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      Apollo Program UFO Sighting from 1960's Comes to Light

     (Washington State MUFON, March 21, 1988.)  An interesting
UFO report from the 1960's involving the test firing of an Apollo
space program booster rocket recently came to light as a result
of follow-up to the January 21, 1988 Whidbey Island UFO sighting.
Dan MacIndoe of Oak Harbor, Washington received many phone calls
from other UFO witnesses as a consequence of reporting his UFO
sighting to a local radio station and giving out his phone
number.  One of them was from Paul J. Allen of Snohomish,
Washington, who told him of his encounter with a UFO while
working for GE/NASA in the summer of either 1966 or 1967.

     A quality control inspector working for General Electric at
the NASA Mississippi Test facility at the time, Mr. Allen was at
work during the first captive test firing of the second stage,
Saturn IV-B rocket.  He doesn't recall the exact date but he
believes it was probably during the summer of either 1966 or
1967.  [The date should be easily obtainable from archived
historical records of the Space program.]

     At approximately 11:00 p.m. he stepped outside the Data
Processing Center building for a smoke and to view the test
firing.  He noticed a bright light approaching rapidly from the
east, which he took to be a light from a plane at first.  However,
it approached the Test Facility at an unbelievable speed, slowing
over the Saturn V-B test stand before continuing on towards the
Saturn IV-B test stand, whereupon it stopped and stood over the
exhaust blast from the test firing for a minute to a minute and a
half.  He described the UFO as 200 feet in diameter.  It hovered
at 3,000-5,000 feet during the stage 2 captive firing, directly
over the exhaust blast updraft until the firing ended.  Then it
approached at about 30 mph, came over the data processing
center for about another minute, and left travelling almost
straight up.

     Mr. Allen states there were 19 people who witnessed the UFO
where he stood and another 9 to 11 people on the roof of the
Control Facility Building, who had been filming the test firing
and also saw it.  No pictures of this test firing were ever shown
to his group although they were shown film footage of all other
firings.  They were told that a weather balloon with a flashlight
attached had been the cause of the UFO report and that was what
they had seen.  They were also told that if they discussed the
sighting with the public they would lose their jobs.

     A complete report of this sighting is being sent to MUFON
national headquarters and to CAUS.

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