18 December 1981
(The Press of Atlantic
City, New Jersey)
Sources: U.F.O.
Newsclipping Service, Plumerville, Arkansas and AFU.se
The whole article (Page 1):
“Three Somers Point students can tell you what a UFO
looks like.
The
children, in fact, have become something of an authority on such phenomena – because
they saw one.
The three were privileged to observe – at close range
– what can be described as a strange airborne object.
It did indeed hover for a while over the car in which
they were riding.
And since all three agree to the letter on its dimensions
and appearance – ergo, there really are such things, right here in Somers
Point.
Bill Hawthorne, art instructor at the Jordan Road
School in Somers Point,
did some investigating into the incident. ‘One of the children told me what she
had seen,’ explained Hawthorne.
‘Then another in the group also began to tell me about the strange thing which
followed their car here on Bala
Drive,’ said Hawthorne.
By this time he was interested enough to have all the students draw a picture
of the UFO which they had seen earlier this month. Amazingly, the pictures
matched. ‘They drew them separately, with no knowledge of what the other two
had drawn,’ said Hawthorne.
The sixth-graders who saw the object were: Jennifer
Montgomery, Michele Frisko and Patti Meyers.
A credible witness confirms the children’s stories.
Sixth grade teacher Lillian Frisko was the driver of the car which attracted
the brightly lit UFO. She was taking the girls to a gymnastics event, and
earthly traffic can be difficult enough without being distracted by an
unidentified flying object. Hawthorne,
being thorough in his investigation, requested Frisko also to draw the object
she had seen – and it corresponded exactly with the others.
Summing up, the Somers Point UFO was disc-shaped in
appearance, and colored orange. The four agreed there was a row of lights
across the bottom – and it paused and moved at the same pace and in the same
direction as the car.
‘We checked around and there seems to be no scientific
explanation,’ said Hawthorne.
‘We’re surprised no one else seems to have seen it.”
My comment: The article does not mention when the UFO
incident occurred. It is possible the incident occurred in December 1981.
Wikipedia article: “Somers Point, New Jersey”:
Related posts:
realtvufos.blogspot.com/search?q=Automobile
Map of Somers Point in Atlantic County.
Inset: Location of
Atlantic
County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.
(text by Wikipedia) (wikimedia.org image)
Census Bureau map of Somers Point, New Jersey
