- An unidentified flying object has been spotted over the
skies of Kota Kinabalu, puzzling air traffic controllers, who say the craft
was bigger than an airliner.
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- The U-F-O was first spotted on radar screens, but later
there were naked-eye sightings even in broad daylight.
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- This is a Malaysia Airport Berhad close circuit television
recording at terminal two of the Kota Kinabalu International Airport on
October fifth.
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- Although it might just show as a ciger-shaped object
, Air Traffic Controllers were surprised because the craft was flying at
great speed.
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- The controllers were tracking a fokker airliner taking
off when it noticed the long U-F-O.
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- Traffic Controllers knew for sure there were no other
commercial or private planes in the skies at that time-- at least not ones
that were scheduled.
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- MAB showed the startling recording to TV3, but said the
incident was not unique.
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- There had been at least four other sightings over Kota
Kinabalu over the past seven years.
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- Some of the U-F-O's were said to vary in shape and size,
ranging from a sphere, to a cigar-shaped object.
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- On October 22nd, Sabah TV3'S Cameraman Kassem Mahmun
took this footage, of a Boeing 737 taking off.
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- He then noticed an object in the distance, which appeared
at a higher altitude, but was stationary.
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- Kassem said the object suddenly dissapeared just a few
second after he noticed it.
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- Air Traffic Controllers at K-K International Airport
verified the sighting.
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- But again, they said it was not the first time.
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- One Controller told TV3 of an incident in 1995, when
he saw a strange craft in the sky although he had just gave clerance for
a fiokker airliner to land.
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- All the radars had shown the route clear for the landing.
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- "The Pilot is somewhere about 4 miles from touch
down he asks if there are any traffic beside us he sighted something he
said so we check it most probably itu would be a helicopter or something
light aircraft, so we said there's no traffic so we ask him do you sight
any traffic, he said he sighted something and it disappeared, then he disregard
and he came and land, after that about 10 to 15 minutes from there, when
traffic get less or something, a round object more like a ball of fire,
it came toward from the sea right to the mirror of the control tower, it
stayed about 5 seconds just vanish towards the mountain-side.
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- The Department of Civil Aviation have yet to give an
explanation on the incidents, except for saying that it could not identify
them for sure.
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- http://www.tv3.com.my/news/nl/november2002/19_news1.html
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