1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,120 Gulf Breeze Florida continues to garner worldwide attention because of a persistent UFO flap 2 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:08,620 cited there since 1986. 3 00:00:08,620 --> 00:00:14,320 There are hours of film and videotape documenting UFO sightings over Gulf Breeze, much of it 4 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:17,200 shot by one man, Ed Walters. 5 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:21,600 Skeptics argue that this is highly suspicious and challenge Walters' veracity. 6 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:27,600 But now there is new videotape and new film of UFOs over Gulf Breeze, and none of it comes 7 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:29,600 from Ed Walters. 8 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:31,960 The world is it. 9 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:37,520 It's a question that residents in Gulf Breeze, Florida have been asking for almost 10 years. 10 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:43,240 There have been over 1,000 individual sightings about identified flying objects, beginning 11 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:48,080 in 1986 with this historic photograph taken by Ed Walters. 12 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:53,440 Since then, Walters and others continue to capture UFOs on film and tape. 13 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:59,240 The activity in our area has certainly not stopped, it has never stopped, and it looks 14 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:01,560 like it's on the increase, hopefully. 15 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:07,800 There's a lot more people willing to acknowledge that they've had a sighting than, you know, 16 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:12,080 five years ago people were much more quiet about it. 17 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:16,760 The sightings in Gulf Breeze have become more frequent, in large part because groups of 18 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:22,960 amateur ufologists now scan the skies nightly, and the nation's largest UFO research organization, 19 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:27,320 MUFON, now has a branch office here, headed by Art Hufford. 20 00:01:27,320 --> 00:01:31,760 The purpose of our local MUFON organization, I think, is really two-fold. 21 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:38,880 One is to investigate, to investigate using the best scientific methods we can, UFO sighting 22 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:46,200 reports, close encounters, adoption experiences, and then secondly to try to educate, to share 23 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:51,040 what we learn locally and also what we learn from what's going around the country and around 24 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:53,480 the globe. 25 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:59,400 One of the most dramatic UFO encounters to date occurred on April 28, 1994. 26 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:04,360 Ken and Carol Baker were driving home, and as this simulation demonstrates, the Bakers 27 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:07,440 claim to have seen two glowing orbs. 28 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:13,360 What the Bakers saw is similar to videotape of two bright UFOs shot in the same area, hovering 29 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:15,640 over the Gulf Breeze shoreline. 30 00:02:15,640 --> 00:02:21,280 At approximately 10.40 at night, my wife was driving me to my place of employment. 31 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:25,280 I looked at the front windshield, and we saw a white object. 32 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:29,120 I looked out, and I didn't know what it was I was looking at, and it was round like a 33 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:30,320 bubble. 34 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:35,480 Around this light, or around this bubble, was a smaller light that seemed to be orbiting 35 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:36,480 around it. 36 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:39,240 I try to be scientific in all the things that I deal with. 37 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:44,040 I was in the Air Force for seven years, and I've seen different crafts, different ships 38 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:45,040 we have. 39 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:47,400 It wasn't anything we had seen before. 40 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:52,880 With the increasing number of sightings by credible townspeople and new videotape evidence, 41 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:56,200 even hardened skeptics believe something is going on over Gulf Breeze. 42 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:59,160 But is it a UFO? 43 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:06,400 There's a program afoot to try to slowly educate people all over the world that we're not alone. 44 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:13,040 Who knows, maybe one of those days we'll have that landing on the White House lawn experience 45 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:18,040 where no longer is there any doubt that they're here, they're among us. 46 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:23,040 Sitting in the sky, there could be some kind of a military craft, I guess. 47 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:25,040 I doubt it, though. 48 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:29,040 I think it's some kind of an alien craft. 49 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:35,040 Yes, me. 50 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:39,440 Gulf Breeze resident Ed Walters has also captured a new UFO on film. 51 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:44,760 This Polaroid Instant Picture shows an unidentified craft offshore with what appears to be waterspout 52 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:47,000 activity just below it. 53 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:51,920 Optical physicist Dr. Bruce McAbee enlarged and examined the snapshot, and he sent us 54 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:53,640 this lengthy report. 55 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:58,040 In his opinion, the waterspout UFO is not a fake. 56 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:03,440 Dr. McAbee, a civilian scientist with the U.S. Navy, joins us now to discuss his findings. 57 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:07,540 Dr. McAbee, you conclude that this photograph is not a fake. 58 00:04:07,540 --> 00:04:10,840 Does that mean it is a genuine UFO? 59 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:14,200 I'd say the chances are very small that that could be a hoax. 60 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:19,780 In this case, the sighting as reported by Ed lasted a couple of minutes at the most, 61 00:04:19,780 --> 00:04:23,420 but to put a large object out there in the middle of the Santa Rosa Sound would probably 62 00:04:23,420 --> 00:04:24,420 take hours. 63 00:04:24,420 --> 00:04:29,780 Dr. McAbee, Ed Walters has been a key figure in the photographs and in the logging of activity 64 00:04:29,780 --> 00:04:31,340 in Gulf Breeze. 65 00:04:31,340 --> 00:04:36,700 Is it likely that one individual would be more prone to see and experience UFOs than 66 00:04:36,900 --> 00:04:38,900 some other individual? 67 00:04:38,900 --> 00:04:42,100 Ed Walters certainly has been a focus of a lot of attention, but for about two and a 68 00:04:42,100 --> 00:04:48,700 half years, starting in November 1990 and running through July 1992, a group of people 69 00:04:48,700 --> 00:04:53,660 I call the Gulf Breeze research team down there went out virtually every night, logged 70 00:04:53,660 --> 00:04:59,260 about 180 or so sighting events, a few of which Ed attended. 71 00:04:59,260 --> 00:05:04,420 But most of those sightings, the witnesses were people who lived in the area, people 72 00:05:04,460 --> 00:05:08,380 who were just traveling through the area, tourists and so on. 73 00:05:08,380 --> 00:05:13,860 Dr. McAbee, how do your professional colleagues react to your interest in UFOs and your willingness 74 00:05:13,860 --> 00:05:17,660 to go out on a limb to say that there's something here? 75 00:05:17,660 --> 00:05:22,140 I should point out, by the way, I do work at a Navy laboratory. 76 00:05:22,140 --> 00:05:26,940 I have found that virtually every government laboratory and I presume most civilian laboratories 77 00:05:26,940 --> 00:05:32,060 around the country have people who are interested in this subject, just as there are people 78 00:05:32,100 --> 00:05:36,660 on virtually, I guess, all walks of life who have a sincere interest in finding out what 79 00:05:36,660 --> 00:05:38,140 the truth is. 80 00:05:38,140 --> 00:05:41,100 Dr. Bruce McAbee, thank you very much for joining us. 81 00:05:41,100 --> 00:05:42,660 Thank you for having me. 82 00:05:42,660 --> 00:05:44,220 And we will be back with more sightings.