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   PID: Synchronet 3.19b-Win32 master/a2a9dc027 Jan  2 2022 MSC 1928   
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   SUBJECT: WEST VIRGINIA UFO SIGHTINGS                         FILE: UFO1201   
      
      
      
   From:  Executive News Svc. [72135,424]   
   Subj:  APwv 07/24 W.Va.Briefs   
      
      BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) -- Sand Branch Road residents, state police   
   and professional UFO watchers say they have no explanation for   
   bright white lights that moved across the nighttime sky, converged,   
   and then disappeared behind a mountain.   
      "It looked like two big headlights for a while," is how Gina   
   Mahaffey described Wednesday morning's phenomenon. "Then it   
   appeared to be one, and it moved.   
      "It didn't move constantly. It moved a little bit then would   
   stop, and then it would move a little bit more."   
      Mahaffey's husband, Allen, noticed the lights while taking an   
   early morning swim and notified police. Trooper John Ferda, who was   
   dispatched to the scene, admitted he was startled when the call   
   didn't turn out to be a crackpot case.   
      "I definitely saw it but I have no idea what it was," the   
   trooper said Wednesday. "It looked like three flashlights real   
   close together and it appeared to be moving. Well, it did move,   
   from left to right."   
      Other troopers and a Raleigh County deputy also observed the   
   lights.   
      Robert Gribble of the National UFO Reporting Center, a private   
   scientific agency in Washington state, said earthly reasons can   
   explain most sightings.   
      "Usually they turn out to be just plane lights ... or objects   
   that turn out to be other types of aircraft," Gribble said. "But   
   it would be very difficult to come up with an explanation for   
   something like (Mrs. Mahaffey's description)."   
   =END STORY=ParaNet rates this case S3/P4 on the newly-adopted Hynek Scale (see   
   library file S-P.TXT)   
      
                    
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