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- Date: 03-Sep-87 23:11 MST
- Subj: APne 09/04 0034 Stray Balloon LJ
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- LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- A Lincoln police officer saw an unidentified flying
- object descending on Union College, but his other-worldly experience turned out
- to be a blimp gone astray.
- The officer was on patrol early Thursday when he saw an object descending
- over the college campus, said Lt. Jon Briggs. It turned out to be a large helium
- balloon in the shape of a blimp that had come unhitched from a new Runza Drive
- Inn, Briggs said.
- The officer tried to grab the blimp but was nearly pulled into the air by it,
- Briggs said. In the end, it took three officers to bring the balloon under
- control, he said.
- The blimp, which Runza store manager Karolyn Johnston said appears to have
- been released deliberately, was an advertisement for the new store, which opened
- Sunday.
- Johnston said police told her citizens were calling them and reporting a UFO
- sailing over Lincoln.
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