Ufo News Article Salinas Encounters Ufo Lights

27 February 1978 (The Press-Courier, Oxnard, California)Two air traffic controllers and several other people sighted huge green lights near Alisal (California), a Salinas suburb (located about five miles east of Salinas), on 26 February 1978, at around 7:10 p.m., The Press-Courier informs:http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=USJLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ViMNAAAAIBAJ">Quote from the article:" 'Something did happen in that area, but what it was is unknown,' Salinas police Lt. Ray Jackson said today. He said police had no explanation for the lights.Most reports mentioned four 'very, very large' green lights, Jackson said. One person said they were moving at about 50 milesper hour. Another said the lights seemed to be attached to a single object about four stories high, Jackson said.He (Air Traffic Controller Richard Lockwood) said the light appeared to be two to four miles away, about 30 feet in diameter and about 200 feetabove the ground.'By the time you could count one-two-three, it had gone down,' he said. He said he did not think it was an aircraft since it was 'a solid mass of green.'Although the sightings were near Alisal High School, Jackson said the lights were reportedly too big to be devised by kids as optical tricks.""Salinas, California" (City-Data.com):http://www.city-data.com/city/Salinas-California.html"Alisal, CA" (mapquest.com):http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Alisal">Aerial view of Salinas, California (flickr.com photo)