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BOWLING GREEN
O.••A PRIVATE PLANE PILOT SAID TODAY HE SAW "AN
OBJECT BRIGHTER fHAN THE SUN FOR ABOUT FIVE S[CONDs . n WHILE CRUISING
AT ABOUT 80 MI LES PER HOUR TWO MIU:S WEST Of H£RE •
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THE PILOT. WHO ASKED THAT HIS IDENTITY NOT BE REVEALED. SAID HIS
PLANE WAS AT ABOUT 2 . 000 FEET THIS MORNING WHEN Ht SAW THE UNIDENTIFIED
OBJECT.
"lT LOOKED LIKE A BALL OF FIRE•" HE SAID. "IT WAS BRILLIANT WHITE•
LIKE f-10LTEN ST£Elf THEN IT TURNED BLUE AND TOOK OFF STRAIGHT WEST•
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TOOK Off WITHIN r VE SECONDS . •
THE PILOT SAID THE OBJ£CT WAS TRAVELLING FASTER THAN ANY JET PLANE
AND WAS COING SOUTH WHEN HE FIR!;T SAW IT.
J-IE SAI D T.H£ Sl<Y WAS CLEAR
AI\JD THERE WERE NO OTHER Pl.ANES IN SIGHT AT THE TI 1£.
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HE SAID HE DION ' T THINK IT COULD KAVE BEEN ANY REFLECTION.
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ID IT APPEARED ABOUT A FOOT IN DIA 1ETER AND WA$ ABOUT THE SAME t~ ~~
ALTlTUD[ AT WHICH HE WAS FLYING .
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