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- MYSTERIOUS CLOUD SEEN IN AUSTRIA
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- By Robert K
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- One morning last summer an elderly woman who lives not far away from our
- home in central Burgenland (close to the Hungarian border) came to us and
- reported that she had seen something weird on the last night:
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- On August 26th 1995 at about 23:00 Liza (aged 74) saw through the windows
- what appeared to be a rotating "cloud", that was periodically moving
- between the street and a point about 50 metres down the garden. She was
- scared because she didn't know what it was, so she called her husband
- (aged 83) and he also saw it. According to her the object was about 5-10
- metres across, and this "cloud" was torn into many pieces and was
- rotating "like a Ringelspiel" (a carrousel with seats hanging on chains).
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- The sighting lasted for about half an hour. During all this time the
- object was moving back and forth between the street and the garden.
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- On the next day she used different words to describe it: she referred to
- it as a cloud, a foam or a fog. I didn't notice anything strange at the
- time of the observation, I only felt a strong headache, but this was
- nothing unusual. Maybe I could have seen the object if I had looked out
- of the window. Sunset on that day was at 19:49. The weather on that day
- was changing, mostly sunny with one heavy rain shower at about 13:30. My
- first speculation was that the object was a vortex that was carrying
- either dust or humidity. However, it is hard to explain how a vortex can
- move for half an hour on such a constant path. Liza's son (who had not
- seen the object) dismissed it with the argument that it was the smoke of
- fireworks from a nearby town; a very weak explanation from my point of
- view, but Liza thought that this is what it must have been and now no
- longer thinks about the incident.
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- On the next evening I observed the night sky for three hours with the
- hope to see the object. The only remarkable observation happened at
- 22:05. For only one or two seconds I saw something what looked like a
- rotating ring of lights. It was not very bright, and I only saw it
- because I was looking at the right portion of the sky at that time. This
- was either the projection of a kind of searchlight, or these were
- cloud-like objects illuminated by the street lamps on the ground. At
- that time I thought to hear the engines of a jet that was obviously
- flying very high and which I couldn't see.
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- Does anyone know about similar UFO sightings? There have been so many
- sightings of mysterious clouds (like the famous World War 1 case where
- the Norfolk regiment was scooped up by a cloud in Turkey), but I don't
- remember a case where the cloud was torn into pieces and was rotating.
- Does anyone know of other UFO sightings at that time? I only know about
- strange lights that were observed over southern Austria in early August.
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- It's strange how difficult it is for a UFO buff like me to have his first
- nuts-and-bolts UFO sighting. I've already been very close to a UFO
- sighting two years ago, but I didn't see the object that someone in the
- neighbourhood described on the next day.
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- From: e9125767@stud1.tuwien.ac.at (Robert K)
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