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From: Jim Deardorff <deardorj@ucs.orst.edu>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 21:09:10 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 00:35:09 -0500
Subject: Re: 

> From: Stig_Agermose@online.pol.dk (Stig Agermose)
> To: updates@globalserve.net
> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 09:55:59 +0200
> Subject: Fwd: Year Old Data Used To Explain Seattle Sightings

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> From: authority@webtv.net
> Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 14:38:04 -0700
> To: UASR@mylist.net
> Subject: Year old data used to explain Nov.14th Seattle incident

> The Norad object 25047 tracked on software, being an object
> expected to decay in space, was tracked for Nov. 14th expected to
> pass just north of Seattle at around 9PM Pacific time.  That it
> did.

> Reports on the internet quoted a release from Peterson Air Force
> Base, Colorado, showing that the space junk was expected from
> Russian space debris on Nov.16th, instead of Nov.17th.  This
> internet story was implying that the space debris story of
> sightings over Seattle on Nov.
> 14th were bogus because this Peterson report said the stuff was
> expected on the 16th.

> The news release from Peterson was from 1996, not 1997. It was a
> year old.  Ted Viens reported on OVNI BRASIL and quoted the exact
> Peterson Air Force Base report.    [...]

> This year old news release was used to show confusion at Norad or
> at Peterson implying that the Seattle incident did not include
> space junk. [...]

> Doc in Phoenix

I informed Peter Davenport of this a day or two ago, in case no
one else did so.  But he doesn't seem to update his UFORC web
site very often, so I don't know if or when he'll purge that
Petersen AFB report from his collection of Nov. 14th Pacific NW
UFO reports.

Jim Deardorff