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There was an unof,·
cial report that Air For
personnel at neaJ.'by A · c
en, S. C., spotted the ob
ject on radar and issued
an alert.
The object appeared to be
a "constant red light," accord
ing to Augusta Chronicle ex
ecutlve editor Louis Harris,
who saw the object from the
downtown newspaper build
ing. "Lt could have been a
tiny red light a short dis
tance away or a g igant ic
thing at a great dis tance," he
said.
, 0 .
ne witness, J. T. James,
eaid he saw the object on two
occasions from his home near
Aiken. Lt was cigar-shaped,
he said, and would alternate
from bright to amber and
occasionally got out alto-
ether.
Elsewhere, strange "sauc
1,r'' sightings were r eported. WHITE SANDS
NEBRASKA Mlitary authorities ~ppar
ntly gave c1·edence to a re
At Kearney, Neb., authori ort by an electroni en
ties held a "heart-to-heart" Hgineer wh,o said he s v an
talk with Rein h o Id 0. object which made car en
Schmidt, a salesman, later near thegines stall Whi.te
discovered to be an ex-con Sands proving grounds.
vict, who said he talked to ,
tour men and two women in Col. John Mccurdy, Air
a transport space ship which Force public relations officer
had landed. He said the space a~ White Sands, sa id the en
people spoke in English and gineer, James S tokes, 42, will
German. be given a thoro medical ex
amination and a radiation
, Police roped off the area count test. Col. McCurdy
where the "whatnik" alleg- said he was "personally sat
edly landed and exa mined isfled" With M r. Stokes' r e
various impressions and oil port.
stains 011 the ground• A Civil Service worker a l
At Long Beach, Calif., th ree Lackland Air Force Base i n
i\ir Force weather observers, San Antonio, Tex ., said he
one of t hem the comma nding saw an egg-shaped object
officer of the spotting unit, land in a ravine about 200
late yes terday reported s ight- ya1·ds from him as he drove
ing six unidentified, saucer- near the eity. He said his
~haped .flying objects over car engine and lights went
Long Beaah Air F orce base. off, and the object took off
in a few minutes, enabling
The Coast Guard reported h im to dr ive away.
eking up an unidentified
ylng object on radai- over At about the same time,
1e Gulf of Mexico south of ,the Grou nd Observer Corps
ew Orleans. A Coast Guard at Midland, Tex., said it saw
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ommander said the object a large, red objert and picked
aused over the cutter Se- up unlntelllgible cmwersa~
l)ago In the Gull and was on frm on a sound dl'trctor. cu_>,
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