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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