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The Gulf Breeze UFO

The city of Gulf Breeze is situated in Santa Rosa County, Florida. The town proper (as opposed to the wider region with the same postal designation) has a population of around 6,500 and is mostly famous for as the home of the Zoo of Northwest Florida. To tourists with an interest in the weird it is famous as a UFO sighting hotspot, in particular the UFO flap from the 1980s.

The 1987 Incident

The main witness in the 1987 Gulf Breeze UFO incident was Ed Walters, a local building contractor. Beginning on November 11th 1987, Waters reported a number of UFO sightings and encounters. According to Walters he not only witnessed the UFOs but was spoken to telepathically by their inhabitants.

Walters describes a grey-blue Adamski-saucer shaped UFO which emitted a distinctive humming noise. After he started photographing the craft, it reportedly used a blue beam of some form to immobilise him whilst a voice in his mind told him not to be scared.

What makes this incident unusual and more interesting than many other similar ones is that Walters took a number of photographs of the UFO over a period of weeks. These pictures were published in the Gulf Breeze Sentinel, the local newspaper, and the story attributed to an anonymous "Mr. X" rather than Walters.

Hoax?

Any UFO sighting accompanied by photographic evidence is interesting. However there are those who maintain that rather than the Gulf Breeze Sighting the incident should actually be called the Gulf Breeze Hoax; as I write this, opinions still vary. Some believe that it was a genuine UFO encounter, others that it was all simply a fake.