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   SUBJECT: VALLEY PEOPLE SHARE CLOSE ENCOUNTERS                FILE: UFO1286   
      
      
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   DATE OF ARTICLE:  March 5, 1989   
   SOURCE OF ARTICLE:  News Tribune   
   LOCATION:  Tempe, Arizona   
   BYLINE:  Bill Roberts   
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   VALLEY RESIDENTS SHARE CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH UFOS   
      
   First of two parts   
      
   By Bill Roberts   
   Tribune writer   
      
        Are  unidentified flying objects simply the bogy that  lives   
   within each of us?  The one that believes something dark and evil   
   waits beneath the bed at night?  That suggests the sounds outside   
   are more than leaves whipped by a midnight storm?  That envisions   
   the tree itself,  given the proper moonlight and blackness,  as a   
   gnarled, shriveled body with a soul all it's own?   
        Or  are  UFOs real?   Do saucerians far beyond  our  earthly   
   mental abilities study us as we do monkeys at the zoo?   Do  they   
   walk among us?  Or attempt to communicate?  Or occasionally steal   
   us in the night?   
        If  there is a line between such neatly opposing viewpoints,   
   then  the stories that follow almost surely grow from  it.   They   
   come from reputable people--and more of them than ever are coming   
   forward  today--with detailed accounts of close  encounters  they   
   dared not make public in a less sympathetic era.   
        "I don't go out and look for UFOs,  and I don't go out of my   
   way to be up on them," says 38 year old Lyn Caldwell, a secretary   
   in  the  flight  controls  department of  the  McDonnell  Douglas   
   Helicopter Co.  in Mesa.  "But I know what I saw.  What I saw was   
   so clear and precise."   
        Caldwell  and the others are not connoisseurs of UFO  tales,   
   nor  do they live on distant continents.   They are  from  Apache   
   Junction,  Tempe and Mesa.  In each case, their UFO encounter was   
   a  memorable  but  one  time  experience,   not  a  regular  diet   
   sandwiched  between  reading  the palms and studying  the  stars.   
   Moreover, they are family people with professional reputations at   
   stake.  To tell their stories, they say, is to subject themselves   
   to  ridicule  and  criticism.   Several  said  they  didn't  care   
   anymore.   
        Perhaps  most  importantly,   many  of  their  stories   are   
   remarkably  similar in description and detail,  though they never   
   have talked to each other.   
        What Caldwell knows she saw, as did others that day in Ohio,   
   was  an oblong,  silver object that hovered about 150 feet  above   
   them.   There were no death rays there or masked  invaders,  just   
   simple  flashes  of  colored  light coming from  an  object  that   
   vanished half an hour later at interstellar speed.   
        Her  story  begins in suburban Toledo  in  late  1972.   Her   
   husband at the time,  a Toledo police officer,  was driving their   
   1969 Shelby Cobra toward St. Lukes Hospital to visit her brother.   
   She was riding beside him.   
        Caldwell  says she spotted an object not quite as large as a   
   blimp  moving above them.   Red,  blue and white lights  pulsated   
   from capsule like windows across a clear, afternoon sky.   
        When  they arrived at the hospital,  the object hovered just   
   beyond  the parking lot.   It would move slowly,  then  it  would   
   stop.  It made no noise, she says.   
        "It  was  low enough that we could see the windows  and  the   
   lights coming out of them," says Caldwell.  "Maybe 15 or 20 other   
   people  in  orderly outfits gathered in the parking lot to  watch   
   it.   It  was still,  then it went straight up.   It was like  it   
   evaporated.   It was gone.   When it was over, the man next to us   
   said, 'They're going to think we're nuts.'"   
        Like  the  others Caldwell says she has seen only  one  UFO.   
   She and her husband were reluctant to discuss what they saw,  and   
   nothing about it was printed in Ohio newspapers.   
        Another  woman who now lives in Mesa was taking care of  her   
   four young children in Marion,  Ohio,  about the same time.   Her   
   encounter  100 miles south of Toledo was similar  to  Caldwell's.   
   Three years later in the Panhandle of Texas, a woman who today is   
   a Tempe clothing store manager,  describes a similar vehicle that   
   landed near her home.   
        What these people have in common is this:   They kept  their   
   stories  private  and only reluctantly discuss  them  now.   What   
   their  minds  saw  at the time remain very  clear  to  them,  but   
   something  else  also happened.   The sightings evoked  a  common   
   emotion that set them apart from the "normal crowd" and made them   
   alone in the experience.   
      
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