AudioBlog: UFOs Over Wytheville, Virginia

Beginning in October 1987, there was a UFO flap in Wytheville,
Virginia. Thousands of people in the area reported seeing
extraordinary things in the sky, but the most commonly told story
that came out of the flap centers around a single witness who, it
seems, was singled out for harassment by some unknown entity or
organization.On October 7, 1987, reporter Danny Gordon of radio
station WYVE called the county sheriff, as he regularly did, to see
if the sheriff had any news for him that day. The sheriff told
Gordon that three deputies, all ex-military, had reported seeing a
UFO that day. According to Gordon in the course of his appearance
in a segment devoted to the Wytheville flap in Season 4, Episode 18
of Unsolved Mysteries, the story was used as what he
calls a “ha-ha” piece at the end of that day’s newscast. Read
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