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   SUBJECT: RESEARCHERS SAY PHOTOS SHOW UFO                     FILE: UFO1252   
      
   DATE OF ARTICLE:  January 30, 1989   
   SOURCE OF ARTICLE:  NEWS   
   LOCATION:  PARKERSBURG, WV   
   BYLINE:  NONE (UPI)   
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                          LOOK, UP IN THE SKY   
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                      FLORIDANS SURE PHOTOS PROVE   
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                     UFOS VISITING PANHANDLE AREA   
      
        Gulf  Breeze,  FLA.   (UPI) -- Photographs of an eerily  lit   
   cylindrical object drifting through the night sky have scientists   
   debating  whether  unidentified flying objects are  visiting  the   
   Florida Panhandle.   
      
        More  than 135 Gulf Breeze's 6,000 residents  have  reported   
   seeing  a  strange craft hovering in the skies over the past  one   
   and a half years, the Tampa Tribune reported Sunday.   
      
        One resident, asked to be identified only as "Ed" to protect   
   his anonymity,  has produced startling photographs of the alleged   
   UFO.   Those  pictures,  showing a cylindrical craft ringed  with   
   lights and what may be windows,  lie at the heart of a  simmering   
   battle between two UFO investigating groups.   
      
        The  Mutual UFO Network,  a 20-year-old group of  scientists   
   and layman researchers, believes Ed's pictures are real.  But the   
   Center  for  UFO Studies,  a non-profit group found by  the  late   
   astronomer, J. Allen Hynek, does not.   
      
        The  network  cites a 90-page study done by  Navy  physicist   
   Bruce  Maccabee.   Maccabee  said  Ed could not  have  made  such   
   perfect fakes, and that the pictures are real.   
      
        "A  professional magician would have a difficult time  doing   
   this," he said.   
      
        Maccabee  also cites circumstantial evidence in Ed's  favor,   
   including  sightings  by others who described UFOs  identical  to   
   those in Ed's photos.   
      
        The  center  relies  on its own researchers  and  on  Robert   
   Nathan of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.  Nathan, who conceded   
   he  had  not studied the pictures as completely as did  Maccabee,   
   said  the photos show glaring inconsistencies typical  of  double   
   exposures.   
      
        Mark  Rodeghier of the Center for UFO Studies said the  Gulf   
   Breeze  case had "deteriorated into a shouting match" because his   
   group  was  forced  to play devil's  advocate  when  the  network   
   endorsed the pictures.  That endorsement biased Maccabee's study,   
   he said.   
      
        "Except  those  intimately connected with  the  network,  90   
   percent  of serious UFO researchers think Gulf Breeze is a hoax,"   
   Rodeghier said.   
      
        For  many Gulf Breeze residents,  what the experts think  is   
   beside the point -- they know what they saw.   
      
        "I  was  exhilarated," said Brenda Pollak,  a  City  Council   
   member who said she saw a large, lighted craft twice in one night   
   in spring of 1988.   Ms.  Pollak said she watched the craft hover   
   over Pensacola Bay while, unknown to her, Ed shot pictures of the   
   UFO from only a few blocks away.   
      
        "I can tell you now -- for every one person who has reported   
   seeing  the craft,  there are 10 who talk about it but don't want   
   anyone to know," Ms. Pollack said.   
      
        "I'm not saying that I believe it's from another planet, but   
   it's  something  I  had never laid eyes on  in  my  life,"  added   
   Shirley McConnell.   Mrs.  McConnell and her husband,  who is the   
   medical examiner for Florida's District 1, say that last June the   
   craft  hovered  within  75 yards of their house for  nearly  four   
   minutes before drifting off.   
      
        "People can say whatever they want about me, but I know what   
   I saw.  Ed didn't make this up," Mrs. McConnell said.   
      
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