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UFO Sightings

Objects Seen in Wanaque, Newark

A large shining unidentified flying object hovered over the Wanaque reservoir and was seen by police and more than a dozen residents last night. Another sighting was reported in Newark.

At about 9:25 p.m., the reservoir police were swamped with phone calls, which reported a mysterious flying object had flown over the Wolf Den Dam and landed in the reservoir in Upper Passaic County.

Reservoir Police Sgt. Ben Thompson who investigated radioed back to headquarters reporting that a large object, about the size of an automobile was hovering over the reservoir at a height of about 150 feet.

"It's lighting up practically the whole southern end of the reservoir," Thompson told Patrolmen Edward Webster and William Pastor who were at headquarters at the time.

Object Disappears

Thompson then turned on the red light atop his police car. The object disappeared.

Both Webster and Pastor said they saw the object fly off in a northerly direction.

"It definitely wasn't a plane," said Pastor.

Pastor explained that the object which flew away at a height of several hundred feet, would sometimes stop and hover in one spot for several seconds

and then move off with great speed.

"Sometimes it would disappear for a second or two and then you could see it again," he said, adding:

"We finally lost sight of it shortly before 10 p.m. It was heading north over the upper end of the reservoir toward New York State."

Had Been Seen Before

Pastor said the object had been seen several times before but it had not gotten this close to the water recently.

He said that Air Force officials had taken pictures of the object in January, after it was seen one night by about 50 persons in the area.

He added that the Air Force officials who investigated the January sightings made no comment on the UFO.

Air Force officials at bases in this state and New York said they knew nothing about UFO reports last night.

Norvel Wilson of 33 Burnet St., Newark, reported his attention was attracted to the sky over his home by a whirring noise which he found hard to describe and spotted what appeared to be a large kite with a string of lights several hundred feet in the air. He said the object disappeared as it headed southward.

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

DATE 5/15/66 BY P.6bjafky

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NEWARK EVENING NEWS,
NEWARK, N.J.

Date: 10/11/66

Edition: WALL ST.

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Editor: WILLIAM R. CLARK

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Submitting Office: NEWARK, N.J.

Being Investigated

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OCT 12 1966 | FBI - NEWARK

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