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from Maine, New York, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Arkansas, Louisiana,
Kentucky, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Florida, as well as from the
town of Leongatha in the province of Victoria in Australia. There had also
been multi-witness sightings of a large UFO in Pennsylvania. Both of the
Pennsylvania sightings appeared to involve the same object, described as
bright silver and elliptical, the size of three buses in length. On the night
of August 12-13, the reports from Arkansas, Louisiana, and Kentucky
described a large cloud-like ball of fire. In Clark County, Kentucky, the
appearance of an enormous ball of fire that lit up the whole sky was
accompanied by a sonic boom that made houses shake, along with an odor
described as similar to gunpowder. From Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and
Ontario came a flood of reports about "a spiral cloud with a star-like
object beside it." An air traffic controller, Tim Jones, saw it both visually
and on his radar screen, and stated that the way it was behaving was unlike
any aircraft he had ever seen. On the same night in Leongatha, Victoria
Province, Australia, an English teacher and a science teacher at the local
high school reported that a UFO with flashing lights had hovered and
maneuvered above them for about forty minutes.
On the following day, the scramble for explanations began. Both
NASA and NORAD* denied any involvement in the phenomena, and further
specified that it did not correspond with any known Soviet space
activity. Speculation that a new Japanese satellite might have exploded
was squelched by a statement from Japan's Tanageshima Space Center
that their satellite was functioning normally.
At this point, as it usually does whenever a UFO incident occurs that is
difficult to explain away in conventional terms, the U.S. government
brought NASA expert (or establishment hatchet man, according to your
point of view) James Oberg into the controversy to make a statement. Mr.
Oberg stated authoritatively that what everyone had seen was fuel being
dumped from a rocket on the Japanese satellite, as the rocket boosted the
satellite into orbit, and that was that. Although this explanation left many
questions unanswered (in particular, concerning the incidents in Clark
County, Kentucky, and Syracuse, New York), it was accepted tamely
without protest by the entire news media of this great nation as the final
solution to the mystery of the night.
A lady named Lorraine Whitaker in Lanesboro, Pennsylvania, got a
clear photograph of what had been visible in the sky over her area on the
night of August 12, which depicts a sharply defined, intensely bright cigar
shape, emitting a swirling cloud of luminous gas.
Paul Oles, who is the Planetarium Director at the Buhl Science Center
in Pittsburgh, made the following statement: "We know what it wasn't,
* North American Air Defense Command