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87 lines
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Greenwich Time, Sunday, May 3, 1987
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UFOS:
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RECENT SIGHTINGS IN NORWALK PROBABLY A STAR, EXPERTS SAY
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Report to Galactic Command - Re: Fairfield County, Earth.
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Captain's Log: Star Date 5387
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The meteor shower encountered near Xoron 7 weakened the
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ship's cloaking device.
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For about one earth hour, 14 planetary revolutions ago, the
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starship became visible to earth's inhabitants in the geo-
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graphic quadrant known as Fairfield County.
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Evasive strategy was undertaken and the ship was aligned
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with the star Sirius. It was hoped the brightness of the
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star at night would mask our vessel until the cloaking de-
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vice became operational again.
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While several earthlings from societal compounds known as
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Bridgeport, Norwalk, and Darien did report seeing a UFO to
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local authorities, monitoring of communications in the days
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that followed has determined that the ploy was effective.
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Earth scientists have attributed the sightings to the
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star's twinkling.
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Have complete exploratory mission and will return to base. -
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end transmission.
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Whether the circular object with blue, red and green lights that was seen
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hovering over Norwalk on the evening of April 19 is a star or starship - will
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probably never be known.
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Several devotees of exploring UFOs, however, have said that the appar-
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ition was probably the star Sirius - the brightest star in the sky - or an-
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other star called Capella.
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"Its my belief that they were seeing the two stars", said Philip Imbrogno,
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astronomer and board member at the Bowman Observatory in Greenwich.
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Imbrogno drew his conclusions after he interviewed Robert Cole, the
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Norwalk custodian who saw the UFO, and his neighbors on Brookfield Street.
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When stars are low on the horizon at this time of year, Imbrogno said they
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can take on a spectacular appearance because of inversions in the atmo- sphere.
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He said different layers of cold and warm air create a lens effect which
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distorts the appearance of the star.
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"It changes colors and flickers blue, red and green", he said. "It can
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seem strange to someone seeing it for the first time, but this has been a fre-
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quent culprit for UFO sightings in the past."
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Jim Speiser, director of ParaNet in Arizona, a national network of com-
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puter users who investigate paranormal occurrences like UFOs, agreed with Im-
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brogno.
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"These individuals saw a very large bright object in the southwest sky for
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45 minutes and then it disappeared," he said. "Monday was cloudy and it wasn't
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seen. But it was seen again on Tuesday when it was clear. I suspected it was
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an astronomical body."
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Speiser said he ran a computer program called "PC Planetarium" which can
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chart the night sky on any day in the Western Hemisphere, and as he expected,
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Sirius was right where the sightings occurred.
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"I don't want to come out and accuse anyone of being myopic," he said.
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"They may have seen something strange. I can't say for sure. But I suspect it
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was the star."
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Dr. Mel Goldstein, meteorologist at the Western Connecticut State Uni-
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versity said that the atmospheric effect described by Imbrogno is common.
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While Imbrogno, who has investigated 500 cases in the last 15 years, is
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not ready to say that UFOs are visitors from outer space, he does believe that
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in some cases people are seeing something extraordinary.
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"The bottom line is that the UFO phenomena is real," he said. Dale
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Goudie, head of the UFO Information Service in Seattle said his organization
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has documented 300 cases in the United States since 1985.
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"That's only about two percent of the total cases," he said. Imbrogno
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said that even more UFOs than usual will be sighted in 1987. "I think its
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going to be a big year for UFOs," he said. "(Steven) Spielberg will probably
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do another movie and there will be shows on TV which will cause sightings to
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increase. People will be looking to the sky more."
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"While they maintain that UFOs are occurring all the time, several of the
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experts said they believe the latest rise in UFO interest is because of books
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like the best-seller "Communion" -- a purported true story of abduction by
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aliens, and "Intruders", a scientific study of people who claim to have been
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abducted.
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Imbrogno and Speiser said they were pleased with those works. The less
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scientific approach taken in the book and television movie made from Shirley
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MacLaine's book "Out on a Limb," however, has disturbed some in- vestigators.
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Whether Fairfield County will become a hotbed for UFO research is ques-
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tionable. Still everyone agrees that interest in sightings can only grow.
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"Its a very popular subject," Speiser said. "There will always be a
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question mark: Are we alone?"
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