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'S. F, Surday Examiner & Chronicle ° a nena ist Mii Mc antisera SR TT RIO I gM P Tc eI aE Mic l a A A TY MeN g Tn IT LO ae =¢° a a This World, Sunday, October 16, 1966. - 27C _ This World, Sunday, V6 fo ~ 2S 14 - ff ~, ; ENCLOSURE 7 f — yesidents. ARMED FORCES - Focus on UFO Winking, blinking and nod- ding — red lights over Pasa- defa, blue Tights over Greensboro, aijver cigars over Detroit — people kept sesing strange Nying objects, and officials kept saying nothing was out there. Bat in recent years, and particularly ¢ince Jast suro- mer, the pressure had been mounting for either a full- sealc Congressional Investi- golion or for the establish ment of an independent, ¢i- villan-controlled investigato- ry agency. It had been a big vear for Unidentified Flying Objects. The sighlings had come in bunches, the bulk of them Jast spring and summer. And the reporis had come from al] over. “Like Neun Lamps” Among the most intriguing iteras in this year's crop: @ At Milan, Michigan, 15 miles south of Ann Arbor, bluish- yellow bars of light were spotted, looking “like neon lamps dangling in the sky.” @ In East Delhi, Mich., a 15-year-old. boy called in to report secing lights in the sky allernately standing still and moving, sometisnes Mlaching on end off. eJn Altadena ahd San Marino, Calif., police switch- beards jogged dozens of calls alter a pair of red lights in the sky were reported by @ In Toledo, Ohio, officials ¢ at the Jocal airport received. - seven calls from persons who gaid they saw 2 glowing ob- . ject. that Was red, green and white, . k » * _-. oe atime alt ois i dee! ¢ t Sy a ee 2 eo @ In suburban -Detroit,. a man sav a noiseless, wing> less, .cigar-shaped fying ob- ject . ,.° In Bryan, Texas, resi- dents ssid they heard a gtlar-like object purr. @ Over Valdese, N.C. a “glowing blue thing” explod- ed, then lit up the town like a giant fMachbulb. Sometimes the alleged sightings spilled over into ihe bizarre. A space ship foll of little men allegediy landed in a farm vard near Hopkins- Wille, Kentucky. The little men glowed, and they were described as ‘three feet tall, with eves Uke saucers and hands like claws.” A grain buyer In Nebraska gaid he was invited into 3 space ship where he chatted with four men and two wom- en. They epoke only broken "English—but fluent High - German which, as Jt hap- pened, was the grain native tonzue. Silvery Cigar “Wor did America have any * eorner on the UFO marxet. . In Northern Ireland, Tom Hutchinson saw a saucer . drop into a peat bog near his 723 he home in Moneymore, lt was eggshaped, three feet in di- LOE Felephom * DR. CONDON . Saucer-watcher * * FE a erty burer’s . me By ay Pat’ } “amd... 18 inches high. It be- gan to spin and Hutchinson * grabbed it. Me was carrying it to the police, who de- scribed him as “level-headed and God-fearing,” when the thing twisted out of his hands - and got aay, And in Warminster, Eng- =~ land, a cily council worker _ said he saw a silvery cigar. shape drifting over the vil- loge downs. After a time, he said, it seemed to stretch. Then it seemed to divide amidships with a flash of or- ange light, although there was no noise. Flaming Object Not all the sightings could be easily written off as the phantasmagoria of kooks, cranks and drunks. And, ui- Jess one subscribed to a theo- ry of mass hallucination, it was difficult to explain away sirnultancous sightings ¢ 6m firmed by many rational wit- nesses -- such as the flaming object that was seen last April by thousands of East Coast residents from Wash- ingten to Bosion and even femporarily disrupted s ball game between the Chicago White Sox and the Wash- ington Senators in Wash- ington, D. C. . > Or the incident in Hills- i « dale, Michigan last March, in. which a Civil Defense Direc: — tor, an assistant dean, and 87 coeds reported that they had geen a glowing object mp past their college dormitory and hover in a swamp for hours. Witnesses. sald they watched from the second floor of the Hillsdale College girls dormitory as the object _ wobbled, wavered, glowed eerily and once zipped right at a dormitory window be fore stopping suddenly. A Meteor? - The Air Force, charged _ with investigating every one a Ge eee ppt? me oy _ a + - + pte fru Pe Ree. fen ee Row ee i TS Baye