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From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 15:18:17 -0400
Fwd Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1998 20:40:00 -0400
Subject: Splitting UFO [was : Kal! You're here!]


>From: TotlResrch@aol.com
>Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 00:04:07 EDT
>To: updates@globalserve.net
>Subject: Re: Kal! You're here!

>Unless I am mistaken, I believe I posted the details of my
>sighting back in May of 1997 -- last year!

>Those who want to know its' details, can check the UFO UpDates
>Archive for that month. If I find it sometime later this week I
>can re-post it, but it is "findable" by checking the archive. At
>least it was the last time I checked, several months ago.

>[Here's the post in question --ebk]:

>From: TotlResrch@aol.com [Kal Korff]
>Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 06:08:58 -0400 (EDT)
>To: Updates@globalserve.net
>Subject: Kal K. Korff's UFO Sighting - The DETAILS!

>Recently, several of you have asked me about my own "UFO"
>sighting which I mentioned having had many years ago. In
>particular, Gary Alevy asked me for this information as well,
>so I hope Mr. Alevy that this posting provides you with enough
>information. If anyone has any more questions about my
>encounter, please feel free to contact me, but it may take me a
>few days to get back to you.>

>My Sighting of a "UFO"

<snip>

Kal described a nighttime, multiple witness, long-duration
sighting of a red light/object which split into two parts)
Sightings of splitting UFOs are not that uncommon! Here is a
report of a daytime sighting of "splitting UFO" (well, that's
better than a splitting headache, isn't it?)

This is from a letter sent to me by an amateur astronomer about
20 years ago. He sent me a copy one of his photos.. He lived
(lives?) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He said since 1975 he had
kept a camera set up on a tripod in case he should see something
of interest.

At 8:30 AM EST, October 21, 1978 he happened to notice a bright
spot in the morning sky. He decided he was seeing "Jupiter". He
thought it was neat to see Jupiter so late in the morning and
got his camera for a picture. No slouch, this camera! Fujica ST
901 with a Rikenon 600 lens and a 3X teleconverter making 1800
mm focal length... a small telescope!. He used ISO 400 film and
a shutter speed of 1/100 sec.. Estimated direction was 85
magnetic and 70 elevation. HE set up and photographed "Jupiter"
using the last 15 pictures in his 36 picture roll of film. He
then decided to continue to watch using 16 bnoculars. He watched
"Jupiter" for about 5 more when suddenly "the unexpected
happened. The object split into two equal parts of equal
brightness. Then a slight trail of smoke emitted from the
original, a slight trail of smoke or vapor emitted from the
second and then both disappeared as if someone had turned off a
light switch. I searched the sky but couldn't find them any
more." The photo image is elliptical...not much detail but with
a brighter spot near the bottom.

The image size was about 1/2 mm, implying an angular size of
2.8E-4 radians or 2.8 ft at 10,000 ft, assuming he was correct
in implying that the 600 mm lens had a 3x teleconverter (in my
correspondence with him years ago it appears there is some
question as to whether or not he might have meant that the
overall focal length was 600 mm and that the 3x teleconvertor
was actually on a Rikenon 200 mm lens. If the focal length were
"only" 600 mm ten the angular size was about 0.9 mr or 9 ft at
10,000 ft.). It is unfortunate that he ran out of film before
the splitting occurred.

After receiving this report I collected a few other slitting
sightings. They are reported in the International UFO Reporter:
IUR July 1979: Oct 10, 1978 in California, 6:35 AM witness was
a 61 year ol chemistry professor; saw Jupiter in morning with
binoculars, then noticed a bright moving light near Jupiter; it
subsequently fissioned and the parts moved apart.

IUR Sept-Oct, 1979, date: 7-17-79 in Iowa, 6-6:15 AM, two
witnesses saw a bright object in the sky, brighter than a star
which was motionless at first and then started moving upward.
While they were wondering if it could be a high altitude balloon
it suddenly split and the two parts zoomed upward at different
angles.

He probably would have told no one of his "Jupiter sighting" if
it hadn't been for the discussion following the publication in
Astronomy Magazine of the skeptical reaction to an article about
the Betty Hill star map (from the Betty and Barney Hill
abduction of Sept. 1961).