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   SUBJECT: WESTCHESTER COUNTY NY UFO SIGHTING                  FILE: UFO1200   
      
      
      
                      JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE...   
      
   Direct from the    
   Department of Redundancy Department, a quick explanation of   
   a new rash of UFO    
   reports in New York's Hudson Valley:   
      
                             [Friday, Marc   
   h 18, 1988]   
                    ULTRALIGHTS SPARK REPORTS OF UFOs IN AREA   
      
                                    
   By David Flores   
                Staff Writer/Gannett Westchester Herald Statesma   
   n   
      
        Look up in the sky, it's a blimp, it's a UFO ... it's an ultralight   
   aircraft.   
      
        A small group of ultralight aircraft with blinking    
   lights were proba-   
   bly to blame for the rash of Unidentified Flying Object re   
   ports that jammed   
   the switchboards of police departments in Westchester and R   
   ockland counties   
   between 9:30 and 10:30 p.m. yesterday,police said.   
      
        "I    
   probably got 50 to 100 calls," said Peekskill state trooper Greg   
   Porteus.   
      
           
   Other area police departments averaged between six and 10 calls while   
   some 20 calls came into Gannett We   
   stchester Newspapers reporting a large,   
   round object with red and white or gr   
   een lights floating over their com-   
   munities.   
      
        According to Porteus, ult   
   ralights are small, quiet, open-bodied air-   
   craft that can move at very slow    
   speeds.  A group of ultralight fliers from   
   nearby Stormville Airport in Dutch   
   ess County have stirred up this type of   
   commotion before, he said.   
      
        "The majority of residents know who they are," Porteus said.   
      
        However, an    
   employee who answered the phone at Stormville Airport said   
   he didn't know if    
   any ultralights took off from there last night.   
      
        Whatever it was, people    
   in many parts of the county were left guessing   
   and gaping.   
      
        "It just sor   
   t of stopped, it was hovering," said Cindy Alayne of Mount   
   Vernon, who spotte   
   d it near her home.  "You could see it was circular."   
      
        "Your classic type of saucer-looking th   
   ing," said Bobby Peters of   
   Yorktown.   
      
        Peters said he was driving north o   
   n the Taconic Parkway in Yorktown   
   with his brother Nicky at about 10:10 p.m.    
   when they saw the lights.  "It   
   was just such a perfect formation," he said.   
      
           
   Other motorists also stopped to see the sight.   
      
        "It was hovering and the   
   re were lots and lots of blinking red lights,"   
   said Mary Anne Morris of South Salem.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
        Morris said she saw whatever she saw between 9:   
   45 p.m. and 10 p.m.   
   while heading north on the Saw Mill River Parkway in Thor   
   nwood.  She said   
   it was about 1,000 to 1,500 feet above the ground.   
      
        Bob   
   by Peters said he wasn't quite ready to start believing in UFOs or   
   little gre   
   en men[sic].  However, he's not convinced that they're ultralight   
   aircraft,ei   
   ther.   
      
        "They gotta be pretty darn good to fly in that formation," he said.   
      
           
   Porteus said the after-hours flying aces are a nuisance, causing undue   
   mental    
   anguish to area residents.   
      
        "It's dangerous," he said.  "Some people get    
   very upset about it."   
      
                    
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