From: thomas@obc.is.net
UFO Mysterious Craft Caught On Tape Buzzing A Small Town
Paula Linville
American Reporter Correspondent
Colorado Springs, CO
9/30 - 10/1/95
SALIDA, Colo. -- An unidentified flying object buzzed the rural community of Salida, Colo. recently -- it was caught on tape. Tim Edwards was working in his backyard with his six year-old daughter Brandy on a Sunday morning when the girl began pulling at his pant leg and pointing to the sky.
Edwards looked up and saw a bright, oblong object flying about 60,000 feet above him.
"Definitely not of this world," he said. Distance and altitude can be hard to judge, but while Edwards watched a commercial airliner flew between him and the object. After watching for several minutes with his father and older daughter, Laray, Edwards got his camcorder out and began taping.
The seven-minute tape has been turned over to Village Labs in Phoenix, Ariz. The preliminary report issued this week indicates that a "large ... solid three-dimensional cylindrical object [flying] at high altitude. It is demonstrating unusually rapid darting movements." The report also confirms eyewitness accounts of small lights or bright objects coming from under the larger object.
Edwards and his family weren't alone in their sighting. Nine people called the astronomy department at Colorado University in Boulder to ask about the daylight sighting. The National UFO Hotline confirmed that a series of sightings had occurred in Idaho involving similar objects.
Since then Edwards has turned over an additional seven hours of UFO footage to Village Labs for analysis. Even the local sheriff, Chester Price, has been a witness to these strange daytime lights. Edwards said another lab has been called in to help with the analysis of the latest tape.