UFO News Article: “Widely Scattered Sightings – UFO Reports Grow”

25 March 1966

(The Raleigh Register, Beckley, West Virginia)

Source: Newspapers.com

The whole article:

“Scores of persons – from Maine to the Rockies—reported today that they, too, had seen unidentified flying objects (UFO). A woman in Illinois said a triangular object with red, orange and white lights hovered over her car for more than one hour.

An investigator for the Air Force scheduled a news conference to make known his findings on the multiplying number of reports of the mysterious objects.

Mrs. Robert Gorisek, of La Salle, Ill., said the object hovered over the car in which she and several other persons were riding as they drove home from work through several towns.

Richard Saimas, of Des Moines, Iowa, said an object with pinkish glow and a white center hovered about 200 feet over a drive-in near his home.

In Ohio, two deputy sheriffs saw a round, red glow ‘about as big as a car’ just above the skyline in Toledo.

Wisconsin Also Infested

In Wisconsin a series of objects ranging in size from a basketball to a baseball and in color from pinkish green to bluish green were reported at Wausau. Six policemen watched at Tomah, Wis., as an object changed colors from white to green as it pitched and yawed in the sky, they said.

A Bangor, Maine, man told authorities he fired his pistol at a glowing object—and hit it.

‘I could hear the elderberry bushes scraping as the thing came toward me,’ said John King, 22. He said he fired four times and the object, he said it was about 60 feet long, zoomed skyward.

Police said King was visibly distraught when he related the incident to them.

The reports began a week ago in the Midwest, and from there have come the most numerous reports of sightings—more than 200 persons say they saw mysterious objects since Sunday. Four squad cars of deputies watched one for 45 minutes Thursday night in the Ann Arbor, Mich. Area.

A truck driver told police in Niles, Mich., that  a strange blinking object shadowed his truck for 15 miles early today.

The driver Ralph Conte, Akron, Ohio, said the object had red, green and white lights and followed silently alongside his truck as he drove from Cassopolis, Mich., to Niles.

Conte told Berrien County deputies the object slowed when he slowed, blinked his lights when he blinked his, then finally veered away and vanished. Police said Conte obviously was serious.

Dr. H. [sic] Allen Hynek, a Northwestern University astrophysicist who is chief investigator for the Air Force’s Project Blue Book to trace UFO reports, called a news conference in Detroit today to report on his investigation of the Michigan sighting reports.

The conference was scheduled for 1 p.m. EST.

Ben Bos, a Holland, Mich., business man, told police he saw a strange object resembling a rainbow hover over a park area below his home. It appeared Wednesday night and again Thursday morning, he said.

The mysterious night-flyers were spotted Thursday near Trinidad, Colo., not far from the buried $88 million North American Air Defense Command post. Louis di Palo, a local postman, said he watched three of the objects through binoculars.

As is usual in cases of unidentified flying object sightings, the Air Force said it saw nothing on its sophisticated radar.”

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