SUBJECT: SIGHTING IN SARATOGA CALIFORNIA                     FILE: UFO3163




    Report #: 210
        From: UFO INFO SERVICE
   Date Sent: 01-18-1987
     Subject: SARATOGA, CA.
   CASE TYPE: LRS - NL
        DATE: 14 OCTOBER 1986
        TIME: 2015 - 2030 HOURS
        CFN#: 0332
    DURATION: UNKNOWN
   WITNESSES: FIFTEEN
      SOURCE: MERCURY NEWS, SAN JOSE, CA

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   MERCURY NEWS, San Jose, CA - Oct. 23,
   1986

   Mystery lights return to Saratoga

   By Kathy Holub
   Mercury News Staff Writer

   A  beautiful  apparition  has  been  glowing  in  the  night  sky  over
   Saratoga,leaving viewers baffled and entranced.  About 15  people,  all
   agog,  called Santa Clara County dispatchers on Tuesday night to report
   a mysterious bright red light that hovered in the sky from 8:15 to 8:30
   and then disappeared.  Dozens of callers described a similar phenomenon
   on Oct. 16, same time, same place. "It was very exciting," said Maureen
   Denton of Los Gatos,  who watched last week's display during a break in
   her real estate class at West Valley College. "It was very bright, much
   larger than the lights you see on airplanes.   At one point,  something
   burning  or  flickering  dropped from it.   It was just a  tiny  little
   flicker that came down.   We all went:  `Oooh, what was that?'"  No one
   seems  to know.  That includes Vicki Yauger of Saratoga,  who spied the
   object  Tuesday night while lounging with her husband in thier backyard
   spa. Yauger said the light appeared high in the northwestern sky, first
   moving toward them,  then away. Through her binoculars,  the apparition
   became  a cluster of lights.  "It was scary.   When it started  getting
   larger,  it seemed to be coming down," she said.  Yauger didn't see the
   object  fade from view because she had just gone into the house.    Her
   husband  told  her  the  light turned  green  and  slowly  disappeared.
   Spokesmen  at Moffett Field Naval Air Station said nothing flew out  of
   their  airfield  Tuesday  that  looked like  that.   And  officials  at
   Vandenberg  Air  Force Base in Lompoc said they didn't launch  a  thing
   Tuesday night.   Ditto for Oct.  15.  Other watchers of the night sky -
   air traffic controllers and astronomers at Lick Observatory - said they
   saw nothing unusual.



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