SUBJECT: SIGHTING DESCRIBED AT BATTLE MOUNTAIN, NV. FILE: UFO1263
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DATE OF ARTICLE: February 1, 1989
SOURCE OF ARTICLE: Independent
LOCATION: Elko, Nevada
BYLINE: None
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UFO SIGHTING DESCRIBED BY BATTLE MOUNTAIN
Elaine Goldman would like someone to tell her what it was
she saw on her way home to Battle Mountain Monday evening.
Failing that, she would at least like to know that someone else
saw what she, her sister and her aunt observed in the skies of
northeastern Nevada.
The three women were driving west on Interstate 80 at about
5 p.m. Monday, Goldman said, and were about 28 miles from Battle
Mountain when they first sighted the object. "At first, it
looked like a star, but it was so light outside," Goldman said.
As they drew nearer to the object, which Goldman said sat
motionless hundreds of feet above Interstate 80, they began to
realize that this was no star.
"We were close enough to it to tell it wasn't an airplane or
a helicopter, either," Goldman said, "I get kind of nervous."
She described the thing as "kind of like an oval" in shape,
its size difficult to pinpoint because of the distance involved,
and bathed in a red glow. Two short streams of what appeared to
be smoke emanated from the center of the oval, Goldman said,
adding the streams in no way resembled the contrails of a jet
aircraft.
At each end of the oval was a flashing red light, which
could have accounted for the glow, the Battle Mountain woman
added.
Goldman said she and her relatives kept the object in sight
for 10-15 minutes before they passed directly beneath it. And
then it was gone. "It just disappeared," she said. "It was
there and then it wasn't."
The object may have vanished, but not Goldman's curiosity
about what it could have been. A check yesterday at the Federal
Aviation Administration office in Elko provided little assistance
-- the official on duty said there were no UFO sightings reported
there Monday.
But Goldman says she is hopeful that someone will come
forward to corroborate her sighting. "I'm sure somebody else had
to have seen it," the Battle Mountain woman said.
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