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UFO. United States

ID #1572970470
Added Tue, 05/11/2019
Author July N.
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Initial data

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Incident date: 
20.03.1966 08:30
Location: 
Декстер, MI
United States

Frank Mannor and his son, Ronald [plus 40-60 people, including 12 policemen?] saw an object hovering over a swamp at a distance of about 1500 feet. It was a brown glowing object the size of a car, with a "scaly" or "waffle" surface, cone-shaped peak top, flat bottom, or football-shaped (American football), and 2 bluish-green lights on right and left edges that turned bright red and helped illuminate object in between.

The lights went out and the object appeared again in the swamp at a distance of 1500 feet. The entire facility is lit up by the yellowish glow at one point and climbed to 500 feet, and then fell again. After 2-3 minutes of viewing when at a distance of 2 flashlight, it seemed that the object flew at high speed directly over the witnesses with a whistling sound, similar to ricostituire rifle bullets.

The object remained in the area of swamp within 1/2 hour.

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Original news

Frank Mannor and his son, Ronald [plus 40-60 others including 12 policemen ?] saw hovering over a swamp about 1,500 ft away a brown luminous car­ sized object, with a “scaly” or “waffled” surface, cone-shaped on top, flat on bottom, or football­ shaped, and 2 bluish-green lights on right and left edges that turned bright red and helped illuminate object in between. Lights blinked out and object reappeared instantly across the swamp 1,500 ft away. The whole object lit up with a yellowish glow at one point and also rose up 500 ft then descended again. After 2-3 minutes of viewing, when 2 flashlights appeared in the distance the object seemed to respond by flying away at high speed directly over the witnesses with a whistling sound like a rifle bullet ricocheting. Object  remained in the swamp area for 1/2 hr. [Various other sightings in the area by police shortly afterward.] 

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