home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Date: 11-Mar-87 00:17 MST
- Subj: APwi 03/10 Belleville UFO
-
- BELLEVILLE, Wis. (AP) -- Lavonne Freidig says she first thought it was
- a distant flock of geese, but closer observation showed an object shaped
- like an airplane fuselage with no wings.
- Belleville had recorded another sighting this year of an unidentified
- flying object.
- "It just hung there. I watched it and watched it," she said Monday of
- the object or objects she and her son, Bill, saw in the sky at dusk Sunday.
- After several minutes, the hitherto motionless object took off without a
- sound, leaving a vapor trail and several smaller objects behind it, she
- said.
- "It was really strange," said Ms. Freidig, adding that a local
- businessman and several of his out-of-town relatives, as well as residents
- of nearby Paoli also saw the object, and that someone also photographed it
- with a camera he had in his car.
- She said she and her son called the Dane County sheriff's office and
- were given the number of a national unidentified flying object reporting
- center to call.
- The cigar-shaped object appeared to be about as large as a pen held at
- arm's length, she said.
- In mid-January, Belleville police officer Glen Kazmar reported seeing
- lights much brighter than a star suspended in the sky west of Belleville
- for more than a half hour one evening.
- He said at the time that a Federal Aviation Administration radar center
- in Illinois detected a slow-moving object on its radar screens on the night
- in question.
- Jack Smith, manager of the FAA control tower at the Dane County Regional
- Airport in Madison, said Monday that tower operators did not report any
- unidentified objects on their radar screens Sunday evening.
- He said the tower received no reports of sightings from pilots.
-
-
- Copyright 1987 by the Associated Press. All rights reserved.
-