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By MATT GRIMISON Press-Journal Staff Writer The case of the unidentified fly- ing object — possibly a blimp — that was spotted in the Sebastian skies last week is being investi- gated by a national UFO organi- zation. But Scott Gibson, a Stuart resi- dent and Mutual UFO Network investigator, said the group's main task is to identify sightings as aircraft or other terrestrial things before declaring the crafts interplanetary. “We approach these as normal objects misidentified,” Gibson said Monday. Several area residents reported seeing a strange illuminated ob- ject cruising south over Sebastia…

1994 €€] was amazed because I couldn’t see any wheels or cy 1 the ground and it 3 or 4 feet off the ground. 99 COURANT, Hart ford, CT Conference, meeting on UFOs planned @ Two events are scheduled for people interested in learning more about UFOs and extraterrestrial life: * Omega Communications will hold its seventh annual UFO conference Oct. 8 and 9 at the Holiday Inn in North Haven. Information on attending the conference can be obtained by writing to John White at P.O. Box 2051, Cheshire 06410. The cost is $175 for the two-day event. ¢ The state's chapter of the international Mutual UFO Ne…

started out telling only a few trusted people. Bob Luca says when he had his first conscious sighting — on Route 68 at the Durham/Wallingford line — he confided in only his parents and one close friend. “T never talked about it,” he says. ‘I was worried about getting put into a mental institution.” It was 1967 and he was traveling from Meriden toward Madison, planning to spend the day at the shore. “I was on my way to the beach when I noticed guys on the railroad weren't working. They were looking up,” Bob Luca says. He was near the mining operation by the freight railroad line. Bob Luca says …

HERALD, Haxtun, CO - Sept. 22, 1994 Caller reports unexplained, weird light in the sky By Jean Gray Editor and publisher A light in the sky, ET, space ship or whatever, the woman re- porting "it" swears if she’s crazy, so are a lot of other people. A woman, who wishes to re- main anonymous, says lights ap- peared in the skies northeast, but more east than north of Fleming on Sunday night from about 9 p.m. until 10:10 p.m. "It lasted forever,” the woman said by phone on Monday. "It was like the stuff you see on TV—like something you'd like to explain away, but can't." The woman said she and a n…

z S Second part of a five-part series aukee By JOE MANNING and JERRY RESLER Sentinel staff writers SENTINEL, Mi similar in detalt. These experiences have reportedly changed lives for a wide mix of people who believe they have been abducted. They include a physician, reaj estate agents and business people, all of whom were interviewed for this story. They report their clothing ts sometimes re- moved and they are physically examined and left with scars. They feel aliens choose them_and study their families. Many suffering from UFO abduction syndrome fear their children have Deen or will Wisconsi…

- Third part au of a five-part series 23 Sentinel staff writers Many ences — eveli those who ha ridiculed or called crazy. SENTINEL, Milwaukee, natioas for what ts happening to the sorcalled abductees and that many of them are not adequately receiving treatment for the very real terrors they are experienc- ing. The Canadian researchers, from Carleton University in Otta- wa, studied 49 people who said they had seen strange lights or objects in the sky or had close en- counters with them, including, in a few cases, abductions. “There was no mental illness,” Patricia A. Cross, one of the re- sear…

1994 7, FREE PRESS, Burlington, VT - Oct. BY MOLY WAS into 3 are difficist ty believe dnd to prove; No wor lor Gh that fis imental state with he the te te his. Snter and auto’ Tis UCAAR), at a time Talis scrging Ss ead THAT ‘fined te the tabloitts. Now sd prune froth Fars Encounters: Fhe ndoa Larry King special government pul UFOs ata Nevada military ‘d an-alexed pad the Southwest is according’ to the survey by Third Millenium. What’s going on? “There’s definitely something at work,” said Joe Citro, a Bur- lington author who has inter- viewed dozens of UFO believers. “Whether it’s internal or …

Fe =) 27, 1994 Oct. OREGONIAN, Portland, OR - By ROBIN FRANZEN of The Oregonian staff ILLSBORO — Tenure has been liberating for Brian Crissey, chairman of the computer-science depart- ment at Linfield College. Otherwise, the professor probably wouldn’t be talking quite so freely about an eyebrow-raising subject that has consumed a portion of his life ever since 1963, when he had a close encounter with something that look- ed suspiciously from out of this world. We're talking about unidentified flying ob- jects here. But don’t write Crissey off yet. He’s not the kind of half-baked guy who rambl…