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Cook also saw the first jet ("I'm not sure what it was - an F-15=20
maybe,
or it could've been a T-38") as well as the second, which he surmised
was a U-2. Cook watched the show until 2:30. He counted eight U-2
passes. During the last, Cook says one of the UFOs began following the
U-2. Cook says he also watched two more jets streaking into the area,
apparently surveilling the objects. "The (UFO) I got the best view of,
the bottom one, looked like a perfectly round star," Cook says.
Rawinsond and/or jimsphere weather balloons? Or something else?
A circuitous maze of queries meandered from the Lockheed Missiles and
Space Ops to the Eastern Test Range to the Federal Aviation Authority
before finally crunching into a FOIA request for data records with the
USAF in Washington, D.C. They've got this really cool picket fence of
Defense Support Program satellites that can allegedly track the nose
hairs off a garden snake. The most interesting lock-ins - the unknowns
that enter the atmosphere and then veer out again - are rumored to be
called "fastwalkers," although that term doesn't officially exist.
Well, you know how zany things can get in Bureaucracy World, being
understaffed, underfinanced, overworked and all that. No surprise here
that USAF/Washington exceeded its legal mandate to acknowledge receipt
of my FOIA within 10 days by nearly two weeks. Like, when was the last
time any of those paper-pushers got a raise, anyway?
The last I heard, the FOIA had been peddled off on LAAFB, which wrote
on Dec. 20, "We will provide your office with the determination and/or
the current status of your FOIA request on or before 20 Jan 97." Just
for grins, LAAFB even included a phone number.
You know, they probably were weather balloons, after all. But this is
how weird rumors get started. I'm glad I'm mature and professional
enough not to participate.
Billy Cox's column runs every Friday. He can be reached at 242-3774,=20
or
FLORIDA TODAY, P.O. Box 419000, Melbourne, FL 32941-9000.
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