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   SUBJECT: KEY LARGO ABUZZ AFTER UFO SIGHTING                  FILE: UFO1249   
      
      
   DATE OF ARTICLE: January 12, 1989   
   SOURCE OF ARTICLE:  REPORTER   
   LOCATION:  TAVERNIER, FLORIDA   
   BYLINE:  NONE   
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                 KEY LARGO 'ABUZZ' AFTER UFO SIGHTING   
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              EARLY MORNING APPARITION PROMPTS QUESTIONS   
      
        If  you were out in the pre-dawn hours Monday  morning,  you   
   may have been eyewitness to an alien invasion.  The Florida Keys,   
   long known as landing site for Haitian and Cuban refugees as well   
   as  a  favorite  drop-off for drug smugglers,  played host  to  a   
   mysterious early-morning light show.   Some are calling it a  UFO   
   sighting.   
      
        The   apparition  started  out  as  an  ominous   cloud   of   
   luminescent  smoke  hovering over the ocean off  Key  Largo,  but   
   witnesses  said  it performed a series of aerobatics  that  would   
   explain-away   it   being  a   natural   phenomenon.    Tavernier   
   photographer Bill Rigby managed to take a series of photos of the   
   apparition,  but  they  don't show conclusive proof of  an  alien   
   invasion.  Also early Monday morning, several Tavernier residents   
   contacted The Reporter with their sighting reports.   
      
        "It's  nothing of ours," said a spokesman for the  U.S.  Air   
   Force at Homestead AFB.   And agents of the U.S. Customs Service,   
   while  not  revealing  the exact whereabouts  of  their  aircraft   
   Monday morning said it was "unlikely" that they were responsible.   
      
        Accompanying the large cloud-like object were several moving   
   points   of  light.    Witnesses  said  that  the  patterns  were   
   uncharacteristic of any aircraft.  Copies of the photographs will   
   be  examined  by  Air  Force  officials.   In  the  meantime,  no   
   immediate  plans are being made to start an alien welcome  center   
   although  officials  of the Key Largo Chamber  of  Commerce  said   
   Tuesday  that  the word about Key Largo has spread  farther  than   
   anyone thought.   
      
        The  Air  Force later announced that a Trident  missile  had   
   been  launched  from Cape Canaveral moments before the Key  Largo   
   sighting.  It is unknown  if the UFO was, in any way, related.   
      
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