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Focus on UFO Winking, blinking and nod- ding — red lights over Pasa- dena, blue lights over Greensboro, silver cigars over Detro: and-officials kept saying nothing was out there. But in recent years, and articularly ce last sum- m e had been mou: scale gation or fo) nt of an -controlled ry agency. investi- he establish- ndent, ci- vestigato- The sightings had come in bunches, the bulk of them last spring and summer. And the reports had come from all over. “Like Neon Lamps” mong the most intriguing ns in this year’s crop: e At Milan, Michigan, 15 miles south of Ann Arbor, bluish- yellow bars of light were spotted, looking “like neon lamps dangling in the sky.” o In East Delhi, Mich., a 15-year-old boy called in to report seeing lights in the alternately standing still and moving, sometimes flashing on and off. e@ In Altadena and San Marino, Calif., police switch- boards logged dozens of calls after a pair of red lights in the sky were reported by residents. e In Toledo, Ohio, officials at the local airport received seven calls from persons who said they saw a glowing ob- ject that was red, green and white. This World, Sunday, October 16, 1966 S. F. Sunday Examiner & Chronicle | e In suburban -Detroit,. a man Si a noiseless, wing- jess, cigar-shaped fl ject. 7 aiid In Bryan, Texas, resi- dents said they heard a star-like object purr. eo Over Valdese, “glowing blue thing” e ed, then lit up the town like a giant flashbulb. ‘ Someti: he alleged sighti d over into the bi of little in a far ville, Kei men glowed, and they were ribed as ‘three feet tall, eyes like saucers and gedly landed : Hopkins- A grain buyer in Nebraska said he w invited into a space ship tted with four men and two wom- en. They spoke only broken English—but fluent High German which, as it hap- pened, was the grain buyer’s native tongue. Silvery Cigar Nor did America have any corner on the UFO market. In Northern Ireland, Tom Hutchinson saw a saucer drop into a peat bog near his home in Moneymore. It was e feet in di- UPI Televkoto DR. CONDON Saucer-watcher ENCLOSUR. é ameter, 18 inches high. It be- gan to spin and Hutchinson * grabbed it, He 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 away. And in Warminster, Eng- land, a city council worker said he saw a silvery cigar g over the vil- wns. After a time, he , it seemed to stretch. it seemed to divide midships with a flash of or- e light, although there Flaming Object Not all the sightings could phantasmagoria of kooks, cranks and drunks. And, un- less one subscribed to a theo- ry of mass hallucination, it was difficult to explain away simultaneous sightings con- fi d by many rational wit- nesses — such as the flaming object that was seen last April by thousands of East Coast residents from Wash- ington to Boston and even temporarily disrupted a ball game between the Chicago White Sox and the Wash- ington Senators in Wash- ington, D. C. Or the incident in Hills- dale, Michigan last March, in which a Civil Defense Direc- tor, an assistant dean, and 87 coeds reported that they had seen a glowing object zip past their college dormitory and hover in a swamp for hours. Witnesses said 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 C2-$389YL_ 5