5 April 2008
(The Express-Times, Easton , Pennsylvania
Sources: UFO Newsclipping Service, Bainbridge Island
The whole article (Page 7):
“SIGHTINGS AROUND WORLD. Bushkill Twp. police officer
reported three lighted objects in the sky.
The year 1973 was a remarkable year for sightings of unidentified
flying objects. There were sightings in Europe, South America, Southeast Asia
and in the United States Ohio , Indiana and Illinois
In March and April there was a flurry of UFO reports
in Pennsylvania Saylors
Lake area of Monroe County Pennsylvania state trooper, saw the UFOs passing over Saylors Lake 39. A
state trooper said he personally observed four objects pass over the lake from
west to east. The trooper described the UFO as ‘like a Christmas tree flying in
the air.’ He estimated the objects were about 1,500 feet in the air.
Most had white lights but others had lights that appeared to be blue and red.
Another witness, Mrs. Howard Pfeiffer, reported she
and 11 others observed about 40 UFOs, some in groups, pass over the lake at
intervals between 7:05 and 10:45 p.m. She described the UFOs as being circular
and about the size of a child’s wading pool.
‘The first one came so close I felt I could reach up
and touch it,’ Pfeiffer said. ‘There was no noise, no sparks, or anything. I
know it wasn’t any plane or balloon or helicopter.’
Later in March 1973 a number of sightings were observed over Bushkill Township Bushkill
Township
Another rash of sightings occurred on March 15 at Milton , Pa.
The bizarre sightings also occurred in the month of
April. On the evening of April 24 three adults at Spring Mills, Pa.
On April 29, more than a dozen residents of the Ferndale section of Shamokin ,
Pa. , observed a UFO with flashing lights
actually land on nearby Burnside
Mountain
Experts were at a loss to explain the rash of
sightings of 1973. Some postulated unusual weather phenomena that year, sun
spots, and even covert operations of our military as possible explanations.
Project Blue Book, the Air Force’s official inquiry
into UFOs, commenced in 1952.
In 1969, Blue Book was terminated after the conclusion
that there was nothing extraordinary about UFOs and the vast majority of the
sightings, though not all, could be explained by natural phenomena.”
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