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- Msg#: 313 Date: 01 Apr 95
- 17:13:00
- From: Bridget Smith Read: Yes Replied:
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- To: All Mark:
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- Subj: Eastern Ore UFO Sighting
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- -=> Quoting Bridget Smith to All <=-
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- BS> The recently talked about sighting in Eastern Oregon prompted
- BS> requests for the WHOLE story...
- BS> So here it is.
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- BS> Imnaha residents baffled by weird light show
- BS> who think they may have seen a UFO
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- BS> "...I don't care if anybody believes me I know what I saw."
- BS> Diane Baquet, Imnaha resident
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- BS> By Rick Swart
- BS> and Barbara Kriley
- BS> of the Wallowa County Chieftain
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- BS> Imnaha residents this week witnessed what they believe may
- BS> have been an alien space craft hovering above their home near the
- BS> confluence of Horse Creek and the Imnaha River.
- BS> Diane Baquet, 50, and her son, Bryan, 23, say that on Monday
- BS> night they observed an incredible light show for about an hour.
- BS> The Baquets were reluctant to talk about the experience and
- BS> did so only at the prompting of Mrs. Baquet's husband, Russ, and
- BS> employer, Imnaha area rancher Don Hubbard, after Hubbard overheard
- the
- BS> family's account of the event Monday morning.
- BS> "Bryan told me not to tell anybody because nobody would
- BS> believe us," Mrs. Baquet explained after we caught up with her along
- BS> the road to Dug Bar. "But I'm getting old, and I don't care if
- anybody
- BS> believes me. I know what I saw."
- BS> At first what they saw looked like a meteor. Only the
- BS> streaking light stopped over the middle of the river above their
- place,
- BS> where it hovered for nearly an hour.
- BS> Mrs. Baquet described the image as a round circle of white
- BS> light with a column of light rising straight up from the center and
- two
- BS> other columns of light extending out of the bottom in a triangular
- BS> pattern. In addition, she said, the white ball was emitting bars of
- BS> white toward the ground and around the walls of the canyon and red,
- BS> blue, and white light from what appeared to be some sort of beacon.
- BS> Bryan Baquet said that from a distance the image looked like a
- BS> saucer but through binoculars it looked "more round above the
- lights."
- BS> His mother described the magnified appearance of the image "like a
- BS> brain ... with veins running over the top of it."
- BS> "With the reflection from the lights we couldn't see the
- BS> bottom but could see a round dome, just like an outline, above the
- BS> lights," Bryan Baquet said. Both Baquets said the image moved from
- BS> point to point at lightning speed, including at right angles. They
- also
- BS> said there was no motor noise associated with the lights.
- BS> "It would come forward, then back off real fast," she
- BS> described. According to separate accounts from both witnesses,
- BS> the image darted over a knob on the west side of the Imnaha River
- BS> referred to locally as "Crazyman's Point," where it seemed to hover
- for
- BS> another five minutes or so before all signs of light disappeared.
- BS> At 11 p.m., the image was gone and Bryan decided to leave for
- BS> his house, located about three miles down river at the Corral Creek
- BS> Ranch. Mrs. Baquet said she worried that what they had just witnessed
- BS> may have been an alien spacecraft and that it might follow Bryan's
- BS> headlights. Bryan reported that as he was leaving his mother
- BS> said, "If they come back and chase you, shut off your lights and
- crawl
- BS> under the pickup." "It's an eerie feeling," she later described
- BS> the incident, "'cause it's like something you have no control over
- ...
- BS> you know what you see but your mind doesn't want to accept it."
- BS> At one point, Mrs. Baquet said, she considered going back into
- BS> the house and turning off the kerosene lamps but decided that if the
- BS> object was an alien craft its occupants were already aware of her
- BS> family's presence. She estimated the object was about the size
- BS> of a helicopter, and in fact a helicopter crew under contract with
- the
- BS> Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has been working in the area
- BS> this week, conducting surveys of salmon spawning areas, or redds, in
- BS> the Imnaha River. Vic Coggins, ODFW area biologist, said his
- BS> crew had gone out in the chopper on Monday morning but had not flown
- BS> after dark on Monday. If the object witnessed by the Baquets
- BS> was indeed some type of air- craft it is unlikely it would have been
- BS> detected by any of the radar systems which cover the region,
- according
- BS> to Andy Plamondon, an air traffic controler at Felts Field in
- Spokane,
- BS> Wash. He said that most control towers have a radar umbrella of
- BS> less than 40 miles, so the only place where such an event might show
- up
- BS> is on the radar screens of aircraft who were flying in the area at
- that
- BS> time. The Imnaha area, like much of the Pacific Northwest, has
- BS> had its share of alleged encounters with unidentified flying objects
- BS> (UFOs) over the years and is not all that unusual, according to
- various
- BS> sources interviewed. "It's a common experience at lookouts, and
- BS> I would not be surprised that a couple living out in the sticks would
- BS> have that experience," said Tom Bates, a reporter for The Oregonian
- who
- BS> has written about UFOs. "It doesn't surprise me ... it doesn't
- surprise
- BS> me a bit." Bates once worked for the Forest Service at one of its
- BS> lookout towers and logged his own eyewitness account of a UFO
- sighting
- BS> on his official logbook. Bates as a reporter for The Oregonian,
- BS> subsequently attended a convention of former lookout station guards
- and
- BS> was amazed by the "number of people who testified that they had seen
- a
- BS> number of spectacular obser- vations around the Northwest." It was
- BS> striking, he said, to hear these stories in great detail years after
- BS> the fact, in some cases, from more than one source.
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