Copyright 1995 Reuters, Limited
                             Reuters World Service

                     October 18, 1995, Wednesday, BC cycle

ADVANCED-DATE: October 17, 1995, Tuesday, BC cycle
LENGTH       : 282 words
HEADLINE     : Crowds gather at Malaysia village for  UFO  sighting
DATELINE     : KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 18

BODY:
Crowds of people have been gathering at a village in Malaysia's central
Selangor state after news spread of sightings of an  unidentified flying
object (UFO) occupied by extra-terrestials with long ears and little
red eyes.

The New Straits Times newspaper reported on Wednesday that the UFO was
said to have been sighted at least four times since September above
fores ts at the Tanjung Sepat Laut village, south of the capital city
Kuala Lumpur.

Malaysians who claimed to have seen the spaceship said it was as big as
a football field and several storeys high. They said it was encircled by
flashing red, orange and green lights.

No one has managed to take a photograph of the spaceship or the 60
centimetre (about two feet) tall aliens, the newspaper report said.

One villager, among the hundreds who turned up on Tuesday in the hope of
catching the spaceship, said he first thought the object was a low-flying
airplane.

"However, the same object returned a few days later, whizzed past the
village and stopped about a kilometre (half a mile) away where it
hovered about 100 metres in the air before disappearing again," he
said.

The Malaysian Air Force has dismissed the alleged sightings.

"We have seen nothing on our air defence screens to indicate an UFO had
violated Malaysian airspace," the New Straits Times quoted air force's
deputy chief Major-General Ahmad Saruji Che Rus as saying.

Director-General of Malaysia's Space Science Studies Division, Mazlan
Othman, said the sightings may have been hallucinations.

"Sights of faraway planets or stars glowing in the dark could be
misconstrued as UFOs," the New Straits Times quoted her as saying.
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