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Volume 7: Number 3: Article 2
Analysis and Discussion of the May 18, 1992 UFO Sighting in Gulf Breeze, Florida
Bruce Maccabee, Fund for UFO Research, Mt. Rainier, MD 20712
A professional TV crew traveled to Gulf Breeze, Florida on two occasions
in the spring of 1992 at a time when sightings were occurring on a weekly
basis. On each occasion anomalous lights were observed and videotaped
passing through the Gulf Breeze skies. This paper reports briefly on
the first sighting and concentrates on the analysis of the second sighting
when the TV crew used a special "high power" camera. During the second
sighting the lights were observed from two locations allowing for triangulation
and a subsequent estimate of the spacing between them (about 10 ft).
They were moving in an early rectilinear path at a speed exceeding 20
mph before they faded out. A discussion of the hoax hypothesis involving
pyrotechnic devices and incandescent light sources is presented. It
is shown that the sightings, if not of "real"UFOs, constitute a hoax
of considerable ingenuity, expense, and persistence. This sighting was
just one of about 170 which have occurred in the Gulf Breeze area during
1990–1992.
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