Bible School Game Culprit In UFO Mystery

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JACKSON, Mo. -- That was no UFO in the skies above the southeast Missouri town of Jackson.

A UFO that was the talk of Jackson has turned out to be nothing more than a vacation Bible school game gone awry.

Three weeks ago, Zach Stanfield, 16, videotaped a shadowy disc-shaped object hovering in the sky above his home. The Southeast Missourian newspaper ran a front page photo of the disc, taken from the video, with a story about an unidentified flying object hovering over Jackson.

But there were no little green men inside it.

The UFO actually was a mylar disc that had been purchased for children attending vacation Bible school at Calvary United Pentecostal Church. In an effort to make it fly, Edward Moore, the husband of a church member said he put too much helium inside a mylar disc and it floated away.

Cherie Moore said she and her husband just about died when they saw a newspaper report on the supposed UFO.

Air traffic controller Larry Davis of the Cape Girardeau airport said too much helium would have given the disc the strange hovering effect seen in the tape, especially on a day with mild winds.

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