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From: Andromeda0@aol.com [Jared Anderson]
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 05:16:16 -0400 (EDT)
Fwd Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 13:22:27 -0400
Subject: Is the Phoenix V visiting Vegas?

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Add Las Vegans to those sighting strange unidentified
flying objects in the Southwest skies.

Las Vegas Metro Police report ``quite a few calls'' Monday night of people
sighting strange lights in the skies northwest of the city, in the direction
of the top secret Area 51 base.

A police dispatcher who declined to give her name said she and other family
members spotted the mysterious object hovering in the sky about 9:30 p.m.
PDT.

A Minuteman missile was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. at
8:39 p.m. and the missile's vapor cloud was spotted by Las Vegas residents.
But the police dispatcher said the lights were spotted northwest of the city,
whereas Vandenberg is southwest of Las Vegas.

``It was like a pyramid or V-shaped wedge, with pulsating yellow lights,''
the dispatcher told The Associated Press. ``It split up, then it came back
together. ``We got quite a few calls on it. From all reports, it was
something similar to what was seen over Phoenix.''

There have been reports out of Phoenix the past week of odd-shaped lights
hovering above the city in a boomerang formation earlier this year.

``It wasn't like anything I've ever seen before,'' the dispatcher said.

She said the lights hovered in the sky for about 15 minutes and didn't appear
to be moving, then disappeared.

``It looked like they took the lights of a football field and put them way up
in sky,'' said the dispatcher's niece, who also requested anonymity. The woman
said she has never witnessed such a display in the 37 years she has lived in
Las Vegas. She said her husband and their three children witnessed the lights
as well.

``They were these huge round lights, like they were in formation,'' she said.
``They were in a wide V-shape and they broke up and disappeared.''

The woman said she and her aunt began driving toward the location of the
lights while her husband remained at their home on the southeast side of
town.

``Then the lights reappeared in two groups of V's and there were a lot more
of them.''

``We thought the lights were pulsating but my husband was looking at them
through binoculars and he said they were just a steady stream of bright
light,'' the woman said.

She said there were ``well over a dozen lights.''

The lights were in the general direction of Area 51, a top secret base about
100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, the dispatcher said.

Maj. Steve Boylan of the U.S. Space Command in Colorado Springs, Colo. said
there was no space debris re-entering the atmosphere during that period that
might have caused the lights.

Asked if the lights could have been from the Vandenberg launch, Boylan
responded ``Lights do funny things, especially at twilight.''

A spokesman at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas was not immediately
available for comment.

Darwin Morgan, a spokesman for the Energy Department, said no tests were
being conducted Monday night at the Nevada Test Site, northwest of Las Vegas.

Sharon Singer, a resident of Rachel, Nev., a tiny community near Area 51,
said she sighted no lights at the site during the evening.