- BEGIN COPIED REPORT FROM NUFORC WEBSITE--06SE01
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- Bright red fire ball in front yard
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- While taking photos in my yard a bright red burning ball
of fire appeared in my camera lens. I lowered the camera and no more than
10 feet from me was a ball approximately two feet in diameter; with an
outer glow that extended it to about 3 feet. The shape was almost a perfect
circle. I did not feel any heat irradiating from the ball, yet it was burning
bright red and emitting heat waves. It remained about 20 seconds, then
started to rise vertically, very slowly to about 60 feet, where it remained
motionless for a short period. It then made a 90 degree turn and then accelerated
out of site. I have a color photo of this event. I called the police to
report it and they had another report of a fire ball a block away.
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- Follow-Up Investigation Report
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- By Eric Byler
Review@home.com
Oregon UFO Review
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- Hi Peter,
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- I just got back from an investigation at the coast where
I got the picture you see here along with the negatives. I am still working
on the report and have to make one more follow up call with him to clarify
something, but the long and short of it is that the photographer is a ((deleted))
year old man of (partial) American Indian heritage by the name of ((deleted)).
He lives alone with a rather large ((dog)) in a very nice home on the coast
of Oregon in a small town named Florence.
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- ((He)) spends a lot of time on his yard as it looks quite
good. On the day of the picture, he was out with his camera...a ((high
quality SLR camera))mm 1:3.5 - 4.5...using 35mm 400 film... a very nice
camera that he chooses to keep on automatic for the simplicity of pointing
and shooting. He had already made a number of pictures when he approached
the plants you see in this picture.
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- According to his testimony, as he was looking through
the view finder and was about to shoot, this image appeared in his view
finder. He quickly hit the shutter button and dropped the camera to see
what this was. He estimated the object as being a couple feet wide and
glowing like fire with an outer lighter glow that emanated like a heat
wave. He pointed out however that as close as he was, only a few feet away,
he could feel no heat. He thought this as odd.
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- After a few seconds, the object began to slowly rise
until it reached tree level which is quite high as you can see in the picture,
the whole time just watching in awe thinking, "'what in the hell is
this?" Then he realized, hey, take another picture. He brought the
camera up to began lining it up with the object when it did a 90 degree
turn and shot away from the house traveling west towards the ocean. He
immediately took the film down to have them developed to see if he indeed
had got the object on film. I have checked out the negatives and the package
with the number of pictures that were developed and is does appear that
he stopped taking pictures in his yard by the time he got to the picture
in question. My thought is if this were just a reflection of some sort
on the lens then it probably would have only shown up when the pictures
were developed and he would have continued taking pictures. The fact that
he did indeed stop taking pictures at number ten (the roll goes backward
from 24 to 1) and then developed the pictures tell me that he may have
indeed seen something of a nature that points away from simple lens reflection
and does add up with his story.
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- I spent some time in the house with ((witness)) and I
found him very easy to talk with. ((Witness) is a big man but soft spoken.
His house is very nice with lots of reference to his heritage seen in the
art work on his walls. He has three ((medals)) permanently displayed on
a side table as he was in WW2. A wall in another room had a number of framed
certificates of achievements and education showing his many accomplishments
over the years.
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- In his main den where we talked there was a large volume
of books on shelves. I saw no books pertaining to UFO material as many
were related to American Indian heritage
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- ((Witness)) does not have a computer for internet access
but does have basic television.
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- He has no idea what he saw. He did contact the police
who came over and took a report. The following day he says he talked to
the assistant fire chief while in town and he (the chief) mentioned hearing
of a similar report on his scanner that day but remembers it as being on
24th street, rather than 23rd where ((witness)) lives. I am following up
on this. I did contact the state police who reports that they have had
similar reports like this over the past few months in other parts of the
coast but did not elaborate. This is being followed up on as well.
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- Sincerely,
Eric Byler
Oregon UFO Research
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- NUFORC Note: Our gratitude to Eric Byler, Oregon UFO
Review, for the excellent investigation and follow-up review. - PD
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