- Dear Jeff ,
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- The following article ran today in the 'Daily Reflector'
which is owned by Cox Communications and serves over 8 counties in Eastern
NC. I do not know if they loaded the article up on the AP wire. The event
they describe is of a large UFO sighted by a lot of people including law
enforcement and fire-rescue personelle took place over small towns surrounding
Greenville, NC. Greenville is a metro area with over 60,000 citizens. I
have forwarded this article because I believe a broader readership would
be interested in the story.
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- Kind Regards,
- Bill Gheen
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- Unidentified Object Spotted Over Grifton
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- By Jana Clancey
- The Daily Reflector
- 12-12-2
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- Creatures from outer space may have been checking on
the affairs of Pitt County residents Friday night.
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- Several people from Farmville to the southern tip of
Pitt County reported an odd light racing across the night sky.
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- J.K. Butler, a former Grifton volunteer firefighter,
was sitting in the old Red and White parking lot about 11 p.m. Friday.
He was there with three fire department friends when the sky around them
lighted up, coloring everything from the ground to the trees to themselves
a strange shade of green and blue.
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- The light passed over them, he said. And when they looked
up, it was so blinding they couldn't identify the object.
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- "We all just looked at each other like, 'What in
the world was that?'" Butler said. "I've seen meteors and space
junk and satellites. I ain't never seen anything that color.
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- "It had some good size to it, too, and it was up
in the air pretty good," he said.
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- His first thought: the light had come from a UFO. His
second: another country was firing missiles in the direction of Pitt County.
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- "Maybe it was government-related. If it was, we'll
never know," he said.
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- Over the fire-rescue scanners mounted in the volunteers'
trucks, calls came in from Ayden and the Pitt County Sheriff's Office.
Butler heard patrol cars being dispatched to check for something that had
fallen from the sky in the area of Jolly and Abbott Farm roads.
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- Sgt. Marty Burroughs sent three of his deputies to survey
for damage, or possibly, a spacecraft between the Ayden Police Department
and the two rural roads. They didn't find a thing, not even a small piece
of space tin.
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- "The main thing we checked were houses to make sure
nobody had been hit by anything," he said.
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- Deputies found the houses to be safe and left the area.
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- Burroughs had a dispatcher contact Lenoir and Greene
county sheriff's departments to see if a craft had crashed beyond the county
line. But nothing was reported.
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- A deputy in Ayden and several Greenville officers reported
seeing the peculiar light near Pitt Community College at Fire Tower Road
and N.C. 11
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- "They just said it was moving and it appeared to
be descending," he said.
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- Asked if he thought the light was a UFO, Burroughs said,
"It could have been. I don't know. I can't explain it.
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- Sheriff Mac Manning jokingly chalked the sighting up
to the work of a shiny red sled and nine flying reindeer.
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- "I thought it was maybe Santa Claus making an early
run, but we ruled that out pretty quick," Manning said.
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- Apparently, he said, the light was bright enough and
big enough to attract quite a bit of attention.
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- Manning said the sighting of whatever-it-was isn't a
big deal. Deputies patrolling remote areas of the county report seeing
things in the sky all of the time, he said.
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- Whatever it was, it scared J.K. Butler - and his buddies.
For two hours they watched the night sky, looking for something, anything
that could help complete the puzzle to what they had seen; whether that
be little green men or a plane with similar lights.
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- He was asked if he'd recently been watching the Sci-Fi
channels series on UFOs called "Taken." He said he'd never heard
of it, and after being informed of the show's angle on alien abductions,
he said there's no way he's watching it now.
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- © 2002 Cox Newspapers, Inc.
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- Comment
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- From Mark Turner
- Raleigh, NC
- 12-12-2
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- Hi Jeff,
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- I have a comment to make regarding the recent news story
on UFOs over eastern North Carolina. The bluish-green light in the sky
was almost certainly high-voltage power lines arcing as they collapsed
under the weight of ice. Last week North Carolina was hit hard by an ice
storm which caused massive power outages across the state.
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- The eerie greenish glow of arcing power lines is like
nothing you've ever seen. Like many fellow North Carolinians, I hope I
don't see it again anytime soon! :-)
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- From Bill Gheenm
- 12-12-2
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- Dear Jeff...
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- Thank you for posting the UFO article. In response to
Mr. Turner's comments about the ice storm: The location of this event was
virtually unaffected by the ice storm. The majority of Eastern NC only
had light ice that was gone by Wed. DEC 4. The ice / freezing line and
resulting damage began over 30 miles west of Grifton, NC. The UFO sighting
was on Friday night, three days (of above freezing temps) after the ice
storm. I appreciate his theory, but it does not explain this case. This
case deserves further scientific study and I hope that there are visitors
to your site that can facilitate such research.
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- Kind Regards,
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- Bill Gheen
- billgheen@aol.com
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