19 March 2015
(The Hillsdale Collegian, Hillsdale ,
Michigan
NICAP.org UFO case
report (see below link):
“Brad Sparks:
March 21, 1966. Hillsdale , Michigan
10:32, 11 p.m.-4:30 a.m.
17 Hillsdale College students including Barbara Kohn [Cole?] and Cynthia
Poffenberger saw a football-shaped object with red-green-white pulsating lights
descend from the NE pass close to their dorm then disappear to the S as if
crashing to the ground, then return at 11 p.m. William Van Horn, Civil Defense
Director and rated commercial pilot, and police arrived and conducted a ground
search 1/2 to 2 miles away to the E but found nothing until Van Horn
reached the college dorm where he, using binoculars, and [87?] students saw a
maneuvering lighted 20-25 ft object on or near the ground about 1,500-1,700
ft away to the E, with a dirty-white light on the left and dim orange on the
right, which brightened after 10 mins to white and red and began to rise at a
rate of 25-30 ft/min to a height of 100-150 ft (about 3-6 mins), stopped momentarily
then descended and repeated the motion several times. At one point on a descent
a ‘convexed’ surface (between?) the lights could be seen. Radiation was later
detected at the landing area about 330 to 600 microroentgens/hr
[milliroentgens/hr ?], roughly 10-60x background level, and possible boron
contamination. (Sparks
Wikipedia article: “Hillsdale
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Wikipedia article: “Hillsdale ,
Michigan
William Van Horn, Civil
Defense Director, Hillsdale , Michigan
measures radioactivity
at a 1966 Michigan UFO landing site
(“UFO: Friend, Foe Or
Fantasy?” (CBS, New York City , New York
Delp Hall and the Liberty Walk, facing Central Hall
[Hillsdale College , Hillsdale , Michigan
(tageo.com photo)
