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   SUBJECT: FEWER UFO SIGHTINGS IN 1989                         FILE: UFO1160   
      
      
   POST-GAZETTE, Pittsburgh, PA - Jan.20,1990   
      
      
   by Wash Gjebre   
   Post-Gazette Staff Writer   
      
        More than 100 UFO sightings were reported in Pennsylvania last year, in   
   addition to dozens of unexplained incidents, including ice falling from the sky   
   in May and sightings of Bigfoot, says a Greensburg-based group that   
   investigates   
   such reports.Stan Gordon, founder and director of the Pennsylvania Association   
   for the Study of the Unexplained, said 168 reports of UFO sightings were   
   recorded in 1989, 87 fewer than the previous year.   
      
        The associates also investigated 51 reports of other unexplained incidents   
   last year, a decrease from the 125 reported in 1988.  Gordon, who runs the   
   volunteer clearinghouse from his Greensburg home, said he did not know why the   
   number of reports decreased.   
      
        He said many of the reports of UFO sightings were explained as meteors,   
   planets, aircraft lights, unusual atmospheric conditions or searchlight   
   displays.  But 27 sightings in Westmoreland, Butler, Indiana, Bedford, Crawford   
   and other counties could not be explained, he said.   
      
        Among the reports of UFO sightings in 1989, he said, were these:   
      
        * Two women said they saw a silent, luminous object with flashing red   
        lights hovering over Squirrel Hill at 2:57 a.m. May 17. The women filed a   
        police report on the incident.   
      
        * In three sightings, strange objects were persued by military jets. On   
        Aug. 31, UFOs were spotted in several counties within a short time. On   
   Oct.   
        28, "an unusual hovering light that picked up speed as numerous military   
        jets in single formation chased it" was reported in Butler County, Gordon   
        said.   
      
        * A number of triangular-shaped aerial objects were seen in the afternoon   
         of Dec. 23 near a power station in Warren County. "Once again, as we have   
         seen in other years, these objects seem to be attracted to energy sources   
         of various types, and several sightings occured near power plants in the   
         state," Gordon said.   
      
        On May 21, the association was notified that a piece of ice had fallen   
   from   
   a clear sky near Ligonier. A lab found that the material contained lead,   
   cadmium, arsenic, aluminum, and zinc, Gordon said. He said the high metal   
   content "seemed to indicate the possibility that the ice may have originated   
   from a high altitude aircraft, yet weather data for that area at that time   
   indicated a low chance for icing conditions."   
      
        The association continues to receive reports of sightings of a creature   
   called Bigfoot, especially in the Chestnut Ridge area of Westmoreland County,   
   Gordon said. A fisherman in Donegal reported that at 12:15 a.m. April 20, he   
   saw   
   "a 7-foot-tall , broad shouldered, hair-covered, upright creature" that made   
   loud shrilling sounds before moving into the woods.   
      
        Gordon said reports of unexplained phenomena could be made on the non-   
   profit association's 24-hour hotline, (412)838-7768.   
      
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