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Carbondale's UFO
found to be hoax
CARBONDALE, Pa. (API— "A gigantic
hoax." is the way Carbondale's police chief
described a 93-hour ordeal that aroused this
eastern Pennsylvania community with talk
of possible unidentified flying objects.
The incident which drew thousands of
curiosity seekers to the area ended at 2:34
pin ).esterday when scuba diver Mark
Stamen of Auburn, N.Y., retrieved a railroad
trainman's lantern froma four-acre silt pond
near an abandoned coal breaker
Sgt Francis Dottie, the community's act
ing police chief, showed the faintly lit
lantern to the assembled throng of newsmen
and rater quipped '-'we have a nice shiny
trainman's lantern. It was working."
Later. Dottie had told a newsman, '"lf I
ever find out who the hell threw it in . ."
The case started early Saturday night when
three teen-age boys told Carbondale police
they had seen a brightly shining object flash
across the sky, and seconds later saw a light
shining in the pond. Police discounted the
report
But moments later, sighting of an object
that "spun like fireworks on the Fourth of
July" was reported at other locations near
here and in an adjacent county. Patrolman
John Barbaro was dispatched to the scene,
and he fired at least four sholts at the shining
object.
Police tried to retrieve the object with
poles Saturday night and early Sunday, but
It fell to the bottom of the pond. No other
attempts were made until yesterday after
noon
Soviets break SALT treaty
WASHINGTON (UPI)
Aviation Weiek yesterday
published a U S. satellite pic
ture of. a Soviet submarine
base near Murmansk which it
said was camouflaged with
huge canvas covers to hide
construction work.
The concealment of
construction sites for Delta
class submarines was only
one of a number of Soviet
violations of the interim
Soviet ,strategic ,strategic arins -agrbe
ment and the afitiballistic
missile treaty, the publication
said. •
The Pentagon has maintain
ed that '4ive have no evidence
that the Soviets are violating
the agreement."
But Sen. James L. Buckley. •
C-N.Y., now visiting the Soviet
Union, said in a speech in New
York Oct. 31 that
"intelligence agencies are ac
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Tuesday, November 12
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Gallery Talk on "Living American Artists and the Figure," by William Davis,
assistant director of the Museum of Art, 10:30 a.m., Museum of Art.
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Kern Gallery Shirley Sturtz, watercolors, drawings.
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Meanwhile, word of the possible UFO
spread through the area north of Scranton
and hundreds of curiosity seekers arrived
Sunday, as well as newsmen and authorities
involved with the study of UFOs.
The area was cordoned off with Civil
Defense volunteers keeping all but newsmen
and the UFO people out. One reporter said
the scene was like "a carnival."
Dottie decided yesterday to empty the
lake, which was done by pumper fire trucks,
and the Talerico Construction Co. trans
ported a large backhoe in from several
miles away to dig a channel at the end of the
pond.
At 2:24 p.m. diver Stamev and a companion
got into a small rubbet boat. He swam
around the pond underwater once, surfaced,
went down for about 30 seconds and came up
holding the lantern, still shining.
Dottie had high praise for his men,
some of whom he said had been up "two days
working on the case." He blamed the news
media for blowing the incident out of Pro
portion.
•If they had left us akine, we could have
taken care of it quickly," K;tottle said.
"But all these people came in . ."
Matthew Graber, affiliated with the UFO
Center in Philadelphia, said "a lot of wind
has knocked out of it (the story)" by dis
covery of the lantern,
"It's quite possible the kids saw a shooting
star and saw the glcuv in the water," Graber
continued. "They did lose sight of the thing
for a few seconds."
quiring mounting evidence
that will support the "charge
that the Soviets are utilizing
new means of concealment to
make it more difficult for
U.S. spy satellites to monitor
Soviet compliance with the
SALT accords."
Aviation Week said: "The
U.S. has detected Soviet ef
forts to conceal with huge
canvas covers construction
sites for Delta class sub
marines at Severomorsk,
near Murmansk.
"The covers not only pre
vent an accurate count of the
vessels under construction
but also deny observation of
the submarine-launched
ballistic missiles they are
being armed with."
The magazine listed these
other Soviet arms treaty
violations:
Continued attempts to
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jam U.S. electronic equip
ment used to monitor Soviet
intercontinental ballistic mis
sil test activity.
Concealment of ICBM
silos, which. the Soviets are
falsely labeling command and
control centers.
Increased activity in
development of a "transport
able ABM anti-ballistic mis
sile phased-array radar" near
the Sino-Soviet border.
Aviation Week published a
photograph of the Murmansk
area taken from an altitude of
567 miles by the U.S. Earth
Resources Technology
Satellite.
It showed work areas
covered "to prevent U.S.
reconnaissance satellites
from photographing activity
there. c,
"At the same time the
Soviets are concealing
strategic weapons develop
ment from U.S. satellite
detection and are jamming
monitoring devices; they are
calling for major U.S.
concesskons to withdraw
nuclear arms from Europe,"
the magazine said.
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