputies they spotted a strange circular object in the northeast-
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ern sky.
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Deputies, responding to Suzanne Bowen's call at 439 Grover, saw the intensely
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bright thing, too.
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"The object appeared to be circular in shape and seemed to remain in a
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stationary position," deputies reported.
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Central Police Dispatch operators reported the sighting to the National UFO
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Sighting Center. The National Weather Service told deputies it might be a
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"pulsar" - rotating neutron stars.
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But most neighbors who watched Saturday's clear northeastern skies didn't
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buy the "pulsar" explanation. They said whatever it was, it emitted an in-
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tense white light from which viewers could see hints of red and green.
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"I'm really baffled by whole situation," Bowen said. "It wasn't like
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'saucers' or anything like that. It was pretty to watch. It seemed to be
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spinning to us."
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Neighbor Sue Kiesten saw the phenomenon, too, and chalked it up to something
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more earthbound than interstellar craft. "I think it was an airplane,"
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Kiesten said. "All we could see was lights blinking, red and green. It was
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moving from west to east...like an airplane.
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"We watched it as it went on across the lake and disappeared."
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But Sue Hruskach isn't so sure such a conventional explanation is sufficient.
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"It was too bright to be a star," said Hruskach, who believes the bright
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light was made up of three objects making a "V" formation.
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The night sky was clear, the temperature cold, sighters said.
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Walter Andrus, director of the Texas-based Mutual UFO Network, said it's
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likely the sighting has a natural explanation. "You have planet Mars in the
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eastern sky and it has a reddish tinge to it," Andrus said. "The higher it
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gets it loses some of its red and it gradually rises as the earth rotates."
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Andrus suggested area residents watch the northeastern and eastern sky
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tonight. "If it is Mars, it wlll be there again. If it's not, then it's
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something else," Andrus said. "(But) 80 to 90 percent of these things can be
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explained."
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Almost a year ago, several West Michigan residents saw a globe-shaped object
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that emitted an intense white light travel from the central part of
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Michigan's lower peninsula to Holland.
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At the same time, a National Weather Service radar operator saw the "craft"
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on his radar scope as a Holland police officer watched whatever it was fly
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over Lake Michigan.
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The report drew national attention because of a dramatic tape of the radar
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operator's amazed explanations as he watched his screen track the flight of
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the still-unexplained phenomenon.
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