From: GeebeeR@aol.com
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 13:14:57 -0400
Hi Gang,
At MUFON last night Dr. Leir and Derrel Sims related their sighting on the night the sky lit up over the western U.S.. The object they saw streaked across the sky 15 minutes earlier than the "green" object that got all the press. It was, according to Leir, a golden color, and was leaving gold and silver sparks in its wake. This object was seen to come down near the Rocketdyne facility, located in the foothils north east of L.A.
Santa Barbara/Ventura MUFON member Dr. Tal, also saw this object, from above the smog, in the foothills, and also said it come down near the Rocketdyne facility. Friday he drove to that facility, where he had worked once, and was turned away by armed guards in "strange military uniforms, who had the demeanor of Special Forces men.They were stern and authoritative. I turned back!".said Tal.
It is the opinion of Leir, Sims, and Tal, that an interplanetary craft landed at and departed the Rocketdyne facility.
Don Robertson Carpinteria-Summerland COASTAL VIEW
'I've never seen anything like it'
October 4, 1996
Web posted at: 11:45 a.m. EDT
LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- A mysterious flash lit the Western sky from San Francisco to central New Mexico, fueling speculation that a UFO whizzed by, a low-flying plane swooped overhead or a chunk of space rock fell from the sky.
What the thing was remains a mystery, though an astronomer said it might have been a "piece of asteroid."
People from California to New Mexico reported the strange flash shortly before 9 p.m. Thursday. Witnesses said it was an intensely bright bluish-green light which streaked across the sky for just a few seconds.
Kevin Mullins with Kern County California Fire Department told CNN they received several calls from people claiming to have seen the mysterious light. (13 sec./234K AIFF or WAV sound)
Christine Church of Belen, New Mexico, described the object as having a row of five to six lights lined up horizontally. At first, she thought it was an airplane about to crash, but when she went out to investigate she found nothing. (8 sec./187K AIFF or WAV sound)
"There was no noise, no crash and the lights were gone," Church told CNN. "I've never seen anything like it."
A television news helicopter pilot said he swerved to avoid what he at first thought was a spotlight from another helicopter.
But NASA officials downplayed the sightings saying the object might have been a falling satellite, and an astronomer at Los Angeles' Griffith Park Observatory said the flash was probably caused by space debris burning up as it entered the atmosphere.
"This is probably the biggest flash we've seen in two years," said astronomer John Moseley. "The meteor was probably a crumbly piece of asteroid, or possibly a fragment of a comet."
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