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DATE OF ARTICLE: March 5, 1989
SOURCE OF ARTICLE: News Tribune
LOCATION: Tempe, Arizona
BYLINE: Bill Roberts
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VALLEY RESIDENTS SHARE CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH UFOS

First of two parts

By Bill Roberts
Tribune writer

Are unidentified flying objects simply the bogy that lives
within each of us? The one that believes something dark and evil
waits beneath the bed at night? That suggests the sounds outside
are more than leaves whipped by a midnight storm? That envisions
the tree itself, given the proper moonlight and blackness, as a
gnarled, shriveled body with a soul all it's own?
Or are UFOs real? Do saucerians far beyond our earthly
mental abilities study us as we do monkeys at the zoo? Do they
walk among us? Or attempt to communicate? Or occasionally steal
us in the night?
If there is a line between such neatly opposing viewpoints,
then the stories that follow almost surely grow from it. They
come from reputable people--and more of them than ever are coming
forward today--with detailed accounts of close encounters they
dared not make public in a less sympathetic era.
"I don't go out and look for UFOs, and I don't go out of my
way to be up on them," says 38 year old Lyn Caldwell, a secretary
in the flight controls department of the McDonnell Douglas
Helicopter Co. in Mesa. "But I know what I saw. What I saw was
so clear and precise."
Caldwell and the others are not connoisseurs of UFO tales,
nor do they live on distant continents. They are from Apache
Junction, Tempe and Mesa. In each case, their UFO encounter was
a memorable but one time experience, not a regular diet
sandwiched between reading the palms and studying the stars.
Moreover, they are family people with professional reputations at
stake. To tell their stories, they say, is to subject themselves
to ridicule and criticism. Several said they didn't care
anymore.
Perhaps most importantly, many of their stories are
remarkably similar in description and detail, though they never
have talked to each other.
What Caldwell knows she saw, as did others that day in Ohio,
was an oblong, silver object that hovered about 150 feet above
them. There were no death rays there or masked invaders, just
simple flashes of colored light coming from an object that
vanished half an hour later at interstellar speed.
Her story begins in suburban Toledo in late 1972. Her
husband at the time, a Toledo police officer, was driving their
1969 Shelby Cobra toward St. Lukes Hospital to visit her brother.
She was riding beside him.
Caldwell says she spotted an object not quite as large as a
blimp moving above them. Red, blue and white lights pulsated
from capsule like windows across a clear, afternoon sky.
When they arrived at the hospital, the object hovered just
beyond the parking lot. It would move slowly, then it would
stop. It made no noise, she says.
"It was low enough that we could see the windows and the
lights coming out of them," says Caldwell. "Maybe 15 or 20 other
people in orderly outfits gathered in the parking lot to watch
it. It was still, then it went straight up. It was like it
evaporated. It was gone. When it was over, the man next to us
said, 'They're going to think we're nuts.'"
Like the others Caldwell says she has seen only one UFO.
She and her husband were reluctant to discuss what they saw, and
nothing about it was printed in Ohio newspapers.
Another woman who now lives in Mesa was taking care of her
four young children in Marion, Ohio, about the same time. Her
encounter 100 miles south of Toledo was similar to Caldwell's.
Three years later in the Panhandle of Texas, a woman who today is
a Tempe clothing store manager, describes a similar vehicle that
landed near her home.
What these people have in common is this: They kept their
stories private and only reluctantly discuss them now. What
their minds saw at the time remain very clear to them, but
something else also happened. The sightings evoked a common
emotion that set them apart from the "normal crowd" and made them
alone in the experience.

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