Subj : SUBJECT: WYTHEVILLE, VA UFO SIGHTINGS FILE: UFO1203
To   : John Short
From : Clarke Ulmer
Date : Thu Nov 27 2025 06:55:39


> SUBJECT: WYTHEVILLE, VA UFO SIGHTINGS                        FILE: UFO1203

> PART 2

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>     23-Oct-87 16:12 MST
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> By DIRK BEVERIDGE Associated Press Writer 
>    WYTHEVILLE, Va. (AP) -- Five people who claim to have seen UFOs said
> Friday a secret military operation has stirred up the recent flying saucer
> craze in Wythe County, but they offered no evidence to back the assertion. 
>    "It appears we are dealing with something of a military nature," said news
> director Danny Gordon of radio station WYVE. He and four other people talked
> about sightings they said they made Thursday night. 
>    "A lot of people are scared," Gordon told reporters. "Will the military
> please tell us where they are?" 
>    Spokesmen for various branches of the military have denied knowledge of
> operations that would have prompted the series of flying saucer reports that
> began in September. 
>    One of the members of the panel assembled by Gordon, New York photographer
> John Stember, said he took a videotape and still photographs Thursday night
> of a dome-shaped object flying in tandem with a smaller, roundish object. 
>    "I saw this large, sort of orange glow," Stember said. "The first seemed
> to be a large domed shape, with an ambient light behind it." 
>    He said his still pictures were being processed, but the pictures would be
> available to reporters. But when approached after the news conference,
> Stember said he had removed his film from the area to protect it. 
>    Another member of the panel, Andrew Convery, a systems analyst with the
> Virginia Beach-based Navy software contractor Computer Dynamics Inc., said he
> believed there had been some kind of crash in the area. He refused to
> elaborate and refused to say why he would not elaborate. 
>    "We have very substantial reasons, we just can't produce any proof,"
> Convery said. 
>    Convery said he had come to Wytheville on his own time because he for
> years has followed UFO stories. He said he thinks the military is operating
> the mysterious flights because other military craft operate routinely in the
> area. 
>    Convery said he does not think the military would fly its jets at low
> altitudes in the area of flying objects it could not identify. 
>    "They fly aircraft over the top while these things are flying down below,"
> Convery said. 
>    Gordon said some of the UFOs have swooped down and harassed motorists in
> the county, at times chasing them down the road with spotlights on them or
> even running some people off the road. 
>    "Imagine you're a bored fighter jock," Convery said. "To relieve the
> tedium you chase a local around." 

> Copyright 1987 by the Associated Press.  All rights reserved. 

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Wow this takes me back! I remember seeing this in a newspaper in the day!

Clarke,
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