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Approved For Release 2001/04/02 length of time it was observed, and the Air Force comment on the sighting. Time/place of sighting: August 16, 1966, at about 10:45 p.m. CDT, of many parts of the north central United States, including North Dakota and Wisconsin. Duration: Undetermined, various. Number of observers: Numerous. Type of observers: Variety including airplane pilots. Number of objects: One. Observer reliability: Variable. Shape: Various from funnel to moon-shaped to oval to elongated V or boomerang shape. Dimensions: Varying in size from that of a full moon to that of a football field. Color: Blue, green and red, whirling and changing colors, turning to a definite blue-green as object came closer. Also as a hazy green, luminous, bright as the early morning sun and giving off so much light it blinded one observer's eyes. Sound: None Altitude: Appeared to rise up from behind woods, and to be a funnel extending down to the ground. Filmed over Salem, Mass. Air Station and released by U.S. Coast Guard, these strange objects were later said by Air Force to be “natural phenomena’. Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R00010001 0002-9 Object was about 15,000 ft. high, moving in and out of frontal cloud, emitting emerald green trajectory. Had glowing diamond-shaped head. Taken near Amarillo, Texas, in August, 1956. Speed: To some observers object appeared to be coming toward earth at tremendous rate of speed. Pilot flying 190 miles an hour reported object keeping pace with him. Tactics: Witnesses reported variety of sightings. To some there was basically no movement as object slowly disappeared from -view. In another: instance the object dissolved into streaks of light before vanishing. : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010002-9