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- FOR RELEASE JANUARY 1991
-
- FROM GEORGE D. FAWCETT III
- PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTOR
- Mutual UFO Network of North Carolina, Inc.
- 602 BATTLEGROUND ROAD
- LINCOLNTON, N.C. 28092
- USA
- (704)735-5725 (nights)
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- NORTH CAROLINA UFO SIGHTINGS ON THE INCREASE IN 1990
- .....SITUATION THE SAME WORLDWIDE TOO!
-
- UFO sightings in North Carolina showed an increase in
- 1990, as did worldwide encounters during the same period of
- time, a veteran civilian UFO investigator and researcher said
- today.
- George D. Fawcett III, 61, who serves the North Carolina
- unit of the Mutual UFO Network Inc. (MUFON) issued his twenty
- third annual report for the Tar Heel state this morning.
- Fawcett, who has investigated UFO sightings for the past
- 46 years noted that such observations had been reported from
- Oxford, Mount Airy, Morganton, Asheboro, Lincolnton, Vale,
- Charlotte, Durham, Boone, Dudley and Garland.
- Collectively speaking, the crop of current UFO reports
- in North Carolina had many common characteristics, such as
- large objects seen at low altitude mostly at night and the
- early morning hours and had multiple lights (sometimes
- portholes) and were making whining or humming sounds.
- Eyewitnesses in different parts of the state were unaware of
- similar sightings elsewhere, so collusion on the part of
- witnesses had to bee ruled out. Many were long duration
- observations.
- Elsewhere in the United States, Russia, China, Japan,
- England, Belgium, Australia, and South America sightings were
- also on the increase with pilot reports, landings, radar
- trackings & video filming the order of the day.
- On November 20-21 multiple eyewitnesses, along with
- Ronald T. Currin reported seeing a circular UFO (approx. 50
- ft. in diameter) above an open field off highway 96 near
- Oxford. On one occasion the UFO passed over a car and lit up
- the whole area. The white and orange lighted object took off
- vertically at night and left the area.
- On October 30 at 9:30 pm Mrs. Irena E. Stafford in Mount
- Airy reported a dome-topped UFO hovering outside her home and
- making a high pitched whining sound. Mrs. Stafford had just
- left home to take her dogs out to walk, but her dogs refused
- to leave the house, instead they whined, shook and rubbed
- their ears. The UFO, which was bigger than a plane had "red
- and green " lights that rotated on the bottom edge of the
- object. It was seen for approx. 28 minutes. While the UFO
- hovered, it gave off "beams of light."
- On October 20 Robin Church contacted a UFO hotline
- service in Washington State to report two oval-shaped UFOs
- "joined together with a bar-like device," that she saw in
- Morganton at 10:19 pm. The UFO was as long as a small car and
- maneuvered in the sky at a 200-300 foot altitude for 3 to 4
- minutes.
- On October 11 in Asheboro Hilda Lilly reported finding a
- 30 foot wide circle on the ground in the afternoon. It looked
- like a UFO had set down Lilly said, but no UFO was seen. The
- "circle" had a one foot wide band on its outer edge. The
- Agriculture Department could not explain the "circle."
- On October 9 in Asheboro S.C. and Pat Richardson along
- with two other eyewitnesses saw a big object "like a fireball
- in the sky" that split into three pieces. The UFO made a
- thumping sound while it hovered and then it went straight up.
- Possible meteor, but some of the witnesses discounted this
- explanation. Radio Dispatcher Debbie McKenzie reported
- receiving over 100 phone calls concerning this sighting,
- which occurred during the early morning hours.
- On October 1 in Lincolnton a woman textile employee saw
- an "amber color football-shaped UFO that dropped down from
- the sky and disappeared between a group of trees at night.
- (witness name on file).
- During late September three 3-foot circles were found on
- the ground at Vale, while an "18 foot circle" was reported
- from Charlotte.
- During May (date unknown) Andrew Sullivan and his 14
- year old son were cutting the backyard grass when they
- observed a silver football-shaped UFO moving about 100 feet
- above the ground at 4 pm in Charlotte. The UFO, the size of a
- standard car was moving silently North to South in the
- direction of the Charlotte-Douglas International Airport.
- In mid-March a large disc-shaped UFO (estimated to be 45
- to 60 feet wide) the size of a small house at treetop level
- by a businessman (name confidential) at 2:30 am. The witness
- said the UFO was about 150 to 300 feet away and had a series
- of "lighter areas" (windows?) across its lower edge. Durham
- was the sighting location.
- On February 20 at 9:13 am in Boone several witnesses
- reported a UFO to Watauga County Sherriff's Department. No
- details have been released.
- On February 16 at Dudley Jay Stallings encountered a UFO
- (larger than a standard car) while driving on the highway 117
- By-Pass at 6:10 pm. The UFO looked like an Eastern Airline
- plane without its wings and had "a series of blinking lights"
- across the middle of its cigar-shape. For some time the UFO
- hovered above the Georgia Pacific Smokeworks.
- On February 15 at 5:40 am a former U.S. Air Force pilot
- Art Canady reported seeing a "bright light, like that of a
- fluorescent bulb" hovering above Garland. Canady estimated
- that the UFO was hovering at a 1,500 foot altitude. Next the
- UFO moved upward 4,000 to 5,000 feet in a matter of seconds
- and on another occasion it flew parallel to NC highway 411.
- It was last seen by Canady at 6:43 am so the sighting
- duration was for an hour and three minutes. A large number of
- other eyewitnesses saw the object over the same time period.
- (other eyewitnesses names on file).
- Six of the twelve encounters occurred during the fourth
- quarter of the year. Eyewitnesses of UFOs, either old or new
- sightings are encouraged to report them to MUFON-NC, Inc. in
- care of George D. Fawcett III, 602 Battleground Road,
- Lincolnton, N.C. 28092. Reports will be kept confidential if
- so requested. Phone calls can be made to (704)735-5725, but
- collect calls cannot be accepted.
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- *UFO Reports still average 150 per day world wide and North
- Carolina still ranks fourth in the United States.