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'THAT WAS NO AIRPLANE'
Are 11,ey Hiding Tl,ose
Lights Under a Bushell
By EVERT CLARK
Mysterious red lights which have flown over the Quantico Marine Base 22 times in
the past six nights were officially explained away today as a new type of aircraft
navigation light. But most of the Marines who saw them still don't believe that's what
they were.
In addition, The News ran
into what seems to be a delib­
erate attempt to cover up cer­
tain facets of the longest con­
tinuous ''flying· saucer" run in
history.
The first man to see the light
was Pfc. Norman Viets, 18, of
Greenville, Pa. Since' then, at least
,. 30 other Marines, including half a
, dozen officers, have seen It, too.
On one occasion, sentries report­
I ed seeing three lights at once. They
( say they have seen the lights drop
straight down, fly straight up and
stand still.
Even the most • c a r e f u I-and
skeptical-observer, the base prov­
ost marshal, Maj. D. D. Pomerleau,
admitted the lights had character­
istics he never expected to find on
an airliner.
FIRST SIGHTING
Pfc. Viets was standing sentry
duty at the Tank Parle a few miles
north of Camp Barrett on the south­
western side of the Quantico reser•
vation at 9:05 p. m. Dec. 30 when
he "reported a moving, blinking red
light near his post which he could
not explain."
The sergeant of the guard, Sergt.
Francis R. Salinder, "investigated
and saw the light but could not ex•
plain it."
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Pfc. Viets told The News the light
first appeared to come straight
toward him over a line of trees about
200 yards to the south o.f his post.
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"It was about a foot and a half in
diameter," he said, "only going about
10 or 15 miles an hour. Then it fol•
lowed the tree line about 50 yards to
the righ t and went down.
"It went straight ~own, all of _a
sudden.
F'itteen minutes later 1t
went straight up and moved over
here toward the tank shed.
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"I saw it two times aiter that. It
did the sarne thin~-
It was the
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There was no en~ine"n~e"' a~<!. no
shape-just the light.
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