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   SUBJECT: SIGHTING IN FLORIDA                                 FILE: UFO1259   
      
      
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   DATE OF ARTICLE:  January 29, 1989   
   SOURCE OF ARTICLE:  Tribune   
   LOCATION:  Tampa, Florida   
   BYLINE:  None   
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   REPORTED UFO SIGHTINGS IN FLORIDA   
      
        August 1952--A Boy Scoutmaster in West Palm Beach encounters   
   "ball  lightning" and surmises that it is a UFO.   Ball lightning   
   consists of balls of fire that fall swiftly from clouds and  then   
   explode on the ground.   
        August   1954--Five  sightings  of  UFOs  take  place   near   
   Gainesville.   
        November 1955--At least 15 reports of UFOs in Marion County.   
        November 1957--Sightings in Florida escalate.   Headline  in   
   Tribune reads, "Will Sputnik Collide With a Flying Saucer?"   
        July 1964--Thirty eight reports of UFOs in Clearwater during   
   Fourth  of  July  fireworks display.   These are entered  in  Air   
   Force's Project Blue Book but later are revealed to be part of  a   
   prank.   
        April   1,   1965--A  flying  saucer  hoax,   complete  with   
   photographs, appears in Tribune's "In Our Town" column by Patrick   
   Kelly.   Pictures  attributed to a WFLA-TV newsman actually  were   
   taken by Tribune photographer.   
        April  1965--First of UFO sightings reported by  Brooksville   
   resident John Reeves.   Reeves says a spaceship,  about 20 to  30   
   feet in diameter, landed near his home and humanoids got out.  He   
   says  the craft then retreated at an estimated speed of 5,000 mph   
   and was visible in the sky for only 10 seconds.   Reeves says  he   
   retrieved  a  piece  of  paper inscribed  with  strange  symbols.   
   Investigators from MacDill Air Force Base and the Pentagon  later   
   decide  Reeves'  experience is an elaborate hoax.   The piece  of   
   paper  is found to be of common material,  and the message  is  a   
   simple  code  for the words,  "Planet Mars,  are you coming  home   
   soon?  We miss you very much.  Why did you stay away so long?"   
        April  1966--Sighting  of  UFO by passengers and  pilots  of   
   airplane flying over Ocala toward Tallahassee.   Florida Governor   
   Hayden Burns was on the airplane.   
        May  1966--Cocoa  Beach  Chamber  of  Commerce  erects   and   
   dedicates UFO landing strip at Fisher Park, next to Cape Kennedy.   
   A  welcoming committee is formed and signs indicate that it is  a   
   UFO hospitality station.   
        December  1966--Brooksville  resident  John  Reeves  reports   
   another encounter with a UFO.   This time, he says, visitors left   
   footprints and impression of landing gear in the soil.   
        August 1968--Brooksville resident John Reeves reports taking   
   trip with UFO creatures and walking on the moon.   He says he has   
   acquired  additional evidence from the aliens,  including a piece   
   of metal rarely found in nature and moon dust that resembles  the   
   substance brought back by American probes.   
        September  1973--On four consecutive nights,  UFO  sightings   
   are reported throughout Florida.   
        May 1974--UFO reported in south Tampa,  near intersection of   
   Gandy Boulevard and Manhattan Avenue.   Eyewitness Carolene Heart   
   says  the UFO came and went several times between the hours of  7   
   p.m.  and  2  a.m.  one  evening.   She  says  witnesses  include   
   personnel from MacDill Air Force Base,  Tampa Fire Department and   
   local  television stations.   Those organizations have no history   
   of  the sighting,  however,  nor was there news coverage  of  the   
   event.   
        September  1977--Numerous individuals,  including Bay County   
   sheriff's deputies and security personnel from Tyndall Air  Force   
   Base,  report seeing a UFO in Calloway near Panama City.   One of   
   the  deputies,  Bobby Nowell,  says the UFO was visible for  more   
   than three hours in the southeastern sky.   An amateur astronomer   
   and former pilot,  Nowell says, "There was no logical explanation   
   for what I saw."   
        January  1979--UFO  sighting  reported in  Winter  Haven  by   
   police officer Ron Perdue.   
        January  through  July  1980--More than  six  UFO  sightings   
   reported in Pasco County.   
        June  1986--Many  reports of UFOs sighted  in  Hillsborough,   
   Pinellas,   Manatee   and  Sarasota  counties.    Meteor   shower   
   suspected.   
        June  1987--On  several  consecutive  nights,  residents  of   
   Silver  Spring  Shores,  Goosky Prairie,  Citra and Ocala  report   
   seeing  a  UFO.   The witnesses include Marion  County  sheriff's   
   deputy  Jay  Manifold,  who says the craft had "a total  of  four   
   lights,  red  and green," and was hovering at treetop  level  for   
   about 10 seconds.   
      
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