25 April 1966
(Beaver County Times, Beaver, Pennsylvania)
Quote from the article:
“The Air Force’s explanation of the sighting of an
unidentified flying object April 17
in Ohio and Beaver County isn’t being accepted by one of
the men who saw the UFO, Sheriff’s Deputy Dale Spaur of Portage County, Ohio.
SPAUR isn’t buying that explanation. He said Saturday ‘I
don’t know how much of an investigation they made, but evidently it wasn’t a
very lengthy one and it didn’t involve me.’
He said he had two brief phone conversations with Maj.
Hector Quintanilla, head of ‘Project Blue Book,’ the Air Force official UFO
investigation project. They lasted about two and a half and one and a half
minutes, he said.
Spaur and his partner W. L. ‘Barney’ Neff chased the
object, which Spaur described as 35 to 40 feet across with a very brigh (read: bright),
white glow. He said that the chase started after the object hovered directly
over their heads about 150
feet in the air south of Ravenna.
They were joined in the chase at East Palestine by
Patrolman Wayne Huston, who also reported seeing the object. Their chase ended
at Conway, where they found Patrolman Frank Panzanella along Route 65. The four
said they watched the object for about 20 minutes in Conway.
Spaur said he wouldn’t have risked his life, his
partner’s or any innocent person’s if he hadn’t thought it was important.
‘I don’t agree that it’s a satellite and I also don’t
agree that it’s Venus. I know what I saw and I believe it and I’ll never change
my mind.’
William Weitzel, Pittsburgh, investigator for National
Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, isn’t accepting the Air Force
explanation either.”
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