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> From: TotlResrch <TotlResrch@aol.com> [Kal K. Korff]
> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 02:50:44 EST
> Fwd Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 21:06:32 -0500
> Subject: Re: Kal Korff's UFO Sighting
> Keith, I'd be HAPPY to answer any questions about my
> UFO sighting. Feel free to ask away!!
> On February 16, 1981, just after, ironically, I finished
> putting the final touches on my original expose of the
> Eduard "Billy" Meier hoax, I was on my way home
> with two friends of mine at the time, Mr. and Mrs. Al
> and Barbara Reed.
> The time was about 11:45PM and because of the
> tremendous amount of work my original expose of the
> Meier case had taken the Reeds and I to put together,
> the three of us were sick and tired of the UFO subject
> and very much wanted a break from it. Since I knew
> that my book would not be published and on the market
> until May of that year, I looked forward to a few
> months respite from the field of UFOlogy and its
> dreaded politics. I also knew that exposing the Meier
> case as a fraud would not endear me to certain
> individuals and destroy my then-friendship with
> Wendelle Stevens.
> At any rate, while driving home, the thee of us saw off
> to our left in the sky at approximately a 40 degree
> angle, what Mrs. Reed called a "funny looking"
> airplane.
> Immediately, Al and I both said at that same time
> "That's no airplane" and yelled "pull over." This we did,
> and the three of us got out of the car to observe the
> object.
> The object I saw was a bright, red light with a definite
> metallic or "spherical" surface reflection behind it. It was
> about the angular size of the tip or head of a wooden
> stick match held at arm's length. Its' altitude was above
> the horizon, yet below the cloud cover and other air
> traffic. I observed it on highway 237 in California (in
> the San Francisco Bay Area region between the towns
> of Santa Clara and Milpitas) and it was just hovering
> there with no motion or movement for as long as 4
> minutes. The direction I observed the object was
> Northwest, and the sky was pretty illuminated in the
> direction of the object due to the its' location.
> After observing an airplane (a regular jet airliner) pass
> above and right by the object, (though well above it),
> after the plane left the object it suddenly for a split
> second got momentarily brighter and separated into
> TWO objects!
> In observing this, it was as if a piece of it separated from
> itself, and pulled AWAY from the primary object
> towards the left. For a brief moment, there were TWO
> objects now (looking much like a cell dividing into two
> under a microscope!) and this second object was about
> half the size and half the brightness of the primary
> object.
> As the two "objects" separated from one another, the
> second object flew away and within a few seconds
> literally DISAPPEARED right in front of our eyes! It
> was as if it had "cloaked" and dissolved, just like a
> Romulan or Klingon spaceship does in the science
> fiction series Star Trek! We couldn't believe this.
> After this second object dissolved out the larger, primary
> one then started moving and headed straight East
> towards the mountains of the Bay Area over the city of
> Milpitas and southern Fremont.
> Immediately, the three of us got into the car and sped very
> fast (luckily there were no police with radar guns that
> night, as usual) in order to try and follow the object.
> Lucky for us, Highway 237 goes West to East, so we
> were able to eventually catch up with the object. I never
> took my eyes off it up to this point.
> However, the object soon slowed down again and started
> heading north. We were also coming to the end of
> highway 237 by this time and then headed north on
> highway 880 (formerly known as the Nimitz freeway)
> and caught up to the object once again. This time, it had
> STOPPED and hovered in mid air, and we were directly
> UNDER IT at this point and pulled over to the side of
> the freeway where we got out of our car and the three of
> us watched it where it hovered directly above our heads.
> I tried flagging down some cars but in typical California
> style, no one would stop. I then returned to observing
> the object. It sat there motionless for a minute or so, and
> then executed 8 PERFECT tight circle maneuvers in
> succession before it stopped once again and rose
> STRAIGHT UP above the cloud cover where we lost it
> for good. The total sighting lasted about 11 minutes,
> maybe 15, depending on whose wristwatch you believe.
>>> Continued to next message

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From: "Keith Woodard" <qwoodard@worldnet.att.net>
To: "UFO Updates" <updates@globalserve.net>
Subject: Re: Kal Korff's UFO Sighting
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 04:46:42 -0800
Thanks, Kal.  I'm fascinated by your sighting.  Apparently, MUFON
can confirm there were sixty-five other reports more or less
corroborating yours.  And even the most hypnotic skeptic would
have an uphill battle attributing your sighting to a bias against
prosaic explanations or a lust for Illuminati conspiracy theories
or channeled Space Brother doctrines.
Although I'm far from knowledgeable in this field, the sighting
strikes me as impressive evidence in both the "flying disk/sphere"
and "craft/technology from another civilization" categories.
For some reason, I'm unable to find your account in the archives,
so I'll repost it here, followed by some questions.
Kal Korff on some occasion or another wrote:
 * SLMR 2.1a * Believers have more fun, live longer, and have better sex