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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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   Wasn't West Virginia where the mothman hung out or hangs out?    
      
   Jerry   
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