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   > SUBJECT: WYTHEVILLE, VA UFO SIGHTINGS                        FILE: UFO1203   
      
   > PART 2   
      
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   >     23-Oct-87 16:12 MST   
   > Sb: APva 10/23 1653  UFO Sightings   
   > Fm: Executive News Svc. [72135,424]   
      
   > 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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   Wow this takes me back! I remember seeing this in a newspaper in the day!   
      
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