25 March 1966
(The Raleigh Register, Beckley, West
Virginia)
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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