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   SUBJECT: UFO UPDATE                                          FILE: UFO1164   
      
      
   REGISTER-GUARD, Eugene,OR - JAN. 22, 1990   
      
      
      
        Remember the New Year's Eve UFO sighting by a group of Eugene partygoers,   
   reported here last Monday? Enough others have called or written since then to   
   convince me that there was something in the sky that night.  But what it was   
   remains-as it always does in UFO stories-a tantalizing unknown.   
      
        Sherill Bowers reported last week that she and a group of 20-30 people at   
   a   
   party at East 15th and Moss watched five lights move slowly, in varying   
   formations, across the sky for about twenty minutes after midnight.  Robert   
   McCaffrey, a real estate salesman who lives in the Ferry Street Bridge area,   
   said five people at his house saw the same thing. The large bright lights   
   appeared in the south and moved north, he said.   
      
        "What we were looking at was an almost perfectly diamond-shaped formation,   
   and finally a fifth light appeared like a tail on a kite," he said. "What was   
   striking was there was absolutly no sound.  "When they came overhead of us,   
   they   
   split formation, two lights in one line, two in another," he said. "My son   
   (Sean, 16) ran in and got his camera and took two or three photos."   
      
        Sean's pictures show two bright spots-slightly squiggly, because of the   
   camera movement-in the sky. But the photos wouldn't reproduce well in the   
   paper.   
      
        McCaffery said the lights dissappeared over the Coburg Hills after about   
   ten minutes. Nancy Dear, a teacher who was at the McCaffrey's party, gave a   
   similar description. As Bowers had, she phoned every agency she could think of   
   in a futile search for an explanation.   
        Betsy Steffensen and anither group watcher the lights from the panaoramic   
      
   view at her house on Skyline Boulevard. Binoculars didn't help in   
   identification. "When we put the binoculars on them, they were still just these   
   lights," Steffensen said.  Eugene poet Ingrid Wendt and her daughter saw them   
   from near the University of Oregon's Hayward Field. Runners Marcia and Bill   
   McChesney watched them from across the river.   
      
        "We were returning to our friend's party after running the Midnight Run in   
   Alton Baker Park," Marcia McChesney said. "The strongest drink we consumed that   
   evening was coffee." But the sightings seem to have been limited to the Eugene   
   area. There have been no reports from elseware in the state. At the University   
   of Oregon's Pine Mountain Observatory nead Bend, for example, research   
   assistant   
   Doug Hawkins said he was working that night and saw nothing but stars and   
   planets.   
      
        McCaffery dosen't belive the lights were anything extraterrestrial, but   
   he's still curious.  "This has just had us all baffled," he said. "There has to   
   be a logical explanation."   
      
        If only one of those lights had dropped a bottle-with a message in it...   
      
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