6 August 1975
(The Pantagraph, Bloomington ,
Illinois )
Source: ufonewspaper.blogspot.com
Quote from the article:
“At least 20 UFO sightings have been reported in the
past month (July/August 1975) throughout this country. They have been seen
hovering, blinking, scooting sideways and up and down. One reportedly emitted
an odor comparable to sea water.
Policemen have sighted the UFOs and chased them
unsuccessfully. Two midnight motorist swore they were followed by one. A salesman said one hung over his
house, glaring with a light which ‘paralyzed’ him and sent his cat screeching.
The UFOs have been described variously as ‘twice as
big as the setting sun; very bright and orange in color; big as a house with
red and green lights; white, sort of cigar-shaped.’
There has been one parliamentary call for an official
inquiry into the UFOs. A police spokesman said, ‘we can offer no logical
explanation for them,’
A Salisbury
(the capital) air traffic controller pooh-poohed the sightings, declaring, ‘to
say we are skeptical is an understatement.’
The UFOs spotted one night flashing green, red, blue
and yellow lights over Salisbury ,
he said, were two helicopters. The orange colored object spotted, he went on,
was probably the moon. No UFOs had been picked up on Rhodesia ’s air traffic radar, he
added.
Whereupon an ex-Spitfire pilot said the controller was
talking rubbish.
The pilot and several members of his family had
sighted a UFO over his house, he swore, a white and orange affair.
And as an ex-pilot, he snapped, he could certify the
UFO was not a helicopter—or the moon.”
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