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   SUBJECT: WYTHEVILLE, VA UFO SIGHTINGS                        FILE: UFO1203   
      
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       23-Oct-87 16:12 MST   
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   By DIRK BEVERIDGE Associated Press Writer    
      WYTHEVILLE, Va. (AP) -- Five people who claim to have seen UFOs said Friday   
   a secret military operation has stirred up the recent flying saucer craze in   
   Wythe County, but they offered no evidence to back the assertion.    
      "It appears we are dealing with something of a military nature," said news   
   director Danny Gordon of radio station WYVE. He and four other people talked   
   about sightings they said they made Thursday night.    
      "A lot of people are scared," Gordon told reporters. "Will the military   
   please tell us where they are?"    
      Spokesmen for various branches of the military have denied knowledge of   
   operations that would have prompted the series of flying saucer reports that   
   began in September.    
      One of the members of the panel assembled by Gordon, New York photographer   
   John Stember, said he took a videotape and still photographs Thursday night of   
   a dome-shaped object flying in tandem with a smaller, roundish object.    
      "I saw this large, sort of orange glow," Stember said. "The first seemed to   
   be a large domed shape, with an ambient light behind it."    
      He said his still pictures were being processed, but the pictures would be   
   available to reporters. But when approached after the news conference, Stember   
   said he had removed his film from the area to protect it.    
      Another member of the panel, Andrew Convery, a systems analyst with the   
   Virginia Beach-based Navy software contractor Computer Dynamics Inc., said he   
   believed there had been some kind of crash in the area. He refused to elaborate   
   and refused to say why he would not elaborate.    
      "We have very substantial reasons, we just can't produce any proof," Convery   
   said.    
      Convery said he had come to Wytheville on his own time because he for years   
   has followed UFO stories. He said he thinks the military is operating the   
   mysterious flights because other military craft operate routinely in the area.    
      Convery said he does not think the military would fly its jets at low   
   altitudes in the area of flying objects it could not identify.    
      "They fly aircraft over the top while these things are flying down below,"   
   Convery said.    
      Gordon said some of the UFOs have swooped down and harassed motorists in the   
   county, at times chasing them down the road with spotlights on them or even   
   running some people off the road.    
      "Imagine you're a bored fighter jock," Convery said. "To relieve the tedium   
   you chase a local around."    
         
         
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