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The several reported sightings in southeastern Michigan alerted serious and not-so serious observers to the possibility of a sky show. One man played a fiddle, hoping to recall the UFOs of previous night. Another beeped out “ni-code”’ on his car horn. Most observers solemnly studied, the skies, hoping fora repeat performance. = If the ultimate explanation for visitors from outer space should be weather bal- loons, marsh gas, jet engine exhaust or public hysteria, there will remain, in a small pocket of common-sense Michigan, a group of die-hards who will insist that their visits were different and that what they saw was, as one of their numbers put it: “No hullabillusion.” The first indication that the Wolverine State was to be singled out for a major flap worthy of national and international attention, came with sneaky suddeness and little fanfare early in the week of March 14, 1966, when Washtenaw County and Dexter local police witnessed startling maneuvers of lighted shapes that hovered, dived, turned with amazing sharpness and traveled with astonishing speed in the southeastern Michigan skies. One of the officers was sufficiently struck by the phenomena to photo- graph two of the objects. This film was still being processed when the second indica- tion came with a bang heard round the world, but heard first, apparently, by six hunting dogs on the grounds of a Dexter Township farmhouse, 12 miles from Ann Arbor, owned by no-nonsense Frank Mannor. It was the “barkin’ and the bellerin’” of these half-a-dozen dogs on the the Sun- day night of March 20 that sent Frank Mannor running from his house to see what continued on next page Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010002-9 Lo co