Subject: ARTICLE: Many spot 'alien boomerang'
Date: 30 May 93 11:14:05 GMT


 From: Sheppard Gordon                       Date: 21-05-93 23:22
   To: All                                   Msg#: 76
Subj.: Bayport Boomerang
 Area: UFO
 
 
 
 Many spot 'alien boomerang'
 05/20/93
 ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
 
 Some say the strange, boomerang-shaped object seen recently in the
 Suncoast sky could have been an extraterrestrial spacecraft.
 Something out of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, perhaps.
 Others think more down-to-earth (or close to it) explanations are
 more likely.
 Last month, a Hernando County sheriff's deputy and six other
 witnesses reported seeing the mysterious object over coastal Bayport
 and Pine Island. After the Times published articles about the
 sightings, more than a dozen people from Pinellas Park to Hudson
 called to say they saw something similar.
 They usually described seeing an impossibly large and silent
 object, shaped like an Australian  aboriginal weapon.
 A Stealth fighter, maybe? Swamp gas? Aerobatic planes flying in
 formation?
 Linda Lawrence of Clearwater reported the most recent sighting
 April 27. About 8:30 p.m., she said, she stood in the driveway with
 her husband, Randy. She glimpsed a V-shaped object with bluish-white
 lights in the sky.
 "It was moving pretty steady, kind of streaking through the sky,"
 she said. "It was gone in a minute or two. I didn't know what it
 was. It didn't look like a plane or a helicopter. I didn't
 immediately think UFO. Tell people you saw a UFO and they think
 you're crazy."
 Gary Posner, founder of the Tampa Bay Skeptics, said he doubts
 the unidentified flying object was a space hot rod capable of going
 from zero to light speed in nothing flat.
 "I have no idea what the thing is," Posner said. "Maybe someone
 was playing a joke. Maybe it was a plane in the area for one of the
 air shows, creating a little UFO mischief. I consider that a much
 more likely explanation than beings from another planet deciding to
 hover over Bayport, Florida. "
 Jim Greenen disagrees. To say the least. According to Greenen,
 the 51-year-old owner of what he calls "THE LARGEST UFO MUSEUM
 IN THE WORLD," the Bayport Boomerang proves extraterrestrials are
 coming to Earth.
 Greenen's museum is on the second floor of a strip mall on
 tourist-thick International Drive in Orlando. Above a T-shirt shop.
 Two doors down from a travel agency.
 The museum features photographs and stories of UFO sightings from
 around the world. A videotape called UFO: The Best Evidence plays
 repeatedly. The swinging restroom doors even have an Outer Limits
 sort of theme: A surprised, big-headed, big-eyed alien squats in an
 outhouse while the mother ship hovers above.
 "We've got pictures, government documents and stories," Greenen
 said. "What we don't have is any actual physical evidence. If I did
 have that, I'd be YANKED OFF A STREET CORNER BY GOVERNMENT
 INTELLIGENCE."
 He said humanoid aliens have been on Earth for more than 30
 years, offering technology in exchange for SECRECY AND THE RIGHT
 TO MUTILATE THE OCCASIONAL CUD-CHEWER.
 UFO investigators Eugene and Jean Brown don't refute the
 possibility the object is from another world. Alien ships may be
 attracted to our area by the Crystal River nuclear power plant in
 Citrus County, they said.
 But they don't believe Greenen's theory that aliens live among
 us, galactic nannies spoon-feeding us technology.
 The Browns are UFO investigators with the Pinellas County branch
 of the Mutual UFO Network. MUFON, a non-profit corporation based in
 Texas, serves as an international sightings clearinghouse.
 Recently, the couple met with witnesses in Pasco and Hernando
 counties, seeking statements about the strange object. At least two,
 both fundamentalist Christians, REFUSED TO COOPERATE because they
 thought the object was the WORK OF THE DEVIL, Mrs. Brown said.
 "I think these people are definitely seeing something real," she
 said. "I don't know about the devil, though."
 One caller recommended a Times reporter check the December 1991
 issue of Popular Mechanics for a possible explanation.
 An article in that issue by Gregory T. Pope describes a top
 secret U.S. government plane, "a black, silent, boomerang-shaped
 vehicle that stretches between 600 and 800 feet across and performs
 circus pony maneuvers  at air speeds as low as 20 knots."
 Since 1989, the article says, witnesses have reported such an
 object passing over rural streets and desert wastes. It supposedly
 uses "constellation camouflage" -  lights on the hull that simulate
 stars. It hovers and rotates in place.
 And, of course, it doesn't officially exist.
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