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nottced tt dtrectly overhead .
The same steady orange glo~
perststed durtng the enttre ttmc that he wttnessed it.
~lthough thts object was actually cut /ron his sight by
nearby trees, IJr. Hitchens stated tl,at it was so jar away
at that time that he probably would have lost stght of tt
very shortly.
The object made no sound whatsoever, and
there seemed to be no attachments or projecttons of any
kind .
lJr. Hitchens stated ~he objec~ wao a complete
ctrcular ball .
He had no tdca as to the method of propulsion,
but aduiaed that at the ttrae it seened to change dtrections,
probably over New York City, and that it seemed to back up
and go for1.:ard, possibly two or three times, 'in order- to
ezecute a change of direction.
7'here were no clouds in the
sky which interfered with hts vision, and he could not comment
as to whether -or not this object penet1·ated or ctrcum.vented
clouds .
The object left no trail oJ any ktnd, and JJr . IH'tchBns
mathematically calculated tts speod at between 400 and 700
nilea per hour, depending on the height, which he otatcd he
could not accu1·ately co-cpute .
Ile advtoed that he could not
recall any odors and had no idea as to the construction of
the object.
To Jlr. Tlltchens' •1mowledge, the only other persons
in tlii::1 area to haue witnessed the object wsre hta wife and
daughter.
Immediately upon sighting ~h~ object, llr3 . llitchena
ran to the door of neighbors occupying ~he same house as the
Hitchens t~ bring th~m to the yard.
However, thcBe neighbors
did not witness the object, since it disappeared before they
got outside .
Mr. Hitchens stated that he ts a Chemical Engineer
and ha3 fi,ftecn years oj' e:cperienco tn research and development.
He £3 not a pilot, but has done considerable /lying, and has
also done considerable ·rea.di,ng, including technical data
concerntng flying saucers and diacs .
1le understands from
read tng the above r,,.attcrc; that the star Yenus ts of-ten mistaken
by observers /or flying saucers, and he potnted out that he
feels that he ts janiliar wtth astronony and did not conjuae
the object he saw with Venus, stnce he alao recalled seeing
Venus in the sky on that particular evening, and compared the
stae oJ this object as being ten times Venus' dianet~r.
He
also stated that he computed the speod at whtch thts objBct
was traveling by UBtng potnts i,n hts area, such as roo/ tops
and tree topa, together with the distance he walked on the
ground 1n order to keep the object tn sight .
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