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   SUBJECT: TAPE REVEALS IMAGE OVER OAK HARBOR SKYLINE          FILE: UFO1284   
      
      
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   DATE OF ARTICLE:  March 24, 1989   
   SOURCE OF ARTICLE:  Skagit Valley Herald   
   LOCATION:  Mount Vernon, Washington   
   BYLINE:  Mary Barouh   
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   UFO?  TAPE REVEALS IMAGE OVER OAK HARBOR SKYLINE   
      
   By Mary Barouh   
   Staff Writer   
      
        OAK  HARBOR--It wasn't until 16 year old Alfred Chan watched   
   his  videotape that he saw a barely discernible  object  hurtling   
   over the roof tops of the city.   
        Was it a bird?  Was it a plane?   
        While others who have seen the tape are skeptical,  Chan,  a   
   sophomore at Oak Harbor High School, thinks the object might be a   
   UFO.   
        "I'm  glad  to  have  evidence,  because  I  know  there  is   
   something out there," Chan said.   
        He  said he knows his story will be greeted with  disbelief,   
   but  he prefers to let people know apparent phenomena from  outer   
   space  "can be seen anywhere,  even in daylight.   And it doesn't   
   have to be in the deserts of Arizona."   
        Chan  is a member of the ROTC Drill Team at school,  and  in   
   his  spare  time plays basketball and football.   He  also  seeks   
   information about UFOs in television documentaries and  discounts   
   science fiction movies as "silly."   
        His father,  Dominic,  a retired Navy Petty Officer, said he   
   can't  find any logical explanation for the mysterious object and   
   is willing to believe it's a UFO.   
        Anyway,  "people see what they want to see," when looking at   
   the tape,  he commented on whether viewers are willing to believe   
   its an object from another world.   
        The  tape  shows a small dark object in the lower corner  of   
   the screen that rapidly disappears.  Then through the clouds, the   
   light  seems to reflect off the classic shape of a flying saucer,   
   the type depicted in 1950s science fiction movies.   
        The  whole  shadowy scene takes a matter of seconds  on  the   
   screen.   
        Chan  captured  the unknown shape in the view finder of  the   
   family's  new video camera on the afternoon of March 9  at  their   
   Oak  Harbor home.   He said he was shooting from inside the house   
   through a window.   
        He focused the camera on golden clouds to the east and  then   
   panned to other parts of the skyline.  Then he played the film to   
   see how well the camera had performed.   
        That's when he saw "something there," he said.   
        Chan called his parents and they agreed there was definitely   
   something strange about the shape that came and went.   
        Whether  the  faint object on the tape is merely a trick  of   
   light,  a quirk in the tape or a sighting of a UFO remains to  be   
   seen.   
        After   realizing  the  tape  contained  something  unusual,   
   Dominic  Chan said like many other people he didn't know what  to   
   do about a possible UFO.   
        He took the tape to the Oak Harbor Police.   
        Sgt.  Rick  Wallace  said he couldn't  discern  clearly  the   
   outline  of the object,  "but there seemed to be something moving   
   in the clouds."   
        Wallace said he has no expertise in identifying this type of   
   phenomena.   
        "It  could have been something on the tape or the  fact  the   
   camera was moving about quite a bit," Wallace said.   
        Chan  also  called Whidbey Island Naval Air Station and  was   
   told  the base wasn't conducting air operations in the area  that   
   day.   
        "The  Navy  doesn't have anything that can do  the  type  of   
   maneuvers  depicted  on  the tape," said  Navy  spokesman  Howard   
   Thomas, who has viewed the tape.   
        "The  Navy essentially doesn't have the resources locally to   
   technically evaluate the tape," he added.   
        The  Air Force used to collect this type of  data,  but  now   
   refers calls to the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle.   
        The  Chans  are now waiting to see if a photo taken  of  the   
   images  on  the  TV  screen  will be clear  enough  to  send  for   
   identification  at the center.   They decided against  sending  a   
   copy of the video.   
        The  volunteer organization has optics experts who can  help   
   identify  if a sighting is a "natural or man made phenomena or  a   
   UFO," said Director Robert Gribble.   
        "The  center  deals  with all sightings in  North  America,"   
   Gribble said.   
        The number of calls varies considerably, "but now the center   
   is handling six per day which is considered slow," Gribble added.   
        Gribble said that after investigation,  "only about 8 to  10   
   percent of the reports are classified as UFOs."   
      
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