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JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE...
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Direct from the
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Department of Redundancy Department, a quick explanation of
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a new rash of UFO
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reports in New York's Hudson Valley:
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[Friday, Marc
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h 18, 1988]
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ULTRALIGHTS SPARK REPORTS OF UFOs IN AREA
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By David Flores
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Staff Writer/Gannett Westchester Herald Statesma
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n
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Look up in the sky, it's a blimp, it's a UFO ... it's an ultralight
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aircraft.
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A small group of ultralight aircraft with blinking
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lights were proba-
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bly to blame for the rash of Unidentified Flying Object re
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ports that jammed
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the switchboards of police departments in Westchester and R
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ockland counties
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between 9:30 and 10:30 p.m. yesterday,police said.
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"I
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probably got 50 to 100 calls," said Peekskill state trooper Greg
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Porteus.
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Other area police departments averaged between six and 10 calls while
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some 20 calls came into Gannett We
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stchester Newspapers reporting a large,
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round object with red and white or gr
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een lights floating over their com-
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munities.
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According to Porteus, ult
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ralights are small, quiet, open-bodied air-
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craft that can move at very slow
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speeds. A group of ultralight fliers from
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nearby Stormville Airport in Dutch
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ess County have stirred up this type of
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commotion before, he said.
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"The majority of residents know who they are," Porteus said.
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However, an
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employee who answered the phone at Stormville Airport said
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he didn't know if
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any ultralights took off from there last night.
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Whatever it was, people
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in many parts of the county were left guessing
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and gaping.
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"It just sor
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t of stopped, it was hovering," said Cindy Alayne of Mount
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Vernon, who spotte
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d it near her home. "You could see it was circular."
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"Your classic type of saucer-looking th
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ing," said Bobby Peters of
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Yorktown.
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Peters said he was driving north o
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n the Taconic Parkway in Yorktown
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with his brother Nicky at about 10:10 p.m.
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when they saw the lights. "It
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was just such a perfect formation," he said.
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Other motorists also stopped to see the sight.
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"It was hovering and the
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re were lots and lots of blinking red lights,"
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said Mary Anne Morris of South Salem.
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Morris said she saw whatever she saw between 9:
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45 p.m. and 10 p.m.
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while heading north on the Saw Mill River Parkway in Thor
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nwood. She said
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it was about 1,000 to 1,500 feet above the ground.
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Bob
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by Peters said he wasn't quite ready to start believing in UFOs or
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little gre
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en men[sic]. However, he's not convinced that they're ultralight
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aircraft,ei
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ther.
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"They gotta be pretty darn good to fly in that formation," he said.
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Porteus said the after-hours flying aces are a nuisance, causing undue
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mental
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anguish to area residents.
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"It's dangerous," he said. "Some people get
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very upset about it."
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ile: WSTCHSTR.UFO 3072-T
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19-MAR-88
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Dir: 5 Sec: 1 - UFOlogy
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From: Clark Matthews
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Acc: 12
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GANNETT: The Return of the HVUFO
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