pul9503.20a
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 07:18:11 -0500
From: ExclMid
Subject: Orange County "Mystery Blob"

A long time ago (a few weeks anyway) someone had asked for more on the
Orange County (CA, USA) "mystery blob" sighting. (Or perhaps it was in
alt.forteana) I have located an article from the Orange County Register
(2/10/95) that appeared the day after the event. Enjoy one and all!



NEIGHBORS ENCOUNTER UNIDENTIFIABLE OBJECT

Oddity: Anaheim residents saw something strange, but no one knows what.

ANAHEIM -- All around a tree-lined neighborhood near West Ball Road and
the Santa Ana (I-5) freeway on Thursday morning, adults and children alike
were asking one another: "Did you see it?"

Those who said they glimpsed a dark object hovering in the sky between 6
and 7:30 AM -- among them a 13-year-old boy, a 46-year-old chiropractor's
aide, a 74-year-old former military pilot and a 53-year-old school
attendance clerk--said it was the strangest thing they'd seen in all their
years on this planet.

Few wanted to say the initials: UFO. No one from the federal air agencies,
nearby military bases, the National Weather service or the Police
Department had heard any reports or could explain the sighting.

"We feel strange admitting we saw something so weird in the sky," said
Elaine Mazor, attendance clerk at Ball Junior High School, who saw what
she described as two dark oblong objects hovering over the school on West
Ball Road. "I didn't see any green men or anything."

Descriptions differed. One person said there were two round objects, and
three people said they saw a misshapen lump. All agreed it was dark and
seemed to hang in the heavens without visible propellers, wings, or a
balloon.

"To me it looked like a Model-T that got hit by a freight train," said
Chris Christensen, 72, a former World War II pilot who lives on Sonya
place, about three-fourths of a mile away from the school. He said he saw
the object around 7:30 AM, when he went out to get the morning paper.

Christensen grabbed a pair of binoculars, but he said he still couldn't
make it out. "I still don't have the slightest idea what it was." he said.
"I was just curious about it. It was like a piece of junk hanging from an
invisible balloon."

One mile south of Christensen's home, 13-year-old Joe De Guevara was
walking along Aspen Street, on his way to school, when he saw something in
the sky at about 6:45 AM. "It was all different shapes: it wasn't just one
shape," he said. "It wasn't really round, it wasn't really square. It
looked like two people on top of a platform, spinning."

De Guevara said he watched the object the whole way to school. At the
school, Mazor and Linda Linder, 44, a campus aide, were standing outside,
watching with several other adults and children.

"It was like a cylinder, black, turning and rotating in the sky." said
Alexandra Diaz, 14.

Kathy Thompson, 46, said she became alarmed when she heard about a KIKF/
94.3FM radio broadcast about the object from a friend. Thompson said she
awoke at 6:45 AM and saw a small, round, protozoan-like object that grew
into a larger, splatter-shaped object hovering beyond her apartment
complex on Palm Lane.

"I'm going: 'Oh my God, this is unbelievable. Somebody has just got to
know what this is,'" said Thompson, a chiropractor's aide.

Authorities from Disneyland [the theme park is no more than 2 or 3 miles
away] to the FAA were stumped by the reports, dismissed by some as an
early-morning urban myth.

Anaheim police received no calls about the sightings, Sgt. Tom Mathisen
said.

"It wasn't Disneyland," Magic