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Police: Strange Sightings North Of Las Vegas [news]
From: Stig_Agermose@online.pol.dk (Stig Agermose)
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 08:53:24 -0800
Subject: Police: Strange Sightings North Of Las Vegas [news]
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Received this from the "Skywatch" list June 25 at 13.56 local Danish
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From: "Steve Wingate" <steve@anomalous-images.com>
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To: IUFO <iufo@world.std.com>, skywatch@phoenix.net
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 17:47:56 -0800
Subject: (Fwd) Police: Strange Sightings North of Las Vegas
Reply-to: steve@anomalous-images.com
Police: Strange Sightings North of Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Add Las Vegans to those sighting strange unidentified
flying objects in the Southwest skies.
Las Vegas Metro Police report "quite a few calls'' Monday night of
people sighting strange lights in the skies northwest of the city, in
the direction of the top secret Area 51 base.
A police dispatcher who declined to give her name said she and other
family members spotted the mysterious object hovering in the sky about
9:30 p.m. PDT.
A Minuteman missile was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
at 8:39 p.m. and the missile's vapor cloud was spotted by Las Vegas
residents. But the police dispatcher said the lights were spotted
northwest of the city, whereas Vandenberg is southwest of Las Vegas.
"It was like a pyramid or V-shaped wedge, with pulsating yellow
lights,'' the dispatcher told The Associated Press. "It split up, then
it came back together. "We got quite a few calls on it. From all
reports, it was something similar to what was seen over Phoenix.''
There have been reports out of Phoenix the past week of odd-shaped
lights hovering above the city in a boomerang formation earlier this
year.
"It wasn't like anything I've ever seen before,'' the dispatcher said.
She said the lights hovered in the sky for about 15 minutes and didn't
appear to be moving, then disappeared.
"It looked like they took the lights of a football field and put them
way up in sky,'' said the dispatcher's niece, who also requested
anonymity. The woman said she has never witnessed such a display in the
37 years she has lived in Las Vegas. She said her husband and their
three children witnessed the lights as well.
"They were these huge round lights, like they were in formation,'' she
said. "They were in a wide V-shape and they broke up and disappeared.''
The woman said she and her aunt began driving toward the location of
the lights while her husband remained at their home on the southeast
side of town.
"Then the lights reappeared in two groups of V's and there were a lot
more of them.''
"We thought the lights were pulsating but my husband was looking at
them through binoculars and he said they were just a steady stream of
bright light,'' the woman said.
She said there were "well over a dozen lights.''
The lights were in the general direction of Area 51, a top secret base
about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, the dispatcher said.
Maj. Steve Boylan of the U.S. Space Command in Colorado Springs, Colo.
said there was no space debris re-entering the atmosphere during that
period that might have caused the lights.
Asked if the lights could have been from the Vandenberg launch, Boylan
responded "Lights do funny things, especially at twilight.''
A spokesman at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas was not immediately
available for comment.
Darwin Morgan, a spokesman for the Energy Department, said no tests
were being conducted Monday night at the Nevada Test Site, northwest of
Las Vegas.
Sharon Singer, a resident of Rachel, Nev., a tiny community near Area
51, said she sighted no lights at the site during the evening.
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