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U.S.Cutterh1Gulf of Mexico Reports
Sighting Mysterious 'Object' in Sliy
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Associated Pre.,
f:av€ling at an estimated 1000 of light with no definite -~hape,
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A brilliant mystery object niles per hour, International 1resembling the planet Venus."
was reported sighted yester-
ews Service reported. How-/Shockley said there were no
day in southern skies by a ve1·, at one point, the object vapor trails or any other in­
Coast Guard cutter. even as ppeared to remain stationary clications as to the object's
Air Force special investigat•j and hover above the waters be-}method of propulsion.
One
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~rs c~ec_ked a flurry of ear- rore it resumed Its erratic,estimate of its height place{!
Iler,, s1mllar reports.
1flight.
it at 2000 feet.
The Co~t G1:1ard cut~er Se-
[The cutter's captain, Cmdr.
[G I e n n Northcutt. Willis,
bag?_, crmsrng m th~ Gulf of1c. H. Waring, said the objC'ct /Okla., r~nch~r and member o
:\lex1co_~bout 200_miles south first ap. peared on thP. ship's the Un1vers1ty of Oklahom J
of _Lou1s1ana, r_ad1oed th_at_ an ,.dar screen as a "good trong Board of Regents, reported
obJect resembling "a br1lha.ni
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that on Saturday he and fiv
planet with a high rate of
p" at..5:10 a. m. and w s lost others had watched '·a bril
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speed" \\ as seen for about • a northerly direction t 5:37 liant. mysterious light tha
three seconds at 5:21 a. m. . m.
,looked like the planet Venu
(CST).
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LJn this time, the sl<ipper !~agnif~ed many, _many ti~~s."
The Sebago s message !'aid said the object which came as 1 he obJect, he said. was VISlble
the object was tracked on the ~lose as two ~ iles to ie
ves- more than half an hom·.]_
,·csscl's rad;ir screen for 27 cl was actually seen y four
Sightings of strange obJ~cts J
minutes and that, during that
1e~11bers of the crew
One, have been reporte~ from W\de
period, the object flitted 0 11 1 ns. Wayne D. Shock y, de- If scattered sections of i~
and off the screen sevcr:il cribed it as a "brigh poi11t lJnited States, most of the
mes. Crewmen caught &i~t
near i ecret miUtary installa
r it only for a few seconds.
lions i the Southwest.
[The Sebago radioed "N
The ir Force said the rad
rl!'ans Coast Guard >le .
netwo
of the Ail· Defens
( I1arters that the object w
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YSTERY, A6, Col. 3
Wash. Post and ~
Times Herald
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Date - A"''+.DH,1,1-
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6 1957