Vol. 7, No. 17, 27 April 1967
(The Siuslaw News, Florence , Oregon
Source: oregonnews.uoregon.edu
The whole article:
“One of the unidentified flying objects (UFO)
sightings in the area was reported Friday night, April 21, 1967, by Coast
Guardsmen at the Siuslaw Life Boat Station. The incident occurred at about
10:15 p.m.
EN3 James Petr, officer of the day at the station,
first noticed the oval-shaped object hovering about 100 feet about the whistle
buoy, with SM Robert Harrington, watch tender, seeing it at about the same
time. The buoy lies one mile offshore.
Both men said the unidentified object was ‘a lot
bigger than the buoy.’ Both said the object’s upper half seemed bathed in a
‘pulsating’ ruby glow and the lower half in a gold light.
According to Dick Johnson, officer in charge, there
was bright moonlight Friday night with visibility good at the station and out
over the ocean.
Harrington and Petr called Johnson at his home, and
Johnson estimated he arrived at the station in about five minutes.
He reported that he saw the unidentified object for
about three minutes, but only in a pulsating red light before it ‘headed
northwest at a pretty fast clip.’
Johnson said that he notified the Air Force in North Bend of the sighting.
As one Coast Guardsman said at he Siuslaw Station
after watching the object hovering in the vicinity of the whistler buoy for the
15 minutes it was there, ‘I see it, but I don’t believe it.’ ”
U.S. Coast Guard Station Siuslaw River (Florence , Oregon
44° 0'9.05"N 124° 7'16.35"W.
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