From: muz@cosmos.pc.my (SangSerigala) The Star (Malaysia) dated October, 18 1995
US Group : Sightings are not UFOs by : Shahanaz Sher Habib

Kuala Lumpur: Mutual UFO Network, the worlds largest organisation studying UFOs does not believe that the sightings of "light-emitting flying objects in Kampung Sepat over the past month are UFOs.

Its international director Walter Andrus said based on previous cases of sightings, UFOs usually moved in a configuration that could not be copied by any object on earth.

"They move with tremendous speed, make fast right angles turns, stop, hover and start again," he said in a telephone interview from United States.

He said a flying object which hovered over several hours was more likely to be "astronomical in nature."

Andrus said from Mutual Network investigations of sightings from all over the world, 90 percent of the reports turned out to be "something mundane or explainable."

Astronomer: Refraction not the cause bye : n/a

The lights which have been appearing near which have been appearing near Kampung Tanjung Sepat Darat in Sepang are not due to an astronomical phenomenon, said a senior astronomer.

Astronomical society of Malaysia member Dr. Ng Kim Chua said that going by witnesses' accounts that the lights were just above the forests, the lights could not have been due to atmospheric refraction.

He said that it was unlikely that it could be an optical like that found in the deserts.

He said whatever the source of the lights was, it must have had a power of its own, since any object coming within the gravitational pull of the earth would drop to the surface burn out.

Meanwhile, Mutual UFO Network international Director Walter Andrus said extra- terrestrial beings are not green.

He said the "green" alien was only a cartoonist's concept depicting "little green people from Mars."

Andrus, who heads the world's largest organisation studying UFOs, said there has never been any record of green aliens in sightings.

"Aliens recorded so far have all been between 122cm and 137cm tall and are white, chalk or grey," he said in a telephone interview from the United States on Tuesday.

Some villagers in Kampong Tanjung Sepat had claimed to have seen two waist- high green aliens.

The village has become the centre of attention because of sightings of "light- emitting flying objects" over the past month.

Andrus said the organisation had previously received reports of UFO sightings in Malaysia, but upon investigations these turned out to be fakes.