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From: titan@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (Titanium Knight)
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
Subject: ARTICLE: Many spot 'alien boomerang'
Message-ID: <70Xc5B1w165w@sys6626.bison.mb.ca>
Date: 30 May 93 11:14:05 GMT
Organization: System 6626 BBS, Winnipeg Manitoba Canada
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From: Sheppard Gordon Date: 21-05-93 23:22
To: All Msg#: 76
Subj.: Bayport Boomerang
Area: UFO
Many spot 'alien boomerang'
05/20/93
ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
Some say the strange, boomerang-shaped object seen recently in the
Suncoast sky could have been an extraterrestrial spacecraft.
Something out of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, perhaps.
Others think more down-to-earth (or close to it) explanations are
more likely.
Last month, a Hernando County sheriff's deputy and six other
witnesses reported seeing the mysterious object over coastal Bayport
and Pine Island. After the Times published articles about the
sightings, more than a dozen people from Pinellas Park to Hudson
called to say they saw something similar.
They usually described seeing an impossibly large and silent
object, shaped like an Australian aboriginal weapon.
A Stealth fighter, maybe? Swamp gas? Aerobatic planes flying in
formation?
Linda Lawrence of Clearwater reported the most recent sighting
April 27. About 8:30 p.m., she said, she stood in the driveway with
her husband, Randy. She glimpsed a V-shaped object with bluish-white
lights in the sky.
"It was moving pretty steady, kind of streaking through the sky,"
she said. "It was gone in a minute or two. I didn't know what it
was. It didn't look like a plane or a helicopter. I didn't
immediately think UFO. Tell people you saw a UFO and they think
you're crazy."
Gary Posner, founder of the Tampa Bay Skeptics, said he doubts
the unidentified flying object was a space hot rod capable of going
from zero to light speed in nothing flat.
"I have no idea what the thing is," Posner said. "Maybe someone
was playing a joke. Maybe it was a plane in the area for one of the
air shows, creating a little UFO mischief. I consider that a much
more likely explanation than beings from another planet deciding to
hover over Bayport, Florida. "
Jim Greenen disagrees. To say the least. According to Greenen,
the 51-year-old owner of what he calls "THE LARGEST UFO MUSEUM
IN THE WORLD," the Bayport Boomerang proves extraterrestrials are
coming to Earth.
Greenen's museum is on the second floor of a strip mall on
tourist-thick International Drive in Orlando. Above a T-shirt shop.
Two doors down from a travel agency.
The museum features photographs and stories of UFO sightings from
around the world. A videotape called UFO: The Best Evidence plays
repeatedly. The swinging restroom doors even have an Outer Limits
sort of theme: A surprised, big-headed, big-eyed alien squats in an
outhouse while the mother ship hovers above.
"We've got pictures, government documents and stories," Greenen
said. "What we don't have is any actual physical evidence. If I did
have that, I'd be YANKED OFF A STREET CORNER BY GOVERNMENT
INTELLIGENCE."
He said humanoid aliens have been on Earth for more than 30
years, offering technology in exchange for SECRECY AND THE RIGHT
TO MUTILATE THE OCCASIONAL CUD-CHEWER.
UFO investigators Eugene and Jean Brown don't refute the
possibility the object is from another world. Alien ships may be
attracted to our area by the Crystal River nuclear power plant in
Citrus County, they said.
But they don't believe Greenen's theory that aliens live among
us, galactic nannies spoon-feeding us technology.
The Browns are UFO investigators with the Pinellas County branch
of the Mutual UFO Network. MUFON, a non-profit corporation based in
Texas, serves as an international sightings clearinghouse.
Recently, the couple met with witnesses in Pasco and Hernando
counties, seeking statements about the strange object. At least two,
both fundamentalist Christians, REFUSED TO COOPERATE because they
thought the object was the WORK OF THE DEVIL, Mrs. Brown said.
"I think these people are definitely seeing something real," she
said. "I don't know about the devil, though."
One caller recommended a Times reporter check the December 1991
issue of Popular Mechanics for a possible explanation.
An article in that issue by Gregory T. Pope describes a top
secret U.S. government plane, "a black, silent, boomerang-shaped
vehicle that stretches between 600 and 800 feet across and performs
circus pony maneuvers at air speeds as low as 20 knots."
Since 1989, the article says, witnesses have reported such an
object passing over rural streets and desert wastes. It supposedly
uses "constellation camouflage" - lights on the hull that simulate
stars. It hovers and rotates in place.
And, of course, it doesn't officially exist.
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