(NICAP.org)
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From about 3:50 a.m. on March 14 and for 2-1/2 hours thereafter,
Washtenaw County sheriffs and police in neighboring jurisdictions reported
disc-shaped objects moving at fantastic speeds and making sharp turns, diving
and climbing, and hovering. At one point, four UFOs in straight-line formation
were observed. Selfridge AFB confirmed tracking UFOs over Lake
Erie at 4:56 a.m. Following is the log of ‘Complaint No. 00967’ signed by Cpl.
Broderick and Deputy Patterson of the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Department:
‘3:50 a.m. Received calls from Deputies Bushroe and Foster, car 19,
stating that they saw some suspicious objects in the sky, disc, star-like
colors, red and green, moving very fast, making sharp turns, having left to
right movements, going in a Northwest direction.
4:04 a.m. Livingston
County [sheriff’s
department] called and stated that they also saw the objects, and were sending
car to the location.
4:05 a.m. Ypsilanti Police Dept. also called stated that the object was
seen at the location of US-12 and I-94 [intersection of a U.S. and an
Interstate highway].
4:10. a.m. Monroe
County [sheriff’s
department] called and stated that they also saw the objects.
4:20 a.m. Car 19 stated that they just saw four more in the same
location moving at a high rate of speed.
4:30 a.m. Colonel Miller [county civil defense director] was called; he
stated just to keep an eye on the objects that he did not know what to do, and
also check with Willow Run Airport.
4:54 a.m. Car 19 called and stated that two more were spotted coming
from the Southeast, over Monroe
County. Also that they
were side by side.
4:56 a.m. Monroe
County [sheriff’s
department] stated that they just spotted the object, and also that they are
having calls from citizens. Called Selfridge Air Base and they stated that they
also had some objects [presumably on radar] over Lake Erie
and were unable to get any ID from the objects. The Air Base called Detroit
Operations and were to call this Dept. back as to the disposition.
5:30 a.m. Dep. Patterson and I [Cpl. Broderick] looked out of the office
and saw a bright light that appeared to be over the Ypsilanti area. It looked
like a star but was moving from North to East.
6:15 a.m. As of this time we have had no confirmation from the Air
Base.’
Washtenaw County deputies B. Bushroe and J. Foster formally stated: ‘This is the
strangest thing that [we] have ever witnessed. We would have not believed this
story if we hadn't seen it with our own eyes. These objects could move at
fantastic speeds, and make very sharp turns, dive and climb, and hover with
great maneuverability. We have no idea what these objects were, or where they
could have come from. At 4:20 a.m. there were four of these objects flying in a
line formation, in a north westerly direction, at 5:30 these objects went out
of view, and were not seen again.’
Deputy Bushroe told the press: ‘It would swing back and forth like a
pendulum, then shoot upward at tremendous speed, hover and then come down just
as fast.’ Dexter police and Livingston
County sheriffs,
contacted by Bushroe and Foster, ‘reported that they saw the same objects
engaging in the same maneuvers.’
March 17, 1966, Milan,
Michigan. 4:25 a.m. Sgt. Nuel
Schneider and Deputy David Fitzpatrick saw top-shaped objects making sharp
maneuvers. They alternately hovered, rose and fell quickly, darted around at
jet-like speed, their light dimming and brightening periodically. In a report
to NICAP, the officers stated that two objects were operating together,
circling and flying in formation, while a third object hovered at lower
altitude.
March 20, 1966, Dexter,
Michigan. About 8:30 p.m. Frank
Mannor and family, and dozens of other witnesses, reported that a domed oval
object with ‘quilted’ or ‘waffled’ surface and lights in the center and on each
end had landed in a swampy field. Deputies David Fitzpatrick and Stanley
McFadden parked car #34 adjacent to the area and began a search with Frank
Mannor.
‘While in the woods area,’ their report states, ‘a brilliant light was
observed from the far edge of the woods, and upon [our] approaching, the light
dimmed in brilliance....The brilliant light [then] again appeared, and then
disappeared. A continued search of the area was conducted, through swamp and
high grass, with negative results. Upon returning to the patrol vehicle, the
undersigned officers were informed that one of the objects had been hovering
directly over the area where our flashlight beams had been seen, and then [it]
departed in a west direction of flight, at high rate of speed.’
As he and other officers were rushing to the scene, Officer Robert
Hartwell of the Dexter Police Department saw a luminous object buzz his car.
Robert Taylor, Dexter Police Chief, said he watched an object in the field from
Frank Mannor’s home on a knoll overlooking the area. It appeared as a pulsating
red, glowing object. Through binoculars he saw ‘a light on each end of the thing.’
(Sheriffs’ statements in NICAP files. See The U.F.O. Investigator,
March-April 1966, pp. 5-6; Detroit
News, March 14, 1966; LIFE Magazine, Apr. 1, 1966; Newsweek, Apr. 4, 1966.)”
Wikipedia article: “Selfridge Air National Guard Base”:
United States Air Force
After World War II Selfridge expanded to its present size of 3,600 acres (1,500 ha), and in 1947 the
Selfridge Field was renamed Selfridge Air Force Base.[22] The
base grew steadily and soundly, acquiring impressive buildings and long
concrete strips. In 1950, Headquarters for the Tenth Air Force, which was in
charge of all Air Reserve records for a 13-state area in the Midwest,
moved to Selfridge. It recalled and trained Air Reservists, and as an
administrative group, the Tenth was the largest of the tenant units at
Selfridge.[22]
From 1947–1970 the base hosted three successive Cold War aircraft units:
the 56th Fighter Wing (28 July 1947 – 1952), which conducted the first
west-to-east jet fighter transatlantic crossing (US to Scotland via Greenland,
1948); the 4708th Defense (later Air Defense) Wing from 1952–1956; the 439th
Fighter-Bomber Wing (1952–7); and the 1st Fighter Wing (Air Defense) from
1956–1970.[23] The units’ Selfridge aircraft were F-51 Mustangs (439th,
1953-4), Lockheed P-80 Shooting Stars (439th 1953-6, 56th), F-84 Thunderstreaks
(439th), North American F-86D Sabres (1st), and F-102 Delta Daggers (1st). In
April 1954, the Selfridge’s 13th Fighter-Intercepter Squadron of the 4708th Air
Defense Wing won the Eastern Air Defense Force rocket gunnery championship;[24]
and on 10 May 1956, a
Selfridge F-86D accidentally fired 22 Mighty Mouse rockets while on the
ground.[25] In November 1957, Air Defense Command (ADC) assumed control of
Selfridge AFB.”
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Selfridge Air National Guard Base, near Mount Clemens,
Michigan
(Google photo)
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