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ARMED FORCES
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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 red, 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 Over 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 po1i 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 rational 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.
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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 reported 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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