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•f ARMED FORCESi'
Focus on UFO
Winking, blinkin" and nod
ding - red lights ~ver Pasa
dena, blue l i g ht s over
Greensboro, sil'ver cigars
ove: Detroit - people kept
seeing strange flying objects,
1 and off i c i a 1 s kept sayin"'0
nothing was out there.
Bc1t in r ecent vears and
particularly since·last 'sum
mer, the pressure had been
mounting for e it h er a full
scale Congressional investi
gation or for the establish
ment of an independent ci
vilian-controlled investigato
ry agency.
It had been a big year for
Unidentified Flying Objects.
The sightings had c om e in
bun Che S, the bulk of them
, last spring and' summer . And
1 the reports had come from
all over.
"Like Neon Lamps"
Among the most intriguing
items in thi~ year's crop:
I) At Milan, l\Iichiaan 15
mi I es south or Ann°Arbor,
bluish - yellow bars of light
we r e spotted, looking '·like
neon lamps dangling in the
sky."
o In East Delhi, Mich., a
15-year-old boy called in to
r e p o r t seeing lights in the
sky alternately standing still
and m o vi n g, sometimes
flashing on and off.
~ In Altadena an d San
Marino, Calif., police switch
boards logged dozens of calls
after a pair of red lights in
the sky were reported by
residents. •
o In Toledo, Ohio, officials
at the local airport received
seven calls from persons who
said they saw a glowing ob
ject that was r ed, green and
white.
• In snburban . Detroit, . a
man saw a noiseless, wing
less, cigar-shaped flying ob
ject.
o In Br y an, Texas, resi
' d en ts said they heard a
star-like object purr.
o Ov er Valdese, N.C., a
"glowing blue thing" explod
, ed, then lit up the town like a
' _giant flashbulb.
Sometimes the a 11 e g e d
, sightings spilled over into
1 the bizarre. A space ship full
: of little men allegedly landed
in a farm yard near Hopkins
yilJe, Kentucky. The l it t 1 e
, men glowed, and they were
• described as "three feet taJl,
, with eyes like saucers and
1 hands like claws."
A grain buyer in Nebraska
said he was invited into a
, space ship where he chatted
, with four men and two wom
en. They spoke only broken
· English-but fluent High
' German which, as -it hap
pened, was the grain buyer's
native tongue.
SihJrY Cigar
Nor did America have any
corner on the UFO market.
In Northern Ireland, Tom
H u t c h i n s o n saw a saucer
drop into a peat bog near his
home in 1\loneymore. It was
eggshaped, th;:ee feet in di-
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DR. CONDON
Saucer-watcher
ameter, 18 inches high. It be
gan to spin and Hutchinson
• grabbed it. He was carrying
it to the po 1i c e, who de
scribed him as ''level-headed
and God-fearing," when the
thing twisted out of his hands
and got away.
And in Warminster, Eng
land, a city council worker
said he saw a silvery cigar
shape drifting over the vil
lage downs. After a time, be
said, it see m e d to stretch.
Then it s e e m e d to divide
amidships with a flash of or
ange light, a 1t h o ugh there
was no noise.
Flaming·Object
Not all the sightings could
be easily written off as the
phantasmagoria of kooks,
cranks aud d:rnnks. And, un
less one subscribed to a theo
ry of mass hallucination, it
was difficult to explain away
simultaneous sightings co n
fi.nned by many r ational wit
nesses - such as the flaming
obj e ct that was seen last
April by thousands of E ast
Coast residents from Wash
i n g t o n to Boston and even
tempor~rily disrupted a ball
g am e between the Chicago
White Sox and the Wash
ington Sen at ors in Wash-
ington, D. C. -
Or the i n c i d e n t in Hills-
dale, Michigan lastr.~iarch. in-.
which a Civil Defense Direc
tor, an assistant dean, and 87
coeds r eported that they had
seen a g lo w i n g object zip
past their college do;:mitory
and hover in a swamp for
hours. Witnesses said they
w at ch e d from the second
floor of the Hillsdale College
girls dormitory as the object
w ob b 1 e d, wa\"ered, glowed
eerily and once zipped right
at a dormitory window be
fore st9pping suddenly.
A Meteor?
The Air F o r c e, charged
. wit~ investiga½D¥ ~very .one
, "this World, Sunday, October 16, 196~ &.;p-8'3 ?<9U._ .ti};'/
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