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Considering the amount of high strangeness that residents of Gulf Breeze in Florida had become

accustomed to over the past few months, a 1971 VW van with busted tail lights was

some way from unusual.

It was back in 1987 that the quiet town of Gulf Breeze nestled at the tip of Pensacola

Bay in the northwest of Florida, became for a brief moment to hotbed of apparent UFO

activity.

In late November of that year, local resident Ed Walters brought a series of photographs

he'd taken of an unidentified flying object to the attention of Dwayne Cook, then editor

of the Gulf Breeze Sentinel.

The pictures evocatively lit, dark grainy polaroids, each with the same almost comically

saucer shaped object hanging in the sky, did little to convince Cook, until that was.

He showed them to his parents later that night who recognized it instantly as the strange

object they'd seen in the sky a few days earlier, and they weren't the only ones.

After the next six months, 135 people reported 80 different sightings, many congregating together

in UFO watching parties at Shoreline Park to gaze out across the Gulf of Mexico and up

toward the heavens in excited anticipation of just what might be.

The sightings were lent a further air of credibility when in February 1988, City Councilwoman

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