From: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos <ballesterolmos.nul>
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 13:18:08 +0000 (GMT)
Archived: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:45:08 -0500
Subject: Re: UFO Over Germany Official


With regard to a recent post on UFO Updates under the title UFO
Over Germany Official, below is the message Dutch researcher
Frits Westra posted to EuroUFO, a distinguished forum of
European UFO experts, on this event.

I hope you find it of interest.

Best regards,
Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos
FOTOCAT Blog http://fotocat.blogspot.com/

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From: Frits Westra <ufo-net.nul>
To: EuroUfoNet.nul
Date: Sunday 1 febrero, 2009 12:53
Subject: Re: [EuroUfo] UFO Over Germany Official

Hello all,

Below are some links to articles in the German press about the
German UFO on Jan. 19. The first two articles offer the most
useful information, IMO.

http://www.gea.de/detail/1175395

http://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/stn/page/detail.php/1927600

http://tinyurl.com/c9tx8a

http://tinyurl.com/aw3mna

From these news reports, I gather that on Monday Jan. 19, at
20:18 local time (sunset was at about 16:55 local time),
Stuttgart Airport Air Traffic Control detected a primary radar
target that didn't respond to ATC instructions.

An airliner pilot confirmed that he had intermittent visual
contact with the unidentified traffic, which was flying at an
estimated altitude of 6,000 to 7,000 ft. From this, I gather
that the traffic had position lighting, or it wouldn't have been
visible in the dark.

A police helicopter pursued the unknown traffic to no avail. The
object's speed was reported to be around 100 km/h. It eventually
disappeared from radar in the Grafenwohr region, where a US Army
garrison is located, some 20 km west of the German-Czech border.

A Stuttgart ATC spokesman said that he presumed the traffic
originated from France and landed in Czechoslovakia.

Military aircraft communications listeners whom I know in
Germany said that to their knowledge no jet fighters were
scrambled.


Regards,

Frits Westra
UFO Working Group Netherlands

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