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   SUBJECT: ATC, FAA AT ODDS ON UFOs                            FILE: UFO1285   
      
      
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   DATE OF ARTICLE:  March 26, 1989   
   SOURCE OF ARTICLE:  Rocky Mountain News   
   LOCATION:  Denver, Colorado   
   BYLINE:  Kris Newcomer   
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   AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS, FAA AT ODDS ON UFOS   
      
   By Kris Newcomer   
   Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer   
      
        The  government  is  blaming a power outage,  but  some  air   
   traffic  controllers say that's not what caused apparent UFOs  to   
   appear on radar at the Denver Air Route Traffic Control Center in   
   Longmont.   
        "These  unidentified  targets looked like  actual  aircraft,   
   with  apparently normal speeds and altitudes," said  air  traffic   
   controller Kevin Cain.   
        In  comments  released Friday,  Cain said the  UFO  incident   
   occurred  Tuesday--luckily at a slow time of day.   The  Longmont   
   center  controls aircraft flying across Colorado and Wyoming  and   
   parts of five other states.   
        During the incidents,  Cain wrote that "some controllers had   
   a  dozen  or more of these targets merging with  actual  aircraft   
   targets over a half hour period."   
        Mitch   Baker,   a   spokesman  for  the  Federal   Aviation   
   Administration,   said  the  problem  was  traced  to  a  damaged   
   component in the center's computer system.  He theorized that the   
   damage was caused by a commercial power outage in Grand  Junction   
   the  day before false targets started appearing on Longmont radar   
   screens.   
        But Cain said he doesn't blame the power outage.   
        Cain  said he believes "the new computer just  went  haywire   
   for that period of time."   
        Neither  official  so  much  as hinted  that  the  blips  on   
   Longmont   radar  screens  were  representative  of  unidentified   
   objects.   
        The  FAA is sticking with the power  outage  theory,  Barker   
   said.   
        "Yes, I'm sure," he said.   
        "I'm  not saying that's the official explanation.   I  mean,   
   you can never say 'definitely,'" he said.   
        "Of  course,  I can't swear on the Bible or anything.   But,   
   I'm sure."   
      
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