23 October 1967
(The Times Recorder, Zanesville,
Ohio)
Source: NewspaperArchive.com
“Police reported a rash of unidentified flying object reports early
Sunday [22 October 1967], including
a dark blue ball that a police officer said chased him and then hovered over
this small central Georgia town [Newnan, Georgia] until daybreak.
The sightings were the latest in a series of UFO reports that began
early Friday [20 October 1967] in East Georgia and spread into central portions of the
state Sunday [22 October 1967].
Highway patrolman Jerry Goldin at the Mountaintop Manchester state
patrol station said he was the first to spot Sunday’s UFO’s, one ice blue and
about a mile high and the other one a yellow rectangle-shaped object with a red
side about 100 yards
above the trees.
Before the night was over, highway patrolmen and policemen from 11
different towns had seen similar objects. Reports came from such scattered
middle Georgia locations as
Milledgeville, Greenville, Newnan, Talbotton, Fayetteville and Taylor County.
Newnan patrolman Dale Spradlin said he chased a ball of light about
eight inches in diameter for about eight miles down a road just outside Newnan.
‘It was a good distance in front of us, pulling away, so we turned
around to come back to town,’ said Spradlin who was on patrol with officer
Gerald Mascon. The object was travelling above tree-top level.
‘The object turned on us and followed,’ he said. ‘It was gaining on us
and was going about 75
miles per hour.
After the object caught up with him, it pulled into the sky, emitting a
beam of bluish light that illuminated the roadway, the officer said.
A spokesman for Warner Robins Air Force [Base]
said he had heard the reports of the objects but that nothing was seen on the
base radar.
The
Weather Bureau at Athens
said it had released four weather balloons Saturday night and Sunday morning,
but a spokesman said it was unlikely they were the cause of the reports.”
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