4 February 1982
(Boston Herald-American
(now Boston Herald), Massachusetts
Sources: U.F.O.
Newsclipping Service, Plumerville , Arkansas
The whole article (Page 3):
“Were three bright yellow objects from outer space
holding maneuvers in the skies over this Connecticut River town (Windsor , Vermont
Police Sgt. Richard Polland, 47, a 14-year veteran of the
force, said he spotted a ‘bright, yellow cylindrical object’ in the sky over a
ridge near the river about 6:15 p.m.
‘I notified my office and learned one of my officers,
David LaPlante, was also watching it,’ Polland said.
‘We watched it for four-five minutes. Suddenly, it
shrunk down to the size of a star and sped away.’
A few minutes later Polland saw two bright lights over
the same area. ‘They were maneuvering around. One trailed the other, came up
beside it and then went under it.
‘Then one took off to the west and the other to the
south,’ Polland said.
A short time later the two ‘objects’ repeated the
process, he said.
Thomas Murphy also spotted the lights from his home
here. ‘It just glowed. I was amazed . . . I’ve never seen an airplane or a
helicopter move that fast. It was nothing like an airplane. I wanted so much
for it to come closer, I’ll be watching again tonight.’
National Weather Service officials in Burlington
said the aurora borealis, or northern lights, which have been bright all week,
might deserve credit for such a spectacular light show over Windsor
But Polland, who served three years with the military
in Alaska
Polland added: ‘I don’t know what it was. People a lot
smarter than I am are trying to figure it out.’
The local police received four or five calls from
residents who said they saw the mysterious lights in the sky and the officers
said they would report the sightings to the Center for UFO Studies in Evanston , Ill.
(tageo.com photo)