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- AMSTERDAM POLICE CONDUCT LATE-NIGHT SEARCH FOR SPACE CRAFT
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- AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (MARCH 4) AP - Police deployed a dozen patrol cars and a
- helicopter in a late-night chase for a craft from outer space, a police
- spokesman said Friday.
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- The hunt, accompanied by dozens of calls from all over the Dutch capital
- reporting unidentified flying objects, failed to yield anything
- extra-terrestrial, according to spokesman Klaas Wilting.
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- ''We were alerted late Thursday night by Schiphol (airport) air traffic
- controllers who observed bright lights in a stationary position over the port
- area which didn't show up on their radar screens,'' Wilting said.
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- After a radio newscast had mentioned the Schiphol sighting, calls started
- pouring in from all over the city, describing objects ranging from
- ''airplane-like things to fantastic contraptions with Darth Vader at the
- helm,'' said Wilting.
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- Around midnight, 12 patrol cars and a police helicopter were involved, Wilting
- said.
- pal hours, ''we found nothing except some strong lamps on top of a 50-meter
- (150-foot) high crane in the harbor,'' which might have been visible from the
- airport's control tower, Wilting said.
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- ''We think it was a classic example of popular delusion, coupled with a number
- of jokers trying to pull a trick on us,'' the spokesman said.
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