UFO News Article:
“Police Officers Report UFO Sighting
Between Cape, Jackson Early Sunday”,
31 August 1967
(The Southeast Missourian, Cape Girardeau, Missouri)
The article informs about two 27
August 1967 South-Eastern Missouri UFO incidents:
Quote from the article:
“He (Jackson patrolman John Clifton), along with
several others, saw a strange object early Sunday morning.
Not only that, but he and
others chased it. All the way to Cape
Girardeau.
Three times.
The initial sighting took place
at the intersection of Highways 61, 72 and 34 in Jackson.
Things get slow about 5 in the morning, and the
patrolman and three others – Chief of Police Ben Schweer, Don Risenbichler and Mike
Platt – decided they’d catch the object.
On the way to Cape Girardeau, the light seemed to stay on
the north side of Highway 61, he noted. On the way back it stayed on the south
side.
At one point in the chase he radioed
ahead to Cape Girardeau,
where Sgt. Robert Ross reported seeing the same light from the northern city
limits.
That proves, the officer said,
that the UFO was some place between the pursuing car and Cape Girardeau.”
Four civilians, Mr. and Mrs, Lloyd
Winters and Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Gunn, sighted a large UFO near Miner, Missouri at dusk.
Quote from the article:
“Mr Winters said the object was
light blue in color; he estimated it to be 25 to 30 feet high and 15 to 20 feet wide.
The object descended too fast
to be a plane, he added, and it disappeared behind the Sikeston ridge in the direction of Morehouse,
¼ to ½ -mile north of I-57.”
“Cape Girardeau, Missouri”
(City-Data.com):
http://www.city-data.com/city/Cape-Girardeau-Missouri.html
Aerial view of Cape Girardeau, Missouri
(topix.com photo)