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   SUBJECT: AMATEUR CAMCORDER USERS RECORD "REAL" UFO           FILE: UFO1141   
      
      
   NEWS, Buffalo, NY-March 25, 1990   
      
      
      
   By  Buzz McClain   
   Special to The News   
      
        Dave Aaron has a tantalizing proposition:  "real" UFOs on videotape.   
        Aaron, a Yucaipa, Calif., tape editor and video writer who goes by the   
   name Video Dave, put out the call in May 1988 for camcorder owners who have   
   filmed unidentified flying objects to send their tapes to him.   
        His UFO Audio-Video Clearinghouse now has hundreds of entries in its   
   catalog: submissions have come from around the world.   
        I called Aaron and asked him to put together a sample reel of the best   
   shots he had to offer.   
        I watched the tape with Larry Bryant, 51, a federal employee at the   
   Pentagon who in his spare time sues the government to release classified UFO   
   material, and Rob Swaitek, 36, a physicist with the U.S. Patent Office who also   
   serves on the executive committee of the Washington-based, non-profit Fund for   
   UFO Research.   
        Bryant and Swaitek are long-time UFO investigators who were anxious to see   
   what Aaron's clearinghouse had to offer.   
        The dozen taped clips Aaron sent were rough-hewn, clearly shot by   
   amateurs, and the tape was made of what were obviously copies of copies of   
   copies.   
        The shots last from a few seconds to a few minutes, and editor Aaron had   
   replayed them each three times, sometimes in slow motion, sometimes with   
   magnification on certain areas of the screen.   
        It took a minute to get used to the quality-these are not filmed in the   
   best of conditions-but Bryant and Swaitek seemed enraptured from the start.   
        Avid readers of UFO reports, they were thrilled to see taped footage to   
   accompany the familiar documentation, and they preceded some of the clips with   
   enlightening background comments.   
        They knew the names of the sightings-the ones at Great Falls, Mont.:   
   Tremonton, Utah; the Colorado desert; Guatemala City, and from a plane over New   
   Zealand-and filled me in with details.   
        "These are the best films we've seen," Bryant said at one point.   
        The best was yet to come.  On a separate tape Aaron sent his newest clip,   
   a 15-second sighting shot in Japan by a couple testing a new video camera.   
        An oblong object, red on the bottom with a white light at the top, is seen   
   rising over a ridge not far from the camerma.  The object rises above the trees   
   and gradually glides out of the frame.   
        Conclusive?  No: Unless you are the one the event is happening to, you   
   will always harbor reservations about what you're seeing on tape.   
        The clips are chilling and thought-provoking-especially if they are   
   real-but because there is no narration (Aaron records classical music for the   
   background), it helps to know the circumstances of the footage.  UFO buffs will   
   enjoy the tapes most; skeptics will continue being skeptical.   
        Aaron's catalog includes footage detailing such phenomena as cattle   
   mutilations, underground UFO bases, UFO burn cases, vats filled with human body   
   parts and the like.  Audie cassettes include  interviews, original radio shows   
   and call-in programs.   
        Aaron custom-edits each video-tape in VHS or Beta format based on your   
   selections from the catalog; each two-hour tape goes for $30.  Audio tapes are   
   $9.95.   
        To get a catalog, send $5 to UFO Audio-Video Clearinghouse,  P.O. Box   
   342-JN, Yucaipa, Calif.  92399-0342.  If you have footage you would like to   
   donate, call Dave's 24-hour number, a (714)795-3361.   
      
                    
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